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I took this photo of the “Sanjicheon Stream Promenade” with my iPhone 17 Pro Max while visiting Jeju Island, South Korea. The stream bed was low, but I loved the bridge and the colorful seating areas along the stream. It is right across the street from the famous Dongmun Market in the heart of the city…

Kai Sato used PVC pipes and kayak paddles to try to repair his boat, and a plastic bag to collect condensation to drink

A California man was rescued alive drifting in his sailboat off Hawaii after spending 30 days stranded at sea.

Kai Sato, 39, set sail from California’s Catalina Islands on 7 June hoping to complete his first solo sail across the Pacific Ocean, he told Hawaii News Now. But his journeytook a disastrous turn when his mast snapped, and the phone he was using for navigation died.

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The work was simple: deliver letters, notices of assessment and other important legal documents, by bicycle. The locations, I came to realise, were varied and inconvenient

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A gopher is a small, solitary rodent with large front teeth native to North and Central America. It’s also the name of the job some workplaces give to errand runners (though it’s more usually spelled gofer).

When I was a 21-year-old law student in Canberra, I was in desperate need of casual work, I came across an ad pinned to one of the corkboards outside the library. Bleary-eyed after another all-nighter to finish an assignment, I took down the number of the law firm.

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A sad, heartbroken woman becomes obsessed with a famous writer in a continuously humorous and touching story from the Sorrow and Bliss author

The protagonist of Meg Mason’s new book, the follow-up to the 2020 tragicomedy Sorrow and Bliss, is an invisible woman. She might well be standing there but you won’t notice her. She’s a techie at literary festivals – the person who shuffles up to a famous writer a few minutes before their event and apologetically slides a microphone cable down their shirt while they’re making small talk with the chair or accepting a bottle of room-temperature mineral water from an anxious publicist.

No man is a hero to his valet, and no writer is a hero to the technical staff lurking in the wings of a venue. Mason’s opening pages present a teasing but not quite libellous series of cameos of real writers: George Saunders deciding at an inconsiderately late stage to insist on swapping his headset for a lapel mic; Ann Patchett being frosty with a fan; Mick Herron accidentally stepping on someone’s foot and not apologising.

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As the show takes its final bow, Patrick Brammall and Harriet Dyer reflect on ‘having a ball’ playing exes while being married with kids, ignoring notes from US TV executives and having ‘big old cries’ at the end

It began, as all great romances do, with a nipple flash. When Colin from Accounts, the little comedy that could, started airing back in 2022, the world fell in love – hard and fast. It was a surprisingly prickly Australian show about Ashley, a student doctor (Harriet Dyer), and Gordon, an older, brewery owner (Patrick Brammall), who fall in love after she pops a boob at him, he hits a dog with his car, and they jointly land an astronomical vet bill and a new pet.

The show shared its name with its furriest star – full name: “Colin from accounts payable, who is working on the big merger” – and it was as charming as the title suggested, winning fans across Hollywood and the world. That Brammall and Dyer were actually a couple, now married with two kids and a dog (no wheels), just made everyone love the show even more.

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Doctors should recommend treatment accompanied by conversations about the pros and cons for the individuals who are in front of them

Weeks before major surgery, a patient cancels his appointment with our geriatric oncology service, declaring it unnecessary. An astute nurse convinces him otherwise.

In his mid-80s, the patient has been diagnosed with an early cancer. The surgeon advises that surgery would be the only cure but, noting the lack of urgency, sends him to see me. I can see why. The proposed procedure is long and complicated; in elderly people, even temporary setbacks can result in long-term effects.

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Wilson, whose work on Homer’s epic was praised by Nolan, said his film was grandiose and superficial with ‘nothing convincing to say’

Emily Wilson, the classicist whose 2017 translation of Homer’s Odyssey was cited by Christopher Nolan in early publicity for his hugely successful adaptation of the poem, has roundly criticised the film, saying “it has nothing convincing to say” and that its “lacks psychological, emotional, political and ethical depth”.

