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It was so refreshing to hear Aaron Sorkin admit he was bad at parts of directing after his movie flop. If only others could be as frank

By most accounts, Aaron Sorkin’s new film The Social Reckoning, a follow-up to his 2010 smash-hit The Social Network, is a flop. The film critic Mark Kermode’s response to seeing it was that Sorkin, who is widely regarded as one of the greatest living screenwriters, is “not a great director”.

It seems that Sorkin agrees. Because Sorkin is very famous, he has had to do the rounds talking about the film in the media, which led to his appearance on the Hollywood Reporter’s Awards Chatter podcast earlier this week, in which he addressed these kinds of criticisms head on. “I’m very worried that the parts of directing that I’m not good at are those parts that you can’t learn,” he said. “In addition to having absorbed none of the science of filmmaking, I have – and this is a problem in a visual medium – I have no visual sensibility at all, it turns out.”

Imogen West-Knights is a writer and journalist

The crumpet has the texture of a damp Always Ultra

I’ve done some fairly rash things in my time, but I’ve never popped into anywhere for king scallops with ’nduja and come out with a swallow tattoo on my neck, though what is this life without adventure? Which is where Moods comes in: the space is an all-day restaurant, bar, tattoo parlour and hair salon in Leeds, offering violetta potato with ox cheek, a short back and sides, and the chance to tattoo “Mum” on your lower left arm, all in one Grade II-listed building.

It occupies the former First White Cloth Hall on Kirkgate, built in 1711 for the trade of white undyed cloth. This cavernous ark, with roof timbers dating back to the 1470s, lurked on Historic England’s Heritage at Risk register for more than 20 years, during which time it was under almost constant threat from the bulldozers. It took the National Lottery Heritage Fund, Leeds Civic Trust and Rushbond, a Leeds-based developer with a penchant for rescuing buildings, to drag it out of danger. Then Will and Hayley Moody arrived, slotting in their Buzz Club Tattoo Studio and a hair and beauty salon called Self, and now, on the ground floor, there’s Moods, a kitchen reportedly run by Craig Rogan. Laugh at the tattoo/hair/dinner triumvirate, if you want (I know I did), but it’s a grim joke that we treat our old buildings like this, and that hospitality is in a state so wild that this seems to be the solution. Bring on the bright new future of ye olde small plates, buzzcuts and half-sleeve emporiums, all under 400-year-old timbers.

Getting older and losing your autonomy is even harder without family around. You need to consider both the practical and emotional issues involved

My wife and I are in our late 70s, and have been married for more than 40 years. We didn’t have kids and were rather traumatised after failed IVF.

My wife is Asian and has no UK-based family. I do, but they are not close geographically, nor are they people who would be able to give any support if needed. Friends are of a similar age and so have their own issues to deal with. My wife and I have always been a self-reliant unit, and we’re both reasonably healthy, but I’m increasingly aware that there will soon come a time when help is needed.

Kinaan Dadou, 10, has been left disabled since 7 October 2023 as his parents struggle to find funding for specialist treatment

It was 7.30am on 7 October 2023 when a Hamas rocket exploded next to 7-year-old Kinaan Dadou. The rocket was aimed at the Israeli settlement of Efrat in the occupied West Bank but missed its mark by a few hundred metres, landing in front of Kinaan’s family home instead.

A piece of shrapnel struck Kinaan in the head. He stood rigid, his hands frozen to his sides, and screamed “Baba!” before collapsing to the ground. An Israeli soldier who passed by promised to call an ambulance. No help ever came. Kinaan’s parents rushed him to the hospital themselves, but it was six hours before a doctor arrived due to the chaos of the day. All the while, Kinaan’s brain was haemorrhaging.

Led by Congress party, India’s opposition alliance channels anger over removal of 130 million names from voter roll

Thousands of opposition supporters have gathered in Delhi as protests against the Narendra Modi government continue to gather momentum.

Led by the Congress party, India’s opposition alliance has brought together supporters from across the country, amid growing anger over a large-scale revision of the country’s voter roll that has seen 130 million names erased.

There has been a steep rise in the number of people labelled autistic over the last 20 years. Is that down to greater understanding – or overdiagnosis?

The home of 85-year-old Uta Frith does not exactly look like the latest front in the culture wars. Located in a serenely quiet corner of north-west London, it suggests a life still well lived, a set of deep interests and an idyllic kind of retirement. There are so many books that some are reachable only using a very tall ladder. The four hours I spend talking to her – and her husband Chris, an expert in schizophrenia – are an absolute pleasure. There is no sense of outrage or upset: even when I ask her about the stream of hostile and abusive emails she has recently received, she is relaxed and phlegmatic. “I tend to cope by just deleting them,” she says. “I don’t dwell on it.”

