State paid consultancy firm $166,000 for feasibility study on merging the three tertiary institutions
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The Western Australian government has said it is “extremely disappointed” and is seeking an “expedited” cost recovery from Deloitte after errors were discovered in a report about a potential university merger, including AI-hallucinated references and hundreds of millions of dollars in cost discrepancies.
The government paid Deloitte $166,000 for a feasibility study on merging the University of Western Australia, Curtin University and Murdoch University.
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Читать далееVučić’s 12-year reign looks to have been ended by record turnout of voters in election provoked by student-led protests
The long-serving leader of Serbia, Aleksandar Vučić, has conceded defeat, ushering in a seismic political shift after a historic election that saw the increasingly authoritarian leader pitted against a student-led movement that had spent two years protesting against his government.
Vučić pointed to preliminary results that suggested voters had overwhelmingly backed the students, potentially giving them a majority in the country’s 250-seat parliament.
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Да — это свершилось. В 2026 перед командой разработки ВК Видео стояла амбициозная задача — реализовать ряд инновационных функций, которые скопируют ведущие цифровые платформы. И эта задача на конец октября полностью выполнена.
Читать далееVučić’s 12-year reign looks to have been ended by record turnout of voters in election provoked by student-led protests
The long-serving leader of Serbia, Aleksandar Vučić, has conceded defeat, ushering in a seismic political shift after a historic election that saw the increasingly authoritarian leader pitted against a student-led movement that had spent two years protesting against his government.
Vučić pointed to preliminary results that suggested voters had overwhelmingly backed the students, potentially giving them a majority in the country’s 250-seat parliament.
Continue reading...At long last, a weakness has been spotted. Finally, the 100% winning start ends for Manchester City, much to the pleasure of Manchester United, who struck late through Elisabeth Terland to claim a point in a well-contested and at times breathless derby.
Khadija “Bunny” Shaw’s second-half strike – her 91st WSL goal on her 100th appearance in the division – appeared to have settled the game and kept the defending champions top of the table, and it had looked likely to be the same old story, of City finding a way to win a game that was on a knife-edge, because they have the game’s deadliest finisher.
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Browns move to 5-2 with late win over Titans
Jets hand Dolphins their first win of the season
Jaxon Smith-Njigba caught nine passes for 150 yards and a touchdown, and the Seattle Seahawks handed the Kansas City Chiefs their first loss of the season.
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Кажется, мы довольно быстро привыкли к тому, что с нейросетью можно разговаривать почти как с человеком. Попросить написать код, пересказать статью, разобраться в документах. Потом уточнить. Потом ещё раз уточнить, потому что она опять сделала что-то не то.
А где-то между «почти готово» и «ты зачем вообще это переписал?» заканчивается лимит. А иногда - ещё до первого ответа. Отправляешь запрос в Claude, он долго думает. Потом ещё думает. Ты уже начинаешь подозревать, что там решают что-то на уровне устройства Вселенной, и наконец получаешь уведомление: лимит закончился. Ответа пока нет. Зато размышление получилось основательное.
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Как я за неделю сделал хэллоуинский ивент для браузерной драки Brawl Town: сезон, который включается и выключается сам по календарю, протокол, на котором старые и новые клиенты живут на одном сервере, Тыквенный король со скелетной анимацией в Pixi и шагом без скольжения, проба баланса на Go и нагрузочный тест на 2000 игроков на одной улице.
Читать далееLeftist president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva defeated the far-right senator and was elected president of Brazil for a fourth non-consecutive term
The local electoral court ordered the immediate restoration of 100% of the bus fleet and ordered the arrest of the municipal transport secretary, Pablo Souza, on suspicion of an electoral offence and disobeying court orders. The arrest warrant could not be carried out, however, because he is in Paris on what the city government described as an “official mission”, and is not expected to return to Brazil until Monday.
Late in the afternoon, Flávio Bolsonaro also filed requests for voting to be extended by two hours in cities in the states of São Paulo, Paraná and Santa Catarina, but because of heavy rain that he said had prevented voters from turning out.
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Есть такая категория задач, которые поначалу выглядят настолько безобидно, что ты даже не закладываешь на них много времени. Ну не обновился какой-то элемент интерфейса после авторизации, бывает. Скорее всего, где-нибудь потерялось событие, не обновилось состояние или кто-то забыл вызвать нужный метод. Открываешь проект, ставишь пару брейкпоинтов и рассчитываешь довольно быстро во всём разобраться.
