По сути, тренды июля те же, что и в июне (описание июня здесь): как создать лучший harness, как настроить автономные или полуавтономные процессы, управление контекстом, повышение качества и повторяемости результатов, оптимизация, безопасность. Но заметен другой сдвиг. Если в июне основной фокус статей был из серии “мы пробуем, мы попробовали”, то сейчас фокус “мы решаем вопрос как именно сделать лучшую реализацию на основе всех кейсов, которые мы собрали”. То есть мы подходим к моменту, когда количество переходит в качество.
Все больше статей описывают не просто интересные кейсы, а дают прикладные рекомендации и решения как сделать так, чтобы агентная разработка давала повторяемый качественный результат. Большой фокус на агентов и субагентов, на оркестрацию большого количества скиллов и MCP, на качественное тестирование как реальную значимую часть агентной разработки (а не просто генерацию unit-тестов), все больше внимания на архитектуру (как ее строить под проекты с ии-разработкой).
Итан Сигел (американский астрофизик-теоретик и научный журналист, автор рубрики "Спросите Итана", один из пропагандистов современных научных знаний), опубликовал эту статью в ответ на вопрос одного из читателей. Откуда нам известны возраст и размеры наблюдаемой Вселенной? А что насчет ненаблюдаемой? Она бесконечна или конечна?
@avshkol перевел эту статью (и снабдил несколькими примечаниями). Эта работа раскрывает эволюцию научных знаний о размерах Вселенной, дает прекрасное введение в смысл уравнений Александра Фридмана и станет отличным теоретическим и историческим введением в современную космологию для начинающих.
Megan Koverman's weight gain, fatigue, high blood pressure and other symptoms were dismissed for years before she was diagnosed with a rare heart disease.
Jason Arday was regarded as an academic superstar, but then questions about his work prompted scrutiny of his backstory and counterclaims of racism
When the superstar academic Jason Arday took to the stage at the British Sociological Association’s 75th anniversary conference earlier this year, he delivered a talk called Wanted Dead or Alive: the Playbook.
The youngest black professor in Cambridge University’s history told an audience of his peers that the playbook in question had helped bring down some of the biggest names in US academia. Conservative “activists” were trawling through the work of black academics, looking for anything to use against them: inconsistencies, citation errors, passages in their work that were similar to existing papers.
Я бы назвал это самой важной частью всей серии статей. В ней мы соберём целостную картину. Будем говорить об обобщённой системе, которая принимает естественный язык, выбирает действие и умеет безопасно запускать долгие операции.
На arXiv вышел препринт "Settling the Optimal Exponent Relating Sumsets and Difference Sets" — восемь страниц за подписью Хаовэя Линя из Tencent Hunyuan и Шанды Ли из Университета Карнеги — Меллона. Он ставит точку в вопросе аддитивной комбинаторики, на котором за последний год проверили себя едва ли не все громкие ИИ-системы — от AlphaEvolve из Google DeepMind до GPT и Claude. Ответ нашелся не у них: ключевую конструкцию предложил Hyra — исследовательский агент Tencent, работающий на открытой модели Hy3. Формальная проверка доказательства выложена в открытый репозиторий на Lean 4 — языке для машинной проверки математических доказательств.
Шалом, хатули...эмм-э... уважаемые гости и потенциальные инвесторы. Ответьте, пожалуйста, на один маленький вопрос, который я задаю всем своим гостям: как вы думаете, какой наиболее технологичный и эффективный способ получения стейков из растительного сырья? 3Д-печать? Неее. Соя или горох? Двойная экструзия? Увы, увы. Это корова. Пока что. Мы работаем над этим.
It's a bold new experiment and it's already won a prize. Residents in a jam-packed slum, many of them living in one-room tin shacks, help design their apartments in a brand new building.
Amazon is quietly slashing prices on New Balance sneakers, with deals up to 61% off for men, women and kids. Shop the best discounts before they sell out.
Some in Dover say their town is being exploited by content creators and politicians, but others claim there is a genuine problem
If you believe rightwing influencers and politicians, Dover and the wider Kent coast has been the site of an “invasion” for years now. And, for an online audience of millions, they and their camera crews have been the vanguard in the nation’s defence.
