Soms haalt dorpsnieuws de landelijke kranten. Zoals het conflict op het Amsterdamse Borneo-eilandje waar een treurig boos woonbootechtpaar het voor elkaar heeft gekregen om een…

De actie werd op sociale media opgeëist door dezelfde groep die antisemitische aanslagen opeiste op een synagoge in Luik, een joodse school in Amsterdam en een synagoge in Rotterdam. Eerder arresteerde de politie ook een 17-jarige jongen uit Uithoorn.

Met de ingrediëntenlijst voorop de verpakking komt Upfront aan de wens tegemoet om precies te weten wat er in je eten zit – en het slaat aan. Inmiddels openen de oprichters winkels voor basisvoedsel. En hun ambities reiken verder.

TIVAT (ANP) - Voorzitter van de Europese Commissie Ursula von der Leyen staat open voor een "dynamischer" toetredingsproces voor landen die lid willen worden van de Europese Unie. Ze zei na de top van de EU en de Westelijke Balkan dat de wens is om hervormingen van toekomstige leden te belonen met "echte integratie" in de EU.

Ze noemde tijdens een persconferentie een paar voorbeelden, waaronder "nauwere banden" met de interne markt en toegang tot EU-programma's. De top vond plaats in Montenegro, het land dat het verst gevorderd is in het toetredingsproces. Het doel van het land om in 2028 de 28e lidstaat te worden, is volgens Von der Leyen "binnen bereik".

De Montenegrijnse president Jakov Milatović zei dat zijn vertrouwen in toetreding in 2028 is toegenomen. Hij vertelde tijdens de persconferentie dat zijn land klaar is voor de laatste fase naar EU-lidmaatschap en vertelde dat zijn land als voorbeeld wil dienen voor de andere vijf landen in de Westelijke Balkan die ook willen toetreden.

DUBLIN (ANP/AFP) - Ierland heeft een inreisverbod afgekondigd voor de Israëlische ministers Itamar Ben-Gvir (Nationale Veiligheid) en Bezalel Smotrich (Financiën). Beiden staan te boek als extreem in hun opvattingen. Premier Micheál Martin zei eerder al met maatregelen te komen tegen Israëlische functionarissen die volgens Ierland het conflict in Gaza aanwakkeren.

Tijdens een Balkantop in Montenegro zei Martin vrijdag dat de maatregel niet slechts in het licht van de behandeling van de opvarenden van de Gaza-actievloot gezien moet worden, maar ook "hun aanhoudende statements". Die komen volgens Martin "uiteindelijk neer op het verlangen om Palestijnen verdreven te zien worden uit Palestina".

Israël sloot eerder de ambassade in Dublin vanwege het vermeende "extreem anti-Israëlische beleid" van Ierland. Dat erkende in 2024 formeel een Palestijnse staat.

Ierland is niet het eerste land dat een Israëlische minister weert. Nederland, het Verenigd Koninkrijk en Frankrijk zetten die stap eerder.

DEN HAAG (ANP) - Tijdens de verhoren van volgende week moeten Mark Rutte, Dick Schoof en Wouter Koolmees voor de parlementaire enquêtecommissie corona verschijnen. Het is de tweede volle verhoorweek en deze staat in het teken van de organisatie van de corona-aanpak.

Schoof, die tijdens de pandemie secretaris-generaal op het ministerie van Justitie en Veiligheid was, is vrijdag om 10.00 uur aan de beurt. Daarop volgt het verhoor met oud-premier Rutte, die overigens twee keer voor de commissie moet verschijnen. Dat geldt ook voor oud-RIVM-directeur Jaap van Dissel, voormalig gezondheidsminister Hugo de Jonge en oud-justitieminister Ferd Grapperhaus. Van Dissel is vrijdag al voor het eerst verhoord.

De verhoorweek trapt maandag af met Hubert Bruls, sinds 2012 burgemeester van Nijmegen en tijdens corona voorzitter van het Veiligheidsberaad. Diezelfde dag wordt ook Mark Roscam Abbing, toen directeur-generaal Samenleving en Covid 19, verhoord.