In a scathing essay for the London Review of Books, Wilson writes: “I had hoped that Nolan’s affinity with these Homeric themes might push him to new creative heights, and enable him to conjure more believable characters. But The Odyssey features his usual combination of grandiosity and superficiality … the film’s vision is too confused, its characters too underdeveloped, to deliver what it half-promises in terms of big ideas – although it is very good at conveying big bangs and big giants.”

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HAMBURG (ANP/DPA) - De politie-inzet bij een Pride-bijeenkomst zaterdag in Hamburg wordt flink opgeschaald naar aanleiding van de aanslag in Berlijn, zegt een politiewoordvoerder. Om hoeveel agenten het gaat, is niet bekend. De organisatie verwacht volgens de politie dat zo'n 250.000 mensen naar de demonstratie komen.

Zaterdag kwam een vrouw uit Polen om het leven toen een auto inreed op een menigte en raakten 29 mensen gewond.

Volgens bondskanselier Friedrich Merz werd de Pride-bijeenkomst in Berlijn "niet toevallig" gekozen door de 21-jarige dader. De Duitser met Libanese wortels, die eerder zou hebben geprobeerd zich aan te sluiten bij Islamitische Staat (IS), werd door de politie doodgeschoten.

In verschillende Europese steden worden de komende weken bijeenkomsten georganiseerd in het kader van Pride of Christopher Street Day (CSD), zoals ze in Duitsland veelal heten. Ook bij de WorldPride in Amsterdam worden "waar nodig" extra maatregelen getroffen, zei burgemeester Femke Halsema eerder.

DEN HAAG (ANP/RTR) - China is begonnen met de productie van in eigen land ontwikkelde geavanceerde chipmachines. De machines zijn belangrijk voor de productie van chips, een markt die lange tijd werd gedomineerd door de Nederlandse toeleverancier ASML. Dat meldt technieuwssite The Information maandag op basis van bronnen.

Het gaat om machines die werken met zogeheten deep ultraviolet (DUV) immersielithografie. Naar verluidt zullen de machines dit jaar worden geleverd aan toonaangevende Chinese chipfabrikanten, waaronder Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp (SMIC), Hua Hong Semiconductor en ChangXin Memory Technologies.

De naam van de door de Chinese staat gesteunde chipmachinefabrikant is vanwege de gevoeligheid van de kwestie niet bekendgemaakt. De doorbraak zou op termijn een bedreiging kunnen vormen voor de positie van ASML in China. Het systeem loopt qua prestaties en betrouwbaarheid echter nog achter en moet verder worden getest voordat massaproductie mogelijk is.

Productie beperkt

De voorsprong van het Nederlandse bedrijf blijft voorlopig dan ook intact. Daarnaast blijft de productie aanvankelijk beperkt. Dit jaar zouden ongeveer vijf DUV-machines worden geproduceerd en in 2027 circa twintig.

Op het Damrak reageerden beleggers geschrokken op het nieuws. Het aandeel ASML verloor in het laatste handelsuur 8 procent, terwijl ook branchegenoot Besi stevig onderuitging.

Wie een nieuw bed zoekt, denkt vaak automatisch in twee categorieën: een eenpersoonsbed of een tweepersoonsbed. Toch bestaat er een formaat dat precies tussen deze twee opties in valt. De twijfelaar, meestal 120 centimeter breed, wint aan populariteit. Vooral alleenstaanden, studenten en bewoners van compacte appartementen ontdekken dat dit formaat een aantrekkelijke combinatie biedt van ruimte, comfort en efficiënt gebruik van de slaapkamer.

De ontwikkeling past bij een bredere woontrend. Woningen worden gemiddeld niet groter, terwijl de behoefte aan comfort juist toeneemt. Een bed van 120 bij 200 centimeter biedt meer bewegingsvrijheid dan een standaard eenpersoonsbed, maar laat voldoende ruimte over voor andere meubels.

