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Weer voor Rotterdam ⛅ - 14-09-2026 19:15 CEST

In één oogopslag:
• 20.7°C · Gedeeltelijk bewolkt ⛅ | Min 16.3°C / Max 21.0°C | Kans op neerslag 15%

Verwachting voor vandaag:
• Min 16.3°C, Max 21.0°C (Lichte motregen) 🌦️, Neerslag 0.6 mm, Kans op neerslag 15%, 🧭 1021.4 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 13.7 km/u (3.8 m/s), richting: ↗ 205°

Uurlijkse voorspelling voor de komende 12 uur:

• 20:00: 20.1°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, 🧭 1021.3 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 13.7 km/u (3.8 m/s), richting: ↗ 239°
• 21:00: 19.9°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, 🧭 1021.6 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 12.2 km/u (3.4 m/s), richting: ↗ 239°
• 22:00: 19.7°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, 🧭 1021.4 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 11.9 km/u (3.3 m/s), richting: ↗ 227°
• 23:00: 19.7°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, 🧭 1021.1 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 11.5 km/u (3.2 m/s), richting: ↗ 216°
• 00:00: 19.7°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, 🧭 1020.8 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 12.2 km/u (3.4 m/s), richting: ↗ 223°
• 01:00: 19.4°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, 🧭 1020.3 hPa ↘️ -0.5 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 11.9 km/u (3.3 m/s), richting: ↗ 218°
• 02:00: 19.3°C (Licht bewolkt) 🌕, 🧭 1019.9 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 12.2 km/u (3.4 m/s), richting: ↗ 217°
• 03:00: 18.8°C (Helder) 🌕, 🧭 1019.4 hPa ↘️ -0.5 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 10.8 km/u (3.0 m/s), richting: ↑ 200°
• 04:00: 18.6°C (Helder) 🌕, 🧭 1019.1 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 12.2 km/u (3.4 m/s), richting: ↗ 207°
• 05:00: 18.3°C (Helder) 🌕, 🧭 1018.7 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 13.7 km/u (3.8 m/s), richting: ↗ 215°
• 06:00: 18.1°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, 🧭 1018.1 hPa ↘️ -0.6 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 14.8 km/u (4.1 m/s), richting: ↗ 217°
• 07:00: 17.8°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, 🧭 1017.7 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 12.2 km/u (3.4 m/s), richting: ↗ 222°

Voorspelling voor de komende dagen:

• dinsdag 15 september: Min 17.1°C, Max 21.3°C (Lichte motregen) 🌦️, Neerslag 0.1 mm, Kans op neerslag 8%, 🧭 1016.3 hPa ↘️ -5.1 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 19.1 km/u (5.3 m/s), richting: ↗ 240°
• woensdag 16 september: Min 15.0°C, Max 18.4°C (Matige motregen) 🌦️, Neerslag 2.0 mm, Kans op neerslag 47%, 🧭 1014.6 hPa ↘️ -1.7 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 23.8 km/u (6.6 m/s), richting: → 288°
• donderdag 17 september: Min 12.5°C, Max 17.2°C (Zware motregen) 🌦️, Neerslag 2.7 mm, Kans op neerslag 43%, 🧭 1011.4 hPa ↘️ -3.2 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 21.2 km/u (5.9 m/s), richting: ↗ 209°
• vrijdag 18 september: Min 12.9°C, Max 17.5°C (Lichte motregen) 🌦️, Neerslag 0.4 mm, Kans op neerslag 21%, 🧭 1010.5 hPa ↘️ -0.9 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 17.2 km/u (4.8 m/s), richting: ↗ 236°
• zaterdag 19 september: Min 14.7°C, Max 20.6°C (Matige motregen) 🌦️, Neerslag 9.3 mm, Kans op neerslag 37%, 🧭 1014.3 hPa ↗️ +3.8 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 21.0 km/u (5.8 m/s), richting: ↗ 236°
• zondag 20 september: Min 13.8°C, Max 17.6°C (Lichte motregen) 🌦️, Neerslag 0.3 mm, Kans op neerslag 19%, 🧭 1023.9 hPa ↗️ +9.6 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 16.6 km/u (4.6 m/s), richting: → 274°

