​Meta werkt aan een nieuwe ‘slimme bril’, ondersteund met AI. Daarmee kun je straks onophoudelijk filmen hoe je door iedereen op straat vies wordt aangekeken.

“Onze Meta-brillen roepen zo veel sterke emoties op, dat het bijna onmogelijk is om dat allemaal in real time te registreren”, legt CEO Mark Zuckerberg uit. “Maar met onze nieuwe AI-brillen kun je straks continu audio en video opnemen van mensen die zuchten, uit je buurt proberen te blijven en iets naar je schreeuwen over privacy.”

Bij de nieuwe brillen hoef je niet meer op record te drukken, en komt er ook geen lampje meer dat laat zien dat je aan het opnemen bent. “Hoe meer woede, hoe belangrijker een AI-bril wordt. Straks kunnen we emoties als ‘walging’, ‘woede’ en ‘diepe, diepe teleurstelling in de mensheid’ eenvoudig herkennen. Dan kun jij die beelden thuis op de bank rustig terugkijken."

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Engeland en Argentinië spelen vanavond in Atlanta tegen elkaar voor een plek in de finale op het WK voetbal. Vanwege de geschiedenis is het een beladen duel, waarin de Engelsen hun hoop gevestigd hebben op een wonder.

"Dit is niet zomaar een potje", zegt oud-doelman Peter Shilton. "Je hebt de Falklands als politieke dimensie, je hebt de rode kaart van David Beckham in 1998, je hebt alle dubieuze momenten die dit toernooi in het voordeel van Argentinië zijn uitgepakt. Daar moet je als Engeland dan tegen strijden. Ik denk dat we iets heel bijzonders nodig hebben. Ik noem maar iets: een uittrap van Emiliano Martínez die tegen de kabel van een camera aankomt en zomaar uit de lucht valt, zodat Jude Bellingham kan scoren. De Kabel van God. Een mens mag dromen, toch?’’

De FIFA heeft laten weten dat de Engelsen nergens op moeten rekenen.

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Maar, handen heeft-ie! En als de menselijke operators genoeg trainingsdata hebben gegenereerd om NEO autonoom te maken, krijg je deze autonome vingers er gratis bij. Snappen we verder allemaal niks van, maar NEO zelf beschrijft het handwerk als volgt:

"We zijn verheugd onze baanbrekende, door pezen aangestuurde handen met 25 vrijheidsgraden voor het NEO-humanoïdeplatform te introduceren; ze bieden een behendigheid, kracht, veiligheid en betrouwbaarheid die bijna op menselijk niveau liggen. Deze handen zijn ontworpen met een fundamenteel doel: de hardwarematige beperkingen wegnemen die bepalen wat humanoïde robots kunnen doen, zodat data – en niet de hardware – de enige grens vormt voor hun capaciteiten. Doordat ze op alle relevante vlakken gelijkwaardig zijn aan of zelfs beter presteren dan menselijke handen, zorgen ze ervoor dat onze AI-modellen niet langer worden beperkt door een gebrek aan behendigheid. NEO kan nu vrijwel elke taak uitvoeren die een mens met de handen kan doen, en dat met de precisie, het aanpassingsvermogen en de voorzichtigheid die vereist zijn in praktijkomgevingen."

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En misschien wel de grootste misdaad tegen de esthetische zeden sinds De Volkskrant "De oorlog tegen woke is opperdepop, dus is die vervangen door een oorlog tegen feminisme" afdrukte. Afijn, Twitter-account Mieke Lieke dus. """RECHTSE FILOSOFIE""" door een vrouw (m) wier afbeeldingen geheel en volledig door AI gegenereerd zijn. En zelfs gods sterkste soldaten (Paul Cliteur) vielen ervoor. 

