UTRECHT (ANP) - Demi Vollering en Mathieu van der Poel zijn gekozen tot beste wielrenners van 2026. De 29-jarige wielrenster van FDJ United-Suez kreeg op het Wielergala in Utrecht de Keetie van Oosten-Hage Trofee uitgereikt. Van der Poel was niet aanwezig op het gala om de Gerrit Schulte Trofee in ontvangst te nemen.

Vollering won de prijs in 2023 ook al eens. In het afgelopen seizoen won ze de Giro Women, voor de tweede keer de Tour de France Femmes en klassiekers als de Ronde van Vlaanderen en Luik-Bastenaken-Luik. In september werd ze voor het eerst in haar carrière wereldkampioen op de weg. Een week later prolongeerde Vollering de Europese titel.

Voor Van der Poel is het de vijfde keer dat hij de trofee wint. De wielrenner van Alpecin-Premier Tech deed dat eerder in 2019, 2020, 2023 en 2024. In 2025 ging de prijs naar Harrie Lavreysen.

De 31-jarige Van der Poel werd in 2026 voor de achtste keer wereldkampioen veldrijden. Hij won Omloop Het Nieuwsblad en E3 Saxo Classic en twee etappes in de Tour de France, waaronder de slotrit in Parijs.

KYIV (ANP) - De Oekraïense president vreest dat de aandacht die uitgaat naar de Amerikaanse parlementsverkiezingen deze week, de midterms, de aandacht zal afleiden van de oorlog tegen zijn land. In zijn dagelijkse videotoespraak aan Oekraïners zegt het staatshoofd dat Rusland dat momentum kan aangrijpen om aanvallen uit te voeren op zijn land. Zelensky zegt daarbij over informatie te beschikken dat Rusland een grootschalige aanval voorbereidt.

Zinspelend op de dieseldeal die de Amerikaanse president Donald Trump onlangs met Rusland sloot, zegt Zelensky dat er "geen spelletjes moeten worden gespeeld met Ruslands olie- en gasinkomsten". Die overeenkomst met het Kremlin werd breed gezien als ommezwaai in Trumps steun voor Oekraïne, ook omdat zo'n stap indirect de Russische oorlogsinspanning steunt.

"We moeten op zo'n manier druk op Rusland zetten dat het geen ander alternatief heeft dan de oorlog te beëindigen. Amerika kan dit", aldus Zelensky.

