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TechnologyNYT Technology ·

Trump Calls Nvidia CEO Onstage, Dismisses Calls for AI Regulation

Former President Donald Trump phoned Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang during a live onstage appearance in Los Angeles. The unexpected call took place while Huang was addressing an audience at the event. Trump used the opportunity to criticize efforts to slow down artificial intelligence development. He also pushed back against calls for increased AI safety regulation. The moment drew significant attention given the growing national debate around AI oversight.

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IndiaNDTV ·

Russian Oligarch With Putin Ties Reportedly Funded Trump Jr.'s Wedding Celebrations

A Russian oligarch linked to Vladimir Putin reportedly funded post-wedding celebrations for Donald Trump Jr. and his wife Bettina. Bettina Trump confirmed the connection in an Instagram post, describing Umar Kremlev as a 'dear friend.' She stated that Kremlev generously hosted two nights of celebrations following their wedding ceremony. The report has drawn attention due to Kremlev's alleged ties to the Kremlin and his proximity to the Trump family.

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ProgrammingDEV Community ·

Developer Self-Attacks AWS API to Expose Cloud Security Gaps, Documents Every Step

A developer built and deliberately attacked two versions of a serverless Todo API on AWS to demonstrate real-world cloud security vulnerabilities. The experiment was conducted in compliance with AWS's penetration testing policy, which allows users to test infrastructure they own without prior authorization. One API version had no security controls, while the other was hardened as it would be for a production client, with both sharing the same basic architecture of API Gateway, Lambda, and DynamoDB. The first attack demonstrated enumeration, where an unauthenticated request to the vulnerable API returned every record in the database due to an unfiltered table scan and missing authentication. The developer published all code, Terraform files, and attack scripts on GitHub to help others understand that cloud security depends on what users build on their side of AWS's Shared Responsibility Model.

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TechnologyThe Verge ·

EPA moves to scrap greenhouse gas limits on US power plants under Trump

The US Environmental Protection Agency has announced plans to eliminate existing greenhouse gas emission standards for power plants. The move is part of President Donald Trump's broader push to expand fossil fuel use and ease development of energy-intensive data centers. Critics warn the rollback will result in dirtier electricity at a time when power demand is rising due to AI, electric vehicles, and domestic manufacturing growth. Environmental and consumer advocates argue the deregulation will carry significant costs for public health and the environment.

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TechnologyTechCrunch ·

OpenAI Acquires Camera Tech Startup Glass Imaging for $300 Million

OpenAI has reportedly purchased Glass Imaging, a smartphone camera technology company, in a deal valued at $300 million. The acquisition was reported by TechCrunch. Glass Imaging was co-founded by two former Apple engineers who had previously led development of Apple's Portrait Mode feature. The startup specializes in smartphone camera imaging technology. The deal signals OpenAI's growing interest in hardware and visual technology beyond its core AI software products.

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ProgrammingDEV Community ·

Why ATS Keyword Checkers Flag Skills You Already Have — And How to Respond

Many popular ATS keyword checker tools flag resume skills as 'missing' because they perform simple string matching rather than understanding language variations like synonyms, plurals, or word order differences. For example, writing 'analyzed sales data' may be flagged as lacking 'data analysis' even though the meaning is identical. Actual recruitment platforms such as Workday, Greenhouse, and Lever are generally more sophisticated than these third-party checkers, making many of their warnings false alarms. Experts advise job seekers to check whether the underlying skill or concept is present rather than obsessing over exact phrasing, and to align wording with the job posting only once where genuinely applicable. The ultimate priority should be writing a resume that reads naturally for human recruiters, since a keyword-stuffed document may clear automated filters but fail to impress the person making the hiring decision.

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ProgrammingDEV Community ·

Developer Builds Ada Lovelace AI Tool to Generate Personalized Code Compliments

Developer Mike Cramblett has launched Ada Loves Code (ALC), an open-source tool that uses an Augusta Ada Lovelace persona powered by AI to inspect code repositories and generate personalized "Certificates of Poetical Science." The project, remixed from his earlier hackathon entry HypeBESTIE using Google AI Studio, aims to provide developers with meaningful, bespoke recognition beyond generic praise. Cramblett was motivated by his own experience of sharing work online for over a year with little engagement, and wanted to address the silence many developers face after publishing projects. To demonstrate the tool, he browsed recent weekend challenge posts, identified low-visibility entries, and used ALC to generate and post personalized certificates directly in their comment sections. The initiative reflects his broader belief that developer communities can cultivate a more generous, substantive peer-review culture online.

