Sooryavanshi's comeback falls flat as he is dismissed for four in India's T20I loss to New Zealand

Vaibhav Sooryavanshi returned to India's starting lineup for the second T20I against New Zealand, replacing the injured Ishan Kishan. He struggled to make an impact, scoring only four runs off eight deliveries. He was caught out by Nathan Smith before he could settle in. New Zealand had posted a challenging total of 181, and his early exit added pressure to India's pursuit of the target.

Ukraine's Starlink and Starshield links recover to normal speeds

Ukraine's satellite communication services, Starlink and Starshield, have regained their operational speeds, reportedly above 400 km/h. The systems are vital for military communications, especially amid Russian attacks. Earlier disruptions had significantly weakened Ukraine's ability to detect threats and sustain logistics. Defence Minister Evhenii Khmara underscored how important the restored performance is for the country's military efforts.

Jamia Millia Islamia Protest Turns Violent as Classes Shift Online

Students at Jamia Millia Islamia clashed with guards during a protest on campus, according to reports. The demonstrators are demanding the restoration of the Jamia Millia Islamia Students' Union (JMISU). The union was disbanded in 2006 following campus violence that disrupted academic activities. In the wake of the clashes, classes have been moved online. The article provides no further details on casualties or the outcome of talks with the administration.

EU MP vows to ban Muslims from Poland if elected

Sidhi in Madhya Pradesh gets rail connectivity for the first time with 118 km of new track

Sidhi, a district in Madhya Pradesh, has gained train connectivity for the first time after 118 km of new railway sections were opened. The new lines bring rail service to a region that had previously been without it. The expansion is expected to improve access and mobility for residents of the district. Details in the original report describe the rail sections that were commissioned as part of this development.

Qubitunes Soundstage Toy Offered as a Screen-Free Gift Idea for Kids

WIRED highlights the Qubitunes Soundstage, a screen-free starter kit designed to give children audio-based play. The toy is aimed at kids aged 3 and up. The item is presented as a gift recommendation rather than a news event. The short article offers limited details beyond its target age group and screen-free design.

GitHub project explores unlocking FP/BF16 instruction issue rates on Nvidia RTX 3000 GPUs

A GitHub repository named gpu-unlock has been shared on Hacker News, drawing modest attention with 20 points and six comments. The project focuses on the floating-point and BF16 instruction issue rates of Nvidia's 3000-series graphics cards. The source material provided is limited to the repository link and discussion metadata, so the specific technical methods and findings are not described here. Readers interested in the details would need to consult the repository and the linked discussion thread directly.

President's Trophy final moved from Karachi to Lahore, now starting October 27

The President's Trophy final has been relocated once again, this time from Karachi to Lahore. The match will now be staged at the Bagh-e-Jinnah Park. It is set to begin on October 27, two days later than its original start date. The article describes this as another shift in the schedule for the tournament's final. The report does not give a detailed reason for the venue change.

How to Back Up Cyber Insurance Questionnaire Answers With Verifiable Evidence

A security consultant argues that cyber insurance questionnaire answers such as MFA coverage and EDR deployment should be backed by documented evidence rather than assumptions. The piece cites a 2022 case in which an insurer and a manufacturer agreed to rescind a policy after the insurer said MFA protected only the firewall, showing how unsupported answers can void coverage. It recommends using command-line exports and audits to find accounts lacking MFA, comparing EDR agents against asset inventories, checking email authentication records like DMARC, and keeping dated backup restore logs. The author suggests organizing evidence into dated folders starting about 90 days before policy renewal, and advises consulting a broker and coverage lawyer about rescission rules in one's state.

Why DMARC fails even when SPF and DKIM pass: the role of domain alignment

A common situation after moving a DMARC policy beyond p=none is a message where SPF and DKIM both pass yet DMARC still fails. DMARC requires that at least one of these checks passes for the same domain shown in the visible From: header, a requirement known as alignment. Relaxed alignment, the default, accepts subdomains that share the organisational domain, while strict mode demands an exact match. Third-party services such as invoicing tools, CRMs and newsletter platforms often sign with their own domains, which causes this failure, and enabling custom domain authentication with the vendor usually resolves it. Forwarding and DKIM selector or key rotation problems can also break alignment, so administrators should review DMARC aggregate reports regularly and ramp enforcement gradually.

Essay Admits Its Author Doesn't Understand Quantum Physics

A personal web page titled "I Don't Understand Quantum Physics" is hosted on a University of Southampton server and has drawn attention on Hacker News. The page's author candidly describes their struggle to grasp the subject rather than presenting it as an expert explainer. The article text available to this summary is limited, so its specific arguments and examples cannot be confirmed. The post has gathered 29 points and 12 comments from the Hacker News community, indicating moderate interest. Readers seeking the author's full reasoning should consult the original page directly.

Four Tests to Run Before Taking a Polymarket Trading Bot Live

A profitable backtest does not guarantee a trading bot will perform well in live markets, since flawed assumptions can inflate simulated results. The article recommends checking four areas, starting with whether the strategy relies only on information that was actually available at decision time, to avoid look-ahead bias. It also warns that historical prices may not reflect executable fills, so entry prices and order liquidity should be tested for sensitivity. Results should remain positive after accounting for fees and other trading costs, especially for strategies built on frequent small gains. Finally, the author advises validating the strategy on out-of-sample data kept separate from development to reduce the risk of overfitting.

