An anonymous reader quotes a report from TorrentFreak: Mexican broadcaster TelevisaUnivision (TU) has obtained (PDF) one of the broadest anti-piracy injunctions ever issued by a U.S. federal court. After initially targeting five pirate IPTV streaming operations, the case expanded to cover well over 500 domain names, requiring intermediaries including Cloudflare, GitHub, and a Mexican bank to comply. In addition, the injunction also covers pirate services and content that hasn't been created yet. [...] The case was relatively targeted, naming the IPTV services Thunder TV, Sunset TV, Pop TV, Kaelus TV, and Tele Latino, as well as their alleged operators. The broadcaster argued that these pirate IPTV services threatened its business. TU holds the World Cup rights for sixteen Latin American territories, and its license with FIFA requires it to keep the Mexican broadcast signal from reaching the United States. The pirate services, it argued, put it in breach of that contract, exposing it to "termination and forfeiture of hundreds of millions of dollars in payments." To stop this immediate threat, the company requested a temporary restraining order, hoping to shut down the IPTV services effective immediately.

[...] Judge Kathleen Williams granted the temporary restraining order (PDF) on June 5, one day after the case was filed, without hearing from any of the defendants. The initial order prohibited the defendants from infringing TU's own copyrighted works, which include telenovelas and other programming, and from using its trademarks, including all content linked to its licensed World Cup broadcast. Importantly, the order also targeted third parties acting "in active concert," including ISPs, hosts, CDNs, domain registrars, registries, app stores, ad networks, social platforms, search engines, and payment processors. These were ordered, on TU's request and with notice, to disable the listed domains and IP addresses and unmask whoever was behind them. [...]

While the injunction is noteworthy for many reasons, the most striking feature is that it's specifically written to include things that don't yet exist. That starts with the content it protects. The order isn't limited to TU's current catalog or the World Cup rights, it covers the infringement of "any copyrighted works or broadcasts that Plaintiffs may in the future produce, license, or acquire rights to transmit." In other words, it covers future copyrights that did not exist when the order was signed. The same applies to the pirate services themselves. The injunction defines its target as the named IPTV operations "and any comparable system," whether "currently in existence or developed in the future," and it applies "regardless of the branding, domain name, or technical configuration used."

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20 years on from Jenson Button’s first Grand Prix victory in Hungary, here’s how the 2009 World Champion’s style evolved throughout his career.

It is always tough for a new team to join Formula 1 and Cadillac have faced some early problems, but don't bet against them picking up points in 2026.

Katalyst Space is continuing to make progress in the rescue of the spacecraft that is supposed to rescue NASA's Swift observatory. The spin of the LINK vehicle, which was launched in July on a mission to raise the orbit of NASA's Swift observatory, is now 1.47 degrees per second, down from 9 degrees per second when recovery operations began. According to Katalyst Space, it will remain at there "while the team prepares for the next phase of the mission." The next step is a "significant" flight software update. With a substantial chunk of the attitude control system with which LINK launched now inoperable, a change was inevitable to reflect the spacecraft's new configuration. Katalyst Space stated, "This will restore full attitude control and allow the team to begin the phasing maneuvers needed to align LINK’s orbit with Swift." The company also attempted to allay concerns about how much fuel had been expended in the recovery. One of LINK's electric propulsion thrusters was used to regain control of the spacecraft, and less than 100 grams of propellant was consumed "to conserve fuel for the rendezvous and boost phase of the mission." According to NASA, LINK's three ion thrusters are powered by approximately 130 pounds (60 kg) of xenon gas. It remains unclear what caused the failure in attitude control, although in an earlier update Katalyst Space stated, "During commissioning, the Katalyst team encountered a series of technical issues related to attitude control of the spacecraft." The incident left LINK with only one out of three reaction wheels operable and "partial RCS functionality." The reduction in roll rate to 1.47 degrees per second is a critical step to recovery, and a hoped-for rendezvous and rescue of the Swift observatory, which is getting dangerously close to the point of no return in terms of altitude. Assuming the flight software update works as planned, the next stage will be a rendezvous followed by a grapple of NASA's Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory using LINK's three robotic arms. Once captured, the plan is to have LINK gradually raise Swift back to near its original orbit of 370 miles (600 km) over the course of several months. Once done, LINK will detach and re-enter Earth's atmosphere. ®