Maar dit weekend was er het bovenstaande grote nieuws. Ze (m) opende een OnlyFans light, want ze (m) "wil nog normale gesprekken op verjaardagen kunnen hebben. Dus het is Patreon geworden." Maar, wel een met een heel ondeugende knipoog mannen! ! ! Voor 9,95 per maand "Toegang tot lezingen en teksten" en voor 29,95 per maand "Toegang tot erotische beelden". Niet alleen de foto's, maar ook de teksten zijn overigens voornamelijk AI-werk, zo valt onderaan de Patreon-beschrijving te lezen: "De teksten, afbeeldingen en andere content op dit profiel zijn gegenereerd met behulp van kunstmatige intelligentie."

Dat maakt de boomers natuurlijk niet uit, want het stroomt binnen.

Maar goed, de sterke man achter de vrouw dan. Als je op Twitter zoekt op "@thomasbakker77", dan kom je dus uit bij tweets van Mieke Lieke. En dat betekent dat account @thomasbakker77 na 28 mei door de beheerder veranderd is in @miekelieke. Natuurlijk weten we niet of 'Thomas Bakker' de echte naam van de beheerder is, en ook niet of '77' staat voor geboortejaar 1977, waardoor hij nu 48 of 49 jaar oud zou zijn. Maar zeer goed mogelijk is het allemaal wel.

Accountnaam @thomasbakker77 veranderde in @miekelieke

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Astronauts on SpaceX's Fram2 mission successfully captured diagnostic X-ray images in orbit for the first time. The milestone gives space medicine a second imaging option beyond ultrasound and could help future crews diagnose injuries, inspect equipment, and support longer missions to the moon or beyond. Popular Science reports: Commercial off-the-shelf X-ray machines like the ice cooler-sized MinXray TR90BH now allow users to perform scans on subjects far away from traditional facilities. In 2022, [Mayo Clinic researcher Sheyna Gifford] assisted in preparing a crew to successfully generate digital X-rays while experiencing microgravity during a parabolic flight. Gifford's team then spent years collaborating with SpaceX to plan another feasibility study. This time, they didn't want to operate an X-ray machine aboard an aircraft simulating the conditions in space -- they intended to use the equipment during an orbital mission.

The process was detailed in a recently published study in the journal Radiology, and focuses on last year's Fram2 mission. Instead of days of medical training, astronauts spent only four hours learning how to use their portable radiography device. They then took preflight X-rays of a hand, forearm, chest, abdomen, and pelvis ahead of their SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launch on March 31, 2025. Once in orbit, the team calibrated the system before testing their MinXray on the same body parts as well as a smartwatch.

Once the crew returned, a trio of independent radiologists reviewed the orbital X-ray images based on their positioning, spatial and contrast resolutions, and general scan quality. Although positioning scores were slightly decreased for the central body images, every other scan held up to similar examples created on Earth. Meanwhile, the astronauts reported that using the machine was easy despite minimal prior coaching. Looking ahead, researchers hope to conduct further X-ray tests during orbital missions, while continuing to reduce the overall size of equipment.

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De Hogeschool Utrecht probeert het beeld te kantelen dat ICT studeren geen nut meer heeft omdat programmeurs vervangen worden door AI. Studenten leren hoe ze met software echte problemen oplossen, die worden aangedragen door opdrachtgevers.

Het Fenix in Rotterdam viert zaterdag dat Willem de Kooning 100 jaar geleden naar New York vertrok en daar de succesvolste Rotterdammer in de Amerikaanse kunstwereld ooit werd. Maar zou zijn succes in de huidige VS nog mogelijk zijn?

De laatste hittegolf heeft in Nederland drie weken lang gezorgd voor een onverwacht hoge sterfte. Ernstige hitte veroorzaakt snel voor een piek in de oversterfte, anders dan kou. De regionale verschillen zijn binnen Europa wel groot, leert onderzoek.

Voor het eerst in de geschiedenis van het WK voetbal zal er tijdens de finale een halftime show plaatsvinden.

