A routine security assessment found that cameras aboard Royal Navy Kraken unmanned surface vessels were sending "heartbeat" signals to an IP address in China. "A thorough investigation found no evidence of MoD data or systems being accessed, compromised or transmitted externally," said a Ministry of Defense spokesperson. "Our assurance and testing processes are designed to identify and address potential vulnerabilities early, and we continue to undertake routine security activity across our systems and equipment." The Register reports: According to reports, the talkative components were cameras sourced by Kraken from a third-party supplier. The incident raises questions about supply chains, audits, and cybersecurity in the British armed forces. The spokesperson said: "The first duty of government is national security, and we take the security of our equipment, networks, and data extremely seriously."

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An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: Ceva Logistics, one of the world's largest shipping and logistics giants, has been hacked. Several companies that rely on Ceva for shipping their products to their customers say that their personal information was also stolen in the breach. The cyberattack on Ceva is affecting at least eight warehouses across Europe used for shipping goods across the continent, the company told TechCrunch. Industry news site FreightWaves reports that the hack began on July 29 and is causing shipping delays for many of the goods in affected warehouses.

Ceva is a France-headquartered shipping and logistics giant that companies around the world rely on to deliver their goods from their assembly lines to customer homes. The company, which brought in $18.3 billion in revenue in 2025, has over a thousand warehouses across the world. [...] The hack at Ceva also resulted in a data breach, affecting a large amount of personal information belonging to retail customers that Ceva relies on for delivering goods to people's home addresses. Several companies reported that hackers took their customers' names, home addresses, phone numbers, and email addresses used to place their orders from Ceva's systems.

Dutch online retail giant Bol said on its website that hackers gained access to systems of its warehousing partner, Ceva, and warned that their customers' data may have been taken. Bol also said that it expects delays and some customer orders to be canceled as a result of the incident. De Bijenkorf, another Dutch luxury retailer, similarly confirmed order delays following the theft of its customers' data, per local media. Football club Ajax, banking giant ING, and eyeglass maker Ace & Tate also reported that customers' shipping information was affected. Video game giant Valve told customers that it learned on August 7 that data was taken from Ceva's systems, and alerted customers who recently bought its Steam hardware that they had personal information taken in the incident. Valve said in its note to customers, posted to Reddit, that Ceva stores their shipping and delivery information for 90 days following their order. So far, Ceva says the agency has received data breach reports from 10 organizations in relation to the incident.

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Valve is continuing to broaden SteamOS support beyond its own hardware, with the latest beta adding "initial gamepad support" for a few recent gaming handhelds and improving compatibility for a few others. Ars Technica reports: Those newly supported handhelds include MSI's Claw 8 EX AI+, the extremely expensive, extremely powerful handheld built around Intel's Arc G3 processor that launched this summer. While SteamOS has long included beta support for "other AMD powered handhelds," Valve has only recently been working on offering compatibility with Intel-based handhelds like the MSI Claw line. This weekend's update suggests the company hasn't abandoned those efforts and that Intel chips aren't being left out of the SteamOS conversation.

SteamOS 3.8.25 also newly supports the controllers built into Ayaneo's Android-focused Pocket S2 and the more recently released Windows-based Konkr Fit. Valve also says the new OS offers "improved support" for older MSI Claw devices and the OneXPlayer line of portable gaming PCs. This weekend's update follows June's SteamOS 3.8 update, which stressed "improved compatibility with recent Intel and AMD platforms." That update specifically called out improved controller support on handhelds from the likes of GPD Win, Anbernic, and OrangePi, as well as improvements for various Lenovo Legion Go, MSI Claw, and OneXPlayer devices. The report notes that the new SteamOS update also updates the Linux driver powering the new Steam Controller, "allowing it to work with 'native controller applications' even when Steam is not running."

