Twee gewapende overvallers stormen op zaterdagochtend 19 september een juwelierszaak aan de Voorstraat in Dordrecht binnen. Eén van hen bedreigt een medewerker met een vuurwapen. De ander slaat naar hem met een hamer. In de winkel zijn op dat moment meerdere klanten, onder wie een moeder met twee jonge kinderen. De overvallers vluchten uiteindelijk zonder buit. De politie zoekt het tweetal.

De politie hoopt met duidelijke camerabeelden de verdachte van een beroving in Rotterdam-Overschie te arresteren. Een minderjarige jongen moet onder bedreiging zijn telefoon en pinpas afgeven. Tien minuten later gebruikt de verdachte de gestolen pas in een winkel.

De politie hoopt met duidelijke camerabeelden de verdachte van een beroving in Rotterdam-Overschie te arresteren. Een minderjarige jongen moet onder bedreiging zijn telefoon en pinpas afgeven. Tien minuten later gebruikt de verdachte de gestolen pas in een winkel.

SOESTERBERG (ANP) - Nederland moet vanwege de personeelskrapte in de bouwsector scherpere keuzes maken over wat het wil realiseren en wanneer. Dat heeft de directeur van het Economisch Instituut voor de Bouw (EIB) gezegd bij de presentatie van een rapport over de verwachtingen voor de arbeidsmarkt in de bouw de komende jaren. Nederland wil veel meer nieuwe woningen bouwen, het net uitbreiden, verduurzamen en infrastructuur onderhouden, maar dat kan niet allemaal tegelijk, waarschuwt EIB-directeur Taco van Hoek. Bepaalde doelen, zoals gasloze wijken in 2050, zijn niet haalbaar en hebben meer tijd nodig, vindt hij.

Donderdag meldde het EIB dat de bouw tot 2030 naar verwachting zo'n 73.000 extra medewerkers nodig heeft om het aantal uitstromers en de voorziene productiegroei op te kunnen vangen. De opschaling bij Defensie en de defensie-industrie maakt het de bouw extra moeilijk, omdat ze flink concurreren om personeel met die sector.

Om zo goed mogelijk om te gaan met de krapte en de uitdagingen voor de bouw, zou de politiek volgens Van Hoek haalbaardere doelen moeten stellen.

PARIJS (ANP/BLOOMBERG) - De verkopen van luxemerk Gucci zijn in het derde kwartaal harder gedaald dan kenners alom hadden verwacht, vooral door zwakke cijfers in China. Het herstelplan van het merk van het Franse luxeconcern Kering loopt al jaren moeizaam. Toch hebben niet alle westerse merken het moeilijk in het economisch minder goed presterende China. L'Oréal, dat ook veel producten heeft in lagere prijsklassen, groeit er juist hard.

De omzet van Gucci daalde gecorrigeerd voor onder meer wisselkoersen met 6 procent, meldde Kering donderdag. Dat is slechter dan de min van ruim 3 procent die analisten hadden voorzien. De cijfers volgen op tegenvallende omzetcijfers van concurrenten LVMH, bekend van Louis Vuitton, en Hermès.

De omzet van L'Oréal is echter ruim boven de verwachtingen uitgekomen. Het Franse cosmeticaconcern zag de vraag naar haarproducten in kapsalons en naar huidverzorging sterk toenemen. In het derde kwartaal groeide de omzet in de regio Noord-Azië, waarin ook China ligt, met bijna 8 procent. Dat is meer dan 3 procentpunt boven de schattingen van analisten.

DEN HAAG (ANP) - AIVD-baas Simone Smit houdt er rekening mee dat AI zelf een nieuwe dreiging gaat vormen, los van bestaande dreigingen waarvoor kunstmatige intelligentie wordt ingezet. Dat zegt de directeur-generaal van de Algemene Inlichtingen- en Veiligheidsdienst in podcast Wereldupdate van denktank Clingendael.

Smit ziet dat "AI ook echt als een geopolitiek instrument wordt ingezet. Het biedt ongelooflijk veel kansen, maar het is ook echt een dreiging waar wij onderzoek naar doen. We zien meer en meer dat dat misschien zelfs wel een op zichzelf staande dreiging is."

