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31 проект на оценку жюри: результаты четвертого этапа программы RISC-V DEVBOARDS
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Published: 2026-11-03 08:03:08 | Created: 2026-11-03 08:03:58

Российский Альянс RISC-V подвел итоги четвертого этапа программы раннего доступа DEVBOARDS. Основной платформой этапа стала отладочная плата на микроконтроллере К1921ВГ1Т компании НИИЭТ.

Программа позволяет разработчикам, университетским командам и энтузиастам бесплатно получить платы для собственных проектов. Участники четвертого этапа тестировали оборудование, обсуждали вопросы с представителями НИИЭТ. Наряду с прикладными устройствами среди заявленных тем были программные инструменты, учебные стенды и интерактивные материалы.

В этой статье представим победителя и призеров, рассмотрим направления их работ и образовательную составляющую этапа. Отдельно остановимся на исследовательском проекте по bare-metal разработке для К1921ВГ1Т и подготовке открытой документации.

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From the US midterms to the hard right in Britain, empathy has become a dirty word in politics | John Harris
Published: 2026-11-03 08:00:42 | Created: 2026-11-03 08:03:05

Around the world, virtues such as compassion and kindness are gathering dust, like old hymn books in a long-deserted church

Towards the end of the summer, the Tory-Reform defector Robert Jenrick authored an op-ed piece for the Daily Telegraph about the seemingly impossible economics of rising benefits bills because of mental ill-health. In his capacity as Reform’s Treasury spokesman, his task was to big up its plans to cut 25% of so-called welfare spending by 2030, and thereby tackle what he called the state’s “suicidal empathy”.

Straight away, I wondered where this most opportunistic politician had borrowed that phrase from, and instantly found out: a book with the same title, published this year by the Canadian academic Gad Saad, whom the dust jacket describes as having particular expertise in “the use of evolutionary psychology in marketing and consumer behaviour”. It comes with an endorsement from Elon Musk. “Western civilisation is doomed unless the core weakness of suicidal empathy is recognised and actions are taken that are hard but necessary for survival,” says the world’s richest man. “All of Gad’s books, including this one, are great.”

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Уехал в лес с модульным ПК Khadas Mind 2
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Published: 2026-11-03 08:01:08 | Created: 2026-11-03 08:03:00

Недавно захотелось выбраться на природу, чтобы отключиться от суеты хотя бы на короткое время. Нашел на известном сервисе бронирования домик прямо в лесу, посмотрел фотографии и решил съездить на пару дней. Условия вполне подходящие: деревья вокруг, внутри есть электричество и место, где можно поставить компьютер. Последний пункт важен, поскольку полностью отключиться от работы не получалось. В общем, вещи собирал одновременно и для отдыха, и для обычных дел.

Раньше в такие поездки брал ноутбук с двумя портативными мониторами. На этот раз решил воспользоваться Khadas Mind 2, который у меня работает дома. К нему есть модуль xPlay с дисплеем, клавиатурой и аккумулятором, превращающий мини-ПК в подобие лэптопа. Захватил также привычную периферию, а затем удалось настроить и все три экрана. На связи Денис из Selectel! Ниже расскажу, как это хозяйство показало себя в лесном домике и что оказалось не очень удобным.

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SSL-сертификаты будут действовать всего 47 дней. Что изменится и зачем это нужно?
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Published: 2026-11-03 08:01:08 | Created: 2026-11-03 08:02:59

Срок действия SSL/TLS-сертификатов продолжает сокращаться. Когда-то сертификаты можно было выпускать на несколько лет, затем максимальный срок уменьшили до одного года. Теперь индустрия готовится к следующему этапу: к 2029 году сертификаты будут действовать не более 47 дней. Разбираемся, почему так происходит, и что с этим делать владельцам сайтов.