Indeed, if you believe all you see on the algorithms of amateur Channel watchers, the shadow home secretary, Chris Philp, braved a hail of French gunfire as he took to the water in a fishing boat this week; an attempt by the French authorities, he suggested, to deter him in his mission of highlighting the small boats crisis.
Growers in dismay after scorching weather and lack of rain affect yields, sending wholesale prices rocketing
Pubs, restaurants and supermarkets are having to buy lettuce and broccoli from Spain at what should be the height of UK growing season, as drought and extreme heat hit crops.
The wholesale price of tomatoes is up by more than 60%, iceberg lettuce by 90% and potatoes by more than 40% as a number of farmers struggle to grow in consistently high temperatures. Even those with irrigation systems and reservoirs on their farms say water is running low.
The trillionaire Tesla owner has called the editor of the Economist a ‘traitor to the west’ after a clash-filled interview. How should the media respond?
Elon Musk’s long interview with the editor of the Economist is as good a representation as any of the current clash between two worlds. In one corner, the editor of an 182-year-old news organisation which promotes economic liberalism and freedom. In the other, the world’s first trillionaire, who spreads misinformation to his hundreds of millions of followers on his own social media platform. The bout is a masterclass in the challenges journalists face in a new world of AI, fact avoidance and online aggression.
The flash points in Zanny Minton Beddoes’ conversation with Musk start with definitions. Musk says that the people Minton Beddoes calls “far-right” and “fringe” (she mentions Germany’s AfD party) are in fact just “normal people”. They clash over whether the speed of his cuts to USAID led to unnecessary deaths in developing countries – she believes his claim that it didn’t defies not only statistics but the evidence from her reporters on the ground. Asked if he is racist, he cites the fact he has four children with a woman who is “half Indian”. In an awkward exchange, when asked by Minton Beddoes whether he is anti-Muslim, Musk says he is against “people coming to a country with antithetical views … I’m against rape and murder.”
Jane Martinson is a Guardian columnist. She is a board member of the Scott Trust, which owns the Guardian Media Group. As the Marjorie Deane professor of financial journalism at City St George’s, University of London, she has a connection through a charitable foundation to Zanny Minton Beddoes, who is chair of trustees. She writes in a personal capacity
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A New York school district has paused plans to bring an android into the classroom. Is this our educational future?
What’s more harrowing than sending your child to school? Maybe getting stuck on a city bus that can’t drop below 50 miles per hour or it will explode, but that’s about it. Once your kid hits school age, you have to decide (if you’re lucky) between public and private education, vet the teachers, and neurotically worry about whether they’re learning enough and are socializing effectively. For seven hours a day, someone who’s practically a stranger is responsible for the wellbeing of one of the most important people in your life.
It’s a stressful situation, but maybe it would be less so if your kid’s teacher was a humanoid robot.
Dave Schilling is a Los Angeles-based writer and humorist
The stories in Mrs Leicester’s School, written by a woman who killed her own mother, were suffused with grief, and finally triggered mine as I was teaching a class of students
When my dad went into hospital for what would be the final time, shortly before Christmas last year, I had been finishing up a lecture series on early children’s literature for the university where I teach. My dad had had a drinking problem practically my whole life, but his alcoholism had worsened across decades. Then suddenly, after years of poor health, his liver just gave up on him. He was dead within days.
Shortly after his death I was due to lecture on a relatively forgotten book of stories for children called Mrs Leicester’s School, mostly written by the English writer Mary Lamb but with parts by her more famous brother, Charles. I was not prepared for how moved I would be by the simple message of one of the stories. That often bizarre and sometimes grim collection of tales for pre-Victorian boys and girls changed the way that I, an almost 40-year-old man, think about grief.
Генерация красивых единичных артов давно перестала быть проблемой. Но как только возникает прикладная задача — например, сделать серию консистентных иллюстраций или заготовок для стикерпака в едином стиле — обычный промпт‑инжиниринг начинает буксовать. Закрытые модели дают высокое качество, но забирают контроль и навязывают свое видение.
