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De Staat - Meet the Devil

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trompe-l'œil

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Werk van Jille van der Veen . Transformatorhuisje in de Sillestraat, Den Haag

Inspectie: ggz-instellingen gaan slordig met data om, beveiliging is op veel plekken niet op orde

De Inspectie Gezondheidszorg en Jeugd onderzocht van 87 grote ggz-organisaties of de beveiliging van hun digitale systemen op orde was. Dat was bij slechts zes organisaties zo.


Inspectie onderzoekt jeugdzorg na kindermishandeling in Stadskanaal, waar instanties begin 2025 al signalen over kregen

De politie hield onlangs twee vrouwen aan die verdacht worden van mishandeling van hun eigen kinderen. De rechter greep uiteindelijk in nadat een van de kinderen dit jaar voor de tweede keer in het ziekenhuis was beland.

Overspoeld door AI. ‘Veel HR-managers willen eindelijk weer eens een brief met spelfouten, van een echt mens’

Een klacht, bezwaar, subsidieaanvraag of sollicitatiebrief is zó gemaakt met een chatbot. Instanties worden daardoor overspoeld met brieven vol feitelijke onjuistheden en verkeerde aannames. AI maakt bezwaar maken makkelijker, maar gehoord worden moeilijker.


VK: Voorpagina

Volkskrant.nl biedt het laatste nieuws, opinie en achtergronden

Internetblokkade opgeheven, Iraniërs hebben gedeeltelijk weer contact met het buitenland

Sinds ingaan bestand doodde Israël 152 Palestijnen in de buurt van gele lijn, zegt VN-kantoor

PVV’er Maikel Boon prutst met AI en kan misschien nog wat opsteken van de overleden supersaxofonist Sonny Rollins

Zojo-ji Temple and Tokyo Tower

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Zojo-ji Temple and Tokyo Tower

The Guardian

Latest news, sport, business, comment, analysis and reviews from the Guardian, the world's leading liberal voice

Football Daily | To all USMNT rejects, Mauricio Pochettino hopes this email finds you well

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As a football newsletter whose entire raison d’etre is sending people emails they are desperate to receive and read, Football Daily is fully behind Mauricio Pochettino. The Argentinian has taken a leaf out of our tried-and-trusted playbook by electing to use the medium of email to let assorted soccerball players around the world know whether or not they’d been selected to play for Team USA USA USA at this summer’s Geopolitics World Cup. His method of communication has been criticised in some quarters due to its lack of a personal touch for those who have not made the cut, with some American hacks saying those left out were at least owed an explanatory phone call from the Argentinian. Defending himself, Pochettino pointed out that as a player, he wouldn’t have wanted to converse with a manager who had just cut him from an international squad because ... well, why would you bother?

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Why is Ferrari facing such a backlash to its first electric car?

The Italian marque has broken with the past with its four-door, €550,000 Luce and traditionalists are furious

Ferrari is different from other carmakers, and so are its product launches. So revered is the company in its native Italy that among the first people to sit behind the wheel of its first electric vehicle were the country’s president, and the pope.

Yet judging by the backlash from investors, some critics and – inevitably – a horde of online commenters, the sportscar manufacturer may need help from a higher power if it is to win over its traditional fanbase.

The Luce (pronounced “loo-chey”, Italian for “light”) is priced for the super-wealthy, at €550,000 (£476,000), with an electric motor for each wheel and the ability to get from zero to 100km/h in 2.5 seconds. But the design, led by the former Apple executive Jony Ive, has proven controversial. It is certainly unlike any Ferrari has made before.

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Nearly half a million Russians killed in Ukraine war, UK spy chief says

Anne Keast-Butler says Russian forces are ‘going backwards on the battlefield’ for first time since late 2022

Nearly half a million Russian soldiers have been killed in Ukraine since the start of Vladimir Putin’s invasion more than four years ago, according to a new estimate from the head of the British spy agency GCHQ.

Anne Keast-Butler, the chief of the electronic intelligence agency, said in her first speech in the job that Russian forces were “going backwards on the battlefield” inside Ukraine for the first time since late 2022.

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Carlo Petrini obituary

Italian activist, author and pioneer of the Slow Food movement

On 20 April 1986, Carlo Petrini was part of a group who cooked and distributed spaghetti to passers-by in Piazza di Spagna in Rome. The huge pot of pasta was their response to the opening, the previous month, of the biggest McDonald’s in the world just metres from where they stood. For Petrini and fellow members of Arcigola, a group dedicated to the pleasures of food and shared political ideals, the opening of McDonald’s in the centre of Rome represented an attack on Italian culinary identity, local biodiversity and the natural rhythms of life: the spaghetti was a declaration of resistance.