Meer slaapruimte voor één persoon

Een traditioneel eenpersoonsbed is doorgaans 80 of 90 centimeter breed. Dat is voor veel mensen voldoende, maar kan beperkt aanvoelen voor wie veel draait tijdens het slapen. Een matras 120x200 biedt dertig tot veertig centimeter extra breedte. Dat verschil is duidelijk merkbaar.

Voor één persoon voelt een twijfelaar royaal aan. Er is ruimte om van slaaphouding te wisselen, een boek te lezen of in het weekend ontspannen te ontbijten in bed. Tegelijkertijd neemt het bed aanzienlijk minder ruimte in dan een tweepersoonsbed van 160 of 180 centimeter breed.

Voor twee personen is het formaat minder ruim. Een breedte van 120 centimeter betekent dat iedere slaper ongeveer zestig centimeter beschikbaar heeft. Dat kan geschikt zijn voor incidentele overnachtingen, maar is meestal beperkt voor dagelijks gebruik.

Geschikt voor verschillende levensfasen

De twijfelaar wordt vaak geassocieerd met studentenkamers, maar het formaat is breder toepasbaar. Ook in een logeerkamer, tienerkamer of kleine stadswoning kan het een praktische oplossing zijn.

Voor tieners is het formaat aantrekkelijk omdat het bed kan meegroeien. Een klein kinderbed hoeft dan niet na enkele jaren opnieuw te worden vervangen. In een logeerkamer biedt de twijfelaar voldoende comfort voor één volwassen gast en eventueel ruimte voor twee personen tijdens een korte overnachting.

Alleenstaanden die in een studio of appartement wonen, kunnen met dit formaat meer vloeroppervlak vrijhouden. Die ruimte kan worden gebruikt voor een bureau, kledingkast of zitplek.

De inrichting rondom het bed

Een bed van 120 centimeter breed vraagt om een andere indeling dan een groot tweepersoonsbed. In een kleine slaapkamer kan het verstandig zijn om het bed met één lange zijde tegen de wand te plaatsen. Daardoor blijft er aan de andere kant meer loopruimte over.

Een bedframe met laden of opbergruimte onder het matras maakt de kamer nog functioneler. Hier kunnen beddengoed, kleding of koffers uit het zicht worden bewaard. Wandplanken en hanglampen voorkomen dat losse nachtkastjes onnodig veel vloeroppervlak innemen.

Wie de slaapkamer optisch groter wil laten lijken, kan kiezen voor lichte kleuren en meubels op hoge poten. Daardoor blijft meer van de vloer zichtbaar. Een groot vloerkleed kan juist helpen om het slaapgedeelte visueel van de rest van de kamer te scheiden.

Comfort blijft persoonlijk

Het juiste formaat is slechts één onderdeel van een goede nachtrust. Ook stevigheid, ventilatie en ondersteuning spelen een belangrijke rol. Lichaamsgewicht, slaaphouding en persoonlijke voorkeur bepalen welk matras prettig aanvoelt.

Een zijslaper heeft doorgaans behoefte aan voldoende drukverdeling bij de schouders en heupen. Rugslapers zoeken vaak een combinatie van ondersteuning en comfort. Daarom is het verstandig om niet alleen naar de afmetingen te kijken.

De twijfelaar is geen compromis tussen twee traditionele bedformaten, maar een volwaardige keuze. Voor wie alleen slaapt en meer ruimte wil zonder de hele slaapkamer op te offeren, kan 120 bij 200 centimeter precies de juiste balans bieden.

​Prins Bernhard van Oranje heeft al zijn panden en het circuit van Zandvoort verkocht. Hij ziet in kunstmatige intelligentie namelijk veel nieuwe kansen om zijn reputatieschade te maximaliseren.