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Yvonne Bajela is bringing $17M in fresh capital to Europe’s startup scene
Published: 2026-11-03 08:01:00 | Created: 2026-11-03 08:01:59
Evertrue Capital announces $17M debut fund to back early-stage AI and fintech.
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Дедупликация фото без нейросетей. Часть 2: предобработка и поиск в PostgreSQL
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Published: 2026-11-03 08:00:26 | Created: 2026-11-03 08:01:59

В первой части я взял двадцать фотографий, изменил каждую двадцатью шестью способами и померил, что переживает перцептивный хеш. Пересказывать всё не буду, но пара выводов из первой статьи нам понадобится дальше. Брать надо pHash на 64 битах. У 16 битов бывают коллизии, 256 не дают ничего сверх 64, а у aHash слишком много ложных срабатываний. Водяные знаки хешу безразличны: хоть логотип в углу, хоть плитка из надписей по всему кадру, это 0-6 бит из 64. Зато его убивает любая правка геометрии: обрезали на 20% — не нашли ничего, добавили белую рамку — нашли половину, отзеркалили — снова ничего. При пороге 12 это recall 86% при precision 100%.

Дальше расскажу про то, как довести 86% до 95% и уложить поиск в один SQL-запрос.

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Go for it! Поддержка Go теперь в GigaIDE
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Published: 2026-11-03 07:59:48 | Created: 2026-11-03 08:01:00

Бэкенд на Java, скрипты на Python, React на фронтенде, сервисы на C#, несколько компонентов на Go — всё это живёт в одном продукте. Но до сегодняшнего дня разработчику приходилось держать под рукой три-четыре среды, чтобы поправить HTTP-обработчик, запустить тесты или проверить зависимости.

Мы продолжаем расширять возможности GigaIDE: теперь Go доступен бесплатно в Community-режиме. Плагин Go включает анализ кода, запуск, отладку, тесты, зависимости и мониторинг приложения.

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Do Ferrari need rules of engagement? F1 Q&A
Published: 2026-11-03 07:53:14 | Created: 2026-11-03 08:00:04
BBC F1 correspondent Andrew Benson answers your latest questions after the Mexico City Grand Prix.
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ИИ находит дыры быстрее, чем люди успевают их латать: 1411 уязвимостей за один месяц
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Published: 2026-11-03 07:57:06 | Created: 2026-11-03 07:58:59

13.10.2026 Microsoft закрыла в одном выпуске обновлений 1411 уязвимостей. За весь 2025 год у нее набралось 1130. Компания прямо говорит, что их теперь находит ИИ, и почти каждый месяц ставит новый рекорд.

Пока в комментариях спорят, умеет ли ИИ писать нормальный код, другой ИИ находит в уже написанном коде больше ошибок, чем люди успевают чинить. Разбираемся, откуда взялся этот поток, при чем тут PHP2Shell и кому теперь все это латать.

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WSL 3.0 — руководство по установке
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Published: 2026-11-03 07:56:33 | Created: 2026-11-03 07:57:58

Этот гайд — один из многих — родился из моей личной практики и постоянных вопросов студентов и коллег. Я проверяю каждый шаг на своём оборудовании, чтобы инструкция была не просто теоретической, а полностью рабочей.

Я, как и многие, постоянно изучаю все новое в Linux. Мой алгоритм прост: я открываю Obsidian, создаю новую заметку и начинаю наполнять её информацией, выстраивая связи и сразу проверяя всё на практике. С каждым днём, по мере погружения в тему, содержимое заметки актуализируется. В результате синтеза теории и практики рождается материал, который вы сейчас читаете.

Я структурирую информацию так, чтобы её можно было легко использовать в обучении, ведь педагогическая работа и публичные выступления — ключевые составляющие моей профессии.

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AFC postpones Asian Cup in Saudi Arabia to late 2027 due to conflict in Middle East
Published: 2026-11-03 07:30:40 | Created: 2026-11-03 07:57:02
  • Tournament pushed back 11 months with proposed start on 23 December

  • New dates with 21 January 2028 final must be approved by Fifa

The 2027 Asian Cup in Saudi Arabia has been postponed as a result of the conflict in the Middle East.

