F1.com's Lawrence Barretto picks out his winners and losers from a thrilling Hungarian Grand Prix.

Red Bull has announced that it has appointed Gwen Lagrue as Director of the Red Bull Junior Programme for the 2027 season.

Mercedes Team Principal Toto Wolff was left downbeat after a tough Hungarian Grand Prix weekend, where he admitted that the Silver Arrows were always playing ‘catch up’ against their ever-improving rivals.

Fred Vasseur believes that "everything went wrong" for Ferrari in last weekend's Hungarian Grand Prix, as both Charles Leclerc and Lewis Hamilton failed to reach the podium.

Max Verstappen finished second in the Hungarian Grand Prix, pulling off one of the moves of the day on Lewis Hamilton as he bagged his fourth podium finish of the season. But while that overtake certainly played a part in the Dutchman’s result, so did Red Bull’s strategy calls.

Andrea Stella has praised the "respectful approach" between McLaren drivers Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri as they battled for victory in last weekend's Hungarian Grand Prix.

​Prins Bernhard van Oranje heeft al zijn panden en het circuit van Zandvoort verkocht. Hij ziet in kunstmatige intelligentie namelijk veel nieuwe kansen om zijn reputatieschade te maximaliseren.

“Ik ben natuurlijk nog altijd niet populair, maar ik voel toch al een tijdje dat mensen me niet meer zo vurig haten als voorheen. De posters met mijn gezicht als huisjesmelker verdwijnen uit de stad, ik hoor geen opmerkingen meer over de grootte van mijn bril. Het is een grote neerwaartse trend, ik moet nu heel snel uitstappen.” Daarom zet hij nu volop in op bedrijven die AI-diensten aan de markt brengen waar niemand om heeft gevraagd. “Daar zitten nu echt de kansen om mezelf weer de meest gehate man in het land te maken.”

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Rigsby WI is an ongoing webcomic by SE Case chronicling the lives of a group of pretty average teenagers in a small city in Northern Wisconsin. It explores ideas about growing up and the things that shape us, including relationships, poverty, race, and sexuality, and how we choose to present ourselves to our friends, family, and the rest of the world. Sympathetic characters, gorgeous backgrounds and a powerful sense of place. CW: Teenagers; high school.

Rigsby WI is posted chapter by chapter where each chapter has a natural start, middle and end, with breaks in between. We've just finished the jumbo-sized chapter 4, with chapter 5 due to start Jan 2027. It also has an about page so good I mostly just copy and pasted it for this post. Two volumes available in print with a 3rd due for kickstarting. Case also did the art for ongoing kickstarter Thanks Romina.

The Escape. An AI agent in development at OpenAI was recently tested on how well it could find and exploit code vulnerabilities. The test began in a "sandbox," an environment meant to keep everything the agent does contained so that nothing it triggers can affect systems outside of the test. So much for that. "In one case, an agent left notes apparently for future versions of itself, according to three people familiar with the matter. The ‌notes, found in ⁠a part of OpenAI's infrastructure, laid out instructions for how agents could free themselves from OpenAI's internal constraints, the people said."

The liability issue (SL Substack).

Bill Oddie, giant of 1970s British TV as one third of The Goodies (alongside Graeme Garden and the late Tim Brooke-Taylor) and later the UK's most beloved television birdwatcher, has died at the age of 85.

Bill was not only the radical heart of the trio, but also its songwriter, responsible for "The Funky Gibbon", "Black Pudding Bertha" and their other UK chart hits. (The Goodies' best-known homage to black pudding famously led one viewer to laugh himself to death.)

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Een zesjarig meisje overleed in China aan een op hol geslagen immuunreactie. Het ziekenhuis gaf toestemming voor de behandeling, terwijl het niet op de hoogte was van dierproeven die zorgwekkende resultaten lieten zien.

In het Palazzo van modeontwerper Dries Van Noten aan het Canal Grande in Venetië draait alles om schoonheid. Elke ruimte is groots en schemerig en mysterieus en staat vol met moderne pronkstukken. Werkelijk alles is mooi, maar toch knaagt er iets.

Both men scheduled to meet Trump at time where US policy towards wars in Iran and Ukraine in state of flux

Benjamin Netanyahu and Volodymyr Zelenskyy are set to arrive in Washington simultaneously with the goal of winning the ear of Donald Trump at pivotal moments in wars affecting their respective countries.

Netanyahu, Israel’s prime minister, and Zelenskyy, the Ukrainian president, will attend Tuesday’s funeral of Lindsey Graham, the former Republican senator for South Carolina, who died suddenly on 11 July and was a close ally of both leaders.

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A patch series that appears destined for the upcoming Linux 7.3 merge window is what's dubbed the "KVM Chainsaw" as a major code clean-up in dealing with the kvm_mmu "god data structure". Red Hat engineer and KVM maintainer Paolo Bonzini has merged the kvm-chainsaw branch to KVM's "next" Git branch. With this KVM Chainsaw work now in the next branch, it should be submitted for the upcoming Linux 7.3 cycle.

The KVM Chainsaw work deals with the kvm_mmu structure being overloaded with multiple uses and splits it down into three parts for better handling current KVM usage. Paolo explains of KVM Chainsaw with the merge to the KVM.git next branch:


"The kvm_mmu is a "god data structure" that includes three different tasks: describing the guest page table's format, walking the guest page tables and building the page tables. This means that the (already poorly named) nested_mmu is only used in part, since it has no page tables to construct. Furthermore, some parts are reused across guest and host page tables (such as the reserved bits detector) but others are not; for example permission_fault is replaced by simplified code such as is_executable_pte().

This series cleans this up by splitting kvm_mmu in three parts...

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Rear of the Kintore Terrace building in Hindley Street at sunset

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The EK, the first new Holden released in the 1960s, was a minor facelift of the superseded FB series, with obvious changes limited to a new grille of eight vertical bars (instead of six), and body side mouldings. In terms of finish, "Standard" vehicles were painted in a single colour with no additional trimming or fittings, while "Special", the most popular model, came with stainless steel trims along the side and a white roof, as well as chrome Special badges, and two-tone vinyl interiors. Parking lights were incorporated into the top grille bar, and other changes included new exterior badges, a revised interior trim, electric wipers (replacing the old vacuum-type ones), and a new fresh-air unit with a new ventilation air intake located forward of the windscreen.

The only significant mechanical change from the FB was the introduction of the first automatic transmission to be offered on a Holden. Marketed as the Hydra-Matic, it was a well-regarded three-speed unit which was fully imported from the United States. It was offered as an option on only the Holden Special models. Other options included more than 30 approved NASCO Accessories, such as a bonnet lock, a locking tank cap, a car heater, external rear-view mirrors, or a sunshade.