Op je negentiende drie maanden naar Canada klinkt als een mooi avontuur. Tot je terechtkomt in een totaal verknipt gezin waar de ouders emotioneel minder zelfredzaam zijn dan jij.

Vader en zoon Gelten doen aan natuurfotografie. Peter (49) bedient de camera, Quin (13) is de spotter. Op hun website devogelspotters.nl houden ze bij welke soorten ze zagen. Op hun wensenlijstje: de grote jager en de ijsgors.

Bijna alle bosbranden beginnen door menselijk gedrag. Soms per ongeluk, soms opzettelijk. „Dé bosbrandstichter bestaat eigenlijk niet.”

Vrijdagochtend is rond 03:30 uur aan de Backershagen in Rotterdam-IJsselmonde een luxe BMW afgebrand. Een aantal uur later is in de Marie van Eijsden-Vinkstraat in Rotterdam-Prinsenland een elektrische auto uitgebrand die aan de lader stond.

The Climate Fiction Prize recognises and celebrates the emergence of a sub-genre of fiction about futures affected by the climate crisis. While that one is for full novels, the Imagine 2200 contest from Grist (previously) is for short stories, a number of which can be read on the site. Obviously cli-fi can be dystopian but some stories recapture a sort of optimism which I feel has been largely missing from science fiction since the sixties/seventies, when we all assumed that technology was making the world better in an uncomplicated way.

A couple of further resources.

The Jesus Trip is a 1971 BBC Documentary following Christian evangelical groups in the US at the time (review). Some of the dialogue was sampled in Father and Son (official), from the Boards of Canada album Inferno (Simpson's parody).

Arrest in Pennsylvania of Wu Shaoping, who is awaiting asylum decision, raises fears of deportation and persecution

A Chinese human rights lawyer has been arrested by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), raising concerns he could be deported to China where he would face persecution.

Wu Shaoping fled China at the end of 2019 amid a crackdown on human rights lawyers. He travelled to the US on a tourist visa and made an asylum claim in 2020, for which he is still awaiting a decision.

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Ahead of the anniversary of MH17, Maarten de Schutter reflected on turning his family archives into cinema and confronting grief through filmmaking.

Picture this. Someone gets hold of your Android phone and, despite not knowing your PIN, they can use Gemini from the lock screen to send SMS or WhatsApp messages as you. This is a real bug and Google says a fix is coming as soon as this week. Since May, The Register has received multiple reports of users bypassing device authentication on Android 16 devices that enable Gemini access from the lock screen. These are distinct from the similar Gemini-based Android lock screen bypass bugs that have made the rounds since September 2025. One of the bugs reported to us allowed unauthenticated users with physical access to an Android device to enable functionality such as phone, texts, and WhatsApp via Gemini on the lock screen using a specific multi-touch gesture. When device owners revoke Gemini’s access to certain apps, like Messages, and someone later tries to send an SMS via Gemini on the lock screen, the chatbot will prompt the user to open the relevant app. Selecting "Continue" prompts the user to enter the correct PIN to access messages. However, when “Continue” is pressed simultaneously with Gemini’s “Add attachment” button, the device will then allow unauthenticated users to send that SMS via Gemini, without needing to enter a PIN. From there, users can enable Gemini’s access to other apps, which were previously disconnected from Gemini in the user’s Settings, by invoking the relevant prompt. For example, to allow Gemini access to WhatsApp, users can enter “@WhatsApp” in the Gemini text window. No PIN needed. You can then check this has worked by going back into user Settings, after entering a correct PIN, and it will show that WhatsApp is connected to Gemini without completing the expected authentication step. Exploiting the flaw requires physical access to a device. In most circumstances, we steer clear of giving this type of vulnerability too much airtime since it is often difficult to pull off in real-world scenarios. If Windows, for example, had a make-me-admin bug that required the attacker, for whatever reason, to have physical access to the keyboard connected to the Windows machine, then the owner of said machine has bigger problems than the vulnerability itself. However, given the state of phone theft crime, especially in the UK, and the potential to send convincing SMS messages as part of fake kidnapping scams, to name one possibility, we think this one deserves some attention. A Google spokesperson told us this is a known bug and it has already implemented a fix that was scheduled for a full deployment this week. They also said the bug is not Pixel-specific, after some claimed that they could not reproduce it on Samsung devices, but fell short of specifying which manufacturers, models, or versions are vulnerable. ®