Rani Mukerji on raising Gen Alpha: Lead by example on screen time

Bollywood actress Rani Mukerji has spoken about her approach to parenting her daughter in the digital age, stressing the importance of explaining the reasoning behind household rules rather than simply enforcing them. She noted that children in Generation Alpha learn more from observing their parents' behavior than from instructions alone. Mukerji highlighted consistency as a key factor in shaping children's habits, especially around screen time and device use. She urged parents to model the digital behaviors they want their children to adopt, rather than relying on directives.

Fylgja Launches CSS Attr v2 Polyfill With Support for Vite, PostCSS, and LightningCSS

Fylgja CSS has released an attr v2 polyfill that enables developers to use the CSS attr() v2 syntax in older browsers today, without waiting for full cross-browser support. The polyfill works by scanning existing modern-browser CSS code and automatically generating static fallback values for unsupported browsers. Currently, all major browsers except Safari support attr v2, with Safari offering it in Technical Preview, making broad baseline support expected later this year. The tool integrates with popular build tools including ViteJS, PostCSS, and LightningCSS, and is also accessible via an API or CLI for projects without a build step. Fylgja plans to ship attr v2 as the default in the next version of Fylgja Utilities, though experimental imports are available for developers who want to try it now.

Delhi Police Urges Commuters to Plan Ahead Amid BRICS Summit Traffic Curbs

Delhi Police has issued a public advisory ahead of the upcoming BRICS Summit in the capital. Residents have been urged to plan their travel in advance and account for extra time on the road. Certain areas of the city are expected to face traffic restrictions during the event. Commuters passing through affected zones have been specifically advised to remain cautious and prepared for delays.

Russian Drone Strikes on Kyiv Kill at Least Two People

Russian forces launched drone strikes on Kyiv in the early hours of Tuesday morning. Air raid sirens and explosion sounds were reported across Ukraine's capital during the attack. At least two people were killed as a result of the strikes. The assault is part of the ongoing Russian military campaign targeting Ukrainian cities.

Sentinel Dev Diary: How Four Dedicated Registers Replaced Scattered Dev Notes

The Sentinel project began with a fully written ten-document specification before any code was authored, but an unexpected documentation problem emerged almost immediately after coding started. Early attempts to track decisions and deferrals — first in pull request bodies, then in a single shared markdown file — proved unreliable, with information quietly falling out of view rather than being lost dramatically. The single-file approach also duplicated itself across two repositories, meaning the same organizational flaw was being repeated in parallel for one shared specification. The team's solution was a unified set of structured registers spanning both repositories, with each entry numbered immutably and never duplicated elsewhere. These registers are divided by type — requirements, components, decisions, roadmap checkpoints, assumptions, risks, open questions, and deferred work — ensuring every category has clear rules for what belongs in it.

Why C++ Still Dominates Despite Rust's Popularity: Ecosystem Lock-In Explained

Despite Rust topping Stack Overflow's most-admired language survey for nine consecutive years with 72% approval, C++ holds third place on the TIOBE Index with 8.03% market share and 90% enterprise adoption as of mid-2026. Core AI and GPU infrastructure — including NVIDIA's CUDA, cuDNN, and inference frameworks like llama.cpp — is built on C and C++, making the language structurally difficult to replace. A February 2026 engineering report revealed that a team spent hundreds of man-years attempting to integrate Rust into a C++ codebase and failed, not due to performance issues but because of incompatible ownership semantics at integration boundaries. C++ creator Bjarne Stroustrup has acknowledged safety concerns but advocates for an opt-in modernisation approach through 'Profiles', allowing incremental safety improvements without discarding decades of existing code. Additionally, AI coding tools like GitHub Copilot — which reached 20 million users in 2025 — generate and debug C++ more effectively than Rust, owing to C++'s far larger training corpus, further reinforcing its position.

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macOS Icon Files Report Zero Bytes But Consume 60KB via Hidden Resource Forks

A developer building a disk storage analyser discovered that macOS creates a hidden file named 'Icon' followed by a carriage return (0x0D) in every folder with a custom icon. The file's data fork is genuinely empty, reporting zero bytes via standard size checks like st_size and os.path.getsize, yet it occupies around 60KB of real disk space stored in an Apple resource fork. This discrepancy exists because most programming languages and high-level APIs expose only st_size, which describes the data fork, while the actual disk usage is captured by st_blocks. The developer also warned that the carriage return in the filename can corrupt terminal progress lines, CI logs, and GUI labels by overwriting displayed text. The key takeaways are to sum st_blocks instead of st_size for accurate disk usage, and to strip control characters from file paths before rendering them.

Punjab CM Mann Promises Farm Debt Relief, Echoing a Decade-Old Political Pledge

Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann has announced a farm debt-settlement scheme, drawing comparisons to a similar promise made by Captain Amarinder Singh ahead of the 2017 state elections. Singh's pledge of loan waivers proved politically significant, helping the Congress party win that election. The effectiveness of Mann's current scheme is expected to hinge heavily on its specific details and implementation. Analysts note that such promises carry strong electoral weight in Punjab, where agrarian distress remains a persistent issue. Whether Mann's announcement will generate a comparable political impact remains to be seen.

