Google is again pressuring some longtime G Suite Legacy users to move onto paid Workspace plans, warning that accounts flagged as "commercial use" could lose access to Gmail, Drive, Calendar, and other services if appeals fail. "The trouble, according to users, is that the appeals system appears about as transparent as a brick," adds The Register. From the report: A reader alerted The Register to what appears to be a new crackdown on long-standing G Suite Legacy accounts, with similar complaints now piling up on Reddit from users accused of violating Google's non-commercial use policy, despite insisting they use the accounts only for family email and personal domains. Reports have been stacking up on Reddit's r/gsuitelegacymigration subreddit from users who say their long-running personal G Suite Legacy accounts are suddenly being classified as "commercial use" accounts and pushed toward paid Google Workspace plans by May 2026. A lot of users have been through this before. Google spent part of 2022 trying to wind down free G Suite Legacy accounts, then changed course after users running family domains made enough noise. Now some of those same users are being told they have fallen outside Google's rules after all.

Emails seen by The Register warn users their accounts have been "identified as being used for commercial purposes" and say Google may start suspending Gmail, Calendar, Drive, Meet, and other Workspace services if they do not either win an appeal or begin paying for Workspace subscriptions. "Please upgrade to a paid Google Workspace subscription to continue using your services. Look out for a notification regarding the appeal process in Google Admin console or email," the email reads. "If you don't take action during your 45-day appeal period, Google will begin suspending your Google Workspace core services, including Gmail, Calendar, Drive, and Meet. As a result, you will lose access to these core services and data." One wrongly-flagged user said the company reversed its decision after they filed a GDPR data request seeking evidence. Others were less fortunate, with some reporting that family-only custom domains were permanently classified as commercial despite failed appeals.

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A stellar performance at the Miami Grand Prix gave Lando Norris the confidence that McLaren can thrive in Montreal.

The Formula 1 driver market is potentially just one domino away from exploding into a frenzy, so what exactly does an F1 driver need to do to get themselves into the best seat on the grid?

Here is all the information you need to follow the Canadian Grand Prix weekend live on F1 TV.

Ferrari’s Miami upgrade was at least as big as those of Red Bull and McLaren, and although it gained the car performance, the Sprint format combined with the extremely hot tarmac meant that the competitive picture was a little unclear.

The weather forecast is in ahead of the upcoming Sprint weekend in Canada.

Pirelli have confirmed the tyre compounds that will be in use across the Sprint weekend for the 2026 Canadian Grand Prix.

​Vanwege grote drukte is het COA een gecontroleerde toegang begonnen bij de aanmeldlocatie in Ter Apel. Er is geen plek meer voor iedereen die zich meldt. Een van de mensen die zijn afgewezen is Gerben ten Broeke (38) uit Ommen.

"Dit land is doodziek", zegt een zichtbaar aangeslagen Gerben. "Weet je wat ze zeiden? Dat kwetsbare asielzoekers voorrang krijgen! Het zal godverdomme eens niet. Die vrouw maakte het zelfs nog bonter. Je krijgt überhaupt alleen toegang als je asielzoeker bent. Dus omdat ik hier geboren en getogen ben, honderd procent Nederlander, ben ik niet welkom. Dat is je reinste discriminatie, maar zo noemen ze dat niet als het om blanken gaat."

Gerben beraadt zich op stappen. "Ik betaal hier belasting, ik heb mijn rechten. Als ik in Ter Apel met zes man op een kamer wil slapen, dan mag mij de toegang niet geweigerd worden omdat Fatima en Mohammed uit Soedan zo nodig naar Nederland wilden komen. Dit is mijn land niet meer. Nog even en ik vlucht naar Hongarije."

