Uit straatboekenkastjes in en buiten Nederland haalt Arjen Fortuin steeds een boek, bespreekt het, en geeft het door. Deze week een liefdesroman uit een expatmagneet aan de Main.

De 75-jarige Indiase premier Narendra Modi bezoekt Nederland voor het eerst sinds 2017, tijdens een reis die ook langs onder meer Noorwegen, Zweden en Italië gaat. Wat staat er op het spel?

It would be foolish of the club to undo a winning, entertaining formula by turning elsewhere for a permanent head coach

These days, we have a strong desire to complicate football, particularly in how we talk about it. Often, we are saying the same stuff we always were, just calling things by different names – styles are philosophies, contributions are actions, players earn minutes, not appearances – and the game can still be as simple as it ever was. This is something Michael Carrick understands well, and is one reason Manchester United’s next move is also simple: they have no choice but to appoint him as permanent head coach.

Under Carrick, United’s 33 points from 15 games puts them top of the form table for a period in which rivals have been beaten and Champions League qualification guaranteed, with a third-place finish highly likely. Had Ruben Amorim delivered these results, he’d be secure; were Luis Enrique responsible, they’d be further evidence of his generational – outstanding – brilliance. Yet there remains equivocation.

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Scale of attacks prompts warnings that Moscow is trying to overwhelm air defence systems

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Russian missiles and drones are pounding Ukraine for a second day, as almost continuous heavy attacks hit the country, with Kyiv bearing the brunt of an assault that has killed at least three and injured 40 in the capital.

The overnight attacks followed heavy daylight raids with missiles and drones across the country on Wednesday.

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The Jordan-fronted live-action/cartoon hybrid is 30 years old – and with its R Kelly soundtrack, it feels it. Cue Seinfeld’s Wayne Knight to rescue it for a second time

This 30th anniversary rerelease brings us the strangest piece of 90s pop-cultural detritus imaginable, at once surreally baffling and very dated – not least in its resounding soundtrack use of I Believe I Can Fly by R Kelly, the now disgraced singer currently serving a 20-year prison term for child sexual abuse. Space Jam is the live-action/cartoon hybrid and nakedly commercial brand partnership of NBA superstar Michael Jordan and the Warner Bros stable of Looney Tunes characters like Bugs Bunny and Elmer Fudd; this feature was developed from TV ads in which Jordan was paired with the hyperactive rabbit.

The idea is that an evil race of animated space aliens have captured the Looney Tunes squad and propose to enslave them, but sportingly agree not to if Bugs and the gang can defeat them at basketball. These villains use their evil mojo to give themselves an unfair advantage, stealing basketball skills from other live-action NBA stars such as Charles Barkley, before turning them into humanoids. So the Looney Tunes heroes and heroines approach Jordan (who has now swapped basketball for baseball, a sport at which he turns out to be no good at all) and ask for his help. And so Space Jam semi-accidentally conforms to the classic underdog sports template: the classy player, fallen on hard times, has to coach a bunch of lovable losers.

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This image features one of my favorite towers in Japan — the Tsutenkaku Tower, standing proudly in Osaka’s Shinsekai district.

Over the years, this tower has appeared in many of my photographs, and for good reason. Shinsekai remains one of my favorite neighborhoods in Osaka. There’s something about this place that keeps drawing me back: the glowing signs — even if many of the original neon lights have gradually been replaced by LED — the music spilling out into the streets, the incredible food, and the lively, carefree energy of the people who give this district its unmistakable character.

Even though the current version of the tower was rebuilt in the late 1950s, together with the surrounding neighborhood, for me carries a distinct 1980s atmosphere. A feeling that resonates deeply with me.

It’s the kind of place where time seems to blur. A corner of Osaka where nostalgia lingers in the air, and where I can completely lose myself in that familiar glow of another era.
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Russia was the first country to recognize the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan last July after removing the Taliban from its list of terrorist organizations and accepting its ambassador to Moscow.

Linux admins hoping Dirty Frag was a one-off horror from the kernel networking stack are about to have a considerably worse week. Researchers at Wiz have published an analysis of "Fragnesia," a Linux kernel local privilege escalation flaw discovered by William Bowling of the V12 security team that allows unprivileged users to gain root by corrupting page cache memory. The bug, tracked as CVE-2026-46300, has public proof-of-concept exploit code documented by V12 on GitHub that demonstrates the vulnerability being used against /usr/bin/su to spawn a root shell. According to Google-owned Wiz, the flaw sits in the Linux kernel's XFRM subsystem, specifically ESP-in-TCP processing tied to IPsec support. By carefully triggering the bug, attackers can modify protected file data in memory without changing the original files stored on disk. Wiz describes Fragnesia as part of the broader "Dirty Frag" bug family rather than a completely separate class of issue. Dirty Frag itself only surfaced days ago and was already attracting attention thanks to public exploit code, incomplete patch coverage, and unusually reliable privilege escalation. According to researcher Hyunwoo Kim, who uncovered Dirty Frag, "Fragnesia" emerged as an unintended side effect of patches shipped to fix the original Dirty Frag vulnerabilities, adding yet another entry to the long tradition of security fixes accidentally creating new security problems. As The Register previously reported, Dirty Frag followed hot on the heels of Copy Fail, another Linux kernel privilege escalation flaw that abused page cache handling to overwrite supposedly read-only files. Historically, local Linux privilege escalation bugs had a reputation for being unreliable, crash-prone, or fiddly enough that attackers needed good timing and a fair bit of luck to pull them off cleanly. Fragnesia looks different, as Wiz and V12 both say the exploit avoids race conditions entirely, making it far more predictable than older Linux root exploits like Dirty COW. That makes the bug much more useful after an initial compromise. An attacker who gains access to a system through phishing, stolen credentials, or a vulnerable cloud workload suddenly has a cleaner path to full root access. The V12 proof-of-concept repository is already public, while Linux vendors have started pushing out advisories and mitigation guidance. AlmaLinux warned that all supported releases are affected and urged administrators to patch quickly or disable unused ESP-related functionality where possible. Similar advisories have also been issued by Amazon Linux, CloudLinux, Debian, Gentoo, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, SUSE, and Ubuntu as distributors scramble to assess exposure across supported kernel versions. Microsoft also urged organizations to patch quickly, noting that though it had not observed in-the-wild exploitation so far, Fragnesia "can modify any file readable by the user, including [/]etc[/]passwd." The Linux networking stack is starting to look less like infrastructure and more like a root exploit vending machine. ®

​PRO, voormalig GL-PvdA, heeft zojuist nieuwe merchandise op hun website gezet. Op de shirts en hoodies staan pitbulls en adelaars met de tekst ‘Defend saamhorigheid’

Op de website staan foto's van groepen breed staande duurzaamheidsadviseurs met zwarte balaclavas en trainingsbroeken in de nieuwe merchandise. “Bescherm saamhorigheid met trots en kracht”, staat in de beschrijving. “Saamhorigheid is van de saamhorigen!”

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