Je krijgt een paar cijfers cadeau, maar het grid van 9x9 moet foutloos ingevuld worden.

Als je wel zin hebt om te sudokuen, maar het liever bij een gridje van 5x5 houdt.

Een Precies Vier bestaat uit 16 woorden, begrippen of namen, die moeten worden verdeeld in precies vier groepen van vier. Er is telkens maar één oplossing mogelijk. Welke woorden vormen een connectie?

Een kruiswoordpuzzel, maar dan heel klein (en snel).

De schietpartij vond plaats nabij het festivalgebied van de Vierdaagse. Er is nog geen verdachte aangehouden. Ook over de identiteit van het slachtoffer is nog niets bekend.

US judge’s ruling could open up window into first family’s multiple ventures, in drawback of lawsuit on media

Donald Trump must divulge detailed financial information from his many businesses as part of his $10bn defamation lawsuit against the British Broadcasting Corporation, a federal judge ruled during a discovery hearing on Tuesday, according to news reports.

The ruling by US magistrate judge Enjoliqué Lett could open a unique window into the hundreds of businesses owned by Trump’s family trust. It also highlights a potential drawback for Trump’s strategy of bludgeoning critical media with multibillion-dollar lawsuits.

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Swan Theatre, Stratford-Upon-Avon
Tamara Harvey’s production of Chekhov’s final play can seem woolly in meaning and the soft-edged tone mutes its force

Laura Wade’s reworking of Anton Chekhov’s final, plaintive play brings a dazzle of big names. Helen Hunt is aristocratic matriarch Madame Ranyevskaya, Bill Pullman her brother, and Kenneth Branagh (so soon after his lead role in the Royal Shakespeare’s production of The Tempest) their nemesis, Lopakhin, a shopkeeper’s son here who takes over the reins of the family estate and represents the rising forces against Russia’s old order of ossified elites.

But for such a starry cast Tamara Harvey’s production has a disappointing lack of sparkle. You do not feel the story’s charge, its complications around love and its stinging losses. The tone is too soft-edged, almost endearing, and the cast such an ensemble that there is no magnetic centre to hold you.

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Weer voor Rotterdam ☁️ - 22-07-2026 01:15 CEST

In één oogopslag:
• 18.1°C · Bewolkt ☁️ | Min 14.5°C / Max 22.5°C | Kans op neerslag 2%

Verwachting voor vandaag:
• Min 14.5°C, Max 22.5°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, Kans op neerslag 2%, 🧭 1023.8 hPa ↘️ -1.5 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 17.3 km/u (4.8 m/s), richting: ↓ 338°

Uurlijkse voorspelling voor de komende 12 uur:

• 02:00: 18.0°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, 🧭 1025.3 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 10.1 km/u (2.8 m/s), richting: ↘ 334°
• 03:00: 17.9°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, 🧭 1025.1 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 9.0 km/u (2.5 m/s), richting: ↘ 325°
• 04:00: 17.8°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, 🧭 1024.7 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 10.8 km/u (3.0 m/s), richting: ↘ 318°
• 05:00: 17.5°C (Lichte motregen) 🌦️, Neerslag 0.1 mm, 🧭 1024.3 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 9.0 km/u (2.5 m/s), richting: ↘ 322°
• 06:00: 17.5°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, 🧭 1024.2 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 11.2 km/u (3.1 m/s), richting: ↘ 324°
• 07:00: 17.6°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, 🧭 1024.1 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 10.4 km/u (2.9 m/s), richting: ↘ 327°
• 08:00: 17.8°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, 🧭 1024.0 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 13.3 km/u (3.7 m/s), richting: ↘ 329°
• 09:00: 18.1°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, 🧭 1024.0 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 13.0 km/u (3.6 m/s), richting: ↘ 332°
• 10:00: 18.4°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, 🧭 1024.0 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 11.5 km/u (3.2 m/s), richting: ↘ 311°
• 11:00: 18.5°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, Kans op neerslag 2%, 🧭 1024.0 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 13.0 km/u (3.6 m/s), richting: ↘ 315°
• 12:00: 17.6°C (Lichte motregen) 🌦️, Neerslag 0.1 mm, Kans op neerslag 18%, 🧭 1024.0 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 13.0 km/u (3.6 m/s), richting: ↘ 311°
• 13:00: 18.9°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, Kans op neerslag 39%, 🧭 1024.0 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 14.8 km/u (4.1 m/s), richting: ↘ 309°

Voorspelling voor de komende dagen:

• donderdag 23 juli: Min 17.5°C, Max 19.2°C (Lichte motregen) 🌦️, Neerslag 0.4 mm, Kans op neerslag 12%, 🧭 1021.6 hPa ↘️ -2.2 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 19.4 km/u (5.4 m/s), richting: ↘ 325°
• vrijdag 24 juli: Min 16.1°C, Max 20.0°C (Lichte motregen) 🌦️, Neerslag 0.3 mm, Kans op neerslag 4%, 🧭 1018.5 hPa ↘️ -3.1 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 14.8 km/u (4.1 m/s), richting: ↘ 331°
• zaterdag 25 juli: Min 17.2°C, Max 24.0°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, Kans op neerslag 2%, 🧭 1009.9 hPa ↘️ -8.6 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 8.4 km/u (2.3 m/s), richting: ↘ 299°
• zondag 26 juli: Min 17.1°C, Max 25.2°C (Lichte motregen) 🌦️, Neerslag 0.2 mm, Kans op neerslag 6%, 🧭 1003.9 hPa ↘️ -6.0 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 14.8 km/u (4.1 m/s), richting: ↗ 240°
• maandag 27 juli: Min 17.1°C, Max 21.6°C (Matige buien) 🌧️, Neerslag 10.6 mm, Kans op neerslag 44%, 🧭 1014.1 hPa ↗️ +10.2 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 17.0 km/u (4.7 m/s), richting: → 258°
• dinsdag 28 juli: Min 15.9°C, Max 19.3°C (Lichte motregen) 🌦️, Neerslag 1.8 mm, Kans op neerslag 25%, 🧭 1019.9 hPa ↗️ +5.8 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 10.9 km/u (3.0 m/s), richting: ↓ 345°

Details:
• 🌡️ Huidige temperatuur (om 01:15): 18.1°C (Bewolkt)
• 🤚 Gevoelstemperatuur: 17.2°C (-0.9°C)
• 💨 Windsnelheid: 10.4 km/u (2.9 m/s), richting: ↘ 336°
• 🌬️ Windstoten: 20.2 km/h (5.6 m/s)
• 💧 Luchtvochtigheid: 69%
• 🧭 Luchtdruk: 1025.3 hPa ↘️ -0.6 hPa/3h
• 👁️ Zichtbaarheid: 20.1 km
• ☀️ UV-index: 0.0
• 🌅 Zonsopgang: 05:48 · 🌇 Zonsondergang: 21:48

Luchtkwaliteit:
• AQI: 32 🟢 (Goed)
• PM2.5: 6.6 μg/m³
• PM10: 12.2 μg/m³

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OPINION Every six months or so a Chinese model sparks a panic, calling into question America’s AI dominance. Moonshot AI’s Kimi K3 is the latest example. Recall when DeepSeek R1 shook markets early last year? Following a similar pattern, Moonshot’s latest model isn’t all that interesting apart from its benchmark performance, and at nearly three trillion parameters it's beyond the reach of most enterprises. For the likes of OpenAI and Anthropic, the technology isn't as interesting as its national origin. A Chinese model can be dangled as a threat to national security — Anthropic’s fearmonger and chief Dario Amodei has said as much in the past. Last month the executive accused Alibaba, another prolific Chinese AI model dev, of using Claude to improve its Qwen family of models through a process called distillation. Those claims are rather rich coming from a man whose company just agreed to pay $1.5 billion to settle claims over vacuuming up millions of pirated books to train Claude. Pot, kettle black much? With that said, the anxiety caused by Moonshot’s Kimi K3 does feel different. The model's size is a factor. At 2.8 trillion parameters, Kimi K3 is the largest open weights model ever built. The model’s girth certainly reinforces the idea that K3 is a frontier model. There are interesting architectural changes to the model, but from what we can tell, they aren’t at all related to the anti-China-AI rhetoric making the rounds right now. But let's talk about the benchmarks! We’ve been down this road before with Z.AI’s GLM family, MiniMax M-Series, Qwen, and of course DeepSeek. A new model is released alongside benchmarks that show it trading blows with OpenAI, Anthropic, or Google’s best. Kimi K3 is following that well-trodden path. Last week, Moonshot published a lengthy blog post packed with benchmark charts and demos showing off its new model, and predictably, told the same story as always: Despite US trade restrictions on American-made accelerators, Chinese model houses aren’t as far behind as Altman and Amodei would like. What has changed is Uncle Sam’s attitude toward frontier models. GPT-5.6 was apparently concerning enough that the US government delayed its release, while Claude Fable 5 was pulled offline shortly after launch as officials investigated security concerns. As we later reported, the boogeyman hiding under Fable’s bed wasn’t some Lovecraftian horror. It didn’t even rise to the level of a Disney villain. According to one researcher, it was the sudden realization that generative AI models have achieved a level of competency that users can type “fix this code” and they'll do just that. Yet, the disruption, however brief, may as well have been free marketing for Anthropic, which has been peddling the idea that open models are inherently dangerous. In this respect, the drama around Fable 5 and GPT-5.6’s delay has become ammunition. If America's top models are enough to worry the US government, why shouldn’t Kimi K3? After all, OpenAI and Anthropic are American companies that can be bent to the Trump administration’s whim. But an open weights frontier model that originated in China? Not so much. The Trump administration has apparently taken notice. White House officials are reportedly hearing calls to restrict access to Chinese models, but haven't taken formal action yet. Regardless of what happens this time around, new reports suggest the US and China will meet later this year to discuss the growing threat of their respective nations' AI endeavors. In an AI arms race, an AI summit was inevitable. The US model houses would certainly benefit from restrictions on Chinese models. Under the guise of national security, the restrictions would cut off Chinese AI developers from offering the strongest competition to US labs. But less competition inevitably means enterprises and consumers get screwed. The US hasn’t pursued large open weights models on the same scale as Chinese devs. Thinking Machines Lab’s newly announced Inkling model at just shy of a trillion parameters is about as good as it gets for American open-weights models. The next closest would be Nvidia's Nemotron 3 Ultra at 550 billion parameters. Who knows whether the White House will actually fall for the ploy and give Amodei the knee-jerk response he presumably is looking for. But if the Trump administration doesn’t want US companies, particularly those serving government agencies, using Chinese models, the answer isn’t less competition. It’s more. ®

