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В прошлой статье я показал, как простой дебаунс на Redis спасает бюджет от дробных сообщений: клиент строчит «привет» — «сколько стоит» — «а есть другой размер» пятью сообщениями подряд, а LLM получает один склеенный промпт.

California wine faces renewed Canadian boycott.

This biopic of the great Gallic general – which culminates at Bir Hakeim, in advance of a second film – is a fine, quietly amusing romp with a touch of classic 60s war films

Perhaps because it is based on a biography by an Englishman – Julian Jackson’s A Certain Idea of France: The Life of Charles de Gaulle – this very enjoyable and gallopingly eventful biopic, directed by Antonin Baudry, has an element of amused detachment. The first of two parts, it offers a good-humoured, though naturally sympathetic, perspective on France’s great wartime hero, played with martyred and faintly preposterous hauteur by Franco-Armenian actor Simon Abkarian.

De Gaulle is the lofty exile in London, refusing to accept the dishonour of the Vichy government and its capitulation to the Nazis, symbolised by Marshal Philippe Pétain (Alain Libolt) and Adm François Darlan (Mathieu Kassovitz). For reasons that will later become clear, De Gaulle’s own story is mysteriously intertwined with that of a hothead young patriot, Fernand Bonnier de la Chapelle (Florian Lesieur), who is De Gaulle’s biggest fan. A tiny touch of comedy is part of what makes this resemble an old-fashioned 60s war film, although it has evidently taken until 2026 for French cinema to come to terms with its contentious national icon. No one here is cheeky enough to comment on the nominative determinism of a Gallic hero being called “De Gaulle”.

В первой части я разогнал GateAI кэшированием, нашёл несколько багов и проверил триаж на DVWA и pyGoat.

Теперь решил прогнать те же задачи через бесплатную модель и посмотреть, насколько результат будет отличаться от Claude

Is it because of differences in the flour that’s being consumed? Or something to do with the European approach to getting around?

It’s not just the mass shootings you have to watch out for in the US, it’s also the lettuce – a dodgy bit of iceberg could leave you sick with cyclosporiasis. And then there are the frozen blueberries, recently recalled because of a “reasonable probability” they could “cause serious adverse health consequences or even death”. And the alfalfa sprouts that may harbour salmonella. And the fruit bars that may be contaminated with glass. I could go on: there’s been a surge in foodborne illnesses in the US this year and food recalls have been getting a lot of attention.

Europe obviously isn’t immune to foodborne illnesses either. More than 200 people have become sick in the UK this summer and one person has died because of a salmonella outbreak tied to imported eggs. Still, Europe is widely seen as having far more robust regulations and food policies than the US. There’s endless anecdata online from Americans who claim that American bread and pasta makes them feel bloated and sick, but they can eat whatever they want in Europe and feel great.

The quiet-spoken Canadian prime minister has spoken unutterable truths

Is it perhaps a sign of the times that Mark Carney, the prime minister of Canada, has become a thrilling orator? A sober banker, he speaks calmly, without many vocal inflections. We expect Canadians to be somewhat flat; even a little boring, and yet Carney has already delivered two remarkable speeches in 2026, and the year is far from over.

The first, at Davos, described a “rupture in the world order”, and “the end of a pleasant fiction”. By that, he meant that the world could no longer depend on the United States to lead the Pax Americana that has largely kept the peace since the end of the second world war.

Jack Klein takes heat readings, gives fans to overheated passengers and lugs big jugs of water into the stations

On a recent August day in the subterranean furnace of New York City’s subway, one bearded, curly-haired man was studying his phone for different reasons than the other wilting passengers – to track the soaring temperatures and ponder how underground train stations can cool down in an era of climate crisis.

Jack Klein, a 31-year-old construction site manager, has in the past two years taken it upon himself to become a sort of guerrilla subway heat operative, sticking teardrop-shaped thermometers to steel beams in seven of the hottest Manhattan stations and posting social media videos of the hades-like summer temperatures that commuters have to endure.

Trump administration has moved away from high-profile, militarized raids as its deportation spree has ramped up

The Trump administration arrested and deported a record number of immigrants in July, according to newly released government data – apprehending an average of 1,500 people and removing 1,100 people daily.

This latest data confirms what attorneys and immigrant advocates have been seeing across the US – although the administration has moved away from the high-profile, militarized raids that came to define its immigration enforcement approach last year, it is quietly ramping up its operations.

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A US military strike on an alleged drug trafficking boat in the Caribbean on Tuesday killed four people, officials said.

