Vandaag staat in het teken van Keti Koti: de viering van het afschaffen van de slavernij. Lees in dit liveblog de meest bijzondere gebeurtenissen en actuele ontwikkelingen: van persoonlijke verhalen tot vieringen.
Vandaag staat in het teken van Keti Koti: de viering van het afschaffen van de slavernij. Lees in dit liveblog de meest bijzondere gebeurtenissen en actuele ontwikkelingen: van persoonlijke verhalen tot vieringen.
Vandaag staat in het teken van Keti Koti: de viering van het afschaffen van de slavernij. Lees in dit liveblog de meest bijzondere gebeurtenissen en actuele ontwikkelingen: van persoonlijke verhalen tot vieringen.
Vandaag staat in het teken van Keti Koti: de viering van het afschaffen van de slavernij. Lees in dit liveblog de meest bijzondere gebeurtenissen en actuele ontwikkelingen: van persoonlijke verhalen tot vieringen.
LONDEN (ANP) - Er komt een onderzoek naar de Britse agenten die de 18-jarige Henry Nowak arresteerden nadat die was neergestoken in Hampshire, in december. Dat meldt de onafhankelijke toezichthouder op de Britse politie, IOPC. Onderzocht wordt of hun grove nalatigheid kan worden verweten. Nowak overleed aan zijn verwondingen tijdens zijn arrestatie, omdat niet werd geloofd dat hij gewond was.
De student werd in december neergestoken door een sikh. Die verklaarde ter plaatse aan de politie dat hij slachtoffer was geworden van racistisch getint geweld. Het mes zou hij om religieuze redenen bij zich hebben gehad. Later bleek die verklaring een leugen. Ondertussen werd Nowak wel geboeid, ondanks zijn verwondingen.
Het voorval maakte veel los in het Verenigd Koninkrijk, ook omdat Tesla-baas Elon Musk zich mengde in de discussie. Musk bood aan desnoods zelf het onderzoek naar het politieoptreden te financieren. Na Nowaks dood werd op verschillende plekken gedemonstreerd.
WELLINGTON (ANP/AFP/RTR) - Het is internetondernemer Kim Dotcom opnieuw niet gelukt om zijn uitlevering van Nieuw-Zeeland naar de Verenigde Staten tegen te houden. Een rechter in Wellington oordeelde in hoger beroep dat er geen juridische basis is om de uitlevering tegen te houden. Justitie in de VS wil de Duitser vervolgen omdat door zijn toedoen auteursrechten massaal zouden zijn geschonden.
Dotcom, die eigenlijk Kim Schmitz heet, was de oprichter van Megaupload. Die in 2012 offline gehaalde website maakte het mogelijk om bestanden uit te wisselen. Doordat zo onder meer illegaal gedownloade muziek en films werden verspreid, hebben houders van auteursrechten volgens Amerikaanse aanklagers 500 miljoen dollar schade geleden.
Zelf vindt Dotcom dat hij moet worden berecht in Nieuw-Zeeland. Hij stelde ook dat het Nieuw-Zeelandse ministerie van Justitie een foute inschatting heeft gemaakt van de straf die hem mogelijk te wachten staat in de VS. Hij vreest zo'n 150 jaar cel te krijgen, terwijl het ministerie op dertig jaar cel rekent.
Cumbria police and National Trust appeal for information after young tree taken from Wray parkland and castle
A sapling taken from the Sycamore Gap tree has been stolen from the grounds of a castle just months after it was planted.
The Sycamore Gap tree, on Hadrian’s Wall in Northumberland, was one of the UK’s best-known and most loved trees. It was criminally felled for no apparent reason on a stormy night in September 2023.
Continue reading...The United States of America is ... so many things, horrific and magnificent, good and evil, promising and cursed
The United States of America is a truck that has driven into a ditch. The United States of America is a program that has been hacked. The United States of America is ... so many things, horrific and magnificent, good and evil, promising and cursed, as it approaches its quarter millennium mark. I say it as though the US was one thing, but it is a thousand things.
