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Weer voor Rotterdam ☁️ - 25-09-2026 01:15 CEST...

Weer voor Rotterdam ☁️ - 25-09-2026 01:15 CEST

In één oogopslag:
• 14.7°C · Gedeeltelijk bewolkt ☁️ | Min 14.9°C / Max 19.3°C

Verwachting voor vandaag:
• Min 14.9°C, Max 19.3°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, 🧭 1020.3 hPa ↘️ -3.1 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 11.9 km/u (3.3 m/s), richting: ↓ 344°

Uurlijkse voorspelling voor de komende 12 uur:

• 02:00: 14.4°C (Helder) 🌕, 🧭 1023.4 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 9.4 km/u (2.6 m/s), richting: ↖ 130°
• 03:00: 14.2°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, 🧭 1023.2 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 11.5 km/u (3.2 m/s), richting: ↖ 141°
• 04:00: 14.0°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, 🧭 1022.6 hPa ↘️ -0.6 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 12.2 km/u (3.4 m/s), richting: ↖ 154°
• 05:00: 13.5°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, 🧭 1022.2 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 11.5 km/u (3.2 m/s), richting: ↑ 162°
• 06:00: 13.1°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, 🧭 1021.9 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 10.1 km/u (2.8 m/s), richting: ↑ 162°
• 07:00: 12.9°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, 🧭 1021.5 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 10.1 km/u (2.8 m/s), richting: ↖ 151°
• 08:00: 13.0°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, 🧭 1021.5 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 9.4 km/u (2.6 m/s), richting: ↖ 156°
• 09:00: 14.3°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, 🧭 1021.4 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 9.0 km/u (2.5 m/s), richting: ↑ 170°
• 10:00: 15.6°C (Zonnig) ☀️, 🧭 1021.4 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 8.6 km/u (2.4 m/s), richting: ↑ 180°
• 11:00: 17.4°C (Zonnig) ☀️, 🧭 1021.5 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 8.3 km/u (2.3 m/s), richting: ↑ 191°
• 12:00: 19.0°C (Zonnig) ☀️, 🧭 1021.0 hPa ↘️ -0.5 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 9.0 km/u (2.5 m/s), richting: ↑ 181°
• 13:00: 20.5°C (Zonnig) ☀️, 🧭 1020.4 hPa ↘️ -0.6 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 10.8 km/u (3.0 m/s), richting: ↑ 177°

Voorspelling voor de komende dagen:

• zaterdag 26 september: Min 12.9°C, Max 23.0°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, 🧭 1020.0 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 12.2 km/u (3.4 m/s), richting: ↑ 169°
• zondag 27 september: Min 15.9°C, Max 20.1°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, Kans op neerslag 5%, 🧭 1016.9 hPa ↘️ -3.1 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 14.8 km/u (4.1 m/s), richting: ↙ 28°
• maandag 28 september: Min 13.6°C, Max 20.6°C (Matige motregen) 🌦️, Neerslag 1.3 mm, Kans op neerslag 6%, 🧭 1017.3 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 12.2 km/u (3.4 m/s), richting: ↖ 114°
• dinsdag 29 september: Min 15.4°C, Max 20.3°C (Matige motregen) 🌦️, Neerslag 3.0 mm, Kans op neerslag 28%, 🧭 1017.2 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 13.3 km/u (3.7 m/s), richting: ↗ 233°
• woensdag 30 september: Min 14.0°C, Max 25.1°C (Matige buien) 🌧️, Neerslag 11.2 mm, Kans op neerslag 6%, 🧭 1016.2 hPa ↘️ -1.0 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 13.1 km/u (3.6 m/s), richting: ← 110°
• donderdag 01 oktober: Min 17.5°C, Max 22.8°C (Lichte motregen) 🌦️, Neerslag 0.5 mm, Kans op neerslag 11%, 🧭 1015.7 hPa ↘️ -0.5 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 11.9 km/u (3.3 m/s), richting: ↑ 162°

