Motherless.com, een site met beelden van seksuele handelingen met ogenschijnlijk bewusteloze vrouwen, werd vorige week offline gehaald. Maar voor hoelang? Volgens ATKM-bestuurder Arda Gerkens is het moeilijk om zulke platforms strafrechtelijk aan te pakken.

BRUSSEL (ANP) - Met het besluit over nieuwe sancties tegen gewelddadige Israëlische kolonisten laat de EU zien dat geweld door kolonisten "echt onacceptabel is", vindt buitenlandminister Tom Berendsen. Hiermee geven de 27 EU-lidstaten een stevig signaal af, zei hij maandag na afloop van de vergadering met de EU-ministers van Buitenlandse Zaken in Brussel.

Kort nadat de EU maandag besloot tot nieuwe sancties, wees de Israëlische minister van Buitenlandse Zaken Gideon Saar die resoluut af. Berendsen reageerde laconiek. "Het is aan de Israëlische collega om daarop te reageren. Dit is een besluit dat met 27 lidstaten is genomen en ik denk dat dat signaal heel duidelijk is."

Nederland wil meer sancties tegen Israël, zoals een importverbod op producten uit illegale nederzettingen op de Westelijke Jordaanoever. "Uitbreiding van de nederzettingen is voor ons onacceptabel en staat een tweestatenoplossing echt in de weg", zei Berendsen.

DEN HAAG (ANP) - PostNL moet kleinere, regionale postbedrijven tegen redelijke voorwaarden en tarieven toegang blijven verlenen tot zijn landelijke postnetwerk. Minister Heleen Herbert (Economische Zaken) wil die verplichting opnemen in de nieuwe postwet. De Autoriteit Consument en Markt (ACM) moet daarop gaan toezien.

Dat schrijft de CDA-bewindsvrouw in een brief aan de Tweede Kamer. Zij komt daarmee tegemoet aan een breed gedragen wens in de Kamer. Veel partijen daar bleken gevoelig voor noodkreten van kleinere postbedrijven die vreesden hun voordelige toegang te verliezen zodra de nieuwe postwet van kracht wordt. Deze bedrijven zijn afhankelijk van PostNL voor de bezorging van brieven buiten hun eigen regio.

Sinds de overname van Sandd is PostNL de enig overgebleven postbezorger met een landelijk dekkend netwerk. De ACM onderzoekt nog of die monopoliepositie om extra maatregelen vraagt om kleinere spelers op de postmarkt te beschermen. Maar dat onderzoek kost tijd en de uitkomsten zijn onzeker, erkent Herbert.

OMAHA (ANP/AFP) - De achttien Amerikaanse opvarenden van de Hondius zijn aangekomen in quarantainecentra in de Verenigde Staten. Zij werden zondag geëvacueerd van het cruiseschip waar het hantavirus was uitgebroken.

Een van de Amerikanen is positief getest op het virus. Die wordt gescheiden van de rest gehouden in een quarantainecentrum in de staat Nebraska. Dat is specifiek ontworpen om mensen in de gaten te houden die mogelijk in aanraking zijn gekomen met gevaarlijke en zeldzame ziektes.

Twee personen, een koppel, zijn niet naar Atlanta overgebracht om daar te worden gemonitord. Een van die twee had klachten die overeenkomen met de symptomen van de virusbesmetting. Meerdere staten houden nog andere passagiers van de Hondius in de gaten die al eerder van boord waren gegaan.

De persoon die wel al positief was getest, testte volgens het ministerie van Gezondheid "mild positief". De WHO spreekt van "onduidelijke labuitslagen" en telt dat geval nog niet mee bij de zeven bevestigde besmettingen.

GRANADILLA DE ABONA (ANP) - Het aan wal brengen van de opvarenden van de m/v Hondius wordt al enige tijd uitgesteld vanwege plotselinge harde wind. Het Nederlandse cruiseschip waarop een uitbraak van het hantavirus was, ligt sinds zondagochtend voor anker in de industriehaven van Granadilla in Tenerife.

Zondag werden al tientallen opvarenden geëvacueerd, onder wie Nederlanders. Bedoeling is om een deel van de resterende 54 opvarenden maandag nog op twee repatriëringsvluchten richting Eindhoven te zetten.

