The drivers and teams react to all the action at the Hungaroring for the 2026 Hungarian Grand Prix.
Oscar Piastri has admitted “everything that could have gone wrong did” as he went from challenging for victory in the Hungarian Grand Prix to a painful retirement – via an unusual run-in with Carlos Sainz’s Williams.
Lewis Hamilton’s title ambitions suffered another blow as he finished fifth at the Hungarian Grand Prix.
The Aston Martin drivers have shared their thoughts after the first race day outing of an upgraded AMR26 at the Hungarian Grand Prix.
The fastest laps chart showed that Max Verstappen had far from the quickest car around the Hungaroring - but when has that ever stopped the four-time World Champion from achieving a strong result?
Kimi Antonelli finished ahead of his two main title rivals by securing third place at the Hungarian Grand Prix.
Lando Norris has praised McLaren’s upgrades in helping him to secure victory at the Hungarian Grand Prix.
Max Verstappen expressed his surprise and satisfaction after coming away from the Hungarian Grand Prix with a P2 finish, having struggled in Qualifying and described his race as one of “survival”.
270,000 people have been displaced by wildfires in France and Spain, reports the Guardian. A wildfire even forced evacuations in Scotland.
And wildfires "have now scorched four million acres of land in the U.S.," reports NPR, as tens of millions of people in North America "are continuing to endure hazardous smoke from out of control wildfires burning across Canada and the Western U.S."
At America's National Interagency Fire Center, NPR's wildfire correspondent says all of America's firefighting resources have now been deployed across the country. "So if we get another big fire, we're in trouble... International aid could be harder to come by if the situation in Southern Europe gets worse and firefighters are going to be needed there."
Meanwhile Toronto was blanketed this week "with eye-watering, cough-inducing soot," writes a climate-change reporter for the Toronto Star newspaper, "briefly giving us the worst air quality in the world." But looking to the future after a wildfire that's 50% larger than any in Ontario's history (315,000 hectares or 778,331 acres), he had this to say about the eye-watering smoke. "It will be back." The article's headline warned of "Our smoke-filled future" and how Canada "must prepare for bigger wildfires, every summer — forever."
Even if global carbon emissions were cut dramatically, so long as any greenhouse gases are being put into the atmosphere, climate scientists say the world will continue to get hotter. And as the temperature rises, the forests dry out and the wildfires will get bigger, stronger and more frequent. "It's not going to get better. It's going to get worse," said Edward Struzik, a fellow with the Institute for Energy and Environmental Policy at Queen's University and the author of Dark Days at Noon: the Future of Fire . "These fires aren't going away. Toronto is going to get smoke every summer...."
The best solution would have been to dramatically cut emissions years ago. The harsh scientific reality is there's nothing we can do to stop wildfire smoke from blanketing cities for a few days every summer — and it's going to continue for decades to come. We're all going to need to buy air purifiers and masks and get used to it....
"The idea that we can thin our way through the boreal forest boggles the mind," [says Zeke Hausfather, a climate scientist at Berkeley Earth, an independent non-profit research organization]. "There aren't enough people in Canada to do that." The boreal forest in Canada is an enormous and largely roadless expanse bigger than the entire European Union. In comparison, America's much smaller forests are criss-crossed by roads, making firefighter access much quicker and easier. And the nature of the forests is fundamentally different as well, said Hausfather, who wrote an article summarizing research on the subject. "Western U.S. forests have evolved for frequent low-level fires that burn out the undergrowth — usually every five to 30 years," he said. "Historically, before fire suppression, fires would burn through, and they wouldn't actually kill the trees. They'd just kill smaller trees and clear out the brush."
"The boreal forest is a fundamentally different beast," he said. "It's an ecosystem designed to burn." With smaller, more densely packed trees, the boreal is wetter and colder and doesn't burn anywhere near as often — every 100 to 200 years on average, Hausfather said. But when fire does erupt, it's often much more intense, burning up into the canopy and levelling everything in its path... Clearing out the dead wood on the ground wouldn't prevent, or even slow, the canopy fires that sweep the boreal, said Hausfather.