James Webb Space Telescope posted a photo:

The newly discovered third planet orbiting Beta Pictoris, Beta Pictoris d, appears in reconstructed imagery from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope’s NIRSpec (Near-Infrared Spectrograph). NIRSpec’s Integral Field Unit (IFU) was used to map chemical contents of the Beta Pictoris system. This allowed researchers to confirm the bright point of light, as seen in the image, was actually a planet by detecting its chemical composition.

Modeling suggests its orbit is comparable to the region occupied by Neptune in our own solar system.

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Image: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI; Science: Aidan Gibbs (UC San Diego), Jean-Baptiste Ruffio (UC San Diego); Image Processing: Alyssa Pagan (STScI)

Image Description: An image of the Beta Pictoris system, with two exoplanets shown. The view is black. At the center of the image, there is a white star symbol, which represents light blocked from the host star. Immediately to the left of the star symbol, there is a bright orange-whitish smudge, labeled b. To the right of the star symbol, further away, is a blurry orange smudge labeled d. There is a blue dashed circle around the entire system, labeled “size of Neptune’s orbit.”

James Webb Space Telescope posted a photo:

Researchers used the NIRSpec (Near-Infrared Spectrograph) Integral Field Unit on NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope to map chemical contents of the Beta Pictoris system. As a result, they discovered a third planet, Beta Pictoris d, orbiting the young star.

Instead of identifying the planet as a bright point of light, as seen in the reconstructed image, researchers searched the spectroscopic data for the molecular signatures expected from a giant planet atmosphere, allowing the object to stand out from the surrounding debris disk.

The extracted NIRSpec and MIRI (Mid-Infrared Instrument) spectra of Beta Pictoris d display a distinctive series of carbon monoxide (CO) absorption lines. This molecular “fingerprint” identified the object as a giant planet, while measurements of the Doppler shift of the spectral lines provided the planet’s radial velocity, confirming it is gravitationally bound to the Beta Pictoris system.

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Credit: Image: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, Leah Hustak (STScI); Science: Aidan Gibbs (UC San Diego), Jean-Baptiste Ruffio (UC San Diego), Alexis Bidot (STScI); Image Processing: Alyssa Pagan (STScI

Image Description: Infographic titled “Gas Giant Exoplanet Beta Pictoris d; Atmospheric Composition.” The image at the left shows two exoplanets of the Beta Pictoris system. At the center, there is a white star symbol, which represents light blocked from the host star. Immediately to the left of the star symbol, there is a bright orange-whitesh smudge, labeled b. To the right of the star symbol is a blurry orange smudge labeled d. There is a white circle around this smudge with lines drawn to the spectrum at the right. The x-axis is labeled “Wavelength of Light” and extends from 4.2 to 5.2 microns. The y-axis is labeled “Brightness.” An up arrow is labeled “brighter,” a down arrow “dimmer.” There are two jagged horizontal lines across the graph. One is white, then other is maroon (the former labeled “Webb data”, the latter labeled “Best fit model” in the bottom left corner). A blue vertical column spanning from about 4.3 microns to 5 microns is labeled Carbon Monoxide, CO.

europeanspaceagency posted a photo:

This view was generated from the digital terrain model and the nadir and colour channels of the High Resolution Stereo Camera on ESA’s Mars Express. It shows wind-blown sand dunes in Mars’s Kaiser Crater.

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This view was generated from the digital terrain model and the nadir and colour channels of the High Resolution Stereo Camera on ESA’s Mars Express. It shows wind-blown sand dunes lying on the floor of Mars’s Kaiser Crater.

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This image from ESA’s Mars Express shows part of Kaiser Crater and its surroundings in Noachis Terra, one of the oldest parts of Mars.

We’ve added labels to highlight features and regions of note. Be sure to click on these labels to explore the landscape in detail!

This image comprises data gathered by Mars Express’s High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) on 5 October 2025 (orbit 27461). It was created using data from the nadir channel, the field of view aligned perpendicular to the surface of Mars, and the colour channels of the HRSC. North is to the right. The ground resolution of the original image is approximately 17 m/pixel and the image is centred at about 48°S/19°E.

