Winner Dara from Bulgaria with the song "Bangaranga" performs again after her victory in the final of the 70th Eurovision Song Contest in Vienna, Austria, on May 17, 2026. —Jens Büttner—picture alliance/Getty Images
Eurovision, the world’s biggest international song contest, will no longer allow countries at war to host the competition.
The winning country typically hosts the next year’s competition, but under the new rules, the winning country will “automatically be ineligible to host the contest if an armed conflict, a sensitive geopolitical situation, or any other situation materially affects the security, safety or stability of their state or immediate region,” Eurovision song contest organizers announced on Wednesday.
The change comes after several European countries boycotted this year’s competition over the inclusion of Israel. Israel came second in both the 2025 and 2026 contests, raising questions about whether it would be allowed to host if it won.
The contest’s governing body approved the amendment after receiving feedback from participating broadcasters.
“These changes are about giving everyone involved greater clarity, protecting artists and ensuring the contest continues to provide a safe and welcoming environment, while preserving the spirit and integrity that make the Eurovision Song Contest so special,” Martin Green, director of the Eurovision Song Contest, said in a statement.
Eurovision organizers made several more changes to the competition’s rules, including raising the minimum age for performers as of the first day of rehearsal from 16 to 18.
Controversy
Five countries—Spain, Iceland, Ireland, the Netherlands, and Slovenia—boycotted this year’s competition in Vienna, Austria, in May after the European Broadcasting Union refused calls to suspend Israel from the contest. Ireland’s public broadcaster RTÉ said in a September statement that its “participation would be unconscionable given the ongoing and appalling loss of lives in Gaza.” José Pablo López, president of Spain’s public broadcaster RTVE, said that same month that “it was about time to break the silence within the EBU regarding the genocide in Gaza.”
Broadcasters also argued that the competitors of Eurovision are not ordinary performers but representatives of their nations. Eurovision “is not merely a song contest,” López said. It’s “the most politicized festival in existence.”
The broadcasters’ decision to withdraw from the contest marked the largest multinational political boycott in Eurovision history.
The boycott came amid intense backlash from the public over the inclusion of Israel in the competition despite its military occupation and bombardment of Gaza, which has killed more than 73,000 people since Oct. 7, 2023.
Israel has participated in Eurovision since 1973, becoming the first non-European country to join the competition. Because Eurovision is run by public broadcasters that are part of the EBU, it includes EBU members outside Europe, such as Canada, which will be eligible to participate in the song contest in 2027 after its broadcaster joined the union in 2026. Bulgaria is set to host the 2027 competition.
But Israel’s inclusion in recent years raised questions about whether the competition was taking a consistent stance towards countries at war. Eurovision banned Russia from participating in the contest after it invaded Ukraine in February 2022, arguing that its inclusion would bring the contest into disrepute. Later that year, the EBU indefinitely suspended Russian state broadcasters from its governance and membership.
After Israel finished second in both the 2025 and 2026 contests—results that also drew scrutiny over allegations of government interference, which the country denied—some broadcasters reportedly expressed safety concerns if the contest were to be hosted there in the future. (An investigation by Eurovision News Spotlight found that the Israeli government had funded an extensive online campaign for its 2025 entry. The EBU maintained that the result was valid but introduced new restrictions this year prohibiting disproportionate promotion, including state-backed campaigns. It formally warned Israeli broadcaster KAN over videos urging viewers to cast all 10 of their votes for Israel. The broadcaster denied wrongdoing and the EBU said the videos did not affect the results of the competition.)
Eurovision has moved competitions before due to geopolitical issues, although there has not been a formal rule until now. Ukraine hosted Eurovision in 2017 in spite of fighting between Ukrainian forces and Moscow-backed separatists in the east. The country won again in 2022, but the 2023 competition was ultimately hosted in Liverpool, U.K., on Ukraine’s behalf.
The new rule also institutionalizes a process to determine whether a winning country not at war is eligible to host. The EBU said it could commission an independent security assessment to determine whether a winning country can safely host the event, and if not, the EBU will appoint another host country.
