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Claim: A severely disabled two-year-old child was euthanized in the Netherlands under the country’s expanded euthanasia laws. Rating: Context A medical review committee determined that the physician “acted with due care.” The Netherlands Public Prosecution Service will determine whether the physician acted within the bounds of the law. Rumors that a child in the Netherlands was euthanized by medical professionals circulated online in September 2026.  People on social media and YouTube claimed the country had recently allowed physicians to terminate the life of a 2-year-old disabled child. One user posted on X, “My heart hurts for the broken world in which we live…

A Florida Republican has introduced a bill that would bar US federal agencies from using Flock Safety’s licence plate cameras and similar systems without a warrant, amid a nationwide backlash against the surveillance company.Greg Steube’s Facilitating Liberty and Accountability for Flock Observations (Flafo) Act, introduced on Friday, would require a judicial warrant before federal agencies could buy, operate, access or share data with networked licence plate readers. It would also make US Department of Justice grants to local police conditional on their adopting similar rules.“Americans should not be tracked everywhere they drive without a warrant,” Steube wrote in a statement.…

A publicly owned company, Buses for London, will start running services in the capital next year, Transport for London has announced.TfL said the launch was a “major milestone” in its plans to improve buses for drivers and passengers.The new public company will take over a handful of London’s bus routes, which number nearly 700 in total, from late 2027, starting with route 6, which runs between Willesden and Victoria station.A further four routes to be run by the public company from 2028 are to be announced.TfL said the creation of a publicly owned bus company would give it greater control…

In September 2015, the Founders Fund hosted a retreat at an eco-resort in British Columbia. Most of the attendees were VCs and people from the companies the firm was backing, but they also invited a few outsiders, including computer pioneer Alan Kay, writer Neal Stephenson, and me.One morning at breakfast I was sitting across from Kay at a long table. The man who conceived the Dynabook—basically the modern computer that we all use—was expounding on his exploits when Founders Fund leader Peter Thiel plopped down next to him. As Kay, in full raconteur mode, spun stories of optimizing the mouse…

Aikido Security has released Altar-1, its first open-weight security model. It is a compressed version of Z.AI’s GLM-5.3, built to run inside infrastructure the customer controls. Altar-1 powers Aikido Machine, the company’s autonomous pentesting appliance for on-prem and air-gapped networks. Is it deployable? Yes, the weights are public on Hugging Face and run with vLLM on a single node of 4x NVIDIA H200 GPUs. The Problem: Security Context Cannot Leave the Network Closed frontier models run on someone else’s infrastructure. Using them sends source code, architecture docs, and unremediated findings outside the network. Aikido points to banks under data-residency mandates…

OpenAI appears to be preparing a new ChatGPT Pro Max subscription that could cost $500 per month, but it’s unclear when it’ll begin rolling out. OpenAI users, particularly power users, have been requesting more usage than the existing $200 plan offers for a while, so the $500 plan isn’t just coming out of nowhere. Right now, we don’t know when you’ll be able to subscribe to the $500 plan, but as spotted by TestingCatalog, the unannounced plan has started appearing in ChatGPT’s subscription interface alongside Plus and existing Pro options. OpenAI tests a new $500 plan (up to $600 with VAT…

[Update, 12:55 UTC, Sept. 25: This article was updated with Magic Eden’s statement identifying the affected protocol and its guidance for former users.]A whitehat moved 3,832 non-fungible tokens from hundreds of wallets on Friday amid concerns about a vulnerability involving NFT marketplace Magic Eden. NFT community member who goes by Cirrus on X flagged the activity on Friday, saying a single wallet moved 3,832 NFTs from hundreds of wallets. Cirrus said the transactions appeared as sales through Magic Eden and advised NFT holders to revoke permissions as a precaution.Shortly afterward, Yuga Labs’ pseudonymous vice president of blockchain, 0xQuit, said the transfers…

For more information, contact Donald S. Parker, Kennedy Space Center, donald.s.parker@nasa.gov Download the PDF version Improper casting and forging processes in the manufacture of aluminum alloy 2219 can lead to microstructural defects that result in a sub-optimal response to anodic surface treatments and an increase in corrosion susceptibility. This Technical Bulletin communicates the risks of improper casting and recommends a homogenizing step followed by multidirectional deformation after conventional direct chill casting, especially for larger castings. 09/24/26 DOC ID: 20260008373 BackgroundAluminum 2219 is an age-hardenable, over-saturated, aluminum-copper alloy developed by Aluminum Company of America (Alcoa) in 1954, for service up to…

NY-17: Second in a series on the environmental stakes of one of the nation’s most fiercely contested congressional races. Nancy Vann’s resolve has become the subject of a local jingle. Its chorus goes: “If she can do it, so can we.” Vann, 78, moved to Peekskill, 40 miles north of New York City, after September 11, 2001. Brown & Wood, the law firm at which she worked, occupied five floors of the World Trade Center. She watched both towers fall before her 10:30 a.m. call-in.  Over the next 10 years, her dawn and sunset hours were spent on the Metro-North,…

Offshore engineering specialist Vantris Energy has fortified its financial pipeline after clinching two major transportation and installation (T&I) deals worth a combined RM1.8 billion ($441.8 million) from Petronas Carigali, a subsidiary of Malaysia’s Petronas, and PTTEP HK Offshore and PTTEP Sarawak Oil, subsidiaries of Thailand’s PTTEP. Illustration; Source: Petronas Vantris Energy’s Engineering & Construction (E&C) segment has secured two work orders from Petronas Carigali and PTTEP for the provision of offshore transportation and installation services in Malaysia. These work orders were awarded to VTEB Offshore, formerly known as Sapura Offshore, the company’s indirect wholly owned subsidiary. The work order with…