Readers recall the breathtaking sight and community spirit of the rare celestial treat – and the handmade contraptions they saw it through
On Wednesday evening, millions of people in Europe watched a rare solar eclipse. We asked some of them to share their photographs and experiences of this celestial treat.
Here are some of their responses.
Man dies in Bas-Uele after travelling from Haut-Uele, as head of WHO says outbreak on track to be deadliest ever
The Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo has spread to a sixth province, officials have said, a day after the head of the World Health Organization said the outbreak was on track to surpass the deadliest in history, which killed at least 11,000 people more than a decade ago.
The current outbreak has killed more than 2,100 people out of more than 4,500 cases, according to the latest government figures released on Tuesday. At the same point in the 2014-16 outbreak in west Africa, the previous most deadly outbreak, 755 cases had been recorded, according to WHO data.
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Russia maintained an iron grip on Crimea since seizing it from Ukraine in 2014. Many Russian civilians go there to enjoy the beaches. But now Ukraine is hitting Crimea hard, upending daily life.
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Интуитивно любой разработчик понимает: чтобы выпуски проходили спокойно, нужно написать автоматизированные тесты. Чем больше тестов, тем спокойнее проходят выпуски. Или нет?)) В этой статье я поделюсь нашим опытом построения пирамиды тестирования. Надеюсь, что она понравится читателям и станет первой из цикла статей об автоматизированном тестировании. Нам есть что рассказать!
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The Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo has spread to a sixth province, officials have said, a day after the head of the World Health Organization said the outbreak was on track to surpass the deadliest in history, which killed at least 11,000 people more than a decade ago.
The current outbreak has killed more than 2,100 people out of more than 4,500 cases, according to the latest government figures released on Tuesday. At the same point in the 2014-16 outbreak in west Africa, the previous most deadly outbreak, 755 cases had been recorded, according to WHO data.
Continue reading...Republican lawmakers express concern after US defense secretary repeatedly excluded Democrats from briefings
Republican senators have criticized the Pentagon for locking Democrats out of classified briefings on defense spending, warning that Pete Hegseth’s approach could jeopardize passage of Donald Trump’s record $1.5tn military budget increase.
The US defense secretary has made at least two trips to Capitol Hill in recent weeks to pitch the budget, but has repeatedly excluded Democrats from the closed-door sessions, according to lawmakers from both parties.
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NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Mike Vorkunov of the Athletic about the record-breaking sale of the Los Angeles Lakers to investor Josh Kushner and former Disney CEO Bob Iger.
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Когда я перешёл на Mac, мне казалось, что с удалённой работой проблем не будет. RDP существует много лет, клиентов для macOS хватает, а подключение к Windows — давно решённая задача.
Проблема обнаружилась в тот момент, когда я подключил к MacBook внешний монитор.
Мне хотелось самостоятельно указать, на каких физических дисплеях должна открываться удалённая Windows‑сессия. Например, отдать под неё один или два внешних монитора, а экран ноутбука оставить macOS. Или, наоборот, запустить Windows только на встроенном дисплее. Я перебрал доступные варианты, но не нашёл приложения, в котором можно было бы нормально настроить такую схему: не просто включить режим «использовать все мониторы», а сопоставить физические дисплеи macOS с виртуальной раскладкой Windows.
Так появился первый прототип будущего Selective Remote.
Читать далееThe star of Girls and The Book of Mormon talks about coming out, turning a showmance into a romance, and going toe to toe with the West Wing’s Allison Janney in new film Miss You Love You
Imagine a cute, young, gay Jim Carrey with a withering line in put-downs: that is Andrew Rannells. Or rather, it was, back when he starred in Lena Dunham’s HBO series Girls as Elijah, the formerly closeted ex of her character, Hannah. Dunham had seen Rannells playing Elder Price, the zealous missionary spreading the good word in the original 2011 Broadway production of the bad-taste musical The Book of Mormon, for which he received a Tony nomination. Girls, in turn, spread the good word about him. To this day, fans still shout “Your dad is gay!” at him in the street, a call-back to the moment when Elijah tartly advises Hannah that she might want to fine-tune her gaydar.
It is an older, gentler, salt-and-pepper-bearded Rannells who stars in the comedy-drama Miss You, Love You. He plays Jamie, a personal assistant arriving in Albuquerque, New Mexico, to shepherd the spiky and recently widowed Diane (Allison Janney) through the initial weeks after her husband’s death from Parkinson’s. As it dawns on them that Diane’s son – Jamie’s employer – may not make it to his stepfather’s funeral, these strangers navigate their way through the grey area of their flung-together friendship.
