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As allegations of LLM use rock the literary and media worlds, linguists explain what really distinguishes human and machine writing, while novelists including Jennifer Egan and Jeanette Winterson reflect on the future of fiction in an age of ChatGPT

Three paragraphs, from three different hotel reviews. Can you tell which, if any, were AI‑generated?

“The hotel is in a great location for everything. Lots of places to eat and drink. The hotel itself is always abuzz. The tavern located on the ground floor is definitely a must. Food, service, prices and atmosphere were great.”

The programme, aimed at keeping 1m girls in school across Africa, Asia and the Middle East, withdrawn after aid cuts

A leading higher education programme, aimed at keeping 1 million girls in school across Africa, Asia and the Middle East, has been axed by the British government just two years after it was announced.

The scheme, Strengthening higher education for female empowerment (SHEFE), which was unveiled with some fanfare two years ago by the outgoing Conservative government, had a £45m budget to increase access to higher education for 1 million students worldwide. It has now had its tender withdrawn, the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) said.

Владимир Чистюхин, первый зампред ЦБ РФ, сегодня в очередной раз объяснил, как регулятор видит хранение криптовалюты. В меру сил своего чиновнического понимания. Суть проста и, как водится у регуляторов, одновременно логична внутри их собственной вселенной и абсурдна снаружи.

Внутри России — только кастодиальные кошельки. То есть вы не владеете ключами: ими распоряжается лицензированный посредник, который «отвечает за сохранность». Банк, биржа, депозитарий — неважно. Главное, что контроль не у вас. Ну ладно, это понятно — назовём это "внутри России".

Теперь основной перл бюрократической гениальности: за пределами российской юрисдикции — можно и некастодиальные. «Горячие», «тёплые», «холодные» — это формулировка регулятора, между прочим. Ledger, Trezor, seed-фраза на бумажке, софт-кошелёк на офлайн-ноутбуке. Всё это, по версии ЦБ, живёт «за пределами российских финансовых посредников».

Вот та самая фраза, которую сегодня растащили по всем лентам:

Хабр, привет! Меня зовут Сергей Бережной, я директор по взаимодействию с разработчиками в Яндексе и эксперт онлайн-магистратуры «Фронтенд-, бэкенд-разработка и ИИ-решения» ИТМО в партнёрстве с Яндекс Практикумом. Сегодня хочу поговорить о том, почему креативность и умение думать — главные навыки разработчика в эпоху сгенерированного кода, почему ИИ — экзоскелет, а не автопилот и почему если вы используете ИИ в разработке, вы уже тимлид.

The programme, aimed at keeping 1m girls in school across Africa, Asia and the Middle East, withdrawn after aid cuts

A leading higher education programme, aimed at keeping 1 million girls in school across Africa, Asia and the Middle East, has been axed by the British government just two years after it was announced.

The scheme, Strengthening higher education for female empowerment (SHEFE), which was unveiled with some fanfare two years ago by the outgoing Conservative government, had a £45m budget to increase access to higher education for 1 million students worldwide. It has now had its tender withdrawn, the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) said.

• He says ‘intensive’ discussions needed with federation

• Klopp wants to agree way ahead with changes required

Jürgen Klopp has confirmed he is in negotiations to take over as Germany’s coach and says he has “recharged” the energy missing when he left Liverpool.

Klopp is the German football federation’s preferred candidate after Julian Nagelsmann resigned on Friday, four days after Germany lost on penalties to Paraguay in the World Cup last 32.

Надоело каждое утро вручную обходить 5+ площадок — написал агрегатор на Python. Собирает вакансии с HH, Habr Career, GeekJob и Telegram-каналов, убирает дубли, присылает в Telegram. Код открытый.

Familiar Lord’s conditions could be key factor in defeating confident opposition, say Nat Sciver-Brunt and players

In February 2023, after Australia won their fourth consecutive world title, at Newlands, Beth Mooney was asked what advice she would give to a team who were trying to beat hers. She thought for a moment, then said: “Just don’t turn up. It’s too hard. Don’t bother going.” There can be no better summary of what England will be up against on Sunday when they face Australia in the final of the Women’s T20 World Cup at Lord’s.

Of course, other teams continued to turn up: South Africa triumphed over Australia in 2024’s semi-final, while India replicated the feat in the 50-over World Cup last year. But for a team with no silverware in their possession, Australia are pretty relaxed about life right now. On Thursday the team were spotted in the crowd at Wimbledon, Phoebe Litchfield leading an “Aussie, Aussie, Aussie” chant. They will know very well that they are massive favourites to spoil England’s party on Sunday, after a flawless run in the group stages and a hammering of West Indies in Tuesday’s semi-final.

Teenage sensation is a fearless racer but taking on Tadej Pogacar and Jonas Vingegaard is setting the bar very high

Paul Seixas may be the youngest Tour de France debutant since 1937, but he is not lacking in confidence. Reminded of the scale of the challenge facing him, in hoping to usurp the dominant four-time champion, Tadej Pogacar, he said calmly: “There are different ways to win a cycling race.”

Seixas fever is running high in Barcelona on the eve of the Tour, even if the 19-year-old says that he “won’t take risks for anything other than the general classification.”

