Audi have notified the FIA of their "intention to appeal" after Yuki Tsunoda avoided any penalty for a potential starting infraction at the Italian Grand Prix.

Michael Lamonato assesses whether Kimi Antonelli's miraculous Monza victory could have happened without the crucial VSC that allowed the young Italian a cheap pit stop.

Reuters reports:


Liquid Network, a Bitcoin-based payments and settlement network, said on Sunday that about $320 million was withdrawn from its federation wallet in a hack.
"Purported white-hat hackers" withdrew around 4,000 of the 4,200 bitcoin held in its Liquid Federation wallet, Liquid Network said in a post on X.


"Liquid wallets will be impacted," their post concluded, adding "and we're sorry for any inconvenience."

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Chancellor says there’s ‘nothing progressive’ about government spending £1 in every ten on debt interest

• Chancellor to argue UK economy can ‘turn corner’ despite bond market turmoil

Healey says Andy Burnham set out in his statement to MPs last week what he thought had gone wrong

The fundamentals of our economy [were] hollowed out through a series of past policy decisions, political power was centralised, weakening the relationships between the people, the businesses and the institutions who can make things happen beyond Whitehall. The economic enablers were privatised and outsourced, leaving accountability to a thicket of arm’s length bodies and regulators, too often without the predictability or the pace that underpins a thriving market economy. And our country was deindustrialised as the cost to make anything, to build anything here soared, and our dependence on unreliable sources grew, including in areas critical to our national security and sovereignty.

Let me be clear, I recognise that the costs of business, its energy bills, regulation, burdens, planning constraints, labour costs, have grown since Covid and I want to draw the line.

And whether it is the cost of business or the cost of living, the only way we deal with these in the long term is growth.

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Stanley Primnath and Brian Clark were two of only four individuals known to have survived above the impact zone in the north tower

He has told the story hundreds of times, but it never seems to fade. If anything, it only becomes more vivid. “Oh, gosh,” exclaims Stanley Praimnath, his voice cracking with an “ooooooh!” as if bearing a weight. “It’s like reliving that day.”

Nearly 3,000 people died in the terrorist attacks on New York City and Washington DC on September 11 2001. But Praimnath and another office worker, Brian Clark, were two of only four individuals known to have survived from above the impact zone in either tower of the World Trade Center. The two strangers met in the smoke and fire of the 81st floor of the south tower, and walked down 1,620 steps into the rest of their lives.

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Toxic narratives around ‘benefit scrounging’, fed by successive governments, have become embedded in the national psyche

As a disabled person, you’re forced to repeatedly explain your medical history – but for this article, I think it’s important. I was born with a very rare type of cancer called a neuroblastoma. In 1965, it was pretty much a death sentence. Luckily, I took part in a clinical trial and, with only days to live, I had major surgery, radiotherapy and chemotherapy with a new drug. Despite being given no more than five years to live, on my last birthday I celebrated hitting 60. I doubt anyone in 1965 would have imagined how attitudes towards disabled people would improve as I grew up. It is devastating to see how those same attitudes have reversed in the past decade or two.

The cancer left me with a paralysed right leg, so I wore a leg brace, but otherwise I was a pretty normal kid. I was lucky to be starting school in 1970 when the Chronically Sick and Disabled Persons Act came into force, which made it possible for disabled children to attend mainstream schools, if they could manage it. My parents moved across Luton to be near the only school that would accept me on a trial run and then as a pupil. When I was a child, if you could manage living like non-disabled people then you were allowed to do so. Not the fully inclusive practice I later campaigned for, but an acknowledgment that disabled people shouldn’t be written off.