After a month of speculation following the airport attack on Riyadh’s international airport, the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) confirmed on Tuesday that the tournament had been pushed back 11 months.

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Why a US-Russia showdown left Morocco celebrating
Published: 2026-11-03 07:29:46 | Created: 2026-11-03 07:54:58
An impasse between the US and Russia at the UN means its peacekeeping mission in Western Sahara has ended after 35 years.
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Fighting returns to Kherson region after longest Ukraine war ceasefire
Published: 2026-11-02 17:33:19 | Created: 2026-11-03 07:54:58
Though unprecedented, the six-day truce has done little to alter the wider trajectory of a war that continues to grinds on.
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Shop freezers in seven European countries hit by cyber-attack
Published: 2026-11-02 17:38:11 | Created: 2026-11-03 07:54:58
The temperature of freezers in several shops across Europe reportedly rose to as high as 50C.
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Asian Cup postponed in wake of attacks on Saudi Arabia
Published: 2026-11-03 07:15:17 | Created: 2026-11-03 07:54:58
The 2027 Asian Cup in Saudi Arabia is postponed because of a series of deadly attacks on the host country.
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Americans head to the polls for elections that could define Trump's closing chapter
Published: 2026-11-03 09:29:32 | Created: 2026-11-03 07:54:58
The midterms will shape Congress for the last years of his presidency, writes Sarah Smith, but they are also a test of what politics may look like without him.
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Запоздавший INSERT при откате: разбор сбоя на стенде SQLite
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Published: 2026-11-03 07:49:28 | Created: 2026-11-03 07:49:59

Проверка отката видит ноль записей v2 и допускает старого читателя. Поздний INSERT ломает следующее чтение. Разбор выполненного стенда Python/SQLite: транзакционная проверка политики, оба порядка commit и условия допуска старой версии. Полный код стенда и все тесты приведены в статье в раскрывающихся блоках.

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Jewellery sold as sterling silver on Amazon and Temu found to contain toxic chemicals
Published: 2026-11-03 01:49:49 | Created: 2026-11-03 07:46:01
An investigation by Watchdog analysed 25 items bought from Amazon, Etsy, Temu, eBay and OnBuy.
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Watch: Just how small is the zeptoverse?
Published: 2026-11-03 07:33:41 | Created: 2026-11-03 07:46:01
BBC science correspondent, Pallab Ghosh, takes us into the zeptoverse and explains how it could change our ideas of how the universe works.
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Emery looks to show Villa can compete with elite
Published: 2026-11-03 07:33:17 | Created: 2026-11-03 07:42:03
Aston Villa are looking to become the first English team to win at the Nou Camp in almost 20 years.
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Этапы продвижения сайта в нейросетях: полный пошаговый гайд по GEO
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Published: 2026-11-03 07:39:25 | Created: 2026-11-03 07:40:59

Привет, я руководитель группы экспериментальных клиентов Kokoc Performance (входит в Kokoc Group). Наша команда составила полный пошаговый план GEO-продвижения: что делать на каждом этапе, какие данные собирать и как оценивать результат.

Гайд подойдет владельцам сайтов, маркетологам, SEO-специалистам и командам, которые хотят системно зайти в продвижение через нейросети, не делая работу наугад. 

Сейчас интересный этап в развитии GEO. С одной стороны, канал очень перспективный. Все эксперты рынка сходятся на том, что скоро искать товары или услуги все чаще будут через нейросети, а не через классический поиск. С другой стороны, канал развивающийся, и пока работают простые методы продвижения. 