The debate about whether enterprises need an internal platform is over. Google’s 2025 DORA research found that 90 percent of organizations now report using an internal platform, and 76 percent have established dedicated platform teams. The question for IT leaders is no longer “should we build a platform?” It’s “will the platform we’ve built survive what’s coming?” The honest answer for most IT organizations is no — not without work. The platform you stood up over the past few years was designed for human developers shipping containerized apps at a human pace. That world is gone. Many forces have piled onto platforms in the last two years, and together they are exposing the cracks. At the base of every crack is infrastructure — the developer-centric substrate that was never designed to provision GPUs on demand, govern AI agents, or enforce cost control at the moment of provisioning. Start with the obvious one. Most developers are now using AI coding assistants. AI-assisted development has become mainstream, dramatically increasing the volume of code that organizations can generate and review. The bottleneck has moved. It’s no longer about writing code — it’s about delivering it. Your pipelines were never sized for that throughput, and the developer’s job has quietly changed from author to reviewer and orchestrator of machine-generated work. Then there’s a brand-new kind of user knocking on the door: the AI agent. This is the non-human persona platform teams have increasingly had to design for over the last decade. Agents need authentication, token usage regulation and management at an organization and user level, GPU allocation, MCP compatibility, scoped permissions, non-human identity, audit logging, and hard guardrails on what they’re allowed to do. Most platforms have no native answer for any of it. Cost is the third pressure. As per Broadcom’s Private Cloud Outlook 2026 study - 97 percent of IT leaders believe some of their public cloud spend is wasted, and 52 percent estimate that waste exceeds 25 percent of their total public cloud budget. AI infrastructure makes it dramatically worse. GPU instances, inference endpoints, and training jobs dwarf traditional spend. On top sits the token cost of every prompt and retry — a category most cost-reporting tools simply can’t see. Retrospective FinOps, the monthly review and quarterly cleanup sprint, can’t catch a misconfigured AI workload that burns through budget overnight. Privacy, security and sovereignty round out the list. AI introduces new vast attack surfaces — shadow AI sprawl, prompt injection, model poisoning, inference data leaks — that no SAST or DAST scan in your pipeline was built to detect. Meanwhile the EU AI Act, US executive orders, and data residency rules keep adding compliance requirements. Platform Engineering 2.0 Evolution, not a Rebuild Here’s the part worth hearing clearly: none of this means tearing up what you’ve built. The foundations — Platform as Product, golden paths, shift-left security, self-service Internal Developer Platforms (IDPs) — still hold. The discipline doesn’t reset at each phase. It evolves. What’s described as Platform Engineering 2.0 is an extension of those foundations across five pillars, not a do-over. The first pillar is an AI-native platform. Your IDP evolves into what’s increasingly being called an Agentic Development Platform (ADP), treating AI workloads as first-class citizens and AI agents as first-class users. Same operating model, expanded substrate. Second, is a multi-persona experience. Most platforms today serve application developers well and treat everyone else as a second-class citizen. That leaves significant value on the table unrealized. Security teams, data scientists, ML engineers, FinOps analysts, business leaders, and agents all need the platform, each with their own interface sitting on shared APIs. Third, is embedded FinOps. The shift is from rear-view-mirror reporting to cost decisions made at provisioning time. Every developer becomes a FinOps practitioner by default — not through training, but because the platform surfaces cost at the moment of action. Fourth, security shifts down. Shift-left moved security earlier in the pipeline but dumped the load onto developers, and most vulnerabilities still surface in production. Shifting down means embedding security into the platform and runtime layers themselves, so it’s invisible to developers and immutable by design. Fifth, composable by design. The future isn’t build versus buy — it’s compose. API-first, swappable building blocks let you replace one CI/CD tool or observability stack without cascading changes. The CNCF projects ecosystem has grown from about 50 projects in 2018 to more than 200 today; rigid platforms can’t keep pace with that choice surface. Where to start: AI native platform readiness Platform Engineering 2.0 begins with modernizing that infrastructure foundation. Don’t try to do all five at once. Audit your platform against the ceilings and start where the friction is worst — that’s where you’ll have executive sponsorship and a clear ROI story. For most organizations, the 12-month milestone that matters most is AI-native readiness: GPU workload support; agents; non-human identity; token economics; and MCP gateway exposure. Start by auditing your current IDP for three gaps: GPU/accelerator provisioning; non-human identity management; and real-time cost attribution at provisioning time. If all three are missing, your platform is already behind. The teams that built golden paths for developer autonomy are now being handed the keys to enterprise-wide agentic autonomy. That’s the largest mandate the discipline has ever held. The window is open and the foundations are already in place. What’s left is to extend them — before the platform becomes the bottleneck it was built to remove. Read more: Platform Engineering 2.0 whitepaper from Broadcom and Platformengineering.org — a detailed framework for this evolution: brcm.tech/PE2WhitePaper Contributed by Broadcom

DEN HAAG (ANP) - Het ministerie van Infrastructuur en Waterstaat (I&W) overweegt om meer vaste borden te plaatsen en de belijning te veranderen op de snelwegen naar de Duitse grensovergang. Sinds de oosterburen grenscontroles uitvoeren, zijn er vaak files en meer ongelukken op de laatste kilometers voor de grens.