Поэтому я решил собрать собственный контролируемый пайплайн. Базой для эксперимента была выбрана Stable Diffusion 1.5. Да, это далеко не самая новая архитектура: она хуже современных моделей понимает комплексные описания, чаще ломает анатомию и ограничена базовым разрешением 512×512. Но у неё остаются неоспоримые козыри: низкие требования к железу, гигантская экосистема (ControlNet, чекпоинты) и возможность быстро обучать и тестировать гипотезы на домашнем ПК.
Суть эксперимента — обучить стилевую LoRA на обезличенной подборке стикеров из ВК. Модель должна была выучить не лицо конкретного персонажа и не манеру конкретного художника, а общие паттерны жанра: белый фон, упрощённые формы, характерный векторный контур и мультяшную выразительность эмоций.
Sick of doomscrolling? From venues with smartphone swear jars to cabins with absolutely no signal, here are the fun and freeing ways to ditch your device
There’s a ritual at the start of every event hosted by the Offline Project. Run by Pelé Zachariah, the activities vary – it could be a group walk, a collage‑making class or a supper club – but each one begins in the same way, *with an invitation to hand over your phone. Devices go in a lockbox. Once they’re all in, Zachariah closes the door and turns the key. “I don’t place them in for people, because it’s nice for them to physically put it in the box themselves, walk away, and think: for the next two or three hours, I’m fully present.”
He has been running these screen-free events in London since August 2025. First-timers can be apprehensive about being separated from their phone. “You can sense the vibe when they’re putting it away,” says Zachariah. “People have said to me, ‘I felt really weird’ or ‘I felt super uncomfortable for the first few minutes not having my phone on me.’ Then they’ll say, ‘I didn’t know how much I needed that.’”
At the Aids 2026 conference, Brazilian advocates said health systems need to be more independent from foreign funding
HIV advocates from Brazil, whose health system operates independently from foreign aid, say they predicted a dramatic reduction in donor funding for HIV and wish other countries had prioritized independence sooner.
While the dissolution of USAID might “feel like a rupture”, it’s something advocates at the Brazilian HIV NGO Gestos have seen coming for a long time, Juliana Cesar, Gestos’s political liaison coordinator, said during a session at the Aids 2026 conference in Rio de Janeiro.
Divisions remain in the bloc over mass crossing of migrants into Spanish territory in north Africa
The EU is to hold an urgent meeting of interior ministers on Tuesday amid continued divisions in the bloc over the arrival of more than 50,000 migrants in the Spanish territory of Ceuta in north Africa.
The decision was taken by officials representing EU member states and Frontex border agency experts at what was described as a “sobering” meeting on Saturday.
Heat and drought have affected shipping, power plants and tourism across eastern Europe – as well as unearthing some surprises
Baking temperatures and drought across large swathes of central and eastern Europe have driven water levels on the Danube and Rhine rivers to record lows in some areas, hitting shipping, energy production and tourism hard.
Extreme conditions aggravated by the climate emergency left Europe’s waterways from the Netherlands to the Black Sea parched, triggering compounding crises.
Across Latin American households in the US, the steaming broth nourishes while keeping family traditions alive
When Patty Rodriguez hears the word caldo now, she thinks fondly of home. But as a child growing up in southern California, she despised eating the piping-hot soup-like meal during the summers. Rodriguez would swirl around the chunks of fish with her spoon and imagine that she was performing a magic trick where the dish disappeared. She would roll her eyes as she asked her family why they served the dish more often when it was hot outside. “This is not a hotel,” Rodriguez recalled her mother and aunts saying. “You don’t choose what you want to eat. You’re going to eat what we make.”
As an adult, Rodriguez realizes that caldo, which translates to broth in Spanish, was an inexpensive meal that could feed her Mexican American household for several days. It provided the nourishment and hydration needed during the hot summer months.
The wave of strikes came as President Trump threatened to intensify the American campaign against Iran. U.S. embassies in the region warned of the “potential for unforeseen escalation.”
