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India deployed military personnel and blocked Telegram this week to prevent cheating during its national college-entrance examination. The move reflects how high the stakes have become around standardized testing, and how far governments are now willing to go, reaching for both soldiers and app bans, to protect the integrity of a single test.
Shifting from policy to practice, one developer published a detailed account of building two production-level enterprise applications entirely solo, using Cursor and Claude, for a total cost of thirteen thousand nine hundred forty five dollars. The piece is a grounded look at what AI-assisted development actually costs and delivers in the real world, not in demos, but in shipped, working software.
And in physics, scientists are proposing that black holes as we've understood them may not exist at all, suggesting instead that what we call black holes might be gravastars, exotic objects with fundamentally different structures. It's a reminder that even our most confident cosmological models are still, in the deepest sense, works in progress.
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