Here are 11 ways to keep your Formula 1 passion burning until the lights go out in Miami.
F1.com's Lawrence Barretto speaks to Ferrari's Lewis Hamilton, with the seven-time World Champion's form in 2026 suggesting he is very much back on song.
The Artemis II crew has passed 100,000 miles from Earth and is now on a "free-return" path around the moon after a successful "translunar" injection burn. "Ladies and gentlemen, I am so, so excited to be able to tell you that for the first time since 1972 during Apollo 17, human beings have left Earth orbit," NASA's Dr Lori Glaze told a news conference. The Guardian reports: The astronauts -- the Americans Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover and Christina Koch, and a Canadian, Jeremy Hansen -- spent their first day in space performing checks on the spacecraft, which had never carried humans before. Later they had time to speak to US TV networks. "I've got to tell you, there is nothing normal about this," Wiseman told ABC News from the cramped interior of the capsule. "Sending four humans 250,000 miles away is a herculean effort, and we are now just realising the gravity of that."
Orion will travel about 4,000 miles (6,400km) beyond the moon before turning back, providing unprecedented and illuminated views of the lunar far side. If all proceeds smoothly, the astronauts will set a record by venturing farther from Earth than any human before -- more than 250,000 miles. The mission is part of a longer-term plan to repeatedly return to the moon, with the aim of establishing a permanent base that will offer a platform for further exploration. After the final engine burn, NASA said Wiseman took two "spectacular" images of Earth.
The first photo, called Hello, World, "shows the vast expanse of blue that is the Atlantic Ocean, framed by a thin glow of the atmosphere as the Earth eclipses the Sun and green auroras at either pole," reports the BBC. Another photo shows the view of Earth from inside the Orion spacecraft.
Orion will travel about 4,000 miles (6,400km) beyond the moon before turning back, providing unprecedented and illuminated views of the lunar far side. If all proceeds smoothly, the astronauts will set a record by venturing farther from Earth than any human before -- more than 250,000 miles. The mission is part of a longer-term plan to repeatedly return to the moon, with the aim of establishing a permanent base that will offer a platform for further exploration. After the final engine burn, NASA said Wiseman took two "spectacular" images of Earth.
The first photo, called Hello, World, "shows the vast expanse of blue that is the Atlantic Ocean, framed by a thin glow of the atmosphere as the Earth eclipses the Sun and green auroras at either pole," reports the BBC. Another photo shows the view of Earth from inside the Orion spacecraft.
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
"Consumer PC parts aren't the only things being gobbled up by the 'AI' industry," writes PCWorld's Michael Crider. "A Starcraft-inspired strategy game is shutting down its multiplayer servers because the hosting company got bought out for 'AI.'" The game will still be playable offline for now, but the shutdown highlights the ripple effects of the AI boom on the gaming industry. Amid the ongoing hardware shortages, AI companies are basically gobbling up as much infrastructure as they can to repurpose it for AI workloads. From the report: The game in question is Stormgate, a crowdfunded revival of the real-time strategy genre that has languished in the last decade or so. The developer Frost Giant Studios told its players on Discord (spotted by PC Gamer) that it would be unable to continue multiplayer access past the end of this month. The "game server orchestration partner" was bought by an AI company -- the developer's words, not mine -- which means that the multiplayer aspects of the game will have a "planned outage."
The devs say the game will be patched for offline play, presumably including its single-player campaign mode and co-op modes, but "online modes will not be available at that point." They're hoping to bring back online play in a later update, but that'll depend on "finding a partner to support ongoing operations." That sounds like old-fashioned player-hosted games with lobbies aren't in the cards, at least not yet.
Frost Giant's server provider is Hathora, which was bought by a company called Fireworks AI last month. Fireworks describes its offerings as "open-source AI models at blazing speed, optimized for your use case, scaled globally with the Fireworks Inference Cloud." So, yeah, Hathora's infrastructure will likely be used for yet more generative "AI." And according to GamesBeat, it's planning to shut down the game service aspect of its company completely. That means Stormgate probably isn't going to be the last game affected. Hathora also provides online services for Splitgate 2, among others. I'm contacting Hathora for comment and will update this story if I receive a response.