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ProgrammingDEV Community ·

Developer Builds Voice-Controlled AI Coding Tool to Work While Walking Outside

Software developer Benoit Hirbec created Squad33, a macOS app that lets users control AI coding agents entirely by voice, after chronic back pain in March 2026 forced him to find an alternative to desk-based work. The tool uses Whisper for transcription on a Mac, routing spoken instructions to Claude Code or Opencode, with responses read aloud through earbuds on a paired phone. This setup allows Hirbec to dictate tasks during outdoor walks, with AI agents handling development work in parallel git worktrees while he moves on to the next feature. He reports that listening to agent output is less mentally draining than reading it at a screen, and that voice input removes the keyboard fatigue that often limits detail in written prompts. Squad33 is currently available as a free macOS beta and works with existing Claude Code or Opencode subscriptions rather than providing its own model access.

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ProgrammingDEV Community ·

Teen Developer Warns Against Over-Reliance on AI Coding Tools

Ícaro Teles, a 14-year-old Brazilian developer, has shared his concerns about how AI is being used in the programming community in 2026. Having started in tech at age eight, he claims that roughly 90% of programmers have shifted toward 'vibecoding,' a practice of relying on AI to generate code without deeper understanding. He argues that while AI is a valuable tool, it should primarily serve as a learning aid rather than a shortcut for copying and pasting solutions. His post invites the broader tech community to reflect on whether current AI usage habits are helping or hindering genuine skill development.

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ProgrammingDEV Community ·

How to Build a Production-Ready Weather App with React and TypeScript

A developer has shared architectural lessons from building a resilient, production-grade weather application using React and TypeScript. The project goes beyond a basic tutorial by implementing type-safe API data flows to prevent runtime crashes from inconsistent location responses. State management is handled through TanStack Query, cleanly separating UI states such as loading, errors, and cached data. A custom debounced geocoding hook with in-memory caching reduces unnecessary network requests during user searches. API logic is also isolated into a dedicated service layer, keeping UI components purely presentational and easier to test.

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ProgrammingDEV Community ·

Bug Fix Stops Internal Code Fragments From Leaking Into GitHub Issue Titles

A recurring defect in an automated task system caused raw internal checklist and prompt scaffolding — such as fragments like '#2637/brand#16' — to appear as GitHub issue and pull request titles instead of meaningful human-readable labels. The bug originated in a function called make_issue_title within tasks/issue_title_builder.py, where boundary logic validated only that a string was present and the API call succeeded, not that the resulting title was useful to a human reviewer. Because API requests completed without errors, the failure produced no crashes or alerts, making it easy to overlook during normal development workflows. The fix restructures the boundary logic to source titles from the task's description field — the canonical human-facing label — and flags any checklist- or prompt-shaped strings as leakage even when they are technically API-valid. New assertions in tests/test_title_generation.py now detect known leakage patterns and emit warnings, ensuring internal scaffolding no longer silently passes into public-facing artifacts.

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ProgrammingDEV Community ·

AI Speeds Up Individual Work But Leaves Organisational Bottlenecks Untouched

Companies are investing heavily in AI tools, with spend rising 110% in a single year according to a ServiceNow and ThoughtLab survey of 4,500 executives, yet the share of organisations reporting streamlined, integrated workflows fell from 30% to 16% in the same period. AI accelerates the work of individual users but leaves downstream processes — reviews, approvals, deployments — running at the same pace as before. A BCG survey of nearly 12,000 employees found that 61% have little or no guidance on how to use the time AI saves them, and 45% are not redirecting it toward strategic tasks. The result is that faster individual output floods unchanged pipelines, creating longer backlogs rather than faster delivery. Analysts point to fragmented platforms and siloed data as the core obstacles preventing AI speed gains from translating into measurable organisational progress.

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ProgrammingDEV Community ·

AWS Launches Nova 2 Model Family With Lite, Pro, and Omni Tiers on Bedrock

Amazon Web Services has released the second generation of its Nova foundation model family, available through Amazon Bedrock. The lineup comprises three models — Nova 2 Lite, Nova 2 Pro, and Nova 2 Omni — each targeting different workloads across a cost-versus-capability spectrum. Nova 2 Lite is optimized for high-volume, lower-cost tasks such as chatbots and document processing, while Nova 2 Pro offers a 1-million-token context window suited for complex reasoning and large enterprise workflows. Nova 2 Omni is designed for advanced any-to-any multimodal processing spanning text, images, video, and speech. Key improvements over the original Nova family include extended thinking controls, broader multilingual support covering over 200 languages, higher throughput, and lower inference costs.

