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Reform and the Conservatives are willing to mislead the public, but as environment secretary, I believe we must be honest – and act boldly

This long, hot summer has brought our third drought in five years and the driest July in almost two centuries. We’ve seen wildfires burn down homes and now face the risk of flash floods as we move into autumn. It should be a wake-up call for those saying that concerns about the climate crisis are overblown; that we should simply sit back and do nothing; or row back on attempts to restore our natural environment. As the new environment secretary, I won’t let that happen.

No one who has experienced this summer in the UK should be in any doubt that our climate is already changing. We know the future holds warmer, wetter winters, hotter, drier summers, and more extreme weather.

Angela Eagle is the secretary of state for environment, food and rural affairs

Когда я только пришел на должность помощника DBA, я заметил, что все production базы фиксируют изменения странным образом, а именно каждый день в 00:00 вызывался скрипт, который выгружает схему БД Firebird, в виде файла script.sql, созданный встроенной утилитой isql. Далее делил весь файл на объекты (файлы), по группам (директориям) принадлежности, объясняю: есть кусок скрипта создания таблицы, он помещается в директорию 01_TABLES в виде отдельного файла названного в честь названия объекта который он содержит, и так далее. Чем же это плохо? А суть в том что разработчиков много, правки анонимны, история тяжело воспроизводимая. В такой каше сразу не разберешься.

This blog post covers the updates we plan to introduce over the next four months in the upcoming minor releases (2026.2.x) and the next stable release (2026.3).

After reviewing your feedback and our strategic goals, we’ve decided to focus on improving agentic workflows, embedded development support, and the debugger. Here are some of the highlights:

• AI skill for HardFault debugging.
• Debug profiles: JSON configuration support and a customized TRACE32 profile.
• LLDB 21 support for Windows.
• Support for QNX projects.

Read on for the full list of planned updates.

AI features

In the last release, we improved the agentic workflow for general debugging with a new skill. Next, we want to extend agentic debugging capabilities for embedded developers. We also plan to make it easier to set up a project with agent assistance, which can be especially helpful for those just getting started with CLion.

HardFault debugging skill

A hard fault occurs when an ARM Cortex-M MCU encounters a serious runtime error that it cannot recover from. Common errors include jumping to an invalid address, stack overflow, and dereferencing a bad pointer. HardFault_Handler can usually catch a hard fault, but it tells you nothing about what actually faulted. Debugging a hard fault means inspecting the CPU state at the moment of the crash, including registers, stack frame, fault status registers, and sometimes disassembly.

We want to let agents handle this for you.

Since the MCP debugging feature was introduced in the previous release, we’ve continued improving agentic debugging in CLion by adding more skills and exposing more IDE tools to agents. The new skill, planned for a future minor release, will be tailored specifically for embedded systems prone to hard faults. To support this, agents will have access to additional tools to enable more effective debugging of C and C++ code – including in embedded projects. Agents will have access to memory, register, and disassembly views alongside the already available stepping, breakpoints, and more. This skill will make it easier to develop and validate embedded projects with real hardware attached.

Agent-assisted project setup

There are several reasons why setting up a project in CLion may fail, ranging from a build system misconfiguration to missing toolchain components. For some highly customized projects, it may not be easy to investigate the root cause, even with the built-in IDE assistance. To fix configuration issues more quickly, CLion will offer your agent’s help. Once an issue occurs, the IDE will identify which agents you have installed, offer to pick one you prefer, and launch it in the terminal. The bundled skill will direct the agent to the required IDE tools to handle setup issues faster.

Debugger

Many of the planned debugger updates focus on embedded development workflows involving the DAP integration and debug profiles. We’ll also add support for LLDB 21 for Windows and update GDB for all platforms.

Debugger updates for embedded development

DAP support

Since we added support for the Debug Adapter Protocol (DAP) last year, we’ve been extending its capabilities. Embedded development will be the focus for the next DAP-related updates. Among those are support for the peripheral view, as well as debugging RTOS threads and FreeRTOS objects.

Debug profiles

JSON configuration: With debug profiles introduced in CLion 2026.2, configuring and switching debuggers is now much easier and more straightforward. For the next release, we want profiles to become more flexible, configurable for broader use cases, and with more options. We’ll add the ability to save a debug profile as a JSON file and to configure it manually or with the help of an AI agent. This will provide you with more configuration options than CLion’s UI currently exposes. You’ll also be able to import your existing JSON debug configuration, for example, from VS Code, so you get the same debugger settings in CLion without the need to reconfigure everything from scratch. This flexibility will be especially beneficial for embedded and agentic development.

Customized profile for Lauterbach TRACE32: Currently, configuring the TRACE32 debugger requires a generic DAP profile, which may not be convenient for everyone. We plan to add a debug profile template specifically designed for TRACE32, with customized fields and options to simplify configuration.

