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Amazon Lets Users Text Alexa for Shopping Help After Blocking Muse

Amazon is rolling out a feature that lets customers send text messages to Alexa to get help with shopping. The company said the feature will reach millions of users over the coming weeks. The announcement follows Amazon's earlier decision to block Muse, a separate service. The source article provides few additional details about how the texting feature works or the reasons behind the change. Further specifics on availability and functionality were not included in the available reporting.

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ProgrammingDEV Community ·

Free NFT mints on Base: what buyers pay in gas and what creators store

A creator explains that a free mint on Base charges the buyer no mint price, so the buyer pays only the transaction gas, which varies with network conditions. The expected cost is estimated by multiplying the wallet's gas estimate by the current gas price, with the confirmed receipt as the final record. The author describes preloading token URIs on-chain at about 0.0000008 ETH each, versus lazy minting, which shifts that storage cost to the mint path. A contract limit of five mints per wallet applies to the deployer too, so tests should use a fresh address. The piece also stresses that pinning metadata before exposing a mint is necessary, since on-chain URIs do not guarantee the content exists.

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ProgrammingDEV Community ·

RecallOps Uses Past Repair Records to Speed Up Industrial Machine Troubleshooting

Vasundhara S, writing for Hack with Bangalore 4.0, describes RecallOps, an AI-powered maintenance assistant built for industrial settings. The project was motivated by the observation that repair knowledge is often lost, with successful fixes poorly recorded and failed attempts forgotten, leading technicians to repeat the same troubleshooting steps. Unlike general-purpose chatbots, RecallOps draws on a store of previous repair experiences and their outcomes to inform new investigations. Users can report a failure, receive an AI-assisted analysis, review related historical cases, and log whether the repair actually resolved the problem. The tool uses Hindsight Cloud to retain and retrieve these experiences, and is intended to assist technicians rather than replace their judgment.

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ProgrammingDEV Community ·

Seven Companies to Consider for AI Beauty App Development in 2026

AI beauty applications are growing more advanced, with brands adding virtual makeup try-ons, AI skin analysis, and personalized product recommendations. Building them demands more than bolting AI onto an e-commerce site, often requiring computer vision, facial landmark detection, augmented reality, and secure data handling. The article highlights seven companies worth evaluating in 2026: Perfect Corp, Banuba, CodingCops, Revieve, PulpoAR, Ravento, and GlamAR. These firms span specialized beauty technology providers, SDK vendors, and custom AI engineering shops, so the right choice depends on whether a business needs ready-made technology, a custom app, or both. The piece also outlines typical features such as AR nail try-on, shade matching, and beauty assistants, and the criteria used to shortlist the vendors.

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ProgrammingDEV Community ·

Solo Game Developer Shares a Free Toolkit for Building, Art, Video, and Promotion

A developer argues that the usual indie game studio stack, which can cost $50 to $100 monthly, can be replaced entirely with free tools. The recommended set includes GDevelop, a no-code engine that exports one project to multiple platforms, and Inkscape for vector 2D art. It also features OBS Studio for recording and DaVinci Resolve for video editing, whose free tier is praised for its quality and compatible upgrade path. Finally, the author suggests using Dev.to to publish videos and gain organic traffic and backlinks without maintaining servers.

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ProgrammingDEV Community ·

How to explain a crypto product on video without sounding like a pitch

Crypto and web3 products often face a trust problem before a feature problem, since viewers first wonder whether something is a scam. The approach described opens with a plain, checkable statement of the specific job the product does for a specific person, rather than hype. Strong product videos focus on one real on-screen flow covering connecting, confirming the transaction in plain words, and verifying the result, with any fees shown clearly at the point they apply. Technical terms like gas or bridge get a simple visual the first time they appear, and claims about returns or guarantees should be reviewed against local rules, with risks stated plainly. The author also recommends using real interface captures and separating the voice-over script for easier updates, with a 15 to 20 second captioned cut-down for social platforms.

