DEN HAAG (ANP) - Koning Willem-Alexander en koningin Máxima zeggen dat ze geraakt zijn door het overlijden van oud-president Chan Santokhi van Suriname. Het koningspaar denkt "met warme herinneringen" terug aan Santokhi, is te lezen in een verklaring op Instagram, Bluesky en X. Ook wensen zij de nabestaanden sterkte met "dit grote verlies".
"In zijn eigen land en daarbuiten werd hij gewaardeerd om zijn inzet voor de democratische rechtsorde en voor een veilige samenleving", staat verder in het statement. "Hij zette zich daarnaast met overtuiging in voor versterking van de band tussen Suriname en Nederland."
Santokhi was van 2020 tot 2025 president van Suriname. Hij overleed maandag op 67-jarige leeftijd.
NEW YORK (ANP) - De aandelenbeurzen in New York zijn maandag gemengd gesloten, nadat kort na aanvang van de handel op Wall Street plussen op de borden stonden. De aandacht bleef uitgaan naar de oorlog in het Midden-Oosten, die de vijfde week is ingegaan. Beleggers verwerkten nieuwe dreigementen van de Amerikaanse president Donald Trump aan Iran.
Trump meldde maandag op zijn socialemediaplatform Truth Social dat de Verenigde Staten "serieus" in gesprek zijn met "een nieuw en redelijker regime" over een einde aan de oorlog. Maar als er niet snel een deal komt en de Straat van Hormuz niet snel wordt heropend, "zullen we ons prettige 'verblijf' in Iran beëindigen met het opblazen en compleet vernietigen van alle elektriciteitscentrales, oliebronnen en Kharg-eiland (en mogelijk alle ontziltingsinstallaties), die we expres nog niet hebben 'aangeraakt'", schreef hij.
De Dow-Jonesindex eindigde 0,1 procent hoger op 45.216,14 punten. De brede S&P 500-index daalde 0,4 procent naar 6343,72 punten. Techgraadmeter Nasdaq zakte 0,7 procent op 20.794,64 punten. Vrijdag waren in New York nog minnen tot 2,2 procent te zien.
Olieprijzen
De olieprijzen stegen maandag opnieuw door de gevolgen van de oorlog. Een vat Amerikaanse olie werd 5,2 procent duurder tot 104,84 dollar. Brentolie kostte 1,8 procent meer tot 114,56 dollar per vat.
Verder hadden beleggers aandacht voor het bezoek van de voorzitter van de Federal Reserve aan de universiteit Harvard. Jerome Powell stelde dat de inflatieverwachtingen op de langere termijn onder controle lijken te zijn. "We weten niet wat de economische gevolgen zullen zijn. We zijn wel van mening dat ons beleid ons de ruimte biedt om de situatie af te wachten", zei Powell.
Apple
Apple daalde 0,9 procent. De Europese dochteronderneming van het techconcern kreeg een boete van het Verenigd Koninkrijk van 390.000 pond (450.000 euro) vanwege het schenden van Russische sancties. Het Britse Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation ontdekte dat Apple Distribution International 635.618 pond had betaald aan het Russische streamingplatform Okko in 2022.
Aluminiumproducenten profiteerden van een sterke stijging van de aluminiumprijzen. Iran meldde raket- en droneaanvallen te hebben uitgevoerd op aluminiumfabrieken in Bahrein en de Verenigde Arabische Emiraten. Alcoa en Century Aluminum stegen 8,2 en 7,3 procent.
Letting Copilot alter others' PRs was the wrong judgment call, says product manager
Microsoft has done a 180. Following backlash from developers, GitHub has removed Copilot's ability to stick ads - what it calls "tips" - into any pull request that invokes its name. …
Nearly 6,000 people forced to flee, human rights group said as it criticised ‘abandonment’ from authorities
At least 70 people have been killed and 30 injured during an attack in Haiti’s breadbasket Artibonite region, significantly more than official estimates, a human rights group has said.
Police initially reported 16 dead and 10 injured, while a preliminary report from civil protection authorities suggested 17 had died and 19 were wounded.
Saturday’s protests drew millions of people across the US and around the world. The Guardian spoke with some of them to see why they were there and what’s next
Saturday saw the greatest number of protests in US history, when more than 8 million people at 3,300 No Kings events took to the streets to oppose the policies of Donald Trump.
In the past few months, the Trump administration has sent more than 3,000 federal immigration agents into Minnesota’s Twin Cities, causing fear and havoc that was only furthered when agents killed two residents. Trump has also launched strikes on Venezuela and waged a war in Iran that has so far cost the US about $30bn to $40bn. That is on top of the US continuing to fund Israel’s war in Gaza; the ongoing immigration raids in other US cities, towns and rural regions; and the threats to trans rights, voting rights and more.
