Vandaag worden de jaarlijkse Nobelprijzen officieel uitgereikt aan wetenschappers in de natuurkunde, medicijnen, scheikunde en economie.
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Vandaag debatteert de Tweede Kamer over het eindverslag van informateur Sybrand Buma. De uitkomst daarvan: de VVD schuift aan in de onderhandelingen, maar een meerderheidskabinet…
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PHNOM PENH (ANP/AFP) - Meer dan honderdduizend Cambodjanen zijn geëvacueerd uit het grensgebied tussen Cambodja en Thailand. Ruim twintigduizend families zijn ondergebracht in schuilplekken of bij familieleden thuis, meldt het ministerie van Defensie. Aan de Thaise kant zijn 400.000 mensen geëvacueerd, aldus het Thaise ministerie van Defensie.
De afgelopen dagen zijn de aanvallen tussen de twee buurlanden hervat. Eerder deze zomer kwamen meer dan veertig mensen om het leven door gevechten, waarna een staakt-het-vuren werd bereikt.
De Verenigde Staten hebben Cambodja en Thailand opgeroepen de gevechten te staken en terug te keren naar de afspraken van het staakt-het-vuren. Dinsdagavond zei de Amerikaanse president Donald Trump dat hij woensdag de leiders van Cambodja en Thailand zal bellen. "Wie anders kan zeggen: 'Ik ga een telefoontje plegen en een oorlog tussen twee zeer machtige landen stoppen'. We sluiten vrede door middel van kracht", zei Trump.
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Driving toward Touleybuc in country New South Wales late afternoon, we were startled by this large Wedgetail Eagle taking off near to the highway and flying close to us for a couple of hundred meters before veering away to land atop a power pole. Initially it struggled to stand there against a strong gusty wind and I hoped to capture it flying away. However after a minute or so it settled and began to preen itself and it was time for us to move on...
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Sheep on the farm - Australian White ewe at Blayney, Central West, NSW, Australia
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New South Wales Premier Mr Chris Minns at the Kariong Rural Fire Services station doing a press interview in relation to the Koolewong Fires and thanking RFS volunteers and Fire & Rescue for the work on saving houses in a bushfire on Saturday 6 December 2025.
Netflix's $72 billion bid to buy Warner Bros Discovery has triggered a consumer class action claiming the merger would crush competition, erase HBO Max as a rival, and hand Netflix control over major franchises. Reuters reports: The proposed class action (PDF) was filed on Monday by a subscriber to Warner Bros-owned HBO Max who said the proposed deal threatened to reduce competition in the U.S. subscription video-on-demand market. "Netflix has demonstrated repeated willingness to raise subscription prices even while facing competition from full-scale rivals such as WBD," the lawsuit said. [...] The lawsuit said the Warner Bros deal would eliminate one of Netflix's closest rivals, HBO Max, and give Netflix control over Warner Bros marquee franchises including Harry Potter, DC Comics and Game of Thrones. On Monday, Paramount Skydance launched a $108 billion hostile bid to buy Warner Bros. Discovery with an all-cash, $30-per-share offer.
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OpenAI, alongside Anthropic and Block, have launched the Agentic AI Foundation under the Linux Foundation, describing it as a neutral home for standards as agentic systems move into real production. It may sound well-meaning, but Slashdot reader and NERDS.xyz founder BrianFagioli isn't buying the narrative. In a report for NERDS.xyz, Fagioli writes: Instead of opening models, training data, or anything that would meaningfully shift power toward the community, the companies involved are donating lightweight artifacts like AGENTS.md, MCP, and goose. They're useful, but they're also the safest, least threatening pieces of their ecosystem to "open." From where I sit, it looks like a strategic attempt to lock in influence over emerging standards before truly open projects get a chance to define the space. I see the entire move as smoke and mirrors.
With regulators paying closer attention and developer trust slipping, creating a Linux Foundation directed fund gives these companies convenient cover to say they're being transparent and collaborative. But nothing about this structure forces them to share anything substantial, and nothing about it changes the closed nature of their core technology. To me, it looks like Big Tech trying to set the rules of the game early, using the language of openness without actually embracing it. Slashdot readers have seen this pattern before, and this one feels no different.
With regulators paying closer attention and developer trust slipping, creating a Linux Foundation directed fund gives these companies convenient cover to say they're being transparent and collaborative. But nothing about this structure forces them to share anything substantial, and nothing about it changes the closed nature of their core technology. To me, it looks like Big Tech trying to set the rules of the game early, using the language of openness without actually embracing it. Slashdot readers have seen this pattern before, and this one feels no different.
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