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Door aanhoudende droogte is er sprake van een watertekort in Nederland. Dat meldt het ministerie van Infrastructuur en Waterstaat op donderdag. Sinds begin juli was er sprake van een 'dreigend watertekort,' maar op advies van de Landelijke Coördinatiecommissie Waterverdeling (LCW) is het niveau opgeschaald naar een 'feitelijk watertekort.'

Thomas Hogeling beschouwt wekelijks de publieke opinie. Wat wordt er gezegd en vooral niet gezegd? Deze week: niet alles wat nog nooit eerder is gebeurd telt als record.

In haar solotentoonstelling in fotomuseum Huis Marseille in Amsterdam reconstrueert en onderzoekt Martine Gutierrez haar kindertijd. „Mijn moeder zag mijn worsteling en zei altijd dat ik een superster zou worden.”

Daar gaan we dan. Rijkswaterstaat, de waterschappen en alle andere waterhoofden van ons land spreken vanaf nu officieel van een FEITELIJK WATERTEKORT. Het ministerie van Infrastructuur en Waterstaat heeft opgeschaald naar droogteniveau 2, wat betekent dat er harde gemaakt gaan worden over wie er wel en geen water mogen gebruiken en waar water moet worden ingezet om dingen als VERZILTING VAN DE BODEM te voorkomen. Die droogte duurt nog wel ff, dus het wachten is op opschaling naar droogteniveau 3, waarbij er sprake is van een daadwerkelijke CRISIS. Drinkwater is vooralsnog niet in gevaar en we kunnen nog 10 jaar poepen, maar voor de zekerheid raden we toch aan om vooral bier te drinken en enkel nog te douchen in groepen van vijf of meer personen. Zin in NATTIGHEID nu.

Okee leg ons even uit hoe dit werkt want van 'agressie tegen boekverkopers' hebben we echt nog nooit gehoord. WAAROM STAAN DE BOEKEN VAN PIETER WATERDRINKER NIET BIJ LITERATUUR? Pats een beuk op je muil! WAAROM IS HET NIEUWE SUPERBOEK VAN SPLINTER CHABOT ALWEER UITVERKOCHT? Pats een beuk op je muil! WAAROM KRIJG IK HIER EEN GRATIS BOEK VAN DOORTJE SMITSHUIJSEN BIJ? Pats een beuk op je muil! Nu is er een of andere snoeiharde activist die z'n winkel volkwakt met Palestina-vlaggen en anti-Israël-meuk die in een 'discussie' komt met een passant, die iets ('From the river to the sea, Israel will be Muslim-free') geroepen 'zou' hebben. "Dani weet niet meer exact wat hijzelf heeft gezegd, maar hij denkt dat hij de man een zionist heeft genoemd." The way of boekverkopers. En toen kreeg-ie een tik op z'n neus. En nu biedt de Koninklijke Boekverkopersbond plots 'weerbaarheidstrainingen voor boekhandelaars' aan omdat boekhandelaars te maken krijgen met 'agressie'. Die Dani moet natuurlijk lekker verkopen waar hij zelf zin in heeft en die passant moet z'n gore tengels thuishouden, maar zou het niet kunnen dat die Dani niet te maken krijgt met agressie omdat hij een doodgewone boekhandelaar is, maar omdat hij een kneiterlinkse 'anarchistische' activist is die toevallig een toko heeft met hyperactivistische literatuur? THEODOR HOLMAN?????? Pats een beuk op je muil! DE GORGELS IS GENOCIDE! Pats een beuk op je muil! PIM LAMMERS??!?!??!?!?!

