Marcin Budkowski prepares to embark on his first race weekend as Cadillac Team Principal after replacing Graeme Lowdon in the August break.
Yuki Tsunoda will return to his former team Racing Bulls at the Dutch Grand Prix, taking Liam Lawson’s seat for the weekend.
@Marloezovic Hangt in eerste instantie van de gebruikte software af, Mastodon is de bekendste, maar niet de enige activitypub applicatie. Peertube, GotoSocial, Loops, Een aardige compete lijst vindt je hier: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ActivityPub
En je kan er vergif op innemen dat elk zijn specifieke manier van vormgeven van de site heeft, en dito mogelijkheden. Maar met CSS kom je altijd al een heel eind
ZANDVOORT (ANP) - Wereldkampioen Lando Norris voelt 'behoorlijke teleurstelling' over het verdwijnen van de Dutch Grand Prix. De Formule 1-race in Zandvoort wordt dit weekeinde voor de zesde en laatste keer verreden. "Ik vind het echt jammer. Deze race is heel wat leuker dan veel andere races op de kalender", zei de coureur van McLaren tijdens een persconferentie op het circuit van Zandvoort.
"De sfeer is geweldig, de fans zijn enthousiast en gepassioneerd, ook al zijn ze hier hoofdzakelijk voor één coureur. Als ik het voor het zeggen had, zou ik Zandvoort op de kalender houden. Ik denk dat veel coureurs het met me eens zijn", aldus de Brit.
MONACO (ANP) - Negen Nederlandse wielrenners doen mee aan de Ronde van Spanje, die zaterdag begint in Monaco. Dat is het laagste aantal sinds 2019, toen er ook negen meededen.
Aan de afgelopen Ronde van Frankrijk en Ronde van Italië deden zeventien Nederlanders mee. Voor de Tour was dat het hoogste aantal sinds 2015, voor de Giro evenveel als vorig jaar.
Timo de Jong, Gijs Leemreize (beiden Picnic-PostNL), Mathijs Paasschens (Bahrain - Victorious) en Koen Bouwman (Jayco AlUla) maken zich op voor hun tweede grote ronde van het jaar. Zij reden al de Giro. Timo Roosen (Picnic-PostNL) staat voor zijn derde Vuelta, Steven Kruijswijk (Visma-Lease a Bike) voor zijn achtste en laatste. Roel van Sintmaartensdijk (Lotto Intermarché), Milan Vader (Pinarello Q36.5) en Darren van Bekkum (Astana) rijden de Ronde van Spanje voor de eerste keer.
De Vuelta begint zaterdag met een korte individuele tijdrit. Vijfvoudig Tourwinnaar en tweevoudig wereldkampioen Tadej Pogačar is de grote favoriet voor de eindzege.
Oplichting via de mail wordt steeds slimmer, maar één variant spant nu de kroon. De boodschap: je ING-scanner is vanaf 19 augustus waardeloos, tenzij je nú je account verifieert. Wat deze mail gevaarlijk maakt, is geen spelfout of raar afzenderadres. Het is het feit dat er iets waar in zit.
De truc: meeliften op de Wero-transitie
De overgang van iDEAL naar het Europese betaalsysteem Wero is echt en loopt gefaseerd door tot eind 2027. Digitale oplichters hangen daar hun eigen deadline aan op. In deze mail heet het dat je vanaf 19 augustus niet meer met de ING-scanner kunt betalen als je je gegevens niet op tijd via een link bevestigt.
De toon is opvallend vriendelijk: “Om je ING-account klaar te maken voor de toekomst en al je gegevens correct te houden, vragen wij je vriendelijk om een eenmalige verificatie.” Daarna volgt de knijp. De verificatie zou slechts enkele minuten duren, maar wie niet meewerkt, krijgt volgens de mail een tijdelijk geblokkeerde rekening.
“Je account wordt pas weer geopend nadat je de verificatie alsnog hebt voltooid”
Waarom deze mail zo geloofwaardig oogt
Hier wordt het ongemakkelijk, want de kern van de bewering leunt op een echte verandering. Een Wero-betaling werkt bij ING anders dan een iDEAL-betaling en kan daarom niet met de scanner worden goedgekeurd. Dat gaat alleen via de ING-app.
