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Rollback of ‘roadless rule’ expected to benefit companies US Forest Service chief, Tom Schultz, previously lobbied for

Donald Trump this month announced plans to rescind a landmark rule that has protected old-growth forests in the US for 25 years. If finalized, the rollback is expected to benefit the companies that Tom Schultz, chief of the US Forest Service, represented in his previous roles as a timber industry lobbyist and executive, according to research by consumer advocacy non-profit Public Citizen.

The Roadless Area Conservation Rule, more commonly known as the “roadless rule”, was adopted in 2001 to limit development in roughly 45m acres of national forest. Industry interests and Republican representatives have long lobbied for the rule’s rescission, which would open up those swaths of untouched land to road construction, drilling and logging.

Есть такое травянистое растение — центелла азиатская. Она растёт в Юго-Восточной Азии, Океании и Австралии, любит, чтобы было жарко и влажно. Болота, берега рек и ручьёв, рисовые поля — её обычные места обитания.

Тропики — местность суровая, здесь полно тех, кто хочет тебя сожрать. И центелла отрастила себе эволюционный механизм: при повреждении клетки растение запускает жасмонатный сигнальный каскад — систему внутренней тревоги растения. В ответ на вой сирены усиливается синтез вторичных метаболитов, в том числе тритерпеновых сапонинов. Это вещества, которые появились у центеллы для того, чтобы защищаться.

Здесь начинается самое интересное. Тритерпены умеют взаимодействовать с клетками млекопитающих. И первыми его опробовали на себе тигры.

Есть одна легенда. После суровых битв за территорию тигры шли валяться в зарослях центеллы. Трава выделяла сок, который впитывался в шкуру и заживлял раны. Так центелла получила своё второе название — tiger grass, или «тигриная трава». Это дело несколько тысячелетий назад подсмотрели спецы по аюрведе и включили траву в один из своих трактатов «Сушрута-самхита». Причём использовалась она не только для лечения ран, но и как средство «для ясности ума».

Западная наука начала разбираться в свойствах центеллы в XX веке, и примерно тогда же были выделены тритерпеновые молекулы в чистом виде. Вот они, слева направо: азиатикозид, мадекассозид, азиатиковая и мадекассовая кислоты.

Вы можете найти их на банках с косметикой, в разделе с составом. Ещё можете обнаружить загадочное cica прямо под обещанием заживления, успокоения и сглаживания рубцов. Это всё та же центелла.  

Сразу спойлер: тигры в этой истории — отнюдь не дураки. Но и мы настроены скептически. Так что давайте разберём центеллу по молекулам.

American Scoundrel tells story of McCarthy attack dog, mob lawyer and Trump mentor – will the president be thumbing its pages?

Kai Bird and Susan Goldmark have written a book Trumpworld doesn’t want you to read. Published on Tuesday, American Scoundrel is a propulsive, horrifying biography of Roy Cohn, the New York mob lawyer whose extraordinary life charted, as the book’s subtitle has it, a “Dark Journey from Joe McCarthy to Donald Trump”.

“I told my publicist to reach out to any of the Fox News hosts and reporters, to Joe Rogan, Steve Bannon,” Bird said. “We haven’t gotten a peep, other than Joe Rogan. He said he looked at the galleys, and he got back to my publicist and said, ‘I’m not interested.’ I’m kind of surprised. This is a serious biography of the president’s mentor, whom he publicly admires and says he still misses.”

In Netflix film Turning Point: Generation 9/11, the lives of people forever impacted by the terrorist attack in 2001 are explored

Twenty-five years on, memory is giving way to history. Soon the US will cross the point where half its population were born after 11 September 2001 or were too young to remember the day that terrorists crashed planes into the World Trade Center in New York, the Pentagon in northern Virginia and a field in Shanksville, Pennsylvania.

