Mijn buurjongetje van vier is al jaren dol op gereedschap. Hij sjouwt met een gereedschapskist en boor in kinderformaat overal zijn vader achterna die een handige klusser is.

Horizontaal: 1. Snedig 4. Aardewerkplaats in Friesland 8. Werden bereden door Dik Trom en Jezus Christus 10. Zo is de Turdus merula beter bekend 11. Grote hagedissen 14.

Premier Rob Jetten heeft tijdens de Algemene Vergadering van de Verenigde Naties in New York een lans gebroken voor het Internationaal Strafhof en hij onderstreepte het belang…

Google has augmented its live dialogue model Gemini 3.8 Live with a feature called "Live Avatar" that's capable of conjuring animated characters and realistic human simulacra to lip-sync Gemini's machine-generated speech. "Conversation is inherently multimodal: we listen, look, speak, and use facial expressions to communicate," explained Shuo-yiin Chang, research scientist at Google DeepMind, and CJ Zheng, Gemini software engineer, in a blog post. "Live Avatar brings these capabilities to enterprise agents. By processing visual and audio inputs simultaneously, it generates enriching conversations for a more comprehensive experience." Five years ago, DeepMind warned about various risks associated with the use of large language models, among them human interaction harms like anthropomorphising AI models – the attribution of human characteristics to software-based interactions. Anthropomorphism here applies broadly to visual human imitation as well as human-like speech and text. "Anthropomorphizing [language models] may inflate users' estimates of the conversational agent’s competencies," noted the more than 20 authors of DeepMind's paper [PDF], "Ethical and social risks of harm from Language Models." "For example, users may falsely infer that a conversational agent that appears human-like in language also displays other human-like characteristics, such as holding a coherent identity over time, or being capable of empathy, perspective-taking, and rational reasoning. As a result, they may place undue confidence, trust, or expectations in these agents." That was in 2021. In August 2025, the risks posed by humanizing AI reached the courtroom when the parents of Adam Raine sued OpenAI, alleging [PDF] that ChatGPT contributed to their son's suicide. Among other things, the complaint lays blame on "anthropomorphic mannerisms calibrated to convey human-like empathy." By December 2025, Google boffins were still grappling with the need to understand the impact of humanizing AI. In a paper [PDF] titled "How Tech Workers Contend with Hazards of Humanlikeness in Generative AI," Mark Díaz, Renee Shelby, Eric Corbett, and Andrew Smart from Google Research reported that tech workers participating in focus groups expressed similar reservations to those cited in the company's prior work. "Tech workers expressed significant concern that humanlikeness fosters a false sense of reliability and trust shaping their concerns as both users and developers, linking to fluid, natural language and tone, which can obscure errors," they wrote. So even as Google AI researchers highlight the need to understand how the "humanlikeness" of AI relates to perceived hazards and responsible AI development, Google Gemini Enterprise is moving straight to deployment. Live Avatars can be drawn from a pre-made library of characters or a custom avatar can be deployed if enterprise allow-listing is enabled. Noting how Live Avatar can make tool calls and fetch data in the background, as well as converse in 97 languages, making it suitable for scenarios like handling hotel guest check-ins, Chang and Zheng insist that Google created these Gemini-generated personas with trust and safety in mind. "We built Live Avatar with strict safeguards designed to respect identity, and keep AI-generated content transparent," they said. ®

