Move defies US envoy’s claim that Americans could be extracting crude by as early as next year

The Greenland authorities have forced a US oil company connected to Donald Trump to postpone drilling wells in the Arctic territory, defying claims by the US president’s envoy that Americans could be extracting crude by next year.

Amid Trump’s imperialist threats, tensions have been rising on Greenland’s eastern coast after the oil company brought drilling equipment ashore in July without permission, drawing a “strong warning” from the government.

Suit alleges subscription offer is attempt to sell privileged access to information generated in president’s official capacity

Donald Trump has been sued after a subscription service charging up to $100,000 a month for early access to his posts on his Truth Social platform sparked allegations of corruption.

The lawsuit, filed in the US district court for the southern district of New York, was brought by the Intercept and the Freedom of the Press Foundation against Trump, two of his aides and the executive office of the president.

Het is deze week vijf jaar geleden dat de Taliban de macht overnamen in Afghanistan. Veel diplomatieke missies verlieten halsoverkop het land, ook Afghanen die werkten op de Nederlandse ambassade in Kabul. Hoe vergaat het ze nu?

Twitch is going to train Amazon’s AI models on streamers’ content unless they deliberately go into their settings and opt out, potentially sweeping up a wealth of streamers who either don’t hear about the announcement or follow steps stop it.

On Wednesday Twitch announced a new setting that lets streamers opt-out of the training. The announcement confirms rumors that have percolated over the last week: It is using streamers to train Amazon’s AI models. 

The new toggle says, "Allow your channel content to train generative AI content models at Amazon." All users are opted in by default. It's located at the bottom of users' security settings page. 

"If you opt-out and decide to not allow your channel content to train Generative AI content models, your streams, VODs, clips, stream chats, and pictures and text on your channel will not be used in future training of a model developed by Amazon whose purpose is to generate or synthesize text, audio, images, or video," Twitch, which is owned by Amazon, says in its new FAQ section about generative AI.

"Opting-out of training generative AI content models does not opt you out of all AI or machine learning uses at Twitch," Twitch's support page says. "For example, Twitch will still run AutoMod, which helps keep our community safe, but does not retain your data and use it to produce content. Twitch may also still use your data to run AI-supported features, like captions, which automatically generate captions for your Clips but does not retain your stream or your clips to train a model that can generate new content." 

Twitch is positioning this setting as a favor to users. "We've added a setting that lets you opt out of having your channel content used to train generative AI content models across Amazon," the platform posted on X Wednesday. In practice, Twitch makes this choice for users unless they know about the new setting and proactively turn it off. This was the case on my own Twitch account, and users on social media are reporting the same.

Twitch executives have been talking about using streamers' content to train AI for years. In 2024, Twitch Chief Monetization Officer Mike Minton said Twitch has a “role to play” in training Amazon's generative AI models, adding that Twitch content was already being used “in a prototyping, not in any kind of production scale, capacity.”

Amazon did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Twitch's publicly available press email repeatedly bounced.

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Google oligarch Brin has now spent $100 million to avoid paying $13 billion in taxes.

Google co-founder Sergey Brin has donated another $20 million to Build a Better California, an organization advocating against California's proposed billionaire tax, according to a new filing. That means that the world's fourth-richest man, whose net worth hovers around $267 billion, has now spent more than $100 million to avoid an estimated $13.3 billion tax payment.

California's Prop 40, known as the billionaire tax, would impose a one-time 5% tax on the net worth of around 200 billionaires that live in the state. The windfall from this proposed tax would mostly go toward funding California's healthcare programs. The state's Medicaid program alone could lose up to $30 billion in federal funding once Trump's budget cuts take effect next year.

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SAINT-DENIS (ANP) - De Italiaanse Sara Curtis heeft tijdens de EK zwemmen het wereldrecord op de 50 meter rugslag verbeterd. De pas 19-jarige Curtis tikte in de halve finales in het Olympic Aquatic Centre van Parijs aan in 26,63, ruim 2 tienden van een seconde sneller dan het oude record van de Australische Kaylee McKeown uit 2023 (26,86).