Примерно с таким настроением я и взялся за очередной UI-баг, а спустя какое-то время обнаружил себя уже совсем не там, где планировал. Вместо экрана, ради которого всё затевалось, передо мной были несколько репозиториев, менеджеры, сервисы, фабрики, DI-контейнеры и довольно запутанная цепочка создания объектов. Причём чем дальше я по ней продвигался, тем меньше понимал, почему вообще что-то не работает, потому что каждый отдельный компонент выглядел совершенно исправным.
Методы вызывались, события приходили, состояние обновлялось, никаких ошибок в консоли не было. Даже данные, которые я видел в отладчике, на первый взгляд выглядели вполне корректно. И вот это, пожалуй, раздражало больше всего: приложение вроде бы делало всё, что от него требовалось, но интерфейс упорно продолжал жить своей жизнью.
В итоге проблема оказалась вообще не в UI и даже не в данных. Просто одна часть приложения продолжала использовать объект, который для другой части приложения уже давно перестал быть актуальным.
Но обо всём по порядку.
Распутаем вместе?
Мы делаем «Сбор - спортивные школы» — платформу для детских футбольных школ: расписание, посещаемость, взносы и матч-день в одном приложении для тренера, родителя и директора. На сервере Laravel 12, Livewire 3 и PostgreSQL, мобильное приложение написано на Flutter. Предметная область выглядит простой — календарь и список детей, — но почти каждая задача упирается в людей: родителей у ребёнка двое, детей у родителя трое, а тренер стоит на поле с телефоном в одной руке и мячом в другой. Ниже — пять болей, которые мы услышали от тренеров и родителей, решения, которые из них выросли, и куски настоящего кода.
Читать далееPeltola and her family sustained minor injuries after a driver struck the car transporting group to campaign stop
Mary Peltola, a Democrat who is running for US Senate in Alaska, and her family suffered minor injuries in a car crash while driving to a campaign stop on Saturday, her campaign said.
The family was on its way to the Alaska Federation of Natives annual banquet when another vehicle crashed into the one transporting Peltola and her family, her campaign said in a statement on Sunday. Peltola required medical attention after the collision.
Continue reading...Chancellor is in favour of North Sea project, but energy secretary has said she is leaning towards rejecting it
A cabinet split has emerged over whether to approve drilling at the Rosebank oilfield, with the chancellor, John Healey, in favour of the controversial North Sea project.
The energy secretary, Miatta Fahnbulleh, is ultimately in charge of the decision, and the Guardian reported last week that she was leaning towards rejecting it after granting permission for the smaller Jackdaw gasfield.
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Steggall calls for civility and respect
Independent MP Zali Steggall has called for more respect in times of disagreement, telling ABC that leadership and words matter.
We absolutely need to make sure there is more civility and respect.
Social media is a platform where they can send abuse and threats through direct messages, call my electorate office, or send pretty revolting stuff
It’s just quite shocking how disconnected from manners and reality sometimes people get when they launch into their diatribes and make threats.
There’s been a lot of money and a lot of effort and a lot of thought going into security here at Parliament House.
I think the vulnerability is actually when we’re out doing our job in the community, and that’s probably where we need to put the focus.
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Pennsylvania is the worst hit state, with at least 1,338 cases of measles confirmed in 44 counties so far this year, according to the Pennsylvania Department of Health.
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ри кольпоскопии врачу необходимо определить расположение изменений и выбрать участки для прицельной биопсии. ProColpo использует машинное обучение для проверки качества снимков и выделения кольпоскопических признаков.
Программа создана на основе ML-модели, разработанной совместно с А. А. Безменко и его командой. В ходе проекта обработано более 15 000 изображений, более 12 000 аннотировано; создана собственная платформа разметки. Сейчас проводятся пилотные интеграции с российскими производителями кольпоскопов.
Как работает ProColpo
На этой неделе нашли дыру в PHP — языке, на котором работает больше половины сайтов. Через неё чужой человек может запустить на сервере свою программу, и для этого ему не нужен ни пароль, ни доступ к сайту. 21 октября вышли исправления. Прошло четыре дня — а что с рунетом-то? Мы посмотрели на 10 000 самых заметных сайтов и попробовали понять, сколько из них уже закрылись.
Короткий ответ: понять не получается. И это само по себе интересно.
