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50 оттенков NGFW, часть первая
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Published: 2026-08-04 11:17:48 | Created: 2026-08-04 11:18:57

Привет, Хабр! Недавно мы дали подробное интервью о том, как строим наш NGFW в текущих реалиях российского рынка. На вопросы отвечали Антон Соложенко, директор по развитию бизнеса InfoWatch ARMA, и я, Станислав Румянцев, Product Manager InfoWatch ARMA Стена (NGFW). 

Мы подготовили для вас текстовую версию, из которой вы узнаете:

- с чего начинался  InfoWatch ARMA Стена (NGFW);
- почему компания не участвует в гонке за гигабитами;
- почему на рынке нет единого решения для всех сценариев. 

Под катом — ответы на эти вопросы, а также особенности создания и лицензирования продукта, тонкости пилотирования и внедрения, конкуренция, состояние рынка, применение ИИ и много другое.

— Сколько человек в вашей команде разработки?

В разработке NGFW InfoWatch на данный момент задействовано 64 человека — в первую очередь это специалисты с компетенциями в сетевых технологиях, специалисты по безопасности, пентестеры, девопс-инженеры, системные аналитики, дизайнеры. 

— Расскажите об основных принципах разработки

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What to watch in blockbuster Michigan primary and suspect arrested in Spokane wildfire: Morning Rundown
Published: 2026-08-04 11:09:20 | Created: 2026-08-04 11:17:55
Michigan’s primary races will test the Democratic Party’s deepest divisions.
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Trump claims Iran talks are underway as Tehran denies it
Published: 2026-08-04 11:11:15 | Created: 2026-08-04 11:17:55
President Donald Trump accused Iran of duplicity and insisted the two sides were discussing reopening the Strait of Hormuz as early as Tuesday, even as Tehran denied talks were even taking place.
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Hormuz Opening Uncertain After New Strike
Published: 2026-08-04 15:26:00 | Created: 2026-08-04 11:16:56
A ship moving through the Strait of Hormuz was struck as talks to open the waterway continued.
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Arsenal in talks to sign Newcastle's Guimaraes
Published: 2026-08-04 11:12:13 | Created: 2026-08-04 11:16:55
Arsenal open direct talks with Newcastle United to sign captain Bruno Guimaraes.
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A rail nightmare: what it’s like on England’s busiest commuter-only train
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Published: 2026-08-04 11:00:49 | Created: 2026-08-04 11:14:56

This evening service from London to Crewe is hot, sweaty and heaving with people, many having to stand or sit in the gangways

The 5.46pm train from London Euston to Crewe is the low point of Nikhil Patel’s week. “I’ve never gotten a seat. I always stand up even when I get here early,” says the 22-year-old, struggling to keep his balance while the gangway underneath sways from side to side.

Painfully for Patel, who is commuting back and forth to the capital for a computer science internship, it’s the first leg of a three-hour journey home to Walsall. He grabs the back of a chair to remain steady but says he’s just thankful that the train has left on time – and that it’s even on the move at all.

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'Give us a chance to fight for our lives' - swimmer Archie Goodburn's emotional plea for cancer funding
Published: 2026-08-04 10:35:47 | Created: 2026-08-04 11:14:55
Archie Goodburn is calling on the government to give more funding following the passing of the Rare Cancers Bill. The 25-year-old swimmer was diagnosed with brain cancer when he was 22.
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Как получаются нейтронные звёзды?
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Published: 2026-08-04 11:12:03 | Created: 2026-08-04 11:13:58

В этом посте максимально подробно разберу процесс формирования НЗ, ибо обычно все популярные объяснения ограничиваются фразой «коллапс массивной звезды».Забавно, кстати, что здесь гораздо чаще будут упоминаться нейтрино, а не нейтроны.

Отправимся в путешествие по просторам Вселенной. Наша цель — найти массивную, тяжестью более восьми Солнц (), звезду. Далее нам нужно затаиться и ждать пару десятков миллионов лет, пока в её центре не сформируется железное ядро. Тогда дальнейший термоядерный синтез уже не будет выделять энергию, необходимую для поддержания давления, которое уравновешивает собственную гравитацию звезды и не даёт ей схлопнуться. Ядро некоторое время будет удерживаться от коллапса давлением вырожденных электронов, возникающим благодаря принципу Паули (см. ниже), а потом...