Continue reading...Allegations of domestic violence against Congressman Max Miller, which he denies, have raised persistent stereotypes about abuse. NPR's Michel Martin talks to author Leslie Morgan Steiner.
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Afterpay has never turned a profit in Australia. Last month, it spent millions to take over a Sydney Olympic Park arena.
The company says Afterpay Arena will be the first venue where Australians can “buy now, pay later” for their event tickets, merchandise, dinner and even alcohol.
Continue reading...Exclusive: The videos, filmed at anti-One Nation rallies, were posted to party’s social pages and appear to be endorsed by Pauline Hanson
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The owners of a progressive social media page have accused One Nation of impersonating them at anti-Pauline Hanson rallies while shooting a series of “undercover” videos.
Hanson’s party has recently published a string of videos with a young male host attending leftwing protests. In the clips – published on pages owned by One Nation and Hanson on Instagram, TikTok and X – a party staffer seeks to embarrass protesters in filmed interviews.
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Сколько бы правил валидации я ни закладывал в CRM, они всегда упираются в один тупик: классическая логика умеет проверять процесс, но не умеет понимать контекст.
Обязательные поля заполнены, SLA соблюдён, формальный порядок сохранён — для детерминированных правил CRM всё идеально. Но что на самом деле произошло в коммуникации и почему лид оказался в «корзине», жесткие if/else увидеть не способны. Свести сложный человеческий диалог к SQL-условию без ложных срабатываний невозможно.
Появление LLM и стандартов вроде MCP дало инструмент, который наконец-то умеет работать с неструктурированным смыслом. В ESM-CRM я добавил второй слой контроля: AI QA разбирает контекст, сверяет его с реальным статусом и передает подозрительные кейсы руководителю.
При этом я сразу зафиксировал жесткое архитектурное ограничение: AI только подсвечивает аномалии, но принципиально не имеет права менять данные в CRM.
В статье пошагово разбираю всю цепочку: от сборки MCP-сервера и подключения к Yandex AI Studio до асинхронных воркеров, валидации JSON-схем и логики event-driven запуска.
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Shortly after pandemic-era travel restrictions eased, I flew to Washington, D.C., for a meeting with leaders from left-leaning foundations. The topic was close to my heart: combating inequality and constructing a new narrative about reversing huge and widening income disparities. I expected the focus to be on the jarring increase in earnings inequality over the last four decades, led by the declining wages of workers, and especially men, without college degrees.
To my surprise, nobody seemed to comment on the stagnation and decline in the wages of non-college workers. Nor was there any discussion of how inequality between residents of small cities and large metropolitan areas had surged. Instead, commentator after commentator talked about gender inequality, racial inequality, and inequality affecting sexual minorities. These are all important topics, of course, but if our aim was to understand the surge in inequality at the aggregate level, much of the story was about jobs and opportunities for Americans without college education.
As I was traveling back to Boston, another event crystallized my unease about American political trends. Seeing that my flight was delayed by an hour, I decided to get a drink. At the bar by my gate, the only opening was next to a burly gentleman around my age. As I ordered a beer, he asked me whether my flight was also delayed. I nodded ruefully and said it wasn’t too bad. He proceeded to talk about football, a topic I know little about. But I welcomed the distraction, and over the next hour, we broached several other topics: the annoyances of air travel, beer, the challenges of the small business he was running, politics, and basketball, about which I knew a little more than football.
It was only later that I realized how rare such an event had become, where I spoke to somebody with a very different education profile, occupation, and interests from mine. This made me consider what would have happened if, on my other side at the bar, there had been somebody with a Ph.D. and an occupation similar to mine (academic, financier, consultant, lawyer, etc.). Whom would I have chosen to initiate a conversation with? Whom would the participants in the workshop I attended have chosen? The answer seemed almost too obvious, and not completely unrelated to why the plight of manual workers was less than top of mind for many college-educated policymakers, activists, and civil servants.
I later embellished the choice a little and offered it to several friends and participants at various conferences: If stranded at an airport, with a professional with a Ph.D. from a faraway land (China, India, Brazil, Nigeria) on one side and an American high school graduate on the other, to whom would you look forward to talking for the next hour? Many took the question to be rhetorical, because the answer was, again, too obvious.
