Weer veroverden de Democraten een zetel in de Senaat – de stand is inmiddels 55-44 in hun voordeel, alleen de uitslag in Alaska is nog onzeker. De zege van Scott Colom in Mississippi, die woensdag werd uitgeroepen, heeft een bijzondere historische dimensie.

De jonge jaren van de donderdag opgestapte Jensen Huang waren verre van glamoureus. Nu vertrekt hij bij Nvidia na beschuldigingen van twee affaires, waarvan één met een vermeende Chinese spion.

Film features testimony from 24 Israeli officials involved in surveillance and remote killing of Palestinian civilians

• NAZA is in cinemas worldwide and will screen for free on the Guardian’s website from early December. Sign up here to be the first to watch it

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Adam Buxton and Joe Cornish returned for a night on stage as packed with pop-culture pisstakes as the show that made them a 90s TV cult. Here’s what we learned

‘Warning: The Adam and Joe Show is a high-density programme.” In the late 90s, that was your Friday-night cue to press record on the video player for Adam Buxton and Joe Cornish’s pop-culture potpourri of sketches, pranks and lovingly crafted, lo-fi movie parodies featuring figurines and cuddly toys. Thirty years after its debut, the duo – now both 57 – recreated their old den in the improbable environs of the Royal Albert Hall for a three-hour anniversary show as packed as the rapid-fire series. Here’s a select few things we learned from an evening of clips, chat and ridiculously catchy songs …

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Police issued a shelter-in-place order in Northwest DC and urged people to avoid area as they look for suspect

At least five people have been shot in Northwest Washington DC on Thursday morning, local police confirmed to the Associated Press.

A spokesperson for the Washington DC police department told the Guardian in a brief phone call on Thursday morning that the scene was “still active”. No further details were immediately available.

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Mostafa Sepahvand and Farhad Javadi Manesh carried out surveillance in an effort to inflict violence on targets

Two men of Iranian origin who were hired through social media as part of a plan to “eliminate” journalists in the UK have been found guilty of engaging in conduct likely to assist Tehran’s intelligence services.

Mostafa Sepahvand, 41, and Farhad Javadi Manesh, 46, carried out surveillance and reconnaissance between August 2024 and March last year in an attempt to inflict violence on “subjects” in the UK.

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Move follows admission of affair with woman alleged to be Chinese spy and reported relationship with employee

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Jensen Huang has resigned as chief executive of Nvidia after reports of extramarital affairs with an alleged Chinese spy and a company employee.

He will be replaced on an interim basis by Nvidia’s chief financial officer, Colette Kress, until a full-time successor is named.

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Orliński/Devieilhe/Il Pomo d’Oro/Corti
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Francesco Corti keeps the drama on the boil in this period instrument recording of Handel’s opera, with herculean feats of vocal dexterity by Jakub Józef Orliński in the title role – but it’s Sabine Devieilhe’s breathtaking queen who steals the show

Giulio Cesare is Handel’s most popular opera with at least 15 versions in the current catalogue, several of them historical. This new recording by period instrument band Il Pomo d’Oro comes off the back of a European tour, thus benefiting from the experience of live performances. A lived-in quality is palpable here, from the frisson of emotional risk-taking to imaginatively decorated da capo sections.

Leading from the keyboard, Francesco Corti keeps the drama on the boil, especially in recitatives where his resonant harpsichord sits comfortably in the mix. Timings are similar to Harry Bicket’s recent recording on Linn, but Corti invariably feels faster.

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Children vary just like the rest of us, writes advice columnist Eleanor Gordon-Smith. You don’t know you’re bad with this baby yet, because you don’t know them yet

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My best friend is having her first child. I am so happy for her and I know she’s going to be a stellar parent. However, I am not good with babies and have issues I need to work on from being told and not asked to babysit a lot as a teenager. I don’t know how to respond without coming off as a total jerk if she ever asks me and my fiance to babysit.

What can I do to still be a supportive friend and how do I clear the air on the matter?

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Order a Diet Coke or invade Iran – that’s the choice facing the US president in one of several satirical games, as designers turn the gamification of politics back on the White House

In early September, the Trump White House announced a surprising new addition to its official website. Named simply Arcade, it is a collection of browser games based on classic titles such as Flappy Bird, Snake, and Tetris, but re-tuned as flagrant works of political propaganda. Designed to court reactionary gamers, they push the administration’s policies on immigration and other hot-button issues, while dehumanising their targets. There have recently been some new additions: a Temple Run clone named Red Scare about crossing the “ration market” and escaping the Democratic Socialists of America, and another simple item-matching game about the threat of socialism. In the midst of increasing fuel, utility and grocery prices thanks to the Iran war, these were naked attempts to distract voters by appealing to their video game nostalgia.

