Messi nets four goals, adds assist in 7-1 Miami win
Dejan Joveljić scores twice on Sounders debut
Minnesota United score three times in four minutes
Inter Miami interim coach Guillermo Hoyos ran out of superlatives for Lionel Messi after the Argentine playmaker scored four goals in a Major League Soccer match for the first time in his career to inspire a 7-1 thrashing of CF Montreal on Saturday.
Messi’s four-goal haul and an assist came at a crucial time for Miami, helping them snap a five-game winless run across all competitions.
Trump’s threat comes after host described success record of candidates whom president had endorsed as ‘mixed’
Donald Trump on Sunday said NBC’s Kristen Welker – host of Meet the Press – should face “rebuke or punishment” from the Federal Communications Commission (FCC).
Welker, during a live segment for a local Washington, DC, affiliate, described the success record of political candidates whom the president had endorsed as “mixed”. The segment aired prior to Sunday’s edition of Meet the Press.
Elon Musk says a secretive new SpaceX foundry will let him cast his own turbine blades and get gas power online 18 months faster than anyone else — but it's a bet on a fuel source that's already triggering lawsuits and health studies everywhere his (and others') turbines have gone in.
Corporate regulator finds insurers settling most claims with cash rather than by managing repairs or rebuilding, warning of ‘unfair outcomes’ for homeowners
Home insurers are overwhelmingly paying cash to settle claims, leaving Australians to foot blowouts in repair costs for their cyclone-damaged homes.
The corporate regulator is calling for “realistic” bigger payouts, warning the practice could cause “unfair outcomes” for people already in vulnerable positions.
Каждый день мы работаем с файлами: перемещаю, копируем, сортируем, раскладываем по папкам. И каждый день тратим массу времени на то, чтобы открыть нужную директорию, перетащить файл, закрыть лишние окна. В Windows эта рутина особенно утомляет: проводник, куча вкладок, постоянное переключение между папками. Хотелось простого решения: выделил файл → правый клик → выбрал папку → файл перемещён. Без лишних телодвижений, без открытия дополнительных окон.
К тому моменту уже много лет работал с C++ — WinAPI, COM, IPC, низкоуровневую работу с системой. Но в современных проектах хотелось попробовать что-то более безопасное, современное и приятное в разработке. Так я обратил внимание на Rust. Безопасная работа с памятью, богатая экосистема, отличная поддержка Windows через windows-rs — это выглядело многообещающе. А Tauri (на базе Rust) давал возможность сделать красивый GUI на React, но без тяжеловесного Electron.
New company reportedly quickly fell behind with promised repayments to administrator
A recruitment executive who was allowed to buy back the assets of his bust company in instalments, despite it accumulating almost £3m of debt, has placed his new business into liquidation after falling behind with promised payments to the administrator.
The news is the latest event to raise questions about the practice of “phoenixism”, accounting’s controversial art of liquidating companies to allow directors to return with a new entity, free of debts.
Striker’s second-half penalty ensures 1-0 win at Aberdeen
St Mirren 3-3 Motherwell; Celtic 2-0 Falkirk on Saturday
Lawrence Shankland’s second-half penalty gave Derek McInnes and Rangers some much-needed respite with a 1-0 win against Aberdeen at Pittodrie.
The tale since the Rangers manager arrived from Hearts in the summer has been one of constant change in formation and personnel amid exits from two European competitions and a poor start to the Premiership campaign. The Ibrox side turned in a better performance than many of late and in the 69th minute the captain, Shankland, a former Don, converted a spot-kick won by Djeidi Gassama.
«1С тормозит» — это не техническое утверждение, а начало спора. Бизнес говорит «тормозит», подрядчик говорит «у нас всё в норме», и обе стороны правы, потому что меряют разное: пользователь меряет секунды до открытия документа, подрядчик — загрузку CPU на сервере.
Спор заканчивается там, где появляются цифры. Проблема в том, что цифры про 1С живут на трёх разных уровнях, и стоимость доступа к ним отличается на порядок. Половина разочарований в мониторинге 1С — от того, что человек ждал цифр третьего уровня, а поставил инструмент первого.
Я собираю мониторинг 1С в составе своей платформы наблюдаемости и за последние месяцы прошёл все три уровня, включая пару очень неочевидных граблей на Windows. Ниже — разбор по уровням: что видно, чего не видно, чем это ловится и где именно молча ломается.
When I testified against Mladić at his trial in The Hague, I saw the unrepentant face of a mass murderer. That face and his legacy still haunt Serbia today
Men age and die, but in the Balkans, time stands still and is stuck. General Ratko Mladić, who died in prison in The Hague on Thursday aged 84, remains a hero in the Republika Srpskastatelet – the Serbian half of dismembered Bosnia that he carved out with a hurricane of violence between 1992 and 1995 – and in Serbia itself.