Details:
• 🌡️ Huidige temperatuur (om 01:15): 14.7°C (Gedeeltelijk bewolkt)
• 🤚 Gevoelstemperatuur: 12.5°C (-2.2°C)
• 💨 Windsnelheid: 8.3 km/u (2.3 m/s), richting: ↖ 131°
• 🌬️ Windstoten: 14.4 km/h (4.0 m/s)
• 💧 Luchtvochtigheid: 66%
• 🧭 Luchtdruk: 1023.4 hPa ↘️ -0.8 hPa/3h
• 👁️ Zichtbaarheid: 50.0 km
• ☀️ UV-index: 0.0
• 🌅 Zonsopgang: 07:31 · 🌇 Zonsondergang: 19:36

Luchtkwaliteit:
• AQI: 25 🟢 (Goed)
• PM2.5: 8.2 μg/m³
• PM10: 14.8 μg/m³

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DEN HAAG (ANP) - "Het is klip en klaar dat u zich op het verkeerde been gezet heeft gevoeld," zei minister David van Weel (VVD, Justitie) tegen de Tweede Kamer in het laatste deel van het debat over de aangiftes die waren blijven liggen. "Daar had de Algemene Rekenkamer ook gewoon gelijk in." Eerder in het debat maakte de minister al excuses, maar zei hij dat hij de Kamer niet had misleid.

Van Weel moest zich verantwoorden in een debat nadat hij had gesteld dat aangiftes die waren blijven liggen, vooral meldingen betroffen. De Algemene Rekenkamer stelde dat de minister daarmee de Kamer op het verkeerde been had gezet. Dat waren "nuances", volgens de minister. Na die woorden bleven veel Kamerleden van de oppositie met twijfels achter.

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Een PVV-motie van wantrouwen gericht aan Van Weel werd ruim verworpen. Alleen Forum voor Democratie stemde mee. SP en JA21 zeiden voorafgaand aan de stemming dat de laatste woorden van Van Weel belangrijk waren om uiteindelijk tegen te stemmen.

"Wij zaten echt op het randje van steun voor de motie van wantrouwen," stelde Ingrid Coenradie van JA21. De houding van Van Weel op het laatst had ze graag eerder in het debat gezien. "En ik verwacht dan ook dat we geen minister meer zien die achteraf dingen herstelt, maar een minister die de vlucht vooruit neemt en de relatie met de Algemene Rekenkamer écht herstelt."

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Google's TPUs to catch some rays in orbit next week

Google will loft its tensor processing units (TPUs) into orbit aboard a SpaceX rocket next week, in the latest phase of its previously announced Project Suncatcher space datacenter initiative. The launch is part of a test mission to better understand how its homegrown compute platform will handle both the rigors of launch and the harsh environment of space. Long term, the Chocolate Factory believes that space-based datacenter clusters powered by a limitless supply of solar energy from our sun could hold the answer to more sustainable AI. Not everyone is convinced. Earlier this year, Gartner analyst Bill Ray described the idea as “peak insanity.” He argued that space-based datacenters won't be viable for decades and in the end won't serve terrestrial needs. But that hasn't stopped the likes of Nvidia and Google from trying. Google has been particularly pragmatic relative to others like SpaceXAI, which like any other Musk-run outfit can't help but set ambitious targets like 250-kilowatt satellites. Rather than grand plans and satellite concepts backed by dubious launch economics, Google's Project Suncatcher is being treated for what it is: a moonshot. Like past moonshots, it may ultimately go nowhere. Remember Project Loon? Google is still in the early stages of development here. It hasn't announced a space-rated TPU and instead has subjected its existing Trillium accelerators, which we looked at back in 2024, to a series of tests here on Earth to understand whether it can be done. The challenges are numerous, as Suncatcher's project leaders explained in a recent blog post touting the proof-of-concept launch. The first challenge is surviving the trip into space. During launch, they explain that the chips will be subjected to as much as 50-100 gravities worth of amplified forces. If not accounted for, the systems could literally shake themselves to pieces. Since announcing Project Suncatcher last year, Google's moonshot team has conducted several tests, including one involving a vibration table, to simulate these forces, but it won't know for sure if its kit will survive until it's actually in orbit. As you probably already guessed, once in orbit, the challenges facing Google's systems are far from over. Beyond the atmosphere, the chips will be subject to solar activity and cosmic rays that could cause single-event upsets, such as bit flips, as well as cumulative damage from ionizing radiation. By bombarding its TPUs with energetic particles using UC Davis' Crocker Nuclear Laboratory's proton beam, Google is reasonably confident that its TPUs won't fizzle out shortly after reaching their target orbit, but once again lab tests can only tell you so much, and there is a lot more that can go wrong. In particular, there's the issue of cooling. Heat can't be carried away by convection in the vacuum of space, and so these satellites will ultimately have to rely on radiation to reject it. According to Google, it will need roughly 1.3 square meters of radiator area to dissipate the heat generated by a single TPU, and the search and advertising giant hopes to pack dozens of TPUs into each satellite. This translates to a rather large radiator area. Once again, Google arrived at this conclusion based on testing within a temperature controlled vacuum chamber. However, this is only part of the challenge. There's also the issue of getting the heat from the TPU to the radiators in the first place. Here Google is exploring existing technologies like heat pipes and pumped coolants. With its first launch, Google aims to see what works, what doesn't, and to identify points of failure that can be addressed in future missions. The test sat is scheduled to launch aboard the Transporter-18 rideshare mission aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket on October 1. However, Google's challenges extend far beyond the chips themselves. Even if Google can figure out how to build space-rated TPUs without breaking the bank, the available launch systems put a practical limit on how big they can be built. Because of this, space-based AI training and inference will have to be spread across multiple satellites, necessitating high-speed interconnects. At the distances required, this means laser-based communication, which Google argues is well understood, but hasn't been adapted for the requirements of orbital AI just yet. Most existing inter-satellite communications have relatively low bandwidth over a wide area. Its clusters will need the exact opposite: extremely high bandwidth over relatively small distances. 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Five Police Officers Criminally Charged for Misusing Flock Cameras in Indianapolis

