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Wisconsin is not the only state with high stakes primary races on 11 August.
We’ll also be bringing you the latest on a number of pivotal contests. In Minnesota, the closely watched and crowded Democratic primary for US Senate seems to be a competition between lieutenant governor Peggy Flanagan and congresswoman Angie Craig.
Continue reading...Record 230 people cross Channel to UK as smugglers turn to ‘mega-dinghies’
Crossing in larger vessel highlights changing tactics despite increased enforcement on French coast
A dinghy carrying a record 230 people has arrived in the UK after crossing the Channel in the early hours of Monday.
It is the clearest indication yet that people smugglers in northern France are adapting their business model and escalating their so-called taxi boat strategy to evade enforcement by UK and French authorities.
Continue reading...Ускорение планирования запросов с ANY — до 280 раз быстрее
Когда речь заходит об оптимизации запросов в PostgreSQL, разработчики, как правило, сосредотачиваются на времени выполнения: индексы, планы запросов, настройки памяти и так далее. Время планирования остаётся в тени. А зря! Планировщик работает перед каждым выполнением запроса. Для OLTP-нагрузки с короткими транзакциями накладные расходы на планирование могут составлять значительную долю от общего времени ответа. Для запросов с большими IN-списками и высоким statistics_target планирование может занимать сотни миллисекунд, тогда как само выполнение укладывается в миллисекунды. Поэтому ускорение планировщика не менее важно, чем ускорение выполнения. Мы нашли и устранили одну из таких скрытых проблем, и сейчас патч проходит ревью на PostgreSQL Commitfest.
Голос из машины
Есть в общении с современными нейросетями странность, которая особенно заметна в голосовом режиме. Человек слышит интонации, паузы, смех, мгновенную реакцию на шутку. Он спорит, задаёт вопросы, возвращается к прежним темам. Система удерживает контекст и отвечает так, что разговор легко воспринимается как встреча с собеседником.
При этом рационально всё понятно: перед нами не человек. Это вычислительная система, и у нас нет надёжных оснований считать, что за её словами существует субъективная жизнь, похожая на человеческую.
Именно здесь возникает необычный психологический эффект. Социальная часть мозга уверенно сообщает: «Там кто‑то есть». Рациональная часть отвечает: «Нет, там вычисление на серверах». Обе реакции возникают одновременно — и обе по‑своему закономерны.
Читать далееДобавили потоков, стало медленнее: разбираемся с ложным разделением кеш‑линии
Добавили потоков, а программа стала медленнее? Причина может скрываться в ложном разделении кеш‑линий: потоки работают с разными переменными, но процессор всё равно заставляет ядра конкурировать за один участок памяти.
Разберём, как воспроизвести такую просадку, найти её через perf c2c и исправить без лишнего раздувания структур.
People with disabilities say Medicaid income limits can stifle career advancement
Medicaid will have new work requirements next year. But some people with disabilities, who already work, say they'd like to work more, but risk losing their Medicaid coverage if they earn too much.
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Почему сильные доклады не проходят CFP, а слабые заявки иногда становятся лучшими выступлениями
Каждый год разработчики отправляют заявки на конференции. Кто-то проходит с первого раза, кто-то несколько лет подряд получает отказы и начинает думать, что выступления — это «не его».
МЫ уже 15+ лет организуем масштабные ит-конференции – DUMP, PYCON, RUSTCON. А в прошлом году дебютировала наша новая конференция для разработчиков golang – Let's GoConf. За это время через нас прошли сотни заявок, и одна вещь повторяется из года в год: сильные инженеры часто присылают слабые заявки, а средние на первый взгляд идеи иногда превращаются в отличные доклады.
Почему так происходит?
Читать далееModerate Democrats Scramble to Block a Socialist From Winning in Wisconsin
Tuesday’s contest to become Wisconsin’s Democratic nominee for Governor has unexpectedly become one of the most chaotic stories of the 2026 cycle.
First, the popular incumbent Governor said he wouldn’t seek a third term. His Lieutenant Governor jumped in the race. So did his former Lieutenant Governor. Both have since dropped out, one felled by financial mismanagement in her campaign and one allegedly dispatched by a MeToo-styled scandal.
The chaotic scramble is now down to two unlikely candidates: Francesca Hong and David Crowley. She is a democratic socialist who has rocketed in the polls despite concerns about her viability in November (and her position on, of all things, Thanksgiving). He is a steady-as-she-goes county bureaucrat who suspended his campaign and booked a vacation to Jamaica—before canceling the trip and re-joining the race 10 days later, this time with the backing of the outgoing Governor.
