Asylum seekers express dismay at continuation of scheme agreed last year that has failed to stop crossings in Channel

The Home Office is extending a controversial scheme to stop asylum seekers crossing the Channel in small boats, the Guardian has learned.

The UK prime minister, Keir Starmer, and the French president, Emmanuel Macron, signed a deal they hailed as “groundbreaking” last July, known as “one in, one out”.

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Various mini series exploring food focused moments and interactions. An ongoing project.

Tijdens de Rwandese genocide, in 1994, speelde een radiozender een grote rol in het oproepen tot moorden. Dat station werd gefinancierd door Kabuga. Voor zijn rol in de massaslachting stond hij terecht in het VN-tribunaal in Den Haag.

Een vrouw verloor beide benen. De dader, een 31-jarige man, is door omstanders tegengehouden en nadien gearresteerd. Hij had een psychiatrische behandeling gehad.

"The vulnerability is simple in practice," writes Tom's Hardware: "run a command as a standard user and gain root (administrator) access to the machine."

And it was Mythos Preview that helped the security researchers at Palo Alto-based Calif bypass a five-year Apple security effort in just five days. The blog 9to5Mac reports:

Last year, Apple introduced Memory Integrity Enforcement (MIE), a hardware-assisted memory safety system designed to make memory corruption exploits much harder to execute... [The researchers note it's built into Apple all models of the iPhone 17 and iPhone Air, and some MacBooks] They explain they have a 55-page technical report on the hack, but they won't release it until Apple ships a fix for the exploit. But they do note in broad terms that Anthropic's Mythos Preview model helped them identify the bugs and assisted them throughout the entire collaborative exploit development process.

"Mythos Preview is powerful: once it has learned how to attack a class of problems, it generalizes to nearly any problem in that class. Mythos discovered the bugs quickly because they belong to known bug classes. But MIE is a new best-in-class mitigation, so autonomously bypassing it can be tricky. This is where human expertise comes in. Part of our motivation was to test what's possible when the best models are paired with experts. Landing a kernel memory corruption exploit against the best protections in a week is noteworthy, and says something strong about this pairing...."

[I]n a time when even small teams, with the help of AI, can make discoveries such as this one, "we're about to learn how the best mitigation technology on Earth holds up during the first AI bugmageddon."

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I find the usual conversations about AI and creativity to be pretty boring - we've been talking about cameras and sampling for years now, and I'm not particularly interested in getting mired down in the muck of the morality and economics of it all. I'm really only interested in one question: What's possible now that was impossible before? ... So here's the idea: I'm going to make a giant isometric pixel-art map of New York City. And I'm going to use it as an excuse to push hard on the limits of the latest and greatest generative models and coding agents.

Any time one of my blog posts escapes containment on Mastodon, I am again reminded that "click links" is an ability that a shockingly large part of that community simply does not possess.

I weep for the future.

Previously, previously, previously.

on the water photography has added a photo to the pool:

Kitaoka Shrine is located at the foot of Mount Hanaoka near JR Kumamoto Station. The shrine was originally built in 934 in Nihongi, Nishi Ward, Kumamoto City to worship the spirit of Yasaka Shrine in Yamashiro Province (present-day southern Kyoto Prefecture), but was later moved to the top of Mt Hanaoka, and relocated to its present site in 1647. During the Satsuma Rebellion in 1877, the Satsuma Army located its headquarters here, owing to its elevation overlooking Kumamoto Castle.
The current shrine pavilion was rebuilt in 1933, but a large 1,000-year-old camphor tree towers over the approach, testifying to its long history. It is called MEOTO-KUSU, meaning ""married couple camphor tree"". Legend has it that if you pass through this tree, you will receive blessings, especially to ward off evil and bring good luck, matchmaking and marital bliss.
Source: Kumamoto City

WENEN (ANP) - De Vlaamse omroep VRT wil dat de omroepen die zijn aangesloten bij de European Broadcasting Union (EBU) gaan stemmen over welke landen mogen meedoen aan het Eurovisie Songfestival. Ook wil de Vlaamse zender een duidelijke stellingname tegen oorlog en geweld. Als dat niet gebeurt, stuurt België volgend jaar geen kandidaat.

"Vandaag is de kans klein dat VRT volgend jaar een artiest afvaardigt", zegt een woordvoerster van de VRT op de site van de omroep. "We verwachten van de EBU een krachtig signaal tegen oorlog en geweld en voor respect voor de mensenrechten. Dat zijn de waarden die het festival moeten verbinden, en vandaag raken die te veel ondergesneeuwd." De omroep ziet "geen enkel teken" dat de EBU de bezorgdheid van de VRT serieus neemt.

Nederland doet dit jaar niet mee, omdat Israël wel meedoet. Het was al bekend dat de VRT op één lijn met Nederland ligt. In december had de omroep gezegd dat de EBU "de ogen weigert te openen voor het aanhoudende menselijke leed in Gaza".

Het ene jaar stuurt de VRT voor België een inzending, het andere jaar de Franstalige RTBF. Die omroep heeft besloten dit jaar wel een deelnemer af te vaardigen.

ROME (ANP) - Tennisster Elina Svitolina heeft het masterstoernooi van Rome op haar naam geschreven. De 31-jarige Oekraïense versloeg de als derde geplaatste Amerikaanse Coco Gauff in de finale. In de Italiaanse hoofdstad werd het 6-4 6-7 (3) 6-2 voor Svitolina.

Svitolina won het toernooi in Rome eerder al in 2017 en 2018. In Rome stond ze in haar derde WTA-finale van dit jaar.