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.
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.
Continue reading...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.
Continue reading...Japan’s fisheries agency said the vessel failed to comply with an order to stop. The incident comes weeks after a row between China and Japan over Taiwan
Authorities in Japan have seized a Chinese fishing boat and arrested its captain in a move that is likely to inflame an ongoing diplomatic row between Tokyo and Beijing.
The seizure, which occurred on Thursday about 170km from the south-western port city of Nagasaki, came after the skipper refused an order to stop for an onboard inspection, according to media reports.
Continue reading...A suspect who broke into a jewellery store using a forklift, allegedly stole 150 grams of gold, and fled the scene on a donkey was arrested in Kayseri, central Turkey. Police teams from the provincial police department identified the suspect after reviewing security camera footage following the incident.
Continue reading...Voting was largely peaceful in an election seen as a test of Bangladesh’s democracy after years of political turmoil under autocratic ruler
The Bangladesh Nationalist party (BNP), led by Tarique Rahman, has claimed a sweeping victory in the country’s first election since a gen-Z uprising toppled the autocratic regime of Sheikh Hasina.
“This victory was expected. It is not surprising that the people of Bangladesh have placed their trust in a party ... capable of realising the dreams that our youth envisioned during the uprising,” said Salahuddin Ahmed, a leading BNP committee member.
Continue reading...Emails show Kathy Ruemmler had close ties to convicted sexual abuser she called ‘Uncle Jeffrey’
Kathy Ruemmler, the top lawyer at Goldman Sachs and former White House counsel to Barack Obama, has announced her resignation in the wake of emails showing a close relationship between her and Jeffrey Epstein, whom she referred to as “Uncle Jeffrey”.
Ruemmler said in a statement on Thursday that she would “step down as Chief Legal Officer and General Counsel of Goldman Sachs as of June 30, 2026”.
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DanÅke Carlsson has added a photo to the pool:
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More foggy trees and this time from the Humbug Point Nature Recreation Area near Binalong Bay, Tasmania.
So lucky with the conditions. Shot Skeleton Rock in the rain and on a whim took the Dora Point road back.
The undergrowth either side of the road through this dry sclerophyll forest has been slashed to provide a fire break.
Leica Q2 Monochrom, Summilux 28mm f/1.7, 1/20th sec at f/10, ISO 200 - it really must have been gloomy...
SAN FRANCISCO (ANP/BLOOMBERG) - OpenAI heeft Amerikaanse volksvertegenwoordigers gewaarschuwd dat het Chinese AI-bedrijf DeepSeek op oneerlijke wijze technologie van Amerikaanse concurrenten kopieert. Volgens de ChatGPT-maker kan dit het technologische voordeel van de Verenigde Staten ondermijnen.
Volgens OpenAI gebruikt de Chinese AI-startup de output van Amerikaanse AI-chatbots om ze na te bootsen, staat in een briefing gericht aan de China-commissie van het Huis van Afgevaardigden. OpenAI stelt dat DeepSeek daarbij steeds geavanceerdere en verhulde methoden inzet om beveiligingen te omzeilen.
De kwestie kan volgens OpenAI de concurrentiepositie van de VS ondermijnen, omdat Chinese modellen vaak gratis beschikbaar zijn, terwijl Amerikaanse bedrijven juist miljarden investeren in AI-chips om chatbots te trainen.
DeepSeek zorgde begin 2025 voor opschudding door een chatbot te lanceren die even goed functioneerde als ChatGPT, ondanks Amerikaanse beperkingen op de export van de meest geavanceerde AI-chips naar China.
Je eerste zoen vergeet je nooit, toch? Maar, waarom eigenlijk? Voor deze Valentijnsaflevering neemt wetenschapsjournalist Hendrik Spiering ons mee in de geschiedenis van de kus.
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This bodes well for Nvidia getting Vera Rubin out the door next quarter as planned
Samsung and Micron say they’ve started shipping HBM4 memory, the faster and denser RAM needed to power the next generation of AI acceleration hardware.…