DEN HAAG (ANP) - In aanloop naar de officiële fusie tussen GroenLinks en PvdA dit weekeinde verandert de naam van de fractie in de Tweede Kamer al in Progressief Nederland, kortweg PRO. Een meerderheid van de Kamer steunde dinsdag het voorstel tot naamswijziging van de grootste oppositiepartij.
Het dagelijks bestuur van de Tweede Kamer (presidium) had aangeraden akkoord te gaan met de nieuwe naam, omdat aan alle voorwaarden is voldaan. De linkse partijen vormen sinds eind 2023 samen een fractie in de Tweede Kamer.
De oprichting van Progressief Nederland is zaterdag tijdens een congres in Den Bosch. Dan stemmen leden van de beide partijen over het fusievoorstel. In maart werd de nieuwe partijnaam bekendgemaakt. "Progressief betekent strijden voor een eerlijke en rechtvaardige samenleving", zei partijleider Jesse Klaver toen.
De Groep Markuszower mag de naam van de fractie niet wijzigen in De Nieuwe Alliantie (DNA). Daar was in de Kamer onvoldoende steun voor. Het presidium was ook tegen de naamswijziging.
The president’s new Craposseum is the perfect venue for Vance, Hegseth and others to battle for favour. Fight, fight, fight indeed
On behalf of the US administration, the American embassy in London has published a notice advising the UK government not to ban social media for the under-16s. Thanks, but … we didn’t ask? Or perhaps that’s uncharitable. It’s actually a privilege to take child protection lectures from a country where the leading cause of death in children and adolescents is gunshot wounds. Are we allowed to suggest a surprisingly obvious way to help with that grimly perennial problem – or is international advice just a one-way street?
Either way, lectures from Donald Trump’s administration have not been in short supply in recent days, with the US defence secretary deciding that a D-day commemoration address was a seemly moment to dump all over Europe. It’s always painful to be reminded of Pete Hegseth, with his fundamentalist “body art” and Mr Whippy hair – primarily because it dilutes the purity of one’s loathing for JD Vance. (Who, it won’t have escaped you, was also on the international lecture circuit last week.) But standing at the podium in Normandy, Hegseth had just phoned in some stuff about how wars are won, when he got to the needle-scratch subject-change you sensed he’d made the transatlantic journey for. “Sadly,” began this here-it-comes moment, “today, different European beaches are stormed by different, dangerous ideologies. Beaches in Spain, Italy, Greece and Bulgaria, boats and men arrive.”
Donald Trump arrived at the Knicks’ biggest night in 27 years hoping to cement his status and power in his hometown. But the fans had other ideas
On Monday night, the most powerful man in the world crashed a citywide celebration 27 years in the making and almost shut it down, with barricades around Midtown Manhattan, security lines outside Madison Square Garden and agents wanding Victor Wembanyama as if the San Antonio Spurs phenom were a threat off the court as well as on it. And when Donald Trump finally arrived for his grand entrance, it was in a half-mile-long motorcade. Anyone taking in the scene couldn’t help but ask the quintessential New York question: who does this guy think he is, some kind of big shot?
At this point in Trump’s presidency, it’s fair to wonder if he got into politics for the free tickets. On a night when he could’ve been dealing with far more pressing issues – soaring living costs, war with Iran, a global economy under strain – Trump flew to New York expressly to watch the Knicks play host to their first NBA finals game since he started making noises about running for office someday; he evidently couldn’t turn down the game after being invited by “numerous people.”
Fifa has found its tournament squarely caught up in the second Trump administration’s aggressive border restrictions
For successive men’s World Cup tournaments Fifa has managed to bulldoze its way through costly immigration and entry requirements. In 2014, Brazil passed a law granting free temporary visas to ticket holders, and for Russia and Qatar, the respective autocracies bypassed traditional border friction using Fan IDs and Hayya cards as makeshift visa entry documents that also provided free public transport. Not so in 2026, where Fifa has found its tournament squarely caught up in the second Trump administration’s aggressive border restrictions. Here are some of the people that have been affected.
