Two killed and 41 wounded in Kyiv as Russian drone attacks that began on Wednesday stretched into Thursday. What we know on day 1,674

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Meta announced an advanced new set of virtual reality glasses and a collection of new smart glasses Wednesday, including an audio-only version without a camera.

At the firm’s Meta Connect conference in Menlo Park, California, executives said the new Ray-Ban Meta models set new standards for battery life and weight. They said the new glasses with screens in the lenses squeeze capabilities previously reserved for a full headset into a light set of spectacles that rest on a user’s ears.

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GRONINGEN (ANP) - De Groningse gedeputeerde die over sport gaat, Marian van Dijken (BBB), is heel blij dat de wereldkampioenschappen wielrennen naar Groningen en Drenthe komen. Het liefst had ze die in 2032 hier willen zien, maar 2034 is wat haar betreft ook goed, reageerde ze. "Als het maar komt, zodat tientallen miljoenen televisiekijkers kunnen zien wat de noordelijke provincies voor moois te bieden hebben." Er komen ook altijd veel bezoekers op af.

Het is de bedoeling dat het parcours door alle gemeenten in de twee provincies loopt. Voor het evenement is vanuit het Groningse herstelprogramma Nij Begun 20 miljoen euro beschikbaar gesteld. Het fonds, dat is gevuld met Rijksgeld ter compensatie van de aardbevingsschade, ziet ook een unieke kans om het noorden van Nederland internationaal onder de aandacht te brengen.

Eigenaar Thijs Rondhuis van wielerorganisatie Courage Events benadrukt dat het geld niet komt uit het schadeherstelfonds, maar uit budget om de regio economisch vooruit te helpen. "Wij willen aan de 250 miljoen tv-kijkers laten zien hoe gaaf Groningen is, om zo de vrijetijdseconomie en het toerisme aan te jagen. Dit is bedoeld om Groningers weer trots te laten worden."

Daar sluit de Groningse burgemeester Roelien Kamminga zich bij aan. "Een hele generatie Groningers is opgegroeid met vooral de aardbevingen en de negatieve aandacht in hun hoofd. Mijn droom is dat er weer allemaal trotse jonge Groningers komen, die zeggen: 'Kijk hoe mooi mijn provincie is en kijk wat wij hier kunnen.' Dat zij met dat gevoel de rest van hun leven ingaan."

Juist wielrennen is daarvoor geschikt, zei Kamminga na de toewijzing in het Canadese Montreal. "Wielrennen is heel laagdrempelig. Je hoeft geen kaartjes te kopen en het komt door je eigen dorp. Bovendien zijn we een fietsland en zit het in ons DNA, zeker ook in het noorden. Dus het kan niet veel passender dan dit."

MONTREAL (ANP) - Voorzitter David Lappartient van de internationale wielerbond UCI weet nu al dat de WK in 2034 in Groningen en Drenthe een succes gaan worden. "Evenementen in Nederland zijn voor ons altijd een zekerheidje, omdat ze telkens perfect georganiseerd zijn. En we kennen de liefde van Nederlanders voor wielrennen, dus het zal ook overvol staan langs de kant", zei Lappartient na de toewijzing in Montreal tegen het ANP.

Groningen en Drenthe concurreerden met het Indiase Pune voor de WK in 2032, maar Lappartient wilde beide bids laten slagen en wees daardoor bij hoge uitzondering ook al het evenement voor twee jaar later toe. "Een WK is waarschijnlijk nog nooit zo ver van tevoren toegewezen, maar soms moet je een uitzondering maken. Wij weten dat Nederland werkt met een langetermijnvisie om het vertrouwen en de trots in de regio's te herstellen. Wij willen daarin meewerken."

Nederland scoorde volgens Lappartient ook punten met het voorstel om ook de paralympische WK in het evenement op te nemen. "Daardoor was het bestuur unaniem om het evenement nu al toe te wijzen."

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On a photo workshop w/ Lukasz Palka of Eye Explore www.instagram.com/lkazphoto/?hl=en (Highly recommended!)

