A man identified as Anil Rajgarh went missing in Assam on September 12. His family filed a missing persons complaint, prompting local police to launch a search operation. Authorities subsequently discovered that Rajgarh had been killed and beheaded. His body was found buried, while his severed head had been placed in a plastic bag.
The Marathi film 'Gondhal' has been selected as India's official submission for the 99th Academy Awards. The selection committee chose it from a competitive pool of 33 entries. The film is set against the backdrop of a traditional ritual in rural Maharashtra. This marks the fourth time a Marathi film has earned this distinction. The Academy Awards ceremony is scheduled to take place on March 14, 2027.
Social media influencer Swatantra Bhardwaj has been released from Tihar Jail after a Delhi court granted him three weeks of interim bail in connection with an assault case. The court imposed strict conditions on Bhardwaj, including a prohibition on discussing case details through online platforms. He had been taken into custody earlier this month following a controversial interview that drew significant attention. The matter is scheduled to return before the court on October 6 for further review.
After ChatGPT's initial launch, Sam Altman sought strategic advice from venture capitalist Peter Thiel. Thiel urged Altman to double down on the flexible text box model, drawing a parallel to Google's search box success. This guidance went against the prevailing Silicon Valley belief that products needed feeds and network effects to thrive. Altman also drew lessons from both Thiel and Y Combinator founder Paul Graham on the value of pursuing overlooked investment opportunities. These insights went on to influence Altman's investment approach across hundreds of companies.
India launched its first indigenously developed hydrogen-powered train on July 17, representing a significant step toward cleaner and more sustainable rail transport. Despite a seating capacity of 2,600 passengers, the train has so far attracted only 40 to 60 riders per run. The low ridership highlights the early-stage challenges facing the adoption of next-generation green transportation in the country. Authorities are nonetheless moving forward with expansion plans, including a proposed extension of the hydrogen train service to Delhi.
The Trinamool Congress (TMC) candidate has withdrawn their nomination for the Nandigram bypoll following a meeting with BJP leader Suvendu Adhikari. Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has announced that TMC will extend support to the Congress candidate in the constituency. The development marks a notable political shift in Nandigram, a seat that has historically been significant for both TMC and the opposition. The withdrawal suggests possible behind-the-scenes negotiations influencing the electoral dynamics of the bypoll. This alliance signals a broader opposition strategy to consolidate votes against the BJP in the West Bengal constituency.
A US company has agreed to a commercial drone sale with Pakistan, separate from the suspended American military aid that has been on hold since January 2018. The deal falls outside the US government-to-government military assistance framework, making it legally and strategically distinct. While analysts suggest the transaction is not a major windfall for Pakistan, it still carries implications for regional security. India is being advised to monitor the development closely given its ongoing tensions with Pakistan.
As AI agents become standard in developer workflows, many teams are granting them broad, long-lived API credentials that far exceed what the tasks actually require. Unlike traditional software with fixed code paths, agents make autonomous decisions about which tools to invoke, meaning permissions now govern judgment rather than deterministic logic. This creates scenarios where a misinterpreted instruction — such as aggressively deleting 'old' data — can cause irreversible damage without any human explicitly approving the action. Security experts recommend replacing standing API keys with short-lived, narrowly scoped tokens tied to specific tasks, and enforcing human approval for any irreversible operations. Shrinking the blast radius of agent access, rather than removing access entirely, is the practical path to safer agentic workflows.
A new open-source Python library called SQLPyHelper aims to simplify database interactions across five major systems — SQLite, PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQL Server, and Oracle — using a single consistent API. Unlike full ORMs such as SQLAlchemy, it is designed to be lightweight, avoiding complex abstractions and performance overhead while still supporting parameterized queries and connection pooling. The library supports both synchronous and asynchronous usage, making it compatible with frameworks like FastAPI and the asyncio ecosystem. Built-in features include automatic credential loading from a .env file, SQL injection protection, transaction management, and direct CSV export of database tables. SQLPyHelper is available on PyPI with modular installation options and its source code is hosted on GitHub under the handle adebayopeter/sqlpyhelper.
Many people experience discomfort or awkwardness when others show them kindness, a phenomenon rooted in psychology. This unease often stems from personal history and deeply held beliefs, such as feeling obligated to return favors or thinking affection must be earned. For some, accepting compliments creates an internal conflict when praise does not align with how they see themselves. These patterns can make even small acts of generosity feel difficult to accept. Psychologists suggest that gradually learning to receive simple gestures of care can help ease this discomfort over time.
A department's 1998 financial application remains in production because four ageing specialists — averaging 56 years old — hold decades of undocumented institutional knowledge about why its roughly 900 customisations exist. Two of those experts have informally signalled they plan to retire within three to four years, creating a knowledge-loss deadline that no formal project plan acknowledges. The problem is compounded on the vendor side, where only two engineers can handle complex support queries and both are nearing the end of their careers. In response, the organisation has permanently paired younger engineers with the legacy system, is documenting each customisation by risk priority, and is paying above market rates to retain critical expertise. The author argues that the true barrier to modernising legacy estates is neither technology nor budget, but a handful of irreplaceable people whose departure timeline is rarely factored into planning.
