Ik sta op het kerkhof en wil een paar viooltjes op het graf van mijn ouders zetten. Zoals altijd in november.
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Trainer Robin van Persie was duidelijk na afloop van de verloren wedstrijd tegen het Roemeense FCSB (4-3): Europees is Feyenoord uitgespeeld en de invallers presteerden ondermaats. Toch plaatst de oefenmeester een kanttekening: "Je weet eigenlijk al in welke minuut je welke wissel moet doen."
Feyenoord beleefde een horroravond in Boekarest. De Rotterdammers gaven een 3-1 voorsprong weg. De wedstrijd werd uiteindelijke zelfs nog verloren. In de podcast Feyenoord: De verlenging wordt door presentator Bart Nolles en verslaggevers Dennis van Eersel en Dennis Kranenburg teruggeblikt op de gênante vertoning en Europese uitschakeling die vrijwel zeker is.
Google's Chrome team has built an experimental browser called Disco that takes a query or prompt, opens a cluster of related tabs, and then generates a custom application tailored to whatever task the user is trying to accomplish. The browser launched Thursday as an experiment in Google's Search Labs.
GenTabs, the core feature powering Disco, are information-rich pages created by Google's Gemini AI models -- ask for travel tips and the system builds a planner app; ask for study help and it creates a flashcard system. Disco -- named partly for fun and partly as shorthand for "discovery" -- started as a hackathon project inside Google before catching the team's imagination.
Parisa Tabriz, who leads the Chrome team, said that Disco is not intended as a general-purpose browser and is not an attempt to cannibalize Chrome. The experiment aims to test what happens when users move from simply having tabs to generating personalized, curated applications on demand. The capability relies on features in the recently launched Gemini 3, which can create one-off interactive interfaces and build miniature apps on the fly rather than just returning text or images.
GenTabs, the core feature powering Disco, are information-rich pages created by Google's Gemini AI models -- ask for travel tips and the system builds a planner app; ask for study help and it creates a flashcard system. Disco -- named partly for fun and partly as shorthand for "discovery" -- started as a hackathon project inside Google before catching the team's imagination.
Parisa Tabriz, who leads the Chrome team, said that Disco is not intended as a general-purpose browser and is not an attempt to cannibalize Chrome. The experiment aims to test what happens when users move from simply having tabs to generating personalized, curated applications on demand. The capability relies on features in the recently launched Gemini 3, which can create one-off interactive interfaces and build miniature apps on the fly rather than just returning text or images.
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: The Wild West of copyrighted characters in AI may be coming to an end. There has been legal wrangling over the role of copyright in the AI era, but the mother of all legal teams may now be gearing up for a fight. Disney has sent a cease and desist to Google, alleging the company's AI tools are infringing Disney's copyrights "on a massive scale." According to the letter, Google is violating the entertainment conglomerate's intellectual property in multiple ways. The legal notice says Google has copied a "large corpus" of Disney's works to train its gen AI models, which is believable, as Google's image and video models will happily produce popular Disney characters -- they couldn't do that without feeding the models lots of Disney data.
The C&D also takes issue with Google for distributing "copies of its protected works" to consumers. So all those memes you've been making with Disney characters? Yeah, Disney doesn't like that, either. The letter calls out a huge number of Disney-owned properties that can be prompted into existence in Google AI, including The Lion King, Deadpool, and Star Wars. The company calls on Google to immediately stop using Disney content in its AI tools and create measures to ensure that future AI outputs don't produce any characters that Disney owns. Disney is famously litigious and has an army of lawyers dedicated to defending its copyrights. The nature of copyright law in the US is a direct result of Disney's legal maneuvering, which has extended its control of iconic characters by decades. While Disney wants its characters out of Google AI generally, the letter specifically cited the AI tools in YouTube. Google has started adding its Veo AI video model to YouTube, allowing creators to more easily create and publish videos. That seems to be a greater concern for Disney than image models like Nano Banana. "We have a longstanding and mutually beneficial relationship with Disney, and will continue to engage with them," Google said in a statement. "More generally, we use public data from the open web to build our AI and have built additional innovative copyright controls like Google-extended and Content ID for YouTube, which give sites and copyright holders control over their content."
The cease and desist letter arrives at the same time the company announced a content deal with OpenAI. Disney said it's investing $1 billion in OpenAI via a three-year licensing deal that will let users generate AI-powered short videos and images featuring more than 200 characters.
