LONDEN (ANP) - Unilever gaat 270 miljoen dollar investeren in de ontwikkeling van een nieuw innovatiecentrum in de Verenigde Staten. In dat centrum in de stad New Haven in de Amerikaanse staat Connecticut gaat het bedrijf onder meer onderzoek doen naar producten voor persoonlijke verzorging, geurstoffen en ook verpakkingen.

Het nieuwe centrum moet in het voorjaar van 2029 openen en werk gaan bieden aan ongeveer driehonderd werknemers. Het nieuwe onderzoeks- en ontwikkelingscentrum wordt de opvolger van het bestaande centrum van Unilever in Trumbull in Connecticut dat sinds 1972 actief is. Volgens Unilever is dit het "volgende hoofdstuk" in de lange samenwerking met Connecticut en diens wetenschappelijke gemeenschap. In New Haven zijn ook veel andere bedrijven actief met onderzoek en ontwikkeling. Ook zijn er universiteiten.

Volgens Unilever zal onder meer AI worden gebruikt bij de ontwikkeling van nieuwe producten. Het bedrijf zegt over de afgelopen tien jaar bijna 15 miljard dollar te hebben geïnvesteerd in de VS in overnames en kapitaalprojecten.

Ex-SNP leader says she appeared on more front pages than her husband this week, adding: ‘I don’t think that’s right’

Nicola Sturgeon said she “should not be held responsible for the wrongdoing of men” after Peter Murrell, her estranged husband, admitted to embezzling hundreds of thousands of pounds from the SNP this week.

The former Scottish first minister told an audience at the Hay festival in Wales on Friday: “My picture has been on more front pages in Scotland this week than my former husband’s has, and I don’t think that’s right.”

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Christian Castro was charged with assault and falsely reporting a crime after video emerged of non-fatal shooting in January

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A federal immigration officer wanted for shooting a Venezuelan man during the Trump administration’s crackdown in Minnesota was arrested on Friday in Texas, authorities said.

Christian Castro, of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency, was taken into custody 11 days after Minneapolis prosecutors charged him with assault and falsely reporting a crime in the 14 January non-fatal shooting of Julio Cesar Sosa-Celis.

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Ollie Bearman has explained how the developing battle between Kimi Antonelli and George Russell is giving him extra belief and motivation, with the Haas driver eager to follow his former F2 team mate to front of the field.

Every month, we share opportunities for artists and designers, including open calls, grants, fellowships, and residencies. Make sure you never miss out by joining our monthly Opportunities Newsletter.

BOAPS–Summer 2026: Grants, Exhibition, Publication, Promotion, Sales, Career BoostFeatured
Ready to showcase your art internationally and receive cash grants? BOAPS (Summer 2026 Edition) invites visual artists worldwide, working in any medium, to submit their strongest works with complete creative freedom. This seasonal open call offers $10,000 CAD in annual cash grants and exclusive awards, along with solo and group exhibitions, publication in catalogues and art magazines, global promotion, sales exposure through Biafarin and Artsy, audience engagement and feedback, editorial reviews, and professional recognition designed to support artistic growth and international visibility.
Learn more and submit: www.biafarin.com/boaps
Deadline: 11:59 p.m. PDT on June 9, 2026.

Spring $1,800 Innovate Grants for Art + PhotoFeatured
Innovate Grant awards two $1,800 grants each quarter to one visual artist and one photographer. In addition, 18 applicants will receive honorable mentions, be featured on the website, and join a growing community. International artists and photographers working in any medium are eligible. All applicants retain the right to the work they submit.
Deadline: 11:59 p.m. PDT on June 18, 2026.

Hyundai Motor Group–The 7th VH AWARDFeatured
A global award for emerging media artists engaging with the context of Asia, featuring production grants, an online residency with Ars Electronica, and global exhibitions. This 7th edition introduces a new “Honorary Mention” category and awards the Grand Prix winner an additional $30,000 grant. Read more on vhaward.com.
Deadline: July 21, 2026.