“Ik ben natuurlijk nog altijd niet populair, maar ik voel toch al een tijdje dat mensen me niet meer zo vurig haten als voorheen. De posters met mijn gezicht als huisjesmelker verdwijnen uit de stad, ik hoor geen opmerkingen meer over de grootte van mijn bril. Het is een grote neerwaartse trend, ik moet nu heel snel uitstappen.” Daarom zet hij nu volop in op bedrijven die AI-diensten aan de markt brengen waar niemand om heeft gevraagd. “Daar zitten nu echt de kansen om mezelf weer de meest gehate man in het land te maken.”

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Your GPU dashboard says 70% utilization. On paper, the cluster is busy. In practice, a large chunk of that time is spent with your $40,000 accelerators sitting idle, waiting on a file that lives three network hops away on a NAS box. The compute queue is empty, and the pipeline is fine. The problem is that data is just somewhere else. This is the awkward truth underneath most stalled AI projects. The constraint in modern AI infrastructure stopped being storage capacity years ago. Now, it's more about data placement and access. What matters is where files live and how they get to GPUs, along with how much copying happens in between. In that sense, AI infrastructure has become less of a storage capacity problem and more of an operational data problem. The Hammerspace Data Platform takes that as its starting point. It sits between your compute and the storage you already own, from NAS to object stores and even the NVMe drives bolted into your GPU servers. It makes all of that data addressable through a single global namespace. Instead of moving data to wherever the GPUs are, the architecture makes the compute aware of where the data already lives. As a result, rather than treating each storage system as its own operational silo, Hammerspace separates the data layer from the underlying infrastructure, allowing heterogeneous storage, sites, and clouds to operate as part of the same coordinated data environment. Applications and AI pipelines access that data through standard protocols such as NFS, SMB, and S3, without proprietary clients or application rewrites. Fragmentation is the bottleneck, not bandwidth Data fragmentation is a big problem for enterprises embarking on an AI journey. Training sets are scattered across departments, sites and clouds. "The data is in disparate groups and disparate orgs and disparate silos within a company," says Jonathan Flynn, director of applied systems at Hammerspace. "Having the data in a curated data set for you just to go train is rare. It has to be collected. It has to be moved around from system to system, and then the curation needs to happen in order to actually do the training on it." The fragmentation often leaves pipelines copying and staging files between systems that were never designed to talk to each other. None of this shows up on a storage IOPS chart, but it will visibly affect training velocity. According to Gartner, 57% of organizations believe that their data isn't AI ready. Alarmingly, two thirds of executives believe that no one in their organization understands all of the data they've collected and how to access it. That seems hard to swallow, until you recall that Facebook's engineers have admitted the same thing. You can't orchestrate what you can't see. Mike Bloom, who covers AR architecture at Hammerspace, says the default vendor response makes the problem worse. "They'll go to a vendor that will promise them that if they sweep the floor and throw out all of their legacy storage arrays, their brand will solve the problem," he says, adding that's like throwing the baby out with the bath water. "Those data sets that are all over the place? They're not sitting in a corner. They're sitting on legacy storage arrays." The NVMe you already paid for There is also a less obvious idle resource in most AI environments: the NVMe inside the GPU servers themselves. A modern HGX or DGX box ships with eight to sixteen NVMe drives, each hanging off four lanes of PCIe. Almost every orchestration layer treats that capacity as local scratch space, used by one server and invisible to the rest of the cluster. Hammerspace calls this "stranded" capacity, and it is now meaningful. It amounts to hundreds of terabytes per server, with two-petabyte GPU servers on the roadmap. Pull all of it into a shared namespace and you have a new layer that Hammerspace calls Tier 0. It uses storage you already paid for, attached to a network you already deployed. Flynn argues this layer is structurally faster than anything sold as a separate appliance. "Tier one is typically oriented around storage capacity. A 2U box, 24 NVMe, or 40 NVMe with some of the Dell systems in there," he calculates. "That's 96 lanes or 192 lanes of PCI Express, with maybe one or two 400 gigabit NICs, which gives you 16 or 32 lanes. So the over subscription just in the one box is massive." His more provocative claim is that it is also the cheapest tier in the rack. The compute and the network are already there. The drives (at least in the case of customers buying GPU servers) are already in the bill of materials. Compared with racking and stacking a dedicated all-flash array, adding metadata servers and a few data movers to existing GPU nodes barely registers as a procurement event. Assimilating what you already own Ripping and replacing infrastructure takes time most teams don't have. The Hammerspace approach is assimilation, which the company describes as a metadata-only operation: scan the existing NAS, ingest the directory tree into the global namespace, and redirect mounts. The bytes never move. Hammerspace says that fast deployment is a key benefit of this approach. Data access is restored almost immediately, even while assimilation