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Ancient Slashdot reader Alain Williams shares a report from The Guardian: Mark Zuckerberg has faced questions over why a small cruise ship in south-east Alaska rescued a stranded skiff and its crew when his 387ft superyacht had been closer. The Silicon Valley billionaire's yacht, worth a reported $300 million, is said to have "repeatedly" declined to assist when a nearby boat called for help last week. Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook and Instagram owner Meta Platforms, was not on board at the time, a spokesperson told Forbes.

When a nearby 21ft skiff ran out of fuel between Petersburg and Juneau, the Alaska Beacon reported operators of a cruise ship that was further away than Zuckerberg's yacht came to the rescue. "I'm on a small-ship Alaska cruise with my son," a passenger on the UnCruise Adventures ship Wilderness Legacy posted on Bluesky. "Our boat rescued a stranded vessel last night and apparently we did that after the Coast Guard radioed Mark Zuckerberg's yacht -- which was closer -- and they repeatedly refused to respond. (There was near unanimous booing when the captain announced this)." A spokesperson for Zuckerberg told Forbes that the yacht crew had been operating on a different radio channel and "the assist was already under way" by the time they discovered the broadcast.

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What if there was a turning machine for double Dutch?

Thinky Dailies offers daily logic puzzles. Each season's connecting story links 60 Nikoli*-style puzzles, culminating in a meta-puzzle. The puzzles have a best-in-class interface on mobile or desktop, and staged hints that teach you new puzzle formats and their solving techniques. Expect sudoku variants, nonograms, cave, slitherlink, akari and many more. Archives for all three complete seasons are available. Via Hovey.

*Nikoli is the japanese puzzle magazine most famous for Sudoku. Thinky Dailies is hosted by Thinky Games, which reviews and promotes puzzle computer games. Impatient for the fourth season of Thinky Dailies? Try the site's own recommended daily puzzle sites. Or perhaps Puzzmo's daily puzzle formats are more your thing. Or Lex Friedman's. Or Games by Sam.

Iceberg lettuce has been blamed for a surge in American cases of the parasitic illness cyclosporiasis. Symptoms include ‘frequent and sometimes explosive bowel movements’

Name: Salad.

Age: Legend has it that in the Byzantine period, the Greek island of Kos was a centre for growing a long-leafed variety of lettuce that your grandparents might know as cos, though that variety is now more commonly referred to as romaine.

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The Federal Communications Commission on 28 July announced a ban on humanoid robots from China including the popular Unitree G1 model. The Guardian's technology journalist Nick Robins-Early explains the recent popularity of these trending robots and why the US government says they are a risk to the country's national security

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U voelt het, u ziet het, u ruikt het, u proeft het, u likt het en u weet het: de hele handel van ditjes tot datjes is wel weer duurder geworden maar niet goedkoper. Nog steeds de schuld van Trump natuurlijk en ook nog steeds de schuld van Jetten & Co. Maar dat er zóveel dingen duurder zijn, dat is toch echt wat te veel van het slechte. Tanken is weer duurder, huizen zijn weer duurder, de inflatie is de inflatie, de T. vond nog eens 15 producten, waaronder eieren (EIEREN), die duurder werden en daarmee werd het hele dagelijkse leven: duurder. En dan kan het natuurlijk altijd nóg duurder, maar dat is wel een heel goedkope opmerking. En bovendien is dat niet het goedkope dat we willen. We willen een PS5-deal met GTVI er gratis bij. Dát is goedkoop. Goed, en betaalbaar fruit of zo.

Described by its anonymous creators as “the largest search engine for museum art,” The Last Museum is a veritable trove of the the world’s great works. It currently includes pieces by more than 290,000 artists, which are held across 4,903 museums and represent 304 cultures and nationalities. A lot of the works are in the public domain, such as a 19th-century beaded bag attributed to the Lakota, thousands of ancient Etruscan artifacts, and objects spanning thousands of years in places like Germany, Spain, India, and Egypt.

