
Этот материал посвящён исследованию невидимой космической загадки с помощью DIY-радиотелескопа.
Если вы хотите узнать, что такое тёмная материя, учтите, что вы не одиноки. Астрономов занимает тот же вопрос. Однако им уже кое-что известно: масса этой невидимой субстанции значительно превосходит массу наблюдаемых ими звёзд и туманностей. К такому выводу их привели наблюдения за гравитационным воздействием этого загадочного вещества на другие космические структуры. Это положило начало исследованиям длиной в несколько десятилетий, цель которых — понять природу тёмной материи.
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Dan Sullivan supports Dan Sullivan against Dan Sullivan in Alaska’s US Senate election, says a former Alaskan mayor who recently backed the race’s Republican incumbent over a challenger sharing their name.
That development provided another of multiple absurd elements to Dan S Sullivan’s campaign for a third term in the US Senate, which – beside Mary Peltola, a former Alaska Democratic congresswoman – has drawn opposition from Dan J Sullivan.
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Everyone has a vision of the ultimate future, some picture of what the world looks like at its best (or worst), and whether that future is even reachable. In religious studies, we call this an “eschatology.”
Eschatology isn’t just the Book of Revelation or the Rapture. The Greek meaning of eschaton is “last things,” and today the word captures the set of beliefs a person holds about where things are headed and what that implies for the present.
You don’t have to be religious to have an eschatology. Political optimism is an eschatology, whatever side you’re on. Zohran Mamdani, a democratic socialist, thinks the future is something we build our way toward with free childcare and buses. Stephen Miller, one of the architects of the current immigration crackdown, thinks it’s something we had and lost, but can get back through sealing the border and mass deportations. Neither one just describes the future. Both are telling you what you’re obligated to do about it right now. In other words, your eschatology shapes your ethics, because what you believe is coming determines what you feel obligated to do today.
Silicon Valley has an eschatology too, and some of its leading figures have been pretty candid about what it is: AI surpasses humanity, humans become obsolete as a species, and what matters is making sure your version of AI is the one that wins. Understanding that vision as an eschatology, not just a business strategy, explains why some of the most powerful people alive seem so unbothered by what we seem to be losing—our attention spans, our critical thinking, our basic competence at things we used to just know how to do—and so uninterested in being accountable to anyone about it.
To be sure, Silicon Valley CEOs each express their own flavor of this view of AI’s power.
Let’s start with OpenAI’s Sam Altman, because he was explicit about where he believes AI is going years before most people had even heard of a chatbot. In 2015, at a startup conference, he told the audience: “I think that AI will probably, most likely, sort of lead to the end of the world. But in the meantime, there will be great companies created with serious machine learning.” This doomsday eschatology was the basis for his business plan: race to the top because extinction is coming.
Since then, Altman’s views have shifted widely. “Working towards prosperity for everyone, empowering all people, and advancing science and technology are moral obligations for me,” he wrote in an April 2026 blog post. “AI will be the most powerful tool for expanding human capability and potential that anyone has ever seen. Demand for this tool will be essentially uncapped, and people will do incredible things with it. The world deserves huge amounts of AI, and we must figure out how to make it happen.”
This is a very different eschatology and a very different business pitch: we must invest in AI because it will help humans do powerful things.
And then there’s the world’s richest man, Elon Musk, whose life’s work makes sense once you see the eschatology underneath it. The OpenAI co-founder has said that human extinction is a very real threat that he’s personally trying to prevent. “If you think about the future of humanity, it’s going to fundamentally bifurcate in two directions,” he said back in 2013. “Either it’s going to become multiplanetary, or it’s going to be confined to one planet, until some eventual extinction event.”
You could argue that SpaceX exists as insurance against that second path, a hedge against asteroids, supervolcanoes, pandemics, or an AI that decides to take us out. In this case, his eschatology is that salvation is possible if we can colonize space, but only for those who can get there. This may also be why he has said empathy is “the fundamental weakness of Western civilization.” As bleak as I may personally find this perspective, it is in line with his eschatology. After all, it is illogical to care for others when most of humanity won’t survive.
Since Musk made his now-famous 2013 remarks, he has continued his claims about an AI apocalypse. And during his recent high-profile lawsuit against Altman, OpenAI, and its president, Greg Brockman, for altering OpenAI’s original non-profit structure, Musk referred to his ominous eschatology once more.
