AMD expects its fourth-quarter revenue to reach roughly $17 billion, potentially surpassing Intel's projected $15 billion to $16 billion and putting AMD ahead of its longtime rival in quarterly sales for the first time. The milestone is being driven largely by booming demand for Epyc server processors and Instinct AI accelerators, with AMD's data center business already accounting for 64% of revenue and expected to exceed 80% in 2027. Tom's Hardware reports: For those of our readers who have been following the CPU market in general as well as AMD and Intel in particular for decades, arguably the most earth-shattering part of AMD's earnings report is its outlook for the fourth quarter. The company expects revenue of approximately $17 billion, plus or minus 3%, which implies a 66% year-over-year increase and 27% sequential growth at the midpoint. In contrast, Intel expects fourth-quarter revenue of $15 billion to $16 billion amid weakening PC demand and manufacturing capacity constraints.

If AMD meets its guidance, its quarterly sales will surpass those of its considerably bigger rival Intel for the first time in history. In fact, AMD will not only leave Intel formally behind, but its projected advantage will be approximately $1.5 billion at the midpoint of both companies' forecasts, which is a tangible lead. The development reflects the companies' increasingly different positions on the market: AMD is rapidly expanding its data center CPU and AI accelerator businesses, while Intel continues to depend heavily on PC and enterprise server processors, which sales face headwinds due to high memory prices and components shortages.

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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: The refrigerators at three regional blood banks in France were hit by a cyberattack overnight between Sunday and Monday, at the same time hackers struck supermarkets from Sweden to Belgium. "Several regional facilities of the French Blood Establishment (EFS) were affected by a cybersecurity incident that impacted certain cold storage room monitoring and control systems," the health ministry said in a statement.

The incident had no impact on blood supplies, EFS spokesperson Charley Dubois said. "We have staff round the clock since blood can be needed at any time. They were warned about the problems by alerts and moved the blood to other refrigerators that were not connected," she said. [...] Investigations are under way into how the attack was carried out, what equipment may have been affected and when systems can safely return to service. The attack followed a similar incident in France last month when police said hackers seized control of cooling units at hundreds of supermarkets, causing fires and food losses.

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Het aangekondigde amendement van Pro en Volt om de belastingen op vermogens te verhogen, voert de druk op binnen de coalitiepartijen in de Kamer.

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De Zweedse dirigent Herbert Blomstedt bevond zich tijdens zijn lange carrière midden in de wereldgeschiedenis. Hij liet de wereld kennismaken met de Scandinavische componisten Nielsen, Berwald en Stenhammar. Ook op hoge leeftijd bleef hij dirigeren.

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De politie vraagt uw aandacht voor het volgende. Een bankmedewerker heeft HON-DERD-VIJF-TIG DUI-ZEND euro gegapt bij een 81-jarige vrouw. Geen record, want er werd ook al een keer 328.000 euro meegenomen, maar alsnog een gruwelijk bedrag. Boven- en onderstaande klootviool misleidde de vrouw met een smoes dat ze haar waardevolle spullen moest veiligstellen bij de bank. Daarop kwam-ie effe langs met een plastic tassie en floep, daar gingen de waardevolle spulletjes, samen met de faith in humanity. De beelden van de man zijn gemaakt door een camera met de kwaliteit van een Rabo Scanner en zo is de bankcirkel weer rond. ZoekZoek!

