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🤫 Geek Goss 🤭

#PowerPlay - With India’s election process completed and the new government starting its tenure in office, Meta has removed its restriction on election-related queries using its Meta AI chatbot. However, Google is still applying limits as part of its global restrictions on this type of queries.

#AIgoneWild - We have seen add Glue to your Pizza suggestions from Google’s Gemini AI. Get ready for recipes that read legit, but when you actually try to understand the science of it, you realize you have been given the recipe to a death potion. That’s what this Redditor went through. Fortunately, their spider sense tingled and they aborted the process.

⌛ The Past 24 hours

More than 1,000 students pledge not to work at Google and Amazon due to Project Nimbus

Google and Amazon are two of the biggest tech companies, providing cloud computing services to the Israeli government and military, and over 1,100 STEM students and young workers have taken a pledge to refuse jobs from these companies due to their involvement in Israel's Apartheid system and genocide against Palestinians.

Nvidia overtakes Microsoft as the world’s most valuable company

If you had invested 10,000 rupees in NVidia stock in 1999, you would have now made bank with over a million dollars. Nvidia achieved a major milestone by surpassing Microsoft as the world's most valuable company, with a market valuation of over $3.3 trillion. This is due to the huge demand for their GPUs, particularly those used in AI and machine learning applications.

After 13 years, Atlassian delivers custom domain names for Jira

THIRTEEN YEARS. That is how much time it took for Atlassian to provide a solution for one of their tickets. What ticket was it? Custom domain names. Atlassian is a well-known company in the tech industry, specializing in collaboration software and project management tools. They've finally delivered on a long-awaited feature, custom domain names for their Jira product, after 13 years of requests from customers. However, the implementation requires two subdomains, which some users are not happy about.

WhatsApp Spotted Working on AR Effects and Filters for Video Calls

WhatsApp, the instant messaging platform owned by Meta, is working on adding Augmented Reality (AR) call effects and filters to its video calling feature. This means you'll be able to add interactive elements to your video calls, such as dynamic facial filters, low-light mode, avatars, and customizable backgrounds.

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TSED | Typescript based Express.js

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📢 In case you missed it

• Deco.cx has launched a hackathon to build products using HTMX. Front end developers take note. Prizes are worth $5000+

• IBM’s Data & AI - Tech Exchange is taking place in Mumbai on 25th June. Interested members can register here. The event will be about learning from the Development leaders on various use-cases and best practices in Gen AI, along with new features.

• OpenSearchCon 2024 will be taking place in Bengaluru on 26th June. OpenSearch is the flexible, scalable, open-source way to build solutions for data-intensive applications. The conference will be about exploring solutions to real-world problems, to take a look into the future of search, analytics, and observability applications. Register here.

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🎲 Miscellaneous

Mocking in Tests. Is It An Antipattern?

Is Mocking an anti-pattern. Mocking adds complexity, is hard to maintain, introduces its own bugs, doesn't test what should be tested and creates a false sense of security. When you want to find bugs by building the edge cases, building mock cases has to work for the real world.

4 new hooks in Reactjs 19

React 19 is a new version of the popular web development library. The beta version of React 19 was released on April 25, 2024. There are four new hooks available in the new version.

AWS Expands AI Skills Training

AWS is offering free AI and machine learning courses and certifications to boost professionals' skills in generative AI. The company has announced two new certifications and a range of free courses to teach AI fundamentals, design considerations, and more. The certifications will help professionals demonstrate their AI knowledge and can be added to their resume.

Fatigue Among Senior Engineers

Senior Engineer Fatigue is characterized by a deliberate deceleration. Senior engineers are often finding more efficient, impactful ways to contribute. They become adept at delegating tasks, capitalizing on the strengths of their colleagues.