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Op de sociale media benadrukten Saoediërs na Houthi-aanvallen op het vliegveld van Riad dat hun levens gewoon doorgaan. Maar zij mogen niet vrij hun mening uiten. De verstoorde rust in Saoedi-Arabië vormt economisch wel degelijk een groot probleem.

Een hacker kon eenvoudig het Deense bevolkingsregister binnenkomen, waarbij hij dankzij AI binnen enkele dagen miljoenen gegevens verzamelde. Niet AI, maar „het grootste probleem is dat er veel data wordt verzameld zonder dat de Denen weten wat, waar en hoe”, zegt expert Thomas Ploug.

Europese landen liepen weg tijdens overleg tussen de 191 lidstaten van het Internationaal Monetair Fonds, toen de Russische minister sprak. Ook over de benaming van AI en over klimaatverandering als economische factor was onenigheid.

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Harrie Lavreysen was net als de afgelopen jaren de beste Nederlander met zijn titels op de sprint, keirin en teamsprint (samen met Roy van den Berg en Jeffrey Hoogland). Hoogland werd voor de vijfde keer wereldkampioen op de kilometer tijdrit, het onderdeel dat titelhouder Lavreysen dit jaar oversloeg. Lorena Wiebes veroverde het goud op de scratch voordat ze door een val haar wereldtitel op het omnium kwijtraakte.

Hetty van de Wouw stelde teleur met alleen zilver op de kilometer tijdrit, na haar drie wereldtitels van vorig jaar op de sprint, tijdrit en teamsprint. Sofie van Rooijen veroverde in Shanghai het brons op de tijdrit.

Nederland was vorig jaar in Chili verreweg het beste land met negen keer goud.

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Berhanu duelleerde in de slotfase met de Keniaan Nicholas Kipkorir. Met een versnelling kort na het 40-kilometerpunt nam de 32-jarige Ethiopiër geleidelijk afstand van de Keniaan en soleerde hij naar de zege.

Russian air defense units downed 1,015 Ukrainian drones over Russian regions overnight, the Russian Defense Ministry said.

BoingBoing reports:
Mark Stephens, better known under the pen name Robert X. Cringely, died last week at 73. Stephens chronicled the tech industry of the late 1980s and early 1990s — the age of Bill Gates' rise, Steve Jobs' repose, the dawn of the world wide web — and produced the famed documetary Triumph of the Nerds, based on his own bestselling Accidental Empires: How the Boys of Silicon Valley Make Their Millions, Battle Foreign Competition, and Still Can't Get a Date.

Though not the first InfoWorld columnist to write under the Cringely name, he was responsible for its persona and fought successfully to keep it after he left the magazine in 1995.

"I loved the man," writes Darth Technoid (Slashdot reader #83,199):

I first met him in the 1990s, while he was still working at InfoWorld, and we became friends immediately. He helped me get a job or two, and he was always filled with crazy (meaning really good) ideas.

I'll miss him and his creativity greatly.

Cringely answered questions from Slashdot's readers in 2000. And Cringely led an interesting life, as you can tell from Slashdot's January, 2020 story Robert Cringely Attempts an Air-Launching Space Startup:

"How does a 67-year-old hack with three minor children recover from going blind, losing his home and business in a horrible fire (like 2,000 others, we are still fighting with insurance companies), while appeasing an angry crowd of Kickstarter supporters armed with pitchforks and shovels?"

That crowd still wants long-time tech pundit Robert X. Cringely to deliver on his Kickstarter-funded project to create custom Minecraft servers. So in a new blog post this week, Cringely writes that "I went looking for venture money to recapitalize MineServer and I simultaneously started a satellite launch company to fund my eventual retirement. I am not making this up..."

He's now found a Beverly Hills patron who wants to be a co-investor in the Minecraft servers, but "I will have to earn the matching money on my own, which is what I have been trying to do with my other startup, Eldorado Space."


Slashdot has often linked to Cringely's commentary over the years, as far back as 1998 and as recently as this summer. ("Tech Pundit Cringely Co-Founds Startup '2Brains Inc' to Solve LLM Hallucinations.")
July, 1999: Cringely's take on "Pirates of Silicon Valley"
April, 2009: Three Mile Island Memories
June, 2011: IBM Did Not Invent the Personal Computer
March, 2019: Cringely's Final Predictions: Apple Becomes a Financial Service and Hedge Fund
June, 2019: Cringely Predicts The End Of Broadcast TV Within A Decade

April, 2020: Not Just 'The Death of IT'. Cringely Also Predicts Layoffs For Many IT Contractors
January, 2021: Robert Cringley Predicted 'The Death of IT' in 2020. Was He Right?
June, 2023: Cringely Predicts Moore's Law Will Continue — Because of AI


But my favorite Cringely memory is Steve Jobs: The Lost Interview, the full 70-minute interview from 1995 that a 40-year-old Jobs gave to Cringely during filming for Triumph of the Nerds. ("And they actually sent someone to wake up the Pope....") There's various pirated copies on YouTube and an online transcript, but only 10 minutes made the broadcast — at the time Jobs was still at NeXT after his departure from Apple. But when Cringely rediscovered the videotape, the entirety of the interview was released to theaters in 2012 six months after Steve Jobs' death.

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