The Ballon d’Or validated the forward’s career and he extended his incredible record for England with yet another goal on his 126th appearance

Happy Harry Kane day! And many happy Harry returns. There is a process in clinical psychology known as semantic satiation. Subjects are asked to repeat a word or phrase so many times that it loses any kind of meaning. Suddenly “daffodils” is just an absurd, empty set of sounds. So it was in the buildup to Harry Kane’s record-breaking 126th cap, at the end of Harry Kane Ballon d’Or fortnight, as Harry Kane’s England were led out by top scorer Harry Kane, climax to a week of Harry Kane tributes, Harry Kane montages, 26-page Harry Kane … wait. Where were we?

This was that kind of occasion from start to finish, a night where you expected to look up from your desk mid-match to see Kane’s head looming helpfully over your shoulder, to enter the Wembley toilets at half-time and find him silently offering you a breath mint and a scented tissue.

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Hidden bunker, entered via a hatch in a field, controlled a gun battery used to attack German ships in Channel

It has been kept secret for decades, buried four metres deep into the white cliffs of Dover. But from Friday, members of the public will finally be able to visit a pioneering command bunker that was ordered by Winston Churchill and proved a vital defence during the second world war.

The Fan Bay plotting room, which is encased in concrete, housed the first land-based computer-aided targeting system. This acted as a “brain” for a gun battery that was used to defend Dover and attack German ships in the Channel, according to Jon Stewart, who led the excavation project for the National Trust.

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Allegations of sexual misconduct and predatory behaviour made against ex-comedian who was jailed on Monday

Russell Brand has been accused of sexual misconduct and predatory behaviour by a further six women, according to a report.

The comedian, 51, is accused of having sex with a woman without her consent and then apologising afterwards, an investigation by the Times and the Sunday Times said.

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Gibran Rakabuming Raka, the son of former president Joko Widodo, has faced months of questions about his eligibility for office

It has been a turbulent few weeks in Indonesia, with claims the president’s phone was tapped, an uneasy political alliance seemingly in tatters, and now the vice-president resigning after a court ruled he never finished high school.

On the face of it, the drama centres on the educational achievements of vice-president Gibran Rakabuming Raka, but there is more to it than that.

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Mijn zoon is een fanatiek visser. Net als mijn broer, die zelfs naar het buitenland gaat voor viswedstrijden.

Plaats de cijfers 1 tot en met 9 zo in het diagram dat elk cijfer precies één keer voorkomt in elke rij, kolom, negen vetomrande 3x3 vakken én de vier grijze 3x3 vakken.

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The US government on Thursday said it had obtained court authorization to seize or restrain use of over $1.2 billion stolen during last month's $6.3 billion Binance heist, as part of a larger effort to disrupt North Korea's ongoing cryptocurrency theft. The court also allowed the takedown of cloud-based infrastructure used in a Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) social engineering scheme called “FaceStealer” that has amassed more than $400 million in the last 18 months. It’s called FaceStealer because it involved secretly recorded webcam videos. Victims are typically people working in the cryptocurrency and web3 industries, along with open source software developers and maintainers who DPRK hackers target in the hope of accessing the software repositories they control as the first step towards creating supply chain attacks. 900+ faces stolen The FBI said it had seized more than 900 webcam videos belonging to these tech workers. Here’s how the attack works. First, the North Koreans send targets an invitation to join a video meeting. Those invitations come from hijacked accounts that the next intended victim may find familiar or credible. “You're going to think it's real because it's going to be based on either conversations or interests you've expressed in the past with this actual person,” said special agent Jeremy Robertson, who oversees counterintelligence and cyber investigations at FBI Los Angeles. “They're going to then send you a link to catch up, and it's usually a calendar invite, and it's going to have some typo-squatted URLs in there,” he told reporters on Thursday. The URL directs the victim to a fake Zoom or Teams meeting, and the cybercriminals record the target’s webcam video while playing a phony, prerecorded video of the person who purportedly sent the meeting invite. Sometimes the hackers also use deepfake videos of well-known individuals in the cryptocurrency and web3 industries, we’re told. “When you log in, whoever invited you – your friend or business associate – is going to be on the screen, but you're not going to hear any audio,” Robertson said. “But you're going to see their face, you're going to see them looking around, you're going to see them mouthing some words, and then in the text box you're going to receive some instructions.” ‘You’re on mute’ as a social engineering vector The text box tells the victim that the person on the other end of the video call can’t hear them, they need to upgrade their software for the audio to work properly, and it sends a link to the supposed fix. Clicking to access the “fix” installs cryptocurrency-stealing malware on the victim’s computer and sends their contact list to the digital thieves to perpetuate the scam. The FBI attributes FaceStealer to a North Korea-linked group tracked as Sapphire Sleet, which is widely regarded as a Lazarus Group offshoot. Sapphire Sleet is also known as UNC1069, Stardust Chollima, APT38, and BlueNoroff. “The actors behind this activity, commonly referred to as Sapphire Sleet and other associated names, are part of a broader North Korean effort to generate revenue for the regime, to steal virtual assets, and gain access to networks and trusted online ecosystems,” Brett Leatherman, assistant director of the FBI's Cyber Division, told reporters. “North Korean hackers are increasingly blending cyber intrusion, social engineering, and emerging technologies such as deep fakes to make their impersonation efforts more convincing and scalable.” Binance heist update The FBI also provided an update on its efforts to recover the stolen assets from the October 29 attack on Binance. The agency previously blamed the $6.3 billion heist on TraderTraitor, a North Korean hacking operation also linked to Lazarus Group. Last week, Binance revealed the attackers laid the groundwork for their “sophisticated, multi-stage campaign” back in June, and said it involved social engineering during fake job interviews, malware downloads, compromised internal AI tooling, endpoint takeover, and an “advanced transaction-authorization method.” Since the theft, federal investigators and private-sector partners have helped freeze more than $2.7 billion in stolen assets. The Justice Department's court authorization covers more than $1.2 billion of that haul.®

