Firefox 158 is now available with JPEG XL image support enabled by default, making .jxl images a standard part of the browser rather than an experimental feature. The release also adds JPEG XL to Firefox's default image Accept header, improves Smart Window form filling, and brings new CSS typed-arithmetic support for developers. Phoronix reports: At long last, Firefox 158 is ready to go with JPEG-XL image support as an alternative to the likes of WebP, JPEG, PNG, and GIF. The default HTTP Accept header for image requests also now supports "image/jxl" for the JPEG-XL image format. Prior releases of Firefox had JPEG-XL gated by an experimental option.

Firefox 158 also now supports filling forms faster in Smart Window when clicking into a form field or selecting Fill from sources. On the developer side, CSS typed arithmetic are now supported to use functions like calc() to divide two values of the same data type even if of different units. Developer changes and release binaries can be found at their respective links.

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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Bloomberg: Epic Games delayed the release of an upcoming video-game collaboration with Walt Disney and told its developers to use more artificial intelligence tools to finish the game, according to people familiar with the project. The title had been slated for release in March, but is now delayed with no new date communicated, said the people familiar, who asked to not be identified because they weren't authorized to speak publicly.

Developers on the game, a shooter featuring characters from the Marvel and Star Wars franchises, were instructed to implement an "AI first" production model using tools such as Anthropic's Claude. Humans will then manage and guide that work. "No more hand-written code," one of the game's directors told staff in an internal message reviewed by Bloomberg. The director added that all art for the game would be "generated with full AI workflows."

Even before this announcement, the maker of the popular Fortnite game had been pushing hard for the use of AI across all of its divisions. But this is the first time a major video-game company has attempted to build a title primarily with AI. "We're embracing AI-accelerated development, led by Epic developers who are the visionaries and creative drivers for everything we do," said Jake Jones, communications director at Epic Games, in a statement to Bloomberg News.

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Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg says the company has reached the AI "frontier" with its new Muse Wonder model and will be offered as a closed, paid product for businesses. Zuckerberg also rejected calls for an industry-wide slowdown, arguing that AI can be managed with conventional guardrails as Meta continues spending heavily on models, infrastructure, and talent. The Financial Times reports: Speaking with the FT as Meta releases its Muse Wonder AI model on Monday, the billionaire chief executive claimed the new system was "going to allow much more sophisticated behaviours that are at the frontier of what is being done in the AI field." [...] "Getting to this point both required a large amount of compute and investment, and a lot of very rigorous scientific work by the group working on it over an extended period of time," said Zuckerberg. [...] Meta said Muse Wonder outperforms Anthropic's Claude Opus 5.5 and Fable 5.1 and OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra on some technical benchmarks. It said the new model can be used to carry out complex tasks from "understanding a lease to making sense of financial or health information." However, Muse Wonder will also be "closed," with its best versions sold directly to businesses. That pits it against Anthropic and OpenAI for corporate AI contracts in a serious test of its ambitions. Zuckerberg signaled further spending as Meta was "already working on the next step up," adding that its model development would "probably feel like it'll go quite a bit faster from here."

However, he also shrugged off mounting fears that the technology was advancing at a rate that will soon surpass human control. [...] The Meta chief declined to be drawn on his figure for "P(doom)" -- a much-discussed Silicon Valley term to describe the probability that AI will lead to mass destruction. Instead, he argued that responsibility should fall on the individual lab to ensure model safety. "I'm much closer to the belief that AI is a technology that can be engineered with normal guardrails and built responsibly than the anthropomorphic vision of AI, which is that it is just going to go do its own thing," he said. Zuckerberg has previously rejected calls by the heads of AI labs such as Anthropic's Dario Amodei and OpenAI's Sam Altman for an industry-wide "slowdown" in AI development. He also played a key role in crafting US President Donald Trump's White House "Accord on Super Intelligence," setting out principles for self-regulation of the industry, which critics say falls far short of a formal global AI governance regime.

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Kita- Ikebukuro, Tokyo, Japan

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Daishizan Seidaiji Temple (大師山清大寺) in Katsuyama City, not far from the Dinosaur Museum and Heisenji Hakusan Shrine, is a temple of immense dimensions, featuring Japan's largest indoor Buddha statue, tallest five-story pagoda and a huge temple hall. It is modeled after the great Todaiji Temple in Nara and was built in the 1980s by the owner of a local taxi company, albeit on an even greater scale and in ferro-concrete rather than wood.

Source: www.japan-guide.com/e/e6610.html

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Ōimachi

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From my own experience of speaking with Japanese people, many people in Japan do not like living near processing plants and scrap yards due to both safety concerns and social stigma surrounding places like this. Personally, I have met many a salaryman who, if they could only make the dramatic turn toward work of this sort––following the path of Churchill––would find great relief from their anxieties.

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日本人と話してきた自分自身の経験から言うと、日本では、処理施設や金属スクラップ置き場の近くに住むことを好まない人が多いように思います。そうした場所に対する安全面での懸念だけでなく、社会的な偏見もその理由にあるのでしょう。

個人的には、チャーチルに倣って、この種の仕事へと思い切って転身することさえできれば、抱えている不安から大いに解放されるだろうと思われるサラリーマンに、何人も出会ってきました。

Six Flags Over Georgia ‘deeply saddened’ by tragedy, reportedly occurring on Goliath coaster with 175ft drop

One person has died and several others were injured in an incident involving a Six Flags rollercoaster on Monday afternoon in Georgia, according to police.

