BRICS Turns 25: From Goldman Sachs Acronym to 21-Nation Global Bloc

The 18th BRICS Summit is set to be hosted in New Delhi this September, marking 25 years since the bloc originated as an economic concept. What began as a Goldman Sachs acronym has grown into a significant platform representing the Global South. The grouping now comprises eleven full member nations along with ten partner countries. Summit discussions are expected to centre on economic cooperation, technology, and global governance reform.

How Sharing Project Stats With Context Can Build a Loyal Social Media Following

Developers and creators building in public can grow social media audiences by regularly sharing project metrics alongside meaningful context, not just raw numbers. Explaining what a statistic means, what influenced it, and what will be tested next turns routine data into useful content for other builders. Consistency matters: using the same core metric across updates lets followers track progress over time, including flat periods and failed experiments. Practical details such as labeling chart axes clearly, defining terms like 'active users', and removing sensitive information before posting screenshots help maintain credibility. Ending each update with a specific question invites readers to contribute their own experience, making the content a starting point for conversation rather than a one-way broadcast.

‘Violated party policy’: Bihar Congress notice to 29 rebels amid deepening rift

How Browser Simulators Can Teach Database Scaling Better Than Textbooks

A software developer argues that hands-on simulation is more effective than reading for understanding database scaling concepts like indexing, caching, and replication. Three free, browser-based simulators allow users to observe how missing indexes cause slow queries, how cache eviction policies affect hit rates, and how read replicas introduce data consistency challenges. The indexing simulator demonstrates how a B-tree index reduces rows scanned during a query, while also illustrating the write overhead that makes blanket indexing impractical. The caching simulator visualizes the cache-aside pattern and lets users compare LRU, FIFO, and LFU eviction strategies against different access patterns. The tools are disclosed as built by the author and require no signup, serving as a practical supplement to standard system design interview preparation.

Kimmel moves Talarico interview to YouTube amid FCC retaliation fears

Late-night host Jimmy Kimmel announced he will interview Texas Democratic Senate candidate James Talarico on YouTube rather than on his ABC show, Jimmy Kimmel Live. Kimmel cited concerns about potential retaliation from the Trump administration's Federal Communications Commission as the reason for the move. He stated that the FCC has already threatened his show, ABC, and affiliated local stations over editorial and guest-booking decisions. Kimmel expressed particular concern for ABC affiliates in Texas, where Talarico is running for Senate. This marks another high-profile interview shifted off traditional broadcast television due to regulatory pressure.

Charlie Kirk Was Shot a Year Ago. The Conspiracy Theories Are More Rampant Than Ever

Experts say conspiracy theorizing about the identity and motive of Charlie Kirk’s killer will likely continue for a long time to come.

IndiGo Lucknow-Dammam flight makes emergency landing after hoax bomb threat

Bending Spoons acquires Miro for $1.36B, a fraction of its 2021 peak valuation

Italian tech company Bending Spoons has agreed to acquire Miro, a workplace collaboration tools startup, for $1.36 billion. The deal marks a dramatic decline in Miro's perceived value, which had soared to $17.5 billion during a late 2021 funding round. The acquisition price represents roughly a 90% drop from that peak valuation. The deal reflects the broader correction in tech startup valuations following the highs of the pandemic-era investment boom.

Django's Auth System: Five Core Tables That Power User Permissions

Django's built-in authentication framework relies on five core database tables — auth_user, auth_group, auth_permission, django_content_type, and two join tables — to manage users and access control. Every model in a Django project automatically receives four default permissions: add, change, delete, and view, all linked to models via the django_content_type table. Groups act as role containers, allowing developers to bundle permissions and assign them to multiple users at once, while individual users can also receive permissions directly. Custom permissions, such as publish_post, can be created programmatically for more granular access control. Developers are advised against modifying system-managed tables like django_content_type and should deactivate users via the is_active flag rather than deleting records to preserve data integrity.

