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Разделённые миллиардами километров и сформированные совершенно разными условиями окружающей среды, туманный спутник Сатурна Титан и карликовая планета Плутон, на первый взгляд, имеют мало общего.

Титан — геологически активный мир, окутанный атмосферой, более плотной, чем земная; его ландшафт сформирован морями жидкого метана и обширными дюнами, сложенными из органических частиц, выпадающих с неба в виде дождя. Плутон, напротив, представляет собой ледяной аванпост с разреженной атмосферой, парящей над ледяной, замёрзшей поверхностью.

Тем не менее, наблюдения с помощью космического телескопа «Джеймс Уэбб» показали, что эти два непохожих мира имеют одинаковую, пока не объясненную инфракрасную сигнатуру на своих поверхностях — признак того, что, несмотря на их резкие различия, на обоих мирах, возможно, происходят схожие химические процессы, полагают учёные.

Как подробно описано в новом исследовании, эта особенность проявляется на точно такой же инфракрасной длине волны как на Титане, так и на Плутоне, что указывает на то, что она поглощает свет одинаково на обоих мирах. Этот сигнал указывает на наличие неизвестного соединения или группы родственных соединений, которые учёные ещё не идентифицировали.

«Это довольно загадочно», — сказал Space.com Бруно Безар, планетолог из Парижской обсерватории, возглавивший это открытие. «Мы не можем сказать, что это такое».

Несколько лет назад у нас с одногруппником был зачёт по C++, и вместо того чтобы сделать что-то скромное (например, «Калькулятор» или «Генератор паролей»), мы, конечно же, решили замахнуться на какую-то игру, и тогда нам попалась новость о 30-летнем юбилее игры DOOM. План был красивый, т. к. на тот момент командной работы у нас не было, мы решили, что мой одногруппник пишет псевдо-3D-движок в духе классического рейкастинга, а я делаю 2D-платформер, который в итоге должен был запускаться прямо внутри его мира, как игровой автомат, который запускался бы перед игрой, и сколько патронов ты собрал, столько у тебя и будет в игре.

Проблема появилась не в архитектуре и не в гейм-дизайне, а гораздо раньше — на этапе, который мы оба благополучно пропустили: мы не договорились, на чём пишем. Я по рекомендации преподавателя взял SFML — с ним я уже возился на парах, там всё human-readable, спрайты, окна, звук из коробки. Товарищ выбрал SDL, т. к. видел гайд про DOOM на SDL — она даёт прямой доступ к буферу пикселей, что для рейкастинга буквально то, что нужно: рисуешь вертикальные полоски стен вручную, без лишней абстракции между тобой и экраном.

По отдельности оба выбора были правильными, а вместе — нет. Слинковать в одном проекте SDL и SFML можно, но два разных event loop, два разных подхода к окну и таймингу — это уже не работа для автомата по зачёту, а отдельная курсовая работа, на которую у нас оставалось дня два-три. Мы посчитали и сдали как два независимых проекта. Препод посмотрел, оценил — и выдал ровно ту фразу, которую в такой ситуации выдал бы любой человек, который знал о проекте: «Идея классная, жалко, что не объединили», но нам это было неважно на тот момент, как говорится, зачёт получили — и на этом спасибо.

Что ж, продолжим погружаться в теорию нейросетевой обработки фотографий. В первой части мы разобрали общий принцип работы диффузионных нейросетей и начали объяснять, почему для обработки фото этот принцип часто больше вредит, чем помогает. В этой статье мы продолжим разбор.

Tens of thousands of people in Indiana are entering a second week without power after a deadly storm toppled trees and power lines. Schools remain closed and businesses have been unable to reopen.

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A charter aircraft carrying eight people crashed at a remote radar site in western Alaska on Thursday, killing all on board, the U.S. military said.

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July data shows total public debt was £2.98tn, or 94% of GDP – up £96bn on a year earlier

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The UK government ran a larger than expected £1.8bn deficit in July, underlining the challenges facing the chancellor, John Healey, as he draws up his first budget.

City economists had expected a shortfall of zero for July, a month when Treasury receipts tend to be swollen by self-assessment income tax payments.

Привет! Сразу признаюсь, я — гуманитарий. Уже лет двадцать работаю в IT, притворяясь своим среди хардкорных технарей. Людей, которые писали на Фортране и Бейсике, пережили диалап и вспоминают «3dfx» с лёгкой ностальгией. 

