Millions of Tesla vehicles are being recalled in China over the brand's hidden door handles, which regulators worry could present a danger in crashes. Minimalist door handles have long been a feature of Elon Musk's electric vehicles. However, Chinese regulators are less than impressed with the tech and demanded that Tesla, alongside other brands, update the vehicles to mitigate a perceived safety risk, in which occupants might not be able to escape a vehicle or rescuers be unable to gain access during an emergency. According to Chinese authorities, the affected vehicles "have emergency mechanical door handles that are difficult to identify and operate because their color is similar to the interior trim. "In extreme situations such as a severe collision, causing the vehicle's low-voltage system to fail, this could hinder occupants from quickly opening the doors to escape and impede rescue efforts by those outside the vehicle, posing a safety hazard." The plan is to affix warning labels (some vehicles already have them) and apply an Over-The-Air (OTA) update "to add a post-accident window lowering strategy to reduce safety hazards." Tesla is not the only car maker affected. A recall of almost 400,000 Xiaomi SU7 electric vehicles was also ordered in connection with difficult-to-see emergency mechanical door handles. China announced a ban on hidden door handles earlier this year, citing safety concerns, and has required all new models from 2027 to have mechanical interior and exterior door handles. Advances in door handle tech have crept into other manufacturers' products in recent years. Doors can be opened with a key fob or mobile phone application, or manually released. Some manufacturers hide the internal and external mechanisms behind the push of a button, which appears to have attracted the particular ire of regulators. After all, in an emergency, there might be delays in evacuating vehicle occupants when mechanical release mechanisms are not immediately obvious. In 2025, Tesla was sued over allegations that a design flaw in the company's Model S prevented the vehicle's occupants from escaping after a crash. The company has also come under scrutiny following allegations that occupants of a Cybertruck were trapped after a crash due to the door handle design. ®

As Oracle launches its Exadata service on Database@AWS — a year after it went live for lower-level databases — experts have warned there are trade-offs in getting value for money and cautioned over Oracle FUD around the cloud migration decision-making. Earlier this month, Big Red announced the general availability of Oracle Exadata Database Service on Exascale Infrastructure on Oracle AI Database@AWS, which adds the beefed-up Oracle database to the service. AWS was the last major cloud service to join the “database@” offer from Oracle, allowing the database and application biz to put its hardware inside the hyperscaler's datacenters. Announced in 2024, Oracle Database@AWS can connect to applications running on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), AWS Analytics services, or AWS's advanced artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) services, the vendor claims. The service became generally available in July last year. Oracle now says it is bringing Exadata – the engineered hardware and software platform for high-performance databases — to AWS. The dominant cloud vendor has also signed a new long-term strategic collaboration agreement to help migrate customers. Using Exadata allows customers to specify the compute and storage capacity they need, says Oracle, while spreading every database across pooled storage servers for high performance and availability, helping to avoid the burden of creating database and storage servers. However, Oracle licensing and commercial experts have warned that there are still trade-offs when adopting the service and getting value for money. While Database@AWS can be cheaper in terms of processors /CPU required than RDS, the compute and storage are more expensive and the service options are less granular, making it more difficult to right-size services, said Nick Walter, CTO and vice president of professional consulting services at House of Brick, an Oracle licensing advisory company. “The Oracle Database@AWS offerings have been a constant topic of conversation with clients in the last year. It's a complicated topic because the cost structures, minimum configurations, and licensing metrics are so different from running Oracle databases in AWS native services such as EC2 or RDS,” he said. For the database@AWS service, licensing metrics can be better than going to EC2, in that for users bringing their own licenses (BYOL), one processor license is required per 8 ECPU ratio, in contrast with the traditional one processor license per 2 vCPU ratio when running in RDS/EC2. Oracle's support rewards program can also offer good value. However, compute and storage costs for Oracle Database@AWS offerings are “much higher than traditional RDS/EC2, and the capacity isn't as granular,” Walter said. The Exadata offer helps with some of these challenges but does not eliminate them altogether. “Exascale offerings may make the Oracle Database@AWS offering attractive to organizations with smaller fleets of Oracle databases as the provisioning is very granular,” he said. While Exascale database storage costs per GB are competitive with the AWS Elastic Block Store GP3 options and offer higher I/O throughput, compute costs are higher than EC2/RDS, Walter said. “Overall the Oracle Database@AWS offerings can be attractive to license-constrained organizations that need Oracle Database deployments in the cloud. Buyers should beware though, House of Brick has seen Oracle sales reps gleefully touting possible license savings and not mentioning the downsides,” he said. Craig Guarente, founder and CEO of Palisade Compliance, an Oracle licensing advisory company, said many organizations were still bogged down by legacy agreements for Exadata machines. "Oracle has created some FUD, by saying they won't support customers on a particular cloud, [and] it's 'going to cost twice as many licenses if you just move to the generic cloud and not our services'. Oracle has created some artificial business blockers to get customers thinking about spending more money with them through these Exadata services,” he said. Hyperscalers work with Oracle on these offers because they would love to get some of the business from Oracle on-prem workloads. Oracle can also create barriers to running their generic database in the cloud that might also get customers to consider OCI. While promoting the database@AWS service, AWS is also telling customers to use its Bedrock AI to help move Oracle database applications to its PostgreSQL services. “All of the hyperscale vendors — Google, Microsoft, AWS — are on one side, and Oracle on the other. They all want to generate more revenue; if they can take Oracle revenue and make it AWS revenue, I'm sure they would want to do that. However, they're all in this weird state of cooperation with Oracle, where now they're all authorized cloud providers. They're getting on stage together, and they can't say Oracle's crazy with their licensing. There's limited stuff that both parties can say, but I've definitely seen from the sales side — pick a vendor — that the knives are out,” Guarente said. The Register has asked Oracle to comment. ®