Under the new rules, an appointed host country would also organize the contest “in its own right” and “will not be required to stage the event on behalf of another member.” That change differs from the 2023 competition for which British and Ukrainian broadcasters collaborated on the production of the competition.
In an exclusive interview with the BBC’s Steve Rosenberg, Dmitry Muratov says the Kremlin leader can only "destroy Ukraine, not conquer it", with the war now in its fifth year.
Incheon airport had 38.39m international passengers in first half of 2026, as traffic diverted from Middle East hubs
South Korea’s Incheon airport has become the world’s busiest airport for international passengers, in part owing to disruption in the Middle East caused by the Iran war.
The airport, South Korea’s main gateway, about 30 miles (48km) west of Seoul, handled 38.39 million international passengers in the first half of 2026, according to preliminary figures compiled by the Airports Council International (ACI), the global trade body for airports.
Мне нужен был сервис, в котором должны были работать несколько разных алгоритмов. Часть математики я помнил, часть понимал поверхностно, часть собирался восстановить по ходу работы. Чтобы быстрее получить прототип, я подключил LLM к генерации бойлерплейта, интерфейсов и первых реализаций.
Через несколько дней (говно)кода стало много — вменяемого сервиса не получилось.
Один BFS принимал map[string][]string. DFS жил на другом типе графа. В одной реализации направленность задавалась на уровне графа, в другой вытекала из того, как было записано ребро. Опции существовали, но их комбинации не образовывали понятной политики. Result types возвращали срезы и числа, однако я не мог внятно ответить, что именно они гарантируют.
Проблема была не в том, что LLM «не умеет BFS». Я попросил реализации раньше, чем сформулировал общий контракт данных. Генератор заполнил пустые места правдоподобными допущениями — которые, очевидно, не совпали в разных кусках кода.
Исходный сервис я остановил. Дальше пришлось вернуться к математике, разобрать алгоритмы по отдельности и сначала спроектировать фундамент, на котором они вообще могут сосуществовать. ...решение смелое и честно говоря не самое лёгкое.. и совершенно не дооценённое
The City Council is poised to approve a package of bills loosening some restrictions on roadway dining structures, which became ubiquitous during the pandemic.
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Tributes to the former premier recalled his spirited style and his efforts to integrate China into global commerce, in contrast with the rigidity of the Xi era.
Wyoming, one of the most conservative states, has a legislature divided between a hard-right House and a merely right Senate. Ultraconservatives want a complete takeover in the Aug. 18 primaries.
New York State’s generous health plan for working-class people was hit hard by federal funding cuts. More than 400,000 people are now looking for new coverage or living without it.
Representative Jason Crow asked Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to explain statements about his special adviser’s influence following a New York Times report.
The agency used a no-bid contract to buy 10 used jets, saying they were urgently needed for deportation flights. But the fleet has largely sat idle for months.
Dineth Fernando’s first language isn’t English and he only arrived in Melbourne six months ago – but already he’s claimed an international Scrabble title with an Australian flag draped around his shoulders.
The 13-year-old won the 2026 world youth Scrabble championships in the Kenyan capital of Nairobi over the weekend, becoming the third Australian representative in the competition’s history to take out the prize.
Сегодня выдался какой-то безумный день. Сначала вышла финальная версия DeepSeek V4 Pro, а меньше чем через два часа появился Grok 4.6. Обе модели близки по масштабу: у одной около 1,6T параметров, у второй около 1,5T. И обе за одну ночь подобрались к уровню пользовательского опыта Claude Fable 5.
American flags fly at the New York Stock Exchange in New York, New York. —Sven Hoppe—Getty Images
The world is not selling America short, even if Americans sometimes do.
After spending much of the past few months traveling from Europe to India to China, I’ve been struck by the disconnect between how many Americans talk about our country’s financial system and how clients around the world describe it to me. At home, the conversation often focuses on volatility, dysfunction, and decline. Abroad, governments, companies, and investors are still working out how to gain greater access to what America has built.
The data reinforces this. The U.S. has been capturing a growing share of global direct investment, rising from 15% prior to the pandemic to 20% on average, beginning in 2024 and continuing through this year. Today the U.S. equity market makes up nearly 65% of global market capitalization.
