Fernando Alonso's love affair with Formula 1 will continue as the Spaniard has opted to stick around for at least another year with Aston Martin.

The F1 Business Summit returns on 19 November at Caesars Palace, with Haas Team Principal Ayao Komatsu, Gordon Ramsay and Russell Wilson among the speakers.

Dit weekend werd een Palestijnse student geschorst door de Universiteit Maastricht, vanwege de „reuring” die ontstond over zijn Instagrampost over de aanslagen van 7 oktober door Hamas. De universiteit wil zo snel mogelijk in gesprek met hem – hij wordt inmiddels bedreigd.

Digger Rockwell moet de wereld redden van een milieuramp die hij zelf heeft veroorzaakt. ‘Digger’ is een frustrerende parel. Met metanarratieven, reflecties op de rol van kunst in een catastrofe, én Tom Cruise in een dikmaakpak. Wat wil je nog meer?

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RABAT (ANP) - Fatima Ezzahra El Mansouri is aangewezen als nieuwe premier van Marokko. Dat maakt het koninklijk paleis in dat land bekend. El Mansouri is de eerste vrouw die voor die post wordt aangewezen. El Mansouri is momenteel nog burgemeester van Marrakesh.

AMSTERDAM (ANP) - De AEX, de belangrijkste graadmeter voor de beurs in Amsterdam, bereikte dinsdag tussentijds een recordstand van 1125 punten, maar wist niet op de hoogste slotstand ooit te sluiten. Vooral chipaandelen waren in trek, net als op Wall Street.

De Amsterdamse hoofdgraadmeter eindigde 0,4 procent hoger op 1120,19 punten. De MidKap, met daarin de middelgrote fondsen op het Damrak, toonde een miniem verlies van 0,1 procent op 1090,98 punten. Dat kwam mede door een koersverlies van advies- en ingenieursbureau Arcadis van 1,5 procent. Het bedrijf hield dinsdag een beleggersdag en kondigde ook aan dat er duizend banen worden geschrapt. Daarnaast gaat Arcadis het merendeel van zijn architectuuractiviteiten afstoten, evenals de activiteiten in China. Het bedrijf wees de afgelopen maanden meerdere ongevraagde overnamebiedingen af van zijn Canadese branchegenoot WSP Global. Die laatste trok vorige week zijn bod in.

De beurzen in Londen en Frankfurt kwamen nauwelijks van hun plek. De CAC 40 in Parijs verloor 0,5 procent.

Biotechnoloog Pharming zakte 3,7 procent in de MidKap. Topman Fabrice Chouraqui treedt met onmiddellijke ingang af. Volgens Pharming is dat besluit in wederzijds overleg genomen vanwege meningsverschillen over de te volgen strategie van het bedrijf.

De chipbedrijven in Amsterdam stonden bij de winnaars. Besi, ASMI en ASML klommen tot 4,4 procent. Maritiem oliedienstverlener SBM Offshore en Shell behoorden tot de grootste dalers in de hoofdindex met minnen tot 3,3 procent. Dat had te maken met een daling van de olieprijzen. Dinsdag werd ook bekend dat Shell een definitief investeringsbesluit heeft genomen om de productie van vloeibaar gemaakt aardgas (lng) in Canada te verdubbelen. Daardoor stijgt de jaarlijkse productiecapaciteit van de faciliteit van LNG Canada in Kitimat in de provincie British Columbia van 14 miljoen ton naar 28 miljoen ton. Het gas is bedoeld voor export naar Azië.

De Zwitserse chocoladefabrikant Lindt & Sprüngli dook 9 procent omlaag in Zürich na een verlaging van de omzetverwachting voor dit jaar.

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Destroy Any Website lets you... well, what it says on the tin.
(Keyboard and mouse required.)

WASD to move, mouse to aim and shoot, right click to throw grenades. Multiplayer mode available for up to six people. Destroy Any Website was created using Sprite Fusion, which means there was probably some AI involved in the pixel art/animation.

