USS George Washington will replace warship families say suffers from shortages, plumbing problems and low morale
The USS George Washington aircraft carrier has arrived in the Middle East, where it is expected to relieve the USS Abraham Lincoln from its record deployment amid concerns about poor living conditions and morale.
US Central Command announced on Thursday that the Washington arrived in the area on Wednesday, and posted an image of sailors working on the flight deck as the ship transited the Arabian Sea. No date has yet been announced for the Lincoln to return to the US.
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Two months ago, I covered how Meta seemingly deliberately started destroying its once-standout engineering organization. The company did 10% layoffs at a time when revenue and profits hit an all-time high, and reassigned about 20-30% of software engineers to data labeling with basically no notice.
The result was that a good chunk of software engineers at Meta – even those not reassigned – were starting to interview elsewhere:
I said – and still maintain – that the layoffs were an unforced, self-inflicted error on Meta’s part. Coupled with forced reassignment, they struck disaster. And I’ve now gathered new details that confirm that Meta is bleeding top engineering and product management talent:
Some layoffs reversed, in the 11th hour
In the UK, mass layoffs require a notification to those potentially affected, before the cuts can happen. A few weeks after this notification, a good chunk of folks were “un-notified,” I confirmed. But those on notice had already started to look for jobs, obviously.
Retainer equity grants offered to IC6+ engineers resigning
Meta started to offer large retainer equity grants to those resigning and leaving for Google, Anthropic, and OpenAI: a practice not done before. Talking with long-time Meta engineers, Meta simply didn’t make counteroffers or negotiate when an engineer handed in their resignation. But this practice has been abandoned. Here’s a story of a senior, long-tenured engineer I confirmed to have happened:
This dev was force-reassigned to one of the AI data labeling teams
They thought “oh no, this is not what I want to do” and started to interview
Got a Google offer, but compensation was below their current one. Google basically lowballed them.
Decided to leave anyway. Told their new manager they were resigning.
New manager asked for some time, then presented a large, one-off, retainer equity grant, vesting over 3 years
The engineer went back to Google, telling the company, unfortunately, they are a key engineer and showed them the retainer amount Meta is paying for them to stay
Google upped their offer, out-bidding Meta’s retainer offer
The engineer who was desperate to leave – even for lower compensation! – was thrilled, and happily left for Google.
Retainer equity seems to be offered for most IC6 engineers who resigned in the last few weeks. I talked with seven such people, who were all IC6 (staff-level engineer) and IC7 (principal-level engineers), who shared more details. They are not aware of IC4 (mid-level engineer) or IC5 (senior-level engineers) getting such offers.
Retainer equity offered is $400K to $1M+, and vests over 3 years, for the folks who got these offers. The $1M+ offers were all for engineers with Anthropic or OpenAI offers, and I confirmed a $400K and a $600K grant for engineers with an offer for other, smaller AI startups.
A current Meta engineer who is interviewing asked me if these folks needed to present their offer letter to get a counteroffer. I asked two of these folks with counteroffers, and neither had to do so, but they both indicated they were handing in their resignation. Upon receiving this notification, their director, together with HR, offered a discretionary retainer equity, should they stay.
Anthropic and OpenAI on a hiring spree from Meta
Anthropic and OpenAI seem to be on a hiring spree, signing Meta engineers that Meta wants to retain now that it is too late! I have confirmed that three engineers who received an offer from Anthropic were also offered large, $1M+ equity grants (vesting over 4 years) as counter-offers to stay. Two out of the three rejected it and joined Anthropic, and the third one initially accepted the offer and then still left for Anthropic a month later, forfeiting this grant.
OpenAI is having similar success, and the two AI labs seem to be the main destination for now ex-Meta engineers to bounce to. It makes sense: these companies can match Meta’s total compensation, and although neither OpenAI nor Anthropic is publicly traded, both companies organize secondary equity sales, and their respective IPOs are likely to happen in 3-12 months’ time.
AI startups also successful in hiring infra experts from Meta
I had an in-depth discussion with another long-tenured AI infra engineer at Meta, who was considering whether to stay, or to go. This person wrote up their situation, and shared it with me, writing:
“With the current situation at Meta (layoffs, forced drafting to do AI work, general sense of disruption at work, low moarale, and almost zero productivity across teams, plus multiple reorgs) I started to look around, on the market, a few weeks before the 20 May layoffs. I figured I have a 50% chance of being let go.
