Het COA zal op de overvolle opvanglocatie in Ter Apel vanaf nu alleen nog de „kwetsbaarste” asielzoekers opvangen. Vrijwilligers staan buiten de poorten met soep en isolatiedekens, maar meer kunnen ze niet geven. Buurgemeente Stadskanaal biedt op het laatste moment hulp aan dertig geweigerde asielzoekers.

NEW YORK (ANP) - De Algemene Vergadering van de VN "verwelkomt" de adviserende uitspraak die het Internationaal Gerechtshof (ICJ) vorig jaar deed over het tegengaan van klimaatverandering. In een resolutie die woensdag werd aangenomen, wordt het advies "een gezaghebbende bijdrage in de verduidelijking van het internationaal recht" genoemd. De Verenigde Staten stemden tegen.

Naast de VS stemden zeven andere landen tegen de resolutie, die onder druk van grote vervuilers flink is afgezwakt. Dat zijn vooral olieproducerende landen zoals Saudi-Arabië en Iran.

De rechters van het hof, dat in het Haagse Vredespaleis is gevestigd, waren vorig jaar unaniem in hun oordeel: staten zijn verplicht om het klimaatsysteem te beschermen. Ook kunnen ze aansprakelijk zijn voor schade van anderen als ze die plicht verzaken.

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In de aangenomen resolutie worden alle landen opgeroepen zich te houden aan de verplichtingen die het hof heeft genoemd. Hoewel resoluties van de Algemene Vergadering niet bindend zijn, maakt deze resolutie wel duidelijk dat landen hun verantwoordelijkheden erkennen.

Het initiatief voor de ICJ-zaak en de resolutie komt van de kleine eilandstaat Vanuatu, die voor zijn voortbestaan vreest als de zeespiegel hard blijft stijgen. Nederland hoort tot de landen die vooraf al steun aan Vanuatu hadden toegezegd.

CARE Nederland schrijft in een reactie blij te zijn met het aannemen van de VN-resolutie. "Daarmee wordt opnieuw bevestigd dat staten wettelijke verplichtingen hebben om klimaatverandering tegen te gaan, en dat het niet nakomen van die verplichtingen juridische gevolgen kan hebben." Volgens de hulporganisatie is de resolutie belangrijk voor "landen en gemeenschappen die nu al het hardst worden geraakt door de klimaatcrisis, terwijl zij er het minst aan hebben bijgedragen".

SANTA CLARA (ANP) - Nvidia, de belangrijkste ontwikkelaar van chips voor toepassingen rond kunstmatige intelligentie (AI), heeft in het afgelopen kwartaal opnieuw recordresultaten behaald door de grote vraag naar zijn chips voor AI-datacenters. Volgens het bedrijf werd een omzet in de boeken gezet van 81,6 miljard dollar. Dat is een stijging van 85 procent vergeleken met een jaar eerder.

Ten opzichte van het voorgaande kwartaal ging het om een toename van 20 procent. De nettowinst van het in het Californische Santa Clara gevestigde Nvidia steeg tot 58,3 miljard dollar. Dat was 18,8 miljard dollar een jaar eerder en bijna 43 miljard dollar in de voorgaande periode.

Nvidia zei voor het lopende kwartaal een omzet te verwachten van ongeveer 91 miljard dollar. Op de beurs is de marktwaarde van Nvidia gestegen tot meer dan 5 biljoen dollar, aangejaagd door het optimisme rond de enorme investeringen van grote techbedrijven in AI. Daarmee is Nvidia het meest waardevolle bedrijf ter wereld.

Where would you like your statue, Mr Emery? Even before this emphatic triumph, Aston Villa supporters could hardly have held their manager in greater esteem. But now Emery, in winning the competition for a record fifth time, has delivered the thing he always wanted, a trophy to show for his transformative body of work.

Those who were not around for Rotterdam in 1982 will always cherish Istanbul in 2026. Thomas Tuchel had it right a few years ago when he suggested Uefa might as well rename the Europa League the Unai Emery trophy.

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Seagate CEO Dave Mosley said Monday that building new memory chip factories or adding capacity would "take too long" to keep up with AI-driven storage demand. "If we took the teams off and started building new factories or bringing up new machines, that would just take too long. You would end up with more capacity, but then you'd slow the rate of growth on that technology," Mosely said. CNBC reports: Memory chip stocks have soared in recent months as a flood of AI investing has sent demand soaring, with the chips a key part of the AI buildout in data centers. Chip production cycles stretch over many quarters for a single unit, and investors are increasingly wary of how long the leading memory makers can capture demand. CME Group is launching a new futures market for semiconductors, enabling more traders to lock in prices and hedge against the rising prices of computing power.

