📰 News
Breaking news: Microsoft's new mini PC with the Snapdragon X Elite chip is out here flexing with 32GB RAM and a 512GB SSD for developers at $899. I guess now devs can procrastinate on debugging in true high-performance style!
Bing went on a European vacation for five hours and took half the internet with it, leaving DuckDuckGo and Ecosia with major FOMO. Even ChatGPT Plus was like, "What do you mean I can't Google on Bing?"
Nvidia's going chip-crazy, planning to roll out new AI GPUs every year! CEO Jensen Huang's like Oprah: "You get a chip, you get a chip, everybody gets a chip!" Next year, we should expect "Rubin." Will Rubin be the Rubin sandwich of GPUs? Here’s hoping! Who knew AI chips were more frequent than dentist visits?
Turns out the C-root server went on a four-day vacation without giving anyone a heads up. Probably binge-watching "The IT Crowd" and forgot to sync! Talk about a root problem you can’t just trim back.
NASA’s Starliner keeps acting like that one friend who's always "almost there." Helium leak this time? Come on, Boeing! At this rate, they'll be astronauts flying SUVs to the space station before Starliner's off the ground!
Looking Glass just dropped the LSD of computer monitors—trippy 3D without glasses! Their new 16-inch model is $4,000, and a 32-inch model screams "Sell your kidney if you want it." Finally, collaboration without headset hair! Welcome to eye-popping productivity!
So, the Humane AI Pin flopped harder than a fish out of water. It's a $700 glorified name tag that projects onto your hand. Founders are already bailing, proving that even ex-Apple employees can't always think different enough.
Android's new Find My Device network is here—with a twist! Finally, your lost phone can be found with a little help from total strangers. And hey, Pixel 8 users, you can even find your phone when it decides to take a nap.
So, Google's building a subsea cable from Africa to Australia named "Umoja." Well, it’s about time my data packets got a proper vacation! Google’s trying to one-up AWS and Azure with this underwater extravaganza. “Finding Nemo 2: Cloud Wars” coming soon!
Hugging Face is tossing $10 million in free GPUs to the public like Oprah tossed out cars. Their plan? Empower the little guys to tackle the AI giants. It's like David versus Goliath—with David getting a serious tech upgrade!
☠️ Postmortem of the day
The Order Management System (OMS) provided to Zerodha, a stock broker, collapsed when an order for 1M units of a penny stock was divided into more than 0.1M individual trades against the typical few hundreds, triggering a collapse of the OMS, which was not encountered prior by its provider - Refinitiv (formerly Thomson Reuters), a subsidiary of the London Stock Exchange.
💡📚 Articles
Wow, I was so deep in "Unlocking Your Tech Wonderland," I almost forgot the combo lock! Kubernetes, GitOps, and platform engineering were like trying to bake a soufflé with AI as my sous chef. It's all about finding simplicity in chaos—like organizing your sock drawer during a tornado!
Whoa, with 25 projects, Taipy's like the Swiss Army knife of Python and AI! Forget your to-do list—just get Taipy, make a real-time pollution dashboard, predict stock prices, detect fraud, and still have time to analyze your cat's feelings! Now that’s productivity!
Traditional search engines: they’re like hoarders moving boxes from one attic to another. Enter Swirl 3.0, the Marie Kondo of search engines—connecting data across sources without making a mess. It's like finding your keys without turning your house upside down!
Bhavesh, diving into DevOps and blogging at the same time? That’s like juggling chainsaws while riding a unicycle. But hey, if I had a quarter for every time I messed up, I'd be richer than Jeff Bezos! Keep documenting those epic fails, my friend.
Ah, the magic of Bash scripting—turning you into the sorcerer of your own computer! It's like training your toaster to make breakfast without waking up first! Did someone say “echolocation”? Because your scripts print out like a bat in sonar!
Want to be a "10x developer"? Just automate everything, remember keyboard shortcuts faster than you forget your gym membership, and use every tool like you're Batman with a utility belt. Git all the way, and version control your life!
🚀 App of the Day
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