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Eight killed in Bhandara truck-SUV crash

How India Helped Transform BRICS From a Financial Acronym Into a Global Bloc

The BRICS grouping traces its origins to 2001, when Goldman Sachs economist Jim O'Neill coined the acronym 'BRIC' to identify four fast-growing emerging economies: Brazil, Russia, India, and China. The term was initially a financial shorthand used to highlight these nations' potential to drive global economic growth for decades. Over time, what began as an investment thesis evolved into a formal geopolitical and economic alliance. India was a founding member of this transformation, playing a significant role as the bloc grew in influence and later expanded its membership.

Developer Releases Frost Deep Learning Framework Built in Just 1,400 Lines of Code

A developer has launched Frost, a deep learning framework built on the Neve programming language, containing roughly 1,400 lines of code that support parallel dataloaders and GPU kernels. The project was motivated by frustrations with PyTorch's complexity, including difficulties adding custom optimizers, poor high-level CUDA interoperability, and limited parallelism support. Frost includes a ResNet-18 benchmark that users can run independently, and Neve has previously shown performance competitive with NumPy, OpenBLAS, and Python's SentencePiece library. The developer is currently working on an improved GPU programming interface aimed at implementing flash attention. Source code, documentation, and community channels have been made publicly available on GitHub and Discord.

Israel Claims It Dismantled Hezbollah Underground Facility in Southern Lebanon

Israel has announced that it cleared what it described as a Hezbollah underground hub in southern Lebanon. The operation is part of a broader Israeli military push into the region that began on March 2. Since the conflict erupted, Israeli forces have seized several strategic positions across southern Lebanon. Israel has characterized the facility as a key terror infrastructure used by Hezbollah.

$5,000 DBT scheme in US: Trump says Congress' approval not needed for payout

iPhone Duo vs Galaxy Z Fold 8: How Apple and Samsung differ on foldable displays

Apple and Samsung are now direct competitors in the foldable smartphone market with the iPhone Duo and Galaxy Z Fold 8 respectively. Apple has opted for a nano-texture finish on its display to cut down glare and make the screen crease less noticeable. Samsung has taken a different route, reinforcing its display with a titanium layer and upgraded shock-absorbing materials to boost durability. Both manufacturers share the goal of improving screen toughness and reducing reflections, but pursue it through distinct engineering approaches. The contrasting strategies reflect broader differences in how the two tech giants approach foldable display design.

Developer Disputes AI Labels of 'Malicious Actor' After Fixing npm Package Vulnerability

A developer known as bananacool467 disclosed that early beta versions (0.1.0–0.1.8) of their npm package UI Tools contained a serious security vulnerability due to insufficient authentication controls on a terminal feature. The flaw has since been patched, and the current release (0.2.1-beta) adopts a stricter security model with the terminal functionality moved out of the default export. The developer is now challenging AI-generated descriptions — particularly from Google Gemini — that repeatedly label them a 'malicious actor' based on outdated or inaccurate security database entries, including a reference to version 1.0.0 that does not exist in the package's npm history. They argue that some security databases have overstated the threat by implying install-time execution, which does not reflect how UI Tools actually works, and that unrelated projects under their account are being flagged without independent verification. The developer maintains a clear distinction between making a security mistake and acting with malicious intent, and is calling for more accurate representation by both AI systems and security databases.

Brics summit: What’s on agenda as world leaders gather in Delhi amid global tensions

DEV Community Crowns Winners of Frontend Challenge: Comfort Food Edition

DEV Community has announced the winners of its Frontend Challenge: Comfort Food Edition. A pure CSS cat bakery project claimed the top spot in the competition. The results were shared by the DEV Team on September 10. The challenge drew significant engagement, garnering 47 reactions from the community. The event was tagged under frontend and CSS development themes, highlighting creative use of web technologies.

iPhone 18 Pro to feature variable aperture with four settings for main camera

Apple's iPhone 18 Pro is set to introduce a variable aperture system, marking a significant upgrade to its camera capabilities. The feature will allow users to manually control depth of field and motion capture, offering greater creative flexibility. The main camera will support four distinct aperture settings, aimed at improving low-light photography and fine detail capture. This advancement combines optical hardware improvements with Apple's existing computational photography strengths.