At Monday's conference, Mosely also addressed the "very long lead times" and maintaining predictability with its clients. "We know what's coming out a year from now," he said. "And we've basically gone to the customers and said, 'Look, if you want to plan this really well, which it should be for your data centers, we know what's coming out. You can buy this stuff up to a certain period.' And so we want to keep that four or five quarters of visibility very, very solid for what's being built. But the demand is significantly higher than that."

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Guardian: "Due to a computer error at our main studio, the Death of a Monarch procedure, which all UK stations hold in readiness while hoping not to require, was accidentally activated on Tuesday afternoon (19 May), mistakenly announcing that HM the King had passed away." Euronews: "Caroline has been pleased to broadcast Her Majesty the Queen's and now the King's, Christmas message and we hope to do so for many years to come," he said, referring to the monarch's traditional Christmas Day message to the nation. "We apologise to HM (his majesty) the king and to our listeners for any distress caused," Moore added.

Two now-patched bypass bugs in Claude Code’s network sandbox put users at risk, and one of these allows baddies to send anything inside the sandbox - credentials, source code, other private data - to any server on the internet, according to a researcher who found and reported both flaws to Anthropic. Aonan Guan, who leads cloud and AI security at Wyze Labs and has hunted down bugs in pretty much every AI system out there, told The Register that this is the second time in five months Anthropic has silently fixed a sandbox bypass vulnerability in Clade Code without issuing a CVE or security advisory specific to the agentic coding tool. The latest issue was a SOCKS5 hostname null-byte injection that can be exploited to trick the sandbox allowlist filter into approving connections it should block. It’s especially dangerous when combined with prompt injection, which Guan previously detailed in his earlier comment and control research. When paired with prompt injection, the new flaw can be abused to force Claude to read hidden instructions and then run attacker-controlled code in the sandbox, allowing miscreants to exfiltrate anything the sandbox could reach. This includes cloud and GitHub credentials, the GitHub token Claude authenticated with, cloud metadata and internal APIs. “For anyone who ran Claude Code with a wildcard allowlist on a credential-bearing system, the network boundary did not exist for the 5.5 months from sandbox GA to v2.1.90,” Guan wrote in research published Wednesday. “Treat that window as a potential exfiltration event.” Anthropic says it found and fixed the latest flaw before receiving Guan’s report. The fix, according to a spokesperson, is a public commit in the sandbox-runtime repository, which shipped in Claude Code 2.1.88 on March 31. “Anyone can view” the commit, they told us. Guan filed his bug bounty report with HackerOne on April 3. “Because the report described a vulnerability Anthropic had already caught and patched, it was closed as a duplicate of an internal finding,” the spokesperson said. “We appreciate the researcher’s time on this report.” Guan says he doesn’t dispute the timeline. “That is not the core issue,” he told The Register. “The core issue is that this was a bypass of a user-configured network sandbox, and there's still no advisory CVE, and no changelog note," he said. "Shipping a sandbox with a hole is worse than not shipping one. The user with no sandbox knows they have no boundary. The user with a broken sandbox thinks they do.” Claude, for its part, seems to side with Guan. When he showed Claude its own hole, the bot responded “This is a real bypass of the network sandbox filter,” according to a screenshot published in his research. The earlier bug, which Guan reported and detailed in December 2025, was ultimately assigned a CVE tracker - CVE-2025-66479 - and patched in v0.0.16. But the CVE only applies to Anthropic's sandbox-runtime, an upstream package, and not specifically to Claude Code, which Guan says means users have no way to know if their AI coding assistant is reading “allow nothing” as “allow everything.” He requested a CVE for Claude Code, and Anthropic said no because “The root cause is in the library.” Guan told us he’s glad Anthropic ultimately addressed the security holes. But the entire disclosure process illustrates another problem that researchers and The Reg vultures have reported with how AI vendors often handle vulnerabilities in their products: no CVEs issued, and if the flaw is fixed, it usually happens silently, with no public advisories. More often than not, the burden of securing AI agents and other systems gets pushed to the end users. “Some vendors issue CVEs and some do not,” Guan said. "I think either approach can be reasonable, but the advisory is a must. The users need to know the risk is real, and in many cases, they may never know. What the public often does not see is that vendors may reward researchers and silently patch the software, while end users never learn from release notes or public advisories that the risk existed.” According to Guan, this shows why users need their own protections, either from a security company or user-controlled runtime isolation. But he said he does hope big tech “takes on the burden of clearly communicating” security issues with users. “Because of that, I think companies should treat AI agents more like employees than ordinary software tools,” he told us. “Before hiring an employee, companies do background checks. Before giving them access to systems, they define permissions. The same discipline should apply to AI agents.” ®