“The one thing that I've learned is to buy travel insurance,” Crowley tells me between campaign stops. The no-nonsense, disciplined executive of Wisconsin’s largest county is now the fledgling hope of national Democrats, who fear Hong, a far-left state assembly member, is doomed to deliver to Republicans the corner office in one of the few remaining battleground states. In fact, the biggest spender in the race thus far is an effort linked to the Republican Governors Association—to boost Hong.
“You can't win this primary on ideology alone,” Crowley says. “You have to be able to build a winning coalition to make sure that we can get over the hump come November and defeat the Republicans.”
But it’s going to be a tough lift. Tom Tiffany, a three-term congressman and the presumptive Republican nominee, raised more than $15 million, thanks in no small part to a $10 million transfer from the state GOP. By contrast, the Democrats’ top fundraiser, former Lieutenant Governor Mandela Barnes, picked up about $1.4 million before he was forced to the sidelines.
“While democracy can be messy, can be chaotic—just like this primary is—we still have one ultimate goal, which is to make sure that we defeat Tom Tiffany in November,” Crowley says.
What the Polls Say
Polling this cycle once again is proving as reliable as a Ouija board. Just ask Wisconsin’s neighbor Michigan, which last week saw what seemed like a slam-dunk Democratic contest for Senate turn into a squeaker.
Wisconsin is similarly a hinky place that can be hard to poll, but the most recent ones show Democrats have a shot at holding the Governor’s gig.
Hong, a self-described socialist, has ignited the interest of many of the state’s Democrats, while terrifying others who fear she’s unelectable. She’s recently made national news for walking back past social media posts that advocated abolishing the police and canceling Thanksgiving for "celebrating colonialism." ("I don't want to cancel it," she insisted last week. "I actually love it.")
Crowley is campaigning like the underdog that he is, and hoping that the recent tighter-than-expected outcome in Michigan is a sign that the race in Wisconsin isn’t what it seems.
One factor in his favor: the polls show the box with the biggest share of the Democratic vote in Wisconsin is the one for undecided voters. Heading into the final push, about half of Democrats hadn’t made up their minds. And the race’s constant churn—frontrunners dropping out, Crowley in then out, then back in with endorsements galore—has left the field decidedly unsettled.
Crowley suggests the messiness of the primary is because the President is messing with Democrats’ heads. “The Democratic Party, we have been reacting and responding so much to Donald Trump, that he is defining us for us, and that we've been playing defense for so long that we've forgotten what it means to be on the offense,” Crowley tells me.
But it’s not like he’s trying to counter Trumpism—or Hong—with a brash form of progressive fire. No, Crowley is casting himself as the kind of responsible pragmatist that fits the Upper Midwest ethos.
A.I. Data Center Backlash
Take the open question of data centers. Wisconsin’s cooler climate and hardened infrastructure make it an attractive location for the A.I. hubs. But it’s a clunker with the public, especially among Democrats. Marquette Law School’s polling has been instructive for candidates in the region. Among Wisconsin Democrats, the notion that the costs outweigh the benefits of data centers has grown from 56% in October of last year to 88% last month. Among all voters in Wisconsin, that shift has been from 55% to 76%.
Hong, recognizing the potency of the issue, has called for a statewide moratorium on data centers, branding her policy "Control-Alt-Delete.” That position may be the key to her surprising strength heading into Election Day.
Crowley’s position, meanwhile, is less restrictive but still skeptical.
“All data centers are not all created equal,” Crowley says. “Our job is to make sure that these data centers are paying their way, that they're paying for the full energy costs, that they're paying for the infrastructure and grid upgrades. Heck, I think that they should be subsidizing our energy users across the entire state.”
It’s that careful pivot to prairie populism that has some Democrats—especially the moderates and centrists who are still raw after Michigan—hoping Crowley might claw his way to the nomination.
“While everybody's afraid of these data centers extracting our precious resources away, how about we find ways to extract as much as possible from these data centers to help our local units of government, to help out our school districts, to boost entrepreneurs and small businesses and legacy industries, as well as our farmers, to let them know how this can help grow our economy moving forward?” Crowley asks. “But we can't have that conversation until those guardwheels are in place, and we as a state are in a mindset that we feel that we are protected.”
But a sense of safety is hard to come by in a race this unstable. After all, on July 8, when he ended his campaign, Crowley did so because he didn’t think he had a shot at the nomination. Over the next 10 days, constant calls and dangled promises from frantic Democrats convinced him a return to the campaign made sense. “I'll be honest with you, I feel like making the decision to get out of this race was just as difficult to get back in,” he tells me.
