Een synagoge in Rotterdam was in maart doelwit van een aanslag. Zes verdachten stonden dinsdag voor het eerst voor de rechter. Het Openbaar Ministerie ziet een terroristisch motief, de verdachten niet. “Hij had geen flauw idee waar hij in was beland.”

Apple says that its next-gen operating system will allow users to update their weak and compromised passwords with a single tap. Upgrades coming to iOS 27, announced at Tim Cook’s last Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) this week, introduce a significant change to the way users manage their passwords. “Building on its ability to alert users about weak and compromised passwords, Passwords can now automatically fix these for users with just a tap,” Apple said on Monday. “Using Apple Intelligence and Safari to agentically take action on a user’s behalf, Passwords securely navigates through websites to sign in and upgrade their accounts to strong passwords.” The iGadget-maker’s existing password manager already flags passwords that are known to be included in prior data breaches, checking whether they appear in known data leaks. However, current Passwords still requires users to update affected accounts themselves and does not offer a way to change multiple compromised credentials at once. Selecting one of those alerts typically takes users to the relevant account page, where they must complete the password change manually. The new update is designed to remove much of that legwork, with iOS 27 automatically navigating supported websites and updating eligible accounts to stronger passwords after user approval. Of course, in the very brief section of the video in which the new capability was announced, the feature worked flawlessly. In practice, however, it remains to be seen how effective Passwords is at agentically navigating different websites’ login processes on behalf of users, especially if MFA is also set up on the account. And for those of you who remember a story The Register covered earlier this year about the (in)security of AI-generated passwords, fret not. Apple’s Passwords app generates solid passwords by default – strings that, according to NordPass’ online password checker, are “strong” and would take centuries to crack. Security company Irregular’s research from February looked at scenarios where users were querying LLM chatbots for password ideas, rather than looking at those generated by purpose-built password managers. Siri state of affairs As predicted by many, this year’s WWDC put Siri, now known as Siri AI, front and center as Apple looks to deliver on its promises made two years ago. It announced Apple Intelligence in 2024, but the offering has underdelivered on pretty much every count. Analysts who spoke to The Register after the event on Monday were optimistic about what they saw on the AI front, but described Apple’s ability to deliver value for developers and users on its second roll of the dice as a credibility test. The company announced a wide range of small AI-enabled upgrades coming soon to iOS 27, powered by Apple's Foundation Models, developed in collaboration with Google and its Gemini technology, in addition to the agentic password-fixing tease. Individually, these features, such as enabling users to create shortcuts or Safari extensions by prompting Apple Intelligence using natural language, and Safari’s Notify Me, which allows users to monitor specific web pages for updates, are not revolutionary. They’re also not the type of features that are poised to set the AI industry alight. But for some, winning the AI race is less about being first to market with the biggest, baddest model; it’s about using AI in the most useful way. "Rebuilt from the ground up, Apple is trying to make AI feel native, useful, and invisible across the devices people already use every day," said Francisco Jeronimo, IDC VP of client devices. "This matters because the winning AI experience for consumers will not be the loudest or most technically complex. It will be the one that understands context, respects privacy, works reliably across apps, and reduces friction without forcing users to change behaviour." Apple’s iOS 27 will launch to the wider public in the fall, while devs can get their hands on the beta version now. This won’t come with the new dedicated Siri AI app, though. You’ll have to join a waiting list for that one. ®

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Humans have been secretly abusing aliens for almost 80 years in this big-hearted thriller starring Josh O’Connor as a worried whistleblower and a never-more-magnetic Emily Blunt as a weather forecaster channelling UFO chat

The old school is the new school in this very enjoyable and entirely ridiculous space-alien conspiracy adventure from screenwriter David Koepp and director Steven Spielberg; it is cheerfully mischievous and deadly serious in equal measure. It has something of Hitchcock from North By Northwest, Christopher Nolan from Inception and Spielberg from pretty much every other movie he’s ever made. Spielberg incidentally appears in the trailer for this film, disclosing that, hand-on-heart, he really believes in its contents, in the way I imagine CS Lewis believed in Aslan and the secret Narnian sovereignty of Peter and Susan.

