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• WSL team will be favourites against Spanish side

• Financial implications of missing out are significant

Chelsea will face Real Sociedad in the Women’s Champions League’s third qualifying round, needing a victory over two legs to earn a place in the main league phase of the competition.

The 2021 runners-up and six-time European semi-finalists are taking part in the qualifying stage by virtue of their disappointing third-placed finish in the Women’s Super League last term – their lowest league finish since 2019 – and they will be the favourites against the Spanish side.

В марте Nvidia показала DLSS 5 и получила такую волну критики, какой у зеленых не было довольно давно. Сейчас, спустя несколько месяцев, компания дала повод снова о ней поговорить. Она просто вышла и показала то, что стоило показывать сразу. Это касается в первую очередь инструментов, которые развязывают руки разработчикам и позволяют лучше управлять нейросетями в своих играх. Звучит пространно и непонятно, но сейчас разберем, в чем именно преимущество новой функции.

Today marks one year since the National Guard was deployed to the nation's capital. Here's what has happened since. And, a 7.4 magnitude earthquake leaves more than 100 people dead in Colombia.

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А помните, был такой Vine? В конце 2010-х это приложение для коротких видео, казалось, вот-вот станет тем, во что в итоге превратился TikTok. Вместо этого его купил Twitter и быстро закрыл.

На этом, по идее, история должна был и закончиться, но на самом деле у нее было совершенно дикое продолжение, и нет, речь не о Логане Поле, перебравшемся из Vine в YouTube.

Речь про HQ Trivia.

Two advisers have links to a venture fund co-investing in US defense companies that benefit from federal spending

Pete Hegseth’s appointments to a key Pentagon advisory body include two men with ties to the venture capital fund where Donald Trump Jr is a partner, which has lucrative investments in military and space technology.

Defense Policy Board appointee Marc Andreessen’s firm, Andreessen Horowitz, one of Silicon Valley’s largest venture capital firms and known by the name “a16z”, co-invests alongside the Trump partnership 1789 Capital in three defense contractors. Fellow DPB appointee Blake Masters also sits on the boards of three ventures tied to 1789 Capital.

Largest for-profit hospital system and operator in the US reported $6.8bn in profits, while employees find it difficult to make ends meet

Union workers with HCA Healthcare, the largest for-profit hospital system and operator in the US, are holding picket protests across the country as they push for pay and staffing increases in a new contract.

The hospital system has over 300,000 employees in the US and the UK, with 22,000 US workers represented by the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) who are in contract negotiations with HCA. Workers are asking for a pathway to a $25 an hour minimum wage, improved wage scales and raises that match the increased cost of living, along with benefits including paid vacation, sick time and bolstered work protections.

Rooms in Icelandic capital Reykjavík cost double usual rate and Spain also enjoying strong bookings

• Europe’s total solar eclipse: the best place to see it

Hotel prices have surged in key European cities as hundreds of thousands of tourists flock to see the first total eclipse visible from the continent this century.

Iceland’s capital, Reykjavík, has seen one of the biggest jumps in hotel room prices, being one of the few accessible locations to see the full eclipse before evening on Wednesday.

Last week, President Donald Trump issued a new executive order that purports to strip citizenship from some Americans. 

This isn’t our first time here: Last year, Trump issued an executive order that attempted to strip citizenship from many Americans born in this country. Months later, in response to a lawsuit brought over Trump’s order, the Supreme Court reaffirmed that everyone born in the United States who is subject to US law is a citizen. The Court’s decision in Trump v. Barbara (2026) was hardly a surprise, as the Court first ruled that everyone born in the US and subject to its laws are citizens in United States v. Wong Kim Ark (1898).

Still, the Barbara decision did invalidate an executive order from Trump. And that made him very angry. The new order appears to be a response to that 2025 Supreme Court decision, though it is much narrower than his original one.

In this sense, Trump appears to be experimenting with where the line is for the justices when it comes to birthright citizenship. When Trump’s first order came before the Court in Barbara, there was more than a century of precedent establishing that the order was unconstitutional. Nevertheless, four justices voted to overrule at least some of that precedent. 

Now, with the new order, Trump is testing whether a smaller bite at the apple is enough to win over one of the justices who voted with the majority in Barbara — two of whom are Republicans. If he manages to hold onto the four dissenters in Barbara and pick up just one more justice’s vote, his new order will stand. It’s a plausible outcome, and one that could potentially foreshadow future efforts to chip away at birthright citizenship.

