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Veel horecamedewerkers in Nederland werken onder een nulurencontract. Op papier zijn hun rechten goed geregeld, maar in de praktijk loopt het vaak mis. Loon waar werkenden eigenlijk recht op hebben, wordt niet altijd uitgekeerd. Maar wat zijn je rechten eigenlijk als oproepkracht?

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi said there had been “significant progress” in long-running talks with Washington for a trade deal, according to a statement issued on Thursday after his meeting with United States President Donald Trump. The leaders met on the sidelines of the G7 summit in Evian in France on Wednesday, their first face-to-face talks since February 2025 in Washington. “The leaders noted with particular satisfaction the significant progress made in negotiations towards an interim bilateral trade agreement”, a readout of the meeting from India’s foreign ministry read. Asked if the US and India are close to a trade deal, Trump told reporters in Evian that they were “very close”. “He’s a very tough negotiator, one of the toughest, actually. So you look at this man, I’ll give you a lesson,” said the US president. “He’s the most beautiful looking man. He looks so nice. He’s like an angel, but actually he’s a killer.” The Indian statement said the leaders had ordered officials to work towards strik...

“You could make a sitcom,” said Cameron Kasky, a former candidate in the race who’s now backing Bores, referring to what he called the “Boalition.”

The slide has paused the above-par share sales Strategy uses to fund bitcoin purchases, and it is the same stock whose dividends forced the company's first BTC sale this month.

Обычно чума ассоциируется со Средневековьем, перенаселенными городами и крысами, которые были основным двигателем эпидемии. Но новое исследование показывает, что болезнь была смертельно опасной еще 5500 лет назад.

Builderbot is the “missing layer between AI coding tools and how engineering actually works at scale,” said Brad Axen, head of AI capabilities at Block. Jack Dorsey’s financial services firm Block rolled out a new suite of AI-native tools on Wednesday, which it says can execute around 15% of all production code changes across the company. The new AI tooling, Builderbot, is able to execute over 200,000 operations per day and merges approximately 1,500 pull requests per week, said the company. “The best way to think about Builderbot is as the missing layer between AI coding tools and how engineering actually works at scale,” said Brad Axen, head of AI capabilities at Block. “What used to take months now takes days,” the company added. Read more

Еврокомиссия готовит предложение о продлении временной защиты для украинцев в ЕС, но с возможными ограничениями для мужчин призывного возраста.

Военнослужащий Александр Карпюк (позывной "Серж Марко") предлагает не питать иллюзий, а осознать простую, хотя и горькую истину: не существует оптимального решения проблемы мобилизации, которое сочетало бы справедливость и разумные сроки службы. Слишком многое было утрачено в предыдущие годы, и исправить это уже невозможно, считает он.

Heavy selling pushed XRP back through a closely watched support level, though buyers stepped in above $1.17 to prevent a deeper pullback.

Bitcoin briefly slipped below its 200-week moving average twice in the past two weeks, a rare event that Kraken says has historically marked strong entry points for buyers.

The Fed held rates but signaled it is more worried about inflation than growth in Chair Kevin Warsh's first meeting.

Утром 18 июня беспилотники достигли Московского нефтеперерабатывающего завода в районе Капотни, несмотря на действия российской ПВО. На предприятии вспыхнул пожар, а над городом поднялись густые клубы черного дыма.

Peshawar - Chief Minister Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Sohail Afridi, chaired a high-level review meeting at the Chief Minister’s House to assess the utilization of development funds and progress on key development initiatives across the province.

Ежегодно 18 июня мир отмечает Международный день пикника — праздник, который напоминает о ценности спокойного отдыха на свежем воздухе и единении с природой. Для украинцев это прекрасная возможность хотя бы на день отвлечься от повседневных забот, собрать корзинку с вкусностями и вместе с близкими отправиться в один из живописных уголков нашей страны.

Администрация президента США Дональда Трампа планирует обратиться к американским оборонным компаниям с просьбой предоставить разрешения на производство оружия по лицензии в Европе и Украине.

France’s cybersecurity agency plans to block certification of products without quantum-resistant encryption starting in 2027, with full adoption targeted for 2030. France’s national cybersecurity agency ANSSI said Tuesday that it will stop certifying security products that lack quantum-resistant encryption, reflecting growing concern among governments about quantum threats to cryptography. ANSSI Chief of Staff Samih Souissi said at the France Quantum 2026 Summit that it would halt such certifications in 2027 and that businesses should buy only quantum-safe products by 2030, Reuters reported. “ANSSI has been telegraphing this move for years,” Marin Ivezic, the founder of consulting firm Applied Quantum, said in a post on LinkedIn. “What changed yesterday is that ANSSI’s chief of staff said it publicly at a major conference, in front of the French quantum ecosystem, with Reuters in the room. The guidance became a commitment.” Read more

Long-time bitcoin bull Matt Hougan told CoinDesk that during this bear market and with ‘doubts swirling’, investors have found ‘it easier to reach for something more tangible:’ stablecoins and tokenization.

Leaders, faculty across MIT discuss fostering innovation and talent in Greater Boston in special series of articles published alongside the outlet's annual list of 'Tech Power Players'

Kalshi's perpetual futures product did not meet the Dodd-Frank Act's definition of a "swap" and should not have been approved, Terrence Duffy said.

Kentucky has sued Polymarket, Kalshi and Kalshi’s partners Coinbase, Robinhood and Webull, over offering sports event contracts in the state. Kentucky has sued five prediction market platforms, including Kalshi and Polymarket, adding to a wave of US states launching legal fights with prediction markets over sports event contracts. State Attorney General Russell Coleman said in a statement Wednesday that his office filed lawsuits in state court against Polymarket and Kalshi — also naming Kalshi partners Coinbase, Robinhood and Webull — accusing them of “operating unlicensed and illegal sports betting and gambling platforms.” “Kalshi and Polymarket are operating illegal sportsbooks in Kentucky and breaking our laws,” Coleman said. “These multi-billion dollar corporations and their legal fictions don’t pass the sniff test. As one of our state legislative leaders said it best, ‘If it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck…’” Read more