In honor of the 50th anniversary of the legendary Songs in the Key of Life, the one and only Stevie Wonder has released an EP of four songs recorded for the album but left on the cutting room floor.
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Streaming on YouTube, Spotify, and surely other places that aren't as dystopian... but in the middle of all the dystopia, this brought me some unexpected joy, and I wanted to share it with you all! Previ ously
Coverage on Pitchfork
Lyrics on Genius
Streaming on YouTube, Spotify, and surely other places that aren't as dystopian... but in the middle of all the dystopia, this brought me some unexpected joy, and I wanted to share it with you all! Previ ously
Content warning: sexual assault
The Women Who Exposed the "Rape Academy". Three journalists tell the inside story of investigating a dark global network of men assaulting their partners. "One guy would write in and be like, 'I'm thinking of drugging and raping my wife. Who's done this before?' And one guy would be like, 'Yep, I've been doing this for three years. Use this drug.' Others would be like, 'What weight is she?' 'Oh, I did this and I got away with it.' The Behind the Bastards podcast covers one particular website, Coco, in France, along with in one specific offender, Dominique Pelicot, in a two-part series. Episode 1. Episode 2.
The Women Who Exposed the "Rape Academy". Three journalists tell the inside story of investigating a dark global network of men assaulting their partners. "One guy would write in and be like, 'I'm thinking of drugging and raping my wife. Who's done this before?' And one guy would be like, 'Yep, I've been doing this for three years. Use this drug.' Others would be like, 'What weight is she?' 'Oh, I did this and I got away with it.' The Behind the Bastards podcast covers one particular website, Coco, in France, along with in one specific offender, Dominique Pelicot, in a two-part series. Episode 1. Episode 2.
De tot symbool van de Spaanse wooncrisis uitgegroeide Maricarmen werd vorige week haar huis uitgezet, omdat ze na een forse verhoging de huur niet meer kan betalen. Maandagavond bereikte haar advocaat alsnog een akkoord met de eigenaren van het pand.
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MADRID (ANP/AFP) - De 87-jarige vrouw die vorige week uit haar woning in Madrid werd gezet, kan door een akkoord met de verhuurder toch in het huis blijven wonen. De advocaat van de hoogbejaarde Maricarmen Abascal heeft dat maandagavond laat aan verslaggevers laten weten. Abascal moet de nieuwe huurovereenkomst volgens de Spaanse omroep RTVE zelf nog wel ondertekenen.
Maricarmen Abascal woonde ruim zeventig jaar in haar appartement in Madrid, maar kon de huur na een enorme verhoging niet meer betalen. Volgens El País zou de huur van 500 naar 2650 euro per maand gaan. Haar advocaat laat weten dat de verhuurder "uit goede wil" heeft besloten dat het maandbedrag de komende acht jaar ongeveer blijft wat het was.
De uithuiszetting leidde tot massaprotesten in Spanje en groeide uit tot een symbool van de Spaanse wooncrisis. In het centrum van Madrid ontstond een tentenkamp, waar in de nacht van maandag op dinsdag voor de derde nacht gekampeerd werd. Ook in Barcelona werd gedemonstreerd.
AMSTERDAM (ANP/RTR) - Een 24-jarige man uit Amsterdam is deze maand aangehouden in een onderzoek naar de hackersgroep ShinyHunters. Dat meldt de politie op X, zonder verdere details te delen. "Morgen komen wij met meer info", staat in het bericht.
ShinyHunters wordt in verband gebracht met diverse grote hacks. De hackersgroep eiste onder meer de hack bij onderwijsplatform Canvas en bij Odido eerder dit jaar op. De cybercriminelen zouden ook achter digitale inbraken bij pornowebsite Pornhub, softwarebedrijf Salesforce en ticketverkoper Ticketmaster zitten.
De 24-jarige verdachte wordt dinsdag voorgeleid voor de raadkamer van de rechtbank Rotterdam. Anonieme bronnen melden aan RTL Nieuws dat het gaat om Pepijn van der S., die in 2023 werd veroordeeld tot vier jaar celstraf voor het hacken en afpersen van bedrijven. Sinds begin dit jaar was hij volgens RTL op vrije voeten.
Ook een voormalig werkgever van Van der S. meldt dat het om hem gaat. In een telefonisch interview met persbureau Reuters zegt Benjamin Korper, CEO van het in Amsterdam gevestigde cybersecuritybedrijf Neo Security, dat forensische onderzoekers zijn kantoor bezochten op 15 september, de avond dat de politie de man arresteerde. Dat zou zijn gebeurd tijdens een politie-inval waarbij ook flitsgranaten werden gebruikt.
ShinyHunters laat in een reactie aan BNR en RTL Nieuws weten geen band te hebben met Pepijn van der S. "Eerlijk gezegd moeten we erom lachen. De Nederlandse politie is uit op aandacht en publieke waardering na de enorme blamage rond de Odido-hack. Ze willen de indruk wekken dat ze bij het onderzoek naar ShinyHunters de FBI voor zijn", aldus de hackersgroep tegen RTL.
