People with persistent predatory personalities cause an inordinate amount of pain, personally and globally. Recently, our shared understanding of them has grown, thanks to Dr Karen Mitchell (Guardian)

Dr Mitchell: "I always find the obsession with [actually] diagnosing these people interesting. You don't need to diagnose them, there are a set of personality traits, and you can recognize individuals with those traits. If someone's in political power, you can see those exemplified in behaviour, and most people are perfectly capable of making an assessment of what that signifies."

CEUTA (ANP/AFP) - Voor de tweede dag op rij zijn botsingen tussen de politie en de lokale bevolking in Ceuta donderdag geëscaleerd, een maand na de massale toeloop van duizenden migranten naar de Spaanse enclave in Marokko.

De politie greep in op een strand, nadat een groep demonstranten een gebied was binnengedrongen waar migranten sliepen. Op beelden van de Spaanse publieke omroep is onder meer te zien dat demonstranten tenten en andere spullen in brand steken.

Eerder op de dag hielden tientallen demonstranten een sit-in om te voorkomen dat voertuigen van het Rode Kruis het strand bereikten om voedsel uit te delen aan honderden migranten die daar verblijven.

Woensdagavond zette de politie traangas in om confrontaties tussen demonstranten en migranten die op het strand kamperen te voorkomen. Volgens een politiewoordvoerder liepen de spanningen verder op nadat ongeveer zeventig migranten 's nachts een militair voertuig met vier soldaten met stenen en andere voorwerpen bekogelden.

ZÜRICH (ANP/RTR) - Alison dos Santos heeft donderdag het wereldrecord op de 400 meter horden verbroken. De Braziliaanse atleet kwam tijdens de wedstrijd uit de Diamond League in Zürich tot een tijd van 45,80 seconden. Dos Santos maakte het verschil in de laatste 100 meter.

Het wereldrecord was sinds de Olympische Spelen van 2021 in Tokio in handen van de Noor Karsten Warholm met 45,94 seconden.

Under some strange circumstances, Rockstar is broadcasting the first (official) gameplay footage of Grand Theft Auto VI, the most-anticipated game of the year. Follow along for everything you need to know.

Ah yes, it’s a drug den. We’re in familiar GTA territory here: narcotics, smart phones, tattooed gangsters and a police raid. The duo shoot their way out of the room – the gunplay is very familiar to the series – third-person over the shoulder. I’m getting a distinct True Romance/Leon vibe to this chaos.

These close-up slow-motion killshots are giving me flashbacks to Fallout 3 and its slightly sickening VATS violence

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The Information reported on Wednesday that Nvidia has agreed to buy open-source platform Hugging Face for $12.9 billion. "Deal talks began after Hugging Face, an open-source AI platform developers use to collaborate, test and share tools, received acquisition interest from another suitor," reports CNBC, citing the (paywalled) report. Business Insider separately reported the acquisition talks. From CNBC: If completed, the acquisition would put one of the most widely used platforms for sharing and working with open-source AI models under Nvidia's ownership, expanding the chipmaker's reach further into the software and model ecosystem. Siddy Jobe, a fund manager at Eonopolis Exponential Technologies funds, said it made sense for Nvidia to target a company like Hugging Face, as Nvidia has made it clear that it is not looking to discriminate between closed and open-source models.

"I think Nvidia is very much a community, a platform-based company, and in that respect, I think Hugging Face fits perfectly within that. There is this five-layer cake from Nvidia, and foundational models are one of them," Jobe told CNBC's Squawk Box Europe on Thursday. "It is clear that Nvidia wants to be integrated in the entire stack vertically, going from energy to foundational models and also to applications," he added.

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PWNED Welcome back to PWNED, the weekly column where we explore the frightening and amusing world of foolish infosec errors. This week, it's all about a test site that exposed real information. Have a story about someone leaving a gaping hole in their network? Share it with us at pwned@sitpub.com. Anonymity is available upon request. Our story comes courtesy of Mia Morin, Editor & AI Quality Analyst at Intimeros, a site that rates, reviews, and evaluates AI companions – yes, that means boyfriends and girlfriends, as well as other kinds of pals. The trouble started during a redesign when one of Morin’s colleagues was working on a test version of the site. The test site was supposed to be password-protected, but the colleague turned off the protection so they could show a client what they were working on. Password protection remained disabled for three weeks without anyone noticing. Then, one day, Morin noticed that the test site had been indexed by Google. Apparently, nobody thought to use a robots.txt file to exclude this beta-level domain from search. While the site was publicly accessible without password protection, anyone could see unpublished reviews, prices, and private product notes about the different AI companion services. That’s because the test site was connected to a real live version of the production database. This was all editorial content, so no user data was exposed. However, it could have allowed competitors to see everything that Intimeros was working on and to deduce their entire editorial strategy. After she noticed what was wrong, Morin took swift action to protect the test site from prying eyes. “We restored password protection, blocked search engines from indexing the draft pages and changed all the system access keys,” Morin said. “Now, we secure every test site just like our official website and run weekly automated scans to catch exposed pages.” What we can learn from this is kind of obvious. Never forget to lock down the test or staging versions of your websites. Make sure that they not only require logins, but also have tools in place to block search and AI crawling. Better still, place your staging site on a private server and require someone to use a VPN to get to it in the first place. ®

Google has declared that Android apps distributed through Google Play will have to meet new memory performance thresholds, starting in early 2027. Google is cracking down on poorly optimized code that might otherwise squander what's now a precious commodity, as RAM prices skyrocket and consumers choose phones with leaner specs. "An ecosystem-wide memory crisis is imminent due to rising RAM costs," the Chocolate Factory explains in its technical documentation. "Inefficient memory use, such as a single app with a runaway memory leak that consumes most of the device memory, causes the device to stutter and kill other well-behaving apps in the background. Android has announced strict memory limits, and Play wants to ensure your app’s fall within this and minimize the chances that the device needs to terminate your app." On-device AI probably isn't helping. The new app quality requirements represent an expansion of the Android memory efficiency push announced in June, aimed at "[preventing] 'one bad actor' from destroying the multitasking experience and stability of the user’s entire device." Technical scrutiny is scheduled to take effect in two stages: In February 2027, bad behavior thresholds and code optimization thresholds will come into effect. And in April 2027, the device migration experience – onboarding – will need to support zero-tap credential restoration. The former covers memory usage (Anonymous Resident Set Size + Swap), bitmap memory usage, and DEX code optimization – DEX (Dalvik Executable) files represent a compressed version of an application's Java bytecode. The specific memory requirements depend on the amount of physical RAM available on the device. For a device with 8 GB, an app can use no more than 2.25 GB in the foreground, 1.5 GB for user-perceived services, and 1.5 GB in the background. Devices with more than 16 GB are mostly exempt. Bitmap memory usage is capped at 200 MB in user-perceived services and in background, and 400 MB cached, for all devices. The limits differ somewhat for games. And DEX code optimization is being required to ensure modest memory usage, rapid app launches, and better runtime performance. The second stage requirement, Zero-tap Sign-In, aims to make device migration easier and more secure. As Google's documentation states, "Manual sign-ins during device setup doesn't just create onboarding friction and decrease user retention, it actively exposes apps to critical security vulnerabilities like phishing and credential theft during setup." So as of April, Android devs are advised to use the Android Restore Credentials API to help move user credentials from one device to another. ®