Vanaf maandag is de Algerabrug (N210) tussen Capelle aan den IJssel en Krimpen aan den IJssel dicht. De afsluiting duurt vier weken. Op de A16 en de A27 moet je dit weekeinde rekening houden met werkzaamheden. En er is een belangrijke afsluiting van een deel van de A16 bij Rotterdam.

Christopher Nolan’s film has made the Odyssey a bestselling book again, but a slew of new poets are breaking sales records, and have more in common with the ancient Greek than you might expect

The death of poetry – much anticipated, much prematurely mourned – has been put off again, this time by the Odyssey. Thanks to Christopher Nolan’s film, sales of Homer’s epic rose 1,400% in the weeks around release – and it’s not alone. Poetry collections are once again sailing up the charts: Lucas Jones, Donna Ashworth and Nikita Gill, among others, have all burst forth on to the bestseller lists.

The word bestseller, it must be said, conjures up certain images: a TV tie-in cookbook; a sexy thriller. It does not, generally speaking, imply poetry. Poetry is a genre more often relegated to the adolescent, the academic, or the words inside sentimental birthday cards: either over-emotional or elitist, depending on which poet and which perspective. What it certainly is not is a money-spinner: nobody gets into poetry to make the big bucks. Nobody gets into poetry – not these days, anyway, not since Byron’s day – for the fame or the fortune.

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A US federal appeals court has ordered the Trump administration to halt construction of the US president’s $400m White House ballroom, in a fresh blow to the controversial project.

Donald Trump, who demolished the historic East Wing of the White House last year to make way for planned ballroom, has repeatedly touted it as “a gift” to the US people.

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This happily married gen Xer celebrates the fact marriage rates are down. It shows Australians have the freedom and opportunity to make the best decisions for them

The Australian Bureau of Statistics reported last month that the marriage rate is declining. As someone who champions marriage, is married and thinks a wedding is lovely, I think it’s great news.

According to the data, the crude rate of registered marriages per 1,000 residents aged 16 and over fell from 5.5 in 2024 to 5.3 in 2025, with the largest falls occurring among the 25-29s and 30-34s.

Van Badham is a Guardian Australia columnist

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UTRECHT (ANP) - Rijkswaterstaat gaat aanvullende maatregelen nemen om het aantal vrachtwagens en touringcars dat over de verzwakte Merwedebrug rijdt terug te dringen. Er worden borden geplaatst bij grensovergangen, boven en langs de weg en bij op- en afritten. Welke tekst er op die borden komt te staan is nog niet duidelijk, zegt een woordvoerder.

Sinds 18 juli is het voor vrachtwagens en touringcars verboden gebruik te maken van de brug, die Zuid-Holland en Noord-Brabant verbindt en waar de A27 overheen gaat.

Het daaropvolgende weekend installeerde RWS camera's om overtreders te registreren. In de eerste week werden er 1118 boetes uitgeschreven, meldde het Centraal Justitieel Incassobureau vrijdag. "Het doel is het aantal vrachtwagens en touringcars naar nul te krijgen", zegt de woordvoerder.

N-able has confirmed attackers exploiting an N-central zero-day made it into customer networks, as the vendor pushes out a second mandatory hotfix just days after the first. The security shop published an update on Thursday detailing what happened after attackers exploited CVE-2026-18577, the critical N-central flaw that can hand an unauthenticated attacker administrative access to the remote monitoring and management platform. According to N-able, attackers exploited vulnerable N-central servers remotely, then used the platform's Take Control feature to connect to systems inside the environments being managed through them. Once there, they registered a new Cloudflare Tunnel service to keep their foothold even after being booted from the N-central server – behavior that Huntress had already observed in the wild. N-able has now confirmed that its own investigation found the same activity, and says a "limited number" of customers were affected. It hasn't said how many customers that means, how many downstream systems attackers reached, or what they did once they had established persistent access. N-Able didn’t answer these questions when asked by The Register, instead providing a statement saying it is “proactively expanding protections in response to ongoing monitoring of threat actors as they evolve their attack techniques.” The firm’s limited disclosure comes alongside Hotfix 2, version 2026.3.1.10, which N-able says customers running N-central on-premises must install immediately – including those that already installed the first emergency fix released on August 2. "This is not a duplicate of our previous communication," N-able warned. "Hotfix 2 is required, even if you already applied the earlier hotfix." The company says the new update supersedes Hotfix 1 and adds further hardening measures as it monitors threat actors and watches them "evolve their attack techniques." Exactly what prompted the second round of defenses isn't clear. N-able hasn't said whether attackers found a way around Hotfix 1, and its latest description says the exploited vulnerability affected N-central servers running versions prior to 2026.3.1.7, the first hotfix. Hosted N-central environments have already received the latest mitigations, according to the vendor. N-able first became aware of the attacks on July 31, after its Adlumin managed detection and response service picked up suspicious activity at a customer. Further digging uncovered a zero-day being actively exploited against an N-central server. CVE-2026-18577 was subsequently disclosed, and the first hotfix was released on August 2. CISA added the bug to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog and gave US federal agencies until August 6 to fix it – an unusually short three-day deadline reserved for vulnerabilities the agency considers an urgent risk. N-central is particularly attractive territory for attackers because managed service providers use the software to administer large numbers of customer systems from one place. Compromising the management platform can therefore provide a route into machines belonging to the MSP's customers rather than leaving attackers stuck on the original server. Huntress previously described successful exploitation as giving an attacker the same level of N-central access normally reserved for trusted network operations and engineering staff. Its investigation found attackers using that access to launch remote-control sessions against managed endpoints. N-able has now published 10 IP addresses it says were used in the attacks and released a service template that customers can use to hunt for known indicators of compromise on Windows endpoints. The company is warning customers not to take a clean scan as an all-clear, however, saying the tool only checks for indicators identified so far and that more may emerge as its investigation continues. For anyone running N-central on-premises, the immediate instruction is pretty straightforward: install Hotfix 2, even if Hotfix 1 is already in place. ®