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AMD’s answer to Nvidia’s DGX Spark AI workstations, codenamed the Ryzen AI Halo, will be available for pre-order later next month for anyone with $3,999 burning a hole in their pocket. That might sound like a lot for an AI mini PC, but don’t worry. Compared to cloud APIs, it practically pays for itself. Or, well, that’s AMD’s sales pitch. The House of Zen argues that if you spend eight hours a day vibe coding, the system could save you $750 a month. Whether this helps you justify paying for hardware that less than a year ago could be found for between $2,200 and $2,999 or not, it’s (probably) not AMD being greedy here; the RAMpocalypse has been hard on everyone. Much like the DGX Spark, which now retails for $4,699, up from $3,999 when we reviewed it last fall, AMD’s rendition aims to provide a curated developer environment for running local models and agentic AI frameworks. This is really the core value proposition behind either of these devices. They aren’t the most powerful or fastest AI systems, but they’re able to run models that a few years ago would have cost $20K or more. A little box of TOPS The diminutive system measures in at 5.9 x 5.9 x 1.7 inches (150 x 150 x 43 mm) and is powered by a 120 watt Ryzen AI Max+ 395 APU, better known by its codename Strix Halo. The chip is backed by 128 GB of LPDDR5x 8000 MT/s memory, which feeds both its 16 Zen 5 cores and 40 RDNA 3.5 GPU compute units, providing up to 256 GB/s of bandwidth, more than a Ryzen 9000 Threadripper (non-Pro) system. For local AI enthusiasts, that’s enough to run models up to 200 billion parameters in size at 4-bit precision — just like the more expensive Spark. The bulk of the Ryzen AI Halo’s compute comes from its integrated graphics, which are capable of delivering roughly 56 teraFLOPS at 16-bit precision. While impressive for onboard graphics, that’s still between 55 and 88 percent slower than what the DGX Spark advertises. Unlike the Spark’s Blackwell-based GB10 APU, Strix Halo doesn’t support FP8 or FP4 data types in hardware. At BF16, the Spark delivers 125, at FP8 250, and FP4 500 teraFLOPS. Double those figures if you happen to find a workload that can leverage Nvidia’s 4:2 sparsity. That performance discrepancy won’t necessarily be obvious in every workload. In fact, in LLM inference, AMD claims the AI Halo generates tokens 4-14 percent faster than the Spark. The lower end of that roughly matches what we saw when we pitted the Spark against a similarly equipped HP Z2 Mini G1a back in December. The G1a packs the same silicon as AI Halo, and in Llama.cpp with the Vulkan backend, eked out a small but meaningful lead over the Spark in tokens per second generated. However, the speed any GPU can generate tokens at is largely dictated by effective memory bandwidth, not floating point performance. GPU compute has a much bigger impact on things like prompt processing time. In our testing, the Spark’s more capable tensor cores gave it a 2-3x lead in prompt processing. For shorter prompts, this isn’t all that noticeable, usually the difference between waiting 100 ms versus 200 ms or 300 ms, but for longer prompts, it did become more pronounced. We saw the Spark take similar leads in our image generation and fine tuning benchmarks, but it’s worth noting that AMD’s software stack has matured greatly since our initial review and the performance gap has likely closed somewhat since then. AMD’s AI Halo does have two things going for it that can’t be said of the Spark. Alongside the GPU is an XDNA 2-based neural processing unit (NPU) that AMD rates for 50 TOPS. What good that’ll do you depends heavily on the application in question. Many content creation apps have now been updated to take advantage of it, but the number of generative AI inference engines that could properly harness it was quite limited the last time we looked. The second thing AMD’s Ryzen AI Halo has going for it is that it’s a standard x86 box at its heart, and you can run Windows or your preferred flavor of Linux on it if that’s more your style. On the Spark, you’re stuck with a lightly customized version of Ubuntu 24.04. Beyond that, you’re coloring outside the lines. Particularly for developers building for Microsoft’s NPU-accelerated AI PC ecosystem, this is an obvious advantage. In terms of networking, AMD’s Spark-clone falls a bit flat. One of the hallmark features of Nvidia’s AI workstation is a 200 Gbps ConnectX-7 NIC, which allows for clustering of up to two and eventually four systems. AMD’s AI Halo has a single 10 Gbps NIC, which should help with downloading large model files in a timely manner. In theory, the system should be able to achieve high-speed networking over USB-4, but it’s not clear whether this is actually a supported use case. That said, Apple has already demonstrated just this using RDMA over Thunderbolt, so it should work so long as AMD has a playbook for configuring RDMA on its systems. AMD’s own AI lab As we mentioned earlier, much of the Ryzen AI Halo’s value proposition comes from being validated hardware with well documented playbooks for common use cases and known good software. Finding the right combination of device drivers, ROCm, HIP, SYCL, CUDA, PyTorch, TensorFlow, and JAX has long plagued the AI/ML devs regardless of which ecosystem you opt for. Having validated environments for workloads, whether it be vLLM, Llama.cpp, Ollama, ComfyUI, or something else ensures users spend more time doing something productive than debugging mismatched dependencies. At launch, AMD says the Ryzen AI Halo will ship with five preinstalled playbooks, with another 10 available online and additional playbooks to be added monthly. Additionally, customers will gain access to AMD’s developer program, cloud credits, and exclusive playbooks. More memory on the way The 128 GB Ryzen AI Halo will be available for pre-order next month starting at $3,999, but if that isn’t enough for you, AMD is already prepping a higher capacity version of the system with 192 GB of memory on board. That system will feature a refreshed Ryzen APU in the AI Max+ 495, which just like the rest of AMD’s 400-series lineup gets a modest clock bump to the CPU, GPU, and NPU, and not a whole lot else. Still, 192 GB of unified memory opens the door to even larger, more capable models, if you can stomach the presumably higher asking price. ®

