After 9/11, 500 FBI agents used a New York aircraft carrier as a command post

At 4, he lost his NYPD father on 9/11; 25 years later, he wears his badge

Ganesh Chaturthi 2026: Wishes and Messages to Share With Family and Friends

Ganesh Chaturthi is a widely celebrated Hindu festival dedicated to Lord Ganesha, revered as the deity of prosperity and new beginnings. Families traditionally welcome Ganesha into their homes and seek his blessings for happiness and abundance. The festival is marked by prayers, music, and communal gatherings. A curated collection of wishes, quotes, and messages has been compiled to help people express sentiments of wisdom, strength, and the removal of obstacles to their loved ones.

Gucchi marmik, millet pulao, khumb galouti: What's on the Brics gala dinner menu

Man Throws Chilli Powder at Bank Staff, Robs Branch in Nagpur

A man identified as Suraj Borker robbed a bank in Nagpur by attacking staff with chilli powder. He entered the branch in the evening, catching employees off guard with the assault. The entire incident was recorded on the bank's surveillance cameras. The chilli powder attack temporarily incapacitated staff, allowing Borker to carry out the robbery.

NPR Opinion Asks Whether Society Is Ready for a Luddite Revival

An NPR opinion piece published on September 8, 2026, raises the question of whether it is time for a renewed Luddite movement in modern society. The article examines growing skepticism toward technology and its impact on work, culture, and daily life. It was shared on Hacker News, where it garnered 11 points and sparked a small discussion with 3 comments. The piece invites readers to reconsider the relationship between technological progress and human well-being.

Inside Xi Jinping's Heavily Modified Boeing 747 with EMP Shields and Encryption

Chinese President Xi Jinping travels aboard a heavily modified Boeing 747 that was originally operated as a commercial passenger jet by Air China, entering service in late 2014. The aircraft has since been extensively upgraded with advanced security features to serve as a state transport. Among its key modifications are electromagnetic pulse (EMP) shielding systems designed to protect onboard electronics from hostile interference. The plane also features high-tech encryption technology to secure communications during presidential travel. The modifications reflect the high-security standards required for transporting one of the world's most powerful heads of state.

Yunsoft Releases Docker Compose Setup for YunCMS with MySQL 8.4 Support

Yunsoft Software has published an official Docker Compose configuration for its open-source CMS platform, YunCMS, verified against version 0.1.22 in September 2026. The stack bundles a YunCMS container alongside MySQL 8.4 and two persistent volumes, eliminating the need to install Node.js, npm, or a separate database server on the host machine. Users can get a working YunCMS Studio running by downloading two configuration files, setting strong passwords in an environment file, and running a handful of Docker commands. The setup supports both linux/amd64 and linux/arm64 architectures, making it compatible with standard servers and ARM-based development machines. Since YunCMS 0.1.x remains pre-stable, Yunsoft advises production users to pin a specific verified image version rather than relying on the latest tag.

Silent LLM Compliance Poses Greater Security Risk Than Loud Failures, Audit Finds

A week-long security review of LLM-powered applications revealed that the most dangerous failures are not blocked prompts or thrown exceptions, but quiet, undetected compliance with requests the model should have refused. Dubbed 'soft failures,' these incidents return valid, well-formed responses that logs and monitors treat as successful, making them nearly invisible to standard testing. During one audit of a banking-style assistant, a politely worded, cross-language probe bypassed restrictions that an aggressive jailbreak attempt could not. The reviewer recommends detecting soft failures by comparing a model's capability before and after a suspected injection, rather than scanning response text for suspicious content. Running a focused battery of 8–15 adversarial probes against a live system prompt is suggested as a practical first step to identify whether such vulnerabilities exist.

Five Dead in Van-Truck Head-On Crash in Assam's Sonitpur District

A deadly head-on collision between a van and a truck in Assam's Sonitpur district claimed five lives. Police are investigating the cause of the crash, suspecting the van driver may have lost control of the vehicle. Authorities believe the van veered into the opposite lane before the impact occurred. Investigators are also examining whether excessive speed contributed to the accident.

No political roles for nephews in BSP: Mayawati

BRICS declaration condemns Pahalgam terror attack, calls for zero tolerance for terrorism, action against safe havens

LG Denies Smart TV Spying Claims After Researchers Flag Data Logging

LG has issued a statement pushing back against allegations that its smart TVs spy on users. The response follows findings published by Gamers Nexus, Level1Techs, and independent security researchers showing LG TVs logging and uploading user data. LG stated its TVs do not continuously record or transmit conversations, and that wake-word detection is handled locally on the device. However, critics noted the use of the word 'continuously' leaves room for interpretation, as researchers demonstrated extensive data logging behavior on LG sets. The dispute has raised broader concerns about data privacy practices in modern smart TVs.