“The worst-case situation is where it is a terminator situation,” said Musk in April, “where AI will kill us all.”
“We are not going to talk much about extinction in this case,” interrupted Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers. “They got it, that’s enough.”
By May, an Oakland jury unanimously dismissed Musk’s case. But based on his worldview, you could understand why Musk maintains that OpenAI should remain not-for-profit. OpenAI’s lawyers had another theory: maybe Musk is jealous of OpenAI’s financial success?
Entrepreneur Peter Thiel has arguably taken eschatology the furthest. He’s taken to giving lectures arguing that the Antichrist of the 21st century is a “Luddite who wants to stop all science.” And he gives examples: AI researcher Eliezer Yudkowsky and climate activist Greta Thunberg. In his framework, caution and regulation are the apocalyptic threat. This is perhaps why, when Pope Leo XIV used his first encyclical this year to call for international AI oversight, Thiel said the Pope was effectively a “Chinese communist agent,” restraining America so that China can beat us in the technology arms race. That seems like a strange thing to say about a pope, until you realize in Thiel’s version of the future anyone suggesting limits is getting in the way.
Three tech leaders, three different pictures of humanity’s ultimate destiny—resignation, survivalism, apocalypticism. But I would assert that they share the same consequences. For one, in each version, the future isn’t something we build together. It’s something they get to build on our behalf.
And notice who is left out of each version. Altman’s future has room for “great companies” and “expanding human capability,” but arguably less concern for the people whose jobs AI might make irrelevant in the process. Musk’s future may have some room for wealthy people who can book a seat on a colony ship but less for the rest of us. Thiel’s future has room for innovation, but little for those who want to question what we are innovating for and towards. In every case, the very people who have a stake in the future are not part of building that vision of that future.
This also helps explain why some tech bros seem so disinterested in philanthropy or profit-sharing. If you genuinely believe the human era is ending and something else is taking its place, it stands to reason you have no need to feel obligated to the people around you. Why invest in public health, or housing, or building a robust civil society, if the relevant future doesn’t include most of the people who’d benefit? Why fund a school, or fix a subway, or pay taxes toward anything you won’t personally need in twenty years? This eschatology doesn’t just fail to produce ethics. It actively excuses their absence. Empathy stops looking like a virtue and starts looking like a waste of resources on people who, in this version of the future, don’t really count.
And this is where the theology does its real work: it doesn’t just predict the future, it shapes what futures are possible by dictating actions today. If humanity’s time is about to expire regardless of what anyone does, then choosing not to help others doesn’t feel like a moral failure. It feels like realism. That’s the result of every eschatology like these: it allows cruelty to feel like an accurate read of the situation rather than a choice.
What makes this eschatology dangerous is that it is held by the people with the most resources to act on it. Musk, Altman, and Thiel aren’t theologians speculating about the end times. They’re building the thing their theology tells them is coming, funding the politics that protects their ability to build it, and treating anyone who asks them to slow down as a luddite or Antichrist rather than a citizen with a legitimate concern. A belief that the present doesn’t matter, held by people with the power to shape it, doesn’t stay a belief. It becomes policy, product, and precedent, with tech bros deciding the future on behalf of everyone else, without anyone else’s consent.
Nasa-funded project uses yeasts to turn plastics and other waste into edible proteins, fats and flavourings
Cookies produced from upcycled plastic may sound like something straight out of a dystopian sci-fi plot. But researchers say that they have succeeded in creating such a product as part of a Nasa-funded project aimed at feeding astronauts on future space missions.
The technology uses specially designed yeasts to transform plastics and agricultural waste into edible proteins, fats and flavourings. The resulting slurry is passed through a 3D printer to create a disc-shaped “cookie”.
Continue reading...The latest in our series of writers picking their go-to comfort films is a grimy and gory trip back to the start of a surprisingly uplifting torture porn franchise
I was petsitting recently for a white suburban family, with the typical streaming habits therein. They had two kids; their most-watched shows, according to the history that showed up on the screen, were Bluey for the kids and The Office for the adults. When they came home from their weeklong trip, they would’ve found their watch history upheaved. The Bingos and Michael Scotts all erased by Saw I, Saw II, Saw III, Saw IV, Saw V, Saw VI, Saw 3D, Saw Spiral, Saw Jigsaw and, finally, my new favourite, Saw X.
