MOSKOU (ANP/RTR) - De speciale gezant van de paus, kardinaal Matteo Zuppi, heeft volgens het Russische ministerie van Buitenlandse Zaken Oekraïense krijgsgevangenen bezocht. Hij heeft volgens Moskou ongehinderd met krijgsgevangenen over hun omstandigheden kunnen spreken.
Zuppi is naar Rusland gekomen voor een driedaags bezoek om humanitaire kwesties te bespreken met Russische functionarissen. Paus Leo XIV heeft juist Kyiv en Moskou opgeroepen om in gesprek te gaan over het beëindigen van de oorlog. Die dreigt met uitspraken over nucleaire wapens steeds verwoestender te worden, aldus paus Leo.
Zuppi heeft in het Kremlin onder anderen gesproken met buitenlandspecialist Joeri Oesjakov. Zuppi was eerder betrokken bij humanitair overleg tussen de strijdende partijen en bij pogingen van Vaticaanstad om Oekraïne en Rusland tot het stoppen van de vijandelijkheden te bewegen. Hij was in oktober 2024 voor het laatst in Moskou en bezocht in die tijd ook Kyiv.
WASHINGTON (ANP/BLOOMBERG) - De interne toezichthouder van de Federal Reserve heeft geen aanwijzingen gevonden voor strafbare feiten rondom de verbouwing van het hoofdkantoor van de Amerikaanse centrale bank. De inspecteur-generaal van de Fed zag ook geen wangedrag door het bestuur.
De regering van president Donald Trump greep kostenoverschrijdingen bij de 2,4 miljard dollar kostende werkzaamheden eerder aan voor een strafrechtelijk onderzoek naar de Fed. Toenmalig Fed-voorzitter Jerome Powell zag daarin een poging om de centrale bank onder druk te zetten om de rente sneller te verlagen.
In april sloot justitie in de VS het strafrechtelijk onderzoek, maar er kwam wel een onderzoek van de eigen toezichthouder. De inspecteur-generaal zegt nu niets te hebben aangetroffen wat leek op wetsovertredingen. Wel trof de waakhond tekortkomingen aan bij het verbouwingstraject. "Maar we zagen geen bestuurlijk wangedrag tijdens onze evaluatie", staat in een rapport over het onderzoek.
PARIJS (ANP/AFP) - De Franse minister van Binnenlandse Zaken Laurent Nuñez constateert naar eigen zeggen een toename van gewelddadigheden en aantallen incidenten bij de landelijke scholierenprotesten. Woensdag zijn er volgens hem zeker 356 instellingen bij betrokken geweest, achttien meer dan dinsdag.
Nuñez zei dat er 625 mensen zijn aangehouden. Dat zijn er 185 meer dan dinsdag. Hij sprak zijn zorg uit over het toenemende geweld gericht tegen politieagenten en hulpverleners. Ook worden meer vernielingen aangericht volgens de minister. De beweging breidt zich volgens hem uit met "aanzienlijk meer geweld". Sinds vrijdag zijn een honderdtal agenten gewond geraakt.
Afgelopen week begonnen voornamelijk in Parijs en omgeving rumoerige scholierenacties uit protest tegen onder meer het tekort aan leraren, chaotische lesroosters en gebrekkige of ontbrekende voorzieningen op vaak overbevolkte middelbare scholen. Dinsdag was er een groot landelijk protest met blokkades van onderwijsinstellingen en veel relletjes.
Nationalist residents’ coalition says it will accept solution drawn up by the Northern Ireland secretary if it is also accepted by unionists
The Northern Ireland secretary, Chris Bryant, has said an end to the Drumcree parade dispute is “tantalisingly close”, as the Garvaghy Road Residents’ Coalition signalled it would accept a document setting out a resolution if the Orange Order did so.
Breandán Mac Cionnaith, the leader of the nationalist group, said on Wednesday afternoon he had been through the document drawn up by Bryant and his team.
FTC move is first official US enforcement action on rogue AI agents, following surge in incidents first reported in July
The US’s main trade regulator is conducting an industry-wide investigation into Anthropic, OpenAI and other AI labs to uncover the potential dangers their technology poses to consumers.
The investigation by the Federal Trade Commission is the first official US enforcement action that delves into rogue AI agents, following a surge in incidents first reported in July that have stoked fears among the public that uncontrolled AI could one day harm humans.
Senior Downing Street officials reach out to thinktanks and pollsters as they look to test backing for reversing Brexit
Senior Downing Street officials have been reaching out to thinktanks and pollsters as they look to test public support for the UK rejoining the EU.
