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De zomervakantie is voorbij in onze regio. Mensen die normaal via de Algerabrug in Krimpen aan den IJssel naar hun werk reizen, merken dat maar al te goed. De brug is dicht voor een grote renovatie, waardoor automobilisten flink moeten omrijden of lang moeten wachten op de veerpont. "Het is heel druk."

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Magnetic Rail Group’s XRN002, XRN005 & XRN022 put their horsepower to work as they lead MN122 through Lochinvar with another load of Hunter Valley export coal from Mangoola to PWCS (Port Waratah Coal Services) at Kooragang Island on Saturday, 22 August 2026.

XRN002 XRN005 XRN022 | MN122 | Lochinvar, NSW | 22/08/2026

Workers thought to be trapped in the tunnels and underground areas of about half a dozen hydropower projects in Nepal following devastating flash floods

Rescue teams are working to reach more than 900 people thought to be trapped in the tunnels and underground areas of half a dozen hydropower projects in Nepal following the devastating flash floods, ​the ⁠country’s disaster ​management authority said ​on ​Monday.

The death toll from the ⁠unprecedented deluge of ice, rock, mud ​and debris that crashed through valleys of Nepal on Wednesday last week has now risen to 903 people, with 16 more dead reported on the Tibet side of the border. More than 4,000 are missing in Nepal, with another 500 in Tibet.

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NEW YORK (ANP) - De Amerikaanse tennisster Venus Williams (46) is in de eerste ronde van de US Open uitgeschakeld door haar 27-jarige landgenote Sofia Kenin. De oudste van de twee zussen Williams verloor maandagochtend vroeg (Nederlandse tijd) in het Arthur Ashe Stadium.

Kenin was in twee sets te sterk voor de oudste van de twee Williams-zussen: 6-2 7-6 (6).

Williams werd met een wildcard toegelaten tot de US Open. Ze doet samen met haar zus Serena (44) ook mee aan het dubbelspel bij de vrouwen.

Venus Williams won het grandslamtoernooi in 2000 en 2001. Ze won in totaal zeven keer een grandslamtoernooi.

KEULEN (ANP/DPA) - Gamescom, de grootste gamesbeurs ter wereld, trok afgelopen dagen bijna een recordaantal bezoekers. Het evenement dat van woensdag tot en met zondag in Keulen werd gehouden, kreeg 368.000 mensen over de vloer. Dat waren er 11.000 meer dan in 2025, al bleef het net onder het record van 373.000 bezoekers uit 2019, het jaar voor de coronapandemie.

De organisatie is tevreden over de opkomst. "Dit verstevigt de positie van Gamescom als het grootste evenement in de gamewereld", zei Felix Falk, directeur van brancheorganisatie Game.

Gaming is een miljardenindustrie die steeds groter wordt. Steeds meer mensen gebruiken hun smartphone, spelcomputer of pc om spellen te spelen.

Een van de gastsprekers op Gamescom was dit jaar de Duitse bondspresident Frank-Walter Steinmeier, wat het groeiende aanzien van de sector onderstreept. Bezoekers konden op de beurs nieuwe games uitproberen. Daar stonden soms lange rijen voor.

WHO, ME? “Where to begin?” is a marvelous question. To get you going at the start of the working week, The Register thinks the answer is a new instalment of “Who, Me?” the column that shares your admissions of error. This week, meet a reader we’ll Regomize as “Martin” who told us about his very first job in tech. “I had just started working as a network engineer for a very small IT infrastructure company. Since I was the only person who worked with Cisco gear, that made me ‘The Cisco expert’,” he told The Register. That dubious status was enough for the company to send Martin to a customer who needed a new switch for a network that ran Nortel kit – not the Cisco boxes he kind-of knew. Martin told us he arrived to a warm welcome from the customer’s IT team, a decent coffee, and some friendly chat about adding VLANs. With those pleasantries accomplished, he got to work. “I completed rack and stack, basic default configuration, and the VLANs discussed over the coffee,” he wrote. Then he hooked everything up, tested the results, decided all was well, and prepared to leave. While he packed up, the phone rang. “I felt a disturbance in the force,” Martin wrote. “It was the customer’s IT team, asking me if I had done anything wrong, because over 4,000 AS/400 seasons had dropped.” “There was a clear cause and effect relation between the time I connected the switch and the sessions dropping,” Martin admitted. “And the only way to restore those sessions was for the IT team to kill them, manually, one by one.” Martin watched his client’s team as, over the next hour, they fixed the mess he made. “The post-mortem analysis revealed that the cause of the problem was the new switch – actually its spanning-tree settings. AS/400 at the time had its connections from the hosts to the mainframe through SNA over TCP/IP emulation, which, if you lost a single packet … you were screwed.” Martin told The Register that he felt deeply embarrassed by his error. “Those IT guys had been so nice to me and I had given them a really bad time,” he wrote. “But now, with the proper perspective after so many years, I see it was my managers who were to blame for calling me ‘The Expert' and for letting such a junior guy work unattended at such a big customer.” “Someone in the chain of command must have noticed and I did not lose my job,” he wrote. “But I learned some valuable lessons that day!” Have you assumed you knew everything there was to know about the tech you worked with, then found you didn’t? If so, click here to send us your story! ®