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A deep dive into Nvidia's Vera CPU and the Olympus cores that power it

DEEP DIVE For the first time, Nvidia has directly challenged Intel and AMD's CPU dominance. With the launch of Vera, the AI arms dealer aims to flog its standalone CPUs to as many hyperscalers and other cloud providers as it can. Alibaba, ByteDance, Meta, Oracle, CoreWeave, Lambda, Nebius, and NScale have already signed up to deploy the chips in their respective clouds. The follow-on to Nvidia's Grace CPU promises 88 custom Armv9.2 cores, 176 threads, support for up to 1.5 TB of LPDDR5X memory, and, critically, availability as a standalone platform independent of Nvidia's GPUs. But beyond that, and a mountain of marketing about how it'll be the best CPU for everything AI, Vera's inner workings have largely remained a mystery until recently. That changed late last month, when Nvidia released a whitepaper spilling the beans on its first fully-custom CPU, which is far weirder than anyone could have anticipated. Ostensibly, Nvidia is aiming Vera at two key workloads: the first and least surprising is as the AI head node responsible for managing the GPUs in its upcoming Vera Rubin systems. The second, and more contentious, is as a host for AI agents, which, unlike the large language models (LLMs) that power them, don't actually run on GPUs. From what we gather, much of Vera's core architecture is predicated on quashing pipeline and execution bottlenecks in order to make it more effective in these roles. But before we dive into Nvidia's Olympus core, let's revisit the chip itself. Monolithic compute, multi-die memory and I/O Peel back Vera's rather substantial heat spreader and you'll find an assortment of chiplets responsible for I/O, memory, and compute. However, this isn't another rehash of the chiplet architecture popularized by AMD. Unlike x86 processor makers, which spread dozens of cores across multiple dies, Vera's compute die is monolithic. All 88 cores are housed in one big chunk of silicon that from what we understand is fabbed on TSMC's 3nm process. Nvidia argues its monolithic compute architecture has benefits for both core-to-core bandwidth and latency compared to competing designs. Surrounding the compute die is an assortment of chiplets, including eight LPDDR5x controllers, and what appears to be two distinct I/O dies, one responsible for PCIe 6.4 and CXL 3.1 connectivity and another dedicated to the chip's NVLink Chip-to-Chip interface. In terms of package design, Vera is somewhat reminiscent of Amazon's Graviton 4 CPUs, which also combine a monolithic compute die while disaggregating the I/O and memory functionality to dedicated silicon. The Vera CPU Superchip Like most modern datacenter CPUs, Vera supports both single- and dual-socket configurations, the latter of which Nvidia calls the Vera CPU Superchip. Unveiled at GTC in March, the Superchip features two Vera CPUs connected over NVLink-C2C at a blisteringly fast 1.8 TB/s of bidirectional bandwidth, for a total of 176 cores and 352 threads. The two chips are fed by 16 SOCAMM2 LPDDR5x memory modules, which deliver 2.4 TB/s of aggregate memory bandwidth (1.2 TB/s each) — roughly twice the bandwidth of AMD's Turin Epycs, which were launched in 2024. Nvidia's agentic AI reference designs call for cramming as many as 128 of these superchips (256 CPUs) totaling 22,528 cores and 384 TB of memory into a single liquid-cooled rack. Summiting Olympus Previously, Nvidia had relied on off-the-shelf CPU cores from Arm. For example, depending on the iteration, Nvidia's Grace CPUs used Arm's Neoverse V2 (GB200/300), Neoverse V3 (AGX Thor), or Cortex X925 and A725 cores (GB10), depending on which was most convenient. With Vera, Nvidia has moved on to designing its own ARMv9.2-compatible core, called Olympus. In fact, it's up for debate how custom the chip really is. We've been told that the chip builds heavily on existing Arm IP, and looking at Olympus' architectural block diagram, we can see why. Olympus features a 10-wide decoder and dispatch, eight integer arithmetic logic units (ALUs), six vector/FP pipelines (SVE 128), four load units, and 2x store units. So it's got a fat front and back end compared to the Zen 5 cores found in AMD's Turin Epycs or the Redwood Cove cores used by Intel's Granite Rapids Xeons. But compared to off-the-shelf Arm cores, Olympus' front and back end aren't breaking any records. In fact, Olympus looks a lot like a heavily modified Cortex X925. With that said, Nvidia claims Olympus features an entirely custom neural branch predictor, which is capable of exploring two branches simultaneously. Branch prediction is key to performance in modern CPUs, and involves anticipating future code paths and executing down them before they're needed. By predicting two paths per cycle, Vera decreases the likelihood of a mispredict, theoretically boosting its performance in the process. And from what we can tell, a lot of the customization that went into Vera was made explicitly to stamp out pipeline and execution bubbles in order to maximize the number of instructions per clock (IPC). In particular, Nvidia claims its neural branch predictor delivers higher hit rates than history-based