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Epic Games says it plans to support its new Linux launcher on as many distributions as possible, specifically naming Fedora, SteamOS, CachyOS and Omarchy. GamingOnLinux's Liam Squires-Hand reports: Speaking to Jake Jones, Communications Director at Epic Games, they said: "Hey Liam! The new Epic Games Launcher is still in Preview and we plan to support as many Linux distributions as possible, including Fedora, SteamOS, Cachy, Omarchy, and more. We're testing and evaluating packaging formats for distribution, and we'll restore AppImage this month."
With that in mind, until things settle down, you might see different packaging types appear or disappear until they decide firmly how they plan to support different distributions each with their own different packaging formats. Or, perhaps they might see the Flatpak light and just put it up officially on Flathub. Would make it even easier for SteamOS then too with Flathub, since it would just be a quick pop to Desktop Mode to install it directly in the Discover app.
With that in mind, until things settle down, you might see different packaging types appear or disappear until they decide firmly how they plan to support different distributions each with their own different packaging formats. Or, perhaps they might see the Flatpak light and just put it up officially on Flathub. Would make it even easier for SteamOS then too with Flathub, since it would just be a quick pop to Desktop Mode to install it directly in the Discover app.
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France has accused Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps of being behind last month's cyberattacks on fridges and freezers across the country. French Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot said the attack was "unprecedented in both its scale and its level of aggression," adding those who were responsible would be hit with sanctions "at the European level." The BBC reports: The cyber-attack last month saw fridges and freezers in hundreds of supermarkets across France heated up, which spoilt fresh and frozen food estimated to be worth millions of euros. Then last week, dozens of supermarkets across several other European countries were also impacted by a cyber-attack that targeted fridges and freezers. It is not known if the instances are linked.
Barrot said the attack on France's supermarkets "marks the first large-scale cyber-attack aimed at sabotage on our national territory, and it constitutes a major attack on the nation's interests and the security of the French people." He said the government had summoned the Iranian ambassador to Paris to "lodge a very strong protest against this extremely grave act." France will take "any other necessary and proportionate measures" to respond to the incident and "deter anyone who might seek to repeat it," Barrot added.
Separately on Monday, the Paris prosecutor said an investigation had been opened into the head of an offensive cyber unit associated with Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) as well as his two deputies. Laure Beccuau named the unit as Shahid Kaveh, which she said had an affiliation with the electronic and cyber centre of the IRGC. Shahid Kaveh is the name given to a cluster of hackers thought to be directly employed by the Iranian regime. [...] The French government has not said how it reached the conclusion that Iran was responsible, and attribution of cyber attacks is extremely hard as hackers are able to hide their locations.
Barrot said the attack on France's supermarkets "marks the first large-scale cyber-attack aimed at sabotage on our national territory, and it constitutes a major attack on the nation's interests and the security of the French people." He said the government had summoned the Iranian ambassador to Paris to "lodge a very strong protest against this extremely grave act." France will take "any other necessary and proportionate measures" to respond to the incident and "deter anyone who might seek to repeat it," Barrot added.
Separately on Monday, the Paris prosecutor said an investigation had been opened into the head of an offensive cyber unit associated with Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) as well as his two deputies. Laure Beccuau named the unit as Shahid Kaveh, which she said had an affiliation with the electronic and cyber centre of the IRGC. Shahid Kaveh is the name given to a cluster of hackers thought to be directly employed by the Iranian regime. [...] The French government has not said how it reached the conclusion that Iran was responsible, and attribution of cyber attacks is extremely hard as hackers are able to hide their locations.
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De 81-jarige M. John Harrison, schrijver van sciencefiction, ontvangt ’s werelds invloedrijkste prijs voor Engelstalige romans. Zijn roman gaat over een post-apocalyptisch Engeland, waar de personages ook niet begrijpen wat hen overkomt.
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DEN HAAG (ANP) - De grote pensioenfondsen in de zorg (PFZW), metaal en techniek (PMT) en bouw (bpfBOUW) verhogen de uitkeringen volgend jaar beperkt, met rond de 0,8 procent. Dat is lang niet genoeg om de hoge inflatie bij te houden. De drie grote fondsen gingen begin dit jaar al over op het nieuwe stelsel en konden de pensioenen daardoor toen respectievelijk met 12, 8 en 21 procent verhogen.
In het nieuwe pensioenstelsel bouwen deelnemers pensioen op in een persoonlijk potje. Het verdelen van de buffers leidde begin dit jaar tot de flinke verhogingen. Door de kleinere verplichte buffers kunnen pensioenen eerder omhoog, maar ook sneller omlaag in slechte tijden.
De beleggings- en renteresultaten van PFZW, PMT en bpfBOUW waren de eerste negen maanden van dit jaar positief, maar twee derde ervan wordt achtergehouden om schokken in de komende jaren op te vangen. Daardoor blijft een beperkte verhoging van rond de 0,8 procent over in alle drie de gevallen, zo maakten de fondsen dinsdag afzonderlijk van elkaar bekend. PFZW verzorgt de pensioenen van ruim 3 miljoen mensen, PMT van 1,3 miljoen en bpfBOUW van zo'n 750.000.
Minder buffers
2026 is over het algemeen een goed beursjaar, maar de gestegen rente zorgt voor negatieve rendementen op onder meer obligaties. De hogere rente leidt er wel weer toe dat de fondsen minder buffers hoeven achter te houden, wat dan weer gunstig is voor de uitkeringen.
