Voor het eerst bracht dirigent Jaap van Zweden zijn Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra mee naar Amsterdam. Twee avonden spektakel, die vooral draaiden om het amusementsgehalte van de klassiekers van Mozart, Beethoven en Respighi.
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Voor het publiek was Marco van Basten ooit gesloten en stuurs. Nu werkt de oud-voetballer mee aan een biopic op Videoland. Van Basten: „Kijkers moeten niet in slaap vallen. Als er dan misschien iets gedaan wordt dat niet zo is gebeurd, dan vind ik dat niet erg.”
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Billy Allison, 36, pleads not guilty to charge over Matthew O’Gara’s death after incident outside Lichfield bar
A man accused of murdering a businessman outside a bar in Staffordshire has pleaded not guilty.
Billy Allison, 36, a member of the flag-raising group Raise the Colours, appeared at Stafford crown court on Tuesday and entered not guilty pleas to the murder of Matthew O’Gara and to causing grievous bodily harm with intent to a second person.
Continue reading...Ever since the earliest known recording of whale song was made in 1949, researchers have been captivated by the wails, rumbles, clicks, grunts and squeals of their communication. As technology improves, scientists are decoding the intricate patterns that make different species’ vocalisations distinctive. Madeleine Finlay hears from Emma Bryce, a journalist who has spent months investigating human efforts to understand whale song. She explains how this knowledge could help us better protect whales from human-made harms.
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Continue reading...Tyler Robinson has not yet entered a plea, but should a judge find probable cause, an arraignment could follow
Nearly a year after Charlie Kirk was shot dead at a Utah university, a judge on Tuesday is expected to rule on whether the Utah man accused of killing the conservative activist will stand trial and whether he should face the death penalty.
At a 10 am hearing in Provo, Utah, judge Tony Graf will decide whether there is sufficient evidence to try Tyler Robinson, 23, and allow prosecutors to seek the death penalty for the murder of one of the US right’s most prominent figures.
Continue reading...Meteorologists say average mean temperature of 16.5C was made 130 times more likely by climate crisis
This year’s summer was the UK’s hottest on record, according to provisional Met Office data, with the season’s mean temperature made 130 times more likely as a result of the climate crisis.
The summer saw record-breaking and back-to-back heatwaves scorch much of Europe. In England, temperatures peaked at 38.1C (100.1F) at Kew Gardens in London on 13 August, with June already confirmed as the country’s hottest since records began in 1884. Scientists have said these heatwaves are only possible because of the climate crisis driven by burning fossil fuels.
Continue reading...The infamous Japanese noise artist has a vast and forbidding catalogue that commands a cult fandom. Sam Andrews, 18, is vlogging his way through the lot – and taking a stand for deep listening
An Instagram Reel that looks like an 80s coming-of-age movie pops up on your feed. It’s four teenage boys in an American-style basement – comfy sofas, guitars, ping pong table – jeering and laughing. But they aren’t secretly drinking beer or planning on sneaking out. They’re brandishing a vinyl copy of Pulse Demon, the most popular album from the cult Japanese noise artist Merzbow, and subjecting themselves to its brutally harsh sound in full, for fun. “I think this is the Book of Revelation: The Soundtrack,” one guy blurts out, a vague look of fear in his eyes.
Merzbow, real name Masami Akita, is the world’s most renowned noise artist. Since 1979, Akita has released more than 400 recordings, which range from a 10-hour long album misleadingly titled Merzbient (it’s anything but ambient) to a free-noise supergroup called Flying Testicle. Since February, Sam Andrews, the video’s 18-year-old creator, has been attempting to listen to every one, and is documenting his progress online each day. “I think of my day in album-size chunks,” he says, laughing. “It’s like, get up at seven, get breakfast and then headphones in: noise.”
Continue reading...Spectacular Villa Aurora, which was nearly destroyed in last year’s fires, leading the recovery as Pacific Palisades emerges from a dark chapter
A hillside villa that served as a cultural hub for German writers and artists fleeing the Nazis and narrowly escaped destruction in last year’s Los Angeles wildfires reopened its doors to the public this weekend, marking the latest milestone in the city’s slow recovery from one of the darkest chapters in its history.
