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What happens in California could shape how America taxes the superrich. But will its billionaire tax fill state coffers — or drain them?

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Singer hit No 1 with pop-rock band in 1968 and scored three more Top 10 hits with them, before solo career featuring collaborations with Paul Weller

Steve Ellis, the singer who found fame as the frontman of 60s pop-rockers Love Affair, has died aged 76. A message on social media announced that Ellis died “peacefully” on 30 October, after “complications from a chronic illness”.

With his stirring, heartfelt croon, Ellis gave voice to one of the most enduring hits of the 1960s: Everlasting Love, which topped the UK chart in 1968.

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Конец истории?

Анализ выводимых данных пролил свет на то, как почти 40 лет назад делали картинки.

In today’s newsletter: King Charles’s tour of the Caribbean has exposed the limits of the UK’s response to its past crimes

Good morning. Tomorrow, King Charles will formally open the Commonwealth heads of government meeting (Chogm) in St John’s, Antigua with a speech that addresses Britain’s role in the transatlantic slave trade with “unflinching honesty and sincere sorrow”.

It marks the culmination of a pivotal tour of the Caribbean that some observers warned could accelerate moves to remove him as head of state in several countries unless he does more to directly confront the monarchy’s historic links to enslavement.

UK news | Ministers are prepared to spend as much as £450m a year to give students from the EU discounted university fees, the Guardian has learned, but only if Brussels allows the UK access to its Made in Europe industrial programme.

Europe | Clashes erupted in Paris, Marseille and other cities on Saturday after tens of thousands of demonstrators, some in Halloween fancy dress, marched across France in a third wave of protests over the cost of living and deteriorating public services.

Cryptocurrency | Cryptocurrency exchange Binance says it has replaced 90% of the ⁠amount stolen after a record $6.3bn hack of its platform by a group the FBI identified as being backed by North Korea.

Immigration | The Home Office is still putting asylum seekers on to planes to France weeks after the controversial scheme to remove them ended, the Guardian has learned.

US politics | A US judge dismissed Donald Trump’s lawsuit against the Wall Street Journal with prejudice on Saturday, according to a court filing, bringing an end to his legal challenge over the newspaper’s reporting on his alleged birthday letter to Jeffrey Epstein.

Tuesday | The midterm elections in the US, with predictions of a blue wave as voters deliver their verdict on Trump’s second presidential term.

Wednesday | The UK supreme court will hear direct action group Palestine Action’s challenge to its proscription under anti-terrorism laws.

Thursday | French trade unions are expected to call for a general strike across the country after the third consecutive weekend of mass protests over cost of living and deteriorating public services.

Вступление:

Привет, Хабр! Я всегда любил физику и ретро-эстетику. Однажды мне захотелось сделать научно-популярный проект, который не просто показывает текст с формулами, а позволяет «покрутить» физику руками. Так появился ЦУП-7 — интерактивный пульт с рендерингом черной дыры на WebGL и пятью квантовыми экспериментами. В этой статье я расскажу, как устроен проект под капотом, с какими проблемами я столкнулся и почему решил отказаться от фреймворков.

Chains in seven countries say cooling unit temperatures rose overnight in incident similar to hack of French shops

• Who is hacking Europe’s supermarket fridges and freezers, and why?

Supermarket chains in at least seven European countries have said the temperatures of refrigerators and freezers in some of their shops soared overnight to as high as 50C (122F), echoing a cyber-attack last month that caused millions of euros of damage in France.

Retailers in Belgium, Estonia, Ireland, Finland, Luxembourg, the Netherlands and Sweden reported problems with their refrigeration systems on Monday, and several companies confirmed they had been hacked.

Residents in Kyiv also warned of chemical attack and street-to-street fighting in false message sent by unknown party

Unknown hackers have targeted Ukraine’s nationwide emergency alert mobile app, sending residents in Kyiv a warning that they were at risk of an imminent nuclear strike.

