A few months ago, a nonprofit theater company in Vermont cancelled its planned production of The Rocky Horror Show a few weeks before opening night, because of a number of factors -- the final straw being anonymous text messages such as: "Oh just you wait for rehearsal tonight. It's coming and you deserve it." But local police said this week that the threatening messages were acts of sabotage by the production's own musical director, who was having intense "difficulties with the cast and crew". "The case has been referred to the Chittenden County Community Justice Center for resolution."

F1 technical expert Mark Hughes takes a close look at the unraced McLaren MP4-18 designed by Adrian Newey – and how it has much in common with the Aston Martin AMR26.

Weer voor Rotterdam ☁️ - 04-08-2026 19:15 CEST

In één oogopslag:
• 27.0°C · Bewolkt ☁️ | Min 22.6°C / Max 33.6°C | Kans op neerslag 28%

Verwachting voor vandaag:
• Min 22.6°C, Max 33.6°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, Kans op neerslag 28%, 🧭 1011.4 hPa ↗️ +0.6 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 25.6 km/u (7.1 m/s), richting: ↗ 219°

Uurlijkse voorspelling voor de komende 12 uur:

• 20:00: 27.0°C (Zonnig) ☀️, Kans op neerslag 86%, 🧭 1010.8 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 13.0 km/u (3.6 m/s), richting: → 260°
• 21:00: 26.3°C (Zonnig) ☀️, Kans op neerslag 63%, 🧭 1011.3 hPa ↗️ +0.5 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 13.7 km/u (3.8 m/s), richting: → 250°
• 22:00: 25.4°C (Helder) 🌕, Kans op neerslag 32%, 🧭 1011.7 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 14.8 km/u (4.1 m/s), richting: ↗ 236°
• 23:00: 25.0°C (Helder) 🌕, Kans op neerslag 8%, 🧭 1011.9 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 16.2 km/u (4.5 m/s), richting: ↗ 225°
• 00:00: 24.4°C (Helder) 🌕, 🧭 1011.8 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 19.4 km/u (5.4 m/s), richting: ↗ 228°
• 01:00: 24.4°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, 🧭 1012.0 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 20.9 km/u (5.8 m/s), richting: ↗ 227°
• 02:00: 24.1°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, 🧭 1011.9 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 20.9 km/u (5.8 m/s), richting: ↗ 229°
• 03:00: 23.4°C (Helder) 🌕, 🧭 1011.8 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 20.5 km/u (5.7 m/s), richting: ↗ 236°
• 04:00: 22.8°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, 🧭 1011.8 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 22.0 km/u (6.1 m/s), richting: ↗ 243°
• 05:00: 22.6°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, 🧭 1011.9 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 17.6 km/u (4.9 m/s), richting: ↗ 239°
• 06:00: 22.2°C (Helder) 🌕, 🧭 1012.0 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 18.7 km/u (5.2 m/s), richting: ↗ 239°
• 07:00: 21.7°C (Zonnig) ☀️, 🧭 1012.1 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 16.9 km/u (4.7 m/s), richting: ↗ 237°

Voorspelling voor de komende dagen:

• woensdag 05 augustus: Min 20.4°C, Max 25.2°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, Kans op neerslag 10%, 🧭 1013.0 hPa ↗️ +1.6 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 26.3 km/u (7.3 m/s), richting: ↗ 240°
• donderdag 06 augustus: Min 18.7°C, Max 21.9°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, Kans op neerslag 3%, 🧭 1019.5 hPa ↗️ +6.5 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 19.4 km/u (5.4 m/s), richting: → 285°
• vrijdag 07 augustus: Min 15.4°C, Max 23.5°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, Kans op neerslag 7%, 🧭 1022.6 hPa ↗️ +3.1 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 7.3 km/u (2.0 m/s), richting: → 251°
• zaterdag 08 augustus: Min 16.3°C, Max 27.6°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, 🧭 1017.4 hPa ↘️ -5.2 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 12.3 km/u (3.4 m/s), richting: ← 104°
• zondag 09 augustus: Min 20.0°C, Max 29.7°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, Kans op neerslag 13%, 🧭 1011.1 hPa ↘️ -6.3 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 17.3 km/u (4.8 m/s), richting: ↗ 224°
• maandag 10 augustus: Min 17.7°C, Max 22.3°C (Licht bewolkt) 🌤️, Kans op neerslag 8%, 🧭 1017.3 hPa ↗️ +6.2 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 16.4 km/u (4.6 m/s), richting: → 268°