After an explosion of news coverage, Arcade caught the attention of the games industry. The Tetris Company warned on social media that it “took copyright infringement very seriously.” Days later, the game was removed from the White House site. However, aside from a March 2026 statement from the Pokémon Company condemning the White House for using its characters in Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) propaganda, major video game companies have been relatively silent in the face of the administration’s widespread usage of their IP.

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I was originally planning to take Milky Way photos here, but the logistics of getting here at night without a car was too difficult. So I ended up visiting during the day instead. Luckily, there was a good amount of clouds, so the blue cast from the sky wasn't too bad.

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Near Kaneyama waterfall, Yamanashi, Japan
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Nvidia's Jensen Huang has resigned as CEO of the company, following the revelation of his affair with a woman suspected of being a Chinese spy and reports of a relationhip another woman who was a company employee. In a Form 8-K [PDF] filed with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the GPU maker disclosed that it accepted the resignation of Huang, whom it identified as Jen-Hsun Huang, on November 11, effective immediately. He is being replaced by chief financial officer Colette Kress, who will serve as interim leader while the board conducts a search for a new CEO. Huang, who founded Nvidia in 1993 and served as president, CEO, and a member of the board of directors ever since, led the GPU maker to become one of the most valuable companies in the world, hitting a hit peak of over $5.5 trillion earlier this year. His position became untenable following an investigation by the company's board after he admitted to an affair, amid allegations he had a romantic relationship with a woman the US authorities suspected as a Chinese spy. Reports later surfaced this week of a second alleged affair with an employee of the company itself, reported by the New York Times as being with Kimberly Powell, Nvidia's vice president of health care. A two-week downfall News of the scandal first broke barely a couple of weeks ago, on October 29, when claims surfaced that Huang had been the target of an espionage plot involving a Chinese businesswoman working for a Singapore-based company called Megaspeed which was a customer of Nvidia. According to the New York Times, US intelligence had reason to believe the woman, Alice Huang, was recruited to gather information about Nvidia and its operations for the Beijing government. Megaspeed also faces claims it was illicitly shipping Nvidia products to China, in violation of US export controls. Any relationship between Huang and a Chinese operative would be enormously concerning, as the US has been trying to keep advanced technology for AI out of the hands of the country, allegedly for security reasons, fearing it might be used for military purposes. For its part, Beijing rejects the spying allegations, saying they are part of a smear campaign against China. Shortly after Nvidia’s board announced it was investigating Huang, he sent an email to Nvidia staff apologizing and confessing to having an affair, though he did not explicitly name Alice Huang in his public apology. It seemed like the leather-jacketed leader might just hang on, since it was difficult to imagine anyone other than him leading the company after all this time. But Nvidia’s shares fell 4.3 percent on November 9 and a further 5.5 percent the following day, wiping around $430 billion off its market value, amid all the speculation. Then the claim emerged regarding a second affair, with an employee at Nvidia who reported to him, and many commentators took it as a sign the game was up. Huang resigned the same day the news broke. Indecision ahead Now the speculation starts over who will take over the reins at Nvidia, but Huang could prove a tough act to follow. He is said to have recognized early on the potential for taking the number-crunching capabilities of graphics processors and putting them to use at accelerating AI processing, and Nvidia’s position today as the leading AI hardware firm is thanks to that bet. “The sudden resignation of Jensen Huang is about more than succession at the world’s most important AI chipmaker, Nvidia’s leadership crisis is a stress test for the AI boom,” says Forrester VP and group research director Stephanie Balaouras. If Nvidia stabilizes quickly under new leadership, the AI infrastructure boom will have demonstrated resilience, she adds. But if its stock or financing relationships remain under sustained pressure, that would add evidence to the fragility of the AI bubble. “In the near term, the board did the sensible thing and reached for a steward. Colette Kress knows every number in that order book,” commented Mark Malek, CIO at financial services firm Siebert Financial. “It does NOT settle the stock. Interim means the real decision is still ahead, the investigations are still open, and next week’s earnings call just became the most important in the company’s history,” he added. ®

Nope, this is not at all metaphorical: “In its glory days, the S.S. United States was fast, luxurious and all but indestructible.” RIP, the United States.

It was not immediately clear if there were any casualties or what had caused the strike.

The illegal trafficking of giant Baobabs from South Africa has been stopped in the nick of time. They have been lying in a Durban ship yard for three months.

Somehow, despite the undignified abuse, the trees have survived, are budding and bearing fruit, and are being transported back to suitable earth to be replanted. The exporter is being investigated. Anthropologists explore Bidzina Ivanishvili's bizarre tree theme park. More about the park. Previously

Een 13-jarige jongen is in Rotterdam-Beverwaard op gewelddadige wijze beroofd van zijn elektrische step. Daarbij werd ook zijn 8-jarige zusje mishandeld. Een van de verdachten was vorige week al te zien in Bureau Rijnmond, maar dan nog onherkenbaar. Omdat hij zich niet bij de politie heeft gemeld, wordt hij nu herkenbaar getoond.

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