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The launch is the 12th test flight of the mega-rocket that CEO Elon Musk is building to get people to Mars one day

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The US National Transportation Safety Board, which investigates plane crashes, has a policy of not releasing cockpit audio recordings. Nonetheless, earlier this week, the NTSB released a spectrographic image derived from the cockpit audio recording that captured the last words of two UPS pilots before their plane crashed in Louisville, Kentucky, last year. Scott Manley, a scientist, developer, and gaming influencer, warned the agency about doing so. "NTSB doesn't release cockpit voice recorders from crashes, except in this case they've released an image of a spectrogram," he wrote in a social media post on May 20, 2026. "I'm not sure that's a good idea since you can probably reconstruct a lot of audio from the megabytes of data encoded in this image." Technically savvy individuals promptly turned the soundwave graph back into audio and posted it on the internet, prompting the NTSB to acknowledge it is now aware that advances in image processing and computation allow graphs to be turned back into approximate audio. "Federal law prohibits such public release due to the highly sensitive nature of verbal communications inside the cockpit," the board said on Thursday. "The NTSB takes these privacy restrictions seriously." The spectrogram was released on May 19, 2026, in conjunction with the NTSB investigative hearing into the November 4, 2025 crash of a United Parcel Service MD-11F cargo plane (flight 2976), which occurred shortly after takeoff from Louisville Muhammad Ali International Airport. Three crew members on board and 12 people on the ground were killed. Twenty-three others were injured. The accident has also been reconstructed using a flight simulator and the text transcript of the cockpit voice recorder. In a post on social media network X, Jennifer Homendy, chairwoman of the NTSB, said, "It's deeply troubling that emerging technology can be used to extract [cockpit voice recorder] audio from visualized data we share to help the public understand the circumstances of an accident." "Emerging" here means at least forty-two years ago. Relevant techniques involving a magnitude spectrum are discussed in a 1984 research paper, "Signal estimation from modified short-time Fourier transform," by Daniel W. Griffin and Jae S. Lim. Their work builds upon a long established signal processing algorithm, the Fast Fourier Transform. But the availability of machine learning models has undoubtedly lowered the technical barriers to signal transformation. Coincidentally, "federal science agencies lost about 20 percent of their staff in 2025 relative to the previous year," according to Nature. Homendy continued by noting that the laws disallowing the release of cockpit voice recorder audio exist to protect privacy, to preserve investigative integrity, to demonstrate respect for accident victims and their families. "NTSB is taking steps to address this issue," she said. "The public docket is offline for now, and we are urging X, Reddit, and others to take such disgusting, manipulated posts down." At the time this article was filed, audio reconstructions of the pilots' last words remained available on X. ®

Weer voor Rotterdam 🌕 - 23-05-2026 01:16 CEST

In één oogopslag:
• 21.7°C · Helder 🌕 | Min 14.9°C / Max 26.8°C

Verwachting voor vandaag:
• Min 14.9°C, Max 26.8°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, 🧭 1027.0 hPa ↗️ +0.8 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 10.8 km/u (3.0 m/s), richting: ↑ 162°

Uurlijkse voorspelling voor de komende 12 uur:

• 02:00: 21.4°C (Helder) 🌕, 🧭 1026.2 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 8.3 km/u (2.3 m/s), richting: ↖ 139°
• 03:00: 20.8°C (Licht bewolkt) 🌕, 🧭 1025.9 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 8.3 km/u (2.3 m/s), richting: ↑ 159°
• 04:00: 20.1°C (Helder) 🌕, 🧭 1025.9 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 9.4 km/u (2.6 m/s), richting: ↑ 160°
• 05:00: 19.6°C (Licht bewolkt) 🌕, 🧭 1025.8 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 9.0 km/u (2.5 m/s), richting: ↑ 178°
• 06:00: 19.4°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, 🧭 1025.9 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 7.2 km/u (2.0 m/s), richting: ↑ 195°
• 07:00: 20.5°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, 🧭 1026.2 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 7.9 km/u (2.2 m/s), richting: ↗ 214°
• 08:00: 22.0°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, 🧭 1026.4 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 9.0 km/u (2.5 m/s), richting: ↗ 205°
• 09:00: 23.3°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, 🧭 1026.8 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 10.4 km/u (2.9 m/s), richting: ↑ 201°
• 10:00: 24.9°C (Zonnig) ☀️, 🧭 1027.1 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 10.8 km/u (3.0 m/s), richting: ↗ 213°
• 11:00: 26.5°C (Zonnig) ☀️, 🧭 1027.2 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 9.7 km/u (2.7 m/s), richting: ↗ 222°
• 12:00: 27.7°C (Zonnig) ☀️, 🧭 1027.7 hPa ↗️ +0.5 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 10.4 km/u (2.9 m/s), richting: ↗ 213°
• 13:00: 28.6°C (Zonnig) ☀️, 🧭 1027.6 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 11.9 km/u (3.3 m/s), richting: ↗ 208°

