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IndiaTimes of India ·

Four Diljit Dosanjh songs barred from Indore concert over child safety concerns

Authorities have prohibited Diljit Dosanjh from performing four of his songs at his November 15 concert in Indore. The tracks named are "Patiala Peg," "5 Tara Theke," "Jeb Vicho Feem" and "Jatt Fire Karda." The restrictions follow allegations that the songs promote alcohol consumption and violence. The District Child Protection Officer issued the directive after receiving a complaint. The order cites a 2019 Punjab and Haryana High Court ruling and concerns about the potential effect on children.

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IndiaNDTV ·

Delhi Air Stays 'Very Poor' on Diwali Eve, Forecast to Worsen

Delhi's air quality remains in the 'very poor' category as Diwali approaches. The Air Quality Early Warning System projects that conditions will reach the 'severe' level on November 8 and 9. For the following six days, air quality is expected to swing between 'severe' and 'very poor'. The forecast signals sustained pollution levels in the national capital over the coming week.

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IndiaIndian Express ·

Random audit in Bihar uncovers excess salary and HRA payments, exposing alleged scam

A random audit in Bihar has reportedly revealed that many individuals received salary and House Rent Allowance (HRA) amounts beyond what they were entitled to. The irregularities came to light only after the audit was conducted, which prompted scrutiny of the payments. The disclosure has been described as a scam, though the full scope and details of the case are not provided in the source text. Further information on the individuals involved and any action taken is not available from the article provided.

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IndiaTimes of India ·

Scuffle over standing space on moving Mumbai local leaves passenger falling onto platform

A fight broke out between commuters on a Churchgate-Virar fast local train, during which one passenger fell out of the carriage. The incident happened between Grant Road and Mumbai Central stations while the train was in motion. Video footage shows two passengers grappling near the doorway over space to stand. Railway police said no complaint about the incident has been registered at any police station so far.

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IndiaNDTV ·

Yogi Adityanath Asks Akhilesh Yadav to Apologise to Ram Devotees Over Ayodhya Visit Plan

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath criticised Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav's plan to visit an Ayodhya temple. Speaking at the tenth Deepotsav, the annual lighting of thousands of earthen lamps in the Hindu holy city, Adityanath said that those who had bloodied Ayodhya were now recalling the city. He demanded that Yadav apologise to Ram devotees. The remarks reflect the continuing political sparring between the two leaders over the Ayodhya issue.

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ScienceWIRED ·

Fridge Hacking Spree Highlights Security Risks in Connected Devices

A series of hacks targeting blood labs and grocery stores has drawn attention to the dangers posed by internet-connected devices. These incidents point to basic security lapses that expose critical infrastructure to risk. The attacks underscore how everyday networked equipment can become an entry point for disruption. Observers see the episode as a warning about the need to strengthen protections for Internet of Things devices.

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ProgrammingDEV Community ·

Developer builds Supabase connector for Switch to bring AI agents into team chat

A developer built a Supabase connector for Switch during the Flip the Switch hackathon, letting AI agents work in team chat rooms instead of isolated terminals. The connector was simple to add, with the platform handling login flow and scopes, and it works across multiple agents and chat platforms. The developer's demo workflow had a triager agent diagnose database bugs from logs and a second agent propose SQL fixes, with a rule that no change runs without explicit human approval of the exact statement. The author noted a limitation: Switch does not yet distinguish read-only from write tools, so that guardrail currently lives in the developer's own skill rather than the platform.

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ProgrammingDEV Community ·

Editing 0.016% of a model's weights reduces looping on math tasks

Researchers tested a targeted change to the weights of Qwen 3.5, an 800-million-parameter model that was getting stuck in repetitive loops on math exercises. The edit was made without any new training or backpropagation. On the MATH-500 benchmark, the authors report a score rising from 7.9% to 48.1%, and a later public re-evaluation on Hugging Face reported 51%. The result depends on a specific protocol, and reducing generation loops does not by itself prove a general improvement in the model's mathematical ability. A second experiment is expected to add nuance to these findings.

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IndiaTimes of India ·

Neighbour dispute over parking ends in fatal shooting of tech executive

Mohan Sharma is accused of fatally shooting his neighbour Paramjeet Dhankar after a disagreement over vehicle parking. The conflict had escalated over time, and Dhankar's family had earlier complained about tensions with Sharma's household. Repeated arguments between the two families had taken place about eight days before the shooting, touching on parking and a pet dog. Dhankar had recently flown back from Singapore to attend a family wedding when the incident occurred.

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ProgrammingDEV Community ·

Privy, Turnkey and Coinbase CDP Differ on Agent Wallet Spend Caps

A comparison of agent wallet policy engines from Coinbase CDP, Privy and Turnkey shows they handle unmatched operations differently. CDP accepts any operation that no policy mentions, so a spend cap on one signing method can leave another method unlimited. Privy and Turnkey instead deny operations that are not explicitly allowed. The author notes that top search results for these vendors do not compare their policy formats or whether they support daily spend caps. The comparison is based on each vendor's documentation, OpenAPI specs and pricing pages as of 7 November 2026. The article also finds that only Turnkey offers a public rolling spend cap feature.

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IndiaTimes of India ·

Ayodhya lights 30 lakh diyas across Saryu ghats for Diwali eve Deepotsav

Ayodhya was transformed into a dazzling display of light as more than 30 lakh earthen lamps were set to illuminate 56 ghats along the Saryu river on Diwali eve. Ram Ki Paidi ghat drew particular attention, with lakhs of diyas glowing across its steps. The annual Deepotsav festival commemorates Lord Ram's return to Ayodhya after his victory over Ravana. It recreates the traditional welcome that the city's people are believed to have given him in the Treta Yuga.