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ProgrammingDEV Community ·

Gitoryx Puts Terminal and Git Client in One Window, Cutting Context Switches

The author, who previously moved away from GitKraken, reports that using their replacement tool Gitoryx has reduced how often they open a separate IDE for tasks beyond editing code. They previously juggled several windows, including an IDE, a terminal, and a Git GUI, which fragmented attention during long coding sessions. Gitoryx includes an integrated terminal built on xterm.js and a real PTY, so commands and resulting diffs can be viewed together. This setup is especially useful for monitoring AI coding assistants, since changes to the working tree can be seen as they happen. The article also argues that AI-generated commit messages should be proposed, reviewed, and edited by a human before committing.

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ProgrammingDEV Community ·

WebDB Launches as a Relational Database Built Natively for the Browser

A developer found that browser storage options either lack relational querying or rely on large WebAssembly ports of desktop SQL engines. Raw IndexedDB requires cumbersome manual code for joins and filters, while SQLite WASM and PGlite add multi-megabyte bundles and demand strict cross-origin isolation headers. To address this, the developer introduced WebDB, a relational engine written from scratch for the browser that skips SQL text parsing by building queries directly into bytecode through a TypeScript query builder. The project also offers a .explain() method to inspect query plans and framework subpaths that automatically refresh UI components when relevant tables change across tabs and workers.

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ProgrammingDEV Community ·

Why git checkout can't undo an AI agent's code changes, and a better checkpoint approach

When an AI agent edits project files and breaks something, developers often reach for git checkout or git stash, but these answer a different question than the one they face. Git restores the last commit or a snapshot of tracked files, which mixes the user's uncommitted work with the agent's changes and ignores gitignored files. The osFoundry desktop app instead stores each file's prior bytes in a content-addressed store before the agent writes to it, enabling a precise rewind. In a timed test on a 4,686-file TypeScript tree, the checkpoint restore returned the project exactly to its pre-turn state, while all four git-based methods left leftover or lost files. The author also notes that git-based snapshots pollute the real index by staging all user work on every turn.

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ProgrammingDEV Community ·

Styx's 100% coverage threshold went unenforced because CI never ran coverage

The core package of Styx had a 100% coverage threshold in its configuration, but CI never executed coverage checks, so nothing enforced it and the selector tests fell short. A pull request added the missing selector behaviour tests and a coverage command to the CI matrix. After the change, 664 tests pass with full statement and branch coverage. Some fallback branches were unreachable, so they were removed rather than covered with contrived tests, leaving observable results unchanged and the code smaller. The author concludes that a threshold only means something once CI runs the command that enforces it, and asks for 100% coverage only on pure logic packages such as state machines, policy and selectors, not UI code.

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IndiaNDTV ·

CBSE Class 10 and 12 Board Exams to Start February 16; Date Sheets Released

The Central Board of Secondary Education has announced that its Class 10 and Class 12 board examinations will begin on February 16. The official date sheets for the exams have now been released. The board had earlier already published the schedule for practical examinations for both classes. Students are advised to check the CBSE website for the detailed timetable and related updates.

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ProgrammingDEV Community ·

Where to place e-commerce explainer videos and what they should show

Many online shops add product videos to home page banners, where they get few views and are often judged as ineffective. The article argues the real problem is placement and content rather than the video format itself. It recommends putting videos where shoppers hesitate, such as product pages for hard-to-judge items, checkout steps where policy confusion causes abandonment, and paid social ads. A effective video should be short, showing a recognizable situation, the product in use early, one proof point, and a plain next step. The author suggests measuring one target metric, like add-to-cart rate or checkout completion, before judging whether the video works.

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ProgrammingDEV Community ·

Face aux CVE et à l'IA, une authentification d'identité en amont des applications

Les vulnérabilités se multiplient et l'auteur juge qu'une application exposée sur Internet ne peut plus, à elle seule, garantir la protection de ses accès. Il cite les failles de Confluence (CVE-2023-22515) et de TeamCity (CVE-2024-27198), qui permettaient un accès non autorisé à des outils professionnels répandus. Selon lui, l'IA pourrait accélérer la recherche et l'exploitation de ces failles, rendant le pari sur des correctifs rapides trop risqué. Son entreprise place donc un reverse proxy Nginx avec une authentification OpenID Connect devant ses outils, imposant une identité valide indépendamment du logiciel protégé. L'auteur reconnaît que Nginx n'est pas infaillible et que cette approche exige que toutes les routes sensibles y soient réellement soumises.

