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Belgium will stop decommissioning its nuclear power plants, Prime Minister Bart De Wever announced on Thursday.
The government is going to negotiate with operator ENGIE over the nationalization of the plants, De Wever said.
“This government chooses safe, affordable, and sustainable energy. With less dependence on fossil imports and more control over our own supply,” he wrote on X.
ENGIE said it signed a letter of intent with the Belgian government on exclusive negotiations.
The agreement covers the potential acquisition of “the complete nuclear fleet of seven reactors, the associated personnel, all nuclear subsidiaries, as well as all associated assets and liabilities, including decommissioning and dismantling obligations,” a press release said.
A basic agreement is expected to be reached by October, it said.
Belgium originally decided in 2003 to phase-out nuclear power production by 2025, but political debate and energy security concerns have led to delays.
Last year the Belgian parliament voted by a large majority to end the nuclear phase-out. De Wever’s government also aims to build new nuclear power plants.
Belgium has seven nuclear reactors at two different sites, although three reactors have already been taken off the grid.
The fate of the ageing installations has been debated for decades. The country is currently heavily dependent on gas imports to cover its electricity needs as it has been struggling to expand renewable power generation significantly.
Bart De Wever on X
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Zig has one of the most stringent anti-LLM policies of any major open source project:
No LLMs for issues.
No LLMs for pull requests.
No LLMs for comments on the bug tracker, including translation. English is encouraged, but not required. You are welcome to post in your native language and rely on others to have their own translation tools of choice to interpret your words.
No LLMs for issues.
No LLMs for pull requests.
No LLMs for comments on the bug tracker, including translation. English is encouraged, but not required. You are welcome to post in your native language and rely on others to have their own translation tools of choice to interpret your words.
The most prominent project written in Zig may be the Bun JavaScript runtime, which was acquired by Anthropic in December 2025 and, unsurprisingly, makes heavy use of AI assistance.
Bun operates its own fork of Zig, and recently achieved a 4x performance improvement on Bun compile after adding “parallel semantic analysis and multiple codegen units to the llvm backend”. Here’s that code. But @bunjavascript says:
We do not currently plan to upstream this, as Zig has a strict ban on LLM-authored contributions.
We do not currently plan to upstream this, as Zig has a strict ban on LLM-authored contributions.
(Update: here’s a Zig core contributor providing details on why they wouldn’t accept that particular patch independent of the LLM issue - parallel semantic analysis is a long planned feature but has implications “for the Zig language itself”.)
In Contributor Poker and Zig’s AI Ban (via Lobste.rs) Zig Software Foundation VP of Community Loris Cro explains the rationale for this strict ban. It’s the best articulation I’ve seen yet for a blanket ban on LLM-assisted contributions:
In successful open source projects you eventually reach a point where you start getting more PRs than what you’re capable of processing. Given what I mentioned so far, it would make sense to stop accepting imperfect PRs in order to maximize ROI from your work, but that’s not what we do in the Zig project. Instead, we try our best to help new contributors to get their work in, even if they need some help getting there. We don’t do this just because it’s the “right” thing to do, but also because it’s the smart thing to do.
In successful open source projects you eventually reach a point where you start getting more PRs than what you’re capable of processing. Given what I mentioned so far, it would make sense to stop accepting imperfect PRs in order to maximize ROI from your work, but that’s not what we do in the Zig project. Instead, we try our best to help new contributors to get their work in, even if they need some help getting there. We don’t do this just because it’s the “right” thing to do, but also because it’s the smart thing to do.
Zig values contributors over their contributions. Each contributor represents an investment by the Zig core team - the primary goal of reviewing and accepting PRs isn’t to land new code, it’s to help grow new contributors who can become trusted and prolific over time.
LLM assistance breaks that completely. It doesn’t matter if the LLM helps you submit a perfect PR to Zig - the time the Zig team spends reviewing your work does nothing to help them add new, confident, trustworthy contributors to their overall project.
Loris explains the name here:
The reason I call it “contributor poker” is because, just like people say about the actual card game, “you play the person, not the cards”. In contributor poker, you bet on the contributor, not on the contents of their first PR.
The reason I call it “contributor poker” is because, just like people say about the actual card game, “you play the person, not the cards”. In contributor poker, you bet on the contributor, not on the contents of their first PR.
This makes a lot of sense to me. It relates to an idea I’ve seen circulating elsewhere: if a PR was mostly written by an LLM, why should a project maintainer spend time reviewing and discussing that PR as opposed to firing up their own LLM to solve the same problem?
