De asielinstroom van week 49, bestaande uit eerste asielaanvragen, herhaalde asielaanvragen, hervestiging, herplaatsing en nareizigers, bedroeg ongeveer 1000.
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What triggered that Airbus emergency software recall? The BBC reports that Airbus's initial investigation into an aircraft's sudden drop in altitude linked it "to a malfunction in one of the aircraft's computers that controls moving parts on the aircraft's wings and tail." But that malfunction "seems to have been triggered by cosmic radiation bombarding the Earth on the day of the flight..."
The BBC believes radiation from space "could become a growing problem as ever more microchips run our lives."
What Airbus says occurred on that JetBlue flight from Cancun to New Jersey was a phenomenon called a single-event upset, or bit flip. As the BBC has previously reported, these computer errors occur when high-speed subatomic particles from outer space, such as protons, smash into atoms in our planet's atmosphere. This can cause a cascade of particles to rain down through our atmosphere, like throwing marbles across a table. In rare cases, those fast-moving neutrons can strike computer electronics and disrupt tiny bits of data stored in the computer's memory, switching that bit — often represented as a 0 or 1 — from one state to another.
"That can cause your electronics to behave in ways you weren't expecting," says Matthew Owens, professor of space physics at the University of Reading in the UK. Satellites are particularly affected by this phenomenon, he says. "For space hardware we see this quite frequently."
This is because the neutron flux — a measure of neutron radiation — rises the higher up in the atmosphere you go, increasing the chance of a strike hitting sensitive parts of the computer equipment on board. Aircraft are more vulnerable to this problem than computer equipment on the ground, although bit flips do occur at ground level, too. The increasing reliance of computers in fly-by-wire systems in aircraft, which use electronics rather than mechanical systems to control the plane in the air, also mean the risk posed by bit flips when they do occur is higher... Airbus told the BBC that it tested multiple scenarios when attempting to determine what happened to the 30 October 2025 JetBlue flight. In this case also, the company ruled out various possibilities except that of a bit flip. It is hard to attribute the incident to this for sure, however, because careering neutrons leave no trace of their activity behind, says Owens...
[Airbus's software update] works by inducing "rapid refreshing of the corrupted parameter so it has no time to have effect on the flight controls", Airbus says. This is, in essence, a way of continually sanitising computer data on these aircraft to try and ensure that any errors don't end up actually impacting a flight... As computer chips have become smaller, they have also become more vulnerable to bit flips because the energy required to corrupt tiny packets of data has got lower over time. Plus, more and more microchips are being loaded into products and vehicles, potentially increasing the chance that a bit flip could cause havoc. If nothing else, the JetBlue incident will focus minds across many industries on the risk posed to our modern, microchip-dependent lives from cosmic radiation that originates far beyond our planet.
Airbus said their analysis revealed "intense solar radiation" could corrupt data "critical to the functioning of flight control." But that explanation "has left some space weather scientists scratching their heads," adds the BBC.
Space.com explains:
Solar radiation levels on Oct. 30 were unremarkable and nowhere near levels that could affect aircraft electronics, Clive Dyer, a space weather and radiation expert at University of Surrey in the U.K., told Space.com. Instead, Dyer, who has studied effects of solar radiation on aircraft electronics for decades, thinks the onboard computer of the affected jet could have been struck by a cosmic ray, a stream of high-energy particles from a distant star explosion that may have travelled millions of years before reaching Earth. "[Cosmic rays] can interact with modern microelectronics and change the state of a circuit," Dyer said. "They can cause a simple bit flip, like a 0 to 1 or 1 to 0. They can mess up information and make things go wrong. But they can cause hardware failures too, when they induce a current in an electronic device and burn it out."
The BBC believes radiation from space "could become a growing problem as ever more microchips run our lives."
What Airbus says occurred on that JetBlue flight from Cancun to New Jersey was a phenomenon called a single-event upset, or bit flip. As the BBC has previously reported, these computer errors occur when high-speed subatomic particles from outer space, such as protons, smash into atoms in our planet's atmosphere. This can cause a cascade of particles to rain down through our atmosphere, like throwing marbles across a table. In rare cases, those fast-moving neutrons can strike computer electronics and disrupt tiny bits of data stored in the computer's memory, switching that bit — often represented as a 0 or 1 — from one state to another.
"That can cause your electronics to behave in ways you weren't expecting," says Matthew Owens, professor of space physics at the University of Reading in the UK. Satellites are particularly affected by this phenomenon, he says. "For space hardware we see this quite frequently."
This is because the neutron flux — a measure of neutron radiation — rises the higher up in the atmosphere you go, increasing the chance of a strike hitting sensitive parts of the computer equipment on board. Aircraft are more vulnerable to this problem than computer equipment on the ground, although bit flips do occur at ground level, too. The increasing reliance of computers in fly-by-wire systems in aircraft, which use electronics rather than mechanical systems to control the plane in the air, also mean the risk posed by bit flips when they do occur is higher... Airbus told the BBC that it tested multiple scenarios when attempting to determine what happened to the 30 October 2025 JetBlue flight. In this case also, the company ruled out various possibilities except that of a bit flip. It is hard to attribute the incident to this for sure, however, because careering neutrons leave no trace of their activity behind, says Owens...
