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#GitHub - GitHub has confirmed the compromise of an employee device involving a poisoned VS Code extension that resulted in unauthorized access to 3800 repositories.
#YouTube - YouTube is testing this new feature where only the top 1% of fans can see the videos.
Latest Updates
Scapia Secures $63 Million In Funding Round
Scapia, an Indian startup that combines travel booking with co-branded credit cards and mobile payments, has raised $63 million in a funding round led by General Catalyst. The all-equity round assigns the startup a post-money valuation of more than $500 million, according to a source familiar with the matter.
Kerala Establishes First-ever AI Ministry In India
Kerala has become one of the first states in India to create a dedicated Artificial Intelligence (AI) portfolio in the government. The new AI department will be overseen by P. K. Kunhalikutty.
Meta Slashes 8000 Jobs
Meta, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, is undergoing a major reorganization, focusing on artificial intelligence and laying off around 10% of its workforce, or 8,000 people.
Changelog
Spotify - Introduces real-time question answering for podcast listeners and expands Prompted Playlists to podcasts.
Microsoft - Open Sources RAMPART Agent Test Framework and Clarity Structured Sounding Board
Visual Studio Code - Adds built-in Mermaid and HTML previews, streamlines terminal tool behavior for agents, and lets you run agent sessions on remote machines.
Trending Projects / Code Repositories
Hunk | Review-first terminal diff viewer for agentic coders
Statewright | State machine guardrails that control which tools your AI agent can use in each phase.
Files Md | Private, quiet space for thinking. A simple app for your markdown files.
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Miscellaneous
My Thoughts on AI: Fears, Opinions, and Mental Journey
A developer shares their struggles with AI's impact on software industry, citing stagnant learning, quantity over quality, and increased workload.
The Joys of Free Cloudflare
A developer shares their experience with Cloudflare Pages and Workers, using them to build a personal train timetable and save FX volumes data to a D1 SQL database.
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