De Duitse bewoners rond de Amerikaanse vliegbasis Ramstein, waar duizenden Amerikaanse militairen met hun gezinnen wonen, geloven niet dat het zo’n vaart zal maken met de aankondiging dat het aantal Amerikaanse soldaten in Duitsland zal afnemen. „Ze hebben hier in de afgelopen jaren zoveel geïnvesteerd.”

Twee mannen met bivakmutsen onder zwarte helmen komen als ruiters op steigerende paarden aanrijden op het achterwiel van hun crossmotoren. Wanneer ze me zien aankomen, laten ze de voorwielen op het wegdek landen en rijden naar me toe.

Albert Heijn in Ouddorp wil graag open op zondag, maar dat mag niet van de gemeente en nu ook niet van de rechter. De franchisenemer van de supermarkt aan de Dorpstienden trekt daarmee aan het kortste eind. De gemeente wil de zondagsrust bewaren, zoals ook in andere plaatsen waar veel gelovigen wonen gebeurt.

Lines, Ranked. “2. Assembly. It’s not glamorous, but hot damn is it effective.”

For the better part of two decades, Irina Werning has traveled throughout Latin America searching for a specific trait: incredibly long hair. In her photography series Las Pelilargas—meaning “the long-haired ones” in Spanish—she chronicles a time-honored Indigenous tradition through a visual celebration of patience, joy, and cultural pride.

In a statement, Werning shares that when she asks young women in the many small towns she’s visited why they have long hair, they respond with simple reasons akin to, “Because I like it.” But, Werning adds, “The true reason is invisible and passes from generation to generation. It’s the culture of Latin America, where our ancestors believed that cutting hair was cutting life, that hair is the physical manifestation of our thoughts and our souls and our connection to the land.”

Nearly 90 images are included in Werning’s new book, Las Pelilargas, published by GOST Books. The photos span 18 years, starting with the artist’s first encounter with long-haired women in 2006 in Argentina, when she was photographing members of the Indigenous Kolla community.

“Guided by her intuition, she went on to spend months in remote mountain towns putting up signs in schools, hospitals, and markets, and organising hair competitions in an effort to seek out those with long hair,” GOST says. Werning continued to make the portraits until 2024. “She found that traditions were not just surviving, but evolving with long hair symbolising both continuity and subtle rebellion.”

Find your copy on Bookshop. You might also enjoy Celia D. Luna’s series, Cholitas Bravas.

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British Medical Association says review into gender identity services was ‘robust’ after previously rejecting findings

The trade union representing doctors across the UK has dropped its opposition to the findings of the Cass review of gender identity services across the NHS.

The British Medical Association (BMA) had previously rejected the findings of the landmark review of transgender healthcare, with the medical body refusing to endorse the report’s findings.

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Families pressured to stay silent, with at least 24 executions reportedly taking place since March amid internet blackout

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Iran is carrying out near-daily executions of prisoners in secrecy and, in some cases, refusing to hand the bodies of the dead to their families, according to rights groups and sources close to the relatives of the dead.

Many families only learn of executions after they have been carried out, with some facing harassment and pressure not to speak publicly on the personal impact of the state killings, the sources say.

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An official draft of the PCI Express (PCIe) 8.0 specification is out, targeting a blistering 1 terabyte per second when the kit finally hits the streets. The PCI Special Interest Group (PCI-SIG) has released draft 0.5 of the version 8.0 standard, incorporating feedback received from member organizations after the release of draft 0.3 last year. With an expected raw bit rate of 256 gigatransfers per second (GT/s) and up to 1 TB/s bi-directionally across a 16-lane configuration, PCIe 8.0 is set to deliver another doubling of bandwidth over its predecessor, something the engineers weren't sure could be done. PCI-SIG says the completed PCIe 8.0 specification remain on track for full release by 2028, though buyers may need to wait longer for any super-fast devices such as solid-state drives (SSDs). Micron, for example, announced mass production of what it claims is the first PCIe 6.0 SSD in February this year, four years after the standard was finalized. And with compatible CPUs from Intel and AMD not expected until later this year, there are only PCIe 5.0 systems available to plug them into. Hardware compatible with PCIe 7.0 (at 128 GT/s and 512 GB/s) is not scheduled to hit the shelves before 2027 at the earliest, and the first devices will likely be SSDs again. PCI-SIG says PCIe 8.0 is designed to meet the high-bandwidth, low-latency demands of data-hungry markets, including AI, datacenter infrastructure, high-speed networking, edge computing, and quantum computing. AI datacenters are dominated by proprietary tech, including Nvidia's NVLink, but PCI-SIG sees an opening for PCIe with Unordered I/O (UIO), an enhancement introduced in the PCIe 6.1 specification. Keeping pace, though, will demand that PCIe continues its cadence of doubling data rate with each generation. This likely means PCIe 8.0 won't target consumers when it arrives. As The Register previously pointed out, a single PCIe 4.0 x1 lane is sufficient for 10 GbE networking, while many consumer GPUs stick to four or eight lanes, since they don't really benefit from the additional bandwidth a full x16 slot would provide. The latest standard maintains the use of PAM4 (Pulse Amplitude Modulation with four levels) signaling and Flit-based encoding, introduced in PCIe 6.0. Flit stands for Flow Control Unit, which specifies a 256-byte packet with forward error correction (FEC) to provide low latency with high efficiency. ®