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Two years on from our first newsletter … how has the Long Wave evolved?
From AI aunties to long diaspora Uber phone calls, here is a selection of our favourite editions to celebrate our second anniversary
The Long Wave is two! And over the past year, once again, it has surprised us with the breadth of stories and events in the diaspora.
The Long Wave has also evolved into a large community, with many readers getting in touch and sharing their thoughts, tips and sometimes their polite disagreements. We welcome and relish all of it. Here is the team’s selection of our favourite editions.
Continue reading...Egypt fines prominent editor Lina Attalah and shuts independent news outlet Mada Masr
Warnings of escalating clampdown on press freedom come after Cairo court convicts Attalah of managing an unlicensed website
Lina Attalah, a prominent Egyptian journalist and the editor-in-chief of the news outlet Mada Masr, has been released from detention by Egypt’s authorities and had her website ordered to be shut down by a court amid an intensifying crackdown on independent media in the country.
Attalah was taken briefly into custody after a Cairo court convicted her of managing an unlicensed website, prompting fresh international concerns over press freedom in Egypt.
Continue reading...Arab States Must Invest in Productive Sectors After Iran War Exposes Weaknesses, U.N. Official Says
Как я научился зарабатывать 2000 р. в час на статьях, а потом уперся в потолок. Карьерный трек лоха, часть 2
Всем привет! Я Андрей, копирайтер и редактор. В этом сериале я рассказываю про свой кривой карьерный путь — не только про успехи, но и содранные коленки и разбитый лоб. В прошлой серии рассказал, как три года искал постоянную работу, пока не попал в «Зарплату.ру». Сегодня расскажу, как научился писать по 2–3 лонгрида в неделю, зарабатывать около 100 тыс. рублей при работе 10 часов в неделю — пока эта сказка не кончилась месяц назад.
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Путин поговорил с президентом Финляндии и премьером Норвегии перед переговорами Украины, России и США в Абу-Даби
«Кажется, будто закончилась война». Как короткое перемирие за сутки изменило Херсон и что происходит в Алешках
Snail ate your mail? Why gastropods munch paper – and how to stop them
In wet weather, garden snails can seek shelter in letterboxes – and find a feast there waiting for them
We’ve all heard of snail mail – a term popularised since the advent of electronic mail – but who knew that snails eat mail?
We have it on good authority from the ecologist Simon Mustoe – who said snails ate his letter from Sir David Attenborough – a BBC report announcing the closure of a Northumberland Royal Mail postbox because of snails “munching the mail”, and desperate people on the forums of the Australian hardware chain Bunnings claiming snails have “a real appetite for postal letters” and can “eat a whole letter in two days”.
Continue reading...Castle Walls review – Prime’s first fully AI-generated show is here, and it’s a Vaseline-smeared mess
Billed as the first end-to-end AI-created series on a major streaming service, this Turkish show looks like the result of the prompt ‘make it cinematic’
Just as the world reels from Elon Musk’s AI-powered The Odyssey remake – though “remake” feels rather generous for a seven-minute splat of synthetic sludge – another bucket of AI gunk is dropped on to our faces. For Prime Video’s AI-generated TV series Castle Walls, produced by Turkish production studio Ay Yapım using a melange of generative video tools, has arrived, billed as the first end-to-end AI-created series to premiere on a major streaming platform.
It’s certainly more epic than Musk’s production, consisting of two 17-minute episodes. Set in the 11th century, the show revolves around the historic Alamut Castle, although it’s entirely absent of any real sense of time or place. I was briefly intrigued by the opening images, with their bold palette of blues and mustard browns and yellows – but as soon as the “people” appeared, looking like Vaseline-smeared Madame Tussauds creations slowly melting in the sun, everything came crashing down.
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NKT: Киллер фича № 8, плагины
«This is the Unix philosophy: Write programs that do one thing and do it well. Write programs to work together. Write programs to handle text streams, because that is a universal interface.»
«Философия Unix: пиши программы, которые делают одну вещь и делают её хорошо. Пиши программы, которые работают вместе. Пиши программы, работающие с текстовыми потоками, потому что это универсальный интерфейс.»
Дуглас Макилрой, изобретатель Unix pipes
Читать далееНовинка «Высокопроизводительный Go. Руководство по оптимизации»
Привет, Хабр!
