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Intel's Make-Or-Break 18A Process Node Debuts For Data Center With 288-Core Xeon 6+ CPU

Intel has formally unveiled its Xeon 6+ "Clearwater Forest" data-center processor with up to 288 cores, built on the company's new Intel 18A process and using Foveros Direct packaging. The chip targets telecom, cloud, and edge-AI workloads with massive parallelism, large caches, and high-bandwidth DDR5-8000 memory. Tom's Hardware reports: Intel's Xeon 6+ processors with up to 288 cores combine 12 compute chiplets containing 24 energy-efficient Darkmont cores per tile that are produced using 18A manufacturing technology, two I/O tiles made on Intel 7 production node, as well as three active base tiles made on Intel 3 fabrication process. The compute tiles are stacked on top of the base dies using Intel's Foveros Direct 3D technology, whereas lateral connections are enabled by Intel's EMIB bridges.

Intel's 'Darkmont' efficiency cores have received rather meaningful microarchitectural upgrades. Each core integrates a 64 KB L1 instruction cache, a broader fetch and decode pipeline, and a deeper out-of-order engine capable of tracking more in-flight operations. The number of execution ports has also been increased in a bid to improve both scalar and vector throughput under heavily threaded server workloads.

From a cache hierarchy standpoint, the design groups cores into four-core blocks that share approximately 4 MB of L2 cache per block. As a result, the aggregate last-level cache across the full package surpasses 1 GB, roughly 1,152 MB in total. This unusually large pool is intended to keep data close to hundreds of active cores and reduce dependence on external memory bandwidth, which in turn is meant to both increase performance and lower power consumption. Platform-wise, the processor remains drop-in compatible with the current Xeon server socket, so the CPU has 12 memory channels that support DDR5-8000, 96 PCIe 5.0 lanes with 64 lanes supporting CXL 2.0.

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Rijnmond - Nieuws

Het laatste nieuws van vandaag over Rotterdam, Feyenoord, het verkeer en het weer in de regio Rijnmond

Veel rook door brandende gordijnen in flatwoning

In een flatwoning aan de Achillesstraat in Rotterdam-Hillegersberg heeft woensdagavond korte tijd brand gewoed. De brand ontstond in de gordijnen, maar was snel geblust. Niemand raakte gewond.

Ahmed (18) start eigen politieke partij: 'Er wordt nooit vanuit perspectief van jongeren gekeken'

Partijen voor dieren en ouderen zijn niet meer weg te denken uit de Rotterdamse politiek. Maar partijen voor jongeren wisten de raadszaal nooit te bereiken. Ahmed Moridi (18) wil daar met de jongerenpartij NEXT verandering in brengen.

De jonkies aan zet? Ahmed (18) wil met zijn jongerenpartij de gemeenteraad opschudden

Partijen voor dieren en ouderen zijn niet meer weg te denken uit de Rotterdamse politiek. Maar partijen voor jongeren wisten de raadszaal nooit te bereiken. Ahmed Moridi (18) wil daar met de jongerenpartij NEXT verandering in brengen.

The Guardian

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Catherine Opie: To Be Seen review – a queer carousel of tattoos, fake moustaches and toddlers in tutus

From butch alter egos to radical images of motherhood, the photographer rises to the challenge of capturing her community in imposing and glorious style

Catherine Opie has done for butches what Hans Holbein the Younger did for the Tudor nobility. Since she graduated in the late 1980s, amid the Aids crisis, Opie has made portraits of her community, friends and family, adopting unflinching realism, saturated colours, and dramatic tonal contrasts from the 16th-century portrait painters. Many of Opie’s most famous portraits – included in her new exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery – use these devices deliberately, a declaration that these people deserve, as the title of the show underlines, to be seen.

Opie has always been interested in construction – how we can be transformed by costume, posture, pose, role-play. This show is a testament to that, and her love of tattoos, piercings and body modifications (she does live in LA, after all). She’s especially drawn to the performance and presentation of masculinity – in the 1991 series Being and Having, one of the earliest bodies of work in the show and still one of Opie’s best known. She has 13 lesbian friends dress up as their masculine alter egos – Opie also appears as her own, Bo. They don a range of fake moustaches and are photographed close, so their faces fill the frame against an egg-yolk yellow background, the glue attaching the hair to their faces clearly visible. Their nicknames are engraved into name tags, like they’re trophies.