A few months laters, during a meeting over dinner at Osteria dell’Unione in Treiso, southern Piedmont, the group came up with the idea of ​​trying to stem the fast food invasion, whose single value was profit. The essayist Folco Portinari, then head of the Rai TV company, wrote the text, while Petrini gathered signatures, and on 3 November 1987, a manifesto was published on the front page of Gambero Rosso, a supplement of the communist newspaper Il Manifesto.

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The Register

Biting the hand that feeds IT — Enterprise Technology News and Analysis

Bosses blinded by confidence about shadow AI use by workers

More than half of businesses had an AI-related security incident or a scare in the past year — even as executives remain overwhelmingly confident in their ability to manage the risks of employees using AI tools, according to a study commissioned by identity and access management leader Okta. “For the purposes of this survey, an AI security issue is defined as an actual incident, i.e. a breach, data exposure, or system disruption, or a close call, meaning an issue was identified before it caused harm to the organization,” Harish Peri, SVP and GM for AI Security at Okta, told The Register. Of those respondents who reported a security problem, 26.7 percent described an actual incident — a breach, data exposure, or system disruption — while 31.2 percent identified a close call caught before it caused harm. Yet, overall, 58 percent of executives reported that their organization experienced an AI-related security problem in the past 12 months and the data is pointing to “shadow AI” use by employees as the culprit, Peri said. “The old adage in cybersecurity is that you can’t protect what you can’t see. Our research shows that 52 percent of knowledge workers admit to using unapproved AI tools,” Peri told us. “Security and compliance teams can’t govern the usage of AI tools they don’t know are being used. Organizations must implement an effective AI governance framework that prioritizes identity-centric controls, automated discovery, and secure sandboxes to test drive AI tools safely.” The AI Agents at Work 2026 report was commissioned by Okta and conducted by Apprize360 in March. It surveyed 292 executives and 492 knowledge workers across seven countries: the US, UK, Australia, Canada, Japan, France, and Germany. It also showed a disconnect between how leaders believe AI is being used within their organizations and what employees actually do. Whether it's coding assistants, browser extensions, or industry-specific utilities, the study said what unites all of the tools is their need for data and, in many cases, access to an organization’s internal systems. Peri said the survey found risky employee behavior when it came to interacting with AI models. Knowledge workers actively used unapproved AI tools, shared confidential company documents with those tools, handed over HR information to AI, and in 16 percent of cases, provided their login credentials. "These risky behaviors — whether intentional or not — increase the attack surface across an organization," Peri told The Register. Despite that, 90 percent of executives had confidence in their organization's visibility into AI tools, even as more than half of knowledge workers admitted to using AI tools without approval, with 24 percent adding that they do so regularly. Apart from the security issues, the survey found that AI agents and AI tools are gaining widespread adoption. Ninety-two percent of executives surveyed said autonomous AI agents are already in widespread or moderate use across their organizations, while nearly two-thirds of knowledge workers reported using an AI tool at least daily. Among those workers, 68 percent used AI agents, while 62 percent regularly used LLMs and AI-infused chatbots. The results of the survey vary by geography, too. The United States led all surveyed countries, with 67 percent - more than two-thirds - of workers reporting they use unsanctioned AI tools. Australia came in second, with 60 percent of workers saying they engaged in unapproved AI usage. In the United Kingdom, some 55 percent of workers ignore the rules, while roughly 50 percent of Canadian workers reported using unauthorized AI tools. Workers in France and Germany reported the lowest rates of unauthorized AI usage with each at around 30 percent. The gap between executive confidence and employee reality is widest in the UK, where 96 percent of executives expressed confidence in their AI visibility, while more than half of workers used unapproved tools. Peri said there’s no easy fix. “For most organizations, shadow AI emerges unintentionally and isn’t intended to be malicious,” he told The Register. “Shadow AI primarily causes headaches for leaders because they don’t have the proper visibility, governance, and security controls for tools the organization isn’t managing.” Okta’s survey recommends that organizations should assume shadow AI exists and make discovery a priority. They should make the secure use of AI the easiest path, and define an AI governance strategy now. Peri said strict AI bans may actually make the problem worse by pushing more usage underground. A more effective approach, he said, involves talking with employees to understand what they need and making approved tools easier to use than unsanctioned alternatives. ®

Rotterdam - FediMeteo (@rotterdam@nl.fedimeteo.com)

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Weer voor Rotterdam 🌤️ - 27-05-2026 19:16 CES...

