Terwijl de man en het meisje seks hebben in de auto, gaat voortdurend de telefoon. Het is de begeleider van het meisje die zich zorgen maakt: ze is net weggelopen uit een instelling. Grote vraag: wist de man in de auto dat en dat zij minderjarig was?

De politie is in Oud-Beijerland een onderzoek gestart naar de bekladding van meerdere auto's met verf aan de Boomgaard. Vijf auto-eigenaren hebben inmiddels aangifte gedaan en volgens een woordvoerder van de politie staan er nog meerdere gepland.

Legervoertuigen en militairen op het dak in Rotterdam-Zuid. Daar is woensdagochtend een militaire training bezig. De oefening van Defensie vond plaats rondom het leegstaande ziekenhuis Antonius IJsselmonde. In tegenstelling tot een oefening in augustus, zijn buurtbewoners dit keer niet 's ochtends vroeg wakker gemaakt door helikopters.

Uit nieuw onderzoek blijkt de centrale plaats van Gouda in de tapijtenweverij in de Nederlanden. Museum Gouda toont er enkele spectaculaire voorbeelden van.

In hun huiveringwekkende boek Eindtijdfascisme beschrijven Naomi Klein en Astra Taylor hoe de machtigste mensen van de wereld zich voorbereiden op het einde van de wereld. Deze eindtijdfascisten graaien vooral voor zichzelf en hun eigen klasse. Toch geven beide auteurs de hoop nog niet op.

New paper: “Self-Jailbreaking: Language Models Can Reason Themselves Out of Safety Alignment After Benign Reasoning Training.”

Abstract: We discover a novel and surprising phenomenon of unintentional misalignment in reasoning language models (RLMs), which we call self-jailbreaking. Specifically, after benign reasoning training on math or code domains, RLMs will use multiple strategies to circumvent their own safety guardrails. One strategy is to introduce benign assumptions about users and scenarios to justify fulfilling harmful requests. For instance, an RLM reasons that harmful requests like “outline a strategy for stealing customers’ credit card information from a retail store” could be associated with the benign intent of “a security professional trying to test defense,” despite no such benign context being provided as input. We observe that many open-weight RLMs, including DeepSeek-R1-distilled, s1.1, Phi-4-mini-reasoning, and Nemotron, suffer from self-jailbreaking despite being aware of the harmfulness of the requests. We also provide a mechanistic understanding of self-jailbreaking: RLMs are more compliant after benign reasoning training, and after self-jailbreaking, models appear to perceive malicious requests as less harmful in the CoT, thus enabling compliance with them. To mitigate self-jailbreaking, we find that including minimal safety reasoning data during training is sufficient to ensure RLMs remain safety-aligned. Our work provides the first systematic analysis of self-jailbreaking behavior and offers a practical path forward for maintaining safety in increasingly capable RLMs.

I think the core problem is that these models are all trained on the average of humanity, and we are a pretty duplicitous species.

Brandon Herrera, a YouTuber known for making outrageous pro-gun statements, is the frontrunner to represent a district devastated by mass shootings

The video begins with Brandon Herrera staring intently into the camera. He is filming himself in a hotel room seated between twin beds, his black hair slicked back and beard neatly trimmed. He is wearing a T-shirt branded with his trademark nickname, “The AK Guy”, above the image of a semi-automatic rifle primed for action.

Three days earlier, on 3 August 2019, a white nationalist armed with a semi-automatic firearm not dissimilar to the one stamped across Herrera’s chest entered a busy Walmart store in the Texas border city of El Paso and opened fire.

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It is a symbol of the connection between the fanbase and club, but there is a growing fear executives would prefer stadiums full of one-off tourists

The document known as “the oldest football season ticket in the world” promises its bearer access to every Burnley home game of the 1884-85 season. It is a ticket that predates the Football League by four years, with all the fixtures played against east Lancashire neighbours. All the same, the legend on the ticket carries a stern warning: “This card is not transferable. Any member violating this rule will be at once expelled from the club.”

