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Geek Gossip
#NITK-Campus-Placements - Take a look at the salaries offered to graduates from National Institute of Technology (Surathkal). The field leading with higher salaries is still Computer Science and Engineering but core engineering fields continue to lag.
#Apple - Siri’s new redesign has been leaked. Bloomberg has released illustrations of Apple’s new Siri interface for iOS 27. The new interface is expected to be released to the public in June. Siri will “live inside the Dynamic Island” as part of iOS 27 for Siri.
Latest Updates
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Changelog
Claude Opus - 4.8 version released with improved collaboration capabilities, dynamic workflows, and faster mode.
YouTube - You can now use AI to generate your own customizable feed with personalized content recommendations.
Anthropic - Claude Design now shares usage limits with Claude[dot]ai and Claude Code.
Firebase - Introducing Vibe-Code Mobile App for Android and iOS
Spotify - Organize Your Playlists into Folders - Manage Your Playlists and Queue with More Control - Enjoy More Reliable Offline Listening - Reshuffle Your Queue with One Tap.
Trending Projects / Code Repositories
Semble | Fast and Accurate Code Search for Agents. Uses ~98% fewer tokens than grep+read
Zerostack | Minimalistic coding agent written in Rust, optimized for memory footprint and performance
Tegaki | Handwriting animation for the web. Supports any font or text.
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Miscellaneous
I Made a Million Dollar Product from My Dorm Room
Newly graduated engineer Nicell shares the story of creating the nice!nano, a wireless microcontroller board that powers tens of thousands of keyboards and changed his life.
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