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They're a world leader in using drones for healthcare. But drones can't do it all
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Published: 2026-08-04 11:05:10 | Created: 2026-08-04 11:12:55
A drone, just returned from a delivery, swings into the landing mechanism in Muhanga, Rwanda. The country

Drones carrying medical supplies constantly crisscross the skies of Rwanda. The Trump administration is giving a major grant to the effort — and at the same time cutting aid to the country.

(Image credit: Claire Harbage/NPR)

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There's a reason child vaccination rates are falling - and it's not social media
Published: 2026-08-03 23:10:05 | Created: 2026-08-04 11:08:55
As child immunisation rates fall across the UK, one clinic in west Yorkshire is taking aggressive steps to boost immunisations
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Infantino calls executive meeting as criticism mounts
Published: 2026-08-04 20:13:03 | Created: 2026-08-04 11:08:55
Gianni Infantino summons senior leaders to a meeting on Wednesday, after facing more fierce criticism of his scrapped plan to sell off Fifa's commercial and event operations.
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Как мы делаем беспилотные тракторы без кабины: рассказ главного конструктора Когнитив
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Published: 2026-08-04 11:03:58 | Created: 2026-08-04 11:05:57

Меня часто спрашивают: зачем городить платформу с нуля, если можно взять серийный трактор и просто превратить его в робота - навесить сенсоры, поставить актуаторы на руль и педали, и готово. Расскажу, почему мы в Cognitive Pilot пошли другим путём, и что из этого вышло - с граблями, которые обычно не попадают в презентации для инвесторов.

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Как оценить свой пет-проект для продажи?
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Published: 2026-08-04 11:04:29 | Created: 2026-08-04 11:05:57

Оценка пет-проекта для продажи — это не про подсчет затраченных часов. Часто она вызывает трудности, но монетизировать разработку хочется. Проблема в том, чтобы правильно определить ценность проекта для покупателя и продать его выгодно.

Меня зовут Юрий Горбачев, я руковожу патентным бюро. Ко мне часто обращаются за защитой проектов, чтобы увеличить их стоимость и защитить права перед продажей. 

В статье я поделюсь своим взглядом на особенности разных способов оценки пет-проектов. Надеюсь, увидеть в комментариях мысли тех, кто с этим сталкивался напрямую. 

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Is This Poker Player Bluffing? The AI Thinks So
Published: 2026-08-04 11:00:00 | Created: 2026-08-04 11:05:56
ESPN unveiled an “AI tells detection” tool during broadcasts of the 2026 World Series of Poker. Is it a neat computer-powered party trick, or a real threat to poker’s future?
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The Best Cordless Vacuums (2026): My Brand-New Top Pick
Published: 2026-08-04 11:01:00 | Created: 2026-08-04 11:05:56
Clean your house without the constraint of a power cord, thanks to these stick vacuums.
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A rail nightmare: what it’s like on England’s busiest commuter-only train
Published: 2026-08-04 11:00:49 | Created: 2026-08-04 11:05:56

This evening service from London to Crewe is hot, sweaty and heaving with people, many having to stand or sit in the gangways

The 5.46pm train from London Euston to Crewe is the low point of Nikhil Patel’s week. “I’ve never gotten a seat. I always stand up even when I get here early,” says the 22-year-old, struggling to keep his balance while the gangway underneath sways from side to side.

Painfully for Patel, who is commuting back and forth to the capital for a computer science internship, it’s the first leg of a three-hour journey home to Walsall. He grabs the back of a chair to remain steady but says he’s just thankful that the train has left on time – and that it’s even on the move at all.

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The US government’s mislabelled map of Africa at a global Aids conference shows again a failure to understand the continent | Kenneth Ngure
Published: 2026-08-04 11:00:48 | Created: 2026-08-04 11:05:55

This crude lack of thought is influencing crucial budget decisions on HIV programmes, which were cut by 25% worldwide in 2025

At the end of July, thousands of scientists, advocates and policymakers gathered at Aids 2026, the 26th International Aids Conference in Rio de Janeiro, to advance the global HIV response. But during one high-profile session, a jarring moment threatened to derail our focus: a slide presented by a senior US state department official displayed a map of Africa with country names glaringly scrambled and mislabelled.

