A) Columnistendag Volkskrant weer groot succes
B) Ideologische switch Rita Verdonk (can't unsee)
C) Man (rechts) schoot uit met de tabasco in de groentesoep. Heeft daar nu last van
D) Fractievergadering Denk met overdosis shisha giert weer helemaal uit de klauwen
E) Capo's sfeerteam FC St. Pauli bereiden nieuw voetbalseizoen in Duitsland voor
F) De herziene Vitruvian Man van Da Vinci
G) Pauze tijdens nieuwe productie Meiden van Holland. Filmtitel: 'Free Palestine - wut no money?'
H) Betonstaalvlechter Flip Diksen samen met zijn heerlijke vriendje Dik Flipsen. Ze kwamen elkaar tegen in een homo-erotische arcadehal en omdat hun namen op elkaar leken doken ze meteen met elkaar de kast in. Ze zijn inmiddels getrouwd en hebben elkaars achternaam aangenomen. Gefeliciteerd Flip Flipsen-Diksen en Dik Diksen-Flipsen!
I) Valentino Rossi (rechts) undercover op Palestina-festival
J) Geen idee
K) Anders, namelijk

• British 800m record holder pulls out of 400m final

• ‘I wasn’t feeling 100% – I didn’t want to risk anything’

Keely Hodgkinson’s camp moved swiftly to play down concerns after the Olympic 800m champion withdrew from the 400m start line in tears just seconds before she was due to race at the UK Athletics Championships on Sunday.

Using the weekend in Birmingham as a speedwork opportunity, Hodgkinson emerged for the 400 metres final and began the usual pre-race strides in her lane, only to stop, grimace and slowly make her way to the side of the track. After a few seconds of thought, she crouched down and started to cry before she was led into the bowels of the stadium, with the race going ahead in her absence.

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Applicants forced to retake one of the world’s toughest admission tests after claims questions sold on Telegram

More than 2 million aspiring Indian doctors have sat one of the world’s toughest entrance exams for a second time after an alleged question paper leak forced authorities to scrap the original test results.

Students arriving at test centres on Sunday were greeted by airport-style security. They were frisked, scanned, checked biometrically and made to pass through metal detectors while police and paramilitary personnel stood guard outside.

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Family of Shaun Burton, 60, say they are ‘devastated by his loss’ and their thoughts are ‘also with those affected’

• Does Bedford train crash raise wider questions about safety?

Police have named the driver killed in the Bedford train crash on Friday, as his family paid tribute to him.

British Transport police said Shaun Burton, 60, was the East Midlands Railway driver killed in the collision on the line between Bedford and Luton that also left 100 people injured.

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This week the Ubuntu desktop's director of engineering announced they're bringing speech-to-text dictation to Ubuntu Desktop, aiming for an experience "that feels like a natural part of the desktop while respecting user privacy and running entirely on local hardware."

"Speech recognition has become a common feature on modern platforms, and we think it should be a first-class experience on Ubuntu Desktop as well."

More details from the blog It's FOSS:


For Ubuntu 26.10, the initial version of Myna is expected to be a desktop dictation tool built around GNOME on Wayland with a push-to-talk mechanism gatekeeping when your microphone accepts input. Using it means holding a hotkey, speaking, and letting go. A small activity indicator shows while it is listening, and the transcribed text lands wherever the cursor was sitting when dictation started.
Recognition itself happens inside a sandboxed component called the Canonical Inference Snap, while a Speech Orchestrator manages the session and an Audio Adapter handles whatever the microphone picks up, denoising and chunking it before it ever reaches the model... Speech recognition will happen locally, and an internet connection is not needed once the appropriate model is installed... The audio data won't be sticking around either, being stored in a small in-memory buffer that gets discarded the moment the session ends. Features like dictation into password fields, wake words, continuous listening, voice assistants, voice commands, translation, speaker identification, and automatic language detection are all off the table...
You should also know that Canonical is looking for feedback before the specs for Myna are finalized, especially from people who already rely on dictation or assistive tools on Linux.

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BANGKOK (ANP) - De Nederlandse volleybalsters hebben de tweede week in de Nations League afgesloten met de vierde zege. De ploeg van bondscoach Felix Kozlowski versloeg in Bangkok gastland Thailand in drie sets: 25-23 25-22 25-15.

Eerder deze week won Nederland van Oekraïne. De ploeg verloor in Thailand van Canada en Polen. Oranje had eerder in Brazilië gewonnen van Turkije en de Dominicaanse Republiek en verloren van Italië en Brazilië.

Nederland staat na acht wedstrijden negende met 12 punten. Een plek in de top 8 is nodig om de kwartfinales te bereiken. Oranje speelt in juli nog de derde week in de Nations League in Belgrado.

Kogelstoter Jessica Schilder is dankzij haar wereldtitel en een stoot over 21 meter uitgegroeid tot een van de gezichten van de Nederlandse atletiek. Bij de FBK Games in Hengelo zaten delen van de tribune speciaal voor haar vol. „Twintig meter moet mijn ondergrens worden”

In our current political climate, the Butlerian Jihad meme is being misread, and that misreading matters politically. The phrase was never meant to imply a purely anti-tech crusade nor act as permission slip for vigilante violence. That is because the Butlerian Jihad is not a parable about technology, but about domination.