The C&D also takes issue with Google for distributing "copies of its protected works" to consumers. So all those memes you've been making with Disney characters? Yeah, Disney doesn't like that, either. The letter calls out a huge number of Disney-owned properties that can be prompted into existence in Google AI, including The Lion King, Deadpool, and Star Wars. The company calls on Google to immediately stop using Disney content in its AI tools and create measures to ensure that future AI outputs don't produce any characters that Disney owns. Disney is famously litigious and has an army of lawyers dedicated to defending its copyrights. The nature of copyright law in the US is a direct result of Disney's legal maneuvering, which has extended its control of iconic characters by decades. While Disney wants its characters out of Google AI generally, the letter specifically cited the AI tools in YouTube. Google has started adding its Veo AI video model to YouTube, allowing creators to more easily create and publish videos. That seems to be a greater concern for Disney than image models like Nano Banana. "We have a longstanding and mutually beneficial relationship with Disney, and will continue to engage with them," Google said in a statement. "More generally, we use public data from the open web to build our AI and have built additional innovative copyright controls like Google-extended and Content ID for YouTube, which give sites and copyright holders control over their content."
The cease and desist letter arrives at the same time the company announced a content deal with OpenAI. Disney said it's investing $1 billion in OpenAI via a three-year licensing deal that will let users generate AI-powered short videos and images featuring more than 200 characters.
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Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups are probably my favorite big brand candy (perhaps only bested by Reese’s Pieces), so it was a real treat (groan) to see how the company makes them cups.
But did you know Reese’s purposely over-roasts their peanuts just enough to bring out a bold nutty flavor? The extra heat is what gives their peanut butter its signature granular texture and taste fans can’t get enough of it. And funnily enough, this technique was first discovered by accident, thanks to a faulty overheating roster in HB Reese’s original factory. What could have been a ruined batch turned out to be their unmistakable flavor breakthrough they still use to this day.
Spoiler: PBCs are not made by two people bumping into each other on the street, as we were led to believe in the 80s.
BALTIMORE (ANP/RTR) - Kilmar Abrego Garcia is weer op vrije voeten, nadat een rechter in de Amerikaanse staat Maryland eerder op donderdag zijn vrijlating had bevolen. De in El Salvador geboren man zat vast in afwachting van een mogelijke tweede uitzetting. Zijn eerdere, onterechte uitzetting werd het middelpunt van een rel rondom het deportatiebeleid van de regering-Trump.
Abrego Garcia (30) mag in ieder geval tijdelijk naar zijn huis in Maryland terugkeren. Amerikaanse regeringsfunctionarissen hebben herhaaldelijk gezegd dat hij in de VS nooit meer een vrij man zal zijn. Abrego Garcia is getrouwd met een Amerikaanse vrouw, met wie hij een jonge zoon heeft.
Abrego werd in maart uitgezet naar El Salvador, waar hij in een beruchte gevangenis terechtkwam. Een rechter bepaalde dat hij ten onrechte was uitgezet, waarop hij werd teruggebracht naar de VS. Sinds augustus zit hij in immigratiedetentie, kort nadat hij was vrijgelaten uit voorlopige hechtenis in zijn strafzaak. Critici beschuldigen de regering ervan zich niet aan de wet te houden bij het strenge deportatiebeleid.
DEN HAAG (ANP) - De overstap naar één landelijke doorstroomtoets voor alle basisschoolleerlingen in plaats van zes verschillende, kan niet worden gemaakt voor het schooljaar 2029-2030. Dat herhaalde demissionair staatssecretaris Koen Becking (VVD) donderdagavond in een Kamerdebat. Becking zei "bereid" te zijn om te kijken of dit sneller kan, maar gaf aan niet te weten hoe.
Momenteel kunnen basisscholen kiezen uit zes verschillende doorstroomtoetsen voor groep 8. In december vorig jaar nam de Tweede Kamer een motie aan van D66-Kamerlid Ilana Rooderkerk om dit terug te brengen naar één landelijke toets, omdat de verschillen tussen de huidige toetsen de kansenongelijkheid zouden vergroten.
De staatssecretaris is "welwillend" om over te stappen naar één toets, maar denkt dat het vanwege het "wetgevingstraject" niet sneller kan. Naar een suggestie van JA21-Kamerlid Diederik Boomsma om te onderzoeken of het via een spoedadvies sneller door de Raad van State kan, beloofde hij te kijken.
The dream of electric sheep gets a reality check from Moore’s Law
You want artificial general intelligence (AGI)? Current-day processors aren't powerful enough to make it happen and our ability to scale up may soon be coming to an end, argues well-known researcher Tim Dettmers.…