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В 1975 году MITS рассылала по почте каталог «The Age of Altair» — книжку желаний для тех, кто мечтал о собственном компьютере. Автор хранит свой экземпляр больше 50 лет и вспоминает, что в нём было: процессор на 2 МГц, которому даже NOP давался за две микросекунды, терминал на 32 символа, BASIC на 4К и цены. Самый дешёвый готовый комплект стоил чуть меньше 3000 долларов, около 19 000 нынешних, при медианном доходе меньше 14 000 в год.

Each country’s protesters have distinct grievances. Listen to them, not the voices telling us Europe is ungovernable

Last Saturday night, the town hall of Limoges in west-central France was set ablaze. By Sunday, images of the fire destroying a symbol of the French republic, and other scenes of unrest across France, were everywhere, but being used to tell very different stories about what is happening in Europe.

For some, the flames announced a pan-European youth revolt, proof that a single movement was sweeping the continent. Donald Trump, who had already insisted that the French schools protests were not about schools but about migration and Islam, urged Europeans to “close the borders”. The mayor of Limoges saw the fingerprints of an alleged ultra-left insurrection.

Alberto Alemanno is the Jean Monnet professor of EU law at HEC Paris and the founder of The Good Lobby

France readers Q&A: Guardian Europe columnists Rokhaya Diallo and Alexander Hurst will be live taking questions from our readers about the unrest in France from at 1500 BST / 1600 CEST on Friday 23 October. Send your questions by email now to conversations@theguardian.com or post questions in the comments from 0900 BST here.

In a few days the busiest shopping street in Europe will be closed to traffic. The hope is that an unloved and polluted thoroughfare will turn into somewhere that people actually want to spend time

In February, the mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, announced that Britain’s best-known thoroughfare, Oxford Street, would be pedestrianised. To the surprise of every Londoner that I have spoken to in the past few months, it is actually happening. On Monday 26 October, the busiest shopping street in Europe – or, precisely, half of its 1.2-mile stretch – will be closed to traffic, putting an end to several decades of bitter arguments, obstructions and delays. Cars, lorries, vans, taxis, buses, bicycles, ebikes, scooters will be banned. Nothing but pedestrians (and emergency vehicles) will be allowed in.

This change will mark the most remarkable transformation to the streetscape of central London since at least 2003, when Trafalgar Square was turned from a glorified roundabout into one of London’s most recognisable public spaces. It will also form the most visible part of the mayor’s legacy, whether or not Khan runs for a fourth term in 2028. Three years ago, Khan published a memoir and manifesto, Breathe, attributing his asthma to growing up inhaling London’s polluted air. For the mayor, pedestrianising Oxford Street is the culmination of a mission to create a greener city that is oriented around public health, walking and cycling.

You Can See Everything, a documentary about the disgraced biotech company founder Elizabeth Holmes, has enjoyed a record-breaking opening in the US. It is a testament to how fascinated we remain by the convicted fraudster, but what is behind the enduring appeal? US technology editor Blake Montgomery tells Madeleine Finlay why Holmes continues to fascinate us, and reflects on whether the Theranos scandal has had a permanent impact on Silicon Valley

Clip: You Can See Everything, A24

‘You can’t make this stuff up’: why we remain fascinated by Elizabeth Holmes

Sundays were deadly, the generation gap between parents and their kids was enormous, and a pint cost 50p. The frisson of casual violence was everywhere. When I left school and set off to travel, I had no sense at all of where I was going or what I would find

I am wandering down a steep and unfamiliar street in Saint Peter Port, Guernsey, a force seven gale blowing in my face, when I look up to cross the road and see a back garden running up the hillside opposite. It ends in a granite rock face about 30ft high, and in that moment, I have a vivid flashback to being sat on top of it, watching a group of people in the garden below. I can’t conjure their faces, but the memory is all too real: the sun on my face, a woman calling up: “Don’t break your neck!” I can tell she’s not worried and neither am I. Nobody is. It’s a party and we’re young and we’re drunk and we’re carefree, without a worry in the world. Or at least, that’s how I remember it.

I continue down the street, spooked by the power of the recollection, how it has ambushed me. I stand outside the house. I could swear I’ve never seen it before. Did I come to the party over the cliff? Should I knock on the door? Hi, this is going to sound weird but I was in your back garden about 42 years ago and I haven’t a clue why but I’ve just remembered it like it was yesterday …

The director has turned Kazuo Ishiguro’s acclaimed novel about an ailing adolescent and her glitchy robot friend into a thought-provoking film. What do the pair think this story says about tech, love and grief?

In the wings of the London film festival, a group of young influencers are discussing their personal highlights. Klara and the Sun, says one, and her colleagues agree. It’s not just that the film is still so fresh in their memory, or that they have gathered today to meet its creators and stars. Klara is funny and moving; it’s their festival favourite so far. I relay this exchange to Taika Waititi, the film’s director, who is sipping bottled water in a room down the hall. His gaze widens. He almost chokes. “Thank God!” he exclaims with just a bit too much heat.