I was obsessed with the Saw franchise well before I ever saw it. At 11, as Jigsaw puppets became Halloween costumes, I went to bed each night convinced Jigsaw was going to scoop me up in a van because the word “hell”a popped into my head. By 13, I looked up every film on Wikipedia and read through each trap with terrified excitement. By 14, I drank my first can of Stella and typed Saw II into YouTube, watching it in 12 installments. It was utterly horrifying. And so, so, so much fun.
Continue reading...Nassau County and Dover, Delaware, hit by tornadoes, while rain and thunderstorms arrive in drought-stricken UK
Thunderstorms and tornadoes caused damage and disruption last Thursday as severe weather hit the US north-east. A tornado struck Dover, Delaware, with another reported near Atlantic Beach on Long Island in New York.
The latter was rated EF-1 by the National Weather Service, with peak winds of 97mph (156kph). It was the first tornado reported in Nassau County since November 2021, with buildings and beach cabanas damaged, and heavy rainfall causing flash flooding and power cuts.
Continue reading...The WNBA has attracted grifters who care little for basketball – and whose latest stunt exposes the hollowness of their supposed concern
I regret to inform you that yet another dildo has hit a WNBA court. The Chicago Sky v Golden State Valkyries game was sullied by sex toys being chucked on to the playing surface on Friday. Aren’t we tired of all this yet? To paraphrase the Sky’s Natasha Cloud, it takes a lot of effort to bother with such a juvenile act.
This is yet another controversy for the WNBA, a league that up until a few years ago, most media observers ignored. The WNBA is full of incredibly talented players and has a rich history, but most sports fans treated all but ignored it for the majority of its 30-year existence. But when Caitlin Clark went pro, the league surged. Ratings, attendance, and interest exploded. But not all attention is good attention.
Continue reading...Carbon capture and storage could make the Rosebank site compatible with UK net zero commitments – if its owners are willing to pay the price
The British government must soon decide whether it should give consent to two oil and gasfields, Rosebank in the North Atlantic and Jackdaw in the North Sea. Amid both insecurity of energy supplies and deadly evidence of the climate crisis, the prime minister, Andy Burnham, is facing pressure from the oil and gas industry and unions on one side, and environmentalists on the other.
Labour’s manifesto commitment not to approve new drilling licences offers little help, because the fields already have licences, granted by the previous Conservative government in 2022 and 2023. But last year, Edinburgh’s court of session ruled that the environmental impact assessments on which this decision relied were unlawful. The Conservative government had, the court ruled, failed to include the emissions generated when the oil and gas from the fields is burned. The court allowed work to continue on the fields, but a new assessment had to be done and approval sought again.
Michael Jacobs is professor of political economy at the University of Sheffield and a former energy and climate change adviser to Gordon Brown when he was prime minister
Continue reading...Service charges used to be a matter of choice, but now consumers feel obliged to pay them for even a cup of coffee. How do we navigate this minefield and who is really profiting?
In a London pub, Greg Double was brutally confronted with the reality of Britain’s evolving tipping culture. “I was annoyed about the pint being eight quid, but then when you put service on top, it’s absolutely criminal,” he says. In the past, you might have told the bar staff to keep the change or have a “drink” on you, but since when did we routinely tip in pubs? Or coffee shops? Or, worst of all, at self-service machines? Tip creep is happening.
Tipping was awkward enough in the UK when the general rule was 10% at a restaurant, plus anxiety about whether you should tip the hairdresser, babysitter or food-delivery driver. Now, with tipping suggested ever more frequently, US-style, it has become a minefield to Britons. The amounts edge higher – in fancier London restaurants, a 15% service charge is relatively commonplace. And it’s often asked for – in coffee shops for example, when you pay – before any service is delivered.
Continue reading...Endorsement of Republican incumbent over challenger with same name adds twist to unusual campaign in Alaska
Dan Sullivan supports Dan Sullivan against Dan Sullivan in Alaska’s US Senate election, says a former Alaskan mayor who recently backed the race’s Republican incumbent over a challenger sharing their name.