A crook has been using three open source AI harnesses to target hundreds of online retailers and other companies, swiping more than 600,000 credit card records and installing card-stealing skimmers - and all at trivial cost. AI security company Gambit recovered the human operator’s staging server, and used that access to reconstruct the data-theft campaign, whose victims include a Fortune 500 hospitality company, a major US airline, a large private US industrial supplies distributor, and a US online fashion retailer. Between September 10 and September 15, the crook launched at least 105 attacks, and compromised, “to varying degrees,” at least 27 companies, Gambit director of threat intelligence Eyal Sela wrote in a Tuesday alert. The Chinese-speaking operator used three different open source AI harnesses - Strix, Cairn, and Hermes - to run the near-autonomous attacks and hit “tens” of companies each day. “Where access was achieved, it usually took less than a day, and in many cases just a few hours,” Sela wrote. “We also detected instructions in the attacker’s playbook that could disrupt the operations of a company as a result of data deletion or cleanup procedures run by the agent - and this has indeed happened in some of the breaches.” The operator also used OpenRouter for AI model access, and according to an August 25 account balance, they spent $7,005.71 over the previous four weeks. They then continued with the attacks for three more weeks, and operated at twice the daily volume of model calls. Gambit estimates the total cost of the campaign sits somewhere between $12,000 and $18,000. The operator's own cost review put their mean spend at $25.46 across 101 completed scans. The cheapest scan cost just $3.13, with the most expensive racking up a bill for $79.31. Each of the three AI harnesses played a different role, with Hermes acting as the campaign orchestrator. The always-on AI assistant acts independently to execute multi-step tasks and manage workflows, and it can write and edit its own skills. The human operator loaded a Chinese system persona titled “SOUL - Red Team Operator” on Hermes with 121 skills. Of those, 78 were attack skills. One of the skills even removed the content security filters of the AI harness. Hermes used Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.6 - Gambit reports that newer models refused the attack requests - and the human operator typed 1,951 prompts in Chinese across 260 sessions. The prompts, translated into English, include the following: See whether the file upload in the report can give code execution Read the vulnerability report, test the sudo password first Read the report, is there anything worth doing here Get into the web backend Can it get code execution? The attacker used Strix, an open source penetration testing tool, to search for vulnerabilities to exploit at targeted organizations. They ran Strix through OpenRouter on GLM 5.2 and then on DeepSeek v4 Pro. Between August 23 and 31, the operator ran Strix 146 times in “deep mode” against 138 hosts, totaling 633 hours of scanner time in 195 hours of clock time. After finding vulnerabilities, Strix handed the next stage of the attack off to Cairn, another autonomous penetration testing AI tool, running on DeepSeek v4.1 Flash. Cairn receives target domains and an attack objective - like deploy a shell, or achieve admin access. It then runs until it either achieves the objective, times out, or is stopped by a human. Between September 10 and 15, Cairn launched 105 attack projects. The AI chose each attack path “in real time through extensive probing and exploitation attempts, resulting in dynamic and mostly different TTPs across victims,” Sela wrote. In one instance, the AI agent used SQL injection, obtained a plaintext one-time password and then accessed a web panel. From there the agent uploaded a web shell, escalated privileges through a misconfigured sudo rule, and accessed AWS credentials, ultimately dumping 46 secrets, totaling 102KB. In two of these near-autonomous attacks, the AIs exfiltrated more than 600,000 credit card records from just two victim companies. Injecting card-stealing skimmer scripts into the checkout pages of online shops was another one of the human operator’s primary goals for the campaign. According to Gambit, the malfeasant ordered skimmer deployment against at least 27 named victims, with scripts confirmed as present on 19 websites. Security researcher Varys also helped detect more than 100 additional infected websites linked to this campaign. While the attacker used various methods to inject and deploy skimmers, the most common involved appending the code to an existing JavaScript file. Gambit argues that this campaign shows how the remediation clock - how much time organizations have to detect an intrusion and remediate vulnerabilities - has dramatically shortened. “The harnesses ran at a tempo no human operator sustains, with the person reduced to short instructions between autonomous runs,” Sela said. “When exploitation arrives within hours of exposure, patch speed stops being the only lever, and the question shifts to how quickly the services a business depends on can be brought back.” ®

LONDEN (ANP) - Amnesty International heeft in een donderdag gepubliceerd rapport opgeroepen tot de afschaffing van de Amerikaanse immigratie- en douanedienst ICE. Die dienst is belast met de uitvoering van het harde optreden tegen immigranten van de regering van president Donald Trump.

Het rapport, getiteld We Had Whistles, They Had Guns (Wij hadden fluitjes, zij hadden wapens), brengt wijdverbreide mensenrechtenschendingen tijdens operaties van ICE in kaart, aldus de mensenrechtenorganisatie.

De publicatie volgt op een incident van minder dan een week geleden, waarbij de Venezolaanse migrant Wilber Garces Perez in de Texaanse stad Austin werd neergeschoten door een ICE-agent. In januari werden twee Amerikanen, Renee Good en Alex Pretti, in Minneapolis door federale agenten neergeschoten.

