Die gehackte koelingen he, zijn dat 'losstaande incidenten of is het onderdeel van een grotere sabotagecampagne vanuit Rusland'? (Volkskrant). En die gehackte koelingen, is dat het werk van Rusland, zoals 'deskundigen' beweren? (Nu.nl). En die gehackte koelingen, zou dat volgens al die Oekraïense experts niet gewoon RUSLAND kunnen zijn? (NRC). Die gehackte koelingen, dat is toch voor 95% zeker het werk van Rusland? (DPG Media). Die koelingen, dat is toch gewoon het werk van 'Russische groepen'? (AD) 

Oh nee wacht misschien toch niet: volgens Franse inlichtingendiensten en het Franse ministerie van Buitenlandse Zaken zit IRAN achter de voorverwarmde diepvriespizza's. Geen Rusland, maar ook erg! Er zijn IP-adressen gebruikt die zijn gekoppeld aan apparaten in Iran en er is gebruikgemaakt van de taal Farsi. De 'cyberaanval' op de koelingen zou gepleegd zijn door de Shahid Kaveh-eenheid, de nerds van de Revolutionaire Garde. De Franse minister van Buitenlandse Zaken: "Ik kan bevestigen dat de aanval is uitgevoerd door de Revolutionaire Garde van de Islamitische Republiek Iran. (...) Het betreft de eerste grootschalige cyberaanval die gericht is op sabotage op ons nationaal grondgebied, en het vormt een zware aanslag op de belangen van de natie en de veiligheid van het Franse volk."

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DEN HAAG (ANP) - De impact van de staking op de dienstverlening van de ANWB op maandag is "zeer beperkt" gebleven. Dat meldt de ANWB in een update. Eerder op de dag zei de wegenwacht ook al dat automobilisten met pech weinig last hadden van de staking en dat de wachttijden niet zijn opgelopen. "Het gaat als een gewone maandag in november", zegt een woordvoerster van de ANWB.

Medewerkers van de ANWB legden het werk neer vanwege vastgelopen cao-onderhandelingen. Eerder werd al aangegeven dat er genoeg medewerkers aan het werk zijn om iedereen te kunnen helpen. De vakbonden moesten van de rechter ervoor zorgen dat genoeg mensen werkten om automobilisten met pech in gevaarlijke situaties te helpen, zoals mensen die langs de snelweg zijn gestrand.

De vakbonden voeren al langer actie bij de ANWB, omdat de partijen het niet eens kunnen worden over een nieuwe cao.

Pitchfork drops the The 100 Best Indie Rock Albums of All Time.

"Let me now introduce you to Larson's Law of Lists: The first reaction to any list is to point out what is not on it. You will scan this list, and your primary impulse will be to think of an album that's not here. This is good; embrace this. It is human nature. It is especially good for this list, because what is not here is also what shapes our definition of indie rock." Another entry in an endless fount of rage-bait list-making that is nonetheless buttressed by a pretty interesting conversation from the folks who legitimately were in the scene (including Gerard Cosloy, who races in to claim the Gen-X crown that the entire affair is a lamestain exercise in futility). The rub here is that major label releases are excluded (indie, innit?), along with some pretty arbitrary exclusions (shoegaze, and, seemingly, grunge) to provide plenty of grist for the CTRL+F truthtellers.

Ahmed Moor, a Palestinian American, said he would run in a primary to be the Democratic nominee in 2028

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John Fetterman, the maverick Democratic senator who has provoked widespread anger by increasingly siding with Republicans, is to be challenged for his Pennsylvania seat by a democratic socialist candidate who is originally from Gaza.

Ahmed Moor, a Palestinian American, said he would run in a primary to be the Democratic nominee in 2028, when Fetterman’s seat is up for re-election.

