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Exclusive: Police will allege the woman, 40, is the former partner of Steele-John and she is expected to face court in Perth on Thursday

A 40-year-old woman has been arrested and charged by Western Australian police for allegedly stalking and attempting to extort the Greens senator Jordon Steele-John.

WA police said on Wednesday detectives from the family violence investigation squad charged the Perth woman with one count of aggravated stalking with intent to intimidate and one count of demanding property by written threats, commonly known as extortion.

Diplomats and business leaders fear that, with the U.S. election now over, the war pitting the U.S. and Israel against Iran could escalate.

An impeachment investigation would enhance transparency and allow Congress to reassert its authority

In Tuesday’s midterm elections, voters sent the Republican party an unmistakable message: their love affair with Trumpism is coming to an end.

The overwhelming victory for Democrats in both the US House of Representatives and the US Senate, was foreshadowed by a number of polls showing growing disenchantment with Donald Trump – and it was personal.

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This ambitious remake transforms a landmark Zelda game into a modern masterpiece, clearer and easier to navigate, more beautiful to look at, with playful musical touches. Yet the melancholy remains

It’s always a worry, returning to a formative piece of art from your childhood. Will your jaded adult sensibilities render you unable to locate the magic that captivated your child self? Will revisiting it reveal that it was never actually that good, and that your tastes are built on a foundation of lies? With video games, there is the added complication of technological advancement: decades-old games can look so basic and feel so treacly to play that it’s hard to explain why they were mind-blowing at the time.

Light-touch remasters aim to bring such games up to modern graphical standards without fundamentally changing them; an ambitious remake attempts to transform the work into something that can stand alongside any modern masterpiece. Ocarina of Time is the latter. And I could not be more delighted to report that it is a dream come true.

Dreyfus affair has echoes of how anti-Jewish hatred manifests itself today, say curators at Weiner Library

It was the world’s first experience of antisemitism “gone viral”, said Barbara Warnock, a co-director of the oldest Holocaust archive, the Wiener Holocaust Library in London.

It was 1894 and printing presses were faster than ever before. France’s prohibitive censorship laws had been lifted, and then along came the Dreyfus affair: a public shouting match that followed the wrongful conviction for treason of Alfred Dreyfus, a 36-year-old French army captain.

School in Komyshuvakha in the Zaporizhzhia region was struck on Monday

Meanwhile, the Kremlin said that ⁠it ​hopes that the ⁠results of the US ⁠midterm ​elections ‌will not impact ‌what it ‌said were president Donald Trump’s “peacemaking efforts" on Ukraine, Reuters said.

In comments ‌broadcast by Russian state ​media, Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said:

“We ⁠are sincerely ​counting on [Trump] ​continuing ​his peacemaking ​efforts.“

“Governing in the United States will be almost impossible in the coming years given the level of internal division and polarisation. As a European politician I will mainly look of course to trade policies, ⁠support to Ukraine and Nato.”

Report reveals financial support promised by rich nations for adaptation measures is well behind the pace that is needed

Flows of money to help poor countries cope with the climate crisis have been flat or falling since 2022, despite growing impacts from extreme weather and warnings from scientists that global heating may be accelerating.

A new UN report has revealed that financial support for adaptation – which includes measures such as stronger infrastructure, early warning systems, flood protection and drought-resilient irrigation – is woefully short of what is needed and far behind even the inadequate promises that rich countries signed up to in 2021 in recognition of their far greater responsibility for the crisis.

Nintendo's new Ocarina of Time remake enshrines its place in the gaming canon for generations to come. But despite its stupendous production values, the game left me feeling oddly bereft.

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На подпольных форумах продают доступ к ИИ, который якобы не отказывается писать вредоносный код и помогать со взломом. В объявлениях фигурируют GLM, DeepSeek и Kimi. Однако за обещанием «модели без ограничений» могут скрываться перепроданные API-ключи, чужие вычислительные ресурсы или совсем другая модель.

