Dmitry Medvedev, Russia’s former president and current Security Council deputy chairman, had earlier said that production facilities in the Czech Republic were “potential targets for the Russian armed forces.”

ROTTERDAM (ANP) - De rechtbank in Rotterdam heeft vrijdag de 25-jarige Sendric S. veroordeeld tot veertien jaar cel en tbs met dwangverpleging voor drie moorden in de Rotterdamse wijk IJsselmonde.

S. schoot in december 2024 en januari 2025 in minder dan twee weken drie mannen dood, op straat. De slachtoffers waren 58, 63 en 81 jaar oud. Hij zegt dat hij in opdracht van stemmen heeft gehandeld. "Alle drie slachtoffers liepen nietsvermoedend over straat. De moorden zijn zinloos en voor de nabestaanden nauwelijks te bevatten. Ze moeten hun geliefde voor altijd missen", zei de rechtbankvoorzitter.

S. is ook veroordeeld voor een steekpartij in juni 2024 in de Mauritsstraat in het centrum van Rotterdam, waarbij hij een 37-jarige man ernstig verwondde.

Het Openbaar Ministerie had een gevangenisstraf van twintig jaar en tbs met dwangverpleging geëist.

AMSTERDAM (ANP) - Het Openbaar Ministerie (OM) heeft de aangiftes die zijn gedaan tegen twee verschillende campagnevideo's van Forum voor Democratie (FVD) geseponeerd. In totaal ging het om vier verdenkingen.

Het gaat om een video over non-binaire en transgender personen en om een video over asielzoekers waarin de partij aandacht vraagt voor de mogelijke gevolgen van de Spreidingswet. De eerste video is in november 2023 gepubliceerd op het Instagram-account van Forum voor Democratie. De tweede video is op meerdere dagen rond de verkiezingen in 2024 uitgezonden in de Zendtijd voor Politieke Partijen.

De boodschap in deze video is voor verschillende uitleg vatbaar. Het OM was eerst van mening dat de video overduidelijk beledigend en haatzaaiend was, maar is daar na een nieuwe beoordeling niet zeker meer van. De video kan ook anders worden uitgelegd. Het OM heeft daarom besloten FVD daarvoor niet te vervolgen.

De rechter heeft veertien jaar cel en tbs opgelegd aan Sendric S. voor de drievoudige moord in Rotterdam-IJsselmonde. Hij schoot in december 2024 en januari 2025 in twee weken tijd drie willekeurige mannen op straat dood.

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Departing PM Viktor Orbán admits ‘political era has ended’ as EU says ‘clock is ticking’ to resolve important issues

EU officials have arrived in Budapest for high-stakes talks aimed at reshaping the bloc’s strained relationship with Hungary, weeks before the new government takes office, as the country’s departing prime minister, Viktor Orbán, admitted a “political era has ended” and suggested he would stay on as leader of his party in his first interview since the election.

Speaking to the pro-government outlet Patrióta, Orbán described Sunday’s election as an “emotional rollercoaster” after the opposition Tisza party won a landslide victory, bringing an end to his 16 years in power.

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Police say officers found discarded items in area after group claimed to have targeted embassy with drones

Police have said they are investigating a security incident near the Israeli embassy in London after officers found a number of discarded items in the area.

A statement said Counter Terrorism Policing London was aware of a video shared online overnight in which a group claimed to have targeted the embassy with drones carrying dangerous substances.

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Adult video platform to sell minority stake to increase stability after death of its founder Leonid Radvinsky

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OnlyFans, the UK adult video platform, is in talks to sell a minority stake to a US investor that will value the business at more than $3bn (£2.2bn).

The London-based company is in advanced talks to sell a stake of less than 20% to the San Francisco-based investment firm Architect Capital, according to the Financial Times. Sources familiar with the process confirmed the talks to the Guardian.

