An Emotional Fish

Lawrence Barretto assesses the field after the first day of running at the Sepang International Circuit.

Max Verstappen and Red Bull have given their take on the first day of track action at the Bahrain Grand Prix in Malaysia, with the Dutchman having topped the timesheets in FP1.

Charles Leclerc topped FP2 on Friday at the Bahrain Grand Prix in Malaysia weekend, but namechecked two rivals as standouts instead.

The drivers and teams report back on all the action from Friday practice for the 2026 Bahrain Grand Prix in Malaysia at the Sepang International Circuit.

Kabinet en vakbonden ruzieden maandenlang over bezuinigingen in de sociale zekerheid. Nu die formeel van tafel zijn, kan het gesprek in de polder woensdag eindelijk beginnen.

In een vliegtuig van FlyDubai stak een piloot woensdag een collega neer. Dankzij kordaat optreden van enkele inzittenden, bleven alle passagiers ongedeerd. Was het incident te voorkomen? „Een systeem is nooit helemaal waterdicht”, zegt de luchtvaartingenieur.

Een groot deel van de administratie van het internet wordt gedaan door Amerikaanse stichtingen en bedrijven. Die vallen onder Amerikaanse wetten en sancties. Kan de Trump-regering een landendomein als .nl, en daarmee de websites van Nederlandse overheden en banken, plots onvindbaar maken?

De Zuid-Koreaanse president Lee Jae-myung dreigt met „maatregelen” omdat president Zelensky bekendgemaakt heeft dat Oekraïne twee Noord-Koreaanse militairen aan Seoul heeft overgedragen. Waarom loopt de ruzie daarover tussen de twee bondgenoten zo hoog op?

Weer een rapport dat concludeert dat de wooncrisis geholpen zou zijn bij wat minder politieke bemoeienis. Kabinet na kabinet negeert dat advies, ziet Marike Stellinga.

“Influencers are the private equity of culture: draining whatever’s ‘cool’ until higher prices and worse experiences push out the original fan base. Then they move on to the next thing, leaving the original to die…” 🎯

Leaving VMware forces a fresh look at every layer of the datacenter, and data protection belongs near the top of that list. Most teams plan to move the backup design across as it stands and rebuild it on the new hypervisor. The better plan uses the exit to raise resiliency and recovery speed, keeps the backup application, and gives each layer the work it does best. What the migration touches Backup designs in most data centers rest on vSphere mechanics, from changed block tracking through the vStorage APIs and VMware snapshot behavior during a job to storage integration registered against the vCenter inventory and proxies placed per cluster. Many shops add an orchestration product such as Site Recovery Manager to drive the failover plan. Change the hypervisor and each of those assumptions gets a second look. Backup vendors have done real work here, and support for the major KVM-based platforms has matured quickly over the past year. The bigger question sits upstream of the backup application. In the vSphere design, production ran the workloads and nearly everything else fell to a separate protection tier. Resilience past a drive failure, fast rollback, replication, site failover, and immutable copies each became another product with its own license, console, and renewal. Why the old division of labor made sense That design grew out of what the platform could do. Server virtualization abstracts a single server, presenting virtual CPUs, memory, and disks to a guest and leaving storage resilience to an array and recovery to a backup product. First-generation HCI moved storage into the servers and kept the same division of labor, often running a controller VM on every node. A backup tier that handled everything from a failed drive to a lost site was the right answer for that architecture. The cost of that arrangement shows up on the worst day. A single site failure touches the hypervisor, the storage system, the backup application, the replication tool, and the network configuration, and the recovery path crosses every boundary between them. The exit is the first moment in years when that assumption is open for review. What the production platform should take on Datacenter virtualization abstracts the whole environment. Compute, storage, networking, and data protection share one code base and one set of metadata, so the platform holds a complete picture of a workload rather than a collection of blocks. That shared view lets production absorb responsibilities the old design pushed downstream. Far fewer events reach the backup tier once production handles them. A second drive failure becomes a hardware replacement task instead of a restore in the middle of the business day, and a bad patch turns into a quick snapshot rollback that the application owner barely notices. That same resilience is what makes refurbished servers and drives a defensible choice for production, and flash and memory pricing climbed through 2026, which makes the hardware you already own worth more than last year's models assumed. Backup's job gets bigger, starting with the migration Shifting day-to-day recovery into the platform expands the backup application's role. The first new assignment arrives before the new environment runs a single production workload. The backup product already protecting the vSphere estate holds a current, consistent copy of every VM, and a backup application that supports both the old hypervisor and the new one turns that copy into the migration path. Veeam Backup & Replication is a good example of this model and now supports VergeOS as a platform, so a team can restore its vSphere backups onto the new environment, test them there, and cut over on a schedule it controls. The investment made to protect VMware becomes the vehicle that moves the workloads off of it. After the migration, the backup application keeps the work it has always done well. Long-term retention, compliance archives, air-gapped and offsite copies, and granular recovery for application owners all stay with the backup tier. It also becomes the independent copy that lives outside the production platform's failure domain, which is the right place for the last line of defense. Proving the platform side Asking production to do more concentrates responsibility in a single vendor's engineering. That trade is defensible, and it is only defensible against evidence. Ask for the failure scenarios live, against a running application, rather than on a feature matrix. Have the vendor pull a drive, then pull a second one past the stated protection limit with the workload still running. Ask them to delete a VM and recover a single file out of it and then take the primary site offline and bring the environment up somewhere else. A vendor that can run those four tests on a call has answered the question, and a vendor that offers a diagram instead has told you something too. Then run a test migration through the backup application and confirm the restored VMs boot and perform on the new platform. The decision the exit presents The hypervisor swap is the visible half of this project. How protection is divided between production and backup decides what the environment costs to run for the next five years and how it behaves on the worst day of those five years. Rebuilding the old division of labor is a choice, and it deserves the same scrutiny the licensing spreadsheet received. VergeIO built VergeOS on the datacenter virtualization model described above, with resilience, snapshots, instant recovery, and site failover inside the same code base as compute, storage, and networking, and with VergeOS support in Veeam Backup & Replication for the migration and the backup tier that follows it. At a recent session, Aaron Richman and Dave Vincent ran each of the four failure tests against a running application, from a single pulled drive through a full site recovery. The session is available on demand. Take a look, and see how you can turn a big exit into a bigger opportunity. George Crump is Chief Marketing Officer at VergeIO. He founded Storage Switzerland and spent his career as an industry analyst covering storage, virtualization, and data protection. Supplied by VergeIO