Moving embedded run configurations to debug profiles: Having separate run configuration templates, such as Embedded GDB Server or OpenOCD Download & Run, with debug profiles is redundant and may be confusing. Our plan is to move the necessary configuration options to embedded-related debug profiles so that you have all the required settings in one place.

General debugger updates

LLDB 21 support for Windows: Currently, the only LLDB-based debugger available for Windows is the JetBrains fork of LLDB for the MSVC toolchain, tuned for PDB and Natvis. However, we understand that some CLion users would prefer to use a newer LLDB version, and we want to give them that option. 

In the next stable release, we plan to add LLDB 21 support for Windows. MSVC toolchain users will be able to select this option in the debug profile settings – the IDE will suggest downloading the LLDB 21 build. The PDB and Natvis optimizations from the old bundled LLDB will carry over to the new one. The old bundled LLDB will also remain available as a separate selectable option.

Bundled GDB will be updated to v17.2 for all platforms.

CMake / Debug Profiles switcher improvements: We want to improve the UI of the profile switcher in the main toolbar. The goal is to make it easier to detect problems in CMake and debug profile configurations by adding helpful notifications. For example, when a selected debug profile is incompatible with an active CMake profile, you’ll see a warning in the switcher’s UI, and hovering over it will show a tooltip with a detailed explanation.

Embedded development: Support for QNX projects

QNX is a Unix-like real-time operating system used mostly in embedded, safety-critical systems. Today, there’s no built-in support for QNX in CLion. For example, the IDE doesn’t fully support QNX’s QCC compiler, so files often aren’t indexed correctly and developers lose code assistance.

We want to make CLion a solid tool for QNX development, providing essential IDE functionality. This includes support for the QCC compiler and the x86-64 and AArch64 target architectures, a dedicated debug profile, and agent-assisted configuration and debugging.

Build tools and project formats

We’re going to focus on improving code insight for projects with unsupported build systems.

Default resolve configuration: CLion resolves your code and provides smart features by relying on project-level information from your toolchain configuration. Currently, if you add a new file to your project but don’t update the toolchain configuration file accordingly – for example, CMakeLists.txt – CLion might not resolve the code in this file correctly. This means you don’t get proper highlighting, auto-completion, inspections, and other smart features. In other cases, a new file may never need to be part of your project at all – for instance, a header you’re just viewing – but you’d still benefit from smart features while working in it. For such cases, we want CLion to find an appropriate resolve configuration from the available toolchains and use it as the default one. If no such configuration exists, the IDE can use the toolchain from PATH. This mechanism will allow CLion to provide smart features for files outside your project configuration in most cases.

Bundled CMake will be updated to v4.4.2.

Language updates: Support for ISPC

ISPC (Intel SPMD Program Compiler) is a C-based language and compiler for writing high-performance parallel code that runs on the SIMD vector units in CPUs and GPUs. It is often used in performance-critical C/C++ codebases, such as physics simulations, rendering, and game engines.

CLion doesn’t currently recognize .ispc files, so mixed ISPC/C++ codebases lose code insight features on the ISPC parts. For the next release, we plan to add support for ISPC, including proper syntax highlighting, code analysis, and completion (CPP-23363).

Performance, stability, and decluttering

For the next release, we’re also focusing on maintenance – improving CLion’s performance, stability, and user experience.

IDE responsiveness: Several users have reported UI freezes and long indexing times in certain workflows and project configurations. We’re actively working on these issues and plan to improve IDE responsiveness by v2026.3.

Last stable version of the Classic engine: In v2026.2, we unbundled our legacy language engine, CLion Classic, and moved it to a separate plugin. This was another step in the transition to the new, more powerful CLion Nova engine, which is now the default. As announced in our blog, in v2026.3, we’ll release the last stable version of the Classic plugin compatible with the IDE. This will allow us to allocate more resources to Nova development and improvement. If your team still depends on Classic-specific behavior or workflows, please contact your customer success engineer, account manager, or our support team.

Unbundling the JavaScript and TypeScript plugin: Based on our internal statistics, almost no CLion users have used JavaScript or TypeScript support in their projects in recent years. Maintaining this built-in support requires resources and increases the CLion package size, with little benefit to most users. Therefore, we’re going to unbundle the JavaScript and TypeScript plugin in v2026.3.

If you do need JavaScript or TypeScript support, you’ll still be able to install the plugin via Settings | Plugins | Marketplace or from the JetBrains website.

Improvements to Dev Container support: We’re investing in Dev Container integration as CLion’s primary approach to container-based development and refining its current support. The goal is to make it easier to configure and expand what it can do.

Conclusion

The Early Access Program is just around the corner and will give you the chance to try all of the new features planned for the next major release for free. In the meantime, upgrade to CLion 2026.2 if you haven’t already done so, and let us know what you think!