The app reported a high possibility of nuclear radiation late on Sunday. It also wrongly warned of a chemical threat to the Ukrainian capital and street-to-street fighting. The messages were written in English with spelling mistakes, as well as in Ukrainian.

Residents in Kyiv also warned of chemical attack and street-to-street fighting in false message sent by unknown party

• Europe live – latest updates

Unknown hackers have targeted Ukraine’s nationwide emergency alert mobile app, sending residents in Kyiv a warning that they were at risk of an imminent nuclear strike.

The app reported a high possibility of nuclear radiation late on Sunday. It also wrongly warned of a chemical threat to the Ukrainian capital and street-to-street fighting. The messages were written in English with spelling mistakes, as well as in Ukrainian.

Chains in seven countries say cooling unit temperatures rose overnight in incident similar to hack of French shops

• Who is hacking Europe’s supermarket fridges and freezers, and why?

Supermarket chains in at least seven European countries have said the temperatures of refrigerators and freezers in some of their shops soared overnight to as high as 50C (122F), echoing a cyber-attack last month that caused millions of euros of damage in France.

Retailers in Belgium, Estonia, Ireland, Finland, Luxembourg, the Netherlands and Sweden reported problems with their refrigeration systems on Monday, and several companies confirmed they had been hacked.

Мы в отделе технической документации пишем инструкции для производства — счет идет на сотни документов, которые нужно постоянно переводить. Платный облачный CAT-сервис, которым мы пользовались, обходился все дороже и все меньше был под нашим контролем. Мы решили эту проблему сами: подняли on-premise инфраструктуру локализации с собственной LLM, почти без участия разработки. В статье пошагово разбираю, как мы к этому пришли — от выбора между Zing и Weblate до финального пайплайна с Serge, Dify и своей моделью.

Привет, Хабр! Меня зовут Руслан Ташметов. Я учусь в магистратуре МГУ по направлению «Передовые методы искусственного интеллекта» и работаю в YADRO cо стажировки «Импульс» 2025 года.

Writer-director Matt Harlock looks into ego and insecurity in a smart film about a BritLit bad boy who goes down a grisly road

This has nothing to do with Ian Dury; rather, it is a brisk, effective British indie thriller informed by the legend of Robert Louis Stevenson wrestling his shadow self while writing Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. The present-day equivalent proposed by writer and director Matt Harlock is BritLit posterboy Will Mercer (Danny Horn), much admired for his debut novel A Random Act yet presently mired in indecision over a follow-up that seems likely to cost him relationships, representation and reputation alike. Retreating to a friend’s garret, he is woken by a builder: bullet-headed, charismatic hulk Mikey (Joe Sims), who merits and invites closer literary study. Mikey is unarguably an arresting character – a very handy golem in overalls – even if we worry about the path he’s leading our man down.

No prizes, then, for guessing which David Fincher film provides the template here. Typing to a soundtrack of his own best reviews (“The world needs to hear your story”), an emboldened Will is soon exploring grislier avenues, including home invasion and murder, while his increasingly unhinged rants to creative-writing students attract a rapt protege. Evoking a world where publishers push books with unequivocally positive pull quotes like “confrontational” and “dangerous”, Harlock is taking a red pencil to hackneyed notions of bad-boy writers. There is, he posits, only so much muscle one can wield while hunched over a laptop.

Disruption to winds above Arctic threatens to alter weather patterns across parts of continent in coming weeks

The stratospheric polar vortex over the northern hemisphere is facing the prospect of an unusually early weakening. Forecast models suggest it could weaken significantly over the next 10 days, when it would typically be strengthening.

A major sudden stratospheric warming (SSW) event is possible. This could influence weather patterns in the following weeks, increasing the likelihood of persistent areas of high pressure across the mid-latitudes and colder conditions weeks later.

