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Trump's 'Board of Peace' Explores Stablecoin For Gaza

An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Financial Times: Officials working with Donald Trump's "Board of Peace" are exploring setting up a stablecoin for Gaza as part of efforts to reshape the devastated Palestinian enclave's economy, according to five people familiar with the discussions. The talks around introducing a stablecoin -- a type of cryptocurrency whose value is pegged to a mainstream currency, such as the US dollar -- are at a preliminary stage, and many details of how one could be introduced in Gaza remain to be determined.

But officials have discussed the idea as part of their plan for the future of the enclave, where economic activity collapsed during Israel's two-year war with Hamas and the traditional banking and payments system has been severely impaired. A person familiar with the project said the stablecoin was expected to be tied to the US dollar, with the hope that Gulf Arab and Palestinian companies with expertise in the field of digital currencies will help spearhead the effort. "This will not be a 'Gaza Coin' or a new Palestinian currency, but a means to allow Gazans to transact digitally," the person said.

Work on the idea is being led by Liran Tancman, an Israeli tech entrepreneur and former reservist who is now working as an unpaid adviser to Trump's "Board of Peace," the US-led body tasked with rebuilding Gaza, according to two people familiar with the matter. [...] According to the person familiar with the project, the "Board of Peace" and NCAG will decide on the stablecoin's regulatory framework and access, although "nothing definitive" has yet been finalized. Speaking at a meeting of the "Board of Peace" in Washington last week, Tancman said the NCAG was working on building "a secure digital backbone, an open platform enabling e-payments, financial services, e-learning, and healthcare with user control over data", but did not elaborate.

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OpenAI Calls In the Consultants For Its Enterprise Push

OpenAI has formed a multi-year "Frontier Alliance" with four consulting heavyweights to accelerate enterprise adoption of its no-code AI agent platform, OpenAI Frontier. TechCrunch reports: The alliance includes multi-year partnerships between OpenAI and four major consulting firms, Boston Consulting Group (BCG), McKinsey, Accenture and Capgemini, to sell its enterprise products. OpenAI's Forward Deployed Engineering team will work with the consulting giants to help them implement OpenAI's enterprise-focused technologies like OpenAI Frontier into customers' tech stacks.

The company launched OpenAI Frontier in early February. The no-code open software allows users to build, deploy, and manage AI agents both built on OpenAI's AI models and beyond. OpenAI argues in its latest announcement that consultants are the right avenue to get enterprises on board.

"AI alone does not drive transformation. It must be linked to strategy, built into redesigned processes, and adopted at scale with aligned incentives and culture to deliver sustained outcomes," BCG CEO Christoph Schweizer said in OpenAI's blog post. "Our expanded partnership combines OpenAI's Frontier platform with BCG's deep industry, functional, and tech expertise and BCG X's build-and-scale capabilities to drive measurable impact with safeguards from day one."

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ASML Unveils EUV Light Source Advance That Could Yield 50% More Chips By 2030

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: Researchers at ASML Holding say they have found a way to boost the power of the light source in a key chip making machine to turn out up to 50% more chips by decade's end, to help retain the Dutch company's edge over emerging U.S. and Chinese rivals. ASML is the world's only maker of commercial extreme ultraviolet lithography (EUV) machines, a critical tool for chipmakers such as TSMC, Intel and others in producing advanced computing chips. "It's not a parlor trick or something like this, where we demonstrate for a very short time that it can work," Michael Purvis, ASML's lead technologist for its EUV source light, said in an interview. "It's a system that can produce 1,000 watts under all the same requirements that you could see at a customer," he added, speaking at the company's California facilities near San Diego. [...]

