Karnataka's Consumer Affairs Minister Rizwan Arshad announced test results in Bengaluru on the state's petrol supply. The department collected 63 petrol samples from across Karnataka for the testing. The results showed ethanol content of up to 31.2 per cent, compared with the 20 per cent declared on the fuel. The minister's remarks come alongside a demand for a consumer relief fund.
Paul Nthenge Mackenzie has been handed a 200-year prison sentence for his role in the Shakahola deaths in Kenya. Church members, including 190 children, died of starvation under his instructions. He convinced his followers that fasting would bring them closer to Jesus ahead of an expected apocalypse. The case has drawn wide attention to the dangers posed by religious groups that control their members. The sentence reflects the scale of harm caused to vulnerable families and young children.
A man identified as Indushekar is accused of killing seven members of his wife's family in Bengaluru amid long-running domestic tensions. He allegedly first killed his wife and mother-in-law before luring his brothers-in-law and later killing them with the same weapon. Police believe the bodies were concealed at different locations across the city. Investigators are working to determine whether the suspect acted alone or received help. Search operations for the remaining victims are ongoing.
Police in Rajasthan rescued six girls who had been sold into prostitution by members of their own families. Officers carried out a decoy operation to locate and free the victims. The girls were removed from the situation and the rescue marks a significant intervention against trafficking in the state. The report attributes the success of the operation to the use of the decoy tactic by the police.
A Verge reviewer says the Bambu Lab P2S Combo is the 3D printer they would buy, after a year of testing it alongside several competitors. The enclosed, auto-loading printer with a touchscreen is currently discounted to $649 through December 1st, down from its usual $749 price. Over the test period, the reviewer logged 6,770 print hours across four printers and produced 40,000 whistles for ICE whistleblowers. Based on that experience, the reviewer says they can recommend the P2S to newcomers asking which printer to buy.
A small smartphone called the Enough Phone is being developed by a team of three, including Brennan Jordan and Austin Boer. The device will offer a choice between stock Android and the minimalist OdysseyOS operating system. Its planned specifications include a 5.3-inch display, a 3,500mAh user-replaceable battery, a MediaTek Dimensity 7500 chipset, and 8GB of RAM. The project is raising money on Kickstarter, where it had passed half of its $250,000 goal within a day of launching. The phone's dimensions suggest a size similar to the iPhone Mini.
Creators in their sixties, seventies, and eighties have increasingly joined adult content platforms. Demand for mature content has risen sharply in recent times. Some of these older creators are using online sex work as a source of retirement income. The trend has drawn attention to a growing segment of the adult industry. The original WIRED report frames it as a notable shift in who is participating in the market.
Patrick Mahomes relocated his family in 2023 to a custom-built estate in Belton, Missouri. He bought the property for $400,000 in September 2020 and started construction soon after. The compound features a private football field, a swimming pool, and a family gym. Mahomes also keeps a home in Texas for the off-season, while Belton is the family's home base during the football season.
Under the Graded Response Action Plan, GRAP-III is normally triggered when air quality reaches the "severe" category, with an AQI of 400. This time, the pollution control board activated the measures ahead of schedule as a precautionary step. The early move brings restrictions on private vehicles and shifts some classes to hybrid mode. The decision reflects an effort to curb pollution before conditions worsen further.
The tech-heavy Nasdaq 100 index fell more than 6% on Thursday. Investors grew concerned about a possible slowdown in artificial intelligence development. The sell-off followed Democratic election wins in the House and the Senate. Nasdaq 100 futures have since rallied, pointing to some relief for the stock market.
एडिट किए वीडियो में कट पहचानने के लिए ffmpeg का scene फ़िल्टर आमतौर पर पर्याप्त माना जाता है, पर यह लेख दो अनसुलझे सवाल उठाता है: सही threshold कैसे चुनें और कटों पर ही फ़ाइलें कैसे बाँटें। लेखक ने ffmpeg के अंदरूनी scoring तरीके को Python में दोबारा बनाकर उसे एक NASA launch वीडियो पर मापा है। विश्लेषण में दिखाया गया है कि showinfo के नतीजे stderr में आते हैं, न कि stdout में। हर फ़्रेम का score उसके और पिछले फ़्रेम के बीच औसत अंतर के बदलाव के आधार पर तय होता है, जिससे कैमरा शेक और असली कट में फ़र्क होता है। Y plane को yuv420p से लेना सटीक नतीजों के लिए ज़रूरी बताया गया है।
Delhi Police have arrested an insurgent from Manipur who is wanted under anti-terror legislation. The operation was carried out by a team led by Inspector Prakash Chand. The team worked under the supervision of ACP Rajkumar and DCP Crime Branch Harsh Indora. The source article provides limited further detail on the arrest, so additional specifics such as the exact date or charges are not reported here.