What does the order actually do?

Trump’s first citizenship order, the one struck down in Barbara, attempted to strip citizenship from many Americans whose mothers were either undocumented or legally-but-temporarily present in the United States when they were born. Had this order been in effect at their birth, it would have stripped citizenship from many prominent Americans, including former Vice President Kamala Harris.

The new order, entitled “Continuing to Protect the Meaning and Value of American Citizenship” is much narrower; indeed, it’s unclear some of the categories of people it hopes to denaturalize actually exist. The new order, for example, purports to strip citizenship from children of two non-citizen parents when either parent belongs to a “designated Foreign Terrorist Organization.”

So, in the unlikely event that, say, a member of Al-Qaeda impregnated a non-US citizen woman who later gave birth on US soil, Trump’s order would mandate that the child’s US citizenship would be taken away. 

Another provision purports to strip citizenship from the children of foreign nationals who work in their nation’s embassies or in similar diplomatic capacities but who do not enjoy diplomatic immunity from US law. Again, it’s unlikely that all that many children fall into this category, given the relatively small number of these jobs.

The largest group of people that Trump targets in his new order is children whose parents “engage in a commercial transaction to ensure that the person’s mother is present in the United States” for their birth, such as by buying a plane ticket to enter the United States while pregnant. But this category is also fairly small. 

In 2024, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported that 9,576 people were born in the United States to residents of foreign countries — out of about 3.6 million annual births — though it is unclear how many of these babies would be affected by Trump’s new executive order, because we don’t know if their mothers entered the United States “to ensure” that their child we be on US soil when born.

So, what does the Constitution actually say about birthright citizenship?

The question of whether people born in the United States are citizens was, until fairly recently, one of the most uncontroversial questions in US law. When Judge John Coughenour, a Reagan appointee, handed down the first court decision blocking Trump’s original attack on birthright citizenship, he commented that he’d “been on the bench for over four decades [and]…can’t remember another case where the question presented is as clear as this one is.”

The relevant provision of the Constitution’s 14th Amendment provides that “all persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States.” So, everyone born in the US, regardless of their parent’s immigration status, past behavior, or membership in a particular organization are citizens — unless they are not “subject to the jurisdiction” of the United States.

As the Court recently reaffirmed in Barbara, moreover, a child is within US jurisdiction if they are “subject to American law.” So, if undocumented immigrants and their children were not subject to US jurisdiction, that would mean that it was illegal to arrest and deport them. And, if members of foreign terrorist organizations were not subject to US law, that would mean that it is illegal for the US government to prosecute them for committing terrorist acts.

That said, Wong Kim Ark did recognize a few narrow categories of individuals who are present in the US but not subject to its laws — two of which are still relevant today. Children of invading foreign armies do not receive birthright citizenship, nor do children of foreign ambassadors and other diplomats who are immune from US law.

As the Court clarified in Barbara, both of these exemptions are derived from an old English rule that provided that the King could not convey citizenship to “those born in lands that he did not control.” Thus, when a foreign military occupied English soil and stripped the King of his ability to rule over those lands, children born to members of that military were not citizens.

The exemption for ambassadors and some other foreign diplomats, meanwhile, flows from what Barbara described as a “fiction of extraterritoriality.” While senior diplomats are present in the United States, they are nonetheless deemed to “remain on foreign soil” and thus are not subject to US law.

But not all employees of foreign governments qualify for this diplomatic immunity. Consider, for example, the tragic facts of Moncada v. Rubio (2025), a recent federal appeals court decision holding that a man who lived as a US citizen for nearly seven decades was not, in fact, a citizen. 

Roberto Moncada is the son of a Nicaraguan diplomat who worked in the United Nations when Moncada was born in 1950. The US government previously concluded that Moncada’s father served as a “consul” when his son was born, and, thus, Moncada was a US citizen, because consuls and their families do not enjoy diplomatic immunity. But, in 2018, the US government discovered that Moncada’s father was actually an “attaché,” a more senior diplomat who does enjoy immunity. And then, the father’s diplomatic immunity cut the son off from US citizenship.

Under these principles, several provisions of Trump’s new executive order are unconstitutional, at least in part. The provisions stripping citizenship from the children of employees of foreign governments are lawful to the extent that they apply to children of people with diplomatic immunity but unconstitutional to the extent they apply to lower-ranking individuals with no immunity. 