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Meta in row after workers who say they saw smart glasses users having sex lose jobs
13 hours ago
Chris VallanceSenior technology reporter
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Meta is under pressure to explain why it cancelled a major contract with a company it was using to train AI, shortly after some of its Kenya-based workers alleged they had to view graphic content captured by Meta smart glasses.
Less than two months later, Meta ended its contract with Sama, which Sama said would result in 1,108 workers being made redundant.
Meta says it’s because Sama did not meet its standards, a criticism Sama rejects. A Kenyan workers’ organisation alleges Meta’s decision was caused by the staff speaking out.
Meta has not addressed that allegation but told BBC News in a statement it had “decided to end our work with Sama because they don’t meet our standards”.
Sama has defended its work.
“Sama has consistently met the operational, security and quality standards required across our client engagements, including with Meta,” it said in a statement.
“At no point were we notified of any failure to meet those standards, and we stand firmly behind the quality and integrity of our work.”
‘Naked bodies’
In late February, Swedish newspapers Svenska Dagbladet (SvD) and Goteborgs-Posten (GP) published an investigation which included the accounts of unnamed workers who had been asked to review videos filmed by Meta’s glasses.
“We see everything - from living rooms to naked bodies,” one worker reportedly said.
At the time of the publication, Meta admitted subcontracted workers might sometimes review content filmed on its smart glasses when people shared it with Meta AI.
It said this was for the purpose of improving the customer experience, and was a common practice among other companies.
However, the revelations have prompted regulators to act.
Shortly after the Swedish investigation, the UK data watchdog, the Information Commissioners Office (ICO) wrote to Meta about what it called a “concerning” report.
The Office of the Data Protection Commissioner in Kenya also announced it was commencing an investigation into privacy concerns raised by the glasses.
In a statement in response to news of the redundancies a Meta spokesperson told the BBC, “last month, we paused our work with Sama while we looked into these claims.
“We take them seriously. Photos and videos are private to users. Humans review AI content to improve product performance, for which we get clear user consent.”
‘Standards of secrecy’
Features can include translating text, or responding to questions about what the user is looking at - particularly useful for those who are blind or partially sighted.
However, as the devices have grown in popularity, so too have concerns about their misuse.
The workers the Swedish newspapers spoke to were data annotators, teaching Meta’s AI to interpret images by manually labelling content.
The workers said they also reviewed transcripts of interactions with the AI to check it had answered questions adequately.
In one instance, a worker told the newspapers, a man’s glasses were left recording in a bedroom where they later filmed a woman, apparently the man’s wife, undressing.
Meta’s glasses have a light in the corner of the frames that is turned on when the built-in camera is recording.
Sama, a US headquartered outsourcing business, which began as a non-profit organisation with the aim of increasing employment through the provision of tech jobs, is now an “ethical” B-corp.
But this is not the first time a contract with Meta has soured.
An earlier deal to moderate Facebook posts attracted criticism, alongside legal action by former employees - some of whom described being exposed to graphic, traumatising content.
Sama later said it regretted taking the work.
Naftali Wambalo of the Africa Tech Workers Movement, who is a petitioner in the continuing legal action around that case, told the BBC he had also spoken with workers involved in the smart glasses contract.
Wambalo believed the reason for Meta’s ending the work was that it didn’t want workers speaking out about human workers sometimes reviewing content captured by the smart glasses.
“What I think are the standards they are talking about here are standards of secrecy,” he told BBC News.
The BBC has asked Meta to respond to this point.
The tech giant has previously said that users were made aware of the possibility of human review in the its terms of service.
Mercy Mutemi a lawyer representing the petitioners, who is also executive director of campaign group the Oversight Lab, said Meta’s statement should be a warning to the Kenyan government.
“We’ve been told that this is our entry route into the AI ecosystem,” she told the BBC. “This is a very flimsy foundation to build your entire industry on.”
La Jolla, California—April 29, 2026—The J. Craig Venter Institute (JCVI) announced that J. Craig Venter, Ph.D., the Institute’s founder, board chair, and chief executive officer, died today in San Diego following a brief hospitalization for unexpected side effects that arose from treatment of recently diagnosed cancer.
Dr. Venter was a visionary scientific leader whose work helped define modern genomics and launch the field of synthetic biology. He drove scientific and technological change by building interdisciplinary teams, pushing for bold ideas and faster methods, and insisting that discovery should translate into real-world impact. He was also a fierce advocate for robust federal science funding and for partnerships that accelerate progress across government, academia, and industry.
