The US artist, whose swirly, colorful, instantly recognizable designs became hugely commercially successful, died on Monday

Peter Max, whose colorful, psychedelic pop art expressed the optimism of the “flower power” movement of the 1960s and graced everything from postage stamps to a cruise ship, has died at 88.

Max died on Monday, his son, Adam Max, said in a written statement on Wednesday. No cause was given.

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"As parts of the Southern California coastline crumbled into the sea, slammed by intense waves and flooding in recent days, oceanographer Kim McCoy had one thing on his mind," reports the Los Angeles Times.

He was thinking about "the nuclear waste set in concrete on the beach near San Clemente at the shuttered San Onofre nuclear power plant."

"Rising sea levels, storm waves, El Niño which increases wave height ... these could wash away a section of the walkway that protects the San Onofre seawall, and the waste canisters are just 100 feet away from that," the former wave dynamics researcher and longtime advocate against beach storage of nuclear waste said. Most experts agree the risk of erosion damaging the nuclear waste storage system is extremely low in the near term. The plant's owner, Southern California Edison, has promised the California Coastal Commission to move the waste to higher elevation on-site if modeling shows sea level rise and erosion will start to pose a challenge. But the recent waves, fueled by Hurricane Marie far away in the Pacific, resurfaced the issue of the ultimate fate of the highly radioactive spent fuel that used to power the reactors. "At the moment, it is under control, I think it's essential to say that," said James Day, a geology professor at UC San Diego. "But geologically we must be thinking long term. The waste lasts for hundreds, if not thousands of generations...." [In 2103 some of the site's canisters' approach their intended 100-year lifespans, and the utility may have to start the transfer into new cansiters.]

The distinctive twin domes that once housed the reactor cores will start coming down early next year. But the 3.6 million pounds of high-level waste will stay in the coastal community indefinitely. How much of a safety hazard that is depends on whom you ask. "San Onofre is sitting on some fairly young rocks in a seismically active region," Day said at a recent symposium at the Scripps Seaside Forum in La Jolla, hosted by the Samuel Lawrence Foundation. "This is not the sort of place you would leave nuclear waste." Others noted that collapse of beach slopes could make the site more vulnerable to tsunamis. They spoke of the corrosive effects of the ocean air on the steel canisters that hold the waste...

Edison says its system will be safe for decades to come. "The maximum credible tsunami here would not even overtake the seawall," said Manuel Camargo, principal manager of decommissioning for Edison, standing on the concrete pad that holds the steel waste storage canisters. "The maximum credible earthquake, somewhere around a 7.0 magnitude, would produce something about half of what this system is designed to withstand...." Edison is bolstering a path below the seawall. Based on state data from the California Ocean Protection Council, the seawall would not be inundated before 2050, Camargo said...


Plans for a deep geological repository beneath Yucca Mountain in Nevada crumbled in the face of local opposition in 2011. Utilities around the U.S. now sue the federal government every year to recoup their storage expenses because the Department of Energy has not come through on its promise. The lawsuits cost taxpayers $2 million a day, according to Camargo.
"It's so safe that it's almost a problem," Camargo said. "It's not a priority to a lot of folks to move it."

"The Trump administration's Department of Energy wants to create 'campuses' in several states to store waste," the article points out, "and, in exchange, give local jurisdictions funding to develop different aspects of the nuclear cycle — such as fuel creation, power generation and potentially fuel recycling..."

"The administration wants to address the fact that waste is sitting at 80 reactor sites around the country. It also needs places for waste from new reactors it wants to build."

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Autonomous.ai, an eleven-year-old manufacturer of techno-toys, high-end workstations, and office furniture, has released a small machine called Intern 2 for running AI agents like Hermes or OpenClaw. The company's first Intern device shipped in March, around the time OpenClaw became popular. "People use them for various tasks in a creative way," said Dee Tran, head of AI hardware. "The most common use cases are repetitive cronjobs, loops, and scheduled tasks." Priced at $299, the 4.7-inch pyramid-shaped machine looks more ornamental than computational. We're not sure exactly what's inside because the company's product listing says it includes an OrangePi board, but its press release says it can also include a Raspberry Pi 4 or 5. Autonomous.ai has not responded to several requests for clarification. We'll update the story if they respond. What we do know is that the company sells the devices preconfigured with Hermes or OpenClaw, or will install an agent of your choice for an extra $50. There's also a mic, a speaker, and support for USB-C, Wi-Fi 5, and Bluetooth 5 - all sitting under an illuminated capstone. The device doesn't run a local model. Instead, it accesses cloud-based inference and comes with an allowance of ten million tokens per day from Autonomous' own gateway. "We have an internal router that fuses different models and decides in real time which model to use for each task," explained Tran. That service means Tran sees the device as a less scary way to run an AI agent than using local models. "Buying a second Mac just for background tasks is overkill, but letting an AI agent loose on your main laptop feels pretty sketchy," he told The Register. It's also possible to point Intern 2 at a local model on separate hardware running an OpenAI-compatible server. The operating system (Autonomous-os) is open source under Apache 2.0, except for the hardware abstraction layer (HAL) under GPL-3.0, so further modification is possible. If you want to run local models at speed, Autonomous.ai has you covered. The company also sells computers packing high-end GeForce GPUs at prices that range from $26,100 to $93,900. Having dedicated hardware to run AI resolves some of the issues around enabling agents to operate without supervision. So if you wanted to entrust an AI agent to deal with email, scheduling, GitHub interaction, social media post automation, research, or some similarly hands-off task, Intern 2 could mean you can do so with less concern about unrequested file deletion. Whether anyone wants to receive your agent's automated messages is another issue worth considering. "For now, I don't think auto-sending (slop haha) emails works," Tran said. "But we've seen AI improve so much in many different areas. I barely write code any more. AI writes all of my code and code is a really complex form of language. AI even designs our products now." Maybe one day AI will buy them too. ®