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Peers have questioned why the UK's Cyber Security and Resilience Bill does not allow regulators to penalize senior executives when an organization's failure to comply involves their consent, connivance, or deliberate or careless neglect. Echoing arguments heard across the industry for years, Baronesses Kidron and Ludford backed probing amendments that would introduce personal civil liability for senior execs and make cybersecurity a board-level responsibility. "The intention behind the amendment is to change the culture of an organization, to ensure preventative action is taken, to avoid penalties," said Baroness Kidron. "As I said at the outset, culture change starts at the top." The Register has previously reported on calls for NHS organizations, some of which would be covered by the bill's reforms, to treat cybersecurity as a board-level priority. More recently, 60 organizations committed to the aims of the UK government's Cyber Resilience Pledge, promising to ensure their boards take responsibility for their organization's cybersecurity. Peers supporting the amendments pointed to financial sector rules introduced over the past decade that can impose regulatory or criminal liability on the C-suite for serious failings. They argued that the amendments would bring the bill closer to the EU's NIS2 directive, which includes senior management accountability measures. Personal liability is not mandatory under NIS2, however, and member states have implemented it differently. Supporting the personal liability proposal, Lord Clement-Jones said: "If an individual is fit to draw a multimillion-pound executive salary running a critical national provider, they must be prepared to carry personal responsibility for securing it." Despite support from several peers, the government defended its existing plan to impose substantial maximum fines and introduce security, resilience, and governance requirements through secondary legislation. "It is absolutely right that organizations, especially those delivering our essential services, are held properly accountable for their activities," said cybersecurity minister Baroness Lloyd of Effra, who did not support the personal liability amendment. She cited the maximum fines of £17 million or 4 percent of the offending organization's annual turnover, whichever is higher, calling it "a meaningful enforcement regime." Baroness Lloyd said the forthcoming security and resilience requirements would mandate board-level governance in line with the NCSC's Cyber Assessment Framework. The government has yet to consult on the details. "That will cover issues such as organisational capability, senior responsibility, and accountability for security and resilience and effective risk escalation, and it is in that way that we will connect the clarity on what is expected of boards with the accountability through the enforcement regime." Reporting requirements and other matters Separately, peers quizzed the government on the structure of the bill's strict reporting requirements, warning that the current wording threatens to overwhelm regulators with an administrative burden. One of the CSR bill's primary objectives is to collect more data about the threats facing UK organizations by imposing stricter reporting requirements on in-scope entities. The bill requires regulated organizations to issue an initial notification within 24 hours and a fuller report within 72 hours. It defines an incident as an event that has, or is capable of having, an adverse effect on an operation. Former security minister Baroness Neville-Jones suggested changing the wording from "capable of" to "likely to have," to reduce the reporting burden on regulated organizations. Lord Clement-Jones agreed, warning that the current wording would "unleash an administrative tsunami of defensive reporting." He also argued that the government's definition of a data compromise was overly broad and "dramatically expanding the notification net to include technical data anomalies that cause zero disruption or loss to actual customers." He said the reporting rules and broad definition of compromise could leave responsible operators of essential services spending more time on paperwork than improving their defenses. The government was unmoved, and Baroness Lloyd said that the more stringent reports were crucial in achieving the aims of the bill, which seeks to update the existing NIS Regulations 2018. While some peers were looking to ease the burden of reporting, others sought to increase it in other areas. Baroness Harding, who is uniquely placed to weigh in on cyberattack response, proposed a 14-day intermediate report and a final report due one month after the attack first occurred. Drawing on her experience as the former TalkTalk CEO, she said that after 72 hours, attacked organizations start to get "real data," but "it's really only after a couple of weeks that you've got a proper sense of what has happened." The final report comes at the one-month mark, when "the fog is starting to clear and you have a proper sense of the real scale of the problem," she said. Harding said that senior executives are typically told from all sides not to say anything about a cyberattack, but this only serves the criminals, who meanwhile may be attacking other victims. "If you share this information in the fog with regulators and with law enforcement agencies, that's how the law can prevail," she said. "It's how regulators can work out what's happening, it's how they can warn others who might be affected, and it's how the law enforcement agencies can do their work to actually try and find the bad guys." Baroness Lloyd defended the bill's existing two-stage process, arguing that it already provides information at the points when regulators need it. She reaffirmed that the initial 24-hour report alerts the NCSC and allows it to determine whether other organizations are affected, while the 72-hour report will contain the necessary details to enable a more actionable response. "We believe that the stages we set out meet that. They have been carefully developed to provide the right notification at the appropriate time," she told peers. "They have been developed in consultation with industry, as many noble Lords exhorted in the previous group. "Crucially, under the information-gathering powers in Clause 15, regulators can also request further information about an incident that has been reported to them if they consider this necessary to understanding the incident and how it is being managed. "Obviously, that may be appropriate in some incidents and not in others. That kind of practical balance is enabled by the bill." Separately, the Grand Committee spent the second day scrutinizing the bill, fleshing out datacenters' responsibilities, as well as examining requirements to notify affected downstream customers within 24 hours of a breach instead of 72 hours. The government also rejected concerns that cybersecurity data collected under the reporting rules could contribute to unfair overseas proceedings. Baroness Lloyd said ministers had considered the issue and assessed the risk as very low. ®

