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Тематика Первой мировой войны не слишком часто находит отражение в современной игровой индустрии, особенно, если речь идет о шутерах. На ум приходят разве что Battlefield 1 и серия MMO-шутеров от студии BlackMill Games: Verdun, Tannenberg, Isonzo и пока еще не вышедшая Gallipoli.

Однако в марте 2026 года состоялся релиз Over The Top: WW1 — многопользовательской стрелялки, которая вместо навыков стрельбы и скорости реакции геймеров-одиночек на первое место ставит командные усилия, умение ориентироваться в меняющейся обстановке, а также глубокое понимание сути окопной войны.

И сейчас мы с вами разберемся, как устроен этот необычный шутер, насколько достоверно он передает особенности Первой мировой и кому стоит обратить на него внимание.

The Booker prize-winning novelist on the art of lying for a living, the cosmic force of love, and gargling loudly

Born in Minna, Nigeria, Ben Okri, 67, spent his childhood in Nigeria and London. He published his first novel Flowers and Shadows in 1980 and won the Booker prize in 1991 with The Famished Road. His subsequent work includes Astonishing the Gods, which in 2019 was selected as one of the BBC’s 100 novels “that shaped our world”. In 2023, he was knighted for services to literature. His latest novel, Waking the Warriors, is published on 16 July. He lives with his partner and their child in London.

When were you happiest?
On a train journey to Arcadia many years ago while making a TV documentary.

The tube cannot easily be adapted to cope with heatwaves, making conditions almost unbearable

As the escalator descends below ground at King’s Cross St Pancras station in London, the shift from what was already a hot station entrance to the furnace-like subterranean depths is perceptible.

On the tube it’s worse: a man leans back in his seat, eyes closed, sweltering; people hold electric fans an inch away from their faces. London commuters are known for their stoicism and the heat appears to be another tribulation to accept. They will need to: heatwaves in the capital are becoming routine.

My sister and I were enjoying our all-inclusive getaway, but my mum hated forced fun and sitting by the pool. So we went off exploring in the searing heat. Our hike through the island’s building sites didn’t end well

Package holidays weren’t yet a thing people did, in 1983 or 84, and Mallorca hadn’t completely become itself, but wasn’t unspoilt either. Me, nine, my sister, 11, and my mum, 46, would have been early adopters of the all-inclusive getaway, if in any sense my mum had arrived in an adopting frame of mind. It’s hard to describe the attitude she brought with her without making her sound like a monster, so you just have to fill between the lines with “she had other nice qualities”.

She didn’t like small talk and didn’t like buffets; didn’t like bumptious dads who invited your kids to join theirs; didn’t like nuclear families; and she wasn’t wild about other single-parent families either. She hated sitting by the pool, drinking piña coladas, group activities and any kind of quiz. She had an aversion to forced fun, which she used as cover for her distaste for many other kinds of fun. Me and my sister loved forced fun. We would lose our shit over a cocktail umbrella.

Sculpture of Jewish army officer wrongly accused of treason has been moved around the city for decades

For 40 years, the statue of Capt Alfred Dreyfus has been moved around Paris, never finding a permanent home.

The French army twice refused to allow it to stand at l’École Militaire, where Dreyfus, a Jewish officer it had wrongly accused of treason in 1894, was stripped of his rank in one of the most notorious acts of antisemitism in France’s history.

Senator’s office has released only sparse details about hospital stay, leaving fevered speculation to fill vacuum

Mystery surrounding Senator Mitch McConnell’s health is deepening as the US Congress prepares to return from recess next week.

McConnell, 84, has not been seen in public since he was admitted to hospital in the Washington area on 14 June. Nearly a month later, the Kentucky Republican’s office has released only sparse updates, saying he is “continuing to improve” and remains engaged with Senate business, while refusing to disclose the nature of his illness or explain why he remains hospitalised.

Мы занимаемся разработкой и производством диктофонов для безопасности Edic‑mini и аудиобейджей «Свидетель» для улучшения качества работы с клиентами (запись общения с клиентами, далее перевод записи в текст и речевая аналитика).

