George Russell soared around the streets of Baku to take pole position over Charles Leclerc and Oscar Piastri.
Alex Dunne claimed his first win of the 2026 FIA Formula 2 season, earning his third consecutive podium to put himself back in serious title contention.
Kimi Antonelli was left to rue a “very unnecessary” and “very stupid” incident that ended his Qualifying session early in Azerbaijan, and leaves him towards the back of the grid for Saturday’s Grand Prix.
Live coverage of the Formula 1 Qualifying session for the 2026 Azerbaijan Grand Prix in Baku.
Raspberry Pi's stock shot up over 30% in the last week. Why are investors so excited? For the six months ending June 30, revenue for Raspberry Pi Holdings "jumped 90% to $256.9 million," reports Investing.com, "while adjusted EBITDA more than doubled to $40.3 million, and profit before tax leapt 216% to $19.6 million."
Underpinning the strong numbers was an acceleration in OEM adoption: direct unit shipments rose 26% to 3.4 million, total unit shipments climbed 17% to 4.2 million, and the customer order backlog doubled during the half to 2.6 million units. Demand was particularly robust in the Smart Home and Aerospace and Defence segments, and the company launched the AI HAT+ 2 for Raspberry Pi 5, extending its edge-AI product line.
DRAM prices have been increasing everywhere,
notes The Times of London, and Raspberry Pi co-founder Eben Upton "said new customers, who required computers or microcontrollers to manufacture other technologies, were choosing Raspberry Pi's computers because they had a better inventory of components than competitors."
"There's always that choice for an original equipment manufacturer as to whether they should 'make' or 'buy' the computer elements of their platforms," Upton said. "The supply chain disruption is making 'make' a much harder choice and it's making the cost of repair a much harder choice. So we're seeing strength there." Raspberry Pi has already increased its suppliers of Dram more than threefold...
Upton said the increased demand had led to its backlog for units doubling to 2.6 million, which meant production rates would need to increase to prevent the numbers from getting "unhealthy". New production capacity at the manufacturing facility in Pencoed, Wales was expected to come online this week... Exports were almost evenly split between North America, Europe and the rest of the world, which was primarily China, where demand was growing... Analysts at Peel Hunt said the company was "well positioned for rapid growth in unit shipments in 2027 and beyond" with demand expected from enthusiasts as well as the AI and security sectors.
In other news, Hackaday notes the Raspberry Pi Foundation has "pushed binary-blob bootloader changes that limit your ability to upgrade RAM..."
This change restricts upgrading the RAM chip on your Pi 4 and Pi 5, as well as Compute Modules. By the looks of it, it does not restrict replacing the RAM chip with a chip of a similar size, quote, "locking devices to their original RAM size". As such, this does not prevent repair of your Raspberry Pi board, but does somewhat limit your repair part choice, at most.
This restriction is easily bypassable. The bootloader is stored in the SPI flash chip, which can be reflashed using the built-in mask ROM over USB and rpiboot, and you are not prevented from flashing older versions of the bootloader, so far. This means even if you manually swap the RAM chip, all you need to do is to also downgrade the bootloader to the last known good release — 2024-09-10 — and then your Pi board or Compute Module will function with upgraded RAM. If you have the skills to upgrade your RAM, you most certainly have the skills to downgrade the Raspberry Pi bootloader. For most regular use, having a two-year old bootloader version won't really matter...
For the reference, this bootloader change happened almost exactly two years ago, at some point between September 10 and September 23, 2024... The Raspberry Pi Foundation (RPF) justifies this as follows: they saw third-party resellers sourcing low-RAM Compute Modules, upgrading them with RAM from unknown source and unknown stability. My observation is that they'd also be reselling the modules at a markup for purely commercial gain, while undercutting RPF who would otherwise direct that money into RnD, something I much enjoy to see them do. This creates perverse incentives and risk for people buying Raspberry Pi boards online, and RPF decided to limit this primarily for their users' benefit, plus, if you ask me, some of theirs... The related GitHub issues have a fair few pingbacks, and exploring them makes the problem look grim to me....
My advice: don't lament Raspberry Pi RAM upgrades, especially given they're only slightly harder to perform now. Very few hackers ever performed them, the main audience for them turned out to be dodgy hardware resellers online, and in most cases, repair doesn't seem to be impeded at all, either. Think of the users that will no longer be fooled by a shady seller on Amazon, especially now that the perverse incentives for board mods and reusing harvested RAM chips are at their highest.
