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DEN HAAG (ANP) - De politie heeft deze week servers offline gehaald waarop criminelen misbruik konden maken van IP-adressen van burgers en bedrijven, een zogeheten proxydienst. Een speciaal team van de eenheid Noord-Holland deed onderzoek naar een wereldwijd netwerk van bijna 178.000 apparaten die hiervoor zouden worden gebruikt. Honderden daarvan stonden in Nederland.
Vaak worden verouderde apparaten zonder goede beveiliging gehackt voor zo'n proxydienst en vervolgens te huur aangeboden. Gebruikers kunnen via deze apparaten verbinding maken met internet zonder dat de eigenaar van het apparaat dat weet. Het lijkt dan alsof hun internetverkeer afkomstig is van bijvoorbeeld een router in een Nederlands huishouden. Zo misbruiken cybercriminelen deze constructie om hun identiteit te verbergen.
Om dit te voorkomen heeft de politie de servers waarop websites en programma's van criminelen draaien, uitgeschakeld. De komende tijd volgen er mogelijk nog meer, meldt de politie.
BERGAMO (ANP) - De Spaanse wielrenner Ion Izagirre doet zaterdag met een gebroken pols mee aan de Ronde van Lombardije. De laatste klassieker van het jaar zou na een carrière van zeventien jaar de afscheidskoers vormen voor Izagirre (37), maar zijn polsbreuk na een trainingsongeval ruim een week geleden leek dat te voorkomen. "Ik wil mijn loopbaan niet op deze manier afsluiten. Daarom zie ik jullie zaterdag bij de start in Lombardije", meldde de renner via zijn ploeg Cofidis.
De ploeg was er al van uitgegaan dat het seizoen en daarmee de carrière van Izagirre erop zat. Hoogtepunten uit zijn loopbaan zijn de etappezeges in de Tour de France van 2016 en 2023.
Ook Bauke Mollema neemt afscheid in de Ronde van Lombardije. De 39-jarige Nederlander won de zware Italiaanse koers in 2019.
ROME (ANP/RTR) - Het Italiaanse lagerhuis heeft ingestemd met een omstreden hervorming van het kiesstelsel. De hervorming, waar premier Giorgia Meloni voorstander van is, vergroot volgens de oppositie Meloni's kansen op een verkiezingsoverwinning. Volgend jaar vinden weer landelijke verkiezingen plaats.
De hervorming zorgt voor een kiesstelsel met evenredige vertegenwoordiging. Het garandeert ook met een zogeheten zetelbonus dat een alliantie met meer dan 42 procent van de stemmen een meerderheid krijgt.
Eerder werd twee derde van het parlement gekozen via evenredige vertegenwoordiging. De rest werd gekozen via een districtenstelsel. Volgens analisten was dit voordelig voor de oppositie.
Hoewel Meloni's rechtse regering vier jaar aan de macht is, loopt haar coalitie in de peilingen achter op de oppositie. Meloni zegt zelf dat de hervorming leidt tot een grotere kans op een stabiele regering.
SHANGHAI (ANP) - Botic van de Zandschulp heeft met enige moeite de tweede ronde bereikt in het masterstoernooi van Shanghai. De 31-jarige tennisser won van de Spanjaard Daniel Merida in drie sets: 1-6 6-3 6-4.
Van de Zandschulp, de nummer 41 van de wereld, was in de eerste set kansloos tegen de Spaanse nummer 44 van de wereld, die sterk serveerde. In de tweede set herpakte de Nederlander zich en via twee breaks won hij de set. In het derde bedrijf nam Van de Zandschulp meteen afstand door een dubbele break. Hij moest nog wel een break terug van Merida toestaan, maar wist de partij op eigen service uit te spelen.
De Amerikaan Alex Michelsen is zijn volgende tegenstander.
Van de Zandschulp speelde in China ook de toernooien van Chengdu en Beijing. In Chengdu strandde hij in de tweede ronde, in Beijing werd hij al in de eerste ronde uitgeschakeld.
Manchester City’s chair is key to the project of making Abu Dhabi a secure world power but his next move may be the sale of the club
No one better understands the precarious tightrope Abu Dhabi walks when it tries to balance its relationships with western Europe while weighing the complex geopolitics of the Gulf region than Manchester City’s chair, Khaldoon al-Mubarak. He was eight when his father, ambassador Khalifa Ahmed Abdel Aziz al-Mubarak, left the family Paris apartment for work on 9 February 1984 and was assassinated on the street in cold blood by a Palestinian terrorist.
And no one outside the emirate’s royal family could be more wrapped up in the project of making and maintaining Abu Dhabi as a significant and secure world power and the dominant member of the United Arab Emirates, a nation state still only 55 years old. His paternal grandfather, Ahmad Bin Abdul Aziz al-Mubarak, was chair of Abu Dhabi’s Sharia judicial department and senior adviser to Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan al-Nahyan, the founding president of the UAE. As such, Ahmad Bin Abdul Aziz was the James Madison of the UAE (the founding father, not the Spurs player) in that he crafted the Islamic legal framework of the new nation in the 1970s.
