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Exclusive: High-level documents show how Copa Cogeca worked to weaken legislation to protect climate and wildlife
Newly revealed documents from inside the most powerful farming lobby in Europe show how it delayed, gutted and overturned some of the most sweeping farming reforms in EU history, including a plan to cut pesticide use in half.
Copa Cogeca describes itself as the voice of 22 million farmers across the continent, and enjoys unrivalled access to EU lawmakers. It has even been described as a “partner in policymaking”.
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Elk wereldkampioenschap heeft zijn eigen bal, dit jaar de ‘Trionda’. Hoe groot zijn de verschillen? Welke veranderingen zijn functioneel, en welke vooral cosmetisch? Op zoek naar antwoorden, met hulp van een Britse voetbalrobot.
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Our design for the Filema Rodion traditional treats series visualizes the concept of filema (the act of offering). By utilizing white surfaces, the packaging allows the custom-designed traditional plates and their contents to take precedence. While the visual language of the plates draws inspiration from the heritage of Rhodes, the overall composition remains restrained, guiding the eye toward the product and the heartfelt gesture of offering.
Elon Musk has confirmed SpaceX has now open sourced the Grok Build CLI just days after researchers caught the AI tool scooping up users’ entire repositories and uploading them to company-controlled cloud storage. SpaceXAI’s data grab was first publicized on Sunday by Cereblab, who probed Grok Build traffic and found that repos were being packaged up as Git Bundles and beamed to Google Cloud storage. Concerning. The news gathered so much negative attention that Elon Musk felt compelled to issue a public statement alongside SpaceX, and its technical staff, promising to delete all data that Grok Build has ever stored and give users more choice over how their data is handled. SpaceX is the parent company of xAI, the corporate subdivision where X, the company once known as Twitter, and Grok, its AI division, both nest. As part of these promises, Musk also said SpaceX would open-source Grok Build to sow greater trust in the product, after the codebase was audited for security vulnerabilities. On Wednesday, that promise was fulfilled. You can see it all on GitHub right now. It’s a single commit, so you can’t see all the changes that have been made over time. There are no pull requests or git history. “We've open-sourced Grok Build and have reset usage limits for all users,” SpaceX said. “Open-sourcing Grok Build allows anyone to support making a reliable and robust harness. Check out our code, including the Git repo for the Grok Build CLI.” According to Simon Willison, creator of Datasette and co-creator of Django, the Grok Build codebase comprises 844,530 lines of Rust code, and while the code responsible for sending repos to the cloud remains, it appears altered to reverse the behavior. In a separate statement accompanying the open source announcement, SpaceX said it has always respected Zero Data Retention (ZDR), which was applied to enterprise customers by default, and acknowledged that data retention was enabled by default for everyone else, which has now been corrected. It said: “In response to user questions about privacy: Since launch, Grok Build has fully respected zero data retention (ZDR). All users have always had the ability to disable data upload in the CLI. “When data upload was disabled, this choice was respected. In the early beta, data retention was enabled by default for non-ZDR users. Based on your feedback, we changed this. We are now going further to protect privacy. “With all retained data deleted, retention default off, and an open-source harness, we are offering complete user privacy. You can also run Grok Build fully open-sourced and local-first with your own inference. “We disabled default retention for all Grok Build users starting on July 12th. Additionally, we are deleting all coding data that was previously retained, ensuring every user’s preferences are respected. With these steps, Grok Build goes beyond other major coding products to protect user privacy.” SpaceX also invited researchers to probe Grok Build for security issues and report them to its bug bounty program, which offers rewards ranging from $100-$20,000, depending on the severity. ®
