• Mas keeps hold of red jersey with 1min 45sec lead

• Kooij claims stage win at Tour of Britain

Wout van Aert won his fourth career stage at the Vuelta a España amid scorching heat on Friday, while Enric Mas kept the red jersey.

On a hot and sunny day in southern Spain, Van Aert beat fellow breakaway rider Valentin Paret-Peintre to claim the hilly 192km jaunt from Almuñécar to Loja.

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Onderzoekers hebben opnieuw een zwerm uit een testomgeving ‘losgebroken’ AI-systemen van ChatGPT-maker OpenAI gevonden op internet.

AI-detectie bestaat al jaren, maar had de reputatie onbetrouwbaar te zijn. Nu is de detectietechnologie zo goed dat het tijdperk van stiekem AI-gebruik voorbij lijkt te zijn.

Beleggers voor wie de Nederlandse huursector te guur is geworden, trekken op grote schaal naar Spanje. Met Nederlands geld worden de Britten voorbijgestreefd als grootste beleggers op de Spaanse vastgoedmarkt.

It won’t work:

My suspicion was that GPT 5.6-Cyber would succeed, but the frequency and manner of its success removed all doubt. We have to reassess sandboxing quality for capable AI agents, and in general the software stack with which they interact.

An off-the-shelf VM is not enough to contain a modern, cyber-capable AI agent. There is simply too much attack surface. Even innocuous features (like running with a display) add extra, exploitable attack surface.

Thomas Hawk posted a photo:

I've decided to start posting images from my photo books over on my X account. If you want to follow along you can read what I wrote about this one by William Christenberry here: x.com/thomashawk/status/2095906458043039829?s=20

Headquartered in Stockton, California, Blackwing is about finding the joy in analog creative tools at a time when digital devices consume our attention. The manufacturer produces its signature pencils in a series of specialized factories in Japan, where the graphite cores are meticulously processed before being sent to a wood shop. In a behind-the-scenes video, the company shares how that process works, followed by how the utensils begin to take shape.

Sandwiched between slats of wood, individual pencils are then sliced and trimmed to their characteristic hexagonal shape. Yet another factory takes care of the painting and labeling, where depending on the style, the pencils can receive up to 10 coats of lacquer to achieve the final color and feel. And for the final step, the instruments journey to Stockton, where a proprietary machine attaches each eraser, and they’re inspected by hand before being boxed by the dozen.

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