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How much interest can a $10,000 3-year CD earn if opened now?
Published: 2026-08-07 13:03:00 | Created: 2026-08-07 13:12:30
Considering a $10,000 3-year CD account this August? Here's how much interest you'd earn once the account matures.
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Pentagon releases new batch of UFO files: "Did you see that?"
Published: 2026-08-07 20:38:00 | Created: 2026-08-07 13:12:29
The Pentagon on Friday released a new batch of documents and images related to UFOs, the fifth disclosure in recent months about the strange encounters.
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Я два года считал, что виноват покупатель. Потом переделал прибор
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Published: 2026-08-07 13:05:30 | Created: 2026-08-07 13:06:56

Привет, Хабр. Я Лёша, почти восемь лет делаю бытовую технику. Пришёл, когда компания только зарождалась. Моя работа смотреть, как делают чужую бытовую технику, доводить её до ума, улучшать и выводить в продажу. Работа у нас в отделе интересная: то курицу с картошкой в кабинете жарим, то окна моем.

Сегодня как раз про окна. Точнее — про робота-мойщика, который моет их вместо человека. Прилипает к стеклу и работает сам, пока ты стоишь в стороне. Для высоких этажей штука незаменимая, не надо больше висеть с тряпкой за рамой и думать, как бы не навернуться. Из всей техники, что я дорабатывал, этого робота люблю, пожалуй, больше всего.

Два года он спокойно продавался и собирал хорошие отзывы, а потом в рекламациях полезла одна и та же жалоба: со временем робот переставал распылять воду. Мы полезли смотреть, в чем же дело, разобрали и оказалось, что ломали его сами покупатели. Рассказываю, где искал причину и что в итоге починил.

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Republicans Need to Push Out Max Miller. Now.
Published: 2026-08-07 18:43:06 | Created: 2026-08-07 13:05:56
This Ohio congressman should not still be running for Congress.
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Онбординг в ИТ: как превратить хаос первого дня в понятный процесс
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Published: 2026-08-07 13:04:10 | Created: 2026-08-07 13:04:56

Первый день в новой компании - это не только знакомство с коллегами, но и проверка того, насколько хорошо настроены внутренние процессы. В статье разбираем, как цифровые инструменты, база знаний, кураторы и техническая подготовка помогают превратить онбординг из хаоса в понятный маршрут..

Хабр, привет! На связи Иркям, я руководитель направления по подбору и адаптации в HR-команде ИТ-кластера.

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В лабиринтах «Коммодора»
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Published: 2026-08-07 13:01:56 | Created: 2026-08-07 13:03:56

Возможно, кто-то из читателей вспомнит свои самые первые шаги в программировании, в которых фигурировала книжечка по Бейсику с примитивными примерами, которые нужно было самостоятельно набирать, запускать, и через это постепенно понимать, как они работают. Когда-то именно так начинал «вкатываться в IT» и я.

Подобные брошюры издревле прилагались к домашним компьютерам, оснащённым встроенным интерпретатором Бейсика. В начале 1980-х годов в одной из них, входившей в комплект компьютера Commodore, была опубликована небольшая программка, рисующая на экране случайный лабиринт, составленный из диагональных чёрточек-слешей.

Пройдут десятилетия, и эта простая строчка кода превратится в настоящее культурное явление. Что это за строка, как работает, чем интересна, почему не забыта? Нет времени объяснять, срочно лезем в лабиринт разбираться!

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EA Sports FC 27: what does the next instalment of the world’s biggest football game have in store?
Published: 2026-08-07 13:00:17 | Created: 2026-08-07 13:03:55

The all-conquering franchise’s revamps are technically impressive, its transfers more true to life – and its new grassroots social hub is surprising fun

As if the world wasn’t sufficiently football-obsessed, it’s time to prepare for the arrival of its biggest football video game. EA Sports FC 27 (the franchise that used to be Fifa – what better time to no longer be Fifa-branded?) is due to be released on 25 September. I just spent two intense days in Vancouver, where the EA FC games are made, playing FC 27 and talking to its developers.

With an annual franchise such as EA FC, it helps to have something fresh to entice regular fans, and FC 27 has a whole new element, entitled the Grounds. It’s a physical hub-type area, similar to the City as seen in 2K’s recent NBA 2K basketball games, but much more pleasant to frequent, split as it is into areas inspired by British, French and Argentinian street-football culture.

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«Как за вами (не) следит Яндекс»: что на самом деле происходит внутри Android-приложений
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Published: 2026-08-07 13:01:54 | Created: 2026-08-07 13:02:56

На днях на Хабре вышла статья с разбором Яндекс Браузера и приложения Яндекс для Android. Автор сделал несколько выводов о работе приложений на основе анализа кода.

Часть наблюдений в статье действительно описывает существующие механизмы, однако их назначение интерпретируется неверно. Во многих случаях речь идёт не о специфике Яндекса, а о стандартных механизмах Android, Chromium, работе современных голосовых помощников или платёжных SDK.

При реверс-инжиниринге мобильного приложения очень легко увидеть большое количество подозрительно выглядящих методов, разрешений и сетевых вызовов. Намного сложнее понять, зачем они существуют и как используются на самом деле. Поэтому мы решили разобрать основные тезисы статьи и объяснить, как эти механизмы работают на практике.

Сразу оговоримся: автор не указал версии приложений, которые анализировал, поэтому в точности воспроизвести его опыт невозможно. Для разбора мы использовали актуальные версии Яндекс Браузера и приложения Яндекс из Google Play. Все описанные ниже механизмы можно проверить самостоятельно.

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Как айтишники проходят автофильтры, считают конверсию и не выгорают
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Published: 2026-08-07 12:57:54 | Created: 2026-08-07 12:58:56

Давным-давно в одной далёкой-далёкой IT-галактике специалист просто ставил статус «Ищу работу» и через пару недель выбирал из трёх пришедших офферов. Но времена изменились.

Тёмная сторона рынка перешла в наступление, конкуренция выросла, а на входе в компании встала армия клонов:  автоматические системы фильтрации. Впрочем, повстанцы не сдались и подготовили ответный удар.

