Tijdens een gezamenlijke persconferentie met de Syrische president Ahmed al-Sharaa sprak Merz de verwachting uit dat het overgrote deel van de Syrische vluchtelingen in Duitsland de komende jaren zal terugkeren. Syriërs die ‘goed geïntegreerd’ zijn, kunnen volgens Merz wel blijven.

Dead at 82, Glen Baxter

DEN HAAG (ANP) - De plotseling overleden Surinaamse oud-president Chan Santokhi heeft volgens premier Rob Jetten veel betekend voor zowel Suriname als Nederland. Santokhi stierf maandag onverwacht op 67-jarige leeftijd in Paramaribo.

"Als president, en in zijn andere rollen, heeft hij veel betekend voor Suriname. Ook heeft hij zich onvermoeibaar ingezet voor de banden tussen Nederland en Suriname", aldus Jetten. Hij zegt "bedroefd en geschokt" te zijn door het overlijden van de oud-president.

Jetten heeft namens het kabinet zijn condoleances voor het Surinaamse volk overgebracht aan president Jennifer Simons.

PARIJS (ANP) - Céline Dion heeft een concertreeks in Parijs aangekondigd. Het gaat om een reeks van tien concerten. De eerste optredens zijn in september, meldt zij op Instagram.

De zangeres treedt al jaren vrijwel niet meer op en is nauwelijks in de openbaarheid, omdat ze lijdt aan het stiff-personsyndroom. In 2024 trad ze eenmalig op tijdens de openingsceremonie van de Olympische Spelen in Parijs.

• De Zerbi is only candidate currently talking to Spurs

• Tottenham intend to give Italian a long-term contract

Roberto De Zerbi has moved closer to becoming Tottenham’s new manager after further negotiations on Monday. The club have made him their prime target to replace Igor Tudor and save them from what would be a ruinous relegation to the Championship.

De Zerbi is in fact the only live candidate given that Spurs are not talking to anyone else. The makeup of his backroom staff has also been discussed.

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Tim Sweeney, chief of firm that created Fortnite, received backlash after worker’s wife revealed loss of life insurance

The chief of the company that created Fortnite, a popular online game, has issued an apology following backlash after recent mass layoffs cost an employee with terminal brain cancer his job – and his life insurance.

On Sunday, Tim Sweeney, the Epic Games chief executive, apologized after Jenni Griffin, the wife of Mike Prinke, a laid off employee, revealed on social media that the loss of her husband’s job also meant he was losing his life insurance.

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Stanford study outlines dangers of asking AI for personal advice: TechCrunch reports "The study, titled "Sycophantic AI decreases prosocial intentions and promotes dependence" and recently published in Science, argues, "AI sycophancy is not merely a stylistic issue or a niche risk, but a prevalent behavior with broad downstream consequences." - TechCrunch

"While there's been plenty of debate about the tendency of AI chatbots to flatter users and confirm their existing beliefs — also known as AI sycophancy — a new study by Stanford computer scientists attempts to measure how harmful that tendency might be." - TechCrunch "The study had two parts. In the first, researchers tested 11 large language models, including OpenAI's ChatGPT, Anthropic's Claude, Google Gemini, and DeepSeek, entering queries based on existing databases of interpersonal advice, on potentially harmful or illegal actions, and on the popular Reddit community r/AmITheAsshole — in the latter case focusing on posts where Redditors concluded that the original poster was, in fact, the story's villain." TLDR: Turns out current AI LLM models are reeeeallly good at regurgitating positive word vomit, specifically designed, to encourage the end user to do whatever they were thinking of doing, regardless of what that behaviour actually is/was. The LLM model's aren't 'tricking' users or 'hallucinating' or anything other than pumping out compliments and encouragement because the designers of the LLM's known that positive reinforcement is what keeps people using (and more importantly paying to use) the LLM's.

Leent traditionele qawwali zich voor Europese klassieke orchestratie? Behoorlijk goed, zo blijkt uit deze co-productie tussen dit qawwali-ensemble onder leiding van Abi Sampa het Schots kamerorkest.

Samen met Rushil Ranjan ontwikkelde Sampa het concept van ‘orchestral qawwali’. Hadden ze net pech dat ze in de coronatijd begonnen…

A digital exploration of folk-art aesthetics and mystical symbolism. This series focuses on the harmony between geometric shapes, grainy textures, and ancient-inspired characters. Each piece is a visual talisman, weaving a story through birds, cats, and hidden keys.

For the "foreseeable future," Sony says it has stopped accepting new orders for most of its CFexpress and SD memory card lines due to the an ongoing memory supply shortage. "Due to the global shortage of semiconductors (memory) and other factors, it is anticipated that supply will not be able to meet demand for CFexpress memory cards and SD memory cards for the foreseeable future," the company said in a notice. "Therefore, we have decided to temporarily suspend the acceptance of orders from our authorized dealers and from customers at the Sony Store from March 27, 2026 onwards. PetaPixel reports: The suspension includes all of Sony's memory card lines, including CFexpress Type A, CFexpress Type B, and SD cards. The 240GB, 480GB, 960GB, and 1920GB capacity Type A cards have been suspended, as have the 480GB and 240GB Type B cards. The full gamut of Sony's high-end SD cards has also been suspended, including the 256GB, 128GB, and 64GB TOUGH-branded cards and the lower-end 512GB, 256GB, 128GB, and 256GB plainly-branded Sony cards, which cap out at V60 speeds. Even Sony's lower-end, V30 128GB and 64GB SD cards have been suspended, showcasing that the SSD shortage affects all types of solid state, not just the high-end ones.

It appears that only the 960GB CFexpress Type B card and the lowest-end SF-UZ series SD cards remain in production. However, those UHS-I SD cards are discontinued in the United States outside of a scant few retailers and resellers. "We sincerely apologize for any inconvenience this may cause our customers," Sony concludes.

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