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Na het herfstreces moet het kabinet verder met de zoektocht naar steun voor het plan dat regelt hoe de overheid aan inkomsten komt. Hiervoor lijken twee opties te zijn: ‘over rechts’ met JA21 en SGP of ‘over links’ met Pro en Volt. Van beide kanten komt eventuele steun met stevige eisen.

Een stukje Waddenkust is gebruikt om te testen hoe vegetatie de golven kan dempen bij een extreme storm. Met twintig vrachtwagens zijn de blokken uit de kwelder naar Delft gereden.

De routekaart die Nederland heeft gepubliceerd is geen plan, omdat er geen harde toezeggingen in staan, ziet Ernst Hobma. Europese buren kunnen het wel.

With You Can See Everything, Holmes joins other such high-profile subjects as Lance Armstrong, Imelda Marcos and Anthony Weiner to allow film-makers to document their lives. But do they ever come out well?

In You Can See Everything, convicted fraudster Elizabeth Holmes invites film-makers Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim into her home in a supposed act of “radical transparency”. Holmes is filmed, along with her partner, Billy Evans, and their two young children, in the weeks before starting a prison sentence for defrauding Theranos investors. “The best way for people to see who she is,” Evans says, “is to give as much access as possible into our daily lives”. It may also be the best way to market “Theranos 2.0”, which the couple are working on during filming. But the documentary questions whether Holmes is presenting her authentic self or a manufactured persona. Fielder speaks for the audience when he asks Holmes in a tense exchange whether she’s “being real” with him. “I’m always being real,” she says.

That question of authenticity is at the heart of documentary film-making. You Can See Everything is as much about the ambiguous relationship between film-maker and subject as it is about Holmes herself. There is often a power struggle over narrative control in documentaries, with both sides of the dynamic wanting different outcomes from the final film. Watching You Can See Everything inevitably prompts the question: why would Holmes, days before she heads to jail, invite the scrutiny of a film crew?

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Measures would remove some penalties for those who help women access abortion but are ‘small-scale step’, say campaigners

Poland’s lower house of parliament has approved two bills aimed at loosening a near-total ban on abortions, in what campaigners have described as a “small-scale step” ahead of protests calling on the government to fulfil its promises to overhaul the country’s laws.

The new measures, which are likely to be vetoed by Poland’s nationalist president, would remove some of the criminal penalties for those who help women to access abortion care and allow terminations in cases of foetal abnormalities.

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European Commission calls accommodation website’s approach to fraudulent listings and phishing scams as ‘absolutely substandard’

EU regulators have opened an investigation into Booking.com, alleging that the accommodation website has not done enough to protect consumers from fake listings and scams.

The European Commission, which regulates the world’s biggest tech companies operating in the EU, said Booking.com may have breached the EU’s Digital Services Act (DSA) with its “absolutely substandard” approach to tackling fraudulent listings and phishing scams, where criminals impersonate a third party to trick people to hand over money.

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After months of controversy over the possible use of AI by winners of prestigious awards, the Prix Pascal de Littérature IA is rewarding fiction written with the help of LLMs

A prize for AI-written books has launched this week.

The Prix Pascal de Littérature IA invites submissions of manuscripts co-written with AI tools, with the winner promised publication.

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Cute robots stole the show at Nvidia's GTC keynote in Berlin, where Jensen Huang pitched a future powered by AI agents – and, naturally, plenty of his company's hardware. The Nvidia chief remained his usual ebullient self despite environmental protesters interrupting his presentation at Berlin's tent-shaped Tempodrom. "Why don't you clean up your act?" they demanded, holding up banners that partially obscured the presentation screen behind Huang. "All important issues, but let me get through my keynote," he joked, adding: "I'll talk to you guys later," as security swiftly removed them. Huang was discussing Vera Rubin systems before unveiling DSX POD, a reference design for factory-built, containerized AI infrastructure. DSX POD combines seven liquid-cooled Vera Rubin compute racks using Nvidia's Spectrum-X networking. Partners will cable, integrate, and test the systems in modular containers before delivery, with availability expected in early 2027. Nvidia claims deployment could shrink from six months to as little as 14 days at a prepared site. That excludes the not insignificant matter of getting power, connectivity, and other site infrastructure ready first. He was keen to add that Vera Rubin systems are designed for closed-loop liquid cooling with coolant temperatures up to 45°C, while outdoor dry coolers release heat into the air without needing to evaporate water. "At 2 gigawatts, DSX can save 54 million litres of water a day," Huang claimed, perhaps thinking of those environmental protesters. Yet much of the leather-jacketed leader's attention was focused on physical AI: robots, autonomous vehicles, and other machinery Nvidia hopes to supply with its hardware and software. The Microducks from Pollen Robotics are small, two-legged robots with cameras for faces. Huang interacted with them on stage, getting them to lie down and roll over by voice command, and the little robots all beeped back at him in response. The robo ducks demonstrated a workflow in which AI was trained in the cloud, evaluated on an Nvidia RTX Spark PC, then deployed on the robots. Huang also unveiled Agile ONE SN, a humanoid robot reference platform from German robotics startup Agile Robots, based on Nvidia's Isaac GR00T technology and a Jetson Thor compute module. Scheduled for early 2027, the platform is intended to give robotics researchers and developers a ready-made system for developing and testing capabilities. "This is going to be the next major industry, the next great industry," Huang claimed. Beyond robots, Nvidia is pushing its AI hardware and software into cars and telecoms networks. Huang boasted that Nvidia's Hyperion car system is being adopted by more vendors, saying: "We turned this into an industry standard, and now it's being designed into one car fleet after another." Europe's telecoms operators are also deploying Nvidia-powered computing in their networks to deliver advanced services using AI-RAN, according to Huang. "After working on this for nearly eight years, Nvidia made the first commercial phone call on the T-Mobile network with Nokia, and so now CUDA makes phone calls," he said. Far from slowing down the progression of AI, it seems Nvidia is determined to push its technology into every corner of the world. "Everyone will become an AI company," Huang claimed. He also took care to praise Europe and its technology efforts while he was in Berlin. "As expected, Jensen positioned Nvidia as a strong supporter of – and enabler for – Europe's sovereign tech ambitions. Nvidia has invested almost $10 billion into Europe in the past year, including 14 investments into European startups during Jensen's current trip," said Forrester principal analyst Paul Miller. But Miller pointed out that Nvidia itself is not European. "Anything with critical ongoing dependencies on Nvidia (or any other non-European firm) is unlikely to meet the purest definitions of European tech sovereignty," he added. Huang closed with a CGI video of robots performing a Eurovision-style song recapping his keynote. Yes, it was as bad as you imagine. ®