ROTTERDAM/UTRECHT (ANP) - De overlevingskansen van kinderen met kanker zijn deze eeuw verder verbeterd. Van de kinderen die tussen 2010 en 2014 kanker kregen, was 83,2 procent tien jaar later nog in leven, melden het Prinses Máxima Centrum, KiKa en het Integraal Kankercentrum Nederland.

De organisaties spreken van een enorme verbetering. Van de kinderen die tussen 2005 en 2009 een kankerdiagnose kregen was tien jaar later 79,6 procent nog in leven. En van de kinderen die in de periode 2000-2004 kanker kregen, lag het percentage op 77,1 procent.

Ieder jaar krijgen in Nederland ongeveer zeshonderd kinderen (0 tot 18 jaar) de diagnose kanker. Volgens medisch directeur Edward Nieuwenhuis van het Prinses Máxima Centrum voor kinderoncologie zijn de toegenomen overlevingskansen grotendeels "te danken aan betere diagnostiek en steeds effectievere behandelingen". "Vooral de prognoses voor kinderen met acute myeloïde leukemie en sommige hersentumoren zijn sterk verbeterd."

De overlevingskans voor kinderen met acute myeloïde leukemie steeg deze eeuw van 57 procent naar 74 procent. En voor kinderen met een hersentumor ging het percentage van 67 procent naar 80 procent.

Nieuwenhuis spreekt van bemoedigende cijfers, maar wijst er ook op dat één op de zes kinderen met kanker nog altijd overlijdt. "Ieder kind met een slechte prognose is er één te veel."

Sommige bot- en hersentumoren en neuroblastoom (een tumor in een deel van het zenuwstelsel) zijn voorbeelden van tumoren die zeer slecht te behandelen zijn. Voor kinderen met hersenstamkanker is geen genezing mogelijk.

Het Prinses Máxima Centrum en KiKa benadrukken dat onderzoek van cruciaal belang is en daarvoor ook geld nodig is. September is de internationale maand van kinderkanker, waarin aandacht voor de ziektes wordt gevraagd.

AMSTERDAM (ANP) - Het lijkt erop dat de Noord-Hollandse politiek zich opnieuw tegen de komst van drie windturbines bij de Noorder IJ-plas bij Amsterdam-Noord keert. De windmolens zouden bij het verkeersknooppunt Coenplein komen, maar een meerderheid van de partijen vindt dat de verkeersveiligheid daar te veel last van ondervindt. De voorstanders van de turbines vinden dat de overgang naar duurzame energie en de aanpak van de krapte op het stroomnet een veel groter publiek belang dient, bleek maandagavond tijdens een stekelig debat.

Volgende week zullen de Provinciale Staten een officieel besluit nemen over een zogeheten verklaring van geen bedenkingen (vvgb) die noodzakelijk is voor Gedeputeerde Staten om een omgevingsvergunning te kunnen verstrekken aan de initiatiefnemer. In 2024 weigerde een meerderheid van PS deze verklaring ook, maar de rechter bepaalde onlangs dat de weigering niet goed was onderbouwd en dat een nieuw besluit moet worden genomen.

Voorafgaand aan het debat lieten overigens veel meer voor- dan tegenstanders zich horen op het provinciehuis in Haarlem. Van de 34 insprekers waren er pakweg tien tegen de plaatsing.

NEW YORK (ANP) - De politie van New York heeft een vrouw neergeschoten op Times Square, in het hart van Manhattan. Dat melden diverse Amerikaanse media, waaronder ABC7 News.

Volgens de politie had de vrouw twee mensen neergestoken, een man en een vrouw, voordat politieagenten ter plaatse verschenen. De vrouw vluchtte in de richting van een politiebureau, waar agenten haar confronteerden.

Toen de vrouw weigerde haar messen neer te leggen, openden agenten het vuur, aldus de politie. Een getuige vertelde aan CBS News dat hij een vrouw met twee messen zag en hoorde hoe agenten haar opdroegen de messen neer te leggen.

De neergeschoten vrouw en de twee slachtoffers van de steekpartij zijn met levensbedreigende verwondingen naar het ziekenhuis gebracht.

De autoriteiten onderzoeken of de vrouw kampt met geestelijke gezondheidsproblemen, zeiden politiebronnen tegen NBC News.

This YouTuber thinks so. YouTube is filled with gurus who claim can teach people to read minds just by observing nonverbal communication. Others say not so fast, however. Wired Magazine takes a closer look. Oakwyrm cautions that body language analysis can even be ableist. What are possible consequences of misreading body language? Misinterpretation of body language by Italian authorities landingAmanda Knox behind bars, could be one example.

