404 Media reports:


"We will not add facial recognition to our devices," Flock CEO Garrett Langley said in a recent video. But other, third-party companies are telling cops that they are willing to add facial recognition to data gathered by Flock cameras in order to "close that gap." A company called VIDIZMO is advertising the capability to export footage from FlockOS to its own platforms that do facial recognition, behavior prediction, and racial and gender analysis on live camera feeds. VIDIZMO is a several decades-old video analysis and database company that has started offering facial recognition technology to cops within the last six months. In a May email to Johnson City, Tennessee, deputy police chief Michael Adams, a salesperson from VIDIZMO wrote that the company's product could do facial recognition on both Flock and Axon [body-worn camera] data in "one searchable platform...."

VIDIZMO's CEO, Nadeem Khan, told 404 Media on a video call that the company has not yet started running facial recognition tech on footage from Flock cameras, and that it has not actually built the specific tool that would export data from Flock's system to its own platform (though the company advertises this capability online, and the company already sells other facial recognition products). But Khan said VIDIZMO "would love to do the integration," and that he believes facial recognition "is the way the world is going, the way the world will have to be," and that he thinks Flock should offer the capability itself in a way that "balances privacy, security, and the freedom that we enjoy in this country."



The article notes that VIDIZMO says on its website, "You can identify individuals from seven races: White, Black, Indian, East Asian, Southeast Asian, Middle Eastern, and Latino Hispanic." VIDIZMO adds that stores or cities can also then do "demographic analysis" for marketing purposes by determining the races or ages of people showing up....

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Spaceflight Now reports:


"A SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket launched from Florida Thursday night on a classified mission for the National Reconnaissance Office, America's spy satellite agency... The NRO has previously flown payloads on 22 Falcon 9 rockets but this is the first time it has used the heavy-lift Falcon Heavy, which consists of three Falcon 9 boosters and an upper stage, topped by a payload fairing.

The powerful rocket, which lifts off under the power of 27 Merlin 1D engines, was introduced to great fanfare in 2018 and made its 14th flight Thursday night... NROL-97 was SpaceX's third Falcon launch of the day. In addition to the Crew 13 mission, the company launched 130 payloads on the Transporter 13 rideshare mission from its West Coast pad at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. It was the first time the company has landed four boosters in a single day.

CNN reports:
As Starship flights ramp up, SpaceX has made clear that the company will phase out the use of two of its most iconic creations: the Dragon spacecraft, which ferries astronauts and cargo to and from the International Space Station, and the Falcon 9 rocket, which for a decade has dominated the global launch market.

These vehicles not only revolutionized the space industry in their own way, they're also still very much essential to ongoing work in Earth orbit, without clear backup options in place. The prospect of this loss is already spurring panic among some satellite operators, said Caleb Henry, director of research at analytics firm Quilty Space... Henry said he expects that most of the remaining space on board Falcon 9 rockets has already been sold and — beyond early 2029 — such flights may be reserved solely for the US government. Even NASA, which currently counts the Dragon capsule as the only US-made spacecraft capable of getting its astronauts to and from the ISS, has also acknowledged the looming retirement of SpaceX's workhorse vehicles....

Despite the success of Falcon and Dragon, a peek at SpaceX's business book may hint at financial reasons for retiring the vehicles. In its first quarterly earnings report, SpaceX revealed its space segment — which includes Falcon, Dragon and Starship — lost $542 million. By comparison, its Starlink internet and connectivity business made nearly $1.7 billion. Starship is expected to continue to cost SpaceX untold millions as it moves out of the prototyping phase. But one reason SpaceX is willing to bet big on Starship is that it's simply "much better" for achieving the company's own long-term goals, said SpaceX president Gwynne Shotwell at a recent conference. So it makes sense to shift resources toward the megarocket's future....

This rocket supply crunch has been looming since 2022, when Russia invaded Ukraine — which immediately removed Russia's Soyuz and Proton rockets from the commercial market, Henry noted. On top of that, Amazon — which is deploying a space-based internet constellation to rival SpaceX's Starlink — stepped in to buy more than 100 launches from various rocket makers.... Though some satellite manufacturers are hopeful that space onboard future Starship launches will be offered to satellite operators, it's not clear when or if that will happen.... It is possible that a launch supply crunch could be averted, noted Micah Walter-Range, a space analyst and contributor to the VettaFi Space Index. But satellite operators may be wary because newer rockets that have for years promised to step up to compete with the Falcon 9 have not yet begun flying with any regularity.
"The space industry hates uncertainty, particularly when it comes to planning of launches," Walter-Range said.

The article notes that Rocket Lab, Firefly Aerospace, United Launch Alliance, and the Jeff Bezos-founded Blue Origin "have not yet reached the scale or launch cadence that the industry is demanding."