While the mistake apparently occurred due to an over-reliance on AI tools, it carried a painful symbolic weight for many of us. It reinforced a longstanding frustration: that too many political leaders treat Africa as a monolithic abstraction rather than a continent of 54 distinct sovereign nations.

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Sex, drugs and serial killers: inside Ryan Murphy and Bret Easton Ellis’s lurid TV thriller
Published: 2026-08-04 11:00:48 | Created: 2026-08-04 11:05:55

The Shards brings the cocaine-addled teens of a 1980s prep school to life with a cast of newcomers and a heavy dose of sleaze

One of the first things Ryan Murphy’s TV adaptation of Bret Easton Ellis’s The Shards will make you ask is: where the hell are these kids’ parents? The answer is simple. This is Los Angeles in 1981, and these fabulously benumbed kids aren’t being helicopter-parented. They’re going to parties, drinking whiskey, listening to Ultravox’s Vienna on repeat and doing copious amounts of cocaine. It’s a complete vision of Ellis’s dully hedonistic America.

The FX series follows a character named Bret Ellis – a thinly coded version of the author – in senior year at an exclusive Los Angeles prep school whose controlled, Joan Didion-coded world begins to unravel with the arrival of enigmatic transfer student Robert Mallory. At the same time, in the post-Charles Manson and Jeffrey Dahmer era, a serial killer known as The Trawler draws ever closer to Ellis and his increasingly paranoid circle of friends. Ellis (the real one) first released his autofictional story The Shards as a serialized podcast between 2020 and 2021 before expanding it into a novel in 2023.

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Senate candidate Haley Stevens stands firm on backing U.S. military aid to Israel
Published: 2026-08-04 11:34:00 | Created: 2026-08-04 11:04:55
Michigan Rep. Haley Stevens, one of two Democrats in the primary for her party's Senate nomination, stands firm on backing U.S. military aid to Israel and claims opponent Abdul El-Sayed doesn't recognize Israel's right to exist.
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Authorities arrest an arson suspect in connection with wildfires in Spokane
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Published: 2026-08-04 10:56:56 | Created: 2026-08-04 11:03:55
A car sits melted in the backyard of a home burnt by the Old Trails Fire in Spokane, Wash. as fires continue a third day on August 3, 2026.

The suspect was arrested in connection with one of three wildfires in Spokane, Wash., that have destroyed hundreds of homes and displaced nearly a quarter of the city's residents.

(Image credit: Margaret Albaugh for NPR)

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Платформенный шаблон.NET‑сервиса: с нуля до прода за два дня
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Published: 2026-08-04 11:00:58 | Created: 2026-08-04 11:02:59

Привет, Хабр! Эта статья — часть проекта «20 в 20», в котором мы рассказываем о региональных ИТ-хабах Т-Банка и о том, как в них растут команды и инженерные практики.

Я Дима Фирстов, инженер core-команды Т-Бизнеса из томского ИТ-хаба. Мы занимаемся разработкой общих библиотек и инструментов, которые помогают продуктовым командам работать эффективнее и не изобретать велосипеды. 

Наша миссия — позволить продуктовым командам сосредоточиться на бизнес-логике, а инфраструктурный код мы по максимуму возьмем на себя. Помогать продуктовым командам начинаем уже на старте нового сервиса — для этого мы разработали шаблон для генерации репозитория .NET-сервиса, который позволяет быстро получить предсказуемую и готовую к эксплуатации основу нового приложения.

В статье расскажу о техническом устройстве нашего шаблона — базы для большинства backend-решений на .NET в компании.

