Een kennis heeft een klein achtertuintje waar ze met groene beplanting en vetbollen vogels probeert te lokken.

Plaats de cijfers 1 tot en met 9 zo in het diagram dat elk cijfer precies één keer voorkomt in elke rij, kolom, negen vetomrande 3x3 vakken én de vier grijze 3x3 vakken.

Trump ally, accused of an array of illegal acts, had earlier condemned impeachment push as ‘a farce and a stunt’

House Republicans on Tuesday blocked an effort to impeach Pete Hegseth, rejecting allegations that the defense secretary had repeatedly violated the constitution through his handling of the Iran war and other conflicts globally.

The vote came a week after Republicans lost control of the Senate and House of Representatives in their worst midterm election in more than a half century, and underscored how lawmakers remain wary of crossing Donald Trump, who has signaled his continued support for Hegseth.

Continue reading...

Can men mend their broken self-esteem with a thicker penis? This documentary about the patients of a Dallas clinic offering PhalloFill® treatment suggests there might be something deeper here

In Bill Moore’s Dallas clinic, every man who drops his pants and lies on the treatment table, braced for the needle, has come looking for something without being sure what it is. As far as their physical selves are concerned, they know exactly what they want, and they are handing over thousands of bucks to pay for it: they all crave a thicker penis. Whether this will mend their broken self-esteem, though, is not clear.

Daniel Lombroso’s documentary about Moore and his patients doesn’t know precisely what it wants either, as it floats between sad stories of modern male self-image that never merge into a singular takeaway argument. Is it about looksmaxxing and the manosphere? At least one participant has picked up questionable ideas from big, bad podcasts, so yes. But the film is also interested in pornography’s flooding of male brains with extreme imagery, and how unrealistic beauty goals for women can make insecure men blame their ills on their own imperfect appearances. It’s concerned with shame, trauma and homophobia too.

Continue reading...

New York is launching a state-backed AI safety research center at Binghamton University that will independently study and test AI systems, develop safety and security techniques, and train researchers in responsible AI. "While the federal government fails to act, New York is leading the way on AI safety and holding big tech accountable," New York Gov. Kathy Hochul said. "The stakes are too high to simply take AI companies at their word." Politico reports: The center -- which is funded by a $30 million gift from Bloomberg co-founder Tom Secunda and a $25 million research investment from SUNY and New York state -- is set to launch before New York's major AI safety law, the RAISE Act, comes into effect on Jan. 1. That will require submissions of detailed safety frameworks from AI companies operating in New York State, which Hochul's office hopes will be scrutinized by researchers at the new center.

"AI is opening up questions that scientists could not tackle before," said Secunda, who also serves as the board chair of Empire AI, a $500 million public-private partnership. "With Empire AI and researchers across New York, the Center can test systems independently and give public officials evidence they can use."

Over 80 leading scientists and researchers on AI systems from across New York state will contribute to the effort, which will be run by the New York Center for AI Responsibility and Research at Binghamton University, according to details shared by Hochul's office. The initiative will be led by Jeannette Wing, the executive vice president for research at Columbia University, and Greg Morrisett, the vice provost of Cornell Tech.

"We need new techniques that can be applied to this new kind of system with swarms of autonomous agents acting independently and without control. How can you first detect that they're going to do harm, and how can you prevent them from doing harm?" said Wing. "The beauty of what's being proposed is that this state is committing resources to really light this up."

Read more of this story at Slashdot.

Anthropic has introduced three new types of artifacts that show the company tiptoeing into the office productivity market long dominated by Microsoft and Google. On Tuesday, the Claudefather announced Claude Sheets, Claude Whiteboards, and Claude Data, and promised the imminent arrival of Claude Meetings. These artifact types join existing ones – Docs, Slides, Design, and Motion – to form a nascent Claude-dependent productivity suite. Anthropic initially used the term artifacts to refer to shareable AI-based interactive tools, like dynamic charts. But the scope of the term has been stretched to cover specific artifact types, which refer to what traditionalists might take to mean files associated with specific hosted applications. "An artifact is anything Claude makes for you that you'd put in front of someone: a design, a deck, a document, a dashboard, or a small interactive tool," the company explains. The key thing that distinguishes an artifact from a file is that users are meant to interact with artifacts through Claude, rather than storing and transferring them independently. Think of it more as a container or managed object that opens in Claude (via a sharing URL), because artifacts in fact consist of various content types – .txt, .md, .html, .jsx, .svg, .pptx, .docx, .zip, .pdf, and .mp4, among others. Anthropic's vision of Claude as a container for other applications goes beyond artifacts. The AI biz has also expanded its interactive connectors, which turn Claude into a landlord for other software applications. Its own promotional video for the feature hammers that point home in its title: "Your apps have moved into Claude." "Starting today, partners can embed their apps directly in Claude, so you can work in Adobe, Atlassian, and others without switching tabs," Anthropic said. "Plugins from Salesforce (beta), NetSuite, and Workday (beta) come with built-in skills, so sellers can prep for a call, accountants can analyze financial data, and HR teams can handle time off and expenses." In a prior era, those would be fighting words. Tech companies like Apple, Google, and Microsoft have worked for years to maintain their positions as platform landlords. Anthropic's invitation to become a Claude tenant ought to set off competition alarm bells. But perhaps with LLMs being able to re-create other people's apps on demand, there's less interest in defending app boundaries as if they were moats to keep out rivals. With AI, the call is coming from inside the house. Alongside the rollout of Claude Sheets, Whiteboards, and Data, Anthropic is pushing the notion that Claude is useful for people working outside of computation and mathematics, the occupational category that, according to the company's own data, accounts for a larger share of Claude usage than any other. "Inside Anthropic, non-technical teams are starting to get as much out of Claude as our engineers," the biz insists, hauling out canned testimonials from the likes of Accenture and Datadog. If Anthropic can demonstrate that there's an untapped market of non-coders who would welcome a Claude subscription, investors in the company's pending IPO will be glad to see it. ®

