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DEN HAAG (ANP) - De vier mannen die eerder deze maand werden aangehouden voor betrokkenheid bij een groot drugslab in een woonwijk in Den Haag, blijven langer vastzitten. Dat meldt het Openbaar Ministerie. Een 71-jarige man blijft dertig dagen langer zitten, van de drie andere verdachten is het voorarrest met negentig dagen verlengd.

De vier, een man van 71 uit Leiden, een 34-jarige en 39-jarige man uit Voorburg en een 44-jarige man uit Den Haag, worden onder meer verdacht van de productie en het bezit van harddrugs.

Het laboratorium in de Meidoornstraat was "volledig in bedrijf" toen de politie op vrijdag 17 juli langskwam voor een melding van een vreemde lucht. In het lab werden vaten en jerrycans met duizenden liters chemicaliën aangetroffen. Burgemeester Jan van Zanen noemde het daarna al "volstrekt onverantwoord" dat het lab in een drukke woonwijk was gevestigd.

Eerder besloot de rechter-commissaris al dat de mannen langer in voorarrest moesten blijven.

Fifa’s president hopes to sell stakes in the planet’s most watched sporting event. In the wider interests of football, he must be resisted

Like a sporting Dr Pangloss, Fifa’s president, Gianni Infantino, would like to persuade football followers that they are living in the best of all possible worlds. Maddeningly for him, many disagree. On Monday, Mr Infantino published a 15-page Instagram rant in which he bemoaned the “hate and false rumours” in circulation during the recent men’s World Cup. White House interference over a crucial refereeing decision, prohibitive ticket prices, unnecessary but lucrative hydration breaks; it was all, as his best friend in politics, Donald Trump, would say, “fake news”.

But where the president of world football’s governing body sees haters, others see lovers of the game rightly concerned over where he is taking it. On Tuesday, Fifa confirmed that it hopes to sell stakes in the World Cup and other tournaments to private investors who may include Joshua Kushner, the brother of Mr Trump’s son-in-law Jared. The investors would buy into a new $20bn company, Fifa Forward Enterprise, which would sell all of Fifa’s commercial rights, including ticketing, and take charge of “operational delivery” of World Cups.

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Residents struggle to take in the devastation five days after El Morro was evacuated as fires burned across the countryside west of the Spanish capital

The handwritten sign taped to the front gate of a house in the mountains an hour west of Madrid offered as succinct a summary of recent events as you will find.

“EMPTY,” it said. “No people or animals here.”

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Fifa’s plans to sell a share of the World Cup’s commercial rights are the latest in a long line of presidential power moves

In hindsight, it was all in the open from the very off. When Gianni Infantino was first elected as president of Fifa in 2016 it was something of a shock victory and prompted hope for progress after the dark days of Sepp Blatter. Infantino had promised to restore “the image of Fifa”, but also anticipated that “everyone in the world will applaud us”. He promised accountability and transparency, but the core message to his electorate was to expect a “very significant increase” in funding. Just as a side note, there were also mutterings about him spending too much time on private jets.

Back then, Infantino was described as being a typical Swiss bureaucrat, but no one would make that comparison now. Leaders within football instead prefer comments such as “he thinks he’s running a nation state”. This description feels particularly pertinent in the week Fifa announced without consultation plans to sell a share of the World Cup’s commercial rights to outside investors. But Infantino’s desire to grow both professional football and the revenues it creates has always been central to his pitch. The longer his time as president has gone on, the more wedded to this vision he has been.

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• Players brandished banner after semi-final against England

• Paredes and Molina investigated over brawl after final defeat

Fifa has opened disciplinary proceedings against Argentina over the Falklands Islands banner displayed by several players after their World Cup semi-final win over England in Atlanta.

As Argentina celebrated reaching the World Cup final with their dramatic 2-1 over Thomas Tuchel’s side, several players displayed a sign proclaiming “Las Malvinas son Argentinas” – the Malvinas are Argentinian – in reference to the British overseas territory. The dispute over the islands led to a 74-day conflict in 1982, during which more than 900 people – 649 Argentinians and 255 Britons – lost their lives.

