Mother and son Olga and Nikita Belov say they were facing jail and potential torture after asylum case was rejected

A Russian family who were on the brink of being deported from Finland after repeatedly being denied asylum – despite the threat of arrest, imprisonment and torture for their pro-Ukrainian activism – have won a court appeal and will have their case reconsidered.

Nikita Belov and his mother, Olga Belov, fled their homeland for Finland in 2022 after attracting the attention of Russian authorities – including a military summons, threatening messages and attempts to locate them – for expressing opposition to the full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

Недавно я разбирал истории CVE, связанные с завершением поддержки Tomcat 8.5, и решил посмотреть на Spring Boot 3.5. Я задался тем же вопросом применительно к Spring Boot: что происходит с уровнем защищённости приложения, когда используемая версия достигает End Of Life (EOL)?

6 августа компания Apple выпустила срочный патч, закрывающий уязвимость CVE-2026-65400 в операционной системе macOS. Обновления стали доступны для версий macOS Tahoe (26.6.1), а также более старых Sequoia (15.7.9) и Sonoma (14.8.9). Уязвимость обнаружена в службе, отвечающей за возможность поделиться содержимым экрана рабочего стола. В описании патча, как всегда максимально лаконичном, компания Apple благодарит исследователя Альфредо Песоли из компании Bynario. Его публикацию по данной теме можно прочитать здесь. В ней описана возможность неправомерного доступа к компьютеру Apple с максимальными привилегиями, но только если атакующему известен пароль.

На самом деле, как позднее указали представители компании Calif, речь идет о двух разных уязвимостях в одном и том же модуле. Идентификатор проблемы, которую выявили в Bynario, — CVE-2026-43760. Она была обнаружена при помощи ИИ-ассистента ChatGPT и относится к классу post-auth — то есть атакующий должен знать пароль. Эта проблема, вместе с парой других, также в Screen Sharing, была закрыта апдейтом macOS 26.6. Еще раньше исследователь, известный под ником Osxreverser, обнаружил уязвимость класса pre-auth — эксплуатация без аутентификации, пароль знать не требуется. Но не стал сообщать о ней компании Apple, а только среагировал на публикацию компании Bynario.

В первой части мы заставили кнопку на веб-странице запустить локальный exe-файл через расширение Chrome и Native Messaging Host. Теперь усложним задачу: операция длится десять секунд, сообщает прогресс и поддерживает отмену. Для этого заменим sendNativeMessage() постоянным соединением connectNative(), перепишем хост на Java 21, разберём протокол, восстановление соединения и жизненный цикл процесса, а затем соберём exe с помощью GraalVM Native Image и проверим всё в настоящем Chrome.

We would like to hear from women who participate in the ‘looksmaxxing’ community

While “looksmaxxing” was once a predominantly male space, in recent years it has increasingly taken hold among women, with dedicated forums and apps where users have their individual features analysed and scored, with the aim of identifying areas for physical improvement.

If you’re a young woman who participates in the “looksmaxxing” community, and have been thinking about ways to optimise your appearance, we’d love to hear from you and learn more about your experience.

Actor and director whose movies notched up more than 20 Oscar nominations between them

Stars flocked to work with the director Mark Rydell, who has died aged 97, and no wonder: he had trained as a performer alongside James Dean and Steve McQueen, later becoming west coast artistic co-director of the prestigious Actors Studio, while his movies notched up more than 20 Academy Award nominations between them.

Henry Fonda and Katharine Hepburn won best actor and actress Oscars respectively for his reflective, sentimental drama On Golden Pond (1981), which put Fonda, then a frail 75-year-old, on screen with his daughter Jane for the first and only time. Rydell received a best director nomination for the picture, which ruminated on the themes of family and mortality. “I’m attracted to material that is substantial enough to deal with life and death issues,” he said in 2001. “I don’t like to waste my time with trivia.”

British sprinter catapulted herself into the mainstream by winning four golds in Birmingham and celebrated her final golden night in style

Long before Amy Hunt catapulted herself into the mainstream by winning an unprecedented four gold medals at the European Championships, she was remarkably upfront about her ambitions. There was no coyness. No equivocation. She wanted the quadruple in Birmingham. And having talked a good game, she delivered.

She celebrated her final golden night in Birmingham with a glass of champagne and a KFC, as well as a 2am massage to ensure her legs would be fresh for her next race in Lausanne on Friday. It meant going to bed at 4am. But despite being on four hours sleep on Monday morning, she is sharp as a tack as she explains why being bold is good for her – and her sport.

