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From the archive:‘I feel like I’m selling my soul’: inside the crisis at Juventus – podcast

We are raiding the Guardian long read archives to bring you some classic pieces from years past, with new introductions from the authors.

This week, from 2023: a series of financial scandals have rocked Italy’s most glamorous club. But is the trouble at Juventus symptomatic of a deeper rot in world football?

By Tobias Jones. Read by Daniel Alexander

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Spider-Noir review – Nicolas Cage’s stylish take on the superhero as a 1940s detective is huge fun

All smoke, shady dames and black and white cinematography, Marvel’s latest Spidey offering is fast, witty and confident

As is increasingly, wearyingly, the case as the Marvel Cinematic Universe continues to expand/bloat/chase the dollar in an ever-more unseemly and less rewarding manner – delete according to taste – Prime Video’s new series, Spider-Noir, requires you to set aside some lore while retaining other bits. Thus I should point out that the arachno-inflected human being brought to you here is played by Nicolas Cage but is not the spider character that he played in 2018’s Spider-man: Into the Spiderverse, although he sounds a lot alike. That one was called Peter Parker, as is traditional. This one’s called Ben Reilly. Why you would still cast one of the most divisively idiosyncratic performers in modern cinematic history – who can no more be dissociated from any of his previous parts by the average human brain than the concept of sourness can be uncoupled from a lemon, sweetness from honey, or Nigel Farage’s face from that of a melting frog’s – is beyond me, but I guess … that’s Hollywood?

As the title suggests, Spider-Noir has been conceived as a homage to the hard-boiled films and fictions of the 1940s. The whole thing was filmed in black and white and digitally colourised thereafter, so that viewers can choose in which form they want to watch it. I look forward to online wars breaking out over this issue, upon which I shall remain Switzerland. Except to say that the decision to colourise a noir homage was a craven one in the first place – never give the people what they want! – and the decision to watch such a version is worse.

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‘Excuse me, can I have my rug back?’ The agony of losing your furniture as well as your soulmate

When your heart is breaking, and you are leaving the home where you and your ex were once so happy, it is hard to fight for the sofa you spent a fortune on. Then you find yourself in an empty flat, with nothing to sit on

When wandering around Ikea arm-in-arm, most newly cohabiting couples are too excited about their new sofa, or Billy bookcase, or the enormous house plant they are about to wrestle into an Uber, to think too deeply about what might happen to those items were their relationship to sour. But at a time when many young couples can’t afford to buy property or have children, furniture can end up being the only thing to fight over at the end of a relationship. And, as the cost of living rises, having to replace furniture after a breakup can have a huge impact on people’s finances.

“It took me a couple of years to recover financially,” says Becca of her 2022 breakup. The 35-year-old, who is based in Leeds, had been in a relationship for about a year when her then-girlfriend invited her to move in to her house. At the time, Becca was renting her own flat, which was “amazing: big garden, really bright and lovely”, she says. But being what she describes as “young, stupid and in love”, she left that behind to move in with her partner. Becca reluctantly agreed to get rid of all the furniture she had bought for her flat, since her girlfriend didn’t want any of it in her place.

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Tokyo Japan

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Tokyo Japan

Tokyo never actually sleeps; it just changes its skin. When the sun drops below the horizon, the corporate gloss fades away, and the city’s true pulse begins under a massive neon canopy.

A sheer vertical wall of light compressing the dense energy of Shinjuku's iconic nightlife district into a single frame. By exposing strictly for the blazing lightboxes and towering billboards, the modern architecture fades entirely into the background, leaving an electric geometric maze hovering over the compressed crowds below.

The magic happens in that high-contrast tension: it strips away modern distractions and leaves only the pure, raw energy of the light and the silhouettes walking through it.

