Galaxy Robot Park in South Korea hopes to attract tourists to concerts and fashion shows, but can robots ever replicate K-pop’s connection with fans?

Four child-sized humanoid robots take the stage at an arena in eastern Seoul, and as the opening beats of a song by K-pop star G-Dragon begin, they start to dance.

Arms swinging, legs stepping in sync, heads bobbing, wigs and baggy clothes swishing, until – mid-performance – one of them seemingly malfunctions and has to be removed from the stage.

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• British driver enjoys best finish at Ferrari

• ‘I am much, much happier in the car’

Lewis Hamilton was thrilled with his second place at the Canadian Grand Prix in what he called “the greatest job in the world” after a great fight with his old adversary Max Verstappen and expressed how excited he was to be back in a wheel to wheel contest, enthused with his and his Ferrari team’s performance.

“I love this job it’s the greatest job in the world, I never take that for granted,” he said. “To have a good battle with Max finally, I’m really, really grateful. I am so, so happy. It’s good day of racing, overall, a solid weekend. I felt the whole team have done an amazing job.”

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From nostalgic returns to his Liverpool childhood to a crazed Glastonbury fantasia, these are songs written with real purpose and a master’s finesse

The rock legend in the autumn of their years who chooses to release a new album is well advised to get themselves an angle. If the music that made you legendary was written and recorded long ago – and is highly unlikely to be displaced in the public’s affections by anything you do now – it’s good to have something that suggests a sense of purpose, beyond just adding to an already vast back catalogue for the sake of it.

We’ve recently seen it with Bob Dylan’s Rough and Rowdy Ways, rooted in its jawdropping 17-minute survey of American political history, Murder Most Foul; and with Bruce Springsteen’s Only the Strong Survive, with its canny covers of soul and R&B classics. And an angle is clearly something that has occurred to Paul McCartney, too. From its title referencing a road in the suburb of Liverpool where McCartney spent his early childhood, to the circumstances of its launch – the first single Days We Left Behind was premiered not on YouTube or Spotify but BBC Radio Merseyside – his 27th studio album has been presented as a nostalgic look back at what you might call his pre-Fab years.

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Emma Thompson among voices supporting anti-ageism campaign, which has uncovered striking findings in top-grossing UK films over past three years

Box office hit films are four times more likely to star a talking animal than a woman over 60, according to a new survey by Age Without Limits.

The anti-ageism campaign studied the 100 highest performing films released in the UK in 2023, 2024 and 2025, and found that while five starred an older woman, about 20 featured creatures who chat.

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Linux kernel boss Linus Torvalds has signaled he’ll push back when he receives irrelevant pull requests, after complaining that developers are making badly timed and trivial submissions, sometimes after using AI to review code. Torvalds foreshadowed changes in his weekly state of the kernel update, which on Sunday announced the release of a fifth release candidate for version 7.1 of the Linux kernel. “To the surprise of absolutely nobody by now, rc5 is pretty big. Quite a bit bigger than rc5's have traditionally been,” Torvalds wrote, before revealing “I'm not entirely happy about it - most of this is totally trivial stuff to random drivers, which obviously makes it all less scary, but at the same time I'm really not convinced the churn is worth it at rc5 time.” The Linux kernel development cycle usually sees Torvalds open a two-week window during which contributors submit code they hope will make it into the next release. Seven release candidates (rc1-7) follow, with each supposed to represent a step towards delivering a stable update. Revised code always arrives during that process. But high volumes of new contributions to rc5 add complexity at a time work on the new kernel is usually close to completion. “These things are ‘fixes’, sure, but at the same time a lot of them are simply so irrelevant that I think they'd be better off in a linux-next tree and get merged during the merge window,” Torvalds suggested. “And yes, several of these series were triggered by AI code review,” he wrote. “So I think I'll start being a bit more hardnosed about this kind of unnecessary churn this late in the game,” he added. “We are supposed to look for *regressions*. Non-critical fixes to long-standing issues are simply not appropriate for this late in the release cycle.” He then declared rc5 “too big” and said his post is “the heads-up that I'll be pushing back on pointless pull requests with fixes that just aren't that important.” Torvalds justified his new stance on grounds that “these kinds of large rc weeks are *not* conducive to long-term stability.” “Trivial fixes may be trivial, and have a pretty low chance of causing problems, but ‘low chance’ is still not ‘zero chance.’” Torvalds ended his post with instructions. “Start looking closer at your pull requests, and ask yourself: ‘Is this really a regression or serious enough that it shouldn't just go into the development pile?’” This is the second week in a row that Torvalds has complained that AI is complicating the job of overseeing kernel development, after he last week complained “the continued flood of AI reports has basically made the security list almost entirely unmanageable, with enormous duplication due to different people finding the same things with the same tools.” ®

Teruhide Tomori has added a photo to the pool:

J-AIR / Embraer ERJ-190-100

Location : Osaka International Airport
Itami Skypark

Teruhide Tomori has added a photo to the pool:

Location : Osaka International Airport

Weer voor Rotterdam 🌕 - 25-05-2026 01:15 CEST

In één oogopslag:
• 20.7°C · Helder 🌕 | Min 17.6°C / Max 28.0°C

Verwachting voor vandaag:
• Min 17.6°C, Max 28.0°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, 🧭 1031.7 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 11.9 km/u (3.3 m/s), richting: ↙ 30°

