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Человечество всегда испытывало потребность в точном определении координат — собственно, из-за проблем с этим в прошлом, возникал целый ряд проблем. 

Новое время, уже в XX веке, принесло с собой и новые проблемы — скорости движения кардинально выросли, что, в свою очередь, осложнило сложившиеся методы определения координат. 

Тем не менее, тот же самый XX век принёс и кардинальное изменение в этой области,

А именно — определение координат с помощью всего лишь света!

 Впрочем, давайте обо всём по порядку… 

Football manager José Mourinho stars in a three-parter from the creators of Bros: After the Screaming Stops. Don’t expect it to be quite so entertaining…

Among his previous credits, the director of this mini-series Joe Pearlman can count the revelatory and hilarious 2018 film, Bros: After the Screaming Stops. That documentary worked brilliantly because its subjects seemed so sweetly but devastatingly lacking in discretion or self-awareness that everything they said landed like a line from a Christopher Guest parody. They couldn’t help themselves.

In terms of a character study, storied football manager José Mourinho is a very different kettle of cold fish. Like the Goss twins, he takes himself very seriously indeed, but that’s pretty much where the similarities end. He’s something of a closed book. “You are pushing me to speak about myself,” he says, towards the end of the final part of this series. “And I don’t want to.” Which is fair enough but it does beg the question: why then, would you agree to be the subject of an in-depth three part documentary series?

Mourinho is on Netflix

An Amnesty International report reveals that the country is now a key part of Israel’s weapons supply chain. Plus, Assam floods, student anger spreads and a song to put in rotation

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Hello, and welcome back to This Is India.

For this week’s newsletter, I’m looking at India’s evolving relationship with Israel, and how it has deepened as conflict swept across the Middle East. Why is it that India has formed an even closer bond with a country that has faced mounting international isolation and backlash over a military campaign in Gaza that has left the territory in ruins and killed more than 70,000 Palestinians, – many of whom were children?

Итак, мы с тобой открываем свою OpenAI.

Решение принято, причем мной, и возможности отказаться у тебя нет. Учредительные документы я подал, домен купил, тебя записал техническим директором. Долю, так и быть, поделим поровну.

Обязанности такие: ты отвечаешь за то, чтобы модель обучилась, я за то, чтобы деньги не кончились раньше. Забегая вперед: с моей частью будут проблемы.

План простой и красивый, как все планы до первой таблицы. Китайцы обучили DeepSeek-V3 за 5,576 миллиона долларов и сами написали это в техотчете. Значит, нам нужно примерно столько же плюс аренда офиса. Дальше подписки, API, инвесторы, интервью в подкастах.

Ниже посчитано все: кластер, на котором такой прогон вообще возможен, зарплатная ведомость, данные вместе с юристами, раздача готовой модели пользователям и то, откуда на это берут деньги. С первоисточником на каждую цифру, отдельной колонкой по России и калькулятором в конце, чтобы ты подставил свои.

Давай считать.

Сервис диагностики двигателей автомобилей по звуку ставил «поломку» в 71% случаев. Я грешил на дешёвые телефоны, но проблемой оказалась тишина

Современная реальность ежедневно проходит своеобразный стресс-тест: нейроимпланты, сложные LLM-системы, AGI и социальная инженерия — все это теперь часть нашей действительности. Об этом снимают много фильмов и сериалов. В этой подборке в блоге ЛАНИТ мы решили собрать релизы, которые вышли в 2022-2024 годах. Разберем, как в «RZR» показывают взлом BCI, какие уроки по защите персональных данных можно извлечь из документалки «Web of Make Believe» и почему поведение ИИ-помощника в «Санни» — это готовый кейс для ML-инженера. 

В моей старой системе учёта валютной позиции больше двадцати лет стоял коммерческий инструмент трассировки от конторы, которая делала SoftICE. Он работал исправно, о каждой ошибке присылал письмо со стеком вызовов — и не помог мне ни разу. Недавно я наконец понял, почему так вышло, и ответ оказался до обидного простым.

