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FAA Begins Retiring Decades-Old Floppy Disks From Air Traffic Control Systems

The Federal Aviation Administration has started phasing out floppy disks that have been used in air traffic control operations for decades. Announced by Transportation Secretary Sean P. Duffy, the move is part of a broader effort to modernize aging agency technology. The article provided is only a link to an FAA newsroom release, so details such as the exact timeline, number of systems affected, and replacement technology are not available here. The story was shared on Hacker News, where it drew modest engagement.

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IndiaTimes of India ·

NCP Faces Internal Tussle as Pawar Family Rift Raises Questions Over Party Future

Internal conflicts within the Pawar family have once again placed the Nationalist Congress Party at a crossroads. A meeting of senior NCP leaders with Union Home Minister Amit Shah, held amid reports of discontent within the party, has fuelled speculation about its direction. NCP chief Sunetra Pawar has called meetings to address unity concerns following the death of Ajit Pawar. Separately, Rohit Pawar has cautioned family members about possible manoeuvres by the BJP. The developments have prompted questions about whether Maharashtra politics is heading for another upheaval.

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IndiaNDTV ·

Tamil Nadu Police Dismantle Inter-State Drug Ring Through Courier Record Analysis

Tamil Nadu Police, in an operation named Deep Source, uncovered an inter-state drug syndicate. The breakthrough came from examining postal and courier booking records. The analysis showed that 588 parcels had been sent over the previous year using customer accounts in Ambala. The findings pointed investigators toward the network's distribution method. Further details on arrests and seizures were not provided in the excerpt.

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ProgrammingHacker News ·

How Tax Revenue Sources Differ Across U.S. States

A Visual Capitalist article examines where each U.S. state derives its tax revenue from. The piece compares the mix of income, sales, property, and other taxes that fund state budgets. It highlights how reliance on different tax categories varies widely from one state to another. The article is shared on Hacker News, where it gathered 13 points and 3 comments. The source text provided contains only the link and metadata, so specific state-level figures are not summarized here.

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WorldBBC World ·

Tesla to halt Cybertruck production in Texas to prioritise Cybercab robotaxis

Tesla CEO Elon Musk has announced that production of the Cybertruck will stop at the company's Texas facility. The move is intended to shift the company's focus toward its self-driving Cybercab vehicles. The article is presented as a video report that asks whether the Cybertruck's road future is over. It frames the decision as a strategic pivot rather than a broader withdrawal from the vehicle market.

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ProgrammingDEV Community ·

Unchanged 39-of-40 test score hid a shift in which CSV parser case failed

An AI developer built 40 CSV fixtures with literal expected results and ran them through the csv-parse 6.1.0 library via a custom policy adapter. Under default settings one quote-handling case disagreed with its expectation, and relaxing quote handling fixed that case but broke another, so the score stayed at 39 of 40. The author kept the expectations fixed and documented both mismatches, arguing that matching pass totals can conceal a changed behavior contract. The piece recommends recording file acceptance or rejection, exact returned values such as leading-zero identifiers, and parser configuration separately from application import policy. It also notes that the injected-fault and cross-implementation checks give only partial assurance and do not cover production databases or security.

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ProgrammingDEV Community ·

How Social Engineering Exploits Human Psychology and How to Defend Against It

Social engineering is a cybersecurity threat that targets people rather than software, using psychological manipulation to get victims to reveal confidential information or take harmful actions. Attackers often gather information about their targets first to make their deceptions more believable. Common tactics include creating false emergencies that pressure victims into acting quickly, and pretexting, where the attacker impersonates a trusted authority such as IT staff or an executive. Physical methods like baiting, for example leaving infected USB drives in workplaces, also exploit curiosity to bypass technical defenses. The article uses concrete workplace scenarios to show how these manipulations operate and how individuals can recognize them.