The FDA is poised to render a decision on Moderna's mRNA-based flu shot, which could be the first of its kind to market. The decision is expected to reverberate throughout the biotech industry.
A shortage of Navy destroyers, used to defend against Iranian ballistic missile attacks, will force the head of U.S. European Command to prioritize the U.S. homeland instead, officials said.
Hartman residents asked for declaration after infighting exacerbated water crisis and all town leaders resigned
A small town in south-eastern Colorado was recently declared abandoned after all of its local public leaders resigned amid a drinking water supply crisis.
The office of Colorado’s secretary of state, Jena Griswold, announced the fate of Hartman on 29 July, a little more than a month after being advised in writing that the town “had lacked chlorine in its water for [more than] one month and the water was not potable and ‘smells horrible’”, according to public documents.
Some in Dover say their town is being exploited by content creators and politicians, but others claim there is a genuine problem
If you believe rightwing influencers and politicians, Dover and the wider Kent coast has been the site of an “invasion” for years now. And, for an online audience of millions, they and their camera crews have been the vanguard in the nation’s defence.
Indeed, if you believe all you see on the algorithms of amateur Channel watchers, the shadow home secretary, Chris Philp, braved a hail of French gunfire as he took to the water in a fishing boat this week; an attempt by the French authorities, he suggested, to deter him in his mission of highlighting the small boats crisis.
Так получилось, что мне пришлось заниматься регуляторами для электромоторов. Большинство из них имеет двойное управление – по PWM и CAN. Управление по PWM проще, поэтому его чаще всего и применяют. Но если вы хотите надежности, вам надо переходить на CAN, а точнее на DroneCAN. Об этом протоколе и пойдет речь в статье.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio at an ASEAN meeting in the Philippines on July 23, 2026. | Ezra Acayan/Getty Images
The International Criminal Court is in the trenches right now.
Last week, its chief prosecutor, Karim Khan, was voted out of his position. In a first-of-its-kind vote, 82 member states decided that he engaged in misconduct and a serious breach of duty. The vote comes after he was accused of sexual misconduct by a female colleague at the ICC, which Khan has denied.
It’s a mess, and it’s hitting the ICC at an inopportune time. On top of this internal turmoil, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio recently launched an all-out attack on the court.
In a Wall Street Journal op-ed earlier this month, Rubio wrote that the Trump administration’s goal is to “dismantle the ICC—brick by brick, if necessary,” citing the possibility that the court could “target” American citizens, such as Border Patrol agents or US soldiers.
The US is not a member of the ICC, and has a history of wariness about the organization.
Beth Van Schaack previously served as the US ambassador-at-large for global criminal justice, a role that led her to work directly with the International Criminal Court. She spoke with Today, Explained co-host Noel King about the decades-long tumultuous relationship between the US and the ICC. And they discuss whether, if the ICC is now weaker than ever, the Trump administration can actually break it for good.
Below is an excerpt of their conversation, edited for length and clarity. There’s much more in the full podcast, so listen to Today, Explained wherever you get podcasts, including Apple Podcasts, Pandora, and Spotify.
If the International Criminal Court is charged with dealing with people who have allegedly done very bad things and then trying them, why is the United States not a member?
The United States signed the treaty in the waning days of the Clinton administration, but never submitted it for ratification to the Senate. And one of the concerns is that the final treaty allows for jurisdiction over individuals who may commit crimes on the territory of state parties. And the United States has always been concerned about that principle because we have troop commitments.
Supporters of the court have always said the United States and its personnel are vulnerable regardless of whether you join. If US personnel are committing crimes on the territory of state parties, which we saw in Afghanistan, the response is to do those cases domestically and there’ll be no occasion for the International Criminal Court to consider those matters.
There’ve been peaks and valleys in the relationship between the ICC and the United States. So we’re in a frankly pretty deep valley right now with this new campaign that Secretary Rubio announced.
But back in the Bush administration, there was also very acute concern and it stemmed from this Afghanistan investigation. The Bush administration and Congress both put in place measures that they thought would be protective of US servicemembers. So that was one valley.