Het ministerie onderzoekt nu wat voor permanente maatregelen er moeten komen, zoals andere belijning en meer borden. Deze moeten in de plaats komen van de mobiele tekstkarren waarvan er nu veel langs de weg staan. Ook staan er nu mobiele matrixborden die indien nodig een lagere maximumsnelheid aangeven.

Dit soort tijdelijke maatregelen zijn er nu al bij de grensovergangen op de A1 bij Oldenzaal, de A7 bij Oudeschans, de A12 bij Zevenaar, de A37 bij Klazinaveen en de A76 bij Simpelveld. Het ministerie zegt alle grensovergangen waar de Duitsers al dan niet continu controleren mee te nemen in het onderzoek.

MADRID/CEUTA (ANP) - De Spaanse Guardia Civil vreest dat er 15 augustus weer een heleboel mensen kunnen proberen Ceuta binnen te dringen. Bronnen bij de politie van de nieuwszender 20 minutos zeggen dat de toestand vooral op sociale media nauwlettend in de gaten wordt gehouden en dat 15 augustus is genoemd als datum voor een nieuwe massale intocht. Dit is "veel meer dan een gerucht", beklemtoonde een bron bij de Guardia Civil.

Het gaat om oproepen op WhatsApp, Instagram en Facebook die honderdduizenden mensen volgen. De bronnen vrezen niet zo'n stormloop als afgelopen week, maar wel iets omvangrijks.

Weer wordt Fnideq als verzamelpunt genoemd. Die Marokkaanse kustplaats ligt circa 2,5 kilometer onder de zuidelijke grens van Ceuta. Bij de 'invasie' van meer dan 70.000 migranten donderdag en vrijdagmorgen afgelopen week trokken mensen daar ongestoord langs een Marokkaanse grenspost en gingen onder meer via de zee om een barrière heen het Spaanse territorium binnen.

RIDDERKERK (ANP) - In Ridderkerk zijn deze week ruim 2,7 miljoen illegale sigaretten in beslag genomen door de FIOD en de douane. Het merendeel van de rookwaar werd gevonden in drie bestelbussen achter een bedrijfspand.

Volgens de FIOD blijkt uit onderzoek dat de sigaretten uit het buitenland waren opgehaald en vervolgens naar Ridderkerk werden gebracht, met de bedoeling ze verder te distribueren in Nederland.

In de bestelbussen lagen 2.688.000 sigaretten waarover geen accijns was betaald. In de omgeving lagen in een personenauto nog eens 60.000 illegale sigaretten en een vuurwapen.

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Tijdens de actie op maandag 3 augustus zijn twee mannen aangehouden. In een woning is 7500 euro aan contant geld gevonden en in beslag genomen. De rechter-commissaris heeft woensdag besloten dat een van de verdachten veertien dagen blijft vastzitten.

Vorige maand maakte de douane bekend in de eerste zes maanden van dit jaar 106 miljoen illegale sigaretten te hebben onderschept.

German authorities investigating whether a foreign state is involved as they say a ‘ripped’ detonator stopped device going off

A catastrophe with multiple casualties was possibly only narrowly averted by the discovery of a drone carrying explosives at Leipzig airport, German officials said, as they examined whether a foreign state could be behind the plot.

One of the Ukrainian aircrafts next to where the bomb drone was found was loaded with military ammunition, according to a classified police report quoted by the public broadcasters WDR and NDR and the Süddeutsche newspaper.

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If you have to Google an internet or Gen Z/alpha slang term, you absolutely shouldn’t be using it. I’m accepting this milestone with quiet dignity

I’ve recently reached an important adult milestone in my life. Getting married? No. Having a baby? No. Buying a house? Don’t be ridiculous, I’m a writer in Australia. This milestone was small, but important: I finally had to Google a Gen Z slang term.

I know this may be something many of you have passed already, along with your houses and babies, but it’s only recently started looming on the horizon for me. I am someone who has been online for a long time. It’s been necessary for my career, but it’s also my favourite hobby: going on the internet.

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There’s a difference between longing for the past and assuming it was better, writes advice columnist Eleanor Gordon-Smith. The trick is knowing which you’re feeling

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Is nostalgia a negative emotion? I often feel nostalgic these days. It is a background noise that I am trying to ignore.

It was especially present during the pandemic, when my nostalgia seemed to spread into a species of grief for lost places and activities. I find myself thinking sadly about places I won’t be able to visit for a very long time.

