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National Foreign Trade Council ‘disappointed’ at move to expand News Bargaining Incentive but Australian experts say government is not going far enough

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A major US trade body has rubbished the Albanese government’s plan to make more big tech platforms pay for Australian journalism, issuing a veiled warning about how Donald Trump may respond to the “deteriorating trend”.

The National Foreign Trade Council said it was “disappointed” at the Australian government’s move to expand its News Bargaining Incentive (NBI) to take in Microsoft’s LinkedIn, amid trade tensions between Washington and Canberra including newly increased tariffs on Australian goods.

Prof. D.E. Hughes (1879) V. Induction-balance and experimental researches therewith , The London, Edinburgh, and Dublin Philosophical Magazine and Journal of Science

Человек всегда хотел проникнуть в то, что невозможно для невооруженного глаза и одним из наиболее интересовавших его областей — было разработать некоторый способ для нахождения металлов в недоступных зрению местах, так как их имеется весьма большое количество и разнообразие: например, под землёй, в теле человека, в стенах и т.д. 

Трудно переоценить важность этой задачи, которая привела к появлению примечательного изобретения, в дальнейшем, с последующими модификациями, широко распространившегося и применяющегося повсеместно — да, речь пойдёт об металлоискателе, но не о том, что всем известно, а о том, что, пожалуй, легло в основу всего направления… 

She’s acting royalty – literally, having played Queen Elizabeth II in The Crown – but what questions would you ask her?

It is perhaps fitting that Imelda Staunton ended up playing Queen Elizabeth II in the last two series of The Crown, considering she has been acting royalty for years. Her film career has seen her voice champion egg-layer Bunty in 2000’s Chicken Run, followed by roles in Mike Leigh’s 2004 drama Vera Drake and the 2005 comedy Nanny McPhee. In 2014, she played the formidable Welsh miners’ strike campaigner Hefina in Pride. She also plays Lady Maud Bagshaw in the first two Downton Abbey films, and voices Paddington’s beloved Aunt Lucy in all three Paddington films. For a whole generation, however, she will always be Dolores Umbridge in two of the later Harry Potter films, where she somehow made a pink cardigan almost as frightening as Voldemort.

On TV, she has cropped up in everything from Little Britain and Doctor Who to Psychoville, Brassic and a memorable guest appearance in the fourth series of A Bit of Fry & Laurie, where – for reasons known only to F&L – she was introduced as “Snutty”. Whether she’s playing a chicken, a bear or the head of state, there is always something unmistakably Imelda about her performances: warm and calm but with the distinct impression that she won’t stand for any nonsense.

Just in case you hadn’t already realised how extraordinary the gigantic group of creatures known as invertebrates are, we’ve gathered together five facts that made our brains hurt (plus one more, because we couldn’t choose). Tell us your favourite extraordinary fact in the comments below

• The top ten invertebrates revealed

Did you know that the mantis shrimp can accelerate to strike its prey faster than a .22 calibre bullet. They can smash shells, and even crack aquarium glass with the power of the strike. “These impressive animals are armed with one hammer-like dactyl club on each side of its body. These clubs store energy in elastic, spring-like structures, which are held in place by latch-like tendons. When the latch is released, the stored energy, too, is released – propelling the club forward with explosive force,” says Nane Steinhoff.

Journalist’s son says his mother was examining leak from Electrogas, part owned by Yorgen Fenech who is on trial

Daphne Caruana Galizia was investigating suspected corruption by the businessman Yorgen Fenech and members of Malta’s government when she was killed, a jury has heard.

The heir to one of Malta’s biggest fortunes, Fenech is on trial for murder, accused of commissioning and paying for Caruana Galizia’s killing in a car bombing in October 2017.

The Pacific Island country of Nauru has changed its name to the Republic of Naoero, its president said, matching the spelling and pronunciation in the national language.

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На первый взгляд за 40+ лет на рынке Word почти не изменился: белый лист, курсор, шрифты, абзацы, кнопка сохранения. Но в реальности он прожил несколько разных жизней – от текстового процессора эпохи DOS до облачного редактора с совместной работой, автосохранением и ИИ-помощником.

В том есть любопытный парадокс. Большинство из самых мощных функций Word до сих востребованы лишь у сравнительно узкой профессиональной аудитории: макросы, слияние писем, сложные стили многоуровневых документов, перекрестные ссылки, элементы управления формами, разнообразные настройки рецензирования.

