🪅 Heap Heap Hurray Ed. #283

Happy Thursday! You've got this - let's make today count!

#Apple - Apple's trying to get in on the gaming scene with a new Xbox-like app that'll let you launch games and track achievements on iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple TV - and it's about time, right?

India Post Launches DIGIPIN And Know Your Pin Code Platforms
The Department of Posts just launched two digital platforms to improve location accuracy and public service delivery. They created a digital address system called DIGIPIN, which is like a grid-based, geo-coded system that helps map locations accurately. It's open source and available on GitHub. They also updated the traditional PIN Code system using geofencing data. This will make last-mile delivery and emergency responses easier, especially in rural areas.

BSNL Reports Back-to-back Profits After Years Of Struggle
BSNL is India's government-owned telecom company. It's been struggling for years, but just reported its first back-to-back quarterly profits in 17 years, with a net profit of Rs 280 crores in the Jan-March quarter of FY 2024-25, thanks to the government's efforts to turn it around.

Oyo's Third Attempt At IPO
The hotel aggregator is targeting a valuation of $6 to $7 billion for the public offering. The company will hold discussions with its board and SoftBank in June during its scheduled board meeting in London.

Google Drive - Added video analytics feature to track engagement with uploaded videos, displaying total view count in the 'Details' panel.

Claude - Added voice mode, allowing users to have spoken conversations and hear voice responses, with support for five distinct voice options and on-the-fly switching between text and voice.

Notion - Available for download from the Microsoft Store.

Opera Neon - Introduced new AI-powered features, including Chat, Do, and Make, which enable AI-driven workflows, task automation, and content creation.

Google Photos - Introduces AI-powered editing features, including Auto Frame, Reimagine, and AI Enhance, with a redesigned editor and suggested editing tools.

You Suck At Excel - Level up your Excel game with this must-watch tutorial! Join Joel Spolsky as he guides you from basic data entry to mastering powerful features like Tables, INDEX/MATCH, and Pivot Tables. Learn essential tips and best practices to build efficient, accurate, and easy-to-understand spreadsheets. Unlock the full potential of Excel and boost your productivity today!

AWS Security Groups And NACLs Explained As A Comic
In this lesson, we'll cover the importance of security in connecting an EC2 instance to the internet. You'll learn about security groups and NACLs, two crucial components of AWS networking, and how to set up rules to allow internet connections. We'll explore inbound and outbound rules, and how to configure security groups using Terraform. By the end of this lesson, you'll understand how to secure your EC2 instance and allow it to communicate with the internet.

AI Agents Interact With Online Ads Differently
Researchers found that AI agents, like those powered by OpenAI's GPT-4o and Google's Gemini 2.0, interact with websites and ads differently than humans, focusing on structured data and ignoring visual cues, requiring advertisers to adapt ad personalization and design.

Go Debugging: Why This Programmer Literally Heated Their RAM To Debug An Issue
A former Google SRE shares his experience with a mysterious crash of node_exporter, a Prometheus component written in Go, on his personal laptop. The crash occurred shortly after setting up monitoring with Prometheus and Grafana, and was caused by a segmentation fault in the Go runtime's mallocgc function. Further investigation revealed additional errors, including a "growslice: cap out of range" panic. But it’s not the code - it’s how they decided to debug - using a heat gun.