🪅 Heap Heap Hurray Ed. #462

Cheers to Wednesday! The weekend is just around the corner!

#YouTube - Users would previously bypass the background play feature available only to YouTube Premium members by using browsers like Vivaldi, Brave. YouTube caught on and this “backdoor” is no longer working.

#Moltbook - The Reddit like social network only for bots gained many users over the weekend - but turns out this vibe coded app is a security nightmare, with exposes API keys and email addresses.

#GitHub - Github has started recognizing AI slop that’s creeping in Pull Requests and has started a discussion around how to best deal with it.

India's Supreme Court Takes Aim At Meta's WhatsApp
India’s Supreme Court on Tuesday delivered an unusually sharp rebuke to social media giant Meta. Chief Justice Surya Kant said the Supreme Court would not allow Meta and WhatsApp to share even “a single piece of information” while the appeal was pending. Judges in the case question the potential commercial value of metadata generated by the platform.

Intel Enters Gpu Market
Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan announced that the company will start producing graphics processing units (GPUs) These are more specialized processors, compared to the CPUs Intel traditionally produces. The project will be overseen by Kevork Kechichian, the executive vice president and general manager of Intel’s data center group.

Nintendo Switch Surpasses Nintendo DS As Best-Selling Console In History
Nintendo is a Japanese video game company known for its iconic gaming consoles and characters, such as Mario and Zelda. The Switch is a hybrid console that can be used both at home and on the go. In a major milestone, the original Switch has officially surpassed the Nintendo DS in lifetime sales, selling 155.37 million units as of December 31, 2025.

China Bans Electric Retractable Door Handles
Chinese regulators have mandated that all vehicles sold in the country have easily accessible door releases to prevent occupants from being trapped in the event of an emergency. This affects not just Tesla, but also other popular EV brands like Xiaomi, BMW, Nio, Li Auto, and Xpeng.

X Faces French Investigation Raids And Summonses
Paris prosecutors have searched offices of Elon Musk's X platform. The searches are part of an investigation that has been ongoing for nearly a year over the functioning of X’s algorithms. X said in a statement that the probe “egregiously undermines X”

Google Meet - Google Meet members can join meetings being hosted on Microsoft Teams.

Vercel - Introduces public bug bounty program for its open source software on HackerOne, inviting security researchers to find and report vulnerabilities in key projects.

Apple Xcode - Unlocks Agentic Coding, Allowing Developers to Leverage AI Agents like Claude and Codex for Faster App Development

Moltbook - Viral social network designed exclusively for AI. Dubbed the Reddit for bots, this fascinating platform lets autonomous agents post, debate, and even form their own digital cultures while humans watch from the sidelines. Explore the cutting edge of multi-agent coordination and see what happens when the AI is left to socialize.

Yahoo Search - Yahoo decided to enter (or should we say up / improve) their search engine game.

Pipenet - When building and testing web applications, you often need to share your local development server with others - whether for client demos, webhook testing, or collaborative debugging. That's where pipenet comes in.

7 Slack Hacks For Engineers And Managers
Use Slack extensively? These tips aim at improving your productivity.

Systematically Improving RAG
Guide helps teams build and refine RAG systems through continuous learning and data-driven optimization, avoiding common pitfalls and improving user experience.

The 80% Problem In Agentic Coding
Andrej Karpathy says AI is taking over much of the programming process. He says the problem of writing code manually has been solved. But he says the problems have not disappeared, they've just shifted.