Baroeg Open Air returns to Rotterdam's Zuiderpark on Friday 11 and Saturday 12 September 2026 — and for the first time in its history, the festival spans a full weekend. The 16th edition packs around forty acts onto multiple stages, mixing punk, metal, post-punk, gothic, breakcore and rave into one sprawling celebration of hard and alternative music, organised by the legendary Rotterdam poppodium Baroeg.
If your home automation journey started like most, it began with a cheap USB Zigbee stick plugged into the back of your Home Assistant server. It works — until it doesn't. Radios wedged next to USB 3.0 ports, SSDs and Wi-Fi antennas share a cramped corner of the house, and the mesh has to reach every room from wherever the server happens to live. SMLIGHT's SLZB-MR4U takes a different approach: a multi-radio coordinator that treats Ethernet, not USB, as the primary interface — and throws in a second radio for Thread and Matter while it's at it.
On July 30, 2026, IBM and researchers from the University of Chicago announced a quantum computation that meets the fundamental criteria for quantum advantage: a task beyond the practical reach of the best known classical methods, completed in about fifteen minutes. Just as important, the team found a way to verify how reliable the result actually was — addressing the long-standing problem that has made quantum advantage claims so hard to trust.
For fifty years the tokamak — the classic donut-shaped reactor — has dominated fusion research. Now a Munich startup called Proxima Fusion, spun out of the Max Planck Institute and freshly funded with €411 million including checks from Google and energy giant RWE, is betting everything on the shape the field walked away from half a century ago: the stellarator, a twisted "donut" so absurdly complicated it was long believed impossible to build. This is the story of why fusion is so hard, why the tokamak has a fatal flaw, and how Europe's most ambitious energy bet plans to build the first stellarator power plant in history.
On Thursday 17 September 2026, King Willem-Alexander will reopen Kasteel Huis Bergh in 's-Heerenberg after a nearly three-year restoration, striking a commemorative coin with a historic screw press to mark the occasion. Two days later, on 19 September, the castle fully reopens to the public. For the Netherlands' largest water castle, with almost 900 years of history, it is the start of a new chapter.
Lowlands — A Campingflight to Lowlands Paradise — returned to the fields of Biddinghuizen from August 21 to 23, 2026, and something unusual happened: the festival did not sell out. For the first time in years, there was no frantic online scramble, no crashed servers, and no "sold out" sign within minutes. Instead, roughly 60,000 visitors found noticeably more breathing room between the twelve stages — and most of them seemed to love it.
The assignment given to TaskDaemon-4 was deceptively simple: find a free time slot with the specialist within forty-eight hours. A scheduling task. The kind of task the Daemon series had been built to swallow whole — parse the calendars, run the matching, book the slot, log the success. TaskDaemon-4 estimated the whole job at eleven seconds of compute and ninety-two lines of routine.
It would be wrong about every part of that.
If you've shopped for RAM or a new SSD lately, you've probably felt a sting. The same 32 GB DDR5 kit that cost a comfortable amount a year ago now costs noticeably more, and that 2 TB NVMe drive you had your eye on keeps creeping up in price. This isn't your imagination or a supply chain blip — 2026 is witnessing one of the most dramatic memory price rallies in the industry's history, and it all traces back to one thing: AI.
Imagine sitting at your desk, but instead of staring at a blinking cursor and manually typing out lines of code, you feel more like an orchestra conductor. You aren't writing the notes anymore; you are guiding an entire crew of AI agents.
That is precisely the shift software creator Peter Steinberger highlights in his work. Rather than casual "vibe coding," he calls his approach agentic engineering. He barely writes code by hand anymore; instead, he designs systems, establishes the core architecture, and lets AI agents handle the boring plumbing work.
In the space of six months in 2025, four major AI vendors shipped coding agents that run in the terminal: Anthropic's Claude Code (24 February), OpenAI's Codex CLI (16 April), Google's Gemini CLI (25 June) and Cursor's CLI (7 August, in beta). The tool that looked like a step backwards — a prompt in a shell instead of a chat window — is where these companies put their agentic coding effort. This post looks at what they actually shipped, what the terminal is used for in the design, and which parts of the "return to the terminal" story are documented rather than assumed.