“When I do that math, I get to the bomb at Hiroshima – that’s how distant it is,” says Brian Knappenberger, 56, director of a new Netflix documentary, Turning Point: Generation 9/11. “When we talk about the second world war, for our generation it seemed like a long time ago but, for the current generation of 20-year-olds, that’s how long ago it was.”

Zelenskyy says Moscow is capitalising on shortage of US-made Patriot interceptors to lower morale in capital

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At least 12 people have been killed in and around Kyiv overnight as Ukraine’s capital endured a sixth consecutive night of Russian drone and missile attacks aimed at shattering infrastructure and lowering the morale of the city.

Eight of the dead were reported killed in Kyiv, including seven at a railway depot on the city’s left bank, and four were killed in Boryspil, to the east of the city, in a wave of strikes at about 2.30am after hours of air alerts.

«Он подписан, издатель известный» — этим аргументом закрывают вопрос про стороннюю программу, которую тянут в сборку или ставят на рабочий компьютер. Возразить с ходу нечем: вкладка «Цифровые подписи» в свойствах файла и правда показывает «Эта цифровая подпись действительна». Случаи, когда вредоносный файл подписан настоящим сертификатом, редки — на них и не рассчитывают. В таких разговорах я обычно зануда.

Подпись действительно кое-что подтверждает. Просто не то, что от неё ждут. Она говорит: «этот файл в момент подписи выпустил вот такой издатель, и после подписи содержимое не меняли». Она не говорит: «файл безопасен», «издатель — тот, за кого себя выдаёт прямо сейчас» и «ключ не украли полгода назад».

Газпромбанк появился у меня как и все другие - корпоративный банк, куда начислялась зарплата. На данный момент у них 5,7 млн активных розничных клиентов.

Второй банк которым я пользуют Т-банк - единственный банк, который я выбрала сама.

До этого у меня ещё была карта Альфа-банка, также корпоративная - её я закрыла после того, как внезапно обнаружила что несколько месяцев с меня списывали услугу, которую сами подключили. Раньше это был очень популярный даркпаттерн телекома, но они от него отказались, поняв, что отток не покрывает краткосрочную выгоду. Банки - пока этого не поняли, к сожалению.

Привет! Меня зовут Маша, я Senior Product Manager и разбираю только те продукты, над которыми сама хотела бы поработать, так как ими пользуюсь, люблю и вижу, где есть потенциал роста. Мне драйвово искать для них решения, которые выводят продукт на новый уровень не только по деньгам, но и по UX и любви пользователей. Мои другие разборы: «Рейтинг ни на что не влияет»: Почему Яндекс.такси выбирает газлайтинг вместо честного UX и Тест-драйв 2GIS: как завалить навигатор рекламой и потерять базовый UX.

Сегодня хочу подробнее рассмотреть механики, которые используют банки для повышения своей маржинальности на пример Газпромбанка.

Если вы хоть раз работали с крупными KMP проектами, то наверняка хотели обратиться к старым добрым гредл флейворам, которые всем так хорошо знакомы по андроид разработке.

Но спустя 5 минут поисков до вас доходит осознание:Gradle Flavor на KMP нет и не планируется, а вместо них нам достается expect/actual, разбивающий код по платформенным сорц сетам

Yield on 30-year gilts highest since 1998 as rout triggered by global factors underlines tricky backdrop John Healey faces

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The chancellor’s headroom against Labour’s fiscal rules could be almost halved at his first budget if the current global bond sell-off persists into the autumn, economists say.

The UK’s long-term borrowing costs jumped to their highest level since early 1998 on Tuesday as investors dumped government bonds, betting on higher inflation.

Всем привет! Меня зовут Илья, я инженер-программист, но чаще пишу промпты вместо кода, что привело к некоторым артефактам, о которых ниже.

В данной статье я покажу, как интегрировать n8n с OpenWebUI, вайбкодить по делу и без, а также напомню о том, как найти идею, если кто не знал.

