Python's security developer-in-residence Seth Larson reports from this year's official core developer Python Language Summit:


"No one said 'don't do this' last year". After testing the waters at PyCon US 2025, [software engineer] David Hewitt returned to the Python Language Summit asking what Python core developers want from Rust, along with proposed timelines, phases, and success criteria for how the Rust for CPython project might proceed and become a permanent fixture within the CPython project. David is acting as an "ambassador" for the Rust for CPython project team, which is currently led by core developers Kirill Podoprigora and Emma Smith as authors of the Rust for CPython PEP draft. Emma also spoke at PyCon US 2026 about the Rust for CPython project. The team itself is around 60 developers in a Discord channel, among them a "few [Python] core developers" and a "delegation from the Rust project".

The team has experience with previous projects integrating Rust into existing codebases, such as Android and the Linux kernel, and is "excited by the work and keen to support [the project] if we proceed". Showing how adopting Rust may specifically help CPython, David noted how the number of issues labeled with " type-crash" has been steadily rising over time... David explained that Jeff Vander Stoep described Rust in Android as "move fast and fix things", and that "fewer revisions for patches of the same size" was the experience Android has had since adopting Rust....

One of the biggest concerns from a year ago was Rust's lack of platform support compared to CPython, which at the time of writing officially supports 20 different architectures and platforms at either Tier 1, 2, or 3. David shared that Rust's support of different platforms has "widened since last year" and was becoming "less and less of a concern". The proposal would be to ask Python distributors to attempt using the optional Rust support in Python 3.16 (October 2027) and report platform-specific issues upstream in time to be resolved around the Python 3.17 timeline (October 2028)...

[T]he first Rust code to ship in Python would be in Python 3.16 [October 2027], where it would be completely optional, with the existing C code kept as a fallback. The earliest that Rust would become required to build CPython is Python 3.18 in 2029, at least three years away... The Rust for CPython team has selected the zlib module as the first module to be given an optional Rust implementation because they "wanted to achieve a significant improvement" with a "small scope". The proposed Rust implementation will use zlib-rs, which is "heavily tested and used by the Firefox, uv, and Cargo" projects and "faster than zlib and zlib-ng on many platforms".... This small change would have an impact: the zlib compression algorithm is "widely used by Python packaging", meaning that (almost) "every pip install in Python 3.16 will be sped up" if the proposal is accepted.


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Last month, the U.S. House passed the AM Radio for Every Vehicle Act, reports the Chicago Sun-Times. They call it "a bipartisan effort to require AM radio in new vehicles," adding that the bill now "awaits action in the Senate, where a companion measure has already garnered support, according to public records."

Broadcasters said AM radio remains a critical source of information, offering news and weather alerts, particularly when cell networks and internet service are disrupted or unreliable... "AM radio — all radio — has always been about connection, and in Chicago, especially, the connection is incredibly strong," Mary Sandberg Boyle, vice president and general manager of WGN-AM 720, said. "You don't need a subscription. You don't need a data plan or an app. You turn on the radio, and it's there..." Boyle said the accessibility of radio becomes especially important during severe weather and breaking news situations. "That's when local radio is really more important because we have the ability to stay live, pivot our content and what we're covering, and we can access a large amount of audience members very quickly and keep everybody safe," she said. Boyle also serves on the board of directors of the National Association of Broadcasters, which has argued that preserving AM radio access is an access issue rather than a matter of nostalgia.

The legislation emerged after several automakers removed AM radio from certain electric vehicle models, citing interference from electric power systems. Companies including Tesla, Rivian, Volvo and others have either eliminated or limited AM radio in some EVs. The Alliance for Automotive Innovation, which represents most major automakers, has opposed the requirement. In congressional testimony last year, President and CEO John Bozzella argued that "analog AM radio does not contribute to motor vehicle safety" and requiring it as standard equipment "is not necessary to ensure public safety."