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The posh egg problem: how they became a status symbol – and shoplifting target

Pretty coloured eggs from fancy breeds can now cost as much as £4.50 for half a dozen. But some people have found a sneaky way to avoid paying a premium

Name: Posh eggs.

Age: Best before three weeks from now.

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In these troubled times, who isn’t loving the nostalgia of the Kennedys and Love Story’s 90s New York? | Emma Brockes

It’s monstrously presumptuous? Unforgivably glib? Perhaps. But this stylised drama is the show we all need right now

If you are looking for a break in the clouds from this terrible news cycle, can I direct you towards Love Story, the nine-part series executive-produced – but crucially, not written! – by Ryan Murphy, which documents the love and untimely deaths of John F Kennedy Jr and his wife, Carolyn Bessette. You might think this isn’t for you, that it’ll be too tabloidy or that you’re not interested in JFK Jr. But while Love Story, which takes us back to a very particular version of early-1990s New York, might not seem like the show we want right now, it is exactly the show that we need.

This probably sounds like a heartless summary of a true story that ends in the terrible deaths of two young people (in 1999, while flying his wife and her sister from New Jersey to Martha’s Vineyard, Kennedy crashed his light aircraft, killing everyone on board). But that tragic end only suffuses the preceding nine hours of storytelling with a kind of pearly, nostalgic light, just the thing to see off the iron-grey wash of today’s reality. The New York of Love Story isn’t the city’s current iteration, with its impossible rents and charmless finance bros ruining downtown. Nor is it the 1990s New York of, say, Home Alone 2, in which Donald Trump strides through the Plaza Hotel and Central Park is a crime-ridden disaster.

Emma Brockes is a Guardian columnist

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Rijksoverheid.nl - Nieuwsberichten

Nieuwsberichten op Rijksoverheid.nl

Vogelgriep vastgesteld in Neede, Gelderland

In Neede (gemeente Berkelland, provincie Gelderland) is vogelgriep vastgesteld op een pluimveebedrijf met vleeskuiken ouderdieren. Om verspreiding van het virus te voorkomen, heeft het ministerie van Landbouw, Visserij, Voedselzekerheid en Natuur (LVVN) besloten de circa 97450 hennen op de locatie te laten ruimen door de Nederlandse Voedsel- en Warenautoriteit (NVWA).

Colossal

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Johan Siggesson’s Striking Portraits of ‘Big Tuskers’ in Kenya

Johan Siggesson’s Striking Portraits of ‘Big Tuskers’ in Kenya

Among African elephants, “Big Tuskers” refers to bulls that grow tusks so long they sometimes scrape the ground. Each one can weigh well over 100 pounds. These giant, ivory incisors continually grow throughout an elephant’s life, and males typically have much larger tusks than females.

The bigger the tusks, however, the more vulnerable these gentle giants are to poachers who harvest and traffic the ivory for trade. There are only a couple dozen left in nature preserves like Kenya’s Tsavo East National Park and Amboseli National Park.

A black-and-white photo by Johan Siggesson of a baby elephant walking beside its mother
“Together Forever”

For wilderness photographer Johan Siggesson, a fascination with animals and their habitats led to a series of striking black-and-white photographs of elephants and their herds in Kenya. From charming juveniles to big tuskers like Craig (1972-2026) and emerging contenders like the 35-year-old Michael, Siggesson captures the incredible anatomy, habitat, and behavior of these endangered megafauna.

Prints are available for purchase on Siggesson’s website. Explore more of his work on Instagram.