With the technological advance revealed on Monday, which is being reported here for the first time, ASML aims to outdistance any would-be rivals by improving the most technologically challenging aspect of the machines. This is the quest to generate EUV light with the right power and properties to turn out chips at high volume. The company's researchers have found a way to boost the power of the EUV light source to 1,000 watts from 600 watts now. The chief advantage is that greater power translates into the ability to make more chips every hour, helping to lower the cost of each. Chips are printed similar to a photograph, where the EUV light is shone on a silicon wafer coated with special chemicals called a photoresist. With a more powerful EUV light source, chip factories need shorter exposure times. "We'd like to make sure that our customers can keep on using EUV at a much lower cost," Teun van Gogh, executive vice president for the NXE line of EUV machines at ASML, told Reuters. Van Gogh said customers should be able to process about 330 silicon wafers an hour on each machine by the end of the decade, up from 220 now. Depending on the size of a chip, each wafer can hold anywhere from scores to thousands of the devices.

ASML got the power boost by doubling down on an approach that already places its machines among the most complex inventions of humans. To produce light with a wavelength of 13.5 nanometers, ASML's machine shoots a stream of molten droplets of tin through a chamber, where a massive carbon dioxide laser heats them into plasma. This is a superheated state of matter in which the tin droplets become hotter than the sun and emit EUV light, to be collected by precision optic equipment supplied by Germany's Carl Zeiss AG and fed into the machine to print chips. The key advancements in Monday's disclosure involved doubling the number of tin drops to about 100,000 every second, and shaping them into plasma using two smaller laser bursts, as opposed to today's machines that use a single shaping burst. [...] ASML believes the techniques it used to hit 1,000 watts will unlock continued advances in the future, Purvis said, adding, "We see a reasonably clear path toward 1,500 watts, and no fundamental reason why we couldn't get to 2,000 watts."

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Panasonic Will No Longer Make Its Own TVs

Panasonic is handing over the manufacturing, marketing, and sales of its TVs to Shenzhen-based Skyworth, effectively exiting in-house TV production. Ars Technica reports: Skyworth is a Shenzhen-headquartered TV brand. The company claims to be "a top three global provider of the Android TV platform." In July, research firm Omdia reported that Skyworth was one of the top-five TV brands by sales revenue in Q1 2025; however, Skyworth hasn't been able to maintain that position regularly. Panasonic made its announcement at a "launch event," FlatpanelsHD reported today. During the event, a Panasonic representative reportedly said: "Under the agreement the new partner will lead sales, marketing, and logistics across the region, while Panasonic provide expertise and quality assurance to uphold its renowned audiovisual standards with full joint development on top-end OLED models."

Panasonic also said that it will provide support "for all Panasonic TVs sold up to March 2026 and all those available from April." Skyworth-made Panasonic TVs will be sold in the US and Europe. In the latter geography, the companies are aiming for double-digit market share. [...] The news means there's virtually no TV production happening in Japan anymore, as other Japanese companies, like Sharp, Toshiba, Hitachi, and Pioneer, have already exited TV production. Earlier this year, Sony announced that it was ceding control of its TV hardware business to TCL.

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Anthropic accuses China's AI labs of ripping off content - just like it did

Says DeepSeek, Moonshot, and MiniMax are using 'distillation' to gin up their own models

Having built a business by remixing content created by others, Anthropic worries that Chinese AI labs are stealing its data.…

IBM stock dives after Anthropic points out AI can rewrite COBOL fast

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IBM’s share price slumped by 13 percent on Monday, seemingly caused by investors reacting to an Anthropic blog post that points out its Claude Code tools can accelerate refactoring of apps written in the ancient COBOL language.…

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Paramount Skydance reportedly increases bid for Warner Bros Discovery

Details of offer not immediately available as Paramount looks to beat rival Netflix for control of Warner Bros

Paramount Skydance has increased its bid for Warner Bros Discovery, Reuters reported on Monday, raising the stakes in the bidding war for the historic studio and its broadcast and cable TV assets in an effort to beat out rival suitor Netflix.

It could not immediately be determined how the bid was revised. Warner Bros and Paramount declined to comment, while Netflix could not immediately be reached.

