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APELDOORN (ANP) - In het tweede kwartaal van dit jaar zijn 4 procent meer woningen verkocht dan een jaar geleden, meldt het Kadaster. De groei vlakt wel af. In het eerste kwartaal van dit jaar was de toename 18 procent in vergelijking met dezelfde periode een jaar eerder.

Ongeveer 77.000 woningen wisselden van eigenaar. Vooral bij starters vlakte de groei af. Zij kochten afgelopen kwartaal zo'n 28.000 woningen, 1 procent meer dan een jaar eerder. Dat komt volgens het Kadaster doordat investeerders minder woningen verkochten. Deze woningen zijn vaak relatief klein en hebben een lagere prijs, waardoor ze interessant zijn voor starters.

Volgens expert woningmarkt Matthieu Zuidema van het Kadaster is de piek in de zogenoemde uitpondgolf voorbij. Investeerders verkochten de afgelopen jaren juist veel voormalige huurwoningen, mede door strengere regels op de huurmarkt.

Investeerders bezitten dan ook minder woningen. Op 1 juli hadden zij er ruim 745.000, bijna 9 procent van de woningvoorraad. Een jaar geleden was dat nog 9,2 procent. Vooral het bezit van particuliere investeerders neemt af, meldt het Kadaster. In de studentensteden bezitten investeerders een op de zes woningen.

De cijfers tonen aan dat investeerders zich blijven terugtrekken uit de huurmarkt door de woning te verkopen, stelt de belangenvereniging voor particuliere verhuurders Vastgoed Belang. "De desastreuze effecten van onder andere de middenhuurregulering en de enorme belastingdruk in box 3 blijven zichtbaar op de huurwoningvoorraad", aldus algemeen directeur Edward Touw. Vanaf het derde kwartaal van vorig jaar tot en met het tweede kwartaal van dit jaar zijn ruim 39.000 woningen van de huurmarkt verdwenen, volgens de belangenbehartiger.

De prijs van een gemiddelde koopwoning lag afgelopen kwartaal ruim 4 procent hoger dan een jaar geleden op 490.000 euro, meldt het Kadaster. In het eerste kwartaal van dit jaar nam die prijs toe met ruim 5 procent.

WASHINGTON (ANP/AFP) - Een militaire rechtbank zal vermoedelijk in juni 2028 beginnen met het berechten van het vermeende brein achter de aanslagen van 9/11. Dat melden diverse Amerikaanse media op basis van een uitspraak van een rechter.

Khalid Sheikh Mohammed gold als een van de naaste luitenants van Al-Qaida-leider Osama bin Laden voordat hij in maart 2003 in Pakistan werd opgepakt.

Hij zat drie jaar lang gevangen in geheime CIA-cellen voordat hij in 2006 werd overgebracht naar de Amerikaanse militaire basis op Guantanamo Bay op Cuba.

Longtime Slashdot reader schwit1 shares a report from Reuters: China's Moonshot AI is negotiating revenue-sharing agreements with Microsoft, Amazon, and Alphabet's Google, that would allow the U.S. cloud giants to host its blockbuster Kimi K3 model, three people familiar with the talks said. Any deal could mark the first big revenue-sharing pact between a Chinese AI firm and a major U.S. cloud company. The discussions highlight how China's leading AI models, often far cheaper than Western offerings, are gaining traction in the U.S., despite national security concerns in Washington that have led to bans on exports of AI chips to China. They are also taking place despite critical comments about Moonshot from senior U.S. officials.

IPO-bound Moonshot is seeking up to a 30% share of revenue generated from K3-related services on Microsoft's Azure, Amazon Web Services and Google Cloud, according to the sources who declined to be identified because the discussions are private. That would be in line with terms that sources have said the startup has outlined for major customers using the open-weight model. Moonshot has come under fire from U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent who said last month that he might add it to a trade blacklist. U.S. officials have accused the Beijing-based company of stealing from Anthropic's most sophisticated model, Fable, to help create Kimi K3 and illegally acquiring Nvidia chips.

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Both children were born on same day in November 2025 in situation so rare it had not been contemplated by state surrogacy laws

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A Queensland woman gave birth to twin children with separate sets of biological parents last year, in what is believed to be an Australian first situation so rare it had not been contemplated by state surrogacy laws.