Microsoft is struggling to restore many of its cloud services after a core process running on some servers became “overwhelmed” and its attempts to fix the problem failed. The incident started at around 18:00 UTC on November 12, and meant services including Exchange Online, Teams, Copilot 365, and Defender for Office 365 became unavailable. Admins trying to figure out what was wrong couldn’t access tools like Intune or the Microsoft 365 Apps Admin Center – they went down, too. On its X feed, Microsoft blamed “a problem that's causing servers to fail automated health checks and become unavailable.” The company said it hasn’t spotted any changes to its systems that might have sparked the incident, but its early investigation “indicates the failed health checks may originate from a specific component that's responsible for processing server health.” The company’s status page offers contradictory information, saying Microsoft’s people are “assessing whether reverting the small number of recent configuration updates we identified could help accelerate recovery.” According to a Xeet published at around 22:00 UTC, Microsoft said it found and validated an alternative service health check method, “which allowed a subset of affected servers to successfully return to service.” “We're continuing to work through restarting and validating the affected servers to safely return them to service, and we're exploring opportunities to expedite this process,” the company wrote. But those efforts may not be working. “We’re continuing to pursue all available pathways to restore service, as our actions taken thus far have not provided the anticipated relief,” the status page advises. “Our investigation has found that a core process on the affected servers is becoming overwhelmed, which causes the servers to stop responding and contributes to the capacity loss.” The incident means email is not flowing for many Microsoft customers: friends and family of Reg writers tell us their working days are severely disrupted. Microsoft’s most recent Xeet on the matter, published about an hour before this story went live, says it's trying to validate a potential recovery by “isolating a portion of infrastructure, restarting affected components, and reintroducing traffic to confirm the services remain stable before applying the change more broadly.” But the software giant hasn’t offered any timeline for full service restoration. This is a developing situation and The Reg will update this story as more information becomes available. ®

Reuters reports that former Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang had an intimate relationship with a third woman (source paywalled; alternative source ), an unnamed Nvidia employee. The revelation follows reports of two other extramarital affairs: one with Nvidia VP Kimberly Powell and another with Alice Huang, whom U.S. intelligence reportedly suspects of being a Chinese spy. The latter relationship has also prompted a shareholder lawsuit alleging Nvidia misled investors about its ties to a company suspected of circumventing U.S. chip export restrictions. Jensen Huang has since resigned as Nvidia's CEO and stepped down from its board on Thursday. CFO Colette Kress has been appointed interim CEO while the company searches for a permanent successor.

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Wyatt Roy and Julia Mattis made an amphora out of gingerbread. On December 3 it will be displayed in the Greek gallery at Harvard Art Museums, a few feet from the ancient vase it was modeled on.

There are more fun stories and photos in the paywalled story in the Boston Globe. They didn't win any prizes at National Gingerbread House Competition, but you can see who did.