Climate tech venture capital had its strongest first half since 2022 as investors poured billions into low-carbon datacenters and projects needed to feed AI's seemingly endless appetite for compute. According to investment tracker Currence, climate tech startups pulled in $26.1 billion in venture funding during the first six months of 2026, up 55 percent year-over-year. However, that headline growth came with a catch: investors weren't backing the climate sector broadly so much as pouring money into the infrastructure underpinning the AI boom. Low-carbon datacenter developers alone accounted for 34 percent of all climate venture funding, up from just 3 percent a year earlier, with DayOne's $4.5 billion and Nscale's $2 billion Series C rounds making up roughly a quarter of all investment between them. As a result, the "built environment" category grew by more than eight times, overtaking "energy" as climate tech's largest investment vertical. That shift is so dramatic that Currence has effectively rewritten the boundaries of climate tech itself. The firm says climate tech is "a bigger space than it was six years ago," pointing to datacenters as drivers for long-duration energy storage, advanced nuclear, geothermal power, robotics, and even space-based solar. It now counts datacenter developers that rely primarily on clean power or make sustainability central to their business, while excluding conventional facilities and chipmakers. "Datacenter development is a crowded space, but in the speed-to-power race, clean firm generation can be a distinct advantage," the report notes, arguing that developers are increasingly judged on their "route to power" as much as their racks and real estate. The ripple effects stretch well beyond datacenters, according to Currence. Investors are writing large early stage checks to nuclear startups years before they're expected to generate electricity, betting AI's long-term appetite for power will eventually justify today's valuations, while Earth observation funding has tripled as developers seek larger stores of real-world data to train AI models. Robotics startups developing foundational models, training data, and simulation platforms also raised nearly four times as much as the next biggest innovation category. Carbon-related equity funding was one of the few categories to decline sharply, falling 61 percent to its weakest first half since 2020, while money poured into the technologies supporting the AI buildout. The narrowing focus showed up elsewhere too. Overall deal count fell 25 percent even as funding surged, with the ten largest rounds accounting for 42 percent of all investment. Currence says the concentration of capital in huge datacenter and energy projects is pushing climate venture funding closer to infrastructure finance. The report may be about climate tech, but the money is following AI infrastructure: datacenters, power generation, grid capacity, and anything else that might keep the compute boom switched on. ®

A hard core of Windows 10 devices cannot or will not be migrated to Windows 11, leaving enterprises with a growing security problem as support options run out. According to asset tracking service Lansweeper, Windows 10 still runs on 16.9 percent of the Windows devices it monitors, or "roughly one in six." A year ago, the operating system accounted for about half of the machines in its dataset, falling to the low-to-mid 40 percent range by the time Microsoft ended standard support. The decline continued after that, reaching 18.6 percent in June, but Lansweeper says migration has now slowed to a crawl. This presents a problem because even installations enrolled in the Extended Security Updates (ESU) program, under which Microsoft has committed to fixing security bugs, will eventually become vulnerable. Consumer devices can receive security updates until October 12, 2027, while commercial customers willing to pay can extend coverage until October 10, 2028. After that, the fixes stop. Small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) are particularly exposed. Lansweeper reckons that 21.4 percent of SMB machines still run Windows 10, with cost usually being the constraint that keeps the legacy operating system running. The exposure is greater in some sectors, with 23 percent of healthcare and pharmaceutical systems sticking with Windows 10, while consumer and retail devices hover at 22.7 percent. According to Lansweeper's data, "a Windows 10 device carries an average of 1,903 active CVEs against 652 on Windows 11. That's a 2.9x gap." Esben Dochy, principal technical evangelist at the company, told The Register that "the Windows 10 average also includes devices that have ESU patches applied." Part of the problem, according to Lansweeper, is "patch diffing," in which Windows 11 fixes can be reverse-engineered to find flaws in Windows 10. "The supported OS effectively hands attackers a map into the unsupported one," Lansweeper said. According to Lansweeper's figures, 14 percent of Windows 10 assets have ESU patches applied. "I think a meaningful share of the remaining Windows 10 estate isn't being actively unpatched by neglect," Dochy said. "It's being held in place by vendor dependency, certification gaps, cost, or accepted risk. Certified equipment is a good example: many medical devices or industrial systems have their OS tied directly to vendor certification, and in some cases a Windows 11-certified version of that device or software doesn't exist yet. The same applies in retail, where devices are often vendor-locked to specific OS versions for compliance or warranty reasons. "For a lot of this hardware, the vendor is contractually responsible for maintaining the device, including any OS changes, so simply enrolling in ESU as a customer may not resolve the underlying problem. The real fix depends on the vendor's own certification timeline for Windows 11, and the cost that comes with the eventual upgrade or replacement. There are also devices sitting in air-gapped or isolated environments, where the risk is knowingly accepted for now rather than actively managed, so ESU enrollment simply isn't a priority." It's not a great situation, and the apparent stalling of Windows 11 adoption doesn't help. Looking at other market share measures such as Statcounter, there was little change in the share of Windows 10 and its successor over the last few months after a surge following the end of support. As Lansweeper noted: "The easy migrations are done. What's left is the hard core: devices that haven't moved because they can't or won't." Compounding the issue is the rising cost of new PC hardware, a trend unlikely to improve in the near term. According to Microsoft, "the ESU program helps reduce the risk of malware and cybersecurity attacks by providing access to critical and important security updates." Microsoft has extended the program for consumer devices, perhaps in recognition that there are an awful lot of Windows 10 machines still out there. Lansweeper's figures also underline the need for administrators to know which Windows 10 devices remain in their estates and whether each is fully patched. While many devices will have some level of protection, others will not, and over time, the proportion of vulnerable Windows 10 devices will grow, particularly where a move to Windows 11 is not an option. ®