Under the bill, the U.S. Department of Transportation would be required to develop regulations ensuring AM radio remains available in new vehicles sold in the U.S. The measure would also bar automakers from charging consumers separately for AM radio access... While public discussion around the legislation has largely focused on emergency alerts and news access, some scholars say preserving AM radio also has implications for media diversity... "I think the media landscape is really overwhelmingly homogenized right now, and AM radio is important in many markets," [said Zachary McDowell, associate professor of communications at the University of Illinois Chicago]. "It's a space that still allows for all sorts of different voices that is still open and accessible."

The article also includes this quote from Rodney Gibbs, executive director of Heartland Signal, which operates a local talk radio station. "Despite the kind of shiny objects that digital media is, AM radio still has a viable and durable audience. It's a daily, unscripted, authentic conversation between the host and the listeners. You don't get that from broadcast television. You don't get that from digital media."

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"Physicists smashed gold nuclei together at nearly the speed of light and found an unexpected pattern in the particles..." writes Live Science.

"If confirmed, that pattern could help reveal how the hot soup of quarks and gluons that filled the universe in the first few microseconds after the Big Bang cooled and condensed into the protons and neutrons that make up ordinary matter today."


In every collision, particles are flung out sideways; how hard they are flung, on average, varies slightly from one collision to the next. Physicists expected the size of these variations to change smoothly as they adjusted the collision energy. Instead, the variations dipped, shrinking and then growing again. This dip could be a sign of a long-sought "critical point," a special set of conditions at which nuclear matter changes the way it transforms from one form to another.


The signal, detected by the STAR experiment at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) at Brookhaven National Laboratory in New York, is strong enough that it is very unlikely to be a statistical accident. However, the researchers cautioned that the dip is a tantalizing hint, not proof of the long-sought transition. They published their findings Sept. 22 in the journal Physical Review Letters...



The team analyzed roughly 1 billion collisions, measuring how hard charged particles were flung sideways out of the fireball, according to the article.

The dip "does point to a set of conditions where the behavior of nuclear matter changes, and it gives theorists a new, precise measurement to test their calculations against," study co-author Rutik Manikandhan, told Live Science.

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James Cameron's Avatar is no longer the highest-grossing movie in box office history. That honor now goes to the Disney/Marvel Studios film Avengers: Endgame. Variety explains:

"Avatar" spent a decade as the biggest release ever until "Avengers: Endgame" overtook the record in 2019 during its initial run on the big screen. "Endgame" dropped to No. 2 on all-time charts in 2021 when "Avatar" returned to theaters in advance of 2021's "Avatar: The Way of Water." Five years later, and Earth's Mightiest Heroes have triumphed over the Na'vi again.

Disney is popping Champagne no matter which big-screen behemoth claims the No. 1 spot. "Avatar" was released by 20th Century Fox, which Disney now owns after the companies merged in 2019... [Last week's] re-release of "Endgame" has generated more than $126 million worldwide.


Together the 38 Marvel Studios movies "have generated more than $35 billion worldwide," notes an announcement on Disney's web site, "making the Marvel Cinematic Universe the most successful film franchise in history."

Their announcement adds that Disney "is responsible for seven of the 10 highest-grossing films of all time." That list also includes James Cameron's Titantic and his first two Avatar movies, but also this summer's Spider-Man: Brand New Dayand the earlier film Spider-Man: No Way Home, plus Marvel's 2018 film Avengers: Infinity War. Also among the top-10-of-all-time are Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015) at #7 and last year's Zootopia 2.



Meanwhile Coyote vs. Acme was released for rent or purchase on streaming platforms Tuesday, and became the No. 1 most-watched movie in the Apple TV store for America and Canada, according to CBR. (Citing a report from FlixPatrol ) "On Rotten Tomatoes, Coyote vs. Acme has a near-perfect 96% Certified Fresh Tomatometer score based on critics' reviews, and a similar 94% Verified Hot Popcornmeter score based on audience reviews... Frank Scheck from The Hollywood Reporter called it "one of the best live-action/animation films ever."


Preorders have just opened for its DVD and 4K disks, and Coyote vs. Acme is also coming to Blu-ray writes IGN, "along with some hilarious outtakes that he described as 'not PG-rated.'"


