Onze twee zonen zijn, naast hun werk, bezig met een film waarvoor zij een oude verteller nodig hebben en vragen daarvoor hun opa van 93.

Plaats de cijfers 1 tot en met 9 zo in het diagram dat elk cijfer precies één keer voorkomt in elke rij, kolom, negen vetomrande 3x3 vakken én de vier grijze 3x3 vakken.

De met een Oscar bekroonde Eva Marie Saint schitterde in klassiekers als ‘On the Waterfront’ en ‘North by Northwest’. Ze werd 102 jaar oud.

Het moet weer over schoonheid gaan. Schoonheid is een schuivend paneel. Is het een excuus of een doel, een middel of een afgang?

DEN HAAG (ANP) - Het Centraal Orgaan opvang asielzoekers (COA) waarschuwt dat door het tekort aan opvangplekken steeds meer asielzoekers buiten de opvang in Ter Apel dreigen te moeten wachten. Het wordt volgens de organisatie zelfs steeds moeilijker om kinderen, vrouwen en mensen met medische problemen direct onderdak te bieden.

Volgens het COA zijn acuut honderden extra opvangplekken nodig. Ook de extra noodopvang van het Rode Kruis voor asielzoekers die naar Ter Apel willen, is inmiddels vol.

Het tekort komt volgens het COA niet doordat meer mensen asiel aanvragen, maar doordat bewoners te lang in de opvang blijven. Procedures bij de IND en de rechtspraak duren lang en bijna 18.500 statushouders wachten op huisvesting in gemeenten.

De pas aangetreden bestuursvoorzitter Remco Bakker roept gemeenten op snel noodopvang en tijdelijke huisvesting voor statushouders te regelen. "We moeten met elkaar voorkomen dat mensen op straat belanden. Dat is onmenselijk", zegt hij.

Amazon has removed Alexa voice control for the 3.5mm aux input on several older Echo speakers, meaning users can no longer ask Alexa to play or pause audio coming through the wired connection. It's unclear why the feature was removed. The Verge reports: Ars Technica points to this Reddit poster claiming they received a message from Amazon and says an unnamed spokesperson confirmed the change. When contacted by The Verge, Amazon did not provide an on-the-record statement. The message does not include any explanation for why the feature was removed. It also doesn't mention any changes to audio output functionality like connecting an external speaker to an Echo Dot, and it appears that control of the port from within the app's settings menu still works.

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Only a week after warning about the perils of competitor Z.ai's GLM-5.3 model and its advanced cybersecurity capabilities, Anthropic has expanded its Cyber Verification Program (CVP) – or rather, reconfigured it. "For the past six months, we’ve enabled trusted access through two programs: Project Glasswing and the CVP," the AI biz said. "Now, we’re integrating these programs into one expanded offering, designed to give more security organizations access to the capabilities they need to protect their systems." Project Glasswing and CVP launched in April 2026 alongside the debut of Mythos, the company's highly capable and equally hyped frontier model. Project Glasswing gave partners early access to Mythos so they could scour their systems for vulnerabilities before attackers beat them to it. VulnCheck researcher Patrick Garrity was not particularly impressed with CVEs identified by Project Glasswing, noting that fewer than 0.5 percent of the 225 Anthropic-linked vulnerabilities he tracked were being exploited in the wild. And Anthropic's own warning last month about the risks posed by GLM-5.3 somewhat undermines the idea that there's anything special about its own Mythos model. Even so, Anthropic says that its security program has allowed its partners to spot at least 129,000 verified software vulnerabilities between April and July 2026. And the biz claims that its own open source scanning efforts revealed an additional 5,500 verified vulnerabilities between April and October. "Of these verified vulnerabilities, more than 33,000 have so far been rated as critical- or high-severity," Anthropic said. "This is likely an undercount, as it is based on survey data from only a subset of Glasswing partners. As such, we expect the true impact to be at least five times higher." When these might get patched is unclear. The company's own figures indicate that of 5,674 true positive vulnerabilities, 3,014 are high severity, and 1,522 are critical severity, yet only 516 have been patched. Given industry boasting about the cybersecurity prowess of AI models, generating a fix, testing it, and deploying it ought to be nearly automatic at this point. But the gap between identification and remediation suggests there's a lot of slack in the system that needs to be ironed out. Two programs into one with three tiers Now Anthropic's two programs, one intended for organizations and one for individual security professionals, have been merged and reconfigured into three tiers. The AI biz has not explained why, but its stated intent is to tie model capabilities to specific tasks: Defense Access, Red Team Access, and Specialized Access. Depending on the tier, participants will encounter more or fewer blocks on security-related tasks. As a measure of program participation value, Anthropic said that based on five attempts at 10 CyScenarioBench challenges, those without CVP access got blocked on every attempt. Defense Access is intended for security teams at companies, nonprofits, universities, and government organizations that focus on system defense. In this tier, Claude Opus 5.5 faced refusals in 46 of 50 attempts and succeeded four times. Red Team Access is for penetration testing and offensive cyber evaluation, and participants will still face model refusals for model interactions that would cause physical harm or mass disruption. Specifically, Claude Opus 5.5 completed 34 of the 50 tasks with Red Team Access safeguards enabled, a rate similar to what would be expected from Specialized Access. Specialized Access sounds like a rebranding of Glasswing – it's "reserved for a limited set of verified organizations that are authorized to test safety systems that could impact people’s lives or disrupt markets, such as flight operating systems, power grids, telecom networks, interbank transfer infrastructure, and government administrative networks." Those granted admission to this exclusive tier will face the fewest model refusals, not counting anyone using abliterated open-weight models that have had their guardrails suppressed. For the next month or two, program participants will need to allow their data to be retained by Anthropic as part of its AI safety requirements. But soonish, the company's Enterprise Frontier Safeguards program will offer zero data retention. Organizations already granted zero data retention while using Claude Fable 5.1 or Claude Mythos 5.1 can participate in CVP under those same terms.®

