Activisten bezetten vrijdag het bouwterrein waar in Amsterdam een omstreden datacenter moet verrijzen. „We willen een moratorium op de bouw van nieuwe datacenters in heel Europa.”

Nieuwsmedia staan voor de strijd van hun leven. Amerikaanse AI-giganten bouwen aan een toekomst waarin voor kranten steeds minder plaats is. De grote pershuizen vragen de overheid om hulp, maar zien zich tegelijk genoodzaakt om met de techreuzen te onderhandelen. „Google is voor ons de totale horror.”

Langdurige arbeidsongeschiktheid bij vrouwen steeg de afgelopen jaren, maar de redenen daarvoor waren lange tijd onduidelijk. Nieuw onderzoek toont nu een mogelijke oorzaak: twee jaar na de geboorte van een eerste kind is de WIA-instroom opvallend hoog bij vrouwen.

Rassvet, founded by 2024 presidential hopeful Yekaterina Duntsova, denied allegations that it received foreign funding.

Het vuurwerk dat vrijdagmiddag naast het stadion van FC Dordrecht is gevonden, is door de Explosieven Opruimingsdienst (EOD) veiliggesteld. Het ging om rookbommen. Ze lagen ter hoogte van het uitvak in aanloop naar het duel tussen FC Dordrecht en NAC Breda. Het stadion is weer vrijgegeven.

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Elon Musk has hit the brakes on the Cybertruck, announcing on X that Tesla will wind down production at its Texas factory around mid-2027. Despite years of delays, the stainless-steel turd Musk claimed was a futuristic, apocalypse-proof tank straight out of Blade Runner is headed for a production wind-down after roughly four years, putting the Cybertruck alongside such automotive flops as the Edsel and the DeLorean. We can’t even put the Cybertruck on the same tier as the Ford Pinto, as that deathtrap was produced for a decade. The first Cybertruck lumbered off Tesla’s production line in mid-2023 before going on sale later that year, and it was practically right out of the gate that the problems began. Within months of the first deliveries, recall notices began piling up on the monstrosity. Trim pieces were flying off, internal components were failing, cameras were malfunctioning – all in all, the thing has faced 11 recalls since hitting the road in late 2023, most recently in April 2026, when a defect in brake rotors was found to potentially cause cracks that could allow wheel studs to separate from their hubs. Musk had pinned a lot of Tesla's hopes on the Cybertruck a few years ago, describing it during the company's Q3 2023 earnings call as "a great product" that would eventually generate "significant positive cash flow" for Tesla. Musk said on that same earnings call that Tesla intended to ramp Cybertruck production up to 250,000 vehicles per year by 2025 to meet the over one million Cybertruck reservations he claimed Tesla had taken. Some Musk fans may still be waiting for their Cybertrucks, while others may have canceled their reservations after reading early reviews or experiencing the reality of driving such an ugly vehicle associated with a right-wing provocateur. Tesla hasn't disclosed how many reservations were canceled or converted into sales. Even then, it was widely reported in recent years that unsold Cybertrucks were piling up around the US, with Tesla unable to move them even with repeated price reductions. Tesla has never shared Cybertruck sales numbers, but it’s estimated that only around 70,000 of the things have been sold in the past three years - not exactly a ringing endorsement of its marketability. So that’s that for the Cybertruck - it’s safe to say it’s been a total disaster for Musk and Tesla. It never sold well, never became a boat, and will likely never be remembered fondly. ®

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"Until now, the earliest evidence of cannabis use dated to around 2,500 years ago: charred marijuana remains found in eastern China that contained high levels of THC. That evidence, however, was indirect because it only showed the plant remains—whereas the newly found combination of seeds and human hair offers a "smoking gun of evidence" for humans using the plant to get high". (archive)

"It's easy to look at this stuff and say, 'Oh, the Scythians toked the reefer,'" Taylor jokes. "But in fact, it is a tremendously powerful snapshot into an interconnected world in which the people and cultures of the steppe were starting to shape life on both ends of a massive continent."

Fossil of platypus-like animal from dinosaur era unearthed in China. Scientists have found the earliest-known fossil of a mammal-like animal that lived more than 160 million years ago in the mid-Jurassic period and may have hunted fish and salamander.

A call for more “mindful underparenting” from psychologist Darby Saxbe. “If you want to raise empathetic, imaginative children who can figure out how to entertain themselves, don’t keep their brains too occupied.” 💯

Father of the Duchess of Sussex was taken into custody near Tampa, US prosecutors said

Thomas Markle, father of the Duchess of Sussex, has been arrested by US federal agents in Florida on charges related to child sexual abuse material.

Markle, 82, was taken into custody near Tampa early on Friday, US prosecutors said.

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There are more than 100,000 words and phrases that the tech giant has restricted its predictive text from completing, research shows

“Australia is a very bad place to question your sexuality on MDMA with NSA spies” might be a text you would wish to send to your friends, if you have had an extraordinarily complicated night out in Sydney.

