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Hannah Einbinder: cost of not speaking out on Palestine is greater than losing career

The Hacks star spoke at Cannes about fallout from pro-Palestine comments and joining a tradition of Jewish allies

The actor Hannah Einbinder has said the cost of not speaking up about Palestine is greater than losing her Hollywood career.

The Emmy-winning star of Hacks, who leads the new queer slasher drama Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma, told an audience at Cannes film festival she would not be deterred from standing up for causes she cared about.

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Xabi Alonso earns backing of Chelsea players as talks with club progress

  • Former Real Madrid manager likely to be offered job

  • Reece James fit to face Manchester City in FA Cup final

Chelsea’s players believe Xabi Alonso is the ideal candidate to become their next head coach. Talks with Alonso’s camp are moving in the right direction and the feeling in the dressing room is that the former Real Madrid and Bayer Leverkusen manager is the man to get the team back on track.

No agreement is in place and Chelsea are keeping an open mind as they work to appoint a successor to Liam Rosenior, who was sacked last month after 106 days. Alonso is the frontrunner but others on the shortlist include Bournemouth’s Andoni Iraola, Fulham’s Marco Silva, Crystal Palace’s Oliver Glasner and the former Flamengo manager Filipe Luís. Cesc Fàbregas has indicated that he wants to stay at Como.

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Florida crew recounts ‘miraculous’ Atlantic plane rescue with fuel low

All 11 onboard survived after the plane made an emergency landing near the Bahamas

A military rescue crew in Florida has spoken of the “pretty miraculous” survival of all 11 people it saved from a plane crash in the Atlantic Ocean, and its own scramble to safety with five minutes of fuel left.

Members of the 920th rescue wing, based at Patrick Space Force base, not far from Cape Canaveral, raced on Tuesday to reach the passengers and crew in choppy seas. They had emerged from a small Beechcraft twin-propeller aircraft that ditched into the water about 80 miles east of Melbourne on Florida’s east coast.

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Governor Reshuffle in Border Regions Shows How Kremlin Is Militarizing Russia’s Elites, Experts Say

Putin has named a highly decorated army general and a former official in occupied Ukraine to lead the Belgorod and Bryansk regions.

Rijnmond - Nieuws

Het laatste nieuws van vandaag over Rotterdam, Feyenoord, het verkeer en het weer in de regio Rijnmond

School, voetbalvereniging en burgemeester reageren aangeslagen na dodelijk ongeluk Levi (14)

Het overlijden van de 14-jarige Levi uit Alblasserdam heeft grote indruk gemaakt op het hele dorp. De tiener kwam afgelopen dinsdag om het leven bij een verkeersongeluk. Zijn middelbare school, voetbalvereniging en de burgemeesters van Alblasserdam en Molenlanden reageerden geschokt.

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2 Many DJ's - Monkey Man/Rolling Stones

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Tennisster Gauff naar finale van graveltoernooi in Rome

ROME (ANP) - Coco Gauff heeft als eerste de finale van het tennistoernooi van Rome bereikt. De als derde geplaatste Amerikaanse versloeg de Roemeense Sorana Cirstea: 6-4 6-3.

Gauff stuit in de finale op de winnares van de andere halve finale tussen de Poolse Iga Swiatek en Jelina Svitolina uit Oekraïne. Swiatek stond dit jaar nog niet in de finale van een toernooi, maar raakt met de oude coach Francisco Roig van Rafael Nadal steeds beter in vorm.

Cirstea maakte afgelopen week een sterke indruk op het gravel in de Italiaanse hoofdstad. Ze schakelde in de derde ronde de als eerste geplaatste Aryna Sabalenka uit en liet in de kwartfinale Jelena Ostapenko kansloos. Gauff verloor vorig jaar in de finale van Jasmine Paolini in Rome. Vervolgens schreef ze wel Roland Garros op haar naam.