Senator’s office has released only sparse details about hospital stay, leaving fevered speculation to fill vacuum

Mystery surrounding Senator Mitch McConnell’s health is deepening as the US Congress prepares to return from recess next week.

McConnell, 84, has not been seen in public since he was admitted to hospital in the Washington area on 14 June. Nearly a month later, the Kentucky Republican’s office has released only sparse updates, saying he is “continuing to improve” and remains engaged with Senate business, while refusing to disclose the nature of his illness or explain why he remains hospitalised.

Sculpture of Jewish army officer wrongly accused of treason has been moved around the city for decades

For 40 years, the statue of Capt Alfred Dreyfus has been moved around Paris, never finding a permanent home.

The French army twice refused to allow it to stand at l’École Militaire, where Dreyfus, a Jewish officer it had wrongly accused of treason in 1894, was stripped of his rank in one of the most notorious acts of antisemitism in France’s history.

Hundreds of masked white nationalists marched in the nation's capital on July Fourth. Who were they and where does their funding come from?

(Image credit: Cheney Orr)

VR dance lesson apps like Dance Guru and Trip the Light offer a judgment-free way to learn partner dancing.

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Наши обыденные представления о традиционной японской кухне несколько отличаются от реальности. Суши — блюдо со сложной биографией, которое в знакомой нам форме сформировалось не в Японии, а в среде японских эмигрантов на западном побережье США. Рамен принесли в Страну восходящего солнца уже китайские иммигранты. Да и в виде лапши быстрого приготовления, которая многими японцами считается главным национальным изобретением XX столетия, её придумал выходец с Тайваня. Тэмпура — результат знакомства с португальцами в XVI веке. Однако в последние пару лет в нашей стране популярным и уже привычным перекусом стало одно из самых древних и исконных блюд японской кухни в самом строгом смысле слова. Речь идёт об онигири. Их «биография» уходит в доисторическое прошлое Азии, где подобные блюда, возможно, имели отношение к человеческим жертвоприношениям. На островах они появились вместе с земледелием — после чего судьба рисовых колобков или треугольников оказалась неразрывно связана со всеми перипетиями истории Японии — от хэйанских аристократов и самураев до современных офисных клерков и отаку.

The tube cannot easily be adapted to cope with heatwaves, making conditions almost unbearable

As the escalator descends below ground at King’s Cross St Pancras station in London, the shift from what was already a hot station entrance to the furnace-like subterranean depths is perceptible.

On the tube it’s worse: a man leans back in his seat, eyes closed, sweltering; people hold electric fans an inch away from their faces. London commuters are known for their stoicism and the heat appears to be another tribulation to accept. They will need to: heatwaves in the capital are becoming routine.

Devon and Cornwall force now looking for suspect ‘believed to be a white male’ after man arrested on Friday was released without charge

Alison and Simon Gilbert, who have lived in in Haytor Vale for over a decade, said Ann Widdecombe was a well-known figure locally. Ms Gilbert told PA media:

She was a nice woman, really nice woman, and she had a great sense of humour. It’s a lovely area – you talk to strangers.

Everyone saw her as quite an opinionated politician, but to us she was just a person in the community.

I never met (Ann Widdecombe) although I’ve lived here all my life.

It’s tragic, someone gives all their life to public service and then they end like that.

Уверен, у многих есть хотя бы один пет-проект, перспективный B2B SaaS, CRM, другими словами — сервис, который когда-нибудь обязательно выстрелит. В процессе разработки у многих стильных, модных и молодежных проектов рано или поздно появляется вопрос: «А что если добавить генерацию изображений или видео?». На первый взгляд все выглядит просто: берем Comfy UI, собираем workflow, выбираем модели — и готово. Локально все действительно можно собрать за один вечер.

Проблемы начинаются ровно в тот момент, когда решением пользуетесь не только вы. Первый пользователь ждет 20-30 секунд, второй стоит в очереди, остальные уже получили свои тайм-ауты, а вы внезапно ловите себя на том, что читаете документацию про Kubernetes и настраиваете балансировку запросов, вместо того, чтобы сконцентрироваться на развитии продукта... И вот тут уже развертывание Comfy UI кажется не настолько простой задачей как в начале.