"Nationwide, at least 100 police department employees have been charged with or accused of misusing license-plate readers for unauthorized purposes," reports the Washington Post. They cite their past investigations "based on thousands of pages of police and court records," which found that "In many of these cases, officers used Flock's roadside cameras to track the location of romantic partners and exes."

In fact, five Indianapolis police officers were just criminally charged Wednesday with fraud and misconduct. "One has also been charged with stalking," the police department said in a statement, noting that one office had already resigned, "while the four other officers have been suspended and recommended for termination. County prosecutor Ryan Mears admitted "A lot of this was initiated by The Washington Post."

And the Post published a new investigation Wednesday:


Using publicly available information, The Post found that...one of the officers charged Wednesday, appeared to have relied on Flock cameras to track vehicles used by his wife and two close personal acquaintances, searching the plates 3,759 times over a 10-month period — an average of about 12 lookups per day. At the time, Police Chief Tanya Terry said she suspended one officer while the department conducted an investigation into possible misuse and a systemwide audit of the city's 301-camera Flock system. That audit led to the discovery of more widespread abuse, [County prosecutor Ryan] Mears said Wednesday.


Mears said the department's findings highlight the vast power Flock cameras give police officers and raise questions about whether the government should be doing more to prevent the misuse of that power. "Many of the proposed guardrails and the things that have been proposed would not have prevented the behaviors and actions we see here today," Mears said. "Does there need to be independent oversight? Does there need to be judicial oversight of the Flock camera system?"

One of the Indianapolis officers, Schultz, an 18-year veteran of the police department, was accused of using Flock to track his ex-wife and women he met while on duty or out in public. He was charged with multiple counts of official misconduct as well as two counts of stalking. Schultz told one woman he was an FBI agent, according to prosecutors, and began texting her and showing up at places she frequented, including at her gym and at a school function with her daughter. Prosecutors said he arrived at her gym within an hour of her at least nine times between June 12 and Aug. 1 of this year... Another woman met Schultz after her car was stolen from a mall parking lot, and he began texting her flirty messages later that night. The two dated briefly, and Schultz later looked up where the woman went on dates with another man. Schultz searched the plates of a third woman 178 times and also frequently showed up where she was, including her gym, a Smoothie King and a Walmart earlier this month...


A third officer, Binford, told investigators he had used the log-in credentials of another officer who had logged in to Binford's laptop during a field training exercise. Binford searched the plate of his ex-wife more than 1,000 times between April 2024 and April 2025. Indianapolis police had no regular practice of auditing officers' Flock searches until recently, [Police Chief] Terry said in an interview last month. The department's investigation into the tool's misuse has been "a learning process for us," she said at the time.

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