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Exclusive: Uran Ferizi says arrivals fell sharply after short-lived influx, but country continues to be stigmatised

The number of Albanians who travelled to Britain in small boats four years ago remains the focus of “unhinged” and “hysterical” criticisms from rightwing politicians and the media, according to the country’s UK ambassador.

Uran Ferizi said the influx of more than 12,000 people from the Balkan state in 2022 was “real”, “exceptional” and “short-lived”, but the Albanian community in the UK was still being framed by those events by Reform UK and the Daily Telegraph.

За два дня в индустрии аэротакси произошло кое‑что странное.

10 августа Archer Aviation договорилась забрать у Boeing сразу три бизнеса — Wisk, Insitu и SkyGrid. Самый интересный из них, Insitu, делает военные беспилотники и приносит больше $200 млн выручки в год; Boeing взамен получит 19,75% компании и право назначить директора в совет. На следующий день конкурент Archer — Joby Aviation — объявил о покупке оборонной Resonant Sciences примерно за $500 млн: около $450 млн деньгами и ещё $50 млн акциями.

Получается занятная картина. Две компании, которые годами рассказывали нам о тихих электрических такси над городами, почти одновременно покупают себе оборонные бизнесы. Самый простой ответ на вопрос «зачем» — ради денег. Но это только половина истории.

• First Test, day two: Australia 198; Bangladesh 351 for 6 in Darwin

• Opener hits maiden Test century as tourists build 153-run lead

A maiden Test century by Tanzid Hasan has given Bangladesh a 153-run lead against an Australian side that were forced to use eight bowlers in Darwin.

In just his second Test match, the 25-year-old left-hander’s brilliant 101 put the Tigers in position to push for what would be their greatest win in long-form cricket.

Космический аппарат не обязательно должен весить сотни килограммов и стоить как небольшой завод. Иногда достаточно платы размером с ладонь, Raspberry Pi, радиоканала и команды, которая готова несколько месяцев отлаживать термостабилизацию, прошивку и связь с орбиты.

В июле прошлого года я рассказывал, что мы готовим к запуску спутник с бортовым компьютером, к которому можно будет подключаться по SSH. Прямо как к нашему VPS, только он летит над головой со скоростью 7,8 км/с. Звучало как фантастика, но мы это сделали.

Сейчас расскажу, что из этого вышло на самом деле, почему мы ушли от предыдущего форм-фактора и что такое TriSat — платформа, которую мы выбрали для нашего космического эксперимента.

The poet and novelist on the power of fairytales, being inspired by Frank O’Hara and the joys of Doris Lessing

My earliest reading memory
Reading On the Ning Nang Nong by Spike Milligan, aged five or so, sitting on the floor of the bedroom I shared with my brother – who, in my memory, was sitting on the carpet next to me.

My favourite book growing up
I had a collection of fairytales in a big yellow hardback, which I was totally entranced by from around the age of seven to 10. I’ll never forget the feeling of despair on turning the page and discovering that the Little Mermaid had become foam on the surface of the water; it was a very early lesson in the helplessness of the reader in the face of a story’s destiny. In particular, though, I loved a Scottish fairytale called The Black Bull of Norroway, which I think, in many ways, has been under the surface of everything I’ve ever written.

Hollywood Crime Story: The Mob Takes Over the Movies looks back at how criminals insinuated themselves in the film business

“From the foundation of Hollywood, organized crime is there.” So claims Tom Patterson, producer and director of new three-part documentary series, Hollywood Crime Story: The Mob Takes Over the Movies.

Organized crime’s connection to the film industry actually predates Tinseltown, being present for the foundation of the medium itself, when inventor Thomas Edison sicced his hired goons on competitors in an attempt to maintain total control over early motion picture technology. As covered in Hollywood Crime Story, this resulted in said competitors – mostly Jewish businessmen from the east coast – fleeing westward and establishing the town and studio system that would become synonymous with movies as we know them.