NIA Chargesheet Reveals Al-Falah Doctors Tested Bombs on Campus and in Aravalis

India's National Investigation Agency has filed a chargesheet detailing how members of the Al-Falah terror module allegedly progressed from fertilizer-based explosives to improvised explosive devices. Doctors linked to the module reportedly conducted test explosions and firearms trials at isolated locations, including within a university campus and in the Aravalli hills. Funds channelled through a university-based doctor were allegedly used to procure weapons and materials. Rented premises were used to secretly store chemicals, equipment, and explosives away from public areas. Authorities seized a significant cache of ammonium nitrate before a planned attack on the Red Fort could be carried out.

Seven Security Vulnerabilities That Appear More Often in AI-Generated Code

A developer building a static analysis tool called ai-vuln-scan identified seven recurring vulnerability patterns that appear disproportionately in code produced by AI coding assistants like GitHub Copilot and Claude Code. The patterns include hardcoded secrets, unparameterized SQL queries, shell command injection via string interpolation, and overly permissive default configurations. Weak cryptographic primitives, inconsistent authorization across similar routes, and verbose error responses that expose internal details round out the list. The author argues these flaws stem not from AI incompetence but from the fact that AI tools optimize for plausible, runnable examples rather than production-hardened code. To address this systematically, the developer published an open-source tool and a versioned AI Vulnerability Pattern Catalog intended to help teams catch these predictable gaps in review.

Security Review Flags Governance Vulnerabilities in ether.fi Stake Protocol

A security audit of ether.fi Stake, a liquid staking protocol with approximately $4.53 billion in total value locked, identified seven governance-related vulnerabilities as of September 11, 2026. The most critical findings include highly concentrated voting power, where just 12% of token holders control over half of all voting weight, and a ProxyAdmin multi-sig setup that includes a single externally-owned address with no time delay, potentially enabling unauthorized contract upgrades. Reviewers also flagged a 24-hour timelock on critical actions as insufficient compared to the industry-recommended minimum of 72 hours, leaving the protocol exposed to flash-loan front-running. Additional risks include a replaceable bridge relayer contract that could be exploited to mint tokens and drain liquidity, and a lack of any emergency pause mechanism for governance. The protocol received an overall risk score of 7 out of 10, indicating functional but materially flawed governance design.

Int4 Per-Row Quantization Cuts Transformer Size 6x With No Accuracy Loss

A series of experiments on a small transformer model found that 71.7% of its parameters resided in the embedding lookup table, making it the primary target for compression. Quantizing the embedding to int4 precision with per-tensor scaling caused a notable accuracy drop, but switching to per-row scaling — adding just 16 KB of extra data — recovered nearly all of that loss. The int4 per-row configuration matched the full fp32 model's top-1 mixture score of 0.384 while reducing model size from 5.72 MB to 0.93 MB, a 6.2x reduction with no measurable performance cost. The findings highlight how sweeping only one variable at a time — such as bit-width without varying granularity — can produce misleading conclusions, since the benefit of per-row scaling only becomes visible at lower bit-widths. The experiment required no retraining and was conducted across just seven runs, suggesting the cross-product sweep approach is practical even in low-resource settings.

Bombay High Court Warns BMC Officers Over Worsening Garbage Crisis in Mumbai

The Bombay High Court has issued a stern warning to Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) officers over the growing garbage and filth problem across Mumbai. The court expressed serious concern about the deteriorating cleanliness situation in the city. BMC officials were cautioned that action could be taken against them if the issue is not addressed. The remarks highlight mounting judicial pressure on civic authorities to improve waste management in India's financial capital.

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India to Host BRICS Summit Amid Ongoing Conflicts in Ukraine and Gaza

India is set to host the BRICS summit, bringing together world leaders from major emerging economies at a time of significant global tension. The bloc, established in 2009, was formed to give developing nations a stronger voice in institutions traditionally dominated by Western powers. The summit takes place against the backdrop of two active conflicts — the Russia-Ukraine war and the Israel-Gaza crisis — making diplomacy particularly complex. Member nations are expected to discuss economic cooperation, geopolitical stability, and reforms to global governance structures. The gathering is being closely watched for any unified stance the bloc may take on the ongoing wars.

Interactive Tool Lets Users Build and Visualize a Transformer Model from Scratch

A developer named Jay Visaria has released an interactive web-based tool called LLM Visualizer. The tool allows users to build a transformer model from the ground up while visualizing each component of the architecture. It is accessible via a public GitHub Pages site, suggesting it is aimed at learners and those exploring large language model internals. The project was shared on Hacker News, where it received initial attention from the developer community. No further details about the tool's features or underlying framework were provided in the listing.