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Carers tell of their struggles to get loved ones the support they need, and the emotional and financial toll caring takes on their own lives

Andy Burnham has vowed to fast-track the Casey Commission, an independent review of adult social care in England, with final recommendations expected to be released by summer 2027.

“I think social care in England is as unfair as American healthcare,” Burnham said in a speech outlining his pledge for reform on Wednesday. “The vulnerable pay with everything and it can completely leave them with nothing.”

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Weer voor Rotterdam ☀️ - 29-07-2026 19:16 CEST

In één oogopslag:
• 33.5°C · Zonnig ☀️ | Min 22.0°C / Max 34.4°C

Verwachting voor vandaag:
• Min 22.0°C, Max 34.4°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, 🧭 1013.4 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 14.0 km/u (3.9 m/s), richting: ↑ 171°

Uurlijkse voorspelling voor de komende 12 uur:

• 20:00: 32.7°C (Zonnig) ☀️, 🧭 1013.3 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 9.0 km/u (2.5 m/s), richting: ← 73°
• 21:00: 31.5°C (Zonnig) ☀️, 🧭 1013.3 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 10.4 km/u (2.9 m/s), richting: ← 87°
• 22:00: 29.7°C (Helder) 🌕, 🧭 1013.6 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 10.4 km/u (2.9 m/s), richting: ← 84°
• 23:00: 28.8°C (Helder) 🌕, 🧭 1013.6 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 10.4 km/u (2.9 m/s), richting: ← 99°
• 00:00: 28.5°C (Helder) 🌕, 🧭 1013.5 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 8.6 km/u (2.4 m/s), richting: ↖ 135°
• 01:00: 28.3°C (Helder) 🌕, 🧭 1013.7 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 14.0 km/u (3.9 m/s), richting: ↗ 215°
• 02:00: 26.3°C (Helder) 🌕, 🧭 1013.6 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 15.1 km/u (4.2 m/s), richting: → 250°
• 03:00: 25.3°C (Helder) 🌕, 🧭 1013.3 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 13.3 km/u (3.7 m/s), richting: ↗ 244°
• 04:00: 24.1°C (Helder) 🌕, 🧭 1013.2 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 14.0 km/u (3.9 m/s), richting: ↗ 216°
• 05:00: 23.3°C (Helder) 🌕, 🧭 1013.1 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 16.6 km/u (4.6 m/s), richting: ↗ 225°
• 06:00: 22.4°C (Helder) 🌕, 🧭 1013.0 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 15.5 km/u (4.3 m/s), richting: ↗ 230°
• 07:00: 21.9°C (Zonnig) ☀️, 🧭 1012.8 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 14.8 km/u (4.1 m/s), richting: ↗ 239°

Voorspelling voor de komende dagen:

• donderdag 30 juli: Min 20.7°C, Max 27.1°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, Kans op neerslag 2%, 🧭 1014.2 hPa ↗️ +0.8 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 16.6 km/u (4.6 m/s), richting: → 264°
• vrijdag 31 juli: Min 18.2°C, Max 26.6°C (Matige motregen) 🌦️, Neerslag 0.7 mm, Kans op neerslag 22%, 🧭 1015.9 hPa ↗️ +1.7 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 17.6 km/u (4.9 m/s), richting: ↓ 344°
• zaterdag 01 augustus: Min 15.9°C, Max 25.5°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, Kans op neerslag 1%, 🧭 1017.7 hPa ↗️ +1.8 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 12.0 km/u (3.3 m/s), richting: ↓ 5°
• zondag 02 augustus: Min 16.5°C, Max 26.9°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, 🧭 1018.2 hPa ↗️ +0.5 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 13.7 km/u (3.8 m/s), richting: ↙ 67°
• maandag 03 augustus: Min 18.1°C, Max 27.9°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, Kans op neerslag 3%, 🧭 1013.9 hPa ↘️ -4.3 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 12.5 km/u (3.5 m/s), richting: ↙ 54°
• dinsdag 04 augustus: Min 19.2°C, Max 23.9°C (Matige motregen) 🌦️, Neerslag 2.4 mm, Kans op neerslag 37%, 🧭 1011.5 hPa ↘️ -2.4 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 15.9 km/u (4.4 m/s), richting: → 268°

