As the curtain came down on the 2025 season, the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix delivered a title-deciding finale – with Lando Norris ultimately crowned the sport’s 35th World Champion.
Lando Norris secured his first world championship at the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, prompting his on-track rivals to rush to congratulate him on his remarkable achievement. It's what every Formula 1 driver wishes for, and they all came together on this unique occasion to praise the Briton.
Lando Norris has admitted that the long journey to his maiden championship was far from straightforward as he faced his “fair share of tough moments”, especially in the earlier part of the 24-race season.
The drivers and teams report back on the final race of the season, the 2025 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix from the Yas Marina Circuit.
F1 Hall of Fame journalist David Tremayne reflects on Lando Norris' title triumph after the McLaren racer claims the crown in Abu Dhabi.
Markus Branse has added a photo to the pool:
Evening storm, seen from Stokes Hill Wharf, Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia
Markus Branse has added a photo to the pool:
Evening storm, seen from Stokes Hill Wharf, Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia
SÃO PAULO (ANP/AFP) - Acht gravures van de Franse schilder Henri Matisse zijn gestolen uit een bibliotheek in de Braziliaanse stad São Paulo. Dat heeft de lokale overheid bekendgemaakt. De dieven maakten ook vijf werken buit van de Braziliaanse schilder Candido Portinari.
Volgens lokale media waren twee gewapende mannen de bibliotheek Mario de Andrade binnengedrongen. Zij grepen de kunstwerken en gingen ervandoor. De gravures waren tentoongesteld in een expositie die de bibliotheek met het Museum voor Moderne Kunst van São Paulo (MAM) had georganiseerd.
Het is nog niet bekendgemaakt welke werken van Matisse (1869-1954) en Portinari (1903-1962) precies zijn gestolen.
PARAMARIBO (ANP) - Zestig erfgenamen van de vijftien slachtoffers van de Decembermoorden van 1982 hebben een vordering ingesteld tegen de staat Suriname. Zij eisen eerherstel van de slachtoffers en hun nabestaanden en schadeloosstelling van de erfgenamen, vertelde advocaat Hugo Essed zondag in het programma Welingelichte Kringen van Radio ABC Suriname. Hij heeft de afgelopen week het verzoekschrift ingediend bij de kantonrechter, namens nabestaanden in Suriname en Nederland.
Hoofdverdachte Desi Bouterse is op 20 december 2023 veroordeeld tot twintig jaar cel; vier andere mannen kregen vijftien jaar. Bouterse vluchtte en overleed in december 2024. Drie veroordeelden zitten hun straf uit in een gevangenis, terwijl één veroordeelde nog voortvluchtig is. Volgens Essed is er een einde gekomen aan de strafrechtelijke vervolging, maar spelen er ook maatschappelijke en psychologisch-emotionele aspecten.
It runs locally, a free/open source home automation platform connecting all your devices together, regardless of brand. And GitHub's senior developer calls it "one of the most active, culturally important, and technically demanding open source ecosystems on the planet," with tens of thousands of contributors and millions of installations.
That's confirmed by this year's "Octoverse" developer survey...
Home Assistant was one of the fastest-growing open source projects by contributors, ranking alongside AI infrastructure giants like vLLM, Ollama, and Transformers. It also appeared in the top projects attracting first-time contributors, sitting beside massive developer platforms such as VS Code... Home Assistant is now running in more than 2 million households, orchestrating everything from thermostats and door locks to motion sensors and lighting. All on users' own hardware, not the cloud. The contributor base behind that growth is just as remarkable: 21,000 contributors in a single year...
At its core, Home Assistant's problem is combinatorial explosion. The platform supports "hundreds, thousands of devices... over 3,000 brands," as [maintainer Franck Nijhof] notes. Each one behaves differently, and the only way to normalize them is to build a general-purpose abstraction layer that can survive vendor churn, bad APIs, and inconsistent firmware. Instead of treating devices as isolated objects behind cloud accounts, everything is represented locally as entities with states and events. A garage door is not just a vendor-specific API; it's a structured device that exposes capabilities to the automation engine. A thermostat is not a cloud endpoint; it's a sensor/actuator pair with metadata that can be reasoned about.
That consistency is why people can build wildly advanced automations. Frenck describes one particularly inventive example: "Some people install weight sensors into their couches so they actually know if you're sitting down or standing up again. You're watching a movie, you stand up, and it will pause and then turn on the lights a bit brighter so you can actually see when you get your drink. You get back, sit down, the lights dim, and the movie continues." A system that can orchestrate these interactions is fundamentally a distributed event-driven runtime for physical spaces. Home Assistant may look like a dashboard, but under the hood it behaves more like a real-time OS for the home...
The local-first architecture means Home Assistant can run on hardware as small as a Raspberry Pi but must handle workloads that commercial systems offload to the cloud: device discovery, event dispatch, state persistence, automation scheduling, voice pipeline inference (if local), real-time sensor reading, integration updates, and security constraints. This architecture forces optimizations few consumer systems attempt.
"If any of this were offloaded to a vendor cloud, the system would be easier to build," the article points out. "But Home Assistant's philosophy reverses the paradigm: the home is the data center..."
As Nijhof says of other vendor solutions, "It's crazy that we need the internet nowadays to change your thermostat."
That's confirmed by this year's "Octoverse" developer survey...
Home Assistant was one of the fastest-growing open source projects by contributors, ranking alongside AI infrastructure giants like vLLM, Ollama, and Transformers. It also appeared in the top projects attracting first-time contributors, sitting beside massive developer platforms such as VS Code... Home Assistant is now running in more than 2 million households, orchestrating everything from thermostats and door locks to motion sensors and lighting. All on users' own hardware, not the cloud. The contributor base behind that growth is just as remarkable: 21,000 contributors in a single year...
At its core, Home Assistant's problem is combinatorial explosion. The platform supports "hundreds, thousands of devices... over 3,000 brands," as [maintainer Franck Nijhof] notes. Each one behaves differently, and the only way to normalize them is to build a general-purpose abstraction layer that can survive vendor churn, bad APIs, and inconsistent firmware. Instead of treating devices as isolated objects behind cloud accounts, everything is represented locally as entities with states and events. A garage door is not just a vendor-specific API; it's a structured device that exposes capabilities to the automation engine. A thermostat is not a cloud endpoint; it's a sensor/actuator pair with metadata that can be reasoned about.
That consistency is why people can build wildly advanced automations. Frenck describes one particularly inventive example: "Some people install weight sensors into their couches so they actually know if you're sitting down or standing up again. You're watching a movie, you stand up, and it will pause and then turn on the lights a bit brighter so you can actually see when you get your drink. You get back, sit down, the lights dim, and the movie continues." A system that can orchestrate these interactions is fundamentally a distributed event-driven runtime for physical spaces. Home Assistant may look like a dashboard, but under the hood it behaves more like a real-time OS for the home...
The local-first architecture means Home Assistant can run on hardware as small as a Raspberry Pi but must handle workloads that commercial systems offload to the cloud: device discovery, event dispatch, state persistence, automation scheduling, voice pipeline inference (if local), real-time sensor reading, integration updates, and security constraints. This architecture forces optimizations few consumer systems attempt.
"If any of this were offloaded to a vendor cloud, the system would be easier to build," the article points out. "But Home Assistant's philosophy reverses the paradigm: the home is the data center..."
As Nijhof says of other vendor solutions, "It's crazy that we need the internet nowadays to change your thermostat."
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