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First polls will close in Kentucky and Indiana; control of Congress at stake as key states including Florida, Georgia, Michigan, and North Carolina see record turnout

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It has just gone past 06:30 in North Carolina, Ohio and West Virginia where polls have now opened.

Here are some of the key voter issues shaping the US midterm elections:

The economy: Despite Trump’s 2024 campaign pledge to tackle affordability issues, the economy consistently ranks as voters’ top concern.

Iran: Trump’s decision to go to war with the Tehran regime has exacerbated economic worries. Iran’s retaliatory decision to close the strait of Hormuz has driven up gasoline prices for US motorists. It also represents a breach of his pledge to end the US’s supposed addiction to “forever wars”.

Immigration: Enforcement and closing the border remains a signature issue for Trump. He repeatedly boasts of the impact of his closure of the southern border as one of his biggest achievements, making comparisons with the performance of Joe Biden.

AI and datacenters: AI has emerged as a key campaign issue, with surveys showing a majority of voters holding negative views on it, even as Trump champions its development and attempts to rename it “super intelligence”.

Первый шаг при стихийном внедрении нейросетей — закрыть прямой доступ наружу и направить запросы через привычный корпоративный прокси. Однако у генеративного ИИ иная специфика: стандартные прокси не умеют выявлять конфиденциальные данные в ответах моделей, не видят утечек в промптах и не защищают от перерасхода токенов.

Под катом — первая часть цикла о создании корпоративного AI-шлюза: почему классические балансировщики не рассчитаны на работу с LLM, как устроена специализированная архитектура и как платформа AI Оптимум обеспечивает контроль контекста, прозрачный учет токенов и безопасность данных.

Prime minister says he is committed to manifesto red lines and ‘public need to be the boss’ on future relationship

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Andy Burnham has denied proposing a return of free movement in talks between the UK and EU, saying any decision about the future relationship will be led by the will of the British people.

His comments came as two senior ministers expressed caution about the talk of the UK returning as a full member of the EU or single market and the consequences of a return to free movement.

Here’s an hour-by-hour rundown of when polls close around the US, and some of the key races taking place

In the 2026 US midterm cycle, there are 35 Senate seats up for election, 36 governors’ races and all 435 seats in the House of Representatives up for grabs. There are also several ballot measures across the country on issues ranging from election administration to abortion access.

Democrats are looking to reclaim control of both chambers of Congress. They’ll need to gain four seats in the Senate to secure a 51-seat majority, and win at least 218 seats to take back the House.

Prime minister says he is committed to manifesto red lines and ‘public need to be the boss’ on future relationship

• UK politics live – latest updates

Andy Burnham has denied proposing a return of free movement in talks between the UK and EU, saying any decision about the future relationship will be led by the will of the British people.

His comments came as two senior ministers expressed caution about the talk of the UK returning as a full member of the EU or single market and the consequences of a return to free movement.

В 2022 году у нашей команды была конкретная задача: подготовить локальную замену глобальной CRM так, чтобы сотрудники могли продолжать привычную работу без сбоев. Система уже была частью повседневных процессов. В ней планировали визиты к специалистам здравоохранения, фиксировали результаты взаимодействий и работали с коммуникациями.

Главным стимулом для локализации стал риск отключения глобального решения. Но были и другие причины: желание получить больше гибкости в развитии системы, упростить ряд процессов и объединить несколько существующих локальных решений в единую платформу.

Тогда никто не думал о цифровом помощнике, искусственном интеллекте, автоматическом планировании визитов или переносе других корпоративных систем внутрь CRM. Основной задачей было сохранить непрерывность работы бизнеса и взять под контроль дальнейшее развитие платформы.

Спустя несколько лет стало понятно, что результат оказался значительно масштабнее первоначального замысла.

From children struggling with their mental health to adults worried about AI, many of us feel neglected and ignored by politicians. How would Keir Starmer’s former director of policy fix that?

Do you ever feel as if life is spiralling out of control? As if the world’s problems are too big, or politicians too small, to get a grip on everything from rising prices to emergent threats such as AI?

If so, says the political strategist Claire Ainsley, you’re neither alone nor irrational. “It’s probably because you’ve got a lot to do, and the world is out of control,” she says cheerfully from her home in York, where she lives with her husband, an artist, and their two teenage children. But it is the politicians’ job to master fast-moving and complex events, she adds, and if conventional parties seem increasingly powerless to do anything about them, then populist alternatives will be only too ready with dangerously easy-sounding answers.

Я снимаю позиции статей, которые выходят не на моём сайте, а на чужих площадках: в отраслевых медиа, блогах, сообществах. Вебмастер и Search Console тут не помогают, они показывают позиции только по домену, который ты подтвердил как свой. Поэтому проверка позиций сайта у меня устроена по-простому: платный API отдаёт органическую выдачу по запросу, скрипт ищет в ней URL статьи и пишет место в базу.

Три месяца, с 7 июля по 13 октября 2026 года, скрипт исправно работал, и за это время в базе накопилось 42 477 строк замеров, и в отчётах они назывались «позиции сайта в Яндексе». 13 октября оказалось, что все они сняты с Google.

Ниже как это получилось, как я теперь проверяю, какой поисковик на самом деле отвечает, и что поменялось в выводах, когда те же ключи сняли в Яндексе.

Один символ в адресе

У провайдера выдачи два адреса с одинаковым форматом ответа:

Reports have suggested a vulnerable president could start a new bombing campaign. But that wouldn’t bring a deal any closer

Will Donald Trump decide to resume a large-scale war against Iran after the US midterm elections?

That question has loomed over the campaign for weeks, as officials leaked plans for a new round of joint US-Israeli military strikes that would target Iran’s underground nuclear facilities, missile arsenals and civilian infrastructure.