I did not get laid off, but I got offers from startups, and one from a high-growth AI startup I like, and also an offer from Google.
Now, the pros to staying a Meta:Context, relationshipsScale that few others haveBig Tech perks, relatively “chill” WLB in terms of oncallHigh TC
The cons:Terrible morale, hard to “move” work through mostly unmotivated teams all around meRe-orgs continue, I have very low confidence in middle management (Directors, VPs) to navigate this churnFurther layoffs are likely: it’s clear that there’s more bloat, surely Zuck will do another round in 2027. And no one is safe during a layoffA ‘doom loop’ for anyone who stays: low morale → unmoitivated bith highly compensated engineers → a bloated organization that moves slow”
After a new reorg, this engineer got a supportive manager, who made it clear they would help them thrive inside of Meta. So the engineer rejected both the AI startup’s offer and that of Google, deciding to stay… but only for a month!
The AI startup’s founder spent more time with this engineer, increased the equity in the package significantly, and convinced this engineer that at the startup they matter as a person, while at Meta they would be doing soulless work, worrying about the next layoff, probably early 2027.
So this engineer also handed in their resignation. And it all started with the layoffs: the engineer assumed there was a 50% chance of being let go and wanted more career stability!
Those deciding to not resign: stay for the money?
There are engineers staying – at least until the end of the year, to wait for the stock refershers — which we’ll talk about in just a moment.
Another engineer I talked to decided to quit Meta with morale so low, and start his own thing. Management convinced him to stay until the end of the year, hinting at large equity refreshers being handed out around January, which could be in the $1M+ range for this specific engineer.
The 2022 stock price causing a TC decrease for many?
One reason there’s speculation about large equity refreshers being handed out at the end of the year is that Meta’s stock price was very low in 2022 and 2023, when equity refreshers and new hire grants were handed out. In both March 2022 and March 2023, the stock price was around $200 - which is about a third of this year’s stock price (which has been fluctuating between $520- 680, currently sitting at $540.) By March 2024, the stock price rose to $500, and then to $580 in March 2025.
Because of this, those who joined Meta in 2022 have seen their equity grants nearly triple, and the 2023 equity is worth nearly 3x as well. But for these lucky folks, total compensation is set to drop by the end of this year, and their equity refresher would need to be higher than in past years to avoid a compensation drop.
Inside of Meta, engineers who I talked to are split between expecting further attrition (those leaving whose total compensation drops steeply) and those who think that there will be more attrition unless there are higher-than-usual equity refreshers.
A “mercenary” culture at Meta?
I wonder if Meta made a massive mistake by treating engineers as “commodities” and turning their culture into a “mercenary” one. Between March and June, Meta treated engineers as replaceable commodities that could be thrown out or moved between teams, while stripping them of any autonomy. The reassignments to AI labeling were not explained, nor were managers or individuals asked about preferences: from above, someone said that Alice and Bob, starting on Monday, are no longer with the team, but are training up Meta AI. Never mind that these were the two most experienced engineers on the team, or that Bob was the team’s infra expert, and Alice the “fixer” engineer on the team.
And all this damage was done, for what? It was to allow Meta to restart its AI coding model development efforts, and release Meta Muse Spark: an AI model that is currently the 7th most capable AI model as per Artificial Intelligence Analysis, tied with Grok 4.5. Credit where it’s due: with this model, Meta is now well ahead of Google’s Gemini in capability.
With the damage done, there is little motivation for anyone to stay at Meta – unless they are on a visa, or if it’s about the money. You can have an OK engineering culture with a team who is mostly interested in making more money than what they would elsewhere: but this is more of a mercenary culture, and companies run by mercenaries are more easily out-executed by teams where people believe in the mission of the company.
If you work at a company that would love to hire from Meta: now is (still) your opening! So go for it.
And if you’re at Meta: you are so in-demand, outside of the company, at places where engineering is still treated as a profit center. As Ryan Nystrom, currently building AI at Notion, put it:
“Meta friends: the industry is exhilarating right now. Get out. Go build something. The handcuffs are an illusion.
I’m having the time of my life at Notion. Come, and have fun again.”
More on the “great engineering leader career break.” The industry is changing fast, and the VPE and CTO roles also need to adapt. And don’t forget that these are the roles from which you can drive change that reorganizes engineering in ways that work better.
We need to talk about migrations with AI. Asana needed to migrate off testing framework Enzyme, but it meant doing a massive rewrite of test cases. With AI, the project was completed in two weeks: without AI, this work would surely have been kicked down the road. Airbnb and Uber share similar stories, and AI seems like a superb fit for framework migrations.