Voorspelling voor de komende dagen:

• zondag 24 mei: Min 19.4°C, Max 29.9°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, Kans op neerslag 1%, 🧭 1030.5 hPa ↗️ +3.5 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 13.7 km/u (3.8 m/s), richting: ↗ 229°
• maandag 25 mei: Min 18.9°C, Max 29.4°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, 🧭 1031.6 hPa ↗️ +1.1 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 14.8 km/u (4.1 m/s), richting: ↙ 66°
• dinsdag 26 mei: Min 19.4°C, Max 27.0°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, 🧭 1028.9 hPa ↘️ -2.7 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 11.5 km/u (3.2 m/s), richting: ← 75°
• woensdag 27 mei: Min 14.0°C, Max 27.0°C (Zonnig) ☀️, 🧭 1029.0 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 14.7 km/u (4.1 m/s), richting: ↓ 338°
• donderdag 28 mei: Min 11.5°C, Max 19.6°C (Licht bewolkt) 🌤️, 🧭 1025.1 hPa ↘️ -3.9 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 12.3 km/u (3.4 m/s), richting: ↙ 35°
• vrijdag 29 mei: Min 9.9°C, Max 21.5°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, 🧭 1021.2 hPa ↘️ -3.9 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 9.1 km/u (2.5 m/s), richting: ← 100°

Details:
• 🌡️ Huidige temperatuur (om 01:15): 21.7°C (Helder)
• 🤚 Gevoelstemperatuur: 21.2°C (-0.5°C)
• 💨 Windsnelheid: 7.9 km/u (2.2 m/s), richting: ↖ 139°
• 🌬️ Windstoten: 10.8 km/h (3.0 m/s)
• 💧 Luchtvochtigheid: 60%
• 🧭 Luchtdruk: 1026.2 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/3h
• 👁️ Zichtbaarheid: 50.0 km
• ☀️ UV-index: 0.0
• 🌅 Zonsopgang: 05:38 · 🌇 Zonsondergang: 21:38

Luchtkwaliteit:
• AQI: 58 🟡 (Matig)
• PM2.5: 26.6 μg/m³
• PM10: 35.5 μg/m³

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Trump Mobile confirmed that a third-party platform exposed customers' personal data to the open internet. The data included names, email addresses, mailing addresses, phone numbers, and order IDs. TechCrunch reports: Chris Walker, a spokesperson for the Trump-branded phone maker, told TechCrunch that the company is investigating the exposure and has not found evidence that content or financial information spilled online. The company said there was no breach of Trump Mobile's network, systems, or infrastructure. Walker said that the exposure was linked to a third-party platform provider that supports "certain Trump Mobile operations." He did not name the provider.

[...] On Wednesday, two YouTubers who ordered Trump Mobile's phone said a researcher alerted them that their personal information was exposed online. The YouTubers Coffeezilla and penguinz0 said they tried to alert Trump Mobile of the exposure after the researcher also tried but to no avail. Walker said Trump Mobile is evaluating whether it needs to notify customers of the exposure of their personal data. Further reading: Trump Phones Start Shipping - But Were There Really 600,000 Preorders?

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The iconic red bridge serves as a peaceful focal point in the historic Japanese Garden at Clingendael Estate in The Hague. Surrounded by vibrant spring foliage and deep red Japanese maples, the calm water reflects the delicate harmony of this unique heritage site, which opens only a few weeks each year to protect its rare and fragile flora.

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Live coverage of Friday's Sprint Qualifying session at the 2026 Canadian Grand Prix.