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ProgrammingDEV Community ·

RecallOps Pairs PostgreSQL With Long-Term Agent Memory to Improve Incident Response

Engineers often write detailed postmortems that go unread, so similar outages later lead to repeated failed fixes. The author's team built RecallOps, an operational intelligence layer for the Kartly e-commerce platform, to remember past incidents including alerts, recent deployments, attempted fixes, and what restored service. Their design combines a PostgreSQL store for structured operational state with Hindsight, a long-term memory engine that organizes distilled postmortems into memory banks with temporal and entity reasoning. The team argues that naive retrieval-augmented generation over raw logs performs poorly, because redundant log lines obscure causal signals, plain embeddings cannot tell successful fixes from harmful ones, and vector search loses incident chronology.

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ProgrammingDEV Community ·

Developer fixes OCR failures on photos by correcting EXIF rotation before text recognition

A developer running a browser-based image-to-text tool found that photos of product bottles, such as a sunscreen and a cologne, produced garbled output despite clean results on screenshots. The cause turned out to be phone cameras storing rotation in EXIF metadata rather than rotating the pixels, so the OCR engine was reading sideways text. The fix decodes images with orientation applied and draws them to a canvas before recognition, which also lets users preview what the engine sees. For photos with no orientation tag, the tool tests four rotations on a small copy and picks the most confident one. Low-contrast light-on-dark label text remained a problem, which the developer addressed with additional preprocessed image variants.

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ProgrammingDEV Community ·

Converting WebP to JPG in a Chrome Extension Using OffscreenCanvas

Browsers increasingly save images as WebP or AVIF, and simply renaming the file to .jpg does not change the actual format, so many upload forms and editors reject it. The developer of PixLasso, a Chrome and Edge extension that bundles page images into a ZIP, built an on-device JPG conversion feature that never uploads data. Because Manifest V3 service workers lack URL.createObjectURL and cannot decode SVG reliably, the conversion runs in a hidden offscreen document that the worker opens on demand. The post explains the decoding path, which tries createImageBitmap first and falls back to an image element with a timeout for SVGs, along with canvas drawing and memory handling. It also covers canvas size limits and detecting the true image format from file bytes rather than trusting filenames or headers.

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ProgrammingDEV Community ·

Silent API fallback corrupted a developer's AI agent memory experiment

A developer testing whether memory improves AI agents found that a silent fallback had contaminated their first set of results. The experiment's model hit its daily token limit on a free tier, and failed requests were quietly replaced without being flagged. The team labeled and kept the affected data, switched to a smaller model with its own allowance, and reran the study from scratch. The clean results showed nearly identical test scores for the memory and baseline agents, with only a small difference in failed runs that the author judges too few trials to be conclusive. The author concludes that fallbacks should be logged loudly and every data point should record its provenance.

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IndiaTimes of India ·

Rahul's unbeaten knock steers India to narrow DLS win over New Zealand

KL Rahul anchored India's ODI chase against New Zealand with an unbeaten innings after several teammates fell early. His innings proved decisive as India secured the win under the DLS method. New Zealand's batters struggled, leaving a modest target on the board. India's bowlers chipped in with timely wickets to keep the contest under control. The hosts ultimately prevailed by four runs despite difficult conditions.

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ProgrammingDEV Community ·

Juniors may regain the edge as AI matures, while senior pay premiums shrink

An author argues that today's junior tech workers face a tough market because companies keep seniors to oversee AI and cut entry-level roles that AI already handles. The author predicts that within five to ten years, AI could reach senior-level capability, leaving the operating skills needed to use it as the main differentiator. In that scenario, a junior with basic technical knowledge could deliver comparable results at a much lower salary, weakening the business case for hiring seniors. The author acknowledges uncertainties, including seniors shifting toward judgment and accountability, the risk of costly AI errors, unpredictable timelines, and a shrinking pipeline of trained juniors. The piece advises juniors to build strong fundamentals and work alongside AI, and urges seniors to focus on skills that are harder to automate.

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ProgrammingDEV Community ·

Price cleaner should flag unrecognized formats instead of guessing amounts

A scraped price field can look clean after stripping non-digit characters, but this may distort its meaning, such as turning a range into a single number or a delivery fee into a price. The article recommends preserving the raw source value, deriving a separate amount, and attaching a status that downstream stages can inspect. It illustrates this with a narrow Python example that accepts only GBP amounts with exactly two decimal places and rejects ranges, grouped amounts, negatives, and other currencies. The author stresses that a value matching the grammar is not automatically the intended price, since parsing syntax does not establish business meaning. Missing inputs and unrecognized formats are kept distinct so that unmatched values remain available for review rather than being silently converted.

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ProgrammingDEV Community ·

Wie man den Netzwerkverkehr von Android-Apps zu Forschungszwecken auswertet

Viele Apps schützen ihren verschlüsselten Datenverkehr inzwischen mit SSL-Pinning, was es erschwert, Daten auch dann zu prüfen, wenn ein eigenes Zertifikat installiert wurde. Der Artikel erläutert, dass das Mitschneiden des eigenen Netzwerkverkehrs grundsätzlich erlaubt ist, während das Manipulieren von Daten oder das Umgehen von Schutzmechanismen für Zugangsdaten problematisch wäre. Als Testumgebung wird Waydroid vorgestellt, ein Android-Emulator für Linux-Systeme, den der Autor dem Android Studio vorzieht. Für die Nutzung von Google-Diensten ist laut Beitrag eine Geräteregistrierung über die Android-ID notwendig, deren Auslesen auf mehreren Wegen beschrieben wird. Die Anleitung betont, dass sie ausschließlich für die Analyse des eigenen verschlüsselten Verkehrs gedacht ist.

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