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Avoiding These 3 Things in Midlife Is Linked to 13 More Dementia-Free Years
Published: 2026-08-07 12:51:32 | Created: 2026-08-07 12:56:55
—Lucy Lambriex—Getty Images

It’s not always possible to prevent or delay dementia. But experts are learning more about certain risk factors that may increase a person’s chances of developing the condition. A new study published Aug. 5 in Neurology Open Access, found that three factors are linked to living many more years without dementia: having normal blood pressure, being diabetes-free, and not smoking. When people in middle age and older—from ages 45 to 65—met all three conditions, they lived about 13 years longer than smokers who had high blood pressure and diabetes.

Dementia is a serious global health concern. It affects more than 57 million people worldwide, according to the World Health Organization, and is the seventh leading cause of death. In the U.S., 42% of Americans are at risk of developing dementia after age 55, a 2025 study found.

The condition “dramatically affects people's quality of life,” says Dr. Josef Coresh, founding director of the Optimal Aging Institute at NYU Langone and a senior investigator on the new study. “We’ve also come to appreciate that a lot of dementia is preventable, and a lot of the prevention potential relates to vascular risk factors.”

Health and behavior across the entire lifespan contribute to a person’s risk of eventually developing dementia. But the new findings suggest there are still opportunities in midlife to prevent or delay its onset, says Coresh. In your 40s, 50s, and 60s, “you have the potential to continue to reduce the risk” of cognitive decline and possibly gain more years living without dementia.

What the new study found

The researchers analyzed data from more than 12,000 participants in a decades-long study that followed people for an average of 26 years. People were in middle age at the study’s start, and no one had dementia. Everyone was assessed for blood pressure, diabetes status, and whether they smoked. Though these are far from the only potential dementia risk factors, they’re “ some of the biggest, and we wanted to quantify how big the effect is,” says Coresh.

The researchers found that people without these risk factors who hadn’t developed dementia went on to live nearly 13 years longer than those who smoked, had high blood pressure, and also had diabetes. “Each additional risk factor in midlife was associated with fewer expected years alive and free of dementia,” Dr. Jordan Weiss, an assistant professor at the Optimal Aging Institute at NYU Langone and study author, wrote in an email.

Some groups of people had an even lower risk of developing dementia. Regardless of their number of risk factors, female participants without dementia lived longer than male participants, and white participants tended to spend more years without dementia than Black participants.

The research does not prove that these three risk factors caused dementia—only that there is an association between not having them and living longer without the condition. Risk factor measurement was also only performed once, at the study’s onset, and doesn’t account for other lifestyle habits or behaviors during those 20 or so years. ”We don't capture worsening over time, or smoking cessation, for example,” wrote Weiss.

Other modifiable risk factors for dementia

In July 2026, the World Health Organization released updated guidelines on modifiable dementia risk factors, which included not smoking, managing diabetes and hypertension, and avoiding other health conditions and behaviors. 

“We’ve really found—over the last decade, even—an accumulation of many, many risk factors for dementia,” says Dr. Jeffrey Kaye, a professor of neurology and biomedical engineering at Oregon Health & Science University and director of the Layton Aging and Alzheimer’s Disease Center (who wasn't involved in the new study).

Other potential ways to lower dementia risk include keeping your brain active, being social, and doing regular physical activity, as well as cutting back on alcohol, eating a balanced diet, maintaining a healthy weight and cholesterol levels, managing hearing loss, and reducing exposure to air pollution. The WHO guidelines estimated that by addressing all of these modifiable risk factors, 45% of dementia cases could be avoided.

Some dementia cases can’t be prevented, however. Age, for example, is the single greatest risk factor: About one in 13 people from ages 65 to 84 have Alzheimer’s disease. Among people 85 and older, that rises to about one in three. A person’s genes, race, and gender also influence their odds of having dementia. 

A challenge for clinicians, says Kaye, is that studies like this look at an average, “and unfortunately, nobody’s average.” His hope is that in the future, experts will be able to move towards more individualized care, taking into account factors like a person’s genetics, health practices, and socioeconomic status to help mitigate a patient’s risk of cognitive decline in a sustained way.

But this latest research underscores the thinking that behavior and overall health impact your brain with age, and dementia isn’t an inevitable part of getting older. “Trying to mitigate the risks of having certain conditions or health practices is really important,” says Kaye.

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Scramble to house hundreds camping in Rome heatwave after squat eviction
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Published: 2026-08-07 12:35:40 | Created: 2026-08-07 12:52:57

Officials try to find homes for residents as talks to save social assistance hub collapse amid government crackdown

Rome authorities are scrambling to find homes for hundreds of people sleeping in tents in extreme heat after talks aimed at saving Italy’s most high-profile centre for housing and social assistance collapsed amid a crackdown by Giorgia Meloni’s government on squatted buildings.

The approximately 400 evicted residents of Spin Time Labs, located in a 10-floor building in Rome’s Esquilino district occupied by grassroots groups since 2013, will not be allowed to move back in after its private owner refused Rome council’s offer to buy the property. The residents were forced out at the end of last month.

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Почему после восстановления Bitrix24 через restore.php перестают работать сессии, Push и WebSocket
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Published: 2026-08-07 12:47:57 | Created: 2026-08-07 12:49:56

Недавно мне потребовалось перенести корпоративный портал Bitrix24 на новую BitrixVM.

По документации всё выглядело достаточно просто:

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A balloon fiesta and candyfloss sellers: photos of the day – Friday
Published: 2026-08-07 16:14:23 | Created: 2026-08-07 12:47:59

The Guardian’s picture editors select photographs from around the world

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Scramble to house hundreds camping in Rome heatwave after squat eviction
Published: 2026-08-07 12:35:40 | Created: 2026-08-07 12:47:56

Officials try to find homes for residents as talks to save social assistance hub collapse amid government crackdown

Rome authorities are scrambling to find homes for hundreds of people sleeping in tents in extreme heat after talks aimed at saving Italy’s most high-profile centre for housing and social assistance collapsed amid a crackdown by Giorgia Meloni’s government on squatted buildings.

The approximately 400 evicted residents of Spin Time Labs, located in a 10-floor building in Rome’s Esquilino district occupied by grassroots groups since 2013, will not be allowed to move back in after its private owner refused Rome council’s offer to buy the property. The residents were forced out at the end of last month.

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Qwen3.8-Max: 2 400 000 000 000-параметровый монстр
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Published: 2026-08-07 12:45:01 | Created: 2026-08-07 12:46:56

Пока одни запускали GPT-5.6 Sol Max, другие ломали копья в холиварах «Kimi K3 vs Claude Opus 5», Alibaba тихо (ага, с ростом акций на 7% в моменте – очень тихо) вкатила модель, которую сама называет «новой планкой для кодинга и совместной работы». Знакомьтесь: Qwen3.8-Max, 2,4 триллиона параметров(всего-то), контекст на миллион токенов и обученная не просто быстро отвечать, а не сдаваться днями.