Maar dat betekent niet dat de scanner van de ene op de andere dag onbruikbaar wordt: voor andere bankzaken blijft het apparaatje werken zolang het actief is. Stap je zelf over op de app, dan vervalt de scanner, omdat er maar één authenticatiemiddel tegelijk actief kan zijn. Wat je in geen enkel scenario hoeft te doen, is je account verifiêren via een link in een mail. De overgang gaat automatisch.
“De overstap naar Wero is echt. De verificatiemail is verzonnen.”
In het kort
- De overstap van iDEAL naar Wero loopt gefaseerd tot eind 2027.
- Consumenten hoeven niets te activeren, bevestigen of verifiêren.
- Wero-betalingen bij ING worden goedgekeurd in de app, niet met de scanner.
- Elke mail met deadline, dreiging en link is phishing.
Een oude tactiek in een nieuw jasje
Het doel is klassiek: inlog- en bankgegevens buitmaken via een overtuigend nagemaakte website. Nieuw is het niet. Eerder doken al varianten op met verzonnen deadlines rond 31 januari, 31 maart, 10 april en 15 april. De smoes wisselt mee: soms de Europese betaalrichtlijn PSD2, soms een nieuwe privacywet die per 20 april 2026 zou ingaan. De datum schuift simpelweg op, zodat de mail actueel blijft.
Niet alleen ING-klanten zijn het doelwit
Het blijft ook niet beperkt tot bankmails. Er gingen eerder nepmails rond uit naam van telecomprovider KPN, waarin klanten hun incassorekening opnieuw moesten bevestigen vanwege Wero. Achter de knop zat een nagemaakte site die vroeg om naam, bank en een proefbetaling van één cent.
Zo prik je er in één beweging door
- Geen bank en geen provider vraagt per mail om verificatie voor Wero.
- Controleer twijfelgevallen altijd zelf via de officiële app of website, nooit via de link.
- Een link die “alleen op een mobiel apparaat werkt” is een rode vlag.
- Stuur verdachte mails door naar valse-email@fraudehelpdesk.nl en verwijder ze daarna.
- Toch geklikt en gegevens ingevuld? Bel de ING Alarmlijn via 020 22 888 00, wijzig je wachtwoorden en voer een virusscan uit.
Meer weten?
- Opgelicht?! over de ING-phishingmail rond 19 augustus
- Consumentenbond: trap niet in phishing over Wero
- Fraudehelpdesk: overzicht van valse Wero-mails
Computers, laptops en tablets zijn in Nederland in korte tijd flink duurder geworden. De consumentenprijzen lagen begin 2026 ruim 12 procent hoger dan een jaar eerder, blijkt uit de afgebeelde prijsreeks voor deze productgroep.
Daarmee is een opvallende omslag zichtbaar. In de jaren ervoor waren computers doorgaans juist goedkoper dan een jaar eerder: de jaarlijkse prijsdaling liep geregeld op tot 10 à 18 procent. Ook in 2024 en een groot deel van 2025 lagen de prijzen nog duidelijk onder het niveau van een jaar eerder.
De recente sprong betekent dat consumenten die een nieuwe laptop, tablet of pc nodig hebben, fors meer betalen dan vorig jaar.
NEW YORK (ANP) - Walmart en Alibaba stonden donderdag bij de verliezers op de beurzen in New York, na publicatie van de resultaten. Walmart, de grootste supermarktketen ter wereld, boekte afgelopen kwartaal meer omzet dan verwacht en werd ook positiever over de verkopen in het hele jaar. Het aandeel zakte desondanks ruim 8 procent, mede door een tegenvallende omzetgroei op de Amerikaanse thuismarkt. Eerder dit jaar gaf Walmart nog een tegenvallende omzetverwachting af voor het hele jaar door de sterk gestegen benzineprijzen en het afnemende consumentenvertrouwen.
Het Chinese tech- en webwinkelconcern Alibaba, dat ook een notering heeft in New York, verloor 4,5 procent. De eigenaar van AliExpress zag de omzet van zijn clouddivisie, die veel AI-diensten levert, sterk stijgen. De nettowinst van het concern kelderde echter in het afgelopen kwartaal door de forse investeringen van het bedrijf in AI-infrastructuur.