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Guatemala volcano eruption sends lava spewing into the air
Published: 2026-08-04 10:56:50 | Created: 2026-08-04 11:01:58
The Fuego stratovolcano is one of the most active in Central America and popular with hikers.
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Washington wildfire arson suspect twice linked to other blazes, authorities say
Published: 2026-08-05 00:40:23 | Created: 2026-08-04 11:00:57
Aaron Farinacci, 37, was allegedly spotted near the latest blaze and was found to have matches and a lighter.
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Why So Many Young People No Longer Believe Hard Work Pays Off | Money Moves with Jill Schlesinger
Published: 2026-08-04 11:00:00 | Created: 2026-08-04 11:00:55
A growing number of young Americans no longer believe that ambition and hard work lead to success. Jill Schlesinger, Mark Talercio, and special guest host Kayla Sabbagh of Greenspring Advisors explain why that mindset can become a self-fulfilling prophecy and why believing you have agency over your future is essential to both your financial success and your mental health. Plus: they respond to a fiery YouTube comment about inheritance, family expectations, and leaving your money to charity.
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AMD и 4 ГБ: разбираемся с RX 9050
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Published: 2026-08-04 10:57:22 | Created: 2026-08-04 10:58:58

На прошлой неделе AMD обновила свою линейку видеокарт Radeon RX 9000 и добавила в нее младшую модель. При этом ни анонса, ни пресс-релиза не было. Вместо этого компания просто завела в разделе Radeon RX 9000 Series новую страницу. Версия на 8 ГБ стоит от 279 долларов, и она довольно скучная, тем более до нас она вряд ли доедет в ближайшее время. Куда интереснее то, что вместе с ней на прилавки вернулись десктопные видеокарты с 4 ГБ памяти, которых у AMD не было с 2022 года. И вот тут действительно интересно, зачем это нужно в наше время, но давайте обо всем по порядку.

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East Asia is baking in ‘cruelly hot’ summer
Published: 2026-08-04 10:52:45 | Created: 2026-08-04 10:58:55
A deadly heat wave is gripping large parts of East Asia, bringing the hottest temperature on record in South Korea and complicating earthquake recovery efforts in Japan.
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Xi Wants a Strong-Looking Yuan. China’s Economy Keeps Holding It Down.
Published: 2026-08-04 10:55:00 | Created: 2026-08-04 10:55:56
Plus, Beijing accelerates its buildup in space and a drone maker cleans 28 tons of waste from Mount Everest.
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3 lions die at zoo as Japan bakes in "cruelly hot" summer
Published: 2026-08-04 10:53:00 | Created: 2026-08-04 10:54:55
Ten of the 16 lions in Tama Zoological Park have suffered symptoms such as "loss of appetite and decreased activity" since mid-July, and three lionesses died, the zoo said.
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Leonardo DiCaprio, Jeff Bezos lead $200M project to save threatened species
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Published: 2026-08-04 10:49:36 | Created: 2026-08-04 10:53:55
Foundations funded by Leonardo DiCaprio and Jeff Bezos have launched a $200 million initiative to revive 100 of Earth's most threatened species
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Сотни миллионов долларов убытков,  пиар-катастрофа и травма Андрея Дороничева: вспоминаем провал Google Stadia
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Published: 2026-08-04 10:51:29 | Created: 2026-08-04 10:52:57

Давайте вспомним, чем была Stadia — какой была амбиция, что удалось реализовать, где случился провал и почему проект закрыли, вместо того чтобы доработать. В финале предлагаю пофантазировать: можно ли было ее спасти, а главное — какой могла бы быть Stadia сегодня, в эпоху нейросетей.

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WATCH: Tiger shark caught in New England waters sparks concern
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Published: 2026-08-04 10:43:21 | Created: 2026-08-04 10:52:55
Two brothers fishing on a Massachusetts beach got the surprise of their lives after reeling in a five-foot tiger shark.
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WATCH: 83 neighbors bring Halloween to boy with autism on his birthday
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Published: 2026-08-04 10:09:26 | Created: 2026-08-04 10:52:55
ABC News' Danny New shows how a neighborhood in Alabama came together to help a young boy with autism enjoy one of his favorite activities on his birthday.
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Infantino calls executive meeting as criticism mounts
Published: 2026-08-04 20:13:03 | Created: 2026-08-04 10:51:55
Gianni Infantino summons senior leaders to a meeting on Wednesday, after facing more fierce criticism of his scrapped plan to sell off Fifa's commercial and event operations.
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Big Walk review – larking around with mates elevated to an artform
Published: 2026-08-04 10:41:57 | Created: 2026-08-04 10:50:55

Switch 2, PlayStation 5, PC; House House
The creators of Untitled Goose Game return with an online, open-world adventure that delivers slapstick silliness and bucolic majesty in nearly equal measure

