De meeste opvarenden van cruiseschip de Hondius zitten inmiddels in quarantaine op het vasteland, maar er komen nog steeds positieve testen en verdachte gevallen aan het licht.

De Yindjibarndi, een inheems volk uit het afgelegen noorden van West-Australië, hebben de grootste schadevergoeding ooit toegewezen gekregen wegens schending van hun landrechten.

Nog maar een jaar geleden waren de vooruitzichten uitermate somber voor Oekraïne, in zijn ongelijke strijd tegen Moskou. Een jaar later staat Oekraïne er beduidend florissanter voor.

‘Iron Maiden: Burning Ambition’ laat zien hoe het de geliefde Britse metalband de afgelopen halve eeuw verging; van het prille begin in Oost-Londen tot de huidige wereldheerschappij.

NIEUWEGEIN (ANP) - Werknemers tussen de 25 en 45 jaar zitten vaker en langer ziek thuis, merkt de Arbo Unie. Tussen 2020, het eerste jaar van de coronapandemie in Nederland, en 2025 is het aantal meldingen van burn-outgerelateerde klachten onder deze groep volgens de arbodienstverlener verdubbeld. De gemiddelde duur van hun psychisch verzuim, bijvoorbeeld door een burn-out, is opgelopen tot richting een half jaar.

Volgens een woordvoerder van de Arbo Unie vallen werkenden tussen de 25 en 45 jaar sinds corona veel vaker uit door mentale factoren en een combinatie van psychische en sociale omstandigheden. Ook hebben zij nu vaker te maken met een hoge werkdruk. "Veel jonge werkenden zitten in een levensfase waarin werk, jonge kinderen, mantelzorg, financiële druk en persoonlijke ontwikkeling samenkomen. Vaak is het de combinatie met werk die maakt dat het te veel wordt."

De organisatie ziet daarnaast dat jongeren zich sinds corona ook vaker voor korte tijd ziek melden op het werk. Een "andere zorgelijke ontwikkeling", vindt de Arbo Unie, omdat kort verzuim een signaal kan zijn van oplopend langdurig verzuim.

Uit andere onderzoeken kwam al naar voren dat jongeren vaak psychische klachten ervaren, onder meer door prestatiedruk, constant bereikbaar moeten zijn en financiële onzekerheid. Ook zorgen die ze hebben over bijvoorbeeld het niet kunnen krijgen van een huis spelen een rol. Daarnaast werd eerder al duidelijk dat veel jongeren zich tijdens de lockdowns in de coronaperiode slechter voelden, mede doordat zij gedurende langere tijd aan huis gebonden waren.

The National Health Service in England has confirmed it is allowing staff from Palantir access to patient data following a change in policy. The US spy-tech firm provides the technology for the Federated Data Platform (FDP), under a £330 million ($446 million) contract it won in 2023. The system is designed to improve data sharing across the NHS in England and help the state healthcare provider recover from the pandemic backlog. Under previously agreed rules, Palantir staff working on the FDP could only access the National Data Integration Tenant (NDIT), a data repository for patient data before it is transferred to the "pseudonymized" analytics system, if they apply to access for specific data sets. A document released by NHS England says that Palantir staff can get a new "admin" role and access the NDIT and its identifiable patient data. Other consultants working on the FDP will get similar access. The briefing document, seen by the FT and confirmed by The Register, said granting access to the data to Palantir staff and others could "risk of loss of public confidence" in its assurances about "safeguarding patient data and ensuring appropriate use and access to it." The Register understands the change is designed apply to a small number of people working on the new central data collection platform, used to monitor NHS performance using the NDIT. An NHS England spokesperson said: "The NHS has strict policies in place for managing access to patient data and carries out regular audits to ensure compliance - including monitoring the work of engineers helping to set up the central data collection platform that will track NHS performance and help improve care for patients. “Anyone external requiring access must have government security clearance and be approved by a member of NHS England staff at director level or above.” Sam Smith, coordinator at health privacy campaign group medConfidential, said Palantir and other consultants have already been able to access patient data - albeit pseudonymized in some cases - in other tenants of the FDP. But NHS England became unstuck because of its lack of clarity, he said, adding: "It's the equivalent of telling a civil servant, 'Only you can read your email' and then going, 'Oh, but freedom of information exists'. It is just a lack of transparency that we got through a leak, rather than saying 'We're going to do this thing, here's what it will mean'." NHS England is the quango which runs the NHS in England under the Department for Health and Social Care. The incumbent Labour government is disbanding NHS England and plans to run the service directly from the Whitehall department. In March, the Health Service Journal reported that nearly a third of NHS trusts connected to the FDP in 2025 were not meeting data security standards. An NHSE spokesperson told the publication: "The Federated Data Platform has data protection and cyber security at its core, which is why the NHS has worked with local organizations to ensure they meet the required standards and have introduced strengthened measures where appropriate." The minister responsible for the FDP, Zubir Ahmed, told MPs last month that NHS England and NHS organizations would "retain full control as data controllers, including over decisions about how data is used, who can access it and which products are deployed." He said: "Palantir does not own the data, the products or the intellectual property, nor can it use the NHS data for its own purposes." He said: "Palantir operates strictly within a UK-regulated contract where the NHS controls all data, access is tightly governed, and information can be used only for agreed purposes that benefit patients." When it launched the FDP contract, the NHS said patient data would be protected through "clear regulations, security measures, retained within the UK region, with access fully audited and NHS cyber security monitoring and protection." Palantir was awarded the FDP contract after winning a succession of pandemic-era deals, worth a combined £60 million, without competition. ®

• Former world champion stopped Paul in December fight

• Injuries from bout are still being monitored by doctors

Jake Paul has admitted the broken jaw he suffered during his loss to Anthony Joshua in December may have ended his boxing career.

The YouTuber turned boxer was stopped during December’s fight after a brutal shot from former world champion Joshua. Paul said the injury is still being monitored five months later.

Continue reading...

Digg has (sorta) relaunched (again) and instead of an underwhelming Reddit clone, it’s now just scraping noted fascist cesspool “X” for AI news and telling us that Sam Altman is influential in AI? This is embarrassing. It’ll probably be a huge success.

How NASA Built Artemis II’s Fault-Tolerant Computer. “Every subsystem must be designed to survive cosmic-ray bit flips, radiation-induced latch-ups, and hardware faults without a single second of downtime.” (A: An extreme level of redundancy.)