Некоторое время назад я оказался в не очень злачном месте, чтобы "развлекаться" околоинтеллигентными разговорами про экономику, международную политику и научно-технический прогресс. Чем еще было заниматься осенним субботним вечером в 2022 году?

In the United States, building a data center now polls roughly as well as abolishing the police. If current trends continue, server warehouses may soon be less popular with Americans than pizza topped with pineapple and shattered glass.

In an August survey from Heatmap Pro and Embold Research, just 15 percent of Americans said they would support a data center being built in their area, while 75 percent expressed opposition. One year earlier, 43 percent of respondents in the same poll had approved of nearby data center development, while just 42 percent opposed it.

This soaring backlash is visible in other surveys — and in the actions of elected officials. In recent weeks, Wisconsin’s gubernatorial candidates sparred over who hates data centers more, Pennsylvania’s center-left Gov. Josh Shapiro enacted new restrictions on AI infrastructure projects (after previously championing such investment), and even Texas’s staunchly pro-business Republican government announced a temporary moratorium on new approvals. 

Meanwhile, data center projects are being canceled at a record rate, as local opposition mounts.

This has led some in the pro-tech minority to worry that the data center buildout is about to collapse — and take the US economy down with it. Anti-AI commentators, for their part, are cheering the industry’s impending crisis. 

But such panic and celebration are both premature. 

In truth, despite exploding opposition, the data center boom is still going strong. Interviews with industry experts and recent construction data suggest that the economic forces driving the buildout remain more powerful than the political winds blowing against it. And unless Congress enacts a national moratorium, AI companies will almost certainly be able to continue finding jurisdictions willing to tolerate hyperscale campuses, in exchange for sufficient revenue and incentives. 

America’s data center boom can be slowed and geographically shifted. But it probably can’t be killed, absent a collapse in demand for computing power or a much bigger revolution in American politics. 

The boom is bigger than the backlash

There are two fundamental facts about today’s data center boom: 1) The backlash against it is huge, and 2) the buildout is even bigger.

The climate news outlet Heatmap has kept a tracker of new data center restrictions and cancellations. As of late July, it found that more than 500 jurisdictions had enacted severe constraints or bans on data center construction. The vast majority of these measures had been enacted since the beginning of this year. 

The publication also found that contested data center projects face a skyrocketing cancellation rate. In late 2024, 20 percent of disputed developments were canceled; in the first half of 2026, that figure was closer to 50 percent. By Heatmap’s tally, more than 100 data center projects have been nixed this year in the face of local opposition, while more than 200 are currently being fought. 

This surge of mass resistance is remarkable. And yet, it is also nowhere near sufficient to end the AI buildout. 

Although the number of places with severe restrictions (or outright bans) on server farms is rapidly rising, more than 90 percent of US counties had no significant constraints on data center development at July’s end.

What’s more, many of the most eye-catching recent policy changes are less significant than they appear. For example, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s pause does not actually halt data center construction in the Lone Star State. Rather, it essentially establishes a more thorough screening process, when server farms apply for electricity from the state’s grid. Projects that supply all of their own power through on-site natural gas — as a rising share of new data centers do — are exempt.

Pennsylvania and New York’s recently enacted restrictions on data center development are more substantial. Yet neither of those states are particularly important to the AI buildout. Taken together, New York and Pennsylvania host only about 6.5 percent of America’s data centers, according to Data Center Map. 

And their share of all pending developments is even more negligible, as the trade publication Construction Connect has illustrated: 

Meanwhile, although half of contested data center projects are now failing, many still go undisputed. In the aggregate, cancellations have not kept pace with construction or new development. In the first quarter of this year, at least 3.5 gigawatts of data center capacity were canceled amid local opposition, in Heatmap’s tally. During the same three months, at least 36 GW of capacity were added to the US pipeline of proposed and active projects, according to the analytics firm Wood Mackenzie. As of April 1, that pipeline contained a total of 106 GW worth of developments that had already survived the permitting gauntlet. 