Eerder waarschuwde de AIVD al, samen met andere veiligheidsdiensten, voor AI omdat het kwaadwillenden kan helpen. Dat kan bijvoorbeeld met het uitvoeren van grootschalige cyberaanvallen. "De aanvallen worden door AI groter, complexer en zullen toenemen", schreven de diensten toen.

An anonymous reader quotes a report from the BBC: Google is facing a backlash from some staff members over the company's deployment of its AI technology for military use. The BBC has spoken to several tech workers who have either recently resigned from Google's AI company, Google DeepMind, or are in the process of leaving, over concerns with the tech firm's military contracts. Sofia Liguori, a London-based research engineer, is one of them. She resigned from Google DeepMind this week and spoke about her concerns exclusively with the BBC, despite her contract restricting her from doing so.

"Realizing my company is pushing more and more for AI systems in military operations makes me feel ashamed to work at Google," Liguori said, speaking in a personal capacity. [...] After working for the company for three years, Liguori said she decided to resign over Google's increasing work with the US and Israeli militaries. "I don't agree with this direction and this has led me to lose faith in my company being true to its stated ethical values," she said. Those values, according to Google's AI Principles, include implementing AI with "human oversight" and aligning the technology with "international law and human rights." But former and current staff at the company, and experts the BBC spoke to, said they were concerned about the level of human oversight at critical moments.

The tech workers said they are particularly worried about the AI military deals signed this year, because they greatly increase the scope of what the Pentagon can use the technology for. Andreas Kirsch, an AI researcher, also resigned from Google DeepMind earlier this month over his concerns. Kirsch told the BBC that he believes "Google's governance and oversight are not sufficient or meaningful enough to deploy AI safely and responsibly in military and classified settings" or "to develop artificial superintelligence safely in the future." "Google seems to have no right to control or veto how the Pentagon uses its AI and also seems to have limited visibility into how it's being deployed," he added.

[...] Employees at Google have told the BBC that staff are scared to speak out about AI safety and its uses in warfare because their employment contracts prohibit them from publicly criticizing the company. "In principle I'm not allowed to criticize Google for the duration of my life," Sofia Liguori told the BBC. But she decided to do so "because I believe it's important for these things to be known and I also think that talking about facts is not criticizing." Liguori added that at Google "people are scared of retaliation and putting their career at risk. You feel you are being watched, you can't speak."

A current employee at Google DeepMind, who declined to be named for fear of retaliation, told the BBC that "a lot of motivated employees who signed up for [the company's] original mission could leave -- but there's also a pipeline of people at the start of the careers who could fill those positions. It could be a changing of the guard." Another Google DeepMind staff member, who also wished to remain anonymous, told the BBC: "A lot of people have left the company that feel strongly about this [how Google DeepMind has changed its ethics position]." "Some people are putting up a fight, others are thinking: 'it's a big company. What do you expect to change?'", the employee said. In response, a Google spokesperson told the BBC: "We work with public sector organisations worldwide and follow a consistent process for reviewing and entering these contracts, including compliance with our acceptable use policies and AI principles."

"We also have dedicated channels for employees to safely raise any concerns -- ranging from business ethics to misconduct -- and have strict workplace policies in place to prevent retaliation of any kind."

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Het linkse bolwerk Nantes worstelt met het geweld na de rellen van afgelopen zaterdag. Bij demonstranten en sympathisanten overheerst boosheid over de staat van het onderwijs, de kosten van het levensonderhoud en het hardhandige politieoptreden. „Ze vechten tegen tieners, tegen mensen met spandoeken.”

De FBI ontwikkelde samen met een informant uit het criminele milieu de cryptofoon Anom, die door duizenden criminelen in meer dan honderd landen werd gebruikt. Deze vorm van misleiding staat bekend als de honey pot-methode. Volgens een Nederlandse advocaat zijn niet alleen criminelen maar ook rechters misleid.

Twee miljoen van de tien miljoen Israëliërs zijn Arabisch, van wie een deel zich identificeert als Palestijns. Deze groep gaat minder vaak naar de stembus dan Joodse Israëliërs, maar dat kan dinsdag veranderen. „In de afgelopen jaren hebben we begrepen dat er een rechts bestaat dat nog veel erger is dan rechts.”

