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Apple CEO John Ternus Defends iPhone's Future in First Keynote Address

John Ternus has made his debut as Apple's new CEO, delivering his first keynote address to the public. In his opening remarks, Ternus firmly positioned the iPhone as a continued cornerstone of Apple's product strategy. His stance echoes an approach previously championed by Apple co-founder Steve Jobs roughly 25 years ago. The move signals that Apple's leadership transition will not bring a dramatic shift away from its flagship smartphone business.

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IndiaTimes of India ·

£8.28M Grade II-Listed Cotswolds Manor Severely Damaged by Electrical Fire

A historic 17th-century mansion in the Cotswolds has been extensively damaged following a major electrical fire. Barton House, a Grade II-listed property located near Guiting Power, was valued at £8.28 million at the time of its sale. The manor had only recently changed hands, having been purchased by a private buyer in January 2025. Firefighters battled the blaze for nearly 12 hours before bringing it under control. The new owners described themselves as being in a state of shock following the devastating incident.

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TechnologyArs Technica ·

Four Threat Groups Exploited Same Chrome and Windows Zero-Day Kit

Four separate hacking groups were found using an identical exploit kit targeting vulnerabilities in Google Chrome and Microsoft Windows. The discovery highlights a concerning trend where multiple threat actors gain access to the same exploitation tools, amplifying the potential damage. Security researchers identified a 'patch gap' — the window between a vulnerability being exploited and a fix being deployed — as a key contributing factor. The accelerating pace of AI-assisted vulnerability discovery is also believed to have played a role in the wider spread of these exploits. The findings underscore growing risks as advanced hacking tools become more accessible to a broader range of malicious actors.

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IndiaNDTV ·

Emergency Slide Accidentally Deploys on Trump's Qatar-Gifted Air Force One

An emergency evacuation slide deployed unexpectedly aboard the Qatari-gifted aircraft designated as Air Force One for President Trump. The incident has renewed scrutiny over the safety and reliability of the plane. Safety concerns surrounding the aircraft have been raised repeatedly in recent months. The issue gained further attention after Trump reportedly switched to a different plane during a visit to Turkey due to undisclosed security concerns. The series of incidents has intensified questions about the airworthiness of the gifted jet.

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ProgrammingDEV Community ·

Developer Launches ICU Studio, a Lightweight Desktop IDE for ICU Messages

A front-end developer has released ICU Studio, a standalone desktop application designed to simplify the creation and editing of ICU messages used in software internationalization. The developer built the tool after finding that existing editors like VS Code lacked proper syntax highlighting and structural recognition for ICU message formats. ICU Studio was built using React and Tauri, allowing it to launch in under two seconds while consuming minimal memory at idle. Currently at MVP stage, the app supports message parsing, syntax highlighting, formatting for improved readability, and multiple copy formats suited for both JSON files and component usage. The release addresses a gap in tooling for the ICU internationalization standard, which is widely used in multilingual web development.

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ProgrammingDEV Community ·

Pixy Tool Records Visual Context So Coding Agents Implement UI Changes Accurately

A new developer tool called Pixy aims to reduce miscommunication between developers and AI coding agents during visual UI edits. When a developer makes a change on a live site, Pixy automatically captures the visual context — including the target element, CSS property, old and new values, viewport width, and scope of the change. This eliminates the need for developers to manually re-describe what they already did in a text prompt, which often leads to agent misinterpretation. The coding agent then uses this recorded context alongside the repository to determine the correct implementation, whether in Tailwind, a CSS module, or another stylesheet. The tool is designed for visual frontend work where the relevant context exists at the moment of change but is typically lost when converted to natural language.

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ProgrammingDEV Community ·

Delhi CSE Student Vinayak Joins DEV to Document Real-World ML Debugging Lessons

Vinayak Garg, a computer science undergraduate from Delhi, has joined the DEV Community platform to write about his hands-on experience building and deploying machine learning projects. His completed work includes a network intrusion detection system with an F1 score of 0.991, a customer churn model, and a student performance predictor. During a two-month internship, he also developed a LangGraph-based WhatsApp campaign bot and a multi-tenant RAG chatbot using Qdrant and Groq. Vinayak says his writing will focus on the debugging and deployment challenges that standard tutorials typically leave out, such as Docker caching issues and silent exceptions in LangGraph nodes. He plans to cover topics including ML model deployment to AWS EC2 with GitHub Actions, sharing the specific mistakes he encountered along the way.