approaches, making it ideal for running branch-heavy workloads, like the Python scripts generated on the fly by AI code assistants. Nvidia also claims to have made several innovations to the mid-core, again aimed at mitigating pipeline stalls. Memory renaming speeds up store-to-load dependency chains by allowing dependent instructions to execute before a load completes if the relationship to the data can be divined. "This is particularly beneficial for pointer-heavy software, graph traversal, runtime frameworks, and complex object-oriented workloads," the company explained. Nvidia also implemented a value prediction scheme which "identifies stable dependency chains and predicts future values before they are produced, allowing dependent instructions to execute speculatively while correctness is verified later." This functionality, the company claims, helps to speed up repetitive software patterns and sequential data processing. On the back end, Nvidia Olympus features a similar complement of ALUs and FP units as the X925, but they've been implemented differently. Eight of the ALUs are simple integer units which handle basic mathematics, while the company says two complex ALUs handle multiplication and division, CRC, and shift intensive workloads. The back end also features four dedicated branch units that work with the chip's branch predictor to resolve control flow decisions that would otherwise cause pipeline stalls. Meanwhile, for floating point operations, Olympus features six 128-bit Arm scalable vector engines (SVE2) extensions which also support FP8, along with a pair of vector units dedicated to speeding up crypto operations. Each core is supported by a 64 KB L1 instruction cache, 96 KB L1 data cache, and 2MB per core of L2. The chip also features 164 MB of system level cache (SLC) that's sharded across the chip. SMT makes a comeback on Arm Perhaps Olympus' most interesting party trick is support for simultaneous multithreading (SMT). SMT has been a mainstay of x86 chips since 2002. The technology boosts utilization by enabling two threads to harness idle execution units during a single cycle. While SMT doesn’t double throughput, for certain applications it can deliver double-digit percentage gains. While Arm has supported SMT in the past — you may recall Cavium ThunderX2's four-way SMT implementation prior to its acquisition by Marvell — the company has downplayed its value with its own agentic CPU. Arm's dislike for the tech didn't stop Nvidia from implementing SMT-like functionality in Olympus. We say SMT-like because it's not SMT in the conventional sense. Rather than simultaneous multi-threading, Nvidia markets it as spatial multithreading, which is an apt name given how it works. Rather than two threads that share the resources of one core, Olympus' SMT implementation looks more like core bifurcation with a shared cache line. You can either have one fat core or two skinny ones. To our eyes, it looks a bit like multi-instance GPU (MIG) for the CPU. The white paper makes a big to-do about how spatial multithreading avoids the thread contention you can see with x86 parts, which makes sense, because Nvidia's threads behave more like individual cores. We wouldn't read too much into these claims, though. There have always been applications that benefit from SMT and those that don't, and it's easy enough to turn it off if you don't want it. With that, Nvidia's SMT implementation could be beneficial to agent sandboxes for agentic workloads. With containers — that's all these sandboxes really are – there are two workloads. There's the job you're running inside the container – let's say a Python script and interpreter – and then there's the container runtime, which is responsible for orchestration of container workloads and managing networking and storage overlays. These are very different jobs. By bifurcating its cores, Nvidia can keep the workload and runtime separate, which in theory should make for more deterministic performance. Fat pipes galore Before we move on to Vera's memory subsystem, we need to spend a few minutes discussing Nvidia's second-gen scalable coherency fabric (SCF), which is used to stitch all 88 cores together. As we mentioned earlier, Vera features a monolithic compute die, which means all of its cores are packed on the same silicon. The SCF is essentially a cache-coherent superhighway designed to connect cores together at a whopping 3.4 TB/s of bisectional bandwidth. As Nvidia explains it: "SCF is organized as a distributed coherent interconnect connecting multiple cores through a collection of Coherency Switch Nodes (CSNs). Each CSN connects up to two cores and serves as a routing point within the fabric, enabling efficient movement of requests between cores, caches, memory controllers, and external interfaces." The SCF is also where the L3 cache lives, which explains why Nvidia opted to shard its SLC across the CPU rather than having one big, centrally located pool of it. The SCF is critical, as without it, Vera wouldn't actually be able to utilize its memory bandwidth effectively. Vera features eight LPDDR5x memory controllers with support for SOCAMM2 modules up to 9600 MT/s. At 1.2 TB/s and roughly 14 GB/s per core, Vera has one of the fastest