"Podcasts have officially overtaken AM/FM talk radio as the more popular medium for spoken-word audio in the United States," reports TechCrunch, citing Edison Research's Share of Ear survey:

The researchers have tracked these statistics over the last decade, and almost always, the percentage of time people spent listening to podcasts increased, while their time with spoken radio broadcasts decreased. For the first time this year, podcasts eclipsed spoken-word radio with 40% of listening time, as opposed to 39% for radio...

We checked with Edison to see if these statistics include video podcasts, and they do. But the need to clarify that question points to the undeniable growing prevalence of video podcasts, hosted on platforms like Spotify and YouTube, which marks another key trend in podcasting... YouTube said that viewers watched 700 million hours of podcasts each month in 2025 on living room devices, like TVs, up from 400 million the previous year.

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"Billions fewer birds are flying through North American skies than decades ago," reports the Associated Press, "and their population is shrinking ever faster, mostly due to a combination of intensive agriculture and warming temperatures, a new study found."


Nearly half of the 261 species studied showed big enough losses in numbers to be statistically significant and more than half of those declining are seeing their losses accelerate since 1987, according to Thursday's journal Science... The only consolation is that the birds that are shrinking in numbers the fastest are species — such as the European starling, American crow, grackle and house sparrow — with large enough populations that they aren't yet at risk of going extinct, said study lead author Francois Leroy, also an Ohio State ecologist...

When it came to population declines — not the acceleration — the scientists noticed bigger losses further south. When they did a deeper analysis they statistically connected those losses to warmer temperatures from human-caused climate change. "In regions where temperatures increase the most, we are seeing strongest declines in populations," [said study co-author Marta Jarzyna, an ecologist at Ohio State University]. "On the other hand, the acceleration of those declines, that's mostly driven by agricultural practices." The scientists found statistical correlations between speeded-up decline rates and high fertilizer use, high pesticide use and amount of cropland, Leroy said. He said they couldn't say any of those caused the acceleration of losses, but it indicates agriculture in general is a factor. "The stronger the agriculture, the faster we will lose birds," said Leroy...

McGill University wildlife biologist David Bird, who wasn't part of the study, said it was done well and that its conclusions made sense. With a growing human population, agriculture practices are intensified, more bird habitats are being converted to cropland, modern machinery often grind up nests and eggs and single crop plantings offer less possibilities for birds to find food and nests, said Bird, the editor of Birds of Canada. "The biggest impact of agricultural intensity though is our war on insects. Numerous recent studies have shown that insect populations in many places throughout the world, including the U.S., have crashed by well over 40 percent," Bird said in an email. "Many of the birds in this new study showing population declines depend heavily on insects for food."


A 2019 study of the same bird species by Cornell University conservation scientist Kenneth Rosenberg also found that North America had 3 billion fewer birds than in 1970, the article points out.

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Slashdot reader darwinmac writes: The Document Foundation (TDF), the organization behind LibreOffice, has decided to bring back its LibreOffice Online project which been inactive since 2022. Collabora, a company that was a major contributor to the original LibreOffice Online, is not pleased with this development. After the original project went dormant, Collabora forked the code and created its own product, Collabora Online.

Collaboras Michael Meeks, who also sits on the TDF board, reacted to the TDFs decision by saying that a fully supported, free online version already exists in the form of Collabora Online, and that resurrecting a dead repository makes little sense when an active, open community around the online suite already exists.

For now, The Document Foundation plans to reopen the old repository for new contributions. The organization has issued a warning that the code is not ready for live deployment and users should wait until the development team confirms it is stable.

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There were 63 minutes on the Emirates Stadium clock and the Arsenal crowd were in a state of extreme agitation. William Saliba had the ball at the back and he was taking his time – largely because there was nothing on for him. The fans screamed at him to hurry up. To do something. Anything. It was all going wrong because Chelsea were not just level at 1-1, they had dominated the second half up to this point.

Out on the right flank, Jurriën Timber held his arms out and gestured for everybody to calm down. There was still time. Arsenal would be fine if they could keep their focus and do their stuff. It took Timber precisely three minutes to practise what he preached. When Declan Rice arched over a corner, it was Timber who wriggled free to head home what would prove to be a priceless winning goal.

