Nothing has announced that it will allow users to delete Facebook, Instagram and other Meta services from its mid-range and entry-level phones after users objected to the company's decision to pre-install these apps. The update will arrive by the end of November for devices running the Android 16-based OS 4.0 on the Phone (3a) series. Nothing said it will continue to pre-install partner apps on non-flagship devices in most regions.
Devices in the United Kingdom, European Union and Japan will also come with TikTok installed by default. The company defended the practice by saying most users rely on these apps and that pre-installing them allows faster cold starts. Carl Pei's company blamed razor-thin margins on mid-range devices for the decision to bundle third-party software. Nothing did not address whether users can uninstall the service that powers newly introduced lock screen advertisements, which the company previously described as disabled by default and standard across the industry.
Devices in the United Kingdom, European Union and Japan will also come with TikTok installed by default. The company defended the practice by saying most users rely on these apps and that pre-installing them allows faster cold starts. Carl Pei's company blamed razor-thin margins on mid-range devices for the decision to bundle third-party software. Nothing did not address whether users can uninstall the service that powers newly introduced lock screen advertisements, which the company previously described as disabled by default and standard across the industry.
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Financial Times: Deutsche Bank is exploring ways to hedge its exposure to data centres after extending billions of dollars in debt to the sector to keep up with demand for artificial intelligence and cloud computing. Executives inside the bank have discussed ways to manage its exposure to the booming industry as so-called hyperscalers pour hundreds of billions of dollars into building infrastructure for their AI needs that is increasingly funded by debt.
The German lender is looking at options including shorting a basket of AI-related stocks that would help mitigate downside risk by betting against companies in the sector. It is also considering buying default protection on some of the debt using derivatives through a transaction known as synthetic risk transfer (SRT).
Deutsche's investment banking business has "bet big" on data centre financing, according to one senior executive. However, the scale of expenditure on AI infrastructure has prompted concerns that a bubble is forming with some likening the enthusiasm to that which preceded the dotcom crash. Sceptics have pointed out that billions of dollars have been deployed in an untested industry with assets that quickly depreciate in value due to the rapid change in technology.
The German lender is looking at options including shorting a basket of AI-related stocks that would help mitigate downside risk by betting against companies in the sector. It is also considering buying default protection on some of the debt using derivatives through a transaction known as synthetic risk transfer (SRT).
Deutsche's investment banking business has "bet big" on data centre financing, according to one senior executive. However, the scale of expenditure on AI infrastructure has prompted concerns that a bubble is forming with some likening the enthusiasm to that which preceded the dotcom crash. Sceptics have pointed out that billions of dollars have been deployed in an untested industry with assets that quickly depreciate in value due to the rapid change in technology.
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Solar geoengineering could increase the ferocity of North Atlantic hurricanes, cause the Amazon rainforest to die back and cause drought in parts of Africa if deployed above only some parts of the planet by rogue actors, a report has warned. The Guardian: However, if technology to block the sun was used globally and in a coordinated way for a long period -- decades or even centuries -- there is strong evidence that it would lower the global temperature, the review from the UK's Royal Society concluded.
The world is failing to halt the climate crisis and the researchers said that in future, a judgment might need to be made between the risks of geoengineering and the those of continued global heating, which is already costing lives and livelihoods. The logistics of a large-scale geoengineering effort would be daunting, the experts said, but the cost would be small relative to climate action -- billions of dollars a year against trillions.
The researchers emphasised that geoengineering only masked the symptoms of the climate crisis, and did not tackle the root cause -- the burning of fossil fuels. Geoengineering could only complement the cutting of emissions, not replace it, they said. If geoengineering was halted abruptly but emissions had not been reduced, there would be a termination shock of rapidly rising temperatures -- 1-2C within a couple of decades -- that would have severe effects on people and ecosystems unable to rapidly adapt.
The world is failing to halt the climate crisis and the researchers said that in future, a judgment might need to be made between the risks of geoengineering and the those of continued global heating, which is already costing lives and livelihoods. The logistics of a large-scale geoengineering effort would be daunting, the experts said, but the cost would be small relative to climate action -- billions of dollars a year against trillions.
The researchers emphasised that geoengineering only masked the symptoms of the climate crisis, and did not tackle the root cause -- the burning of fossil fuels. Geoengineering could only complement the cutting of emissions, not replace it, they said. If geoengineering was halted abruptly but emissions had not been reduced, there would be a termination shock of rapidly rising temperatures -- 1-2C within a couple of decades -- that would have severe effects on people and ecosystems unable to rapidly adapt.
