BUNNIK (ANP) - De verkoop van nieuwe auto's is afgelopen maand iets aangetrokken. Dat komt vooral doordat er meer volledig elektrische modellen op kenteken werden gezet. Volgens een woordvoerder van brancheorganisatie BOVAG, die de cijfers presenteerde samen met RAI Vereniging, kan dat komen door een combinatie van de hoge brandstofprijzen en een nieuwe heffing die volgend jaar gaat gelden.

Er werden in mei een kleine 30.000 auto's op kenteken gezet, 1 procent meer dan in dezelfde maand vorig jaar. Het merendeel van de nieuw verkochte auto's was hybride, met een marktaandeel van 50,1 procent. De verkoop van volledig elektrische auto's steeg sneller, met 7 procentpunt tot een marktaandeel van 41 procent.

Voor de eerste vijf maanden van dit jaar blijft de totale verkoop van nieuwe auto's nog wel 8 procent onder het niveau van vorig jaar. Vooral in januari en februari werden relatief weinig nieuwe auto's verkocht, door een hoger aantal verkopen eind vorig jaar.

AMSTERDAM (ANP) - Het Amsterdamse reclamebureau KesselsKramer is failliet verklaard door de rechtbank in Amsterdam. Het in 1996 opgerichte bureau is onder meer bekend van de wereldberoemde rood-witte I Amsterdam-letters.

Volgens het Centraal Insolventieregister is Els Doornhein aangesteld als curator. Tegen RTL Z stelt de curator dat het faillissement volgens het bestuur een optelsom is, maar dat het onverwacht niet doorgaan van drie grote commerciële klussen de belangrijkste oorzaak is.

Het reclamebureau is opgericht door Erik Kessels en Johan Kramer. Het bedrijf begon in Amsterdam en opende later ook kantoren in Londen en Los Angeles. Andere bekende campagnes waren voor het Hans Brinker Budget Hotel in Amsterdam en voor telecombedrijf Ben. KesselsKramer werkte ook voor Het Parool, Levi's, de Belastingdienst en Bavaria. Recent deed het bureau nog een campagne voor het Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam.

HILVERSUM (ANP) - Vakbond CNV wil geen akkoord met werkgevers sluiten over de bezuinigingen rond sociale zekerheid, maar alleen met het kabinet erbij. Dat heeft CNV-voorzitter Hans van den Heuvel maandag gezegd in het programma Sven op 1 op NPO Radio 1.

Zondag werd bekend dat vakbonden en werkgevers kijken of zij zonder het kabinet oplossingen kunnen vinden voor de arbeidsmarkt en de economie. Van den Heuvel verwacht dat de partijen, waar ook de vakbonden FNV en VCP en werkgeversorganisatie VNO-NCW bij horen, er onderling "misschien wel op punten uit gaan komen".

Maandag zei de CNV-voorzitter met werkgevers te overleggen over onder meer een toekomstbestendige economie en sociale zekerheid, maar niet met hen een akkoord te gaan sluiten. "Het is niet zo dat het kabinet ergens kan zitten wachten totdat werkgevers en werknemers er een keer uit zijn en dat dan overneemt. Die 6,5 miljard moet van tafel, dat kan ik niet met de werkgevers doen", lichtte hij toe, verwijzend naar het totaalbedrag dat het kabinet wil bezuinigen.

De Raad van State heeft stevige kritiek op een bepaling in de Wet veilige jaarwisseling, die het mogelijk maakt voor particulieren om toch vuurwerk af te steken.

Een voormalige cliënt van het advocatenechtpaar Geert-Jan en Carry Knoops, een ondernemer uit Gelderland, had een klacht ingediend bij de deken van de Orde van Advocaten. Hij voelde zich opgelicht, omdat hij ruim 200.000 moest betalen voor een „eenvoudige zedenzaak”.

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Ravi Naik says legal ruling that forced Sarah Wynn-Williams to make silent appearance at Hay festival also applies to him

The lawyer representing the Meta whistleblower Sarah Wynn-Williams has said he too has been prevented from promoting her memoir under a legal ruling, after her silent appearance at the Hay festival.

Ravi Naik said the terms of an arbitration proceeding meant neither Wynn-Williams nor her “agents” could promote her bestselling book Careless People or say anything disparaging about the company.

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A project to measure how reflective paint reduces indoor temperatures is delivering tangible benefits across Africa

The brick house Sylvia shares in a Western Cape township on the outskirts of Cape Town with her three children gets unbearably hot every summer, causing the youngest to cry and her two older children to struggle to concentrate on their homework. Sylvia is not alone, according to a recent report in the Lancet: “In 2024, people in South Africa were exposed to 13 heatwave days, on average. Of these, 10.5 (80%) would not have been expected to occur without climate change.”

But summer is more bearable for the family now that her asbestos roof has been painted with reflective paint.

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The roots of AI in rightwing ideology is examined in Valerie Veatch’s enjoyable doc, including an array of colourful, often crazed, figures

Director Valerie Veatch made her name with documentaries such as Love Child (about an online gaming-addicted couple whose child died of malnutrition) and Me at the Zoo (about American vlogger Cara Cunningham), films that explore the intersection of real-world subcultures and internet communities. Her latest continues in this vein, although its self-set remit is a bit broader, more urgent and germane to everyone right now: the pursuit of artificial intelligence, its dark history in eugenics and highly debatable utility today (despite the stock-market bubble pushing the value of a half-dozen companies towards the stratosphere).