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‘They should have done it sooner, they waited too long,’ says Trump but he doesn’t say when talks would take place

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Donald Trump said on Sunday that Iran’s political leadership have agreed to talks, a day after the US and Israel began to target the country’s military and political infrastructure, killing the supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and several top officials.

“They want to talk, and I have agreed to talk, so I will be talking to them,” Trump told a reporter for the Atlantic magazine on Sunday. “They should have done it sooner. They should have given what was very practical and easy to do sooner. They waited too long.”

Reuters contributed reporting

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• Espanyol defender Omar El Hilali reports insult

• Mir then scores 90th-minute penalty to secure 2-2 draw

The Espanyol defender Omar El Hilali accused the Elche forward Rafa Mir of a racist insult during their teams’ La Liga game on Sunday, according to the referee’s report.

Iosu Galech Apezteguia briefly paused the match under the anti-racism protocol in the 80th minute after speaking to the Morocco international El Hilali. “El Hilali informed me that he [Mir] addressed him in the following terms: ‘You came here on a dinghy,’ which could not be heard by any member of the refereeing team,” wrote the referee in his report. Consequently, I proceeded to activate the anti-racism protocol, for which reason the match was stopped for three minutes.”

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The US-Israeli military action will test the fragile rules governing the use of force

The killing of Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, by a US-Israeli strike is a targeted assassination of a head of state. It also marks a grave escalation in a region already burdened with smouldering wars and fragile states. The consequences of the deliberate strike will reverberate across a Middle East marked by the aftershocks of foreign intervention. Revulsion against the hardline regime in Tehran, or the desire for a better future for the Iranian people, does not confer a legal justification.

Force is lawful, under the UN charter, only in self-defence against an imminent attack or with security council approval. Neither condition has been met. There was no evidence of an “instant, overwhelming” Iranian attack being prepared. What Donald Trump’s Operation Epic Fury looks like is not pre-emption but prevention: a decision to eliminate a future risk while an enemy appeared weak. It is a war of choice. Mr Trump’s call to overthrow a sovereign government was extraordinary.

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From a landmark Tracey Emin show at Tate Modern to the first female painter in the Royal Academy’s main space, the art world is finally catching up

“Do women have to be naked to get into the Met Museum?” the feminist art collective Guerrilla Girls asked in their famous 1989 poster. It pointed out that fewer than 5% of the artists in the modern art sections were women, but 85% of the nudes were female. They could have asked the same question of any major art gallery in the world. Four decades later, this year’s biggest UK exhibitions finally show a different picture.

Dame Tracey Emin might be naked in many of her self-portraits, but that isn’t what got her into Tate Modern for a landmark retrospective. Rose Wylie, 91, is the first female painter to have a solo exhibition at the Royal Academy. The Colombian artist Beatriz González (who died, aged 93, in January) is at the Barbican. And that is just this week’s openings.

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Hostility to the US is high even among reformists, which may set the surviving leadership on a destructive path

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Two Irans are in view now. By night, there is the Iran that danced, celebrated and cried tears of joy at the death of the Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, hoping it marks the end of clerical rule and isolation from the west. By day, there are the mourning crowds gathering in the squares in Tehran and Isfahan demanding retribution and bewailing the loss of their sacred leader.

There is no need to guess which force has the greater domestic military power and retains the upper hand, but discerning whether the regime realises that the continued, inflexible pursuit of its current path will probably end in the regime’s chaotic collapse is harder to know.

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Het lukte Feyenoord in Enschede niet om te profiteren van het puntenverlies bij de concurrentie. In Podcast Feyenoord: De Verlenging blikt presentator Jesse van Someren terug op de wedstrijd in De Grolsch Veste met verslaggevers Dennis van Eersel en Dennis Kranenburg. Ze zien allebei weinig positieve punten.

Bernard Mosselman (92) was al met pensioen voordat Sem van der Wilk (18) geboren was. Toch werken ze sinds kort intensief samen. Beiden staan ze op de kieslijst voor de komende gemeenteraadsverkiezingen in Barendrecht.

Excelsior neemt het zondagavond op tegen directe concurrent Go Ahead Eagles. Een overwinning is zeer welkom voor de Kralingers in de strijd tegen degradatie. Beide ploegen hebben even veel punten in de eredivisie.