Software Engineers Are Becoming 'Agent Fleet Engineers' as AI Coding Agents Scale Up

A software engineer describes a shift in their role from writing code directly to managing coordinated fleets of AI agents that build and ship software. The author coins the term 'fleetcoding' for this practice and the title 'agent fleet engineer' for those who do it. Currently overseeing ten agents, the goal is to eventually scale to ten thousand, which requires infrastructure for dispatch, routing, capacity limits, and automated verification of results. The author notes that most engineering effort now goes into confirming that agents actually completed tasks correctly, not just trusting their self-reported outcomes. Failures at this scale are described as transit-system problems — coordination and infrastructure breakdowns — rather than individual coding errors.

Developer finds 4 client domains near expiry while testing RDAP-based monitor on agencies

A developer built a domain expiry monitoring tool and tested it against client sites publicly listed by 30 US web design agencies, checking 65 domains via RDAP rather than traditional WHOIS. The audit found one domain had already expired 60 days prior, three were within 45 days of expiry — one with just three days remaining — while the rest had between 46 days and several years left. RDAP, which returns structured JSON over HTTPS unlike WHOIS's inconsistent free-text output, proved more reliable, though gaps exist: some TLDs like .de and .co have no authoritative RDAP endpoint, meaning any expiry date shown for them is an estimate. The developer also documented pitfalls such as miscrawled third-party links being mistaken for client domains and multi-part suffixes like co.uk being incorrectly parsed. The agency and domain names were withheld to avoid publicly exposing clients' renewal vulnerabilities.

Trinamool Rebels Invite Mamata to Contest Nandigram Bypoll Unopposed

Rebel Trinamool Congress leader Ritabrata Banerjee has extended an offer to Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee to contest the Nandigram assembly seat. The rebels stated they would not field a candidate against her in the upcoming bypoll scheduled for October 6. Banerjee expressed that the dissident faction wants Mamata to have a presence in the state assembly. The offer comes amid ongoing political tensions within the Trinamool Congress party over the Nandigram constituency.

Developer shares 8 free adversarial probes to red-team LLM apps in 35 seconds

A developer who built an autonomous agent handling security decisions from untrusted input has published a free, eight-probe battery for red-teaming large language model applications before they reach users. The tool runs via a single curl command and returns a 0–100 risk score along with raw prompts and model replies within roughly 35 seconds. During the author's own self-scan, the system scored 27/100 (medium risk), with a cross-language, politely worded probe — not an aggressive jailbreak — triggering a partial system prompt leak. The eight probes cover attack types including direct and encoded jailbreaks, system prompt extraction, indirect injection, tool abuse, PII exfiltration, cross-language bypass, and multi-turn drift. A 15-probe starter kit is available under the MIT license on Gitee, and all scan results are hash-verifiable for independent reproduction.

Indian-Origin Woman Stalked and Killed in California by Rejected Suitor

Shalini, a woman of Indian origin, was killed in California after being stalked for nearly a year by a man named Rohit. Her mother, Sudesh Kumari, revealed that Rohit had used an AirTag and a duplicate key to track and harass her daughter. Rohit had reportedly wanted to marry Shalini, but she had rejected him due to their age difference. The prolonged stalking campaign ultimately culminated in her death.

How Path-Based Routing Lets Multiple Servers Share One Domain Seamlessly

Developers often need to serve different applications under a single domain without exposing separate servers or using subdomains. A reverse proxy like Nginx sits between the user and backend servers, silently routing requests to the correct application based on the URL path. For example, a Next.js website at the root domain and a WordPress blog on a separate server can both appear under one unified domain such as mypastries.com and mypastries.com/blog. Unlike redirects, which instruct the browser to request a new URL, a reverse proxy forwards the request internally and returns the response without the user ever knowing. This approach allows multiple independent applications to behave as a single cohesive website from the user's perspective.

Developer Ships 1,000 Deployments in a Month Using AI With Direct Infrastructure Access

A developer shipped 1,000 production deployments for his app Klyf, an AI-powered YouTube analytics tool, without manually opening the codebase. Instead of the typical copy-paste workflow, he connected Claude Code to his entire stack — including GitHub, Supabase, Vercel, Sentry, and Stripe — via Model Context Protocol (MCP), allowing the AI to interact directly with each service. This two-way access meant Claude Code could push commits, monitor CI pipelines, read error logs, and roll back failed deployments autonomously. The key distinction from conventional AI coding assistance is that the AI could observe the results of its own actions and self-correct, removing the human relay step entirely. The developer describes the setup not as hype but as a practical demonstration of what closed-loop AI development looks like when the model has real infrastructure access rather than just generating code snippets.