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Geneticist Mitali Mukerji blends Ayurveda, genomics and AI for precision health

Molecular geneticist Mitali Mukerji has built her career at the crossroads of genomics, traditional medicine, and personalised healthcare. After completing her PhD at IISc and conducting research at CSIR-IGIB, she became a key figure in Ayurgenomics, a field examining whether Ayurvedic Prakriti body types have identifiable biological markers. Her work drew criticism for applying modern scientific methods to traditional Ayurvedic concepts. She has since expanded her research focus to AI-driven integrative precision health at IIT Jodhpur. Her journey reflects both the difficulties and the potential of rigorously testing unconventional ideas within contemporary biology.

India Curates Regional Specialty Hamper for BRICS Summit Delegates

India has prepared a special gift hamper for journalists and delegates attending the BRICS summit. The hamper contains nine items sourced from different regions across the country. Among the notable inclusions are Bihar's traditional sattu and Odisha's coffee, highlighting India's diverse food heritage. The curated package appears designed to showcase India's regional products on an international platform.

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Vance Offers Plane Ticket to Protester Waving Mexican Flag at Rally

Vice President JD Vance made a pointed remark to a protester who interrupted one of his public appearances. The individual emerged from the crowd waving a Mexican flag and shouting at Vance. In response, the Vice President offered to buy the protester a plane ticket, implying they should leave the United States. The incident highlights the charged atmosphere surrounding immigration-related rhetoric at political events.

Jailed Hindu monk granted 5-hour parole to attend mother's funeral in Bangladesh

Hindu monk Chinmoy Krishna Das, currently imprisoned in Bangladesh, was granted a brief 5-hour parole to attend his mother's funeral. The release was ordered by Chattogram district deputy commissioner Mohammad Zahidul Islam Mia following an application from Das's family. His mother, Sandhya Rani Dhar, 70, passed away early Thursday while receiving treatment at a hospital in Hathazari. Das, a former ISKCON member, serves as a spokesman for Hindu Sammilito Sanatan Jagaran Jote.

Fresh Cloud Servers Hit With Hundreds of Intrusion Attempts Within Minutes of Going Online

A developer rented three servers in Frankfurt, New York, and Singapore without registering them in DNS or sharing their addresses, then monitored unsolicited connection attempts for roughly 45 minutes per region. The first uninvited connection arrived just 48 seconds after the Singapore server booted, with Frankfurt and New York following shortly after. In total, the three servers logged 3,480 connection attempts from 860 unique IP addresses, including over 1,000 attempts using real login credentials. The most targeted port was telnet (port 23), reflecting persistent botnet activity aimed at IoT devices such as routers and cameras. The experiment, which cost under three cents, showed that any public IP address faces roughly 700 to 800 unsolicited connection attempts per hour simply by being reachable on the internet.

OpenAI Launches GPT-Live-1 Model via API

OpenAI has introduced GPT-Live-1, making it available through its API for developers. The release marks the company's latest addition to its growing lineup of accessible AI models. Developers can now integrate the model into their applications via OpenAI's standard API infrastructure. The announcement was shared on OpenAI's official website, signaling a continued push to expand real-time AI capabilities for builders and enterprises.

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Hong Kong Tiananmen Activists Sentenced to Up to Seven Years in Prison

A group of Hong Kong activists has been sentenced to prison terms of up to seven years in connection with their efforts to commemorate the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown. The sentencing marks another significant step in the suppression of political dissent in the city. Hong Kong was historically one of the very few places under Chinese jurisdiction where public gatherings to mark the anniversary were permitted. That tradition has effectively been brought to an end in recent years as authorities have tightened control over civil liberties in the territory.

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DDL vs DML in SQL: Understanding the Core Difference Between Structure and Data

DDL (Data Definition Language) and DML (Data Manipulation Language) are two fundamental categories of SQL commands that serve distinct purposes. DDL commands such as CREATE, ALTER, DROP, TRUNCATE, and RENAME deal with the structure of database tables — defining, modifying, or removing them entirely. DML commands, including SELECT, INSERT, UPDATE, and DELETE, operate on the actual data stored within those tables without altering their structure. A key practical distinction is that DROP deletes an entire table along with its data, while TRUNCATE removes only the rows but preserves the table structure. In short, DDL shapes the container, while DML manages what goes inside it.