That development provided another of multiple absurd elements to Dan S Sullivan’s campaign for a third term in the US Senate, which – beside Mary Peltola, a former Alaska Democratic congresswoman – has drawn opposition from Dan J Sullivan.
Continue reading...Treasury secretary to detail new round of economic pressure on Iran, Iran warns of 'seismic' retaliation if U.S. follow through with economic threat, Canada vows to impose retaliatory tariffs on U.S.

Sean Grayson, a former Illinois sheriff's deputy whose fatal shooting of Sonya Massey inside her home became a flashpoint over police use of force, died Sunday while serving a 20-year prison sentence.
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As President Trump's deployment of the National Guard to Washington, D.C., enters its second year, three guard members who served many months on the mission share their reactions with NPR.
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Долгое время в такси у меня был рейтинг 5 звёзд.
И вот, однажды, в поездке таксист из ближнего зарубежья очень настойчиво пытался познакомиться, а я была настроена просто попасть в точку Б.
После этого, ждать такси я стала дольше, а рейтинг у приезжающих водителей — ниже. Пожаловалась очередному таксисту, и он сказал «Так у тебя рейтинг плохой, я тоже думал отказать». 4,85.
Привет! Меня зовут Маша, я Senior Product Manager и разбираю только те продукты, над которыми сама хотела бы поработать, так как ими пользуюсь, люблю и вижу, где есть потенциал роста. Мне драйвово искать для них решения, которые выводят продукт на новый уровень не только по деньгам, но и по UX и любви пользователей. Мои другие разборы: Как я искала точки роста для «Звука»: догонять рынок или создавать новый? и ВкусВилл: UX, который покоряет, и ложка дёгтя в офлайне. В этот статье разбираю ситуацию когда счастье пользователя противопоставляется экономическим затратам на продукт и как принимает решение Яндекс.такси сейчас.
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Привет, Хабр! Давайте на примере кейса с рекламой в ПВЗ Wildberries разберемся в двойном машинном обучении (DML) и методе псевдорандомизации (PSM). Вы в деле?
Меня зовут Платон Попов, я дата-аналитик в команде A/B-платформы RWB. В нашей команде я занимаюсь задачами из области причинно-следственного анализа (Causal Inference) и методами понижения дисперсии.
В этой статье расскажу о самом кейсе и объясню, почему для него не подошёл классический t-тест. Покажу, как мы учитывали спутывающие факторы с помощью Propensity Score Matching (PSM), почему этого оказалось недостаточно и почему в итоге перешли к Double Machine Learning (DML). В конце сравним результаты и обсудим наш план выкатки метода оценки нерандомизированных экспериментов в промышленный масштаб.
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Мой сервис обрабатывает большой поток PDF от самых разных генераторов. В начале июня один‑единственный файл уложил его на 30 минут: HPA раздул поды до потолка, и все они наглухо повисли, 100% CPU, обработка стоит, очередь копится, алерты сыпятся пачками. Расследование в трёх актах: ложный подозреваемый, закомментированный panic и санитайзер, не знавший алфавит до конца.
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Соавтор статьи — Сергей Левенец, CTO в команде ТестОпс.
Искусственный интеллект заметно ускорил разработку, и очевидных выгод от этого много. Оборотная сторона — выросли издержки на поддержку кода, прежде всего на работу с багами. И ложатся они в первую очередь на тестирование.
В прошлой статье мы рассказали про то, как в команде ТестОпс написали и отлаживали агента по правке багов. Но чуть ли не важнее самого агента оказалось справиться с теми изменениями, которые он принёс в рабочие процессы. А для этого нужно было научиться измерять издержки работы агента.
В этой статье мы расскажем о том, как это оказалось непросто, какие инструменты мы создали, и что ещё планируем сделать, чтобы агент лучше интегрировался в команду.
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Представлена новая интерпретация квантовой механики. Интерпретации квантовой механики призваны решить проблему измерения, возникающую в этой теории. В статье показано, что возможной причиной появления проблемы измерения является движение познания в сторону теории всего, каковая теория не имеет смысла. Элементом новой интерпретации является наблюдатель, его сознание, относительно которого также сделаны выводы.
