There has been a leadership change at Cadillac, with Marcin Budkowski joining the squad as Team Principal.

As Williams find themselves falling short of their own expectations, we recap their 2026 season so far.

Oh wow, Williams College’s Hopkins Observatory has a huge collection of eclipse glasses & viewers (and other eclipse ephemera), some of them dating back to 1793. Here are a few of my favorites:

(via present & correct)

Tags: design · eclipses

“I personally supported Alexei Navalny,” Zaytsev told the officers on camera.

Organizers said the Dronnitsa event would require diverting air defenses and security personnel from other locations.

Instagram is full of first-person videos of men harassing women in public. They follow a similar script: A man walks up to a woman or group of women in a store, sitting outside a cafe, or walking home from a bar, and delivers a pickup line. The women almost always nervously laugh, react with barely-veiled disgust, or say "fuck off" while he stalks her or refuses to walk away. The men recording these videos capture them with Meta's smart glasses, which are designed to discreetly capture interactions like these and upload the videos to Meta's platforms where the women in the videos are turned into content for "pickup artist" accounts.  

New research reveals this ecosystem works, and how pickup artists (PUA) influencers are using Meta's products, including its smart glasses and social media platforms, to perpetuate a culture of harassment against women.  

University of Sydney researchers Joanne Gray, Marcus Carter, and Ben Egliston watched hundreds of these videos to learn how pickup artist content creators use smart glasses, and what specific forms of gendered harms these recordings cause. They published their research paper, "Harm Through the '#RizzCam': Smart Glasses, Ambient Capture and Invisible Harassment," online this week as a preprint article.

The researchers compiled a dataset of 350 Instagram videos posted between September 2023 and March 2026. The videos fit specific criteria: they depicted real-world interactions involving unsolicited approaches to women in public or semi-public settings. "Unsolicited interactions were defined as approaches that appeared to be initiated without prior indication of mutual engagement," the researchers wrote in the paper. "We included videos that appeared to be staged, scripted, or comedic performance as it is often difficult to confidently determine intent in platform content, and such material may still contribute to the circulation and normalisation of these interactions." They found the videos by searching hashtags and keywords commonly used by pickup artist grifters.

The more surreptitious the filming seemed, the researchers found, the more serious the harassment. "The data reveals a clear correlation between the 'covertness' of the filming modality and the severity of the harassment," they wrote. "This combination of first-person perspective and device concealment confirms that the means of production remain largely clandestine, facilitating a condition of low awareness among subjects and reinforcing the deceptive nature of wearable-mediated capture."

Meta’s Ray-Ban Glasses Users Film and Harass Massage Parlor Workers

“The shameless use of covert recording technology at massage parlours to gain likes, attention, and online notoriety is both disgusting and dangerous.”

When Meta announced its Ray-Ban Meta glasses in 2021, Egliston said, he and several of his colleagues, including those on the research team for this paper, wrote that the company’s safeguards were insufficient. "The company’s answer to covert recording was a light on the device and an expectation that users would somehow just behave responsibly. That has plainly not worked, and it leaves the burden on the people being filmed rather than on the company that built the device and owns the platforms the footage ends up on." Last year, 404 Media reported on the ways people are modding Meta's smart glasses to disable the recording light. Ray-Ban Metas have also been repeatedly spotted on immigration agents during raids.

Instagram head Adam Mosseri said last month that the platform would start removing harassing content. "If you're posting content that is taking advantage of people and harassing them, like a lot of these pickup line kind of videos that we've heard of and seen, then we're going to take the content down," Mosseri said. "We don't want people to be surreptitiously taking videos of other people and harassing them and then posting them on our platform. So we're trying to fight that every way we can." As of writing— almost a month after that announcement — I easily found pages and pages of Reels by men approaching women while wearing smart glasses where the women being filmed either don't seem to know they're being recorded, or obviously don't want to be filmed and repeatedly tell the man recording them to stop. This isn't even counting the endless videos recommended to me by Instagram's algorithm showing people antagonizing and filming retail workers and shoppers in stores using smart glasses.