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При сборе информации со сторонних ресурсов возникают одинаковые для всех проблемы — требуется проверить в своем хранилище, нет ли там уже собранных данных. Идентификаторов нет, источники разные, следовательно работать приходится с текстовыми ключами, поиск по которым гораздо медленней чем по числовым идентификаторам. Проблема обходится применением хэшей — ключевые строки хэшируются и хэш сохраняется в базе вместе с данными. При получении новой порции информации вычисляется хэш и производится индексированный поиск по нему, что намного быстрее поиска по строке.

ххhash очень удобен для этих целей, потому что возвращает 64-битовое число, а не строку, и может быть записан в bigint. Он быстрый, лаконичный, работает «на лету». Большая разрядность практически на нет сводит шансы коллизии, но если она и возникнет, достаточно добавить пробел к тексту для исправления ситуации. Правда есть одна проблема — этой функции нет в postgres «из коробки». На момент, когда мне понадобилась эта функция, я не нашел нужного расширения и написал свое, к тому же было интересно самому выполнить задачу.

Сначала я генерировал xxhash на клиентской стороне. Практически во всех популярных языках xxhash есть, но, например, в Питоне генерируется целое 64-битовое, а bigint в postgres знаковый. И если хэш попадал в верхний диапазон, то при попытке сохранения возникало исключение. Решил просто:

Plane was headed for airport in Seldovia from Anchorage, and was submerged in water after the crash

A small plane carrying four people crashed into shallow waters next to a remote coastal town in Alaska on Wednesday, killing everyone on board, according to officials.

The Piper PA-24 was headed for the airport in the small town of Seldovia after taking off from Anchorage, according to a statement from the Alaska Department of Public Safety. Seldovia’s airport is about 136 miles (219 km) south-west of Anchorage.

Letters obtained by Guardian and AP contradict testimony that 2019 visit to Samoa had ‘nothing to do with vaccines’

Newly obtained documents indicate that the US health secretary, Robert F Kennedy Jr, lied during two congressional hearings last year, when he told lawmakers who held the key to his confirmation that a 2019 visit to Samoa had “nothing to do with vaccines”.

Letters obtained by the Guardian and the Associated Press contradict that testimony. In one he wrote to the Samoan prime minister before the trip, Kennedy explicitly said he wanted to study the measles, mumps and rubella vaccine in the Pacific island nation. In it, he used the words vaccine or vaccination eight times.

Motoring series to return four years after Andrew ‘Freddie’ Flintoff suffered serious injuries in crash during filming

Top Gear, the long-running motoring show that has been off air since its co-host Andrew “Freddie” Flintoff was seriously injured in a crash during filming almost four years ago, is to return to the BBC, the broadcaster has confirmed.

After Flintoff’s accident at Dunsfold aerodrome in Surrey, the BBC said the series would be “rested” for the foreseeable future.

Недавно я рассказывал, как переносил рабочее место в виртуальную реальность. Коротко напомню, зачем: летом в кабинете становится жарко, а в другой комнате есть кондиционер. Поэтому хотелось оставить основной компьютер на месте и уходить работать туда, где прохладнее. Сделать это можно при помощи очков виртуальной реальности и соответствующего софта. После экспериментов с платным приложением Immersed я остановился на связке Windows App и Mixed Reality Link. Она позволяет оставить мини-ПК Khadas Mind 2 в кабинете, надеть Quest 3 в другой комнате и получить перед глазами несколько виртуальных мониторов.

С программной частью вопрос на этом более или менее закрылся, но ведь нужны еще и аксессуары. Обычные мышь и клавиатура, подключенные к компьютеру, из соседней комнаты уже не помогут, поэтому устройства ввода приходится связывать непосредственно с VR-очками. Я собрал отдельный комплект именно для виртуального кабинета. В него вошли складная ProtoArc XK01 TP со встроенным тачпадом и компактная мышь Logi M240. Все это с подключением по Bluetooth. Обо всем этом и расскажу. А еще — о недостатках такой организации рабочего места. Что ж, давайте разбираться.

The actor fully embraced his physical talents and outsized personality with a line in theatrical baddies teetering deliciously on the edge of serious and silly

• Tim Curry, star of The Rocky Horror Picture Show and Stephen King’s It, dies aged 80
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As Dr Frank-N-Furter, the gender-nonconforming alien mad scientist who presides over Richard O’Brien’s glam rock musical, admits two innocents to his gothic castle and induces them into all sorts of delicious naughtiness, Curry is so thrillingly liberated as to seem a menace. An irresistibly appealing menace. Apparently able to arch both eyebrows and curl his lips in every direction all at once, Curry wraps his mouth around the double-entendres and belts out the lyrics with lip-smacking relish, and fully fleshes out this avatar of sexual confidence. The film earned one of the original cult fandoms, the stage musical endures and many other actors have pulled on Frank’s corset and high heels – but the role indelibly and for ever belongs to Curry.

