​Donald Trump is vandaag woest geworden op zijn NAVO-bondgenoten. Dat meldden diverse media die aanwezig waren bij de top in Turkije. De Amerikaanse president verwijt de andere lidstaten dat ze hem niet hebben geholpen bij de verdediging tegen België.

“Ik ben erg teleurgesteld en ik denk dat het een grote fout van hen is om mij niet te helpen bij de verdediging tegen België”, zegt Trump. “Andere landen profiteren van onze stadions, maar ons helpen? Ho maar. Dat vind ik een gebrek aan loyaliteit.”

Vooral Spanje en Italië moeten het ontgelden in het betoog van Trump. “Ik mag niet eens gebruikmaken van hun verdedigers.”

De beschuldigde landen willen niets weten van de kritiek van Trump. “Hij heeft ons vooraf helemaal niet om hulp gevraagd en bovendien waren wij zelf druk met de verdediging tegen Portugal”, zegt een woordvoerder van Spanje. Italië heeft nog niet gereageerd.

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LONDEN (ANP) - De Britse prins Harry vindt dat hij en de andere aanklagers in de Daily Mail-zaak geen gerechtigheid hebben gekregen. "We kwamen naar de rechtbank voor gerechtigheid en verantwoording. Maar we hebben geen van beide gekregen", liet de prins in een verklaring aan Britse media weten.

De verklaring is opgesteld namens de prins en barones Doreen Lawrence. Volgens hen wordt het werk van de journalisten van de Daily Mail "witgewassen". "De mate waarin de rechtbank de Mail vrijpleit, is even schokkend als volkomen ongemotiveerd."

Harry is het er niet mee eens dat hij en de andere aanklagers onvoldoende hebben bewezen dat de Daily Mail onrechtmatig informatie vergaarde. "Het voelt alsof er voor de kranten andere regels gelden dan voor de eisers", aldus de prins. "Waar de eisers bewijsmateriaal aandroegen, beperkten de journalisten van de Mail zich tot ontkenningen. De rechtbank koos er klakkeloos voor hen te geloven."

Harry sleepte samen met andere Britse prominenten de uitgever van de Daily Mail, Associated Newspapers Limited, voor de rechter. Naast Harry ging het om onder anderen zanger Elton John en actrice Elizabeth Hurley. De rechter oordeelde dinsdag dat zij hun claims onvoldoende hebben bewezen.

Power-efficient South Korean AI chip startup FuriosaAI has landed on European shores. On Tuesday, the chip biz revealed that it had begun fielding its RNGD — pronounced “renegade” — line of AI accelerators at colocation giant Equinix’s LS2 datacenter in Lisbon, Portugal. Founded by June Paik and Hanjoon Kim back in 2017, before LLMs were cool, Furiosa has largely focused its attention on the South Korean domestic market, scoring wins with the likes of LG Electronics. Now the startup is looking to bring its RNGD-based inference platform to Europe, where it sees an opportunity to capitalize on growing sovereign AI compute demand. We looked at Furiosa’s tensor contraction processor (TCP) architecture at this time last year. Fabbed on TSMC’s 5 nm process tech, RNGD is rather modest compared to chips from Nvidia or AMD. Each PCIe card features 48 GB of HBM3, 1.5 TB/s of memory bandwidth, and, according to Furiosa, is capable of churning out 512 teraFLOPS of dense FP8 performance. The main thing going for these parts is that, compared to the competition, they’re not particularly power hungry. Each card has a TDP of 180 watts. For reference, the RTX Pro 6000, Nvidia’s closest competitor, offers twice the memory capacity and compute, and comparable memory bandwidth, while consuming 3.33x the power. Eight of these accelerators form Furiosa’s NXT RNGD Server, a 3 kW system that boasts up to 384 GB of HBM, enough to run relatively large enterprise models like OpenAI’s gpt-oss 120B, LG’s Exaone 236B, or Qwen 3-30B-A3B at large context sizes and concurrency. And because the systems are air-cooled, they can be deployed in existing datacenter racks. Furiosa’s foray into the European market may have more to do with brand recognition and software familiarity than offloading RNGD excess accelerator stock. As we previously reported, Furiosa is working with Broadcom on a third-generation AI accelerator. The tie-up will see the two companies adapt Furiosa’s Tensor Contraction Processor tech into a multi-die system-on-package utilizing faster HBM4 or HBM4e memory. The new chip will also use Broadcom’s Ethernet and PCIe switching tech to support larger scale up clusters than the eight-way systems Furiosa is already building. Furiosa is one of several companies licensing technologies from Broadcom to support its next-generation accelerators. Earlier this year, Meta unveiled its latest generation of MTIA chips built with Broadcom’s help. OpenAI and Google have also disclosed chip collaborations with Broadzilla, though details remain light. Furiosa’s third-gen accelerators should offer much higher performance and scalability, but their reliance on HBM4 and HBM4e memory, which are only hitting the market this year and next, means we probably won’t see them in the wild anytime soon. ®

