In de zomer van 2020 flaneren Flor Bressers en zijn vriendin Petronella ongestoord door de straten van ZĂĽrich.
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Deze week presenteert het kabinet maatregelen tegen de stijgende energieprijzen. Die rijzen de pan uit sinds de start van de oorlog in Iran.
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Zuck reportedly needs to capture workers’ keystrokes to build AI
Meta, the company built on watching everything its billions of users do online so it can keep them clicking on ragebait and targeted ads, is reportedly now installing surveillance software on employees’ work computers.…
Guinea worm disease is poised to become the second human disease in history to be eradicated. When the Carter Center's work began in 1986, Guinea worm disease afflicted an estimated 3.5 million people every year in 21 countries in Africa and Asia. In 2025 there were only 10 reported human cases. The eradication effort is the first to be done without vaccines or medicine. Instead, thousands of community volunteers were recruited, teaching people to filter all drinking water and keep infected people and animals away from water sources.
"Guinea worm disease, or dracunculiasis, is contracted when people consume water from stagnant sources contaminated with Guinea worm larvae. The parasite's incubation period is long. That means anyone affected is not aware until about a year after infection, when the adult female Guinea worm – measuring up to 3 feet long – creates a painful blister, often on the leg or foot, and slowly emerges over the course of weeks. The disease incapacitates people for extended periods. Secondary infections, often caused by traditional efforts to pull the Guinea worm out, compound the suffering and prolong the time of disability."
"Guinea worm disease, or dracunculiasis, is contracted when people consume water from stagnant sources contaminated with Guinea worm larvae. The parasite's incubation period is long. That means anyone affected is not aware until about a year after infection, when the adult female Guinea worm – measuring up to 3 feet long – creates a painful blister, often on the leg or foot, and slowly emerges over the course of weeks. The disease incapacitates people for extended periods. Secondary infections, often caused by traditional efforts to pull the Guinea worm out, compound the suffering and prolong the time of disability."
UTRECHT (ANP) - De Utrechtse burgemeester Sharon Dijksma noemt de aangekondigde stop op stroomnetaansluitingen "een bittere pil". Dat schrijft zij op haar Instagramkanaal.
"En we gaan het er zeker niet bij laten zitten. Ook omdat we de Rijksoverheid al veel eerder hebben gewaarschuwd." Dijksma noemt de woningnood "de grootste echte crisis van deze tijd." Voor het kabinet "dat tien nieuwe steden wil bouwen geldt: noblesse oblige. #adelverplicht", aldus Dijksma.
Dinsdag werd bekendgemaakt dat burgers en bedrijven in een deel van de provincie Utrecht geen nieuwe of zwaardere stroomaansluiting kunnen krijgen. Tegelijkertijd kwam naar buiten dat een dergelijke stop niet geldt voor de provincies Gelderland en Flevoland.
Bouwend Nederland sprak dinsdagavond in een reactie van "een hard gelag" voor woningzoekenden en bouwers.
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Florida's attorney general has launched a criminal investigation into OpenAI over allegations that the accused gunman in a shooting at Florida State University last year used ChatGPT to help plan the attack. OpenAI says the chatbot is "not responsible for this terrible crime" and only provided factual information available from public sources. NPR reports: The Republican attorney general, James Uthmeier, said at a press conference in Tampa on Tuesday that accused gunman Phoenix Ikner consulted ChatGPT for advice before the shooting, including what type of gun to use, what ammunition went with it, and what time to go to campus to encounter more people, according to an initial review of Ikner's chat logs. "My prosecutors have looked at this and they've told me, if it was a person on the other end of that screen, we would be charging them with murder," Uthmeier said. "We cannot have AI bots that are advising people on how to kill others."
Uthmeier's office is issuing subpoenas to OpenAI seeking information about its policies and internal training materials related to user threats of harm and how it cooperates with and reports crimes to law enforcement, dating back to March 2024. At the press conference, Uthmeier acknowledged the investigation is entering into uncharted territory and is uncertain about whether OpenAI has criminal liability. "We are going to look at who knew what, designed what, or should have done what," he said. "And if it is clear that individuals knew that this type of dangerous behavior might take place, that these types of unfortunate, tragic events might take place, and nevertheless still turned to profit, still allowed this business to operate, then people need to be held accountable."
[...] Ikner, 21, is facing multiple charges of murder and attempted murder for the April 2025 shooting near the student union on FSU's Tallahassee campus, where he was a student at the time. His trial is set to begin on Oct. 19. According to court filings, more than 200 AI messages have been entered into evidence in the case.
Uthmeier's office is issuing subpoenas to OpenAI seeking information about its policies and internal training materials related to user threats of harm and how it cooperates with and reports crimes to law enforcement, dating back to March 2024. At the press conference, Uthmeier acknowledged the investigation is entering into uncharted territory and is uncertain about whether OpenAI has criminal liability. "We are going to look at who knew what, designed what, or should have done what," he said. "And if it is clear that individuals knew that this type of dangerous behavior might take place, that these types of unfortunate, tragic events might take place, and nevertheless still turned to profit, still allowed this business to operate, then people need to be held accountable."
[...] Ikner, 21, is facing multiple charges of murder and attempted murder for the April 2025 shooting near the student union on FSU's Tallahassee campus, where he was a student at the time. His trial is set to begin on Oct. 19. According to court filings, more than 200 AI messages have been entered into evidence in the case.
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