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Aptoide has become the first third-party Android app store available directly through Google Play in the U.S. "The change is a direct result of Google's litigation with Epic, which saw a judge rule in 2024 that the Play Store would have to open up to third-party stores," notes The Verge. The change makes rival storefronts far easier to discover and install, potentially opening the door for Epic, Amazon, Samsung, Microsoft and others to distribute their own app stores through Google's store. From the report: Third-party app stores have always been available on Android, which is a more open platform than iOS in that respect. However, until now they've only been available if pre-installed on a device -- as with the Amazon Appstore on Fire tablets or Samsung's Galaxy Store -- or installed via sideloading. Listing rival storefronts within the Play Store makes them much easier for users to find and access.
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Aptoide itself is relatively little known, but it's likely to be the first of many alternative app stores. It's presumably only a matter of time before the Epic Store makes its own appearance, and the likes of Amazon, Samsung, and other phone manufacturers may also want to put their stores in front of potential customers.

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Nvidia is working with Wall Street heavyweights on a potential $500 billion financing package for AI infrastructure (source paywalled; alternative source). The consortium includes BlackRock's Global Infrastructure Partners, Brookfield Asset Management, Goldman Sachs and KKR. The Financial Times reports: The partnership underscores Nvidia's growing efforts to raise capital for itself and its clients to continue assembling the chips, power production and data centres at the heart of the AI boom. The $5.25 trillion company has positioned itself at the centre of the AI boom, providing chips, infrastructure and software to a wide array of partners developing the technology. Nvidia's graphics processing units, or GPUs, underpin most of the leading US AI models available today.

[...] The biggest cloud-computing companies, including Meta, Oracle, Microsoft, Alphabet and Amazon, have dramatically increased their spending on AI infrastructure as they look to win the race to dominate the emerging technology. Morgan Stanley projects so-called hyperscalers will spend $3.5 trillion between 2026 and 2028. That need for capital has forced technology groups to tap every source of cash they can find, including public equity, investment-grade and high-yield bonds, securitized debt, private credit and project finance markets. "[The] sheer size of the AI infrastructure build-out is unprecedented," Jim Zelter, president of Apollo, said on an earnings call earlier this month. "More than $8 trillion of capital is expected to be invested, a staggering sum. We see an enormous opportunity for private capital to finance a portion of this along with public capital."

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Weer voor Rotterdam 🌕 - 11-08-2026 01:15 CEST

In één oogopslag:
• 17.9°C · Helder 🌕 | Min 18.1°C / Max 24.3°C | Kans op neerslag 2%

Verwachting voor vandaag:
• Min 18.1°C, Max 24.3°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, Kans op neerslag 2%, 🧭 1025.2 hPa ↗️ +1.4 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 18.4 km/u (5.1 m/s), richting: ↘ 320°

Uurlijkse voorspelling voor de komende 12 uur:

• 02:00: 17.3°C (Helder) 🌕, 🧭 1023.8 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 13.0 km/u (3.6 m/s), richting: ↙ 31°
• 03:00: 16.9°C (Helder) 🌕, 🧭 1024.0 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 11.9 km/u (3.3 m/s), richting: ↙ 35°
• 04:00: 16.6°C (Licht bewolkt) 🌕, 🧭 1024.3 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 10.8 km/u (3.0 m/s), richting: ↙ 33°
• 05:00: 16.3°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, 🧭 1024.4 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 9.4 km/u (2.6 m/s), richting: ← 79°
• 06:00: 16.1°C (Gedeeltelijk bewolkt) ☁️, 🧭 1024.8 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 7.6 km/u (2.1 m/s), richting: ← 79°
• 07:00: 16.0°C (Zonnig) ☀️, 🧭 1025.0 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 7.2 km/u (2.0 m/s), richting: ← 89°
• 08:00: 16.7°C (Zonnig) ☀️, 🧭 1025.5 hPa ↗️ +0.5 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 8.3 km/u (2.3 m/s), richting: ← 79°
• 09:00: 17.6°C (Zonnig) ☀️, 🧭 1026.0 hPa ↗️ +0.5 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 9.0 km/u (2.5 m/s), richting: ← 81°
• 10:00: 18.6°C (Zonnig) ☀️, 🧭 1026.3 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 11.2 km/u (3.1 m/s), richting: ← 81°
• 11:00: 19.8°C (Zonnig) ☀️, 🧭 1026.4 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 13.0 km/u (3.6 m/s), richting: ← 78°
• 12:00: 21.1°C (Zonnig) ☀️, 🧭 1026.4 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 13.7 km/u (3.8 m/s), richting: ← 72°
• 13:00: 22.4°C (Licht bewolkt) 🌤️, 🧭 1026.2 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 14.4 km/u (4.0 m/s), richting: ← 74°