US Southern Command (SOUTHCOM) said in a post on X that the strike targeted a vessel “operating along established narco-trafficking routes in the Caribbean.”

A cousin says death of Sean Grayson in prison ‘doesn’t give Sonya back her life or return her’ to her children

The death in prison of the former Illinois sheriff’s deputy convicted of murder after fatally shooting Sonya Massey in her home “doesn’t feel like justice to me”, a cousin of the woman has said in an emotional statement.

“It doesn’t give Sonya back her life or return her back to her [two] children”, who were aged 15 and 17 at the time of the killing, Sontae Massey wrote in the statement on Monday. Referring to Sonya Massey’s mother, the statement continued: “It doesn’t give my aunt back her daughter. And it doesn’t give our family the accountability were still waiting for …

Trump administration has moved away from high-profile, militarized raids as its deportation spree has ramped up

The Trump administration arrested and deported a record number of immigrants in July, according to newly released government data – apprehending an average of 1,500 people and removing 1,100 people daily.

This latest data confirms what attorneys and immigrant advocates have been seeing across the US – although the administration has moved away from the high-profile, militarized raids that came to define its immigration enforcement approach last year, it is quietly ramping up its operations.

Paper products among hardest-hit sectors after trade negotiations broke down, with 25-50% tariffs estimated

• Are you a Canadian boycotting US products? We’d like to hear from you

Using the bathroom or having a cry is about to become more expensive for North Americans as the US and Canada enter a full-fledged trade war that threatens to flush away decades of peaceful trading between the two nations.

After trade negotiations broke down between the two countries last weekend, Mark Carney, the Canadian prime minister, vowed to match US tariffs “dollar for dollar” and unveiled a list of nearly 900 American goods that will face 25% to 50% tariffs starting on 8 September.

LONDON, Ontario — President Donald Trump seems dead set on escalating his trade war with Canada. And no one is really sure why.

On Monday, Trump threatened another round of 50 percent tariffs on top of the ones he just implemented — this one targeting Canada’s auto industry, which is so deeply integrated with its American counterpart that large duties would do major damage on both sides of the border. By Tuesday morning, he had begun musing about renaming Lake Ontario “Lake America” to spite Canadians. And throughout all of this, he and Vice President JD Vance had renewed their “jokes” about absorbing Canada as the 51st state.

But who is this even for? While the White House’s behavior infuriates Canadians — it is palpable on the ground here in Canada — it’s unusual by Trump standards in that nobody seems to want this conflict but him. 

Even the most fringe, or unpopular, foreign policy ideas he’s pursued typically have think tanks devoted to pushing them, or a loyal ally to please, or a voting bloc to rile up before the midterms. But unlike, say, Trump’s conflicts with Iran, or Cuba, or China, it’s hard to find a highly visible corner of conservatism that’s the driving force behind a nationalist campaign against Canada. 

When I reached out to trade experts, political scientists, and in-the-know Republicans of the pro- and anti- Trump persuasion to try to trace the origins of Trump’s trade war, they had trouble pointing to anything solid. As one veteran GOP lobbyist put it, there doesn’t seem to be any ideological, business, or congressional coalition devoted to egging on the trade fight. 

Even people sympathetic to Trump’s economic nationalism seem confused: Michael Lind, a populist pundit who last year penned a piece titled “Why tariffs are good,” has just written a follow-up titled “The madness of Trump’s Canada trade war.” And while there are some affected industries — autos, steel — they don’t seem to be main characters: United Auto Workers, which backed some prior tariffs, came out strongly against the proposed auto tariffs.

The politics don’t make much sense either. American voters have long disapproved of Trump’s tariffs on Canadian-made goods, and the current escalation threatens to be the largest and most economically damaging yet. Republicans sound anxious about its impact on the midterms; several key Senate races are in states right on the Canadian border, and any tariff-related price spike there could supercharge Democrats’ core midterm message about affordability. 

“If I were [Senate Majority Leader] John Thune, I’d be very pissed at Trump right now,” says Adam Carlson, a Democratic pollster at Zenith Research.

So why are we at (economic) war?

The best answer is deceptively simple: because Trump, and Trump alone, wants to be. 

There is no good strategic rationale for the way Trump has gone about badgering America’s northern neighbor, even if you share his broadly nationalist view about trade. Rather, Trump has become fixated on dominating or even possessing Canada. And his top deputies are backfilling his fixation, including by offering terms of surrender the Canadians simply couldn’t accept. 

“This has never been a particularly well-thought strategy,” says Kim Clausing, a trade economist at UCLA. “I think that the biggest, most coherent explanation is that this is about power.”

