Indian Markets Set for Weak Open as Oil Prices Rise for Fourth Straight Day

Indian equity markets are expected to open lower on Monday as rising global oil prices weigh on investor sentiment. Brent crude is approaching the $100-per-barrel mark after climbing for four consecutive sessions. The surge in oil prices follows Iran's attacks on US assets, which have heightened geopolitical tensions in the Middle East. Higher crude prices pose an inflationary risk for oil-importing nations like India, putting pressure on the rupee and corporate margins. Benchmark indices Sensex and Nifty are likely to face selling pressure at the opening bell.

Dillon Jones Signs Exhibit 10 Deal With Philadelphia 76ers

Dillon Jones, a 24-year-old forward, has signed a non-guaranteed Exhibit 10 contract with the Philadelphia 76ers this week. The deal gives Jones an opportunity to compete for a permanent roster spot with the team. Jones arrives having won back-to-back championships with Oklahoma City and the New York Knicks. While his NBA statistics remain modest, his strong G League performances and standout college career at Weber State suggest he has room to grow. The 76ers will be watching closely to see if he can translate that potential into consistent NBA-level play.

Gujarat Man Kills Father After Dispute Over Money Turns Violent

A family dispute over money in Kalol, Gujarat, ended fatally when Kalpesh Prajapati allegedly beat his father to death. The altercation reportedly intensified after the father physically assaulted Kalpesh's mother during the quarrel. Kalpesh, who had returned from the United States, allegedly attacked his father in response to the assault on his mother. Local police arrested Kalpesh Prajapati following the incident.

Delhi Ranks 21st in Clean Air Report, Outperforms Mumbai, Bengaluru and Kolkata

A clean air assessment has ranked major Indian cities based on air quality performance. Delhi scored 172 points, placing it at 21st position in the rankings. The capital shared this rank with Visakhapatnam. Despite its notorious pollution levels, Delhi performed better than other major metros including Mumbai, Bengaluru, and Kolkata.

Chlorine Gas Leak at MP Water Plant Sends 4 to Hospital

A chlorine gas leak occurred at a water filtration plant in Madhya Pradesh, affecting several people in the area. The incident took place in Sehore district, where some individuals reported symptoms including eye irritation and difficulty breathing. Four of those affected were admitted to Sehore District Hospital for treatment. Medical staff confirmed that all four patients were out of danger following the incident.

Blackwell GPU Inference Failures Traced to Backend, Runtime, and Memory Config Gaps

Developers testing large language models on NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs (sm_120 and sm_121) have documented how a single configuration change — such as switching MoE backends, adjusting memory utilization, or updating a runtime commit — can dramatically alter model behavior, available KV cache, or system stability. In one case, changing the MoE backend from flashinfer_b12x to marlin on a 96 GB RTX PRO 6000 freed 11.47 GiB of additional KV cache, while the b12x path's memory reservation caused outright failures on 16 GB and 32 GB Blackwell cards. A separate test found that non-deterministic logprob outputs in a 30B MoE model were resolved by disabling fused finalize, and an SGLang regression caused degenerate text generation until a specific upstream commit was applied. On a GB10 DGX Spark, setting GPU memory utilization to 0.92 instead of 0.60 led to an OOM condition invisible to the kernel, ultimately requiring a full power cycle after seven hours. A diagnostic tool called blackwell-doctor has been released to help users log the exact configuration fields needed to reproduce and report such issues accurately.

Crude rises above $100 a barrel as war escalates

Hyderabad Police Arrest 47 Suspects Across 7 States in Cyber Fraud Crackdown

Hyderabad police have dismantled multiple cyber fraud networks in a major crackdown spanning seven states across India. A total of 47 individuals were arrested in connection with 36 registered cybercrime cases. The cases came to light through complaints filed on the National Cyber Crime Reporting Portal (NCRP). The coordinated operation reflects growing law enforcement efforts to tackle the rise of online financial fraud in the country.

64% of Unattended Claude Code Agent Failures Traced to Git Push, Not AI Errors

A developer team running 13 scheduled GitHub Actions workflows without human oversight logged 72 job failures since June, finding that 46 of them occurred at the git push stage rather than during model inference or API calls. Only 2 failures were attributed to the core task each agent was designed to perform, challenging the common assumption that AI decision-making is the primary risk in automated pipelines. One high-frequency polling job accounted for 60 of the 72 failures, largely because it ran often enough to collide with concurrent write operations. A concrete example involved a duplicate article being published after an idempotency key existed only in an uncommitted local file for 99 minutes, leaving the remote repository unaware the task had already been completed. The team concluded that engineering effort in unattended agent setups is better directed at write serialization and state consistency than at prompt robustness or tool-call error handling.

Developer Defeats Rotating Bot Fleet by Exploiting Unforgeable Browser Header Pairs

In early September, a developer running an IP-reputation site detected tens of thousands of single-query requests per day, consistent with automated validation of a residential proxy pool across European ISPs. Simple per-IP rate limits proved ineffective since each bot exit node queried only once, exhausting third-party API allowances within hours. The operator's initial response of blocking specific HTTP header signatures failed repeatedly, as the bot fleet adapted its headers three times within 48 hours, using each blocked request as feedback to refine its impersonation. Attempts to flag infrastructure-level headers like connection keep-alive or forwarded IP fields were abandoned after testing revealed they also appeared on legitimate human traffic. The developer ultimately found reliable detection in logically inconsistent header combinations — such as a User-Agent claiming Windows while the client hint reported a different OS — which browsers generate consistently from a single source and cannot be faked without contradiction.

