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Локальный LLM-сервер на AMD Strix Halo: запуск Qwen3.8-Flash-Next через HALOGEN в Fedora 43
LLM на 125 миллиардов параметров — и без дискретной видеокарты? Да.
Qwen3.8-Flash-Next (MoE: 125B в запасе, 6B в работе) спокойно живёт на AMD Strix Halo с 128 ГБ унифицированной памяти. Никакой видеокарты с горой VRAM — только встроенная графика и правильно подобранный движок.
Внутри — готовый рецепт: Fedora 43 Server, HALOGEN, OpenAI-совместимый API, API-ключ и четыре параллельные сессии. А главное — живые замеры вместо обещаний из readme: ~96 токенов/с записи, которые не проседают даже на 128k контекста, чтение под 2000 токенов/с и миллионный контекст через YaRN, который неожиданно укладывается всего в ~39 ГиБ.
Читать далееBudget to include £1bn for social and affordable housing
Four ways Labour could raise money in the Budget without hiking income tax
Пустили ботов по SSH на фейковый сервер с четырьмя H100: что они там делали
Откройте журнал SSH на любом сервере с белым адресом, и там будет одно и то же: Failed password for root, Failed password for admin, Invalid user ubuntu, строка за строкой, с адресов со всего мира. Обычно на это смотрят как на шум, который fail2ban сам выметает. Мы тоже смотрели, пока однажды не задались вопросом: а что они собираются делать, если пароль подойдёт? Чтобы узнать, нужно их впустить. Не на настоящий сервер, конечно, а на поддельный.
Читать далееKubernetes как ядро Linux, часть 2: kubepkg, универсальный пакетный менеджер а ля Debian
У Linux есть apt, dnf и pacman, и никто уже не помнит, как жили без них. У Kubernetes за десять лет так и не появилось ничего подобного. Есть Helm, который прекрасно ставит один чарт, есть Argo CD и Flux, которые умело синкают кластер с Git, но нет инструмента, который знал бы, что cert-manager нужен половине других компонентов, что KubeVirt нельзя откатить на прошлую версию после обновления и что CRD, поставленные одним релизом, не получится молча снести вместе с ним. Каждый, кто собирает платформу на Kubernetes, пишет эту прослойку сам, и каждый раз заново.
Читать далее‘Unusually large’ multi-state storm causing severe weather for Australia’s east – with more on the way
BoM predicts hail, damaging winds, flash flooding and power outages across southern Queensland, western NSW, the ACT and eastern Victoria on Sunday afternoon
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Large parts of eastern Australia were put on alert for severe thunderstorms on Sunday afternoon with more potential storms and flood risk in store for Monday.
On Sunday afternoon, the Bureau of Meteorology issued a severe thunderstorm warning for Sydney, greater Wollongong and parts of Blue Mountains, Hawkesbury, Gosford, Wyong and Wollondilly, Wingecarribee areas.
Continue reading...Пытается ли Трамп повлиять на исход президентских выборов в Бразилии?
Лула переизбран президентом Бразилии на четвертый срок. Опросы предсказывали победу сыну Болсонару
12 injured, including several minors, in shooting near Florida A&M stadium
Как Siemens инвестировала в инновации перед Первой мировой войной
Мы продолжаем наш рассказ о том, как немецкая Siemens превратилась из небольшого предприятия в промышленного гиганта Европы. В этой части мы расскажем о двух десятилетиях, прошествовавших Первой мировой войне.
Читать далееВ результате стрельбы под Парижем убит один человек, пятеро ранены. Макрон назвал это терактом на почве расизма
Может ли Дональд Трамп вернуть российский газ в Европу?
More than 1,300 arrested as clashes follow another day of mass protests across France
Israel to close West Bank crossings on election day as crackdown escalates
12 injured in shooting near Florida A&M; 15-year-old arrested
Storm Boelo leaves tens of thousands of homes without power
A women's commune sounds like a great retirement option. But I have my doubts | Polly Hudson
Think back to those terrible flatshares in your 20s. Cohabiting with friends can seem like a dream, but the reality is sometimes less Golden Girls – more Young Ones
In most female friendships between women with male partners, the following occurs, sometimes regularly. It usually happens after one of them has delivered a passionate rant – or if not technically a rant, then certainly rant-adjacent. The women’s eyes lock, the instinctive understanding between the two of them undeniable, and then the one who has been complaining about her partner will say: “I wish I could just live with you instead.” If there are more than two women present, the conversation may move on to communes. There are inevitably wistful sighs.