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U.S. President Donald Trump "doxxed" a U.S. senator today, writes the Washington Sun, by posting his cell phone number "as part of a plea for his Truth Social followers to badger his Republican ally into making daylight saving time permanent."

When The Washington Sun called the number minutes after Trump's post, a recording said the mailbox was full and could not receive messages...

[Senator Tom] Cotton has long detested the idea of making daylight saving time permanent. In a Senate floor speech last year, Cotton said doing so would "make winter a dark and dismal time for millions of Americans," particularly harming kids. The Senate was only able to unanimously pass the bill in 2022 because Cotton was reportedly unaware the vote was taking place, though the measure stalled out from there. The Arkansas Republican didn't back down in a post on Saturday. "Arkansans don't want their kids going to school in the pitch dark, and I'll always put Arkansas first," he posted on X.


Trump continued his tear against Cotton soon after. "If Tom Cotton were putting Arkansas first, he would give them an extra hour of daylight and, more importantly, they wouldn't have to run all over their houses, farms, work places, and everywhere else, twice a year, having to change their Clocks, and often forgetting to do so," he posted on Truth.

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Phoronix reports:



Steam on Linux use in March hit an all-time high of around 5.33% marketshare. Since then it pulled back to around 4% while for September 2026 the Steam Survey results... indicate a rather steep decline of 0.85%, down to 3.05%. Meanwhile macOS is at 1.92% and Microsoft Windows at 95%... Steam's Survey reports a 7.42% increase in Chinese use, up to 31.39% overall of the Steam population. Usually those large month-over-month swings where Steam China use shoots up dramatically is a boost to Windows and a detriment to Linux. Some attribute the large increases in Simplified Chinese use to being a reporting/sampling issue.

When diving into the Steam Linux data exclusively, CachyOS has spiked by another 2.65% to now account for 18.12% of the sampled Linux gaming population. That even outperforms SteamOS Holo coming in at 17.37%. Among Linux gamers on Steam, AMD CPUs still account for the high 60 percentage space thanks to the Steam Deck and Steam Machine using AMD APUs and their open-source/Linux support being popular with enthusiasts.

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SANAA (ANP/RTR) - Jemenitische strijdkrachten van de internationaal erkende regering hebben aanvallen uitgevoerd op de Houthi's in de hoofdstad Sanaa en de noordelijke provincie Saada. Dat meldde een woordvoerder van de strijdkrachten in de nacht van zaterdag op zondag.

Volgens de woordvoerder waren de aanvallen gericht op belangrijke doelen van de door Iran gesteunde Houthi's. Hij gaf geen verdere details.

De door de Houthi's bestuurde zender Al Masirah meldde eerder dat Saudi-Arabië een aanval had uitgevoerd op Sanaa. Saudi-Arabië heeft dat niet bevestigd.

De Houthi's boekten de afgelopen weken grote terreinwinst langs de Rode Zee en voerden ook aanvallen uit op Saudi-Arabië en de scheepvaart. Daarbij verkregen ze onder meer controle over de strategisch belangrijke zeestraat Bab el-Mandeb.

De strijd tussen de Houthi's en troepen van de door Saudi-Arabië gesteunde regering lag sinds een bestand in 2022 grotendeels stil, maar is dit jaar weer opgelaaid. Saudi-Arabië heeft daarop luchtaanvallen uitgevoerd in Jemen en steunt regeringstroepen in hun strijd tegen de Houthi's.

WASHINGTON (ANP/AFP) - De Verenigde Staten hebben twee leden van de Iraanse delegatie bij de Algemene Vergadering van de Verenigde Naties het land uitgezet. Ze waren ondanks een bevel om te vertrekken in de VS gebleven, meldt het Amerikaanse ministerie van Buitenlandse Zaken zaterdag.

Volgens Amerikaanse media had het ministerie de Iraanse minister van Buitenlandse Zaken Abbas Araghchi en zijn delegatie maandag opgedragen de VS te verlaten. Vrijdag bleek dat twee delegatieleden nog in New York waren. Een van hen vertrok vrijdagavond, de ander zaterdagochtend, meldt nieuwssite Axios.

Amerikaanse en Iraanse functionarissen spraken elkaar een week eerder in New York. President Donald Trump wees volgens Amerikaanse media een voorstel van Iran over heropening van de Straat van Hormuz af, maar zei te verwachten dat gesprekken snel zouden worden hervat. Het Iraanse staatspersbureau IRNA meldde dat geen nieuwe directe gesprekken met Washington gepland staan.

