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SEOUL (ANP) - De Zuid-Koreaanse president Lee Jae-myung kiest geen partij in het onlangs gerezen diplomatieke conflict tussen China en Japan. Dat zei Lee woensdag tijdens zijn persconferentie ter gelegenheid van de herdenking van de staat van beleg op 3 december in Zuid-Korea. Exact een jaar geleden riep Lee's voorganger, de inmiddels afgezette Yoon Suk-yeol, die af.
China en Japan hebben hun grootste diplomatieke conflict in jaren, dat begon met de suggestie van de Japanse premier Sanae Takaichi dat een Chinese aanval op Taiwan een militaire reactie van Japan kan uitlokken.
Lee zei ook dat hij zal helpen de basis te leggen voor een dialoog tussen Noord-Korea en de Verenigde Staten. Zo zou hij overwegen de kwestie van gezamenlijke militaire oefeningen tussen Zuid-Korea en de VS te "onderzoeken". Die oefeningen zijn Noord-Korea al jaren een doorn in het oog.
Lee zei dat hij eigenlijk Noord-Korea excuses zou moeten aanbieden voor het bevel van zijn voorganger om drones en propagandafolders de grens over te sturen. "Maar ik aarzel om dat hardop te zeggen, want dan word ik ervan beschuldigd pro-Noord-Korea te zijn."
Zuid- en Noord-Korea staan al meer dan zeventig jaar met elkaar op voet van oorlog. De Koreaanse Oorlog eindigde in 1953 met een wapenstilstand. Vrede is er sindsdien formeel nooit geweest.
BRUSSEL (ANP) - De Europese Raad heeft woensdag een akkoord bereikt met het Europees Parlement over de geleidelijke afschaffing van de Russische gasimport tegen 2027. Het akkoord past in breder Europees beleid om de afhankelijkheid van Russische energie te beëindigen.
De overeenkomst omvat een juridisch bindend, stapsgewijs verbod op de import van vloeibaar aardgas (LNG) en gas via pijpleidingen uit Rusland, met een volledig verbod vanaf respectievelijk eind 2026 en najaar 2027.
In oktober was Rusland goed voor 12 procent van de gasimport in de EU. Voor de Russische invasie van Oekraïne in 2022 was dit nog 45 procent. Hongarije, Frankrijk en België behoren tot de landen die nog steeds Russisch gas ontvangen.
WASHINGTON (ANP) - Verschillende Republikeinen en Democraten in het Amerikaanse Congres willen voorkomen dat hun regering een aanval op Venezolaans grondgebied uitvoert. De parlementariërs zeiden dinsdag (lokale tijd) dat ze daartoe resoluties zullen indienen die president Donald Trump verbieden om zonder parlementaire goedkeuring een aanval te bevelen.
"Ongeautoriseerde militaire actie tegen Venezuela zou een kolossale fout zijn", aldus de Democratische senatoren Tim Kaine en Chuck Schumer en de Republikeinse senator Rand Paul in een gezamenlijke verklaring. Het drietal wil bij een eventuele aanval een stemming in het Congres afdwingen die "de inzet van Amerikaanse troepen tegen of binnen Venezuela zou blokkeren".
Drie leden in het Huis van Afgevaardigden, eveneens van beide partijen, zeggen een resolutie in te dienen die nog verder gaat: "Wij willen de regering-Trump verbieden om vijandelijkheden binnen of tegen Venezuela te plegen zonder toestemming van het Congres", aldus het drietal.
A Waymo robotaxi struck a small unleashed dog in San Francisco -- just weeks after another Waymo killed a beloved neighborhood cat. The dog's condition is unknown. The Los Angeles Times reports: The incident occurred near the intersection of Scott and Eddy streets and drew a small crowd, according to social media posts. A person claiming to be one of the passengers posted about the accident on Reddit. "Our Waymo just ran over a dog," the passenger wrote. "Kids saw the whole thing." The passenger described the dog as between 20 and 30 pounds and wrote that their family was traveling back home after a holiday tree lighting event. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has recorded Waymo taxis as being involved in at least 14 animal collisions since 2021.
"Unfortunately, a Waymo vehicle made contact with a small, unleashed dog in the roadway," a company spokesperson said. "We are dedicated to learning from this situation and how we show up for our community as we continue improving road safety in the cities we serve." The spokesperson added that Waymo vehicles have a much lower rate of injury-causing collisions than human drivers. Human drivers run into millions of animals while driving each year.
"I'm not sure a human driver would have avoided the dog either, though I do know that a human would have responded differently to a 'bump' followed by a car full of screaming people," the Waymo passenger wrote on Reddit. One person who commented on the discussion said that Waymo vehicles should be held to a higher standard than human drivers, because the autonomous taxis are supposed to improve road safety. "The whole point of this is because Waymo isn't supposed to make those mistakes," the person wrote on Reddit.
"Unfortunately, a Waymo vehicle made contact with a small, unleashed dog in the roadway," a company spokesperson said. "We are dedicated to learning from this situation and how we show up for our community as we continue improving road safety in the cities we serve." The spokesperson added that Waymo vehicles have a much lower rate of injury-causing collisions than human drivers. Human drivers run into millions of animals while driving each year.
