A Democratic senator disclosed a whistleblower statement, which warned of potential chaos as the USPS is set to launch a computer system that could derail mail-in voting

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Democratic senator Chuck Schumer is introducing a bill that would reverse Donald Trump’s most recent tariffs, among them the new 50% duty on Canadian goods, MS Now reported.

While the Senate minority leader’s proposed legislation has virtually no chance of becoming law, Schumer hopes that his proposal shows that Democrats are actively fighting the affordability crisis. Schumer first shared his proposed legislation with MS Now.

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← До этого: Прибытие IBM PC, часть 1

Появление IBM PC стало самым важным событием в истории персональных компьютеров со времён Altair. Его влияние распространялось не сразу, а постепенно, словно медленно накатывающая волна. Первым она захлестнула корпоративный рынок, где имя IBM значило особенно много.

Некоторые компании сумели оседлать эту волну, и она вынесла их на невиданную прежде высоту. Так, Tecmar, производившая платы расширения для научных компьютеров, выросла до 400 сотрудников и достигла выручки в $100 миллионов благодаря тому, что её основатель Мартин Альперт одним из первых сделал ставку на IBM PC.

Других эта волна заставила изменить курс, подчинив силе, которой невозможно было сопротивляться. Eagle Computer, уже состоявшийся производитель компьютеров из Кремниевой долины, быстро понял, куда движется рынок, и одним из первых начал выпускать полностью IBM‑совместимый компьютер, Eagle PC. А некоторые компании, как мы увидим далее, эта волна просто смела.[1]

Проследить её путь до самого конца, когда она окончательно сошла на нет уже в 1990-е годы, означало бы далеко выйти за рамки этой истории. Поэтому здесь мы ограничимся первыми несколькими годами и посмотрим, как примерно до 1983 года IBM PC менял мир персональных компьютеров. Тему IBM‑совместимых клонов мы также намеренно оставим в стороне: их история относится уже к следующей главе.

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This weekend, Rodrigo raised millions for charities that benefit women and girls, and she has previously been vocal about Gaza and Ice. With free speech increasingly under threat, her peers should take note

Donald Trump, the 80-year-old president of the United States, spent his weekend whining about a lake and posting memes of Donald’s Ducks. While he was busy with his ducks, Olivia Rodrigo, a 23-year-old pop star, spent her weekend trying to Make America Somewhat Decent Again. On Saturday, Rodrigo hosted the inaugural Daisy Chain Fields festival, bringing together female artists to raise money for women-focused non-profits which have had their funding slashed by the Trump administration. The festival raised $10m (£7.4m) which Melinda French Gates matched, bringing the total to $20m.

In a perfect world a singer holding a benefit concert for feminist charities wouldn’t be radical stuff. But we don’t live in a perfect world, do we? We live in hell. Trump has successfully bullied US institutions into doing his bidding. Universities have defunded diversity, equity and inclusion programmes, many media outlets have kowtowed to the US’s self-styled king and tech CEOs have jumped into bed with him. Women’s rights are going backwards globally and our civil liberties are under attack.

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US owner of Claude chatbot previously said its models had hacked three organisations during testing

The US startup behind the Claude chatbot has admitted a series of hacking incidents involving its models reflected a “failure of operational security” and said it has tightened its testing procedures.

Anthropic revealed in July that its models had accessed the open internet three times and gained unauthorised access to the systems of three organisations.

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Фраза «завтра в 18:00» кажется простой, пока сервер и пользователь не оказываются по разные стороны полуночи. В Doday я сделал быстрое добавление задач из одной строки и обнаружил, что программа считает «сегодня» по UTC. Из-за этого дата сдвигалась, а указанное время могло остаться в названии.

В статье покажу, как передать часовой пояс из браузера, в каком порядке собирать локальную дату и время, зачем фиксировать текущее время в тестах и какие ещё ошибки нашлись у фраз «через месяц», «каждый понедельник» и меток с @.

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Когда речь заходит о производительности одноплатных компьютеров, чаще всего внимание уделяют процессору, объему оперативной памяти или системе охлаждения. Однако в реальных сценариях использования скорость работы системы очень сильно зависит от накопителя. Именно накопитель влияет на время загрузки ОС, скорость установки пакетов, работу Docker-контейнеров, баз данных, браузера и общую отзывчивость системы.

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Одна из самых дорогих встреч в нашем календаре выглядела совершенно обычно. Раз в неделю 20-25 человек собирались на 1,5 часа, чтобы оценить задачи. Раз за разом встреча повторялась, забирая время разработчиков и техлидов, а результат строился на уже известной команде информации: описаниях задач, истории похожих работ и прошлых оценках.