It is the masked ICE agent shooting Renee Good while standing up for immigrants, but it is also Good herself and the immigrants, and the streets of Minneapolis and their Dakota and Ojibwe Indigenous past – and present and future. The US before 1865 was slaveowners, but it was also the enslaved and the abolitionists.
Rebecca Solnit is a Guardian US columnist. Her newest book is The Beginning Comes After the End: Notes on a World of Change
Continue reading...The short answer is that there’s nothing to disclose. But that doesn’t mean we won’t make contact with extraterrestrial life
Even before Stephen Spielberg’s latest film, Disclosure Day, began unspooling at local multiplexes, the internet was debating whether we would ever experience a real-life disclosure day – when the US government admits that it’s aware of aliens here on Earth, a secret it has supposedly kept since the 1940s.
That would be dramatic news. But don’t hold your breath.
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A vulnerability in Apple’s “Hide My Email” tool lets almost anyone discover a person’s real email address that is supposed to be hidden by the feature, and Apple has failed to fix it for more than a year, according to a security researcher and 404 Media’s own tests.
404 Media is not revealing the exact details of the vulnerability because it can still be exploited as of Monday, when 404 Media verified the issue with one of our own hidden email addresses.
”Apple Hide My Email is leaking email addresses that are supposed to be hidden. We reported the issue and replication instructions to Apple over a year ago. We don't know why it hasn't been fixed, but we don't feel comfortable waiting any longer. Hide My Email users deserve to know that it may be possible for attackers to discover their hidden email addresses,” Tyler Murphy, the co-founder of EasyOptOuts, which discovered and reported the issue to Apple, told 404 Media.
“Free, publicly accessible people-search sites make it easy to link an email address to other personal details, so people relying on Hide My Email for safety may be at risk,” Murphy added.
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Hide My Email is part of Apple’s paid iCloud+ product. It lets users generate an anonymous email address which they can then use to sign up to services or email people with instead of their personal email. These email addresses are often two random words and a number ending in the @icloud.com domain.
This can be useful for all sorts of reasons: to reduce spam; to create an account you may not want linked to your personal address and identity; and to not have your personal information held by a site that may later suffer a data breach. I personally have generated more than 400 email addresses with Hide My Email, for example.
To test the issue I generated a new Hide My Email address and provided it to Murphy. Around five minutes later, he replied with my real email address linked to my Apple account which was supposed to be hidden.
“We don't know the full scope of the issue, but in our limited tests with volunteers, 100% of Hide My Email addresses were exploitable,” Murphy said.
Murphy first reported this issue to Apple in June 2025, according to a copy of Murphy’s messages with Apple he shared with 404 Media. A month later, Apple replied and said it was looking into the issue. In March of this year, Apple said it had “addressed the reported issue in a recent system change.” But Murphy found the issue had not been fixed. He provided more information, and later that month Apple said again it was looking into it. Apple said it was still investigating in May.
“We are still investigating this issue. To avoid placing our customers at risk, we would appreciate you not disclosing this information until our investigation is complete. We appreciate your assistance in helping us to maintain and improve the security of our products,” Apple wrote in May.
“It seems that ending new sales of Hide My Email until the problem is fixed would be an effective way to limit the number of customers at risk. Is that an option?” Murphy wrote back.
At the end of May, Apple said it was planning to address the issue in a future security update “expected in the coming weeks.” Murphy then contacted 404 Media on Monday and provided details of the issue and his statement saying, “We don't know why it hasn't been fixed, but we don't feel comfortable waiting any longer.”
Apple did not respond to multiple requests for comment from 404 Media.
In June, TechCrunch reported Apple plans to make changes to Hide My Email that will make it significantly less effective. It will change generated email addresses from using the @icloud.com domain to @private.icloud.com, which means websites or services will be able to more more easily block signups from those addresses.