DEN HAAG (ANP) - Het produceren van meer duurzame energie in Nederland zorgt voor minder uitstoot en maakt dat Nederlanders meer "grip krijgen" op de energierekening. Dat zegt voorzitter Olof van der Gaag van de Nederlandse Vereniging Duurzame Energie (NVDE) in reactie op nieuwe verwachtingen van het Planbureau voor de Leefomgeving (PBL) over de ontwikkeling van de broeikasgasuitstoot en het energiesysteem in Nederland.

Het PBL maakte maandag bekend dat het percentage geïmporteerde energie naar verwachting daalt van 77 procent nu naar 49 tot 63 procent in 2040. Het overgrote deel van die import is fossiel. Tegelijkertijd stagneert de verduurzaming in ons land, stelt het Planbureau.

"Zolang we veel olie en aardgas uit het buitenland nodig hebben, bepalen oorlogen en wereldleiders mede wat Nederlandse gezinnen en bedrijven betalen", aldus Van der Gaag. "Met wind, zon, duurzame warmte en energiebesparing krijgen we steeds meer zelf het stuur in handen."

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Volgens het PBL ligt Nederland niet op koers om de klimaatdoelen te halen. De NVDE benadrukt dat er "volop werk aan de winkel is". Zo pleit de duurzame energiebranche richting 2040 voor een elektriciteitssysteem "zonder CO2-uitstoot", met onder meer zon, wind, opslag en flexibel gebruik. Ook wil de NVDE onder meer dat mensen geholpen worden bij het isoleren van hun huis en duurzame verwarming.

Branchevereniging Energie-Nederland zegt ook dat energiebedrijven willen investeren in "duurzame opwek, warmte en flexibiliteit". Daarvoor hebben ze echter wel "beschikbare infrastructuur en stabiel beleid" nodig, benadrukt de vereniging.

Investeringen zijn daarbij noodzakelijk, aldus Energie-Nederland. "Door deze investeringen deels collectief te dragen, elektriciteit aantrekkelijker te maken en kwetsbare huishoudens gericht te ondersteunen, zorgen we dat de energietransitie weer betaalbaar en haalbaar wordt."

KYIV (ANP) - De Oekraïense president Volodymyr Zelensky bevestigt dat het land wil stoppen met aanvallen op energiedoelen, als Rusland dit ook doet. Dat schrijft hij op X. De Amerikaanse president Donald Trump schreef maandag op zijn Truth Social dat beide landen daarmee akkoord zijn. Zelensky betwijfelt wel of Rusland zich aan een akkoord zal houden.

"Oekraïne heeft zijn partners voorgesteld een akkoord met Rusland te sluiten dat een einde maakt aan de vernietiging van kritieke infrastructuur", schrijft Zelensky. Maar: "Oekraïne is er niet van overtuigd dat Rusland bereid is zich aan enige overeenkomst te houden."

Zelensky verwacht "concrete voorstellen van onze partners". Het land zal de aanvallen staken "als onze partners kunnen garanderen dat Rusland daadwerkelijk afziet van aanvallen op ons elektriciteitsnet, andere energievoorzieningen, kritieke infrastructuur en voedselaanvoerroutes".

MADRID (ANP) - Teambaas Toto Wolff van Mercedes wil George Russell nog niet afschrijven voor de wereldtitel in de Formule 1. De Brit staat tweede in het kampioenschap, maar inmiddels wel met 81 punten achterstand op zijn teamgenoot Kimi Antonelli. "Het is een mechanische sport; je kunt crashen of uitvallen. En zolang het in punten mathematisch gezien nog kan, verdient George alle steun van het team", zei Wolff op de website van de Formule 1.

Russell begon als titelfavoriet aan het seizoen, maar hij is volledig overvleugeld door Antonelli. De jonge Italiaan won zondag in Madrid voor de achtste keer dit seizoen. Russell boekte pas twee overwinningen en stelde zelf na afloop vast dat hij "realistisch gezien" niet meer meedoet om de titel.

