Paolini bursts out of the blocks with as much speed as she shows when charging around the court, racing to 40-0 and taking the game to 15. This match pits two of the best athletes in the women’s game against each other, and while Kostyuk possesses more power than the counterpunching Paolini, it’s Paolini who has the greater experience at this stage of grand slams, having reached not only the Wimbledon final but also the French Open final two years ago. Which could be to her advantage, if this comes down to who handles the moment better.
Three more games, three more holds, but it’s been fairly tortuous on serve for Mertens, who has to save three break points to scramble to 2-2, just as Paolini and Kostyuk make their entrance on Centre. I’m really, really looking forward to this one … Paolini, after losing the opening set of her first-round match 6-0, has been a player transformed, finally rediscovering the form that took her to the 2024 final and made her a fan favourite, while Kostyuk, after reaching the French Open semi-finals last month, has carried her form from the clay on to the grass, and has won 20 of her past 21 matches.
The German car industry has warned of a potential collapse of employment in the sector in Europe unless society and workers accept that “bold decisions” are needed to address competition from the Chinese and other rivals.
Volkswagen is preparing to formally propose up to 100,000 job losses, a move that has triggered a wave of protests.
A host of transactions involving Reform UK’s most senior figures and donations to the party caused bankers to report potential money-laundering concerns to the National Crime Agency, a Guardian investigation has found.
On Tuesday, the Guardian revealed that the undisclosed £5m gift provided to the Reform leader, Nigel Farage, by a cryptocurrency billionaire shortly before the 2024 general election was reported to the NCA.
One relates to a £1m donation made to Britain Means Business, a fundraising organisation for Reform UK, before the last general election. Half of the £1m was then transferred by Tice, as director of the company, to Reform UK. Renamed from Leave Means Leave, Britain Means Business is a company that is used to help fund Reform. The £1m seemingly came from the aristocrat and Reform UK donor Fiona Cottrell. In this instance, the Guardian understands bank staff were not satisfied that the funds had ultimately come from her. The NCA has sought help from a foreign partner agency to trace the original source of the funds.
Two other SARs relate to a loan from George Cottrell to Tice. The loan was made shortly before Tice finalised a property purchase and made a party donation, and was not repaid until after those two transactions were completed, according to sources. George Cottrell is the son of Fiona Cottrell, and is a convicted fraudster, former deputy treasurer of Ukip and close associate of Farage.
A fourth relates to the £5m gift from the Thailand-based businessman Christopher Harborne to Farage, which was first revealed by the Guardian in April.
Group blames expected £30m loss in first half of year on weakening market and lower consumer confidence
Vistry Group, one of Britain’s biggest housebuilders, has said it will make a loss in the first half of the year, after it resorted to heavy discounting to attract buyers for unsold homes .
Vistry shares fell by 8% after the firm also announced its finance director was leaving.
Two police officers saw possible signs of life, but the child was still taken to the hospital's "cold room" after being treated by staff, according to police documents.
As the Bayreuth festival turns 150, we look at the composer’s huge and enduring influence, and wonder what might have happened to classical music in his absence?
One hundred and fifty years ago this summer, Richard Wagner wanted to change the world. Not only the musical world, but nationhood, political thought, even the idea of what it means to be human. The inaugural Bayreuth festival opened on 13 August 1876, with the first complete cycle of Der Ring des Nibelungen staged in Wagner’s custom-built Bayreuth Festspielhaus in Bavaria. The first audience included kings, emperors, aristocracy and politicians as well as Europe’s musical and creative elites (Tchaikovsky, Grieg, Bruckner and Liszt among them). Wagner, who had been a revolutionary on the streets of Dresden in the 1840s, intended the Ring’s four operas to usher in a new world, one redeemed and made wise by this epic story of power, love, redemption, betrayal and renewal.
The titanic impact of Wagner is almost impossible to grasp today. Stage design aside (having the orchestra entirely hidden in the pit and darkening the auditorium were two of his innovations at Bayreuth) his legacies are felt across the arts from the way Wagnerism gripped German philosophers and Paris’s painters and poets in the 19th century, to the seismic changes he wreaked in cultural politics, and the toxicity of the antisemitic bearers of the Wagnerian flame after his death in 1883.
A host of transactions involving Reform UK’s most senior figures and donations to the party caused bankers to report potential money-laundering concerns to the National Crime Agency, a Guardian investigation has found.
On Tuesday, the Guardian revealed that the undisclosed £5m gift provided to the Reform leader, Nigel Farage, by a cryptocurrency billionaire shortly before the 2024 general election was reported to the NCA.
One relates to a £1m donation made to Britain Means Business, a fundraising organisation for Reform UK, before the last general election. Half of the £1m was then transferred by Tice, as director of the company, to Reform UK. Renamed from Leave Means Leave, Britain Means Business is a company that is used to help fund Reform. The £1m seemingly came from the aristocrat and Reform UK donor Fiona Cottrell. In this instance, the Guardian understands bank staff were not satisfied that the funds had ultimately come from her. The NCA has sought help from a foreign partner agency to trace the original source of the funds.
