Wednesday is here - let's keep pushing toward the weekend!
Geek Gossip
#Handles-Marketplace - X / Twitter is selling old user handles. The company says it will make two types of handles available: "priority" handles and "rare" handles. Some of the most sought-after usernames could fetch millions of dollars!
#SpaceDebris - On Monday, there was news that, for the first time, debris from space may have collided with an airplane, injuring the pilot. While investigation is still on, it appears that the collision may have been with a weather balloon instead.
#ProjectMoohan - Samsung is soon set to announce their competitor to Apple’s Vision Pro. Nicknamed Project Moohan, Samsung will be sharing more details of the device in their Galaxy event (which happened yesterday - news should already be out by the time we publish this).
Latest Updates
Ola Electric Founder Booked In Engineer's Suicide Case
The Bengaluru Police have booked Ola Electric Mobility founder Bhavish Aggarwal and other senior officials. The deceased employee, 38-year-old K Aravind, was working as a Homologation Engineer in Koramangla since 2022. The 28-page handwritten note recovered from the deceased employee’s room reportedly blamed his superiors for mental harassment and the non-payment of salary and allowances.
Shadowfax Gets SEBI Nod For ₹2,500 Crore IPO
Shadowfax, one of India’s leading logistics startups, has received approval from the Securities and Exchange Board of India. The Bengaluru-based logistics firm specializes in last-mile delivery across e-commerce, hyperlocal, grocery, food, and pharma segments.
AWS us-east-1 Region Outage
A postmortem of the outage yesterday reveals that AWS’s efforts to recover from the massive mess at its us-east-1 region caused other services to fail. A DNS mess meant services could not reach a DynamoDB API, which led to widespread outages. Not being able to launch EC2 instances meant Amazon’s foundational rent-a-server offering was degraded.
SpaceX Reaches 10,000th Starlink Satellite Milestone
Two Falcon 9 rockets lifted off from spaceports in Florida and California on Sunday afternoon. The launches added 56 more satellites to SpaceX’s Starlink broadband network. With the satellites added to the constellation Sunday, the company has delivered more than 10,000 mass-produced Starlink spacecraft.
Changelog
Swiggy - Introduces 'No Added Sugar' Category for Healthier Food Choices
Meta - Introduces new screen-sharing warning in WhatsApp to protect users from scammers and enhances scam detection tools in Messenger with AI-powered warnings and reporting features.
Apple - Added a new setting in the "Display & Brightness" menu to allow users to customize the appearance of Liquid Glass to Clear or Tinted.
Claude Code - Delegate coding tasks directly from your browser with the ability to assign multiple tasks, run them in parallel, and track progress in real-time.
Airbnb - Introduces "Connections" feature to allow users to connect with fellow travelers after participating in shared experiences.
Website Wednesday
Am I Visible - Am I Visible on AI is a free tool that evaluates whether a website is discoverable and citable by major AI systems like ChatGPT, Claude and Perplexity. It performs a six-step audit covering crawler access, technical performance, structured data, content structure, discoverability and visibility scoring.
Serverless Horrors - ServerlessHorrors, curated by András Bacsai, shares real cases of massive unexpected bills from serverless and pay-as-you-go cloud services. The blog highlights issues like runaway bandwidth, failed caps, and surprise usage spikes, warning developers to monitor costs and set strict billing alerts.
Symbols - an online clipboard for quickly copying and customizing Unicode text symbols, glyphs, and emojis. It offers a massive, categorized library of arrows, stars, currency signs, math operators, and more, allowing designers and developers to easily search, copy, and even export symbols as SVG/PNG or HTML code for use in UI elements, documentation, and social media.
In Case You Missed It
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Hugging Face has launched a new Robotics Course. It’s FREE, hands-on program designed to teach students and developers how to apply machine learning to real robotic systems. It bridges the gap between classical robotics and modern learning-based approaches like Reinforcement Learning and Foundation Models. Participants will learn the LeRobot library, work with real datasets, and implement state-of-the-art algorithms, making it a powerful resource for advancing skills in AI and practical robotics.
Miscellaneous
Popular Presentations On Artificial Intelligence And Machine Learning
AIM brings you the 15 most popular ppt topics on Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and everything else in between.
Spreadsheets As UI Design Tools
Software developers can use spreadsheets to rapidly prototype user interfaces and animations, leveraging their grid system to enforce structure and simplify the design process.
The Price Of Mandatory Code Reviews
New data shows that skipping code reviews may speed up development, but results in more bugs, while high-quality reviews can reduce bugs by 61% but slow down development by 38%.
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