Clicking on any artifact will any available information about the artist, title, and date, plus a link to the museum collection it belongs to. If there’s copyright attached to the images, they’re available in accordance with fair use, which means they’re available at a low resolution for browsing online but not reproducing, and they’re shared strictly for educational and non-commercial purposes. “We currently have around five million artworks indexed, and strive to eventually index all museum art in the world,” the creators say.

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Het 15-jarige meisje had in haar jonge leven al heel wat meegemaakt en hoopte rust te vinden bij een jeugdinstelling. Het pakte anders uit. In november 2005 zou zij zijn verkracht door een medewerker van de instelling. Woensdag staat hij samen met een medeverdachte terecht.

Ongeveer een jaar geleden zijn speciale prullenbakken in Rotterdam geplaatst voor verpakkingen met statiegeld. Het gaat om een proef met een duidelijk doel: voorkomen dat 'gewone' prullenbakken worden opengebroken om het statiegeld. Toch is het geen succes. "We kwamen na een half jaar tot de conclusie dat het niet heeft geleid tot minder opengebroken bakken."

SAINT-DENIS (ANP) - Zwemster Marrit Steenbergen heeft de Europese titel veroverd op de 100 meter vrije slag. De 26-jarige Friezin was in de finale van het koningsnummer in het Olympic Aquatic Centre van Parijs met 51,90 duidelijk sneller dan de concurrentie. Milou van Wijk werd tweede in 52,71, het brons was voor de Italiaanse Sara Curtis (52,72).

VORONEZJ (ANP/RTR) - De Amerikaanse oud-marinier Robert Gilman komt na meer dan vier jaar in een Russische gevangenis vrij. Volgens Amerikaanse functionarissen heeft de Russische president Vladimir Poetin hem gratie verleend, zodat Gilman in de Verenigde Staten een medische behandeling kan krijgen.

De inmiddels 32-jarige Gilman werd in januari 2022 opgepakt na een vechtpartij in een trein. Hij zou een politieagent hebben geschopt terwijl hij dronken was. Hij kreeg in oktober 2022 een gevangenisstraf van 4,5 jaar, maar die straf werd later verlengd tot tien jaar. Hij zat vast in Voronezj, zo'n 450 kilometer ten zuiden van Moskou en nog geen 200 kilometer van de grens met Oekraïne.

Het Witte Huis heeft al een aantal keer gevraagd om Gilman vrij te laten vanwege zijn gezondheid. Het is niet duidelijk waar hij precies last van heeft, maar zijn familie waarschuwde afgelopen week nog dat hij in levensgevaar verkeerde. Volgens een Amerikaanse functionaris maakt hij het nu naar omstandigheden goed. Onderweg naar de VS wordt hij onderzocht door artsen.

Intensieve onderhandelingen

Bij aankomst wordt hij opgewacht door de Amerikaanse gezant Steve Witkoff, die regelmatig met Poetin praat. Volgens de Amerikanen hebben afgelopen weekend intensieve onderhandelingen over Gilman plaatsgevonden. Poetin zou uiteindelijk vanwege zijn vriendschap met de Amerikaanse president Donald Trump hebben besloten om de gratie te verlenen op humanitaire gronden, aldus de Amerikaanse bronnen van persbureau Reuters. De VS hebben niet in ruil ook een Rus vrijgelaten.

Trump schrijft op Truth Social blij te zijn met de beslissing van Poetin en te waarderen dat de Russen niet hebben gevraagd om een gevangenenruil. Trump zou zelf over de zaak hebben gesproken met Poetin, al zegt hij niet wanneer dat gesprek zou hebben plaatsgevonden.

Ook zou Trump al hebben gebeld met Gilman, tijdens diens vlucht naar Washington. "Hij had maar een verzoek: een GEWELDIGE cheeseburger bij zijn landing. Dat gaan we regelen!" De president deelde ook een foto van Gilman vanuit het vliegtuig.

