Yuki Tsunoda has been getting used to a different F1 role in 2026 – the Japanese driver taking on reserve duties for Red Bull and sister outfit Racing Bulls after losing his full-time race seat at the end of the 2025 season.

Dustin Chuang has added a photo to the pool:

Nederland moet de gestegen energieprijzen aangrijpen om minder kwetsbaar te worden bij een volgende crisis, zegt onderzoeker Louise van Schaik. Dat betekent: al op korte termijn energie besparen, en sneller werken aan groene infrastructuur. „Zorg dat huizen volgende winter een warmtepomp hebben.”

De Iraanse parlementsvoorzitter wordt gezien als een mogelijke gesprekspartner voor de regering-Trump, nu andere Iraanse leiders zijn gedood. De voormalige burgemeester van Teheran heeft nauwe banden met de opperste leider, Mojtaba Khamenei. Of Ghalibaf de rol zou kunnen of willen vervullen, is echter onduidelijk.

Dankzij een gelukje waarover ik niet mag uitweiden, kreeg ik inzage in de ontwerptekst waarmee Mark Rutte, secretaris-generaal van de NAVO, de wereld zal toespreken op het moment…

De Tweede Kamer heeft vanmiddag met een kleine meerderheid een motie aangenomen die het prijsstunten met vlees in de supermarkten aan banden moet leggen.

Sommige artsen zien het online bestellen van abortuspillen – vanaf deze week mogelijk – als uitbreiding van het zelfbeschikkingsrecht van vrouwen. Anderen hebben kritiek: „Abortus als iets wat je naast de Snickers op de boodschappenband legt, gaat écht te ver.”

Dynamine sees your character digging to expand the mine while avoiding buried TNT according to minesweeper rules. Return ore to the lift for money to spend on upgrades. Starts slow and expands into something much bigger, with different biomes and buildable minecrart rails to speed your journey back and forth.

Denmark is holding a parliamentary election today. It's roughly on schedule, but some pundits are speculating that the PM called it a bit early because of her succes in creating a coalition to protect Greenland from the US.

The Guardian's coverage is pretty good, but I'm going to draw out a couple of things:

What are 'red' and 'blue' blocs in Danish politics and why Lars Løkke Rasmussen emerges as kingmaker? Usually Danish political coalitions are formed of "red" and "blue" blocs. The red, left-wing parties being the Social Democrats (Socialdemokratiet), the Danish Social Liberal Party (Radikale Venstre), Green Left (Socialistisk Folkeparti or SF) and the Red-Green Alliance (Enhedslisten), and the blue, right-wing parties being Venstre (Denmark's Liberal party), the Danish People's Party (Dansk Folkeparti), the Conservative People's Party (Det Konservative Folkeparti), Liberal Alliance and Nye Borgerlige (New Right). But after the last election, in 2022, the Social Democrats, the then newly formed centre-right Moderates and conservative Denmark's Liberal Party broke with convention to form a centrist government. This time around, most of the red bloc are hoping for a traditional red coalition to put forward a strong left-wing agenda. But with the polls looking so tight, the Moderates are expected to play a decisive "kingmaker" role in negotiations depending on who they are willing to go into partnership with. And at the 11th hour, Moderates leader Lars Løkke Rasmussen, has appointed himself "royal investigator" – the role that is usually held by the person who goes on to become PM and who looks into whether a government can be formed.

Denmark election: far right has slowed under Frederiksen – but at what cost? There is a holiday atmosphere here on election days: flags are everywhere (and non-partisan), neighbors and friends meet at the polling places and people bring children along so they can learn voting is important, and get candy. It's tradition to eat pork belly after voting. Monocle has a particular view on Denmark, but in real life, almost all parties in Denmark and Greenland are to the left of Democrats in the US and Labour in the UK. Føroya is a different story for another day. This happens as we are waiting for the Hungarian elections and celebrating the good news of Italy rejecting a judiciary reform that would politicize the courts.