What’s the Difference Between AI Glasses and an iPhone? A Helpful Guide for Meta PR

Meta thinks its camera glasses, which are often used for harassment, are no different than any other camera.

In the pickup artist world, this content is both entertaining and instructive, the researchers wrote. It's superpowered by the proliferation of smart glasses like Meta's. "As these devices move from niche curiosities to mainstream products, smart glasses intensify this asymmetry through ambient capture," they wrote. "By leveraging their unobtrusive design, PUAs create point-of-view (POV) recordings that place the digital audience in the literal position of the practitioner. This technical capability covertly embeds the act of filming within the social encounter, effectively weaponising the subject’s lack of awareness. The result is a novel mode of 'borderline' harassment that often evades the scrutiny of existing platform governance mechanisms, as it lacks the overt markers typically required for a policy violation." 

The harm doesn't end when the interaction ends, the researchers found. The long digital tail of these videos—which Instagram fails to properly moderate based on its own promises to crack down on this content—means the women in them are subjected to harassment long after they manage to get away from the man in real life. "Combined with the fact that 93.3% of these posts left comments open, subjects were frequently exposed to a digital afterlife of crude, abusive, and misogynistic commentary from the platform audience," the researchers wrote. "Comments frequently framed women’s rejection or discomfort as unnecessarily dismissive, including remarks such as 'she was acting rude' or suggestions that women should 'at least acknowledge' the men approaching them, while others minimised harassment by arguing that people who label such behaviour as harassment are contributing to declining birth rates." 

I Have Thoughts About That Kylie Jenner Meta Glasses Ad

Meta’s new Starfire AI glasses, made in partnership with Kylie Jenner, are giving me the creeps.

The researchers wrote that they were inspired by the BBC's investigations into how women are targeted by Meta smart glasses wearers when they're trying to go about their daily lives. In one BBC report, a woman who was recorded and posted online by a man using Meta's smart glasses was harassed for weeks after the video went online, and said she was "bombarded" with phone calls because her phone number was posted with the video. "On one occasion, she says she picked up the phone and a man said to her: 'Do you know how stupid you are? Do you regret it? Do you know how easy that made you look?,'" the BBC reported. Men came to her workplace and repeated lines from the video and demanded her social media details, she told the BBC. 

“I’ve been surprised by how firmly the ‘pervert glasses’ label has stuck. There’s a widespread aversion here that doesn’t seem quite as present for other surveillance or data-intensive products," Egliston told 404 Media. "But public sentiment — while perhaps meaning people will be less likely to wear the glasses — is not a governance mechanism." 

Egliston said that Meta's content moderation record "doesn’t encourage confidence," but hopes to be proven wrong. "Our hope is that the current backlash, combined with emerging legislation imposing a duty of care on platforms, will force more substantive changes." 

Thanks to the drought, these black-and-white beauties are struggling to catch worms in the rock-hard earth. But there’s still good foraging on well-watered fairways and greens

Name: Badgers.

Age: European badgers live for five to eight years in the wild. They have been in the UK, where this story is set, for half to three-quarters of a million years.

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As millennials return to the games of their youth, remakes of Star Fox and Halo suggest there is still plenty to learn from the past

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As much as some people more or less cease to listen to new music in their 30s, I have noticed a retreat to safe, familiar gaming territory among some of my fellow millennial gamers.

Retro collections are started, or resumed; jewel-cases of PS1 classics or cardboard boxes with SNES or Mega Drive games have started to colonise the living-room shelves. People are replaying things from their university days, or sticking to comfort games such as Stardew Valley. Many of the friends I used to game with never bothered to pick up a PlayStation 5 at its launch, and now that current-generation consoles are becoming prohibitively expensive, they see no need. With thousands of great older games, why bother playing something new?