The provision dealing with members of foreign terrorist organizations is also unconstitutional, since people who engage in terrorism on US soil are very much subject to US law — as are babies born on US soil to parents connected to terrorism. Although, in the unlikely event that a foreign terrorist group actually seized control of some portions of US soil, then the exemption for children of invading armies would likely apply. 

The provision dealing with so-called “birth tourists” is also unconstitutional, because a pregnant woman who enters the United States to ensure that their child is a US citizen is subject to US law, as is her child.

Indeed, Trump appears to concede this later point in a separate executive order handed down at the same time as his “Continuing to Protect” order. The second order, entitled “Ending Birth Tourism,” instructs two federal cabinet departments to update their rules to discourage alleged birth tourists from entering the country, including by taking “appropriate action to prevent the entry into the United States of, or the granting of any visa or other travel authorization” to such individuals. But, again, if the United States has the power to deny visas or otherwise bar these individuals from entering the country, that means that they are subject to US jurisdiction.

Why Trump keeps trying to restrict birthright citizenship

So, the Constitution’s text, the Court’s venerable decision in Wong Kim Ark, and its brand new decision in Barbara are all clear about who qualifies for birthright citizenship. All of these authorities establish that much of Trump’s new executive order is unconstitutional, because it purports to strip citizenship from people who are subject to US jurisdiction.

But that doesn’t necessarily mean that the order will be struck down. While Barbara did little more than reaffirm the same rule the Court announced nearly 130 years ago in Wong Kim Ark, four justices dissented in Barbara — although, these justices also released four separate opinions with four separate definitions of who does and does not qualify for birthright citizenship. So, on this Supreme Court, the mere fact that a legal question has been settled for more than a century does not prevent many of the justices from voting to unsettle it.

Indeed, this Court does not even reliably follow its own recent precedents. The Court’s decision in Louisiana v. Callais (2026), which repealed a 1982 amendment to the Voting Rights Act and limited Congress’s power to prevent race discrimination in elections, was wholly at odds with the Court’s three-year-old decision in Allen v. Milligan (2023). The Court’s decision in Medina v. Planned Parenthood (2025), which repealed a federal law permitting Medicaid patients to choose their own doctors, cannot be squared with its decision two years earlier in Health and Hospital Corporation v. Talevski (2023). 

So, while two of the Court’s Republicans joined all three of its Democrats in Barbara, it is possible that at least one of those Republicans will vote with the dissenters on a narrower question, like whether Trump can strip citizenship from the children of so-called birth tourists. And even if all of the justices in the Barbara majority hold the line, if one of them leaves the Court while Trump is still in office, he will almost certainly replace them with someone who opposes birthright citizenship.

So, while Trump’s executive orders often defy the Constitution’s explicit text, Trump also understands something important about US law: It doesn’t actually matter what the Constitution says if you have five votes on the Supreme Court who are willing to do what you want them to do.

Keith Andrews and the high-scoring Igor Thiago face difficult second album after outperforming expectations

Guardian writers’ predicted position: 8th (NB: this is not necessarily John Brewin’s prediction but the average of our writers’ tips)

Last season’s position: 9th

It doesn’t have to be this way. We know what needs to be done

Disturbing news about our water resources is now constant and unrelenting. In just the past few weeks, media have reported that Puerto Rico is suffering a deep water crisis as severe drought has cut water supplies to thousands. The Rhine and Po rivers in Europe are at record low levels. The seven states sharing the Colorado River in the US are fighting over unprecedented shortages, while its major reservoirs have shrunk to their lowest levels since they were built.

Hungary’s only nuclear power plant is on the verge of shutting down because there isn’t enough water in the Danube River to cool it. Toxic chemicals have been found in all English water bodies.

Due to the rise of GLP-1s and cosmetic surgeries, professionals who weren’t usually subject to high beauty standards are facing new pressures

In 1975, John T Molly’s book Dress for Success became a national bestseller. It promised the American workforce “scientific” proof that certain clothes could “increase your income” and “boost your status”. It offered searing advice like: “Sweaters give out nothing but negative impulses … they say ‘lower middle class’ and ‘loser.’”

For those with office jobs, the workplace has long been a place where fashion counts. Molly’s book gave rise to ideas like power dressing and the adage about “dressing for the job you want, not the one you have”. But a new casual office culture, spurred by San Francisco tech companies where hoodies are the norm, plus the work-from-home revolution, was supposed to ameliorate some of those pressures.

