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Zijn we er toch ingetuind. Even dachten we dat de NPO ondanks het gejank van 400 totale jankerds de Israëlhaat een keertje zou inslikken, maar de NPO nu eenmaal de NPO dus we gaan wel niet wel NIET naar het Songfestival. De NPO, waar de Israëlhaat welig tiert, buigt, gaat op de knieën en smeekt om de genade van de 400 Sahiltjes in eigen gelederen die voor alle belastingbetalers bepalen dat er geen Nederlands keeltje zal klinken in Bulgarije. Het zal u niet verbazen maar PRO is PRO het NPO-besluit en de PVV en de BBB zijn tégen. Wij sluiten ons aan bij de woorden van oud-Kamervoorzitter Martin Bosma: geef dat Songfestival lekker aan John de Mol want we worden knettergek van die politieke onzin bij de NPO. Het goede nieuws: u mag volgend jaar mei helemaal zelf bepalen of u lekker toch kijkt of juist niet, of u zal televoten voor Israël of misschien wel voor Azerbeidzjan of dat u op die drie avondjes TAKKEMUZIEK liever een plaat van The Stones, The Doors of The Beatles The Kinks opzet.
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Het feestje van de democratie is gevierd met een opkomst die zo hoog is dat NRC die zelfs niet hoger hoeft te maken en Israël heeft gesproken: Bibi wint nipt Gadi. Netanyahu wordt na een dagje panikeren NIET gegenocideerd door de Israëliërs en krijgt 27 zetels in de exitpoll terwijl Eisenkot zich rijk mag rekenen met 20 zetels. Daarmee wordt het premierschap van Israël mogelijk andermaal gekoloniseerd door de premier van het verleden, het heden en de toekomst. De grote vraag is of er een tweepartijenoplossing mogelijk is voor een meerderheid in de Knesset of dat er weer allerlei klein gruis bijeen moet worden geratst. Het endorsement der endorsements zal uiteindelijk wel de doorslag hebben gegeven voor Bibi. Nu zal de NPO-mening dat Nederland TOCH weer niet mee zal doen met het Songfestival wel niet meer veranderen. All Eyes dan maar op het formatiefeest. Wordt vast een knaller!
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Tightly fought election saw record turnout as incumbent mayor ran against her rival Brad Bradford
The mayor of Toronto, Olivia Chow, promised more rental housing, free school lunches and reduce fares for frequent transit riders after she was elected to a decisive second term as mayor in a wave of support for progressive councillors.
The tightly fought election saw record turnout but Chow ultimately turned in a dominant 13 percentage point win over her rival, Brad Bradford, receiving 54% of the vote compared to Bradford’s 41%. Many had been expecting a far closer race, given weeks of polling that suggested a dead heat between the pair who presented differing visions for Canada’s largest city.
Continue reading...Only Matt Busby and Alex Ferguson have truly succeeded in the Old Trafford hot seat with each casting uneasy shadows
Should any football club fit the Great Man theory of history it is Manchester United. In the past 100 years, only Matt Busby and Alex Ferguson have knocked the club into shape. A pair of 20th-century Scotsmen, born 15 miles apart in Bellshill and Govan respectively, found the key. Otherwise, United has been a managerial dustbin, Michael Carrick the latest likely lobbed on the pile.
Busby and Ferguson built the club around themselves, possessing the charisma to convince others that theirs was the path to follow. Carrick, an insider, a club man, is falling victim to the same isolation as his predecessors in failure. Bruno Fernandes and Lisandro Martínez going off-piste in TV interviews to depth charge Carrick were actually following club tradition. With glamour comes decadence, the faded grandeur that has so often chased a United manager out the door.