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Tributes paid to ‘very loving and caring’ British hiker killed in Nepal bus crash

Dominic Ethan Stewart was among 19 killed when vehicle veered off road and plunged down mountainside

Tributes have been paid to a young British hiker who was among 19 people killed when a packed passenger bus veered off a treacherous stretch of road and plunged 200 metres down a steep mountainside in Nepal.

Twenty-five others were injured in the pre-dawn crash in the Himalayan foothills on Monday. The bus was carrying 44 people, including a number of tourists.

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Maxi Shield, beloved Australian drag queen and Drag Race Down Under star, dies aged 51

Performer appeared in closing ceremony of 2000 Sydney Olympic Games and was a mainstay of city’s drag scene

One of Australia’s best-known and loved drag queens, Sydney’s Maxi Shield, has died after being diagnosed with throat cancer, prompting tributes from around the world.

Kristopher Elliot, who performed drag under the name Maxi Shield, was 51. Shield was a mainstay of the Sydney drag scene and brought Australian drag to the world as contestant in season one of RuPaul’s Drag Race Down Under.

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Emily in Paris star Lily Collins to play Audrey Hepburn in film about Breakfast at Tiffany’s

Collins ‘honoured and ecstatic’ to play Hepburn, in film charting the dramatic making of the 1961 romantic comedy

Lily Collins, the star of Netflix hit Emily in Paris, has been cast to play Audrey Hepburn in a new film about the making of her 1961 romantic comedy Breakfast at Tiffany’s.

The as-yet-untitled film will be based on Sam Wasson’s nonfiction book Fifth Avenue, 5 AM: Audrey Hepburn, Breakfast at Tiffany’s and the Dawn of the Modern Woman, with a script written by Alena Smith, creator of the Apple TV series Dickinson. No director has been announced yet.

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Where Is the Green Sheep? The 190-word picture book that sold millions – and inspired a whole live show

Written by Mem Fox with illustrations by Judy Horacek, Green Sheep was recently voted third-best Australian picture book of all time by Guardian readers

When Judy Horacek drew a little green sheep and posted it to her website, she never could have imagined what would come of it. The drawing caught the eye of acclaimed children’s author Mem Fox; fast-forward 20-odd years, their picture book collaboration Where Is the Green Sheep? has since been published in 11 countries, sold more than 2.5m copies, and, just last month, was voted the third-best Australian picture book of all time by thousands of Guardian readers.

Among other things, the picture book has spawned plush toys, a set of postage stamps, a commemorative 20¢ coin – and now a stage show. Horacek has joined forces with Monkey Baa theatre company, one of Australia’s leading professional theatre companies for young audiences, to bring a stage adaptation of the Green Sheep to 80 venues across Australia throughout 2026 and 2027.

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Weer voor Rotterdam 🌦️ - 24-02-2026 01:15 CET...

Weer voor Rotterdam 🌦️ - 24-02-2026 01:15 CET

In één oogopslag:
• 9.4°C · Lichte motregen 🌦️ | Min 9.4°C / Max 11.8°C | Kans op neerslag 11%

Verwachting voor vandaag:
• Min 9.4°C, Max 11.8°C (Lichte motregen) 🌦️, Neerslag 0.5 mm, Kans op neerslag 11%, 🧭 1017.9 hPa ↗️ +2.5 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 14.8 km/u (4.1 m/s), richting: ↗ 212°

Uurlijkse voorspelling voor de komende 12 uur:

