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Tokyu Plaza Harajuku, also known as Harakado, opened on April 17, 2024 at the Jingumae intersection along Omotesando Street in central Tokyo. The brand new 9-story facility recreates a space where creators and creatives can gather, in a nod to the time from the mid 1950s till the 1970s when the Harajuku Central Apartment block, which used to stand in the area, became known as a hub where creatives lived and had their headquarters.

Harakado is diagonally across from its sister facility the Tokyu Plaza Omotesando or Omokado - formerly known as the Tokyu Plaza Omotesando Harajuku - which opened almost 12 years ago to the day on April 18, 2012. Kado translates to corner, and both Harakado and Omokado refer to their locations at the Jingumae intersection along Omotesando Street. Omokado is best known for its mirrored entrance, which makes for an interesting photo subject.

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Vijf jaar geleden werd er na een marathonvergadering in Brussel besloten om honderden miljarden in de Europese economie te pompen. Maar hebben die ook daadwerkelijk geholpen?

De langdurige vete tussen druzen en bedoeïenen in het zuiden van Syrië ontaardt regelmatig in dodelijk geweld. De regering heeft militairen naar het gebied gestuurd.

Na een hoopvolle en strijdvaardige eerste helft tegen Frankrijk was het pijpje van het Nederlands elftal snel leeg. Het mislukte avontuur op het EK in Zwitserland kent een lange voorgeschiedenis.

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A Bushells tea tin with images of Australian animals alongside an old kitchen Ansonia mantel clock , items from the country's past .

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At an Amazon warehouse that employs 3,700 people, hundreds of workers recently lost their job, reports the New York Times.

"They are among thousands of foreign workers across the country who have been swept up in a quiet purge, pushed out of jobs in places where their labor was in high demand and at times won high praise."

While raids to nab workers in the country without legal permission in fields and Home Depot parking lots have grabbed attention, the job dismissals at the Amazon warehouse are part of the Trump administration's effort to thin the ranks of immigrants who had legal authorization to work... Such dismissals are happening at many of Amazon's more than 1,000 facilities around the country, including in Massachusetts and the warehouse in Staten Island that fills orders for millions of New Yorkers. At one fulfillment center in Florida, hundreds were let go, a person familiar with the site said... "We're supporting employees impacted by the government's recent changes in immigration policy," Richard Rocha, an Amazon spokesperson, said in a statement. The company has pointed workers to various resources, including outside free or low-cost legal services...

The dismissals came with remarkable speed. On May 30, the Supreme Court granted temporary approval for the Trump administration to revoke a program known as "humanitarian parole," which had allowed more than 500,000 migrants feeling political turmoil in Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela to quickly get work permits if they had a fiscal sponsor... On June 12, the Department of Homeland Security said it had begun notifying enrollees that the program was ending, saying the immigrants had been poorly vetted and undercut American workers...

On June 22, Amazon told managers around the country in an email, which was obtained by The New York Times, that it had "received the first list from D.H.S. identifying impacted Amazon employees" from the parole program, as well as "some employees outside of this specific program whose work authorization is similarly affected." Amazon let the managers know that the next day, the affected workers would receive push notifications in the employee app about the change. Unless the workers could provide alternate work authorization documents in the next five days, they would be suspended without pay and ultimately dismissed.

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Brian Witten, VP/CSO of automotive technology supplier Aptiv, warns that "While seven to 10 years may sound like a long way off, preparation for quantum threats must begin now, not once they have already materialized."

Organizations need time to implement post-quantum cryptography (PQC) transition plans methodically — and that applies both to anyone with an IT infrastructure and to anyone building software-defined systems. "Current encryption, such as RSA and ECC [elliptic curve cryptography], will become obsolete once quantum computing matures," said Cigent cofounder John Benkert. "Management often assumes cybersecurity threats are only present-day problems. But this is a future-proofing issue — especially relevant for industries dealing with sensitive, long-lifespan data, like healthcare, finance or government." Remediation requires long-term planning. Organizations that wait until quantum computers have broken encryption to address the threat will find that it is too late.

Start by building an inventory of what needs to change, Witten recommends. (Fortunately, "It's a matter of using newer and different chips and algorithms, not necessarily more expensive components," he writes, also suggesting requests for proposals "should ask vendors to include a PQC update plan.")

Firmware will also need quantum-resistant digital signatures. ("Broken authentication lets bad things happen. Someone could remotely take over a vehicle, for instance, or send malicious code for autonomous execution later, even after the vehicle has gone offline.") And remember that post-quantum key sizes are larger, requiring more storage space. "In some cases, digitally signed messages with security information could triple in size, which could impact storage and bandwidth."

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WASHINGTON (ANP) - De Amerikaanse president Donald Trump gaat Patriot-luchtverdedigingsraketten sturen naar Oekraïne zodat het zich kan verdedigen tegen Russische aanvallen. Dat kondigde hij zondag aan tegen journalisten op de luchtmachtbasis Andrews in Maryland, even buiten Washington.

"We zullen ze Patriots sturen, waar ze wanhopig behoefte aan hebben", zei de president. Trump zei niet hoeveel raketten hij gaat sturen. Hij bekritiseerde de Russische president Vladimir Poetin, die volgens hem "aardig praat en 's avonds bommen stuurt".

Trump zei dat de VS er niet voor betalen. Onder andere Duitsland heeft zich vorige week bereid verklaard Patriots voor Oekraïne te kopen. De raketten kunnen worden ingezet om vliegtuigen, helikopters, drones en raketten uit de lucht te schieten.