memory subsystems in the world today, but it's worth pointing out that the competition's chips launched nearly two years ago. Both Intel and AMD's next-gen CPUs will make the jump to 16 memory channels. We're still waiting on details on Intel's 192-core Diamond Rapids platform, but we learned last week that AMD's Venice CPUs will boast up to 256 cores and support for 8,000 MT/s RDIMMs or 12,800 MT/s MRDIMMs, which translates to between 1 TB/s and 1.6 TB/s. Assuming AMD's GMI-links aren't a bottleneck this time around, the House of Zen's 96-core Epycs should hit around 17 GB/s per core, and there's no reason to think Intel's Xeon 7 processors won't do the same. With that said, Vera's memory subsystem should suck a bit less power thanks to the use of LPDDR5X rather than standard RDIMMs. The company claims under a sustained load, its memory subsystem contributes just 30 to 40 watts of consumption versus 100 to 200 watts depending on channel and DIMM count on a traditional server platform. For reference, Vera's TDP is configurable between 250W and 450W. Power consumption might explain why AMD is working on a new Epyc, codenamed Verano, which will also use LPDDR5X. An I/O trifecta Vera isn't bursting just with memory bandwidth, but with I/O bandwidth as well. The chip is among the first to support PCIe 6.4 and CXL 3.1, beating out Intel, and possibly AMD depending on the first systems to actually make it into customers' hands. As with past generational PCIe bumps, 6.0 sees per lane bandwidth double to 64 Gbps, which translates to 128 GB/s (256 GB/s bidirectional) for a single x16 slot. A single Vera socket can support 6 such slots (96 lanes in total) for connectivity to NICs, storage, and other peripherals. In the dual-socket Vera CPU superchip config, the lane count does drop slightly to 176 lanes or 11 x16 slots. Along with PCIe, those lanes also support Compute Express Link 3.1. CXL has been around for a while now, but the 3.1 iteration is notable for its support for fabrics and memory sharing. As we've previously discussed, this capability opens the door to network attached memory appliances — which we affectionately call memory godboxes — where multiple CPUs can share the memory. Finally, we need to talk a bit about Vera's NVLink chip-to-chip connectivity. First introduced back in its Grace CPUs, the high-speed interconnect's bandwidth has now been doubled to 1.8 TB/s of bidirectional bandwidth (900 GB/s up and down). This high-speed interconnect allows for coherent memory access across connected CPUs or GPUs. In the Vera Rubin superchip, NVLink is how the CPU talks to the two GPUs. Meanwhile for Vera CPU superchip, the NVLink-C2C interface provides a blazing fast interconnect that mitigates many of the bandwidth bottlenecks associated with multi-socket systems. Performance In agentic workloads, Nvidia estimates Vera will deliver 1.8x higher per-core performance than AMD's 128-core Epyc 9755 in benchmarks representative of agentic workloads, and up to 2.6x faster performance in graph traversal jobs. While that sounds impressive, we're not reading too deeply into Nvidia's performance claims just yet. Turin launched nearly two years ago, which makes it an advantageous comparison point. CPU benchmarks are notoriously easy to cherry pick, and microbenchmarks, while useful for quantifying hardware's capabilities, aren't always representative of real-world performance. A classic example of this is core-to-core latency on early AMD Epycs versus Intel Xeons. As we've already established, AMD employs a multi-chiplet architecture that, for Turin, used up to eight frequency-optimized cores or 16 density-optimized cores per core-complex die (CCD). For workloads that can fit within a single CCD, the core-to-core latency is extremely small. But if a core on one CCD needs to talk to a core on another CCD, it has to walk the I/O die, which incurs a stiff performance penalty. Intel, until recently, has favored higher core-count compute dies, which historically have fared better for latency-sensitive applications, like databases, for the same reason Nvidia opted for a big monolithic compute die on Vera. Whether this actually confers an advantage varies from application to application, and it's not a clear cut victory for one approach or the other. Both have their merits. AMD's chiplet architecture lets them use smaller, better yielding dies, which translates to better margins. We should also mention that Venice makes the jump to 12- and 32-core CCDs, which means the workload would need to be even more talkative for you to notice the latency hit. We've said it before and we'll say it again: there has never been and never will be one CPU to rule them all. Vera doesn't change that. After getting a peek at Vera's performance in the Phoronix Test Suite in a selected, Nvidia-dictated set of tests earlier this year, we're optimistic about Vera's performance in its target workloads, but look forward to seeing fully independent runs on production hardware, especially with AMD's Venice just a few months away. We fully anticipate Vera to sell extremely well, if not for its performance characteristics, then because if you want more than eight Rubins, it's probably coming with a Vera CPU attached. ®