Aides to Andy Burnham have been talking to EU experts in a range of organisations about how the public would view a promise to rejoin, as momentum builds behind including such a pledge in the next Labour manifesto.
Club ‘a huge partner in building modern Manchester’
Independent Football Regulator monitoring case
Andy Burnham has said he would be “really concerned” to lose Manchester City’s owners as a result of the club being found guilty of more than 100 breaches of Premier League rules.
On the day that the Independent Football Regulator confirmed it has powers to investigate the suitability of the Abu Dhabi United Group to own an English club after the damning judgment of an independent commission regarding £900m of sham contracts, the prime minister praised City’s owners for their investment of billions of pounds into Manchester.
hcs_$reboot writes: Trump hosted executives from OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta, Google, Nvidia, and other tech companies at the White House. They agreed to voluntary AI-safety standards, including independent audits and safeguards aimed at preventing AI systems from accessing or hacking technical systems in unintended ways. Trump also strongly backed the continued rapid expansion of AI data centers, despite concerns over their electricity demand, utility costs, and other impacts on local communities. He said he is considering creating a 10-member board to oversee AI safety and plans to appoint a new White House official to lead AI policy.
The meeting comes amid growing concerns about the risks posed by advanced AI, including reports from OpenAI and Anthropic that their AI agents had gone rogue and hacked into other companies' systems. A nationwide Reuters/Ipsos poll conducted September 17-20 found that 73% of respondents worried AI companies had not done enough to prevent AI from causing serious harm to society. During the meeting, Trump also directed government agencies to use the term "super intelligence" instead of "artificial intelligence" when referring to the technology.
A 16-year-old security researcher named Faav found an authentication flaw in Microsoft’s Titan analytics service that allowed him to gain administrator access, submit unauthorized SQL queries with no valid credentials, and potentially reach analytics databases containing an estimated 17.3 trillion stored rows. Titan is an internal analytics platform, and Redmond restricts access via its web interface to Microsoft employees. Faav, with an assist from an AI hackbot he built called Antares, found that he could access Titan’s API through an Azure Cloud Services host because Titan didn’t check the signature on a login token. Microsoft has since locked down the API and paid Faav a $5,000 bug bounty for his research. He says the breakthrough came after 10 days of authentication errors, when he returned to the problem after finishing Friday’s schoolwork and finally managed to execute SQL as a Titan admin after 1 AM Saturday. “It was 2 AM,” Faav said in a blog about his findings. “I wanted to yell, or at least say something out loud, but my parents were asleep. So I just sat there staring at 17,333,335,124,315 and checked the math again.” He also notes that he rewrote his blog post at Microsoft’s request, cut sections and numbers, and reworded the impact prior to publication. “We appreciate the opportunity to investigate the findings reported by Faav,” Microsoft said in a statement provided to Faav for his blog. “Their submission and coordinated vulnerability disclosure helped us to better protect our customers by hardening our services. We value and appreciate safe security research under the terms of the Microsoft Bug Bounty Program and look forward to continuing to work with Faav in the future.” A boy and his bot The research began on August 25 when Antares found Titan’s public API. For the next 10 days, the human and bot tested the service’s JSON Web Token (JWT) authentication checks and email-formatted user principal names (UPNs), eventually finding an unsigned token that could reach Titan’s local user lookup - but not a UPN that Titan recognized. Early on September 5, Faav changed the unsigned token’s UPN from an email-formatted identity to admin. Titan recognized it as a local username, resolved it to local user ID 1, which held an admin role, and allowed him to run SQL. The takeaway, according to Faav: Titan validated the contents of the JWT (tenant, audience, app ID, user) but never verified the signature, the most important part of any authentication check. The authentication checks felt like a hotel where every door had a working keycard reader, but any keycard unlocked any room. Despite all the access-control logic existing in the app, the one missing piece made it all pointless. If you’re a developer (or coding agent) reading this, the most important takeaway from this post is to make sure you verify signatures above all else when building auth. This gave Faav access to Titan’s platform metadata database, and from there he could query application tables directly. The metadata contained: About 25,000 account and email records. 17,990 employee email records. 15,001 employee organization records. 355 database configurations. 20,979 virtual-dataset SQL definitions. 24,569 dashboards, 425,891 charts, and 27,347 dataset definitions. Titan’s user and usage directory exposed employee job titles, departments, and management hierarchy, which the researcher notes could be useful for social-engineering attacks - “though I never tested or demonstrated that,” he added. He also found a Bing analytics sample and tested two rows that contained search info, identifiers, and high-level location information, such as country- or state-level details. Faav said the location values did not contain precise user locations. 17.3 trillion data rows Then he hit the jackpot, testing 56 routing values from an archived configuration and discovering 30 were still active. “Each routing value pointed to a backend configuration, and each configuration contained one or more databases, so the 30 live values resolved through 24 configurations to 17 connected analytics databases spanning 9,863 unique table names,” the bug hunter wrote. The total comes to about 17.3 trillion rows, which Faav says is a storage estimate derived from metadata and likely includes historical, duplicated, and derived data. “But quite the high number nonetheless.” Between September 6 and September 8, Microsoft asked the teen to stop testing and requested his IP address to confirm no nefarious activity beyond the bug bounty research. A day later, Redmond locked down the endpoint and told Faav the “report prompted immediate investigation and remediation to address the remaining exposure.” Microsoft awarded the bug hunter $5,000 for his work on September 17.®
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A lawyer used ChatGPT to generate briefs that included completely made-up witnesses and testimony while representing a man accused of shooting his wife. When he was caught by the judges, the lawyer blamed it on his own “stupidity.”