The deaths of a Bulawayo mother and her daughters spark calls for an urgent action on gender-based violence

The three white coffins were draped in white lace and topped with small sprays of flowers. The mourners who filled a Bulawayo church last week to pay their respects to Zandile Tshuma and her daughters, Natalie, 15, and Nala, five, had not engaged in the usual tradition of first viewing the dead at their home: the bodies of this family had travelled all the way from England to reach their final resting place at Luveve cemetery on the edge of Zimbabwe’s second city, in Matabeleland.

While the deaths attracted few news reports in the UK, in Zimbabwe and South Africa, the tragic case has reignited concern over the region’s high rates of femicide. Many commentators on TV and social media expressed shock that a well-educated woman with a successful career abroad seemed as vulnerable to familial violence as a poorer woman in a southern African township.

Europe and Nato have known for years that interceptor production can’t keep up with demand and now disaster looms, putting us all in danger

“Invincible.” That was how Vladimir Putin described Russia’s latest generation of ballistic missiles in 2018. In 2022 he would unleash this arsenal to strike across Ukraine, hitting command centres, critical infrastructure and airfields. Then, in 2023, Ukraine received Patriot air defence systems from its international partners. The US-supplied missile interceptor would prove to be an effective shield against Russian strikes.

But this year, supplies of Patriot missiles have run out and Kyiv has suffered the consequences. Intercepts have gone from more than 70% to none, so that night after night Russia strikes Ukraine’s infrastructure with impunity. This tragedy was long foretold, and there are no quick fixes.

Jack Watling is senior research fellow for applied military sciences at the Royal United Services Institute

Здравствуйте, уважаемые читатели! Безусловно, все слышали про игру Pacman. А слышали ли Вы про Pacgirl? Это подруга Pacman — она с бантиком...

Основная «фишка» эксперимента этой статьи — это, конечно, сеть ИОЛА, построенная из советских комплектующих. Её основа — сетевые адаптеры, собранные на «рассыпухе» малой степени интеграции, работающие по сей день. Самая старшая микросхема в сетевой плате — почтенная К155ЛА3 — датируется аж 1985 годом. Ей «стукнул» 41 год.

Для демонстрации сетевого взаимодействия мы выберем развлекательно-игровую среду. В качестве сетевого теста у нас будет Pacman! Простейшая и в то же время класснейшая игрушка. В нашем эксперименте данные между двумя машинами мы будем передавать не дискетками и не нуль-модемным кабелем. Мы увидим, как работает FTP-сервер, запущенный под MS-DOS.

Гоним мистера Пакмана, Пакгёл, догоняй...

Details on how ICE cooperation agreements work in practice have been hard to come by. NPR took a close look at how sheriff's deputies in Walton County, Fla., approach immigration-related arrests.

(Image credit: Nicky Quamina-Woo for NPR)

Plus, which beloved animal crossed the rainbow bridge, and what bit of papal paraphernalia did Chicago baseball fans get this week?

England received only 10% of its average July rainfall and some areas may just get the odd shower for rest of August

England has experienced its driest July since records began in 1836, receiving only 6.5mm of rainfall – 10% of the country’s long-term meteorological average for the month. Wales also experienced its driest-ever July, while Northern Ireland recorded its eighth driest. Scotland was the only country in the UK not to set new records but still received only 69% of its average rainfall for July compared with the long-term average. Southern England faced the worst of the dry conditions with some areas, including the Sussex coast, receiving less than 0.2mm of rain in July. This resulted in widespread low moisture content within the soil, enabling temperatures to reach the high 30s celsius.

Looking ahead, despite notable spells of rain in the north, parts of southern England may receive only the odd shower for the rest of August. Throughout the summer, forecast models have hinted at more unsettled weather reaching the south-east of England at a 10-day range. However, as time edged closer the rain was largely confined to north-western parts of Britain, failing to reach the south-east with any significance. With much uncertainty within forecast models, the risk of this dry period persisting is not out of the question.

В прошлый раз я рассказывал, как работает Guardrails Filter: зачем вообще понадобился отдельный слой защиты данных при работе с LLM и какие задачи он решает.

В этот раз хочу обсудить то, какие подводные камни могут оказаться под капотом этой технологии. Пока мы делали свой Guardrails Filter, быстро выяснилось, что найти персональные данные — далеко не самая сложная часть задачи. Гораздо сложнее оказалось встроиться между приложением и моделью так, чтобы ничего не сломать.