"We moeten uitzoeken wat er nodig is om dat potentieel bij hem volledig tot zijn recht te laten komen", zei Wolff. "Hij heeft dit seizoen flinke mentale klappen te verwerken gekregen, maar de groten herpakken zich. Ik denk dat George alles in huis heeft om voor kampioenschappen te strijden."

Ok wait, the NES Tetris world record is now 40.26 million??! It took 2 hours and 20 minutes and the previous record was 29 million. At level 255, you hit “rebirth” and the pieces slow down to level 0 speeds again. Totally bonkers.

Ubuntu 24.04's likely final scheduled point release barely made it out the door before an installer bug sent its x86-64 desktop image back to the workshop. Meanwhile, October's interim release is approaching. 24.04.5 was released on September 10, but its x86-64 desktop installation image was withdrawn after a bug caused the installer to crash when users selected the extended installation option. Other images and official flavors are unaffected. For the time being, if you try to download the graphical desktop version, the "Noble Numbat" download page is serving the 24.04.4 ISO image instead. The other versions on that page – Server, WSL2 image, and the Netboot version – are not affected. The issue only affects fresh installations: if you already have 24.04 installed, a full system update will result in 24.04.5 in the usual way. Version 24.04.5 is very likely to be the last point release of the 2024 Ubuntu LTS. Ubuntu 26.04 is the latest LTS release, but 24.04 remains supported. As we reported when Resolute Raccoon launched in April, it uses Linux kernel 7.0, and that means that a new install of 24.04.5 comes with kernel 7.0 as well. This is part of Canonical's system of LTS Enablement stacks, also called Hardware Enablement or HWE, as we described back when 24.04.3 appeared in August 2025. The same applies if you upgrade an existing copy of 24.04. We upgraded one of our test laptops and it too got the new kernel version automatically. Kernel upgrades depend on which kernel track the installation follows. Ubuntu 24.04 Desktop defaults to HWE, while Server defaults to the original general-availability kernel; some desktops use an OEM kernel instead. HWE updates bring newer kernels and graphics support to an existing LTS release. A successful installation doesn't establish that every device or feature works correctly, or that later updates offer no benefit. As we wrote in January 2025, we have a couple of laptops with onboard Nvidia GPUs that need kernel 5.x to run the Nvidia binary drivers, so we downgraded them to Ubuntu 22.04's original 5.15 kernel. It still works and it's still getting bug fixes from Canonical. Alongside the newer kernel, the release includes a graphics stack based on Mesa 26.2. There's a detailed list of issues and fixes in the 24.04.5 release notes, as well as a list of security fixes in Ubuntu Security Notices. Here comes a stingray! (Ooh-wah, ooh-wah) In other Ubuntu update news, version 26.10 "Stonking Stingray" is getting close. At the start of the month, the company announced in-progress development snapshot 3, and the beta is scheduled for September 24. Both a standard x86-64 installation image and a build optimized for processors supporting x86-64-v3 are on the download page. Post-install, it should be possible to switch to the newer-CPU binaries. As the June development roadmap specified, 26.10 is now in feature freeze, but a big one sneaked in right under the wire: it should come with Linux kernel 7.3. Kernel 7.2 came out last month, with the kernel team's new faster AI-assisted development cycle. The following version is already at RC-2 stage and the final version 7.3 should be out right around the same time as Stonking. If necessary, the Stingray may be set free with a pre-release kernel and updated within days. Canonical did promise earlier this year that it was aiming to make Ubuntu interim releases exciting again, and this would certainly qualify. GNOME 51 is nearly a month into its beta cycle and should appear a couple of weeks before Stonking. This release should also finish the process of replacing all the Unix-style core utilities with Rust versions. There should also be a version of the Myna speech-to-text tool, as we mentioned back in June. If you want to see the new look, there's a public Google Drive folder with the new wallpapers available now. ®

Uit straatboekenkastjes in heel Nederland haalt Arjen Fortuin steeds een boek, bespreekt het, en geeft het door.

