This photo of an Icelandic glacier is really something.
The People Who Shun Super-Popular Pop Culture. “Some people are early adopters; others are late adopters. I’m simply a weirdly resistant one.”
DEN HAAG (ANP) - De helft van de ondernemers in Nederland die met het buitenland handelen, heeft last van het beleid van de Amerikaanse president Donald Trump. Ondernemers ervaren zijn handelsbeleid als hun grootste geopolitieke uitdaging. Dat meldt de Rijksdienst voor Ondernemend Nederland (RVO) in zijn jaarlijkse onderzoek over internationale handel.
In het afgelopen jaar heeft Trump meerdere keren gedreigd handelspartners als de EU en bepaalde sectoren importheffingen op te leggen. Dit zorgt volgens de RVO bij 40 procent van de ondervraagden voor meer onzekerheid in de handelsrelatie. Daarnaast krijgen bijna drie op de tien ondernemers te maken met hogere kosten en zien bijna twee op de tien de export naar de Verenigde Staten teruglopen door Trumps beleid.
Ook hebben ondernemers nog altijd last van de oorlog tussen Rusland en Oekraïne. Het gaat om 40 procent van de 1162 ondernemers die meededen aan het onderzoek. Wel neemt de invloed elk jaar af. In 2022, het jaar dat de oorlog begon, ging het nog om 62 procent. Verder zegt 44 procent van de ondernemers digitale dreigingen te ervaren, vooral op het gebied van cybersecurity en databeveiliging.
Positieve punten
Ondernemers zien ook positieve punten. Ondanks de geopolitieke spanningen en economische onzekerheden blijft het Nederlandse bedrijfsleven positief over de exportvooruitzichten, constateert de RVO. Van de ondervraagde ondernemers geeft 79 procent aan erop te vertrouwen dat hun export in de nabije toekomst groeit. Dat sluit volgens de rijksdienst aan bij de ontwikkelingen in 2025. Het exportvolume van 45 procent van de respondenten is gestegen vergeleken met 2024.
Sommige ondernemers zien daarnaast kansen door de ontwikkelingen in de wereld. Een kwart wijst naar de hogere defensie-uitgaven om aan de verhoogde NAVO-norm te voldoen. Daarbij gaat het onder meer over het leveren van textiel aan Defensie en hulp bij het aanschaffen van groot materieel, zoals onderzeeboten.
Een woordvoerster van de RVO laat weten dat de ondernemers afgelopen december zijn ondervraagd. Dat is dus nog voordat de Iranoorlog begon.
CINCINNATI (ANP/BLOOMBERG) - De Amerikaanse president Donald Trump heeft aangegeven dat hij olie wil vrijgeven uit de strategische reserve die de Verenigde Staten aanhouden. Hij zei te verwachten dat dit de brandstofprijzen omlaag brengt.
"We gaan dat doen, en daarna vullen we het weer", zei Trump tegen de lokale televisiezender WKRC over het vrijgeven van olie uit de voorraad. "Ik heb het eerder gevuld, en ik vul het opnieuw."
Olie is hard in prijs gestegen sinds het begin van de aanvallen van de Verenigde Staten en Israël op Iran. Dat laatste land houdt scheepsverkeer bij de Straat van Hormuz feitelijk tegen, waardoor de toevoer van olie en lng uit de Golfstaten stokt.
Grammarly has disabled its Expert Review feature after backlash from writers whose names were used to present AI-generated feedback without their permission. Superhuman (formerly Grammarly) CEO Shishir Mehrotra wrote in a LinkedIn post that the company will disable Expert Review while they "reimagine" the feature: Back in August, we launched a Grammarly agent called Expert Review. The agent draws on publicly available information from third-party LLMs to surface writing suggestions inspired by the published work of influential voices.
Over the past week, we received valid critical feedback from experts who are concerned that the agent misrepresented their voices. This kind of scrutiny improves our products, and we take it seriously. As context, the agent was designed to help users discover influential perspectives and scholarship relevant to their work, while also providing meaningful ways for experts to build deeper relationships with their fans. We hear the feedback and recognize we fell short on this. I want to apologize and acknowledge that we'll rethink our approach going forward.
After careful consideration, we have decided to disable Expert Review while we reimagine the feature to make it more useful for users, while giving experts real control over how they want to be represented -- or not represented at all.
We deeply believe in our mission to solve the "last mile of AI" by bringing AI directly to where people work, and we see this as a significant opportunity for experts. For millions of users, Grammarly is a trusted writing sidekick -- ever-present in every application, ready to help. We're opening up this platform so anyone can build agents that work like Grammarly -- expanding from one sidekick to a whole team. Imagine your professor sharpening your essay, your sales leader reshaping a customer pitch, a thoughtful critic challenging your arguments, or a leading expert elevating your proposal. For experts, this is a chance to build that same ubiquitous bond with users, much like Grammarly has. But in this world, experts choose to participate, shape how their knowledge is represented, and control their business model. That future excites me, and I hope to build it with experts who want to develop it alongside us.
Over the past week, we received valid critical feedback from experts who are concerned that the agent misrepresented their voices. This kind of scrutiny improves our products, and we take it seriously. As context, the agent was designed to help users discover influential perspectives and scholarship relevant to their work, while also providing meaningful ways for experts to build deeper relationships with their fans. We hear the feedback and recognize we fell short on this. I want to apologize and acknowledge that we'll rethink our approach going forward.