The woman, anonymised in a court judgment, conceived an unplanned natural pregnancy about the same time as she received an IVF embryo transfer under a surrogacy arrangement with another couple.

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The FBI on Wednesday said it disrupted a botnet and seized two platforms that Chinese-government cyberoperatives used to hack NASA, the US Senate, the Department of Energy, and several other government agencies and critical networks. The Federal Reserve, Department of Justice, Department of Health and Human Services, and the National Institutes of Health were also among those victimized by the two now-seized hacking tools: a vulnerability scanning and exploitation malware named QScan, and an obfuscation network named QTRouter. The FBI says a People’s Republic (PRC) of China-backed group called QTFY created and operated the two platforms, plus botnets of compromised IoT devices. The Bureau says QTFY’s hackers work for a private PRC company called Nanjing Xinjiuwei. “Payments from the PRC's Ministry of State Security (MSS) to Nanjing Xinjiuwei, for example, indicate that the company conducts malicious cyber activities on behalf of the PRC Government,” according to court documents. “QTFY actors include former members of the PRC's People's Liberation Army (PLA), and they use their PLA relationships to obtain contracts and subcontracts supporting offensive cyber operations,” the documents state. How to build a botnet QScan scans and automatically infects thousands of IoT devices worldwide, and then adds them to the QTRouter network of QTFY-controlled devices. The QTRouter botnet – consisting of these compromised IoT devices, plus commercial proxy service devices, and leased virtual private servers – then serves as an obfuscation network, allowing QTFY and other criminals who pay for the service to conceal the origin of their digital intrusion activities, making these communications appear to originate from local computers. On Monday, a US federal court granted seizure warrants for three domains linked to QTFY: qtproxy.xyz, qt-proxy.org, and qt-team.com. All three domains were hardcoded into both the QScan and QTRouter malware, and the court-authorized seizures made both hacking services inoperable, the Justice Department said. Hacking critical networks since 2018 (at least) The hacking services and malware have been in use since at least 2018, and as recently as this year when QTFY infrastructure compromised the US Senate, according to court documents. The FBI investigated an attempted computer intrusion at NASA in August 2019, during which the Chinese government snoops tried to exploit CVE-2019-11510, a critical vulnerability in Ivanti’s Pulse Secure VPN that allowed attackers to learn legitimate users' usernames and passwords, effectively granting them unauthorized access to protected networks. Ivanti patched the flaw in April 2019. As The Register previously reported, China also abused this bug as a zero-day to break into dozens of defense companies, government agencies, and financial organizations in America and abroad. QTFY later exploited this same CVE in 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic to attack a medical center in Ohio, according to court documents. Other victims in 2019 and 2020 include unnamed financial groups in Michigan and South Korea, and a Missouri insurance agency. The insurance agency attack abused a different vulnerability: CVE-2019-19781, a critical flaw in Citrix VPN products that allowed arbitrary code execution with no account credentials. Years later, in 2024, QTFY hackers also broke into computers at three DOE National Laboratories, NIH, and a US security device manufacturer. “These entities were victims of a zero-day attack against Ivanti Cloud Services Appliance,” the court documents say. The FBI did not respond to The Register’s inquiries, including how many computers QTFY compromised, and whether the crew has ties to any of China’s "Typhoon" groups. PRC goon squad whac-a-mole This latest disruption follows a series of court-ordered seizures intended to hamstring China’s hacking activities over the last few years. In 2025, the FBI removed PlugX surveillance malware from more than 4,000 US computers that had been infected by the PRC-sponsored group Mustang Panda. A year earlier, in 2024, China’s Flax Typhoon burned down their own botnet consisting of hundreds of thousands of infected internet-of-things devices when confronted by the feds. And in late 2023, the FBI disrupted a botnet used by yet another Chinese government attack crew, Volt Typhoon, to attack US and foreign critical infrastructure. In June, however, Lumen’s Black Lotus Labs reported a “significant resurgence” of a botnet linked to Volt Typhoon, with this cluster of injected machines surging to 1,500 compromised routers and IoT devices.®