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The National Capital Planning Commission greenlit preliminary site and building plans after hours of public pushback. It wants more details before what could be its final review in September.

За последние десятилетия у компаний появился внушительный набор управленческих инструментов. Waterfall, Scrum, Kanban, SAFe — каждый описан, стандартизирован, проверен на тысячах внедрений.

На практике эти подходы часто буксуют. Agile вместо ускорения добавляет встреч и согласований. Процессы становятся прозрачнее, а управляемость остаётся прежней. Спринты идут, доска заполнена, ретро проводятся, но скорость и предсказуемость стоят на месте. В таких случаях обычно говорят: «Методология не подходит». Но чаще дело в разрыве между логикой инструмента и средой, куда его пытаются встроить.

Всем привет, меня зовут Андрей Храмченков, и я занимаюсь проектным управлением в SENSE. В статье разберём, почему фреймворк не приживается именно в вашей компании и как перестроить внедрение, чтобы оно давало результаты вместо имитации работы.

Critics accuse president of ‘fattening the wallets of his cronies’ as working Americans face higher energy rates

The Trump administration has directly spent $2.7bn of taxpayer money on its crusade against wind power while pouring $1.125bn into boosting coal, which critics say is pushing up Americans’ bills.

They say the moves are evidence that the president aims to serve fossil-fuel companies like those which donated record sums to his presidential campaign, rather than the working-class Americans to whom he pledged to lower energy bills and other costs.

Exclusive: Move comes as allies of Andy Burnham work on proposals to take water companies into public control

Ministers are drawing up plans to set legally binding debt targets for England’s water companies as they look for ways to avoid another corporate failure such as Thames Water.

Sources say Emma Reynolds, the environment secretary, is working on proposals that would force companies to keep their debt below certain levels for the first time or face legal punishment.

Про Грок 4.5 все понятно из картинки. Впечатления как и об остальных Гроках - печаль, тоска и надеюсь это чудо в перьях не заменит Composer в Cursor.

В кодинге - как и прежде, где-то плетется сзади, рассказывая какой он молодец. Ни субагентских запусков, ни понимания контекста проекта и его архитектуры.

В общем, очередная пиар-акция от Илона. Илон, занимайся лучше ракетами и Теслами, оставь ИИ в покое.

The One Nation leader is set to be interviewed by Tommy Robinson as part of a media strategy that seems designed to seek scandal – and reach millions

Pauline Hanson’s highly publicised meetings with controversial far-right figures in the UK will drive international eyeballs to her content and continue building the global brand – and that’s by design, far-right experts say.

The One Nation leader is visiting on a “fact-finding mission” with her chief-of-staff, James Ashby, ticking off a number of the country’s most divisive personalities.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents were reportedly seeking two people from Guatemala. Plus, readers recommend the best films of 2026 so far

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Good morning. Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, a man killed by federal immigration agents during a traffic stop in Houston this week, was not the intended target of the “enforcement operation”, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has said. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents were reportedly seeking two people from Guatemala when they attempted to stop Salgado Araujo, a Mexican immigrant who had lived in the US for 35 years.

Salgado Araujo, who was on his way to work early on Tuesday morning, was driving three other people in a white van. After the shooting, the three men were taken into custody. One of the three men has been identified by advocates as Victor Hugo Salgado Araujo, the brother of the victim. It was reported that he was still in an immigration detention center.

How have authorities justified the killing? The ICE agents who stopped Salgado Araujo claimed he “weaponized his vehicle in an attempt to run over an ICE law enforcement officer” who then fired his weapon “in self-defense”, but did not provide evidence to corroborate that account. It is a defense the agency has used in other high-profile incidents, including when Renee Good was killed in Minneapolis, when video evidence later contradicted the description. The officers involved in shooting Salgado Araujo were not wearing body cameras, DHS said.

How is Trump endangering the midterm elections? The US president has terminated the remaining members of the independent, federal commission that assists election administration officials nationwide just a few months before the midterm elections. The remaining three commissioners of the four-member bipartisan commission ⁠were forced out on Thursday. The one Republican appointee resigned and the other ⁠two, Democratic appointees, were notified of their terminations via email.

