Longtime Slashdot reader Qbertino writes: The Fehrmarnbelt tunnel is a European construction megaproject building a tunnel between Denmark and Germany, crossing the Fehmarnbelt in the Baltic sea. The first segment of the tunnel has now successfully been placed in its designated spot. This is a yet-unseen, next-level engineering feat achieved by the Danish Sund & Baelt construction company. It took 14 hours and used a massive pontoon ship built specifically for this project.

The tunnel segments are 217 meters long, weigh more than 73,000 metric tons, and have to be placed within a tolerance of 3 mm. The tunnel will eventually consist of 89 of these segments, be 18 km long, and connect the Danish city of Rodby with the German island Fehmarn through five individual tunnel tubes: two for cars, two for trains, and one rescue and maintenance tunnel. Crossing time will be reduced from a 45-minute ferry crossing to seven minutes by train or 10 minutes by car, and cut the travel time between the German city of Hamburg and the Danish capital, Copenhagen, down to 2.5 hours. The project's planned completion is set for the year 2029. German news Tagesschau has some details and a neat animation, while further details are available from the German tech news site Heise.

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NEW YORK (ANP) - De beurzen in New York gingen vrijdag omhoog ondanks de hernieuwde spanningen tussen de Verenigde Staten en Iran. Naast de ontwikkelingen in het Midden-Oosten verwerkten beleggers het banenrapport van de Amerikaanse overheid. Volgens dat rapport zijn er in de grootste economie ter wereld in april 115.000 banen bijgekomen. Dat was meer dan verwacht. De werkloosheid bleef onveranderd op 4,3 procent.

De banengroei speelt een belangrijke rol in het rentebesluit van de Amerikaanse centrale bank, die naast de inflatie ook let op de werkgelegenheid. Een reeks van wederzijdse aanvallen tussen de VS en Iran zorgde verder voor enige terughoudendheid bij beleggers. Volgens president Donald Trump is het staakt-het-vuren met Iran echter nog steeds van kracht.

De Dow-Jonesindex noteerde kort na opening 0,3 procent hoger op 49.726 punten en de brede S&P 500 won 0,5 procent tot 7373 punten. De techbeurs Nasdaq steeg 0,8 procent tot 26.002 punten. De beurzen op Wall Street sloten donderdag nog licht lager na het bereiken van nieuwe recordstanden op woensdag.

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Nooit eerder onderschepte de Spaanse politie zo veel cocaïne in één keer: maar liefst dertigduizend kilo, geladen in Sierra Leone. Geschatte groothandelswaarde: tussen de 300 en 400 miljoen euro. De lading werd beveiligd door vijf bewapende Nederlanders.

Je zult geen concrete theatrale onderwerpen vinden in de de abstracte, minimalistische choreografieën van Sung Im Her. Dans reikt dieper dan tekst, vindt de Koreaanse.

Innovatieve medische behandelingen en wuivende palmbomen moeten patiënten uit binnen- en buitenland naar een Chinees eiland trekken. „Onze technologie en producten zijn uitstekend, veilig, en ook nog eens heel betaalbaar. We gaan een periode van exponentiele groei tegemoet.”

Twee weken nadat de PVV-asielwetten niet door de Eerste Kamer kwamen, zet het kabinet een eerste stap rond ongewenste vreemdelingen en scherpere grenscontroles. Over de strafbaarstelling van illegaliteit is nog geen overeenstemming.

A fresh Linux privilege escalation bug dubbed "Dirty Frag" has dropped into the wild with no patches, no CVE, and a public exploit that hands attackers root access across major distributions. Security researcher Hyunwoo Kim disclosed the local privilege escalation flaw on Friday after what he said was a broken embargo forced the issue into the open. Kim described Dirty Frag as a "universal LPE" affecting "all major distributions" and warned that it delivers the same kind of immediate root access as the recent CopyFail mess – only this time, defenders do not even have patches to throw at the problem. "As with the previous Copy Fail vulnerability, Dirty Frag likewise allows immediate root privilege escalation on all major distributions," Kim said. "Because the responsible disclosure schedule and embargo have been broken, no patches exist for any distribution." Dirty Frag works by chaining together two separate Linux kernel flaws. One sits in the xfrm-ESP subsystem and dates back to a January 2017 kernel commit, according to Kim, while the second vulnerability affects RxRPC functionality introduced in 2023. Together, the two bugs allegedly let unprivileged local users overwrite protected files in memory and claw their way to root. A long list of distributions in the firing line, according to Kim, including Ubuntu, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, CentOS Stream, Fedora, AlmaLinux, and openSUSE Tumbleweed. Separately, researchers appear to have independently reverse-engineered part of the bug chain from a publicly visible kernel fix commit before the embargo expired, adding to the disclosure mess already surrounding the flaw. One GitHub project titled "Copy Fail 2: Electric Boogaloo" claims to weaponize the ESP/xfrm side of the issue separately from Kim's full Dirty Frag chain. Kim said maintainers signed off on the disclosure of the flaw after somebody else dumped exploit details online first, collapsing the embargo before patches were finished. So now the exploit is public, the fixes are not, and Linux admins get another long week. The disclosure comes as the industry is still dealing with the fallout from CopyFail, another Linux privilege escalation bug that recently landed in CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog after attackers started cashing in on it in the wild. But Dirty Frag makes the recent CopyFail chaos look relatively organized. There's still no CVE, no coordinated patch rollout, and not much in the way of mitigation. Kim published a temporary workaround that disables affected ESP and RxRPC modules before clearing the system page cache. Useful, perhaps, although "turn bits of the kernel off and hope for the best" is not usually the sort of guidance admins enjoy seeing. ®

Prophecy At 1420 MHz is the first single from Boards of Canada’s upcoming album. (It’s paired with a short intro track, so we’re basically getting the first five and a half minutes of the album here.)

James Vowles has explained why Williams had a 'messy' winter in preparation for the new-for-2026 regulations, with the team finally securing its first double points finish of the season last weekend in the Miami Grand Prix.

Idemitsu Kosan told TASS that the purchase was made at the request of Japan’s Agency for Natural Resources and Energy to “ensure a stable supply of petroleum products.”

Threatened fish rescued in Victoria's most flow-stressed river. A small fish that smells like freshly-cut cucumber could be akin to a canary in the coalmine for one of Victoria's most stressed rivers.

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