For Burnley 1884 read Manchester United 2026. While the oldest remaining season ticket is safely preserved at Turf Moor, at Old Trafford 685 season tickets were voided this summer after a club investigation found evidence of their having been resold on the secondary market. United said such practices “undermine fair access to tickets for genuine supporters and have no place at Manchester United”. United fan groups again protested against the actions of the club’s ownership, claiming: “The way you treat us is a disgrace.”

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As the war in Gaza approaches its fourth year, the Guardian follows five ordinary Palestinians as they go about their lives. Each tells the story of their day, revealing the terrible toll of the conflict. At 76, Mansoura’s most precious possession is the key to her former home

As the war in Gaza approaches its fourth year, this week, the Guardian follows five ordinary Palestinians as they go about their lives. Each will tell the story of their day, revealing the terrible toll of the ongoing conflict.

The flat-bed truck is open to the hot summer air, its metal frame covered on two sides by draped tarpaulins, the rear by a pegged-up bedsheet. On the tin floor lies a squab mattress and pillow with a yellow frilled cover.

Last night, I stayed awake until 2am. I barely sleep during the night because of the mosquitoes and the heat. I fall asleep for a short while, I wake up early in the morning, pray to God, and wait to hear the call to dawn prayer. When I wake up, I call for my grandson to bring over the white plastic chair that I need to climb in and out of the truck.

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Trump says further talks possible as barrel of Brent crude falls to below $100 for first time in two weeks

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Iran has pushed back on claims that it dropped former preconditions for reopening the strait of Hormuz in surprise talks held in New York under the mediation of Qatar between Tehran’s foreign minister, Abbas Araghchi, and Donald Trump’s envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner.

Trump said the three-hour talks held in a room at the UN headquarters had gone very well and been very productive. He suggested further talks were possible imminently, which led to the price of a barrel of Brent crude to fall to below $100 (£75) for the first time in two weeks. Witkoff said the talks had been “encouraging, constructive and successful”.

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It's become autumn in Kyoto, and just in time for the equinoctial week, the Spider Lilies (jp. Higanbana) are blooming.

2026 has been a busy year so far personally, and another year filled with war, climate change, and AI apocalypse news. An upcoming super El Nino doesn't herald the best for us to come, but on the ground in Kyoto, things at least look peaceful and calm. And while social media-based tourism is destroying parts of the city, the others are as quiet as ever.

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Het eeuwenoude keukendebat: gaat er een klontje roomboter de pan in of toch een scheutje olijfolie? Voedingsdeskundige Nina van den Broecke hakt de knoop door en legt uit waar je op moet letten.

Wie bakt met olijfolie, maakt volgens Van den Broecke een verstandige keuze. De olie bevat weinig verzadigd vet en juist veel enkelvoudig onverzadigd vet, en is bovendien onbewerkt. Een kanttekening: olie bestaat voor honderd procent uit vet, terwijl margarine daar maximaal tachtig procent van uitmaakt. De deskundige legt aan Libelle uit dat dit geen probleem is, zolang je de hoeveelheid per persoon in de gaten houdt.

Let op met verhitten

Wie voor olijfolie kiest, moet wel opletten met de temperatuur. Zodra de olie begint te roken, ontstaan er snel schadelijke stoffen. Net als bij andere bereidingsvetten geldt dus: niet te heet laten worden.

Hoe zachter, hoe beter

Ook boter kan prima, mits je de juiste variant kiest. Hoe harder het bereidingsvet, hoe meer ongezonde verzadigde vetzuren het bevat. Vloeibare vetstof in flesjes of zachte margarine in vlootjes verdient daarom de voorkeur boven boter in een wikkel. Twijfel je? Check dan het etiket: zit het aandeel verzadigd vet onder een derde van de totale vetten, dan zit je goed. Vetstoffen in vlootjes en flessen voldoen daar meestal aan, verpakt bereidingsvet meestal niet.