Woensdag is het aan oud-ministers Tamara van Ark (Medische Zorg) en Koolmees (Sociale Zaken en Werkgelegenheid) om vragen van de commissie te beantwoorden.

DEN HAAG (ANP) - Hoe langer de coronacrisis duurde, hoe meer belangen er speelden en die hadden invloed op de politieke besluitvorming rond de coronamaatregelen. Dat zei Pieter-Jaap Aalbersberg vrijdag tegen de parlementaire enquêtecommissie corona. Hij was tijdens de coronacrisis de Nationaal Coördinator Terrorismebestrijding en Veiligheid (NCTV).

Destijds was er volgens Aalbersberg veel lobby vanuit onder meer de casino-, sport- en horecabranche. Die belangen werden geadresseerd bij de ministers en zij brachten het in bij het wekelijkse Catshuisoverleg. Aan de hand daarvan zijn volgens Aalbersberg politieke keuzes gemaakt, met name over in welke branche er versoepeld kon worden, en dat betekende tegelijkertijd dat er ergens anders minder ruimte was. De belangen van de casinobranche zijn bijvoorbeeld meegewogen bij de besluitvorming, zei Aalbersberg.

Die politieke keuzes zijn volgens de oud-NCTV transparant gemaakt, al zijn er geen notulen van de Catshuisoverleggen. Tegelijkertijd stelde Aalbersberg dat lobby nooit transparant is.

Charles Leclerc was the pacesetter during the opening practice session at the Monaco Grand Prix, the Ferrari driver leading the way from team mate Lewis Hamilton.

Formula 1 rolls on to Monte Carlo and the unique demands of the Circuit de Monaco this weekend, with plenty of teams bringing track-specific and wider upgrades for their cars – including special winglets aimed at exploiting the lack of Active Aero. But what exactly is changing, and how might it impact performance? F1.com presents an all-in-one list...

US firm says it will convene policymakers, in post detailing progress of its Claude model towards ‘recursive self-improvement’

Anthropic has floated the idea of a worldwide “temporary pause” on AI development – and said it was going to convene “policymakers” to discuss the dangers of advanced AI – in its latest release touting the capabilities of its products.

In a long post on Thursday, Anthropic detailed the progress of its AI model, Claude, towards “recursive self-improvement” – that is, being able to make better and more powerful versions of itself. Recursive self-improvement is a bugbear of AI safety researchers, viewed as the key step for AI to become superintelligent and therefore unleash widespread consequences on humanity.

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Less interested in spectacle than vibe, the Delta State artist’s subtle atmospheric projects are carving a quietly distinctive path

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Born and raised in Delta State and now based in Lagos, Strei is part of a new generation of Nigerian musicians turning away from Afropop’s extroverted certainties and towards something more inward-looking. His self-described “Afromood” sound retains the melodic instincts of contemporary Nigerian pop, but softens them into something more atmospheric and emotionally porous. There are traces of Omah Lay in his melancholic delivery, and of the late Juice WRLD in his confessional songwriting, but Strei’s music doesn’t feel like a mix of influences so much as a deliberate attempt to find emotional clarity.

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A few miles northwest of Downtown Los Angeles and Skid Row, St. Vincent Medical Center is considered one of the city’s most historical hospitals, having supported Angelenos since the 19th century. Vacant since 2020, the center is slated to become a full-service campus aimed at supporting people with addiction, mental health concerns, housing insecurity, and more. This transformation will begin in the next few months with a final target opening date in 2028 and a wholesale takeover in the meantime.

Through July 31, visitors experience an alternative vision for communal healing, all through the lens of 70 artists. Dubbed the Hospital of Emotions, the pop-up exhibition converts 80 rooms into temporary installations based on eight themes: joy, love, fear, anger, hope, sadness, compassion, and resilience. Among the participating artists are Lisa Waud, whose lush florals spill across an operating room, and Greg Corbino, who built a barren forest from cardboard.

