An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: Nscale is in talks to sell AI computing power to Claude maker Anthropic in a new deal that could be worth about $45 billion, a person familiar with the matter told Reuters on Monday. The data center developer is seeking another major deal with the AI lab for a second facility at its Monarch data center campus in West Virginia, the person said. In August, Anthropic struck a deal to spend $45 billion to rent AI cloud computing power from Nscale's West Virginia data center campus. A second Monarch building would deliver 460 megawatts of computing power using Nvidia's advanced Vera Rubin AI chips, according to the source. [...] According to the Nscale prospectus, Microsoft and Anthropic are expected to be the company's major customers in the future. Further reading: Microsoft Abandons UK AI Supercomputer As Grid Struggles to Keep Up

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We look at the betting markets to predict the five most likely drivers to win at the Circuit of the Americas.

Mark Hughes explains how a floor stay exemption has allowed Red Bull and Audi to run sharper sidepod undercuts in 2026 – and how the FIA’s rule change will curb the benefit from 2027.

When a Department of Homeland Security official sent out an alert to stop Samuel Tunick, a Stop Cop City activist, at an airport in January 2025, they said the reason was because he was suspected of “terrorist activities,” according to new filed court records which include a screenshot of the alert and photos of Tunick’s interrogation.

Tunick ultimately provided Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officials with a code that, when entered, wiped his security- and privacy-focused GrapheneOS phone. Tunick is now being criminally charged for that alleged act, in one of the most high profile technology civil rights cases in recent memory.

The court records also showed that CBP officials lied to Tunick during his interrogation. Instead of saying he was being targeted for suspected terrorism — although this search happened just at the start of the second Trump administration, it has dramatically broadened what organizations or people may be considered such — they said they needed his phone to look for “kiddie porn.”

“Good afternoon,” an email sent from a Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) official, part of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), to CBP and other officials reads. “The following subject is scheduled to arrive in ATL [Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport] today via DL 1778 @ 1930 Hours. TUNICK is under investigation by HSI/JTTF for suspected terrorist activities.” The email includes a photo of Tunick, and asks the officials to direct him to secondary inspection, retain all of his electronics, and collect their passcodes.

As 404 Media first revealed in December, Tunick was charged because he allegedly “did knowingly destroy, damage, waste, dispose of, and otherwise take any action to delete the digital contents of a Google Pixel cellular phone, for the purpose of preventing and impairing the Government’s lawful authority to take said property into its custody and control.” Matthew Dodge, one of Tunick’s lawyers, previously told 404 Media he only found one other case using the same obscure law, a drug trafficking case. “This is extraordinarily rare,” Dodge said.

Tunick was part of the Stop Cop City movement in Atlanta, which broadly protested the building of a large police training center, and which authorities investigated for arson, vandalism, and doxing. Tunick is not suspected of any crime beyond the alleged wiping of the phone, and has previously put his current prosecution in the context of the wide spanning cases against other Stop Cop City protesters.

The newly filed court record, in which Tunick’s lawyers argue that evidence should be thrown out, include new photos and descriptions of the airport encounter. The CBP officials asked Tunick if they were going to find “kiddie porn” on his phone, which Tunick immediately denied. “As the evidentiary hearing made clear, these unfounded accusations were nothing more than pretext for a fishing expedition into the depths of Mr. Tunick’s devices,” the lawyers wrote. They added, “Officer Findley acknowledged that officers had no reason whatsoever to believe Mr. Tunick possessed child pornography,” referring to one of the officials.

Tunick faces a maximum of five years in federal prison for allegedly wiping the phone.

“I hope people understand that the charges against me are meant to intimidate people against protecting their data and their privacy, and the government hopes to set a precedent that no one has the right to privacy,” Tunick previously told 404 Media.

Bibliotheek Rotterdam heeft een bijzondere aanwinst op de kop getikt: een boek van Erasmus uit 1609. Zaterdag wordt het exemplaar voor het eerst getoond. "Het is heel bijzonder dat we deze editie ruim vier eeuwen later aan onze erfgoedcollectie kunnen toevoegen", zegt conservator John Tholen.

Eugene Vindman, armed services committee member, says president and secretary of state are ‘gaslighting’ over intelligence sharing as Trump heads to North Carolina

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Thom Tillis, the outgoing Republican senator from North Carolina, has said he expects his party to face a thrashing come November, as a the consequence of Donald Trump’s policy agenda. “I have on my countdown clock as ‘whoop ass’,” Tillis said in an interview with Politico.

