6.2-magnitude earthquake jolts Afghanistan, tremors felt in Pakistan, Jammu and Kashmir and Delhi-NCR

6.2 magnitude earthquake hits Afghanistan; tremors felt across north India

Developer Builds Open-Source Feature Flag Audit Tool Inspired by Knight Capital's $440M Loss

A software engineer built Tombstone, a self-hosted feature flag intelligence platform, after a 2:47am incident revealed his team had no reliable way to track which flags had changed across 12 services during a payments outage. The core problem was that tools like LaunchDarkly, Jira, and Notion each held partial information but shared no causal model, making it impossible to link a flag change to a downstream latency spike. The project draws on the 2012 Knight Capital disaster, where reactivating a dormant flag key on a single server triggered $440 million in losses in 45 minutes because no system tracked key provenance or blocked reuse. Tombstone is designed to permanently retire, or 'tombstone,' flag keys after deprecation so they cannot be reactivated with outdated semantics in future deployments. The tool targets engineering teams that have outgrown informal audit trails like Slack channels and shared docs but need durable, queryable flag history without relying on fragmented third-party platforms.

Karnataka man dies after detonating crude bombs in car during relationship dispute

A 30-year-old man named Nagendra died in a car explosion on a Karnataka highway following an apparent relationship dispute. Police suspect Nagendra attacked his partner, Ramya, before setting off crude bombs inside the vehicle. Ramya and the cab driver were able to escape the burning car and survived the blast. Authorities are currently investigating the origin of the explosives and the sequence of events that led to the incident.

Developer builds ruleset to strip AI writing patterns from AI-generated text

A developer published a post on DEV Community describing a tool called Alchemy, a Markdown-based ruleset designed to remove telltale AI writing patterns from AI-generated content. The tool targets recurring signals such as em-dash overuse, filler phrases like 'in today's fast-paced digital landscape,' and words like 'delve' and 'robust' that research shows spiked sharply in frequency after ChatGPT's release. Its design draws on empirical sources, including a 2025 study by Kobak et al. finding 'delve' appeared at roughly 28 times its pre-ChatGPT rate in biomedical papers, and Pangram Labs data on inflated phrase frequencies. Alchemy works by flagging density of co-occurring tics rather than penalising any single word, and integrates with AI coding agents via a single init command. The tool is MIT-licensed and available on GitHub for anyone to read or adapt.

Teen developer runs Hack Club software jam to reward genuine creative effort

Fox, a 16-year-old developer, was invited by Hack Club to organize a software event after the organization noticed his online projects. He felt that while Hack Club is good at funding projects, it falls short in recognizing hard work and craftsmanship. In response, he created Radish Jam, a software jam designed to foster meaningful competition and reward well-made work. The initiative drew inspiration from the quality-focused feedback culture found on platforms like Hacker News. Fox documented his organizational process in a blog post, hoping it could serve as a guide for future organizers within or outside Hack Club.

Ireland bowl as West Indies eye semi-final spot

Both teams made a change that alters the team balance

Browser Security Model Explained: SOP, CORS, XSS, CSRF and How They Work Together

Modern web browsers operate as hostile execution environments where untrusted code from one tab can sit dangerously close to sensitive user sessions in another. The browser's security model — built around policies like Same-Origin Policy (SOP) and Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS) — was designed to counter threats such as session hijacking, cross-site scripting, and cross-site request forgery. SOP restricts how scripts from one origin can interact with resources from another, defined by a combination of protocol, host, and port, though it blocks reading responses rather than sending requests, which is why CSRF attacks remain possible. CORS allows servers to deliberately opt in to cross-origin access via HTTP headers, but a common misconfiguration — reflecting any incoming Origin header back without validation alongside credentials — can completely bypass SOP and expose authenticated data. Understanding these security boundaries is considered essential for developers, as attackers routinely exploit gaps in their implementation to steal user data or hijack sessions.

Bharat Taxi to expand to over 500 cities in 2 yrs

Suspicious Discontinuities

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Codename One Ships Native Linux App as a Single 5MB Binary for x64 and ARM

Codename One, an open-source framework for building cross-platform apps from Java or Kotlin, has released a native Linux desktop port that compiles to a single self-contained ELF binary. The framework's ParparVM tool translates Java and Kotlin bytecode to C, which is then compiled into a native binary requiring no JVM on the user's machine. The Linux port relies on widely available system libraries including GTK3, Cairo, Pango, GStreamer, and WebKitGTK, covering graphics, media, networking, and browser functionality. To ensure broad compatibility, binaries are compiled against glibc 2.17 from 2013, allowing them to run on virtually any mainstream Linux desktop. The optimized build strips unused code, keeping a typical app around 5MB while launching faster than many native GNOME applications.

