Chiara Battig has been confirmed as the Wild Card entry for Round 3 of the 2026 F1 ACADEMY season, with the all-female series set to make its debut at Silverstone.
Flavio Briatore reflected on Franco Colapinto’s improvement as a driver in this week’s Beyond The Grid.
Het moet maar eens afgelopen zijn met André Kuipers. Hij is in de ruimte geweest, hij is opgeleid tot arts, allemaal tot je dienst, maar de man is een volkomen debiel waar alleen maar onzin uitkomt, een soort Eric Scherder maar dan met minder haar. Nu dit weer. André Kuipers doet mee aan de 'ambassade voor de maan' om de belangen van de maan te vertegenwoordigen op aarde. Want! Nu iedereen opeens maar de maan wil kunnen er verschrikkelijke dingen gebeuren. Wat dan bijvoorbeeld André Kuipers? "Ik wil niet het logo van McDonald’s geprojecteerd zien op de maan." Hoezo niet kale gek? Wat is er mis met het logo van McDonald's en wat zou er zo verschrikkelijk aan zijn als dat op de maan wordt geprojecteerd? Misschien levert het wel 10 miljard maandollars op voor de maanmannetjes, of een leuk zakcentje voor de kindjes in Afrika. Als 'het logo van McDonald's komt op de maan' echt het ergste is wat er zou kunnen gebeuren met de maan, dan is er dus echt helemaal niks aan de hand. André Kuipers richt de ambassade voor de maan op samen met onder andere schrijfster Marjolein van Heemstra, die niet helemaal goed bij haar kokosnoot is. "‘Het gaat meer om het narratief van koloniseren, domineren, dat ik kwalijk vind’, zegt ze. ‘Het gaat erom dat als je je zorgen maakt over dat ons misschien iets wordt afgenomen door deze maanplannen, dat je dan wordt afgeschilderd als een belachelijk, radicaal-links persoon", aldus een belachelijk, radicaal-links persoon. Begrijp ons niet verkeerd, wij denken ook dat er van alles mis kan gaan met reizen naar de maan, het kan een plek worden waar ritueel seksueel misbruik ongestraft plaatsvindt, de maan kan een vindplaats worden voor vergif waar alleen hele lieve poezen aan doodgaan, de maan kan verworden tot een strafkamp waar de wet van de sterkste geldt en criminelen elkaar op de meest gruwelijke manier te lijf gaan, Herman den Blijker kan opeens op de maan opduiken, noem maar op, maar mensen die het logo van McDonald's op de maan als een soort schrikbeeld gebruiken moeten gewoon hun bek houden. Wat trouwens echt vet zou zijn, is een McDonald's restaurant op de maan. Maar daar hoor je André Kuipers niet over.
Ja jammer maar wij dus wel
Maar o wee als we het logo van McDonald's op de maan zien
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Switzerland (poss 4-3-1-2) Kobel; Jaquez, Elvedi, Akanji, Rodriguez; Sow, Xhaka, Freuler; Manzambi; Vargas, Embolo.
Subs: Mvogo, Keller, Widmer, Coemert, Amenda, Zakaria, Jashari, Aebischer, Ndoye, Fassnacht, Okafor, Amdouni, Itten.
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Before each game in Bosnia and Herzegovina’s World Cup adventure, Sarajevo has blossomed with primary colours – and two distinct flags.
One is the national flag dating to 1998: blue and yellow diagonal halves emblazoned with a slanting line of white stars. The other has golden lilies on a blue shield set against a white background, and has a far deeper history, steeped in centuries of complexity. Its striking resurgence as a national symbol, showcased during Bosnia’s
Continue reading...Michelle Zajko, in jail since February 2025 on other charges, has been charged in 2022 Pennsylvania killings of parents
A member of the cultlike group known as Zizians, who has denied killing her parents in Pennsylvania in 2022, has been charged with murder, a prosecutor said on Wednesday.
Michelle Zajko, who has been jailed in Maryland on other charges since February 2025, has been charged with murder, burglary and conspiracy charges in the deaths of Rita and Richard Zajko, the Delaware county district attorney, Tanner Rouse, said at a news conference. The prosecutor said she did not act alone.
Continue reading...Defence minister says troops not withdrawing though Tehran sees end to war in Lebanon as part of deal with US
The Israeli defence minister, Israel Katz, has said that Israeli troops would not withdraw from southern Lebanon, further complicating Iran peace talks as fighting in Lebanon continues to be an obstacle to permanent peace.
Speaking on stage in an interview in Tel Aviv, Katz said Israeli troops would remain in south Lebanon – echoing sentiments from the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu.
Continue reading...Keir Starmer came to power without a strategic concept of post-Brexit Britain’s place in the world. His successor must not repeat that mistake
Sir Keir Starmer had years in opposition to prepare for government. His likely successor, Andy Burnham, has weeks. Unlike the outgoing prime minister, Mr Burnham will bring past ministerial experience to the top job as well as lessons learned as the mayor of Greater Manchester. But as every veteran of No 10 attests, the pressures in that building – the intensity and unpredictability of events – are like nothing else.
To take office without clear priorities or a sense of how to drive an agenda through the machinery of government is a recipe for drift and loss of control, bouncing from one crisis to the next. That was Sir Keir’s fate. His failure to use the run-up to power more fruitfully accounts in large part for the truncation of his tenure.
