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Apple's Battles U.S. Court 📱, MS's Copilot Integration 🤖, Open-Sora on Video 📹

This week's TechToks: Apple's monopoly woes, Microsoft's productivity boost plans, Uber's new data balancing act, and trending GitHub repos and more!

Game Changers

The article focuses on Microsoft's efforts to deeply integrate its AI assistant Copilot into Windows 11 and Windows 365, aiming to boost employee productivity and efficiency through features like meeting summarization and document analysis.

Daily Picks

The article discusses a U.S. Department of Justice lawsuit against Apple, alleging the company has a monopoly in the premium smartphone market and uses illegal tactics to maintain that monopoly, drawing parallels to the Microsoft antitrust case, but noting that Apple's market dominance is not as clear-cut as Microsoft's was in the PC operating system market.

The U.S. government has filed an antitrust lawsuit against Apple, accusing the tech giant of maintaining a monopoly over the iPhone and harming consumers and developers.

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This repository contains the Garnet project, a high-performance, scalable, and extensible open-source application framework that provides a set of libraries and tools for building modern cloud-native applications.

Open-Sora is a repository that aims to democratize efficient video production by providing tools and resources for video processing, including features like background removal, video stabilization, and super-resolution, with the goal of making high-quality video production accessible to all users.

Engineering Blogs

The article discusses how Uber optimized the HDFS balancer to increase data balance across its large HDFS clusters, which were experiencing skewed data distribution due to intensive node decommissioning and bursty write traffic, by devising a new algorithm to increase the number of pairs formed between DataNodes to enable parallel block movements while balancing data.