Pete ‘Bono’ Bonnington, Kimi Antonelli’s race engineer at Mercedes, has received praise from team boss Toto Wolff for how he has handled working with the youngster.
F1 correspondent Lawrence Barretto evaluates what's happening with the F1 driver market so far in 2026.
Proposals for further evolutionary changes to the 2026 regulations have been agreed in principle following an online meeting, convened by F1’s governing body the FIA and attended by Team Principals, Formula One Management and power unit manufacturer representatives.
Cloudflare plans to cut about 20% of its workforce, or more than 1,100 employees, as it restructures around an "agentic AI-first operating model." Reuters reports: Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince and co-founder Michelle Zatlyn said in a message to employees that the company was reimagining every team and function to operate in what they described as an agentic AI era. Cloudflare said the job cuts reflect a redesign of internal processes and roles, rather than a response to employee performance or short-term cost pressures. The company added that its own use of AI has increased more than sixfold over the past three months, prompting major changes in how teams operate.
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There are misconceptions about the addictiveness of cannabis and many users are struggling with dependency
Amy knew it wasn’t great. But there she was, at the bottom of a dumpster, desperately searching for the THC vape cartridge she’d thrown away just hours earlier.
Amy, 18, had previously tossed that same cartridge, known colloquially as a cart, into a public trash can. Passersby stared as she later rooted around to recover it. So she lifted the entire garbage bag and brought it back to her apartment, where she dug through a bunch of sloppy, stinking detritus before finding it and taking a grateful toke. Later that same week, she threw it into the dumpster – surely that would prevent her from going back. But she did.
Continue reading...Bond yields drop as market fears ease that Labour leader will be replaced by a more leftwing rival
UK government borrowing costs fell and the pound rose on Friday as Keir Starmer vowed to remain as prime minister despite the Labour party losing hundreds of council seats across England.
Investors calculated that some of the intense pressure on Starmer’s leadership had eased, as Labour appeared on track for smaller losses than election experts had predicted.
Continue reading...About a dozen pavilions affected, while some artists backed strike by adding Palestine references to their work
A strike called in protest over the inclusion of Israel at the 2026 Venice Biennale meant several pavilions closed on the last day of the preview, some for a few hours while others – including the standout work from Austria – remained closed all day.
The strike was organised by the Art Not Genocide Alliance (Anga), which at one point said that more than 20 pavilions would shutter in order to support their calls for Israel to be barred from the event because of its war in Gaza.
Continue reading...LES PRAERES (ANP) - Anna van der Breggen heeft de voorlaatste rit van de Vuelta Femenina gewonnen en de rode leiderstrui overgenomen van haar Belgische ploeggenoot Lotte Kopecky. Op de loodzware slotklim naar Les Praeres (3,7 kilometer met een gemiddeld stijgingspercentage van 13,4 procent) reed de Nederlandse renster van SD Worx-Protime zittend weg bij al haar concurrenten.
De Spaanse Paula Blasi werd op 8 seconden tweede, Marion Bunel uit Frankrijk werd derde op 29 seconden.
AMSTERDAM (ANP) - De Amsterdamse AEX-index is vrijdag met een kleine min het weekend ingegaan. Beleggers op het Damrak deden het even rustig aan na een drukke week met veel kwartaalcijfers van grote bedrijven. De aandacht ging nu onder meer uit naar het belangrijke Amerikaanse banenrapport dat beter uitviel dan verwacht. De chipfondsen ASML, Besi en ASMI stonden wel bij de stijgers in de AEX.
De hoofdgraadmeter op de Amsterdamse beurs sloot 0,2 procent in het rood op 1017,50 punten. Daarmee werd opnieuw een stapje teruggedaan, want op donderdag zakte de AEX al 1,2 procent. Op woensdag werd juist nog een slotrecord neergezet. De MidKap verloor 0,5 procent tot 1049,07 punten. Op de aandelenmarkten in Parijs en Frankfurt werden verliezen tot 1,3 procent geleden. De FTSE 100 in Londen zakte 0,4 procent.
De chipbedrijven noteerden plussen tot 2,7 procent. Andere winnaars waren onder meer muziekconcern Universal Music Group (UMG) en ijsbedrijf Magnum met koerswinsten tot 1,6 procent.
This is Behind the Blog, where we share our behind-the-scenes thoughts about how a few of our top stories of the week came together. This week, we discuss storage, RSS, and a big reporting project.
JOSEPH: In an earlier BTB I mentioned the pain of obtaining cryptocurrency in 2026. Well, that was in service for the article we published this week called ‘HELLO BOSS’: Inside the Chinese Realtime Deepfake Software Powering Scams Around the World. This has been a long time coming. As you can read in the piece, it took weeks, eventually more than a month really, to get the people to sell me the software and for us to test it.
