Company tries to curb strain by banning customer accounts for 'malicious' usage

Google customers paying $250 per month for AI Ultra subscriptions and less extravagant spenders have been surprised to find their accounts suspended for using the company's Antigravity agent development app and Gemini services with third-party agent tools like OpenClaw and OpenCode.…

Blood omega-3 is inversely related to risk of early-onset dementia (incidence drops from 0.19% to 0.11%).

What I Found When I Tried to Walk Across Dallas in a Day On two different days in May, Jeffrey McWhorter walked across Dallas, beginning at the southernmost edge, traversing through the center, and ending at the northern limit. He initially thought the trip would take just one day, but he realized he wanted more time to take photographs and talk to the people he met. There are 53 photos of people and places that you've never seen before. Unless you live in Dallas, of course. (archive link if you've used up your one free story at Texas Monthly)

GENÈVE (ANP/AFP) - Amerikaanse functionarissen voeren in Genève gesprekken met Russische en Chinese delegaties over kernwapens. Maandag spraken ze al met de Russen, dinsdag volgen de Chinezen, meldt een hooggeplaatst figuur van het Amerikaanse buitenlandministerie.

Eerder deze maand liep het kernwapenverdrag New START tussen de Verenigde Staten en Rusland af. Moskou wilde de afspraken verlengen, maar Washington stelde dat het verdrag zinloos was als China niet mee zou doen. Beijing heeft dat idee tot nog toe afgehouden.

De VS meldden maandag nog dat het Chinese wapenarsenaal "enorm" zou zijn toegenomen. Maar China stelt dat het aantal nucleaire wapens nog onvergelijkbaar is met wat de Amerikanen en de Russen hebben.

Volgens de Amerikaanse functionaris gaat het om "voorbereidende" gesprekken. De VS zouden de afgelopen weken ook meerdere keren hebben overlegd met Frankrijk en het Verenigd Koninkrijk, die ook allebei over kernwapens beschikken.

Duizenden ambtenaren krijgen deze week (alweer!) een nieuwe baas. Maar ook voor alle andere mensen met een nieuwe leidinggevende: hoe zorg je voor een goede eerste indruk? Slijmen of tegengas geven? Eerlijk zijn of liegen? Japke-d. Bouma zet de beste tips op een rijtje.

Sinners film-maker’s much-anticipated relaunch of the paranormal hit show finally receives official green light

Ryan Coogler’s reboot of The X-Files has received the official green light with Danielle Deadwyler set as the first co-lead.

The film-maker behind Black Panther and Sinners has long talked about his love for the hit paranormal drama series and how he wants to make some new episodes that are “really fucking scary”.

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Study released a day before State of the Union address shows president has lost support among Republicans

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Most US adults think Donald Trump is moving the country in the wrong direction during his second presidency, according to a new NPR/PBS News/Marist poll released the day before his State of the Union speech.

Fifty-five percent of adults feel that Trump is changing the country for the worse, a 13-point increase from around the same time of his first presidency, the survey conducted from 27 to 30 January found.

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Other nations are catching up with the US in its traditional strengths such as snowboarding. But that’s not necessarily a bad thing for Americans

In 2002, on home ice and snow in Utah, the USA obliterated its records for most gold medals (10, beating the previous high of six) and most overall medals (34, more than two times the previous high of 13) by the country in a single Winter Olympics.

In 2026, the USA broke that national record for gold medals with 12, and broke the 30-medal mark for the first time outside North America (Norway broke the overall record with 18 golds).

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Alan Taylor has shared a bunch of photos of the just-concluded Winter Olympics “featuring infrared imaging, vintage cameras, optical filters, digital composites, unusual angles, unexpected subjects, and more”. Two of my favorites:

The first photo is of a curling match taken by Ryan Pierse with a vintage camera. Taylor:

Images in this series were captured using vintage Graflex cameras, paying tribute to the type of camera that would have been used 70 years ago when Cortina previously hosted the games in 1956. In a modern twist, these cameras have been adapted to record images on smartphones, enabling live transmission of the content captured.

The second is a composite image of the women’s snowboard halfpipe final by Hector Vivas, a technique popularized in recent years by Pelle Cass.

See also photos of the Winter Olympics using thermal imaging cameras.

Tags: 2026 Winter Olympics · Olympic Games · photography · sports

Broken circle, en haar iets minder bekende tegenhanger, spiral hill. 3.5 uur met de trein, het regent en het waait. Ik voel dat deze hele excursie niets anders dan teleurstelling kan voortbrengen, er is immers [Meer...]