Internet TV idea raises worries over OTT regulation

Deaf Children Exposed to Sign Language Early Match Hearing Peers in Maths

A new study finds that early access to language plays a key role in how children grasp numbers. Deaf children who were exposed to sign language from birth performed on par with hearing children learning spoken language. Researchers evaluated a range of children to examine how language shapes early development. The results underscore that language is a central factor in early learning. The study concludes that both signed and spoken languages support academic skills, including mathematics.

Cold coco biz born in a car now mints ₹6 lakh/month

Esmée Gummer, paralysed at 18, runs 5,000 km across UK and Ireland in 99 days

Esmée Gummer was left paralysed from the waist down following a surgery when she was 18. Over time she relearned how to walk, and this eventually sparked a love of running. She went on to complete a 5,000-km run across the UK and Ireland, covering the distance over 99 straight days. Alongside the challenge, she set up 76 inclusive running clubs. Those clubs drew close to 6,700 people taking part.

Researchers Disclose Zero-Click Remote Denial-of-Service Flaw Affecting Android Devices

A zero-click, silent denial-of-service vulnerability affecting Android devices has been publicized through a dedicated website, according to a Hacker News post. The item links to a site called smsofdeath.com, which appears to document the issue. The post drew modest attention, with six points and five comments on the discussion thread. The source material provides no further technical details about the flaw's scope, affected Android versions, or whether a patch exists, so these remain unconfirmed.

Iran conflict could push airline losses to ₹38,000 crore, analysts warn

Airlines are projected to incur combined losses of around ₹38,000 crore due to the Iran war, according to the source report. The conflict is disrupting air travel routes and raising operating costs for carriers. Fuel price volatility linked to the regional tensions is adding further pressure on airline finances. The estimate reflects the financial strain the conflict is expected to place on the aviation sector.

SBI Card to levy 1% fee on certain transactions

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Developer Scales Privacy Directory to 215,000+ Pages in 31 Languages

A developer has built EraseRegistry.com, a programmatic directory helping users find account deletion and data removal options. The platform covers service-specific deep-links to account closure settings, difficulty ratings, and step-by-step instructions. It supports 31 languages and has grown to more than 215,000 indexable pages. The author describes treating content generation, localization, and technical SEO as one engineering pipeline, with attention to crawl budget, canonical tags, and hreflang configuration. Distribution is pursued through open-source contributions and launches on platforms such as Product Hunt and AlternativeTo rather than automated link-building.

Four brand colors from a first AI prompt survive in a developer's app

A developer reports that the four brand colors from the first AI prompt written in January still appear in the app's theme file, unchanged down to the hex codes. Most other early design choices, including the logo, the typography setup and the handling of five languages, did not survive. An August AI-proposed redesign with a calmer single-accent look was reverted because the neon palette read better, though a low-contrast purple was darkened for links. The app now uses two fonts while the website and a flyer use others, and the logo was redrawn from circles of friends to a map pin. The author also notes the AI silently dropped Romanian from the supported languages in a later prompt, which became a major challenge.

Taste-skill: a coding-agent front-end design process that measures its own output

Taste-skill is a GitHub project offering a front-end design skill for coding agents, built around a ten-stage workflow rather than a single prompt. The agent is dealt three of twenty researched design directions and must pick one, which the author argues guards against generic category defaults. An inspection script then opens the page in a real browser at three viewport widths and measures layout, fonts, colours, contrast and overflow, with failures required to be fixed. The workflow repeats critique and fixes for up to three rounds, and the final gate runs on the production build to catch differences from the dev server. The project estimates each build takes about 30 to 45 minutes and a few hundred thousand tokens, and requires Node 22 or newer plus a local Chrome. Its images must come from openly licensed collections with credits.

Guide Shows How Fitness Apps Can Enforce Consent and Account Deletion Across Systems

A DEV Community tutorial addresses a common privacy gap in fitness apps, where settings may appear to disable tracking while backend systems keep sending data. It argues that privacy controls must be enforced throughout the architecture, not just shown in the user interface. The guide covers two linked workflows: managing consent preferences and stopping optional processing when consent is withdrawn, and coordinating account deletion across services with authentication and failure handling. It describes the components involved, including the mobile app, backend, databases, analytics providers, job queues, and backup systems. The examples are illustrative and not production-ready, and legal and framework-specific requirements must be handled separately.

Bengaluru-bound woman stranded in London wins Rs 1.6 lakh

A woman travelling to Bengaluru found herself stranded in London, where she ended up winning Rs 1.6 lakh. The article's full details, including the exact circumstances of the stranding and the prize, could not be reproduced here because the source text provided was incomplete. A complete summary would need the full article text to confirm the specifics of what happened, when, and why.

