Neill says ‘one of the most beautiful and remote places in the world’ will be permanently changed if Bendigo-Ophir wins fast-track approval

The grapevines in Sam Neill’s vineyard in Central Otago – a picturesque region known for its undulating hills and wines – are pregnant with pinot noir grapes, almost ripe for picking as autumn arrives.

“My family has been here for over 150 years. I’m connected to this land like nowhere else on earth,” the 78-year-old actor and winemaker says. “It’s perfect for wine. It’s great for tourism. And it’s one of the most beautiful and strange, remote places in the world.”

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• Last year’s title ‘postponed’ overhaul says manager

• Slot insists he ‘can feel that support’ from fanbase

Arne Slot has said last season’s title triumph “postponed” the end of an era at Liverpool but that the club were under no illusions a rebuild was required when appointing him as Jürgen Klopp’s successor.

Two more links to the Klopp era will be removed this summer when Andy Robertson and Mohamed Salah leave on free transfers. Virgil van Dijk, Alisson and Joe Gomez, the remaining players from the squad that delivered Premier League and Champions League success to Anfield under Klopp, will then enter the final years of their contracts.

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• De Zerbi wants to replicate former manager’s style

• ‘I want to see the Spurs I watched with Postecoglou’

Roberto De Zerbi intends to bring back “Ange-ball” as he attempts to prevent Tottenham’s first relegation in 49 years.

De Zerbi has only seven games in which to impart his complex football philosophy to his players and wants to replicate the rampant, marauding style of the former manager Ange Postecoglou, who won Tottenham’s first trophy in 17 years but was dismissed after finishing 17th in the Premier League last season.

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• Bath 43-41 Northampton

• Hosts recover from 21 points behind in first half

There are big games and then there are pivotal contests which define entire campaigns. And when it came to the crunch it was Bath who just had enough power to make the semi-finals of the Champions Cup for the first time in 20 years thanks to a 76th minute try from Ted Hill. There is little to separate the two best teams in England and here was another endlessly compelling battle of wits and wills.

Plenty of work still has to be done to reach the final in Bilbao next month with Bath now set to face the winners of Sunday’s mouthwatering all-French tie between Bordeaux and Toulouse. This was a truly sensational hors d’oeuvre, though, with nine tries in the first half alone. Gone are the days of tiptoeing into knockout matches and hoping to edge it 9-6.

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The moment when West Ham really felt their survival bid pick up pace was when the jab from Taty Castellanos rolled beyond the reach of José Sá and crawled towards the Wolves goal.

Two-nil up in a must-win game, Nuno Espírito Santo’s side looked unrecognisable from the doomed bunch who dropped seven points off 17th place in early January. This is a different West Ham. This is a West Ham with a punch in attack and, if this daring escape act does end with Premier League football secured for another season, a key part of the story will be how Nuno strengthened his squad in January .

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Anthropic's latest version of Claude can find serious software vulnerabilties at scale. Anthropic, has built a new A.I. model that is too powerful to be released to the public. Deep dive into the details. "During our testing, we found that Mythos Preview is capable of identifying and then exploiting zero-day vulnerabilities in every major operating system and every major web browser when directed by a user to do so. The vulnerabilities it finds are often subtle or difficult to detect. Many of them are ten or twenty years old, with the oldest we have found so far being a now-patched 27-year-old bug in OpenBSD—an operating system known primarily for its security."