Как это сделать? Сейчас расскажу.

Продолжение о «логарифмических» калькуляторах: расширяя успех LOCI-2, компания Wang Labs разработала унифицированную модульную платформу, благодаря которой удалось выпустить целую плеяду программируемых калькуляторов для самых разных задач под названием «300-я серия».

О количестве моделей, их особенностях, что было после и при чём тут «Электроника Д3-28», — в этом очерке цикла.

Lawmakers and families raise concerns about conditions aboard USS Lincoln, as the U.S.-Iran war drags on, Iranians seek a break from the conflict, Russian-held Crimea faces Ukrainian drone campaign.

Как хорошо известно, макро в Лиспе — это особая функция, которая вычисляется в два этапа: на первом этапе происходит генерация некоей промежуточной формы, а на втором этапе эта форма выполняется в текущем контексте.

Важно отметить, что на первом этапе ядро Лиспа не вычисляет значения аргументов вызова.

Использование макро в гомоиконном Лиспе позволяет добавлять в Лисп новые «операторы» (именно поэтому знаменитый лиспер Пол Грэм назвал Лисп программируемым языком программирования).

Однако, у медали имеется и обратная сторона: если код содержит большое количество макро, то при интерпретации Лиспа будет тратиться значительное время на макрогенерацию.

Reform UK leader says he stayed away from vote count in Clacton to avoid being ‘humiliated by nobodies’

Nigel Farage’s attempt to draw the sting from inquiries into his financial affairs appeared to have backfired on Friday as the standards watchdog reopened its investigation and MPs from all sides condemned the needless byelection.

The Reform UK leader declared victory in the Clacton vote as he was returned with an increased majority and gained more votes than in 2024, saying he had “stuck two fingers up at the entire political establishment”.

The Reform UK leader forced a vote that failed to make financial questions disappear, only the man himself

• Clacton byelection – UK politics live

Dawn had long broken in the Essex town of Clacton-on-Sea when the results for the byelection came in. After a gruelling count, an atmosphere of deep exhaustion had settled over the room. Even the man with a dustbin on his head looked weary.

As it was declared that Nigel Farage had won, as expected, there was no cheering in the room, which had been boycotted by the Reform UK leader and his supporters; instead there was only an overwhelming sense of futility.

We’re interested in hearing from people who have found themselves unexpectedly out of work in midlife and have struggled to get another job despite years of professional experience

For many people in their 50s and 60s, losing a job can be the start of a long and unexpected struggle to get back into work. Despite years – or even decades – of professional experience, some say they are applying for hundreds of roles without success, while others have had to take lower-paid work or claim benefits to make ends meet.

The number of people aged 50 to 64 receiving out-of-work benefits has reached 2.15 million, according to recent analysis by the Centre for Social Justice. We’d like to hear from people across the UK who have found it difficult to find work later in their careers.

Reform UK leader fails to appear for result, despite beating nearest challenger, Count Binface, and 32 other candidates

Nigel Farage has seen off Count Binface to win the Clacton byelection in a contest boycotted by every other major political party.

The Reform UK leader in July triggered the byelection in an attempt to shake off a deepening scandal over a £5m gift he received from the cryptocurrency billionaire Christopher Harborne.

Twenty-one birds released on Bodmin Moor where it is hoped they will one day return to produce their own young

They took a little coaxing at first – after all, they had got used to a safe, comfortable aviary tucked away in woodland on the edge of Bodmin Moor. But after a few minutes, the birds stepped out into freedom and the bolder ones were soon soaring into the blue, the first white storks to be released into the wilds of Cornwall.

Yan Swiderski, the founder of the Cornwall Stork Project, had tears in his eyes. “I do feel a bit emotional,” he said. He sounded a little like a proud father wanting to play down the achievements of his offspring – and failing. “They’re a little bit clumsy at the moment. They aren’t used to flying free … but they do look majestic, don’t they?”

