Lewis Hamilton admits that finishing only sixth in the Italian Grand Prix is a "tough one to swallow", as Ferrari endured a difficult home race.
Briton finishes sixth after clash with teammate Leclerc
Hamilton questions Ferrari chief Fred Vasseur’s strategy
Lewis Hamilton has conceded the Formula One world championship this year is all but out of reach after a bruising Italian Grand Prix. Hamilton’s afternoon included a clash with his Ferrari teammate Charles Leclerc, which he thought was the result of the team’s failure to listen to his entreaties to manage their drivers and execute races better.
The race at Monza was won by Kimi Antonelli after a remarkable comeback by the Mercedes driver from 19th on the grid. Hamilton could manage only sixth. Having been 59 points back he now trails Antonelli by 76 with 10 meetings remaining and he felt that Ferrari not prioritising his title chances, coupled with operational failures, had finally cost him a shot at the drivers’ championship.
Continue reading...Reigning champion beats Tommy Paul in straight sets
Sabalenka and Noskova to clash in last eight
The straightforward scoreline at the end of Carlos Alcaraz’s third-round win over Wu Yibing did not quite reflect the Spaniard’s slight irritation with one aspect of his game. Alcaraz felt he had missed a few too many forehands, and almost immediately after departing Arthur Ashe Stadium, he reappeared on the practice court pounding forehands in the afternoon heat.
Two days later, the extra care Alcaraz put into his game was reflected in a statement performance driven by his peerless forehand as he rose to the occasion in the biggest challenge of his comeback so far, dismantling the 20th seed Tommy Paul 6-4, 6-3, 6-4 to continue his title defence by returning to the quarter-finals of the US Open.
Continue reading...Venice film festival
A nanny becomes the new lady of a prosperous Copenhagen house as accused Nazi sympathisers are violently shamed in May el-Toukhy’s shrewd, painful portrait of survival
Here is an elegantly appointed drama-thriller from May el-Toukhy, about sexual shame and political paranoia in postwar Denmark, with something of Alfred Hitchcock’s Rebecca, which it consciously recalls. As director and co-writer, El-Toukhy has created a shrewd and painful movie about the terrible things you need to do to survive, and what it takes to forget those things afterwards.
The scene is a prosperous, upper-middle-class apartment in Copenhagen just after the second world war, when the Danish resistance was permitted the powers of a secret-police militia to detain and interrogate those suspected of having given assistance to the Nazis. Christian (Carsten Bjørnlund) is a ageing factory owner and widower who has evidently fallen in love with his infant daughter’s nanny: this is Marie (fiercely and convincingly played by Mathilde Arcel). Or at any rate, he sees that the child needs a new mother, finds Marie attractive and appreciates her submissive attitude. They are now engaged.
Continue reading...Exclusive: US-controlled weapons corporations and forces have control or access to more than 100 facilities across the continent, which some analysts describe as a ‘colonisation’ of Australia’s military. Find a map of them here
US military interests control or have access to more than 100 defence facilities on Australian soil, in what some analysts describe as a “saturation” – even a “colonisation” – of the Australian continent.
New data compiled by the Nautilus Institute and published by Guardian Australia maps the extent of US militarisation. The US military controls 17 facilities on mainland Australia and has access to 75 more Australian-run military installations. US defence corporations have access to an additional 18.
Gathering intelligence, accessing satellite data for targeting information and communications intercepts.
Training, including for 2,500 marines on dry-season rotation in the Northern Territory.
Pre-positioning warfighting assets such as Osprey aircraft.
Logistics hubs holding weapons, munitions and fuel, stored in case of a war in the Pacific.
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Thursday 404 Media reported that Flock taught America's cops "how they could surveil the No Kings protests" against President Trump (as well as "small parades") in a webinar last year that described "using a mix of Flock's technology and law enforcement's own databases."
In the webinar, Flock's director of market management Caity Peak explains how real time crime centers — which are police surveillance centers that utilize Flock cameras and other surveillance cameras — can be used for emergency response, but can also be used to surveil "established events" like 4th of July fireworks displays, parades, bike races, Mardi Gras, and protests. The webinar shows just how routine the idea of always-on surveillance has become, and how casually it is used during extremely innocuous events. Peak explains that police can use FlockOS, a software platform that combines Flock's automatic license plate readers (ALPR), drones, gunshot detectors, 911 data, and other surveillance cameras (including ones Flock does not own) into a "single pane of glass" or single piece of software to look at various types of surveillance in one place during both emergencies and relatively mundane events in a city or town.
"Imagine that you're an incident commander, and you're working this No Kings Protest," Peak explains while a dashboard shows a series of surveillance tools overlaying the city of Denver. "If I'm somebody assigned a traffic post that's working this No Kings Protest, I really don't have time to go in [...] and look at all these places [for different intelligence]. This is an example of viewing all of that in one place...." The dashboard Peak shows includes traffic information, a "response plan" for the protest, the floor plans of nearby buildings, as well as a series of video feeds of both outdoor-mounted cameras and cameras inside businesses and government buildings.