 

Open Calls

BEERS London Group Exhibitions (International)
This is an opportunity for artists working across all media to apply to be a part of a group exhibition at BEERS London. BEERS’ objective is to discover new, compelling, and contemporary work to present at its gallery. There is a £10 application fee.
Deadline: June 1, 2026.

BOOOOOOOM 2026 Art & Photo Book Award (International)
BOOOOOOOM is teaming up with Bookmobile to offer the chance to have your work published as a standalone book. This year, eight projects will be brought to life—each by a different artist, illustrator, or photographer—at zero cost to the individual. One zine proposal is free for non-members. BOOOOOOOM members can submit unlimited proposals.
Deadline: 11:59 p.m. PDT on June 5, 2026.

Circulation(s) European Young Photography Festival (International)
The Circulation(s) festival takes place at the Centquatre-Paris, a cultural place in eastern Paris, and continues in the form of tours and off-site events in France and Europe. Emerging photographers are invited to submit their work for the 2027 festival. The application fee is €20.
Deadline: 11:59 p.m. CEST on June 7, 2026.

hosq Notations #2 Open Call (International)
hosq is an international cultural hub in Armenia. Notations is a laboratory and festival for artists working across sound, music, media, installation, performance, and research. This year’s theme is “rituals.” An 11-day research and production period culminates with installation for the festival.
Deadline: June 10, 2026.

Forecast Call for Public Art Proposals for Westonka Library (International)
Hennepin County Library contracted Forecast Public Art to curate and commission three permanent artworks at the Westonka Library in Mound, Minnesota, near the western edge of Lake Minnetonka. Two opportunities are open, including one with a production budget of $60,000 and another with a budget of $75,000 for two locations.
Deadline: 11:59 p.m. CDT on June 14, 2026.

SaveArtSpace Miami Ad Space Open Call (International)
SaveArtSpace presents The Extravagance of the Quotidian, a public art exhibition curated by Hermes Berrío on bus shelter ad space opening July 31 in Miami. The application fee is $35 for one to three images; each additional image carries a $10 fee.
Deadline: June 15, 2026.

A Look to the Future: America at 350 (California)
A Look to the Future is an investigative art exhibition at Brea Gallery imaging what America will look like 100 years from now. How will people relate, govern, create, remember, and care for one another? What new myths, systems, landscapes, and identities will define the country’s next century? What will hold us together and help us look to the future? Original artwork must be created within the past three years, and all mediums are welcome.
Deadline: June 15, 2026.

Shapes and Colors 2026 Art Award: Exhibition, Publication, Sales, and Global Promotion (International)
Shapes and Colors 2026 invites artists worldwide to explore form and color through abstract or representational, digital or traditional works. Selected artists receive a smart online exhibition, Artsy feature, global promotion, catalogue and art magazine publication, press release, visitor engagement, editorial reviews, audience feedback, and exclusive awards. Learn more and submit: www.gallerium.art/shapes-and-colors
Deadline: 11:59 p.m. PDT on June 16, 2026.

21st Edition of Arte Laguna Prize (International)
Apply for this unique opportunity to exhibit your work at the Arsenale Nord in Venice. The finalists’ exhibition will take place from November 6 to 29, with 120 artists selected by a jury including the winner of the first prize of €10,000, among other awards. The application fee is €97.60 (VAT included) for artists under 35 years old and €122 for those 35 and older.
Deadline: June 30, 2026.

Shelley & Donald Rubin Foundation Sight/Geist Open Call (New York City)
This open call is for emerging film and performance artists. Selected artists will receive a stipend of either $300 for a short film in a group screening, $500 for a solo screening, or $750 for a solo live performance (with an additional $250 for production costs).
Deadline: 11 p.m. EDT on July 5, 2026.

The 17th Epson International Pano Awards (International)
A $50,000 prize pool awaits entries to the Pano Awards, featuring a new aerial category. Winners are exhibited at the Garden Gallery at the Botanic Gardens of Sydney, and a silent auction will benefit the Rainforest Seed Conservation Project. Non-professional and student photographers can submit to the Amateur Awards for $20 per entry, and all photographers are eligible to submit to the Open Awards for $22 per entry.
Deadline: July 13, 2026.