A black-and-white photo by Johan Siggesson of a straight-on portrait of a big tusker elephant
“Face to Face”
A black-and-white photo by Johan Siggesson of a big tusker elephant
“Michael”
A black-and-white photo by Johan Siggesson of a family of elephants moving through a Kenyan landscape
“Hot Pursuit”
A black-and-white photo by Johan Siggesson of a big tusker elephant named Craig near a tree, beneath a cloudy sky
“Craig & Tree”
A black-and-white photo by Johan Siggesson of a herd of elephants walking through a Kenyan landscape
“At the Foot of the Mountain”
A black-and-white photo by Johan Siggesson of a big tusker elephant

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Russia to Free 2 Hungarian-Ukrainian POWs, Putin Says

Putin claimed the two soldiers were "forcibly conscripted" by Ukraine and that he personally made the decision to release them.

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Rusland laat twee Oekraïens-Hongaarse krijgsgevangenen vrij

MOSKOU (ANP/AFP) - Rusland gaat twee krijgsgevangenen vrijlaten die zowel de Hongaarse als de Oekraïense nationaliteit hebben. Dat zei president Poetin woensdag na een ontmoeting met de Hongaarse minister van Buitenlandse Zaken in Moskou.

"Deze burgers hebben een dubbele nationaliteit, zowel Oekraïens als Hongaars, en werden gedwongen gemobiliseerd", zei Poetin. Hij voegde eraan toe dat minister Péter Szijjártó de twee mocht meenemen op zijn vlucht terug naar Boedapest.

De Hongaarse regering van Viktor Orbán onderhoudt als een van de weinige Europese landen nog goede banden met Rusland.


Slowakije trekt omstreden klokkenluiderswet in

BRATISLAVA (ANP/AFP) - Slowakije trekt een omstreden wet in die de bescherming van klokkenluiders zou beperken, meldt premier Robert Fico. De wet werd afgelopen december vlak na de invoering al opgeschort, in afwachting van een uitspraak van het grondwettelijk hof over de inhoud. Fico zei zich nu te willen focussen op "wat we vandaag de dag belangrijk vinden". De klokkenluiderswet zou het onderhandelen met Brussel bemoeilijken over "olie-, gas- en elektriciteitsprijzen".

Slowakije lobbyt samen met Hongarije bij Brussel om de levering van Russische olie te hervatten. Na een aanval op een belangrijke pijpleiding uit Rusland gaven de landen Oekraïne de schuld van het niet hervatten van de leveringen.

De invoering van de klokkenluiderswet leidde tot grote protesten in het land. Afgelopen januari begon de Europese Commissie een inbreukprocedure tegen Slowakije vanwege de wet. Dat kan de Commissie doen als EU-landen het EU-recht niet correct toepassen.


Vier maanden cel voor slaan van agent bij demonstratie

DEN HAAG (ANP) - Een 24-jarige man uit Den Haag is woensdag door de politierechter in Den Haag veroordeeld tot een celstraf van vier maanden voor het slaan van een agent. Ze werd tijdens een demonstratie door de verdachte op het achterhoofd geslagen.

De politie begeleidde op 21 februari een onaangekondigde demonstratie tegen de komst van asielzoekers in het voormalige HagaZiekenhuis aan de Sportlaan. De burgemeester van Den Haag had de omgeving als veiligheidsrisicogebied aangewezen.

Tijdens de onrustig verlopen demonstratie, die ongeveer een uur duurde, heeft de politie meerdere keren moeten optreden. Bij een van die keren werd de agent eerst in haar gezicht geslagen, waarop ze haar hoofd wegdraaide. Daarna werd ze op het achterhoofd geslagen.

De officier van justitie noemde het onacceptabel dat agenten worden aangevallen, terwijl ze er juist staan om burgers van dienst te zijn. De officier eiste zes maanden celstraf, waarvan drie voorwaardelijk. De rechter deed meteen uitspraak en legde vier maanden celstraf op. De verdachte moet die straf direct uitzitten.


Iets meer vrouwelijke bestuurders bij overheden

DEN HAAG (ANP) - Het gemiddelde aandeel vrouwelijke bestuurders bij overheden en andere publieke organisaties is gestegen van 41 procent in 2024 naar 43 procent in 2025, aldus een onderzoek in opdracht van het ministerie van Onderwijs, Cultuur en Wetenschap. Het gaat dan niet alleen om functies in de top van gemeenten, provincies en waterschappen, maar ook bijvoorbeeld bij scholen, ministeries en woningcorporaties.

