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The FAA says its push to recruit video gamers as air traffic controllers has helped it hire more than 2,000 trainees, reaching 94% of its hiring goal. Another 2,000-plus candidates are in the pipeline. CBS News reports: U.S. Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy said in a recent social media post that the federal agency's recruitment campaign to recruit gamers as air traffic controllers has been a "game changer" for the Federal Aviation Administration. [...] When Duffy announced the initiative in April, he acknowledged that the Transportation Department needed to extend its reach to recruit prospective air traffic controllers.

"A lot of what they do playing games ... is what they do ... controlling traffic in the air," Duffy told CBS News senior transportation correspondent Kris Van Cleave in an interview on Tuesday at New Jersey's Newark Liberty International Airport. Duffy added that many current trainees started out as gamers. Only about 25% of controllers hold a traditional college degree, while former controllers note that gaming requires many of the same skills that air traffic controllers use on the job, such as thinking quickly, staying focused and managing multiple sources of information as they guide more than 80,000 flights to their destinations daily.

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HAMBURG (ANP/RTR) - De Rijn heeft in Duitsland een nieuw dieptepunt bereikt. Dat meldt het Duitse agentschap voor de binnenvaart woensdag. Hierdoor kunnen vrachtschepen vastlopen.

Het agentschap voor de binnenvaart WSV meldde dat de bevaarbare waterdiepte bij Kaub, vlakbij Koblenz, woensdag 11 centimeter bedroeg. De meeste schepen kunnen daarom niet noordwaarts of zuidwaarts langs Kaub varen, waardoor de noord-zuidelijke riviervaart op dit punt feitelijk stil ligt, aldus een lokale grondstoffenhandelaar. De bevaarbare waterdiepte is niet het waterpeil van de Rijn op dat punt. Er is daaronder nog ongeveer een meter water.

Onder meer chemische producenten, nutsbedrijven, staalproducenten en landbouwhandelaren waarschuwen voor hogere kosten, doordat ladingen over meerdere schepen moeten worden verdeeld, om te voorkomen dat ze in ondiep water aan de grond lopen. Volgens meerdere bronnen varen sommige schepen op dit moment met slechts 20 procent van de capaciteit.

Goederentrein

De Duitse spoorwegmaatschappij Deutsche Bahn probeert de vrachtproblemen als gevolg van de lage waterstanden te verlichten door meer goederentransport per spoor aan te bieden. Dochteronderneming DB Cargo zou op korte termijn vierhonderd extra goederenwagons kunnen mobiliseren, aldus de topman van het bedrijf, Bernhard Osburg, tijdens een vergadering op het ministerie van Transport.

De topman zou in de vergadering volgens persbureau DPA gezegd hebben dat "een enkele goederentrein tot tien binnenvaartschepen kan vervangen dankzij de hogere doorlooptijd".

Duitsland probeert al langere tijd oplossingen te vinden om waterwegen te ontzien. Meerdere Duitse deelstaten hebben onlangs het rijverbod voor vrachtwagens op zondag opgeheven om meer transport over de weg mogelijk te maken.

DEN HAAG (ANP) - Donderdagavond wordt in Den Haag een stille tocht gelopen voor de 34-jarige vrouw die vrijdagnacht werd doodgeschoten in een woning aan de New Yorksingel. De dader was de vader van haar kinderen, die op dat moment in huis aanwezig waren.

De tocht, die naast herdenken in het teken staat van de strijd tegen femicide, zal om 19.00 uur van start gaan in de Betje Wolffstraat. Het evenement is in goede afstemming met directe familie van de vrouw opgezet. De organisatie is in handen van een goede vriendin.

De initiatiefneemster wil met de tocht de stem van de doodgeschoten vrouw laten horen. "Vrouwenmoord mag nooit meer gebeuren, dat is wat hen drijft", aldus een woordvoerder van Namens de Familie, die met de organisatie in contact staat.