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The Keeper by Tana French; The Kindness of Strangers by Emma Garman; Mrs Shim Is a Killer by Kang Jiyoung; A Killer in the Family by Amin Ahmad; The Drowning Place by Sarah Hilary

The Keeper by Tana French (Viking, £16.99)
The final book in French’s Cal Hooper trilogy sees the retired Chicago detective drawn into a power struggle for the future of the small Irish town he has made his home. Ardnakelty is a place where everyone is interconnected, with grudges and loyalties lasting for generations, and Hooper, now engaged to local widow Lena and mentor to 16-year-old Trey, is becoming a part of its fabric. When the body of Rachel Holohan, girlfriend of the son of local bigshot Tommy Moynihan, is recovered from the river, the consensus is suicide, but Trey convinces Hooper to investigate. Tommy doesn’t like people interfering in his business, especially when it emerges that Rachel was concerned about his plans for the town. An immersive, slow-burn of a book, as much about the march of time and the inevitably changing nature of Irish rural life as it is about solving a crime, The Keeper is dense, compelling and superbly atmospheric.

The Kindness of Strangers by Emma Garman (Virago, £20)
Set in a Chelsea boarding house in 1953, Garman’s debut novel opens with Jimmy Sullivan – who “wore spiv’s shoes and spoke in unmistakable Cockney tones” – bleeding to death under the dispassionate gaze of the landlady and her lodgers. The big Victorian house, presided over by bohemian literary widow Honor Wilson, is home to a debutante fallen on hard times, a wannabe writer, a young cinema usher with social aspirations, and a Jewish poet who managed to escape Hitler but lost his wife and child in the process. All have secrets, but none more than Honor herself, and the arrival of Jimmy, who claims to be the son of an old family retainer, threatens them all. This is not only an excellent mystery, but an evocative portrayal of a group of people displaced socially and geographically by war and its aftermath, with the moral and topographical landscape of 1950s London superbly rendered.

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Janneke Vreugdenhil deelt een recept voor gnocchi en dat is ook nog ergens goed voor, nu een duizelingwekkende hoeveelheid aardappelen in Nederland ongegeten blijft.

Weer voor Rotterdam ☁️ - 17-04-2026 13:15 CEST

In één oogopslag:
• 19.0°C · Bewolkt ☁️ | Min 11.4°C / Max 19.8°C | Kans op neerslag 1%

Verwachting voor vandaag:
• Min 11.4°C, Max 19.8°C (Lichte motregen) 🌦️, Neerslag 0.3 mm, Kans op neerslag 1%, 🧭 1021.0 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 13.3 km/u (3.7 m/s), richting: ↗ 207°

Uurlijkse voorspelling voor de komende 12 uur:

• 14:00: 19.5°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, Kans op neerslag 6%, 🧭 1021.2 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 13.0 km/u (3.6 m/s), richting: ↑ 199°
• 15:00: 19.4°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, Kans op neerslag 5%, 🧭 1021.1 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 13.3 km/u (3.7 m/s), richting: ↗ 221°
• 16:00: 19.8°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, Kans op neerslag 2%, 🧭 1020.7 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 12.2 km/u (3.4 m/s), richting: ↗ 224°
• 17:00: 19.2°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, 🧭 1020.5 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 13.3 km/u (3.7 m/s), richting: ↗ 231°
• 18:00: 18.4°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, 🧭 1020.7 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 10.4 km/u (2.9 m/s), richting: → 261°
• 19:00: 18.0°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, 🧭 1020.8 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 9.7 km/u (2.7 m/s), richting: → 281°
• 20:00: 16.6°C (Lichte motregen) 🌦️, Neerslag 0.3 mm, 🧭 1020.8 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 8.6 km/u (2.4 m/s), richting: → 289°
• 21:00: 15.6°C (Helder) 🌕, 🧭 1021.2 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 9.0 km/u (2.5 m/s), richting: → 271°
• 22:00: 14.9°C (Licht bewolkt) 🌕, 🧭 1021.5 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 7.2 km/u (2.0 m/s), richting: → 256°
• 23:00: 14.4°C (Licht bewolkt) 🌕, 🧭 1021.6 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 7.2 km/u (2.0 m/s), richting: ↗ 245°
• 00:00: 14.3°C (Licht bewolkt) 🌕, 🧭 1021.5 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 5.4 km/u (1.5 m/s), richting: ↑ 185°
• 01:00: 13.8°C (Gedeeltelijk bewolkt) ☁️, 🧭 1021.6 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 7.6 km/u (2.1 m/s), richting: ↑ 177°

