Het was rond 23:00 uur toen het in een seniorenflat aan de Rotterdamse Watertorenweg vreselijk misging. Er brak brand uit en één bewoner van de flat kwam daarbij om het leven. Een dag later zijn veel bewoners nog flink in shock: “We kennen hem allemaal goed.”

De parkeergarage Visstraat in de binnenstad van Dordrecht is per direct gesloten. De gemeente heeft dat besluit genomen na een inspectie vrijdagmiddag. Eerder sloot Dordrecht ook al de parkeergarages Spuihaven en Drievriendenhof vanwege scheuren in het beton.

People voice frustration with officials’ failure to engage with community over placement of asylum seekers in area

A smashed window pane and some broken eggshells on a footpath were some of the tell-tale signs of events that took place this week on a residential street at the edge of Thetford.

On Friday afternoon it was not hard to find local people with a sense of foreboding after the latest disorder in the Norfolk market town which has seen crowds attempt to break into properties believed to be housing asylum seekers.

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Nathan Broadhead gets us under way. Wrexham are in all black, with Boro in all red. It’s not exactly full at the Riverside, but it’s a decent effort.

We’re 10 minutes from kick-off at the Riverside. There will be no hydration breaks and, as far as I’m aware, no full squad walkouts. Phew.

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It has been a remarkable few days for an institution that may be irredeemable but this is a story that stretches back to a decision in 2010

There are decades in which nothing happens, and weeks in which decades happen, and those weeks tend to result in leaders being toppled. Not even a fortnight ago, Gianni Infantino was taking his victory lap on Instagram, attacking “those behind their pens and papers, behind their screens spreading hate and false rumours” who had dared to question elements of his World Cup, which had generated a record $15bn in revenues. But the next day came the revelation of his plan to sell the World Cup to outside investors and a backlash that has him scrabbling to save his presidency.

It has been a remarkable few days, but this is a story whose roots stretch way back, to the decision in Zurich in 2010 to award the 2022 World Cup not to the US but to Qatar, to a furious Bill Clinton hurling an ashtray across the room and demanding action, to an FBI inquiry into corruption, and to the flipping of the larger-than-life Concacaf general secretary Chuck Blazer, who had two apartments in Trump Tower, one for himself and one for his cats.

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Vinícius Júnior and Yan Diomande are among more than 100 players at an agency owned by the hip-hop legend

In the end there was a clear winner. And Jay-Z’s latest victory came only 24 hours after the first record featuring him actually rapping for four years had been released by his wife, Beyoncé, on an extended remix pack of Morning Dew (Donk).

These days, the man who remains one of the most influential artists in hip-hop has his fingers in many pies, from the streaming service Tidal and his own streetwear brand, to champagne and cognac. But it is Roc Nation Sports – an offshoot of his entertainment company of the same name founded in 2008 – making headlines in the summer transfer window.

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Je hebt muzikanten die er geen probleem mee hebben om een gitaarsolo van vijf minuten te spelen, en je hebt er die vinden dat nummers daardoor een beetje lang worden. Jon Spencer (niet te verwarren met John Spencer) is zo iemand die het liever kort en krachtig houdt. Hier ragt hij er met zijn Blues Explosion in amper vier minuten twee nummers doorheen. Aangekondigd door mijn andere favoriete Jon, achternaam Stewart (of eigenlijk Leibowitz). Bij MTV!

 

The AI giants have joined forces to ask the world’s developers to all please write their agentic skills and tools into the same format. In return, coders will be able to move these superpowers easily from one platform to another (such as when they get laid off). It's designed to be write once, run everywhere. Vercel posted the initial draft of the Agent Plugins spec on Thursday, with input from Amazon, Cursor, Microsoft, and OpenAI, which all pledged fidelity (and engineers) to the project. It was quickly embraced by the Linux Foundation’s Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF), though it will operate as an independent entity. Agent Plugins 1.0 packages an AI agent’s skills and tools in a single directory structure. It builds on the AAIF-stewarded MCP protocol and the open Agent Skills standard originally created by Anthropic in 2025. Agent Skills holds the instructions for how the agent should perform a specific task. MCP provides the connectivity to outside databases, APIs, shell scripts, and other external resources. Together, the trio makes AI capabilities modular so that they are, in theory, write-once-run-anywhere. It is still up to the agent clients, or platforms, to provide a user interface, establish security boundaries and create marketplaces where the plugins can be shared. Thus far, VS Code, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, ChatGPT, Codex, and Kiro all support the standard. File-system-as-configuration Agent Plugins follows the Next.js practice of using the host computer’s directory format as the structure for defining components. The spec prescribes creating a top-level directory for each plug-in, with a small manifest and schema. The manifest provides the name, version and schema of the plugin in JSON format. Skills are filed in the skills sub-directory, and the MCP server configuration is stored as an mcp.json file. Those are the essential elements, though the plugin authors can also use the namespace directory to store additional extensions. This format “keeps the shared format predictable without requiring it to absorb every client-specific experiment happening across agent products,” noted the AAIF in a blog post. Bundling the skills with the MCP configuration makes the package portable, allowing it to be copied and used across any supporting agent client. The narrow way Agent developers around the globe are adding all manner of experimental hooks, rules and extensions into their skills. Nonetheless, the keepers of the spec deliberately kept the scope “narrow” for this 1.0 release, in AAIF’s words. The best ones may be considered for future versions of the spec, though the team is not making any promises. Until then, developers can add all these extensions to the namespace and hope for the best, portability-wise. Going forward, Agent Plugins will be managed under an open governance model, with an independent technical oversight committee calling the shots, considering input from the public. Currently, engineers from Amazon, Cursor, Microsoft, OpenAI, and Vercel are on the core development team. The spec is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC-BY-4.0). There are other efforts underway to tame the wild frontier of agent development. Google folded its own Agent2Agent (A2A) agentic communications protocol effort into AAIF. Google is also building out a specification for finding tools on the web, called Agentic Resource Discovery. AAIF has a similar “complementary” project to Agent Plugins, Skills Over MCP, which shares skills by bundling them into the MCP server itself. Essentially, this approach is akin to shipping “the manual with the product,” wrote AAIF Vice President Angie Jones. Should MCPs be festooned with skills? Or should each set of skills come with an attached MCP? Let the best approach win! ®

BENEDEN-LEEUWEN (ANP) - Tientallen boeren met tractoren hebben zich rond 19.00 verzameld ten zuiden van het Gelderse Beneden-Leeuwen (gemeente West Maas en Waal) om te demonstreren. De politie is aanwezig en laat weten de demonstratie te faciliteren.

Eerder deze week vonden ook boerenacties plaats in of bij onder meer Apeldoorn, Maarsbergen en Deurningen. Het is niet duidelijk of het protest van vrijdag is aangemeld.