Every year, a plastic called polyethylene terephthalate, commonly referred to as PET, is used to produce around 600 billion bottles and other packaging. Think juice containers, detergent jugs, soft jars, and shampoo bottles, plus myriad other items like carpeting, synthetic fabrics, and industrial applications. Tons upon tons of these single-use plastics end up in landfills or even floating in the ocean.

Spanish design firm PET Lamp set out give another purpose to these otherwise short-lived materials. Partnering with artisans in communities from Chile to Ethiopia to Australia, the company celebrates both Indigeneity and sustainability, drawing upon time-honored global craft traditions while supporting local economies and recycling discarded materials.

Pictured here are the studio’s woven Gurunsi lamps, made in special-order batches in the remote community of Bolgatanga, Ghana. This is the capital of Gurunsi culture and is known for its clay homes, which women paint with elaborate geometric patterns. PET Lamp commissioned artisans with basket-weaving skills to create unique, sprawling textiles that, once shipped to the company’s headquarters in Spain, are fitted with electrical elements and hardware.

PET Lamp is deeply involved in the making process and ensures it’s a mutually positive partnership by beginning with three questions: “Is a collaboration logistically possible? Is there a strong weaving tradition that we can elevate through collaboration? And will this project be of benefit to the artisans?”

Local Indigenous design inspires the fixtures’ forms. Gurunsi lamps are influenced by Ghanaian vernacular architecture, while Thailand-made bamboo shades called Pikul take their cue from the Spanish cherry tree’s flowers, which are found all over Southeast Asia and are often represented in regional arts and crafts. The colorful Eperara Siapidara, a series produced in Colombia, reimagines traditional geometric motifs.

Find more on PET Lamp’s website.

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LONDEN (ANP/RTR) - Groot-Brittannië heeft Israël opgeroepen zijn besluit om de controle te vergroten over de Westelijke Jordaanoever, een Palestijns gebied, terug te draaien. Daarmee sluit het zich aan bij de EU, Saudi-Arabië en de Verenigde Arabische Emiraten, die de stap eveneens hebben bekritiseerd.

"Het Verenigd Koninkrijk veroordeelt de beslissing van het Israëlische veiligheidskabinet van gisteren om de Israëlische controle over de Westelijke Jordaanoever uit te breiden ten zeerste", aldus de Britse regering maandag. "Elke unilaterale poging om de geografische of demografische samenstelling van Palestina te veranderen is volstrekt onaanvaardbaar en zou in strijd zijn met het internationaal recht. We roepen Israël op deze beslissingen onmiddellijk terug te draaien."

Critici stellen dat de Israëlische stap om de uitbreiding van nederzettingen te versoepelen en de bevoegdheden op de Westelijke Jordaanoever te verruimen, neerkomt op annexatie van bezet gebied.

NEW YORK (ANP) - De aandelenbeurzen in New York zijn maandag, na een aarzelende start, hoger geëindigd. Vooral technologieaandelen hadden de opgaande lijn weer te pakken, na het stevige herstel op vrijdag. Toen gingen chipbedrijven hard omhoog nadat grote Amerikaanse techconcerns forse investeringen in AI-datacentra hadden aangekondigd.

De S&P 500-index, met de 500 grootste beursbedrijven van de Verenigde Staten, steeg 0,5 procent tot 6964,82 punten. Techbeurs Nasdaq won 0,9 procent op 23.238,67 punten. De Dow-Jonesindex eindigde een fractie hoger. De index van de dertig grootste Amerikaanse bedrijven won vrijdag 2,5 procent en sloot voor het eerst boven de 50.000 punten.

Beleggers zijn in afwachting van het Amerikaanse banenrapport. De publicatie daarvan werd vorige week uitgesteld door de kortstondige sluiting van de Amerikaanse overheid. Het rapport komt nu woensdag. Aan het einde van de week komen ook nieuwe inflatiegegevens naar buiten. Beide cijfers spelen een belangrijke rol bij het rentebesluit van de Federal Reserve.

Fernando Alonso has described getting hold of an Adrian Newey-designed F1 car for the first time in his career as a “very proud moment”, with the Honda-powered Aston Martin AMR26 being officially presented to the world.

So many CVEs, so little time

Digital intruders exploited buggy SolarWinds Web Help Desk (WHD) instances in December to break into victims' IT environments, move laterally, and steal high-privilege credentials, according to Microsoft researchers.…

TotalEnergies PPA to supply 28TWh of electricity over next 15 years, weather permitting of course

Let's hope it's always sunny ... in Texas, at least for Google's sake. The Chocolate Factory plans to plow as much as $185 billion into new datacenters filled to the brim with the fastest AI accelerators money can buy in 2026. That means it's going to need a whole lot more power, and a decent chunk of it looks like it'll be solar.…

Ghislaine Maxwell weet het beste hoever het netwerk van Jeffrey Epstein reikte, maar zwijgt tot de Amerikaanse president Trump haar gratie verleent. Intussen liggen door de Epstein-documenten prominenten in meerdere landen onder vuur.

Anthropic researcher Nicholas Carlini set 16 instances of Claude Opus 4.6 loose on a shared codebase over two weeks to build a C compiler from scratch, and the AI agents produced a 100,000-line Rust-based compiler capable of building a bootable Linux 6.9 kernel on x86, ARM and RISC-V architectures.

The project ran through nearly 2,000 Claude Code sessions and cost about $20,000 in API fees. Each instance operated inside its own Docker container, independently claiming tasks via lock files and pushing completed code to a shared Git repository. No orchestration agent directed traffic. The compiler achieved a 99% pass rate on the GCC torture test suite and can compile major open source projects including PostgreSQL, SQLite, Redis, FFmpeg and Doom. But it lacks a 16-bit x86 backend and calls out to GCC for that step, its assembler and linker remain buggy, and it produces less efficient code than GCC running with all optimizations disabled.

Carlini also invested significant effort building test harnesses and feedback systems to keep the agents productive, and the model hit a practical ceiling at around 100,000 lines as bug fixes and new features frequently broke existing functionality.

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