As collector Jochen Raiß (1969-2022) scoured flea markets and antique stalls for the better part of three decades for snapshots, he began to notice a running theme. Over time, he amassed a trove of photos by anonymous photographers with an unusually high number of portraits of women posing in trees. Swiss newspaper Züricher Tagesanzeiger asked, “What are they all doing up there?” And German paper Der Spiegel posited that the arbor-climbing might be a “forgotten popular sport.” Whatever the reason, the mystery is nearly as fun as the photos.
A hardcover edition of Women in Trees from Hatje Cantz, published in German and English, follows two titles published in 2016 and 2017 that celebrate these quirky images. Find your copy on the publisher’s website.
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Data theft and extortion group ShinyHunters claims to have exploited a critical Oracle PeopleSoft bug as a zero-day to compromise more than 100 organizations, including the University of Nottingham, across 300 vulnerable instances. A spokesperson for the cybercrime crew on Thursday told The Register that they exploited CVE-2026-35273 to break into the university’s PeopleSoft system and steal 40 GB of personal data and billing records belonging to hundreds of thousands of current and former students. ShinyHunters posted the UK university on its data leak site on Tuesday before publishing the stolen files later that same day, presumably because the school refused to pay the extortion demand. “University of Nottingham on our leak site is one of the first publicly confirmed incidents,” a ShinyHunters spokesperson told us. “We have only just started outreach to affected orgs and are actively looking to reach an agreement with affected orgs.” They didn’t say when they planned to post the other 100 or so claimed victims. PeopleSoft is a widely used enterprise software suite that large corporations and institutions use to manage their human resources, payroll and billing applications, supply chains, and student records. CVE-2026-35273 is a 9.8 CVSS-rated vulnerability that allows remote, unauthenticated attackers with network access via HTTP to compromise PeopleSoft Enterprise PeopleTools and fully take over the platform. On Wednesday, a day after ShinyHunters leaked the school’s data, the University of Nottingham confirmed the breach and Oracle issued an out-of-band security alert. It’s unclear, however, if the software provider has issued a patch to fix the security flaw. The Register reached out to Oracle, and did not receive any response to our questions. Google-owned Mandiant Chief Technology Officer Charles Carmakal, in a brief LinkedIn post on Thursday, warned that PeopleSoft was one of two zero-day vulnerabilities “actively being exploited in the wild.” “Oracle released mitigations,” Carmakal wrote. “Patches should come soon.” The other zero-day, for the record, is this Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Manager vulnerability.®
Mexico heeft donderdagavond officieel het WK in Noord-Amerika geopend. In het Azteca-stadion in Mexico Stad, waar straks de eerste wedstrijd tussen Mexico en Zuid-Afrika gespeeld…
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Google Careers, one of the world's most recognized employer brands, approached this project with a clear challenge: to evolve its platform into a more mature, contemporary, and emotionally resonant experience, while staying true to Google's spirit.
Lewis Hamilton admits "never say never" with regards to challenging Mercedes for this year's Formula 1 title, with the Briton confident of pushing Ferrari further in the right direction ahead of this weekend's Barcelona-Catalunya Grand Prix.
Pirelli will remain the single tyre supplier for the FIA Formula One World Championship until 2028, after the FIA exercised the option to extend the current contract by mutual agreement with Formula 1 and Pirelli.
Fernando Alonso first tasted victory on home soil 20 years ago. Now at Aston Martin his drive to succeed is as strong as it ever was.
For his great visual field guide to the chili peppers of the world, Erik Gauger hand-drew 176 peppers from India, South America, Korea, Thailand, Africa, and seemingly every other place on the Earth.
Capsaicin, the compound that makes chili peppers hot is an evolutionary filter designed to punish mammals and reward birds. Mammals feel it as pain because mammal digestion destroys seeds. Birds don’t have the receptor that detects it, so they eat the fruit, fly off, and deposit the seeds far from the plant from which they ate. The plant needed birds, and birds didn’t mind the heat, because to them there was no heat to mind.
What we’ve built from that, from the paprika, the Thai bird’s eye, the ancho, the chocolate habanero, began as a dispersal mechanism. Humans entered the picture late and changed almost everything about the pepper’s form, flavor, and range. But the underlying logic is still there in every fruit: a molecule that says no to the animals who won’t deliver their seeds far from the tree.
Each drawing is accompanied by a description of the pepper, where it originated, the heat level, and even what hot sauces feature it.
See also Gauger’s Hot Sauces of the World page & poster.
Tags: art · Erik Gauger · food · illustration
Welkom op het WK voetbal 2026 in de Verenigde Staten, Canada en Mexico, maar vooral in de Verenigde Staten. Het land was deaud maar is nu grootser dan ooit tevoren, iedereen is rijk, iedereen is blij en iedereen is gezond omdat Donald Trump, de knapste man van de wereld, hielp. We krijgen het geweldigste, Greatste, meest fantastische WK ooit aller tijden ever. Sommige mensen zeggen nu al dat dit het beste WK is. We denken dat ze GELIJK hebben. Maar de Fake News Media willen het niet toegeven. Iedereen met verstand kent gelukkig DE WAARHEID. Dank u voor uw aandacht voor deze kwestie!