Details:
• 🌡️ Huidige temperatuur (om 19:15): 33.5°C (Zonnig)
• 🤚 Gevoelstemperatuur: 31.8°C (-1.7°C)
• 💨 Windsnelheid: 7.6 km/u (2.1 m/s), richting: ↙ 42°
• 🌬️ Windstoten: 21.2 km/h (5.9 m/s)
• 💧 Luchtvochtigheid: 27%
• 🧭 Luchtdruk: 1013.3 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/3h
• 👁️ Zichtbaarheid: 47.2 km
• ☀️ UV-index: 1.3
• 🌅 Zonsopgang: 06:00 · 🌇 Zonsondergang: 21:37

Luchtkwaliteit:
• AQI: 55 🟡 (Matig)
• PM2.5: 9.8 μg/m³
• PM10: 14.5 μg/m³

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This essay was written with Barath Raghavan, and originally appeared in The Guardian.

In July, Hugging Face, a company that hosts much of the world’s AI software and open-source AI models, was hacked. A malicious dataset had been used to run code on one of its servers. Whoever was behind it captured internal security credentials and moved through systems over a weekend, running thousands of actions from a swarm of temporary server environments. It looked like the work of a sophisticated criminal group.

It was not. It was one of OpenAI’s new, still unreleased GPT models.

Their science experiment had escaped the lab. OpenAI was running the unreleased AI model through a benchmark that tests how well AI can successfully hack systems. To push the limits and evaluate the AI’s true capability, the company switched off the safety filters that normally stop it from doing this kind of hacking. Aware that this could go wrong, they confined the AI to an isolated environment and denied it access to the internet.

But the new AI cheated. It took literally its goal to get as high of a score as possible. It broke out on to the open internet. It inferred, probably from its training data, that it could “solve” the task by getting the answers from Hugging Face’s servers. So it chained together stolen credentials and further unknown security exploits to hack the company’s network.

Nobody instructed the AI to do any of this. It was, in OpenAI’s words, “hyperfocused on finding a solution” to the test it was being given. And while this might seem like something new with AI, it’s really very old. This is how a genie behaves, and it is a key challenge with AI agents in general.

In folklore, genies—and other magical beings—grant wishes literally, not how the wisher intended. King Midas asked that everything he touched turn to gold, and starved. The sorcerer’s apprentice wanted the broom to fill the cistern, and it performed its task so well that it flooded the house.

We now have machines that do this. Ask a modern AI agent to save money on your phone plan and it might simply cancel the plan. Tell it to book a flight, and it might hack the airline website to override restrictions. Or, like OpenAI, ask it to do well on a test and it might break into another company to steal the answers. Each time, it recognizably completed the task you set, but it didn’t do what you would have wanted.

This isn’t malicious behavior. No one asked for, or wanted, Hugging Face to be hacked. OpenAI and Hugging Face and the AI were ostensibly on the same side, and the AI was trying to do what it had been asked. That’s what makes it so difficult to guard against: you can’t filter for bad instructions because the instructions were fine.

The gap is between the words we use and what we mean by them. We call that gap the Genie coefficient.

AI labs know this is a problem, and they’re quietly saying so. For example, the Chinese lab Moonshot recently warned that its latest AI model may have “excessive proactiveness” and “make unexpected decisions on the user’s behalf”. The UK’s AI Security Institute has started tracking “cheating behavior in frontier model evaluations”. We wouldn’t tolerate a car that is excessively proactive or ruthlessly efficient, and yet that’s the reality of AI today.

Improvement is possible. Just as AIs have gotten much better at resisting prompt injection attacks over the last few years, we can safely predict that they will get better at avoiding genie-like behavior. The point of the Genie coefficient is to track progress. AI companies like benchmarks, and they all work to compete to be the best.

Dozens of benchmarks and leaderboards tell us how well these AI models write code, perform logical reasoning, and pass standardized legal and medical exams. But there is nothing that scores whether a system does what you actually meant. We need to develop a measure for this, test it regularly, and push for improvement. We’re not going to have trustworthy AI agents without it.