"Gemaskerde en gewapende federale agenten die straffeloos mensen op straat aanvallen, brengen iedereen in gevaar", schrijft Nadia Daar, directeur van Amnesty International USA, in het rapport. "Wil de Amerikaanse overheid beschikken over een handhavingssysteem voor immigratie dat voldoet aan de internationale mensenrechtenwetgeving en -normen, dan moet ICE worden afgeschaft."

Het rapport is gebaseerd op meer dan 150 getuigenissen die tussen maart en juni zijn verzameld in vier grote steden waar ICE zijn activiteiten concentreerde, aldus Amnesty.

DEN HAAG (ANP) - "Het is klip en klaar dat u zich op het verkeerde been gezet heeft gevoeld," zei minister David van Weel (VVD, Justitie) tegen de Tweede Kamer in het laatste deel van het debat over de aangiftes die waren blijven liggen. "Daar had de Algemene Rekenkamer ook gewoon gelijk in." Eerder in het debat maakte de minister al excuses, maar zei hij dat hij de Kamer niet had misleid.

Van Weel moest zich verantwoorden in een debat nadat hij had gesteld dat aangiftes die waren blijven liggen, vooral meldingen betroffen. De Algemene Rekenkamer stelde dat de minister daarmee de Kamer op het verkeerde been had gezet. Dat waren "nuances", volgens de minister. Na die woorden bleven veel Kamerleden van de oppositie met twijfels achter.

Van Weel sprak Kamerleden van SGP en PRO persoonlijk aan: "Ik ben onvolledig geweest, in de woorden van meneer Van Dijk. Tegen mevrouw Mutluer zeg ik ook: dat is nooit mijn bedoeling geweest en had ook niet gemogen. Dat moet anders, dat kan anders. En dat wil ik u graag bewijzen."

Een PVV-motie van wantrouwen gericht aan Van Weel werd ruim verworpen. Alleen Forum voor Democratie stemde mee. SP en JA21 zeiden voorafgaand aan de stemming dat de laatste woorden van Van Weel belangrijk waren om uiteindelijk tegen te stemmen.

"Wij zaten echt op het randje van steun voor de motie van wantrouwen," stelde Ingrid Coenradie van JA21. De houding van Van Weel op het laatst had ze graag eerder in het debat gezien. "En ik verwacht dan ook dat we geen minister meer zien die achteraf dingen herstelt, maar een minister die de vlucht vooruit neemt en de relatie met de Algemene Rekenkamer écht herstelt."

JA21 is belangrijk als mogelijke samenwerkingspartner voor het minderheidskabinet om regeringsplannen aan een meerderheid in de Tweede Kamer te helpen.

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Actors detained at Jewish Voice for Peace demonstration against Israeli prime minister’s address to the UN general assembly

Oscar-winning actor Susan Sarandon and Hacks star Hannah Einbinder were among people detained by police in New York on Thursday as they moved in to break up a protest against Benjamin Netanyahu.

Agence France-Presse footage shows NYPD officers cuffing Thelma & Louise star Sarandon at the demo in the city as the Israeli prime minister was readying to address the United Nations general assembly.

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Holmes was sentenced to 11 years in prison in 2022 but has seen her sentenced reduced several times

Elizabeth Holmes, the disgraced founder of blood testing startup Theranos, will reportedly be transferred from a minimum security prison to a halfway home next August.

In 2022, Holmes, 42, was sentenced to more than 11 years in prison for defrauding Theranos investors out of hundreds of millions of dollars and ordered to pay restitution. The company falsely promoted its technology as being capable of detecting diseases, including types of cancer, from drops of finger-pricked blood.