Привычный рефлекс «очередной китайский флагман – очередные астрономические циферки – очередное “мы почти догнали Anthropic”» отчасти правдив. Но тут три вещи, ради которых стоит потратить пять минут: во-первых, Alibaba внезапно впервые открывает веса модели Max-класса; во-вторых, независимая проверка разошлась с вендорскими цифрами, и это отдельная маленькая драма в твиттере; в-третьих – релиз подсвечивает тренд, который многие стараются не замечать – дело, возможно, не в модели, а в том, что вокруг неё построено.

Ну что, поехали. Разберём по порядку.

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Meta fined $567m in largest child safety ruling against social media giant
Published: 2026-08-07 09:22:03 | Created: 2026-08-07 12:45:56
The ruling is in addition to $375m in fines Meta was already ordered to pay in the case, for a total of $942m.
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Brothers jailed for killing man and injuring his son while racing cars home
Published: 2026-08-07 11:55:32 | Created: 2026-08-07 12:45:56
Abubakr Ben Yusaf and Umar Ben Yusaf were racing near Welshpool, Powys, in November 2024.
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July jobs report reveals unexpected loss of 23,000 jobs
Published: 2026-08-07 23:46:55 | Created: 2026-08-07 12:44:55
Friday's jobs report showed employers shed jobs last month, rather than adding 95,000 new hires that had been forecast by economists.
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Атака TONTOU, или во что нам обходятся процессорные уязвимости
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Published: 2026-08-07 12:40:38 | Created: 2026-08-07 12:42:55

7 августа 2026 года появилась информация о TONTOU — новой технике атаки на механизмы защиты от Spectre v2. Интересна она не столько скоростью утечки — она как раз невелика, — сколько способом обхода защиты.

Исследователи из MIT CSAIL смогли обнаружить интересный момент: между моментом, когда процессор или ядро очищает состояние механизма предсказания переходов, и моментом, когда этим состоянием снова пользуются, неизбежно существует небольшой промежуток. Иногда — всего несколько инструкций. И если в этот момент заставить процессор обработать прерывание, состояние предсказателя можно снова испортить.

Назвали этот класс уязвимостей «TONTOU» — Time‑of‑Neutralization to Time‑of‑Use, по аналогии с хорошо известным классом TOCTOU (Time‑of‑Check to Time‑of‑Use). В TOCTOU объект успевает измениться между проверкой и использованием; здесь то же происходит с состоянием предсказателя — его нейтрализовали, но до следующего использования прерывание успевает снова его изменить.

За подробностями, а также за ответом, когда и что делать, прошу под кат.

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How a 90-second power outage sparked chaos for rail commuters
Published: 2026-08-07 16:11:32 | Created: 2026-08-07 12:34:56
The incident raised questions about how a disrupted power supply can have such a widespread impact.
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Out of the blue: James Cameron’s surprise departure would be good for Avatar
Published: 2026-08-07 12:21:48 | Created: 2026-08-07 12:32:55

The director has yet again hinted that he may step away – but if he does actually relinquish control, it would likely benefit the franchise

After directing the highest-grossing film trilogy of all time, and having spent more than two decades bending technology, studio executives and several hundred million dollars’ worth of underwater motion capture to his will, James Cameron this week signalled that he may be ready to hand the future of the Avatar franchise to another director. Indeed, he bent Hollywood to his will so completely that it became almost impossible in the early 2010s to watch a blockbuster without uncomfortable plastic glasses, and without objects on the screen being hurled pointlessly towards the audience. Still, the Canadian film-maker now appears to be seriously considering handing over everyone’s favourite multibillion-dollar bioluminescent space jungle to someone else.

“There’s been momentum in the Avatar universe for 21 years at this point because we started in 2005,” Cameron told Denise Donlon in an interview for Canada’s governor general’s performing arts awards. “It’s been kind of an unbroken continuum. So this is the point where I’m looking at the landscape and asking, ‘What are the other stories I want to tell? How many of them do I need to direct myself versus writing and/or producing with other film-makers?’”

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The founder’s guide to TechCrunch Disrupt 2026: Everything you need to know
Published: 2026-08-07 12:30:00 | Created: 2026-08-07 12:30:55
TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 is built around one question: How do you build an enduring company in the AI era? Our programming and speaker lineup reflect that.
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Пилот дата-агента: шаблон брифа, приёмка по 50 вопросам и пять метрик, по которым его закрывают
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Published: 2026-08-07 12:28:02 | Created: 2026-08-07 12:29:57

Привет, это команда BI GlowByte.

Это третий разбор материалов FanRuan про дата-агентов. В первом смотрели, чем агент отличается от ИИ-помощника. Во втором собрали чек-лист готовности данных. Сегодня говорим про людей и процесс. Основной тезис: инструмент купить несложно, сложно наладить путь от бизнес-задачи до работающего сценария.

Материал вендора при этом целиком управленческий: ни одной цифры, ни одного шаблона. Поэтому мы взяли его каркас (пять этапов пилота, владелец сценария, стартовая команда) и развернули в то, чего в оригинале нет. Что у нас получилось: шаблон брифа, процедура приёмки, точки проверки человеком и метрики, по которым через два месяца решают, оставлять сценарий или закрывать. Надеемся, что вам будет полезно.

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ConnectRPC против gRPC: практическое сравнение
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Published: 2026-08-07 12:26:25 | Created: 2026-08-07 12:27:56

Привет, Хабр! Меня зовут Артём Трофимов, я работаю backend-разработчиком в компании «Юзтех». Последние 5 лет я занимаюсь разработкой backend-сервисов на Golang, и мне регулярно приходится работать с микросервисами, общающимися по gRPC.

Статья будет полезна backend-разработчикам, которые выбирают RPC-фреймворк для нового проекта, а также тем, кто уже работает с gRPC.

Для многих gRPC стал стандартом межсервисного взаимодействия: быстрый, строго типизированный, с кодогенерацией. Про его неудобства тоже все знают: сложность отладки, танцы с прокси, отдельная инфраструктура для браузерных клиентов. Всё это принято считать платой за производительность. Но в последние годы у gRPC появился конкурент, который утверждает, что платить больше необязательно. Речь, конечно, про ConnectRPC. Это проект компании Buf, уже принятый в CNCF (Cloud Native Computing Foundation).

