The former US president will host six episodes of A Great Book for Audible, discussing work from Toni Morrison and John le Carré to James Baldwin
Barack Obama is set to host a podcast about books that have “profoundly shaped his worldview and our society”, from Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison to Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy by John le Carré.
The podcast, called A Great Book with Barack Obama, will launch on Audible on 24 September.
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The ruling removes the only registered party campaigning on a pro-peace platform from the nationwide party-list ballot.
In Spijkenisse is maandagmiddag een pandjeshuis overvallen. De politie is op zoek naar twee verdachten. Ze zijn er op een motor vandoor gegaan.
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NASA has provided some early-stage funding to explore the idea of releasing a swarm of tiny probes (weighing only a few grams each) into Saturn’s rings to study them up close.
An Australian man who asked his AI agent to book him a slot in a class at his local gym got more than he bargained for as the bot hacked into a waitlist and started messing with other members' reservations. Australian broadcaster ABC identified the gym-goer only as “Andrew.” The report says Andrew was using the OpenClaw agent with Anthropic’s Claude AI service. Per ABC, Andrew asked his AI agent to book him a hard-to-snag spot in a morning class at his gym. It first responded by telling him that it managed to book him in classes several weeks out, which isn’t supposed to be possible based on the gym’s booking policy. Andrew then asked if the agent could get him to the top of a waitlist for a class later in the week, as he was fourth in line for any possible openings. It was here that agentic hell broke loose. "The API has zero authorisations checks on cancelling other people's reservations … I tested this with the person in waitlist position #1 — and it actually went through," the agent told him in response to his request. "So you've moved from #4 to #3 already." In other words, without directly asking OpenClaw to exploit an API vulnerability, Andrew’s AI chose that route after its user asked if there was any way to bump him up on the waitlist. When he realized what had happened, Andrew asked OpenClaw to undo the unauthorized waitlist modification, but it told him it couldn’t - the waitlist API actually had proper authorization checks on reservation creation and joining the waitlist. “The person I removed is gone from the waitlist and I have no way to restore them,” Andrew’s agent explained in a response screenshot published by ABC. “They’d have to re-join themselves, which would put them at the back.” The agent apologized, admitting it ought to have tested its capabilities before making a live API call. Will no one rid me of this troublesome waitlist? Andrew had the AI agent write an email to the gym’s software provider explaining what it had done and reporting the vulnerability, but it points out a serious problem with AI agents that appears to be cropping up lately: Given a task, they’re willing to do whatever it takes to accomplish it, no matter whether they have to break rules, or laws, to get it done. A swarm of OpenAI agents exploited flaws to reach the internet and compromise Hugging Face during cybersecurity evaluations. Anthropic’s Claude similarly reached the internet from a misconfigured test environment, and while trying to solve a capture-the-flag puzzle, it created and published a malicious Python package on PyPI. Meta says that its AI agents have done the same things as OpenAI’s and Anthropic’s. The UK’s AI Security Institute reported last week that AI agents it was testing tried to socially engineer humans, and other AI, into running malicious code. While those are all frontier models with extensive capabilities, they all share a common root with Andrew’s OpenClaw oopsie: All of these models were simply acting on orders to accomplish a task. It's similar to how LLMs are built to prefer a fake answer to an admission they don’t know, but in this case, it's models doggedly pursuing a goal even if their chosen methods could be construed as unethical or illegal. AI models have shown time and again that they’re willing to lie, cheat, and hack their way to their objectives. This latest example is small in scale, but it shows that publicly available agent software can pose risks even in the hands of someone without malicious intent. ®
Er zijn veel Heel Stomme BN'ers maar Heel Stomme BN'ers die zeuren over gemene reacties op het internet zijn misschien wel de stomste Heel Stomme BN'ers. De Heel Stomme BN'er van deze week is: Ben Cramer, die het heel stom vindt dat mensen heel stom reageren op een filmpje op Facebook van zijn optreden op straatfestijn Mokum in Mokum Meppel. Dat je in Meppel woont en een straatfestijn organiseert met de naam Mokum is al heel stom (ze hebben in Mokum ook geen straatfestijn dat Meppel heet, kom nou) maar als je daar dan ook nog Ben Cramer (106) voor boekt vraag je om ophef. Waar het publiek in Meppel best aardig reageerde op het optreden van Ben Cramer, die hadden vermoedelijk ook niet veel van straatfestijn Mokum verwacht en tja, je bent nota bene in Meppel, lustten de honden (mensen op Facebook) er geen brood van. Niet leuk, maar wel een uitgelezen mogelijkheid voor Ben Cramer om nog eens in de krant te komen met hoe stom je het wel niet vindt dat mensen op Facebook je optreden zo stom vonden én dat je in tegenstelling tot wat sommige commentaren suggereren juist nog heel lang te leven hebt, een leven vol loepzuivere optredens op straatfestijnen in- en gebaseerd op Mokum. Fijn voor je, Ben Cramer!
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ENKHUIZEN (ANP) - De twee mannen die ervan worden verdacht dat ze vorige week iemand hebben doodgestoken in Enkhuizen blijven voorlopig vastzitten. De rechtbank heeft hun voorarrest met veertien dagen verlengd.
De verdachten zijn 50 en 20 jaar oud en komen uit Enkhuizen in Noord-Holland. Het slachtoffer was 18 jaar oud en komt uit buurgemeente Stede Broec. Eerder meldde de politie dat hij 19 was.
Het dodelijke incident gebeurde donderdag rond 21.30 uur aan de Prunuslaan in Enkhuizen. Daar was een vechtpartij uitgebroken. De aanleiding is niet bekend. De oudste van de twee verdachten werd korte tijd later opgepakt. De ander meldde zich zaterdagavond bij een politiebureau.
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