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ProgrammingDEV Community ·

Google AI Studio Now Lets You Build and Deploy Full-Stack Apps With a Text Prompt

Google AI Studio's Build mode allows users to create full-stack web and native Android apps entirely through natural language prompts, without installing any local tools or SDKs. The platform generates a React and Node.js web app with Firebase integration, deployable to Google Cloud Run in one click, alongside production-quality Kotlin Android apps built with Jetpack Compose. A tutorial published on DEV Community walks developers through building a Task Manager app featuring Google authentication, a Firestore database, and Gemini-powered AI suggestions. Android apps can be previewed in an in-browser emulator and published directly to the Google Play Store via a developer account. Google is offering the first two Cloud deployments free of charge, requiring only a Google account and a browser to get started.

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IndiaNDTV ·

ED Attaches Rs 53 Crore Assets of Former Assam Police DIG in Graft Case

The Enforcement Directorate has attached assets worth Rs 53 crore belonging to former Assam Police Deputy Inspector General Prashanta Kumar Dutta. The action is part of a crackdown on alleged corruption linked to the retired senior officer. Dutta is facing charges in a disproportionate assets case, meaning his known income is alleged to be far less than his accumulated wealth. The ED's move marks a significant step in the ongoing investigation into financial misconduct by the former top cop.

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ProgrammingDEV Community ·

Developers Can Send iMessages via REST API Using Python and Node.js

Apple has never released a public iMessage API, leaving developers without an official way to send iMessages programmatically from servers or applications. Workarounds like AppleScript and osascript exist but are limited to local Mac environments and are unreliable at scale. Third-party hosted services such as Blooio now offer REST APIs that handle the Apple-side infrastructure and expose standard HTTP endpoints for sending and receiving iMessages. Developers can authenticate using a Bearer token and make a single POST request to dispatch messages, with support for Python, Node.js, and curl. This approach enables use cases like CRM integrations, bots, and outbound notifications while delivering messages as blue-bubble iMessages rather than SMS fallbacks.

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IndiaNDTV ·

Kerala Police Bust Drug Ring, Woman Found Concealing Narcotics on Her Body

Kerala Police uncovered a drug smuggling operation during a routine vehicle check at Vaniyampara in Thrissur district. Officers stopped a Swift car that was travelling from a resort in Palakkad toward Thrissur. During the inspection, a woman was found concealing drugs on her person, leading to further arrests. In total, seven individuals were taken into custody in connection with the case.

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ProgrammingDEV Community ·

ARK Trust Open-Sources Tools to Cut AI Agent Failure Rates by Over 75%

A reliability analysis of 250 AI agent test cases found that roughly 34% of failures stemmed from cascading errors caused by a single bad tool call polluting subsequent reasoning steps. Researchers identified three root causes: non-deterministic tool selection by LLMs, error propagation chains, and context window attention degradation during long multi-step tasks. To address these, ARK Trust developed three protective modules — an idempotency guard for tool calls, a circuit breaker for consecutive failures, and a lightweight intent predictor to catch constraint violations before execution. The circuit breaker alone reduced cascade failure rates from 34% to 7% in internal testing. The core modules are now open-sourced and can be integrated into LangGraph, CrewAI, or AutoGen projects, with a paid Pro tier offering dashboards, step-by-step replay, and private deployment.

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ProgrammingDEV Community ·

csh Shell Incompatibility Bug Fixed Across SSH Codebase With Unified Helper

A user reported that WordPress auto-detect via SSH always failed while the WP-CLI path test on the same connection succeeded, pointing to an asymmetric bug. Investigation revealed the root cause was csh, the default login shell on some hosts like Sakura Internet, which cannot interpret Bash/POSIX idioms such as 2>/dev/null passed through Python's paramiko SSH library. An earlier fix had wrapped commands in /bin/sh -c for one endpoint only, leaving all other SSH-command APIs still broken on csh hosts. Developers resolved this by introducing a _safe_run helper function that automatically wraps every SSH command in /bin/sh -c, ensuring POSIX shell interpretation regardless of the user's login shell. A static analysis test was also added to the codebase to prevent raw SSH command calls from being introduced again in the future.

