An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: The European Union must rethink security to take into account challenges and risks posed by the growing power of major technology companies that go beyond traditional competition concerns, European Commission Executive Vice-President Teresa Ribera said on Monday. "We need to review and to deepen our concept of security, including cybersecurity," Ribera told reporters in Lisbon, arguing that testing and monitoring devices connected to critical infrastructure was no longer sufficient and that security means also ensuring that the Big Tech companies are "governed by democratic and transparent patterns." "We need to be quite quick in the deployment of these new approaches ... This is one of the most critical topics for security, for democracy, and for (our) values," she said.

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Moscow police have been ramping up the pressure on teenagers in Kitai-Gorod — a popular hangout spot — for months.

Eastmed, the Greece-based manager of the ship, said a port of discharge had not yet been finalized.

AMSTERDAM (ANP) - De AEX-index op de Amsterdamse beurs is dinsdag met kleine winst gesloten, mede geholpen door de chipbedrijven die verder stegen na de recente uitverkoop in de AI-sector. De aandacht van beleggers bleef uitgaan naar de affaire van topman Jensen Huang van AI-chipconcern Nvidia met een vermeende Chinese spion. Daarnaast kwam AI-bedrijf Anthropic met details over zijn beursgang en werden cijfers gemeld over de Amerikaanse inflatie.

ASML, ASMI en Besi gingen tot 2,6 procent vooruit, waarmee werd voortgeborduurd op de stijgingen van maandag. Zij profiteerden van de stevige plussen in de chipsector in New York van maandag. Nvidia ging echter wel omlaag door alle onrust rond de affaire van Huang, die nu wordt onderzocht door de FBI. Ook zijn aandeelhouders een rechtszaak begonnen tegen Nvidia en Huang vanwege misleiding.

De AEX eindigde 0,2 procent hoger op 1132,44 punten. Op maandag won de hoofdindex 0,8 procent. De MidKap klom 0,4 procent tot 1123,96 punten, na de plus van 1,2 procent op maandag.

Anthropic

Op de beurzen in Parijs en Frankfurt werden winsten behaald tot 0,6 procent. Londen sloot 0,3 procent lager.

Anthropic, het bedrijf achter chatbot Claude, kondigde aan dat de introductieprijs van zijn aandelen tussen de 70 en 78 dollar per stuk ligt. Met de beursgang, die mogelijk volgende week plaatsvindt, verwacht het bedrijf tot ruim 64 miljard dollar op te halen. De totale marktwaarde zou bij de beursgang, een van de grootste ooit, rond de 1,4 biljoen dollar liggen.

Amerikaanse inflatie

De Amerikaanse inflatie viel in oktober iets hoger uit dan verwacht, waardoor de kans op een renteverhoging door de Federal Reserve in december groter is geworden. In september kwam de Fed nog met de eerste renteverhoging in ruim drie jaar om de hoge inflatie tegen te gaan.

Shell stond opnieuw bij de dalers in de AEX met een min van 2 procent. Het olie- en gasconcern werd door de Spaanse bank Santander van de kooplijst gehaald. Daarnaast gingen de olieprijzen verder omlaag.

Bij de kleinere fondsen op Beursplein 5 dook de producent van elektromagnetische componenten Kendrion 10 procent in het rood na bekendmaking van kwartaalcijfers.

DEN HAAG (ANP) - De herziene plannen voor box 3 kosten de staatskas in de jaren tot en met 2040 per saldo 17,6 miljard euro. Minister Eelco Heinen (Financiën, VVD) krijgt daar veel kritiek op, maar zegt zelf dat hij veel grotere tekorten heeft voorkomen, omdat anders het wetsvoorstel zou zijn weggestemd in de Eerste Kamer.

Volgens Heinen ontbrak in de senaat een meerderheid voor de invoering van een belasting op daadwerkelijk behaald rendement - inclusief niet verzilverde waardestijgingen - op spaargeld en beleggingen. Als dat wetsvoorstel zou zijn weggestemd, zou het huidige stelsel van kracht zijn gebleven. De tekorten waren dan opgelopen "tot wel 26 miljard" in 2040, aldus Heinen. "En dat ga ik niet laten gebeuren."

