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WASHINGTON (ANP/RTR) - De Amerikaanse president Donald Trump heeft aangekondigd dat TrumpRx.gov nu ook generieke medicijnen zal gaan aanbieden. TrumpRx.gov is een door de overheid gesteunde website die kortingen biedt op receptgeneesmiddelen.
"Ik ben verheugd aan te kondigen dat we het aantal medicijnen dat beschikbaar is op TrumpRx bijna verzevenvoudigen, door meer dan 600 betaalbare generieke middelen aan de website toe te voegen", zei Trump tijdens een evenement in het Witte Huis.
Zestien grote farmaceutische bedrijven spraken eerder al met het Witte Huis af hun prijzen te verlagen in ruil voor vrijstelling van Amerikaanse invoertarieven. Die prijsverlagingen gelden onder meer voor de medicijnen op de website.
Nintendo is trying to secure a touchscreen-specific monster-catching patent that could be relevant to Palworld Mobile. Japan's patent office has initially rejected the application for lacking an inventive step over prior art, but the company could appeal or amend the claims. Games Fray reports: The Japan Patent Office (JPO) has now made a new monster-catching patent application by Nintendo public. Patent Application No. 2026-019762 covers monster-catching of the kind already asserted against the PC and console versions of Palworld and is from the same patent family as two of the three patents Nintendo is already asserting against Palworld, but with a touchscreen focus. Potential targets are the upcoming Palworld Mobile game and Tencent's Roco Kingdom: World, which is presently available only in China but likely to expand internationally. Nintendo filed the application this year with a request for a fast-tracked review. The JPO has indeed been quick, and the response is that Nintendo's application lacks an inventive step over the prior art.
Nintendo already amended the claims in February and can try to amend them again. It can try to persuade the examiner and potentially appeal the decision. But the initial rejection suggests that Nintendo will not obtain the desired touchscreen monster-catching patent quickly. The rejection was communicated on April 24, 2026. Nintendo could abandon the application now, but Nintendo being Nintendo, they are more likely to try to persuade the examiner to arrive at a different conclusion, even though the reasons for the rejection are strong. In many patent examination processes, the initial rejection is essentially just an invitation to present one's best arguments. Here, however, the rejection notice is so well-reasoned that it will be an uphill battle for Nintendo. Nintendo's application would cover a touchscreen-controlled game in which a player moves through "a field in a virtual space," uses "a capture item for capturing a field character," and can summon "a battle character" to fight that creature. During combat, the game would display "a plurality of commands including at least an attack command and an item command," selected through "an operation input using the touch panel."
The key claim is that when the capture item is used "during a battle" or "in a non-battle state," the game performs "a capture success determination," and, if successful, "the field character is captured and set to a state owned by the player."
Nintendo already amended the claims in February and can try to amend them again. It can try to persuade the examiner and potentially appeal the decision. But the initial rejection suggests that Nintendo will not obtain the desired touchscreen monster-catching patent quickly. The rejection was communicated on April 24, 2026. Nintendo could abandon the application now, but Nintendo being Nintendo, they are more likely to try to persuade the examiner to arrive at a different conclusion, even though the reasons for the rejection are strong. In many patent examination processes, the initial rejection is essentially just an invitation to present one's best arguments. Here, however, the rejection notice is so well-reasoned that it will be an uphill battle for Nintendo. Nintendo's application would cover a touchscreen-controlled game in which a player moves through "a field in a virtual space," uses "a capture item for capturing a field character," and can summon "a battle character" to fight that creature. During combat, the game would display "a plurality of commands including at least an attack command and an item command," selected through "an operation input using the touch panel."
The key claim is that when the capture item is used "during a battle" or "in a non-battle state," the game performs "a capture success determination," and, if successful, "the field character is captured and set to a state owned by the player."
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Few had heard of the crude oil-derived chemical until recently, but shortages caused by the blockade of the strait of Hormuz have led to a spike in concern
Japan’s government is fighting to cushion the economic impact of the Middle East war, as the shortage of oil sends inflation rising, with the crisis threatening to undermine prime minister Sanae Takaichi’s wide poll lead.
Amidst it all, new polling shows that Japan has seen a surge in concern over shortages of naphtha, a crude oil product that is used to make a wide variety of products.
Continue reading...Fire on Santa Rosa Island in Channel Islands national park becomes state’s largest this year and threatens rare plants
A wildfire that broke out on an island in the Channel Islands national park has become California’s largest wildfire so far this year, burning through more than 10,000 acres, destroying historic structures and endangering rare plant communities that conservationists had struggled to reclaim.
About six dozen firefighters have been deployed to control the blaze, which broke out on Friday, but their efforts have been undermined by strong winds. The fire is now at 0% containment, according to a Cal Fire incident report.
