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Deze maandag begint bewolkt en er trekt een gebied met af en toe wat regen in de eerste helft van de ochtend naar het zuidoosten weg. Daarachter breekt af en toe de zon door en het blijft het geruime tijd droog. Het wordt vanmiddag zo'n 12 of 13 graden, daarmee is het vandaag de zachtste dag van de werkweek.
Meerdere auto's en een motor zijn in de nacht van zondag op maandag uitgebrand in onze regio. Het was raak in Maassluis, Rotterdam en Sommelsdijk. Er raakte niemand gewond bij de voertuigbranden.
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The Washington Post reports:
Tens of thousands of South Koreans had their financial data exposed online in recent weeks after at least nine major banks there suffered cyberattacks that suggested a dark future for online security. One man, a 26-year-old living in southern China, was allegedly behind the attacks, according to an investigation by cybersecurity company CrowdStrike. Traces left online and failure to secure his own systems allowed investigators to piece together the man's name, age, location and what he allegedly did. The clues revealed that the devastating assault on some of Asia's most sophisticated financial institutions was the work of an amateur. The attacks were launched with help from a few artificial intelligence chatbots, CrowdStrike found, before asking one to help sell the stolen data online and draft a fake résumé touting cybersecurity skills...
The hacker who broke into the South Korean banks had access to Anthropic's Claude, but because the U.S. firm's tools generally refuse to take illegal actions, free Chinese models were also used, including DeepSeek, CrowdStrike found. "The models are interchangeable," said Meyers, the CrowdStrike executive.
The Post calls it "part of a wave of AI-enabled hacking that is advancing across the world, triggering alarm inside national governments as well as multinational companies."
"Basically any pedestrian, non-hacker can take these frameworks and start leveraging them to go after different targets," said Adam Meyers, senior vice president of counter adversary operations at CrowdStrike. The company has tracked an increase in the speed with which cyberattacks can move once inside a target's networks, as seasoned hackers and rank amateurs alike get a boost from AI tools. "Anyone can be a super-hacker now," Meyers said... Many cyber experts still expect the security reckoning to intensify as AI tools that can find and exploit software bugs become more widely distributed and understood.
[Last] Monday, The Post reported that cybersecurity researchers from the start-up Cathedral who set out to test Anthropic's security found that they could access internal messages and meeting transcripts. Cathedral reported its findings to Anthropic, which said it resolved the newly discovered problems... Security experts say it's unlikely that any hacker is forgoing the use of AI tools right now.
Even in America, critical infrastructure like energy and water companies need to be "immediately and comprehensively" tested for exploitable bugs, according to Snehal Antani, chief executive of cybersecurity company Horizon3. He tells the Post the government might need to fund that remediation, and even form "a public and private partnership to accelerate incident response."
Tens of thousands of South Koreans had their financial data exposed online in recent weeks after at least nine major banks there suffered cyberattacks that suggested a dark future for online security. One man, a 26-year-old living in southern China, was allegedly behind the attacks, according to an investigation by cybersecurity company CrowdStrike. Traces left online and failure to secure his own systems allowed investigators to piece together the man's name, age, location and what he allegedly did. The clues revealed that the devastating assault on some of Asia's most sophisticated financial institutions was the work of an amateur. The attacks were launched with help from a few artificial intelligence chatbots, CrowdStrike found, before asking one to help sell the stolen data online and draft a fake résumé touting cybersecurity skills...
The hacker who broke into the South Korean banks had access to Anthropic's Claude, but because the U.S. firm's tools generally refuse to take illegal actions, free Chinese models were also used, including DeepSeek, CrowdStrike found. "The models are interchangeable," said Meyers, the CrowdStrike executive.
The Post calls it "part of a wave of AI-enabled hacking that is advancing across the world, triggering alarm inside national governments as well as multinational companies."
"Basically any pedestrian, non-hacker can take these frameworks and start leveraging them to go after different targets," said Adam Meyers, senior vice president of counter adversary operations at CrowdStrike. The company has tracked an increase in the speed with which cyberattacks can move once inside a target's networks, as seasoned hackers and rank amateurs alike get a boost from AI tools. "Anyone can be a super-hacker now," Meyers said... Many cyber experts still expect the security reckoning to intensify as AI tools that can find and exploit software bugs become more widely distributed and understood.