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We all have one, or at least some version of it: the junk drawer. Mine is a jumble of charging cables, old nails, a lanyard, matchbooks, a few key rings, scissors, an expired bottle of vitamins, every Allen wrench from every IKEA shelf I ever assembled, a few rubber bands, and frankly, who knows what else at this point. For artist Grace Baldwin, the junk drawer is a repository of memories and nostalgia, where common items end up in a place that’s simultaneously accessible and out-of-sight, out-of-mind. Lately, she’s been constructing a lifelike one at a monumental scale, drawer and all.
“I typically create giant nostalgic but functional pieces, mostly through woodworking,” Baldwin tells Colossal. “I’ve been trying to branch out and utilize other materials more often and expand my creative ability. This project has given me the ability to do exactly that.” A Pink Pearl eraser is suitably smudged, a Blockbuster Video membership card sits in a plastic sleeve, and a half-used roll of Tums rolls around amid a slew of other realistic objects.
Baldwin began with inspiration from her own junk drawer. As she shared her progress on social media, viewers began sharing random objects hiding in theirs, and it morphed into something of a virtual collaboration. “A lot of the suggestions overlapped with my original list, which was a fun reminder that junk drawers are surprisingly universal.”
The first object Baldwin created was a giant pair of corded earbuds, and she began adding a few items each day. The relatability of the concept really speaks to her, not only because the objects are common and recognizable but because they are so lifelike, even at a blown-up scale. The artist credits the project with changing her outlook on making, material experimentation, and the power of detail. “At this point, I plan to keep adding things until it feels right,” she says.
In addition to working on some larger objects to add so that the remaining space can be filled with more small items, she’s thinking about what comes next. “I really am hoping to find somewhere to display it once it is finished,” she says. “Maybe even leaving the possibility of the items remaining loose in it so that they can be rummaged through. I think there will be so many fun details to find hidden in the layers of ‘junk.'”
Follow Baldwin’s piece-by-piece progress on Instagram.
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NetBSD's 19th major release adds 64-bit RISC-V support, improved Linux compatibility, and a MICROVM kernel that can boot in milliseconds. NetBSD 11.0 arrived at the end of July, a little over two years after the project celebrated its 30th birthday with the release of version 10.0. We looked at what was coming last year. After multiple release candidates, the final version is here, and we tried it. NetBSD is a stable, somewhat minimalist, and relatively slow-moving project. If you're willing to put some work in, this arguably makes it a refreshing change from the ever-accelerating techbro world of Linux. As The Register noted of Linux 7.2 earlier this week, it is a huge release: the increasingly AI-assisted development process is rapidly adding features and expanding Rust support while shedding compatibility with older hardware. NetBSD is not static, though. Version 11.0 nonetheless brings some significant additions. In addition to nine platforms with Tier I support, including x86-32 and x86-64, Arm32, Arm64, MIPS, and PowerPC, it also has an impressive 52 platforms with Tier II support. Version 11 brings support for 64-bit RISC-V, greater compliance with POSIX.1-2024 and C23, improved Linux system-call compatibility, and better operation under Xen and QEMU. A new dedicated MICROVM kernel supports both 32-bit and 64-bit x86 guests and can boot in about 10 milliseconds on 2020-era processors, according to the project. The new RISC-V port supports QEMU, while the new virt68k port runs the Motorola 68000 version of NetBSD under QEMU using paravirtualized devices. There's preliminary support for Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite, meaning PC-like Arm64 systems, and the npf firewall has been improved. NetBSD is a general-purpose OS. It tends not to attract as much attention as the other BSDs, perhaps partly because they have more clearly defined roles. FreeBSD is a server-oriented OS with ZFS and rich container support, including Linux OCI containers… but even the latest version has a text-only installer. If you want a GUI on FreeBSD, you must install it yourself. DragonflyBSD is the x86-64-only experimental research OS. OpenBSD is the extremely minimalist, very portable, and very secure OS, to the extent that it doesn't even support Bluetooth. NetBSD's strength is that it is not confined to any one of these roles. It can run as a Xen host or guest, and its new MICROVM kernel is designed for lightweight, fast-starting x86 VMs. The external SmolBSD project can also help users build customized NetBSD VM images. It's a capable server OS: the SDF public-access Unix system mostly runs on NetBSD. It can run Linux binaries, and as the compat_linux manual page describes, the NetBSD repositories contain cut-down sets of openSUSE libraries to help build a Linux environment. The repos also have packages of many of the usual FOSS suspects, such as Firefox and even WINE. There is a choice of desktop environments, including LXDE, LXQt, KDE