Een nagenoeg volledig Engelstalige videoboodschap van Air Canada-ceo Michael Rousseau viel slecht in het tweetalige Canada. Premier Mark Carney betichtte hem van gebrek aan medeleven met de Franstalige slachtoffers van een vliegtuigongeluk.
With the bases loaded and two outs in the top of the seventh inning of Sunday’s Twins-Orioles game, Twins cleanup hitter Matt Wallner watched a knee-high 3-2 pitch sail directly over the heart of the plate for strike three. Rather than accept his fate, an emotional, frustrated Wallner tapped his helmet, signaling that he was challenging an obvious strike under Major League Baseball’s new automated ball-strike challenge system. Baseball’s new AI-powered strike zone robots confirmed the call on the field, and the Twins lost the ability to challenge for the rest of the game. This very human, very emotion-driven mistake then set up a series of events resulting in the first ever manager ejection for arguing about a robot’s decision, perhaps a glimpse at the future of baseball and, if you squint, a microcosm of various human-AI beefs in society more broadly.
this was obviously a really bad challenge from matt wallner
emotions played into it but hitters who tend to dive toward the plate are fooled by sinkers that move back over the zone — there’s a blind spot that happens in the last moments before plate pic.twitter.com/dRD0t9lvNR
We are four days into the new baseball season, and this season’s brand new Automated Ball-Strike (ABS) system is the dominant storyline so far. Here’s how the system works, more or less: Like usual, a human umpire calls each pitch a ball or a strike. Immediately following that call, the pitcher, catcher, or batter can challenge the call by tapping on their head. The location of the pitch is then immediately shown on the stadium’s scoreboard on a graphic that includes each hitter’s strike zone; if the ball is within or clips any part of the strike zone box, it’s a strike. If not, it’s a ball. This all happens in a matter of seconds automatically on the Jumbotron and is driven by AI; its results are inarguable. There is no long human review process in a video booth in New York like there is for other umpire’s challenges.
And yet, the ABS system feels somehow extremely human, because human beings are making the decisions on what to challenge, under what circumstances, and how to react to any given decision. ABS is also not exactly human vs robot, it is a human player’s judgment vs a human umpire’s judgment as adjudicated by an AI system, which has made it must-watch television. Anyone who has screamed “that was a strike” at their TV now gets the satisfaction of having a player’s apparently superior judgment have actual consequences in the game. And, because the home TV broadcasts have a strikezone superimposed on the proceedings, watching from home means you can, in real time, think “they should challenge that,” or “dumb challenge.”
ABS is exposing how terrible specific umpires are at their job, in real time, in somewhat humiliating fashion. In the Reds-Red Sox game Saturday, notoriously bad umpire C.B. Bucknor made a big show of ringing up Eugenio Suarez (calling a strikeout) on two consecutive pitches that were clearly outside of the strike zone. Suarez challenged both calls and won both challenges. The crowd absolutely lost its shit at both challenges. I have heard multiple play-by-play announcers note that some of the loudest cheers of any game have been about players using the challenge system to prove the umpires wrong. In the Mariners game this weekend, Randy Arozarena was called out by the human umpire on a 3-2 pitch; Arozarena tapped his helmet and jogged to first base as though he had walked, his judgment never in doubt. ABS showed Arozarena was right. It was great theater.
“When we first talked about ABS, I said, you know what, there’s going to come a day where we have one of these challenges, and it’s going to become like cinema. It’s going to become one of the better parts of the game, talking about people getting ejected, how fun that is,” former player Trevor Plouffe said on the Baseball Today podcast Monday. “And it happened in Cincinnati, they said it was the biggest cheers of the game. Not the homers, but the overturned calls. I thought I was going to like it more, but it’s a little sad. I get sad vibes from this,” he added, referring to the humiliation of human umpires getting calls overturned.
C.B. Bucknor tried to ring up Eugenio Suárez on back-to-back pitches.
What the first few days of ABS are showing is that this system is somehow actually highlighting the human element of the game, and adding another layer of strategy to a game that prides itself as being the thinking person’s sport. This is because, crucially, teams can only lose two challenges, but teams have unlimited challenges as long as they get them right. Once they lose two challenges, they are not allowed to challenge any more for the rest of the game, raising all sorts of questions about which players will be good at it (well-respected veterans who have been getting borderline calls out of respect, or rookies who have a year of ABS experience from a trial run in the minors later year?), which positions should challenge (so far, catchers are good at challenging, hitters slightly less so, and pitchers are bad at challenging), and in which game circumstances challenges will be called.