Even eerlijk: wanneer heb jij voor het laatst je douchekop schoongemaakt? Precies. De meeste mensen denken er nooit over na, totdat ze horen wat zich daar eigenlijk verzamelt.

Je douchekop is namelijk een ideale broedplaats voor bacteriën, kalk en zelfs schimmel. En dat merk je niet alleen aan een slappere waterstraal. Het kan ook gevolgen hebben voor je gezondheid.

Hoe erg is het écht?

In een douchekop hopen zich kalk en mineralen uit het leidingwater op. Die aanslag oogt onschuldig, maar biedt precies de juiste omstandigheden waarin bacteriën zich helemaal thuis voelen. Een verstopte douchekop zorgt er bovendien voor dat micro-organismen zich makkelijker door de lucht verspreiden; best een onprettige gedachte terwijl je onder de douche staat. En als kers op de taart: hoe meer kalk, hoe sneller je douchekop het uiteindelijk begeeft.

De oplossing kost bijna niks

Het goede nieuws: dit probleem oplossen is verrassend simpel, je hebt er geen dure schoonmaakmiddelen voor nodig. Vul een emmer of afsluitbare plastic zak met schoonmaakazijn en hang je douchekop erin.

Geen zin om te klooien met losdraaien? Bind de zak dan gewoon met een elastiekje direct om de douchekop. Laat het geheel een nacht inwerken en spoel daarna goed door met warm water. Wil je het echt grondig aanpakken, haal dan nog even een oude tandenborstel langs de sproeigaatjes. En jawel, de douchekop blinkt weer als nieuw.

Hoe vaak moet dit eigenlijk?

Minstens één keer per kwartaal, is het advies. Woon je in een gebied met veel kalk in het water? Dan is eens per maand zeker geen overbodige luxe. Zo blijft je douche schoon en gaat je douchekop ook nog eens langer mee.

DEN HAAG (ANP) - Als iedereen zich tijdens de coronapandemie aan de basismaatregelen had gehouden, zoals afstand houden en extra hygiëne, dan waren andere beperkingen niet nodig geweest. Dat heeft toenmalig minister-president Mark Rutte gezegd in zijn tweede verhoor door de parlementaire enquêtecommissie corona.

"Stel, iedereen zou hebben gezegd: ik houd me aan de anderhalve meter, ik nies in mijn elleboog, ik schud geen handen en ik ventileer genoeg. Dan zou je dus in theorie geen maatregelen hoeven te nemen", zei Rutte. Hij erkende wel direct dat dit een papieren werkelijkheid zou zijn en noemde het "onvermijdelijk" dat niet iedereen deze - niet dwingende - adviezen volledig opvolgde.

Gezondheidsinstituut RIVM heeft achteraf becijferd dat naast afstand houden en hygiënemaatregelen ook echt drastische contactbeperkingen nodig waren om de verspreiding van het coronavirus voldoende af te remmen. Verschillende artsen en virologen hebben dat ook verklaard voor de enquêtecommissie.

MAGDEBURG (ANP) - De rechts-radicale partij Alternative für Deutschland wil na de verkiezingsoverwinning in Saksen-Anhalt doorpakken en ook landelijk de grootste worden. Co-partijleider Alice Weidel sprak het doel uit om bij de volgende bondsdagverkiezingen minstens 40 procent van de stemmen te halen.

