De vleesindustrie slaagde er niet in om de minister te overtuigen met plannen om de misstanden in slachthuizen en bij vleesverwerkbedrijven tegen te gaan. De minsterraad stemt naar verwachting vrijdag over het plan.
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Het overgrote deel van mensen in opvanglocaties komt niet in aanraking met de politie. Volgens nieuwe cijfers was 3 procent van alle personen in opvanglocaties betrokken bij een misdrijf. Jongeren, mannen en asielmigranten met weinig kans op een verblijfsvergunning zijn oververtegenwoordigd onder verdachten en betrokkenen bij incidenten.
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Rapper, punkzanger en schrijver Abel van Gijlswijk (1990) las Siddhartha (1922) van Hermann Hesse voor het eerst in Bangkok op precies een goed moment. Zeven jaar later herlas hij het, dit keer mét de drie pagina’s die in zijn eerste exemplaar ontbraken.
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Security sleuths say last month’s FortiBleed campaign is tied to two separate ransomware groups, after they found evidence of one initial access broker group member logged in to two affiliate panels. SOC Radar’s Threat Research Unit (STRU) said at least one of the group’s 20 members was actively negotiating with victims, which it believes signals a direct link between the thousands of FortiBleed victims and the ransomware ecosystem. STRU spent weeks mapping FortiBleed’s infrastructure across hundreds of servers after the attack was disclosed. Due to an opsec failure in one of these servers, the team gained visibility into the IAB group’s internal files and logs, revealing that one of the individuals was logged into the affiliate panels of both the INC Ransom and Lynx ransomware groups. “Finding a single operator working both panels, using infrastructure traceable back to FortiBleed, is the clearest evidence yet that FortiGate credentials harvested through this campaign are being handed off, or used directly, for ransomware deployment,” SOC Radar said. Following examinations of both the IAB group’s internal logs, compromised endpoints, and claims made via the leak sites of INC and Lynx, STRU linked at least 12 ransomware attacks to FortiBleed victims so far. While initial reports pegged the number of successful attacks at more than 70,000, STRU said its data was derived from scanning 11,250 Fortinet portals, although more than 430,000 firewalls were targeted. Admin-level access was confirmed on 409 targets, and on 354 of these the attackers executed the full attack chain, compromising VPNs and gaining access to domain controllers and domain admin. STRU said the finding is significant because it shows how the exploit was not just an exercise in harvesting credentials, but an attack that feeds directly into the ransomware economy. “What this investigation shows is that FortiBleed isn’t an isolated credential-theft operation sitting off to the side of the ransomware economy, it’s feeding directly into it. The same access broker infrastructure that quietly intercepted authentication traffic across hundreds of thousands of firewalls is connected, through a shared operator, to two of the more active ransomware brands operating today. “For organizations running FortiGate infrastructure, this raises the stakes on an already urgent finding: exposure to FortiBleed is not just a credential exposure risk, it is a potential precursor to ransomware.” FortiBleed in brief Disclosed on June 17, the attack did not exploit novel vulnerabilities. Experts characterised it as a large-scale campaign that involved intercepting SSL VPN authentication hashes and cracking them using a 45-GPU cluster hosted by Hashtopolis. They then used the credentials to access victims’ Active Directory environments and gain persistence. Fortinet tried to counter these kinds of attacks in early 2025 by introducing the PBKDF2 algorithm for storing credentials, but because the changes were not applied until each admin logged back in, many organizations were likely still using SHA-256 with salt, which is vulnerable to brute-forcing. Early estimates suggested a little more than 73,000 unique firewall URLs were successfully targeted, leading to a long list of major organizations being compromised. FoxConn, Samsung, Comcast, Siemens, Lenovo, FedEx, PwC, Accenture, and Oracle were among those listed in the early reports. An unnamed Turkish NATO defense contractor was also thought to be among them after investigators found signs of classified files being copied. ®
