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šŖ Heap Heap Hurray Ed. #330
Daily dispatches from the world of technology.
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Geek Gossip
#ChatGPT-Public - Though this is now fixed, it was discovered last week that ChatGPT conversations that were shared could be indexed by Google and could show up in search results!
#EpicGames - The CEO of Epic Games, Tim Sweeney, is celebrating a huge win in court and the Epic Games Store is finally coming to the Google Play Store!
#DataAnnihilation - An entrepreneurs 10 year old AWS account got deleted by AWS without any warning. A story on how one should not rely on just one service for their business.
Latest Updates
Deepinder Goyal Calls For Engineers To Build India's First Gas Turbine Engine
Founder of Zomato, Deepinder Goyal, is now looking to build India's first gas turbine engine at his new startup, Lat Aerospace.
Employee Arrested In CoinDCX Theft
Police have arrested 30-year-old software engineer, Rahul Agarwal, in the CoinDCX theft. The accused techie worked at the Indian cryptocurrency exchange and it appears that hackers were able to use his credentials, to siphon off $44 million.
Google Invests In Indian Gaming Platform Stan
Google has backed STAN, a social gaming platform that connects gamers with creators, communities, and publishers, with an $8.5 million equity funding round, including investment from Bandai Namco Entertainment, Square Enix, and others. The platform lets users earn in-app currency by winning games and interacting with creators, and has already gained 25 million downloads and 5.5 million monthly active users.
Microsoft Surpasses $4 Trillion Market Valuation
Microsoft has passed a $4 trillion market valuation for the first time in its 50-year history. The software maker is the second company to reach this milestone, after Nvidia reached a market cap of over $4 trillion earlier this month. Microsoft has spent more than a decade building up its Azure cloud business, which is ahead of Googleās in revenue but still second place to Amazon.
Changelog
Truecaller - Discontinues call-recording feature on iOS due to increased costs and complexity.
GitHub Spark - Introduces AI-powered tool for creating and sharing micro apps ("sparks") that can be tailored to exact needs and preferences without requiring code.
Trending Projects / Code Repositories
Reagraph | A high-performance network graph visualization built in WebGL for React.
Gitleaks | A tool for detecting secrets like passwords, API keys, and tokens in git repos, files, and whatever else you wanna throw at it via stdin
Cc Plugins | Professional commands for Claude Code CLI that save 2-3 hours per week on repetitive development tasks.
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Miscellaneous
Soft Deletion Tradeoffs
Soft deletion is a way of marking records as ādeletedā and removing them from the userās experience. This makes it possible to restore accidentally deleted records and also preserves history. Soft delete can also come in handy when a user workflow is likely to involve users wanting to āundoā a delete.
Netflix Live Architecture Evolves
Netflix's Live tech journey began with a bold question: how to entertain the world through Live events. From comedy specials to record-breaking boxing fights, Netflix has scaled to 300M+ subscribers, requiring new architecture and technology choices.
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