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Bipartisan group warns HHS that older adults and people with disabilities risk being pressured to end their lives

Lawmakers urged the health and human services (HHS) secretary, Robert F Kennedy Jr, on Thursday to establish strict hospice reporting rules to prevent discrimination and coercion in medically assisted suicide.

The bipartisan group of members of Congress warned that older adults, people with disabilities, or those with disaffected caregivers face a particular risk of being pressured to end their lives.

The Trump EPA calls Biden-era rules for cutting pollution from heavy trucks "unworkable." The proposed changes have been celebrated by trucking groups and denounced by environmental groups.

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Rust скор во время выполнения, а вот компилируется он не так шустро. Едва ли это удивит читателя, имевшего дело с серьёзными базами кода на Rust. В блогах сложился целый жанр постов, повествующих о том, как скостить пару секунд с cargo build.

В нашем проекте мы реализовали функцию, позволяющую пользователям писать прямо на SQL, определяя таким образом таблицы и представления. Под капотом этот код на SQL компилируется в код на Rust — который затем передаётся rustc и с его помощью компилируется в единый бинарник. В этом двоичном файле путём пошагового приращения все представления актуализируются по мере того, как новые потоковые данные поступают в таблицы.

Ранее мы уже предпринимали всевозможные ухищрения, чтобы ускорить компиляцию: стирали типы, активно продавливали дедупликацию кода, сокращали строки, связанные с генерацией кода. В этом мы достаточно преуспели. Но недавно мы стали осваивать работу с крупным новым клиентом (энтерпрайз), у которого оказалась масса сложного SQL-кода. Они написали при помощи наших инструментов много больших программ. Например, там был образец размером в 8562 строк на SQL, который наш компилятор в итоге превращал примерно в ~100k строк на Rust.

Businessman stands trial over death of Maltese journalist killed by bomb in her car after she reported on corruption

Moments before the explosion that killed Daphne Caruana Galizia, the journalist screamed in panic, a witness has told the trial of the man accused of ordering her murder.

Caruana Galizia was killed in 2017 by a remotely detonated bomb placed under the driver’s seat of her car, after writing a series of reports on political and financial corruption in Malta. The government’s handling of the investigation led to mass protests and ultimately to the resignation of the Maltese prime minister, Joseph Muscat.

From San Diego to Hong Kong, via Dubai, Saudi Arabia, Germany and Qatar the gelding keeps on winning

One of the sport’s great warriors returned to the front line for the 32nd time in a remarkable career on Thursday, with £12.12m in prize money already banked and the all-time record for a European-trained horse of £12.7m now within reach. Jumping fans often complain that Flat horses are rarely around long enough to become heroes, but Rebel’s Romance is a cast-iron case for the defence.

From San Diego to Hong Kong, via Dubai, Saudi Arabia, Germany and Qatar, Charlie Appleby’s eight-year-old has taken on many of the world’s best middle-distance horses since first setting foot on a track in October 2020.

• Czech 10th seed clinches a 6-2, 1-6, 7-6 (10) victory

• Muchova faces compatriot Noskova in Saturday’s final

She finds a first serve on match point and the contact is perfect: 117mph, punched hard down the centre line, and from the moment her hand receives the message from her strings, she must know this is it. Of course the ball may come back, and indeed the ball does come back, but only barely. And in those few seconds as it arcs over the net, springs back up off the grass and hangs there like a beautiful sweet fruit, Coco Gauff has a Wimbledon final in her grasp.

The afternoon has been hot: viciously hot, sadistically hot, the sort of heat that seems to take years from you. In the crowd, paper fans wave and flutter like butterflies, and this has been a match full of natural beauty, of clean swings and satisfying timing and brilliant shapes set against pale green. And still the return from Karolina Muchova hangs there, high and slow, a sentence demanding a punctuation mark, a piece of Centre Court cinema about to roll the credits.

Two architects of Arsenal’s title triumph are likely to have starring roles for their country in pursuit of a place in the World Cup semi-finals

It is one of those times when WhatsApp group chats quieten down. Friendships tend to be suspended when a World Cup quarter-final comes around and club mates, flung against one another for their countries, turn their eyes towards the biggest prize. Declan Rice and Martin Ødegaard will not be exchanging breezy pleasantries in the hours before England face Norway but the levels of respect are off the scale. The clash between two architects of Arsenal’s modern success should be decisive in determining who goes through. They have walked out together 117 times but the 118th, in the stifling heat of Miami, may leave the most lasting mark.

