Amruta Fadnavis extends dinner invite to Manoj Jarange amid ongoing protests

Maharashtra Deputy CM Devendra Fadnavis's wife Amruta Fadnavis invited Maratha quota activist Manoj Jarange to their home for a meal, addressing him as 'brother'. Jarange responded to the gesture, though details of his reply were not fully disclosed. The activist reaffirmed his intention to travel to Mumbai to push for his demands related to Maratha reservation. He is expected to announce his detailed action plan on September 12.

Apple Watch Siri Recaps Feature Raises Always-On Listening Privacy Concerns

Apple's Siri Recaps feature on the Apple Watch enables continuous ambient audio monitoring as users go about their daily activities. The functionality has sparked privacy concerns, drawing comparisons to the backlash Meta faced over its Ray-Ban smart glasses. Critics worry that always-on listening capabilities could expose users to unintended data collection. Apple has not yet issued a detailed public response addressing the privacy implications of the feature.

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EU's eIDAS 2.0 Will Make Passport-Scan KYC Legally Insufficient by 2027

The European Union's eIDAS 2.0 regulation, which entered into force in 2024, requires all EU member states to provide citizens with a government-backed European Digital Identity Wallet by end of 2026. By December 2027, large regulated entities including banks, fintechs, insurers, and telecoms must accept the EUDI Wallet for authentication. The EU's Anti-Money Laundering Regulation, on a similar 2027 timeline, further restricts identity verification to eIDAS-notified digital ID schemes, the EUDI Wallet, or qualified trust services — excluding traditional passport-scanning methods. Unlike document-based KYC, the EUDI Wallet presents cryptographically signed credentials with selective attribute disclosure, requiring platforms to validate digital signatures and trust chains rather than inspect physical ID images. KYC providers must therefore rebuild core verification pipelines to support W3C Verifiable Credentials, cryptographic trust-chain validation, and credential revocation checks ahead of the regulatory deadline.

How One Developer Built a Fast Multi-API Music Discovery Backend with FastAPI

A developer building a music app called TheExperience faced the challenge of combining data from three separate APIs — Last.fm, MusicBrainz, and the Cover Art Archive — without slowing down search performance. The solution involved splitting the backend into two distinct stages: a lightweight discovery phase triggered by user search, and a deeper enrichment phase activated only when a specific album is selected. FastAPI and asynchronous HTTP clients were used to run independent API requests concurrently, reducing latency and avoiding wasteful calls. When Last.fm provides a MusicBrainz ID for an album, the backend skips a redundant search and resolves metadata directly, cutting the number of external requests needed. This architecture treats third-party services as potentially unreliable dependencies, making the overall pipeline faster and more resilient to failures.

How to reliably trigger EAS builds via GitHub Actions using EXPO_TOKEN

Developers using Expo's EAS Build service can automate builds through GitHub Actions, but only after completing a successful local build that sets up credentials, project IDs, and build profiles. The local EAS CLI run is a mandatory prerequisite, as it creates the Android keystore, iOS certificates, and provisioning profiles that CI jobs depend on in non-interactive mode. Authentication on CI requires a personal Expo access token stored as the repository secret EXPO_TOKEN, which must be passed to the expo/expo-github-action step so all subsequent commands inherit authorization. The official workflow uses Actions checkout v5, Node 24, and the eas build --platform all --non-interactive --no-wait command to dispatch remote builds without blocking the runner. Build-time environment variables should be managed through EAS server-side profiles rather than GitHub Actions env entries, since those variables never reach the remote EAS builder.

Infere Launches AI Gateway with Prompt Versioning, Cost Tracking, and Observability

A team of developers has publicly launched Infere, an AI routing and observability platform, after months of building it to address fragmentation across multiple AI provider SDKs. The platform offers a single OpenAI-compatible endpoint that handles model routing, budget management, and logs every API call to provide clear cost visibility. It also includes git-style prompt versioning and automated evaluators to help teams manage and score prompts systematically. Infere is currently in beta and operates on a prepaid, pay-as-you-go credit model with no expiry on credits. The team is actively seeking developer feedback from real-world traffic to identify gaps and improve the platform.

Top Windows Laptops in 2025 That Rival Apple's MacBook Lineup

Windows laptops have reached a new level of quality, increasingly competing with Apple's MacBook range. A curated selection of nine standout models has been identified as capable challengers to MacBooks in terms of performance and build. The comparison highlights how far Windows hardware has advanced in recent years. Industry observers note that the competition between Windows and macOS devices is expected to intensify further heading into 2026.

iOS 27 to Bring Fully Revamped Siri AI Assistant to iPhone

Apple is set to introduce a completely overhauled version of its Siri assistant with the upcoming release of iOS 27. The update represents a significant redesign of the AI-powered feature built into the iPhone. iOS 27 will deliver new capabilities and improvements to how Siri functions for users. The changes are expected to mark one of the most substantial upgrades to the assistant in recent years.

Ronaldo's $1.2B Fortune Dwarfs Travis Kelce's $90M Net Worth

Cristiano Ronaldo holds a net worth of approximately $1.2 billion, compared to NFL star Travis Kelce's $90 million, reflecting a gap of over $1.1 billion between the two athletes. Ronaldo's wealth is largely driven by his lucrative contract with Saudi club Al Nassr and a wide portfolio of global business ventures. Kelce, meanwhile, earns through his NFL salary, brand endorsements, and his popular podcast 'New Heights'. His high-profile relationship with pop star Taylor Swift has significantly boosted his public profile and opened new commercial opportunities. Despite this surge in marketability, Kelce's net worth remains a fraction of Ronaldo's accumulated fortune.

