Swami Guru

Product for 11 years at Condé Nast and Newsweek. Now building small things solo and writing about what breaks. Founder @longpressnews

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@hvgoenka To me, 45 out of the top 50 most polluted cities are Indian cities. Are people seeing any difference?

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Hisense plays ads when you switch inputs. Roku rebuilt its home screen around them. Samsung and Google TV have been doing it quietly for three years.

Read: https://t.co/8eoJ3nKR6o

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Did Amitabh Bachchan win a personality rights case in court?

Only Amitabh Bachchan can fully own his own face | Long Press

https://t.co/OAoTkjOoJC

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Is Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang involved in a Chinese spy scandal?

Jensen Huang's affair isn't Nvidia's real problem | Long Press

https://t.co/84qOiNcyaZ

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@ShivAroor Shiv, have you noticed every Diwali Modi leaves Delhi, goes to a remote army outpost and chills in clean air.

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Steam off a coffee cup, hair in the wind, a candle flicker, that kind of subtle motion works best.
https://t.co/hIJTX1H7S0

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ChatGPT's Images 2.6 update turns any photo into a GIF, free. Upload a picture, prompt: "Turn this into a short looping GIF, add [subtle motion], keep everything else still."

Done in seconds, no app, no subscription.

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Takes under a minute to set up and it's the one setting elderly relatives actually need.
https://t.co/43fC28kIUy

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A WhatsApp setting that would've slowed down today's digital-arrest scam: Settings > Privacy > Calls > Silence Unknown Callers. Numbers outside your contacts stop ringing, you just see them on a list later.

Set it up on your parents' phones this week.

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822 million transactions a day and the fee question is still unresolved past Diwali. Someone's going to have to blink.
https://t.co/t19JAZ5WnQ

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UPI did 25.47 billion transactions in October. Rs 31.53 lakh crore moved through it, about 822 million transactions a day. And NPCI still hasn't fixed a date for the merchant fee above Rs 2,000.

A system this big doesn't stay free forever.

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The scam ran for three weeks before anyone outside the call noticed. That's the part that should worry you.
https://t.co/AXXT4pZXgF

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A retired Mumbai executive spent 26 days under a WhatsApp "digital arrest." Accused of laundering Pahalgam-attack money, he liquidated shares and FDs, sent Rs 1.9 crore, until his nephew, a doctor in the US, caught it.

No cop arrests you over video call. Ever.

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@AQI_India Vishwaguru status unlocked

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The checklist is solid. The teeth are missing. That's the part to watch. https://t.co/ftzskNcaQs

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CERT-In dropped a 107-page AI Security Auditing framework on Nov 5, built for agentic AI: checking permissions, memory leaks, shutdown controls. What it doesn't have: a compliance deadline or a named penalty. India wrote the rulebook before deciding who follows it. #AI #CERTIn

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It's buried in settings, not a new app. Takes 10 seconds to turn on. https://t.co/qhWwYLtQid

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Delhi and Hyderabad Police just flagged fake Diwali gift messages, including a bogus ₹1,000 Paytm offer. Google Messages already has a fix: profile icon > Messages settings > Spam protection > turn on Scam detection. Runs on-device, catches the pattern before you click. #TechTip

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AB 1709 bans personalised feeds + autoplay for under-16s from Jan 1, 2027, if it survives this. https://t.co/jSFQsJp995

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Google, Meta and TikTok sued California on Nov 5 to block a law banning personalised feeds and autoplay for under-16s. Their defense: First Amendment, Section 230, and parents know best. The algorithm deciding what your kid sees next was never a parental setting. #BigTech