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[AstraKernel 💫 @AstraKernel]

🦀 Google rewrote C codebase to Rust using Gemini

- New vulnerability emerged in C implementation while Rust port already immune to the exploit

- Rust implementation remained performance-neutral compared to the original C

- Validation feedback loop

https://t.co/HeHrVAA0zn

[We, the People of India @India_Policy]

The YOGI model of healthcare.

But this does not gets votes

[Ithaca King Swamy @JackRangaswami]

Surprisingly (for the nytimes) good overview of what Indias foreign policy is: https://t.co/UVX74I4I8X

[Bloomberg @business]

India likely grew at more than 7% last quarter, a pace most major economies would envy. Yet, that may still be too slow to deliver on Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s dream of a developed nation. https://t.co/JmlS0OrQzV

[Vadym Kazulkin @VKazulkin]

"How I Find Problems to Solve as a Staff Engineer".
by Lalit Maganti
https://t.co/ZRiKtQVC8s

[UP 10T Economic Goal™ @up_10t_army]

10 saal aur ruko.

People will start using expressways to drive 100–200 km just to go out for dinner.

As incomes rise, petrol costs and EV charging costs will become a much smaller concern relative to income. 🚗

[Anand Ranganathan @ARanganathan72]

Under @narendramodi, 85% more women are in workforce; 90% more women have bank accounts; 40% more women are in colleges; and 300% more women are in rural collectives. Woman emancipation doesn't happen through cherry-picking a verse, it happens through empowering them.

My views:

[Ivan Velichko @iximiuz]

How to Build Slim Container Images 🔽

A detailed write-up on what usually causes bloat in production images and how to avoid it by using multi-stage builds and carefully choosing base images.

With practical examples for Node.js, Go, Rust, Java, and PHP: https://t.co/U4qN8SamFs

[Anurag @Jhunjhunuwala_]

Average BJP Governance W.

Google Earth 2013/2025/2026 Version.

[TechCrunch @TechCrunch]

Sweden is perhaps one of the world’s hottest tech hubs right now.

And Sophia Bendz, a general partner at Cherry Ventures, stopped by Equity to break down the latest in Stockholm’s startup ecosystem.

Her answer for why the country has produced so many buzzy startups? Being a founder is actually cool. https://t.co/qWRXwS8z0F

[Urban Raj @daojus]

Hey Mallu media, This is how you educate people. അതെങ്ങനാ കോളേജിൽ പോകണ്ട ടൈംമിൽ കൊടി പിടിക്കാൻ നടന്നാൽ കാപ്പിക്കടേം / സുകുമാരക്കുറുപ്പും ഒക്കെ ആയിട്ട് ജീവിതം കായ്ചിൽ ആക്കാം.

[@drishtadyumna @drishtadyumn]

who tf is making these edits now

goddamn

[Mahesh Jethmalani @JethmalaniM]

For decades before 2014, the world practically mocked every Prime Minister's foreign trip as 'vanity' or 'photo-op'.

But Look at the last 24 months and try, honestly, to call this theatre.

In a world of tariffs, wars and broken supply chains, Prime Minister Narendra Modi is not collecting photographs. He is building leverage. Leverage over energy, minerals, missiles, markets, technology and of course free trade agreements.

The record speaks for itself.

May 2026, UAE: a brief stop, massive yield. Strategic petroleum collaboration with ADNOC, including potential storage of up to 30 million barrels in India. A long-term LPG track for homes and industry. A Strategic Defence Partnership framework covering manufacturing, training, maritime security and cyber. A ship-repair cluster at Vadinar. Around $5 billion in announced investment into Indian infrastructure and finance.

That is energy security when West Asia is on fire and sea lanes can become pressure points overnight.

February 2026, Israel: sixteen agreements. An agricultural research and innovation centre on Indian soil. Deeper defence and technology cooperation. Cyber. R&D. Cultural and digital ties. An FTA pushed onto a faster track.

That meant technology and capability coming back to Indian farmers, Indian industry and Indian defence.

June 2026, France: the Innovation Roadmap 2030. A series of agreements across innovation, defence, space and technology. An economic-security dialogue. A mechanism aimed at doubling trade.

July 2026, Indonesia: fourteen agreements and new initiatives. BrahMos cooperation—a serious step forward for Indian defence exports. Critical minerals and rare earths. Maritime security. Space. Steel. Healthcare.

And, crucially, an attempt to reduce Chinese dominance over the materials that will decide the future of batteries, electronics and weapons.

Australia: civil nuclear arrangements opening the door to uranium supply, a Maritime Security Collaboration Roadmap, defence agreements and a growing trade relationship. New Zealand added another maritime track.

These are not souvenirs from foreign visits.

They are part of the road map for a more secure, more resilient and more self-reliant Viksit Bharat. Atmanirbhar Bharat.

Today, The New York Times published an article headlined: “Modi Is Hedging Against Trump, One Deal at a Time.”

Its central point is simple: Modi has used each foreign visit to push India’s interests in security, trade and energy.

The India-US trade talks launched in February 2025 under President Trump were expected to produce haste and concession. Duties piled up, at one point heading towards 50 percent, including a penalty linked to Russian oil.

The expectation in some capitals was simple: India would fold.

India did not FOLD.

It refused a rushed, one-sided bargain. It held its ground on reciprocal access, domestic industry and agriculture.

It bought time.

And then used that time.

