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Barcelona 3-0 Aston Villa: Champions League – live
⚽️ Champions League updates from the 8pm GMT kick-off
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Steven Gerrard and Ally McCoist are on co-commentary duty for TNT Sports alongside Darren Fletcher in Barcelona. The sight and sound of Gerrard has reminded me to recap CarragherGate:
“Jamie Carragher has apologised to Aston Villa for using “clumsy and wrong” language when discussing the club, after club had threatened legal action. “I’d like to apologise to Aston Villa, the owners and their fans. My language this week was clumsy and wrong,” Carragher wrote on X on Saturday.
Continue reading...Manchester United 3-2 Roma: Champions League – live
⚽️ Champions League updates from the 8pm GMT kick-off
⚽️ Barcelona 3-0 Aston Villa – reaction
⚽️ Live scores | League phase standings | And email Will
Gorton-born Butt on TV and another one on the blog. A big day for east Manchester. Both quite critical of United at the moment.
Gene Salorio asks: “So now that Nuno is back on the market, does he get a ticket to the Manchester United new manager sweepstakes?”
Continue reading...The Guardian view on Labour’s growth obsession: a different economics is possible | Editorial
The latest edition of Radical Thinking, the Guardian’s new podcast, should be required listening at a Treasury still stifled by outdated orthodoxies
As prime ministers have come and gone at bewildering speed in recent years, the search for elusive economic growth has become the overriding fixation of the British political class. In the lead-up to the 2024 general election, Sir Keir Starmer declared that “growth must become Labour’s obsession”, given the financial constraints that any new government would be under. The scale of Labour’s progressive offer, it was made clear, would be umbilically linked to its ability to generate a significant uptick in GDP.
“Growth in every postcode” is also the early mantra of Andy Burnham’s government. The prime minister swept to power partly by running on Greater Manchester’s record as the UK’s fastest-growing city region while he was mayor. Echoing Mr Starmer’s approach, Mr Burnham’s chancellor, John Healey, told the Labour party conference in September: “Without growth, there is no social democracy.”
Continue reading...The Guardian view on apologising for slavery: a necessary process has at last begun | Editorial
Andy Burnham’s commitment to a structured dialogue with Caribbean governments is a step forward, but they need more than words
There was a risk, in the run-up to the Commonwealth heads of government meeting (Chogm) this week, that important discussions could be derailed by the UK government’s refusal to apologise for slavery and the slave trade, combined with its continuing rejection of calls for financial reparations. For the Caribbean governments and campaigners pushing for these steps, the siting of the biennial gathering in Antigua and Barbuda offered a vital opportunity to press their case and raise awareness of the challenges that they face.
That deadlock was broken when Andy Burnham wrote in the Guardian at the weekend of his “sorrow and regret for the pain and suffering of so many millions of people”, and pledged to listen to calls for a formal apology as part of a structured dialogue. While he reiterated the UK government’s position that financial reparations will not be offered, he also indicated a willingness to discuss aid, investment and the restructuring of debt. King Charles did not say sorry when he addressed Chogm on Tuesday, but a very necessary process of reconciliation and redress has at last begun.
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Continue reading...The Draft UK-EU Deal To Scrap Brexit Red Tape
How Wall Street analysts think the midterms could affect stocks
Как и зачем нужно ускорять тесты
Многие пишут, что "бутылочным горлышком" в агентной разработке являются люди, которые проверяют код. Я считаю, что это больше маркетинговое заявление, чем инженерное. Человек может выполнять код-ревью достаточно быстро. Уж точно быстрее, чем код проходит CI/CD пайплайн и деплоится на стенд. С ростом автоматизации, процесс код-ревью человеком сводится к:
- пробежаться глазами по неочевидным местам в коде, проверка которых ещё не покрыта автоматикой,
- проверить как отработала автоматика детерминированной проверки правил разработки.
У меня это занимает не больше 5-15 минут на пулл-реквест. "Бутылочное горлышко" я наблюдаю совсем в другом месте.