But your iPhone won’t help you spell any of it if you try to swipe-type it – that is, by gliding a finger across a keyboard as opposed to pecking out a word.

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He is the most powerful ruler ever – and his first biographer was crucified. What drew Edmund Richardson, winner of the £50,000 Baillie Gifford prize, to his short tumultuous life?

He was the most powerful man in the world but he was brought down by one battle too many after a decade at the top. The story of Alexander the Great might be more than 2,000 years old, but it seems timely that a new biography of the ancient ruler won the Baillie Gifford prize for nonfiction just as President Trump took a battering in the US midterms. “This is a moment,” says its author Edmund Richardson, “where people are finding that there are limits to what unlimited wealth and power can do, and that humanity catches up with you, whether you like it or not. Alexander wants to transform the world – and he leaves it in ruins.”

Wearing a purple velvet jacket, purple scarf and matching socks, with a high forehead and corona of auburn curls, Richardson himself might have stepped out of an earlier age. It is hard to imagine anyone less like history’s favourite mob boss than this softly spoken professor of classics. We are having coffee at the offices of the PR company for the Baillie Gifford prize, the view of the City of London skyline from the floor to ceiling windows a reminder of 21st-century power and economics.

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After Thursday’s share price plunge on Wall Street, could the volatility be the start of a huge market meltdown?

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Global financial markets have been thrown into a tailspin as investors bet on an AI slowdown after the US midterm elections.

This is not the first time stock markets have wobbled in recent months due to concerns over a tech bubble. But could this volatility be the start of a huge market meltdown?

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This photograph easily makes it into my personal top 10 from our 2024 trip to Japan. And the reason? Rain. Yes, rain!

If there's one thing that perfectly captures that cyberpunk atmosphere I love so much, it's a rainy night in Tokyo. Just looking at this scene, I can almost hear a synthwave soundtrack kicking in.

A narrow backstreet, with a lone salaryman approaching in the distance, carrying a transparent umbrella. Perhaps he's just finished another long day at work, on his way to find a warm bowl of something delicious, maybe followed by a cold Asahi Super Dry to round off the evening.

Behind him, the elevated metro line stretches across the scene, with its concrete arches sheltering a row of restaurants. Their warmly illuminated signs and decorated entrances create a beautiful contrast with the dark, wet surroundings.

The foreground is filled with barrels, covered objects and tarpaulins, giving the alley that wonderfully lived-in, slightly cluttered character. And then there's the wet pavement, catching the reflections of the approaching salaryman and the surrounding lights.

Everything just seems to fall into place. The colours, the rain, the reflections, the lone figure and the layers of urban detail. It feels less like a photograph of an ordinary Tokyo street and more like a still from a science-fiction movie.

Perhaps that's why I love this kind of scene so much. It has that unmistakable late-night Tokyo atmosphere, somewhere between reality and the imagined world of an '80s cyberpunk movie. All that's missing is the soundtrack.
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Een van de twee jaarlijkse feestweekenden in het zuiden, naast vastelaovend: het slotconcert van Rowwen Hèze in America, met 30.000 Limbo's voor bier, limbotexmex, bier, blote basten, bier, dialect, bier, varkensstiften en bier. Nieuwe muziek deze week: het lievelingetje van de paus Bob Dylan met de liveconcerten van zijn iconische Rolling Thunder Revue, Bryan Adams (die in 1969 een heel drukke zomer had en kennelijk nog leeft), Kings of Leon, Hatebreed, Passenger en countryfolkkoning Wlli Carlisle. Al die muziek heeft te maken met Thanksgiving en de feestmaand. Enfin, de boel de boel, Samantha naar de naaiclub, we drinken ons het weekend in & breken de tent af. Het gedicht is van Jack Poels. Tot vanavond Limburg!

Bob Dylan - 1976 Rolling Thunder Revue

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Hatebreed (VZMH)

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Jack Poels - Kerstaquarel

Ik las ’n woord: ‘kerstaquarel’
toen werd ‘t stil, toen ging ’t snel
toen ging het sneeuwen in m’n hoofd
het was kerstmis, ik ’n kind

de wangen gloeiend van de wind
m’n handen door de kou verdoofd
de natte jassen op de gang
de kleur van Kerst op ’t behang

bij tante Paula op bezoek
met m’n nichtjes zong ik vroom
voor de kleine groene boom
op de tafel in de hoek

en thuis m’n ouders en m’n zus
de geur van spuitsneeuw uit ’n bus
geslepen glas met rode wijn
en kindje Jezus, dat lag los

naast de herders in het mos
te blozen in de rode schijn
buiten gure wind en kou
de auto die niet starten wou

het kaalgeslagen winterland
ik zat binnen op de grond
en ik streek met open mond
het penseel vast in m’n hand.

Kings of Leon

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Passenger

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Bryan Adams

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Willi Carlisle

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