Plane made emergency landing after pilot tried to crash aircraft, Israeli PM says, as officials investigate whether it was an attempted terror attack

One of the pilots of a plane flying from the UAE to Israel stabbed his co-pilot and appeared to try to crash the plane, the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, said, as Israeli officials said they were investigating whether the incident was an attempted terror attack on Israelis. Here is what we know so far:

A commercial plane travelling from Dubai in the United Arab Emirates to Israel was forced to make an emergency landing in Saudi Arabia, after an apparent brawl between its pilots prompted distress signals that briefly raised fears of an attempted hijacking. The flydubai flight was over Jordan when it diverted to Saudi Arabia, transmitting three emergency signals, one of which indicated a possible unlawful interference.

The plane dipped dramatically during the reported fight, descending about 16,000ft in just two minutes. Israeli officials scrambled fighter jets, fearful of a possible hijacking attempt on a plane containing dozens of Israelis, and the plane landed at Tabuk airport in north-western Saudi Arabia.

Netanyahu said one of the flydubai pilots stabbed his co-pilot and appeared to be intending to crash the plane. He added that a passenger managed to break into the cockpit with one of the crew members, and together they “neutralised” the attacking pilot.

Netanyahu described it as “an extremely severe security incident”. Other officials, including the defence minister, Israel Katz, have called it an attempted terrorist attack. Netanyahu thanked the passengers and crew who helped to stop the attack, saying they “showed exceptional resourcefulness and courage”.

An Israeli official has identified the attacker as an Omani national, Reuters reported.

The Boeing 737 plane, which Israeli officials said had between 160 and 180 passengers onboard, transmitted a general emergency signal about two and a half hours after leaving Dubai, according to the flight-tracking website Flightradar24.

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In the four matches they’ve sat through since their unconvincing Geopolitics World Cup win over Haiti, it must rankle among diehard conscripts of the Tartan Army that the only sporting moment they’ve been able to celebrate with genuine wild abandon remains a Wyatt Langford home run biffed out of the stadium for the Texas Rangers at Fenway Park. Away from the diamond, fairly meek surrenders by Scotland to Morocco and Brazil led to Steve Clarke’s resignation, which in turn prompted Sébastien Pocognoli to surf in on a wave of cautious fan suspicion. Following an extremely promising second-half display in his first game against Slovenia – one that obviously featured no goals, a couple of missed sitters and plenty of attacking verve from his side – the Belgian had plenty of reasons to be cheerful going into his first home game as Scotland head coach. After all, as a newbie to the gig he probably didn’t know any better.

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As soaring rents and house prices across Europe​ feed into the political discourse, campaigners believe they have a rare opportunity to force housing to the top of the agenda

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It was billed as one of the largest real-estate events in Europe, attracting as many as 15,000 people ranging from investment firms to developers. But as the District trade show and summit got under way last week in Madrid, housing campaigners from 140 organisations across the globe turned up, intent on holding their own “counter-summit” to push back against the idea of housing as a financial asset.

Many of the campaigners arrived in the Spanish capital as Maricarmen Abascal, an 87-year-old woman who uses a wheelchair, was being evicted from the apartment where she had lived for seven decades. As anger over the eviction gave way to days of protests and an encampment in the heart of Madrid, the presence of campaigners from Italy to Ireland was a poignant reminder of the global dimension of the crisis.

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‘I’d read stories about gangs killing drug-pushers who targeted young people. Police would find their bodies at the bottom of five-storey buildings. I didn’t want to go looking for them alone’

The late 1960s and most of the 1970s were a difficult time for New York. I’d moved there from France in 1965 with a reporter friend and a plan to start a little agency, but soon found myself working alone. It could be a dangerous city, especially at night, but I enjoyed taking pictures of everyday life around me. In 1969, I became the first foreign correspondent for the Paris-based Gamma Agency, but always insisted on working on personal projects rather than assignments.

Reading the New York Times in 1972, I would see stories about gangs in the Bronx that were killing drug-pushers who targeted young people in the area. The police would find their bodies on the kerb at the bottom of five-storey buildings they’d been thrown off. The gangs included the Savage Nomads and the Dirty Dozen, but the one I was most interested in was the most dangerous: the Savage Skulls.

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De Autoriteit Financiële Markten zag afgelopen zomer een sterke toename van misleidende beleggingsinformatie op sociale media. De toezichthouder waarschuwt voor ‘finfluencers’ die beleggingsadvies geven. NRC sprak drie van hen.

Met hogesnelheidscamera’s en aanraakschermen hebben biologen onderzocht welke vlinders het moeilijkst te vangen zijn.

Onder grote politieke druk kwam het kabinet met een nieuw voorstel voor het belasten van vermogens in box 3. Per 2028 moet er een nagenoeg volledige vermogenswinstbelasting zijn. De rekening daarvoor komt niet bij werkenden, maar bij spaarders, beleggers en ondernemers te liggen.

