De stand van het land is in toenemende mate stilstand. Waar we vroeger nog goed waren in alles met infrastructuur wordt nu voor wegonderhoud stukje bij beetje het Belgische model overgenomen en staat elke dag weer ergens een nieuwe brug of viaduct op instorten. Zo moest 18 juli dus ineens de Merwedebrug, geen onbelangrijk ding, dicht voor vrachtwagens en touringcars. (Lijnbussen mogen nog wel want die tellen niet of zo, red.) Het staal in de brug scheurt aan alle kanten, bouwdeskundigen roepen dat de brug MORGEN AL KAN INSTORTEN dus voor onbepaalde tijd (lees: echt heel lang) moeten vrachtwagens omrijden. Nou wil dus het geval dat vrachtwagenchauffeurs DAT LEKKER NIET DOEN. Ja ho eens even, dacht Rijkswaterstaat, dan gaan wij lekker CAMERA'S OPHANGEN en iedereen die het waagt om met de vlam in de pijp over die brug des doods te karren geven we VIJFHONDERD EURO BOETE. Dat gebeurt dus vanaf dit weekend en het werkt... Niet geweldig. Een deel van de vrachtwagenchauffeurs vertikt het om extra kilometers te maken voor een incompetente overheid en neemt de boete op de borst of omzeilt de camera's door een hesje over de nummerplaat te hangen. Begint al lekker vermoeiend te worden deze shitshow. En dit is nog maar het begin.

Iedereen weet dat oude(re) mensen graag mopperen. Hoofdschuddend kijken ze naar de wereld waarin ze veel verkeerds ontwaren, hun eigen achterhaalde expertise zetten ze te pas en…

BEIJING (ANP/BLOOMBERG) - Het Chinese ministerie van Handel dreigt met tegenmaatregelen tegen de Verenigde Staten. Aanleiding zijn uitspraken van hoge functionarissen in de VS dat Chinese AI-bedrijven mogelijk worden onderzocht om vermeende diefstal van Amerikaanse technologie.

Amerikaanse functionarissen zeggen dat Chinese bedrijven betere AI-modellen, in veel gevallen Amerikaanse, gebruiken om hun eigen modellen te verbeteren. Volgens de Amerikanen is deze 'destillatie' genoeg reden om de Chinese bedrijven te straffen. Destilleren betekent bij AI-modellen dat een groot model een kleiner model denkstappen leert. Als dit grootschalig gebeurt, komt dat volgens de Amerikanen neer op diefstal van intellectueel eigendom.

Enkele genoemde straffen zijn onder meer dat Chinese bedrijven te maken krijgen met sancties of plaatsing op een lijst van het ministerie van Handel met bedrijven met beperkte toegang tot Amerikaanse technologie.

Een woordvoerder van het Chinese ministerie van Handel stelt dat China alle noodzakelijke maatregelen zal nemen om zijn belangen te beschermen.

NEW YORK (ANP) - De aandelenbeurzen in New York zijn maandag met winsten geopend. Het sentiment onder beleggers op Wall Street werd gesteund door de gevechtspauze tussen de Verenigde Staten en Iran en een flinke daling van de olieprijzen. Oliebedrijven kwamen daardoor onder druk te staan, maar in de luchtvaart- en cruisesector stegen de koersen.

De olieprijzen zakten tot bijna 7 procent, waarbij Brentolie onder de 90 dollar per vat daalde. Vorige week klom de prijs van Brent nog tot boven de 100 dollar door escalatie van het geweld in het Midden-Oosten. Oliemaatschappijen ConocoPhillips, Chevron en verloren tot ruim 2 procent. United Airlines, Delta Air Lines en American Airlines klommen tot ruim 4 procent. Cruise-aanbieders Carnival, Royal Caribbean en ⁠Norwegian Cruise Line werden tot 4,3 procent meer waard.

De Dow-Jonesindex stond kort na opening 1,2 procent hoger op 52.479 punten. De brede S&P 500 steeg 0,9 procent tot 7480 punten en de technologiebeurs Nasdaq won 1,1 procent tot 25.261 punten.

Controversial anatomist’s body ‘will definitely be plastinated’ in line with his wishes, a spokesperson said

Gunther von Hagens, who developed a technique for permanently preserving human bodies in rigid states and toured the world with his controversial Body Worlds exhibition, has moved closer to fulfilling a long-held wish to be sliced up and displayed in a museum after dying aged 81.

“It is with deep sadness that the family and the Institute for Plastination announce the passing of Dr Gunther von Hagens, inventor of plastination and creator of the Body Worlds exhibitions,” the German anatomist’s institute said in a statement on Monday.

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• Real Madrid interested after World Cup performance

• Midfielder’s contract at City expires in June 2027

Manchester City are hopeful that Rodri will sign a new contract, but the club are braced for a bid from Real Madrid for the midfielder as well as moves from other suitors.

