President hosts Nathanial Rai and lifeguard Ryder Williams at White House after video of California rescue went viral

Nathanial Rai had been swept off his feet along the California coast, was rescued by a 16-year-old lifeguard – and was now sitting in the Oval Office with Donald Trump.

Of the rescuer, Ryder Williams, Trump said to Rai: “He’s a real hero. I don’t know if I’d do it.

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• Chelsea chair Boehly and Walter each own about 13%

• Sale would give Clearlake effective control of club at 86%

The Chelsea chair, Todd Boehly, and director Mark Walter are considering selling their shares in the club to the majority owners, Clearlake Capital, in a deal that would give the private equity company complete control at Stamford Bridge.

Clearlake, whose investment is managed by Behdad Eghbali and José E Feliciano, already owns more than 60% of Chelsea, but in an unusual arrangement agreed when buying the club from Roman Abramovich four years ago, they share operational control with a consortium led by Boehly, who along with Walter and Hansjörg Wyss each own about 13%.

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Het mag dan nog ruim een maand duren voordat de zomer voorbij is, de Schaatsbaan Dordrecht staat alweer lekker vol. Tijdens het jaarlijkse ‘zomerkamp’ komen schaatsers van verschillende niveaus er dagelijks trainen om hun techniek verder aan te scherpen. “Het is wel een klap in je gezicht als je weer naar buiten stapt.”

Feyenoord is naarstig op zoek naar een nieuwe linksbuiten. Net als vorig seizoen is dit een probleempositie voor de Rotterdammers, waarin meerdere spelers niet voldoen.

Al jaren wordt Schiedam geteisterd door jeugdcriminaliteit en geweldsincidenten. Een verslaggever van Rijnmond sprak twee Schiedamse jongeren anoniem over hun ervaringen. "Nadat hij sorry zei, heb ik hem nog een klap gegeven", klinkt het. Ook doen ze uit de doeken hoe jongeren voor 'klusjes' worden geronseld.

alternative_right shares a report from 404 Media: Amazon is buying massive quantities of books, scanning them for AI training data, and destroying them in the process. A 404 Media investigation was able to reveal Amazon's book buying operation, which hasn't been previously reported, by placing a tracking device in a rare book we suspected would be acquired by an AI company for training data, and following it around the country to its final destination. That final destination was an Amazon warehouse in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Amazon employees who work at this location say all they do is receive massive shipments of printed books which they then cut the bindings off in order to scan the books more quickly. The printed book is destroyed in the process. The logo of the Amazon team that works at this warehouse, called VGT3, is a dinosaur, brandishing its teeth and with a book in its hands. "Amazon purchases books through commercial channels to help develop and improve the products and services our customers use," an Amazon spokesperson told 404 Media in a statement.

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Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei says the growing backlash against AI is less about executives sounding alarms and more about a broader "crisis of trust" in companies, governments, and the tech industry. TechCrunch reports: Amodei's comments came in response to investor Gavin Baker, who argued -- both on the All-In podcast and on X -- that Amodei's warnings about the dangers of AI have helped to fuel a backlash in the United States, particularly against data centers.

Claiming that Amodei has "lost the argument" when it comes to AI regulation (Anthropic has advocated for some regulations, including a California bill that imposes transparency requirements on large AI companies), and given that "he is about to be the CEO of one of the most important companies in the world," Baker wrote, "I respectfully think he should make an effort to be a more positive advocate for his own industry."

Baker is far from the only one arguing that AI skepticism and even government crackdowns are a natural response to the dire warnings of some AI executives. But in a series of posts, Amodei disagreed with the idea that his "messaging has been disproportionately negative." Instead, he said that his writing has been "about equally balanced between risks and benefits," and that he wrote his essay "Machines of Loving Grace" because he "didn't feel the AI industry was painting an inspiring enough picture of how the technology could radically transform the world for the better."