Steun in de Eerste Kamer voor box 3 was inderdaad onzeker, maar dat kwam vooral doordat CDA en VVD aan het twijfelen waren geslagen. Beide coalitiepartijen stemden in de Tweede Kamer nog voor. Op het moment dat Heinen aankondigde dat het aangepast zou worden, was er in de senaat nog geen debat over gevoerd.

ANTALYA (ANP) - Op de klimaattop in Antalya worden woensdag en donderdag onder een streng beveiligingsregime tientallen premiers en presidenten verwacht, maar de leiders van landen met een hoge uitstoot ontbreken. Premier Rob Jetten is niet de enige leider met andere prioriteiten dan COP31.

China stuurt vicepresident Zheng Han, de Verenigde Staten niemand, omdat het land niet meer meedoet aan internationaal klimaatbeleid. De Indiase premier Narendra Modi staat ook niet op de gastenlijst. Daarmee ontbreken de hoogste leiders van de top drie van grote uitstoters.

Onder de leiders die wél worden verwacht zijn in ieder geval voorzitter van de Europese Commissie Ursula von der Leyen en de onlangs herkozen president van Brazilië, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. Verder komen onder anderen de Finse president Alexander Stubb, de Britse premier Andy Burnham en de Saudische kroonprins Mohammed bin Salman.

Fossiele brandstoffen

De Turkse president Recep Tayyip Erdogan is gastheer. Hij sprak zich begin deze week zeer tevreden uit over de verwachte toename van de binnenlandse olieproductie. Op de top in Antalya is juist het uitfaseren van olie en andere fossiele brandstoffen voor veel landen een belangrijk thema, al worden daar geen harde afspraken over verwacht.

Klimaatorganisaties verpakten dinsdagavond hun teleurstelling over afwezige leiders in satire. Het overkoepelende Climate Action Network (CAN) kende tijdens een theatrale ceremonie met een activist in dinopak het 'Fossiel van de Dag' uit aan "afwezige leiders van rijke landen". Op het lijstje van 'winnaars' van de spotprijs stond Nederland tussen onder meer Duitsland, Frankrijk, Japan, Canada en Italië.

De presentator, gehuld in bottenpak, noemde het "een akelig signaal voor hun toewijding" aan klimaatbeleid, terwijl de toeschouwers hard "boe" riepen.

Bij de holdingmaatschappij van de miljardairsfamilie Brenninkmeijer is voor het eerst een buitenstaander als topman aangesteld. Georg Wunderlin krijgt volgend jaar de dagelijkse leiding over Cofra Holding, waarin de familie, vooral bekend als eigenaar van kledingketen C&A, haar bezittingen heeft ondergebracht.

Wunderlin volgt Boudewijn Beerkens op bij het Zwitserse bedrijf. De Duits-Britse Wunderlin werkte hiervoor bij vermogensbeheerder Schroders. Cofra heeft recent ook bekendgemaakt dat een familielid uit de zesde generatie, Florian Brenninkmeyer, voorzitter wordt van het bedrijf.

De Quote 500 schatte het vermogen van de Brenninkmeijers dit jaar op 22,5 miljard euro, waarmee ze als de rijkste familie van Nederland worden beschouwd.

Felle kleuren en spaarpotjes op de website, de „cruciale systemen” van ABN Amro op de achtergrond: neobank Buut richt zich expliciet op jongeren. „Financieel opvoeden is lastig. Laten we eerlijk zijn.”

Omwonenden van het populaire Fabel Friet probeerden via de rechter de vergunning van de frietzaak in te laten trekken. De rechtbank ziet de overlast, maar vindt dat deze niet alleen of voornamelijk door Fabel Friet wordt veroorzaakt.

De wereldomspannende infrastructuur voor het internet, glasvezelkabels op de zeebodem, heeft sinds kort volop aandacht. Het net is een kwetsbaar militair doelwit. En Europa is ook op dit terrein afhankelijk van Amerikaanse techbedrijven. Katja Bego schreef er een boek over.