“It adds up. It adds up in the American mind. The thing about the American people, I love the electorate, they’re a pretty kind and forgiving people, but they don’t like bullies … There’s an element on either end of the political spectrum that loves the bully. Most of the people in the middle don’t,” he said.

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Far-right presidential candidate’s TV debate swipe at rival backfires as people take to social media to parody it

To Flávio Bolsonaro and his publicists, it must have seemed an ingenious idea that would expose his rival’s supposed crookedness on the eve of Brazil’s presidential election.

But the far-right politician’s decision to attend a primetime television debate against his leftwing opponent, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, with the word “corrupto” (corrupt) written on the palm of his hand has backfired.

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Vincent Kompany is touch and go to be in the Bayern Munich dugout against Arsenal at the Allianz Arena on Wednesday night as he battles a debilitating virus that has affected his legs. Kompany was unable to attend his team’s training session on Tuesday before the Champions League tie, ceding the responsibility for the pre-match press conference to his assistant, Aaron Danks.

Kompany has been told to rest after he struggled through Bayern’s 6-1 home win over RB Leipzig in the Bundesliga on Saturday, after which the club’s sporting director, Max Eberl, addressed the media instead of him. There have been reports in Germany that Kompany needed to lie down on his sofa at home after the Leipzig game and that the viral infection had affected an existing hip problem which meant he could hardly walk.

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The star of Michael, the most commercially successful biopic of all time, has said sequel will give airtime to point-of-view of late singer

Of all the criticisms levelled at the authorised biopic of Michael Jackson released earlier this year, the most persistent was that Antoine Fuqua’s film failed to mention the sexual abuse allegations against the singer.

In part, this was due to a legal clause, only spotted late in production, which stipulated that one of the men who accused Jackson of abusing them as a boy could never be depicted in a fictionalised account of the period.

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Maria Vorontsova spoke at a forum marking the launch of a laboratory to study how longer lifespans affect public policy, the economy and the labor market.

Using an LLM’s “superhuman ability to parse through galactic quantities of data”, a very amateur astronomer has found a possible exoplanet candidate. MIT is going to point their satellite at the candidate planet to collect more data soon.

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Gerard Joling, de leukste en de topste Topper, is niet langer de leukste en de topste Topper. Sterker nog, hij is na 21 jaar helemaal geen Topper meer, zo maakt hij bekend in een videoboodschap (zie na de klik). Hij neemt naar eigen zingen op precies het goede moment afscheid, en daar zijn wij het hartgrondig mee eens. Want als zo'n volle Arena op een gegeven moment doorheeft dat die hoge noten in Shangri la niet meer zo makkelijk komen, joekelen ze daar straks ook bier over Joling heen en verandert Toppers In Concert nog eens in een boksgala. Helaas blijft hij nog wel actief als solo-artiest, had niet gehoeven. Blijven Jeroen van der Boom, Jan Smit en René Froger (hoelang nog?) over als treurig trio. Wij vonden de Toppers al niks meer na het vertrek van Gordon, maar nu Joling stopt zal heel muziek minnend Nederland zich vast afvragen: zijn de Toppers de Toppers nog wel?