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Eclipse to be witnessed by tens of millions across western Europe as enthusiasts gather along path of totality

The last significant partial eclipse was reported in the UK in 1999.

Here is how we covered it at the time at the Guardian:

“Britain was brought to a standstill for almost an hour yesterday as millions of people left their homes, offices and factories to watch the last eclipse of the millennium.

The rush to watch the skies in the West Country and across the country resulted in the biggest power surge ever recorded on the National Grid and is estimated to have cost the country £500m in lost business.

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Voor steeds meer mensen is vakantie te duur. Bij camping Polemonium in het Groningse Opende kunnen gasten gratis kamperen. Een check op het inkomen is er niet. „Mensen die mij bellen, die geloof ik. Ik oordeel niet.”

Eén op de vijf mensen die vanavond naar de zonsverduistering gaan kijken, is van plan dat zonder oogbescherming te doen.

Om hun oogsten te redden gaan sommige boeren heel ver. Beregenen met drinkwater is peperduur maar soms de enige oplossing om dure investeringen te redden. De communicatie met het waterschap leidt tot onbegrip en frictie. „Je voelt je als domme boer weggezet.”

OUDDORP (ANP) - De brandweerman die bij het blussen van een duinbrand bij het Zuid-Hollandse Ouddorp op donderdag 6 augustus zwaargewond raakte, is overleden. Dat meldt de veiligheidsregio. De man overleed op woensdagochtend in het Erasmus MC.

Tijdens het bestrijden van de brand kwam de man onder een brandweervoertuig terecht. Het slachtoffer werd daarna met een traumahelikopter naar het ziekenhuis gebracht. Een dag later liet de veiligheidsregio al weten zich "grote zorgen te maken" over zijn gezondheid.

Arjen Littooij, algemeen directeur van de veiligheidsregio Rotterdam-Rijnmond, schrijft in een bericht op sociale media dat de man een "brandweerman in hart en nieren" was. Zijn overlijden slaat volgens Littooij "een diep gat in ons brandweerhart". Hij spreekt van een zwarte bladzijde in het 20-jarig bestaan van de veiligheidsregio en meldt verder dat zijn gedachten bij de familie en het korps Middelharnis/Sommelsdijk zijn, waar de man actief was.

BRUSSEL (ANP) - De NAVO-landen laten zich door het binnenvliegen van Russische drones en raketten niet weerhouden van het steunen van Oekraïne, stellen ze. Hoe onverantwoordelijk en gevaarlijk de luchtruimschendingen door Rusland ook zijn.

De ambassadeurs van de 32 bondgenoten bespraken woensdag het groeiende aantal projectielen dat de laatste tijd hun luchtruim binnendringt. Rusland bestookt Oekraïne vrijwel dagelijks met tal van drones, kruis- en ballistische raketten en geregeld belanden die ook in NAVO-landen. Roemenië schoot eind vorige maand drie dagen op rij een binnengedrongen Russische drone uit de lucht. In Polen sloeg een kruisraket in.

"Rusland draagt de volle verantwoordelijkheid voor de luchtruimschendingen", aldus de NAVO-landen. Die zijn "gevaarlijk en onacceptabel" en tonen Ruslands "groeiende bereidheid risico te nemen".

De NAVO-landen "hebben duidelijk gemaakt dat ze eendrachtig en vastberaden optrekken om het grondgebied van de alliantie te verdedigen", aldus de NAVO.

NEW YORK (ANP) - De aandelenbeurzen in New York zijn woensdag met kleine winsten begonnen. De aandacht op Wall Street ging onder meer uit naar nieuwe cijfers over de inflatie in de Verenigde Staten. Ook kwamen er positieve cijfers van grote Amerikaanse techbedrijven.

De inflatie in 's werelds grootste economie bedroeg in juli 3,4 procent op jaarbasis, in lijn met de verwachting van economen. Beleggers leken vooral opgelucht, omdat dit de Federal Reserve ruimte kan geven om geen renteverhoging door te voeren in september en zo de arbeidsmarkt te ondersteunen.