Excelsior neemt het zondagavond op tegen directe concurrent Go Ahead Eagles. Een overwinning is zeer welkom voor de Kralingers in de strijd tegen degradatie. Beide ploegen hebben even veel punten in de eredivisie.

Weer voor Rotterdam ☁️ - 01-03-2026 19:16 CET

In één oogopslag:
• 10.1°C · Bewolkt ☁️ | Min 5.2°C / Max 11.6°C | Kans op neerslag 9%

Verwachting voor vandaag:
• Min 5.2°C, Max 11.6°C (Zware motregen) 🌦️, Neerslag 1.5 mm, Kans op neerslag 9%, 🧭 1019.5 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 24.5 km/u (6.8 m/s), richting: ↑ 199°

Uurlijkse voorspelling voor de komende 12 uur:

• 20:00: 10.1°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, Kans op neerslag 22%, 🧭 1019.4 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 22.0 km/u (6.1 m/s), richting: ↑ 199°
• 21:00: 9.9°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, Kans op neerslag 12%, 🧭 1019.4 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 20.9 km/u (5.8 m/s), richting: ↑ 201°
• 22:00: 9.8°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, Kans op neerslag 4%, 🧭 1019.7 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 18.4 km/u (5.1 m/s), richting: ↑ 199°
• 23:00: 9.9°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, Kans op neerslag 1%, 🧭 1019.6 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 18.4 km/u (5.1 m/s), richting: ↑ 198°
• 00:00: 9.8°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, 🧭 1019.4 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 18.0 km/u (5.0 m/s), richting: ↑ 196°
• 01:00: 9.5°C (Helder) 🌕, 🧭 1019.3 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 16.9 km/u (4.7 m/s), richting: ↑ 193°
• 02:00: 8.9°C (Helder) 🌕, 🧭 1019.2 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 15.1 km/u (4.2 m/s), richting: ↑ 185°
• 03:00: 8.5°C (Helder) 🌕, 🧭 1019.1 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 14.4 km/u (4.0 m/s), richting: ↑ 178°
• 04:00: 7.3°C (Licht bewolkt) 🌕, 🧭 1018.8 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 13.7 km/u (3.8 m/s), richting: ↑ 168°
• 05:00: 6.8°C (Gedeeltelijk bewolkt) ☁️, 🧭 1018.8 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 15.5 km/u (4.3 m/s), richting: ↑ 162°
• 06:00: 6.6°C (Licht bewolkt) 🌕, 🧭 1018.7 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 14.4 km/u (4.0 m/s), richting: ↑ 165°
• 07:00: 6.6°C (Helder) 🌕, 🧭 1018.6 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 13.7 km/u (3.8 m/s), richting: ↑ 161°

Voorspelling voor de komende dagen:

• maandag 02 maart: Min 6.6°C, Max 16.0°C (Gedeeltelijk bewolkt) ⛅, 🧭 1019.0 hPa ↘️ -0.5 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 16.9 km/u (4.7 m/s), richting: ↑ 167°
• dinsdag 03 maart: Min 7.9°C, Max 16.4°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, 🧭 1023.7 hPa ↗️ +4.7 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 13.7 km/u (3.8 m/s), richting: ↖ 145°
• woensdag 04 maart: Min 5.6°C, Max 15.1°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, Kans op neerslag 1%, 🧭 1025.4 hPa ↗️ +1.7 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 9.7 km/u (2.7 m/s), richting: ← 90°
• donderdag 05 maart: Min 5.9°C, Max 15.8°C (Zonnig) ☀️, Kans op neerslag 10%, 🧭 1020.1 hPa ↘️ -5.3 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 9.0 km/u (2.5 m/s), richting: ↖ 122°
• vrijdag 06 maart: Min 5.5°C, Max 15.5°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, Kans op neerslag 13%, 🧭 1021.6 hPa ↗️ +1.5 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 11.4 km/u (3.2 m/s), richting: → 290°
• zaterdag 07 maart: Min 5.7°C, Max 11.4°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, Kans op neerslag 2%, 🧭 1029.9 hPa ↗️ +8.3 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 12.0 km/u (3.3 m/s), richting: ↙ 23°

