🪅 Heap Heap Hurray Ed. #241

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#India - India’s got a massive, young, and educated workforce, but AI might just ruin the party, threatening to replace Indian workers with cheaper and more efficient systems, and that's a major problem for a country that's banking on services-led growth.

#YouTube - Apparently, some big Hollywood studios are making bank off fake AI-generated movie trailers on YouTube, and they're not even trying to hide it. They're supposed to be protecting their actors' likenesses, but instead, they're profiting off videos that use AI to rip them off. The union is not having it, and YouTube finally stepped in to stop the monetization of these fake trailers.

#BSOD - So, Microsoft's giving the Blue Screen of Death a major facelift - it's now a sleek black screen with a simple error message, no more sad face or QR code, and it's all about getting you back to work ASAP, but the question is, will it stick?

Apple Fined €150m By French Regulator Over App Tracking Transparency
France’s competition watchdog ordered Apple to pay €150 million (~$162.4 million) The watchdog found that Apple’S App Tracking Transparency system allows the company to abuse its dominance in the mobile app market. The authority says the initiative harms small publishers and “is neither necessary for nor proportionate with” Apple’s goal of protecting personal data.

Amazon Launches Nova Act Sdk: AI-powered Browser Automation
Amazon launched the Nova Act SDK on Monday. It lets users train an AI agent to perform tasks within a web browser. The Nova Act will compete with OpenAI’s agent, Operator. It is the first product to come out of Amazon's AGI lab.

WhatsApp - Summary of all changes added to WhatsApp in March

Substack - Introduces a scrollable video feed to its app, allowing creators to share short-form videos under 10 minutes and offering a new way for readers to discover content.

Nocode | The best way to write secure and reliable applications. Write nothing; deploy nowhere.

Desktop Commander Mcp | This is MCP server for Claude that gives it terminal control, file system search and diff file editing capabilities

Manifest | The 1-file backend.

Building A Career Framework For Engineering Managers
Katherine Spice, head of engineering at Octopus Electric Vehicles, lays out a career path for tech talent. She says only 20% of engineering managers at the world’s best companies have explicit career development from their organization. “Because people don’t leave bad jobs, they leave bad managers”.

Indian Apps Snooping On Users
Android apps from Indian companies, including Swiggy and Zepto, are collecting sensitive user data by querying installed apps on devices, potentially for user profiling and behavioral analysis, raising concerns over privacy and Play Store policies.

Distributed Locks 101
Distributed systems face data corruption and race conditions when multiple services update the same data simultaneously. A distributed lock ensures only one process operates on a resource at a time, preventing conflicts.