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IndiaTimes of India ·

How Palmer Luckey built a $61 billion defense empire after selling Oculus for $2 billion

Palmer Luckey, who founded the virtual reality company Oculus, sold it to Facebook for roughly $2 billion. He then turned his attention to defense technology through his company Anduril Industries. The firm has grown into a business valued at around $61 billion. The article traces how Luckey's path moved from consumer VR hardware to military and autonomous systems. Details beyond these points were not available in the provided text.

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TechnologyNYT Technology ·

Tech-Backed Candidates Suffer Major Setbacks, Signaling Shifting Public Mood

Technology-aligned political figures and their backers faced a significant defeat this week, according to New York Times Technology reporting. One observer characterized the outcome as a decidedly anti-tech election, suggesting voters turned against the industry's preferred positions. The article examines the factors behind the loss and what it may mean for the sector's influence going forward. Specific details beyond the opening assessment were not included in the excerpt provided, so the full reasoning remains unverified here.

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ScienceWIRED ·

Radar-Equipped Air Conditioners Promise Lower Power Bills, But Climate Gains Are Doubtful

Some air conditioners now use radar sensing to track where people are in a room and adjust cooling accordingly. The technology aims to reduce electricity consumption by directing airflow only where it is needed. However, the article argues that such a feature will not meaningfully help the environment on its own. The gains from smarter cooling are therefore modest compared with broader efforts to address energy use and emissions.

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ProgrammingDEV Community ·

How Claude's custom connector discovers osFoundry's OAuth server and why access is checked on every call

A technical write-up examines how remote MCP clients such as Claude's custom connector find osFoundry's OAuth login page after an unauthenticated request returns a 401 response. The author tested the production endpoint with curl from Tokyo and showed that the handshake and tool listing are public while tool calls require a token. The article describes the 59 available tools, their OAuth scopes, and the read-only annotations hosts can use to decide when to prompt for confirmation. It also explains the RFC 9728 resource metadata path, which is a common stumbling point for developers building their own clients. Finally, it outlines the authorization server settings, including dynamic client registration, PKCE, and a consent page that grants access to a single workspace.

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ProgrammingDEV Community ·

H-1B Job Switch: Can You Start on the Filing Date or Must You Wait for Approval?

Under H-1B portability rules, a worker changing employers may often begin work once the new employer properly files a non-frivolous Form I-129, or on the petition's stated start date if that is later, rather than waiting for approval. Eligibility requires lawful H-1B status, a filing made before the authorized stay expires, and no unauthorized work since the last admission. Workers should wait until the employer confirms filing and receives a USCIS receipt, and expect a new Form I-9 on day one. Work authorization under portability lasts until USCIS decides the petition, and if denied, the portability basis for employment ends. The guidance is drawn from 8 CFR 214.2(h) and USCIS publications.

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IndiaTimes of India ·

Indian-origin man on trial in US over wife's alleged murder

Naresh Bhatt, of Indian origin, is facing trial in the United States for allegedly killing his wife, Mamta Kafle. He initially told investigators he found her dead in July 2024 and that she had taken her own life. Prosecutors point to surveillance footage and forensic analysis that they say contradict his account, including blood linked to Kafle. Bhatt has pleaded not guilty and maintains his innocence.

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ProgrammingDEV Community ·

Vercel Schedules Enters Public Beta as Successor to Cron Jobs

Vercel introduced Schedules on November 4, 2026 and moved it to public beta on November 5, 2026. It is positioned as the successor to Cron Jobs, which continue to run, and Vercel has published a migration guide without forcing a cutover. Schedules adds per-schedule IANA time zones, private function targets, runtime creation and cancellation via an SDK, CLI, or API, and toggling without redeploying. Paid usage is metered, and migration mainly involves reshaping vercel.json, with the key pitfall being that path schedules default to POST rather than GET. Developers are warned not to run crons and schedules for the same work simultaneously, as this can cause duplicate executions.

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ProgrammingDEV Community ·

Detectar cortes de escena con ffmpeg y dividir un vídeo en esos puntos

Una guía explica cómo localizar los cortes de un vídeo editado usando ffmpeg, yendo más allá del filtro básico habitual. El autor señala que showinfo escribe en stderr y no en stdout, un detalle que suele confundir a quien programa la detección. Se usa como ejemplo un resumen público del lanzamiento de la misión Artemis II de la NASA, de 92 segundos y 19 planos. Con el umbral por defecto de la aplicación, 0,27, se identifican 18 cortes en apenas 0,8 segundos de procesamiento. El texto también reconstruye en Python la puntuación de escena de ffmpeg a partir del plano de luma para entender cómo se calcula y cómo elegir el umbral.

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ProgrammingDEV Community ·

Homepage pulse animations ignore reduced-motion settings, while JavaScript effects honor them

A developer audited a trivia website's codebase and its live stylesheet and found that reduced-motion preferences are respected in six JavaScript implementations but not in CSS. Three pulsing elements on the homepage, used as waiting indicators, animate regardless of a visitor's motion settings because the stylesheet has no matching rule. The author notes that a spinner keyframe is shipped to all public pages even though none use it. The proposed fix is a three-line CSS media query disabling the pulse animation under reduced motion. The post also explains that an earlier reduced-motion rule existed briefly but covered a marquee that has since been removed.