Weer voor Rotterdam 🌤️ - 27-05-2026 19:16 CEST

In één oogopslag:
• 22.5°C · Licht bewolkt 🌤️ | Min 16.8°C / Max 24.5°C | Kans op neerslag 7%

Verwachting voor vandaag:
• Min 16.8°C, Max 24.5°C (Matige motregen) 🌦️, Neerslag 0.8 mm, Kans op neerslag 7%, 🧭 1025.8 hPa ↗️ +0.5 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 18.0 km/u (5.0 m/s), richting: ↙ 51°

Uurlijkse voorspelling voor de komende 12 uur:

20:00: 21.4°C (Zonnig) ☀️, 🧭 1025.3 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 18.0 km/u (5.0 m/s), richting: ↙ 48°
21:00: 19.9°C (Zonnig) ☀️, 🧭 1025.7 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 16.9 km/u (4.7 m/s), richting: ↙ 43°
22:00: 18.5°C (Helder) 🌕, 🧭 1026.1 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 17.6 km/u (4.9 m/s), richting: ↙ 42°
23:00: 17.7°C (Helder) 🌕, 🧭 1026.3 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 18.0 km/u (5.0 m/s), richting: ↙ 49°
00:00: 17.1°C (Helder) 🌕, 🧭 1026.3 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 15.5 km/u (4.3 m/s), richting: ↙ 51°
01:00: 16.8°C (Helder) 🌕, 🧭 1026.3 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 15.5 km/u (4.3 m/s), richting: ↙ 64°
02:00: 16.2°C (Licht bewolkt) 🌕, 🧭 1026.1 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 13.3 km/u (3.7 m/s), richting: ← 68°
03:00: 15.6°C (Helder) 🌕, 🧭 1025.8 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 15.1 km/u (4.2 m/s), richting: ↙ 67°
04:00: 15.1°C (Helder) 🌕, 🧭 1025.8 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 14.4 km/u (4.0 m/s), richting: ← 72°
05:00: 14.4°C (Helder) 🌕, 🧭 1025.8 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 16.2 km/u (4.5 m/s), richting: ← 76°
06:00: 13.7°C (Zonnig) ☀️, 🧭 1025.7 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 15.5 km/u (4.3 m/s), richting: ← 82°
07:00: 13.6°C (Zonnig) ☀️, 🧭 1025.8 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 13.3 km/u (3.7 m/s), richting: ← 89°

Voorspelling voor de komende dagen:

donderdag 28 mei: Min 13.6°C, Max 26.2°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, 🧭 1024.9 hPa ↘️ -0.9 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 16.2 km/u (4.5 m/s), richting: ← 94°
vrijdag 29 mei: Min 20.2°C, Max 31.5°C (Lichte motregen) 🌦️, Neerslag 0.3 mm, Kans op neerslag 5%, 🧭 1021.9 hPa ↘️ -3.0 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 19.8 km/u (5.5 m/s), richting: ↗ 205°
zaterdag 30 mei: Min 17.1°C, Max 25.2°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, Neerslag 0.1 mm, Kans op neerslag 8%, 🧭 1020.0 hPa ↘️ -1.9 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 11.6 km/u (3.2 m/s), richting: ↓ 354°
zondag 31 mei: Min 14.9°C, Max 24.2°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, Kans op neerslag 6%, 🧭 1016.0 hPa ↘️ -4.0 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 11.7 km/u (3.2 m/s), richting: ↘ 294°
maandag 01 juni: Min 15.6°C, Max 24.4°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, Kans op neerslag 8%, 🧭 1015.6 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 11.0 km/u (3.1 m/s), richting: → 250°
dinsdag 02 juni: Min 16.3°C, Max 25.4°C (Lichte regen) 🌧️, Neerslag 14.7 mm, Kans op neerslag 59%, 🧭 1007.9 hPa ↘️ -7.7 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 15.5 km/u (4.3 m/s), richting: ↗ 216°