Tenacious and confounding, the horseshoe crab pre-dates dinosaurs and has copper-based blood vital to vaccine safety

They pre-date dinosaurs, eat food using their legs and contain blue blood that we use to keep us healthy. Horseshoe crabs are the supreme, if offbeat, survivors of the invertebrate world.

Often called “living fossils” for visually obvious reasons – horseshoe crabs resemble a sort of prehistoric helmet (their Japanese name translates as “helmet crab”) – these animals have barely changed appearance along a lineage that stretches back 445m years.

It’s invertebrate of the year again! From 3-12 August, every day we will profile one of the thousands of amazing invertebrates that our readers have nominated. And then, when you’ve heard about all of them, we’ll open the voting so you can choose your favourites. Don’t hesitate to get in touch with thoughts and ideas: email us at environment.desk@theguardian.com with Invertebrate in the subject line.

Small businesses pay hidden toll after money-transfer rule change to curb illicit activities near the US-Mexico border

Last April, the Trump administration rolled out its latest tool in the fight against Mexican cartels: an aggressive crackdown on money transfers near the US-Mexico border.

The administration said that, in an effort to stop money laundering and other illicit activity, it would now require any business providing financial services in the region to report cash transactions over $200. Previously, the amount had been $10,000.

Я много лет занимался инфраструктурой. Потом перестал и ушёл в продукт — но привычка заглядывать: «А как у вас тут всё устроено?» осталась. И вот теперь я хожу к клиентам по совсем другим вопросам, а глаза всё равно выпадают.

Когда кожа начинает шелушиться или стягиваться после умывания — это значит, что есть пробитие в верхнем слое. Он устроен как кирпичная кладка — кератиноциты окружены межклеточным жировым матриксом. На 40–50% он состоит из церамидов. Это молекулы, которые держат кожный барьер герметичным. Они не дают влаге бесконтрольно испаряться и не пускают внутрь бактерии и аллергены. Если умываться мылом до скрипа, постоянно жить в сухом воздухе или просто стареть — церамидов становится меньше. Барьер теряет плотность, и кожа начинает реагировать на всё подряд.

Казалось бы, логичное решение — намазать чем-нибудь жирным. Вазелином, например. Он, правда, снижает испарение воды, но работает как временная заглушка. То же самое с маслами. Чтобы восстановить барьер, нужны родные запчасти. У человека как минимум девять видов церамидов, и повторить их архитектуру в лаборатории долго не получалось — мешала сложная геометрия молекул.

Решение внезапно нашли в рисе.

Привет! Меня зовут Кристина, я MLOps-инженер в Туту. Занимаюсь тем, что помогаю рекомендательным системам добраться до прода со всеми компромиссами, горящими дедлайнами и новыми идеями. 

Эта статья — про один из таких запусков.

В идеальном ML-мире запуск рекомендаций выглядит примерно так: полгода проектируют хранилище признаков (Feature Store), настраивают, откуда и как берутся данные, гоняют тяжёлые расчёты фичей и моделей, а отдельная команда следит, не деградирует ли модель из‑за изменений в данных. 

В реальном бизнесе у тебя есть 5 недель до старта высокого сезона, два инженера, DS и задача: сделать так, чтобы пользователь, который купил билет, сразу увидел релевантный отель. Рассказываем, как мы собрали работающую RecSys v1 на привычном стеке: Kafka, MongoDB, ClickHouse. При этом мы сознательно отказались от перфекционизма ради скорости.

Инженерный вызов здесь не в масштабе и не в алгоритмах, а в контексте. Cross-sell в travel — это не «похожие товары». 

Пример

Пользователь купил билет Москва → Сочи на 10–17 июля: значит, нужно показать отели именно в Сочи, именно на эти даты. 

Коллаборативная фильтрация без контекста поездки — «похожие пользователи → похожие отели» — не знает ни город, ни даты, ни то, что заказ только что оплачен и его ещё нет в DWH. 

Нужен подход, где контекст конкретной поездки — куда, когда, с кем — задаётся явно до ранжирования.

«Правильный» путь —  Feature Store и полноценная ML-платформа, занял бы 4–6 месяцев. Бизнесу нужно было проверить гипотезу на живом трафике. Мы собрали v1 на том, что уже работало в проде, с некоторыми компромиссами и без иллюзий насчёт идеальной архитектуры. 

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Pete Hegseth’s appointments to a key Pentagon advisory body include two men with ties to the venture capital fund where Donald Trump Jr is a partner, which has lucrative investments in military and space technology.