To be sure, cancellations have risen sharply since March. By Heatmap’s count, at least 13 gigawatts of capacity have been nixed so far this year. But the capacity of permitted projects has also grown since April 1. And the ratio between blocked and active developments has not radically changed, according to industry analysts. 

“At this point, we do not think the recent wave of opposition and policy intervention has materially changed our national capacity growth trajectory,” Maya Barkin, an analyst at the AI industry research firm SemiAnalysis, told me.

Indeed, monthly construction spending on data centers in the US hit a record high this June.

In short, data centers are marching forward despite taking heavy fire, like a pack of gut-shot zombies.

The secrets of the AI buildout’s success

Why has the AI buildout proven so resilient? There are at least two reasons.

First, and most importantly, demand for computing power remains astronomical. As frontier AI companies have built out larger models — and consumers and companies have increased their use of artificial intelligence and digital services — our economy’s appetite for computation has far outstripped supply. According to a recent report from the commercial real estate firm JLL, 99 percent of North America’s data centers are occupied. What’s more, of the 66 GW of data center capacity currently being constructed in JLL’s count, 95 percent has already been reserved.

Second, data center projects are unusually location-flexible. If a housing developer gets chased out of San Francisco’s suburbs by zoning rules and local opposition, it can’t relocate its condo tower to a mostly uninhabited stretch of Nevada desert. By contrast, data centers can — and do — operate in the middle of nowhere. 

For certain purposes, these facilities need some proximity to the users they serve; you can’t adequately support online gaming in New York City with data centers on the West Coast. But even in such cases, servers merely need to be in the same broad region. The hyperscale facilities used to train AI models, meanwhile, can be located virtually anywhere with land, fiber optic cables, a modicum of labor, and electricity (and now that many data centers are powering themselves through on-site natural gas plants, even the latter is potentially expendable).

Taken together, these two realities make data center construction extremely difficult to choke off. Sky-high demand for compute means that hyperscalers can afford to throw a lot of money at localities, in order to secure a project’s approval. And location flexibility makes it very difficult for data center developers to run out of host jurisdictions, particularly when so many rural counties throughout the United States are starving for revenue and investment. Thus, unless Congress imposes a national moratorium, development deals will almost certainly keep getting struck. 

“I think companies will need to open up their wallets and make sure that communities receive clear benefits,” John Arnold, a billionaire investor and philanthropist who sits on Meta’s board (and whose foundation has given funding to Vox), told me. “There will be places that raise their hands and say, ‘For X amount of benefit, we will welcome you into the community.’”

Just this week, West Virginia Gov. Patrick Morrisey signaled that he was moving forward with plans to encourage data center development and use the consequent revenue to slash the state’s income tax.

Municipal permitting won’t preempt the robot apocalypse

On one level, all this may seem to validate anti-data center activism: If there are countless potential locations for these facilities, then why should any community host one it doesn’t want? 

This said, many oppose new data centers out of concern for their aggregate impacts, rather than their local ones. Climate activists fear that the AI buildout will generate perilous increases in carbon emissions. Populists on the right and left, meanwhile, want to slow the progress of artificial intelligence, so as to prevent the technology from causing mass unemployment — and/or human extinction.

For these factions, the buildout’s resilience has more complicated implications. If state and local bans are unlikely to end the boom, then green groups might be unwise to push for such measures in relatively climate-conscious areas. After all, doing so could shift development toward jurisdictions with less renewable energy, and/or fewer restrictions on carbon pollution. Given that risk, blue-state environmentalists may do more to mitigate AI’s climate impacts by regulating data center development than by banning it. Specifically, climate groups could demand that hyperscalers help bankroll the vast expansions of clean energy and transmission infrastructure that the green transition has always required.