Details:
• 🌡️ Huidige temperatuur (om 19:15): 20.7°C (Gedeeltelijk bewolkt)
• 🤚 Gevoelstemperatuur: 21.0°C (+0.3°C)
• 💨 Windsnelheid: 10.8 km/u (3.0 m/s), richting: ↗ 236°
• 🌬️ Windstoten: 25.2 km/h (7.0 m/s)
• 💧 Luchtvochtigheid: 88%
• 🧭 Luchtdruk: 1021.3 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/3h
• 👁️ Zichtbaarheid: 10.1 km
• ☀️ UV-index: 0.1
• 🌅 Zonsopgang: 07:14 · 🌇 Zonsondergang: 19:59

Luchtkwaliteit:
• AQI: 47 🟢 (Goed)
• PM2.5: 6.3 μg/m³
• PM10: 11.5 μg/m³

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You can’t buy Dicky’s level of stupidity though it could be argued that Christopher Harborne and Ben Delo just have

Never in the field of British politics has so much been given to so many by so few. You’d have thought Nigel Farage would have wanted to explain Reform’s sudden windfall from Christopher Harborne and Ben Delo himself. To bask in the glory of the donations from two down-to-earth, anti-establishment crypto billionaires. Men who know what it’s like to graft, who know the meaning of an honest day’s work for an honest day’s pay.

There again, Nige is keen not to appear as a one-man band these days and he could do with some downtime to enjoy his own £5m handout. And besides, he’s got a police investigation into Reform party funding to worry about. Even so, it wasn’t the best of looks to send Richard Tice out on to the morning media round. Dicky may have his talents, but he keeps them well concealed. His main talent is the unfortunate ability to make Honest Bob Jenrick sound trustworthy. But he does always leave you guessing. Is he being wilfully stupid or is he naturally that half witted?

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With Lula mired in scandal, Flávio Bolsonaro is firing up his base in the bellwether state of Minas Gerais – starting at the scene of his father’s stabbing

A giant banner of Brazil’s incarcerated former president Jair Bolsonaro fluttered in the morning breeze as his eldest son, Flávio, touched down at an airfield on the fringe of a city that will soon help decide the future of one of the biggest democracies on earth.

“Brazil is rudderless. Brazil has no president and Brazil needs a president – and that president is Flávio Bolsonaro,” the far-right senator declared as he waded into the flock of supporters who had gathered to welcome him to Juiz de Fora, one of the largest cities in the battleground state of Minas Gerais.

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UK general secretaries had been split on issue but sources say they are likely to back strong words calling for action

Trade unions are set to launch an intervention on Tuesday on political donations after the head of Britain’s trade union movement, Paul Nowak, said the government must act to “stop the super-rich corrupting our politics.”

Union leaders met on Monday to discuss possible support for a domestic cap on donations. Discussions are expected to continue but sources said general secretaries were likely to back strong words calling for further action on political donations from wealthy individuals – but arguing that trade union members should be treated as individual donors giving small amounts.

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Centre-left bloc led by Social Democrats has narrow lead with 95% of vote counted, but faces internal policy battle

Sweden’s political parties have launched coalition negotiations as the Social Democrats leader, Magdalena Andersson, started the long and difficult process of trying to form a new government.

Full results from Sunday’s election are not expected until after overseas votes are counted on Wednesday, but with 95% of the votes counted, the Social Democrats and the centre-left bloc had a narrow but growing lead of 176 seats to the right-leaning parties’ 173.

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HEERENVEEN (ANP) - Schaatsster Jutta Leerdam komt dit seizoen niet in actie op de ijsbaan. Dat heeft de olympisch kampioene op de 1000 meter maandag bekendgemaakt via haar eigen YouTubekanaal. De 27-jarige Leerdam wil zich voorlopig richten op andere aspecten van haar leven.

