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• Brit overcomes seven-time grand slam champion 7-5, 7-5

• 25-year-old secures first victory since January

In her first training session at the ATX Open in Austin last month, weeks after injury put an end to her Australian Open, Francesca Jones found herself in an unusual, delightful situation. Her training partner across the net was none other than Venus Williams, the most successful active female tennis player.

Being able to train with such a legendary player was a dream itself, but as of Thursday afternoon Jones can now say that she has also defeated one of the great legends of the game as she closed out a 7-5, 7-5 win over the 45-year-old seven-time grand slam champion in the first round of the Miami Open. The victory marks Jones’s first WTA 1000 match win in her career, breaking a four-match losing streak.

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Well, it wasn’t supposed to be like this. For Nottingham Forest, this was anything but the meek surrender widely feared, Vítor Pereira’s side advancing to the Europa League quarter-finals after triumphing 3-0 on penalties at Midtjylland, who missed all three spot-kicks. The goalkeeper Elias Ólafsson had celebrated his captain, Mads Bech Sørensen, winning the toss to decide that penalties would be taken in front of the hosts’ most ardent supporters, but it counted for nothing and ultimately Midtjylland, who lost 2-1 on the night, were punished for being lulled into a false sense of security.

Forest stunned the Danish side by earning a 2-0 lead on the night, Nicolás Domínguez’s early header followed by the captain Ryan Yates’s superb strike from distance, before Martin Erlic’s goal sent the game to extra time. After 127 minutes, perfect spot-kicks by the substitutes Morgan Gibbs-White, who entered just after the hour, Ibrahim Sangaré and Neco Williams reignited Evangelos Marinakis’s hopes of Forest achieving European glory. For now, Forest can fret about Sunday’s trip to Tottenham on Friday afternoon’s flight back to East Midlands airport.

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In Florida klom Marco Rubio op van lokaal tot landelijk politicus. Cruciale steun van de grote Cubaanse gemeenschap betaalt hij nu terug met druk op het regime in Havana. Wil hij ooit kans maken op het Witte Huis, dan moet die aanpak wel slagen.

Richard de Mos, die met zijn Hart voor den Haag deze week een grote verkiezingsoverwinning boekte, is voorgedragen als informateur in Oldebroek. Dat bevestigt hij tegenover NRC.

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Google is planning big changes for Android in 2026 aimed at combating malware across the entire device ecosystem. Starting in September, Google will begin restricting application sideloading with its developer verification program, but not everyone is on board. Android Ecosystem President Sameer Samat tells Ars that the company has been listening to feedback, and the result is the newly unveiled advanced flow, which will allow power users to skip app verification. With its new limits on sideloading, Android phones will only install apps that come from verified developers. To verify, devs releasing apps outside of Google Play will have to provide identification, upload a copy of their signing keys, and pay a $25 fee. It all seems rather onerous for people who just want to make apps without Google's intervention.

Apps that come from unverified developers won't be installable on Android phones -- unless you use the new advanced flow, which will be buried in the developer settings. When sideloading apps today, Android phones alert the user to the "unknown sources" toggle in the settings, and there's a flow to help you turn it on. The verification bypass is different and will not be revealed to users. You have to know where this is and proactively turn it on yourself, and it's not a quick process. [...] The actual legwork to activate this feature only takes a few seconds, but the 24-hour countdown makes it something you cannot do spur of the moment.

But why 24 hours? According to Samat, this is designed to combat the rising use of high-pressure social engineering attacks, in which the scammer convinces the victim they have to install an app immediately to avoid severe consequences. "In that 24-hour period, we think it becomes much harder for attackers to persist their attack," said Samat. "In that time, you can probably find out that your loved one isn't really being held in jail or that your bank account isn't really under attack." But for people who are sure they don't want Google's verification system to get in the way of sideloading any old APK they come across, they don't have to wait until they encounter an unverified app to get started. You only have to select the "indefinitely" option once on a phone, and you can turn dev options off again afterward. "For a lot of people in the world, their phone is their only computer, and it stores some of their most private information," Samat said. "Over the years, we've evolved the platform to keep it open while also keeping it safe. And I want to emphasize, if the platform isn't safe, people aren't going to use it, and that's a lose-lose situation for everyone, including developers."

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DORDRECHT (ANP) - In sommige sloten in Dordrecht, Sliedrecht, Papendrecht en de gemeente Molenlanden is de PFAS-vervuiling de afgelopen jaren verergerd. Daarom hebben gemeenten en waterschappen besloten dat in een groter deel geen slootwater meer gebruikt mag worden voor het beregenen van voedselgewassen.

Volgens Waterschap Rivierenland worden in een deel van de sloten de risiconormen overschreden voor irrigatiewater. Dat was al langer zo. Maar uit nieuwe meetgegevens van stichting Moestuinherstel zou blijken dat de PFAS-concentraties soms hoger zijn dan in 2022.

"Dit is een zorgelijke constatering", zegt de Dordtse wethouder Tanja de Jonge. "Het laat zien hoe belangrijk het is dat we blijven meten, samenwerken en open delen wat we weten, zodat inwoners weten waar ze aan toe zijn en we mens en milieu kunnen beschermen."

Dordrecht en omgeving is vooral verontreinigd met de stof PFOA, een van de vele PFAS-stoffen. Dat komt door de uitstoot van de chemische fabriek Chemours, wat vroeger DuPont was.