Goa circular for ‘drug-free zones’ near schools comes under Opposition fire: ‘Failure to protect state’s future’

Practical Container Security Checklist for Site Reliability Engineers

A site reliability engineer has published a practical container security checklist aimed at SREs, framing security breaches as a category of reliability incident. The guide covers minimizing attack surfaces through multi-stage Docker builds that reduce image sizes from hundreds of megabytes to around 50MB. It also recommends scanning images for vulnerabilities in CI pipelines, enforcing non-root execution, and applying strict Kubernetes security contexts and network policies. Proper secrets management using external vaults instead of hardcoded environment variables is highlighted as a critical practice. The checklist concludes with a weekly automated audit script to detect privileged containers, root-running workloads, and missing resource limits across Kubernetes clusters.

Trump Claims Historic Oil Deal Reached With Venezuela

US President Donald Trump has announced what he described as the biggest oil deal in world history with Venezuela. The announcement comes approximately nine months after the US military, acting on Trump's orders, conducted an operation aimed at capturing Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro. The operation had sought to bring Maduro to the United States. The deal marks a significant shift in relations between Washington and Caracas, given the backdrop of that earlier confrontational military action.

Hezbollah chief again rejects Lebanon-Israel deal

Tripura's West District to Launch Special Intensive Electoral Roll Revision on Sept 5

West Tripura is set to begin a Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of its electoral rolls starting September 5. The initiative aims to produce a clean, accurate, and updated voter register for the district. District Magistrate and Collector Vishal Kumar held a meeting with media representatives ahead of the exercise to outline its objectives. The consultation was intended to raise awareness and ensure smooth implementation of the revision process.

AI-Assisted SEO Drafting Risks Duplicate Pages If Published Without Human Review

SEO consultant Will Scott conducted a real-world test showing that Claude, when given execution authority, created new website pages by cloning existing homepage content rather than generating distinct material. The cloned URLs targeted new keywords but retained much of the original copy, leading to keyword cannibalization and pages that recorded zero impressions or clicks in search results. Microsoft's Bing has also been noted to group near-duplicate URLs, meaning cloned pages can complicate how AI systems interpret and present a site's content. The core finding is that AI tools are well-suited to accelerating SEO research and preparing drafts, but publishing pages or altering site structure should remain subject to human oversight. Without a human review step to verify unique intent and original copy, automated SEO tasks can multiply errors as efficiently as they multiply useful work.

Somali Piracy Surges With 13 Ships Attacked Since January

Somali piracy has seen a significant resurgence, with at least 13 ships attacked since the start of the year. Two vessels were seized within a four-day period last week alone, highlighting the accelerating pace of incidents. Analysts link the uptick to the broader ripple effects of the US-Iran conflict in the region. The escalating tensions appear to have created conditions that have emboldened Somali pirates to resume large-scale maritime attacks.

India's firm stance holds on IWT suspension

Sarfaraz Ahmed says Pakistan players unaware of PCB's reported Lord's Test threat

Pakistan head coach Sarfaraz Ahmed has broken his silence on the controversy surrounding a reported PCB threat during the Lord's Test against England. Ahmed stated that the players had no knowledge of any such threat, which allegedly emerged during the lunch break on the first day of the match. The controversy coincided with an interview featuring Imran Khan's sons discussing their father's situation. Despite the off-field turbulence, Pakistan's players returned to the field after lunch and the Test continued as scheduled. England ended the second day in a strong position.

How to integrate Chrome Built-in AI with Vercel AI SDK using @browser-ai/core

The @browser-ai/core library, maintained by Jakob Hoeg Mørk under the Vercel OSS Program since 2025, connects Chrome's built-in AI to the Vercel AI SDK across three local inference engines: Prompt API, Transformers.js, and WebLLM. Developers can run local large language models in the browser in roughly 30 lines of code using browserAI() with generateText or streamText, without any API keys or cloud hosting costs. The library handles edge cases such as unsupported browsers and mid-download model states, offering progress tracking via createSessionWithProgress to improve user experience during multi-gigabyte model downloads. The next-hybrid example template demonstrates advanced patterns including a custom ChatTransport for client-side chat, tool-calling with user approval dialogs, and seamless switching between local and cloud models. A real-world reference implementation, domainstack.io, further illustrates an auto-fallback architecture where the local model silently switches to a cloud API when hardware or browser support is unavailable.

