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Rooney claimed coach lacked ‘aura’ to manage club
‘Jürgen Klopp and me both won the league’
Arne Slot has responded to Wayne Rooney’s claim that the Liverpool head coach does not have the “aura” to manage the club by pointing to his Premier League title success last season.
Rooney questioned Slot’s suitability for the job, telling The Overlap: “I have met him a few times. He was a nice fella but I just don’t think, for Liverpool, he’s got that aura about him. Maybe this is because you have just come off the back of Jürgen Klopp and it’s going to be difficult for anyone to have that, but I just don’t think there’s that aura about him.”
Continue reading...‘It’s not part of my vocabulary. I wouldn’t use that word’
Arsenal visit Tottenham in Premier League on Sunday
Mikel Arteta has insisted the word “bottlers” is not in his vocabulary and that Arsenal must take criticism “on the chin” after surrendering a 2-0 lead against the bottom side, Wolves, in midweek.
With Manchester City facing Newcastle on Saturday night, the Premier League leaders could have their advantage over Pep Guardiola’s side cut to two points by the time they play at Tottenham on Sunday.
Continue reading...New coach starts tenure against Arsenal on Sunday
Tudor insists ‘we have enormous quality in the squad’
Igor Tudor has said Tottenham are in “an emergency situation” but issued a guarantee that his new team would escape relegation.
Tudor is a veteran of short-term appointments and has performed rescue jobs at Udinese, Verona and Juventus. He offered a curt “100%” in response to questions on his confidence in Spurs’s survival. The Croat’s tenure begins on Sunday with a north London derby at home to the wobbling Premier League leaders, though a lengthy injury list leaves him with only 13 fit senior players.
Continue reading...Rightwing Trump ally tells Tucker Carlson Israel has biblical right to land from ‘wadi of Egypt to the great river’
The US’s ambassador to Israel, Mike Huckabee, has contended to the podcaster Tucker Carlson that Israel has a biblical right to take over the entire Middle East – or at least the lion’s share of it.
“It would be fine if they took it all,” Huckabee said to Carlson during an interview posted on Friday. The Trump administration appointee and former Arkansas governor discussed with Carlson interpretations of Old Testament scripture within the US Christian nationalist movement.
Continue reading...Federal judge said reporter Hannah Natanson ‘has basically been deprived of her life’s work’ after January raid
A federal judge in Virginia on Friday declined to immediately rule on the Washington Post’s request for the government to return devices seized from reporter Hannah Natanson in a January raid of her home.
But the judge, William B. Porter of the eastern district of Virginia, acknowledged the enormity and significance of the seizure during the afternoon hearing. “Ms Natanson has basically been deprived of her life’s work,” he said.
Continue reading...Claims against Wesley Dingus came from teen who had been staying at his residence and hid camera in bedroom
A Republican mayor in Ohio is facing criminal allegations after authorities say he was recorded on a concealed camera smelling an underage girl’s underwear.
An incident report from the Richland county sheriff’s Office details the accusations against Wesley Dingus, 48, who serves as mayor of Butler. The claims came from a juvenile who had been staying at his residence.
Continue reading...The decision adds to economic uncertainty, as deals Donald Trump struck with other countries are upended
It is refreshing to witness the US supreme court recover its spine and stand up to Donald Trump’s most extreme caprices. The 6-3 decision on Friday to strike down his barrage of tariffs on imports from virtually everywhere based on the preposterous argument that they addressed national emergencies will reassure the world that the US’s system of government – based on the separation of powers, checks and balances, and the rule of law – has not collapsed entirely.
But let’s hold the (imported) champagne. The court’s ruling will not restore the United States to its former place as a reasonable, trustworthy player in the world economy. The rules-based economic architecture that underpinned the integration of the world economy over the decades that followed the second world war remains fractured. Trump is still intent on its disintegration. And he retains power to do so.