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Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) customers will soon have a raft of new choices. Big Red is hosting an event in Las Vegas this week to inject more air into the AI bubble explain its latest AI investments, and front and center of those efforts are an expanded partnership with OpenAI and plans to diversify its chip offerings beyond Nvidia by bringing Google's Tensor Processing Units (TPUs) to OCI. Oracle says its deal to add Google TPUs to OCI will make it the first hyperscale cloud platform outside Google's own cloud services to offer the chips. Those chips will be available for selection within OCI beginning in 2027, with capacity increasing over the course of several years. While not mentioning the quantity of Google TPUs that will be available next year or beyond, it does seem that Oracle is attempting to diversify away from being so heavily reliant on Nvidia, with whom it has inked deals worth tens of billions of dollars to outfit its datacenters, including the reportedly troubled Texas project it’s planning with the GPU maker and OpenAI. “Different AI workloads have different compute needs,” said OCI president Mahesh Thiagarajan. “Bringing Google TPUs to OCI gives customers … the flexibility to choose the right infrastructure for the performance, throughput, and economics of each AI workload.” Oracle isn't moving away from its partnership with OpenAI, either, announcing new ChatGPT integrations on Tuesday alongside two products that incorporate models from the House of Altman. The first of those, Oracle AI Workspace, is billed as a “single user experience that brings OpenAI frontier models together with Oracle applications, enterprise data, and cloud services” through ChatGPT plugins that basically turn Oracle’s existing business platforms into ChatGPT-accessible resources. “The Oracle AI Workspace will make the breadth of Oracle’s capabilities agent-ready and accessible to ChatGPT users,” the company explained. “People can describe business goals and these plugins in ChatGPT will bring together the right Oracle tools and information to help them accomplish it.” Along with giving OpenAI-powered tools access to selected business data, Oracle is hoping customers will also trust the models to help handle cybersecurity with the second new product, Oracle AI Security Mesh, "a managed platform that combines frontier AI models for cybersecurity … with Oracle's proven security expertise." As you might assume from its name and description, Oracle AI Security Mesh will use OpenAI cybersecurity models to find vulnerabilities, test whether they can be exploited, and recommend fixes in areas of a company's tech stack that it authorizes the Oracle-managed service to examine. Oracle also announced a deal with Snowflake to bring its AI data cloud to OCI as a native service. The new partnership will allow Oracle customers to purchase and use Snowflake directly from Oracle, which will handle all pricing, discounts, and billing. Oracle Universal Credits will also be usable through Snowflake on OCI, allowing users who already spend money on Oracle credits to use them for the newly available offering. Nvidia not exempt from announcements Oracle may be diversifying its OCI chip offerings, but it still announced new Nvidia hardware in Las Vegas, too. Big Red announced the general availability of Nvidia Vera Rubin NVL72 systems and Nvidia Vera CPUs on Tuesday, along with plans to introduce HGX Rubin NVL8 systems, though it did not specify when those would become available. “By combining NVIDIA Vera Rubin GPUs and Vera CPUs with Oracle Acceleron networking and AI-optimized data centers, we’re helping customers keep GPUs productive, secure, and scale efficiently as their needs grow,” Thiagarajan said. Oracle posted record earnings in the quarter ending August 31, with revenue up 30 percent year over year as its AI investments have begun to pay dividends. Those dividends appear to be paying off for other AI firms as well, though there's little evidence of similar returns outside the tech sector, raising fresh concerns about an AI bubble that's starting to look a bit taut. There are already signs that the AI bubble has begun to burst in China, and Oracle’s Las Vegas announcements largely involve more circular spending among AI’s top players as businesses continue to wait for results. ®
Longtime Slashdot reader fadethepolice writes: Anduril, arguing that its manufacturing capabilities are directly applicable to laptop manufacturing, is starting a project for a fully 100% U.S.-sourced laptop. The computer will use a Qualcomm Snapdragon SoC. I did not see any information about the OS, but I'm assuming that, given the type of processor, this will be Linux-based? "Other companies might design their computers in the U.S., Anduril makes them here,â the Anduril founder Palmer Luckey said in a YouTube video. "We're making parts out of metals that the U.S. knows how to extract, knows how to refine, knows how to process, and knows how to mill at scale at a reasonable price; and that goes for the entire laptop. The same thing goes for the battery technology."
The project, called BlueChip, "will take a phased approach, beginning with expanding domestic sourcing and manufacturing, progressing toward eliminating reliance on foreign suppliers, and ultimately establishing an end-to-end American supply chain." The first device is expected in April 2027.
A press release with additional information is available here.
The project, called BlueChip, "will take a phased approach, beginning with expanding domestic sourcing and manufacturing, progressing toward eliminating reliance on foreign suppliers, and ultimately establishing an end-to-end American supply chain." The first device is expected in April 2027.
A press release with additional information is available here.
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