The Guardian’s picture editors select photographs from around the world
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Continue reading...From fleeing the Somali civil war to fighting at the Tokyo Olympics, Ali’s life has been remarkable – and now she is being played by Top Boy’s Jasmine Jobson in a new biopic. We hear from both on this ‘positive migrant story’
Boxer Ramla Ali sweeps into the green room of a West End cinema, tiny in a frothy dress with a huge skirt of cascading black feathers. It’s an absolute showstopper. She’s just introduced the premiere of a new film about her life. There are messages on her phone from Bear Grylls and Malala Yousafzai, who are in the audience watching.
But the person who matters most is her mum, who is seeing it for the fourth time. What does she think? “She loves it,” says Ali quietly. The film is In the Shadows, directed by Anthony Wonke and stars Top Boy actor Jasmine Jobson. It tells the story of Ali’s journey to the 2021 Olympics in Tokyo.
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The ranking "America’s Growth Leaders 2027" is the result of a comprehensive analysis conducted to identify the top performing publicly listed companies in the US. The analysis is based on three primary dimensions: Growth Performance, Financial Stability and Stock Performance.
The first dimension, Growth Performance, was assessed using data from Statista’s revenue database, which contains company growth data for the last five years. To be considered for the evaluation the companies had to be headquartered in the USA, publicly traded and demonstrate strong revenue growth in the last five years. Relative growth and the number of years in which growth was achieved were considered in the evaluation.
The second dimension, Financial Stability, was investigated by analyzing the companies’ profitability as well as using classic metrics such as the Piotroski F-Score and Altman Z-Score, which refer to a company’s overall financial health and the probability to file for bankruptcy. Industry specific KPIs were utilized to portray financial stability of companies within the banking, insurance and REIT sector.
The third dimension, Stock Performance, was evaluated based on multiple KPIs, that underline the companies’ strengths as a stock investment. The analysis process focused on the average annual growth rate, recent returns, a comparison to the overall market and the stocks’ volatility for the past 5 years.
Once the data was collected and evaluated, it was consolidated and weighted within a scoring model. The scores of all three dimensions were added on an equal percentage basis to form the final ranking score of a maximum of 100 points. The 500 companies with the highest score were awarded as “America’s Growth Leaders 2027” by TIME and Statista.
AI continues to dominate American business growth. In TIME’s and Statista’s second annual ranking of America’s Growth Leaders—which highlights the top performing publicly listed companies in the U.S.—Nvidia retains its top ranking from 2025.
Methodology: How TIME and Statista Determined America's Growth Leaders of 2027
Comfort Systems USA (no. 2), which provides mechanical, electrical, and HVAC services for commercial properties, has seen the data center portion of its business drive growth significantly in recent years. “Advanced technology, dominated by data center work, increased to 56% of our revenue, and advanced technology remains the largest driver of pipeline and backlog,” COO Trent McKenna said in an earnings call in April. Comfort Systems has especially benefitted from having established businesses in Tier 2 cities where data centers tend to be built. In July, the company reported a 50% increase in revenue compared to the same quarter last year. It’s not the only company providing essential parts for data centers; Howmet (no. 6), known for making engine parts for planes, has been experiencing growing demand for making blades and vanes for the gas turbines used in data centers as a result of the AI boom. Energy infrastructure provider Argan (no. 5) has also capitalized on the AI wave by providing power services as well as solutions for energy storage to data center projects.
The growing demands of AI are also helping fuel a mining renaissance in America, to supply the critical minerals needed in AI data centers, for batteries and grid technology, and more. Earlier in 2026, the Trump Administration announced that it was launching a domestic critical minerals stockpile as a part of Project Vault. Idaho Strategic Resources (no. 3), was one mineral mining and exploration company whose stocks saw a bump as a result of the news. Idaho is abundant in critical minerals like antimony, a mineral used in defense manufacturing for bullets, flame retardants, night vision goggles as well as consumer electronics, wind turbines, solar panels and more.
See the full list of America’s Growth Leaders below:
Age-related macular degeneration has also left actor, 91, unable to read or recognise faces any more
Judi Dench has said she can no longer perform on stage or in films because of her deteriorating eyesight, more than a decade after revealing she had been diagnosed with age-related macular degeneration.
“I can’t be on stage. I can’t do a play any more. I can’t do a film any more. I can’t read any more,” the 91-year-old actor told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme on Thursday.
Continue reading...The officer says he took possession of the property and renovated it ‘to prevent criminal activity’ and ‘squatting’
A Florida police officer who discovered a man dead during a welfare check stole his house and identity and spent years renovating the property for himself, authorities said.
Brian Louis Sguros, 35, an officer with the Lauderhill police department near Miami, appeared in court Wednesday on charges including criminal use of a deceased person’s identification.
