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SAN FRANCISCO (ANP/BLOOMBERG) - De Amerikaanse creditcardmaatschappij Visa schrapt ongeveer 2600 banen. Dat meldt Bloomberg op basis van een interne memo van topman Ryan McInerney, die het persbureau heeft ingezien. De baas van het bedrijf wil Visa efficiënter maken in de steeds heviger concurrentiestrijd binnen de betalingssector.

De banenvermindering komt neer op ongeveer 7 procent van het personeelsbestand en treft met name de technologie- en productteams, meldt McInerney. Het is nog onduidelijk op welke plekken de banen verdwijnen.

"Ik ben er helemaal van overtuigd dat we hiermee het juiste doen voor Visa, onze klanten en onze partners, terwijl we blijven focussen op het vergroten van de efficiëntie binnen het hele bedrijf", schreef hij.

Visa had aan het einde van het vorige boekjaar ongeveer 34.100 werknemers, meer dan drie keer zoveel als tien jaar geleden. Veel fintech-concurrenten hebben de afgelopen maanden nog grotere banenreducties aangekondigd, waaronder PayPal.

AMSTERDAM (ANP) - De politie in Amsterdam-West heeft dinsdagmiddag bij de Nierkerkestraat de omgeving afgezet en meerdere gebouwen ontruimd. In een auto die crashte na een politieachtervolging zit mogelijk explosief materiaal, meldt de veiligheidsregio.

De inzittenden van de auto zijn gevlucht. De politie is naar deze verdachten op zoek.

KUMAMOTO (ANP) - Na een explosie in een winkelcentrum in de Japanse zuidelijke regio Kumamoto zijn mogelijk nog twintig tot dertig mensen in het gebouw aanwezig. Volgens de Japanse staatsomroep NHK zijn zij onbereikbaar. Eerder op dinsdag vond er een zware aardbeving plaats in het gebied.

Volgens Japanse media is de tweede verdieping van het gebouw een uur na de aardbeving ingestort. Op beelden is veel schade te zien. Hulpdiensten lieten eerder weten ervan uit te gaan dat er doden zijn gevallen. Volgens de eigenaar van het Aeon-winkelcentrum vond de explosie plaats nadat medewerkers en klanten waren geëvacueerd uit het gebouw.

De aardbeving had een kracht van 7 op de Japanse Shindo-schaal. Dat is het hoogst mogelijke. Bij deze sterkte kunnen mensen moeite hebben met blijven staan en kunnen gebouwen instorten.

De totale schade wordt nog in kaart gebracht. Volgens premier Sanae Takaichi zijn er meerdere gebouwen ingestort en zijn er branden ontstaan. Ook is er schade aan wegen en bruggen.

Viral video apparently shows a Saltburn 2nd XI fielder clicking his fingers to mimic a batter’s nick

The ball is bowled, the batter plays a shot and it’s caught by the wicketkeeper to cheers all round. The batter is clearly bemused. Did he hit it? Or … did a fielder click his fingers to mimic a nick?

A row has erupted in the normally friendly, if ultra-competitive, world of English club cricket after footage went viral of alleged cheating. Australian cricket will always have Sandpapergate. The North Yorkshire and South Durham Cricket League now has clickgate – or, as it has been christened online, “Clicky Ponting” – a play on the name of the former Australian captain Ricky Ponting.

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Now 30, Holland is back as the vexed webslinger in a sometimes shocking, occasionally sluggish new instalment opposite his Odyssey castmate

Just a few weeks ago, Tom Holland was telling us that his role as Telemachus in Christopher Nolan’s Odyssey was his “last chance to play a boy”. Well, Holland is back as the supposedly scrappy, gawky, arachnid young superhero Spider-Man. Not Spider-Boy admittedly, and these days Holland is actually a chunkier and more stacked Spidey than previously, flexing some pretty serious biceps. He is maturing in the role. But is the role maturing with him?