Hundreds of friends of the Villa Aurora, a 1920s Spanish Mediterranean house that has taken on a second life as a cultural center with a fierce commitment to artistic freedom, international dialogue and democracy, crowded into the house on Sunday to mark the resumption of speaker events and artistic residencies.
Continue reading...ROTTERDAM (ANP) - De top van het Openbaar Ministerie heeft op het laatste moment een streep gezet door procesafspraken die justitie met Harry L., de broer van 'Bolle Jos' Leijdekkers, bezig was te maken. Dat bleek dinsdag op een inleidende zitting tegen de 51-jarige L. bij de rechtbank in Rotterdam. Hij wordt verdacht van het witwassen van onder meer 15 miljoen euro.
Nu de afspraken van de baan zijn, zal de rechtbank de zaak in volle omvang moeten behandelen. Procesafspraken worden onder meer gemaakt uit overwegingen van efficiëntie.
Volgens het OM was er na een voorverkenning overeenstemming over de voorwaarden. Volgens de officier van justitie op de zitting kwam er uiteindelijk geen toestemming van de top voor de afspraken vanwege "de aard van de zaak, die is gelieerd aan een van de door Nederland meest gezochte verdachten en diens organisatie, die tot op de dag van vandaag actief is".
Bolle Jos (35) is al geruime tijd voortvluchtig en houdt zich op grote schaal bezig met internationale cocaïnehandel.
ANTWERPEN (ANP/BELGA) - Een groot deel van de veroordeelden en het Openbaar Ministerie gaan in hoger beroep in de omvangrijke Belgische drugszaak Costa. Daarin werd voortvluchtige Nederlandse drugscrimineel Jos Leijdekkers, alias Bolle Jos, eind juli veroordeeld tot veertien jaar cel.
Er komt een hoger beroep voor 43 van de ruim 50 verdachten. 27 van hen zijn zelf in hoger beroep gegaan; voor de anderen is beroep aangetekend door het OM. Het is niet bekendgemaakt of er ook een hoger beroep komt voor Bolle Jos.
De tientallen verdachten kregen in totaal 247 jaar gevangenisstraf opgelegd voor drugssmokkel via de haven van Antwerpen en het witwassen van drugsgeld. Ook werd voor meer dan 68 miljoen euro verbeurd verklaard. Leijdekkers en Geert Frisson, voormalig lid van een motorbende, kregen met veertien en dertien jaar de hoogste straffen. Vijf van de verdachten werden vrijgesproken.
Het is nog niet bekend wanneer het hoger beroep plaatsvindt.
Je partner komt thuis na een dramatische werkdag. Jij ziet onmiddellijk wat er moet gebeuren en komt met drie uitstekende oplossingen. Probleem opgelost, zou je denken. Alleen kijkt je geliefde inmiddels nóg ongelukkiger. Want die wilde helemaal geen advies. Die wilde een knuffel of gewoon even spuien.
Volgens nieuw onderzoek geven we vaak de verkeerde steun als iemand van wie we houden het moeilijk heeft. We geven de steun die voor óns werkt.
Onderzoekers volgden 387 heteroseksuele stellen ruim twee jaar en bekeken hoe mensen hun eigen emoties reguleren én hoe ze proberen de emoties van hun partner te beïnvloeden (Xiao et al., 2026). Daarbij onderzochten ze onder meer humor, afleiding, relativeren, gevoelens onderdrukken, praten en direct actie ondernemen.
Wat bleek? Mensen grijpen bij hun partner opvallend vaak naar dezelfde strategie die ze zelf gebruiken. Ben jij iemand die problemen het liefst onmiddellijk oplost, dan schiet je waarschijnlijk ook in de reparatiestand als je partner overstuur is. Relativeer jij graag met een grap, dan probeer je de ander vermoedelijk ook aan het lachen te krijgen.
