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The New York congresswoman’s power is in the spotlight as people wonder if the stars are finally aligning for her to run for US president in 2028

“They assume that my ambition is positional. They assume that my ambition is a title or a seat. And my ambition is way bigger than that. My ambition is to change this country.”

The words were delivered slowly, deliberately and with some steeliness by Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Her audience, crammed into the pews of Rockefeller Memorial chapel at the University of Chicago, burst into spontaneous applause. That was in May. In the three months since, the speculation around Ocasio-Cortez’s ambitions – for herself and for America – has only grown louder.

Corporation was told of claims by Christopher Berry-Dee that he had clothing, which was lost while in its possession

• Christopher Berry-Dee is the UK’s all-time bestselling true crime author. Is he also a violent abuser of women and children?

The BBC was warned by two whistleblowers that a British true crime author was claiming to have obtained the missing clothes of a child murder victim that the broadcaster had lost.

The Guardian has established that the office of the former head of the BBC and the corporation’s whistleblowing unit were both informed that Christopher Berry-Dee, the UK’s most successful true crime author, had told people he had obtained the clothes of Karen Hadaway, who was murdered in 1986.

Campaigners fear deeper diplomatic contacts are undermining demands for improvements in human rights

The Taliban in Afghanistan have launched a diplomatic effort to end their isolation as major regional and international powers show a readiness to engage more closely with the repressive regime despite its systematic human rights abuses.

Five years after the Taliban took power, an increasing number of countries are renewing ties or scaling up diplomatic contacts with the hardline Islamists, who seized power in Kabul in 2021 after 20 years of brutal insurgent warfare.

Soft toys and furry things keep appearing in the garden. I wouldn’t rule out the fox at this point

After weeks without rain, the garden has turned a uniform beige. Whole shrubs have perished in the unrelenting heat, their crisp brown leaves disintegrating in the breeze. In the middle of the scorched lawn lies the prone body of a large dead bird.

On closer inspection, it appears to be a stuffed toy fashioned into the form of a limp duck carcass. When I open the back door for a closer look, the dog steps out between my legs, picks up the bird and carries it inside. It was clearly made with dogs in mind.

Change up your seasonal salads with an easy-to-prep dish that centres on slow-cooked rice and a lively Asian dressing

Here’s a recipe straight out of the low-effort, high-reward school of cooking, in which you chop the vegetables and nuts, boil the rice and beans, throw over a dressing … and it’s done! It was written in the middle of a heatwave, when cooking felt impossible, but I couldn’t look at another watermelon and feta salad. The trade-off is that this dish relies heavily on a couple of key ingredients: sambal oelek (which gives the salad its sparkle) and black rice, which, unlike other types of rice in a salad, never tastes worthy.

Five years since the Taliban returned to power, life – especially for women – is awful. We must keep the people’s stories alive and hope they will be free again

There are fewer and fewer stories coming out of the land of my birth. Before, I would open Instagram and see my cousins, lip-syncing to trending videos, posing with flowers at a rose garden or at a trendy cafe in their coolest outfits, keeping a record of their lives. I would hear British-Afghan friends talk about their recent trips to the provinces, towns and cities of their foremothers and the buzz of learning about their heritage. I would eagerly await the latest music video from Afghanistan’s many pop stars, all vying to become the hottest track played at weddings, not just in Afghanistan but all over the world. Afghanistan, its culture, and people felt closer back then.

Five years ago today, the brittle peace of the fragile new democracy was shattered by the withdrawal of western military, diplomatic and charitable groups that had intervened in the country’s fate since 2001. Overnight, on Sunday, 15 August 2021, Afghanistan was undone and abandoned.

Nelufar Hedayat is an Afghan-British journalist, and the presenter and co-director of the documentary In Real Life: the God Thieves

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Dominic Sessa plays Anthony Bourdain in a fun biopic, and the ever-danceable UK funksters are back with a sun-dappled new album

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This comic biopic of Anthony Bourdain focuses on the celebrity chef and documentarian’s late adolescence, as he gets a summer job at a restaurant in Cape Cod at the age of 19. Dominic Sessa (The Holdovers) plays Bourdain, with Matt Johnson directing. Rich Sommer, Leo Woodall and Antonio Banderas also star.

A young woman battles social strictures in 1890s Australia in a charming period drama series, while the sonic experimentalist drops the drone metal for goth rock. Here’s the pick of the week’s culture, taken from the Guardian’s best-rated reviews

Andrew, 75, a retired graphic designer, meets Gilli, 64, a counsellor

What were you hoping for?
An exciting evening in a great restaurant with a lovely lady I might be able to start a relationship with.

The British writer is known for his unique ability to get inside the heads of serial killers. But a Guardian investigation reveals multiple accusations of assault and child sexual abuse. What is the truth about the man described by his own daughter as ‘absolute evil’?