The Oscar-nominated 1976 adaptation of Stephen King’s high school horror remains heartbreaking and horrifying in equal measure

Often when a pop culture figure, whether real or fictional or somewhere in between, is described as an eternal teenager, it refers to an image of youthful vitality. Carrie White, the wallflowery, telekinetic, sort-of heroine at the center of Stephen King’s book and its multiple adaptations, is a sadder case. She’s forever a teenager because until recently, every version of the story ends with her demise – a turn that would qualify as a spoiler if not for the universal familiarity of her story, or the fact that the book heavily implies her fate within the first 30 pages or so.

That fate is poised to change with Mike Flanagan’s TV series, which was recently renewed for a second season (though even then, there’s still plenty of room for poor Carrie to die young). The new show updates and expands the story of the 1974 novel, taking its inspiration from a combination of 2020s social trends and details from the original text. In other words, it’s a new adaptation, not a remake of the Brian De Palma film from 1976. As such, it’s the first truly successful version of Carrie in half a century. (Previous iterations popped up in a 1999 movie sequel, a 2002 miniseries and another film in 2013.) It’s arguable, however, that the reason such a high-profile new version of Carrie exists in 2026 is that first film, which was released 50 years ago on 3 November.

Everything you need to know about how winners are called, how states count ballots and Trump’s election denialism

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There’s no simple answer as to when US voters will know the results of the midterms.

Elections are managed locally throughout the US, and it’s different in each state. Sometimes, if a race isn’t close, there’s a near-instantaneous sense of who won. In more contested races, it can take many hours, days or even weeks.

The 2026 US midterm elections feature firebrand progressives trying to stake out new territory, moderate Republicans struggling in the shadow of Donald Trump, and a host of scandals that have made races closer than they should be.

These candidates could shape not only power in Washington, but public and political understanding of what works – and wins votes – in different places across the country. Can a Democrat win in red Kansas? Could Texas finally flip away from Republicans? Will abuse allegations or absenteeism tank incumbents? How important is capturing online attention?

And how can Republicans run away from Trump, their party’s leader, and modern architect, as his popularity wanes?

The lessons learned – and the candidates who teach them – will play into the 2028 presidential election and alter the makeup of Congress at a critical time for both parties

Here’s an hour-by-hour rundown of when polls close around the US, and some of the key races taking place

• US politics live – latest updates

In the 2026 US midterm cycle, there are 35 Senate seats up for election, 36 governors’ races and all 435 seats in the House of Representatives up for grabs. There are also several ballot measures across the country on issues ranging from election administration to abortion access.

Democrats are looking to reclaim control of both chambers of Congress. They’ll need to gain four seats in the Senate to secure a 51-seat majority, and win at least 218 seats to take back the House.

В современном мире от махинаций с денежными переводами чаще всего страдают подростки и пожилые люди, но в подобной ситуации может оказаться любой, даже самый уверенный в своей рациональности человек.

Чтобы уберечь деньги от мошенников, нужна поддержка. Поэтому команда проекта СБП в банке ПСБ создала сервис «Финансовый защитник»: он разработан в соответствии с требованиями ЦБ по противодействию мошенничеству. А чтобы «Защитник» работал, необходим настоящий герой — друг или родственник, которому клиент доверяет. Эта история о том, как стать таким героем для близких.

Researchers have been chasing the dream of a cancer vaccine for decades. Some recent successes with mRNA technology are garnering excitement from patients, doctors, government and investors.

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One last check in with the Swing Shift voters before Election Day. All of them voted for President Trump. Now, they're rating his presidency and deciding who to support when he's not on the ballot.

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There are a lot of variables for how things will go today. Results will start to come in at 6 p.m. ET in Kentucky and Indiana, and then it will be off to the races.

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Race calls are a critical part of election night and NPR partners with the Associated Press to make those calls. Here's how we do it.

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A massacre allegedly targeting Hindu Americans was recently thwarted, but researchers say it helps to illustrate a growing and increasingly mainstream hate directed at South Asians in the U.S.

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NPR investigated cyberattacks on the digital devices that control industrial refrigerators, revealing the extent to which operational technology is exposed to damage and disruption.

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The children’s author claims he experienced trauma in childhood as he begins seven-month sentence for possessing depraved material

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The disgraced best-selling author Craig Silvey has claimed he experienced trauma as a child in a 9,000-word apology published after he was jailed for child exploitation offences.

The young adult novelist was sentenced on Monday to seven months’ imprisonment, after being charged in January and subsequently pleading guilty to distributing and possessing depraved child exploitation material.

Хабр, привет!

На связи команда инженер-аналитиков R-Vision. Уязвимости в привычных корпоративных инструментах могут открывать злоумышленникам путь к самым критичным ресурсам: от серверов и рабочих станций до исходного кода и секретов CI/CD.

В октябре в центре внимания оказались сразу несколько таких решений: PHP, Windows, GitLab и TrueConf Server. Две уязвимости уже эксплуатировались в реальных атаках до выхода исправлений, ещё одна получила максимальную оценку CVSS 10. В новом дайджесте разберём, как работают эти ошибки, какие сценарии атак они открывают и на что обратить внимание при устранении.

David Potts to take over immediately as executive chair Allan Leighton steps back to non-executive strategic role

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Asda has appointed David Potts, the 69-year-old former boss of Morrisons, as its chief executive with immediate effect as it continues to struggle to lift sales.

The UK’s third largest supermarket said its 73-year-old executive chair, Allan Leighton, who has been running the business since 2024, would now step back to a non-executive role focusing on “the long-term strategic agenda for the business”.