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Yamadera (山寺) is a scenic temple located in the mountains northeast of Yamagata City. The temple grounds extend high up a steep mountainside, from where there are great views down onto the valley. The temple was founded over a thousand years ago in 860 as a temple of the Tendai sect under the official name Risshakuji. Its popular name, Yamadera, literally means "mountain temple" in Japanese.
Source: www.japan-guide.com/e/e7940.html

Nokyodo Hall, where copied sutras are kept, is the oldest building on the mountain. The Lotus Sutra, copied over four years at Okunoin, is kept here. It is a (Yamagata) prefectural designated cultural property and underwent dismantling and repair in 1987.
Source: rissyakuji.jp/

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Google Images is getting a Pinterest-like redesign that turns image search into a personalized discovery feed, with "For You" galleries, real-time updates, and collections for saving visual ideas. "Google is also adding a way for users to create AI images right in Search, as it celebrates 25 years since the debut of Google Images," reports TechCrunch. From the report: After navigating to the redesigned Google Images, users will see a "For You" gallery of images tailored to their interests and browsing history. Like Pinterest, the gallery is designed for continuous browsing, with Google saying it updates in real time with new images. As users browse, they can save ideas to their "collections," which will appear as tabs above the main gallery of photos. For example, users can create collections for things like vacation outfit ideas, travel inspiration, and ways to design a reading nook, which they can come back to later.

[...] As for generating images directly in Search, Google says the feature is meant for moments when you have a highly specific idea for an image that doesn't already exist online. Google is bringing image generation directly into AI Overviews on Search and will use its latest Nano Banana model to transform a text prompt into a custom visual. The feature can also help users reimagine spaces and visualize ideas, such as seeing what a room might look like painted red or what a dorm room with a coastal theme could look like.

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Google Cloud has admitted it made a configuration change that means some customers of its VMware Engine (GCVE) can’t use stretched cluster. A G-Cloud incident report time-stamped 13:24 PDT on July 14 (21:24 UTC) reports some customers “are experiencing zonal outages impacting network connectivity across multiple regions” and that the trouble started at 10:00 PDT. Google first attributed the problem to “an underlying network connectivity issue affecting the infrastructure that links the zones within a stretch cluster,” and warned “This disruption is causing synchronization issues between the affected zones.” Storage and compute services weren’t impacted, and VMs kept running. Users just couldn’t reach their virtual servers. That’s bad because the whole point of stretched clusters is to enhance resilience by creating a virtual pool of resources that spans two physical sites, while keeping the two rigs in synch to enable rapid failover without disruption. Google’s next update offered “underlying inter-zone communication failures and Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) session flapping between cluster zones” as the reason for the mess, adding “Specifically, network connectivity has been lost between the affected zones and the witness appliance. Because the witness appliance is currently unreachable, the cluster zones are unable to safely synchronize state.” At 16:05 PDT Google ‘fessed up. “Our investigation has identified a recent configuration update that is the likely cause of the inter-zone network disruption,” the web giant admitted. “Teams are working on remediation.” Google hasn’t said when it will set things right, so customers in the impacted regions – australia-southeast1, australia-southeast2, europe-west3, and northamerica-northeast2 – must wait to learn when they’ll once again enjoy the resilience they pay for. Other VMware customers may not want to wait because the Broadcom business unit on Tuesday warned of seven flaws in its VMware Avi Load Balancer. One of them, CVE-2026-47865, is an authentication bypass vulnerability that earned a CVSS score of 9.8. The product’s name is a little misleading, as it’s actually a full Application Delivery Controller that includes load balancing and a Web Application Firewall VMware hasn’t said much about the flaw other than warning “A malicious user with network access may be able to access the Avi Control plane by bypassing the authentication mechanism.” The tool works with VMware’s Cloud Foundation bundle, Kubernetes Service, and can connect resources in public clouds. Unauthorized access is therefore distinctly undesirable. The five remaining CVEs are also significant, with CVSS ratings ranging from 8.8 to 7.1. Broadcom has fixed the flaws in recent updates to the product. ®

Ik stop bij het stoplicht op mijn dagelijkse forens en kijk om mij heen. E-bikes, normale fietsen, maar niemand met helm. Er komt een man aan fietsen, met helm.

Als je wel zin hebt om te sudokuen, maar het liever bij een gridje van 5x5 houdt.