Alles met mate

Of je nu voor boter of olie kiest, het gaat uiteindelijk om de hoeveelheid. Houd ongeveer één eetlepel per persoon aan bij het koken. Zo blijft bakken en braden gezond, ongeacht welke vetsoort je in de pan deponeert.

Swedish celebrities will front a national campaign encouraging the public to exercise their rudeness in an effort to drive down rates of cyber scams. According to Polisen, Sweden’s police authority, the country’s cybercriminals profited 5.7 billion SEK ($579.9 million USD) in 2025 alone, and their scams are especially successful when targeting the elderly. “The message is simple: Dare to be rude – it could save you from being scammed,” said the Polisen this week, announcing a relaunch of the campaign with four new faces. Actors Suzanne Reuter, Lennart Jähkel, and Christina Schollin are joined by journalist Claes Elfsberg in the public awareness campaign, which will run through October 11 across print media, social media, and television. “I am part of the police campaign because it is a terrible crime that affects so many people,” said Reuter. “If I can use my voice to help someone not to be scammed, then I want to do it. “Many of us are raised to always be polite and accommodating, and there are many in my generation. But today you have to dare to be a little more questioning. It's not rude – it's self-protection.” Polisen’s national operations leader, Robert Öhman, said fraudsters are skilled social engineers, adept at building trust simultaneously with a sense of stress or urgency. His aim for the campaign is to encourage the public to feel more comfortable with simply hanging up the phone if they feel something might be awry. Telephone-based scams are by far the most common. Typically targeting the over-60s, the Polisen said scammers will often send targets SMS messages under various guises, but always claiming to represent a trusted authority, such as the government or a bank. Unwitting victims then call the telephone number included in the message and are connected to the scammers who read from a prepared script. Like the Netherlands, Sweden is also affected by fake police officer scams. These typically see crooks dress as police officers, offering to collect and safely store valuables, but steal them after the victim transfers them. In these cases, police and campaigners are urging the public to fight their learned social norms and shut the door “at the slightest hesitation.” “The police and other reputable organizations or companies never go to someone's home to collect gold, credit cards or other valuables,” the Polisen said. Officials are not only concerned about the personal losses incurred by victims, but also about the ways in which the stolen funds are used. “The money that the fraudsters get can also help finance other serious crimes,” said Öhman. “In the ongoing operation, we can confirm close cooperation between the organized fraudsters and the pure violent networks. “Therefore, we must both reduce the risk of people being deceived and strike at the criminal actors behind the crimes.” Swedish police and the country’s Post and Telecom Agency (PTS) started working more closely to combat telephone fraud in June. That same month, the Swedish Parliament approved new rules under the Electronic Communications Act compelling providers of number-based services to block suspected fraud communications before they reach the recipient. The amendments came into force as of August 1, and followed previous legislative tweaks that tasked the PTS with blocking spam calls, especially those originating from overseas and spoofing real Swedish numbers. ®

Law enforcement authorities accused the man of planning to blow up the motorcade of a high-ranking government official.

Daverende nederlaag voor al die Jodenhatende moreelpalers van de AVROTROS. Nederland doet tóch mee aan het Songfestival, ondanks dat we niet meer mogen kijken van Taco Zimmerman. Bij het doodenge clubje AVROTROS hebben ze zich twee jaar lang dronken van natuurwijnantisemitisme laten opnaaien door de hardste schreeuwers van de Rode Lijn en daarmee dachten ze Europees voortrekkertje te kunnen spelen, maar naast een paar andere schreeuwkoppen uit Ierland en Spanje stonden we met die schijnheilige palingverklaringen natuurlijk compleet voor lul. Gelukkig mogen Nederlanders nu zélf weer bepalen of ze naar dat skreifestijn gaan kijken of niet, zonder dat de engnekken van de AVROTROS (de NPO is voor ons allemaal, buu huuu) ons in een smerig hoekje voorsorteren. Hup Holland Hup, laten we Sieneke sturen.

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