Weer voor Rotterdam ☁️ - 01-09-2026 01:15 CEST

In één oogopslag:
• 18.5°C · Bewolkt ☁️ | Min 16.8°C / Max 20.3°C | Kans op neerslag 78%

Verwachting voor vandaag:
• Min 16.8°C, Max 20.3°C (Zware regen) 🌧️, Neerslag 14.1 mm, Kans op neerslag 78%, 🧭 1019.0 hPa ↗️ +2.7 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 29.2 km/u (8.1 m/s), richting: ↗ 233°

Uurlijkse voorspelling voor de komende 12 uur:

• 02:00: 18.2°C (Helder) 🌕, Kans op neerslag 18%, 🧭 1016.3 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 10.1 km/u (2.8 m/s), richting: ↗ 228°
• 03:00: 18.0°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, Kans op neerslag 15%, 🧭 1016.5 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 12.2 km/u (3.4 m/s), richting: ↗ 229°
• 04:00: 18.5°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, Kans op neerslag 12%, 🧭 1016.5 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 9.4 km/u (2.6 m/s), richting: → 248°
• 05:00: 17.9°C (Matige motregen) 🌦️, Neerslag 0.8 mm, Kans op neerslag 10%, 🧭 1016.8 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 8.3 km/u (2.3 m/s), richting: ↗ 221°
• 06:00: 18.4°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, Kans op neerslag 12%, 🧭 1017.0 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 8.3 km/u (2.3 m/s), richting: → 266°
• 07:00: 18.0°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, Kans op neerslag 15%, 🧭 1017.5 hPa ↗️ +0.5 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 10.8 km/u (3.0 m/s), richting: → 283°
• 08:00: 17.6°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, Kans op neerslag 16%, 🧭 1017.9 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 11.9 km/u (3.3 m/s), richting: → 285°
• 09:00: 18.2°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, Kans op neerslag 12%, 🧭 1018.2 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 10.1 km/u (2.8 m/s), richting: → 275°
• 10:00: 19.2°C (Zonnig) ☀️, Kans op neerslag 6%, 🧭 1018.8 hPa ↗️ +0.6 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 12.6 km/u (3.5 m/s), richting: → 284°
• 11:00: 19.8°C (Gedeeltelijk bewolkt) ⛅, Kans op neerslag 2%, 🧭 1019.4 hPa ↗️ +0.6 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 14.4 km/u (4.0 m/s), richting: → 282°
• 12:00: 20.1°C (Gedeeltelijk bewolkt) ⛅, Kans op neerslag 1%, 🧭 1019.7 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 14.8 km/u (4.1 m/s), richting: → 283°
• 13:00: 20.8°C (Gedeeltelijk bewolkt) ⛅, Kans op neerslag 2%, 🧭 1020.1 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 14.8 km/u (4.1 m/s), richting: → 282°

Voorspelling voor de komende dagen:

• woensdag 02 september: Min 17.6°C, Max 21.4°C (Matige motregen) 🌦️, Neerslag 0.8 mm, Kans op neerslag 5%, 🧭 1019.3 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 15.8 km/u (4.4 m/s), richting: → 263°
• donderdag 03 september: Min 16.3°C, Max 21.0°C (Lichte motregen) 🌦️, Neerslag 0.5 mm, Kans op neerslag 28%, 🧭 1016.8 hPa ↘️ -2.5 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 23.4 km/u (6.5 m/s), richting: ↗ 223°
• vrijdag 04 september: Min 18.3°C, Max 21.8°C (Lichte motregen) 🌦️, Neerslag 1.1 mm, Kans op neerslag 50%, 🧭 1015.8 hPa ↘️ -1.0 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 26.3 km/u (7.3 m/s), richting: → 252°
• zaterdag 05 september: Min 17.9°C, Max 23.1°C (Lichte buien) 🌧️, Neerslag 4.7 mm, Kans op neerslag 23%, 🧭 1019.2 hPa ↗️ +3.4 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 25.8 km/u (7.2 m/s), richting: ↗ 238°
• zondag 06 september: Min 16.8°C, Max 19.7°C (Lichte buien) 🌧️, Neerslag 4.0 mm, Kans op neerslag 14%, 🧭 1016.8 hPa ↘️ -2.4 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 8.1 km/u (2.2 m/s), richting: → 286°
• maandag 07 september: Min 16.3°C, Max 20.8°C (Lichte motregen) 🌦️, Neerslag 0.5 mm, Kans op neerslag 8%, 🧭 1014.2 hPa ↘️ -2.6 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 21.3 km/u (5.9 m/s), richting: ↗ 225°

Details:
• 🌡️ Huidige temperatuur (om 01:15): 18.5°C (Bewolkt)
• 🤚 Gevoelstemperatuur: 18.9°C (+0.4°C)
• 💨 Windsnelheid: 11.5 km/u (3.2 m/s), richting: ↗ 242°
• 🌬️ Windstoten: 23.4 km/h (6.5 m/s)
• 💧 Luchtvochtigheid: 88%
• 🧭 Luchtdruk: 1016.3 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/3h
• 👁️ Zichtbaarheid: 10.2 km
• ☀️ UV-index: 0.0
• 🌅 Zonsopgang: 06:52 · 🌇 Zonsondergang: 20:31