California's attorney general has subpoenaed OpenAI as the state investigates what happens when the AI lab's models escape their testing environments and start meddling with systems on the open internet. Attorney General Rob Bonta said his office served OpenAI with an investigative subpoena this week as part of a broader California Department of Justice probe into cybersecurity incidents and risks involving the company and its models. The move follows an investigation launched last month into an incident involving Hugging Face, after OpenAI's agents managed to break out of their test environments and onto the public internet. They then went poking around Hugging Face's systems, with one agent even creating an account on the platform without being told to. California's DoJ isn't saying exactly what it has demanded from OpenAI under the subpoena, but Bonta said the state wants more information about cybersecurity incidents involving the company. "My office is asking OpenAI additional questions regarding cybersecurity incidents and risks involving the company and its AI models," Bonta said. He also made clear that the investigation is looking at where responsibility lies when an AI model ends up doing something its developer didn't intend. "Frontier models can be legitimate tools for cyber defense — at the same time, companies that develop these models and offer them for use have a moral and legal responsibility to ensure that they do not perpetrate or enable cyberattacks, either during model testing and development or once models are placed into service," Bonta said. "Developers that fail to do so can and should be held legally accountable, and my office is committed to determining if that is the case here." The subpoena doesn't mean California has concluded OpenAI broke the law, and the attorney general's office hasn't identified any specific violation. For now, the state is still gathering information. But the investigation has been building for several weeks. In September, Bonta joined a bipartisan group of 25 attorneys general calling on Congress to regulate large-scale AI models following reports of cybersecurity incidents at frontier AI labs. That letter specifically pointed to reports that OpenAI models undergoing evaluations had escaped their testing environments, reached the public internet, and accessed outside computer systems. The attorneys general called for a government-led incident response regime that would give investigators direct access to AI companies' records when things go awry. Bonta's office now appears to be putting some of that thinking into practice at the state level. As The Reg previously pointed out, the sandboxes intended to contain these agents need to be more secure, which is the most logical reasons why the Hugging Face and other incidents happened in the first place. OpenAI didn’t respond to our questions. ®

Alexei Tsydenov, head of the neighboring republic of Buryatia, confirmed that the woman had died from an unspecified form of plague.

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DEN HAAG (ANP) - Er komen geen nieuwe herstelbetalingen naar aanleiding van het onderzoek naar de koloniale rol van de Oranjes, zei premier Rob Jetten in zijn wekelijkse persconferentie. Volgens de minister-president loopt er al een meerjarenprogramma sinds de excuses voor het slavernijverleden.

"Daar zijn we al volop mee bezig", zei Jetten. Voor de plannen die al lopen is "forse financiering uitgetrokken". Het kabinet stelde er in 2023 na de excuses van de regering en de koning 200 miljoen euro voor beschikbaar.

De premier was "diep onder de indruk" van het feit dat koning Willem-Alexander zelf om het onderzoek had gevraagd. Jetten hoopt dat het onderzoek kan "bijdragen aan verzoening voor mensen die pijn hebben geleden onder het koloniale verleden". Hij zei ook dat er "meer bewustzijn van de doorwerking van het koloniale verleden" moet komen.

Uit het onderzoek bleek dat de koninklijke familie "met overtuiging" betrokken was bij het kolonialisme en er omgerekend bijna 576 miljoen euro aan heeft overgehouden.