Defense Policy Board appointee Marc Andreessen’s firm, Andreessen Horowitz, one of Silicon Valley’s largest venture capital firms and known by the name “a16z”, co-invests alongside the Trump partnership 1789 Capital in three defense contractors. Fellow DPB appointee Blake Masters also sits on the boards of three ventures tied to 1789 Capital.

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Verdict relates to atrocities committed during the country’s 14-year civil war in which about 500,000 people died

A Syrian court has sentenced the country’s former president Bashar al-Assad and his brother Maher to death in absentia for crimes against humanity and war crimes during the 14-year civil war, in which about half a million people died.

The two men fled to Moscow after being ousted by a lightning rebel offensive in December 2024 which toppled the dictatorial regime in just 11 days.

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Verdict relates to atrocities committed during the country’s 14-year civil war in which about 500,000 people died

A Syrian court has sentenced the country’s former president Bashar al-Assad and his brother Maher to death in absentia for crimes against humanity and war crimes during the 14-year civil war, in which about half a million people died.

The two men fled to Moscow after being ousted by a lightning rebel offensive in December 2024 which toppled the dictatorial regime in just 11 days.

В России около 70 тысяч детей и подростков страдают от ревматических патологий. Это группа заболеваний, при которых иммунная система даёт сбой и атакует собственные ткани — чаще всего суставы. Примерно раз в год ребёнку положена госпитализация в федеральный центр, чтобы проверить состояние и убедиться, что конкретный тип терапии работает. Однако, когда ребёнок возвращается в родной город, рядом может не быть ни одного врача, который знает, что делать с этой терапией.

На связи Юлия Шеянова, менеджер проектов в здравоохранении, Центр технологий для общества Yandex Cloud. В этой статье расскажу, как мы в Yandex Cloud вместе с Ассоциацией детских ревматологов (ASPiRRe) и студентом ИТМО сделали ИИ-агента для системы дистанционного мониторинга. 

Ниже — как он устроен и почему мы доверили модели только две узкие задачи, а все решения о рисках вынесли в детерминированные правила.

Exclusive: Court service says anyone trying to enter buildings with glasses will have them confiscated and returned when they leave

Courts in England and Wales have joined a number of restaurants, theatres and pubs in banning Meta glasses, amid a mounting backlash against what has been described as “spyware”.

Last month courts in New York announced a ban on the controversial glasses, which can record video footage while being worn.

С инженерной точки зрения базовая станция решает задачу, которая на первый взгляд кажется простой: передать данные между сетью оператора и пользовательским устройством. Но на практике для этого нужно за доли миллисекунды превратить потоки битов в радиосигнал, который можно подать на антенну, а на приеме выполнить обратное преобразование: из зашумленного радиосигнала восстановить цифровые данные.

Между этими двумя мирами находится большой цифровой тракт. Данные проходят через протокольную обработку, канальное кодирование, модуляцию, размещение в частотно-временной ресурсной сетке, OFDM-преобразования, IQ-представление, цифровую фильтрацию, ЦАП/АЦП, квадратурное преобразование частоты, усилители. И все это должно работать в жестких временных рамках, синхронно с другими базовыми станциями, с контролем мощности, спектральной маски, задержек, помех и других требований стандарта.

Меня зовут Дмитрий Надумин, я инженер-программист в радиочастотном центре YADRO. В статье разберем путь данных с инженерной точки зрения: как они превращаются в QAM-символы, раскладываются по OFDM-поднесущим, как IFFT формирует временные IQ-отсчеты, почему RU работает именно с IQ-представлением и как в итоге на вход антенны попадает один суммарный полосовой RF-сигнал.

Сингапурская исследовательница Шаньюань У (Shangyuan Wu) из Национального университета Сингапура опросила 14 журналистов и редакторов из печатных, телевизионных, онлайн-СМИ и информационных агентств и получила довольно тревожную картину. Чем активнее редакции внедряют ИИ, тем быстрее у части журналистов атрофируются базовые профессиональные навыки — от умения находить информацию и проверять первоисточники до способности самостоятельно мыслить и принимать решения. Тезис исследования простой — деквалификация это уже наблюдаемый процесс и остановить его может только осознанное ограничение использования ИИ плюс освоение новых скиллов, которых у журналистов раньше не было.

Привет! Сейчас покажу штуку, которую я довольно долго доводил до ума, и мне кажется, она может пригодиться не только мне.

Задача звучит скучно: нагенерировать тестовые карточки людей. Пол, имя, диагноз. Скучно ровно до того момента, пока не посмотришь, что получилось: