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🎉 I built and launched an AI-powered full-stack hobby project by “vibe coding” a few hours over the weekend. 🚀 — solo. Just me, VS Code, and a few AI copilots — Claude Sonnet, GitHub Copilot, and OpenAI models. ⚙️ What I Built An AI-driven platform that: • Generates engaging posts for LinkedIn, X, and Facebook • Publishes automatically across platforms • Turns full articles into…
Summary OpenAI is set to charge $20,000/month for AI agents aimed at PhD-level tasks, with SoftBank backing its expansion. Governments’ AI race misses the potential of collaboration, while “Severance” TV show explores how our work selves shape our identities. The ongoing debate over birthright citizenship highlights the power dynamics in America’s history. Larry Page’s new AI…
Summary Real-time data is replacing trust in the workplace, tracking every move without the need for weekly reports. Amazon’s Alexa+ offers smarter AI features but raises questions over cost and privacy. The AI investment boom will mostly burn investors, with only a few true innovators striking wealth. Mixue has become the world’s largest fast-food chain, thriving on affordability and…
Summary This week’s reading took me through a mix of thought-provoking and practical topics: Satya Nadella’s vision for Microsoft’s AI and quantum future, xAI’s powerful Grok 3 launch, and a chilling documentary on the disappearance of Malaysian Flight 370. I also explored debates around smartphone bans in schools, the surprising downsides of elite tutoring, a game-changing cash-back credit card…
Hello, dear readers! It’s been a while—quite a few years, in fact—since I last wrote regularly on this site. But after this long break, I’m excited to say that I’m back and ready to write consistently again. To kick things off, I’ll be starting a new series: weekly summary posts every weekend. These posts will feature the most interesting articles, essays, and insights I’ve come across from around…
This is a sample post on this site after migrating it from Wordpress to Hugo. Publishing from VS Code Desktop. Publishing from VS Code Browser Online.
OpenAI, a frontrunner in artificial intelligence research, has recently announced several groundbreaking updates that are set to enhance AI technology interactions in dramatic ways. New Voice and Image Features for ChatGPT The beloved AI model, ChatGPT, is now more capable than ever. OpenAI has enhanced ChatGPT with new voice and image features, setting a new standard for AI interactions. This…
I requested ChatGPT to assume the role of a prominent Indian journalist and come up with a list of questions that would be asked if Mahatma Gandhi were alive today. Subsequently, I asked for responses to these questions, embodying Gandhi’s perspective, vision, and reasoning. [Image Credit] Here are some of the interesting points and answers provided by ChatGPT impersonating as Mahatma…
Submarines are amazing machines that can travel deep underwater for long periods of time. They can perform various missions, such as military operations, scientific research, or underwater exploration. But how do submarines work and navigate underwater? How do they control their depth, speed, and direction? How do they communicate and locate targets? In this blog post, I will answer these…
Another day, another news about Elon Musk and Twitter. Twitter employees that are coding or doing technical work are now expected to submit a weekly summary of their work. The summary will include what they worked on, what they hoped to complete, and specific lines of code they wrote. Elon Musk is directly overseeing Twitter’s engineering department. Email from Twitter Engineering Subject…
Elon Musk is ending Twitter’s ‘work from home forever’ policy. Employees are expected to be in the office for at least 40 hours a week. Musk wants Twitter to generate at least half of its revenue from subscriptions to become less reliant on advertising. Many advertisers have paused spending until Musk and his team can prove that the platform is being managed effectively. A copy…
After President Trump’s demand to sell TikTok to an American firm began, every major company competed for the 100m users firm. Microsoft seemed ahead with the race, but Oracle’s Trump card brokered the deal! The most obvious winner in all this is China’s government. ByteDance gets to keep its prize asset rather than sell it on the cheap. Their government played the political…
Facebook confirms it may follow Instagram and hide like counts. Users might feel less anxious about the perceived popularity of their content. Studies have shown that social media use may influence mental health, including leading to depression and anxiety.