The devs say the game will be patched for offline play, presumably including its single-player campaign mode and co-op modes, but "online modes will not be available at that point." They're hoping to bring back online play in a later update, but that'll depend on "finding a partner to support ongoing operations." That sounds like old-fashioned player-hosted games with lobbies aren't in the cards, at least not yet.
Frost Giant's server provider is Hathora, which was bought by a company called Fireworks AI last month. Fireworks describes its offerings as "open-source AI models at blazing speed, optimized for your use case, scaled globally with the Fireworks Inference Cloud." So, yeah, Hathora's infrastructure will likely be used for yet more generative "AI." And according to GamesBeat, it's planning to shut down the game service aspect of its company completely. That means Stormgate probably isn't going to be the last game affected. Hathora also provides online services for Splitgate 2, among others. I'm contacting Hathora for comment and will update this story if I receive a response.
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Bonasi 8B model is competitive with other 8B models but 14x smaller and 5x more energy efficient
PrismML, an AI venture out of Caltech, has released a 1-bit large language model that outperforms weightier models, with the expectation that it will improve AI efficiency and viability on mobile devices, among other applications.…
Noa (42) en zijn ex zijn verwikkeld in een vechtscheiding. Zij pest hem met procedures. Hij maakt een filmpje waarin hij haar met de dood bedreigd. Bij de rechter zegt hij dat het woord 'schieten' heel anders was bedoeld.
Ze stonden klaar voor hún grote moment, maar moeten nu noodgedwongen toekijken. Deze drie deelnemers missen de NN Rotterdam Marathon door blessures. "Het was opeens pats in mijn kuit", zegt tv-presentator Jan Versteegh.
Ze stonden klaar voor hún grote moment, maar moeten nu noodgedwongen toekijken. Deze drie deelnemers missen de NN Rotterdam Marathon door blessures. "Het was opeens pats in mijn kuit", zegt tv-presentator Jan Versteegh.
Ylva Hup (52) is sinds twee jaar weduwe. Nadat haar man overleed aan de gevolgen van een ongeluk kreeg ze met grote financiële problemen te maken. “Ik heb nog geen tijd gehad om de dood van mijn man te verwerken.”
Today's links
- EU ready to cave to Trump on tech: Surrendermonkeys ahoy.
- Hey look at this: Delights to delectate.
- Object permanence: "Among a Thousand Fireflies"; "fiscal" not "physical"; Ontario's pusher premiere can't distribute vaccines; You need your head examined (if you trust an AI therapist); Women tell Pence about their periods; Zombie economy and digital arm-breakers; The trouble with tariffs.
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EU ready to cave to Trump on tech (permalink)
Crises precipitate change. That's no reason to induce a crisis, but you'd be a fool to let a crisis go to waste. Donald Trump is the greatest crisis of our young century, and the EU looks set to squander the opportunity, to its own terrible detriment.
For more than a decade, it's been clear that the American internet was not fit for purpose. The whistleblowers Mark Klein and Edward Snowden revealed that the US had weaponized its status as the world's transoceanic fiber-optic hub to spy on the entire planet:
US tech giants flouted privacy laws, gleefully plundering the world's cash and data with products that they remorselessly enshittified:
https://pluralistic.net/2026/01/30/zucksauce/#gandersauce
American companies repurposed their over-the-air software update capabilities to remotely brick expensive machinery in service to geopolitical priorities:
https://pluralistic.net/2022/05/08/about-those-kill-switched-ukrainian-tractors/
Then Trump and his tech companies started attacking key public institutions around the world, shutting down access for senior judges who attempted to hold Trump's international authoritarian allies to account for their crimes:
https://pluralistic.net/2025/10/20/post-american-internet/#huawei-with-american-characteristics
If Trump wants to steal Greenland, he doesn't need tanks or missiles. He can just tell Microsoft and Oracle to brick the entire Danish state and all of its key firms, blocking their access to their email archives, files, databases, and other key administrative tools. If Denmark still holds out, Trump can brick all their tractors, smart speakers, and phones. If Denmark still won't give up Greenland, Trump could blackhole all Danish IP addresses for the world's majority of transoceanic fiber. At the click of a mouse, Trump could shut down the world's supply of Lego, Ozempic, and delicious, lethally strong black licorice.