EVENT: There are two boundaries around any AI system in a regulated industry, and they have different owners. One is the jurisdiction: what data can leave the country, and under whose rules. The other is the building: what can leave your own estate at all, and who signs for it when it does. Most AI programs do not stall on the model. They stall here, on where the data lives, who can reach it, and what an auditor will accept as evidence twelve months from now. The proprietary data that makes an AI system worth building is the same data that makes it a risk to build. And the boundary drawn around a pilot has a habit of quietly becoming the boundary around production, whether or not anyone chose it. A product sheet does not answer those questions. They get answered case by case, with a particular regulator and a particular legal team in the room, which is why The Register is putting them to HPE and NVIDIA over dinner in Washington on Thursday 29 October. Editor-in-chief Matt Rosoff takes the chair and nothing is on the record. HPE sends Thierry Pienaar, HPE Fellow and Chief Technology Officer for HPC and AI Worldwide Sales. NVIDIA sends Bert Condensa, Vice President for Enterprise AI Factory Segment Sales. Both are there to take questions. Nobody is bringing slides, and the chair cuts off anyone who starts pitching. The evening runs under the Chatham House Rule, so what is said can be used and who said it cannot. That is what makes the useful answers possible, like what a hospital group’s legal team refused to sign, and what it signed instead. On the table: which infrastructure options actually hold a boundary, what each one costs in capital, in capability or in elasticity, and whether any of it survives the move from planning into running operations. The table is for technology, data and risk leaders in healthcare, financial services, research, pharmaceuticals, government and higher education who are making these calls now rather than next year. Dinner runs from 6.00pm to 8.30pm at Fiola Mare. Places are limited and go by invitation. Request one here. Government and public sector guests: where your agency’s ethics rules require it, you can pay your own share and we will provide a receipt. Please say so when you request an invitation.

OpenAI’s DevDay keynote was this week, and it featured a cameo mention of everyone’s favorite underpants merchant who also sells databases, AWS. I saw Simon Willison’s liveblog comment and felt very seen: “My eyes glazed over a bit at the AWS partnership section, but it only lasted a few seconds.” With today's more interesting but also largely unheralded announcement, you can now retire your OpenAI spend commitments via a list of (at launch) 32 partners, just like the AWS Marketplace has done for years. The last cloud war was fought over who got to run the customer’s infrastructure. The next one will be fought over who gets to steer the customer’s next purchase. OpenAI plays chess while Anthropic eats checkers OpenAI is making a fascinating play here. By making its Codex harness open-source, and including Baseten in its marketplace for access to open models, OpenAI is effectively saying “we hope our models win on their merits, not because we'll break your thumbs if you use others.” The Baseten partnership is itself the most interesting one they've trotted out; it's the first real sign we've seen from OpenAI that they view open models (that they themselves have not released) as anything other than an existential threat. This is going to become a massive bellwether as to whether the "Open" in their name is words on a page, or a deeper philosophy. Distribution will almost certainly matter more than a temporary lead in model quality. OpenAI seems to understand that, and lets you use subsidized subscription accounts with other tools. Anthropic disagrees; if you try to use a Claude Pro account with OpenCode, you will shortly find that you no longer have a working Claude Pro account. It's almost Microsoftian. Strong-arm edicts around how your product must be used or integrated into workflows only lead to success in the minds of executives who also think AWS is a leader in AI; that is to say, “their company has a SharePoint server.” For the rest of us, there is no obvious durable advantage that either of the two frontier labs can sustain over one another on the model front. OpenAI is clearly the first to recognize that its ability to steer the customer’s next purchase decision is a power all its own. There are substantial caveats The fine print is never as tidy as the glossy brochure suggests. While specific terms are only available within enterprise OpenAI accounts, the details that have been publicly exposed so far show that they’re being cautious at launch. Only a fixed percentage of spend up to a cap applies; eligibility is specific to the customer, product, and purchase in question; and curiously the billing is direct through the partner, with OpenAI handling commitment reconciliation on their end separately. There’s no self-service here, and thus zero publicly testable indication yet as to what types of spend (if indeed any) make it through the approval gauntlet. But assuming it takes off, vendors will gain access to customers and committed budget that's already been allocated, which is super for them. In exchange, they risk depending on OpenAI’s eligibility decisions and discovery mechanisms; if this takes off, the odds are terrific that Baseten will not be the only open model provider in the marketplace, and, just like the cloud providers before them, OpenAI's marketplace will follow the natural evolution of such things and begin eating its partners. This means that we're heading for a showdown. You can imagine that many customers will have obligations to both AWS and OpenAI. Which agreement will get the credit for a third-party purchase? More interestingly, who at the customer is going to be the one who ultimately controls that decision: engineering, procurement, finance — or the vendor’s account team? This is something that every AWS customer with an enterprise account team in place struggles with. To that end, I’ve felt for a while that the model labs are becoming this generation’s cloud providers, while the cloud providers are becoming this generation’s IBM. IBM does an awful lot of stuff (I know, I know, it's valuable! Please do not send me a fax!), almost none of it headline-making. But those deals trend towards getting signed on a golf course with an enterprise sales team, not on the IBM website at 3AM because you're trying to solve a problem. While the company still has some money-printing machines in it, Big Blue's days of being the center of the tech universe are long gone, and were it to go out of business tomorrow, some of its divisions would apparently not realize it for at least five years. It's part of the furniture, not the driver of technology adoption. Meanwhile, the "we're throwing a bunch of stuff out there, keeping track of what we release is rapidly becoming a full-time job, and things that sucked yesterday are suddenly smooth sailing today" has become squarely the province of the frontier labs. The war for enterprise relevance Allowing competing models into the ecosystem doesn't necessarily demonstrate philosophical enlightenment. It can serve to make larger OpenAI commitments more palatable ("Hey, if we aren't going to use up all of our commitment we can burn it on other vendors!"), attract more vendors into OpenAI's partnership program to absorb that overflow spend, and give customers fewer reasons to leave. OpenAI's marketplace puts it in a position to benefit from decisions well beyond model selection; its contract becomes a consideration when customers choose other software. AWS's risk here is compatible with continued financial success. More agents will presumably mean more AWS consumption. But the customer might increasingly start with OpenAI, select a variety of tools through its ecosystem, and only encounter AWS as an implementation detail, not materially different than a datacenter provider. Simon Willison tuning out the AWS mention in the keynote isn't evidence of AWS's decline. But it does show that AWS turning up was incredibly easy to miss, while the stuff that matters to enterprise buyers may one day be looked back upon as a passing of a torch. ®

