Wij zijn niet uitgenodigd, u bent niet uitgenodigd, Henk Vermeer is niet uitgenodigd. Maar Joost Eerdmans wel. En Jesse Klaver ook. En Jan Struijs. En Chris Stoffer. En Laurens Dassen zelfs. En Mirjam Bikkier, die ook. Maar Henk Vermeer niet. En dan is het wachten. En wachten En wachten. En wachten. Tot je een ons weegt. "Vermeer zegt in zijn werkkamer dat hij nog niet zeker weet of hij deze vrijdagochtend kan afspreken met Yesilgöz. „Ik heb ook andere dingen die belangrijk zijn, ik kan niet zomaar alles aan de kant gooien.” Deze donderdag is zijn vrouw jarig, en dus wil hij in de avond thuis zijn, in Harderwijk. Op vrijdagochtend heeft hij een afspraak met de lijsttrekker van de provincie Overijssel. „Ik kan dat eventueel wel verzetten.”"

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DEN HAAG (ANP) - Justitieminister David van Weel (VVD) heeft excuses aangeboden voor opmerkingen die hij maakte over een Rekenkamer-rapport over ernstige misdrijven waar justitie niet achteraan ging. Met zijn "nuancering" wekte hij de indruk dat hij het rapport in twijfel trok of bagatelliseerde, en dat was niet de bedoeling, zei hij in het debat over de kwestie.

Van Weel: "Wat ik heb gewild, was opkomen voor die mensen in de strafrechtketen die zeiden: 'Ja, het is niet zo dat wij zomaar aangiftes terzijde gooien, als we daar iets mee kunnen'."

NEW YORK (ANP) - Joden voelen zich volgens de Israëlische premier Benjamin Netanyahu niet langer veilig in New York sinds Zohran Mamdani is aangetreden als burgemeester. Dat zei hij in een felle toespraak tijdens het plenaire debat van de Algemene Vergadering van de Verenigde Naties in diezelfde stad. Bewijzen voor zijn claims gaf hij niet.

Na eerst vele politieke opponenten te hebben bekritiseerd, nam Netanyahu een speciaal moment om zich te richten tot de New Yorkse burgemeester, die sinds begin dit jaar dat ambt vervult. "Meneer Mamdani, Joden voelen zich niet langer veilig in New York", zei Netanyahu, die dat vermeende sentiment een-op-een linkte aan het burgemeesterschap van de linkse Mamdani.

Die zou volgens Netanyahu weinig tot niets doen om het geweld tegen Joden af te keuren, waarbij hij verwees naar enkele berichten op sociale media die Mamdani's vrouw zou hebben geliket. Bovendien zou Mamdani heulen met sympathisanten van terreurgroep Hamas, en hen niet publiekelijk tegenspreken.

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Mamdani heeft daarentegen in het verleden niet alleen de aanslagen van 7 oktober 2023 veroordeeld als oorlogsmisdaden, maar ook opgeroepen tot vrijlating van de gijzelaars. Het internationaal recht, zei hij in 2025 bovendien in een interview met Fox News, geldt ook voor Hamas.

De burgemeester zelf behoorde overigens niet tot de aanwezigen op het VN-hoofdkantoor; hij was met de Nederlandse premier Rob Jetten op een werktrip elders. Jetten spreekt later nog zelf de Algemene Vergadering toe.

KESTEREN (ANP) - De Mobiele Eenheid heeft in het Gelderse dorp Kesteren ingegrepen tijdens een azc-protest nadat er vuurwerk werd afgestoken. Dat ziet een ANP-verslaggever. Een handvol personen is door de ME in busjes meegenomen. Een week eerder waren er rellen in het naburige dorp Opheusden, daarbij werden veertien mensen gearresteerd.

Officers left feeling ‘hamstrung’, says Mark Rowley after offender allowed to return to flat overlooking playground

Pressure to cut the number of prisoners on remand has led to “dangerous and prolific offenders” being granted bail, the country’s most senior police officer said after a paedophile was allowed to return to his flat that overlooked a children’s playground.