Voorspelling voor de komende dagen:

• zaterdag 18 april: Min 10.1°C, Max 13.6°C (Lichte regen) 🌧️, Neerslag 3.0 mm, Kans op neerslag 15%, 🧭 1021.5 hPa ↗️ +0.5 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 13.3 km/u (3.7 m/s), richting: → 275°
• zondag 19 april: Min 6.9°C, Max 12.9°C (Lichte motregen) 🌦️, Neerslag 0.4 mm, Kans op neerslag 20%, 🧭 1022.6 hPa ↗️ +1.1 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 17.3 km/u (4.8 m/s), richting: ↘ 335°
• maandag 20 april: Min 5.1°C, Max 12.1°C (Lichte motregen) 🌦️, Neerslag 0.5 mm, Kans op neerslag 13%, 🧭 1022.9 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 11.7 km/u (3.2 m/s), richting: ↓ 12°
• dinsdag 21 april: Min 5.4°C, Max 14.2°C (Gedeeltelijk bewolkt) ⛅, Kans op neerslag 3%, 🧭 1025.2 hPa ↗️ +2.3 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 17.2 km/u (4.8 m/s), richting: ↙ 54°
• woensdag 22 april: Min 5.4°C, Max 15.4°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, 🧭 1027.3 hPa ↗️ +2.1 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 13.6 km/u (3.8 m/s), richting: ↓ 19°
• donderdag 23 april: Min 7.3°C, Max 13.1°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, Kans op neerslag 4%, 🧭 1026.1 hPa ↘️ -1.2 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 15.1 km/u (4.2 m/s), richting: ↓ 350°

Details:
• 🌡️ Huidige temperatuur (om 13:15): 19.0°C (Bewolkt)
• 🤚 Gevoelstemperatuur: 17.0°C (-2.0°C)
• 💨 Windsnelheid: 11.9 km/u (3.3 m/s), richting: ↑ 194°
• 🌬️ Windstoten: 28.4 km/h (7.9 m/s)
• 💧 Luchtvochtigheid: 37%
• 🧭 Luchtdruk: 1021.2 hPa ↘️ -0.5 hPa/3h
• 👁️ Zichtbaarheid: 50.0 km
• ☀️ UV-index: 4.3
• 🌅 Zonsopgang: 06:40 · 🌇 Zonsondergang: 20:42

Luchtkwaliteit:
• AQI: 54 🟡 (Matig)
• PM2.5: 9.8 μg/m³
• PM10: 16.9 μg/m³

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Tie Xi Qu. In 1999, filmmaker Wang Bing used a camcorder and walked into a dying factory district in northeast China and spent two years filming what he found. The result was Tie Xi Qu: West of the Tracks - nine hours long, no narration, no score, no interviews. This is one of the most important documentaries ever made, and almost no one has heard of it. This is a fourteen minute explanation and overview by Youtube Ken D. Tie Xi Qu is banned in China. It has never been shown on Chinese television. Wang Bing's entire filmography is erased from Chinese internet as of today.

Last week, Anthropic pulled back the curtain on Claude Mythos Preview, an AI model so capable at finding and exploiting software vulnerabilities that the company decided it was too dangerous to release to the public. Instead, access has been restricted to roughly 50 organizations—Microsoft, Apple, Amazon Web Services, CrowdStrike and other vendors of critical infrastructure—under an initiative called Project Glasswing.

The announcement was accompanied by a barrage of hair-raising anecdotes: thousands of vulnerabilities uncovered across every major operating system and browser, including a 27-year-old bug in OpenBSD, a 16-year-old flaw in FFmpeg. Mythos was able to weaponize a set of vulnerabilities it found in the Firefox browser into 181 usable attacks; Anthropic’s previous flagship model could only achieve two.

