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Geek Gossip
#Meta - The Meta AI program is making employees miserable, according to reports. The tech giant already has plans to lay off roughly 8,000 employees.
#NASA - NASA has added thousands of photos from the Artemis II mission to its archive. The album now holds 12,217 images by cosmic travelers Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch, and Jeremy Hansen. Some of the most impactful photos include the reflections of the astronauts’ hands and faces in the window of their vehicle.
Latest Updates
Cloudflare Cuts 1,100 Staff
Cloudflare, a web infrastructure and security company, is downsizing its workforce due to increased use of AI, citing a need for "intentional" company architecture in the "agentic AI era".
Changelog
Codex - Direct Integration with Chrome on macOS and Windows, Enhanced Multi-Tab Support, and Background Processing.
Google Photos - Not officially mentioned, but users have received mails telling them Google Photos using Google Drive has now been discontinued.
Trending Projects / Code Repositories
Vibe Template | A template for vibecoding projects using opinionated best practices so you don't have to repeat them for each experiment.
Agentic Inbox | A self-hosted email client with an AI agent, running entirely on Cloudflare Workers
Awesome Design Md | A collection of DESIGN[dot]md files inspired by popular brand design systems. Drop one into your project and let coding agents generate a matching UI.
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Pirates of the Coral-bean by WeMakeDevs challenges developers to build AI agents using Coral’s SQL-based data retrieval layer with APIs, databases, MCP, CLI, GitHub, Slack, and Sentry integrations. Participants can join solo or in teams of up to 4. The hackathon offers $10,000+ in prizes, including MacBook Neo, iPads, swag, and cash bounties. Register by 18th May here.
FIND EVIL! is a cybersecurity hackathon focused on building autonomous AI agents for incident response using Protocol SIFT and the SIFT Workstation. Participants can compete solo or in teams of up to 5 using MCP, Claude Code, AutoGen, CrewAI, LangGraph, Cursor, or Cline. The event offers $22,000+ in prizes for projects that automate threat hunting, DFIR workflows, and malware analysis. More Details Here.
Miscellaneous
Debugging Webassembly With Chrome Devtools
Learn how to use Chrome's DevTools to debug WebAssembly code, including setting breakpoints, stepping through code, and debugging exceptions.
Uber Shares What Happens When 1500 AI Agents Hit Production
Uber has over 1.500 agents running more than 60,000 executions per week. The lack of a shared way of building made it difficult to reach those numbers. Uber’s answer to all three problems was a centralized MCP gateway and registry.
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