That fantasy could become a reality. “Positive news” platform Upworthy has explored the phenomenon of gen X and boomer women playing the long game and pulling a Golden Girls: rather than living alone, post widowhood or divorce, they are moving in together.
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Бесплатный блокировщик рекламы для iPhone, Android и компьютера: DNS-фильтр без библиотек, режим для тех, у кого включён VPN, и расширение, которое проматывает рекламу блогеров на YouTube — даже если ролик с неё начинается. Рассказываю, как это устроено и что пришлось чинить после запуска.
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Израиль сносит дома в Хевроне после гибели двух израильских военных в результате стрельбы, открытой палестинцами
Бернем заявил, что не против возвращения свободы передвижения между Британией и ЕС
Labour unveils £285m funding boost to 'shift power' to local leaders
UI-паттерн — делаем меню компактным
Статья описывает UI-паттерн компактного отображения множества кнопок действий. Используется принцип постепенного раскрытия информации (Progressive Disclosure).
Gunmen kill at least 10 villagers and loot shops in northeast Nigeria
Краткий обзор Oh‑My‑Pi (OMP) — многофункциональный консольный агент для терминала
Привет! Сегодня я познакомлю вас с консольным агентом oh‑my‑pi (OMP), который не так известен как cloude или opencode, но очень интересный в возможностях
Читать далееAFP boss says politicians’ heated rhetoric is fuelling threats against MPs
Commissioner Krissy Barrett says women are more often singled out, often with threats of sexual violence
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Australia’s top federal law enforcement official has drawn a direct link between politicians’ rhetoric and threats and abuse being directed at leaders.
The safety of elected representatives at all levels has been thrown into the spotlight after independent MP Helen Haines was allegedly deliberate attacked outside her Wangaratta electoral office.
Continue reading...Drought, fire and high diesel prices 'addin' up tough' for Oregon ranchers
Record diesel prices are kicking Western ranchers while they're down. Drought means they have to buy extra hay, and pay truckers extra to deliver it because of fuel price hikes.
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The Public Health Consequences of an Inaccurate Census
In 2015, Chicago’s public health department identified three cases of invasive meningococcal disease, a highly dangerous pathogen that can kill within hours. To determine whether these cases signaled a larger outbreak, the department—which one of us, Dr. Julie Morita, led at the time—needed to know not just total cases, but the total population and demographics of affected areas. The team turned to a pillar of our nation’s public health system: the U.S. Census.
The data showed that men who have sex with men—including gay and bisexual men—among the city’s Black population were disproportionately affected. That finding drove the health department’s response, which included working with community partners to surge thousands of free vaccines into neighborhoods across Chicago. Instead of a larger and far deadlier outbreak, the outbreak ended with 11 cases in Chicago and one death.
Census data informs every aspect of our nation’s public health system. As former leaders of local and federal health agencies, we have seen this firsthand. Unfortunately, the Trump Administration has proposed radical changes to the census that would make our country less healthy, less safe, and less fair.
The public comment period on this proposal closes on Nov. 2. Health leaders must move quickly to oppose these deeply misguided changes. It is clear to us that these changes would amount not only to an assault on our public health system but also on the U.S. Constitution.
Per the Constitution, the federal government has carried out a national census every decade since 1790—through wars, depressions, and pandemics. Everyone who resides in our country matters and should be counted. But the Trump Administration is suggesting that the census should intentionally exclude people. This includes undocumented residents and nonimmigrant visa holders, such as foreign national students and temporary workers whose visas may permit them to live in the U.S. for several years. The Administration is further attempting to remove demographic questions related to race, ethnicity, and sexual orientation from the census questionnaire.
The repercussions would be vast. An inaccurate count would negatively affect congressional representation. The idea that some people do not deserve to be counted uncomfortably echoes the “3/5 compromise,” an insidious and later repealed clause in the original Constitution under which enslaved persons were counted as less than full people. Incomplete and unreliable demographic data could distort how trillions of federal dollars are distributed across hundreds of programs such as Medicaid, SNAP, WIC, and Head Start. Communities with the greatest needs, especially those with immigrant or mixed-status families, would likely be hardest hit.
