How EC2, S3, RDS, and Lambda Work Together to Build a Real AWS App

A developer tutorial on DEV Community argues that AWS becomes intuitive only when its core services are learned together through a practical use case, rather than studied in isolation. The article uses a simple job portal as a working example to show how EC2 hosts the backend application, RDS stores structured data like user accounts and job listings, and S3 handles file uploads such as resumes. Lambda is introduced as an event-driven layer that can automatically trigger actions, such as processing a resume the moment it is uploaded to S3. The piece frames each AWS service as a solution to a specific architectural problem, making the platform's design logic easier to grasp for beginners.

Algeria Wildfires Kill 12, Leave Dozens Injured Amid Summer Blazes

Wildfires in northern Algeria have killed at least 12 people and injured dozens more. The fires broke out during the summer season, when such blazes are a recurring phenomenon in the region. Climate change is believed to be worsening the situation by driving more frequent droughts and extreme heat conditions. The intensifying climate patterns are making these seasonal fires increasingly destructive and harder to contain.

Flash floods on Nepal-Tibet border kill at least 160 people

Devastating flash floods have struck the Nepal-Tibet border region, killing at least 160 people. Rescue teams are facing significant challenges in reaching the affected disaster zone. Survivors have been pulled from mud as emergency response efforts continue. The scale of the disaster has made access difficult, hampering relief operations in the remote area.

Bill Gates Warns AI Era Among Most Turbulent Periods in Human History

Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates has issued a stark warning about the rapid advancement of artificial intelligence, describing it as either the greatest equaliser or the worst source of injustice. He stated that the transition into the AI era will be one of the most turbulent periods humanity has ever faced. Gates expressed concern that no credible plan currently exists to manage this technological shift. His remarks highlight the urgent need for structured global governance around AI development and deployment.

Elastic Boosts SOC Alert Triage Accuracy from 60% to 92% with Agentic AI

Elastic's InfoSec team has overhauled its Security Operations Center by deploying an agentic AI pipeline built on Elastic Workflows and Agent Builder. The system enriches AI decision-making with historical case data, internal investigation guides, and user risk signals from Workday, rather than relying on raw alert data alone. Three specialized agents — Pattern Finder, L1 Investigation, and Summarizer — work in sequence to analyze alerts, conduct targeted queries, and deliver formatted reports to Slack and Kibana. This architecture reduced triage inaccuracies significantly, lifting accuracy from 60% to 92% while cutting token costs and improving processing speed. Analysts can now close many cases with a single click, supported by a transparent feedback loop that enables continuous model improvement.

India's Urban Infrastructure Fails to Prevent Monsoon Flooding and Chaos

Indian cities continue to experience severe flooding and traffic disruptions during the monsoon season, despite years of major road construction and infrastructure expansion. Overwhelmed drainage systems are unable to handle heavy rainfall, exposing a critical gap between surface development and underlying urban utilities. Even well-planned cities like Chandigarh are struggling with intense, short-duration rain events. Natural water channels and drainage networks have not kept pace with rapid urban growth. Experts suggest that improving drainage infrastructure and preserving natural water bodies are essential steps to address the recurring crisis.

Nepal Floods Devastate Rasuwa, Nuwakot and Dhading Districts

Severe flooding struck multiple districts in Nepal, including Rasuwa, Nuwakot, and Dhading. The floodwaters surged downstream within minutes, overwhelming settlements in the affected areas. Eyewitnesses described the disaster as sudden and catastrophic, with families separated in seconds. The rapid onset of the floods left residents with little time to react or evacuate.

UK GDPR Technical Compliance: What Developers Must Know Ahead of 2026

ICO enforcement actions against UK organisations surged in 2024 and 2025, resulting in fines exceeding £12 million, largely targeting failures in technical security controls. UK GDPR, retained post-Brexit under the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018, requires developers to implement measures including encryption, pseudonymisation, access controls, and documented breach detection under Article 32. Common developer mistakes driving regulatory exposure include logging personally identifiable information in debug output, using soft deletes instead of hard deletes for right-to-erasure compliance, and neglecting Data Processing Agreements with third-party services. Data minimisation must be treated as a design-level decision, meaning fields should only be collected if there is a documented and justified reason to do so. Technically, EU GDPR and UK GDPR requirements are identical, though they diverge on administrative matters such as transfer mechanisms and the supervisory authority, which in the UK is the ICO rather than an EU national body.

UK Energy Regulator Battles Speculative Data Centers Clogging Power Grid

The UK's energy regulator is taking active measures to prevent speculative data center projects from securing grid connections they may never use. These phantom projects are occupying capacity on the national power grid, blocking genuine infrastructure development. The issue has become a significant concern as unused reservations create bottlenecks across the country's electricity network. The situation carries broader implications for the UK's ambitions in artificial intelligence, which depend heavily on reliable and accessible data center capacity.

India and Nepal Share Narayani-Gandak River and Its Flood Risks

The Narayani and Gandak are two names for the same river, which originates in Nepal before flowing into India. Known as the Narayani in Nepal, the river takes on the name Gandak once it crosses into Indian territory. The shared waterway links the two neighboring countries both geographically and hydrologically. Along with its waters, the river also carries shared flood risks that affect communities on both sides of the border.

US Army Chief Fired After Resisting Order to Stop Kid Rock Helicopter Probe

A top US Army general was reportedly asked to halt an ongoing investigation into a low-flying military helicopter incident involving musician Kid Rock. General Randy George allegedly pushed back, insisting the Army should be allowed to complete its review of the incident. He was subsequently fired by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. The dismissal has drawn attention to potential political interference in a military investigation. The details of the original helicopter incident and its connection to Kid Rock have not been fully disclosed.