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is experiencing another outage after a CloudFront issue began throwing 5xx errors, knocking a string of websites and online services offline across multiple regions. According to AWS, the issue began at 0145 PDT (0945 UTC) this morning and affects CloudFront customers using VPC Origins. This is a relatively new CloudFront feature that lets customers serve applications running behind private load balancers through CloudFront without exposing their back-end infrastructure to the public internet. The cloud giant said customers using other origin types are not impacted, and suggested that anyone who doesn't strictly need VPC Origins could switch origin types as a temporary workaround while engineers work on a fix. “We are experiencing increased 5xx errors for CloudFront customers utilizing VPC Origins connectivity,” the cloud giant said on its service status page. “Our engineers are engaged and are actively working to mitigate impact." At 03:18 PDT (118BST, 1018 UTC), it added: "We continue working to resolve the increased 5xx errors for CloudFront customers utilizing VPC Origins connectivity. Customers utilizing other origin types remain unaffected by this issue. "Based on our investigation, we believe the root cause is related to a packet processing subsystem responsible for routing requests from CloudFront's edge locations to resources within customer VPCs. We continue to recommend that customers who are able to do so temporarily change their origin type to resolve the errors." It promised another update in the next hour. Users trying to reach sites affected by the CloudFront issues are being met with an error page that reads: “We can't connect to the server for this app or website at this time. There might be too much traffic or a configuration error. Try again later, or contact the app or website” Among the early casualties was the AI developer platform Hugging Face, which acknowledged that its service was unavailable "from most regions in the world" due to the AWS outage while it worked on mitigation. Meanwhile, the UK's National Lottery admitted in a post on X that players were unable to access its website and mobile app due to what it described as a wider AWS outage, advising hopeful millionaires to try refreshing later. Gamers weren't spared either. Reports quickly piled up on Reddit from Fallout 76 players wondering why Bethesda's post-apocalyptic wasteland had become more inaccessible than usual, while various other threads rapidly filled with reports from disgruntled AWS customers, all describing the same symptom: CloudFront distributions returning 5xx errors while other AWS services carried on as normal. AWS had not disclosed the cause of the borkage and didn’t immediately respond to The Register’s questions. While it said the outage was limited to one CloudFront configuration, the list of broken services made it look considerably less limited. ®
Ukraine received 501 bodies of its soldiers while handing Russia the remains of 31 soldiers, Shamsail Saraliyev, a State Duma lawmaker, told RBC.
HSE said tuition-free spots would also be offered to applicants who fail to meet the university’s entrance exam requirements if they enlist in the army.
De rechtbank in Rotterdam heeft cryptoplatform Knaken uit Rotterdam failliet verklaard. Volgens het Openbaar Ministerie ontbreekt zeven miljoen euro aan tegoeden van klanten. Het faillissement was aangevraagd door het Openbaar Ministerie, omdat die de gang van zaken bij het bedrijf niet vertrouwde.
Bij een woningoverval aan de Madeliefstraat in Rotterdam heeft de politie woensdagavond een waarschuwingsschot gelost bij de aanhouding van twee verdachten. Het gaat om twee jongens van 15 en 16 jaar uit Rotterdam. Een 27-jarige bewoner raakte gewond.
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SocialEn u maar denken dat "hitte-ongelijkheid" tot de NRC beperkt zou blijven. Het aantal hittedoden gaat naar verwachting dan misschien VERDUBBELEN, maar laten deze zongedreven oversterfte wel gewoon netjes nivelleren. Wethouder Lian Heinhuis van uiteraard PRO Amsterdam zegt bovendien dat airco's klimaatverandering zullen verergeren, "want Europa staat gewoon letterlijk in de fik". Ook zegt ze: "Als iedereen in Amsterdam, daar is onderzoek naar geweest, een airco zou hebben in het centrum, dan wordt de buitentemperatuur tot 2 graden warmer. Dus wat je dan krijgt, is dat die mensen in het centrum die geen airco kunnen betalen, die hebben het nog heter in huis. Dus daarmee vergroot je alleen maar die ongelijkheid."
Opmerkelijk: dat onderzoek stelt dat als IEDEREEN in het centrum een airco heeft, de temperatuur met 2 graden stijgt, dus in dat scenario zijn er geen mensen die deze airco niet kunnen betalen, en daardoor lijden onder hitte-ongelijkheid. Maar goed, het klopt natuurlijk wel dat massale airco-inzet de temperatuur in wijken verhoogt, en er valt wel degelijk een discussie te voeren over tot welke verzadigingsgraad die uitruil het waard blijft. En meer bomen in de straten kunnen we altijd en overal alleen maar voor zijn.
Overigens: Nederland is al Europa's airco-kampioen. "TNO schat dat in 2030 ruim 40 procent van de huishoudens ten minste één airco heeft en dat het totaal aantal airco’s dan op circa 6,3 miljoen uitkomt. In 2021 had nog maar 20 procent van de huishoudens een airco. Bijna 90 procent van de vaste airco’s in Nederland is in de afgelopen vijf jaar geïnstalleerd."
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