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Central Australian flowering plant of the Fabaceae family ...
De tot symbool van de Spaanse wooncrisis uitgegroeide Maricarmen werd vorige week haar huis uitgezet, omdat ze na een forse verhoging de huur niet meer kan betalen. Maandagavond bereikte haar advocaat alsnog een akkoord met de eigenaren van het pand.
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MADRID (ANP/AFP) - De 87-jarige vrouw die vorige week uit haar woning in Madrid werd gezet, kan door een akkoord met de verhuurder toch in het huis blijven wonen. De advocaat van de hoogbejaarde Maricarmen Abascal heeft dat maandagavond laat aan verslaggevers laten weten. Abascal moet de nieuwe huurovereenkomst volgens de Spaanse omroep RTVE zelf nog wel ondertekenen.
Maricarmen Abascal woonde ruim zeventig jaar in haar appartement in Madrid, maar kon de huur na een enorme verhoging niet meer betalen. Volgens El País zou de huur van 500 naar 2650 euro per maand gaan. Haar advocaat laat weten dat de verhuurder "uit goede wil" heeft besloten dat het maandbedrag de komende acht jaar ongeveer blijft wat het was.
De uithuiszetting leidde tot massaprotesten in Spanje en groeide uit tot een symbool van de Spaanse wooncrisis. In het centrum van Madrid ontstond een tentenkamp, waar in de nacht van maandag op dinsdag voor de derde nacht gekampeerd werd. Ook in Barcelona werd gedemonstreerd.
AMSTERDAM (ANP/RTR) - Een 24-jarige man uit Amsterdam is deze maand aangehouden in een onderzoek naar de hackersgroep ShinyHunters. Dat meldt de politie op X, zonder verdere details te delen. "Morgen komen wij met meer info", staat in het bericht.
ShinyHunters wordt in verband gebracht met diverse grote hacks. De hackersgroep eiste onder meer de hack bij onderwijsplatform Canvas en bij Odido eerder dit jaar op. De cybercriminelen zouden ook achter digitale inbraken bij pornowebsite Pornhub, softwarebedrijf Salesforce en ticketverkoper Ticketmaster zitten.
De 24-jarige verdachte wordt dinsdag voorgeleid voor de raadkamer van de rechtbank Rotterdam. Anonieme bronnen melden aan RTL Nieuws dat het gaat om Pepijn van der S., die in 2023 werd veroordeeld tot vier jaar celstraf voor het hacken en afpersen van bedrijven. Sinds begin dit jaar was hij volgens RTL op vrije voeten.
Ook een voormalig werkgever van Van der S. meldt dat het om hem gaat. In een telefonisch interview met persbureau Reuters zegt Benjamin Korper, CEO van het in Amsterdam gevestigde cybersecuritybedrijf Neo Security, dat forensische onderzoekers zijn kantoor bezochten op 15 september, de avond dat de politie de man arresteerde. Dat zou zijn gebeurd tijdens een politie-inval waarbij ook flitsgranaten werden gebruikt.
ShinyHunters laat in een reactie aan BNR en RTL Nieuws weten geen band te hebben met Pepijn van der S. "Eerlijk gezegd moeten we erom lachen. De Nederlandse politie is uit op aandacht en publieke waardering na de enorme blamage rond de Odido-hack. Ze willen de indruk wekken dat ze bij het onderzoek naar ShinyHunters de FBI voor zijn", aldus de hackersgroep tegen RTL.
SAN FRANCISCO (ANP/RTR/BLOOMBERG) - Het nieuwste model van ontwikkelaar OpenAI zal niet begin oktober worden gelanceerd, zoals gepland was. The Wall Street Journal meldde in de nacht van maandag op dinsdag dat er veiligheidszorgen zijn over het model GPT-6.1 Astra. Het wordt daarom nog niet beschikbaar gesteld aan gebruikers.
Saachi Jain, die binnen OpenAI over de veiligheid gaat, bevestigde in een verklaring tegenover CNBC dat GPT-6.1 Astra uit veiligheidsoverwegingen nog niet op de markt komt. Het model "voldoet niet helemaal aan de eisen voor wat betreft het binnen de grenzen en de bevoegdheden blijven", aldus Jain. Ook laat het model steken vallen "op de manier waarop het aan de gebruiker terugkoppelt over het soort werk dat het heeft verricht".