Bij de decentrale overheid wordt laag gescoord. Zo is 33 procent van de burgemeesters in Nederland vrouw. In de provincies is slechts 17 procent van de commissarissen van de Koning vrouw. Bij 19 procent van de waterschappen vervullen vrouwen de rol van dijkgraaf.

In de semipublieke sector is de verhouding man-vrouw evenrediger. Mbo-scholen en de Hoge Colleges van Staat scoren goed, daar haalt 20 procent de gewenste verhouding van 45 tot 55 procent vrouwen in de topfuncties. Onderaan de lijst staan Defensie en het Kabinet van de Koning, waar in de top minder dan 30 procent vrouw is.


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Voor Turkije doemt het schrikbeeld op van een breder regionaal conflict

Terwijl woensdag ook boven Turkije een Iraanse ballistische raket uit de lucht werd geschoten, blijft Ankara aansturen op een diplomatieke oplossing. Een zwakker Iran geeft Turkije ruimte om zijn invloed uit te breiden in de regio, „maar een Iran dat instort of fragmenteert is een heel ander scenario”.

kottke.org

Jason Kottke's weblog, home of fine hypertext products

The KDO Rolodex Is Now a Wee Feed Reader?

Hello, good afternoon! As I mentioned a few weeks ago, I have a bunch of new stuff for KDO in the pipeline. I’ve been focused on backend infrastructure recently to make my life (hopefully) easier and have gotten that to a place of “useful enough to test out to find all the bugs & irritations”. So onto some things that you folks can actually use.

When I launched the KDO Rolodex last July, it was a simple list of five recommended sites on the front page of the site. You could refresh to see more sites, but you couldn’t see the whole list all at once. Fun, but lots of room for improvement.

Over the weekend, I launched the full list of sites (186 at the moment) for your perusal. Any visitor to the site can see the sites & people I read to help make KDO. I’ve written before about why this is important to me:

I love linking out to other sites. The strength of the open web is in its many connections between nodes…the more, the better. Links are the whole goddamned point of the web! I want to send people away from kottke.org to learn something new or have a chuckle and then come back the next day for more. The goal is connection, knowledge, and sharing — I proudly have no competitors in this endeavor, only collaborators.

I loved seeing the whole list. So I kept pushing made something I’ve had on my todo list for awhile: I turned the Rolodex into a tiny RSS feed reader. Which I love even more. The feed reader feature is a bit rough around the edges, so I’m making available only to members while we beta test it. Here’s what it looks like:

The three latest posts from each site or person are listed below their name; clicking on a post title will open the post in a new tab. You can obviously click on the name of the site/person to open that in a new tab too. Sites are sorted by most recently updated (this is true of the public listing as well). If you’re a member, please check it out and kick the tires.

For the curious, some details about the implementation. I use Feedbin as my feed reader and they have a pretty good API. So I built a sync system that adds the URLs of the sites in the Rolodex (if they have associated feeds) to Feedbin and tags them with “Rolodex”. Once the feeds are associated with sites, I can just retrieve new entries from those Rolodex-tagged feeds (every 30 min currently). There are a few sites causing problems — for instance, Beehiiv newsletters don’t appear to have RSS feeds by default?1 — and there are some other bugs, but I’m working on it. I’m not including posts from social sites (Bluesky, Mastodon) for now because that’s another level of velocity.

But like I said, I am loving this casual wee feed reader so far. No read/unread statuses, no counts, no folders, no pressure to catch up, no 3-pane view. I’d say 90-95% of the sites on the list work fine — and it doesn’t need to be 100%. Try it out, lemme know what you think.

Thanks to KDO members for helping to fund new features like this. If you’d like to help support the site, check out your membership options here. ✌️

  1. If you try adding Ryan Broderick’s Garbage Day newsletter (hosted by Beehiiv) to Feedbin, it can’t find an RSS feed because there’s no link tag for it. The front page of the site doesn’t link to the feed anywhere. But if you dig around in the source code… ah, there it is. Same deal with Bobby Solomon’s new Horstman newsletter, except the RSS feed address isn’t anywhere in the source. 🤷‍♂️ So posts for those sites won’t show for now.

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