An anonymous reader quotes a report from 404 Media: As AI companies search for more training data to improve their models, one company is offering old, printed books as an ideal source because they are guaranteed to be free of the very AI slop AI companies are producing. "The world's best AI training data is sitting on a shelf," ISBNdb, a company that produces what it claims is "the world's largest book database," and that offers high-volume book acquisition services for AI companies, says on its site. "Books represent curated, peer-reviewed, domain-specific human knowledge, structured in a way no web crawl can replicate. Dense, edited, authoritative."

In one article on its site, ISBNdb explains that printed books published before 2022 are ideal for AI training data because they don't include AI generated text. As the article correctly notes, much of the data that AI companies can scrape from the internet today is likely to include AI generated text, which could result in "model collapse," a process by which AI models that are trained on AI generated data results in worse models that are more prone to errors. The article also notes that book authors who object to their writing being scraped for training purposes can now easily poison AI models by producing writing designed to manipulate and sabotage the resulting AI models.

"Print books from the pre-LLM era are structurally guaranteed to be free of this contamination. That alone is a significant advantage [...] "Physical books published before this date [pre-2022] are structurally clean of modern poisoning tools." [...] ISBNdb advertises that it can keep the identity of AI companies secret. "Strict NDA [non-disclosure agreement] on every engagement," ISBNdb's site says. "Every project begins with a legally binding non-disclosure agreement. Your identity, strategy, and acquisition targets are never disclosed." ISBNdb notes that AI companies may not want to be caught destroying printed books during the scanning process. "The optics problem is real," ISBNdb's site says. "'AI company destroys two million books' is not a headline that generates sympathy."

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BrianFagioli writes: Canonical has launched the Enterprise Store as part of Ubuntu Pro, giving organizations a way to manage Ubuntu software distribution in restricted networks, behind firewalls, and in air gapped environments. The on premises proxy sits between devices and Canonical software stores, allowing companies to cache downloads, control software revisions, and manage snaps and charms without requiring every system to connect directly to the internet. The Enterprise Store is designed for organizations with strict security requirements, including regulated industries and environments where predictable software updates and audit controls are important.

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DEN HAAG (ANP) - De gemiddelde agrarische grondprijs is in het tweede kwartaal met 6,7 procent gestegen. Dat melden het Kadaster en de Universiteit Wageningen (WUR). De gemiddelde prijs per hectare lag door deze stijging op 108.500 euro in het tweede kwartaal. Deze prijs ligt 13,7 procent hoger dan het gemiddelde over heel 2025.

Het Kadaster licht toe dat agrarische grond schaars is en er relatief weinig wordt verhandeld, waardoor de prijs al jaren een stijgende trend vertoont. "Tegelijkertijd zijn er bij een beperkt aantal transacties enkele uitschieters, waardoor de gemiddelde prijs in een kwartaal hoog kan uitvallen. Vooral doordat de prijs in het eerste kwartaal van 2026 nog daalde, valt de stijging in het tweede kwartaal relatief hoog uit."

Maandag publiceerden het Kadaster en de WUR een onderzoek naar de effecten van de stikstofregels van de overheid op de grondmarkt. Veehouderijen konden met de overheid een regeling treffen om hun bedrijf te beëindigen, zodat de stikstofuitstoot in en rondom Natura 2000-gebieden terugloopt. Door deze regeling stopten tussen juli 2023 en december 2024 zo'n 1100 veehouderijen en kwam er veel grasland vrij, waar vee op kan grazen.

Stikstofregeling

Hoewel er veel grasland op de markt kwam, is de gemiddelde grondprijs nog niet veel veranderd. Het onderzoek stelt dat de koers van de grondprijs vooral afhangt van de algemene prijsontwikkeling van akkers, ondanks het ruimere aanbod van grasland. De grondprijs voor land voor akkerbouw ligt namelijk structureel hoger dan voor grasland. "Op akkers worden gewassen geteeld die een hogere opbrengst per hectare opleveren", stelde het Kadaster eerder. Afgelopen kwartaal kostte een hectare akker gemiddeld ruim 123.000 euro, tegenover ongeveer 94.500 euro voor grasland.

Volgens het onderzoek is een deel van de vrijgekomen grond nog niet verkocht. De onderzoekers stellen dat de effecten van de stikstofregeling op de markt zichtbaar worden zodra het vrijgekomen grasland meer wordt verhandeld.