The same is true of the dollar. For all the talk of de-dollarization, the broad dollar index remains near its 40-year high. Shortly after last year’s tariff announcements, the Bank for International Settlements' survey of central banks around the world showed that roughly 90% of transactions remained dollar-based.
These numbers do not mean that America’s position is guaranteed. They show that, despite the turbulence of recent years, the gravitational pull of the American financial system remains dominant. This advantage matters when the defining economic question of the next decade may not be who invents the future, but who finances it.
Building the next generation of AI infrastructure, expanding energy capabilities, and reshoring manufacturing will all depend on the ability to mobilize capital at scale. And nowhere else in the world can private capital move as quickly and at greater scale than it does here.
The strength of American markets is also a reflection of investors’ willingness to finance tomorrow’s economy. The S&P 500 is often treated as a mirror of the U.S. economy, but it is also a window into the companies and technologies investors believe will drive future earnings and growth.
That willingness to back the future extends well beyond the largest public companies. The U.S. has the largest share of startups in the world and American companies capture 64% of global startup funding.
This economic ecosystem should empower Americans. Here, an entrepreneur with an idea can open an account at a community bank, raise seed capital from a venture fund, and eventually go public on the world’s largest equity market. Here, a small startup can become a truly global company. And tens of millions of Americans can then participate in that success through retirement funds and personal investments.
This integrated system helps people build businesses, purchase homes, create wealth, and invest in their futures. It also gives America the capacity to build at home and asserts its influence abroad. From the Marshall Plan to the modern global economy, America’s financial strength has repeatedly amplified American leadership.
Yet scale and innovation alone do not explain America’s advantage. Our financial system rests on public and private institutions that have been tested and strengthened over generations, markets backed by millions of individual investors and the world’s most competitive banking sector.
Trust in this system is one reason the dollar remains central to global commerce. It helps explain why global trade, payments and investment continue to flow through the system, and why investors seek the safety, liquidity and transparency of American markets through crises and economic shocks.
None of this means America’s financial system is perfect. Over the decades, Americans have lived through periods that damaged confidence in banks and markets. America’s financial institutions have made significant changes and built back trust, but those of us who lead them have an obligation to keep earning it.
Perhaps the most distinctive advantage of the American model is not that it avoids failure, but its ability to adapt, reform, and continue creating opportunity. The same country that built the world’s deepest capital markets has repeatedly renewed them through innovation, competition and change. American companies of all sizes have confronted a number of shocks in recent years, yet they continue to adapt, innovate and grow.
That is why it is never a good idea to bet against the American entrepreneur. It is also a major reason why, like so many immigrants before and after me, I chose America, and why the world’s capital continues to choose America too.
The truth is that if another country could take Wall Street off America’s hands tomorrow, it would in a heartbeat.
Last year, at a party, I bumped into a handsome guy who I had met the month before at a yoga event. After exchanging pleasantries at the bar, he said, “You look very nice today.” I said thanks and turned my back to him to continue speaking to my friend who was next to me, listening in on our conversation.
“What are you doing? He is obviously your type and he was trying to flirt with you!” she said. I was so confused. I didn’t pick up on any signals and assumed it was just polite conversation.
I don’t know how to flirt, and I can rarely tell if someone is flirting with me—and I’m not alone. Recently, I attended an online class on being single and navigating dating in the current climate. The therapy group had people from all over the world, some in their 20s and some in their 30s or 40s.
Two topics stayed consistent regardless of age or geography. The first was that people were fed up with the fact that no one approaches each other or makes the first move. The second was that no one knows how to do so themselves
Today, many daters are fluent in texting but far less comfortable with ambiguity, rejection, and face-to-face social risks. Now, relationship therapists, psychologists, and cultural commentators warn we are at risk of losing the fine art of flirting.
Digital culture can take part of the blame. “We’re living in a culture that is more digitally connected than ever before, and many people are getting less used to having everyday spontaneous face-to-face interactions,” says Victoria Wren, a therapist based in the U.K.
