Washington & Beijing worry that if India can grow at nearly 8% a year amid global wars, $100 oil, trade tariffs & El Niño drought, what might its growth rate be when the clouds clear? My @firstpost column firstpost.com/opinion/head-o…

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Chinese bride gifts her partner a flagship GPU at wedding — he breaks down in tears She handed him an ASUS ROG Astral RTX 5090 that costs around $12,000

A Red Hat engineer used Claude Code to reverse-engineer Windows hardware support and bring it to Linux. Christian Schaller bought a film scanner, only to discover its newer chipset didn’t work on Linux. After months of failed attempts, he gave Claude access to a Windows virtual machine running the manufacturer’s driver. Claude analyzed the USB traffic to help reproduce the scanner’s behavior on Linux. Within hours, Schaller had his first recognizable scan. He then used a similar approach to fix problems with his ThinkPad’s camera, producing patches for the Linux kernel and libcamera. The scanner driver remains a proof of concept, and the camera fixes are going through submission and review. He also released hw-harness so other developers can try this with their own hardware. Every result was checked on the actual devices. Full story here: blogs.gnome.org/uraeus/2026/…

As I have said in the past: IAM jobs are going to explode in the next 6-12 months and 99% of people are not ready for that. You're still early. Lock in.

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Fantastic. Credit to Tesla where it is due. Before the event Elon called it the most exciting demo of any product, "whether it works or not". It worked. The Roadster jumped over a row of Teslas on 600 L of compressed air, did a side flip from standstill, and Road & Track timed 0-60 at 0.81 s. Since 2017 buyers have had $50K deposits down for this car. Production is now 2028. Now an India question. Which of our home-grown automobile companies can put on a demo like this in the near future? And what would they need first?

JUST IN: US is considering cutting Starlink access for Ukraine

Veteran actor Nana Patekar has passed away at the age of 75 at a private hospital in Dona Paula, Goa. His death was confirmed by his son, Malhar Patekar. The actor was reportedly rushed to the hospital after being found unconscious at his residence. He was known for his powerful performances in films including Krantiveer, Parinda, Agni Sakshi, Natsamrat and Welcome. Nana Patekar, born Vishwanath Patekar, was one of Indian cinema's most acclaimed actors, winning three National Film Awards and the Padma Shri. #NanaPatekar #MalharPatekar #Bollywood

AWS is coming for the cloud architect’s job. Or at least, a big chunk of it. They built an AI agent that can audit up to 100 AWS accounts, find architecture problems, and generate the Terraform fixes for them. The new Well-Architected Agent checks cost, security, performance and resilience across 65+ AWS services. Feed it Terraform, CloudFormation or CDK, and it can return the IaC changes and CLI commands needed to fix what it finds. And it doesn’t stop after one review. AWS says it can automatically re-check your environments every week. Full announcement: aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/ann…

Ajay Devgn in Khakee 2004 Man was just pure evil in this!