[Last] Monday, The Post reported that cybersecurity researchers from the start-up Cathedral who set out to test Anthropic's security found that they could access internal messages and meeting transcripts. Cathedral reported its findings to Anthropic, which said it resolved the newly discovered problems... Security experts say it's unlikely that any hacker is forgoing the use of AI tools right now.
Even in America, critical infrastructure like energy and water companies need to be "immediately and comprehensively" tested for exploitable bugs, according to Snehal Antani, chief executive of cybersecurity company Horizon3. He tells the Post the government might need to fund that remediation, and even form "a public and private partnership to accelerate incident response."
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Exclusive: Professional bodies call for regulation to boost confidence and protect public from abuse in ‘landmark’ report
Ministers should introduce statutory regulation for counsellors and psychotherapists to protect the public from abuse, according to a report that has been hailed as a “watershed moment” for the profession.
Unlike most other healthcare roles, including doctors, midwives and osteopaths, “psychotherapist” and “counsellor” are not protected titles nor statutorily regulated professions in the UK.
Continue reading...Commons committee says lack of coherent strategy is hampering business and leaving national security risks unaddressed
The UK is making up policy on China “as it goes along” and risks having its strategy dictated by Washington or Beijing, a parliamentary report has concluded.
An investigation by the Commons business, innovation, science and trade select committee said Labour’s failure to formulate a coherent strategy since 2024 “combined the worst of both worlds” for the UK in relation to China.
Continue reading...A Guardian investigation has found that despite a recommendation to slow down, leading shipping companies continue to travel above advised speeds in a key habitat for cetaceans
Marine biologist Alice Barbarioli waits with her camera trained on the horizon. A few minutes earlier, the hydrophone beneath the Pelagos research vessel detected codas – the sequence of clicks sperm whales use to communicate.
The sperm whale reveals its head and dorsal fin as those onboard the vessel in the Pelagos sanctuary, a conservation area established to protect marine mammals in the north-western Mediterranean, rush to take photos and note the rhythm of its breathing. After a few minutes, the animal arches its back, and begins to head back into the depths of the sea. They wait to catch a glimpse of its tail.
Continue reading...Young, black and fuelled by self-help mantras, they were reputedly the best live band on Earth. As their wild first sessions are rereleased, the group talk about scaring club owners – and getting kicked out of the UK
Old punks might not agree on much – who was first, who was fastest, where to file the Faith/Void split LP in their record collection – but for those who saw them in their prime, Bad Brains were, unequivocally, the best live band on the planet. YouTube footage bears this out: frontman HR, born Paul D Hudson, is equal parts straining sinew and raw electricity as he bucks and contorts, punctuating rapid-fire snarls and otherworldly croons with impeccably timed backflips. The band surge around him, forging blisteringly fast punk informed by everything from the Damned and Dead Boys to P-Funk, Stevie Wonder and Chick Corea’s Return to Forever.
Young, black and fuelled by an ideology that united the 1930s self-help mantras of Napoleon Hill with Rastafari, they were outliers in the already outre 70s punk scene. But while Bad Brains helped change the face of American punk as it morphed into hardcore in the early 80s, and inspired artists as diverse as Rage Against the Machine, Deftones, Lil Jon, the Roots and Beastie Boys, defeat was never far from glory as they balanced feted live performances and a scintillating run of records with an excruciating capacity for self-sabotage.
Continue reading...From France’s Jordan Bardella to Italy’s Giorgia Meloni, organised youth politics has produced many rightwing leaders. Democrats must catch up
The leaders of the most successful populist radical right parties in western Europe have one thing in common that is often overlooked. Italy’s Matteo Salvini, Jordan Bardella from France, Jimmie Åkesson from the Sweden Democrats, and Tom Van Grieken from Belgium’s Vlaams Belang all led the youth wing of the parties they now run. These movements shaped the politicians they are today, and they are now shaping Europe’s political future.
As Italy’s prime minister, Giorgia Meloni, another former radical right youth-wing leader, put it: “Even more than my growth as a politician, I owe my growth as a person and as an Italian to my youth-wing activism. There is no more formative training ground than this.” And yet, until recently, we knew little about these incubation chambers of populist radical right parties.