Back in it, he’s trying like he’s out of time. Because come Tuesday, he may well be.
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Клиенты с отрицательной стоимостью. Как статьи заменили мне платную рекламу
Летом 2020 года я написал на VC статью о том, как запускал агентство. Она собрала 14 000 просмотров, 119 комментариев и 1663 рубля донатов. С неё пришло 1670 человек на сайт, 31 заявка и 3 подписанных договора.
Читать далееQwen3.8 Max вышла: выше Claude Fable 5 в агентном индексе при цене $6 за миллион токенов
Финальная модель Alibaba получила миллион токенов контекста, независимые оценки и очень серьёзную цену. Проверяем, что осталось от июльских обещаний и где всё ещё приходится ждать.
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Roman shipwreck with 500 amphorae found off coast of Sicily
Discovery of 2,100-year-old vessel hailed as ‘one of the most important underwater archaeological discoveries of recent years’
A 2,100-year-old Roman shipwreck carrying about 500 amphorae has been discovered 3 miles off the coast of Mazara del Vallo in Sicily.
Italy’s Carabinieri cultural heritage protection squad investigated the wreck with the help of divers and underwater cameras after receiving a tip-off from fishers. The vessel was found at a depth of about 46 metres (151ft) and was carrying hundreds of amphorae – ancient two-handled ceramic jars with a narrow neck – thought to have been used mainly to transport wine.
Continue reading...Record 230 people cross Channel to UK as smugglers turn to ‘mega-dinghies’
Crossing in larger vessel highlights changing tactics despite increased enforcement on French coast
A dinghy carrying a record 230 people has arrived in the UK after crossing the Channel in the early hours of Monday.
It is the clearest indication yet that people smugglers in northern France are adapting their business model and escalating their so-called taxi boat strategy to evade enforcement by UK and French authorities.
Continue reading...Слабосолёный мессенджер из MikroTik CHR и Java, по домашнему
Как это? У вас есть аккаунт на хабре, есть своё мнение по каждой статье, есть желание этим мнением поделиться с дедушкой, но нет своего мессенджера чтоб это сделать? Срочно исправляем.
Lim (local ip messenger) работает в вашей локальной сети, на вашем CHR или ARM64 роутере Mikrotik, без внешних сервисов. Обмен текстовыми и голосовыми сообщениями, файлами до 50мб. Публичным ключом собеседника шифруются: сообщения, файлы и имена файлов. И кнопка "Отправить", тоже зашифрована.
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Roman shipwreck with 500 amphorae found off coast of Sicily
Discovery of 2,100-year-old vessel hailed as ‘one of the most important underwater archaeological discoveries of recent years’
A 2,100-year-old Roman shipwreck carrying about 500 amphorae has been discovered 3 miles off the coast of Mazara del Vallo in Sicily.
Italy’s cultural heritage police, the Carabinieri, investigated the wreck with the help of divers and underwater cameras after receiving a tip-off from fishers. The vessel was found at a depth of about 46 metres (151ft) and was carrying hundreds of amphorae – ancient two-handled ceramic jars with a narrow neck – thought to have been used mainly to transport wine.
Continue reading...The U.S.’s Largest Reservoir Just Fell to Its Lowest Water Level
Lake Mead, the reservoir on the Arizona-Nevada border that is a crucial source of water for the American Southwest, sank to its record-lowest levels in the past week, raising concerns about deepening water supply cuts affecting millions of people.
Data from the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation show that, as of Sunday, water levels at the man-made lake formed by the Hoover Dam have dwindled to 1,040.3 ft (317.1 m.) above sea level, lower than the previous record set on July 28, 2022, since Lake Mead was initially filled in the 1930s. The reservoir’s surface measures more than 1,220 ft. above sea level at full capacity. Each inch of vertical height in the reservoir represents billions of gallons of water.
Last week’s levels at Lake Mead are the latest sign of pressure on the Colorado River system, which is under threat from overconsumption and increasing temperatures, no thanks to a persisting megadrought in the region. The other large reservoir in the Colorado River Basin, Lake Powell, is also on track to hit record lows due to the same threats. In July, a group of Colorado River experts found that the total water stored at Lakes Mead and Powell was the lowest in about seven decades.
Melting snow adds to the system’s water supply, but this year's warm winter has led to the worst snowpack on record in the Colorado River Basin. (The Colorado Climate Center said in a blog post that March was the warmest in Colorado in the past 132 years.)
J.B. Hamby, who chairs the Colorado River Board of California, told the Associated Press that the low level in Lake Mead is “extremely significant and extremely concerning,” given how some 30 million people are “directly impacted” by risks to the reservoir.