Ко мне однажды направили технаря перенимать опыт инцидент-менеджмента. Он возглавлял инженерную команду в розничной сети с большим количеством распределённых точек продаж (отрасль, отличная от IT, и другая юрисдикция). Сверху ему спустили установку: съезди, посмотри, как у людей налажен инцидент-менеджмент, и перейми лучшие практики.

Я стал делиться своим опытом. Рассказывал, как выстраивается работа с инцидентами: как узнавать о проблемах клиентов как можно раньше, как наладить взаимодействие клиентских служб и инженерных команд, какие метрики и KPI можно использовать, как вести документацию и постмортемы. Он вежливо слушал, кивал и что-то записывал.

И при этом я видел, что ничего не происходит. Знаете это ощущение, когда объясняешь человеку, а он не загорается? Слушает, но не вовлекается. Эти знания не приближали решение его проблемы. У него болело другое.

Чтобы измерить, упоминает ли нейросеть бренд, нужна серия замеров: база реальных пользовательских формулировок, прогон по нескольким провайдерам с включённым и выключенным веб-поиском, повторы для устойчивой оценки. Разбираем методологию изнутри: из чего состоит один замер, как считать Brand Mention Rate и Share of Voice и где методология сама себя обманывает.

Как я оптимизировал мультиплеер в Unreal Engine 5 вместе с Claude и Codex, а потом исправлял за ними ошибки.

Привет! Ниже расскажу как учил потоковую TTS-модель VoXtream2 говорить на русском языке, с клонированием голоса, ударениями, паузами и управлением темпом. Под катом — разбор архитектуры VoXtream, рецепт подготовки данных для такой модели.

Изначально с Capabilities я лично столкнулся в своем проекте ServeHub-2, когда настраивал контейнеры в docker-compose. Если быть более конкретным, я настраивал WG-easy с использованием AmneziaWG, которому нужны были привилегии, связанные с загрузкой модулей ядра и настройками интерфейсов. До этого я слышал о Capabilities, но не знал что это такое, поэтому решил подробнее в этом разобраться.

Сначала разберу общее понятие, что вообще такое Capabilities (далее буду кратко писать CAP), потом постепенно перейду к примерам.

В конце статьи приведу дополнительные материалы, на которые я опирался при написании этой статьи, их также будет полезно почитать/посмотреть, если остались какие-то вопросы или если просто интересно разобрать тему грубже.

Safety features including usage limits and night-time blocks to be set by default. Plus changes to famous French cheeses

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Good morning. Meta has agreed to significant changes to its Instagram and Facebook apps in a settlement that ended a landmark lawsuit. The agreement curtails a major trial in California and will require the social media company to pay up to $18bn. Meta agreed to establish safeguards for teenage users, including daily usage limits and blocks on night-time use nationwide in the US.

California and 28 other US states sued the $1.36tn (£1tn) company over allegations that Meta deliberately designed addictive products that hooked young people, leading to mental health issues, including anxiety, depression and suicide. As part of the settlement, the company denies wrongdoing.

What will be changing in the apps? The biggest alteration is that Meta, the parent company of Instagram and Facebook, is now required to make many of its safety limitations the default setting for accounts created by teenagers, a pivot from its previous opt-in approach to child safety. Nick Robins-Early and Johana Bhuiyan explain more in this piece: six key takeaways from the end of the Meta trial.

Will other companies be affected? Meta is putting the agreement forward as a precedent for other social media companies to follow. The company’s chief legal officer, CJ Mahoney, said: “Because teens move fluidly across dozens of apps, we need an industry-wide solution. We therefore call on our industry peers … to implement this new framework.” Meta, YouTube, TikTok and Snap face thousands more similar US lawsuits brought by families, individuals, school districts and other attorneys general.

Are campaigners satisfied with the result? Arturo Béjar, an ex-Facebook employee and whistleblower, said the outcome “is not an all-clear to say the product is safe. The limitations that are in the agreement are the equivalent of saying: ‘Well, you can smoke as many cigarettes as you can in two hours a day’. It doesn’t make the cigarettes any safer.”

How did it happen? As this visual guide explains, at 8.37am on Wednesday an enormous section ⁠of a glacier in the Himalayas sheared free and crashed on to the valley floor in Nepal’s Langtang national park, about 60km north of the capital, Kathmandu, near the mountainous Nepal-Tibet border.

City residents had accused council of giving ‘free rein’ to campaign promoting England flags

Birmingham city council is seeking an injunction to stop members of an anti-migrant group from erecting flags, including union jack and St George’s flags, on public infrastructure across the city.

A nationwide campaign to give prominence to the England flag, which resulted in thousands of St George’s crosses being flown from lamp-posts, roundabouts and other public infrastructure, is believed to have started last summer in Birmingham.