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Geek Gossip
#Infosys - Salil Parekh, CEO and Managing Director of Infosys has said that the company has not carried out any layoffs over the past year and does not plan to do so in the near term. InfosYS plans to bring in around 20,000 fresh graduates, keeping campus hiring at a steady pace.
#VisionPro - Apple has all but given up on the Vision Pro after the M5 model failed to revitalize interest in the device. The Vision Pro has been criticized for its high price tag and its uncomfortable weight. Some former Vision Pro team members are working on Siri.
#GrokAI - Elon Musk testified that his own AI startup, xAI, has used OpenAI’s models to improve its own. Model distillation is a common industry practice by which one larger AI model acts as a “teacher” of sorts to pass on knowledge.
Latest Updates
Amazon And Meta Lobby India's Payments Body Over Dominance Of PhonePe And Google Pay
Executives from Amazon Pay, WhatsApp, CRED, MobiKwik, and Flipkart’s Super Money are scheduled to meet the National Payments Corporation of India on Thursday. Meeting comes over a year after India deferred plans to cap the market share. of UPI apps at 30% until December 31, 2026.
Changelog
Netflix - Introduces Clips, a personalized vertical video feed for discovering new content on mobile.
Cursor - Introduces Cursor SDK for building and deploying coding agents programmatically.
YouTube - Picture-in-picture (PiP) feature now available globally for all users.
Instagram - New Original Content Guidelines Implemented to Enhance Recommendations and Account Eligibility
Spotify - Introduces Verified by Spotify badge and additional artist profile details to provide more context and authenticity about artists and their music.
Cloudflare Provisioning - Cloudflare accounts can now be provisioned, paid for, and registered on behalf of users by coding agents.
Stripe - Introduced Link's wallet for agents, enabling programmatic access to payment options and one-time-use cards or Shared Payment Tokens (SPTs) for authorized purchases.
Trending Projects / Code Repositories
Stash | Persistent memory layer for AI agents. Episodes, facts, and working context stored in Postgres. MCP server included. Self-hosted, single binary, no cloud required.
Wuphf | Pronounced "woof", WUPHF is a collaborative office of AI employees who build and maintain their own knowledge base to never lose context for the tasks you give them. Supports Claude Code, Codex, OpenClaw and local LLMs via OpenCode.
Kumo | Cloudflare's UI component library for building modern web applications.
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Miscellaneous
The Web Is Fun Again: First Experiments with HTML in Canvas
A look at the new HTML in Canvas API and the quirky things you can do with it.
The End Of Responsive Images
A new syntax for responsive images has been released by the W3C. The new syntax is designed to make it easier for users to work with large images. The syntax was developed by the RICG, the “pirate radio” body responsible for bringing responsive image markup to the web.
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