Anthony Albanese faces criticism after appearing to joke on a podcast about a gift of melons from Sanae Takaichi

The Australian prime minister, Anthony Albanese, has rejected calls to apologise to Japan’s prime minister over a joke he made about melons on a satirical podcast, amid a media frenzy and accusations of sexual innuendo.

Government MPs have defended the prime minister as criticism mounted over last month’s remarks, branded by the Coalition opposition as “grubby”. The assistant minister Pat Gorman told media: “I don’t know why we’re still talking about this.”

Уже несколько лет в Positive Labs мы исследуем механизмы безопасности в SoC RK35xx от Rockchip. За это время нам и другим исследователям безопасности удалось весьма неплохо проанализировать их. В результате было обнаружено несколько уязвимостей, две из которых были интересны нам, как людям, причастным к “железу”.

В первом случае нам пришлось разработать эмулятор eMMC памяти, чтобы эксплуатировать TOC-TOU уязвимость в момент загрузки прошивки.

Во втором — мы атаковали SoC с помощью Power Glitch, воздействуя на процесс проверки прошивки.

В обоих случаях нам удалось обойти механизм Secure Boot, а платформа RK35xx стала поистине хрестоматийным примером с точки зрения аппаратного хакинга, поэтому мы решили поделиться техническими деталями. 

Как вырастить digital-агентство из студенческой команды, не попасть в зависимость от нескольких крупных клиентов, пережить отказ от привычной офисной модели и сохранить бизнес после переезда основателей? Реальность агентского рынка сложнее красивых кейсов: здесь нужны фокус, системные продажи и умение адаптироваться к изменениям.

Я, Александр, автор телеграм-канала «Shulepov Code», поговорил с Никитой Михеенковым — сооснователем digital-агентства Nimax, автором телеграм-канала «Сломай и сделай нормально» и амбассадором компании с базой в Лиссабоне. В этом выпуске мы разбираем, почему агентству критически важен фокус, чем активные продажи отличаются от надежды на сарафанное радио, как искусственный интеллект меняет работу специалистов и почему международный рынок оказался сложнее российского. Никита делится практическим опытом и объясняет, как устроен реальный рост агентства.

Apollo, BlackRock, Goldman Sachs and KKR among those working with chipmaker to fund infrastructure

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Nvidia ⁠has struck a deal with six large Wall Street firms to raise ⁠more than $500bn (£370bn) to fund the datacentres, chip factories and power stations needed to fuel the artificial intelligence boom.

The Nvidia chief executive, Jensen Huang, said on X that it marked “a major milestone for Nvidia and the AI industry”, as he posted a photo of himself smiling and giving a thumbs up alongside finance bosses involved in the deal, including the head of Goldman Sachs, David Solomon.

US president demands compensation for damage incurred by US, complicating standoff with Tehran

Shares in International Workplace Group slumped more than 11% after analysts flagged risks to cashflow at the flexible office space provider.

Shares in IWG, which owns the Spaces ⁠and Regus brands, are now down 5%, still the largest loser on the FTSE 250 index this morning.

Our strategy remains clear. We continue to expand our global coverage at pace, building an unrivalled network that extends from the world’s largest cities to smaller towns and regional markets.

Меня зовут Константин Кузнецов, в ПСБ я занимаюсь, в числе прочего, поддержкой ИТ-инфраструктуры.

В этой статье я расскажу о том, как концепция инфраструктурного релиза помогала формировать процессы обеспечения идентичности сред.

Если вы начинающий специалист в области ИТ-инфраструктуры, который видит своё будущее в ИТ-менеджменте — эта статья для вас. Думаю, вам будет полезно ознакомиться с вызовами и олдскульными способами их решения, основанными частично на ITIL, частично на devops.

Apollo, BlackRock, Goldman Sachs and KKR among those working with chipmaker to fund infrastructure

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Nvidia ⁠has struck a deal with six large Wall Street firms to raise ⁠more than $500bn (£370bn) to fund the datacentres, chip factories and power stations needed to fuel the artificial intelligence boom.

