Dat er een Europa met meerdere snelheden komt, waarin een groepje landen soms op de troepen vooruitloopt, ziet Tom Berendsen wel zitten, bleek uit de Europatoespraak van de minister van Buitenlandse Zaken woensdag in Maastricht. Een van de grootste uitdagingen voor de EU is volgens hem de uitbreiding van met kandidaten als Oekraïne en Moldavië.

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• Updates from Wednesday’s second-round matches

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Here’s the first part, for the teams in Europe, though not Brighton in the Europa Conference League. Essentially, it’s whether they are home and away.

Crystal Palace v TBC

Manchester United v TBC

Manchester City v TBC

Sunderland v TBC

TBC v Arsenal

TBC v Aston Villa

Bournemouth v TBC

Liverpool v TBC

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Philan-Tam-Duy Le, 35, was parked illegally next to supreme court building after driving from home state

The US Capitol police arrested a California man on Tuesday afternoon after observing a wooden guillotine in the bed of a pickup truck.

Federal authorities seized the antiquated decapitation device, which historically was used for executions in France and other European countries. The truck had been parked illegally next to the supreme court building, Capitol police said in a press release, which is located near the US Capitol and the Library of Congress.

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• Playoff second leg: Rapid 2-2 Hearts (aet, 3-4 on pens)

• Kara 34, Cvetkovic 119; Kabore 79, Miller 100

Beau Reus made two penalty saves as heroic Hearts overcame Tomas Magnusson’s red card to pull off a stunning shootout victory away to Rapid Vienna, and book themselves a return to the Conference League’s main phase.

Following a 2-2 draw in the first leg at Tynecastle, the Jambos’ European journey looked to be fizzling out when they were reduced to 10 men in the 75th minute of the playoff round second leg, while already trailing to Ercan Kara’s first-half goal.

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When I was learning CSS’s grid feature (oh gosh, nearly ten years ago), I posted a few short videos talking about my understanding of the feature and how it worked.

I was surprised to get scolded for sharing inaccurate information, “especially as a teacher”.

Wait, what?! Who, me?!

I get things wrong all the time. That’s part of learning. But it was the teacher remark that threw me because I’ve never considered myself a teacher. Yes, I’ve spoken at conferences and put on workshops but the label of teacher isn’t one that I feel comfortable with.

Perhaps I associate the word with all-knowing authority figures standing in front of a class and I’m far from all-knowing, or an authority, or have much of a figure. I have stood in front of classes, though.

I imagine myself more like Stuart from the Mad TV sketch saying “look what I can do!”

When I first got into web development, I built a web page that displayed a table pulled from a database. When I showed my friend, he wasn’t all that excited. “Is that it?” It was, after all, just a table on a page. (Which, hey, it was 1996. Everything was just a table on a page.)

This blog has been a 25+ year journey of me saying “look what I can do” over and over again. I enjoy the process of learning new things and sharing what I’ve learned. Writing about what I’ve learned helps me learn even more because I build prototypes and test in different browsers as I try to understand all the nuances of something in my effort to write about a topic.

Even with the research and prototypes and testing and writing, I’ll get things wrong but one of the things I have learned is not to admonish people sharing what they’re learning, even if they get it wrong. We should all be forever a student.

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A mischief-maker in a Darth Vader suit recently endorsed Flock at a city council meeting, and it has not helped the company's fortunes. Around the US, citizens have been protesting and sometimes vandalizing the company's network of surveillance cameras. And the advocacy has caused some governments to change course. Government officials, commonly hesitant to second-guess law enforcement practices, have become concerned enough to question these mass surveillance practices. US Senator Josh Hawley (R-MO) on Wednesday wrote to Flock CEO Garrett Langley to announce an investigation of "Flock Safety's collection, retention, and dissemination of data gathered by its artificial intelligence cameras." Despite "Darth Vader's" comments last week at a San Diego City Council meeting about the need to "continue utilizing Flock technologies so that we can follow and surveil the rebel scum," a growing number of local governments in the US have been cancelling or choosing not to renew their contracts with Flock and other makers of automated license plate readers (ALPRs). The Institute for Justice (IJ), a Virginia-based legal advocacy non-profit, on Wednesday published a new database that tracks the termination of local government ALPR contracts. As of Wednesday, the database documents 93 local governments that canceled ALPR contracts. The IJ, which is challenging ALPR use on Fourth Amendment grounds in Norfolk, Virginia and San Jose, California, previously published a database that documents police abuse of ALPRs, a topic addressed in Hawley's letter. Incidents include romantic stalking, wrongful traffic stops and detentions, and other forms of misconduct. "I think what's happened is that the American public has woken up to the mass surveillance that quietly arose around them," said Robert Frommer, senior attorney at IJ, in an interview with The Register. "And they don't like it. "It does seem to me that the rate of cancellations, the rate of public protest has increased over the past few months. I think that's both due to more news attention being paid to the real life abuses of this technology, as well as the Supreme Court's recent decision in the geofence case," Frommer said. In that case, SCOTUS ruled that cops need a warrant to grab location data. Frommer said that he believes the IJ's efforts to document ALPRs and associated abuses have helped focus the public's concern and have illustrated the problems with warrantless mass surveillance. ALPRs, from vendors like Flock, Motorola Solutions, and PlateSmart, among others, capture license plates whenever cars drive by, along with geodata and potentially images of people. This data can be combined with other information, effectively putting all passersby under constant surveillance without any warrant. "I think what we're seeing now is the reaction to that," said Frommer, who explained that the problem with Flock cameras is that they're accessible to anyone with login credentials, without any authorization from a supervising authority. "You don't need to go to a judge and get a warrant," Frommer explained. "You don't need anything. And when you basically give that search power to the bored officer in his cop car in the middle of a shift, it inevitably happens that they start using it and start misusing it, whether to look people up personally or whether to investigate people at political protests." These sorts of issues, Frommer said, have made people question whether we should live in a panopticon. The IJ's litigation and its Plate Privacy Project, said Frommer, follow from the belief that there are solutions, whether they come from the courts or lawmakers. Pointing to Hawley's letter, he said that this is not just a state or local issue, but has become a federal concern. "I think what the din that you've heard over the past couple of months shows that there absolutely needs to be a change, a reckoning," he said. "And that's what we're pushing for in our litigation. We're pushing for a warrant requirement. You want to go look up somebody's past travels and see where they have been? Go to a judge, explain it, and get a warrant." Flock did not respond to a request for comment. ®

NEW YORK (ANP) - De aandelenbeurzen in New York zijn woensdag met kleine verliezen de handel uitgegaan. Beleggers zijn op Wall Street in afwachting van kwartaalcijfers van Nvidia, de belangrijkste ontwikkelaar van AI-chips en het waardevolste bedrijf ter wereld. De cijfers worden na sluiting van de beurs bekendgemaakt.

In aanloop naar de cijfers verloor Nvidia 1,6 procent. De resultaten van Nvidia worden op de financiële markten gezien als graadmeter voor de bredere AI-sector waarin enorme investeringen worden gedaan door techbedrijven in toepassingen rond kunstmatige intelligentie.

De Dow-Jonesindex sloot 0,2 procent lager op 53.463,88 punten. De breed samengestelde S&P 500 bleef vrijwel onveranderd op 7675,70 punten en techgraadmeter Nasdaq verloor 0,1 procent tot 26.130,20 punten.