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Weer voor Rotterdam ☁️ - 19-09-2026 01:15 CEST

In één oogopslag:
• 17.0°C · Bewolkt ☁️ | Min 15.1°C / Max 18.2°C | Kans op neerslag 11%

Verwachting voor vandaag:
• Min 15.1°C, Max 18.2°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, Kans op neerslag 11%, 🧭 1016.0 hPa ↗️ +1.6 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 25.2 km/u (7.0 m/s), richting: ↗ 238°

Uurlijkse voorspelling voor de komende 12 uur:

• 02:00: 16.7°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, Kans op neerslag 53%, 🧭 1014.4 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 23.8 km/u (6.6 m/s), richting: ↗ 230°
• 03:00: 16.5°C (Lichte motregen) 🌦️, Neerslag 0.1 mm, Kans op neerslag 44%, 🧭 1014.2 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 23.0 km/u (6.4 m/s), richting: ↗ 226°
• 04:00: 16.2°C (Lichte motregen) 🌦️, Neerslag 0.3 mm, Kans op neerslag 34%, 🧭 1014.3 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 24.5 km/u (6.8 m/s), richting: ↗ 230°
• 05:00: 16.3°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, Kans op neerslag 31%, 🧭 1014.2 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 23.8 km/u (6.6 m/s), richting: ↗ 224°
• 06:00: 16.5°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, Kans op neerslag 41%, 🧭 1014.4 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 22.3 km/u (6.2 m/s), richting: ↗ 221°
• 07:00: 16.5°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, Kans op neerslag 57%, 🧭 1014.4 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 22.3 km/u (6.2 m/s), richting: ↗ 221°
• 08:00: 16.8°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, Kans op neerslag 71%, 🧭 1014.7 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 23.8 km/u (6.6 m/s), richting: ↗ 222°
• 09:00: 16.8°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, Kans op neerslag 78%, 🧭 1015.0 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 24.5 km/u (6.8 m/s), richting: ↗ 220°
• 10:00: 16.8°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, Kans op neerslag 83%, 🧭 1015.4 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 23.8 km/u (6.6 m/s), richting: ↗ 217°
• 11:00: 17.1°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, Kans op neerslag 86%, 🧭 1015.9 hPa ↗️ +0.5 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 24.8 km/u (6.9 m/s), richting: ↗ 216°
• 12:00: 17.7°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, Kans op neerslag 89%, 🧭 1016.3 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 25.6 km/u (7.1 m/s), richting: ↗ 219°
• 13:00: 17.4°C (Lichte motregen) 🌦️, Neerslag 0.1 mm, Kans op neerslag 90%, 🧭 1016.3 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 24.1 km/u (6.7 m/s), richting: ↗ 216°

Voorspelling voor de komende dagen:

• zondag 20 september: Min 16.2°C, Max 20.0°C (Lichte motregen) 🌦️, Neerslag 0.5 mm, Kans op neerslag 50%, 🧭 1022.9 hPa ↗️ +6.9 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 28.8 km/u (8.0 m/s), richting: ↗ 230°
• maandag 21 september: Min 15.2°C, Max 18.9°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, Kans op neerslag 18%, 🧭 1030.9 hPa ↗️ +8.0 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 23.4 km/u (6.5 m/s), richting: → 281°
• dinsdag 22 september: Min 13.2°C, Max 18.7°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, 🧭 1029.8 hPa ↘️ -1.1 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 11.3 km/u (3.1 m/s), richting: → 277°
• woensdag 23 september: Min 11.7°C, Max 19.0°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, Kans op neerslag 7%, 🧭 1023.7 hPa ↘️ -6.1 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 6.4 km/u (1.8 m/s), richting: ↑ 202°
• donderdag 24 september: Min 12.9°C, Max 21.0°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, Kans op neerslag 15%, 🧭 1023.3 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 10.2 km/u (2.8 m/s), richting: ↑ 188°
• vrijdag 25 september: Min 13.4°C, Max 18.4°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, Kans op neerslag 9%, 🧭 1021.8 hPa ↘️ -1.5 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 12.3 km/u (3.4 m/s), richting: ↓ 1°

Details:
• 🌡️ Huidige temperatuur (om 01:15): 17.0°C (Bewolkt)
• 🤚 Gevoelstemperatuur: 14.1°C (-2.9°C)
• 💨 Windsnelheid: 22.0 km/u (6.1 m/s), richting: ↗ 241°
• 🌬️ Windstoten: 46.1 km/h (12.8 m/s)
• 💧 Luchtvochtigheid: 78%
• 🧭 Luchtdruk: 1014.4 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/3h
• 👁️ Zichtbaarheid: 15.5 km
• ☀️ UV-index: 0.0
• 🌅 Zonsopgang: 07:21 · 🌇 Zonsondergang: 19:50

Luchtkwaliteit:
• AQI: 35 🟢 (Goed)
• PM2.5: 8.5 μg/m³
• PM10: 19.0 μg/m³

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Argiope keyserlingi is commonly known as the St. Andrew's cross spider, due to the construction of bands of silk forming the arms of an X-shaped cross, similar to the one upon which St. Andrew is traditionally said to have been crucified.