Warning: this article contains descriptions of sexual abuse and violence

From the outside, it looked like the sort of happy family home a child might draw. Red brick, surrounded by rolling countryside, in Curdridge, near Winchester. Here lived the true crime writer Christopher Berry-Dee, with his second wife, Tracey Dee, and their two young daughters, Zoe and Sasha, in the early 1990s. Inside, it was a house of horrors, full of murder memorabilia. In a wardrobe were the clothes a nine-year-old girl had been murdered in. One afternoon, Zoe was playing when she found them. The now 38-year-old council worker from Romsey says she remembers “putting it all on … going downstairs and everyone being absolutely traumatised”. Later, another gruesome memento was added to the collection: the Austin Metro that convicted murderer Michael Sams had used to transport a body in 1991. Bloodied sections of the seatbelts had been cut out for forensic tests.

Berry-Dee was the serial killer man. He wrote to convicted murderers in jail and befriended them. They told him everything. Through them he saw the terror in their victims’ eyes, watched their anguished death throes, heard their final screams. He listened to tapes of their confessions in his study. Zoe grew used to hearing them echo through the house. “It would always be on,” she says. “At the time, it felt normal.”

Experts say putrid stench shows overhaul of sewers is needed – like the one prompted by the Great Stink of 1858

London was “reeking with ineffable and intolerable horrors” after weeks of temperatures exceeding 30C and minimal rainfall. This was Disraeli’s description of the Great Stink of 1858, but something similarly disgusting has been happening this summer.

Once again, an exceptionally hot and dry spell has exposed the putrid stench of untreated human waste.

The New York congresswoman’s power is in the spotlight as people wonder if the stars are finally aligning for her to run for US president in 2028

“They assume that my ambition is positional. They assume that my ambition is a title or a seat. And my ambition is way bigger than that. My ambition is to change this country.”

The words were delivered slowly, deliberately and with some steeliness by Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Her audience, crammed into the pews of Rockefeller Memorial chapel at the University of Chicago, burst into spontaneous applause. That was in May. In the three months since, the speculation around Ocasio-Cortez’s ambitions – for herself and for America – has only grown louder.

Campaigners fear deeper diplomatic contacts are undermining demands for improvements in human rights

The Taliban in Afghanistan have launched a diplomatic effort to end their isolation as major regional and international powers show a readiness to engage more closely with the repressive regime despite its systematic human rights abuses.

Five years after the Taliban took power, an increasing number of countries are renewing ties or scaling up diplomatic contacts with the hardline Islamists, who seized power in Kabul in 2021 after 20 years of brutal insurgent warfare.

Всем привет. На связи Сергей Игнатенко, основатель ИИ-платформы VibePilot. C недавнего времени партнер Яндекс, у меня грант AI Studio Boost, платформа работает на их моделях.

Недавно мне пришло письмо от Yandex Cloud о том, что они запустили сервис вайбкодинга VibeCraft. Моя платформа также является сервисом вайбкодинга, и конечно же мне было интересно попробовать в работе этот новый сервис.

Это разбор одного канала для B2B-сервиса со сложным продуктом: как за 18 месяцев переходы из нейросетей выросли практически с нуля до 845 и почему три четверти этого трафика дала Алиса, а ChatGPT остался далеко позади. Если вы отвечаете за привлечение в онлайн-сервисе и прикидываете, стоит ли вкладываться в оптимизацию под нейросети, дальше механика без маркетинговой воды: схема замера из трех сигналов, что чинили на сайте, какую микроразметку раскладывали и как выглядит выгрузка по шести нейросетям. Клиент под NDA, поэтому обезличиваю по роду деятельности, но цифры реальные, из Яндекс Метрики, выборка 100 процентов.

Hundreds gathered with flashes of pink to farewell the five-year-old girl, who was allegedly murdered in April

• Warning: This story contains references to Indigenous Australians who have died

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A sombre funeral service for Kumanjayi Little Baby has been attended by hundreds of people from the Alice Springs community and surrounds.

Wearing pink and some dressed in T-shirts bearing the face of the five-year-old girl, the crowd gathered under grey skies in the red centre capital on Saturday.

На первый взгляд задача кажется вполне понятной. Есть вакансия, есть требования, есть рынок? осталось только найти подходящего специалиста. Но на практике именно DevOps-позиции регулярно оказываются среди самых сложных для закрытия, даже крупные компании могут искать одного инженера несколько месяцев, несмотря на помощь внутренних HR-команд и агентств.

Причина далеко не всегда в количестве специалистов, проблема начинается гораздо раньше — с самого понимания того, кто такой DevOps-инженер.

Fresh search teams to scour Nattai national park for Lily Hooper, 18, who failed to return home from a bushwalk

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The search for an 18-year-old bushwalker missing in the Southern Highlands of New South Wales since Wednesday is continuing, with fresh teams arriving at the Nattai national park on Saturday morning.