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The US war on Iran is spinning out of control | Mohamad Bazzi

Trump’s conflict keeps escalating, with Saudi Arabia joining airstrikes in Iraq and reportedly planning an attack on the Houthis. A recession could follow

The US war against Iran is spiraling out of control. Over the past week, the conflict has expanded across the Middle East, with attacks and counterattacks in at least five other countries. Instead of a quick war that sought to topple Iran’s regime, Donald Trump has started a regional conflict that risks severely disrupting energy supplies and prices – and triggering a global recession.

After a few days of relative calm, the conflict resumed with the Pentagon carrying out almost nightly strikes against Iran, and Tehran retaliating against US military bases in the region. The conflict also extended to attacks in Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Yemen, Jordan and Egypt. And there’s little sign that peace negotiations between the US and Iran, which are being brokered by Pakistan and Qatar, are making much progress.

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The Democrats have one last chance to halt the erosion of US democracy – and it’s less than 100 days away | Timothy Garton Ash

American democrats need a Hungarian-style landslide to overwhelm Trump’s attempts to rig November’s midterm elections

In these days of extreme weather events, it seems odd to say that the US needs a big landslide. But a landslide defeat for President Donald Trump in November’s midterm elections is exactly what is required if the country is to start reversing his deliberate and rapid erosion of its democracy.

The respected Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem) Institute at Gothenburg University argues that in 2025 the US saw one of the most rapid declines in liberal democracy on record. “Democracy in the USA,” says its Democracy Report 2026, “is now at its worst in 60 years.” As the imperial republic marks the 250th anniversary of its founding, the danger seen at the very beginning of its constitutional order by anti-federalists such as Patrick Henry – that of an overmighty president abusing his executive power in an attempt to become a new king – has come closer than ever before.

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Gregg Araki on sex, film and queer resistance: ‘All the terrible shit in the world is because of sexual repression’

As his 12th feature film, I Want Your Sex, hits theaters, the cult gay film-maker is as fired up as ever

Is straight sex the most perverse sex of all? Gregg Araki’s new film makes a convincing case. Titled I Want Your Sex, the movie is a deliriously fun and often hilarious study of desire, power and art that features bondage, full-frontal and a vagina made out of pink chewed-up bubble gum. “For me, it is a very queer story,” the director says, speaking the week of the film’s release in a video call from his Los Angeles home. “It’s a take on kink and alternate sexuality that goes right across the straight-queer spectrum.”

While it is not the first heterosexual movie by Gregg Araki – that honor goes to his 1995 acid trip of a road movie The Doom Generation – it features the new queer cinema pioneer’s starriest cast in years, perhaps in a sign that Hollywood at large has caught up to the cult director’s anarchic vision. Forty years into his career, we still want Araki’s sex: the film is set to reach the director’s biggest audience to date, opening to 700 US screens this week, a stunning figure for an independent film and a wider opening than recent films by indie veterans like Nicolas Winding Refn and Jim Jarmusch.

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‘We didn’t feel safe’: Booking.com users face battle to get money back

From melted electric sockets to shabby alternatives, readers tell of dealings with platform when things go wrong

Jane Ripley* spent some time researching the best apartment to stay in for her family’s trip to Batumi in Georgia, eventually settling on one with an “exceptional” rating on Booking.com.

But when the Ripleys arrived at 11pm on the first day, they were directed to another property that was shabby and had stains on the furniture and ceiling.

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From Ozempic to eye creams: demand for bathroom mini fridges is heating up

Sales soar as consumers seek maximum convenience, though experts say most products don’t need to be kept cool

When it comes to essential fixtures and fittings for bathrooms, the most common are tubs and taps. But now there is a new must-have emerging: a mini fridge.