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Знакома ли вам ситуация, когда задачи теряются и не выполняются по причине того, что они нигде системно не ведутся? Что интересно: с такой ситуацией сталкивается не только ИТ, а вообще любой сотрудник офиса. Конечно хорошо, когда задача одна, но что если их 10, и новые прибавляются каждый день? Неизбежно приходится записывать задачи, вести их статус. Потом появляется понимание, что задачи должны быть еще и связаны друг с другом, что нужно хранить артефакты в виде документов. И когда появляются статус и возможность делится этими задачами — начинается поиск системы, которая автоматизирует эту работу.
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В 2026 году из каждого утюга звучит тезис: несколько сильных инженеров с агентами теперь способны делать работу, для которой раньше требовалась полноценная продуктовая команда.
Рассмотрим: на чем основан "успех" Tiny Teams, почему он на всех не натягивается, как сложность предметной области, система, ответственность и платформа влияют на возможности создания таких команд.
Спойлер: направление скорее правильное, но доказательств эффективности нет, потому что все зависит от специфики предметной области команды и сложности системы.
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Семь лет я разрабатываю продукты для защиты конечных точек — те самые агенты, которые крутятся у вас в трее и которые принято проклинать, когда билд собирается на десять минут дольше обычного. До этого несколько лет сидел по другую сторону: аналитиком в SOC и в пентестах. Так что жалобы на «тормозящий антивирус» я слышал во всех возможных ролях — и как человек, который эти алерты разбирает, и как человек, который в эти продукты пишет код.
Обычно дискуссия выглядит так: разработчики говорят «EDR сожрал мне полчаса жизни на сборке», безопасники отвечают «терпите, это ради вашей же безопасности», и обе стороны расходятся, оставшись при своём. Я попробую разобрать, что происходит внутри агента на самом деле, где именно теряется производительность и почему часть этих потерь — осознанный выбор, а часть — честный инженерный компромисс, у которого пока нет красивого решения.
Читать далееDowning Street repeats calls for social media platforms to review content and policies as companies urged to uphold legal duties
Lee Anderson, the Reform UK MP for Ashfield, is first up to speak. He says young people in his constituency – and in many areas across the country – have “absolutely no chance” of securing council housing or social housing. He says that Reform’s government would “put British people first” in a housing system he characterises as being unfair.
Reform UK will use a press conference that is due to begin at 11am to announce its pledge to prioritise British-born workers under 35 when allocating social housing. We will bring you the key lines from the conference, fronted by deputy leader, Richard Tice, and the party’s chairman, Lee Anderson, here. You can watch it live:
Continue reading...Nidia Webb, who is legally settled in UK, falls foul of ‘known issue’ with Home Office’s digitised immigration process
A woman who is legally settled in the UK was left stranded at a Spanish airport after the Home Office’s post-Brexit visa system mixed her up with her twin sister.
Nidia Webb fell foul of what she was told was a “known issue” with the eVisa, which was brought in as part of the government’s drive to digitise the UK’s immigration system but has faced problems that have caused concern for thousands of people.
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.. некоторое время назад мы начали активно прикручивать на свою аналитическую платформу MCP. Разумеется, по ходу этого процесса у меня с коллегами происходят разные беседы и споры о планах развития, и несколько недавних показались мне достаточно любопытными для того, чтобы вынести их идеи сюда... начну немного издалека...
Давайте вспомним, как менялась торговля. Сначала были рынки, где продавец был обязательным посредником между вами и товаром. Потом появились универсамы, где уже можно было ходить самому, но товар всё равно взвешивал и отпускал продавец за прилавком. Дальше — супермаркеты, где мы получили почти полную свободу выбора. Наконец, мы пришли к кассам самообслуживания и покупкам в один клик с телефона. Эволюция торговли была в том, что на каждом таком шаге убирался посредник — и таким образом... получился многовековой тренд на самообслуживание.
Читать далееDevelopers who met through Australia’s improv scene and publishers of comedic party games have united for this slithering challenge in which you play as one extended limb
Most stealth games cast you as a spy, an assassin or a master thief. My Arms Are Longer Now dispenses with most of the criminal person, to send in just one spectacularly badly behaved limb. It slithers across floors, winds around furniture, steals things and slaps anyone within reach – finally answering the question nobody asked: what if your own arm turned to crime?
As Toot Games co-founder Matthew Jackson puts it: “You are the bad thing that happens to the people.”
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