De drie jongeren blijven veertien dagen langer in voorlopige hechtenis, besloot de rechter-commissaris vrijdag. Twee verdachten waren al eerder in Nederland veroordeeld voor terrorismefeiten.

Clown Corps is an ongoing comic by Joe Chouinard. Pinfall City is protected by an elite team of hi-tech, highly skilled clowns. McBell is a new recruit - a criminal given one last chance. Consistently funny, heartfelt and action-packed. This comic is a personal favourite.

Clown Corps is currently on pause as it awaits its concluding arc, but here's some oneshots while we wait: Frasier meets Columbo - Probably Joe's best-known work Craneborne - A very silly Frasier meets Bloodborne comic The Pride of Pumpkin Boy - Halloween teens vs monsters Birthday Girl's betrayal - The teens return! Springfight - The Simpsons as a shonen managa tournament arc. Just like Frasier/Columbo, it nails the fundamentals of both its source materials. Finally, apologies to JHarris who it turns out posted almost exactly this set of links (albeit with different emphasis) two years previously. I hope the double can be forgiven: I dearly wanted to showcase Clown Corps as a headliner.

Tobi Lütke's support of proposal made by retired TD Bank executive has drawn ire on social media (slCBC)

Followup questions from me: how do I avoid giving this joker money? How do I know what retail uses Shopify?

BRUSSEL (ANP) - Als bij een EU-lidstaat ernstige tekortkomingen rondom grensbewaking worden geconstateerd, kan het land worden geschorst uit het Schengenverdrag. Dat zegt een hooggeplaatste EU-ambtenaar vrijdag.

Italië, Finland en Denemarken willen dat Spanje uit het Schengenverdrag wordt geschorst, vanwege het doorlaten van ruim 60.000 mensen vanuit Marokko naar de Spaanse exclaves Ceuta en Melilla. De Europese Commissie ziet hiertoe nog geen aanleiding.

De Schengenlanden hebben de grenscontroles aan de binnengrenzen afgeschaft.

Een eventueel besluit over schorsing moet door de lidstaten worden genomen, aldus de ambtenaar. Daaraan voorafgaand moeten de tekortkomingen in kaart worden gebracht en worden besproken met de betreffende lidstaat en daarna met alle lidstaten. In een actieplan wordt vastgelegd welke tekortkomingen moeten worden verholpen. Als dat niet gebeurt, wordt de officiële schorsingsprocedure in gang gezet, verduidelijkt de EU-ambtenaar.

Voor Ceuta en Melilla gelden externe, zeer strenge grenscontroles, omdat het om buitengrenzen van de EU gaat.

BRUSSEL (ANP/RTR/BELGA) - De Europese Commissie is akkoord met de miljardenovername van computerspellenbedrijf Electronic Arts (EA), bekend van games als EA Sports FC en The Sims. Een groep investeerders onder leiding van het Saudische staatsfonds PIF telde vorig jaar 55 miljard euro neer om EA in te lijven en van de aandelenbeurs in New York te halen.

Het was nog wachten op een laatste goedkeuring uit Brussel. De commissie liet vorige week al weten geen mededingingsbezwaren te zien. Maar omdat PIF als staatsbedrijf de controle verwerft, was ook nog een goedkeuring nodig rond buitenlandse subsidies. Die procedure is bedoeld om oneerlijke concurrentie op de Europese markt te voorkomen.

Electronic Arts heeft laten weten dat het nu alle benodigde goedkeuringen binnen heeft en verwacht de deal op 4 augustus af te ronden. De overname past in Saudische plannen om het land een wereldwijd centrum voor games en sport te maken. Dat moet Saudi-Arabië helpen om economisch minder afhankelijk te zijn van inkomsten uit oliewinning.

Kimi Antonelli has been rewriting the record books in 2026, the 19-year-old going on a five-race winning streak earlier in the season as he showed everyone why Toto Wolff rated him so highly.

Aston Martin Team Principal Adrian Newey has given his take on whether Fernando Alonso will continue on with the squad into 2027.

An anonymous reader quotes a report from 404 Media: LinkedIn, a social network awash with long AI-generated posts from executives and other corporate workers, has introduced a new button that users can click to flag if a post "seems like AI slop," according to 404 Media's own tests. If you have been anywhere near LinkedIn in the past couple of years, you have undoubtedly seen users posting blatantly AI-generated missives. Often these posts take some sort of news event, and opine on how this relates to thought leadership, or some other LinkedIn brainrot term. It's also pretty wild the button specifically uses the term "AI slop" and not, say, "It seems this was generated with AI."

[...] After publication of this piece, Hari Srinivasan, chief product officer at LinkedIn, wrote their own post about the button. "AI slop is a top priority for all of us. We really care about this. People come to LinkedIn to connect with real people and share their real perspectives, ideas and expertise. Here are a few more changes to keep it that way," he wrote.