Для огромного числа пользователей Word по-прежнему остается программой, где просто набирают текст, иногда делают таблицу и добавляют картинку. Многие до сих пор не вставляют номера страниц и не задумываются, как сделать разные колонтитулы у разделов. Однако, возможно, что именно сочетание простого входа и почти бездонной глубины позволило Word пережить столько технологических эпох. Давайте вспомним, как все это было.

Привет, это Антон Пионтковский из команды Monium Metrics, и вместе с коллегами мы создаём observability‑платформу для сбора, хранения и анализа телеметрии Yandex Monium. Мы храним миллиарды метрик и обрабатываем 50 гигабайт логов в секунду, а внутри Яндекса с Monium работают 16 тысяч сотрудников.

Чтобы справиться с объёмом метаданных метрик Kubernetes, мы научились фильтровать их по времени. Сначала наивно с помощью линейного сканирования, и потому только для небольшого круга пользователей. Но результат нам так понравился, что мы захотели включить фильтр для всех. Поскольку первоначальный подход нельзя было скейлить, мы использовали специальный — range encoded bit sliced — индекс, и получили ускорение в 6–20 раз, а в удачных случаях — до двух порядков.

Расскажу, как мы дошли до такой жизни, как устроен этот индекс, и что потребовалось сделать, чтобы всё в продакшн‑среде работало быстро.

Разминаем мозги с легендарным задачником «1001 задача для умственного счета» С. А. Рачинского. Как уникальное пособие XIX века для крестьянских детей остается актуальным и по сей день?

Meg O’Neill says ‘where we generate jobs, we generate tax revenue’, as company’s profits more than double

• Revealed: major oil firms make $93bn profits amid war and climate crisis

• Nils Pratley: BP boss is unsentimental in pruning portfolio and clear on North Sea advice to Burnham

BP’s chief executive has urged Andy Burnham to make use of the UK’s oil and gas resources even as the oil company prepares to sell its North Sea business after 60 years in the ageing basin.

In a conversation with the new prime minister, Meg O’Neill said the country should prioritise using energy produced in the UK, “where we generate jobs, we generate tax revenue, we generate all those additional positive impacts”.

The Cockroach movement protesters used memes, mockery and collective action to cut through mainstream media’s refusal to tackle problems plaguing the country’s politics

Hello! Welcome to This Is India from the Guardian. I’m Niha Masih and I’ll be writing to you every week about the stories, ideas and news makers of modern India.

I’ll do a deep dive into one story – from politics and internet culture to tech and entertainment – and round up key events, trends and debates that are dominating the discourse among Indians, especially the youth.

Еще в 22-м году я рассказывал, как за довольно небольшой промежуток времени мы смогли ворваться в ТОП-3 финтех-приложений для малого и среднего бизнеса. С тех пор уже состоялось новое исследование MarksWebb 24-го года, в котором мы стали лучшими. В мае текущего года мы стали серебряными призерами — с колоссальным отрывом от всех остальных преследователей.

На связи Кирилл Маканков, iOS-разработчик из ПСБ.

В новой статье я хотел бы рассказать о тех системных изменениях, которые мы целенаправленно продолжаем вносить в процессы разработки, чтобы достичь этих почётных званий. Статья будет полезна:

1. руководителям всех направлений разработки, так как показывает, где и как находить неэффективные процессы, и, самое главное, — как радикально повышать их эффективность;

2. архитекторам программного обеспечения, так как именно они ответственны за эффективность процессов разработки;

3. рядовым разработчикам, так как показывает эффективные процессы, которые позволяют меньшими затратами получать существенно большие результаты и тем самым выдерживать конкуренцию на современном рынке.

Белемнитгромовая стрела / чёртов палец / рысий камень

С самого детства, находя на любимом Балтийском море забавный конусовидный камушек, я не мог пройти мимо.
Ещё тогда, в глубоком детстве, кто-то из родителей рассказал мне, что это чёртов палец.

Globetrotter and TV presenter Alice Morrison trades in her camels and backup team for wild camping in one of Scotland’s most beautiful glens

‘I miss my camels. I miss the sun. I miss the vast emptiness of the desert plains …” These are my thoughts as I trudge through thick conifer plantations and my fifth consecutive hour of rain at the start of the Affric Kintail Way in the Scottish Highlands.

