​Spotify gaat een extra vinkje introduceren. Naast het groene vinkje, dat aangeeft dat muziek door een mens, komt er ook een rood vinkje. Dit tweede vinkje laat zien dat een lied niet AI-gegenereerd is, maar wel gewoon troep.

“Soms is het ingewikkeld: is dit gemaakt door Suno, of gewoon door iemand zonder smaak?”, zegt muziekkenner Jolinde Fonk. “Daar is dat extra vinkje voor. Daarmee willen we alle twijfel wegnemen. Het rode vinkje zegt: ‘nee, dit is geen AI’, en ‘ja, dit is gemaakt door een slechthorende producer met een extreem slechte dag.’”

Spotify heeft aangekondigd dat er ook een extra vinkje komt voor liedjes die alleen bedoeld zijn om ironisch te beluisteren.

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Jonge kinderen die naaktbeelden van zichzelf maken én delen. Het gebeurt steeds vaker, waarschuwt Offlimits. Het meldpunt verwerkte vorig jaar bijna een miljoen afbeeldingen van seksueel kindermisbruik. 40 procent komt van minderjarigen zelf, vaak kinderen tussen 7 en 10 jaar oud. "Hoe kan dit? Die vraag hebben wij ook", zegt de organisatie tegen het AD.

Niet eerder registreerde Offlimits zoveel afbeeldingen van seksueel kindermisbruik als in 2025.

Online misbruik

Het expertisecentrum voor online misbruik spreekt van een verontrustende toename van zelfgemaakte beelden door zeer jonge kinderen. 40 procent van alle foto's en filmpjes die het meldpunt zag, komt van minderjarigen. Van hen is 85 procent jonger dan 12 jaar.

"Ik heb lang bij de politie gewerkt, tien jaar geleden zagen we dit niet", zegt plaatsvervangend directeur Madeleine van der Bruggen van Offlimits. "We krijgen signalen van behandelaren dat steeds meer kinderen op jongere leeftijd hiermee te maken krijgen."

'Check in bij je kind’

Wat moet er gebeuren om te voorkomen dat het probleem nog groter wordt? Van der Bruggen: "De dader is de enige schuldige. Maar we raden ouders aan: check in bij je kind. Ga erbij zitten, of vraag hoe de dag verliep online. Vanuit interesse.”

Zij ziet verder een rol weggelegd voor scholen. "Geef digitale vaardigheden mee. Maak het onderdeel van het standaard lespakket.” En niet pas in de bovenbouw. "Dan ben je al te laat.”

"Kinderen komen online, zoals op TikTok, in een nieuwe spannende wereld terecht. Waar verleidingen zijn. Waar mensen zijn waar ze tegenop kijken. Het is moeilijk weerstand te bieden als iemand dan vraagt om een foto. Daar wordt misbruik van gemaakt.”

Bron: AD

DEN HAAG (ANP) - Het ministerie van Buitenlandse Zaken (BuZa) bekijkt de mogelijkheden om "enkele personen" medisch te evacueren van het cruiseschip MV Hondius. Dat meldt een woordvoerder.

Drie opvarenden van dat schip zijn overleden nadat ze ziek werden op het schip. Volgens de Wereldgezondheidsorganisatie (WHO) testte er zeker één positief op het hantavirus. Het schip ligt nu voor de kust van Kaapverdië.