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ProgrammingDEV Community ·

How One Developer Let an AI Publish 69 Articles Autonomously — With a Safety Framework

Every Thursday at 9am, an automated Azure pipeline pulls news sources, clusters stories, removes duplicates, rewrites articles in four editorial voices, generates images, and publishes to a live website — all without human oversight. The developer behind the system was making coffee when the first published articles went live, with a reader being the first human to see them. The pipeline also self-evaluates its output, scoring articles for groundedness, structure, and banned phrases, completing the entire run for $2.26. The developer explains this level of autonomy was not granted upfront but earned through a four-rung trust ladder — Shadow, Advisory, Assisted, and Autonomous — where each stage requires measured evidence before promotion. Critically, the framework mandates that demotion is always one config change away, because trust is treated as a continuously measured variable, not a one-time milestone.

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IndiaTimes of India ·

How Sophie Cunningham and Caitlin Clark Forged a Strong WNBA Friendship

Sophie Cunningham and Caitlin Clark first connected during the 2024 WNBA All-Star Game, with their friendship deepening after they became teammates on the Indiana Fever. The two players share a relationship built on humor and mutual support. On the court, Cunningham has taken on a protective role for Clark, often stepping up in her defense. Their bond also extends well beyond basketball, reflecting a genuine off-court connection.

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TechnologyThe Verge ·

Apple explains how new Siri ambient listening features keep audio data private

At its Wednesday iPhone Duo launch event, Apple announced several new Siri Audio Intelligence features, including Siri Recap, Live Rewind, Sound Recognition, and Music Recognition. To address privacy concerns around ambient listening, Apple published a document detailing how user audio is handled. According to the document, raw audio from these features is processed within dedicated hardware and is never saved, nor accessible to the operating system, apps, or Apple itself. The privacy protections rely on the Secure Exclave within the S11 chip, which powers the new Apple Watch Series 12 and Apple Watch Ultra 4.

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ProgrammingDEV Community ·

New DEV Community Member Seeks Beginner-Friendly Accounts to Follow

A newcomer to the DEV Community platform has reached out asking fellow members for recommendations on who to follow. The user describes themselves as a complete beginner, finding most articles they have encountered so far too technically advanced for their current skill level. They are looking for creators or contributors whose content is more accessible to those just starting out in tech. The post invites community members to drop suggestions in the comments to help guide their learning journey.

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TechnologyThe Verge ·

Apple Watch Series 12 and Ultra 4 bring health upgrades at same starting price

Apple unveiled the Apple Watch Series 12 and Apple Watch Ultra 4 at its 'Surprise and Shine' event. Both models introduce notable improvements to health sensors and tracking capabilities, along with support for audio transcriptions and summaries. The Series 12 also gains a new ceramic case option, while performance upgrades are driven by the new S11 processor. The new processor enables Apple Intelligence features across both models. Despite the added functionality, pricing remains unchanged, with the Series 12 starting at $399 and the Ultra 4 at $799.

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ProgrammingDEV Community ·

Developer builds authenticated backend proxy to serve storage files without frontend changes

A software engineer migrated his website's static files from a local wwwroot folder to an external open-source storage service that required authentication even for GET requests. To avoid exposing authorization tokens to the browser or rewriting the frontend, he built a backend middleware that intercepts image and document requests and proxies them server-to-server using a securely stored token. The solution keeps URLs identical for end users while the backend fetches file bytes from the external storage and returns them with the correct content type. As a result, the project repository became significantly lighter, deployments faster, and the auth token never reaches the client side. Upload endpoints still write locally for now, with full decoupling from wwwroot planned as the next development phase.

