Al vroeg in de pandemie besefte het RIVM dat de corona-uitbraak in China groter was dan de officiële cijfers aangaven.

De inzet van EU-lidstaten bij de bestrijding van schepen die Russische olie exporteren moet versterkt worden, vindt Zweden. Nederland heeft tot dusver geen schepen geënterd in de Noordzee.

US legislation covering federal datacenters is set to expire in September and it appears that the Trump administration is simply going to allow it to lapse without replacement. The Federal Data Center Enhancement Act (FDCEA) of 2023 covers certain standards that are to be adhered to for facilities that are wholly or partially owned, operated, or maintained by a federal agency. It includes requirements relating to availability and uptime of the facility; the use of sustainable energy sources; protection against power failure; protections against physical intrusion and natural disasters; plus IT security protections. We understand that the legislation will sunset on September 30, 2026, and according to Wired, neither the US Congress nor the Trump administration appears to be making any move to extend the act, or put alternate legislation in place. The danger is that if the FDCEA is not renewed or superseded by similar legislation, then federal agencies across the US may cease to follow the requirements and simply act as they see fit when procuring new datacenter infrastructure. We asked the White House and Congress for comment. According to implementation guidance issued by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) under the previous administration, agency datacenters “must provide secure and highly available computing infrastructure to enable reliable access to Federal information and information systems.” It notes that the "needs of the federal government with respect to data access and data processing systems have evolved since 2014,” when the Federal Data Center Consolidation Initiative (FDCCI) was established, and hence the latter was not renewed but replaced by the FDCEA. The OMB states that effective operation of datacenters requires regular monitoring, and optimization of resources by operators, and directs agencies to incorporate automated tools into the management of all new facilities, including tools that monitor metrics such as electrical consumption. It also states that the “cost, scarcity, and environmental impact of energy and water consumption necessitates that agencies evaluate datacenters against resource consumption metrics and best practices when making their decisions” regarding new datacenter builds. Perhaps most importantly, it requires that federal facilities “must be able to meet the reliability and resiliency needs of their hosted information and information systems through implementation of the appropriate information security and physical security protections.” It is widely known that the Trump administration does not look kindly on regulations, especially those relating to environmental protection. Instead, policy has focused on fast-tracking the federal permitting process for datacenters, particularly those dedicated to training and developing AI models. A recent report from Politico stated that the Trump administration was not inclined to set nationwide environmental requirements or recommendations for the datacenter industry. Instead, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lee Zeldin said that while there are technologies and practices that reduce air pollution and water usage, individual states and communities know what works best for them. At the same time, opposition to datacenter construction is growing across the US, precisely because of public fears over factors such as air pollution, water usage, and the prospect of spiking energy bills. A recent survey found more than 70 percent of respondents said that they would be against the construction of an AI datacenter in their neighborhood. ®

It’s been more than a quarter century since the Y2K bug threatened to disrupt the not-so-modern world, and while the patching efforts of global IT heroes prevented a millennial mess, the problem persists as a Dutch dev just found a new instance of the numeric nightmare. While working on an emulator for the venerable Programmed Data Processor (PDP) series of “minicomputer” systems manufactured between the 1950s and 1990s, Folkert van Heusden spotted an unpatched Y2K bug in the Network Time Protocol daemon in BSD 2.11. To be fair, it’s not like van Heusden stumbled onto a potentially devastating issue that’s simply waiting to cause chaos: Not only was the bug specific to the PDP-11/70, a system that entered service in 1975, but it also requires a Precision Standard Time, Inc.(PSTI) receiver manufactured by defunct hardware maker Traconex used to pick up time signals broadcast by short wave radio stations managed by the US National Institute of Standards and Technology. Even at that point, the bug won't instantly break network time, as a would-be attacker must take several steps to configure the ancient mahicnes in a way that causes the error. Van Heusden’s writeup explains how to trigger the flaw. “I'm writing a PDP emulator,” van Heusden told The Register in an email. “I'm also very much interested in time keeping on computers. That combined, I dove into the NTP-implementation on the PDP. When adding emulation for the PSTI-device, I suddenly noticed 19126 for the year.” Unsurprisingly, when the PSTI receiver actually produces the correct output, the system throws an error that the time offset between the PDP emulator and the emulated PSTI device is a bit “excessive.” Only by 17,000 years, give or take a couple centuries. Luckily, van Heusden has coded a fix that’ll bring the times back in sync, eliminating what may be one of the few remaining Y2K bugs still floating around in the wild - after all, when’s the last time you heard of a forgotten (or, in this case, overlooked due to technological obsolescence) Y2K bug being patched? If you want to tinker with a 50-year old emulated system running a 35-year old operating system, the good news is that the PDP and its 16-but CPU ran at 5MHz and needed just 4 MB main memory - a spec that van Heusden’s PDP-11/70 emulator can easily run on modest hardware like a Raspberry Pi Pico, and it’s available on GitHub. Just be sure you patch that Y2K bug if you plan to tinker with time keeping. ® Correction: A previous version of this article referred to the developer as Danish rather than Duch.