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Surprisingly few organizations were promoting Linux distros at Open Source Summit Europe. The only dedicated stands we found belonged to two Chinese projects, with openEuler occupying the larger booth. For users accustomed to Western enterprise distros, openEuler may be a less familiar name, but it has an impressive history. It's the modern free community version of Huawei's EulerOS, a version of which achieved official official UNIX™ certification. openEuler is no longer a solely Huawei project, though. Since then, it's been opened up, and it is now run by the OpenAtom Foundation. OpenAtom was co-founded in 2020 by Huawei along with some other big Chinese names, such as Alibaba, Baidu, and Tencent. Another of the co-founders was Inspur, which formerly developed its own distro, K/UX – a version of which also achieved official UNIX™ certification. Inspur K/UX won Unix certification in February 2016, and EulerOS seven months later. K/UX's Unix certification expired in 2019. A few months later, in May 2019, the US placed wider sanctions on Huawei. It is possible that the fresh restrictions on American sales prompted Huawei's interest in closer co-operation with other companies in the Chinese Linux space. As far as we can see, there were no further versions of K/UX after version 3. As additional motivation for cooperation, both EulerOS and K/UX were originally based on CentOS Linux, and of course, in December 2020, the CentOS Project announced it would shift its focus from CentOS Linux to CentOS Stream. The openEuler community has taken the platform in new directions. It has built its own stack of tools for developing, deploying, and running LLMs, called Intelligence BooM. It has a tool for migrating CentOS Linux systems to openEuler, called x2openEuler. As you would expect, it supports Kubernetes, as well as Docker and Podman, but it also has its own container engine called iSula (named after a species of ant). Aware that it's less known outside Asia, at the Open Source Summit, OpenAtom was handing out copies of a special "Focus Guide" from Admin Magazine, which is also available as a free download. Some parts of this are also available online without registration, such as AI and the BooM Stack and Automating Migration to openEuler. openEuler has a dual-strand release cycle, akin to Ubuntu rather than the RHELatives, with LTS versions and more frequent "innovation releases." The current LTS is version 24.03, released in June 2024, while the latest version is 26.09. There is a plethora of versions and editions available on the downloads page: the latest release is for x86-64 and 64-bit Arm. The LTS version adds support for RISC-V and LoongArch, and there are minimal versions for 32-bit Arm as well. The older 22.03 LTS was also available for SW-64, meaning the SunWay RISC processors that Register sister site The Next Platform looked at in 2016. As LWN put it last year, this is a "non-upstream kernel port." There are five types of installation ISO available: Offline Standard, Offline Everything (a hefty 24.9 GB), Network Install (a still significant 1.5 GB), and two variants of the desktop "DevStation" version – a basic one at 3.3 GB and an "everything" edition at 25 GB. We gave the DevStation a very quick whirl in VirtualBox. It boots into its own installation program called Heolleo, which offers the choice of Simplified Chinese or English. Installation took a while, as it automatically fetches updates as it goes. We ended up with a GNOME desktop configured for Chinese, but we opened Settings, typed "language" into the Search box, and picked English. After a reboot, we could read most of the desktop. Program groups and some other elements are still in Chinese, but it's navigable with a bit of guesswork. It's GNOME 49, with the Dash to Panel and Arc Menu extensions preinstalled for a slightly more familiar layout. Opening a terminal, we were greeted with: Welcome to 6.18.48-0.0.0.15.oe2609.x86_64 It also offers the Deepin Desktop Environment, UKUI (as seen in Ubuntu Kylin), MATE, Xfce, and the Kiran Desktop Environment, which is a new one to us. In places, the English-language materials for openEuler mention Chinese CPU makers rather than western ones – which is understandable, in context. Examples include processors from Hygon, a Chinese licensee of AMD designs, as well as Phytium and Kunpeng, which explain the Arm support on offer. In the western world, the Red Hat user community responded to the end of CentOS Linux by building new free distros that stay as close as they can to their progenitor: the Rocky Linux and AlmaLinux projects, rebuilt from Red Hat source code. Then, when the IBM subsidiary restricted access to that source to its customers in 2023, the Rocky and AlmaLinux projects started to diverge. Rocky aims for the closest possible RHEL compatibility, and its most visible innovation is that it's built its own new build service. It also found a clever workaround to get Red Hat's kernel source code. AlmaLinux still targets RHEL compatibility, but differentiates itself by retaining older device support and older CPU architectures after Red Hat drops them. Chinese vendors have responded very differently. Those offering CentOS Linux-based OSes clubbed together, dropped their rival versions and their UNIX compatibility efforts, and instead are working on new tools and subsystems. Much like European interest in digital sovereignty, this is in part due to the Trump administration. Half a decade after it was cut off from its upstream sources, the openEuler platform is thriving and growing, even if few in the western world pay any attention at all. ®

Today is Tom Petty’s birthday. I’ve been a big fan of Tom Petty since I first heard “Refugee” and “Don’t Do Me Like That” on the radio as a nine-year-old kid. My Appreciation for Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers has only grown over the years as I’ve come to understand the power of Tom’s empathy for the underdog in his storytelling and the band’s dynamic chemistry in their musical arrangements and performances. I was lucky enough to work with Tom on several projects before he passed, and I was honored when Adria Petty reached out to me to illustrate a portrait of her dad for the cover of the “Tom Petty: An American Treasure” box set. With this year marking 50 years since the release of the first Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers album, Adria approached me again to create an early career portrait of Tom as a young man hungry to break through with his music and voice. I made this portrait of Tom to capture the intensity, attitude, and vigor of his early career. Those traits persisted and were eventually widely recognized as a tenacious working-class ethic, but the Heartbreakers’ debut album wasn’t an immediate hit, despite featuring the now-classic “American Girl” and “Breakdown.” I’ve always admired independence, determination, and vision, and Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers had all those things in spades. Through this collaboration with Tom Petty’s estate, we are proud to support ACLU in their efforts to ensure that every eligible voter has the information and the right to cast their ballot and have their vote counted. Thanks, Tom, for 50 years of music and mojo, and for never backing down!

