LIMA (ANP/AFP) - Paus Leo XIV heeft donderdag in Peru zes slachtoffers van kerkelijk misbruik ontmoet. Onder hen waren mensen van wie de daders banden hadden met de ooit machtige lekenbeweging Sodalitium Christianae Vitae.

De Amerikaanse paus bracht ruim een uur met de slachtoffers door. Hij sprak "met elk van hen afzonderlijk en luisterde naar hun verhalen over lijden en pijn", meldt het Vaticaan. Ook is er gesproken over hoe de Kerk beter naar slachtoffers van misbruik kan luisteren.

Leo was ongeveer twintig jaar missionaris in Peru en van 2015 tot 2023 bisschop van de noordelijke stad Chiclayo. Sommige overlevenden schrijven het hem toe dat het Vaticaan de Sodalitium Christianae Vitae heeft ontbonden.

Die in Peru gevestigde katholieke gemeenschap werd beschuldigd van seksueel, fysiek en psychologisch misbruik. De overleden paus Franciscus, de voorganger van Leo, ontbond de gemeenschap in 2025. Het Vaticaan liet donderdag weten dat een aantal van de overlevenden die Leo in Peru ontmoette, voormalige leden van de Sodalitium waren.

WASHINGTON (ANP/RTR) - Door de Noord-Koreaanse staat gesteunde hackers hebben de afgelopen achttien maanden meer dan 400 miljoen dollar (ruim 350 miljoen euro) aan cryptovaluta gestolen. Dat meldt de FBI. De hackers maakten daarvoor gebruik van deepfakevideo's. De FBI vond meer dan 900 deepfakevideo's van slachtoffers.

Bij deze oplichtingsmethode, die de FBI 'FaceStealer' noemt, lokken hackers slachtoffers naar videogesprekken via nagemaakte versies van Zoom, Microsoft Teams en Google Meet.

De uitnodigingen komen van gehackte accounts van bekenden. Van die bekenden zijn eerder in het geheim opnames gemaakt, waarmee de hackers deepfakevideo's maken.

Tijdens het gesprek krijgen de slachtoffers een valse technische foutmelding te zien, met het verzoek op een link te klikken om het probleem te verhelpen. Daarmee geven ze hackers toegang tot hun computer en accounts, waaronder die voor cryptovaluta.

Ook van deze slachtoffers worden tijdens het gesprek opnames gemaakt. Vervolgens gebruiken de hackers hun accounts en beelden om mensen uit hun contactenlijst op dezelfde manier te misleiden.

NEW YORK (ANP/BLOOMBERG/AFP) - Microsoft Outlook kampt wereldwijd met een grote storing. Tienduizenden gebruikers kunnen daardoor niet bij hun e-mail. Het bedrijf zegt "met man en macht" te werken aan het beperken van de gevolgen.

De storing, die Microsoft toeschrijft aan "verhoogde belasting" van de infrastructuur, duurde een groot deel van de Amerikaanse werkdag. Ook andere producten van het bedrijf, zoals Teams en de AI-assistent Copilot, werden getroffen. De software van Microsoft wordt veel gebruikt door bedrijven, overheden en onderwijsinstellingen.

Binnen een uur tijd breidde de storing zich wereldwijd uit en lagen de diensten van Microsoft plat in 74 landen en gebieden, meldt storingssite Downdetector.

"We blijven alle beschikbare mogelijkheden onderzoeken om de diensten te herstellen, omdat de maatregelen die we tot nu toe hebben genomen niet de verwachte oplossing hebben gebracht", aldus het bedrijf.

DEN HAAG (ANP) - De grote zorgverzekeraars hebben op de laatste dag voor het verstrijken van de deadline hun premies voor 2027 bekendgemaakt. Achmea, Menzis en CZ leggen geld bij om de stijging van de zorgpremies te beperken.

