Fred Vasseur has reflected on Ferrari's strategy during the Dutch Grand Prix after Lewis Hamilton criticised the team's decisions over the radio.
Red Bull Team Principal Laurent Mekies feels that the squad took a "step back" during a tough Dutch Grand Prix weekend, with Max Verstappen crashing out while substitute Liam Lawson claimed P7.
Charles Leclerc finished fifth in the final Dutch Grand Prix but was only 1.3 seconds away from the podium in Zandvoort, with Ferrari demonstrating plenty of race pace on Sunday.
Gluons are the quantum 'Gorilla Glue' involved in binding quarks together, ScienceAlert reminds us. But for nearly 50 years, physicists have hunted for "glueballs", exotic particles predicted by this theory of the strong interaction — the only type of particle in nature composed entirely of force mediators:
Now, a collaboration working at a collider in Beijing says it has the clearest evidence yet that a known particle called X(2370) is dominated by one of these elusive states... Physicists sifted through the wreckage of high-energy particle collisions to find strong evidence of this glueball, made predominantly of gluons — massless force carriers of the strong interaction between quarks... The new evidence for this exotic, unstable glueball's ephemeral existence comes from a recent preprint on arXiv, presented at the International Conference on High Energy Physics in Brazil... This collaboration uses the Beijing Electron Positron Collider II, a particle accelerator and collider that smashes electrons into their antimatter counterparts, called positrons, to probe perplexing particle physics.
The resultant glueball is an "unprecedented form of matter," says Jin Shan, a particle physicist at Nanjing University and one of the research team's leaders. "It not only enables the theory describing strong interactions to pass its most rigorous test, but also vastly expands the boundaries of our understanding of the physical world," he told Fan Chen at South China Morning Post... Previously, in a study published in the journal Physical Review Letters in 2024, the researchers analyzed 10 billion meson decay events. They measured the X(2370) particle's mass and spin parity — a property that dictates its interactions and almost-instantaneous decay — for the first time, finding complete agreement between their experimental values and predictions. Now, they've identified its additional decay modes and determined its flavor-singlet nature, "the most important characteristic of a glueball...."
The authors describe their work as the clearest experimental result to emerge from nearly 50 years of glueball searches, supporting the long-standing theoretical prediction that gluons can bind together into a new form of matter.
The discovery ""highlights advances in technology and analytical techniques that have recently revealed another decades-in-the-making physics mystery," the article points out.
"More experiments are needed to further confirm and constrain the prototypes of the highly esoteric glueball; in other words, more particle smashing."
Now, a collaboration working at a collider in Beijing says it has the clearest evidence yet that a known particle called X(2370) is dominated by one of these elusive states... Physicists sifted through the wreckage of high-energy particle collisions to find strong evidence of this glueball, made predominantly of gluons — massless force carriers of the strong interaction between quarks... The new evidence for this exotic, unstable glueball's ephemeral existence comes from a recent preprint on arXiv, presented at the International Conference on High Energy Physics in Brazil... This collaboration uses the Beijing Electron Positron Collider II, a particle accelerator and collider that smashes electrons into their antimatter counterparts, called positrons, to probe perplexing particle physics.
The resultant glueball is an "unprecedented form of matter," says Jin Shan, a particle physicist at Nanjing University and one of the research team's leaders. "It not only enables the theory describing strong interactions to pass its most rigorous test, but also vastly expands the boundaries of our understanding of the physical world," he told Fan Chen at South China Morning Post... Previously, in a study published in the journal Physical Review Letters in 2024, the researchers analyzed 10 billion meson decay events. They measured the X(2370) particle's mass and spin parity — a property that dictates its interactions and almost-instantaneous decay — for the first time, finding complete agreement between their experimental values and predictions. Now, they've identified its additional decay modes and determined its flavor-singlet nature, "the most important characteristic of a glueball...."
The authors describe their work as the clearest experimental result to emerge from nearly 50 years of glueball searches, supporting the long-standing theoretical prediction that gluons can bind together into a new form of matter.
The discovery ""highlights advances in technology and analytical techniques that have recently revealed another decades-in-the-making physics mystery," the article points out.
"More experiments are needed to further confirm and constrain the prototypes of the highly esoteric glueball; in other words, more particle smashing."
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Nine men and three women aged between 19 and 61 arrested as part of investigation of events leading to deadly collision
Twelve people have been arrested on suspicion of offences including being involved with organised crime as part of the investigation into events leading to a crash on the A66 which killed two police officers and five others.