“It” is a reference to the controversy kicked up by her recently expressed views on a subject that sits at the heart of Frith’s academic career: what it is to be autistic, and who should or shouldn’t qualify for a diagnosis. Back in March, Dame Uta Frith – she was honoured with the title seven years ago – gave an interview to TES magazine (formerly the Times Educational Supplement) scattered with stark pronouncements. Among them was a claim that the so-called autistic spectrum has “gone on being more and more accommodating”, to the point that it “has come to its collapse”. Then, in August, she published a piece in the academic journal Psychological Medicine claiming autism was in dire danger of being turned from a “precise, clinical” term into a “vague, culturally amplified identity category”.

С 11 октября 2026 года корень DNS подписывает набор ключей только новым KSK-2024 (38696). За четыре дня до смены Эфраин Гарай показал, что BIND из Debian 11 с одним старым ключом при первом запуске сам начинает доверять новому. Через 20 дней после смены я запустил тот же BIND с пустым состоянием, как в пересозданном контейнере: SERVFAIL на всё, включая неподписанный google.com. Для unbound такой старт спасает unbound-anchor, но только при открытом HTTPS к data.iana.org, а при неудаче пишет старый ключ и выходит с кодом 0. dnsmasq из Debian 12 со своим файлом якорей отказывает на всём, а с якорями, где есть 38696, работает: их подставляет сервисная обёртка дистрибутива.

Hundreds of adult gaming centres in England have bingo licences that still qualify them for discounted business rates

Hundreds of high street “slot farms” could continue claiming a discount on their business rates, unless the government closes a loophole that allows them to pose as bingo halls.

John Healey singled out adult gaming centres (AGCs) in his first budget this week, in which he increased duty on slot machine takings from 20% to 25%, claiming he was “raising taxes on gambling to support good growth on every high street”.

An unmissable documentary play, Tom Stoppard’s Arcadia with luminous Isis Hainsworth and ecstatic dance in a Norwegian museum are among November’s highlights

Swiss director Milo Rau’s ripped-from-the-headlines approach to theatre has included shows about wars in Iraq and Congo and the exploitation of migrant workers. His four-hour documentary play (created with Servane Dècle) about the trial of the men who drugged and raped Gisèle Pelicot has been performed around the world and will be staged by the Young Vic at London’s County Hall on 30 November. The production swiftly sold out but will be livestreamed in full. The cast includes Adjoa Andoh, Rosie Jones and Olivia Williams. “It was the act of witnessing that really got me,” said Young Vic boss Nadia Fall of the show. “It isn’t scenes and costumes in a set like a traditional piece of theatre. It is the facts. It just floors you.”

I have been asking friends and family this question all week. The answers reveal precisely how they deal with fear

Perhaps, almost seven years later, there are aspects of the Covid lockdown some are nostalgic about, but it’s doubtful the great loo-roll hoarding of 2020 is one of them. And yet, here we appear to be again. Well, nearly.

Some shops sold out of baked beans and water this week, after government advice that we should stockpile supplies to prepare for emergencies “ranging from severe weather to cyber-attacks”. We must Be Ready – which is the name of the campaign that has launched. Security minister Dan Jarvis said that “those who can follow this advice should follow this advice”.

Relying on technology can make us forgetful, but there are some simple ways to sharpen your recall. Memory experts describe the tricks and habits that can help

Memory can worsen as we age, but it is often possible to do something about it. Here, memory experts share their advice on how to improve your power of recall.

With the far right resurgent in Germany, experts are divided as to whether the dictator’s former mountaintop retreat is better restored or left a ruin

One of the last structural relics of Adolf Hitler’s dictatorship was conceived to project indomitable power. Last month it was destroyed in a suspected arson attack. Will it, and should it, be rebuilt?

The historic Nazi mountaintop retreat known as the Eagle’s Nest is perched on an Alpine peak at an altitude of 1,834 metres (6,000ft), with stunning views over southern Germany and Austria. In German, its design is known as Überwältigungsarchitektur, intended to overwhelm and intimidate.

The problems run deep in South Africa’s largest city. Will voters punish the ANC in next week’s local elections?

One week before the local elections in South Africa, the pavements and roads of the Johannesburg township Alexandra were filled with piles of rubbish, rotting in the heat. At the Jukskei River, its banks choked with rubble and litter, foul-smelling brown water flowed out of a culvert.

“We’ve got way too many challenges,” said Semadi Manganye, the chief executive of Alexandra Water Warriors, an environmental NGO that organises clean-ups of the river and plants trees on its banks. “If it’s not electricity, it’s water. If it’s not water, it’s waste.”