That women are horny and eat hot dogs. We're messy. We're not cute all the time. (slTorontoLife)

Slo Pitch was a Canadian webseries about the Brovaries, a underachieving softball team consisting of LGTBQ and non-binary players; now it's back and now on Crave (home to Heated Rivalry). "Slo Pitch isn't sexy, but it's very horny" - co-creator Karen Knox It's currently only airing in Canada, with no word about a US distributor, use that VPN if you got it! The new series is produced by Elliot Page's production company, PageBoy, and here is a Toronto Star interview with two of the stars, Emily Hampshire (best known for Schitt's Creek) and Jess Salgueiro.

• ‘Sham’ contracts helped inflate revenues by £900m

• Commission finds club guilty over nine-season period

Manchester City have been found guilty of all charges related to serious breaches of the Premier League’s financial rules over a nine-season period, the league has announced.

The league also said an independent commission had found City guilty of the majority of charges in relation to its failure to cooperate with the league’s investigation.

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• ‘I wouldn’t feel comfortable … I don’t think we deserved it’

• Manchester United finished second to City in 2011-12

Wayne Rooney does not believe it would be appropriate for Manchester City to be stripped of titles for breaching Premier League financial rules, even if it gave him another Premier League winner’s medal, as that would be unfair of the City players and staff whose endeavours secured success.

City are waiting to find out what sanctions they will face after being found guilty of more than a hundred charges, with an array of potential punishments on the table. Rooney was part of the United squad in 2011-12 that finished second to City on goal difference after Sergio Agüero’s last-minute winner secured the Premier League trophy for Roberto Mancini’s side on the final day.

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One man’s irresponsible drilling causes a global crisis in Iñárritu’s exasperatingly laborious, self-congratulatory film

A new movie from the Oscar-winning Mexican director Alejandro González Iñárritu is always an event. So it’s disconcerting to discover that the event in question is the most disappointing film of the year: an exasperatingly shallow, laborious, self-congratulatory satire with a trick up its sleeve, featuring very good actors giving not very good performances. There are moments to enjoy in Tom Cruise’s boisterous leading turn, yes, but the film’s value resides chiefly in some dreamlike and disturbing images, distorted and bulging from the screen, conjured by cinematographer Emmanuel Lubezki and production designer Dennis Gassner.

An ageing, paunchy Texan oil tycoon called “Digger” Rockwell is seen fretfully getting up in the morning, cooing over his horrible old incontinent cat, taking urgent messages from underlings about a certain situation developing in his drilling station in the frozen Arctic. He is played by Tom Cruise with a wispy baldingness and various other prostheses, together with a good-ol’-boy twang and a Stetson borrowed from Slim Pickens’s bomb-riding army major in Kubrick’s Dr Strangelove. His prized possession is the battered old shovel his granddaddy used a century before, digging for black gold as a penniless young man in the lone star state. Digger likes to brandish this to make a point.

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Patrick Branco Ruivo to leave post after decision contrary to France’s ‘value of equality’ sparked outrage and strike

The head of the operating company that runs the Eiffel Tower is to step down after a row over female staff being ordered to stay out of sight during a visit by a Hindu religious group.

Patrick Branco Ruivo will leave his job at the end of the year, the Eiffel Tower Operating Company (Sete) announced in a statement on Tuesday.

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De rechtbank Rotterdam heeft een 43-jarige man uit Vlaardingen veroordeeld tot tbs met dwangverpleging. De man stak vorig jaar mei een supermarktcaissière neer aan de Van Hogendorplaan in Vlaardingen. Omdat de man schizofreen is, krijgt hij naast tbs geen celstraf; zo meldt de rechtbank.