Researchers say mysterious, seconds-long GPS interference bursts detected across Europe appear to come from Russian EKS early-warning satellites, making this "a rare example of human-made GPS interference coming from space," reports Ars Technica. The signals may be tests of space-based jamming capability, short satellite communications, or something else, but experts say they raise troubling questions about whether GPS disruption could eventually be weaponized on a continental scale. From the report: The discovery came from an investigation detailed in a June 2 preprint paper by Todd Humphreys and his student Zach Clements at The University of Texas at Austin, along with Argyris Krizise at Stanford University in California. By sifting through public data from ground-based stations with global navigation satellite system (GNSS) receivers, they identified a pattern of high-powered interference lasting less than 10 seconds each time but simultaneously detectable by ground stations across Europe from Norway to Spain to Poland, and even reaching as far west as Greenland and Canada.
By analyzing the ground station data from January 2019 to April 2026, the researchers found 75 days with at least one widespread GNSS interference event overlapping with the GPS L1 frequency band centered on 1575.42 megahertz. That represents the main band used for signal transmission by the US-made GPS satellite constellation and GNSS constellations from other countries. Such interference patterns happened mostly on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays during business hours in Europe, Humphreys told the YouTube channel Veritasium. Because such "continental-scale" interference was simultaneously affecting GPS receivers across Europe and beyond, Humphreys and his colleagues calculated that the source had to be at least 1,200 kilometers above the Earth.
[...] In the Veritasium video, Humphreys speculated that the Russians may have been testing the satellites' GPS interference capabilities only briefly on a neighboring frequency adjacent to the typical GPS band. "And then in the eventual future when there is a hot conflict, they go ahead and tune their transmitter down to the GPS band, but it's much more damaging now that it lies right on that band," he said. Incidentally, the raw data also revealed a second interference burst from the Russian satellites in a lower-frequency band used by China's BeiDou navigation system. "I can no longer say this is accidental with confidence," Humphreys told Veritasium. He also described the Russian satellites' quiet demonstration as a "massive escalation in the electronic warfare background conflict that is going on right now." Richard Bowden, division head of assured and resilient PNT at the multinational technology company GMV in Spain, wrote in a LinkedIn comment: "These signals are, without a doubt, intentional and placed on or around GNSS signals, and have the potential to disrupt legitimate use of GNSS services. But from our side at least, we can't be sure they are intentionally malicious or intended as an EW [electronic warfare] weapon."
Donald Trump had gehoopt dat het WK voetbal zijn land weer eens positief in het nieuws zou komen. Maar met het weigeren van een Somalische scheidsrechter en van Iraanse fans staan de Verenigde Staten er internationaal niet zo best op. Hoe doe je dat eigenlijk, als alleenheerser een groot internationaal sportevenement aangrijpen om positieve aandacht voor je regime te genereren? Wij vroegen ervaringsdeskundige Adolf Hitler hoe je zoiets aanpakt.
In 1936 organiseerde Duitsland de Olympische Spelen. Waarom vond je het destijds belangrijk om dat evenement te organiseren?
“Ik vond het een uitgelezen kans om Duitsland weer eens positief in het nieuws te krijgen. Als het om mijn regime ging, dachten mensen in die tijd vooral aan boekverbrandingen, concentratiekampen en wapengekletter. Met die Olympische Spelen konden we eindelijk weer eens positief in het nieuws komen. We hebben het toen strak in beeld gebracht met Leni (red. Riefenstahl) en dat heeft de beeldvorming veel goed gedaan.”
Was dat lastig? Als je jarenlang hebt opgehitst tegen bevolkingsgroepen moet het toch lastig zijn om je knokploegen te vragen om zich in te houden.
“Natuurlijk komen er allemaal mensen op zo’n evenement af die je liever niet in je blanke etnostaat wil hebben, maar als je die Untermenschen niet in je stadions wilt hebben, moet je geen WK organiseren. En die knokploegen – ik spreek zelf liever van ‘uitvoerende instanties’ – doen maar gewoon wat ik zeg. Anders ben je als geboren leider geen knip voor je neus waard.”
Wat zou je Trump adviseren?
“Trump moet maar gewoon even door de zure appel heen bijten. Als hij echt geen zin heeft om handen te schudden met zo’n Somalische scheidsrechter moet hij maar gewoon doen alsof hij in slaap is gevallen. Als de media weer weg zijn, kun je rustig verder gaan met je plannen. Toen in 1936 die halve apen over de atletiekbaan renden, zat ik met mijn gedachtes al halverwege Stalingrad.