 

Grants

Artadia Awards (San Francisco Bay Area)
The Artadia Awards provide financial support, exposure and recognition to artists. The $15,000 awards are unrestricted, allowing artists to use the funds in any way they choose.
Deadline: June 1, 2026.

The Anolic Family Awards (International)
The Anolic family offers several opportunities for Jewish artists early in their artistic careers. One visual arts award is $1,000, while another $1,500 grant will be awarded for the creation of a unique, one-of-kind, or limited edition work of art in the field of Jewish book arts.
Deadline: June 1, 2026.

Walker Youngbird Foundation Emerging Native Arts Grant (U.S.)
The Emerging Native Arts Grant is a cornerstone initiative of the Walker Youngbird Foundation, created to support early-career Native artists who are honoring tradition while boldly shaping the future of contemporary Indigenous art. Awarded twice annually, the $15,000 grant provides funding, mentorship, and a curated showcase to artists at a critical stage in their development—offering them the resources and visibility they need to take bold next steps in their creative journeys.
Deadline: 11:59 p.m. EDT on June 18, 2026.

Art Fluent Evolution Grant (U.S.)
The Evolution Grant will provide unrestricted funding of $1,000 to an individual artist with recognized artistic excellence in fine art media and a demonstrated commitment to their art. There is a $35 application fee.
Deadline: 11:59 p.m. MDT on June 19, 2026.

2026 Chrysalis Award for Emerging Ceramic Artists (U.S.)
The Chrysalis Award was created by the James Renwick Alliance for Craft to support and inspire emerging craft artists in the United States. Eligible applicants are in the early stages of their professional artistic careers—regardless of age—and have completed their training within the past five years. This year’s award will recognize an emerging artist working in ceramics, who will receive a $5,000 unrestricted award, a one-year JRACraft membership, and the opportunity to present their work at a JRACraft event.
Deadline: August 23, 2026.

The Adolf and Esther Gottlieb Emergency Grant (International)
This program provides one-time financial assistance to qualified painters, printmakers, and sculptors whose needs resulted from an unforeseen catastrophic incident and who lack the resources to meet that situation. Awardees typically receive $5,000 and up to $15,000.
Deadline: Rolling.

Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant (International)
The foundation welcomes applications from painters, sculptors, and artists working on paper, including printmakers. Grants are intended for one year and range up to $50,000. The artist’s circumstances determine the size of the grant, and professional exhibition history will be considered.
Deadline: Rolling.

 

Residencies, Fellowships, & More

Headlands Center for the Arts Residencies (International)
The Artist in Residence program at Headlands Center for the Arts in Sausalito, California, awards fully sponsored residencies to approximately 50 local, national, and international artists each year. Residencies of four to ten weeks include studio space, chef-prepared meals, housing, travel, and living expenses.
Deadline: June 1, 2026.

Gasworks Residencies (Greece and New Zealand)
Gasworks invites artists at a pivotal point in their career based in Greece or New Zealand to apply to an 11-week, fully funded residency that will take place at Gasworks in London from September 30 to December 15.
Deadline: 1 p.m. BST on June 1, 2026.

Gasworks Residency (Paris)
This residency open call is for an artist based in Paris, who has presented their work in several venues to date. The 11-week, fully funded residency will take place at Gasworks in London from January 6 to March 24, 2027.
Deadline: 11:59 p.m. CEST on June 2, 2026.

Gasworks Residency (Caribbean)
This residency open call is for an early-career artist based in the Caribbean. The 11-week, fully funded residency will take place at Gasworks in London from January 6 to March 24, 2027.
Deadline: 1 p.m. BST on June 29, 2026.

AlterWork Studios Residency Program (International)
This residency was designed to allow emerging contemporary artists time and space to create new work exploring their practice. Artists may submit a proposal of how they intend to utilize the space as a studio to create new work or a specific project. The residency will culminate in a solo closing reception. The cost to the artist is $400 per month and a $200 non-refundable administration fee.
Deadline: June 30, 2026.