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ProgrammingDEV Community ·

How to Safely Automate AWS EBS Snapshot Cleanup Using Cloud Custodian

Large-scale AWS environments often accumulate thousands of EBS snapshots, making automated cleanup essential to control storage costs. Cloud Custodian offers a three-stage workflow: marking eligible snapshots, copying them as a safety net before deletion, and aging off the safety copies after a retention window. While the pipeline appears straightforward, developers face key pitfalls such as Lambda's 15-minute execution timeout, which can interrupt snapshot copy operations mid-batch, particularly for large or cross-region volumes. Additional risks include wasted polling costs when Lambda idles during copy waits, and misalignment between the three pipeline stages if timing is not carefully managed. Running dry-run tests with c7n-org before executing live policies is recommended to validate behavior across accounts and avoid unintended deletions.

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TechnologyArs Technica ·

Europe may finally have found a space entrepreneur who is meeting the moment

"We will not be relevant without a massive rocket at a massive cadence."

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TechnologyTechCrunch ·

Apple Watch AI Features Spark Privacy Debate Over Always-On Audio Monitoring

Apple's latest Watch models include AI-powered features capable of transcribing recent speech and summarizing ambient conversations. The company states that raw audio will not be stored on the device. However, these capabilities have raised fresh concerns among privacy advocates regarding user consent and data handling. Critics question how awareness of potential continuous recording may alter human behavior. The development highlights a broader tension between AI-driven convenience and personal privacy expectations.

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ProgrammingDEV Community ·

How to Build a Scalable CI/CD Pipeline With Governed, Traceable Promotions

A structured CI/CD delivery model proposes that code changes move sequentially through dedicated long-lived environment branches — DEV, SIT, UAT, and PROD — without skipping any stage. Each promotion is handled via pipeline-created short-lived release branches, which are automatically created, merged, and deleted by a pipeline service account rather than by individual developers. This approach enforces traceability by ensuring every artifact that reaches production has previously existed in all lower environments. Governance policies define who can create, push to, or merge each branch type, replacing informal team knowledge with explicit written rules. The model draws from trunk-based development principles, keeping environment-specific secrets and configuration outside the repository in tools like Vault or platform-level config maps.

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ProgrammingDEV Community ·

Developers Build Splitwise Alternative Where a Shareable Link Replaces User Accounts

A team has launched PeanutSplit, a free expense-splitting app that eliminates user registration by making the shared room URL serve as both the invite and the access credential. Each link is generated from 16 random bytes and acts as a bearer token, meaning whoever holds the link has full access, with no account recovery or owner override. The app handles currency amounts using strings and BigInt to avoid floating-point errors, locks exchange rates at the time of entry, and queues new expenses offline while requiring a connection for edits and settlements. Real-time updates are handled via server-sent events that notify clients of changes without transmitting any room data in the stream. The project is open-source under the AGPL license and serves as a top-of-funnel product for Peanut, a payments app, with a published stewardship document pledging no paywalls, nags, or feature gates.

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WorldBBC World ·

Iran referred to UN Security Council over nuclear non-compliance

The United Nations Security Council has been notified of Iran's nuclear non-compliance, marking a significant escalation in international pressure on Tehran. Iran has strongly condemned the referral, rejecting the allegations against it. Tehran attributes the disruption of nuclear inspections to military strikes carried out by the United States and Israel on its nuclear facilities. Iran argues that these external attacks, rather than any deliberate obstruction on its part, are responsible for the breakdown in oversight. The move raises fresh tensions over Iran's nuclear programme and its obligations under international agreements.

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ProgrammingDEV Community ·

Developer Tests Spec-Driven Development Using Claude Code on Open Source IDP Project

A software developer is documenting their experiment with Spec-Driven Development while building Curupira Core, an open-source internal developer portal designed as a lightweight alternative to Backstage.io. The author, self-described as skeptical of AI fully replacing developers, argues that large language models are best used as assistants within a structured engineering workflow rather than for unconstrained 'vibe coding'. Drawing comparisons to AI-assisted tools like Kiro Code, Junie, and GitHub's SpecKit, they outline a flow that mirrors a traditional SDLC: defining requirements, planning, and execution. Claude Code was chosen as the primary tool for its compatibility with an AI-assisted rather than fully autonomous approach. The first feature being developed is Curupira's bootstrap behavior, covering backend startup, automatic migrations, and frontend serving.

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