Я решил разобраться, что он предлагает, собрать на нём тестовый сервис и сравнить с классическим gRPC. Спойлер: местами разница впечатляет, но обо всём по порядку.

Почему gRPC стал стандартом

gRPC представляет собой RPC-фреймворк (Remote Procedure Call, удалённый вызов процедур), созданный Google и переданный в CNCF в 2017 году. Его популярность держится на нескольких китах:

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Разработка форм при помощи AI
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Published: 2026-08-07 12:26:48 | Created: 2026-08-07 12:27:56

Есть ли смысл тратить время на разработку форм с нуля, если есть возможность сгенерировать их? С каждым месяцем все больше людей склоняются к тому, что «не стоит». Но есть нюанс: вопрос безопасности. В этой статье мы поговорим о том, в чем заключаются угрозы работы с LLM для генерации, а также рассмотрим пример создания формы на базе DeepSeek.

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DOGE’s claim of $110B in savings was vastly inflated and riddled with errors: GAO
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Published: 2026-08-07 13:34:04 | Created: 2026-08-07 12:24:56
When Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency launched its effort to slash federal spending last year, it created a website to show how much money it was saving.
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William Orbit, pop producer for Madonna, All Saints and more, dies aged 69
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Published: 2026-08-07 12:01:58 | Created: 2026-08-07 12:22:58

Musician’s projects included Madonna’s Ray of Light, Blur’s 13 and All Saints’ chart-topping singles Pure Shores and Black Coffee

William Orbit, the British music producer whose dreamy yet propulsive style invigorated work by Madonna, Blur, All Saints, U2 and more, has died aged 69.

A statement on his social media, attributed to family and friends, said he died at home on 23 July. “He will be greatly missed by us and by so many whose lives he touched through his music, friendship and kindness,” the statement read. No cause of death was given.

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William Orbit, pop producer for Madonna, All Saints and more, dies aged 69
Published: 2026-08-07 12:01:58 | Created: 2026-08-07 12:18:55

Musician’s projects included Madonna’s Ray of Light, Blur’s 13 and All Saints’ chart-topping singles Pure Shores and Black Coffee

William Orbit, the British music producer whose dreamy yet propulsive style invigorated work by Madonna, Blur, All Saints, U2 and more, has died aged 69.

A statement on his social media, attributed to family and friends, said he died at home on 23 July. “He will be greatly missed by us and by so many whose lives he touched through his music, friendship and kindness,” the statement read. No cause of death was given.

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Outsider chance: ending Sudan’s proxy war
Published: 2026-08-07 11:17:28 | Created: 2026-08-07 12:18:54
Also on the daily podcast: the Canadian bridge caught in a Trumpian trade tantrum and a tribute to a junk-art genius
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Еще один день без Le Chaton Fat
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Published: 2026-08-07 12:15:30 | Created: 2026-08-07 12:16:56

Пока все ждут от Mistral локального убийцу GPT и Claude, контора по великой европейкой традиции делает то, что ЕС делает лучше всего — фильтрование базара

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Emotional Guimaraes wanted to leave - Newcastle chief Wilson
Published: 2026-08-07 12:00:16 | Created: 2026-08-07 12:12:57
Newcastle United sporting director Ross Wilson says the club did not plan to sell Bruno Guimaraes, but their "very emotional" captain wanted to join Arsenal.
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Warren presses U.S. companies to share tariff refunds with customers
Published: 2026-08-07 16:19:17 | Created: 2026-08-07 12:11:54
Companies receiving billions in refunds for U.S. tariffs struck down by the Supreme Court should return money to consumers, Sen. Elizabeth Warren said.
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Assistant referee Massey-Ellis retires to take FA role
Published: 2026-08-07 11:26:23 | Created: 2026-08-07 12:10:56
Assistant referee Sian Massey‑Ellis announces her retirement from officiating to take up a position with the Football Association.
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US cities expand cooling centers but struggle to get people inside
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Published: 2026-08-07 12:00:17 | Created: 2026-08-07 12:07:58

More air-conditioned spaces are open during extreme heat, but distance, stigma and risk perception keep many away

Responding to an uptick in extreme heat waves this summer, US cities have increased their efforts to establish cooling centers to keep people safe but continue to encounter a problem: actually getting people to enter the public air-conditioned spaces.

Lower-income people, who often do not have – or cannot afford to operate – air conditioning, face a greater risk of heat-related illness or deaths, which means public agencies in the US concentrate their efforts on trying to reach them.

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Trump’s attorney general pick Todd Blanche appears to clear last hurdle for confirmation
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Published: 2026-08-07 15:18:27 | Created: 2026-08-07 12:07:58

Bill Cassidy, Republican seen as a decisive holdout, said he is prepared to back Trump’s former personal lawyer

Bill Cassidy, the US Republican senator seen as the decisive holdout on Todd Blanche’s nomination for attorney general, announced on Friday that he will support the pick, setting the stage for a major win for Donald Trump.

Confirmation that Cassidy, of Louisiana, is prepared to back Blanche – Trump’s former personal lawyer, and a loyal ally of the president – appeared to clear the last hurdle of his confirmation process, which had been challenged by the defections of the Republican senators Lisa Murkowski and Susan Collins.

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First Thing: Soaring oil profits from US-Iran conflict drive calls for windfall tax
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Published: 2026-08-07 12:04:22 | Created: 2026-08-07 12:07:58

Environmentalists and activists furious as Trump’s policies raise costs for Americans. Plus, the masterpiece that was left lying in museum storage

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Good morning. Donald Trump’s statement that oil companies have made “too much money” from the Iran war has angered environmentalists, who say his policies were designed to benefit those very corporations.

Americans have paid more than $78bn more at the pump since the start of the Iran war, according to a Brown University tracker. A recent analysis from the environmental advocacy group Climate Power and the Center for American Progress Action Fund, a liberal thinktank, found that Trump’s policies had cost the average American family $285 more when filling up their cars.

What policies has Trump enacted to help the oil industry? Since re-entering the White House last year, he has eased dozens of restrictions and regulations on fossil fuel expansion, exempted fossil fuel producers from environmental rules, and signed an executive order last year directing the attorney general to prioritize blocking climate lawsuits targeting oil majors. Trump has also personally invested in major oil companies.