Nu we de Truth gehad hebben en de VREDE dichtbij is kunnen we gaan voetballen. Want vanaf nu is het AAN en leeft iedereen MEE, pomp Shakira Shakira op standje gehoorbeschadiging, koel de kelen met koud bier, ga lekker zitten voor Haïti tegen Ecuador en Bosnië en Herzegovina tegen Panama, we hebben al het gezeik gehad, Infantino heeft een kale kontkop, vergeet de pessimisten, de FIFA-Vredesprijs is vergeven, Iran doet ook gezellig mee want voetbal is vree, we zijn de douane door en nu moet Oranje door, dus maak u klaar voor oranjestraten, oranjefeesten, 40 graden oranjekoorts, Koemania, Weghorstwaanzin, Gakpogoals, Frenkie Taka, WILLEM VISSERS, nachtelijk vuurwerk, De GeenStijl WK-poule en, zondag, Nederland tegen Japan. Maar eerst De Opening: Mexico tegen Zuid-Afrika. Een heel fijn WK voor iedereen die het viert. Proost en veel plezier ermee!
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A software update to some Amazon delivery vehicles is automatically turning off the air conditioning after a few seconds if the driver is not in their seat, according to multiple Amazon delivery drivers who are complaining about the update online.
According to Amazon delivery drivers, the new update is for the Amazon EDV (electric delivery vehicle), the custom-built Rivian van. Delivery drivers say that this update automatically turns off the air conditioning in the van if the driver is not in the vehicle for more than 30 seconds. Drivers are complaining about the update as the start of the summer season, which can be particularly difficult and dangerous for delivery drivers.
“As many of you are aware, the EDVs just got a software update where if you are out of your seat for 30 seconds with the side door open, the AC switches off,” one Amazon delivery driver said in an online forum for drivers. “We all hate this obviously.”
When reached for comment an Amazon spokesperson said that the premise of my questions to the company was inaccurate, but conceded that the van will turn off the AC after 30 seconds under certain conditions that are commonplace during Amazon delivery shifts.
“Rivian recently released a software update for Electric Delivery Vehicles that actually extends climate control for drivers,” the Amazon spokesperson said. “As a result, the AC now runs for up to 10 minutes after a driver exits the vehicle, ensuring a cool cabin when they return. The timer resets at every stop. The AC only shuts off if the driver sliding door is left open for more than 30 seconds — a battery conservation measure.”
Amazon delivery drivers discussing the update online say that they are getting in and out of the van so frequently, and are spending most of their time out of the van delivering packages, that the update makes it harder to keep the van cool.
“Thing is we are up and about waaaay longer than we are driving so the ac turns off and when it turns on again we are already getting up before im the air is even cold,” one driver said. “It effectively made the ac not work and those vans get hot as fuuuck.”
Older delivery trucks may not have air conditioning or have air conditioning that breaks often. Delivery drivers for UPS, who are represented by the Teamsters union, negotiated a heat safety agreement with the company in 2023. Amazon has publicly outlined its strategy for keeping all its workers, including delivery drivers, safe during the heat, including using an app to ask drivers to take 10-minute break from the heat by resting in a cool place and drinking water, but Amazon delivery drivers are managed by a nationwide network of subcontractors who drivers say don’t always maintain those standards.
As you’ve probably seen in your own neighborhood, delivery drivers will often park their vans wherever they can and deliver packages to multiple addresses on the same block. Amazon automatically turning off the air conditioning while they are out of the van delivering packages means the van can get hot again by the time they get back. As Amazon delivery drivers have to make frequent stops, it’s not hard to imagine why drivers would complain about Amazon automatically shutting down the AC, which makes it more difficult to cool down between stops.
Halsoverkop moesten in december 110 mensen hun huis uit, omdat de vloer van bijna vijftig woningen in flats in Rotterdam-Prins Alexander het weleens kon begeven. Nu is er nog meer slecht nieuws: het gaat drie jaar duren voordat iedereen weer terug kan. Toch zijn er ook lichtpuntjes.
Xbox CEO Asha Sharma and Chief Content Officer Matt Booty told staff that Xbox's current economics "cannot continue," citing more than $20 billion in spending over five years, declining revenue outside Activision Blizzard King, console supply constraints tied to RAMaggedon, and an overextended studio portfolio. The memo stops short of announcing layoffs, but a Bloomberg report says substantial Xbox cuts are expected after Microsoft's fiscal year ends on June 30. Engadget reports: The takeaways are pretty grim. For starters, the simple math of Xbox's revenue isn't adding up to success. "Excluding Activision Blizzard King, over the past five years, we have spent over $20 billion on ongoing investments in our content, platform, and hardware subsidy, but our annual revenue has declined nearly half a billion during that time," the execs state. "Going forward, this cannot continue." They also acknowledge the impact of RAMaggedon: "We are currently unable to make as many consoles as players want to buy, and we need a new business model and partnerships for hardware as we remain committed to Helix." (Helix, in this case, is Project Helix, the codename for Xbox's new console.)
Then there's the kicker, a renewed admission that Xbox still can't support the many studios it acquired in the late 2010s in an effort to grow its first-party game ambitions. "We have found ourselves over extended as we executed on changing strategies in a landscape of more readily available content," the pair said, noting elsewhere that with so many good games, not to mention the plethora of other forms of entertainment available, "Going forward, our competition is attention."
Then there's the kicker, a renewed admission that Xbox still can't support the many studios it acquired in the late 2010s in an effort to grow its first-party game ambitions. "We have found ourselves over extended as we executed on changing strategies in a landscape of more readily available content," the pair said, noting elsewhere that with so many good games, not to mention the plethora of other forms of entertainment available, "Going forward, our competition is attention."
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