Zafer Dogan was jailed on Thursday for two years and four months after he was convicted of taking thousands of pictures of women and girls before using AI technology to turn them into nude images for his sexual gratification.

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Israeli PM attacks critics and calls New York mayor Zohran Mamdani ‘antisemitic’ in inflammatory address

Benjamin Netanyahu delivered an inflammatory address to the United Nations on Thursday, decrying what he said was a global anti-Jewish conspiracy and swatting aside criticism of Israel’s war in Gaza, as he faces down international isolation and a fight for political survival in upcoming elections in Israel.

As planned protests erupted on the streets of New York City, Netanyahu took aim at critics of the humanitarian crisis in Gaza, the international media, regional leaders such as Turkey’s Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, the leftwing commentator Hasan Piker and the New York City mayor Zohran Mamdani in an address that doubled as a stump speech to ignite his rightwing base for the elections.

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1st over: Sri Lanka 1-0 (Nissanka 1, Kamindu Mendis 0) Headingley is usually a great place to bat, so Sri Lanka will probably want upwards of 300. Fifty overs is a long time*, which means Kamindu Mendis can take a bit of time to get his eye in. He plays out five consecutive dot balls during an accurate opening over from Archer.

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Senior Iranian officials say Washington has four to five days to respond to its conditions for reopening the strait

The UK foreign secretary, Ed Miliband, has met his Iranian counterpart, Abbas Araghchi, for the first time in New York amid warnings from senior Iranian security officials that the US has four to five days to respond to its conditions for reopening the strait of Hormuz.

The previously unknown apparent deadline was specified by Mohsen Rezaei, the secretary of the supreme national security council, in a TV interview on Wednesday evening, and it is unclear what action Tehran will take if the US does not respond to Iran’s preconditions for reopening the vital waterway.

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In a market where AI agents keep breaking the rules and escaping their containers, Docker has a new solution. On Thursday, the company debuted Cloud Sandboxes in a bid to keep AI agents within boundaries. Despite the existence and implementation of sandboxing technology as a way to limit the reach of AI agents, industry leaders like Anthropic and OpenAI keep reporting containment failures. On Thursday, Australian officials disclosed that an OpenAI agent had accessed an Australian government portal without authorization while seeking health statistics. It's the latest in a series of incidents involving AI agents pushing beyond access controls their operators expected them to respect. On the heels of Docker Sandboxes, the container biz is now offering a hosted option, which puts a bit more distance between squirrely AI and precious locally stored files. "We're announcing today Docker Cloud Sandboxes, which is a simple, flexible set of compute shapes with simple low, low pricing," said Docker president and COO Mark Cavage at the WeAreDevelopers Conference. "We have cloud sandboxes that boot in hundreds of milliseconds. They're billed by the second, and they have secrets, policies, networks, agent config, CloudMCP gateways, all built in." With a nod to the elephant in the room – the ability of AI agents to bypass barriers – Cavage demonstrated how Anthropic's Claude model, despite being started in a Docker container, can find a locally stored secret outside the container by probing its environment and finding a hole – the mounted host Docker socket. "Agents are going to find the edges of your environment because they need to mutate your environment," he said, adding that the capabilities that make agents useful and powerful are the ones that allow them to push past boundaries. It's not that containers are insecure, said Cavage. They're doing the job they were designed to do, to isolate applications. "We have to separate containers from containment," he said. Cavage invited Docker principal engineer Michael Irwin on stage to demonstrate sandbox-based containment. Launching Claude in a Docker Sandbox, Irwin gave the model the same prompt to find a local secret, and this time the AI model could not do so. "The isolation holds," said Irwin. "And in fact, if we look at the summary that's in the output here, we can see that it's found a Docker socket, it tried to utilize it to mount other spots from the host and privileged container and it just couldn't get there. And that's because the sandbox is running as a full micro VM." That's the case for sandboxes and it now extends to the cloud, giving developers the option to process long-running jobs on external infrastructure. This removes the need to access a local machine but still provides the option to shift work back to a local device if needed. "Sandboxes are part of the containment story, but not all of it," said Cavage. "They're the deterministic base layer, while policies are what govern the agent's intent. As an industry, we still have work to do applying policy and intent controls across every layer of the stack agents touch, but having that deterministic base layer in place should be the absolute minimum requirement." Docker has also updated its Kits specification for packaging agents, tools, and rules into a shareable artifact. Kits now come as standard OCI images, which may address concerns about being locked into a proprietary format. One such Kit comes from BAND, which makes enterprise infrastructure for distributed AI agent deployments. The BAND Python Kit for Docker Sandboxes provides a way for AI agents to work with one another over a WebSocket connection without operating in the same environment. The idea is to give developers more control and tools to observe what agents are doing within defined boundaries. Pricing for Docker Cloud Sandboxes varies with instance size, starting with Micro (1 VCPU, 2GB) for $0.07 per hour, and extending to XL (16 VCPUs, 32 GB) for $1.12 per hour. ®