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SQL Window Functions vs GROUP BY: Key Differences Every Beginner Should Know

Both GROUP BY and window functions help summarize data in SQL, but they behave differently in how they return results. GROUP BY collapses multiple rows into a single summary row per group, losing individual row details in the process. Window functions, by contrast, retain every original row while adding a new calculated column alongside each one. Functions like AVG() with OVER/PARTITION BY, RANK(), and LAG() allow comparisons and rankings without reducing the dataset. Knowing which tool to use depends on whether you need a condensed summary or per-row calculations with context.

How to Write Status Updates That Actually Help Teams Make Decisions

A post by Asael Shinder on DEV Community argues that most workplace status updates fail because they list completed tasks rather than answering what stakeholders truly need to know. Effective updates should convey three things: where the work stands against its deadline, what has changed since the last update, and what is needed from whom and by when. The author distinguishes between vague terms like 'blocked' and actionable ones, such as 'blocked on a decision from Marco by Wednesday.' Slippages should be communicated as soon as they are anticipated, not after they become unavoidable, so others can adjust their plans. A well-structured update, the author contends, can take three minutes to write yet eliminate the need for follow-up meetings entirely.

How to Stream n8n AI Workflows to React 19 Using Vercel AI SDK Without Buffering Issues

Developers integrating n8n (v2.38+) as an AI agent orchestrator with React 19 frontends face a streaming mismatch where reverse proxies like Nginx and Cloudflare buffer SSE chunks until a 4KB threshold, breaking real-time typewriter effects. A recommended fix involves placing a lightweight Next.js App Router edge route between the React client and the n8n webhook to normalize the stream using Vercel AI SDK's createDataStreamResponse utility. The edge route also forwards the client's abort signal to n8n, ensuring that when a user cancels a response, the upstream execution thread is properly terminated rather than left running and consuming LLM tokens. On the client side, the useChat hook from @ai-sdk/react binds directly to the edge API route, with React 19's concurrent rendering helping prevent UI hitching during rapid data bursts. The article notes that compute and multi-model API access used in the evaluation were sponsored by AI gateway provider b-lost.com.

How a 60-second scrape interval hid 30-second outages for weeks

An engineering team spent two weeks dismissing customer reports of 30-second site hangs because their monitoring graphs showed no anomalies. The root cause was a compounding blind spot: a 60-second scrape interval, a 5-minute rate window, and a 5-minute alert hold-off meant any incident shorter than roughly four minutes was mathematically invisible. Both the alerting rules and the investigation dashboards relied on the same averaged expressions, so the team had no independent signal to fall back on. The fix involved switching from smoothed rate thresholds to raw counts of slow or failed requests over short windows, and using max_over_time to capture spikes rather than averaging them away. On the first day the revised rules went live, three alerts fired before midday, each lasting around 40 seconds and each matching an existing support ticket.

Good Google Rankings Mean Nothing If AI Crawlers Cannot Access Your Site

A website can rank well in Google search results while remaining completely inaccessible to AI crawlers like GPTBot or ClaudeBot, due to separate robots.txt rules or JavaScript-only rendering. When AI assistants build responses to category queries, they rely on retrievable text from a product's own pages and third-party mentions in public forums. If neither source is available, competitors with more accessible and widely discussed content become the default recommendation, regardless of actual product quality. Common causes include undocumented robots.txt blocks added via hosting templates and page content that only renders after JavaScript executes, leaving crawlers with empty HTML shells. Site owners are advised to audit named crawler access directly and verify that key product descriptions exist in raw HTML, not just in the browser-rendered view.

Telangana Food Safety Drive Finds Cockroaches, Rotten Food at 67 Outlets

Food safety authorities in Telangana conducted inspections across 67 food outlets, uncovering serious hygiene and safety violations. Inspectors found evidence of cockroach, housefly, and rodent infestations at multiple establishments. Contaminated and spoiled meat, rotten vegetables, and fungus-affected food items were also discovered during the checks. Additionally, expired food products were found being stored or used at several of the inspected outlets. The findings point to widespread lapses in basic food safety and sanitation standards across the outlets surveyed.

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