De naaktfoto's en privégegevens van honderden Nederlandse en Belgische vrouwen worden verhandeld op het dark web, het verborgen deel van het internet. Dat melden RTL Nieuws en het Vlaamse VTM Nieuws. Een website biedt daar kant-en-klare pakketten aan met intieme foto's, contactgegevens en socialemediaprofielen, waarmee de vrouwen kunnen worden lastiggevallen en afgeperst.

Het gaat om 190 slachtoffers uit Nederland en 28 uit België. Sommige beelden zijn meer dan tien jaar oud, andere zijn recent gemaakt. In totaal worden op de website 'afperspakketten' van meer dan 10.000 vrouwen wereldwijd aangeboden.

Op de website staan meer dan 850.000 beelden van slachtoffers. Per land krijg je een lijst met namen van vrouwen en hoeveel beelden er van hen beschikbaar zijn. Elk slachtoffer heeft zijn eigen profielpagina met daarop hun naam, woonadres, geboortedatum, telefoonnummer en e-mailadres. Ook alle socialemediaprofielen staan erbij vermeld, zoals Instagram en LinkedIn.

A billion meals a year are wasted in this country. We need food businesses and government to make redistribution the default route

• Charlotte Hill is chief executive of the food redistribution organisation Felix

How often does this happen? You open the fridge and find some ingredient you meant to use but didn’t get round to, and even though it’s still edible you think perhaps it’s just easier to throw it away. In the UK it’s estimated that an average household wastes about three meals a week, or 156 meals a year.

Household fridges are one thing. But across the food sector more than 1bn meals’ worth of easily accessible surplus food is wasted each year in the UK for the same reason: because it is easier to throw it away. That equates to 470,000 tonnes – enough to feed every child in the UK three meals a day for a month. When so many people are struggling to afford food, that is a staggering amount, and what’s even more shocking is that it is good quality and nutritious.

Charlotte Hill is chief executive of the food redistribution organisation Felix

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In a squad with 17 nationalities from five continents, communication is key – and the Danish club enjoyed a bumper summer transfer window

If there is a secret to Midtjylland’s success in the transfer market then it starts in the classroom. Before this summer the Danish club renowned for an innovative approach had banked more than €200m (£170m) in sales since 2018, and they have just enjoyed the most profitable window in their short history.

The departure of the Guinea-Bissau striker Franculino Djú for Trabzonspor and the Chile forward Darío Osorio’s move to Crystal Palace on loan with an obligation to buy will potentially bring in €62m (£53.2m), with both deals completed in 48 hours at the end of the window. That followed the departures of the homegrown winger Aral Simsir and South Korean defender Lee Han-beom for Club Brugge for another €25m. The next batch of recruits included David Martínez, a 20-year-old Venezuela international from the MLS side LAFC. “I think hectic will be a good word,” says the technical director, Kristian Kjær, of the past couple of months.

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Our cartoonist on the 25th anniversary of the England midfielder’s one-man rescue act at Old Trafford

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Four members of disgraced ex-president Jair Bolsonaro’s family have been elected to office, most notably his wife and son Flávio, who won the first round of voting to be Brazil’s new president

The weekend’s elections in Brazil not only put Jair Bolsonaro’s eldest son, Flávio Bolsonaro, in the lead in the presidential race, but also underscored how far the former president has come in building a political dynasty.

As his far-right senator son heads into a runoff against the leftist incumbent, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, a sweeping far-right victory in congressional races also secured seats for Jair Bolsonaro’s wife, two of his sons and one of his brothers.

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Researchers argue incorrect binding of Voynich manuscript radically changes ideas about its drawings and indecipherable text

It has been called the world’s most mysterious manuscript: a medieval set of pages filled with botanical drawings, astronomical diagrams, pictures of nude women and indecipherable text. Claimed at various times to be a book in a lost language, a musical score, an instruction manual or just an elaborate hoax, the so-called Voynich manuscript’s true meaning has defied cryptographers and codebreakers for centuries.

Now, new research offers an explanation for why a scholarly consensus over this enduring puzzle has been so hard to come by: not only because its truth is so profoundly mysterious – but because everyone has been reading its pages in the wrong order.

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Former Duke of York is attempting to quash search warrants that led to his arrest in February

Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor has been warned not to use the king’s private money to fund his legal action against Thames Valley police.

The former Duke of York is attempting to quash search warrants that led to his arrest, with a private high court hearing due to take place on Thursday.

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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: As bipartisan backlash against Flock grows, some cities are asking anti-surveillance advocates and media outlets to pay eye-popping fees -- including charging tens of thousands or even millions -- to get information about how police departments are using and potentially abusing AI-enabled camera systems that track every vehicle that passes them. On Monday, the Texas Tribune reported that city officials in a Fort Worth suburb, North Richland Hills, asked one group to pay $2.3 million before it would fulfill a public records request for Flock data. To reach that high fee, officials claimed that searching "about a terabyte worth of communications about errors, misuse, and effectiveness of the Flock system" would take approximately 14 years of labor at a rate of $15 per hour.

Phil Mynona, who filed the request using a pseudonym on behalf of his group, the Texas Privacy Coalition, told the Tribune that the fee seemed "ludicrous" and designed to stifle his public records searches. Mynona has sought similar records from more than 200 law enforcement agencies across the US, and he said it was impossible to predict how cities assessed fees for Flock records. Some cities provided more than 400,000 pages of documents for free, while others charged $5,000. Other groups, including a Houston news station called KPRC, have seen officials quote up to $121,000 for Flock records, the Tribune reported. The high price tags may be hiding data that anti-surveillance groups note have triggered audits, arrests, and changes in how law enforcement uses cameras, including decisions to get rid of cameras. Further reading: Flock Blamed for Wrongful 13-Day Imprisonment and a Police Stalking Incident in Florida

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