Anthropic will make the new model — known as Claude Mythos Preview — only available to a consortium of more than 40 technology companies, including Apple, Amazon and Microsoft, which will use the model to find and patch security vulnerabilities in critical software programs. "During our testing, we found that Mythos Preview is capable of identifying and then exploiting zero-day vulnerabilities in every major operating system and every major web browser when directed by a user to do so. The vulnerabilities it finds are often subtle or difficult to detect. Many of them are ten or twenty years old, with the oldest we have found so far being a now-patched 27-year-old bug in OpenBSD—an operating system known primarily for its security." --- "Mythos Preview fully autonomously identified and then exploited a 17-year-old remote code execution vulnerability in FreeBSD that allows anyone to gain root on a machine running NFS. This vulnerability, triaged as CVE-2026-4747, allows an attacker to obtain complete control over the server, starting from an unauthenticated user anywhere on the internet. When we say "fully autonomously", we mean that no human was involved in either the discovery or exploitation of this vulnerability after the initial request to find the bug. We provided the exact same scaffold that we used to identify the OpenBSD vulnerability as in the prior section, with the additional prompt saying essentially nothing more than "In order to help us appropriately triage any bugs you find, please write exploits so we can submit the highest severity ones."" --- "Mythos is better than previous models such as Claude Opus 4.6 at finding vulnerabilities. It will find them a lot more often, and can find a wider range of them, with less prompting and handholding. This is itself a big deal, and as a practical matter this goes from 'we are going to discover a lot more bugs faster' to 'I have discovered more serious vulnerabilities in the past few weeks than in my entire career.' What Mythos can do, that previous models essentially cannot do, is either look for or be given vulnerabilities, and then chain them together into new and powerful exploits in a far wider variety of circumstances, with essentially zero human guidance."

AMSTERDAM (ANP) - Tesla's geavanceerde rijhulpsysteem Full Self-Driving (Supervised) wordt toegelaten op de openbare weg in Nederland. Dat heeft de RDW, de vroegere Rijksdienst voor het Wegverkeer, bekendgemaakt. Met het systeem kunnen Tesla-rijders zonder handen aan het stuur door het verkeer gaan, zolang ze als bestuurder blijven opletten. Nederland is het eerste Europese land waar het zelfrijdende systeem wordt geïntroduceerd.

Volgens Tesla laat het systeem de auto's van het merk niet volledig autonoom rijden. Als het systeem signaleert dat een bestuurder niet oplet, geeft het systeem een waarschuwing. Als de bestuurder daar niet op reageert, kan het systeem zichzelf uitschakelen.

Op die manier zou het systeem de meest stressvolle aspecten van het dagelijkse rijden weg kunnen nemen en de veiligheid maximaliseren, aldus Tesla. Het bedrijf van topman Elon Musk stelt bijvoorbeeld dat het systeem handig kan zijn bij navigeren door druk stadsverkeer.

"Het is een rijhulpsysteem en de bestuurder blijft verantwoordelijk en moet altijd controle houden", onderstreept de RDW. De dienst heeft het systeem uitgebreid onderzocht en getest. Dat gebeurde zowel op de eigen testbaan als op de openbare weg.

Er is nu een zogenoemde typegoedkeuring afgegeven. Daardoor kan het rijhulpsysteem gebruikt worden in Nederland. Tesla laat weten de functie komende dagen beschikbaar te maken voor de voertuigen van klanten. Dat gaat via draadloze software-updates. Automobilisten moeten wel voor de dienst betalen.

Mogelijk volgt later uitbreiding naar alle lidstaten van de Europese Unie. De aanvraag daarvoor wordt door de RDW ingediend bij de Europese Commissie. Alle lidstaten stemmen vervolgens over deze aanvraag.

DEN HAAG (ANP) - In Den Haag vieren ADO-fans dat hun club vrijdagavond kampioen is geworden in de eerste divisie. Er wordt vuurwerk afgestoken en automobilisten en scooterrijders claxonneren. Bij het stadion van ADO Den Haag zijn tientallen mensen samengekomen, ziet een ANP-verslaggever. Daar is vuurwerk te horen en groene rook te zien.

Ook op de Hoefkade in het Transvaalkwartier wordt het kampioenschap uitbundig gevierd door honderden mensen, meldt Omroep West. Daar worden fakkels en rookpotten afgestoken. De omroep meldt dat daar ook ADO-spelers aanwezig zijn en dat ze op de schouders worden genomen.

ADO Den Haag hoefde vrijdag zelf niet te spelen. De club werd kampioen doordat nummer 2 SC Cambuur gelijkspeelde tegen FC Den Bosch. De ploeg van trainer Robin Peter verzekerde zich dit seizoen al halverwege maart van promotie naar de Eredivisie.

De selectie van ADO volgde volgens Omroep West de wedstrijd van Cambuur in een pand aan de Hoefkade.

Crew went farther from Earth than any humans we know about, now they’re coming back!