Мой максимум — навайбкодить какой‑нибудь скрипт для аналитики. Для гуманитариев это звучит страшно, потому что ничего не понятно. Для IT‑специалистов — страшно, потому что всё со мной понятно. 

Меня до сих пор не раскрыли только потому, что айтишники обычно смотрят в монитор, а не друг на друга. Зато наблюдать за ними невероятно интересно. Благодаря подлой гуманитарной сущности я смог оформить эти наблюдения в рассказ о жизни удивительного биологического вида Informaticus vulgaris, он же «айтишник обыкновенный». 

Рассказ буду вести от первого лица. Все совпадения случайны, как бы вы не пытались доказать обратное.

В первой части я разбирал, как сделать, чтобы поля в одной строке не противоречили друг другу: пол, имя и диагноз перестают жить сами по себе и начинают сходиться. Заканчивалось всё карточками, напечатанными через запятую. Откуда в них взялись запятые, я не сказал ни слова. А это очень важно для понимания!

Report says violence is moving from Israeli-controlled areas to those earmarked for a future Palestinian state

Violent Israeli settler attacks in the two areas of the occupied West Bank under direct Palestinian rule have almost doubled since 2025, as settlers pursue a self-proclaimed “great settlement revolution” in the very heart of the territory earmarked for a Palestinian state.

According to a report by the Israeli human rights organisation Yesh Din, shared with the Guardian, data shows that almost two-thirds of incidents of settler violence so far in 2026 have taken place in the so-called Areas A and B – placed under Palestinian Authority governance in the 1995 Oslo accords.

A teasing tale of the friendship between a writer and an actor explores the fallout from fame, and the blurring between pretence and reality

M is a celebrated film actor. A star since childhood, now the face of a major fashion brand, she has been famous all her life. That her career closely resembles Natalie Portman’s has been gleefully seized upon by the press, something Rachel Cusk must surely have anticipated: in the novel, M’s first film has its sex scenes cut at her mother’s insistence, as happened with Portman’s 1994 debut Leon, while her ballerina movie is recognisably Black Swan. M is also, in the words of the nameless and genderless narrator of Life of M, “a good sport”. When the narrator suggests writing M’s autobiography, M likes the idea. “Would you just make it up?” she asks.

A celebrity autobiography is seldom the work of the celebrity herself. And yet any suggestion that the narrator will serve as a kind of ghostwriter to M is dispensed with in a few pages. The pair meet for coffee at a luxury hotel and, after the narrator’s partner falls suddenly and seriously ill, for lunch in a restaurant. The lunch is unsatisfactory, an attempt at intimacy that the narrator acknowledges afterwards to have been a mistake. Though M is determined to live as normal a life as possible (“her personal task is to become real, or rather to acquire some reality”), the narrator is uncomfortably aware of their own falseness with M: “It was as if I was acting, while M came across as authentic and real. It was as if she was the only one good enough at acting to attain reality.” After that the two of them do not see one another again “for a long time”.

From Nike’s infamous 110s to £250 and back again, sneakerheads are rediscovering why cheaper shoes can be worth just as much hype as much more expensive ones

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When Nike’s Air Max 95 trainers first landed in Britain back in the mid-1990s, they looked unlike anything else. Created by footwear designer Sergio Lozano, the shoe had wavy layers running down its sides, neon yellow accents, and visible ‘Air’ bubbles underfoot. But in the UK, one detail quickly became as famous as the shoe itself: its £110 price tag.

The Air Max 95 immediately picked up the nickname “110” because spending £110 on trainers seemed outrageous at the time. Owning a pair quickly became a status symbol among young men across Britain, while in celebrity circles they were worn by everyone from Jay-Z to Kylie Minogue.

Report says violence is moving from Israeli-controlled areas to those earmarked for a future Palestinian state

Violent Israeli settler attacks in the two areas of the occupied West Bank under direct Palestinian rule have almost doubled since 2025, as settlers pursue a self-proclaimed “great settlement revolution” in the very heart of the territory earmarked for a Palestinian state.

According to a report by the Israeli human rights organisation Yesh Din, shared with the Guardian, data shows that almost two-thirds of incidents of settler violence so far in 2026 have taken place in the so-called Areas A and B – placed under Palestinian Authority governance in the 1995 Oslo accords.

Привет, Хабр! Меня зовут Илья Кербатов, я старший консультант в компании «ДАР» (ГК «КОРУС Консалтинг»), занимаюсь BI на Qlik Sense.