Als een kabinet valt, zullen voortaan niet zomaar nieuwe verkiezingen worden uitgeschreven. Eerst moeten de Kamerleden onderzoeken of ze er onderling uit kunnen komen.

AMD's upcoming Verano processors aren't like any Epyc CPUs we've seen before. Rather than general-purpose workloads, Verano is designed specifically to power AMD's next generation of GPU servers. In an interview with The Register during a press event in Las Vegas last week, Madhu Rangarajan, CVP of AMD's compute and enterprise AI products business, described Verano as being the first step towards building something that more closely resembles Nvidia's Vera Rubin superchips. "Verano is really designed for an integrated CPU+GPU rack scale solution," he said. "From that perspective, I wouldn't say the CPU is a competitor to Vera. In a head note, I'd say the Verano+GPU solution is a competitor to Vera+Rubin." For reference, Vera Rubin and the GB200 and GB300 that came before it aren't your typical server platforms. Instead they're more like an enormous single-board computer combining CPUs and GPUs into a tightly-integrated package. Each of Nvidia's superchips joins a single 88-core Vera CPU and 1.5 TB of LPDDR5X memory to a pair of Rubin GPUs via Nvidia's speedy NVLink-C2C interconnect. Rangarajan tells us Verano will be the host CPU for a similar class of product using AMD GPUs, and much like Nvidia's superchips, the CPU will also use notebook memory rather than conventional RDIMMS. However, unlike Vera, which is also being deployed as a standalone CPU in storage servers and agent sandboxes, Verano has a singular purpose: keeping its GPUs fed. (We assume they'll be MI500X GPUs.) This design choice reflects AMD's philosophy of one SKU per workload. As such, Verano's core count, clock speeds, memory bandwidth, power, and I/O have been rebalanced to keep its GPUs fed and not much else. Under the hood If we were to peel back Verano's heat spreader, the chip looks a lot like the Venice Epycs we looked at back in September. It features either six of AMD's core complex dies (CCDs) for a total of 72 high-frequency cores clocking to 5.3 GHz, or 192 density-optimized cores clocking to 4.1 GHz, depending on whether the customer's workloads prefer core density or faster clocks. But that's about where the visual similarities end. Much of the chip has been reworked to eliminate data flow bottlenecks between the CPU and the GPUs it is responsible for feeding. The chip features an entirely custom pair of I/O dies through which four LPDDR5X memory controllers are attached. Those memory controllers are currently being validated for use with 24 channels of memory at up to 8,533 MT/s. We're told that we may see that creep up a bit depending on how much headroom AMD has when the part starts shipping next year, but for now that's what AMD is validating against. That means the platform not only has fewer cores, but also slower memory. Peak theoretical memory bandwidth tops out at around 800 GB/s, which you might have noticed is half of what AMD's top-specced Venice parts can do and about 66 percent of Nvidia's Vera. What LPDDR seems to buy AMD is a 30 to 40 percent reduction in power consumption compared to RDIMMS, as well as a more compact footprint for liquid cooling. But it also comes with some downsides. In its first incarnation, Verano won't be socketed. Instead it'll use a ball-grid array (BGA) that's soldered to the board, which will make it harder to service. "LPDDR tends to be quite finicky in terms of speeds. Every time you go through a connector, you tend to lose a pin or two, and you already have one connector with the SoCam itself. So to minimize any of those losses in speed, we went BGA on the CPU," Rangarajan told us. Unlike with a lot of notebooks, the memory itself won't be soldered down and will use the same SOCAMM2 modules found in Nvidia's Vera-Rubin and Vera-Vera CPU Superchips. Even so, Verano looks like a bit of a downgrade compared to Venice except when it comes to CPU-to-GPU connectivity. Fatter pipes Historically, AMD's CPU-to-GPU communication has been done over PCIe. It works but has usually required PCIe switches to keep up with all the GPUs, NICs, and storage on board. Nvidia's superchip dispensed with this, replacing PCIe with its NVLink-C2C interconnect, which provides 900 GB/s of bidirectional bandwidth to each of the system's GPUs. Venice and Verano do something similar. Unlike past Instinct accelerators, AMD's latest generation of GPUs aren't limited to PCIe for CPU-to-GPU communication. Instead, starting with Venice, AMD transitioned to using xGMI. Global memory interconnect (GMI) is how AMD has moved data between chiplets on its CPUs, GPUs, and APUs for several generations now. xGMI extends this to GPU-to-GPU and CPU-to-GPU communications. With Venice, xGMI link bandwidth tops out at 64 Gbps per lane, which the keen-eyed among you have probably already figured out is the same as PCIe 6.0. Verano takes this to another level. As we mentioned earlier, Verano disaggregated the memory controllers, and AMD appears to have reclaimed that space for fatter serializer deserializers (SerDes). Instead of 64 Gbps per lane, Verano's xGMI links top out at 112 Gbps, effectively giving it near PCIe 7.0 levels of bandwidth years before the spec ships in production CPUs. Rangarajan explains this is driven by what AMD's GPUs need to run optimally. AMD hasn't disclosed the ratio of CPUs to GPUs it's aiming for with Verano, so it's difficult to say how it compares to Nvidia. In a 2:1 ratio of GPUs to CPUs like we saw in Vera Rubin, Verano would deliver identical chip-to-chip bandwidth, while in a 1:4 ratio like we see in AMD's Helios racks, we'd be looking at about half the bandwidth at 448 GB/s. It's also not clear whether AMD has increased the number of xGMI links per I/O die for Verano or not, so bandwidth per GPU could be even higher. We expect more info closer to the MI500X's debut next year. Part of a broader ecosystem AMD doesn't expect Verano to replace Venice in every AI rack: The chip is designed specifically for use with Instinct accelerators. Moreover, AMD isn't waiting for Verano to roll out its Helios rackscale systems. As we discussed during Advancing AI earlier this year, those systems will feature 18 96-core Venice CPUs paired to 72 Instinct MI455X GPUs. Moving forward, AMD expects its Venice to remain a popular host processor for AI head nodes not just for its own GPUs but for the growing number of homegrown accelerators built by the great model houses. ®