Сейчас ситуация в GEO похожа на зарождение классического SEO. Лет 20 назад для ранжирования в поиске можно было наспамить ключами на страницах сайта, поставить ссылок на внешних источниках и получить профит в виде позиций и трафика. Потом алгоритмы усложнились, но те игроки, которые успели на этом этапе приобрести устойчивую репутацию бренда и стать лидером в своей тематике, пронесли этот результат через годы. Пословица «Куй железо, пока горячо» выглядит тут максимально уместно.

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The people saving hundreds of pounds by dumpster diving
Published: 2026-11-03 07:50:14 | Created: 2026-11-03 07:37:59
The men and women who rummage through commercial bins to take clothes and other items.
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Как проверить, что ИИ-приложение действительно восстановилось после сбоя
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Published: 2026-11-03 07:31:49 | Created: 2026-11-03 07:35:58

Итак, резервные копии готовы, инфраструктура восстановлена, приложение снова отвечает на запросы. Но можем ли мы доверять его ответам? После сбоя ИИ-помощник рискует использовать устаревшие документы, возвращать отозванные права доступа и повторно выполнять действия, которые уже совершил. Разберемся, как избежать таких ошибок при восстановлении RAG-приложения.

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Caleb Williams and new arrival Jeffery Simmons power Bears past sputtering Seahawks
Published: 2026-11-03 04:55:38 | Created: 2026-11-03 07:34:05
  • Star defensive lineman has one sack, six tackles

  • D’Andre Swift rushes for three touchdowns

  • Seattle have lost three of their last four games

Caleb Williams threw a touchdown pass on the opening drive and Jeffery Simmons delivered just what Chicago needed on defense as the Bears beat the host Seattle Seahawks 34-17 on Monday night.

Williams was extremely efficient for the Bears (6-2) against one of the NFL’s stingiest defenses, committing no turnovers, taking just one sack and throwing for 247 yards while completing 71% of his passes.

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Melbourne Cup 2026: King Charles’ former horse Point of Law storms home to win
Published: 2026-11-03 04:30:50 | Created: 2026-11-03 07:34:05
  • Jockey Ethan Brown salutes after chasing down Royal Supremacy

  • Winning trainer Ciaron Maher fills top three places at Flemington

Point of Law justified his favouritism at the 2026 Melbourne Cup after the three-year-old stallion that was owned by King Charles until earlier this year reeled in Royal Supremacy in a thrilling feature race at Flemington Racecourse.

Jockey Ethan Brown guided the Ciaron Maher-trained horse to victory in the $10m race after Royal Supremacy – another in Maher’s stable – had led by about 20 lengths at one point.

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Fifa to share documents on World Cup sell-off plans with council members
Published: 2026-11-02 22:23:20 | Created: 2026-11-03 07:34:05
  • Viewings to take place at Fifa’s headquarters in Zurich

  • No direct response to Uefa’s questions on governance

Fifa will grant its council members access to documents regarding the doomed Fifa Forward Enterprise scheme but has not responded directly to more than 50 questions from Uefa about its governance and recent scandals.

In a letter sent to the Fifa Council by Mattias Grafström, the governing body’s secretary general, members were told material relating to FFE will be released for them to view in person at Fifa’s headquarters in Zurich. They will be allowed only to view the documents, of which the exact nature and scope are unclear, under strict confidentiality protocols. A deadline of 16 November has been set to apply for such visits; eyebrows may be raised in some quarters about the fact this is two days before candidates for the Fifa election next year are required to declare their hand.

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Don’t call it a remontada: Emery’s Camp Nou comeback focuses European blur
Published: 2026-11-03 07:30:41 | Created: 2026-11-03 07:34:05

The expanded Champions League is often shapeless, but Aston Villa’s manager returning to the scene of his greatest trauma stands out

“One more match. Just one more match.” Sure, Unai. Sure. Just like all the other matches that generated a local tremor measured at 1 on the Richter scale when that seventh and final goal went in at the Camp Nou in March 2017.

It was inevitable that Unai Emery would be asked about the Remontada game on the eve of Aston Villa’s Champions League engagement with Barcelona, his own first trip back to the Camp Nou in this competition since one of the most visceral and traumatic experiences of his managerial career.