Now, these latent offensive capabilities were obvious long before Trump, but the presidents who weaponized them in the pre-Trump era did so in subtle and deniable ways, or under a state of exception (e.g. in response to spectacular terrorist attacks or in the immediate aftermath of the Russian invasion of Ukraine) that let bystanders assure themselves that this wouldn't become a routine policy.
After all, America profited so much from the status quo in which America and its trading partners all pretended that US tech wouldn't be weaponized for geopolitical aims, so a US president would be a fool to shatter the illusion. And even if the president was so emotionally incontinent that he demanded the naked weaponization of America's defective, boobytrapped tech exports, the power blocs that the president relies on would stop him, because they are so marinated in the rich broth that America drained from the world using Big Tech.
This is "status quo bias" in action. No one wants to let go of the vine they're swinging from until they have a new vine firmly in their grasp – but you can't reach the next vine unless you release your death-grip on your current one. So it was that, year after year, the world allowed itself to become more dependent on America's easily weaponizable tech, making the tech both more dangerous and harder to escape.
Enter Trump (a crisis) (and crises precipitate change). Under Trump, the illusion of a safe interdependence crumbled. Every day, in new and increasingly alarming ways, Trump makes it clear that America doesn't have allies or trading partners, only adversaries and rivals. Every day, Trump proves to the world that American tech isn't merely untrustworthy – it's a live, dire, urgent danger to your state, your companies, and your people. The best time to get shut of the American internet was 15 years ago. The second best time is right fucking now.
NOW!
The result is the burgeoning movement to build a "post-American internet." In Canada, PM Mark Carney's announcement of a "rupture" has the country rethinking its deep connections to the American internet and asking what it could do to escape it:
https://pluralistic.net/2026/01/27/i-want-to-do-it/#now-make-me-do-it
Europe, meanwhile, has multiple, advanced, well-funded initiatives to leave the American internet behind and migrate to a post-American internet, like "Eurostack" and the European Digital Infrastructure Consortium:
https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/policies/edic
But status quo bias exerts a powerful gravity. A reactionary counterrevolution is being waged in the European Commission – the permanent bureaucracy that executes Europe's laws and regulations. Within the EC, an ascendant faction has announced plans for a "dialogue" with representatives from the Trump regime to let them direct the enforcement of the Digital Markets Act (DMA) and Digital Services Act (DSA), Europe's landmark 2024 anti-Big Tech regulations:
The DMA and DSA require America's tech giants to open up their platforms in ways that would halt the plunder of Europeans' private data and cash. US tech giants have flatly refused to comply with these rules, relying on Trump to get them out of any obligations under EU law:
https://pluralistic.net/2025/09/26/empty-threats/#500-million-affluent-consumers
That's a sound bet. After all, the last thing Trump did before his inauguration was publicly announce his intention to destroy any country that attempted to enforce these laws:
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/23/us/politics/trump-davos-europe-tariffs.html
He's making good on his threats. He's already sanctioned a group of officials who helped draft the DSA:
And he's ordered his tech companies to turn over the private emails and messages of other European officials, so he can identify the ones most dangerous to US tech plunder and sanction them, too:
The quislings and appeasers in the Commission who've been spooked by Trump's belligerence (or tempted by offers of cushy jobs in Big Tech after they leave public service) are selling out the EU's future. Caving to Trump won't make him more favorably disposed to Europe or Europeans. Trump treats every capitulation as a sign of weakness that signals that he can safely ignore his end of the bargain and demand twice as much. For Trump, the "art of the deal" can be summed up in one word: reneging.
