Sumit Dagar @dagar

Recommended reading for the weekend: 1. Jensen Huang — Open Weights and American AI Leadership 2. J.P. Morgan — Patchmageddon: The race to patch software vulnerabilities before zero-day cyber-exploitations proliferate 3. George Sivulka (@gsivulka) — You just hired a million bad employees 4. Reuters — How the 'twin stars' of China, CXMT and YMTC, changed the chip game 5. Lisan al Gaib (@scaling01) — Have Chinese AI Models Caught Up to the US Frontier?

Indians in Amsterdam showed up to support the student protests at Jantar Mantar

India just gave the whole internet a free lesson on the power of FOSS (Free and open-source software). The Home Ministry's cybercrime unit ordered GitHub to delete BitChat. Three hour deadline. Comply or face legal action. Here's the problem with that plan. BitChat runs on pure Bluetooth mesh. No internet. No SIM. No phone number. No central server. Protesters started using it precisely because the government kept shutting the internet off, and it just kept working. You cannot delete an app that's already living on people's phones and passing messages device to device. And the source code? Open source. Within hours it was mirrored to a decentralized platform. Every person who copies it becomes another node the order can't reach. This is the whole point of self custody thinking, applied to communication instead of money. You can serve a takedown to a company. There's a CEO, an office, a legal team, a single point of pressure. You cannot serve a takedown to a network that nobody owns. India didn't kill BitChat. It ran a live demo of why unkillable infrastructure exists. #FOSS #PrivacyIsNotACrime

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Oxford erupts in fury, demanding justice for India’s students. Hundreds of enraged students flooded Radcliffe Camera in a powerful show of force.

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Statement : The blocking of BitChat's code on GitHub is unconstitutional and authoritarian. New Delhi, 24 July 2026 The Internet Freedom Foundation (IFF) condemns the order issued by the Indian Cyber Crime Coordination Centre (I4C), Ministry of Home Affairs, directing GitHub to remove the code repositories of BitChat. The order, Notice No. 11072601011432, was issued at 11:16 pm on 23 July 2026 under Section 79(3)(b) of the Information Technology Act, 2000 read with Rule 3(1)(d) of the IT Rules, 2021. The order directs GitHub to disable access to three repositories, including the Android application and its release files, within three hours. It threatens the platform with loss of safe harbour and criminal prosecution. No copy was published by the Government of India. The public learnt of it from a post by @jack, whose team develops BitChat. Censorship in India now comes to light through disclosure by the censored. Since 17 July 2026, the Ministry of Home Affairs has suspended mobile internet around Jantar Mantar as per public reports about five times, most recently within a 1.5 kilometre radius from 4 pm until midnight on 23 July. That radius takes in Janpath and parts of Connaught Place. Reports describe signal jammers at the protest site and people walking two kilometres before their phones work. Inside that zone a student separated from her group during a detention drive cannot send a message to say where she is. Thousands of students and young people have camped at Jantar Mantar since June, seeking accountability for examination irregularities. Permission for their march to Parliament was refused. Metro stations were shut and also internet connectivity has been blocked. BitChat is an open source application built for exactly this situation. It passes messages from phone to phone over Bluetooth, without mobile networks or a central server. It is striking that the order does not identify a single unlawful message. It objects to what BitChat is. In its own words, the application is dangerous because it enables communication "even during network restrictions" and can "circumvent lawful restrictions" during "internet shutdowns". Hence, the government's objection is that citizens can speak to one another while it has switched the internet off. The order is illegal on at least four grounds. 1. Section 79(3)(b) is not a blocking power. In Shreya Singhal v. Union of India (2015) 5 SCC 1, the Supreme Court read down the provision. Intermediaries may be required to act only on a court order, or a government notification confined to the grounds under Article 19(2) of the Constitution. Blocking is governed exclusively by Section 69A and the Blocking Rules, 2009, which require a hearing and reasons recorded in writing, subject to review. Directions issued under Section 79(3)(b), Rule 3(1)(d) and the Sahyog Portal evade these safeguards, and constitutional challenges to this parallel regime are pending before High Courts. 2. The reasons in the order are circular. The order asserts that the repositories contain "information which is prohibited under any law" without naming any such information, and rests on what the application is "capable of" enabling. Anticipated misuse of a communications tool is not a lawful basis to prohibit the tool. By this logic a telephone exchange could be sealed. 3. The order cites Section 43 of the IT Act, a civil compensation provision, alongside conspiracy and abetment offences under the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023, against a platform that hosts code. 4. A three hour deadline issued close to midnight forecloses legal assessment and recourse, and fails the proportionality standard in Anuradha Bhasin v. Union of India (2020) 3 SCC 637. The order also fails on its own terms as deleting a repository does not delete the application from any phone that carries it, and the mesh keeps functioning without servers. What the takedown actually prevents is scrutiny of the underlying code. IFF demands that the Government of India: 1. Withdraw Notice No. 11072601011432 dated 23 July 2026 issued to GitHub. 2. Publish every takedown direction issued under Section 79(3)(b), Rule 3(1)(d) and the Sahyog Portal, with the reasons recorded for each. 3. Restore full connectivity around Jantar Mantar, publish all suspension orders, and disclose the legal authority for the deployment of jammers. We stand with the developers and the young protesters whose speech this order seeks to silence.