After the classic series became a pandemic-era smash, a glossy new adaptation aims to explore the complexities of frontier life

Each incarnation of Little House on the Prairie has reflected the fears, hopes and hangups of its time – from Laura Ingalls Wilder’s semi-autobiographical children’s novels, first published in the wake of the Great Depression, to the television series they inspired, which premiered amid a recession and an oil crisis in 1974.

Netflix’s reboot, premiering on 9 July, is no exception. “The stories are able to transcend generations, which speaks to its basic nature,” says Luke Bracey, who stars in the new series as Charles “Pa” Ingalls, the rugged family patriarch. “This is a family trying to get along in the world.”

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The University of Bologna has opened the Biblioteca Eco , a new public library housing the personal book collection of writer and semiotician Umberto Eco, a decade after his death. The collection, comprising more than 32,000 volumes from Eco's study in Milan, has found a permanent home in the 20th-century wing of Palazzo Poggi, with its entrance on Piazza Puntoni.

The collection was donated to the Italian state by Eco's heirs in 2020, on condition that it be placed on permanent loan to the University of Bologna. Before the move, the library was surveyed shelf by shelf in Milan, with the position of every volume, thematic groupings and connections between authors and disciplines carefully documented, so that the new premises in Bologna could reproduce Eco's original arrangement exactly, down to which books he kept lying flat and which stood upright. That arrangement follows the "good neighbour" principle developed by art historian Aby Warburg, which Eco adopted for his own shelving: placing seemingly unrelated texts side by side so that unexpected connections between them could emerge. The library's themed rooms, covering subjects from mediaeval philosophy to popular fiction, comic books and occultism, allow visitors to trace the same interdisciplinary connections that shaped Eco's own research and writing. Among the holdings are more than 2,000 editions and translations of Eco's own works, around 600 volumes about him and his work, and a complete run of the magazine Linus, which he co-founded in 1965. Many Eco previouslies.

A new study suggests multilingualism may slow brain aging, with bilingual people showing brains that appear about six years younger than monolingual speakers and people who speak four languages showing brains that appear up to 13 years younger. Researchers say earlier language learning and higher proficiency appear to strengthen the effect. The Guardian reports: Our brains are made up of billions of nerve cells that communicate with one another. But as we get older, the connectivity in our brains often deteriorates, causing memory and speed of thought to decline. While previous research had observed that people from European countries with greater language proficiency tended to age more slowly, this study measured the impact of speaking languages on individual brains. Scientists in Spain, Chile, Argentina and Dublin compared people living in the Basque region -- characterized by high levels of multilingualism -- who spoke Spanish, Basque, French and/or English.

To measure neurological age, the scientists used magnetoencephalography to measure the brain activity of 728 people with varying ages and levels of linguistic ability. They then used AI to process the results to calculate a normal level of brain connectivity at any given age. A second unrelated group of 144 people were then scanned and compared, comprising equal numbers of people speaking one, two, three or four languages.

Dr Lucia Amoruso, from the Basque Center on Cognition, Brain and Language in San Sebastian, said: "In simple terms, people who spoke more languages tended to have brains that looked younger than expected for their chronological age. The effect was not only related to the number of languages spoken. Higher language proficiency and earlier acquisition of a second language were also associated with more delayed brain ageing. This suggests that multilingual experience matters as a gradient: it is not simply about being bilingual or not, but about the depth and duration of language experience."

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