Nonetheless, Amodei acknowledged that "the public has a negative view of AI" and he agreed that "this is a big problem." Where he disagreed was with the idea that this negativity is "primarily caused" by Amodei "or any other AI leader warning about AI's risks." "I think it is fundamentally a crisis of trust," Amodei said. "I think that ordinary people don't trust companies, governments, or the tech industry and always suspect that we are cooking up some new way to screw them over."

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New Spanish nanomaterial cools surfaces by up to 12.9C without electricity [snip]: The research, led by the Functional Nanoscale Devices for Energy (FINDER) group and published in the journal Nanophotonics, is based on daytime passive radiative cooling, a technique that exploits a peculiarity of the Earth's atmosphere: there is a band in the infrared spectrum, between 8 and 13 micrometres, through which heat escapes directly into space without being trapped. A material that emits well in that window and also reflects solar radiation can end up colder than the surrounding air, with no plug or compressor involved.

[snip] The theory was put to the test last summer, with outdoor trials on the centre's rooftop in Tres Cantos, Madrid. After the material was subjected to ultraviolet light treatment that whitens it and improves its solar reflectance, the results came in: on the hottest, driest and sunniest days, the treated surface stayed up to 12.9°C cooler than a sample without coating. The researchers themselves stress that the technology is still under development, but emphasise that the manufacturing process is relatively cheap and compatible with existing industrial processes.

Atomic Robo is a long-running comic by Brian Clevinger and Scott Wegener. Robo is a robot, a pulp adventurer and a physics phd. Over the course of his long existence, he's faced off with giant ants, interdimensional vampires, nazis, Dr Dinosaur, kaiju, Stephen Hawking and more. Issues are mostly standalone; a mix of the present day adventures of Tesladyne Industries and his historical escapades, so feel free to dip in with any of the links in the previous sentence. Originally released in print, the series has been published online for free since 2015.

Clevinger's earlier comic is the (internet famous) final fantasy sprite comic 8-bit theatre, which ran 2001-2010. He also wrote the short office anticomedy, Warbot with Zack Finfrock.

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Je moet ergens beginnen dus waarom niet op 1/3. Opmerkelijk trouwens, Spaanse autoriteiten schatten dat er nog tussen de 5.000 en 8.000 migranten over zijn, en dat is nogal een marge. Maar goed, krant El Mundo schrijft dat de Spaanse minister Elma Saiz van Inclusie, Sociale Zekerheid en Migratie (dát zijn nog eens ministerie-namen) aankondigt dat er per onmiddellijke ingang vier nieuwe locaties geopend worden voor de opvang van 1.500 nieuwe Europeanen. "Van de nieuwe openbare ruimtes waar migranten die momenteel buiten leven – velen in hutten op het strand van Trampolín – zullen worden gehuisvest, zijn er drie in staatseigendom : het manegecentrum, het voormalige voetbalveld bij de cavaleriekazerne en het gebied El Guano. De vierde, de parkeerplaats van het detentiecentrum in Loma Colmenar, is eigendom van de stad Ceuta." 

Ook heerlijk regentesk, ze weigerde regelrecht het gesprek aan te gaan met de president van Ceuta "die maandag waarschuwde dat hij juridische stappen zou ondernemen tegen de regering van Pedro Sánchez". Regeren is vooruit zien wie je moet vermijden! Ondertussen verschijnen er - zoals onderstaand - steeds meer berichten dat Spaanse vrouwen Ceuta maar gewoon ontvluchten, en we vermoeden zo dat het iets met die VIJFTIEN VERKRACHTINGEN te maken heeft. Meer beeld onderstaand.

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AMSTELVEEN (ANP) - De Nederlandse hockeysters hebben de zege tegen Australië op het WK niet cadeau gekregen, vond bondscoach Raoul Ehren. "We hebben er hard voor moeten werken, maar ik vond het een fantastische wedstrijd. Er zat alles in wat je kunt bedenken", reageerde hij na de 4-2-zege van Oranje in het Wagener Stadion in Amstelveen.