Only Spielberg could get away with taking two of the world’s best-known hoaxes – Roswell and crop circles – and treating them with judicious deadpan respect. With heartfelt idealism, Spielberg also asks us to believe that should the ultimate truth come out, people everywhere would be terribly upset at the way captured aliens have been vivisected. (I suspect that would be very far down the list of our concerns.)

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People flee historic district of ancient city after airstrikes hit residential areas and damage archaeological sites

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Israel has bombed the city of Tyre, killing eight and injuring at least 32 people, and struck dozens of other villages in south Lebanon as it issued forced evacuation orders for the historic Christian quarter of the ancient city for the first time.

Israel struck the al-Masaken neighbourhood without warning on Tuesday morning, sending smoke plumes high above the city’s buildings and igniting fires. Further airstrikes were carried out across the city and a series of bombings hit Abbasieh, a village north of Tyre.

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Dankzij mijn vooruitziende blik, min of meer behorend bij mijn positie, zag ik kans nu al Ronald Koeman, coach van Oranje, te interviewen ná het WK.

Belachelijk? Akkoord, maar ook sceptici zullen bezwijken voor deze enerverende thriller die alle UFO-obsessies van meesterfilmer Spielberg inzet, met componist John Williams – 94 jaar – als geheim wapen.

AMSTERDAM (ANP) - De AEX-index van de aandelenbeurs in Amsterdam is met een bescheiden winst gesloten. Chipbedrijven gaven veel van hun eerdere winsten prijs, nadat in New York grote chipfabrikanten ook terrein hadden prijsgegeven. Beleggers wachtten daarnaast af hoeveel waarde ze moeten hechten aan de bewering van de Amerikaanse president Donald Trump dat onderhandelingen over vrede in het Midden-Oosten in de laatste fase zitten.

De AEX sloot 0,2 procent hoger op 1046,86 punten. De MidKap daalde juist 0,4 procent tot 1068,17 punten. De beurzen in Frankfurt en Londen zakten tot ruim 1 procent, terwijl de beurs in Parijs 0,1 procent won.

Chipfondsen ASMI en Besi stegen tot 2,2 procent, maar stonden eerder op de dag veel hoger. Chipmachinemaker ASML eindigde met een min van 0,4 procent, na eerder nog op ruim 4 procent winst te hebben gestaan. Hun opmars verloor aan kracht toen op Wall Street duidelijk werd dat beleggers relatief dure techaandelen weer inwisselden voor andere beleggingen. Eind vorige week verloren Amerikaanse chipbedrijven fors aan beurswaarde door de vrees voor renteverhogingen, maar ze toonden maandag weer herstel. Die opleving kreeg dinsdag geen vervolg.

Van de hoofdfondsen op het Damrak was dsm-firmenich de sterkste stijger met een plus van 7,8 procent. De Amerikaanse toezichthouder FDA stemde in met een verzoek van het gezondheids- en ingrediëntenbedrijf om de stof bemotrizinol goed te keuren voor gebruik in zonnebrandcrème in de Verenigde Staten.

Olie- en gasconcern Shell was in de AEX de grootste verliezer met een min van 1,6 procent, in het kielzog van de dalende olieprijzen. Branchegenoot BP zakte in Londen 3 procent. Het bedrijf herstructureert de organisatie, waarbij weer een duidelijk onderscheid komt tussen divisies die gas en olie zoeken en oppompen en verkopende onderdelen.

Op de Londense beurs was ook aandacht voor farmaceut GSK. Het bedrijf kondigde aan de Amerikaanse ontwikkelaar van longkankermedicatie Nuvalent te kopen voor 10,6 miljard dollar. Aandelen van GSK zakten 0,5 procent.