Op de dag dat de musical Soldaat van Oranje stopt, vechten oud-voetballers tegen de kilo’s en zoekt Brody Brantjes in zijn glimmende zwembroek naar publiek voor het NK strandsnooker.
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Longtime Slashdot reader schwit1 shares a report from PCMag: A lawsuit claims that WhatsApp's end-to-end encryption is a sham, and is demanding damages, but the app's parent company, Meta, calls the claims "false and absurd." The lawsuit was filed in a San Francisco US district court on Friday and comes from a group of users based in countries such as Australia, Mexico, and South Africa, according to Bloomberg.
As evidence, the lawsuit cites unnamed "courageous whistleblowers" who allege that WhatsApp and Meta employees can request to view a user's messages through a simple process, thus bypassing the app's end-to-end encryption. "A worker need only send a 'task' (i.e., request via Meta's internal system) to a Meta engineer with an explanation that they need access to WhatsApp messages for their job," the lawsuit claims. "The Meta engineering team will then grant access -- often without any scrutiny at all -- and the worker's workstation will then have a new window or widget available that can pull up any WhatsApp user's messages based on the user's User ID number, which is unique to a user but identical across all Meta products."
"Once the Meta worker has this access, they can read users' messages by opening the widget; no separate decryption step is required," the 51-page complaint adds. "The WhatsApp messages appear in widgets commingled with widgets containing messages from unencrypted sources. Messages appear almost as soon as they are communicated -- essentially, in real-time. Moreover, access is unlimited in temporal scope, with Meta workers able to access messages from the time users first activated their accounts, including those messages users believe they have deleted." The lawsuit does not provide any technical details to back up the rather sensational claims.
As evidence, the lawsuit cites unnamed "courageous whistleblowers" who allege that WhatsApp and Meta employees can request to view a user's messages through a simple process, thus bypassing the app's end-to-end encryption. "A worker need only send a 'task' (i.e., request via Meta's internal system) to a Meta engineer with an explanation that they need access to WhatsApp messages for their job," the lawsuit claims. "The Meta engineering team will then grant access -- often without any scrutiny at all -- and the worker's workstation will then have a new window or widget available that can pull up any WhatsApp user's messages based on the user's User ID number, which is unique to a user but identical across all Meta products."
"Once the Meta worker has this access, they can read users' messages by opening the widget; no separate decryption step is required," the 51-page complaint adds. "The WhatsApp messages appear in widgets commingled with widgets containing messages from unencrypted sources. Messages appear almost as soon as they are communicated -- essentially, in real-time. Moreover, access is unlimited in temporal scope, with Meta workers able to access messages from the time users first activated their accounts, including those messages users believe they have deleted." The lawsuit does not provide any technical details to back up the rather sensational claims.
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NEW DELHI (ANP) - De EU en India hebben dinsdag een handtekening gezet onder een zogenoemd veiligheids- en defensiepartnerschap. Daarmee wordt toegezegd dat India en de EU meer zullen gaan samenwerken op het gebied van defensie, maritieme veiligheid, cyberaanvallen en terrorismebestrijding.
Eerder tekende de EU ook al zulke partnerschappen met Canada en het Verenigd Koninkrijk. Daarin werd afgesproken dat deze landen ook mochten deelnemen aan een EU-miljardenfonds voor defensie-investeringen, SAFE. Voor India lijkt dat nog niet het geval.
Eerst moeten onderhandelingen worden begonnen over in hoeverre India en de EU geclassificeerde veiligheidsinformatie zullen uitwisselen. Pas als die zijn afgerond, kan de weg worden vrijgemaakt voor India om deel te nemen aan "EU-veiligheids- en defensie-initiatieven", meldt de Europese Commissie.
Weerbaarheid
Het partnerschap maakt volgens Ursula von der Leyen, voorzitter van de Europese Commissie, beide partijen "weerbaarder tegen alle vormen van bedreigingen".
Naast een veiligheidspartnerschap sloten de EU en India dinsdag ook een handelsdeal. Daarin is afgesproken de importtarieven voor onder meer Europese auto's en landbouwproducten af te schalen of af te schaffen. De deal kwam in een stroomversnelling terecht nadat zowel de EU als India te maken kreeg met importheffingen vanuit de VS, waardoor beide kampen op zoek moesten naar nieuwe afzetmarkten.
EMDEN (ANP/DPA) - Een autotransportschip is stuurloos op de Noordzee ten noorden van het Nederlandse Waddeneiland Rottumerplaat. Het schip was maandagavond vertrokken vanuit het Duitse Emden, een haven vlakbij de Nederlandse grens, maar er brak brand uit aan boord. De brand in de machinekamer is inmiddels geblust, meldt het Duitse Centrale Commando voor Maritieme Noodsituaties (CCME).
Aan boord van het schip, Thames Highway, zijn volgens het CCME achttien bemanningsleden en een loods. Er zijn geen gewonden. Het schip is stuurloos en zal door sleepboten terug naar de haven van Emden worden gesleept.
Het schip, varend onder de vlag van de Bahama's, was van Emden onderweg naar de haven van het Engelse Grimsby. Aan boord zijn volgens het CCME 1294 voertuigen, waaronder 477 elektrische auto's.
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Looking at the head-to-head, Svitolina has beaten Gauff before at the Australian Open, but that was in 2021, when Gauff was only 16 and hadn’t yet graduated to the status of double grand slam champion. Gauff has defeated Svitolina in the two matches they have played since, but they did both go to three sets. And I wouldn’t be surprised if this match goes the distance too. Svitolina is in supreme form, having won all nine of her matches in 2026.
Gauff and Svitolina have made their entrance, with the Rod Laver Arena roof closed. That’s always the case for the night session walk-outs, but we’re not sure yet if the the heat rule is in place which would mean the roof stays on for the match. It’s still 42C (!!!) at 7pm in the evening. Zverev placed his match under the roof earlier, the doubles matches are taking place under the roof on Margaret Court and the start of the wheelchair events have been postponed until tomorrow.
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Op de A20 ter hoogte van Schiedam is dinsdagochtend een botsing geweest tussen twee auto's, een kraanwagen en een hondenwagen van de politie. Daardoor kwam het verkeer tijdens de spits in de richting van Hoek van Holland vast te staan. Twee rijstroken werden afgesloten. Bij het ongeluk raakte niemand gewond.
