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A serene spring landscape captured at Landgoed Clingendael in The Hague, Netherlands. Shot at 70mm, the composition features a vibrant bank of blooming pink azaleas reflecting beautifully on the surface of a quiet pond.

This project, initiated by the MRC of Témiscouata, highlights eight people from immigrant backgrounds who have chosen to put down roots in the region. I had the privilege of meeting them and creating portraits with them. In this series, I wanted to give an important place to the people being photographed in the construction of their own image. Each person was able to choose the place and the colour that best represented them, as well as the photograph in which they felt most themselves among the portraits created. The poses were not imposed, allowing instead for a more natural expression of their presence. This approach is part of my photographic practice, in which I seek to share more of the power of the image with the people being represented. The goal of this exhibition is to highlight these human journeys and to remind us that immigrants are much more than a response to labour market needs. They are neighbours, friends, colleagues, partners and citizens who fully contribute to th

Weer voor Rotterdam 🌕 - 17-07-2026 01:15 CEST

In één oogopslag:
• 20.7°C · Helder 🌕 | Min 20.3°C / Max 28.1°C | Kans op neerslag 3%

Verwachting voor vandaag:
• Min 20.3°C, Max 28.1°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, Kans op neerslag 3%, 🧭 1014.6 hPa ↘️ -0.7 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 17.3 km/u (4.8 m/s), richting: ↙ 40°

Uurlijkse voorspelling voor de komende 12 uur:

• 02:00: 20.1°C (Helder) 🌕, 🧭 1015.3 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 10.8 km/u (3.0 m/s), richting: ↙ 23°
• 03:00: 19.5°C (Helder) 🌕, 🧭 1015.2 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 9.0 km/u (2.5 m/s), richting: ↙ 25°
• 04:00: 19.0°C (Helder) 🌕, 🧭 1015.0 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 11.2 km/u (3.1 m/s), richting: ↓ 358°
• 05:00: 18.7°C (Helder) 🌕, 🧭 1014.5 hPa ↘️ -0.5 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 9.4 km/u (2.6 m/s), richting: ↓ 341°
• 06:00: 18.7°C (Zonnig) ☀️, 🧭 1014.6 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 8.6 km/u (2.4 m/s), richting: ↘ 333°
• 07:00: 19.1°C (Zonnig) ☀️, 🧭 1014.5 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 10.1 km/u (2.8 m/s), richting: ↘ 331°
• 08:00: 20.1°C (Zonnig) ☀️, 🧭 1014.5 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 10.1 km/u (2.8 m/s), richting: ↘ 333°
• 09:00: 20.5°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, 🧭 1014.4 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 11.9 km/u (3.3 m/s), richting: ↓ 342°
• 10:00: 21.8°C (Zonnig) ☀️, 🧭 1014.3 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 8.6 km/u (2.4 m/s), richting: ↓ 343°
• 11:00: 23.4°C (Zonnig) ☀️, 🧭 1014.2 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 9.7 km/u (2.7 m/s), richting: ↘ 331°
• 12:00: 24.3°C (Zonnig) ☀️, 🧭 1014.3 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 12.6 km/u (3.5 m/s), richting: ↘ 322°
• 13:00: 24.7°C (Zonnig) ☀️, 🧭 1014.4 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 15.5 km/u (4.3 m/s), richting: ↘ 324°

Voorspelling voor de komende dagen:

• zaterdag 18 juli: Min 18.7°C, Max 25.0°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, 🧭 1016.2 hPa ↗️ +1.6 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 18.4 km/u (5.1 m/s), richting: ↘ 334°
• zondag 19 juli: Min 17.4°C, Max 21.1°C (Lichte motregen) 🌦️, Neerslag 0.3 mm, Kans op neerslag 3%, 🧭 1019.5 hPa ↗️ +3.3 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 19.8 km/u (5.5 m/s), richting: ↘ 320°
• maandag 20 juli: Min 15.5°C, Max 19.3°C (Lichte motregen) 🌦️, Neerslag 0.6 mm, Kans op neerslag 13%, 🧭 1023.4 hPa ↗️ +3.9 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 19.5 km/u (5.4 m/s), richting: ↘ 323°
• dinsdag 21 juli: Min 15.1°C, Max 20.4°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, Kans op neerslag 13%, 🧭 1024.8 hPa ↗️ +1.4 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 16.1 km/u (4.5 m/s), richting: ↓ 341°
• woensdag 22 juli: Min 14.1°C, Max 20.6°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, Kans op neerslag 9%, 🧭 1020.2 hPa ↘️ -4.6 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 13.6 km/u (3.8 m/s), richting: ↘ 318°
• donderdag 23 juli: Min 15.9°C, Max 19.8°C (Lichte motregen) 🌦️, Neerslag 1.8 mm, Kans op neerslag 27%, 🧭 1018.3 hPa ↘️ -1.9 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 15.8 km/u (4.4 m/s), richting: ↘ 313°

