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🤫 Geek Goss 🤭

#Flipkart-1-Amazon-0 - Can you believe it? Flipkart is crushing Amazon in India! Like, the charts are showing Flipkart's daily active users are WAY higher! Founders even admit that Flipkart is bigger in most categories! I mean, poor Amazon! Maybe they should've invested in some Indian flair instead of trying to dominate the market.

#IconHunt - Apple’s joined the AI icon race, but their new design is a head-scratcher! A circle with loops? An infinity symbol? No one knows! Just like their competitors, they’re struggling to make AI look friendly and not like a robot apocalypse

#TechYouCantTrust - OpenAI just appointed a former NSA director to its board? Edward Snowden, the NSA whistleblower who had to flee USA and take shelter in Russia for outing many companies about their backdoor access for US Government, is NOT having it, honey! He's like, "Don't trust OpenAI or its products, this is a betrayal of our rights!" He maybe onto something…

#YouTubeScoop - YouTube is testing channel QR codes and AI-generated live chat summaries?! Like, who needs human moderators when AI can do it?! And did you hear about the QR code drama? It's like they want us to scan everything! What's next, AI-generated drama summaries?! Oh wait - I think that’s already there…?!

⌛ The Past 24 hours

Indian Startup 3D Prints Rocket Engine in 72 Hours

Agnikul, a Chennai-based startup, successfully 3D printed and launched a single-piece rocket engine within 72 hours, achieving a suborbital test flight. This innovative approach aims to enable on-demand, low-cost launch services for small satellite operators, significantly reducing manufacturing time and costs.

Meta Won't Train AI on Euro Posts After All, as Watchdogs Put Their Paws Down

You know how Meta wants to use AI to better understand European languages and cultures? Well, the European regulators have put the brakes on that plan. Meta agreed to stop training its AI models on EU users' Facebook and Instagram posts after complaints from data protection agencies in 11 European countries. This means Meta won't be able to use your public posts to train its neural networks - but people outside the EU will still have their public posts used for training.

New York Times Warns Freelancers of GitHub Repo Data Breach

Today, The New York Times notified some of its freelance contributors that their personal info was exposed in a breach that happened in January. The breach included names, phone numbers, emails, and more, which was stolen from their GitHub repositories. A group of hackers used an exposed token to get into the NYT's GitHub account and steal the data, which was later leaked online.

Turkish Student Creating Custom AI Device for Cheating University Exam Gets Arrested

You might want to know about this recent incident in Turkey where a prospective university student was arrested for developing an elaborate scheme using AI and hidden devices to help them cheat on an important entrance exam. The student used a camera disguised as a shirt button, connected to AI software via a router hidden in their shoe, and an earpiece to receive answers. They were caught and now facing trial.

Amazon Dropped The Ball on Alexa

A report from Fortune says the new Alexa has some serious growing pains. Amazon responded to these claims saying the details provided by employees were dated and didn’t reflect the current state of the Alexa LLM. But something is definitely not adding up.

Apple Could Face Heavy Fines In The EU

European Commission is said to be preparing to file charges against Apple over its App Store rules. Apple's "steering" rules, imposed on third-party developers distributing software through the App Store, violate Europe's Digital Markets Act (DMA) Apple imposed this rule to ensure that it can collect its 30 percent cut of in-app transactions.

PayTM Employees Are Being Forced To Resign

Employees claim that Paytm is forcing them to resign, instead of terminating them. PayTM is an Indian FinTech company. The Employees claim that HR personnel informed them that their services were no longer needed and that they should resign from their jobs. Paytm has refuted all claims and said it has rigorously ensured that its HR teams have informed employees about their termination through official channels only.

👩🏾‍💻 Bit Boutique

Lambda API | Lightweight web framework for your serverless applications

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📢 In case you missed it

• The AWS M-Power Academy Generative AI Bootcamp is on June 28th. You can register here. This is an ONLINE session.

• Vue.js celebrated their 10th birthday last week. Here’s a talk from Evan You, the creator of Vue.js about it’s beginnings and it’s evolution in the past years.

• Kubernetes conference is being held in Hyderabad on 22nd June. Visit their website for details on registration.

• Selenium, the QA / Testing tool is having a conference ONLINE. Check out their website for details.

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🎲 Miscellaneous

Pre-Render Pages - Load Pages Before The User Requests Them

Chrome has brought back full prerendering of future pages that a user is likely to navigate to. Prerendering allows a near-instant load as shown in the video in the article. Pre-Rendering of pages improves the User Experience.

Why 95% of Modals should be Local (in React)

Learn why experts recommend using local modals in React, avoiding remote modal issues and improving user experience.

AI in Software Engineering

Google's AI team is responsible for the software development environments where Google engineers spend the majority of their time. The team has been exploring how to apply machine learning to software development. They present their newest AI-powered improvements within the context of the continuing transformation of Google’s internal software development tools, and discuss further changes that they expect to see in the coming 5 years.

What do GenZ software engineers really think?

Most new grad software engineers belong to “Generation Z” (GenZ) having been born between 1997 and 2012. In this article, we find out how GenZ software engineers see themselves, and get their takes on colleagues from the Millennial and GenX generations.