Fedora 45 is here, after not one but two week-long delays as the team found last-minute issues. Although both the original and second announcements were irksomely non-specific, in general we prefer this "when it's ready" approach to the rigid calendar-based schedule that Canonical favors for Ubuntu. It includes six main editions, five immutable desktop variants, and 12 "spins" with different GUIs. The combined version 45 release notes detail some of the bigger individual component changes and note the hardware requirements. The recommended spec is now a 2 GHz quad-core CPU with 8 GB of RAM and 20 GB of disk space, and at least 1024×768 graphics. Fedora 45 supports most display adapters, but 3D acceleration may not work on older GPUs, including Intel models prior to GMA9xx, Nvidia models prior to NV30 (GeForce FX5xxx series), and AMD Radeon models prior to R300 (Radeon 9500). We took a quick look at the beta back in September, focusing on its new next-generation text console, which is a welcome change. We especially liked the ability to zoom in and out on the text console on the fly, which is something we've missed since the superb "Laptop Ultravision" for DOS, about a third of a century ago. (The company is long gone, but we found a downloadable version for all you DOS users.) The desktop flagship editions are Workstation 45, which comes with GNOME 51 "A Coruña", and Fedora KDE Plasma Desktop, with KDE Plasma 6.8. We covered some of the new features in GNOME 51 when we looked at the Ubuntu 26.10 beta, and those changes apply here too – notably, improvements in the Settings app, but removal of some older Nvidia GPU support. Both the big names are Wayland-only environments now, but by our reckoning, X11 fans have seven of the 12 official spins to choose from: Xfce, Cinnamon, MATE, i3, LXQt, LXDE, and Sugar (SOAS) all still use X.org if you prefer. There is also a combined What's New page for all the Atomic Desktops, Fedora’s immutable variants – the main shared feature here being the new web-based installer. The new version of main Fedora is accompanied by Fedora Asahi Remix 45 for Apple Silicon Macs. This is a more notable release than the cross-platform editions, as Asahi 45 brings initial support for M3-based Macs as well as M1 and M2 kit. As The Reg described in September, though, the M3 support is preliminary and limited – for instance, it excludes the M3 Ultra. If you have an M3 Mac, for now, you're better off sticking to macOS. The most important changes in Fedora 45 are under the hood, which is what the Red Hat release announcement focuses on. It now uses RPM version 6.1, with enhanced package signature checking, and blocks the vendor of packages silently changing. The GNOME keyring now uses the oo7 secrets manager. Support for two old VPN plugins has been removed, because the packages were unmaintained. A feature that we are happy to see land at last is better support for Red Hat’s Stratis next-generation storage subsystem. We gave a potted overview of Stratis 3.3 back in 2022: it was on version 3.3 back then. It’s the same main Stratis version 3.9 we saw in Fedora 44, but the installation program now has support for installing Fedora 45 on Stratis storage. Stratis is Red Hat’s rival to OpenZFS. The plan is that Stratis offers similar features and resilience to ZFS, especially in the field of copy-on-write snapshots and simple multi-device logical volume management, but built from all-GPL code. Rather than a whole new filesystem, Stratis integrates XFS, LVM, and the kernel device-mapper functionality. Stratis 1.0 appeared in Fedora 29 eight years ago, and Fedora 45 has version 3.9.3. It's good to see it finally making real progress: if nothing else, we've seen Btrfs irretrievably corrupt a full volume far too many times to ever trust it again, so an alternative is very welcome. When we looked at Fedora 44, we noted the difficulty of doing custom disk partitioning. It was there, but very well-hidden. Now, the installer can launch the Cockpit web-management tool to make it easier to set up your drives however you want. An interesting side-effect of the delayed release is that Fedora 45 ships with kernel 7.2 – specifically, version 7.2.15, which is the last release of this short-term series. In other words, it’s an end-of-life kernel version. It’s an amusing contrast to its near-contemporary Ubuntu 26.10, which shipped with a pre-release kernel. Our test Ubuntu box was automatically upgraded to the release version by the background automatic updates process, but to our surprise, it didn't receive the kernel update for over a week. This shouldn't be a problem: unlike Ubuntu, Fedora releases routinely receive updates to whole new kernel versions, so we’re sure Fedora 45 users will get kernel 7.3 very soon. We upgraded the same test machine on which we tried GNOME 48 in Fedora 42 early last year. You can skip one Fedora release on upgrade, but not two, so we had to go via Fedora 44 — which took some time, and threw up a minor packaging glitch, but it got there. The result runs surprisingly well, although this 2008 machine is well below the recommended spec. ®