President Donald Trump has nominated Palantir security chief Michael LoSapio to lead CISA, putting an executive from the controversial government supplier in line to run America's civilian cyber defense agency. The nomination, announced on Monday, could end CISA's nearly two-year wait for a Senate-confirmed director following Jen Easterly's departure in January 2025. LoSapio has served as Palantir's CISO since September 2024, having previously led the company's infrastructure and network security team. He first joined the data analytics outfit in 2013, later spent a spell at database company SingleStore, and returned to Palantir in 2017. If confirmed, LoSapio would move from securing Palantir's systems to leading the federal government's main civilian cyber defense agency. CISA protects federal civilian networks and works with critical infrastructure operators, including power, water, and telecommunications providers. It's a substantial job, particularly given the state of the agency he would inherit. CISA has shed more than 1,000 staff, roughly a third of its workforce, since Trump returned to the White House, according to reports. It's now trying to plug the gaps, although acting director Nick Andersen said in September that around 250 would-be recruits were still waiting for security clearance before they could get to work. Andersen has been running CISA since February. With fewer people to go around, CISA is also rethinking where to spend its time. A strategy published last month emphasizes infrastructure whose failure would do the most damage, raising questions about what gets less attention as the agency operates with fewer staff. LoSapio would be the second person Trump has put forward for the role. His previous pick, Sean Plankey, withdrew in April after spending more than a year awaiting confirmation, with his nomination becoming caught up in a dispute involving Republican Senator Rick Scott over Coast Guard contracting. The nomination arrives late in the congressional calendar. If the Senate does not confirm LoSapio before the current Congress ends, Trump would have to nominate him again for consideration by the incoming Democratic-controlled Senate. Palantir, co-founded by billionaire Peter Thiel, has become a major supplier of technology to US government agencies, including the Department of Homeland Security and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Its work with immigration authorities has attracted criticism from civil liberties groups and Democratic lawmakers concerned about surveillance and the handling of sensitive personal information. The controversy isn't confined to the US either. In the UK, WhatsApp messages obtained by campaign group Foxglove this week indicate that Palantir privately lobbied a health minister to consider extending its software into GP patient records, despite that data being expressly excluded from its £330 million NHS England contract for the Federated Data Platform. That revelation follows news that NHS England wants greater oversight of Palantir's claims about the benefits of its software, amid questions over the evidence supporting its performance figures. Those controversies could make LoSapio's confirmation hearings particularly interesting, especially as Democrats prepare to scrutinize Palantir's government business more closely. It's unclear whether LoSapio plans to leave Palantir or what would happen to any financial interests he holds in the company if confirmed. Those are questions likely to come up during a confirmation process that CISA, having spent nearly two years without a permanent boss while losing a third of its workforce, could probably do without dragging on any longer. ®