If AI can find the holes in programming code, it can do the same with legal code, paving the way for chaos. Felix Ringe, a visiting fellow at Stanford Law School’s liftlab and legal scholar, suggests large language models (LLMs) have become potent enough that they could break legal systems by identifying exploitable inconsistencies at scale. "Legal systems encode the foundations of social order in natural language," Ringe and collaborator Linus Folkerts argued in a blog post last week. "Similar to computer systems, the written law can contain vulnerabilities that invite exploitation." Ringe contends that while courts tend to pave over these text vulnerabilities through statutory interpretation, the ability to discover adversarially useful inconsistencies in the law in an automated way risks overwhelming the legal system's ability to bridge the gaps. To buttress his thesis, he points to recent work by other legal scholars that frames laws as vulnerable code, such as "Legal Zero-Days: A Novel Risk Vector for Advanced AI Systems" and "Hardware and Software Bugs in the Legal System" [PDF]. The analogy dates back at least to 1999, with Lawrence Lessig's Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace [PDF] and Code Is Law: On Liberty in Cyberspace. Lessig credits William J. Mitchell, in City of Bits: Space, Place, and the Infobahn (1995), with the idea that code is cyberspace's law, adding that he "drew the metaphor from others as well." Ringe has turned this on its head by proposing that law is code. The analogy between programming code and legal code works reasonably well, up to a point. Law and code both have their share of formatting pedantry and ritual. The mapping breaks down when courts get cast as a runtime environment – non-deterministic trial outcomes don't work for production applications. Discontinuities aside, Ringe's point is that AI models can surface statutory gaps at a scale that may bring the chaos currently seen in the software security ecosystem to the legal world. To demonstrate that, Ringe and Folkerts cite several potential gaps in German law that they uncovered with the help of LLMs, noting that they're only sharing legal exploits they believe could not cause serious harm. For example, an amendment to Germany's Occupational Diseases Regulation (BKV) is subject to a constitutional requirement to cite its statutory authority. But Ringe and Folkerts argue that the amendment omits a required reference. So, in theory, a journalist could request an unpublished statement submitted to Germany's occupational-diseases advisory council under freedom of information rules, challenging a confidentiality provision that the researchers argue may be invalid. Another example cited describes a transit visa rule that may be invalid because the government failed to identify the authority under which the rule was made. "We believe that with cheap legal reasoning proliferating, AI systems could jeopardize the functioning of today’s legal systems," they wrote. "In such a world, lawmakers would need to significantly harden the process of legislation, for example by leveraging advanced AI themselves." Wendy Musell, a San Francisco-based employment law attorney and partner, told The Register that the use of AI in the legal field is expanding rapidly. "Some California Courts, including LA Superior Court, are testing the use of AI as law clerks," said Musell. "Generally law clerks would assist the Court by researching and drafting opinions for the judge's review. That means AI is serving that role in certain courts. Litigators now must consider how AI is analyzing motions and cases. "This is the case even where I personally have found different AI sources to appear to have a slant or bias, and often fail to accurately analyze legal issues. It was just a matter of time before AI came for the legislative process." Eric Goldman, associate dean for research and professor of law at Santa Clara University School of Law, told The Register that Ringe's argument has some merit. "I think the methodology of using AI to identify potential statutory gaps is logical," said Goldman. "However, it will require careful human review to determine if the AI-identified gaps are in fact actually gaps. Statutory gaps also may have no legal consequence, or at least none of significance; and legislatures will often correct any major gaps once they are identified." Goldman said the idea that legislators should use AI during the drafting process is ambitious, at least in the short term. "Legislators often draft laws with a range of goals and priorities, and avoiding statutory gaps is rarely a high priority," he explained. "But many legislatures have legislative counsel who are responsible for converting draft bills into final legislative text, and I could see where legislative counsel could benefit from using AI to identify drafting gaps as part of their standard cleanup protocols." ®

An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: Data centers are deeply unpopular. But what if we called them something else? Axios reports that OpenAI is preparing a "PR blitz" for after the midterm elections on Tuesday, as Democrats seem likely to win back the House of Representatives, and possibly the Senate, too. The company's chief global affairs officer Chris Lehane told Axios that the midterms will be "a bit of a movie trailer for what you're going to see in 2028," when he expects AI to be "the issue" in the presidential election.

So OpenAI is to influence the AI debate moving forward, with Lehane discussing several proposals, including the development of AI "speed limits"; finding ways to help people see AI as empowering them in their daily lives; pushing the U.S. to take a role in developing global standards; and yes -- rebranding data centers as "AI compute campuses." Lehane also described the conversation around data centers (a debate that has pushed Amazon and Microsoft to say they will no longer use NDAs in their negotiations with local governments) as "good and healthy." "Communities should hold companies responsible and accountable so they really and truly get a transformative benefit from these projects," he said.

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Het gaat slecht met het kabinet, maar verder goed (laatste update: ze zijn het onderling eens over dat ze het niet eens zijn met de rest), en gelukkig hebben we in Nederland Özcan Akyol om de boel eens even lekker Algemeen te duiden in het Dagblad. En wat blijkt? Het ligt allemaal aan de VVD en er is niemand die dat durft te zeggen, behalve Özcan Akyol. Niemand? Echt? Niemand? Een kleine bloemlezing in het Stamcafé.

PS - Wat staat hier?