Two other SARs relate to a loan from George Cottrell to Tice. The loan was made shortly before Tice finalised a property purchase and made a party donation, and was not repaid until after those two transactions were completed, according to sources. George Cottrell is the son of Fiona Cottrell, and is a convicted fraudster, former deputy treasurer of Ukip and close associate of Farage.
A fourth relates to the £5m gift from the Thailand-based businessman Christopher Harborne to Farage, which was first revealed by the Guardian in April.
When Gaby Lieberman moved in with her boyfriend Elvin Pavlenko, she didn’t think she’d be so closely scrutinized by their neighbors. But from the start, she was fighting an uphill battle: Pavlenko spent his entire life on the same block in Teaneck, New Jersey; when he moved out of his childhood home, he landed…across the street, in an apartment complex where he and Lieberman lived. In other words, the neighbors had watched him grow up. “These people knew him, knew his whole story,” Lieberman tells Vox. “They had seen him in diapers all the way to a grown 30-year-old man.” And the community was protective of Pavlenko and suspicious of outsiders.
So when Pavlenko’s former schoolmate spotted Lieberman reaching into an unfamiliar car to give a man who decidedly was not Pavlenko a hug and a kiss, alarm bells went off. The neighbor, who had a reputation for being gossipy, flagged Pavlenko down in the laundromat to spill the tea. Over dinner a few days later, Pavlenko confronted Lieberman: This guy I know saw you kissing an older man with a beard. Are you cheating on me? “And I was like, what? You mean my dad?” she says.
Neighbor relationships have the potential to be either fruitful or fraught. They sit at a unique intersection of intimacy and distance: You may be geographically close to them, but they aren’t owed the same sort of emotional vulnerability as family or friends. The couple next door or the folks down the street might carry institutional knowledge of the building or neighborhood; they can help you out in a pinch and can be a pleasant source of social interaction. They can also be a little nosy, standoffish to newcomers, and, at worst, harbor biases, upping the chances for years of awkward or contentious run-ins.
It’s well established that gossip facilitates social connection and swapping stories with a neighbor can be super beneficial in spurring collective action in your community. That’s because gossip helps you make sense of the social world, according to Francesca Giardini, an associate professor of sociology at the University of Groningen. The people living around you can help you determine the cultural norms and expectations of the neighborhood.
This exchange of information can be helpful when you’re new to the community and want to get the lay of the land, but there’s a line between useful intel and harmful judgments. The secret to effective gossip, experts say, is to be fully aware of the consequences and to know when to stop.
Clarify your goals for the conversation
Because you likely don’t have a prior relationship with the people you live around, and therefore no shared history, interests, or social circle to draw from, the content of your initial conversations will likely center on specific topics, like recommendations (Do you have a Chinese takeout spot you like?), safety (How do you deal with stolen packages?), and community norms (Can I park there?). But that can give way to gossip: That person’s selling their house, I haven’t seen so-and-so in a while. “When we’re gossiping, first and foremost, we might be signaling something about a shared understanding of these community norms or rules,” Meltem Yucel, an assistant professor of psychology at Michigan State University, tells Vox. “It signals to the listener that we… [care] about these rules.”
Because community gossip is so heavily focused on shared values and conventions, opting out can subtly signal you don’t respect the social network. “I think the one thing you don’t want to do is be the holier-than-thou person [who] says, ‘I’m not going to participate in this. I’m not a gossip. I never gossip,’” Frank McAndrew, a professor emeritus of psychology at Knox College, tells Vox. “First of all, if the only person you’re willing to talk about is yourself, everybody’s going to think you’re pretty boring. But secondly, what you’re really saying to people in that situation is ‘I don’t trust you. I don’t want to be part of your network,’ and you’re not going to win any popularity contest by doing that.” But, McAndrew continues, you need to be discerning with what you choose to share.
So, when you’re gossiping, first consider the purpose of the conversation. Are you curious about the welfare of another neighbor? Do you want to vent about a neighbor’s annoying penchant for not picking up after their dog? What you choose to discuss should ultimately be useful to someone besides you. “If you’re planning to do construction, you’re having a big party… something that might impact their lives, then sharing this information with them might be something that would be good for your relationship with them,” Yucel says. These scenarios are generally constructive, informative, and reinforce the norms of the neighborhood. Even if you’re talking about the lazy dog owner behind their back, you’re sending a clear signal to your conversation partner that behavior isn’t acceptable. It’s a way of bonding, too, Yucel says.
