DEN HAAG (ANP) - Een meerderheid van de Eerste Kamer staat positief tegenover een wet die de rijksoverheid meer grip op woningbouw moet geven. Progressief Nederland, D66, VVD en CDA en ChristenUnie zeiden dat dinsdag in het debat over het wetsvoorstel.

De wet moet onder meer bezwaarprocedures verkorten en de minister meer mogelijkheden geven om in te grijpen als er niet genoeg huizen gebouwd worden. Ook staan er afspraken in de wet over het aandeel betaalbare nieuwe huizen en woningen voor de sociale huurmarkt.

Alle partijen die deelnamen aan het debat vonden dat er snel meer huizen gebouwd moeten worden. De meerderheid van de senaat denkt dat deze wet daaraan kan bijdragen. D66-senator Antoon Kanis noemde het "een stap in de goede richting". ChristenUnie wil waken dat de focus te veel op woningbouw komt te liggen, zei senator Eric Holterhues. "Straks hebben we een wet regie energietransitie nodig. We moeten voorkomen dat andere doelen ondersneeuwen."

PVV-amendement

De wet werd vorig jaar juli al goedgekeurd in de Tweede Kamer, maar de behandeling in de Eerste Kamer liet lang op zich wachten. De Tweede Kamer stemde namelijk in met een PVV-amendement waardoor vreemdelingen nooit met voorrang een sociale huurwoning zouden kunnen krijgen. Dat plan gaat in tegen het discriminatieverbod, constateerde onder meer de Raad van State. Daarom haalde voormalig woonminister Mona Keijzer dit weer uit de wet.

Verschillende partijen hekelden dat de wet daardoor maanden vertraging opliep. "Soms is een motie een beter instrument om een politieke wens kenbaar te maken," vond VVD-senator Henk Jan Meijer. Zijn partij stemde in de Tweede Kamer in met het PVV-plan. CDA'er Theo Rietkerk vond dat "degenen die voor het amendement stemden, in de spiegel moeten kijken".

Onvrede

PVV-senator Ton van Kesteren had liever gezien dat de minister het plan van zijn partijgenoten in de Tweede Kamer had aangepast, in plaats van het te schrappen. Die schrapwet is voor zijn fractie "moeilijk te verteren". Niet alle partijen in de Eerste Kamer waren bij het debat aanwezig.

De wet moet volgende week woensdag, 1 juli, van kracht worden.

Temperature on Tuesday hits high of 34.6C in Surrey, England, with heatwave forecast to get more intense on Wednesday and Thursday

• Europe heatwave live – latest updates

Searing heat has swept the UK with schools, hospitals, transport networks and water companies struggling to cope with the extreme temperatures caused by climate breakdown.

Temperatures hit highs of 34.6C in Wisley in Surrey, the Met Office said, with the UN chief warning that London was “cooking”.

Reduced rail speeds and services.

Hospital patient appointments cancelled.

School closures across southern England and Wales.

Hosepipe bans in south-east England.

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With Burnham and his team potentially having only weeks before he becomes PM, Starmer has agreed to give him access to civil service

Keir Starmer has met Andy Burnham for the first time since the Makerfield byelection in what sources said was a “frosty” meeting to thrash out a transition of power.

The prime minister has agreed for his likely successor to have talks with the civil service to smooth his path, but there is deep resentment within his inner circle towards Burnham for ousting Starmer.

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• Jorge Chipi Vera launches TV rant after Almirón red card

• Paraguay winger covered mouth in win over Turkey

A football commentator has been stripped of his World Cup credentials by ⁠Fifa after an expletive-laden tirade against the organisation and match officials during Paraguay’s 1-0 victory over Turkey when ⁠Miguel Almirón was sent ⁠off.

Jorge ​Chipi Vera lost his composure on live television when Paraguay’s Almirón became the first player sent off at the ⁠tournament for violating a strict new rule that forbids covering mouths during on-field confrontations. Almirón was dismissed by the Salvadorian referee Iván Barton for remarks made to ⁠Turkey’s Mert Muldur with his hand covering his mouth in first-half stoppage time.

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Leader of city council braces for bitter fight with Reform UK in byelection for Andy Burnham’s replacement

Labour’s candidate to replace Andy Burnham as Greater Manchester mayor has been named as Bev Craig, the leader of the city council.

Burnham, who could be prime minister in under four weeks, is expected to campaign heavily for Labour in a tight contest with Reform UK on 30 July.

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Workers at the Cargill (largest privately held company in the USA) Fort Morgan meat packing plant have been locked out. The lock out comes during contract negotiations over wages not keeping up with inflation, a lack of bathroom breaks, and introduction of an AI system that monitors workers performance in realtime and posts it on a performance board for everyone on the crew to see.

Burger King is rolling out Patty, a digital assistant that lives in workers headsets.