Radiant sunsets glinting on lapping waves; bushland valleys that beckon with secrets; modernist buildings sat atop craggy ridges: Big Walk’s setting is as arresting as it is beguiling – a kind of architectural fever dream transplanted to a handsome Australian wilderness – but it is the images created by players that lodge deepest in the mind. Here’s one that has stuck with me: in the black of night, cicadas kicking up an almighty din, I had lost my partner. Panic. Despair. Fear. Then, there in the far distance, I saw him signalling in my direction. He was relentlessly spamming a gigantic, ball-shaped lamp on and off, the ground around him flicking from inky dark to warm pastel pink and back again, like a single Christmas light blinking from afar.

This kind of encounter is common in Big Walk, the brilliant and whimsical new online co-op puzzler from House House, the Melbourne-based studio behind the 2019 viral hit, Untitled Goose Game. Rather than playing as a honking, mischief-making goose as you do in that game, you are a bug-eyed, gangly limbed kind of bird person (think Pingu as drawn by Mondrian) for whom getting separated from your mates is all part of the fun. That’s somewhat because this rugged terrain is dense with vegetation and cliffs to fall down, and also because the game makes ingenious use of proximity and direction-based voice audio. Step out of earshot of your party and you will find it difficult to call for one another (unless, of course, you’ve picked up a Fisher-Price-like walkie-talkie).

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How One Startup Built a (Mostly) China-Free Robot
Published: 2026-08-04 10:45:00 | Created: 2026-08-04 10:49:56
Ati Robotics assembles its robots in India and uses just a few Chinese parts—a strategy that could pay off as the Trump administration cracks down on Chinese humanoids.
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Mourners line streets of Milan for legend Baresi's funeral
Published: 2026-08-04 10:45:34 | Created: 2026-08-04 10:48:55
Thousands gather on the streets of Milan for the funeral of legendary former AC Milan and Italy defender Franco Baresi.
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Trump’s Top Lawyer
Published: 2026-08-04 10:39:06 | Created: 2026-08-04 10:47:55
We look into the issues surrounding Todd Blanche’s confirmation.
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Greg James shares his heartbreak after death of dog Barney
Published: 2026-08-04 10:39:23 | Created: 2026-08-04 10:46:55
The Radio 1 presenter said his beloved pet had to be put to sleep in the garden of his home.
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Ariana Grande expands on decision to ‘step back from visibility’, telling fans it was ‘not reactive or impulsive’
Published: 2026-08-04 10:32:58 | Created: 2026-08-04 10:45:55

Singer and actor, whose world tour ends next month, told audience in Chicago that she had been quietly planning the move for a long time

Ariana Grande has expanded upon her recent decision to take “a step back from visibility” when her tour ends next month, as a result of what a spokesperson called “endless, ongoing public scrutiny”.

On Monday night during the first show of a three-night run in Chicago, the 33-year-old musician and actor read from notes as she told fans: “The announcement that was made yesterday was not a reactive or impulsive thing. It is something that I had decided to plan quietly, a long time ago.”

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Dinghy carrying 173 people capsizes in Channel after engine catches fire
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Published: 2026-08-04 17:52:33 | Created: 2026-08-04 10:44:57

All passengers thought to have been taken to Boulogne after large air and sea rescue operation by France and UK

A dinghy carrying 173 people has capsized after its engine caught fire as it attempted to cross the Channel from France.

The people onboard were rescued from the water after a large air and sea operation was launched using UK border security and French vessels along with an RNLI boat.

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«Стыд съедал меня изнутри». Агент ФБР признался в краже миллиона долларов с «враждебных» счетов, возможно, связанных с Россией
Published: 2026-08-04 10:34:07 | Created: 2026-08-04 10:44:57
Агент ФБР сдался властям США, признавшись в том, что, пользуясь служебным положением, перевел себе около 1 млн долларов с криптовалютных счетов иностранца, в отношении которого велось уголовное расследование.
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Apple issues new challenge against UK order for access to private user data
Published: 2026-08-04 10:22:40 | Created: 2026-08-04 10:42:55
It is the latest development in the ongoing dispute between Apple and the Home Office over data privacy.
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House committee launches investigation into Republican lawmaker amid domestic abuse allegations – as it happened
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Published: 2026-08-04 21:54:36 | Created: 2026-08-04 10:40:56

This live blog is now closed.