Сейчас агенты пишут код очень быстро. Это ускоряет разработку.
Так же быстро и в большом количестве агенты пишут тесты. Тесты - это хорошо, это фиксация контрактов, соблюдение правил разработки и подтверждение того, что код делает то, что нам нужно. Мы заставляем агентов тестировать код и они делают это легко и быстро. Мы радуемся: количество кода растёт, система становится больше и не теряет надёжность.
Казалось бы, может ли что-нибудь пойти не так. Может и обязательно пойдёт не так.
Тестов становится слишком много. За пару лет существования моего проекта люди-программисты написали около 3000 тестов. Половина из них была написана мной в течение года. Я делал много рефакторинга (приводил приложение в порядок), обновлял версии библиотек со сломанной обратной совместимостью и нужно было много тестов как гарантия того, что функционал приложения я не поломал.
Читать далееSeven planes across Europe searched or diverted after ‘malicious hoax’ bomb threats
Unclear if series of incidents affecting two UK departures and several Ryanair services, among others, were connected
Seven planes across Europe have been searched or diverted after a series of bomb threats were made to passenger flights, prompting questions as to whether there was any coordination behind the warnings.
Two UK departures – one from Heathrow and one from Manchester – were among those threatened in what Downing Street called “malicious hoaxes”, though all planes landed safely and no explosives were found.
Continue reading...Even if US democracy can be salvaged from Trump, Europe is moving on | Rafael Behr
It will take decades to rebuild trust in a country that removed a tyrant once – and then reinstated him four years later
When Joe Biden entered the White House in 2021 it was possible to believe that Donald Trump’s reign had been an aberration. “America is back. The transatlantic alliance is back,” the new president declared to relieved European leaders shortly after winning the 2020 race. It was true, but not for long.
Trump’s defeat proved that US democracy was mechanically operational, not culturally robust. His supporters tried violent subversion to prevent the inauguration of a successor. A second term should have been unthinkable. Republicans who failed to denounce the 6 January insurrection should have been unelectable. Instead, within four years, US voters reinstated the champion of a failed coup against their cherished constitution as commander-in-chief.
Rafael Behr is a Guardian columnist
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Continue reading...Israeli Claims of Iranian Chemical Weapons Divide U.S. Officials
Britain Set to Apologize for Role in Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade
Oklahoma man charged with mailing hundreds of white-powder letters
При ударе по пункту раздачи гуманитарной помощи в Запорожской области погибло не менее 26 человек, заявляют украинские власти
Panel rules out further inquiry into sexual harassment claims against Lib Dem peer Chris Rennard
Party leader Ed Davey ‘disappointed and upset’ at decision by independent panel after claims original investigation was flawed
The Liberal Democrat peer Chris Rennard has been told there will be no further investigation into sexual harassment allegations made against him, after an independent panel concluded it could not reopen the claim.
The party leader, Ed Davey, said he was “disappointed and upset” by the conclusion, having suspended Rennard from the party after an investigation was reopened earlier this year amid claims a previous inquiry was flawed.
Continue reading...Каково военное значение Камышевахи и почему российская армия постоянно наносит по ней удары?
This Simple Rule Can Keep AI From Doing All Your Thinking
Neuroscientist Adam Green still remembers a college student telling him about a new addition to the home she shared with her roommates: a basil plant. Naturally, it needed a name, and she thought coming up with one together would be part of the fun. One roommate, however, promptly recruited some outside help, pulling out her phone to ask ChatGPT for suggestions.
To Green, a professor of psychology at Georgetown University who studies creativity, the roommate had missed the point. “Who the hell cares what the name of the basil plant is?” he says. “We’re supposed to have fun together.” Coming up with something themselves would have given the roommates more than a name: They’d have a shared memory and a story to tell whenever they referred to their leafy housemate. Instead, he says, “we just lost this experience.”
