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Cut Verizon Fiber Cable by Construction Crew Disrupts Hundreds of US Flights

Hundreds of flights were cancelled or delayed across the United States on Monday after construction workers in New Jersey accidentally severed a Verizon fiber cable critical to air traffic control. The FAA discovered the cut cable following a circuit failure, according to FAA Administrator Bryan Bedford. The disruption was most severe in the Northeast, with ground stops imposed at all three major New York City airports. Verizon distanced itself from the incident, stating it held no responsibility and attributing the damage to third-party construction contractors working in the area.

Developer Builds MCP Server to Track AI Quota Resets Across 15+ Products

A solo developer has built Reset Beer, a dashboard that aggregates quota reset signals from over 15 AI products including OpenAI Codex, Claude Pro, and Gemini Advanced. The tool addresses the lack of a unified API for tracking quota resets, which are currently scattered across multiple status pages and occur at unpredictable times. A Model Context Protocol (MCP) server integration allows Pro users to query reset events directly through AI assistants like Claude and Cursor using natural language. The MCP server is built as a Next.js API route implementing JSON-RPC 2.0 and exposes three tools for querying reset events, product status, and tracked product listings. The project is available with a free tier and a one-time $9.99 Pro lifetime plan, and was built using Next.js 15, Neon Postgres, and Vercel.

Taylor Swift to receive MTV VMAs' inaugural Artist-Director Award

Taylor Swift has been named the first-ever recipient of the newly created Artist-Director Award at the MTV Video Music Awards. The honor recognizes musicians who have made significant contributions to music video production through their work behind the camera. This marks a milestone for Swift, who becomes the inaugural winner of the category. The award will be presented at this year's MTV VMA ceremony.

FortiGate Central NAT Must Be Configured Before Building Firewall Policies

When migrating firewall policies to FortiGate from Cisco ASA or Palo Alto, administrators must decide between central NAT and per-policy NAT before writing any rules, as FortiOS does not allow switching modes once policies referencing VIPs or IP pools exist. Per-policy NAT is the FortiGate default, but it poorly mirrors the separate NAT table structure used by ASA and PAN-OS, often requiring duplicate translation entries across many policies. Central NAT more closely replicates the source architecture, using a single ordered SNAT and DNAT table independent of firewall allow/deny rules. Attempting to enable central NAT on a box with existing VIP or IP pool references will fail with an error, forcing administrators to dereference every such object before the mode toggle is accepted. Additionally, central NAT changes how destination addresses must be written in policies — rules must reference the internal mapped address rather than the public VIP address, a distinction that can cause hard-to-diagnose failures during cutover.

Apple Store Creator Ron Johnson Skeptical of AI's Role in Retail Shopping

Ron Johnson, the architect behind Apple's iconic retail stores, has expressed doubt about Silicon Valley's growing confidence in AI-driven shopping experiences. Johnson believes that the true strength of Apple's retail success was never technology alone, but rather its people and human connection. His comments come as major tech companies increasingly bet on artificial intelligence to transform the future of retail. Johnson's perspective offers a contrarian view to the prevailing industry narrative that AI will redefine how consumers shop.

rekuiper 0.500 moves metadata to RAM, hits 200k msg/s on single core at edge

The rekuiper project, a Rust-based reimplementation of LF Edge eKuiper for IoT edge gateways, has released version 0.500-beta with a major architectural overhaul. Earlier benchmarks showed the engine handling 100,000 messages per second on a single CPU core, but performance degraded at 200,000 msg/s, leaving the true throughput ceiling unknown. Profiling revealed the bottleneck was disk I/O — specifically SQLite metadata lookups and flash storage stalls on embedded devices like industrial gateways — rather than CPU or parsing logic. To fix this, developers rebuilt the engine's internal catalog as an in-memory structure, hydrating all stream and rule metadata from SQLite once at startup and serving subsequent reads entirely from RAM with no filesystem calls. Hierarchical benchmarking at 1,000 msg/s resolution then allowed the team to identify the exact single-core physical throughput limits across multiple real-world MQTT workloads, reaching up to 200,000 messages per second.

India reopens 2020 death case of Bollywood manager Disha Salian

Indian authorities have reopened the 2020 death case of Disha Salian, a celebrity manager in the Bollywood entertainment industry. Salian died in 2020 under circumstances that were initially treated as a suicide or accidental death. Her father has disputed the official account, alleging that his daughter was gang-raped and murdered. The case has attracted renewed public and legal attention following his persistent claims. The reopening signals that investigators are taking a fresh look at the evidence surrounding her death.