“Craig believed that science moves forward when people are willing to think differently, move decisively, and build what doesn’t yet exist,” said Anders Dale, president of JCVI. “His leadership and vision reshaped genomics and helped ignite synthetic biology. We will honor his legacy by continuing the mission he built—advancing genomic science, championing the public investments that make discovery possible, and partnering broadly to turn knowledge into impact.”
Across his career, Dr. Venter helped move genomics from slow, gene-by-gene discovery to scalable, data-driven science—and then helped take the next step: demonstrating that genomes could be designed and constructed.
At the National Institutes of Health, he helped pioneer gene discovery using expressed sequence tags (ESTs), enabling rapid identification of large numbers of human genes and accelerating genome mapping efforts.
He went on to lead efforts that produced the first draft sequences of the human genome, a milestone that helped usher biology into the digital age. He and colleagues later published the first high-quality diploid human genome, demonstrating the importance of capturing genetic variation inherited from both parents.
In synthetic biology, Dr. Venter and his teams achieved a landmark by constructing the first self-replicating bacterial cell controlled by a chemically synthesized genome—proof that genomes could be designed digitally, built from chemical components, and “booted up” to run a living cell.
He also pursued scientific discovery at global scale. Through the Sorcerer II Global Ocean Sampling Expedition, Dr. Venter and his teams used metagenomics to reveal extraordinary microbial diversity, reporting the discovery of millions of new genes and expanding the known universe of protein families—work that deepened understanding of the ocean microbiome and its role in planetary systems.
Beyond his scientific achievements, Dr. Venter was a builder: of teams, platforms, and institutions designed to take big scientific bets. In addition to founding JCVI, he was a serial entrepreneur who co-founded Synthetic Genomics, Inc., Human Longevity, Inc., and most recently Diploid Genomics, Inc., advancing efforts to translate genomics and synthetic biology into tools for health and society.
The Institute asks that the privacy of Dr. Venter’s family be respected. Additional information regarding memorial arrangements will be shared when available.
About J. Craig Venter Institute
The J. Craig Venter Institute (JCVI) is a not-for-profit research institute in Rockville, Maryland and La Jolla, California dedicated to the advancement of the science of genomics; the understanding of its implications for society; and communication of those results to the scientific community, the public, and policymakers. Founded by J. Craig Venter, Ph.D., JCVI is home to approximately 120 scientists and staff with expertise in synthetic biology, human and evolutionary biology, genetics, bioinformatics/informatics, information technology, high-throughput DNA sequencing, genomic and environmental policy research, and public education in science and science policy. JCVI is a 501(c)(3) organization. For additional information, please visit www.jcvi.org.
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Message-ID: <87se8dgicq.fsf@gentoo.org>
Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2026 05:52:37 +0100
From: Sam James <sam@…too.org>
To: oss-security@…ts.openwall.com
Cc: Jan Schaumann <jschauma@…meister.org>
Subject: Re: CVE-2026 – 31431: CopyFail: linux local privilege
scalation
Eddie Chapman <eddie@…k.net> writes:
> On 29/04/2026 21:23, Jan Schaumann wrote:
>> Affected and fixed versions
>> ===========================
>> Issue introduced in 4.14 with commit
>> 72548b093ee38a6d4f2a19e6ef1948ae05c181f7 and fixed in
>> 6.18.22 with commit
>> fafe0fa2995a0f7073c1c358d7d3145bcc9aedd8
>> Issue introduced in 4.14 with commit
>> 72548b093ee38a6d4f2a19e6ef1948ae05c181f7 and fixed in
>> 6.19.12 with commit
>> ce42ee423e58dffa5ec03524054c9d8bfd4f6237
>> Issue introduced in 4.14 with commit
>> 72548b093ee38a6d4f2a19e6ef1948ae05c181f7 and fixed in
>> 7.0 with commit
>> a664bf3d603dc3bdcf9ae47cc21e0daec706d7a5
>> https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/fafe0fa2995a0f7073c1c358d7d3145bcc9aedd8
>> https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ce42ee423e58dffa5ec03524054c9d8bfd4f6237
>> https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a664bf3d603dc3bdcf9ae47cc21e0daec706d7a5
>
> So this is one of the worst make-me-root vulnerabilities in the kernel
> in recent times. I see that on the 11th of April 6.19.12 & 6.18.22
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