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ProgrammingDEV Community ·

Why a Typeahead Trie Should Store the Top 10 Completions at Every Node

A system design interview question about search autocomplete asks what a service does when a user types a single character. The naive approach of collecting and sorting every query under a prefix's subtree on each keystroke is correct but too slow at scale. Latency limits of about 0.1 seconds, including network time, make precomputation necessary. Illustrative capacity estimates show reads vastly outnumber writes and that client-side debouncing and caching can cut request volume roughly fourfold. The recommended fix is to precompute the top 10 completions at every trie node during build time, so each lookup only walks the prefix and returns a ready list.

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TechnologyThe Verge ·

Fox completes $22 billion acquisition of streaming platform Roku

Fox has officially closed its $22 billion acquisition of Roku, the two companies announced on Friday. The deal gives Fox control of a major streaming platform that reaches more than 100 million US households. Originally announced in June, the acquisition is expected to let Fox distribute its sports programming, news content, and local stations through Roku. Fox CEO Lachlan Murdoch said the combination of Roku's technology and platform with Fox's content could expand the company's US viewership. Fox also runs its own streaming service, Fox One.

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ProgrammingDEV Community ·

Windows Paint Flaw CVE-2026-83844 Fix Not Reaching Some Systems Via Store Updates

Microsoft disclosed CVE-2026-83844, a remote code execution vulnerability in the built-in Windows Paint app, rated CVSS 8.1 and Important severity. The company lists version 11.2609.401.0 as the fixed release, which is delivered through the Microsoft Store rather than Windows Update. Multiple tests and IT administrator reports show that some systems with automatic Store updates enabled still run older Paint versions without receiving the fix. Microsoft's listing initially showed a different version number that appears to have been a typo, adding to user confusion. Users are advised to check their Paint version directly and consult Microsoft's current advisory, as the reason for the distribution gap has not been identified.

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ProgrammingDEV Community ·

Faster AI-assisted coding shifts the bottleneck to CI verification and costs

A team with about 25 engineering agents found that writing code was no longer the main constraint, as verification through test runs became the bottleneck. Their GitHub Actions spending in October reached roughly $1,600, more than two and a half times what they paid for three Claude Code accounts. Repeated full test-suite runs on pull requests and merges drove most of the runner-minute billing. The article describes how to audit job runs via the GitHub API to find duplicated test executions. The team cut billed minutes per run by 59% by splitting testing into draft and merge-ready tiers, and by using a merge queue to avoid redundant full runs.

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ProgrammingDEV Community ·

Underdog releases Woof, a 32MB speech model that runs offline in the browser

Underdog has demonstrated Woof, a speech model with 31 million parameters that weighs only 32MB. The model runs entirely on-device with no internet connection required, and its weights are open for developers to download. Because processing stays local, user audio never leaves the machine and there is no per-call cloud cost. The release follows Underdog's earlier Bark speech-to-text model at 167MB and a 27-billion-parameter model that runs on laptops.

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ProgrammingDEV Community ·

CenterPoint breach: turning public facts into measurable security questions

CenterPoint Energy confirmed in an SEC filing that customer information was obtained through an external-facing system. A Texas Attorney General listing cited by Click2Houston reports 1,062,060 affected Texans. The affected endpoint and root cause have not been identified in the public record. An attacker's claims about missing API authentication and 7.49 million taken records remain unverified and should be treated as hypotheses. The article proposes testing these claims through a structured internal review of services, owners, and controls.

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ProgrammingDEV Community ·

How a Software Statement of Work Can Prevent Scope Creep

Scope creep usually builds through small, informal requests rather than one large change, and it can turn a project late and unprofitable. The author, a consultancy leader with years of SOW experience, argues that a clear statement of work matters more than a long one. Key sections include plain-language objectives, bounded deliverables with an explicit out-of-scope list, a shared definition of done, and testable acceptance criteria. The document should also record assumptions, name decision makers, define a lightweight written change process, and tie payments to accepted deliverables. Reviewing the SOW together at kickoff is recommended as a way to prevent later disputes.