A Serve Robotics food delivery robot crashed through the glass wall of a bus stop shelter in Chicago earlier this week, shattering the glass all over the sidewalk. The crash comes amid a protest against delivery robots in Chicago and a few weeks after a politician who represents part of Chicago said he would not allow the robots into his district.

Footage of the aftermath of the crash went viral on Reddit and X, with one of the company’s robots shaking shards of glass onto the sidewalk. Serve Robotics told 404 Media in a statement that the company sent people out to clean up the mess.

“We’re aware of the incident involving one of our robots in Chicago. No injuries were reported, our team responded quickly to clean up, and we’re reviewing what happened to make improvements,” the spokesperson said. “We have also been in contact with local stakeholders and are committed to addressing any concerns directly. We take this matter very seriously.”

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Serve deployed its robots to Chicago in September under a partnership with Uber Eats. The company operates in a few cities around the country, including in Los Angeles, where activists have been filming the robots in various compromising positions or after they have been knocked over by passersby. In 2023, Serve Robotics fed footage from one of its robots to the Los Angeles Police Department, we reported. In 2022, a Serve robot drove underneath police caution tape and through what was at the time considered to be an active crime scene, where a school shooting at Hollywood High School was reported to be taking place (the shooting was deemed a hoax, but police were actively investigating at the time).

Delivery robots have been controversial in Chicago, where at least 3,600 Chicago residents have signed a “No Sidewalk Bots” petition asking the city to ban the robots. Chicago’s First District Alderman Daniel La Spata has said that the delivery robots will not be allowed into his district after polling residents there; 83 percent of respondents to his poll said they “strongly disagreed” with allowing the robots. 

The No Sidewalk Bots petition website notes “Chicago sidewalks are for people, not delivery robots,” and says that people who have signed the petition “are reporting collisions or other troubling contact, accessibility issues, and/or obstruction.” 

The Chicago Department of Transportation did not respond to a request for comment.

Turns out artificial general intelligence was a CPU this whole time

Arm unveiled its first homegrown silicon — yes, an actual chip, not another shake-n-bake blueprint — during an event in San Francisco on Tuesday, and said that flagship customer Meta is set to deploy the 136-core CPU at scale later this year.…

NASA boss Jared Isaacman has no intention of letting this setback delay the Artemis program, apparently

NASA's ambitious plans to build a space station in orbit of the Moon are officially on hold, administrator Jared Isaacman said Tuesday, with the space agency instead skipping the orbital habitat in favor of building a permanent base on the Lunar surface. …

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: An appeals court invalidated the Biden-era Federal Trade Commission's attempt to punish Intuit for allegedly deceptive ads that pitched TurboTax as free. Under then-Chair Lina Khan, the FTC determined in 2024 that the TurboTax maker violated US law with deceptive advertising and ordered it to stop telling consumers, without more obvious disclaimers, that TurboTax or other products are free. The FTC's chief administrative law judge had previously found that Intuit's ads violated prohibitions on deceptive advertising because the firm "advertised to consumers that they could file their taxes online for free using TurboTax, when in truth, for approximately two-thirds of taxpayers, the advertised claim was false."

Intuit appealed in the conservative-leaning US Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit and got a resounding victory on Friday in a 3-0 ruling issued (PDF) by a panel of judges. "Following the Supreme Court's decision in SEC v. Jarkesy, we hold that adjudication of a deceptive advertising claim before an administrative law judge violated the constitutional separation of powers," the 5th Circuit panel said. The Supreme Court's June 2024 ruling (PDF) in Securities and Exchange Commission v. Jarkesy held that the SEC system for issuing fines violated the right to a jury trial. The 5th Circuit panel said the Jarkesy decision confirms that the FTC must pursue deceptive advertising claims in courts rather than its own administrative process. [...]