Used to store everything from beauty products to GLP-1 medication, the growing demand reflects a wider trend in how the wellness industry and weight-loss drugs are reshaping homes.

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Fiona Allen: ‘The closest I’ve come to death? A trip in a black cab with John Worboys. I had a lucky escape’

The actor and comedian on her hatred of selfishness, her unhappy resting face, and why she dropped her agent

Born in Lancashire, Fiona Allen, 61, went to drama school in Salford. From 1999, she co-wrote and starred in the Emmy-winning and Bafta-nominated TV sketch show Smack the Pony. She had roles in Shameless, Skins, Waterloo Road and EastEnders, and her films include 24 Hour Party People, Fat Slags, Gladiatress and Finding Emily. In 2023, she took her show On the Run to the Edinburgh festival fringe and later toured the UK. This year, she performs White Lies at Edinburgh’s Gilded Balloon Teviot from 5 to 29 August. She is married with three children and lives in Berkshire.

What is your greatest fear?
My kids navigating the world as it is today – and daddy longlegs.

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‘A towering piece of monoculture’: how The Odyssey discourse has dominated this summer

Christopher Nolan’s smash hit epic has continued to excite and enrage everyone from rightwingers to academics, an old-fashioned throwback to a uniting big-screen event

If a high-profile academic is reviewing a movie for the London Review of Books, that movie in question must be making some kind of mark on some kind of culture. And if people are actually reading a movie review in the London Review of Books, and writing thinkpieces in disagreement or favor of said movie or its review, that movie may actually be a cultural phenomenon.

Normally, volume of discourse about a movie should not be mistaken for a sign that people are actually seeing it. Sometimes online factions just have a bored fixation not shared by the rest of the world. But Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey has some major receipts at the box office, too: the movie has already outgrossed Oppenheimer, Nolan’s last movie, itself a shockingly popular movie for adults. Though The Odyssey’s audience skewed male in its first weekend, by its second its gender split was closer to 50/50, suggesting reach beyond the stereotypically male-driven action-adventures. It’s also reaching out to older moviegoers, an endangered demographic in a summer where under-25s have driven the success of Obsession and Backrooms. Three-quarters of The Odyssey’s audience has been over 25, while memes inspired by the movie (most popular: Matt Damon’s anguished face portraying Odysseus listening to the sirens’ song and Robert Pattinson’s slimy suitor demanding that “someone get these BEGGARS out of here!”) have indicated that younger people are paying attention too.

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Europa laat 130 km/u los: waar u deze zomer harder mag en waar juist niet

Decennialang was 130 kilometer per uur de vertrouwde bovengrens op de Europese snelweg. Dat ijkpunt brokkelt af — maar niet in één richting. Tsjechië laat op één traject 150 toe, Nederland gaf vier stukken asfalt hun 130 terug, en in Tirol staat het bord nog altijd op 100. Wie deze zomer de auto pakt, rijdt door een lappendeken.

Tsjechië: 150, maar bijna nooit

De meest besproken proef loopt op de D3 in Zuid-Bohemen, tussen de afritten Planá nad Lužnicí en Úsilné — de as tussen Tábor en České Budějovice. Sinds 5 oktober 2025 mag daar op 47 kilometer 150 kilometer per uur worden gereden, aangekondigd via 42 variabele borden die op de omstandigheden reageren. Droog wegdek, uitstekend zicht, geen file, geen wegwerkzaamheden: pas dan springt het bord op 150. Anders staat er gewoon 130 of lager.

Het interessante zit in de eerste evaluatie van het Tsjechische ministerie van Verkeer. In oktober 2025 stond het regime 93 procent van de tijd op 150. In december was dat 7 procent, in januari 2026 nog 1 procent. Het Tsjechische najaar en de winter zetten de proef in feite stil, en precies daarom is de pilot verlengd tot eind 2026: er is simpelweg te weinig representatieve data.

Een limiet van 150 die vier maanden per jaar op 130 blijft staan, is vooral een technologisch experiment — geen snelheidsrevolutie.

Valt de evaluatie goed uit, dan komen andere moderne trajecten in beeld, met de D11 bij Hradec Králové als kandidaat. Dat besluit is nog niet genomen.