What did the supreme court previously rule? In the court’s June decision, the chief justice, John Roberts, said Trump’s first order violated the 14th amendment of the US constitution. “Citizenship, then and now, was the right to have rights – to freely participate in our political community,” he wrote. “The framers of the 14th amendment extended that promise to ‘every free-born person in this land’. We keep that promise today.”

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Weather tracker: central and western Europe brace for more sweltering heat
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Published: 2026-08-07 11:59:05 | Created: 2026-08-07 12:07:57

High 30s celsius forecast for France, Spain and Italy next week, before affecting Germany, Poland and Czechia

Another pulse of heat is expected to affect central and western Europe next week. The latest forecast models show daily maximum temperatures well into the high 30s celsius widely across France, Spain and Italy during the first half of the week, while Germany, Poland and Czechia will experience the highest temperatures towards the end of the week. The shift in the focus of the heat as the week progresses can be attributed to the movement of high pressure. At the start of the week, low pressure centred in the Atlantic and high pressure centred over the low countries will draw warm air from southern Europe northwards into parts of France. During the working week, the high pressure will slip a little farther south and east, enabling the warm air once situated over western Europe to make inroads into parts of Germany and central Europe.

The heat in central and western Europe this summer has been unrelenting. Last week’s weather tracker highlighted record-breaking temperatures for the month of July in Austria. However, only a few days later, on 4 August, the all-time record was shattered with 41.0C achieved in Stammersdorf, north-east of the capital, Vienna. This comfortably broke the previous all-time record set in August 2003 by 0.7C. Unbelievably, that record was broken again the following day when 41.2C was recorded in Deutsch-Altenburg. Slovakia also set an all-time record on the same day, of 41.4C. The continuing European heatwave, associated with a vertically extensive anticyclone, raised the freezing level above 4,000 metres across much of the Alpine region. This represents a level in the atmosphere well above many Alpine glaciers, accelerating the seasonal melting process. On the opposite side of the Atlantic, 51.8C was recorded in Badwater, California, the highest temperature in the US for 2026 so far.

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Dominic Sessa Summons the Rapscallion Spirit of Anthony Bourdain in the Exhilarating, Tender Tony
Published: 2026-08-07 12:00:04 | Created: 2026-08-07 12:05:56
Dominic Sessa and Leo Woodall in Tony —Courtesy of A24

Before the late Anthony Bourdain was a charismatic, adventurous TV personality—and even before he’d become a best-selling writer, with his fantastically disreputable 2000 memoir Kitchen Confidential—he was a bright but annoying kid enrolled at Vassar and, as he himself has said, “badly in need of a good ass-kicking.” Matt Johnson’s exhilarating and tender film Tony is only sort-of a biopic: It covers just a few months of Bourdain’s life, the summer of 1975, which he spent sweating away in the kitchen of a small, bustling restaurant in Provincetown. But it’s a captivating origin story, detailing the bumpy rise of a ne’er-do-well who made good, even as he lied, cheated, and partied his way through one gloriously wayward, depraved summer.

Dominic Sessa—who gave the soulful, bratty performance at the center of Alexander Payne’s The Holdovers—stars as 19-year-old Anthony, only back in 1975, he preferred the breezier, shortened version of his name. After failing to get the writer’s fellowship he’d applied for, he leaves his family’s home in New Jersey and heads to Provincetown, in pursuit of the girl he has a crush on, Emilia Jones’s Nancy. Distraught at learning that she already seems to have a hot boyfriend, he gets drunk at—and is ejected from—a local eatery. But the owner who’d thrown him out—known only as Chef, and played, in a marvelous, multilayered performance by Antonio Banderas—takes pity on him after finding him passed out in the street. Chef allows young Tony to spend a night on his porch, sleeping in a rope hammock. One night stretches out to a whole summer. And for some reason only he can intuit, Chef gives the young rapscallion a job in the kitchen, even though Tony has no restaurant experience and, perhaps worse yet, no kitchen safety training.

Antonio Banderas and Dominic Sessa in Tony —Courtesy of A24

This is how Tony, who will eventually become Anthony, falls for the restaurant life: The chaos of the kitchen, the unruly, often drug-addicted personalities, the power to put together meals that people can enjoy with friends, and maybe even remember long after the fact. Sessa is perfect as the swain Bourdain: He’s got that just-fallen-out-of-bed look—perhaps because he literally has just fallen out of bed, or, more accurately, a hammock—but he’s also hungry and inquisitive in a touching way. At first charged with the lowly task of dishwashing, he furtively watches his kitchen colleagues—including Leo Woodall’s Sal, who becomes both a friend and a terrible influence—as they expertly shuck oysters, or slam the lever on a heavy-duty potato slicer as if it were the arm of a slot machine, usually while talking trash about one another. Suddenly, he’s found the place where he belongs. Banderas’ Chef spots Tony’s spark of potential before he does: One of the cardinal rules he’s instituted for his employees is that they must never be even 15 minutes late. To that end, every workday morning he rouses Tony from the snoozy coziness of his hammock with a bucket of water. He doesn’t want this kid to fail, and though Tony has loving, albeit perhaps too permissive, parents (they’re played by Rich Sommer and Dagmara Dominczyk), this is just the kick in the pants he needs.    

Johnson—perhaps best known for the 2023 Blackberry, a kind of biopic about the once-ubiquitous, now-quaint pocket device—shapes this material with both breeziness and a kind of tough-love compassion, and the track list he’s assembled summons the spirit of 1975 like a ghost. Whether you were around for that era or not, if Jonathan Richman and the Modern Lovers' wistful ode to imaginary love “Girlfriend” doesn’t instantly transport you, the Brothers Johnson’s “Strawberry Letter 23” will. Though Tony covers one brief era in the life of an eventually famous person, its overarching power is that it conjures the vibe of wayward summers we may have experienced in our own lives, seemingly endless stretches of time filled with either longing or reckless behavior or both. To quote another Jonathan Richman song: That summer feeling’s gonna haunt you the rest of your life.

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Willem Dafoe Shines as a Postal Worker and Poet in the Luminous Late Fame
Published: 2026-08-07 12:00:04 | Created: 2026-08-07 12:05:56
Willem Dafoe in 'Late Fame' —Courtesy of Magnolia Pictures

How many lives can be packed into one? If we live long enough, most of us reinvent ourselves several times over, by switching careers, changing partners, having children, moving to a new place. What constitutes the essence of us, even when we can no longer identify ourselves as the thing we used to be?