Raspberry Pi co-founder Eben Upton answered questions from Slashdot readers in 2011 and 2016.
Underpinning the strong numbers was an acceleration in OEM adoption: direct unit shipments rose 26% to 3.4 million, total unit shipments climbed 17% to 4.2 million, and the customer order backlog doubled during the half to 2.6 million units. Demand was particularly robust in the Smart Home and Aerospace and Defence segments, and the company launched the AI HAT+ 2 for Raspberry Pi 5, extending its edge-AI product line.
DRAM prices have been increasing everywhere,
notes The Times of London, and Raspberry Pi co-founder Eben Upton "said new customers, who required computers or microcontrollers to manufacture other technologies, were choosing Raspberry Pi's computers because they had a better inventory of components than competitors."
"There's always that choice for an original equipment manufacturer as to whether they should 'make' or 'buy' the computer elements of their platforms," Upton said. "The supply chain disruption is making 'make' a much harder choice and it's making the cost of repair a much harder choice. So we're seeing strength there." Raspberry Pi has already increased its suppliers of Dram more than threefold...
Upton said the increased demand had led to its backlog for units doubling to 2.6 million, which meant production rates would need to increase to prevent the numbers from getting "unhealthy". New production capacity at the manufacturing facility in Pencoed, Wales was expected to come online this week... Exports were almost evenly split between North America, Europe and the rest of the world, which was primarily China, where demand was growing... Analysts at Peel Hunt said the company was "well positioned for rapid growth in unit shipments in 2027 and beyond" with demand expected from enthusiasts as well as the AI and security sectors.
In other news, Hackaday notes the Raspberry Pi Foundation has "pushed binary-blob bootloader changes that limit your ability to upgrade RAM..."
This change restricts upgrading the RAM chip on your Pi 4 and Pi 5, as well as Compute Modules. By the looks of it, it does not restrict replacing the RAM chip with a chip of a similar size, quote, "locking devices to their original RAM size". As such, this does not prevent repair of your Raspberry Pi board, but does somewhat limit your repair part choice, at most.
This restriction is easily bypassable. The bootloader is stored in the SPI flash chip, which can be reflashed using the built-in mask ROM over USB and rpiboot, and you are not prevented from flashing older versions of the bootloader, so far. This means even if you manually swap the RAM chip, all you need to do is to also downgrade the bootloader to the last known good release — 2024-09-10 — and then your Pi board or Compute Module will function with upgraded RAM. If you have the skills to upgrade your RAM, you most certainly have the skills to downgrade the Raspberry Pi bootloader. For most regular use, having a two-year old bootloader version won't really matter...
For the reference, this bootloader change happened almost exactly two years ago, at some point between September 10 and September 23, 2024... The Raspberry Pi Foundation (RPF) justifies this as follows: they saw third-party resellers sourcing low-RAM Compute Modules, upgrading them with RAM from unknown source and unknown stability. My observation is that they'd also be reselling the modules at a markup for purely commercial gain, while undercutting RPF who would otherwise direct that money into RnD, something I much enjoy to see them do. This creates perverse incentives and risk for people buying Raspberry Pi boards online, and RPF decided to limit this primarily for their users' benefit, plus, if you ask me, some of theirs... The related GitHub issues have a fair few pingbacks, and exploring them makes the problem look grim to me....
My advice: don't lament Raspberry Pi RAM upgrades, especially given they're only slightly harder to perform now. Very few hackers ever performed them, the main audience for them turned out to be dodgy hardware resellers online, and in most cases, repair doesn't seem to be impeded at all, either. Think of the users that will no longer be fooled by a shady seller on Amazon, especially now that the perverse incentives for board mods and reusing harvested RAM chips are at their highest.
Raspberry Pi co-founder Eben Upton answered questions from Slashdot readers in 2011 and 2016.
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De leesvaardigheid van Nederlandse jongeren is opnieuw verslechterd. Dat kan de toekomstige economische groei in de weg zitten, zeggen deskundigen. „Ik was bang dat mensen door zouden krijgen wat ik allemaal niet kon.”
