Benjamin Netanyahu is seeking a new mandate in Israel’s first election since the 7 October 2023 Hamas attacks

On Tuesday Israel holds its first election since the 7 October 2023 Hamas attacks, the deadliest day in the country’s history, which resulted in the deaths of about 1,200 people, the majority of them civilians.

Since then Israel has pursued a war of annihilation in Gaza, launched two inconclusive wars with Iran, and intensified a campaign of state-backed ethnic cleansing in the occupied West Bank.

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He made Daniel Radcliffe’s Harry Potter fart, left Judi Dench unable to control herself and told a fry-up fantasy about Helen Mirren. A new biography details the star’s mischief

Jasper Rees’s authorised biography of Michael Gambon, published three years after the great actor’s death, has nuanced accounts of his performances in Shakespeare, Beckett and Pinter as well as The Singing Detective and the Harry Potter films. There are even chapters devoted to his hands (“the biggest you’ve ever seen on anybody” – Brian Cox) and similarly enormous feet. But, Gambon being Gambon, there are also dozens of accounts of tomfoolery on and off stage …

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Gunners edged north London derby while new United manager put the brakes on Manchester City’s winning start

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BRUSSEL (ANP) - De Europese Commissie heeft een plan van het Chinese Temu geaccepteerd waarmee de webwinkel de verkoop van illegale producten tegen wil gaan. Temu kreeg in mei een boete van 200 miljoen euro opgelegd van Brussel, omdat het te weinig deed om de verkoop van illegale producten van het platform te weren.

Daarmee overtrad de webwinkel de Digital Services Act (DSA). Zonder aangekondigde verbeteringen van Temu zouden meer boetes kunnen volgen.

Temu heeft nu toegezegd beter in kaart te brengen hoe het illegale verkoop opspoort en waar het verbeteringen kan doorvoeren. Ook gaat het onderzoeken hoe het kan dat verkopers van illegale producten hun spullen soms kunnen blijven aanbieden op Temu. Het bedrijf krijgt hiervoor vier maanden de tijd.

De Commissie legde in juli de eveneens Chinese webwinkel AliExpress een boete van 550 miljoen euro op om vergelijkbare redenen. Illegale, onveilige of namaakproducten zijn te makkelijk te koop via de platforms, aldus Brussel.

STOCKHOLM (ANP) - In Zweden is een nieuwe poging om een coalitie te vormen mislukt. Partijleider Elisabeth Thand Ringqvist van de Centrumpartij ziet onvoldoende steun voor de vorming van een centrumregering.

Thand Ringqvist wilde een regering vormen met zowel linkse als rechtse partijen, maar trekt de conclusie dat daar "geen meerderheid" voor is. Parlementsvoorzitter Andreas Norlén gaat nu opnieuw in gesprek met partijleiders.

Vorige maand won het centrumlinkse blok de verkiezingen ten koste van het rechterblok van de zittende premier Ulf Kristersson. Sociaaldemocraat Magdalena Andersson slaagde er in twee pogingen niet in om een coalitie te vormen, waarop de Centrumpartij werd gevraagd het initiatief te nemen.

In totaal kan het parlement vier keer stemmen over de voordracht van een premierskandidaat. Als de vierde poging mislukt, moeten er nieuwe verkiezingen worden uitgeschreven. Een eerste poging strandde toen het parlement op 15 oktober tegen Anderssons kandidatuur stemde.

DEN HAAG (ANP) - Het kabinet denkt eraan om 350 miljoen euro aan hogere lasten voor werkenden in 2027 te compenseren, zei staatssecretaris Eelco Eerenberg (D66) in het debat over de belastingen. Daarmee hoopt hij deels tegemoet te komen aan de kritiek op de geplande lastenverzwaring. "En daarmee ook het vergroten van steun." Er is nu namelijk nog geen Kamermeerderheid voor het belastingplan.