And wildfires "have now scorched four million acres of land in the U.S.," reports NPR, as tens of millions of people in North America "are continuing to endure hazardous smoke from out of control wildfires burning across Canada and the Western U.S."
At America's National Interagency Fire Center, NPR's wildfire correspondent says all of America's firefighting resources have now been deployed across the country. "So if we get another big fire, we're in trouble... International aid could be harder to come by if the situation in Southern Europe gets worse and firefighters are going to be needed there."
Meanwhile Toronto was blanketed this week "with eye-watering, cough-inducing soot," writes a climate-change reporter for the Toronto Star newspaper, "briefly giving us the worst air quality in the world." But looking to the future after a wildfire that's 50% larger than any in Ontario's history (315,000 hectares or 778,331 acres), he had this to say about the eye-watering smoke. "It will be back." The article's headline warned of "Our smoke-filled future" and how Canada "must prepare for bigger wildfires, every summer — forever."
Even if global carbon emissions were cut dramatically, so long as any greenhouse gases are being put into the atmosphere, climate scientists say the world will continue to get hotter. And as the temperature rises, the forests dry out and the wildfires will get bigger, stronger and more frequent. "It's not going to get better. It's going to get worse," said Edward Struzik, a fellow with the Institute for Energy and Environmental Policy at Queen's University and the author of Dark Days at Noon: the Future of Fire . "These fires aren't going away. Toronto is going to get smoke every summer...."
The best solution would have been to dramatically cut emissions years ago. The harsh scientific reality is there's nothing we can do to stop wildfire smoke from blanketing cities for a few days every summer — and it's going to continue for decades to come. We're all going to need to buy air purifiers and masks and get used to it....
"The idea that we can thin our way through the boreal forest boggles the mind," [says Zeke Hausfather, a climate scientist at Berkeley Earth, an independent non-profit research organization]. "There aren't enough people in Canada to do that." The boreal forest in Canada is an enormous and largely roadless expanse bigger than the entire European Union. In comparison, America's much smaller forests are criss-crossed by roads, making firefighter access much quicker and easier. And the nature of the forests is fundamentally different as well, said Hausfather, who wrote an article summarizing research on the subject. "Western U.S. forests have evolved for frequent low-level fires that burn out the undergrowth — usually every five to 30 years," he said. "Historically, before fire suppression, fires would burn through, and they wouldn't actually kill the trees. They'd just kill smaller trees and clear out the brush."
"The boreal forest is a fundamentally different beast," he said. "It's an ecosystem designed to burn." With smaller, more densely packed trees, the boreal is wetter and colder and doesn't burn anywhere near as often — every 100 to 200 years on average, Hausfather said. But when fire does erupt, it's often much more intense, burning up into the canopy and levelling everything in its path... Clearing out the dead wood on the ground wouldn't prevent, or even slow, the canopy fires that sweep the boreal, said Hausfather.
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America's garbage trucks can do more than just collect trash, reports Newsweek. They may also help identify code violations using AI.
Officials in Cape Coral, Florida, recently considered equipping sanitation trucks with AI-powered cameras that would photograph properties as crews complete their normal collection routes. The system would have been designed to identify potential issues such as overgrown lawns, peeling paint, and illegal dumping, and to flag violations so the city staff can review them later before taking enforcement action... However, in a statement on July 13, Cape Coral officials said it would not be moving forward with the camera technology, citing cost issues and insufficient benefits.
"Claims suggesting that this technology would automatically identify, cite or fine residents are inaccurate," the statement also noted... Cape Coral officials say that a camera system in the future would assist — not replace — human code enforcement officers, and employees will review any AI-generated alerts before violations are issued. "Even if such a system were to be considered in the future, any potential code violations would require review and verification by a Code Compliance Officer before any enforcement action could be taken," the organization wrote.
But Cape Coral, Florida "is not the first city to explore the technology," the article notes.