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Raspberry Pi has posted a record first half after a well-timed memory stockpile helped it ride out soaring prices and shortages. The Cambridge-based company reported revenue of $256.9 million for the six months ended June 30, up 90 percent from $135.5 million a year earlier, while pre-tax profit more than tripled to $19.6 million. Raspberry Pi shipped 4.2 million boards during the six-month period, up 17 percent year-on-year, while its order backlog doubled to 2.6 million units. Behind some of those rather healthy numbers is a bet Raspberry Pi made last year, when it built up a sizeable stash of memory before the market tightened. "The decision in FY 2025 to build significant strategic memory inventory has allowed us to maintain product availability at a time when smaller competitors have struggled to secure allocation," CEO Eben Upton said. It also meant Raspberry Pi spent much of the first half burning through memory bought at considerably friendlier prices. Gross profit per board climbed from $8 a year ago to $12.20, helped by price rises on R Pi's products as well as cheaper memory inventory acquired during 2025. Overall gross profit rose 79 percent to $59.4 million. That particular party is winding down. Raspberry Pi said the "exceptional unit economics" seen in the first half have since moderated as the cheaper memory bought during 2025 has been used up. It hasn't stopped stockpiling – it's just paying a lot more to do it. The average cost of memory in its inventory stood at $13.30 per GB at the end of June, up from $3.60 per GB at the end of 2025. At the end of June, Raspberry Pi was holding 2.4 million LPDDR4 devices representing 5.8 million GB of memory. By the end of August, that had grown to 8.3 million GB – around three months of sales for the products that use it. Between that stockpile and confirmed orders, Raspberry Pi said it has enough memory to meet its production targets for the rest of 2026, with further purchases planned to ensure it enters 2027 with significant inventory. However, the shortage hasn't left it entirely unscathed. Pi Zero sales fell 9 percent after production congestion at a Taiwanese company packaging one of its core components restricted supply. Demand hasn't disappeared: Raspberry Pi has about 1 million Pi Zero units sitting on back order. Elsewhere, customers appear willing to swallow the higher prices forced by rising memory costs. Direct sales of Raspberry Pi 4 and Pi 5 boards increased 69 percent and 47 percent respectively, with the company reporting continued demand for the pricier 8GB variants. OEM customers are also becoming an increasingly important part of the business. Direct shipments rose 26 percent to 3.4 million units, with Raspberry Pi pointing to particularly strong demand from the smart home and aerospace and defense sectors. The company expects to ship more units in the second half than the first, despite the ongoing squeeze on memory supplies. For Raspberry Pi, planning for the great memory squeeze has so far been rather more lucrative than painful. Buying the RAM before everyone desperately needed it turned out to be a useful trick. ®
UTRECHT (ANP) - De Rijn gaat de komende twee weken dalen tot een nieuw laagterecord, volgens een prognose van Rijkswaterstaat. De organisatie verwacht dat het waterpeil van de rivier bij Lobith, waar hij Nederland binnenstroomt, daalt van de huidige 6,20 meter naar rond de 6 meter boven NAP op 8 oktober. De vrijdag ingestelde maatregel voor eenrichtingsverkeer op de IJssel blijft waarschijnlijk nog in elk geval tot die datum in stand, zegt een woordvoerder. De IJssel is een aftakking van de Rijn.
In augustus zette de Rijn bij Lobith een laagwaterrecord van 6,12 meter. Dat record zal de komende tijd waarschijnlijk sneuvelen. Vóór dit jaar werd de laagste stand ooit gemeten in 2022, op 6,48 meter. De metingen begonnen in 1866. De oorzaak van de dalende waterstand is aanhoudende droogte in het stroomgebied van de Rijn.
Rijkswaterstaat neemt vooralsnog geen aanvullende maatregelen voor de scheepvaart, maar de organisatie volgt de ontwikkelingen "nauwgezet", aldus de woordvoerder.
DEN HAAG/BRUSSEL (ANP) - Een meerderheid van de leden van Progressief Nederland (PRO) heeft ervoor gekozen dat de partij zich in het Europees Parlement aansluit bij de Partij van de Europese Sociaaldemocraten (PES). Ruim 65 procent stemde voor aansluiting bij de PES, die in het parlement wordt vertegenwoordigd door de fractie S&D.
Eerder was de partij verdeeld over twee partijen: de vier Europarlementariërs van GroenLinks bij de Europese Groene Partij (EGP) en de vier PvdA'ers bij de PES. Nu de partij is gefuseerd, moet ze kiezen bij welke Europese partij ze zich aansluit. De leden van PRO mochten daarover tussen 18 en 25 september hun stem uitbrengen.