Hij had een paar regels van Kaváfis geciteerd gezien, schreef mijn vriend, en was er door getroffen. Deze regels: „Heimwee beving hem/ naar het reizen, naar ochtendlijke/…

Als reactie op financiële sancties van de Amerikanen zegt Iran dat er „geen druppel olie” meer door de Straat van Hormuz zal varen. Toch wisten de VS de afgelopen maanden zo’n duizend schepen door de zeestraat te begeleiden.

De Zuid-Spaanse gemeente Bédar werd op 9 juli getroffen door een felle natuurbrand. Veertien mensen kwamen om het leven. Het was de dodelijkste natuurbrand in Spanje sinds de jaren tachtig. Nabestaanden hebben grote kritiek op de autoriteiten.

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En neuk de EU met zijn draconische one size fits all verpakkingsregelgeving. Eenpitters, kleine bedrijven wordt het onmogelijk gemaakt om in de EU zaken te doen simpelweg omdat ze in elk waar een product naartoe gaat ze zich moeten registreren voor een bedrag tussen de 200 en 2000 euro, per land.
Ga los in het tekstvak en vertel de oelewappers van de EU wat voor wet ze hebben aangenomen.
https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/better-regulation/have-your-say/initiatives/15352-Packaging-and-packaging-waste-rules-on-national-registers-of-producers/addFeedback_en?p_id=25704
Zie ook https://lectronz.com/u/lectronz/articles/how-europe-is-killing-makers-and-micro-entrepreneurs

It's 2026 and apparently it's not possible to enter a password containing a space in the Omada-controller software.
How is this even a thing.
#tplink #omada #crapware

AMSTELVEEN (ANP) - De hockeyers van Argentinië maken door de zege op India in de winnaarspoule met Nederland goede kans om de halve finales van het WK te halen. Argentinië versloeg India in het Wagener Stadion in Amstelveen met 5-3.

De Argentijnse hockeyers staan door de overwinning op 6 punten, net als Nederland. De Nederlandse hockeyers spelen nog tegen Engeland, dat 3 punten heeft. Oranje heeft voorafgaand aan de wedstrijd tegen Engeland een doelsaldo van +4. Argentinië staat na de zege op India op +2 en Engeland heeft een doelsaldo van 0. India is uitgeschakeld.

Nederland speelt maandag om 18.00 uur tegen Engeland.

MOSKOU (ANP/RTR) - Het Kremlin krijgt meer mogelijkheden om bedrijven over te nemen die worden gezien als cruciaal voor de Russische economische infrastructuur. President Vladimir Poetin heeft een decreet getekend waardoor de staat het bestuur over bijvoorbeeld energiecentrales, fabrieken of distributiecentra tijdelijk kan overnemen als die te slecht beschermd zouden zijn tegen Oekraïense droneaanvallen.

Oekraïne heeft de afgelopen maanden de luchtaanvallen opgevoerd op onder meer oliefaciliteiten en magazijnen van de webwinkel Wildberries. Poetin erkende vorige week dat de Russische economie lijdt onder dit soort aanvallen.

Volgens het nu getekende decreet kan de staat de controle over zowel fysieke als financiële middelen van bedrijven en fabrieken overnemen indien nodig. Dat zou niet alleen het geval zijn als de infrastructuur te slecht beschermd is, maar ook als de bedrijven niet genoeg vaart maken bij het repareren van de schade.

Wederopbouw

Poetin lanceerde vorige week ook al een overheidsprogramma voor de wederopbouw van distributiecentra die waren beschadigd door Oekraïense aanvallen. Naast de energie- en logistieksector worden in het decreet ook communicatie en transport genoemd als industrieën die van belang zijn voor de veiligheid en economische stabiliteit van Rusland.