AI imaging systems developed by City Detect have already been deployed in several municipalities. According to the company's published case studies, Stockton, California, used the platform to analyze nearly 40,000 parcels, capturing almost 200,000 images while identifying thousands of potential code issues. Cathedral City, California, has also used the technology to assist code enforcement, while Dallas approved funding for a similar program pending final implementation.
Thanks to Slashdot reader fjo3 for sharing the article.
Officials in Cape Coral, Florida, recently considered equipping sanitation trucks with AI-powered cameras that would photograph properties as crews complete their normal collection routes. The system would have been designed to identify potential issues such as overgrown lawns, peeling paint, and illegal dumping, and to flag violations so the city staff can review them later before taking enforcement action... However, in a statement on July 13, Cape Coral officials said it would not be moving forward with the camera technology, citing cost issues and insufficient benefits.
"Claims suggesting that this technology would automatically identify, cite or fine residents are inaccurate," the statement also noted... Cape Coral officials say that a camera system in the future would assist — not replace — human code enforcement officers, and employees will review any AI-generated alerts before violations are issued. "Even if such a system were to be considered in the future, any potential code violations would require review and verification by a Code Compliance Officer before any enforcement action could be taken," the organization wrote.
But Cape Coral, Florida "is not the first city to explore the technology," the article notes.
AI imaging systems developed by City Detect have already been deployed in several municipalities. According to the company's published case studies, Stockton, California, used the platform to analyze nearly 40,000 parcels, capturing almost 200,000 images while identifying thousands of potential code issues. Cathedral City, California, has also used the technology to assist code enforcement, while Dallas approved funding for a similar program pending final implementation.
Thanks to Slashdot reader fjo3 for sharing the article.
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From the site tech-news site XDA Developers:
The consumer tech economy needs more DRAM manufacturers, and it needs them more urgently than perhaps at any point in its history. Anyone keeping track of the pricing trends will know that memory prices have climbed into the stratosphere on the back of AI infrastructure's relentless demand, and every consumer device that depends on RAM has traveled from inflated to unaffordable, quarter after quarter, with almost no relief in sight. Which is exactly why a story out of Shenzhen is worth paying attention to, even in its current rumor phase. According to the details circulated by various semiconductor analysts on X, the Chinese government, DRAM maker SwaySure and Chinese tech giant Huawei have partnered to set up a 12-inch memory production plant. If the reports hold up, it could change memory economics for years to come, but not necessarily in the way you'd hope...
SwaySure itself is a known player. The company was registered in Shenzhen in March 2022, is reportedly backed by municipal government, and appears alongside Huawei on the US Commerce Department's Entity List, suggesting Washington has realized the connection between the two entities. Although, that's also where the story becomes a little less straightforward. None of these claims have been independently confirmed, and many of the technical details circulating online trace back to a single X account. Huawei has previously denied operating the wider network of state-backed fabs that analysts have reported. Even the widely quoted figure of 140,000 wafers per month isn't new, and public records indicate SwaySure's production line is already operational. What gives the report weight, then, is the fact that Huawei has spent years building this kind of domestic semiconductor ecosystem through partners that appear to operate independently.
The rationale that analysts on X keep revisiting has little to do with consumer memory. Huawei's Ascend AI accelerators require high-bandwidth memory (HBM), and US export controls have all but cut Chinese entities from procuring HBM from Samsung or SK Hynix... Owning the supply outright solves a problem that purchasing power can't, which is why the DRAM push is read as a bid to secure captive HBM for Huawei's own silicon rather than to flood the market with cheaply manufactured DDR5... The catch, however, is the fact that most of this new and rejuvenated capacity is expected to be absorbed by China's own domestic demand, rather than to relieve the global shortage... This development does not seem to be an isolated incident, given the state of DRAM economics. CXMT, China's largest manufacturer of DRAM, is already running close to 265,000 wafer starts per month as of now as per analyst estimates, and is projected to hit 350,000 by the end of the year, bringing it within the touching distance of Micron's estimated 385,000....