Сегодня мы рады представить вам нашу очередную новинку, которая украсит полку профессионального бэкенд-разработчика: «Высокопроизводительный Go. Руководство по оптимизации». Она продолжает сразу два направления нашей работы и ориентирована как на современных бэкендеров, всё активнее переходящих на Go, так и просто на ответственных разработчиков, желающих систематизировать проверенные практики повышения производительности. Книга сложилась из заметок и кода, над которыми много лет работал Александр Ставонин – выдающийся специалист по Go, C++, IoT и высокопроизводительным вычислениям. В своё время Александр давал на Хабре подробное интервью для компании Getmatch, в котором рассказывал о личном опыте обустройства в Сингапуре. Англоязычные черновики книги, которые легли в основу русского издания, выложены на сайте goperf.dev.
Читать далееПервые 30 минут руководителя проекта, или как обнаружить проблемы до того, как они сорвут сроки
Утренние часы можно использовать для дел, которым постоянно мешает повседневная суета. Об этом пишет американская писательница Лаура Вандеркам в книге «Что самые успешные люди делают до завтрака». Попробуем перенести этот принцип на руководителя проекта и понять, как раньше остальных заметить отклонения в проектах, оценить последствия и принять решение, пока проблема еще управляема.
Читать далееMenindee Lakes water levels drop to lowest in five years as experts warn of mass fish deaths
NSW government imposes water restrictions after Menindee water volumes fall below 2021 levels
Water levels at the Menindee Lakes in western New South Wales have fallen to their lowest point in five years, prompting the state government to impose upstream water use restrictions as experts warn of potential mass fish deaths over summer.
Combined volume at the Menindee Lakes fell below 480 gigalitres earlier this month, the first time since 2021.
Continue reading...Deadly high-speed train collision in Spain, dozens killed
Архитектура 1С для новичков: Строим первую внешнюю обработку и клиент-серверный мост. Часть первая
Боитесь запутаться в клиент-серверной архитектуре и управляемых формах? В этой короткой статье разберем самый простой и понятный алгоритм создания внешней обработки с нуля. Идеально для начинающих разработчиков и студентов, делающих первые шаги в 1С.
Каждый начинающий программист 1С рано или поздно приходит к моменту, когда типовых возможностей конфигурации не хватает, а вносить изменения в саму конфигурацию (снимать с поддержки) нельзя или не хочется. Именно для таких задач и существуют внешние обработки (файлы с расширением .epf),они не мешают последующим типовым обновлениям от фирмы 1С.
Шаг 1. Создаем файл обработки в Конфигураторе
Открываем Конфигуратор и идем по классическому пути: Файл — Новый — Внешняя обработка.
Перед нами пустая карточка. Здесь нас интересуют два поля: Имя и Синоним.
Имя — это то, как к вашей обработке будет обращаться сама система в коде (пишем строго без пробелов, например: ЗагрузкаДанныхИзФайлов).
Синоним — это название, которое 1С выведет на экран пользователю (тут пробелы и знаки препинания разрешены, например: Умный импорт первички).
Шаг 2. Проектируем интерфейс (Управляемую форму)
Находим в дереве пункт Формы, жмем на лупу и создаем новую управляемую форму обработки.
Добавляем данные: В правом верхнем углу (вкладка Реквизиты) нажимаем «Добавить». Нам нужна строка, назовем её ПутьКФайлу, перетаскиваем в левое верхнее окно Элементы.
Лайфхак для интерфейса: Выделяем это поле, открываем его свойства (Alt + Enter) и в поле Заголовок пишем то, что должен увидеть пользователь, а чуть ниже находим свойство КнопкаВыбора и ставим галочку Да (чтобы в поле появились заветные три точки ...).
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Opinion | Netanyahu Gives Israel One More Surprise
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Anger in Kenya over extradition hearing delay for ex-British soldier accused of murdering woman
US teen whose father arranged her marriage to Islamic State fighter convicted for weapons training
‘You try to leave, it is death,’ Halima Salman testified. Her mother and defense attorneys wept after the verdict
A New York woman whose father took her to Syria as a teenager and arranged her marriage to an Islamic State fighter was convicted on Tuesday of receiving weapons training from the militant group.
Prosecutors said Halima Salman, a US citizen, pledged loyalty to the extremist group and willingly participated in its activities. Jurors were shown a video of her holding an assault rifle, a photo of her with the group’s flag and loving text messages she sent her husband.
