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Prohibition of salty, yeast-based condiment in Victoria’s prisons remains after convicted murderer claimed it denied him right to ‘enjoy his culture’

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A murderer who claimed a refusal to allow him Vegemite in prison is a breach of his human rights as an Australian has failed to overturn the ban on the polarising spread.

Andre McKechnie sued Victoria’s corrections department after he was refused the salty, yeast-based condiment in prison.

Ukraine will not discuss limits to its armed forces or enforced neutrality at November meeting, president says. What we know on day 1,706

A trilateral meeting between Kyiv, Washington and Moscow will take place in November aiming to restart stalled Russia-Ukraine peace talks, Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said. “We are ready to talk. If it’s a territorial issue, it must be addressed at a leadership level. Other issues fall within the remit of the technical groups. All this can therefore be discussed in November,” the Ukrainian president said on Sunday in an interview. Zelenskyy also renewed his push ⁠for a meeting between him and Vladimir Putin, believing that Putin is the only person ​in Russia who can make major decisions to end ​the war.

Zelenskyy says that at the trilateral talks, Ukraine will not discuss limits to its armed forces, or enforced postwar neutrality. Kyiv has long sought entry into Nato despite the reticence of some members.

Meanwhile, US warnings about imminent ⁠Russian ballistic missile strikes, critical to Ukraine’s air defences, have been fully restored, according to Zelenskyy. He told Ukraine’s ⁠TSN television channel that SpaceX’s ​Starshield satellite internet had been working at speeds of up to 420km/h since early on Saturday, after a meeting with the US special envoy Steve Witkoff in Oslo. Starshield was throttled earlier in October amid diplomatic pressure on Kyiv from Washington.

The US has been trying to pressure Ukraine to suspend strikes on Russian oil refineries, which it says push energy prices higher. However, Zelenskyy has repeatedly said Kyiv will only stop the strikes if Moscow stops hitting Ukraine’s power infrastructure, or if the US allows Ukraine to use of Starshield ‌over Russia to detect launch places of its ballistic missiles, or if it supplies Ukraine with Patriot missiles.

Zelenskyy on Sunday said Russia had launched nearly 2,300 drones targeting Ukrainian cities over the past week, renewing his call on western allies to speed up deliveries of interceptors. “This week alone, Russia has launched about 1,600 guided bombs, 48 missiles of various types, including ballistic missiles, and almost 2,300 strike drones at Ukraine,” he wrote in an online post.

Russia’s defence ⁠ministry said on ⁠Sunday ​its drones had struck a ⁠cargo vessel bound for the Black Sea port of ⁠Chornomorsk in an overnight ​attack ‌and another cargo ‌vessel en route to the ‌port of Odesa during the day. The ministry said the vessels were being used to supply the Ukrainian army. Russian ‌forces also hit a logistics centre, a ​distribution centre and a logistics terminal in the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv overnight. Reuters could not confirm the reports.

A Ukrainian drone attack overnight on the Russian border city ⁠of Belgorod killed ⁠three people ​and injured 13, local authorities said on Sunday, while ⁠a separate drone strike later in the day killed another person. The overnight attack on Belgorod ​damaged 30 apartment buildings, regional governor ⁠Alexander Shuvayev said.

The presidential election in Bulgaria on Sunday ended inconclusively, with the next head of state to be picked in a runoff. In a surprisingly strong performance, the candidate of the pro-western reformist opposition, Andrey Gyurov, will face the incumbent leftist president, Iliana Yotova. Iotova opposes military aid to Ukraine and favours dialogue with Russia, while Gyurov has often expressed firm support for Kyiv. The vote was held amid security concerns after a series of drone attacks on ships in the Black Sea.

The fifth plenum comes against a backdrop of years of purges that have had some analysts wondering if the issue is corruption or a lack of loyalty

When Xi Jinping came to power in 2012, he pledged to stamp out corruption all through the ranks of the Communist party. More than a decade later, the pace of investigations has not slowed. Last year, China’s disciplinary authorities opened investigations into more than 1 million people, including more than 100 officials at or above ministerial or provincial level.

As Chinese Communist party (CCP) officials kick off an important meeting this week, discipline – and party loyalty – is high on the agenda. For those who try to read the tea leaves of elite Chinese politics, concern about the apparent lack of discipline is dominating CCP discussions.

Увы и ах. Осень 2026-го для российского сегмента ИТ выдалась напряжная. Изначально я хотел высказаться на тему другого яркого события октября — атак на Яндекс. И я обязательно сделаю это чуть позже, но сегодня поговорим о другом. Зато по горячим следам. 