Now what’s interesting is in the second term of the Bush administration, many of these measures were dismantled because the Bush administration realized that the court was doing important work in some areas where it also cared about justice — in particular, Darfur.
Then, the Obama administration announced a reset in its relationship with the court, and that’s where I entered the picture. The Obama administration directed various executive agencies to look for ways to support the court where the work that it was doing was consistent with US policy.
Then, we had the first Trump administration, which reversed course almost immediately and eventually imposed sanctions on senior figures, including the prosecutor herself and one of her key aides.
Then, we get to the Biden-Harris administration. They pulled down those sanctions and again launched a reset of the relationship. At that point, there were a number of situations where the court was working, including following the brutal war of aggression by Russia against Ukraine.
Here we saw a remarkable rise of bipartisan support for the work of the court. You had senior Republican figures in Congress supporting the court. The late Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) led a resolution that was supporting justice in Ukraine. Secretary Rubio, then Sen. Rubio, joined that resolution. There was new legislation passed that made it easier for the United States to support the work of the court.
Of course, with the second Trump administration, we have reversed course again, and in particular with Rubio’s announcement.
Well, let’s talk about the reversal. Secretary of State Marco Rubio is at one point on board with the ICC, and then recently he vows to dismantle it. What happened here?
It’s not clear what the precipitating event is, to be honest. There is no existential threat at present. Obviously, there’s always the concern that this is some kind of a distraction because matters are not going well in Iran and with respect to the economy — that this is something to pull eyeballs away from those matters onto something that he can look tough in. Is this just kind of red meat for anti-multilateralism or is there something that is not made public that is happening?
Is there anything actually that Marco Rubio or anyone else in the United States at the highest level could do to the International Criminal Court to put an end to it?
The International Criminal Court is part of a larger system of the rules-based order that we’ve been trying to build since World War II. Almost all of our friends and allies are members of this court and they care deeply about its success. They are committed to seeing a system of international criminal justice. So, no is the answer. The United States alone cannot dismantle this court.
Now, it can injure the court and it has already done so. There are already eight ICC judges, including judges who hail from some of our closest allies — France, for example — who have been subjected to brutal sanctions. They can’t use credit cards that pass through New York. They can’t make reservations online because of financial sanctions. They can’t travel to the United States because of travel bans, et cetera. The chief prosecutor and two of his two deputies have been sanctioned. Non-governmental organizations that are involved in human rights in Palestine have been sanctioned and a UN figure has been sanctioned. Those measures are already in place.
What his most recent campaign seems to announce is some diplomatic move to try and convince states to leave the court or to cease their cooperation with the court. And we have seen in recent days a couple of states announcing that they were withdrawing. These are mostly states within Africa, but also Venezuela, subject to investigation by the prosecutor’s office. The United States can certainly injure the court, but there’s no way that we could dismantle the court.
Most Americans don’t spend a lot of time thinking about the International Criminal Court, but they may know it because lately, it has gotten a lot of attention that the court has issued an arrest warrant for [Israeli Prime Minister] Benjamin Netanyahu. New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani has said he would like to see Netanyahu arrested if he comes to New York.
Mamdani has said he does not have that power. He cannot order the NYPD to do it, but he would like for it to happen. What are the chances that Benjamin Netanyahu comes to the United States and is arrested?
Pretty close to zero, if not actually zero. This is a matter of federal law and international law. And the Headquarters Agreement between the United States and the United Nations, which placed the headquarters of the UN in New York, basically gives certain privileges and immunities to individuals who are coming to New York to attend official functions.
New Yorkers are a feisty bunch. So when word is out that Benjamin Netanyahu is in New York, can you imagine the protests that would happen? Can you imagine the embarrassment that he might experience when he’s supposed to be giving his remarks at the General Assembly High-level Week where all the heads of states convene to deal with transnational issues and his motorcade is ensnarled in protests protected by the First Amendment, calling for his arrest for various international crimes? If I were his lawyer, I would say, “There’s no chance you’re going to get arrested.” But honestly, it could be a miserable visit, given all of the strong support for accountability in this matter in the United States.