People spend lots of their time communicating through apps, direct messages, or video chats. All of these digital platforms give us control over what we say, how long we take to respond, and how vulnerable or honest we choose to be.
The stakes feel a lot higher in the tangible world. “If we feel like we’ve overshared or said something we did not mean to say, we have the opportunity to just edit or unsend a text now,” Wren says. “Approaching someone in real life requires risking rejection, taking courage, and accepting that things might not work out as hoped.”
But not everyone feels comfortable taking that risk.
Previous generations practiced talking to strangers while waiting in line, making conversation in bars, reading body language, and navigating awkwardness because there was no digital alternative. Today, the reality is much different. Rather than engaging with the people around me, my phone often fills the gap in my day. When a friend is running late for lunch, for example, I scroll aimlessly, answering emails or texts.
Often, existing in the modern physical world can feel like a standoff. Recently, in a restaurant with my friends, I made a point of smiling and looking at a guy on the other side of the room. He felt my eye contact and did the same, but neither of us approached the other. I left frustrated.
Perhaps part of this standoff is that many of us have learned to fear rejection. During my group therapy class, several men in the group told us about their terrible experiences of approaching women and being rejected in humiliating ways. One guy said he asked a woman about the book she was reading and she just loudly screamed, “Go away!” Going forward, many assume the same experience will happen again if they approach someone, so they simply don’t.
Our therapist, Stephanie Beebe, reminded us that our generation didn’t really learn interpersonal skills. She has been married to her husband for more than three decades and said her generation had to rely on exceptional interpersonal skills in everyday life because you couldn’t hide behind a screen. If you wanted to ask someone out, flirt, apologize, resolve conflict, or simply make conversation, you had to do it face-to-face.
Today, many people no longer have the same opportunities to develop the interpersonal skills that flirting requires. And while many people say they want to meet a partner organically instead of through dating apps, many daters also express fears of rejection and an unwillingness to make the first move.
That made me wonder whether the dating crisis we keep talking about is actually an interpersonal skills crisis. “Relying so much on texts and DMs means we may miss out on the subtleties of face-to-face connections and diverse encounters, which may be energizing, or challenging, or a mixture of both,” says Wren.
We often blame dating apps or social media, but perhaps other forms of technology are to blame as well. We’ve spent so much of our lives communicating through texts, voice notes, and algorithms that we’ve lost the confidence to navigate the ambiguity of flirting with a stranger.
No one is born with the ability to make small talk, listen actively, or flirt. Like any skill, it becomes stronger through practice, and in that way we start to develop our own style of interacting with others.
However, while people had more opportunities to interact with strangers in the past, bars, workplaces, events, and public transport remain crucial sites for dating and flirting. But armed with weaker interpersonal skills and the heightened self-awareness of the social media age, many people feel an overwhelming pressure to carefully manage how they are perceived. My theory: all of this makes us more reluctant to meet new people and risk feeling vulnerable, rejected, or embarrassed.
It takes a lot of courage and a healthy mindset to know that rejection isn’t always a reflection of us personally. Gradual exposure is key. For example, start slowly by complimenting and thanking the barista who is serving your coffee. Make eye contact and smile at a stranger. Say “Good morning” or chat to someone in class or at work. Strike up a conversation with a colleague you might not know super well. Approaching someone romantically can begin to feel less intimidating the more we get used to experiencing positive interactions with people in general.
Self-compassion and self-acceptance are also important. Flirting, and dating in general, requires stepping into our vulnerability, knowing we can retreat if we feel we would like to. We have to become comfortable with uncertainty and the possibility of rejection.
As a personal experiment, I have stopped wearing headphones during my commutes and tried making eye contact and smiling at strangers. A few weeks later, while on vacation, I was at the beach and noticed a man who was looking in my direction and smiling.
A previous version of me would have ignored it and buried my head into my phone. But I smiled back and he came over to say hi. It didn’t lead to anything romantic, but I’m proud of myself for being approachable, rather than hiding.
And the experience served as a great reminder for something many of us have forgotten: flirting feels good.
The U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee condemned the actions of Jewish settlers who are besieging the home of an American Palestinian family in the Israeli-occupied West Bank.