You don’t have to be naming a houseplant to recognize the temptation. A birthday gift, a tricky email, a problem at work: Why wrestle with it yourself when a chatbot is happy to get you started? Yet before you hand over the task, experts suggest one small change: Write down three ideas of your own. They can be rough, impractical, or destined for the recycling bin. The point is to give yourself a chance to think before someone—or something—else supplies the answer.
Why you should brainstorm before asking AI
AI platforms can be enticing; no one likes to stare into a void of ideas. “We’re all scared of the blank page,” Green says, “and AI is offering to fill that page for us and take that fear away.” Yet working through the discomfort of having to think for yourself offers rewards: figuring something out, expressing something meaningful, or realizing you’re capable of doing something difficult.
You get to tell yourself: “I’m actually proud of this because it was hard, because I failed and I didn’t give up, because I learned something in order to succeed,” he says. “And now I’ve got this new skill and this new capability.”
Ask AI to spare you that struggle, and you might find it starts to feel harder to come up with your own ideas afterward. AI offers “a narrow set of possibilities,” says Sabrina Habib, a creativity researcher at the University of South Carolina, which can lead to what researchers call anchoring or fixation. “You’re going to have a hard time thinking of ideas beyond that narrow set of possibilities that was given to you.”
Plus, rely on AI too much, and everything you produce might start to sound like everything else everyone else produces. In research comparing human-written college admissions essays with those generated by ChatGPT, Green and his colleagues found that the human essays explored a wider range of ideas; the AI essays covered much of the same ground. “When we adopt AI’s ideas as our own, our own ideas become similar to each other,” he says. “We lose our unique voice.”
Your own ideas have the advantage of being squarely yours. Only you know the inside joke that belongs in your sister’s birthday card, or what would make an overworked colleague’s day easier. Taking a first pass lets those details shape your approach. “We’re bringing our own thoughts. We’re in charge. We have agency. We’re the authors,” Habib says. AI can help you build on what you’ve started, but “humans have to be in control of the vision, the direction.”
How to get into the habit of writing down 3 ideas
Before opening a chatbot, spend a moment figuring out what you actually need, Habib suggests. If you’re choosing a gift, what would make it a good one for this particular person? If you’re swamped at work, what would actually take something off your plate? Giving yourself some criteria helps you generate possibilities—and, later, judge whether AI’s suggestions are useful.
Then take your first pass. Write down three gifts your sister might like, three ways to adjust your workload, or three points you want to make in a difficult conversation. If you’re tempted to ask AI to write an email to your boss about that workload, try putting those points into your own words first—even if they come out clunky. Digital communication expert Erica Dhawan, author of the forthcoming book Use Your Brain, calls this the “naked draft rule”: “Write your own raw draft before you ever use AI,” she says.
And remember: It doesn’t have to be perfect. Your birthday-card draft can have an awkward opening and a sentence you’ll eventually delete. Your gift list can include something too expensive. Getting those thoughts down gives you something to revise, build on, or cross off the list.
If three ideas come easily, keep going. Habib suggests trying five for an extra challenge. The precise number doesn’t matter as much as giving yourself a chance to think before turning to AI.
If nothing comes as you brainstorm, resist treating the blank page as evidence that you’ve forgotten how to think. “Give yourself permission to find the task difficult,” Habib says. Try setting a three-minute timer and writing everything that occurs to you, with one idea per sticky note. Or take a walk and return to the problem later. A change of scenery may help when staring at your screen clearly isn’t productive, she says.
Whether you come up with one idea or five, be patient with yourself. Habib likes to remind herself: “Even if it takes time, I’m capable. I can do this.”
How to use AI without losing your own ideas
Once you have something on the page, you may decide you don’t need AI after all. If you do want to enlist a bot’s assistance, however, give it your ideas and the details that inspired them, says Aron Lindberg, a professor of information systems and analytics at Stevens Institute of Technology. Asking what to buy your sister, without telling it anything about her, will get you “the most generic answer possible,” he says. Explain that she loves dancing and horror movies, and “then you’ve got something to work on.”
