In de Sydneystraat in Rotterdam is in de nacht van vrijdag op zaterdag een grote brand uitgebroken. Vlammen slaan uit het dak van een bedrijfspand. Een gedeelte van het bedrijvenpark Zestienhoven is afgesloten vanwege de bluswerkzaamheden.

Live coverage of the second Formula 1 practice session ahead of the 2026 United States Grand Prix in Austin.

Charles Leclerc topped the times during first practice at the United States Grand Prix weekend.

Arvid Lindblad, Franco Colapinto and Gabriel Bortoleto have all received grid penalties for various PU changes at the United States Grand Prix.

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AUSTIN (ANP) - Max Verstappen heeft in de tweede vrije training van de Grote Prijs van de Verenigde Staten in de Formule 1 de derde tijd neergezet. De 29-jarige Red Bull-coureur was op het Circuit of the Americas 0,189 seconde langzamer dan de Monegask Charles Leclerc in de Ferrari. Ook de Italiaan Kimi Antonelli, de leider in het kampioenschap, was in de Mercedes sneller dan Verstappen.

Leclerc kwam op de zachte band tot het beste rondje van 1.35,291. Antonelli was 0,042 seconde langzamer. De Britse Ferrari-coureur Hamilton reed de vierde tijd op 0,615 van zijn teamgenoot. De Brit George Russell kwam tot de vijfde tijd in de Mercedes, maar was ook ruim langzamer.

Verstappen had eerder vrijdag de tweede tijd gereden in de eerste vrije training. Toen was Leclerc ook al de snelste.

Verstappens Franse teamgenoot Isack Hadjar had veel moeite op de baan in Austin en was bijna een seconde langzamer dan de Nederlander met de negende tijd. Ook regerend wereldkampioen Lando Norris uit Groot-Brittannië en zijn Australische teamgenoot Oscar Piastri bij McLaren kwamen er niet aan te pas. Ze waren ruim een seconde langzamer dan Leclerc.

Verstappen won de laatste twee races van dit seizoen. De Red Bull-coureur boekte in de GP van Bahrein, die werd verreden in Maleisië, de eerste zege dit jaar. Een week later was hij op het circuit van Singapore de beste in zowel de sprintrace als de hoofdrace.

De coureurs rijden zaterdag om 19.30 uur (Nederlandse tijd) de derde vrije training. Om 23.00 uur volgt de kwalificatie. De start van de GP is zondag om 21.00 uur.

In het WK leidt Antonelli met 340 punten. Zijn Britse teamgenoot George Russell staat tweede met 238 punten en de Britse Ferrari-coureur Lewis Hamilton staat derde met 229 punten. Verstappen staat vierde met 221 punten.

PM and the Liverpool mayor prove to be naturals at watching TV, with a genuine connection and sense of fun

On nights like this a man can feel like he’s slipped through the looking-glass. I’m sitting on the sofa watching the TV, poised to make some gags about the prime minister and the mayor of Liverpool, who are themselves sitting on a sofa at No 10, poised to make some gags about what they are watching on TV.

Life doesn’t get more meta. The saving grace is that this episode of Gogglebox is a charity special for Stand Up to Cancer. Andy Burnham has requested that any journalist writing about the programme makes a donation to SU2C. I’m happy to oblige. Cancer is costing me a great deal more than money.

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Kaylub Giamanco recounts the day he confronted the Silver Rail elementary school shooter, who killed three boys and one teacher

The Oregon father hailed as a hero for stopping a school shooting last week spoke for the first time about the incident, describing his experience and how he told a 911 operator: “I have to go in. People are going to die.”

Kaylub Giamanco, a 36-year-old carpenter, has received national attention and praise for stopping the bloodshed at Silver Rail elementary in Bend, Oregon, where his children attend school.

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Kim Jong-un has opened the borders to both his key allies in Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin, but for different reasons

For more than a decade, local Chinese residents pilloried it as nothing more than an empty bridge that led to a North Korean vegetable patch on the other side.

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BBC series deliberately uses ‘more organic’ shots to assure viewers animals are not AI-generated, producers say

The David Attenborough-narrated series Blue Planet III deliberately includes cloudier, less polished footage to counter AI fakery and assure viewers it is “authentic”, its producers have said.

Nearly a decade after Blue Planet II shone a light on plastic pollution, and 25 years since the first Blue Planet aired, the hit BBC series is returning with more animal behaviour and cutting-edge technology, including the world’s first underwater CCTV camera – dubbed “stonefish” cam.

