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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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.” ®

OPINION In a public post titled "The Future is for Everyone," Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg declares, "We are fortunate to live at an incredible moment in history." For Zuck to posit that "The Future is for Everyone" is at once facile for being so vague it could mean anything – are there people now living who are excluded from the future? – and foolish for its failure to address real issues that actually affect people's lives. We are perhaps not so fortunate as the unpopular but wealthy Zuck, worth more than $200 billion. But we're fortunate enough not to be chased by a public record that mocks his musings. In 2019, Zuck said, "The Future is Private." This was while he was running Facebook, an ad business predicated on the denial of privacy. His credibility as a forecaster of the future leaves something to be desired. His company could have worked toward this future after its rebranding as Meta in 2021. Instead, it became the prime purveyor of Meta Glasses, dubbed "pervert glasses" by detractors for flouting people's privacy expectations. The purpose of Zuck's post is to "develop a philosophy for how we can best use superintelligence to ensure it improves all of our lives, work, communities, freedom and safety." He declares, "The defining questions of our age are who will have access to superintelligence and what will we direct it towards. Will it be centralized and restricted to a few institutions, or will it be a tool that empowers everyone?" Beyond the fact that "superintelligence" is undefined, he overstates the importance of AI in the scheme of things. Centralization and access may be defining questions for AI policy, but AI policy exists in a global context that invites tougher inquiries. Here are a few that come to mind: Who will have access to the world's wealth and to what portion of it? Who will have access to water, food, and healthcare? Where will human rights be respected? Where will democracy survive? Where will the rule of law thrive? Where will people have access to affordable justice? What will constrain technology from becoming a tool of tyranny? What will constrain public discourse that sows dissension and promotes harm? Hey, Siri, what's the answer to humanity's problems? The initial 700 words or so of Zuck's call for Pollyannaish AI groupthink lean into banal generalizations. We'll spare you the line-by-line critique but take, for example, "All new technologies create opportunities and challenges." That's true but also not very insightful. We leave it as an exercise to the reader to ask Meta's latest AI model to produce a more trenchant formulation of Zuck's all-in-for-AI utopianism. The subsequent section cites specific examples of how Meta is approaching "superintelligence," and it's no more credible. Consider Zuck's assertion that his foretold universally accessible AI assistant "will have strong privacy and security options so you can trust it to handle all of your personal content knowing that no one else can access your information, similar to how encryption works on WhatsApp." Meta's track record here doesn't exactly make this claim more convincing. "Everyone will have incredible tools for creation to express your ideas." And it will become more difficult to market these ideas because AI has commodified content creation. But creators will be able to distribute their work for free on social media networks to boost engagement and sell ads. "Everyone will have powerful tools to create new businesses and the economy will become more entrepreneurial." That's just a naive generalization that fails to consider the difficulty of creating and sustaining a business amid intense competition – something major tech companies have fought tooth and nail to avoid. Driving for Uber might be considered entrepreneurial, but it's an option many would trade for a fair wage, good health insurance coverage, a pension, and other employee benefits that once sustained the US workforce. And then there's the real tell: Meta is ready to profit from providing AI access. "Everyone will have free or affordable access to these tools … We will offer free versions that will be accessible to billions of people. For those who want to pay to use more compute, there will be a dynamic auction mechanism that will guarantee that everyone gets the lowest price possible for the intelligence and compute they're using while also ensuring the capacity is used for whatever people collectively find most valuable." The Future is for Everyone, but distribution and monetization are for Meta and a few other cloud service providers. Someone's gotta pay for Meta's datacenter capex. Zuck is right about the need to keep AI accessible to as broad an audience as possible. "Restricting people and companies from using the leading open source models – wherever they come from – will reduce the quality of AI accessible to them, and centralize AI rather than putting more power in people's hands," he writes. But then he squanders whatever credit he might be due by co-opting Dr. Martin Luther King's famous statement, "the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice." "The arc of human civilization has bent towards putting more power in people's hands to live and shape the world in the ways we believe are best," Zuck concludes. "Superintelligence holds the promise of giving everyone that power, and building a positive future for everyone." If you want power to shape the world, try being a billionaire, particularly if you can get your hands on a major social media or search platform and can spend your way to political sway. For everyone else, there's always voting, where allowed by law and tolerated by authorities, even if that doesn't necessarily produce the desired results. ®