The White House has called an emergency summit of artificial intelligence business leaders on Tuesday to finalize details of a voluntary compliance system for safety breaches, following reports that two major AI tools had breached their digital containment and hacked external computer systems.

Anthropic reported last week that models of its Claude tool successfully hacked into the infrastructure of three separate companies during red-teaming tests by exploiting weak passwords and unauthenticated endpoints. Anthropic said an external evaluation partner mistakenly granted the testing agent unfiltered internet access.

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Единые цели — разные бэклоги: практический подход к синхронизации команд
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Published: 2026-08-04 10:37:05 | Created: 2026-08-04 10:38:57

Что делать, если:

всю продуктовую разработку разместили в одном Jira-проекте, рассчитывая на «единообразие любой ценой»;

у бэклога и процессов нет явного владельца;

команды работают над крупным омниканальным продуктом со сквозными интеграциями и зависимостями;

релизы взаимозависимы, классический Scrum не подходит, а переход на Waterfall никто не хочет даже обсуждать;

методология приоритизации целей существует, но применяется только эпизодически;

приоритеты обсуждаются раз в квартал, а затем команды самостоятельно ищут ресурсы для кросс-командных доработок.

В статье я расскажу, что происходит, когда множество продуктовых и сервисных команд ведут бэклоги в одном Jira-проекте, и как выстроить сквозную приоритизацию с минимальными изменениями существующей системы.

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The sneaky economics of healthwashing
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Published: 2026-08-04 10:30:00 | Created: 2026-08-04 10:37:55
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Why food companies love labels like "organic" and "high protein," why our brains are misled by them — and how to avoid paying extra for marketing.

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‘Everyone Is Doing It’: The Truth About AI in Hollywood
Published: 2026-08-04 10:30:00 | Created: 2026-08-04 10:34:56
Puck’s Matthew Belloni says AI has quietly become part of everyday filmmaking. The battle now isn’t whether Hollywood will use the technology—it’s who controls what’ll come next.
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Israel Bombs Gaza, Casting Doubt on Trump Peace Plan
Published: 2026-08-04 10:30:00 | Created: 2026-08-04 10:33:55
People attend a mass funeral for members of the Abu Sharia and Al-Hasayna families, whose remains were recently recovered from the rubble of their homes after they were killed in Israeli airstrikes in Nov. 2023, in the Sabra neighborhood of Gaza, on Aug. 4, 2026. —Ahmad Hasaballah—Getty Images

Israel hit Gaza with airstrikes over the weekend that killed more than two dozen Palestinians, Palestinian health officials said.

The intensified bombings came days after President Donald Trump announced that Hamas and other militant groups in Gaza had agreed to disarm. The announcement paves the way to implement the remaining provisions of Trump’s 20-point peace plan, which Israel and Hamas signed in October 2025. But the broader framework also requires obligations from Israel, including a halt to its attacks and a phased withdrawal of its military from the enclave, that Israel appears not to have fully complied with since signing the agreement. The framework also outlines a possible pathway toward Palestinian statehood, which the Israeli government has repeatedly rejected.

On Friday, Trump said that Israel was “very happy” with the deal, which he called a “big step for the Middle East.”

But Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has not publicly responded to Trump’s announcement as of Tuesday and other officials have voiced objections to the plan.

Instead, Israel has appeared to buck Trumpnot for the first time—by sharply intensifying its deadly attacks on Gaza. The weekend airstrikes are just the latest Israeli attacks since the October cease-fire, which was meant to halt fighting after the war killed more than 67,000 Palestinians. Since then, the Palestinian death toll has risen to 73,000, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry, while five Israeli soldiers have been killed, including one in friendly fire, since the cease-fire, according to Israeli officials. The war began after the Palestinian militant group Hamas launched a terrorist attack on Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, killing around 1,200 people.

Nickolay Mladenov, lead envoy of the U.S.-led Board of Peace, suggested that Israel’s continued attacks could undermine peace efforts in the region. The Board published a 15-point roadmap on Friday outlining the final steps for implementing the plan, which includes the transfer of Gaza’s civilian and security functions to a technocratic committee, the deployment of an International Stabilization Force, and the reconstruction of Gaza.