20 октября 2026 года исследователь Эрик Клей опубликовал для Flare анализ этого рынка. Компания использовала свою базу данных, охватывающую более 100 000 Telegram-каналов и 100 даркнет-форумов. Этот охват описывает источники наблюдения, а не число сообществ, в которых действительно торговали моделями.

Объявления, лабораторные тесты и расследования атак дают разную степень подтверждения возможностей ИИ.

Так выглядит Агора сейчас. 4 ноября 2026 года (agorasocial.ru)

2 ноября сервер моей соцсети «Агора» на Beget перестал отвечать. 3 ноября хостинг подтвердил: данные VPS обнулены, бинарные бэкапы потеряны. Меня спасли три вещи: зашифрованные офсайт-бэкапы базы, которые я настроил за день до аварии; escrow-ключ для личных сообщений, заложенный в схему ещё раньше; и скрипты переезда, которые я успел написать в репозитории. Агора открылась на новом сервере примерно через 3 часа после того, как Beget подтвердил потерю. Цена: около суток данных и целая коллекция граблей, о которых ниже. Главная моя ошибка: мастер-ключ шифрования лежал только в окружении серверного процесса и в бэкап не входил.

Businessman styled stars such as Twiggy, Madonna and Joanna Lumley and created popular hair care line Frizz Ease

John Frieda, the celebrity hairstylist who launched his own bestselling hair product range, has died aged 75.

In an Instagram post, his salon wrote: “It is with heavy hearts that we share the news that our dear John passed away peacefully … surrounded by his family.

Dreyfus affair has echoes of how anti-Jewish hatred manifests itself today, say curators at Weiner Library

It was the world’s first experience of antisemitism “gone viral”, said Barbara Warnock, a co-director of the oldest Holocaust archive, the Wiener Holocaust Library in London.

It was 1894 and printing presses were faster than ever before. France’s prohibitive censorship laws had been lifted, and then along came the Dreyfus affair: a public shouting match that followed the wrongful conviction for treason of Alfred Dreyfus, a 36-year-old French army captain.

На дворе 80-е, золотая эпоха консолей, и новые модели сыпятся как из ведра изобилия. Завоевать сердца геймеров пытаются даже компании, которые никогда раньше с играми дел не имели. И Casio тоже решила попытать удачу.

В Unitree Go2 с Quectel EG25-G профиль eSIM Orange читался, но модем не регистрировался в российской сети. Нашли проверку MCC 250 в Q6zip, изменили одно сравнение, пересобрали подпись и загрузили радиокод. После перезапуска собака зарегистрировалась в Билайне. Продолжение разборов EG25-GC и RG255C-GL.

A witty creature feature set in a multi-occupancy building in Los Angeles that takes aim at unscrupulous landlords and finance bros

This arachnid-themed horror is fairly traditional in terms of its structure, core monster threat and scares-to-laughs ratio, but there are a few winningly modern touches. For starters, there is a very contemporary anticapitalist undertow: it all takes place in a single multi-occupancy building (supposedly in Los Angeles, though the whole film was filmed in Portugal) owned by a slimy landlord (William Miller), who rails against the city’s “socialist” local council making it harder for him to rip off his tenants. And the tenants range across the spectrum of income levels and careers, in a way which is directly correlated to how sympathetic they are and therefore how likely to get spider-bit.

So you shouldn’t get too attached any of the characters who work in finance, are “influencers”, or in any way act high and mighty towards the building’s long suffering supervisor Serena (Matilda Lutz), a tomboy-femme girl in shorts and biker boots who is also an aspiring musician. Serena is the one who finds the first victim, a UCLA professor in arachnology who is killed by an exotic spider which grows to extra-large proportions, from a colony ruled by a super-sized queen that appears semi-sentient.

Pups that carry your shopping are one thing – but what about the mechanical canines being bought up in the US by ICE? Or the mutant mutts due to be developed by a startup called Warhound?

Have you ever wanted to hang out with a dog with no fur, no face and a chip in its shoulder? If so, I suggest you head to San Francisco, where a startup called Dimensional has been paying people $20 (£15) an hour to walk four-legged robot dogs. This isn’t because the dogs need the exercise – it is because the company needs the training data. As reported in the New York Times, the goal is to develop “operating systems that can integrate with AI agents so the machines can act more independently”.

