🪅 Heap Heap Hurray Ed. #50

Cheers to a new week! Hope your Monday is as marvelous as you are.

#ZomatoFlop - What's going down with Zomato?! They launched this super hyped hyperlocal delivery service, Xtreme, and it COMPLETELY failed to take off! And to make matters worse, they're bringing back this other service, Legends, which had its own set of problems! I mean, can you believe it?

#DramaAlert - Ola’s Bhavish Agarwal proudly announces that Ola no longer uses Google Maps but their own in house Maps… only to be reminded later on that they are instead using OpenStreetMaps… Eh?

#WhatsHappening - Have you heard about WhatsApp's new AI-powered assistant? It's gonna be able to edit and reply to your photos, just like a BFF! Beta testers aren't getting it yet, but we're supposed to get this fancy feature soon!

#GodsInfluencer - A teenage computer whiz is about to be canonized as a saint! He died at 15 from leukemia, but his online legacy lives on. He created a website cataloging Eucharistic miracles and helped homeless ppl and defended bullied kids. Talk about using tech for good!

#AdIntrusion - Oh, the nerve! Amazon's turning your Fire TV screensaver into a billboard, bombarding you with full-screen ads before your screensaver kicks in. Expect 30 seconds of ads before your cozy screensaver appears. Talk about an ad invasion!

#GoogleShift - Guess what? Google might soon let you use the Contacts app without being tied to an account! Imagine ditching the sync drama with a simple tap. Plus, a shiny new UI will make managing contacts a breeze. It's about time Google gave us a little more control!

#AppleApprovalAntics - Apple is still giving Epic Games the run-around!? They get the green light, then suddenly demand changes that would make the store harder to use? Girl, please! They're just trying to flex their muscles. But Epic's not backing down!

Airtel Dismisses Data Breach Reports Amid Customer Concerns

Airtel, India's second-largest telecom operator with 375 million subscribers, denied any system breaches following allegations of a security lapse. The company conducted a thorough investigation and labeled the claims as attempts to tarnish its reputation. The alleged data, shared by a broker on a cybercrime forum, was deemed questionable and possibly aggregated from multiple sources.

Shopify Denies Data Breach After Alleged Data Leak

Shopify denies it suffered a data breach after a threat actor began selling customer data they claim was stolen from the company's network. The threat actor, 888, has previously sold or leaked data allegedly linked to Credit Suisse, Shell, Heineken, Accenture India, and Unicef.

Instagram Limits Hashtag Count to 5

Instagram is limiting the number of hashtags some users can add to their posts, with a maximum of 5 tags allowed per update. The change aims to reduce spamming, but workarounds still exist.

Goldman Sachs Is Not Too Positive About Generative AI

Goldman Sachs, that had once predicted 300 million jobs would be lost or degraded to Artificial Intelligence, now does a U-Turn. In a report, it now outlines how GenAI is too expensive and that it doesn’t solve the complex problems that would justify its costs. It also acknowledges that a killer app is yet to emerge and that it has limited economic upside in the next decade.

James Gosling, Creator Of Java Programming Language, Retires

In a LinkedIn post, James Gosling has announced their retirement.

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AI Disrupts Customer Support, Impacting Salesforce and Competitors

AI, exemplified by ChatGPT, is transforming customer support, challenging companies like Salesforce, Zendesk, and Five9. AI-driven chatbots reduce costs and improve efficiency, leading to extended sales cycles and increased Customer Acquisition Costs (CAC) for traditional support software firms. The shift toward AI solutions is squeezing the budget for traditional customer support software, forcing companies to innovate or risk obsolescence.

Origins of Apples’s .DS_Store File

The .DS_Store file, familiar to Mac users, has a troubled history. In 1999, Apple's Finder was rewritten, and the backend component, Finder_BE, was separated from the frontend. The name "Desktop Services Store" was chosen due to its intended use as a public API, despite being named poorly. Unfortunately, a bug still creates excessive .DS_Store files, and the API remains unreleased.

Profiling Node.js Applications

This guide will explore some tools and techniques for profiling Node.js applications. The guide will focus on CPU-bound tasks in a Node.JS application.

Why We No Longer Use LangChain For Building Our AI Agents

LangChain was helpful at first when our simple requirements aligned with its usage presumptions. But its high-level abstractions soon made our code more difficult to understand and frustrating to maintain. When our team began spending as much time understanding and debugging LangChain as it did building features, it wasn’t a good sign.