Если вам знакома эта ситуация или вы только планируете добавить генеративный ИИ в свое приложение, эта статья для вас. Покажу, как превратить Comfy UI workflow в API, которым можно пользоваться из любого приложения, не поднимая инфраструктуру и не привлекая внимания санитаров.

From novels by James Baldwin and Han Kang to a guide to quantum physics – a former Booker prize judge recommends immersive one-sitting wonders

A one-sitting read is typically the domain of the short story – a form that largely depends on a reader’s pure, unbroken attention. But there is some­thing special about the intensity of beginning and ending an entire book in a single day. Of all my reading experiences, these have been among the most memorable.

As a judge for last year’s Booker prize, faced with 153 books and just over six months in which to read them, it was my task to try to turn every novel into one that could be read in a day. While I loved the experience, it wasn’t exactly a recipe for satisfying reading.

Every few decades mass blooming in Mizoram’s forests causes a rodent boom – and devastation to crops. The cycle is well-known, so why aren’t farmers and authorities better prepared?

In the hills of Mizoram state in north-east India, the first thing that farmers notice are the swarms of stink bugs, known locally as thangnang. It can mean only one thing: the rats are coming. And with them, famine.

As dawn breaks in Mamit district, Maunsanga, a 62-year-old farmer, walks across his plot, stopping where his rice crop once stood. He bends down to examine a broken stalk.

Presidential bid by leader of far-right National Rally has no shortage of supporters in scenic Montargis

In the small French town of Montargis, Jean-Antoine, a retired decorator, was pleased Marine Le Pen had again shaken up French politics by launching a bid for the presidency, despite her legal woes.

“Even the judges said she didn’t personally profit from the money, it was for her party,” he said of Le Pen’s newly upheld conviction for embezzlement. “All politicians in France have always been schemers, it’s just a fact of life.”

Одна из особенностей, выделяющих роль системного аналитика среди всего многообразия позиций в ИТ, —  его зона ответственности, а точнее — границы этой зоны. Поскольку он находится на стыке разработки и бизнеса (не говоря о том, что часто выступает в роли интегратора, Delivery manager, Product manager, Scrum master, архитектора и так далее), лучше всего эту работу можно описать картинкой ниже.

Время от времени в руки SA попадают «непрофильные» задачи, которые могут стать настоящим вызовом, выковать характер или причинить ментальные муки. Но чаще все вместе.

И снова привет, Хабр! На связи Александр Малышев, лид SA в МТС Cashback. Это продолжение истории про «рыцаря системной аналитики без страха и упрека» в которой я рассмотрел дилемму изменчивости требований. Вторая часть посвящена зоне ответственности SА. Так как вопрос довольно непростой, то я решил подать его в нетипичной для Хабра и юмористической форме — стихотворной истории в духе народных сказок.Тем, кто хочет немного отвлечься от рутины — желаю приятного чтения!

Presidential bid by leader of far-right National Rally has no shortage of supporters in scenic Montargis

In the small French town of Montargis, Jean-Antoine, a retired decorator, was pleased Marine Le Pen had again shaken up French politics by launching a bid for the presidency, despite her legal woes.

“Even the judges said she didn’t personally profit from the money, it was for her party,” he said of Le Pen’s newly upheld conviction for embezzlement. “All politicians in France have always been schemers, it’s just a fact of life.”

В декабре 2023 по ML-тусовке прокатилась волна заголовков в духе «трансформерам конец». Поводом стала статья двух исследователей — Альберта Гу и Три Дао — со скучным названием: «Mamba: моделирование линейно-временных последовательностей с использованием селективных пространств состояний». Внутри была архитектура, в которой не было механизма внимания, того самого attention, на котором держится весь современный тир-лист нейронок. И при этом она работала на длинных текстах в несколько раз быстрее трансформера, при меньшем расходе памяти.

