Een merkwaardige ontdekking deze woensdagochtend op een parkeerplaats bij de Zevenhuizerplas. Daar staan pallets vol kwark, yoghurt en andere zuivel, terwijl er geen supermarkt in de buurt is. Wat blijkt: de boel is gedumpt. En al minstens een maand over de datum.

Het aanstaande vredesakkoord tussen de VS en Iran leek goed nieuws voor automobilisten. Economen spraken hun verwachting uit dat de prijs van olie door het heropenen van de Straat van Hormuz weer zou gaan zakken, waardoor de prijzen aan de pomp zouden dalen. Helaas zijn veel vaten met olie inmiddels over de datum.

Veel containerschepen hebben zo lang stilgelegen dat de ruwe olie is gaan schimmelen. “Doodzonde”, zegt Wael Sawan, CEO van Shell. “Als we in het begin geweten hadden dat het zo lang zou duren hadden we de olie vacuüm kunnen verpakken. Maar er werd ons steeds voorgehouden dat de Straat ‘bijna’ open zou gaan. Nu zitten wij met miljoenen vaten met bedorven rotzooi.”

Twijfelt u zelf of de olie die u binnenkort weer in huis kunt halen nog goed is? Kijk, ruik en proef voordat je het weggooit. Zo werken we samen tegen olieverspilling.

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OSLO (ANP) - De Noorse kroonprinses Mette-Marit heeft een longtransplantatie gehad. De operatie in het Rikshospitalet is goed gegaan, meldde het paleis woensdag. Mette-Marit moet volgens de procedure nog "meerdere weken" in het ziekenhuis blijven.

Mette-Marit lijdt aan longfibrose, een chronische longaandoening, waardoor ze regelmatig ademhalingsondersteuning nodig heeft. Begin juni werd bekendgemaakt dat Mette-Marit op de wachtlijst werd geplaatst voor een longtransplantatie.

WASHINGTON (ANP/BLOOMBERG) - De tekst van het voorlopige vredesakkoord tussen de Verenigde Staten en Iran is uitgelekt. Bloomberg zegt het veertienpuntenplan in handen te hebben.

In het door het persbureau gepubliceerde document staat onder meer dat de belangrijke Straat van Hormuz direct na ondertekening opengaat en dat de VS meewerken aan een plan voor de wederopbouw en economische ontwikkeling van Iran.

De tekst van het voorlopige vredesakkoord tussen de Verenigde Staten en Iran is uitgelekt. Bloomberg zegt het veertienpuntenplan in handen te hebben.

In het door het persbureau gepubliceerde document staat onder meer dat de belangrijke Straat van Hormuz direct na ondertekening opengaat en dat de VS meewerken aan een plan voor de wederopbouw en economische ontwikkeling van Iran. Hier zou zeker 300 miljard dollar voor worden vrijgemaakt. De VS zouden ook bevroren tegoeden van Iran vrijgeven.

Iran zegt op zijn beurt "te herhalen" dat het nooit kernwapens zal produceren. De mogelijke ontwikkeling van kernwapens was volgens de Amerikaanse president Donald Trump de belangrijkste reden om Iran eind februari met Israël aan te vallen.

Andere onderdelen, zoals wat er met het verrijkte Iraanse uranium gebeurt, worden in een definitieve overeenkomst vastgelegd. Het tijdelijke akkoord geldt voor zestig dagen.

Hoewel het akkoord maandag al elektronisch zou zijn ondertekend, vindt vrijdag in Zwitserland een tekenceremonie plaats. Daarna starten volgens Iran de verdere onderhandelingen voor een definitief staakt-het-vuren.

In de tekst wordt benadrukt dat er een eind komt aan de oorlog op alle fronten, inclusief die in Libanon. Dat was voor Iran een harde eis. Sinds de overeenkomst maandag werd ondertekend, heeft Israël nog meerdere aanvallen op het zuiden van Libanon uitgevoerd.

Iran zei maandag "servicekosten" in rekening te zullen brengen in de Straat van Hormuz. Dit zou op het laatste moment zijn toegevoegd aan het conceptakkoord. In de versie die Bloomberg in handen heeft, staat hier niets over vermeld.

World leaders backed Ukraine’s defence of ‘its freedom, sovereignty, and territorial integrity’

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The wait for Keir Starmer’s first session of the G7 gathering in Évian-les-Bains was undoubtedly awkward.