Lily Hooper left her home in Sydney’s south-west about 8am on 12 August, after telling family she was going for a hike in the national park, north-west of Mittagong.

The Wallabies kicked clear to make it two-from-two against the Brave Blossoms with a commanding victory in Townsville

The low key atmosphere isn’t helped by two of the less upbeat national anthems and the sky becoming blanketed in cloud. Hopefully the players can spark the occasion into life.

And here come the two sides out into the Townsville afternoon. It’s all a bit muted in a stadium far from full.

Ageing facilities offering daily refuge face funding threat as record temperatures parch the countryside

Suzy Bernard took a breath and jumped into the deep end of her village swimming pool with a splash.

“There’s a wonderful feeling of wellbeing in the water,” said the former hospital healthcare assistant, who recently learned to swim aged 75 and was now gliding along with her daughter and grandson.

Lee wants to end 1950-53 war, which has never had a peace treaty, but says talks should include curbing North Korea’s nuclear capabilities

South Korean president Lee ⁠Jae Myung called on Saturday for talks with North Korea to pursue peaceful coexistence, saying ⁠Seoul would seek ⁠safeguards ​to prevent conflict and noting the need to replace the peninsula’s armistice with a “peace regime“.

In a ⁠speech marking the anniversary of Korea’s liberation from Japanese colonial rule, Lee said the two Koreas ⁠should hold a sit-down for coexistence.

Disney production ran in Bristol earlier this year and its stars Oliver Tompsett and Samantha Barks will resume their roles at Theatre Royal Drury Lane

The Greatest Showman, the 2017 Hugh Jackman film with a chart-topping soundtrack, is to be staged in the West End next spring. After a sellout eight-week run at Bristol Hippodrome earlier this year, the Disney musical will arrive at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane, currently home to Disney’s Hercules.

Its Bristol stars, Oliver Tompsett and Samantha Barks, will resume their respective roles as circus entrepreneur PT Barnum and his wife, Charity. Barks previously starred at Drury Lane as Elsa in Disney’s stage version of Frozen. Also returning from the Bristol production are Ben Joyce (as Barnum’s associate Phillip Carlyle), Vajèn van den Bosch (as opera singer Jenny Lind, known as the “Swedish nightingale”) and Malinda Parris (as the “bearded lady” Lettie Lutz).

Недавно я писал на Хабре, как собрал каталог MCP-серверов: 80 тысяч записей из девяти источников в одном индексе. В комментариях и в личке быстро всплыл вопрос, который я сам не до конца продумал, когда делал каталог: «нашёл сервер, а запускать его где?»

С MCP-серверами беда в том, что добрая половина живёт не как готовый npm-пакет, а как репозиторий на GitHub. Его надо склонировать, поставить зависимости, собрать, запустить и держать живым. Если сервер stdio (а таких большинство), сверху ещё задача обернуть его в HTTP, иначе к нему не подключится ни claude.ai, ни ChatGPT. Итог: под сервер на 40 строк человек поднимает VPS, пишет Dockerfile, настраивает nginx, выпускает сертификат и вешает вебхук на автодеплой. Дизбаланс усилий чудовищный.

Поэтому я сделал внутри Unyly полноценный раздел деплоя. Подключаешь GitHub-репозиторий, на выходе получаешь работающий проект на slug.unyly.org, пуш в ветку пересобирает его сам. Работает и для сайтов (статика, фронтенд-сборки, Next.js), и для MCP-серверов на Node и Python. Ниже разберу архитектуру по слоям и честно перечислю грабли, на которых потерял время.

В этой статье я постараюсь объяснить, как работает биткоин. Без аналогий с добычей золота и прочих глупостей.

Начать стоит с того, что он вообще из себя представляет. Биткоин, это одноранговая (P2P) сеть которая формирует механизм глобального консенсуса, который позволяет всем узлам сети договориться об общем состоянии леджера и дает возможность локально проверить весь этот леджер, не доверяя никому. Это система где есть только пользователи и нет администраторов. Это permissionless система, то есть вам не нужно ничье одобрение чтобы в ней участвовать. Используется эта система для формирования глобальной системы денег. Леджер хранит всю историю транзакций за все время, формируя цепочку блоков транзакций - блокчейн.

Если по-человечески то биткоин это просто глобальная универсальная книга бухгалтерского учета, где навсегда фиксируются все взаиморасчеты, где нет возможности смухлевать, отменить или оспорить перевод или создать деньги из воздуха.

Биткоин это не первая попытка создать систему такого рода, но ему первому это удалось. Биткоин решил две ключевые проблемы, которые до этого не удавалось решить никому.

Для понимания его устройства стоит начать стоит с криптографических примитивов, из которых он собран. Как только у вас будет понимание того, как каждый из них работает, понять устройство биткоина будет гораздо проще.

В его составные части входит: