Al in de zeventiende eeuw werden in Krimpen aan den IJssel schepen gebouwd, maar na eeuwen scheepsbouw werd de werf in 2002 gesloten. Inmiddels heeft het terrein een nieuwe bestemming, maar de geschiedenis is niet uit het oog verloren: er wordt gebouwd aan nieuwbouwbuurt de ‘Oude Werf’.

Na een lange interlandperiode voor de Feyenoorders, staat vanavond de belangrijke wedstrijd tegen AZ op het programma. Het laatste duel voor de break werd nog eenvoudig gewonnen van FC Utrecht met 5-0, waar de ploeg uit Alkmaar het Feyenoord alles behalve makkelijk zal gaan maken. De selectie van Giovanni van Bronckhorst zal er in de eigen Kuip alles aan doen om wederom een spectaculaire zege te boeken. Gaat Feyenoord dit lukken? Volg het hier!

Vincent Chan went on to abuse children after being cleared of ‘significant concerns’ following council-overseen inquiry

A paedophile nursery worker was cleared by an investigation overseen by a local authority three years before he was arrested.

In February, Vincent Chan was jailed after pleading guilty to 56 offences, including assault by penetration on three-year-old girls in his care at a Bright Horizons nursery on Finchley Road in north-west London. After his conviction, prosecutors described him as a “prolific sexual predator”.

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The tourist attraction just unveiled an elaborate, full-scale overhaul to match Trump’s second-term aesthetic

Sitting behind a replica Resolute Desk, nine-year-old Sydney Wright posed for the camera like a future US president. “I love it,” she smiled. And what about the dazzling gold appliqués, gold leaf and gold trim surrounding her? “It’s cool.”

Sydney was among a steady stream of visitors on Thursday to The People’s House: A White House Experience, an interactive museum – with an orientation film narrated by The West Wing star Martin Sheen – at 1700 Pennsylvania Avenue, just 150 yards from the real thing.

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Phoronix reports on a presentation this week by Meta engineer Gregory Price at the Linux Plumbers Conference in Prague:


With today's memory shortages, high prices, and ever increasing memory capacity needs, Meta engineers have been working on Compressed RAM ("CRAM") for Linux.

This hardware-offloaded compression still allows cacheline/byte access to compressed memory and in turn a better implementation than the likes of ZRAM and Zswap. Very promising is that there is near-native performance to raw DRAM speeds with CRAM... For end-users that may already be relying on the likes of Zswap or ZRAM, CRAM is offering near-native DRAM speeds. Read-only data is shown to be as fast as the raw DRAM performance. And for memory writes, CRAM is much faster than ZRAM or Zswap or plain swap.

"Most of the individual pieces needed to support CRAM are already mainline," the article points out.
Tom's Hardware writes that "It uses a private NUMA node (essentially, a ghost CPU) instead of pretending to be a block device, and this lets Linux continue using all of its memory semantics, including migration and ballooning, to manage CRAM."

Because CRAM is stored in RAM and treated as RAM, with full cacheline/byte access, it can be accessed in a read-only fashion with little delay; just the cost of hardware-offloaded compression...
Even when you enable writes, CRAM is still much faster than ZRAM; 5.4x in the worst tested case of 20% writes. That's a huge drop from the 452x read-only case, but keep your context; a 5.4x speedup is still titanic. The massive performance cliff when writes are involved comes down to the need to page fault and migrate folios back to the original NUMA domain, as you can't write directly to compressed data; you'd corrupt everything...

While the obvious target of the work here (given its origin at Meta Platforms) is big Linux servers, ZRAM and Zswap are used all over the Linux ecosystem, even on machines as constrained as the Steam Deck. Many distributions enable one or the other by default. CRAM seems like it could offer a considerable speed-up for some of these machines, so hopefully it finds its way into the kernel once the remaining implementation questions are answered.

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Mayor Mamdani holds a press conference on the ICE shooting in the Marble Hill neighborhood of New York. Transcript, Video [slyt] Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin lashed out [independent.co.uk] at NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani after the New York City Mayor said that ICE was 'rotten to its core'. Mullin said he would "never apologize" after federal agents, wearing construction vests and masks that concealed their faces, fired several rounds at a suspect inside a car with a 5-year-old.

Excerpt from Mamdani's speech: "We know that ICE is rotten to its core. Today's shooting is only further devastating confirmation of what we have long known: that ICE operates with impunity, that they sow chaos and terror across our country, that they have killed far more of our neighbors than they could ever have claimed to save. I also want to say something on a personal note. I stand here not just as the mayor of our city, but as someone who is proud to be an immigrant in our city. And I know that these kinds of raids, this kind of terrorizing of this city, leave the 3 million immigrants of this city asking if they are safe here, if they belong here, if this, too, can be their home. We will not normalize ICE's viciousness. We will not accept its cruelty. We know, and I've said this directly, whether to the president or to the public, ICE undermines public safety. It makes us less safe. New York City will not stand by while ICE agents shoot New Yorkers. And we will not back down from the demand that so many, including myself, have put forward time and again. This is an agency that must be abolished. Thank you."

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SINGAPORE (ANP) - Max Verstappen start zondag vanaf poleposition in de Grote Prijs van Singapore. De viervoudig wereldkampioen was in de kwalificatie op het stratencircuit van Marina Bay met een rondje van 1.31,373 de snelste. Hij was een fractie sneller dan Ferrari-coureur Charles Leclerc uit Monaco en diens Britse teamgenoot Lewis Hamilton.

Voor Verstappen is het de derde poleposition op rij. Hij veroverde een week geleden de pole in de kwalificatie van de Grote Prijs van Bahrein, die in Maleisië werd verreden. Daarna was hij de snelste in de kwalificatie voor de sprintrace in Singapore. Die race won Verstappen eerder op zaterdag.

De Grote Prijs van Singapore begint zondag om 14.00 uur.