🪅 Heap Heap Hurray Ed. #333

Good morning! Thursday is a great day to keep hustling!

#Trello - Trello, the project management application, has its users FREAKING OUT over the new update! It's like, so bad they're comparing it to Windows 8! Some are saying it's the WORST UI update EVER!

#Grok - Another week, another news about Grok - again, not a good one. Users are reporting that Grok’s image and video generation tools are generating NSFW content, even when it is not being prompted to do so!

Infosys Unveils Advanced AI, Cybersecurity, And Space Tech Centre In Karnataka
Infosys has inaugurated its Centre for Advanced AI, Cybersecurity, and Space Technology at its Hubballi Development Centre (DC) in Karnataka. The new centre is supposed to establish Hubballi as a key technology hub for Infosys. It would be a part of ‘Infosys Living Labs’ – a network of over 12 established centres globally designed to help clients speed up innovation and apply emerging technologies.

Meta Found Guilty Of Using Menstruation App Data For Advertising
Meta, a large tech company, has been found guilty of using data from the popular menstruation and fertility app Flo to sell advertising on its social network without user consent.

Instagram - Adds feature to repost public Reels and grid posts from other accounts, redesigns Snap Map for location sharing, and updates Reels interactions tab with increased controls.

Windows 11 - Redesigned Start menu with updated properties dialog for desktop shortcuts.

Gemini - Introduces Personalized Illustrated Storybook Creation Feature.

OpenAI - Released two open-weight AI reasoning models, gpt-oss-120b and gpt-oss-20b, available for download on Hugging Face.

Google Forms - Suggest questions with relevant AI-generated options for new form fields.

Shweta Ingle | Designer's workflow improvement with Figma - Notion integration - Tired of manually updating your Figma designs with data from Notion? A front-end developer reveals a powerful workflow that connects these two essential tools. Learn how to pull data directly from your Notion database into your Figma designs, saving you time and effort. This is a game-changer for any designer or developer who wants to streamline their workflow.

Sohan Maheshwar | Securing AI RAG Pipelines with Fine Grained Authorization - Not Don't let your AI leak sensitive data. A security expert reveals how to lock down your RAG pipelines with fine-grained authorization, inspired by Google's own security system. Learn how to control who sees what, even when you're using a powerful AI like ChatGPT.

Manu Janardhanan | Understanding Ruby Web Server Internals: Puma, Falcon - A Shopify engineer breaks down the pros and cons of Puma, Falcon, and Pitchfork, revealing how the right choice can slash your infrastructure costs and eliminate production headaches.

V8 Optimizes JSON.stringify
A recent engineering effort has made JSON.stringify in V8 more than twice as fast. This post breaks down the technical optimizations that made this improvement possible. A faster JSFiddle translates to quicker page interactions and more responsive applications.

Github's Slowdown
GitHub's UI has become slow and sluggish, with some tasks taking over 5 seconds to load. Developers are confused by the use of Turbo, a performance optimization technique, which is apparently not working as intended, causing slower load times.