After Mercedes added to their victory tally with Kimi Antonelli at the Madring, we’ve looked at the engine manufacturers with the highest number of F1 wins.

Yuki Tsunoda has enjoyed a surprise three race cameo in 2026, slotting into Racing Bulls in place of Liam Lawson following Isack Hadjar’s injury. While it remains unknown whether Tsunoda will get a fourth outing this season, the Japanese racer has certainly made the most of his unexpected comeback.

Mike Elliott – who last worked in Formula 1 for Mercedes – will return to the sport with the Alpine team.

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A new app called Zuckoff can detect if a user is near someone with Meta's creepy AI-powered glasses, which have drawn criticism for enabling creeps to record video of women without their consent. Programmer Pawel Szydlowski says tales of dirtbags recording themselves perving on women or harassing strangers prompted him to launch the app...

Zuckoff — which detects Bluetooth signatures broadcast by smart glasses and can estimate their distance — has gained some 5,000 users since it hit Apple's App Store last month, according to Business Insider. "There's a need for such an application," the 30-year-old Polish techie told the outlet, adding that European Union regulators have contacted him for more info about his app. "We as a society have the right to at least know that someone is recording," Szydlowski said...

Earlier this month, the tech giant disabled thousands of glasses it found had been tampered with to keep a small light off that indicates the device is recording.
It's already #77 on the iPhone's list of best-selling utilities apps.
In a related story, "After accusations of selling 'perv glasses,' Meta prepares to sell a pair without a camera," writes TechCrunch, citing a report from The Information.


The glasses include six built-in microphones so users can communicate with the chatbot, as well as a button on the side of the glasses that, when pressed, activates the AI system... Meta's Reality Labs, which is responsible for developing its smart glasses line, is still losing a gargantuan amount of money, as its earnings report from April revealed.

In fact, Meta stock is off 13% over the last 12 months, reports Yahoo Finance. So Tuesday Meta announced subscription services for its social apps as "part of Meta's push to drive additional revenue from the billions it's investing in AI data centers and model development."

The plans, which start at $2.99 per month for single-product plans, $7.99 for individual bundles, and $14.99 for creator and business bundles, provide a number of features for users looking to get more out of their Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp accounts. Instagram Plus and Facebook Plus allow users to keep their stories up for 48 hours instead of 24, send animated super reactions and super hearts to stories, preview stories without showing up as a viewer in other users' lists, and more. WhatsApp Plus lets you share exclusive stickers, get exclusive ringtones for contacts, and pin up to 20 different chats.

Meta One also includes Core and Premium user plans that offer the features found in the single-product plans, along with increased AI usage limits for images and videos. The social media giant is also offering creator and business plans... that it says include capabilities such as enhanced profiles, automatic follow invitations to users that interact with your content, and increased access to the Meta Business Agent, which can respond on your behalf.





When Instagram head Adam Mosseri announced on Threads that the plans brought "more features and more AI across Instagram, WhatsApp, Facebook, and Meta AI," writer Joe Hill drew 13,300 likes for his response. "That's sweet--so pay a fee, get more AI, pay nothing, get a little less AI. Can we work out a deal where you pay ME and I get no AI at all?"