Share the gift ideas you’ve already come up with, then ask for more along those lines, Lindberg suggests. Once you have a longer list, ask the chatbot to critique those ideas as well. That gives you a chance to weigh what might work and what might go wrong, rather than simply accepting a recommendation. “AI is giving me two perspectives on this thing,” he says. “What do I think?”
Sometimes, the most useful thing AI can offer is a question for you to answer. For a birthday card, Dhawan suggests asking the chatbot to pose five questions, one at a time, that would help make the message more personal. It might ask: “What’s a memory with this person that still makes you laugh?” “What’s something they did for you that you’ve never properly thanked them for?” You still have to supply the memories and feelings—but the questions might jog your recollection of the disastrous road trip you now laugh about, or the late-night phone call that helped you through a breakup.
If you’re trying to solve a problem at work, ask what you’ve overlooked. Habib suggests laying out the problem and your possible approaches, then asking whether there are other solutions you haven’t considered. Dhawan recommends questions such as: “What would have to be true for this to be wrong?” or “What are three ways someone would interpret this the wrong way?”
Then step back and evaluate the response yourself. Is it accurate? Does it fit the situation? Does that polished message sound like something you would say in real life? “First, we actually have to think, then we use it to challenge our thinking and make it better, and then we have to think again,” Dhawan says. “What’s missing from what I know? Only I know.”
You don’t have to settle on an answer just because the chatbot has supplied one. Keep thinking, toss around possibilities with a friend, and give yourself a chance to enjoy coming up with something—even if it’s only a name for a houseplant. “Thinking is hard,” Habib says. “But it’s also wonderful.”
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Читать далееMiddle East Dispatch newsletter: How Palestinians voted in Israel’s election
Convicted murderer who escaped prison captured
Tennessee murderer captured over a week after escaping prison
The rise of leisure in China
What goes on behind the doors of Claridge’s?
Israeli Claims of Iranian Chemical Weapons Divide U.S. Officials
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England’s Fin Smith facing make-or-break fitness test before Australia clash
Smith’s calf injury to be tested in training on Wednesday
Alex Mitchell ruled out of Nations Championship finals
Fin Smith faces a make-or-break training session on Wednesday to prove his fitness for the No 10 jersey in England’s autumn opener against Australia on Sunday, amid cautious optimism the Northampton playmaker will come through unscathed.
Smith sustained a calf injury in Northampton’s derby defeat by Leicester last month and the England head coach, Steve Borthwick, has been sweating on his fitness ever since. Smith’s Northampton half-back partner, Alex Mitchell, meanwhile, has been ruled out of England’s entire autumn campaign owing to his latest hamstring injury.
Continue reading...Escaped Tennessee inmate captured, authorities say
DOJ sending 1,000 monitors to polling sites is an "intimidation tactic," voting advocate says
Trump says U.S. will stop sending $4 billion yearly military assistance to Israel by end of year
Pardoned January 6 participant charged over alleged threats to kill federal judges
Cleveland Meredith arrested after allegedly posting a call to execute all judges involved in 2021 US Capitol attack trials
A man pardoned by Donald Trump for participating in January 6 attack on the US Capitol and threatening to kill the then house speaker, Nancy Pelosi, is facing new charges for threatening to kill federal judges that presided over his and other cases arising from the violent anti-government clash.
Cleveland Meredith, from North Carolina, was arrested on Monday over a Facebook post in April that allegedly read: “ALL J6 Federal JUDGES will be EXECUTED!”
Continue reading...US man charged with mailing hundreds of letters containing powder to officials before midterms
Oklahoma man accused of sending letters with white nonhazardous powder before 2024 and 2026 elections
Federal authorities have charged an Oklahoma man with sending hundreds of letters containing nonhazardous white powder to public officials before the 2024 and 2026 elections.
The powders turned out to be yeast or flour, though not all letters had been fully tested, the FBI said in a court filing made public on Tuesday.