But if you’re gossiping simply to cast judgments on a person or behavior that has little impact on your life, no one benefits, McAndrew says. This mean-spirited chit-chat can stem from racist or classist biases, he also pointed out. Before you start complaining about someone else, reflect on what exactly bothers you about, say, the appearance of their home, the number of people who live there, or what they spend their time and money on. “What you want to do is really examine your motives,” McAndrew says. “‘What makes me think there’s something wrong here?’ And if you’re being honest with yourself and you find out it’s really nothing more than a stereotype that you might have, then maybe you should keep your mouth shut until you know more.”
How to engage in online neighborhood gossip
From community Facebook groups to Nextdoor posts to WhatsApp threads, be extra careful when yapping online.
Focus on logistics: Try to stick to sharing information about neutral events, like HOA meeting reminders, street sweeping schedules, and product sale listings in local Buy Nothing or yard sale groups.
Keep conversations group-focused: Posing questions like “Did anyone else’s power go out?” or “Who else got this notice about an increase in water bills?” can help you gather information and organize with your neighbors.
Avoid mentioning anyone by name or posting photos of people without their consent: Especially if the information you’re sharing is a rumor or includes details you can’t verify.
When you’re on the receiving end of gossip, try to determine the other person’s motives, too. Are they disclosing useful information that directly impacts you, or are they tarnishing someone’s reputation? Is it something they’ve observed directly or are they relaying secondhand (or thirdhand) intel? And do you agree with what they’re saying?
Weigh the consequences
As you continue to engage in gossip beyond the initial exchange of information, consider how the person on the receiving end might see you. “If the audience believes that the gossiper is motivated by self-interest or a desire to harm the person they are talking about, then they will be evaluated negatively,” Kim Peters, a social and organizational psychologist at the University of Exeter, tells Vox in an email.
Similarly, think about the repercussions should this information trickle out to the wider community or get attributed to you. If someone confides in you, don’t share what they said without permission. But discussing something everyone can observe — a neighbor’s new car — is fair game, as long as you refrain from passing judgment on what they choose to spend money on.
As with any conversation, avoid gossiping negatively in public places — especially online. “In general, it’s always good to assume that what you said could be retold,” Yucel says. Stick to what you have observed and personally know to be true, avoid saying anything mean-spirited, and don’t put anything in writing you’d be embarrassed to see reposted or shared.
Part of this mental math has to do with the people you’re gossiping with. You might consider biting your tongue around the clueless blabbermouths who don’t have bad intentions but who repeat everything they hear, McAndrew says. Also avoid the known busybodies who hold onto information to backstab or to tear others down. Unfortunately, you might not know if any of your neighbors possess these habits until you observe them in the act, whether spilling someone else’s secrets or your own, so it’s a good idea to err on the side of caution.
But the consequence of gossip isn’t always negative. Your goal might be for the gossip to get back to a neighbor so they change their behavior, or to warn another community member about someone who behaves badly. Similarly, if a couple of neighbors in an apartment building gossip over a shared cockroach problem that’s gone unaddressed, they can coordinate with other tenants to spur the landlord into action.
Know when to call it quits
A skilled gossiper knows when to disengage. The signs that someone may not want to gossip with you could be fairly obvious: After the initial “Did you notice…” they aren’t active in the conversation or they try to change the subject. “Sometimes if you feel the tension or everything becomes uncomfortable, the safest option is to change the topic or explain why you are making that remark,” Giardini, the sociology professor, says. “You are trying to provide reasons that you think it’s relevant.” In other words, you’re managing your reputation. Again, if you’re veering into judgmental territory, best to pump the brakes.
If you’re on the receiving end, think twice before feeding into gossip that seems to be turning people against another person. Instead, you can say, “Oh I have no idea what’s going on with them!” in a breezy tone before changing the subject. Simply take the information for what it is: something that could potentially be useful, but that you don’t need to perpetuate. The next time you hear loud music, you can tell the person next door that it’s the DJ who lives nearby — thanks to the intel from another neighbor — but you don’t need to tell everyone else that he’s recently divorced and in a custody battle, too.
Of course, there will inevitably be moments when you say the wrong thing at the wrong time to the wrong person and the gossip turns sour. If someone betrayed your confidence and disclosed what you said to the subject of your chatter, you’ve now learned the hard way they probably can’t be trusted.
Or maybe you inadvertently started a rumor about someone and they’re confronting you about it. Apologizing is your only option, according to McAndrew. Because unlike other relationships where you can avoid someone forever after hurting their feelings, you can’t skirt your neighbors unless one of you moves — which is what Gaby Lieberman and Elvin, who she ended up marrying, did.
After their neighbor told Pavlenko that he thought he saw Lieberman cheating, Pavlenko told the neighbor the comment made her uncomfortable. Now, the couple lives in a cul-de-sac in Sandy Hook, New Jersey, and the only gossip they do with their neighbors centers on the former owner of their home.
“They tell me a lot of stories about this community and the guy that lived in my house,” Lieberman says. “But they’re not gossiping about other neighbors.”