Continue reading...About 100 customers affected
PayPal has notified about 100 customers that their personal information was exposed online during a code change gone awry, and in a few of these cases, people saw unauthorized transactions on their accounts.…
Legal language change aims to make longstanding policy clear
Anthropic this week revised its legal terms to clarify its policy forbidding the use of third-party harnesses with Claude subscriptions, as the AI biz attempts to shore up its revenue model.…
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Arch Enemy , the Swedish melodic death metal band, has a new vocalist and a new song, To the Last Breath.
They recently split ways with Alissa White-Gluz (she put out a really cool, long-form, more melodic song, The Room Where She Died), who had previously replaced Angela Gossow. The new vocalist, Australian Lauren Hart, has stated that she was inspired to learn to sing harsh vocals by Gossow's work with the band, so this is in a way a closing of the circle. Hart was previously with Once Human (eg: Eye Of Chaos). Here's a cool clip of Hart with some other female metal masters covering Sepultura - Territory. Poppy put out a new album, Empty Hands. Lead single, Time Will Tell, pretty similar to her previous album, IMO. Finally, more hardcore than metal but still pretty great, unpolished* - collateral damage.
They recently split ways with Alissa White-Gluz (she put out a really cool, long-form, more melodic song, The Room Where She Died), who had previously replaced Angela Gossow. The new vocalist, Australian Lauren Hart, has stated that she was inspired to learn to sing harsh vocals by Gossow's work with the band, so this is in a way a closing of the circle. Hart was previously with Once Human (eg: Eye Of Chaos). Here's a cool clip of Hart with some other female metal masters covering Sepultura - Territory. Poppy put out a new album, Empty Hands. Lead single, Time Will Tell, pretty similar to her previous album, IMO. Finally, more hardcore than metal but still pretty great, unpolished* - collateral damage.
AMSTERDAM (ANP) - De Nationale Politie heeft de kritische blik van Bits of Freedom gebruikt om de werkwijze aan te passen. Dat zei plaatsvervangend korpschef Wilbert Paulissen in een videoboodschap bij de uitreiking van de Big Brother Awards, de 'prijs' voor de grootste privacyschenders van 2025.
"Je bent nooit blij dat je een prijs als deze wint, maar het is altijd goed dat er kritisch meegekeken wordt naar het handelen van de politie. En ik vind het ook mooi om hier te melden dat we op basis van die kritische blik onze werkwijze aangepast hebben en hier nu anders mee omgaan", aldus Paulissen. "Het gaat over het evenwicht tussen de bescherming van de privacy van mensen en onze taak als het gaat over het waarborgen van de veiligheid. Daar zit een soort spanningsveld tussen."
De Nationale Politie won met 30 procent van de stemmen de publieksprijs. Aanleiding was het monitoren van activisten via sociale media en ze vervolgens thuis opzoeken zonder wettelijke grondslag. Intimiderend, vindt Bits of Freedom.
MILAAN (ANP) - Nederland staat met nog twee dagen te gaan stevig op de vierde plaats in het medailleklassement van de Olympische Spelen in Milaan en Cortina d'Ampezzo. Vrijdag bezorgden langebaanschaatsster Antoinette Rijpma-de Jong (1500 meter) en de shorttrackmannen (aflossing) TeamNL de zevende en achtste gouden medaille.
Daarmee werd het recordaantal gouden medailles van Sotsji (2014), Pyeongchang (2018) en Beijing (2022) geëvenaard. Die drie Winterspelen eindigde Nederland met acht keer goud.
Noorwegen leidt het klassement in Italië met een recordaantal van zeventien gouden medailles, gevolgd door de Verenigde Staten (tien) en Italië (negen).
Spelen van 1972
Nederland eindigde bij de Spelen van 1972 in Sapporo op de vierde plaats van de medaillespiegel. In Sotsji en Beijing was de zesde plaats de eindklassering voor TeamNL en in Pyeongchang de vijfde plaats.
Bij de Winterspelen zijn nu 102 van de 116 onderdelen afgewerkt.