These are our neighbors, families, and friends. But let’s be clear: the impacts would extend beyond those communities, especially the public health consequences. As the Chicago meningococcal outbreak illustrates, health officials need a complete picture to protect people from disease and other threats. They must know who is getting sick, where, and at what rate. Take any of those data out of the equation, and the people who need the most help are far less likely to get it.
During the H1N1 influenza pandemic in 2009, when one of us, Dr. Richard Besser, served as acting director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), census data were instrumental in tracking the outbreak. CDC relied on this data to calculate infection rates by age, which showed that children and young adults were getting sick at far higher rates than older adults—a striking departure from typical patterns observed with seasonal flu. When a vaccine became available, these data directly informed recommendations that prioritized children and young adults.
A decade later, the COVID pandemic demonstrated the importance of these data on a massive scale. As case counts surged in the initial months of the outbreak, population and demographic data revealed who was shouldering the greatest burdens. CDC found that hospitalization rates were highest for American Indian, Alaska Native, Black, and Hispanic populations. CDC later used census population estimates to calculate vaccination rates by race and ethnicity, allowing health officials to identify disparities in vaccine uptake. States like North Carolina relied successfully on census-tract data to increase vaccination rates among target populations.
These examples span different locations, diseases, and levels of government, but illustrate common themes: public health officials rely heavily on census data to save lives and protect communities, and protecting communities at greatest risk helps keep us all safer and healthier.
Health officials use population counts to study cancer, heart disease, HIV/AIDS, and many other diseases. Demographic data expose disparities that raw numbers can obscure and show whether those gaps are growing or shrinking. Together, they offer a roadmap to direct resources where they can do the most good.
The next census count is still a few years away, but what our leaders decide now matters a great deal. A census that deliberately counts fewer people while telling us less about them will leave our nation ill-prepared for future outbreaks and pandemics, while making it harder to handle daily health challenges. It is essential for the public health community to speak out now.
Democrats ask judge to dismiss Trump administration’s challenge to Alaska Senate race
Texas couple charged in shooting death of Missouri high school student
Suspect in St. Louis teen’s fatal freeway shooting investigated in another roadway attack
Man's murder, wife's death feed into local legend of "cursed" mansion
Budget to include £1bn for social and affordable housing
Ukraine war briefing: Kyiv targets Russian-occupied Crimea as UK and France conduct joint military exercise
Crimea strikes cause water and power cuts; war game designed to show how Nato countries could be defended amid fears of Russian aggression. What we know on day 1,705
A Ukrainian attack led to water and power cuts in occupied Crimea on Saturday, as a barrage of drones in several regions inside Russia left several dead, according to Russian authorities. Sergei Aksyonov, the Moscow-installed head of the Crimean peninsula, wrote on Telegram that due to the drone attack on local power grids “restrictions on the supply of electricity and water have been put in place”. He did not specify how many households had been affected in Crimea, which is home to more than 2.5 million people. The peninsula, which was seized from Ukraine by Russia in 2014, is a regular target for Ukrainian attacks.
A separate Ukrainian strike in part of the north-eastern Kharkiv region held by Russia killed at least three people and gravely wounded another on Saturday, the Moscow-backed authorities said.
Drones also rained down inside Russia. The country’s defence ministry said 616 of them had been shot down overnight across more than 20 regions of the country. During the day, drones hit Russia’s south-western Bryansk border region, killing at least three people, regional acting governor Yegor Kovalchuc said on Telegram.
In Ukraine, authorities said that at least five people died in several Russian drone and missile strikes in the country’s east. Dnipropetrovsk regional governor Oleksandr Ganzha on Saturday evening said three people were killed and at least 12 wounded when a Russian drone strike hit the town of Synelnykove, setting the fourth floor of a high-rise building on fire. Authorities in Sumy meanwhile said a Russian drone hit a farm, killing a 31-year-old woman and injuring four others.
Thousands of British and French troops have taken part in a military training exercise that included one of Britain’s largest airborne operations in two decades, the UK government said on Sunday. The war game is designed to show how Nato countries could be defended against a modern-day attack and comes during fears about Russian aggression in Europe amid Moscow’s war against Ukraine.
About 2,500 troops were involved in the seven-week exercise, in which 600 British and French paratroopers dropped from four RAF A400M Atlas transport aircraft over Germany. The exercise called Rhino Titan, held at the Sennelager military training centre in Germany, has been testing British troops’ ability against an enemy equipped with drones and electronic warfare. “The threats we face in the 21st century require an updated, modern approach to warfare – and our adaptable armed forces are preparing accordingly,” British defence minister Wes Streeting said in a statement.