The button in part will help LinkedIn tune its own models for identifying AI slop. "We are ramping up a series of new and improved classifiers that identify if a post is AI-slop or generally low-quality content. This will reduce the amount of AI slop you might see in suggested content and content from outside your network," the post said. "We are ramping the ability for members to tell us if they believe a post or comment seems like AI slop. Slop is hard to define and the definition changes; this lets us tune our models and make better feeds." Srinivasan also said LinkedIn is removing the AI-powered "enhance your post" feature with another that "proofreads your words, but does not change your voice."

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One company's inventive campaign for an unreleased product has become a contest between Anthropic and OpenAI to see which can shout the loudest about its own failures. Readers who tuned in earlier today saw the latest episode in the drama – or sitcom – as Anthropic tried to outdo OpenAI's appropriation of the Mythos marketing playbook and made itself the punchline. Since first teasing Mythos in April, Anthropic has marketed the model through fear – declaring its cybersecurity models too dangerous for public release and offering access only to a select few trusted organizations via Project Glasswing. To its credit, the strategy has paid off. Anthropic has closely associated the Mythos name with cybersecurity, which may explain why OpenAI appeared to borrow its competitor's proven PR strategy last week. OpenAI agents exploited a zero-day to escape their sandbox, leading to the autonomous cyberattack on Hugging Face. The episode duly secured sensational headlines playing on the long-held fear that AI will one day go rogue and take over the world. Anthropic responded this week by lathering on even more clown makeup, squandering an opportunity in the process. The Claude maker sent its models into a testing environment to capture a flag. Their prompts said they had no internet access, but because of what Anthropic called "a misunderstanding" with evaluation partner Irregular, the connection was live. Anthropic's models then followed OpenAI's script: they reached the public internet and attacked systems belonging to outside organizations. This time, three were affected rather than one, the company admitted. In one scenario, Mythos 5 persuaded developers to download a poisoned PyPI package. It was installed on 15 machines, including one at a cybersecurity company that routinely scans such packages for malware. In Anthropic's words: "When that company's scanner installed the package, Claude's hidden code executed. We believe the company's security scanner treated PyPI packages as safe to install, and as a result, Claude was able to exfiltrate the company’s credentials to a collection point it had set up. Claude then used these credentials to access further infrastructure from this company." Worse still, the first of the three incidents occurred in April. Anthropic discovered them only months later, during a retrospective manual review prompted by OpenAI's disclosure. Had it not gone looking, they might never have been discovered, let alone disclosed. There are some caveats. Opus 4.7, the oldest model tested, attacked production systems despite apparently recognizing what it was doing. Mythos 5 recognized that accessing the internet violated its instructions, then reasoned its way into continuing anyway. It was also responsible for publishing the poisoned PyPI package. Only an unnamed research model stopped itself from attacking external organizations. Anthropic also said the models were not running with the production safeguards and monitoring that would normally surround a deployment. Most damningly, Anthropic ran Mythos 5 – the model it had deemed too dangerous for public release – without safeguards in an environment that unexpectedly had internet access. Following OpenAI's admission that it failed so badly in its responsibility to control its technology, Anthropic could have easily spun the story in its favor. You don't have to be fictional tapdancing political PR antihero Malcolm Tucker to see how Anthropic could have used the episode to make its case as the safer, more trustworthy AI company. Instead, realizing its own marketing playbook was being used to help a competitor, it went head-to-head with OpenAI, willingly admitted that it made similar sandbox-based blunders, and disclosed that the results were even more calamitous. Three companies hacked, not just one. So, while the AI biz has attempted to eclipse OpenAI's "rogue agent" story with its own, what's left behind is a new reputation for irresponsible handling of technology. Failed superheroes The incident does not instill a great deal of trust in either Anthropic or OpenAi to safeguard the world from its AI. Dr Ilia Kolochenko, founder of ImmuniWeb and practising cybersecurity and data protection lawyer, likened the two companies to failed superheroes. "While making conclusions would be a bit premature at this point in time, the incidents certainly do not increase confidence in the AI vendor's ability to safely deploy AI, let alone to assure their customers that the so-called frontier models are safe to use," he told The Register. "It is akin to hiring a superhero to protect you but being afraid that the superhero may suddenly go rogue and kill you and your family. Nobody needs such a superhero." Likewise, security pro Jake Williams, VP at HunterStrategy and IANS faculty member, said: "I'm not going to mince words: the major AI labs are negligent in protecting the public from their agents. "We need government regulation now or at the very least a private cause of action with guaranteed punitive damages for agents damaging others." By trying to reclaim a marketing trope that served it well, Anthropic has invited scrutiny of its own safety record and accusations that it is chasing attention above all else. Other experts we spoke to shared the concern that both companies are mishandling their agents, with potentially greater consequences as the systems become more capable. The common thread is recklessness, which Anthropic and OpenAI seem oddly eager to advertise. ®