Als de schappen bij de Albert Heijn leeg zijn, ben je aangewezen op je eigen noodvoorraad. Maar lang niet alle Nederlanders hebben die, ziet verslaggever Titia Ketelaar.

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PARK CITY (ANP/RTR) - De Amerikaanse president Donald Trump heeft tijdens een verkiezingsbijeenkomst gewezen naar de gewelddadige protesten in Frankrijk. Volgens Trump kan zo'n scenario zich ook in de VS voordoen als de Republikeinen niet winnen bij de tussentijdse verkiezingen van begin november. Bewijs daarvoor leverde de president niet.

In Frankrijk was de afgelopen dagen sprake van de ergste onrust in jaren, nadat enorme protesten tegen de hoge kosten van levensonderhoud en ondergefinancierde publieke voorzieningen overgingen in rellen en plunderingen. Trump zelf slaagt er maar moeilijk in om goederen en diensten in de Verenigde Staten betaalbaarder te maken.

Trump hield in Park City in Kansas een bijeenkomst voor zittend senator Roger Marshall, een Republikein die strijdt tegen de Democraat Adam Hamilton.

ARLINGTON (ANP/RTR) - De Amerikaanse minister van Defensie Pete Hegseth heeft maandag tijdens een onaangekondigd bezoek aan Israël een ontmoeting gehad met de Israëlische premier Benjamin Netanyahu. Dat meldt Axios op basis van twee ingewijde bronnen.

Het nieuws over de reis van Hegseth komt een dag nadat de Amerikaanse president Donald Trump zijn steun uitsprak voor Netanyahu bij de parlementsverkiezingen van volgende week in Israël. Het zijn de eerste verkiezingen sinds de Hamas-aanval van 7 oktober 2023.

Volgens opiniepeilingen gaat de coalitie van Netanyahu naar verwachting haar meerderheid verliezen.

Reuters kon het bezoek niet direct bevestigen. Het Pentagon wilde niet reageren, en de Israëlische ambassade in Washington reageerde niet direct op een verzoek om commentaar.

ICANN has started testing authentication schemes that will allow law enforcement agencies to make urgent requests for non-public WHOIS information – when needed to address threats to life, critical infrastructure, or child exploitation. Domain registrars collect information about their customers and in the past that data was publicly available in WHOIS records. Some domain registrars offer services that substitute their own contact details, to preserve customer privacy. In recent years, laws like GDPR mean registrars are sometimes required to hide WHOIS data. That’s fair enough but makes it hard for law enforcement to contact a domain holder if their resources are being misused – intentionally or otherwise – for purposes such as hosting malware, acting as command-and-control infrastructure for malware, or facilitating phishing. ICANN’s definition for the kind of behaviour it thinks justifies urgent requests for WHOIS info is “imminent threat to life, of serious bodily injury, to critical infrastructure, or of child exploitation.” The org has convened an Input Group on Law Enforcement Agency Authentication Mechanisms to consider the issue, and that group yesterday explained its progress during ICANN’s annual meeting in Bali, Indonesia. At this point, readers may have concerns that this proposal could allow law enforcement authorities to make inappropriate requests for WHOIS information. Several factors may ease such concerns. One is that representatives of domain registrars Namecheap and Verisign spoke during the session about the proposal, and both were supportive. Another is that the Input Group’s work is largely technical. Once it devises a mechanism to allow requests, other groups within ICANN dedicated to policy will work out acceptable use and related issues. This is the way internet governance gets done! Specialists work on their own bits of a problem and then collaborate to create a robust system that works at a technical level, is practical, and enforceable in multiple jurisdictions. How they’ll do it At this point, ICANN’s preferred approach is to use Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) so that authenticated users at law enforcement agencies can log into the governance org’s Registration Data Request Service (RDRS) and file requests to access non-public WHOIS info. ICANN is already testing this approach with the FBI and Interpol but is open to other authentication mechanisms to allow other agencies access RDRS. The Input Group’s aim is to publish a spec those agencies can conform to. ICANN will pass requests filed in RDRS to whichever registrar sold the domain. The registrar will have 24 hours to consider the request – or up to 72 hours for complex queries. Registrars will also be able to deny requests if they feel the query does not meet the urgency threshold. Register readers might worry that a colossal agency like the FBI could flood RDRS with requests from thousands of individual agents, swamping domain registries. ICANN’s plan is to avoid that by requiring law enforcement agencies to nominate certain personnel who are permitted to make requests, and to enforce that permission using a token shared during SAML handshakes. The content of that token is the kind of policy question that the Input Group expects others at ICANN to finalize later. Another issue under consideration is how to protect the identity of law enforcement workers who make RDRS requests, as ICANN feels they could become targets of harassment (or worse) if their requests to see WHOIS data include email addresses. ®

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I so badly want to try to convince all of you that this image was taken in downtown Tokyo someplace. Sadly, this is all fake. Not AI, but the scene you see is actually inside a Ramen Museum well outside Tokyo. It was designed to look like Tokyo in the 1950's. Nailed it I think.

I shot this with a fish eye to bend the reality even further.

Let me know what you think.

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Mrs Hunts Cottage, on Maria Island, Tasmania. The house was built in the early 1900's. on the site of the former, convict era, magistrates residence (1846).

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Ruby Absolum married Henry Hunt and they moved to the island in the mid-1920s. From about 1930 they lived in this cottage. After her husband became ill and her children left the island, Ruby stayed on alone from the early 1960s.
She became famous for running a pedal wireless — the only communication link between Maria Island and mainland Tasmania — sending telegrams and weather reports to Hobart. She was one of the very last permanent residents to leave the island (in 1968), just before it became a national park in 1971.

joshuark writes: Professor Christopher Marquis makes a provocative argument about business schools: "We need to abolish them." A 20-year business educator at Harvard, Cornell and Cambridge, Marquis argues in The New York Times and on LinkedIn that MBA programs sanctify profit-driven dealmaking at the expense of public life. "That's not the institution failing," he writes. "Sadly, it's the institution working." "Business school doesn't just hand out skills and a network," argues Marquis, "it quietly reshapes how people see the world, rewarding dealmaking, simplification, and optimization for financial metrics, while workers and communities become afterthoughts."

Marquis points to research suggesting that business-school-trained CEOs often benefit shareholders at the expense of workers, without delivering measurable improvements in company performance... "[W]hen a business-school-trained CEO takes over a firm, wages fall and labor's share of income drops, with no gain in productivity," writes Marquis. "In both the U.S. and Denmark, what passes for the 'managerial skill' of business-school graduates turns out to be a transfer of wealth away from workers and toward shareholders. Students deserve better than a machine that narrows their sense of what's possible."

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