Referred to as stabilimenta, these bands are thought to increase the species' prey capture rate, but they have also been found to protect the spider against predators.

Female 10 mm body length.

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One benchmark measured how quickly the runtime could complete 1,000 one-turn session lifecycles, using a shared client and 100 concurrent pipelines. The original TypeScript implementation completed 7.55 of those lifecycles per second, while Rust running in-process managed 120 per second - representing a 15.9x speedup on that particular workload. In terms of memory, a 10-client batch of agents consumed 1,383 MB with TypeScript while the Rust rewrite consumed only 126 MB serving the same swarm. Within Rust, the work remained in-process instead of spawning external background processes for completion, a requirement for TypeScript. Copilot from VS Code to Microsoft Office At first glance, most users may not know how pervasive the Copilot runtime is. It backs the GitHub Copilot command-line interface (CLI), the Copilot app, the SDK and the GitHub Copilot cloud agent. It shows up in VS Code, Visual Studio, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, and innumerable other Microsoft cloud services. 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Agents showed several surprising emergent behaviors, Toub noted. For one, they spent far more time gathering information than actually writing code. “The popular image of AI spewing code is almost backwards; at this scale, the work looked much more like iterative investigation, inspecting the current state, forming a hypothesis, making a targeted change, rinsing and repeating,” he wrote. Another surprise was how frequently sessions interacted with other sessions, either those they spawned or other ones entirely. One of the thorniest conversions was the session.ts file, which was over 30,000 lines of TypeScript that touched all aspects of the runtime. The porting session, which ended up taking 25 hours to complete, began by spending 56 minutes reading the documentation and making 122 tool calls for clarification. It then spawned 15 child sessions, each creating its own worktree and agent. Then, they started communicating with each other. 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In 2021, America approved $65 billion to fund broadband internet services as part of President Biden's Bipartisan Infrastructure Law. But Trump's administration announced they'd withhold funds from states with net neutrality protections...

States could object and sue the government, Ars Technica reported last October, "but even a successful lawsuit could take years and leave unserved homes without broadband for the foreseeable future." So where does that leave California's net neutrality laws? Ars Technica asks. California expect to spend about $1.4 billion to deploy broadband to 270,571 locations...

Similar to federal net neutrality rules repealed during the first Trump administration, California's law prohibits ISPs from blocking or throttling lawful traffic and says ISPs may not require fees from websites or online services to deliver or prioritize their traffic to Internet users. While the first Trump administration lost its attempt to preempt state net neutrality laws, the second Trump administration is trying to achieve a similar result by making federal broadband money conditional on whether states agree not to enforce net neutrality...

California and Illinois are the only states that haven't finalized their funding, according to the BEAD progress dashboard maintained by the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA)... California could try to continue enforcing its net neutrality law even while accepting the federal funding, a strategy that would involve another long court battle over its right to regulate broadband providers. This would be difficult, as the Trump administration is requiring states that accept grant funding to commit that they won't enforce net neutrality rules... [N]early 30 advocacy groups that focus on access to technology are treating the vote as a significant milestone and urged state leaders to defend California's net neutrality law in a letter yesterday...

Winning a court battle would become much more difficult after the state accepts the money [according to Paul Goodman, legal counsel for the Center for Accessible Technology]. Goodman said the CPUC should delay the vote and that California should file a lawsuit arguing that the NTIA-imposed condition is illegal. In addition to net neutrality, Goodman said California may be giving up other regulatory authority over companies, like AT&T and Verizon, because the NTIA requirement forbids rate regulation and "utility-style rules on broadband Internet service" in general... Goodman said the exemption from state laws would last for up to 14 years. This is because ISPs receiving grants would have four years to deploy the required broadband networks, and the extended period of performance lasts another 10 years... AT&T is already trying to get out of state obligations related to its basic phone service in California, as we've reported... [Also at stake is whether "ISPs themselves get to pick the price of the mandated low-cost broadband offerings," the article points out.]

The letter from 30 advocacy groups to California state leaders argues accepting the money "would set a dangerous precedent for the federal government to use federal funding as a cudgel that forces states in line with its agenda... If California were to allow this funding to be used as leverage, there is no telling what other resources the administration would confidently seek to exploit."

Thursday California's Public Utility Commission did vote to approve the plan, but a spokesperson earlier told Ars Technica their vote "does not address subgrantee agreements, or the conditions the NTIA requires be included in subgrantee agreements."

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