Why Markets Can Be Calm and Terrified at the Same Time

On September 4, 2026, the VIX stood at just 14.53, placing it in the 18th percentile of its five-year range, signaling low near-term volatility. Yet the SKEW index simultaneously registered 151.58, near its 83rd percentile, indicating that options markets were charging near-record premiums for crash protection. SKEW, a Cboe index, measures how much more investors pay for downside put options versus upside calls, with readings above 100 reflecting heightened fear of a severe market drop. Analysts attribute persistently elevated SKEW levels to structural demand from pension funds and institutional hedgers, as well as a lasting market memory of sudden crashes like Black Monday in 1987. The divergence between VIX and SKEW illustrates that implied options pricing often captures tail-risk fears that recent realized volatility data alone cannot reflect.

Flutter vs React Native in 2026: Key Differences Indie Developers Should Know

Both Flutter and React Native allow developers to ship a single codebase to iOS and Android, and each is backed by a major tech company with an active community. Flutter uses Dart and a custom rendering engine for consistent 60fps performance, making it well-suited for design-heavy, animation-rich apps, while React Native leverages JavaScript and native UI components, offering a gentler learning curve for those already familiar with React. The choice largely depends on a developer's existing skills, the app's design requirements, and long-term hiring needs. React Native developers are more widely available and typically at lower rates, a practical factor that often influences framework decisions for small teams and solo founders. Neither framework is universally superior, and the article recommends Flutter for pixel-perfect consumer apps and React Native for business tools or rapid prototyping with an existing JavaScript background.

How a Python tool's security bugs went undetected until tested on Windows

A developer maintaining a Python tool with thousands of regression checks and CI pipelines on Ubuntu and macOS discovered multiple bugs that only surfaced on Windows. A symlink-guard used os.path.abspath, which on Windows returned unresolved short-form paths like RUNNER~1, causing the security check to silently fail and allow out-of-scope files to be read. A pre-commit hook also broke on Windows because Python's line endings include CR LF, and the bundled shell's read command retained the carriage return, causing argument parsing to fail. Additionally, the tool printed a POSIX-style PATH export instruction to Windows users, which was invalid in three separate ways, yet the test suite passed because it ran only on POSIX systems. The author concludes that the core lesson is to assert on the actual artifact or output rather than the source that produces it, and to ensure diagnostic output always shows what a failing check observed.

A Taiwan war could cost the world more than WWII

Delhi's Satya Niketan PG Building Collapse: Adjacent Structure to Be Razed

A paying-guest building in Delhi's Satya Niketan area has collapsed, prompting authorities to demolish a nearby dilapidated structure as a precautionary measure. Reports indicate the collapsed building had been visibly tilting for several months prior to the incident. Most residents living in the building were unaware of this structural deterioration. The collapse has raised serious concerns about building safety inspections and timely warnings to occupants in the area.

Alibaba Cloud and Datadog Launch Stable Zero-Code Observability Tool for Go

Alibaba Cloud and Datadog jointly released OpenTelemetry Go Compile-Time Instrumentation v1 in July 2026, closing a long-standing gap in Go's observability ecosystem. Unlike Java, Python, and Node.js, Go compiles to a static binary with no runtime hooks, making traditional zero-code agent injection impossible. The new tool uses Go's built-in -toolexec mechanism to let a wrapper called otelc parse and rewrite source code at build time, injecting distributed tracing and metrics without any changes to business logic. Developers can add full observability to a Go application with a single command, producing a standard binary that carries instrumentation natively. The project was developed over roughly 18 months of open-source community collaboration and fills the gap between manual instrumentation and limited eBPF-based approaches.

Former Delhi Chief Secretary dies by suicide

Iran Fires Ballistic Missiles at US Military Base in Jordan; Most Intercepted

Iran launched a ballistic missile attack targeting a US military base near Al Azraq, Jordan. Jordanian air defenses successfully intercepted the majority of the missiles, with two landing in unpopulated areas causing no reported casualties. The strike triggered a reaction in global energy markets, pushing Brent crude oil prices higher. Separately, Iran-backed Houthi forces in Yemen also carried out strikes on cities in Saudi Arabia. The escalating tensions in the region are raising concerns over the security of military installations and key energy supply routes.

Dev tutorial: Build a React hook to sync state across browser tabs natively

A developer tutorial published on DEV Community walks through building a custom React hook called useSyncedState that keeps application state consistent across multiple browser tabs. The solution uses two built-in browser APIs — BroadcastChannel for instant state fan-out and navigator.locks for exclusive write coordination — without requiring any third-party libraries. Each tab registers a shared channel listener and acquires a mutex lock before writing, preventing race conditions and split-brain mutations. The hook also tags outgoing messages with a unique session ID to avoid echo loops, and includes fallback logic for environments where these APIs are unavailable, such as server-side rendering. The author shares the full implementation on GitHub alongside real-world use cases for multi-tab dashboards and collaborative interfaces.

Delhi Home Robbed of Cash and Jewellery, Two Domestic Workers Missing

A Delhi resident's home was burglarized, with cash and jewellery stolen from the premises. Two domestic helpers employed at the household are currently under police scrutiny in connection with the theft. The workers reportedly had access to keys of the house, making them prime suspects in the case. Both individuals have been untraceable since the incident occurred, raising suspicions about their involvement.