Staff at thousands of charities across England and Wales are believed to have been threatened and intimidated in person, according to troubling new research.
Привет! Хочу рассказать вам о том, как мы применили продуктовый подход к исследованию опыта разработчиков при работе с Figma, чтобы создать единый стандарт оформления макетов в компании.
На Хабре уже есть несколько отличных разборов того, как разные команды наводят порядок в Figma: аннотации, стрелки, сценарии, раскладки макетов и так далее. Я видел материалы Ozon Tech, t2, Иннотех — это классные справочники правил, можно брать и пользоваться. Но, когда в 2024 году я взялся за задачу подготовки стандарта для нашей компании, то столкнулся с вопросами, о которых нигде ничего не нашел. Как разработать единый подход? Что считать правильным и почему? Как упаковать эту идею и «продать» остальным членам команды, а главное: что делать дальше?
В этой статье поделюсь нашим методом поиска ответов на эти вопросы.
Trump said that he believes the U.S.-Iran ceasefire is over, but hasn't ruled out talks. And, the International Olympic Committee paves the way for Russian athletes to compete in the 2028 games.
The proposed heavyweight fight between Tyson Fury and Anthony Joshua could be held at Wembley Stadium in the early hours of the morning, BBC Sport understands.
A Chinese industry regulator warned users of a "security backdoor" embedded in versions of U.S. artificial intelligence company Anthropic's coding tool, Claude Code.
На пятый год войны с Украиной Россия столкнулась с растущим дефицитом бюджета, закрытием компаний малого и среднего бизнеса, а в последние недели — еще и с перебоями в поставках бензина. Ликвидных резервов у России осталось немного — закрыть ими дыру в бюджете уже не удастся. Речь идет не о быстро разворачивающемся масштабном кризисе, а постепенном накоплении проблем и ухудшении жизни людей. И этот процесс не остановится, пока не закончится война в Украине.
Двенадцать стран НАТО, включая Великобританию, намерены потратить более 37 млрд фунтов стерлингов (около 50 млрд долларов) в течение следующих 10 лет на создание новой дальнобойной ракетной системы, предназначенной для укрепления обороны Европы.
Итак, друзья, на днях вышел традиционный обзор рынка труда. Теперь уже за июнь 2026 г. Оригинал материалов размещен тут. На мой взгляд, он показывает интересную картину: не то чтобы кадровый дефицит закончился; скорее рынок стал сложнее и менее однородным.
Рынок труда в России за последние годы застрял в нескольких формулировках: «кадровый дефицит», "гонка зарплат", "рынок соискателя". Людей не хватает, зарплаты растут, работодатели конкурируют за кандидатов, бизнесу сложно закрывать вакансии.
И если смотреть только на общий показатель hh.индекса, кажется, что рынок развернулся в сторону работодателя. В июне 2026 года он составил 8,3, т.е. на 1 размещенную вакансию приходится указанное число соискателей. И вроде бы все здорово, но если погрузиться чуть глубже на уровень профессий и отраслей, картина быстро перестает быть простой и очевидной.
Два года по вечерам в одиночку пилю текстовую MMORPG в Telegram. Сейчас в ней 1111 аккаунтов и 586 выживших, которые бродят по мрачному острову. И где-то в админке ждёт кнопка, которая сотрёт их прогресс до нуля. Сезонный вайп, как в Rust. Я собрал её, проверил на тестовом сервере и до сих пор не нажал на проде. Рассказываю, почему «стереть всех» это не DELETE FROM, как один разработчик не держит в голове 99 таблиц, и какой тест блокирует мне деплой, если я забыл про новую таблицу.
Environmental protection agency and independent studies have found food biggest source of chemical exposure
The US Food and Drug Administration has rejected a legal petition demanding it set limits on toxic Pfas “forever chemicals” in food, marking another setback for public health advocates’ push to limit exposures to the dangerous compounds.
The agency is refusing to set limits despite a growing body of science and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) finding food is the biggest source of Pfas exposure. Testing has found the levels of Pfas in single servings of some contaminated foods to be equivalent to drinking many glasses of contaminated water.
Climate crisis prompts calls for workplace temperature limits and rights to heat breaks and adjusted working hours
As Europe’s sweltering summer continues, trades unions are mounting a push for new laws to counter deadly heat stress that is linked to an estimated 230 workplace deaths a year.
President Donald Trump holds a printed copy of a post from his Truth Social account about the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act as he speaks in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC on June 4, 2026. —Brendan Smialowski—AFP/Getty Images
President Donald Trump’s recent refusal to sign a broadly bipartisan housing bill unless Congress first passes the SAVE America Act once again pushed his voting bill back into the center of national politics.
As Republicans—one of us represented Wisconsin in Congress, the other served as governor and attorney general of Pennsylvania—we come from different states with different election systems, but we share the same conviction: only eligible American citizens should vote in American elections, and the public must have confidence that our elections are secure.
