Software Developers Say AI Is Rotting Their Brains. “[Some] developers who use AI at work report that they feel like they are de-skilling themselves and losing their ability to do their jobs as well as they used to.”

All 46 Council of Europe members sign agreement ‘deplored’ by human rights organisations

The UK and 45 other European countries have signed an agreement that explicitly endorses plans to send unwanted asylum seekers to third country hubs.

A political declaration from the 46 members of the Council of Europe, the body that oversees the European convention on human rights (ECHR), said states had an “undeniable sovereign right” to control their borders.

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In Loosdrecht werd de lokale bevolking overvallen door een overhaast besluit. Het democratisch tekort zit niet bij de gemeentes, maar in falend beleid.

Microsoft has laid out plans for how it and its partners will deal with iffy drivers causing stability problems in the company's flagship operating system. Dubbed the Driver Quality Initiative (DQI), Microsoft has outlined four pillars to support the program. These are Architecture – hardening kernel-mode drivers and enabling third-party kernel-mode drivers to transition to user mode; Trust – raising the bar for trusted partners and drivers; Lifecycle – addressing outdated and low-quality drivers; and Quality Measures – going beyond simple crash counts to measure driver quality. It's all very laudable, although, aside from references in the architecture pillar, Microsoft's WinHEC 2026 announcement said little about how Redmond ended up in a situation where drivers can run at a privilege level that allows a failure to leave the operating system hopelessly borked. The infamous CrowdStrike incident of 2024, which crashed millions of Windows devices, ably demonstrated the dangers of drivers running around in the Windows kernel. Microsoft later blamed a 2009 undertaking with the European Commission for how that situation came to be, although it skipped over the whole not-creating-an-API-so-security-vendors-didn't-need-kernel-access part. In the months after the CrowdStrike incident (or "learnings", as Microsoft delicately put it), the Windows Resiliency Initiative was announced. According to Microsoft, "DQI builds on the learnings and infrastructure established through the Windows Resiliency Initiative." Drivers are the bane of many Windows users. A faulty driver can make the entire operating system unstable. Sure, a customer might wonder how such a situation has been allowed to happen. Still, we are where we are, and dealing with it requires Microsoft to harden the operating system and provide ways for vendors to work with Windows that don't involve breaking down the kernel's doors. Those same vendors need to ensure that drivers are high-quality and reliable. "Driver and platform quality," wrote Microsoft, "is central to the customer experience." The company has espoused much in recent months about how it intends to "fix" Windows after a disastrous few years that have taken a hatchet to consumer confidence. Fripperies like moving the taskbar and rethinking Redmond's relentless pushing of Copilot are one thing. Dealing with driver-related crashes is quite another. WinHEC 2026 has shown that at least some within Microsoft are determined to deal with the fundamentals, and that requires taking the Windows maker's hardware partners along for the ride. ®

ROME (ANP) - Tennisser Casper Ruud (27) heeft zich als eerste verzekerd van een finaleplaats bij het tennistoernooi van Rome. De Noorse nummer 25 van de wereld gunde de Italiaan Luciano Darderi (24) voor eigen publiek slechts twee games: 6-1 6-1.

Het duel dat amper een uur in beslag nam, werd vanwege de regen in de eerste set bijna twee uur stilgelegd.

In de finale treft Ruud de Italiaanse nummer 1 van de wereld Jannik Sinner of de Rus Daniil Medvedev, de mondiale nummer 3. Beide toptennissers spelen later op vrijdag de tweede halve finale.

De finale van het graveltoernooi in de Italiaanse hoofdstad is zondag.

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