Nederland: 117 kilometer, en dat is het

Op 16 maart 2020 ging de maximumsnelheid overdag op vrijwel alle Nederlandse snelwegen naar 100 kilometer per uur, als stikstofmaatregel. Sinds 14 april 2025 is dat op drie trajecten teruggedraaid: de A7 over de Afsluitdijk tussen Stevinsluizen en Lorentzsluizen (circa 44 kilometer, beide richtingen samen), de A7 tussen Winschoten en de Duitse grens (circa 24 kilometer) en de A6 tussen Lelystad-Noord en de Ketelbrug (circa 18 kilometer). In de zomer van 2025 volgde de A37 tussen knooppunt Holsloot en aansluiting Zwartemeer.

Bij elkaar gaat het om ongeveer 117 kilometer rijbaan — een fractie van het Nederlandse hoofdwegennet. Overal elders geldt tussen 06.00 en 19.00 uur nog steeds 100. De Afsluitdijk zelf is 32 kilometer lang; het traject waar u harder mag is korter dan de dijk.

Oostenrijk: let op, hier gaat het vaak mis

Rond Oostenrijk circuleert een hardnekkig misverstand. Ja, het milieutempo van 100 kilometer per uur op basis van het Immissionsschutzgesetz-Luft (IG-L) is op belangrijke routes geschrapt — maar níet op de Brenner- en Inntalautobahn. In Salzburg verdween de luchthonderd in november 2023 van de A10 Tauernautobahn, en Stiermarken schrapte in april 2025 de limieten op delen van de A2 en de A9.

In Tirol staat de permanente 100 nog fier overeind: op de A12 Inntalautobahn tussen Kufstein en Zirl over bijna 90 kilometer, en op de A13 Brennerautobahn tussen Innsbruck en Schönberg. Wie via Kufstein het land binnenrijdt, zit direct in de zone. Volledig elektrische auto's en waterstofauto's zijn van de IG-L-limiet uitgezonderd en mogen daar 130; plug-in hybrides niet. Boetes voor overtreding van een IG-L-limiet vallen hoger uit dan gewone snelheidsboetes.

Wie in de reisgids leest dat de Brenner weer 130 is, rijdt in Tirol regelrecht een dure boete in.

Duitsland: de rechter zet de druk erop

Duitsland blijft de uitzondering: het enige EU-land zonder algemene maximumsnelheid op de Autobahn. Politiek verandert daar nog niets, maar juridisch schuift er wel iets. Op 29 januari 2026 oordeelde het Bundesverwaltungsgericht in Leipzig dat het Duitse klimaatprogramma niet voldoet aan de wettelijke eisen, omdat het onvoldoende concrete maatregelen bevat om het klimaatdoel voor 2030 te halen. Het gat wordt geschat op 25 miljoen ton CO₂.

Welke maatregelen de regering neemt, schrijft de rechter niet voor. Milieuorganisatie Deutsche Umwelthilfe rekent voor dat een pakket van 100 op de Autobahn, 80 buiten de bebouwde kom en 30 in de stad jaarlijks bijna 12 miljoen ton CO₂ zou schelen — bijna de helft van het gat. In juli 2026 legden de Groenen een wetsvoorstel voor een algemene limiet van 130 kilometer per uur in de Bundestag. Wat dat gaat opleveren, is een open vraag.

Turkije: al langer sneller dan Europa

Turkije wordt vaak als nieuwkomer in het rijtje genoemd, maar de verhoging is niet van vandaag. Sinds 1 juli 2022 geldt op de staatssnelwegen 130 in plaats van 120 kilometer per uur, en op een aantal private tolsnelwegen — zoals de Noord-Marmara-route, Gebze–İzmir en Malkara–Çanakkale — mag 140. Nieuw aangelegde snelwegen krijgen standaard die 140.

Wat dit betekent voor uw vakantierit

Drie praktische lessen. Ten eerste: navigatiesystemen lopen achter op recent gewijzigde limieten, en op trajecten met variabele borden geldt altijd het bord boven uw rijstrook, niet het cijfer in de app. Ten tweede: een verhoogde limiet is bijna nooit onvoorwaardelijk — de Tsjechische cijfers laten zien hoe zelden ideale omstandigheden zich voordoen. Ten derde: check per land, en zelfs per deelstaat, wat er geldt. De Oostenrijkse verwarring rond Tirol is daar het duurste voorbeeld van.