SskCore Framework Separates Task Lifecycle from UI to Fix Android Background Work

SskCore is an Android platform framework designed to address a common architectural problem: long-running tasks such as downloads, exports, and syncs losing visibility once a user navigates away from the screen that started them. The core design principle separates ownership of a task's lifecycle from its presentation, letting the platform manage when work is active, progressing, completed, or failed, while the app controls how that work is shown to users. Without such a shared model, developers tend to rebuild similar state management and progress UIs independently for each feature, leading to inconsistent behaviour across an application. SskCore aims to make any long-running operation understandable and actionable — including cancel and retry paths — throughout its full lifecycle, not just while the initiating screen is open. The framework targets real-world usage patterns where users switch screens, lose connectivity, or return to an app after extended interruptions.

How to Open and Debug SVG Files Directly in Any Modern Browser

Modern browsers like Chrome, Firefox, Edge, and Safari can render SVG files natively without any plugins, either by dragging the file onto a browser tab or using File > Open (Ctrl+O / Cmd+O). The browser parses the SVG's XML and renders all elements — including paths, text, filters, and animations — at full vector quality. However, SVGs opened via a local file:// URL may fail to load external resources such as linked fonts or images, since browsers apply stricter security rules to local files. Common rendering issues include missing viewBox or dimension attributes, JavaScript-dependent content, or an incorrect MIME type (image/svg+xml) when served from a server. Browser developer tools can be used to inspect and live-edit SVG markup, and online tools like SVG Lab offer an alternative for quick viewing and debugging without a local file.

Developer Builds Serverless Disposable Email Platform Using Cloudflare and Next.js 15

A developer has launched TTMAIL (trytempmail.co), a free temporary email platform built entirely on Cloudflare's edge infrastructure and Next.js 15. The platform uses Cloudflare D1 (edge SQLite), Cloudflare Pages Functions, and Cloudflare Email Routing to process and store incoming emails with sub-second latency. Unlike older disposable email services that rely on PHP/MySQL stacks, TTMAIL automatically strips tracking pixels and purges emails after 90 days for privacy. The platform also offers a public REST API, making it suitable for automated end-to-end testing in CI/CD pipelines using tools like Playwright or Cypress. The project was motivated by the developer's desire for a zero-maintenance, zero-cost alternative to ad-heavy or paywalled temporary email services.

EmailKnow uses one-way IP hashing to filter self-opens without storing personal data

EmailKnow developer identified a common tracking flaw where senders inflate their own open-rate stats by previewing sent emails. To fix this without storing raw IP addresses, the developer hashes the sender's IP using SHA-256 with a secret salt at send time. When a tracking pixel fires, the opener's IP is hashed the same way and compared against the stored value. A match flags the open as a self-open and excludes it from real open counts, while a non-match confirms a genuine recipient. The approach stores only a hash that cannot be reversed, answering a single yes-or-no question without retaining any personally identifiable location data.

Tanker Hit by Unknown Projectile, Catches Fire Near Strait of Hormuz

A tanker was struck by an unidentified projectile near the Strait of Hormuz, triggering a fire onboard, according to the UK Maritime Agency. The incident occurred in a waterway that has seen heightened tensions following US and Israeli military strikes against Iran in late February. The UK maritime authority described the object that caused the damage as an unknown projectile. The Strait of Hormuz, a critical global oil shipping lane, has faced significant disruption amid the ongoing regional conflict.

Senior Engineers Use Code Reviews to Question Design, Not Just Hunt Bugs

A widely discussed piece from the DEV Community argues that the highest-value code review skill is questioning whether a change belongs in a codebase at all, not merely whether it works correctly. Research from Microsoft found that only 14% of review comments address defects, while 29% focus on code improvements like readability and maintainability. A separate Microsoft study concluded that at least 50% of review feedback concerns long-term maintainability rather than bug detection. Google's analysis of nine million code changes similarly found that reviews primarily serve to transfer knowledge, uphold codebase integrity, and establish team norms. The article contends that senior reviewers add the most value by evaluating a change within its broader system context, catching structurally misplaced logic that may look correct in isolation.

When and How to Encode SVG as Base64: A Practical Developer Guide

Encoding an SVG to base64 converts its text content into a string safe for embedding in CSS, HTML, or JSON without breaking surrounding formats, though the output is roughly 33% larger than the original. In JavaScript, the built-in btoa() function handles the conversion in two lines, but requires an extra encoding step for SVGs containing non-Latin-1 characters such as emoji or Chinese text. A common use case is embedding SVGs as CSS background images to avoid separate file requests, though URL-encoding the SVG is often a better alternative since it compresses more efficiently with gzip. Developers working on macOS, Linux, or Windows can also encode SVG files directly from the command line using built-in tools. Inline SVG remains the most efficient option when embedding directly in HTML, and base64 encoding should only be used when raw SVG markup cannot be accepted by the target context.

Nepal Minister Praises PM Shah as Action-Oriented Leader at Kathmandu Summit

Nepal's minister addressed the NDTV World Anviksha Summit held in Kathmandu, where he spoke about Prime Minister Shah's leadership style. He described Shah as an action-oriented prime minister who prioritizes swift results from his cabinet. The remarks came amid ongoing flood conditions affecting Nepal. The summit provided a platform for the minister to highlight the current government's approach to governance and decision-making.

Railways has a plan to reduce congestion