Weer voor Rotterdam 🌕 - 04-10-2026 01:15 CEST

In één oogopslag:
• 16.7°C · Licht bewolkt 🌕 | Min 13.3°C / Max 20.4°C

Verwachting voor vandaag:
• Min 13.3°C, Max 20.4°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, 🧭 1028.8 hPa ↘️ -1.0 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 9.7 km/u (2.7 m/s), richting: ↗ 246°

Uurlijkse voorspelling voor de komende 12 uur:

• 02:00: 16.1°C (Helder) 🌕, 🧭 1029.8 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 6.5 km/u (1.8 m/s), richting: ↓ 6°
• 03:00: 16.0°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, 🧭 1029.6 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 6.8 km/u (1.9 m/s), richting: ↙ 62°
• 04:00: 16.0°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, 🧭 1029.4 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 7.9 km/u (2.2 m/s), richting: ← 71°
• 05:00: 15.1°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, 🧭 1029.2 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 6.1 km/u (1.7 m/s), richting: ↙ 48°
• 06:00: 15.0°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, Kans op neerslag 1%, 🧭 1029.3 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 5.4 km/u (1.5 m/s), richting: ↙ 52°
• 07:00: 15.2°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, Kans op neerslag 2%, 🧭 1029.5 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 5.4 km/u (1.5 m/s), richting: ← 79°
• 08:00: 15.2°C (Licht bewolkt) 🌤️, Kans op neerslag 2%, 🧭 1029.5 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 6.8 km/u (1.9 m/s), richting: ← 81°
• 09:00: 15.5°C (Gedeeltelijk bewolkt) ⛅, Kans op neerslag 1%, 🧭 1029.8 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 3.2 km/u (0.9 m/s), richting: ← 107°
• 10:00: 16.7°C (Zonnig) ☀️, Kans op neerslag 1%, 🧭 1029.7 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 3.2 km/u (0.9 m/s), richting: ← 106°
• 11:00: 18.1°C (Zonnig) ☀️, 🧭 1029.9 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 3.6 km/u (1.0 m/s), richting: ↑ 199°
• 12:00: 19.3°C (Gedeeltelijk bewolkt) ⛅, 🧭 1029.8 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 4.0 km/u (1.1 m/s), richting: ↗ 203°
• 13:00: 20.0°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, Kans op neerslag 1%, 🧭 1029.5 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 4.7 km/u (1.3 m/s), richting: ↑ 193°

Voorspelling voor de komende dagen:

• maandag 05 oktober: Min 15.0°C, Max 20.0°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, Kans op neerslag 2%, 🧭 1024.4 hPa ↘️ -4.4 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 7.9 km/u (2.2 m/s), richting: ↙ 39°
• dinsdag 06 oktober: Min 15.8°C, Max 21.5°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, 🧭 1019.1 hPa ↘️ -5.3 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 15.5 km/u (4.3 m/s), richting: ↗ 237°
• woensdag 07 oktober: Min 14.5°C, Max 20.3°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, Kans op neerslag 4%, 🧭 1009.3 hPa ↘️ -9.8 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 9.4 km/u (2.6 m/s), richting: ↑ 202°
• donderdag 08 oktober: Min 13.3°C, Max 19.4°C (Lichte buien) 🌧️, Neerslag 6.4 mm, Kans op neerslag 38%, 🧭 1008.4 hPa ↘️ -0.9 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 20.6 km/u (5.7 m/s), richting: ↙ 36°
• vrijdag 09 oktober: Min 10.2°C, Max 13.4°C (Lichte buien) 🌧️, Neerslag 19.3 mm, Kans op neerslag 65%, 🧭 1013.8 hPa ↗️ +5.4 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 22.4 km/u (6.2 m/s), richting: ↘ 328°
• zaterdag 10 oktober: Min 9.0°C, Max 13.5°C (Matige motregen) 🌦️, Neerslag 4.3 mm, Kans op neerslag 28%, 🧭 1007.4 hPa ↘️ -6.4 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 14.7 km/u (4.1 m/s), richting: → 248°

Details:
• 🌡️ Huidige temperatuur (om 01:15): 16.7°C (Licht bewolkt)
• 🤚 Gevoelstemperatuur: 15.8°C (-0.9°C)
• 💨 Windsnelheid: 3.6 km/u (1.0 m/s), richting: ↓ 5°
• 🌬️ Windstoten: 8.3 km/h (2.3 m/s)
• 💧 Luchtvochtigheid: 78%
• 🧭 Luchtdruk: 1029.8 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/3h
• 👁️ Zichtbaarheid: 15.4 km
• ☀️ UV-index: 0.0
• 🌅 Zonsopgang: 07:46 · 🌇 Zonsondergang: 19:15

Luchtkwaliteit:
• AQI: 64 🟡 (Matig)
• PM2.5: 19.8 μg/m³
• PM10: 26.7 μg/m³

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