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May in Japan, the morning sun rises as early as 4:30am. This photo was taken at around 5:30am at the Motohakone harbor on the South shore of Lake Ashi. The view was stunning and I stood there for a while, captivated by the beauty that was before me.

Michael Carrick enjoyed one of his finest nights as a Manchester United player in the Champions League against Roma, scoring twice in a 7-1 win in the quarter-final, second leg in 2007. The re-run here was all about his managerial survival at the club.

The situation looked impossibly grim for him at half-time. Amid an atmosphere of continued fan anger towards the United ownership, Carrick’s team had been implausibly bad. Roma took a 2-0 lead into the break and the truth was that the scoreline greatly flattered United.

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The incident took place in the same province where a grizzly attacked a group of schoolchildren last November

A mother is dead and her daughter is missing in western Canada after a suspected grizzly bear attack in the same community where a bear attacked a group of schoolchildren earlier in the year.

On Tuesday, the British Columbia Conservation Officer Service said in a social media post that it had launched a search for the two missing people on the weekend, and that during the search on Sunday an officer found the mother’s body. The search for her 19-year-old daughter is ongoing.

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This was a chastening night for Aston Villa, and a familiar one for Unai Emery in this corner of town. On a chilly, damp, oddly processional night at the Camp Nou Barcelona produced a performance of unhurried, high-grade incision, easing to a 3-0 Champions League victory that never really seemed to tip into an actual close-quarter contest before it was gone.

This Barcelona team will always give you a chance, a thrilling mix of gliding possession football and large open spaces behind their own teasingly high line. But Villa never looked like getting their teeth into those tender spots, always held at arm’s length, fists whirling in the space between.

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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: In an announcement released Thursday, Fujifilm said it will invest roughly 10 billion yen (about $63 million) to increase its production capacity fivefold for an unlikely beneficiary of the AI era: magnetic tape. Fujifilm attributes the surge in archiving demand to the spread of generative AI, which the company remarked is producing "exponential growth" in data needs worldwide. The 5x increase in production capacity will be measured against fiscal year 2025 production levels.

The investment in Fujifilm's Kanagawa Factory, Odawara site will make it "the largest investment Fujifilm has made to date in dedicated LTO tape facilities." The project will run from fiscal years 2026 through 2028 to fund manufacturing expansion and additional personnel, primarily to produce the latest-generation "FUJIFILM LTO Ultrium10" tape. [...]

According to Fujifilm, "major cloud service and data center operators" have been expanding their use of magnetic tape because it can store large data volumes at relatively low cost. Tape backups can be easily disconnected and stored in a drawer, a vault, or a separate facility. Fujifilm highlights the ability to air-gap tape cartridges as a last defense for user data: "Given the sophistication of cyberattacks, magnetic tape is attracting increasing attention as a means of protecting data from threats such as ransomware."