The thrust of the film is largely polemic, guiding the viewer towards AI-sceptical conclusions one persuasive soundbite at a time. Nevertheless, it also serves as a very useful, straightforward primer on AI history, touching on a dazzling array of colourful, often crazed figures, including Victorian British eugenicist Francis Galton, Silicon Valley founding father and overt racist William Shockley and current-day jillionaire jerk Elon Musk. Sadly, the film is not so up-to-date that it covers Musk and former friend-turned-foe Sam Altman’s recent courtroom brawl, but that doesn’t detract from the thrust of Veatch and her interviewees’ arguments.

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This yoghurty-crunchy sharing dish brings classic street food vibes with no need to fire up the barbecue

While souvlaki and other Greek meat grills are staples in our house, their appearance definitely increases in the warmer months. And if I’m going to the effort of lighting the barbecue, I will always cook more meat than I need, so I can enjoy it on subsequent days. As a result, I have a new appreciation for turning this much-loved street food into more of a sharing plate. You can, of course, barbecue the chicken, if that is how your day is going, but this is just as delicious made in a pan, quickly and simply, with all that charred flavour. Throw in a little sunshine and a glass of cold wine, and you’ll find yourself instantly transported to a waterside taverna, paper tablecloth and all.

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Family were enjoying a waterside barbecue in Bochum before members ended up in jeopardy in river

A cyclist has been praised for having “stepped in decisively” and rescuing four members of a family who nearly drowned in the Ruhr River in Germany during a waterside barbecue that nearly ended in tragedy.

The family of eight had set themselves up on the riverbank in the western city of Bochum, the local fire brigade reported, but the gathering took a panicked turn when one woman got too close to the water’s edge and toppled down into the current, police told local media.

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Community groups say some fear they could lose homes, jobs and access to healthcare if the new law is ratified by President John Dramani Mahama

Ghana’s LGBTQ community is living in fear after the country’s parliament approved a sweeping bill that criminalises the promotion of LGBTQ+ activities and identifying as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender or queer, rights groups have warned.

The legislation, which was passed on Friday, mandates prison sentences of three to 10 years.

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Rampant Bull needed a makeover after wear and tear from tourists, but refurbishment ‘castrated’ it, critics say

The restoration of a floor mosaic in Milan called the Rampant Bull has been mocked after the works appear to have erased a crucial anatomical detail – its testicles.

The 19th-century mosaic in the Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II shopping arcade needed a makeover because a small crater had formed in the tiny pink tiles featuring the bull’s testicles, due to the constant stream of tourists performing a heel-spinning gesture.

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De asielinstroom van week 22, bestaande uit eerste asielaanvragen, herhaalde asielaanvragen, hervestiging, herplaatsing en nareizigers, bedroeg ongeveer 800.

COMPUTEX 2026: It only took a year and a half but the same silicon at the heart of Nvidia's DGX Spark AI workstations will soon be powering Windows PCs. During his GTC Taiwan keynote on Monday, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang revealed the N1X, a high-end mobile processor that combines an Arm-based CPU co-designed with MediaTek with a Blackwell based GPU on board. Marketed under the “RTX Spark” banner, Nvidia’s new notebooks and mini PCs signal a deeper push into the a PC arena long dominated by Intel and AMD. But while the PCs are new, the chip powering them isn’t. Nvidia was rumored to be working on the N1X for several years now. At CES in 2025 the GPU slinger fanned the rumor mill flames when it unveiled the DGX Spark — then codenamed Project Digits. The $4,000 AI workstation was powered by a miniaturized Grace Blackwell processor packing 20 ARMv9 CPU cores and a Blackwell GPU with 6,144 CUDA cores, capable of up to 500 teraFLOPS of FP4 compute — or 1 petaFLOP if you happen to have a workload that supports sparsity. That’s fed by 128 GB of unified memory. If that sounds familiar, that’s because the N1X and GB10 are essentially the same chip. The liberal use of the term “up to” in Nvidia’s marketing does, however, suggest that not all SKUs will have all CPU or GPU cores enabled. The silicon may be the same but the operating system isn’t. While Nvidia’s DGX Spark and GB10 partner systems shipped with DGX OS, a lightly customized version of Ubuntu 24.04, RTX Spark systems will ship with Windows. This opens the door to high performance mobile gaming using integrated Nvidia graphics. The GPU giant claims the N1X-based systems should be able to manage 100 frames per second at 1440P in AAA games, presumably with the help of AI upscaling tech like DLSS. With up to 128 GB of unified memory shared between the CPU and GPU, RTX Spark systems should be able to handle creative workloads previously limited to high-end workstations. Nvidia suggests top end RTX Spark systems should be able to handle 3D renders requiring 90-plus gigabytes of memory, edit 12K video, generate AI videos, and run 120 billion parameter LLMs with the large context windows required for local agents. As part of the announcement, Huang teased an appearance alongside Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella to discuss the future of AI PCs during the software titan’s Build conference, which kicks off tomorrow. As for the hardware, Nvidia has clearly set a high bar for quality. In addition to DGX Spark-style Mini PCs, RTX Spark systems will range from 14 to 16-inches in size, feature aluminum chassis, and color accurate OLED displays with Nvidia G-Sync. The first N1X-based PCs and notebooks from the likes of Asus, Dell, HP, Lenovo, Microsoft and MSI are expected to begin rolling out this fall. We’ve asked Nvidia to confirm RTX Spark systems pricing, but don’t expect the top end variants to be cheap. GB10-based systems ranged from $3,000 to $4,000 at launch. Memory prices have only gone up since then with the DGX Spark now retailing for $4,699. ®