Donald Trump uttered five words this summer that could seal the Republican party’s fate: ‘Pretend I’m on the ticket’

He spoke admiringly of a senator’s posterior. He baselessly accused a Muslim candidate of being a terrorist. He boasted about his renovations of the White House. He quipped that his own supporters couldn’t afford a hamburger at his Mar-a-Lago club. Every now and then, he spoke about the cost of living, and other everyday concerns of voters.

Donald Trump has held dozens of campaign rallies before next week’s US midterm elections. The 80-year-old remains convinced that he can prove the doubters wrong again and help Republicans retain control of the US Congress. But it was five words he uttered at this summer’s Republican convention in Dallas that could seal his party’s fate: “Pretend I’m on the ticket.”

В тот августовский летний день я занимался своими исследованиями финансового рынка и приводил в порядок заметки в Obsidian.

В какой-то момент я загрузил два CSV-файла, затем удалил их через Проводник Windows и обнаружил, что Obsidian стал подтормаживать.

Причём тормозило не всё приложение. Редактор работал прекрасно, поиск тоже. А вот при переключении разделов настроек появлялась неприятная задержка. И эта история не простой баг-хаунтинг.

В октябре 2026 года информационная служба Хабра выпустила 912 публикаций (877 новостей и постов, 6 лонгридов и 28 переводов). В текущем дайджесте представлены лучшие технические новости, переводы и лонгриды (отдельные большие публикации) инфослужбы Хабра, согласно оценкам пользователей.

• Valkyries prevail 68-63 in league’s first-ever Game 7

• Williams scores 30 as Golden State win first title

• Second-year franchise complete remarkable rise

• Read Bryan Graham’s minute-by-minute report

In the middle of Chase Center, the Golden State Valkyries gathered somewhere they have been only a handful of times. They are, after all, just a second-year franchise.

But on Saturday night they came together to collect their trophy as WNBA champions. Kaila Charles embraced Tiffany Hayes as they jumped up and down. Kayla Thornton screamed towards the ceiling.

• Ruthless Jillaroos dominate Wales to claim biggest win in league history

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And the two teams are out in the glorious spring sunshine. Smiles all round as Australia prepare to fill their boots and Wales soak up the occasion.

The Jillaroos are wearing gold jerseys this afternoon, with green chevrons and shorts. Wales are in red with white and dark green accents.

Допустим, что вы backend-разработчик. Пишете сервисы, иногда чините то, что по всем законам природы ломаться не должно. Но где-то на фоне есть мысль: хорошо бы однажды перебраться в Силиконовую долину и стать вторым Цукербергом ну или хотя бы встретить его там лично и сказать что Вацап отстой. И вроде есть путь для талантливых людей.

Но оказывается талантливым нужно быть не только в жизни.

Привет Хабр!

В этой статье я расскажу зачем я создал собственный TURN сервер в то время когда есть древний Coturn который я устал постоянно разворачивать и настраивать для своих приложений. 

В моих глобал проектах на WebRtc около 20 процентов пользователей всегда находятся за NAT, CGNAT или за корпоративными файрволами. Напрямую такие юзеры соединиться не могут, поэтому трафик нужно пропускать через сервер посредник "TURN", иначе будут жаловаться в тех поддержку.

Долгое время я использовал древний тяжелый Coturn написанный на C. Он закрывает базовые задачи, но при настройке новых серверов появляются много ручной работы. В итоге я не выдержал и написал свой сервер Slyber TURN Server на Go поверх библиотеки pion/turn/v4. Он собирается в один статический бинарник для linux/amd64 и linux/arm64 без внешних зависимостей и ставится одной командой.

Ниже разберу технические проблемы, из за которых я ушел с Coturn, и как они решены в моем сервере.

Cryptocurrency exchange says 90% of losses covered as FBI blames North Korean state-sponsored group TraderTraitor

The cryptocurrency exchange Binance has started to allow its customers to withdraw their funds from the platform, as it recovers from a record $6.3bn (£4.7bn) hack.

The exchange was hit by the theft on Thursday, which has since been described as the biggest heist in history, with experts identifying North Korea as the likely culprit.

Cryptocurrency exchange says 90% of losses covered as FBI blames North Korean state-sponsored group TraderTraitor

The cryptocurrency exchange Binance has started to allow its customers to withdraw their funds from the platform, as it recovers from a record $6.3bn (£4.7bn) hack.

The exchange was hit by the theft on Thursday, which has since been described as the biggest heist in history, with experts identifying North Korea as the likely culprit.

An estimated 150,000 people took to the streets of Taipei on Saturday to attend the 24th Taiwan LGBT+ Pride parade. The largest annual pride event in east Asia, the march aims to promote gender equality, foster cross-community dialogue, and advocate for expanded legal protections and social inclusivity

• ‘We’re not freaks’: police raid sparks concern for Taiwan’s LGBT-friendly image