That is why we must demystify local election administration and build trust in the people and processes that make our elections work. And it is precisely why we are concerned about the SAVE America Act.
The bill’s central premise is popular: noncitizens should not vote. We agree. However, federal law already prohibits noncitizens from voting in federal elections. Pennsylvania and Wisconsin laws, like those of other states, already require voters to be U.S. citizens. Election officials in both states already use multiple safeguards to verify eligibility, maintain voter rolls, and investigate potential violations.
The real question is not whether noncitizens should vote. The question is whether this federal bill solves a real election-administration problem in a careful, workable way—or whether it creates new problems for millions of eligible citizens and the local officials who run our elections.
This is where the SAVE America Act falls short.
The legislation would require documentary proof of citizenship to register to vote in federal elections, along with photo identification to vote. In practice, that means a standard driver’s license would often not be enough. A REAL ID may not be enough either, unless it indicates citizenship. Voters would generally need a passport, passport card, birth certificate paired with photo identification, naturalization papers, or another qualifying document.
That sounds straightforward—until one considers how Americans actually live.
A young voter registering for the first time may not have a passport. A married woman whose legal name no longer matches her birth certificate may need to produce additional documentation. A rural voter may have to travel a long distance to an election office. A low-income worker may struggle to take time off during business hours. A service member stationed away from home may face barriers that civilians never encounter. A citizen who has voted for decades may suddenly need to produce paperwork simply because they moved, changed names, or updated their registration.
These are not theoretical concerns. They are ordinary facts of everyday American life.
Wisconsin already has one of the more stringent voter ID systems in the country. Voters must present an acceptable photo ID when voting, and voters registering in Wisconsin must provide proof of residence. The state’s system is administered locally by municipal clerks who know their communities and are accountable under state law.
Pennsylvania takes a different approach, but it, too, has safeguards. To register in Pennsylvania, a person must be a U.S. citizen, a resident of the commonwealth, and at least 18-years-old by Election Day. The state’s automatic voter registration system at PennDOT is designed so that only applicants whose records document eligibility are presented with voter registration screens, and county election officials review applications before registration is finalized.
Plus, there is another key concern that Republicans should not dismiss. Our Constitution leaves election administration largely to the states, within a framework set by federal law. Wisconsin and Pennsylvania do not run elections the same way. Nor do Arizona, Georgia, Michigan or North Carolina. That diversity is not a defect. It allows states to build systems suited to their laws, populations and traditions while still meeting national constitutional standards. It is crucial that Republicans stand up for states' rights—including now.
In Pennsylvania, a divided government has not prevented election reform. Harrisburg currently has a Democratic House and a Republican Senate, and the legislature has passed bipartisan changes to the election code after extensive input from county governments. That is how election policy should be improved: through state-level experience, local feedback and practical reforms shaped by the officials who actually administer elections.
A rushed federal overhaul would impose one blunt solution on thousands of local jurisdictions. It would also ask election officials—already strained by turnover, threats and public mistrust—to implement complicated new requirements. That is not a recipe for confidence. It is a recipe for confusion.
We understand why many voters worry about election integrity. Through our work with the nonpartisan civic education organization Keep Our Republic in battleground communities, we have heard real skepticism and frustration from citizens, election officials, lawyers and local leaders. Those concerns should be taken seriously. But taking voters seriously does not mean endorsing every bill labeled “election integrity.” Some proposals strengthen trust. Others create confusion, burden eligible voters and weaken the state-based systems that already protect our elections.
Real election integrity requires accuracy. It requires transparency. It requires telling voters what is true even when the truth is less politically useful than the fear.
Noncitizen voting is illegal. When it happens, it is investigated and punished. States should continue strengthening their safeguards. But the evidence does not support the claim that noncitizen voting is occurring at a scale that justifies burdening millions of eligible Americans or overriding state election systems with a sweeping federal mandate.
We believe Republicans can be the party of secure elections, limited federal power, competent administration, and personal responsibility. The SAVE America Act, as written, does not live up to those principles. The American people deserve election laws that make it easy to vote and hard to cheat.
Election confidence is built by facts, transparency, and trustworthy administration—not by panic, paperwork, and political ultimatums.
PS5, PC, Xbox Series X/S; Ubisoft Singapore/Ubisoft Ubisoft has removed all the boring parts of pirate life from its fantasy RPG, creating something more focused and fun
Edward Kenway isn’t your dad’s Assassin’s Creed protagonist. Neither sworn to ancient oaths nor given a noble destiny, he’s just a guy who likes coin, dislikes rules, and whose gold-chasing, rule-dodging lifestyle sees him embroiled in an ancient war between Templars and assassins quite by accident. After he’s shipwrecked with a man named Walpole who turns out to be a Templar, Edward assumes Walpole’s identity in the hopes of securing the bounty he mentioned.