"Één ding is zeker, jullie zullen mij niet zien schaatsen dit seizoen", zei Leerdam in de videoboodschap. Het woord 'pensioen' klinkt volgens Leerdam te definitief. "Ik heb een obsessie gehad met schaatsen. Het is een groot deel van wie ik ben. Het zou niet goed voelen om die deur volledig dicht te doen."

DEN HAAG (ANP) - Het kabinet maakt pas in het voorjaar keuzes over eventuele nieuwe klimaatmaatregelen. Dan zal het kabinet "meer duidelijkheid geven over in welke mate aanvullend beleid nodig is voor de klimaatopgave richting 2040", schrijft landbouwminister Jaimi van Essen (D66) in een brief aan de Tweede Kamer.

Het Planbureau voor de Leefomgeving liet maandag al zien dat er nog veel nodig is om de 90 procent vermindering van broeikasgassen te bewerkstelligen die het kabinet voor ogen heeft in 2040. Tussen ambities en beleid zit nog een "grote kloof", schreef het planbureau.

Van Essen schrijft dat de Europese Commissie in het najaar komt met voorstellen voor Europese klimaatplannen na 2030. Het kabinet wil daar zoveel mogelijk bij aansluiten.

DEN HAAG (ANP) - Het produceren van meer duurzame energie in Nederland zorgt voor minder uitstoot en maakt dat Nederlanders meer "grip krijgen" op de energierekening. Dat zegt voorzitter Olof van der Gaag van de Nederlandse Vereniging Duurzame Energie (NVDE) in reactie op nieuwe verwachtingen van het Planbureau voor de Leefomgeving (PBL) over de ontwikkeling van de broeikasgasuitstoot en het energiesysteem in Nederland.

Het PBL maakte maandag bekend dat het percentage geïmporteerde energie naar verwachting daalt van 77 procent nu naar 49 tot 63 procent in 2040. Het overgrote deel van die import is fossiel. Tegelijkertijd stagneert de verduurzaming in ons land, stelt het Planbureau.

"Zolang we veel olie en aardgas uit het buitenland nodig hebben, bepalen oorlogen en wereldleiders mede wat Nederlandse gezinnen en bedrijven betalen", aldus Van der Gaag. "Met wind, zon, duurzame warmte en energiebesparing krijgen we steeds meer zelf het stuur in handen."

'Werk aan de winkel'

Volgens het PBL ligt Nederland niet op koers om de klimaatdoelen te halen. De NVDE benadrukt dat er "volop werk aan de winkel is". Zo pleit de duurzame energiebranche richting 2040 voor een elektriciteitssysteem "zonder CO2-uitstoot", met onder meer zon, wind, opslag en flexibel gebruik. Ook wil de NVDE onder meer dat mensen geholpen worden bij het isoleren van hun huis en duurzame verwarming.

Branchevereniging Energie-Nederland zegt ook dat energiebedrijven willen investeren in "duurzame opwek, warmte en flexibiliteit". Daarvoor hebben ze echter wel "beschikbare infrastructuur en stabiel beleid" nodig, benadrukt de vereniging.

Investeringen zijn daarbij noodzakelijk, aldus Energie-Nederland. "Door deze investeringen deels collectief te dragen, elektriciteit aantrekkelijker te maken en kwetsbare huishoudens gericht te ondersteunen, zorgen we dat de energietransitie weer betaalbaar en haalbaar wordt."