Rep. Tom Tiffany (R-WI) participates in a ceremonial swearing-in at the US Capitol on May 19, 2020, in Washington, DC. | Drew Angerer/Getty Images
Tom Tiffany, the new Republican nominee for governor in Wisconsin, is not just a passive supporter of President Donald Trump’s lies about the 2020 presidential election. He is an active promoter of them.
In December 2020, when he was a member of Congress, he signed on to a Texas lawsuit seeking to invalidate Joe Biden’s victory. On January 6, 2021, he voted against certifying the results in Pennsylvania and Texas just hours after rioters threatened to kill his colleagues. He has stated he would have overturned Wisconsin’s results too, and just this year endorsed an FBI investigation into the state’s elections. And though the national climate in 2026 favors Democrats, Wisconsin is a closely divided state: Tiffany could beat the odds and win the general.
There is, in short, a very real chance that someone who doesn’t believe American elections are legitimate may soon be supervising them in one of the 2028 presidential cycle’s most important swing states.
It’s not just Wisconsin. In each of the other most critical 2028 states — Michigan, Georgia, Pennsylvania, Arizona, and Nevada — Republicans have chosen an election denier as their nominee for governor, secretary of state, or both. If any of these candidates win, they will have at least some degree of authority over the administration of elections in a state that could determine the outcome of the next presidential election.
So could the outcome of the 2026 midterms ultimately lead to a stolen election in 2028, as some are alreadywarning? Election experts say it’s very unlikely.
State election laws contain numerous overlapping checks on interference from top officials. The judiciary has a pretty strong track record in stopping election malfeasance. A reform to the Electoral Count Act, passed quietly during the Biden presidency, significantly improved federal protections against election interference. And in 2028, the man uniquely responsible for previous pushes to invalidate the 2020 election won’t be on the ballot.
“[There are many] reasons why one should not be concerned,” said Rebecca Green, the co-director of the Election Law Program at the College of William and Mary. “Even in circumstances where there is a single partisan in control of a state’s election process, there are numerous checks on that power.”
That said, the risk isn’t zero. There is a remote chance, if the election is extremely close, that a well-placed election denier could swing the outcome. And even if they don’t outright steal an election, someone like Tiffany could still use their office to damage the electoral system in some pretty important ways.
“We have to be walking between complacency and alarmism,” said Rick Hasen, an expert on election law at UCLA. “Both of those are bad.”
Why the 2028 election is more secure than you think
Election law varies from state to state. Most of the time, the state’s secretary of state (SOS) is in charge of elections, but sometimes it’s the state board of elections. Sometimes the SOS is directly elected, and sometimes they’re appointed by the governor.
But in broad strokes, there are three ways for governors or an allied SOS to attack an election. They can try to suppress opposition voters before the voting starts, by (for example) purging them from the rolls or putting insufficient polling stations in their neighborhoods. They can try to interfere during the vote count, by trying to disqualify outparty ballots or even falsifying the vote count. Or they can try to interfere afterward, by refusing to certify election results.
“Courts have shown themselves to be pretty good against election denialism. That’s true of both Democratic and Republican appointed and elected judges.”
Rick Hasen, UCLA election expert
Each of those is exceptionally, perhaps even prohibitively, difficult to pull off — even for a committed election denier.
Voter suppression is hard because the tactics are legally limited. Current federal law bans voter roll purges within 90 days of the election, which allowed Democrats to simply re-register voters disqualified in previous Republican purges (though the Supreme Court may overturn this provision in an upcoming case). Impediments like polling station placement are, per Hasen, hard to target; they are most likely to affect low-income and low-propensity voters, who have trended Republican in recent elections.
Interfering with the counting of votes is made difficult by what Green terms “adversarial election administration”: basically, the fact that partisans from both parties are involved in multiple different stages of the counting process. Every state has strict rules governing the counting process, and observers from both parties can see if they’re being breached in the other party’s favor. If there is an irregularity, courts are empowered to step in and correct it.