Umpires “do not like the embarrassment of it all, being up on the big board,” Baseball Today host Chris Rose responded to Plouffe. “I love it. I’m sitting here trying to think about strategy. You can tell these teams have zero strategy. Not only that, they also don’t think about it. You have teams that are leading a game in the ninth and a batter uses the last challenge at the plate, when you should be saving it for your pitcher in the bottom of the ninth. They haven’t thought about this at all.”
This brings us back to the Orioles-Twins game, and Wallner’s horrible challenge. It was the Twins’ second failed challenge of the game. In the bottom half of the inning, Orioles shortstop Gunnar Henderson took a 3-1 pitch that was clearly a strike near the top of the zone. It was called a ball. The Twins could not challenge, and the Orioles proceeded to score three runs on the back of a series of their own successful challenges. The Twins could do nothing but sit there and suffer, and Wallner has been getting excoriated on social media for being an emotional dumbass and hurting his team.
Then, in the top of the ninth, ABS’s first truly viral moment occurred. A 3-2 pitch from Orioles closer Ryan Helsley was called a ball. Helsley, falling off the mound, tapped his hat once, then again. ABS called the pitch a strike, which was a critical decision in a critical moment. Twins manager Derek Shelton stormed out of the dugout and argued with home plate umpire Chris Segal, eventually getting ejected from the game. “Derek Shelton’s been thrown out! He’s arguing with the robots! You can’t defeat the robots!,” Orioles announcer Kevin Brown said during the Orioles broadcast. What Shelton was actually arguing about was whether Helsley had decided to challenge quick enough, but, nevertheless, the moment has gone viral as the first-ever robot-related ejection in MLB history. Overall, there were nine challenges in the Orioles-Twins game, a new record in the very early stages of the system.
Twins manager Derek Shelton walked out for his postgame press conference and laughed that he made history for the first ABS-related ejection today.
On why: “I didn’t think [Orioles closer Ryan] Helsley tapped his hat quick enough.” pic.twitter.com/gVr31eYiip
The early discourse on ABS is that it has added some excitement to the game, and has cut down on infuriating and somewhat random cases of umpires making horrendous decisions in critical situations, a problem that has plagued baseball since time immemorial but has reached crisis levels in recent years as superimposed strike zones and viral social media “umpire scorecards” highlight just how much bad umpiring has been affecting the outcome of games.
Lots of baseball fans love the “human element” of human umpires, but the truth is that human umpires wildly vary in their ability to accurately call balls and strikes, and watching a call go against your team in a high-stakes moment is excruciating. The system that MLB has deployed feels, at the moment, like it preserves the human element of the game while adding in a new layer of strategy: Are your team’s players disciplined and unemotional enough to avoid wasting your challenges in stupid situations? Are you able to deploy them in ways that bend the game in your favor? So far it feels like this system largely strikes the right balance, and has not actually automated umpires out of a job, though it does often humiliate them in front of tens of thousands of screaming fans. In a matter of days, people have begun cheering on the trusted robots over fallible human umpires. It’s hard to say what, if anything, this means for the other ways AI and robots are being pushed into our daily lives. But in baseball, so far, the thoughtful use of robots seems to have entertainingly solved one of the game’s biggest problems.
Microsoft Copilot is reportedly injecting promotional "tips" into GitHub pull requests, with Neowin claiming more than 1.5 million PRs have been affected by messages advertising integrations like Raycast, Slack, Teams, and various IDEs. From the report: According to Melbourne-based software developer Zach Manson, a team member used the AI to fix a simple typo in a pull request. Copilot did the job, but it also took the liberty of editing the PR's description to include this message: "Quickly spin up Copilot coding agent tasks from anywhere on your macOS or Windows machine with Raycast." A quick search of that phrase on GitHub shows that the same promotional text appears in over 11,000 pull requests across thousands of repositories. Even merge requests on GitLab aren't safe from the injection.
So what's happening? Well, Raycast has a Copilot extension that can do things like create pull requests from a natural language command. The ad directly names Raycast, so you might think that Raycast is injecting the promo into the PRs to market its own app. But it is more likely that Microsoft is the one doing the injecting. If you look at the raw markdown of the affected pull requests, there is a hidden HTML comment, "START COPILOT CODING AGENT TIPS" placed right just before the ad tip. This suggests Microsoft is using the comment to insert a "tip" that points back to its own developer ecosystem or partner integrations.
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