How to Calculate Average Order Value from Shopify Orders via the Admin GraphQL API

A developer explains how to compute average order value (AOV) from Shopify data by pulling orders through the Admin GraphQL API and calculating it in Node.js. The approach requires a custom app with an access token and the read_orders scope, which by default covers only the last 60 days of orders. The guide filters out test and cancelled orders and uses current price fields so refunds are already reflected in the totals. It reports two figures, one including shipping and taxes and one based on product subtotals alone. The post notes that the author works on a Shopify cart app, which is mentioned only at the end.

Essay Proposes Hybrid Human-AI Civilization Beyond the AGI Framework

A new essay challenges the view that artificial general intelligence is just a step toward superintelligence, arguing that the field is missing key dimensions. The author introduces the idea of Artificial General Experience, which adds time, context, and memory to the assessment of AI. The piece contrasts human cognition, shaped by evolution and biological homeostasis, with the mathematical and computational basis of AI systems. Rather than comparing the two by their internal mechanisms, it urges focus on how they can functionally complement each other. The author concludes that AI's trajectory points toward a hybrid cognitive civilization, where the central challenges are making thought systems interoperable and protecting human cognitive sovereignty.

Author Details Version 3 of Their AI Coding Workflow Built on Reusable Skills

The author has reworked their AI coding workflow into a third version, moving every step into the helderberto/agent-skills repository. Earlier versions relied on a separate tool called TracerKit and on hand-written prompts, which required releases and manual updates across projects. The new setup turns each recurring step into a skill and each reminder into an automated check, so changing a step is a single commit. The workflow borrows the flow of Matt Pocock's skills and the engineering depth of Addy Osmani's agent-skills, trimmed down and placed under the /hb: namespace. A feature moves through commands for planning, building and shipping, while small fixes can skip straight to building.

ผู้เขียนเปรียบเทียบ framework SDD ทั้งสามค่าย ได้แก่ Superpowers, BMAD และ Spec Kitty

ผู้เขียนเปรียบเทียบ framework ที่ติดตั้งเป็นสกิลให้ AI agent เพื่อบังคับให้ทำงานเป็นขั้นตอนตามบทบาทและการรีวิว ได้แก่ Superpowers, BMAD และ Spec Kitty. Superpowers มีดาวสูงสุดและรองรับ host หลายค่าย แต่การถามตอบช่วงเริ่มต้นอาจช้าสำหรับงานเล็ก. BMAD ปรับขนาดตามงานและมีบทบาทสมมติหลายแบบ แต่รุ่น v7 ยังไม่พร้อมใช้ และป้ายใบอนุญาตบน GitHub แสดงผลไม่ตรงกับไฟล์ MIT จริง. Spec Kitty แยก worktree ให้แต่ละงานและมีประตูอนุมัติก่อน merge แต่มี issue ค้างจำนวนมากและยังเป็น release candidate. ผู้เขียนเตือนว่าทีมควรเลือกตามขนาดงานและกระบวนการเดิมที่มีอยู่

AI Agent Lockfiles Aim to Curb Silent Drift in Tools and Dependencies

An AI agent can change behavior even when its prompt and application code stay the same, because packages, tool servers, model aliases, or tool images may update underneath it. Standard package lockfiles cover only part of this, since agents also rely on models, prompts, tool servers, policy bundles, and retrieval configurations. The article recommends recording these as a single dependency graph in an AI agent dependency lockfile that captures both the requested selector and the resolved identity. Such a record does not make an agent safe, but it helps teams review changes, reproduce runs, and roll back problematic updates. Current public guidance on agent supply chains reportedly extends this scope to models, agents, libraries, developer tools, and MCP-server packages.

Turtle Steady: an open-source AI app that breaks big tasks into small daily steps

A DEV Community post presents Turtle Steady, a low-stress productivity companion submitted to Hacktoberfest's Week 3 'Slow and Steady' open-source AI challenge. The app splits overwhelming project goals into manageable sub-tasks using Gemini-powered guidance intended to reduce burnout and task paralysis. A second project, Slow & Steady, is a minimalist white-and-red interface that uses Google's open Gemma models via the Gemini API to encourage small, consistent daily actions. Both tools are built with Python and vanilla web front ends, with the author stressing local data control and avoidance of proprietary lock-in. The author claims planning that once took 30 to 45 minutes now completes in under three seconds.

Developer builds free zero-cost Instagram toolkit with 47 static pages

A developer created IGKit, a free website offering small Instagram utilities such as Unicode font generators, caption line-break preservation, a profile grid splitter, and a story viewer. The site is built with a custom Node script that renders plain HTML pages, avoiding frameworks and server costs, and runs on free hosting tiers. Its story viewer relies on third-party data APIs, which it rotates across providers with fallback logic when free quotas run out. To manage traffic and limits, responses are cached at the CDN and media is proxied through a restricted allowlist. The project also targets long-tail search queries with dedicated pages and translations in ten languages.

Engineers Rebuild Pipeline to Measure True Video Watch Time from Noisy Player Logs

A developer reworked the telemetry pipeline for a large Persian-language online learning platform to determine how much of each video students actually watched. Raw player events such as play, pause, seek and heartbeat signals are often incomplete or misleading, due to unlogged pauses, closed tabs, inaccurate device clocks, and altered playback speeds. The ingestion service, built on ASP.NET Core, accepts events into a bounded buffer and returns quickly, while a background worker writes them to SQL Server in batches. Failed batches are retried row by row so that single malformed events do not block the rest of the queue. The design accepts the risk of losing buffered data on a crash, a trade-off judged acceptable for behavioural analytics but not for payments.