This Is What It’s Like to Spend Your Life in Prison. “None of us want to be defined solely by the person we were in our youth, or by the worst thing we ever did. The men serving life without parole feel the same way.”

Lawmakers in Albania's parliament clashed on Thursday as opposition MPs attempted to disrupt a session, throwing objects and ripping microphones from the desks of members of the ruling majority. Several opposition MPs held up images of students injured by police during protests in the capital, Tirana

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The current US administration is an obstacle, but public demand for protection will ultimately prevail

Organisations around the world scrambled on Thursday to fix critical flaws in PHP, the software that powers much of the web. The vulnerabilities could allow attackers to take control of affected servers. Some websites were taken offline as a precaution while fixes were installed. The paradox is that while AI helped researchers uncover the flaw, it also threatens to accelerate the ability to exploit it. Amazon said that it had detected an attempt before the public disclosure of the PHP flaws.

What the episode highlights is AI’s central role in security – and not always for the right reasons. OpenAI’s models have also been responsible for two alarming hacks this year – a security breach of an Australian health department website and a raid by a swarm of AI bots on Hugging Face, an AI services platform. Citing those incidents, the AI minister, Kanishka Narayan, warned that a similar cyber-attack on the UK is “likely, if not inevitable”.

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Tech company previously complied with president’s demand to rename Gulf of Mexico as Gulf of America

Donald Trump said Google rejected his request to rename the Atlantic Ocean after himself or America.

Speaking at a rally in South Carolina on Wednesday, the president said he had called Google’s CEO, Sundar Pichai, to ask whether the company could “handle” his proposal.

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Far-right activist says he used private investigators to track down journalists but denies trying to intimidate them

The far-right activist Tommy Robinson has told his harassment trial that he used private investigators to track down journalists who had written about his alleged role in the 2024 riots, and had photographs taken of their homes “to put pressure” on them.

Robinson, whose real name is Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, denied in court that his actions, which included sharing photos of the wife and daughter of one of the journalists, were designed to intimidate and bully.

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GitLab on Wednesday patched a maximum-severity flaw that could allow unauthenticated attackers to execute arbitrary code on self-managed servers under certain conditions. Affected software releases date back a full 12 years - so upgrade to a fixed version now. The integer overflow bug, tracked as CVE-2026-110264, affects regular-expression compilation in GitLab Community Edition (CE) and Enterprise Edition (EE), including versions dating back to GitLab 7.0, released in June 2014. The flaw, “under certain conditions, could have allowed an unauthenticated user to execute arbitrary code on the GitLab server due to integer overflow when compiling a specially crafted regular expression,” the vendor said in its release notes. GitLab released fixes in versions 19.5.1, 19.4.3, and 19.3.6, and backported the patch to versions 19.2.9, 19.1.9, 19.0.10, and 18.11.13. The vendor “strongly recommends” that all organizations running vulnerable software upgrade to a fixed version “as soon as possible.” GitLab-managed infrastructure, including GitLab.com and GitLab Dedicated, remains patched, and the vendor also released two threat detections (here and here) for customers with self-managed instances. Bug hunter Johan Carlsson reported the vulnerability through GitLab’s HackerOne bug bounty program. “For organizations running self-managed GitLab infrastructure, the potential impact is severe,” warned threat-detection firm SOC Prime. “GitLab repositories frequently contain source code, CI/CD configuration, deployment secrets, access tokens, infrastructure definitions, and connections to production environments. Server-level compromise could therefore create opportunities for credential theft, repository manipulation, supply chain attacks, persistence, or lateral movement.” While there’s no indication - yet - of any in-the-wild exploitation attempts, we’d expect criminals to start scanning for vulnerable instances soon. The ongoing PHP chaos may have given defenders a short head-start on this one, but considering the perfect 10 CVSS severity rating and GitLab’s reach into the enterprise - it claims 50 million registered users and more than 50 percent of the Fortune 100 - that’s not going to last long. Last month, attackers started battering another max-severity flaw in the same GitLab CE and EE products just days after the vendor issued a patch, according to the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency and private researchers.®

Freddie Slater will get behind the wheel of Audi's challenger for FP1 in Mexico City and Sao Paulo.