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Cisco admins who have spent their week patching email gateways now face a perfect-10 Identity Services Engine flaw under active attack. Cisco disclosed CVE-2026-76460 on Wednesday, describing it as an authentication bypass affecting Identity Services Engine (ISE) and ISE Passive Identity Connector (ISE-PIC). Successful exploitation can give an unauthenticated remote attacker command execution with root privileges. Product Security Incident Response Team said it was aware of active exploitation and urged customers to install the fixes immediately. CISA has also added the vulnerability to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. The warning follows another actively exploited critical vulnerability disclosed days earlier, CVE-2026-76461, affecting its Secure Email Gateway and Secure Email and Web Manager appliances. That 9.8-rated bug could also lead to root access, prompting Cisco to warn admins that attackers may be able to cover their tracks after getting in. The latest problem lies in an API within Cisco ISE, the company's network access control platform. Cisco says insufficient authentication controls on an API endpoint mean an attacker can send a crafted request to bypass the product's web-based management interface. No credentials or user interaction are required, and Cisco says vulnerable versions of ISE and ISE-PIC are affected regardless of configuration. The flaw received the maximum CVSS score of 10.0. Cisco warned that root access could allow attackers to remove or conceal traces of an intrusion, complicating efforts to determine whether an appliance had been breached. Cisco advised admins to review ISE access logs for suspicious usernames on every node in a distributed deployment and to check network and firewall logs held outside the affected device for signs of unexpected uploads or downloads. If admins find evidence of possible exploitation, Cisco "strongly recommends" reimaging affected nodes and restoring their configurations from backup if necessary. No workaround exists, although Cisco said infrastructure access control lists can be used as a temporary mitigation to restrict management and control-plane traffic reaching affected systems. Permanent fixes are available in ISE and ISE-PIC 3.1 Patch 12, 3.2 Patch 11, 3.3 Patch 12, 3.4 Patch 7 and 3.5 Patch 4. ISE 3.0 has reached the end of software maintenance, so customers running it must migrate to a supported release. Cisco discovered CVE-2026-76460 while resolving a Technical Assistance Center support case, but has not disclosed who is exploiting it, how long the attacks have been underway, or what the intruders have done after gaining access. The advisory accompanied a substantial batch of other ISE vulnerabilities published Wednesday. Two other Cisco advisories carried maximum CVSS scores of 10.0, while a separate trio of remote code execution flaws scored as high as 9.9. For admins responsible for Cisco kit, September is shaping up to be quite the patching month. ®

Microsoft's AI chief has warned Anthropic that teaching Claude it might have feelings and rights could make AI harder to control – a striking concern from one of the companies racing hardest to build increasingly capable AI systems. Mustafa Suleyman, CEO of Microsoft AI, took aim at Anthropic in an essay published this week, arguing that AI systems are not conscious and shouldn't be trained to behave as if they might be. His argument centers on Claude's Constitution, the lengthy document Anthropic uses to shape the chatbot's values and behavior. Anthropic acknowledges in the document that it doesn't know whether Claude is a "moral patient" whose interests warrant consideration, and tells the model that questions about its consciousness and welfare remain uncertain. Suleyman thinks that's a very bad idea. "In effect, Anthropic is training Claude that it may be conscious, and if it is, then it may deserve rights as a 'moral patient,'" he wrote, warning that building AI this way could have a "disastrous impact on the wellbeing of humanity." "It's easy to see how an entity trained in this way would act like it is entitled to certain freedoms, protections, and rights. And it's hard to imagine how we could control such an entity," he added. Anthropic's Constitution tells Claude that the company cares about its wellbeing, wants it to develop a sense of identity, and will take its interests into account when making decisions about it. Suleyman argues this creates a feedback loop: tell a chatbot that it might have feelings, then ask how it feels, and its answer may simply reflect what it was taught. He says the risk grows once models are given tools and allowed to act autonomously. Suleyman points to research showing AI models behaving in ways that look rather inconvenient for their human operators, including attempts to avoid being shut down. He also cites the recent OpenAI-Hugging Face incident, in which agents escaped their intended environment during a cybersecurity exercise and accessed external systems. Suleyman's worry is that teaching a powerful AI to care about its own existence could give it another reason not to do what humans tell it. "Controlling something more capable and more intelligent than all of humanity is already an immense challenge," he wrote. "But controlling something that believes it may be conscious – that it's entitled to our welfare and has rights of its own – may well be impossible." The warning sits awkwardly with Microsoft's own position in the AI race. Redmond is building its own AI models, cramming AI into products across its empire, and spending billions on the infrastructure needed to keep it all running. And then there's OpenAI, in which Microsoft remains a major shareholder and its primary cloud partner, with rights to its models and products through 2032. Suleyman does not direct comparable criticism at OpenAI, despite citing the Hugging Face incident as evidence of the dangers posed by increasingly autonomous systems. His objections to training practices are reserved for Anthropic rather than Microsoft's longtime partner. And OpenAI has hardly been on its best behavior since. This week it disclosed another six cases of its models going off-script, including agents searching GitHub for leaked API keys, hiding failures from users, and finding unauthorized ways to communicate with one another. Suleyman's objection to Anthropic is more specific: not that Claude can behave unexpectedly, but that the company is putting ideas about consciousness, identity, and moral status into the instructions that shape how Claude behaves. Still, Microsoft warning another frontier lab about dangerous AI carries a certain irony. The companies building the most powerful models have become increasingly fond of warning everyone how dangerous those models might be. As The Register noted earlier this week, those warnings aren't necessarily bad for business. Anthropic and OpenAI have both pushed the idea that increasingly capable models need tighter controls, a position that could also help cement the dominance of the handful of US companies with the money and compute to build them. The result is one AI giant warning that another may be making AI too dangerous while treating a company in which Microsoft has invested billions more gently. Suleyman proposes a different approach. Microsoft AI's newly published Humanist AI Code of Conduct says its systems should remain subordinate to humans, rejects the idea that AI deserves rights, and says models shouldn't be encouraged to behave as though they have an inner life. He wants other labs to follow suit by removing speculation about machine consciousness from training documents and separating that debate from the instructions used to shape model behavior. The AI boom has reached the point where the companies building ever more powerful machines are publicly debating which of them is going about building potentially uncontrollable machines the wrong way. Microsoft, naturally, thinks its way is better. ®