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Производство контента дешевеет. Даже от бесплатной нейросетки можно за секунды получить иллюстрацию, композицию с нужным настроением, да хоть книгу. Но каковы масштабы проблемы? Мы дошли до эры сгенерированного интернета или еще нет?
Поскольку у нас нет реестра всего и вся в интернете, долю человеческого контента вывести не получится. Но мне удалось найти исследования по доле генераций в новостях, книгах, фото и музыке. Предлагаю их обсудить.
Спойлер — почти во всех сегментах наблюдается эдакое перепроизводство, которое я недавно упоминала в ракурсе научных работ: делать контент сильно легче, чем проверять, редактировать или рекламировать.
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Judi Dench has said she can no longer perform on stage or in films because of her deteriorating eyesight, more than a decade after revealing she had been diagnosed with age-related macular degeneration.
“I can’t be on stage. I can’t do a play any more. I can’t do a film any more. I can’t read any more,” the 91-year-old actor told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme on Thursday.
Continue reading...We’d like to hear from people living close to the Strait of Hormuz about how everyday life and the local environment have been affected by the conflict
Iranian attacks on container ships in the Strait of Hormuz have increased in recent weeks. Iran reported that seven tankers were struck on Wednesday night and over the last fortnight at least 15 container ships, passing through the waterway, were hit.
Most of the recent attacks have occurred close to the coast with Oman, a route that Iran sees as unauthorised. In the seven days to Friday 16 October, 12 vessels were attacked, according to the UK Maritime Trade Operations Centre (UKMTO). There are concerns that spillage from any damaged oil tankers may be affecting the environment.
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Edward Gardner and the LPO are taut and dramatically alert in fine performances of these two theatrical works
Recordings of The Miraculous Mandarin used to outnumber The Wooden Prince 10 to one, so it’s good to see Bartók’s earlier ballet getting equal billing here. Unlike the Mandarin with its grimy, urban, modernist vibe, the Prince is rooted in pungent Hungarian folk music, viewed, of course, through the composer’s unique 20th-century lens.
It’s the story of a princess who falls in love with a decoy prince rather than the real thing and Edward Gardner revels in the vivid colours of its nature-inflected score. The London Philharmonic Orchestra is taut and dramatically alert throughout. There’s an unnerving sense of foreboding underpinning the Dance of the Trees; the Dance of the Waves churns with kinetic energy and the foot-stamping Dance of the Princess with the Wooden Doll cuts a rustic dash.
Continue reading...With the climate crisis and diseases threatening one of the world’s most popular fruits, researchers are hoping a breakthrough in breeding techniques could give the Cavendish banana a certain future
Love them or loathe them, bananas are one of the world’s most popular fruit. But a combination of the climate crisis and new killer diseases have had growers concerned over the banana’s threatened extinction, something that would impose a huge toll on farmers in countries from Guatemala to Malawi, alongside eradicating a staple food.
Now researchers say they have made fresh advances in the race to save them from disaster. This month, Yelloway – a research collaboration between Chiquita, the world’s largest banana company, and the crop-improvement company KeyGene – announced it had developed a fully fertile Cavendish banana, meaning it may be possible, through cross-breeding, to create new banana varieties that are commercially viable and resistant to disease.
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О разнице снапшота и бэкапа начинающие сисадмины узнают в самый неподходящий момент. Например, когда аккаунт уже заблокирован или база уже не поднимается. Под катом разберу, почему опасно заменять резервное копирование на VPS снапшотами и какую схему я рекомендую. Опенсорсные утилиты — в подарок.
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«П‑с-с‑с, хочешь, чтобы функция очистки массива была на 49% быстрее? Сдвинь массив на 4 байта».
Рассмотрим следующий код на Go:
const words = 1 << 19
type block struct { n uint32 data [words]uint32}func (b *block) reset() { b.data = [words]uint32{}}
Что, если я скажу вам, что всего лишь добавив 4 байта заполнения (padding) между n и data, вы ускорите функцию reset на 49% (по крайней мере, на машинах с Intel)? Звучит безумно?
The Audacity is a fearless satire taking on Silicon Valley’s ‘egomaniac weirdos’. Its creator and stars talk ayahuasca ceremonies, mining kids for data – and punching CEOs
Showrunner Jonathan Glatzer wanted the tagline of his latest TV creation to be: “We’re so fucked.” He laughs. “Sadly it got rejected by the network. Hey, maybe I can use it for season two!” The show in question is The Audacity, his darkly comic drama about AI tech titans. Instead, it went with the more PG tagline “Move fast and break people” – a twist on “Move fast and break things”, the Facebook motto coined by Mark Zuckerberg. The Audacity promises to do for tech bros what Succession did for legacy media. Considering Glatzer is a former writer on Succession, that is no empty threat.