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North Korean cryptocurrency thieves tricked a Binance software engineer into downloading malware onto their work-issued computer during a fake job interview process before last week's record-breaking $6.3 billion heist. In an incident report published on Tuesday, the cryptocurrency exchange said several techniques - including social engineering via fake job interviews, malware downloads, compromised internal AI tooling, endpoint takeover, and an “advanced transaction-authorization method” - led to the October 29 security breach. “Our current investigation indicates that this was a sophisticated, multi-stage campaign,” the incident report said. “It was not a single isolated breach or a simple phishing incident.” Over the weekend, the FBI attributed the theft to TraderTraitor, a North Korean hacking operation linked to Lazarus Group, known for combining espionage with massive cryptocurrency heists. The Pyongyang-backed crew is also highly adept at job market scams - both posing as IT workers, who are then hired by Western companies, and as potential employers to lure software engineers into downloading malware and infecting corporate devices. With the recent Binance attack, the Norks used the latter. The attack prep began back in June with a supply chain attack when one of its engineers downloaded a malicious Homebrew installation. While the malware was detected by the security team, the device was replaced, and all affected credentials rotated, “Engineer A’s role and his related colleagues on our wallet infrastructure team was exposed to the hacker,” the report says. Three months later, the social engineering part of the attack happened. In September, another software engineer was contacted via a “legitimate job-hunting platform” by someone purporting to be a project director who arranged a series of job interviews for the Binance engineer with the fake company. During the first round - a live video interview with the engineer and a fake HR rep - the interviewer “shared a social media account with him, including personal photos and videos posted on the platform, in order to build trust,” according to the report. “This was more advanced and deceptive than previously seen social engineering approaches.” The second interview with someone purporting to be the CEO of the phony company was conducted on a “popular social chat app,” and toward the end, the CEO instructed the engineer to download an “assignment” containing a malware-laced code repository. The code executed on his work computer during the setup process, which kicked off a series of unauthorized activities. According to Binance, the malware replaced a legitimate development tool component with a malicious version, which executed commands and established communication with an attacker-controlled external server. The attackers also took steps to hide the malicious script and evade detection, and it worked. Binance’s endpoint security tools did not immediately detect the malware. Here’s the script: CREATE /opt/homebrew/Cellar/pyenv/2.8.0/libexec/pyenv_ MODIFY pyenv_ → 3,414 B DELETE .../libexec/pyenv (3,344 B) ← remove the valid pyenv RENAME pyenv_ → pyenv (3,414 B) ← replace it with a malicious version DELETE /opt/homebrew/bin/pyenv (3,414 B) ln (create a new symlink) + spawn zsh Then, on October 20, the miscreants used the compromised computer and an internal AI tool to gain access to the computers of wallet DevOps engineer A and another wallet software developer, Engineer C. Engineer A had a container deployment permission token on his computer, which the Norks soon discovered. On October 29, the attacker accessed Engineer C's computer, used the stolen credentials from Engineer A to deploy a container, and triggered a script to launch the cryptocurrency-stealing attack. As of Tuesday, Binance said it has rebuilt the compromised wallet system and internal AI tool, and replaced all of the affected devices. It also decommissioned all credentials and tokens assigned to the compromised engineers, and is working with law enforcement, blockchain intel firms, and security researchers to trace and freeze the assets. The crypto exchange has also hired independent cybersecurity experts to conduct a cybersecurity review of the incident, and recommend additional protective measures. Binance said it’s also working to establish a security research fund and initiatives with AI companies and security shops to focus on AI security in blockchain environments.®

Feyenoord heeft een lesje effectiviteit gekregen van Internazionale. De kampioen van Italië beleefde een gemakkelijk avond in De Kuip, troefde de Rotterdammers fysiek af en won zo met 0-3. De mannen van Giovanni van Bronckhorst hadden eigenlijk de gehele wedstrijd niets in de melk te brokkelen en leden dus een terechte nederlaag.

Booking Holdings, het Amerikaanse moederbedrijf van onder meer Booking.com, heeft minder omzet en winst geboekt in het afgelopen kwartaal. De vraag naar reizen zwakte volgens het reisbedrijf tegen het einde van het afgelopen kwartaal wat af. Dat kwam volgens Booking Holdings onder andere door onrust in enkele Europese steden, zoals in Parijs en door het aanhoudende conflict in het Midden-Oosten.

Het aantal overnachtingen dat klanten via sites van het bedrijf boekten nam in het derde kwartaal wel toe tot 345 miljoen, 7 procent meer dan in dezelfde periode vorig jaar. De omzet nam met 1 procent af tot 8,9 miljard dollar en de nettowinst zakte tot 2,7 miljard dollar. Dat is omgerekend zo'n 2,4 miljard euro.

Booking Holdings zette een omzetvermindering van 900 miljoen dollar in de boeken en nam een verlies van 100 miljoen dollar op in verband met een zaak van marktwaakhond FTC, meldt het bedrijf. Zonder deze kostenpost zou de omzet met 9 procent zijn gestegen tot 9,8 miljard dollar.