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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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.
Continue reading...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.
Continue reading...American saves three set points in second-set rally
Gauff wins six straight games to seal 6-4, 7-5 victory
World No 4 needs Noskova help to reach last four
Coco Gauff clawed out a 6-4, 7-5 round-robin victory over Marta Kostyuk on Thursday to keep her WTA Finals hopes alive in Indian Wells, California.
The world No 4 still needs help to reach the semi-finals of the elite season-ending event. If fifth-ranked compatriot Jessica Pegula beats Wimbledon champion Linda Noskova in Thursday’s final group match, Pegula will advance instead. Noskova has already qualified.
Continue reading...Loss is Zinedine Zidane’s first as France head coach
Spain beat Czechia 2-0 to maintain 100% record
Pio Esposito struck twice to inflict a first defeat on Zinedine Zidane as France head coach as Italy stormed back to win 3-1 at San Siro and go top of their Nations League group.
Michael Olise profited on a Gianluigi Donnarumma error to put the visitors in front after 10 minutes, but Italy hit back through Esposito and Davide Frattesi either side of half-time.
Continue reading...This sensationally idiotic guide to film history is hilarious. From a crude Mary Poppins gag to confusing the hell out of Michael Bay, I could listen to Cunk’s surreal tosh all day
In a world of slow-burn, jargon-littered dramas, there’s something to be said for the TV programme that sets out its stall within the first 12 seconds. Cunk on Cinema is one such programme. The latest series from Diane Morgan’s sensationally idiotic documentarian is a three-part history of film that begins with our host reeling off some of humanity’s greatest achievements in her deadpan Bolton tones. Specifically, “conquering the landscape, growing the great wall of Chinese, discovering Mona Lisa and inventing global warming”. If you think that list is funny, you’ll enjoy what is essentially a vehicle for some of the stupidest jokes ever written. If you find that kind of malapropism and misapprehension childish, I suggest you switch off immediately.
We first encountered Philomena Cunk in 2012 as a spoof talking head on Charlie Brooker’s annual end-of-year Screenwipe special. Billed variously as a “computer typist”, “Bake Off viewer” and “influential Tweetist”, she was at heart a stubbornly ill-informed woman-of-the-people who offered confused commentary on pressing subjects of the time, such as Jimmy Carr’s tax avoidance and the dog from The Artist. Thanks mainly to Morgan’s ability to spout surreal tosh in an appealing no-nonsense fashion, Cunk was a hit. Soon she branched out into solo documentary-making (with Brooker and his longtime colleagues, including Joel Morris and Jason Hazeley, still co-writing her material), covering subjects as modest as “Britain” and later “Earth”, bamboozling her expert interviewees with inane yet dogged questioning like a cross between Jeremy Paxman, Louis Theroux and a far less problematic Ali G.
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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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Microsoft is suffering a major Microsoft 365 outage that's disrupting Outlook, Teams, Copilot and SharePoint for users across the Americas, with more than 129,000 problem reports logged on Downdetector shortly after the disruption began. Microsoft blames the connectivity problems on an unexpectedly large number of unavailable servers that overloaded the remaining infrastructure. The company says it's redistributing traffic and restarting affected systems. From a report: Microsoft was not providing an estimated time by which it expects service to return. Both individual Outlook users and those on enterprise accounts experienced problems logging in to the service. The outage also affected other Microsoft services, including Microsoft Teams, the Copilot 365 AI service and SharePoint Online. "Users may be unable to connect to multiple Microsoft 365 services," the company said on its Service Health Status page.
UPDATE 11/12/26, 19:50 UTC: From Microsoft 365 Status: "We're testing a configuration change to address a problem that's causing servers to fail automated health checks and become unavailable. In parallel, we've initiated a restart of all affected servers and are monitoring health as they return to service. More info under EX1550543 and MO1550821 in the Microsoft 365 admin center, as well as http://status.cloud.microsoft if the admin center is not available to you."
UPDATE 11/12/26, 20:19 UTC: From Microsoft 365 Status: "We've not identified any recent change correlated with the start of impact; however, our investigation indicates the failed health checks may originate from a specific component that's responsible for processing server health. We've taken steps to prevent additional servers from being impacted while we work to return the affected servers to service. More info under EX1550543 and MO1550821 in the Microsoft 365 admin center, as well as http://status.cloud.microsoft if the admin center is not available to you.