Uurlijkse voorspelling voor de komende 12 uur:

• 02:00: 20.5°C (Helder) 🌕, 🧭 1031.8 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 8.6 km/u (2.4 m/s), richting: ← 70°
• 03:00: 20.1°C (Helder) 🌕, 🧭 1031.8 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 9.0 km/u (2.5 m/s), richting: ← 77°
• 04:00: 19.8°C (Helder) 🌕, 🧭 1031.7 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 9.4 km/u (2.6 m/s), richting: ← 92°
• 05:00: 19.1°C (Licht bewolkt) 🌕, 🧭 1031.7 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 9.0 km/u (2.5 m/s), richting: ← 92°
• 06:00: 18.4°C (Gedeeltelijk bewolkt) ⛅, 🧭 1031.8 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 8.6 km/u (2.4 m/s), richting: ← 90°
• 07:00: 18.9°C (Licht bewolkt) 🌤️, 🧭 1032.0 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 6.8 km/u (1.9 m/s), richting: ← 108°
• 08:00: 20.8°C (Zonnig) ☀️, 🧭 1032.3 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 4.3 km/u (1.2 m/s), richting: ← 112°
• 09:00: 23.1°C (Zonnig) ☀️, 🧭 1032.5 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 3.2 km/u (0.9 m/s), richting: ← 103°
• 10:00: 25.0°C (Zonnig) ☀️, 🧭 1032.7 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 4.0 km/u (1.1 m/s), richting: ← 82°
• 11:00: 26.5°C (Licht bewolkt) 🌤️, 🧭 1032.6 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 5.0 km/u (1.4 m/s), richting: ← 82°
• 12:00: 27.8°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, 🧭 1032.5 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 6.1 km/u (1.7 m/s), richting: ← 81°
• 13:00: 28.7°C (Licht bewolkt) 🌤️, 🧭 1032.3 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 7.6 km/u (2.1 m/s), richting: ← 84°

Voorspelling voor de komende dagen:

• dinsdag 26 mei: Min 18.4°C, Max 30.9°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, 🧭 1027.9 hPa ↘️ -3.8 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 12.2 km/u (3.4 m/s), richting: ← 72°
• woensdag 27 mei: Min 21.0°C, Max 33.2°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, 🧭 1026.7 hPa ↘️ -1.2 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 19.8 km/u (5.5 m/s), richting: ↙ 51°
• donderdag 28 mei: Min 13.6°C, Max 22.0°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, Kans op neerslag 2%, 🧭 1024.0 hPa ↘️ -2.7 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 19.4 km/u (5.4 m/s), richting: ↙ 49°
• vrijdag 29 mei: Min 10.9°C, Max 24.1°C (Gedeeltelijk bewolkt) ⛅, 🧭 1020.4 hPa ↘️ -3.6 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 12.5 km/u (3.5 m/s), richting: ← 98°
• zaterdag 30 mei: Min 16.5°C, Max 21.6°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, Kans op neerslag 2%, 🧭 1020.3 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 17.1 km/u (4.8 m/s), richting: → 262°
• zondag 31 mei: Min 15.3°C, Max 24.6°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, Kans op neerslag 7%, 🧭 1015.5 hPa ↘️ -4.8 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 9.8 km/u (2.7 m/s), richting: ↓ 7°

Details:
• 🌡️ Huidige temperatuur (om 01:15): 20.7°C (Helder)
• 🤚 Gevoelstemperatuur: 19.4°C (-1.3°C)
• 💨 Windsnelheid: 9.7 km/u (2.7 m/s), richting: ↙ 66°
• 🌬️ Windstoten: 17.3 km/h (4.8 m/s)
• 💧 Luchtvochtigheid: 54%
• 🧭 Luchtdruk: 1031.8 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/3h
• 👁️ Zichtbaarheid: 28.6 km
• ☀️ UV-index: 0.0
• 🌅 Zonsopgang: 05:36 · 🌇 Zonsondergang: 21:41

Luchtkwaliteit:
• AQI: 51 🟡 (Matig)
• PM2.5: 8.0 μg/m³
• PM10: 10.1 μg/m³

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LACANAU/LÈGE-CAP-FERRET (ANP) - Aan de Franse kust zijn twee zwemmers verdronken nadat zij door sterke stromingen werden meegesleurd in het water. Dat melden de autoriteiten in het departement Gironde in een verklaring.

Een van de slachtoffers is een 56-jarige Duitse vrouw, meldt persbureau AFP op basis van een bron met kennis van het dossier. Het andere slachtoffer is een man van in de zestig, bevestigde de burgemeester van Lacanau aan AFP. Zijn echtgenote kon worden gered.

De zwemmers kwamen om het leven in de plaatsen Lacanau en Lège-Cap-Ferret.

In Gironde was een waarschuwing uitgegeven voor gevaarlijke zeestromingen. Sinds vrijdag werden al 31 personen meegesleurd door de sterke stromingen aan de kust. Door de hoge temperaturen was het druk op de stranden in de regio.