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​Donald Pols heeft voor het eerst gereageerd op zijn ontslag bij de Tata Steel. De recent overgestapte milieu-activist is de laan uitgestuurd nadat er onthullingen naar buiten kwamen over zijn verleden als leider van een pro-apartheid studentenclub in Zuid-Afrika. Pols verklaart: ‘Ik wilde die extreemrechtse studentenbeweging van binnenuit veranderen.'

Pols krijgt veel kritiek naar aanleiding van de onthullingen, maar hij zegt pal te staan voor zijn missie. Binnenkort gaat hij aan de slag als kassamedewerker bij de Albert Heijn in de Julianastraat in Amersfoort ‘om die van binnenuit te veranderen’.

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Analysts said that while the money represents a fraction of total government spending, it can plug up to 15% of the country’s soaring budget shortfall.

The continuing AI memory crunch saw DRAM prices effectively double in calendar Q1, and the bad news is they are likely to rise again by more than 50 percent in the current quarter, if TrendForce forecasters are on the money. The Taiwan-based market watcher says contract prices for conventional DRAM went up by up to 98 percent during Q1. This was good for the memory chipmakers - which have seen their industry revenue spike 81 percent to $97 billion in the same period - but not so good for buyers. The situation is not set to improve anytime soon, TrendForce says, as inventory levels held by DRAM suppliers remain extremely low, and any incremental supply is prioritized for high-capacity RDIMMs for AI servers. This continues to limit product availability for PC and smartphone vendors, with the result that bit shipment growth for conventional DRAM is expected to remain constrained. TrendForce expects contract prices for these everyday memory components to rise by another 58 to 63 percent this quarter. Hyperscale customers have shown a greater willingness to accept price increases, the market research firm claims, which has forced other customers to follow suit to secure supply allocations. The end customer has been the loser in all of this, with the average price of laptop and desktop PCs up by double-digit percentages in Europe, as The Register reported this week. Pricing pressure is only likely to ease if there is an increase in the available manufacturing capacity of everyday memory parts, or there is a slackening off in demand for the higher-margin high-bandwidth memory chips used in AI servers. However, TrendForce notes that the top three suppliers – Samsung, SK hynix and Micron - are continuing to prioritize production and shipments of HBM. SK hynix Chairman Chey Tae-won told reporters in Taipei this week that it aims to double its silicon wafer output capacity – but only gradually over the next five years. As such, the shortage could persist until 2030, he warned – but other analysts have said they expect it to last until the end of next year. Micron said last month it has started DRAM manufacturing at its Manassas, Virginia, fabrication plant and expects initial wafer output at its first Idaho fab in “mid-calendar year 2027.” Meaningful new capacity is projected to come fully online in 2027 and 2028, it said. One piece of good news is that a threatened strike by workers at Samsung Electronics was called off at the end of May after the company agreed to create a fund that will share profits with workers. Industrial action raised the prospect of disruption to memory production, which could have worsened the global shortage. Beyond the big three, Taiwan-based suppliers Nanya, Winbond, and PSMC continue to focus on mature-node DRAM products to fill market gaps left by tier one suppliers as they shift to advanced process technologies, TrendForce says. PSMC in particular is expected to aggressively expand supply capacity. ®

FOTO (ANP) - Hakim Ziyech niet in actie voor Oranje, maar voor een of andere schijtclub in Qatar

Hé wat leuk een koortdsroom van een column op NU.nl over dat het schande is dat Hakim Ziyech niet in het Nederlands Elftal speelt en iets over Marco van Basten die zich uit zou moeten spreken tegen extreemrechts geweld, Kylian Mbappé en de Franse verkiezingen. En hé wat leuk een koortsdroom van een column in de Volkskrant over dat het een schande is dat Hakim Ziyech niet in het Nederlandse Elftal speelt en iets over centrifuges, remigratie en Dubai. Zit er iets in de lucht ofzo? Of zijn Eelco de Groot en Marcia Luyten toevallig allebei naar de theatershow van Simon Kuper, a stupid man's (de stupid man in dezen is Henk Spaan, red.) idea of a smart person, iemand die te dom is om goede boeken te schrijven en te weinig van voetbal weet om daar iets zinnigs over te zeggen, geweest en is De Groot de enige die daar eerlijk over schrijft omdat Luyten haar bronvermelding weer eens niet op orde had?

Hoe dan ook, gefeliciteerd met de take allebei maar Hakim Ziyech is al een paar jaar scherper achter het stuur dan op het voetbalveld en kwam in 2024 in het nieuws omdat hij de Jodenjacht in Amsterdam steunde, om een paar maanden later in Rusland bij de inmiddels veroordeelde drugcrimineel Quincy Promes op te duiken. Ziyech speelt tegenwoordig bij Wydad (wie? dat) Casablanca, deed niet mee aan de door Marokko """gewonnen""" Afrika Cup en is ook voor dit WK niet geselecteerd. Oh oh wat gaan we Hakim Ziyech missen op ons middenveld met prutsers als Frenkie de Jong, Tijani Reijnders, Ryan Gravenberch en Teun Koopmeiners. Maar ja, leg dat die onafhankelijk denkende DPG-columnisten maar eens uit.

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In Oud-Beijerland is dinsdagmiddag een busje van een pakketbezorgdienst in het water beland. Dat gebeurde aan de Antonie van Leeuwenhoekstraat. De bestuurder raakte lichtgewond.

Google has asked the EPA for permission to release up to 32 million sterile male mosquitoes in California and Florida over two years. The effort is part of the company's Debug program, which uses Wolbachia-infected males to reduce populations of disease-spreading Aedes aegypti mosquitoes. Google cites a similar approach in Singapore that helped suppress mosquito populations and reduce dengue cases. The Guardian reports: As part of its successful "Debug" program, Google is tapping into its tech expertise to raise an army of sterile male mosquitoes to lower the number of illness-spreading bugs. Mosquitoes -- the world's deadliest animal -- kill more people than any other creature in the world every year by spreading lethal diseases such as dengue, West Nile virus, Zika, chikungunya and malaria.

A notice (PDF) from the federal register shows the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is reviewing Google's request to release up to 16 million mosquitoes annually, in Florida and California, over the span of two years. The EPA will decide whether to greenlight Google's request for an experimental use permit after a public comment period, which ends on 5 June.

Male mosquitoes don't bite or carry disease. One of the main approaches Google is testing involves rearing male mosquitoes with a naturally occurring bacteria, called wolbachia, which stops them from having offspring with wild female mosquitoes. When an infected male tries to mate with a wild female, her eggs won't hatch; Google explains in a blog post: "the population gets smaller with each generation."

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The Unsolved Mystery of Lorem Ipsum delves into the origins of the text everyone uses when they don't yet know what they want to say, and how it mutated from the work of a great Latin prose stylist to a semi-garbled hash. Part of a new video series called Rabbit Hole, by Emily Zhang.

De gebroeders Wayans kregen hun horrorparodie ‘Scary Movie’ terug van studio Miramax.