DEN HAAG (ANP) - Mensen hebben maandag moeite met inloggen op DigiD. Via de website allestoringen.nl is het aantal meldingen over DigiD sinds ongeveer 11.00 uur opgelopen tot ruim 3500. Een woordvoerster van Logius, de beheerder van DigiD, bevestigt dat er een storing is.
Mensen zeggen niet in te kunnen loggen. Gebruikers van de app krijgen een melding waarin staat dat die tijdelijk niet te gebruiken is. Ook bij het inloggen via de website krijgen gebruikers een foutmelding te zien.
De woordvoerster zegt dat wordt onderzocht wat er precies aan de hand is, maar dat het geen DDoS-aanval is. Bij zo'n aanval wordt zoveel internetverkeer naar een server gestuurd dat deze het niet meer aankan. Ze meldt dat Logius het probleem probeert op te lossen en raadt mensen die willen inloggen aan dit over een uur weer te proberen.
APELDOORN (ANP) - De politie heeft zondagavond opnieuw mensen aangehouden bij een demonstratie tegen asielopvang in Apeldoorn. Elf mensen werden opgepakt voor het verstoren van de openbare orde en vernieling. Een persoon moest mee naar het politiebureau voor het beledigen van een agent. Allen zijn weer vrij en hebben een boete gekregen.
Net als voorgaande dagen werd de demonstratie gehouden op een rotonde in de wijk De Maten. De gemeente Apeldoorn wil in die wijk 240 asielzoekers tijdelijk opvangen in een leegstaand schoolgebouw. De demonstranten mochten van de gemeente zondagavond een uur demonstreren, van 19.00 uur tot 20.00 uur. Of de demonstranten na die tijd nog door zijn gegaan, is niet duidelijk. Lokale media melden dat de Mobiele Eenheid werd ingezet.
Demonstraties tegen de opvang verliepen in de afgelopen dagen onrustig. Zaterdag werden 26 mensen opgepakt en vrijdag zes personen. Ook wordt een 58-jarige man uit Apeldoorn verdacht van het mishandelen van een handhaver.
Club plan to contact PGMO after Wilson strike ruled out
They are angry about what they regard as inconsistency
West Ham intend to complain to the referees’ body Professional Game Match Officials over the decision to disallow Callum Wilson’s goal after David Raya was deemed to have been fouled by Pablo Felipe. The drama dealt another blow to their hopes of staying in the Premier League and the club plan to contact PGMO to seek clarity over why Pablo was penalised.
Although West Ham accept their complaint is unlikely to get them anywhere they are also expected to ask for the audio between the referee, Chris Kavanagh, and the video assistant referee, Darren England. Kavanagh was advised by England to go the pitchside monitor to review the incident.
The GB News commentator Sophie Corcoran’s case against 10,000 Interns is part of a broader strategy of anti-DEI lawfare imported from Trump’s US
If our culture wars are to reach a nadir, it may be this single, absurd moment: a white female influencer is moving to sue a positive action charity over anti-white discrimination.
This is the basis on which the GB News commentator Sophie Corcoran is bringing a legal case against the 10,000 Interns Foundation, which helps to organise internship opportunities for young black people and other ethnic minorities. Corcoran says that she applied for a programme run by the foundation and the Bar Council, as she had been “exploring a legal career”, only to be rejected. The legal action claims that Corcoran faced a loss of employment opportunity, as well as discrimination in violation of the Equality Act.
Jason Okundaye is an assistant Opinion editor at the Guardian
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Visiting galleries was fine when my son was asleep in the sling – now he’s a boisterous explorer. It’s made me wonder: should we be sticking to exhibitions aimed at children?
Oh, for the days of the sleeping babe in the sling. It must have driven more seasoned parents mad when I waxed lyrical about how easy, how special, it was to bring my son with me to a gallery or museum. Now he’s a toddler who can change direction like a squirrel and is rather taken with the word “no”. And I’m beginning to wonder: should we be sticking to exhibitions and events targeted at children?