Het is gewoon een kwestie van lange en korte termijn. Ik heb de indruk dat Trump dat Trump heel erg bezig is met zijn legacy, om dat woord maar eens te gebruiken, maar dat hij niet verder denkt dan vijf minuten. Voor een Duizendjarig Rijk heb je echt een langere aandachtsspanne nodig.”
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos believes that artificial intelligence is going to lead to unprecedented productivity gains which could result in cheaper food, housing, and two income households deciding that they no longer need two incomes. Internally, Amazon employees mock the company’s AI tools, refer to its output as “slop,” and joke about the company’s failed attempt to motivate employees to use AI tools effectively.
The memes are yet another example of the contrast between what AI companies say in public about its potential power and benefit versus the reality of how the people who help create these AI tools use and criticize them internally. Amazon employees told me about these memes after they saw my story last week about Google employees also internally sharing memes critical of Google’s AI tools.
“Now I have everything I need,” says the text over an image of a jet taking off in one meme posted by an Amazon employee. The jet is edited to carry the purple ghost logo for Kiro, Amazon’s AI-powered coding tool. “Narrator: He did not have everything he needed,” says the text over an image of a bunch of people left behind on the tarmac. I've recreated all the memes rather than share screenshots from the Slack channel in order to protect sources.
“Kiro: ‘Confirmed I have the full picture,’” says the text over an image of an iceberg that appears small above water but is hiding a huge mass underwater in another meme posted by an Amazon employee.
One meme just showed Kiro’s logo, as well as an image of a bee and a lion implying that Kiro be lyin’.
Another meme just shows Cillian Murphy’s face as Robert Oppenheimer in the movie Oppenheimer, surrounded by logos of AI coding tools like Amazon’s Kiro, Anthropic’s Claude Code, and an AI agent called Meshclaw. The text on the image simply reads “Sloppenheimer.” The meme apparently refers to the fact that Amazon employees have been encouraged to use all of these tools at some point.
For this story, I talked to multiple Amazon employees who asked to remain anonymous because they were not authorized to speak to the press. They said that this discussion is mostly taking place on a company Slack channel called #actual-aws-memes. While most of the memes I saw were critical of AI, one Amazon employee told me that there’s a “spectrum” of opinions shared in the channel.
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“Actual-aws-memes is a place to blow off steam so it skews negative, but I'd say the genres of most are ‘Oh boy, we get to use Claude Code now instead of Kiro,’ ‘Earnest Kiro user complaining about its limitations,’ and some genuine frustration with corporate policy,” The Amazon employee told me. “I'm an AI hater, so I prefer to think they agree with me, but there's more of a spectrum than that.”
Another Amazon employee told me that the anti-AI memes started around the end of 2024 and the start of 2025, “when [AI] adoption started to get really forced by leadership.”
"I think people meme about anything they're around a lot, and obviously AI is a common topic," Another Amazon employee told me. "Of course it doesn't help that leadership is definitely pushing AI so there's probably some element of backlash."
A few of the recent memes shared in the channel directly reference the fact that Amazon had just shut down an internal leaderboard which tracked how much Amazon employees were using Kiro. In an official internal statement and in comment to 404 Media, Amazon said it had shut down the leaderboard because it had achieved its goal of motivating and teaching people to use AI tools. However, Amazon employees told 404 Media that management decided to shut down the leaderboard because people were cheating by tasking Kiro with completing unnecessary tasks and because it was resulting in wasteful, expensive AI use.
“When they shut down the leaderboard, there was a lot of [discussion in the slack channel] ‘Well, yeah, what did you think was going to happen when you incentivized people to drive up usage,’” the Amazon employee told me.
One Amazon employee shared an image of the “stonks” going down meme and said “AI usage after the PTI incentives goes away.”
One Amazon employee shared a fake certificate for a “participation award” to AWS and Goodhart’s Law for “cheesing a leaderboard we probably should have known you would cheese.” Goodhart’s law is the adage that “when a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure,” which is what some Amazon employees thought was the effect of the leaderboard. Amazon measured and rewarded AI use, so employees used a lot of AI, but not in a way that produced any value.