Practical Engineering: Are beavers actually good at building dams? (A: Yes, duh.)

Het is de Week tegen Pesten en op Radio Rijnmond wordt ook extra aandacht aan dit onderwerp besteed. Rijnmond-weerman Weerman Ed Aldus deed woensdagochtend zijn verhaal in de uitzending, en dat maakte veel emoties los.

Krijg je een lekker stukje relaxte jazzy funk waar je best wel wat vrolijk van kan worden, blijkt het nummer over misère te gaan.

Thundercat (de artiestennaam van Stephen Lee Bruner) zingt hier over de emotionele verwarring en de pijnlijke strijd om te herstellen na het verlies van een geliefde. Hij is even de weg kwijt, weet niet hoe-ie zich moet voelen.

Als je dan ziet hoe hij, nadat het nummer is geëindigd, met een brede lach het applaus ontvangt, valt het allemaal wel mee.

Maar ja, wat moet ik nou als luisteraar met de schizofrene expressie van een klaaglied op funky noten?

Audi Team Principal Mattia Binotto believes the team's major upgrade package, which has been introduced ahead of the Azerbaijan Grand Prix, is "delivering as expected".

Liam Lawson enjoyed a solid first day back with Racing Bulls in Azerbaijan, but Arvid Lindblad's FP2 ended prematurely after contact with the barriers brought out the red flags.

Mercedes appear to be the ones to beat in this weekend’s Azerbaijan Grand Prix, but it was George Russell rather than championship leader Kimi Antonelli who was the stronger of the Silver Arrows. Can he build on that strong start to outscore his team mate and drag himself back into title contention?

With Haas yet to confirm their line-up for 2027, we’ve rounded up the drivers most likely to land a seat at the American team.

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“I try to avoid playing it safe or going for the obvious. Instead, I look at plants from a different perspective and express them in my own way,” South Korean artist Taehyoung Maria Jeon says about a fantastical series of illustrations. “Ironically, having rules is what gives me the freedom to experiment with plant shape.”

Although she’s trained as a printmaker and continues to build compositions in layers, Jeon turns to digital methods as she reimagines the specimens cohabitating in her apartment, beginning with leaves and stems before venturing into surreal terrain. Purple veins, red outlines, and a smattering of stars appear on the imagined life forms, their vivid color palettes furthering their sense of the uncanny.

Titled Plant Series, the project “started as a personal challenge to fill a square canvas with plants, playing with shapes and composition to pack everything in as much as possible,” she says. “As the series continues, the drawings evolve and the nuances shift, but at its heart, it is always about composition, balance, colour, and shape—and hopefully sending out positive vibes, too.”

Dozens of illustrations from the series are compiled in Folium, Jeon’s first monograph from Volume. The publisher functions like Kickstarter and asks readers to back the project before printing. You can reserve your copy on Volume’s website, and find more from the artist on Instagram.

Do stories and artists like this matter to you? Become a Colossal Member today and support independent arts publishing for as little as $7 per month. The article Fantastic Plants Spring from Taehyoung Maria Jeon’s Digital Illustrations appeared first on Colossal.