Voorspelling voor de komende dagen:

• woensdag 12 augustus: Min 16.0°C, Max 25.1°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, 🧭 1025.4 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 20.9 km/u (5.8 m/s), richting: ↙ 61°
• donderdag 13 augustus: Min 15.6°C, Max 30.8°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, 🧭 1022.4 hPa ↘️ -3.0 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 16.2 km/u (4.5 m/s), richting: ← 77°
• vrijdag 14 augustus: Min 20.3°C, Max 31.6°C (Zonnig) ☀️, 🧭 1016.3 hPa ↘️ -6.1 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 12.6 km/u (3.5 m/s), richting: ← 96°
• zaterdag 15 augustus: Min 20.2°C, Max 34.6°C (Licht bewolkt) 🌤️, 🧭 1014.4 hPa ↘️ -1.9 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 10.1 km/u (2.8 m/s), richting: ↘ 317°
• zondag 16 augustus: Min 18.7°C, Max 26.2°C (Matige motregen) 🌦️, Neerslag 3.0 mm, Kans op neerslag 13%, 🧭 1015.2 hPa ↗️ +0.8 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 13.8 km/u (3.8 m/s), richting: ↙ 25°
• maandag 17 augustus: Min 17.1°C, Max 24.1°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, Kans op neerslag 7%, 🧭 1014.2 hPa ↘️ -1.0 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 9.6 km/u (2.7 m/s), richting: ↓ 18°

Details:
• 🌡️ Huidige temperatuur (om 01:15): 17.9°C (Helder)
• 🤚 Gevoelstemperatuur: 15.5°C (-2.4°C)
• 💨 Windsnelheid: 14.0 km/u (3.9 m/s), richting: ↙ 23°
• 🌬️ Windstoten: 26.6 km/h (7.4 m/s)
• 💧 Luchtvochtigheid: 64%
• 🧭 Luchtdruk: 1023.8 hPa ↗️ +0.5 hPa/3h
• 👁️ Zichtbaarheid: 23.1 km
• ☀️ UV-index: 0.0
• 🌅 Zonsopgang: 06:18 · 🌇 Zonsondergang: 21:16

Luchtkwaliteit:
• AQI: 39 🟢 (Goed)
• PM2.5: 4.5 μg/m³
• PM10: 10.2 μg/m³

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New head coach Marco Rose has a lot to live up to after last season’s sixth-placed finish while fans have a first year in Europe to look forward to

Guardian writers’ predicted position: 12th (NB: this is not necessarily Ben Fisher’s prediction but the average of our writers’ tips)

Last season’s position: 6th

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Gilded Balloon Teviot
Performer cleared of death of her roommate in Italy uses new motherhood as framework for her defiant comedy show

‘Welcome to the most controversial show on the fringe!” Some audiences will diagnose self-regard in that intro by rookie standup Amanda Knox. For others, as for Knox herself, it merely acknowledges the continuing efforts to silence her. But then, Knox is “the human version of the blue/gold dress”, a canvas on to which we all project guilty, innocent – or weird. Her innocence now proved, it’s the last of these charges she takes on in this fringe outing, retelling her oft-told tale through the lens of new motherhood.