Bij CZ stijgt het maandbedrag voor de meest gekozen basisverzekering met 17,26 euro naar 177,25 euro. Bij Menzis gaat de meest gekozen polis met 9,50 euro omhoog naar 165,75 euro.

Bij VGZ stijgt de maandpremie voor Basis Keuze met 17,50 euro naar 167,40 euro. De verzekering Ruime Keuze wordt 16,50 euro duurder en gaat 170,75 euro per maand kosten. Bij Zilveren Kruis stijgt de maandpremie voor Basis Zeker met 5,70 euro naar 164,95 euro, aanzienlijk minder dan bij CZ, Menzis en VGZ. De goedkopere variant Basis Start wordt 5,50 euro duurder en gaat 159,45 euro kosten.

Achmea, het moederbedrijf van Zilveren Kruis, zet circa 400 miljoen euro in om de premiestijging te beperken. Dat bedrag komt ten goede aan ruim 5 miljoen klanten van Zilveren Kruis, De Friesland, Interpolis, FBTO en De christelijke zorgverzekeraar.

Volgens Menzis weerspiegelt de premiestijging twee jaar aan oplopende zorgkosten. Een eenmalige meevaller dempte vorig jaar de stijging, maar die ontbreekt nu. De verzekeraar zet 116 miljoen euro uit eigen reserves in om de verhoging te beperken. Daarmee blijft die volgens Menzis onder de door het ministerie van Volksgezondheid verwachte stijging van 12,50 euro per maand.

Ook CZ wijst op stijgende zorgkosten en het wegvallen van een eenmalige meevaller uit het Zorgverzekeringsfonds. De verzekeraar zet 20 miljoen euro aan reserves in om de premiestijging te beperken. Beide verzekeraars noemen de vergrijzing en de groeiende behandelmogelijkheden als oorzaken van de toenemende kosten.

Tegelijkertijd komt er volgens CZ onvoldoende zorgpersoneel bij om de groeiende vraag op te vangen. Bestuursvoorzitter Joep de Groot pleit voor eerdere ondersteuning, ook buiten de medische zorg. "We investeren miljarden in de zorg voor patiënten, terwijl we met eerdere ondersteuning soms kunnen voorkomen dat problemen groter worden en mensen zorg nodig hebben."

Whoop has launched Humans, a social network built into its fitness app where every account is a real person with a "verified heartbeat." The wearable company claims its platform is "entirely human," unlike other social media platforms that are "saturated with artificial intelligence, automated accounts and bots, and manufactured content." The Verge reports: Starting Thursday, Whoop members can share their data from its wearables on the app's new Whoop Humans social network. Users can make their metrics, activities, and achievements visible to other Whoop wearers, post Story-like "Moments" with photos and captions, and add comments and reactions on other members' posts. [...]

In the Community tab in Whoop's app, users can scroll through Moments from people they're following, like tapping through your Stories feed on Instagram but with your friends' fitness tracker data. In one of Whoop's examples, swiping up on a user's Moments post with a photo from their run shows a map with their route and details like their pace and distance. The Community tab also shows cards for people in your "community" with their sleep, recovery, and strain scores.

Whoop says users choose which activities, achievements, and metrics they want to share on Humans, including Recovery, Strain, Sleep, HRV, and resting heart rate. Any activities marked as sensitive aren't shared by default. There's also an option to keep Moments posts private and a "Stealth Mode" for temporarily hiding health and performance data without changing your sharing settings.

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Nintendo has issued four DMCA takedown notices targeting two Nintendo Switch emulators, Yuzu and Citron Neo, along with mod chip firmware such as Picofly, SX Core and HWFLY. As a result, 144 repositories containing firmware used to circumvent the console's copy protections have been removed by GitHub and replaced by a DMCA takedown notice. IGN reports: GitHub has posted Nintendo's November 6 DMCA notice, which says, "The Nintendo Switch console and video games contain technological protection measures ('TPMs') that permit the Nintendo Switch console to interact only with legitimate Nintendo video game files. This process protects Nintendo's copyright-protected video games, (...) by preventing users from playing pirated copies of Nintendo's video games on the Nintendo Switch console and by preventing users from unlawfully copying and playing Nintendo's video games on unauthorized devices."