And it is simply illegal for governors or secretaries of state to refuse to certify legitimate elections. State laws in all relevant battleground states allow courts to issue a writ of mandamus requiring officials to certify duly counted results, which they have done repeatedly since 2020 when Republican-controlled county election boards withheld certification.
“Courts have shown themselves to be pretty good against election denialism,” Hasen said. “That’s true of both Democratic and Republican appointed and elected judges.”
And all of that assumes that a Republican who denied the result of the 2020 election would necessarily attempt to steal future elections. That may not be the case.
“Just because you have partisan control of an election, and just because that person has cast doubt on previous elections, doesn’t mean that person is not going to be committed to running a fair election,” Green said.
Such a sentiment may sound naive, but it also may reflect the reality of post-Trump politics. The president was the driving force behind the attempt to overturn the 2020 election; his insistence that he did not lose, and his iron grip on the hearts and minds of the GOP base, pushed the party onto grounds that its other leaders clearly feared to tread.
While Republicans certainly attempted to stack the electoral deck in their favor prior to Trump, these brazen attempts to overturn or steal legitimate elections are a product of his time in office. Whether he has permanently changed the Republican Party into an entity that will regularly reject elections they lose is very much an open question.
Why electing election deniers could still matter
All of this should give us some comfort about the upcoming state-level races: It is simply very hard for a governor or SOS to steal a presidential election even if they want to. While American democracy is weak in many different ways, the security of its election architecture specifically is actually one of its strong points.
But even the most impregnable-seeming fortresses can be breached. And there are reasons to worry that, in an extreme case, an election denier in key positions could well damage the integrity of the 2028 presidential election.
In a 2022 paper, the law professor Lisa Marshall Manheim argued that conventional legal analysis has proven inadequate for addressing the threat of election subversion. While legal experts are correct to say that the law makes stealing an election hard, the most dangerous threat to US elections — Trump’s 2020 campaign — was essentially extra-legal in character.
While American democracy is weak in many different ways, the security of its election architecture specifically is actually one of its strong points.
While “superficially” operating through the legal system, Trump was actually asking officials from Congress on down to engage in obviously unlawful behavior. When Trump asked Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to “find” just enough votes to overturn the state’s results, or for Mike Pence to find the “courage” to nullify the results on January 6, he wasn’t asking these two men to act according to their legal duties. He was asking them to step beyond law, to embrace a reading of their office’s powers so obviously absurd that it amounts to declaring the text of the law to be no limit at all.
This is the nightmare scenario: one in which officials in key positions simply decide that they no longer have to follow a good-faith reading of the law. If enough officials in the right places decide to cast off legal shackles, no carefully crafted statute can stop them. We will, as Hasen put it, exit the domain of law into “something else”: the politics of raw power.
Anyone who endorsed Trump’s lies about the 2020 election — let alone actively attempted to act on them — has already shown a degree of contempt for election law. That means that one can’t rule out a similar display of contempt in the future, only this time with the power to turn that into impactful defiance of law.
It’s vastly too early to say the conditions under which such a radical breach might occur, in 2028 or in the future. A lot depends on the makeup of the Republican Party; whether leaders after Trump embrace or downplay his hostility to the electoral system itself. But we now know that the risk is there. And the more election deniers we have in key positions, the greater the odds are that the risk becomes real — even if the baseline probability remains low in absolute terms.
This connects to another, more insidious risk: that electing election deniers could exacerbate the ongoing crisis of electoral confidence since 2020.
Even if Tiffany or someone like him doesn’t try to outright prevent or nullify Democratic victories in their state, they could still declare that they lack confidence in the result’s integrity. That they tried to run a fair election, but that Democrats or the courts prevented them from doing so — and thus, despite their lack of legal powers to stop it, that they believe the election to have been compromised or even stolen.
This may not lead to a series of January 6s across the country. But even if it didn’t, it would deepen the lack of trust Republican voters have in the electoral system. If Republicans post-Trump continue to believe that Democrats are engaged in widespread cheating, that could contribute to an environment where the kind of extra-legal shenanigans Manheim warned of could look more tempting.