Читать далееJob in balance after 3-0 home defeat by Bournemouth
Howe is director of football Jason Wilcox’s top candidate
Manchester United’s hierarchy are in crisis talks over whether or not to sack Michael Carrick as head coach after he oversaw another torrid defeat, against Bournemouth at Old Trafford on Sunday, that left his job in the balance.
Carrick was defiant after the 3-0 humbling, insisting he was not expecting to be removed from his post. “I totally understand the situation,” Carrick said of his job prospects. “I’m not expecting anything in particular, to be honest. Carrying on as normal and I love this place.”
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У оператора связи уже есть каналы, сетевое оборудование, техническая поддержка и клиенты из общепита, медицины, торговли, фитнеса и других сфер услуг. Но чаще всего Wi‑Fi для такого клиента заканчивается на установке роутера. Мне стало интересно превратить его в полноценную управляемую услугу, которую оператор или системный интегратор может развернуть в своей инфраструктуре, оформить под собственным брендом и продавать бизнесу за ежемесячную плату.
В этой модели одна платформа обслуживает множество клиентских объектов. Для каждого можно создать отдельный профиль со своим названием, логотипом, цветами, способами авторизации, точками доступа, сотрудниками и правилами работы с гостями. Сотрудник бизнес-клиента работает в назначенном ему профиле, а оператор получает общий контур управления сетью.
Задача не сводится к красивой странице входа. Статья 44 Федерального закона № 126-ФЗ «О связи» относит порядок идентификации пользователей услуг передачи данных и их оборудования к правилам оказания услуг связи. В действующих Правилах оказания услуг связи по передаче данных, утверждённых постановлением Правительства РФ № 2606, для пунктов коллективного доступа предусмотрена идентификация пользователя и используемого им оконечного оборудования. Одним из практических способов такой проверки является достоверное установление номера мобильного телефона.
Нормативные акты не предписывают конкретный дизайн страницы и не называют Captive Portal обязательной технологией. В проекте он служит техническим шлюзом перед интернетом: до подтверждения гостю доступна только авторизация, а после неё создаётся ограниченная по времени сессия. Система сохраняет журнал входа — когда, каким способом, с какого устройства и через какую точку был получен доступ.
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William Diaz has a mantra: His only political party is his Venezuelan community.
He doesn’t abide by strict partisan rules, and doesn't believe in only voting for Democrats or Republicans. He supported Republicans Sen. Rick Scott and Secretary of State Marco Rubio when they were running for office in Florida, where Diaz has lived for 37 years.
For these midterm elections, however, the Orlando resident hopes to make a clear statement: He does not support President Donald Trump’s immigration policies and is unhappy with how Republican-backed initiatives have affected his community.
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“I voted already, and what I did when I was voting and when I was with my ballot, I was really thinking and praying for all those that has no voice, those that can not vote, those immigrants that are right now victim of actions on the streets,” Diaz tells TIME, referring to Trump’s mass deportation agenda and the expansive influence of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). “My people have been suffering that much.”
Diaz is one of more than 2.6 million people who have already cast ballots in Florida, either by mail or through in-person early voting, according to state figures released Sunday. In-person early voting began in some counties Oct. 19 and expanded statewide Oct. 24.
Diaz’s community is one part of a Florida Latino electorate with varied national origins and political loyalties. Taken together, however, Latino voters are a swing vote in several closely watched races statewide. They were key to Trump’s Florida victory in 2024, with 56% supporting him over Kamala Harris, according to the 2024 American Electorate Voter Poll.
But new polls ahead of Election Day suggest that Latino support for the GOP may be on shaky ground—a shift that could put Republicans to the test in Florida and shape the political landscape beyond November.
Dissatisfaction among Florida’s Latino voters reflects a broader national mood, according to Stephanie Valencia, a co-founder of Equis Research, an organization that studies Latino voting behavior.
Concerns about the economy and immigration enforcement tactics are fueling dissatisfaction among Latino voters, who “make up a huge part of the electorate in Florida,” she says, pointing out that both of these issues are “disproportionately impacting” them.
A Univision/YouGov poll, conducted Oct. 2–15, showed that 41% of registered Latino voters in Florida were “very or somewhat worried” that they, a family member, or someone close could be detained or otherwise directly affected by immigration enforcement, compared with 27% of Florida voters overall.