For AI doomers, on the other hand, local bans may have some instrumental value. Moratoria and other restrictions are surely slowing the data center buildout at the margin. Still, as long as hyperscale facilities remain location-flexible — and tech companies stay well-capitalized — AI infrastructure will get built somewhere. A national moratorium could buy significant time. But ultimately, humanity’s security from the risks of AI hinges less on whether data centers get built than on what companies are allowed to do with them — and how the wealth they generate is distributed.

The data center rebellion is among the most remarkable popular movements in recent memory. But it is arrayed against one of the largest investment frenzies in human history. Unless or until the AI industry’s alleged “bubble” bursts, its buildout will be exceptionally difficult to stop. Yet where that buildout happens, how it’s powered — and what communities extract from it — are all up for grabs (and, increasingly, being grabbed).

Недавно мне понадобилось заставить FPGA работать с обычным PCI. Не PCI Express, а тем самым старым параллельным PCI, платы с которым когда-то стояли почти в каждом компьютере, а сейчас он в основном продолжает жить в промышленной аппаратуре. Задача сама по себе не новая, и несколько лет назад я уже возился с этим интерфейсом. Тогда значительная часть времени уходила даже не на отладку платы, а на то, чтобы разобраться в стандарте, правильно понять процедуру конфигурации и руками написать всю необходимую логику на Verilog.

В этот раз рядом был ChatGPT. Я описывал ему очередной небольшой кусок логики, показывал существующий код, просил переделать конечный автомат или добавить нужное поведение и довольно быстро получал нормальную заготовку на Verilog. То, что раньше могло занять несколько часов, иногда действительно сокращалось до нескольких минут. После первой такой удачной итерации легко представить приятную картину будущего: ещё немного, и половину работы FPGA-разработчика можно будет просто отдавать нейросети.

На практике произошло другое. Освободившееся время я тут же потратил на следующую версию прошивки, потом на ещё одну, после чего пришлось несколько раз перепрошить FPGA, перезагрузить компьютер, посмотреть, как плата определяется BIOS, разобраться с BAR-регистрами и полезть к железу уже с измерительными приборами. За тот же промежуток времени я просто успел проверить гораздо больше вариантов. Именно тогда я поймал себя на довольно странной мысли: нейросети действительно сильно ускоряют мою работу, но её количество от этого почему-то совсем не уменьшается.

Задача была прикладная: мы переносим интернет‑магазины на свой движок и хотели понять, сколько в зоне .ru магазинов на каждой платформе и как их находить. Готовые сервисы вроде BuiltWith продают выгрузки по подписке, но нам нужен был воспроизводимый обход, который можно гонять когда угодно и по своим правилам.

Написали свой пробер, обошли 53 305 доменов и получили распределение платформ. Заодно собрали коллекцию ловушек, на каждой из которых успели ошибиться. Про них и статья — цифры без описания граблей мало чего стоят.

Привет, меня зовут Артем Русов. Я автор курсов и образовательных материалов для тестировщиков. Сегодня первое сентября, и это удобный повод подвести итог одной работы.

С февраля я собираю курсы по тестированию, устроенные как игра: Древняя Греция для REST API, Древний Египет для GraphQL, город Цифроград для основ компьютерной грамотности. Сюжет, персонаж-проводник, задания в декорациях мира.

Задача была не в том, чтобы люди сидели в курсе дольше. Задача была сделать обучение доступнее и интереснее. И при этом не разориться, потому что курсы я продаю. Поэтому мерить пришлось всю воронку: сколько людей приходит, сколько покупает, сколько доходит до конца, что они потом ставят и сколько возвращают денег.

Ответ получился неудобным для заголовка. Геймификация улучшила почти всё, кроме одной метрики.

Jury took about three hours to reach verdict in case that relied heavily on confessions from the defendant. Plus, the woman who lived with and loved Freddie Mercury as her fiance

Good morning. A Las Vegas jury has found the former South Side Compton Crips gang leader Duane Keith Davis guilty of the murder of Tupac Shakur, bringing the case to a close nearly 30 years after the rapper was gunned down. The jury took about three hours to reach a guilty verdict in a case that relied heavily on multiple confessions from Davis himself.

