An anonymous reader quotes a report from Cybernews: The technology giant Microsoft has been accused of leaking the data of civil servants working for the Netherlands' regulatory agencies to the US House of Representatives. The civil servants affected by the leak work at the Authority for Consumers and Markets (ACM) and the Dutch Data Protection Authority (AP), according to the NL Times. They are involved in implementing the Digital Services Act (DSA), the European Union regulation on online services, aimed at combating illegal content and protecting user rights.

NL Times reports that Microsoft shared emails, minutes, and invitations sent by the civil servants without redacting their names in the documents. Willemijn Aerdts, Dutch State Secretary for Digital Economy and Sovereignty, said she discussed the allegations with US Ambassador to the Netherlands Joe Popolo. [...] The allegations against Microsoft further strengthen concerns over Europe's dependence on American technologies, which poses major risks to data privacy. Further reading: Netherlands Blocks US Takeover of Vital Digital Supplier

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IBM and Red Hat are committing $5 billion to a new initiative called "Project Lightwell," which aims to secure open-source software supply chains with AI-assisted vulnerability discovery, triage, patch validation, and upstream maintenance. Longtime Slashdot reader wiggles shares a press release from IBM: IBM and Red Hat today announced Project Lightwell, a $5 billion commitment backed by new frontier AI capabilities and a global force of more than 20,000 engineers to help enterprises secure open source software. Together, these investments establish a new model for enterprise use of open source software, from upstream development through production environments.

Project Lightwell will establish a trusted enterprise clearinghouse combined with a global force of engineers to identify and fix vulnerabilities at scale. The clearinghouse will serve as a security coordination layer, using advanced AI capabilities to validate and test fixes across an unprecedented volume of open source code. These capabilities will be offered through commercial subscriptions, allowing enterprises to integrate secure patches directly into their existing software supply chains with enterprise-grade validation and lifecycle management.

IBM and Red Hat have already begun collaborating with a select group of early adopters on Project Lightwell, including Bank of America, BNY, Citi, Goldman Sachs, JPMorganChase, Mastercard, Morgan Stanley, Royal Bank of Canada, State Street, Visa and Wells Fargo. The real-world insights from these initial deployments will actively shape how vulnerabilities are identified, validated, and remediated at scale across complex software supply chains.

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Robinhood is launching beta support for a new feature that will let AI agents make payments and trade stocks on users' behalf. The company is also rolling out a virtual credit card for AI agents, with spending limits and approval controls. TechCrunch reports: Robinhood said users on its platform can now create a separate account for their AI agents and connect them to a dedicated wallet. While these agents would be able to read and analyze users' portfolios to come up with trading strategies and suggest investments, they'll only be able to access the pre-loaded balance in the dedicated wallet to place orders.

Users will get notifications of all trades their AI agent makes and will be able to monitor their activities within the Robinhood app. For some trades, agents will show a preview that users may have to approve before the order is executed. The company said it has also built in fraud detection protection, in which a team from Robinhood would review suspicious trades and help users resolve disputes.

Robinhood says users can connect their AI agents to its Model Context Protocol (MCP) service to do things like analyze concentration risk and sector exposure, execute trades, or look through analyst notes to identify new investment opportunities across various sectors. The agentic trading feature is launching in beta and only allows stock trading right now. The company says it plans to add support for options, crypto, event contracts, futures, and prediction markets soon.

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An anonymous reader quotes a report from CNBC: Federal prosecutors charged a Google employee with fraud on Wednesday, alleging that he made $1.2 million off of bets using insider information on Polymarket. Prosecutors claim that Michele Spagnuolo, a staff information security engineer at Google, used confidential information to place trades correctly betting that singer d4vd would be Google's most searched person in 2025. Spagnuolo has been charged with money laundering, commodities fraud and wire fraud. The complaint, filed in the Southern District of New York, was unsealed on Wednesday.

Spagnuolo was arrested Wednesday morning in New York, ABC reported. "Spagnuolo had access to Google's internal data systems, including a particular Google internal software tool that provided him access to confidential, nonpublic Year in Search data," the prosecutors said in their complaint. Some observers of the Polymarket platform flagged the user "AlphaRaccoon" back in December for suspicious trades on the most searched person contracts. The complaint Wednesday said that Spagnuolo was the person behind that account. "Google officially and publicly announced its Year in Search 2025 results on or about December 4, 2025. Soon after it did so, Spagnuolo's AlphaRaccoon account, profited approximately $1.2 million on his Google Year in Search 2025-related bets," the complaint said.