WASHINGTON (ANP/RTR) - De Amerikaanse president Donald Trump zegt dat de hele Straat van Hormuz is ontdaan van mijnen. Volgens hem heeft de Amerikaanse marine de belangrijke zeestraat volledig onder controle.

De Straat van Hormuz is al maanden grotendeels afgesloten voor de scheepvaart. De laatste tijd liet Iran wel af en toe schepen door, maar die moesten wel via een bepaalde route varen. Andere routes zouden gevaarlijk zijn, mede omdat daar zeemijnen liggen.

Eerder zei Trump dat hij wil dat Iran compensatie betaalt voor alle mensen die tijdens meerdere conflicten zijn gedood. Hij reageerde daarmee op een eis van Iran, dat geld wil zien voor alle schade die is opgelopen bij Amerikaanse luchtaanvallen.

Volgens Trump zou Iran niet alleen verantwoordelijk gehouden moeten worden voor Amerikaanse doden in de regio, maar ook voor alle doden en schade tijdens oorlogen in Libanon, Syrië, Jemen en Gaza. Iran steunde in die gebieden groeperingen die conflicten hebben uitgevochten met Israël of de Verenigde Staten.

BIRMINGHAM (ANP) - De Nederlandse estafetteploeg op de 4x400 meter gemengd heeft op de EK atletiek in Birmingham een bronzen medaille veroverd. De vier lopers waren Jonas Phijffers, Lieke Klaver, Terrence Agard en Myrte van der Schoot.

De ploeg domineerde de race. Startloper Phijffers gaf het stokje over aan Klaver, die ruim de leiding nam en in eerste positie overgaf aan haar vriend Terrence Agard. De geroutineerde estafetteloper hield de eerste plaats nipt vast en ondanks een val kreeg hij het stokje nog in handen van slotloopster Van der Schoot. Zij hield vol tot 50 meter voor de finish, toen kwamen de slotloopsters van Noorwegen en Groot-Brittannië er nog overheen.

Op de EK in Rome twee jaar geleden was er ook brons voor de Nederlandse ploeg. Toen bestond het kwartet uit Liemarvin Bonevacia, Klaver, Isaya Klein Ikkink en Femke Broeders-Bol.

BIRMINGHAM (ANP) - Mahadi Abdi Ali heeft verrassend sterk gelopen in de finale van de 5000 meter op de EK atletiek in Birmingham. De 30-jarige atleet eindigde als zesde in 13.17,17 en was daarmee de beste van de drie Nederlanders in het veld. Tim Verbaandert werd tiende in 13.23,23. Mike Foppen, houder van het Nederlands record, kwam als elfde over de finish in 13.23,67.

De Noor Jakob Ingebrigtsen won voor de vierde keer in zijn carrière Europees goud op de 5000 meter. Hij had het beste eindschot in de benen en noteerde 13.15,29. Het was een redelijk sensationele overwinning voor Ingebrigtsen, want hij liep in het Alexander Stadium zijn eerste wedstrijd na de WK atletiek in Tokio vorige zomer. Daarna raakte hij geblesseerd.

"Ik droomde van dit moment toen ik me twee weken geleden inschreef," zei Ingebrigtsen in het flashinterview na afloop. "Het was net genoeg." Het was zijn zevende Europese titel; hij won ook drie keer goud op de 1500 meter.