В проекте с несколькими сотнями приложений Qlik Sense я часто сталкивался с такими вопросами, как: в каких приложениях Qlik Sense используется это поле и можно ли его удалить? В каких приложениях используется эта тема? Как сделать бекап скриптов приложений, не вынося их текст в .qvs?. Попытка найти ответы на эти вопросы раньше означала, что я проведу целый день ручных «раскопок».

Чтобы сегодня отвечать на подобные вопросы за минуты, я собрал браузерную панель, которая выгружает метаданные Qlik Sense (скрипты загрузки, меры, измерения, переменные, листы, закладки, мастер-объекты, общую информацию) по одному приложению, потоку или всему серверу. В прошлой статье я рассказывал, как консольные скрипты помогли поймать баг с переменными. В этой расскажу, как из стопки таких скриптов вырос один инструмент, полезный Qlik-разработчикам и админам, которые ведут десятки приложений.

Сразу пара цифр для масштаба: полная выгрузка информации из сотни приложений занимает около двух минут при трёх параллельных соединениях. Написан инструмент целиком моделью Claude Fable 5: из примерно тысячи строк кода я не набрал руками ни одной. Код открыт и лежит на GitHub.

Или не вышел? Стульев оказывается два: на одном ИИ учат писать ИИ, на другом — понимать реальность. OpenAI и Anthropic сели на первый и поставили на него всё, Google тихо пересел на второй. Обе дороги обещают привести к AGI, и одна из них — тупик.

Federal agents seized electronic devices from former Rep. Eric Swalwell and searched his Washington home as part of an investigation into allegations of sexual misconduct by the ex-Democratic congressman from California.

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Jurors on Thursday heard Duane "Keffe D" Davis tell detectives in 2008 that his nephew Orlando "Baby Lane" Anderson fired the shots that killed Tupac Shakur.

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Mother of Billy Caldwell, who has severe epilepsy, celebrates son’s story while pushing for better access to prescription cannabis for families who need it

When Billy Caldwell was a baby he was not expected to survive infancy. A severe form of epilepsy condemned his tiny body to daily seizures – brutal, draining and each one potentially fatal. “They couldn’t get the seizures under control,” his mother, Charlotte, recalled. “Billy was sent home to die – we were told he wouldn’t see past his first birthday.”

That prediction was in 2005. Last month Billy, who is autistic, celebrated his 21st birthday at home in a bucolic corner of Northern Ireland with family, friends, cake and a wide smile.

Growing evidence that cutting coal use and bans on high-polluting vehicles are leading directly to health benefits

Failing crops, wildfires and overloaded health systems are focusing minds on the local impacts of our changing climate.

While carbon emissions reduction is normally framed as having a global benefit rather than a local gain, studies published in 2025 and 2026 from Greece have added to growing evidence that cutting coal use and air pollution can provide immediate health benefits to local communities.

Документация Яндекс 360 API на 20 августа 2026 года перечисляет 17 сервисов, и раздела о вебхуках или подписке на события среди них нет; аудит-лог организации документирует 26 типов событий — двенадцать почтовых и четырнадцать дисковых. Кадровых и оргструктурных событий не документировано ни одного. Разбираю, что из этого следует тем, кто строит провижининг: чем располагает UserService_List для поллинга, почему isDismissed нельзя записать и что документация обещает при создании пользователя с занятым логином.

National Trust’s Holnicote estate says restored wetlands and rivers offer proof of resilience to drought, wildfires and flooding

Aerial footage of an estate in Somerset has revealed the benefits of rewilding land in the face of extreme weather brought about by the climate crisis.

The area of the National Trust’s Holnicote estate where rivers have been returned to their natural courses and wetlands have been restored have remained green and lush during the five heatwaves across the summer. In contrast, the surrounding countryside has become parched and brown.

Decade-long study finds stark gender difference in outcomes of people with heart disease

Millions of men with heart disease have a higher risk of developing and dying from cancer, according to a decades-long study.

The biggest drivers behind male cases were smoking, obesity and drinking too much alcohol, researchers said, with the link most pronounced in lung and oesophageal cancers.

Church director tells parliamentary inquiry reporting by Nine newspapers a ‘complete lie’

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The Plymouth Brethren Christian Church has denied it secretly paid far-right influencers to stage stunts targeting Anthony Albanese and other politicians during an appearance at a parliamentary inquiry into the 2025 election.

The church also denied claims it had coordinated hundreds of volunteers to support Liberal candidates, including at polling booths across the country.