Cleveland police said nine men and three women, aged between 19 and 61, had been arrested on suspicion of offences ranging from possession of a firearm to participating in the activities of an organised crime group.
Continue reading...Fast-moving, ‘human-caused’ fire in Reno leaves thousands of homes and businesses without power, officials say
Tens of thousands of people in Nevada were urged to evacuate as a fast-moving, wind-driven wildfire bore down on the city of Reno.
The Hawk fire began on Saturday to the north-west of the city, and quickly grew, showing “extreme fire behavior”.
Continue reading...Film directed by Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor, the two Israeli co-directors of No Other Land, investigates ‘Israel’s calculated mass killing of Palestinian civilians’ during the war
A new documentary about Israel’s bombing campaign in Gaza, directed by Oscar-winning directors Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor and produced by the Guardian is to receive its world premiere at the Venice film festival.
The film, called NAZA, has been produced with Jim Wilson and executive produced by Jonathan Glazer, the team behind The Zone of Interest, and is the only documentary that will compete this year for Venice’s prestigious Golden Lion.
Continue reading...NGO criticises ‘human cost’ of UK-funded crackdown on attempts to set off from French beaches in small boats
People trying to cross the Channel to the UK have reported an increase in French police use of violence on beaches to prevent them from getting into dinghies, according to a French NGO.
Utopia 56, which works on beaches from where migrants attempt Channel crossings, says so far this year 2,720 people have reported being victims of French police violence, compared with 1,954 over the same period last year, when crossings overall were much higher.
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Two of the soldiers had been previously classified as missing in action since 2024 and eight since 2025, Ukrainian officials said.
De Speld Sport Quote van het weekend.
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Het kabinet-Jetten I onderzoekt of Prinsjesdag dit jaar op een later moment kan plaatsvinden. Volgens minister Eelco Heinen is het kabinet volop in gesprek met de oppositie om voldoende draagvlak te creëren voor een nieuwe datum.
“We hebben met elkaar afgesproken dat Prinsjesdag altijd op de derde dinsdag van september plaatsvindt, maar daar moet natuurlijk wel een meerderheid voor zijn”, zegt Heinen. “Als partijen zeggen dat ze daar op dit moment nog niet klaar voor zijn, kun je wel heel star vasthouden aan september, maar zo werkt politiek niet.”
Volgens Heinen liggen er verschillende data op tafel. “We praten met partijen van links tot rechts. De één zegt oktober, de ander zegt december. Het wordt waarschijnlijk iets daartussenin.”
Heinen benadrukt dat de verschillen niet onoverbrugbaar zijn. “Iedereen wil uiteindelijk dat Prinsjesdag doorgaat. Alleen over wanneer, waarom en met welke begroting verschillen we nog van mening.”
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In de gemeente Pekela in Groningen waren de 34 bruggen al jaren buitengebruik. 21 zouden zelfs gesloopt worden. Bewoners kwamen in actie en meerdere bruggen worden alweer gebruikt. „Zonder bruggen verdwijnt de sociale cohesie.”
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The author of the original legendary 1996 Windows Task Manager has released new versions for Windows, Mac, and Linux, telling The Reg the project started life as a way to see if vibe coding could produce something useful. "I picked Task Manager as a simpler target to see how ready AI is for primetime… or if it would just degrade to slop," former Microsoft engineer Dave Plummer told us. "And it turns out it depends on what you ask for, largely! And what you test and instrument. It's like having a very ambitious and precocious intern, but like the classic genie in the bottle, be careful what you wish for." The update is a much fuller-featured affair, designed to offer insight into the inner workings of a user's system rather than behaving like a bare-bones process-killer as it once did. As such, it bears a passing resemblance to the current Windows Task Manager. However, it can drill into more detail and expose more metrics. Aesthetically, as well as the similarities to the Task Manager found in Windows 11, the interface gives off similar vibes to media player skins of the 1990s and 2000s. "I wanted it to look and feel like my Pioneer RT-909 reel to reel," said Plummer. The user can set the font and theme to something more suited to the their task. However, if you fancy that Amber or Green screen look, that's possible. So is full color. Users