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Model-maker and SaaS-y AI outfit Anthropic has committed to covering any increases in energy prices paid by consumers caused by its power-hungry datacenters.…
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Ik word tegenwoordig terecht gewezen op het gebruik van mijn gsm achter het stuur. Gisteren op het nieuws stond een agent vanuit de bosjes foto’s te nemen en die vertelde wat er…
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BrianFagioli writes: The Linux Mint developers say they are considering adopting a longer development cycle, arguing that the project's current six month cadence plus LMDE releases leaves too little room for deeper work. In a recent update, the team reflected on its incremental philosophy, independence from upstream decisions like Snap, and heavy investment in Cinnamon and XApp. While the release process "works very well" and delivers steady improvements, they admit it consumes significant time in testing, fixing, and shipping, potentially capping ambition.
Mint's next release will be based on a new Ubuntu LTS, and the team says it is seriously interested in stretching the development window. The stated goal is to free up resources for more substantial development rather than constant release management. Whether this signals bigger technical changes or simply acknowledges bandwidth limits for a small team remains unclear, but it marks a notable rethink of one of desktop Linux's most consistent release rhythms.
Mint's next release will be based on a new Ubuntu LTS, and the team says it is seriously interested in stretching the development window. The stated goal is to free up resources for more substantial development rather than constant release management. Whether this signals bigger technical changes or simply acknowledges bandwidth limits for a small team remains unclear, but it marks a notable rethink of one of desktop Linux's most consistent release rhythms.
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The world is closer than thought to a "point of no return" after which runaway global heating cannot be stopped, scientists have said. From a report: Continued global heating could trigger climate tipping points, leading to a cascade of further tipping points and feedback loops, they said. This would lock the world into a new and hellish "hothouse Earth" climate far worse than the 2-3C temperature rise the world is on track to reach.
The climate would also be very different to the benign conditions of the past 11,000 years, during which the whole of human civilisation developed. At just 1.3C of global heating in recent years, extreme weather is already taking lives and destroying livelihoods across the globe. At 3-4C, "the economy and society will cease to function as we know it," scientists said last week, but a hothouse Earth would be even more fiery. The public and politicians were largely unaware of the risk of passing the point of no return, the researchers said.
The group said they were issuing their warning because while rapid and immediate cuts to fossil fuel burning were challenging, reversing course was likely to be impossible once on the path to a hothouse Earth, even if emissions were eventually slashed. It was difficult to predict when climate tipping points would be triggered, making precaution vital, said Dr Christopher Wolf, a scientist at Terrestrial Ecosystems Research Associates in the US. Wolf is a member of a study team that includes Prof Johan Rockstrom at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research in Germany and Prof Hans Joachim Schellnhuber at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis in Austria.
The climate would also be very different to the benign conditions of the past 11,000 years, during which the whole of human civilisation developed. At just 1.3C of global heating in recent years, extreme weather is already taking lives and destroying livelihoods across the globe. At 3-4C, "the economy and society will cease to function as we know it," scientists said last week, but a hothouse Earth would be even more fiery. The public and politicians were largely unaware of the risk of passing the point of no return, the researchers said.
The group said they were issuing their warning because while rapid and immediate cuts to fossil fuel burning were challenging, reversing course was likely to be impossible once on the path to a hothouse Earth, even if emissions were eventually slashed. It was difficult to predict when climate tipping points would be triggered, making precaution vital, said Dr Christopher Wolf, a scientist at Terrestrial Ecosystems Research Associates in the US. Wolf is a member of a study team that includes Prof Johan Rockstrom at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research in Germany and Prof Hans Joachim Schellnhuber at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis in Austria.
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Any time I see my staff taping a paper flyer to one of our walls, what I hear is, "You are telling me there should be a flyer screen there." So we finally did that in the pizza alcove. I think they look pretty good! We just stuck the monitors into the same style of picture frames we use in the DNA Pizza dining room gallery.
My vendetta against tape on the walls is endless. I just think it looks really tacky. Plus, one of the things about paper that it is famous for is always showing the same thing. Whereas these screens have all kinds of complications. (In watchmaking, anything that a timepiece does beyond showing hours, minutes and seconds is called a "complication", and I love that term.)
For example, they are sensitive to the room they are in and the genres of the show that is currently happening, so if it's a metal night, they're going to show flyers for other metal shows much more often. They are likewise skewed toward showing shows happening sooner than later.
And another recent complication is the dancing QR codes. I put a bunch of work into making the underlying URLs as short as possible so that the QR codes have big chunky pixels that you can scan from across the room.
We also use them in Pizza checkout to hype our appetizers.
In summary, digital signage is a land of complications. 
Writer made international breakthrough with 1980 novel Rituals and won acclaim for his travel writing
The Dutch writer Cees Nooteboom, whose novels, travel writing and translations made him a prominent literary figure in postwar Europe, has died aged 92.
Publishing house De Bezige Bij said in a statement on Wednesday evening that Nooteboom had “passed away very peacefully on his beloved island Menorca”. The statement was made on behalf of the author’s wife, the photographer Simone Sassen.
Continue reading...Adam Mosseri defends app on witness stand and says critics must separate ‘clinical addiction’ from ‘problematic use’
Instagram’s CEO dismissed the idea that users can be addicted to social media at a landmark California trial on Wednesday.