The same poll showed that 4 in 10 Latino voters in the state felt that their finances had worsened over the past year, with 70% disapproving of Trump’s handling of the cost of living in the U.S. That stands in comparison to a 63% disapproval rate from Florida voters overall.
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For Johanna Chavez, a Dominican immigrant living in Kissimmee, Florida, the economy is top of mind.
“Many people are concerned about the economy and the price of gasoline … and then there’s the cost of rent, it’s become incredibly, overwhelmingly high,” Chavez, who speaks Spanish, tells TIME through a translator. “All the things they promised would be done—nothing has happened.”
In the past few years, Chavez says it has felt like the United States has started “regressing,” and the opportunities she was looking for when she arrived here have not materialized in the way she had hoped.
“It’s starting to feel just like the situation back in my home country, the Dominican Republic,” she says. “We all came here hoping for change, seeking a better life, but it’s ending up being the same thing all over again. Things just aren’t what they’re supposed to be.”
Jared Nordlund, the Florida State Advocacy Director at UnidosUS, the largest nonprofit Latino rights organization in the U.S., says this is a common refrain among Floridian Latinos; people are upset over how the economy has been affected by tariffs and the war in Iran. Florida was hit particularly hard by rising gas prices after the closure of the Strait of Hormuz squeezed the global energy supply, he says.
“Florida is not a state friendly for public transportation, so people are highly reliant on the cars, and so what they would be paying for food now is having to kind of get broke between … paying to get the gas and then going to get food,” Nordlund says.
The question now is whether that dissatisfaction will translate into votes against Republicans—and whether it will be enough to tip the state’s close races.
Trump’s approval rating has plummeted with Latino voters in Florida, dropping from 58% approval at the start of his term to 36% ahead of midterm elections, according to Equis Research.
According to an AP-NORC poll from October, about 6 in 10 Latino voters disapprove of how Trump is handling the presidency, and more than 7 in 10 disapprove of how he is handling the economy.
A Pew Research Center poll found that Trump’s job approval rating among Latino voters dropped from 38% in February 2025 to 24% in September and October. Of those who backed him in the last election, approval dropped to 57%—down from 93% in early 2025.
The shift may be resonating with Republicans like Rep. Maria Elvira Salazar, who is seeking re-election in Florida’s 27th District in Miami-Dade—a majority Latino district that Trump carried by some 15 points in 2024. She publicly broke with Trump in her campaign and criticized his immigration policies.
In one ad in September, Salazar said that Trump has “gone too far" with his deportation agenda.
“In July, 50% of the 50,000 people that were detained had no criminal record,” she notes in the ad.
“Be careful what your advisers are telling you about immigration policy,” Salazar continues, addressing Trump. “The same Hispanics who helped you get to the White House in 2024 feel betrayed today.”
Guillermo Grenier, a Cuban American professor of sociology at Florida International University (FIU), agrees that many Latino voters are “ticked off” at Trump.
“The population, if you look at the whole Latino conglomerate, is turned off pretty strongly with Trump,” he says.
But South Florida’s Latino electorate is unique; Grenier points out that the state is home to 1.9 million Cuban Americans—the largest concentration in the United States.
As a voting bloc, the community has significant sway. In 2024, FIU’s Cuba poll found that 68% of likely Cuban American voters in Miami-Dade County supported Trump, compared to 23% for Harris—representing his highest-recorded support level in the poll's history.
A shift away from Republicans among Cuban American voters could therefore have significant consequences in South Florida. But disillusionment doesn’t always turn into action, according to Grenier.
“I think a lot of Cubans are pissed off at Trump, but they're still Republicans,” he says.
The Democratic Party’s response to this potential opening may unfold over several election cycles.
“Democrats are going to be in a probationary period with Latinos and with all voters, quite frankly, on whether they can deliver or not,” Valencia says. “One election is not durable support among a particular group.”
The electorate’s age also matters to its long-term political influence, says Michael McDonald, a professor of political science at the University of Florida. “Latinos are much younger than the rest of the population in the United States.”
He points out that voter turnout “is highly correlated with age” and expects Latino participation to increase as younger voters grow older. In his assessment, that could reshape the electoral map beyond Florida.
“Hispanics are getting old enough so that their turnout rates are going to start increasing, and that's going to have like profound consequences on American politics,” he says. “A state like Texas is now going to be purple, and some other states with large Hispanic populations are going to start trending even further away from the Republicans.”
Both Valencia and Grenier suggest that it will come down to Democrats proving that they are willing to reinvest in Florida.