That’s one of the questions Kent Jones’ intimate, wry little picture Late Fame tangles with. Willem Dafoe plays Ed Saxberger, a seventy-ish New York City postal worker who used to be, or may still be, a poet: In 1979 he published a reasonably well-received book of poetry—a pretty admirable feat by itself—but now he’s just a guy. By day he sorts letters; in the evenings he wanders down to his local watering hole to hang out with his geezer pals, MTA workers and the like, guys who do everyday jobs just like he does. As far as they’re concerned, there’s nothing fancy or special about him. He’s not just a regular, he’s regular.

For Saxberger, there’s nothing sad about that; it’s just the texture of his life. But one day, he’s alerted to the presence of a wiry, nervous-looking, well-dressed young man who’s been hanging around his modest but by no means depressive apartment building. Saxberger approaches him amiably. The kid introduces himself as Wilson Meyers—he’s played, with clean-cut bonhomie, by Edmund Donovan—and begins to gush over Saxberger’s single book, which he unearthed, he says breathlessly, at “Foyles on Charing Cross Road,” an unnecessary bit of information that telegraphs nearly all you need to know about this guy. Meyers tells Saxberger that he’s part of “an artistic community” of poets and intellectuals who gather occasionally at a local speakeasy, and they’re all huge fans of his work. Would he join them sometime? Unsure what, exactly, this crew might want from him, Saxberger at first demurs; then he relents.

A scene Late Fame —Courtesy of Magnolia Pictures

The members of this group call themselves “The Enthusiasm Society,” refer to one another by last names only, and claim to loathe internet influencers. They’re mostly aimless and obviously well-off guys in their twenties and early thirties, fellows who clearly think it’s bourgeois to work and luckily don’t have to. Saxberger appears amused by their callow pretensions—they’re obviously hoping that hanging out with him will somehow turn them into poets too—but he does wonder, and eventually asks: “Are there any women in your group?” There is one, they assure him, though he’s not prepared for the bewitching creature who eventually swans in. Gloria (Greta Lee), a performer in every sense of the word, seems to have dropped in from another century. Her sentences tumble out in breathy, peacock-feather bouquets; she favors swirling capes and flirtatious, oddball cloches. She invites Saxberger to one of her intimate cabaret performances—she slinks through “Surabaya Johnny” with molten eroticism—and he watches in awe. She’s both unbearable in her excessive theatricality and unavoidably captivating. Saxberger is a goner. But then he also wonders, years after having given up writing, if he may still be a poet after all.

And that’s the central rib of Late Fame, which was adapted from a long lost and only recently published 1895 novella by Arthur Schnitzler. What makes a poet? Is it the act of writing, or a subterranean, unextinguishable quality that lives in the soul? Late Fame is Jones' second fiction feature—his debut was the gentle-spirited 2018 drama Diane, starring Mary Kay Place—and though it’s deeply observant about what it takes, and what it costs, to be an artist, it also has the light touch of a comedy. Characters who begin as types gradually emerge as people: Donovan’s Meyers is the kind of spoiled rich kid who proves how easy it is to be a dilettante when you’ve got daddy’s dollars behind you—and still, there’s something sad about the way he grabs greedily at others’ gifts, because he knows what’s lacking in himself. Dafoe is terrific as Saxberger, a guy who’s made peace with what his life has become, only to find himself rattled by the idea that maybe he hasn't. A scene in which he tries to introduce his bar pals to his old poetry cuts deep: they laugh because they can’t see him as anyone but their drinking buddy (though it’s also pointed out that he no longer drinks alcohol, for reasons we can intuit). Dafoe’s face, a map of scarred-over disappointments, shows him reckoning with a brutal truth: he'll have to learn to live with the fact that these people he truly cares about can never truly understand him.

Greta Lee and Willem Dafoe in Late Fame —Courtesy of Magnolia Pictures

But Lee’s performance may be the secret key to Late Fame. Gloria is a user, a poseur extraordinaire; her fluttery flamboyance, rooted in insecurity, summons another Gloria, the one from Sunset Blvd. And yet she’s the only member of the Enthusiasm Society who has ever taken a risk—as well as, clearly, the only one with any true artistic gift. As Lee plays her, she shifts seamlessly from hypertheatrical creation to fragile human being. And though other members of the group desire her, only Saxberger—intoxicated with her even though he knows it’s hopeless—sees the truth of her. Late Fame is all about the bitter, beautiful reality that no one is ever who they used to be. How could we be, if we’re doing the work of becoming? Is Saxberger still a poet, even when he finds it impossible to write new verse? What he and only he sees in Gloria is a new kind of poem, written on the wind if not on paper, but real even so.

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The True Story Behind Tony
Published: 2026-08-07 12:00:05 | Created: 2026-08-07 12:05:56
Dominic Sessa stars as celebrity chef Anthony Bourdain in the biopic Tony. —Seacia Pavao

Before Anthony Bourdain was a famed chef with eight Emmys for his travel series Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown, he started out as a dishwasher in Cape Cod’s hippie enclave Provincetown in the mid-1970s. Tony, out in theaters Aug. 7, explores this period in Bourdain’s life, imagining how that kitchen job whet his palate for working in the restaurant industry.

In the movie, Dominic Sessa portrays Anthony Bourdain, a student at Vassar College who follows his crush Nancy Putkoski to Provincetown, where she works in the summer at a pizza shop. She doesn’t exactly feel the same at first, and so one night, a heartbroken Bourdain drowns his sorrows at a casual seafood restaurant and gets into a fight there, ending up too drunk to go home. The restaurant’s chef (Antonio Banderas)—known simply as “Chef” in the film—brings him back to his house. The chef lets him stay for the summer because he has nowhere to go and puts him to work as a dishwasher in his restaurant. 

The staff is full of miscreants, who are snorting lines of cocaine left and right. But the chef becomes a mentor, showing Bourdain the particulars of running a Provincetown kitchen: how to shuck oysters and make homemade salt out of seawater. Bourdain arrives looking for love and ends up finding it in food and kitchen culture—a passion that would shape the rest of his life.

The real Bourdain died by suicide in 2018 at the age of 61. Tony, taking place over one summer, does not delve into questions about his death. “We wanted to remind people why they loved him in the first place, focus on the beginning of his life where he figured out how to share his superpower with the world of curiosity, empathy and connecting people through food,” says Lou Howe, one of the Tony screenwriters. 