02:00: 9.4°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, Kans op neerslag 56%, 🧭 1015.4 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 13.0 km/u (3.6 m/s), richting: → 263°
03:00: 9.5°C (Lichte motregen) 🌦️, Neerslag 0.1 mm, Kans op neerslag 33%, 🧭 1015.5 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 11.9 km/u (3.3 m/s), richting: → 278°
04:00: 9.6°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, Kans op neerslag 16%, 🧭 1016.0 hPa ↗️ +0.5 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 8.6 km/u (2.4 m/s), richting: → 277°
05:00: 9.6°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, Kans op neerslag 12%, 🧭 1016.5 hPa ↗️ +0.5 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 7.6 km/u (2.1 m/s), richting: → 264°
06:00: 9.6°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, Kans op neerslag 13%, 🧭 1016.7 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 7.6 km/u (2.1 m/s), richting: → 252°
07:00: 9.6°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, Kans op neerslag 14%, 🧭 1017.0 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 6.1 km/u (1.7 m/s), richting: ↗ 242°
08:00: 9.4°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, Kans op neerslag 12%, 🧭 1017.5 hPa ↗️ +0.5 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 8.3 km/u (2.3 m/s), richting: ↗ 213°
09:00: 9.7°C (Lichte motregen) 🌦️, Neerslag 0.1 mm, Kans op neerslag 10%, 🧭 1017.7 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 7.2 km/u (2.0 m/s), richting: ↗ 207°
10:00: 9.8°C (Mist) 🌫️, Kans op neerslag 8%, 🧭 1018.0 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 5.8 km/u (1.6 m/s), richting: ↗ 214°
11:00: 9.9°C (Mist) 🌫️, Kans op neerslag 6%, 🧭 1018.4 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 9.4 km/u (2.6 m/s), richting: ↗ 211°
12:00: 10.3°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, Kans op neerslag 4%, 🧭 1018.9 hPa ↗️ +0.5 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 10.8 km/u (3.0 m/s), richting: ↗ 217°
13:00: 10.4°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, Kans op neerslag 2%, 🧭 1019.1 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 10.1 km/u (2.8 m/s), richting: ↗ 226°

Voorspelling voor de komende dagen:

woensdag 25 februari: Min 11.6°C, Max 17.0°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, 🧭 1017.8 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 15.8 km/u (4.4 m/s), richting: ↑ 167°
donderdag 26 februari: Min 9.6°C, Max 13.8°C (Lichte motregen) 🌦️, Neerslag 0.1 mm, Kans op neerslag 4%, 🧭 1016.6 hPa ↘️ -1.2 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 18.0 km/u (5.0 m/s), richting: ↗ 216°
vrijdag 27 februari: Min 8.2°C, Max 13.1°C (Lichte motregen) 🌦️, Neerslag 0.9 mm, Kans op neerslag 26%, 🧭 1013.2 hPa ↘️ -3.4 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 24.8 km/u (6.9 m/s), richting: ↗ 220°
zaterdag 28 februari: Min 6.0°C, Max 11.5°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, Kans op neerslag 4%, 🧭 1023.4 hPa ↗️ +10.2 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 13.0 km/u (3.6 m/s), richting: ↗ 204°
zondag 01 maart: Min 3.8°C, Max 11.0°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, Kans op neerslag 16%, 🧭 1018.1 hPa ↘️ -5.3 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 10.5 km/u (2.9 m/s), richting: ↖ 145°
maandag 02 maart: Min 4.6°C, Max 11.9°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, Kans op neerslag 7%, 🧭 1013.1 hPa ↘️ -5.0 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 14.4 km/u (4.0 m/s), richting: ↑ 162°

Details:
• 🌡️ Huidige temperatuur (om 01:15): 9.4°C (Lichte motregen)
• 🤚 Gevoelstemperatuur: 7.2°C (-2.2°C)
• 💨 Windsnelheid: 14.4 km/u (4.0 m/s), richting: → 258°
• 🌬️ Windstoten: 27.7 km/h (7.7 m/s)
• 💧 Luchtvochtigheid: 96%
• 🧭 Luchtdruk: 1015.4 hPa ↗️ +0.6 hPa/3h
• 👁️ Zichtbaarheid: 3.5 km
• ☀️ UV-index: 0.0
• 🌅 Zonsopgang: 07:38 · 🌇 Zonsondergang: 18:12

Luchtkwaliteit:
• AQI: 29 🟢 (Goed)
• PM2.5: 7.1 μg/m³
• PM10: 9.4 μg/m³

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