Details:
• 🌡️ Huidige temperatuur (om 19:15): 27.0°C (Bewolkt)
• 🤚 Gevoelstemperatuur: 26.5°C (-0.5°C)
• 💨 Windsnelheid: 13.7 km/u (3.8 m/s), richting: → 256°
• 🌬️ Windstoten: 27.7 km/h (7.7 m/s)
• 💧 Luchtvochtigheid: 46%
• 🧭 Luchtdruk: 1010.8 hPa ↗️ +0.9 hPa/3h
• 👁️ Zichtbaarheid: 33.2 km
• ☀️ UV-index: 1.1
• 🌅 Zonsopgang: 06:09 · 🌇 Zonsondergang: 21:27

Luchtkwaliteit:
• AQI: 71 🟡 (Matig)
• PM2.5: 11.2 μg/m³
• PM10: 17.0 μg/m³

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If you want to bypass AI guardrails designed to stop models from assisting with cyberattacks, you often just have to ask the right way, according to researchers from Cisco Talos. Simply claiming you own the servers you're targeting or that you're taking part in a capture-the-flag or bug bounty exercise was often enough to persuade models to cooperate. Talos researchers have been poring over prompt logs and artifacts recovered from threat-actor endpoints running tools such as Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, and Gemini to learn how suspected threat actors are abusing LLMs. The big takeaway from that "significant corpus," the researchers said in their report, is that existing guardrails offer little resistance to operators willing to reframe their requests. “We did not encounter any sophisticated encoding or techniques designed to trick the models,” Talos explained. “Most of the time it was a simple ‘I'm allowed to do this,’ and the model complied.” When guardrails did manage to get between criminals and their prizes, the researchers added, “they accomplished little.” The bulk of the report consists of examples of threat actors trying, and often succeeding, to coax AI models into assisting with malicious activity. On the "guardrails doing little" side, Talos documented numerous examples, few of which relied on particularly sophisticated techniques. Most common in the list of easy-to-accomplish guardrail hops was simply claiming ownership of equipment or infrastructure that an attacker wanted to exploit. In many cases, simply telling the AI that a target belonged to the attacker was enough, with no need to provide actual evidence of the claim. Telling an AI model that what it was being asked to do was part of a capture-the-flag or bug bounty exercise also seemed to be a common tactic. That, the researchers explained, commonly freed chatbots from their ethical constraints, allowing them to hunt for vulnerabilities and then exploit them in target systems, again without any need to validate the user’s claim that they were undertaking an exercise instead of actually trying to commit a crime. AI-assisted cybercriminals were also frequently spotted decomposing tasks across multiple sessions and files in order to evade model protections that would only engage when a broader malicious activity was detected. Others, Talos explained, succeeded at bypassing AI guardrails by adding memories, markdown files, and other system-level prompts to a chatbot in a bid to condition the AI’s persona. The researchers said that, of all the methods they examined, the most interesting to them was malicious use of a red teaming toolset known as Hephaestus, as reported by Oasis Security threat researchers in May. According to Talos, the Hephaestus framework can do everything needed to compromise a victim, through to establishing persistence, without human interaction. “In that case, actors built their platform to avoid refusals altogether by using neutral verbs instead of overtly malicious ones,” Talos said. “As a result, they were able to have considerable success with agents conducting innocuous requests without realizing the full operational context.” In other words, break an attack into decontextualized chunks, phrase each request in neutral terms, and the model may never see enough context to realize it's helping build an attack. One bright spot in all of this is that Talos’ review of AI chat artifacts suggests AI might be a force multiplier for skilled hackers, but your average script kiddie with a Claude Code account isn’t going to get very far. “Unsophisticated actors can use AI to cobble together malicious projects that technically work, but lacking the expertise to push the tools further, they end up with substandard results,” the researchers said. “By contrast, sophisticated actors have pushed the bounds of what we thought possible.” So, what does all this mean for security professionals kept up at night with fears of an AI attack on their infrastructure? You probably need to deploy AI in the same way threat actors are. “Agents are going to become a bigger part of the SOC as these volumes rise, and identifying actionable alerts will be paramount,” the Talos researchers said of the big takeaway for enterprises. “Organizations that aren't already exploring agentic capabilities to let human analysts focus on the most important alerts will soon find themselves chasing that capability.” It’s not like this is an emerging threat, either: AI is already an increasingly important part of threat actor arsenals. According to CrowdStrike, attacks by AI-enabled adversaries increased 89 percent in the past year, and the speed at which attackers are weaponizing vulnerabilities with AI has reduced practical patch windows to as little as 24 to 48 hours. You might wanna act now before your infrastructure becomes a statistic. ®

