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Georgia’s tea industry collapsed alongside the Soviet Union but is now reaching a luxury market

Rainclouds shroud the Caucasus mountains as the day’s harvest begins on a rural estate in western Georgia. A tea picker moves quickly between bushes with confidence, her hands plucking only the greenest, most recent growth on each plant.

When Pati began picking tea leaves as a teenager this was a collective farm in the Soviet Union – following its collapse it was abandoned and the bushes swallowed by the surrounding forest until new growers began cutting them free in the 2010s.

• Australia call up flyhalf to face back-to-back Six Nations champions

• Jock Campbell replaced by Tom Wright in starting XV in Brisbane

Declan Meredith will debut against France as the reconfigured Wallabies paper over the cracks created by more soft-tissue injury carnage in Brisbane.

The ACT Brumbies flyhalf will wear the No 10 against the back-to-back Six Nations champions at Suncorp Stadium on Saturday.

С годами я сильнее стал осознавать роль и красоту математики. В школьные и студенческие годы я не уделял ей должного внимания т.к. не до конца понимал, зачем мне это нужно. Мне захотелось перевернуть подход в обучении наоборот и взглянуть на картину целиком. Часть личных изысканий публикую в данной статье. Из нее вы узнаете: • структуру нуля и единицы; • на каком уровне в общей системе координат находится все материальное; • лучше поймёте структуру многомерных пространств; • что такое время; • как мы можем увидеть мгновение невооруженным взглядом; • как зарождаются и развертываются новые Вселенные; • каким образом записывается информация о целой Вселенной в единицу; • что из себя представляют черные дыры.

Temperatures across ravaged region 3C above average as scientists warn of risks for people, ecosystems and infrastructure

• Record wildfires in Europe show failure to adapt carries a mounting cost

Western Europe has been scorched by its hottest June on record, scientists have said, as the UK enters its third heatwave of the year and wildfires ravage France and Spain.

Inflamed by carbon pollution, the deadly June heatwave helped push surface air temperatures for the region 3.06C above their average from recent decades, according to the EU’s Copernicus climate monitoring service.

Marine Le Pen is a convicted criminal. But now she’s running for office and there is still no credible candidate to oppose her

As the judge read out the verdict in Marine Le Pen’s appeal trial for embezzlement, the same conversation was playing out in living rooms and WhatsApp groups across France. What? Does this mean she can run for the Élysée after all? But what about the prison sentence? And the electronic tag (which Le Pen had promised she would not campaign wearing)? And what about her protege Jordan Bardella?

For a few hours, it looked as though the court of appeal had unexpectedly played a masterful hand by unequivocally upholdingthe far-right National Rally (RN) figurehead’s conviction for misappropriation of public funds. It handed her a fine of €100,000 (£85,000) and a commuted prison sentence, the remaining year of which would be served by Le Pen being electronically tagged.

Catherine Fieschi is a visiting scholar with Carnegie Europe and the author of Populocracy: The Tyranny of Authenticity and the Rise of Populism

I didn’t see being a couple of years away from technically qualifying for an 18-30s jaunt to be a problem. But the booze, humiliation and a ‘mystery pooer’ made me rethink my entire life

‘First the bad news,” yelled our lairy Irish club rep as the coach drove us from Ibiza airport to our hotel. “All the great clubs: Amnesia, Space, Pacha … they’re CLOSED!”

A confused silence descended. “But the good news?” he yelled. “We’re gonna have a fucking amazing time anyway!!!”

Armed with a new album inspired by ‘dead English blokes’, the revered musician discusses writing nasty songs about his neighbours and how he’s finally made it in Nashville aged 73

‘I owe a lot to a dead man’s cock.” So begins the first song, a propulsive piece of Lennonesque powerpop called I Am This Thing, on The Confuser, the latest album by the 73-year-old English gentleman survivor of the 60s/70s frontline, Robyn Hitchcock. The album has been recorded by a crack team of session guys in Nashville, where Hitchcock lives and runs a boutique record label with his second wife, the Australian singer-songwriter Emma Swift.

“I’m not just some sort of old public school dilettante floating around the South Bank or whatever,” Hitchcock protests, unbidden. “Making it work in Nashville means I actually am a real musician songwriter in the real musician songwriter town. And I think, ‘OK, I actually did do this!’ I wanted to go to Nashville when I, as a 13-year-old boarding school boy, heard those Dylan records he made here. And a mere 60 years later, here I am!”