Trump could visit India next year…look forward to setting (it) up: Rubio

Apple Raises Prices on MacBooks, iPads and HomePod, Citing AI-Driven Costs

Apple CEO Tim Cook has described the company's current pricing as 'unsustainable' and called further price increases 'unavoidable.' The 16-inch MacBook Pro rose by $300, the 11-inch iPad Air jumped from $599 to $749, and the HomePod Mini increased by $30 to $129. Cook attributed the hikes to surging demand from the AI industry, which has driven up the cost of components like RAM. Apple is not alone — Xbox consoles have risen nearly 25 percent in price and Nothing scrapped a phone launch entirely amid the same pressures. The trend reflects broader market stress as AI infrastructure investment continues to strain global hardware supply chains.

India A lead by 170 as Sai Sudharsan retires hurt against Sri Lanka A

India A extended their lead to 170 runs in their ongoing match against Sri Lanka A. Sai Sudharsan, who had been contributing with the bat, was forced to retire hurt during India A's innings. Earlier, Sri Lanka A were bowled out for 330, with Mohammad Nabi playing a key role with the ball. Nabi claimed four wickets to help India A dismiss their opponents and gain a competitive advantage. India A will look to press further ahead as they continue their second innings.

Developer runs modern LLMs on a 2013 GTX 770 with a five-byte firmware patch

A developer has demonstrated that NVIDIA's Kepler-generation GTX 770, officially abandoned by NVIDIA after driver version 470.256.02, can still run modern large language model inference workloads on Linux kernel 7.x. Two core obstacles were overcome: the legacy driver source code failed to compile against kernels 6.15 and above due to removed APIs, and the CUDA initialization routine returned an error caused by a hardcoded version check inside the proprietary libcuda.so library. Community-sourced kernel patches resolved the compilation issues, while a targeted five-byte binary patch to the shared library bypassed the version mismatch that blocked CUDA from initializing. Additional changes to llama.cpp source code and the use of CUDA 10.2 tooling with Clang allowed the project to build and run successfully on the GPU's older sm_30 architecture. Benchmark results showed the GTX 770 delivering roughly 1.8 times faster prompt processing compared to CPU-only inference, with the project framed as both an e-waste reduction effort and a practical exercise in low-level systems engineering.

11 Design Patterns for Building Polling Agents in AI Assistants

Polling agents are background processes in AI assistant architecture that repeatedly monitor a data source and trigger actions when specific conditions are met. Unlike standard chat assistants that respond only to user queries, polling agents proactively watch inboxes, task lists, GitHub issues, or job queues on the user's behalf. A well-structured polling agent handles five core responsibilities: waking on schedule, reading the source, tracking previously seen state, evaluating whether new data matters, and acting exactly once without duplication. Developers are advised to keep the language model focused on semantic interpretation and language generation, while delegating scheduling, state management, retries, and locking to standard backend infrastructure. Durable state records — storing metadata such as poll ID, source reference, condition, run timestamps, and failure count — are essential for reliable production deployments.

How to build smarter auth form validation using React, TanStack Form, and Zod

Most email and password login forms frustrate users by showing validation errors either too early or too late, often before a field is touched or only after submission. A developer writing for DEV Community proposes a 'reward early, punish late' approach to fix this UX problem. The method delays error creation until the user has actually typed something, then clears the error immediately once they begin correcting their input. The technique is implemented using React, TanStack Form 1.x, Zod, and a custom validation logic function called rewardEarlyPunishLate. TanStack Form's onDynamic validator makes it possible to control exactly when an error is born, displayed, and dismissed independently of one another.

Viral photo sparks speculation over Hardik Pandya's secret marriage to Mahieka Sharma

Rumours of a secret marriage between cricketer Hardik Pandya and model Mahieka Sharma have surfaced on social media. Photos circulating online show the couple alongside an elderly woman, with Mahieka apparently wearing sindoor, prompting widespread speculation. Pandya had publicly confirmed his relationship with Sharma in October 2025, following his separation from former wife Natasa Stankovic nearly two years prior. Neither Pandya nor Sharma has issued an official statement confirming or denying the marriage claims.

Top 50 System Design Interview Questions to Prepare for in 2026

A technical guide published on DEV Community in April 2024 compiles the top 50 system design interview questions aimed at software developers. The resource targets professionals preparing for technical interviews in 2026, covering key concepts in system design and software development. The article, authored by Soma, is estimated to be an eight-minute read and gained significant engagement with 1,690 reactions. It falls under topics including programming, system design, and software development.

Siya Goyal Allegedly Signalled Lover to Push Ketan Agarwal Off Fort Cliff

Siya Goyal is accused of orchestrating the murder of Ketan Agarwal, whom she reportedly viewed as an obstacle in her life. According to police, Siya was in a romantic relationship with a man named Chetan and wanted Agarwal removed. Investigators allege that at a fort location, Siya gave Chetan a signal, after which he pushed Agarwal off a cliff. The case has also drawn attention to the role of the Mittal family in arranging the match between Siya and Ketan.