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Continue reading...Deutsche Bahn widely criticised after hundreds of thousands of passengers stranded in operator’s latest setback
Germany’s rail network ground to a halt late on Tuesday as a result of maintenance work that went wrong, leaving hundreds of thousands of passengers unable to get home as the national operator faced widespread criticism over the chaos.
The Deutsche Bahn (DB) meltdown was initially thought to have been caused by a cyber-attack, but it later emerged that it was likely to have been triggered by a scheduled attempt to replace an ageing component in the railway’s internal communication network, without which the trains are unable to run.
Continue reading...Woman detained at airport after allegedly making racist remarks directed at workers unloading baggage, police say
Brazil’s federal police have detained a Spanish citizen in São Paulo’s international Guarulhos airport for racism, in the latest of a series of high-profile arrests of foreign tourists on similar grounds.
Brazil has some of the strictest anti-racism laws in Latin America. Insulting a person on the basis of race carries a penalty of imprisonment from two to five years and a fine.
Continue reading...Muslims in the UK, Europe and the US are increasingly fearful and frustrated as targeted attacks rise. Others must speak out
The chilling attacks that injured five men in Edinburgh at the weekend, including two who were struck as they left a mosque, have deepened the fear that many Muslims in Britain feel today. The case received remarkably little attention south of the border. A man has now been charged with five counts of attempted murder, allegedly “aggravated by reason of having a terrorist connection”. The facts of these attacks must now be examined in court in due course.
What is beyond doubt is the real and growing fear experienced by Muslim communities in the UK, Europe and elsewhere. The US president has said that “I think Islam hates us”. Increasingly open Islamophobic rhetoric from political figures, and a muted response from others, as well as violence towards Muslims, have left many feeling vulnerable and frustrated.
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Continue reading...How The New York Times Changed Its Coverage of Trans People. No surprise: it became much more negative, less affirming/protective and more skeptical/restrictive.
Ancient Slashdot reader Mark Round writes: Longtime reader here (since mid-1999 -- Hot Grits! Oog the Caveman! Beowulf clusters!), and I can still remember posting back on Slashdot's own 5th anniversary. Time's rolled on: my own blog just turned 25, and it's now roughly 40 years since I first sat down at a computer. So I went digging through archive.org, old backups, and a box of ZIP disks, and wrote up a long look back at four decades of computing through the one website that's been my online home along the way. It runs from my first 8-bit micro and a 1,200-baud modem through discovering the actual Internet at university (and burning far too many hours on Slashdot and sister sites like freshmeat.net), past gloriously pimped-out Enlightenment Linux desktops, all the way to the modern cloud-native world. Plenty of dodgy screenshots, terrible code, and fond memories of long-gone haunts like kuro5hin.org and Linux Coffee Talk along the way.
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Microsoft, its friends, and international law enforcement - with an AI assist - disrupted two widely used pieces of malware and their infrastructure, in what Redmond describes as a novel approach to cybercrime disruption that targets the cyberattack supply chain instead of a single tool or service. “What’s new is how we’re combining AI analysis with an expanded use of that law,” Steven Masada, assistant general counsel for Microsoft’s Digital Crimes Unit, said in a Wednesday blog, referring to the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO). Typically Microsoft uses RICO and other US laws to take legal action against a single cybercrime service or infrastructure. The disruption involved the takedown, suspension, and blocking of more than 200 domains and command-and-control (C2) servers that formed the backbone of StealC and Amadey infrastructure. Multiple security companies, including ESET, BitSight, Mitsui Bussan Secure Directions (MBSD), IBM X-Force, and Proofpoint, also played a role in dismantling the alleged operations. Combined with the earlier SocGholish disruption announced last week, a Europol-led law enforcement coalition flagged and restricted cryptocurrency assets valued at more than $47 million and recovered about 27 million stolen credentials. StealC and Amadey are two separate malwares developed by different criminal crews, but they used the same infrastructure and were operating in concert. StealC collects multiple browser credentials and cookies, cryptocurrency wallets, chats from messaging apps, and other sensitive data, and exfiltrates the stolen goods to a C2 server. It also works as a secondary loader, allowing criminals who rent the stealer to download additional malware on compromised devices. Amadey is a malware-as-a-service used to deliver StealC and other stealers, plus other types of malware including remote access trojans, cryptominers, and ransomware. In just the first two weeks of May, Amadey and StealC were linked to more than 140,000 infected computers globally, according to Microsoft. “It’s no longer enough to go after threats one by one,” said Masada. “We need to interrupt how the attacks are put together.” In this case, Redmond’s investigators used Copilot and other AI tools to analyze both malwares and their infrastructure, “asking questions in plain English instead of manually combing through complex code,” Masada wrote. “That helped surface key details, uncover hidden data, and test findings in a fraction of the time, turning what would have taken hours or days into minutes and enabling the team to spot connections faster.” One of these key details: both Amadey and StealC used the same infrastructure. This allowed Redmond’s legal team to treat both malwares as part of a single conspiracy under RICO and bring civil claims against five defendants allegedly involved across both operations. “Defendants comprise a group of cybercriminals operating a Malware as a Service enterprise that leverages malicious software commonly known as the Amadey Malware Suite and StealC Malware Suite (the "MaaS Enterprise"),” the court documents say. “Through the Maas Enterprise, Defendants and their accomplices have victimized hundreds of thousands of innocent computer users, including many users of Microsoft's software and services.” ®
