Ex-Army man arrested for fatally shooting Gurgaon PG owner over money dispute

A former Army serviceman was arrested in Delhi on Tuesday for allegedly shooting dead a paying guest (PG) accommodation owner in Gurgaon. The incident took place in the presence of the victim's wife and children during the evening hours. The shooting stemmed from a financial dispute, as the victim had reportedly borrowed a large sum of money from the accused. Police teams acted swiftly and apprehended the suspect within hours of the crime. Authorities are continuing their investigation and working to recover the firearm used in the attack.

How Node.js API Quota Boundaries Prevent Reconnect Storms in Live Auction Dashboards

Engineers building live auction dashboards face a hidden risk where client reconnect storms and backfill requests compete with real-time bid updates, quietly causing stale data despite active WebSocket connections. The recommended approach separates traffic into distinct quota classes — live fan-out, presence signals, receipts, and backfill — each with its own rate budget and loss tolerance. A class-aware API boundary can admit valid session resumes, reject duplicate backfill requests with a Retry-After header, and keep the bid delivery lane unaffected. Capacity planning must account for the full fan-out math upfront, such as 40,000 deliveries per second for 2,000 viewers receiving 20 bids each, with explicit SLOs for bid delivery latency and backfill rate limits. Instrumentation should track admitted and rejected requests by quota class, resume latency, and cursor validation spans, making every traffic transition visible and attributable to operators.

Vance, Rubio warn Trump Iran conflict may extend beyond his second term

Senior US officials including Vice President JD Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio have privately cautioned President Trump that a conflict with Iran may last longer than he expects. The warnings were reportedly delivered during closed-door discussions held in the Oval Office and the Situation Room. Advisers told Trump that Iran could sustain resistance against US pressure for an extended period. The conflict, they suggested, could potentially continue past the next presidential inauguration in January 2029, outlasting Trump's second term in office.

Fal's H3 Max Director Turns AI Video Generation Into a Live, Interactive Stream

AI infrastructure platform fal has launched H3 Max Director, a video generation tool that operates as a continuous, steerable runtime rather than producing static video files. Unlike conventional video APIs, Director maintains a running context across segments via WebRTC, carrying 39 frames of continuity and retaining up to 50 prior direction prompts as memory. Developers have already used the technology to build interactive experiences, including an endless AI-generated TV channel called Infinite Slop, where viewers submit prompts that shape the next scene in real time. Sessions currently run up to two minutes, with longer durations being rolled out gradually for approved use cases. Pricing starts at $0.02 per second during a launch promotion, rising to $0.08 per second afterward, positioning the tool less as a consumer novelty and more as infrastructure for interactive visual applications.

48-Hour Debugging Mystery Solved: Python Buffers stdout When No TTY Is Attached

A developer spent nearly 48 hours troubleshooting what appeared to be a deadlocked remote batch job, only to discover the real culprit was Python's default stdout buffering behavior. CPython automatically switches to block-buffering mode when stdout is not connected to a terminal (TTY), such as when output is captured via a pipe on a remote server. This caused all print statements to be silently held in a buffer and only flushed when the process crashed, making the job appear frozen. The issue did not reproduce locally because a laptop terminal counts as a TTY, which triggers line-buffering and immediate output. The fix is straightforward: run Python with the -u flag or set the PYTHONUNBUFFERED=1 environment variable to force unbuffered stdout in non-TTY environments.

Developer builds tool to detect live robots.txt changes injected by CDNs like Cloudflare

A developer discovered that the robots.txt file stored in a site's repository may differ from what crawlers actually receive, particularly when CDNs like Cloudflare inject their own rules at the edge. Cloudflare's AI Crawl Control feature can rewrite robots.txt in transit without modifying the origin file, meaning site owners may be unaware of what Googlebot or AI crawlers like GPTBot are actually seeing. Finding no existing tool that checks the live, served version of robots.txt — only generators for building static files — the developer built an open-source utility called robots-check. The tool can be run via npx with zero dependencies and detects whether the live file contains CDN-injected rules. It also includes a CI flag to fail builds if a site is accidentally fully disallowed, and a GitHub Action for automated workflow integration.

ESPN Hockey Broadcaster Barry Melrose Dies at 70 After Parkinson's Battle

Barry Melrose, a celebrated hockey broadcaster and former NHL player and coach, passed away at the age of 70. He had been diagnosed with Parkinson's disease in 2023. Melrose spent three decades at ESPN, where he became a prominent analyst and helped grow the sport's fanbase. He was widely respected across multiple roles in hockey, including as a player, coach, and television personality. Tributes poured in from across the hockey community and broadcasting world following news of his death.

Nuvama Analyst Picks Paytm, Nykaa, VA Tech Wabag as Top Buys for Sep 10

Aakash K Hindocha, Vice President of Research at Nuvama Professional Clients Group, has shared his top stock recommendations for September 10, 2026. The three stocks highlighted for potential buying are Paytm, Nykaa, and VA Tech Wabag. These picks come from Nuvama Wealth's research desk, which regularly advises professional and high-net-worth clients. Investors are advised to conduct their own due diligence before acting on any stock recommendations.