Luchtkwaliteit:
• AQI: 27 🟢 (Goed)
• PM2.5: 5.9 μg/m³
• PM10: 10.5 μg/m³

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Broadcom is launching "TrueSource," an effort to curate and secure open-source components used with its Tanzu platform, including Spring, RabbitMQ, and libraries across Java, Python, and Node.js. "The idea is to provide a set of solutions focused on providing clean and secure artefacts," Purnima Padmanabhan, vice president of Broadcom's Tanzu Division, told The Register. "We choose and build every Spring library, databases, other Java components," she said. The Register reports: Padmanabhan said that promise means VMware will also provide "TrueSource trusted artifacts" for code that is not part of Spring, including the wider Java ecosystem, Python, and Node.js. "Broadcom's curation process ensures that the libraries conform to a reference architecture and are supportable by the maintainers of record," according to a company statement. "Thousands of engineers across Broadcom's software divisions scan, fix, contribute to, and consume them every day."

A VMware spokesperson told The Register the Broadcom business unit "will work with and support maintainers on open source software and we will provide fixes to open source upstream for any active projects." "With Spring and RabbitMQ, we are the maintainers. For other open source software, we will work with the maintainers. We believe that the community maintainers must remain the source of truth," the spokesperson said.

This is just the sort of contribution that the open-source community wants vendors to do to reflect the value they extract from software they did not create alone. It's also the sort of thing vendors sometimes conclude they need to do to keep products based on FOSS viable.

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Comments signal president prepared to use dispute to push UK to raise defence spending and Nato contributions

Donald Trump has suggested he is reconsidering US support for Britain’s sovereignty over the Falkland Islands, in a move likely to strain the “special relationship” between Washington and London.

“I always review every position – that’s just one of many,” the US president told reporters in the White House, in response to a question about whether he was reviewing the US’s position over the South Atlantic islands, an archipelago whose status has long been disputed by Argentina, which claims sovereignty.

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Resignation comes after months of turmoil at Pentagon, from leaked investigation to ousting of senior officials

Army secretary Dan Driscoll has handed his resignation to Donald Trump, the White House said on Monday, becoming the latest high-profile figure to depart the defense department.

The army official, who is second in line to defense secretary Pete Hegseth, had reportedly been eyeing an exit from the Pentagon amid apparent friction with the secretary.

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• Spaniard beats Roman Safiullin 6-4, 6-4, 6-4

• Alcaraz has not played since April with wrist injury

As Carlos Alcaraz edged closer to the conclusion of his first singles set in more than four and a half months, like so many times in his career instinct took over. Up 5-4, 30-15 in set one, Alcaraz swept forward to the net behind a precise wide serve and, when his opponent Roman Safiullin responded with a dipping backhand return directly to his feet, Alcaraz delicately pushed a half-volley over the net for a winner.

It was a gorgeous shot, a perfect example of the creativity and feel trademarked by Alcaraz that has been missed throughout his extended injury layoff. That touch of genius was followed, predictably, by a wide smile, a quick hold and a comprehensive victory as the Spaniard returned to competition with a stellar 6-4, 6-4, 6-4 win against Safiullin.