It’s the latest example of the risks of governance by one man’s whims — one that could both damage America’s economy and burn its relationship with its staunchest ally before it resolves.

Trump’s northern power trip

Typically, when you try to explain the policy of any government, you look at two main factors: interests and ideology. In this case, neither is close to sufficient to explain the intensity of Trump’s war on Canada.

It is true that, for decades, the United States has had meaningful trade disputes with Canada over issues like lumber and dairy. But these issues never boiled over into a massive trade war, for the simple reason that they simply aren’t that large as a percentage of GDP. There’s a reason that every administration prior to this one — including Trump’s first — handled these issues through normal negotiating processes rather than loud bullying.

On the ideology front, it is true that Trump’s 2016 victory has revived conservative interest in economic nationalism — leading to the creation of groups like American Compass, a think tank dedicated to putting policy meat on the bones of the right’s nationalist spirit. But these nationalists largely converged on China as their principal economic enemy. While Trump trade adviser Peter Navarro is helping run Canada policy now, there was no sign in his essay in Project 2025 — or from other allies — that anyone was contemplating a full-on trade war with Canada beforehand. And American Compass does not appear to be involved in the current fight, offering no official comment on its press page or founder Oren Cass’s X feed.

“I really do think it is Trump’s idiosyncrasies that caused him to settle on Canada,” says Phil Magness, an economic historian who closely tracks intra-right economic disputes. “Others in the admin are going along with it.”

The timeline backs up Magness’s assessment.

In November 2024, shortly after winning the election, Trump began feuding with then-Prime Minister Justin Trudeau — calling him “governor” and beginning his talk of Canada as the 51st state. Less than two months after taking office, Trump targeted Canada with (at that point) historically high 25 percent across-the-board tariffs.

When the Washington Post investigated the rationale behind these tariffs at the time, they found a void. There was no policy paper behind the Canadian tariffs, nor any clear intellectual godfather or industry backer. People inside the administration put all the credit (or blame?) solely at the president’s feet. Within MAGA media, the closest to radical anti-Canada sentiment might have been Tucker Carlson’s trollish musing about “regime change” in 2023.

After Mark Carney replaced Trudeau as prime minister, and won the general election primarily on an anti-Trump platform, tensions cooled to a somewhat surprising degree, at least when it came to trade talks. Prior to this week, the 51st state rhetoric had declined dramatically; negotiations on trade looked like they had a real chance of success. Indeed, just this Tuesday, Trump himself declared they had reached a deal and postponed tariff implementation as a result. The Friday breakdown thus felt like a bit of a shock.

But reading detailed accounts of the negotiation collapse, including a brand-new ticktock from the New York Times, it’s clear that overweening American conditions were a major part of the failure. Most strikingly, and relevant, were US demands that it have control over Canada’s tariff rates with other countries and that it be able to reimpose American tariffs on Canada at will.

The key point here is that the Trump administration was not, and never has been, interested in a reciprocal trade deal between allies based on clear and cogent principles. Instead, they want to vassalize Canada — to bully it into surrendering elements of its sovereignty, or even its sovereign existence altogether. It is clear that this is the direct result of the president’s personal fixation.

Why exactly Trump has become so obsessed with controlling Canada is harder to say. Per the Post, there are theories ranging from bitterness around a legal battle over Trump Tower Toronto to his friendship with Kevin O’Leary, Canadian entrepreneur and host of the reality show Shark Tank. Certainly, his more recent rivalry with Carney hasn’t helped: “Canada lives because of the United States,” Trump declared, menacingly, after the prime minister delivered a critical foreign policy speech in January.

My own personal theory is that it’s of a piece with Trump’s desire to acquire Greenland, another cause that’s largely unique to him. He is looking toward his presidential legacy, and nothing makes a real estate developer think “legacy” more than literally enlarging the size of the United States on the map.

But in practical terms, the reason may be immaterial. Whatever the roots of Trump’s Canada fixation, we know that it is real and a major driver in US foreign policy — one so important, in fact, that he is willing to jeopardize his party’s all-important Senate majority in order to pursue it.

Слышит ли вас робот прямо сейчас? А если микрофон «отвалился» — как быстро вы об этом узнаете?

Штатный микрофон гуманоида Walker Tienkung предполагает, что оператор стоит в полутора метрах перед работающей машиной ростом 173 см — неудобно и небезопасно. Мы взяли недорогую беспроводную петличку и думали, что задача решается за вечер: воткнул USB, написал pip install, готово. Реальность: выведенный наружу порт нашёлся только на другом бортовом компьютере, звук пришлось гнать по сети, а приёмник в случае любой неисправности отвечает одинаково — молча шлёт нули. Сел аккумулятор, выключили передатчик, выдернули донгл — для софта всё это неотличимо.

