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Geek Gossip
#WhatsApp - Usernames are here! Slowly being rolled out to users across the world, you can now reserve a unique handle and hide your phone number.
#Google - Tokenmaxxing is indeed phasing out. Google has capped Meta's Gemini AI access due to compute constraints, prompting Meta to shift to its own Muse Spark model and optimize AI token usage.
#Vistara - No, not the popular Indian airline. This is the custom chip that Meta developed to reuse memory from retired servers by connecting DDR4 RAM to new servers that rely on DDR5. Turns out even Meta is feeling the burn with increased RAM prices and this innovation will help them with significant cost savings.
Latest Updates
Google Partners With India's NHA For Aarogya Setu 2.0
India's National Health Authority launches Aarogya Setu 2.0, a digital platform aggregating personal health records and government services, utilizing Google's Gemma 4 and Medical Data Toolkit to process complex medical records and enhance healthcare interoperability.
Tech Mahindra Partners With Perplexity For AI-powered Sales Intelligence
Tech Mahindra, a leading technology consulting firm, has partnered with Perplexity to integrate AI-powered intelligence into its sales organization. The partnership aims to empower sales teams with real-time access to trusted insights, enabling them to better understand customer priorities and deliver greater business value.
Maruti Suzuki Partners With 5 Startups For Sustainable EV Future
Maruti Suzuki has partnered with five startups, including MiniMines for sustainable EV battery recycling, and four others for AI-driven operational efficiency, as part of its incubation programme to future-proof its operations and address the challenges of sustainable EV production.
iPhone 18 Pro Leaked Details
While previously reported, details of what was leaked is now coming to the fore. Apple supplier Tata Electronics suffered a data breach, revealing iPhone 18 Pro components, drop test photos, and system-on-a-chip schematics.
Large Hadron Collider Goes Offline To Make Room For Its Enhanced Successor
The Large Hadron Collider at CERN is being shut down for a four-year upgrade, resulting in the High-Luminosity LHC, which will deliver 10 times the luminosity and enable more physics discoveries.
Changelog
Microsoft Teams - A new admin policy has been introduced to give organizations more visibility and control over external bots in their meetings, automatically detecting potential bots, placing them in the meeting lobby, and requiring explicit organizer confirmation before they're admitted.
JetBrains Air - Developers can now use Windows to run agents in a dedicated environment, choose which agent executes tasks, review results, and apply changes to main codebase.
OpenClaw - The app now has native mobile apps available on both iOS and Android, allowing users to run agents and access features like channels, tasks, and replies on the go.
Cursor - You can now launch always-on agents in the cloud, control agents running on your computer from your phone, and move work forward from anywhere, including kicking off agents, getting notified when work is ready for review, and merging PRs on the go.
Trending Projects / Code Repositories
Asciline | A high-performance, real-time ASCII video rendering engine. Streams binary-encoded frames via WebSockets for ultra-low latency, 30 FPS playback using HTML5 Canvas and requestAnimationFrame.
Meshery | A self-service engineering platform, Meshery, is the open source, cloud native manager that enables the design and management of all Kubernetes-based infrastructure and applications (multi-cloud).
Nubase | Turn AI-written code into real apps. Nubase is an open-source, AI-native backend platform for AI Coding, agentic applications, and modern product teams: Memory, Database, Storage, and Auth in one self-hostable service.
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Miscellaneous
Gitignore Is Not The Only Way To Ignore Files In Git
You'll learn about three levels of ignoring files in Git and how to customize the global ignore file.
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