Ikebukuro, Tokyo, Japan

Australia’s Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has revealed an OpenAI agent “infiltrated an Australian government website.” Albanese said the incident occurred in June and involved an agent gaining unauthorized access to a portal that stores statistics related to Medicare, Australia’s national health insurance scheme. “The AI agent accessed both public and non-public files,” the PM said, before describing the portal as holding “non-sensitive Medicare information relating to data and statistics such as spending.” Australia’s Signals Directorate, a signals intelligence and cybersecurity agency, is investigating the incident. Albanese said the government currently believes none of its other systems were compromised, and that OpenAI’s agents did not access personal information. The PM described the situation as “obviously unacceptable” and said he spoke with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman – who is also attending the UN meetings – “to express Australia's extreme concern about this incident.” Albanese also “expressed my disappointment that it took the company way too long to inform the government what had occurred. The nature of the way that that notification occurred as well was unacceptable.” OpenAI told The Register it discovered the incident during the review of “misaligned behavior” it disclosed last week, and which led it to report six occasions on which its agents behaved unexpectedly and/or dangerously. “During this review, we identified activity involving several Australian government websites and services as our models attempted to look up answers, and available statistics for questions about Australia during an internal evaluation,” an OpenAI spokesperson told The Register by email. “In the course of that, our models took actions we did not intend.” “The information accessed included aggregate health statistics and internal file names,” the spokesperson added. OpenAI say the incident occurred in June, and that it notified Australia’s government on September 10. “During that time, we were validating and investigating the facts and what information had been accessed,” the spokesperson told The Register. We’ve asked OpenAI for more information about the incident and will update this story if we receive a substantial response. It is unclear why Albanese waited two weeks to disclose the incident, but ahead of the UN meeting Australia signed the Call for Control of Frontier AI Models, a 21-nation proposal for AI regulation. The PM is also using his visit to the UN to launch a bid for Australia to win a non-permanent seat on the United Nations Security Council. Australia last year used the UN meeting to promote its ban on children under 16 accessing social media. Albanese is widely expected to discuss his government’s proposed digital duty of care for tech platforms, which would require tech companies to avoid foreseeable harm to users, at this year’s meetings. The PM sees taking on Big Tech with strong regulations as a political winner, often linking the government’s actions to reducing the likelihood that children will self-harm. He often uses the phrase “we need to shape technology rather than allow it to shape us” to summarize his government’s policy. Every Australian has a Medicare account, the scheme is popular, and is a signature policy of Albanese’s Labor Party. OpenAI’s actions therefore give the PM a weapon to wield as he advocates for stronger regulation of tech companies. Albanese is trying to enact those regulations without scaring away investment. He had a win last week when Anthropic decided to become a long-term tenant of a 1.4GW datacenter cluster currently under construction down under. The PM faces criticism, however, over hints that in order to attract investment he may water down Australian copyright laws. Australia does not have the fair use exemptions that AI companies relied on to scrape content in other jurisdictions. Albanese has said any changes to copyright laws will embody two principles: creators “will have control over their intellectual property” and “any use needs to be monetized,” but hasn’t offered details on what that will mean. APRA AMCOS, an organization that represents Australian composers and musicians, last week criticized AI companies’ approach to gathering training data. "They have found the money for nearly every lobbying firm in Canberra. They have found the money for datacenters, power and Nvidia chips,” wrote CEO Dean Ormston. “But they have no intention of paying for the single most important ingredient in training and running a frontier large language model, which is creative content. And it isn't only Australia's IP they want. It's Australia and the world's IP, trained on in datacenters here without a single license agreement." ®

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De twee provincies mikten in hun oorspronkelijke bid op 2032. De laatste keer dat de wereldkampioenschappen wielrennen plaatsvonden in Nederland was in 2012.

Op een maandagochtend vertel ik aan mijn 3V-leerlingen dat ik deze les mijn telefoon aan heb staan omdat het heel erg slecht gaat met mijn moeder en zij binnenkort gaat sterven.

Plaats de cijfers 1 tot en met 9 zo in het diagram dat elk cijfer precies één keer voorkomt in elke rij, kolom, de negen vetomrande 3x3 vakken, én de vier grijze 3x3 vakken.