Another meme referencing the leaderboard and several Amazon AI products like Ask Rufus, Amazon Q, and Amazon Nova asked “What do you mean by ‘value?’ AI itself is the purpose for everything, no?”
One Amazon employee told me that he saw Amazon employees in the chat discussing how to cheat the leaderboard.
“I saw some of that, mostly the occasional ‘you know, it'd be really easy to set up a shell script to do this’ or ‘my cron job that calls Kiro every hour or so.’ Hard to tell if it was actual planning or just engineers noticing how easy it would be to cheat the system,” another Amazon employee told me.
In an email, Amazon told me that the negative AI comments on Slack are just from a few individuals and don't represent the perspective of the company or the vast majority of employees.
"We’re always looking to understand our teams’ experiences with various tools – that’s how we learn what works for them and what doesn’t – and while this handful of comments doesn't reflect what we hear from most Kiro users, we still appreciate the chance to learn from the feedback," Amazon said. "In general, we’re seeing incredible improvements in efficiency and delivery from Kiro, which more than 80% of our software developers use. Kiro offers differentiated capabilities that other tools don't provide, particularly in spec-driven development and property-based testing. These aren't just incremental improvements—they represent a fundamentally different approach to AI-assisted development that prioritizes production readiness and correctness.”
Research by AppSec biz Checkmarx finds that 70 percent of developers believe AI-generated code has more vulnerabilities, and 30 percent knowingly ship vulnerable code into production. The report is based on responses from 2,350 global developers, CISOs, and AppSec managers, and follows similar annual surveys since 2023. The number of respondents is 54 percent higher this year than last, and the increased sample size may account for a somewhat surprising statistic: the reported proportion of AI-generated production code has slightly declined, from 54 percent to 49 percent, though this is still a high figure. Production applications are also built on an open source foundation, according to the report, accounting for 59 percent of the code. These are self-reported estimates, but a lot of open source code is buried in node_modules or other library locations and it is not always secure, whether because of hard-pressed maintainers struggling to keep up with AI-discovered vulnerabilities, or malicious packages smuggled into popular package repositories such as npm and PyPI. The consequence is that software development is riskier than ever, with issues extending beyond vulnerable code to credential-stealing malware, yet the Checkmarx survey appears to show resignation, with 93 percent of respondents reporting one or more security breaches as a result of vulnerable applications – though last year the figure was 98 percent. Reasons given include pressure to deploy quickly, vulnerabilities being too difficult to fix, and reliance on other controls to pick up the pieces. "Risk is normalized," says Checkmarx in its report. The security of AI-generated code is a hot topic, particularly since, among these respondents, it accounts for around 50 percent of what is written. 70 percent report "significantly more vulnerabilities with AI-generated code," suggesting that AI is even worse than humans when it comes to overlooking security issues. It is a complex situation. AI is trained on existing code, primarily public code, which has its share of vulnerabilities that may then be replicated. The AI wave has also delivered new tools for analyzing and remediating vulnerabilities. A study last year by computer scientists from the University of Central Florida and Birzeit University in Palestine looked at how code security varied between different programming languages (Java, Python, C, and C++) and LLMs, and which vulnerabilities are most prevalent. The findings showed significant variations, with C code tending to have the most security issues, and Python the fewest, though the researchers acknowledge that LLMs are evolving rapidly and that the research is a "time-stamped view." One of the issues is that LLMs "underutilize modern language and compiler features, often favoring outdated practices over more secure alternatives." The likely reason is the prevalence of such practices in the training data. A key question is whether developers can eliminate vulnerabilities using tooling, including old-style static analysis and newer AI-driven options. According to Checkmarx, they could but often do not. "The tools do the work, but organizations lack in translating this into process," the company reports. As Veracode has also reported, AI assistance is driving up the pace of development and security practices cannot keep up. The Checkmarx researchers state: "AI code volume correlates directly with vulnerable code deployment, which correlates directly with breach frequency." Specifically, "organizations where 81-100 percent of code is AI-generated ship vulnerable code at 3.4x the rate of those at 1-20 percent adoption" – a high price to pay for accelerated development. ®