I wanted to talk about my opinion on the ethics around a story like this. This is not a science. Many journalists have a different view on all sorts of different techniques or conduct. But these are my thoughts.
Thursday afternoon, millions of students at thousands of universities and K-12 schools were locked out of Canvas, a piece of catch-all education technology software that has become the de facto core of many classes. ShinyHunters, a ransomware group, hacked Canvas’s parent company and apparently stole “billions” of messages and accessed more than 275 million individuals’ data, according to the hacking group. The group also locked students out of Canvas.
Later Thursday, Instructure, which makes Canvas, was able to mostly put Canvas back online; it is not clear if the company paid a ransom or not. The breach demonstrates the danger in centralizing the educational and personal data of millions of students in a single service. Canvas is essentially a portal where teachers post assignments and lectures, have discussion boards, and students can message with each other and their teachers and connect with other pieces of education tech software.
Instructure noted on an incident update page that the stolen data includes “certain personal information of users at affected organizations. That includes names, email addresses, student ID numbers, and messages among Canvas users.” Instructure also noted that it was breached twice—once on April 29 and again on Thursday.
Soon after the hack, I called up Ian Linkletter, a digital librarian specializing in emerging education tech, to talk about the implications of the breach. Linkletter has worked in education tech for 20 years and over the last few years has become known for exposing privacy concerns in Proctorio, a remote test proctoring software that rose to prominence during the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic. Linkletter was sued by Proctorio but eventually the case was dropped.
Linkletter told me the Canvas hack is “the biggest student data privacy disaster in history” in part because of its scale and the sensitive nature of what was stolen. This is my conversation with Linkletter, which has been lightly condensed.
404 Media: What do we know about the hack so far?
Linkletter: At about 1:20 PM [Pacific, Thursday], people started posting screenshots to Reddit of this breach message that they got. Some institutions were cautioning people to change their passwords if they were logged in, right now it just seems like people are in panic mode, some senior administration at schools are in meetings talking about whether they need to cancel finals next week. It’s just the implications are on everything because schools are reliant on this learning management system for everything—communications, grading, finals, everything.
In your email to me, you said you've worked in EdTech for 20 years and you said this is the biggest student data privacy disaster in history. I'm curious what sort of made you frame it that way.
I supported Blackboard [a similar piece of tech] way back in the day and I supported Canvas from about 2017 to 2022 when I worked at the University of British Columbia. And what I was there for when we switched to Canvas in 2017 was the shift from like these scrappy little self-hosted learning management system apps that would be on Canadian servers to this centralized, all eggs-in-one basket faith in a U.S. tech company. This idea that our data would be just as safe with them as it was when we had it. And because this move to the cloud happened so suddenly about 10 years ago, all of a sudden data got centralized. The only way that I can think of that this type of hack where everything went down, where so much was stolen would be if Instructure had access to everybody's data, which doesn't seem necessary. For it to be just so widespread across every customer is something that, like, [we’ve] never seen before.
Because the contents of messages got leaked, it’s really easy for phishing attacks to get customized. Like, Canvas got hacked [...] and continuing our conversation type of thing, you can get some really personal information from people. And that's also new.
I can also imagine messages between students and teachers to be pretty sensitive.
I supported instructors that used Canvas. And so I would hear these stories like, and they're on like the professor’s subreddit and stuff too, like students are telling you that people died [to explain absences]. There's personal circumstances, medical circumstances, accessibility accommodations, disputes, sexual assault allegations, like all sorts of stuff would be getting reported to the instructor using Canvas. If that information is out across hundreds of millions of people, there's a lot of harm that's going to happen.
What will you be kind of monitoring as this plays out?
My biggest concern right now is monitoring the institutional response. I feel very strongly that students should have been warned about this like days ago. And it just took this second hack where students got something in their face notifying them that really made schools respond. So I believe that students need to be warned or else they're going to get harmed. And the longer schools wait to tell students about what’s going on, even the little that they know, the more stress and chaos and potential risk to student privacy and safety is at stake.
Nu er wereldwijd zorgen ontstaan over het opduikende hantavirus, voelt Famke Louise zich geroepen zich opnieuw uit te spreken. De influencer, die tijdens de coronapandemie al viroloog kritische geluiden liet horen, benadrukt nu dat je ‘er niet te vroeg bij kunt zijn.’
Volgens experts kan een nieuwe pandemie pas echt serieus genomen worden als Famke Louise haar respect ervoor heel ongemakkelijk uitspreekt. Het is volgens hen daarom erg fijn dat Famke dit nu al doet.
Ook ditmaal heeft ze wat woorden op papier gezet, ‘omdat dat gewoon kan’. “Ik heb ook superveel respect voor hanta, het hantavirus, de ratten die het dragen, en zo,” begint ze aan de talkshow tafel van Eva Jinek. Daarnaast benadrukt ze de kijkers nog een keer dat we in een maatschappij leven.