A digital marketer from Kerala offers a simplified introduction to Google Analytics for small business owners who find the tool intimidating. The free platform works like a camera inside a shop, revealing visitor counts, traffic origins, page views, and actions taken on a website. The article explains key terms such as users, sessions, traffic sources, engagement, and conversions in plain language. It recommends focusing on five core questions rather than every report, along with checking device type and visitor locations. A brief monthly review routine is suggested to track progress and choose one improvement for the following month.
Around 100 activists from the Geef Tegengas group entered a construction site for a new Microsoft data center on the outskirts of Amsterdam on Thursday morning. The protest targeted plans for three 85-meter data center towers, and some demonstrators climbed a crane to hang a banner. Other banners and chants criticized Microsoft and expressed support for Palestine. The demonstration comes more than a year after the city banned new data centers, which has fueled local opposition to the project.
Xiaohongshu offers no public comments endpoint, and its web page only expands comments after login. The share link copied from the app opens a public page that embeds up to five top comments, each with up to three replies. The LinkDigest service reads these in the same request as the note, requiring no Xiaohongshu account or cookies. The approach is limited: it returns only top comments and reply excerpts, never the full thread or commenter identities. Douyin videos return no comments because their embed player serves none.
A repair-shop scenario illustrates the need to confirm whether a customer's warranty card is genuine without relying on screenshots or the holder's word. The article presents a verifier that checks a soulbound Token-2022 card using only public chain data, applying eight checks covering mint ownership, one-of-one supply, non-transferability, metadata location, issuing authority, warranty validity, order matching, and holder ownership. The verifier is a pure function over raw account data, making it reusable in servers, wallets, or agents. It returns every individual check result rather than a simple pass or fail, so staff can see exactly which requirement failed. The author notes the code is an unaudited, devnet-only educational example and that actual warranty decisions still depend on shop policy and consumer law.
A DEV Community article outlines five approaches developers can use to make web form validation more effective without adding needless complexity. It recommends using built-in HTML input types and the required attribute to handle basic checks before writing extra code. The piece also urges specific, actionable error messages so users know exactly what to correct. JavaScript can supplement HTML validation for additional checks, though the author stresses that client-side validation does not replace server-side validation. The article further advises making forms accessible through connected labels, clear instructions and visible focus indicators, and keeping forms short by removing unnecessary fields.
An independent developer has released Unwatermark Gemini, a browser-based userscript designed to strip watermarks from eligible AI-generated images on supported Google Gemini web pages. The tool is installed through userscript managers such as Tampermonkey or Violentmonkey and is distributed via Greasy Fork, with source code hosted on GitHub. The creator is soliciting feedback, suggestions, and bug reports from developers and users. The project is explicitly unaffiliated with Google, and its makers urge users to respect image ownership and applicable terms of use.
A developer named Hamza describes Focus Reset, a free app offering a 60-second guided breathing exercise designed to help users pause during stressful moments. The routine uses a 12-second cycle repeated five times, with a longer exhale than inhale, followed by a choice of intention and one small task. The app requires no account or setup, collects no personal data, and keeps progress and streaks on the user's device. Users can extend sessions by 10, 20, or 30 seconds, use calm sound guidance, and run short focus sprints. The app is positioned as a wellness and productivity tool, not medical advice, therapy, or treatment.
NM Art & Design presents sculpture, ceramics, textiles, lighting and collectible furniture in a gallery-like online catalogue designed by ESH Gruppa. Visitors can browse by work or artist, and the Ignith Lamp page shows how an enquiry can start directly from a product. Priced pieces can be added to a bag, while works needing a quote display 'Price upon request' and open an enquiry drawer that carries the title, artist, thumbnail and pricing status. The article presents this as a design case study followed by a proposed Shopify implementation, including features such as project saving and PDF downloads. Logged-in permissions and payment behaviour were not tested for the article.