Continue reading...OpenAI’s plans now seem all but guaranteed, given that the world’s richest man couldn’t put a stop to them
On Monday morning, a jury in Oakland, California, handed a resounding victory to Sam Altman and OpenAI in their long, bitter courtroom battle with Elon Musk.
The federal jury found Altman, OpenAI and its president, Greg Brockman, not liable for Elon Musk’s claims that they unjustly enriched themselves and broke a founding contract made with Musk when founding the startup. The unanimous verdict, delivered after less than two hours of deliberation, is a stark rebuke of Musk and his lawyer’s claims that Altman “stole a charity” through his leadership of OpenAI.
Nick Robins-Early contributed reporting
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A new infostealer variant targets macOS users by spoofing Apple, Microsoft, and Google and then then gets to work searching for victims’ password managers so it can steal all of their credentials and access cryptocurrency wallets such as MetaMask and Phantom. The updated SHub stealer variant is called Reaper, and it uses macOS Script Editor, pre-populated with the malicious payload to execute the malware, according to SentinelOne research engineer Phil Stokes, who documented the attack in a Monday blog. But unlike earlier SHub versions and similar macOS stealer campaigns that rely on ClickFix social engineering tactics to trick the user into pasting a ScriptEditor command into Apple’s Terminal command-line interface, Reaper bypasses Terminal altogether and therefore defeats defenses Apple added to Tahoe 26.4. The attack starts with fake WeChat and Miro installer websites, hosted on a domain designed to instill trust in users by typo-squatting a Microsoft URL: mlcrosoft[.]co[.]com. When a user visits these pages, hidden JavaScript collects a ton of information about their system and browser, including IP address, location, WebGL fingerprinting data, and indicators of virtual machines or VPNs. The attack stops if the victim is located in Russia. Assuming that the machine is located elsewhere and the user clicks on the fake tool installer, they open Apple’s Script Editor app via a sneaky link that’s heavily padded with ASCII art and fake terms to push the malicious command far below the visible portion of the window when it loads. When the victim clicks “Run” in Script Editor, the hidden command executes the malicious AppleScript and displays a popup message purporting to be a security update for Apple’s XProtectRemediator tool. Instead of updating the security tool, however, it calls a curl command to silently download the shell script and it asks the victim to enter their login details – which are scraped and used to decrypt various credentials – and then displays a fake error message. Earlier SHub versions harvested users’ browser data, cryptocurrency wallets, developer-related configuration files, macOS Keychain and iCloud account data, and Telegram session data. Reaper does all of this and more. It includes a filegrabber that searches for files that contain business or financial info in the user’s Desktop and Document folders. That approach is similar to the document-theft functionality seen in Atomic macOS Stealer (AMOS). The script also searches for several desktop cryptocurrency tools including Exodus, Atomic Wallet, Ledger Wallet, Ledger Live, and Trezor Suite. If it finds any, it injects the wallet with malware to ensure continued funds theft. And then, to ensure persistence, it backdoors the infected device by creating a directory structure designed to mimic Google Software Update: ~/Library/Application Support/Google/GoogleUpdate.app/Contents/MacOS/. “The LaunchAgent executes the target script GoogleUpdate every 60 seconds,” Stokes explains. “The script functions as a beacon, sending system details to the C2’s /api/bot/heartbeat endpoint.” This ensures the attacker can remotely execute code on the backdoored machine. If the attacker-controlled server sends a “code” payload, the script decodes it, writes it to a hidden file and executes the code with the users’ privileges before deleting the file. The backdoor gives the malware operators “more ways to steal data or pivot to other malicious installs after the initial compromise,” the threat hunter warns. About the only thing it doesn't do is implore the band to add more cowbell. ®