Too many Serbs in whose name Mladić carried out his mass murder of other ethnicities – mainly Muslim Bošniak and Roman Catholic Croats – adore him and mourn his passing.
Ed Vulliamy is an author who reported on the Balkan war for the Guardian and Observer
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Привет, читатель! Посмотрим, как древнючий Broadwell аж из 2015 года выжимает все соки из своей подсистемы памяти (напомню, что это 1150 сокет с DDR3 оперативной памятью), приближаясь по её латентности к более современным решениям.
Автор, это явно какое‑то противоречие! Как процессор, работающий с оперативкой, старше многих школьников, умудряется догонять те же Skylake вроде i7-6700K?
Ответ кроется в той самой подсистеме памяти, а вернее в L4 кэше. Он же — eDRAM
eDRAM (embedded Dynamic Random Access Memory) изначально создавался как быстрый буфер, созданный для повышения ПСП (пропускной способности памяти) для встроенной графики Iris Pro 6200. Но если бы все было так просто...
Drake performs on stage at Wireless Festival 2025 in London. | Simone Joyner/Getty Images for ABA
Quite a few music artists are in their flop era right now. Think about it: Drake hasn’t been the same since Kendrick Lamar knocked him out in their 2024 beef. Katy Perry once dominated the charts, but her recent releases haven’t been fireworks. And there was once a point where it felt impossible to step foot in a workout class without hearing Lizzo, but her latest album fizzled out.
Some examples, in other words, are obvious. But what does it really mean for a song to flop? According to Tom Breihan, executive editor at StereoGum and author of the book The Number Ones Twenty Chart-Topping Hits That Reveal the History of Pop Music, it’s all relative.
“There’s a million songs on Spotify that nobody will ever hear,” he told Vox. “Those songs are not necessarily flops because they did not necessarily come with expectations. When a major artist does not reach whatever benchmark they or their fans or their label expect for them, it can be embarrassing. People love to seize upon that embarrassment and take off running with it.”
Why do some songs flail while others succeed? And how does an artist bounce back from those unmet expectations? We find out that and more on this week’s episode of Explain It to Me, Vox’s weekly call-in podcast.
Below is an excerpt of my conversation with Breihan, edited for length and clarity. You can listen to the full episode on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. If you’d like to submit a question, send an email to askvox@vox.com or call 1-800-618-8545.
Are the songs that flop bad? Is that why they’re flopping?
In some cases, yeah. You can definitely pick out a few and be like, “That wasn’t the one.”
A lot of it is just timing and luck. Sometimes an artist comes along at the exact right moment and builds up goodwill and puts out the right song for themselves. Sometimes they misread the room in sort of howlingly, clangingly obvious ways, and they end up not doing well.
It’s happened to plenty of great people. Plenty of stars have bounced back from having flops, but it does happen.
What are some really good songs that have flopped?
As an online indie music critic, my prototypical example is Emotion by Carly Rae Jepsen. She had had this gigantic global breakout smash with the song “Call Me Maybe.” The album that she put out after this is this brilliant, layered, excellent pop record that became, I would say, influential upon the idea that you could be a pop star who was a cult artist, like an indie rock band or an underground rapper. But it didn’t sell. It didn’t do numbers. So in its moment, it was a critically beloved flop.
How much of becoming a hit is about the music itself and how much of it is about virality and marketing?
Those things are so bound up with each other. A lot of the time, artists are making songs that are engineered to go viral, or they’re making songs that comment on their own public perceptions.
When someone like Lizzo comes along and puts out a record that doesn’t do well, it becomes a bigger story than just, “Oh, people weren’t feeling this song.” It becomes, “Oh, people don’t like this person,” or “This person has run out of goodwill.”
Like a Lizzo song: You hear her persona jumping through the speaker, whether the song does well or not. So the song and the artist become inextricable from each other. The song and the marketing become inextricable.
There is another example of an artist who has gone from really high highs to very low flops that I would love to get into, and that’s Katy Perry. I feel like we’ve come a long way from Left Shark at the Super Bowl. What happened there?
Katy Perry has had the career that pop stars used to have, where they have a crazy dominant stretch where they’re knocking out hit after hit after hit, and they’re unstoppable. Then everything kind of tails off over time. One album has five No. 1 hits. The next album has two No. 1 hits. The next album has no significant hits at all, but a couple top 10s.
