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De wereldwijde uitgaven aan wapensystemen blijven fors toenemen. In 2025 gaf de wereld bijna 3.000 miljard dollar uit aan wapentuig, het hoogste bedrag ooit. Vooral in Europa stijgen de militaire uitgaven snel.
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Koningsdag in een land vol wantrouwen. Ik hoef hopelijk niet uit te tekenen waarom dit liedje van The King (of Rock & Roll) toepasselijk is, toch?
Het videoclipje is nog leuk gedaan ook.
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Peers and campaigners say proposal for three-year window to impose controls breaks promise of quick action
Peers will vote on Monday on a government move that could delay action on children’s access to social media for up to three years, which has triggered a backlash from campaigners and senior figures in the Lords.
Ministers tabled an amendment to the children’s wellbeing and schools bill that would allow them to wait before introducing new restrictions, Critics warn it risks watering down earlier commitments to act within months and could result in only limited interventions such as parental controls rather than sweeping measures on access.
Continue reading...‘Inadequate economic security’ is putting growth and jobs at risk, says British Chambers of Commerce
UK business leaders have called on the government to build an EU-style “trade bazooka” to protect Britain’s economic interests in response to the latest tariff threats from Donald Trump.
As transatlantic tensions rise, the British Chambers of Commerce said the UK’s “inadequate economic security” was putting growth and jobs at risk.
Continue reading...The creator of The Responder’s new offering is the tale of two casino employees robbing their workplace. It’s a perfectly plotted thriller but it’s also so much more than that
Four years ago, Tony Schumacher, a former taxi driver and police officer turned novelist, made his television writing debut with The Responder. It was a five-part series starring Martin Freeman as a police officer on the edge of a breakdown, his mental, emotional and physical resources worn away every night by the ceaseless tide of crime – swelled by misery, desperation and selfishness – that he and his colleagues are supposed to be turning. It was a drama that dissected just about every social and psychological issue that drives our despair, and dared you not to look away. It was profoundly compassionate, harrowing and brilliant. Which makes it a lot to live up to.
Schumacher’s new offering, The Cage, however, does so. Ostensibly it is the tale of the robbery of a casino by two of its employees, cashier Leanne (Sheridan Smith) and manager Matty (Michael Socha). In reality it is, like The Responder, an astonishing, deeply angry, deeply moving state-of-the-nation piece merely masquerading as a mesmerising, perfectly paced and plotted thriller.
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MILAAN (ANP) - AC Milan en Juventus hebben voor de tweede keer dit seizoen 0-0 gespeeld in de Serie A. Dit keer was San Siro in Milaan het decor van een saaie wedstrijd zonder doelpunten tussen twee grootmachten in het voetbal. Milan en Juventus kunnen als nummers 3 en 4 in de stand een ticket voor deelname aan de Champions League veiligstellen.
Er was wel een goal te zien van de thuisploeg, maar de treffer van Khéphren Thuram werd afgekeurd om buitenspel. Teun Koopmeiners viel halverwege de tweede helft in voor Thuram.
Vlak voor de aftrap werd Ruud Gullit geëerd in San Siro. De voormalige speler van AC Milan is opgenomen in de Hall of Fame van de club. Gullit kreeg tijdens een ceremonie op het veld een zilveren schaal uitgereikt. De ex-international voetbalde zes seizoenen bij AC Milan en won met de club twee keer de Europa Cup I, de voorganger van de Champions League.
BEIROET (ANP/RTR) - Israëlische luchtaanvallen hebben zondag veertien mensen gedood en 37 mensen verwond, meldt het Libanese ministerie van Volksgezondheid. Onder de doden van zondag waren twee kinderen en twee vrouwen, aldus het ministerie van Volksgezondheid. Israël meldt dat een van zijn soldaten is omgekomen.
Eerder zondag meldden Libanese autoriteiten dat al meer dan 2500 mensen zijn omgekomen bij Israëlische aanvallen sinds de meest recente oorlog tussen Hezbollah en Israël op 2 maart begon. Dat was enkele dagen nadat de Verenigde Staten en Israël aanvallen op Iran hadden uitgevoerd.
Sinds medio april is een staakt-het-vuren van kracht tussen Israël en Libanon. Het bestand staat steeds meer onder druk door de aanhoudende aanvallen over en weer.
Het Israëlische leger is bezig met het slopen van huizen en infrastructuur in Zuid-Libanon, met name in de grensdorpen. Sommige dorpen, zoals Beit Lif, zijn vrijwel volledig met de grond gelijkgemaakt, zo is volgens de BBC te zien op satellietbeelden.
Framework began shipping its new Laptop 13 Pro this week. And the Ubuntu variant is outselling the Windows variant, reports PC World:
[I]t's selling quickly by Framework's internal metrics, with six batches of the Intel version of the laptop already sold out. [A later Framework social media post added "Spoke too soon, we're onto Batch 8."]
"Also nice validation of our approach, the Ubuntu configurations are outselling the Windows ones!"
That's not really surprising, for a few reasons. One, if you're buying a Framework laptop, you have a good reason to order it without an OS, even if you want Windows 11. It's easy to get it free or cheap elsewhere. (Framework says it's not counting the "None (bring your own)" option in these Ubuntu numbers.) Two, there are precious few places to order a new laptop with any kind of Linux pre-loaded — you've got Framework, a few smaller vendors like System76 and Slimbook, and a few models from Dell. Lenovo sold Ubuntu-loaded laptops at one point, but I can't find any on the site right now...
Perhaps it doesn't hurt that Microsoft and Windows are currently on a bit of an apology tour. After a couple of years of pushing hard on "AI" features that no one wants — not even the people who do want "AI" want the Copilot flavor — Microsoft is pulling back its integration into everything and now promising features that Windows has been missing ever since Windows 10.
Framework also reports that:
More than one third of purchasers say they're replacing a MacBook Pro, "and almost all of them are switching to Linux (based on our optional post-purchase survey)."
"Also in interesting sales data, the Gray/Black keyboard is vastly outselling the traditional Black one!"
[I]t's selling quickly by Framework's internal metrics, with six batches of the Intel version of the laptop already sold out. [A later Framework social media post added "Spoke too soon, we're onto Batch 8."]
"Also nice validation of our approach, the Ubuntu configurations are outselling the Windows ones!"
That's not really surprising, for a few reasons. One, if you're buying a Framework laptop, you have a good reason to order it without an OS, even if you want Windows 11. It's easy to get it free or cheap elsewhere. (Framework says it's not counting the "None (bring your own)" option in these Ubuntu numbers.) Two, there are precious few places to order a new laptop with any kind of Linux pre-loaded — you've got Framework, a few smaller vendors like System76 and Slimbook, and a few models from Dell. Lenovo sold Ubuntu-loaded laptops at one point, but I can't find any on the site right now...
Perhaps it doesn't hurt that Microsoft and Windows are currently on a bit of an apology tour. After a couple of years of pushing hard on "AI" features that no one wants — not even the people who do want "AI" want the Copilot flavor — Microsoft is pulling back its integration into everything and now promising features that Windows has been missing ever since Windows 10.
Framework also reports that:
More than one third of purchasers say they're replacing a MacBook Pro, "and almost all of them are switching to Linux (based on our optional post-purchase survey)."
"Also in interesting sales data, the Gray/Black keyboard is vastly outselling the traditional Black one!"
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