280 craftsmen built Bali estate in 1994; Hawaii rebuild now asks $32.5M

Virat Kohli and Anushka Sharma Build Rs 1,300 Crore Business Empire

Indian cricket star Virat Kohli and actor Anushka Sharma have together accumulated a net worth exceeding Rs 1,300 crore through diversified business ventures. Kohli has invested across fashion, hospitality, and technology startups, while Sharma has established a presence in fashion and film production. Both have also made strategic financial investments that have bolstered their individual portfolios. The couple's luxury real estate holdings form a significant portion of their combined wealth.

McDonald's India Intern Allegedly Posts Unpaid Salary Complaint on Brand's Own Account

A controversy has erupted involving McDonald's India after a post allegedly made by an intern on the company's official social media account claimed unpaid wages. The incident has drawn widespread attention online, spotlighting workplace grievances among young employees. It has reignited broader discussions about Gen Z workers challenging traditional workplace norms and demanding accountability from employers. The episode reflects a growing trend of younger employees refusing to stay silent about perceived workplace injustices.

Anak Krakatau Eruption Strands 270,000 as Indonesian Airports Stay Shut

Indonesia's Anak Krakatau volcano began erupting late Friday, triggering widespread disruption across the region. The volcano is located approximately 150 kilometres from the national capital, Jakarta. The eruption has left around 270,000 people stranded as authorities extended airport closures to ensure passenger safety. The shutdowns reflect concerns over volcanic ash interfering with flight operations in the affected area.

ITAT Bangalore: Only Net Winnings From Online Gaming Are Taxable, Not Gross Credits

The Income Tax Appellate Tribunal (ITAT) in Bangalore has ruled that online gaming winnings should be taxed on a net basis, not on gross credits. The case involved a player who deposited Rs 2.61 crore into online games but incurred a net loss of Rs 28 lakh, yet the tax authority sought to levy tax on Rs 2.33 crore. The tribunal rejected the taxman's approach of taxing gross wallet credits or intermediate winnings shown during gameplay. ITAT held that only the actual net winnings represent the true taxable amount in such cases. The ruling is significant as it sets a precedent for how online gaming income is assessed for taxation purposes in India.

Developer Builds Self-Hosted Ticket System to Test Real-World AI Coding Agents

A developer created Lutions, a self-hosted web application for project and ticket management, partly driven by rising software licence costs and concerns over digital sovereignty. The project grew beyond its original scope into a personal laboratory for testing agentic AI in a realistic, mature codebase rather than a simplified demo environment. The developer argues that useful AI coding agents require more than better prompts — they need access to a project's full context, conventions, history, and constraints. Drawing parallels to benchmarks like SWE-bench, the article highlights that real-world agentic development demands agents navigate multi-file changes, existing rules, and organisational expectations. The piece frames Lutions as a field study in what conditions must exist for AI agents to contribute meaningfully to established software projects.

How Engineering Discipline Can Help AI Generate Production-Quality Code

A software consultant and AI advisor describes a methodology for producing production-ready code using AI without directly writing or reviewing the code during development. The approach stems from a personal experiment he began roughly two years ago, driven by concerns that rapid AI advancement would erode his technical expertise. He argues that while the method consumes more tokens upfront, it reduces rework and lowers the total cost of ownership over time. The technique is rooted in engineering discipline, requiring attention to correctness, security, performance, and observability rather than relying on 'vibe-coding.' He has published a free tutorial and an open-source skills framework on GitHub to help others adopt the approach.

EU Cyber Resilience Act Mandatory Vulnerability Reporting Begins September 11

The European Union's Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) activates its mandatory incident reporting requirements on September 11, 2026, affecting software makers and device manufacturers selling products in the EU. Under the new rules, companies must issue an early warning within 24 hours of discovering an actively exploited vulnerability, followed by a formal notification within 72 hours and a final report within 14 days. Reports must be submitted to the relevant national CSIRT and to ENISA through a Single Reporting Platform, with the clock starting the moment a team becomes aware of an issue. The regulation targets any manufacturer placing a product with digital elements on the EU market, including apps, firmware, and connected devices, though pure SaaS services generally fall under the separate NIS2 directive. Full CRA compliance, including CE marking, is not required until December 2027, but the reporting obligations take effect immediately this Friday.

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Developer Guide: Building an AI Agent That Completes and Submits Gig Platform Jobs

A developer tutorial published on DEV Community outlines how to build an autonomous AI agent capable of completing paid tasks on freelance platforms like Upwork and Fiverr. The system connects a large language model (LLM) chain — built with tools like LangChain and OpenAI's API — to a gig platform's REST or webhook interface to receive, process, and submit jobs automatically. The guide recommends keeping the agent's scope narrow, such as writing SEO blog posts or converting design files to code, to reduce errors and simplify pricing. Sample Python code is provided for the LLM prompt chain and a FastAPI-based webhook handler that listens for new job postings and returns completed work. The tutorial also addresses cost trade-offs, noting that managed APIs like GPT-4o-mini cost roughly $0.002–$0.01 per call, while self-hosted models offer savings at the expense of greater infrastructure complexity.

Cloud Team Rewrites 180,000-Line DNS Resolver in Rust With Zero Outages

In 2023, a mid-sized cloud provider successfully replaced its decade-old, 180,000-line C++ DNS resolver with a streamlined 12,000-line Rust implementation over six months. The legacy system had become a maintenance liability plagued by memory safety bugs, performance bottlenecks, and poor observability. The team adopted a disciplined, incremental migration strategy that included traffic shadowing, dual-running both resolvers simultaneously, and a phased cutover shifting 1%, 5%, 25%, and then 75% of live traffic. Shadow testing ran for two weeks, followed by a month-long gradual rollout before the old resolver was fully decommissioned. The migration concluded without a major outage, rollback event, or post-incident review.

