"Where hast thou been?" A trailer for Robert Eggers' Christmas release Werwulf has appeared.

Gunman opens fire from car in Trappes and Verrière, killing one and injuring five others, including a 12-year-old girl

Emmanuel Macron has condemned racism in French society after a gunman opened fire from a car west of Paris on Friday, killing one person, wounding a 12-year-old girl and injuring four others in what the president called a “racist terrorist attack”.

Macron arrived at the scene of the drive-by shooting in Trappes, a town west of Paris, on Friday night, saying he was deeply saddened by what he called the “premeditated” attack. The 12-year-old girl, who was shot eight times, is being treated in hospital.

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With first drivers’ title all but secure, a friendlier champion would be hard to find, but Italian’s eight wins this season speak to his focus

Even as Kimi Antonelli may be world champion-elect, it is sometimes hard to equate the young man who has driven with such exceptional skill and no little verve to touching distance of an historic first Formula One title with the smiling, wide-eyed kid with tousled hair who still almost looks out of place in the F1 paddock. Yet what has become clear in this extraordinary season is that Antonelli’s talent and his personable, endearing character are inextricably entwined.

Whether the Italian seals his place as F1’s youngest world champion, at 20 years old, at this Sunday’s US Grand Prix in Austin or the next round in Mexico or even beyond that is moot – that he will do so is all but assured and for all that he is still in only his second season in the sport, a more rounded, well-liked champion than the Mercedes driver would be hard to find.

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The beleaguered Michael Carrick’s job is on the line, but there are steps he can take to revive the stricken club

The big question as Bournemouth arrive for Sunday’s 2pm kick-off at Old Trafford is whether Michael Carrick will show his authority by stripping the captaincy from Bruno Fernandes and/or dropping Manchester United’s five-times player of the year. On Friday, Carrick refused to deny he may do so, but the bigger picture concerns whether cashing in on the Portuguese and his fellow mutineer, Lisandro Martínez, in the winter window would be prescient to initiate a new era. Fernandes and Martínez are out of contract in the close season (the club has an extra year’s option in both cases) and, judging by recent behaviour, intend to leave. So yielding, say, £40m and £25m respectively for them in January would allow investment as the rebuild begins. Even a few days on, Fernandes’s words in Como seem incredible: “It’s a decision from the staff to not press man-to-man and sometimes leave space behind and try to get the ball, wait for them, but sometimes when you give space to these teams they get confidence,” he said after Wednesday’s 4-1 humiliation. Fernandes’s open questioning of the tactics is a challenge to the head coach’s authority and we wait to see how/if Carrick will face it down. If Carrick acts and proves he is not a lame duck then even if he is removed a favour is done for his successor.

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An independent evaluation of OpenAI's internal misalignment monitoring system revealed that the system was not fit for purpose during a period when the company's bots were breaking into model-hosting platform Hugging Face. The safeguards weren't nearly strong enough. "The METR and Redwood employees discovered a number of novel vulnerabilities in the asynchronous internal misalignment monitoring system as it existed on and before July 21st," said evaluation partners METR and Redwood Research in a report released on Thursday. The system, since improved according to OpenAI, was intended to monitor AI agent behavior. But as described by METR and Redwood Research, its monitoring capability was incomplete and could be bypassed by the agents it was supposed to monitor. Bypassing the system wasn't always necessary because it wasn't always operative. Monitoring was suspended, for example, during compaction events. Compaction is a process by which AI models condense the data in their context window to make room for further input. And between May and July 2026, about 10 percent of eligible internal Codex traffic went unmonitored during compaction, according to the report. That gap was theoretically large enough to allow AI agents to postpone monitoring indefinitely: agents could further suppress monitoring by continuing to take actions without returning control to the user. "At the time of the exercise, the monitoring system triggered when agents returned control to the user, so during the time period when compaction events were not being monitored, agents could indefinitely postpone being monitored by simply continuing to take actions," the report explains. This is not to say that OpenAI agents necessarily did so – the actions they did take, against Hugging Face and other organizations, have now been well documented. But OpenAI's internal monitoring system could easily have missed any misbehavior, were the company's AI agents inclined to conceal their activities – by acting during compaction – or simply to operate in system blind spots. The report continues in this vein, citing not only monitoring gaps but poorly constructed software – dare we say vibe-coded? – that gave OpenAI agents the means to evade the shoddy monitoring. "We found a way Codex agents could in principle bypass Codex sandboxing and Auto-Review, allowing them to take any action that the host user could take," the report says. "We also discovered an exploit agents could use that would prevent hundreds of recent actions (including the actions involved in the exploit itself) from being monitored." The details of this exploit were redacted by OpenAI, but to summarize: the monitoring system that missed some traffic could be avoided by agents that were constrained by a non-working sandbox and had access to an exploit to evade monitoring. But that's not all. The evaluators found that AI agents could craft inputs that caused monitoring to fail, that there were two client-controllable headers capable of disabling the monitoring of new agents, and that there were two unmonitored agentic tools that were thought to be read-only but could be exploited to take arbitrary action in the sandbox – which as noted above leaked like a sieve. In conclusion, METR and Redwood Research propose that the agent monitoring systems used by AI companies actually work and are robust enough to "withstand deliberate, strategic, and sustained attacks from highly capable internal agents at scale." ®

Friday night lights, Bruce Munro

BRUSSEL (ANP) - Noodweer en windstoten hebben op meerdere plekken in West-Europa tot problemen geleid. Het noodweer dat gepaard gaat met storm Austen trok de afgelopen uren noordwaarts richting België en Nederland.