Прошло уже много времени, так что не будет спойлером сказать, что свой трон трансформеры не потеряли. Но история на этом не закончилась, и развязка интереснее, чем «очередной хайп-трейн не взлетел». 

Devon and Cornwall force now looking for suspect ‘believed to be a white male’ after man arrested on Friday was released without charge

Alison and Simon Gilbert, who have lived in in Haytor Vale for over a decade, said Ann Widdecombe was a well-known figure locally. Ms Gilbert told PA media:

She was a nice woman, really nice woman, and she had a great sense of humour. It’s a lovely area – you talk to strangers.

Everyone saw her as quite an opinionated politician, but to us she was just a person in the community.

I never met (Ann Widdecombe) although I’ve lived here all my life.

It’s tragic, someone gives all their life to public service and then they end like that.

The federal court on Friday threw out the concert pianist’s case against the MSO, finding he was not unfairly dismissed due to Gaza war comments

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The concert pianist at the centre of a high-profile unfair dismissal case has revealed his deep disappointment with his courtroom defeat.

Federal court justice Graeme Hill on Friday threw out Jayson Lloyd Gillham’s case against the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, finding he was not unfairly dismissed.

As England prepare to take on Norway on Saturday, sales of pints, takeaways and new TVs continue to surge

From a cosy Norwegian pub to outdoor fan zones packed with hopeful England football fans, Saturday’s World Cup quarter-final between the two nations is expected to generate a multimillion-pound windfall for venues showing the game.

The quarter-finals will collectively generate a near half-billion pound sales increase for the wider UK economy, as fans drink 9.3m pints, order takeaways and splash out on new TVs, according to one estimate.

With content-stacking and spoiler-avoiding, a fan with the right subscriptions can expect to enjoy 13 uninterrupted hours on the sofa on Saturday

Start practising those excuses. For England fans, this Saturday is one of those that demands serious thought, by which I mean how to wheedle out of prior engagements and family obligations. No fewer than four of the national teams are in action, and to catch all the matches will require time, dedication and some nifty work with a TV recorder. How else can you expect to navigate the problem of the rugby team’s Fiji fixture kicking off only 20 minutes before the men’s T20 against India?

With some judicious content-stacking and spoiler-avoiding, however, a fan with the right subscriptions can expect to enjoy 13 uninterrupted hours on the sofa – starting with the morning session of the women’s Test and climaxing with a late-night footballing knockout against Norway. Nor is England the only game in town: there are three other home nations rugby matches to be watched, a Wimbledon women’s singles final, and the Tour de France.

Heatwaves have long been part of the Tour but temperatures now are pushing the riders to limit of human endurance

The Tour de France and the heat of the midday sun are old bedfellows, going back long before an era when the biggest catastrophe of the Tour’s opening week was a major fault in the Visma team bus’s air conditioning. Flip back 50 years to my favourite Tour read, the late Geoffrey Nicholson’s The Great Bike Race, and we find the doyen of cycling writers discussing a Tour that began in baking conditions in the Vendée, and continued through the canicule in central France and Normandy.

“The heatwave,” wrote Nicholson, “is becoming a serious worry.” He describes the late Raymond “Pou-Pou” Poulidor as “an old sweat” – pun alert – “in legionnaire matters”, who was “careful to limit himself to two litres of water on a stage … it is part of the collective wisdom of the peloton that too much water leads to depression and fatigue.” Tell that to the Tour men of 2026 as they glug down one bidon after another.

• Wallabies unable to defend 21-12 half-time lead

• France run in four tries in dominate second half

Australia in gold, France in blue, round two of the Nations Championship is under way…

Anthem time in Brisbane, which means an always welcome rendition of La Marseillaise. Advance Australia Fair pales by comparison, but the duration of the song allows plenty of close-ups of the Wallabies’ excellent First Nations jersey, worn to coincide with NAIDOC Week here in Australia.

• Veteran will be 40 during next year’s tournament

• ‘I’m still able to compete at the highest level’

Novak Djokovic has vowed that he will return to Wimbledon next year, when he will be 40, despite a painful straight sets defeat by Jannik Sinner.