Continue reading...Give UK workers right to know colleagues’ pay to prevent disparities, says watchdog
EHRC says transparency needed to prevent pay discrimination, particularly against women
Workers should have a legal right to know their colleagues’ pay to help prevent pay discrimination, particularly against women, the UK’s human rights watchdog has said.
The Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) made the recommendation in response to government proposals to overhaul equal pay laws, saying workers deserved a right to transparency if they suspected other staff were being paid more for similar work.
Continue reading...How students rocked Serbia’s presidential election – video explainer
The long-serving leader of Serbia, Aleksandar Vučić, has conceded defeat, ushering in a seismic political shift after a historic election that pitted the increasingly authoritarian leader against a student-led movement that had spent two years protesting against his government. As news broke that Vučić’s 12 years in power had come to an end, celebrations erupted on the streets of Belgrade and other cities. But how did we get here - and what happens now? The Guardian's Europe live correspondent, Jakub Krupa, explains
Continue reading...До какого места дочитывают ваши статьи: делаем процентильную аналитику прокрутки для WordPress
Вы опубликовали статью. Счётчик показывает пару тысяч просмотров. Но кто-нибудь её на самом деле прочитал? Обычная аналитика на этот вопрос не отвечает: человек, закрывший вкладку через три секунды, и человек, дочитавший до последней строки, для счётчика одинаковы — «1».
Хуже того, ответа не даёт и «средняя глубина прокрутки», которая есть почти в каждом сервисе веб-аналитики. О том, почему она врёт и как я решал обе задачи в бесплатном плагине AnGo Scroll Analytics для WordPress, — эта статья. Внутри: процентили вместо среднего, трекер на чистом JavaScript, отправка данных через sendBeacon, upsert с GREATEST() и принцип «клиент враждебен».
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How to talk to teens about drugs and alcohol
Free Fire returns to India as Garena launches localized version four years after ban
Max Dowman’s Fleetwood fracas leaves him, Arsenal and Arteta red-faced
Teenager was maybe harshly sent off in the Carabao Cup tie but his reaction was a mistake he will learn from, while his manager might also have regrets
Mikel Arteta’s reaction said it all. As Max Dowman trudged towards the touchline after becoming the youngest player sent off in a League Cup match at 16 years and 300 days, the Arsenal manager could not help himself.
Arms folded across his chest like an angry father who has caught his teenage son sneaking in after midnight, Arteta leaned over and aimed a few choice words in Dowman’s direction before the forward headed sheepishly down the tunnel. What he said remains unknown, although that hasn’t stopped the amateur lip-readers speculating on social media. “Get in the changing room. Now,” appears the most likely guess.
Continue reading...Личный бренд ИТ-специалиста в 26/27: стоит ли заморачиваться?
Аналитики, разработчики, менеджеры и все остальные профессии в ИТ стараются удержаться на плаву. С одной стороны экономическая ситуация, с другой - на пятки наступает ИИ. Что делать? Поможет ли личный бренд устоять или это трата времени и не стоит начинать? Мнения разработчиков и HR в нашей статье.
Кстати, разбавьте комментарии вашим мнением.
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'This is America!' Waltz says as he and Cubans get into shouting match at UN
DevSecOps для тех, кто не безопасник: как встроить SAST, SCA и поиск секретов в CI/CD
Прилетает задача: «нужно прикрутить безопасность к пайплайну». Берёте популярный сканер, втыкаете в CI/CD с дефолтным конфигом — и через десять минут пайплайн с треском падает под лавиной из 480 предупреждений. Через неделю постоянных ложных блокировок команда просто забивает на алерты: безопаснее не стало, релизы замедлились, а при слове «DevSecOps» все раздражаются.
Проблема не в инструментах, а в подходе. Разбираем, как собрать минимальный рабочий пайплайн с SAST, SCA и поиском секретов, который ловит реальные угрозы и не тонет в ложных срабатываниях. Для тех, кто не безопасник.
Собрать за вечер →RFK Jr assailed over ‘wildly racist tirade’ about Arabs at Michigan campaign stop
US health secretary falsely claims at Mike Rogers rally that Arabs have never won major prizes in science or literature
Robert F Kennedy Jr, the US health secretary, faced backlash on Wednesday for a “wildly racist tirade” during a campaign stop in Michigan in which he falsely asserted that Arabs never won leading awards in science or literature.
