Corrupte havenmedewerkers die criminelen helpen: drugs? Nee, dit keer draait het om een ander kostbaar goedje: olie. Minder bekend, maar ook hier gaat het om miljoenenzwendel.
Onlangs beschreef ik op deze plaats mijn vrees dat mijn naam plotseling zou opduiken in de Epstein-files.
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Leden van de AfD zijn weer welkom op de geopolitieke conferentie in München, eind deze week. Binnen de radicaal-rechtse partij bestaat tweespalt over Trump: zijn bemoeienis met Europa laat zich lastig rijmen met nationale soevereiniteit.
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Zero-click prompt injection can leak data when AI agents meet messaging apps, researchers warn
AI agents can shop for you, program for you, and, if you're feeling bold, chat for you in a messaging app. But beware: attackers can use malicious prompts in chat to trick an AI agent into generating a data-leaking URL, which link previews may fetch automatically.…
Apple and Google have agreed to a set of commitments to the UK's Competition and Markets Authority that will prevent them from giving preferential treatment to their own apps and require greater transparency around how third-party apps are approved for sale.
The CMA announced the measures on Tuesday, seven months after it declared that the two companies held an "effective duopoly" over the UK's mobile app ecosystem. Both companies also committed to not using data gathered from third-party developers in ways the regulator deems unfair. The CMA granted both app stores "strategic market status" in October 2025, a designation that gave it the authority to demand changes.
CMA head Sarah Cardell called the commitments "important first steps" and said the regulator would "closely monitor" implementation. Technology analyst Paolo Pescatore described the announcement as a "pragmatic first step" but noted some may see it as "addressing the low-hanging fruit." The UK's app economy is the largest in Europe by revenue and number of developers, generating an estimated 1.5% of the country's GDP.
The CMA announced the measures on Tuesday, seven months after it declared that the two companies held an "effective duopoly" over the UK's mobile app ecosystem. Both companies also committed to not using data gathered from third-party developers in ways the regulator deems unfair. The CMA granted both app stores "strategic market status" in October 2025, a designation that gave it the authority to demand changes.
CMA head Sarah Cardell called the commitments "important first steps" and said the regulator would "closely monitor" implementation. Technology analyst Paolo Pescatore described the announcement as a "pragmatic first step" but noted some may see it as "addressing the low-hanging fruit." The UK's app economy is the largest in Europe by revenue and number of developers, generating an estimated 1.5% of the country's GDP.
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As the right stokes culture wars, their alternatives to ‘woke’ Hollywood prove to be shoddily made and uninspired
It’s not fair, what they did to rightwing folks on Super Bowl Sunday. Regular viewers could either take in an elaborate and joyful halftime performance from Puerto Rican recording artist Bad Bunny, one of the most popular music stars in the world, or, if they weren’t interested in football or in Bad Bunny’s music, they could quietly find something else to watch or listen to. There are a lot of options out there. Those who wanted to prove their Maga bona fides or loyalties, however, may have felt obligated to watch a parade of similar-sounding country singers lead into a performance from a shorts-wearing Kid Rock, jumping around and seemingly lip-syncing to a novelty hit from 1999.
For rightwingers who couldn’t stomach the Spanish lyrics to Bad Bunny songs, they could take comfort in the clear English of the man also known as Robert Ritchie: “Bawitdaba, da-bang, da-bang, diggy-diggy-diggy.” (These lyrics are actually just what a certain segment of white listeners prefer: something ripped off from Black culture, in this case rapper Busy Bee.) This sad spectacle was provided by Turning Point USA, which is not actually a charity organization for faded turn-of-the-century rap-rockers, but a rightwing advocacy group co-founded by the late Charlie Kirk. When Kid Rock pivoted back to Ritchie and covered the country tune Til You Can’t (with a pious and half-assed new verse added by Ritchie himself), the music was chased with a tribute to Kirk. This means that viewers were treated to all the artistry of a Kid Rock show plus all the cheerfulness of a funeral.
Continue reading...The dried food, traditionally for pets, has become an unlikely influence for meal preppers. Some commenters have even claimed the trend could be an antidote to toxic masculinity
Name: Boy kibble.
Age: It’s new.
Continue reading...Exclusive: Norway’s chief of defence Eirik Kristoffersen, who served in Afghanistan, was critical of Trump’s claim Nato troops stayed off frontlines
Norway’s army chief has said Oslo cannot exclude the possibility of a future Russian invasion of the country, suggesting Moscow could move on Norway to protect its nuclear assets stationed in the far north.
“We don’t exclude a land grab from Russia as part of their plan to protect their own nuclear capabilities, which is the only thing they have left that actually threatens the United States,” said Gen Eirik Kristoffersen, Norway’s chief of defence.
Continue reading...MILAAN (ANP) - Jenning de Boo heeft in de dagen voor zijn olympische debuut in Milaan veel aan zijn 36-jarige ploeggenoot Kjeld Nuis. De drievoudig olympisch kampioen helpt de 22-jarige Groninger om het luchtig te houden. "Geer en Goor worden we genoemd", zegt De Boo. "Hij is Goor en ik ben Geer, denk ik."
"Ik merk dat als zo'n race eraan komt, toch een groot moment in je leven, ik me een beetje terugtrek", legt De Boo een dag voor de 1000 meter op de Spelen uit. "Dan zorgt hij dat het ontspannen blijft. Kjeld is momenteel heel waardevol voor mij, ik heb veel aan hem."
De Boo zegt dat hij die opkomende spanning ook gebruikt. "Dat terugtrekken doe ik altijd wel, ik ga daar ook goed op. Maar ik moet er niet in doorslaan, want daar ga ik niet harder van schaatsen."
Nuis zegt kort daarop dat het niet is besproken, maar dat hij het wel had gemerkt bij zijn ploeggenoot. "In één keer gaat hij in zijn zone en dan wordt hij heel goed. Ik plaag hem altijd een beetje met zijn gedrag."