What exactly will these machines do when they can act more independently? The founder of Dimensional insists they will help people. They might carry groceries home, for example, which is certainly something my tiny chihuahua-mix is incapable of.

When the water in Flint, Michigan, became contaminated with dangerous levels of lead, Dr Siddhartha Roy, then a third year PhD student, was part of the team of scientists who publicly contradicted state and federal claims that it was safe. He became a local hero until a new piece of research challenged the idea that children in Flint had been left permanently brain damaged by the crisis. His adherence to the evidence, no matter who it offended, has earned him the 2026 Maddox prize, which recognises individuals who stand up for science and evidence, despite challenges or hostility. He tells Ian Sample how he reflects on his experience in Flint, and why he lost friends as a result of his work there

Представим ситуацию: разработчик торопится закрыть задачу, вставляет API-ключ прямо в конфиг, делает коммит и пушит изменения в репозиторий. Через неделю ключ убирают из кода, задача закрывается, все довольны.

Но есть нюанс: удаление строки из актуальной версии проекта не означает, что секрет исчез из истории Git.

Если репозиторий доступен публично, ключ может обнаружиться спустя месяцы. А если он даёт доступ к облачной инфраструктуре, базе данных или стороннему API, последствия могут оказаться весьма неприятными.

— Разберёмся, как искать такие утечки и автоматизировать проверку, чтобы не заниматься разгребанием инцидентов постфактум.

Хаборовчане и гости привет!

Вкратце суть того что произошло. По сути фильм ужасов от Бегет.

В ночь с 1 на 2 ноября 2026 года на нашу инфраструктуру была совершена кибератака с получением доступа к управляющему контуру всей архитектуры и последующим запуском обнуляющих скриптов.... К сожалению, бинарные бэкапы VPS полностью утеряны. Остаётся возможность восстановления данных из файловых бэкапов.... В облачной инфраструктуре (VPS, S3 и Kubernetes) все данные были утрачены.... Настройки CDN, IP утрачены. Мы не сдаёмся и продолжаем поиск способов восстановить эти данные.
Источник https://vk.ru/begetru?w=wall-2782733_35546

Давайте проведем как говорят SRE инженеры postmortem разбор. Без цели найти виноватых, а с целью понять как сделать так, чтобы такого не случилось с вашей компанией.

Some of Brian McDermott’s players will arrive home a week after their early exit from the tournament

By No Helmets Required

England players would have been well advised to ignore the advert outside their North Bay hotel in Wollongong over the weekend: “Everything that truly matters is possible,” it read. Not quite everything, it turns out. While England women packed their cases and headed out of Australia the morning after their World Cup campaign was ended by slick Samoa, England men are still stuck outside a party they’ve been told to leave. Having watched their fate sealed during the Tonga v Samoa game on Sunday, England have moved to Sydney but some players will not arrive home until Friday, a week after their World Cup ended.

It could have been worse. They have been staying overlooking Wollongong’s wonderful beaches, where the distinctly salty smell of seaweed drifts in with the mist off the bay. The surfers among the squad could take a hundred steps from their bedroom and be in the water, and the players whose families are in town have been able to start their end-of-season holidays early. When Wigan teammates Junior Nsemba and Zach Eckersley reminisce about their trip to the World Cup, they may well talk about spending the afternoon riding e-scooters up and down Cliff Road or strolling along North Beach rather than playing against Tonga, France and Papua New Guinea. With the beaches, cafes and stunning lilac jacaranda trees on every street, there are worse places for dreams to end. But most England players and staff are just desperate to get home.

We’d like to hear from people in the US and around the world about their reactions to the results and what they could mean for the future

We’d like to hear from people in the US and around the world about their reactions to the midterm election results, which saw Democrats win control of both houses of Congress after a series of sweeping victories over Donald Trump’s Republican party.

Were you surprised by the scale of the Democratic victories? How are you feeling about the outcome, and what does it mean to you?