There is nothing natural about the educational segregation that has emerged in the United States. But it has become a reality, with far-reaching consequences for postindustrial politics. It is emblematic of weakening ties within communities—and within the nation. It may explain how, as they became more politically influential and assertive, the well-educated became less understanding of the woes of those with lower levels of education. It is a big part of the story of how left-leaning, well-educated liberal elites started deviating from the premises of liberalism that had generated its past success.
The political rise of the college educated is related to the phenomenal growth in the number of people with college degrees. But even more important, it is a consequence of the rising status of the college educated, which is itself rooted in their meteoric economic climb—while automation, offshoring, globalization, and related sectoral trends have reduced the availability of good jobs for non-college workers. As the college educated have become politically more powerful, they have also diverged further from the less educated in their geographic locations and their social lives, reducing their ability to empathize with the latter’s problems and creating a major cultural rift between the two groups. In the process, a coalition between different segments of the college-educated and the tech sector has formed. I would argue this coalition has completely turned its back on the economic priorities of the less educated and has come to focus on cultural and global issues.
Cultural politics, promoted from both left and right, has further alienated the working class.
Excerpted with permission from What Happened to Liberal Democracy: Remaking a Politics of Shared Prosperity by Daron Acemoglu, published by Dutton, an imprint of Penguin Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House, LLC. Copyright (c) 2026 by Daron Acemoglu.
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On Aug. 12, the luckiest 15 million people in the world were those living in a narrow band measuring approximately 5,100 miles long and 180 miles wide, stretching from northern Russia, down through Greenland, then Iceland, then Spain, then a tiny nip of Portugal, before passing into the Mediterranean Sea. That strip represented the path of totality for the recent total solar eclipse—the first visible from Europe in 27 years.
The eclipse did not take long to play out, lasting just 4.4 hours before it at last extinguished its fires in the Mediterranean waters. But it made an enduring impression—and will continue to, thanks to the uncounted astronomers and lay folk who photographed the event with ordinary cameras, great observatories, and even a NASA chase plane. Here is just a sampling of the work these eclipse-watchers produced.
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The actor answers your questions on working with her dog, becoming a dame, Harry Potter, and making televisual history in The Singing Detective
You and Bill Nighy were comrades in Pride, but play estranged spouses in & Sons. Was it more fun marching alongside him or giving him a piece of your mind? MrSOBaldrick
It’s fun doing anything with Bill Nighy!
I once saw you at RHS Garden Wisley. Are you a keen gardener? What’s your favourite plant? HeyJudithB
Yes, I am a gardener. We love doing the garden. My favourite plant – this week – is the rose Munstead Wood, which has an incredible scent, and a deep, dark raspberry colour. It’s a rose we might be in danger of losing because of climate change. Roses need water, so I think we’re going to have to change our planting.
Увеличить норму управляемости кажется простым способом сделать компанию более плоской и быстрее масштабироваться. На практике каждый новый прямой подчинён добавляет руководителю нагрузку и может превратить его в узкое место. Разберём, где проходит эта граница, почему размер команды нельзя выбирать по универсальной формуле и как на неё уже влияет работа с ИИ.
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Привет, %username%! Знакомая, которая к IT никакого отношения не имеет, спросила: «А для чего мне вести свою базу знаний?» И я завис. Не потому что нечего ответить, а потому что все мои заготовленные ответы оказались профессиональными: писать в блог, готовить доклады, расти в квалификации, держать в порядке рабочий контекст. Ей это всё не нужно. Она не пишет статей, не выступает на конференциях и не собирается.
Пришлось отвечать заново. И ответ оказался короче, чем всё, что я до этого рассказывал на эту тему:
База знаний нужна тому, кто хочет разобраться в своей голове, а не тому, кто хочет всё запомнить.
Дальше — почему «чтобы ничего не забывать» плохая цель, при чём тут письмо и картина мира, три правила, которых хватает на старте, и как не собрать чулан Плюшкина. Работает это одинаково для айтишника и для человека, который слово «репозиторий» слышал только от меня, разница будет в примерах.
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Привет, Хабр! Несколько абзацев о том, как понять с помощью проверки живости, что человек, который проходит онлайн‑регистрацию — именно тот, за кого себя выдаёт? Давайте поговорим про лабораторные метрики и реальные показатели, посмотрим, по каким критериям оценивать liveness‑проверки продакт‑менеджерам, решим, насколько можно доверять автоматическим системам и маркетингу вендоров.
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