Kennedy was speaking at the Monday night event in Grand Rapids in support of Mike Rogers, the Republican US Senate candidate trailing his Democratic midterms opponent Abdul El-Sayed, who is Muslim, in polling.
Continue reading...Business secretary writes to Poundland owner as administration fears build
Jonathan Reynolds’ team has written to Gordon Brothers, which bought retailer for £1 last summer, to ‘establish the facts’
The business secretary’s team has written to the owner of Poundland amid fears that the cut-price retailer could collapse into administration, threatening to overshadow John Healey’s budget.
Sources said that Gordon Brothers, the US investment firm that bought the 600-store Poundland chain for £1 last summer, looks set to appoint administrators to the struggling retailer.
Continue reading...Healey gives households £100 to help navigate ‘global economic storms’
Payments to 20m homes part of package to cut energy bills and ease cost of living crisis, paid for by bank windfall tax
John Healey promised to steer Britain through “global economic storms” as he announced an energy giveaway of £100 to 80% of households in England, funded by a smaller than expected windfall tax on banks.
In his first budget, the chancellor said 20 million households in council tax bands A to D would receive a £100 payment – a measure he said would cost £2.6bn.
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Колено подвело: два случая из практики травматолога-ортопеда
Заниматься спортом, несомненно, увлекательно и крайне полезно. Но здесь есть свои нюансы. Даже если вы на обычной тренировке в зале, можно легко заработать травму колена, достаточно одного резкого движения. Ощущения не из приятных: сильная боль, щелчки, отечность…
Меня зовут Алишер Зохиров, я работаю травматологом-ортопедом. В моей врачебной практике немало случаев, связанных с травмой колена. По опыту замечу: это не только болезненно, но и может привести к тяжелым осложнениям. Разберем проблему на двух клинических случаях.
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Why NASA's Artemis III Mission Will Be One of its Most Complex Flights Ever
The last time the folks at NASA tested a crewed lunar lander in low-Earth orbit, here’s how they did it. First, a Saturn 5 rocket lifted off from the Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida carrying three astronauts, an Apollo spacecraft, and a lunar module. Then they got to orbit and the astronauts flew both ships. Then they came home. That straightforward mission was accomplished 57 years ago, during the flight of Apollo 9.
The next time NASA attempts something of the kind—during the planned flight of Artemis III in the summer of 2027—things will be a lot more complicated. First an uncrewed Blue Origin New Glenn rocket will launch from KSC carrying the company’s Blue Moon lander into orbit. Then NASA will launch its prosaically named Space Launch System (SLS) moon rocket, carrying the four Artemis III astronauts aboard an Orion spacecraft. Then the crew will rendezvous with the Blue Moon, dock with it and enter it, checking out its systems before returning to the Orion. Then SpaceX will launch a Starship rocket carrying its own Starship lander, which will also be uncrewed. The astronauts will rendezvous and dock with that ship too, but not enter it since it will not yet be equipped with a life support system. Then they will separate and the crew will spend a few more days running tests on the Orion. All of that work will take up to 17 days from first liftoff to splashdown. And only if everything goes just right with that mission can NASA achieve its goal of landing astronauts on the lunar surface during the 2028 flight of Artemis IV—and in the process, win a new space race with China.
On Oct. 23, NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman—along with Associate Administrator Amit Kshatriya and Artemis Program Manager Jeremy Parsons—conducted a marathon two-hour press conference at KSC, detailing plans for Artemis III and IV, conceding that the hurdles are considerable, but insisting the goals are within reach. The current NASA, with its tight funding and long timelines, may not be the old NASA that used its generous budgets and garage full of rockets to pop off nine crewed Apollo lunar missions just from 1968 to 1972, but it will be no less successful.
“In that remarkably short span of time, the ambitions of generations once confined to the pages of science fiction became humanity's greatest achievement, and for the first time in billions of years, life born on Earth would set foot on another world,” said Isaacman. “Now, in this incredibly demanding and dangerous business of putting astronauts [back] on the moon, NASA must own the near impossible…That is how we give Artemis IV the greatest possible chance of safely and successfully returning Americans to the lunar surface in 2028.”