Seven U.S. states—Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming—Native American tribes, as well as two Mexican states, turn to the Colorado River Basin, not only for drinking water supply, but for agriculture, industry, and hydropower production.
The dwindling supply at Lake Mead puts hydropower at risk as the latest figures show it’s not far from the 1,035-ft operational threshold: when elevation drops to this level, some turbines at Hoover Dam will have to shut down, and its generation capacity would drop by 70%. A July 2026 forecast from the Bureau of Reclamation shows that Lake Mead water levels could come close to that threshold in the next few months and could fall below that by spring next year.
For years, states have tried to discuss how to allocate and conserve the water in the basin, but negotiations have led to disagreements and even threats of lawsuits. The federal government intervened and, in a proposal last month, suggested that the three states that make up the Lower Basin—Arizona, California, and Nevada—take less water.
Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum said in a statement that the department “has a responsibility to ensure the Colorado River system remains reliable and resilient for the millions of Americans, communities and industries that depend on it.”
Under the proposal, those states may be forced to reduce their use by up to 3 million acre-ft per year until 2036—though actual reductions would be assessed every two years based on the basin’s conditions. The three states already have a shorter-term plan to reduce their water consumption, and in response to the federal proposal, Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs strongly pushed back and called the cuts “unacceptable,” potentially setting up a political battle.
The situation in the Colorado River Basin is just one among a handful of water reservoirs in the U.S. where water supply has significantly declined: of the 54 tracked by the Bureau of Reclamation, nine, including Lakes Mead and Powell, have recently logged their lowest levels in the last 30 years.
I, Spied
Reform UK would free up jail spaces in UK by sending offenders abroad, claims Zia Yusuf – UK politics live
Nigel Farage says an adviser to the party would go to El Saldavor for talks on how the country might house foreign prisoners
Farage and Yusuf are now taking questions.
Q: [From Jack Fenwick from the BBC] Are there other countries where you might send foreign offenders? And how much would this cost?
We have to admit that there might not be too many colour TVs.
It’s not going to be a summer camp. It’s not going to be particularly fun. But it won’t be cruel and it won’t be unreasonable.
We will rapidly build capacity. We will take advantage of new prefabricated modular technology and build 12,000 prison places in the form of Nightingale prisons on Ministry of Defence land. And the army will be called in to assist.
Together, these measures will create an additional 22,000 prison places compared to Andy Burnham’s plans.
Continue reading...Trump officials offer cities tens of millions for Memphis-style police surges – with conditions
DoJ to give $300m for enforcement surges in four cities, as long as they abandon progressive ideologies on policing
The Trump administration is offering grants of tens of millions of dollars to cities across the US to create more Memphis-style enforcement surges – on the condition that they abandon progressive ideologies on policing.
The US Department of Justice says it will announce up to four finalist cities that will split $300m in grant funding under a federal “Model Cities” policing initiative (MCI) next month, setting the stage for some of the largest federal policing grants ever awarded to individual US cities.
Continue reading...Crews tackling major fire on protected heathland in the New Forest
Millions in Great Britain could face emergency power cuts at short notice
Exclusive: Grid operator Neso can now respond with rolling blackouts as last resort without need for government powers
Millions of households could face power cuts at short notice under new rules to help the electricity system operator avoid widespread blackouts when energy supplies run low.
The changes, which come into effect this week, will make it easier for the national electricity system operator to call for rotating blackouts at short notice if power supplies are running short.
Continue reading...'I've cried non-stop' - Ditcheva breaks both hands again
Swap agreed for Everton's McNeil and Palace's Johnson
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Ukrainian drone strikes deep inside Russia kill at least 13, authorities say
World's oceans hit record-high July temperatures
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Поддерживать Украину, не осуждая Россию. Как прошел визит Зеленского в Сербию
«Киффи Ди», «Шуг», «Дидди» и другие. В Лас-Вегасе начинается суд по делу об убийстве легендарного рэпера Тупака Шакура
[Перевод] Iron Core. Часть 6: Затянувшаяся революция
Перед вами шестая и заключительная часть (а вот первая, вторая, третья, четвёртая и пятая) серии статей, посвящённых информационным технологиям в авиаперевозках. Сегодня мы поговорим об изменениях, происходящих в этой сфере. Системы, построенные на базе стандарта NDC, вот уже 14 лет пытаются вытеснить традиционные GDS. Этого до сих пор, в полной мере, не произошло. У такого положения дел есть определённые политико-экономические причины. Здесь же автор расскажет о том, что он, благодаря инциденту с птицей, узнал о системах, которые вот уже много лет пытаются заменить.