Plasma, MATE, and GNOME, along with numerous more minimal window managers. Since NetBSD 11.0 was released, for instance, it got a newer version of Enlightenment. The packaged versions often lag behind the latest upstream releases, but they do the job. The classic Common Desktop Environment is there, but despite multiple helpful posts on the NetBSD-users mailing list, we were unable to get it working. However, NetBSD requires more manual work than a typical 21st-century Linux distribution. Its base package tools include pkg_add, but users wanting higher-level features such as repository searches and convenient upgrades may prefer to install pkgin. Handily, the text-mode installer, called sysinst, is installed with the rest of the OS. You can run it after installation to do any steps you might have forgotten or skipped, such as configuring your network connection, adding user accounts, or indeed, installing the package manager. You need to become comfortable editing configuration files and scripts, including enabling services manually in /etc/rc.conf. You will also have to rely on FOSS drivers, as very few vendors produce proprietary drivers for NetBSD. If you have a high-end graphics card and want the latest PC games, forget about it – this is not the OS for you. But if you want to build your Unix muscles and really learn your way around a Unix box, this is a good option. This will teach you a lot more than getting Arch Linux installed and tweaking its desktop settings. If you want to learn about contributing code and patches, it also has one of the most welcoming communities we've encountered in years. ®
The removal of the exiled singer’s song comes after distributors in Ukraine also cut the track from the film’s Ukrainian release following complaints from moviegoers.
I can clearly remember the first time I saw a deepfake. I was waiting for the train on my way to the Vice office in 2017 when I got a Twitter DM from someone who saw it posted to Reddit. It was a short .gif from the start of a porn video, showing a woman lying on a bed and talking to the camera, only the woman’s face had been edited to look like Gal Gadot.
The deepfake was shockingly realistic for the time, and as Sam’s reporting on it from that day on has shown, deepfakes have primarily been used to harass and degrade women. We were surprised by how advanced the technology seemed at the time and knew that the internet and the law wasn’t prepared to deal with it. The technology has advanced exponentially since then, and the internet and the law has still not caught up to it. But as concerning as deepfakes clearly were the moment we laid eyes on them, the problem was never that we thought Gal Gadot actually made an adult video. Deepfakes can look convincing, but they never fooled us that what we were seeing was real.
But for the past few months I’ve been looking at a new and strange type of AI generated nonconsensual image on X that I think will fool a lot of people. These images, which I’ve started calling subtlefakes, are not as clearly offensive, but they are a lot more convincing. The concerning implication is that it’s not just the technology that is advancing now, but that the people who wield it maliciously are getting more sophisticated. Much like “cheap fakes,” which in 2019 Data & Society described as an edited piece of media that manipulates the truth without requiring AI or any other advanced technology, subtlefakes are another form of synthetic media that has taken over the internet since the emergence of deepfakes in 2017.
These more convincing images are not AI generated nudes of celebrities or face-swapped identities onto porn videos, but AI generated images of celebrities that are subtly edited to make them more revealing or provocative. We’ve written countless stories about AI generated nonconsensual media of celebrities and non celebrities. It’s a form of harassment that causes psychological and material damage to people, and they don’t have to be believable to do that. Even if the image looks photorealistic, it is often clearly fake for the simple reason that it’s unlikely that the biggest actor in the world would suddenly produce hardcore pornography that’s posted by a random account to X.
The images I’ve been seeing lately are often only slightly altered. One type of image, for example, will edit a real photograph of a famous actor walking a red carpet, but edit it to make her dress more revealing or to make her butt or boobs bigger. Another type is entirely AI-generated post-workout selfies at the gym.
The only example I feel totally comfortable sharing is one that was called out and shared by the target of one of these fakes, actor Xochitl Gomez. As a side-by-side she shared on Instagram shows, someone had taken a real photograph of her at a parking lot, looking over her shoulder and smiling at the camera, and used AI to make it look like she was bending over in one image and putting her hand on her butt in the other. Similarly, someone had taken an image of her on a red carpet and used AI to make it seem like she’s turning her back to the camera and sticking her tongue out. These images are not just photorealistic, they also don’t have the usual context clues we’ve come to expect from nonconsensual images. I think I am very good at spotting AI generated images because it’s a big part of what we do here, and I don’t think I could tell these were AI generated if I was just scrolling on X.