The Nvidia chief executive, Jensen Huang, said on X that it marked “a major milestone for Nvidia and the AI industry”, as he posted a photo of himself smiling and giving a thumbs up alongside finance bosses involved in the deal, including the head of Goldman Sachs, David Solomon.

В августе 2023-го я писал здесь про свой бандл для JSON-RPC API на Symfony. С тех пор он дорос с 1.x до 5.1 и работает в нескольких продакшенах - от финтех-инструментов до HRM-системы. Честный отчёт: 17 найденных отклонений от спецификации, приватные поля, утекавшие в ответы, CORS-заголовок через запятую - и что из этих уроков стало фичами бандла.

Самая дорогая ошибка при изучении языка — оценивать прогресс слишком рано.

Мы бросаем занятия не потому, что метод не работает, а потому, что проверяем результат в тот момент, когда его еще невозможно увидеть.

Вы наверняка знаете это чувство.

Скачали приложение.

Прошли первый урок.

Прошли второй.

На третий день — что-то помешало.

На пятый день — вы уже не помните, зачем вообще его установили.

Знакомо?

Это происходит не потому, что вам не хватает силы воли. И не потому, что метод оказался плохим. Чаще всего причина гораздо проще: вы начали оценивать результат слишком рано — в тот момент, когда его еще невозможно заметить.

Turkey's parliament approved legislation that would introduce a conditional pardon for thousands of Kurdish militants in a bid to advance the government's peace initiative with their insurgent group.

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Barclays says survey shows people feel more secure in jobs and have more leeway to spend on non-essentials

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Consumer confidence hit its highest level in almost two years in July, according to research that indicated the closing stages of the men’s football World Cup and more people holidaying in the UK lifted summer spending.

A truce in the Middle East conflict in June and the arrival of a new prime minister in No 10 also gave a lift to consumers after a long period of heightened uncertainty.

Steam trains, horse-drawn trams and glorious coastal paths are all part of the adventure on a new self-guided walking tour of the island

On the shores of Douglas Bay, I could barely see the sand. Crammed on to the beach, on every available inch, were tourists bustling for the best spot. Luckily, I wasn’t there at the same time. I was looking at a black and white photograph taken some 135 years earlier, displayed in the Manx Museum in Douglas, the Isle of Man’s capital. When I’d stepped off the ferry earlier that day, the crescent-shaped beach was still there – but the crowds weren’t.

The self-governing British Crown dependency in the Irish Sea has always been a haven for outsiders. From the early hunter-gatherers who ventured here in 6500BC, to the Irish Celts (who brought over Christianity in the fifth century) and Vikings who established Tynwald (one of the oldest continuous parliaments in the world) to the Victorian tourists who transformed it into a popular holiday destination.

Barclays says survey shows people feel more secure in jobs and have more leeway to spend on non-essentials

Consumer confidence hit its highest level in almost two years in July, according to research that indicated the closing stages of the men’s football World Cup and more people holidaying in the UK raised summer spending.

A truce in the Middle East conflict in June and the arrival of a new prime minister in No 10 also gave a lift to consumers after a long period of heightened uncertainty.

Supply in nine blocks in Tower Hamlets affected with some residents suspecting nearby building developments

• They cannot even flush their toilets: life in east London blocks where taps often run dry

Hundreds of residents in blocks of flats in east London have been left without regular running water for more than seven months after development in the area may have left it without an adequate supply.

Taps have been running dry in nine blocks in Tower Hamlets, where residents have been forced to use bottled water while their landlord, the housing association Poplar Harca, delayed works to solve the problem.

Former Olympic super-heavyweight champion takes satisfaction from changing British boxing for the better, but still wants to train a world champion

“I was the Olympic champion, and I was the next big thing, but the system had to win,” Audley Harrison says as he reflects on his rise and fall as a fighter who changed so much in British boxing while failing to fulfil his grandest ambitions in the ring. Harrison had once been considered a likely successor to Lennox Lewis, the undisputed world heavyweight champion, but he became a figure of ridicule mocked as “Fraudley Harrison”.