After careful consideration, we have decided to disable Expert Review while we reimagine the feature to make it more useful for users, while giving experts real control over how they want to be represented -- or not represented at all.
We deeply believe in our mission to solve the "last mile of AI" by bringing AI directly to where people work, and we see this as a significant opportunity for experts. For millions of users, Grammarly is a trusted writing sidekick -- ever-present in every application, ready to help. We're opening up this platform so anyone can build agents that work like Grammarly -- expanding from one sidekick to a whole team. Imagine your professor sharpening your essay, your sales leader reshaping a customer pitch, a thoughtful critic challenging your arguments, or a leading expert elevating your proposal. For experts, this is a chance to build that same ubiquitous bond with users, much like Grammarly has. But in this world, experts choose to participate, shape how their knowledge is represented, and control their business model. That future excites me, and I hope to build it with experts who want to develop it alongside us.
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A Swiss e-voting pilot was suspended after officials couldn't decrypt 2,048 ballots because the USB keys needed to unlock them failed. "Three USB sticks were used, all with the correct code, but none of them worked," spokesperson Marco Greiner told the Swiss Broadcasting Corporation's Swissinfo service. The canton government says it "deeply regrets" the incident and has launched an investigation with authorities. The Register reports: Basel-Stadt announced the problem with its e-voting pilot, open to about 10,300 locals living abroad and 30 people with disabilities, last Friday afternoon. It encouraged participants to deliver a paper vote to the town hall or use a polling station but admitted this would not be possible for many. By the close of polling on Sunday, its e-voting system had collected 2,048 votes, but Basel-Stadt officials were not able to decrypt them with the hardware provided, despite the involvement of IT experts. [...]
The votes made up less than 4 percent of those cast in Basel-Stadt and would not have changed any results, but the canton is delaying confirmation of voting figures until March 21 and suspending its e-voting pilot until the end of December, while its public prosecutor's office has started criminal proceedings. The country's Federal Chancellery said e-voting in three other cantons -- Thurgau, Graubunden, and St Gallen -- along with the nationally used Swiss Post e-voting system, had not been affected.
The votes made up less than 4 percent of those cast in Basel-Stadt and would not have changed any results, but the canton is delaying confirmation of voting figures until March 21 and suspending its e-voting pilot until the end of December, while its public prosecutor's office has started criminal proceedings. The country's Federal Chancellery said e-voting in three other cantons -- Thurgau, Graubunden, and St Gallen -- along with the nationally used Swiss Post e-voting system, had not been affected.
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State news published a list of nearly 30 sites that could be targeted
Iran has reportedly designated Amazon, Google, IBM, Microsoft, Nvidia, Oracle, and Palantir facilities as legitimate targets of retaliatory strikes, according to an Al Jazeera report citing Iran’s state-affiliated Tasnim news agency.…
Spanish driver Natalia Granada is joining the 2026 F1 ACADEMY grid for her rookie season and will compete in the ‘SEPHORA operated by PREMA’ car.
Inference Tax: Why Python Kills Your AI Agent Profitability, And How I Built a Nervous System in C++
In 2026, the success of AI agents isn't defined by prompts, but by inference economics. The standard Python ML stack creates a "performance tax" that makes real-time Edge AI fundamentally unprofitable. In this article, I break down the anatomy of this tax and how I engineered a C++ nervous system to slash latency by 64x—paving the way for the sovereign brain: PraetorAI.
Authors like me are being targeted by AI-powered accounts promising exposure and fake reviews
My latest book had been out for less than a month when the emails started to arrive.
One came from “Elena”, with the tantalising subject line, “When history flutters its wings and reveals a crime too beautiful to ignore.” Then followed a long, florid message about how it was “one of those rare true stories that makes you question everything you thought you knew about history, museums, and human obsession”.
Continue reading...At least there was no public humiliation for Filip Jörgensen from his manager. But while Liam Rosenior did not do an Igor Tudor and hook his goalkeeper, this hurt. It is why a goalkeeper passing out from the back only looks clever until the moment it goes wrong.
Above all, it was tough for Chelsea to take. They impressed at the Parc des Princes, twice pegging Paris Saint-Germain back, but there was no escaping the reality that the focus was on the moment Jörgensen’s stray ball out gifted the European champions the advantage in this last-16 Champions League tie.
Continue reading...Federico Valverde was the Real Madrid hero who wrote himself into this storied club’s folklore with an immortal first-half, 22-minute hat-trick that decimated Manchester City and cast Pep Guardiola as a tactical novice.
Each of Valverde’s goals were a diagram of his supreme skill and City’s chump-like defending that leaves their hopes of a quarter-final berth near extinct. If Vinícius Júnior had netted a second-half penalty Real could all but celebrate progression, yet if City score early in Tuesday’s return who knows.
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Phil Kingsbury - Thanks for 4.8 million views! has added a photo to the pool:
Apple iPhone 11
iPhone 11 back dual wide camera 4.25mm f/1.8
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Juist nu het nieuwe kabinet een taskforce voor stikstof heeft ingesteld, waarschuwen het PBL, RIVM en Wageningen University Research in een gezamenlijk rapport voor een nog te grote stikstofuitstoot. „Op de meeste locaties slaat er nog steeds meer stikstof neer dan de natuur kan verdragen.”
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