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Vrijdag, bieruur. We moeten het over muziek hebben omdat er nieuwe muziek is van Karol G. Kent u die? Wij voor vandaag ook niet, maar nu dus wel, en nu zijn we blij dat we haar kennen en zullen we haar nimmer vergeten. Wat we zo zijn gaan waarderen aan Karol (los van die mannennaam): haar gedrevenheid, haar strijd tegen de eenvoud, haar idealisme, haar teksten die je aan het denken zetten, haar grandioze muzikale composities, haar waanzinnige podiumpassie, haar bijzondere band met de filosofie die spreekt uit de instrumentale gedeelten van haar nummers en haar samenwerking met de groten der aarde (Drake en Burno Mars bijv). En dan ziet ze er niet eens zo slecht uit! Daarom houden we van Karol G, een soort van Jerney. Maar we moeten het óók hebben over berggeiten. The Mountain Goats hebben namelijk een nieuwe plaat uit en die klinkt in alles aardig behalve qua geluid. Nee, dat is niet eerlijk. De zanger is gewoon niet zo sterk. Sterker, een berggeit blaat beter dan zanger John Darnielle zingt, maar instrumentaal zit het best goed in elkaar. Echt muziek voor bij bier wat dat betreft. Weet u, wij knallen The Mountain Goats meteen op en zeggen proost op het weekend!

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Cees Buddingh' - Kooitje

mooi is een kooitje
met een kanarie erin

heel mooi ook een kooitje
met een parkiet erin

met een merel erin, met een kolibrie erin,
een slavink erin, een bos wortelen erin
blokjes marmer erin, een glaswater erin

maar het mooist is eigenlijk
een kooitje met niets erin.

Casey Barnes (Australische countryrock)

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Charlie Worsham (country)

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Citizen (rock)

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Coupdekat (gekkigheid die doorgaat voor creativiteit)

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Don Walker (soort 50s country)

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FLO (girlpower)

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John Carpenter (horror)

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Wave to Earth (Koreaanse indierock)

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Ravyn Lenae (R&B)

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Xandria (GU)

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Cancer Bats (GU DUH)

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RIP Jerney

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RIP Tony

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Femke Broeders-Bol (26) stapte dit jaar over van de 400 meter horden naar de 800 meter zónder horden. Na een moeizaam begin geldt ze op de EK atletiek in Birmingham, die maandag beginnen, al als medaillekandidaat. „Het overkomt me allemaal een beetje.”

The small town that arrested a person who clapped during a city council meeting about a hyperscale data center held its meeting on Wednesday virtually and had no public comment period in the name of “public safety.” It says it will do the same for another meeting later this month.

The city, Emporia, Kansas, announced the change just two days before the meeting. 

“In the interest of public safety, the Emporia City Commission meetings scheduled for Wednesday, August 5, 2026, and Wednesday, August 19, 2026, will be conducted virtually,” Emporia said in a post about the change on Facebook. “No public comment period will be provided during either meeting.” Then it shared the city’s email and phone number for citizens who wanted to voice concerns privately. Emporia’s police chief told KVOE News that city leaders had received death threats.

“The City remains committed to conducting the public’s business in an open and transparent manner while taking reasonable measures to protect the safety of elected officials, City staff, and members of the public,” the post said. “The City appreciates the public's understanding and cooperation as it implements these temporary measures while ensuring the continuity of City business.”

Citizens upset about the data center and no longer allowed to make a public comment gathered outside Emporia’s municipal auditorium to protest on Wednesday. Lux Claridge, the person arrested for clapping, attended the protest and told 404 Media that both the protest and the virtual city commission meeting went well. “The commissioners voted unanimously to get our petition on the ballot measure to ban high-impact data centers to a judge. They said that doing otherwise could open up the city to a lawsuit but didn't really elaborate on who, why, or how,” they said.

Some citizens in Emporia are upset about a proposed gigawatt data center called the Flint Hills Digital Campus that would sit on 1,000 acres of prairie land. Zoning and city commission meetings have been held about the project, during which citizens have pushed back during the public comment periods of meetings. During a July 22 meeting, a city leader ordered Claridge to be arrested for clapping. Police charged Claridge with disorderly conduct and interference with police.

On Wednesday, the city commission streamed its meeting on the city website. Residents could watch, but not participate. The commission voted 5 - 0 to send the petition to a judge to see if Kansas law would allow that kind of restriction. 

“I would like to see it go to the courts, that way it has an outside decision, so that we don't get ourselves entangled in something that could come back later and we'd be sued over,” Emporia mayor Becky Smith said.

“I think if you accept it or decline it, you’re opening yourself up to a legal battle either way so let’s just send it straight to a judge,” commissioner Erren Harter said. 

Claridge said the reason the commission meetings had gone virtual and closed public comment was that members of the commission had reported receiving death threats. “This was also happening days leading up to my arrest, but the threats seem to have ramped up. While I don't doubt that there are credible threats, my big question is on how many there are and from where they are coming,” they said. “Mayor Smith did mention in yesterday's meeting that the threats don't seem to really be coming from locals but ‘it only takes one’ to ruin a meeting so they went virtual. I feel like we're being punished for the actions of outsiders.”

“I'm not so upset about going virtual, it makes sense, but back it up with examples of these threats. I'm more upset that they opted to close public comment and I don't understand why,” Claridge added.

The commissioners will meet, virtually, again on August 19 but they have not yet published the agenda on the city’s website. The commission did not return 404 Media’s request for comment.