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Geek Gossip
#WhatsApp - So, researchers were able to abuse WhatsApp’s contact discovery feature and extract 3.5 BILLION user details by simple brute force request - which had no rate limits set.
#Microsoft - So, in their quest to integrate all their features with CoPilot, Microsoft seems to have sacrificed quality over quantity - and they apparently admit to it - that almost all of Windows 11 core features are BROKEN.
#Okta - An open source contributor had their Pull Request submission closed by another Pull Request - whose code they discovered was generated by AI.
#Gmail - Gmail has added features that allow Gmail to access all private messages and attachments for training its AI models. This means your emails could be analyzed to improve Google’s AI assistants. Some users are now reporting that these settings are switched on by default instead of asking for explicit opt-in.
Latest Updates
US Court Orders Byju’s Raveendran To Personally Repay Over One Billion Dollars
The Delaware Bankruptcy Court has issued a default judgement holding Byju Raveendran personally liable to repay more than $1 billion. The ruling comes after repeated findings that Raveendran failed to comply with court-mandated discovery requirements. The judge noted that monetary sanctions of $10,000 per day, imposed earlier for non-compliance, remain unpaid.
Apple Reduces iPhone 17 Cashback Offers In India
Apple is cutting cashback offers on its new iPhone 17 series in India due to global supply chain constraints, making the latest models more expensive for buyers.
UPI Scrutiny Intensifies
NPCI tightens rules for third-party payment apps on the Unified Payments Interface (UPI) platform, increasing scrutiny and background checks for new entrants, citing concerns over risk and market share.
Delhivery Launches All Women Distribution Center In Kochi
Delhivery, India's largest logistics provider, expands its women-centric workforce with a new distribution center in Kochi, Kerala, featuring women-friendly infrastructure and career development opportunities.
Changelog
WhatsApp - Reintroduced the About Feature allowing users to deck up their profiles.
Perplexity Comet - Browser is now available on Android with AI-powered browsing, voice recognition, and ad-blocking features.
Google - Quick Share now supports AirDrop file transfer between iPhones and Android devices.
ChatGPT - Introduces Group Chats - Collaborate with friends, family, or coworkers in shared conversations.
Trending Projects / Code Repositories
Tokenflood | Tokenflood is a load testing framework for simulating arbitary loads on instruction-tuned LLMs
Cc Switch | A cross-platform desktop All-in-One assistant tool for Claude Code, Codex & Gemini CLI.
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Code Execution With MCP
Learn how to improve context efficiency and reduce costs by using code execution to interact with MCP servers, enabling agents to handle more tools and data with fewer tokens. Discover how to generate a file tree of available tools and implement code APIs to optimize your MCP interactions.
Narration Of An Incident Where A Boiler (Heater) Shutting Down Brings Dow Production Servers
A decade-old incident involving a boiler in the Zagreb office and a Frankfurt data center outage has been revealed, highlighting the importance of decoupling production servers from external dependencies.
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