"I'm not sure a human driver would have avoided the dog either, though I do know that a human would have responded differently to a 'bump' followed by a car full of screaming people," the Waymo passenger wrote on Reddit. One person who commented on the discussion said that Waymo vehicles should be held to a higher standard than human drivers, because the autonomous taxis are supposed to improve road safety. "The whole point of this is because Waymo isn't supposed to make those mistakes," the person wrote on Reddit.
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During last month's KubeCon North America in Atlanta, Kubernetes maintainers announced the upcoming retirement of Ingress NGINX. "Best-effort maintenance will continue until March 2026," noted the Kubernetes SIG Network and the Security Response Committee. "Afterward, there will be no further releases, no bugfixes, and no updates to resolve any security vulnerabilities that may be discovered." In a recent op-ed for The Register, Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols reflects on the decision and speculates about what might have prevented this outcome: Ingress NGINX, for those who don't know it, is an ingress controller in Kubernetes clusters that manages and routes external HTTP and HTTPS traffic to the cluster's internal services based on configurable Ingress rules. It acts as a reverse proxy, ensuring that requests from clients outside the cluster are forwarded to the correct backend services within the cluster according to path, domain, and TLS configuration. As such, it's vital for network traffic management and load balancing. You know, the important stuff.
Now this longstanding project, once celebrated for its flexibility and breadth of features, will soon be "abandonware." So what? After all, it won't be the first time a once-popular program shuffled off the stage. Off the top of my head, dBase, Lotus 1-2-3, and VisiCalc spring to my mind. What's different is that there are still thousands of Ingress NGINX controllers in use. Why is it being put down, then, if it's so popular? Well, there is a good reason. As Tabitha Sable, a staff engineer at Datadog who is also co-chair of the Kubernetes special interest group for security, pointed out: "Ingress NGINX has always struggled with insufficient or barely sufficient maintainership. For years, the project has had only one or two people doing development work, on their own time, after work hours, and on weekends. Last year, the Ingress NGINX maintainers announced their plans to wind down Ingress NGINX and develop a replacement controller together with the Gateway API community. Unfortunately, even that announcement failed to generate additional interest in helping maintain Ingress NGINX or develop InGate to replace it." [...]
The final nail in the coffin was when security company Wix found a killer Ingress NGINX security hole. How bad was it? Wix declared: "Exploiting this flaw allows an attacker to execute arbitrary code and access all cluster secrets across namespaces, which could lead to complete cluster takeover." [...] You see, the real problem isn't that Ingress NGINX has a major security problem. Heck, hardly a month goes by without another stop-the-presses Windows bug being uncovered. No, the real issue is that here we have yet another example of a mission-critical open source program no one pays to support...
Now this longstanding project, once celebrated for its flexibility and breadth of features, will soon be "abandonware." So what? After all, it won't be the first time a once-popular program shuffled off the stage. Off the top of my head, dBase, Lotus 1-2-3, and VisiCalc spring to my mind. What's different is that there are still thousands of Ingress NGINX controllers in use. Why is it being put down, then, if it's so popular? Well, there is a good reason. As Tabitha Sable, a staff engineer at Datadog who is also co-chair of the Kubernetes special interest group for security, pointed out: "Ingress NGINX has always struggled with insufficient or barely sufficient maintainership. For years, the project has had only one or two people doing development work, on their own time, after work hours, and on weekends. Last year, the Ingress NGINX maintainers announced their plans to wind down Ingress NGINX and develop a replacement controller together with the Gateway API community. Unfortunately, even that announcement failed to generate additional interest in helping maintain Ingress NGINX or develop InGate to replace it." [...]
The final nail in the coffin was when security company Wix found a killer Ingress NGINX security hole. How bad was it? Wix declared: "Exploiting this flaw allows an attacker to execute arbitrary code and access all cluster secrets across namespaces, which could lead to complete cluster takeover." [...] You see, the real problem isn't that Ingress NGINX has a major security problem. Heck, hardly a month goes by without another stop-the-presses Windows bug being uncovered. No, the real issue is that here we have yet another example of a mission-critical open source program no one pays to support...
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Extra infosec investments are taxiing towards the runway
India’s Civil Aviation Minister has revealed that local authorities have detected GPS spoofing and jamming at eight major airports.…
*Leiss has added a photo to the pool:
宝筐院 (=Hokyo-in Temple), Kyoto...
Taken w/ Heliar 40mm F2.8 Asph VM on ME220.
*Leiss has added a photo to the pool:
宝筐院 (=Hokyo-in Temple), Kyoto...
Taken w/ Heliar 40mm F2.8 Asph VM on ME220.
Peligroso Love nace de la necesidad de transformar las emociones intensas en un lenguaje visual accesible, lúdico y honesto. A través de una estética retro?cartoon y personajes cargados de humor, exploro la dualidad entre el amor, el riesgo y la vulnerabilidad. Mi intención es crear un universo donde la ternura convive con el caos emocional, donde las señales de advertencia se convierten en metáforas y donde lo sentimental se cuenta desde la ironía. Cada pieza busca capturar esa experiencia humana tan común como compleja: amar, herirse un poco y seguir adelante con una sonrisa torcida. Este proyecto es, ante todo, una forma de procesar lo emocional desde lo gráfico; un espacio donde la nostalgia, el humor y la exageración se encuentran para contar historias simples pero cargadas de significado.