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ProgrammingDEV Community ·

Sizing Ollama models for CPU-only servers: a RAM guide

Ollama can run models on a CPU alone by loading them into system RAM, so the key question is which model fits the available memory with room left for context and the OS. The guide lists download sizes for common model tags, from about 292 MB for gemma3:270m up to 17 GB for gemma3:27b. Its rule of thumb is to keep the model file at or under roughly half the server's RAM at default context, then verify. It also covers quantization differences, such as llama3.2:1b defaulting to 8-bit while its 4-bit version is 808 MB. Four settings, including OLLAMA_CONTEXT_LENGTH and OLLAMA_NUM_PARALLEL, affect how much extra memory is used, and ollama ps and free -h help confirm the result.

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IndiaNDTV ·

Punjab Farmers Reportedly Time Field Burning to Avoid Satellite Detection

Farmers in Punjab have reportedly learned that satellites capture images only when they pass over a given area. Because of this, fields set on fire outside those observation windows can go undetected. The report draws a comparison to how Abdul Kalam's team avoided satellite surveillance during the Pokhran tests. The article's text, as provided, is brief and does not give further details on the scale or timing of such burning. The piece frames the practice as a way to evade monitoring of crop-residue fires.

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TechnologyThe Verge ·

EU Regulators Say TikTok's For You Feed Must Change Over Harmful Recommendations

The European Commission alleges that TikTok has violated online platform rules through its recommendation algorithm, which it says produces a "rabbit hole effect" on users. Regulators announced on Friday that repeated exposure to content about sadness, isolation, or body image could be harmful. The findings follow an earlier Commission declaration that TikTok's design is too addictive. Although TikTok has introduced controls aimed at reducing the effect, the Commission's preliminary findings indicate those measures are not working. TikTok is now required to change the design of its For You page.

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TechnologyThe Verge ·

Amazon lets shoppers text Alexa to find and order products

Amazon is adding a feature that lets customers buy items by texting its Alexa for Shopping assistant. Users can describe a product or send a photo of it, and Alexa will search Amazon listings and text back recommendations. The assistant can also place the order on the customer's behalf. The option builds on the Alexa for Shopping experience introduced in May and targets moments when texting is easier than using Amazon's app or website. The assistant will appear in phone contacts as "Amazon Alexa."

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IndiaNDTV ·

Election Commission Gives Voters Left Out of Draft SIR Rolls a Second Chance

The Election Commission has ordered officials in Delhi and six other states to offer fresh enumeration forms to electors who were omitted from the draft Special Intensive Revision (SIR) rolls. Booth Level Officers have been instructed to reach these voters through multiple channels. Outreach methods include house-to-house visits as well as contact via WhatsApp, e-mail and SMS. The move gives those left out an opportunity to get their names considered for inclusion in the electoral rolls.

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IndiaTimes of India ·

Air Canada jet glides to emergency landing after fuel runs out over Manitoba in 1983

On July 23, 1983, an Air Canada Boeing 767 lost engine power while flying over Manitoba. The aircraft was carrying 61 passengers and eight crew members. A major fuel miscalculation by ground staff had left the plane with about 45 percent less fuel than required. The pilots were able to glide the jet and land it on a disused military airstrip. All aboard sustained only minor injuries, and the aircraft was later repaired and returned to service.

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ProgrammingHacker News ·

Study Reveals How Octopuses Squeeze Through Openings Narrower Than Their Bodies

A research paper published in the Journal of Experimental Biology examines how octopuses manage to pass through gaps far smaller than their soft bodies would seem to allow. The work includes a set of videos from the study that document the animals moving through these tight spaces. The article was shared on Hacker News, where it drew 57 points and 17 comments. The paper's accompanying footage provides a visual record of the behavior described in the research. The item focuses on the animals' physical maneuvering rather than on broader implications for marine biology.

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