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The proliferation of custom AI ASICs, or XPUs, from OpenAI, Meta, Microsoft, and others has led many to question Nvidia's grip on the market. After all, if everybody's building their own, who needs the GPUs the AI arms dealer has made its fortune on? But Nvidia isn't concerned in the least and has instead invited its competition to raid – or, rather, license – the GPU giant's IP holdings, particularly those related to networking. On Monday, MediaTek became the latest to embrace Nvidia's NVLink Fusion high-speed interconnect technology for its fledgling datacenter XPU offering. In exchange, Nvidia has invested $3.5 billion in convertible bonds issued by MediaTek. The GPU giant will also continue to license the Taiwanese SoC provider's own designs for use in future DGX and RTX Spark systems. If you're curious, we explored MediaTek's datacenter ambitions last month. But the designer, best known for its Arm-based smartphone and tablet processors, is only one of several high-profile chip designers that plan to integrate the tech. Amazon, Fujitsu, Qualcomm, Arm, and Marvell are all on the same list. NVLink Fusion started as a commercialized version of Nvidia's high-speed inter-GPU interconnect, introduced early last year. Initially, it was offered in two varieties: a chip-to-chip (C2C) variant for connecting CPUs to GPUs (or XPUs) in a memory coherent fabric, and a switched fabric used to stitch together multiple accelerators into one big logical rack-scale chip. It's since expanded to become the blanket offering by which Nvidia licenses its semiconductor IP. Given how long it's taken Broadcom and others to develop competitive alternatives to NVLink, it's not surprising companies like MediaTek would license the tech, rather than reinventing the wheel, or piping alternative interconnects, like UALink, over regular old Ethernet. By licensing Nvidia's NVLink Fusion tech, companies can focus on building competitive accelerators without worrying about how they're going to scale in production. And because Nvidia's MGX rack designs are part of the Open Compute Project, MediaTek and its partners not only benefit from Nvidia's scale-up networking tech, but also can essentially take existing NVL72 racks and slot in their compute blades. This should dramatically reduce the system design and mechanical engineering experience required to go from silicon to AI racks. And this isn't theoretical. Amazon is doing just that with its Trainium series of AI accelerators. As we wrote at the time, Amazon used Nvidia's MGX NVL72 reference design for its Trainium3-based rack systems launched last year. Meanwhile Trainium4, expected late this year, will ditch Amazon's in-house NeuronLink interconnect tech for NVLink Fusion. Nvidia's cut So, what does Nvidia get from letting rival chip designers piggyback off its hard-won networking tech? A lot more than licensing fees: It's also a way to keep companies hooked on its other products. When NVLink Fusion was first announced, customers had two options. They could pair their XPUs with Nvidia's CPUs or their CPUs with Nvidia's GPUs. Customers also were on the hook for NVSwitches if they wanted to take advantage of the tech's scale up networking capabilities. So, on top of licensing the tech, Nvidia had the potential to sell roughly two GPUs per partner CPU, a Grace or Vera CPU for every two partner XPUs, and up to nine NVSwitches for every 72 or so accelerators, and that's just the rack. If you're already buying NVLink, why not use InfiniBand or Nvidia's Spectrum-X Ethernet kit to switch those racks together to train and serve even larger models at scale? Nvidia has since softened its stance and now seems content with the combination of NVSwitch sales and NVLink Fusion licensing. If it hadn’t, Amazon couldn’t have paired Graviton with Trainium. "The beauty about this platform is it provides the flexibility and the fungibility in order to meet the customers where they are. And so, leveraging the NVLink Fusion platform, they can adopt anywhere from the CPU to the GPU to the scale-up fabric to the scale-out networking across our Spectrum-X and InfiniBand, as well as our DPU within the scale-in fabric to do the north-south storage management as well as security isolation," Dion Harris, Nvidia's senior director of HPC and AI Hyperscale Infrastructure, told press on Monday. "So, the five different networking technologies and topologies that we offer in our technology stack are all available to customers via NVLink Fusion." Nvidia isn't quite ready to talk about the licensing structure just yet, but Harris says they won’t be giving it away. "…It is safe to assume that there will be some licensing elements in place in that Nvidia NVLink Fusion is an Nvidia technology," Harris said. It's not just about networking Nvidia is already the largest datacenter Ethernet networking provider in the world, thanks in no small part to the AI boom. Its quarterly networking revenue now exceeds $15 billion, and NVLink Fusion licenses and associated NVSwitch sales will only bolster that. However, Nvidia's licensing ambitions don't stop there. Last week, Nvidia detailed its latest IP offering in the form of NVHBM, essentially a custom base with an integrated memory controller. According to Nvidia, the approach frees up 25 percent of the die for compute while cutting HBM power draw by 15 percent and boosting effective bandwidth by 30 percent. Amazon's Annapurna Labs will be among the first to field the tech with its Trainium family of AI ASICs. But while Amazon's adoption of NVHBM is a clear win for Nvidia, it should be noted that the idea isn't unique to Nvidia. As we understand it, both Broadcom and Marvell are developing similar base-die tech as well. But the tech is another example of how Nvidia is leveraging its engineering might to extract revenues from everything associated with AI, including custom ASICs from others. A deal with the devil or mutually beneficial coexistence While Nvidia's fledgling IP offerings are rather narrow for the moment, it's not hard to imagine Nvidia competing with rivals like Broadcom or partners like Marvell and MediaTek on XPU design before long. Depending on how things play out, Nvidia, Broadcom, Marvell, and MediaTek could end up looking more like frenemies. XPUs are quickly becoming big business for both Broadcom and Marvell, but the networking required to scale that compute and system design required to bring it to market remains a competitive advantage for Nvidia. Sure, both have competent Ethernet switching appliances capable of going toe-to-toe with NVSwitch, but even then you still have to integrate that into a rack. The advantage of being able to slot a custom compute blade into a generic NVL72 system and for it to work out of the box is hard to ignore. If NVLink Fusion helps the XPU designers sell more chips, it could end up being a net benefit even if it means losing out on switch sales. Nvidia is clearly aware that while the barrier to entry for custom silicon has fallen through the floor, scaling that compute remains the hard part. ®

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