[...] Spagnuolo is also facing a civil case from the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, where he's charged with insider trading. The complaint detailed that Spagnuolo correctly predicted the outcomes of a slew of other search markets, including contracts like "Will Zohran Mamdani rank in the Top 5 most searched" and "Will Squid Game be the #1 searched TV show." "Spagnuolo misappropriated the material Confidential Information by knowingly or recklessly using it to trade the 2025 Year in Search List Contracts in breach of his duties of trust and confidentiality," the CFTC complaint alleged.

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The 2026 F1 Sim Racing World Championship concludes with Round 12, where the racers will take on the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix.

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UITHOORN (ANP) - Voorstanders en tegenstanders van de komst van een asielzoekerscentrum demonstreren donderdagavond in Uithoorn. Enkele honderden anti-azc-betogers liepen in een mars vanaf de beoogde locatie van de opvang naar een plein bij het gemeentehuis, waar PVV-leider Geert Wilders spreekt.

Tegenover het plein, naast het gemeentehuis, staan tientallen demonstranten die juist voor het azc zijn. Ze hebben spandoeken bij zich met teksten als 'Mijn Nederland is gastvrij', 'Welkom iedereen' en 'azc hoezee'. Ze roepen 'refugees are welcome here'. Tussen de beide groepen staat de ME opgesteld en is de weg afgezet.

Op het plein bij de tegenstanders van het azc hangen grote Nederlandse vlaggen. Veel mensen hebben ook een vlag bij zich en bloemen in de hand. Uit een speaker klinkt 'we zeggen nee, nee, nee, tegen een azc'. Ook is de Prinsenvlag te zien. Die werd vroeger onder meer door de nazistische NSB gebruikt en duikt de afgelopen jaren vaker op bij protesten tegen de komst van asielzoekers. Een groepje scandeert leuzen naar de voorstanders van het azc.

PARIJS (ANP) - Aryna Sabalenka heeft de derde ronde bereikt op Roland Garros. De nummer 1 van de wereld uit Belarus won in twee sets van Elsa Jacquemot uit Frankrijk: 7-5 6-2.

Sabalenka jaagt nog op haar eerste titel in Parijs. Vorig jaar verloor ze de finale van de Amerikaanse Coco Gauff.

Tegen Jacquemot, de nummer 67 van de wereldranglijst, leverde Sabalenka in de eerste set een keer haar opslagbeurt in. Ze won die van de Française twee keer. In de tweede set overleefde ze zelf in haar eerste game drie breakpoints en won ze twee keer de service van haar tegenstander. Nadat ze haar eigen opslagbeurt nog een keer inleverde, brak ze meteen terug en benutte haar eerste matchpoint.

Speaking in West Bank settlement, Israeli PM, who is fighting for political survival before elections, says ‘we are squeezing Hamas’

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Benjamin Netanyahu has said he has given orders to the Israeli army to seize control of 70% of the Gaza Strip in a move that threatens to torpedo an already fragile ceasefire and create catastrophic humanitarian conditions in the already devastated territory.

Under the US-brokered ceasefire in October, the Israeli army withdrew to a demarcation line which gave Israel direct control of 53% of the occupied territory. Since then, Israeli forces have steadily advanced their positions westward into the Hamas-controlled half of the strip, and declared an ever-expanded no man’s land west of that, within which they claim the right to decide who can enter and open fire on anyone perceived as a threat.

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"Wethouder, doe er iets aan." Dagelijks krijgt wethouder Pascal Lansink-Bastemeijer mails, appjes en brieven van Rotterdammers die gek worden van toeterende en ronkende auto’s in de binnenstad. Nu komt Rotterdam met een maatregel die nergens anders in Nederland wordt getest: een geluidscamera die herriemakers automatisch moet kunnen beboeten.

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On The Fuel Efficiency of Launching My Enemies Into The Sun. Incredibly nerdy and fun: does it require more power to eject a person from the solar system or launch them into the Sun?

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Dit tijdsgewricht gilt om ridders, maar ridders hebben maliënkolders en harnassen (en schilden en zwaarden, maar dit terzijde), en willekeurige knapen die zich toevallig op Rotterdam Centraal bevinden niet, en dat is dus een beetje een probleem. Is iemand eindelijk zo dapper om het op te nemen voor twee meisjes die zonder aanleiding worden uitgescholden door twee mannen, blijken de mannen onderdeel uit te maken van een roedel, die vervolgens op de held van de dag duikt om hem te mishandelen en te beroven. Alle verdachten zijn inmiddels gevonden, behalve deze knakker (met intens lelijk Gucci-petje), die een dag later in de coffeeshop doodleuk afrekende met de pinpas van het slachtoffer. Wie biedt?

De parlementaire enquête naar het coronabeleid begint vrijdag onder een slecht gesternte. Talloze commissieleden kwamen en gingen en over het onderzoeksvoorstel werd gesteggeld. Kan de commissie haar werk nog effectief doen? „Het succes van de commissie hangt af van onderling vertrouwen.”