Google on Tuesday struck a deal with Constellation Energy for 3,590 megawatts of future energy supply, including nearly a gigawatt of new nuclear capacity, as the search and advertising giant tries to find enough energy to power its datacenter ambitions. The 20-year power purchase agreement will see Constellation, the largest purveyor of atomic energy in the US, bring an additional 890 megawatts of nuclear capacity online by making "targeted investments at multiple nuclear plants." We understand those investments will go toward upgrades to at least 11 existing nuclear plants across Illinois, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey through a process known as uprating. "By modernizing and upgrading turbines, steam generators, and digital control systems at operating plants, uprates deliver substantial capacity gains without the multi-year timelines or interconnection bottlenecks associated with greenfield construction," the power company explained in a statement. The other 2,700 megawatts the deal covers will come from other unspecified sources. Constellation expects to spend $4.3 billion to fulfill its side of the deal, and plans to complete its first uprated reactor by 2028. Google is on track to spend as much as $205 billion on datacenters and compute this year, but all that money is wasted if it can't secure power to make its servers and GPUs work. The hyperscaler is far from the only one scrambling to secure adequate power to keep its AI ambitions from starving. Microsoft also tapped Constellation to reignite the Three Mile Island Unit 1 reactor – you know, the one that didn't partially melt down back in 1979. That reactor is expected to come online as early as next year. Meta is also making noise about nuclear. The Social Network is working with Constellation to save a doomed nuclear plant in Illinois. Earlier this year, Meta revealed that its nuclear and clean energy commitments now total 6.6 gigawatts, though it's worth noting that figure depends heavily on the successful rollout of small modular reactors, an unproven form of miniature nuke plant. ®

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A storm has just past at Drury Point beach. This view is looking north towards Scarborough Beach.
The red cliffs are clearly visible, and was the feature that gave the nearby seaside suburb of Redcliffe it's name.
Scarborough, Queensland, Australia.
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New Zealand could be hit with more frequent and intense heatwaves and catastrophic glacier melts in the near future, as greenhouse gas levels hit record highs, a new report about the nation’s climate has revealed.

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Weer voor Rotterdam ☁️ - 07-10-2026 01:15 CEST

In één oogopslag:
• 16.5°C · Gedeeltelijk bewolkt ☁️ | Min 16.0°C / Max 22.1°C | Kans op neerslag 18%

Verwachting voor vandaag:
• Min 16.0°C, Max 22.1°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, Kans op neerslag 18%, 🧭 1009.6 hPa ↘️ -5.2 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 11.5 km/u (3.2 m/s), richting: ↗ 228°

Uurlijkse voorspelling voor de komende 12 uur:

• 02:00: 16.4°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, 🧭 1014.8 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 9.4 km/u (2.6 m/s), richting: ← 94°
• 03:00: 16.0°C (Gedeeltelijk bewolkt) ☁️, 🧭 1014.3 hPa ↘️ -0.5 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 8.6 km/u (2.4 m/s), richting: ← 102°
• 04:00: 15.7°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, 🧭 1013.9 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 8.6 km/u (2.4 m/s), richting: ← 91°
• 05:00: 15.0°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, 🧭 1013.1 hPa ↘️ -0.8 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 9.4 km/u (2.6 m/s), richting: ← 94°
• 06:00: 14.6°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, 🧭 1012.4 hPa ↘️ -0.7 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 9.0 km/u (2.5 m/s), richting: ← 92°
• 07:00: 14.3°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, 🧭 1011.9 hPa ↘️ -0.5 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 10.1 km/u (2.8 m/s), richting: ← 90°
• 08:00: 14.1°C (Gedeeltelijk bewolkt) ⛅, 🧭 1011.6 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 7.9 km/u (2.2 m/s), richting: ← 93°
• 09:00: 14.5°C (Zonnig) ☀️, 🧭 1011.2 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 7.2 km/u (2.0 m/s), richting: ← 89°
• 10:00: 15.7°C (Zonnig) ☀️, 🧭 1011.0 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 6.8 km/u (1.9 m/s), richting: ← 104°
• 11:00: 17.3°C (Zonnig) ☀️, 🧭 1010.8 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 6.1 km/u (1.7 m/s), richting: ↖ 115°
• 12:00: 19.0°C (Zonnig) ☀️, 🧭 1010.0 hPa ↘️ -0.8 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 5.4 km/u (1.5 m/s), richting: ↖ 121°
• 13:00: 20.2°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, 🧭 1009.1 hPa ↘️ -0.9 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 6.1 km/u (1.7 m/s), richting: ← 111°

Voorspelling voor de komende dagen:

• donderdag 08 oktober: Min 14.1°C, Max 22.3°C (Zware motregen) 🌦️, Neerslag 2.4 mm, Kans op neerslag 22%, 🧭 1013.2 hPa ↗️ +3.6 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 22.7 km/u (6.3 m/s), richting: ↙ 44°
• vrijdag 09 oktober: Min 12.7°C, Max 15.8°C (Matige regen) 🌧️, Neerslag 6.8 mm, Kans op neerslag 65%, 🧭 1013.7 hPa ↗️ +0.5 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 28.8 km/u (8.0 m/s), richting: ↘ 337°
• zaterdag 10 oktober: Min 11.7°C, Max 16.1°C (Lichte onweersbui) ⛈️, Neerslag 7.6 mm, Kans op neerslag 52%, 🧭 1008.4 hPa ↘️ -5.3 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 25.3 km/u (7.0 m/s), richting: ↗ 225°
• zondag 11 oktober: Min 12.4°C, Max 14.4°C (Lichte motregen) 🌦️, Neerslag 1.5 mm, Kans op neerslag 54%, 🧭 1011.2 hPa ↗️ +2.8 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 19.0 km/u (5.3 m/s), richting: → 263°
• maandag 12 oktober: Min 9.9°C, Max 13.6°C (Lichte motregen) 🌦️, Neerslag 1.8 mm, Kans op neerslag 47%, 🧭 1019.3 hPa ↗️ +8.1 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 16.6 km/u (4.6 m/s), richting: → 276°
• dinsdag 13 oktober: Min 9.5°C, Max 15.3°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, Kans op neerslag 16%, 🧭 1021.5 hPa ↗️ +2.2 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 12.3 km/u (3.4 m/s), richting: ↑ 194°

Details:
• 🌡️ Huidige temperatuur (om 01:15): 16.5°C (Gedeeltelijk bewolkt)
• 🤚 Gevoelstemperatuur: 16.5°C (0.0°C)
• 💨 Windsnelheid: 9.7 km/u (2.7 m/s), richting: ← 78°
• 🌬️ Windstoten: 16.6 km/h (4.6 m/s)
• 💧 Luchtvochtigheid: 89%
• 🧭 Luchtdruk: 1014.8 hPa ↘️ -0.9 hPa/3h
• 👁️ Zichtbaarheid: 9.2 km
• ☀️ UV-index: 0.0
• 🌅 Zonsopgang: 07:51 · 🌇 Zonsondergang: 19:08

Luchtkwaliteit:
• AQI: 57 🟡 (Matig)
• PM2.5: 13.0 μg/m³
• PM10: 18.3 μg/m³

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