Edward wears life lightly. The world around him is violent and chaotic, and those in his vicinity are more obsessed with double-crossings than a Mission:Impossible movie writers’ room. Ed just smiles, undeterred by it all, and gets on with plundering. It’s all just fun and games to him, and he is set on conquering the Caribbean on his own terms. He is a brilliant extension of the player, in that way, and that’s what this remake of the 2013 pirate-themed Assassin’s Creed does so well: the sense of freedom.
Rare photographs tucked away in HBCU archives are being preserved and widely shared with the world for the first time
Historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs), most of which were founded during the Reconstruction era following the civil war, hold invaluable historical archives full of documents, photographs and, in some cases, even films. The archives are a testament to the lasting importance and influence of Black American history in the US, documenting more than a century’s worth of history.
A lot of the priceless images, however, are in boxes or storage, usually inaccessible to the public and many times at risk of damage or being lost. The Getty Images photo archive grants program and its HBCU collection seeks to bridge the gap between helping HBCUs preserve their archives and getting both historical images and new ones to the wider public.
United agree initial £48m deal to buy Chelsea’s Santos
Marcus Rashford is poised to be reintegrated at Manchester United after the World Cup, with the forward expected to start next season as part of Michael Carrick’s squad.
Because of a breakdown in the relationship between the player and club the 28-year-old, who has two years left on his contract, last played for United in a 2-1 Europa League win at Viktoria Pilzen in December 2024. There are no problems between Rashford and Carrick.
On the eve of the first women’s Test at Lord’s, nine England players and one Australian from 1976 are gathering
In a room in central London, about three miles from Lord’s, a group of 10 women will gather on Thursday for a very special reunion. Fifty years ago, on 4 August 1976, they were among the first female cricketers to play a match at the so-called Home of Cricket: a one-day international between England and Australia.
England strolled to an eight‑wicket win, chasing down 162 thanks to half-centuries from Enid Bakewell, opening with Lynne Thomas, and Chris Watmough, coming in at No 3. But the importance of the occasion was less about the details of the match than what it represented. After almost five decades of the Women’s Cricket Association knocking on the MCC’s door, the success of the first World Cup three years earlier finally persuaded the club that it was time to host a women’s match.
I joined thousands of people blockading the AfD’s Erfurt congress. A civil disobedience movement is showing how to beat the far right
At 5am on Saturday morning, I found myself jogging across a field with a few hundred strangers, on my way to block a highway. We were just outside the east German city of Erfurt, one of several groups setting up roadblocks to try to stop delegates from reaching the far-right Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) party conference. We set up facing a row of police in riot gear – helmets on, batons ready – filming us with cameras on monopods.
A few years ago, I would have been covering an action like this as a reporter, from behind the police lines. In journalism school, I was taught to be objective. But I can’t pretend to be impartial when it comes to the AfD – and so instead I chose to join the demonstrators, most decades younger than me, chanting together: “Siamo tutti antifascisti (We are all antifascists)!” As a foreigner who has called Germany home for nearly 30 years, as the father of two daughters growing up in this country, I have skin in the game.
As the newly elected president, Abelardo de la Espriella, pledges to exploit oil reserves, environmentalists prepare to defend climate progress
It is hard for Yuvelis Morales Blanco to pinpoint when her activism started. Now 25, she recalls getting involved in land rights and environmental issues in Santander, northern Colombia, from a young age. Living near water, she says, has always shaped her connection to nature. “My parents are fishers on the Magdalena, Colombia’s most important river,” says Morales. “For us, the river isn’t just food – it embodies life, identity and culture.”
In April, she received the Goldman environmental prize for her leadership in Puerto Wilches, where she succeeded in halting oil extraction and fracking. Yet, it seems her struggle is only just beginning.
Health departments, universities and nonprofit grantees had spent months adapting to President Trump's executive orders. They say the funding cut was completely unexpected.
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ИИ снова закрывается. Пока мир следит за технологической войной чипов, Пекин и Вашингтон начали закрывать доступ к самому главному — готовым моделям. США уже убрали Claude Mythos из общего доступа, из-за рисков в кибербезопасности.
Китай в свою очередь готовится заблокировать экспорт GLM, Qwen и DouBao. Добро пожаловать в эпоху «цифрового суверенитета», где нейросети официально признаны стратегическим оружием. Разбираемся, к чему приведет эта односторонняя прозрачность.
На NLP/LLM собеседованиях часто проверяют не только знание архитектуры Transformer, но и понимание полного жизненного цикла современной LLM: как модель предобучается, почему обычная GPT-модель ещё не является удобным ассистентом, зачем нужен instruction tuning, как работает RLHF и что такое alignment, какие у него есть подводные камни.