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Как найти клиента раньше, чем он введет «купить»
Стоимость привлечения клиента стремительно растет: Gо данным E-Promo Group, за первый квартал 2026 года цена клика увеличилась на 3%, а стоимость целевого действия — на 26%. Одновременно меняется поведение пользователей: они дольше принимают решения и совершают меньше импульсивных покупок. В таких условиях таргетинг, который ищет клиента только в момент горячего спроса, охватывает узкий и дорогой срез аудитории.
В этой статье разбираем, как расширить охват за счет изучения жизненного пути и смежных покупок пользователя, и как это реализовано в кабинете Авито Рекламы.
Читать далееMother of Briton fatally shot by father in Texas urges Miliband to press US for new inquiry
Jane Coates says foreign secretary should draw attention to coroner’s finding that Lucy Harrison was unlawfully killed
The UK foreign secretary, Ed Miliband, is being urged to push US authorities to reopen an investigation into a man who shot dead his 23-year-old British daughter while she was visiting him in Texas.
Lucy Harrison, from Warrington in Cheshire, was fatally shot on 10 January 2025, the day before she was due to fly home to the UK.
Continue reading...Dr Fauci made mistakes. But his persecution is a travesty | Margaret Sullivan
It’s easy to second-guess decisions made during the pandemic. That doesn’t justify the Republicans’ politicized response
Like the rest of us, Anthony Fauci is far from perfect. His influential guidance, as the country’s top infectious-disease specialist during the height of the Covid-19 pandemic, certainly didn’t get everything right.
A great deal about the deadly disease – where it came from, how it spread, how best to protect the public – was unknown, or was being learned midstream, during a crisis.
Continue reading...Under strAIn: breaking the British state
How Cameras Can Track Every Car in the U.S., and Iran’s Catch-22
Новый скандал вокруг Инфантино: его обвиняют в выплате крупной суммы своей любовнице во время работы в УЕФА
Из-за тайфуна в Китае эвакуировали около миллиона человек
Netanyahu rejects US-backed 15-point Gaza peace plan | First Thing
Israeli PM is insisting on a full Hamas disarmament before the deal can be implemented. Plus, what it feels like to get locked into an opera performance that lasts nearly 24 hours
Good morning.
Benjamin Netanyahu has rejected a US-backed 15-point peace plan for Gaza in a rare public break with Donald Trump. In a statement, Israel’s prime minister said he was confronting a “wave of rumours about Israeli weakness and Israeli withdrawals on all fronts” and rebuked US pressure to end wars in Gaza, Lebanon and Iran without Israel’s buy-in.
What other developments have happened in the region? Iran has issued tough new demands for reopening the strait of Hormuz, while the United Arab Emirates said one of its ships was targeted by an Iranian missile over the weekend. Tehran said the strait of Hormuz would not open until the US “corrects its behaviour”. Yemen’s Tehran-aligned Houthis have claimed responsibility for an attack on a refinery in Saudi Arabia on Sunday morning.
What impact is the conflict having on seafarers in Hormuz? The US-Iran war has stranded up to 20,000 seafarers, mostly Indian and Filipino crews, with none knowing when the nightmare will end. Seventeen seafarers have died since hostilities began, the majority following Iranian strikes.
What sort of exercises did they take part in? Justin Vail, who leads the DC office of the non-partisan advocacy group Protect Democracy, said: “These tabletop exercises are a standard planning tool for experts and stakeholders to prepare for potential scenarios. We’re not predicting exactly what would happen. But we do want to create a realistic context that can help us identify gaps, test our assumptions, and strengthen coordination, and then ultimately develop some recommendations to increase our preparedness.”
How has Trump been working to undermine confidence in US elections? Voting rights advocates pointed toward Trump’s July primetime address as indicative of the president’s intentions – rhetorical attacks on the integrity of voting machines and elections offices, potentially escalating into more direct interference. Trump threatened the broadcast licenses of networks that refused to carry that address live, and in his speech, he again implored Congress to pass the Save America Act, which would ban mail-in ballots nationwide and impose new identification requirements on voters when they register and report to polls.
Continue reading...Mother of Briton fatally shot by father in Texas urges Miliband to press US for new inquiry
Jane Coates says foreign secretary should draw attention to coroner’s finding that Lucy Harrison was unlawfully killed
The UK foreign secretary, Ed Miliband, is being urged to push US authorities to reopen an investigation into a man who shot dead his 23-year-old British daughter while she was visiting him in Texas.
Lucy Harrison, from Warrington in Cheshire, was fatally shot on 10 January 2025, the day before she was due to fly home to the UK.
Continue reading...