There are several key races at stake in Florida. Although the state has leaned reliably red for the past three election cycles, Democrats are investing late in the race through campaigning and financing.
Florida Democrats posted a larger monthly net gain in active registered voters than Republicans, according to figures the party highlighted Oct. 1. The Florida Democratic Party touted the gains as a sign of its growing base in the state.
“We’ve spent years rebuilding this party from the ground up. Our organizers are in communities year-round, our volunteers are knocking doors across this state, and Democrats are having real conversations with Floridians about what’s at stake,” Florida Democratic Party Chair Nikki Fried said in an October statement. “The momentum is real.”
Gov. Ron DeSantis is term-limited and cannot run for re-election, leaving the role open for Byron Donalds, the Republican candidate who has been endorsed by Trump, and David Jolly, who is running as a Democrat after leaving the GOP in 2018.
A poll released Oct. 21 by the Public Opinion Research Lab (PORL) at the University of North Florida (UNF) found that Donalds leads 49% to 47%—within the poll's almost 3-percentage-point margin of error.
Latino voters could be important to Jolly’s chances. The Univision/YouGov poll found that they favored him over Donalds, 48% to 43%, even as Donalds led 50% to 42% among Florida voters overall.
Democrats are taking note. Weeks after Jolly beseeched the Democratic Party to send money to his campaign, the Democratic Governors Association announced Oct. 20 that it will invest $1 million to help close the narrowing gap in the weeks before Election Day.
That trend follows in certain congressional races downballot.
A September poll found Salazar leading Democratic challenger Eliott Rodriguez, a former local news anchor, by just 1 point.
Angie Nixon, a member of the Democratic Socialists of America, is an underdog for Senate, taking on Republican incumbent Sen. Ashley Moody. A recent UNF poll has Moody leading by 49% to 45%, halving the advantage she had in July.
National Democratic leaders and allies have made the trip to Florida to bolster these close races.
Independent Sen. Bernie Sanders, a Democratic ally, rallied in Tampa for Nixon on Oct. 17. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries campaigned with Rodriguez on Oct. 16; they held a campaign event at a Cuban coffee shop and bakery.
The decision received some blowback, with one conservative Cuban influencer taking to Instagram to slam the business for hosting Jeffries. He argued that associating with the Democrats equated to supporting socialism.
For Grenier, the incident shows that Democrats have some serious work to do to gain trust in Florida—and while it might be “too late” to invest in candidates in this election, the party can lay the groundwork for 2028 and beyond.
He said that if Democrats want to build on the momentum after the midterms, they can’t get “gun shy.”
“This new beachhead that [Democrats] are trying to establish is the way to go for the next elections,” Grenier says.
“You know, it was 10 years of investing before Republicans flipped the state in 1996,” he continues. “So, they need to just keep it up, and have national leaders support local leaders.”
McDonald observes a "shifting democracy" and believes the GOP will continue to face new challenges when it comes to remaining competitive with Latino voters. He says: “The Republican Party is going to have to adjust.”

Когда я садился портировать своё iOS-приложение на Android, я был уверен, что ping, traceroute и Path MTU там не сделать: ICMP — это raw-сокет, а raw-сокет — это root. Одна команда adb показала, что я ошибался: любое приложение может открыть непривилегированный ICMP-сокет — без root и без единой строчки на C.
Рассказываю, как на чистом Kotlin устроены ping, traceroute через очередь ошибок сокета и Path MTU через бит DF, и на чём я споткнулся по дороге.
Читать далееMaking innocent protesters liable for damage would be bad for rule of law and play into far-right hands, say opponents
Emmanuel Macron has been accused by trade unions of trying to curb the fundamental French right to protest as the government fast-tracks a bill to make protesters pay for damage caused by vandalism at street demonstrations even if they did not directly cause it themselves.
The French president, who leaves office next spring, has faced more than a month of protests in which high-school students have blockaded schools demanding a response to teacher absences, repairs to decrepit buildings and changes to the university applications platform.
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Emmanuel Macron has been accused by trade unions of trying to curb the fundamental French right to protest as the government fast-tracks a bill to make protesters pay for damage caused by vandalism at street demonstrations even if they did not directly cause it themselves.
The French president, who leaves office next spring, has faced more than a month of protests in which high-school students have blockaded schools demanding a response to teacher absences, repairs to decrepit buildings and changes to the university applications platform.
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