This Week I Learned - Week 44, 2026

This Week I Learned - 

* Boris Cherny, who created Claude Code, has called giving Claude a way to verify its work probably the most important thing for getting good results. 

* Claude Cowork is now just Claude. 

* Oracle will offer Google’s Tensor Processing Units (TPUs) via its cloud infrastructure platform, marking the first time specialised AI accelerators will be available on a hyperscale cloud platform outside of Google’s ecosystem. TPUs are processors designed by Google to accelerate machine-learning workloads. They offer an alternative to graphics processing units. 

* AI Spin-off - Using sensors developed for self-driving cars, a Chinese start-up claims it can track and destroy tiny flying targets while avoiding people, pets and reflective surfaces.

* Python on Azure App Service and Azure Functions on Windows retires on 31 March 2027. To continue running Python workloads, create a new app on Azure App Service on Linux or Azure Functions on Linux and redeploy your Python applications.

* In Git, the command git blame filename tells you who last modified each line of code. Some APIs borrow the same terminology: Open Food Facts, for instance, lets you add a blame parameter to find out who last modified each product field. It's essentially a digital version of asking, "Who did this?"

* The India database of Open Food Facts (OFF) has crossed 25,000 products! 

* To fetch the transcript for a YouTube video without manually navigating within YouTube, take a YouTube URL, extract its video ID, construct a transcript URL by appending the YouTube video ID to YouTube Bulk Transcript's transcribe service like so - https://ytbulktranscript.app/transcribe?v=VIDEO_ID

* According to global cybersecurity firm Palo Alto Networks, Artificial intelligence (AI) models have helped flag more than 14,000 previously undetected vulnerabilities in open-source software, matching a full year of manual penetration testing in just three weeks.

* Cryptocurrency exchange Binance reported a security breach with an estimated impact of $6.3 billion with an initial investigation pointing to a compromised DevOps engineer’s laptop that let an attacker submit unauthorised withdrawal transactions. The attack is attributed to TraderTraitor, a North Korean state-sponsored hacking unit.

* Google Cloud’s Mandiant team reported that its AI-assisted system discovered over 100 confirmed critical vulnerabilities in just two days.

* A timeline of religions - an interactive history

* Portolan charts are medieval maps that show coastlines, place-names, distances and directions for navigation at sea. 

* Setting self-imposed constraints help me to finish things or bring them to some kind of a conclusion. - Pea Bee

* Fatty liver is a silent condition. The typical range for liver fat is about five percent, but ideally, it should be closer to two percent. 

* Redditor’s Hot Take on Kumar Vishwas - "he was never a good poet or writer, just chetan bhagat of hindi language"

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