Within the EU, there's fury at the Commission's announcement of "dialogue." As Politico's Milena Wälde reports, lawmakers like Alexandra Geese (Greens) say that this is a move that eliminates the "sovereign path for Europe" by letting tech giants "grade their own homework." She calls it a "fatal decision for our companies and our democracy."
Moving to the post-American internet is hard – but it will only get harder. Sure, Europe could wait for the next crisis to let go of the Big Tech vine and grab the Eurostack one, but that next crisis will be far, far worse. The EU can't afford to wait for Trump to brick one or more of its member states to (finally, at long last) take this threat seriously:
https://pluralistic.net/2026/01/01/39c3/#the-new-coalition
Hey look at this (permalink)
- The Far-Right Cash Machine https://prospect.org/2026/04/02/apr-2026-magazine-far-right-cash-machine-racist-crowdfunding/
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Homocore Anthology https://www.flukemags.com/product/homocore
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Lessons from History: The DOJ vs Microsoft https://open-web-advocacy.org/blog/our-submission-to-the-cma-on-apples-ios-interoperability-commitments/#3-lessons-from-history-the-doj-vs-microsoft
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Data Sharing and Syndication Remedies in US v Google https://insights.sumitsharma.consulting/p/google-search-remedies-implementation?hide_intro_popup=true
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Who Goes AI? https://www.todayintabs.com/p/who-goes-ai
Object permanence (permalink)
#10yrsago Among a Thousand Fireflies: children’s book shows the sweet, alien love stories unfolding in our own backyards https://memex.craphound.com/2016/04/01/among-a-thousand-fireflies-childrens-book-shows-the-sweet-alien-love-stories-unfolding-in-our-own-backyards/
#10yrsago After biggest bribery scandal in history, police raids and investigations https://www.smh.com.au/business/police-raids-and-more-revelations-the-fallout-of-the-unaoil-scandal-20160401-gnw9mx.html
#10yrsago Bernie Sanders’ South Bronx rally, featuring Rosario Dawson, Spike Lee, and Residente https://www.c-span.org/program/campaign-2016/senator-bernie-sanders-campaign-rally-in-south-bronx/437114
#10yrsago Freshman Missouri Rep almost made it 3 months before introducing bill urging members to say “fiscal,” not “physical” https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/03/31/hero-lawmaker-urges-colleagues-to-stop-saying-physical-when-they-mean-fiscal/
#10yrsago Indiana women phone the governor’s office to tell him about their periods https://web.archive.org/web/20160401170206/https://fusion.net/story/286941/periods-for-pence-indiana-women-calling-governor/
#10yrsago United pilot orders Arab-American family off his flight for “safety” https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/national-international/united-airlines-arab-american-plane/58370/
#10yrsago 33 state Democratic parties launder $26M from millionaires for Hillary https://www.counterpunch.org/2016/04/01/how-hillary-clinton-bought-the-loyalty-of-33-state-democratic-parties/
#10yrsago White SC cops pull black passenger out of car, take turns publicly cavity-searching him https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-watch/wp/2016/04/01/video-shows-white-cops-performing-roadside-cavity-search-of-black-man/
#5yrsago The zombie economy and digital arm-breakers https://pluralistic.net/2021/04/02/innovation-unlocks-markets/#digital-arm-breakers
#5yrsago Ontario's drug-dealer premier is shockingly bad at distributing vaccines https://pluralistic.net/2021/04/01/incompetent-drug-dealer/#what-a-dope
#5yrsago The zombie economy and digital arm-breakers https://pluralistic.net/2021/04/02/innovation-unlocks-markets/#digital-arm-breakers
#1yrago What's wrong with tariffs https://pluralistic.net/2025/04/02/me-or-your-lying-eyes/#spherical-cows-on-frictionless-surfaces