Vergeet die liefdestaal even
Dat zet ook een ander populair relatie-idee in perspectief: de vijf ‘liefdestalen’ van Gary Chapman. Volgens dat concept voelen mensen zich vooral geliefd door complimenten, samen tijd doorbrengen, cadeautjes, behulpzame daden of lichamelijke aanraking.
Handig als woordenboek, maar wetenschappelijk staat het idee dat iedereen één primaire liefdestaal heeft behoorlijk wankel. Onderzoek vond ook geen overtuigend bewijs dat stellen gelukkiger zijn wanneer hun liefdestalen overeenkomen (Impett et al., 2024).
Bovendien kan je behoefte per situatie veranderen. Misschien wil je normaal gesproken graag een arm om je heen, maar na een knallende ruzie juist een uur met rust gelaten worden.
Een nuttiger vraag is daarom: ‘Wat heb je nu van mij nodig om te voelen dat ik je begrijp en om je geef?’ Daarbij kun je denken aan vijf soorten behoeften, in het Engels samengevat als de vijf H’s: Heard, Held, Humor, Honor en Help. Oftewel: wil je dat iemand luistert, je vasthoudt, je aan het lachen maakt, je gevoelens en grenzen respecteert of daadwerkelijk met oplossingen komt?
Vooral die laatste is verraderlijk. ‘Help’ is waar veel mensen automatisch naartoe springen, terwijl advies lang niet altijd is waar de ander op zit te wachten.
Dus voordat je bij de volgende rotdag van je geliefde de innerlijke therapeut, cabaretier of probleemmanager uithangt: vraag het gewoon. Soms zijn drie oplossingen minder liefdevol dan één welgemikte knuffel.
Bron: Psychology Today
DEN HAAG (ANP) - PRO-leider Jesse Klaver is "totaal niet onder de indruk" van de beleidsaanpassingen die het minderheidskabinet in de begroting voor volgend jaar wil doorvoeren. Volgens gelekte stukken worden de voorgenomen bezuinigingen op de sociale zekerheid grotendeels geschrapt of uitgesteld, maar daar neemt de grootste oppositiepartij geen genoegen mee.
"Op zijn best zijn er dingen vooruitgeschoven, er blijven nog steeds miljardenbezuinigingen staan", zegt Klaver. Bovendien lijkt de coalitie af te stevenen op uitstel van een nieuwe belasting op inkomsten uit vermogen. "Dat betekent miljarden extra naar de allerrijkste mensen." Klaver spreekt van "een politiek compromis" dat "misschien wel een verslechtering" is ten opzichte van de oorspronkelijke plannen.
Het kabinet wil volgens Haagse bronnen de veel bekritiseerde korting van 20 procent op de maximale uitkering van onder meer arbeidsongeschikten helemaal schrappen. Ook de snellere stijging van de AOW-leeftijd gaat definitief niet door. De halvering van de WW-duur is met een jaar uitgesteld.
