TAMPA (ANP/RTR) - Het Amerikaanse leger heeft zaterdag een aanval uitgevoerd op een vaartuig in het Caribisch gebied. Daarbij kwamen vier mensen om het leven, zo meldt het US Southern Command (SOUTHCOM) dat verantwoordelijk is voor de regio op X.

Volgens het leger ging het om een "snelvarend voertuig dat actief was langs bekende drugssmokkelroutes". Ook zouden bevestigde inlichtingen uitgewezen hebben dat het vaartuig direct betrokken was bij drugssmokkel.

De VS voerden het afgelopen jaar bijna 70 aanvallen uit op vermoedelijke drugssmokkelboten op de Grote Oceaan en in het Caribisch gebied. Daarbij kwamen 227 mensen om het leven.

Experts van de Verenigde Naties riepen de VS begin september op te stoppen met hun aanvallen op vermeende drugsboten. Zij noemen de aanvallen "onwettig dodelijk geweld".

LAGOS (ANP/AFP) - De Nigeriaanse regering heeft een onafhankelijke commissie ingesteld om de dood van 37 mensen die omkwamen in een detentiecentrum in Centraal-Nigeria te onderzoeken, zo meldt de Nigeriaanse minister van Binnenlandse Zaken zaterdag.

De 37 mannen werden donderdag dood aangetroffen in een overvolle cel in Minna, de hoofdstad van de centraal gelegen staat Niger, nadat zij waren opgepakt op verdenking van illegale mijnbouw.

Overlevenden vertelden dat ze met slechte ventilatie in de cel waren gepropt, en een van hen zei dat er een goedje in de cel werd gespoten dat in hun keel en neus prikte voordat de deur hard werd dichtgeslagen. Volgens hen werd er niet gereageerd op hun hulpkreten.

De sterfgevallen leidden tot heftige protesten in de straten van de stad Minna, de hoofdstad van de mineraalrijke staat Niger, waarbij de politie schoten loste om de demonstranten uiteen te jagen.

The pop star has faced boycott calls after rapper Macklemore was removed from his tour after shouting ‘Free Palestine’ at a concert this month

Ed Sheeran has opened a solo concert in Philadelphia with comments about Gaza, saying what’s happening is “catastrophic and unjustifiable”, in his first show since the his tour plunged into turmoil.

“My heart has been broken by the scale of devastation and loss of civilians’ lives, of children’s lives,” Sheeran said on Saturday, adding that he wanted his music and shows to be about unity and humanity, not politics.

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"In April this year, we saw Andy Nguyen turning the PS5 into a Linux-powered gaming PC,"
writes the blog It's FOSS.

It ran Steam games and emulators using the PS5's on-board hardware. But this week Andy announced he's "stopping all my work on PS5 Linux" and "stepping away from the PS5 scene."
stopping work on porting the project to the PS5 Pro, which would've shipped sometime in 2027.



Andy Nguyen: After pouring my heart and months of my life into it, including plans to finish PS5 Pro support and release in 2027, it's all down the sink.

The scene used to be a group of highly talented researchers, but now it is just a bunch of noobs using LLMs and writing hacks they don't even understand. Slop kiddies found the only hypervisor bug left, which I had also found a while ago, and decided to report to Sony. I asked them to at least wait for GTA 6 to come out so that people would have the opportunity to legally purchase the game and also enjoy Linux. They agreed to wait, but not a day passed and they decided to waste it instead.



Or, as It's FOSS tells it:

Running Linux on a PlayStation console is possible because the PS5 Linux project was able to find a way past the hypervisor using exploits Sony had already patched, covering firmware 3.00 through 7.61. ..

[The bug's discoverer writes it was] found with what he calls his "trusty ai clanker machine" and no help from anyone else. He had even agreed to Andy's request to not disclose the findings. Unexpectedly, a third person, still unnamed, found the same bug using AI a few hours later. Anticipating that there would be more people finding the same bug, [he] decided to post the flaw on HackerOne.
The project's GitHub page and all the related repositories are still there. Nothing has been archived as of today, and if you wanted to, you could start contributing to the PS5 Linux project by taking over any pending work or cooking up new improvements... The PS5 Pro support Andy was building never reached the repository, so you would have to start from scratch... While Andy's departure is a blow to the plan for supporting newer PS5 firmware and the PS5 Pro, other contributors have shown that they can deliver work on the loader without him, and I am hopeful more will follow.

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