Whatever you might feel in a medical setting is cast in immersive, mixed-media artworks, creatively tapping into the strange, exhilarating, and terrifying experience of being human. “Hospital of Emotions begins with the space itself. A hospital is where we confront fear, but also recognize what matters. Here, the building becomes a journey through human emotion—shifting the focus from treating the body to experiencing and processing emotion,” say exhibition curators from the studio House of Art and Dreams.

More than 10,000 visitors explored the hospital opening weekend, and several weekends are already sold out. Get your tickets and learn more about the project on its website.

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The U.S. military has likely been quietly broadcasting codes for its global encryption network using public GPS for nearly 20 years, turning each satellite into a hidden “numbers station,” according to Steven Murdoch, an information security expert, who detailed his findings in a new article in Inside GNSS.

That means every device that uses GPS has been receiving hidden government information for years, and nobody outside the military knew it until now. 

Murdoch, a professor of security engineering and head of the Information Security Research Group at University College London, presented evidence that a 176-bit GPS sequence labelled “Subframe 4, Page 17” is encrypted material from the Pentagon’s Over-the-Air Distribution (OTAD) network, which delivers cryptographic keys to military personnel around the world.

“I think the evidence that it's for key transmission—for use in distributing the keys for accessing the military GPS signals—is pretty strong now,” Murdoch said in a call with 404 Media. He noted that the military has “specialized receivers that have the ability to have keys loaded into them” and “presumably have the ability to decrypt these special messages.”

In his new article, Murdoch described how this “forgotten 176-bit slot in the world’s most successful navigation signal turned out to be its quietest and most consequential broadcast.”

Murdoch first spotted the sequence more than a decade ago while he was a graduate student tasked with writing a decoder for raw GPS data while working on a project funded by the European Space Agency.

“I noticed that there was this random-looking data present in the subframe,” he recalled. “I looked at the specification, and thought that was a little bit unusual. I recorded a bunch of it to look for any obvious patterns, but that wasn't the main role of the project, so we moved on.”

From the beginning, he suspected that the subframe field contained encrypted transmissions because the data was so random. “Random data is actually very unusual to get in nature,” Murdoch said. “If you see it, either it's been carefully designed to be random—but then, why is someone sending out random data?—or it's encrypted data. I thought encrypted data is by far the most likely explanation.”

He returned to the subframe on and off over the years, and solicited guesses about its content on Stack Exchange in 2023. Ahmed Kamruddin, a master’s student at UCL, developed the project further in 2025. Then, this year, Murdoch put the last pieces of the puzzle together over several weeks by analyzing open archive Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) recordings collected since 2007 and kept by GFZ Helmholtz Centre for Geosciences.  

This dataset included more than 12 million observations of Subframe 4, Page 17, yielding 3,994 unique 176-bit messages. Within this corpus, Murdoch pinpointed key-repeating “sentinels” including a pattern that appeared in February 2010 and was broadcast on and off across dozens of satellites for more than a decade. 

Murdoch discovered that this particular sentinel was transmitted by all 31 operational satellites within a window of a few hours on May 26, 2011, potentially heralding the activation of a new operational system. He confirmed that this timeline coincided with the rollout of the military’s Over-the-Air Distribution (OTAD) and the Over-the-Air Rekeying (OTAR) by cross-referencing declassified documents, including a 2015 presentation about the dates of the operation. 

“There was a perfect match between the timeline and that presentation and the change points that were automatically identified from the data,” Murdoch said. “That was the smoking gun that made me think: This is what it's for.”

These automated systems replaced the cumbersome manual distribution of cryptographic keying material, allowing military GPS receivers around the world to be rekeyed remotely through satellite broadcasts rather than through onsite procedures.

For the next 11 years, this expansive rekeying operation was overlooked in public GPS data. In 2022, the system entered a new phase, according to Murdoch’s analysis. The dominant sentinel pattern began to fade out and was replaced by new message formats, including broadcasts carrying a distinctive "TEXT" prefix that has gradually spread across the constellation. 

