25 years of 9/11: How cinema remembered, mourned and questioned

Adhikari warns Jadavpur University of firm action over anti-India slogans

West Bengal minister Adhikari addressed the state assembly, warning that the government would take a tough stance against anti-national slogans raised on the Jadavpur University campus. He invoked Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose rather than Mahatma Gandhi to signal a more assertive response to such activities. Adhikari specifically called out slogans like 'Bharat tere tukde honge' and demands for Kashmir's freedom as unacceptable. At the same time, he announced that Jadavpur University would receive Rs 1,300 crore in government grants. The remarks drew attention for their sharp tone, combining a major funding announcement with a stern warning to those deemed to be promoting divisive rhetoric.

7 Free and Open-Source Jira Alternatives for Teams Working With AI Agents

As AI coding agents become active contributors in software development, the demands on project management tools are evolving beyond traditional human-focused workflows. Tools must now support structured task handoffs, parallel agent activity, and review processes for agent-generated work. A roundup published on DEV Community highlights seven free or open-source Jira alternatives worth considering in 2026, including Plane, which offers a self-hosted Community Edition under the AGPL-3.0 license. These platforms vary in their approach, with some offering free cloud tiers and others relying on self-hosting for no-cost access. The piece emphasizes evaluating tools not just on classic project tracking features but on how well they integrate into hybrid human-and-agent development environments.

NASA's Retiring Swift Observatory Takes Final Observations Before Reentry

NASA's Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory is nearing the end of its operational life as it gradually falls out of orbit. Before its atmospheric reentry, scientists have reactivated the satellite's onboard telescopes to conduct a final round of observations. The move allows researchers to extract last-minute scientific data from the aging spacecraft. Swift has long been valued for its ability to detect and study gamma-ray bursts and other high-energy cosmic events.

Ex-OpenAI and Anthropic Researcher Warns AI Labs Moving Too Fast to Control

A researcher who claims to have spent three years at OpenAI and Anthropic publicly resigned this week, warning that leading AI labs are advancing toward systems that may become hard to control. His concern highlights a broader governance gap: AI tools are no longer just answering questions but actively executing commands, modifying files, and taking real-world actions. Most engineering teams lack a unified, reviewable record of what AI-assisted tasks actually do and why. The article argues that organizations do not need to wait for a superintelligence scenario to start making AI actions transparent and auditable. It introduces Chron, an open-source, local-first audit tool designed to log AI activity with tamper-evident records, positioning accountable evidence as a practical step every team can take now.

Why Developers Are Ditching Cloud Bookmarks for Self-Hosted, SQLite-Powered Tools

Privacy concerns around cloud bookmark services have pushed developers and power users toward self-hosted alternatives in 2026, as platforms like Pocket face uncertain futures following corporate layoffs and acquisitions. Cloud services can track saved links, build behavioral profiles, and share reading data with ad networks, making personal bookmark lists a surprisingly sensitive data asset. Open-source tools such as linkding, Shiori, Wallabag, and Linkwarden allow users to run private, searchable bookmark managers on local hardware or a self-controlled VPS. SQLite powers most of these tools, requiring as little as 50 MB of RAM and offering a single portable database file with no server daemon or complex configuration. Linkding, considered the most popular self-hosted option in 2026, can be deployed in under ten minutes using Docker, eliminating subscriptions, tracking, and vendor lock-in entirely.

Apple Rolls Out Videos, Labs, and Q&As to Help Developers Prep for iPhone Duo

Apple has launched a set of developer resources to help prepare for the upcoming iPhone Duo platform. Developers are invited to watch newly released videos covering features and development guidelines for the device. Group Labs are also available, offering hands-on sessions with direct support from Apple engineers. Additionally, Q&A sessions on the Apple Developer Forums allow developers to get technical questions answered by the community. The initiative reflects Apple's effort to build a strong app ecosystem ahead of the new hardware's release.

7 workers injured after Bihar bridge collapses

Trump Mobile T1 Phone Price Jumps $250 to $749 Without Announcement

Trump Mobile has quietly raised the price of its T1 Phone from $499 to $749, a $250 increase, without any public announcement. The change was made overnight on the company's website, with no alterations to the phone's hardware or features. The T1 Phone offers 512GB of storage and 12GB of RAM. Company executives had previously described the original $499 price as 'introductory,' and the website had briefly labeled it a 'promotional price' before that language was also removed.

Indian couple donates Rs 191 crore to US varsity

Apple Opens App Store Submissions for iOS 27, macOS 27, and All New OS Versions

Apple has opened App Store submissions for apps built on its latest platforms, including iOS 27, iPadOS 27, macOS 27, tvOS 27, visionOS 27, and watchOS 27. Developers are advised to use Xcode 27 Release Candidate, test via TestFlight, and submit apps built with the latest SDKs. A major shift for macOS developers is that macOS 27 will be Apple Silicon-only, ending Intel Mac and Rosetta support after macOS 26. Starting April 2027, apps across all Apple platforms must be built using their respective OS 27 SDKs or later. Additional requirements include updated age rating disclosures for social media apps and new App Store product page assets.

Why Identity and AI Gateways Must Come First in Enterprise AI Adoption

Enterprises adopting AI tools face foundational risks when employees use personal accounts and self-managed API keys, creating gaps in access control and cost visibility. A structured approach places identity management and an AI gateway as the first stage of deployment, ensuring every request is tied to a company-issued identity. Role-based scopes determine what each user can access, while a secrets manager ensures credentials are stored securely and never shared manually. An AI gateway handles routing, rate limiting, budget tracking, logging, and data protection filters for all calls to cloud LLM APIs. Establishing these controls from day one enables later stages—such as role-scoped data retrieval and per-team budget caps—to function reliably.