So while it is quite unlikely that the 2026 elections will lead to a crisis in 2028, it could play a role in dashing the possibility that American democracy moves on from the dangerous Trump-era fighting over elections. And as long as that fighting persists, another 2020-style crisis will remain a live possibility.
Incheon airport had 38.39m international passengers in first half of 2026, as traffic diverted from Middle East hubs
South Korea’s Incheon airport has become the world’s busiest airport for international passengers, in part owing to disruption in the Middle East caused by the Iran war.
The airport, South Korea’s main gateway, about 30 miles (48km) west of Seoul, handled 38.39 million international passengers in the first half of 2026, according to preliminary figures compiled by the Airports Council International (ACI), the global trade body for airports.
Эта серия для тех, кто выучил синтаксис Go, написал первые go func() и хочет понять, что за ними стоит. Многопоточность знать не нужно: начнем с того, что такое поток. К концу первой части ты будешь понимать, почему поток операционной системы дорогой, что такое горутина физически и как Go пришел к схеме GMP.
В начале августа я сел делать игру для мессенджера MAX – обычный вордли, слово из пяти букв, шесть попыток. Мини-приложение на ванильном JS, сервер на Go, самый дешёвый VPS. По моим прикидкам – три вечера.
Первый вечер целиком ушёл на то, чтобы сервер вообще смог поговорить с API мессенджера. Не на игру, не на словарь – на TCP-соединение.
Дальше было ещё семь таких мест. Каждое выглядело как мой баг, каждое оказалось особенностью платформы, и ни одного из них нет в документации. Ниже – все восемь, с кодом и с тем, как именно я до них дошёл. Игра тут нужна только как повод: она набрала 107 игроков за пять дней, это скромно, и рассказывать я собираюсь не про неё.
Egypt is poised for further growth, while demand for trips to Turkey rebounded after hotels cut prices to entice budget-conscious tourists, according to the chief of the German travel group .
Вдыхаемый в помещении воздух часто содержит пыль, вредные вещества, аллергены и микроскопические частицы, которые незаметны, но постепенно наносят ущерб нашему здоровью. Очистители воздуха набирают всё большую популярность, но зачастую они дороги, неудобны в настройке и почти не дают никакой информации об окружающем нас воздухе.
Для решения этой проблемы я создал AirSense — самодельный умный очиститель воздуха, сочетающий в себе очистку воздуха, мониторинг окружающей среды и подключение к облаку. AirSense не просто фильтрует воздух, но и непрерывно замеряет качество воздуха в помещении, сообщая в реальном времени информацию об окружающей среде, что помогает пользователям лучше понимать состояние вдыхаемого ими воздуха.
Эта система на основе Waveshare ESP32-S3 выполняет мониторинг концентрации пыли PM2.5, индекса качества воздуха (Air Quality Index, AQI), температуры, влажности и атмосферного давления при помощи специальных датчиков окружающей среды. Все собираемые данные отображаются локально на ЖК‑дисплее устройства; кроме того, к ним можно получить удалённый доступ при помощи Arduino IoT Cloud, что позволяет пользователям отслеживать состояние окружающей среды и управлять очистителем через смартфон.
Ядром AirSense служит HEPA‑фильтр Xiaomi Air Purifier 4 Lite, способный фильтровать до 99,97% частиц размером вплоть до 0,3 мкм, включая пыль, пыльцу, частицы дыма и другие распространённые загрязнители воздуха. Система оснащена мощным вытяжным вентилятором размером 150 мм, непрерывно пропускающим воздух через цилиндрический фильтр.
Чтобы проект выглядел как изготовленный профессионально, конструкцию всего корпуса я создал в Autodesk Fusion 360. Система объединяет в себе HEPA‑фильтр, вентилятор, датчики, дисплей и электронику.
Президент России Владимир Путин впервые совершил поездку на Курилы. Япония, которая оспаривает принадлежность островов, выразила протест. Премьер-министр страны Санаэ Такаити заявила, что визит Путина ухудшил отношение Японии к России.
Nothing ruins a great night of sleep faster than getting too hot. We slept on a myriad of cooling mattresses to find which ones drew the heat away best.
