De spraakmakende heropening van een zaak rond beschuldigingen van groepsverkrachting op de campus van Cornell University, die aanvankelijk niet strafrechtelijk werd vervolgd, heeft een virale campagne losgemaakt op sociale media. ‘We zijn niet boos genoeg’

De Spaanse autoriteiten verhogen de druk op de overgebleven migranten in Ceuta, onder meer door de ontruiming van een tentenkamp. Met kleine handeltjes en door klussen aan te nemen, proberen de migranten te overleven. „Ze zeggen dat er geen plek voor ons is in Europa.”

Vergeleken met elf andere Europese landen blijkt Nederland als een van de weinige niet de staatsschuld extra te laten oplopen om defensie-uitgaven te financieren. En maar heel weinig andere landen bezuinigen op sociale zekerheid. Wat kan Nederland leren van die landen?

Tit-for-tat expulsions expected after relations deteriorate as a result of UK ban on goods from illegal settlements

The UK has threatened to expel one Israeli diplomat for every British diplomat forced to leave Israel as a result of Israel’s decision to close the UK consulate in East Jerusalem later this week.

This could mean as many as 27 Israeli diplomats being expelled from the UK, a step that would arguably mark the lowest point in British-Israeli diplomatic relations since the formation of the state of Israel.

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Politicians must redouble their efforts to tackle a disturbing pattern of pupils assaulting classmates

The Guardian’s findings about the extent of sexual abuse in schools require an urgent, calibrated response. Data revealing multiple rapes committed each year on school premises in England and Wales is hard to comprehend. Yet this is what freedom of information requests to police forces, covering the period from 2021 until last year, have revealed. As well as the severity of the offences, the youth of many of the victims is disturbing. More than 8,500 sexual offences at or near schools were committed against under-13s, most of them girls.

Data about perpetrators contains gaps, including their age and sex. While the overwhelming majority of such acts are carried out by boys, we don’t know the exact proportion, nor if there is an age gap between those carrying out abuse and those being targeted. Only 33 out of 43 police forces shared their data, meaning that large areas including Scotland are not represented. But whatever the exact details, and allowing for the fact that these are reports, not convictions, the findings are deeply dismaying.

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Birmingham event is like a safari park attraction where we get to see the remnants of a party in a protected habitat

At the Labour party conference in Liverpool last week, Andy Burnham floated the idea of electoral reform. This week in Birmingham, the Tories have come up with a plan of their own: voting with their feet.

How to put this nicely? Let’s just say that the Conservative party conference is extremely civilised. No queues for the food concessions. No queues to get into any of the halls. In fact, the organisers are delighted that anyone has turned up at all.

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The FBI and law enforcement partners have arrested “multiple” suspects as part of an investigation into a September hack allegedly involving data-theft-and-extortion group ShinyHunters, the bureau told The Register. “The bureau continues to aggressively investigate the recent cyber incident allegedly involving ShinyHunters, having already worked with partners to arrest multiple subjects and we will spare no resource in bringing each of the responsible individuals to justice,” an FBI spokesperson told us in an email on Monday. The FBI declined to comment on the specific arrests, including that of Saif al-Din Khader, a suspected ShinyHunters member who has reportedly been detained in Jordan, according to Reuters. Khader, who goes by the alias Rey, was reportedly brought into custody on September 29, and is said to be cooperating with the FBI to identify other members of the group. ShinyHunters did not respond to The Register’s inquiries about the arrest and Khader’s alleged involvement with the criminal group. Rey confirmed his real identity - Khader - to security journalist Brian Krebs last year. Krebs described Khader as the “technical operator and public face” of Scattered LAPSUS$ Hunters. “Rey got picked up finally,” said security sleuth Kevin Beaumont following news of the arrest. According to Beaumont, Rey was “one of the kids who got into JLR.” The Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) breach, which occurred in late August 2025, affected the company's IT systems and halted manufacturing operations. Dealer systems also went down, and suppliers faced canceled or delayed orders. In addition to crippling the carmaker’s business operations for months, the digital thieves stole personal payroll data belonging to thousands of JLR employees. The cyberattack, one of the most costly in UK history, was attributed to Scattered LAPSUS$ Hunters. Khader’s detention came two weeks after the Dutch National Police arrested a 24-year-old whom the FBI described as “one of the alleged leaders of ShinyHunters.” While Dutch cops have not named the suspect, Krebs and other reports say he is Pepijn van der Stap, who was convicted in 2023 for hacking and extorting numerous organizations and was on supervised release after three years in prison. Van der Stap also worked as a software engineer at the Amsterdam-based cybersecurity startup Hadrian and volunteered as a security researcher at the Dutch Institute for Vulnerability Disclosure (DIVD). In a video message following the arrest, Brett Leatherman, assistant director of the FBI's Cyber Division, had some advice for the “remaining members” of the data theft and extortion gang. “Arrests have a way of changing who is willing to talk, and seized infrastructure has a way of showing us who's left,” Leatherman said last week. “The longer you stay in this, the more we learn about you. You know how to find us, and we know how to find you. I suggest you reach out first while the choice is still yours.” At the time, the FBI declined to answer The Register’s questions about the video message, including whether it had seized any of the cybercrime group’s infrastructure, and whether any of ShinyHunters’ members had taken Leatherman up on his offer to “reach out first.” In late September, ShinyHunters hacked the FBIJobs.gov portal and claimed it stole sensitive personal details about current, former, and prospective FBI employees. A spokesperson told The Register that unlike most of its digital break-ins, this one was “NOT financially motivated … We want the FBI to correct or retract their statements they made, which included substantial false allegations.” Later, in an exclusive interview, the spokesperson told us the attention-grabbing hack was “fundamentally a public relations and marketing initiative for our business.” ®

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Quartz: Huawei and Qualcomm on Monday announced a multi-year, broad patent license agreement covering 5G, artificial intelligence, compute, and networking technologies, along with Qualcomm's purchase of certain Huawei U.S. patents in those same fields. The deal is the first patent licensing agreement between the two companies to cover 5G technologies, according to Reuters. Huawei said the agreement is expected to bring the cumulative value of its patent licensing deals above $6.9 billion upon closing.

The agreement includes cross licenses to both companies' patent portfolios and is structured around fair, reasonable, and non-discriminatory, or FRAND, principles, the company said. The transaction will close following receipt of the necessary regulatory approvals. [...] The company noted that its intellectual property licensing unit has been profitable since 2021. Huawei made its first licensing payment to Qualcomm in 2001 and received its first licensing income, from Motorola, in 2011, according to Reuters. American export controls that took effect in 2019 have curtailed Huawei's access to cutting-edge chips and essential software, according to Reuters. The constraints pushed Huawei to increase its research and development spending in recent years.

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Nappy is a site offering free stock photos of Black and brown people. (The site says they’re going offline in a few months due to a falloff in demand bc of AI. Maybe Internet Archive can do their thing here?)

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Kyoto, Japan - April 21, 2026: Many tourists dressed up in kimonos visit Kiyomizu-dera temple

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Kimonos for rent outside of a shop in Kyoto Japan

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Kiyomizu-dera temple in Kyoto Japan on an overcast day

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Beautiful hair pieces and accessories, tourist American woman dressed in a traditional Japanese kimono

Rotterdammer R.D. (40) laat er geen gras over groeien op de datingmarkt. Hij wil al snel een weekendje weg met de vrouwen die hij op platforms als Tinder en Lexa ontmoet. Of ze hem voor zo'n leuk vakantiehuisje dan even een voorschot willen betalen.