He retired in 2013 with a modest 31‑7 record and having never come close to winning the world title many thought would be his inevitable glory when he took gold at the Sydney Olympics in 2000. But Harrison dragged British boxing fleetingly into the mainstream and ripped up the old traditions of the fight game by managing and promoting himself.

Now on its 167th edition, the Royal Photographic Society’s annual show features moving explorations of kinks, visual disorders … and long-snouted clowns

Shameema and Tanzeela must trek for miles in summer heat to vaccinate children in Kashmir’s highlands as part of a vast national programme

Before sunrise, Shameema slips on her worn rubber sandals and checks the insulated box – the ice packs inside must maintain the crucial cold chain at between 2C and 8C (35.6-46.4F). She hoists the container on one shoulder and steps out into the dark.

Tanzeela follows with her own pack, after quickly retying the laces of her canvas shoes. Both women live in Pulwama, a district where summer temperatures climb to 37C. Their destination lies higher, out of the valley where asphalt turns to dirt track and then to a barely distinguishable footpath along the floor of the mountain pine forests.

Сложно недооценить значимость информационных технологий в 21 веке, особенно в последнее время, когда стало очевидным их стратегический потенциал в информационном пространстве, в финансовых системах, системах управления предприятиями и отраслями экономики, и в вооруженных конфликтах. Так сложилось, что Россия на сегодняшний момент занимает достаточно высокие позиции по развитию и суверенитету ИТ технологий, занимая примерно третье место после США и Китая. Такой успех во многом опирается на сильные стороны советского наследия (математическая школа, фундаментальная наука, подготовка инженеров) и постсоветский «прорыв» в отдельных сегментах: поисковые системы, антивирусы, банковское ПО, государственные цифровые платформы (Госуслуги, СБП, ЕГРН и др.), а также импортозамещение в условиях санкций.

In today’s newsletter: As we enter our fifth summer heatwave, Andy Burnham’s government is looking at what the UK should do with its remaining North Sea oil and gas

Good morning. What a difference a new job can make. “To have a shot at staying within 1.5C global warming, we can’t have any new oil or gasfields … It’s irresponsible and shortsighted to be funding new #fossilfuels when we need to be getting to #NetZero.”

This was the 2022 message from Miatta Fahnbulleh, now the secretary of state for energy security and net zero. It’s a testament to her remarkable rise that Fahnbulleh wasn’t even an MP when she posted it four years ago. Today, she is in the cabinet, facing (or is the face of, at least) one of the most challenging, and potentially controversial questions looming for the new government: to drill or not to drill, baby?

Two sites are the focus of fierce debate. Yesterday, a public consultation on whether to greenlight extraction at one of them – Jackdaw – closed. Next Monday, it’ll be the same for the other, Rosebank. Andy Burnham has been silent about the climate crisis since taking office. As we enter yet another heatwave, what his government does next will be a defining signal of intent on the issue.

Colombia | More than 100 people have died after a powerful earthquake struck western Colombia, collapsing and severely damaging scores of buildings in major cities including Cali and Pereira.

UK weather | Almost three-quarters of England is now in drought, with four more regions officially declared, and as much of Europe braces for its fifth climate crisis-driven heatwave this summer.

Crime | Police are investigating whether Joshua Kerry, the man charged with the murder of the former Reform UK and Conservative politician Ann Widdecombe, had any role in an attempted burglary last year at the then London home of Nigel Farage.

China | More than a million people were moved to safety across eastern China by Sunday evening as powerful Typhoon Dolphin made landfall amid fears torrential rain would cause flooding and landslides.

Ukraine | Russia has banned voting against the war in September’s elections, after the supreme court upheld a suit brought by a small pro-Kremlin nationalist party, and stripped voters of their last option on the ballot: Yabloko, the country’s only remaining anti-war party.

Some Liberal and National MPs warn against overregulation in party-room discussion, while others argue for more stringent rules

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Coalition MPs have warned the opposition leader, Angus Taylor, not to overreach in talks with Anthony Albanese on Labor’s gambling advertising crackdown, insisting rules that are too stringent would not strike the right balance on personal responsibility.