Continue reading...Man who drugged and raped wife found many men ‘whose fantasy is an unconscious woman’, court told
Nine men stand trial in Manchester accused of participating in abuse at couple’s home in Stockport, or encouraging it online
The Stockport man who drugged, raped and sexually assaulted his wife found “many, many men whose fantasy is an unconscious and unresponsive woman” to allegedly participate in her abuse, a court has heard.
Nine men are on trial at Manchester Minshull Street crown court, accused of either participating in the abuse, which took place at the couple’s home, or encouraging it online.
Continue reading...New Jersey's governor warns ports against accepting Russian diesel
CrowdStrike to shell out nearly $500M for 2 AI security startups as the market for securing agents takes off
How 'mogging' went from toxic term to mainstream
New restrictions at Texas Tech are changing what professors can teach
The rules have led to changes in course materials, prompted accusations of censorship and fueled pushback from faculty and students, including faculty departures, student protests and a federal lawsuit.
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USOPC considering plan to sell stake in Team USA as LA Olympics approach
US set to host Summer and Winter Olympics
USOPC CEO says business model in early stages
The US Olympic and Paralympic Committee (USOPC) is in the advanced stages of setting up an entity to sell a stake in the commercial rights for Team USA in return for capital, according to multiple reports.
Any deal would mark a significant shift for the USOPC, a non-profit organization that, unlike many national Olympic committees, relies heavily on sponsorships, licensing and other commercial revenue streams rather than government funding.
Continue reading...King Charles addresses summit as demands for slavery apology grow
Speaking in Antigua, the king did not give explicit support for reparations but said he wanted to ‘address past wrongs’
King Charles has said that deepening his understanding of the horrors of slavery has made him more determined to address the wrongs of the past, as Caribbean leaders and campaigners intensified demands for an apology and reparations from Britain.
“We cannot change the actions of those who came before us,” Charles told leaders at the opening of the Commonwealth summit in Antigua and Barbuda on Tuesday. “We can, however, learn from the past.
Continue reading...House Republicans Accuse Top Psychology Group of Antisemitism
Poland Beefs Up Security at Border With Russia
How 'mogging' went from toxic term to mainstream
Speeding driver jailed for fatal Lamborghini crash
Как DSH Mobile дожидается ответа ИИ-агента без пушей Google
Отправил агенту задачу с телефона, убрал телефон в карман и хочешь узнать, когда он закончит. Обычно для этого берут пуши Google (FCM). У DSH Mobile облачного сервера нет, телефон разговаривает напрямую с компьютером, на котором работает агент. В версиях 0.9.x я переделал уведомления. Постоянного соединения в простое больше нет, а за отправленной задачей телефон следит, даже если Android выгрузил приложение или телефон перезагрузили. Расскажу, как это устроено и какие четыре ошибки нашлись по дороге. Самая заметная съедала 11 секунд на каждом ответе агенту, самая неприятная обрывала загрузку фото на 5 МБ.
Читать далееКак я открыл Китайский кошелек Alipay находясь в России и оплатил DeepSeek Api
Статья будет полезна не только пользователям DeepSeek API. Она пригодится тем, кто покупает на Taobao, Tmall и 1688, и тем, кто собирается в Китай: там через Alipay можно оплатить метро и транспорт, билеты, отели и многое другое. Для вашей конкретной ситуации уточняйте отдельно — нюансы возможны.
Читать далееПитон в табакерке, или сервер моделирования временных рядов
Статья является продолжением темы, начатой некоторое время назад в статье, о моделировании в реальном времени решётчатых функций технологических параметров промышленных объектов управления.
В статье кратко рассказано о ядре моделирования, использующего математический аппарат, описанный в указанной статье, и результатах его работы на одноплатном компьютере скромной производительности.
Voters decide key ballot measures on abortion rights, congressional redistricting and voter ID laws
Hear What Your IDE Is Doing: New Sound Cues in JetBrains IDEs
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With JetBrains IDEs 2026.3, we’re adding a new way to stay connected to your work: sound cues.