The incident took place a Six Flags Over Georgia, about 15 miles (25km) north-west of Atlanta, according to the Cobb county police department.

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Weer voor Rotterdam ☁️ - 13-10-2026 01:15 CEST

In één oogopslag:
• 14.6°C · Bewolkt ☁️ | Min 10.2°C / Max 16.9°C | Kans op neerslag 6%

Verwachting voor vandaag:
• Min 10.2°C, Max 16.9°C (Lichte motregen) 🌦️, Neerslag 0.1 mm, Kans op neerslag 6%, 🧭 1018.8 hPa ↗️ +0.8 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 15.8 km/u (4.4 m/s), richting: ↑ 167°

Uurlijkse voorspelling voor de komende 12 uur:

• 02:00: 14.4°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, Kans op neerslag 31%, 🧭 1018.0 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 17.3 km/u (4.8 m/s), richting: ↑ 160°
• 03:00: 14.1°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, Kans op neerslag 27%, 🧭 1017.8 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 16.6 km/u (4.6 m/s), richting: ↑ 170°
• 04:00: 13.9°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, Kans op neerslag 21%, 🧭 1017.6 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 15.8 km/u (4.4 m/s), richting: ↑ 179°
• 05:00: 13.8°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, Kans op neerslag 16%, 🧭 1017.5 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 14.8 km/u (4.1 m/s), richting: ↑ 176°
• 06:00: 13.9°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, Kans op neerslag 14%, 🧭 1017.2 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 15.5 km/u (4.3 m/s), richting: ↑ 181°
• 07:00: 14.1°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, Kans op neerslag 14%, 🧭 1017.2 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 15.5 km/u (4.3 m/s), richting: ↑ 195°
• 08:00: 14.8°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, Kans op neerslag 14%, 🧭 1017.1 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 16.9 km/u (4.7 m/s), richting: ↗ 212°
• 09:00: 15.3°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, Kans op neerslag 13%, 🧭 1017.4 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 17.6 km/u (4.9 m/s), richting: ↗ 211°
• 10:00: 15.9°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, Kans op neerslag 11%, 🧭 1017.7 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 16.6 km/u (4.6 m/s), richting: ↗ 206°
• 11:00: 16.4°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, Kans op neerslag 12%, 🧭 1017.8 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 18.0 km/u (5.0 m/s), richting: ↗ 207°
• 12:00: 16.7°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, Kans op neerslag 16%, 🧭 1017.7 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 18.7 km/u (5.2 m/s), richting: ↗ 207°
• 13:00: 16.9°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, Kans op neerslag 23%, 🧭 1018.0 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 20.2 km/u (5.6 m/s), richting: ↗ 217°

Voorspelling voor de komende dagen:

• woensdag 14 oktober: Min 13.8°C, Max 20.0°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, Kans op neerslag 23%, 🧭 1028.2 hPa ↗️ +9.4 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 33.1 km/u (9.2 m/s), richting: ↗ 231°
• donderdag 15 oktober: Min 13.9°C, Max 17.9°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, 🧭 1024.4 hPa ↘️ -3.8 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 13.7 km/u (3.8 m/s), richting: ↗ 233°
• vrijdag 16 oktober: Min 12.2°C, Max 18.3°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, Kans op neerslag 1%, 🧭 1017.0 hPa ↘️ -7.4 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 13.7 km/u (3.8 m/s), richting: ↑ 190°
• zaterdag 17 oktober: Min 12.3°C, Max 16.8°C (Matige buien) 🌧️, Neerslag 10.4 mm, Kans op neerslag 28%, 🧭 1022.7 hPa ↗️ +5.7 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 21.5 km/u (6.0 m/s), richting: → 248°
• zondag 18 oktober: Min 8.9°C, Max 13.1°C (Matige motregen) 🌦️, Neerslag 4.9 mm, Kans op neerslag 27%, 🧭 1023.4 hPa ↗️ +0.7 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 18.8 km/u (5.2 m/s), richting: ↘ 334°
• maandag 19 oktober: Min 7.1°C, Max 12.8°C (Lichte motregen) 🌦️, Neerslag 0.5 mm, Kans op neerslag 14%, 🧭 1024.4 hPa ↗️ +1.0 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 14.3 km/u (4.0 m/s), richting: ← 86°

Details:
• 🌡️ Huidige temperatuur (om 01:15): 14.6°C (Bewolkt)
• 🤚 Gevoelstemperatuur: 11.5°C (-3.1°C)
• 💨 Windsnelheid: 16.2 km/u (4.5 m/s), richting: ↖ 156°
• 🌬️ Windstoten: 32.8 km/h (9.1 m/s)
• 💧 Luchtvochtigheid: 69%
• 🧭 Luchtdruk: 1018.0 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/3h
• 👁️ Zichtbaarheid: 20.1 km
• ☀️ UV-index: 0.0
• 🌅 Zonsopgang: 08:01 · 🌇 Zonsondergang: 18:55

Luchtkwaliteit:
• AQI: 52 🟡 (Matig)
• PM2.5: 7.3 μg/m³
• PM10: 9.9 μg/m³

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