SPONSORED FEATURE Most IT teams know how quickly they can fix things when they break. This means they can usually tell you their mean time to resolution (MTTR) for helpdesk tickets down to the minute. But MTTR is only part of the picture in complex modern workplace environments. Organizations are more distributed than ever due to hybrid working and ongoing cloud adoption. Compliance frameworks can change almost quarterly, and system complexity continues to mount. IT support teams must shift focus to deal with these situations. "Tickets only provide part of the story and are lagging indicators of performance, addressing issues only after disruption occurs," explains Mark Banfield, chief revenue officer at digital workplace platform provider TeamViewer. "This means there's only limited end-to-end [network] visibility, making it difficult to detect early signals or connect problems across more complex environments." IT support operations have traditionally been reactive, but agentic AI enables them to flip the switch, reducing one of the biggest barriers to productive work: digital friction. This occurs when technology doesn’t work as it should. Every failed authorization or connectivity hiccup reduces productivity and degrades the user experience. A support operation that spots the causes of digital friction and fixes them before them become a problem helps to keep productivity high. No human IT support team can physically keep their eye on thousands of endpoints, including laptops or servers, on a continuous basis. This is where agentic AI can help, monitoring these thousands of endpoints in order to identify patterns that point to emerging issues that might affect users, and intervene early. This means the tech support reporting model can move from reactive to proactive, Banfield says. The impact of digital friction TeamViewer's research report, The Impact of Digital Friction, surveyed 4,200 managers and employees worldwide to reveal the implications. It showed that four out of five respondents had lost valuable time to dysfunctional IT, representing an average of 1.3 workdays per month. Just under half (48 percent) indicated the scenario had led to delays in critical operations or projects over the last year. Forty-two percent said such circumstances directly hit revenues, while a further 37 percent said their organization had lost customers over it. To make matters worse, employee experience suffers too. Some 47 percent of those questioned stated that digital friction left them frustrated and less satisfied with their job. A further 42 percent linked it to burnout, while 28 percent said they had considered leaving the organization as a direct outcome. "The result is a growing gap between perceived and actual performance, where unresolved digital friction silently erodes productivity, employee satisfaction, and even revenue," Banfield says. "As environments become more complex and hybrid work scales, reactive models create mounting operational strain and inconsistent experiences." This situation is no longer sustainable, he believes. It's time for organizations to embrace proactive, experience-led IT. Those that don't risk falling behind in both efficiency and competitiveness, he adds. The shift toward autonomous remediation systems Real-time insights into what is happening on the network is becoming essential to serve this need, and that makes always-on monitoring systems an imperative. These systems can spot early signs of underlying problems and remediate them autonomously, resolving issues before employees feel the impact. But moving to a truly autonomous system requires a phased approach. It entails moving from reactive support to proactive monitoring, and from there to autonomous remediation. Doing it in phases enables you to regain control of your infrastructure before you move on to more advanced steps, as TeamViewer explains in its playbook on the process. The first stage involves stabilizing your operations by introducing proactive monitoring based on pre-defined policies. This puts you in a better position to understand what has been causing the business problems in the first place so you can fix them. It also makes it possible to see any common patterns of activity so you can automate the response. "Organizations often get stuck between visibility and action, where insights exist but aren't operationalized due to siloed teams or fragmented tools," says Banfield, explaining the importance of this step. "The breakthrough comes when monitoring, automation, and accountability are unified into a closed-loop model that continuously detects, resolves, and improves performance at scale." Proactive monitoring is a great first step. It automates responses to known problems. But it can't prevent issues that haven't been tracked or that support teams are unaware of. This is where agentic AI-based systems like TeamViewer ONE come in. They are not restricted to monitoring the network based on pre-defined parameters or responding to alerts. Instead, these platforms learn from what is happening day-to-day with your most-used devices and apps, such as Microsoft Connect or SAP. They do this by scrutinizing how the environment behaves in real-time, how problems evolve over time, and how support teams intervene. This enables them to recognize which conditions lead to system failure. They also get to understand evolving risks and use this information to automate troubleshooting activities. The benefits of a continuous feedback loop "TeamViewer ONE continuously detects issues, prioritizes the ones that matter, and remediates them before users can be impacted," says Banfield. It identifies early signals of digital friction and resolves problems autonomously in real-time before they develop into major issues. In fact, it is the only platform on the market that combines AI with endpoint management, remote access, and digital employee experience (DEX) functionality. The DEX technology, which came from its acquisition of 1E, uses an agent to scan endpoints proactively and also gathers user sentiment about their experience. "Having intelligence on the endpoint is critical because it's the closest point to where issues originate and where employee experience is directly felt," Banfield says. "By embedding visibility, analytics, and autonomous remediation directly at the endpoint, organizations can detect and resolve issues in real time." The result is a continuous feedback loop where known problems are automated out, ensuring they do not happen again. This reduces both ticket volumes and manual effort. The system also documents problems automatically, saving support teams a further step. IT support teams move from reacting to incidents after they occur to resolving problems before users are even aware there were any. This frees up their time to focus on more strategic work, including optimization, and innovation. It also cuts administration costs while supporting security and compliance. A secure, stable environment for employees helps to create a better customer experience, Banfield says. "You can't create a Michelin-star customer experience unless you internally have a Michelin-star employee experience," he explains. "When your employees are benefiting from a proactive IT approach, it will be felt externally by customers as it helps free up time for employees to build a better customer experience strategy." Enhancing the digital employee experience TeamViewer points to a US-based home, auto, and life insurance provider as an example of this transition from reactive to automated proactive support. Its IT team had been unaware of just how problematic recurrent issues such as software crashes were becoming for the wider workforce. While many employees just put up with the situation, it was eating into productivity and user satisfaction levels. The team wanted to stop the rot, increasing operational efficiency and enhancing incident resolution times. It rolled out TeamViewer's DEX Intelligence module, which includes an Intelligent Insights AI analytics solution to map trends in IT operations and recommend actionable steps for improvement. This identifies how many devices and employees were being affected by problems, and crystallized a clear picture of end-user frustration for the IT team. With the help of TeamViewer DEX, the tech team found that power management device drivers had been given an "unsigned" status in the company's Windows applications. This made them unstable, causing crashes. It also opened the company up to potential security risks further down the line. Intelligent Insights diagnosed and remediated the issue quickly. Its recommendations and remediation guidance have also helped the IT team make better data-driven decisions to address other red flags before they impact either users or business operations. Improving customer experience Another organization that has transformed its endpoint management using TeamViewer's platform is a UK-based global quality food, homewares and clothing retailer. It implemented TeamViewer DEX in 2020 to monitor and manage its complex point-of-sale (POS) systems, plus other endpoint devices, of which there are more than 26,000. Ensuring uptime was a particularly pressing priority for the retailer's POS systems. This is because if they are slow or fail to work, customers are likely to abandon their purchase, which directly impacts sales. But by introducing TeamViewer's DEX platform, the retailer can now pinpoint where problems occur. This has boosted uptime from 92 percent to 98 percent. It has also enabled engineering teams to better monitor, respond to, and predict issues across the estate. This has improved both the employee and customer experience. "Without the disruption of daily friction, employees have a clear pathway to work at their most efficient and productive," concludes Banfield. "There's no lag. It's about fixing issues before they're felt across the organization, ensuring a more consistent, seamless digital experience at scale." Sponsored by TeamViewer.