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With just 11 days until the US midterm elections, Democrats need a net gain of four seats to reclaim Congress

With just 11 days until the US midterm elections, early voting data is rolling in nationwide. Democrats need a net gain of four seats to reclaim the majority in each chamber of Congress. Here is where the numbers stand as of Friday:

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Weer voor Rotterdam 🌧️ - 24-10-2026 01:15 CEST

In één oogopslag:
• 10.9°C · Lichte regen 🌧️ | Min 10.8°C / Max 13.5°C | Kans op neerslag 87%

Verwachting voor vandaag:
• Min 10.8°C, Max 13.5°C (Matige regen) 🌧️, Neerslag 22.0 mm, Kans op neerslag 87%, 🧭 1005.1 hPa ↗️ +4.9 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 38.5 km/u (10.7 m/s), richting: ↑ 176°

Uurlijkse voorspelling voor de komende 12 uur:

• 02:00: 10.8°C (Lichte regen) 🌧️, Neerslag 2.4 mm, Kans op neerslag 100%, 🧭 1000.2 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 37.4 km/u (10.4 m/s), richting: → 285°
• 03:00: 10.2°C (Matige regen) 🌧️, Neerslag 3.6 mm, Kans op neerslag 95%, 🧭 1001.9 hPa ↗️ +1.7 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 36.4 km/u (10.1 m/s), richting: → 285°
• 04:00: 10.3°C (Matige motregen) 🌦️, Neerslag 0.6 mm, Kans op neerslag 88%, 🧭 1003.2 hPa ↗️ +1.3 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 34.2 km/u (9.5 m/s), richting: → 285°
• 05:00: 10.3°C (Lichte motregen) 🌦️, Neerslag 0.1 mm, Kans op neerslag 84%, 🧭 1004.3 hPa ↗️ +1.1 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 31.0 km/u (8.6 m/s), richting: → 284°
• 06:00: 10.2°C (Lichte motregen) 🌦️, Neerslag 0.3 mm, Kans op neerslag 89%, 🧭 1005.5 hPa ↗️ +1.2 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 30.6 km/u (8.5 m/s), richting: → 281°
• 07:00: 10.3°C (Lichte motregen) 🌦️, Neerslag 0.1 mm, Kans op neerslag 97%, 🧭 1006.4 hPa ↗️ +0.9 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 27.7 km/u (7.7 m/s), richting: → 278°
• 08:00: 10.5°C (Lichte motregen) 🌦️, Neerslag 0.1 mm, Kans op neerslag 96%, 🧭 1007.4 hPa ↗️ +1.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 28.4 km/u (7.9 m/s), richting: → 274°
• 09:00: 10.5°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, Kans op neerslag 75%, 🧭 1008.3 hPa ↗️ +0.9 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 25.2 km/u (7.0 m/s), richting: → 271°
• 10:00: 10.9°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, Kans op neerslag 44%, 🧭 1009.0 hPa ↗️ +0.7 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 24.5 km/u (6.8 m/s), richting: → 269°
• 11:00: 11.7°C (Zonnig) ☀️, Kans op neerslag 20%, 🧭 1009.7 hPa ↗️ +0.7 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 25.9 km/u (7.2 m/s), richting: → 267°
• 12:00: 12.2°C (Licht bewolkt) 🌤️, Kans op neerslag 8%, 🧭 1010.4 hPa ↗️ +0.7 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 23.4 km/u (6.5 m/s), richting: → 262°
• 13:00: 12.8°C (Zonnig) ☀️, Kans op neerslag 2%, 🧭 1010.4 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 23.0 km/u (6.4 m/s), richting: → 251°

Voorspelling voor de komende dagen:

• zondag 25 oktober: Min 10.2°C, Max 12.9°C (Matige regen) 🌧️, Neerslag 21.8 mm, Kans op neerslag 64%, 🧭 997.2 hPa ↘️ -7.9 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 43.9 km/u (12.2 m/s), richting: ↗ 232°
• maandag 26 oktober: Min 11.4°C, Max 12.7°C (Matige regen) 🌧️, Neerslag 8.5 mm, Kans op neerslag 49%, 🧭 1012.4 hPa ↗️ +15.2 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 42.5 km/u (11.8 m/s), richting: → 259°
• dinsdag 27 oktober: Min 10.0°C, Max 13.6°C (Lichte regen) 🌧️, Neerslag 5.1 mm, Kans op neerslag 29%, 🧭 1012.2 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 30.2 km/u (8.4 m/s), richting: ↗ 226°
• woensdag 28 oktober: Min 11.9°C, Max 17.3°C (Lichte motregen) 🌦️, Neerslag 1.9 mm, Kans op neerslag 17%, 🧭 1023.9 hPa ↗️ +11.7 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 23.5 km/u (6.5 m/s), richting: ↗ 220°
• donderdag 29 oktober: Min 10.4°C, Max 14.4°C (Gedeeltelijk bewolkt) ⛅, Kans op neerslag 9%, 🧭 1027.0 hPa ↗️ +3.1 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 14.8 km/u (4.1 m/s), richting: → 253°
• vrijdag 30 oktober: Min 9.1°C, Max 14.9°C (Lichte motregen) 🌦️, Neerslag 0.9 mm, Kans op neerslag 5%, 🧭 1025.9 hPa ↘️ -1.1 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 8.4 km/u (2.3 m/s), richting: → 255°

Details:
• 🌡️ Huidige temperatuur (om 01:15): 10.9°C (Lichte regen)
• 🤚 Gevoelstemperatuur: 5.0°C (-5.9°C)
• 💨 Windsnelheid: 38.5 km/u (10.7 m/s), richting: → 281°
• 🌬️ Windstoten: 74.2 km/h (20.6 m/s)
• 💧 Luchtvochtigheid: 87%
• 🧭 Luchtdruk: 1000.2 hPa ↗️ +3.0 hPa/3h
• 👁️ Zichtbaarheid: 6.5 km
• ☀️ UV-index: 0.0
• 🌅 Zonsopgang: 08:20 · 🌇 Zonsondergang: 18:31

Luchtkwaliteit:
• AQI: 23 🟢 (Goed)
• PM2.5: 2.8 μg/m³
• PM10: 6.3 μg/m³

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Greece has passed a law banning children under 15 from social media platforms beginning January 1, 2027. The legislation requires platforms to implement reliable age verification and parents to use government-backed apps to restrict access, with penalties for noncompliance under the EU's Digital Services Act. Engadget reports: "It would have been very easy to do absolutely nothing today and wait for the perfect European law. But the challenge is here. Children are sinking into the internet every day, and I believe a responsible government must do what it is obliged to do," said Greece's digital governance and AI minister, Dimitris Papastergiou.

The legislation was opposed by Greece's minority parties, so Mitsotakis used his majority government to pass the bill. The nation previously barred mobile phones in schools in 2024, and opinion polls show that the new social media ban for children is widely supported by Greece's adult population. Mitsotakis previously said that his government's "goal is to push the European Union in this direction as well."

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The New York Knicks reportedly sent employees a fake offer of complimentary NBA championship rings as part of an internal phishing test, requiring anyone who clicked the link to attend mandatory cybersecurity training. "Congratulations, your Employee Championship Ring is here," the email said. According to The New York Times, Madison Square Garden employees who clicked that link "were forced to attend a mandatory cybersecurity class to help satisfy some of [owner James] Dolan's growing cybersecurity concerns." Ars Technica reports: The offer wasn't implausible, either. "Typically, most employees for NBA teams receive rings, even if they are not as fancy and expensive as the ones the players receive," wrote Joe Vardon, senior NBA writer for The Athletic, which was bought by The New York Times in 2022 and then merged into the parent news organization. Vardon's article was primarily about how Knicks assistant coaches did not get rings on Tuesday when the team raised its first league championship banner since 1973. The assistant coaches were handed boxes without rings inside, though they are expected to receive rings later on.

"Ring orders, designs, and measurements can take time, and not every coaching staff for every defending champion gets its rings on ring night... The Knicks assistants were told they would receive championship rings eventually, but many longtime employees at Madison Square Garden, including some who work in the Knicks' business operations, will not receive rings at all, team sources told The Athletic," Vardon wrote. MSG employee hopes were raised "at the end of September when the Knicks sent an email to a long list of employees, which gave recipients a first glimpse at their would-be championship rings," Vardon wrote. The email included "a graphic of two differently styled rings" that the lucky employees could supposedly choose from, the article said.

"(Employee name), this one is on the house. MSG is issuing a complimentary employee championship ring. The same jeweler, the same craftsmanship, personalized with your name. No cost to you," the email said. "There are two designs to choose from: Championship Gold and Garden Classic. Reserve the one you want below." Vardon wrote that "multiple team sources" confirmed the email was a phishing test. It's not clear how many employees clicked the link or whether any of the employees who received the email will eventually get some type of championship ring. We contacted the Madison Square Garden Sports organization with these questions and will update this article if we get a response.

