Ruim 81 duizend klanten brachten afgelopen jaar in totaal 7,4 miljoen blikjes en flesjes naar de eerste statiegeldwinkel van Nederland in winkelcentrum Keizerswaard, Die cijfers maakt Statiegeld Nederland bekend aan Rijnmond, exact een jaar na de opening. "We zijn meer dan tevreden", zegt Miranda Boer

Op een oefenterrein van de brandweer in Dordrecht is donderdag brand uitgebroken. Het was bij Spinel Veiligheidscentrum, op het oude Falck-terrein op het industrieterrein Dordtse Kil III. Het was een 'echte' brand die niets met de oefening te maken had.

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In an exclusive interview from prison, Sadia Moalim Ali, a 27-year-old rickshaw driver, tells of her treatment after being arrested for demonstrating against the government

A woman being held in prison in Somalia for taking part in peaceful protests has described how she was tortured by her guards.

Sadia Moalim Ali, 27, told the Guardian she was stripped naked by two male guards in a room monitored by CCTV, kicked, beaten with a baton and left for two days in a small cell without food.

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World is approaching point where no one can shut down a rogue AI, says director of body behind research

It’s the stuff of science fiction cinema, or particularly breathless AI company blogposts: new research finds recent AI systems can independently copy themselves on to other computers.

In the doom scenario, this means that when the superintelligent AI goes rogue, it will escape shutdown by seeding itself across the world wide web, lurking outside the reach of frantic IT professionals and continuing to plot world domination or paving over the world with solar panels.

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For 400 years, The Hare and Hounds in Bowland Bridge offered a warm welcome to locals and travellers. Then the rent doubled. With two pubs a day closing in England and Wales, can the community save this 17th-century gem?

The Hare and Hounds in Bowland Bridge, a few miles from Windermere, is exactly how you’d want a Lakeland pub to be. A pretty 17th-century stone building, whitewashed, with a couple of dormer windows poking up from the slate roof and a view of the fells, it was originally a coaching inn on the route from Manchester to Glasgow.

It is not, however, looking its best today. We arrive in a proper Cumbrian downpour. It should be warm and welcoming, with a place by the wood-burner to dry out and down a pint of Wainwright, perhaps. But the door is shut, the curtains drawn in one of the downstairs windows and no sign of life through the other. Attached to the front of the building is a sign; not a pub sign (the name of the pub is painted elegantly in grey over the door), this one has another message: FOR SALE.

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Google Chrome will steal 4 GB of disk space from your computer for its local large language model unless you opted out. It's called weights.bin and it's stored in a folder called OptGuideOnDeviceModel. What's more, if you track down the file and delete it, Chrome will download a fresh copy and reinstate it. The discovery was announced this week by Alexander Hanff, who blogs as "the Privacy Guy," in a somewhat sensationally titled blog post: Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent. At a billion-device scale the climate costs are insane. It doesn't seem to be new, though: there are signs that Chrome has been doing this for quite some time. In April 2025, this Reddit post suggests the model was "just" 3 GB, but a Stack Overflow question says that by November 2025 it was already up to 4 GB. We would not be at all surprised if soon it went to five. This the what Google calls the "Nano" version of its Gemini local LLM, which powers its Prompt API. That page links to general info about Google's Gemini LLM, but the site about its use on Android has some specific info about Gemini Nano. The Reg FOSS desk is an unapologetic AI skeptic and disabled every option they could find pertaining to AI usage in Chrome as early as possible, and as far as we can see, we did not have the local model installed on any of our computers. For instance, on our increasingly geriatric iMac, we checked with this macOS terminal command: find ~/Library/Application\ Support/Google/Chrome -size +1G -ls 2>/dev/null We also searched the entire C: drive of a ThinkPad reinstalled with Windows 10 IoT LTSC last year and there was no weights.bin anywhere. If you didn't opt out, Google has some info on how to disable it. In brief: in Chrome's address box, enter the special URL chrome://flags. In the resulting page, look for an entry named optimization-guide-on-device-model and set it to Disabled, then restart Chrome. The browser should then delete the weights.bin file. In theory, you can also use your OS to block this – or deploy enterprise policies, if you're free to set your own. (With any luck, soon this will be part of the Just The Browser policy that we reported on in January.) The Reddit post we linked above says that Windows users can set a Registry key. Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Google\Chrome, create a DWORD key called GenAILocalFoundationalModelSettings and set it to 1, then restart Chrome. We've not tried this ourselves – our barely used Windows install doesn't have a Google tree in there at all. The late great Grace Hopper used to hand out 30 cm (roughly 1 foot) lengths of wire as physical examples of a nanosecond: that's how far light can travel in one billionth of a second. If Google considers a 4 GB model to be "nano" sized, then it puts Hanff's hyperbolic comment about the climate footprint into real perspective. It gives a hint of the size of the real gigantic models in the datacenters metastasizing across the world. A recent study led by Grace Liu at Carnegie-Mellon found that regular AI use caused measurable cognitive impairment. It's worth thinking carefully about what we trade away when we outsource our thinking and, separately, what the planet pays to power the systems we're outsourcing it to. We suggest you turn it off now, everywhere you can. ®

And so it begins. Eerst krijg je: "Een stewardess uit Haarlem is in het ziekenhuis opgenomen vanwege een mogelijke besmetting met het hantavirus. Ze was in Johannesburg (Zuid-Afrika) in contact gekomen met de 69-jarige Nederlandse vrouw die een dag later overleed aan het hantavirus". Dan krijg je: het hantavirus vier je alleen in hele kleine groepen. Dan krijg je: we testen genoeg op het hantavirus en je hebt eigenlijk toch niks aan testen en we zijn hier geen Italiën. Dan krijg je: we bereiken vanzelf groepsimmuniteit tegen het hantavirus. En dan krijg je: helaas pindakaas 1600 euro boete voor een taartje eten iedereen binnen blijven niemand elkaar aanraken of aankijken maar wel aangeven als je iemand met drie of meer samenkomt kroegen dicht cafés dicht bars dicht bodega's dicht QR codes bekpampers hele rambam. Maar vooralsnog: geen paniek hoor. "Ze is op dit moment in isolatie en wordt getest op het virus." U kunt gerust kuch kuch ademhalen.

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