She put out an album right at the beginning of the pandemic. You can say, “Well, that one didn’t do well, and that’s not her fault.” Then she spent a long time on American Idol as a judge; she spent a long time playing Las Vegas residencies. And then she was like, “That’s it. I’m quitting American Idol. I’m coming back. I’m being the pop star that you all want me to be.“
She made a bad album. She also reunited with Dr. Luke, who was the co-writer and producer of lots of her big hits but who, in the time since she stopped working with him, accusations were made. Kesha, who was friends with Katy Perry when she came up, was the person making those accusations. So there’s a lot for the internet to glom onto there.
“Especially now, a song can debut at No. 1 based on streams and conversation, and then it can disappear from the charts.”
That’s how a song goes from being a bad song to a notorious flop — when not only does the song not perform, it actually burns up a lot of the goodwill that this person has had.
What songs did everyone maybe expect to be huge, but then bombed?
It is possible for a song to be a No. 1 hit and still a flop. Especially now, a song can debut at No. 1 based on streams and conversation, and then it can disappear from the charts.
In 1996, Michael Jackson released “You Are Not Alone.” The song debuted at No. 1. It fell pretty quickly. The album didn’t do that well. The song ultimately is not remembered that well, and has really entered the notorious shadow zone over the years.
Are there examples of songs that critics hated initially, and then over time became classics?
So many. The songs that were hits and were universally regarded as irritating in their time have a great hit rate. People were annoyed by “MMMBop,” by Hansen, or “Wannabe” by the Spice Girls.
There were certainly critics who understood ABBA when they were popping off, but they were, I would say, widely regarded as a punchline. Now that is just an impeccable, beautiful, influential pop catalog.
A song like the Quad City DJ’s “”C’mon N’ Ride It (The Train)” was not a song the critics were really lining up to praise in the 1990s, but as a person who was a child then, I can tell you that song goes so hard and never stopped going hard.
What’s the biggest misconception people have about pop music success?
I think the biggest misconception is the idea that a label or a corporation can engineer a giant hit. They can observe trends. They can put their money into promotion. But you never know what people are going to actually grab onto and what they’re not.
There are things that they can do to create the impression that something is connecting, but you need to have real sustained success to have everybody be like, “Okay, no, this actually is huge.”
How do artists tend to respond if they’ve entered a flop era?
There’s a grand, beautiful history of artists who instead of trying the same thing over and over again, they become behind-the-scenes figures. They write songs for other people, or they produce, or they become managers.
Max Martin, who is now ahead of John Lennon, but behind Paul McCartney in terms of songwriters with No. 1 hits, he was the lead singer for a Swedish band in the ’80s that was trying to be Bon Jovi, and they never caught on. His band was called It’s Alive. You can look their songs up online. They’re not that great, but he wound up making all these incredible records with all these different people.
There’s a lot of that. That has happened many, many times throughout pop history. It’s certainly one way to deal with the flop problem.
City firms tapped for case studies to try to convince global watchdog that London has cleaned up its act
The government is asking bankers and lawyers to provide feelgood stories about how they blocked dirty money from entering the UK, as ministers try to prove the UK’s money-laundering controls are working.
The Treasury’s call for evidence is meant to illustrate that the UK has upped its game when it comes to preventing financial crime, particularly since its last dismal assessment by the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) global crime watchdog in 2018, which fuelled allegations that London had become a hub for “dirty money”.
Some young people are teaching in countries like South Korea as education funding is gutted and recent grads face a tough job market in their own countries
A year ago, Arianna Marie, 25, was struggling to control the students in her Florida elementary school classroom.
She was living with her parents to save on rent and quickly feeling her passion for teaching dry up, even though it was her first job since graduation.
Разбор, на который меня зовут регулярно, и заканчивается он почти всегда одинаково. База клиентов всплывает в продаже. Выгрузку за последний год получали десятки контрагентов — интеграторы, колл-центр, маркетинговое агентство, аудиторы. У всех был законный доступ. Файл у всех был один и тот же.
Дальше начинается разговор в жанре «это не мы», и закончить его нечем: копии побайтово одинаковые, доказать причастность нельзя ни к кому.
Чинится это не после инцидента, а до него — и стоит недорого. Каждый получатель должен получать копию, отличающуюся от остальных так, чтобы отличие не мешало работе и переживало пересохранение файла.
The Black Bananas singer knows all the words to Rapper’s Delight and relates to AC/DC, but which song reminds her of a heartbreaking theft?
The first song I fell in love with
Van Halen’s Runnin’ With the Devil. I was five or six and I went to visit my cousin Tommy who was much older. He was on a hockey team and we went to see them practise before the game and they had Runnin’ With the Devil on really loud. I was like: “Wait, what’s this?!”
The song I do at karaoke You Shook Me All Night Long by AC/DC. Me and Brian Johnson – my voice has that thing, you know?
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