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Vandaag blijft het de hele dag droog en zijn er perioden met zon. Met name vanochtend is er zelfs flink wat zon. Toch zal deze dag niet geruisloos voorbijgaan, omdat de zuidwestenwind sterk zal gaan toenemen.

In de nacht van woensdag op donderdag heeft een auto aan de Pascalweg in Rotterdam-Lombardijen een ongeluk gehad. De auto knalde onder andere tegen een paal. Er raakte niemand gewond, zegt een 112-correspondent.

De olieprijs is donderdag in de Aziatische handel opnieuw boven de 100 dollar per vat gestegen, terwijl de oorlog met Iran verder escaleert en Teheran bepaald niet verslagen is. Brent-olie tikte circa 100,6 dollar aan nadat opnieuw meerdere schepen in de Golfregio waren geraakt en olie‑infrastructuur onder vuur lag. In de buurt van de Iraakse havenstad Basra werden twee olietankers getroffen; verderop werd een containerschip geraakt bij Dubai; bemanningen zijn geëvacueerd.

Het voornemen van Iran is de olieprijs naar 200 dollar te krijgen. Ze zijn op weg.

De spanningen lopen tegelijk op door Israëlische aanvallen op Iraanse en Libanese doelen, waaronder nachtelijke luchtaanvallen op Beiroet. Beurzen in Azië en de futures in Europa en de VS kleuren rood, terwijl de dollar sterker wordt en rentes licht oplopen. Ondanks een recordvrijgave van strategische olievoorraden zien analisten het risico toenemen dat de olieprijs langere tijd hoog blijft als de oorlog zich voortsleept. Het voornemen van Iran is de olieprijs naar 200 dollar te krijgen. Ze zijn op weg.

Iran has set ablaze two tankers in Iraqi waters as it increased attacks on oil and transport facilities across the Middle East

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The Australian government has announced a temporary downgrade in the country’s fuel quality standards, a move designed to put an extra 100m litres a month into the system.

Federal energy minister Chris Bowen told parliament that in order to assist with putting downward pressure on prices, the government would allow a 60-day change to allow higher sulfur levels in fuel.

While Australian fuel consumption has not changed, this will help relieve pressure on distribution chains disrupted by elevated demand.

The government has been unequivocal – this additional supply must help the people who need it, including farmers, fishers and regional communities.

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Vast release of emergency crude reserves fails to quell mounting fears around energy supply crunch, rattling global markets

Oil prices again topped $100 per barrel on Thursday as widespread Iranian attacks on Middle Eastern energy facilities overshadowed a vast release of government reserves.

As Donald Trump vowed to “finish the job” and press ahead with the US-Israel war on Iran, the country’s regime stepped up retaliatory strikes on economic targets across the region.

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Veel mensen kampen met de gevolgen van een trauma dat ze in hun jeugd hebben opgelopen. Christiaan Vinkers schreef een boek over „een onderschat probleem”.

In een groot artikel in The New York Times beschuldigden 35 oud-medewerkers Redzepi van fysiek en verbaal geweld. „Ik neem de verantwoordelijkheid voor mijn eigen daden”, reageert de chef-kok van het wereldberoemde Noma na enig aarzelen.

An anonymous reader quotes a report from the New York Times: In a paper, published last month in the journal The Anatomical Record, researchers offered a novel take on falling felines. Their evidence suggests new insights into the so-called falling cat problem, particularly that cats have a very flexible segment of their spines that allows them to correct their orientation midair. [...] People have been curious about falling cats perhaps as long as the animals have been living with humans, but the method to their acrobatic abilities remains enigmatic. Part of the difficulty is that the anatomy of the cat has not been studied in detail, explains Yasuo Higurashi, a physiologist at Yamaguchi University in Japan and lead author of the study. [...]

Modern research has split the falling cat problem into two competing models. The first, "legs in, legs out," suggests that cats correct their falling trajectory by first extending their hind limbs before retracting them, using a sequential twist of their upper and then lower trunk to gain the proper posture while in free fall. The second model, "tuck and turn," suggests that cats turn their upper and lower bodies in simultaneous juxtaposed movements. [...]

The researchers found that the feline spine was extremely flexible in the upper thoracic vertebrae, but stiffer and heavier in the lower lumbar vertebrae. The discovery matches video evidence showing the cats first turn their front legs, and then their lower legs. The results suggest the cat quickly spins its flexible upper torso to face the ground, allowing it to see so that it can correctly twist the rest of its body to match. "The thoracic spine of the cat can rotate like our neck," Dr. Higurashi said.

Experiments on the spine show the upper vertebrae can twist an astounding 360 degrees, he says, which helps cats make these correcting movements with ease. The results are consistent with the "legs in, legs out" model, but definitively determining which model is correct will take more work, Dr. Higurashi says. The results also yielded another discovery: Cats, like many animals, appear to have a right-side bias. One of the dropped cats corrected itself by turning to the right eight out of eight times, while the other turned right six out of eight times.

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Deploying them by the gigawatt but still can’t be flag obvious AI slop

Social networking giant Meta has revealed details of four previously unknown custom chips powering its AI services.…