The 63-year-old, who was accused of instigating the deadly shooting but not pulling the trigger himself, had spent years telling investigators and interviewers alike of his direct involvement before he was arrested in 2023.

Who was Tupac Shakur? Shakur was born in 1971 in East Harlem, New York, and rose to fame in the early 90s with lyrics that doubled as a sharp commentary on social injustice including systemic racism and police brutality. He was 25 when he died, is regarded among the greatest rappers to ever live, and continues to be celebrated around the world years after his life was cut short.

How have his family reacted to the trial? “We’ve been waiting 30 years to grieve properly,” Zayd Akinyela, Shakur’s cousin, told reporters outside the courtroom when the trial was under way. “A lot of people don’t get to grieve until they understand what happened to their loved one and how it happened.”

Why have authorities been so heavily criticised over the case? Las Vegas police faced criticism that they had bungled the investigation and failed to pursue crucial leads, including from a member of Shakur’s entourage who claimed he could identify the shooters. That witness died weeks later in a separate shooting.

From Waxahatchee and Florry in the US to Brown Horse and Little Grandad in the UK, a wave of young songwriters are reinvigorating the subgenre’s earnest emotion and twang

‘It’s so important to talk about this before it’s gone,” says Francie Medosch, singer, guitarist and songwriter of the band Florry, “because it’s really a flash in the pan.” The flash she means is a brief moment where it feels as though on both sides of the Atlantic, scores of exciting indie bands are playing something that, without slavish copying, has plainly drawn inspiration from alt-country, the music that emerged in the US in the late 1980s and early 90s, when former punks such as Uncle Tupelo – featuring future Wilco co-founder Jeff Tweedy – and the Bottle Rockets picked up picked up fiddles, banjos and acoustic guitars.

In the UK, Brown Horse and Vegas Water Taxi have the weeping pedal steel, in the former case tied to something very heartland and in the latter paired with a very English indie sensibility. Westside Cowboy and Little Grandad both borrow from the spiky rootsiness of early Wilco, while Wyatt play slacker country rock. Over in the US, where there’s always going to be more of this sort of thing, you can point to the current indie-rock holy trinity of Waxahatchee, Wednesday and MJ Lenderman, plus Florry, Ratboys, Thomas Dollbaum, Fust, SG Goodman, Lily Seabird, Ryan Davis and the Roadhouse Band and more.

Latest purchases take value of deals to leave capital’s stock market this year past $100bn

Three more London-listed companies are set to be taken over as the value of deals removing firms from the capital’s under-pressure stock market so far this year passes $100bn (£74bn).

On Tuesday, Bodycote, the FTSE 250 industrials group that has been listed on the London Stock Exchange since 1972, agreed a £1.84bn takeover by the US private equity group Veritas.

Восемь новых пакетов и REST DSL вокруг прежних 56 глаголов маршрута; из ядра ушёл Newtonsoft.Json. Что ломает мажор и как мигрировать за десять минут.

Готовится четвёртая версия redb.Route, интеграционного движка для .NET в духе Apache Camel. В 3.x была закрыта ширина по паттернам: 56 глаголов DSL, тридцать с лишним коннекторов, свой язык выражений, скомпилированный в IL (в 4.0 он качественно переработан, об этом ниже). 4.0 закрывает то, что вокруг паттернов: как протестировать маршрут без брокеров, как собрать тело сообщения, как читать CSV и Avro, как выставить REST-фасад, как кэшировать ответ сервиса. Восемь новых пакетов, REST DSL внутри HTTP-коннектора, переработанный язык выражений и ядро, которое стало легче, а не тяжелее. За год это первый мажор такого масштаба: не смена номера под несколько ломающих правок, а качественное расширение функционала, и ломающих изменений в нём как раз немного.

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