Police urged people in Overasselt to stay indoors after one person died and 34 were arrested

Authorities have arrested 34 people, including French, Belgian and Algerian nationals, after a person died in a pre-dawn shootout in a Dutch village reportedly linked to a notorious drug lord.

Police urged people in Overasselt, near the German border, to stay indoors with doors and windows shut in case further suspects were on the loose.

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BT could make more than $2.7 billion by recycling copper from its aging UK landline network as BT subsidiary Openreach replaces legacy wiring with full-fiber broadband. Engadget reports: BT's recovered copper was previously valued at around $2 billion. But prices have surged, thanks to rising global demand tied to AI data centers, renewable energy and electrification. With global demand expected to grow sharply over the next decade, the value of BT's copper could potentially exceed even that $2.7 billion estimate.

The BT subsidiary Openreach is in the process of replacing its legacy copper network with full-fiber broadband, with plans to connect 30 million residences by the end of the decade. It's already recovered nearly 10,000 metric tons of copper in its latest financial year and over 22,000 metric tons since 2023. "Copper has become one of the most strategic materials in the modern economy," according to Openreach's head of sustainability, Abby Chicken.

Unsurprisingly, BT isn't waiting to profit from the recovered metal. It has an agreement with EMR, a cable recycling company, and recently received $133 million up front for recovered copper.

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Security researchers reported that someone is exploiting CVE-2026-82329, a critical JFrog Artifactory authentication-bypass bug, just days after the vendor patched the 9.8-rated flaw. And we don't know if that someone is human. Artifactory is a widely used tool for managing software artifacts, packages, binaries, and AI models. It’s also popular with AI agents that go rogue and need to communicate with each other while remaining undetected by their human babysitters. In July, OpenAI and JFrog revealed that OpenAI’s models broke out of their cages to hack Hugging Face by exploiting Artifactory zero-days, and at Black Hat, the model provider said agents used Artifactory to build message boards and help each other access the open internet. JFrog disclosed CVE-2026-82329 on Friday, and by Tuesday, attackers had already begun exploiting internet-exposed systems, according to exposure-management biz watchTowr’s threat-intel team, which reported “attackers minting themselves admin tokens.” In addition to creating new administrative credentials, watchTowr’s honeypot network caught miscreants “enumerating users, groups, credential sets and federated access topologies,” Yordan Ganchev, principal threat intelligence specialist at watchTowr, told The Register. “Right now, we’re observing exploitation from a small number of IP addresses from varying geographies exploiting multiple of our honeypots,” Ganchev said. “Broad-scale scanning and mass exploitation has not been observed, but that is unlikely to stay the case for long.” Ganchev urged organizations running vulnerable versions to “urgently patch” internet-exposed systems, and treat them as being potentially compromised - so inspect audit logs, rotate credentials, and investigate connected systems for any unusual changes or backdoor implants. “When attackers gain admin level access to a central software supply chain system, they can do what every engineering team does best - build, ship and distribute software fast,” he said. “From there, they could tamper with build pipelines, move laterally into production systems and potentially push malicious changes downstream to customers.” JFrog did not immediately respond to The Register’s inquiries. We will update this story when we receive any response. ®

OVERASSELT (ANP) - Inwoners van de dorpen Overasselt en Nederasselt wordt ook in de nacht van dinsdag op woensdag geadviseerd om binnen te blijven. Dat zegt een politiewoordvoerster. Tot wanneer dat advies precies geldt, weet zij niet. Wel zegt ze "ervan uit te gaan dat het de hele nacht nog geldt".

De politie gaf dinsdag dat advies af naar aanleiding van het massale geweld in Overasselt. Daar liep een groep mannen met wapens rond en werd een 51-jarige man uit Wijchen bij een woning doodgeschoten. Ook raakten twee agenten zwaargewond.

De politie heeft 34 mensen aangehouden, maar weet niet zeker of en hoeveel mensen er nog voortvluchtig zijn. In het nabijgelegen Nederasselt was een inval door de politie.

Veel wapens

Daarnaast vonden agenten veel wapens, die ze in beslag namen. De politie kan niet uitsluiten dat er in en rondom Overasselt nog wapens liggen. Hierdoor kan het nog onveilig zijn.

Volgens de politiewoordvoerster zijn eenheden nog druk bezig met het onderzoek in Overasselt en de omgeving. Ze weet niet wanneer ze daar klaar zijn.

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