OpenAI lanceerde eerder deze maand GPT-6 Astra, volgens het bedrijf "het slimste en best afgestemde model ter wereld". GPT-6 biedt bepaalde betalende gebruikers van ChatGPT een AI-agent aan die zelfstandig omvangrijke taken uitvoert.
OpenAI has detailed the extent of the dirty deeds its agents indulged in Down Under in a Tuesday blog post titled How we will do better for Australia, which addresses last week’s news that one of its models improperly accessed a website that stores data related to national health scheme Medicare. “Our models accessed Australian government websites in ways they were not authorised to,” the post opens. “We also should have handled our response better. We are sorry and working to do better in the future.” The post offers some new detail on the Medicare incident, saying that it involved “an experimental, internal-only OpenAI model that was not intended for public release and without the full set of safeguards used in our publicly available products.” OpenAI gave the model the job of researching government spending per person on medicines for skin conditions in one Australian state. “The model had difficulty obtaining that information, and it took actions that we had not authorised it to take,” OpenAI admitted. “In the course of looking for this information at Services Australia’s Medicare Statistics Reporting Service, it discovered a way to gain non-public access to the service. It then used this access to review technical system information and source code related to the service – all still with the objective of trying to find the information it was originally looking for.” The Register last week asked OpenAI if the company conducted the tests itself or used a partner. The company did not respond to our request. In another incident disclosed in the new post, the company’s bots visited the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare and tried, unsuccessfully, to bypass access controls. The agents were still able to retrieve statistics using third-party browsing and download services, including from the institute’s website. “The downloaded material appears to have been publicly available. There was no system compromise. Individual medical records were not accessed,” OpenAI wrote. The company didn’t report the incident because it “did not meet our disclosure thresholds because the way it was accessed seemed consistent with public access.” OpenAI changed its mind and notified the Institute on 24 September – the day Australia’s prime minister announced the Medicare incident. Another concerning incident took place at the State of Victoria’s Agency for Health Information, which OpenAI agents visited after they “discovered an exposed access key.” The agent used that key to “retrieve reporting configuration and aggregate survey statistics.” OpenAI has given itself a pass on this one, writing “The extent to which this information should have been accessible is unclear, and depends on VAHI’s access policies. Individual medical records or identifiable survey responses were not accessed.” A fourth incident revealed in the post saw OpenAI agents visit the State of New South Wales’ Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research and make API and website metadata requests using a public-facing research tool. OpenAI has promised it will “commit the resources needed to help affected agencies understand what happened and assess the impact” – whatever that means. It’s also donating credits for the Daybreak cyber-defense service and promised to “establish a taskforce with independent Australian expertise to develop practical policy recommendations for managing risks from increasingly capable AI agents.” That taskforce “will focus on improving notification processes, strengthening coordination between AI developers and government, and identifying measures to better protect government systems.” OpenAI wants the taskforce to deliver recommendations by the end of 2026. The post is very much of the “We’re sorry and we promise to do better in future” genre, pioneered by Meta and popular with entities that leak data or experience outages. The Register expects more of the same sentiments next week, when OpenAI’s Chief Strategy Officer, Jason Kwon, appears before the Australian Senate’s Joint Select Committee on Artificial Intelligence. “He will answer questions about what we know, how we responded, what steps we have taken, and how we will do better going forward,” OpenAI says. ®
Their opposition to Putin led to two of the group being sent to brutal prison camps. Then another was found to be spying for the Kremlin. Shaun Walker reports
It’s January 2012 and Pussy Riot are filming a video in Red Square, Moscow. As snow covers the cobbles and dusts the onion globes of St Basil’s Cathedral, the clock on the Kremlin chimes 11am. Eight women in colourful balaclavas leap on to a stone platform, one with an electric guitar. They start playing their latest song, Putin Has Chickened Out. It’s pretty punchy, with lyrics such as: “The rebellious column is heading to the Kremlin / Windows are exploding in FSB offices.”
The group had formed a few months earlier after Vladimir Putin announced that he planned to return to the Kremlin for a third term as president. Inspired by the Arab spring the previous year, they hoped to bring revolution to Russia and stop Putin. Instead, the state cracked down hard. Three Pussy Riot members were found guilty of hooliganism after later protests, with two spending two years in some of Russia’s harshest jails.
