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Geek Gossip
#Reddit - Reddit is deprecating r/all, one of its feeds that shows popular posts on the platform. The move is part of “ongoing efforts to simplify Reddit and improve “Home feed personalization”.
#MicrosoftOutlook - This is absolutely hilarious. The astronauts on board Artemis II had a tech problem - their systems had two instances of Microsoft Outlook running - and BOTH were unresponsive!
#Steam - Gabe Newell, CEO of Steam, apparently took a step back from making games at Valve after Portal 2 - because everyone around him kept agreeing with his decisions. Now that’s a good leadership quality we haven’t heard of in a long time.
Latest Updates
Cloudflare Rebuilds Wordpress As Emdash
Cloudflare, a major player in the tech industry, has rebuilt the popular content management system (CMS) WordPress from the ground up, creating a new platform called EmDash. EmDash is built using AI coding agents, is serverless, and has a secure sandboxed plugin architecture that solves the security issues plaguing WordPress. It's fully open source and available on GitHub.
Changelog
Google AI - Launches open source model Gemma 4 - A Breakthrough in Open AI Models with Advanced Reasoning, Agentic Workflows, and Multi-Modal Capabilities
Microsoft - Bing Maps upgraded with TomTom's Orbis address data for more accurate location results across Bing Maps, Azure Maps, Bing Search, and Copilot.
Google Veo - Introduces high-quality video generation for all users with Veo 3.1, custom music generation with Lyria 3 and Lyria 3 Pro, and AI avatars for characters with directorial control.
Microsoft AI - Introduces MAI-Transcribe-1, a speech-to-text transcription model with 3.9% average Word Error Rate across 25 languages.
Google AI Pro - Expanded Storage from 2TB to 5TB at No Additional Cost
Trending Projects / Code Repositories
Nanobrew | The fastest macOS package manager. Written in Zig. 3ms warm installs.
Githuman | Keep the Human in the Loop of coding
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Miscellaneous
GenUI vs. Vibe Coding: Who’s Designing?
AI systems deciding design elements, user-driven vs AI-led creation, and the blurred lines between generative UI and vibe coding.
AI Hasn’t Made Developers Faster, It’s Made Their Review Queues Longer!
92% of developers use AI coding tools, but productivity has barely moved - stuck at 10%. Here’s why using AI doesn’t automatically mean getting more done.
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