Weer voor Rotterdam 🌧️ - 17-09-2026 01:15 CEST

In één oogopslag:
• 15.7°C · Lichte regen 🌧️ | Min 15.8°C / Max 19.2°C | Kans op neerslag 53%

Verwachting voor vandaag:
• Min 15.8°C, Max 19.2°C (Matige regen) 🌧️, Neerslag 6.7 mm, Kans op neerslag 53%, 🧭 1011.1 hPa ↘️ -4.2 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 20.2 km/u (5.6 m/s), richting: → 274°

Uurlijkse voorspelling voor de komende 12 uur:

• 02:00: 15.5°C (Lichte regen) 🌧️, Neerslag 2.3 mm, Kans op neerslag 24%, 🧭 1015.3 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 13.3 km/u (3.7 m/s), richting: ↗ 210°
• 03:00: 15.6°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, Kans op neerslag 19%, 🧭 1014.6 hPa ↘️ -0.7 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 13.3 km/u (3.7 m/s), richting: ↗ 211°
• 04:00: 15.4°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, Kans op neerslag 9%, 🧭 1014.0 hPa ↘️ -0.6 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 14.4 km/u (4.0 m/s), richting: ↗ 213°
• 05:00: 15.3°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, Kans op neerslag 2%, 🧭 1013.6 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 14.4 km/u (4.0 m/s), richting: ↗ 210°
• 06:00: 15.2°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, 🧭 1012.9 hPa ↘️ -0.7 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 15.1 km/u (4.2 m/s), richting: ↑ 200°
• 07:00: 15.2°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, 🧭 1012.3 hPa ↘️ -0.6 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 17.3 km/u (4.8 m/s), richting: ↗ 206°
• 08:00: 15.4°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, 🧭 1012.1 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 18.7 km/u (5.2 m/s), richting: ↗ 207°
• 09:00: 15.6°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, Kans op neerslag 2%, 🧭 1011.9 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 19.8 km/u (5.5 m/s), richting: ↗ 209°
• 10:00: 16.4°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, Kans op neerslag 6%, 🧭 1011.6 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 22.3 km/u (6.2 m/s), richting: ↗ 215°
• 11:00: 16.3°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, Kans op neerslag 16%, 🧭 1011.5 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 22.7 km/u (6.3 m/s), richting: ↗ 212°
• 12:00: 16.3°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, Kans op neerslag 39%, 🧭 1011.5 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 25.2 km/u (7.0 m/s), richting: ↗ 211°
• 13:00: 16.8°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, Kans op neerslag 69%, 🧭 1011.0 hPa ↘️ -0.5 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 26.6 km/u (7.4 m/s), richting: ↗ 216°

Voorspelling voor de komende dagen:

• vrijdag 18 september: Min 15.2°C, Max 16.8°C (Matige regen) 🌧️, Neerslag 9.0 mm, Kans op neerslag 50%, 🧭 1012.3 hPa ↗️ +1.2 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 26.6 km/u (7.4 m/s), richting: ↗ 214°
• zaterdag 19 september: Min 15.3°C, Max 18.3°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, Kans op neerslag 3%, 🧭 1016.0 hPa ↗️ +3.7 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 20.9 km/u (5.8 m/s), richting: ↗ 244°
• zondag 20 september: Min 16.7°C, Max 20.5°C (Matige motregen) 🌦️, Neerslag 3.0 mm, Kans op neerslag 43%, 🧭 1021.0 hPa ↗️ +5.0 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 27.6 km/u (7.7 m/s), richting: ↗ 232°
• maandag 21 september: Min 15.4°C, Max 18.3°C (Zware motregen) 🌦️, Neerslag 3.4 mm, Kans op neerslag 32%, 🧭 1030.6 hPa ↗️ +9.6 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 22.1 km/u (6.1 m/s), richting: → 277°
• dinsdag 22 september: Min 12.3°C, Max 17.6°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, Kans op neerslag 11%, 🧭 1031.0 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 13.6 km/u (3.8 m/s), richting: ↘ 309°
• woensdag 23 september: Min 12.1°C, Max 18.5°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, Kans op neerslag 7%, 🧭 1030.5 hPa ↘️ -0.5 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 9.3 km/u (2.6 m/s), richting: → 291°

Details:
• 🌡️ Huidige temperatuur (om 01:15): 15.7°C (Lichte regen)
• 🤚 Gevoelstemperatuur: 14.8°C (-0.9°C)
• 💨 Windsnelheid: 9.4 km/u (2.6 m/s), richting: ↗ 224°
• 🌬️ Windstoten: 24.5 km/h (6.8 m/s)
• 💧 Luchtvochtigheid: 91%
• 🧭 Luchtdruk: 1015.3 hPa ↘️ -1.3 hPa/3h
• 👁️ Zichtbaarheid: 50.0 km
• ☀️ UV-index: 0.0
• 🌅 Zonsopgang: 07:18 · 🌇 Zonsondergang: 19:54

Luchtkwaliteit:
• AQI: 22 🟢 (Goed)
• PM2.5: 5.7 μg/m³
• PM10: 8.9 μg/m³

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