PM Modi congratulates 'friend' Meloni on becoming longest-serving postwar Italian PM

ISRO Chief Backs Private Sector Role, Says Agency Alone Cannot Meet Space Demands

ISRO Chairman Dr V Narayanan has defended the growing role of private players in India's space sector. He stated that ISRO alone is not capable of meeting the country's expanding space needs. Narayanan explained that the government's space sector reforms are designed to encourage wider industry participation. He added that ISRO will continue to provide the necessary support and guidance to private entities entering the sector.

Chrome's translation feature can crash or freeze React apps by detaching DOM nodes

When Chrome's built-in page translator runs, it replaces existing text nodes with new wrapped elements, leaving React's internal references pointing to detached, parentless nodes. This mismatch triggers an 'removeChild' error in some cases and a silent, unreported freeze in others, depending on how text nodes are structured in the component. A developer spent roughly a month testing multiple translation engines — including Chrome, Edge, Firefox, and Yandex — recording exactly how each one modifies the live DOM. The investigation found that Edge and Firefox rewrite text nodes in place, avoiding the detachment problem, while Chrome and Yandex replace them entirely with wrapper elements. Workarounds exist but carry trade-offs, such as brief flashes of untranslated text or broken grammar in morphologically complex languages like Russian.

Ex-bureaucrat Ashish Joshi denied FIR copy during Delhi Police interrogation

Former bureaucrat Ashish Joshi was questioned by Delhi Police over a social media post concerning election officials. During the interrogation, Joshi requested a copy of the FIR filed under the Bharatiya Nyay Sanhita but was denied access to it. He also raised concerns about not being allowed to notify his family about the questioning. Police, however, maintained that they had followed all legal procedures throughout the inquiry.

Adani Ports to Open Dedicated Empty Container Yard at Mundra Port

Adani Ports and Special Economic Zone Ltd is set to launch a dedicated empty container yard at its Mundra facility. The move is part of the company's long-term 'Ambition 2031' strategic roadmap. Mundra port has been identified as the primary growth hub within Adani Ports' wider network. The initiative reflects significant capacity expansion investments the company is making across its operations.

Influencer Presence at US Open Raises Concerns Over Court-Side Conduct

The US Open this year invited 100 social media influencers and content creators as part of its promotional efforts. Their presence has sparked widespread debate around proper tennis etiquette at the Grand Slam tournament. Several incidents have been reported in which ongoing matches were disrupted, drawing criticism from players and fans alike. The situation has prompted broader questions about balancing modern marketing strategies with the traditional standards of the sport.

OpenIntent Protocol proposes declarative standard for AI agent interoperability

The OpenIntent Protocol (OIP) is a declarative communication protocol designed to improve interoperability between AI agents built by different organizations, languages, and infrastructures. Currently in development as part of the H2A2H architecture (v0.3), the protocol is still evolving ahead of a planned v1.0 release. OIP's core principle is that an agent should declare what it wants to accomplish rather than how to communicate, with the infrastructure handling transport details. The protocol is structured around four components — intent, capability, channel contract, and interaction patterns — supporting models such as request-response, streaming, event-driven, broadcast, and fire-and-forget. By decoupling application logic from infrastructure, OIP aims to eliminate the need for agents to be modified when underlying communication protocols such as gRPC, NATS, or QUIC change.

Tiny 1.5B model matches a 7B on text-to-SQL tasks using smart training and voting

A developer fine-tuned a small 1.5-billion-parameter language model (Qwen2.5-Coder-1.5B) for text-to-SQL tasks using continued pretraining, supervised fine-tuning, and reinforcement learning with LoRA adapters on a single GPU. An early 0.5B prototype scored just 6.4% accuracy — worse than the untrained base model — because evaluations were mistakenly run on training data rather than a held-out set. Once a proper evaluation harness was built to compare query outputs against real databases, accuracy climbed from 6.4% to 68.1% on the upgraded 1.5B model. A majority-voting technique — generating eight answers per question and selecting the most agreed-upon result — pushed the score to 71.5%, edging past the 7B model's 71.2% single-attempt score. The project illustrates a growing trend of targeting small, task-specific models with robust surrounding systems to outperform much larger general-purpose ones.

