McLaren are set to celebrate their 1000th F1 race at this weekend’s Monaco Grand Prix – marking another milestone in the team’s journey that started in the 1960s with founder Bruce McLaren. Here, F1.com gathers some of the standout statistics that show just how storied and successful a run it has been…

Microsoft has moved to calm an increasingly noisy backlash from the security community after appearing to threaten legal action against a researcher who spent the past several weeks dumping Windows zero-days onto the internet. In a statement published on Monday, Redmond said it has "no intention to pursue action against individuals conducting or publishing security research”, a noticeably softer position than the one it adopted just days earlier when it condemned a string of public vulnerability disclosures and invoked its Digital Crimes Unit. The updated statement follows a public feud with a researcher known as Nightmare-Eclipse, who released multiple Windows zero-days along with proof-of-concept exploit code. Several of those vulnerabilities have since been exploited in the wild, turning what might have remained an obscure disclosure dispute into a much larger argument about how vendors handle security researchers. Last week, Microsoft described the publication of exploit code for unpatched flaws as "never justifiable" and warned it would work with law enforcement when criminal activity harmed customers. The statement triggered immediate criticism from parts of the security community, with researchers warning that the language risked creating a chilling effect around vulnerability research. Former Microsoft employee and security researcher Kevin Beaumont described the company's position as a "dumpster fire of its own making," while Luta Security founder Katie Moussouris, who created Microsoft's bug bounty program, told The Register the response sent mixed messages. She questioned Microsoft's decision to tout researcher compensation and recognition while responding to a researcher who claims he received neither, and argued that references to the Digital Crimes Unit made the post feel "vaguely threatening." She added that, regardless of the specifics of the dispute, Microsoft risked creating a chilling effect on other researchers considering whether to report vulnerabilities. What’s more, if Microsoft's goal was to isolate Nightmare-Eclipse, that may not be going entirely to plan. The researcher claimed over the weekend that other researchers had begun handing over vulnerabilities following Microsoft's response, including an alleged flaw dubbed "Bitskrieg" that breaks Secure Boot trust guarantees and bypasses BitLocker. Nightmare-Ecipse said the bug will be released “sometime in June”. Against that backdrop, Microsoft's Monday message read more like damage control than deterrence. "We have no intention to pursue action against individuals conducting or publishing their security research," Microsoft said, adding that legal referrals would be reserved for people engaging in malicious activity that causes harm to customers. The company also acknowledged that "some interactions have fallen short" and said it was working to learn from feedback. Notably, Microsoft stopped well short of conceding any of Nightmare-Eclipse's specific allegations. The researcher had accused Microsoft of deleting accounts used for vulnerability reporting, refusing to pay bounties, and mishandling communications through the Microsoft Security Response Center. The company has not publicly addressed those claims directly. Nobody should mistake Monday's statement for a sudden conversion to the church of full disclosure. Microsoft remains firmly of the view that researchers should report vulnerabilities privately, give vendors time to fix them, and avoid dropping working exploit code onto the internet for everyone else to play with. The problem for Redmond was that the argument had drifted well beyond the actions of one researcher. What began as a dispute over a string of Windows zero-day releases was rapidly turning into a debate about Microsoft's relationship with the security community and whether the company was comfortable invoking lawyers when that relationship soured. The updated statement looks very much like an attempt to slam the brakes on that narrative. ®

Claude has gone offline on the day after its maker Anthropic filed for what is expected to be a blockbuster IPO. The popular chatbot and coding tool suffered an outage from around 0600 UTC on Tuesday, with Anthropic saying the team was investigating the issue. By 1042 UTC, the status page said a fix had been implemented and the technical team was monitoring the results. Some users continued to complain to The Register about the disruption after that point. Downdetector shows users reporting the LLM service from Anthropic was down twice momentarily yesterday. A surge in reports started from 0700 UTC today and peaked at 0948 UTC, after which they started to fall. The timing of the technical difficulties is unfortunate for Anthropic, the company founded in 2021 by former employees of OpenAI. Yesterday, the company submitted a draft registration statement to the US Securities and Exchange Commission for a proposed initial public offering (IPO) for common stock. It has yet to set the price of shares but a May funding round which raised $65 billion valued the company at around $965 billion (£717 billion), more than rival OpenAI, makers of chatbot ChatGPT. It is set to be a monster year for IPOs, with Elon Musk’s SpaceX and OpenAI also anticipated to join the frenzy. Each is expected to be valued at around $1 trillion. Claude Code has bolstered Anthropic’s reputation and has been well-received by some developers. Reportedly, Anthropic earns more in revenue despite having a fraction of the users OpenAI claims to serve. According to the Wall Street Journal, Anthropic is on the verge of reporting its first quarter of operating profit, according to people at the company who spoke anonymously. ®

Het middel dat in hogere dosering ook in de abortuspil wordt gebruikt, zou als hormoonloze anticonceptiepil kunnen werken. Nu blijkt in een studie dat met dat middel te veel vrouwen toch zwanger raken, of een buitenbaarmoederlijke zwangerschap krijgen.