The 5th Circuit ruling acknowledged that most people can't use TurboTax for free. "TurboTax 'Free Edition' has been part of the TurboTax range for more than a decade, available to taxpayers for what Intuit refers to as 'simple tax returns,'" the ruling said. "Most American taxpayers do not have 'simple tax returns.' The TurboTax website is designed so that any individual taxpayer can begin preparing a tax return in TurboTax Free Edition, but those who enter disqualifying information are prompted before filing to upgrade to a paid product." Although the court noted that Intuit stopped the specific ads challenged by the FTC, the ruling said the cease-and-desist order issued by the agency could have far-reaching effects on Intuit marketing. "The cease-and-desist order is remarkably broad: it prohibits Intuit for the next twenty years from advertising 'any goods or services' as free unless specific, extensive, and arguably unworkable requirements are satisfied. The order is not confined to tax-preparation solutions and extends to all products sold by Intuit," the ruling said.

The 5th Circuit said the FTC's deceptive advertising claims are "traditional actions at law and equity and thus involve private rights that demand adjudication in an Article III court." The court rejected the FTC's argument that the claims involve public rights that may be adjudicated by administrative agencies. "In sum, there is overwhelming evidence that Section 5 of the FTC Act did not create a new duty for merchants to refrain from deceptive advertising," the 5th Circuit said. "That duty long predated the FTC Act and could be enforced by private parties in actions at common law or equity for fraud, deceit, or unfair competition."

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Ahmed superbly tackles race and identity in his hilarious new show Bait, proving the British-Asian actor truly is the best of this country. I’m happy for him, I swear!

Conflicted feelings for me this week, watching Bait, the new comedy created by Riz Ahmed. I started a career in acting shortly after Ahmed, you see. For a decade, I lost every good job going to him. What made it worse was watching all of those projects and realising exactly how good he was. Anyway, I’m going to try to write the rest of this while suppressing Salieri levels of malcontent. Wish me luck.

Bait is the story of an Asian actor, Shah Latif, who finds himself lined up to be the next James Bond. The series covers the internet’s toxic response to the rumours, using it to dive deep into a conversation about racial palatability, Britishness, ambition and authenticity. It’s funny, surreal, provocative and boasts an incredible array of hot young British-Asian actors. Which reminds me, I must rewatch Sliding Doors.

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AMSTERDAM (ANP) - De Europese aandelenmarkten gingen dinsdag verder omhoog, ondanks opnieuw fors oplopende olieprijzen. De aanhoudende onrust rond de oorlog in het Midden-Oosten drukte wel op het sentiment, omdat beleggers vrezen dat het conflict het wereldwijde energieprobleem zal verergeren.

Toch won de AEX, de index van de dertig meest verhandelde fondsen op het Damrak, 0,8 procent op 974,22 punten. De MidKap steeg met 0,3 procent tot 955,46 punten. De beurzen in Parijs en Londen wonnen tot 0,8 procent. Frankfurt eindigde iets lager.

Maandag zorgde de hoop op een mogelijk einde van de oorlog voor grote opluchting bij beleggers. President Donald Trump zei een pauze van de aanvallen op Iraanse energiefaciliteiten van vijf dagen in te lassen om ruimte te geven voor onderhandelingen. Iran ontkende echter dat onderhandelingen met de Amerikanen plaatsvinden.

De Tweede Kamer heeft vandaag ingestemd met de novelle bij het wetsvoorstel Versterking regie volkshuisvesting. Daardoor staan de seinen op groen voor behandeling in de Eerste Kamer van zowel de novelle als het wetsvoorstel. Minister Elanor Boekholt-O’Sullivan roept de Eerste Kamer op om dit zo snel mogelijk te doen, zodat de wet per 1 juli 2026 in werking kan treden. De wet is belangrijk om de woningnood aan te pakken.

Zelfs als ze naar de wc ging, werd ze door haar vriend gecontroleerd. “Ik moest 24/7 bereikbaar zijn en ook ’s nachts videobellen. Ik had geen vrijheid meer, werd geïsoleerd van mijn ouders en ben vaak mishandeld." Als de 19-jarige vrouw uit Limburg in 2025 naar Rotterdam verhuist om aan de Erasmus Universiteit te studeren, hoopt ze een nieuw leven op te bouwen. Maar ook daar gaat het mis.