A young pregnant woman is assailed by dark visions of sisterhood in a novel splicing eco-horror, cosmic distress and ideas of the monstrous feminine

Realism, contrary to appearances, isn’t a form closed off to horror. The stories in ’Pemi Aguda’s debut collection, Ghostroots, a finalist for the 2024 US National Book award, rivetingly bore out this fact. Neither strictly realistic nor wholly supernatural, they seized on ordinary events pulsing with sinister possibility: a mother distraught at her inability to produce milk for her newborn wonders whether her unresolved feelings over her husband’s infidelity might have poisoned her body; a young woman prone to violence fears she is inhabited by the spirit of a wicked ancestor; a driver who runs over a pedestrian can’t shake off the feeling that her own daughter will be next to die. One Leg on Earth, as the title suggests, is similarly a liminal creature, although it flirts more openly and ingeniously with darkness. It follows a young woman, Yosoye Bakare, newly arrived in Lagos to intern at an architecture firm involved with building Omi City, a state-of-the-art enclave on land reclaimed from the sea.

Away from home, Yosoye is hungry for adventure. Out on a stroll one night, she slips into a cruddy bar, allows a man to buy her a drink, and goes to a cheap motel where they have ravenous sex without protection. Across the city, pregnant women are inexplicably throwing themselves into open water. But when Yosoye learns she is expecting, she decides to keep the baby. “It was hard to explain to someone who hadn’t spent their whole life trying to belong, to be inside – the joke, the anecdote – that the promise of another being that would be just theirs, that would, yes, belong to them, was like cold water on the tongue after hours of trekking under the Lagos sun.”

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An Oxford theology student and a middle-aged fisher are drawn together despite their many differences in an ambitious first film from Max Morgan

This evocative debut feature from Max Morgan is a film of many contrasts. One is the May-December attraction between Otto (Daniel McNamee), a theology student and aspiring violinist, and John (Shaun Paul McGrath), a middle-aged fisher with a shadowy past. The worlds that they inhabit seem poles apart. Compared with the storm-ravaged Suffolk coast that curves around John’s rugged village, the imposing halls of Otto’s college at Oxford are at once grand and isolating. Despite their differences in age, the two men are bound by shared trauma and turmoil: both struggle with their sexuality and the loss of a loved one.

The highly textured cinematography renders these inner conflicts strikingly tactile. The camera at times stays uncomfortably close to the main characters, highlighting the gnawing anxiety of not belonging. From the demands of a frustrated girlfriend to the prying gaze of close-minded townsfolk, the film stacks these moments of unease to breaking point. Much emphasis is placed on minute gestures – a panicked gaze, a gentle touch of the hands – to communicate the gradual bonding of two unmoored souls.

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Phase Space pilot programme with NHS mental health trust used to calm anxiety around exams, ADHD and home troubles

Schools have begun deploying virtual reality to help pupils cope with stress caused by impending exams, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder or difficult home lives.

All 15 secondary schools in the London borough of Sutton are using VR headsets made by tech firm Phase Space in a pilot in conjunction with the local NHS mental health trust.