De Europese trend is niet dat 130 verdwijnt. De trend is dat één Europees getal verdwijnt, en dat er een lappendeken van trajecten, tijdvakken, weertypes en voertuigsoorten voor in de plaats komt. Voor de automobilist is dat geen bevrijding, maar huiswerk.


Meer volledig elektrische auto's verkocht, totale verkoop gedaald

BUNNIK (ANP) - De verkoop van nieuwe personenauto's is in juli afgenomen ten opzichte van juli vorig jaar. Dit ondanks een stijging van het aantal volledig elektrische auto's, dat goed is voor bijna de helft van het totale marktaandeel. Dat blijkt uit cijfers van autobrancheorganisaties BOVAG en RAI Vereniging en RDC.

"Je kunt je voorstellen dat consumenten naar alternatieven kijken voor auto's met een verbrandingsmotor", aldus een woordvoerder van RAI Vereniging. "Er komen steeds meer volledig elektrische auto's beschikbaar en ze hebben ook steeds meer bereik. Dat biedt mogelijkheden."

In juli werden er iets meer dan 28.000 nieuwe personenauto's op kenteken gezet. Dat is een daling van 2,6 procent ten opzichte van juli 2025. Het aantal registraties van volledig elektrische auto's kwam in juli uit op ruim 13.000, waarmee het marktaandeel inmiddels 47,3 procent is.

In totaal werden er dit jaar tot nu toe 202.469 nieuwe auto's geregistreerd. Dat is 4,1 procent minder dan in dezelfde periode vorig jaar, toen dat er een kleine 212.000 waren.


Halsema: Pride is zowel feest als protest

Pride is zowel een feest als een protest. Dat zei burgemeester Femke Halsema zaterdagochtend tegen een ANP-verslaggever voorafgaand aan de Canal Parade.

Pride is "allebei, het gaat namelijk heel goed samen. Ik denk dat een protest effectiever is als het feestelijk is en als mensen met vrolijkheid hun argumenten kracht bijzetten. Een feest krijgt er een ziel door", aldus Halsema.

Gevraagd naar de veiligheid van de botenparade zei Halsema, refererend aan de aanslag vorig weekend op de Pride in Berlijn: "Ik heb vertrouwen in alle maatregelen die we hebben genomen. We hebben ons echt heel grondig voorbereid. En we hopen natuurlijk dat het een geweldige dag wordt!"


Premier Jetten bij opstapplek Canal Parade in Amsterdam

Premier Rob Jetten is in Amsterdam bij de opstapplek voor de Canal Parade. De premier verscheen zaterdagochtend in het Scheepvaartmuseum en werd daar ontvangen door burgemeester Femke Halsema, meldt een ANP-verslaggever. Of Jetten meevaart is nog niet duidelijk.

Met de jaarlijkse Canal Parade, dit jaar in het teken van WorldPride, wordt aandacht gevraagd voor de regenbooggemeenschap. Jetten is de eerste openlijk homoseksuele premier van Nederland. Hij krijgt daar geregeld negatief commentaar op, maar "mensen zullen eraan moeten wennen dat er een homo in het Torentje zit", zei hij daar onlangs over op Radio 10.


Zwarte Zaterdag: lange files op de vaste routes naar het zuiden

DEN HAAG (ANP) - Zoals elk jaar is het op deze Zwarte Zaterdag behoorlijk druk op de wegen naar Zuid-Europa. In Frankrijk staat vakantieverkeer uren vast op de Route du Soleil (A6/A7) voor Lyon en op de A9 van Orange naar de Spaanse grens.

In Zuid-Duitsland is het filerijden richting Oostenrijk, net als op de wegen van Oostenrijk naar Italië. Voor de Gotthardtunnel moet het verkeer rekening houden met anderhalf uur vertraging.

Volgens de ANWB loopt de drukte in de ochtend nog verder op. Vanaf ongeveer 14.00 uur wordt het dan weer rustiger.

Zwarte Zaterdag is een term die eigenlijk slaat op de Franse situatie, waar een groot deel van de inwoners tegelijk per auto hun vakantie begint op de eerste zaterdag in augustus. Tegenwoordig wordt de term breder gebruikt voor grotere delen van Europa.


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Door politiek gekrakeel heeft Papendrecht deze zomer even twee burgemeesters

Tijdens de vakantie van burgemeester Margreet van Driel neemt bestuurder Jan Heijkoop voor drie weken haar taken over. Een uitzonderlijke situatie, die alles te maken heeft met politiek gekrakeel.