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Continue reading...Recent death of 87-year-old woman likely to focus attention on crisis in run-up to general election at end of November
Even before María del Carmen Abascal died on Wednesday night, a mere fortnight after her eviction from the Madrid flat where she had lived for most of her life, the frail 87-year-old woman had become the enduring face of Spain’s housing crisis.
Her plight – and the wider issue it embodied – had led to street demonstrations, the creation of a protest camp in the middle of the Spanish capital, and spurred the socialist-led government to propose emergency measures to facilitate and protect access to housing. When rightwing and far-right parties voted down those measures in congress last week, the prime minister, Pedro Sánchez, responded by announcing a snap general election for the end of November.
Continue reading...Offences targeting Muslims increased most in 12 months to March – up 15% – while antisemitic hate crimes rose by 10%
Racially and religiously motivated offences have reached record highs in the UK, as the government’s main Islamophobia partner says attacks on mosques are increasing in severity.
New Home Office figures show police recorded 146,825 hate crimes in the year ending March 2026 – a rise of 7% in the past year. Offences targeting Muslims increased the most – up 15%, from 4,479 to 5,132 – while antisemitic hate crimes rose by 10%, from 2,874 to 3,162.
Continue reading...Ape Sh*t, a new zine by writer and designer Carrie McLaren, looks at the ways monkeys and apes have communicated to humans that they’re individuals too
Zines have always lent themselves to weird and wonderful topics, from sci-fi reflections to punk fanzines to radical political tracts. The underground, often homemade publications have offered readers and writers a way to throw themselves into niche topics since long before the internet.
For Carrie McLaren, a veteran zine maker, the latest topic of choice is admittedly “bizarre”, disturbing and darkly funny: the tortured relationship between humans and monkeys.
Continue reading...As summer fades and our social and dining habits adapt to the cooling weather, so, too, should the white wine we drink. Here are some options best-suited to the season
The wine world is full of clubs, and I’m a member of the Just-Drink-What-You-Bloody-Like club, which makes even the thought of white wines for autumn and winter feel uncomfortably prescriptive. But, for me, as the nights draw in, there’s less standing, more sitting; less chugging, more swirling; fewer sprightly aperitifs, more wine with seasonal food that demands a little more body and complexity. After months of saying yes to rosé, I’m choosing wine with more intention – it’s time to hunker down.
I’m looking for whites that are like a good cardigan, at once coddling and breathable. I want ripeness, body and freshness, and the Atlantic-influenced wines of Galicia in northern Spain – a place that’s no stranger to wind and rain – deliver. Expressive, with a saline edge, albariño from the Rías Baixas appellation has become ubiquitous in supermarkets and rarely disappoints (try Aldi’s Specially Selected one at £8.99), neither does the fuller-bodied godello from nearby Valdeorras (the Wine Society’s Exhibition range offers a good one for £14.95), while the blend of both those grapes and other local varieties from Galicia’s Ribeiro DO in today’s pick is a cool-climate humdinger for the colder months.
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Samsung Electronics expects third-quarter revenue to more than double and operating profit to reach nearly nine times last year's level as the AI infrastructure boom fuels demand for memory. The South Korean company is among the major memory manufacturers benefiting from demand for chips used in datacenter servers and GPUs. Although Samsung will not report its full earnings until the end of this month, its guidance puts sales at between ₩194 trillion and ₩196 trillion (about $145 billion) for the quarter ended September 30, 2026. This is more than double the ₩86.1 trillion ($63 billion) for the same period last year. The company expects operating profit of between ₩107.3 trillion and ₩107.5 trillion (about $80 billion), compared with just ₩12.2 trillion ($9 billion) for Q3 2025, roughly 8.8 times last year's figure. Samsung's brief guidance note does not break down performance by business division. Demand for memory, including high-bandwidth memory (HBM) used alongside AI processors, is likely to be a major contributor. The demand for DRAM and NAND for AI applications is driving profits across the semiconductor industry. Analyst Gartner forecast that the sector as a whole will bring in $1.6 trillion during 2026, almost double the revenue seen in 2025. Rival chipmaker Micron posted similar gains last week, and the other Korean memory giant, SK hynix, will likely have the same story to tell when it discloses its own quarterly figures later this month. The boom is proving costly for buyers of everyday electronics. Memory manufacturers' shift towards more lucrative AI products is squeezing supplies for PCs, smartphones, and other devices, driving up component prices. As The Register previously reported, rising component costs are pricing budget PCs out of the market. US sales in that bracket fell 18.7 percent year-on-year in the first quarter, while average PC selling prices were forecast to rise by up to 12 percent by December. Smartphone makers face similar pressures, with budget devices becoming increasingly difficult to produce profitably. Samsung warned earlier this year that it expected the memory supply crunch to deepen in 2027 and potentially persist through 2028, leaving buyers with little to smile about. ®