Intensive farming has all but destroyed England’s ancient woodlands and freshwater wetlands. On a farm in Lincolnshire a radical aristocrat hopes to show there’s money in protecting nature

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In the silent countryside south of Grantham, three vast steel barns rattled in the breeze. Gathered in a loose circle beside them were 15 landowners, land agents and a couple of young investors; all expensively dressed men, many with a sceptical mien. It was June 2022, and Sir Charles Raymond Burrell, 10th Baronet, was explaining how the purchase of 1,525 bleak acres (617 hectares) of prairie fields of wheat and beans could revolutionise farming and nature conservation, not just in South Lincolnshire but across Britain and beyond.

Burrell, known by everyone as Charlie, led the group on a walk from the barns beside the unlovable modern farmhouse, a red-brick behemoth with small windows like piggy eyes. We began by crossing a field of broad beans. Less than a century ago, it had been a patchwork of 10 fields. As we walked over the hard, cracked ground, we encountered not a single insect. Later, by a verge, a couple of butterflies flew. As for humans, we didn’t meet a single other person in our two-and-a-half-hour stroll across a range of footpaths and field edges. “This is a ruined landscape,” said one of the guests, the architectural historian Matthew Rice. “Not because of the soils. Because there are no people here. I’m sorry there are not enough stoats but I’d like there to be some children here, too.”

Temperatures across ravaged region 3C above average as scientists warn of risks for people, ecosystems and infrastructure

• Record wildfires in Europe show failure to adapt carries a mounting cost

Western Europe has been scorched by its hottest June on record, scientists have said, as the UK enters its third heatwave of the year and wildfires ravage France and Spain.

Inflamed by carbon pollution, the deadly June heatwave helped push surface air temperatures for the region 3.06C above their average from recent decades, according to the EU’s Copernicus climate monitoring service.

South Australian police investigating death of elderly person Liberal senator Kerrynne Liddle claimed was a result of the outage

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Angus Taylor says his shadow communications minister Sarah Henderson was “doing her job” when she “tested” the triple-zero system by making unnecessary calls to it during Telstra’s nationwide outage.

The opposition leader has also dismissed concerns about Liberal senator Kerrynne Liddle’s claim that an elderly person died as a result of the outage on Wednesday, after South Australian police initially said they were unaware of any such death.

В работе с AI‑кодерами постепенно меняется формат задачи. Одного промпта часто недостаточно: агенту нужно не только выполнить разовую команду, но и повторять действия до понятного результата. Например: проверить CI, прочитать лог, внести минимальное исправление, снова запустить тест, остановиться при выполнении условий.

Поводом для этой статьи стала заметка Anthropic «Getting started with loops» про циклы (loops) в Claude Code. Там термин«цикл» описывается как повторяющаяся работа агента до выполнения условия остановки.

Практический смысл такой: если задача состоит из нескольких повторяемых шагов, человеку не нужно каждый раз вручную читать вывод агента, запускать проверку, копировать ошибку обратно в чат и писать следующую команду. Эту процедуру можно описать заранее.

The meltdown in Maine’s Senate race risks the Democrats’ opportunity to turn Trump into a lame duck president.

Two years ago Democrats had one job: stop Donald Trump from returning to the White House. It was the only thing that mattered, but with breathtaking political malpractice, they imploded.

This November Democrats have two jobs: win the House of Representatives and win the Senate to turn Trump into a lame duck president for his final two years. But once again the party, fond of warning that the stakes are existential, is in grave danger of blowing it.

Moscow moves to support domestic fuel market as drivers ⁠face hours-long lines amid intensifying Ukrainian strikes. What we know on day 1,597

Russia introduced a ban on diesel exports on Wednesday as part of a raft of measures to support the domestic fuel market after systematic Ukrainian drone attacks on oil refineries ⁠triggered gasoline shortages and price spikes. Drivers ⁠in many regions are ​facing hours-long lines to refuel, as intensifying Ukrainian strikes on Russian energy infrastructure squeeze supplies of diesel and gasoline. The deputy prime minister, Alexander Novak, told a televised government meeting, chaired by the president, Vladimir ⁠Putin, that the fuel situation remained complex and that “it is clear that the current situation at filling stations is causing concern among the public.”

Russian ballistic missiles and jet-powered ​drones killed at least three people in Kyiv ⁠in attacks on Wednesday morning, officials said, as Moscow exploits Ukraine’s critical shortage of US-made interceptors. The attacks coincided with a Nato summit in Ankara, where Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, held ⁠a meeting with Donald Trump and discussed the possibility of Ukraine obtaining licences to produce the interceptors. Moscow has stepped up its air war on Ukraine in recent months as its ground advances ​have largely stalled and Ukrainian attacks on its military logistics and oil industry triggered widespread fuel shortages. In July alone, Russian strikes on Kyiv and its surrounding region have killed 60 people.