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KDE bags €1.3M as Europe realizes it might need an OS of its own

The KDE project turns 30 in five months, but it already got an early birthday present: €1,285,200 from Germany's Sovereign Tech Fund. That's £1.1 million, or $1.5 million in US bucks. The KDE team already has some ideas about how it will spend it, and the project's thank-you note mentions a few: This is not the first time we have mentioned the Sovereign Tech Fund's largesse. In 2023, it gave €1 million to GNOME, and then in 2024 it funded both FreeBSD and Samba. Since then, Donald Trump began his second US presidency, and the push for European digital sovereignty has gained considerably more urgency – as we reported from this year's Open Source Policy Summit in Brussels. KDE Linux is the desktop project's technologically radical in-house distro, which is still in development. We have mentioned this a couple of times, when it was announced in 2024 as "Project Banana," and again in 2025, when it reached alpha. KDE Linux borrows some of its design from Valve's SteamOS 3. Both are immutable distros, based on Arch Linux, with dual Btrfs-formatted root partitions. For failover, these update one another, similarly to ChromeOS (and both obviously use KDE Plasma as their desktop). This has required development work - for instance, before SteamOS, Btrfs required unique partition IDs - and for that, Valve partnered with Spanish workers' cooperative Igalia, which is also working on the Rust-based Servo web rendering engine. For that effort, last year Igalia also received STF funding. SteamOS has millions of users, and ChromeOS hundreds of millions - even if its future replacement is coming into view. The resilience of these OSes in frequent, maintenance-free use is about as well established as end-user-facing Linux gets. One could interpret the STF money as some level of endorsement of the ideas behind KDE Linux. Perhaps it will soon join this short list of European alternatives to Microsoft Windows. Interest in moving European organizations away from American cloud services is growing rapidly, of course. On the small end of the scale, digital artist Wimer Hazenberg recently described How I Moved My Digital Stack to Europe. Taking a broader view, earlier this week, the Financial Times reported on Life without US Tech. It describes how International Criminal Court judge Nicolas Guillou was the target of US sanctions, and found himself locked out of everything that relied on American companies. In October last year, The Register mentioned similar issues faced by ICC prosecutor Karim Khan, when reporting allegations that the ICC was kicking MS Office to the curb. (A few months ago, Microsoft conceded some "inaccuracy" from its spokesperson in that case.) It seems he was not alone. The ICC is moving to OpenDesk from German organization ZenDIS, both of which we mentioned in our report from FOSDEM on messaging systems. These are apps and suites, rather than OSes – they leave the question of the host OS open. That means organizations with large existing investment in Windows (and institutional knowledge of supporting Windows) can keep it for now, while moving to new tools. That's not quick enough for those who want to banish American OSes sooner. Last month, The Reg mentioned France's Directorate for Digital Affairs, DINUM, which is planning to adopt Linux. Some more information is emerging about how it may do it. Rather than building a whole new distro of its own – such as KDE Linux, or the Fedora-based EU OS proposal we looked at last year – DINUM is building a Nix configuration, which it can simply apply to generate a complete bespoke immutable OS image. The base image is called Sécurix. The project page describes it as an OS base for secure workstations, designed according to the ANSSI recommendations for the secure administration of information systems. As an example of how to use it, there's Bureautix. Rather than authenticating against complicated network directories such as LDAP or the Red Hat-backed FreeIPA, Bureautix keeps it local: user configuration is synced from servers to client machines along with the software configuration, and users sign in with a YubiKey. The names Sécurix and Bureautix are nods to the famous indomitable Gauls Astérix and Obélix, created by writer René Goscinny, who died in 1977 aged 51, and artist Albert Uderzo, who died in 2020 at 92. These ancient Gauls have outlived their creators: the latest album, Astérix in Lusitania came out in October 2025, and this vulture recommends it. ®

View of Ouchi-juku

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View of Ouchi-juku

Ouchi, Shimogo, Minamiaizu District, Fukushima, Japan