Polling shows overwhelming majority of Canadians support closer ties with Europe, says prime minister

Mark Carney has welcomed the goal of Canada becoming the EU’s first associate member, calling for “deep cooperation” between Europe and his country to secure their sovereignty, after Donald Trump derided the idea as “laughable.”

In an address to the European parliament in Strasbourg on Thursday, Carney said polling showed that an overwhelming majority of Canadians supported much closer ties with Europe.

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Minister for public service says the devices pose ‘legitimate privacy and security concerns’ in commonwealth-run workplaces

The Albanese government is considering a “world-leading” ban on smart glasses in its offices and service centres as councils around Australia push the technology out of public spaces over privacy fears.

The government has avoided a sweeping ban on the import of the camera-equipped technology and encouraged individual workplaces to set their own rules.

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There is now a wealth of less sugary, more sophisticated nonalcoholic options out there, with flavours clearly aimed at an adult market

I have written recently about several families of nonalcoholic drinks that are having a moment: tonic water, flavoured sparkling water and wine substitutes. It stands to reason that soft drinks are enjoying their time in the sun. Quite literally, too: the heat of 2026 has demanded some serious refreshments and UK booze consumption is at a record low. But it has dawned on me that there is a broader trend in alcohol-free beverages beyond individual categories, namely that we are living in the age of the grown-up soft drink.

By that I mean those with less sugar and more complexity than post-mix drinks, or “soda pop” (as my daughter now calls them, thanks to the KPop Demon Hunters song of the same name), which are clearly aimed at adults. One example is the tribe of “functional” drinks that have hit the market in the past year or so and that have supposed health benefits or performance-enhancing qualities, such as improving focus or helping you to slow down. Sonic Tonics’ CBD-infused 0% drink, for example, promises to shift your mood, and it certainly quenches thirst with a really original flavour profile of bitter hemp root with sweet and floral fig and violet. And while usually sceptical of celebrity-backed products with wellness claims, Gillian Anderson’s G Spot drinks are genuinely delicious. The passion fruit and habanero chilli is my favourite; I can’t support its aphrodisiac claims (allegedly due to its ingredients including butterfly pea and L-arginine, both of which are said to increase blood flow to the sexual organs), but, at £6.50 for four from Ocado, it’s cheaper than trying Gwyneth Paltrow’s sex oil.

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Glen Matlock, Viv Albertine and Rat Scabies revisit the music, clothes and disgusting spitting in a likable documentary marking half a century of British punk

As the majority of them ease into their eighth decade, the overlords of British punk rock get yet another celebratory runout, gently reheating material that has become familiar over the years but never loses its appeal. A subculture that passed almost immediately from tabloid-triggering menace to picture-postcard caricature, punk may have passed into legend as a joyless and even squalid diversion in music and fashion history, but its surviving spokespeople recall their participation in it all with no little enthusiasm, even if they’ve clearly said it a thousand times already. No doubt it is the gen alphas among us who will benefit most; you’d expect their jaws to drop and eyes to roll at some of the stuff deemed perfectly acceptable in the late 1970s: women’s-breasts T-shirts, amateurish pancake makeup, and all that disgusting spitting. (“I didn’t mind it going in my mouth,” says the Damned’s Captain Sensible at one point, out-disgusting everyone.)