Рассказываем, как мы научили робота самому замечать, что он оглох, и говорить об этом голосом: диагностика по тишине, пять состояний аудиотракта, подсказки оператору, которые пришлось переписывать, потому что «технически верно» и «понятно человеку» — разные вещи. И как починили переподключение за десять секунд вместо двух из-за системного сервиса.

Товарная кампания и смарт-баннеры Яндекс Директа не дают редактировать текст объявления в интерфейсе. Заголовок Директ берёт из тега <name> товарного фида, описание — из <description>, и оба тега писал сайт: под карточку товара, а не под рекламную ленту. В галерее видно около 35 знаков заголовка, жёсткий предел — 56, дальше Директ обрезает по символам. «Печеные яблоки, фаршированные медом и грецкими орехами» в объявлении выглядят как «Печеные яблоки, фаршированные медо».

Сайт при этом трогать нельзя: та же карточка ранжируется в поиске и стоит в чеке, у неё своя работа. Ниже — как мы вклинились между сайтом и Директом одним процессом на Node без базы данных, который хирургически подменяет ровно два тега в YML, зачем над генератором заголовков стоит валидатор с правилами модерации и человек на аппруве, и что из этого вышло за первые дни на реальном проекте: пекарня с доставкой по Москве, около пятисот позиций в фиде.

Текст пригодится, если у вас уже крутятся товарная кампания или смарт-баннеры на YML-фиде и заголовки в них выглядят как строки из накладной. Если товарных форматов ещё нет — эта статья про инженерную часть, не про запуск с нуля.

Привет, Хабр! Сбер недавно выкатил новую модель, GigaChat Audio. Сейчас я надиктовываю модели этот текст голосом — финальный штрих в истории о том, как я проводил её тест‑драйв. 

Когда прочитал, что GigaChat Audio запоминает контекст, ориентируется в больших аудиозаписях и даже чувствует эмоции говорящего, сразу захотел проверить. Я задеплоил эту модель локально на рабочем компьютере и целый день проверял на рабочих задачах. Результат — в этой статье.

Меня зовут Данила @pushnoydan, я мидл‑разработчик и занимаюсь бэкендом микросервисов. А параллельно — большой любитель ИИ‑моделей: в свободное время копаюсь в них, чтобы лучше понимать возможности свежих релизов, стараюсь применять на работе, чтобы упростить рутинные задачи. 

GigaChat Audio — audio‑native LLM. В течение дня я поручал ей разбирать голосовые коммуникации от коллег, составлять саммари по аудиозаписям и выводить ключевой контекст из записей различных встреч. Давайте посмотрим, как модель показала на реальных задачах.

Исполнения печатного узла позволяют разрабатывать группу устройств на базе одной печатной платы в рамках основного назначения изделия, не нарушая требование ГОСТ на единство конструкции.

В Delta Design на основе Базовой схемы можно выпустить серию её исполнений и создать в автоматическом режиме комплект КД. Групповой вариант или комплект КД на каждое исполнение.

Привет, Хабр! Меня зовут Никита Хробостов, я QA-инженер в Just AI. Тестирую диалоговые системы: чат-ботов и голосовых ботов, часть из них с обращениями в RAG.

Моя работа устроена так: беру схему диалога на Холсте, примеряю на себя роль клиента и последовательно прохожу сценарий. Задаю вопрос и проверяю ответ, соглашаюсь — смотрю, правильно ли сработал переход, отказываюсь — проверяю фолбэк. Так приходится проходить десятки сценариев, которые в крупном проекте быстро складываются в большой объем ручной работы.

Чтобы было понятно про объемы. На проекте голосового бота у нас 13 активных сценариев, на чат-боте один. Чтобы проверить один сценарий целиком, нужно от 40 до сотни с лишним звонков, а тест-кейсов при этом в два-четыре раза больше: зависит от дизайна. На полную проверку одного небольшого сценария уходит 5–6 часов.

Проблема не столько в количестве тестов, сколько в том, что человек, который прогоняет пятидесятый тест-кейс за день, начинает говорить как автомат: короткими шаблонными фразами, потому что держит в голове покрытие, а не естественность речи. А реальный пользователь говорит совсем иначе. Именно на естественной речи NLU-часть и разваливается, и именно эти баги проще всего пропустить.