In de uitnodiging is te lezen dat aanwezigen wordt gevraagd witte kleding te dragen. Namens de Familie verwacht een grote opkomst. De Haagse burgemeester Jan van Zanen zal aanwezig zijn bij de tocht. Op verzoek van de gemeente is er tijdens de tocht politiebegeleiding.

A new social engineering and malware campaign targets Android users, stealing card details to make payments or withdraw cash. Group-IB discovered the campaign, calling it WindRelay, and found that several successful attacks were carried out on European victims within the space of a 13-minute phone call. The attack relies on a skilled social engineer walking the victim through the process and two malware strains: An NFC relay malware called WindRelay, first discovered in August 2025, and SpyNote, a remote access trojan (RAT) that was leaked on cybercrime forums as far back as 2016. It goes like this: The attacker calls the target while posing as a helpdesk employee at their bank, convincing the victim-in-waiting that there is a problem with their payment card. While still on the phone, the attacker gets the target to install a version of SpyNote on their Android device. The file name includes the target's name, which the researchers said could suggest that each target is singled out specifically, and a degree of reconnaissance has to be carried out prior to the attack. Once installed, the attacker quickly uses the RAT's remote access to quietly install WindRelay on the attacker's device without their knowledge or input, all while the call was ongoing. The attacker then instructs the target to tap their payment card on their NFC-enabled smartphone and, when prompted, enter their PIN. WindRelay then captures the data from that interaction between the card's chip and the reader, similarly to how genuine point-of-sale machines authorize contactless payments. This is known as a live EMV APDU exchange. In order to fraudulently make payments using this data – without physical access to the payment card or the cardholder – the attacker must have a second device capable of using this data to authorize a payment. This could be a second Android smartphone capable of loading this data and transmitting it to an attacker-controlled POS terminal, which is linked to a fraudulent merchant bank account, or an ATM. The attacker then uses the captured live exchange data to execute fraudulent charges on the victim's card, authorized using the PIN they entered during the call. Group-IB said in its write-up: "In effect, the victim's card and the real terminal are still talking directly to each other – the fraudster's setup is just an invisible relay in between, passing the exchange back and forth across a distance. "Because the terminal is genuinely completing a live handshake with a real card, the transaction goes through and processes the withdrawal or purchase as normal." Doubling down on their access, Group-IB also noted that the attackers in one instance used their RAT access to access the victim's banking app and take out loans in their name. The researchers also said they observed 23 WindRelay-related samples uploaded to VirusTotal between November 2025 and July 2026, with signs pointing toward targeting victims in Czechia, Slovakia, and Slovenia. They were not able to pin down the attacker(s) behind the malware, although they said it was independently developed and the samples they saw uploaded to VirusTotal all contained unique UI elements, such as the victim's name, just like with the RAT. "This suggests the threat actor behind these campaigns most likely has the capability to dynamically build malicious applications tailored to individual victims," said Group-IB. "This case shows that modern fraud rarely relies on one technique," it added. "Here, the fraudster combined three capabilities in a single session – a live social engineering call, a personalized RAT for remote device control, and an NFC relay malware for physical cash-out. "The fraudster also used these capabilities to hit two separate payout channels – a digital loan and card-present purchases – before the bank or victim could react." The attack is similar to previous NFC relay-related campaigns, such as NGate in 2024 (and more recently in 2026), and Ghost Tap, the techniques involved in which closely align with WindRelay. Ghost Tap, also discovered in 2024, relies on a Chinese malware sold throughout the country's cybercrime Telegram communities, and according to Group-IB, it was responsible for losses exceeding $355,000 between November 2024 and August 2025 alone. ®

James Webb Space Telescope posted a photo:

How close is too close to a black hole? Asking for a friend. 😬

Webb just revealed dust and water surviving in the extreme environment of a star located near our Milky Way's supermassive black hole, Sagittarius A*! Webb recently observed IRS 3, a star near the end of its life cycle, located just over half a light year away from Sgr A*. Similar stars are huge, cool, and luminous, and shed dust-producing gas with their powerful stellar winds. While we know that shedding cosmic dust is an important, and well-known, part of star life cycles, it was unknown if stars so close to a supermassive black hole would produce dust.

