Mid-week magic! Let's make Wednesday wonderful!
🔔 ANNOUNCEMENT
It will be around two years since we started this newsletter and we have not missed a single day. Until now. Our team will be taking a well deserved break and thus we have decided to stay away from our gadgets until the new year. Thus, this will be the last edition of 2025. We’ll see you again on Jan 1st 2026 with a new edition.
We might add that as Christmas and New Year come closer, content and updates become sparse and unimportant - so you will not be missing much.
Here’s wishing all our readers a Happy New Year! Thank you for making this year memorable for us.
Geek Gossip
#Instagram - Get ready to now doomscroll on your TV. Instagram is testing an app for TV - you can watch reels on the big screen. Right now, there’s only a fire TV app.
#iPhoneFold - A tipster has suggested that the iPhone Fold may abandon Face ID in favor of a side-mounted Touch ID sensor to reduce the size of the phone
#Slop - That’s the word of the year selected by Merriam-Webster’s dictionary. The leading lexicographers define slop as "digital content of low quality that is produced usually by means of artificial intelligence". AI generated content in other words.
Latest Updates
Dhruv64: India's First Indigenously Developed 1.0 Ghz, 64-bit Dual-core Microprocessor
India has made a significant step forward in the tech industry with the launch of DHRUV64, a 1.0 GHz, 64-bit dual-core microprocessor designed by C-DAC in India. This achievement is a milestone in the country's vision for an "AatmaNirbhar Technology" ecosystem, reducing dependence on foreign processors. The DHRUV64 is a versatile processor that can be integrated with various hardware systems and has applications in 5G communications
Google Discontinues Dark Web Report
Google announced it's ending its dark web report feature, which monitored breach data on the dark web, due to user feedback that it didn't provide helpful next steps.
Changelog
Facebook Messenger - The Windows Desktop app is no longer available
Threads - Expands Communities to Over 200 Interests, Adds Community Champion Badges and Flair Options
Zoom - Introduces AI Companion with federated AI approach and new flexible subscription options.
Website Wednesday
Tiny Wow - A free, all-in-one online utility platform offering over 200 tools for quick file manipulation, including PDF editing (merge, split, convert), image processing (background removal, resizing), video conversion, and AI-powered text generation (essays, summaries). It allows a general audience to perform complex tasks instantly without downloads, sign-ups, or limits, focusing on simplicity and privacy by deleting all uploaded files after one hour.
Browser Score - A quick compatibility check by testing how well a user's current web browser supports modern, cutting-edge CSS, HTML, and JavaScript features and APIs. It delivers a simple score based on feature implementation, helping web developers and users quickly assess a browser's up-to-date capabilities and compatibility with current web standards.
CSS Wrapped - By the Google Chrome team, a deep dive for web developers into 22 new CSS and UI features landing this year. It covers major platform additions across customizable components (like the <select> element and Invoker Commands), next-gen interactions (including scroll-state queries), and optimized ergonomics, giving devs powerful new tools to build dynamic, accessible, and high-performance interfaces.
In Case You Missed It
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Miscellaneous
How Can You Get Better At Using AI For Programming
A HN thread discussing the most effective ways a developer can use AI to improve their productivity.
Lava Lamp Encryption
Cloudflare uses a unique method to generate secure encryption keys by collecting random data from a wall of lava lamps in their headquarters, providing strong SSL/TLS encryption to millions of internet properties.
How To Build Your First ChatGPT App
ChatGPT Apps are a new way to interact with ChatGPT. Developers and product teams can now embed apps directly into ChatGPT. Users can book hotels, search for properties, and shop online. With more than 800M weekly active users, building Chat GPT apps may be the next great distribution wave.
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