Wassaic Project 2027 Artist Residencies (International)
Wassaic Project invites applications for both summer and winter residencies on-site in Wassaic, New York. Residencies are offered on a sliding scale from $0 to $900. Most of the cost is covered by the generous support of donors and grants, but Wassaic Project recommends a contribution of $900 per session to those who are able to contribute. There is a $25 application fee (a waiver may be available).
Deadline: July 1, 2026.

Pine Meadow Ranch Center for Arts & Agriculture Residencies (International)
Pine Meadow Ranch Center for Arts and Agriculture (PMRCAA) offers two- and four-week residencies from March to mid-November. Two to four residents share a large, historic home on the ranch property, and each is assigned their own private studio. Since 2018, the program has been supporting artists, scientists, writers and researchers from a variety of fields and with a range of experience levels, and practitioners in a wide range of disciplines are invited to apply. The 2027 theme is “process and material.”
Deadline: 11:59 p.m. PDT on July 6, 2026.

Retreat to Art Residency (International)
Retreat to Art is a program run by the Bored Peach Club in Gozo, Malta. Each edition is shaped by a lead artist who defines the week’s focus, working framework and direction according to their practice. The edition planned for one week in early September 2026 is led by British artist Pete Codling and is limited to 15 participants. The fee is €1,950 per person, or €1,650 for a shared space.
Deadline: Until filled.

Quarantine (International)
Dubbed “purgatory for artists,” Quarantine is a week-long intensive art program on an 18th-century quarantine island off the coast of Menorca, Spain. The program is open to beginners and professionals alike and offers three 45-minute private mentorships throughout the week, with activities lasting 12+ hours per day. Phones are banned.
Deadline: Rolling.

Residencia Corazón (International)
Residencia Corazón is an independent, artist-run residency in La
Plata, Argentina—a home for artists since 2006. The program welcomes visual
artists, writers, curators, and creative researchers from around the
world for one- to three-month residencies. Each stay is fully personalized, and fees range from $800 to $1,500 per month.
Deadline: Rolling.

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Robert Simons vertrekt als bestuurder uit Rotterdam. De wethouder en locoburgemeester stapt over naar de veel kleinere gemeente Maassluis, waar hij zijn carrière als wethouder voortzet.

There's a huge hole and no one is patching it thus far. A critical, remote code execution (RCE) bug in Gogs, a popular open-source self-hosted Git service, can be exploited by any authenticated user - no special privileges required - on a default installation to fully compromise vulnerable servers, steal credentials and multi-factor authentication secrets, or even modify code in hosted repositories in a wide-reaching supply-chain attack. A security researcher reported the 9.4-rated flaw to project maintainers in mid-March. It still doesn’t have a patch. It does, however, have a public Metasploit module - so we’d expect reports of in-the-wild exploitation to start very soon. The vulnerability affects all supported platforms, including Windows, Linux, and macOS, and installation methods, according to Rapid7 researcher Jonah Burgess, who found and reported the bug to Gogs maintainers via GitHub (GHSA-qf6p-p7ww-cwr9) on March 17. After they initially acknowledged that they received the report on March 28, Burgess says he never heard back from the Gogs team - not when he asked them for a status update, nor when he reminded them of the vulnerability disclosure date and asked if they wanted an extension to fix the flaw before its release. “We have not received any further communication from Gogs, and the GHSA has remained unanswered since March 28,” Burgess told The Register. “Because there is currently no official patch, our team submitted a pull request with a suggested fix today [Friday], which is currently awaiting review. At this time, we have no evidence suggesting that this vulnerability is being exploited in the wild.” Gogs sponsor DigitalOcean also did not respond to The Register’s inquiries, including when the security issue would receive a patch. The vulnerability stems from an argument injection flaw in Gogs’ pull request merge flow, specifically the Merge() function in internal/database/pull.go. If a Gogs repo owner or admin enables "Rebase before merging" and a user opens a pull request, the PR's base branch name gets passed directly to a git rebase command without a -- separator to mark the end of command options. Gogs also fails to properly sanitize the input. This means an attacker can create a malicious branch (such as --exec=touch${IFS}/tmp/rce_proof), and Git treats it as an --exec flag, not a branch name, and executes the payload. For Windows installations, the payload delivery method is slightly different, and Burgess developed an exploit module to auto-implement a cross-platform approach. Until the maintainers fix the flaw, Burgess suggests Gogs’ users take the following precautions to mitigate the issue. First, and most importantly, restrict user registration (DISABLE_REGISTRATION = true in app.ini) to prevent untrusted users from creating accounts. Restricting repository creation (MAX_CREATION_LIMIT = 0 in app.ini) to prevent users from creating their own repos also blocks the easiest attack path - creating a new repo with rebase enabled - but it won’t prevent exploitation by users with write access to existing repositories. Finally, audit rebase merge settings, and disable “Rebase before merging" under Settings > Advanced. “Note that this is not an effective defense against a malicious user who owns or has admin access to a repo, since they can re-enable rebase at will,” the threat hunter warns. “There is no global or organization-level setting to restrict this.” ®