Marrit Steenbergen en Tessa Giele plaatsten zich net als Curtis voor de finale van donderdagavond. Met beiden een persoonlijk record (respectievelijk 27,31 en 27,30) zwommen de twee Nederlandse zwemsters de vijfde en vierde tijd.

MUSCAT (ANP/AFP) - De olie die uit de gestrande tanker voor de kust van Oman lekt, heeft het vasteland bereikt. Dat melden staatsmedia. Volgens milieudiensten zijn stranden in het zuidoosten van het land vervuild. De verwachting is dat de komende uren een kuststrook van tot wel 40 kilometer geraakt wordt.

De tanker Caroline Bezengi lekt al weken ruwe olie. Volgens persbureau AFP vond er in juni een explosie plaats, waarna het schip strandde bij een natuurreservaat. Milieuorganisaties waarschuwen voor een dreigende milieuramp. De olievlek beslaat volgens het Omaanse milieuagentschap een gebied van bijna 400 vierkante kilometer.

Het schip zou ongeveer 1 miljoen vaten ruwe olie aan boord hebben en deel uitmaken van de Russische 'schaduwvloot'. Dat zijn schepen die onder een andere vlag varen om zo sancties voor Rusland te omzeilen.

Death Cab for Cutie rolled into the NPR offices for a Tiny Desk Concert, which featured two new songs from their current album and some oldies: Title and Registration and Soul Meets Body. Gibbard noted:

I’m starting to realize that some of our earlier records came out a similar distance away from, like, the Beatles records when I was a kid.

This is Death Cab’s second Tiny Desk…here’s the first one from 2015:

I took this as an opportunity to listen to my favorite Death Cab song, Transatlanticism. And when are we getting a Postal Sevice Tiny Desk? Come on, we’ve been good! We need this!

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Triple Trouble is the hardback catalogue published to accompany the large-scale exhibition at Newport Street Gallery, which opened in October of 2025, featuring individual and collaborative works by Shepard Fairey, Damien Hirst, and Invader. The catalogue presents all works in full-color reproduction, showcasing familiar motifs — Fairey’s Obey iconography, Hirst’s spots and cabinets, Invader’s Space Invader mosaics — reconfigured in provocative and playful ways. This beautifully designed hardback catalogue presents all works featured in the exhibition in full-color reproduction. 

When asked about the genesis of Triple Trouble, Shepard replied:
Why would I want to collaborate on an exhibition with Invader and Damien Hirst? I’ve long respected both artists because they are intelligent, conceptual, and relentless in their singular creative visions. “Obsessive” might be too mild a description to convey their drive, focus, and prodigious output. I can relate to them. I also admire risk-takers and troublemakers who can withstand condescending, impolite jabs from supposedly polite society. Those qualities inspired me to collaborate with them even though our aesthetics have no natural overlap or compatibility. A clash of styles in collaboration is a risk worth taking, and creativity can solve almost all problems. Malcolm McLaren once told me, “A glorious failure is better than a boring success.” So, with that as a guiding principle, what could possibly go wrong? – Shepard

BOOK DETAILS: Published August 2026 with over 150 Illustrations. 288 x 233 mm Hardcover, 310 Pages. $80. Signed copies of Triple Trouble are now exclusively available in the Obey Giant Store. 

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Voor de duidelijkheid, dit speelde zich af in een jeugdzorginstelling in Alphen waar meisjes worden opgevangen die slachtoffer zijn van loverboypraktijken. Je moet een gitzwart en bloedagressief tumor hebben op de plek waar bij anderen een ziel zit om er als medewerker op jacht te gaan naar meisjes, maar dit blijkt bij de 29-jarige Bilal H. en zijn 21-jarige kompaan Abdelouahab O. dus het geval. "Volgens H. probeerden de meisjes (14 en 15) aan het begin van hun dienst twee keer te ontsnappen. Beide keren hielden de verdachten hen tegen. Daarna zou O. een joint hebben gedraaid en gerookt in de zorginstelling. Ook de slachtoffers zouden de wiet hebben gerookt. Vervolgens zouden de slachtoffers en de verdachten met zijn vieren op een bank hebben gezeten en het spel ’Doen, durf of de waarheid’ hebben gespeeld." Beiden ontkennen de verkrachting die hierop volgde, al bekent H. dus wel dat hij seks had met een van hen.

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