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De Israëlische Black Hawk, ook wel de Yanshuf (wat uil betekent). De ruggengraat van Israëls wereldwijd geroemde reddingseenheid Unit 669. Soms moeten die zelf ook even gered worden door een Sikorsky CH-53 Sea Lion, en heel soms gaat dit dan bijna wel goed. "According to the military, the helicopter had landed in an open area in the Gush Etzion area on Tuesday due to difficult weather conditions. During the recovery operation today, the damaged aircraft became detached while being airlifted and crashed. No injuries were reported. Israeli Air Force chief Maj. Gen. Tomer Bar has ordered the establishment of a military investigative committee to probe the incident." Veel meer beeld na de breek

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theodp writes: Code.org, the nonprofit backed by AI giants Microsoft, Google and Amazon and whose Hour of AI and free AI curriculum aim to make world's K-12 schoolchildren AI literate, points job seekers to its AI Use Policy in Hiring, which promises dire consequences for those who use AI during interviews or take home assignments without its OK.

Explaining "What's Not Okay," Code.org writes: "While we support thoughtful use of AI, certain uses undermine fairness and honesty in the hiring process. We ask that candidates do not [...] use AI during interviews and take-home assignments without explicit consent from the interview team. Such use goes against our values of integrity and transparency and will result in disqualification from the hiring process."

Interestingly, Code.org CEO Partovi last year faced some blowback from educators over his LinkedIn post that painted schools that police AI use by students as dinosaurs. Partovi wrote, "Schools of the past define AI use as 'cheating.' Schools of the future define AI skills as the new literacy. Every desk-job employer is looking to hire workers who are adept at AI. Employers want the students who are best at this new form of 'cheating.'"

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Ransomware kingpin who escaped Armenian custody is believed to be lying low back home

German cops have added Russian national Oleg Evgenievich Nefekov to their list of most-wanted criminals for his services to ransomware.…

Wikipedia turns 25 years old. (I can’t believe it’s only been around for 25 years…trying to imagine the web without it is impossible at this point.)

De crisissfeer rondom windenergie op zee lijkt niet voorbij. Het demissionaire kabinet verwacht dit jaar investeerders voor hooguit één windpark van 1 gigawatt warm te laten lopen. „De markt is verder verslechterd dan we een halfjaar geleden dachten.”

Voor de emoties die bij rouw horen is veel aandacht, maar fysieke klachten worden er vaak niet mee in verband gebracht. Ten onrechte, vinden rouwdeskundigen en mensen die een groot verlies doormaakten. „Toen ik mijn rouwklachten eindelijk serieus nam, begon mijn lichaam te herstellen.”

DirtyGlassEye has added a photo to the pool:

So I went shuffling through Japanese locations I went to hoping to find one I haven't paid attention to in a while. I came across a section of my library for Ninenzaka. I'm sure people are more than familiar with the normal angle on the other side of the pagoda. But this one looks like it carried a more aged tone. Up early in the morning to hit the market in the 1800s. So that's the vision I ended up going with.
I brought out my 200mm quite a lot because you could shoot the pagoda from 3 directions and I figured compression of the narrow street fronts would make it look better. The west road was a decline that made it easy to cut a bit of the road out in editing later, and there were plenty of signs I could use as a scale for the compression. In a strange turn of events, the pagoda was the only thing that turned out correctly in the original image, the rest of it needed a little bit of help.
So now that this photo had my attention again after so long, it was time to do just that. I had a while sky I didn't want to put up with and several spots where the shade wasn't strong enough. I drained the vibrance of the entire photo and put a small higher temp on it, giving it a brown and white artstyle. Not a full on sepia tone, but just enough to contribute to make it look like a more historical shot (minus the people in modern clothes and the one traffic sign towards the bottom). I said it for the tokyo tower and I'll say it here, don't feel a locked intention to only shoot something in the same spot other people do, think outside the box and you'll still come up with a good result on an otherwise overseen spot.

​Ferry Doedens moet op 27 maart opnieuw voor de rechter verschijnen omdat hij voor de derde keer is aangehouden voor rijden onder invloed. Het is een hard gelag voor de acteur én voor de rechter, die na jarenlang keihard werken is opgeklommen tot hij dit belangrijke ambt mocht vervullen en zich nu moet gaan bezighouden met Ferry Doedens.

“Ik ben rechten gaan studeren vanuit ideologische overwegingen, omdat ik de wereld een betere plek wil maken”, vertelt de rechter. “Mijn ouders waren zo trots toen ik ze na jaren ploeteren kon mededelen dat ik rechter was geworden. Ik heb vier jaar over mijn bachelor Rechtsgeleerdheid gedaan, twee jaar over mijn master, vijf keer stage gelopen, tweeënhalf jaar gewerkt en tot slot nog zes jaar over mijn opleiding tot rechter gedaan. En nu mag ik nadenken over de passende straf voor een oud-acteur die dickpics verkoopt. Denk ik, weet ik veel, ik wil me niet nog meer inlezen in Ferry Doedens.”

Ferry Doedens’ advocaat Kerem Canatan deelt het sentiment van de rechter. “Het zou voor iedereen fijn zijn als deze zaak snel afgehandeld wordt. Voor Ferry natuurlijk, maar toch vooral voor ons.”

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