Het kabinet verhoogt de komende jaren de belasting op werk om de extra uitgaven aan defensie te kunnen betalen. In 2027 levert dat de schatkist 3,5 miljard euro op.

Volgens de staatssecretaris wordt een groot deel van die miljarden al gecompenseerd, onder meer door de zorgpremie minder hard te laten stijgen. Ook zijn er andere belastingwijzigingen gepland om de koopkracht van mensen te stutten. Volgens Eerenberg blijft er dan nog 350 miljoen euro aan lastenverzwaring over. "Als we die 350 miljoen toe kunnen voegen aan het koopkrachtpakket, als we dat anders op kunnen lossen met elkaar. Hoe mooi zou dat zijn?"

Weer voor Rotterdam ☁️ - 26-10-2026 13:15 CET

In één oogopslag:
• 12.0°C · Bewolkt ☁️ | Min 10.3°C / Max 12.5°C | Kans op neerslag 22%

Verwachting voor vandaag:
• Min 10.3°C, Max 12.5°C (Lichte motregen) 🌦️, Neerslag 1.0 mm, Kans op neerslag 22%, 🧭 1012.0 hPa ↘️ -1.5 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 30.6 km/u (8.5 m/s), richting: ↗ 216°

Uurlijkse voorspelling voor de komende 12 uur:

• 14:00: 12.4°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, Kans op neerslag 5%, 🧭 1013.5 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 20.9 km/u (5.8 m/s), richting: ↑ 192°
• 15:00: 11.9°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, Kans op neerslag 12%, 🧭 1013.0 hPa ↘️ -0.5 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 22.7 km/u (6.3 m/s), richting: ↑ 194°
• 16:00: 11.3°C (Lichte motregen) 🌦️, Neerslag 0.1 mm, Kans op neerslag 24%, 🧭 1012.3 hPa ↘️ -0.7 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 21.6 km/u (6.0 m/s), richting: ↑ 179°
• 17:00: 10.8°C (Lichte motregen) 🌦️, Neerslag 0.2 mm, Kans op neerslag 45%, 🧭 1012.0 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 21.6 km/u (6.0 m/s), richting: ↑ 179°
• 18:00: 10.8°C (Lichte motregen) 🌦️, Neerslag 0.1 mm, Kans op neerslag 69%, 🧭 1011.9 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 22.0 km/u (6.1 m/s), richting: ↑ 182°
• 19:00: 10.8°C (Lichte motregen) 🌦️, Neerslag 0.2 mm, Kans op neerslag 84%, 🧭 1011.6 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 23.8 km/u (6.6 m/s), richting: ↑ 189°
• 20:00: 11.1°C (Lichte motregen) 🌦️, Neerslag 0.4 mm, Kans op neerslag 83%, 🧭 1011.5 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 25.6 km/u (7.1 m/s), richting: ↑ 197°
• 21:00: 11.5°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, Kans op neerslag 71%, 🧭 1011.5 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 25.9 km/u (7.2 m/s), richting: ↗ 208°
• 22:00: 11.9°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, Kans op neerslag 57%, 🧭 1011.6 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 23.8 km/u (6.6 m/s), richting: ↗ 208°
• 23:00: 12.2°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, Kans op neerslag 38%, 🧭 1011.4 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 21.2 km/u (5.9 m/s), richting: ↗ 206°
• 00:00: 12.2°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, Kans op neerslag 16%, 🧭 1011.5 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 22.3 km/u (6.2 m/s), richting: ↑ 192°
• 01:00: 12.4°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, 🧭 1011.3 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 20.5 km/u (5.7 m/s), richting: ↑ 193°

Voorspelling voor de komende dagen:

• dinsdag 27 oktober: Min 12.1°C, Max 16.0°C (Lichte motregen) 🌦️, Neerslag 0.6 mm, Kans op neerslag 21%, 🧭 1012.8 hPa ↗️ +0.8 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 30.6 km/u (8.5 m/s), richting: ↗ 204°
• woensdag 28 oktober: Min 10.7°C, Max 15.0°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, Kans op neerslag 1%, 🧭 1024.9 hPa ↗️ +12.1 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 19.8 km/u (5.5 m/s), richting: ↗ 228°
• donderdag 29 oktober: Min 8.8°C, Max 14.8°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, Kans op neerslag 2%, 🧭 1028.0 hPa ↗️ +3.1 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 9.0 km/u (2.5 m/s), richting: ↑ 182°
• vrijdag 30 oktober: Min 6.7°C, Max 12.5°C (Mist) 🌫️, 🧭 1028.1 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 6.6 km/u (1.8 m/s), richting: ↖ 126°
• zaterdag 31 oktober: Min 5.4°C, Max 12.2°C (Mist) 🌫️, 🧭 1030.0 hPa ↗️ +1.9 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 2.3 km/u (0.6 m/s), richting: ← 97°
• zondag 01 november: Min 5.9°C, Max 12.7°C (Lichte motregen) 🌦️, Neerslag 0.6 mm, Kans op neerslag 2%, 🧭 1028.2 hPa ↘️ -1.8 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 12.2 km/u (3.4 m/s), richting: ↘ 322°

Details:
• 🌡️ Huidige temperatuur (om 13:15): 12.0°C (Bewolkt)
• 🤚 Gevoelstemperatuur: 8.8°C (-3.2°C)
• 💨 Windsnelheid: 20.5 km/u (5.7 m/s), richting: ↑ 195°
• 🌬️ Windstoten: 40.3 km/h (11.2 m/s)
• 💧 Luchtvochtigheid: 74%
• 🧭 Luchtdruk: 1013.5 hPa ↘️ -1.2 hPa/3h
• 👁️ Zichtbaarheid: 17.5 km
• ☀️ UV-index: 1.8
• 🌅 Zonsopgang: 07:25 · 🌇 Zonsondergang: 17:25

Luchtkwaliteit:
• AQI: 25 🟢 (Goed)
• PM2.5: 6.9 μg/m³
• PM10: 13.9 μg/m³

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A growing number of Russian soldiers who were still schoolchildren when the full-scale invasion of Ukraine began are being killed in the war.

Jongeren hebben in Hendrik-Ido-Ambacht onlangs verschillende auto’s bekogeld met zakjes hondenpoep. In het Sophiapark vulden zij de hondenpoepzakjes met water om ze erna van de naastgelegen fietsbrug te smijten. “Ik dacht dat er een steen op mijn auto was gegooid.”