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The Chinese government has issued guidance requiring new data centre projects that have received any state funds to only use domestically-made AI chips, Reuters reported Wednesday, citing sources familiar with the matter. From the report: In recent weeks, Chinese regulatory authorities have ordered such data centres that are less than 30% complete to remove all installed foreign chips, or cancel plans to purchase them, while projects in a more advanced stage will be decided on a case-by-case basis, the sources said.
The move could represent one of China's most aggressive steps yet to eliminate foreign technology from its critical infrastructure amid a pause in trade hostilities between Washington and Beijing, and achieve its quest for AI chip self-sufficiency. China's access to advanced AI chips, including those made by Nvidia, has been a key point of friction with the U.S., as the two wrestle for dominance in high-end computing power and AI. U.S. President Donald Trump said in an interview aired on Sunday following talks with Chinese President Xi Jinping last week that Washington will "let them deal with Nvidia but not in terms of the most advanced" chips.
The move could represent one of China's most aggressive steps yet to eliminate foreign technology from its critical infrastructure amid a pause in trade hostilities between Washington and Beijing, and achieve its quest for AI chip self-sufficiency. China's access to advanced AI chips, including those made by Nvidia, has been a key point of friction with the U.S., as the two wrestle for dominance in high-end computing power and AI. U.S. President Donald Trump said in an interview aired on Sunday following talks with Chinese President Xi Jinping last week that Washington will "let them deal with Nvidia but not in terms of the most advanced" chips.
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In Ninon Hivert’s multimedia work, an object’s afterlife is an unfolding story—discarded items retaining the memory of a body, its gestures, and its relationship to its environment. She works like an archaeologist, observing with patient attention before translating a found object anew, capturing the textures of contemporary urban life in the process.
Hivert’s study of the forgotten object began by documenting in photographs, then later in clay sculpture, the uncertain gestures of cast-off clothing. In recent work, she has expanded focus to a more general cast of quotidian items. Isolating artifacts at moments of abandon, she clarifies the contour of a presence left behind.
If the present is built on a ceaseless changing from future into past, Hivert’s work captures the strength of this elusive state. Like grain into spirit, her work is a process of distillation. The qualities of an object change slightly each time they are recaptured in a new medium, ultimately extracting something eternal from an unsuspecting in-between moment.
Hivert’s latest exhibition, Ce Qui Est, Ce Qui Sera, Ce Qui Fut. (“That Which Is, That Which Will Be, That Which Has Been.”) at Chapelle XIV in Paris, brings the ongoing themes of her oeuvre to new materials and motifs.
Stacks of flattened cardboard and bags of clothing are compressed into ceramic cubes, their bulging surfaces recording the tension of containment. Glass bubble-wrap sculptures from Hivert’s Demi-Jour series line shelves—fragile objects posing as protective shells for absent contents. A bronze cast of work gloves rests nearby, monumentalizing gestures of past labor. In the background, torn collages evoke the weathered palimpsests of wheatpaste advertisements caught between removal and renewal.
Working in bronze and pâte de verre—a glass molding technique made from fused glass powder—alongside clay, photography, and collage, Hivert treats the dialogue between material and environment with precision. These recent projects are as conceptually rigorous as they are visually striking. Hivert explains:
With glass, after modeling the bubble wrap in clay, a molding process was added, introducing new gestures, new steps, and successive states of matter into this translation. The final result of Demi-Jour was, for me, a kind of serendipity: I ended up with a solid but translucent sculpture, where the dark mass inside disappeared when light passed through it, as if I had captured a shadow.
Hivert’s observations evoke both tenderness and critique. While her work embraces the poetics of transition, it also implicates the viewer in cycles of consumption. What happens when an object slips from use into waste? When does a functional item cease to be visible, and what remains in that unseen interval?
Articulating this fragile “in-between,” Hivert illustrates the transitional state’s autonomy. The result is a body of work that neither mourns nor admires what has been discarded. Hivert allows materials to persist in ambiguity, occupying time differently. In their quiet stubbornness, these forms evoke both what has been and what will be: temporalities bound together by the ever-renewing gestures of the present.
Ce Qui Est, Ce Qui Sera, Ce Qui Fut. runs from October 10 to December 20 at Chapelle XIV in Paris. Find more from Hivert on her website or on Instagram.
Georgia E. Norton de Matos is a guest contributor for Colossal, reporting from Paris.
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Heerlijk gewerkt Studio Erwin Sala*. Klikken, zoomen, en opnieuw klikken en zoomen doet u hier. En nu weet u precies welke buren u aan moet geven bij het Ministerie van Klimaatscepsis als Jetten over links gaat, en welke buren bij het Ministerie van Remigratie als ie over rechts gaat. Hoe dan ook: er zijn verliezers, maar u bent daar niet een van.