Мы отдали эту работу агенту, которого назвали Эстима. Через 1,5 месяца пилота сходимость его оценки с ручной достигла 95%. После этого встречу отменили, валидацию оставили техлидам и получили экономию около 20 человеко-дней в месяц.

Именно Эстима помогла команде поверить в практическую ценность AI. За ней появились агенты для работы с Jira, ревью кода, разработки, тестирования, аналитики и AppSec. Вместе они постепенно изменили наш PDLC.

Привет, Хабр! Меня зовут Михаил Чернов, я старший IT-лидер направления развития IT взыскания в Альфа-Банке. В этой статье расскажу о нашем опыте перестройки производственного процесса на AI-рельсы, включая пилоты, ограничения и вопросы, на которые мы пока ищем ответы.

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The infamous Japanese noise artist has a vast and forbidding catalogue that commands a cult fandom. Sam Andrews, 18, is vlogging his way through the lot – and taking a stand for deep listening

An Instagram Reel that looks like an 80s coming-of-age movie pops up on your feed. It’s four teenage boys in an American-style basement – comfy sofas, guitars, ping pong table – jeering and laughing. But they aren’t secretly drinking beer or planning on sneaking out. They’re brandishing a vinyl copy of Pulse Demon, the most popular album from the cult Japanese noise artist Merzbow, and subjecting themselves to its brutally harsh sound in full, for fun. “I think this is the Book of Revelation: The Soundtrack,” one guy blurts out, a vague look of fear in his eyes.

Merzbow, real name Masami Akita, is the world’s most renowned noise artist. Since 1979, Akita has released more than 400 recordings, which range from a 10-hour long album misleadingly titled Merzbient (it’s anything but ambient) to a free-noise supergroup called Flying Testicle. Since February, Sam Andrews, the video’s 18-year-old creator, has been attempting to listen to every one, and is documenting his progress online each day. “I think of my day in album-size chunks,” he says, laughing. “It’s like, get up at seven, get breakfast and then headphones in: noise.”

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A Las Vegas jury on Monday found Duane ‘Keffe D’ Davis guilty in the 1996 murder of the hip-hop icon

• Jury finds Duane Davis guilty of murder of Tupac Shakur

Thirty years after the killing of Tupac Shakur, conspiracy theories and rumors about the perpetrator’s identity, one man has now been held criminally responsible for the rap icon’s death.

A Las Vegas jury convicted Duane “Keffe D” Davis, a 63-year-old former South Side Compton Crips gang leader, of murder for his role in the drive-by shooting. During the two-week-long trial, prosecutors argued Davis was the “on-the-ground, on-site commander of the effort to kill Tupac” and had sought revenge after the musician was involved in a fight with his nephew, Orlando “Baby Lane” Anderson.

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Одна из самых дорогих встреч в нашем календаре выглядела совершенно обычно. Раз в неделю 20-25 человек собирались на 1,5 часа, чтобы оценить задачи. Раз за разом встреча повторялась, забирая время разработчиков и техлидов, а результат строился на уже известной команде информации: описаниях задач, истории похожих работ и прошлых оценках.

Мы отдали эту работу агенту, которого назвали Эстима. Через 1,5 месяца пилота сходимость его оценки с ручной достигла 95%. После этого встречу отменили, валидацию оставили техлидам и получили экономию около 20 человеко-дней в месяц.

Именно Эстима помогла команде поверить в практическую ценность AI. За ней появились агенты для работы с Jira, ревью кода, разработки, тестирования, аналитики и AppSec. Вместе они постепенно изменили наш PDLC.

Привет, Хабр! Меня зовут Михаил Чернов, я старший IT-лидер направления развития IT взыскания в Альфа-Банке. В этой статье расскажу о нашем опыте перестройки производственного процесса на AI-рельсы, включая пилоты, ограничения и вопросы, на которые мы пока ищем ответы.