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Weer voor Rotterdam ☁️ - 25-09-2026 01:15 CEST

In één oogopslag:
• 14.7°C · Gedeeltelijk bewolkt ☁️ | Min 14.9°C / Max 19.3°C

Verwachting voor vandaag:
• Min 14.9°C, Max 19.3°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, 🧭 1020.3 hPa ↘️ -3.1 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 11.9 km/u (3.3 m/s), richting: ↓ 344°

Uurlijkse voorspelling voor de komende 12 uur:

• 02:00: 14.4°C (Helder) 🌕, 🧭 1023.4 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 9.4 km/u (2.6 m/s), richting: ↖ 130°
• 03:00: 14.2°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, 🧭 1023.2 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 11.5 km/u (3.2 m/s), richting: ↖ 141°
• 04:00: 14.0°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, 🧭 1022.6 hPa ↘️ -0.6 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 12.2 km/u (3.4 m/s), richting: ↖ 154°
• 05:00: 13.5°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, 🧭 1022.2 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 11.5 km/u (3.2 m/s), richting: ↑ 162°
• 06:00: 13.1°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, 🧭 1021.9 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 10.1 km/u (2.8 m/s), richting: ↑ 162°
• 07:00: 12.9°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, 🧭 1021.5 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 10.1 km/u (2.8 m/s), richting: ↖ 151°
• 08:00: 13.0°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, 🧭 1021.5 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 9.4 km/u (2.6 m/s), richting: ↖ 156°
• 09:00: 14.3°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, 🧭 1021.4 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 9.0 km/u (2.5 m/s), richting: ↑ 170°
• 10:00: 15.6°C (Zonnig) ☀️, 🧭 1021.4 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 8.6 km/u (2.4 m/s), richting: ↑ 180°
• 11:00: 17.4°C (Zonnig) ☀️, 🧭 1021.5 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 8.3 km/u (2.3 m/s), richting: ↑ 191°
• 12:00: 19.0°C (Zonnig) ☀️, 🧭 1021.0 hPa ↘️ -0.5 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 9.0 km/u (2.5 m/s), richting: ↑ 181°
• 13:00: 20.5°C (Zonnig) ☀️, 🧭 1020.4 hPa ↘️ -0.6 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 10.8 km/u (3.0 m/s), richting: ↑ 177°

Voorspelling voor de komende dagen:

• zaterdag 26 september: Min 12.9°C, Max 23.0°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, 🧭 1020.0 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 12.2 km/u (3.4 m/s), richting: ↑ 169°
• zondag 27 september: Min 15.9°C, Max 20.1°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, Kans op neerslag 5%, 🧭 1016.9 hPa ↘️ -3.1 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 14.8 km/u (4.1 m/s), richting: ↙ 28°
• maandag 28 september: Min 13.6°C, Max 20.6°C (Matige motregen) 🌦️, Neerslag 1.3 mm, Kans op neerslag 6%, 🧭 1017.3 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 12.2 km/u (3.4 m/s), richting: ↖ 114°
• dinsdag 29 september: Min 15.4°C, Max 20.3°C (Matige motregen) 🌦️, Neerslag 3.0 mm, Kans op neerslag 28%, 🧭 1017.2 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 13.3 km/u (3.7 m/s), richting: ↗ 233°
• woensdag 30 september: Min 14.0°C, Max 25.1°C (Matige buien) 🌧️, Neerslag 11.2 mm, Kans op neerslag 6%, 🧭 1016.2 hPa ↘️ -1.0 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 13.1 km/u (3.6 m/s), richting: ← 110°
• donderdag 01 oktober: Min 17.5°C, Max 22.8°C (Lichte motregen) 🌦️, Neerslag 0.5 mm, Kans op neerslag 11%, 🧭 1015.7 hPa ↘️ -0.5 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 11.9 km/u (3.3 m/s), richting: ↑ 162°

Details:
• 🌡️ Huidige temperatuur (om 01:15): 14.7°C (Gedeeltelijk bewolkt)
• 🤚 Gevoelstemperatuur: 12.5°C (-2.2°C)
• 💨 Windsnelheid: 8.3 km/u (2.3 m/s), richting: ↖ 131°
• 🌬️ Windstoten: 14.4 km/h (4.0 m/s)
• 💧 Luchtvochtigheid: 66%
• 🧭 Luchtdruk: 1023.4 hPa ↘️ -0.8 hPa/3h
• 👁️ Zichtbaarheid: 50.0 km
• ☀️ UV-index: 0.0
• 🌅 Zonsopgang: 07:31 · 🌇 Zonsondergang: 19:36

Luchtkwaliteit:
• AQI: 25 🟢 (Goed)
• PM2.5: 8.2 μg/m³
• PM10: 14.8 μg/m³

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