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‘I’ve been chased and shot at’: Denzel Bentley on trauma, street violence and brutal boxing politics
Published: 2026-11-03 07:30:41 | Created: 2026-11-03 07:34:04

Stripped of his WBO world title and numbed by violent deaths of friends in Battersea, the middleweight is determined to press on in pursuit of fights and titles

“I’ve been very reluctant to tell my story,” Denzel Bentley says as he sits upstairs at his gym in Essex and opens up about his testing life in and out of the ring. Before he addresses the latest maddening round of boxing politics, Bentley reveals how he has dealt with genuine catastrophe and trauma. This buried pain places boxing’s shenanigans into sobering perspective because so many of his friends have been murdered on the street.

Bentley has just been stripped of his WBO world middleweight title because the sanctioning body refused permission for him to defend his belt against Shane Mosley Jr this Saturday night at London’s Copper Box Arena. The body rejected his appeal last Friday that he was entitled to face the world-ranked Mosley Jr rather than his mandatory challenger in a first title defence.

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Удивительно простое доказательство сингулярного разложения матриц
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Published: 2026-11-03 07:31:04 | Created: 2026-11-03 07:32:58

Можно ли доказать существование SVD без собственных значений, определителей, производных и даже без теорем математического анализа о непрерывных функциях?

Оказывается, такое удивительное элементарное доказательство существует!

Мне не удалось найти его где-либо в литературе, даже используя средства ИИ для поиска, так что будем считать, что первым его придумал я 2 ноября 2026-го года.

Отдельная благодарность Ивану Оселедцу, который дал на своей лекции элементарное доказательство SVD для матриц 2 на 2, на основе которого я и построил общий случай.

Для понимания происходящего далее достаточно знать основы теории пределов последовательностей, аксиому полноты вещественных чисел, матрицы и действия с ними, векторы и основы теории евклидова конечно-мерного пространства R^n.

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North Korea denies being behind record $6.3bn Binance hack
Published: 2026-11-03 08:33:20 | Created: 2026-11-03 07:32:01
US government agencies and cyber analysts have blamed Pyongyang for the record-breaking heist.
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Major study into 'forever chemicals' in people's bodies launched in UK
Published: 2026-11-03 07:19:27 | Created: 2026-11-03 07:32:00
The government is launching the first study to measure PFAS in the UK population to understand the risks.
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Saudi Aramco Profit Surges, Offering Some Relief to Kingdom’s Finances
Published: 2026-11-03 08:31:00 | Created: 2026-11-03 07:31:02
The state-owned energy giant attributed the boost to higher crude volumes sold from maintaining consistent production, as well as higher prices of refined and chemical products.
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NER для юристов, у которых нет A100: как мы догнали Ministral 14B моделью почти в 10 раз меньше
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Published: 2026-11-03 07:26:04 | Created: 2026-11-03 07:28:58

Юристы не могут отправлять материалы дел во внешние API, а держать A100 только ради разбора документов дорого. Мы обучили Qwen2.5-1.5B извлекать сущности из судебных документов почти на уровне Ministral 3 14B: макро-F1 0.70 против 0.71 на 145 реальных документах. При этом на A5000 наша модель разбирает документ в 2.2 раза быстрее, чем Ministral на A100.

По дороге модель научилась молчать о самом важном: в 94% случаев отвечала, что переписки в документе нет, и формально была права. Рассказываем, почему балансировка классов синтетикой не сдвинула F1 и что сработало вместо неё.