Are AI startups making the Gartner Magic Quadrant irrelevant? Gartner ranked AWS, Microsoft and IBM above Anthropic, Cursor and OpenAI in their “AI code modernization tools” ranking. This is most likely because the first three pay large sums of money to Gartner, but AI labs and vendors refuse to pay this “Gartner tax.”
Industry Pulse. Another hours-long GitHub outage, GitHub alternatives are here and fighting for market share, Slack launches Slack Code, text generated by Claude to be watermarked, and Uber open sources SubmitQueue.
The president’s empty advice that children should receive separate jabs against measles, mumps and rubella will only lead to less take-up by parents
Nobody wants to hurt a child. The howl of pain, the tears, the look of betrayed shock all make it very hard to deliver a cherished small person to the needle-wielding nurse. But that’s part of being a responsible parent. It becomes a lot tougher if mum or dad is being fed mixed and erroneous messages about the benefits and harms of vaccination.
Parents have to make a lot of decisions about what’s right for their child, from the school they should go to and the food they should eat to the hours they should spend on the phone or watching TV. In the US, Donald Trump wants them to add another: do they choose to give their children separate jabs against measles, mumps and rubella, involving six visits to the clinic, or should they opt for the combined MMR vaccine, which does the job in two? For decades, the vast majority of families have been taking the advice of doctors, accepting their assurance that the MMR vaccine is safe and very effective. But what are they to think when a US president announces that the triple jab could be “quite lethal” and signs an executive order advising states to offer separate vaccines?
USS George Washington will replace warship families say suffers from shortages, plumbing problems and low morale
The USS George Washington aircraft carrier has arrived in the Middle East, where it is expected to relieve the USS Abraham Lincoln from its record deployment amid concerns about poor living conditions and morale.
US Central Command announced on Thursday that the Washington arrived in the area on Wednesday, and posted an image of sailors working on the flight deck as the ship transited the Arabian Sea. No date has yet been announced for the Lincoln to return to the US.
С 23 января 2026 года участники проекта «Сколково» должны соблюдать новое правило 70/30: доход от иной финансово-хозяйственной деятельности не должен превышать 30% всех доходов компании.
На бумаге все просто. На практике пока непонятно, какие доходы считать профильными, куда относить проценты, гранты и курсовые разницы, как делить выручку по смешанным договорам и чем подтверждать связь дохода с инновационным проектом.
Ответы должен дать отдельный приказ Фонда «Сколково». Но правило уже действует, а приказ до сих пор не опубликован. Поэтому попробуем спрогнозировать, что в нем будет и к чему резидентам стоит готовиться уже сейчас.
Конец эпохи "выберите светофоры": как ИИ проходит капчу быстрее человека
Каждый из нас сто процентов был в такой ситуации. Заходишь на сайт, а там вылезает капча: "Выберите все квадраты, на которых изображены велосипеды". Или гидранты. Или автобусы. И каждый из вас сто процентов хотя бы раз в ней ошибался. Ну просто потому, что в очередной раз случайно зацепил краем мышки не тот квадрат, где торчит несчастный кусок колеса. Приходится кликать заново, злиться и наконец доказывать сайту, что вы не робот.
The decision to phase out the Army drone battalion comes amid tension between senior officers who envisioned the unit and the acting chief of staff of the Army.
The latest developments in the federal inquiry come four months after Swalwell dropped his gubernatorial bid, denying allegations of sexual assault and misconduct.
Prof Katya Rubia withdraws support for The Great ADHD Myth? as other leading figures voice criticisms
A contributor to a controversial Channel 4 documentary on attention deficit hyperactivity disorder has withdrawn her support for the programme, saying it was biased and could lead to an increased suicide risk by encouraging parents to take their children off medication.
Katya Rubia, a professor of cognitive neuroscience at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience at King’s College London, also said The Great ADHD Myth? misrepresented her views.
Volodymyr Zhuravlev had been consulted on Snake Island, a dramatised reconstruction of incident
Earlier this month locals in Zagreb noticed something odd outside an art deco building. Sandbags and barricades appeared in front of the Esplanade hotel, along with a film crew and extras sporting Ukrainian military uniforms. Soon afterwards the actors Sean Penn and Adrien Brody were spotted on the set in the Croatian capital, together with Doug Liman, the Hollywood director of the Jason Bourne movies.