Midis with a lingerie-inspired lace trim can do it all, whether you want to dress up for a wedding or down for the pub

Blondies will happily take an ice-cream filling without falling apart, and when those biscuits are infused with herbs, they also help to cut through some of the sweetness

Ice-cream sandwiches have really grown on me. I used to find them a bit tricky to eat; far too many of them had outer shells so hard they would crack a tooth, while the rest would turn to mush after a few minutes out of the freezer. Finding the balance between something that has enough structural integrity to hold a good wedge of ice-cream but still soft enough to bite once frozen isn’t all that easy, but blondies make a very good option.

Free from a big brand’s audience expectations, new studio GPTrack50 has created a wacky action-packed romp through a monster-filled world for its first game

Love is blind. In Stupid Never Dies, it is also frozen solid and technically dead as Davy, the weakest zombie in monster society, discovers Julia’s body in a shopping centre and falls in love at first sight. He wants to bring her back to life and take her on a date. Unfortunately, that means defeating the King of Monsters (KOM) and accidentally saving humanity along the way.

This is the gloriously ridiculous setup for this forthcoming action RPG from GPTrack50, a new studio founded by former Capcom producer Hiroyuki Kobayashi. Its world looks much like ours, except that monsters have always been part of everyday life: whereas we might find a bear in the mountains or a stray dog in the woods, residents here encounter werewolves and zombies.

From a new high-speed line to better intercity links, the PM has a chance to tackle problems he criticised as Manchester mayor

For passenger rail travel, the north of England was the future, once. But since that first train from Darlington to Stockton in 1825, many have felt short-changed. As one angry passenger put it, 200 years later: “What is it about the rail industry which makes them think they can treat passengers in the north as second-class citizens?”

That complaint came from the former mayor of Greater Manchester, who frequently set out a different vision for the train services he would like. Now that Andy Burnham is in No 10, he has the opportunity to win those battles – or perhaps see them a little differently. For now, what unresolved issues could the railway expect to be pursued with greater urgency?

National Trust’s Holnicote estate says restored wetlands and rivers offer proof of resilience to drought, wildfires and flooding

Aerial footage of an estate in Somerset has revealed the benefits of rewilding land in the face of extreme weather brought about by the climate crisis.

The area of the National Trust’s Holnicote estate where rivers have been returned to their natural courses and wetlands have been restored have remained green and lush during the five heatwaves across the summer. In contrast, the surrounding countryside has become parched and brown.

Five years on, the regime’s chokehold has left Afghan women with almost nothing, but many are still bravely fighting for their freedom

The Taliban did not just ban women from schools, impose the burqa and outlaw smartphones. The Taliban built a system that enslaves nearly half the country’s population, or according to outdated statistics: 21,701,532 women and girls.

In general, the Taliban’s system runs on laws that get changed, forgotten or scrapped as needed to oppress women, such as the abolition of the minimum marriage-age law, which made the only “legitimate” criterion for a girl’s marriage that she has reached puberty or in other words, that she is “fit for consummation”.

The essence of cycling is to keep moving, but London’s chaotic roads often make this difficult. My solution: fewer, not more rules

I plead guilty. I have loved and used the streets of London all my life, as a cyclist, driver and pedestrian. Touch wood, I have done so without accident, blemish or insurance claim. Yet now I find myself perpetually on the wrong side of the law. Regulation has become bureaucratic and chaotic.

When I try to drive at the authorised speed of 20mph on many through roads, I am hooted at and overtaken by vans, cars, coaches and buses. And when I sit dutifully on my bike at a traffic light, I am jostled by swarms of cyclists riding through on red, furious at being treated as if they were car drivers.

Simon Jenkins is a Guardian columnist

Decade-long study finds stark gender difference in outcomes of people with heart disease

Millions of men with heart disease have a higher risk of developing and dying from cancer, according to a decades-long study.

The biggest drivers behind male cases were smoking, obesity and drinking too much alcohol, researchers said, with the link most pronounced in lung and oesophageal cancers.

Pacific fleet launched missile drills near what Moscow calls the Kuril Islands but Japan regards as its Northern Territories

Japan has criticised missile tests carried out by Russia’s navy around the disputed islands visited by Vladimir Putin last week amid continuing tensions between the two countries.

Russia’s Pacific fleet said on Thursday that it had fired Bastion surface-to-ship missiles from Etorofu, the largest island in the disputed archipelago, simulating an attack on enemy vessels, hitting all of its targets approximately 300km away.