Five Orangutans found in Odisha

6 Dead After Speeding Truck Hits Vehicle Head-On in Maharashtra

A deadly road accident in Maharashtra claimed six lives after a speeding truck collided head-on with a pickup vehicle. The impact of the crash was severe enough to completely mangle the smaller vehicle. Officials confirmed the fatalities following the incident. The collision highlights ongoing concerns about road safety and overspeeding on highways in the region.

When Repos Lie: How External APIs Exposed Automated Fact-Checker Blind Spots

A developer writing for DEV Community documented two cases this year where automated verification tools produced confident but incorrect conclusions by treating the repository as the sole source of truth. In the first case, a fact-checker marked a newsletter workflow claim as unverifiable because the repo held no evidence, when a single API call revealed the platform had zero posts or drafts — meaning the workflow had never functioned at all. In the second case, two separate automated passes contradicted each other over an AdSense rejection count: the repo recorded four entries, while the author's external records showed seven, with three rejections having arrived as emails that were never committed. The core issue identified is a design flaw in automated tooling — repositories capture only what is explicitly committed, not the full state of external systems, verbal communications, or silent failures. The author concludes that commit history should be treated as a documented subset of reality, not a complete record, and that tools reading only the repo risk confidently converting true statements into false ones.

Best cities for startups in India: Bengaluru on top, Delhi NCR second

UN Resolution Backs Map Corrections, Shows Arunachal and Aksai Chin Outside India

The United Nations General Assembly passed a resolution last week titled 'Correct the Map,' supported by the African Union. The resolution calls for more accurate and equitable cartographic representation of global regions, with a primary focus on Africa. However, a UN map associated with the resolution depicts Arunachal Pradesh and Aksai Chin outside Indian borders. Arunachal Pradesh is recognized internationally as Indian territory, while Aksai Chin remains a disputed region between India and China. The development is likely to draw diplomatic attention from New Delhi given the sensitive nature of both territorial issues.

Why Mastering Linux, Networking, and Git Beats Rushing Into Kubernetes

A DevOps practitioner writing on DEV Community argues that aspiring engineers often make the mistake of jumping into complex tools like Kubernetes before building foundational knowledge. The author outlines a structured learning path that begins with Linux internals, including process management, file permissions, and the filesystem hierarchy. Networking fundamentals — covering protocols, the request lifecycle, and troubleshooting tools — are presented as the next critical layer, since many production issues trace back to basic connectivity problems. Git proficiency, including branching strategies, state management, and security practices, is identified as the backbone of any automated deployment pipeline. The piece emphasizes that skipping these foundations leads to shallow understanding, while mastering them makes advanced orchestration tools far easier to learn meaningfully.

Laravel Package P2Flux Lets Buyers Pay USDC Fees Without Holding ETH

A Laravel package called P2Flux enables merchants to accept USDC payments on the Base blockchain without requiring buyers to hold ETH for network gas fees. Normally, USDC transactions on Base still require ETH to cover network costs, creating a barrier for users unfamiliar with crypto. P2Flux solves this through a payment-token sponsorship mode, where a relayer supplies the necessary ETH while the buyer pays the equivalent cost in USDC. The package is non-custodial, meaning payments settle directly to the merchant's wallet rather than being held by P2Flux. Compatible with Laravel 12 and 13, it installs via Composer and requires no API key or additional migrations, routes, or controllers.

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Developer builds offline tool to help engineers understand AI-generated codebases

A developer has created Heimdall, a local architecture visualization tool designed to help engineers maintain understanding of codebases increasingly built by AI coding agents. The tool converts a codebase into an interactive architecture map, showing files, modules, dependencies, and component relationships without requiring users to read every line of code. Unlike many code-analysis tools, Heimdall runs entirely offline and does not use any AI models, cloud services, or external servers, keeping source code private on the user's machine. The creator argues that as AI agents generate more code faster, developers risk losing their mental model of how a system is structured — a gap Heimdall aims to fill. The project reflects a broader concern that the bottleneck in software development may be shifting from writing code to understanding what has been built.

Developer builds personal study system to ensure AI assists learning without replacing it

A developer has shared a structured self-study workflow designed to prevent AI tools from short-circuiting genuine understanding. The system organises learning into four sequential stages — fundamentals, academic theory, certification, and practical implementation — so concepts build on each other rather than remaining isolated. Three study modes (minimum, standard, and deep) allow the workflow to adapt to varying energy levels without breaking continuity on low-productivity days. Two AI tools are assigned distinct roles: one handles context recovery and note organisation, while the other is used interactively to challenge explanations and probe knowledge gaps. The core rule of the system is that an output only qualifies as learning if the person can explain, reproduce, and verify the reasoning behind it.

Developer builds CI tool to detect when Claude Code silently stops following your rules

A developer discovered that their 400-line Claude Code configuration had no automated tests, meaning model updates could silently break custom behaviors without any alerts. To address this, they built an open-source tool called config-drift-checker, which converts CLAUDE.md files, skills, and hooks into eval test cases that run on every Claude Code release or configuration change. While testing the tool, the developer intentionally sabotaged their own setup by altering a skill's trigger description, which caused the suite score to collapse from 1.00 to 0.36 and one key test to score zero across all runs. The tool uses a three-run-per-case method with history-based noise bands to distinguish genuine rule failures from random model variability, escalating to a red alert only when failures persist across consecutive runs. The tool runs as a GitHub Action and is free to use with a Claude Pro or Max subscription, with the source code available on GitHub.