Everybody has a perfect film, just as everybody has a perfect friend, and they vary because everybody is different. In the film, sick 14-year-old Josie loves her discontinued robot doll Klara, whereas most kids her age opt for brighter, shinier models. And the young influencers love Klara and the Sun – Waititi’s adaptation of Kazuo Ishiguro’s acclaimed novel – while most older critics vehemently, violently disagree. All of which shows that there’s no accounting for taste, that people are confounding, and that our hearts and our brains are not always in sync. That keeps life interesting. It’s partly what the film is about. “The emotions that we give very simple labels to are really complex,” says Ishiguro, who is seated alongside the director. “The thing we call love, for example, is incredibly noisy and multifaceted. Nobody knows what the hell love is.”

Investigation suggests American company Axon still supplies Israel with Taser weapons despite evidence they have been used to torture prisoners

The soldiers drag the man into a section of the prison known as Hell’s Wing, a metaphor for its notoriety for acts of brutality. Shoving him violently into a corner, they take a step back before one of them draws his weapon and fires two rubber bullets at his body. The man, a double amputee, collapses to the floor.

After tying him up tightly, the soldiers continue their assault until one of them pulls a stun gun from its holster. The soldier approaches the man, brandishing the gun, before applying it to his body, engulfing him in an electric shock.

Grocer launches Cricklewood store as part of £1bn investment plan, with Hale Barns, Greater Manchester, to follow next month

As part of a £1bn investment plan, Waitrose has chosen Cricklewood in north London as the location for its first supermarket in eight years.

The upmarket grocer will open the store on Thursday and another supermarket in Hale Barns, Greater Manchester, next month. It also plans four smaller stores next year, including a supermarket in Oakham, Rutland, and three convenience stores in Bedminster (Bristol), Chalk Farm (London) and Springstead Village (Cambridge).

Kim Yo-jong, sister of Kim Jong-un, issues warning after inspecting border fortifications against backdrop of rising tensions

Propaganda loudspeakers aimed at South Korea will be ready to restart within days along the entire border, Kim Yo-jong, the powerful sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, has said amid a worsening of ties between the two countries.

The statement, carried by the state news agency KCNA on Thursday, came a day after she said the loudspeakers would be in operation along the whole border from some time in October.

Hola, Amigos! На связи Павел Гершевич, Mobile Team Lead в Amiga, а также соавтор книги Основы Flutter. В данной статье рассмотрим, как помочь тестировщикам в поиске багов, связанных с запросами на сервер.

Для этого используется специальное ПО, например, Charles. Это прокси, который умеет перехватывать трафик, подменять ответы и т. д. Только вот незадача - запросы из Flutter он перехватывать не умеет.

Animal attracted 1.6m visitors after getting trapped in September, now a new attempt to free it is under way

A shark that became a viral sensation after getting stuck in a South Korean canal for a month has returned just hours after being coaxed out to sea.

Nicknamed Bukang-i by fans, the 3-metre-long (9.8-foot) female dusky shark was first spotted in the waterway on 18 September.

Так получилось, что я уговорил одного своего коллегу установить на его рабочий ноутбук «HP Laptop 15s» операционную систему FreeBSD 15.0. Он уже был немного знаком с ОС FreeBSD в серверном варианте, но с этой ОС на десктопе ранее никогда не сталкивался, поэтому мы решили устроить на работе небольшой «сэйшен по установке Фрюхи» и выполнить установку под моим пристальным контролем. В целом, не учитывая экспериментов с разбивкой диска, совмещением и сожительством с ОС Windows, установки менеджера загрузки rEFInd и борьбы с глюками USB накопителей, установка ОС FreeBSD на отдельный раздел диска прошла удачно. Беспроводная WiFi карта и встроенная AMD графика заработали «из коробки». В систему был установлен X11 сервер Xorg, а к нему графическая оболочка Xfce4 и много прочего разного ПО для удобства выполнения повседневных задач.

Преисполненные чувством выполненного большого дела, мы решили разбегаться по домам, коллега нажал на ноутбуке кнопку выключения питания и обнаружил, что система никак не реагирует на это нажатие, хотя команда shutdown выполняется корректно - с выключением питания. Я тут же вспомнил, что в ОС FreeBSD поведение системы при нажатии на кнопку «Power» задается системной переменной hw.acpi.power_button_state, но установка её значения в S5 («shutdown and power off») ни к чему не привела. Тогда я включил режим «многословности» для операционной системы и стал наблюдать сообщения от ядра ОС на консоли, одновременно многократно нажимая кнопку «Power». На удивление, ни одного сообщения от ACPI я не обнаружил, и это был очень нехороший знак — кнопка либо физически сломана, либо что-то конкретно «сломано» в ACPI в ядре ОС FreeBSD. Мы загрузились в Windows, убедились в том, что там с кнопкой «Power» всё в порядке, а значит остается одно — дебажить ядро Фрюхи и выяснять причину. Ведь не могу же я оставить коллегу «один на один» с нерабочей системой на его ноутбуке.

Далее я поведаю историю со счастливым концом о том, как в течении двух недель я, тайком от семьи, по ночам, разбирался с устройством «Advanced Configuration and Power Interface» (ACPI), дебажил ядро операционной системы FreeBSD и писал свой небольшой драйвер для кнопки «Power».