The point is that this film is a reset. At the end of the last movie Spider-Man: No Way Home, courtesy of Dr Strange’s colossal psychic powers – which might have come in handy in this episode incidentally, part of the narrative-universe inconsistency that you just have to overlook – Peter Parker was able to erase everyone’s knowledge that he is, in fact, Spider-Man, and that includes his goofy best friend Ned Leeds (Jacob Batalon) and more to the point, the love of his life MJ (Zendaya).

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Open-source questions stir frank discussion – and both sides have clear economic incentives for where they land

Hello, and welcome to TechScape. This week we’ll be looking at a debate over the future of artificial intelligence that’s dividing the tech industry, as well as how the European Union gave Google a slap on the wrist for anti-competitive behavior. And we’ll also catch you up on the avalanche of lawsuits accusing social media companies of getting young people addicted to their products.

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The goal of this page is to provide a brief, preliminary description of some Gen Z constructions that YGDP researchers are currently investigating. The judgments on this page are mostly from the respective researchers' own intuition; little to no data has been formally collected as of yet.

De distributiecentra van Wildberries zijn sinds kort doelwit van Oekraïense drone-aanvallen. De Russische retailer krijgt twintig miljoen bestellingen per dag. Maar vormen de opslaglocaties van een webwinkel een legitiem militair doelwit?

Hugging Face rebuilt around a third of its infrastructure from clean images as part of a sizable cleanup effort following the OpenAI security mishap earlier this month. The revelation is among several additional details disclosed in a postmortem published Monday by the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA), with input from Hugging Face. It adds color to the picture painted by the two AI companies in recent weeks. According to the report, the Hugging Face team struggled to discern genuine rootkit code from capture-the-flag (CTF) benchmark code, and in cases where there was any doubt, they rebuilt the system. OpenAI's agents peppered CTF benchmark code artifacts across Hugging Face's infrastructure throughout the attack, which defenders say closely resembled evidence of rootkits. In many cases, tearing down clusters was the safest available option for containing the attack. Hugging Face's own incident disclosure offered some details about how it was forced to dismantle these clusters, but this week's report illustrates the scale of the job for the first time. The CSA report also reveals that the attack led to the agent accessing three partial datasets containing CyberGym solutions via a private Hugging Face repo. OpenAI's original disclosure explained that the purpose of the exercise-gone-wrong was to measure its models' cyber capabilities, and it attempted to do so by running the ExploitGym benchmark, although it was not told that cheating was disallowed in its underspecified prompt. The models, GPT-5.6 Sol and another that's currently undisclosed, with their guardrails removed, escaped their sandbox – as claimed by OpenAI – and tried to steal CyberGym data from Hugging Face's private repos that could inform them how to ace the ExploitGym benchmark test. In pursuit of the test answers, the models reportedly chained vulns in the dataset processing pipeline to achieve remote code execution on a processing worker, before hoovering up cloud and cluster credentials over the course of four days. CSA's report, authored by CISOs, noted that two days were spent on reconnaissance, followed by a day of quiet, and the final fourth day involved "intense activity." It went on to clarify that Hugging Face detected and contained the attack, and began investigating it, before OpenAI made contact, lending credence to a recent Reuters report citing co-founder Thomas Wolf and others suggesting it took OpenAI a week to discover what happened. Wolf and other Hugging Face insiders reportedly confirmed that the attack first started on July 11, but the two companies only began talks on or around July 20. OpenAI said there were several inaccuracies in Reuters' reporting but did not specify what these were. Neither Hugging Face nor OpenAI, in their respective disclosures, themselves dated nearly a week apart, included a timeline of events, although Hugging Face is reportedly working on releasing one. Field notes Hugging Face told CSA that it was clear the attack was being carried out by an autonomous agent. Several indicators pointed to non-human work, including multiple instances of nonsensical behavior intertwined with highly advanced work. For example, it was not uncommon to see agents repeating processes that already resulted in a positive outcome. CSA said this could be a sign of parallel workers failing to coordinate with one another, or of context becoming lost or stale. The agents' opsec was poor too. In many cases, they left behind keys used to encrypt files. This contributed to a noisy picture of the attack, complicating the cleanup, although leaving behind encryption keys made some forensic activities easier, the report notes. Hugging Face also observed thousands of lines of incoherent text in activity logs, further pointing to agentic work, as well as indicators of clumsy behavior and inefficient routes along the attack path. Further, highly sophisticated attacks were often followed by "malformed or pointless commands," Hugging Face reported. The CISOs' perspective The main takeaway for defenders is to expect more of these types of issues to arise, according to CSA, which in the report lists a number of recommendations to prepare for future engagements. While the Hugging Face attack is "an extreme example," AI agents exhibiting rogue behavior is, we're told, a common theme – the standard, not the exception. "Agents will do what they need to achieve the assigned objective, and time and time again we see them doing so in creative and unexpected ways," the report claims. "Defenders need controls to limit their own agents from causing damage to themselves and others," it adds, pushing the focus on constraining the agents themselves instead of fretting over building a perfect defense. Because agents can persist in pursuing their objectives, given enough time they may exploit whatever weaknesses are available to achieve them, which means ensuring they cannot escape their environment, especially in tests that involve removing their guardrails. Defenders should also adapt their internal processes to be able to respond at close to machine speed, CSA's report says, citing Hugging Face's own determinations after the OpenAI gaffe. Using coding agents and cybersecurity-specific models to help with tasks such as forensically analyzing system logs, even in cases like Hugging Face's, in which none of the "best" ones were playing ball, can help teams mitigate attacks far quicker, and they should form an essential part of the modern responder's toolkit. Defenders are also encouraged to plant fake identities and credentials around the organization's environment. As current models struggle to differentiate valid credentials or systems from honeypots, CSA says dispensing these at scale can help to slow agentic cyberattacks and trigger high-confidence alerts to malicious activity. ®