Server consolidation has led Cisco to boost the speed of top-of-rack switches to 100G. The networking giant last week announced the catchily named N9348C8D-H2, a 1U device packing 48 100G SFP-DD ports and eight 400G QSFP-DD uplinks. At the Cisco Live event in Melbourne, Australia, this week, Cisco’s senior veep for datacenter and internet infrastructure, Kevin Wollenweber, said one reason the company created the device is that modern servers often feature a pair of fast network interface cards. The twin cards are needed because sixth-gen server processors from Intel and AMD offer dozens, or even hundreds, of physical processor cores and therefore generate a lot of traffic. The density of computing power those processors provide has led chipmakers and server manufacturers to suggest replacing handfuls of machines running older, power-guzzling Xeons and Epycs with boxes running more efficient sixth-gen chips. The Register hears it’s not uncommon to achieve 6:1 server consolidation ratios when moving from third- or fourth-generation Xeons or Epycs to current models. Users who make that move can pack many more server cores into the same rack. Power bills go down, but the quantity of data leaving a rack goes up. Wollenweber said Cisco realized it had “tons” of switches that offer 25G ports but felt it had a gap in its range for non-AI scenarios like server consolidation that produced increased data flows. The exec admitted that the 100G ports may be overkill for a modest collection of new servers, but argued users recognize it won’t be long before they grow into the excess capacity – perhaps as they use more agentic AI applications. Cisco sees traffic from AI agents stressing the north-south connections that link organizations to the cloud and also driving much more east-west traffic across internal networks. At Cisco Live, the company’s execs suggested that network upgrades are therefore an inevitable necessity. That’s not entirely self-serving, because agents will vastly outnumber humans and constantly create traffic, compared to the flurries of network activity that happen when humans use generative AI or chatbots. Cisco argues that deploying agents at scale will therefore only be possible on highly automated networks. “Humans can no longer comprehend the amount of data that we actually have in a network,” Wollenweber told The Register. Cisco’s Canvas agentic operations platform aims to at least make humans aware when their attention is needed, by detecting problems and offering to make repairs. Joe Vaccaro, Cisco’s senior vice president and general manager for Network Platform and Assurance, told The Register he believes network administrators don’t feel threatened by suggestions from AI agents when they concern familiar, routine, low-risk tasks that IT pros are confident the agents can handle. Over time, he said, networking pros will learn to trust agents with more complex work. ®

gecko47 has added a photo to the pool:

Probably our most frequently observed kingfisher. This one has obviously been busy diving from its paperbark perch into the rather murky shallows of the Sandy Camp wetlands.

Ask a seasoned collector about their first acquisition, and you’re likely to hear that they began with limited-edition prints. Often accessible in price point yet bearing the artist’s signature and maybe even hand embellishments, prints are the perfect entry point for people interested in living with art each and every day.

For the holidays, our partners at Joy Machine have graciously curated a special collection of limited-edition prints for the budding collector in your life.

Liz Flores: “Untitled” (2026)

Sentrock: “Better Days Ahead” (2026)

Mar Figueroa: “Untitled” (2024)

Anna Valdez: “Untitled” (2026)

Cody Hudson: “Self-Sufficiency Mono Print (Tangerine Variant)” (2024)

Stevie Shao: “Untitled” (2026)

Jess Ackerman: “Untitled” (2023)

Explore many more prints on Joy Machine.

Do stories and artists like this matter to you? Become a Colossal Member today and support independent arts publishing for as little as $7 per month. The article Limited-Edition Screenprints for the Budding Collector appeared first on Colossal.