We look at the betting markets to see who bookmakers expect to win at the Hungaroring.
Former Renault F1 driver and F1 TV analyst Jolyon Palmer takes a close look at the Frenchman's weekend at Spa – and what it tells us about Red Bull's progress this year.
The Belgian Grand Prix provided further evidence that Haas has been left behind in Formula 1’s midfield development race, with Racing Bulls, Audi and Alpine all pulling ahead, and Williams currently providing the main competition.
Ahead of the Belgian Grand Prix weekend, news surfaced that Max Verstappen had taken his first steps into driver development by giving backing to Dries van Langendonck. But who is the 15-year-old that has caught the attention of a four-time World Champion?
Our cartoonist looks back at the final game of the 2026 World Cup as Donald Trump watched Spain triumph again
Continue reading...We would like to hear your thoughts on Christopher Nolan’s adaption of Homer’s epic
The Odyssey has stormed the global box office, taking US$264m (£196m, A$378m) in its opening weekend, according to studio Universal Pictures.
Starring Matt Damon, Tom Holland, Anne Hathaway and Zendaya, the blockbuster is an adaptation of Homer’s epic, which follows Odysseus as he makes his 10-year journey home after fighting in the Trojan war. It’s also the first feature movie to be filmed entirely with Imax cameras – a system of very heavy and loud cameras that capture a sharper, brighter and higher-resolution content.
Continue reading...Tech workers are increasingly unionizing, trading Silicon Valley’s myth of exceptionalism for collective bargaining to contest the corporate deployment of artificial intelligence
For decades, the technology industry was a fortress that labor unions couldn’t breach. Tech workers already had cushy compensation packages, dream benefits like unlimited vacation and free lunch, and a flat corporate hierarchy that made engineers feel as powerful as their bosses, all of whom dressed down in sneakers and hoodies. So why unionize?
Now, that fortress is cracking from the inside. Unions have become increasingly popular for tech employees. After months of mass layoffs tied to artificial intelligence and mounting anxieties about how it’s being deployed, some tech workers say they’ve been saddled with higher workloads while facing the threat of job loss caused by the very products they’re building. Workers from Google DeepMind and Meta in the UK are also objecting to how their companies’ AI products are being used, such as for military purposes or to monitor employee productivity. Those same workers are now attempting to unionize.
Continue reading...Yotam Moram, who helped lead Occupy Wall Street, discusses why power must be built through movements, not simply through elected officials
Yotam Marom knows why the Occupy Wall Street movement fell apart 15 years ago. The New York-based organizer and author was a key participant in the nationwide constellation of encampments and rolling protests that brought tens of thousands of people into its fold. But the movement could not withstand police raids, evictions, a bitter winter and, as Marom sees it, an internal “politics of powerlessness”, which mistook a healthy distrust of institutional power for a failure to build a strong, coherent strategy for political change. Occupy splintered within a few short months and never seriously revived.
As he recounts in his new book, For Louder Days: Reaching Beyond a Politics of Powerlessness, Marom has again and again seen similar dynamics weigh down social movements in his work as an organizer and facilitator. He founded the Wildfire Project, a training organization for grassroots groups, and has worked with organizations including the Sunrise Movement agitating against climate decimation, the abolitionist Dream Defenders fighting for racial justice, the Uncommitted movement to end Democratic party support for Israel’s war crimes, tenants unions battling landlords, and more.
Continue reading...Interviews with residents of Russian-held region point to frustration with Moscow as Ukrainian campaign to isolate it takes toll on daily life
First, the guests stopped coming. As Ukrainian drones and missiles pounded Crimea throughout the spring and into the summer, Russian tourists began cancelling their bookings at the small guesthouse Marina runs in Yevpatoria, a resort town on the peninsula’s Black Sea coast.
Then petrol became scarce, making it harder to stock the business with food and other essentials. Now, electricity and running water are cut off for much of the day, just as the summer heat sets in.
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According to information obtained by The Tech, MIT is spending over $3 million on more than 500 AI surveillance cameras in academic buildings, residence halls, and outdoor areas along Memorial Drive. Installation of the new cameras, along with the wiring and infrastructure that will support them, began November 2025 and will likely continue until September 2026.
Technical specifications for the cameras suggest that they will be capable of collecting real-time face and object classification data, including detection of motion, loitering, crowds, face masks, and camera tampering. Individuals can also be automatically classified on the basis of clothing color, gender, and age, up to a distance of 35 feet (11 meters) from the camera. According to a statement from MIT spokesperson Kimberly Allen, any collected data is “retained up to 30 days,” unless an exception is granted.
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Most of the new cameras, which are part of Hanwha’s Wisenet AI line, are marketed for their ability to identify and classify multiple objects with deep learning algorithms. They support resolutions ranging from 2MP to 4K while also recognizing faces, license plates, vehicles, and other objects in real time.