Rusland valt andersom ook veel energiefaciliteiten in Oekraïne aan.

AMSTERDAM (ANP) - De webshop van de Bijenkorf is weer volledig beschikbaar na problemen door het datalek bij de logistieke partner CEVA Logistics eerder deze maand. Daardoor waren tijdelijk veel artikelen niet te bestellen. Daarvoor was de levertijd al flink opgelopen. Die staat inmiddels weer op twee tot vijf dagen, wat nog wel langer is dan de enkele dag van voor de problemen.

"Onze logistieke partner heeft de afgelopen weken uitgebreid onderzoek uitgevoerd en aanvullend onderzoek laten doen door een onafhankelijke partij. Naar aanleiding daarvan zijn maatregelen genomen om de veiligheid en betrouwbaarheid van de systemen te waarborgen. Dat betekent dat de webshop weer volledig in gebruik kan worden genomen", meldt de Bijenkorf.

De warenhuisketen zegt nog niet te weten of gegevens van klanten zijn gelekt. Daar loopt nog een onderzoek naar. In ieder geval de verwerking van bestellingen, retouren en terugbetalingen werd geraakt.

WASHINGTON (ANP) - De Amerikaanse importheffingen op alle auto's, vrachtwagens, auto-onderdelen en staal uit Canada worden per 1 januari verhoogd naar 50 procent. Dat stelt de Amerikaanse president Donald Trump bekendgemaakt op zijn berichtendienst Truth Social.

De twee landen slaagden er afgelopen vrijdag niet in om een handelsakkoord te bereiken. Beide partijen gaven elkaar de schuld, terwijl Canada zich voorbereidde op importheffingen op bepaalde Amerikaanse goederen als vergelding voor de hoge heffingen die Trump had ingesteld op andere Canadese producten, zoals wijn, elektrische apparatuur, hockeysticks, multiplex en cement.

"Canada heeft de Verenigde Staten jarenlang opgelicht. Hun belachelijk hoge tarieven op onze boeren en landbouwproducten hebben het leven voor deze geweldige Amerikaanse patriotten onmogelijk gemaakt en hebben al lange tijd geleid tot een tekort van 60 miljard dollar tussen onze twee landen. Dat is niet houdbaar, en DAT GEBEURT NIET MEER!", schrijft de president maandag.

This article was republished from our friends over at Court Watch. Please consider subscribing to them if you want the early scoop on what's happening in our court system, from the concerning to the bizarre. Madeleine O’Neill is a freelance reporter in Baltimore.

Hundreds of street arrests that court records show disproportionately targeted Latinos in and around New York City. Detainees shuffled across the country one day before a congressional oversight visit. A judicial emergency in the Eastern District of California.

Each of these stories came to light because of habeas corpus — a centuries-old legal writ that has become a powerful tool for freeing immigrants swept up in the Trump administration’s mass detention and deportation campaign. Because they’re public court filings, habeas corpus petitions also offer a window into the often cryptic world of immigration enforcement.

But there’s a catch. Across the country, the nearly 50,000 habeas corpus petitions filed in recent immigration cases are public records only in theory, because a 2007 court rule makes the petitions impossible to access online like most other federal court records.

The rule has hobbled attorneys, journalists, and researchers trying to gather information about arrests and detention in this unprecedented era of immigration enforcement.

“The effect is it takes much longer to get access to these records in a particular case and it makes it basically impossible to get records in a lot of these cases at once,” said Renee Griffin, a staff attorney at the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press.

“It’s a real nationwide problem,” Griffin said.

A new project called Habeas Dockets is working to counteract this roadblock with help from volunteers. According to the project’s founder, 400 people across the country have contributed court records to the site, which publishes habeas corpus filings online for anyone to read them.

Court Watch spoke with founder John Kyle Cronan, a software developer from Chicago with no legal background besides his own curiosity.

“I’m the kind of person who has a PACER account just to look at stuff sometimes,” Cronan said, referring to the federal court's online document retrieval system.

He first noticed the effect of Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 5.2(c) in April 2025, when he tried to access court documents about a group of people the federal government was trying to send to CECOT, a maximum security prison in El Salvador known for its brutal conditions. 

When Cronan tried to open the documents, he ran into the same message that greets anyone who tries to access these records online: “You do not have permission to view this document.”

A court clerk explained to Cronan that he could come in and view these public records in person at a courthouse kiosk. The courthouse was in northern Texas. Cronan was in Chicago. 

“You’ve got me there,” Cronan remembers thinking. He decided to organize a volunteer effort to make these court records accessible online. The project has become Cronan’s full-time job, and he recently started fundraising to grow the site. Cronan relies on help from law students, paralegals, and volunteer attorneys to review each filing for sensitive information that should be redacted, even though he’s not legally required to do so.