NEW YORK (ANP) - De beurzen in New York zijn maandag licht lager gesloten door groeiende twijfels over een spoedige oplossing voor het conflict tussen de Verenigde Staten en Iran. Ook de stijgende olieprijzen drukten de stemming bij beleggers.

De Dow-Jonesindex eindigde 0,1 procent lager op 53.975,98 punten. De breder samengestelde S&P 500, de index van 500 grootste Amerikaanse beursgenoteerde ondernemingen, verloor eenzelfde percentage op 7753,11, na het bereiken van een nieuw slotrecord op vrijdag. Techgraadmeter Nasdaq zakte maandag 0,3 procent tot 26.605,36 punten.

De drie graadmeters kenden afgelopen week de beste week sinds april. Vooral de Nasdaq deed het goed met een weekwinst van ruim 5 procent, dankzij een sterk herstel in de chipsector. Zo steeg Nvidia vorige week 11 procent. Het grootste AI-chipbedrijf ter wereld daalde maandag bijna 3 procent.

ANKARA (ANP/RTR) - Het Turkse parlement heeft een wet aangenomen die een einde moet maken aan de decennialange strijd met de Koerdische Arbeiderspartij (PKK). Die wetgeving moet veel voormalige leden van de separatistische groep beschermen tegen vervolging, zodat ze weer kunnen worden opgenomen in de Turkse samenleving.

Het wetsvoorstel kreeg de steun van 468 parlementariërs in het parlement dat zeshonderd zetels telt. Zowel de regeringspartij van president Recep Tayyip Erdogan als de pro-Koerdische partij DEM steunde het plan.

De PKK werd in Turkije beschouwd als terroristische organisatie, omdat die in de loop van tientallen jaren geregeld aanslagen pleegde en er gewelddadige confrontaties zijn geweest. Vorig jaar kwam daar een einde aan toen de gevangen PKK-leider Abdullah Öcalan opriep alle wapens in te leveren en de groepering te ontbinden.

Het bleef destijds onduidelijk wat er met de leden zou gebeuren nadat de PKK was ontbonden. Met deze wet moet dat worden opgelost.

Voor de derde keer op rij won Jessica Schilder de EK-titel bij het kogelstoten. Ze was maandagavond in Birmingham véél beter dan de rest, zoals ze eigenlijk al anderhalf jaar is maar liever niet toegeeft. „Ik denk altijd dat ik de slechtste ben, maar ik kan er niet meer omheen.”

Na een ruim veertig jaar durend conflict tussen de Koerdische guerrillabeweging en de Turkse staat, waarbij tienduizenden mensen werden gedood, kondigde de PKK vorig jaar een ontwapening aan.

US president’s statement is latest sign that negotations to end war and reopen strait of Hormuz have stalled

Donald Trump has said he will demand that Iran pay compensation for the deaths of thousands of US soldiers and Iran’s own civilians killed in recent decades in the latest sign his negotiations to end the war and reopen the strait of Hormuz have reached an impasse.

The US president is trying to end conflicts in Iran, Gaza and Lebanon, and his additional demands of Iran are likely to provoke anger in Tehran at the same time as Israel has rejected Trump’s terms for a 15-point roadmap to end the war in Gaza.

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Andrew Tate and his brother Tristan may soon be extradited back to the UK – but the manosphere influencers' case will have lasting consequences in the US, where the Tates reportedly maintained multiple ties to the Trump administration. (The Tates have been charged with rape, trafficking and numerous other crimes, but deny all criminal wrongdoing.) Host Carter Sherman talks with author and Guardian columnist Rebecca Solnit about what the Andrew Tate saga reveals about Republicans' approach toward sexual violence and Donald Trump's connections to the manosphere. They ask: do people secretly like it when the US president hates women?

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Stories of “people finding weird, wild and defiant ways to avoid using AI in their professional lives”. Like: “I keep a to-do list in a paper notebook, but my boss believes I have an AI task-keeping assistant via Claude.”

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