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ABYEI (ANP/RTR/AFP) - Het dodental na een droneaanval op een markt bij Abyei in het grensgebied tussen Soedan en Zuid-Soedan is gestegen naar 153, aldus de lokale autoriteiten. Eerder werden nog 73 doden gemeld.

Volgens de autoriteiten in Abyei raakten minstens 27 mensen gewond. Ze stellen dat het Soedanese regeringsleger maandag 22 projectielen had afgevuurd op de markt. "Onder de slachtoffers bevinden zich kwetsbare groepen van de burgerbevolking, onder wie vrouwen, kinderen, ouderen, lokale handelaars, leden van de Ngok Dinka-gemeenschap, Zuid-Soedanese repatrianten en Soedanese vluchtelingen die hier hun toevlucht hadden gezocht voor het bredere regionale conflict."

De markt wordt gebruikt als doorvoerpunt voor goederen naar gebieden die onder controle staan van de paramilitaire Rapid Support Forces (RSF). Het reguliere leger en de paramilitaire Rapid Support Forces (RSF) voeren sinds april 2023 oorlog met elkaar.

STRAATSBURG (ANP) - Het Noordpoolgebied is "het front geworden in de mondiale machtsstrijd", zei EU-buitenlandchef Kaja Kallas. Rusland breidt zijn militaire aanwezigheid uit en ook de "strategische ambities van China in het hoge noorden nemen toe", voegde ze daaraan toe. Daarom staat veiligheid centraal in de geactualiseerde Noordpoolstrategie van de EU, zei de topdiplomaat.

Sabotage van onderzeese kabels, verstoring van gps-signalen en schending van het luchtruim met drones door Rusland noemde Kallas als voorbeeld. De schepen van de Russische schaduwvloot vormen risico's voor de scheepvaart en het milieu, zei ze. Ook de Chinese investeringen in havens, mineralen en kritieke infrastructuur moeten volgens Kallas nauwlettend in de gaten worden gehouden.

"De veiligheid in het Noordpoolgebied staat gelijk aan Europese veiligheid", aldus Kallas. Brussel wil daarom de investeringen in bewakingsinfrastructuur, militaire mobiliteit en operationele capaciteiten opvoeren.

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Het EU-satellietsysteem Galileo en het observatieprogramma Copernicus moeten worden uitgebreid om dreigingen in het Noordpoolgebied beter te kunnen detecteren. De militaire mobiliteit via arctische havens, luchthavens en transportcorridors moet worden verbeterd, "zodat troepen en materieel sneller kunnen worden ingezet waar ze nodig zijn", zei Kallas.

De EU moet de beschikking krijgen over meer ijsbrekers, door ze te delen of gezamenlijk in te kopen, zei Eurocommissaris Jozef Síkela (Internationale Partnerschappen). Ze moeten inzetbaar zijn voor zowel veiligheid, noodhulp als onderhoud aan onderzeese kabels.

Het geld ervoor moet in de EU-meerjarenbegroting 2028-2034 worden geregeld, erkende Síkela.

Je zet de verwarming op de slaapkamer uit, 's ochtends is het raam beslagen en je denkt: ik koop een luchtontvochtiger. Dat kan helpen, maar in een koude kamer koop je makkelijk het verkeerde apparaat. Het type dat je in de meeste winkels ziet, werkt slecht als het in de kamer onder de 15 graden is.

Eerder schreven we al over ventileren in Slapen met het raam open in de winter: goed idee of niet? en over schimmel bij een koude kamer in Slapen zonder verwarming? Zo voorkom je zwarte plekjes op de muur. Dit stuk gaat over de stap daarna: eerst meten, dan pas kopen.

Eerst een hygrometer, geen CO2-meter

Een CO2-meter laat zien of er genoeg frisse lucht binnenkomt. Voor schimmel draait het om iets anders: de relatieve luchtvochtigheid. Die meet je met een hygrometer, een vochtmeter die volgens Boorkoning al vanaf een paar euro te koop is.