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The AI chip boss’s actions raise urgent questions about corporate influence, national security and the US president’s willingness to listen to intelligence warnings

It could be the plot of a spy thriller. One of the most powerful figures in the AI revolution admitted to having an affair with a Chinese businesswomen said to have passed intelligence to Beijing. When Donald Trump was briefed about the Nvidia co-founder Jensen Huang’s liaisons with Alice Huang, he took no action. Perhaps he thought only marriage vows had been broken. Or perhaps Mr Trump was willing to overlook the conduct of a friend who championed his unpopular datacentre expansion, whose company donated to his White House ballroom and who echoed his opposition to AI safeguards against expert advice.

Nvidia became the cornerstone of AI by supplying brute computing power. As tech giants scrambled for the firm’s graphics processing units (GPUs), Mr Huang sold the picks and shovels for the AI gold rush – and amassed a $160bn fortune. When China joined the race for tech supremacy, Nvidia’s microchips became a national security issue. In October 2022, the US slapped export controls on GPU sales to China. Thirty months later, Nvidia was effectively banned from selling to Beijing. Mr Huang lobbied for looser controls. Such was his sway with Mr Trump that the White House scrapped Biden-era global AI chip restrictions and then permitted sales of Nvidia’s prized H200 processors to Chinese customers.

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Cybercriminals are to blame for the current crisis. But renting out study space will not lead to recovery

It holds two copies of Magna Carta, the charter that set limits on royal power in 1215. It has the sole surviving manuscript of the Anglo-Saxon epic Beowulf and notebooks by some of the most beloved authors in the English language: Jane Austen, William Blake, Virginia Woolf. Also in the British Library’s red-brick London building is the original, illustrated version of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland – given as an early Christmas gift to Alice Liddell in 1864. On handwritten drafts of Wilfred Owen’s tragic poem Dulce et Decorum est, visitors can see suggestions made by his friend Siegfried Sassoon.

But neither display cases filled with treasures such as these nor vast digital archives, basement storage rooms, six cafes and a shop have been sufficient to arm the library against a sea of troubles that first threatened it three years ago, when hackers raided its computers for personal data and demanded a £600,000 ransom. Its long-serving chief executive, Roly Keating, took the decision to step down once the worst of the cyber-attack – one of the most serious in the UK’s history – had been dealt with. His replacement, Rebecca Lawrence, lasted less than a year before resigning in the middle of a strike over pay. Now, a new row has broken out over plans to rent out three of the library’s reading rooms and outsource security.

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Het aantal medewerkers dat psychisch vermoeid is door hun baan is de laatste tien jaar bijna verdubbeld, blijkt uit de Nationale Enquête Arbeidsomstandigheden. Psychische klachten zijn na griep de belangrijkste reden voor verzuim. „Als mensen ziek worden door stressklachten, zijn ze vaak veel langer uit de running dan door een griepje”, zegt TNO-onderzoeker Noortje Wiezer.

De zorgsector laat zich te veel leiden door AI-enthousiasme, ziet jurist Hannah van Kolfschooten. Ook is het voor artsen niet altijd helder hoe ze AI-tools veilig kunnen inzetten. „Het is oneerlijk om van dokters te vragen goede zorg te verlenen en de regels voor AI-gebruik zelf toe te passen.”

Huawei has unveiled the Qingyun HM650, a desktop PC it claims is made entirely from Chinese-manufactured components, including its own 10-core Kirin X90 processor and an enterprise version of HarmonyOS. "While Huawei has reportedly claimed local companies manufactured 100 percent of the components in the machine, it is unclear if all those components use Chinese designs," notes The Register. From the report: A single Chinese government agency has reportedly signed up for 600 of the machines. That's not an indication this machine is a curiosity, because Beijing has ordered all government entities to shift from Wintel boxes to local alternatives. [...] Even if Huawei is using some parts that aren't entirely Chinese, the debut of the Qingyun HM650 is bad news for Intel, AMD, and Qualcomm, as all are suffering as the PC market shrinks due to the rising cost of memory. China's government is an enormous buyer, and losing the chance to bid for its business is unlikely to be helpful.

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