Liman had come to shoot his latest fictional political thriller. Its subject: the 2022 Nord Stream explosions, in which a team of Ukrainian divers allegedly blew up a pipeline supplying Russian natural gas to Germany. One of the chief suspects, Volodymyr Zhuravlev, had twice eluded the Germany authorities: once allegedly slipping out of Poland in the boot of a diplomatic car,and on another occasion freed by a court.
Volodymyr Zhuravlev had been consulted on Snake Island, a dramatised reconstruction of incident
Earlier this month locals in Zagreb noticed something odd outside an art deco building. Sandbags and barricades appeared in front of the Esplanade hotel, along with a film crew and extras sporting Ukrainian military uniforms. Soon afterwards the actors Sean Penn and Adrien Brody were spotted on the set in the Croatian capital, together with Doug Liman, the Hollywood director of the Jason Bourne movies.
Liman had come to shoot his latest fictional political thriller. Its subject: the 2022 Nord Stream explosions, in which a team of Ukrainian divers allegedly blew up a pipeline supplying Russian natural gas to Germany. One of the chief suspects, Volodymyr Zhuravlev, had twice eluded the Germany authorities: once allegedly slipping out of Poland in the boot of a diplomatic car,and on another occasion freed by a court.
Exclusive: Mitchell Palmer has also argued for privatising the NHS and immigration as way of cutting poverty
Reform UK’s new economic adviser has previously called the pensions triple lock unsustainable, advocated privatising the NHS and welcomed migration as a poverty alleviation tool, the Guardian can reveal.
Robert Jenrick, Reform’s economic spokesperson, has appointed Mitchell Palmer, a rightwing economist at the free-market Adam Smith Institute, as one of his key aides.
Prof Katya Rubia withdraws support for The Great ADHD Myth? as other leading figures voice criticisms
A contributor to a controversial Channel 4 documentary on attention deficit hyperactivity disorder has withdrawn her support for the programme, saying it was biased and could lead to an increased suicide risk by encouraging parents to take their children off medication.
Katya Rubia, a professor of cognitive neuroscience at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience at King’s College London, also said The Great ADHD Myth? misrepresented her views.
Meta chief executive paid roughly €20m for gothic-style mansion built in 1830 and its surroundings
It stretches the definition of pied-à-terre but Mark Zuckerberg now has a pad in Ireland: Strancally castle.
The Meta chief executive and his wife, Priscilla Chan, have bought the gothic-style mansion and its 178-hectare (440-acre) estate in county Waterford to use as a base during visits to Ireland.
Зелёный пайплайн ещё не означает, что деплой прошёл как надо. В Bash хватает ситуаций, где ошибка теряется, код возврата маскируется, а скрипт спокойно идёт дальше. Разберём типичные ловушки и способы сделать такие сценарии предсказуемее.
Об одной и той же уязвимости в Authentik — популярной опенсорсной системе корпоративного входа — независимо и почти одновременно сообщили восемь исследователей. Уязвимость (CVE-2026-57580) позволяла вставить в поле с идентификатором пользователя (NameID) XML‑комментарий, обрезать значение до чужого адреса и привязать к жертве подконтрольную атакующему учетную запись — подпись при этом оставалась валидной. Срабатывало это не у всех: нужны определенные настройки сопоставления учетных записей, отличные от заданных по умолчанию. Закрыли проблему в версиях 2026.2.6 и 2026.5.5. Один из восьмерых — Эрик Чан (Eric Chiang), технический директор компании Oblique Security; для него эта находка была одной из шестнадцати. Свою историю он рассказал в блоге 19 августа, а то, что желающих оказалось восемь, объясняет просто: очевидно, он не единственный, кто теперь взламывает с помощью ИИ.
A U.S. Army unit is offering a few days off to play Grand Theft Auto VI to those who reenlist and commit to several more years in uniform. CBS News' Eleanor Watson reports.
Meta chief executive paid roughly €20m for gothic-style mansion built in 1830 and its surroundings
It stretches the definition of pied-à-terre but Mark Zuckerberg now has a pad in Ireland: Strancally castle.
The Meta chief executive and his wife, Priscilla Chan, have bought the gothic-style mansion and its 178-hectare (440-acre) estate in county Waterford to use as a base during visits to Ireland.
The U.S. on Thursday imposed fresh sanctions on 15 individuals and entities based in Ecuador for their roles in an alleged maritime cocaine trafficking operation.
