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Geek Gossip
#Microsoft - Microsoft is under criticism of its handling of a user’s account that was the victim of a hacking incident. They closed the account altogether - which seems modest at the beginning, but the account was 25 years old, had many purchased games to its name and many personal photos / memories of the user - that disappeared in an instant. Loyalty doesn’t seem to be rewarding in this instance.
Latest Updates
Karnataka CM Announces First Govt-driven AI University
Karnataka Chief Minister D K Shivakumar has announced plans to establish India's first government-driven Artificial Intelligence University, aiming to build world-class AI talent and strengthen collaboration among academia, industry, and government.
HCL Dives Into AI Datacenter Business
Indian tech giant HCL is expanding its presence in the AI market by investing in datacenter facilities with the potential to scale to 50MW of capacity.
Cloudflare And OpenAI Team Up To Speed Up AI Search
Cloudflare and OpenAI have launched a research pilot to improve the accuracy and timeliness of AI-generated answers by combining Cloudflare's real-time network data with OpenAI's search system, enabling crawlers to identify genuine page changes and reduce delays in indexing web content.
Changelog
Google Images - Users can now browse a dynamic gallery of images tailored to their interests, create collections to save ideas, and generate custom images directly in Search using a text prompt.
Canva Code - Now enables users to start coding from a prompt, template, or imported HTML, and edit interactive experiences directly in the Canva Editor with intuitive design controls and AI-powered editing features.
Cloudflare - Precursor is a client-side, session-based verification system that uses dynamically injected JavaScript to continuously collect behavioral signals as visitors interact with your application, helping distinguish human traffic from automated or agentic traffic in real time.
Spotify - Eligible Premium users can now have a back-and-forth conversation to choose what's playing, learn about the music they love, revisit their listening history, and go deeper on podcasts and audiobooks, all without leaving the app.
Trending Projects / Code Repositories
Termcn | Beautiful terminal UI components, built on Ink and OpenTUI. 100% Free, Zero config, one command setup.
Make Look Scanned | Makes PDFs look scanned (CLI or in the browser via WASM)
Loopy | A library of practical AI-agent loops and an installable skill for finding, adapting, and designing repeatable agent workflows.
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Miscellaneous
AI Shouldn't Shrink Headcount. It Should Shrink Teams
RevenueCat explores the benefits of smaller teams, leveraging AI to streamline decision-making and increase productivity. By focusing on parallelism and bandwidth, teams can maintain speed and efficiency despite growth. The company's OCTO model, a small group of trusted senior engineers, successfully bootstraps new projects, and the approach has been applied to product teams, resulting in increased revenue and satisfaction
Reddit Uplevels Automated Defenses
Reddit has upgraded its automated defenses using advanced AI tools to catch violating behavior before it reaches users. The system has reduced spam exposure by 20%, revoked nearly 2 million fake votes daily, and cut enforcement time on hateful content to under five seconds.
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