Is it a disgrace that she’s telling it at all – and profiting from it, some would say. (Although they’ve presumably never taken a show to the Edinburgh fringe.) Classifying Cartwheel as comedy may be a misstep; it risks looking insensitive and inaccurately describes the show. But, judging by the evidence, Knox would be damned whatever she did. Now at least she can tell her story in her own way, articulating a growing anger at her treatment and a determination to raise her daughter, not to be silenced and scared but “to be the exact girl I was punished for being”.

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Sara Sanchez, 27, and her daughter died after a speedboat capsized in the New York Harbor over the weekend

The driver of a speedboat that capsized in New York Harbor over the weekend, killing a 27-year-old woman and her infant daughter, was charged on Monday with causing their deaths through misconduct or neglect.

Manuel Hernandez, 46, wiped his eyes with his hand as he arrived for his initial appearance in Manhattan federal court. He was not required to enter a plea and was released on bail.

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Thomas Hawk posted a photo:

Thomas Hawk posted a photo:

I opened my Flickr app on Android and noticed that auto-upload had stopped. When going to the settings I noticed I was unable to re-enable auto uploader. I reported a problem, got an answer within the hour, provided some more information and five minutes later the latest update was pulled. I was told to remove the app and yes re-installing the app gave me the previous version. And i was able to back up my photos again. I'd say, that was fast.

Anyone out there using flickr with auto-uploader enabled, check your settings, it might have stopped anywhere in july.
#flickr #bug #backup

CARACAS (ANP/AFP) - De aardbevingen die Venezuela eind juni hebben getroffen, hebben 6301 doden geëist. Dat maakte parlementsvoorzitter Jorge Rodríguez bekend. Er wordt in het puin nog steeds naar lichamen gezocht.

Het vorige dodental stond op 6125. Er zijn volgens de autoriteiten nog zo'n 1400 vermisten.

Meer dan 12.000 woningen zijn onbewoonbaar verklaard. Talloze families zijn in noodopvang ondergebracht of verblijven bij familieleden.

Buurland Colombia werd maandag door een aardbeving met een kracht van 7.4 getroffen. Het aantal bevestigde doden ligt op 111, maar ook in dit land vrezen de autoriteiten dat het verder oploopt. Het is de zwaarste aardbeving in Colombia deze eeuw.

De Europese Unie is bereid Colombia meer hulp te bieden bij de reddingswerkzaamheden na de zware aardbeving, aldus commissievoorzitter Ursula von der Leyen op X. De Europese satellietdienst Copernicus wordt al ingezet om te helpen, zo schreef ze. Voor Venezuela heeft de EU 25 miljoen euro beschikbaar gesteld, onder meer voor medische hulpmiddelen en reddingsteams.

BIRMINGHAM (ANP) - Jessica Schilder beheerst momenteel het kogelstoten. Ze is wereldkampioene, stootte als eerste atlete in veertien jaar over de 21 meter en kroonde zich in Birmingham voor de derde keer op rij tot Europees kampioene, maar zelf denkt ze dat ze nog steeds de slechtste is. "Ik kan daar niets aan doen, het hoort een beetje bij mijn voorbereiding. Ik maak mezelf klein om mezelf te beschermen tegen de druk", vertelde ze na afloop van de finale, waarin ze verreweg de beste was.

Al haar geldige stoten waren goed voor goud en in haar zesde en laatste poging stootte ze er nog 20,73 meter uit, haar derde afstand ooit. "Ik moet dat idee dat ik de slechtste ben maar niet loslaten, want het heeft me al veel medailles gebracht. Het stuwt me naar een hoger plan."

Schilder kwam met nog een opvallende bekentenis. "Ik denk dat dit de eerste wedstrijd was waarbij ik zelfvertrouwen voelde. Het ging naar wens en daar ben ik blij mee. Het was de makkelijkste van mijn drie titels."

