US deploys up to 200 troops to aid Saudi Arabia against Houthi advances

The United States has sent up to 200 troops to support Saudi Arabia in its fight against Iran-backed Houthi forces in Yemen. The deployment comes as Houthis intensify operations along Yemen's Red Sea coast, seizing the port city of Mocha on Thursday. The group has also pushed toward strategic islands, including Hanish, further extending its territorial reach. Yemeni government military sources warn that these gains have strengthened Houthi control over the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, a critical chokepoint at the southern entrance to the Red Sea and one of the world's most vital shipping lanes.

New York Commemorates 25th Anniversary of 9/11 Terror Attacks

New York marked the 25th anniversary of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks under heightened security measures. The solemn commemoration honored the thousands of lives lost in one of the deadliest attacks on American soil. On that day, nineteen Al-Qaeda operatives hijacked four commercial aircraft in a coordinated assault. Two of the planes were deliberately flown into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center, causing both 110-story skyscrapers to collapse. The attacks fundamentally changed the course of American history and global security policy.

Beginner's Guide: Building an ESP32 IoT Project with MQTT Protocol

A tutorial published on DEV Community walks beginners through building a basic IoT project using the ESP32 microcontroller and the MQTT communication protocol. The ESP32 is a low-cost device with built-in Wi-Fi and Bluetooth, making it suitable for projects ranging from smart agriculture to energy monitoring without needing extra networking hardware. MQTT's publish/subscribe model allows the ESP32 to send sensor data to a broker, which then forwards it to a subscribing dashboard or application. The tutorial outlines a simple data pipeline — sensor to ESP32 to Wi-Fi to MQTT broker to an IoT dashboard — using tools like the DHT11 temperature sensor and platforms such as KiwisIoT for visualization. The guide emphasizes that the same core architecture can be adapted across multiple use cases by simply swapping the sensor while keeping the underlying connectivity framework intact.

Excel Dashboard Built to Analyze Jumia E-commerce Product Performance

A data analyst developed an interactive Excel dashboard to examine product performance on Jumia, a major e-commerce platform. The project began with a thorough data cleaning process that addressed missing values, duplicate entries, negative review counts, and inconsistent formatting to ensure reliable results. Since sales figures were unavailable, review counts were used as a substitute measure for customer engagement. The cleaned dataset was further enriched by calculating discounts, grouping products by price and rating tiers, and flagging incomplete records to support clearer comparisons. The project demonstrates how structured data preparation and visualization in Excel can generate actionable business insights even when source data is imperfect.

Bumrah cleared fit; Harshit Rana injured, replaced by Yash Thakur for Afghanistan T20Is

Jasprit Bumrah and Nitish Kumar Reddy have been declared fit following their rehabilitation stints at the BCCI's Centre of Excellence. The two players are set to join the Indian squad ahead of the upcoming Afghanistan T20I series. However, pacer Harshit Rana suffered a fresh injury during a match simulation test at the Centre of Excellence on Tuesday. As a result, Yash Thakur was named as Rana's replacement in the squad. The BCCI also reportedly took action against the team physio in connection with the injury management concerns.

India’s hotel boom this September goes beyond BRICS

Pakistan halts Sikh pilgrims at Faisalabad airport over missing NOC

Pakistani authorities stopped a group of Sikh pilgrims at Faisalabad International Airport, preventing them from flying to India for the Hemkund Sahib pilgrimage. The pilgrims were unexpectedly asked to produce a No Objection Certificate (NOC), a requirement they had not been informed of in advance. As a result, the devotees missed their scheduled flights to Delhi and were left stranded at the airport. The group had already incurred considerable expenses on travel arrangements ahead of the journey. They are now waiting for government clearance to cross into India via the Attari-Wagah land border.

Developer Moves Kubernetes App to AWS EKS Without Code Changes, Platform Hurdles Remain

A developer migrated a Node.js Kubernetes application from a home k3s server to Amazon EKS as a portability experiment, keeping the application code, container image, Helm chart, and Argo CD delivery pipeline entirely unchanged. The EKS control plane took under six minutes to provision, and once the delivery path was operational, Argo CD deployed two healthy replicas and self-corrected a manual scaling change within five seconds. However, three infrastructure assumptions had to be revisited: private endpoint access was needed for the worker node to reach the control plane, an AWS-specific load balancer values file was required for external traffic, and the originally planned t3.medium instance type was ineligible for the account, requiring a switch to a c7i-flex.large node. Terraform was used to provision only the minimal resources needed — one EKS 1.36 cluster, one worker node, and supporting networking components — deliberately limiting cost and scope for a short-term test. The experiment confirmed that the application and its delivery contract were portable across Kubernetes platforms, while also exposing cloud-specific infrastructure concerns absent in a home lab.

Indian-origin couple donates $20M to fund AI college at Univ. of North Texas

Anuradha and Vikas Sinha, a couple of Indian origin, have donated $20 million to the University of North Texas. The contribution will be used to establish a dedicated college focused on artificial intelligence and analytics, named after the donors. Beyond building the institution, the funds will also support student scholarships and faculty professorships. The initiative aims to nurture the next generation of researchers and professionals in the technology sector.

