LONDEN (ANP) - Tennisster Karolína Muchová heeft voor het eerst de finale van Wimbledon bereikt. De 29-jarige als tiende geplaatste Tsjechische versloeg de Amerikaanse Coco Gauff in drie sets: 6-2 1-6 7-6 (10).
In de finale treft Muchová de winnares van de halve finale tussen Marta Kostjoek uit Oekraïne en Linda Nosková uit Tsjechië.
GAVARNIE-GÈDRE (ANP) - Tadej Pogačar heeft de zesde etappe van de Tour de France op zijn naam geschreven en daarmee de gele trui veroverd. De 27-jarige renner van UAE Team Emirates maakte het verschil op de Tourmalet, een beklimming van de buitencategorie, en ook op de slotklim naar het Franse Gavarnie-Gèdre was hij veruit de beste.
Voor de Sloveense wereldkampioen is het zijn tweede ritzege in deze editie, waarmee hij zijn totaal op 23 etappeoverwinningen in de Ronde van Frankrijk brengt. Maandag won hij al de derde etappe.
DEN HAAG (ANP) - Luchtvaartorganisaties willen dat passagiers niet te veel drinken en denken daarom na over aanpassingen aan hun alcoholbeleid. Een idee dat in elk geval op tafel ligt, is een waarschuwing op de gesealde verpakkingen voor alcohol op luchthavens. Dat staat in een 'roadmap' die minister Vincent Karremans (Infrastructuur en Waterstaat, VVD) donderdag heeft gedeeld met de Tweede Kamer.
Wangedrag in vliegtuigen is de afgelopen jaren toegenomen, met dronken passagiers als belangrijke oorzaak. Door "matiging van het alcoholgebruik" willen de luchtvaartorganisaties het aantal ordeverstoringen terugbrengen.
Behalve Karremans' ministerie hebben onder meer Nederlandse luchtvaartmaatschappijen, luchthavens, de Koninklijke Marechaussee, het OM en vakbonden meegewerkt aan het document. De organisaties zoeken een "evenwicht" tussen de "gastvrijheidsdiensten" op luchthavens en in vliegtuigen aan de ene kant en de veiligheid in de lucht aan de andere kant. Welke maatregelen ze verder overwegen, is niet bekend.
WOLFSBURG (ANP/RTR/AFP) - De vakbonden gaan zich fel verzetten tegen de massaontslagen bij Volkswagen Group, waar naast Volkswagen ook merken als Porsche en Audi onder vallen. In verschillende fabrieken werd het werk neergelegd op het moment dat Volkswagen zijn herstructureringsplannen aan de raad van commissarissen voorlegde.
De Duitse autofabrikant met wereldwijd ongeveer 650.000 werknemers zou volgens eerdere berichten de komende jaren 100.000 banen willen schrappen. Daarbij zouden er ook vier fabrieken van het automerk sluiten, in Hannover, Zwickau, Emden en de Audi-fabriek in Neckarsulm. Volkswagen is al langer aan het herstructureren, omdat het bedrijf het lastig heeft door de Amerikaanse importheffingen, zwakke verkopen in China en toenemende concurrentie in Europa.
De vakbonden laten weten dat als de plannen worden doorgezet, de stakingen verder worden opgevoerd. De vakbond IG Metall meldde dat er alleen al in Wolfsburg vierhonderd mensen demonstreerden. In totaal heeft de vakbond opgeroepen op twintig locaties over heel Duitsland te protesteren.
Thirteen of the past 15 shootouts at World Cups have been won by the team that went second
By Opta Analyst
After watching 120 minutes of football, you might not find observing a coin toss the most exciting dessert. Fans in the stadium care, though. Win a coin toss for a penalty shootout and you choose the end where they are taken – to much rejoicing from those behind the chosen goal. Another coin toss also allows the winner to choose whether to go first or second. But does that decision actually matter?
For years, the consensus was that going first in a shootout gives teams an advantage. Being able to take the lead and put scoreboard pressure on opponents surely has a mental benefit, and means they are more likely to face the dreaded “must-score” penalty. However, when Rubén Vargas tucked away the winning spot kick for Switzerland against Colombia in their last-16 tie, it continued a rather curious trend.
Continue reading...Speaking at a Guardian Live event at Love Supreme festival, the band tell us about lessons with Tony Allen, mayhem in Lagos and why musicians should be ‘pillars of the community’
At Sussex’s Love Supreme festival last weekend, Femi Koleoso and James Mollison of British jazz figureheads Ezra Collective joined me for a wide-ranging conversation on their artistry, the power of the dancefloor and hopes for the future of British music.