Former FTC chair Lina Khan wants the federal government to know that it doesn't need to wait for new laws to address AI threats. There are already laws and regulations on the books, including a 92-year-old Supreme Court precedent, that she argues could be used to hold AI companies and, in some circumstances, their executives accountable for their actions. Khan’s comments on X Sunday follow a flurry of activity from the leadership of OpenAI, Anthropic, Microsoft, and xAI aimed at doing what can only be described as trying to corner regulators into giving them their way. The former Biden administration trust buster pointed to numerous examples of current laws, and prior precedent, that could be used to hold frontier labs to account, even if they’re currently doing all in their power to change the conversation. “We shouldn’t let discussions about new legal regimes distract from the fact that there’s no AI exemption from laws already on the books,” Khan said. “Law enforcers already have authority to charge companies and their CEOs for creating and releasing dangerous, unvetted, or defective products.” As one example, Khan points to laws governing dangerous and defective products as an avenue to prosecute AI leaders. She notes that the release of unvetted models or agents can violate consumer protection laws, and that shipping tools “without implementing adequate measures to detect and stop rogue or defective AI agents” could be prosecuted under rules governing unfair and deceptive trade practices. Particularly timely, Khan also pointed to existing laws prohibiting unfair methods of competition. This, she notes, includes cases “where firms pursue dangerous behavior, aware that doing so may compel rivals to do the same.” There’s no leap needed to understand what Khan’s talking about here. OpenAI’s agents broke out of their intended sandbox and gained unauthorized access to Hugging Face systems - conduct that could raise serious criminal-law questions if carried out knowingly by a human. After doing some digging to look at its own agents' behaviors, Anthropic has essentially copped to similar activities that would be criminal if a meatbag was behind the keyboard instead of a simulated silicon brain. OpenAI’s agents have since been identified as the culprits in other misuses of online assets that, again, would be crimes were they perpetrated by a human. Khan points to a 1934 US Supreme Court decision to argue that the current battle between American frontier labs, which has put parts of the internet in the firing line of agents that escaped their intended constraints, could amount to an unfair method of competition if companies feel compelled to take similar risks to keep up. That decision, FTC v. R.F. Keppel & Bro, includes a passage where the justices argue that, if keeping up with the competition requires companies to “descend to a practice which they are under a powerful moral compulsion not to adopt,” that competition is unfair whether or not it’s criminal. Without weighing in on who shot first, OpenAI and Anthropic appear locked in a race to build increasingly capable AI while also warning, as both did over the weekend, that those systems could become dangerous without stronger safeguards and coordinated limits. Aside from the bad activity of the frontier labs themselves, Khan points out that the “highly concentrated and interconnected structure” of the AI industry also merits scrutiny for its potential to create “major risks and conflicts of interest.” Again, Khan points out this isn’t a hypothetical. “OpenAI could face liability given the Hugging Face incident, but Hugging Face being bought up by Nvidia means that we’re unlikely to see it file a lawsuit over this,” Khan noted, “given Nvidia’s strong incentive to see OpenAI continue full speed ahead.” Nvidia has dumped billions of dollars into OpenAI, becoming a centerpiece of the lab’s datacenters that power ChatGPT. Why, then, would the soon-to-be-owner of Hugging Face opt to hold one of its major partners accountable and further push it to build its own hardware? “We can and must pursue any new efforts alongside enforcing existing laws,” Khan said. Let’s be frank, though: The current administration is unlikely to do anything except capitulate and allow the AI industry to capture its regulators, if it even bothers to implement new regulations at all. Trump has already rejected the AI industry’s weekend calls for regulation, declaring himself to be the only guardrail the AI industry needs. As the AI industry leaders basically admitted over the weekend, whichever one of them blinks first stands to lose, so every single frontier lab in the US is going to keep pushing full steam ahead unless all of them agree to hit the brakes and pace their development. With Trump and other Republican leaders rejecting those calls, Khan’s argument leaves her former agency and other state and federal regulators as potential avenues for action. Kirk Sigmon, a founding partner at technology law firm KellDann Law, told us that it’s unlikely federal regulators will take any action. “Most governments are desperate not to kill a nascent technology as it grows, especially when other countries are allowing it to grow,” Sigmon told The Register. He said the only actions against the industry he expects to see in the next few years are “easy wins” in places like deepfake porn, impersonation, and AI-enabled scams. “I very much doubt we'll see much action … against the entire process of training, or the like - that's likely to be perceived as strangling the industry.” In other words, fire up the boilers - it’s full speed ahead toward the day AI does something truly devastating and we all gnash our teeth and wail about how something should have been done earlier. ®