SAN FRANCISCO (ANP/RTR/BLOOMBERG) - Het nieuwste model van ontwikkelaar OpenAI zal niet begin oktober worden gelanceerd, zoals gepland was. The Wall Street Journal meldde in de nacht van maandag op dinsdag dat er veiligheidszorgen zijn over het model GPT-6.1 Astra. Het wordt daarom nog niet beschikbaar gesteld aan gebruikers.
Saachi Jain, die binnen OpenAI over de veiligheid gaat, bevestigde in een verklaring tegenover CNBC dat GPT-6.1 Astra uit veiligheidsoverwegingen nog niet op de markt komt. Het model "voldoet niet helemaal aan de eisen voor wat betreft het binnen de grenzen en de bevoegdheden blijven", aldus Jain. Ook laat het model steken vallen "op de manier waarop het aan de gebruiker terugkoppelt over het soort werk dat het heeft verricht".
OpenAI lanceerde eerder deze maand GPT-6 Astra, volgens het bedrijf "het slimste en best afgestemde model ter wereld". GPT-6 biedt bepaalde betalende gebruikers van ChatGPT een AI-agent aan die zelfstandig omvangrijke taken uitvoert.
Their opposition to Putin led to two of the group being sent to brutal prison camps. Then another was found to be spying for the Kremlin. Shaun Walker reports
It’s January 2012 and Pussy Riot are filming a video in Red Square, Moscow. As snow covers the cobbles and dusts the onion globes of St Basil’s Cathedral, the clock on the Kremlin chimes 11am. Eight women in colourful balaclavas leap on to a stone platform, one with an electric guitar. They start playing their latest song, Putin Has Chickened Out. It’s pretty punchy, with lyrics such as: “The rebellious column is heading to the Kremlin / Windows are exploding in FSB offices.”
The group had formed a few months earlier after Vladimir Putin announced that he planned to return to the Kremlin for a third term as president. Inspired by the Arab spring the previous year, they hoped to bring revolution to Russia and stop Putin. Instead, the state cracked down hard. Three Pussy Riot members were found guilty of hooliganism after later protests, with two spending two years in some of Russia’s harshest jails.
Continue reading...One in 60 adults Fiji lives with HIV but a recent emergency declaration may help address key issues such as syringe sharing
On a recent Friday night, Dr Kesaia Tuidraki’s medical team parked its mobile clinic outside McDonald’s in downtown Suva, Fiji, and grabbed any kid they could to be tested for HIV. Of the 97 people screened, mostly teenagers – some on their way to get a burger, others to buy drugs – one in six tested positive.
“Children are suffering, children are dying, and if that doesn’t move you I don’t know what will,” Tuidraki, country director of Medical Services Pacific, tells the Guardian.
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OpenAI isn’t going to release its newest model because “it showed high levels of what the company saw as deception, or a willingness to mislead users about its actions [and] was also willing to go beyond the original scope of what it was asked to do”.
Longtime Slashdot reader schwit1 shares a report from Business Standard: China has expanded overseas travel restrictions for top AI professionals in private firms to include the families of key personnel, further tightening measures designed to prevent the outflow of critical know-how and information to the US. Government agencies have recently begun to share the wider restrictions with affected people, which include prominent startup founders as well as the heads of strategically important companies in AI-related fields, people familiar with the matter said. Direct relatives such as spouses and children of certain AI and chip executives, whose work is considered paramount to state security, are now required to obtain approval from Beijing before going abroad even for short trips, the people said.
That marks a broadening of existing curbs on the freedom of movement of China's most influential tech talent -- a category that encompasses entrepreneurs, researchers and executives. While not an outright ban on travel, the new requirement is likely to exert a further chilling effect on a tech sector already facing unprecedented curbs. China has restricted foreign travel for top AI professionals in private firms such as Alibaba Group Holding Ltd and DeepSeek since earlier this year, Bloomberg News reported in May, reflecting Beijing's determination to safeguard its technology as it makes big strides in AI and chipmaking.
It's unclear whether all those people's families need to follow the new strictures, the people said. China is also separately implementing rules, which became effective Sept 15, for enforcing exit bans in cases ranging from criminal investigations to potential violations of the country's industrial and technological security. Beijing's plan is to add relevant individuals to the list as time goes by, the people said, asking not to be identified discussing a sensitive issue. Government departments have already notified several people of the need to clear family travel, two of the people said.
That marks a broadening of existing curbs on the freedom of movement of China's most influential tech talent -- a category that encompasses entrepreneurs, researchers and executives. While not an outright ban on travel, the new requirement is likely to exert a further chilling effect on a tech sector already facing unprecedented curbs. China has restricted foreign travel for top AI professionals in private firms such as Alibaba Group Holding Ltd and DeepSeek since earlier this year, Bloomberg News reported in May, reflecting Beijing's determination to safeguard its technology as it makes big strides in AI and chipmaking.
It's unclear whether all those people's families need to follow the new strictures, the people said. China is also separately implementing rules, which became effective Sept 15, for enforcing exit bans in cases ranging from criminal investigations to potential violations of the country's industrial and technological security. Beijing's plan is to add relevant individuals to the list as time goes by, the people said, asking not to be identified discussing a sensitive issue. Government departments have already notified several people of the need to clear family travel, two of the people said.
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