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Iwasaki Village, Aomori, Japan
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Cisco making SONiC available to all customers – not just hyperscalers

Cisco is close to allowing customers to run the SONiC network operating system on its flagship Nexus 9000 series datacenter switches. SONiC – aka “Software for Open Networking in the Cloud” – is a Linux Foundation project that develops an open source network operating system (NOS) capable of running on diverse switches and silicon. The project started life at Microsoft, which adapted the software from its Debian-based Azure Cloud Switch. The project is widely adopted by hyperscalers, who need and like customizable stacks. Hyperscalers also buy plenty of networking hardware from the likes of Cisco, Juniper, and Arista, who therefore support SONiC. Some vendors, notably Dell, have argued that SONiC is ideal for enterprise networking – especially switching – and supported it while promoting the cause of NOS choice. A corollary of that idea suggests that users might stop buying all their networking hardware from one vendor, and buy diverse fleets of SONiC-capable hardware instead. That mostly hasn’t happened, but the times have come to suit SONiC because one of the roles in which hyperscalers put it to work is running the networks they use to power AI services. Many organizations have very good reasons not to run AI in the cloud or other hosted environments. SONiC on everyday datacenter hardware is therefore an idea whose time has come. Enter Cisco, which has supported SONiC on its routers for years and last week quietly mentioned it will soon extend that support to its N9000 datacenter switches. “The N9000 Series is expanding to include a foundation for SONiC, built on Cisco Cloud Scale and Silicon One – alongside platforms powered by NVIDIA Spectrum-X Ethernet switch silicon for AI-class fabrics,” the post we linked to above states. “These platforms give customers a consistent hardware layer for a wide range of leaf-spine and AI/ML topologies.” “Our open choice model will extend this flexibility to the N9000, giving customers the future option to run SONiC for AI or non-AI clusters, while maintaining their existing Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) or NX-OS environments on the same proven hardware, ensuring investment protection and simplifying lifecycle management.” The networking giant said its support for SONiC includes “hardening the stack and backing it with Cisco Technical Assistance Center (TAC), while integration with Nexus Dashboard provides familiar tools for automated bring-up and health monitoring.” A Cisco spokesperson told The Register the post we’ve linked to above effectively represents an announcement that it will soon make support for SONiC generally available. ®

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Uitbreiding landelijke jeugdbevoegdheden voor boa's per 1 juni

UTRECHT (ANP) - Buitengewoon opsporingsambtenaren (boa's) in de openbare ruimte krijgen uitgebreidere mogelijkheden bij strafbare feiten gepleegd door jongeren. Per 1 juni 2026 kunnen deze boa's minderjarigen een reprimande geven of naar Halt verwijzen, zo maakte de stichting Halt bekend. De uitbreiding moet bijdragen aan meer rechtsgelijkheid en een pedagogische omgang met jongeren.

Bij kleine vergrijpen als overlast op straat, baldadigheid of alcoholbezit kan een politieagent jongeren een reprimande geven of naar Halt verwijzen voor een leertraject. Een boa kan op dit moment voor de meeste feiten alleen een boete geven.

Als de boa ook een pedagogische maatregel mag treffen, past dat in het streven om jongeren zoveel mogelijk buiten het strafrecht te houden. Bij een boete krijgt een jongere in sommige gevallen een strafblad, met mogelijk nare gevolgen voor de toekomst.

Volgens de stichting Halt wordt de maatregel toegejuicht door de Vereniging van Nederlandse Gemeenten (VNG) en de politie. Na een half jaar voeren het Openbaar Ministerie, de politie, de VNG en Halt een tussentijdse evaluatie uit.


Samsung-medewerkers ontvangen miljoenenpremies voor chipproductie

SEJONG (ANP) - Vakbonden en bedrijfsvertegenwoordigers bij het Zuid-Koreaanse technologieconcern Samsung hebben een akkoord goedgekeurd waarin de chipmedewerkers gigantische premies worden beloofd.

De vakbonden hadden gedreigd met een staking van 18 dagen. Die is door het akkoord afgewend. Samsung belooft om de komende tien jaar 10,5 procent van de winst van het bedrijf in de vorm van aandelen uit te keren aan alle medewerkers die op de halfgeleiderafdeling werken.

De deal is wel afhankelijk van de winsten die het bedrijf de komende jaren maakt. Om aanspraak te maken op de bonus moet de chipafdeling jaarlijks zo'n 132 miljard dollar opbrengen, aldus het Zuid-Koreaanse persbureau Yonhap. Na 2028 wordt de winstverwachting bijgesteld naar de helft van dat bedrag.

Voor een deel van de personeelsleden, zo'n 28.000 volgens Yonhap, betekent het akkoord dat ze meer dan een half miljoen dollar per jaar aan bonussen kunnen opstrijken. In totaal kunnen 78.000 van de 125.000 medewerkers in Zuid-Korea van de overeenkomst profiteren.

De deal werd door 73,7 procent van de leden van de twee grootste vakbonden goedgekeurd.


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