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Brandon Relph, who founded first company at 13, joins strategy team in ‘much-needed step’ for the broadcaster

A 26-year-old business prodigy and self-styled gen Z whisperer has been drafted in by the BBC, as it battles to reach young audiences increasingly choosing content creators on YouTube and TikTok over traditional broadcasters.

Brandon Relph, who founded his first company aged 13, and has been praised by Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, has joined the BBC’s strategy team to help counter the existential threat of falling audiences among young people.

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Yvette Cooper’s maternity reforms must change a system that too often fails women when they’re at their most vulnerable

On the third day of being in labour with my first child, I entered a new state of being. It was time to dig deep. This is what I had learned in all the childbirth classes. As long as I remained calm, breathed as instructed, moaned through the pain, things would happen as they were meant to. My body knew what it was doing. Only, it didn’t.

On the fourth day, I started to beg. This wasn’t right. Despite contraction after relentless contraction, I wasn’t dilating. I hadn’t slept, I couldn’t even sit down. I needed help. And still, they waited. For what, I never understood.

Natalie Morris is the author of Mixed/Other: Explorations of Multiraciality in Modern Britain

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Study of accidents in England and Wales shows e-scooter riders three times more likely to suffer traumatic brain injury than bikers

Electric scooter riders are three times more likely to suffer traumatic brain injuries than motorcyclists, according to an analysis of accidents in England and Wales – which found women were particularly at risk of serious harm.

Brain injuries accounted for more than a third of adult injuries on e-scooters, but riders also sustained more internal organ and blood vessel damage than did motorcyclists or pedal cyclists, the study found.

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Airline says it has accepted offer from Apollo Global Management after rival bidder Castlelake walks away

EasyJet has formally agreed to a £5.7bn takeover from US private equity firm Apollo Global Management.

The airline announced it had accepted a firm offer on Thursday after a rival bidder, Castlelake, said it would no longer pursue its own attempted acquisition.

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The throwback series rekindles memories of the past, but the focus is very much on realities of the modern game

Just in case you were unaware that the forthcoming series between South Africa and New Zealand, dubbed Rugby’s Greatest Rivalry (RGR), is a “tour like no other”, the Springboks have just unveiled a jersey to prove it. “A jersey like no other” to be worn four times and then consigned to history. Meanwhile, RGR kicks off amid a looming legal battle in South Africa over the series’ commercial identity and the unauthorised use of its branding. And you thought sporting romance was dead.

Enough of the cynicism though. The series promises to be a blockbuster. It is a throwback, with New Zealand’s men facing four matches against provincial sides, starting with the Stormers in Cape Town on Friday, as well as four Tests against the Springboks. The countries’ women’s sides also face each other in a one-off Test. The series has further allure in just how rare tours such as this are these days. Add in the fact that the rugby calendar is pretty much barren at the moment and a series between the two best sides on the planet is enough to quicken the pulse.

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In de duinen van Ouddorp woedt donderdagmiddag een natuurbrand. De brandweer is met veel eenheden uitgerukt om de brand te blussen, maar dit gaat lastig vanwege een tekort aan bluswater. Inmiddels is er zo'n 8.000 vierkante meter aan natuur verwoest. Van afstand is veel rook te zien, zo is te zien op beelden.

Euro-2, Euro-3 and Euro-4 standard fuels will be allowed to be sold on the market through July 1, 2027, according to a government decree.

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Het kost misschien 17 euro, maar dan win je ook van het WEF, de EU het mensenrechtenmatriarchaat, (s)links en FOODWATCH - dat onbeperkt genieten wilde verbieden. Want wat deed het VOLK? Een ware beker-run op die heerlijke vreugdecontainers, waarmee je elke 45 minuten een halve liter rechtvaardigheid mag wegspoelen. En die zijn nu dus uitverkocht. Vakblad Looopings schrijft: "Een protest tegen de hervulbare frisdrankbekers van de Efteling blijkt een averechts effect te hebben. Sinds een actie van voedselwaakhond Foodwatch vliegen de Coca-Cola Freestyle-bekers de winkels uit in het Kaatsheuvelse attractiepark. Op dit moment zijn de bekers in de hele Efteling volledig uitverkocht." Zo ziet u maar, de Nederlandse natie met de rug tegen de muur is een tegenstander die je niemand gunt. Voorwaarts, en dan vooral tegen de 80-jarige voormalig hoofdredacteur van het Brabants Dagblad Tony Vermeulen.

De Europese fietsfabrikant Accell vroeg woensdag uitstel van betaling aan. Welke toekomst is er nog voor het bedrijf achter merken als Batavus, Raleigh en racefietsen van Lapierre: een nieuwe eigenaar, opsplitsing of boedelverkoop?