The personal details potentially contained in immigration filings are the reason why there is a limit on electronic access in the first place. The privacy rule recognizes that immigration cases, like social security cases, are particularly likely to contain sensitive information—hence the shielding.

Immigration matters are usually handled in immigration court, which is separate from the federal court system and does not allow public access to filings. In some cases, however, a person seeking asylum or other protected status might end up taking their claims to a federal judge, at which point the filings become public records.

Those papers could contain highly sensitive information about trafficking or domestic violence victims, said Daniella Prieshoff, senior managing attorney at the Tahirih Justice Center in Baltimore. Making that information easily accessible online could be dangerous for vulnerable clients, who are fearful of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, in addition to their abusers or traffickers.

“It’s not just ICE, but it’s persecutors, abusers, traffickers,” Prieshoff said. “Our clients have very realistic concerns that those individuals will be able to find them at all costs, so having that parameter of allowing access to those records, but at a physical location, … I think that sets up a boundary that helps protect survivors.”

The flood of habeas corpus petitions filed under the second Trump administration is somewhat different than typical immigration cases filed in normal times. Usually an obscure area of law, habeas corpus petitions have become an increasingly important way to challenge the legality of an immigrant’s detention as ICE holds more people in facilities that are often ill-equipped to handle them.

These petitions are often filed hastily in the hours or days after a person has been arrested. They rarely contain the contents of asylum applications or other sensitive information, but lay out the bare bones facts of the petitioner’s detention.

Cronan’s team examines habeas filings before making them available online to ensure that any personal information, such as details about a person’s fear of persecution in their home country, is redacted.

Habeas Dockets first launched a year ago and became a nonprofit, operating under the name Immigration Justice Transparency Initiative, earlier this year.

“With the return of Trump, I really feel like the issues of immigration enforcement are the worst of all of it,” Cronan said. “I feel really strongly that what they’re doing is wrong and is harming people.”

About 29,000 documents have been uploaded to the site, Cronan said, with help from a group of volunteers that includes students, retirees, working folks with flexible schedules, and attorneys.

The electronic shielding rule is essentially an artifact of the early days of the internet, and much like PACER itself, it has not kept up with the times. The rule assumes that lawyers will go to the courthouse in person to do legal research on habeas cases, which is no longer the case, Cronan said. It also prevents attorneys, journalists, and researchers from accessing cases outside their geographic area, a significant hindrance as courts across the country handle thousands of new habeas cases.

The rule also has the side effect of making it harder to scrutinize the claims the government makes in habeas cases.

“It’s convenient for them,” Cronan said. The Habeas Dockets project will serve as an archive of the legal response to the federal government’s unprecedented fast-track approach to deportation.

Even when volunteers go to courthouses in person to view habeas filings, they sometimes run into roadblocks. At some district courts, clerks allow members of the public to view immigration records at access kiosks, but don’t allow them to print the pages out. You’re also not allowed to save the files to the computer or to a thumb drive, making it impossible to share the documents. 

Habeas Dockets managed to get that policy changed in the Western District of Pennsylvania, Cronan said, but it remains a problem at four other district courts across the country. When printing is possible, Habeas Dockets reimburses volunteers for those costs from donations, Cronan said.

The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press also urged district courts to curb the electronic access restriction in a series of letters sent to the chief judges in five districts last year.

“This restriction prevents timely public access to fast-moving legal developments and impedes the ability of the press to report on critical, newsworthy matters,” RCFP wrote.

Two district courts declined, Griffin said, and others said they would send the request to their rules committee. None of the courts have acted on the request.

Niet vijf, maar zeven supporters van SC Cambuur zijn zondag gewond geraakt bij de wedstrijd tegen Feyenoord toen er vuurwerk werd afgestoken. Dat heeft de club uit Leeuwarden maandag bekendgemaakt. Cambuur doet aangifte, maar tegen wie is nog niet duidelijk. Naar de daders wordt nog gezocht. Samen met Feyenoord wordt uitgezocht wie het zijn geweest.

EU police agency says shift could point to involvement of new criminal networks focused on specific artefacts

Robberies at European museums are becoming increasingly violent, with thieves sometimes brandishing guns, assaulting staff and using sledgehammers, axes and even explosives to smash their way into buildings and display cases, according to a report by Europol.

The EU police agency said that while museum thefts were generally seen as a non-violent form of organised property crime, member states had detected a recent shift “towards violent and forceful methods” that could point to the involvement of new criminal networks focused on specific cultural artefacts.

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The special powers allow the state to assume control over the physical, financial and legal assets of facilities that fail to maintain adequate security or are slow to make repairs following attacks.