Details:
• 🌡️ Huidige temperatuur (om 19:15): 10.1°C (Bewolkt)
• 🤚 Gevoelstemperatuur: 6.2°C (-3.9°C)
• 💨 Windsnelheid: 20.9 km/u (5.8 m/s), richting: ↑ 194°
• 🌬️ Windstoten: 41.0 km/h (11.4 m/s)
• 💧 Luchtvochtigheid: 84%
• 🧭 Luchtdruk: 1019.4 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/3h
• 👁️ Zichtbaarheid: 12.5 km
• ☀️ UV-index: 0.0
• 🌅 Zonsopgang: 07:27 · 🌇 Zonsondergang: 18:21

Luchtkwaliteit:
• AQI: 32 🟢 (Goed)
• PM2.5: 4.7 μg/m³
• PM10: 6.9 μg/m³

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DEN HAAG (ANP) - Buitenlandse Zaken heeft vanwege de veiligheidsrisico's in Bahrein het reisadvies aangescherpt naar rood. Dat betekent dat mensen wordt afgeraden om naar Bahrein te reizen, in welke situatie dan ook. "Het is er te gevaarlijk. De Nederlandse ambassade kan u niet helpen als u in de problemen komt," schrijft het ministerie.

Zaterdag gaf Nederland ook al de kleurcode rood af voor Irak, Israël, Libanon en de Palestijnse gebieden vanwege de aanvallen over en weer in het Midden-Oosten. Nederlanders die in Bahrein zijn, krijgen het advies om het land op een veilige manier te verlaten als dat kan.

Voor veel andere landen in de regio geldt sinds de aanvallen code oranje: Buitenlandse Zaken adviseert er alleen heen te reizen als het noodzakelijk is. Dat zijn de Verenigde Arabische Emiraten, Jordanië, Koeweit en Qatar. De eilanden Abu Musa en Tunb, ten noorden van de VAE, zijn rood.

Veiligheidsadviezen

Het ministerie en de lokale ambassades delen zondag voor verschillende landen in het Midden-Oosten informatieberichten. Daarin staat onder meer informatie over de laatste stand van zaken: "Het risico op nieuwe aanvallen is nog altijd aanwezig. Blijf tijdens een aanval op een veilige plek en volg altijd de aanwijzingen van de lokale autoriteiten", staat in het bericht over de VAE.

Ook melden ze gesloten luchtruimen en geven ze tips om eventueel over land het gebied te verlaten, bijvoorbeeld door naar Jordanië te rijden. Daar is het luchtruim wel open. Buitenlandse Zaken tempert de verwachtingen, onder meer in het bericht over Qatar. "Voor alle situaties geldt: gezien de grote aantallen getroffen Nederlanders en de onzekere situatie, kan het helaas wat langer duren op dit moment voor er een passende oplossing is gevonden."

BEIROET (ANP/DPA/AFP) - Duizenden aanhangers van Hezbollah hielden zondag een mars in de zuidelijke buitenwijken van Beiroet, het bolwerk van de Libanese beweging. Ze rouwden om de dood van de Iraanse leider Ali Khamenei, die zaterdagmorgen omkwam bij een luchtaanval op Teheran.

De menigte zwaaide met Iraanse en Hezbollah-vlaggen en portretten van Khamenei naast afbeeldingen van de vermoorde Hezbollah-leider Hassan Nasrallah, die in september 2024 omkwam bij een Israëlische luchtaanval.

Kreten als "Dood aan Israël" en "Dood aan Amerika" galmden door de straten, terwijl rouwenden met gebalde vuisten zwoeren door te gaan met verzet tegen Israël en de VS.

Hezbollah is de belangrijkste proxymilitie van Iran in de regio. De groep wordt getraind en gefinancierd door Teheran.

Kansloos verloor Feyenoord de uitwedstrijd bij FC Twente met 2-0. De Japanse spits Ayase Ueda scoorde voor de winterstop liefst 18 keer, maar kan nu al wekenlang niet voor gevaar zorgen.

Enkele duizenden Nederlandse vakantiegangers zijn door de Amerikaanse aanval op Iran gestrand in het Midden-Oosten. Reisorganisaties en luchtvaartmaatschappijen moeten hulp bieden om hen terug te halen.

Terwijl minister van Buitenlandse Zaken Tom Berendsen en defensieminister Dilan Yesilgöz in Kyiv hun steun betuigden aan Oekraïne, diende zich met de oorlog in Iran een nieuwe internationale crisis aan.

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