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Weer voor Rotterdam 🌕 - 19-05-2026 01:15 CEST
In één oogopslag:
• 11.2°C · Helder 🌕 | Min 10.9°C / Max 15.5°C | Kans op neerslag 45%
Verwachting voor vandaag:
• Min 10.9°C, Max 15.5°C (Lichte motregen) 🌦️, Neerslag 0.5 mm, Kans op neerslag 45%, 🧭 1014.0 hPa ↘️ -1.8 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 16.6 km/u (4.6 m/s), richting: ↗ 224°
Uurlijkse voorspelling voor de komende 12 uur:
• 02:00: 11.1°C (Licht bewolkt) 🌕, 🧭 1015.8 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 10.4 km/u (2.9 m/s), richting: ↑ 176°
• 03:00: 10.7°C (Gedeeltelijk bewolkt) ☁️, 🧭 1015.7 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 10.4 km/u (2.9 m/s), richting: ↑ 179°
• 04:00: 10.3°C (Helder) 🌕, 🧭 1015.2 hPa ↘️ -0.5 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 10.1 km/u (2.8 m/s), richting: ↑ 175°
• 05:00: 10.1°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, 🧭 1015.1 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 11.2 km/u (3.1 m/s), richting: ↑ 166°
• 06:00: 9.7°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, Kans op neerslag 2%, 🧭 1014.9 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 11.9 km/u (3.3 m/s), richting: ↑ 164°
• 07:00: 9.9°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, Kans op neerslag 6%, 🧭 1014.9 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 10.8 km/u (3.0 m/s), richting: ↑ 169°
• 08:00: 11.1°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, Kans op neerslag 10%, 🧭 1014.9 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 12.2 km/u (3.4 m/s), richting: ↑ 174°
• 09:00: 12.0°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, Kans op neerslag 14%, 🧭 1015.1 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 13.7 km/u (3.8 m/s), richting: ↑ 186°
• 10:00: 12.8°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, Kans op neerslag 18%, 🧭 1014.9 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 13.7 km/u (3.8 m/s), richting: ↑ 181°
• 11:00: 12.8°C (Lichte motregen) 🌦️, Neerslag 0.1 mm, Kans op neerslag 24%, 🧭 1015.0 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 15.8 km/u (4.4 m/s), richting: ↑ 164°
• 12:00: 13.1°C (Lichte motregen) 🌦️, Neerslag 0.2 mm, Kans op neerslag 32%, 🧭 1014.4 hPa ↘️ -0.6 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 17.6 km/u (4.9 m/s), richting: ↑ 163°
• 13:00: 13.1°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, Kans op neerslag 42%, 🧭 1014.1 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 20.2 km/u (5.6 m/s), richting: ↑ 165°
Voorspelling voor de komende dagen:
• woensdag 20 mei: Min 9.7°C, Max 13.7°C (Lichte motregen) 🌦️, Neerslag 2.1 mm, Kans op neerslag 41%, 🧭 1017.8 hPa ↗️ +3.8 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 21.6 km/u (6.0 m/s), richting: ↑ 181°
• donderdag 21 mei: Min 12.5°C, Max 17.7°C (Lichte motregen) 🌦️, Neerslag 0.5 mm, Kans op neerslag 36%, 🧭 1026.8 hPa ↗️ +9.0 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 24.8 km/u (6.9 m/s), richting: ↗ 231°
• vrijdag 22 mei: Min 12.8°C, Max 19.4°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, Kans op neerslag 2%, 🧭 1027.9 hPa ↗️ +1.1 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 14.8 km/u (4.1 m/s), richting: ↗ 237°
• zaterdag 23 mei: Min 13.4°C, Max 23.8°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, Kans op neerslag 1%, 🧭 1026.8 hPa ↘️ -1.1 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 8.4 km/u (2.3 m/s), richting: ↖ 139°
• zondag 24 mei: Min 15.1°C, Max 26.0°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, Kans op neerslag 6%, 🧭 1028.8 hPa ↗️ +2.0 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 10.8 km/u (3.0 m/s), richting: ↙ 59°
• maandag 25 mei: Min 16.2°C, Max 25.8°C (Zonnig) ☀️, Kans op neerslag 1%, 🧭 1030.2 hPa ↗️ +1.4 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 14.5 km/u (4.0 m/s), richting: ↙ 51°
Details:
• 🌡️ Huidige temperatuur (om 01:15): 11.2°C (Helder)
• 🤚 Gevoelstemperatuur: 8.9°C (-2.3°C)
• 💨 Windsnelheid: 10.8 km/u (3.0 m/s), richting: ↑ 181°
• 🌬️ Windstoten: 18.4 km/h (5.1 m/s)
• 💧 Luchtvochtigheid: 79%
• 🧭 Luchtdruk: 1015.8 hPa ↘️ -0.6 hPa/3h
• 👁️ Zichtbaarheid: 50.0 km
• ☀️ UV-index: 0.0
• 🌅 Zonsopgang: 05:43 · 🌇 Zonsondergang: 21:33
Luchtkwaliteit:
• AQI: 40 🟢 (Goed)
• PM2.5: 12.1 μg/m³
• PM10: 15.1 μg/m³
Gegevens geleverd door Open-Meteo