Andor loves a good monologue. Among the best of them is Nemik’s Manifesto:

Remember this, Freedom is a pure idea. It occurs spontaneously and without instruction. Random acts of insurrection are occurring constantly throughout the galaxy.

And Kino Loy’s speech to his fellow prisoners on Narkina 5:

There is one way out. Right now, the building is ours. You need to run, climb, kill! You need to help each other. You see someone who’s confused, someone who is lost, you get them moving and you keep them moving until we put this place behind us.

In this just-released episode of Nerdwriter, Evan Puschak breaks down Luthen Rael’s “extraordinary” monologue about what he’s sacrificed for the cause.

Here’s the original scene and a transcript of the speech:

Calm. Kindness. Kinship. Love. I’ve given up all chance at inner peace. I’ve made my mind a sunless space. I share my dreams with ghosts. I wake up every day to an equation I wrote 15 years ago from which there’s only one conclusion, I’m damned for what I do. My anger, my ego, my unwillingness to yield, my eagerness to fight, they’ve set me on a path from which there is no escape. I yearned to be a savior against injustice without contemplating the cost and by the time I looked down there was no longer any ground beneath my feet. What is my — what is my sacrifice? I’m condemned to use the tools of my enemy to defeat them. I burn my decency for someone else’s future. I burn my life to make a sunrise that I know I’ll never see. And the ego that started this fight will never have a mirror or an audience or the light of gratitude. So what do I sacrifice? EVERYTHING!

The great thing about Luthen’s monologue, which Puschak doesn’t really get into, is that it makes the viewer rethink the entire basis of the show — and of Star Wars in general. Instead of Good Guys and Bad Guys, you’re asked to consider shades of gray. These blurred lines are hinted at before, mostly through individual character arcs (Han, Anakin, Lando, Rey, Kylo), but Luthen plainly lays out the moral complexity involved: revolutions and rebellions are led by and made up of flawed people who do harmful things for the right reasons…or at least, that’s what they tell themselves, what they need to tell themselves.

Luthen, Mon Mothma, Cassian — there’s no solution to their personal trolley problem, except that they somehow have to keep living after condemning others to suffering and death. Viewed through that lens, the rest of Star Wars reads quite differently.

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​Veel clubs hebben last van leeglopende dansvloeren en jongeren die minder uitgaan. Hordes aan journalisten proberen de oorzaak te achterhalen. Clubs worden nu overspoeld met verslaggevers, op zoek naar thuisblijvende jongeren.

Club-eigenaar Hans vertelt hoe zijn discotheek De Dorstige Aap opeens weer vol loopt. “De gemiddelde leeftijd is wel flink omhoog geschoten. Er staat buiten zelfs weer een rij met 40- en 50-plussers die niet kunnen wachten om binnen te komen en een lege club aan te treffen. Zodra Le Freak van Chic opkomt, durven ze zelfs te sjansen met mede-journalisten.”

Opmerkelijk verschil met ander uitgaanspubliek: de piek in bezoekers zit op doordeweekse dagen tussen 9 en 5. Verder wordt er opvallend veel Spa Rood besteld terwijl ze noteren dat jongeren niet meer drinken en vragen ze meermaals of de muziek ‘wat zachter kan’.

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