[T]he oligopoly seems to be facing the first credible challenge to its capacity discipline in decades, and it seems to be coming from a country building fabs much faster than the competition could hope to match. Now, whether it tangibly impacts the consumer market economics in the time to come may be a story in its own right in a few years, but for now, for what it's worth, it's a new direction, and much of it feeds optimism.
The consumer tech economy needs more DRAM manufacturers, and it needs them more urgently than perhaps at any point in its history. Anyone keeping track of the pricing trends will know that memory prices have climbed into the stratosphere on the back of AI infrastructure's relentless demand, and every consumer device that depends on RAM has traveled from inflated to unaffordable, quarter after quarter, with almost no relief in sight. Which is exactly why a story out of Shenzhen is worth paying attention to, even in its current rumor phase. According to the details circulated by various semiconductor analysts on X, the Chinese government, DRAM maker SwaySure and Chinese tech giant Huawei have partnered to set up a 12-inch memory production plant. If the reports hold up, it could change memory economics for years to come, but not necessarily in the way you'd hope...
SwaySure itself is a known player. The company was registered in Shenzhen in March 2022, is reportedly backed by municipal government, and appears alongside Huawei on the US Commerce Department's Entity List, suggesting Washington has realized the connection between the two entities. Although, that's also where the story becomes a little less straightforward. None of these claims have been independently confirmed, and many of the technical details circulating online trace back to a single X account. Huawei has previously denied operating the wider network of state-backed fabs that analysts have reported. Even the widely quoted figure of 140,000 wafers per month isn't new, and public records indicate SwaySure's production line is already operational. What gives the report weight, then, is the fact that Huawei has spent years building this kind of domestic semiconductor ecosystem through partners that appear to operate independently.
The rationale that analysts on X keep revisiting has little to do with consumer memory. Huawei's Ascend AI accelerators require high-bandwidth memory (HBM), and US export controls have all but cut Chinese entities from procuring HBM from Samsung or SK Hynix... Owning the supply outright solves a problem that purchasing power can't, which is why the DRAM push is read as a bid to secure captive HBM for Huawei's own silicon rather than to flood the market with cheaply manufactured DDR5... The catch, however, is the fact that most of this new and rejuvenated capacity is expected to be absorbed by China's own domestic demand, rather than to relieve the global shortage... This development does not seem to be an isolated incident, given the state of DRAM economics. CXMT, China's largest manufacturer of DRAM, is already running close to 265,000 wafer starts per month as of now as per analyst estimates, and is projected to hit 350,000 by the end of the year, bringing it within the touching distance of Micron's estimated 385,000....
[T]he oligopoly seems to be facing the first credible challenge to its capacity discipline in decades, and it seems to be coming from a country building fabs much faster than the competition could hope to match. Now, whether it tangibly impacts the consumer market economics in the time to come may be a story in its own right in a few years, but for now, for what it's worth, it's a new direction, and much of it feeds optimism.
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PARIJS (ANP) - Mathieu van der Poel dacht al een jaar aan winnen in de Tour de France op de Champs-Élysées. Dat zei de Nederlander na zijn zege in de slotetappe van de Tour in het flashinterview.
"Toen ik vorig jaar ziek was en deze wedstrijd op televisie moest kijken, dacht ik al aan dit moment", zei Van der Poel. "Het is ongelofelijk. Het was superzwaar om weg te zijn met de beste renner in de wereld, alle respect naar Tadej (Pogačar)." Op de laatste beklimming van de Côte de la Butte Montmartre plaatste Van der Poel een aanval waarop alleen de gele trui een antwoord had. In de slotkilometer reed de Nederlander weg bij de Sloveen en bleef hij de achtervolgende sprinters nipt voor.
"Ik was aan het wachten tot er een wiel langs me kwam, maar dat gebeurde maar niet", zei Van der Poel. "Op het laatste moment zag ik een wiel van Pirelli naast me en dat was van Jasper (Philipsen)." Zijn ploeggenoot Philipsen won de sprint van de achtervolgers en werd tweede, voor groenetruidrager Mads Pedersen.
