Microsoft has finally delivered on its promise to integrate Sysmon -- the long-standing system monitoring tool from its Sysinternals suite -- directly into Windows, a move that should make life considerably easier for enterprise administrators who have struggled with deploying and managing the utility across thousands of endpoints.

The functionality landed this week in Windows Insider builds 26300.7733 (Dev channel) and 26220.7752 (Beta channel). Sysmon allows administrators to capture system events through custom configuration files, filter for specific activity, and pipe the data into standard Windows event logs for pickup by security tools and SIEM pipelines. Mark Russinovich, Microsoft technical fellow and Winternals co-founder, has previously noted the lack of official customer support for Sysmon in production environments -- a gap this integration addresses. The feature ships disabled by default and requires PowerShell to enable. Microsoft notes that any existing Sysmon installation must be uninstalled before activating the built-in version.

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NEW YORK (ANP/AFP) - VN-chef Antonio Guterres heeft de Verenigde Staten en Rusland opgeroepen snel een nieuw nucleair akkoord te sluiten. Het bestaande verdrag staat op het punt te verlopen, wat volgens hem een ​​"ernstig moment voor de internationale vrede en veiligheid" is.

Het New START-verdrag loopt donderdag af, waardoor zowel Moskou als Washington formeel niet langer gebonden zijn aan een reeks beperkingen op hun nucleaire arsenalen. Dit "had niet op een slechter moment kunnen komen: het risico dat een kernwapen wordt gebruikt, is het hoogst in decennia", zei Guterres, zonder daarover uit te weiden.

Rusland en de VS beschikken samen over meer dan 80 procent van de kernkoppen in de wereld.

Het pact New START, dat in 2010 werd ondertekend, beperkte het nucleaire arsenaal van elke partij tot 1550 ingezette strategische kernkoppen. Het verdrag stond beide partijen ook toe inspecties ter plaatse uit te voeren van elkaars nucleaire arsenaal, hoewel deze tijdens de coronapandemie werden opgeschort en sindsdien niet zijn hervat.

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Rooftop carport, Hobart, Tasmania. Mt Wellington in background (1271m)

Weer voor Rotterdam ☁️

Huidige temperatuur (om 01:15): 2.5°C (Gedeeltelijk bewolkt)
Windsnelheid: 22.7 km/u (6.3 m/s), richting: ← 88°

Luchtkwaliteit:

• AQI: 51 🟡 (Matig)
• PM2.5: 17.8 μg/m³
• PM10: 18.8 μg/m³

Voorspelling voor de komende dagen:

• donderdag 05 februari: Min 0.2°, Max 5.1° (Bewolkt) ☁️, Kans op neerslag 8%, Windsnelheid: 24.1 km/u (6.7 m/s), richting: ← 93°
• vrijdag 06 februari: Min 3.3°, Max 9.9° (Matige motregen) 🌦️, Neerslag 2.1, Kans op neerslag 33%, Windsnelheid: 17.6 km/u (4.9 m/s), richting: ↖ 130°
• zaterdag 07 februari: Min 5.6°, Max 11.6° (Bewolkt) ☁️, Kans op neerslag 19%, Windsnelheid: 14.8 km/u (4.1 m/s), richting: ↖ 156°
• zondag 08 februari: Min 4.4°, Max 9.8° (Bewolkt) ☁️, Kans op neerslag 16%, Windsnelheid: 10.6 km/u (2.9 m/s), richting: ↖ 141°
• maandag 09 februari: Min 1.8°, Max 6.8° (Bewolkt) ☁️, Kans op neerslag 6%, Windsnelheid: 8.7 km/u (2.4 m/s), richting: ↖ 117°
• dinsdag 10 februari: Min 1.8°, Max 9.1° (Lichte motregen) 🌦️, Neerslag 0.3, Kans op neerslag 12%, Windsnelheid: 19.2 km/u (5.3 m/s), richting: ↖ 131°
• woensdag 11 februari: Min 0.1°, Max 4.2° (Lichte motregen) 🌦️, Neerslag 2.0, Kans op neerslag 45%, Windsnelheid: 14.8 km/u (4.1 m/s), richting: ← 83°

Uurlijkse voorspelling voor de komende 12 uur:

• 02:00: 1.8° (Gedeeltelijk bewolkt) ☁️, Windsnelheid: 21.6 km/u (6.0 m/s), richting: ← 91°
• 03:00: 1.1° (Bewolkt) ☁️, Windsnelheid: 21.6 km/u (6.0 m/s), richting: ← 93°
• 04:00: 0.7° (Bewolkt) ☁️, Windsnelheid: 23.8 km/u (6.6 m/s), richting: ← 93°
• 05:00: 0.4° (Bewolkt) ☁️, Windsnelheid: 24.1 km/u (6.7 m/s), richting: ← 90°
• 06:00: 0.2° (Bewolkt) ☁️, Windsnelheid: 23.4 km/u (6.5 m/s), richting: ← 85°
• 07:00: 0.2° (Bewolkt) ☁️, Windsnelheid: 20.2 km/u (5.6 m/s), richting: ← 95°
• 08:00: 0.2° (Bewolkt) ☁️, Windsnelheid: 22.3 km/u (6.2 m/s), richting: ← 95°
• 09:00: 0.6° (Bewolkt) ☁️, Windsnelheid: 23.0 km/u (6.4 m/s), richting: ← 94°
• 10:00: 1.0° (Bewolkt) ☁️, Windsnelheid: 21.2 km/u (5.9 m/s), richting: ← 95°
• 11:00: 1.5° (Bewolkt) ☁️, Windsnelheid: 19.8 km/u (5.5 m/s), richting: ← 98°
• 12:00: 2.3° (Bewolkt) ☁️, Windsnelheid: 20.5 km/u (5.7 m/s), richting: ← 93°
• 13:00: 3.0° (Bewolkt) ☁️, Kans op neerslag 2%, Windsnelheid: 19.4 km/u (5.4 m/s), richting: ← 97°

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States and financial bodies using modelling that ignores shocks from extreme weather and climate tipping points

Flawed economic models mean the accelerating impact of the climate crisis could lead to a global financial crash, experts warn.

Recovery would be far harder than after the 2008 financial crash, they said, as “we can’t bail out the Earth like we did the banks”.

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Industry bigger than all but seven world economies, and accounts for more than third of China’s economic growth

China’s clean energy industries drove more than 90% of the country’s investment growth last year, making the sectors bigger than all but seven of the world’s economies, a new analysis has shown.

For the second time in three years, the report showed the manufacture, installation and export of batteries, electric cars, solar, wind and related technologies accounted for more than a third of China’s economic growth.

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Armed with rubber gloves and cleaning supplies, helpers trek through the wilderness to spruce up remote huts dotted across the country

From two-person shelters to a 54-bunk fortress, New Zealand’s countryside is scattered with huts that offer weary hikers a safe place to rest. Some huts sit along the popular Milford and Routeburn tracks, others are perched in remote valleys in the wilderness, with views ranging from snowy peaks to flourishing bush.

But the publicly owned network is too vast for the government to maintain, so ordinary people in New Zealand are filling their backpacks with cleaning supplies and hiking into the hills to clean and maintain the huts.

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The Puerto Rican singer’s highly anticipated Super Bowl half-time show has inspired non-Spanish speakers to study Puerto Rican dialect and slang

Bad Bunny is expected to perform the Super Bowl half-time show on Sunday entirely in Spanish – which has inspired fans to quickly learn the language.

In October, the Puerto Rican singer – born Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio – kicked off the 51st season of Saturday Night Live expressing pride over the achievement in Spanish, after which he said in English, “If you didn’t understand what I just said, you have four months to learn!”

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By age 20 diagnosis rates for men and women almost equal, research finds, challenging assumptions of gender discrepancy

Females may be just as likely to be autistic as males but boys are up to four times more likely to be diagnosed in childhood, according to a large-scale study.

Research led by the Karolinska Institutet in Sweden scrutinised the diagnosis rates of autism for people born in Sweden between 1985 and 2020. Of the 2.7 million people tracked, 2.8% were diagnosed with autism between the ages of two and 37.

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Onze zoon Sebas moest toen hij drieënhalf was naar het consultatiebureau voor zijn prikken. Hij zag er, zoals zoveel kinderen, erg tegenop.

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