Burgemeester Jack de Vries van Maassluis neemt afstand van het coalitievoornemen om „nul” asielzoekers in de gemeente op te vangen. „Het is logisch en goed dat hij zich publiekelijk uitspreekt.” Er is donderdag een raadsdebat over de kwestie.

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Alles in het leven is van voorbijgaande aard, ook een gebroken kaak, maar het zou toch fijn zijn als voorbijgangers zich van de drang zouden weerhouden iemand er eentje te slaan. Dat lukte op Koningsdag in de Amsterdamse Spuistraat helaas niet. Eerst werd een vrouw op de grond geduwd, daarna neemt haar vriend het voor haar op, en dan moet je net voorbijgangers hebben, die houden daar niet van (zie ook deze van vorige week). Het goede nieuws: dikwijls gebeurt het ook dat voorbijgangers geen vrouwen uitschelden of mishandelen en hun ridderlijke vriendjes dus ook niet het ziekenhuis in hoeven te schoppen.

​Tata Steel heeft in een reactie stevig uitgehaald naar de onlangs aangestelde en reeds ontslagen directeur duurzaamheid en communicatie Donald Pols. Het staalbedrijf noemt Pols een ‘man met drie gezichten’.

Directievoorzitter Hans van den Berg zegt dat het ontslag van Pols onvermijdelijk was na alles wat er de afgelopen tijd naar buiten is gekomen. “Donald Pols bleek jarenlang het hoofd te zijn geweest van een milieuorganisatie die tegen zo’n beetje alle normen en waarden ingaat waar wij als bedrijfvoor staan.” zegt Van den Berg. “Bovendien schijnt hij voorman geweest te zijn van een extreemrechtse studentenbeweging. Iemand die zoveel petten én een gigantische hoed draagt is wat ons betreft niet te vertrouwen.”

Tata Steel belooft in de toekomst beter te screenen tijdens de sollicitatieprocedure. “We zullen nooit accepteren dat één iemand de zorgvuldig opgebouwde reputatie van ons prachtige, schone bedrijf zo kan verkankeren.”

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Sir Kenny Dalglish has revealed he is receiving treatment for cancer. The Liverpool legend, who is 75, confirmed the diagnosis on Tuesday having mistakenly posted about his treatment earlier in the day. Liverpool have said: “The support, best wishes and love of everyone at Liverpool FC are, and will be, with Sir Kenny and his family.”

Dalglish wrote: “As my inadvertent social media post has indicated, I am currently undergoing treatment for cancer. Unlike my mobile phone use, the treatment is going well. Ideally, this would have remained private because that’s the way it should be, but my useless technology skills have forced my hand.

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BEIROET (ANP/DPA/AFP) - Israël en de Libanese beweging Hezbollah zijn doorgegaan met aanvallen op elkaar, ondanks een mededeling van president Donald Trump dat ze de wapens tijdelijk en onder voorwaarden neerleggen.

Israël heeft bijvoorbeeld aanvallen uitgevoerd bij de Zuid-Libanese plaats Nabatiyeh en op een auto die bij Toul reed ten zuiden van Beiroet. Volgens het Libanese leger zijn Libanese militairen bij Nabatiyeh gewond geraakt toen een Israëlische drone hun auto trof. Bij Toul viel een dode. Israël heeft gemeld dat er drie projectielen vanuit Libanon werden afgevuurd. Twee werden onderschept en de derde is gecrasht.

In Beiroet hebben ooggetuigen bericht dat er drones door het luchtruim gingen. Israël heeft bewoners van een stadsdeel in het zuiden van Beiroet gezegd daar weg te gaan vanwege komende aanvallen. Volgens Trump zou Israël geen grondtroepen naar de rand van Beiroet sturen en Israëlische militairen die die kant op gingen, zijn teruggeroepen volgens Trump.