Djokovic looked second best in Friday’s semi-final as he succumbed 6-4, 6-4, 6-4 to the world No 1. But afterwards he struck a defiant tone as he insisted he had proven over the fortnight that he is still one of the best in the world.

Современная инфраструктура во многом держится на решениях для обеспечения качества обслуживания (QoS). Один из таких инструментов — PCEF, давно стал рабочей лошадкой сетевых операторов. В материале расскажем о том, как зародилась концепция QoS, и как она воплотилась в жизнь: начиная с первых телефонных линий на заре XX века и заканчивая выяснением вопроса, а что же считать «качеством обслуживания», над решением которого бились ученые 1970-х и 1980-х.

Ex-presenter of BBC Radio 4 show complains in Guardian of ‘gratuitous gratitude’ and ‘gushing’ between host and guest

For more than three decades, John Humphrys delighted and infuriated listeners in equal measure as he confronted the nation’s politicians in his trademark, pointed style on the Today programme.

Now a listener himself, the former presenter of the BBC’s flagship radio news show is just as pointed in his assessment of the current incarnation of the programme. His verdict? It’s irritating.

Even White House interference and Fifa’s greed cannot spoil the celebrations. At last, an arena in which multiculturalism triumphs and underdogs score

Of all the outrageous things Donald Trump has done, from bombing other countries to appeasing dictators, his sneaky interference in last week’s USA v Belgium World Cup match sparked by far the most united and furious reaction across the world. Condemnation was all but universal. Trump’s cheating heart cannot understand the unmatched, ubiquitous power that the “beautiful game” exercises over ordinary lives everywhere. It massively surpasses his own. The world truly loves football. It doesn’t love him. And then USA lost the match anyway. Karma. This modern morality play joyously illuminated the limits of authoritarianism.

In an age dominated by overbearing, illiberal economic and military powers, the men’s World Cup is upending the conventional geopolitical pecking order and power balances in refreshing and instructive ways. In this alternative universe, smaller nations – and ordinary people – can and often do get a bigger shout. Despite huge state investment in all aspects of the game, China again failed to qualify. Russia, never much good at football in the first place, was kicked out after invading Ukraine. And despite all Trump’s Maga hooliganism, the US remains soccer small fry. So much for superpowers.

Simon Tisdall is a Guardian foreign affairs commentator

As they slim down, UK and US users of GLP-1 jabs and pills are changing their spending habits – and their wardrobes

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“I’m now at a point where I’m going to buy even more clothes,” says Hayley Grice, 50, from Shropshire, who has dropped seven sizes after starting on the GLP-1 weight loss jab Mounjaro two years ago. “I’m very happy with my physique right now.”

Grice, the financial director of a business she set up with her husband, tried gastric bypass surgery in 2009, but put most of the weight back on, and had been between UK dress sizes 26 and 28 (US sizes 22 and 24) all her adult life.

• Spanish coach says ‘France has exceptional potential, but so do we’

• His side are through to semi-final after 2-1 win over Belgium

Luis de la Fuente believes his Spain have what it takes to eliminate tournament favourites France, saying he has “very high expectations” for the semi-final date with Didier Deschamps’ side in Dallas on Tuesday.

Speaking with the press after Spain’s 2-1 quarter-final win over Belgium, De la Fuente called it a full-squad effort with goals coming from Fabian Ruiz and Mikel Merino, two members of his midfield rotation.

The fourth in a special series of World Cup 2026-themed collages made for the Guardian by the celebrated satirist

The former England midfielder is everywhere at this World Cup, having reached a popularity in the US other Britons have rarely achieved

Watch US television for any length of time and the endless spume of adverts will eventually separate into three distinct types.

The first are adverts for units of generic food-substance, each one essentially the same hand-sized grenade of glossy and salted microminced matter; but each also with its own industrialised repertoire of colours and noise and packaging required to dress it as a distinct genre of actual human food. Try the delicious new Flame Sauced Philly Cheese Taco Wing Waffle Dog Deep Dish MegaDeath Burger Grenade-Shaped Eat Thing. You won’t be disappointed. Or you will be. Whatever.

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