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De BBB is in Drenthe uit de coalitie met VVD, PvdA en CDA gestapt. Tijdens een bijna zes uur durend debat over de stikstofplannen van de provincie stemde de BBB tegen het beleid van hun eigen gedeputeerde Henk Emmens.

LONDEN (ANP) - Tennisser Novak Djokovic heeft de derde ronde op Wimbledon bereikt. De 24-voudig grandslamwinnaar versloeg de Griek Stéfanos Tsitsipás met 6-3 6-4 6-2. De Serviër treft in de volgende ronde de Fransman Arthur Rinderknech.

De laatste keer dat Djokovic (39) niet voorbij de tweede ronde op Wimbledon kwam, was in 2008. Vorig jaar verloor de zevenvoudig kampioen in de halve finale van de latere winnaar Jannik Sinner uit Italië.

Djokovic kwam tegen de twaalf jaar jongere Tsitsipás goed voor de dag. De huidige nummer 8 van de wereldranglijst verloor geen enkele keer zijn service. Hij won de eerste set na een enkele break en deed hetzelfde in de tweede set. In de derde set won hij vanaf 2-2 vier games op rij.

AMSTERDAM (ANP/BLOOMBERG) - Het Frans-Duitse defensieconcern KNDS stelt zijn beursgang uit. Het bedrijf startte eind vorige maand het traject voor een notering op de beurzen in Parijs en Frankfurt. Maar KNDS meldt woensdag van plan te zijn het proces later pas te zullen hervatten.

Het bedrijf wijst op marktvolatiliteit in de Europese defensiesector. Aandeelhouders zouden hebben laten weten dat ze het proces willen voortzetten op een moment dat de omstandigheden gunstiger zijn.

De stap van KNDS naar de beurs wordt naar verwachting een van de grootste in Europa van de afgelopen jaren. Daarbij zou een waardering aan het concern toegekend worden tussen de 15 miljard en 20 miljard euro.

KNDS bouwt onder meer de Duitse Leopard-tanks, de Franse Leclerc-tanks, artillerie en gevechtsvoertuigen. Het is een van de strategisch belangrijkste defensiebedrijven van Europa.

Anthropic says that it plans to remove hidden codes it added to Claude Code several months ago to catch other AI companies that are trying to steal from its models. Thariq Shihipar, an engineer at Anthropic who works on the Claude Code team, said on Tuesday that a fix should appear on July 1. "This is an experiment we launched in March that was meant to prevent account abuse from unauthorized resellers and protect against distillation," Shihipar explained, using the industry term for copying AI models through repeated queries. "The team has landed stronger mitigations since then and we’ve actually been meaning to take this down for a while." He said that the pull request to remove the code has been merged and should appear in Wednesday's Claude Code release. The experiment, as described by a developer who goes by the name Thereallo, consisted of applying steganography – hiding secret data in plain sight – to the Claude Code system context that gets passed to Anthropic's servers. The relevant code checks Claude Code's base URL environment variable, used to route API requests to a proxy or gateway. If the base URL has been overridden, the code goes on to check the system timezone and whether the hostname matches any entry in a list of known Chinese AI labs, other AI companies, account resellers, and gateway domains. Thereallo said that while it makes sense that Anthropic might try to detect a hostname associated with a Chinese AI rival or a reseller, the implementation should not have been concealed. "[Claude Code] silently alters the system prompt using invisible-ish Unicode markers," Thereallo wrote. "It encodes proxy / gateway classification into a sentence that looks like plain English. It hides the domain list behind XOR and base64. This is not a malicious feature, but it is a weird choice for a developer tool that asks for trust." Asked whether Anthropic disclosed its covert usage tracking mechanism in any of its terms of service documents, a company spokesperson pointed to Shihipar's remarks, which did not address that question. Nor did Anthropic's spokesperson immediately respond to a request to specify what "stronger mitigations" have been implemented to prevent unauthorized resellers and distillation. In February, shortly before the implementation of the steganographic codes, the AI biz said that it was investing in defenses against distillation. These included detection via classifiers and behavioral fingerprinting systems, intelligence sharing with other AI labs, access controls, and countermeasures that make it harder to use model output to reproduce the model. One such defense came to light when the company's Claude Code source leaked. The coding agent includes a Typescript file with a flag called ANTI_DISTILLATION_CC. The flag, when set, injects fake tool data into API requests in an attempt to make that data toxic for model training. Even with its technical defenses against competition, Anthropic urged the AI industry, cloud providers, and government to respond to the threat of model distillation. A recent White House Executive Order that articulates the intent to protect US AI from foreign adversaries shows that the feds have some interest in answering that call. ®

Captain played in deep horror of Iceland defeat and he rescued an England team who were sliding towards disaster

Well maybe, you’re gonna be the one that saves me. On a wild, boisterous, often agonising afternoon under the giant Victorian railway dome of the Atlanta Stadium, the Democratic Republic of Harry Kane progressed to the last 16 of the World Cup.

With England playing like a team terrified of their own feet and 1-0 down to an excellent DR Congo, Kane decided something else was going to happen, scoring two goals in 11 minutes towards the end to turn disastrous defeat into joyful relief. In the process he also saved Thomas Tuchel’s job and perhaps the jobs of his bosses at the Football Association. Because England really had gone at points in this game.

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Longtime Slashdot reader AmiMoJo shares a report from the BBC: New PlayStation games will no longer be released on discs from January 2028, the gaming giant has announced. Sony said in a blog post new games would still be able to be bought in shops, but they would come with a digital code. It comes just days after Rockstar announced the hotly-anticipated Grand Theft Auto VI would similarly launch without a physical disc.

It marks a significant moment for the gaming industry, which has in recent years begun to rely more and more on digital distribution. Sony said the move came "as consumer preferences and the broader entertainment industry continue to shift away from physical discs to digital." "This is a natural direction for Sony Interactive Entertainment to adapt to consumer trends as the general preference for digital media significantly outpaces physical discs," it added. [...] PlayStation said the move would have no impact on games which are already released, or would be released before January 2028.

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Erling Haaland “brings the intensity of a raiding party to the sport”. And: “Haaland can call to mind a shark circling dark waters.”