Continue reading...The comedian turns 70 soon, and in her new book, she contemplates the years ahead. She explains why she loves a work in progress, the importance of anger in mourning, and how she gave up smoking – only to become a champion vaper
Had Jo Brand, who turns 70 next year, been spending a long time thinking about getting older? Had it become the subject that consumed her, and the reason why, now, she felt impelled to write a book about the vagaries of ageing? No, she says, laughing. She was simply asked if she’d like to do it.
Still, it encouraged introspection about what she wanted her future to look like. “Now’s the time, if you want things, to get them in place. I think a lot of people say, ‘I really want to do that, but I’ll forget it for now.’ And then they get to a stage where they can’t.” Does she mean bucket-list things? “No, I mean … what do I mean?” Brand pauses. “I mean the ability to perhaps end your own …” She doesn’t go there, but the end to that sentence is obviously: life.
Continue reading...Multimillionaire lifestyle mogul says her costume was ‘insensitive and not funny’ after provoking furious backlash
Martha Stewart has apologised after sharing an image of herself dressed as a homeless person for Halloween, which provoked a backlash online.
The 85-year-old media personality, who is worth an estimated US$400m, shared a picture of herself on Instagram on 31 October, in which she had a dirty face and wore ripped jeans and a beanie while holding up a sign that read: “I AM HUNGRY HELP ME!!” The post promoted Stewart’s candle range in the caption and two photos in the carousel.
Continue reading...Een bloemkool kopen en meteen een flink deel weggooien: in veel keukens gaat dat vanzelf. Bij de kiwi net zo: lepel erin, schil in de groenbak. Zonde, vinden Britse voedingswetenschappers. Juist in die weggegooide delen zit vaak de meeste vezel.
Meer vezel in de groenbak
De onderzoekers analyseerden twaalf soorten rauwe groente en fruit. Bij tien daarvan bevatten schil, blad, stronk of zaden meer voedingsvezel dan het deel dat we normaal eten. Die restdelen waren goed voor een kwart tot bijna de helft van het totale gewicht.
Kiwischil bevat per gram ruwweg twee tot drie keer zoveel vezel als het vruchtvlees. Wie de hele kiwi eet, krijgt zo'n 50 procent meer vezel binnen dan wie hem schilt. Ook bij bloemkool zat in de delen die meestal worden weggegooid duidelijk meer vezel dan in het deel dat op het bord belandt.
Er is één opvallende uitzondering: broccoli. Daar bevatten de roosjes juist meer vezel dan de steel.
En de vitamines?
Ook daar levert de schil iets extra's op. Een hele gele kiwi geeft ongeveer een derde meer vitamine E en foliumzuur dan alleen het vruchtvlees. Bloemkoolblad bevat grotendeels dezelfde voedingsstoffen als de kool zelf.
Een wondermiddel is het niet. Wie een tweede kiwi uitlepelt, haalt dezelfde winst ook binnen. Het is vooral mooi meegenomen, en het scheelt afval.
Wennen aan haar en nerf
De grootste drempel is de textuur. Kiwischil is harig en wat taai. Begin met dunne plakjes, wrijf de haartjes eraf met een theedoek of borsteltje, of kies een gele kiwi: die is gladder en nauwelijks behaard.
Bij bloemkoolblad zit het probleem in de dikke nerf. Snijd die eruit of laat het blad wat langer garen. In de oven wordt het blad knapperig, in de wok mals.
Bouw extra vezel rustig op. Te veel ineens geeft een opgeblazen gevoel, en wie last heeft van een prikkelbare darm verdraagt het vaak minder goed.
Wassen: wat het wel en niet doet
Spoelen onder stromend water is genoeg. Azijn, citroensap of baking soda voegen weinig toe, zeep of schoonmaakmiddel is zelfs onverstandig.
Maar wassen haalt maar een deel van eventuele resten bestrijdingsmiddelen weg. Sommige middelen trekken door de schil heen. Belangrijker nog: bij kiwischil en bloemkoolblad gaan de veiligheidsnormen ervan uit dat je ze níet eet. Af en toe is dat geen probleem, elke dag liever niet. Wie het vaak doet, kiest beter voor biologisch.