Nearly all cameras will accommodate a wide range of pan, tilt, rotate, and zoom motion and will be monitored continually with Ai-RGUS, an AI camera software.
Yikes.
Onlangs werd bekend dat probleemwolf Bram in strijd met de regels in december 2025 vijf uur na zonsondergang was afgeschoten. Dat was niet toegestaan. Gevreesd werd namelijk dat in het donker mogelijk de verkeerde wolf zou worden geraakt. De jagers hadden er lak aan. Zoals altijd in dit soort zaken knepen verantwoordelijken een oogje toe en noemden het een ‘lichte overtreding’, want het was toch inderdaad mannetjeswolf GW3237m. Eind goed, al goed.
Gek hoe dit soort bestuurders wel altijd in alle staten zijn als een lid van een andere groep een ‘lichte overtreding’ begaat.
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We moeten van het aardgas af, zeiden ze. We gaan weer aan het aardgas, doen ze. Althans, dat doen ze in Utrecht want Utrecht is de stroomhel van Nederland. Omdat het stroomnet daar altijd vol tot overvol is zijn ze er nu als noodgreep gasgeneratoren aan het bouwen om toch weer wat stroom op te wekken voor de mensen, zodat die tenminste weer eens een roltrap kunnen nemen. En ondertussen zijn de netbeheerders uw stroom gaan beheren. En ondertussen wordt ook het gas alsmaar duurder en duurder. En ondertussen helpt niets. En ondertussen is het misschien daarom dat Aline Arends van Stedin alleen dit wil zeggen over de kosten van de gasgeneratoren: "Over de kosten van specifiek deze centrale kan ik geen uitspraken doen." Fantastisch niet, die energietransitie? En we gaan er uiteraard gewoon mee door ook, totdat straks iedereen ouderwets gezellig rond het kaarslicht zit te ganzenborden: "'We noemen het transitiegas, of een beetje grijs voor groen', zegt Arends, 'omdat uiteindelijk die energietransitie wel door moet gaan.'" Juist!
NEW YORK (ANP/BLOOMBERG) - Het aantal bezoekers bij Taco Bell-vestigingen in de Verenigde Staten is sterk gedaald na een parasietenuitbraak. De autoriteiten wezen een leverancier van de keten aan als oorzaak: die zou ijsbergsla met de parasiet verkocht hebben.
De toezichthouder meldde later dat er sprake was van een vals-positief. Toch lag het aantal bezoekers vrijdag bijna 19 procent onder het dagelijkse gemiddelde van de fastfoodketen voor vrijdagen tot nu toe dit jaar, becijferde Placer.ai. Dit bureau brengt trends in klantbezoeken in kaart.
Taco Bell gebruikt geen sla meer die werd geleverd door Taylor Farms, een van de grootste groentetelers van het land.
De parasiet Cyclospora veroorzaakte een diarree-uitbraak in de VS.
AMSTELVEEN (ANP) - Het Europees kampioenschap padel vindt volgend jaar in Nederland plaats. De eerste twee fases van het toernooi zijn begin maart, de finaleweek is van 7 tot en met 11 juli.
Het EK wordt volgens tennisbond KNLTB georganiseerd "in meerdere speelsteden door heel Nederland". De exacte locaties volgen in september, tegelijkertijd met het speelschema.
"De ontwikkeling van padel in Nederland is indrukwekkend, zowel in de breedte als op topsportniveau. De organisatie van dit EK is een logische volgende stap. Samen met (medeorganisator) Athvance Sports willen we een grootschalig kampioenschap neerzetten waarin topsport, beleving en de kracht van de padelcommunity samenkomen en dat zoveel mogelijk mensen inspireert om zelf de baan op te gaan", zegt sportief directeur Jacco Eltingh van de KNLTB in een verklaring.
Het Nederlandse mannenteam eindigde bij het laatste EK padel als vierde. De vrouwen behoren tot de beste acht landen van de wereld.
YANBU (ANP/BLOOMBERG) - De Houthi's hebben rederijen gewaarschuwd om niet meer naar havens in Saudi-Arabië te varen. De Jemenitische groep heeft maandag een zeeblokkade ingesteld tegen het land. Via een e-mail aan reders, ingezien door Bloomberg, maken de Houthi's duidelijk dat die blokkade niet alleen geldt voor Saudische schepen en dat kan grote gevolgen hebben voor de olie-export van het land.
"We raden uw bedrijf ten zeerste aan om de nodige voorzichtigheid en uiterste zorgvuldigheid te betrachten bij alle activiteiten en ervoor te zorgen dat er geen reizen naar of van Saudische havens worden ondernomen", schrijven de Houthi's in de mail. Volgens de Jemenitische groep kunnen deze schepen "het doelwit worden van aanvallen".