Year after year, investors who've explored the Expo Halls, met founders, and learned from peers have proven why you need to be on the ground at Disrupt this year.
The NFL is launching a new "celly" campaign to honor the tradition of touchdown celebration dances in the end zone. Jason Allen joins the Houston Texans at their training facility to learn more.
The five men were part of the first group of deportees to be sent to the West African nation by the Trump administration. The Liberian government has not clarified their status.
‘It’s not favourable. It’s an easy thing to throw out there’
Michael Carrick has dismissed suggestions that Manchester United’s opening two games against Hull and Ipswich represent a favourable start to the season. United travel to Hull for Saturday’s opening match before hosting Ipswich a week on Sunday. Both sides were promoted from the Championship.
Carrick is adamant neither game will prove easy. “For all of us to know this league, there’s no favourable start, I think it’s a tough start,” he said. “A promoted team away from home is a tough game.
While Football Daily remains open to the idea that Stanley Kubrick directed the moon landings and the Pentagon is hiding grey aliens in Area 51, we have never had much truck with tinfoil hat-wearing conspiracy theorists when it comes to officiating in football. While refereeing a match in which all 22 participants are expert gaslighters will inevitably lead to mistakes, we’ve always presumed these gaffes can be attributed to good old-fashioned incompetence and not some shadowy cabal who have devoted their life’s work to keeping [insert your team’s name here] firmly in their place. Sadly, a random trawl of assorted Social Media Disgrace platforms on any given day during the season proves there is no shortage of paranoid fans, while “the Folarin Balogun affair” at the Geopolitics World Cup will have added no end of grist to their mill. After all, if an entitled president can successfully agitate to have a player’s suspension swept under the rug, who’s to say dark forces aren’t also at play when it comes to deciding whether the ball went out for a throw-in off Gabriel Martinelli or Enzo Le Fée?
May I be among 1,057 others born in the 1980s to mention that one of Orson Welles’ final film roles was as the voice of Unicron in Transformers: The Movie. His character was an enormous planet which travelled through space, devouring other planets. If that isn’t a suitable metaphor for the Premier League and its transfer windows, I don’t know what is” – Luke Davydaitis (and no others).
I wonder if West Ham and Wolves fans are regretting ever complaining that they had to wait for the last day of Big Website’s Premier League previews? And if Tottenham fans will take it as a hint that said complaining may lead to no preview at all” – Doug Peters.
If Carlos Baleba ends up at Manchester United, I hope we can rely on their fans to finally deliver the ‘Daydream Baleba’ chant the world deserves” – Chris Jersan.
The Rust team is happy to announce a new version of Rust, 1.98.0. Rust is a programming language empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software.
If you have a previous version of Rust installed via rustup, you can get 1.98.0 with:
If you'd like to help us out by testing future releases, you might consider updating locally to use the beta channel (rustup default beta) or the nightly channel (rustup default nightly). Please report any bugs you might come across!
What's in 1.98.0 stable
Algebraic floating-point methods
The floating-point types f32 and f64 now have "algebraic" methods for addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, and remainder. These allow optimizations on these operations using the algebraic properties of real numbers, even though these properties do not hold with the limitations of floating-point representations. The exact set of optimizations is not specified, but may be similar to the kind of optimization you would see with the -ffast-math option in other languages.
For example, floating-point addition is not associative, so a sum like a + b + c + d must be evaluated in the left-associative order in which it is parsed, like ((a + b) + c) + d. If you write the same sum as a chain of algebraic_add calls, then the compiler is free to reorder it, perhaps like (a + b) + (c + d) to evaluate the partial sums simultaneously. Broader loop-vectorization is often enabled by using these algebraic methods as well.
These methods are non-deterministic, since the compiler is free to choose different optimizations, but they never cause undefined behavior. See the library documentation and the original API change proposal for more details.
Buffered integer formatting
All of the primitive integer types now have a format_into method that takes a &mut NumBuffer<Self> parameter, which is a buffer that is large enough to hold the decimal format of any value of that type. The buffer itself is opaque, but the method returns the formatted &str with a lifetime borrowed from that buffer.
This method also bypasses much of the dynamic dispatch that you would get with buffered write! formatting, which can be a boon to performance. The itoa-benchmark repo now shows that format_into performs similarly to itoa itself, so this could serve as a standard replacement for that dependency and others like it.