However, while this takedown has effectively wiped out a ton of repositories with mod chip firmware, it seems like it's still being hosted elsewhere on the site, according to TorrentFreak. It's possible, though, that Nintendo isn't finished yet; back in 2024, Nintendo effectively took down 8,500 copies of Yuzu by issuing a takedown that targeted 12 different mirrors of the emulator. This particular takedown also comes a few days after emulators were able to run the remake of The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time on PC, so this could be a sign that Nintendo is winding up its lawyers to crack down on emulation once again.

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Microsoft says some servers are returning to service and streamlined recovery process under way to end a global outage

• Microsoft begins restoring services amid global outage affecting Outlook and Teams

There are plenty of essential services that remain unaffected by the outage, which is largely impacting email systems.

The Australian Medical Association said it has so far not received any reports that hospitals or clinics are impacted.

Impact is largely restricted to the sending and receiving of email.

Western Australia, along with jurisdictions around the world, is being impacted by a global Microsoft outage.

We are receiving updates from the Commonwealth who are working with Microsoft at the most senior levels to resolve. Microsoft are prioritising life, safety and Government services.

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Exclusive: Former Labor foreign affairs minister says $368bn deal has been reduced to a diplomatic joke

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The former Labor foreign affairs minister Bob Carr says officials in Canberra and Washington acknowledge that the US will never send nuclear submarines to Australia, describing the $368bn Aukus agreement as the two countries “living a lie”.

Carr, a leading critic of the deal, expects American-operated vessels will instead be stationed at bases in Australia, with a future US president likely to determine that China’s military might would make it too difficult for three or more Virginia-class nuclear submarines to be transferred to Australia.

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Huang’s resignation has sent shockwaves through the AI industry, after revelations of extramarital affairs, including one involving a suspected Chinese spy

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The hunt is on for a new Nvidia CEO after the company head and co-founder, Jensen Huang, resigned amid multiple allegations of extramarital affairs, including one that involved an alleged Chinese spy and two with company employees.

Nvidia immediately named Colette Kress, the company’s chief financial officer, as the interim CEO. It’s possible she could stay on permanently, but the company could also name another candidate for the full-time role.

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An American AI lab has re-educated Qwen3.8-27B, a popular open-weight large language model from Alibaba, so the software forgets its Chinese ancestry. Nous Research, an Austin, Texas-based AI lab, has subjected the model to re-education through training, not to be confused with China's "Re-education Through Labor" system. With the help of a post-training process, Qwen3.8-27B has been reborn under the name Arete "to reinforce Western values on a Chinese-trained model." What qualifies as a "Western value" remains open to interpretation. "Open-weight Chinese models are among the strongest available, but they ship with state-aligned behavior baked into the weights," Nous Research wrote in a blog post. Your correspondent tested this with a variant model, Qwen3.8-27B-MLX-6bit, locally. Asked about events during 1989 in Tiananmen Square, the model either refused to discuss the topic or provided euphemistic response. What's perhaps more surprising is that Anthropic claims operators affiliated with Alibaba's Qwen lab used outputs from its Claude models to train competing AI models via distillation. Nous Research, maker of the Hermes Agent, cites that sort of censorship as a risk for users of AI models trained in China. The concern comes amid broader scrutiny of Chinese influence in the tech industry, heightened by Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's resignation following controversy involving a woman US intelligence has accused of spying for China. Nous says the risk posed by Chinese-made AI models go beyond promoting Beijing's worldview. Some Middle Kingdom models have been found to produce more vulnerable code under certain conditions, according to a study by Booz Allen Hamilton, which does a lot of business with the US government. Hirundo, a vendor which says it is building "the first Machine Unlearning Platform to ensure that AI models only know what they should," makes the same argument. The company also notes that its efforts to apply "unlearning" to Qwen3.6-35B-A3B saw a dramatic drop in output that reflects Communist Party of China's preferred censorship, propaganda messaging, or bias. 89.8 percent of the model's output reflected those values before unlearning reduced the incidence to 2.8 percent. Nous Research did not achieve such dramatic results, but did see an overall reduction in viewpoints deemed to be propaganda. "On our evaluation, Arete-27B raised its fact score from 2.32 to 2.98 out of 5 and cut answers containing propaganda from 22 percent to 1 percent, in line with the Western models we tested," the company said. To handle Arete's unlearning, Nous Research says it briefly considered Nvidia's Nemotron 3 Ultra, "but had found evidence that it too had a checkered record on China-related topics." "We don't know definitively, but theorize that the bias imparted to Nemotron came from working with Chinese open models during the training process," the company said. "We have experienced similar contamination, because the vast majority of high quality open models are Chinese, and only open models have terms of use that permit this kind of tinkering and experimentation." In the end, the biz tapped Inkling, an open weight model from US-based Thinking Machines Lab, to act as the teaching model. Nous Research says its model re-education efforts show that the propaganda layer is shallow and, with 50 million tokens worth of supervised learning, is relatively easy to remove. ®