This is, in many respects, exactly the kind of responsible disclosure that security researchers have long urged. And yet the public has been given remarkably little with which to evaluate Anthropic’s decision. We have been shown a highlight reel of spectacular successes. However, we can’t tell if we have a blockbuster until they let us see the whole movie.

For example, we don’t know how many times Mythos mistakenly flagged code as vulnerable. Anthropic said security contractors agreed with the AI’s severity rating 198 times, with an 89 per cent severity agreement. That’s impressive, but incomplete. Independent researchers examining similar models have found that AI that detects nearly every real bug also hallucinates plausible-sounding vulnerabilities in patched, correct code.

This matters. A model that autonomously finds and exploits hundreds of vulnerabilities with inhuman precision is a game changer, but a model that generates thousands of false alarms and non-working attacks still needs skilled and knowledgeable humans. Without knowing the rate of false alarms in Mythos’s unfiltered output, we cannot tell whether the examples showcased are representative.

There is a second, subtler problem. Large language models, including Mythos, perform best on inputs that resemble what they were trained on: widely used open-source projects, major browsers, the Linux kernel and popular web frameworks. Concentrating early access among the largest vendors of precisely this software is sensible; it lets them patch first, before adversaries catch up.

But the inverse is also true. Software outside the training distribution—industrial control systems, medical device firmware, bespoke financial infrastructure, regional banking software, older embedded systems—is exactly where out-of-the-box Mythos is likely least able to find or exploit bugs.

However, a sufficiently motivated attacker with domain expertise in one of these fields could nevertheless wield Mythos’s advanced reasoning capabilities as a force multiplier, probing systems that Anthropic’s own engineers lack the specialized knowledge to audit. The danger is not that Mythos fails in those domains; it is that Mythos may succeed for whoever brings the expertise.

Broader, structured access for academic researchers and domain specialists—cardiologists’ partners in medical device security, control-systems engineers, researchers in less prominent languages and ecosystems—would meaningfully reduce this asymmetry. Fifty companies, however well chosen, cannot substitute for the distributed expertise of the entire research community.

None of this is an indictment of Anthropic. By all appearances the company is trying to act responsibly, and its decision to hold the model back is evidence of seriousness.

But Anthropic is a private company and, in some ways, still a start-up. Yet it is making unilateral decisions about which pieces of our critical global infrastructure get defended first, and which must wait their turn.

It has finite staff, finite budget and finite expertise. It will miss things, and when the thing missed is in the software running a hospital or a power grid, the cost will be borne by people who never had a say.

The security problem is far greater than one company and one model. There’s no reason to believe that Mythos Preview is unique. (Not to be outdone, OpenAI announced that its new GPT-5.3-Codex is so dangerous that the model also will not be released to the general public.) And it’s unclear how much of an advance these new models represent. The security company Aisle was able to replicate many of Anthropic’s published anecdotes using smaller, cheaper, public AI models.

Any decisions we make about whether and how to release these powerful models are more than one company’s responsibility. Ultimately, this will probably lead to regulation. That will be hard to get right and requires a long process of consultation and feedback.

In the short term, we need something simpler: greater transparency and information sharing with the broader community. This doesn’t necessarily mean making powerful models like Claude Mythos widely available. Rather, it means sharing as much data and information as possible, so that we can collectively make informed decisions.

We need globally co-ordinated frameworks for independent auditing, mandatory disclosure of aggregate performance metrics and funded access for academic and civil-society researchers.

This has implications for national security, personal safety and corporate competitiveness. Any technology that can find thousands of exploitable flaws in the systems we all depend on should not be governed solely by the internal judgment of its creators, however well intentioned.

Until that changes, each Mythos-class release will put the world at the edge of another precipice, without any visibility into whether there is a landing out of view just below, or whether this time the drop will be fatal. That is not a choice a for-profit corporation should be allowed to make in a democratic society. Nor should such a company be able to restrict the ability of society to make choices about its own security.

This essay was written with David Lie, and originally appeared in The Globe and Mail.