Here’s the real dish from Bourdain’s time in Provincetown, where he decided to become a chef.

Bourdain’s real Cape Cod shenanigans

When Bourdain went to Provincetown for the first time, he wasn’t craving lobster rolls, but the company of one particular woman. As he wrote in his 2000 memoir Kitchen Confidential, he was 18 and “unhappily in love” when he went there to find his high school crush and future wife Nancy.

They were both students at Vassar, and they shared a house with roommates, where he says there was a lot of cocaine, pot, acid and sunbathing nude—in other words, as he put it, “healthy teenage activities.” 

Nancy worked at Spiritus Pizza, and while Bourdain didn’t actually move in with a chef, as the movie depicts, he did sleep in the crawl space over a walk-in refrigerator at Spiritus Pizza at one point.

One of the roommates hooked Bourdain up with a dishwashing gig at the Flagship, best known for serving up fried seafood to summer tourists. 

“He was forced to get this job. He didn't have any money in Provincetown,” says Todd Bartels, one of the Tony screenwriters.

The rag-tag kitchen crew included an ex-con and part-time methadone dealer who worked the salad station. They nicknamed Bourdain “Mal,” short for “mal carne,” which is what they called bad meat. Bourdain was doing all of the grunt work at the Flagship, scrubbing pots and pans, scraping plates, peeling potatoes, and cleaning shrimp. 

Bourdain was attracted to a certain kind of swagger that the kitchen crew boasted. In one dramatic example in Kitchen Confidential, he wrote that when he watched a chef at the Flagship rear-end a bride celebrating her wedding at the restaurant, “I knew then, dear reader, for the first time: I wanted to be a chef.”

Chefs at the restaurant were hailed for “total number of waitresses screwed, cocktails consumed without visible effect.” He gushed about the chefs, not only for their ability to churn out so many dinners in a sweltering kitchen, but also because they were “sexual athletes” who lived a life of “adventure, looting, pillaging, and rock-and-rolling through life with a carefree disregard for all conventional morality.”

Bourdain dishing on Bourdain

In Tony, Sessa as Bourdain is obnoxious, talking himself up and lying to everyone he meets, even pretending that he’s writing a book about the restaurant to impress Nancy. The real Bourdain was definitely known as an arrogant kid in Provincetown. Per Kitchen Confidential, back then he was “angry” and “undisciplined,” writing, “I treated the world like my ashtray.” 

“He was very brutally honest in critiquing his younger self, so that gave us some free rein to paint this wayward young man in all his warts,” says Howe.

As one of the Flagship’s chefs, Alex Getmanov, said in Laurie Woolever’s Bourdain: The Definitive Oral Biography, Bourdain “didn’t know anything, and he had this attitude that he could do anything, which doesn’t get you far in a working kitchen.” 

Working in the Flagship’s kitchen, Bourdain wrote, “essentially pushed me down the path I still walk to this day.”

In an episode of his food travel series Parts Unknown, Bourdain described the Flagship as the place “where my cooking career started, where I started washing dishes, where I started to have pretensions of culinary grandeur.”

True to life, the movie ends with Bourdain dropping out of Vassar to enroll at the Culinary Institute of America in upstate New York.

(L-R) Bourdain (Sessa) and the "Chef" (Antonio Banderas), who is a composite of the many chefs who inspired Bourdain. —Seacia Pavao

What Bourdain learned from the Cape Cod food scene

The chef and mentor in Tony (Antonio Banderas) is a composite of different chefs who inspired Bourdain. 

One chef he especially looked up to in Provincetown was Howard Mitcham, author of the Provincetown Seafood Cookbook (1975), who would host an annual clambake like the one in the movie. As Bourdain wrote in a 2018 introduction for Mitcham’s cookbook, “He understood always that the best place to enjoy seafood was on the beach, among friends, in a pretense-free zone, preferably accompanied by many drinks.” Mitcham also taught him that “there is no difference between the joys of a great meal at a three-star Michelin and at a humble fisherman’s bar—as long as it’s made with love and with pride.” 

More than that, he learned a passion for food. “Howard showed us how to cook for ourselves, for the pure pleasure of eating, not just for the tourist hordes,” he wrote in Kitchen Confidential, “that food could be a calling. That the stuff itself was something we could actually be proud of, a reason to live.”

He also learned that you don’t need to do much to fresh seafood to make it taste good. As the movie shows, local foodies would swarm the ocean whenever striped bass appeared, reeling them in with pieces of Wonder Bread and then whacking them on the head. In Kitchen Confidential, Bourdain described filleting the fish under gas lamps—covered in gore—and broiling the fish with lemon and butter to make “a meal that made me feel better about things, made me better for eating it, somehow even smarter.” 

He left Cape Cod with an appetite for food and vice. As he said in Parts Unknown, “I left Provincetown with restaurant experience, a suntan, and an ever deepening relationship with recreational drugs.”

Provincetown also gave Bourdain, an aspiring writer, something to finally write about, says Bartels. “He found a purpose. I don't know if there's anything more profound than that.”

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Cocktail of the week: Half Cut Market’s peaches & cream – recipe | The good mixer
Published: 2026-08-07 12:00:16 | Created: 2026-08-07 12:03:57

A frozen piña colada-style boozy drink/dessert

A frozen drink and a classic dessert all rolled into one. Instead of piña coladas and getting caught in the rain, we’re whipping up these and manifesting a sunny summer.

Jayma Voorheis, general manager, Half Cut Market, London N7

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Man City reject Barcelona's Rodri bid & in talks for Bouaddi
Published: 2026-08-07 12:20:52 | Created: 2026-08-07 12:03:57
Manchester City reject £38m offer from Barcelona for Rodri and remain in talks for Lille midfielder Ayyoub Bouaddi.
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Weather tracker: central and western Europe brace for more sweltering heat
Published: 2026-08-07 11:59:05 | Created: 2026-08-07 12:03:56

High 30s celsius forecast for France, Spain and Italy next week, before affecting Germany, Poland and Czechia

Another pulse of heat is expected to affect central and western Europe next week. The latest forecast models show daily maximum temperatures well into the high 30s celsius widely across France, Spain and Italy during the first half of the week, while Germany, Poland and Czechia will experience the highest temperatures towards the end of the week. The shift in the focus of the heat as the week progresses can be attributed to the movement of high pressure. At the start of the week, low pressure centred in the Atlantic and high pressure centred over the low countries will draw warm air from southern Europe northwards into parts of France. During the working week, the high pressure will slip a little farther south and east, enabling the warm air once situated over western Europe to make inroads into parts of Germany and central Europe.