#1yrago What's wrong with tariffs https://pluralistic.net/2025/04/02/me-or-your-lying-eyes/#spherical-cows-on-frictionless-surfaces
#1yrago Anyone who trusts an AI therapist needs their head examined https://pluralistic.net/2025/04/01/doctor-robo-blabbermouth/#fool-me-once-etc-etc
Upcoming appearances (permalink)
- Toronto: Humber Polytechnic President's Lecture Series, Apr 8
https://liberalarts.humber.ca/current-students/resources/conferences-and-lectures/presidents-lecture-series.html -
Montreal: Bronfman Lecture (McGill), Apr 10
https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/artificial-intelligence-the-ultimate-disrupter-tickets-1982706623885 -
Montreal: Drawn and Quarterly, Apr 10
https://mtl.drawnandquarterly.com/events/4863920260410 -
Toronto: DemocracyXchange, Apr 16
https://www.democracyxchange.org/news/cory-doctorow-to-open-dxc26-on-april-16 -
San Francisco: 2026 Berkeley Spring Forum on M&A and the Boardroom, Apr 23
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London: Resisting Big Tech Empires (LSBU), Apr 25
https://www.tickettailor.com/events/globaljusticenow/2042691 -
NYC: Enshittification at Commonweal Ventures, Apr 29
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NYC: Techidemic with Sarah Jeong, Tochi Onyibuchi and Alia Dastagir (PEN World Voices), Apr 30
https://worldvoices.pen.org/event/techidemic/ -
Berlin: Re:publica, May 18-20
https://re-publica.com/de/news/rp26-sprecher-cory-doctorow -
Berlin: Enshittification at Otherland Books, May 19
https://www.otherland-berlin.de/de/event-details/cory-doctorow.html -
Hay-on-Wye: HowTheLightGetsIn, May 22-25
https://howthelightgetsin.org/festivals/hay/big-ideas-2 -
SXSW London, Jun 2
https://www.sxswlondon.com/session/how-big-tech-broke-the-internet-b3c4a901
Recent appearances (permalink)
- Do you feel screwed over by big tech? (Ontario Today)
https://www.cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-45-ontario-today/clip/16203024-do-feel-screwed-big-tech -
Launch for Cindy's Cohn's "Privacy's Defender" (City Lights)
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Chicken Mating Harnesses (This Week in Tech)
https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-tech/episodes/1074 -
The Virtual Jewel Box (U Utah)
https://tanner.utah.edu/podcast/enshittification-cory-doctorow-matthew-potolsky/ -
Tanner Humanities Lecture (U Utah)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6Yf1nSyekI
Latest books (permalink)
- "Canny Valley": A limited edition collection of the collages I create for Pluralistic, self-published, September 2025 https://pluralistic.net/2025/09/04/illustrious/#chairman-bruce
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"Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It," Farrar, Straus, Giroux, October 7 2025
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"Picks and Shovels": a sequel to "Red Team Blues," about the heroic era of the PC, Tor Books (US), Head of Zeus (UK), February 2025 (https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250865908/picksandshovels).
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"The Bezzle": a sequel to "Red Team Blues," about prison-tech and other grifts, Tor Books (US), Head of Zeus (UK), February 2024 (thebezzle.org).
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"The Lost Cause:" a solarpunk novel of hope in the climate emergency, Tor Books (US), Head of Zeus (UK), November 2023 (http://lost-cause.org).
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"The Internet Con": A nonfiction book about interoperability and Big Tech (Verso) September 2023 (http://seizethemeansofcomputation.org). Signed copies at Book Soup (https://www.booksoup.com/book/9781804291245).
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"Red Team Blues": "A grabby, compulsive thriller that will leave you knowing more about how the world works than you did before." Tor Books http://redteamblues.com.
