Als regerend wereldkampioen is Kimberley Bos topfavoriet voor olympisch goud op het onderdeel skeleton – op de buik, hoofd naar voren, met meer dan 120 kilometer per uur door een ijskanaal sleeën. Voor NRC tekende Bos de ideale lijn door de bochten die haar dit weekend de titel moet opleveren.

Goedemorgen! Op de zevende dag van de Spelen is het vandaag aan de schaatsmannen voor hun langste afstand.

Er is vrij veel bewolking en plaatselijk valt nog wat lichte (mot)regen, maar vaak is het droog. Hier en daar zal de zon zich even laten zien en waait er een matige tot vrij krachtige noordoostenwind die koudere lucht aanvoert. Vanmiddag liggen de temperaturen tussen 4 en 5 graden en dat zal merkbaar kouder zijn.

Microsoft has patched a high-severity vulnerability in Windows 11's Notepad that allowed attackers to silently execute local or remote programs when a user clicked a specially crafted Markdown link, all without triggering any Windows security warning.

The flaw, tracked as CVE-2026-20841 and fixed in the February 2026 Patch Tuesday update, stemmed from Notepad's relatively new Markdown support -- a feature Microsoft added after discontinuing WordPad and rewriting Notepad to serve as both a plain text and rich text editor. An attacker only needed to create a Markdown file containing file:// links pointing to executables or special URIs like ms-appinstaller://, and a Ctrl+click in Markdown mode would launch them. Microsoft's fix now displays a warning dialog for any link that doesn't use http:// or https://, though the company did not explain why it chose a prompt over blocking non-standard links entirely. Notepad updates automatically through the Microsoft Store.

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A sign for the northern beaches Hop, Skip and Jump bus says ‘clothing must be worn over swimwear’

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Sydney’s Northern Beaches council has banned bikini-clad and shirtless passengers from riding its free community bus service after receiving feedback from passengers.

The Hop, Skip and Jump is a daily 30-seat shuttle bus that services the coastal suburbs of Manly, Fairlight and Balgowlah and is frequented by beachgoers.

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Prime minister to meet mourners in mining town as families speak of their loss in one of Canada’s deadliest mass shootings

Canadian prime minister Mark Carney is to join mourners in Tumbler Ridge on Friday, as authorities and relatives released details of the five children and assistant teacher killed by a shooter in the remote mining town’s high school.

Carney will attend a vigil in Tumbler Ridge in memory of the victims, and he invited leaders from all political parties to join him in the town, the site of the country’s deadliest mass shooting in years.

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