Jaishankar Holds Talks on Ukraine, Gulf Crisis and UN Reform at UN Meet

Indian External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar engaged in diplomatic discussions on the sidelines of the United Nations. The talks covered pressing regional and global concerns, with a particular focus on the ongoing conflicts in Ukraine and the Gulf region. Jaishankar also exchanged views with foreign ministers on key multilateral matters. A significant topic of discussion was the long-debated reform of the United Nations Security Council.

Developer Builds Zero-Dependency Node.js Tool to Block Secrets Before Git Commits

A developer has released Secret-Scrub, an open-source Node.js CLI tool designed to prevent accidental exposure of API keys and credentials in Git repositories. The tool uses two detection layers: regex-based signature matching for known token formats such as AWS, GitHub, Stripe, and OpenAI keys, and Shannon entropy analysis to catch high-randomness strings without vendor prefixes. It integrates directly as a Git pre-commit hook, automatically blocking any commit that contains a suspected secret before it can be pushed. A staged-only scan mode limits checks to files currently queued for commit, completing the process in under 40 milliseconds to minimise disruption to developer workflows. Secret-Scrub is available on GitHub under the MIT licence and can be installed via a single npx command.

QuickShare-QR lets developers transfer files to phones via terminal QR codes

A developer has built QuickShare-QR, an open-source Node.js CLI tool that enables instant local file transfers from a computer to a smartphone without cloud services. The tool spins up a temporary HTTP server on the local network, generates a scannable ASCII QR code in the terminal, and begins streaming the file as soon as the phone's camera scans it. Files never leave the local Wi-Fi network, with transfer speeds reaching up to 80 MB/s depending on bandwidth. Security features include path confinement against directory traversal attacks, dynamic ephemeral ports, and optional single-use tokens to restrict download access. The tool requires no permanent installation and can be run directly via npx, with the server automatically shutting down once the transfer completes.

Git Community Eyes Version 2.56 Features and Plans for Major 3.0 Release

The open-source Git version control system has upcoming releases generating discussion in the developer community. Version 2.56 is anticipated to bring incremental improvements to the widely used tool. Beyond that, developers are also looking ahead to a potential Git 3.0, which would mark a significant major release milestone. The topic has been covered by LWN.net and is drawing early commentary from contributors and users. No official release dates have been confirmed at this stage.

Amazon pledges $20M for Colorado River conservation amid data center water scrutiny

Amazon has announced a $20 million investment in water conservation projects along the Colorado River, a vital water source for 40 million people in the western United States. The initiative, launched under a new Colorado River Basin Collaborative, comes as tech companies face growing pressure over the water consumption of their data centers. Amazon has set a goal to become 'water positive' — replenishing more water than it consumes — by the end of the decade. The company has recently shared some data on its water usage, but critics say the disclosure remains incomplete. The full scope of Amazon's water footprint across its operations is still not publicly known.

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Google Expands Gemini Notebook With Code Execution and Cross-Ecosystem Sync

Google rebranded NotebookLM as Gemini Notebook in July 2026 and announced expanded capabilities including notebook code execution and cross-ecosystem syncing. A separate September 2026 update introduced Notebooks in Gemini as a dedicated workspace for schools and organisations. While Google's Studio materials reference generated artifacts and allow users to select them within the Studio panel, no official documentation confirms a redesign or reorganisation of an artifacts tab. Google has not published a rollout timeline or feature details for any such change, making it premature for teams to plan around it. The confirmed story remains Gemini Notebook's broader evolution into a more connected, cross-ecosystem workspace.

Developer Builds HashDup, a Memory-Safe Duplicate File Finder CLI in Node.js

A developer has released HashDup, an open-source command-line tool built with native Node.js to find and report duplicate files on a system. The tool addresses two common problems with naive duplicate-detection scripts: wasted CPU and disk I/O from hashing every file, and out-of-memory crashes when loading large files into RAM. HashDup uses a two-phase pipeline that first filters files by size using lightweight metadata checks, discarding unique-sized files before any content is read, then applies chunked SHA-256 streaming hashes only to size-matched candidates. By processing files in 64KB buffers rather than loading them whole, the tool keeps memory usage constant at around 30MB regardless of file size. HashDup is available under the MIT license and can be run immediately via npx from the GitHub repository at github.com/mahdyarmonfared/hashdup-cli.