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Jantar Mantar Appeal to Government Don’t be so utterly heartless Freely allow food to reach our children Don’t : tell eateries not to supply food shut down the internet harass people coming to the site by such actions fuel the protest Remember all power is temporary !

The 76 year old @narendramodi sits in his palace making unwatchable Insta reels to try and somehow compete with Gen Z, while his government 1) shuts down 18 metro stations, 2) shuts down all roads to Central Delhi, 3) puts in internet jammers, 4) stops food supply to children in Jantar Mantar 5) gets Hindutva leaders to start abusing the kids 6) Brings in massive security forces to frisk, block and shove ordinary citizens. FAILED @narendramodi government.

जेन जी के इस गुस्से में तर्क है, इसे आप खारिज कैसे करेंगे ? नेता क्या बोलेंगे ?

Kudos to @BlueTokaiCoffee Connaught Place. I didnt even know a coffee shop could muster up a first aid station that nobody else could (or wanted to...like Haldiram). Proud investor 🫡

"Business as usual" Monday evening in Delhi's Connaught Place, with people going back home from office.

Amit Malviya @amitmalviya

a week ago

Every claim made by the protestors is devoid of merit and has been debunked not only by the Delhi Police but also by several journalists and onlookers. There is no commotion in central Delhi either. It is business as usual after the initial enthusiasm. This hardly looks like a

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@adrenaIinIendnz Poor guy, can’t even take credit.

WHAT. A. ************. SHOT....... Photographer Eric Alonso captured a BEE in flight with Sergio Perez in the background. Sttunnnniiinnngggg!!!! #DPPI

@AmeliaBarty Thanks for saying it out loud clearly. I always wondered exactly the same for WisprFlow.

Mijns inziens is dit een van de beste use cases voor AI-videocontent op dit moment. Een AI-influencer reist terug in de tijd naar 1536 om te vloggen over haar ervaringen in Tudor-Londen.

Software platforms are going to be rebuilt for agent-first.

@sid_sst @ringg_ai Great job! "Vasant Kunj" feels relatable.

A billion dollar lesson on focus. @bchesky has got to be one of the most long-term thinking and focused CEO, and a true missionary too! Instead of making @Airbnb into an AI company (like many), he leaned in to their community and mission. Truly impressive and admirable!

Brian Chesky @bchesky

2 months ago

Introducing the Airbnb 2026 Summer Release

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just launched: @mobbin mcp 💛 your AI agents can now search 600,000+ real app screens. paywalls, onboarding, checkout, permissions — from apps that already shipped. ai tools can write code. they just don't know what good looks like. now they do. 👉 mobbin.com/mcp

Calendars could be so innovative, the perfect surface.

Mikk Martin 🇪🇪🇺🇦 @mikkmartin

3 years ago

What if you could see people's time zones visually when scheduling meetings? @cron

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AI is going to do to designers what typewriters did to writers.