'Nooit opgeven'
"Het laat zien dat we nooit opgeven. Het begin van de Tour was niet goed, maar winnen op de Champs-Élysées, dat is best goed denk ik", zei de Nederlander met gevoel voor understatement.
"We hebben een gezegde in het Nederlands: het moet uit je tenen komen", ging Van der Poel verder. "Ik weet niet waar dit vandaan kwam, maar in ieder geval niet uit mijn tenen."
PARIJS (ANP) - De Mexicaan Isaac Del Toro heeft het jongerenklassement van de Tour de France gewonnen. De 22-jarige renner van UAE Team Emirates zette zaterdag in de koninginnenrit al een grote stap naar de eindwinst van de witte trui door bijna 2 minuten te pakken op de 19-jarige Fransman Paul Seixas. Zondag kwam zijn trui ondanks een lekke band niet meer in gevaar, omdat halverwege de etappe de tijdsverschillen werden opgenomen. Lenny Martinez (Frankrijk) is derde geworden in het jongerenklassement.
Del Toro kreeg in meerdere bergetappes hulp van zijn ploeggenoot en Tourwinnaar Tadej Pogačar, die zei dat hij een "mentor" hoopt te zijn voor de Mexicaan. Del Toro won in het openingsweekend in Spanje de etappe rond de Montjuïc in Barcelona. Hij heeft ook het eindpodium van het algemeen klassement gehaald (3e) in zijn Tourdebuut. In 2025 werd hij 2e in de Giro.
Met zijn winst in het jongerenklassement is Del Toro de opvolger van Florian Lipowitz (2025) en Remco Evenepoel (2024). Voor die twee renners, die inmiddels ploeggenoten zijn, won Pogačar de witte trui vier keer op rij.
PARIJS (ANP) - Tadej Pogačar (27) heeft zondag voor de derde keer op rij en voor de vijfde keer in zijn carrière de Tour de France gewonnen. Daarmee is de Sloveen gedeeld recordhouder geworden in de grootste wielerwedstrijd ter wereld met Jacques Anquetil, Eddy Merckx, Bernard Hinault en Miguel Induráin.
Remco Evenepoel (26) is op de tweede plaats geëindigd (+6.26 minuten), het beste resultaat uit zijn carrière. Bij zijn Tourdebuut in 2024 stond de Belg ook al op het podium, toen werd hij derde achter Pogačar en Jonas Vingegaard. Deze Tour viel de Deen een week voor het einde uit, waarna Evenepoel de tweede plaats overnam. In 2025 reed de Belg de ronde niet uit.
Op de derde en laatste podiumplek is Pogačars ploeggenoot Isaac Del Toro geëindigd (+9.42 minuten). De Mexicaan debuteerde dit jaar in de Tour en wist de tweede etappe in Barcelona te winnen. Met zijn 22 jaar heeft Del Toro ook het jongerenklassement gewonnen, voor de 19-jarige nummer 4 van de Tour, de Fransman Paul Seixas.
Cheetahs forced to cross roiling rivers, owls battered by storms … the tone of this look at how extreme weather affects animals is all a bit disaster movie. Subtle, it is not
You have a thick neck and poorly defined calf muscles and you live in South Dakota with your feckless partner and your five expressionless children. You are an owl. Your days consist of lengthy stretches of nothing, punctuated by sudden bursts of unimaginable terror. Coyotes, badgers and snakes are all bent on reducing your beak to marmalade.
But it’s the weather that poses the biggest threat. Specifically, shouts Force of Nature, it’s the “MONSTER STORMS” that rumble ominously across the prairies, each of which forces you and your family to scurry into your burrow, whereupon you will stand with your trembling backs to the wall, legs wide apart and fluffy britches a-flap, like anxious viscounts in the court of Charles II. Will you survive? Or will you be eviscerated by the “cluster bombs of tornadoes” that churn with increasing frequency through the midwest?
