Red Bull test and reserve driver Yuki Tsunoda will return to the cockpit of a Formula 1 car later this month when he takes part in a special demonstration event in America.
An anonymous reader shares a report: The hundreds of prize payouts were mostly just a few bucks each, part of a promotional campaign by a South Korean cryptocurrency exchange. The total reward pot: 620,000 Korean won, or about $425. Then came a colossal mistake. A staffer for Bithumb, South Korea's No. 2 crypto exchange, didn't distribute 620,000 Korean won. Rather, the prizes, due to an input error, emerged in a different currency: 620,000 bitcoins, valued at more than $40 billion.
That meant a winner who should have received a sum of 2,000 won -- enough to buy a cheap cup of coffee -- reaped, at least momentarily, more than $120 million in bitcoins. Enough recipients sought to sell or withdraw bitcoin that the market sank 17%, before Bithumb halted transactions after roughly 30 minutes. Those affected included investors who had held bitcoin before the botched giveaway. The losses totaled about $685,000, Bithumb says.
The company has since said it has reversed the transactions or had recipients voluntarily return more than 99% of the misdistributed bitcoins. But Bithumb is still trying to convince users who during the brief window of trading managed to offload more than 100 bitcoins, valued at roughly $9 million, to give back the equivalent funds.
That meant a winner who should have received a sum of 2,000 won -- enough to buy a cheap cup of coffee -- reaped, at least momentarily, more than $120 million in bitcoins. Enough recipients sought to sell or withdraw bitcoin that the market sank 17%, before Bithumb halted transactions after roughly 30 minutes. Those affected included investors who had held bitcoin before the botched giveaway. The losses totaled about $685,000, Bithumb says.
The company has since said it has reversed the transactions or had recipients voluntarily return more than 99% of the misdistributed bitcoins. But Bithumb is still trying to convince users who during the brief window of trading managed to offload more than 100 bitcoins, valued at roughly $9 million, to give back the equivalent funds.
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Apple and Google have agreed to a set of commitments to the UK's Competition and Markets Authority that will prevent them from giving preferential treatment to their own apps and require greater transparency around how third-party apps are approved for sale.
The CMA announced the measures on Tuesday, seven months after it declared that the two companies held an "effective duopoly" over the UK's mobile app ecosystem. Both companies also committed to not using data gathered from third-party developers in ways the regulator deems unfair. The CMA granted both app stores "strategic market status" in October 2025, a designation that gave it the authority to demand changes.
CMA head Sarah Cardell called the commitments "important first steps" and said the regulator would "closely monitor" implementation. Technology analyst Paolo Pescatore described the announcement as a "pragmatic first step" but noted some may see it as "addressing the low-hanging fruit." The UK's app economy is the largest in Europe by revenue and number of developers, generating an estimated 1.5% of the country's GDP.
The CMA announced the measures on Tuesday, seven months after it declared that the two companies held an "effective duopoly" over the UK's mobile app ecosystem. Both companies also committed to not using data gathered from third-party developers in ways the regulator deems unfair. The CMA granted both app stores "strategic market status" in October 2025, a designation that gave it the authority to demand changes.
CMA head Sarah Cardell called the commitments "important first steps" and said the regulator would "closely monitor" implementation. Technology analyst Paolo Pescatore described the announcement as a "pragmatic first step" but noted some may see it as "addressing the low-hanging fruit." The UK's app economy is the largest in Europe by revenue and number of developers, generating an estimated 1.5% of the country's GDP.
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Brancheverenigingen adviseerden direct te stoppen met het gebruik van binnenspeelzand en bepaalde babyvoeding. Oudervertegenwoordigers verwijten toezichthouder NVWA „niet heldere” communicatie en terughoudendheid „uit angst voor claims van producenten”.
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Onlangs beschreef ik op deze plaats mijn vrees dat mijn naam plotseling zou opduiken in de Epstein-files.
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Voor het eerst in vier jaar heeft Philips weer winst gemaakt. Het medisch technologieconcern wil graag benadrukken dat het na de apneu-affaire op de weg terug is en verwacht met AI weer snel te kunnen groeien.
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As the right stokes culture wars, their alternatives to ‘woke’ Hollywood prove to be shoddily made and uninspired
It’s not fair, what they did to rightwing folks on Super Bowl Sunday. Regular viewers could either take in an elaborate and joyful halftime performance from Puerto Rican recording artist Bad Bunny, one of the most popular music stars in the world, or, if they weren’t interested in football or in Bad Bunny’s music, they could quietly find something else to watch or listen to. There are a lot of options out there. Those who wanted to prove their Maga bona fides or loyalties, however, may have felt obligated to watch a parade of similar-sounding country singers lead into a performance from a shorts-wearing Kid Rock, jumping around and seemingly lip-syncing to a novelty hit from 1999.