Celebrating the film's $100 million box office take last week, the movie's distributors posted a very Coyote-like koan on social media. "It's only over when you stop trying."

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"Physicists smashed gold nuclei together at nearly the speed of light and found an unexpected pattern in the particles..." writes Live Science.

"If confirmed, that pattern could help reveal how the hot soup of quarks and gluons that filled the universe in the first few microseconds after the Big Bang cooled and condensed into the protons and neutrons that make up ordinary matter today."


In every collision, particles are flung out sideways; how hard they are flung, on average, varies slightly from one collision to the next. Physicists expected the size of these variations to change smoothly as they adjusted the collision energy. Instead, the variations dipped, shrinking and then growing again. This dip could be a sign of a long-sought "critical point," a special set of conditions at which nuclear matter changes the way it transforms from one form to another.


The signal, detected by the STAR experiment at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) at Brookhaven National Laboratory in New York, is strong enough that it is very unlikely to be a statistical accident. However, the researchers cautioned that the dip is a tantalizing hint, not proof of the long-sought transition. They published their findings Sept. 22 in the journal Physical Review Letters...



The team analyzed roughly 1 billion collisions, measuring how hard charged particles were flung sideways out of the fireball, according to the article.

The dip "does point to a set of conditions where the behavior of nuclear matter changes, and it gives theorists a new, precise measurement to test their calculations against," study co-author Rutik Manikandhan, told Live Science.

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Arutemu has added a photo to the pool:

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Only a few days ago Craig Bellamy suggested Wales had blown Nations League A4 wide open with a hand grenade but here Danny Ward detonated it to gift Denmark a penalty and Rasmus Højlund the chance to earn a slender victory from the spot.

Until that moment of madness, after 73 minutes, Ward had kept Wales in the game, his best stop a sublime right-hand save to prevent Gustav Isaksen a headed opener. But after keeping Denmark at bay, he scored an own goal of sorts by taking out Isaksen in the box after a miskick. Bellamy covered his face, using his right hand as a temporary visor while the video assistant referee, Ivan Bebek, reviewed the incident. Then came the unwanted confirmation from the referee and Højlund rippled a pocket of the Wales net with a flawless penalty. A first clean sheet since beating Liechtenstein last November also went out of the window. The life of a goalkeeper, eh?

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Staunchly pro-Russia politician has dominated campaign and inflamed divisions despite not appearing on ballot

Bosnian Serb nationalist politician Milorad Dodik has declared victory for his party in an election in Bosnia shaped by economic pressures, the prospect of the Balkan nation joining the European Union and ethnic tensions that have divided the country since its brutal 1992-95 war.

Dodik is a staunchly pro-Russia politician who, despite not appearing on the ballot, has dominated the campaign and inflamed divisions with separatist rhetoric that has sparked fears of renewed instability in Bosnia.

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(2-2) Indianapolis Colts 30-13 Washington Commanders (1-3)

(0-4) Tennessee Titans 18-24 Baltimore Ravens (3-1)

(2-2) New England Patriots 29-26 Buffalo Bills (3-1)

(1-3) New York Jets 12-23 Chicago Bears (3-1)

(3-1) Jacksonville Jaguars 22-17 Cincinnati Bengals (2-2)

(2-2) Dallas Cowboys 34-30 Houston Texans (0-4)

(1-3) Arizona Cardinals 24-36 New York Giants (3-1)

(2-2) Los Angeles Rams 24-20 Philadelphia Eagles (2-2)

(2-2) Green Bay Packers 17-14 Tampa Bay Buccaneers (0-4)

A big upset in there! Did anyone have the Patriots beating the Bills? Buffalo lose their perfect record to their division rivals at home. Ouch.

