AMSTERDAM (ANP/BLOOMBERG) - De Europese gasprijs heeft donderdag de sterkste stijging in jaren hervat door de aanhoudende oorlog van de Verenigde Staten en Israël tegen Iran. De onzekerheid over de duur van de oorlog in het Midden-Oosten blijft de energiemarkten flink opschudden.

De oorlog is de zesde dag ingegaan zonder direct uitzicht op een oplossing. De olie- en gasprijzen leken woensdag nog enigszins te stabiliseren door een Amerikaans plan om een ​​veilige doorgang voor tankers door de Straat van Hormuz te garanderen. Die belangrijke zeestraat voor het vervoer van olie en gas uit het Midden-Oosten is door Iran afgesloten.

Op de Amsterdamse gasbeurs steeg de gasprijs donderdagochtend met ruim 9 procent tot 53,26 euro per megawattuur. De stijging volgde op de claim van Iran dat de Iraanse Revolutionaire Garde een Amerikaanse olietanker heeft aangevallen in het noordelijke deel van de Perzische Golf.

​Feyenoord heeft eindelijk een nieuwe technisch directeur aangesteld. Dennis Te Kloese meldt trots dat hij in Pierre van Hooijdonk de perfecte persoon heeft gevonden om zijn werkzaamheden als ‘TD’ over te nemen. “Pierre heeft een groot netwerk, kent de club en had zijn handen vrij. Daarnaast is er niemand ter wereld die Robin van Persie zo graag wil ontslaan als hij. Daar waren we naarstig naar op zoek.”

“Het is geen geheim dat we met meerdere kandidaten hebben gesproken”, vervolgt Te Kloese. “Over Kees van Wonderen had ik zelf eerlijk gezegd mijn twijfels, ik miste bij hem een beetje de gretigheid om Van Persie direct op straat te zetten. Pierre van Hooijdonk heeft dat heilige vuur wel. Zijn ogen begonnen meteen te glimmen toen we voor het eerst zaten. ‘Van Persie eruit’, zei Pierre direct met een tevreden glimlach toen ik hem vroeg wat zijn plannen zouden zijn als technisch directeur voor Feyenoord. Nou ja, dat was precies ook mijn gedachte, ik had alleen geen zin om het zelf te moeten doen.”

Pierre van Hooijdonk reageert verheugd op zijn aanstelling. “Het kan snel gaan in de voetbalwereld. Vorige week stond ik nog ‘Robin, neem je rotzooi mee!’ te zingen, nu mag ik Van Persie ook daadwerkelijk ontslaan. Schitterend.”

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Valtteri Bottas has conceded that he “definitely appreciates” everything about F1 even more after spending a year on the sidelines, with the Finn hoping that this “better perspective” will help during a season in which he is aiming for “progress” with the new Cadillac team.

Gabriel Bortoleto has singled out the behind the scenes work that has gone into the Audi project as the element of the manufacturer’s takeover he has been most impressed by, with the Brazilian believing that the team “deserve a lot of credit”.

Aston Martin and Honda opened up on the task ahead as they faced the media on Thursday ahead of the Australian Grand Prix.

Survey of UK bosses find 62 percent of bosses rely on LLMs for help

Most business leaders in the United Kingdom appear to have outsourced a lot of their decisionmaking to machine learning models, according to a survey of 200 suits published by data streaming tools vendor Confluent. /p>…

Longlisted for the Women’s prize, this ambitious debut journeys into the inner world of a vulnerable teenager who is left traumatised by a toxic friendship

Lucy Apps’s debut novel tells the story of 19-year-old Gloria, who is living in east London with her mum in the summer of 1999. Gloria has a learning disability and is past the age when the state might offer her support. Often she is happy enough “to stop outdoors where it is nice and busy, and watch things happen and be part of it”.

But sometimes people steal from her, or shout abuse. Then she has a “heavy feeling inside her” because she has no option except “to walk around the parks and streets on her own trying not to attract too much attention”. When she develops a friendship with Jack, she is happy because: “He has no one to talk to and she has no one to listen to, so they can fit with each other.”

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The team behind Fisherman’s Friends swap sea shanties for real ale, but this tale of rival West Country boozers serves up clunky exposition and sentiment on tap

The Fisherman’s Friends team have found a modestly profitable post-Brexit niche: tales of culturally endangered Anglo-Saxon endeavours, nudged towards gentle uplift via a few songs and laughs, dollops of sentiment and some rabble-rousing populism. First it was half-forgotten sea shanties; now it’s the dwindling pub trade, represented here by rival West Country establishments. On one streetcorner, spit-and-sawdust local the DroversArms, overseen by salt-of-the-earth (read: emotionally repressed) widower Martin Clunes, who is slowly being strangled by his grasping brewery’s supply chain. On the other, that same brewery’s la-di-da gastropub, owned and somewhat implausibly operated by posho Pritchard (Luke Treadaway).

The scene may have shifted indoors – gone, alas, is the Cornish scenery of Fisherman’s Friends – but the formula remains much the same: clunky exposition, upper-case “Issues”, variably groansome dad gags. Tension emerges between Clunes and prodigal son Jonno Davies, until the latter proposes a radical idea to save the business: homebrewing. Davies has an awkward reunion with old flame Gabriella Wilde, who is now shacked up with Treadaway and doubtless eating swan for breakfast. But the resolutions really are arbitrary: it takes barely 10 minutes for the villager who sabotages the microbrewery to crowdfund its replacement. Co-writer and director Nick Moorcroft must be praying that audience sympathy for rickety, no-frills structures like the Drovers will extend to the film itself.

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joshuark writes: The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has added a VMware Aria Operations vulnerability tracked as CVE-2026-22719 to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog, flagging the flaw as exploited in attacks. VMware Aria Operations is an enterprise monitoring platform that helps organizations track the performance and health of servers, networks, and cloud infrastructure. The flaw has now been added to the CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, with the U.S. cyber agency requiring federal civilian agencies to address the issue by March 24, 2026. Broadcom said it is aware of reports indicating the vulnerability is exploited in attacks but cannot confirm the claims.

"A malicious unauthenticated actor may exploit this issue to execute arbitrary commands which may lead to remote code execution in VMware Aria Operations while support-assisted product migration is in progress," the advisory explains. Broadcom released security patches on February 24 and also provided a temporary workaround for organizations unable to apply the patches immediately. The mitigation is a shell script named "aria-ops-rce-workaround.sh," which must be executed as root on each Aria Operations appliance node. There are currently no details on how the vulnerability is being exploited in the wild, who is behind it, and the scale of such efforts.

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