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In India's developer relations world, a quiet structural shift is underway. Over the past six to eight months, DevRel work has been drifting away from full-time roles and toward freelance arrangements, where individuals run sponsored events, pocket a fee, and move on. The concern being raised is a real one — transactional gigs don't build developer communities, sustained programs do.

That tension between short-term economics and long-term investment shows up in corporate governance too. A new Stanford antitrust study finds that competing companies share board directors far more often than anyone previously documented. The implications are significant — shared directors can blur competitive lines in ways that existing regulation was never designed to catch.

And on a quieter but urgent note, new research out of Australia finds that koalas face serious risk of death once sustained seven-day temperatures climb beyond twenty-seven degrees Celsius. As climate patterns push heat events longer and more frequent, the threshold isn't a distant warning — for parts of Australia, it's already a present reality.

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