404 Media and the Electronic Frontier Foundation previously showed that police have specifically used Flock cameras to monitor the No Kings protests and other First Amendment-protected activity... This webinar shows this type of surveillance is not anomalous, and is specifically taught by Flock. The webinar also shows that Flock's latest public stance — that its ALPR cameras are noninvasive technology, that they take only static images at a single place and time, and that they are primarily used to solve the worst crimes — is wildly misleading. Flock has time and time again pitched itself to police as a sort of operating system to solve crime and do real-time surveillance and predictive policing. ALPRs are just one part of this broader surveillance apparatus that Flock has created, markets to police, and teaches them how to use.
In the webinar, Flock's director of market management Caity Peak explains how real time crime centers — which are police surveillance centers that utilize Flock cameras and other surveillance cameras — can be used for emergency response, but can also be used to surveil "established events" like 4th of July fireworks displays, parades, bike races, Mardi Gras, and protests. The webinar shows just how routine the idea of always-on surveillance has become, and how casually it is used during extremely innocuous events. Peak explains that police can use FlockOS, a software platform that combines Flock's automatic license plate readers (ALPR), drones, gunshot detectors, 911 data, and other surveillance cameras (including ones Flock does not own) into a "single pane of glass" or single piece of software to look at various types of surveillance in one place during both emergencies and relatively mundane events in a city or town.
"Imagine that you're an incident commander, and you're working this No Kings Protest," Peak explains while a dashboard shows a series of surveillance tools overlaying the city of Denver. "If I'm somebody assigned a traffic post that's working this No Kings Protest, I really don't have time to go in [...] and look at all these places [for different intelligence]. This is an example of viewing all of that in one place...." The dashboard Peak shows includes traffic information, a "response plan" for the protest, the floor plans of nearby buildings, as well as a series of video feeds of both outdoor-mounted cameras and cameras inside businesses and government buildings.
404 Media and the Electronic Frontier Foundation previously showed that police have specifically used Flock cameras to monitor the No Kings protests and other First Amendment-protected activity... This webinar shows this type of surveillance is not anomalous, and is specifically taught by Flock. The webinar also shows that Flock's latest public stance — that its ALPR cameras are noninvasive technology, that they take only static images at a single place and time, and that they are primarily used to solve the worst crimes — is wildly misleading. Flock has time and time again pitched itself to police as a sort of operating system to solve crime and do real-time surveillance and predictive policing. ALPRs are just one part of this broader surveillance apparatus that Flock has created, markets to police, and teaches them how to use.
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MIAMI (ANP/RTR) - Een vrachtvliegtuig van Amazon Prime Air, een Boeing 767, is zondag aan het einde van een landingsbaan op Miami International Airport doorgeschoten. Het vliegtuig raakte daarbij meerdere voertuigen en vloog in brand.
De brandweer meldt dat meer dan zestig eenheden ter plaatse kwamen. "Bij aankomst troffen de eenheden een vliegtuig aan dat door de crash in brand was gevlogen; er waren hevige vlammen en rook zichtbaar," aldus Miami-Dade Fire Rescue in een verklaring. "Brandweerlieden zijn bezig de brand te blussen en er zijn meerdere gewonden."
De Amerikaanse luchtvaartautoriteit FAA onderzoekt het incident, evenals de National Transportation Safety Board.
PARIJS (ANP/AFP) - Fabien Roussel is net als in 2022 de kandidaat van de Franse Communistische Partij (PCF) in de Franse presidentsverkiezingen van 2027. Dat heeft hij bekendgemaakt op de Franse zender TF1. Roussel is burgemeester van Saint-Amand-les-Eaux, een plaats nabij de grens met België.
De kans dat Roussel president van Frankrijk wordt, is niet erg groot. Zijn PCF schommelt in de peilingen tussen 2 en 3 procent. In 2022 eindigde hij in de eerste stemmingsronde met 2,28 procent van de stemmen als achtste.
Met zijn aankondiging voegt Roussel zich bij de vele kandidaten aan de linkerzijde van het Franse politieke spectrum. Andere linkse kandidaten zijn Jean-Luc Mélenchon van La France insoumise (LFI) en Marine Tondelier van Les Écologistes.
Eveneens ter linkerzijde staan de sociaaldemocraten. Zij houden in oktober een voorverkiezing om hun kandidaat aan te wijzen. De voornaamste kandidaten daarvoor zijn Raphaël Glucksmann en Olivier Faure.
MONZA (ANP/RTR) - Lewis Hamilton pleit voor schriftelijke gedragsregels bij Ferrari na de aanrijding met teamgenoot Charles Leclerc aan het begin van de Grote Prijs van Italië. Dat zei de zevenvoudig Britse wereldkampioen in de Formule 1 tegen de media na zijn zesde plaats in Monza. "Toen ik bij Mercedes zat, hadden we gedragsregels opgeschreven. En daardoor ging het nooit echt mis", zei Hamilton.
"Er was misschien af en toe een moment met mij en Nico Rosberg, maar veel vaker ging het goed", zei Hamilton over zijn tijd bij Mercedes. "Hier zijn er geen regels. En ik denk dat dat moet veranderen."
Hamilton ging zij aan zij met Leclerc de eerste bochten in, waarop de Monegask hem van de baan duwde. Daardoor viel hij terug naar de tiende plaats.