This is a lot of drama for a body that for a long time seems to have avoided a ton of very public drama. So who gets hurt in all of this? Is it the court? Is it the US and its reputation? Where do you think this leads?
Unfortunately, I think everyone comes out not looking great here. The court needs to put in place measures to be able to receive those complaints by witnesses, whistleblowers, victims themselves, process them quickly, but also fairly to all parties involved. The United States looks terrible as well, launching a campaign like this against an international organization whose mandate it is to deliver justice for the worst crimes known to humankind.
Divisions remain in the bloc over mass crossing of migrants into Spanish territory in north Africa
The EU is to hold an urgent meeting of interior ministers on Tuesday amid continued divisions in the bloc over the arrival of more than 50,000 migrants in the Spanish territory of Ceuta in north Africa.
The decision was taken by officials representing EU member states and Frontex border agency experts at what was described as a “sobering” meeting on Saturday.
На первый взгляд, Social Login — одна из самых простых функций современного веб-приложения.
Добавить кнопку «Войти через VK». Добавить кнопку «Войти через Яндекс». OAuth 2.0 давно стандартизирован, OpenID Connect тоже. Документации и библиотек полно. Да и AI сегодня умеет писать интеграции быстрее человека. Поэтому, когда я решил добавить VK ID и Яндекс ID в Авторизу, честно рассчитывал уложиться в один рабочий день:
Свою систему знаю. OIDC знаю. Подобные интеграции раньше проектировал. Под рукой ChatGPT, Claude и AI-агенты.
Что вообще может пойти не так?
Спойлер: получилось почти три дня. И самой сложной частью оказался не OAuth.
At least five taken to hospital and about 300 evacuated in strongest quake to hit southern Italian region in 40 years
At least 26 people have been injured after a 4.7-magnitude earthquake rocked a region near Naples, in southern Italy.
The quake, which occurred at 7.46pm on Friday night, caused power outages, disrupted public transport and damaged a pier in Campi Flegrei, the site of Europe’s largest volcanic crater.
At least five taken to hospital and about 300 evacuated in strongest quake to hit southern Italian region in 40 years
At least 26 people have been injured after a 4.7-magnitude earthquake rocked a region near Naples, in southern Italy.
The quake, which occurred at 7.46pm on Friday night, caused power outages, disrupted public transport and damaged a pier in Campi Flegrei, the site of Europe’s largest volcanic crater.
Plus: The FBI eyes AI-powered tech to detect future crimes, Russia charges Telegram’s founder, xAI sues to stop a state’s “nudification” ban, and the Democrats learn a lesson about getting scammed.
Привет, Хабр! Есть приём, который я люблю за его наглость: взять одно уравнение, решить его двумя совершенно разными способами и приравнять ответы. Раз левые части равны — равны и правые, а значит, мы получили тождество, которого раньше не видели.
В этой статье я проверну такой фокус на простом показательном уравнении, из тех, что решают в школе. Один способ решения приведёт нас к обычному логарифму. Второй — к обратному гиперболическому тангенсу, функции уже из курса высшей математики. Приравняв два ответа, мы получим формулу через логарифм.
Infantino ditched proposals after widespread backlash
Uefa adds: ‘We cannot keep going on with secret schemes’
Uefa has warned Gianni Infantino that his style of leadership cannot continue in demanding a thorough and fundamental review of Fifa’s governance.
In a strongly worded statement that referred to “secret schemes”, “shabby backroom deals” and “faceless individuals”, the Uefa leadership made clear it wants change at the top of Fifa, despite the world governing body’s overnight U-turn in abandoning Infantino’s plan to sell off stakes in the World Cup and other competitions.
State attorney general set 31 July deadline for documents relating to abuse of girls at Epstein-owned Zorro ranch
The US Department of Justice (DoJ) appeared to ignore a Friday deadline set by Raúl Torrez, the attorney general of New Mexico, to share information about the abuse of girls at a remote ranch formerly owned by the disgraced financier and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
Torrez’s office asked the DoJ in February for unredacted files after he reopened a dormant criminal investigation into activities at Zorro ranch, a remote 10,000-acre property in desert scrub outside New Mexico.