Xavier Niel buys 16% through investment vehicle Vega after Emirati telecoms group sells shareholding

The French telecoms billionaire Xavier Niel has become Vodafone’s largest shareholder after buying a 16% stake for £4.4bn.

On Friday, the Emirati telecoms group e&, which first took a stake worth £3.3bn in Vodafone in 2022, announced the sale of its entire shareholding for 112.5p a share.

The One Nation leader is set to be interviewed by Tommy Robinson as part of a media strategy that seems designed to seek scandal – and reach millions

Pauline Hanson’s highly publicised meetings with controversial far-right figures in the UK will drive international eyeballs to her content and continue building the global brand – and that’s by design, far-right experts say.

The One Nation leader is visiting on a “fact-finding mission” with her chief of staff, James Ashby, ticking off a number of the country’s most divisive personalities.

A newly announced ban on smartphones for government workers, police and military personnel is spilling over into healthcare and educational facilities. Ordinary citizens worry they'll be next.

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Техдолг приносит бизнесу (а нередко и самим айтишникам) ощутимые потери. Например, по данным McKinsey, он отъедает порядка 40% ИТ-бюджета. И время тоже — по оценкам исследования CAST, уровень глобального техдолг вырос настолько, что суммарное время на его исправление оценивается в 61 млрд рабочих дней — и это еще довольно консервативная цифра.

Однако техдолг — это не всегда про TODO в комментариях и паутинку из костылей. Да и вообще не всегда про код — внушительная его часть появляется еще до написания первой строки. В этой статье разберемся, что это за зверь такой, можно ли с ним разобраться или хотя бы укротить. Погнали!

Housesharing brought the south London trio’s sounds – classical vocals, violin, clubby production – together as they bled through the walls, to shapeshifting effect

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There are many ways to deconstruct club music. On Bristol label Illegal Data, releases might take explosive approaches to scary (Ship Sket) and whimsical (Mun Sing) extremes. More recently, the same label finds Stolen Velour, Floco and Aria SL filling the club chest-high with liquid: you hear elements sink, dissolve, or float past serenely on the surface.

In Iceland, people commemorated its first glacier formally declared lost to climate change. Western culture needs more of these rituals

I remember interviewing a North Atlantic right whale expert years ago. He was a practical, science-minded man. But as we discussed a female whale that had lost her calf, he became visibly emotional. She had lost the previous one, too, struck by a ship. He seemed almost embarrassed by the depth of his feeling.

I wasn’t surprised. I found his grief honorable.

Six months on from the bloody crackdown on anti-regime protesters, families remembering loved ones at their graves at Behesht-e Zahra in Tehran tell their stories

Family members gather to mourn Sepehr, who was 25 when he was killed in the January protests

A woman at Behesht-e Zahra prays for those killed in January’s protests

Rule from Mamdani administration bans companies from trapping customers into paying recurring charges and ‘junk fees’

New York City has adopted a new rule that bans companies from using deceptive subscriptions to trap customers into paying for gym memberships, streaming services and other recurring charges, the city’s consumer protection office said.

The new rule, which will start on 1 October, promises hefty fines and aggressive enforcement for violators. Companies that do not provide a simple way to cancel could pay $525 per user subscription, back fees and additional fines.

Вообще, я — ПМ с опытом в коде. А еще мы с мужем делаем сами ремонт в новой квартире, и в процессе я случайно обнаружила «золотую жилу» неэффективности.

Искала металл и столкнулась с тем, что у большинства компаний, занимающихся прокатом, сайты застряли в начале 2000-х. Каталоги неактуальны: то, что лежит в корзине, «не оформить», заявки висят вечно, на звонки отвечают через раз. А если ты не покупаешь металл тоннами, то для них ты вообще не клиент.

Короче, с B2B-продажами в этой нише всё, мягко говоря, не очень.

В этот момент во мне проснулся ПМ, который привык оптимизировать процессы, и инженер, которому стало обидно за плохой UX. Я поняла: либо я сейчас найду металл, либо я напишу инструмент, который поможет таким компаниям перестать терять заказы.

В общем, вот во что это вылилось...