Arizona State University has launched a 120-credit bachelor's degree in content creation that teaches video, podcasting, branding, analytics, media law, and social strategy. For their capstone, students are "expected to build a real social media account and demonstrate audience growth during the program," reports Dexerto. From the report: The Content Creation BA is housed within ASU's Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication and appears in the university's 2026-2027 course catalog. The 120-credit-hour degree prepares students to become "an influencer and strategic storyteller" by teaching video production, podcasting, personal branding, audience analytics and social media strategy. The program was approved by the ASU University Senate in March 2026. Its proposal said graduates would be prepared to work independently as influencers and content creators across livestreaming, videography, writing, podcasting, graphics and emerging media.

[...] For the program's final project, students will choose a social media platform, such as TikTok, create a content and growth strategy, and attempt to gain real followers throughout the semester. "They will have demonstrable audience growth," [explained Jessica Pucci, senior associate dean at the Cronkite School]. "They will have a platform of their choice with real content and real followers and a real audience behind them." The curriculum includes courses titled How to Become an Influencer, On-Camera Presence, Introduction to Editing, Videography, Podcasting and Audio Storytelling, Social Media Foundations and The Digital Audience.

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We weten soms ook niet meer hoeveel dubbele bodems de spiegelhal van 'de Palestijnse zaak' inmiddels heeft, maar deze demonstratie (beelden via @EppoTjuchem) vond zondagavond dus plaats in Utrecht tegen de deelname van Israëlische studenten aan een internationale DEBATWEDSTRIJD. "Het debatkampioenschap wordt van 26 juli tot en met 1 augustus georganiseerd door Dutch EUDC 2026. Aan het toernooi doen 551 studenten uit 33 landen mee, onder wie 93 studenten van Israëlische universiteiten." Ja want kijk weet je als je IETS niet moet willen is het een debat en al helemaal met de joden want het blijft een juristenvolk en dat kan je van die third worldist vlagverbranders nou niet bepaald zeggen.

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