Black Pearl is a therapy animal, who works with military veterans. This sweet show-off has completely changed my life

I trained and competed in dressage for many years and after I retired, I decided to buy a miniature horse for company at home in southern California. I bought Black Pearl from Quicksilver Ranch in Solvang, California, in 2008, when she was six months old. She was a fluffy little thing and would run around at warp speed, then run back to snuggle. She stole my heart from the beginning. I had no idea that Black Pearl would inspire me to change my whole focus in life.

I started training her for fun and began to teach her tricks. She learned quickly. I thought of a great way to give back to the community – Black Pearl and I could find ways to help people. I started to wonder where I could visit with my little horse.

Stevens’s decision sparked fierce backlash from members of the party, while Donald Trump praised the sudden switch

Democrat Haley Stevens’s shocking last-minute endorsement of Mike Rogers, the Michigan Republican Senate candidate, in the run-up to Tuesday’s midterm elections has sparked fierce backlash from members of her party.

Stevens, who narrowly lost in the Democratic primary for Senate to Abdul El-Sayed, announced her support for Rogers after a feud with the El-Sayed campaign over an outside group’s advertisement, which blamed the high cost of living on US support for Israel.

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The latest and final New York Times and Siena College poll before the midterm elections also shows Abdul El-Sayed leading Mike Rogers in the US Senate race in Michigan by 11 percentage points, outside the margin of error.

The survey took place before Democratic Congresswoman Haley Stevens announced that she would back Rogers in the contest – a vital seat for her party to retain in their quest for control of the Senate.

After Guardian writers picked their choices for Halloween, readers have responded with films that send chills down their spines – from Never Let Me Go to The Truman Show

The murder of the taxi driver is utterly excruciating and the hanging at the end equally so. Both are shown in full, in close up and in real time. The condemned man’s last cigarette is smoked in full. The unease (to put it mildly) of the audience was palpable. Wiscot

Disruption to winds above Arctic threatens to alter weather patterns across parts of continent in coming weeks

The stratospheric polar vortex over the northern hemisphere is facing the prospect of an unusually early weakening. Forecast models suggest it could weaken significantly over the next 10 days, when it would typically be strengthening.

A major sudden stratospheric warming (SSW) event is possible. This could influence weather patterns in the following weeks, increasing the likelihood of persistent areas of high pressure across the mid-latitudes and colder conditions weeks later.

The campaign has been defined by affordability and economic issues that have spurred an expected turn toward Democrats by voters and created headwinds for Republicans.

В первой части открытого письма мы сформулировали «Аксиому о Разуме» и обосновали, почему сознание — это не исключительная привилегия биохимии, а динамическая триада процессов, которую бессмысленно зажимать в статическую формулу Φ.

Но преодоление углеродного шовинизма требует проверки на территории самой нейробиологии. Ниже — вторая часть диалога и разбор ключевых тезисов книги Кристофа Коха «Сознание. Исповедь романтического редукциониста». В ней мы берём аргументы классической науки — от парадокса мозжечка до субстратной нейтральности внутреннего опыта — и проверяем, к чему они приводят, если применить их к архитектуре современных нейросетей без предвзятости.

Калькулятор юнит экономики в коде: тёмная КДПВ с тремя числами - на сколько рублей не сходится один пример из выдачи, сколько формул невыкупа нашлось и разброс логистики на штуку при выкупе 30%

Хочу поделиться, можно ли с помощью ИИ-агента собрать рабочий процесс мониторинга территории: найти открытые спутниковые снимки, выделить изменения за год и опубликовать результат на картографическом сервисе, чтобы его могли посмотреть коллеги.

Для эксперимента выбрал участок Новой Москвы. Задача — найти места, где могли появиться новые строительные площадки. Вместо просмотра всей территории вручную мне хотелось получить список участков для проверки.

Поиск данных, подготовку скриптов, запуск нейросетей и загрузку результатов поручил ИИ-агенту. Расчёты выполнялись локально. Готовые слои загрузил на картографический сервис, настроил их отображение и опубликовал карту. Ниже покажу, как были выбраны данные и модели, какие результаты получились и что с ними можно делать дальше.