В этой статье - чеклист по GPT-like моделям, prompt engineering, этапам обучения LLM и alignment. Это не полноценная лекция с нуля, а тренажёр перед техническим интервью: пройтись по ключевым определениям, увидеть типовые вопросы и закрыть пробелы в формулировках.
Meg didn’t want to swing, but it didn’t matter. Her friend’s kid wanted her to swing.
What was ostensibly a hangout for Meg and her friend was quickly overtaken, as it usually is, by the kids’ desire to be entertained. On the third hour of playing with her friend’s children at a park, Meg, a 38-year-old who asked Vox not to publish her last name so she could speak freely about her friendships, received the request to join one of the kids on the swings. She was nursing a coffee and was perfectly satisfied just pushing the child, and she told them as much. “The kid totally flipped out, like, started crying, threw a fit,” Meg tells Vox. “Then my friends were looking at me in this way of, could you just sit on [the swing]? … Because then they were like, ‘We’ll sit on the swing with you.’”
It isn’t that Meg doesn’t want to interact with her friends’ kids at all, but after a few hours of entertaining them, she’s hit her limit. She also hopes to avoid seeming like she’s calling their parenting into question, but she feels the need to set a boundary with their kids, to say “no” every once in a while. But therein lies the tension: Is causing a friend’s child temporary discomfort worth it to preserve her own sanity?
“It’s a strange tightrope to be like, I’m so fucking proud of you. You’re doing amazing,” Meg says. “But also your kids drive me nuts.”
As a result, many people — even parents themselves — are less practiced at interacting with children but may suddenly find themselves thrust into child-adjacency once someone in their lives has a kid. Unaccustomed to dealing with them and unsure of the norms, they want to avoid harming a kid or stepping on another parent’s toes. The consequences of avoiding children run the gamut: people don’t build relationships with the kids in their lives at all, they botch any interaction they have with kids, or they come to consider them public nuisances.
Why I reported this
In newsroom-wide conversations about kids, a central theme emerged: I don’t really know what’s appropriate to do or say around someone else’s children. Even parents themselves were slightly dumbfounded about how to act around their kids’ friends and their friends’ kids. To address some of these pain points, I spoke with experts who had clear advice for how adults can better interact with children, regardless of whether they’re parents.
“There’s greater anxiety about boundaries, about judgment, about liability, especially,” Annie Pezalla, a developmental psychologist and teaching professor at the University of St. Thomas, tells Vox. “Interacting with kids feels a lot less intuitive than it once did, and a lot of adults feel quite uncomfortable interacting with kids.”
Often, we’re left with more questions than answers. Is it rude to tell a kid not to touch your game console or tchotchkes when they’re in your home? What should you do if they don’t listen? Is it okay to be judgmental of other kids’ behavior (and of their parents’ unwillingness to intervene) in public? Is it ever appropriate to say something?
Taking a more honest and communal approach to parenting benefits everyone: kids, parents, and non-parents alike. By establishing boundaries and getting into the habit of interacting with children, we all can feel more comfortable living in a multi-generational society. Here’s what parenting and etiquette experts have to say about dealing with three common types of kids.
The kid who’s misbehaving
The eternal issue with “kids these days” is that they aren’t being brought up the same way as other generations were. You may have heard of gentle parenting, a newly common and well-intended approach that focuses more on boundaries and understanding than punishment. Instead of correcting a child’s behavior with directives, adults acknowledge their feelings and motivations and give them choices. Overly permissive versions of the practice, however, have enabled children to “rule the roost,” Pezalla, who has studied gentle parenting, says. (Proponents say it still involves “positive discipline,” setting expectations, and maintaining boundaries.) Instead of telling a kid not to throw toys at another kid, gentle parents might try to explain to their toddler why they feel the urge to chuck stuffed animals. “The priority of gentle parents is emotion regulation of their children and also themselves,” Pezalla says. “The last thing that they wanted was to flip their lid, was to yell, or was for their kid to yell in a public place.”
But kids don’t do well with this kind of subtlety, Pezalla says; she argues that, in fact, they learn more when an adult raises their voice or is visibly angry. Seeing an adult’s emotional reaction is how they know they’ve crossed a line. This doesn’t give adults carte blanche to be rude or mean to children. Instead, it can help to have established boundaries with your friends who are parents: I know kids have a lot of energy, but I’d really appreciate it if you asked your kids not to jump on the furniture.
And if you’re hosting a family dinner and your nieces and nephews are running amok, a stern “Don’t touch that vase — go play outside” gets the message across and is well within your rights. “Kids are very used to having to learn the different rules for different environments, and in fact, that’s a part of learning and growing up and realizing we don’t behave at the grocery store the way we behave in our playroom,” Lizzie Post, co-author of Emily Post’s Etiquette: The Centennial Edition, tells Vox. If you’re welcoming someone else’s children into your space, it’s appropriate to set the rules and expectations. And if parents can’t wrangle their child, or refuse to, maybe you hang out at their house or a park in the future.