Issue Trackers Lack a Private Draft Stage, Creating Costly Team Confusion

Most issue trackers move ideas directly onto a shared board the moment they are created, skipping any private preparation phase. This forces half-formed thoughts to become public work items instantly, often triggering premature comments, scope disputes, and misdirected effort. The author argues that capturing an idea and preparing a task are fundamentally different activities, and conflating them means teams either inherit unnecessary friction at the capture stage or skip preparation entirely. Editing a task privately costs nothing, but revising a published ticket requires notifying commenters, correcting anyone who has started work, and re-litigating decisions already made. The proposed fix is a dedicated draft state that keeps new items invisible to the team until a deliberate, criteria-based publish action signals the task is genuinely ready.

Why 'Can You Define Done?' Matters More Than Task Difficulty When Delegating to AI

A software developer argues that the key factor in successfully delegating tasks to coding agents is not task difficulty but whether clear acceptance criteria can be written before work begins. Tasks with mechanical, verifiable outcomes — such as passing tests or zero new lint warnings — hand off reliably, while vague tasks like 'improve performance' tend to produce repeated, unsatisfactory results. The author notes that this discipline of writing acceptance criteria first also benefits human team members, enabling colleagues unfamiliar with a codebase to take on bounded tasks with minimal context. A side effect of rigorous delegation is that only pure judgment calls remain on the developer's own plate, which proves more mentally taxing than expected. The author cautions that consistently delegating only the mechanical half of work risks hollowing out roles, and recommends retaining the decision-making step even when automation of it seems feasible.

Stop Wasting Interview Prep Time: A Smarter Hour-by-Hour Budget

A structured interview preparation framework argues that the common advice of spending five to ten hours preparing is unhelpful because it ignores how that time is actually used. The approach divides prep work into two categories: reusable tasks done once for all interviews, and per-interview tasks tailored to each specific role. Core reusable work — writing six behavioral stories and reviewing your resume aloud — takes roughly two hours total and can be lightly adapted for each application. Per-interview tasks, including analyzing the job posting, researching the company's recent work, preparing questions, and doing one spoken practice run, add about two and a half hours each time. The key insight is that interviews feel harder early on because most people redo the reusable groundwork from scratch every time, rather than building on it.

Nintendo Switch 2 firmware 23.0.0 brings VRR support in docked TV mode

Nintendo has released firmware update 23.0.0 for the Switch 2, finally delivering the variable refresh rate (VRR) feature that was promised at launch but initially missing. VRR works by syncing a display's refresh rate to a game's frame rate, which reduces screen tearing and smooths out gameplay. The feature is especially beneficial for Switch 2 titles with inconsistent frame rates, and brings the console in line with competitors like the PS5 and Xbox Series S/X. The update also introduces a new handheld boost mode toggle accessible through quick settings.

SENTINEL-RL Architecture Splits SOC Reasoning to Tackle Scaling and Cost Limits

Security operations centers (SOCs) face severe performance bottlenecks when traditional platforms process authentication graph alerts through a single, tightly coupled pipeline that entangles semantic reasoning and graph traversal. Legacy SIEM and SOAR tools from 2020–2023 struggle in large environments, with simulations showing throughput failures in networks exceeding 2,000 hosts. SENTINEL-RL is an open reference architecture designed to address this by decoupling semantic and topological reasoning into two distinct processing pipelines. The dual-pipeline approach aims to reduce redundant LLM calls, lower operational costs, and improve throughput during multi-host incident investigations. However, real-world deployments reveal persistent failure modes, including stale semantic tags after graph mutations and context overflow errors that can disrupt autonomous SOC investigations.

PCA and t-SNE Explained: Two Ways to Visualize High-Dimensional Word Embeddings

Word embeddings represent words as dense vectors in spaces of 100 to 300 dimensions, making them impossible to visualize directly. Dimensionality reduction techniques help compress these high-dimensional vectors into two or three dimensions while preserving meaningful relationships. Principal Component Analysis (PCA) is a linear method that captures broad structural trends and is useful for spotting outliers and global patterns. t-SNE, by contrast, prioritizes keeping nearby points close together in the reduced space, making it better suited for revealing tight word clusters and local groupings. Practitioners often use both methods together — PCA for a global overview and t-SNE for uncovering finer cluster structures within embeddings.

Apple Enters Foldable Phone Market With $1,999 iPhone

Apple has unveiled its first foldable iPhone, priced at $1,999. The move comes despite foldable smartphones remaining a niche and largely unpopular product category in the broader market. The premium price tag reflects the complex engineering and specialized components required to build foldable devices. Apple appears to be betting that its brand loyalty and ecosystem can succeed where other manufacturers have struggled to gain mass adoption.

Vijay Mallya Claims ED Recovered Rs 14,000 Crore From Him, Alleges Injustice

Fugitive businessman Vijay Mallya has alleged injustice in the legal cases being pursued against him in India. He claimed that the Enforcement Directorate, in an affidavit submitted to the Bombay High Court, acknowledged recovering Rs 14,000 crore from him. According to Mallya, this recovered amount has already been paid to the banks he owed money to. Despite this, Mallya suggested that legal proceedings against him continue, which he described as unfair treatment.