Russia’s online retail sector has thrived since the invasion of Ukraine. The attacks on Wildberries now threaten to disrupt that growth.

The complex houses mission control for the Russian segment of the International Space Station.

"I work for a company that produces luxury items", one worker tells me. "Any time I get prompted that my 'token spend' is too low (0), I go in and ask ChatGPT random gardening questions. So far it has failed to adequately build a rain garden, but I've gotten it to describe a sweet potato once."

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Zoals de feniks altijd uit zijn as herrijst, duikt de salamander al eeuwenlang op in vurige verhalen.

Nederland moet gezonder eten, willen opeenvolgende kabinetten. Maar intussen is fastfood op elke straathoek verkrijgbaar. Optreden daartegen is voer voor juristen.

Lahore police official says all personnel were responsible for preventing and reporting wrongdoing at station

The alleged rape of a 20-year-old woman with intellectual disabilities in a police station in Lahore, Pakistan has prompted authorities to suspend all 78 police officers and staff at the precinct, in one of the country’s biggest-ever disciplinary actions against its police force.

The woman alleges that an assistant sub-inspector apprehended her, took her to Ghaziabad police station, and raped her in a room on the second floor. The woman’s family said she disappeared on the street, before returning home in tears and stating that she had been sexually assaulted at the station.

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At least 17 people were killed and more than 40 injured in another round of deadly Russian strikes on the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv. Volodymyr Zelenskyy has pleaded for more air defence weapons, saying ballistic missile interceptors ‘could have saved the lives of those killed today’. For months, Ukraine has been warning about shortages after Donald Trump backtracked on his promise to let Ukraine manufacture missiles locally. In response to the attack, the EU’s Ursula von der Leyen said ‘Russia must pay’ – but will it?

Lucy Hough talks to the Guardian’s Russia affairs correspondent, Pjotr Sauer

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• Portugal legend calls for Fifa president to stand down

• ‘Too late to save his dignity, not too late to save football’

The Portugal legend Luís Figo has described Gianni Infantino’s ill-fated scheme to sell off stakes in the World Cup to private investors as “the lowest, most deceitful and cravenly self-interested behaviour I have ever witnessed” and called on the Fifa president to resign.

Infantino was forced to scrap his controversial proposal after a fierce backlash that was led by Uefa, with the 56-year-old now battling for his future having called an emergency meeting of Fifa staff on Wednesday as pressure on him mounts.

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Highest-ever resolution pictures of our star could help show why its corona is millions of degrees hotter than its surface

Golden bands and swirling vortices have been spotted on the sun in the most detailed images ever captured of the turbulent surface of our home star.

Astronomers observed the sun with the Inouye solar telescope in Hawaii, the world’s most powerful solar telescope, and saw new features smaller than 20km (12 miles) across in a magnetically active region close to a sun spot.

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Concerned about cost, Microsoft is reportedly warning employees against wasteful AI use. In an email seen by 404 Media, Microsoft Executive Vice President Jay Parikh warned that individual divisions would be given targets and could face restrictions. "Tokenmaxxing is not what we are optimizing for. I want all of us focused on maximizing outcomes that move the needle for our customers and our business," the email states. The Register asked Microsoft what it made of the report, and a spokesperson told us the company had "nothing to add." Microsoft is hardly short of cash and has continued to pour money into its AI investments, but its apparent efforts to curb wasteful AI spending bring it into line with other companies attempting to rethink how employees use AI. Tokenmaxxing is the practice of using as many AI tokens as possible, and treating the volume as proof of productivity. A token is the basic unit used to process and bill for the input and output of AI models. If a company is measuring employees' use of AI, burning through as many tokens as possible will make the figures look rosier. However, companies need to consider the cost of those tokens alongside other factors, such as productivity. As The Register observed in April: "Tokenmaxxing isn't an AI strategy." Microsoft does not appear to be seeking an overall reduction in token use – it wants to be an AI-first company, after all. It simply wants more bang for its buck. "As we accelerate our use of GitHub Copilot to deliver on our goals, we all need to be aware of how we consume tokens," the email reportedly said. GitHub moved to usage-based billing in June. Although Microsoft's code-hosting tentacle measures consumption in AI Credits rather than raw tokens, the change makes the cost of engineers burning through them harder to ignore. Not that this sends a particularly great message to customers. As one anonymous Microsoft staffer told 404 Media: "This really feels like the ultimate admission that we, as hosts of AI infra, can't afford our own AI products. And if that's even partially the case, how could the companies we sell it to manage?" That's a little simplistic. Microsoft can afford its AI products; the email suggests it wants engineers to use them with greater regard for cost and results. Which is, perhaps, the message customers should take away. AI tools and services carry a cost that needs to be measured, rather than treating "how many tokens did you consume?" as a measure of AI adoption. ®

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Ooohhh wat zijn ze zielig die 'minderjarigen'

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Van die oorspronkelijke 72.000 verblijven er nu nog 'slechts' 3.000 tot 5.000 in het stadje met slechts 85.000 inwoners, waaronder 'zo'n 1.100 alleenstaande minderjarigen'. Ceuta had maar plaats voor 29 van zulke minderjarigen, en die heten dus heel zielig te zijn - alsof ZE hier nooit minderjarig zijn als ze hun terreurbewind starten - en mogen daarom niet een paar meter terug voorbij het Marokkaanse grenshek met open poort bewogen worden.

Sterker nog, ze worden binnenkort naar het Spaanse vasteland gevaren, om daar in een Zuid-Europees land op kosten van de Noord-Europese belastingbetaler voor zich te laten zorgen. Reuters schrijft: "Spain's Ceuta (...) is seeking the transfer of hundreds of unaccompanied minors still in the enclave to mainland Spain, local leaders confirmed on Wednesday. Though the vast majority ​of migrants have since returned to Morocco, roughly 1,100 unaccompanied minors who arrived before and during the influx – ‌and cannot be summarily deported – remain, according to local government."

De verdeelsleutel lag sinds augustus 2025 overigens al klaar: "De regering heeft de immigratiewet hervormd om minderjarige migranten zonder gezinssteun te herverdelen. Deze wet voorziet in een bindende en op solidariteit gebaseerde opvang door de andere autonome regio's, met een verhouding van 32,6 plaatsen per 100.000 inwoners."

Want ja, dit is hoe Europa werkt: iedereen ter wereld heeft het mensenrecht op een fatsoenlijk bestaan, behalve inheemse Europeanen. Dus als een """rechter""" met de modale mensenrechtenfetisj oordeelt dat de mensenrechten van deze minderjarigen geschonden worden door ondermaatse opvang, dan zal de inheemse Europeaan daar nu eenmaal fiscaal en qua sociale cohesie voor op moeten draaien. En dat tot Europa niets meer te geven heeft, omdat het Europa niet meer is.

Ja-ha heel zielig

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Het is niet vol, het is druk!

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AMSTERDAM (ANP) - De aandeelhouders van verfconcern AkzoNobel hebben ingestemd met de geplande fusie met de Amerikaanse branchegenoot Axalta Coating Systems. Het bedrijf achter verfmerken als Flexa, Dulux en Sikkens hield hierover woensdag een aandeelhoudersvergadering.

Nu de aandeelhouders goedkeuring hebben gegeven, kan de fusie volgens het bedrijf doorgaan naar de volgende fase. Toezichthouders moeten zich er nog over buigen. Als die ook goedkeuring geven, wordt de samenvoeging naar verwachting eind dit jaar of begin volgend jaar afgerond.

AkzoNobel wees vorige maand nog een voorstel van de Japanse concurrent Nippon Paint af om Akzo's consumententak voor decoratieve verven te kopen voor 7,5 miljard euro. Eerder probeerde Nippon Paint al samen met het Amerikaanse Sherwin-Williams, de grootste verfproducent ter wereld, om AkzoNobel in zijn geheel te kopen voor ongeveer 12,5 miljard euro. Ook dat voorstel werd door AkzoNobel afgewezen.

Brand in afvalcontainers: vuilnisman Patrick van der Will noemt het een "steeds groter probleem". De boosdoener zijn vaak batterijen. Die kunnen namelijk spontaan in brand vliegen als ze tussen het vuil belanden en worden samengeperst.

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De passief-agressieve Brenda heeft een goede oplossing bedacht voor wanneer zij passief-agressieve opmerkingen wil versturen naar mensen. “Het enige wat je moet doen is de laatste letter pakken van de zin, en er daar drie extra van te typen.”

De 23-jarige student geeft als voorbeeld dat toen ze haar huisgenoot vorige week uitlegde dat de vuilniszak legen ook bij de schoonmaaktaken hoort, de drie extra t’s in ‘Ik dacht dat je dat wel wistttt’ ervoor zorgden dat ze alsnog een vrolijk berichtje verstuurde. “Ze wist het dondersgoed, maar zonder die extra lettertjes kom je gewoon echt over als een ijskoude bitch”, legt ze uit.

Extra letters zijn niet enkel bij passief-agressieve opmerkingen handig volgens haar. Ze voegt ook vaak één extra letter toe wanneer ze niet zakelijk en kil, maar los en fun over wil komen. ‘Is goed’ als antwoord op de vraag of zij het eerste deel van een presentatie wil voorbereiden, wordt dan een speelse ‘is goedd’.

Toen we Brenda bedankten voor de samenwerking voor dit artikel, liet ze ons per mail weten dat ze het erg naar haar zin had gehad. ‘Was leukkk’.

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