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Apple is cutting more than 200 jobs as it shifts resources toward a rebuilt, AI-powered Siri and other future products. Roughly 100 positions are being eliminated from the Vision Pro organization, including much of its gaming team and some immersive-video staff. Another 100 cuts are hitting the Siri and software teams. Bloomberg reports: In a statement, Apple acknowledged that it was realigning some teams "to evolve our business to deliver the best experiences for our users." "While we will create new roles as part of this change, it will also impact a limited number of existing roles," the company said. "We are grateful to these team members for their contributions, and we are committed to supporting them throughout their transition, including opportunities to apply for other roles at Apple."

The Siri reshuffling is tied to an upcoming AI-infused version of the assistant, which is built on a new technical architecture. That shift requires a change in the necessary expertise, prompting the company to eliminate a small number of existing roles, reallocate resources and create new positions supporting the updated Siri.

The changes to the Intelligent Systems Experience team reflect an effort to reorganize work on AI-powered capabilities. As more groups bring AI functions to apps, features and services, Apple is realigning teams to match priorities and accelerate development. The restructuring will eliminate some existing positions while creating new roles.

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The event feted its 25 year anniversary with labels like Zambesi, promising emerging designers and an explosion of Māori and Indigenous culture

New Zealand fashion week took place in Auckland this week at the heritage-listed Shed 10 on Waitemata harbour and other venues across the city. Founded by Dame Pieter Stewart in 2001, now run by entrepreneur Feroz Ali, the 25th anniversary featured a mix of established names, exciting newcomers and a dramatically enhanced Indigenous program. The event boasted three separate group showcases of creatives from not just the Pacific region, but India, Taiwan and the US, in addition to the inaugural New Zealand Indigenous fashion symposium.

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Thirty finalists were selected from more than 1,000 entries in the 2026 photographic competition which has a $30,000 cash prize for first place. This year’s winner is Nathan Beard’s portrait of his Thai-born aunt Mae Khong, who was recuperating after a debilitating fall. Judges said Beard’s portrait has an ‘immediate and compelling emotional pull’ and offers an insight into the relationship between the artist and subject. The exhibition is on now at the National Portrait Gallery in Canberra

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How Baban Hussain’s online hit, remixed by Australian producer, launched the Kurdish New Zealander to global fame

Two months ago, Baban Hussain, a 22-year-old Kurdish New Zealander, was working from a self-run studio in Auckland, putting out music to a few thousand followers as little-known rapper Fat Papi.

Then, as modern fairytales go, he made a viral hit that has amassed over 7.5bn views across YouTube, gained him nearly 10m new monthly listeners on Spotify, and catapulted him on to global charts – including the US Billboard Hot 100.

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Chow Hang-tung has been detained since 2021, and written about everything from clothes to Tiananmen Square and the meaning of freedom

• Tiananmen Square vigil organisers in Hong Kong found guilty of ‘inciting subversion’

In one essay written from prison, Chow Hang-tung worries about her hairstyle before court appearances because there are no combs or mirrors in her cell.

“In a place like prison, where anything that is personal is stripped away, it’s even more important to hold on to every means by which you can express yourself,” she writes. “Don’t let uniform, depersonalised rules, dress codes, schedules, and behavioural requirements grind down your edges and mould you into a ‘model citizen’”.

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De afgelopen weken genieten mijn man en ik van de mensen die we ontmoeten tijdens onze reis door het buitenland en hun uiteenlopende eetgewoonten.

Je krijgt een paar cijfers cadeau, maar het grid van 9x9 moet foutloos ingevuld worden.

Een kruiswoordpuzzel, maar dan heel klein (en snel).

Een Precies Vier bestaat uit 16 woorden, begrippen of namen, die moeten worden verdeeld in precies vier groepen van vier. Er is telkens maar één oplossing mogelijk. Welke woorden vormen een connectie?