Your new robot servant doesn't have to look anything like a person or walk on two legs. In fact, it might just be a claw that hangs from the ceiling instead. That’s the future envisioned by Nathaniel Nifong, founder of Neufangled Robotics, and its Stringman robot. Put simply, Stringman is an AI-equipped claw suspended from four strings running through the corners of a room (up to 10 meters diagonally). Two motorized anchors adjust the lengths of the strings to move the claw around the room, from ceilings up to 4 meters high down to the floor to pick stuff up. With a payload capacity of around 2 kg, depending on its position, Stringman can move items to designated locations – like a toy box – and perform tidying tasks. Stringman can also be manually controlled if you’d prefer to play a room-sized crane game by yourself. According to Stringman’s documentation site, the device is currently a public prototype that “can self-calibrate in a new room and run policies, but is not yet reliable enough to be called a home appliance.” That said, demonstration videos on the website show it in action, and it’s neat to watch. Stringman is shown picking up laundry and dropping it in a basket, putting Lego bricks and other kids' toys back where they belong, and generally zooming around rooms and demonstrating its agility. One could imagine a properly trained Stringman could even grab the remote you left on the other side of the living room and drop it in your waiting hand if you’re that incredibly lazy. “Our mission is to give people an organized home,” Neufangled says on its future roadmap page. “We prioritize robots that are narrowly effective at something that helps today rather than a general purpose robot that may be in development for years.” The company further describes its goal as designing robots that are low cost and capable of doing things that people hate to do - e.g., pick up after a messy toddler - and making a robot that can do that while camouflaging itself into the home “as well as possible.” As long as you think a foot-long claw robot hanging from the corner of the ceiling is camouflaged, this is the robot for you. Neufangled lists Stringman for $795, which is a lot to ask for a public prototype that isn’t reliable enough to be called a home appliance yet. Luckily for those who’re interested in this sort of niche home automation, it’s fully open source, too. “A complete Stringman is three Raspberry Pis on your Wi-Fi network,” the documentation site reads: One in the gripper, and two in the corner anchor mounts that store line reels and have cameras to track the claw’s location as it moves around the room. A third camera mounted on the claw provides visual feedback. Oh, you'll also need a dedicated PC or Mac to run the robot's motion-control software. As for Stringman itself, to build your own, you'll need a 3D printer, a supplier to manufacture the PCBs, motors, Raspberry Pis, and other components listed in the bill of materials. You'll also need to follow the guides on the documentation site to get it up and running, calibrate it for your space using printed markers, set up drop-off points using visual tags, and program it to perform tasks. But is it safe? One could imagine getting tangled in the lines if you get in Stringman’s way. Nifong admits that can happen, writing in the documentation that he has walked into the lines himself without injury. “I live with two of these, and I've walked into the lines before. It's startling, but harmless — they're light and they give,” he writes. According to the robot’s website, it has a tension limit of 28 newtons, or around six and a quarter pounds of force. If that limit is reached, all of the lines relax and can be pulled loose. Those who want to play with a simulated Stringman can do so on Stringman’s web portal, which includes options to connect to a personal machine over LAN, the cloud, or a simulated version. Hopefully it’s easier to work with than an arcade claw. ®

De twee mannen van 19 en 35 jaar die maandag zijn aangehouden voor betrokkenheid bij de dodelijke schietpartij aan de Evenaar in Rotterdam-Oost, zijn woensdagmiddag vrijgelaten. Ze worden niet langer verdacht van (een poging tot) doodslag of moord. Een derde verdachte, een 60-jarige Rotterdammer, blijft voorlopig vastzitten.

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Weer voor Rotterdam 🌕 - 04-11-2026 19:16 CET

In één oogopslag:
• 7.8°C · Helder 🌕 | Min 5.2°C / Max 10.4°C

Verwachting voor vandaag:
• Min 5.2°C, Max 10.4°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, 🧭 1030.1 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 20.9 km/u (5.8 m/s), richting: ↙ 66°

Uurlijkse voorspelling voor de komende 12 uur:

• 20:00: 7.3°C (Helder) 🌕, 🧭 1029.9 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 17.3 km/u (4.8 m/s), richting: ↙ 62°
• 21:00: 6.9°C (Helder) 🌕, 🧭 1030.0 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 18.0 km/u (5.0 m/s), richting: ↙ 62°
• 22:00: 6.4°C (Helder) 🌕, 🧭 1030.2 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 18.4 km/u (5.1 m/s), richting: ↙ 67°
• 23:00: 5.9°C (Helder) 🌕, 🧭 1030.1 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 18.0 km/u (5.0 m/s), richting: ← 69°
• 00:00: 5.5°C (Helder) 🌕, 🧭 1029.7 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 17.3 km/u (4.8 m/s), richting: ← 79°
• 01:00: 5.2°C (Helder) 🌕, 🧭 1029.5 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 17.3 km/u (4.8 m/s), richting: ← 85°
• 02:00: 4.9°C (Helder) 🌕, 🧭 1029.2 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 18.0 km/u (5.0 m/s), richting: ← 85°
• 03:00: 4.5°C (Helder) 🌕, 🧭 1029.0 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 16.6 km/u (4.6 m/s), richting: ← 79°
• 04:00: 4.1°C (Helder) 🌕, 🧭 1028.6 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 16.6 km/u (4.6 m/s), richting: ↙ 64°
• 05:00: 3.8°C (Helder) 🌕, 🧭 1028.2 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 16.2 km/u (4.5 m/s), richting: ← 71°
• 06:00: 3.6°C (Helder) 🌕, 🧭 1028.2 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 16.9 km/u (4.7 m/s), richting: ← 71°
• 07:00: 3.6°C (Helder) 🌕, 🧭 1028.1 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 16.9 km/u (4.7 m/s), richting: ← 69°

Voorspelling voor de komende dagen:

• donderdag 05 november: Min 3.3°C, Max 10.2°C (Zonnig) ☀️, 🧭 1027.6 hPa ↘️ -2.5 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 18.0 km/u (5.0 m/s), richting: ← 79°
• vrijdag 06 november: Min 3.0°C, Max 10.5°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, 🧭 1024.1 hPa ↘️ -3.5 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 12.2 km/u (3.4 m/s), richting: ← 78°
• zaterdag 07 november: Min 1.8°C, Max 6.3°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, Kans op neerslag 4%, 🧭 1022.2 hPa ↘️ -1.9 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 12.7 km/u (3.5 m/s), richting: ← 99°
• zondag 08 november: Min 5.6°C, Max 10.9°C (Lichte motregen) 🌦️, Neerslag 0.6 mm, Kans op neerslag 8%, 🧭 1020.0 hPa ↘️ -2.2 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 10.2 km/u (2.8 m/s), richting: ↑ 186°
• maandag 09 november: Min 2.5°C, Max 8.1°C (Mist) 🌫️, Kans op neerslag 7%, 🧭 1015.7 hPa ↘️ -4.3 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 5.2 km/u (1.4 m/s), richting: ← 83°
• dinsdag 10 november: Min 3.0°C, Max 8.1°C (Matige motregen) 🌦️, Neerslag 4.2 mm, Kans op neerslag 23%, 🧭 1010.7 hPa ↘️ -5.0 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 14.1 km/u (3.9 m/s), richting: ← 91°

Details:
• 🌡️ Huidige temperatuur (om 19:15): 7.8°C (Helder)
• 🤚 Gevoelstemperatuur: 3.3°C (-4.5°C)
• 💨 Windsnelheid: 18.0 km/u (5.0 m/s), richting: ↙ 67°
• 🌬️ Windstoten: 33.1 km/h (9.2 m/s)
• 💧 Luchtvochtigheid: 78%
• 🧭 Luchtdruk: 1029.9 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/3h
• 👁️ Zichtbaarheid: 15.7 km
• ☀️ UV-index: 0.0
• 🌅 Zonsopgang: 07:41 · 🌇 Zonsondergang: 17:08

Luchtkwaliteit:
• AQI: 53 🟡 (Matig)
• PM2.5: 5.7 μg/m³
• PM10: 7.6 μg/m³

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Nine men are on trial in Manchester accused of either taking part in abuse or encouraging offending on internet

A husband who invited other men to rape and sexually assault his wife arranged for “more and more individuals” to visit his marital home, as he resolved “to satisfy his own perversity”, a jury has been told.

The husband, who is in his 60s and from Stockport in Greater Manchester, has pleaded guilty to more than 60 offences against his wife. He cannot be named in order to protect the anonymity of his victim.

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