Annie’s lawyers argue that prosecution was so badly executed it breached her human rights

At her kitchen table, in a village in southern England, Annie* sits with a blue folder stuffed with court documents, witness statements and correspondence relating to the trial of her stepfather, whom she had reported to police for alleged childhood abuse.

As she prepared to tell her story for the first time, she was flooded with emotion when a photograph fell from the folder. The square Polaroid showed a young girl standing in a field beside a pony, dressed in jodhpurs and a riding hat.

В iOS 26 у UISlider появился liquid-glass-вид и физика доводки (settle) после того, как пользователь отпускает палец. Если честно, я не проверял, как это выглядело в старых версиях и как оно работало, так как до iOS 26 ни в своих проектах, ни в тех, что я писал на работе, я не использовал стандартный компонент, так как его внешний вид никого не устраивал. У такой доводки есть побочный эффект: если в этот момент дернуть setValue(_:animated:) извне, наш слайдер на один кадр едет в новую точку, а потом откатывается туда, куда его тянет settle. removeAllAnimations() не помогает: анимация идёт не через CABasicAnimation, а через property-driver на display link. Дальше про то, как я нашёл рабочий путь это исправить.

When I was 12, the antics of Johnny Knoxville, Steve-O and co were an invitation to jump out of trees. These days, I see something deeper in their refusal of filtered perfection

My name is Tom, and I am an idiot. I’ve been an idiot almost my entire life, ever since I was old enough to think it was funny and interesting to be one. So there was something sentimental for me in watching Jackass: Best and Last. It’s a final swansong for a 26-year project that is the finest document of idiocy and the Freudian death drive the modern world has seen.

Jackass debuted in 2000, when I was 12 years old. I was already obsessed with professional wrestling. I’d watch grainy VHS-quality videos of Mick Foley matches in awe, as he would jump headfirst into barbed wire, get repeatedly hit in the head with steel chairs or, famously, be thrown off a five-metre steel cage and through a table.

Tom Usher is a freelance writer

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Italian’s man-management and decisiveness has shielded the talented Seleção squad and made fans believe again

Brazil arrived at the World Cup with several open wounds. Since Qatar in 2022 there were four changes of manager, 95 players called up and a political crisis, including the ousting of the Brazilian Football Confederation (CBF) president. It has been a big mess, with many uncertainties, and the mood among the fans was one of pessimism.

But then Carlo Ancelotti arrived. Gradually under the Italian, the team has taken shape and transformed its relationship with fans, who are again dreaming of a sixth World Cup after 24 years without one, the longest such drought along with the period between 1970 and 1994.

Azteca tie is one of those World Cup occasions that transcend sport – and Tuchel’s side face a challenge all about progress, not process

Nausea, cramps, shortness of breath. Time-lagged, unacclimatised, eyes bulging as the vertigo hits. Not to mention three times more likely to suffer unwanted swelling of the brain. Watching England play football at this World Cup has certainly been a physical trial at times. Not least for those back home hunkered around the screen, feeling the energy surge then sag again through the dead periods in Boston, New York and Atlanta.

And now we move on to the altitude of Mexico City, the Azteca, host nation energy and a beautifully pitched last-16 game, one of those occasions that seems to go beyond sport, to carry its own sense of something epic and gravitational, an emotional weather front about to break.

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Australia lost to Egypt on penalties in one of the more disastrous shootout cock ups. Changing goalkeepers is a bold move, especially when Mat Ryan made a right Shilton of himself.

Jonathan Wilson was there.

Annie’s lawyers argue that prosecution was so badly executed it breached her human rights

At her kitchen table, in a village in southern England, Annie* sits with a blue folder stuffed with court documents, witness statements and correspondence relating to the trial of her stepfather, whom she had reported to police for alleged childhood abuse.

As she prepared to tell her story for the first time, she was flooded with emotion when a photograph fell from the folder. The square Polaroid showed a young girl standing in a field beside a pony, dressed in jodhpurs and a riding hat.

AI Engineer World's Fair 2026 уже прошла, а по-русски её так никто и не разобрал. В официальном расписании 560 сессий: воркшопы, кейноуты, доклады. Глазами это не осилить.

Я собрал агентный пайплайн, прогнал через него доступные записи и сел читать конференцию про агентов с помощью агента. Рассказываю, что в записях повторялось из доклада в доклад, куда сходится AI-инженерия и что посмотреть, если время есть только на пять роликов.

Все доступные доклады с русскими саммари, таймкодами и тематическим навигатором я собрал в отдельном SPA.

Улучшенный Spec-driven-dev. Это SDD + handoff’ы — передний край лучших мировых практик как для соло-разработки, так и для небольших команд. Это не история про рой агентов, которые в абстрактном цикле «план → код → ревью → тесты → деплой» самостоятельно везут продукт, синхронизируясь друг с другом через воркфлоу. У нас нет личного датацентра или полумиллиона долларов на токены.

В конце будет ссылка на репозиторий-шаблон, который можно скачать, или просто указать, и сказать Opus’у (Fable’у): «сделай мне такую же систему спецификаций» — дальше он справится сам.