F1.com's Lawrence Barretto assesses the current state of the F1 driver market after the likes of Max Verstappen and Lando Norris signed contract extensions.

F1 Hall of Fame journalist David Tremayne likens some of the current crop of Formula 1 racers to drivers from the sport's history.

Alpine reserve driver Paul Aron will get behind the wheel again during Free Practice 1 at the Italian Grand Prix.

TIME's 2026 list of the 100 most influential people in AI omits Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang and AMD CEO Lisa Su, despite both having appeared on previous editions and playing central roles in the hardware powering the AI boom. Nvidia's only representative this year is sustainability chief Josh Parker, while the list includes figures such as Ben Affleck and Paris Hilton alongside major tech executives and policymakers. Tom's Hardware reports: Broadcom CEO Hock Tan, Micron CEO Sanjay Mehrotra, SMIC co-CEO Liang Mong Song, and Huawei HiSilicon president He Tingbo all appear on the 2026 list, joined by Cerebras' Andrew Feldman, CoreWeave's Michael Intrator, and Nscale's Josh Payne. Together, the roster includes Nvidia's HBM supplier, two of its biggest GPU cloud customers, its custom-accelerator rivals, and China, which is trying -- and so far struggling -- to replace Nvidia altogether.

Parker's profile, which appears under the Thinkers category, focuses on data center energy and water consumption, alongside Nvidia's tripling of Scope 3 emissions in two years, and the Rubin platform's shift to 100% liquid cooling. "Nvidia is at the center of the AI revolution," Parker told TIME.

TIME editor-in-chief Sam Jacobs wrote in the list's accompanying article that selection was led by editor Ayesha Javed, and that the 100 honorees represent the year's "key storylines and who, in our opinion, are having the most influence in driving these developments." Now in its fourth year, this edition of the TIME100 AI appears to have focused especially on featuring the new additions to TIME's community of AI leaders, with Mark Zuckerberg, Demis Hassabis, Sundar Pichai, and Satya Nadella representing four other honorees, arguably deserving of a space on this year's list, churned out.

Su's strong TIME back catalog makes her omission all the stranger still. The magazine named her its 2024 CEO of the Year, put her on the 2024 AI list and the main TIME100 in 2025, and included her among December's Architects of AI.

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schwit1 shares a report from WCTV: Florida Governor Ron DeSantis said he's removing Flock camera from state roadways. The announcement comes amid a growing concern over the misuse of automated license plate readers. On Monday, DeSantis ordered all Flock cameras removed from what he calls the 'state highway system' within the next 30 days, which would include interstates like I-10 and I-75. That order led to several sheriff's departments like in Franklin, Liberty and Putnam Counties to announce they're ending their own license plate reader programs. According to the Florida Department of Transportation memo, if the cameras aren't removed from the state right-of-ways within 30 days, then the state government will take them down on their own. The memo also says FDOT will deny any other permits for cameras in the future.

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This is interesting:

The records describe a force-generation mechanism for several General Staff components, including the GRU, Main Operational Directorate, and 8th Directorate, which is associated with protected communications, cryptography, and information security.

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The reporting also linked a 2024 Department No. 4 graduate, Aleksei Kondrashov, to Military Unit 74455, widely known as Sandworm.

That unit has been associated with destructive cyber activity against Ukraine and other targets, including the 2017 NotPetya attack.

The reports do not establish that every listed graduate participated in a named operation; assignments should therefore be described as reported unit placements, not proof of individual operational involvement.

The Bauman material reframes Russia’s cyber capability as an institutional system, not merely a collection of well-known threat groups.

It suggests that Moscow has formalized a recurring pathway from university recruitment to military service, where students receive supervised technical and ideological preparation before entering intelligence, cyber, and security roles.

For defenders, the leak reinforces the need to track Russian operations as a combined threat: espionage, destructive activity, military reconnaissance, technical surveillance, and influence campaigns may draw on related personnel pipelines and overlapping doctrine.

The exposure of Department No. 4 also provides researchers with a clearer lens for understanding how the GRU sustains cyber capacity beyond the familiar APT28 and Sandworm brand names.

The Bio cup is a yearly creature and character-building competition based around Lego's constructible action figure system (such as Bionicle). Every year people compete to show off what those "not really Lego" elements are capable of. BrickNerd has excellent coverage of 2025's competition. Round 1: Mythic beasts. Round 2: Welcome to the shuffle. And the spectacular finals: Horsemen of the Apocalypse. (click that link if you click no other)

2026's BioCup is already underway. BrickNerd's Round 1 highlights (Magic and Mysticism). The cup began in 2011 on defunct site mocpages, but the "modern" version began in 2017. Here's links to each year's flickr page and the winners for your convenience. Different rounds have different themes so I've only given the theme for the final round because my hands hurt. 2024 Final boss - winners. 2023 Sports - Winners. 2022 The end - Winners. A special mention and the source sculpture by Ellen Jewett. 2021 Do it yourself - Winners. 2020 Redemption - Winners. 2019 Three's a crowd - Winners - 2018 (no convenient winner's gallery) 2017 (no convenient winner's gallery)

BRUSSEL (ANP) - NAVO-topman Mark Rutte sluit zich aan bij de Duitse beschuldiging dat Rusland achter de droneaanval op het vliegveld van Leipzig zat. "Het bewijs is duidelijk", aldus Rutte op X.

Rutte verwelkomt de tegenmaatregelen die de Duitse regering dinsdag aankondigde bij het aanwijzen van Rusland als verantwoordelijke. De NAVO zal zijn vermogen om Duitsland en de andere NAVO-landen te beschermen blijven versterken, verzekerde Rutte in zijn bericht. "Tegen kwaadaardige daden zoals we hebben gezien in Leipzig en elders in het bondgenootschap incluis."

Duitsland had spoedoverleg van de NAVO voor bedreigde bondgenoten kunnen aanvragen, werd na het drone-incident van 4 augustus geopperd. Maar daarvan heeft het land afgezien.

WICKLOW (ANP) - EU-buitenlandchef Kaja Kallas kan "helaas" geen succes melden over meer Patriots voor Oekraïne. Er zijn gesprekken geweest en telefoontjes gepleegd met landen die ze in voorraad hebben, maar die hebben dinsdag ondanks druk vanuit diverse EU-landen in het Ierse Wicklow niets toegezegd. De pogingen om landen als Spanje en Griekenland alsnog te overtuigen, worden voortgezet, zei Kallas in een persconferentie na een informele vergadering van EU-ministers van Defensie.

Daarnaast bekijken de EU-lidstaten of ze hun orders kunnen herprioriteren, zei Kallas. "Elke onderscheppingsraket die we aan Oekraïne leveren, betekent dat er een Russische raket geen Oekraïense school, woning of ziekenhuis bereikt. Elke vorm van steun die we aan Oekraïne geven, versterkt de Europese veiligheid."

Daarnaast blijft bilaterale steun belangrijk, benadrukte Kallas. Ierland heeft recent 125 miljoen euro extra toegezegd. Daarvan is 10 miljoen euro bestemd voor de training van Oekraïense militairen, maakte de Ierse defensieminister Helen McEntee dinsdag bekend.