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"Chokepoint Capitalism: How to Beat Big Tech, Tame Big Content, and Get Artists Paid, with Rebecca Giblin", on how to unrig the markets for creative labor, Beacon Press/Scribe 2022 https://chokepointcapitalism.com
Upcoming books (permalink)
- "The Reverse-Centaur's Guide to AI," a short book about being a better AI critic, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, June 2026 (https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374621568/thereversecentaursguidetolifeafterai/)
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"Enshittification, Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It" (the graphic novel), Firstsecond, 2026
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"The Post-American Internet," a geopolitical sequel of sorts to Enshittification, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2027
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"Unauthorized Bread": a middle-grades graphic novel adapted from my novella about refugees, toasters and DRM, FirstSecond, 2027
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"The Memex Method," Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 2027
Colophon (permalink)
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Currently writing: "The Post-American Internet," a sequel to "Enshittification," about the better world the rest of us get to have now that Trump has torched America. First draft complete. Second draft underway.
- "The Reverse Centaur's Guide to AI," a short book for Farrar, Straus and Giroux about being an effective AI critic. LEGAL REVIEW AND COPYEDIT COMPLETE.
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"The Post-American Internet," a short book about internet policy in the age of Trumpism. PLANNING.
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A Little Brother short story about DIY insulin PLANNING
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LOS ANGELES (ANP/BELGA) - De basketballers van Los Angeles Lakers kunnen in het slot van de reguliere competitie in de NBA geen beroep doen op Luka Doncic. De Sloveense spelbepaler heeft donderdag in de ontmoeting met Oklahoma City Thunder een hamstringblessure opgelopen.
De deelname van de 27-jarige Doncic aan de play-offs, die op 18 april van start gaan, is onzeker. Met een gemiddelde van 33,5 punten, 7,7 rebounds en 8,3 assists per wedstrijd is Doncic dit seizoen van grote waarde voor de Lakers, die derde staan in de Western Conference.
Steeds meer bedrijven stappen af van leasecontracten die jaren vaststaan. Dat heeft minder te maken met auto’s en meer met hoe organisaties tegenwoordig werken.
Teams worden sneller opgebouwd en net zo snel weer aangepast. Projecten duren korter en plannen verschuiven vaker. In zo’n omgeving voelt een contract van vier of vijf jaar als een lange verplichting.
Vaste kosten liggen onder een vergrootglas
Bedrijven kijken kritischer naar kosten die langdurig doorlopen. Financiering is duurder geworden en marges staan onder druk. Veel organisaties willen daarom voorkomen dat ze zich voor lange tijd vastleggen.
Langlopende contracten geven minder ruimte om bij te sturen wanneer de situatie verandert. Dat maakt flexibiliteit aantrekkelijker dan voorheen.
Mobiliteit volgt dezelfde trend
Die ontwikkeling zie je ook bij mobiliteit. Waar lease lange tijd de standaard was, zoeken bedrijven nu vaker naar alternatieven die beter aansluiten op hun dagelijkse praktijk.
Daarbij wint shortlease aan populariteit. Niet omdat het per se goedkoper is, maar omdat het beter past bij een manier van werken die voortdurend verandert.
Van plannen naar aanpassen
Traditionele lease gaat uit van een vaste behoefte over meerdere jaren. In de praktijk verandert die behoefte vaak sneller.
Een bedrijf groeit sneller dan verwacht of een project stopt eerder. In beide gevallen blijft een auto binnen een klassiek leasecontract gewoon doorlopen.
Shortlease speelt daarop in. Bedrijven zetten een voertuig in zolang het nodig is en stoppen wanneer de situatie verandert. Dat voorkomt dat auto’s ongebruikt blijven terwijl de kosten doorgaan.
Een bredere verschuiving
Vooral bij bedrijven die werken met tijdelijke projecten of wisselende teams is dat verschil merkbaar. Het wagenpark hoeft niet meer vooruit gepland te worden voor meerdere jaren.
Die verschuiving past binnen een bredere ontwikkeling. Bedrijven willen minder vastleggen en meer ruimte houden om bij te sturen. Dat zie je terug in meerdere onderdelen van de bedrijfsvoering.