With Koleoso noting that “dancefloors are dancefloors, whether it’s people with instruments or people with turntables, there’s a synergy between all those spaces”, the pair reminisced about some of their own favourite dancefloor memories. Mollison mentioned east London’s now-shuttered Passing Clouds, while Koleoso remembered north London’s University of Dub night at the Scala, as well as Sunday sessions at the Haggerston pub, where a jazz jam would take place at the same time as a disco night: “I was so conflicted on which room to go to!”
Continue reading...Residents in Bandar Abbas and Sirik regions describe communities in fear and ‘feeling abandoned’ after US launch fresh strikes over two-day period
Residents in southern Iran have described two nights of fear this week after explosions shook coastal communities as the US launched fresh strikes on targets including the port cities of Bandar Abbas and Sirik.
US Central Command confirmed the attacks, saying they were carried out to “further degrade their ability to threaten freedom of navigation in the strait of Hormuz”.
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Het is een drukke avondspits in de regio Rotterdam. Door ongelukken en wegwerkzaamheden liep het op de A4, A15 en A16 al rond 16:00 uur vast. Op de A16 blijft het aanschuiven. Tussen Hendrik-Ido-Ambacht en het knooppunt Terbregseplein is de vertraging rond 16:50 uur opgelopen tot bijna een uur.
Igor Rogov, a former employee of the now-defunct nonprofit Open Russia, was sentenced to seven years in prison for passing information about Poland-based Russian opposition groups and activists to the FSB.
KDE Plasma 6.6.6 is here, along with a beastly long list of bugfixes, so if you have Plasma 6.6.5 – for instance, if you are using KDE on FreeBSD 15.1 – then it's an update well worth having. KDE Plasma 6.6.6 is a release that really is just about bug-fixes, but while there are no headline-grabbing features coming out for this inauspicious version number, it's worth remembering: in a world of bloated code, real-world software still depends on experienced maintainers. If you really like Plasma 6.6, you should hope that version 6.6.6* lasts longer than Linux kernel 6.6.6 did – that was only around for a couple of days before it was replaced with Linux 6.6.7. This version appeared precisely on schedule, but that planned release timetable holds some bad news. Under the heading Bugfix releases, it says: “Beginning with Plasma 6.3, stable 'feature' releases will each receive six (6) subsequent updates containing bug fixes.” If the developers hold to that, this is the last release of the Plasma 6.6 series. The main focus of the team’s efforts has already moved to Plasma 6.7, which was released in the middle of June. We suspect that will matter more, because as we reported last month, the plan is that Plasma 6.7 will be the last version to support an X11 session. KDE Plasma 6.8 is currently scheduled for mid-October, in order to coincide with the 30th anniversary of the announcement of the “Kool Desktop Environment”. The plan is still as it was in 2025: Plasma 6.8 will be Wayland-only. Already today, the default setup of Plasma 6.7 on most OSes uses Wayland, but it’s still possible to install the necessary package and have the option of running Plasma using X11 instead. For an in-depth look at why you might want that, see Dedoimedo’s review of Kubuntu 26.04. For instance, at login, Plasma can optionally re-open all the windows you had last time. Wayland, by design, blocks the window manager from restoring window sizes and positions: they’ll all open heaped on top of one another, in the centre of the screen. Although it was two years ago now, digital artist David Revoy explained in great depth how KDE 5 on X11 had very much better hardware support than KDE 6 on Wayland. It remains the best such comparison we’ve seen. We’re waiting with interest to see if there’s enough of a Wayland resistance to help the recently announced Sonic Desktop Environment thrive. It’s a fork of current KDE Plasma, aimed at keeping X11 support. There definitely is still life in X11 – just over a year ago, we reported on the new XLibre fork of the X.org server, and since then, the project has published no less than 27 releases. ® *Bootnote As some will note, in the Christian Bible, 666 is the “Number of the Beast” – although in the oldest known version of the Book of Revelations, the Oxyrhynchus Papyri, page 115 says that the number is 616. Maybe all the fuss is just over a typo anyway.