Uniek: Papendrecht heeft deze zomer niet één maar twee burgemeesters

Tijdens de vakantie van burgemeester Margreet van Driel neemt bestuurder Jan Heijkoop voor drie weken haar taken over. Een uitzonderlijke situatie, die alles te maken heeft met politiek gekrakeel.

Tallawong village

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Tallawong village

Today(01/08/26) afternoon at my village(Tallawong), Sydney, Australia.
Peace be with you.

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Ceuta Morning After. Westerse inlichtingen: 'Marokkaanse staat faciliteerde invasie', '48.300 migranten gisteren teruggekeerd'

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In 1 dag 50.000 erin, de volgende dag al 48.300 eruit en geen van hen heeft geprobeerd het Spaanse vasteland te bereiken. Als dat één ding aan toont: algehele remigratie kan dus wel! Tenminste, als ze er nog geen 24 uur wonen. Maar hoe kwam deze invasie tot stand? The Telegraph schrijft op basis van 'bronnen' dat Westerse inlichtingendiensten vermoeden dat de Marokkaanse staat de toestand gefaciliteerd heeft: "Westerse inlichtingenbronnen vermoeden dat Marokko de plotselinge toestroom van 60.000 migranten naar de Spaanse enclave Ceuta heeft gefaciliteerd. Bronnen vertelden aan The Telegraph dat deze massale instroom mogelijk diende als strafmaatregel te midden van diplomatieke frustraties met Spanje. Naar verluidt zijn Marokkaanse functionarissen gefrustreerd over de Spaanse socialistische premier Pedro Sánchez, vanwege zijn streven naar gasdeals met rivaal Algerije. Marokko liet in 2021 al eerder 8.000 mensen naar Ceuta trekken na een conflict met Madrid over de soevereiniteit van de Westelijke Sahara; dit ging vooraf aan een plotselinge beleidswijziging in Spanje."

Die vermoedens lijken bevestigd te worden door o.a. een aantal video's die de betrokkenheid van de Marokkaanse politie toont, en dit interview in de New York Times met de betreffende migranten in Ceuta: "We hebben nu met verschillende Marokkanen gesproken die zeggen dat ze door de Marokkaanse autoriteiten werden aangemoedigd om Ceuta binnen te komen. Youssef Alaoui, 26, zei dat toen zijn groep donderdag de grens naderde, Marokkaanse politieagenten hen in de juiste richting wezen. “Ze bleven maar zeggen: ‘Ga die kant op, ga die kant op.’" En ook: "Mohammed Ahmidho, 37, zei dat hij gisteren op sociale media over de toestroom naar Spanje had gehoord, en dat terwijl hij de grens naderde, Marokkaanse politieagenten “zeiden: ‘Kom naar Spanje.’"

Mocht de Marokkaanse staat hier inderdaad achter zitten, dan is deze verantwoordelijk voor de dood van 67 Marokkanen die tijdens de oversteek omkwamen.

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Remigratie!


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Lucien Spee wil organisatie WorldPride verkopen aan private investeerders

​World Pride-organisator Lucien Spee heeft een groots plan op tafel gelegd om de financiële mogelijkheden van het evenement nog verder te vergroten. De festivaldirecteur wil het evenement gaan verkopen aan private investeerders, die aandelen kunnen kopen in een nog op te richten bedrijf genaamd WorldPride Forward Enterprise. Spee hoopt hiermee miljarden op te halen voor WorldPride.

Spee denkt dat de verkoop veel geld kan opleveren om te investeren in Prides over de hele wereld. “Het is nogal arrogant om te denken dat ze op Tonga zomaar even de faciliteiten kunnen neerzetten voor zo’n evenement. Dit soort landen kunnen onze steun heel goed gebruiken.”

Het plan is niet overal in goede aarde gevallen. Critici vinden niet dat de organisatie van zo’n belangrijk wereldwijd evenement in handen moet vallen van een paar mensen met veel geld en zij vermoeden dat de Pride-directeur dit alleen maar doet om er zelf financieel beter van te worden. Spee wil niets weten van die kritiek en laat weten de plannen gewoon door te zetten. “Voor alle mensen die gaan lopen haten op dit plan, zeg ik: ik heb zojuist de grootste Pride ooit georganiseerd. Zijn jullie soms vergeten om daarvan te genieten?”

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