De blokkade brengt de Saudische olie-export vanuit Yanbu in de problemen. Deze haven aan de Rode Zee was de afgelopen maanden juist belangrijker geworden als uitwijkmogelijkheid vanwege de blokkade van de Straat van Hormuz.
WASHINGTON (ANP/RTR) - De Amerikaanse president Donald Trump staat op het punt om deze week nieuwe importheffingen in te voeren voor tientallen landen, ondanks waarschuwingen van zijn adviseurs dat hij dat met het oog op de economie beter niet kan doen. Dat schrijft de Financial Times op basis van ingewijden.
Trumps huidige tijdelijke wereldwijde heffing van 10 procent loopt aanstaande vrijdag af. Volgens de Britse zakenkrant zullen de nieuwe tarieven op de korte termijn naar verwachting daaraan gelijk zijn. De regering in Washington zou echter ook werken aan andere mogelijkheden die haar de wettelijke basis kunnen geven om hogere invoertarieven voor te stellen.
Trump kondigde maandag al nieuwe tarieven van 50 procent aan op een reeks Canadese goederen, nadat hij onlangs ook al een heffing van 25 procent op Braziliaanse import had ingevoerd. Daarmee liet Trump zien dat hij importheffingen nog steeds ziet als een geschikt wapen om handelspartners van de Verenigde Staten onder druk te zetten.
It has been half a century since NASA landed on Mars with the Viking 1 lander. Viking 1, one of a pair of Viking spacecraft, landed on Mars on July 20, 1976. Launched on August 20, 1975, Viking 1 arrived in orbit around Mars on June 19, 1976. The Viking program is, when adjusted for inflation, one of the most expensive robotic missions ever attempted by NASA. The spacecraft consisted of an orbiter, which was eventually shut down on August 7 as its attitude control gas was depleted, and a lander, which became the longest-lived component of the Viking program (and even then, it was only human error that did it in). The original plan had called for a landing on Mars on July 4, 1976, to coincide with the US Bicentennial, but a look at the potential landing site made managers postpone the descent to July 20 – the seventh anniversary of the Apollo 11 lunar landing – and a safer destination. The lander was equipped with an ablative heat shield to withstand atmospheric entry. Parachutes slowed the lander as it descended, and retro-rockets fired just above the surface to ensure the three-legged Viking lander reached Martian soil without incident. Viking 1 landed on Mars' Chryse Planitia. It performed the first sampling of Martian soil using its robotic arm and an onboard biological laboratory. While the official word from NASA is that no definitive signs of life were found, debate has continued over the decades that… perhaps… there was something else in the data from the robots. NASA's take was that the "experiments discovered unexpected and enigmatic chemical activity in the Martian soil, but provided no clear evidence for the presence of living microorganisms in soil near the landing sites." Findings from onboard experiments aside, the lander was also equipped with cameras capable of snapping breathtaking vistas of the surface, as well as antennas for communicating with the Viking 1 orbiter, which acted as a relay, and directly with Earth. Crucially, the lander was also powered by a Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generator (RTG), which uses the heat from the decay of plutonium-238 fuel to generate electricity. This played an important role in keeping the Viking 1 lander running past its 90-day prime mission all the way to when it made its final transmission on November 11, 1982. The mission might have gone on longer if it had not been for a mistake made when engineers were devising ways [PDF] of prolonging the life of the lander's batteries. In January 1982, three of Viking 1's four nickel-cadmium batteries were showing signs of wear. Engineers attempted deep-discharge battery conditioning to bring things closer to where they had been at the start of the mission, but the results were only partially successful (with benefits being very temporary). So, a different approach was tried. Rather than discharge the batteries for a specific time, engineers would have Viking 1 go for a known voltage. There would be a reduction in the frequency and duration of battery charging. Engineers reckoned the plan would prolong the life of the batteries and, on November 19, 1982, the changes for the battery charging sequence were uploaded… and… silence. The expected downlink from Viking 1 did not appear, and on November 20, a spacecraft emergency was declared. It transpired that the new battery charging sequence had been written to memory locations occupied by the lander's high-gain antenna pointing parameters. As a result, the antenna was no longer pointing at Earth. The next four months were spent trying to contact the lander, but to no avail. In March 1983, the Viking Lander Monitor Mission (VLMM) was terminated. Still, that was all in the future when Viking 1 landed half a century ago. Viking 1 wasn't the first spacecraft to make a soft landing on Mars – that prize goes to the Soviet Union's Mars 3 lander in 1971 (although transmissions ended 20 seconds after landing compared to the years of operation for Viking 1), but it produced spectacular imagery and a trove of science data and, coming just seven years after the first crewed lunar landing, was a triumph for the US space agency. ®
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