UPDATE 11/12/26, 20:29 UTC: "According to https://downdetector.com/, much of the major services are down," writes Slashdot reader xocmot2. "AWS, Microsoft, Meta, on and on. Clearly not a Microsoft thing."
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UPDATE 11/12/26, 19:50 UTC: From Microsoft 365 Status: "We're testing a configuration change to address a problem that's causing servers to fail automated health checks and become unavailable. In parallel, we've initiated a restart of all affected servers and are monitoring health as they return to service. More info under EX1550543 and MO1550821 in the Microsoft 365 admin center, as well as http://status.cloud.microsoft if the admin center is not available to you."
UPDATE 11/12/26, 20:19 UTC: From Microsoft 365 Status: "We've not identified any recent change correlated with the start of impact; however, our investigation indicates the failed health checks may originate from a specific component that's responsible for processing server health. We've taken steps to prevent additional servers from being impacted while we work to return the affected servers to service. More info under EX1550543 and MO1550821 in the Microsoft 365 admin center, as well as http://status.cloud.microsoft if the admin center is not available to you.
UPDATE 11/12/26, 20:29 UTC: "According to https://downdetector.com/, much of the major services are down," writes Slashdot reader xocmot2. "AWS, Microsoft, Meta, on and on. Clearly not a Microsoft thing."
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Singapore says U.S. authorities provided limited assistance in its investigation of Megaspeed, the company run by Alice Huang, the Chinese businesswoman whom U.S. intelligence suspects is a Chinese spy and whose relationship with Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has drawn scrutiny. According to Singapore, authorities held Alice Huang's passport from June 2025 until February while investigating "potential false declarations," but ultimately released her with a "stern warning" and barred her from re-entering the country. The New York Times reports: The statement raises new questions about the response of the Trump administration to the case and why the U.S. government did not more forcefully intervene. According to the timeline in the statement, Singaporean authorities had been holding Ms. Huang's passport well after President Trump was briefed last fall about her relationship with Nvidia's chief executive and the belief that she was a Chinese intelligence asset. The New York Times has reported that Taiwan began monitoring Ms. Huang in 2024 at the guidance of the U.S. government.
In its statement, Singapore said that it had sought information from an American server maker and close Nvidia business partner, Supermicro, but that the company had provided "limited cooperation." Supermicro, a firm that packages Nvidia's A.I. chips onto servers that can be used in data centers, has been at the center of a number of chip smuggling investigations across the globe. Supermicro was a supplier to Megaspeed, a company incorporated in Singapore and run by Ms. Huang, according to two people with knowledge of the matter.
Singapore said in the statement its authorities raised Supermicro's "limited cooperation" with the U.S. Department of Justice and Federal Bureau of Investigation in July 2025 and "requested their assistance in securing the company's cooperation." "Despite these repeated requests, Singapore has to date received limited information or assistance in respect of the company," the statement said.
In its statement, Singapore said that it had sought information from an American server maker and close Nvidia business partner, Supermicro, but that the company had provided "limited cooperation." Supermicro, a firm that packages Nvidia's A.I. chips onto servers that can be used in data centers, has been at the center of a number of chip smuggling investigations across the globe. Supermicro was a supplier to Megaspeed, a company incorporated in Singapore and run by Ms. Huang, according to two people with knowledge of the matter.
Singapore said in the statement its authorities raised Supermicro's "limited cooperation" with the U.S. Department of Justice and Federal Bureau of Investigation in July 2025 and "requested their assistance in securing the company's cooperation." "Despite these repeated requests, Singapore has to date received limited information or assistance in respect of the company," the statement said.
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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.
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.
stan.jernigan has added a photo to the pool:
I took this photo of the “Steps at Kunōzan Tōshō-gū Shinto shrine” on Mount Kunō, overlooking Suruga Bay in Shizuoka City, Japan, with my iPhone 17 Pro Max. There were many steep steps to reach the shrine and Tokugawa Ieyasu's tomb. I loved the large Torii gate and the soft trees. The entire shrine was old, beautiful, and worth every step to see the entire setting…
DUBLIN (ANP) - Bij de volgende onderhandelingsronde met Rusland zal ook Europa aansluiten. Dat zegt de Oekraïense president Volodymyr Zelensky na afloop van zijn ontmoeting met de Amerikaanse onderhandelaars Jared Kushner en Steve Witkoff, die voor hem naar Dublin zijn gevlogen. Eerder op de dag spraken zij met de Russische president Vladimir Poetin, die zou hebben ingestemd met de aanwezigheid van een Europese afvaardiging aan de onderhandelingstafel.