Duizenden Nederlanders beschouwen de overheid als onrechtmatig en willen geen belasting betalen of een rijbewijs bij zich dragen. Onderzoekers spraken met twaalf van deze soevereinen. „Migratie is helemaal niet aan de orde gekomen. Corona wel: daar zijn deze mensen echt in blijven hangen.”

Elke week legt Annemiek Leclaire een lezersvraag voor aan deskundigen. Deze week: moet ik goede vrienden opvoedadvies geven als het er thuis heftig aan toe gaat?

The operation offers an early indication that Moscow is continuing to resupply facilities at Tartus port and the Khmeimim airbase under the new deal.

Man, who cannot be named to protect anonymity of his victim, admits scores of criminal offences

A man has pleaded guilty to drugging and sexually assaulting his wife over a period of 20 years as he admitted 60 criminal offences.

The man, who cannot be named in order to protect the anonymity of his victim, is in his 60s and before his arrest lived in Stockport, Greater Manchester.

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We owe it to our young people to teach them how to do laundry and prepare food, writes Melissa Scallan, while Pippa Keech recalls her son’s university halls baptism of fire

Zoe Williams’ university-bound son won’t be the only one among his peers not to know how, or indeed why, bed sheets are laundered (I went to Ikea with my son – and was confronted with my parenting failures, 8 September).

Modern day, middle-class parenting tends to direct kids away from domestic pursuits, focusing instead on academic achievements and sporting prowess or music grades, scouting activities and Duke of Edinburgh awards. With their waking hours consumed by so many outside interests, there’s little time for learning life skills such as cooking, cleaning and laundering.

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The World Cup winner’s off-the-cuff assessment was brutally honest. Within days their manager and CEO were gone, but the problems run much deeper

Kiat Lim wanted to see Valencia play so badly, so that is what he did. It was week four in La Liga, 6 September, and for the first time since he was given the presidency 18 months earlier, the owner’s 33-year-old son was going to watch his team play a competitive game. He was going to do it from the inside, too, so he took a flight to Spain, landing at Manises in a black mask and cap, a van to the hotel, then the team bus to Mestalla. He looked through the window as they rolled along Avenida Suecia, a huge, noisy crowd waiting, but when he got off and headed through the iron gate with its ornate club badge, he saw that this was no welcome.

Above him as he went in were giant portraits of Mario Kempes, Antonio Puchades, Juan Sol, Gaizka Mendieta, David Villa and Santiago Cañizares, footballers from a better time; around him were yellow banners and whistles for the footballers there now. Inside, Lim saw the game start with the lower south stand empty as fans stayed away until the 19th minute, the sound of the protest drifting in from the street. They were out there still when, sitting alongside Joan Laporta, he saw Lamine Yamal score the sixth-minute opener then get a second. And although that, also from Lamine Yamal, was ruled out, he eventually saw Barcelona get four more, presiding over a 5-0 defeat.

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With her new, semi-nude advert for sports site Novig, the actor cements her reputation as the anti-woke poster girl. But is it real – or just provocation with a soft porn gaze?

Bear with me here, but I’m beginning to suspect Sydney Sweeney is a very fine actor. It’s a skill she has been recognised for in the past, of course, winning nominations for Emmys for Euphoria and The White Lotus, but I mean it in a deeper sense, related to her work in advertising rather than drama – can she do more than play a role? Can she make you feel what she’s feeling?

In her “controversial” new ad for the sports prediction site Novig (the scare quotes are because, when you’re begging for controversy this hard, you shouldn’t just be handed it on a plate), she adopts the garb of various sports. Her face, body, aspect, gait and mien are all carefully configured to amp up the erotic overtones to the maximum degree, and yet the feeling that beams out of each image is: “This is really going to piss people off, and I couldn’t be more delighted.” Her expression is so speechful that you cannot help but share in some of her hellion joy.