DEN HAAG (ANP) - Ondernemersvereniging ONL voor Ondernemers vreest voor de pensioenen van haar achterban als de dinsdag gepresenteerde kabinetsplannen voor box 3 doorgaan. Dan zouden beleggers vanaf een lager bedrag belasting gaan betalen over hun rendement. "Veel mkb'ers hebben geen pensioenfonds achter zich: hun spaargeld en beleggingen zijn hun pensioen. Een ondernemer die al jaren belegt en zijn winst liquide maakt, betaalt daarover maar liefst 36 procent", reageert de belangenorganisatie.

ONL voor Ondernemers is wel blij dat het minderheidskabinet ervoor kiest om pas belasting te heffen op het moment dat het rendement wordt geïnd en niet al op het moment dat dit is behaald. "Belasting betalen over geld dat je nog helemaal niet hebt verdiend, was vanaf het begin een absurd idee. Goed dat het kabinet dat nu ook inziet. Maar wie de kleine lettertjes leest, ziet dat de rekening wordt betaald door ondernemers en kleine beleggers en spaarders", zegt voorzitter Erik Ziengs van ONL voor Ondernemers.

NASHVILLE (ANP) - Een Amerikaanse rechtbank heeft de executie van de 50-jarige Christa Pike op het laatste moment tegengehouden. Dat meldt het lokale tv-station WVLT op basis van rechtbankdocumenten. De rechters willen nagaan of beschuldigingen van seksueel misbruik tijdens haar jeugd voldoende zijn meegenomen tijdens de rechtszaak in 1996.

Pike kreeg de doodstraf omdat zij als 18-jarige samen met haar toenmalige vriend een 19-jarige vrouw vermoordde.

Op het metroperron van station Schiedam liep woensdagmiddag een verwarde man rond met een mes. De politie probeerde de man zover te krijgen om het mes neer te leggen. Daar gaf de man geen gehoor aan, dus werd hij getaserd.

Op het metroperron van station Schiedam liep woensdagmiddag een verwarde man rond met een mes. De politie probeerde de man zover te krijgen om het mes neer te leggen. Daar gaf de man geen gehoor aan, dus werd hij getaserd.

de98lip has added a photo to the pool:

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Surveillance isn’t just about who is collecting the data. Surveillance is, of course, also about who that data ends up with. A great story from Jason today looks at that with Flock and other automatic license plate reader (ALPR) data: some local cops are being forced to feed their ALPR data into obscure federal systems where that data may be kept for much longer than usual, and searched by many more people and agencies than the residents being surveilled probably realize.

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How Cities Are Forced to Funnel License Plate Data to a Massive Federal Surveillance Program

The Trump administration is using an anti-drug trafficking grant program from the 1980s to force cities around the country to funnel their ongoing collection of automated license plate reader data into large federal surveillance centers that fall under the White House’s jurisdiction, according to public records and court documents reviewed by 404 Media.