“I think it’s important to differentiate between clinical addiction and problematic use,” Adam Mosseri said on the witness stand. Psychologists do not classify social media addiction as an official diagnosis. Researchers have documented the harmful consequences of compulsive use among young people, and lawmakers around the world are worried about its addictive potential.
Continue reading...Arne Slot has said he does not believe his job security hinges on Liverpool securing Champions League qualification this spring but the Dutchman would much prefer not to put that assertion to the test.
On this evidence there seems a decent chance the Champions’s manager will not have to. In finally ending Sunderland’s proud unbeaten home record in the Premier League this season, sixth placed Liverpool left themselves only three points adrift of fourth placed Manchester United and two behind fifth placed Chelsea.
Continue reading...DEN HAAG (ANP) - Om mensen die een woning zoeken te ondersteunen, zouden de voordelen voor woningbezitters afgebouwd moeten worden, staat in een rapport van het Centraal Planbureau (CPB). Dit is volgens de overheidsinstantie effectiever dan het extra subsidiëren van woningzoekenden.
De voordelen voor huiseigenaren kunnen worden beperkt door de hypotheekrenteaftrek te verlagen en het eigenwoningforfait te verhogen. Dit is het bedrag dat huiseigenaren bij hun inkomen moeten optellen voor de belasting, gebaseerd op de WOZ-waarde van hun woning. Deze manier van het belasten van woningen verbetert de doorstroom op de vastgelopen woningmarkt, meent het CPB.
Het planbureau adviseert ook om huishoudens met hogere inkomens in de sociale huursector meer huur te laten betalen. Huishoudens in de sociale huur ontvangen subsidie, doordat ze een lagere huur dan de markthuur betalen. "Voor huishoudens met een laag inkomen is dit het doel, voor huishoudens met een hoger inkomen niet", stelt de instantie.
Flexibiliteit
Het CPB benadrukt geen voorstander te zijn van nieuwe subsidies voor woningzoekenden. "Extra ondersteuning vergroot de vraag naar schaarse woonruimte en verhoogt de druk op de markt", concludeert de instantie. Koopstarters kunnen wel geholpen zijn met ruimere leennormen, maar het nadeel hiervan is dat dit leidt tot hogere woningprijzen.
Verder zou de overheid volgens het CPB meer plekken moeten aanwijzen waar gebouwd mag worden, met kortere bouwprocedures. "Om een verder oplopend woningtekort te voorkomen, is flexibiliteit in de bouwproductie belangrijk." De instantie vindt dat "we het ook zouden kunnen accepteren" dat mensen in grote steden langer woningen delen, zoals in veel grote steden in het buitenland gebruikelijk is. "Dan neemt de woningvraag effectief af, zodat er minder nieuw aanbod nodig is."
Een andere manier om de woningvraag in te dammen is volgens het CPB door migratie te beperken. "Migratie heeft het afgelopen decennium immers aanzienlijk bijgedragen aan de toename van het aantal huishoudens en een strenger of ruimer migratiebeleid heeft dus in de toekomst effect op het aantal benodigde woningen."
ROTTERDAM (ANP) - Tallon Griekspoor gaat naar de kwartfinales van het ABN AMRO Open. De 29-jarige tennisser won woensdagavond in twee sets van zijn Franse leeftijdgenoot Quentin Halys: 7-5 7-6 (11). Griekspoor speelt vrijdag tegen de winnaar van de partij tussen de Canadees Félix Auger-Aliassime en de Serviër Hamad Medjedovic.
Griekspoor begon als de nummer 27 van de wereld aan het ATP-toernooi van Rotterdam. In de eerste ronde won hij in twee sets van de Fransman Giovanni Mpetshi Perricard. Dat was pas de tweede overwinning van Griekspoor dit jaar.
De nummer 1 van Nederland had tegen Halys, de nummer 77 van de wereld, twee sets nodig. Griekspoor had in de eerste set aan een break in de elfde game genoeg om die met 7-5 te winnen. In de tweede set kwam er een tiebreak aan te pas. Ook daarin was Griekspoor de betere van de twee.
Griekspoor stond de afgelopen week in de schijnwerpers nadat hij in de media kritiek had geuit op de tennisbond en had afgezegd voor het Davis Cup-team dat in India moest spelen.
LIESHOUT (ANP) - Bavaria heeft een carnavalscampagne tijdelijk offline gehaald na een sommatie van het Internationaal Olympisch Comité (IOC). Dat bevestigt een woordvoerder van Royal Swinkels, het familiebedrijf waar Bavaria deel van uitmaakt, na berichtgeving van Omroep Brabant. "Volgens het IOC vertoonde onder andere een beeld met vijf biertjes op een bar te veel gelijkenis met de Olympische ringen", aldus de woordvoerder.
Het bedrijf is "verrast" door de interpretatie van het IOC, "omdat de campagne bovenal bedoeld is als carnavalsknipoog". Volgens de woordvoerder vond het IOC dat meerdere elementen in de video te veel gelijkenissen vertoonden met de Olympische Spelen. Om welke elementen het naast de vijf biertjes nog meer ging, zegt de woordvoerder niet.
De woordvoerder geeft aan dat de sommatie een "duidelijk signaal" was en dat het bedrijf verdere juridische stappen wil voorkomen.
De video wordt aangepast. "We doen ons uiterste best om in ieder geval nog voor carnaval weer online te zijn", aldus de woordvoerder.
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