But your stepping in is just as likely to be welcomed by exhausted parents. In her research, Pezalla has found that parents are often grateful when other adults lightly discipline their kids. This materialized in her own life when a neighbor told her 12-year-old twin boys to stop climbing on construction equipment. “I was like, thank you so much,” Pezalla says. “Please proceed in yelling at them. If you see them up on there again, yell at them and feel free to text or call me.”
Lisa Sibbett, author of the Substack The Auntie Bulletin, has carved out a role for herself as one such adult. An auntie, Sibbett explains, is an adult deeply invested in the rearing and well-being of a child they may or may not be related to. “One of the real marks of an experienced auntie is that we’re comfortable getting other people’s kids in trouble,” she tells Vox. “And there are some kids in our lives where we are fully authorized to do that.”
The kid who can’t be left alone
In 2024, the motherhood and “slow living” influencer Bethany Fontaine posted what she considered an unpopular opinion: Children should spend more time with their parents than with their friends, teachers, or coaches. While most people would agree with this sentiment generally, the post seemed to resonate most with a growing proportion of parents who’d rather keep their kids on a short leash, which, in turn, might breed kids who feel increasingly uncomfortable entertaining themselves. One estimate found that young Gen X parents spent 52 percent more time with their kids than boomer parents.
As Meg has witnessed firsthand with many of her friends, “their parenting style is to pretty much be with the kids 24/7 and just make sure they’re not feeling left out in any kind of way,” she says. She’s been hesitant to address the clinginess with her friends because it feels like a referendum on their parenting. Her way around any awkwardness is to give her friends a heads-up that she loves their kids, she’s happy they’re here, but she might need to step away at some point if she gets overwhelmed by them. “I’ve seen when I’ve said no to their kids, the kids blow up because they’re not used to it,” Meg says. “And then later that day, I notice the kids will…seem more centered and calm around me, as if they feel safe around a person with boundaries.”
It’s unrealistic to expect anyone’s kids will be entirely absent if you’re entering into their home, and creating space for children will likely make it easier to continue to see your friends after they become parents, but parents should also give kids space to play by themselves or to be cared for by another adult, Post says. “When I was growing up, you did not interrupt Mom if she had a friend over,” she says. “We always had to say, ‘Excuse me.’ You don’t just come up and demand this person’s attention, and you give adults space.”
Post suggests setting expectations with your friends on which hangouts are adults-only and encourages parents to respect that their friends may not want to hang out with their kids all the time. “Personally, and not having children, I do really appreciate my friends who try to balance that out,” she says. It also means parents might need to be intentional in setting aside dedicated time to spend time with their friends beyond when their kid is at school or dance class.
The kid having a meltdown in public
It’s a fear among many parents: their progeny completely loses it at a restaurant or in a store. That, somehow, everyone else’s kids are better behaved than their own. “That’s a deep, serious existential fear for parents: People aren’t going to like my kids, people aren’t going to want to be around my kids. Rather than experience their children being rejected, they would rather cocoon in their own home,” Sibbett says. But when kids cease to exist in public spaces, the rest of the world forgets kids are loud and messy and a little bit chaotic, and they might lose their tolerance for coexisting with them altogether. So banning kids from public spaces (or expecting their parents to not bring them to the grocery store or to Target) isn’t a practical or kind solution.
If you see a kid completely melting down in a public place, experts agree it’s best to hold your tongue unless there’s an issue of safety: the kid is about to run into oncoming traffic, they’re knocking glass jars off the shelf in the grocery store, etc.
In the event that a child you don’t know is doing something that directly affects you personally — maybe they’re pulling your hair while standing behind you in line — Post suggests addressing the parent and asking them to tell their child to stop. “I think that when kids truly misbehave in a way that is invading another person’s space like that, where you’re kicking something I am sitting on, you’re throwing something that hits me, I think you have actually quite a lot of standing to be able to say knock it off,” Post says.
But if a baby or toddler is screaming in public and they aren’t invading your personal space, you simply have to deal with it. It’s part of existing in the world with other people. “Everybody’s kid is a little bit of a monster — and I say that with deep affection,” Sibbett says. “Children are just not socialized to act like adults. And so they make big messes and they make big noises and they have tantrums.”
In all kid contexts, we could stand to have a little more grace for one another, Pezalla says: grace for the parents who are trying their best, grace for people without kids who aren’t as familiar with the specifics of your child’s schedule and temperament, grace for the kids themselves who are living with big emotions.
“All that we can do is to lean in toward more of that old-fashioned intergenerational caregiving space where we just all have eyes on each other’s kids and where there’s more of an acknowledgement of the messiness of caretaking children,” she says.
Have questions about how to navigate specific social situations involving other people’s kids? Send a note to allie.volpe@voxmedia.com and we may address your dilemma in a future article.
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