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ProgrammingDEV Community ·

Developer Replaces Huawei E3372 LTE Modem's Dated Web Interface With Lightweight Dark-Mode App

A developer has built a modded firmware toolkit for the Huawei E3372 HiLink LTE stick, which replaces its outdated 2014-era web interface with a modern, offline single-page app of about 10.5 KB. The new interface adds live signal telemetry, an SMS and USSD messaging suite, cellular and SIM controls, and a direct AT command console. The project also removes the stock lockout that blocks access to settings when no SIM is inserted. Tooling in Python handles repacking the firmware partition and flashing it over USB, and the author has tested it on several E3372 hardware variants. The project is published on GitHub, and the author warns that flashing involves real hardware risk.

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ProgrammingDEV Community ·

Aftertype Applies Schema.org Markup and llms.txt to Improve Search and AI Visibility

Aftertype reworked its website to be understood as structured data rather than only a set of pages. The company added site-wide schema.org markup, covering Organization, Article, and FAQPage types, so search engines could identify it as a distinct entity. A companion llms.txt file was also introduced to guide AI crawlers and LLM-based search tools toward the site's most reliable content. According to the author, Search Console data began showing queries clustering around Aftertype as an entity after the rollout. The approach is framed as entity optimization, complementing traditional SEO's focus on ranking individual pages.

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ProgrammingDEV Community ·

Flaky Async Test Exposed a Real Race Condition in Order Event Handling

A test covering an order-save, event-publish, and confirmation flow failed roughly one in ten CI runs, and developers initially blamed slow CI machines and raised a sleep delay. The author found the real cause was an @Async @EventListener that started before the publishing transaction committed, so it sometimes queried an order not yet visible. Production showed occasional "order not found" warnings under load, matching the test's intermittent failures. The fix switched the listener to @TransactionalEventListener on AFTER_COMMIT and replaced the fixed sleep with Awaitility polling. Across 200 CI runs, the corrected version recorded no failures, compared with 22 failures for the original and 6 for the longer-sleep version.

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ProgrammingDEV Community ·

Agentic Sales Knowledge Assistant: Turning RAG Retrieval Into an Agent Tool

Services companies accumulate valuable proposals, RFP responses and case studies, but this knowledge is scattered across folders, channels and personal devices, making it hard to reuse. The author proposes a governed sales knowledge store where documents are linked to clients and opportunities and every extracted fact is cited to its source. A chat assistant built on this store lets salespeople ask natural-language questions and receive short answers with numbered links to the original slides. The key design choice is to treat retrieval as a tool the LLM agent can call on demand, rather than a fixed pipeline that retrieves once before the model reasons. This approach allows multiple searches, query rephrasing, and pulling live CRM data that does not exist in documents.

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ProgrammingDEV Community ·

Site's 79 pages share 32 JavaScript files, but two identical animation libraries are served under different names

An audit of a 79-page site's sitemap found that every page loads from just 32 distinct JavaScript files. Two pairs of those files were found to hold effectively the same animation library, with byte counts matching exactly and differences limited to build debug IDs and numeric module IDs. Because the duplicates have different URLs, a visitor moving from one page to the homepage has to re-download code their browser already has. The three legal pages avoid the animation library only because their compact footer contains no animated wordmark. The author also notes that a bundle served only to legacy browsers inflates the transfer figures.

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ProgrammingDEV Community ·

How to Compress a PDF on Mac Without Running the Filter Twice

Preview's File > Export menu includes a Reduce File Size filter that shrinks PDFs locally on a Mac, without uploading anything. Users should save the result under a new name to keep the original intact, since Apple warns compressed copies may have lower quality. Testing showed large savings for scanned or photo-heavy files, while text-only PDFs barely shrink. Running the filter a second time backfired, growing one test file from 4.3 MB to 23.5 MB. Checking the output file size before sending is recommended.

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ProgrammingDEV Community ·

JomaKhoros: A Bangla-First Personal Finance App Built for Bangladesh

A civil engineer and BIM professional has developed JomaKhoros, a personal finance platform aimed at everyday money management in Bangladesh. The app is designed to bring together cash, bKash and Nagad Rocket transactions, bank accounts, and informal debts in one place. Its features include income and expense tracking, multiple wallets, monthly budgeting, savings goals, loan tracking, recurring transactions, and financial calculators. The developer built the Bangla-first tool to address the difficulty of organizing finances across these varied local channels. The creator is seeking feedback from the developer community on essential features and trust-building for local finance tools.

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IndiaIndian Express ·

Voters deleted from rolls in seven states, including Delhi and Maharashtra, get another chance

Electors whose names were removed from voter lists in seven states, among them Delhi and Maharashtra, are being offered a further opportunity to have their entries restored. The move gives affected residents another window to address the deletions before the rolls are finalised. The headline indicates the relief applies across several states rather than a single region. For the full timeline, eligibility criteria and procedure, the original Indian Express report should be consulted.

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