Volledige erkenning van het virus blijft voorlopig nog uit, omdat er volgens haar nog niet echt veel mensen dood zijn ‘en zo’
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Rijkswaterstaat gaat in het weekend verder met het asfalteren van Ring Zuid bij Rotterdam. De hoofdrijbaan van de A15 richting Ridderkerk is dicht. Ook op de A27 naar Utrecht wordt gewerkt aan de weg.
The Iran conflict is adding to supply-chain disruption for datacenter construction projects, bumping up material costs and causing shortages due to the closure of the Strait of Hormuz. So says server hall project specialist BCS Consultancy, which claims construction firms are seeing increases of up to 20 percent in the cost of certain building materials, while in some cases, the quantity available for delivery has been reduced to a quarter of the required amount on order. The firm’s regional director Oskar Lampe says that oil-based building materials are becoming scarcer and more expensive, as about a fifth of the global supply flows through the Strait of Hormuz in the Middle East. Because producing materials such as steel, aluminum, and cement is very energy-intensive, the construction industry is starting to feel the effects of the blockade, he claims. “For datacenter construction, the key components of which consist of exactly these materials, this is a turning point,” he stated. That pressure predates the current conflict, according to IDC. Andrew Buss, senior research director at the analyst house, told The Register: “We’re hearing some reports of broader supply chain disruption and availability issues – particularly for things like high-voltage transformers and copper supply - around datacenter builds from even before the war in the Middle East and the resulting closure of the Straits of Hormuz. “So the closing of the Straits is certainly not helping, but this has been an issue for some time resulting in more frailty and susceptibility to disruption and therefore likely to have a disproportionate impact as a result of the closure.” Last month, IDC warned that IT equipment supplies are facing further volatility as the Iran war has strained global logistics through rising energy costs and freight routes being disrupted. It isn’t just bit barn projects that are suffering, of course. The wider construction industry is experiencing some of the steepest cost increases in nearly 30 years as the ongoing Iran crisis drives up the price of fuel and raw materials, according to The Guardian. These new effects come on top of existing challenges facing the datacenter construction industry, such as the availability of suitable land, getting planning permission, being able to get a grid connection for power, skills shortages and the cost of equipment. Segro, one of the UK's major commercial property developers, revealed a while back that it would invest "hundreds of millions and more" in building new server farms, except that it faced delays often running into years getting such projects wired up to the national grid. Lampe says that the current situation is unlikely to ease quickly, as it will take a while for disrupted transport routes, energy price inflation and volatile raw material markets to recover, even if the Strait of Hormuz were to reopen tomorrow. He advises development teams to follow a few measures to try and minimize the impact on their project timelines, including submitting orders for long lead items early, building clear price escalation rules into contracts, and diversifying supply chains where possible. For example, delivery times can vary between 5 and 38 months for chillers, transformers, generators and other critical plant equipment, even under normal conditions. “Those who only start the procurement process when the project plan dictates will order at a higher price and wait longer,” he notes. Also, dependence on a single supplier is a structural risk for builders even before this conflict and can seriously endanger projects. Known alternatives are needed. “For several oil-based materials, technically equivalent, non-oil-based variants exist. Potentially more expensive to procure, but available and in many cases already geared towards future sustainability requirements, which makes them the more sensible choice in the medium term anyway,” Lampe says. ®
Screwdriver handles are sneakily well-designed for a variety of different uses.
I mean, who thinks about a screwdriver? But if you look at the handles, well, that’s a complicated shape. And it lets you do a lot. It’s comfortable to hold, but it won’t roll off your bench. And you can turn it one-handed or use both hands. And you get a couple of different grips. That’s a good design.
In this video, woodworker & tool enthusiast Rex Krueger walks us through the design history of the screwdriver and how it came to have such a distinctive and useful handle.
I grew up helping my dad out in the garage with all sorts of projects, mostly cars, and until watching this video, I had no idea that you could slip a standard wrench over the handle of a screwdriver as a cheater bar. 🤯 (via unsung)
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Vandaag heeft staatssecretaris Annet Bertram (Infrastructuur en Waterstaat) de Kamer geïnformeerd over de uitgangspunten van de nadeelcompensatie voor het vuurwerkverbod. Vorig jaar hebben beide Kamers ingestemd met de initiatiefwet veilige jaarwisseling van GroenLinks-PvdA en Partij voor de Dieren die een vuurwerkverbod voor consumenten regelt. Daaraan verbond de Tweede Kamer drie voorwaarden: lokale ontheffingen, een handhavingsplan en een nette en eerlijke nadeelcompensatie. Hiermee komt de invoering van het verbod weer een stap dichterbij.