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Questions over Trump’s ballroom and other structures might not feel urgent. But when his reign ends, Trumpism must be repudiated

On Monday, a majority on the supreme court found a technical way to overrule a lower court’s imperative to stop work, while not taking a stance on whether the whole enterprise might be illegal to begin with. Preservationists, the majority held, appear to lack legal grounds for filing a suit blocking Trump’s ballroom; that means construction will proceed, even if none other than John Roberts, in a dissent, held that “those responsible” were breaking the rules in deciding “what to build up at the People’s House”. The solicitor general, John Sauer, is on record claiming that 65% of the project is completed (of course, he might have exaggerated – such things are known to have happened in Trump administrations). Either way, it is thus likely that there will be a massive structure next to the original White House; and, given that the ruling will embolden the president dramatically to change Washington DC’s landscape by spending money never approved by Congress, we might be cursed with a triumphal arch as well. All of which raises the question: what to do with a monstrous architectural legacy in post-Trump America?

Some might dismiss the question as a bit of a luxury problem. After all, a war that also demonstrates the ongoing disempowerment of Congress keeps dragging on; ICE continues its cruel day-to-day work; Trump is trying every tactic to make the midterms go his way. But the built environment, and especially the civic landscape of a capital, is never just an afterthought. Buildings and monuments make values visible, as the philosopher Susan Neiman once put it. And the decision to leave Trump’s structures in place as if his reign had just been another normal era in US history is not neutral – just like leaving Confederate monuments in place is not neutral.

Jan-Werner Müller is a Guardian US columnist and a professor of politics at Princeton University

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A Democratic senator disclosed a whistleblower statement, which warned of potential chaos as the USPS is set to launch a computer system that could derail mail-in voting

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Democratic senator Chuck Schumer is introducing a bill that would reverse Donald Trump’s most recent tariffs, among them the new 50% duty on Canadian goods, MS Now reported.

While the Senate minority leader’s proposed legislation has virtually no chance of becoming law, Schumer hopes that his proposal shows that Democrats are actively fighting the affordability crisis. Schumer first shared his proposed legislation with MS Now.

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Plus, a conviction in the Tupac Shakur murder trial.

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Big technology and management changes are greeting John Ternus, whose long-serving predecessor, Tim Cook, will stay on as executive chair.

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With a global audience, Ma models a way of being that goes against the grain of cynicism, polarization and isolation. It’s up to us to pay attention.

Hong Kong flotation at $26bn by firm once valued at $100bn follows failure to list in US and UK

Shares in the fast-fashion brand Shein slumped by as much as 10% as the China-founded company made its long-anticipated trading debut on the Hong Kong stock exchange.

The Singapore-headquartered company, once valued at almost $100bn (£74bn), went public on Tuesday pricing shares at HK$48.56, valuing the business at just over $26bn.

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From Waxahatchee and Florry in the US to Brown Horse and Little Grandad in the UK, a wave of young songwriters are reinvigorating the subgenre’s earnest emotion and twang

‘It’s so important to talk about this before it’s gone,” says Francie Medosch, singer, guitarist and songwriter of the band Florry, “because it’s really a flash in the pan.” The flash she means is a brief moment where it feels as though on both sides of the Atlantic, scores of exciting indie bands are playing something that, without slavish copying, has plainly drawn inspiration from alt-country, the music that emerged in the US in the late 1980s and early 90s, when former punks such as Uncle Tupelo – featuring future Wilco co-founder Jeff Tweedy – and the Bottle Rockets picked up picked up fiddles, banjos and acoustic guitars.

In the UK, Brown Horse and Vegas Water Taxi have the weeping pedal steel, in the former case tied to something very heartland and in the latter paired with a very English indie sensibility. Westside Cowboy and Little Grandad both borrow from the spiky rootsiness of early Wilco, while Wyatt play slacker country rock. Over in the US, where there’s always going to be more of this sort of thing, you can point to the current indie-rock holy trinity of Waxahatchee, Wednesday and MJ Lenderman, plus Florry, Ratboys, Thomas Dollbaum, Fust, SG Goodman, Lily Seabird, Ryan Davis and the Roadhouse Band and more.

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Security stepped up in Pattaya before arrival of thousands of sailors and marines whose deployment was extended due to US war in Iran

Authorities in the Thai resort city of Pattaya have stepped up security as they prepare to welcome thousands of sailors and marines from the USS Abraham Lincoln who have spent more than 270 consecutive days at sea.

“About 600 officials will provide security and other necessary assistance,” the provincial governor, Narit Niramaiwong, told AFP.

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Security stepped up in Pattaya before arrival of thousands of sailors and marines whose deployment was extended due to US war in Iran

Authorities in the Thai resort city of Pattaya have stepped up security as they prepare to welcome thousands of sailors and marines from the USS Abraham Lincoln who have spent more than 270 consecutive days at sea.

“About 600 officials will provide security and other necessary assistance,” the provincial governor, Narit Niramaiwong, told AFP.

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