Next year’s competition won’t take place in the country’s capital, an announcement that even surprised Bulgarian winner, Dara

Ever since Bulgarian singer Dara was crowned winner of the Eurovision song contest this May, it has been clear that the Balkan nation would for the first time in its history have the opportunity to host Europe’s biggest party.

So when Bulgarian officials announced last week that the world’s largest live music event in 2027 will be held not in the capital Sofia but in Burgas, a Black Sea port city home to 200,000 people, it came as a surprise – even to last year’s winner.

Andrei Klepach of VEB said Russia’s economy was falling behind China, US and ‘in some respects Ukraine’

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The chief economist at Russia’s second-largest bank has been fired after a series of critical comments about the state of the economy, including warnings that Moscow would not win a prolonged economic war with Ukraine.

Andrei Klepach, who had served in the role at the state-controlled development bank VEB since 2014, was fired days after Russian media reported on a scathing speech he had delivered to fellow economists in May.

Storm that brought heavy rains and winds left one person dead and more than 100,000 without power and damaged at least 100 homes and bridges

Hawaii residents began to clean up after tropical storm Lala blew past the Big Island, leaving more than 100,000 without power, damaging at least 100 homes and bridges and leaving one person dead.

Lala was downgraded to a tropical storm by the time it grazed the islands, but it brought heavy rains and winds to the Big Island. Hawaii’s total rainfall over 48 hours topped 3.5ft in some areas, according to AccuWeather. The rising flood waters damaged or swept away about 100 homes in the area, along with six bridges.

Mother and son Olga and Nikita Belov say they were facing jail and potential torture after asylum case was rejected

A Russian family who were on the brink of being deported from Finland after repeatedly being denied asylum – despite the threat of arrest, imprisonment and torture for their pro-Ukrainian activism – have won a court appeal and will have their case reconsidered.

Nikita Belov and his mother, Olga Belov, fled their homeland for Finland in 2022 after attracting the attention of Russian authorities – including a military summons, threatening messages and attempts to locate them – for expressing opposition to the full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

Tainan, Taiwan - Sun 16 Aug 2026

powa-archivist 5.3.0

The PoWA team is pleased to announce the release of the version 5.3.0 of powa-archivist, the core extension of the PoWA project.

PoWA (PostgreSQL Workload Analyzer) is a performance tool, compatible with all supported PostgreSQL versions. It allows to collect and aggregate metrics gathered from multiple PostgreSQL instances using various extensions covering all parts of PostgreSQL and provides real-time charts and graphs to help monitor and tune your servers. It also suggest optimizations, like global or per-query index suggestions, to easily improve performances.

• Misc
  • Fix pg19 compatibility with pg19beta2 pg_stat_lock.wait_time datatype change (Julien Rouhaud)

Links & Credits

Thank to the users who reported bugs or submitted patches, they are all cited in the CHANGELOG file and the CONTRIBUTORS file.

powa-archivist is an open project. Any contribution to build a better tool is welcome. You just have to send your ideas, features requests or patches using the github repository at github.com/powa-team/powa-archivist.

Links

• Documentation: powa.readthedocs.io/
• Download: github.com/powa-team/powa-archivist/releases
• Bug tracker: github.com/powa-team/powa-archivist/issues

Storm left more than 100,000 without power as utility crews warn that those in rural areas may face outages for weeks

Hawaii residents began to clean up after tropical storm Lala blew past the Big Island, leaving more than 100,000 without power and damaging at least 100 homes and bridges.

Lala was downgraded to a tropical storm by the time it grazed the islands, but it brought heavy rains and winds to the Big Island. Hawaii’s total rainfall over 48 hours topped 3.5ft in some areas, according to AccuWeather. The rising floodwaters damaged or swept away about 100 homes in the area, along with six bridges.

Campaigners demand greater transparency into water companies’ plans not made public due to ‘security reasons’

The UK government has been accused of a lack of transparency and of acting irresponsibly for refusing to publish the emergency drought plans that are produced by water companies.

Water firms are required to publish statutory drought plans every five years to detail the actions needed to ensure public water supply is maintained and the environment is protected during drought.

Весной 2026 года специалисты направления Threat Intelligence экспертного центра безопасности Positive Technologies обнаружили необычную атаку на пользователей Саудовской Аравии с использованием неизвестного ранее APK-файл с именем Chrome.apk. Образец заинтересовал: за милой картинкой обновления Google Chrome и неожиданным требованием для работы «специальных возможностей» мы обнаружили тщательно защищенную от анализа цепочку запуска Android-шпиона.