A short sound can tell you if a build has finished successfully or failed, a breakpoint has been hit, or there’s something at the caret that needs your attention. These cues are designed to make everyday development easier to follow, whether you are concentrating on another task, working across several projects, or using a screen reader.
Sound is on by default for screen reader users, and opt-in otherwise. In both cases, the sound cues are configurable – you can choose the cues that help you and leave the rest off.
What you can hear
The new Sound Signals settings let your IDE provide audio feedback for all important events.
For long-running work, you can hear when a build, test, or other task finishes, with different cues for success, warnings, and errors. The IDE also plays a sound when a breakpoint is hit and while a background task is running, so you know where the progress is at without having to repeatedly check a status area.
Sound cues also cover editor line marks. When screen reader support is enabled, the IDE plays distinct cues as the caret reaches a line with:
- An error
- A warning
- A breakpoint
- A version-control change
- Folded code
These editor marks are usually communicated visually. The new cues provide an additional way to notice them while moving through code.
You can also enable sound for individual notification groups. For example, if a particular tool or workflow sends notifications you care about, you can choose to have the IDE play a sound for it.
Sounds for Air
JetBrains IDEs 2026.3 also ship with Air. Agent work can have the same rhythm as a long build: you set it in motion, then turn to another task or window while it works.
Air has four sound cues: one when the agent completes its work, one when it stops with an error, one when it needs your input, and one for starting and stopping dictation. The sounds for AI operations are distinct enough from general IDE sound cues for you to easily tell them apart.
Air sounds can be configured separately in the dedicated settings section Settings | Tools | Air.
Choose the setup that works for you
IDE sound cues live on a new settings page built for accessibility. Settings | Appearance & Behavior | Accessibility now brings together Support screen readers, Zoom, contrast scrollbars, colors for red-green vision deficiency, the option to announce notifications with a screen reader, and sound cues, all in one place.
If you use a screen reader, the relevant sound cues are enabled automatically when the Support screen readers option is on. This includes sound cues for IDE events (builds, tests, progress, and breakpoints) and editor line marks.
If you do not use a screen reader, sound cues are off by default. To enable them:
- Open Settings/Preferences.
- Go to Appearance & Behavior | Accessibility.
- Find the Sound Signals section.
- Turn on the sounds you would like to use.
You can preview each sound on the same page before enabling it, and turn off any cue that does not fit your workflow.
For a specific notification, go to Appearance & Behavior | Notifications, select the notification group in the list, and enable the Play sound option.
To learn more about configuring sound cues in your IDE, see this section in our accessibility documentation.
A note for VoiceOver users on macOS
By default, VoiceOver makes other sounds quieter while it speaks. If the IDE sounds are hard to hear, turn off audio ducking in the VoiceOver settings on your Mac.
A small cue can make a real difference
Development often involves waiting: for a test suite, a build, a background task, a debugger, or an agent to reach the right point. Sound cues let the IDE share that status in a lightweight way, so you can stay focused on the work in front of you.
For visually impaired developers, these sounds also make information available that was previously represented only on screen. Sound cues began with an accessibility request, and they are part of our ongoing work to make JetBrains IDEs more accessible rather than a one-off feature.
If you’d like to stay informed about accessibility improvements, you can subscribe to our accessibility updates here.
We’d love to hear from you
Sound cues will be available starting with the 2026.3 release of JetBrains IDEs, but you can already try them out in our Release Candidate builds.
We’re eager to hear from developers who rely on accessibility features, as well as from anyone interested in improving the experience of using them. If you have ideas or feedback about accessibility in JetBrains IDEs, you can reach us directly at accessibility@jetbrains.com. You can also report issues through YouTrack or the support request form.
[Перевод] Терпение, неликвидность и степенной закон: почему венчурный капитал совсем не похож на фондовый рынок
Новое исследование профессора финансов Стэнфордского университета Ильи Стребулаева позволяет узнать пять фундаментальных особенностей, которые отличают инвестиции в стартапы от традиционных классов активов.
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