While talks dragged on, Delhi built alternatives: Gulf energy security, Israeli defence technology and agricultural innovation, French industrial and technology partnerships, Indonesian minerals and missile exports, Australian uranium and maritime cooperation.

That is how a continental economy stops negotiating from weakness.

Even after the February 2026 interim move towards an 18 percent reciprocal rate, Indian negotiators continued to hold out for terms that did not sacrifice agriculture or leave India permanently worse off than its competitors.

Even news media, whose first instinct is to criticise PM Modi, started to understand the value of his initiatives. Reuters described an increasingly confident India drawing strength from new partnerships. The Wall Street Journal wrote that New Delhi’s deal-making with middle powers had strengthened its hand with Washington.

That is the point.

You do not gain respect at a difficult negotiating table by talking about old friendships.

You gain it by showing that you have choices.

Beyond the international coverage of Modi and Trump, reporting on tariffs, tensions and the unfinished trade bargain, something else is happening:

India is no longer waiting for others to solve its problems.

It is securing supply chains, energy, minerals, defence partnerships and markets first and then negotiating.

That is why India can deal with America without surrendering its interests and deal with China without being intimidated.

The world does not hand out influence.

You have to build it.

And 2026 is a brutal year in which to do so.

Energy routes are under threat. Great powers are openly transactional. China remains ambitious. America is demanding.

In that environment, speeches do not keep the lights on. Statements do not fill strategic reserves.

What does?

A Prime Minister who treats every foreign visit as work.

Modi’s personal standing with world leaders is not branding. It has strategic value for India.

It gives India access, trust and room to manoeuvre.

And the growing confidence in India abroad is not charity. It comes from agreements signed, supply chains opened, capabilities built, markets expanded and promises delivered.

This is interest-first statecraft. Relentless.

History will not remember who mocked whose boarding pass.

It will ask a harder question:

When the world became unstable, who came home with oil, minerals, missiles, technology, markets and greater bargaining power?

That work is underway.

It is unfinished.

And it is exactly the work required to secure India’s interests and India’s rightful place in a world that respects countries which have options.
https://t.co/oGx2LeBeEh

[Gwen (Chen) Shapira @gwenshap]

I've been following a lot of the wal-on-s3 and database-on-s3 debates... and I think everyone is wrong 🤣

First. All the hand-wringing about whether it counts as database-on-s3 if there are cache layers above it. Guys, DBs for the last 40 years had cache layers above an extremely slow storage layer.

You think S3 is slow? Try a Netapp device with RAID-5 when the DB has a completely over-subscribed top-of-rack switch. Try a high performance Symmetrix, with a dedicated storage network, with a massively undersized Barracuda switch that basically tips over whenever someone takes a backup. Databases were designed for slow storage, and caches are the way to go. Even with NVMes, caches rock the world. I don't understand why suddenly this is a topic for debate.

Second. Getting this to work reliably is not trivial.
You can vibe-code it... If you have 20 years experience building distributed data systems, and you know every algorithm and how well they worked in production and how to comprehensively test them. Then you can guide your LLM toward a great outcome.

But if it is your first time building a distributed system (or any kind of data store), you should see this as a learning experience - and embrace the lessons that are facing you. As many people discovered in the last week - learning in public is a great way to learn, but is not for the faint of heart.

But learning *is* the important bit. Which is why I'm sharing my 2 bits - so everyone can yell at me and I can learn too!

[Hoyt Emerson @HoytEmerson]

Well F***K me I'm going to have to learn Rust.

https://t.co/ZzM2jkyePc

[Southern Railway @GMSRailway]

India’s high-density rail network carries a significant share of the nation’s passenger and freight traffic. Indian Railways is moving towards four-laning these vital corridors to create greater capacity and strengthen connectivity.

7 high-density routes. 11,000 km. 41% of total railway traffic.

More lines. More capacity. Building for the future.

#IndianRailways #SouthernRailway #India

[Tobias Ziegler @Tobias__Ziegler]

Link to the paper: https://t.co/hc5qbJ7WvU

[Tobias Ziegler @Tobias__Ziegler]

There is a lot of hype around putting the WAL on object storage.
However, for low-latency systems, e.g. OLTP databases, object storage is a suboptimal primitive for the WAL:

(1) PUTs are expensive for small WAL writes [bytes/$].
(2) Object stores are optimized for throughput, not latency, with write latencies often around 10-50 ms.
Because every transaction must wait for its WAL record to become durable, every transaction inherits that latency.

This points to a missing storage primitive.

In our (@maxikuschewski @melhindiCS @viktor_leis) latest accepted research paper at VLDB, we looked at how to close that gap.

[STAR Boy TARUN @Starboy2079]

The “Monk” is quietly rewriting UP’s economic story.

Yogi Adityanath’s UP has grown from a ₹13.3 lakh crore economy in 2016-17 to ₹29.78 lakh crore in 2024-25, now India’s 3rd-largest state economy.

Now the beauty of this growth story

This growth has not come only by subsidies, it came alongside-
▪️Fiscal discipline - UP’s 2025-26 budget targets a 3% fiscal deficit
▪️Capital spending- 2026-27 capital expenditure is around ₹2 lakh crore
▪️Improved law & order- NCRB 2024 puts UP’s crime rate at 180.2/lakh vs 252.3 nationally, 28.5% lower.

What Yogi Adityanath has done in UP is nothing less than a miracle
https://t.co/iBUdPZwL1R

[ANI @ANI]

250 Students On Waiting List: Gujarat’s Govt School Becomes First Choice for Parents