Wrong turn, DHS: My name is 'Singh' and I’m not a bad truck driver

ToolJet MCP Lets Teams Build a Freight Control Tower App for Under $1

A tutorial on DEV Community demonstrates how to build a multi-page shipment control tower application using ToolJet MCP, a model-context-protocol-based app-building tool. The app is designed for freight operations teams managing ocean and air cargo across lanes connecting North America, Europe, and Southeast Asia. It features a live color-coded shipment map, an exceptions queue for at-risk shipments, and a weekly performance summary broken down by lane and carrier. Recovery actions logged by planners are stored with author names and timestamps, giving teams a traceable operational record. The article claims the four-page app can be built for as little as $0.17 using a lightweight AI model, with costs scaling up if more advanced reasoning models are chosen.

Dammam bound IndiGo flight gets bomb threat

MoneyGram Launches Visa Card Backed by Stablecoins for Everyday Dollar Spending

MoneyGram, the global remittance company, has unveiled a new Visa card that allows customers to hold and spend US dollars backed by stablecoins. The product bridges traditional payment infrastructure with digital asset technology, enabling everyday transactions from a stablecoin-backed balance. The move signals a broader push to bring stablecoin utility into mainstream consumer spending. It reflects growing momentum around digital dollars as practical financial tools rather than purely speculative assets.

Multi-Agent AI Systems Often Costlier and Less Accurate Than Single-Agent Setups

Research suggests that deploying multiple AI agents in coordination does not reliably improve reasoning and may actually degrade it. Google's research found that multi-agent coordination reduced sequential reasoning performance by 39 to 70 percent compared to single-agent approaches. A Sber whitepaper also reported that multi-agent setups consumed roughly 15 times more tokens than single-agent chat. Experts argue that each agent-to-agent handoff acts as a lossy step, with downstream agents receiving only sanitised summaries rather than full reasoning context. Multi-agent architecture is considered justified only when tasks are genuinely parallel or exceed a single model's context window.

Four engineering patterns to stop AI agents from breaking in production

A software developer building an AI chatbot for a product called Weeve documented four critical failure modes that emerge when agentic AI pipelines move from demos to production environments. These failures include tool call errors, persistent API outages, silent infinite loops, and hallucinated outputs that superficially resemble valid JSON. To address these issues, the developer implemented retry logic with exponential backoff, fallback mechanisms that serve cached data when live APIs are unavailable, loop detection that fingerprints recent tool calls to catch repetitive cycles, and structured observability to log agent steps in a machine-readable format. The article argues that demo environments mask these problems because they rely on clean inputs and stable APIs, while production systems face flaky endpoints, context window overflows, and unmatched exit conditions. The patterns are presented as practical additions to any agentic pipeline rather than full framework replacements.

Attractive.js 1.0.0 lets developers add interactivity via HTML attributes alone

A developer has released Attractive.js 1.0.0, a lightweight JavaScript library that enables interactive web behaviors using declarative HTML attributes rather than custom JavaScript code. The library uses an @action and @target syntax, replacing the older data-action and data-target conventions, making markup more readable and easier to scan. Built-in actions cover common interactions such as toggling classes, copying to clipboard, managing dialogs, form submission, and scroll-triggered events, all configurable through triggers and gates. Developers can also extend the library with custom actions, triggers, and gates, and an addon ecosystem aims to position Attractive.js as an alternative to frameworks like Hotwire and Stimulus. The 1.0.0 release is currently available as a pre-release, with upcoming posts planned to cover custom actions and a real-world Rails integration.

Xi Jinping’s India visit for BRICS confirmed, a 2019 throwback and a look forward

US Tall Smokestacks Reduced Local Pollution but Spread Acid Rain Further

American power companies built towering smokestacks to disperse local air pollution away from nearby communities. The structures released sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides into higher atmospheric winds, which inadvertently spread acid rain across North America. The resulting acid rain caused significant damage to ecosystems throughout the region. In response, the US Congress amended the Clean Air Act to restrict the use of tall smokestacks. The revised legislation shifted focus toward capturing emissions at the source rather than dispersing them at height.

Wild Elephant Found With Tractor Tyre Trapped Around Its Neck in Assam

A wild elephant was spotted on Thursday in the Morongi forest block of Golaghat district, Assam, with a tractor tyre lodged around its neck. The distressing sighting was captured on video, drawing attention to the animal's precarious condition. Morongi is a region with a documented history of frequent human-elephant conflicts. Authorities and wildlife officials are expected to assess the situation and attempt a rescue operation for the animal.

Modi's cultural spectacle for BRICS leaders