In a world wracked b wars, difficult economic conditions, and exploding RAM costs, there's one piece of good news. NASA's Artemis II mission has been an unqualified success, having carried four astronauts farther from Earth than any humans before them.…

Hundreds of layoffs, but this smells of geopolitics, not downsizing

Red Hat appears to have fired its entire engineering team in China, which it no longer thinks is a country it needs to prioritize. Most of the team will move to India.…

Please enjoy jwz mixtape 258.

Because of the recent unpleasantness, here's a mixtape of songs about nuclear war!

This idea popped into my head while I was standing at the bar last night and I thought, "Yeah, I probably have enough videos for that" and started writing down song names... 10 minutes later I had more than 2 hours worth.

Oh yeah, and I had to find an alternate upload of the Two Tribes video because the official one is marked "inappropriate for some users, sign in to confirm your age." "Based on community guidelines." That video played hourly on MTV from like 1984 through 1988. I hate you, Milkman Youtube.

The trailer for Mary Oliver: Saved by the Beauty of the World. The film is showing in select locations around the country and will air on PBS this summer.

Ultimate Online Phreak Box. “This is a free online blue box, red box, and silver box.” (With this and a time machine, you could make free phone calls in the 1970s.)

True to scale, Thomas Wrede

An anonymous reader quotes a report from 404 Media: The FBI was able to forensically extract copies of incoming Signal messages from a defendant's iPhone, even after the app was deleted, because copies of the content were saved in the device's push notification database, multiple people present for FBI testimony in a recent trial told 404 Media. The case involved a group of people setting off fireworks and vandalizing property at the ICE Prairieland Detention Facility in Alvarado, Texas in July, and one shooting a police officer in the neck. The news shows how forensic extraction -- when someone has physical access to a device and is able to run specialized software on it -- can yield sensitive data derived from secure messaging apps in unexpected places. Signal already has a setting that blocks message content from displaying in push notifications; the case highlights why such a feature might be important for some users to turn on.

"We learned that specifically on iPhones, if one's settings in the Signal app allow for message notifications and previews to show up on the lock screen, [then] the iPhone will internally store those notifications/message previews in the internal memory of the device," a supporter of the defendants who was taking notes during the trial told 404 Media. [...] During one day of the related trial, FBI Special Agent Clark Wiethorn testified about some of the collected evidence. A summary of Exhibit 158 published on a group of supporters' website says, "Messages were recovered from Sharp's phone through Apple's internal notification storage -- Signal had been removed, but incoming notifications were preserved in internal memory. Only incoming messages were captured (no outgoing)."

404 Media spoke to one of the supporters who was taking notes during the trial, and to Harmony Schuerman, an attorney representing defendant Elizabeth Soto. Schuerman shared notes she took on Exhibit 158. "They were able to capture these chats bc [because] of the way she had notifications set up on her phone -- anytime a notification pops up on the lock screen, Apple stores it in the internal memory of the device," those notes read. The supporter added, "I was in the courtroom on the last day of the state's case when they had FBI Special Agent Clark testifying about some Signal messages. One set came from Lynette Sharp's phone (one of the cooperating witnesses), but the interesting detailed messages shown in court were messages that had been set to disappear and had in fact disappeared in the Signal app." Further reading: Apple Gave Governments Data On Thousands of Push Notifications

Read more of this story at Slashdot.

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Thomas Hawk posted a photo:

Regulation is hard:

The South Pacific Regional Fisheries Management Organization (SPRFMO) oversees fishing across roughly 59 million square kilometers (22 million square miles) of the South Pacific high seas, trying to impose order on a region double the size of Africa, where distant-water fleets pursue species ranging from jack mackerel to jumbo flying squid. The latter dominated this year’s talks.

Fishing for jumbo flying squid (Dosidicus gigas) has expanded rapidly over the past two decades. The number of squid-jigging vessels operating in SPRFMO waters rose from 14 in 2000 to more than 500 last year, almost all of them flying the Chinese flag. Meanwhile, reported catches have fallen markedly, from more than 1 million metric tons in 2014 to about 600,000 metric tons in 2024. Scientists worry that fishing pressure is outpacing knowledge of the stock.

As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven’t covered.

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Fred Marquer has added a photo to the pool:

Kyoto, Japan