Идея автоматизировать эту работу с помощью ИИ-агента появилась давно. Расскажу, как я подходил к ней дважды. Во второй раз собрал за один день работающий прототип, который уже находит баги. Материал получился максимально искренним и честным: с цифрами, с провалами и с местами, где решение до сих пор не доделано.

Reproductive Freedom for All – one of the country’s oldest pro-choice groups – backs Jackson in his fight against Republican Susan Collins

One of the oldest abortion rights groups in the US is endorsing Troy Jackson, the Democratic nominee in Maine’s critical US Senate race, according to details first shared with the Guardian.

Reproductive Freedom for All is supporting Jackson, the former state senate president, in challenging Susan Collins – the five‑term Republican incumbent who has been dogged on the campaign trail for her role in overturning abortion access in the US.

Обо мне:

«Всем привет, меня зовут Артём, и я архитектор».

Архитектор я уже давно и много раз. На протяжении долгого времени проектированием каких только систем я не занимался. Сначала системы мультимедиа и ВКС, немного сетей (пока всё логично), далее комплексные проекты с инфраструктурой серверов, пользовательских устройств и прикладного ПО. Дальше резкий сюжетный поворот: проектирование аналитических и BI‑систем в специфике ИБ, резко обратно к «железу» — я главный инженер по слаботочным сетям в крупной строительной компании (гражданское строительство в части всего, что управляется токами ниже 220 В).

Наши дни: Сбер... я четвёртый год корпоративный архитектор инфраструктуры, включающей в себя слои аппаратного обеспечения, виртуализации, операционных систем, серверов приложений, прикладных шлюзов безопасности, Wi‑Fi сетей и многого другого.

Сказать,что я больше знаю, как не надо делать — ничего не сказать. Когда твой путь в архитектуру начинается не с «ванильных» принципов эджайла в разработке ПО, а с жёстокой реальности «водопадных» проектов под закупку, сама концепция стратегического проектирования разбивается о сегодняшние требования рынка, федеральные законы и быстрый проектный заработок для компании. В таком проектировании внедрённый комплекс должен иметь технико‑экономическое обоснование, быть окончательным, сопровождаться уже готовой рабочей документацией и не осуждающими после внедрения косыми взглядами заказчика. И не имеет значения, разрабатываешь ты внутренний продукт или идущий на рынок, из какой предметной области этот продукт — принципы проектирования, в целом, одинаковы для любой разработки.

В Сбере у меня всё плавно начиналось с проектирования отдельных продуктов и их окружения, документирования «наследия» и проверки его на соответствие стандартам банка. Но в один момент все начало меняться, и я, «лёжа на теплом песочке пляжа» под названием «архитектура отдельных продуктов» сначала начал ощущать «брызги волн», а потом «надвигающийся шторм», рождаемый хаосом динамичного, постоянно меняющегося ландшафта банка, в котором крутилась нормативка, стандарты, методики, legacy‑системы, новые стратегии и другие вызовы.

ONS data shows rising toll of climate crisis, with officials warning this summer on track to set further records

More than 40,000 extra people died on the hottest days in England between 1988 and 2025 than would be expected in normal temperatures, according to data published by the Office for National Statistics on Wednesday.

The figures do not include this summer, when England has sweltered under a succession of heatwaves and is on track to record its highest ever number of heat-related deaths. The UK Health Security Agency announced on 30 July that an estimated 2,877 people had died in the May and June heatwaves alone. The total is almost double the figure for the whole summer in 2025.

• Raducanu’s 2021 win played role in Sky interest

• Sky’s tennis audience in 2025 was 60% female

Sky Sports has agreed a new deal to extend its live coverage of the US Open. The three-year contract extension, which is expected to be announced when the singles draw from Flushing Meadows begins next week, will keep the tournament live on Sky until 2030.

Under the terms of the new deal, Sky will broadcast more than 12 hours of live tennis each day across the extended three-week tournament, including the new mixed-doubles event which is taking place this week.

The San Francisco 49ers owner’s arrest in Ohio over the weekend was quickly put behind him. Others are not so lucky

The Wheat Hill Mobile Home Community sits off state Route 170, on the edge of East Palestine, Ohio, a town most Americans only learned about because a train derailed there in February 2023 and released toxic chemicals into the creek. I grew up in a trailer park like this one, and know the sights. The grid of aluminum boxes in rows. Skirting the color of old teeth, some of it buckled, some patched with a piece of lattice. The window units huff and puff in August, dripping dark condensation on to the gravel.

I’m sure there were drugs on my street. I’m sure somebody was selling sex. I never saw it. What I saw were families raising kids in 800 square feet and people the country had already written off, living next to each other and mostly getting along.