The prime minister and the opposition leader met several times on Tuesday to negotiate on Labor’s legislation on gambling, with restrictions on betting inducements, paring back TV advertising hours and tweaking rules for streaming platforms among possible avenues for reform after Albanese signalled a willingness to amend his own bill.

The shift comes as U.S. stockpiles of key weapons have dwindled and as stop-start talks seem again to have stalled. But Trump insists the pressure can lead to a breakthrough.

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New York mayor’s office plans to appeal ruling, which comes after homeowners sued over property surcharges last week

A judge has temporarily blocked Zohran Mamdani’s pied-à-terre tax, which would place a surcharge on second homes in New York City, dealing a blow to the progressive New York City mayor after homeowners sued over the policy.

The tax would apply to people who own, but do not reside full-time in, any house worth more than $5m, or a condominium or cooperative unit worth at least $1m.

10 новых российских продутов для проверки стартапа на жизнеспособность, передачи больших файлов без регистрации, управления совместной работой, новых возможностей в МАКС, профориентации и многого другого. Битва за «Продукт недели» началась!

Product Radar — здесь каждую неделю публикуются лучшие онлайн-сервисы и железки от русскоязычных команд.

Consultant Jeremy Greenwood gives evidence to Independent Commission Against Corruption as it investigates allegations linked to Christian Liberal group

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A lobbyist under investigation by the New South Wales corruption watchdog has admitted to commissioning a “shit sheet” on a former Liberal MP, knowing a reference to a purported extramarital affair was untrue, an inquiry has heard.

The consultant and lobbyist Jeremy Greenwood gave his second day of evidence to the Independent Commission Against Corruption’s (Icac) Operation Rosny on Tuesday.

Некоторые графики объясняют происходящее лучше, чем десяток книг с прогнозами. Вот, например.

Это структура демографической нагрузки в Европе с 1950 года. В 1950-м на сто человек трудоспособного возраста приходился 41 ребёнок и 12 пожилых. В 2023-м - 24 ребёнка и 31 пожилой. Сама нагрузка почти не сдвинулась: 53 иждивенца тогда, 55 сейчас. Перевернулась её структура.

Раньше большинство тех, кого содержало работающее общество, только собирались войти в экономику. Теперь всё большая доля иждивенцев из неё, наоборот, выходит. За этим сдвигом проявляется смена модели, на которой держится почти всё, что мы считаем устройством нормальной жизни.

А вы всегда пьёте коньяк на завтрак или только по выходным? Часть 2

Привет всем, я – Соня Рыбак, IT HRD. Продолжаю свою подборку крутых понятий и терминов, которые первый раз узнала работая в айти. Они полезны не только для работы, но и для жизни. Ссылка на часть 1.

1. Ложная дихотомия

Ложная дилемма, чёрно-белое мышление — это логическая ошибка и манипулятивная тактика, при которой из множества вариантов предлагаются только два (обычно крайних), игнорируя промежуточные или иные альтернативы. Этот приём сужает выбор, вынуждая принять одну сторону, часто ложно представляя одну из альтернатив как приемлемую, а другую — как неприемлемую. Мир не чёрно-белый. Наш коньяк с этой полки.

2. Hero culture

Корп среда, которая держится на подвигах отдельных ребят, готовых работать по 60 часов в неделю и спасать все в последний момент. Личное самопожертвование это круто. 

Признаки такой культуры: регулярные авралы, незаменимость людей, отсутствие процессов. Вася все знает помнит придет починит, поощрение выгорания, смотрите Федя работает в отпуске или на больничном, молодец! 

Лечится надежностью. Если для успеха нужен герой чаще это хреновые процессы. Netflix специально строил систему так, чтобы падение сервисов было рабочим сценарием, а не катастрофой.

3. Эффект Линди
Чем дольше живет технология, тем дольше она еще проживет. SQL существует почти 50 лет. С огромной вероятностью будет жить еще 50. Старые технологии часто безопаснее новых.

