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Geek Gossip
#Perplexity - So, AWS made a “Case Study” on how Perplexity efficiently uses their service… Only for Perplexity to sign a $750 million deal with Microsoft Azure!
#Windows11 - The data seems to be out - Users are disliking Microsoft’s excessive AI enhancements in existing features - and it must be significant enough for Microsoft to rethink their AI strategy and to remove the AI slop.
Latest Updates
India offers zero taxes through 2047 to lure global AI workloads
India offers foreign cloud providers zero taxes through 2047 on services sold outside the country if they run those workloads from Indian data centers. Announcement comes as U.S. cloud giants including Amazon, Google, and Microsoft race to add data-center capacity worldwide to support the surge in AI workloads.
Blue Origin Halts New Shepard Flights For At Least 2 Years
Blue Origin, a private aerospace manufacturer and spaceflight services company founded by Jeff Bezos, is putting a hold on its suborbital space tourism flights to focus on developing its human lunar capabilities.
Changelog
Instagram - Users can now remove others from their Close Friends list without blocking or unfollowing them.
ChatGPT - Retires GPT-4o, GPT-4.1, GPT-4.1 mini, and OpenAI o4-mini models, transitioning users to GPT 5 series.
Trending Projects / Code Repositories
Aion UI | Open Source cowork with AI Agent
Chart GPU | Beautiful, open source, WebGPU-based charting library
Nuqs | Type-safe search params state manager for React frameworks - Like useState, but stored in the URL query string.
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Miscellaneous
The Engineering Behind GitHub Copilot CLI’s Animated ASCII Banner
This article delves into the challenges of creating an animated ASCII art banner for the GitHub Copilot CLI, highlighting the complexities of designing for the terminal environment, including inconsistent terminal behavior, accessibility constraints, and rendering logic.
The Challenges Behind Soft Delete
Software projects often implement "soft delete" but it can lead to complexity in queries, operations, and applications, with archived data taking up space and complicating migrations and restorations.
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