Wij zeggen niet dat generatie-expert Kim Jansen voorstander is van grensoverschrijdend gedrag op de werkvloer, dat zegt generatie-expert Kim Jansen zelf, tot onvrede van de gemeenschap van generatie-experts. In die contreien woedt al langer discussie over generaties, zoals jongeren en ouderen. Verschillen ze onderling? Hoe verhouden ze zich tot elkaar? Superinteressante materie. Dan is er één kamp dat heel nadrukkelijk tegenstander is van grensoverschrijdend gedrag, daaronder bevinden zich onder andere generatie-expert Ronaldo, generatie-expert Schots, scheef, generatie-expert Spartacus, generatie-expert Zorro en generatie-expert Dorbeck. Maar er zijn ook generatie-experts die grenzen meer als een signaal of suggestie zien dan als daadwerkelijke grenzen, en dan kom je dus aan bij mensen als generatie-expert Mosterd of generatie-expert Kim Jansen. "Je grenzen opzoeken, daar een beetje overheen gaan," dat is juist leerzaam, aldus laatstgenoemde. En: "Het is goed om je grenzen af en toe op te rekken." Gestoord! Nu we het toch over generatie-expert Kim Jansen hebben: daar komt echt alleen de allervoorspelbaarste clichékots uit, hoe bestaat het toch dat zo iemand iedere dag naar haar werk gaat en dan dit doet, en nu we het er toch over hebben, wat bezielt zo'n krant om een volwassen Verslaggever arbeidsmarkt iemand op te laten zoeken die met recht de Eddy Merckx van de luchtfietserij genoemd kan worden, is dat niet ook een tikje grensoverschrijdend.
Strong figures suggest Tesla’s auto business is regaining momentum after two straight annual sales declines
Tesla blew past Wall Street estimates for second-quarter deliveries on Thursday, posting a record for the period as recovering demand in Europe outweighed persistent weakness in North America.
The strong figures suggest Tesla’s mainstay auto business is regaining momentum after two straight annual sales declines, providing the spending cushion needed to power its ambitions in autonomous driving and artificial intelligence – the main drivers of the company’s roughly $1.6tn valuation.
Continue reading...Just before being kicked out of No 10, the PM is dreaming of lifting the World Cup for a nation – and political immortality
The dream lives on. With 15 minutes left against the Democratic Republic of Congo in Atlanta, England were in danger of going out of the World Cup. The defeat would have been one of the more humiliating exits from an international tournament the team had experienced. But with heads going down and nerves shattered, up stepped Harry Kane with a couple of goals. The second, sublime. Captain Fantastic. Thank goodness Spurs had the foresight to send him out on loan to Bayern Munich to polish his finishing skills.
The dream in question, of course, is Keir Starmer’s. For months now, he might have spent the first few minutes of every day staring at his wall chart, plotting England’s journey so that he becomes only the second prime minister after Harold Wilson to lead his country through World Cup glory, and maintain the record of the men’s team only winning a major international tournament under a Labour government. For that alone, Keir would go down in history as one of the immortals. Guaranteed the eternal thanks of a grateful nation. A state funeral in the bag. This would be his most lasting legacy.
Continue reading...An estimated 185,000 babies were taken from unmarried mothers in England and Wales between 1949 and 1976. I was one of them
After my adoptive father died in November last year, my adoptive siblings found a short story by Enid Blyton among his possessions. The Child Who Was Chosen was read to us as children to explain the circumstances of my adoption. It follows a nice middle-class couple whose domestic bliss is marred by childlessness, prompting them to go to a “very kind lady” who helps them to find a “chosen baby” instead. In its foreword, Blyton advises adoptive parents to tell the tale to their adopted child “again and again … so that to him ‘adoption’ means something lovely”.
The “chosen child” narrative, where parents tell adoptees they were specially picked, helped to shape the still widespread public perception of adoption as unambiguously altruistic. But it has also long been criticised by adult adoptees for masking the trauma of separation from their original parents. Reading Blyton’s saccharine story, I was struck by its glaring omissions. There is no mention of how the boy, who is unnamed until he is adopted, came to be put up for adoption; nor any suggestion that he once had another family and identity. There is no recognition of his first mother or her loss, only the loneliness of the prospective adoptive mother. The woman from the adoption agency also tells the couple that if this child isn’t the one they really want, she will find another one – as though she’s running a baby market.