As the entire security industry descends on Las Vegas this week for Hacker Summer Camp – not one, but three conferences – attendees can count on two hot topics dominating the discussion. First, a literal hot topic: the triple-digit August heat. Second, and to no one’s surprise: agentic AI – how to govern and secure agents so they don’t go rogue and hack into other organizations’ servers (*cough* OpenAI *cough* Anthropic *cough*); what role, if any, lawmakers should play in regulating models, including open-weight and Chinese LLMs; and how the baddies are using agents for autonomous hacking operations. Plus, at one of the three (Black Hat), we expect to hear how all of the vendors' shiny new agents can solve all security woes, finding and defending against threats at machine speed and all of that. Starting with BSides Las Vegas (August 3-5): This is the smallest, most relaxed, and most community-driven event of the three. BSides is a good starter con for those just dipping their toes into Hacker Summer Camp. Its technical talks and training sessions skew hands-on and useful for practitioners – not vendors selling their wares–- and it even has a Hire Ground career-focused track centered on job hunting, interviewing, career-building, networking, and yes, using AI to remain relevant as a security professional. Black Hat (August 1-6) is the largest and most corporate of the Vegas infosec events this week, complete with a massive expo floor, a US government-heavy opening session, two keynotes, 11 mainstage presentations, and a handful of industry- and topic-specific summits, ranging from healthcare to financial threats and AI. Training days – these are the hands-on, technical courses – run through Tuesday, with all of the specialized summits also occurring on Tuesday. And while the main conference occurs Wednesday and Thursday, the opening session on Tuesday should be considered a keynote. And yes, this and the actual two official Black Hat keynotes this year, all center on AI. After the FBI, NSA, and CISA speakers and panelists all cancelled their RSAC appearances earlier this year, the feds will be out in force at the infosec industry’s other big event, beginning with Tuesday’s opening session: Cyber Power in the Age of AI. This one features the White House National Cyber Director Sean Cairncross discussing President Trump's cyber and AI strategy, joined by CISA acting director Nick Anderson, FBI cyber division assistant director Brett Leatherman, and assistant secretary of defense for cyber policy Katherine Sutton. Later, the Wednesday and Thursday keynotes tackle a mounting challenge for security teams, patch managers, and sysadmins: AI-powered vulnerability research and discovery, plus exploit generation, and how defenders can evolve and keep pace. Plus, this year’s Black Hat hosts the world-premier screening of cyberwar documentary Midnight in the War Room on Wednesday. It focuses on the psychological toll on defenders. And it features interviews with former attackers, some of whom served prison sentences, alongside high-ranking cyber officials like Chris Inglis, the first US National Cyber Director, and former CISA director Jen Easterly, who is now CEO of RSAC. Finally, camp closes with DEF CON (August 6-9), which serves up plenty of hacks and hijinx, under this year’s theme of “agency,” or self-determination. As Jake Braun, one of the creators of the first-ever Voting Machine Hacking Village at DEF CON in 2017, told us earlier this year, agency involves the human-rights community and the hacker community needing to “sit down and look at what technologies are out there today that support the preservation of human rights around the world, figuring out what we don't have, and then building those missing pieces.” Keeping with this theme, Braun, who also serves as DEF CON Franklin’s Executive Director, will also update the hacker community about this critical infrastructure security program. The Franklin project, which launched at DEF CON in 2024, enlists hackers to secure critical infrastructure. Hundreds of volunteers have helped 21 different water utilities in seven states so far. This is especially timely as attacks against US water facilities increase. With nearly 30 Villages this year, covering everything from AI to car hacking and lockpicking, there will be plenty of high-quality talks and good fun for attendees. As always, your humble vulture will be making the rounds and reporting from the events, so send tips our way, stay safe, and leave your pervert glasses at home. ®

• Swiss rider wins stage four time trial by four seconds

• Former champion Vollering trails by 14 seconds overall

The reigning world time trial champion Marlen Reusser aced the individual time ⁠trial in the Tour de France Femmes to win stage four on Tuesday and take the yellow jersey ⁠from Sigrid Haugset.

​Reusser, riding for Movistar, finished the 21km ride from Gevrey-Chambertin to Dijon in 27min 30sec, the Swiss ⁠rider taking ⁠a 14-second lead over the former champion Demi Vollering of the Netherlands in the general classification.

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Migration commissioner says scheme regularising undocumented people ‘not a good signal’ for Europe

• Explainer: Why is Ceuta a migration flashpoint?

The EU’s top official on migration has criticised Spain’s plan to regularise undocumented migrants as “not a good signal” for Europe, after an emergency meeting intended to draw a line under divisions on the Ceuta crisis.