Mladenov met with Netanyahu in Israel on Monday and reportedly urged the Israeli leader to stop attacking Gaza. But it’s unclear whether Israel will heed Mladenov’s request. In a statement after the meeting, an Israeli official told Israeli media that “Israel will not withdraw from the current line in the Gaza Strip and will continue to thwart any threat to our civilians and soldiers.” While Israeli forces initially withdrew to the Yellow Line established under the cease-fire agreement, Israel has since expanded its control to nearly 70% of the territory. Hamas previously said it would only disarm if Israel withdraws to the agreed-upon line and halted attacks.

More bombs fall

July became the deadliest month this year for Palestinians in Gaza, with more than 150 fatalities. Most of the recent Israeli strikes have targeted western Gaza, where almost all of the enclave’s two million residents reside, United Nations deputy spokesperson Farhan Haq said on Monday. Israel also destroyed at least 1,500 buildings in parts of Gaza under its control after the cease-fire, according to a BBC Verify report from November.

Israeli strikes over the weekend killed at least 25 people, including four people in Deir-al-Balah, according to Palestinian health officials. A strike on a house in Mawasi killed a couple and their 9-year-old son. Another strike on an apartment in Gaza city killed another couple and their child. Several more people were killed in strikes on a tent near an Egyptian mission, a car near Saraya Square, and elsewhere in Gaza City and Jabalia. 

The Israeli military said the strike in Deir-al-Balah was targeting two Hamas commanders, and that the deadly strikes on Gaza City and Jabalia were targeting “military operatives.”

Israel casts doubt on Trump plan

Israeli officials expressed skepticism towards Trump’s disarmament plan on Sunday. Energy Minister Eli Cohen told Israel’s Army Radio that he was “very skeptical” Hamas would disarm and said Israel did not agree to halt attacks on Gaza. Rather, he argued that Israel would need to take full military control of Gaza if Hamas does not disarm.

Also on Sunday, Doron Spielman, a spokesperson for Netanyahu’s office, told Reuters that “nothing can happen before Hamas completely and truly disarms.”

On Monday, far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich and Settlements Minister Orit Strouk sent a formal letter to Netanyahu calling on him to convene the security cabinet and bar the entry of the International Stabilization Force into Gaza. The security cabinet had approved the deployment of the force in a pilot zone in Rafah a week earlier.

“You can wrap tomorrow’s fish with this agreement; it has no meaning. Not a single soldier will move from Beit Hanoun or Khan Younis [in Gaza],” lawmaker Amit Halevi of Netanyahu’s Likud party said in an interview with Israeli broadcaster Kan, according to CNN.

Netanyahu faces the challenge of balancing competing demands: avoid alienating Israel’s most powerful ally while also maintaining domestic political support, including from the far-right members of his coalition, ahead of an election at the end of October.

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The quiet way Republicans are trying to undo abortion rights again — starting in Kansas
Published: 2026-08-05 10:23:20 | Created: 2026-08-04 10:30:55
A field organizer places signs on the podium before the pro-choice Kansas for Constitutional Freedom primary election watch party in Overland Park, Kansas, August 2, 2022. | Dave Kaup/AFP via Getty Images

Editor’s note, Aug. 5, 6:20 am ET: Kansas voters rejected a proposed amendment to change how state supreme court justices are selected. This piece below was originally published on August 4.

Four years after the Dobbs decision, abortion battles have largely taken a backseat in national news to other policy fights this cycle. Leaders in the anti-abortion movement say they’re disillusioned with President Donald Trump’s unwillingness to push for further restrictions. The federal battle over access to abortion medication seems to be settled — for now. Public awareness of that fight is limited, and even at the state level, a couple years have passed since the high-pitched but successful state-level efforts to protect abortion access in red states.

Yet a little-known battle has been playing out in Kansas, where a ballot measure to change the way state supreme court justices are selected serves as a reminder that these fights over abortion are still active, even if they take the form of creative procedural and administrative efforts. 

If it succeeds, opponents say, it would open the floodgates for similar efforts in other states to politicize the remaining independent state courts (13 other states use a method similar to Kansas) and provide a road map to undoing abortion protections in other states that have safeguarded them.