Continue reading...One in 60 adults Fiji lives with HIV but a recent emergency declaration may help address key issues such as syringe sharing
On a recent Friday night, Dr Kesaia Tuidraki’s medical team parked its mobile clinic outside McDonald’s in downtown Suva, Fiji, and grabbed any kid they could to be tested for HIV. Of the 97 people screened, mostly teenagers – some on their way to get a burger, others to buy drugs – one in six tested positive.
“Children are suffering, children are dying, and if that doesn’t move you I don’t know what will,” Tuidraki, country director of Medical Services Pacific, tells the Guardian.
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OpenAI isn’t going to release its newest model because “it showed high levels of what the company saw as deception, or a willingness to mislead users about its actions [and] was also willing to go beyond the original scope of what it was asked to do”.
Whoa, for the 50th anniversary of Songs in the Key of Life, Stevie Wonder has released four additional songs from that recording session. “We didn’t add these songs to the album, but they were part of what I was feeling and discovering as we made it.”
Longtime Slashdot reader schwit1 shares a report from Business Standard: China has expanded overseas travel restrictions for top AI professionals in private firms to include the families of key personnel, further tightening measures designed to prevent the outflow of critical know-how and information to the US. Government agencies have recently begun to share the wider restrictions with affected people, which include prominent startup founders as well as the heads of strategically important companies in AI-related fields, people familiar with the matter said. Direct relatives such as spouses and children of certain AI and chip executives, whose work is considered paramount to state security, are now required to obtain approval from Beijing before going abroad even for short trips, the people said.
That marks a broadening of existing curbs on the freedom of movement of China's most influential tech talent -- a category that encompasses entrepreneurs, researchers and executives. While not an outright ban on travel, the new requirement is likely to exert a further chilling effect on a tech sector already facing unprecedented curbs. China has restricted foreign travel for top AI professionals in private firms such as Alibaba Group Holding Ltd and DeepSeek since earlier this year, Bloomberg News reported in May, reflecting Beijing's determination to safeguard its technology as it makes big strides in AI and chipmaking.
It's unclear whether all those people's families need to follow the new strictures, the people said. China is also separately implementing rules, which became effective Sept 15, for enforcing exit bans in cases ranging from criminal investigations to potential violations of the country's industrial and technological security. Beijing's plan is to add relevant individuals to the list as time goes by, the people said, asking not to be identified discussing a sensitive issue. Government departments have already notified several people of the need to clear family travel, two of the people said.
That marks a broadening of existing curbs on the freedom of movement of China's most influential tech talent -- a category that encompasses entrepreneurs, researchers and executives. While not an outright ban on travel, the new requirement is likely to exert a further chilling effect on a tech sector already facing unprecedented curbs. China has restricted foreign travel for top AI professionals in private firms such as Alibaba Group Holding Ltd and DeepSeek since earlier this year, Bloomberg News reported in May, reflecting Beijing's determination to safeguard its technology as it makes big strides in AI and chipmaking.
It's unclear whether all those people's families need to follow the new strictures, the people said. China is also separately implementing rules, which became effective Sept 15, for enforcing exit bans in cases ranging from criminal investigations to potential violations of the country's industrial and technological security. Beijing's plan is to add relevant individuals to the list as time goes by, the people said, asking not to be identified discussing a sensitive issue. Government departments have already notified several people of the need to clear family travel, two of the people said.
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The Women Who Exposed the "Rape Academy". Three journalists tell the inside story of investigating a dark global network of men assaulting their partners. "One guy would write in and be like, 'I'm thinking of drugging and raping my wife. Who's done this before?' And one guy would be like, 'Yep, I've been doing this for three years. Use this drug.' Others would be like, 'What weight is she?' 'Oh, I did this and I got away with it.' The Behind the Bastards podcast covers one particular website, Coco, in France, along with in one specific offender, Dominique Pelicot, in a two-part series. Episode 1. Episode 2.
The Women Who Exposed the "Rape Academy". Three journalists tell the inside story of investigating a dark global network of men assaulting their partners. "One guy would write in and be like, 'I'm thinking of drugging and raping my wife. Who's done this before?' And one guy would be like, 'Yep, I've been doing this for three years. Use this drug.' Others would be like, 'What weight is she?' 'Oh, I did this and I got away with it.' The Behind the Bastards podcast covers one particular website, Coco, in France, along with in one specific offender, Dominique Pelicot, in a two-part series. Episode 1. Episode 2.