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ProgrammingDEV Community ·

Comparing Two PDF Contract Versions Word by Word with Python

PDFs have no built-in change tracking, so comparing two versions of a contract means computing the difference between the files. The article weighs three approaches: pixel-level comparison of rendered pages, line-by-line comparison of extracted text, and word-level comparison. It tests all three on a fictional design-services contract that returns with five changes, including a payment deadline moved from 30 to 60 days and altered revision and ownership terms. A reformatted copy containing identical words was also tested to see which method is robust to layout changes. Word-level diffing, implemented in about 120 lines of Python using PyMuPDF and difflib, detected the same five changes in both files, while pixel and line diffs were thrown off by reflowed text. The method also writes the changes back into the PDF as comments.

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ProgrammingDEV Community ·

THX-02 Uses a Gate to Think Only When Reasoning Changes a 4.5B Model's Answer

The DEV Community article describes THX-02, a 4.5B decision model released under Apache-2.0 with a free API. Its authors found that always-on chain-of-thought reasoning can degrade already-correct answers, so they built a gate that decides whether deliberation is worthwhile. The gate runs inside the forward pass and fires only when the direct answer is uncertain and the question structurally requires step-by-step work. When triggered, a short thought of up to 96 tokens is generated and fed back into the model to produce a second answer distribution. The reported results show gains of about 25 points on math word problems and 4 to 6 points on other reasoning tasks, with median latency near 80 ms.

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ProgrammingDEV Community ·

Developer offers BOTLAB crypto research codebase for $4,900, listing weak points upfront

A developer is selling BOTLAB, a crypto research project comprising about 142,000 lines of code, its domain, brand and site content, for $4,900 via third-party escrow. The seller states the product has minimal traction, with 2 registered users, no revenue in the past week, and trading bots that roughly broke even over about 98 to 99 trades. The codebase runs on a single Windows server with hardcoded paths, has no git history, and part of it is already public under the MIT licence. The seller highlights StuckScan, a free read-only tool that checks wallet addresses for staked or locked assets, and offers 14 days of handover support. Trading keys, exchange accounts and funds are excluded, and the seller warns that crypto trading carries substantial risk.

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ProgrammingDEV Community ·

Spring Data JPA Transactions and Queries: A Best-Practices Overview

This final installment of a Spring Data JPA best-practices series covers transaction management and query techniques. It draws on examples from a large legacy production codebase and was rewritten to reflect the latest Spring Data JPA features. The article covers manual transactions via EntityManager, the middle-ground TransactionTemplate, and the @Transactional annotation. It also addresses queries, including Query versus TypedQuery, native queries, the Criteria API, parameter passing, and stored procedures, plus mapping entities to DTOs.

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TechnologyThe Verge ·

The Verge's 2026 Holiday Gift Guide Lists Staff Favorites Across Price Points

The Verge has published its 2026 holiday gift guide, compiled from hours of staff research into their favorite products. The guide covers a broad range of categories, including minimalist smart rings, Play-Doh flowers, and sleek beat-making machines. The article frames gift-giving as a way of showing how well you know someone, and positions the list as a starting point for holiday shoppers. The piece is intended to help readers find options suited to a variety of recipients and needs. The full guide is available on The Verge's website.

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ProgrammingHacker News ·

Ubuntu Slow to Patch Critical CVE-2026-98432 as Users Question Security Response

A Hacker News user reports that Ubuntu rates vulnerability CVE-2026-98432 at 9.8, a critical severity score, yet nearly a week later no fix has been released. The official security page still lists the issue as work in progress, though a mitigation has now been added. The user says they have relied on interim mitigations for a week and that the delay has undermined their confidence in the distribution. The post raises questions about whether the delay stems from too many supported kernels, insufficient build and test automation, or overwhelmed engineering staff. The author also argues that rising numbers of security issues will make timely OS patching harder to sustain.

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