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europeanspaceagency posted a photo:

This view was generated from the digital terrain model and the nadir and colour channels of the High Resolution Stereo Camera on ESA’s Mars Express. It shows two smaller craters lying near to the large Kaiser Crater in Mars’s ancient southern highlands (Noachis Terra).

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europeanspaceagency posted a photo:

This stereoscopic image shows part of the huge Kaiser Crater’s floor (right), a smaller neighbouring crater (left), and their surroundings on Mars. It was generated from data captured by the High Resolution Stereo Camera on ESA’s Mars Express orbiter on 5 October 2025 (orbit 27461). The anaglyph offers a three-dimensional view when viewed using red-green or red-blue glasses.

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The UK Treasury's reluctance to fully commit to a cross-government £1.15 billion shared service strategy it has funded risks making the whole effort "potentially unworkable," the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) has warned. HM Treasury's (HMT) decision in June to delay joining Matrix - one of five clusters the government hopes will save £4.3 billion by moving 17 departments and 300 arm's-length bodies onto shared ERP and HR systems - sends "a very poor reputational signal to the rest of the project," the House of Commons spending watchdog said. Under Matrix, the UK administration plans to support the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology, Cabinet Office, Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, Department for Culture, Media and Sport, Department for Business and Trade, Attorney General's Office, Department for Education (DfE), Department of Health and Social Care, as well as HMT - with Workday cloud-based finance and HR software. In a letter to Parliament's PAC last month, HMT confirmed it would not commit to whether it was prepared to move off its existing Oracle Fusion SaaS finance and HR system until December, despite funding the program for five years. The PAC has now slammed HMT's decision. "The ambition for shared services rests upon different parts of government acting collaboratively. The Cabinet Office considers joining shared services to be compulsory. However, HM Treasury is failing to lead by example, providing funds for the strategy and expecting others to sign up, while it remains unconvinced by the likely benefits and unwilling to do so itself," the report published on Wednesday says. "The Cabinet Office must urgently revisit all aspects of its strategy in light of these significant problems and provide assurance that proceeding with shared services will not prove a costly failure. If they are unable to provide such assurance, serious consideration should be given to abandoning the project before even more public money is potentially wasted." According to MPs, the Cabinet Office believed HMT and the DfE had "unconditionally bought into joining shared services at the outset," and maintained that their "participation in shared services is not optional." "HM Treasury now claims that it has the right to unilaterally decide whether to proceed with joining its assigned shared services cluster or not, subject to its Accounting Officer's assessment of further information from the Matrix cluster. Clusters' delivery has been delayed by the Cabinet Office's ineffective management of interdependencies with other government digital programmes," the report adds. The report points out that the DfE's formal commitment would depend on more detail about the project's feasibility and value for money. "These actions, by two major government departments, send a very poor reputational signal to the rest of the project," the PAC said. "For a strategy whose ambition rests on government acting as 'One Civil Service,' a case-by-case approach sets a very dangerous precedent, rendering the strategy optional and therefore potentially unworkable," the report adds. The Register has asked HMT to comment. The PAC called for confirmation of HMT's and the Department for Education's positions on onboarding to Matrix, including the rationale behind this. HMT has committed at least £1.15 billion to the Shared Services Strategy for government, which was launched in March 2021. Since then, the Cabinet Office, the Prime Minister's engine of government, has said it would produce £4.3 billion in benefits "calculated from a mixture of its dashboard and clusters' full business cases" over a 15-year period, according to the PAC. However, benefits for the Matrix cluster are dependent on HMT and the DfE joining. The Cabinet Office gave cost figures ranging from the £846 million spending review figure to "around £1.6 billion," the select committee said. The Shared Services Strategy is set to affect around 470,000 civil servants. The clusters had planned to onboard departmental users to their platforms between July 2026 and March 2029, although the kick-off has been delayed until December this year. "We are concerned that the Shared Services Strategy will fail," the PAC letter states. "The Cabinet Office cannot give assurances that it will overcome critical challenges. Overly complicated governance, no clear ownership, inconsistent departmental buy-in, delays in readying data, and poor interdependency management risk another failed major government initiative." ®