Dit kán een heel mooie avond worden in Amsterdam, een avond waarop het team opleeft, het publiek opveert, Heitinga opgelucht en rustig in zijn stoeltje zit, Alex Kroes groeit, de ArenA KOLKT als Heitinga's Heksenketel, het gras groener is dan ooit en waarop Ajax weer eens wint in de Champions League. Het kán. Maar het kan ook niet. En dat is juist precies wat we denken want het is Ajax en daar zit John Heitinga op de bank. De Turken van Galatasaray zullen de Amsterdammers wel wegspelen en de clubeer, die tegenwoordig voor een groter deel bestaat uit eerbetonen aan overleden supporters dan uit mooi voetbal, nog wat verder de grond in trappen. Onze Stijlloze Voorspelling is dan ook 2-4 voor Galatasaray. Kan Ajax zich daarna volledig richten op de Eredivisie, waar de Ajacieden ook al zo veel mooie avonden hadden kúnnen beleven. Of vindt er vanavond toch een Goddelijk wonder plaats in de JC ArenA? Hüp Ajax!
Dat waren nog eens tijden
SocialTEXEL (ANP) - De gemeenteraad van Texel wil niet langer dat studenten van het Utrechtsch Studenten Werkkamp (USW) in de zomer de stranden bewaken. Negen raadsleden stemden voor het plan van GroenLinks, PvdA, CDA en D66, en zes tegen.
Over het gedrag van de strandwachten van het USW, onderdeel van het Utrechtsch Studenten Corps, is onrust ontstaan. Zo zijn er signalen van (seksueel) grensoverschrijdend gedrag van de mannelijke studenten tegenover vrouwen.
De strandwachten mochten in de zomer van 2025 onder voorwaarden aan de slag, onder meer met inzet van externe begeleiding. Dit verliep volgens een evaluatie van de gemeente zonder grote problemen.
Toch willen de indieners van het aangenomen plan dat een andere organisatie de strandbeveiliging op zich neemt. Anneke Visser-Veltkamp (PvdA) ziet ook dat de maatregelen werken, maar noemt het "heel bijzonder" dat een gemeente die integriteit belangrijk vindt, een samenwerking wil met een organisatie die zoveel extra maatregelen nodig heeft om het soepel te laten verlopen.
DEN BOSCH (ANP) - Een verpleegkundige die vorig jaar is veroordeeld in een zedenzaak, heeft van het tuchtcollege in Den Bosch een algeheel beroepsverbod voor de zorg gekregen. De zorgverlener heeft een ernstig beperkte vrouw van 71 seksueel misbruikt. Dat gebeurde in de privésfeer, maar het tuchtcollege vindt de zaak dermate ernstig dat een beroepsverbod passend is.
De Inspectie Gezondheidszorg en Jeugd kreeg van de politie in 2022 een melding over de verpleegkundige. Die zou samen met de broer van het slachtoffer haar twee keer een erotische massage hebben gegeven, waarbij ze de tweede keer ook seksueel werd binnengedrongen.
Volgens het tuchtcollege handelde de verpleegkundige, ondanks dat het in de privésfeer was, in strijd met de beroepscode. "Aan de verpleegkundige was in zijn werk ook de zorg voor (kwetsbare) patiënten toevertrouwd. In een dergelijke afhankelijke positie moeten patiënten erop kunnen vertrouwen dat de verpleegkundige integer handelt", staat in de uitspraak.
Negen van de vijftien raadsleden stemden woensdagavond voor een motie om de samenwerking met de Utrechtse studentenvereniging te stoppen, vanwege eerdere meldingen van seksueel overschrijdend gedrag. „Texel zou geen opvoedpoli van Utrechtse corpsstudenten moeten zijn.”
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De Rotterdamse haven is het toneel van de speelfilm 'Zwijgrecht'. De film vertelt het verhaal over jonge drugsuithalers en hun omgeving. Voor het verhaal zijn een aantal nieuwe acteurs gescout via sociale media en Ouassim Ennahachi (20) is daar een van. "Acteren is mijn passie."
New book just out: The Cory Arcangel Hack. “This book explores three dominant arrangements in Arcangel’s work — the flow-break hack, the flow-remix hack, and the flow-parody hack…”
Ellie Eli Hayeli (Eliake resident) has added a photo to the pool:
A single butterfly,
the universe holds its breath,
time folds into wings.
蝶ひとつ
宇宙は息を
ひそめけり