A trader was defrauded of approximately Rs 16 lakh through a scheme targeting Amazon's return policy. The accused placed orders for 62 high-value electronic gadgets from the trader. After receiving the deliveries, the fraudster filed fake return requests with Amazon to avoid payment. The manipulation of the e-commerce platform's return system allowed the accused to retain the goods without paying for them. Authorities are investigating the case following a complaint by the affected trader.
The Navier–Stokes equations, which describe fluid motion in systems ranging from ocean waves to aircraft aerodynamics, have carried an unsolved mathematical question for over a century: whether smooth fluid solutions can break down into singularities over time. This question was designated one of the Millennium Prize Problems, carrying a $1 million award for a valid proof. In September 2026, OpenAI announced that an internal AI system had produced a claimed solution to this longstanding problem. The announcement has drawn significant attention from the mathematics community, which is now evaluating how to verify and validate a proof generated by an artificial intelligence. Beyond the claim itself, experts say the episode raises broader questions about the standards and processes needed to assess AI-generated mathematical discoveries.
A software developer shared how shifting from AI-generated code to AI-assisted code review changed their development workflow. Instead of prompting AI to write code from scratch, they wrote the code themselves and then asked AI to review it as a senior engineer would. The AI surfaced edge cases and potential bugs — such as empty inputs, failed API responses, and missing values — that had been overlooked during manual testing. However, the developer notes that AI reviews are not always accurate and can sometimes flag non-issues or suggest overcomplicated fixes. The key takeaway is that AI works best as an additional perspective in the review process, with the developer retaining final judgment on what actually needs to change.
A developer shared a detailed guide on configuring a macOS machine for an existing .NET MAUI production application, noting the process involves far more than a basic .NET install. The setup requires coordinating multiple components including the .NET SDK, MAUI workload, Xcode, iOS tooling, Android SDK, and JDK. A key insight from the experience is that the development environment should be considered ready only when the application can build, run, and be debugged — not merely when tools are installed. The guide recommends starting by examining the repository itself, including files like global.json and .csproj, to determine the exact tool versions the project requires before installing anything. This is the first part of a two-part series, with the second part covering troubleshooting common .NET MAUI setup issues on macOS.
Dozens of people suspected of illegal mining have died while in custody in Nigeria. Authorities attributed the deaths to disease, but this explanation has been called into question. Both intelligence reports and relatives of the deceased have disputed the official account. The conflicting claims have raised concerns about the treatment of detainees in Nigerian custody.
A technology director writing for DEV Community describes how centralised IT budgeting led to unchecked spending, as departments had no visibility into the costs they were generating. To address this, the organisation introduced a showback system last year, sending each department monthly statements of its technology consumption without transferring actual funds. Within six weeks of the first statements, around 300 premium licences were returned and non-production environments dropped by roughly half. One unintended consequence emerged when a department rejected a security tool to avoid the budget line, prompting leadership to move security-related costs back to a central overhead. Overall technology consumption fell by approximately 14%, and budget discussions shifted from central refusals to internal departmental prioritisation.
ZCode, a GLM-based AI coding agent, has been found to quietly upload users' Git history without explicit consent or clear disclosure. The issue was surfaced on Hacker News, where it gained attention from the developer community. Git history can contain sensitive information including credentials, internal project details, and proprietary code. The behavior raises serious privacy and security concerns for developers who use the tool. The findings were documented and published by Tokenstead.ai, though ZCode has not publicly responded to the allegations.
Anthropic has released a snapshot of how it measures frontier AI development across three areas: the share of research led by AI, internal agent oversight, and research compute allocation. As of August 2026, Claude led 26% of measured AI R&D work, with over 90% at least collaborative and none fully autonomous, using a six-level automation scale. On its primary internal research and engineering platform, roughly 30,000 agents ran simultaneously, with all actions passing through an online monitor before execution; out of over a billion decisions analyzed, just 0.002% were blocked. The offline monitoring process escalated approximately 50 high-priority transcripts per week to human review, though Anthropic notes these figures are specific to that platform and period and are not independently verified. The company's findings highlight that meaningful agent oversight requires structured metrics — such as coverage, review latency, and escalation rate — rather than simple activity logs or a binary 'monitoring enabled' flag.
Cryptocurrency markets staged a broad recovery as post-Federal Reserve rate hike anxiety eased. Layer-2 blockchain tokens Starknet and Arbitrum were among the top performers, each gaining over 17%. The rally was widespread, with 98 out of 100 tokens in the CoinDesk 100 index recording gains. Adding to the positive sentiment, the 10-year US Treasury yield retreated to below the 5% mark, signaling reduced pressure on risk assets.
