Edition 3: Android 15, UPI Challenges, FreeNGINX, and AI Frontiers

Tech Updates

• Android 15 First Developer Preview: Get a glimpse of the developer-focused innovations in the first preview of Android 15. This release is focused on enhancing productivity, media experiences, battery life, app performance, privacy, security, and more. Explore Android 15 Developer Preview
• The Birth of FreeNGINX: Maxim Dounin announces FreeNGINX, a project aimed at continuing NGINX’s development as an open and free project. This initiative seeks to uphold NGINX’s community-driven development approach. Announcing FreeNGINX

Learning and Development

• How to Build a Website With Elementor WordPress Course: A comprehensive YouTube playlist course designed for beginners and intermediate users on building websites using Elementor on WordPress. Watch Now
• Testing, a New Course by Sam Thorogood: A course aimed at equipping developers with comprehensive knowledge of testing web applications, focusing on test automation, various test types, and environments. Read More

Market Insights and Strategies

• Navigating Market Dominance in UPI Payments: India’s challenge in reducing PhonePe and Google Pay’s dominance in the UPI payments sector, holding over 83% market share. The government’s 30% market cap enforcement faces technical and regulatory hurdles. India’s UPI Payments Dominance Challenge
• Unveiling Engagement Rates Across Industries: Discover average engagement rates for twelve key industries as of January 2024, offering valuable benchmarks for evaluating social media campaign performances. Understanding Social Media Engagement

Legal and Security Perspectives

• Rethinking Software Liability Standards: Dive into the discussion on software liability, focusing on product-based liability and process-oriented safe harbor standards, crucial for developers and legal experts. Standards for Software Liability
• Protecting Your Site’s Data from AI Harvesting: Curated ways to prevent AI from mining your website’s data, covering practical steps like updating robots.txt with AI-specific directives and introducing an ai.txt. Prevent AI Data Mining on Your Site

GPT and AI Developments

• Discover the World of GPTs: A curated compilation of free GPT applications by friuns2 on GitHub, covering various needs and interests. Explore Awesome GPTs
• Hugging Face’s Edge Over Traditional GPTs: Explore the advantages of Hugging Face’s Assistants, offering open-source models, zero cost, and public sharing freedom. Read the Tweet

Website Optimization

• Maximising WordPress Performance with INP: Guide on optimizing your WordPress site’s responsiveness with the Core Web Vitals metric, Interaction to Next Paint (INP), for a better user experience and SEO. WordPress Optimization Guide for INP

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