De Europarlementariërs mogen hun werk in hun huidige fractie wel voortzetten. Dat zullen ze ook blijven doen, aldus PRO-Europarlementariër Mohammed Chahim. "Wij blijven werken vanuit twee politieke fracties, de Groenen en de S&D, tot de Europese verkiezingen in 2029. Wij blijven als Europarlementariërs van PRO het progressieve geluid dat zo hard nodig is, vol overtuiging laten horen in Europa."
AMSTERDAM (ANP) - Op de NDSM-kade in Amsterdam-Noord is vrijdagmiddag een persoon gewond geraakt door een schietincident. De politie meldt dat "zowel de verdachte als het slachtoffer" is aangehouden. Hoe het met het slachtoffer gaat, zegt de politie niet.
Ook kan de politiewoordvoerder nog niets zeggen over de identiteit van de verdachte en de gewonde. Ze kregen rond 15.05 uur de melding van de schietpartij en doen ter plekke nog onderzoek.
Stadskrant Het Parool schrijft dat de pont die daar vanaf het Centraal Station over het IJ aankomt, tijdelijk op een andere plek moet aanmeren. De schietpartij zou vlak bij de aanmeerplek zijn gebeurd. De pont gaat nu tijdelijk naar de Distelweg.
Omroep AT5 schrijft dat er veel mensen in de buurt van het incident waren. Ook zou er een traumahelikopter zijn opgeroepen.
IJMUIDEN (ANP) - Milieuorganisaties zijn overwegend blij met het nieuws dat Tata Steel en de overheid de deadline om afspraken te maken over de verduurzaming van de fabriek in de IJmond uitstellen. De overheid zou eind september besluiten over maximaal 2 miljard aan steun voor de verduurzaming van de staalfabriek, maar neemt nu tot 1 maart 2027 de tijd om daar zogeheten maatwerkafspraken over te maken.
Frisse Wind, die zich inzet tegen de vervuilende fabriek, ziet het "uitstel van de maatwerkafspraken als een kans voor het kabinet om de gezondheid echt te borgen". De organisatie hoopt dat de overheid de tijd neemt om de milieu-impact van de afspraken nog verder te onderzoeken. "Met een bedrijf dat voor ernstig strafbare feiten wordt vervolgd door het OM, sluit je geen deal op vertrouwen. Die sluit je op harde, onafhankelijke meetgegevens."
Mede door die vervolging vindt ook Greenpeace het "logisch dat de regering er nu niet voor kiest om in zee te gaan met Tata Steel." Volgens hen is het budget van 2 miljard veel te riskant. "De omgevingsdienst werkt aan het intrekken van de vergunningen voor beide kooksfabrieken en het Openbaar Ministerie heeft strafvervolging ingesteld", zegt Willem Wiskerke, industrie-expert bij Greenpeace Nederland. "Het is cruciaal dat Tata Steel de plannen drastisch aanpast, want nu zijn deze verre van groen."
Onder de loep nemen
Ook Milieudefensie is tevreden met het uitstel, maar ziet liever dat de regering de klimaatsubsidie ergens anders voor gebruikt. De groep schat de totale steun aan Tata hoger in. "De minister doet er verstandig aan om deze monstersubsidie voor Tata Steel nog eens goed onder de loep te nemen. Het is van de zotte dat de minister miljarden klimaatgeld heeft vrijgemaakt voor een fossiel staalplan dat onze samenleving 11 miljard euro gaat kosten."
Antoinette Verbrugge van Stichting Gezondheid op 1, dat tegen schadelijke uitstoot van fabrieken is, hoopt dat "van uitstel afstel komt". Zij is niet verbaasd over dit besluit, verwijzend naar de vervolging van het OM en andere rechtszaken die haar organisatie tegen de staalproducent heeft lopen. "Eigenlijk weet de overheid zelf ook wel dat ze iets heel doms doen als ze toch met dit onbetrouwbare bedrijf met een heel slecht plan in zee gaan", aldus Verbrugge. "Welke overheid die een beetje om zijn burgers en natuur geeft, maakt nou weer plannen met zo'n bedrijf? Dat doe je toch niet?"
De Rotterdam is straks niet langer het vaste werkadres van duizenden Rotterdamse ambtenaren. De gemeente vertrekt begin 2028 uit het gebouw op de Kop van Zuid en verhuist een deel van de werkplekken naar het centrum. “Door veranderende werkgewoonten staan er teveel plekken leeg”, zegt de wethouder.