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Jimmy Kimmel Mocks the President’s ‘Pettysburg Address’
Published: 2026-11-03 07:13:47 | Created: 2026-11-03 07:27:02
“And where better to reassure the public that they are in good hands than in front of a pool you’ve repeatedly botched to the tune of $16 million?” Kimmel said of Trump’s speech before the midterms.
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Saudi Aramco Profit Jumps Despite Damaging Attacks on Pipelines and Refineries
Published: 2026-11-03 13:56:44 | Created: 2026-11-03 07:27:01
Saudi Arabia’s state-owned oil company posted a 9 percent increase in third-quarter profit on Tuesday.
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Как перестать проверять одно и то же руками? Testence и ИИ-агент в работе тестировщика
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Published: 2026-11-03 07:23:52 | Created: 2026-11-03 07:25:58

Перед каждым релизом — те же формы, те же кнопки, те же проверки. Я делаю Testence, чтобы передать эту рутину ИИ-агенту и получить автотесты, которые дальше работают без него. Но первый же зелёный тест заставил спросить: а мы вообще проверили то, что нужно?

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Apple Watch’s AI features for rewinding and recapping conversations begin beta testing
Published: 2026-11-03 07:20:00 | Created: 2026-11-03 07:20:59
Now in beta: Apple's new Audio Intelligence features can help you remember what someone said or take notes on conversations.
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Учимся отличать галлюцинации от плохого контекста
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Published: 2026-11-03 07:20:03 | Created: 2026-11-03 07:20:58

RAG‑система может выдать уверенный ответ со ссылкой на документ, который на самом деле никак не повлиял на генерацию. За одинаковым симптомом могут скрываться сбои retrieval, игнорирование контекста или генерация из параметрической памяти модели. Разберём на примерах, как отличить эти сценарии, проверить причинную связь между контекстом и ответом и определить, на каком этапе пайплайна искать проблему.

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Americans head to polls in midterm elections seen as referendum on Trump
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Published: 2026-11-03 21:48:55 | Created: 2026-11-03 07:18:05

Control of the Senate and House of Representatives, both currently held by the Republicans, is at stake

Americans are heading to the polls today in US midterm elections widely seen as a referendum on Donald Trump’s second presidency and a chance for opponents to rein in his untrammeled power.

At stake is control of the US Senate and House of Representatives, both currently held by Republicans, and in recent days, the two parties have scrambled to deliver their final pitches to voters. Additionally, there are elections for governor in 36 states, as well for state legislatures, sheriff’s offices, and on the approval of ballot initiatives nationwide.

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UK MPs could undergo criminal record checks to stop violence against women
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Published: 2026-11-03 07:00:40 | Created: 2026-11-03 07:18:05

Exclusive: Members may be vetted before getting security passes for parliament, and receive anti-harassment training

MPs and others working in parliament could be required to take a criminal record check before being given a security pass, and receive anti-harassment training under a pioneering scheme to root out violence against women.

The UK parliament will on Tuesday become the first legislature in the world to receive what is known as White Ribbon accreditation, a commitment to culture change which originated in Canada.

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‘This is direct’: positive early feedback from pilot community mental health hub in Cumbria
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Published: 2026-11-03 07:00:41 | Created: 2026-11-03 07:18:05

Hope Haven in Whitehaven is one of six trial open-access, 24/7 schemes in England offering preventive care

The night Tamara first walked through the doors of Hope Haven, a new community mental health hub in the heart of Whitehaven, she was afraid. “Terrified, actually,” she says. “Like, my life was falling apart. I didn’t know how to stop it from hurting.”

The 22-year-old, who works in children’s transport, had been in and out of therapy and counselling since she was 14, after being abused by an acquaintance as a child. After a lengthy legal process her abuser was sentenced, but the “mental challenge” of dealing with what had happened to her was not over.