can also set the bloom and saturation via a slider that goes up to 11. The application started as a 107-page specification that Plummer passed to Fable. After a three-and-a-half-hour first pass, the first iteration of the application was produced. "It balked a few times thinking I was doing security work," said Plummer, "but mostly cooperated." The cross-platform nature of the application is interesting. Rather than going down the Electron path, Plummer and his team elected to use native UI code. The app is Swift on the Mac version, Direct2D/DirectComposition on Windows, and Qt on Linux. "It's more work," he said, "but worth it in a task manager or something that has to have game-like response times." "The biggest surprise," said Plummer, "was that I could get them looking as close to one another as they do given the platforms are wildly different." It's efficient too; the Windows version we looked at was roughly half the size of the Microsoft version, and used half the amount of RAM. The code is proprietary for now, and there's a Pro version in the works with more features which will also carry a price tag. The price has yet to be set. There could well be a further beta release between now and then – this is, after all, pre-release software at present. As it stands, the updated take on Task Manager is an example of what can be achieved with imagination and vibe coding, and highlights the importance of specification and prompt engineering to produce something useful too. Also, considering it is fuller-featured than Windows Task Manager, more customizable, and more efficient, it is hard not to see it as a challenge to Redmond, even if that was definitely not the authors' intention. ®
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Wees nou wel: dit voelt als een aankondiging van het einde van de Amerikaanse kinetische oorlog tegen het Iraanse regime. Amerikaanse MinFin Scott Bessent schrijft in een 'opiniestuk' in de Financial Times dat ze er economisch nu echt eens iets van gaan zeggen. Samengevat komt het ongeveer hierop neer: "We bevinden ons nu in de eindfase. Bij zonsopgang begint een economische D-Day – het grootste financiële offensief ooit tegen een tegenstander." En dat plan is gericht tegen zowel Iran zelf als alle landen die er handel mee blijven drijven. "De handlangers van Iran kopen en transporteren de aardolie van het land. Ze faciliteren de geldstromen via wisselkantoren en vrijhandelszones. Ze verwelkomen Iraanse vluchten en houden namens Iran registers bij. Ze knijpen een oogje dicht voor brandstoftransporten over zee en het illegale gebruik van hun banken, terwijl ze de omvang van hun medeplichtigheid verbergen. Kortom, deze landen beschouwen het sussen van het regime als de veiligste optie. Maar ze zouden er goed aan doen de gevolgen van het in stand houden ervan te overwegen. (...) Landen die, in hun poging om uitstel van Teheran te verkrijgen, juist het regime blijven steunen waartegen ze bescherming zoeken – en die nu de grenzen van de Amerikaanse tolerantie overschrijden."
Waarmee tegelijk gedreigd en verleid wordt is het volgende: financiële ruïnering als je voor Iran blijft kiezen, weelde en welvaart als je voor Amerika kiest. "Wie de resterende financiële en commerciële verbindingen van Iran verbreekt, zal zijn eigen positie versterken. Hij zal zijn toegang tot mondiaal kapitaal verdiepen, het vertrouwen in zijn markten vergroten en de gewenste positie in de wereldeconomie bereiken. Het alternatief voor wie zich aan Teheran vastklampt, is het afsluiten van elke weg naar duurzame welvaart."
De handleiding ontbreekt overigens nog, er wordt niet uitgelegd hoe deze sancties precies zulke verstrekkende gevolgen zullen hebben. Maar hey de intentie is er, en voor Trump nog belangrijker: hij heeft hiermee een eigen 'off ramp' gecreëerd.
INSTANT UPDATES - In navolging van de aangekondigde sancties valt Iraanse valuta de Rial naar recordlaagte van 2,02 MILJOEN = $1. En Trump post zojuist: "IRAN IS COMPLETELY COLLAPSING!!! President DJT".
Americana (en voorlopig niet meer boven Iran)
SocialSocialSocial🔥 LMAO! Multiple USAF bombers and fighter jets with FULL afterburner just RIPPED over DC, and it was so loud that CAR ALARMS are going off
— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) August 23, 2026
If the leftists weren’t ALREADY mad about the Freedom 250 Grand Prix, they’re PIPING mad now 😂🤣
The sound of FREEDOM, BABY! 🇺🇸 pic.twitter.com/mkVo97SEtL
De werkzaamheden aan de Algerabrug tussen Krimpen aan den IJssel en Capelle aan den IJssel zijn halverwege. Maandagochtend werd een stuk weg, inclusief asfalt, kant-en-klaar geplaatst.
Thomas Hawk posted a photo:
handwritten on slide, “Starbuck Minnesota Main Street, May 27, 1979" date stamped on slide June 1979