Best bekeken sAtiRiScH programma op de NPO (kennelijk niet te ontvangen in Deventer)

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Pampieren Volkskrant

Volkskrant Podcast (overal te beluisteren, behalve in Deventer)

Kamer van Klok júíst niet geobsedeerd door VVD

VVD? Prima centrum-rechtse partij volgens de Kamer van Klok

Jetten krijgt er weer van langs in de Kamer van klok

Is het wel goed, dan deugt het alsnog niet

Humor!!!

Originele take op BlueSky (Mag Özcan Akyol niet komen)

Analyse!!! (achter paywall, onmogelijk te lezen voor Özcan Akyol)

Piratenzender Radio 1

De Groene Amsterdammer pleit de VVD lekker vrij

Trouw (belandt in huize Akyol linea recta in prullenbak)

"NRC? Nooit van gehoord"

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En dan nu: de Megamix (een terugblik op deel 1 t/m 4)

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Hispanics and Asians have become their country’s most dynamic swing voters.

Douglas DePodesta says he was made ‘scapegoat’ after collapse of case against Broadview Six anti-ICE protesters

The former head of the FBI in Chicago has accused the Trump administration of pressuring him to investigate the president’s political opponents and making him a “scapegoat” after a major federal case against anti-ICE protesters fell apart.

Douglas DePodesta, who served as FBI special agent in charge from 2024 until July 2026, alleged in a federal lawsuit filed on Monday that the Department of Justice (DoJ) had engaged in “misconduct” and “malfeasance” in its pursuit of unjust prosecutions – and that he was wrongly blamed for the DoJ’s missteps and unlawfully forced out of his job.

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US president shares delayed results of chaotic renovation on DC site as Americans prepare to head to the polls

Donald Trump unveiled the delayed results of his $14m renovation of Washington DC’s Lincoln Memorial reflecting pool in what is expected to be his final press conference before voters head to the polls for the midterm elections.

On the eve of a consequential election day, with polls indicating that most voters feel the US president has grown too focused on building projects in the nation’s capital, he stood in front of the newly opened reflecting pool to discuss – in detail – changes to the pool’s pipe, the grass surrounding the area and granite.

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Through abstract, prismatic acrylic paintings to garment-like sculptures and textile collages, Jeffrey Gibson explores questions of identity, lineage, and cultural translation. Working across media, the artist intricately beads monumental works and incorporates a wide range of fabrics and materials.

Jeffrey Gibson: A Real Love Thing at Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg Center delves into the cross-disciplinary breadth of the artist’s practice throughout the past decade. Fifteen works amplify his interest in pattern, queer iconography, and his Indigenous Mississippi Choctaw and Cherokee heritage. Drawing on the early and continuing influence of music, the artist often integrates song lyrics into tapestry-like wall hangings and three-dimensional works.

Music also inspired the title of the exhibition, which Gibson drew from a 1971 interview with soul artist Marvin Gaye, who described his seminal album What’s Going On by saying, “I think I’ve got a real love thing going. I love people, I love life, and I love nature, and I can’t see why other people can’t be like that.”

Reflecting this sentiment, Gibson’s approach is a luminous celebration of Indigenous symbolism and traditional materials, such as jingle cones used in ceremonial garments, tipi poles, and glass beads that have coated bags, moccasins, and other apparel hand-crafted by Native Americans throughout the centuries. The artist also posits a future full of hope, joy, acceptance, and, like Gaye, a love-above-all ethos.

A Real Love Thing continues through March 13 at the Bloomberg Center in Washington, D.C., where Gibson will present a talk as part of the esteemed Sam Gilliam Lecture series on November 12. And if you’re near Eugene, Oregon, the artist’s traveling solo exhibition They Teach Love is also on view through through March 7 at the University of Oregon.

Do stories and artists like this matter to you? Become a Colossal Member today and support independent arts publishing for as little as $7 per month. The article Jeffrey Gibson’s ‘A Real Love Thing’ Surveys a Decade of the Artist’s Multidisciplinary Practice appeared first on Colossal.