Langlopende leasecontracten blijven bestaan. Voor stabiele organisaties blijven ze interessant. Voor bedrijven die sneller moeten schakelen, wordt flexibiliteit steeds vaker de norm.
De prijzen in de supermarkt stijgen nog altijd en ze zullen sneller gaan stijgen. Maar met slimme keuzes kun je de kassabon aanzienlijk drukken, soms met tientallen procenten per maand.
Dit zijn de 10 tips van de consumentenredactie van Bild
- Ga altijd met een boodschappenlijstje op pad (voorkomt impulsaankopen, bespaart 20–30 procent).
- Negeer opvallende acties en reclames zoveel mogelijk (minder marketingverleiding, automatisch lagere uitgaven).
- Pas “omgekeerd winkelen” toe: eerst afgeprijsde producten zoeken, daarna pas het menu plannen (tot circa 30 procent besparing).
- Gebruik bewust de schappen met afgeprijsde, kort houdbare producten.
- Kies vaker diepvriesgroente en -fruit in plaats van vers (goedkoper, langer houdbaar, minder verspilling).
- Geef de voorkeur aan huismerken in plaats van A‑merken (vaak ongeveer een derde goedkoper).
- Check folders en/of apps om gericht aanbiedingen te benutten, maar blijf prijzen per kilo/liter vergelijken.
- Koop houdbare producten op voorraad als ze sterk afgeprijsd zijn (pasta, rijst, conserven enzovoort).
- Doe boodschappen vlak voor sluitingstijd, vooral op zaterdagavond, als verse producten vaak fors zijn afgeprijsd (soms tot 50 procent korting).
- Sta kritisch tegenover korting- en bonusapps om schijnvoordeel te vermijden (korting helpt niet als de basisprijs tegelijk stijgt).
Feiten en tips
Consumentenjournalist Ron Perduss benadrukt dat een eenvoudig boodschappenlijstje al 20 tot 30 procent kan schelen, omdat het impulsaankopen tegengaat in supermarkten die juist zijn ingericht om klanten te verleiden. Ook “omgekeerd winkelen” – eerst kijken welke producten zijn afgeprijsd en pas daarna het menu bepalen – kan volgens hem tot zo’n 30 procent besparing opleveren. Verder helpen huismerken vaak een derde op de kosten te besparen, terwijl diepvriesgroenten en -fruit goedkoper zijn en minder verspilling opleveren dan verse varianten.
Officiële instanties als het Nibud adviseren daarnaast om weekmenu’s te plannen aan de hand van aanbiedingen, prijzen per kilo of liter te vergelijken en niet te veel verse aanbiedingen in te slaan die later in de afvalbak verdwijnen. Hulpmiddelen als folders, vergelijkingssites en – met beleid gebruikte – supermarktapps maken het makkelijker om gericht in te kopen, zeker voor houdbare producten als pasta, rijst of koffie. Aan het einde van de dag, vooral op zaterdagavond, worden verse producten vaak sterk afgeprijsd; dat levert soms tot 50 procent korting op.
EINDHOVEN (ANP) - Diesel is zaterdag iets duurder geworden aan de pomp, na de flinke prijsstijging van ruim 10 eurocent op vrijdag. Consumentencollectief UnitedConsumers meldt dat de landelijke adviesprijs voor een liter diesel nu 2,799 euro bedraagt, tegen 2,793 euro vrijdag.
De adviesprijs voor Euro95 is gelijk gebleven op 2,595 euro per liter. Vrijdag nam de prijs nog toe met meer dan 2 eurocent. Op veel plekken kunnen automobilisten wel wat goedkoper tanken, de adviesprijzen worden vaak alleen langs snelwegen gevraagd.