• Batlle is fourth arrival after Stanway, Cerci and Reuteler

• Manchester City sign Niamh Charles from Chelsea

Arsenal have confirmed the signing of the Spain full-back Ona Batlle for free after her departure from Barcelona, continuing the London club’s busy start to the transfer window.

The 27-year-old is their fourth signing, after Georgia Stanway, Selina Cerci and Geraldine Reuteler, who arrived from Bundesliga teams on free transfers, and the club are understood to have been determined to complete their business early.

It comes from his willingness to violate all norms, rules and laws – and leaving everyone else to pick up the pieces

At the Nato summit just ended, Trump lashed out at other Nato members, saying he was “very disappointed with Nato” and asking: “Why are we spending hundreds of billions of dollars, and they’re not there for us?” He reiterated his desire to take over Greenland, blasted European energy and immigration policies, insulted Spain, and worried allies by declaring that the fighting between Kyiv and Moscow “doesn’t affect us”.

Yet throughout the proceedings, Trump was treated by other Nato powers with as much courtesy and respect as any US president has ever received from Nato – perhaps more. “It was a great meeting, there was a lot of love in that room, a lot of unity,” Trump said when it was over.

As the US president swung between threats to take Greenland and promises of help for Ukraine, pledges of a ‘stronger Nato’ were lost in the wind

Nato leaders survived another nerve-racking summit with Donald Trump and the 77-year-old defence alliance lives to fight another day, proving its durability against Atlantic storms. But it will never feel safe as long as the unpredictable, vengeful and ruthlessly transactional US president is in the White House.

As usual, Trump stole all the headlines at the annual summit, with a mixture of Nato-bashing and implausible threats to take control of Greenland and cut trade with Spain. He declared the ceasefire with Iran dead and called Iranian leaders “scum” as US warplanes bombed Iranian targets along the strait of Hormuz. Pitted against such irresistible clickbait, no Nato communique stood a chance of public attention.

Современный поиск по видеоконтенту — это высоконагруженная система, требующая молниеносной реакции и безупречной релевантности. Сервис VK Видео оперирует колоссальной базой в 500 миллионов видеороликов и ежедневно обрабатывает около 10 миллионов запросов пользователей. При времени ответа в 0,5 секунды и нагрузке в 1800 RPS алгоритмам необходимо моментально находить именно тот контент, который ожидает увидеть зритель. Однако развитие алгоритмов ранжирования невозможно без качественных данных, на которых они обучаются. 

Традиционный подход с использованием ручной разметки асессорами долгое время оставался индустриальным стандартом, но на масштабах сотен тысяч видео он неизбежно становится бутылочным горлышком продуктовой разработки.

Меня зовут Владислав Чернышев, я руководитель группы качества поиска по видео в AI VK. В этой статье подробно расскажу про путь перехода от классической ручной разметки к гибридной VLM-системе, разберу ошибки и инфраструктурные барьеры, которые пришлось преодолеть для кратного ускорения процессов подготовки обучающих датасетов и офлайн-оценки качества поиска.

Wim T Schippers asked that his 800lb sculpture be spread smoothly and without ‘educational purpose’

A museum in Rotterdam has paid tribute to the idiosyncratic character of one of the most influential figures in the Dutch arts by spreading 800lb of peanut butter across the floor of one of its galleries.

The hexagonal floor installation, called Pindakaasvloer (Peanut Butter Floor), is a recreation of a work by Wim T Schippers conceived of in 1962 and first exhibited in 1969.

Wim T Schippers asked that his 800lb sculpture be spread smoothly and without ‘educational purpose’

A museum in Rotterdam has paid tribute to the idiosyncratic character of one of the most influential figures in the Dutch arts by spreading 800lb of peanut butter across the floor of one of its galleries.

The hexagonal floor installation, called Pindakaasvloer (Peanut Butter Floor), is a recreation of a work by Wim T Schippers conceived of in 1962 and first exhibited in 1969.

В этой статье пойдет речь о первом поколении микроконтроллеров от Raspberry Pi Foundation — RP2040 на основе двух ядер ARM Cortex‑M0+, и о плате, которая базируется на этом чипе — Raspberry Pi Pico. Статья призвана облегчить понимание некоторых принципов работы RP2040 и микроконтроллеров в целом.