The heat in central and western Europe this summer has been unrelenting. Last week’s weather tracker highlighted record-breaking temperatures for the month of July in Austria. However, only a few days later, on 4 August, the all-time record was shattered with 41.0C achieved in Stammersdorf, north-east of the capital, Vienna. This comfortably broke the previous all-time record set in August 2003 by 0.7C. Unbelievably, that record was broken again the following day when 41.2C was recorded in Deutsch-Altenburg. Slovakia also set an all-time record on the same day, of 41.4C. The continuing European heatwave, associated with a vertically extensive anticyclone, raised the freezing level above 4,000 metres across much of the Alpine region. This represents a level in the atmosphere well above many Alpine glaciers, accelerating the seasonal melting process. On the opposite side of the Atlantic, 51.8C was recorded in Badwater, California, the highest temperature in the US for 2026 so far.

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Meet the army of amateur archivists racing to save US history in national parks
Published: 2026-08-07 12:00:17 | Created: 2026-08-07 12:03:56

Save Our Signs aims to document every sign in the more than 400 national parks and historic sites across the country before the Trump administration removes them

Jenny McBurney was among hundreds of people around the world who sprang into action last year when the Trump administration started deleting government datasets and webpages because they included information about “gender ideology”, environmental justice or diversity, equity and inclusion.

McBurney, a government publications librarian at the University of Minnesota, joined the Data Rescue Project, a group that mobilizes volunteers to archive critical government datasets that are at risk of deletion by the Trump administration.

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Код решает, LLM помогает: как я строил AI-тренера для бегунов
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Published: 2026-08-07 12:02:52 | Created: 2026-08-07 12:03:56

Я уже несколько месяцев разрабатываю AI-тренера для бегунов в Telegram — придумал ему имя и образ, Клод де Пейс, — и это ещё далеко не финал. В какой-то момент я дал ему возможность менять расписание по свободной фразе в чате. Первый же реальный тест: пользователь пишет «поменяй мне лёгкую в субботу» — имея в виду «перенеси лёгкую тренировку на субботу».

План действительно поменялся. Не в субботу — в четверг.

Расследование заняло пару минут: в четверг у пользователя стояла лёгкая тренировка, и модель формально нашла в сообщении два признака — easy и Saturday — и уверенно (confidence: 0.92) выбрала тот объект, который был ближе, а не тот, который имел в виду человек. С точки зрения классификации всё было сделано правильно. С точки зрения пользователя — совсем не то, о чём он просил.

Именно в этот момент сложился принцип, вокруг которого сейчас построена вся система: модель не обязана знать, какие ограничения являются бизнес-инвариантами продукта, если я сам не превратил их в явные правила. Код обязан это знать. Модель — нет.

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‘It might be one of the most unpopular tunes ever written!’: kids’ TV composers tell all
Published: 2026-08-07 12:00:17 | Created: 2026-08-07 12:03:56

Big cheques, standing ovations, irate adults – there are surprising sides to composing a children’s TV theme tune. From Bluey to Byker Grove, the creators of the best reveal the secrets

How do you write TV theme music for children? Does it make you mega-rich? And does the tune itself eventually drive you (and parents everywhere) nuts?

We tracked down the creators of half-a-dozen of TV’s greatest children’s show themes in order to find out. As Bluey’s Joff Bush told us: “The key lesson is that if you’re going to write a theme tune, make sure you really like it because you’re going to hear it a helluva lot!”

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‘It’s a Pan-African story’: the artists telling the amazing true tale of Zambia’s mission to reach space
Published: 2026-08-07 12:00:17 | Created: 2026-08-07 12:03:56

The nation’s audacious 1960s rocket programme was met with ridicule. Now, more than 60 years on, this curious episode is inspiring film-makers, playwrights and a circus show at the fringe

In February 1960, Harold Macmillan, the UK’s Conservative prime minister, gave his seminal “wind of change” address to the Parliament of South Africa in Cape Town, announcing the end of the age of colonial rule on the African continent. He had given the same speech in Ghana a month earlier but the South Africa speech received significantly more press attention because of its perceived confrontation with the apartheid regime. The speech began a chain reaction: four years later, the British Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland was dissolved, establishing a newly independent Zambia.

Amid the hopeful energy of the nation’s birth emerged Edward Mukuka Nkoloso, the father of the Zambia National Academy of Science, Space Research and Philosophy, with an announcement that the young country would officially join the space race.

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Iran plots to deal Trump a blow in midterms by keeping him entangled in war
Published: 2026-08-07 11:47:24 | Created: 2026-08-07 12:03:56

By dragging out talks, Tehran aims to damage the US president politically – but some fear a bruised and weakened Trump could lash back

Tehran has set out a protracted negotiating timetable designed to keep Donald Trump embroiled in the Iran conflict until the midterm elections, in the hope of inflicting the same ruinous blow on his presidency as Jimmy Carter suffered over the 1979-81 US embassy hostage crisis.

For many inside Iran, inflicting meaningful revenge on Trump is a legitimate and self-standing war aim, reflected in the mood of those attending the funeral of the supreme leader Ali Khamenei where demands for retribution were ubiquitous.

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Global food prices at three-year high as heatwaves and wars push up crop costs
Published: 2026-08-07 11:47:51 | Created: 2026-08-07 12:03:55

UN index says weather is affecting wheat yields while conflicts in Ukraine and Iran hit exports and drive up prices

Global food prices have hit their highest level in three and a half years, as summer heatwaves and conflict in Ukraine and the Middle East push up crop costs.

The UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) index of food commodity prices rose last month to its highest level since January 2023, after a jump in prices for cereals, sugar and vegetable oil.

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Trump Targets 'Birth Tourism' With Two New Executive Orders
Published: 2026-08-07 11:26:10 | Created: 2026-08-07 12:01:56
President Donald Trump is once again trying to restrict birthright citizenship, signing two executive orders that aim to crack down on “birth tourism.” The Supreme Court already blocked a previous effort by the president to limit the constitutional right and critics believe this order will meet the same fate. NBC’s Garrett Haake reports for TODAY.
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