The actor, who previously said he would not play Captain Jack Sparrow again for ‘$300m and a million alpacas’, is being lined up for sixth film in the series according to producer Jerry Bruckheimer

Johnny Depp is in talks to return as Captain Jack Sparrow in a sixth Pirates of the Caribbean film, according to the producer of the series, Jerry Bruckheimer. Bruckheimer told Deadline: “We’re talking with Johnny, we’re working on a screenplay, and hopefully we can get this done.” This is despite the actor having said under oath in 2022, during the notorious televised trial of the defamation case he brought against his ex-wife, Amber Heard, that Disney had dropped him from the series and he would not play Sparrow again even if he were offered “$300m and a million alpacas”.

Depp first appeared as the charismatic, roguish, rum-swilling Captain Sparrow in Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl in 2003, and it has become his most recognisable – and profitable – role. Taking its name and golden age of piracy setting from a ride at the Disney World theme park, the swashbuckling adventure also featured Keira Knightley, Orlando Bloom and Geoffrey Rush, and grossed more than $650m (£480m) at the worldwide box office.

Explore a growing Kotlin Multiplatform catalog in your browser, or bring up-to-date library data directly into your AI development workflow through the klibs.io MCP server.

When we introduced klibs.io in December 2024, the goal was simple: make it easier to find a Kotlin Multiplatform library that fits both your use case and target platforms. Since then, klibs.io has grown into a catalog of more than 4,200 KMP projects – and discovering new libraries has become even easier.

Discover more than 4,200+ KMP projects

klibs.io combines information from GitHub and Maven Central, bringing the details needed to evaluate a project into a single catalog. When source metadata is incomplete, klibs.io uses LLMs to refine descriptions and tags, improving search and discoverability.

Discovery now goes well beyond a basic keyword search. Use multiple search terms, filter by supported platforms and targets – including Android, iOS, JVM, JavaScript, and Wasm – and browse curated categories such as Compose UI, local storage, networking, or dependency injection. Results can be sorted by relevance, GitHub stars, or dependent count.

Project pages make comparison easier by bringing together descriptions, tags, README content, supported platforms, package versions, dependent counts, license information, and project activity. 

This gives you a clearer view of whether a library fits your project before you add the dependency.

Bring klibs.io into your AI workflow

Library decisions often happen while you are already coding. The new AI integrations allow coding agents to pull structured, up-to-date data from klibs.io rather than relying solely on training data or a general web search.

Connect through the klibs.io MCP server

The klibs.io MCP server lets agents search Kotlin Multiplatform projects by platform and target and retrieve the latest published package versions directly from the klibs.io index.

Give agents reusable KMP library expertise

The Kotlin Multiplatform Libraries expert skill provides task-specific instructions for discovering and comparing libraries, recommending options for a use case, verifying platform support, and finding up-to-date dependency coordinates and stable versions. We measured agent output with and without klibs.io connected – the evaluation results are published in the klibs.io repository.

Keep project guidance close to the code

The AI integration guide includes setup instructions and a recommended AGENTS.md snippet. Adding guidance to a project helps AI tools consistently use verified information from the KMP library.

Help shape what comes next

klibs.io is an open-source project, and feedback from library users and authors helps the catalog keep improving. Here are a few ways to take part:

•  Try it out: Search for a library, explore a category, and see how the filters work for your target platforms.

•  Improve project information: Project owners can use the Suggest an edit option on project pages to propose better descriptions and tags through GitHub.

•  Report issues or contribute: Report bugs, missing libraries, or incorrect metadata in the GitHub issue tracker, or contribute directly to the open-source project.

•  Join the discussion: Share feedback in the #klibs-io channel on Kotlin Slack.

Whether you browse the catalog directly or integrate it with your AI tools, klibs.io now makes it easier to discover, compare, and use Kotlin Multiplatform libraries with up-to-date information.

Starting a new job is exciting, and there’s a lot to take in. At JetBrains, onboarding doesn’t stop after your first day. It starts when you accept your offer and continues through your first months, giving you the information, tools, and support you need to settle in and start doing your best work.

Here’s what you can expect.

Before your first day

Once you’ve accepted your offer, you’ll receive a welcome email with practical information and a preboarding map. It includes everything you’ll need before your first day:

• A secure link to sign your employment contract.
• The details of your local HR contact (your go-to person throughout preboarding).
• A guide to setting up your profile in our internal HR system.
• Some practical tips for your first day.
• A preview of what your first day at JetBrains will look like.