ABS data shows an almost 9% slump in new lending to investors after three interest rate hikes this year

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In what one economist is describing as a “tiny step” toward a fairer housing market after decades of bad policy, property investors are shying away from established homes, and putting money into new builds instead, new data shows.

New lending to property investors fell sharply in the three months to June, slumping almost 9%, ABS data showed, while the number of total new home loans dropped by 5.4% in the June quarter.

Greens say Labor’s reform set to ‘rip life-changing supports away from disabled people instead of raising additional revenue through taxing gas exports’

Cross-benchers have slammed the Albanese government’s proposed overhaul of the NDIS as going “too far, too fast” as the changes to curb the growth of the $52bn program appear set to pass the parliament as early as next week.

The Greens and independent ACT senator, David Pocock, delivered scathing assessments of the bill they warn will enable blunt and indiscriminate cuts to individual budgets supporting more than 770,000 Australians with disabilities in a final Senate inquiry report released on Friday afternoon.

Всем привет! Меня зовут Александр Цай, я ведущий инженер-аналитик в МТС Web Services.
Занимаюсь всем, что связано с данными и ИИ. Найти, заполучить, обработать, спроектировать, развернуть — это все ко мне.

Опущу все нудные подробности, решили мы развернуть себе Superset 6.1.0 — последнюю версию, но столкнулись с тем, что заказчику категорически не нравится штатный фильтр по датам и он не хочет пересаживаться со своего BI, а хочет он календарик. А еще — пару плагинов с оглядкой на PowerBI. Поэтому встал вопрос создания собственного плагина-фильтра.

Казалось бы, задача несложная. Пара-тройка гайдов в en сегменте имеется, есть даже документация и штатный генератор шаблонов. Но по факту оказалось, что все это не работает. Генератор так вообще не обновлялся аж с 2024 года: выдает шаблон, который ссылается на уже несуществующие классы и типы, что автоматически делает все гайды неактуальными…

А что все это значит? Время написать свой собственный!
Об этом и расскажу в сегодняшнем материале. 

Дисклеймер: Я питонист до мозга костей и в тайпскрипте, да и фронте в целом, понимаю не очень много. Простите меня, адепты сего языка программирования, но код самого плагина навайбкожен (хоть и проверен насколько я смог).
В npm не запушил тоже умышленно, цель статьи — дать исходники и показать, как можно собрать плагин. Любой желающий может что-то додумать и доработать, собрать или разобрать и так далее.

(Nonesuch)
By turns gleeful, sensitive, urgent and ruminative, this is a brilliant set that plays to the trio’s formidable strengths

Though the century-old Pulitzer prize – launched as a celebration of the craft and social necessity of good news reportage – was eventually expanded to include fiction and music by 1943, the US-born art of jazz has only been represented by Ornette Coleman and Wynton Marsalis in their lifetimes, Duke Ellington, John Coltrane and Thelonious Monk posthumously – and most recently Henry Threadgill, for his four-part suite In for a Penny, In for a Pound, in 2016.

Publisher Joseph Pulitzer once declared his dreams for his readership were “to arrest their attention, enlist their sympathy … stimulate their imagination, convince their reason, and awaken their conscience”. Contemporary-classical composer and flautist Threadgill has been doing all that with his music, his personal story, his internationalism and his charisma since the 1960s. Now 82, he releases Fifteen, joining him in a brilliant trio featuring pianist/composer Vijay Iyer and creative Cuban percussionist Dafnis Prieto.

Today’s fluff has sought shade

As these glorious pages reported on Thursday, Galatasaray wanted Gabriel Martinelli. In the following 24 hours things changed a bit, creating greater complexity, something we do not approve of. Arsenal have supposedly been offered the chance to involve the Nigeria striker Victor Osimhen in exchange for the Brazilian, which could be temptong for a side looking for a new No 9. To further sweeten any potential, Ethan Nwaneri could be chucked into it too to make it a mega swap.

Tijjani Reijnders may struggle to find a perfect role within Enzo Maresca’s Manchester City. The Dutchman has already been linked with Nottingham Forest, which has stirred some interest in Saudi Arabia from Al Qadsiah, who are managed by Brendan Rodgers and are willing to cough up £51m for the midfielder.