For rightwingers who couldn’t stomach the Spanish lyrics to Bad Bunny songs, they could take comfort in the clear English of the man also known as Robert Ritchie: “Bawitdaba, da-bang, da-bang, diggy-diggy-diggy.” (These lyrics are actually just what a certain segment of white listeners prefer: something ripped off from Black culture, in this case rapper Busy Bee.) This sad spectacle was provided by Turning Point USA, which is not actually a charity organization for faded turn-of-the-century rap-rockers, but a rightwing advocacy group co-founded by the late Charlie Kirk. When Kid Rock pivoted back to Ritchie and covered the country tune Til You Can’t (with a pious and half-assed new verse added by Ritchie himself), the music was chased with a tribute to Kirk. This means that viewers were treated to all the artistry of a Kid Rock show plus all the cheerfulness of a funeral.
Continue reading...The dried food, traditionally for pets, has become an unlikely influence for meal preppers. Some commenters have even claimed the trend could be an antidote to toxic masculinity
Name: Boy kibble.
Age: It’s new.
Continue reading...Exclusive: Norway’s chief of defence Eirik Kristoffersen, who served in Afghanistan, was critical of Trump’s claim Nato troops stayed off frontlines
Norway’s army chief has said Oslo cannot exclude the possibility of a future Russian invasion of the country, suggesting Moscow could move on Norway to protect its nuclear assets stationed in the far north.
“We don’t exclude a land grab from Russia as part of their plan to protect their own nuclear capabilities, which is the only thing they have left that actually threatens the United States,” said Gen Eirik Kristoffersen, Norway’s chief of defence.
Continue reading...Miliband is one minister who doesn’t want to be PM, and is more than happy to let Starmer think he is still in control
It was a day for one of the Top Team. The safest of safe hands. A grownup. That didn’t mean the likes of Emma Reynolds. Emma looks permanently startled at the best of times. Especially when there’s a microphone around. Give her more than 30 seconds and she’ll confess to crimes she didn’t commit.
And certainly not Wes Streeting. Not even Wes trusts Wes. His denials over any involvement with Anas Sarwar’s Monday press conference weren’t 100% convincing. Nor was his insistence that he had never much liked Peter Mandelson. In his WhatsApps, Wes uses one kiss for those he hates and two for those he loves. Apparently.
Continue reading...Case is shrouded in fevered speculation as prosecutors say autopsies show two of the deceased were “probably” murdered
It has been dubbed Bulgaria’s “Twin Peaks”: a grim saga involving the mysterious deaths of six people in the middle of the mountains that has gripped the eastern European country.
Zahari Vaskov, the director of the national police general directorate, told a press conference on Monday that the deaths were “a case without comparison in our country”.
Continue reading...MILAAN (ANP) - Jenning de Boo heeft in de dagen voor zijn olympische debuut in Milaan veel aan zijn 36-jarige ploeggenoot Kjeld Nuis. De drievoudig olympisch kampioen helpt de 22-jarige Groninger om het luchtig te houden. "Geer en Goor worden we genoemd", zegt De Boo. "Hij is Goor en ik ben Geer, denk ik."
"Ik merk dat als zo'n race eraan komt, toch een groot moment in je leven, ik me een beetje terugtrek", legt De Boo een dag voor de 1000 meter op de Spelen uit. "Dan zorgt hij dat het ontspannen blijft. Kjeld is momenteel heel waardevol voor mij, ik heb veel aan hem."
De Boo zegt dat hij die opkomende spanning ook gebruikt. "Dat terugtrekken doe ik altijd wel, ik ga daar ook goed op. Maar ik moet er niet in doorslaan, want daar ga ik niet harder van schaatsen."
Nuis zegt kort daarop dat het niet is besproken, maar dat hij het wel had gemerkt bij zijn ploeggenoot. "In één keer gaat hij in zijn zone en dan wordt hij heel goed. Ik plaag hem altijd een beetje met zijn gedrag."
NAIROBI (ANP/AFP) - Kenia wil dat Rusland een einde maakt aan de inzet van Kenianen aan het front in Oekraïne. De Keniaanse minister van Buitenlandse Zaken, Musalia Mudavadi, gaat naar Moskou om hierover te praten, kondigde hij aan.
De afgelopen weken zijn er steeds meer berichten dat Kenianen zijn misleid om naar Rusland te reizen voor goedbetaalde banen als bewaker of verkoper en vervolgens met gedwongen contracten naar het front in Oekraïne worden gestuurd.
Het is "onacceptabel" dat Kenianen "worden gebruikt als kanonnenvoer aan het front", zei de Keniaanse onderminister van Buitenlandse Zaken Korir Sing'Oei. "Geen enkele Keniaan zou vrijwillig aan zoiets deelnemen."
Mudavadi zei dat hij ook wil dat Keniaanse krijgsgevangenen die vastzitten in Oekraïne worden vrijgelaten. Volgens de minister zijn de afgelopen twee maanden meer dan dertig Kenianen uit Rusland geëvacueerd en zijn Russische wervingsbureaus in Kenia gesloten.
CFO and general counsel both step down
IBM services spin-out Kyndryl said it was reviewing its accounting practices after it announced revenue below market expectations and the departure of its CFO.…