California appeals court upholds couple's garden rights in 1955 land dispute

A California couple who bought their home in 2019 became embroiled in a legal dispute after a neighbour asserted ownership of a 20-by-20-foot garden they considered part of their property. The disagreement hinged on a 1955 arrangement that involved a $250 payment, babysitting services and access rights to the land. On Monday, a California appeals court ruled in favour of the couple, confirming their exclusive right to use the garden.

Delhi post record 262 for 6 to set new high total in domestic women's T20s

Delhi have set a new record for the highest team total in domestic women's T20 cricket. They posted 262 for 6 in their innings. This surpassed the previous mark of 257 for 2 set by Goa in the 2019-20 season. The achievement marks a notable milestone in the history of the domestic women's T20 competition.

India is using wonder kid to its own advantage

Hackers expose records of 41,000 employees in breach of Trump's DHS

Hackers breached systems of the Department of Homeland Security, exposing personal records of roughly 41,000 employees. The incident was reported by the Times of India, which described it as affecting the agency under the Trump administration. The compromised information reportedly covers DHS staff, raising concerns about the security of sensitive government data. Details on the timing, method of intrusion, and full scope of the exposed data were not confirmed in the report available here.

Amazon layoffs: What they mean for employees

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.