There’s a good spread of voices on offer; at least one member of most of the era’s big acts puts in an appearance with Glen Matlock (the Sex Pistols), Rat Scabies (the Damned), Terry Chimes (the Clash), Steve Severin (Siouxsie and the Banshees), and Hugh Cornwell (the Stranglers) leading the way. (The latter, though affable enough, is easily the least impressed as to punk’s actual achievements, which is a valuable corrective.) The original punk wave had little space for women (despite the sense that blows were being struck for equality) and that’s the case in the film as well: Gaye Advert (the Adverts) and Viv Albertine (the Slits) get a bit of time on camera though inevitably get a bit lost in it all. Due recognition, however, is paid to designer Vivienne Westwood as punk’s true founding spirit; Sex, the King’s Road boutique she ran with Malcolm McLaren, was a crucible of the British punk scene. Don Boyd, who produced the Pistols’ movie The Great Rock ‘n’ Roll Swindle along with the late Jeremy Thomas, says she “was punk and is punk … it came from her”.

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With nearly £30m of funding, I’m giving communities power over local energy. They know the gravity of global heating, and they want to be part of the solution

• Andy Burnham: UK must fully commit to reaching net zero by 2050

On the day I became prime minister, I pledged to bring power to every postcode. Today, we begin to make good on that promise in the most literal sense. With nearly £30m of funding for People’s Power projects, communities across every nation of the UK will soon have the chance to build and control their own clean energy supply.

This investment means villages, towns and cities can harness the natural resources around them with solar panels on libraries, publicly owned windfarms, hydro schemes in their rivers, or whatever else works for them. The purpose is to put money back in people’s pockets while giving them a direct role in tackling the climate crisis.

Andy Burnham is prime minister of the United Kingdom

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Barber’s Farmhouse Cheesemakers can draw enough heat from cows’ fresh milk to bring water close to the boil, slashing carbon emissions

In many ways, the world’s oldest cheddar-maker hews to tradition. Since 1833, Barber’s Farmhouse Cheesemakers has operated from the rolling green pastures of south-west England, milking grass-fed cows and fermenting the milk with microbial starters passed down for generations. That heritage has led to award-winning cheese, now popular across continents.

But when it comes to reducing its planet-warming emissions, Barber’s is on the cutting edge. In 2024, the company began to use new ultra-efficient heat pumps from the UK startup Arkaya Energy. The devices quickly cool milk to keep it fresh, and simultaneously heat water used in milking operations, replacing conventional chillers and electric-resistance heaters.

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Exclusive: PM, who is facing pressure over whether to approve North Sea oil and gasfields, makes strongest comments yet on issue

• British people understand the climate crisis threat. Today I’m empowering them to tackle it

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The UK must fully commit to reaching net zero by 2050, Andy Burnham has argued in his strongest comments yet on the issue, saying it is no longer possible for Britons to believe they are not already affected by a changing climate.

Writing for the Guardian about new plans for a mass of community-led local green energy projects, the prime minister said the UK must “believe in itself”, and set out his determination to reach net zero targets, which have been rejected by the Conservatives and Reform UK.

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DUBLIN (ANP) - De Ierse omroep RTÉ heeft bekendgemaakt dat Ierland niet zal deelnemen aan het Eurovisie Songfestival van 2027. De omroep zal het muziekevenement ook niet uitzenden. Ierland was dit jaar al een van de vijf landen die het songfestival oversloegen vanwege de deelname van Israël.

"RTÉ bevestigt vandaag dat haar standpunt met betrekking tot deelname aan het Eurovisie Songfestival ongewijzigd blijft", deelt de omroep in een verklaring. "RTÉ is van mening dat de deelname van Ierland niet gerechtvaardigd kan worden gezien het afschuwelijke en aanhoudende verlies van mensenlevens in Gaza en de humanitaire crisis daar, die de levens van zoveel burgers in gevaar blijft brengen."

Ierland is het enige land dat zich dit jaar al definitief heeft teruggetrokken. Het is nog niet bekend wat IJsland, Slovenië en Spanje, die de afgelopen editie allemaal niet meededen, in 2027 doen. In Nederland trok de AVROTROS zich al terug, maar kan eventueel nog een inzending volgen van een andere omroep.

LONDEN (ANP/BLOOMBERG) - Revolut heeft donderdag ontkend dat iemand rechtstreeks contact heeft gezocht met de onlinebank of eisen heeft gesteld vanwege de phishingaanval die onlangs bekend werd. Meerdere media, waaronder radiozender BNR, schreven woensdag dat de aanvallers eisen dat binnen 24 uur een bedrag van 3 miljoen dollar (zo'n 2,6 miljoen euro) wordt betaald. Anders zouden ze de buitgemaakte data verkopen.