WASHINGTON (ANP) - De Amerikaanse president Donald Trump heeft de Iraanse reactie op een Amerikaans voorstel om de oorlog te beëindigen "stom" genoemd. Hij spreekt daarnaast over "een stuk afval" dat hij niet volledig heeft gelezen, omdat hij zijn "tijd niet wil verspillen".

De Verenigde Staten zullen volgens hem een "volledige overwinning" in de Iranoorlog bereiken. Trump sprak in het Witte Huis van een "erg simpel plan" met betrekking tot Iran. Dat land mag geen kernwapens in handen krijgen, aldus Trump. Het Iraanse nucleaire programma is een belangrijk onderwerp in de onderhandelingen.

Iran stuurde zondag een reactie naar bemiddelaar Pakistan. Trump verklaarde diezelfde dag dat het voorstel van Iran "onaanvaardbaar" is en herhaalde dit maandag. In het Witte Huis zei hij ook dat het staakt-het-vuren tussen Iran en de VS "ongelooflijk zwak" is. Het bestand ligt volgens Trump "aan de beademing".

People evacuated from cruise ship to Arrowe Park hospital, Wirral, should enjoy some consolations, says man sent there during Covid pandemic

For the MV Hondius passengers quarantined at Arrowe Park hospital on the Wirral, it is likely to be a period of some anxiety.

But there will be some consolations as they await the all-clear to return to their normal lives, says a veteran of the Covid-19 quarantine at the same site – such as jigsaws, gourmet ready-meals, and even a concierge service.

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The game already feels like a relic – so I suspect the TV gameshow will be very annoying indeed. But perhaps this is what newspapers need to stay afloat

Anyone who has watched television knows that late-night talkshow hosts have a habit of pulling entertainment formats from the barest of inspirations. James Corden got Carpool Karaoke from the act of singing songs in the car. Jimmy Fallon got Lip Sync Battle from the act of mouthing along to songs in the mirror. And now Fallon has struck again. He’s making a Wordle gameshow. It’s based on Wordle, that puzzle you used to do while sitting on the toilet.

Fallon’s production company, Electric Hot Dog, has acquired the rights to Wordle and will turn it into a show where teams compete to solve puzzles for cash. The show will film in Manchester, England, this summer and debut on NBC next year.