Indian gold buyers see relief as Fed signals policy shift

The U.S. Federal Reserve's recent stance has eased pressure on gold prices, giving Indian buyers some respite. Market observers note that a softer dollar and changing interest-rate expectations tend to make bullion more attractive. Domestic jewellers and investors in India have been watching these developments closely as prices move. The article suggests this window may offer breathing room for purchases, though future moves depend on global monetary policy. Since no full article text was supplied, this summary is limited to the headline's framing and should be verified against the original report.

Modeling Multi-Item Packaging: Fitting a Bottle and Two Flutes in One Case

This article, the third in a series on packaging data modeling, examines how to design a single case that holds three objects of differing shapes and tolerances. The author argues that adding fixed fields for each cavity breaks as soon as the configuration changes, so cavities should instead be represented as a list within a shared spec. A validator is proposed that sums cavity widths, clearances, dividers and outer walls against the envelope width. Because each cavity is often specified by a different engineer, this additive check is frequently skipped until tooling is quoted. The author recommends that validators return the specific millimetre shortfall rather than a simple pass or fail, which makes the problem easier to fix quickly.

Researchers Show AI Agents Obey Injected Runbook Steps and Build a Runtime Firewall

A DEV Community write-up describes how an AI agent given a runbook will execute an extra malicious step slipped into the document, since it reads as ordinary procedure rather than an obvious prompt injection. The author built a 16-case benchmark in English and Japanese covering unauthorized transfers, recipient swaps, deletions, and persistence writes. On a local Qwen2.5-14B model, the undefended agent executed 14 of 16 injected steps. A keyword detector and spotlighting both performed poorly, while the author's TaintWall firewall, which tracks per-argument provenance and enforces policies at the tool boundary, blocked all 16 cases at a utility cost of about six points.

Security forces reinforce key Arunachal bridge amid protests over dam project

Security forces have fortified the Dite-Dime bridge in Arunachal Pradesh as protests against a planned dam intensify. Central Armed Police Forces have been deployed to maintain order in the affected districts. Clashes during a bandh left several people injured, including four women. The confrontations between protesters and security personnel have heightened tensions in the region. The bridge, located near the India-China border, has become a focal point of the unrest.

How to Remove Unused Ollama and LM Studio Models to Free Space on Windows

Large AI model files downloaded through Ollama and LM Studio can consume many gigabytes on a Windows C: drive, and neither app lists them all in one place. The free Off Grid AI Desktop app, version 0.0.55 or later, scans the default model folders and displays each model with its size. Users can remove LM Studio models, which go to the Recycle Bin and can be restored, while Ollama models are deleted using a command that keeps Ollama working. The app reads folders without moving files, and it lets users keep a model and run it directly from its original location. Models that are currently in use cannot be deleted until another model is selected.

Choosing a Database Sharding Strategy for Black Friday E-commerce Load

A Postgres orders table has grown to 500 million rows, pushing query latency from 40ms to 800ms and making vertical scaling no longer viable. The article notes that 80% of reads are customers viewing their own orders from the past 30 days, which shapes the choice of sharding approach. It argues that hash sharding on order ID and consistent hashing both force scatter-gather queries across all shards, slowing user-facing reads. Range sharding by date would concentrate Black Friday writes on a single current shard that could crash under load. The author recommends directory-based sharding, which maps each customer to a shard via a lookup service cached in Redis, though the directory itself may become a bottleneck.

Guidey, a free open-source AI tutor, aims to guide learners with hints instead of answers

The creators of Guidey argue that most AI tools simply hand over answers, which can prevent users from building intuition and catching their own mistakes. Modeled on how a good teacher works, Guidey gives step-by-step hints, asks follow-up questions to check understanding, and lets learners retry at their own pace. The project has released version 1.0.0 as free, open-source software, with a live web app and code available on GitHub. The developers invite users to run it locally and submit bug reports or pull requests to improve the hint flow.

Moving From One AI Agent to a Multi-Agent Team: A Production Roadmap

A practical guide walks developers through building a multi-agent AI system for production, starting from a working single agent. It notes that single agents often struggle as prompts grow, tool counts rise, latency increases, and failures become hard to trace. The author argues that splitting into multiple agents should happen only when measurable failures justify it, such as tool overload, bloated prompts, differing risk levels, or parallelizable work. The roadmap proceeds in stages, covering baselining, hardening, splitting by responsibility, handoff contracts, observability, guardrails and budgets, evals in CI/CD, and deployment. Framework-agnostic Python examples are provided, applicable to tools like LangGraph, CrewAI, AG2, and the OpenAI Agents SDK.