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ProgrammingDEV Community ·

Developer Builds Aegis Pulse to Automate GitHub Analytics Tracking for OSS Projects

A developer behind the open-source tool Aegis Stack publicly launched the project on Reddit on December 3rd and began manually tracking GitHub clone metrics daily due to the platform's 14-day rolling data window. To extract insights, they routinely pasted the collected data into three separate AI chats — ChatGPT, Claude Opus, and Google Gemini — preloaded with project context. Over time, growing context sizes caused the AI chats to lose coherence, forcing repeated and time-consuming chat migrations. This frustration ultimately led the developer to automate the entire workflow, giving rise to Aegis Pulse. Aegis Pulse is a free, no-signup tool that provides real human-versus-bot download analytics for open-source packages.

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ProgrammingDEV Community ·

Mobile-Originated iMessage 2FA Could Eliminate SMS Pumping Fraud and Cut Costs

SMS pumping, also known as Artificially Inflated Traffic fraud, is a scheme where bad actors submit thousands of phone numbers to a company's verification endpoint, triggering paid SMS codes that generate revenue for fraudsters through carrier termination fees. The scam exploits the fact that companies pay for every outgoing one-time password, creating a direct financial incentive for abuse at scale. Elon Musk cited this fraud as costing Twitter approximately $60 million per year before the platform removed free SMS two-factor authentication, with around 390 telecom operators allegedly implicated. A proposed alternative flips the model: instead of companies sending codes to users, users send a pre-filled one-time code from their own iMessage to the service, eliminating any outbound per-message cost that fraudsters could exploit. Because the message originates from the user's Apple ID over end-to-end-encrypted iMessage, the approach is also more resistant to spoofing than traditional SMS-based verification.

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IndiaTimes of India ·

Kentucky Floods Kill 4, Governor Declares Emergency as Rescue Operations Ramp Up

At least four people have died as severe flooding struck the state of Kentucky in the United States. The disaster has submerged homes and caused significant damage to local infrastructure. Governor Andy Beshear has declared a state of emergency in response to the crisis. Rescue teams have been deployed across affected areas as continuous rainfall threatens to worsen the situation. Authorities are urging residents to prioritize their safety amid the ongoing emergency.

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IndiaTimes of India ·

6.1-Magnitude Earthquake Strikes Japan's Iwate Coast, No Tsunami Warning Issued

A 6.1-magnitude earthquake struck the coast of Iwate Prefecture in Japan early Sunday morning. The tremor follows a series of recent seismic events in the same region, including a previously recorded stronger quake. No tsunami warning was issued and no immediate damage was reported following the latest incident. Authorities have urged residents to stay alert given the persistent seismic activity in the area. Officials also flagged concerns about potential landslides as the region heads into typhoon season.

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IndiaTimes of India ·

Gaurav Khanna and Akanksha Chamola confirm mutual divorce after one year apart

Television actors Gaurav Khanna and Akanksha Chamola are set to divorce after being separated for approximately a year. Akanksha publicly disclosed the development on the reality show Lock Upp 2, describing the split as mutual and amicable. She attributed the decision to differing life goals between the two. Following the announcement, old interview clips of Gaurav discussing Akanksha's choice not to have children have resurfaced online, drawing renewed attention to the couple's differences.

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ProgrammingDEV Community ·

Free CLI Tool Validates Shopify Product CSVs Before Import to Catch Silent Errors

A command-line tool called Shopify CSV Preflight Validator allows merchants and developers to check product CSV files for errors before uploading them to Shopify. The tool runs locally without requiring any login or third-party data upload, scanning for common issues such as UTF-8 BOM characters, incorrect header casing, missing parent handles, duplicate handles, and invalid pricing. It produces three outputs: a corrected CSV file, a machine-readable errors list, and a human-readable markdown report. Two categories of unambiguous errors — BOM at file start and header case mismatches — are automatically fixed, while all other issues are flagged for the user to resolve manually. The tool is aimed at solo merchants handling bulk product updates as well as agencies managing client store imports.