It’s 2019 and we are still dealing with encryption issues! 🤔🤦♂️ https://techcrunch.com/2019/08/20/moviepass-thousands-data-exposed-leak/
Only Apple could get people to post pictures of a credit card in 2019. And here is mine! 😉🤑💳 #Apple #AppleCard #AppleCreditCard
According to Capital One, that data includes approximately 120,000 Social Security numbers and approximately 77,000 bank account numbers #CapitalOne #Databreach https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-07-29/capital-one-data-systems-breached-by-seattle-woman-u-s-says
Great! I’ve been asking and waiting for this digital membership card scan feature for quite sometime from #Costco Still not a complete cardless solution at their gas stations yet. #CostcoiOSApp
My guess is someone who wrote code must either logging all HTTP requests or user objects and passwords were accidentally included in diagnostic logs, but who knows! And it valued at $7.6 billion earlier this week 🤦♂️ #Robinhood #RobinhoodPassword
Big deal for enterprise technology and Seattle tech. Tableau Software will remain based in Seattle and will continue to operate independently under the Tableau brand. Read More
Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft. “Together with Spektacom and Star Sports, we are bringing the power of Azure and Azure Sphere to one of the world’s most celebrated games – cricket – transforming how it’s played, coached and watched.” Read More
Amazon Go rivals on the rise. ‘Standard Cognition’ appears to be first to announce a deal in actual stores. Other startups, Accel Robotics and Caper Lab, are using a similar system. Microsoft is in line next? Read More
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Long Nose of Innovation: Every “wow” moment is preceded by a long period of slowly building innovation. Read More: https://www.wsj.com/articles/we-were-promised-mind-blowing-personal-tech-whats-the-hold-up-1525356604
Apple said the investments — including a brand new US campus, data centres and more than 20,000 new jobs — would help it make a $350b “direct contribution” to the US economy over the next five years. Some of that is new investment, but some is just taxes. Read More
They have beaten us at chess, co-written a pop album. Now computers are taking a step ahead into human world: the reading comprehension test. In the test administered last week, Microsoft and Alibaba subjected their artificial intelligence systems to queries from the Stanford Question Answering Dataset, which assessed reading comprehension. The computers’ answers were compared against average…
Windows 10 Fall Creators Update will be available starting on Oct. 17, along with the first Windows Mixed Reality headsets from third-party hardware makers, but no timeline feature. The new version will include revamped Windows Inking technology, better OneDrive integration to access files on demand, security upgrades, a new Game Mode that provides more processing power for video games, and a new…
Microsoft’s Cortana and Amazon’s Alexa will begin “talking to each other” Read more: https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2017/08/30/hey-cortana-open-alexa-microsoft-amazons-first-kind-collaboration/
Tips for protecting your information and privacy against cybersecurity attacks. Please take a few minutes to watch the video: From Microsoft Cloud Platform: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_vrVmkYDrlE Highlights in the video: Identity Multi factor authentication Minimum level of access on assets JIT administrative access Keep software up-to-date Tools: Azure Security Center (Microsoft also added…
Security research firm Checkpoint announced that its team had discovered a new vulnerability in numerous media players that allows a hacker to take full control of any device when a malicious subtitle file is used. The firm estimates 200 million people are potentially at risk. If you are using a media player (like VLC) to watch a legitimate copy of a film that already has subtitles, you’re…
The registration of the “garbage” domain iuqerfsodp9ifjaposdfjhgosurijfaewrwergwea.com quite possibly saved lives, after a botnet attack spreading malware, targeted a variety of healthcare facilities, seeking ransom - Named WannaCry, the malware infects vulnerable Windows machines affecting hospitals and healcare facilities in the UK and Russia. A security expert and operator of MalwareTech.com…
At its event in New York today, Microsoft announced a new iteration of Windows 10: Windows 10 S - Microsoft challenger to Chrome OS. Microsoft is calling it a “streamlined” version of Windows 10, optimized to run on lower end hardware. The OS is limited to only run apps from the Window Store, but they can still be full Win32 apps – they simply have to be available from the store.
Nest adds two-factor authentication to increase security for their cameras and thermostats. Just go to the account settings from your app to get started:
A typo took the half Internet down? #AWSOutage Amazon said the S3 team was working on an issue that was slowing down its billing system. Here’s what happened, according to Amazon, at 9:37 a.m. Pacific, starting the outage: “an authorized S3 team member using an established playbook executed a command which was intended to remove a small number of servers for one of the S3 subsystems that is used…
Microsoft signs exclusive cloud deal with Flipkart, Amazon’s biggest online retail rival in India. It’s a significant customer win for Microsoft in the public cloud battle against Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Platform and others. Read More
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has been nominated to the Starbucks promising to give the coffee giant additional technology expertise. Read more: https://news.starbucks.com/news/starbucks-nominates-new-board-members
Breaking News: Marissa Mayer is resigning and Yahoo is changing its name to Altaba Inc. as per the latest filing report: https://investor.yahoo.net/secfiling.cfm?filingID=1193125-17-5896&CIK=1011006
How can I be happy? Here is an awesome image and video I found on this topic! Video: TED Talk - Pursuit of a memorable life
Yahoo revealed new security issues affecting more than a billion users’ data, a breach that is separate to the hack it disclosed earlier this year, which was the biggest data breach on record.
Amazon to open first ‘self-driving’ grocery store, with no checkout lines, in Seattle in early 2017. Video: https://youtu.be/NrmMk1Myrxc
YouTube flips the switch to 4K streaming. You will be able to live stream both standard and 360 degree videos in 4K. https://youtube.googleblog.com/2016/11/4k-live-streaming-live-has-never-looked.html
Netflix now lets you download movies and TV shows to watch offline. Read more - https://media.netflix.com/en/company-blog/downloads-make-it-even-easier-to-watch-netflix-on-the-go
Microsoft takes machine learning to next level: US Elections 2016…. fb.me/4k76xlz4L
Microsoft lays off Customer Success Managers from Yammer Community Team…. fb.me/7ARRtGATi
Several of Twitter’s top executives are leaving in a major shakeup! Recode is reporting that Twitter’s head of… fb.me/23lWjPxdr
Why Android users should uninstall Facebook ASAP It sucks battery life, seems to hog memory and more. One Reddit… fb.me/4TrCAbHhn
New options revealed within the WhatsApp beta app that allows users to share account and contacts information… fb.me/7NEI5Oom0
Just in case you need to know the Hyper-V host name of a virtual machine, navigate to… fb.me/3Fje4N084
In a blog post, Netflix announced today that it would be taking measures to prevent users from using proxies to… fb.me/6UM9u5MPf
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella’s home in Washington was listed for sale this week at an asking price of $3.488… fb.me/ssBHasb1