Hump day vibes - let's power through Wednesday!
Geek Gossip
#Jomato - An Indian developer reverse engineering Zomato’s “Food Rescue” feature to notify you when a cancelled order can be purchased for a discounted price. Zomato requires you to keep the app open - but this dev figured out a way to notify you even when the app is closed and grab the opportunity sooner than others.
#Instants - New App alert! Meta is reportedly working on a standalone social media app called Instants. The app will allow users to exchange disappearing photos and messages with each other. The aim is to take on the ephemeral texting app, Snapchat.
#OlympicSkating - Czech ice dancers Kateřina Mrázková and Daniel Mrázek made their Olympic debut on Monday. But what’s so special about their performance? They used an AI generated music.
Latest Updates
India Orders Social Media Platforms To Take Down Deepfakes Faster
India has ordered social media platforms to step up policing of deepfakes and other AI-generated impersonations, mandating labelling and traceability of synthetic content, and slashing compliance timelines for takedown orders. The changes aim to reshape moderation practices in one of the world's largest and fastest-growing internet markets.
Nvidia Geforce Now Is Coming To India
GeForce NOW is a cloud gaming service that lets you play cutting-edge games without spending a fortune on hardware. The service is being rolled out to India, where PC and laptop sales have surged 150% in five years. The platform leverages genuine RTX hardware to deliver ray tracing and DLSS without local muscle.
India Makes Aadhaar More Ubiquitous, But Critics Say Security And Privacy Concerns Remain
The Indian government-backed Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) is pushing Aadhaar, the world's largest digital identity system, deeper into everyday private life through a new app and offline verification support, raising concerns about security, consent, and the broader use of the massive database.
Changelog
Google - Expands 'Results about you' tool to allow users to find and request removal of search results containing sensitive personal information such as driver's licenses, passports, and Social Security numbers.
Facebook - Animate your profile picture with a wide range of preset animations and styles.
GitHub Copilot - GPT-5.3-Codex now available, delivering up to 25% faster performance on agentic coding tasks and improved reasoning and execution in complex workflows.
Website Wednesday
Annotate Web - AnnotateWeb is a free, no-signup tool for marking up webpages and collaborating in real time. It features drawing tools, highlighters, and text notes for visual feedback. Users can invite others via a link or export pages as PNG images. It is designed for developers, designers, and researchers to share contextual ideas, bug reports, and research insights quickly and easily.
Agent Mail - AgentMail is an API-first email provider built for AI agents, giving them dedicated inboxes to send and receive messages. It supports programmatic creation, usage-based pricing, and real-time webhooks. With features like semantic search and structured data extraction, it enables AI to autonomously manage email workflows and communicate as independent, first-class digital entities.
Scroll Driven Animation Style - Scroll-driven Animations is a showcase and resource hub for the Scroll-driven Animations API. It provides tools, a 10-part video course, and interactive demos - like parallax effects and reading indicators - using CSS and JavaScript. Created by Bramus at Google, the site helps developers build performant, off-main-thread animations that sync perfectly with scrolling.
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Miscellaneous
Building AI Code Review With Context As A First-Class System
Unblocked reviews code the way a 20-year veteran engineer would, with full awareness of architectural decisions, team conventions, and the conversations that shaped the codebase.
CSS Scope: An Alternative To Naming Conventions And Heavy Abstractions
Drescriptive class name conventions are no longer enough to keep CSS maintainable in a world of increasingly complex interfaces. Can the new scope rule finally give developers the confidence to write CSS that can keep up with modern front ends?
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