History is littered with the ruins of failed memory technologies. But former Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger believes an emerging memory tech developed by researchers at Georgia Tech using oxide semiconductors may be the exception to the rule. "Essentially, we’ve had no major forms of innovation in memory for three decades – SRAM, DRAM, and Flash as the only memory types in broad deployment," Gelsinger told El Reg. Nagare Labs' Z2RAM aims to change that by delivering a memory tech that's nearly as fast as SRAM at a density much closer to that of DRAM, while also being easier to manufacture than HBM or LPDDR. "Fundamentally, they are combining the best characteristics of DRAM, SRAM, and flash into a new device that is both dense like DRAM, fast like SRAM, and scalable like flash," Gelsinger said. "While HBM has many limitations (power, density, shoreline bandwidth) the combination of its density and performance is the best available today. This is exactly the value that Z2RAM brings, giving better density, speed and power." This explains why investor Playground Global, where Gelsinger became a partner last year, is helping to bankroll Nagare's development efforts. SRAM-like speed, DRAM-like density Founded by Georgia Institute of Technology professors and researchers Suman Datta and Shimeng Yu, Nagare Labs is the culmination of years of research into next-generation memory technologies like ferroelectrics and resistive RAM. The technology is being built on oxide semiconductors and is designed to be integrated directly onto compute logic using 3D hybrid bonding technologies. In this respect, Z2RAM will fill a similar role to AMD's 3D V-Cache SRAM stacking tech. If you're familiar with CPUs requiring additional L3 cache, AMD uses advanced packaging to bond a 64MB SRAM tile either above or below its CPU chiplets, effectively tripling their SRAM capacity. Z2RAM is similar in concept, but promises bit density upwards of 5x that of SRAM in its first incarnation. So if you were to look at a 64MB SRAM tile, Nagare's Z2RAM tiles would offer 320 MB of capacity in the same space, at bandwidth comparable to SRAM. While that may not sound like a lot of capacity compared to HBM-heavy accelerators like Nvidia's Rubin with its 288 GB capacity, or AMD's MI455X with its 432 GB, Z2RAM presents a major improvement over SRAM-based accelerators like Nvidia's Groq LPUs. Today, Nvidia's Groq 3 LPUs feature about 500 MB of SRAM per chip, necessitating thousands of accelerators in order to serve frontier LLMs at scale. Z2RAM could cut the number of chips required by 5x or more. "With the explosion of AI demand, we’ve seen an extraordinary demand in memory as AI is a memory-limited workload. With that backdrop, there is extraordinary interest and now capital available for a breakthrough that solves the bandwidth and capacity challenges that AI is creating," Gelsinger told us. Look Ma, no capacitors Nagare achieves this density and bandwidth feat using memory cells based on transistors rather than capacitors. "In terms of speed, it's going to rival SRAM, but in terms of functionality, it is more like a DRAM because of the storage mechanism," cofounder Datta told us. "DRAM is one transistor, one capacitor, one passive physical capacitor. Z2RAM is actually two transistors, but ... we are using the gate capacitance of the second transistor to store the charge." Because that charge is stored in a transistor, reading it becomes non-destructive, which allows for better latency than you would get from DRAM. That's because when a DRAM cell is read from memory, its capacitor is drained. "After your reading is complete, you have to write back into the cell," he explained. The fully transistor-based architecture isn't Z2RAM's only party trick because Nagare is pursuing a technology and process which will allow it to stack these cells vertically. While that might sound a lot like HBM or LPDDR, Datta says it's actually more akin to how NAND is built up in layers, which in theory means that Z2RAM should be dramatically cheaper and easier to manufacture. A long road ahead With its first seed funding round behind it, Nagare now has $5 million to further the development of the tech. As semiconductor technologies go, this isn't a lot of money, but Datta is also the first to admit the startup's tech has barely left the lab. "Where we are is literally lab prototypes," he said. The company is currently looking for an R&D fab partner to help it scale production beyond the university clean room, with the goal of sampling working Z2RAM memory tiles within the next four years and a goal of production shipments within the next decade. Datta says the company is also open to working directly with chipmakers to integrate Z2RAM into their designs, similar to how AMD worked with TSMC on its 3D V-Cache tiles. The company also faces challenges with regard to integration. "There's no standard that we have right now to integrate this new memory with the accelerator," Yu said. "To unleash the benefits of this high capacity, high-speed memory, we have to use 3D bonding, and right now there's no standardization for that." "AMD, of course, has the V-Cache, but it's a proprietary technology," he added. In order for Z2RAM to see wide adoption without an open industry standard, Yu tells us that Nagare may have to design an interface itself, which is no small task. There are also validation concerns. Nagare is working with oxide semiconductors, which Datta tells us benefit from better thermal and radiation performance, but are also prone to atomic vacancies. Even "single electron effects or few electron effects can cause the threshold voltage of the transistors to move just a wee amount, and that will be enough to actually upset that cell," he explained. Because of this, a lot of effort is going into maximizing the reliability of the Z2RAM memory cells. "There have been so many memory startups and they didn't succeed," Datta said. "You might have the most amazing memory technology, but you can never penetrate the system because of the stringent standards." However, Datta believes the landscape has changed. Changing dynamics and the emergence of new protocols have opened the door to being adventurous with memory again. ®