[Airbus's software update] works by inducing "rapid refreshing of the corrupted parameter so it has no time to have effect on the flight controls", Airbus says. This is, in essence, a way of continually sanitising computer data on these aircraft to try and ensure that any errors don't end up actually impacting a flight... As computer chips have become smaller, they have also become more vulnerable to bit flips because the energy required to corrupt tiny packets of data has got lower over time. Plus, more and more microchips are being loaded into products and vehicles, potentially increasing the chance that a bit flip could cause havoc. If nothing else, the JetBlue incident will focus minds across many industries on the risk posed to our modern, microchip-dependent lives from cosmic radiation that originates far beyond our planet.
Airbus said their analysis revealed "intense solar radiation" could corrupt data "critical to the functioning of flight control." But that explanation "has left some space weather scientists scratching their heads," adds the BBC.
Space.com explains:
Solar radiation levels on Oct. 30 were unremarkable and nowhere near levels that could affect aircraft electronics, Clive Dyer, a space weather and radiation expert at University of Surrey in the U.K., told Space.com. Instead, Dyer, who has studied effects of solar radiation on aircraft electronics for decades, thinks the onboard computer of the affected jet could have been struck by a cosmic ray, a stream of high-energy particles from a distant star explosion that may have travelled millions of years before reaching Earth. "[Cosmic rays] can interact with modern microelectronics and change the state of a circuit," Dyer said. "They can cause a simple bit flip, like a 0 to 1 or 1 to 0. They can mess up information and make things go wrong. But they can cause hardware failures too, when they induce a current in an electronic device and burn it out."
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In 2025 ontving de VN-hulporganisatie 12 miljard dollar voor humanitaire hulp, tegenover de 47 miljard die was gevraagd. Door het grote gat in de financiering konden hulpverleners 25 miljoen mensen minder bereiken dan in 2024.
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Stel je een chatbot voor die niet vastzit aan wat hij maanden geleden heeft geleerd, maar die meegroeit met elke vraag die je stelt. Dat is precies waar Google nu mee pronkt. Onderzoekers van het bedrijf melden dat ze een AI-architectuur hebben ontwikkeld die zichzelf continu kan bijscholen zonder opnieuw volledig getraind te hoeven worden.
In een nieuwe publicatie beschrijven ze hoe hun eerdere concept Titans wordt gekoppeld aan een fonkelnieuw raamwerk, MIRAS. Samen vormen die twee een soort langetermijngeheugen dat AI-modellen voortdurend up-to-date houdt. Geen gigantische hertrainingen meer; de AI leert gewoon door terwijl je ermee werkt.
Waarom dit zo bijzonder is
Huidige modellen, ook de grootste chatbots, zijn beperkt tot de informatie die in hun trainingsdata zat. Nieuwe kennis toevoegen kost nu nog enorme hoeveelheden rekenkracht, tijd en geld. Google’s nieuwe aanpak moet dat probleem oplossen.
Hoe Titans dat flikt
De architectuur is een slimme mix van bekende technieken: recurrent neural networks voor geheugen en transformermodellen voor snelheid en precisie. De truc is dat de AI realtime informatie van gebruikers kan opnemen, direct in een gesprek.
En volgens Google is het resultaat indrukwekkend: Titans presteert in tests niet alleen beter dan klassieke transformermodellen, maar zelfs beter dan recente hybrides zoals Mamba-2.
Bron: Google Research – It’s All Connected: A Journey Through Test-Time Memorization, Attentional Bias, Retention, and Online Optimization
Rambo2100 has added a photo to the pool:
In the foreground is Cockatoo Island, a convict prison from 1839 to 1869 and a shipyard from 1857 to 1991. It's UNESCO Heritage protected, although much of its convict and shipyard heritage no longer exists.
Today's vessels have outgrown the island's capability and the site is administered by the Sydney Harbour Federation Trust. Occasionally an art event is held there, and it was one of the locations for the X-Men Origins: Wolverine film.
Every now and again there's a business offer to turn it into a theme park or tourist attraction, but the terms haven't been attractive to the government.
Behind the island on the right is the Sydney suburb of Birchgrove, Goat Island, and the Sydney Harbour Bridge. On the left, from the Bridge there's North Sydney's skyscrapers and new tall buildings at St Leonards. It's getting dark on an overcast day. Did I mention the dirty window. Still, an hour earlier would have been perfect!
Four Russian soldiers were found guilty of torturing and killing Russell Bentley, a self-described communist known by the nickname “Texas.”
In de grote Barendrechtse zedenzaak zijn meerdere stoornissen bij de verdachte vastgesteld. De 46-jarige Mels van B. zou pedofiel, hyperseksueel en autistisch zijn en lijden aan borderline.