The extreme complexity of Artemis III is owing in part to a pair of decisions NASA made in 2021 and 2023 and in part to the simple limits of known rocket technology. If the engineering physics were perfect—and engineering physics are never perfect—a lunar crew could use just one spacecraft to get to the moon, land, blast back off, and return home. But a spacecraft that could do all of those jobs and remain robust enough to reenter the Earth’s atmosphere would simply be too heavy for a lunar landing and subsequent liftoff. Instead, as in the Apollo days, the job will be divided between two ships—one lightweight one to perform the landing and liftoff and one orbiting mothership to bring the crew home when the lunar exploration is done. During Apollo, the space agency selected Grumman Aircraft Engineering to build its squat, four-legged 23-ft. tall, lunar module (LM). It was a simple ship with a low center of gravity, ensuring a stable foothold on the lunar surface. Grumman inked the contract in 1962 and delivered the goods in time for Apollo 9 and the missions that followed. In 2021, NASA similarly awarded a contract for a crewed lunar spacecraft—this time to SpaceX and its Starship lander. The decision was a headscratcher.
Starship is a silo-like cylinder with a tapered nose cone, measuring 165 ft. tall, calling to mind less an actual spacecraft than the 1953 illustrated book about Tintin’s adventures on the moon. Apollo astronauts used a nine-rung ladder to get down to the lunar surface. Artemis astronauts aboard Starship will use an elevator. Critics and competitors pounced on the plan—not least because of the risk that the giant machine could tip over on the moon—and in 2023, NASA issued a second contract, this time to Blue Origin, which promised to build a lander more in keeping with the low-slung Apollo lunar module. Both companies have continued to produce their landers and both will get a shot to fly on the historic Artemis IV mission—with the winner to be determined by the performance of the ships during Artemis III.
But neither company has had an easy go of things. SpaceX has launched 14 Starships since 2023, only achieving Earth orbit for the first time in September 2026. Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket, meanwhile, launched three times from January 2025 to April 2026, before a massive explosion on the launch pad during a test of its first stage engines occurred in May 2026. The disaster marked a major setback for Blue Origin, not least because the pad infrastructure itself was partially destroyed in the blast. The company has been working feverishly since to rebound, and at the Oct. 23 press conference, the NASA brass praised its efforts.
“Blue Origin's New Glenn team has amazed the world with their progress for return to flight after the incident in May,” said Parsons. “We're working closely with them. We have over 100 NASA team [members] engaged throughout return to flight…and I have seen Blue Origin mobilize an absolute army working around the clock.”
Assuming the company can maintain that pace, it stands a good chance of being the winner in the Artemis III sweepstakes. That’s partly because its rival, SpaceX, will not fly a full-up version of its Starship lander during the mission, but rather what amounts to a boilerplate ship equipped with a docking port that will test only whether the Orion and the Starship can meet and link up in orbit. Blue Origin’s Blue Moon lander won’t be a fully operational vehicle either, but it will have a functioning crew compartment that will allow the Artemis III astronauts to enter and run tests.
“They're going to open up the hatch. They're going to enter the lander. They're going to evaluate the environmental controls, the life support systems,” says Parsons. “We'll confirm that the spacecraft can maintain the right atmospheric pressure, and we're also going to test emergency scenarios, dual vehicle control, and we're going to put our Mission Control teams through their paces."
For all of the confidence expressed at the press conference, no one at NASA pretends that the Artemis III mission doesn’t have a lot of moving parts and a lot of things that could go badly wrong before the space agency can tee up the 2028 Artemis IV landing. And even if the mission does completely succeed, NASA will still require both competing spacecraft to execute an uncrewed lunar landing and liftoff to prove their mettle further. Only then will the landers be certified to carry crew.
Whether the two companies can perfect the engineering and fly the uncrewed missions in the maximum 18 months that will elapse between the launch of Artemis III and the flight of Artemis IV at the end of 2028 is uncertain. Isaacman, for one, expresses confidence that the target date can be met without slipping into 2029 or later. But he acknowledges that NASA’s years of uncertainty since the Apollo program—with priorities shifting from Skylab to the shuttle to the International Space Station, and with start-stop programs to return to the moon that burned through money but never got anywhere—have set the agency back, especially as it concerns the ongoing competition with China.
“Here we are today, very much in a new space race, and despite decades of accumulated knowledge and extraordinary advancements in technology, this race will be much closer than it ever needed to be,” he says. “That brings us to the moment we find ourselves in today, because the appetite for tolerating and defending the status quo has reached its conclusion. We are here for the mission, and to deliver the outcomes the world expects of the most accomplished space agency in history.”