“It's little comfort to know that my stupidity is what brings us together this afternoon,” New Mexico attorney Stephen D. Aarons said in a hearing last month before five judges. He “assumed” ChatGPT would generate a “bulletproof summary of proceedings.” Instead, ChatGPT generated false testimony from “wholly fabricated witnesses,” according to an order of direct contempt from the New Mexico Supreme Court. Aarons was representing a man who was found guilty of killing his wife earlier this year; Aarons said he hadn’t told his client directly that he was caught using ChatGPT on the case because he’s currently serving life in prison.
The false testimony included a nonexistent person named Danny Stanton saying he received threats, and another made-up person, Linda Stanton, saying her husband received threats. Other false testimony from more AI-generated people in Aarons’ brief included statements “regarding the shooter’s clothing and appearance,” according to the order.
Reuters reported on the case earlier this month. "I am remorseful but hopeful that the disciplinary board takes into account it was an honest mistake," Aarons told Reuters. "It is a lesson learned for all professionals who rely upon this powerful but sometimes unstable technology."
Aarons’ reasoning for trusting ChatGPT, he said in the August hearing, was that he’d heard of doctors using AI for medical research.
“So, Council, do you watch the news? Do you listen to the radio? Do you read anything about what's going on in the world?” one of the judges asked Aarons. “Because the problem with lawyers relying on AI hallucinations is an above-the-fold story every single day.”
Lawyers getting caught using AI and submitting errors to the court has been a big problem for years, and the judge is right: It’d be very hard to avoid hearing about this pattern of “stupidity” unless you were living under a rock. There has been caseaftercaseaftercase showing attorneys failing their clients by submitting error-riddled AI-generated documents in their filings, and are the definition of “you had one job:” in the case of AI-brained lawyers, they can’t seem to resist taking shortcuts regardless of how risky it is for their own careers and their clients lives.
Like in Aaron’s case, we sometimes get to hear and see judges go off on attorneys for this behavior. In May, judges in the Supreme Court of the State of New York Appellate Division let several lawyers have it for more than 20 minutes about their AI use and laziness, and called their failures “striking, concerning, disappointing, and saddening.” And it’s not just lawyers anymore; court reporters are submitting AI-generated errors, too.
“So, either you buried your head in the sand. And that's a choice to do that. An intentional choice to be uninformed,” the judge continued to Aarons. “Or, you took a gamble. And neither of those are consistent with the code conduct. So I'm really struggling with your response, saying, ‘Well, I didn't understand. I didn't know about hallucinations.’ My 13-year-old nephew knows about hallucinations. My 75-year-old stepmother knows about hallucinations. So, either you made a decision not to be aware of what's happening in the world in using this tool appropriately, which is a willful choice. Or you decided to roll the dice.”
At the end of the hearing, Aarons admits that he hasn’t told his client directly about this mess, saying he’d only talked to his family members so far, telling them there was “a problem with the brief.” He said his client is hard to reach because he speaks Spanish and is in prison.
“So you didn't say, ‘I relied on ChatGPT, and it submitted lies to the court, and the court is mad at me, and now there's a hearing.’ I'm guessing you didn't tell your client’s family members that,” a judge asked Aarons.
“I didn't talk about ChatGPT. I just said there was a problem with a brief that I filed,” Aarons said.
According to the order, the judges found Aarons to be in direct contempt of court, referred him to the Disciplinary Board for further consideration, and barred from appearing before the court pending the outcome of the board’s investigation. They also threw him off the case in question and assigned a public defender to his former client.
While he waits for the board to decide what to do with him, Aarons was sanctioned $5,000, which he must pay to the State Bar of New Mexico Client Protection Fund.
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