Murdoch isn’t sure what explains the recent transition, though it could be a possible modernization of the infrastructure or the introduction of a new protocol. But to him, the bigger takeaway is that the signals were always available for anyone willing to take a closer look, a discovery that suggests that there could be more revelations hidden for the cryptographically curious among us.

“Every receiver in the world decodes Subframe 4, Page 17,” Murdoch said in his new article. “Almost none of them have ever looked at it. The lesson generalizes: There is more to learn from the bytes already arriving at our antennas than from the bytes we wish were specified differently. The data are publicly available. The signal is overhead, twice a day, every day.” 

“Every GPS satellite is a numbers station,” he concluded. “The receivers were always listening. We just had not been.”   

The Trump Administration is using Cold War-era rules to authorize up to $500 million in funding to keep 13 coal-fired power plants going and build a coal export terminal in California. America's Department of Energy (DoE) says it is securing the funding via the Defense Production Act (DPA), which grants the president authority to use federal financial incentives to stimulate private domestic industry deemed critical to national defense. At the same time, the DoE announced that one of the advanced nuclear reactor projects it has been sponsoring has achieved criticality ahead of a July 4 deadline set by President Trump. That DPA funding includes up to $425 million for 12 projects to "expand and reinvigorate" the aging US coal power fleet, plus up to $75 million for the West Gateway Terminal Project in Oakland, California. This will be an export terminal reached by rail, capable of handling more than 10 million tons annually, which the government hopes to export to nations such as Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Vietnam, and Malaysia. The pretext for authorizing funding via the DPA is that the DoE is ensuring the US maintains the industrial capacity and energy resources it needs to strengthen national security. Those projects chosen are intended to keep domestic coal mining alive and support reliable baseload power generation to boost the resilience of critical energy infrastructure, the DoE said. The coal industry in America has been declining for decades. It delivered 578 million tons in 2023, less than half the amount produced in 2008 when coal production peaked, according to figures from the US Energy Information Administration. And according to a report from the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), it was largely due to natural gas becoming cheaper, rather than green energy rules or clean air legislation, while solar and wind have also proved a competitive threat to coal. But the recent AI-driven datacenter build boom has pushed electricity demand upwards after years of stagnation, prompting coal-fired plants to stay online rather than retire. A group of environmental nonprofit organizations warned earlier this year that coal plants in America emit pollutants such as sulfur dioxide (SO2) and nitrogen oxides (NOx), both threatening human health, in addition to the greenhouse gases belched out. The DoE is at least pushing ahead with new nuclear reactor technology. One of its advanced reactor designs, the Mark-0 from Antares Nuclear, has successfully completed what the agency calls a zero-power fueled criticality demonstration at the Idaho National Laboratory. This is basically a test running a controlled, self-sustaining chain reaction, but with no electricity generation involved, simply to show that the reactor can operate safely. Perhaps the reason for the announcement is that Energy Secretary Chris Wright promised in an interview with Bloomberg last year that at least one small nuclear reactor project would be online by July 2026. Sustaining a test chain reaction doesn’t really count as online in our book, but we’ll let that pass. The DoE said the Mark-0 is the first of multiple advanced reactors anticipated to go critical by July 4, the 250th anniversary of the US Declaration of Independence. “It is fitting that on the eve of our nation’s 250th anniversary, we are witnessing a historic moment for American energy,” Secretary Wright commented. “For the first time in more than four decades, a new privately developed non-light-water reactor has reached criticality in the United States.” The DoE announced the Nuclear Reactor Pilot Program last June, and in August disclosed a list of ten companies it has accepted to take part, including Antares Nuclear. In other news, the department also trumpeted that Japan is officially joining the Trump Administration’s Genesis Mission, billed as a national effort to use AI to drive scientific discoveries. Japan's RIKEN scientific research institute and Fujitsu began working with Argonne National Laboratory (ANL) and Nvidia to build the compute infrastructure for Genesis back in January, but now the DoE says that Japan and the US are both contributing $500 million each to the project. The move makes Japan the first, and so far only, international partner on Genesis. ®