Fix interaction between ManuallyDrop and Box
Prior to Rust 1.96.0, there was a bug in the Rust compiler, which made the following code undefined behavior:
let mut x = ManuallyDrop::new(Box::new(1));unsafe { ManuallyDrop::drop(&mut x) };let x = x; // UB!
This is because the compiler considers it undefined behavior to move a Box that has been dropped (deallocated), and ManuallyDrop used to propagate that, such that moving ManuallyDrop<Box<_>> where the box has been dropped would also be considered UB.
In Rust 1.96.0 we fixed this, so this code was no longer UB. In this release we have updated the ManuallyDrop documentation, providing a stable guarantee that this code will continue to not be UB in the future. See ManuallyDrop docs and the related RFC 3336 for more information.
Thermal underwear keep you warm during chilly commutes, outdoor activities and more. Amazon has popular thermal sets for men and women for up to 50% off.
Референсная архитектура движка подбора билетов на redb: канонная модель, Scatter-Gather по трём GDS и ж/д, дерево-маршрут и saga-переоформление в дороге.
Сотруднику нужно долететь до одного города, доехать поездом до другого и вернуться тем же путём. Одна командировка, билеты из разных систем бронирования. А потом он уже в дороге пишет в телеграм: «планы изменились, летим не туда, перебронируй».
Три системы под самолёты (Amadeus, Sabre, Travelport) исторически несовместимы: разные XML-диалекты одного и того же понятия перелёта, выросшие из мейнфреймов 60–80-х, каждый со своими причудами и полями, которых нет у соседа. Плюс отдельная, никак не связанная с ними система бронирования под железную дорогу: свой формат, своя логика мест и классов, ничего общего по структуре с авиационными GDS. Запросить всё это параллельно, свести разноформатные ответы в одно и собрать валидный маршрут по стыковкам уже само по себе задача не для россыпи if и ручных мапперов.
With millions of fantasy football leagues around the world, the quest to generate the most unique and hilarious last place punishment has become an annual internet tradition.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials worked closely with Iran to deport Iranian migrants, including asylum seekers, newly released emails reveal. CBS News' Camilo Montoya-Galvez has more information.
Playful American painter whose works were informed by her previous focus on ceramics and sculpture
Visitors to Mary Heilmann’s show at the Whitechapel Gallery in 2016 were offered the novel experience of looking at art while scooting about on wheeled wooden chairs. These, too, turned out to be artworks. One, Sunny Chair for the Whitechapel, had been made by Heilmann for the occasion. Rough-hewn from plywood, backed in nylon webbing and painted bright yellow, it seemed happily untidy; as an object, but also as a type. This was true of all the works in Looking at Pictures, and was intentional.
Heilmann, who has died aged 86, had an untidy past as a maker. It was while doing a BA at the University of California, Santa Barbara (1959-62), that she discovered ceramics, which were to occupy her first decade as an artist. The untidiness of her artistic history, however, was to be shaped by more than her choice of materials.
Maeve Plouffe says incident on Wednesday was ‘scary’
Josh Tarling to ride in Vuelta in memory of brother Fin
The Australian rider Maeve Plouffe has said she was nearly hit by a non-race car during the opening stage of the Tour of Britain Women.
With cycling still coming to terms with the death at the Volta a Portugal of the 19-year-old British rider Finlay Tarling, killed last week in a collision with a vehicle that had entered the course, Plouffe said the incident occurred as she was chasing the peloton after a puncture on Wednesday.
The Maracanã in Rio de Janeiro will host the opening game and the final of next year’s Women’s World Cup. The 78,838-capacity stadium, which hosted the finals of the 1950 and 2014 men’s World Cups as well as the finals of the Olympic football competitions in 2016, will be the venue for Brazil’s opening Group A match on 24 June, before staging the final on 25 July.
Fifa released the schedule for all 64 matches for the tournament, which features 32 teams. The draw will take place after more of the qualification playoffs have been contested.
Midfielder linked with £120m move to Manchester City
Chelsea still interested in Bournemouth’s Alex Scott
Xabi Alonso has refused to offer any guarantee that Chelsea will hold firm if Manchester City try to sign Enzo Fernández.
Fernández’s future remains up in the air and the prospect of him leaving Stamford Bridge has not gone away, even though Chelsea’s unofficial deadline for clubs to make written bids of £120m for the 25-year-old Argentina midfielder has already passed. City, who are also tracking Roma’s Manu Koné, have targeted Fernández as part of their midfield rebuild after Rodri’s move to Barcelona and are weighing up whether to make a move before the transfer window shuts.
