Lidar and other discoveries continue to show that the Amazon rainforest was home to a “sprawling ancient civilization much bigger than researchers expected” (possibly up to 3 million people around 100-300 CE).
Three outstanding riders in race broke clear of peloton
Padding row intensifies after footage of male inspection
Pauline Ferrand-Prévot’s defence of her Tour de France Femmes title unravelled among the Beaujolais vineyards as the French rider lost even more ground to rivals Demi Vollering, Marlen Reusser and Kasia Niewiadoma.
The three outstanding riders in this year’s race broke clear of the peloton over the final steep gradients of Mont Brouilly, with 2023 Tour winner Vollering outsprinting overall race leader Reusser to take the fourth Tour stage win of her career.
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Albornoz’s ban begins against South Africa on Saturday
Tomás Albornoz, the Argentina fly-half, has been banned for four matches for intimidating the referee after the full-time whistle of England’s controversial victory against the Pumas last month.
Albornoz accepted allegations of misconduct at a disciplinary hearing, and that his behaviour was intimidatory. He will miss Argentina’s Test against South Africa on Saturday as well as their forthcoming double header with Australia and a Toulon fixture.
Continue reading...The rules came into effect shortly after the killing of dozens of protesters, news which was only covered by overseas news
Pakistani authorities have imposed severe new restrictions on international media, including barring them from reporting in most of the country, in a move that has provoked significant backlash from journalist organisations.
According to the new rules anyone, including Pakistani nationals, should seek permission to report from Pakistan except three cities – Islamabad, Karachi and Lahore.
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Geen idee of u de laatste tijd ook geen zin meer hebt in verkansie vanwege al dat nieuws over bosbranden, maar waar je dus (bijna) nooit bosbranden hebt, is de Zuidpool. Vroeger (in 2022) kon je, als je een paar centen overhad, lekker met NRC Handelsblad naar pinguĂŻns gaan kijken op de Zuidpool, in de warme wetenschap dat er een paar geitenwollensokken dragende medewerkers van de webwinkel aan het Rokin helemaal cognitief dissonant aan het worden waren door de gedachte dat Simon Roozendaal misschien wel iets ging zeggen wat wetenschappelijk klopt maar niet aansluit bij het door De Goeden gehanteerde narratief. Maar nu mag dat niet meer, lezen wij althans in dit artikel in NRC over de teloorgang van Zuidpooltoerisme, waarin opvallend genoeg met geen woord over de fameuze NRC Academie Reizen naar de Zuidpool wordt gerept. Jammer. Dan maar weer naar Schiermonnikoog, oh nee wacht.
Een huisarts in Rhoon mag per direct geen patiënten meer behandelen van de inspectie omdat er ernstige zorgen zijn over patiëntveiligheid. De zware maatregel is zeer uitzonderlijk, maar nodig: „De gedragingen van de huisarts hebben geleid tot ernstige benadeling van de gezondheid van personen.”
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AMSTERDAM (ANP) - Belangenorganisatie COC Nederland heeft woensdag een prijs gekregen tijdens de WorldPride in Amsterdam, een internationaal evenement voor lhbtqia'ers. COC ontving een International Pride Award, als "voorvechter van gelijkheid" voor queer personen. De award wordt toegekend door VN-organisatie UNDP en lhbti-organisatie ILGA World.
Het COC, opgericht in 1946, is de oudste lhbti-organisatie ter wereld. De organisatie "versterkt bewegingen in hun strijd tegen criminalisering, geweld en discriminatie", stelt de jury.
Ook vier anderen kregen een award. Onder hen is de Zuid-Afrikaanse onderminister Mmapaseka Steve Letsike, die zich inzet voor de rechten van lhbti'ers in zuidelijk Afrika. Kaapstad is over twee jaar de volgende gaststad van de WorldPride, als eerste stad in Afrika.
Trans-activisten Marcela Dimonty uit Chili en Aggie Dennett Harmon uit Oeganda kregen een prijs omdat ze zich inzetten voor de rechten van trans personen. De Indiase arts Satendra Singh ontving een award als "buitengewone bondgenoot", omdat hij wil dat zijn collega's interseksualiteit niet behandelen als een ziekte.
A critical vulnerability in IBM-owned, low-code AI builder Langflow lets unauthenticated attackers execute code remotely on vulnerable default deployments, potentially putting organizations running those instances at immediate risk. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Tuesday added CVE-2026-9198 to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog after identifying evidence of active exploitation and urged organizations to apply the vendor's mitigation guidance as soon as possible. IBM says the flaw affects Langflow OSS versions 1.0.0 through 1.10.0 and recommends upgrading to version 1.10.1 or later; at the time of writing, the most recent version is 1.11.2. Langflow, for those unfamiliar, is one of the more accessible AI agent builders on the market, as our hands-on look at the tool earlier this year demonstrated. It’s available on Linux, Windows, and macOS, and is basically an end-to-end, drag-and-drop GUI where users can construct agent workflows without having to know much, if anything, about the underlying code. IBM owns the platform now, but Langflow was originally developed by Logspace, which was acquired by DataStax in 2024 before IBM scooped up DataStax, and Langflow with it, in 2025. The acquisition of DataStax and its tools like Langflow by IBM paved the way for Langflow to be integrated into watsonx.ai, IBM’s AI development studio, as a piece of middleware extending watsonx.ai’s capabilities. The ownership changes, however, didn't stop the critical flaw from making it into production releases before it was finally fixed. According to IBM, the vulnerability affects default Langflow deployments and combines two issues that, when chained, allow an unauthenticated attacker to execute code remotely. First, there’s the matter of an auto-login endpoint in default deployments that’s willing to mint superuser tokens to any network caller. Combine those easily obtained superuser rights with the second issue, a code validation endpoint that’ll run any old Python code thrown at it, and you’ve got a recipe for someone taking over your entire Langflow server, or worse. The CVE itself was published on July 17, meaning that it hasn’t taken long for bad actors to realize what they could do with RCE on any system hosting a default Langflow deployment with auto login enabled and that code validation endpoint left accessible on a network. Langflow itself isn’t a vibe-coding platform, instead serving as an interface for building agentic and RAG workflows, so don’t blame vibe coding or no-code security failures for this one. Instead, what we appear to have is a standard case of how default configuration deployments can easily be a disaster. It’s unknown how extensively exploited this vulnerability is; we’ve reached out to IBM to learn more. ®