Instinct AI Hits $2.5B Valuation in Weeks Despite No Revenue or User Data

Personal AI assistant Instinct, built by Reflexion paper author and former Sierra researcher Noah Shinn under Spear Street Technology, has surged from a $100 million valuation to $2.5 billion within weeks. The app, still in free invite-only beta with no disclosed revenue or user numbers, lets people manage everyday tasks by simply texting or calling it, with no new interface required. Funding rounds led by Kleiner Perkins, Benchmark, and Index Ventures have collectively raised around $350 million for the startup. Investors appear to be betting on Instinct becoming a dominant personal AI gateway, drawn by Shinn's deep expertise in AI agent self-correction rather than any obvious consumer-facing novelty. Analysts note the rapid valuation climb reflects speculative confidence in the technology's potential, not current commercial performance.

FM Sitharaman lands in US for G20 talks

Iceland votes on reopening EU membership talks in closely contested poll

Iceland held a vote on whether to restart negotiations for joining the European Union, with the outcome expected to be very close. The decision to hold the vote was brought forward due to turbulent developments in international affairs. However, the campaign debate largely centred on the future of Iceland's fishing industry, which is a cornerstone of the country's economy. EU membership could affect Iceland's control over its rich fishing waters, making the issue central to public concern. The result will determine whether Iceland formally reopens a path toward EU accession that has been dormant for years.

AI Coding Agent Fixed Real Bugs and Flagged Anomalies With No Task or Goal Given

A developer ran an autonomous coding agent three times with no assigned task — only a single period as input — to observe what it would do without direction or supervision. Over four months, the developer had built a harness with persistent memory, safety gates, and a shared run-record that each new agent process could read at startup. Across three sequential runs totaling 77 turns and $6.96 in API costs, the agent independently resolved a stale security alert, diagnosed and rewrote a subprocess-based health-check that failed under load, and verified its own fix in the next run. In the third run, the agent identified itself as an unplanned extra process based on the recorded plan and flagged the anomaly rather than proceeding normally. The experiment was designed to test emergent maintenance behavior in a structured harness, not blank-slate autonomy, with all actions logged externally and verified against actual commits.

23 missing, 18 of them NRIs: Gujarat families’ wait for a call from Nepal

No word from Thane couple on first trip to Nepal, kin await clarity

Trump unlocks 65 bn-barrel Venezuela oil jackpot

Developer ports Gemma 4 to pure JAX, exposes key GPU-TPU compatibility limits

A developer has built a pure JAX port of Google's Gemma 4 language model and tested it across Cloud TPU v5e, v6e, and an NVIDIA T4G GPU on AWS, aiming to verify how truly portable JAX code is across accelerators. The project found that Gemma 4's irregular architecture — including two attention head dimensions and a complex KV-cache sharing scheme — caused failures in other frameworks like vLLM but was handled cleanly by JAX's XLA compiler. One critical portability issue discovered was silent performance degradation: using bfloat16 on pre-Ampere NVIDIA GPUs causes XLA to silently emulate it via fp32, severely hurting decode speed without any error or warning. To address this, the port now automatically detects GPU compute capability at runtime and selects float16 on older Turing GPUs and bfloat16 on TPUs and newer GPUs. A second limitation involves the fused W4A16 Pallas kernel, which is tiled for TPU memory and does not directly translate to GPU hardware, representing a genuine architectural difference rather than a software bug.

Developer Guide: Running Google Gemma 4 on AWS G5g Using Pure JAX

A developer has published a step-by-step guide for deploying Google's Gemma 4 open model on AWS EC2 G5g instances using the JAX array computing library. The G5g instance pairs an AWS Graviton2 Arm processor with an NVIDIA T4G GPU, making it the cheapest EC2 option offering a full NVIDIA GPU at $0.42 per hour for the xlarge tier. The project targets the rare aarch64-plus-CUDA hardware combination, which is largely overlooked by the mainstream machine learning ecosystem. The setup uses a custom Gemma 4 JAX port served through an OpenAI-compatible FastAPI server, with all remote administration handled via AWS SSM rather than SSH. The guide requires an AWS account with appropriate quotas, a Hugging Face token for model access, and specific AWS networking resources before deployment can begin.

Developer Builds Real-Time AI Posture Monitor Using MediaPipe and Python

A developer has published a tutorial on DEV Community detailing how to build a real-time posture and RSI monitoring tool using Python, MediaPipe, and OpenCV. The tool uses a webcam feed to detect 33 body landmarks, focusing on the ears and shoulders to calculate neck angle as a proxy for slouching. When the measured neck inclination crosses a defined threshold, the system triggers a visual alert on screen. The tutorial also covers optionally wrapping the script into an Electron desktop app to deliver system notifications when poor posture is detected. The project aims to help developers protect their long-term health by maintaining better ergonomics during extended work sessions.