"Het is positief dat we de pensioeninkomens per 1 januari 2027 kunnen verhogen. Tegelijkertijd besef ik dat 0,75 procent bescheiden is, zeker gezien de huidige inflatie", reageert directeur John Landman van PFZW. "Ieder jaar gebruiken we een derde van het spreidingsvermogen voor aanpassing van de pensioeninkomens en bewaren we de rest voor volgende jaren. Daarmee beperken we schommelingen. Omdat dit het eerste jaar is, kunnen we nog niet profiteren van drie volledige jaren spreiding", zegt Landman over het verdelen van de rendementen.
Inflatie
Landman verwacht dat PFZW op de lange termijn wel de inflatie kan bijhouden. "Maar dat zal niet ieder jaar lukken. Daarom is onze communicatie wel een hele belangrijke. Daar besteden we veel aandacht aan."
Andere grote fondsen, zoals ambtenarenpensioenfonds ABP en PME voor de metalektro, gaan op 1 januari over op het nieuwe pensioenstelsel. PME rekent op een verhoging met 12,6 procent, ABP gaf nog geen inschatting.
France has turned up the heat on Iran over destructive cyberattacks targeting refrigeration controllers at more than 700 grocery stores in October, spoiling food and sparking fires. The country vowed to take action using “all available means of response.” The supermarket attacks, which affected Casino, Leclerc, Coopérative U, Metro, Carrefour, and Intermarché groups, started at least 15 fires and caused food losses in the tens of millions of euros, according to a Monday report by France’s Cyber Crisis Coordination Centre (C4). The C4 includes the National Cybersecurity Agency of France, the Directorate General for External Security, the Directorate General for Internal Security, the Directorate General for Armament, and the Cyber Defence Command. “This is an unprecedented campaign in terms of its scale and level of aggressiveness, thus constituting the first cyber offensive campaign carried out purely for the purpose of sabotage on national territory,” France’s Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs said in a statement. All signs point to CyberAv3ngers Both the report and the statement attributed the refrigeration controller hacks to the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ (IRGC) Shahid Kaveh cyber unit. The Shahid Kaveh unit, which French national security officials say is led by Reza Salarvand and Mahdi Lashgarian, is better known by its hacktivist personas, including CyberAv3ngers. This is the same crew suspected of involvement in the July attacks that targeted more than 100 internet-exposed water systems in America. While the US government hasn’t attributed the intrusions to any country or group, private-sector security analysts blamed Iran, and specifically CyberAv3ngers. The IRGC-affiliated hacking crew has been breaking into industrial controllers for years, and in 2023, American national security and law enforcement agencies attributed a series of cyberattacks against "multiple" US water facilities to CyberAv3ngers. “The Iranian cyber threat against French interests is not new,” according to the Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs. “Iran has already carried out several destabilizing acts against us, notably targeting the weekly magazine Charlie Hebdo in 2023 and the organization of the Paris Olympic Games in 2024.” Since at least June 2024, the Shahid Kaveh unit has had the ability to scan, access, and control industrial control equipment from Schneider Electric, Siemens, and Rockwell, the French government said in its report. It pins the refrigeration controller hacks on this particular Iranian crew for a couple of reasons. Making the case for attribution First: the infrastructure used to carry out the October supermarket attacks was also used during this timeframe to conduct reconnaissance on Schneider Electric equipment, zeroing in on small- and medium-sized energy and water production units. “The techniques used during these actions are known to have been used by the Shahid Kaveh unit since at least April 2026,” the report says. It also notes that investigators found “traces of Farsi use” in the attack infrastructure. Plus, Iranian media outlet CyberbanNews, which is reportedly linked to the Shahid Kaveh unit, publicized the incidents that occurred late on October 11 and into October 12 extremely quickly: “as early as October 13.” In early November, similar cyberattacks on commercial refrigerators and freezers were reported across Europe, with grocery stores in Belgium, Ireland, Luxembourg, and Sweden reporting widespread food losses after miscreants spiked temperatures to as high as 122°F (50°C). Last week, the US federal government urged owners and operators to take security measures to prevent these types of attacks from spreading to America. France fights back The French government, for its part, said that it would “use all available means of response, including within the European Union and alongside its European and international partners, to anticipate, prevent, deter and respond to destabilizing and destructive actions targeting it in cyberspace.” This includes proposing additional EU sanctions against Iranian entities and individuals involved. France also vowed to express “its strongest condemnation of these cyberattacks” to the Iranian ambassador. However, the country didn’t rule out responding with more than just harsh words: “France reserves the right to take any additional measures, public and non-public, deemed necessary and proportionate to respond to these cyberattacks.” ®
Armed with an impressive academic record and experience as a rugby fly-half, the teenager is anything but typical
Josh King is talking with pride about how his mother, Michelle, a university lecturer, has almost finished her PhD in sickle cell disease. The Fulham attacking midfielder, who is in the England squad for the Nations League matches against Croatia and Spain this week, mentions that his father, Steve, is a lawyer and says he might have liked to follow in his footsteps if it had not worked out for him on the pitch.
King’s background is not that of a typical footballer. Privately educated at Hampton School in south-west London, he aced his GCSEs, achieving A or A* in his 10 subjects. He went on to study part-time for A-levels in French, maths and psychology, getting grades of A, C and D – pretty impressive, especially when you consider he sat the exams in a hotel suite in Romania in the summer of last year while playing for England at the European Under-19 Championship.
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