Vocabulary Caps Hurt Small Language Models, New Experiment Finds

A developer running experiments on small transformer models tested whether capping vocabulary size — a feature associated with the TinyStories paper — improves model performance on a cs.CL abstracts corpus. Three vocabulary caps (1,500, 4,000, and 8,000 types) were tested on an identical 4-layer model with 846K training tokens, scored only on token positions common to all arms to ensure fair comparison. The 1,500-token cap scored 4 accuracy points lower than larger vocabularies and produced severely degraded text, with over a third of output tokens replaced by an unknown-word placeholder. Unlike TinyStories, where simple words carried full meaning in children's stories, capping vocabulary on a technical corpus strips content words and forces the model into repetitive, skeleton-like outputs. The experiment concludes that TinyStories' success came from its domain and writing style, not from the vocabulary restriction itself.

Apple unveils foldable iPhone Duo at Rs 2.99 lakh, new Pro and Watch at Surprise event

Apple wrapped up its Surprise and Shine event by launching the iPhone Duo, its first foldable smartphone, priced at Rs 2,99,900. The iPhone 18 Pro introduces a variable aperture camera, while the Apple Watch Series 12 monitors heart activity every five seconds. AirPods 5 debut with noise cancellation at Rs 14,900. Notably, Apple skipped a standard iPhone 18 model this year, and prices of older iPhone models have been increased. The event also marked a leadership transition, with John Ternus replacing Tim Cook at the helm.

China, Russia presidents to arrive for BRICS summit, Delhi Police deploys 30,000 personnel

Rybakina set to become Kazakhstan's first-ever world No. 1 in tennis

Elena Rybakina is poised to claim the WTA world No. 1 ranking for the first time in her career. The achievement ends Aryna Sabalenka's 99-week reign at the top of women's tennis. Rybakina will become the first player from Kazakhstan — male or female — to hold the top singles ranking in any Grand Slam sport. She will also enter the record books as the 30th player in WTA history to reach the coveted top position.

Investing Knowledge Graph Series: Why Entity Resolution Breaks When Merging Multi-Source Data

A developer building an investing knowledge graph shares insights from two real-world conversations that shaped the final part of their series. One discussion involved a financial news aggregation system merging data from English and Chinese sources, such as matching 'Tesla, Inc.' with '特斯拉', highlighting challenges in cross-language entity blocking. The other involved a KYC sanctions screening system, where the stakes of a false negative — an entity wrongly cleared — are far more serious than in a typical knowledge graph. While the core entity resolution architecture transfers across both use cases, the author cautions that model thresholds and training data must be domain-specific, especially for compliance tools. Cross-language name matching and alias generation during ingestion are identified as key technical hurdles that standard string normalization alone cannot solve.

Oil holds above $100 as Iran-US attacks threaten deeper supply disruption

Anthropic Researcher Quits, Forfeits Stock to Sound Alarm on AI Extinction Risk

A researcher at AI company Anthropic voluntarily resigned from his position to speak out about the dangers of artificial intelligence. He walked away from stock options that were close to vesting, sacrificing significant financial gain in the process. The researcher has warned that AI could pose an extinction-level threat to humanity as early as 2030. His decision to become a whistleblower highlights growing concerns within the AI industry about the pace and safety of AI development.

NDTV App Showcased at Apple's Annual iPhone Launch Event

The NDTV news app was highlighted at Apple's annual iPhone launch event, making it the sole news application featured at the occasion. It appeared during a live demonstration of Apple's upgraded Siri AI assistant. The feature gave NDTV rare visibility on one of the tech industry's most-watched global stages. No other news app received similar placement during the event's proceedings.

Google Apps Script Gets Python and Bash Execution via Cloud Run Sandboxes

A developer has demonstrated how Google Cloud Run Sandboxes, powered by gVisor isolation technology, can be connected directly to Google Apps Script to overcome the platform's built-in limitations. Standard Apps Script environments restrict users to JavaScript on the V8 runtime with a strict six-minute execution timeout, blocking native Linux binaries and Python libraries. By routing tasks through Cloud Run Sandboxes, developers can now run Python data science tools like Pandas and Bash commands in 200–450 milliseconds with zero idle cost. The architecture uses zero-trust micro-isolation, meaning untrusted or AI-generated code executes in ephemeral containers without exposing the host environment. The approach is positioned as a lightweight alternative to LLM-based agents for deterministic Workspace automations that do not require conversational inference or token consumption.

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Free Browser Tool Generates 47-Tile Autotile Sets from Just Two Source Tiles

A developer has released a free, browser-based tool called 47-Tile Terrain Autotile Maker that automatically generates a complete autotile set from two user-selected ground tiles, eliminating the need to draw every edge, corner, and transition manually. The tool works by reducing 256 possible neighbor combinations to the 47 valid ones that can realistically appear on a map, matching the tile format expected by both Godot's terrain system and Unity's Rule Tile. Users can choose from six built-in terrain pairs, select tile sizes between 16 and 64 pixels, and customize boundary styles, corner roundness, and edge roughness before downloading. Exports include a PNG tile sheet at up to 8x resolution, a sample map image, and a JSON manifest with neighbor masks and engine-specific conditions for Godot and Unity. The tool runs entirely in the browser with no sign-up required and no file uploads, and includes 57 automated checks to ensure output colors are drawn only from the two source tiles.