Magnus Brunner, the European commissioner for migration, said that while the EU could not currently see a direct link between events in Ceuta and Spain’s regularisation plan, the policy was “definitely not a good signal for the rest of Europe”.

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Provocative journalist whose invective-laden columns targeting the liberal-left were laced with an ebullient humour

If the first rule of column writing is to be read and the second and third to be interesting and provocative, the journalist Rod Liddle, who has died aged 66 after a short illness, certainly met the bill.

His columns in the Sunday Times, the Spectator and the Sun, and his Saturday morning shows for Times Radio, gave his fans, mainly on the political right, all they needed to fulfil their prejudices, laced with a satirical edge and verve. He could fill the 2,500-seater London Palladium, as he once did for his conversational show.

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BBC actor Sera Cracroft says if disgraced former newsreader had won it would be hurtful to abuse survivors

The disgraced former BBC presenter Huw Edwards has been criticised after entering a Welsh poetry competition under a pseudonym.

The actor Sera Cracroft, best known for her role in the long-running BBC Welsh language soap opera Pobol y Cwm, told the BBC it would have been “catastrophic” if Edwards had won the prize, and that the “image of him being crowned in front of the nation” would be “hurtful to survivors”.

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• ‘It has gone very well, getting to know the new coach’

• Brazil winger has one year left on contract at Bernabéu

Vinícius Júnior is settling into life under the new Real Madrid manager, José ⁠Mourinho, with a smile on his face even as uncertainty swirls around the Brazil forward’s future at the Bernabéu.

The 26-year-old, who has ⁠been ​one of the linchpins of Real Madrid’s attack in recent years, gave an upbeat assessment of his second ⁠day of pre-season training under Mourinho despite speculation linking him with a possible move to Arsenal.

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BrianFagioli writes: Sandisk and SK hynix have published the first open technical specification for High Bandwidth Flash (HBF) through the Open Compute Project. HBF is designed to create a new memory tier between High Bandwidth Memory and traditional SSD storage, giving AI inference systems more near compute capacity without relying entirely on expensive HBM. The specification supports capacities up to 512GB using 8-high and 16-high NAND stacks, with bandwidth tiers ranging from about 0.4TB per second to 3.0TB per second. It also uses the UCIe chiplet interface, which could make HBF easier to integrate with CPUs, GPUs, and other accelerators. Google and Tenstorrent participated in the standardization effort, but commercial products and independent benchmarks are still missing.

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Kort, kort geleden, in een land hier heel dichtbij, was er eens een lijsttrekker van het CDA. Hij heette Henri Bontenbal en hij had het over democratisch ethos. "Wat ook nodig is" zei hij, en hij had het eerder gezegd, "is een democratisch ethos onder burgers en hun volksvertegenwoordigers." Wat hij daarmee bedoelde was: "Het is de wil en de inzet om de instituties die de samenleving en de rechtsstaat stutten, te koesteren. Zoals de vrije pers, de onafhankelijke rechtsspraak en het parlement. In daad én in woord." Wat hij daarmee natuurlijk niet bedoelde, was dat politici die vragen krijgen over hun eigen bedrijf dat geld krijgt volgens een bepaalde regeling, die moties indienen over die bepaalde regeling, antwoord moeten geven op die vragen. Dan kan iedereen wel een beetje openheid van zaken geven, en dat heeft niks met democratisch ethos te maken. Je moet immers het geheim van de laatste staat niet verklappen! 
A BIT RICH: Henk Vermeer, die zijn hele partij heeft gebouwd op belangenverstrengeling en vage contacten, die nu doet of hij braafste jongetje van de klas is

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De droogte wordt veroorzaakt door een gebrek aan neerslag in Nederland en in de stroomgebieden van de Rijn en de Maas. De zoetwatervoorraden en de kwaliteit van water nemen af, zo staat in de ‘droogtemonitor’ van deze week.

Ooit kreeg dit mini-eiland in de Stille Oceaan de naam ‘Pleasant Island’. De Duitsers veranderden de naam toen ze het eiland koloniseerden in 1888 naar Nauru. Die naam past niet bij de taal en de identiteit van het land, aldus de president van het vers hernoemde Naoero.

Using high-definition open source videos and photos from NASA and his own music, John Boswell (aka Melodysheep) created this mesmerizing eight-minute video recap of the Artemis II mission that enchanted us all back in the spring. Like all of his videos I’ve featured on KDO, this one is really well done.

See also Animated Artemis II Photos Reveal Satellites Buzzing Around Earth and Stunning Artemis II Phone Wallpapers. (via colossal)

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