Your first day at JetBrains

Whether you’re joining us on site or remotely, your first day is all about getting set up.

You’ll meet your manager, local HR, and teammates, and receive your laptop and any other equipment you’ll need.

You’ll also get:

• An onboarding map outlining your first weeks and key milestones.
• Access to a dedicated landing page with everything you’ll need to get started.
• A tour of the office or a virtual workspace walkthrough.
• Your welcome pack.
• An introduction to the tools and systems you’ll use.
• A one-on-one session with HR to cover practical topics like payroll, benefits, and time off.

By the end of the day, you’ll know where to find information, who to ask for help, and what comes next.

Your first weeks

The first few weeks are about getting to know your team and how things work.

You’ll learn how your team collaborates, get familiar with your tools and workflows, and start building relationships with the people around you.

You’ll also meet two people who’ll make your onboarding as smooth as possible:

• Your Team Partner, who helps coordinate your onboarding within the team.
• Your Buddy, another fellow JetBrainer who’s there for all the questions that don’t belong in documentation, from “How do we usually do this?” to “Where’s the best coffee?”

We’ll also check in with a short onboarding survey to see how things are going and learn how we can improve the experience for future JetBrainers.

Meet your onboarding buddy

One of the things people appreciate most is the Buddy Program.

Your buddy isn’t there to train you; they’re there to help you navigate everyday life at JetBrains. Whether it’s understanding how something works, finding information, or simply having someone outside your immediate team to ask questions, your buddy helps make the first few weeks feel a little more familiar.

Your first few months

As you settle in, onboarding becomes less about logistics and more about learning.

During your first months with us, you’ll receive onboarding content and tasks gradually rather than all at once, so you can explore topics as and when they’re most relevant. Depending on your role, you’ll also have team-specific onboarding, opportunities to meet other new joiners, and JetDive sessions where you’ll learn more about the company, our products, and the people behind them.

Throughout this time, we’ll continue collecting feedback from you, your manager, and your teammates to make sure you’re getting what you need.

Your probation period

During your probation period, you and your manager will agree on what success looks like in your role: which responsibilities to focus on first, what skills you’re expected to build, and how your work will be evaluated. You’ll have regular 1:1s and check-ins to talk about what’s going well, where you might be stuck, and what support or resources you need – from clearer priorities to training or introductions to key people.

It’s also your opportunity to be open about your own experience: how the role matches your expectations, whether the workload feels sustainable, and what you need to feel confident and productive. 

By the end of the probation period, there shouldn’t be any surprises. Both you and your team lead should have reached a mutual understanding that this is the right place and role for you (or, if not, that conclusion will have been reached together and talked through in advance).

Welcome to JetBrains

By the end of your onboarding, it’s our hope that JetBrains will feel familiar to you. You should know your team, understand how we work, know where to find answers, and be able to focus on solving interesting problems instead of figuring out where things are.

Ready to Join JetBrains?

Hopefully, this gives you a better idea of what it’s really like to join JetBrains. If you’re looking for a place where you can do meaningful work, learn from smart people, and feel supported from day one, we’d love to hear from you. Check out our careers page for open roles. 

Пока LLM-индустрия наращивает масштабы дата-центров и обучающих датасетов, всё чаще возникает вопрос, а что дальше? Энергия, знания, деньги не бесконечны. Что будет, когда что-то из них кончится? 

Топы надеются на AGI, который, внезапно появившись из тераваттов и петабайтов, решит все проблемы и ответит на все вопросы. К сожалению, есть сомнения в столь чудесном событии.

Проблема в том, что нет предпосылок, что AGI появится в текущей архитектуре. Потому что горизонт не расширяется изнутри вычислимой системы, нужен внешний источник, невыводимый из состояния. Поэтому всё чаще исследователи пытаются найти нужное направление поиска в философии. 

Эта статья о том, поможет ли философия, а если нет, то кто?

Italian firefighters say a man, 29, was killed by a lightning strike on the Sicily volcano while hiking in a restricted area

A tourist from the US was killed by a lightning strike on Sicily’s Mount Etna while hiking in an area that was closed to visitors due to recent volcanic activity, Italian firefighters said on Monday.

The 29-year-old man from Kansas was rescued by helicopter after being struck Sunday evening in an exposed area above the tree line. He was later declared dead by medical personnel. His name was not released.