One of the best ways to lower your AWS bill by 99 percent or more is by not checking your keys into public GitHub repositories. Many of us have done this inadvertently over the years, and the defenses against it have improved dramatically (my personal favorite being "using non-ephemeral credentials derived from OIDC or SSO is an anti-pattern"), but it still happens. On Friday, BleepingComputer reported on a Truffle Security finding that hundreds of leaked AWS keys are root keys and are somehow still active and valid. AWS Security is full of very smart people who care deeply about a number of things, including "not abetting crime." If they detect (usually via automated means) that a credential has been leaked, they're quick to apply a Quarantine Policy to it. Trouble is, that policy enumerates a bunch of bad behaviors in an ever-expanding graph of principals and associated behaviors. AWS' considered position on this is that they don't want to break customer environments: "The policy aims to limit the potential damage that may be caused by fraud-related activity leading to unauthorized charges, while not impacting the existing resources." AWS' considered position on this is wrong. If I get access to your credentials (much less a root credential, good god), deactivating them may very well break your workload because anything that relies on those credentials will start failing. Until you rotate them, those workloads will continue to fail. That's not good! But I promise you, as a bad actor, I can do far worse to you. Hold my tea Go ahead and apply a quarantine policy to a credential set and toss it my way. I won't be able to buy savings plans, read your S3 data, modify Lambda functions, and do a host of other things. But here's what I can do. Anything I damn well feel like on RDS. You don't have anything important in databases, right? ssm:SendCommand / ssm:StartSession are permitted, which means I can run commands as root on EC2 instances, which will in turn invoke with that instance role’s permissions. sts:AssumeRole means that I can assume any other role in the account and get its permissions, rendering the entire restriction list potentially moot. I can use autoscaling:CreateAutoScalingGroup / UpdateAutoScalingGroup to launch instances via the Auto Scaling service-linked role, so the ec2:RunInstances deny never applies. cloudtrail:LookupEvents gets denied (that'll stop you from... reading the audit log), but I can call both cloudtrail:StopLogging and DeleteTrail which do exactly what you expect; you don't have an audit log anymore. SES denies ses:GetSendQuota / ListIdentities actions, but y'know what's missing? SendEmail, so I can blast my spam out to your entire list. sns:GetSMSAttributes means I can't get your SMS configuration, but I can absolutely sns:Publish to send fraudulent text messages wherever I'd like. s3:DeleteObject gets denied, but s3:PutObject is allowed. I can't delete your data, but I can fill a bucket to petabytes. Next, they fail to block s3:PutBucketVersioning, s3:PutObjectLockConfiguration, s3:PutObjectRetention, and s3:PutObjectLegalHold. So on any existing bucket, like that one I just stuffed petabytes into, I can enable versioning, turn on Object Lock, and set a bucket-default COMPLIANCE-mode retention out to 2126, or alternatively slap it on per object. COMPLIANCE retention can't be shortened or removed by anyone, including the account root and AWS Support. The only way to remove it is to delete the entire AWS account. secretsmanager:GetSecretValue, ssm:GetParameter* (WithDecryption), and kms:Decrypt are all unencumbered, so your secrets are now my secrets. Sharing is good! Backups are important, so it's a shame you don't have any. Well, not after I kick off backup:DeleteRecoveryPoint / DeleteBackupVault, and rds:DeleteDBSnapshot. If you're using CloudFormation, and for some things you almost certainly are, cloudformation:DeleteStack going unmentioned means you're not using it anymore and all of your stacks are gone. I would make different choices This isn't a comprehensive list - just a few things that occurred to me over the course of about an hour. I'm not a bad actor; I'm almost positive that I'm missing a whole bunch. AWS is almost certainly going to change this. My question for them is simply, "how big of a customer incident needs to happen before you do?" ®

Weer voor Rotterdam ☁️ - 22-08-2026 01:15 CEST

In één oogopslag:
• 17.3°C · Gedeeltelijk bewolkt ☁️ | Min 16.0°C / Max 20.7°C | Kans op neerslag 38%

Verwachting voor vandaag:
• Min 16.0°C, Max 20.7°C (Matige motregen) 🌦️, Neerslag 1.5 mm, Kans op neerslag 38%, 🧭 1018.9 hPa ↗️ +4.6 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 15.1 km/u (4.2 m/s), richting: ↘ 318°

Uurlijkse voorspelling voor de komende 12 uur:

• 02:00: 16.8°C (Helder) 🌕, Kans op neerslag 27%, 🧭 1014.3 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 5.8 km/u (1.6 m/s), richting: ↘ 330°
• 03:00: 16.7°C (Gedeeltelijk bewolkt) ☁️, Kans op neerslag 28%, 🧭 1014.5 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 4.3 km/u (1.2 m/s), richting: ↘ 299°
• 04:00: 16.6°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, Kans op neerslag 27%, 🧭 1014.7 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 5.8 km/u (1.6 m/s), richting: → 292°
• 05:00: 16.3°C (Helder) 🌕, Kans op neerslag 31%, 🧭 1015.0 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 9.0 km/u (2.5 m/s), richting: ↘ 302°
• 06:00: 15.3°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, Kans op neerslag 47%, 🧭 1015.6 hPa ↗️ +0.6 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 10.4 km/u (2.9 m/s), richting: ↓ 353°
• 07:00: 15.1°C (Lichte motregen) 🌦️, Neerslag 0.2 mm, Kans op neerslag 68%, 🧭 1015.9 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 9.0 km/u (2.5 m/s), richting: ↓ 342°
• 08:00: 15.6°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, Kans op neerslag 84%, 🧭 1016.8 hPa ↗️ +0.9 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 5.0 km/u (1.4 m/s), richting: ↓ 356°
• 09:00: 17.1°C (Zonnig) ☀️, Kans op neerslag 91%, 🧭 1017.6 hPa ↗️ +0.8 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 5.0 km/u (1.4 m/s), richting: ↘ 319°
• 10:00: 15.8°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, Kans op neerslag 94%, 🧭 1018.3 hPa ↗️ +0.7 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 18.7 km/u (5.2 m/s), richting: ↓ 348°
• 11:00: 15.1°C (Lichte motregen) 🌦️, Neerslag 0.2 mm, Kans op neerslag 94%, 🧭 1018.9 hPa ↗️ +0.6 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 10.1 km/u (2.8 m/s), richting: ↙ 42°
• 12:00: 16.8°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, Kans op neerslag 94%, 🧭 1019.3 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 4.0 km/u (1.1 m/s), richting: ↙ 57°
• 13:00: 18.4°C (Licht bewolkt) 🌤️, Kans op neerslag 92%, 🧭 1019.6 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 15.1 km/u (4.2 m/s), richting: ↘ 333°

Voorspelling voor de komende dagen:

• zondag 23 augustus: Min 15.1°C, Max 19.9°C (Lichte motregen) 🌦️, Neerslag 0.4 mm, Kans op neerslag 41%, 🧭 1024.4 hPa ↗️ +5.5 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 18.7 km/u (5.2 m/s), richting: ↘ 335°
• maandag 24 augustus: Min 15.5°C, Max 20.5°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, Kans op neerslag 2%, 🧭 1022.1 hPa ↘️ -2.3 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 15.8 km/u (4.4 m/s), richting: ↘ 335°
• dinsdag 25 augustus: Min 14.4°C, Max 20.1°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, Kans op neerslag 2%, 🧭 1014.1 hPa ↘️ -8.0 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 14.0 km/u (3.9 m/s), richting: ← 81°
• woensdag 26 augustus: Min 13.6°C, Max 20.3°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, Kans op neerslag 7%, 🧭 1012.2 hPa ↘️ -1.9 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 13.6 km/u (3.8 m/s), richting: ← 82°
• donderdag 27 augustus: Min 15.5°C, Max 22.9°C (Lichte motregen) 🌦️, Neerslag 0.9 mm, Kans op neerslag 28%, 🧭 1009.1 hPa ↘️ -3.1 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 8.4 km/u (2.3 m/s), richting: ↖ 114°
• vrijdag 28 augustus: Min 18.0°C, Max 24.8°C (Lichte onweersbui) ⛈️, Neerslag 6.6 mm, Kans op neerslag 44%, 🧭 1006.2 hPa ↘️ -2.9 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 13.9 km/u (3.9 m/s), richting: ↖ 147°

Details:
• 🌡️ Huidige temperatuur (om 01:15): 17.3°C (Gedeeltelijk bewolkt)
• 🤚 Gevoelstemperatuur: 16.0°C (-1.3°C)
• 💨 Windsnelheid: 6.8 km/u (1.9 m/s), richting: ↓ 350°
• 🌬️ Windstoten: 12.2 km/h (3.4 m/s)
• 💧 Luchtvochtigheid: 66%
• 🧭 Luchtdruk: 1014.3 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/3h
• 👁️ Zichtbaarheid: 50.0 km
• ☀️ UV-index: 0.0
• 🌅 Zonsopgang: 06:36 · 🌇 Zonsondergang: 20:54

Luchtkwaliteit:
• AQI: 25 🟢 (Goed)
• PM2.5: 4.2 μg/m³
• PM10: 8.5 μg/m³

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