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Waves are my theme for today, in this shot, a lone surfer braves the waves on a local beach. It's the sad story of my own life, I was born to surf but forced to work.

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Waves are my theme for today, in this shot, local lifesavers practice launching their surf boat through the waves at Rainbow Beach. It can't be easy rowing an open boat through a wave going in the opposite direction. A big shout-out to all our courageous surf lifesavers who keep our beaches safe every summer.

Dat AI van alles ingrijpend kan gaan veranderen, wordt steeds duidelijker. Maar hoe verandert AI onszelf, als mens? Wat doet het met onze nieuwsgierigheid? En met ons vertrouwen in wat we de hele dag zien, horen en lezen?

Deze vrijdag om 10.00 uur gaan de verhoren van de parlementaire enquêtecommissie Corona verder met Robèr Willemsen, die tijdens de coronapandemie voorzitter was van Koninklijke…

Waar zou de mens zijn zonder vuur? Zo’n 400.000 jaar geleden ging het los, om nooit meer weg te gaan. Eerste deel van een zomerserie over vuur.

In verschillende grote steden in Nederland is het even onrustig geweest na de uitschakeling van Marokko op het WK voetbal.

In Den Haag probeerden tientallen vrijwilligers in gele hesjes te voorkomen dat het rond de WK-wedstrijd Frankrijk - Marokko uit zou lopen op ongeregeldheden. Hoewel de ME uiteindelijk kortstondig moest ingrijpen, bleven confrontaties uit.

Het dorp Moerdijk dreigt plaats te moeten maken voor een uitgebreid industrieterrein. Redacteur Lize Geurts verbleef een week in het dorp en maakte van dichtbij mee wat deze…

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Red Hat has created a new support offering for its flagship Enterprise Linux that it characterizes as “RHEL forever” and has “no pre-determined end date.” The IBM business unit says the offering, formally known as “The Long-Life Add-On,” will “keep older minor or major versions of RHEL secure and stable” by providing critical patches, urgent bug fixes, and 24x7 tech support for as long as customers keep paying for it. Red Hat reckons the super-extended support is needed because platform migrations often become necessary when OS support expires, which can happen long before an application becomes obsolete. Longer support, the outfit argues, “gives IT leaders the freedom to synchronize software lifecycles with long-term hardware investments or complex regulatory timelines rather than forced upgrade schedules.” Red Hat already offers a support package called “Extended Life Cycle, Premium” that delivers updates to major RHEL releases for 14 years, or six years of extended maintenance for specific minor releases. This very elongated support package isn’t a bonkers idea: In 2013, The Register reported GE’s Canadian outpost seeking staff to keep PDP-11 code working until 2050, because it helps to run a nuclear power plant – an extremely change-averse environment. But it’s also plain that anyone signing up for services like this will find it almost impossible to avoid lock-in and therefore expose themselves to increasing costs. In the late 1990s, your correspondent did some marketing work for long-dead minicomputer vendor Wang as it spluttered towards irrelevance. By this time, the company’s channel had evaporated, leaving Wang as the sole source of professional services for any of its machines and code that customers had not replaced. Wang quickly hiked support prices. I was told it added a four-figure call-out fee just to show up and investigate a customer problem – a charge I heard referred to as a “golden screwdriver” because at that point only Wang staff could touch one of the company’s boxes without invalidating warranties. Red Hat will, of course, swear hand on heart that it will never behave so badly if customers need to extend a contract into a third or fourth decade of RHEL support. Whether its future sales reps and account managers live that promise is unknowable. ®

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Raijindo's handmade rice crackers are delicious, with each one baked with care.手焼きせんべい雷神堂は、1枚1枚心をこめて焼きあげた美味しいおせんべいです。

The Earth is dragging spacetime around its orbit, just as Einstein predicted: "The famed physicist's revolutionary general theory of relativity debuted in 1915, positing that gravity can be understood as objects falling along the curvature of spacetime. One well-tested product of this is frame-dragging, in which a heavy, rotating object—like a black hole or the Earth itself—drags spacetime and anything in its orbit around with it. (Some researchers have compared the effect to a spoon spinning in honey, moving the honey and anything in the honey as it turns.) Now researchers have managed to measure this phenomenon with more precision than ever before, confirming Einstein's greatest theory once again in a study published Wednesday in Nature."

The Trump administration's COVID lab-leak retribution is in full swing: a flu expert was hauled off by the FBI, a coronavirus researcher was indicted in Detroit, two prominent virologists stepped down or were removed from senior roles, and Anthony Fauci, MD, has been subpoenaed to appear before the U.S. Senate. (The Atlantic)

An excerpt: Even if this thirst for COVID retribution could be satisfied, its supposed higher purpose—to help prevent the next pandemic, by promoting more responsible research—hasn't yet been served. Despite the years of Sturm und Drang about pandemic origins, and the wholesale adoption of the lab-leak theory by the party that controls both Congress and the White House, a shaky status quo still persists in biosafety. The rules for how to work on dangerous pathogens and which sorts of experiments should be allowed aren't clear; oversight is spotty. A better, more comprehensive system remains a worthy goal. Shortly after President Trump took office, his administration took a few half steps in that direction. Last May, the president issued an executive order meant to limit and track all research that involves the potential enhancement of dangerous pathogens. "This is an historic day—the end of gain-of-function-research funding by the federal government," HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told reporters at the signing ceremony; NIH director Jay Bhattacharya said gain-of-function work would "go away forever." Yet Ebright and others told me that this project has stalled out. The Office of Science and Technology Policy had been placed in charge of revising the rules on this research by the end of last summer and implementing a national strategy for tracking all gain-of-function research before the end of last year. Those deadlines came and went. No such policies were put in place. (In response to a request for comment on this delay, the White House said that the administration "continues to implement our updated framework to govern, limit, and track dangerous gain-of-function research across the United States.") In the absence of that administrative work and with little progress being made on the various biosafety laws that have been proposed in Congress, the nation has been left with just the vengeful spectacle of lab-leak prosecutions. In effect, research policy is being handled by the Department of Justice. America's doctor may soon be dragged out to testify once more: The science that he championed appears to be unfettered; the scientists he funded are at risk of ending up in chains. *** The Atlantic link is a gift article via via MedPage Today, which linked to this stories in the same issue: Are MAGA and MAHA Heading for Divorce? (Rolling Stone) Firing Cancer Screening Experts Will Not Make Us Healthy Again (NYT Opinion) NIH likely to award fewer grants as it races to spend 2026 budget (Science.org) Palantir Has a Hand in NIH's Most Ambitious Health Initiative (Mother Jones) Provision buried in controversial U.S. rule change would help people legally challenge 'woke' federal research (Science.org) A congressional committee has opened an inquiry into Bristol Myers Squibb and Pfizer's use of clinical trial sites in China (Endpoints News). If you were a conspiracy theorist, you might see the pattern emerging from these headlines, too; but maybe this is too obvious, too mainstream, not sexy or exciting enough.

Bij De Correspondent gebruiken we elke dag diensten van grote Amerikaanse techbedrijven. Dat willen we veranderen, maar dat gaat niet van de ene op de andere dag. Op deze plek houd ik je op de hoogte van onze ontkoppeling. Aflevering 3: onze video’s zijn voortaan onder de hoede van een Nederlands techbedrijf.