В этот раз я пришёл с двухчастным текстом про F#, тайппровайдеры, скрипты, спортивное программирование, MVU, консольные интерфейсы в стиле FarManager, низкоуровневый интероп с виндой, некоторое количество хаков ХМ и, внезапно, живопись. Причём только консольные интерфейсы с некоторой натяжкой можно назвать центральным элементом повествования, поэтому я понятия не имею, как должен выглядеть потенциальный читатель этой статьи. Будем исходить из предположения, что он либо достаточно опытен, либо у него достаточно времени и усердия, чтобы расковырять всё, что я не счёл должным разобрать детально (я могу, но только за 16 глав).
Сегодня мы изучим небольшой .fsx-скрипт, который я ежедневно запускаю, чтобы получить очередную порцию задачек из архива codeforces.com. Необычно то, что скрипт функционирует как полноценное GUI-приложение, пусть и очень страшное старое. Кажется, что до меня так никто не делал, так что с осторожностью назову это авторской инновацией.
Бывший морпех Роберт Гилман, арестованный в России в 2022 году и отбывавший 10-летний срок в Воронеже, помилован по гуманитарным соображениям. Информацию подтвердил президент США Дональд Трамп, Кремль ее пока не комментировал. Ранее стало известно, что Гилман переведен из тюремной больницы колонии в психиатрическое отделение обычной больницы в состоянии, оцененном как «диссоциативный ступор».
Manchester City want around £65m for Spain midfielder
Al-Qadsiah closing on move for City’s Tijjani Reijnders
Manchester City have rejected Barcelona’s second bid of around €60m (£51m) for Rodri, while Chelsea have set a 5pm (BST) Friday deadline for the club to bid £120m for the midfielder’s potential replacement, Enzo Fernández.
On Tuesday Barça improved on their initial offer of €45m but this has been turned down. City, it is thought, want between £60m and £65m for Rodri, who captained Spain to victory at the World Cup and is a former Ballon d’Or winner.
Через семь месяцев после начала войны в Иране, несмотря на огромное давление, которое она оказывает на его экономику и инфраструктуру, те, кто принимают в Тегеране решения, кажется не торопятся ее заканчивать.
Dress like a zebra, wash your feet, keep off the beer: insect experts explain what works and what doesn’t – and why some of us get bitten more than others
It’s a good time to be a mosquito or other blood-sucking insect. In the UK and beyond, they are enjoying the summer heat, and there are lots of humans outdoors, some wearing very little, like an all-you-can-eat walking buffet. Some of the humans are drinking beer, which apparently makes them even more irresistible to mosquitoes. Many of us are warm and sweaty, which is all the better for the blood-suckers seeking us out.
Insect populations are changing because of the warming climate and there are organisations keeping an eye on invasive species, especially mosquitoes, which can be vectors for diseases such as dengue and malaria (globally, more than 600,000 people a year die from malaria). The UK “will have a threat from mosquito-borne diseases as time goes on,” says James Logan, professor of medical entomology at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, and CEO of Dot, an “odour intelligence” company. “The biggest threats are arboviruses [viruses transmitted by arthropods, especially insects and ticks], such as dengue. We have mosquitoes throughout [mainland] Europe now that can transmit dengue. We also know that we do get those mosquitoes coming across to the UK, but they don’t seem to be breeding here successfully and surviving over the winter.” But, he warns, with milder winters and warmer summers, it is only a matter of time.
Records obtained by WIRED detail hundreds of allegations of Customs and Border Protection workers misusing internal tools to look up romantic interests and track colleagues’ cell phones.
На связи Виктор Иевлев, я руковожу отделом информационной безопасности в «Гарде».
Полноценную защиту корпоративной инфраструктуры сегодня сложно представить без коммерческих средств защиты информации. Однако далеко не каждая компания может позволить себе сразу построить такой стек. Стартапы, небольшие организации, компании с ограниченным бюджетом зачастую вынуждены искать компромиссные решения и использовать open source.
Я уже рассказывал в одной из статей об open source-сканерах уязвимостей. В этот раз предлагаю остановиться на защитных решениях и попробовать собрать минимальный стек на базе open source.