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New Group review – schoolkids build human pyramids in bizarre Japanese horror-satire on conformity
Published: 2026-11-03 07:00:42 | Created: 2026-11-03 07:17:05

Two outsider students at a super-strict high school find they are definitely not with the programme in Yûta Shimotsu’s body-bending sci-fi scarer

Here is an intermittently amusing Japanese social satire about conformity directed by Yûta Shimotsu; it has flashes of brilliance but lacks the kind of engaging characters that could have taken it to the next level. Ai (Anna Yamada) is an unpopular pupil who has always tried to fit in, and Yu (Yuzu Aoki) is a transfer student who more deliberately resists the demands of peer pressure. Their high school is super-strict at a baseline level – and when things start to degenerate, with students forming themselves into human pyramids and turning into mindless drones, it becomes clear something extremely peculiar is at work.

Fans of The Faculty, Robert Rodriguez and Kevin Williamson’s 1998 high-school riff on Invasion of the Body Snatchers, might be pricking up their ears at this point, but New Group is a less straightforward narrative than the American film, prioritising eeriness and mystery over fun and games. It gets full marks for what you might call its groupthink set-pieces: students acting en masse as a giant, many-celled organism. Some of the choreography and image-making here is fantastic: as with Zach Cregger’s recent Resident Evil, in which multi-limbed crazy mutants are performed by human dancers and acrobats with circus-style skills, then augmented with a smattering of FX, the focus here is the human body as the basis for the memorable stunts. CGI has clearly been used too, but is not the be-all-and-end-all, and this makes a difference: there’s a tangible sense of bodies on the line.

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‘This is direct’: positive early feedback from pilot community mental health hub in Cumbria
Published: 2026-11-03 07:00:41 | Created: 2026-11-03 07:17:04

Hope Haven in Whitehaven is one of six trial open-access, 24/7 schemes in England offering preventive care

The night Tamara first walked through the doors of Hope Haven, a new community mental health hub in the heart of Whitehaven, she was afraid. “Terrified, actually,” she says. “Like, my life was falling apart. I didn’t know how to stop it from hurting.”

The 22-year-old, who works in children’s transport, had been in and out of therapy and counselling since she was 14, after being abused by an acquaintance as a child. After a lengthy legal process her abuser was sentenced, but the “mental challenge” of dealing with what had happened to her was not over.

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UK MPs could undergo criminal record checks to stop violence against women
Published: 2026-11-03 07:00:40 | Created: 2026-11-03 07:17:04

Exclusive: Members may be vetted before getting security passes for Commons, and receive anti-harassment training

MPs and others working at the House of Commons could be required to take a criminal record check before being given a security pass, and receive anti-harassment training under a pioneering scheme to root out violence against women.

The UK parliament will on Tuesday become the first legislature in the world to receive what is known as White Ribbon accreditation, a commitment to culture change which originated in Canada.

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Send in the clowns! Dreamlike images – in pictures
Published: 2026-11-03 07:00:41 | Created: 2026-11-03 07:17:03

Nicolas Rachline’s stunning book Elsebound is full of painterly photographs inspired by Edward Hopper and Blade Runner. He explains his uniquely haunting style

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Lords of Serendipity by Randy Boyagoda review – a campus satire for this moment of crisis
Published: 2026-11-03 07:00:43 | Created: 2026-11-03 07:17:03

This propulsive, globe-trotting tale brilliantly skewers the corruption and corporatisation of higher education

It’s no secret that academia is on the blink; Canadian author Randy Boyagoda’s new novel, which is equal parts satire, dystopia and exposé, tells the story of all that’s wrong, glitchy and broken. Set across Sri Lanka, the United States and Italy, it centres on a cast of students, parents and professors, and their dealings with a common antagonist: the university.

The first character we meet is Sri Lankan teen Devi, who is set on obtaining offers from “Ochpys” – her acronym for Oxford, Cambridge, Harvard, Princeton, Yale and Stanford. To help her realise her dream, Devi’s family of modest means – her mother, father, maternal grandmother and two brothers – hire themselves out as mourners at the funerals of the wealthy. Most of this money goes towards paying Johannes, her tutor on WhatsApp who, unbeknown to Devi, is a hard-up Indian student at Arcadia Tech, an undistinguished university in the US. Meanwhile, Jack, a statistician at the same institution, has taken on an additional teaching load to meet the fees of the elite college his daughter Katrina attends in New England. Soon he catches on to a grade-fixing scheme aimed at flailing international students, run by his teaching assistant Allard Hamburger. Jack is left in disbelief when, to buy his silence, the university puts him on paid administrative leave instead of launching an inquiry into a scandal that has left one student dead by suicide.