These are two players in their prime who may never receive another opportunity this golden. Rice and Ødegaard were born 28 days apart and, partly because of the latter’s fast-tracking into the Norway senior team, did not play against each other at age-group level. Their face-offs have been limited to Mikel Arteta’s intense training sessions at London Colney, where they are depended upon to set standards. They are leaders of differing style and status who will be expected to galvanise their national teams on Saturday.

Staggered release of ChatGPT 5.6 follows similar restrictions on rival firm Anthropic’s latest AI models

OpenAI released its latest advanced AI model, called ChatGPT 5.6, on Thursday after earlier delaying the public rollout over US government concerns about cybersecurity. The Trump administration had requested last month that OpenAI limit the release to a small group of government-approved users.

OpenAI complied with the White House’s request last month. The company stated in a blogpost that it had briefed government officials on ChatGPT 5.6’s capabilities and restricted the model to trusted partners at their behest. The product’s wider release came after additional testing by the government’s Center for AI Standards and Innovation agency, according to Axios.

Father Ted co-creator detained by armed officers at Heathrow airport last year over gender-critical posts on X

The Father Ted co-creator Graham Linehan has been paid £25,000 in compensation by the Metropolitan police and received an apology after his arrest over his gender-critical social media posts.

Linehan, 57, was detained by armed officers at Heathrow airport last September after a 10-hour flight from Arizona.

Июль 2026 года для OpenAI оказался выходит насыщенным: она одновременно обновила два разных уровня своей платформы: базовый слой языковых моделей и слой голосового взаимодействия. GPT-5.6 вышла как новое семейство моделей для API и Codex, а GPT-Live стала новой голосовой системой ChatGPT Voice. В сумме это выглядит не как косметический релиз, а как заметный сдвиг в архитектуре продуктовой линейки OpenAI.

Если упростить до одной фразы, то GPT-5.6 отвечает на вопрос «какую текстовую модель выбрать под конкретную задачу», а GPT-Live — на вопрос «как вообще должен выглядеть голосовой интерфейс с ИИ в 2026 году». И именно поэтому эти анонсы стоит рассматривать вместе.

Reporting suggests FBI involved in seizure of Ismael ‘El Mayo’ Zambada García from Mexican territory in 2024

Mexico has launched an investigation into whether the US lied about its involvement in the capture and secretive transfer of a top Sinaloa cartel member in 2024, in what would be a potential violation of the country’s sovereignty.

The US has long denied it played any role in the operation to detain the drug lord Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada García, a founder of the Sinaloa cartel, inside Mexico. Recent reporting by the local media outlet Pie de Nota, however, suggested that the FBI was involved in his capture.

Businessman stands trial over death of Maltese journalist killed by bomb in her car after she reported on corruption

Moments before the explosion that killed Daphne Caruana Galizia, the journalist screamed in panic, a witness has told the trial of the man accused of ordering her murder.

Caruana Galizia was killed in 2017 by a remotely detonated bomb placed under the driver’s seat of her car, after writing a series of reports on political and financial corruption in Malta. The government’s handling of the investigation led to mass protests and ultimately to the resignation of the Maltese prime minister, Joseph Muscat.

“Gotta go,” a young woman murmured into her phone, slipping into a gaggle of gawking New Yorkers pointing and staring at a teetering office tower in the heart of midtown Manhattan on Tuesday. “This building’s like collapsing in New York.” 

If you squinted past the police barricades, you could see the sagging upper floors of the old Pfizer building at East 42nd Street between Second and Third Avenues, where steel beams had begun “bending like cigarettes” that morning, threatening dozens of luxury apartments being carved into the empty office spaces above. 

Making housing out of high-rises was supposed to be common sense, a lemons-into-lemonade fix for a nation with a massive glut of underused office towers and a dire shortage of homes. In the six years since the pandemic instigated a major pivot to remote work, tens of thousands of such office-to-residential conversions have sprouted up across the country, including the 1,600-unit project planned for the former Pfizer headquarters, the largest project of its kind in New York City history, which involves retrofitting the existing structures and adding multiple new floors and expansions above them. 

It’s not yet known precisely why a chunk of it nearly came tumbling down this week, or why inspectors and project managers failed to note that the original 1960s columns would buckle under the weight of the added floors. One union worker blamed the developer’s reliance on mostly non-union labor. Others have pointed to the site’s history of safety violations. Still others, including many experts, say that it could well have been an engineering failure or a miscalculation baked into the renovation’s blueprints. (Neither the building’s developer nor the architectural firm behind the redevelopment responded to Vox’s request for comment.) Regardless, the near collapse is not an indictment of all such projects, but a reminder that they are often exceptionally hard to pull off. 