Volgens Holland Vochtbestrijding ligt de luchtvochtigheid in een slaapkamer het best tussen de 45 en 55 procent. Een hogere waarde verhoogt het risico op schimmel op koude buitenmuren en ramen. Boven de 65 procent neemt de kans op condens en schimmel toe en boven de 70 procent moet je volgens het bedrijf iets doen. Milieu Centraal noemt 40 tot 60 procent goed bij een binnentemperatuur tussen 18 en 23 graden en 70 procent of hoger te vochtig, meldt Luchtontvochtigeronline.

Een goedkope meter is niet heel precies. Modellen van een paar euro kunnen volgens Luchtvochtmeters.nl 5 tot 10 procent afwijken, en dat is precies het verschil tussen 62 en 72 procent. Zet de meter daarom op ooghoogte, niet naast een raam of radiator, zodat je meting niet wordt vertekend, adviseert Smartdry.

Het gewone model werkt als een koelkast

Blijft de meter hoog staan, dan komt de ontvochtiger in beeld. De Consumentenbond onderscheidt twee typen. Een condensatie- of compressorontvochtiger werkt een beetje zoals een koelkast: de lucht stroomt langs een koude verdamper, het vocht condenseert en komt in een opvangbak terecht.

Dat werkt op temperatuurverschil, en daar zit het probleem. Is de ruimte koud, dan bevriezen de lamellen sneller en moet het apparaat steeds ontdooien, schrijft Luchtenvocht.nl. De capaciteit zakt dan flink. Luchtontvochtigeronline geeft cijfers: bij 14 graden houdt een compressormodel nog zo'n 25 procent van zijn oorspronkelijke capaciteit over, bij 10 graden nog 5 tot 10 procent.

Bij 10 graden doet een gewone ontvochtiger nog maar een fractie van zijn werk.

Onder 15 graden: adsorptie

Het andere type is de adsorptieontvochtiger. Die haalt vocht uit de lucht met een droogmiddel, vaak silicagel, in een ronddraaiende rotor die steeds opnieuw met warme lucht wordt gedroogd, legt de Consumentenbond uit. MediaMarkt noemt de compressorontvochtiger geschikt boven de 15 graden en het adsorptiemodel geschikt voor kleine, koele ruimtes tot 15 graden.

Luchtontvochtigeronline zet koude slaapkamers uitdrukkelijk in het rijtje van ruimtes waar een adsorptiemodel past. Een extra voordeel volgens die site: zo'n apparaat blaast vaak iets warmere lucht uit, waardoor een koude kamer minder klam aanvoelt. Tussen 10 en 15 graden kan een compressormodel met ontdooifunctie nog, maar adsorptie noemt de site veiliger als het wisselend koud is.

Het adsorptiemodel trekt wel meer stroom

Er zit een keerzijde aan. De Consumentenbond is daar duidelijk over, al heeft de bond dit type zelf niet getest:

Dit type werkt goed in koude of onverwarmde ruimtes, maar verbruikt wel meer stroom dan een condensatie-ontvochtiger.

Volgens Itec gebruiken compressordrogers 30 tot 50 procent minder stroom. Maar omdat een adsorptiedroger een ruimte sneller droog krijgt, is het energieverbruik rond de 15 graden volgens dat bedrijf ongeveer gelijk. Hoe kouder het wordt, hoe zuiniger het adsorptiemodel uitvalt. In een slaapkamer die je wél verwarmt, haalt een compressormodel juist meer water uit de lucht voor minder stroom, schrijft Luchtenvocht.nl.

Wat je nu kunt doen

• Hang een hygrometer op ooghoogte in de slaapkamer, uit de buurt van raam en radiator, en kijk een paar dagen naar de waarde.
• Zit je structureel boven de 65 tot 70 procent? Dan is het tijd voor actie: beter ventileren of een ontvochtiger.
• Meet ook de temperatuur. Blijft de kamer 's nachts onder ongeveer 15 graden, kies dan een adsorptiemodel.
• Verwarm je de slaapkamer gewoon, dan is een compressormodel zuiniger.
• Lees bij het kopen of er compressor of adsorptie op de doos staat, en niet alleen hoeveel liter per dag het apparaat haalt.

Bronnen: Consumentenbond, MediaMarkt, Luchtontvochtigeronline, Luchtenvocht.nl, Itec, Holland Vochtbestrijding, Luchtvochtmeters.nl, Smartdry, Boorkoning

Gazprom heeft recht op een zakelijke basisbetaalrekening, vindt de rechtbank, en daarom mag ING de allerlaatste bakrekening van het Russische energiebedrijf niet opheffen. Die uitspraak kan ook gevolgen hebben voor bedrijven die zaken doen met het Internationaal Strafhof in Den Haag.