Russia’s online retail sector has thrived since the invasion of Ukraine. The attacks on Wildberries now threaten to disrupt that growth.

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"I work for a company that produces luxury items", one worker tells me. "Any time I get prompted that my 'token spend' is too low (0), I go in and ask ChatGPT random gardening questions. So far it has failed to adequately build a rain garden, but I've gotten it to describe a sweet potato once."

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Zoals de feniks altijd uit zijn as herrijst, duikt de salamander al eeuwenlang op in vurige verhalen.

Lahore police official says all personnel were responsible for preventing and reporting wrongdoing at station

The alleged rape of a 20-year-old woman with intellectual disabilities in a police station in Lahore, Pakistan has prompted authorities to suspend all 78 police officers and staff at the precinct, in one of the country’s biggest-ever disciplinary actions against its police force.

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At least 17 people were killed and more than 40 injured in another round of deadly Russian strikes on the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv. Volodymyr Zelenskyy has pleaded for more air defence weapons, saying ballistic missile interceptors ‘could have saved the lives of those killed today’. For months, Ukraine has been warning about shortages after Donald Trump backtracked on his promise to let Ukraine manufacture missiles locally. In response to the attack, the EU’s Ursula von der Leyen said ‘Russia must pay’ – but will it?

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Concerned about cost, Microsoft is reportedly warning employees against wasteful AI use. In an email seen by 404 Media, Microsoft Executive Vice President Jay Parikh warned that individual divisions would be given targets and could face restrictions. "Tokenmaxxing is not what we are optimizing for. I want all of us focused on maximizing outcomes that move the needle for our customers and our business," the email states. The Register asked Microsoft what it made of the report, and a spokesperson told us the company had "nothing to add." Microsoft is hardly short of cash and has continued to pour money into its AI investments, but its apparent efforts to curb wasteful AI spending bring it into line with other companies attempting to rethink how employees use AI. Tokenmaxxing is the practice of using as many AI tokens as possible, and treating the volume as proof of productivity. A token is the basic unit used to process and bill for the input and output of AI models. If a company is measuring employees' use of AI, burning through as many tokens as possible will make the figures look rosier. However, companies need to consider the cost of those tokens alongside other factors, such as productivity. As The Register observed in April: "Tokenmaxxing isn't an AI strategy." Microsoft does not appear to be seeking an overall reduction in token use – it wants to be an AI-first company, after all. It simply wants more bang for its buck. "As we accelerate our use of GitHub Copilot to deliver on our goals, we all need to be aware of how we consume tokens," the email reportedly said. GitHub moved to usage-based billing in June. Although Microsoft's code-hosting tentacle measures consumption in AI Credits rather than raw tokens, the change makes the cost of engineers burning through them harder to ignore. Not that this sends a particularly great message to customers. As one anonymous Microsoft staffer told 404 Media: "This really feels like the ultimate admission that we, as hosts of AI infra, can't afford our own AI products. And if that's even partially the case, how could the companies we sell it to manage?" That's a little simplistic. Microsoft can afford its AI products; the email suggests it wants engineers to use them with greater regard for cost and results. Which is, perhaps, the message customers should take away. AI tools and services carry a cost that needs to be measured, rather than treating "how many tokens did you consume?" as a measure of AI adoption. ®

Ooohhh wat zijn ze zielig die 'minderjarigen'

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Van die oorspronkelijke 72.000 verblijven er nu nog 'slechts' 3.000 tot 5.000 in het stadje met slechts 85.000 inwoners, waaronder 'zo'n 1.100 alleenstaande minderjarigen'. Ceuta had maar plaats voor 29 van zulke minderjarigen, en die heten dus heel zielig te zijn - alsof ZE hier nooit minderjarig zijn als ze hun terreurbewind starten - en mogen daarom niet een paar meter terug voorbij het Marokkaanse grenshek met open poort bewogen worden.

Sterker nog, ze worden binnenkort naar het Spaanse vasteland gevaren, om daar in een Zuid-Europees land op kosten van de Noord-Europese belastingbetaler voor zich te laten zorgen. Reuters schrijft: "Spain's Ceuta (...) is seeking the transfer of hundreds of unaccompanied minors still in the enclave to mainland Spain, local leaders confirmed on Wednesday. Though the vast majority ​of migrants have since returned to Morocco, roughly 1,100 unaccompanied minors who arrived before and during the influx – ‌and cannot be summarily deported – remain, according to local government."

De verdeelsleutel lag sinds augustus 2025 overigens al klaar: "De regering heeft de immigratiewet hervormd om minderjarige migranten zonder gezinssteun te herverdelen. Deze wet voorziet in een bindende en op solidariteit gebaseerde opvang door de andere autonome regio's, met een verhouding van 32,6 plaatsen per 100.000 inwoners."

Want ja, dit is hoe Europa werkt: iedereen ter wereld heeft het mensenrecht op een fatsoenlijk bestaan, behalve inheemse Europeanen. Dus als een """rechter""" met de modale mensenrechtenfetisj oordeelt dat de mensenrechten van deze minderjarigen geschonden worden door ondermaatse opvang, dan zal de inheemse Europeaan daar nu eenmaal fiscaal en qua sociale cohesie voor op moeten draaien. En dat tot Europa niets meer te geven heeft, omdat het Europa niet meer is.

Ja-ha heel zielig

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Het is niet vol, het is druk!

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