Details:
• 🌡️ Huidige temperatuur (om 19:15): 22.5°C (Licht bewolkt)
• 🤚 Gevoelstemperatuur: 17.9°C (-4.6°C)
• 💨 Windsnelheid: 16.9 km/u (4.7 m/s), richting: ↙ 49°
• 🌬️ Windstoten: 34.9 km/h (9.7 m/s)
• 💧 Luchtvochtigheid: 39%
• 🧭 Luchtdruk: 1025.3 hPa ↗️ +0.8 hPa/3h
• 👁️ Zichtbaarheid: 37.6 km
• ☀️ UV-index: 1.4
• 🌅 Zonsopgang: 05:32 · 🌇 Zonsondergang: 21:45

Luchtkwaliteit:
• AQI: 53 🟡 (Matig)
• PM2.5: 4.3 μg/m³
• PM10: 8.6 μg/m³

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Jason Kottke's weblog, home of fine hypertext products

To Land a Job in AI, Try Reading Kant . “If a...

To Land a Job in AI, Try Reading Kant. “If a for-profit AI company signs your paycheck, might that compromise your research? By playing Aristotle to AI Alexander, do you risk your work becoming an instrument for hype-building and myth-making?”

LOL. Eurocommissarissen hebben zelf ook kotsbeu van hun eigen elektrische auto's

FOTO: Ursula von der Leyen stapt uit een bezine-auto

Wie er, net als de Nederlanders, ook al een hekel aan al dat klimaatbeleid hebben, zijn... de mensen die al dat klimaatbeleid bedenken. Brusselse nieuwssite Politco meldt dat Eurocommissarissen ervan balen dat ze heen en weer moeten rijden naar Straatsburg in hun elektrische auto's, omdat ze daarbij een tussenstop aan de laadpaal moeten maken. "The roadside break has become a growing source of irritation for some of Ursula von der Leyen’s top team, officials from three commissioners’ cabinets told POLITICO, as the EU executive’s green fleet struggles to make the regular trip to the European Parliament in one go." Opladen duurt 20 tot 30 minuten, tijd die ook besteed had kunnen worden aan het bedenken van nog meer burgerhatende plannen. Met de trein gaan kan ook al niet, want wat nou als er een gevoelig telefoontje (bijvoorbeeld met de baas van Pfizer) moet worden gepleegd!? De Hongaar Olivér Várhelyi heeft een oplossing bedacht: hij stapt gewoon in een busje met zijn collega's. Wie hier trouwens geen last van heeft, is Ursula von der Leyen. "Von der Leyen is also exempt from the EV headache. The Commission president’s car must be armored for security reasons, one official said, adding that no suitable armored electric model is currently available." Baas boven baas, natuurlijk.

De Speld

Uw vaste prik voor betrouwbaar nieuws.

Koeman: ‘Je kiest ervoor om de eerste persoon enkelvoud thuis te laten’

​Ronald Koeman heeft woensdag op een persconferentie zijn WK-selectie toegelicht. De bondscoach verdedigde onder meer zijn keuze om de ik-persoon niet mee te nemen: "Je kiest ervoor om de eerste persoon enkelvoud thuis te laten."

"Je maakt keuzes", beargumenteerde Koeman. "Dan zie je dat de ik-persoon niet het gewicht meegeeft aan de woorden die je wilt gebruiken. Je merkt dat het woord ik een stukje energie mist, een stukje eigen stijl ook. Dat zie je tijdens de trainingen, maar ook in de kleedkamer. Nou, oké, als je dan vindt dat de eerste persoon enkelvoud karakter mist, als je vaststelt dat hij niet fris oogt, dan maak je die keuze. Dat is wat je doet, keuzes maken. En met je bedoel je dan ik."

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Rijnmond - Nieuws

Het laatste nieuws van vandaag over Rotterdam, Feyenoord, het verkeer en het weer in de regio Rijnmond

Meest hondvriendelijke gemeente van Nederland ligt in onze regio: 'Chique losloopgebieden'

Waar het in sommige gemeenten een flinke puzzel is om een geschikte uitlaatplek voor je viervoeter te vinden, is dat in Barendrecht wel anders. De gemeente is officieel uitgeroepen tot de meest hondvriendelijke gemeente van Nederland.

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Who wears short shorts?

GQ: How Long Should Your Shorts Be in 2026?

Call it the Great Shorts Divide: For the past few summers, men's shorts have somehow been getting both shorter and longer.
No mention by Tyler Watamanuk of jorts so I guess they're still uncool?