SEXBIERUM (ANP) - Boeren hebben maandagavond in Friesland met trekkers over de snelweg gereden. Dat gebeurde na afloop van een protestactie in Sexbierum.

Een ANP-fotograaf zag dat groepjes boeren over de A31 reden. De politie was daarbij aanwezig.

De boeren waren daarvoor bijeengekomen op een weiland langs diezelfde snelweg. Meer dan honderd trekkers hadden zich daar verzameld om te demonstreren tegen de stikstofplannen van het kabinet. Een deel van de boeren had de Nederlandse vlag omgekeerd aan het voertuig hangen.

In Overijssel waren maandagavond ook boerenprotesten, waaronder in Ommen, Dalfsen en Hardenberg.

“Taxi and ambulance drivers are less likely than workers in almost any other job to die of Alzheimer’s disease.” The key difference: “the constant work of locating yourself in space, tracking a destination and updating a mental map as conditions change.”

DEF CON hackers expanded their efforts to provide free cyber-defenses to rural water systems in the US to include managed detection and response providers, digital twins, and AI agents. On Friday, at the annual hacker’s conference, DEF CON Franklin and the National Rural Water Association (NRWA) announced a new program called the Water Watch Center. It will initially fund five providers - Defendify, Legato Security, L1 Secure, Rapid7, and Sentinel Technologies - to help small water utilities serving fewer than 10,000 people detect and mitigate breaches. The security providers will exchange threat info and share that with the NRWA, which provides technical assistance and operational support to small water and wastewater utilities across all 50 states. “We've had our volunteer experts out for two years in these water utilities, in the trenches with these folks, and the thing that we've realized is that there's just not a scalable delivery mechanism for cyber for these utilities when there’s 150,000 of them, and 98 percent of them are small businesses,” Jake Braun told The Register during an interview at DEF CON. Braun co-founded the Franklin project at DEF CON in 2024, and 350 people signed up that year to donate their time and talent to securing water facilities. “We groped around in the dark for what to do, and eventually realized we already know how to do security for small businesses - it’s MSSPs,” Braun said. “So why don’t we just do that?” He described the new Water Watch Center as a pyramid, with the NRWA at the top, the managed detection and response providers’ sensors hunting for security vulnerabilities across the utilities’ networks, and then Franklin volunteers fixing issues or responding to instructions as needed. “We have five initial MSSPs, which will expand to 10 eventually, based on the 10 CISA regions,” Braun said. “And then below that, we have volunteers who can help, and connect water utilities to MSSPs, so we’re not just sending alerts. We can take the alerts that CISA and the ISAC put out, and deliver cybersecurity. That’s been the missing piece: there has been no delivery mechanism for cybersecurity that’s scalable nationally - that's what this is.” Suspected Iranian hackers have hit numerous water systems in recent weeks, and most were small, community systems that left programmable logic controllers directly exposed to the internet using default or weak passwords. There’s no indication that the attackers used AI to help plan or carry out these digital disruptions. However, as both cyber and national security experts told The Register during conversations on the sidelines of Black Hat and DEF CON, it’s only a matter of time until that happens. DEF CON Franklin has a plan for that scenario, too. The Water Watch Center also partnered with Vanderbilt University to apply research from the DARPA Cyber Agents for Security Testing and Learning Environment (CASTLE) program. This partnership will create digital twins for a few WWC water and wastewater system environments, and then researchers will deploy both red- and blue-team agents across these digital dupes. The red-team attack agents try to hack the water systems, testing the blue-team defenders’ automated detection and response capabilities, with the eventual goal of deploying AI-based defense to water and wastewater facilities across the US. “They let it fight each other a gazillion times, and then they figure out when does the blue team win, so we can train agents to then later drop into these 150,000 water utilities,” Braun said. “There's already a 500,000-person shortage of cyber professionals. The idea that we're magically going to find 150,000 new people is a fantasy. There is no other way to really be able to combat the AI attacks that are going to be coming at these things.” ®