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Wildfires and low water levels have affected Europe in July and August. Hundreds of homes have been destroyed and residents evacuated as firefighters across the continent battle the flames. Reservoirs and rivers are facing low water levels amid a prolonged drought

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Federal parliament is returning from winter break next week.

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Executive orders come after supreme court rejected president’s first bid to restrict guarantee enshrined in US constitution

Donald Trump on Thursday signed two executive orders that the White House said aims to restrict eligibility for birthright citizenship and ban “birth tourism”.

The ‌orders come just over a month after the United States supreme court rejected Trump’s first attempt to restrict the guarantee of birthright citizenship enshrined in the US constitution.

Westminster council has recommended reducing ‘vertical drinking’ or ordering at the bar in new draft licensing policy

No 10 has vowed to confiscate powers from local councils which try to restrict customers from standing up while drinking in pubs or ordering at the bar.

It comes after the Guardian revealed on Thursday that Westminster council in central London recommended not allowing “vertical drinking” or ordering at the bar in its new draft licensing policy.

Politicians’ fever dreams of ‘sustainable price increases’ – where values keep rising but by less than wages – could happen

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The Reserve Bank has hiked interest rates and the property market is in retreat. So far, so normal.

Or is it?

Republican, 84, absent from Senate after fall that led to hospital stay, says he will continue recovery at home

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The Republican US senator Mitch McConnell has been discharged from a rehabilitation center following the fall that left him hospitalized, he announced on Thursday.

McConnell, 84, whose weeks‑long absence from Capitol Hill fueled mounting speculation about his health, said he will continue his recovery at home.

Iran's parliament is reviewing a plan to ban ships linked to the U.S., Israel and other "hostile countries" from transiting the Strait of Hormuz. The Trump administration has rejected the plan.

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Пока я собирал материал для этой статьи, мне казалось, что логика будет простой: без VPN сайт видит мой обычный IP, с VPN — адрес сервера выхода; cookies при этом никуда не деваются. На практике даже такой маленький эксперимент сразу подкинул вопросы. В DevTools при подключении через VPN на странице Хабра появился ещё один домен с Google-cookies. Значит ли это, что VPN начал собирать обо мне больше данных? Нет. Он меняет маршрут и IP, а сайт, рекламная сеть или аналитика могут из-за нового адреса отдать браузеру другую конфигурацию страницы.

С интернет-приватностью постоянно происходит то же самое. Фраза «провайдер всё видит» смешивает в одну кучу название сайта, содержимое страницы, IP-адрес и личность пользователя. А совет «включи VPN» часто звучит так, будто после этого исчезнут авторизация, cookies и браузерный отпечаток. Они не исчезают.

В статье я пройду путь одного запроса от адресной строки до сервера и обратно. Разберу, какие данные в этот момент остаются у браузера, что видят DNS-резолвер и провайдер, что получает сам сайт и какую новую роль берёт на себя VPN-сервис. Заодно покажу, почему HTTPS скрывает далеко не всё, а смена IP ещё не означает анонимность.

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The Food and Drug Administration approved Moderna’s mRNA flu vaccine this week — a major public health breakthrough for an administration that’s been troublingly down on vaccines. 

The flu is a gigantic and costly illness, causing 1 billion infections and 300,000 deaths each year. But this new shot, built on advances from the Covid-19 pandemic, is expected to outperform the standard flu vaccine that we’ve used, largely unchanged, for the past 80 years.

The new shot fixes a problem that has long bedeviled the traditional vaccine: the gap between how quickly the flu virus mutates and how slowly vaccines are produced. The flu is changing constantly. But under current methods, manufacturing a flu vaccine — which, to my enormous fascination, most commonly involves secret chicken farms — takes six to eight months. 

That long lag often means the virus circulating during flu season isn’t the one the vaccine was designed to target. But the new mRNA vaccine works differently: Instead of using a weakened or dead virus to trigger an immune response, mRNA vaccines contain genetic instructions that train the immune system to fight influenza. 

mRNA vaccines also take less time to manufacture, so they can be produced closer to flu season. In a clinical trial, older adults who received Moderna’s mRNA vaccine were 27 percent less likely to get the flu than those who received the standard vaccine.

Heads up: Vox’s offices are closed tomorrow, so Today, Explained is taking a day off. We’ll be back in your inbox on Monday.

A world without flu?

Public health experts are justifiably hyped about mRNA technology. In addition to this new flu shot, researchers are developing mRNA vaccines against diseases including malaria, tuberculosis, and HIV.

But when it comes to influenza, mRNA isn’t the endgame. The real white whale is a “universal flu vaccine” — a shot that’s at least 75 percent effective against influenza A, the most dangerous type of flu virus, and lasts at least a year.

The challenge, again, is that the virus keeps mutating. Flu vaccines, whether mRNA or conventional, teach the immune system to recognize a viral protein called hemagglutinin and then fight off the virus. 

But hemagglutinin is a part of the flu virus that mutates often. To make a more durable vaccine, researchers are trying to either target parts of the virus that rarely change or teach the immune system to simultaneously recognize many different strains.

Several vaccines that use these approaches are already in clinical trials. And if they succeed, the flu shot could hypothetically become more like the measles vaccine — providing years of protection in one go, instead of requiring annual updates.

In other words, we’re used to thinking of the flu as a routine winter hazard, but that might not always be the case. If you can persuade people to get their shots, at least.

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➨ Go ahead, take your time. Three etiquette experts tell Vox that, in most casual situations, you can run 10 to 15 minutes late without appearing inconsiderate. But that guideline is very culturally and contextually dependent, which is bad news for chronically late people like myself. I prefer to think it’s a result not of rudeness, but of polychronicism.

Before you go…

• Did you know…that the Fast & Furious franchise, now on its 10th movie, is (loosely) based on a 1998 magazine article? The author of that piece is still a working journalist, so it would not appear he got his money’s worth from Hollywood. 
• Today’s trivia: What’s the fourth largest Great Lake? (You can find this and other brain puzzles in Vox’s daily crossword. Look for the answer in Monday’s edition.)
• Yesterday’s trivia: Yesterday we asked you for the name of the Nickelodeon game show hosted by Marc Summers. That would be Double Dare, which just celebrated the 40th anniversary of its first episode. The show is credited with influencing a generation of children’s media. 

Всем привет. Давно хотел собрать в одном месте свои мысли про гемблинг партнёрки. Потому что на старте я сам довольно больно обжёгся. Где-то поверил менеджеру на слово, где-то не дочитал условия, а где-то просто решил, что со мной-то плохого точно не случится. Случилось, конечно. Хочется внести ясность в сферу.

Republican, 84, absent from Senate after fall that led to hospital stay, says he will continue recovery at home

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The Republican US senator Mitch McConnell has been discharged from a rehabilitation center following the fall that left him hospitalized, he announced on Thursday.

McConnell, 84, whose weeks‑long absence from Capitol Hill fueled mounting speculation about his health, said he will continue his recovery at home.

Написал рекурсию тем же приёмом, что во второй статье, и программа повисла навсегда: возвращаться ей было некуда. Чиню, завожу стек и по дороге выясняю, что регистра sp в наборе команд нет вовсе. А потом урезаю стек до 128 байт, и сборка об этом не говорит ни слова.