This acerbic and all-too-timely Silicon Valley satire follows CEO Duncan Park (played by Billy Magnussen), the obscenely wealthy founder of a data analytics company. He’s a self-proclaimed “inventor of the future” who also happens to be a morally bankrupt man-baby. “Duncan is worth about half a billion,” says Glatzer. “Naturally, that’s not enough. He desperately wants to be a billionaire and ascend to what we call ‘God Mountain’. But he’s no God.”
Continue reading...Prisoners look after a kinkajou, zebu and ostrich at Monroe County detention center in the Florida Keys. It is the only correctional facility in the world with its own zoo
At the Monroe County detention center on Stock Island in the Florida Keys, most of the prisoners do the type of work you’d typically imagine people doing in jail. Preparing meals in the kitchens, cleaning the common areas, working in the laundry, and so on.
But for about five prisoners at a time the work looks a little more exotic. They’re working in the jail’s on-site zoo, taking care of animals including a capybara, a kinkajou, a zebu and an ostrich.
Continue reading...Violent storms overnight knocked over utility poles and trees and carried thunder and heavy winds through state
Yet more severe weather struck Thursday in the US south-west as the Four Corners region surveyed blown-away roofs, trees knocked on to homes and power lines downed from overnight tornadoes that injured one person.
The injuries weren’t life-threatening but rare for an area better known for scalding heat. But this fall has been unusually soggy in the south-west with El Niño conditions that have sent one tropical system after another in from the Pacific, causing the Grand Canyon and surrounding deserts to rage with floods.
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Привет, Хабр! Я Владимир Лушин, делаю ИИ-агенты и инструменты для работы с кодом. Статья, вроде, серьёзная, но с пуделями. Так уж вышло, что дрессировка собаки объясняет внимание в LLM понятнее любых формул с softmax.
В карточках свежих open-source моделей везде написано «1 млн контекста». Внутри при этом точно читается совсем другое количество токенов: GLM-5.3 выбирает для каждого шага 2048 токенов из истории, DeepSeek-V4-Pro — 1024 сжатых блока, а у Qwen3.8 и Kimi K3 всю историю целиком видит лишь каждый четвёртый слой.
Для агента это быстро становится вполне практической проблемой: правило из AGENTS.md к сотому вызову инструмента тихо перестаёт работать, и «ну вот же оно, в контексте!» уже не аргумент. Я полез разбираться, как устроено внимание в открытых моделях 2026 года и что с этим делать в обвязке, чтобы агент не забывал правила к середине сессии.
Примечание:
- Все свежие открытые модели читают длинный контекст выборочно. Три семейства: разрежённое top-k (GLM-5.x, DeepSeek-V4, MiniMax M3), гибриды «3 линейных + 1 полный» (Qwen3.5—3.8, Kimi K3, GLM-5.3-Flash), скользящее окно + глобальные слои (Gemma 4).
- Гарантированно точно читаются только последние сотни токенов. Всё остальное должно либо «выиграть отбор» по релевантности, либо дожить в сжатом виде.
- У большинства моделей качество ломается где-то в районе 128—256 тыс., а Kimi K3 с компактизацией на 300 тыс. обгоняет саму себя с полным окном в 1 млн.
- Обвязке важнее, куда положить текст, чем что в нём написать. Лучше всего работают чистка старого вывода инструментов, поиск по запросу вместо «залить всё», постепенное раскрытие, состояние вне окна, повтор правил в конце.
- А то, что нельзя нарушать никогда, закрывайте хуками и правами доступа, вниманию такое доверять не стоит.
Сразу поясню: часть конфигураций я читал прямо из config.json на Hugging Face, часть — из карточек и техотчётов. Где данные вторичные, я это помечаю. А всё про «что модель читает» я вывожу сам из архитектуры, разработчики такого нигде не заявляли.
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В IT принято автоматизировать процессы, искать узкие места и разбираться, почему система не работает.
Но когда дело доходит до собственного трудоустройства, вся аналитика куда‑то исчезает. Отправили 150 откликов, не получили ни одного интервью? Значит, надо отправить ещё 150.
Если бы так работал отдел продаж, у руководителя давно возникли бы вопросы. А у соискателя обычно один вывод: «Работы нет».
Я больше восьми лет занимаюсь IT‑рекрутингом, и у меня для вас неприятная новость: 150 откликов — это не 150 работодателей, которые изучили ваш опыт и решили отказать. Разбираю, что происходит по другую сторону вакансии и почему, пока одни кандидаты считают отклики, другие выходят на рекрутеров и руководителей напрямую.
Заодно покажу, как собрать собственную исходящую воронку поиска работы. Без волшебных ботов и надежды, что на 151-м отклике наконец повезёт.
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