Microsoft’s worst nightmare - a prolific zero-day vulnerability hunter who calls themselves Nightmare Eclipse - published yet another zero-day on Tuesday, a vulnerability allowing attackers to mount user hives, including partial exploit code. Suspected of being a disgruntled former Microsoft engineer, based on the sophistication of their prior vulnerabilities, NightmareEclipse came good on their promise to release another zero-day on July 14. Whether it lives up to the promised “bone-shattering” standard touted in June is up for debate, however. Called “LegacyHive,” the proof of concept (PoC) code for the zero-day local privilege escalation (LPE) vulnerability targets Windows’ user hives - the section of the Windows Registry that stores a user's specific desktop settings, application preferences, and environment configurations. The code exploits a weakness in profsvc, the Windows User Profile Service, and the way in which it loads hives. If exploited correctly it could grant regular users privileged read-write access to target other users' hives. Matei Badanoiu, lead security researcher at Pentest-Tools.com, said that while the exploit could prove useful for attackers who had already gained a foothold in a target environment, it falls short of providing a fuller system compromise. “What caught my attention is the difference between what the public proof of concept actually demonstrates and what a full compromise would require,” he told The Register. “LegacyHive is a local privilege escalation in the Windows User Profile Service. It abuses arbitrary registry hive loading, so a standard user can mount another user’s hive, including an administrator’s, into their own classes root. “For an attacker who already has a foothold, that is a genuinely useful primitive. Bundling it with credential access and persistence into ‘full compromise’ is more of an ambition than the released code.” The LegacyHive publication differs from some of NightmareEclipse’s earlier drops in that the PoC code is stripped back in an effort to prevent widespread exploitation. According to the bug hunter, there is more than one way of exploiting the profsvc flaw. The public PoC requires additional user credentials for it to work, and is limited to the usrclass.dat hive. NightmareEclipse said the original PoC, which differs from the one they published, does not require additional user credentials to exploit the bug, and it works beyond the usrclass.dat hive, “but you would need some brain cells to make the PoC do it.” This represents a divergence from NightmareEclipse’s previous approaches. As Badanoiu pointed out to us, some of NightmareEclipse’s earlier drops, such as BlueHammer and RedSun, went from PoC to widespread exploitation within days. LegacyHive, however, comes without a fully working PoC and a CVE identifier. Regardless, security experts told The Register that cyber practitioners should respond promptly since capable attackers could probably build a reliable exploit, despite the gaps left in the PoC by NightmareEclipse. “Threat intelligence teams are advised to act with some urgency here,” said Dray Agha, senior manager of security operations at Huntress. “Huntress observed NightmareEclipse's prior LPE and defence evasion tools rapidly deployed threat actors and ransomware groups shortly after publication. “Given this history, we’d expect that capable actors will reverse-engineer the missing components of the LegacyHive PoC to build fully weaponized versions in short order.” The timing NightmareEclipse may have changed their approach to releasing full working PoCs to the public, perhaps a reflection of Microsoft’s suggestion of preparing legal action against the bug hunter, but the nuisance timing of the vulnerability disclosures remains. They dropped the details for LegacyHive shortly after Microsoft released its monthly Patch Tuesday updates, which contained an unprecedented 622 fixes. Agha said timing the disclosure in this way maximizes the exposure window before a patch can be developed, causing more trouble for Microsoft. The Register asked the Windows-maker about LegacyHive and whether it was planning to release a fix before August’s patches, but it did not immediately respond. NightmareEclipse claims their latest zero-day works against Windows machines that are fully patched according to July’s fixes. Microsoft previously issued a quiet remedy for one of NightmareEclipse’s earlier zero-days, RoguePlanet, last week, although the company did not go into any details about what the mitigation entailed. ®