Door de oorlog in het Midden-Oosten waren de prijzen van beide brandstoffen al gestegen tot hun hoogste niveaus ooit. Iran heeft de belangrijke Straat van Hormuz vrijwel afgesloten voor olietankers en andere schepen. Ook zijn energiefaciliteiten in het Midden-Oosten regelmatig doelwit van aanvallen door Iran, de Verenigde Staten en Israël.
Edwin de Roy van Zuydewijn, de ex-man van prinses Margarita de Bourbon de Parme, probeert via de rechtbank inzage te krijgen in de scripts van een nog te verschijnen Videoland-dramaserie over het koningshuis. Dinsdag 31 maart 2026 zou hij verschijnen voor de rechtbank in Lelystad, maar liet zijn advocaat Kasper Ripken opdraven om te eisen dat de scripts van producent Millstreet Films worden gecontroleerd op feitelijke juistheid. De serie, getiteld naar het beruchte ' Oranjebitter'-schandaal uit 2003, behandelt waarschijnlijk de beweringen van Edwin en Margarita over een AIVD-onderzoek naar hem op last van het Koninklijk Huis. Edwin vreest fouten zoals in een eerdere Videoland-productie over Máxima, waar historisch onjuistheden voorkwamen, zoals een verkeerde premier.
Ex van Margarita slaat toe: scripts Videoland onder vuur!
De ondernemer, die na zijn scheiding in 2006 dakloos raakte en in een snackbar sliep, voert al twee decennia een bittere strijd tegen de Oranjes. Hij claimt dat zijn carrière en leven systematisch zijn vernietigd door paleismachinaties, iets wat voormalig 50Plus-voorzitter Geert Dales in 2022 bevestigde na inzage in documenten: "Er is hem onrecht aangedaan." Zelfs een mogelijke BBC-documentaire ketste af, en recent verbrak Dales het contact.
De actie 'beschadig Oranje' toont de kwetsbaarheid van het Koninklijk Huis in een tijd van streamingdrama's die oude schandalen oprakelen.
Nederlanders zijn sinds de Iranoorlog voorzichtiger met het boeken van een vakantie. Reisbranchevereniging ANVR meldt dat normaal gesproken 80 procent van de mei- en zomervakanties geboekt is rond deze tijd, maar dat het dit jaar "echt heel anders" verloopt.
"Kort na het uitbreken van de oorlog vielen de boekingen helemaal stil. Dat is gelukkig weer op gang gekomen, waarbij vooral Europa veel wordt geboekt. Azië laten mensen links liggen. De Nederlander lijkt te kiezen voor wat bekend is. Als reizigers ergens niet van houden, is het onzekerheid, dus over het algemeen zie je wel terughoudendheid", zegt ANVR-directeur Frank Radstake.
Mensen die toch ver willen, gaan volgens Radstake vooral naar Kaapverdië en Curaçao. Binnen Europa zijn onder meer Spanje, Portugal en Griekenland populair. Turkije en Egypte zijn op de weg terug, nadat mensen hier door de Iranoorlog eerst ook minder heen wilden.
Prijsbewuster
Daarvan profiteren onder meer reisorganisaties Corendon en Sunweb, die zich meer richten op deze bekendere bestemmingen. Beide spreken van een hoger aantal boekingen in vergelijking met vorig jaar. Bij Prijsvrij Vakanties en D-reizen is dit ongeveer gelijk. "Consumenten zijn wel duidelijk prijsbewuster geworden. Dat zie je terug in het zoek- en boekgedrag: reizigers vergelijken meer en zijn flexibeler bij de keuze van bijvoorbeeld vertrekdata en luchthaven", zegt een woordvoerder van deze vakantieaanbieders.
Rondreisspecialist Sawadee is juist de dupe. "Er is duidelijk sprake van uitstelgedrag. Met hetzelfde aantal bezoekers op de website halen we nu een stuk minder boekingen binnen", laat het bedrijf weten. Vooral reizen naar het Midden-Oosten en Azië worden geraakt. Zij wijken deels uit naar bestemmingen in Europa, Afrika en Zuid-Amerika.
