🪅 Heap Heap Hurray Ed. #278

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#Microsoft-And-Walmart - During Microsoft’s Build event, as their head of AI security was into their speech, they were disrupted by Anti - Israel protesters. When they managed to resume their speech, they inadvertently shared their screen - which had Microsoft Teams active - and a thread about confidential dealings between Microsoft and Walmart! Check out the snapshot shared in this post about the “leaked” discussions.

#PlayStationIndiaHeroProject - PlayStation India Hero Project's Mukti revealed a new gameplay trailer. Mukti is a first-person adventure game set in mid-2000s India. In it, Arya searches for her missing grandfather in a mysterious museum. The game is now available for wishlist on PlayStation and PC.

Fortnite Returns To iOS
Epic Games, the company that developed Fortnite, a popular battle royale game, has been in a long-standing dispute with Apple over in-app purchases. After nearly five years, Fortnite is back on the Apple App Store following a major court ruling in Epic's favor, allowing the game to be re-released with its own payment method.

Zerodha - Added support for connecting user accounts to AI assistants like Claude using the Kite Model Context Protocol (MCP), enabling AI-powered portfolio analysis and management.

Shopify - Introduces AI-powered store builder, AI generator, and enhanced Sidekick assistant with voice chat and screen sharing capabilities.

Google TV - In-app ratings and reviews now available, allowing users to leave feedback directly from TV apps.

Uber Eats Scaling Nightmare: How They Fixed Infinite Merchant Growth - Unlock the secrets behind Uber Eats' phenomenal growth! This deep dive reveals how their engineers tackled massive scaling challenges, transforming their backend to support an explosive expansion from 1,000 to 1 million merchants. Discover the innovative infrastructure strategies, data optimizations, and sharding techniques that made it possible.

Identifying and fixing Issues in Code using AI based tools by Venkat Subramaniam - Can AI supercharge your coding? Join Venkat Subramaniam as he explores how AI-based tools can revolutionize code review, brilliantly identifying elusive bugs, untangling obfuscated code, and even suggesting design improvements. Discover AI's current strengths in refining your code and its role as a powerful assistant in software development.

Building A Search Engine From Scratch With Word Embeddings
Learn how to create a search engine using word embeddings, a technique that maps words to N-dimensional space to capture their meanings. This article walks through the process of building a search engine from scratch, covering topics such as word2vec, cosine similarity, and text normalization. You will gain hands-on experience with embedding words and documents, and understand how to rank search results based on their similarity to the query.

India's E-commerce Logistics
India’s express parcel delivery ecosystem is experiencing major transformation and consolidation. The system is being reshaped by the outsized influence of the country’S three dominant e-commerce platforms: Amazon, Flipkart and Meesho. These so-called “Big Three” now control approximately 82% of India’'s express parcel shipment volumes.

Shopify's AI-Driven Engineering
Shopify's Head of Engineering, Farhan Thawar, discusses the company's "Reflexive AI usage" approach, iterating as a full-remote company, and unconventional engineering career growth at LDX3 conference, highlighting the intersection of AI and software engineering.