I’m not a joiner, and the thought of stay-and-plays and singalongs is enough to send me running. And yet, here I am, parking the buggy, unbuckling my son and walking with him, with some trepidation, towards a “family-friendly drop-in” at the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge.
A new divide is emerging: between workers who use AI at work and those who are managed by it
The real danger that artificial intelligence poses to work is not just job loss – it is the growing divide between people who use AI to extend their skills and those whose working lives are increasingly shaped by opaque, AI-powered systems of surveillance and control.
The debate about artificial intelligence and how it will affect workers is stuck in the wrong place. On one side are warnings that machines are coming for millions of jobs. On the other are claims that AI will turbocharge productivity. Both stories miss what is already happening in workplaces across the world, from Britain to Kenya to the United States.
Since his groundbreaking address to the Brazilian congress in 1987, the 72-year-old Indigenous leader has challenged assumptions and championed rights, urging us to ‘have the courage to change’
After 21 years of military dictatorship in Brazil, it was a pivotal moment. Wearing a suit and tie, Ailton Krenak, then an Indigenous leader in his 30s, stepped on to the rostrum in congress. It was 1987, a new constitution was being drafted for the re-established democracy – and Indigenous people were finally being heard in Brasília.
“I hope that my statement does not violate the protocol of this house,” he began, firmly but politely. As he spoke, he smeared his face with jenipapo, a fruit used for Indigenous bodypainting, until it was covered in black. “Indigenous blood has been spilt over every hectare of Brazil’s 8m square kilometres,” he toldthe constituent assembly. “You are witnesses of this.”
Wij hebben het ook weleens over een artiest, neem Sydney Sweeney of Dakota Johnson voor ons part, maar dan hebben we het áltijd over de kwaliteiten en vakbekwaamheid die zij tentoonspreiden. Maar niet iedereen is zo eerlijk, want de vrome Songfestivalbeulen van de EBU, bekend van naaien, beoordelen songfestivalartiesten op hun wezen, hun totale zijn. Zo kreeg de Noorse artiest Jonas Lovv een officiële waarschuwing omdat hij "TÉ SEXY" zou zijn. Een autoritaire inmenging in de liedjesstrijd. Walgelijke censuur bovendien. Is er eindelijk iemand sexy bij die Eurovision, mag het weer niet. Kijk, deze Lovv ziet er natuurlijk uit alsof Joost Klein en Freddie Mercury de lovv hebben bedreven, dus dat deze knapperd hordes hoofdjes op hol brengt, gelijk Elvis met zijn swingende benen, is volkomen logisch. Wij geven de Noor als artiest daarom direct 12 punten, het eindoordeel op de aantrekkelijkheidsschaal is echter aan de vakjury. Dus: vindt u Jonas Lovv té sexy?
In a collection of her published diary entries, Virgina Woolf wrote, “Thinking is my fighting.” This sentiment was a prominent theme in her 1940 essay, Thoughts on Peace In an Air Raid, in which the British writer framed the importance of individual thought as a crucial antidote to war and the rise of fascism.
I’ve been thinking a lot about Woolf’s quote and its relevance today, largely connected to discourse on education. While literacy rates in the U.S. continue to plummet, a soaring number of individuals are adopting habits antithetical to thinking—offloading even the smallest of cognitive tasks onto Chat GPT, doomscrolling for hours on social media, and numbing the mind with addictive “brain rot.” Critical thinking is being traded for passive acceptance and the death of curiosity—all in the name of efficiency and capital innovation. Our minds have become the new commodity.
In response to this, I’ve seen a clear cultural shift toward self-education. I, too, have been influenced by this new wave of autodidactic learning—personal curriculums, digital detoxes, reading challenges, etc. While these are certainly more examples of internet trends worming their way into our algorithms, beneath them lies something deeper: a collective desire to reclaim our own thoughts.
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