Gavaskar urges BCCI and ICC to ease India's packed cricket schedule

Cricket legend Sunil Gavaskar has called on the BCCI and ICC to reconsider India's congested cricket calendar. He warned that continuous competition and extensive travel could lead to serious player fatigue over time. Gavaskar also stressed that domestic cricket must be strengthened, describing it as the true foundation of the national team. His remarks come ahead of scheduled ICC discussions on international cricket's busy fixture calendar.

‘Shared aspiration for global well-being': PM Modi's message ahead of Brics summit

Family Denies Daughter-in-Law's Role in Father-in-Law Murder Plot

Delhi police are investigating whether Subrat Manocha had prior knowledge of his father's murder. His wife, Shalu Manocha, is accused of allegedly orchestrating the killing by hiring two contract killers. Investigators are scrutinizing digital communications between Shalu and one of the suspected hired killers. Shalu's family has strongly denied the charges, claiming she shared a close bond with the victim and cared for him. The probe is ongoing as authorities work to determine the full extent of each suspect's involvement.

How AI Agents Select, Chain, and Optimize Tools to Handle Complex Tasks

Modern AI agents tackle multi-step user requests by breaking them into goals and matching each goal to the most suitable available tool using semantic similarity, historical performance, and real-time availability. A multi-stage pipeline then chains tool outputs sequentially — for example, weather data feeding into a flight search, which feeds into a booking API, which triggers an email. Tool capabilities have evolved significantly since 2020, moving from basic API calls to dynamic selection, multi-tool chaining, and, more recently, self-improving and autonomously created tools. Different tool categories involve trade-offs: email tools score high on reliability while booking tools lag on speed and accuracy, requiring agents to balance these metrics based on context. Best practices highlighted include setting complexity thresholds to avoid unnecessary tool chaining, building fallback strategies for tool failures, and logging performance data to continuously optimize tool selection.

Double Bluesky Post Exposes Race Condition in Multi-Machine CI Publishing Setup

On August 31, 2026, a developer publishing pipeline posted the same announcement twice on Bluesky after two separate machines ran the same CLI 57 minutes apart, both passing duplicate checks. The root cause was an idempotency key stored in a git-tracked file that was not pushed to the remote repository until after the second machine had already read the unupdated state. An immediate fix moved duplicate checks off local files and onto live platform data, querying Bluesky and dev.to directly before each write. However, engineers acknowledged this still leaves a narrow race-condition window where two simultaneous runs could both read a clean feed and both post. A second fix, shipped six days later, eliminated the problem structurally by decommissioning the redundant machine, ensuring only a single writer could exist at any time.

India to Host BRICS Summit 2026 in New Delhi on September 12-13

India holds the BRICS chairmanship for 2026 and will host the summit in New Delhi on September 12 and 13. Prime Minister Narendra Modi expressed confidence that the discussions at the summit would be positive and meaningful. The BRICS grouping brings together major emerging economies for dialogue on global issues. New Delhi's hosting of the event underscores India's active role in shaping multilateral diplomacy this year.

JD Vance gets an early 2028 audition in Dallas

Coforge reveals latest audit findings on OP Bhatt

How Museums Can Serve Watermarked Images Online Without Altering Master Files

A software developer has outlined a three-safeguard approach for museum collection portals to serve watermarked image derivatives to the public while keeping archival master files completely untouched. The method involves storing derivatives as separate objects identified by a tuple of master hash, transform version, watermark version, and size, ensuring any change in watermark or resize policy generates a new derivative rather than overwriting the original. Master image records are treated as append-only, with content hashes, rights statements, and custody metadata locked at ingest time so thumbnail requests can reference but never mutate them. The approach also makes derivative creation idempotent, meaning a retried worker job repeats computation without producing duplicate records or altering the preservation file. The developer drew on a real incident where a thumbnail worker was triggered twice during an upload burst, which highlighted the need for duplicate-claim counters and clearer runbook procedures.

Developer builds tool to detect self-referencing stale docs AI agents leave behind

A developer working with AI coding agents found their 36 repositories had accumulated around 1,200 markdown files, many of them outdated planning and summary documents generated during coding sessions. Simple cleanup rules based on file age or inbound reference counts proved unreliable, as one folder of 13 stale files was found to be entirely self-referencing in a closed loop. Only one of the 13 files had a genuine external reference from a README and an active script. The developer built a Node.js scanner that sorts files into three buckets — active, stale, and orphan — and moves ambiguous cases to a recoverable trash folder rather than deleting them. The tool flags 86% of files across the repos, but the developer acknowledges the stale middle category still requires human review and has no automated solution for large-scale cases.

Hong Kong to prosecute three over banned Tiananmen vigils

Hong Kong authorities are moving to punish three individuals who organised vigils commemorating the Tiananmen Square massacre. The prosecutions reflect a broader crackdown on civil society that intensified following the 2019 protest movement. Since then, authorities have restricted political participation, shut down civil society groups, and prosecuted activists and journalists. The alliance that historically organised the Tiananmen gatherings has itself been dissolved. In February, former pro-democracy media tycoon Jimmy Lai was sentenced to 20 years in prison under the city's national security law.