Ubuntu 24.04's likely final scheduled point release barely made it out the door before an installer bug sent its x86-64 desktop image back to the workshop. Meanwhile, October's interim release is approaching. 24.04.5 was released on September 10, but its x86-64 desktop installation image was withdrawn after a bug caused the installer to crash when users selected the extended installation option. Other images and official flavors are unaffected. For the time being, if you try to download the graphical desktop version, the "Noble Numbat" download page is serving the 24.04.4 ISO image instead. The other versions on that page – Server, WSL2 image, and the Netboot version – are not affected. The issue only affects fresh installations: if you already have 24.04 installed, a full system update will result in 24.04.5 in the usual way. Version 24.04.5 is very likely to be the last point release of the 2024 Ubuntu LTS. Ubuntu 26.04 is the latest LTS release, but 24.04 remains supported. As we reported when Resolute Raccoon launched in April, it uses Linux kernel 7.0, and that means that a new install of 24.04.5 comes with kernel 7.0 as well. This is part of Canonical's system of LTS Enablement stacks, also called Hardware Enablement or HWE, as we described back when 24.04.3 appeared in August 2025. The same applies if you upgrade an existing copy of 24.04. We upgraded one of our test laptops and it too got the new kernel version automatically. Kernel upgrades depend on which kernel track the installation follows. Ubuntu 24.04 Desktop defaults to HWE, while Server defaults to the original general-availability kernel; some desktops use an OEM kernel instead. HWE updates bring newer kernels and graphics support to an existing LTS release. A successful installation doesn't establish that every device or feature works correctly, or that later updates offer no benefit. As we wrote in January 2025, we have a couple of laptops with onboard Nvidia GPUs that need kernel 5.x to run the Nvidia binary drivers, so we downgraded them to Ubuntu 22.04's original 5.15 kernel. It still works and it's still getting bug fixes from Canonical. Alongside the newer kernel, the release includes a graphics stack based on Mesa 26.2. There's a detailed list of issues and fixes in the 24.04.5 release notes, as well as a list of security fixes in Ubuntu Security Notices. Here comes a stingray! (Ooh-wah, ooh-wah) In other Ubuntu update news, version 26.10 "Stonking Stingray" is getting close. At the start of the month, the company announced in-progress development snapshot 3, and the beta is scheduled for September 24. Both a standard x86-64 installation image and a build optimized for processors supporting x86-64-v3 are on the download page. Post-install, it should be possible to switch to the newer-CPU binaries. As the June development roadmap specified, 26.10 is now in feature freeze, but a big one sneaked in right under the wire: it should come with Linux kernel 7.3. Kernel 7.2 came out last month, with the kernel team's new faster AI-assisted development cycle. The following version is already at RC-2 stage and the final version 7.3 should be out right around the same time as Stonking. If necessary, the Stingray may be set free with a pre-release kernel and updated within days. Canonical did promise earlier this year that it was aiming to make Ubuntu interim releases exciting again, and this would certainly qualify. GNOME 51 is nearly a month into its beta cycle and should appear a couple of weeks before Stonking. This release should also finish the process of replacing all the Unix-style core utilities with Rust versions. There should also be a version of the Myna speech-to-text tool, as we mentioned back in June. If you want to see the new look, there's a public Google Drive folder with the new wallpapers available now. ®

Werknemers in Nederland zullen enkele miljarden euro’s meer belasting betalen, terwijl huizenbezitters juist profiteren van een ruimere hypotheekrenteaftrek. Dat is het onverwachte gevolg van een belastingmaatregel die het kabinet in stand laat, ondanks een geschrapte verhoging van het eigen risico in de zorg.

Singh Varma vertelde haar collega’s in 2000 dat ze zou aftreden als Kamerlid, omdat ze aan een ongeneeslijke vorm van kanker zou lijden. Dat bleek niet te kloppen.

Uit straatboekenkastjes in heel Nederland haalt Arjen Fortuin steeds een boek, bespreekt het, en geeft het door.

Pstrey has added a photo to the pool:

Ok wait, the NES Tetris world record is now 40.26 million??! It took 2 hours and 20 minutes and the previous record was 29 million. At level 255, you hit “rebirth” and the pieces slow down to level 0 speeds again. Totally bonkers.

The operation offers an early indication that Moscow is continuing to resupply facilities at Tartus port and the Khmeimim airbase under the new deal.