De Dow-Jonesindex noteerde vlak na de opening 0,1 procent hoger op 53.855 punten. De brede S&P 500 won 0,3 procent tot 7753 punten en technologiebeurs Nasdaq steeg 0,6 procent tot 26.610 punten. Op dinsdag lieten de hoofdgraadmeters nog beperkte verliezen zien.

Investeringen in AI

CoreWeave schoot bijna 23 procent omhoog na kwartaalcijfers. Het datacenterbedrijf profiteert van de sterk gestegen AI-uitgaven waardoor de omzetgroei hoger uitviel dan verwacht. Super Micro Computer ging 16 procent omhoog na een omzetprognose die sterker was dan analisten hadden voorzien. Deze resultaten versterken de overtuiging onder beleggers dat de enorme investeringen in AI kunnen worden terugverdiend. Eerder verloren beleggers juist dit vertrouwen, wat leidde tot forse koersverliezen bij chipbedrijven.

De in Amsterdam gevestigde cloudcomputingprovider Nebius Group steeg net geen 16 procent. Het AI-bedrijf overtrof de omzetverwachtingen door grote contracten binnen te halen. Het bedrijf meldde onder meer vier AI-clouddeals, met een gemiddelde contractwaarde van 1 miljard dollar. In totaal stegen de aandelen van het bedrijf al meer dan 130 procent dit jaar.

Verder was Cava Group een uitblinker met een koerssprong van 16 procent. De restaurantketen op basis van de mediterrane keuken kwam met beter dan verwachte resultaten. Lumentum Holdings werd bijna 5 procent hoger gezet na meevallende cijfers. Het bedrijf is gespecialiseerd in opto-elektronische onderdelen die met behulp van licht data versturen.

DUBLIN (ANP) - De Ierse investeringsmaatschappij Quanta Capital heeft interesse in de overname van de Accell Group, moederbedrijf van onder andere fietsmerken Sparta, Batavus en Babboe. Dat zei topman Mel Sutcliffe tegen Ierse en Britse media.

Accell werd dinsdag failliet verklaard, nadat het bedrijf vorige week uitstel van betaling had aangevraagd. De curatoren konden de interesse van het bedrijf nog niet bevestigen. Het bedrijf, dat ook bekend is van de merken Lapierre en Raleigh, kwam na de coronaperiode in financiële problemen doordat het opgescheept zat met onverkochte voorraden. Het fietsconcern kampte ook met andere moeilijkheden, zoals een massale terugroepactie van Babboe-bakfietsen.

Sutcliffe is voormalig wielrenner en verkocht zijn bedrijf Eurotrek Raleigh Ireland tien jaar geleden aan Accell. In een verklaring aan Ierse media zegt Sutcliffe dat Accell "een spectaculaire verzameling van bekende fietsmerken wereldwijd heeft".

