Hello, Thursday! Let's finish the week on a high note!
Geek Gossip
#AWSoutage - Something interesting came out of the AWS outage. Users discovered that their “Smart” beds simply failed to work (no offline mode). And they also discovered that their bed sends 16GB worth of data every month! Have IoT devices gone too far??!!
#ChatGPTAtlas - ChatGPT’s taking on Google Chrome! For now, only available for Mac devices, ChatGPT has come out with its own browser.
Latest Updates
Reliance Retail Invests Big In Dark Stores
Reliance Retail has operationalised over 600 dark stores across India and plans to add more to improve its coverage of less than 30-minute deliveries. JioMart registered a 42 per cent Q-o-Q growth and 200 per cent-plus Y-O-Y growth in average daily orders. Reliance re-engineered its logistics network to meet the new format.
Changelog
YouTube - YouTube on Wednesday launched a new tool to help creators identify and flag content that features their likeness generated using artificial intelligence (AI). First announced at the Made by YouTube event last year, this new technology can detect when a video is imitating the face and voice of a real person and enable creators on the platform to maintain control over their likenesses. Once verified, they can submit a request for the unauthorised content to be removed.
Steam - Based on your wishlist, a new Steam Calendar is available, announcing upcoming releases that you may be interested in.
Tech Talk Thursdays
In this talk, you'll hear firsthand how Serverless enabled KonfHub to move quickly from idea to impact, significantly reducing time spent on infrastructure and operations. More importantly, they will share how it continues to empower us today, allowing our developers to focus on innovation rather than infrastructure.
A different type of tech talk - one that discusses about the importance of mental health when working in the IT sector. This talk is a real-world account of going through burnout and major depression and walking the way back from it. It is intended for anyone who cares to know more about these mental health issues and about the latest research in the field, interleaved with some advice.
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Google has launched Google Skills, a unified learning platform offering nearly 3,000 courses, labs, and credentials - from beginner AI introductions to advanced certifications - drawing content from Google Cloud, Google DeepMind, and Google for Education.
Participants are invited to innovate smart-energy, clean-tech and sustainability solutions at INSTINCT 4.0 by Hack2skill, developing real-world prototypes for India’s energy future. The total prize pool is ₹16 lakh in cash. More details here.
Government of India Opens Applications for Global AI Impact Challenges Worth ₹5.85 Crore. Three global-impact AI challenges - AI for All: Global Impact Challenge, AI by HER: Global Impact Challenge, and YUVAi: Global Youth Challenge - have opened applications with the combined prize pool. More details here.
Miscellaneous
Front-end Maximalism
In a world where developers often err on the side of back-end processing, front-end maximalism suggests moving more data processing to the client-side for scalability, security, and simplicity, but not without its limitations and potential pitfalls.
Just Use Curl
A passionate plea to ditch Postman and other bloated HTTP request tools in favor of the lightweight, powerful, and widely-used cURL command-line tool.
Common UX Mistakes Everyone Still Makes
Jason Teunissen writes about the most common UX mistakes low-code developers make. With vibe coding speeding up app creation, these mistakes are showing up even more often. He explains why they are common and how to fix them.
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