continues in the background. Underneath this, the source-of-truth NetApp, Qumulo or VAST array keeps serving the bytes, while Hammerspace presents a unified view on top. That has practical consequences. If something tagged as a training input changes from being a tier-two archive file to a hot input, a policy (Hammerspace calls this an "objective") can trigger an instance copy onto tier 0 without users having to do anything. "Nobody's running a copy. Nobody's running an rsync command," Flynn says. "It's all orchestrated based in the file system." That same orchestration layer can also support retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), inference, and agentic AI workflows, where distributed enterprise data needs to be continuously curated, governed, and made accessible without relying on large-scale data copying. Once the training job finishes, that tier 0 copy is automatically vacated. The clean-up matters because the alternative (letting a hot tier fill up) creates a quality-of-service problem for everything else trying to land there. "Other architectures that have a hot tier and a cold tier often have an issue where the hot tier becomes congested and that endangers the quality of service for the pipeline," Bloom says. “Rather than requiring organizations to rebuild infrastructure around AI, the Hammerspace approach is designed to operationalize the storage, cloud, and compute environments enterprises already have in place. Standards-based, with some asterisks Hammerspace's positioning leans heavily on the word "standard". The Samsung-Hammerspace submission that landed inside the top 10 of the IO500 10-Node Production benchmark in November 2025 used standard Linux, the upstream NFSv4.2 client, standard NVMe SSDs and IP-over-InfiniBand. There was no proprietary client, and no custom kernel modules. The company submitted its own results to MLPerf Storage v2.0 showing linear scaling out to 420.8 GB/s across 140 GPUs on five nodes with GPU utilisation above 96%. That kind of performance is not achievable with traditional NFS architectures, which struggle with the parallel access patterns common in large-scale AI environments. Instead, Hammerspace runs on parallel NFS (pNFS). Instead of letting a single server handle file metadata transfer alongside data transfer, it creates a layout map that the client can then use to transfer data from multiple servers in parallel. That became the RFC 5661 standard in 2010. Hammerspace was also instrumental in extending pNFS in NFSv4.2 in 2018, introducing the Flex Files extension. This is what lets pNFS work with real-world hetergeneous storage across cloud tiers, legacy files, and multi-site deployments. The larger implication is that open, standards-based infrastructure is no longer inherently at odds with AI-scale performance, challenging the assumption that enterprises must adopt proprietary storage stacks to support large-scale AI workloads. "With the performance improvements that we contribute into the upstream, we're actually seeing a decades-old file system transmute into a parallel access system that can rival WEKA, Lustre, and GPFS," Flynn says. Multi-site and sovereign by default Once a single global namespace spans on-prem arrays, cloud object stores and the NVMe inside GPU boxes, the next questions are jurisdictional. Where can a given file legally live? Who is allowed to copy it? The platform handles this through the same objectives mechanism used for performance tiering. Tag a dataset as EU-only and the orchestration layer will exclude it from North American volumes. Tag it as HIPAA-bound and write-once-read-many rules apply. Because those policies operate at the data layer rather than within individual storage silos, governance persists even as data moves across clouds, sites, and performance tiers. That is becoming increasingly important as AI pipelines, inference workflows, and agentic systems operate across distributed infrastructure rather than within a single environment. That matters more in 2026 than it did two years ago, since such operational flexibility also changes the economics of AI infrastructure expansion. The SSD supply situation has tightened. NAND and DRAM prices climbed through 2024 and into 2025, driven by AI build-out and hyperscaler hoarding. Buying your way out of a data-movement problem by adding another all-flash array is harder when the flash is harder to get. A control plane that understands workload, location and policy together is now a valuable procurement workaround. Real-world usage The most useful data point about whether any of this matters at scale is Meta. The company runs two 24,576-GPU clusters used to train Llama 3 and deploys Hammerspace specifically to enable live job debugging and real-time code propagation across the training pipelines. If a company with effectively unlimited engineering resources still hits a data-movement ceiling at that scale, the enterprises running a fraction of the workload are almost certainly hitting it too, and the standard answer of "buy more GPU" does not address a problem one layer below the compute plane. Flynn put the underlying joke about NFS politely. "The joke I always heard was, NFS is not for speed." That used to be true. The newer claim, that an open, standards-based file system can sit underneath an AI factory and feed it, casts the venerable file protocol in a new light. ICustomers will likely want to see an independent benchmark of this system's performance against the likes of VAST, WekaIO and NetApp in heterogeneous customer environments, using test systems not designed by the vendor. Nevertheless, it looks promising. In the meantime, the data placement architecture conversation is certainly the right one to be having. Sponsored by Hammerspace.