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A perfect weekend in the Darent valley, Kent: a ‘demi-paradise’ of art, lavender fields and great pubs
Published: 2026-11-03 07:00:41 | Created: 2026-11-03 07:17:03

Just an hour from London, this idyllic area, beloved by painters and poets, is brimming with history, beautiful walks and fab places to eat and drink

In the 1820s, a young painter left London to live in Shoreham in the west of Kent. In his waterside cottage, Samuel Palmer – remembered now as a key figure of British Romanticism – depicted moonlit cornfields, apple trees bowed under fruit and hills swollen with light. He dubbed the area his Valley of Vision. Two centuries on, Palmer’s own vision of Shoreham – and the surrounding Darent Valley – as a demi-paradise isn’t too far from the canvas.

I’ve lived in the area for five years and can’t quite believe how few people come to Shoreham. It feels like a secret yet is less than an hour from London by train. The village itself sits on the River Darent, remarked on by Edmund Spenser in his poem The Faerie Queene for its gentleness and clear water: “The still Darent, in whose waters cleane, ten thousand fishes play and decke his pleasant streame …”.

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The pest I’ll never forget: the cats who filled our house with live mice
Published: 2026-11-03 06:55:40 | Created: 2026-11-03 07:17:03

Our house was a mouse-free zone until our new kittens began venturing into the nearby woods in search of prey and playthings

This is a cat-and-mouse story in which the cats are the real pests. My old house, despite being next to rodent-filled woods, was blissfully mouse-free … until, during lockdown, we got two kittens, Mimi and Ruben. As soon as their fine motor skills were sufficiently sharpened, they started hunting. Thankfully, they weren’t into birds, but wood mice became their specialism. I suppose the dearth of mice indoors meant they had to catch them outside. The tabby twins would then bring their prey back to their lair (our house) and release them, still miraculously alive. Perhaps they thought mice would make fun pets.

You would know they had brought in a mouse when they sat guarding sections of ill-fitting skirting or gaps under cupboard doors, uttering odd “prittering” sounds. Cue us humans moving furniture and dashing about, getting down on our hands and knees, reduced to hunting the mice ourselves with upturned Tupperware boxes. If we caught them, we released them in the woods, locking our yowling cats inside so they couldn’t see exactly where. But some mice inevitably escaped into the fabric of the house.

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How Israel is at the heart of Haley Stevens’s extraordinary reversal
Published: 2026-11-02 19:15:23 | Created: 2026-11-03 07:17:02

The issue runs through almost every twist and turn and has come to define the congresswoman’s political persona

For Haley Stevens, the road from Democratic Senate candidate to campaigning alongside a Republican she once called a rubber stamp for Donald Trump has been remarkably short – and the issue running through almost every twist and turn has been Israel.

Having failed to stop Abdul El-Sayed in the primary, Stevens chose to back Republican Mike Rogers on Sunday, a candidate who she previously warned would enable Trump’s agenda – apparently because the Democrat who won refuses to share her position on Israel.

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Americans head to polls in midterm elections seen as referendum on Trump
Published: 2026-11-03 07:00:43 | Created: 2026-11-03 07:17:02

Control of the Senate and House of Representatives, both currently held by the Republicans, is at stake

Americans are heading to the polls today in US midterm elections widely seen as a referendum on Donald Trump’s second presidency and a chance for opponents to rein in his untrammeled power.

Democrats and Republicans have scrambled in recent days to deliver their final pitches to voters with control of the US Senate and House of Representatives – both currently held by the Republicans – at stake.

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