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Eddy Merckx: ‘He’ll soon break our record’
Tadej Pogacar took a record-equalling fifth win in the Tour de France on Sunday, joining Jacques Anquetil, Eddy Merckx, Bernard Hinault and Miguel Indurain in the canon of the Tour’s most successful cyclists. In a thrilling finale to the Tour, Mathieu van der Poel took his second stage win of the race on the Champs-Élysees, fending off the pursuing pack of sprinters by a tyre’s width, after breaking clear with Pogacar on the final climb of the Butte de Montmartre.
Merckx, widely considered the greatest-ever cyclist due to the breadth of his achievements beyond the Tour itself, believes Pogacar will now go on to win a sixth Tour. “I don’t think he’ll be content just to draw level with me and the other champions,” the 81-year-old Belgian said. “He’ll soon break our record for Tour victories.”
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Bij Trouw is het feest nu Sylvain Ephimenco van de flat is gekieperd en dat wordt gevierd met een redactie-uitje naar het fantasieland waar Sophie Straat woont met twee bijzondere reisleiders. In dat land heeft Sophie Straat natuurlijk helemaal gelijk met haar oproep aan witte mannen om naar achter te gaan, al vragen sommige onwetende leden van het gezelfschap zich wel af of dat niet wat beleefder had gekund. Hoe vraag je netjes of witte mannen een stapje terug willen doen?
Gelukkig zijn daar Aldith Hunkar (oh ja die) en Cemil Yilmaz om uit te leggen dat die vraag stellen eigenlijk al verkeerd is. De reacties op Sophie Straat zijn juist het probleem, dat opgelost gaat worden door nog meer mensen tegen hun witte schenen te schoppen. "Het is juist belangrijk om hen (= witte mannen, GS) aan te spreken op hun gedrag en hun verantwoordelijkheid." Cemil Yilmaz maakte vroeger lijstjes van rechtse mensen die hij stom vond en is oud-lijsttrekker van NIDA in Den Haag, u weet wel, die islamitische partij die eigenlijk zelfs voor Jesse Klaver een beetje te leip was, al kwam hij niet in de raad omdat de nummer 2 meer voorkeursstemmen kreeg. Zijn enige politieke wapenfeit was een keihard weggelachen voorstel om de termen 'Hagenees' en 'Hagenaar' af te schaffen.
In goed functionerende landen krijgt zo iemand zorg en een uitkering, in Nederland is hij mede-eigenaar van het diversiteits-verdienmodel IZI Solutions, dat (screenshots na de breek) opdook in de stukken van ons Woo-verzoek naar die bizarre taalgids op het ministerie van OCW. IZI Solutions heeft namelijk op verzoek van een ambtenaar die gids nog een keertje goed nagekeken. Dat kostte de belastingbetaler "meer dan begroot was", maar dat is voor zo'n belangrijke zaak geen enkel probleem, ook al viel kennelijk geen enkele IZI-meelezer over de bizarre demonisering van de term 'holocaust' en werd de gids een jaar later door de staatssecretaris openlijk in de prullenbak gegooid. Wat wel het probleem is, is dat een ophitser als Celim Yilmaz nu dus door Trouw en ons ministerie van Onderwijs wordt gezien als iemand met verstand van diversiteit en inclusie. En dat probleem, meneer, dat blijft.
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Eric Falquero (The 51st, 07/16/2026), "Check out thousands of photos of midcentury D.C.": Via "The Office of Public Records and Archives ... This is its largest digital photo collection to date." The watermarked images are often ceremonial, not candid like Paris in the 70s, but see photos of Santa Claus's safety message (series), street views and idealized interiors in an Adams Morgan Project series, Alley Pictures (series), Horse Troughs (series), Polio Shots and Open Air Movies (series), Jayne Mansfield (series), Dilapidated Housing (series), D.C. General (series, not to mention the X-Ray Truck and its series), Florida Avenue Market (series), Fourth of July fireworks (series), Ewells Barbershop (series), Public Health Photos of Neighborhoods (series), The Wheel of Good Eating (series), and a railroad Drinking Water Station (series). An earlier collection documented illegal parking.