Elke week legt Annemiek Leclaire een lezersvraag voor aan deskundigen. Deze week: hoe gaan we buitenshuis om met de drukte van mijn drie zoons?

De 21-jarige man die zaterdagavond met een busje inreed op een menigte tijdens de jaarlijkse Pride in Berlijn, was bekend bij de veiligheidsdiensten. Dat leidt tot discussie over de vraag waarom hij op vrije voeten was. Maar niet iedereen vindt dat nu het belangrijkste debat. „We zijn in de afgelopen jaren een geliefd doelwit geworden.”

In de uitgestrekte bossen bij Bordeaux waren de ingrediënten voor een onbeheersbare natuurbrand ruimschoots voorhanden: monoculturen met zeer brandbare zeedennen. Ooit was dat de „gouden boom”, nu een risico.

Dat was toch een beetje de vraag van de week, na het onduidelijke bericht eerder van Carola Schouten over contact met de organisatie van de herdenking van de vermoorde Joodse Rotterdammers tijdens de Tweede Wereldoorlog over 'het waarborgen' van 'de waardigheid' daarvan. Maar: Carola Schouten gaat wel gewoon, zo laat ze weten in dit statement waarin met geen woord wordt gerept over de aanwezigheid van de Israëlische ambassadeur, die naar wij aannemen ook gewoon komt, omdat de organisatie hem heeft uitgenodigd. De 63 organisaties krijgen van de burgemeester wel een uitgebreide alinea over Gaza, maar dat is het dan ook: "Vandaag zien we nog steeds beelden van oorlog, geweld en menselijk leed die velen diep raken. Zo ook in onze stad. Het verdriet, de woede en de machteloosheid over het immense leed dat in Gaza en het Midden-Oosten plaatsvindt, werkt door in het leven van veel Rotterdammers. De vraag die voor ons ligt, is hoe we in onze stad omgaan met verschillende vormen van verdriet en pijn." Allereerst dus door naar die herdenking te gaan, wat Carola Schouten gewoon doet. Mooi zo.

Montenegro has remained one of the few European countries to offer visa-free entry to Russians for up to 30 days, and saw a massive influx of anti-war Russian citizens after the 2022 invasion of Ukraine.

I defy you to find a writer, a good writer, living or dead, who has talked about money as incessantly and with as much impenitent relish as John Gregory Dunne. He lived, it seems, for the grubby little details: flip through his interviews and you'll discover a recitation of dollar figures, buyout clauses, basis points. The man rattles off contract terms as a priest recalls the catechism.

This week Joseph talks to Mike Yeagley. As you’ll hear, he is a very interesting guy. He introduced parts of the government to the whole idea of commercially sourced location data. He spent hundreds of thousands of dollars buying the data, and showing what could be done with it. It’s a fascinating conversation.

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