They are also worth it. Over the past few years, cities have gotten much better at turning empty offices into housing by offering generous incentives for wary developers and peeling off layers and layers of red tape. Meanwhile, architects have gotten much cleverer with the design hacks that can affordably and safely retrofit a vast, sterile office space into a place you could call home. As a result, over 90,000 apartments are now being built out of empty office buildings across the US, according to RentCafe, up from just over 23,000 in progress in 2022. 

If momentum continues to grow, these new apartments could help put a serious dent in America’s housing shortage — experts agree that we need a few million more homes to lower rent and mortgages — with the bonus of being located in some of the most desirable and well-connected neighborhoods in the nation. Converting empty office spaces into housing is also significantly faster, often cheaper, and much less carbon-intensive than building from scratch.

But teaching an old building new tricks is still difficult, delicate work. And as New York City learned the hard way this week, if something goes wrong, it can go very wrong very fast. “Every building is different,” said Anita Kramer, senior vice president at the Urban Land Institute. “You don’t know what you’re getting until you take it down to the bare bones,” until you “rip out the guts and get down to the cement slabs and the beams.”

What it actually takes to turn an office building into an apartment

You’d be forgiven for assuming that turning offices into apartments is more or less as simple as plucking out the water coolers, swapping cubicles for kitchenettes, and erecting a few extra walls here and there. 

Not so. In many cases, such conversions involve gutting the original building to comply with housing codes requiring dwellings to have amenities like operable windows or a running shower. When you build from the ground up, you can incorporate those requirements from the get-go, but it can be pricier and more complex to make them work after the fact. 

“If someone gets a piece of fabric and sews it [to the contours of]  your body,” explained Tracy Hadden Loh, a fellow at Brookings Metro, who studies office-to-residential conversions, “it’s going to fit way better than if you turn a bag inside out and cut a hole for your head.” Likewise, you can’t tweak a building made for corporate offices into one built for living without getting quite crafty.

Some buildings are naturally easier to change than others. New York City legitimized thousands of once illicit artist lofts — located inside abandoned warehouses, mills, and factories — by bringing them up to city housing codes in the 1980s. This was relatively straightforward because such factories were built over a century ago, when the sort of narrow floor plans, high ceilings, and wide windows well-suited for apartments were still the norm for most new construction. 

But most post-World War II office towers were built differently, with massive floor plans whose windowless interiors and central air conditioning might work for cubicles, but that work less well when broken up into individual units. As if poking a hole through a slice of bread and calling it a bagel, the developer behind the old Pfizer HQ carved out two deep atriums in a converted office tower in Manhattan’s financial district to let in enough natural light to build 1,320 apartments. Since most such buildings have central air conditioning and plumbing, making sure each new unit has its own individualized systems means punching small Swiss cheese-style holes throughout the structure and patching up the gaps with a concrete slab later. 

“There’s this whole subsegment of developers that are learning how nimble they have to be” to make such designs work well, said Kramer, finding themselves “redesigning and redesigning the configuration of all the units” as they unearth unanticipated challenges or materials in the original building that they didn’t know about until they took out the guts. 

Loh emphasized that adding new floors on top of old ones, as in the Pfizer project, is a common practice to make the most of a prime location. Under normal circumstances, she said, “steel-frame high-rise construction is incredibly stable.” But stitching new, widened top floors to the top of a building’s pre-existing 1900s structure is also a delicate, somewhat miraculous engineering feat. If something gets overlooked, either in the engineering or construction process — like a failure to properly reinforce a building’s original steel columns, as appears to be the case this time — it can have drastic consequences.

“The need for checks and balances to protect health and safety are real,” said Loh, but “the key takeaway here is not ‘Oh, we shouldn’t have done that’” at a time when momentum is rising rapidly, and developers are getting better and better at anticipating new challenges each year. Turning empty office buildings into housing is challenging, and sometimes even risky, but it can be done. Or as Loh puts it, “We should do that. We just need to make sure we have enough inspectors.” 

Привет, Хабр. Я уже не тот беззаботный парнишка, что собирал 486-й компьютер. Время бежит, я скуф успел поработать с C++, C#, Java и Kotlin, последние 10 лет занимаюсь мобильной разработкой. Программирование я до сих пор люблю потому что больше ничего не умею. Но чем дольше работаешь, тем чаще ловишь себя на мысли, что от некоторых вещей начинает подгорать. Сегодня я расскажу, как я попытался избавиться хотя бы от части таких вещей.

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