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Google Photos is cheap and you pay with your privacy. 🌍

Your photos can feed Google's AI. One innocent picture can get your whole account frozen overnight. And every face and location in your library sits ready for profiling, for years.

Your memories deserve a European home.

🐘 https://pixelunion.eu/blog/2026/07/time-to-leave-google/

#DigitalSovereignty #Privacy #OpenSource #BuyFromEU

De politie heeft woensdagavond twee Rotterdammers aangehouden in Amsterdam-Oost. De mannen, van 24 en 35 jaar, hadden iemand ontvoerd. Bij de arrestatie werden waarschuwingsschoten gelost. Het motief voor de ontvoering is nog onbekend.

peaceful-jp-scenery posted a photo:

Sakurakouji Park
桜小路公園

At Sakurakouji Park, I saw a lotus variety known as "Maihiren," featuring yellowish petals with a faint pinkish hue.

桜小路公園では、舞妃蓮（マイヒレン）という黄色味を帯びた花びらに薄くピンクがかった蓮が見られました。

Fujisawa city, Kanagawa pref, Japan

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From taco in a bowl to cantaloupe and courgette, assemblies of raw ingredients are a terrific choice for lo-fi, hot-weather meals that require minimal cooking

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When Shakespeare coined the phrase “salad days”, he was referring to a state of youthful inexperience. But at 41, and midway through the hottest summer on record, I can safely say my own salad days – these weeks of endless salad-eating – are the result of experience. As my organs segue into their fifth decade, I need more than rosé and a bag of Tyrrells for dinner. (Although if you’re interested, I’m a salt-and-vinegar Furrows person and my favourite rosé – Catalan producer Can Sumoi’s La Rosa – is on offer.)

I’m not only eating salad, of course, but assemblies of raw ingredients are an obvious choice if you’re looking for lo-fi meals that involve more interaction with the fridge than the oven. I like Tom Hunt’s rubric for a fridge-raid dinner salad, which – rather than sending you out for ingredients and sweat patches – uses whatever you have on hand. And Meera Sodha’s no-cook salad of tomatoes, chickpeas and rose harissa delivers fibre and flavour without so much as a struck match. And then there is Feast’s archive of recipes by Yotam Ottolenghi, which boasts doozies such as his tomatoes with mango-miso dressing and this courgette and cantaloupe salad. Ottolenghi’s lime and poppyseed slaw with curry leaf oil, meanwhile, has accompanied almost every barbecue or “family-style” spread – the citrus juice softens and “cooks” shredded cabbage, carrot and onions into submission, and don’t even get me started on its maple-turmeric cashews. The whole lot cries out for a beer – preferably Table Beer by the Bermondsey brewery the Kernel, a pale ale that is big on hops and low on booze (variable, but about 3%).

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Weer voor Rotterdam 🌤️ - 16-07-2026 13:15 CEST

In één oogopslag:
• 26.1°C · Licht bewolkt 🌤️ | Min 20.3°C / Max 28.0°C | Kans op neerslag 1%

Verwachting voor vandaag:
• Min 20.3°C, Max 28.0°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, Kans op neerslag 1%, 🧭 1016.5 hPa ↘️ -1.6 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 17.6 km/u (4.9 m/s), richting: ↙ 44°

Uurlijkse voorspelling voor de komende 12 uur:

• 14:00: 27.3°C (Zonnig) ☀️, 🧭 1018.1 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 10.1 km/u (2.8 m/s), richting: ← 85°
• 15:00: 28.0°C (Zonnig) ☀️, Kans op neerslag 2%, 🧭 1017.5 hPa ↘️ -0.6 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 14.8 km/u (4.1 m/s), richting: ← 69°
• 16:00: 27.5°C (Licht bewolkt) 🌤️, Kans op neerslag 5%, 🧭 1017.0 hPa ↘️ -0.5 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 17.6 km/u (4.9 m/s), richting: ↙ 60°
• 17:00: 27.7°C (Zonnig) ☀️, Kans op neerslag 6%, 🧭 1016.8 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 16.2 km/u (4.5 m/s), richting: ↙ 58°
• 18:00: 27.2°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, Kans op neerslag 5%, 🧭 1016.6 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 15.8 km/u (4.4 m/s), richting: ↙ 50°
• 19:00: 25.3°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, Kans op neerslag 4%, 🧭 1016.1 hPa ↘️ -0.5 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 17.6 km/u (4.9 m/s), richting: ↙ 35°
• 20:00: 24.4°C (Gedeeltelijk bewolkt) ⛅, Kans op neerslag 2%, 🧭 1015.8 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 15.5 km/u (4.3 m/s), richting: ↙ 41°
• 21:00: 23.8°C (Zonnig) ☀️, Kans op neerslag 1%, 🧭 1015.7 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 13.7 km/u (3.8 m/s), richting: ↙ 47°
• 22:00: 22.9°C (Helder) 🌕, 🧭 1016.0 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 12.2 km/u (3.4 m/s), richting: ↙ 38°
• 23:00: 22.1°C (Helder) 🌕, 🧭 1015.9 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 11.9 km/u (3.3 m/s), richting: ↙ 38°
• 00:00: 21.2°C (Helder) 🌕, 🧭 1015.7 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 9.0 km/u (2.5 m/s), richting: ↙ 52°
• 01:00: 20.8°C (Helder) 🌕, 🧭 1015.5 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 3.6 km/u (1.0 m/s), richting: ↙ 62°

Voorspelling voor de komende dagen:

• vrijdag 17 juli: Min 18.7°C, Max 25.0°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, Kans op neerslag 4%, 🧭 1014.4 hPa ↘️ -2.1 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 19.4 km/u (5.4 m/s), richting: ↘ 331°
• zaterdag 18 juli: Min 16.4°C, Max 21.2°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, Kans op neerslag 1%, 🧭 1016.7 hPa ↗️ +2.3 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 19.1 km/u (5.3 m/s), richting: ↘ 326°
• zondag 19 juli: Min 15.6°C, Max 20.1°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, Kans op neerslag 6%, 🧭 1019.8 hPa ↗️ +3.1 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 19.3 km/u (5.4 m/s), richting: ↘ 335°
• maandag 20 juli: Min 14.8°C, Max 20.0°C (Lichte motregen) 🌦️, Neerslag 1.2 mm, Kans op neerslag 9%, 🧭 1023.7 hPa ↗️ +3.9 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 15.5 km/u (4.3 m/s), richting: ↓ 343°
• dinsdag 21 juli: Min 14.0°C, Max 21.1°C (Lichte motregen) 🌦️, Neerslag 0.3 mm, Kans op neerslag 10%, 🧭 1026.5 hPa ↗️ +2.8 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 15.1 km/u (4.2 m/s), richting: ↘ 330°
• woensdag 22 juli: Min 15.9°C, Max 20.9°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, Kans op neerslag 22%, 🧭 1022.0 hPa ↘️ -4.5 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 15.0 km/u (4.2 m/s), richting: ↘ 315°

Details:
• 🌡️ Huidige temperatuur (om 13:15): 26.1°C (Licht bewolkt)
• 🤚 Gevoelstemperatuur: 28.0°C (+1.9°C)
• 💨 Windsnelheid: 9.4 km/u (2.6 m/s), richting: ← 71°
• 🌬️ Windstoten: 25.9 km/h (7.2 m/s)
• 💧 Luchtvochtigheid: 39%
• 🧭 Luchtdruk: 1018.1 hPa ↘️ -1.1 hPa/3h
• 👁️ Zichtbaarheid: 38.1 km
• ☀️ UV-index: 6.4
• 🌅 Zonsopgang: 05:42 · 🌇 Zonsondergang: 21:54

Luchtkwaliteit:
• AQI: 37 🟢 (Goed)
• PM2.5: 6.8 μg/m³
• PM10: 10.3 μg/m³

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