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ProgrammingDEV Community ·

AI Used by 92% of Bloggers, Yet Content Marketing Effectiveness Hits 12-Year Low

Orbit Media's 2026 blogging survey of 1,042 content marketers found that 92.4% now use AI in their workflows, yet only 13.9% report strong blog results — the lowest figure in the study's 12-year history. The research found no meaningful correlation between AI adoption and improved blog performance, suggesting AI alone does not drive content effectiveness. Analysts point to a parallel decline in practices historically linked to better outcomes, such as original research, expert collaboration, keyword research, and formal editing. While AI has cut average post-creation time from roughly four hours to about three hours and twenty minutes — saving an estimated 50 hours per marketer annually — that operational gain has not translated into stronger results. Orbit Media's findings indicate that teams reinvesting saved time into quality-focused activities are better positioned than those simply using AI to publish more undifferentiated content.

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ProgrammingDEV Community ·

How to Hire the Right React Native Developer for Your Startup MVP

Hiring the wrong developer for an MVP can drain a startup's budget, momentum, and timeline, making the initial hire a critical decision. Experts recommend prioritizing candidates who have shipped real apps to the App Store and Google Play over those who only show GitHub side projects. Founders are advised to download and test apps a candidate has built, as real-world shipping experience means the developer has already worked through common mistakes. Whether choosing a freelancer, agency, or in-house developer depends on the startup's budget and scope. Ultimately, the ideal MVP hire is someone who can own the full architecture and advise on what features to cut, not just execute a task list.

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ProgrammingDEV Community ·

OpenAI Launches ChatGPT for Financial Services Powered by GPT-6 Astra

OpenAI launched ChatGPT for Financial Services on September 10, 2026, targeting investment banking and equity research workflows. The product runs on GPT-6 Astra, OpenAI's existing flagship model, rather than a finance-specific variant, with the key additions being built-in financial data access, firm-specific templates, and a compliance-ready governance layer. Morgan Stanley and Evercore served as design partners, helping shape the product around two core pain points: reliable data access and audit-ready output quality. Astra supports close to one million tokens of context and outperformed its predecessor and Anthropic's comparable model on agentic benchmarks at a lower cost per task. Notably, Astra is the first OpenAI model to reach the Critical tier of the company's internal cybersecurity capability framework, signaling a meaningfully higher capability class than previous generations.

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IndiaTimes of India ·

Cornwall's Loe Beach listed for £3M amid local fears over private buyout

Loe Beach, located near Feock in Cornwall, has been put up for sale with an asking price of £3 million. The property spans over six acres and includes 78 metres of foreshore, a café, a car park, and watersports facilities. The listing has prompted concern among local residents who worry the site could be purchased by a wealthy celebrity or private developer. The beach sits along a stretch of coastline already known informally as 'millionaire's row', adding to fears about public access being restricted.

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IndiaTimes of India ·

Lawyers Demand FIR Against Justice Varma, Push for Judicial Transparency

Senior lawyers, including Mahesh Jethmalani, have called for greater transparency and reform within India's judiciary. They questioned why no FIR was registered following the discovery of cash at the residence of Justice Yashwant Varma. Chief Justice Surya Kant defended the existing internal mechanism for handling complaints against judges. He argued that most such complaints stem from litigants dissatisfied with unfavorable court rulings. Legal professionals also raised concerns over the lack of transparency in judicial appointments and transfers.

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ProgrammingDEV Community ·

CopilotKit Launches OpenBot, an Open-Source AI Agent Platform with Built-In Security

CopilotKit has released OpenBot, an open-source platform that deploys AI agents as autonomous coworkers within enterprise infrastructure using Docker Compose and PostgreSQL. Each agent operates inside an isolated Docker container with its own browser session and private workspace, preventing any interference with the host system. A central security gateway evaluates every command, file access, and web navigation request using Common Expression Language policies before execution, with all actions logged in a searchable audit ledger. When agents encounter high-risk situations such as two-factor authentication or CAPTCHAs, human operators can take over directly from the web interface before returning control to the agent. OpenBot supports multiple AI frameworks including LangGraph, CrewAI, and Pydantic AI through the open AG-UI protocol, and its source code is publicly available on GitHub.

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ProgrammingDEV Community ·

Directory lists 29 developer and AI newsletters with verified subscriber counts for sponsors

A curated directory called devsponsors tracks 29 developer and AI newsletters available for sponsorship, including 25 on Substack and 4 self-hosted, with data current as of September 2026. The list distinguishes between Substack-stated subscriber counts and self-reported figures from independent newsletters, keeping the two categories clearly labelled and separate. Top newsletters by audience size include The Rundown AI at 1.7 million self-reported subscribers, Superhuman AI at 1.5 million, and TLDR AI at 1.1 million. Nine of the 29 newsletters publicly disclose their sponsors within issues, collectively naming 34 brands, with repeat buyers including Brilliant, CodeRabbit, and Unblocked each appearing three times. The directory also flags which issues are sent only to paying subscribers, since sponsored slots in paywalled editions reach significantly fewer readers than the total subscriber count implies.

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