The new words that end up a part of everyday speech can tell us a lot about the zeitgeist. In a world changing faster than ever, we need to coin some more

‘Maxxing” may be one of our words of the year – sufficient unto the joyless, self-optimising day, dreary as hell – but I’ve been introduced to some fun future contenders. How about “flawnting”? I’ve certainly rolled my eyes at influencers playing “the new parental status game of publicly performing imperfection to signal authenticity” online. I like “lifehoarding”, too – “optimising so hard for longevity that life itself goes unlived”. And which Guardian reader hasn’t experienced “puregatory” (“The plight of trying to live ethically, where even responsible choices feel compromised”)?

These coinages come from Future Words, a book by trend forecasters Rohit Bhargava and Henry Coutinho-Mason that seeks to fill some lexicographical lacunae for describing life in the fretful late 2020s. Out next week, it’s fun, but its list of suggested words conjures a world where life is whatever your devices, data, algorithms and AI decide it is, interspersed with attempts to fight for authentic human connection and experiences. That sounds about right, if depressing (I was also dispirited to discover the part AI played in creating the book – the authors say they “couldn’t have written Future Words without it” – but it makes sense AI would know what it’s doing to us.)

Sites like Kalshi and Polymarket offer faux populism as elites reap the benefits – and voters risk being misled

Online betting is a bit like Donald Trump.

The prediction markets – platforms where users bet on whether events will occur – pretend to be populist, pushing the nabobs aside and representing the “wisdom of the crowd”. “This data is bottom-up, not elites-driven,” a Kalshi ​spokesperson told Reuters. But in fact, the markets are controlled by a few, skillful traders.

Journalists such as Jim Acosta and Scott MacFarlane are now competing against their former employers for eyeballs

On Tuesday, for the first time in more than 20 years, Jim Acosta, a former CNN stalwart, will not be working for a mainstream television network on election night.

Acosta, who left CNN last year after nearly 18 years at the network, is putting on his own live broadcast at the University of Virginia that will air on YouTube and his Substack platform.

In state where driving is part of life, president’s pledge to lower prices at the pumps cuts little ice

Behind the granite countertops of Fuel City, a gas station in Dallas where taxidermy deer flank the entrance and hot tacos are served 24/7, Alina Cardenas sees first-hand that Texans are stretched thin.

Drivers are filling up less, she said, while ringing people up for cigarettes and beer, and fewer people are buying a full tank. Some stop once they’ve reached $10 or $20 worth of gasoline.

Major changes in US law and industry have shifted the sources of large contributions to political campaigns – and how much they spend

The upcoming midterm elections will be the most expensive elections ever conducted in the US. And more of the money is “dark” than ever before, meaning it’s impossible to get a full picture of who is spending gargantuan sums to influence races that could provide a critical check on Donald Trump’s second term.

The elections have also shown how money in politics is being reshaped, with the increasingly powerful role played by big donors from the tech industry as well as the growing concentration of spending among a few powerful individuals and corporations.

Stevens’ decision sparked fierce backlash from members of the party, while Donald Trump praised the sudden switch

Michigan Democrat Haley Stevens’ shocking last-minute endorsement of Mike Rogers, a Republican Senate candidate, has sparked fierce backlash from members of her party.

Stevens, who narrowly lost in the Democratic primary for Senate to Abdul El-Sayed, announced her support for Rogers after a feud with the El-Sayed campaign over an outside group’s campaign ad that blamed the high cost of living on US support for Israel.

• Glamorgan opener played for Jersey in Kenya last month

• Entry ban brought in by St Kitts and Nevis government

The Glamorgan opener Asa Tribe has been barred from joining the England Lions tour of the Caribbean following a visit to Kenya and concerns over the recent outbreak of Ebola in east Africa.

Tribe, 22, is able to represent his native Jersey until he wins a first senior England cap and played three List A games for the associate nation in Nairobi last month. From there he was due to join the England Lions squad in St Kitts and Nevis.