De rechterbuis van de Drechttunnel (A16) richting Rotterdam is dinsdagavond afgesloten. Dat komt door een kapotte vrachtwagen die ook nog olie achterliet op het wegdek. De vertraging liep rond 17:50 uur op tot ongeveer een uur.

Op school zagen ze niks in hem, maar dit jaar viert Jandino Asporaat zijn twintigjarig jubileum als artiest. Het wordt drie dagen lang groot feest in Rotterdam Ahoy. "Het wordt weer een gekkenhuis, echt een bonte avond", vertelt hij.

Great title for an article about London’s invasive parakeet population: The Pollycrisis. “Do we want tens of thousands of Himalayan parrots squabbling all over our cities?”

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Plumbing the rhythms of the ocean and marine life, Amy Genser creates undulating abstractions that evoke swells, currents, reefs, and the sea floor. The artist composes elaborate wall works from rolled mulberry paper, acrylic, and wire in which patterns move and converge across swaths of blues and greens. The closer you look, the more colors emerge.

Although reminiscent of the sea in many ways, Genser’s works defy instant recognition. At first glance, they may appear topographical, as if a luminous, clear sea is being viewed from above. The rolling forms are redolent of waves but also perhaps the way corals cluster around rock formations. Then, details draw us nearer: bulbous forms with cavities resemble barnacles, and extended shapes could be tentacles.

The artist’s play on scale, texture, pattern, and depth draw us in and keep us guessing—not unlike the many enigmas of the ocean itself. And one recent project challenged Genser to work at a monumental scale. The Macallan, a single malt Scottish whisky company, commissioned her to create a monumental piece titled “Stars Below” for its Carta Nautica Collection.

Both the bottle release and the artwork celebrate the time-honored transatlantic journey of the wooden barrels used to age the spirit, which travel to Scotland from Spain and the U.S. “Through layered textures, flowing forms, and rich colors, I brought to life a mythical underwater world shaped by movement, discovery, and transformation,” Genser says.

See more on the artist’s Instagram.

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We gaan niet allemaal bij haar op de koffie maar het is toch onze burgermoederkloek, dus fijn dat er sinds dat geweldige fragment met de Amsterdamse brandweervrouwen uit 2023 weer NIEUW BEELD van achter de schermen is. Een opwarmertje van 30 seconden voor NTR-docu THE MAYOR: Halsema & Amsterdam. De film gaat op 13 november in première in Carré, inclusief een voor- en nababbel georganiseerd door Het Parool. Zo'n evenement waarvan we enorm balen dat het moeten missen. Wat steken we op van de trailer? Halsema moet heel veel moeilijke keuzes maken. Je kunt wel zeggen dat er mensen met antisemitische bordjes door de stad lopen, maar veel mensen zijn gewoon heel erg verdrietig. Verder zijn de demonstranten erg gemeen tegen haar. Net als de hooligans, die zijn ook erg gemeen tegen haar. Och och och. Hoeveel kan een mens eigenlijk hebben??

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The Colts have had a busy few weeks. After a 2-4 start, they fired longtime GM Chris Ballard. They traded eight-time All-Pro guard Quenton Nelson and defensive tackle DeForest Buckner.

The big question is how much that fire sale continues today. There’s speculation Indianapolis could trade away star running back Jonathan Taylor or quarterback Daniel Jones – or even the both of them.

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