Буквально на днях произошел довольно масштабный по меркам нашего ИТ взлом: атака на провайдеров через VMmanager. Подробности атаки расписывать смысла я не вижу — их полно как на Хабре, так и на других профильных ресурсах.

Так зачем я пишу эту статью? Лично я считаю, что мы на огромной скорости влетели в совершенно новую ИБ-эпоху. Сразу двумя ногами вперед. И то, что произошло с VMmanager, это всего лишь маркер эпохи. Первая ласточка, если хотите. И, к моему искреннему сожалению, далеко не последняя. Оговорюсь сразу, что вину с компании я не снимаю, это прямое следствие технической ошибки. Мой посыл именно в том, что подобные ошибки в ближайшие месяцы/годы начнут всплывать чаще, чем хотелось бы. Если классический хакер — это в конечном счете человек, которому некоторые уязвимости могут не прийти в голову, то ИИ будет долбить и в хвост, и в гриву все, до чего дотянется. 

Report from commonwealth ombudsman finds ‘technological black box’ ignores transparency recommendations from robodebt royal commission

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An algorithm used by the federal government to assess the level of care older Australians are entitled to is unreasonable, unfair and lacks human oversight, according to a damning investigation by the commonwealth ombudsman.

The investigation also found transparency recommendations from the robodebt royal commission have been ignored.

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The fifth plenum comes against a backdrop of years of purges that have had some analysts wondering if the issue is corruption or a lack of loyalty

When Xi Jinping came to power in 2012, he pledged to stamp out corruption all through the ranks of the Communist party. More than a decade later, the pace of investigations has not slowed. Last year, China’s disciplinary authorities opened investigations into more than 1 million people, including more than 100 officials at or above ministerial or provincial level.

As Chinese Communist party (CCP) officials kick off an important meeting this week, discipline – and party loyalty – is high on the agenda. For those who try to read the tea leaves of elite Chinese politics, concern about the apparent lack of discipline is dominating CCP discussions.

Your quarterly dose of plugin dev news, tools, and tips from JetBrains

⚡JetBrains Plugin Developer Conf 2026 Is Coming!

November 10, 2026 | Online | Free
Join our annual free virtual event on developing plugins for JetBrains products. You’ll hear talks from SAP, Broadcom, JetBrains experts, and independent plugin authors.

🤖 AI meets plugins: ACP and MCP integrations, plus where AI-assisted development helps – and where it doesn’t.
⚙️IntelliJ Platform updates: The latest Gradle Plugin, Plugin DevKit, Plugin Verifier, and API updates.
💻 Real-world techniques: LSP, WSL, Dev Containers, web-based UIs, and plugin architectures that scale.

🧩 Marketplace Updates

New Way to Edit Plugin Description 

Keeping your plugin page up to date just got easier! You can now edit your plugin description directly on the plugin’s page. The description is stored separately from the plugin archive, so you can update it without uploading a new plugin version. Learn more  →

UI Freeze Reports Are Now Available in the Freezes Tab

Users say the IDE froze, but you can’t reproduce it? JetBrains Marketplace now collects UI freeze reports for your plugin, with full thread dumps and CPU snapshots. In his guide, Jakub Chrzanowski explains how to read the reports, enable reporting, and use an AI agent to find the cause. You can also watch his video or see the Marketplace documentation →.

🔧 Plugin Development Tooling Updates

IntelliJ Plugin Verifier 1.411

Tool that checks binary compatibility between IntelliJ-based IDE builds and plugins. 

• Content modules are now supported in dependency resolution, dependency trees, and module visibility checks, and dependencies.txt lists each plugin’s content modules.
• New public APIs for plugin name validation, rebuilding dependencies, and keeping only direct dependencies in verification results.
• Lower memory usage for check-trunk-api and report generation, which now streams dependencies.txt and HTML reports.
• Reports are now written in UTF-8.
• Updated Gradle, Bouncy Castle, and Byte Buddy.

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IntelliJ Platform Gradle Plugin 2.19.0

Plugin that helps configure your environment for building, testing, verifying, and publishing plugins for IntelliJ-based IDEs. 

• New buildPluginVariants tasks build Linux, macOS, and Windows plugin distributions for x86_64 and arm64 (2026.1+).
• New testFrameworks() helper, more test framework options, and per-plugin bundled-library exclusions.
• Full --offline support, and Kotlin stdlib and Coroutines are no longer bundled into the sandbox by default.
• verifyPlugin now runs against each IDE’s own bundled JBR and fails based on report files.
• Removed the deprecated setupDependencies task (breaking change), and tasks are now organized into separate groups.
• Plus fixes for download URL resolution, signature verification, and cache writes.