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ProgrammingDEV Community ·

How to Migrate an On-Premises Database to the Cloud Without Downtime

Migrating an on-premises database to the cloud involves navigating infrastructure, budget, and application uptime challenges simultaneously. Cloud-managed database services from providers like AWS, Google Cloud, and Azure offer built-in replication, automated failover, and point-in-time recovery, reducing operational burden significantly. However, skipping a pre-migration assessment — covering data volume, schema complexity, application dependencies, and compliance — is cited as the most common and costly mistake teams make. Schema incompatibilities, hardcoded IP addresses, and connection string updates across multiple applications can extend a two-day migration into weeks. Three main migration approaches exist — lift-and-shift, heterogeneous migration, and phased cutover — each carrying a distinct risk profile that organizations must evaluate before proceeding.

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IndiaTimes of India ·

Murdered Indore businessman's mother slams bail granted to daughter-in-law

The mother of slain Indore businessman Raja Raghuvanshi has spoken out against the bail granted to his accused daughter-in-law, Sonam Goyal. She drew parallels between Sonam's case and a separate recent alleged murder, calling the newer accused a 'younger version' of Sonam. The grieving mother expressed deep anguish over the judicial development, warning that granting bail sends a dangerous precedent to society. She urged authorities to ensure swift and strict justice in her son's case.

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IndiaTimes of India ·

Indian Army Agniveer 2026 Merit List Expected in First Week of July

The Indian Army is set to release the Agniveer 2026 final merit list in the first week of July. The list will cover candidates who appeared in the Phase 2 Common Entrance Examination conducted between June 1 and 12. ARO-wise selection lists will be published on the official army recruitment portal. Shortlisted candidates will be required to undergo document verification and medical examinations before receiving joining instructions. Training for successfully selected recruits is anticipated to commence later in July 2026.

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ProgrammingDEV Community ·

How TeamLab's Interactive Flower Fields Work — And How to DIY One for $10

TeamLab's immersive installations, such as the 'Forest of Resonating Lamps' and 'Flowers and People' in Tokyo, create the illusion of living spaces by detecting visitor positions using infrared sensors or depth cameras like Kinect. The key to their magic lies not in instant triggers but in gradual intensity changes — lights fade in over 0.5 seconds and dim out over 2 seconds — making technology feel like biology. Each installation typically deploys 100 to 500 independent elements that each calculate their own distance from a visitor and respond at slightly different speeds, producing the perception of a single breathing organism. A basic version of this effect can be replicated at home using an Arduino Uno, an HC-SR04 ultrasonic sensor, and three LEDs for roughly 300 New Taiwan dollars, all available online. The article argues that TeamLab's true barrier to entry is not technical complexity but the discipline of hiding technology behind aesthetics.

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IndiaNDTV ·

Punjab Power Crisis Puts AAP Government Under Pressure Before Assembly Polls

The AAP-led Punjab government is facing growing criticism over an ongoing power crisis in the state. Farmers are among the worst affected, as they depend on a steady electricity supply to run tubewells essential for irrigation. The disruption poses a serious threat to Punjab's agriculture-driven economy. With assembly elections approaching, the power shortage has become a key political flashpoint for the ruling party.

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ProgrammingDEV Community ·

Build a Breathing Particle Background with p5.js Using Minimal Code

A tutorial published on DEV Community walks beginners through creating an interactive particle animation using the p5.js JavaScript library, requiring no prior programming background. The guide teaches readers to animate particles with a breathing rhythm using the sin() function, detect mouse proximity with dist(), and produce smooth movement using lerp(). Particles gently scatter when the mouse approaches and gradually drift back to their original positions, creating an organic, immersive feel. The tutorial also covers visual polish techniques such as warm color palettes, transparency, and motion trails achieved by layering semi-transparent backgrounds instead of clearing the canvas each frame. Readers are encouraged to experiment with parameters like particle count, repulsion radius, and return speed, and are given extension ideas such as arranging particles into letter shapes or animating them into a pulsing ring.

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