In Papendrecht is donderdagavond een Rotterdamse vrouw ontvoerd. Ze werd in Oud-Alblas achtergelaten in een afgesloten auto. Ondertussen werd met grof geweld haar woning overvallen, waarbij andere bewoners werden vastgebonden.

The world of F1 is on a short hiatus, the teams enjoying a break from racing before the season resumes in the Netherlands later in August. Some drivers need a chance to get away after a tricky run of races but others would have liked to keep the momentum going.

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Google says AI-assisted workflows helped Chrome fix 1,072 security bugs across versions 149 and 150, more than the previous 23 releases combined. The company is also testing twice-weekly security updates and "dynamic patching," which could apply most fixes without requiring users to restart the entire browser. "By leveraging Chrome's multi-process architecture, dynamic patching sequentially replaces background child processes (like the Renderer and GPU) with updated binaries on the fly," says Google in a blog post. PiunikaWeb reports: Alongside dynamic patching, Google is rolling out smarter background updates during periods of minimal user disruption. Starting with Chrome 150 on macOS, the browser takes advantage of the operating system's windowless state. If all Chrome windows are closed but the app remains running in the background, the browser will quietly auto-restart to apply pending updates.

For enterprise environments, IT admins can continue to manage fleet-wide deployments through Chrome Enterprise Core or enforce update prompts using the RelaunchNotification policy. Google's long-term vision is a browser that remains continuously protected in the background without interrupting your daily browsing session. In the meantime, you can manually trigger pending updates by clicking the update prompt in the top-right corner of Chrome.

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• Cordeiro quits as senior adviser to Fifa president

• Lamour: sell-off plan ‘defies belief and imagination’

The walls started closing in on Gianni Infantino after another dramatic day that saw one of his senior advisers resign and brought a scathing rebuke from Fifa’s own chief operating officer.

Infantino is under huge pressure after his plan to sell chunks of the World Cup to private investors met a tide of opposition from around the globe. European countries have already promised to boycott Fifa competitions if he does not shelve the scheme but Friday’s developments, which saw two key members of his inner circle distance themselves from him, may prove equally damaging to any prospects of salvaging his presidency.

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• Italian champions willing to raise offer for midfielder

• Jones only has one year remaining on contract at Anfield

Inter have made another approach for Curtis Jones and are willing to raise their offer for the Liverpool midfielder to €35m (£30m). The Italian champions had a €25m bid for the 25-year-old rejected in June by Liverpool, who value their homegrown player at closer to €40m.

Intermediaries representing Inter have made fresh contact with Liverpool this week and outlined their willingness to go to €35m for a player who has only one year remaining on his contract at Anfield. Whether Liverpool accept that sum is doubtful, but a deal for Jones to leave his boyhood club does appear to be edging closer.

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ENSCHEDE (ANP) - Vanwege een fatbikeverbod zijn in Amsterdam en in Enschede zo'n honderd boetes uitgedeeld, zo bevestigen woordvoerders van beide gemeenten na berichtgeving van de NOS. In Amsterdam is sinds 11 mei een fatbikeverbod van kracht in het Vondelpark en in de binnenstad van Enschede geldt zo'n verbod overdag sinds 11 maart.

Gemeentelijke handhavers deelden in Enschede tot nu toe negen boetes uit. In Amsterdam gaat het om 94 bekeuringen tot begin juli.

Wethouder Marc Teutelink van de gemeente Enschede zegt tegen de NOS dat het verbod lijkt te werken. "We zien dat er veel minder onveilige situaties zijn en we horen die geluiden ook van de winkeliers en de mensen die winkelen."

De gemeente Amsterdam doet nog verder onderzoek naar het effect van het fatbikeverbod en komt dit najaar met de resultaten. Wethouder Melanie van der Horst meldde eerder dat het Vondelpark met dit verbod "weer een veilige en fijne plek" moet worden.

Militair ombudsman en voormalig plaatsvervangend Commandant der Strijdkrachten Boudewijn Boots is in „deze onzekere wereld” altijd bedacht op een aanval. Maar in een grootschalige rampenoefening ziet hij weinig. „Maak in je straat afspraken met elkaar. Wie heeft welk stukje van een noodpakket?”