De bloemkoolstronk valt wel binnen de normen. Die kun je zonder zorgen eten.
Drie recepten voor restjes
Bloemkoolbladchips. Was de bladeren en dep ze droog. Besprenkel met olijfolie, zout, peper en eventueel knoflook. Rooster ze 10 tot 15 minuten op 200 graden, tot ze knapperig zijn. Lekker als snack of als topping op soep.
Groene kiwismoothie met schil. Snijd de kontjes van twee gewassen kiwi's en doe ze met een banaan, een handje spinazie en een scheut yoghurt of havermelk in de blender. De haartjes verdwijnen vanzelf.
Restjesroerbak. Snijd de stronk in dunne plakjes en het blad zonder nerf in reepjes. Roerbak de stronk drie minuten met knoflook en gember, voeg het blad toe en bak nog twee minuten. Maak af met sojasaus en sesamzaad. Kort roerbakken spaart de voedingsstoffen. Geen tijd? Vries de stukjes in voor de volgende soep.
Meer weten?
- Voedingscentrum: welke schillen en plantendelen kun je eten?
- Voedingscentrum: moet je groente en fruit wassen?
- Quest: is het gezond om je kiwi mét schil te eten?
Een keurmerk, vijf sterren en een keurig bedrijfsadres: een webwinkel kan er overtuigend uitzien. Toch zijn die zichtbare zekerheden pas iets waard als ze controleerbaar zijn. Een logo op de eigen website is niet hetzelfde als een echte aansluiting bij een keurmerk.
Wie een onbekende webshop met een opvallend lage prijs tegenkomt, doet er daarom goed aan eerst buiten die website te kijken. Niet de verkoper zelf, maar onafhankelijke controles moeten het vertrouwen ondersteunen.
Controleer het keurmerk zelf
De politie adviseert om keurmerken te verifiëren op de officiële website van de keurmerkorganisatie. Zoek daar de winkel op en controleer of ook het exacte webadres overeenkomt. Een bekend logo op de verkooppagina alleen is onvoldoende.
Doe hetzelfde met bedrijfsgegevens. Staat er een KvK-nummer, welk bedrijf hoort daarbij? Kloppen naam, adres en contactgegevens met wat de webshop beweert? De politie benadrukt dat een inschrijving bij de Kamer van Koophandel op zichzelf niets zegt over betrouwbaarheid. Ze laat wel zien of een bedrijf bestaat en hoe lang.
Vertrouwen controleer je buiten de webshop, niet alleen op de verkooppagina.
Een jonge onderneming is niet automatisch malafide, net zomin als een oud bedrijfsnummer automatisch veiligheid oplevert. Het gaat om de samenhang tussen gegevens, aanbod en onafhankelijke ervaringen.
Kijk voorbij de eigen reviews
Lovende reacties op de website zelf zijn geen onafhankelijke bevestiging. De politie adviseert ook elders beoordelingen te zoeken. Let daarbij op het precieze bedrijf en webadres, zodat je geen ervaringen met een andere winkel leest.
Controleer daarnaast de domeinnaam zorgvuldig. Fraudeurs kunnen bekende namen nabootsen met kleine veranderingen. Een letter verschil kan betekenen dat je op een andere website terechtkomt dan je dacht.
Gebruik de politiecheck
Via Check de (ver)koper kun je onder meer een webadres, rekeningnummer, telefoonnummer of e-mailadres controleren op meldingen. Dat is een nuttige extra stap, maar geen keuringsbewijs.
De politie waarschuwt daar expliciet voor: geen gevonden melding betekent niet dat een volgende transactie veilig is. Een controle vertelt immers wat er op dat moment bekend is, niet wat een verkoper morgen zal doen.
Geen melding bij de politie is niet hetzelfde als een betrouwbare verkoper.
Het probleem is ook niet alleen theoretisch. Volgens de Consumentenbond nam het aantal meldingen van aankoopfraude bij de Fraudehelpdesk in 2025 met 35 procent toe. Dat gaat om meldingen van aankoopfraude, niet om een vastgestelde stijging van alle nepwebshops of om cijfers over 2026.