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UK retail giant Tesco is replacing VMware with an alternative product and pressing ahead with its licensing lawsuit against the virtualization pioneer's parent company, Broadcom, in a matter due to be heard by the UK's High Court starting in November 2027. The roots of the matter are a January 2021 contract that saw Tesco acquire perpetual licenses for VMware's vSphere Foundation and Cloud Foundation products, plus subscriptions to Virtzilla's Tanzu products. The supermarket giant also signed up for support services and software upgrades until 2026, with an option to extend that deal for four years. Computacenter signed up as a reseller and relied on Dell as the distributor of VMware's products. Tesco also uses some of Broadcom's mainframe software, and wanted to extend support for that too. Tesco and VMware struck that deal before Broadcom acquired VMware. After the acquisition, Broadcom stopped selling standalone services for customers who did not adopt subscriptions for its software bundles. Broadcom was therefore unwilling to extend support for Tesco's VMware estate. The supermarket sued Broadcom in mid-2025, alleging breach of contract and anti-competitive behavior. The case picked up again in late May with a flurry of filings that The Register has just digested. The new filings reveal that Tesco has decided to quit VMware and Broadcom's mainframe products, is rushing to migrate to alternatives, has turned to third-party support providers for its VMware estate, and alleges Broadcom is abusing its market power. "Faced with Broadcom's abusive conduct, and given the criticality of virtualization and mainframe software and services to its business, Tesco has been forced to incur material costs to procure alternative solutions with reduced functionality, and to migrate to that software in a manner, and on a timeframe, that creates very significant risks to its business," the filing states. Those costs include payments for third-party VMware support because Tesco alleges Broadcom stopped supporting the virtualization software on January 29, 2026. The supermarket hopes to be off VMware by the end of 2027 but says that target is its earliest possible date and will require it to work "at exceptional pace." Elsewhere in the filing, Tesco says "the timeframe in which that migration must be undertaken has created and continues to create operational and commercial risk, and at material ongoing cost and disruption to the business." The risks aren't abstract: Tesco says it uses Broadcom mainframe software to order products for its stores and process its payroll. The retailer is also worried about data security and protection because the virtualization product it has chosen as a VMware replacement isn't compatible with the Veeam and Zerto tools it uses. Rejecting offers Broadcom appears to have made Tesco at least four offers, including a "Strategic proposal" in July 2024 that covered virtualization and mainframe products. Another delivered on January 9, 2026, offered separate terms for VMware products and mainframe software – the first time Broadcom dangled discrete deals. Tesco struggled to process it because Broadcom offered the deal just 19 days before the end of its existing agreements. Two offers arrived in April. Tesco says one proposed charges of $23.5 million (around £17.4 million) for a year of VMware Cloud Foundation 9.0 and Mainframe Software and Support Services. The retailer says that offer represented an increase of "around 175 percent" compared to the prices Tesco believes it was entitled to under its 2021 contract for VMware software and services, and a 350 percent increase for the mainframe products and services. The retailer described those price hikes as "manifestly unfair and excessive." Broadcom's amended defence rejects that characterisation, and also Tesco's claim that it deserves damages as it could not find an alternative supplier before its deals expire. Now that Tesco has found alternatives, Broadcom thinks the retailer can't easily point to losses that deserve damages payments. Other recent filings reveal that the matter is due to be heard in the UK's High Court during a window that opens on November 1, 2027, and closes on February 25, 2028. That doesn't mean the trial will consume all that time – it's an indication of when the court thinks it will have time to consider the matter. Broadcom has fought other high-profile cases over its licensing changes, most notably with AT&T and Siemens. The telco giant reached a confidential settlement, but the Siemens case is ongoing. On The Reg's reading of Tesco's filings, the retailer appears comfortable with litigating its claims with an argument that Broadcom refused to honor past agreements and that its main defense – it can't support products that don't exist since it reorganized VMware – is weak. Broadcom execs have told The Register they have an enormous dislike for providing extended support for old products and a huge preference to shift customers to subscriptions for the company's flagship Cloud Foundation (VCF). They argue that that continuing to use old VMware software sold under perpetual licenses is an act of corporate self-harm because VCF is so powerful it quickly pays for itself by improving IT department operations and improving business efficiency. But those messages aren't landing with some customers. We've reported organizations including Western Union, GEICO, and Computershare moving away from VMware, and even some VMware partners like Rackspace reducing their use of the virtualization giant's wares. We've also just learned that Belgian technical secondary school Scheppers Instituut Wetteren shifted to local contender Whitesky.Cloud to avoid a 400 percent price hike, and made the move without needing any new hardware. ®

Nobody likes to imagine their final moments on Earth, but we all harbor the deep desire to leave this world with as much dignity and control as possible. That’s why this story is guaranteed to restore your faith in humanity and fill you with hope for the future: Life Alert has added a self-destruct button.

Absolutely beautiful. It’s amazing that one company is going so far above and beyond for its customers.

“Now when you fall down and can’t get up, or start to suffer a heart attack, Life Alert offers you the option to end your life in a peaceful, tasteful explosion,” the personal emergency response company wrote in a post on their official Instagram account early this morning. “The days of lying on the ground, waiting around for help that could take forever to arrive, are over.”

In a recent commercial highlighting the new Life Alert feature, an elderly woman slips and falls in her driveway. The old woman recites the iconic Life Alert line, “Help, I’ve fallen and I can’t get up,” before pressing the emergency call button on her Life Alert bracelet. After lying on the ground for 15 seconds, the woman then says, “Fuck this, I don’t have the time for this kind of bullshit,” presses a button on her bracelet labeled “Self-Destruct” and immediately explodes, blowing a hole in the side of her house and destroying her garden in the process.

The commercial is being heralded by all the most important advertising experts as “deeply moving” and “solemnly poetic.” Life Alert is being heralded across the marketing industry for taking the honor and poise of their customers seriously and offering them a way to end their life with an elegant explosion instead of flopping around like a fish.

This is so awesome! We knew that Life Alert was one of the best companies of all time, but adding a self-destruct button is insanely beautiful, even for them. No matter who you are or where you come from, we can all agree that letting the elderly blow themselves up with their self-respect intact is noble, empowering, and wonderful. Other companies take note: this is the kind of care and innovation your customers deserve!