Platform engineering team leads are facing a quiet crisis. Your data science teams want Kubeflow for its pipeline orchestration, metadata tracking, and training operators, so you build it for them on Kubernetes. Then day two arrives. Your engineering backlog is swallowed by breaking changes from upstream, Istio configuration complexity, security patching, and storage provisioning bottlenecks. You didn't build an ML platform; you accidentally adopted a full-time infrastructure maintenance program. The Kubeflow operations trap Kubeflow's day-two difficulty has structural roots. It is not a single, cohesive application but a distributed constellation of over a dozen distinct open source microservices, including Katib, Pipelines, Notebooks, and Central Dashboard. Each of these components comes with its own release cycle, dependency graph, and configuration quirks, which means that when platform teams deploy Kubeflow, they are actually signing up for a systems integration job. The friction concentrates in three systemic challenges. Kubeflow leans on Istio for routing, multi-tenancy, and security. Configuring Istio ingress, managing TLS certificates, and debugging broken virtual services can quickly turn into a time sink for senior infrastructure engineers. Kubeflow moves fast. Upgrading from one version to the next rarely involves a simple script, because a single API deprecation in an upstream Kubernetes component can silently break your entire machine learning pipeline orchestration. Machine learning workloads demand dynamic, high-performance storage provisioning and flawless GPU scheduling. Mapping cloud-native storage classes to Kubeflow's persistent volume claims while keeping data access latency low requires constant manual tuning. Managed Kubeflow, zero operational overhead Canonical's new Managed Kubeflow on Microsoft Azure is built to give operations teams their weekends back. It delivers the full power of upstream Kubeflow without the operational burden, and because it is a fully managed service that runs entirely within your own cloud tenancy, no data, no models, and no training workloads are ever sent to Canonical. Compliance teams keep their posture intact while platform teams shed the maintenance burden. The open source management engine is cloud-agnostic. Managed Kubeflow on Azure uses the same architecture as Canonical's on-premises OpenStack integration, and managed services on additional public clouds will follow. The result is environment portability without the operational overhead. Canonical Managed Kubeflow use cases Once teams are freed from infrastructure patching and service mesh debugging, they can concentrate on delivering business value. Kubeflow is a powerhouse when it works, because it provides the framework required to take models from an experimental notebook to high-throughput production. A fully managed platform abstracts the underlying cluster maintenance and turns complex machine learning workflows into repeatable, scalable operations. Here is how a managed, dedicated platform converts the heaviest machine learning workloads from infrastructure burdens into routine production operations. Generative AI: Offloading the compute complexity GenAI workloads push Kubernetes clusters to their limits, and managing the pipelines manually forces platform teams to write fragile, custom automation scripts. Canonical Managed Kubeflow on Azure handles this work natively inside your private Azure cloud tenancy. The generative AI workloads Kubeflow can run include: Distributed pre-training: Clustering multi-node GPU instances requires complex networking, node provisioning, and fault tolerance. Kubeflow orchestrates training jobs across nodes automatically and ties into Azure's low-latency network infrastructure to maximize hardware utilization without manual cluster tuning. Targeted fine-tuning: Data scientists constantly spin up LoRA or PEFT jobs that require immediate, heavy compute, only to leave idled GPUs burning budget later. Kubeflow pipelines automate the entire sequence: ingest data, run the fine-tuning job, and scale capacity back down to zero once the job finishes. Model distillation: Compressing large models into smaller, production-ready versions requires complex teacher-student pipelines. Kubeflow manages these multi-stage workflows, and teams can track training metrics side by side via the integrated MLflow server to validate model performance. Traditional ML: Solid production pipelines. While generative AI takes the spotlight, much core enterprise value still runs on traditional machine learning. Managed Kubeflow keeps these production systems reliably online. Traditional ML workloads include: Predictive maintenance: IoT and time-series data demand continuous updates. Kubeflow can schedule automated retraining pipelines triggered by data drift. This keeps models accurate without platform teams manually monitoring performance pipelines. Fraud detection: Compliance demands a watertight audit trail. The included MLflow server acts as a metadata engine that automatically logs every dataset version, hyperparameter choice, and model version to help assure robust regulatory compliance. Churn and demand forecasting: High-volume batch scoring requires massive, temporary compute scaling. Canonical Managed Kubeflow on Azure can autoscale the underlying infrastructure to process millions of rows, then tear it down cleanly to control cloud spend. Stop maintaining core Kubeflow. Start delivering value. A managed service exists to remove specialized infrastructure overhead without sacrificing data sovereignty. 100 percent in-tenancy: Because the service executes entirely inside your tenancy, your underlying data, source code, and custom weights never leave your perimeter. No hostage to fortune: The service is built on pure upstream Kubeflow, so the pipelines you run on Azure today can also run on Canonical's on-premises OpenStack solution or future cloud releases. Enterprise-grade security: The service integrates with enterprise identity management, including Microsoft Entra ID, and role-based access controls right from launch. Predictable reliability: No more debugging broken operator upgrades. Canonical's experienced managed services team handles backups, upstream fixes, security patches, and version migrations. Deploy in less than 30 minutes You can launch your first production-ready cluster in less than 30 minutes directly from the Azure Marketplace. Give your data scientists the environment they need, and keep full control of your infrastructure. Launch now on Azure. Contributed by Canonical.
Werkgever Antonello Lovato bood twee jaar geleden geen hulp aan de Indiase arbeider Satnam Singh, die na een werkongeval overleed. De ophefmakende zaak vestigt de aandacht op de wijdverspreide uitbuiting van arbeidsmigranten in de Italiaanse landbouw.
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Eind 2016 maakten drie Noorse voetbaltalenten voor de lol een videoclip in een speeltuin. Een van de ‘rappers’: de zestienjarige Erling Braut Haaland, alias ‘Lyng’.
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