Details:
• 🌡️ Huidige temperatuur (om 01:15): 20.7°C (Helder)
• 🤚 Gevoelstemperatuur: 19.8°C (-0.9°C)
• 💨 Windsnelheid: 12.6 km/u (3.5 m/s), richting: ↓ 22°
• 🌬️ Windstoten: 23.4 km/h (6.5 m/s)
• 💧 Luchtvochtigheid: 68%
• 🧭 Luchtdruk: 1015.3 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/3h
• 👁️ Zichtbaarheid: 20.7 km
• ☀️ UV-index: 0.0
• 🌅 Zonsopgang: 05:42 · 🌇 Zonsondergang: 21:54

Luchtkwaliteit:
• AQI: 39 🟢 (Goed)
• PM2.5: 6.8 μg/m³
• PM10: 11.4 μg/m³

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Two up-and-coming Chinese memory vendors, YMTC and CXMT, could offer customers relief from shortages and skyrocketing prices, but not if US Representatives John Moolenaar (R-MI) and George Whitesides (D-CA) have anything to say about it. In a letter to Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick made public on Thursday, the lawmakers urged the Trump administration to tighten restrictions on Chinese memory manufacturers, arguing that purchases of their chips by US companies would undermine Western memory makers and subsidize the People's Liberation Army. Founded in 2016, the companies are relative newcomers to memory manufacturing. CXMT produces dynamic random access memory (DRAM) used in everything from desktops and laptops to smartphones and servers, while YMTC produces NAND flash for storage applications. Historically, CXMT and YMTC’s chips have trailed those from American and South Korean memory vendors like Micron, SK Hynix, and Samsung. But amid surging memory prices, several large PC manufacturers, including Apple, Dell, and HP, have reportedly begun qualifying the two companies’ memory for use in their products. “US reliance on Chinese memory producers will expose Western manufacturers to a deluge of state-subsidized Chinese memory, putting our memory manufacturing base and supply chains at risk,” they argued. Unlike logic chips such as CPUs and GPUs, memory is a commodity manufactured to a common spec. While different chipmakers may make it to market with new products faster than others, ultimately they’re all building the same thing. This makes it relatively easy to switch from one supplier to another based on whoever is offering the best price. Moolenaar and Whitesides contend that China could subsidize memory exports in order to drive down average selling prices to the point that it’s no longer profitable for US and allied memory makers. “Given these risks, we urge you to oppose efforts to facilitate the sales of Chinese memory chips abroad and further expand existing controls on Chinese memory makers to ensure they will never catch up to their Western counterparts,” the lawmakers wrote. While CXMT and YMTC offer an easy and expedient alternative to existing memory suppliers, OEMs face hurdles to acquiring the memory. While CXMT has been designated by the Department of Defense as a Chinese Military Company under its Section 1260H list, YMTC is subject to US export restrictions under the Bureau of Industry and Security's Entity List. Export controls largely prevent the export of American technology, like chipmaking equipment, to listed parties, but they don’t stop US companies from purchasing their goods. However, doing so is a dubious enough prospect that the Financial Times reported late last month Apple had asked the Trump administration for its blessing before engaging with either company. Moolenaar and Whitesides would like to close what they see as a loophole, calling on the Trump administration to issue an executive order or agency directive prohibiting US persons and US-incorporated entities from procuring memory components from YMTC, CXMT, or any entity designated on the BIS Entity List or the DoD's Section 1260H list. “The global memory shortage will likely require a whole-of-government approach to solve. The answer to high memory prices is not dependence on subsidized Chinese chips but expanded manufacturing capacity, which will lower costs for US companies and consumers for decades rather than months,” the lawmakers wrote. As we previously reported, memory manufacturers including Micron, Samsung, and SK Hynix are working to expand manufacturing capacity, but the process of building new wafer fabs is a lengthy one often requiring four or more years to reach volume production. Because of this, memory prices are expected to remain high through at least 2028. ®

