Weekend Reads: 11 October 2026

This weekend’s picks: the Dutch tax authority changes course on Microsoft, two practical tech reads for home setups, and an FC Utrecht player’s story before today’s match. Further afield, Microsoft’s chief executive is calling for a rethink of how far we trust AI.

Local

The Belastingdienst decides against moving to Microsoft

In his weekly Schermtijd column, NU.nl tech reporter Rutger Otto writes that the Dutch Tax and Customs Administration will not move to Microsoft after all. The column looks at the decision through the lens of digital sovereignty. If you file Dutch tax returns, this concerns the agency that holds your data.

Source: NU.nl Tech

One dock for your work laptop and your gaming PC

Tweakers has reviewed the AV Access iDock B23, a KVM dock that switches your screen and peripherals between a laptop and a gaming PC at the press of a button. If you work from home on a company laptop and game on your own machine, it means you can share one desk setup between them instead of swapping cables.

Source: Tweakers

Unraid 7.3.3 is out

Version 7.3.3 of Unraid has been released. Unraid is an operating system for setting up a home or small-office server for network storage, running applications or hosting virtual machines. It is easy to set up and works with a wide range of hardware and mixed drive sizes. Apps run in Docker and are checked and maintained by an active community. Unraid used to start from a USB stick or memory card that also held the licence, but since version 7.3.0 it can also boot from an internal drive.

Source: Tweakers

FC Utrecht defender’s dream of facing Messi falls through

Arthur Zagré, FC Utrecht’s 25-year-old left-back, has three caps for Burkina Faso. He told NOS that as a child he imagined facing his idol Lionel Messi “maybe a hundred thousand times, if not more”, but the chance never came. He spoke ahead of Utrecht’s home match against Willem II, which kicks off today at 12:15.

Source: NOS Voetbal

Also in Europe

Nadella calls for an emergency brake on AI

Microsoft chief executive Satya Nadella wrote in a post on Saturday morning that it is time “to step back and assess the trust architecture” of AI. His argument is that AI models need an emergency brake. When the head of one of the largest AI companies says this, it is likely to shape the debate over how these systems are controlled.

Source: TechCrunch

Treat every AI model as compromised, says Microsoft’s chief

In a long post on X, Nadella set out the risks he sees in highly advanced AI models and how he thinks they should be handled. He said we should assume all AI models are compromised, and that we can no longer accept AI as a “set of nested black boxes” whose advice and actions we simply take on trust.

Source: The Verge

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