Bitcoin Slides to $78,000 as Broad Crypto Selloff Hits Memecoins and Small Caps Hard

Bitcoin dropped approximately 2% over a 24-hour period, trading at around $78,111 according to CoinDesk data. The decline was part of a widespread crypto market retreat, with 95 out of 100 assets in the CoinDesk 100 index recording losses. Memecoins and small-cap cryptocurrencies were among the hardest-hit segments during the selloff. The bulk of the market downturn occurred during overnight trading hours.

Meet Hannah: The AI Presenter That Joins Your Video Calls and Runs the Deck

A team has built an AI presenter named Hannah that joins video calls on Teams, Zoom, or Google Meet as a live participant to deliver slide decks on camera. Hannah responds to voice commands addressed to her by name, answers audience questions, and replies to chat — but only using content provided by the presenting team. To prevent misinformation, she explicitly acknowledges when a question falls outside her given material and offers to route it to a human colleague. Every session opens with a disclosure that Hannah is an AI, a step the developers say has not deterred participants and has actually encouraged more direct questioning. Key engineering challenges included managing turn-taking, knowing when to pause mid-slide, and mapping loosely worded audience questions to the correct slide content.

Plembfin builds explainable sync ledger to track watch state across media servers

Plembfin is a self-hosted, open-source tool designed to synchronize watch state across media platforms such as Plex, Emby, Jellyfin, and Trakt. The project addresses common sync failures caused by inconsistent item identities, delayed webhooks, and library rebuilds by maintaining a canonical record separate from per-destination delivery state. Rather than showing a simple success indicator, its Sync Activity view logs the source event, outcome, reason, and retry context for every sync attempt, turning vague failures into actionable information. The system handles edge cases like rewatches, partial progress, and conflicting provider signals by preserving evidence and requiring explicit conflict resolution instead of silently overwriting data. Plembfin is available under the AGPL-3.0 license and its developer recommends backing up data and testing with a small library before broader use.

SC seeks UP govt response on plea challenging MLAs, MLCs’ pension, perks

Idaho's 56-Year-Old Unused Bridge Repurposed as Wildlife Crossing on I-90

An abandoned bridge over Interstate 90 in Osburn, Idaho, has been converted into a wildlife crossing after sitting unused for 56 years. The effort was driven by a local truck driver who had repeatedly witnessed animals being struck on the highway. Conservation organizations and state officials joined forces to transform the neglected structure into a safe passage for wildlife. Trail cameras have since captured deer regularly using the bridge to cross the busy interstate safely. Although the crossing is considered temporary, it has already proven effective in reducing animal-vehicle collisions in the area.

nixamp 0.9 fixes silent CNN stream bug, adds auto DNS naming and smarter IPTV playback

Developer media server nixamp released versions 0.7.36 through 0.9.3 in a single day, prompted by a bug where CNN streamed for twelve hours with no audio or video. The root cause was ffmpeg's stderr pipe filling up and blocking all output, because Node.js only reads piped streams that are actively flowing — a fix now drains stderr for every spawned ffmpeg process. Late-joining viewers were also stalling due to missing buffered content; the fix delivers the last six seconds from a fragment boundary, reducing stalls from six per thirty seconds to zero in Chrome tests. Large IPTV playlists with up to three thousand entries are now organized into named catalogs sorted by group, with live channels starting on first click and stopping a minute after the last viewer exits. Servers can now automatically obtain a subdomain under nixamp.com along with a Let's Encrypt wildcard certificate via DNS-01 challenge, eliminating the need to manually configure DNS records or copy certificates.

Function Coloring Debate: Why Context Propagation in Go Is Still an Infection

A viral cross-language essay reignited debate over 'function coloring,' a concept first introduced by Bob Nystrom in February 2015 to describe the incompatibility between async and sync functions. Critics argued that Go avoids the problem by not using async keywords, but a Causality.blog retrospective from April 2026 countered that Go introduced its own form of coloring via context.Context, which must be threaded through every function in the call stack. A September 2026 Jerf.org essay pushed back, claiming context.Context is not a true color because developers can halt its spread using context.Background(), though critics argue this does not eliminate the costly upstream rewrites. Java's Project Loom, which shipped Virtual Threads in Java 21 in September 2023, is cited as strong evidence that context propagation is a genuine engineering burden, since its entire design goal was to have the runtime handle threading automatically. The core argument is that whether propagation is triggered by a keyword or a context object, the real cost lies in rewriting the call tree — and redefining the terminology does not change that reality.

Tax notice for Rs 1 cr remittance from Kuwait

Shaheen Afridi to feature for KRL in Pakistan's President's Trophy

Pakistan fast bowler Shaheen Shah Afridi has been named in the KRL squad for the President's Trophy, a domestic first-class tournament in Pakistan. His inclusion marks a return to domestic cricket for the left-arm pacer. Meanwhile, Salman Agha has been appointed vice-captain of Kingsmen Academy for the same competition. The President's Trophy is one of Pakistan's premier red-ball domestic tournaments featuring departmental teams.

All Indian airlines will now check if pilots are high