Though IRS 3 has been previously studied, Webb’s mid-infrared data revealed the clear signature of oxygen-rich silicate dust, as well as, for the first time, water, in its surrounding dust envelope. Even under the harsh conditions of its environment, stars of this kind can indeed produce dust and other materials, which will help create future generations of stars and planets.

This image shows NIRCam and MIRI data - both near and mid-infrared.

Read more: esawebb.org/news/weic2617/

Image credit: Image Credit: ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, F. Peißker, J. Lu, F. Yusef-Zadeh, N. B. Sabha, C. Chan

Image description: A dense star field fills the entire image, with countless stars scattered across a backdrop of glowing clouds in shades of red, orange, pink, white, and blue. At the centre, a brilliant concentration of stars creates a bright, almost white core surrounded by intricate filaments and wisps of illuminated gas and dust that radiate outward. Dark, irregular patches of opaque dust interrupt the glowing clouds, particularly toward the left side of the image, where they appear as silhouetted shapes against the brighter background. The surrounding stellar population varies in brightness and colour, with cool blue stars and warmer orange and red stars distributed throughout the scene.

James Webb Space Telescope posted a photo:

How close is too close to a black hole? Asking for a friend. 😬

Webb just revealed dust and water surviving in the extreme environment of a star located near our Milky Way's supermassive black hole, Sagittarius A*! Webb recently observed IRS 3, a star near the end of its life cycle, located just over half a light year away from Sgr A*. Similar stars are huge, cool, and luminous, and shed dust-producing gas with their powerful stellar winds. While we know that shedding cosmic dust is an important, and well-known, part of star life cycles, it was unknown if stars so close to a supermassive black hole would produce dust.

Though IRS 3 has been previously studied, Webb’s mid-infrared data revealed the clear signature of oxygen-rich silicate dust, as well as, for the first time, water, in its surrounding dust envelope. Even under the harsh conditions of its environment, stars of this kind can indeed produce dust and other materials, which will help create future generations of stars and planets.

This image shows mid-infrared MIRI data only.

Read more: esawebb.org/news/weic2617/

Image credit: Image Credit: ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, F. Peißker, J. Lu, F. Yusef-Zadeh, N. B. Sabha, C. Chan

Image description: A bright, densely populated star cluster lies near the center of the image, surrounded by intricate clouds of glowing gas and dust in shades of red, pink, orange, and blue. Dark lanes of dust weave through the nebula, contrasting with the luminous central region. Countless stars are scattered across the field, with a few brighter foreground stars showing Webb's characteristic diffraction spikes. An irregular black region occupies the lower-right corner of the image, indicating an area where no observational data was available.

Darren Schiller has added a photo to the pool:

The building at 251 Gouger Street, Adelaide (on the corner of Bailey Street) has operated for over 185 years as a historic licensed hotel site known through various eras as the Angel Inn, Hotel Gouger, and the Director's Hotel, and currently houses a restaurant.

Early Beginnings and Name Changes
1839: First licensed on the corner of Gouger and Bailey Streets as the Angel Inn.
1928–1929: Briefly renamed the Auld Inn from November 1928 to March 1929 before reverting to the Angel Inn.
1947–1974: Renamed and operated as the Hotel Gouger.

Later Decades and Closure
1974–1987: Went through multiple iterations including Hotel Fantasia (1974–1982) and back to the Gouger Hotel (1984–1987).

Final Hotel Era: Operated as the Director's Hotel until its eventual closure as a traditional pub.

Modern Use: The historic building survived subsequent redevelopments of the surrounding precinct and has hosted dining and restaurant spaces, such as Asian cuisine concepts like That Restaurant on Gouger.