David Batty is a news editor and writer for the Guardian
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Continue reading...Participant-led YPS scheme creates green projects while providing summer jobs in country with high youth unemployment
Oona Verveld and Clara Vikberg have just secured their first paid summer jobs. While their peers are mostly limited to entry-level positions in retail or fast-food restaurants, the 18-year-olds are some of the first among their generation to have landed a new type of role: young planetary stewards.
“Someone came up with the simple idea that, since young people clearly need jobs, why not create them?” says My Sellberg, the project manager and programme lead for regenerative development at Upplandsbygd, a non-profit based north of Stockholm. “The strongest objective was to inspire hope for the future among our young residents.”
Continue reading...‘Rooftopers’ Angela Nikolau and Ivan Kuznetsov were arrested after allegedly scaling the New York skyscraper
Two Russian “rooftoppers” who staged an apparent marriage proposal at the peak of the Empire State Building’s spire were reportedly arraigned in New York on Thursday on a slew of charges including reckless endangerment.
Angela Nikolau and Ivan Kuznetsov were arrested on Wednesday after the stunt, which featured the pair, dressed in all black, unfurling a peace banner and kissing.
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Though United Russia is expected to dominate, the elections could offer insight into how the war in Ukraine has affected Russian politics.
KYIV (ANP/AFP) - Door nachtelijke Russische aanvallen op de Oekraïense hoofdstad Kyiv zijn ten minste 21 doden gevallen, melden de hulpdiensten. Daarnaast zouden 85 mensen gewond zijn geraakt, onder wie twee kinderen. Eerder werden zeventien doden gemeld.
De burgemeester van Kyiv zei eerder dat de aanvallen de grootste op de hoofdstad tot nu toe waren. Volgens president Volodymyr Zelensky was Rusland al enige tijd bezig met het voorbereiden van de aanvallen.
EU-buitenlandchef Kaja Kallas zei de druk op Rusland verder te willen opvoeren vanwege de aanvallen. Zelensky benadrukte dat militaire hulp aan Oekraïne "een absolute en cruciale prioriteit" is. Oekraïne zal "zeker" terugslaan, aldus Zelensky.
Zelensky zei ook contact te hebben opgenomen met de Verenigde Staten en te hebben gevraagd om licenties om Patriot-luchtafweerrakketten te produceren. Dat Amerikaanse luchtafweersysteem is een van de weinige manieren die Oekraïne heeft om zich te beschermen tegen Russische ballistische raketten.
DAMASCUS (ANP/AFP) - Door een bomexplosie in de Syrische hoofdstad Damascus zijn zeker vijf doden gevallen. Nog eens zestien mensen raakten gewond, melden de Syrische autoriteiten.
De bom ging af in een café nabij het Paleis van Justitie, een belangrijk overheidsgebouw. Door de explosie ontstond er veel paniek in de omgeving.
In Damascus worden vaker aanslagen gepleegd sinds het regime van Bashar al-Assad in december 2024 werd verdreven. De dodelijkste aanval was in juni 2025, toen bij een aanval op een kerk 25 mensen stierven. Die aanslag werd opgeëist door een lokale soennitische groepering, terwijl de autoriteiten de Islamitische Staat verantwoordelijk hielden.
The US Constitution Is for Simple Folk Still Burdened by the Belief That Words Have Meaning. “The true Constitution is not a document. It’s more of a gut feeling. It is a shimmering legal gas that settles wherever conservatives need it most…”
Nigel Mansell is one of the most successful British drivers in F1 history, having amassed 31 race wins, 59 podium finishes and a coveted world title across some 15 years in the sport, while representing the iconic Lotus, Williams, Ferrari and McLaren squads.