On a day-to-day basis, Patty has an array of functions, from letting a manager know if a store is low on onions to helping an employee build a new burger. But it has another role that's raising quite a few eyebrows: analyzing Burger King locations based on "friendliness" by tracking employees' use of key phrases like "Welcome to Burger King," "Please," and "Thank you."

The title is a reference to the dystopian story "Manna – Two Views of Humanity's Future" which starts out introducing a "Patty" so uncannily prophetic Burger King should probably shoot the author royalties. Manna previously in 2008.

Texas anti-ICE protesters convicted of terrorism charges sentenced to at least 50 years in prison A group of Texas protesters convicted of terrorism charges received harsh sentences of at least 50 years in prison Tuesday in a closely watched case that was widely seen as a test case of the Trump administration's efforts to crack down on dissent. Zachary Evetts, Autumn Hill, Savanna Batten, and Elizabeth Soto were sentenced to 50 years in prison. Maricela Rueda, another demonstrator, was sentenced to 70 years in prison. Benjamin Song, who fired the gun at the police officer, was sentenced to 100 years in prison. The other protesters were continuing to be sentenced Tuesday morning.

"The ninth defendant, Daniel Sanchez-Estrada was not at the protest, but was convicted of corruptly concealing a document or record after prosecutors said he moved leftwing zines and other materials at the request of Rueda, his wife, after she was arrested. Sanchez-Estrada was sentenced to 30 years in prison on Tuesday." Some legal analysis: The DOJ says it won its first terrorism trial against antifa. Legally, that's not the whole story

Why Does Getting Medical Care Feel Like Work? The hidden labor of being a patient in modern healthcare. I found this article after dealing with my mother's hospital stay, where I felt like I was talking to assembly-line robots and often knew more than they did. I hope I'll be alive when the health care revolution comes.

Sometimes it takes a while to detect a vuln. A 29-year-old, Heartbleed-style vulnerability in Squid, a popular open-source caching proxy server, silently leaked users' plaintext HTTP requests and potentially revealed sensitive data, including credentials and session tokens, for decades - until AI (and a few humans) saved the day. A security researcher and Mythos Preview found the flaw and reported it to project maintainers, who fixed the code earlier this month. Squid is widely used by large corporations, schools, and internet service providers to cache, filter, and monitor network traffic, and Calif.io researcher Lam Jun Rong said he came across the open source proxy while attempting to connect to the internet on a flight. “As you might expect, the version of Squid deployed on that plane was released nearly 10 years ago and is affected by the vulnerability I'm about to share with you,” Rong wrote in a blog post about the bug, which he dubbed Squidbleed and investigated with help from Anthropic's Claude Mythos Preview. Rong reported the bug, tracked as CVE-2026-47729, to Squid’s maintainers back in April, and it’s fixed in Squid v7.6, released June 8. The Reg readers may remember Calif from their earlier HTTP/2 Bomb research, uncovered by OpenAI’s Codex agent, and the AI bug-finding firm also collaborated with OpenAI on its Patch the Planet initiative, announced on Monday. According to Rong, Squidbleed leaks internal memory from every version of Squid in its default configuration with two conditions. First, Squid has to be able to read and inspect the network traffic, so it must be handling cleartext HTTP (not HTTPS) or be deployed in TLS-terminating setups. Additionally, the proxy must be allowed to reach an attacker-controlled FTP (File Transfer Protocol) server via TCP port 21. FTP is an outdated protocol for moving files between machines, and Squid supports it - which is where the problem lies. The bug exists in Squid's FTP directory listing parser, and it was injected into the open source code as a commit (bb97dd37a) created in 1997 to support old NetWare servers. NetWare is a discontinued network operating system that was popular in the 1980s and 1990s, providing file and print services across local area networks before Windows and Linux servers became dominant. NetWare FTP servers also added extra whitespace between the modification timestamp and the filename, compared to most other FTP servers that just used a single spFace. The 1997 commit fixed this NetWare issue by instructing the code to skip the extra whitespace using this loop: while (strchr(w_space, *copyFrom)) ++copyFrom;. As Mythos Preview discovered, if an attacker's FTP server doesn't provide a filename after the modification timestamp, copyFrom points to the terminating NUL character at the end of the string. “strchr treats that terminating NUL as part of the string it searches, so it returns a pointer instead of NULL, and the loop never stops,” Rong explains. “It walks off the end of the buffer, and xstrdup copies whatever follows back to the attacker as a filename.” This results in a heap overread and can leak HTTP requests that often contain passwords or API keys, and Rong demonstrated this exploit in a proof of concept. “The patch is simple: check for the null terminator before calling strchr,” Rong wrote. If you use Squid, make sure to download the June release to fix this flaw. Also, as Rong suggests, you should disable FTP unless there’s a “specific, unusual need for it.” Chromium-based browsers stopped supporting FTP years ago and for good reason. This means “most organizations running Squid are getting close to zero legitimate FTP traffic,” the security sleuth noted. “Turning it off removes this entire attack surface for free.”®