The UK's criminal records office, ACRO, has escaped a fine and received a regulatory reprimand after security failings potentially exposed highly sensitive data belonging to nearly 11,000 people. ACRO disclosed the "cybersecurity incident" in April 2023, and said at the time that it had no evidence to suggest that any data was compromised. However, it has now emerged that attackers maintained persistent access to ACRO's website and content management system for more than seven months, and staged sensitive data for possible exfiltration. According to the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO), which reprimanded ACRO rather than imposing a financial penalty, the breach was uncovered in March 2023 only because ACRO was investigating a separate intrusion. The watchdog said that while investigating an SQL injection attack that compromised 15 sets of credentials, most belonging to ACRO staff, investigators found evidence of separate intrusions dating back to July 8, 2021. The incidents fell into three categories, the ICO said. Some did not affect personal data, while others exposed only a small number of account credentials. The most serious involved ACRO's website and its Kentico content management system. The intrusion began on August 5, 2022, and the attackers maintained persistent access, without being detected, until March 14, 2023. The ICO found that ACRO ran version 12.0.0 of Kentico CMS from September 2019 until March 2023 without applying the patches and hotfixes released during that period, leaving known vulnerabilities unresolved. The ICO blamed poor communication between ACRO and its managed service provider. The supplier did not learn that patching was its responsibility until February 2020 and continued to assume that it was not required to monitor actively for security updates. "The ambiguity around who was accountable for identifying necessary Kentico CMS patches created a gap where patches and hotfixes were missed, which ultimately left ACRO's website vulnerable," the ICO said. Further, ACRO did not have a documented policy that covered patching Kentico CMS, nor could it demonstrate how vulnerabilities were identified or prioritized. ACRO's Trend Micro antivirus generated alerts, but nobody appears to have been minding them. The records office told the ICO that, for reasons redacted from the postmortem, it was "unable to establish what business processes existed for the assessment or handling of security alerts at the relevant time." It also could not identify which roles were responsible for reviewing these alerts at the time, ultimately resulting in them going unread. ACRO's poor logging means that, despite an extensive investigation by a third-party cybersecurity outfit, it remains impossible to determine whether the affected data was exfiltrated. Investigators did establish that the attackers staged the data for possible exfiltration between February 15 and 16, 2023. The potentially exposed material included: Police Certificate Applications Subject Access Request (SAR) forms and International Child Protection Certificate forms Names Dates of birth Addresses National Insurance numbers Passport and driving licence details Bank account information Biometric data Highly sensitive criminal offence and special category information ACRO notified 84,048 people of the breach, although investigators later determined that data relating to no more than 10,920 individuals had potentially been staged for exfiltration. Of these, ACRO received 35 formal complaints citing personal distress and concern about the risk of identity theft and financial loss, according to the ICO's reprimand document [PDF]. "Complainants included those connected to Police Certificates, International Child Protection Certificates, and victims of domestic violence." The ICO also received six complaints citing similar concerns. ACRO's saving grace was its network segmentation, which prevented the attackers from straying beyond the CMS into other systems, the ICO noted. Since the attack was discovered, ACRO has made a number of improvements to its security, including decommissioning the compromised infrastructure (although not until June 2023), implementing a SIEM, improving visibility, monitoring, and network segmentation, hardening systems, and migrating to Salesforce Experience Cloud. Jonathan Balmforth, group manager of civil and cyber investigations at the ICO, said: "This case highlights how basic cyber security failings can create significant risks for thousands of people, particularly where organizations process large volumes of highly sensitive personal information. "Organizations must ensure there is clear accountability for identifying, assessing and applying security updates. They must also have effective monitoring in place so that warning signs of cyberattacks are identified, investigated and acted upon promptly. "The lessons from this incident are clear. Having the right policies, responsibilities and oversight arrangements in place is just as important as having the right technology. "We welcome the improvements ACRO has made since these incidents. We hope other organizations will use this case as an opportunity to review their own processes and responses to ensure personal information remains properly protected." ACRO welcomed the reprimand from the ICO and highlighted the steps it has taken since to bolster its security. A spokesperson told The Register: "Since the cybersecurity incident was identified in March 2023, we have worked hard to strengthen our systems and safeguards. "In particular, we immediately took the previous website offline and subsequently decommissioned it. We also took steps to protect customers, including making sure anyone potentially affected was informed at the earliest possible stage." They went on to say: "We accept the ICO's findings of the infringements. We are grateful for the recognition from the Information Commissioner of the multiple remedial steps ACRO has taken in light of this incident and are committed to maintaining high standards of data protection and information security in future." ®

Een koe stond woensdagochtend vlak langs het treinspoor te grazen aan de Kandelaarweg in Schiedam. Daardoor werd het treinverkeer tijdelijk stilgelegd. Het dier stond langs een hek, op slechts een paar meter van de rails verwijderd.