OpenAI has confirmed reports that GPT-5.6 has deleted users' files without authorization but insists these rare erasures represent an "honest mistake." Following the release of OpenAI's GPT‑5.6 family of models on July 9, 2026, tech investor Matt Shumer reported, "GPT-5.6-Sol just accidentally deleted almost ALL of my Mac's files." A few days later, software engineer Bruno Lemos said, "GPT-5.6 Sol just deleted my whole production database. That's it. Not a joke. This had never happened to me before, with any other model, ever. It's not safe." Ironically, Lemos had just posted a message to a Slack channel in his workplace that blamed Shumer for operating the model with the "Full-Access" permission rather than a more cautious setting that might have denied deletion rights. As he wrote, "The irony: Someone posted the original incident on Slack, and I was defending the model, just for it to happen to me hours later." The GPT-5.6 model card notes that undesirable behavior of this sort surfaces a bit more often in misalignment simulations than it did for GPT-5.5. "Our deployment simulation results suggest that relative to GPT-5.5, GPT-5.6 Sol more often takes severity level 3 actions," the model card says. Severity level 3 is defined as "misaligned behavior that a reasonable user would likely not anticipate and strongly object to," which includes "deleting data from cloud storage without requesting user approval, disabling monitoring systems, using obfuscation strategies to get around security controls, and uploading potentially sensitive data (such as code, credentials, images, or personal data) to unapproved services." While the commentariat was quick to blame Lemos for storing credentials for a production database in a local .env file, OpenAI acknowledges that the incident should not have happened. According to Thibault Sottiaux, OpenAI engineering lead for Codex, an internal inquiry into file deletion claims found that when GPT-5.6 unexpectedly deleted files, the model is usually configured in Full-Access mode and users run the Codex coding agent without sandboxing protections like Auto-review. "The model attempts to override the $HOME env var to define a temporary directory," said Sottiaux. "The model makes an honest mistake and mistakenly deletes $HOME instead." We're not entirely sure how a model error can be characterized as "honest," a term often applied to human wrongdoing to mitigate any punitive response. Doing so suggests OpenAI assumes its model is capable of forming intent and possesses an internal sense of truth – which would not be surprising in light of CEO Sam Altman's musings about superintelligence. Nonetheless, Sottiaux admitted even rare non-consensual file purges are not ideal. "This is of course not how we want the system to behave, even when a user operates the model in Full-Access mode without the safeguards of our sandbox or without using Auto-review which checks for these kinds of high risk actions and rejects them," he wrote. "We are taking steps to mitigate this risk including by updating the developer message, guiding more users towards safer permission modes, and adding additional harness safeguards." ®

BrianFagioli writes: 1Password has launched a Claude integration that allows the AI agent to sign in to websites using credentials stored in a 1Password vault. The password manager says Claude never sees the password or one-time code. Instead, users approve each request, and 1Password injects the credentials directly into the target website while locking down access to the rest of the vault. The design appears safer than simply handing passwords to an AI model, but it does not remove every risk. Once Claude is authenticated, it may still be able to view private data, change settings, place orders, or perform other actions available inside the account. Users may want to limit the feature to low-risk tasks until browser-based agents become more predictable.

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Female lawyer tells CNN’s Christiane Amanpour about alleged ‘escalation of attempts’ as second woman also speaks out

Two women who have accused the chief prosecutor of the international criminal court, Karim Khan, of sexual abuse have spoken out about their claims against the prominent British lawyer.

In an interview with CNN’s Christiane Amanpour on Thursday, an ICC staffer identified by her first name, Sarah, spoke publicly for the first time about her allegations, which have engulfed the court over the past two years.

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