On Tuesday, Kansans are deciding whether to change the way judges on the state’s highest court are selected. Up until now, judges were selected through a nonpartisan merit-based system: When a spot opens on the bench, a nine-member commission submits a list to the governor, who then selects a replacement.

The referendum would replace this system with direct, partisan elections of judges, like any other politician. Proponents say it’s a democratic move, a way to better express the will of voters over “unelected” bureaucrats. Yet critics say it’s first and foremost about restricting abortion rights — which both the court and voters have rejected.

How Kansas became an abortion rights flashpoint

In 2019, the state supreme court recognized the right to abortion in the state constitution; three years later, after Dobbs, voters rejected a Republican-championed proposal to overturn that ruling, choosing to preserve abortion rights by a 59-41 margin in a deeply red state.

It was after that failed vote in 2022 that then-state attorney general Republican candidate Kris Kobach outlined a new strategy for undoing these protections: changing the way the supreme court is selected, electing anti-abortion candidates, and “slowly and quietly” overturning the 2019 decision and 2022 vote.

“If you look at the various proposals, one of the proposals that is crystal clear is allowing people to popularly elect justices to the supreme court, which is the most common system among all of the states in the country,” Kobach said in 2022.

He’s a bit more careful talking about this in 2026: “There is a real desire to bring back some accountability to the judiciary,” he told the New York Times this week. “It’s not just about abortion.”

Tuesday’s results would have huge ramifications, critics said, given that nonelected state courts have been a final bulwark against Republican supermajorities and governors in red states. Kansas has been an island for abortion access for women in the South and central US since the Dobbs decision.

The victory in 2022 also inspired abortion rights advocates to try to use ballot measures to enshrine these protections in about a dozen other states, which successfully overturned abortion bans in Missouri and Ohio. State courts in Utah and Wyoming, meanwhile, blocked bans.

The next frontier in the abortion wars

These independent checks on power have been under attack for years, Michael Milov-Cordoba, a court expert and counsel in the Brennan Center for Justice’s judiciary program, told me. 

“State legislators across the country are increasingly trying to undermine those courts. … That retaliation takes a few different forms, but changing how judges are selected is top of the list,” Milov-Cordoba said. “And what we’ve seen is that in many states where courts stand up for abortion rights and strike down abortion restrictions, efforts to change state judiciaries have followed.”

He noted the complete reworking of the Utah supreme court in the last year, including by expanding and packing it. Similar retooling of the state supreme court happened in Iowa in 2022. Montana is likely the next battleground, where Republican legislators are exploring various avenues to strip or limit the state supreme court’s powers. That in turn has led the ACLU to get involved to boost a constitutional amendment this year that would preserve the nonpartisan status of judicial elections.

And in recent years, state supreme court elections have been inundated with spending and attention from both in- and out-of-state backers. Last year’s Wisconsin judicial election, for example, became the most expensive race of its kind in US history, with more than $100 million spent — just two years after a contest for a different seat on the state supreme court had set its own record at more than $50 million spent.

“If these courts become partisan, then they will be just like any other election fight — subject to being bought and sold by billionaire political funders,” Deirdre Schifeling, the chief political and advocacy officer at the ACLU, told me. “They become a race to the bottom … and [Republicans] are finding backdoor ways to seize power to push their ideological agenda.”

Already, Kansas has seen heavy spending: More than $12 million have been spent from both sides, including about $5 million from the ACLU, Schifeling told me.

”Everyone’s focused on the Michigan Senate race, other kind of big-ticket, sexy elections,” Schifeling said. “Well, this is just as important and much more under the radar. Without a balanced court, we are going to lose rights and liberties across the board in a state like Kansas.”

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France wildfires reveal hundreds of WW2 shells in village
Published: 2026-08-04 04:22:12 | Created: 2026-08-04 10:30:55
Explosions heard in Le Porge as the wildfires raged are believed to have have been the old munitions.
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Afghan boxer arrested in Greece over discovery of Scottish woman's body in suitcase
Published: 2026-08-04 19:31:26 | Created: 2026-08-04 10:30:54
Sharif Ahmadzai, from Afghanistan, is expected to appear in court in Athens on Wednesday.
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