These images are almost always posted by verified engagement farming accounts on X, which pays the people who operate them if their posts get enough impressions. X obviously doesn't care if people are doing this and a bunch of other stuff that’s as bad or worse. I’ve seen at least one account that shared a few of these subtle deepfakes, but when I scrolled down their post history I found nonconsensual fully nude and sexual images that they monetized via other platforms, so that’s another reason why X accounts might be doing this. There are many, many accounts like this and they are earning millions of views.
I think it’s interesting because it’s a new, and as far as I know, yet to be covered use of nonconsensual AI images. It’s also important and in the public’s interest to know it’s happening because people should know what kind of AI content is targeting them, especially if it’s at the expense of other people. It’s also possibly a warning sign for how people’s AI use is evolving from abusive but obviously fake, to more subtle, less offensive, but much harder to detect.
The other reason these types of images are going to be harder to moderate is that it’s easier to produce them. There are plenty of services that let people easily AI generate nonconsensual nudes of anyone, but they almost always involve some friction. People have to go to a sketchy site, install a sketchy app, or pay a small fee. As we’ve reported many times in the past, more easily accessible AI generators from tech giants can be manipulated to produce nonconsensual images as well, but generally speaking, most companies are trying to prevent people from making those images with their tools. While it’s not impossible, it does require some effort to bypass those guardrails.
It is not so hard to bypass those guardrails if the nonconsual images people are producing don’t include any nudity or sexual acts, assuming the AI generator is even design to prevent those type of images. Most mainstream AI generation tools at least try to prevent people from generating any type of nudity. Fewer of them try to prevent people from generating the likeness of a real person. I can’t say for certain where most of the subtlefakes I’ve seen come from, but I know that at least some of them were made with X’s own Grok because some images included the Grok watermark. X has repeatedly been caught enabling nonconsensual images and only attempting to do something about it after public outrage.
X did not respond to a request for comment.
“Large social media platforms that are really struggling under the weight of this for the first time,” Hany Farid, an image forensics expert and cofounder of deepfake detection firm GetReal, told me. You can see my full interview with Farid here. “They've always had a problem, but this seems to be the first time where they're like, ‘Oh man, this is really bad.’ And I think it's because the volume and the sophistication of the fakes is nothing we've seen before.”
The primary targets of deepfakes always were and continue to be women, but Farid said other nefarious uses of the technology are also becoming harder to deal with.
“If you go back 10 years, it was pretty clumsy,” Farid said. “It's getting more and more sophisticated. They're evolving. Cyber criminals evolve and that's going to make everybody's job much much harder as the years go on.”
Our reporting on deepfakes over the years has taught us that people make them because they feel entitled to women’s bodies, because they are intentionally trying to hurt them, or because it’s profitable. I’m sure all those reasons apply to subtlefakes, but it appears to me that the current state of X is pouring gasoline on that fire. People use subtlefakes as advertisements for accounts other platforms where they monetize nonconsensual images, but that is rare. It seems that the more logical scheme is to monetize pure engagement via X’s ads revenue sharing program, which pays X users for engagement. It’s not a lot of money, but it’s easy money. Since X is not interested in moderating this content, one person can also operate multiple accounts, posting dozens of times a day.
In general, my X feed is mostly different types of engagement farming. Another type of subtlefake I’ve seen a lot of doesn’t require AI at all. For example, this post about OnlyFans model Sophie Rain claims that Drake paid her $2,000,000 to take her virginity, and includes two random images of Drake and a completely unrelated TMZ video of Rain. People click on the video to see if she said what the post claims, and the account gets the engagement before they realize it’s a lie.
This kind of easy, stupid, but effective garbage is what X is rewarding, and these subtlefakes are just one concerning outcome.
Long past time to quit X. “Those who continue to post on X — in particular those X users who are not racist psychopaths — are enhancing the site’s usefulness to [Musk] as a propaganda tool by drawing more eyes to the platform… “