An anonymous reader shares a report: Meta product managers are rebranding. Some are now calling themselves "AI builders," a signal that AI coding tools are changing who gets to build software inside the company. One of them, Jeremie Guedj, announced the change in a LinkedIn post last week. "I still can't believe I'm writing this: as of today, my full-time job at Meta is AI Builder," he wrote.
Guedj has spent more than a decade as a traditional product manager, a role that sets the road map and strategy for products then built by engineering teams. He said that while his title in Meta's internal systems still lists him as a product manager, his actual work is now full-time building with AI on what he calls an "AI-native team." Another Meta product manager also lists "AI Builder" on her LinkedIn profile, while at least two other Meta engineers write the term in their bios, Business Insider found.
Guedj has spent more than a decade as a traditional product manager, a role that sets the road map and strategy for products then built by engineering teams. He said that while his title in Meta's internal systems still lists him as a product manager, his actual work is now full-time building with AI on what he calls an "AI-native team." Another Meta product manager also lists "AI Builder" on her LinkedIn profile, while at least two other Meta engineers write the term in their bios, Business Insider found.
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OpenAI faces four fundamental strategic problems that no amount of fundraising or capex announcements can paper over, according to analyst Benedict Evans: it has no unique technology, its enormous user base is shallow and fragile, incumbents like Google and Meta are leveraging superior distribution to close the gap, and its product roadmap is dictated by whatever the research labs happen to discover rather than by deliberate product strategy.
The company claims 800-900 million weekly active users, but 80% of them sent fewer than 1,000 messages across all of 2025, averaging fewer than three prompts a day, and only 5% pay. OpenAI has acknowledged what it calls a "capability gap" between what models can do and what people use them for -- a framing Evans reads as a polite way to avoid admitting the absence of product-market fit. Gemini and Meta AI are meanwhile gaining share rapidly because the products look nearly indistinguishable to typical users, and Google and Meta already have the distribution to push them. Evans compares ChatGPT to Netscape -- an early leader in a category where the products were hard to tell apart, overtaken by a competitor that used distribution as a crowbar.
On capex, Evans argues that Altman's ambitions -- claiming $1.4 trillion and 30 gigawatts of future compute -- amount to an attempt to will OpenAI into a seat at a table where annual infrastructure spending may need to reach hundreds of billions. But a seat at the table is not leverage over it; he compares this to TSMC, which holds a de facto chip monopoly yet captures little value further up the stack.
OpenAI's own strategy diagrams from late last year laid out a full-stack platform vision -- chips, models, developer tools, consumer products -- each layer reinforcing the others. Evans argues this borrows the language of Windows and iOS without possessing any of the underlying dynamics: no network effect, no lock-in preventing developers from calling a different model's API, and no reason customers would know or care which foundation model powers the product they are using.
The company claims 800-900 million weekly active users, but 80% of them sent fewer than 1,000 messages across all of 2025, averaging fewer than three prompts a day, and only 5% pay. OpenAI has acknowledged what it calls a "capability gap" between what models can do and what people use them for -- a framing Evans reads as a polite way to avoid admitting the absence of product-market fit. Gemini and Meta AI are meanwhile gaining share rapidly because the products look nearly indistinguishable to typical users, and Google and Meta already have the distribution to push them. Evans compares ChatGPT to Netscape -- an early leader in a category where the products were hard to tell apart, overtaken by a competitor that used distribution as a crowbar.
On capex, Evans argues that Altman's ambitions -- claiming $1.4 trillion and 30 gigawatts of future compute -- amount to an attempt to will OpenAI into a seat at a table where annual infrastructure spending may need to reach hundreds of billions. But a seat at the table is not leverage over it; he compares this to TSMC, which holds a de facto chip monopoly yet captures little value further up the stack.
OpenAI's own strategy diagrams from late last year laid out a full-stack platform vision -- chips, models, developer tools, consumer products -- each layer reinforcing the others. Evans argues this borrows the language of Windows and iOS without possessing any of the underlying dynamics: no network effect, no lock-in preventing developers from calling a different model's API, and no reason customers would know or care which foundation model powers the product they are using.
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