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In één oogopslag:
• 11.2°C · Helder 🌕 | Min 10.9°C / Max 15.5°C | Kans op neerslag 45%
Verwachting voor vandaag:
• Min 10.9°C, Max 15.5°C (Lichte motregen) 🌦️, Neerslag 0.5 mm, Kans op neerslag 45%, 🧭 1014.0 hPa ↘️ -1.8 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 16.6 km/u (4.6 m/s), richting: ↗ 224°
Uurlijkse voorspelling voor de komende 12 uur:
• 02:00: 11.1°C (Licht bewolkt) 🌕, 🧭 1015.8 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 10.4 km/u (2.9 m/s), richting: ↑ 176°
• 03:00: 10.7°C (Gedeeltelijk bewolkt) ☁️, 🧭 1015.7 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 10.4 km/u (2.9 m/s), richting: ↑ 179°
• 04:00: 10.3°C (Helder) 🌕, 🧭 1015.2 hPa ↘️ -0.5 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 10.1 km/u (2.8 m/s), richting: ↑ 175°
• 05:00: 10.1°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, 🧭 1015.1 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 11.2 km/u (3.1 m/s), richting: ↑ 166°
• 06:00: 9.7°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, Kans op neerslag 2%, 🧭 1014.9 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 11.9 km/u (3.3 m/s), richting: ↑ 164°
• 07:00: 9.9°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, Kans op neerslag 6%, 🧭 1014.9 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 10.8 km/u (3.0 m/s), richting: ↑ 169°
• 08:00: 11.1°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, Kans op neerslag 10%, 🧭 1014.9 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 12.2 km/u (3.4 m/s), richting: ↑ 174°
• 09:00: 12.0°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, Kans op neerslag 14%, 🧭 1015.1 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 13.7 km/u (3.8 m/s), richting: ↑ 186°
• 10:00: 12.8°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, Kans op neerslag 18%, 🧭 1014.9 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 13.7 km/u (3.8 m/s), richting: ↑ 181°
• 11:00: 12.8°C (Lichte motregen) 🌦️, Neerslag 0.1 mm, Kans op neerslag 24%, 🧭 1015.0 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 15.8 km/u (4.4 m/s), richting: ↑ 164°
• 12:00: 13.1°C (Lichte motregen) 🌦️, Neerslag 0.2 mm, Kans op neerslag 32%, 🧭 1014.4 hPa ↘️ -0.6 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 17.6 km/u (4.9 m/s), richting: ↑ 163°
• 13:00: 13.1°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, Kans op neerslag 42%, 🧭 1014.1 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 20.2 km/u (5.6 m/s), richting: ↑ 165°
Voorspelling voor de komende dagen:
• woensdag 20 mei: Min 9.7°C, Max 13.7°C (Lichte motregen) 🌦️, Neerslag 2.1 mm, Kans op neerslag 41%, 🧭 1017.8 hPa ↗️ +3.8 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 21.6 km/u (6.0 m/s), richting: ↑ 181°
• donderdag 21 mei: Min 12.5°C, Max 17.7°C (Lichte motregen) 🌦️, Neerslag 0.5 mm, Kans op neerslag 36%, 🧭 1026.8 hPa ↗️ +9.0 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 24.8 km/u (6.9 m/s), richting: ↗ 231°
• vrijdag 22 mei: Min 12.8°C, Max 19.4°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, Kans op neerslag 2%, 🧭 1027.9 hPa ↗️ +1.1 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 14.8 km/u (4.1 m/s), richting: ↗ 237°
• zaterdag 23 mei: Min 13.4°C, Max 23.8°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, Kans op neerslag 1%, 🧭 1026.8 hPa ↘️ -1.1 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 8.4 km/u (2.3 m/s), richting: ↖ 139°
• zondag 24 mei: Min 15.1°C, Max 26.0°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, Kans op neerslag 6%, 🧭 1028.8 hPa ↗️ +2.0 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 10.8 km/u (3.0 m/s), richting: ↙ 59°
• maandag 25 mei: Min 16.2°C, Max 25.8°C (Zonnig) ☀️, Kans op neerslag 1%, 🧭 1030.2 hPa ↗️ +1.4 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 14.5 km/u (4.0 m/s), richting: ↙ 51°
Details:
• 🌡️ Huidige temperatuur (om 01:15): 11.2°C (Helder)
• 🤚 Gevoelstemperatuur: 8.9°C (-2.3°C)
• 💨 Windsnelheid: 10.8 km/u (3.0 m/s), richting: ↑ 181°
• 🌬️ Windstoten: 18.4 km/h (5.1 m/s)
• 💧 Luchtvochtigheid: 79%
• 🧭 Luchtdruk: 1015.8 hPa ↘️ -0.6 hPa/3h
• 👁️ Zichtbaarheid: 50.0 km
• ☀️ UV-index: 0.0
• 🌅 Zonsopgang: 05:43 · 🌇 Zonsondergang: 21:33
Luchtkwaliteit:
• AQI: 40 🟢 (Goed)
• PM2.5: 12.1 μg/m³
• PM10: 15.1 μg/m³
Gegevens geleverd door Open-Meteo
#Rotterdam #Meteo #MeteoBot #MeteoNetherlands #OpenMeteo #FediMeteo