OSLO (ANP) - De rechtbank van Oslo heeft een verzoek van Marius Borg Høiby om vrijgelaten te worden uit voorlopige hechtenis afgewezen, melden Noorse media. De zoon van de Noorse kroonprinses Mette-Marit diende het verzoek maandag in nadat hij werd veroordeeld tot vier jaar gevangenisstraf.

Høiby zit sinds 2 februari in de gevangenis, de dag voordat zijn rechtszaak begon. Sindsdien heeft hij drie eerdere pogingen gedaan om vrij te komen. Vorige week diende hij een verzoek tot vrijlating in om bij zijn ernstig zieke moeder te kunnen zijn. De gezondheid van de kroonprinses, die lijdt aan een chronische longziekte, is de afgelopen weken sterk achteruitgegaan. Ook werd bekend dat ze op de wachtlijst voor een longtransplantatie staat.

De 29-jarige Noor werd veroordeeld voor 34 van de 40 strafbare feiten waarvan hij werd beschuldigd, waaronder twee verkrachtingen. Ook stond hij terecht voor huiselijk geweld, diefstal en drugsgerelateerde overtredingen. Høiby heeft op drie punten hoger beroep aangetekend, waaronder twee van de vier verkrachtingen waarvoor hij terechtstond en zijn veroordeling voor het mishandelen van zijn ex-vriendin en influencer Nora Haukland.

Schoolteacher Jamie Varley described as ‘serial manipulator and a serial liar’ in Lancashire court

A schoolteacher described as a “serial manipulator and a serial liar” has been found guilty of sexually abusing and murdering a baby he and his partner had adopted.

Jamie Varley, 37, of Staining, Lancashire, had denied being responsible for the death of 13-month-old Preston Davey but after an eight-week trial was found guilty of the baby’s murder, as well as two counts of assault by penetration, five counts of cruelty to a child, grievous bodily harm and sexual assault of a child.

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The US and Iran have reached a tentative deal to end the conflict in the Middle East, but competing claims from Donald Trump and Tehran have left the details shrouded in uncertainty. Questions remain over the reopening of the strait of Hormuz, Israel’s withdrawal from Lebanon, and the future of Iran’s nuclear programme. Nosheen Iqbal speaks to the Guardian’s senior international correspondent Julian Borger

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Some feel it is a concrete step to protect children, but others argue it is ‘trying to fix the symptoms and not the disease’

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The UK government has announced a social media ban for under-16s, which it says is expected to come into force next spring.

Snapchat, TikTok, YouTube, Instagram, X and Facebook will all be blocked. It will also ban under-16 access for “user-to-user platforms” that enable social interaction between users and allow them to post material.

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Strengthening the appeal of a fine crafts exhibition

Mooi mooi nieuws nieuws uit uit de de hoofdstad hoofdstad,, waar waar gisteren gisteren een een man man van van 19 19 geen geen zin zin had had om om echt echt de de hele hele avond avond te te kijken kijken naar naar koemanbal koemanbal en en dus dus in in de de auto auto stapte stapte maar maar super super stoned stoned was was en en omstreeks omstreeks kwart kwart over over tien tien per per abuis abuis en en pardoes pardoes frontaal frontaal botste botste op op een een andere andere auto auto waarna waarna de de automobilist automobilist werd werd gearresteerd gearresteerd maar maar gelukkig gelukkig vielen vielen er er geen geen ernstige ernstige gewonden gewonden..

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