Ukraine’s military has a “stable connection to Starlink”, the Ukrainian government said, 10 days after its ability to use the satellite communications system was suddenly restricted. But hours after the announcement, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, whose company owns Starlink, accused the Ukrainian military of violating the company’s terms. Neither Musk nor the US government, which operates Starshield using Starlink technology, took responsibility for imposing the curbs.
Bulgarians will vote in presidential elections on Sunday as Russia’s war in Ukraine spreads to the waters off Bulgaria’s Black Sea coast. Polls place acting president Iliana Iotova and ex-caretaker prime minister Andrey Gyurov as leaders in a race of 27 candidates. While the presidency is largely ceremonial, Sunday’s vote has taken on added significance after a series of drone attacks on merchant ships off Bulgaria’s Black Sea coast that likely killed about two-dozen international seafarers.
Continue reading...Cornell student named in Jane Doe's civil suit seeks to be dropped from case
Amy Acton says Trump, Vance should 'look at the facts' after Ramaswamy attack ad
Brazilians head to the polls with left-winger and son of Trump ally neck and neck
‘Synthetic twin’: Why Socceroo Cristian Volpato is the latest footballer to license his AI clone
Athletes’ scramble to control – and monetise – their digital identities at the cutting edge of AI rights deals
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The Socceroos star stares at the camera as he strides through an enormous atrium, the sound of his football boots on polished concrete echoing around him. Suddenly, he spawns four digital clones that peel off out of view to re-emerge in different settings around the world.
This scene from a social media video is fake and generated by artificial intelligence. But it has been authorised by the very real 22-year-old footballer, Cristian Volpato, the latest professional athlete to licence and monetise his AI likeness.
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Как теперь устроена наша PIM-система и что необратимо изменилось
Для начала немного контекста: мы с командой делаем сервис для бизнеса, и я иногда пишу тут, на Хабре, о каких-то успехах, провалах или просто своем опыте. Несколько лет назад писал про то, как наша PIM устроена внутри.
Она всё ещё устроена так же, но что-то необратимо изменилось. Мы активно развивали продукт, а он устаревал быстрее, чем мы его развивали. Это по моим ощущениям. Что с этим делать, я не понимал. А потом как понял. За несколько месяцев мы поменяли способ работы пользователей с системой — и это пошло на пользу и нам, и клиентам. Но не волнуйтесь, я по-прежнему не понимаю множество вещей.
Мы встроили ИИ-агента в нашу платформу и научили его работать самостоятельно. Например, он реально сам ищет информацию в интернете и создаёт карточки товаров на маркетплейсах.
Читать далееMyanmar’s Aung San Suu Kyi ‘sounds strong’ but is isolated, son says
Kim Aris tells the Guardian chance to speak with detained Nobel laureate was ‘public relations’ move from military leaders
Myanmar’s former democratic leader Aung San Suu Kyi appears to be in good physical and mental health but is living in near-complete isolation, her son has said after the first call with his 81-year-old mother in more than five years.
“She still sounds certainly all there mentally, and physically she sounds strong,” Kim Aris said. “I don’t think she has anybody outside of the military or the police around her, so essentially she’s been held in solitary confinement from what I gather.”
Continue reading...Myanmar’s Aung San Suu Kyi ‘sounds strong’ but is isolated, son says
Kim Aris tells the Guardian chance to speak with detained Nobel laureate was ‘public relations’ move from military leaders
Myanmar’s former democratic leader Aung San Suu Kyi appears to be in good physical and mental health but is living in near-complete isolation, her son has said after the first call with his 81-year-old mother in more than five years.
“She still sounds certainly all there mentally, and physically she sounds strong,” Kim Aris said. “I don’t think she has anybody outside of the military or the police around her, so essentially she’s been held in solitary confinement from what I gather.”
Continue reading...‘Horrific’: woman, 19, shot in head in drive-by shooting outside boxing event near Brisbane
Offenders still at large after shots fired from vehicle outside licensed premises in Loganholme
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Four people have been injured after a drive-by shooting outside a venue hosting a boxing event, including a 19-year-old woman who was shot in the head.
Queensland police Detective Inspector Ian Galpin said a group of people were gathered at the passenger drop-off zone outside Fitzy’s Loganholme, south of Brisbane, about 8.18pm on Saturday when a Mitsubishi pulled up.
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