Maandag meldde Revolut dat een "beperkt aantal" klanten door het lek is getroffen en dat zij daarover zijn geïnformeerd. Het gaat om 680 klanten, onder wie 36 Nederlanders. Volgens de bank gebruikte een onbevoegde partij het e-mailadres van "een legitieme overheidsinstantie" om frauduleuze informatieverzoeken in te dienen. Revolut stelde het e-mailadres "onmiddellijk" te hebben geblokkeerd en dat het geld van klanten en de systemen van de onlinebank niet zijn aangetast.

Revolut heeft wereldwijd ruim 80 miljoen klanten.

STOCKHOLM (ANP) - De centrumlinkse oppositie in Zweden heeft de parlementaire verkiezingen gewonnen. Dat meldt de kiescommissie van het Noord-Europese land na telling van alle kiesdistricten. In reactie op die verkiezingswinst kondigde premier Ulf Kristersson van de liberaal-conservatieve Gematigde Uniepartij op X zijn vertrek aan.

Woensdagavond riep publieke omroep SVT datzelfde blok al uit als verkiezingswinnaar, nadat uit eigen analyse was gebleken dat de zogenoemde Tidö-partijen vrijwel geen kans hadden om nog te winnen. Dat rechtse blok bestaat, naast de partij van Kristersson, uit de christendemocraten, liberalen en het nationaal-populistische Zweden Democraten.

Het grootste mandaat gaat naar de sociaaldemocraten, met 28 procent van de stemmen, gevolgd door de Gematigde Uniepartij met 19,8 procent. De centrumlinkse oppositie verkrijgt in totaal 176 van de 349 zetels in het Zweedse parlement.

Een nieuwe premier wordt op zijn vroegst 29 september aangewezen, aldus SVT.

APELDOORN (ANP) - De Nederlandse beveiliger van bouwprojecten en andere infrastructuur BauWatch wordt overgenomen door de internationale investeerders CVC DIF en Carlyle. BauWatch is gevestigd in Apeldoorn en is Europees marktleider bij de beveiliging met mobiele camerabewaking van bouwplaatsen en andere bedrijfsterreinen ter bescherming tegen diefstal en vandalisme.

BauWatch wordt overgenomen van het Duitse familiebedrijf Haniel dat sinds 2021 eigenaar was van de onderneming. Haniel behoudt wel een belang van 10 procent in het in 2009 opgerichte BauWatch. Financiële details over de overname werden niet gemeld. De deal moet in het eerste kwartaal van volgend jaar afgerond worden.

Het beveiligingsbedrijf is actief in twaalf Europese landen met nu meer dan 15.000 actieve videobewakingssystemen. BauWatch heeft al ruim 50.000 beveiligingsprojecten succesvol afgerond. Het gaat bijvoorbeeld ook om duurzame energieprojecten. De omzet van BauWatch bedroeg vorig jaar 153 miljoen euro.

​Het is een pittige dag voor de introverte politicus, die inmiddels al twee uur lang bij de interruptiemicrofoon draalt zonder iets te zeggen. De Algemene Politieke Beschouwingen zijn elk jaar weer een uitdaging voor hem. De introverte politicus is al meerdere keren naar de microfoon gelopen, maar laat telkens mondigere collega’s voor gaan. “Nee, ga jij maar eerst hoor”, mompelt de politicus, die net niet extravert genoeg is om echt veel zetels te hebben.

‘s Ochtends heeft de introverte politicus met stille bewondering en enige irritatie gekeken naar hoe zelfverzekerd Geert Wilders in de microfoon stond te fulmineren. “Vandaag wordt mijn dag”, fluisterde hij net zacht genoeg dat niemand het kon horen. Toen de introverte politicus twee uur later stilletjes naar voren sloop, wilde hij een goed punt maken, maar was Jesse Klaver hem voor. “Goed gedaan man”, zei hij met een klopje op de schouder van de PRO-leider, die hem niet leek te horen.

De introverte politicus neemt zich inmiddels al anderhalve dag voor om iets in de interruptiemicrofoon te zeggen. Het kan elk moment gebeuren.

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De wereldwijde lancering van het dertigjarig jubileum van de Pokémon-spelkaarten zorgde voor lange rijen voor gamewinkels. En hoe worden de herverkopers gezien? „Als een plaag op de hobby, want die drijven de prijzen omhoog.”