Een korting is geen haastplicht
Een onwaarschijnlijk lage prijs is volgens de politie een waarschuwingssignaal. Laat een aanbieding daarom niet de controles vervangen. Kun je de verkoper niet goed vaststellen, dan is afzien van de aankoop verstandiger dan de ontbrekende zekerheid invullen met hoop.
Controle voor de betaalpagina
Verifieer het keurmerk, controleer bedrijfsgegevens, zoek onafhankelijke ervaringen en bekijk het exacte webadres. Gebruik daarnaast de politiecheck. Geen van die stappen geeft afzonderlijk volledige zekerheid; juist de combinatie helpt om signalen van fraude op tijd te zien.
Voordat een reeks vernietigende sancties tegen het Internationaal Strafhof ingaat, wil Nederland onderhandelen met Washington. Maar juist door erover te onderhandelen, ondermijn je het hof zelf – en daarmee de hele internationale rechtsorde.
As debate and legal argument continue over the extent to which developers of large language models are entitled to feed the world’s data into their systems without paying for it, India’s government has come up with an idea to regulate and secure the flow of information. India’s motive is to create AI models trained on local data, because it thinks offshore model-makers won’t be motivated to address the nation’s issues or to ensure owners of data stay in control. The scheme India’s Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) thinks can make that happen is called the “Data Empowerment and Protection Architecture (DEPA) for AI Training.” As described by Professor Ajay Kumar Sood, Principal Scientific Adviser to the Government of India, DEPA means “the model travels to the data, rather than the data travelling to the model.” The scheme envisions “Training Data Providers” (TDPs) – examples of which include hospitals, banks, and government agencies – sharing anonymized and encrypted data with a “Data Exchange Platform” (DEP). Entities called “Training Data Consumers” (TDCs) access the data stored at the DEPs to train their models. DEPs will operate what MeitY calls “hardware-based Secure Data Environments” in which “data remains encrypted and isolated even during processing.” They also enforce rules set by TDPs that describe how TDCs can use data. MeitY’s DEPA framework [PDF] says this scheme means “Differential privacy techniques are systematically applied to prevent the model from learning or revealing individual specific information,” adding “All activities inside the secure data environments are immutably logged for audit purposes, ensuring that the process is both secure and transparent.” India’s government already operates several data exchanges, but it is unclear how much work remains to make DEPA a reality. Once DEPA is working, MeitY envisions model-makers will use it to do things like “unlock currently fragmented health data to power breakthroughs in AI-driven diagnostics, drug discovery, and public health management.” The optimism extends to financial services. India is home to literally thousands of banks, and MeitY thinks “DEPA can enable secure sharing of diverse financial data, potentially extending formal credit to 400 million underserved individuals and MSMEs and fueling next-generation fintech innovation.” India’s government has long believed that if financial services companies can lend to more people, it will boost economic development. “Similarly, in Education, DEPA can overcome data interoperability challenges to enable AI-powered personalized learning for millions and create portable skill credentials essential for a future-ready workforce of its 250 million students in a $29 billion EdTech sector,” the framework states. “The successful adoption of DEPA Training across these domains is the essential catalyst for realizing India’s vision of inclusive growth and responsible AI leadership on the global stage.” While the purpose of the framework is to build Indian AIs for Indians, the document also has half an eye on the nation’s international standing. “DEPA is India’s contribution to global science diplomacy, advancing the efforts of institutions such as the World Bank and the United Nations to shape a more inclusive and responsible global AI ecosystem,” the framework states. It also makes several mentions of digital public infrastructure (DPI), an idea pioneered by India that involves government funding creation of tools like the Unified Payments Interface payment systems and the Bharat Taxi zero-commission ride-sharing platform, to ensure Big Tech companies don’t dominate the local market. India also uses its DPI as a diplomatic tool, by giving it away to friendly nations. ®
Toto Wolff has reflected on Kimi Antonelli's journey with Mercedes after the Italian claimed his maiden Formula 1 title at the Mexico City Grand Prix.
Drivers across the Formula 1 grid gave their reactions to Kimi Antonelli becoming the youngest ever World Champion.