MEXICO-STAD (ANP/AFP) - Mexico maakt zich in een hoofdstad vol protesten op voor de openingswedstrijd van het WK voetbal. Twee dagen voor het eerste duel tussen Mexico en Zuid-Afrika zijn sommige wegen naar het Mexico City Stadium geblokkeerd door een demonstratie van een onderwijsvakbond. Van totale chaos is echter geen sprake. Het stadion is nog steeds bereikbaar voor media en vrijwilligers, die hun accreditaties moeten ophalen.
Mexico is voor de derde keer gastland van het WK. Het eindtoernooi vond eerder in 1970 en 1986 in het land plaats. Mexico deelt de organisatie nu met de VS en Canada. Van de 104 wedstrijden worden er dertien in Mexico gespeeld, waaronder het openingsduel.
Op het internationale vliegveld van Mexico-Stad zijn werklieden nog tot diep in de nacht aan het werk om alles in gereedheid te brengen. Dat gaat zichtbaar niet helemaal meer lukken voor de aftrap op donderdag om 13.00 uur (21.00 uur Nederlandse tijd).
President Claudia Sheinbaum noemde de protesten, waaronder wegblokkades en de vernieling van standbeelden die verband houden met het WK, een "provocatie". Ze sloot voorlopig een bevel aan de politie om de demonstraties te onderdrukken uit en zei dat ze "garandeert dat de openingsceremonie van het WK soepel, vreedzaam en rustig zal verlopen".
CrankGPT. “Just a hand crank, a little computer, and a small stack of speech and language models running locally. Provided the electronics are kept dry and at a reasonable temperature, there’s no reason this thing won’t still work in a thousand years.”
From the beaded phrases of Jeffrey Gibson’s sculptural weavings to Jaune Quick-to-See Smith’s canoe series to Raven Halfmoon’s fingerprint-textured tributes, a new exhibition marks the largest presentation of American Indigenous work in the U.K. to date.
Opening next week, Hold to This Earth at Yorkshire Sculpture Park features nearly 70 pieces by 38 artists, which in turn represent 35 Tribal Nations. “(The artists) reference and honour ancestral knowledge whilst being steadfastly contemporary, asserting a powerful presence and countering narratives of erasure that too often position Indigenous cultures only in terms of the past,” says a statement from Tia Collection, from which the pieces are drawn.
Colossal readers will recognize works by Cannupa Hanska Luger, Dyani White Hawk, Nicholas Galanin, and more. The range of media highlights the diverse materials and approaches that Indigenous contemporary artists use and nods to cultural traditions, heritage crafts, and precious landscapes while also considering socio-economic issues, visibility and representation, and technology.
“Materials such as clay, hide, wool, beads, and natural pigments become carriers of powerful stories, memory, and tradition, rooted in connection to the earth,” says Tia Collection. “Newer modes of expression and understanding growing out of digital culture also speak to the shifting landscapes of Indigenous life in the 21st century.”
Hold to This Earth opens on June 13 and continues through April 18, 2027, in Wakefield. Keep up with exhibitions featuring works from the Tia Collection on Instagram.
My day job is at a rural branch of a public library, and we have a Pride display. Yesterday I was at the desk when a man came in. Fifties, maybe, or sixties. Plaid shirt, mesh trucker cap, suspenders. He went up to the display and just stood there for a long moment. Then he came up to the desk. Not gonna lie, I braced. I mentally ran through the spiel I've prepared for when someone complains about a display. Especially a Pride display. It doesn't happen often, but it happens enough. Freedom to read. Something in the collection for everyone. Here's my supervisor's card.
An anonymous reader quotes a report from 404 Media: Microsoft has shut down a wave of its own repositories on GitHub, including those related to Azure and AI coding agents, as it investigates a data breach, according to research from cybersecurity researchers and a statement given to 404 Media by Microsoft. Hackers planted malware that would harvest peoples' credentials when they opened it in AI coding tools like Claude Code or Gemini CLI, according to one set of researchers. The exact contours of the breach are unclear, but researchers say Microsoft has disabled more than 70 of its own repositories, and pointed to a particular package that was previously compromised.
Last week, cybersecurity website OpenSourceMalware.com, which acts as a clearing house for indicators of supply chain attacks so defenders can secure their own networks, and which also publishes its own write-ups, wrote about the mass disabling of Microsoft GitHub repositories. "GitHub disabled 73 Microsoft repositories across four of its GitHub organizations -- the entire Azure Functions org, the whole Durable Task family, and a row of AI sample apps -- in a 105-second sweep on June 5," the website wrote on Friday. Is it very unusual for any company, let alone Microsoft, to disable so many of its own repositories in one go. They include 49 related to Azure, Microsoft's cloud computing arm, and some concerning AI agents. The shutdown repositories also include ones related to durabletask, a Microsoft development tool.
Researchers from StepSecurity wrote on Friday that the GitHub closures came after a malicious commit was pushed to the durabletask repository. That attack planted configuration files that would harvest peoples' credentials when they opened the repository in Claude Code, Gemini CLI, Cursor, or VS Code, StepSecurity wrote. Microsoft said in a statement: "Our priority is to protect customers and the broader ecosystem. We temporarily removed some repositories as we investigated potential malicious content. Some of these repos have been restored after review, while others may remain offline while work continues. As part of our investigation, we notified a small number of customers who may have pulled down content from the affected repositories. We will continue to investigate, and if anything further is identified that requires customer action, we will reach out directly through our established support channels."
Players from both teams say incidents are unacceptable
Players from both teams in the NBA finals have condemned apparent attacks on San Antonio Spurs fans by supporters of the New York Knicks.
Videos circulating on social media showed Spurs fans having their jerseys ripped off on the streets of New York in the aftermath of the Knicks’ loss in Game 3 of the finals at Madison Square Garden.
De politie heeft dinsdagochtend twee tieners aangehouden in een onderzoek naar zes aanslagen in Zeeland. Het gaat om een 18-jarige Rotterdammer en een 19-jarige man uit Spijkenisse. Beide mannen zijn in hun woningen aangehouden. Wat hun precieze rol is geweest rond de aanslagen was, is niet bekend.