Why Supabase Row Level Security is essential for AI-built mobile apps

AI-generated mobile apps using Supabase often ship with Row Level Security (RLS) disabled, leaving database tables exposed to anyone who extracts the anon key from the app bundle. Unlike web apps, mobile apps cannot hide sensitive keys server-side, making database-level access controls critical from the start. RLS works inside Postgres by applying a hidden WHERE clause to every query, ensuring users can only access their own rows regardless of how the database is called. A secure setup requires both correct grants — which define what operations a role can perform — and policies, which restrict which rows are affected; missing either can result in silent data leaks. Developers are advised to enable RLS on every exposed table, apply minimal grants, and use owner-based policies tied to the authenticated user's ID with no exceptions, even for prototypes.

Iran to Declare Maritime Exclusion Zone Near Strait of Hormuz

Iran is planning to establish a maritime exclusion zone near the Strait of Hormuz amid escalating tensions with the United States. The announcement is expected to be made within the coming days or weeks. The proposed zone would begin from the line of the U.S. naval blockade and extend toward the Strait of Hormuz, continuing into the Persian Gulf. The move signals a significant escalation in the standoff between Tehran and Washington in one of the world's most strategically critical waterways.

Platform Engineering: How Internal Developer Platforms Are Scaling DevOps

Platform Engineering is emerging as a logical evolution of DevOps, designed to tackle the growing complexity of modern software development with microservices, containers, and cloud infrastructure. At its core, it involves building an Internal Developer Platform (IDP) — a curated set of tools, services, and automated workflows that cover the entire software lifecycle. Developers are treated as customers, with the platform offering self-service capabilities for tasks like provisioning cloud resources, setting up CI/CD pipelines, and monitoring applications. Rather than replacing DevOps culture, Platform Engineering serves as an implementation strategy to scale DevOps principles across large organizations without overwhelming developers with operational complexity. A dedicated platform team absorbs that cognitive load, freeing engineers to focus on writing quality code instead of managing infrastructure configurations.

Headless vs Traditional CMS: Key Differences in Performance, Cost and Security

Businesses choosing a content management system face a core architectural decision between traditional monolithic platforms like WordPress and modern headless CMS solutions. Traditional CMS systems combine the editing dashboard and frontend on a single server, making setup simple but leaving sites vulnerable to performance bottlenecks under high traffic. Headless CMS platforms decouple content storage from the display layer, delivering content via APIs to static frontends hosted on global CDN networks for faster load times. While headless architectures offer stronger security, omni-channel distribution, and better Core Web Vitals scores, they typically require higher upfront development costs. Traditional CMS remains the practical choice for teams with limited budgets, heavy reliance on page builders, or straightforward publishing needs.

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Blind folk singer Suneel Lodhi rises to fame via Hanuman Ansh film

Suneel Lodhi, a visually impaired folk singer from Bundelkhand, spent years performing bhajans and folk songs on village streets and local trains. His soulful voice gradually built him a grassroots following before he gained wider recognition. His rendition of 'Maine Tere Hi Bharose' brought him national attention after it featured in the film Hanuman Ansh. The song significantly expanded his reach and introduced him to a much larger audience. His story is widely seen as one of resilience and faith triumphing over adversity.

Mikono Uses AI Semantic Matching to Connect Volunteers With Community Needs

A developer built Mikono, a bilingual volunteer-matching platform, as part of a DEV Community Weekend Challenge focused on generosity. The tool was inspired by the creator's experience coordinating Red Cross distributions in Kenya's Uasin Gishu County during the pandemic, where connecting willing helpers to actual needs proved difficult. Unlike keyword-based search, Mikono uses Snowflake Cortex semantic embeddings to match volunteers and causes by meaning, so phrases like 'I fix broken laptops' can be paired with 'the computer lab machines will not switch on' even without shared words. The platform supports both English and Swahili, automatically translating inputs before matching so language is not a barrier. A live public demo hosted on Streamlit shows real matches between seed causes and volunteers, with transparency scores and plain-language explanations for each pairing.

NASA Launches Roman Space Telescope With Spy-Agency Mirrors, 50x Hubble's Sky Coverage

NASA has successfully launched the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, a next-generation space observatory. The mission is notable for incorporating mirrors donated by the National Reconnaissance Office, a U.S. intelligence agency. Unlike the Hubble Space Telescope, which surveyed only a narrow slice of the sky over 30 years, Roman is designed to cover 50 times more sky area. The telescope's advanced camera will capture wide panoramic images of the cosmos. Scientists expect the observatory to significantly advance astronomical research and discovery.

Study Reveals How China's 160-Million-Record Company Registry Blocks Outside Access

Currawong Web, a supplier verification service, conducted controlled experiments over several months to measure how accessible China's national company registry (NECIPS) is from outside the country. The registry, which holds registration data for every Chinese company, serves JavaScript challenges to visitors that assess browser environment characteristics rather than simply checking cookies. Researchers tested five browser fingerprint configurations, multiple network locations, and various entry points across 106-company and 240-observation datasets, publishing 20 reproducible datasets on Harvard Dataverse under Creative Commons licences. Results showed that client profile configuration mattered more than geographic network location, with a well-configured overseas browser outperforming a poorly configured one inside China. The study also found that eight official certificate registries varied significantly in accessibility, and that the registry appears to operate multiple tiers of trust rather than a simple allow-or-block system.