"De CDU zal nooit meer een verkiezing winnen", zei Weidel een dag na de grote winst in Saksen-Anhalt. De christendemocratische CDU van bondskanselier Friedrich Merz haalde slechts 17,2 procent, een halvering vergeleken met 2021. AfD verdubbelde juist tot zo'n 44 procent.

De partij heeft volgens Weidel een duidelijk mandaat voor de vorming van een regering gekregen in Saksen-Anhalt. Ze spreekt van een "debacle" voor de CDU. Volgens haar hebben de mensen het vertrouwen in die partij verloren, omdat verkiezingsbeloftes niet waargemaakt zouden worden. Volgens haar is Merz een "grote last" voor Duitsland geworden en smachten burgers daarom naar een politieke omwenteling.

MOSKOU (ANP/RTR) - De eerste verkeersbrug tussen Noord-Korea en Rusland is maandag ceremonieel geopend. Volgens het Russische staatspersbureau TASS is het een teken dat de relatie tussen de twee landen sterker wordt.

De brug overspant de Tumengrivier ten noorden van Noord-Korea. Er bestonden al directe verbindingen tussen Rusland en Noord-Korea, maar dit waren enkel spoorbruggen en vliegverbindingen. Volgens de Russische premier Michaïl Misjoestin moet de brug de samenwerkingen tussen Noord-Korea en Rusland op verschillende gebieden, waaronder toerisme, stimuleren. Dit zal leiden tot meer banen, zegt de premier.

De relatie tussen de twee landen wordt alsmaar sterker sinds het begin van de oorlog in Oekraïne in 2022. Pyongyang stuurde duizenden militairen naar Rusland om het Russische leger te ondersteunen in de oorlog tegen Oekraïne.

Het kabinet had tijdens de coronapandemie vaker moeten reflecteren of de juiste keuzes werden gemaakt om het virus te bestrijden, blikt toenmalig premier Mark Rutte terug. Bij zijn tweede verhoor door de parlementaire enquêtecommissie corona oppert hij dat de "meest betrokken mensen" bij een volgende crisis elke zes tot acht weken bij elkaar komen om niet de dagelijkse problemen te bespreken, maar de diepere keuzes daarachter.

Bij zo'n overleg kan het bijvoorbeeld gaan over de werkdruk op ministeries, de maatschappelijke en economische impact van crisismaatregelen en de inperking van vrijheden daarvan.

De voormalige minister-president zei dit toen hem werd gevraagd of bepaalde taken van het ministerie van Volksgezondheid hadden moeten worden overgenomen door andere ministeries, om ambtenaren te ontlasten. Dat had volgens de VVD'er juist tot meer werkdruk geleid. Hij denkt niet dat een reflecterend overleg hem op dit punt tot andere gedachten had gebracht.

jspeter9191 has added a photo to the pool:

Today(07/09/26) afternoon at my village(Tallawong) rooftop, Sydney, Australia.
Peace be with you.

jspeter9191 has added a photo to the pool:

Today(07/09/26) afternoon at Macquarie Park in Optus Head office, Sydney, Australia.
God bless you.

Jerayno Schaken kroonde zich tegen NEC tot jongste scorende debutant ooit in de Eredivisie voor Feyenoord. Volgens zijn vader Ruben Schaken is dit pas het begin. 'Hij kan dribbelen en schieten met rechts en met links, dat maakt hem onvoorspelbaar."

Thomas Hawk posted a photo:

Cape Cod Scenes

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Op zoek naar een leuk cadeautje dat je deze herfst aan iedereen kan geven?
De Fokke & Sukke Scheurkalender 2027 ligt weer volop inde winkels en kan gemakkelijk <hier> online besteld worden.

Gaan spaar-en hypotheekrentes verder oplopen? De Europese Centrale Bank neemt deze week een rentebesluit. Monetair beleid voeren is niet eenvoudig, in tijden van Donald Trump en van aanzwellende staatsschulden.