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Reuring in Rusland en eens niet omdat Vladimir z'n bommen op Oekraïne dumpt. Bij het Russische instituut voor onderzoek naar pest en andere enge ziektes, diep in Siberië, is een 28-jarige laborant, naar verluidt deze Darya Shipilova, omgekomen. Ze zou een reageerbuisje met een 'actieve' bacterie hebben gebroken en een paar dagen later was het klaarrrr met Darya. Zo'n 200 mensen zijn in quarantaine geplaatst en nu is er PANIEK. Wat die Russen precies uitspoken, wat ze verzwijgen of verbergen of wegmoffelen, waar het precies over gaat: we weten het niet. Speculeren dus! Aanvankelijk had de gouverneur van de regio Irkoetsk het alleen over een 'bijzonder gevaarlijke infectie'. Een later bericht om niet naar de regio af te reizen wegens DE PEST werd snel weer verwijderd. En nu is er een viral tweetje van Annie Jacobsen, een gelauwerde (Pulitzer Prize) maar ook controversiële (Roswell was een Sovjet-hoax georchestreerd door Stalin en Mengele (!)) onderzoeksjournaliste op het gebied van top secret-veiligheidskwesties, waar ze vertelt dat er vanwege die pest nog eens vijf Russische ziekenhuizen in quarantaine gaan - en dat dat nogal een dingetje is. Iemand zin in Hugo de Jonge, Irma Sluis, mondkapjes van Seabert, avondklokjes en QR-zuipen?

Update - Nu met KEES TELS MEGAMIX, na de lees verder

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Zondagochtend begon de ontruiming van het kamp op het El Trampolín-strand. Al meer dan twee maanden leefden daar rond de drieduizend mensen onder erbarmelijke omstandigheden.

Een scooterrijder is zondagavond op de Ary Prinslaan in Schiedam ten val gekomen. De hulpdiensten kwamen met spoed ter plekke.

In een woning aan de Pluvierstraat in Dordrecht is zondagavond een overleden persoon aangetroffen.

Een jongen is woensdagavond 30 september 2026 mishandeld bij het skatepark in Sommelsdijk. Volgens een oproep van zijn familie werd hij door meerdere jongens tegen de grond gewerkt, waarna hij werd geslagen en geschopt. De familie roept op om camerabeelden van het incident met de politie te delen.

Deze week kregen we een mail van een lezer met een vraag over een cartoon. Eind 2002 of begin 2003 zat hij in de trein van Amsterdam naar Haarlem. Hij was één station te lang blijven zitten en had daarmee de pech precies de verkeerde conducteur tegen te komen. De conducteur van dienst was Wouter Bos.

Bos was net gekozen tot lijsttrekker van de PvdA en liep voor het televisieprogramma Netwerk een dag mee als conducteur. Een camera volgde hem. En dus werd ook vastgelegd hoe onze correspondent een boete kreeg omdat hij te ver was doorgereisd.

Toen duidelijk werd wat er aan de hand was, ontsnapte hem voor de camera een welgemeend: ‘Oh, kut!’ op primetime televisie.

De volgende dag kreeg hij het naar eigen zeggen te verduren van zijn klasgenoten én zijn negentigjarige oma.

Maar daarmee was de zaak nog niet voorbij. Aan het eind van die dag viel NRC op de mat. Achterop stond Fokke & Sukke:

Fokke & Sukke hebben geen kaartje

‘Kut, de conducteur!’
‘Laat maar joh, is toch weer zo’n lijsttrekker.’

De lezer, laten we hem Daniel noemen, knipte de cartoon uit en hing hem bij zijn ouders op het prikbord. Daar bleef hij jarenlang hangen, totdat het inmiddels volledig vergeelde krantenpapier uiteindelijk de geest gaf.

Ruim twintig jaar later mailde hij ons met de vraag of wij de oorspronkelijke tekening misschien nog hadden. En zo blijkt een dag waarop je wordt beboet in de trein, op televisie vloekt, wordt uitgelachen door je klasgenoten en op je kop krijgt van je oma achteraf toch een tamelijk historische dag te kunnen zijn.

De cartoon hebben we in ieder geval nog.

Kom dinsdagavond 6 okt a.s. naar ons interview in Amsterdam: https://www.aanmelder.nl/178671/alumniweek2026?language=nl