European Space Agency (ESA) Director General Josef Aschbacher has taken a swipe at NASA and US policy, while calling for autonomy in human spaceflight via an opinion post titled "Are we pilots or are we passengers?" The May 18 post is emblematic of the hand-wringing within ESA over the last few years as NASA has lurched from plan to plan amid fluctuating priorities and funding. Aschbacher, it appears, has had enough. "Europe has become too exposed to decisions beyond its control," he said. NASA administrator Jared Isaacman recently announced changes that would pause, and likely cancel, the Lunar Gateway space station project in favor of a Moon base. The decision, along with scrapping the over-budget and delayed Mars Sample Return mission, does not sit well with ESA, which had a hand in both. Aschbacher warned of the potential for dependence on third parties for programs including human spaceflight. ESA removed reliance on Russia for missions such as ExoMars, and turbulence in US space policy has given the agency pause for thought. "Europe must decide whether it prefers to be dependent on others to send its explorers into space or to assume its role as a fully capable space power. As the head of the European Space Agency (ESA), I am convinced that autonomous human spaceflight is not a luxury. It is a necessary anchor for Europe to secure its freedom to unlock the scientific, economic, strategic and geopolitical benefits of space and to inspire a new generation to shape Europe’s future." In 2025, an agency insider referred to NASA as "an abusive spouse who could lash out at any moment in unpredictable ways." In 2026, Aschbacher's patience appears to be running out. "I'm glad," a source told The Register. "The US has fucked us around for too long." Aschbacher and ESA would not put it so bluntly. However, one of ESA's strengths is also one of its weaknesses. The agency has 23 member states. Political and funding decisions are imminent: the ESA Council meets in June, the Intermediate Ministerial Council is in December, and a full Council at Ministerial level is due in 2028. "If we started today," Aschbacher wrote, "it would still take us many years to build autonomous capability – we must act quickly. The cost of inaction would far outweigh the necessary investment." Aschbacher's comments came on the eve of the successful launch of the Smile spacecraft on a Vega-C rocket from Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana on May 19. The mission, a collaboration between ESA and the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), will study how Earth responds to solar wind. "The current environment demands both diversified international partnerships and strengthened autonomous capabilities," wrote Aschbacher. "We must use this challenging moment and turn it into an opportunity to redefine our position." His next challenge is to persuade ESA's member states, each with their own budgetary pressures, to see things the same way. "History will not wait for Europe to feel comfortable and ready; it will move forward with or without us. The choice before Europe is clear: do we pilot, or are we merely passengers? We have everything we need. What remains are the confidence and political will to act." ®

From the end of the Invincibles and the post-Wenger wilderness years to the steady rise under Mikel Arteta

The Invincibles were slain in Manchester on Sunday 24 October 2004, when Arsenal’s record 49-match unbeaten run ended in a traumatic, wildly controversial defeat at Old Trafford. It took a month for Arsenal to process their grief and rage; by the time they did, José Mourinho’s remorseless Chelsea had zoomed past them. Though Arsenal were still the most watchable team in England, something had died in them.

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This month, to mark World Press Freedom Day, the Guardian has been highlighting the growing threats to journalists around the world, particularly those working in conflict zones and under authoritarian regimes.

Today, I’d like to share some thoughts on the specific dangers faced by female reporters. We can’t talk about press freedom without talking about misogyny.

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Het is een van de grootste irritaties op het werk: luie collega’s. Hoe komt het dat de een zich altijd uit de naad lijkt te werken en de ander zich doorlopend drukt?

Kansas City ontvangt zelden een toerist en hoopt het imago van anonieme Midwest-stad af te schudden dankzij het voetbaltoernooi. Maar als kleinste speelstad is het evenement ook een grote uitdaging. „Ik wil niet te veel beloven.”