Rodri’s contract expires in June next year and he has failed to sign City’s new deal, which has been on the table for a while. The club are in talks with the 30-year-old midfielder and are optimistic that these will prove successful.

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‘The ripple of energy and anticipation from the audience was almost visual. It was like opening a new Star Wars film – I didn’t hear a phone go off once’

My initial response when I was asked if I was interested in the role was confusion – I felt a bit long in the tooth to play a teenager. I had read the first Harry Potter book and seen a few of the movies, but was just past the right age when it was all kicking off. I didn’t know that there was the coda in the final book that places the action 19 years later, and that’s where the play would be picking up from.

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Claude is exposing a wealth of users’ chats and creations in Google search results, meaning anyone can dig through conversations or other material that people used Claude to make but may not have realized were publicly available for strangers to see.

The exposed data includes an AI-powered therapy app that someone appears to have vibe-coded, notes on meetings, and a dashboard someone made apparently to analyze medical billing data. Exposed chats reportedly include private cryptocurrency wallet keys and personal information like peoples’ addresses 

Anthropic did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Like other chatbots, Claude lets people share their conversations with others by creating a publicly accessible link of the chat. People may do this to send the full text of a conversation to their friends or coworkers in a group chat, for example. But they may not realize Google is also surfacing these links in search results, making them available to essentially anyone.

One Google dork — a super specific search that is useful for finding particular webpages or files — surfaced Claude chats, according to this post on the Claude subreddit. At the time of writing, that Google dork appears to have been mitigated. No results appeared when 404 Media tested it, on both Google and DuckDuckGo. The post said some of the surfaced chats included API keys, login credentials, and personal information like names, addresses, and phone numbers.

Claude also offers Artifacts, which are interactive work spaces for trying out vibe-coded apps or other tools. A Google dork for surfacing them is still working at the time of writing. 

The data exposure is similar to one that impacted OpenAI’s ChatGPT last year, in which nearly 100,00 ChatGPT conversations were searchable on Google. A researcher was able to scrape those exposed chats, meaning that even if Google or Anthropic works to remove the Claude search results, third parties may have already grabbed their content. And it is still possible to view exposed chats even if they’re removed from Google results if you have the direct link itself.

Forbes reported the same thing happened with Claude last year too.

Claude users can change their privacy and sharing settings to make their chats no longer publicly accessible.

Welp, right at the top of the CDC page on autism and vaccines: “The claim ‘vaccines do not cause autism’ is not an evidence-based claim because studies have not ruled out the possibility that infant vaccines cause autism.” 🫨

Not content with broken Windows updates, Microsoft has disclosed two problems with Defender for Endpoint on Linux – one that could disable the security service after a reboot, and another that prevents updates on FIPS-enabled Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 and 9. The more serious problem affected versions 101.26042.0000 through 101.26042.0009 across all supported Linux operating systems. After an upgrade or reinstall followed by a reboot, "the Defender service might be disabled on some devices," according to Microsoft. "If you use Defender for Servers (Plan 1 or 2) with Defender for Cloud and have the MDE [Microsoft Defender Endpoint] integration enabled, automatic updates for the MDE.Linux extension are enabled by default, which means your machines could have received an affected version automatically," it explained. "If an affected version was installed, the issue might impact active protection on rebooted devices until remediation steps are taken." Microsoft did not specify what caused Defender to become disabled, but anything that could knock out endpoint protection will give administrators sweaty palms. A separate problem affected RHEL 8 and 9 systems running in FIPS mode: the 101.26042.x update could fail to install, leaving devices on their previous version. FIPS refers to US Federal Information Processing Standards, which in this context impose requirements on the cryptography used by government and other regulated systems. Although Microsoft's alert did not mention an available update, its release notes direct users affected by the disabled-service bug to build 101.26042.0011. The separate FIPS installation problem is fixed in version 101.26052.0011 and later. Microsoft Defender for Endpoint on Linux protects server workloads on-premises and in the cloud. According to Microsoft, "it helps you prevent, detect, investigate, and respond to advanced threats with unified visibility through the Microsoft Defender portal." Other endpoint security platforms are available, but where an organization has gone all-in with Microsoft, the unified management offered by Defender for Endpoint on Linux can be difficult to resist. Microsoft has an unfortunate habit of shipping broken updates for its flagship operating system, Windows. An update that breaks software specifically designed to protect a device takes things to another level, particularly given the relentless rise in attacks and the need to both fend them off and monitor activity. Hence the appeal of unified visibility through the Microsoft Defender portal. However, an update that could leave Defender disabled after a reboot – while also refusing to install on some security-hardened systems – is less than ideal. ®

Tatiana Navka, a former Olympic ice-skating champion, was put on a sanctions list by the EU in June 2022 that targeted people over Russia's invasion of Ukraine.