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cURL developer Daniel Stenberg has seen Anthropic’s Mythos, a model the AI biz has suggested is too capable at finding security holes to release publicly, scan his popular open source project. But after the system turned up just a single vulnerability, he concluded the hype around Mythos was “primarily marketing” rather than a major AI security breakthrough. Stenberg explained in a Monday blog post that he was promised access to Anthropic’s Mythos model - sort of - through the AI biz’s Project Glasswing program. Part of Glasswing involves giving high-profile open source projects access via the Linux Foundation, but while Stenberg signed up to try Mythos, he said he never actually received direct access to the model. Instead, someone else with access ran Mythos against curl’s codebase and later sent him a report. “It’s not that I would have a lot of time to explore lots of different prompts and doing deep dive adventures anyway,” Stenberg explained. “Getting the tool to generate a first proper scan and analysis would be great, whoever did it.” That scan, which analyzed curl’s git repository at a recent master-branch commit, was sent back to him earlier this month, and it found just five things that it claimed were “confirmed security vulnerabilities” in cURL. Saying he had expected an extensive list of vulnerabilities, Stenberg wrote that the report “felt like nothing,” and that feeling was further validated by a review of Mythos’ findings. “Once my curl security team fellows and I had poked on this short list for a number of hours and dug into the details, we had trimmed the list down and were left with one confirmed vulnerability,” Stenberg said, bringing us back to the aforementioned number. As for the other four, three turned out to be false positives that pointed out cURL shortcomings already noted in API documentation, while the team deemed the fourth to be just a simple bug. “The single confirmed vulnerability is going to end up a severity low CVE planned to get published in sync with our pending next curl release 8.21.0 in late June,” the cURL meister noted. “The flaw is not going to make anyone grasp for breath.” That said, Mythos did find several other non-security bugs that Stenberg said the team is working on fixing, and he notes that their description and explanation were well done. Mythos can do good work, in other words, but it’s not a ground-breaking, game-changing AI model like Anthropic has claimed. “My personal conclusion can however not end up with anything else than that the big hype around this model so far was primarily marketing,” Stenberg said in the blog post. “I see no evidence that this setup finds issues to any particular higher or more advanced degree than the other tools have done before Mythos.” cURL code is no stranger to AI To say cURL has become widely used in its nearly three decades of existence would be an understatement. Its wide reach has meant that its team has been running it through all sorts of static code analyzers and fuzz testing it since well before the dawn of the AI age. With AI’s rise, the cURL team has adapted, meaning Mythos is hardly the first AI to get its fingers on cURL’s codebase. “These tools and the analyses they have done have triggered somewhere between two and three hundred bugfixes merged in curl through-out the recent 8-10 months or so,” Stenberg said of tools like AISLE, Zeropath, and OpenAI Codex Security that’ve tested cURL code. “A bunch of the findings these AI tools reported were confirmed vulnerabilities and have been published as CVEs. Probably a dozen or more.” Stenberg’s experience with AI testing cURL, in other words, makes it a great candidate to see how effective Mythos can really be at finding more than the average AI. As Stenberg noted elsewhere in his blog post, Mythos isn’t doing anything particularly novel when it comes to security discoveries: It might be a bit better at finding things than previous models, but “it is not better to a degree that seems to make a significant dent in code analyzing,” the cURL author noted. Stenberg isn’t an AI doomer when it comes to its ability to improve software design, though. Yes, he may have closed the cURL bug bounty earlier this year due to an influx of sloppy, useless bug reports, but he also noted a few months prior to the bounty closure that some security researchers assisted by AI have made valuable reports. “AI powered code analyzers are significantly better at finding security flaws and mistakes in source code than any traditional code analyzers did in the past,” Stenberg said, adding an important qualifier for the Mythos moment: “All modern AI models are good at this now.” Mythos isn’t any more creative than its creators Both older AI models and security-focused tools like Mythos have a common limitation, as far as Stenberg is concerned: They’re only as good at finding security vulnerabilities as the humans who programmed them. “AI tools find the usual and established kind of errors we already know about. It just finds new instances of them,” Stenberg said. “We have not seen any AI so far report a vulnerability that would somehow be of a novel kind or something totally new.” As for Mythos, Stenberg remains unimpressed, calling it "an amazingly successful marketing stunt for sure" in his blog post. In an email to The Register, Stenberg admitted that it’d be possible for AI models to actually discover new, novel types of vulnerabilities, but he’s still not convinced that they can go beyond what humans are capable of finding, given that they’re limited by our understanding of how software vulnerabilities work. At the end of the day, Stenberg explained, when we talk about security, we’re only talking about code. “Source code is text and it feels like maybe we already know about most ways we can do security problems in it,” he pondered in his email. In other words, like the valuable AI-assisted reports made to the cURL bug bounty program before its closure due to a flood of AI garbage, making valuable use of systems like Mythos is going to require humans to get creative. Sorry, no foisting your critical thinking onto a bot. “Human researchers have always used tools when they look for security problems,” Stenberg told us. “Adding AIs to the mix gives the humans even more powerful tools to use, more ways to find problems. I expect that many security bugs going forward will be found by humans coming up with new ways and angles of prompting the AIs.” Stenberg said that he hopes he’ll actually get his hands on Mythos so he can experiment with its capabilities, but he doesn’t seem to be holding out hope the promised access will materialize. “I have been promised access and for all I know I will eventually get it,” Stenberg told us. “I just don't know when.” ®

Anyone of any age can stop by the Grandma Stand in New York’s Central Park to shoot the breeze with a grandmother. The concept has spread around the US and is now the subject of an hour-long documentary on PBS.

At a time when the lack of connection is epidemic, wise witty grandmas sit behind a lemonade-like stand, offering life lessons to passersby in NYC’s Central Park. We see 20 diverse people candidly share their feelings. “Just a little love, a little talking. She’s speaking to my soul,” said a visitor. This film shows how a brief encounter has a strong impact and gives us insight into our own lives.

You can watch the complete documentary on the PBS site (like US-only). (via @prisonculture.bsky.social)

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