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大分県豊後高田市、昭和ロマン蔵①駄菓子屋の夢博物館 / Showa Roman-gura (Showa Nostalgia Warehouse) 1: Dagashiya Dream Museum — Bungotakada City, Oita Prefecture
The European Space Agency's Cluster quartet is preparing for its final bow after Samba reentered Earth's atmosphere, with Tango due to follow tonight. Samba lost contact at 21:26 UTC on August 31 and reentered at 21:39:38 UTC. Tango is expected to follow at 21:30:31 UTC tonight. The other two satellites, Rumba and Salsa, reentered in 2025 and 2024, respectively. The final reentries close the book on a prodigiously long-lived quartet that exceeded even optimistic expectations, thanks in no small part to the ingenuity of engineers on the ground. Cluster II launched in 2000 aboard two Soyuz rockets from the Baikonur Cosmodrome. It replaced the original quartet, which was destroyed during the maiden flight of Ariane 5 in 1996, drawing on spare hardware and work already completed for the doomed spacecraft. The four satellites were launched on a two-year mission to study the structure of Earth's magnetosphere in three dimensions. The spacecraft were designed to last for five years, and their mission was repeatedly extended. Why terminate a set of functional spacecraft when the science data is still rolling in? After about a decade, however, the batteries that powered the spacecraft while they passed through Earth's shadow failed. From an engineering perspective, each satellite effectively died whenever it entered an eclipse. "The first time it happened, this was a rather uncontrolled shutdown... the spacecraft were not designed to be switched off," recalled spacecraft operations manager Bruno Sousa in a 2020 interview with The Register. And yet the spacecraft survived and restarted. Engineers devised a workaround to bring the spacecraft back to life in a controlled fashion. More hardware failures occurred, and again, engineers devised ways to keep the mission going. The mission finally ended in 2024, when controllers halted science observations and began the quartet's disposal campaign. Earlier orbital adjustments sent the satellites toward targeted reentries over remote stretches of ocean, beginning with Salsa and culminating with Tango tonight. The mission had one final gift to offer. "When a spacecraft reenters the atmosphere, it experiences extreme forces," noted Stijn Lemmens, senior space debris mitigation analyst at ESA. "Temperatures soar, materials melt and vaporize, and the spacecraft gradually breaks apart. But how exactly?" If only there were some spacecraft to observe as they made a controlled entry into the Earth's atmosphere. Tango is expected to be destroyed tonight, completing the disposal of a quartet that survived far longer than its designers intended. Sousa's words to The Register in 2020 remain an apt epitaph for the engineers who kept Cluster alive: "Never give up. Never surrender." ®
Five children and two adults were treated at a local hospital and discharged for outpatient care, the regional health ministry said.
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In januari deelde telecomboer Ziggo een gratis sjaaltje (zie foto onder) uit aan Ajax-fans bij de wedstrijd tegen Go Ahead Eagles. Na afloop, buiten het stadion, werden drie nieuwbakken sjaalbezitters aangevallen door twee 'lichtgetinte' medesupporters. "Ik wil er zo een voor mijn kind, die is van mij", zei een van de steelbeertjes. Na een worstelpartij werd een van de slachtoffers gekopschopt: "Hij hield daar gebroken tanden, verwondingen aan zijn gezicht en een hersenschudding aan over." En nu is de politie op zoek naar die 'lichte' kale met z'n Palestina-sjaal en die lichtgetinte andere met z'n, nou ja, nieuwe Ajax-sjaal. ZoekZoek!
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I am standing in front of a camera that’s streaming to a giant video screen. The image recognition AI running on the camera puts a big green box around me. “PERSON,” it says. Artist Simon Weckert hands me his newest creation, a button-down shirt with flowery, blurry globs of green and pink. I put the shirt in front of me. The box and the word “PERSON” disappears. I pull the shirt away. The box pops back up. I put the shirt in front of me. It disappears. This is “digital camouflage,” and it has confused the algorithm.
Weckert designed digital camouflage as a response to the proliferation of AI-powered surveillance cameras that detect people, vehicles, animals, bicycles, and other objects in their field of view. Many of these AI-powered cameras can detect when a person is lying down, “anomalous behavior” such as people loitering, people fighting, or an abandoned package, which can lead to a police response. These cameras are already relatively commonplace around the world, but Weckert created it because police recently deployed these types of cameras outside of Kotbusser Tor, a popular subway stop in Berlin. They are the first police-run object recognition surveillance cameras in the city.
“Obviously people don’t like it because it means that AI is tracking the movements and behaviors of people. It’s one thing to have somebody behind the camera watching you, but now we have AI doing this kind of analysis,” Weckert told me. “It can detect if somebody’s laying on the ground so that means homeless people could be detected and police get triggered.”
Weckert says one of the problems with Berlin’s cameras is that it’s not clear exactly which image recognition it’s running. But many image recognition cameras run a variation of YOLO (You Only Look Once), a family of open source image recognition algorithms. So Weckert installed YOLO on his own camera and began trying to confuse it by iterating on different types of random patterns.