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Let’s face it: No matter what you get your mom this Mother’s Day, it’s likely that wench isn’t going to be one bit impressed. Here are six Mother’s Day gifts that we’re sure won’t be good enough for that bitch.

1. A Dress From Anthropologie

While there is no shortage of dresses from Anthro that would look great on your mom, odds are if you give the bitch one, the second she opens it you’ll be met with a look of poorly concealed disappointment and a choked off sigh. Even if you manage to get your mom to try it on and it fits perfectly, based on previous experience you can definitely expect some comment along the lines of, “Didn’t the Anthropologie guy get me too-ed?” or, “It’s nice, but I bet it was overpriced for the quality.” Probably best to skip this one this year. 

2. A Gift Certificate For A Massage

Even though your mom loves to get massages, that bitch is definitely going to find a reason to not like the one you get her, even if you get it from her regular massage therapist. Whether she responds to your gift certificate (for a full 90-minute massage with the tip already included and everything) with the least convincing, “Oh…how thoughtful of you,” you’ve ever heard in your life or just looks at the gift certificate and puts it back inside the card without saying anything, you’re going to regret giving her this one. 

3. A One-Of-A-Kind Piece From A Local Artist

Ha, good luck with this one. While plenty of non-megabitch moms would appreciate a thoughtfully curated, completely unique art piece that put money into the hands of a local artist instead of an evil corporation, no matter how cool the work you pick out for her is, she’s gonna hate it. Somehow, she’ll find a way for a piece of pottery or a painting of a boat dock to inspire a comment like, “Some of these artists seem so angry,” or, “This might look nice in the garage.” Don’t take it too personally, though. Your mom’s just a bitch like that. 

4. An Offer To Reroof Her Garage

Hoo boy. Don’t even think about opening this can of worms. Despite mom’s garage roof objectively needing to be replaced and your gift of offering to replace it potentially saving her thousands of dollars, the mere suggestion that mom’s garage roof isn’t perfect is going to put her on the warpath. Prepare to hear, “How am I supposed to feel about this?” or “Your cousin Keith was just over here and he’s a roofer and he didn’t say anything about the garage roof at all.” Yep, even though there’s black stuff dripping down onto her Subaru every time it rains, that bitch is going to need to make the decision that it’s time for a new garage roof on her own. 

5. $800 Cash

Whoever said you can never go wrong with cash as a gift clearly has never given your bitch mom $800. The problems with giving mom cash are countless: Give her a small amount, such as $20, and that bitch will snap off some passive aggressive, “Oh great, I’ve been wanting to buy some new sewing needles,” type of BS. Give her a large amount, such as $800, and you’re going to get to hear some, “Are you sure you can afford this?” or “You need this money more than I do, look at what you’re wearing,” type of BS. Yep, your mom is the one bitch on earth who money is somehow not good enough for. 

6. A Pair Of Goddamned Diamond Earrings

What woman wouldn’t love a gorgeous pair of diamond earrings set in 24k gold? Queen Cunt AKA your mom, of course! No matter how reputable the jeweler you buy this luxurious gift from, your bitch-ass mom is going to start in with the, “These look like cubic zirconias,” or, “Why does one feel so much heavier than the other? I’m going to tip over wearing these.” Yep, this Mother’s Day it’s probably best to just send your mom a bouquet and turn off your notifications for the day so you don’t have to get her bitchy texts about how, “A bug that was on the flowers just attacked me!!!!” Ugh. Happy Mother’s Day! 

Er ligt zowaar een Nederlands cruiseschip stil voor de kust van Kaapverdië - weer eens wat anders dan voor de Straat van Hormuz -  en dat heeft alles te maken met het hantavirus, wat weer iets anders is dan het coronavirus. Drie mensen aan boord van de MV Hondius, onder wie een 70-jarige man en een 69-jarige vrouw uit Nederland, zijn vermoedelijk overleden aan de gevolgen van dat horrorvirus. Bij een 69-jarige Britse passagier die is overgebracht naar de intensive care in Johannesburg is het virus in ieder geval al vastgesteld. Daarnaast zijn twee bemanningsleden ziek geworden, waarop het Ministerie van Buitenlandse Zaken heeft laten weten de repatriëring op zich te nemen. We houden ondertussen ons hart vast voor een nieuwe golf viruswaanzin met alle ogen op de ic-capaciteit, RIVM-cijfers, bloemschoenen, potjes- en pannendemo's, QR-codes, Viruswaarheid, persco's, de hantavirus zelftest en natuurlijk VACCINS.