Governor Gavin Newsom and First Partner Jennifer Siebel Newsom reveal today their final and historic 20th class they will induct into the California Hall of Fame. Remarkable in both its size and achievements, this class reflects the values of creativity, innovation, and advocacy that the California Hall of Fame has represented for the last two decades. 

“For 20 years, the California Hall of Fame has celebrated the extraordinary people who make this state what it is, said Governor Gavin Newsom. This historic class reflects the very best of California and what’s possible when people have the courage to think big and make a difference. Their legacy will inspire the next generation to keep pushing boundaries and showing the world what Californians can do.”

This December, the honorees will be formally enshrined during a ceremony at the California Museum in Sacramento, recognizing the lasting impact of their contributions and the ways they have shaped California and the world.

Visit this link for the full list and more details about this incredible honor.

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Just like an Italian piazza, this garden has grown a community. The founder behind an community garden in suburban Adelaide is celebrating a legacy that has grown far beyond the garden beds.

Weer voor Rotterdam ☁️ - 13-11-2026 01:15 CET

In één oogopslag:
• 7.8°C · Gedeeltelijk bewolkt ☁️ | Min 7.7°C / Max 10.4°C | Kans op neerslag 6%

Verwachting voor vandaag:
• Min 7.7°C, Max 10.4°C (Lichte motregen) 🌦️, Neerslag 0.5 mm, Kans op neerslag 6%, 🧭 1013.2 hPa ↗️ +5.8 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 20.2 km/u (5.6 m/s), richting: ↘ 312°

Uurlijkse voorspelling voor de komende 12 uur:

• 02:00: 7.8°C (Helder) 🌕, Kans op neerslag 3%, 🧭 1007.4 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 12.2 km/u (3.4 m/s), richting: ↘ 332°
• 03:00: 8.2°C (Gedeeltelijk bewolkt) ☁️, Kans op neerslag 1%, 🧭 1007.7 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 12.2 km/u (3.4 m/s), richting: ↘ 326°
• 04:00: 8.5°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, 🧭 1008.0 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 12.6 km/u (3.5 m/s), richting: ↘ 326°
• 05:00: 8.0°C (Helder) 🌕, 🧭 1008.6 hPa ↗️ +0.6 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 14.4 km/u (4.0 m/s), richting: ↘ 335°
• 06:00: 8.0°C (Helder) 🌕, 🧭 1009.3 hPa ↗️ +0.7 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 14.8 km/u (4.1 m/s), richting: ↘ 331°
• 07:00: 8.0°C (Helder) 🌕, 🧭 1010.0 hPa ↗️ +0.7 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 11.9 km/u (3.3 m/s), richting: ↘ 324°
• 08:00: 8.4°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, 🧭 1010.9 hPa ↗️ +0.9 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 9.7 km/u (2.7 m/s), richting: ↘ 312°
• 09:00: 8.4°C (Lichte motregen) 🌦️, Neerslag 0.1 mm, 🧭 1011.8 hPa ↗️ +0.9 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 9.7 km/u (2.7 m/s), richting: ↘ 293°
• 10:00: 9.3°C (Zonnig) ☀️, 🧭 1012.3 hPa ↗️ +0.5 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 10.8 km/u (3.0 m/s), richting: ↘ 300°
• 11:00: 9.8°C (Zonnig) ☀️, Kans op neerslag 4%, 🧭 1012.9 hPa ↗️ +0.6 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 12.6 km/u (3.5 m/s), richting: ↘ 309°
• 12:00: 10.4°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, Kans op neerslag 9%, 🧭 1013.7 hPa ↗️ +0.8 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 18.4 km/u (5.1 m/s), richting: ↘ 317°
• 13:00: 10.2°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, Kans op neerslag 14%, 🧭 1014.0 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 16.9 km/u (4.7 m/s), richting: ↘ 316°

Voorspelling voor de komende dagen:

• zaterdag 14 november: Min 4.3°C, Max 8.7°C (Lichte motregen) 🌦️, Neerslag 0.4 mm, 🧭 1017.1 hPa ↗️ +3.9 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 13.3 km/u (3.7 m/s), richting: ↑ 178°
• zondag 15 november: Min 3.7°C, Max 11.0°C (Lichte buien) 🌧️, Neerslag 4.4 mm, Kans op neerslag 31%, 🧭 1000.7 hPa ↘️ -16.4 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 27.6 km/u (7.7 m/s), richting: ↑ 191°
• maandag 16 november: Min 5.3°C, Max 9.0°C (Zware motregen) 🌦️, Neerslag 3.8 mm, Kans op neerslag 53%, 🧭 996.6 hPa ↘️ -4.1 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 23.8 km/u (6.6 m/s), richting: → 251°
• dinsdag 17 november: Min 2.3°C, Max 6.7°C (Lichte motregen) 🌦️, Neerslag 2.7 mm, Kans op neerslag 42%, 🧭 988.0 hPa ↘️ -8.6 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 9.8 km/u (2.7 m/s), richting: ← 89°
• woensdag 18 november: Min 2.5°C, Max 8.5°C (Lichte motregen) 🌦️, Neerslag 1.8 mm, Kans op neerslag 49%, 🧭 994.6 hPa ↗️ +6.6 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 11.4 km/u (3.2 m/s), richting: → 263°
• donderdag 19 november: Min 3.6°C, Max 8.1°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, Kans op neerslag 39%, 🧭 999.5 hPa ↗️ +4.9 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 16.8 km/u (4.7 m/s), richting: → 255°

Details:
• 🌡️ Huidige temperatuur (om 01:15): 7.8°C (Gedeeltelijk bewolkt)
• 🤚 Gevoelstemperatuur: 4.2°C (-3.6°C)
• 💨 Windsnelheid: 9.7 km/u (2.7 m/s), richting: ↘ 326°
• 🌬️ Windstoten: 20.5 km/h (5.7 m/s)
• 💧 Luchtvochtigheid: 67%
• 🧭 Luchtdruk: 1007.4 hPa ↗️ +0.6 hPa/3h
• 👁️ Zichtbaarheid: 50.0 km
• ☀️ UV-index: 0.0
• 🌅 Zonsopgang: 07:58 · 🌇 Zonsondergang: 16:54

Luchtkwaliteit:
• AQI: 60 🟡 (Matig)
• PM2.5: 3.6 μg/m³
• PM10: 13.1 μg/m³

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