He starts with a random pattern he said, and shows it to the YOLO algorithm to see if it detects a human, and with how much certainty. “When YOLO returns 100%, I know the pattern obviously isn’t working,” he said. “And then step-by-step, I change the pattern, I rotate certain parts of the pattern, change the colors, flip it so on and so forth. And every time we ask how much confidence do you have this is a person using something called gradient ascent to get away from the category of a person. And then suddenly you as a person, with the pattern on you, aren’t detected as a person because the algorithm can’t make sense of it.”
Weckert has done a series of buzzy projects before. Back at Motherboard, we covered the virtual traffic jam he created on Google Maps by sticking a bunch of GPS-enabled cell phones in a red wagon and walking slowly through the streets of Berlin. Digital camouflage sits alongside projects by other artists intended to hide people’s faces from facial recognition cameras or to confuse automated license plate reader cameras with shirts made of nonsense license plate graphics. Over the years, AI surveillance has improved to a point where many of these techniques don’t actually work anymore, but for the moment, digital camouflage does, at least on the very popular YOLO algorithms. Weckert said one of the major problems is that police won’t say specifically what algorithm they’re using, making it difficult to say whether his shirts work on the cameras at Kotbusser Tor.
“The problem is that we don’t know what technology is behind these camera systems, so therefore I cannot claim 100 percent that the t-shirt works against this specific camera system, but I can say I know it works for the very public and famous YOLO algorithm,” Weckert said. He said that just as fashion brands have seasonal updates, so too will his digital camouflage “Every time there’s a new YOLO, a new pattern will come out. Just like in fashion, the summer winter collection, here it’s the every YOLO edition.”
He said the project is not just intended to help people avoid surveillance, but to teach people about it and to show people there’s lots of ways to protest and push back against it. “It’s to give them the feeling that there are actually certain tools we can use against surveillance. It's not like we just have to accept what the lawmakers and police are doing.”
Mark Hughes and Giorgio Piola delve into McLaren's Zandvoort upgrades that aided Lando Norris to back-to-back Grand Prix victories.
California lawmakers have passed a bill that would legalize plug-in "balcony" solar systems, allowing residents to connect small solar panels directly to a standard wall outlet after completing a simple online registration. The systems would be capped at 1,200 watts and must meet safety requirements designed to prevent power from feeding back onto the grid during outages. KQED reports: The legislation, SB 868, sailed through the state assembly and senate with bipartisan support. The bill now moves to the governor's desk for signature. The devices can be tented in a backyard, hung off a balcony or placed on a roof. Models range from as low as $300 to $2200, depending on size. The bill would open the solar market to people who were previously left out: renters, people with unsuitable roofs, and those lacking the capital to build out a rooftop system, which can cost in the tens of thousands of dollars.
[...] If signed into law by Newsom, the legislation would exempt plug-in solar devices from what critics say is a cumbersome and expensive interconnection application process, and replace registration with a free and straightforward online form. [...] The newly passed bill outlines several device requirements. The balcony solar systems must be capped at generating 1,200 watts per home, plug into a standard outlet, offset a customer's onsite electricity use and meet state and national electrical codes. They also must be certified by an outside safety organization like Underwriters Laboratories and have a feature that would prevent electricity from feeding back into the grid if there's a power outage.
[...] If signed into law by Newsom, the legislation would exempt plug-in solar devices from what critics say is a cumbersome and expensive interconnection application process, and replace registration with a free and straightforward online form. [...] The newly passed bill outlines several device requirements. The balcony solar systems must be capped at generating 1,200 watts per home, plug into a standard outlet, offset a customer's onsite electricity use and meet state and national electrical codes. They also must be certified by an outside safety organization like Underwriters Laboratories and have a feature that would prevent electricity from feeding back into the grid if there's a power outage.
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In Dordrecht is dinsdagmiddag een vrouw met een rolstoel in de sloot beland. Omstanders en hulpverleners sprongen het water in om haar te redden. Ze is naar het ziekenhuis gebracht.