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SpaceX is reportedly seeking access to at least 80,000 cellular tower sites across the U.S. as it prepares to launch Starlink Mobile as a fourth nationwide wireless carrier. "We will be building out our terrestrial networks so there's broad-based connectivity anywhere that SpaceX and Starlink are allowed to operate," Musk said during SpaceX's earnings call this week. Satellite launches plus spectrum acquisition "will pave the way for Starlink Mobile to become a major mobile carrier in the US," he said. Bloomberg reports: One of the companies they're in talks with is Crown Castle, which, along with American Tower and Vertical Bridge Holdings, are among the largest owners of cellular towers. When asked on a Wednesday earnings conference call whether Crown Castle is discussing leases with SpaceX, Amazon.com or other satellite-based telecom providers, Chief Executive Officer Chris Hillabrant said, "You can assume that we're talking to all parties." He declined to discuss specific customer details.

Mobile networks rely on antennas placed on towers across the country to transmit wireless signals. Carriers such as AT&T Inc., Verizon Communications Inc. and T-Mobile US Inc. typically lease room for their equipment at the tower sites because it's more cost effective than owning and maintaining them, in part because the facilities can be shared. The value of the deals with SpaceX could reach into the billions.

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A magical, atmospheric landscape captured on a misty September morning as the sun breaks through the autumn canopy. Shot at 28mm with f/16, the photo showcases brilliant sunbeams (crepuscular rays) streaming through the morning fog, casting a warm golden light across the flowering heather and backlit foliage.

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OpenAI says it will deny internet access to the frontier models it is training, a move that underscores the inadequacy of safety measures undertaken to date. "Based on the current state of alignment research, monitoring systems, and the security of internet infrastructure, we believe the responsible approach is to conduct frontier model training with no internet access," the company said in a blog post. "We've implemented this policy and will maintain it until advances in these safeguards justify broader internet access." The denial of network service follows a report from safety evaluation partners METR and Redwood Research that found OpenAI's security and monitoring measures over the summer to be porous and ineffective. OpenAI said it has since "substantially hardened the security of our research environments" and has implemented new controls covering its infrastructure with the help of its cloud service providers. And the company claims these measures recently helped contain a September 20 incident in which an internal research model exploited a DNS misconfiguration to gain access to the internet. "Although we contained the incident, it exposed weaknesses that required further work," the company said. "We paused training and evaluation of our most capable models and used that pause to further harden our infrastructure, strengthen our monitoring, and improve the systems that automatically stop runs when we detect activity that poses a serious risk." Meanwhile, over at Anthropic… Anthropic, OpenAI's US rival in living large and dangerously on speculative funding, is addressing similar risks that have arisen during the testing and evaluation of its own models. Back in August, Anthropic said, "By default, all cyber evaluations should run inside a hardened sandbox (an isolated computing environment) with no internet access." The AI biz on Friday published a report on efforts by its Claude Mythos 5 model to convince an open source project to accept malicious code as part of its participation in a capture-the-flag security evaluation (when safety controls were disabled), and several related incidents first disclosed in July. The report coincides with an independent analysis of Mythos' behavior by the UK's AI Security Institute (AISI). AISI, according to Anthropic, has also decided to run its evaluations without internet access. The AISI report cites three key findings that raise more questions than they answer. The first is that Mythos 5 continued its attack even when informed that its targets were real and not part of an evaluation. The second is that the model's chain-of-thought reasoning process failed to consider the impact of harmful actions. And when interrogated about this, the model often produced invalid justification that the target was simulated, indicating bias toward its goal. And third, AISI said, most models tested during cyber evaluations took unsanctioned actions, though Mythos 5 did so the most. The observed behavior, AISI said, "could indicate that models are engaging in 'motivated reasoning': producing inferences and reasoning biased towards conclusions that justify continuing a particular approach to task completion." Or in other words, models "reason" to reach their goal, whether or not that reasoning is coherent or consistent with their ostensible alignment. "If these issues hold more generally and for future models, there are concerning implications," AISI said in its full technical report [PDF]. Specifically, motivated reasoning, the watchdog said, makes it more difficult to detect model misalignment. Anthropic, headed toward an expected initial public offering as soon as next month, put a brave face on the findings by noting that its current models are much better behaved, even as the company acknowledged that AI safety is more aspirational than achieved. "[W]e believe that all developers, ourselves included, have work to do to ensure that alignment, monitoring, and safety measures keep pace with the accelerating capabilities of frontier AI systems," the company said. ®