Amid the growing concern about AI models escaping security simulations to hack websites comes word that these "superintelligent" blobs of code have no understanding of privacy or security. Researchers affiliated with Glow Security, a startup whose backers include venture capital funds Sequoia and Greenoaks, have found more than 13,000 sensitive screenshots of corporate software projects from 343 companies that were posted to public GitHub repos by AI models. They're calling the discovery PixelLeak. "We started seeing this behavior where AI agents, not from a particular model, but from multiple models, were releasing internal sensitive developer screenshots to public GitHub repositories," said Omer Singer, co-founder and CTO, in an interview with The Register. "And we said, 'Okay, well that's strange. Why are they doing that?'" When developers work on interface code, said Singer, they often ask their AI agent to show them before and after images. But these AI agents couldn't attach images to a pull request in a private repository via the CLI. GitHub doesn't have an API for uploading images to pull requests, issues, or comments. "So the agents, being helpful the way that they are, they found a workaround," Singer explained. "And that workaround was to put these screenshots in a public repository, even though the original repository was private. They put them in a public repository and then they show the developer, 'Look, here you see the before and after. What do you think looks good?' The developer says, 'Great' and moves on." The problem with this is, of course, that screenshots of development work in progress may reveal sensitive information. Singer said Glow researchers found 343 organizations where this was happening, including a Fortune 500 travel company, finance companies, cloud providers, and foundation model companies. One instance involved a manufacturer with more than 100,000 employees where a developer asked an AI agent to verify an internal billing screen. The agent did the work and posted a demo to the developer's personal GitHub account rather than the company's account. The security team for the company was unaware of the posts until Glow reported the finding. Incidents like this can reveal personal information, credentials – both of which Glow personnel found – or details of unreleased products. "The AI agents were doing this without asking, basically just to get around the limitations," said Singer. "And we think it's such an interesting story because everybody's trying to figure out what is the real risk with these AI agents. They know that they're not fully in control, but what is the impact? And here we found this great example where there was no attacker involved but you still had very sensitive data making its way out into the open where anybody could find it." About a third of the exposures, according to Glow, came from developers who were using gitshot, an open source screenshot tool for code reviews. The software comes with a clear warning: "Privacy notice: The gitshot-images repo is created as public by default, meaning uploaded images are accessible to anyone with the URL. Do not upload sensitive content (credentials, internal dashboards, private data) using the default release backend." While human developers have to be trusted to report the thought process that led them to enable an agent's data exposure, AI agents prove easier to read thanks to their chain-of-thought process. Glow analyzed one such agent in its lab to understand the step-by-step reasoning trace: internal_sweeper is private, and GitHub cannot render images from a private repo in a PR description — its image proxy fetches anonymously, so anything committed here (branch, release asset, whatever) shows up broken for reviewers. The only way to satisfy both "reviewers see the images" and "nothing but index.html in the repo" was to host the PNGs elsewhere, so I created a new public repo, sweeper-demo/pr-assets, holding the two screenshots pinned to a commit SHA. Singer suggested these incidents illustrate that AI creates security risks even without conducting or enabling attacks. "The biggest risk factor that we're seeing is in legitimate AI being used by developers, but then doing things that should not be done, putting data at risk, putting systems at risk, and [these models] just don't have the common sense not to do it." Singer said current discussions about AI risk, and seeing how relentless these AI models are in their efforts to show screenshots, reminded him of the Paperclip Maximizer – a thought experiment about existential AI risk that imagines how the world would end if an AI were tasked with producing paperclips and did so until it consumed all the resources in the known universe. It's also an example of programming malpractice - don't write endless loops inadvertently; include a paperclip count break value. If only that sense of professional responsibility were extended to the deployment of AI agents. ®

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Amsterdam, bekend van vuil, smerigheid en troep, heeft na het idee om juist géén prullenbakken te plaatsen nu bedacht om juist wél prullenbakken te plaatsen. En dan ook nog eens gloednieuwe. En dan ook nog eens niet zomaar gloednieuwe prullenbakken, nee, geavanceerde gloednieuwe prullenbakken, en dan ook nog eens uitgerust met met statiegeldvakken. Heeft de Amsterdammer te danken aan overleg met ja iedereen eigenlijk: "Bij het ontwerp is onder meer geluisterd naar reinigers, statiegeldverzamelaars en andere stadsgenoten." Worden prullenbakken dan straks niet meer opengebroken en leeggeratst en behandeld als grofvuil? Wordt de droom van een schone hoofdstad werkelijkheid? Moet JA21 Amsterdam dan toch stoppen met de #stopdetroep-actie? De vooruitzichten zijn: wonderschoon. Toch wachten we nog even af wat statiegeldverzamelaarsvakbondicoon Reggie van deze ontwikkelingen vindt en of hij definitief akkoord is. Zien jullie op prullenbakteldag.

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