Something light, cooling and refreshing to finish a big summer meal

For me, the best desserts are often the simplest. In Spain, we often finish a meal with something light, something that refreshes rather than fills you up. This is exactly that. It has a lovely texture that sits somewhere between a drink and something you eat, and is perfect at the end of a long meal. It feels relaxed but still special, the kind of thing you enjoy on a warm day, when all you want is something fresh and uplifting.

The Mad King may bring more dynastic disputes and dotty despots to the RSC – but a ‘mayhap’ or a riddling aphorism does not a Shakespeare play make

As a latecomer to Game of Thrones, I am struck by how many people tell me it is “very Shakespearean”. It is as if they need to justify its heady escapism and heavy reliance on bonking and brutality. But its debt to the Bard – apart from the rivalry between the houses of Lannister and Stark – rests mainly on the casting. Watching the first 11 episodes, I noticed four Lears past and to come (Julian Glover, David Bradley, Oliver Ford-Davies and Roger Allam), a Macbeth (Sean Bean), a Hamlet and Henry V (Iain Glen) and a Cassius (Michelle Fairley) among many others.

Because it is presented by the Royal Shakespeare Company and staged by Dominic Cooke, who memorably directed The Hollow Crown on television, we shall doubtless hear the same arguments about Game of Thrones: The Mad King at Stratford. But, although there are frequent nods to Shakespeare, they totally lack the resonance of the original. Our first sight of Michael Shaeffer’s King Aerys with a white beard, a leafy crown and no shoes almost screams “Lear on the heath”. But where Lear gradually declines into insanity (“O fool I shall go mad”) and comes out the other side, Shaeffer’s Aerys is a dotty despot from start to finish. The use of tournaments to settle dynastic disputes also reminds us of the opening of Richard II – but where that event is aborted and ultimately causes the king’s downfall, here the image of embattled jousters is endlessly repeated.

Bitter Christmas, Late Fame and The Christophers all depict geniuses aware of their waning acclaim and terrified it will end

Entertainment culture is so preoccupied with nowness that last month we were inundated with speculation about how directors under 30 topping the box office would change the industry. The flipside of a youth obsession is the conviction that age will increase irrelevance, and this is something that a new crop of films about ageing artists is zeroing in on. Specifically, Bitter Christmas, Late Fame and The Christophers are films in which artists – all male – indulge in selfishness, vanity and spite, and egotistical behaviour and a loss of creative (and masculine) virility are part of the same phenomenon. None of them is dislikable – they might be catty, pathetic or abrasive, but they’re always entertaining – but they all bend to the ego whispering in their ear, believing it will shield them from the pain of their fading art.

It’s no surprise to discover that an artist is an egotist: in fact encountering a narcissistic creative type may be joyless in the moment but it’s also an affirming – if petty – way of feeling better about ourselves. Plenty of classic films give us a close-up view into what makes an egotist artist tick or self-destruct. But decades on from Sunset Boulevard, 8½ and All About Eve, a sadder, bitterer crop of films has emerged in which self-absorption flourishes to protect an ageing male artist from self-sabotaging fears of his mortality and legacy.

Devons Road estate residents describe months-long ordeal of not being able to wash, clean or cook for much of the day

• Hundreds in London flats left without regular running water since last year

Christmas Day in east London. Beatrice Asante empties a bag of potatoes into her kitchen sink and turns on the tap. Nothing. She turns it off and on again. Still nothing. What now?

Asante rushes out to the only shop that is open, the local Nisa convenience store. She buys several big plastic bottles of water. Enough, she thinks, to make dinner and to last until the taps start running again.

Supply in nine blocks in Tower Hamlets affected with some residents suspecting nearby building developments

• They cannot even flush their toilets: life in east London blocks where taps often run dry

Hundreds of residents in blocks of flats in east London have been left without regular running water for more than seven months after development in the area may have left it without an adequate supply.

Taps have been running dry in nine blocks in Tower Hamlets, where residents have been forced to use bottled water while their landlord, the housing association Poplar Harca, delayed works to solve the problem.