UFC Lightweight Champion Gaethje Names McGregor as Dream Legacy Fight

Justin Gaethje, 37, won the UFC lightweight title in June and has since revealed Conor McGregor as his ideal next opponent. The American fighter had initially considered rematches against Max Holloway and Charles Oliveira before changing his preference. Ilia Topuria's victories over both men influenced Gaethje's shift in thinking. Gaethje described a potential bout with McGregor as 'fun' and offered a direct explanation for his choice.

Engineer Tests 6 Free AI Text Detectors, Finds Them Unreliable on Human Writing

A software engineer ran an informal benchmark of six free AI text detectors after a client falsely accused their original writing of being AI-generated. Using roughly 40 samples — split evenly between human-written and AI-generated text — across three formats, each sample was tested twice on separate days to assess score consistency. Results showed that some tools produced scores varying by more than 20 points between identical runs, raising serious doubts about their reliability. The detectors most frequently misclassified human text as AI-generated when the writing was formal, plain, or documentation-style, since these tools essentially flag statistically common words and structures. The engineer concluded that the tools perform adequately on fully generated content but break down in ambiguous cases, and advised writers to focus on distinctive voice and specific detail rather than chasing a passing score.

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Carpooling and Hybrid Work Could Slash G20 Carbon Emissions by 20%

A new report finds that combining carpooling, increased bus usage, and hybrid work arrangements could reduce G20 carbon emissions by up to 20%. The study projects that raising average car occupancy by 50% above current levels could deliver annual savings of approximately 237 million tonnes of CO2 by 2050. These behavioral and mobility shifts are seen as practical, low-cost interventions that complement broader decarbonization strategies. The findings highlight the significant emissions impact of everyday commuting choices across the world's largest economies.

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How to Build IT Infrastructure That Is Truly Highly Available

The term 'high availability' has become so overused in the tech industry that it has lost its precise meaning, often applied to systems that have never been rigorously designed to a specific uptime target. True high availability requires setting a concrete availability percentage per system — such as 99.95%, which allows roughly 4.4 hours of downtime annually — based on measurable business impact. A common failure in practice is assembling redundant-looking components without tracing end-to-end dependencies, leaving hidden single points of failure, such as two database servers sharing one storage array. Redundancy itself operates at distinct levels — component, system, and site — and each addresses a different class of failure, making them non-interchangeable in design. Achieving genuine high availability demands verified, calculated design rather than assumed redundancy from architecture diagrams.

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How to Securely Verify Telegram Login Widget Payloads in PHP and Yii2

The Telegram Login Widget returns user profile data signed with a bot token, but every field in the payload can be manipulated by an attacker, making signature verification essential. Developers must recompute an HMAC-SHA-256 hash from the payload and compare it against the provided hash field to confirm the data genuinely originated from Telegram. An auth_date expiry window should also be enforced to prevent replay attacks using stolen but valid payloads. In Yii2, the verified telegram_id can then be bound to an internal user account, creating a new record on first login if none exists. The entire verification process runs locally without any Bot API calls, avoiding network latency, rate limits, or token exposure to third parties.

Lexar Muse portable SSD measures just 3.8mm thick with 1TB capacity

Lexar has announced the Muse Ultra-Slim Portable SSD, one of the thinnest drives on the market at just 3.8mm at its widest point and tapering to 1mm at the edges. The slim profile is achieved through high-density NAND stacking and a custom ultra-thin PCB design. Despite its compact form, the drive delivers read speeds of up to 1,050MB/s and write speeds of up to 1,000MB/s, fast enough to record 4K Apple ProRes video at 120fps. The Muse will be available in 512GB and 1TB storage options when it launches later this year.