ZTE Corporation today showcased its pioneering achievements in digital transformation and AI-driven project management at the 14th IPMA Research Conference in Bogotá, Colombia. During the conference, Wang Yuzhu, Managing Director of Engineering Services at ZTE Colombia, and Jose Perez, Senior Expert in Engineering Delivery Management at ZTE, delivered a keynote speech themed "The Digital and Intelligent Future of Project Management", highlighting ZTE's practical experiences and innovative achievements in global project delivery. To address the evolving challenges of global project delivery, ZTE has developed a digital project management system tailored for complex international scenarios. Built on the "One Team, One System, One Mechanism" tripartite architecture, this system, powered by ZTE’s iEPMS (Intelligent Engineering Project Management System), enables comprehensive management across the entire project lifecycle—spanning planning, cost control, quality assurance, risk mitigation, and resource allocation. Through digital, automated, and intelligent management approaches, the system significantly enhances project management efficiency and precision. On the intelligence front, ZTE is driving the deep integration of AI with project management. By deploying Optical Character Recognition (OCR), AI Agents, Large Language Models (LLMs), and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) for knowledge enhancement, ZTE has automated key workflows such as quality reviews, design generation, risk analysis, and reporting. These innovations have yielded outstanding operational benefits: the accuracy of AI-powered quality reviews has reached 98%, and the time required to generate project reports has plummeted from 180 minutes to just 5 minutes, significantly improving delivery efficiency and governance capabilities. ZTE’s digital delivery achievements are backed by its extensive global footprint and rich network service expertise. Globally, ZTE has delivered over 240,000 projects, deployed over 7 million base stations and over 240,000 kilometers of optical cables, while managing and maintaining over 510,000 kilometers of network cabling. By continuously automating processes and building an intelligent tool ecosystem, ZTE has achieved a 65% reduction in acceptance costs, an 85% drop in site re-entry rates, and a 2.5-fold improvement in network activation efficiency, creating tangible value for global customers. ZTE also showcased several global benchmark case studies at the conference. In Ecuador’s RAN network project, ZTE integrated its intelligent platform with over 50 Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) to achieve a seamless, "zero-user-perception" migration during network handovers. Additionally, ZTE’s digital project management solutions have been widely deployed in Colombia across diverse projects, including lithium battery installations, solar energy, microwave, FTTH, and DWDM networks. Centered on the theme "Project Management Practice in a Disruptive Era: Integrating Technology, Innovation, and Sustainability", this landmark event gathered experts from over 50 countries. Across key thematic tracks including AI & innovation, project manager 5.0, and sustainability & purposeful management, attendees explored how disruptive technologies are reshaping human leadership and project frameworks in the digital era. Looking ahead, ZTE will continue to act as a "Driver of Digital Economy", deepening the integration of AI, big data, and project management to upgrade global delivery models. ZTE remains committed to collaborating with global ecosystem partners to advance both research and practical innovation, contributing to an open, intelligent, and sustainable global project management ecosystem. Contributed by ZTE.

Op de kruising van de Brandweerstraat met de Lorentzstraat in Bleiswijk zijn een motor en een auto vrijdagmiddag met elkaar in botsing gekomen. De motorrijder is meegenomen naar het ziekenhuis.

De burgemeester van Schiedam heeft twee panden laten sluiten waar sekswerkers illegaal aan de slag waren. Het gaat om een huis aan het Albertus Johannes de Haasplein en een appartement aan de Hoogstraat.

Op het Nieuwlandplein in Schiedam is vrijdagmiddag een 45-kilometerwagen op zijn kant terecht gekomen. Daarbij is iemand lichtgewond geraakt. Het voertuig liep schade op en is weggetakeld.

The president’s address bore a striking similarity to his speech last year, once again touting BRICS and framing Russia’s economy as resilient.