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Geek Gossip
#MicrosoftTeams - Heads up! If your company is using Microsoft Teams, this new feature may invade your privacy more than ever. Microsoft Teams is getting a new update that can tell when an employee is in the office and share that information with their manager. The feature, expected to roll out in December 2025, will use office Wi-Fi to mark a person’s work location automatically. Microsoft claims this will “reduce confusion” in hybrid setups.
#ChatGPTContributors - ChatGPt has shared a bunch of prompts that students across India are using to study, learn new skills and navigate their college life.
#AppleMaps - Et Tu Apple?! Apple is planning to introduce ads to Maps as soon as next year. Apple wants to offer better visibility on Maps to restaurants and businesses that are willing to pay.
Latest Updates
MapMyIndia In Partnership Talks With Perplexity AI
MapmyIndia is a Indian company that provides digital mapping services and has been building detailed maps of India since 1995. They're now in talks with Perplexity AI, a company that's made headlines with its CEO saying "maps are the hardest."
Lenskart Set To Enter Stock Market With ₹70,000 Crore Valuation Goal
Eyewear brand Lenskart, founded by Peyush Bansal, is a popular online and offline eyewear retailer offering a wide range of glasses and contact lenses. They're known for their affordable, high-quality products and strong brand presence in India. Today, they announced their plan to launch an initial public offering (IPO) with a valuation goal of ₹70,000 crore, making it one of the biggest IPOs in India this year.
Foxconn Expands Airpods Production In Hyderabad
Foxconn Interconnect Technology, a subsidiary of Taiwanese contract manufacturer Foxconn, is expanding its workforce and production lines in Hyderabad, India, to meet increasing demand for Apple AirPods, aiming to boost capacity to 200,000 units per month by scaling up production lines and hiring an additional 3,000 personnel.
Reliance To Invest $12-15 Billion On AI Infrastructure
Reliance Industries, the largest company in India by market cap, is investing heavily in AI infrastructure, including a massive 1GW data center and a 3GW capacity data center in Jamnagar, Gujarat. This move is expected to boost the company's AI business and drive future growth.
Changelog
Swift - Developers can begin developing Android applications in Swift, opening new avenues for cross-platform development and accelerating innovation across the mobile ecosystem.
Google Canvas - Adds Slide Generation with AI-Powered Presentation Creation.
Threads - Introduces Ghost Posts, ephemeral posts that automatically archive after 24 hours.
Trending Projects / Code Repositories
K7 | Your own self-hosted infra for lightweight VM sandboxes to safely execute untrusted code. CLI, API, Python SDK.
Open Notebook | An Open Source implementation of Notebook LM with more flexibility and features
Clone Wars | 100+ open-source clones of popular sites like Airbnb, Amazon, Instagram, Netflix, Tiktok, Spotify, Whatsapp, Youtube etc.
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Participants are invited to build apps on Atlassian’s Forge platform - integrating with Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket, or Compass - across software-team, business-team, or industry-specific categories. The total prize pool is $120,000 USD in cash. Register here.
This one’s for our growing Student community - Microsoft has launched an Imagine Cup - specifically targetted at student teams to build impactful tech solutions using Microsoft’s platforms and AI. The grand prize for the world champion is $100,000 USD, along with a mentorship session with Satya Nadella. Check It Out.
Job Board
Senior Quality Assurance Engineer @ Ocrolus (Remote)
✨Experience : 5+ years (PostgreSQL | Playwright | Postman | Cypress)
💰Expected Salary : ₹25L – ₹35L / year
Full Stack (Python - Django ) + Plugins @ DoctusTech (Remote)
✨Experience : 8+ years (Python | React.js)
💰Expected Salary : ₹25L – ₹30L / year
AI Tech Lead @ Zime AI (Onsite - Multiple Locations)
✨Experience : 6+ years (Python | Java | Go)
💰Expected Salary : ₹30L – ₹40L / year
Miscellaneous
Designing APIs For Vibe Coding
To optimize for autocompletion and developer experience, APIs must adapt to new reality of large language models and code generation, requiring idiomatic design, integrability, and discoverability, like Context API from Restate TypeScript SDK.
Code Like A Surgeon
As a UI prototyper, leveraging AI agents for secondary tasks like code documentation, debugging, and research frees up time for creative design work, allowing developers to focus on high-leverage tasks like coding like a surgeon.
Building A Key-value Database From Scratch
Learn how to build a basic key-value database from scratch, exploring the trade-offs between file-based storage and efficient data retrieval.
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