De bondscoach had voorspeld dat het een andere wedstrijd zou worden dan het openingsduel van Oranje met Chili (2-0-zege). "Eigenlijk viel die 2-2 uit het niets, maar dan zie je dat we nog een extra versnelling hebben. We maken er nog twee en de Australische hockeysters zijn volgens mij niet meer in de buurt geweest van onze cirkel."

Ehren beaamt dat zijn speelsters zo'n wedstrijd misschien goed konden gebruiken. "Het is wel heerlijk om zo'n wedstrijd te hebben, zeker als je 'm wint. We kregen ook voor het eerst in achttien officiële wedstrijden een veldgoal tegen. Daar ging het niet helemaal goed, maar dat hoort erbij."

AMSTELVEEN (ANP) - De Nederlandse hockeysters hebben zich geplaatst voor de winnaarspoule op het wereldkampioenschap in eigen land. In het Wagener Stadion in Amstelveen won de titelverdediger de tweede groepswedstrijd van Australië met 4-2.

Yibbi Jansen maakte de eerste treffer uit een strafcorner in het eerste kwart. Joosje Burg scoorde in het tweede kwart, net als Stephanie Kershaw voor Australië. Abigail Wilson maakte uit een strafcorner gelijk, maar Burg maakte haar tweede doelpunt en Marijn Veen de 4-2.

Oranje won eerder met 2-0 van Chili en is met twee zeges al zeker van de eerste of tweede plek in de groep en de tweede groepsfase. Nederland speelt woensdag nog tegen Japan, dat eerder op de dag de eerste zege boekte door Chili met 3-0 te verslaan.

A.J. Jacobs recently interviewed “the Papa Bear of Puzzling”, Will Shortz and came away with seven lessons he learned from him. “Creativity is usually more about evolution than revolution.”

Bij aankomst maakte Jesse Klaver, de partijleider van Pro, nog grapjes. De journalisten wilden weten wat Klaver eist van het minderheidskabinet om hen te helpen aan meerderheden.

Siemens and fellow German engineering biz Reinhausen are developing a solid-state transformer (SST) to deliver 800-volt DC power directly to increasingly dense AI datacenter racks. As AI hardware grows hotter and hungrier, server farm operators are looking to overhaul how power moves through their data halls. One approach, favored by Nvidia and other industry heavyweights, is distribution at 800 VDC. The two electrical enterprises are therefore developing a modular SST capable of converting medium-voltage AC at up to 36 kV into a stable 800 VDC output for downstream distribution. Siemens says that the SST will provide a compact, galvanically isolated alternative to conventional multistage AC-to-DC power conversion architectures, reducing intermediate conversion stages and enabling more efficient delivery to high-density AI infrastructure. According to Reinhausen, datacenters supporting AI workloads are among the industry's most demanding power consumers. Sudden load spikes can strain servers, storage, and cooling systems, reducing performance and potentially causing outages. "Our technology enables AI datacenters to operate with the efficiency and reliability they require," said Reinhausen managing director Wilfried Breuer. "Solid-state transformers are critical for these large and power intensive structures. They enable higher efficiency, direct grid-to-rack DC conversion, and a reduced footprint. This collaboration will further strengthen our leading position in the electrification of datacenters," commented Siemens CEO of Electrification and Automation, Stephan May. As The Register reported late last year, Nvidia sees 800 VDC power distribution as the way forward for AI infrastructure, and says the shift will be necessary to support IT racks drawing 1 MW or more. That may sound far-fetched when average rack density has only just passed 11 kW, according to Uptime Institute, but hyperscalers such as Google are already planning for megawatt-scale racks. Nvidia has also developed its own MGX-compatible 800 VDC power rack, which it says will arrive "in the second half of 2026." Siemens and Reinhausen said that they intend to industrialize their datacenter SST, but did not say when it would become commercially available. We asked for clarification. Another German electrical firm, Infineon, is also backing 800 VDC and positioning its silicon carbide (SiC) power semiconductors for use in the infrastructure. ®