The US president’s commitment to allowing Ukraine to manufacture Patriot missile interceptors, however, was vaguely framed, and he admitted he had not spoken to the US defence and aerospace companies Lockheed Martin and RTX Corporation (formerly Raytheon) that produce the Patriot system. It also remained unclear how quickly manufacturing of the expensive and complex munitions could be stepped up.

A Russian ‌attack on Ukraine’s Black Sea port of Odesa on Wednesday killed four people and injured six, a senior local official said. The city, Ukraine’s most important port, has been a frequent Russian target in the more than four-year-old war. A

Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-biggest city, also came under missile attack on Wednesday morning, local officials said, reporting damage to private homes and a church. Another missile strike later on ⁠Wednesday on a residential building killed two, its mayor, Ihor Terekhov, said.

In Russia, Ukraine’s overnight drone attacks killed one person and damaged industrial sites, authorities said.

Russia denounced Nato’s decision to give military aid to Ukraine, saying it ⁠could have catastrophic consequences. Maria ​Zakharova, the spokesperson for Russia’s ⁠Foreign Ministry, ⁠said Nato’s priorities remained unchanged: “The militarisation of the European continent, the focus on building up defence capabilities, preparation ⁠for an armed conflict with Russia, and, of course, aid to Ukraine.” Zakharova said in a statement on her ministry’s website: “It is a pity, because if Nato ⁠strategists had stopped and thought for a moment, they might not have ​made such irresponsible decisions that ‌could lead to a ‌catastrophe not just for the alliance, but for the whole world.”

Jillian Segal tells royal commission the public broadcasters’ coverage of the Middle East lacks balance and paints Israel in a negative light

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The ABC and SBS have defended their complaints processes and rejected the antisemitism envoy’s proposal for an external regulatory body, on a day of conflicting evidence at the royal commission.

The envoy, Jillian Segal, told the hearing on Thursday morning there was a “common and pervasive perception” in the Jewish community that the public broadcasters’ coverage of the war in the Middle East “lacked balance”, that there was an overemphasis on Gaza compared with other conflicts, and that the coverage gave disproportionate voice to anti-Israel perspectives.

Attacks on three locations across Iran came after three tankers in the strait of Hormuz were targeted on Tuesday

The US military carried out strikes on Iran for a second day, hours after president Donald Trump said that an interim agreement to end the war was “over”.

Late on Wednesday Iranian state media reported explosions in the port city of Bandar Abbas in the strait of Hormuz; in Sirik, another southern coastal city; and the south-western Bushehr province, home to Iran’s nuclear-power-plant complex.

Сразу предупрежу: это личный опыт человека, который просто решил попробовать инструмент без сильных знаний в программировании, но с большим желанием закрыть потребности в реализации личных проектов.

Про ИИ ассистентов уже не раз писали и напишут как с положительно, так и с отрицательной стороны. OpenClaw с его постоянным обращениями к LLM (которая прилично есть токены). Про Claude code в данной статье тоже не будет ничего сказано, поскольку тестировавние проводилось именно на основе продуктов от Open AI.

Итак, если у вас уже есть plus подписка на gpt, то вам сюда.

Как проходила работа над проектами ранее: в отдельном проекте в GPT создавался чат, в котором обсуждался определённый проект, написанный, например, на Python. Если возникали некие ошибки — я сразу писал в чат ошибку и мы вместе с чатом пытались решить эту проблему.

Что же позволят делать Codex:

Он сам смотрит весь проект, запускает код, обнаружив ошибки, сам их исправляет и заново запускает. Это же гениально! Дать нейросети доступ к твоему железу и сказать: хочу чтобы работало так‑то так‑то. И Codex это сделает. Не факт, что за 1 запрос вы сможете создать именно то, что изначально хотели, но в этом и прелесть: Codex держит в контексте файлы проекта, находит то, что нужно исправить и сам исправляет то, что требует пользователь.

Вы скажете: «уу, это же вайб кодинг, а как же потом править проект, полностью сгенерированный нейросетью?» А я вам отвечу: если вы хотите разбираться в коде проекта: пожалуйста, попросите Codex или чтобы не тратить токены просто в браузерном чате спросите, загрузив то, что непонятно. Но можно и без этого: просто заово просить Codex изменять в его же коде.