🪅 Heap Heap Hurray Ed. #69

A very good Friday morning to you! Let's wrap up the week with a bang.

#UntamedGrowth - India is the largest market in terms of Meta AI usage, a notable milestone considering the product launched in India just a few months ago. Those Good Morning messages are surely getting more creative, we wonder why…

#VirtualRealityGoneWild - Doordarshan, the Indian government’s media service, is slated to launch AI anchors. Named “Krish” and “Bhoomi”, they will be first restricted to announcing weather forecasts and other government initiatives and may be expanded to deliver more news. Exciting time if you ask us, especially considering how lethargic the government usually is in adopting tech.

#BankingScare - Ransomware attack on a technology service provider has forced payment systems across nearly 300 small Indian local banks to shut down temporarily. The attack affected C-Edge Technologies, a provider of banking technology systems to small banks across the country.

#LaidOffAndStuckOnLinkedIn - LinkedIn is turnout out to be a toxic ex that you can’t let go. So many laid-off tech workers are stuck on that platform, searching for jobs and scrolling for hours. LinkedIn can be a total cesspool of self-promotion and spam. But that’s also where all the recruiters are hanging out. Catch 22 situation.

#AIadoptionslowdown - It's like, these AI projects are just gonna get abandoned, and I'm not surprised! I mean, who's got millions to throw at it? And apparently, it's all just a shot in the dark, no one really knows if it'll work or not.

AWS Discontinues CodeCommit Service
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is discontinuing its Git-based source control service, AWS CodeCommit, due to a lack of adoption and low market share. Despite being launched in 2015, CodeCommit struggled to gain traction in the competitive code repository market. Existing customers can continue to use CodeCommit for now, but will eventually need to migrate to other services like GitHub, GitLab, or Microsoft's Azure DevOps.

Acquisition of StackShare by FOSSA
FOSSA is an open-source compliance and security platform, and StackShare is a developer community platform. FOSSA acquired StackShare, a company that helps developers discuss and share the tools they use to build applications, to expose its governance and security wares to a broader set of developers.

Chrome fortifies security against cookie-stealing malware
Google Chrome will now encrypt data tied to app identity. Initially, only cookies will be migrated to this improved storage method. Plans to expand it to passwords, payment data, and other persistent authentication tokens in the future.

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Modern Web Development with Async/Await and Clipboard API
Learn how to read the clipboard contents using the Clipboard API and async/await syntax. This tutorial will teach you how to handle different types of clipboard data (HTML, plain text, and images) and how to append them to an HTML element.

How Google Handles Javascript When It Indexes Pages
Google's ability to crawl and index web content has significantly changed. Seeing this evolution is important to understand the current state of SEO for modern web applications. Googlebot uses the latest stable version of Chrome/Chromium.

Duolingo Introduces New Job Title To Bridge Gap Between a Designer and a Developer
Duolingo has introduced a new role, "creative technologist", to bridge the gap between design and engineering. They're hiring designers and engineers with a background in animation and coding to optimize designs and communicate with engineers. They use Rive, a design tool for interactive motion graphics, to create final assets used in the app.

Why Soft Deletes Are Evil And What To Do Instead
Soft deletes may seem safe but can complicate database management. Instead, let databases handle deletions to maintain efficiency. Implementing audit logs for hard deletes can ensure accountability and data recovery without burdening the application layer.