My last big adventure was a world first. I became the first recorded person to walk the full length of Saudi Arabia, north to south, from Jordan to Yemen. It took three years to organise, then 112 days of walking half a marathon a day, and I had a backup team plus Juicy and Lulu, my naughty but nice camels.

These images of Lee Espinoza’s iconic gym in the Coachella Valley weren’t just about sport – they also helped photographer Darren Vargas deal with the death of his grandfather

This sensitive adaptation of Jansson’s 1972 novel, set in the beatific Gulf of Finland, is a quiet treatise on life and death

Glenn Close brings her totemic presence to this gentle movie – as well as a makeup-enhanced grandmotherly face. This is a sweet-natured adaptation of Tove Jansson’s 1972 novel; it has charm, though it’s sometimes becalmed in its own sensitivity.

Close plays a tough, wise, humorous-yet-cantankerous eightysomething woman who likes cigarettes and walking around outside stark naked when there’s nobody else around. She brings her recently widowed son (Anders Danielsen Lie) and six-year-old granddaughter Sophia (newcomer Emily Matthews) to a tiny, idyllic island in the Gulf of Finland, where they have a summer cottage. The grandmother may, incidentally, have unresolved feelings for local man Eriksson, in a fleeting cameo for veteran Icelandic actor Ingvar Sigurdsson.

Lender was told money was being taken without authorisation, with cash used to buy credits for Claude chatbot

A Metro Bank customer has told of his fight to get more than £14,000 back after its systems failed to stop a fraud involving the AI chatbot Claude.

Zoli Rutter, a businessman from Sussex, had a total of £14,244 taken from his bank account. The scam involved fraudsters buying credits to use Claude.

His family said it was Montgomery’s sixth interstate fundraising ride in support of Motor Neurone Disease NSW

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Bob Montgomery, a charity cyclist who has just finished a 5,200km bike ride from Broome to Bowral, died on Monday at the age of 82.

His family confirmed his death on social media, saying he had died unexpectedly just a day after completing the cycling feat alongside his grandson, Tom, as a fundraiser for motor neurone disease.

• UFC says Nascimento died in his sleep

• Brazilian flyweight was 34 years old

• Last fought in split-decision loss in June

UFC fighter Allan Nascimento has been found dead at home at the age of 34, the organisation has announced.

The Brazilian flyweight was pronounced dead after suffering an apparent heart attack in his sleep.

NSW shadow attorney general, Damien Tudehope, tells inquiry Jean-Claude Perrottet had a talent for recruiting

The leader of the opposition in the New South Wales upper house has admitted to leaking a confidential draft report from a 2023 parliamentary inquiry to a member of a group of young conservative Liberal powerbrokers now under investigation by the corruption watchdog, an inquiry has heard.

On Tuesday, Damien Tudehope, the NSW shadow attorney general and Liberal leader in the upper house, gave evidence as part of the Independent Commission Against Corruption’s (Icac) Operation Rosny.

Large tabby cat that wiped out dozens of rare pāteke, or brown teal, has been killed after eluding trappers with its ‘very erratic’ behaviour

A notorious feral cat given the name “Nine Lives” because it eluded trappers for three years has been caught and killed in New Zealand, ending its devastating rampage against one of the country’s rare duck populations.

The cat, a large grey tabby, is estimated to have killed dozens of New Zealand’s rarest mainland duck – or 1% of its population – plus a host of kiwi chicks, native geckos and other native wildlife during the three years it was known to be roaming the Purerua peninsula, near the top of the North Island.

Most of the zoo’s 16 lions have struggled to cope with high humidity this summer

Three lions from a Tokyo zoo have died from suspected heatstroke and others are undergoing treatment, a spokesperson said on Tuesday, as the big cats struggle in Japan’s high levels of humidity.

Japan sweltered through its hottest summer on record last year and parts of the country have hit 40C in recent weeks, qualifying for the new “cruelly hot day” designation.

Large tabby cat that wiped out dozens of rare pāteke, or brown teal, has been killed after eluding trappers with its ‘very erratic’ behaviour

A notorious feral cat given the name “Nine Lives” because it eluded trappers for three years has been caught and killed in New Zealand, ending its devastating rampage against one of the country’s rare duck populations.

The cat, a large grey tabby, is estimated to have killed dozens of New Zealand’s rarest mainland duck – or 1% of its population – plus a host of kiwi chicks, native geckos and other native wildlife during the three years it was known to be roaming the Purerua peninsula, near the top of the North Island.