Which Indian app, set up less than 5 years ago had to close shop last month after a failed takeover and the non-availability of funds to continue operations?

OpenAI has initiated "Project Strawberry" to improve the capabilities of their existing AI products, like ChatGPT. What is the intended improvement that Strawberry will bring about?

CNBC releases a yearly list called the "Disruptor 50", which lists companies that have majorly changed trends in many areas of business. At #6, we have a graphic designing tool, a field that was dominated by Photoshop for well over a decade. Which is this tool?

Stripe, an online payment platform, recently touched a monumental landmark, when it announced that the total amount of payments on the platform is close to 33% of the entire India's GDP, touching this figure in less than half the time PayPal (the leading transaction platform) did. How much is this figure, approximately?

When IBM Watson was initially being developed in 2013, its creators thought that the best way of teaching it the natural style/slang of human conversation online, was to feed it data from X. However, the IBM Watson started cussing instead, and they had to delete its data to fix it. What is X?

On July 2023 ____ announced ____, an open source LLM. They recently released version 3.1 which compares well against proprietary models.

In the early 20th century, this printing company was kickstarted by 2 men in a garage in Palo Alto, California. The company was named after them and is one of the most successful ones in the software industry. The two men were:

Which viral AI-generated video, originally popularized and heavily memed in 2023 for its surreal and humorous depiction of a celebrity engaging in an ordinary activity, was later regenerated to showcase advancements in AI technology, though the new version didn't achieve the same level of viral success?

Inspired by folklore, a cyberattack involved malware that disguised itself as a legitimate software. This tactic allowed the malicious software to bypass security measures and give attackers unauthorized access to the target's system. What term describes this type of?

X was a company involved in a data leak 2017 which was caused due to migration from 'ragel' parser to 'cf-html' parser. Name X.

Hint: Many of us likely rely on their services to access websites that might otherwise be restricted by our college wifi => VPN’s

This software development platform lost connection for only 43 seconds which led to service degradation due to DB replication between it's East, West Coast data centers. Name this platform.

Hint: This platform is essential for developers worldwide, often serving as the backbone for open-source projects and version control, with it's headquarters in San Francisco

One of the developers in this platform accidentally deleted the entire production database, resulting in the permanent loss of 6 hour's worth of data. The recovery process was made publicly visible in a google doc and was also streamed on youtube.

Hint: This platform is known for its strong community and open-source software development. It’s similar to the previous answer.

Name the penguin mascot that represents the Linux OS.

What is the informal name given to the combination of "Ctrl-Alt-Delete"

Which is the most used programming language in the world, as of 2024?

Which keyboard layout, designed in the 19th Century to minimize the number of typewriter jams, is named after the first 6 letters in it's top row?

The famous drill of typing a hard-to-read message or clicking a button is used to provide CAPTCHA. What does this acryonym stand for?

This person was instrumental in laying the foundations of facebook. He also founded Napster, the file sharing service which was banned in the early 2000's

Satya Nadella has given quite an interesting name to his autobiography; the name indicates revival, transformation and working with newfound energy. What is it called?

This product was launched in 2007, with the speaker making a selling point by saying “Who needs a stylus?”. What was the product?

___ is used as a metric to measure the ease of using a language or an API. It reflects how easy it is for a new user to build something simple using the language/API to satisfy a basic use-case