WASHINGTON (ANP/RTR) - De goedkeuring voor de Amerikaanse president Donald Trump is gedaald naar het laagste niveau sinds zijn terugkeer naar het Witte Huis. Amerikanen staan met name kritisch tegenover zijn pogingen zijn macht uit te breiden, zo blijkt maandag uit een peiling van Reuters en Ipsos.

Ongeveer 42 procent van de respondenten in de zesdaagse peiling, die maandag werd afgesloten, keurde Trumps optreden als president goed. Dat is een daling ten opzichte van de 47 procent in de uren na zijn inauguratie op 20 januari.

Zo'n 83 procent van de 4306 respondenten gaf aan dat de president rechterlijke uitspraken moet gehoorzamen, ook als hij dat niet wil. Functionarissen van de Trump-regering riskeren strafrechtelijke vervolging voor het negeren van een rechterlijk bevel om deportaties van vermeende Venezolaanse bendeleden stop te zetten.

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Whisky, a gaming-focused front-end for Wine's Windows compatibility tools on macOS, is no longer receiving updates. As one of the most useful and well-regarded tools in a Mac gamer's toolkit, it could be seen as a great loss, but its developer hopes you'll move on with what he considers a better option: supporting CodeWeavers' CrossOver product.

Also, Whisky's creator is an 18-year-old college student, and he could use a break. "I am 18, yes, and attending Northeastern University, so it's always a balancing act between my school work and dev work," Isaac Marovitz wrote to Ars. The Whisky project has "been more or less in this state for a few months, I posted the notice mostly to clarify and formally announce it," Marovitz said, having received "a lot of questions" about the project status. [...] "Whisky, in my opinion, has not been a positive on the Wine community as a whole," Marovitz wrote on the Whisky site.

He advised that Whisky users buy a CrossOver license, and noted that while CodeWeavers and Valve's work on Proton have had a big impact on the Wine project, "the amount that Whisky as a whole contributes to Wine is practically zero." Fixes for Wine running Mac games "have to come from people who are not only incredibly knowledgeable on C, Wine, Windows, but also macOS," Marovitz wrote, and "the pool of developers with those skills is very limited." While Marovitz told Ars that he's had "some contact with CodeWeavers" in making Whisky, "they were always curious and never told me what I should or should not do." It became clear to him, though, "from what [CodeWeavers] could tell me as well as observing the attitude of the wider community that Whisky could seriously threaten CrossOver's viability." "Whisky may have been a CrossOver competitor, but that's not how we feel today," wrote CodeWeavers CEO James B. Ramey in a statement. "Our response is simply one of empathy, understanding, and acknowledgement for Isaac's situation."

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Wine 10.6 has been released, featuring a new lexer within its Command Processor (CMD), support for the PBKDF2 algorithm to its Bcrypt implementation, and improved metadata handling in WindowsCodecs. According to Phoronix, the update also includes 27 known bug fixes that address issues with Unity games, Alan Wake, GDI+, and various other games and applications.

You can see all the changes and download the relesae via WineHQ.org GitLab.

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The European Union is determined to enforce its full digital rule book no matter who is in charge of companies such as X, Meta, Apple and Tiktok or where they are based, Commission President Ursula von der Leyen told Politico. From a report: "That's why we've opened cases against TikTok, X, Apple, Meta just to name a few. We apply the rules fairly, proportionally, and without bias. We don't care where a company's from and who's running it. We care about protecting people," Politico quoted von der Leyen as saying on Sunday. The EU's Digital Markets Act has been strongly criticised by the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump.

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The Federal Trade Commission filed suit against Uber on Monday, alleging the transportation giant violated federal consumer protection laws through deceptive billing and cancellation practices for its Uber One subscription service. According to the complaint, Uber violated both the FTC Act and the Restore Online Shoppers' Confidence Act by misleading consumers about subscription terms, charging users without consent, and implementing deliberately complicated cancellation processes.

"Americans are tired of getting signed up for unwanted subscriptions that seem impossible to cancel," FTC Chair Andrew Ferguson said in announcing the action. The $9.99 monthly service, launched in 2021, offers benefits including fee-free delivery and discounted rides.

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A bold visual identity designed for Shondo, a Vietnamese footwear brand empowering youth through comfort and style. The rebrand features a vibrant orange palette, rounded logotype, and flexible design system that reflects energy, clarity, and confidence. This project helped reposition Shondo as a lifestyle-driven brand with a fresh voice in Vietnam's fashion market.

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The world’s political and economic systems can all unite over one central tenet: your mum does the washing.

Libertarianism:
Your mum does the washing.
You believe you did the washing.

Egalitarianism:
That one time you did the washing
is proof it’s all equal and
no one needs feminism any more.

Americanism:
Your mum does the washing.
It’s in the Constitution.
END OF DISCUSSION.

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'amagi yoshino' cherry blossoms

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Boodschappen zijn steeds duurder voor privacybewuste consumenten die geen klantenkaart van de supermarkt willen. Het verschil loopt op tot honderden euro’s per huishouden per jaar. „In krappe tijden is de korting gewoon niet te versmaden.”