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Sultan of Sequins" known for creating flamboyant, show-stopping looks for divas like Cher and Diana Ross, died Monday. He was 87. "The legendary fashion and costume designer, famous for dressing people like Cher, Elton John, Diana Ross, and Tina Turner, has passed away, according to a statement released on his social media accounts." Mackie was Oscar-nominated three times and amassed over 30 Emmy nominations and nine wins. In 2002, he became the first costume designer to be inducted into the Television Academy Hall of Fame.

Liam Lawson believes "overall it's been a strong three weekends" with Red Bull since replacing the injured Isack Hadjar midway through the season.

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Wordt een vreemd vaarwater hè? Anthropic, OpenAI en Elons xAI willen vergaand gereguleerd en daarmee vertraagd worden, omdat ze allemaal vrezen dat de veiligheid niet te waarborgen is aangezien hun frontiermodellen nu al zelf hun opvolgers bouwen. En daar reageert Trump nu met een van z'n meest uitzinnige posts in tijden als volgt op: "The only control or “guardrails” that AI needs is a STRONG AND SMART (High IQ!) PRESIDENT, and the U.S.A. has that, in spades! The Trump Administration has stopped AI “people” from doing bad, or potentially bad, “things,“ like Dario (Anthropic!), who is now pretending to be a “perfect little angel” - and we will continue to do so! We already have tremendous CRIMINAL and REGULATORY power over these companies! There is a SICK conspiracy going on against AI and Data Centers, and the only one that is happy about it is China. WHOEVER WINS AI, WINS! We are leading China, and all others, and will continue to do so. Conspiracy Theorists, Treasonists, Traitors, and Leakers, BEWARE!"

Onderstaand sprak Vance eerder vandaag ook zeer wantrouwend van een 'Trojaans paard'. En zoals hier gisteren ook al geschreven, solliciteren de drie bedrijven naar een soort semi-overheids-kartelpositie. En zo'n vergaande vervlechting kan een dusdanige kruisbestuiving opleveren dat uiteindelijk vervaagt wie er nou eigenlijk wie reguleert, en het AI Industrial Complex een soort vierde tak van de overheid wordt.

Ook Vance wantrouwt de oproep, spreekt van 'Trojaans paard', ontkent meningsverschil met Trump

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Last week, Anthropic released a long and detailed document describing current misuses of their Claude models. I’m still reading it, but I wanted to flag this:

We identified a cell of threat actors based in northern Yemen running three weapons development programs: a guided rocket that used a commodity phone-class flight computer with final-phase homing guidance; a multi-stage ballistic missile with a stated range goal above 2,000 km; and a multi-variant missile (referred to as the “R2000” set) that included a hypersonic glide vehicle variant.

The actors used Claude Code in place of human software engineers to develop the guidance, navigation, and control (GNC) software that steers and stabilizes a flying vehicle. For example, they used Claude to integrate an open-source autopilot onto a phone-class flight computer, writing the control and position estimation software, tuning the control settings, running a firmware build pipeline, and performing a flight simulation. The actors managed several Claude instances at once, assigning each one a role, much as a lead would delegate work on a small engineering team: the actors tasked one instance with writing the code, another with research, and a third with reviewing the code the first instance produced.

Our safeguards blocked many of their requests, but not all of them. The actors used a variety of tactics to evade our safeguards, including hiding their goals and the products the software was meant for, and they split their work across multiple sessions so no single session revealed their full intent.

These actors carried out a sustained effort to develop guided weapons, including using Claude to design guidance software. We do not have evidence the actors succeeded in fielding an operational device; but they did test-fire a guided rocket. This field test appears to have failed: within hours, the actors returned to Claude to work out why it failed.

Expect more of this. AI systems democratize expertise and capability. Most of the time that’s a good thing, but sometimes it’s not.

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