Het spoor tussen Vlissingen en Goes mag over drie jaar getest worden voor een nieuw beveiligingssyteem. De rechter stelt de Zeeuwse scholen, die naar de rechter waren gestapt om overlast voor scholieren te voorkomen, in het ongelijk. Zij beraden zich op vervolgstappen.

MANILLA (ANP/RTR) - Het Filipijnse hooggerechtshof stemt niet in met een verzoek van senator Ronald Dela Rosa over het arrestatiebevel dat het Internationaal Strafhof (ICC) tegen hem heeft uitgevaardigd. Hij hoopte dat het hof zijn arrestatie en overdracht aan het ICC in Den Haag tijdelijk zou tegenhouden.

De oud-politiechef wordt verdacht van misdaden tegen de menselijkheid voor zijn rol in de bloedige oorlog tegen drugs onder oud-president Rodrigo Duterte. Hij ontkent betrokkenheid bij buitengerechtelijke executies. De Filipijnse autoriteiten bevestigden vorige week dat ze Dela Rosa, van wie de verblijfplaats onbekend is, willen arresteren.

Dela Rosa betoogde in een verzoekschrift dat de Filipijnse autoriteiten geen wettelijke bevoegdheid hebben om een arrestatiebevel van een buitenlandse rechtbank uit te voeren. Het hof zei woensdag dat het verzoek voor een tijdelijke voorziening is afgewezen, maar dat andere punten in het verzoekschrift nog behandeld moeten worden.

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De advocaat van Dela Rosa heeft aangekondigd dat ze alle juridische middelen zullen uitputten, inclusief een verzoek aan het hooggerechtshof om het besluit te heroverwegen.

Het ICC bevestigde ruim een week geleden het bestaan van het arrestatiebevel, nadat dat in november in het geheim was uitgevaardigd. Er werd diezelfde dag in Manilla nog een arrestatiepoging gedaan. Dela Rosa was toen voor het eerst in zes maanden in het openbaar verschenen, in de senaat.

Het Zuidoost-Aziatische land voerde ruim een jaar geleden voor het eerst een ICC-arrestatiebevel uit. Oud-president Duterte werd op een vliegveld opgepakt en naar Nederland overgebracht. Hij zal voor het hof in Den Haag terechtstaan voor misdaden tegen de menselijkheid. Ook Duterte zegt onschuldig te zijn.

BRUSSEL (ANP) - De Europese Unie voert gesprekken met de haven van Rotterdam en andere grote havens over de opslag van gezamenlijk ingekochte kritieke mineralen. Dat meldt persbureau Reuters op basis van ingewijden. In december kondigde de Europese Commissie plannen aan om voor belangrijke grondstoffen minder afhankelijk te worden van China. Daar maakt gezamenlijke inkoop deel van uit.

Reuters meldt op basis van bronnen ook welke grondstoffen de EU mogelijk op het oog heeft voor de eerste gezamenlijke voorraad. Het zou onder andere gaan om wolfraam, zeldzame aardmetalen en gallium. Die mineralen staan ook op een NAVO-lijst van grondstoffen die van cruciaal belang zijn voor de defensiesector.

Andere westerse mogendheden, waaronder de Verenigde Staten, maken ook haast met het opbouwen van eigen voorraden aan kritieke mineralen. Nu is China daar nog verreweg de grootste exporteur van, wat het land een krachtig drukmiddel geeft bij handelsconflicten.

Een woordvoerder van de Europese Commissie weigerde tegenover Reuters commentaar.

Weer voor Rotterdam ☁️ - 20-05-2026 13:15 CEST

In één oogopslag:
• 16.2°C · Bewolkt ☁️ | Min 13.3°C / Max 17.8°C | Kans op neerslag 39%

Verwachting voor vandaag:
• Min 13.3°C, Max 17.8°C (Lichte motregen) 🌦️, Neerslag 0.9 mm, Kans op neerslag 39%, 🧭 1021.0 hPa ↗️ +2.3 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 23.8 km/u (6.6 m/s), richting: ↗ 230°

Uurlijkse voorspelling voor de komende 12 uur:

• 14:00: 16.8°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, Kans op neerslag 65%, 🧭 1018.7 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 23.0 km/u (6.4 m/s), richting: ↗ 244°
• 15:00: 17.0°C (Gedeeltelijk bewolkt) ⛅, Kans op neerslag 70%, 🧭 1019.3 hPa ↗️ +0.6 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 23.0 km/u (6.4 m/s), richting: ↗ 242°
• 16:00: 17.7°C (Licht bewolkt) 🌤️, Kans op neerslag 80%, 🧭 1019.9 hPa ↗️ +0.6 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 22.0 km/u (6.1 m/s), richting: → 253°
• 17:00: 17.8°C (Licht bewolkt) 🌤️, Kans op neerslag 80%, 🧭 1020.4 hPa ↗️ +0.5 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 21.6 km/u (6.0 m/s), richting: → 248°
• 18:00: 17.2°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, Kans op neerslag 60%, 🧭 1020.8 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 22.3 km/u (6.2 m/s), richting: → 249°
• 19:00: 16.6°C (Zonnig) ☀️, Kans op neerslag 30%, 🧭 1021.3 hPa ↗️ +0.5 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 19.4 km/u (5.4 m/s), richting: ↗ 243°
• 20:00: 16.4°C (Zonnig) ☀️, Kans op neerslag 8%, 🧭 1021.5 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 16.6 km/u (4.6 m/s), richting: ↗ 238°
• 21:00: 15.6°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, 🧭 1022.0 hPa ↗️ +0.5 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 18.0 km/u (5.0 m/s), richting: ↗ 241°
• 22:00: 15.3°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, 🧭 1022.9 hPa ↗️ +0.9 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 19.1 km/u (5.3 m/s), richting: ↗ 240°
• 23:00: 15.4°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, 🧭 1023.4 hPa ↗️ +0.5 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 18.4 km/u (5.1 m/s), richting: ↗ 236°
• 00:00: 15.1°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, 🧭 1023.9 hPa ↗️ +0.5 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 19.1 km/u (5.3 m/s), richting: ↗ 235°
• 01:00: 14.9°C (Helder) 🌕, Kans op neerslag 1%, 🧭 1024.4 hPa ↗️ +0.5 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 17.3 km/u (4.8 m/s), richting: ↗ 234°

Voorspelling voor de komende dagen:

• donderdag 21 mei: Min 13.1°C, Max 21.1°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, 🧭 1026.8 hPa ↗️ +5.8 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 17.3 km/u (4.8 m/s), richting: ↗ 236°
• vrijdag 22 mei: Min 16.2°C, Max 27.5°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, 🧭 1028.2 hPa ↗️ +1.4 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 12.6 km/u (3.5 m/s), richting: ↑ 164°
• zaterdag 23 mei: Min 14.9°C, Max 24.3°C (Lichte motregen) 🌦️, Neerslag 0.2 mm, Kans op neerslag 1%, 🧭 1028.6 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 8.9 km/u (2.5 m/s), richting: ↘ 295°
• zondag 24 mei: Min 14.1°C, Max 24.2°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, Kans op neerslag 1%, 🧭 1031.3 hPa ↗️ +2.7 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 9.7 km/u (2.7 m/s), richting: ↙ 47°
• maandag 25 mei: Min 14.8°C, Max 25.1°C (Zonnig) ☀️, 🧭 1032.1 hPa ↗️ +0.8 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 8.5 km/u (2.4 m/s), richting: ↙ 53°
• dinsdag 26 mei: Min 15.4°C, Max 26.4°C (Gedeeltelijk bewolkt) ⛅, 🧭 1030.5 hPa ↘️ -1.6 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 12.3 km/u (3.4 m/s), richting: ↓ 3°

Details:
• 🌡️ Huidige temperatuur (om 13:15): 16.2°C (Bewolkt)
• 🤚 Gevoelstemperatuur: 14.0°C (-2.2°C)
• 💨 Windsnelheid: 23.0 km/u (6.4 m/s), richting: ↗ 243°
• 🌬️ Windstoten: 46.4 km/h (12.9 m/s)
• 💧 Luchtvochtigheid: 69%
• 🧭 Luchtdruk: 1018.7 hPa ↗️ +1.2 hPa/3h
• 👁️ Zichtbaarheid: 20.4 km
• ☀️ UV-index: 6.2
• 🌅 Zonsopgang: 05:41 · 🌇 Zonsondergang: 21:36

Luchtkwaliteit:
• AQI: 28 🟢 (Goed)
• PM2.5: 8.1 μg/m³
• PM10: 16.0 μg/m³

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