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Geek Gossip
#ScamAds - Apparently, 10% of Meta’s revenue came from ads - that scammed people! A bombshell reports goes into details of how Meta’s advertising platform aided scammers.
#SoraOnAndroid - Sora’s Android launch is off to an auspicious start. On its first day on the Google Play Store, the AI video app from ChatGPT maker OpenAI saw an estimated 470,000 downloads. That makes the Android launch more than 4x the size of the iOS launch.
Latest Updates
Unacademy Could Be Acquired By Upgrad
Ronnie Screwvala-backed edtech firm, upGrad, has placed a bid to buy SoftBank-backed Unacademy at a valuation of $300 million to $400 million. If approved, the merger would rank among the largest in the Indian edtech industry. UpGrad will not pay cash for the deal.
Telecom Operators To Hike Mobile Plan Prices By 10 Percent
Telecom operators Reliance Jio, Bharti Airtel and Vodafone Idea (Vi) are preparing to increase mobile plan prices by around 10 percent. The new rates are expected to come into effect from December 2025. The companies are reviewing their tariff structures to improve revenue and manage rising costs related to 5G services and network maintenance.
Changelog
Steam - Wider store pages for better content organization and viewing experience.
Google Opal - Now in India, allowing users to create AI mini-apps without coding.
Tinder - Introduces "Chemistry" AI-powered feature that learns users' personality and interests to surface more compatible matches.
Instacart - Introduces AI Solutions, a new collection of enterprise offerings that bring AI-powered capabilities to retail partners.
Google Finance - New Deep Search capabilities, prediction markets data, and earnings tracking.
Trending Projects / Code Repositories
Pipelex | Pipelex: open-source language for AI Agents to create and run repeatable AI workflows
Spoilerjs | A framework-agnostic web component for creating beautiful spoiler effects with Telegram-inspired particle animations.
Homarr | A modern and easy to use dashboard. 30+ integrations. 10K+ icons built in. Authentication out of the box. No YAML, drag and drop configuration.
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Miscellaneous
AI Scrapers Request Commented Scripts
Aaron MacSween discovered some abusive bot behaviour during a routine follow-up on anomalies that had shown up in his server's log files. He found that some requests for a specific JavaScript file were coming from agents that self-identified as proper browsers. These agents were most likely trying to non-consensually collect content for training LLMs.
Why Startups Choose React And When You Should Not
Most funded startups in 2025 chose React, capturing 88.6% of $2.52B out of $2.85B, but smaller frameworks like Svelte show better survival rates and quality projects.
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