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De 73-jarige oud-voorzitter van het Hongaarse Hooggerechtshof is dinsdag gekozen tot president van het land. Zijn benoeming volgt op de machtswisseling in april, toen de centrumrechtse Péter Magyar oud-premier Viktor Orbán versloeg, en moet bijdragen aan democratisch herstel.

A passenger on a Delta Air Lines flight from Las Vegas to Atlanta after DEF CON is suspected of jamming the in-flight Wi-Fi and broadcasting an unauthorized network in what could amount to a federal offense. It seems like someone forgot the old truism "what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas." News of the incident began circulating late Monday when flight watchers spotted Aircraft Communications Addressing and Reporting System (ACARS) messages from the crew of Delta Flight 591 indicating that something was up with the Wi-Fi and that they suspected a passenger was to blame. “HEY ALERT CORP SECURITY WE HAVE A PAX [passenger] ON THAT HAS CREATED A SCAM WIFI CALLED DELTA WIFI FAST WE BELIEVE THEY ARE TRYING TO SCAM THE OTH PAX,” the first notice read. Several minutes later, the flight crew followed up with a second message stating they had little additional info at the time, but pointing the blame at “A BUNCH OF PAX THAT WERE AT A CYBER CONFERENCE IN LAS” who “WERE ABLE TO JAM OUR WIFI” and broadcast their own signal. From there, the timeline and truth of the situation get a bit fuzzy, with accounts on social media differing as to what happened next. A poster on X speculated that the culprit was trying to phish for passenger credentials by setting up the fake Wi-Fi network, while a Facebook post shared to Reddit claimed that the incident involved a deauthentication attack that kicked users off the legitimate network before bringing up their own, which included a fake landing page, possibly using a device like a Wi-Fi Pineapple, which can broadcast fake networks, perform deauth attacks, and the like. A commenter in a thread on the Hacking subreddit (linked above) claimed to have been at the terminal in Las Vegas and said the individual was doing the same thing to airport Wi-Fi. The Facebook and X posts both claimed that law enforcement was waiting at the gate, though a post in the Delta subreddit included a comment from someone claiming to have been on the flight who didn’t see any police waiting at the gate. Regardless of what actually transpired once the plane landed, Delta Air Lines confirmed the incident to The Register. “We are fully investigating to gather a complete set of facts, which will take time,” a Delta spokesperson told us in an email. “We will partner with federal law enforcement and aviation regulators to ensure the incident is thoroughly investigated.” Delta further noted that the safety of the plane, crew, and passengers was never in question, and no aircraft systems were affected. The airline also told us that there was no hack of any Delta system, including the in-flight Wi-Fi, though it did confirm that an unauthorized Wi-Fi network was broadcast onboard the aircraft for a short period of time. Some of the confusion over the possible deauthentication attack may have come from the cabin crew deactivating the in-flight Wi-Fi for around 30 minutes due to the incident, Delta explained. The airline reiterated that the flight was leaving following the wrap-up of Black Hat and DEF CON, suggesting it suspected an attendee was behind the bad decision. We asked the Atlanta Police’s airport division if it was involved at all, and a representative told us they were unaware of the incident. Atlanta’s Department of Aviation declined to provide any comment on the matter. Based on Delta’s comment, it’s not clear whether the incident involved deliberate interference with authorized Wi-Fi communications, but if investigators determine that it did, the penalties could be severe. According [PDF] to the Federal Communications Commission, intentional Wi-Fi blocking can violate the Communications Act’s section 333. A willful and knowing violation punishable under the Act’s general criminal provision could carry a penalty of up to one year in prison and/or a fine of up to $10,000 upon conviction. If this wannabe hacker with a penchant for choosing the worst possible target in the world is stupid enough to have been caught doing this before (and let’s be frank - if you’re going to try jamming the Wi-Fi on a commercial airplane, you’re not that bright), that prison term could extend to up to two years. ®