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💡 Tip of the Quarter

Use Release Channels for Pre-releases

Deploy plugins to non-default release channels (alpha, beta, canary, eap) to share work-in-progress with limited user groups and gather feedback before public release. This lets you test with real users without affecting your main release.

📚 Resources & Learning

📖 Blog

IDE Plugin Generator – The New Beginning

Creating an IntelliJ Platform plugin no longer means choosing between the IDE wizard and the GitHub template. The new web-based generator combines both, with dependency selection, GitHub workflows, and Split Mode support, all from the IDE or your browser. Find out why we made the change and what’s coming next. Read →

The Evolution of WSL Support in JetBrains IDEs

After trying three other approaches, JetBrains IDEs now open WSL projects in Native mode, up to 38% faster. Learn how the IJent agent and EelApi make this work, and how your plugin can run the same way in WSL, Docker, and Dev Containers. Read →

Why We Still Need an IDE

Agents write the code, but someone still has to steer, verify, and own it. Read why the IDE is becoming the cockpit for agentic development, and why its tools matter as much to agents as they do to developers. Read →

⭐ Community Spotlight

Native Calls in IntelliJ Platform Plugins: JNA vs FFM

The IntelliJ Platform is moving native integrations from JNA to Java’s Foreign Function and Memory API. In this video, Patrick Scheibe shows how to configure the IDE-bundled JNA, when your existing code can stay, and how to start with FFM if your plugin calls native code.

Save State in IntelliJ Plugins in 3 Lines!

Need your plugin to remember a setting after an IDE restart? In this short video, Róbert Novotný shows how to save booleans, numbers, strings, and string lists with PropertiesComponent in just three lines of Kotlin.

💌 Until next time — happy plugin development!
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Allegra Spender calls Indi MP ‘force for change’ as politicians pay tribute in parliament

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Helen Haines’s first words after an alleged attack last week were to ask about the safety of her staff and express gratitude to bystanders and doctors.

Allegra Spender, the MP for Wentworth, told parliament on Monday that Haines’s husband, Phil Haines, had revealed the Indi MP expressed gratitude to bystanders who came to her rescue outside her Wangaratta electorate office.

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Brazil's 80-year-old left-wing leader President Lula defeats Flávio Bolsonaro in a bitterly contested runoff.

(Image credit: Natacha Pisarenko)

Привет, Хабр!

Почти год назад я рассказывал, как за 5 дней написал приложение Diabnostic для мониторинга диабета у своей кошки. В марте делился первым датасетом: 6 773 замера от 121 питомца. С тех пор произошло три вещи.

А какие - расскажу под катом.

Paul Edbrooke says he fears for family’s safety amid heightened concerns for MPs after alleged attack on Helen Haines

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Victoria’s emergency services minister believes he is being followed and fears for his family’s safety after a bullet, etched with the word “RAT” and his former firefighter number, was left on his car.

The Herald Sun first reported on Monday that Paul Edbrooke had returned to his car after a community event in his Frankston electorate on Saturday and found the bullet on the bonnet. He later told reporters he had only been away from the car for about an hour and made the “chilling” discovery on his return.

Leftist incumbent Lula says unprecedented comeback was a ‘defeat for denialism’ as Bolsonaro refuses to accept election result

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Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, the Brazilian president, has staged a dramatic election fightback, defeating his far-right opponent, Flávio Bolsonaro, to claim a historic fourth term in power.

With 100% of votes counted the 80-year-old leftist received 4.4m votes more than Bolsonaro, with a 51.79% share to his 45-year-old rival’s 48.21%. However, soon after Brazil’s electoral authority confirmed Lula’s victory, Bolsonaro refused to concede defeat and asked for the results to be annulled.

The first half was dreadful. The pass completion rate was a meagre 72.8%, although it felt lower. There were only two shots on target. The sun kept popping out from behind the clouds to take a look, and then going back in again, appalled. And the really bad news for Crystal Palace is that, for them, that was the good bit.

Newcastle were much improved after the break. Will Osula touched in a Jacob Murphy cross two minutes after half-time, Joe Willock had an effort ruled out for a marginal offside five minutes later, and Harvey Barnes completed a slick passing move six minutes after that. A smattering of boos from the home fans made clear what everybody already knew. Quarter of an hour of proper football had been enough to win the game, and that leaves Pierre Sage under significant pressure.