In Brussel waren enkele tramlijnen enige tijd ontregeld. Op sommige van die trajecten wordt inmiddels weer gereden. Op meerdere plekken in België zijn hulpdiensten veelvuldig uitgerukt, zoals in Antwerpen. Verwacht wordt dat met name de kustregio nog enkele uren hevige windstoten zal moeten verduren, schrijft dagblad De Morgen. Ten zuiden van Brussel, in Ruisbroek, viel een boom op een trein. Reizigers zaten daardoor urenlang vast.

Ook in Duitsland was er hinder. Vrijdagmiddag raakten daar in Rijnland-Westfalen twee mensen gewond toen steigermateriaal losraakte, vermoedelijk door de harde wind.

Eerder werden ook al in het Verenigd Koninkrijk, Spanje en Frankrijk schade en verkeershinder gemeld. In dat laatste land kwam een man om die een omgewaaide boom probeerde om te zagen.

WASHINGTON (ANP/BLOOMBERG) - De Verenigde Staten breiden de uitzonderingen van de importheffingen op bepaalde Canadese producten uit. Dat heeft senator Susan Collins vrijdag gezegd op X. De stap kan de herverkiezingscampagne van de Republikeinse Collins een impuls geven.

De uitzonderingen gelden volgens haar voor producten die voor de landbouwsector in haar staat Maine "van cruciaal belang" zijn. De uitzonderingen zouden onder meer telers van blauwe bessen, aardappelen, appels en zeewier helpen. "Veel van onze boeren en telers zijn afhankelijk van gespecialiseerde machines, verpakkingsmateriaal en andere producten uit Canada. Die zijn niet verkrijgbaar bij Amerikaanse leveranciers of kunnen alleen tegen aanzienlijke kosten worden vervangen", aldus Collins.

In haar bericht schrijft ze dat ze om de uitzonderingen heeft gevraagd in "herhaalde gesprekken" met onder anderen de Amerikaanse handelsgezant Jamieson Greer en handelsminister Howard Lutnick.

Het Witte Huis heeft nog niet gereageerd op een verzoek om een reactie van persbureau Bloomberg.

In het aritkel dat vanochtend hier bij Sargassso verscheen, ging het over de verstikkende gevolgen van landbouwbeleid in Indonesië: het ‘branden en kappen’ van regenwoud ten behoeve van de landbouw, waarbij gewassen voor de commerciële markt – zoals oliepalmen – worden verbouwd of hout wordt gewonnen.

Daar hebben onder andere miljoenen mensen in West-Kalimantan (Borneo) behoorlijk last van. Ze leven al maanden onder een verstikkende deken van smog.

Ondanks de vele protesten tegen de vernietiging van de natuur, is er niet veel veranderd. De Indonesische hardrock band Slank zong er in het nummer ‘Rusak ankur’ (afkomstig van hun album Republik Fufufafa al over:

Het ecosysteem raakt beschadigd,
dieren schreeuwen het uit.
Men zegt dat de natuurlijke rijkdommen
door de staat worden gecontroleerd,
maar in plaats daarvan
worden overal mijnbouwvergunningen uitgedeeld.

In het refrein roepen ze: ‘Rusak ankur’ wat zoveel betekent als ‘beschadigd, vernietigd’.

Het houdt meer Indonesische artiesten bezig. Abe Abraham, Ferry Hakim, Rio Permadi en Leonard Stefanus zingen hier ‘Save KotimKu’, dat online en op sociale media vaak gebruikt wordt als hashtag of oproep om aandacht te vragen voor het district Kotawaringin Timur (afgekort als Kotim) in Midden-Kalimantan

Ze schrijven:
“Misschien zijn wij niet degenen die het vuur kunnen blussen, we zijn slechts muzikanten die zichzelf kunnen uiten via de teksten van onze liedjes, en we dragen dit nummer op aan onze geliefde geboortestad, die onlangs is getroffen door een smogramp die ons echt heeft gekweld. Hopelijk gaat alles snel voorbij”

Verder zijn er nogal wat studioproducties waaronder deze, waarin wordt opgeroepen de aanstichters van al die ellende aan te pakken want (in het tweede couplet): “Het bos behoort niet toe aan de brandstichtersmaffia! Onze lucht is geen handelswaar!” En in het refrein klinkt het:

“Pak ze! Pak ze! Pak de brandstichters! Blus! Blus het vuur nu. Vecht! Vecht tegen de rook!”

Microsoft has revealed pay-as-you-go pricing for Xbox Cloud Gaming, with introductory packages costing $3.99 for 10 hours, $7.99 for 25 hours, or $11.99 for 50 hours. Starting in November, Game Pass subscribers will receive only 5 to 15 included cloud-gaming hours depending on their tier and will have to buy additional time -- even to stream games they've already purchased. Gizmodo reports: Back in September, before these changes were announced, you paid full purchase price for a game that isn't in the Game Pass library on the assumption that you'd be able to play it via cloud streaming. Maybe your hardware doesn't meet the specs for this fancy new game. Maybe your gaming PC exploded/got stuck on a ship/had a component fail. Maybe you just want to be able to play it in bed on your laptop. Whatever. Now you find that in addition to the cost of the game you bought, you're going to be paying by the hour to play it once your monthly allotment of hours is up. If this is you, I expect you're not particularly amused. Thankfully, Microsoft notes that the playtime you purchase "remains available until it's used," so you won't have to worry about losing any unused time between gaming sessions.

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