In September, hackers from a group called ShinyHunters announced that they stole a trove of FBI data about its own agents. It was an intelligence disaster.

Last week, the FBI arrested (alternate link) someone associated with that crime.

De Russische dreiging is reëel, schrijft Ard Schiferli, maar we moeten niet onnodig angstzaaien.

Nu hun brute machtsuitoefening maar niet leidt tot het gewenste resultaat, hebben Trump en Poetin besloten om elkaar te hulp te schieten.

Vanwege de crisis in de strafrechtketen, wilde het College van procureurs-generaal officieren het taakstrafverbod opzij laten zetten. Na interne onrust werd het plan vlak voor de invoering geschrapt, blijkt uit interne documenten.

De Amerikaanse president Donald Trump zoekt, met de tussentijdse verkiezingen op komst, naar manieren om de dieselprijzen te drukken. Gaat de omtreden deal met Rusland voor de levering van miljoenen vaten diesel effect hebben?

De Amerikaanse generaal Alexus Grynkewich waarschuwt dat NAVO-troepen klaar staan om „alles en iedereen” te vernietigen bij een aanval op een NAVO-land. De timing is interessant, nu Donald Trump de oorlogskas van Rusland spekt en Oekraïne verder onder druk zet.

EVENT: Every sovereign AI architecture is a trade, and the currency changes with the option: capital, capability, elasticity, or the fine print about who operates it. The cost you notice last is usually the one that decides whether the pilot ever becomes production. Nobody chooses badly on purpose. They choose with the information available at the planning stage, and the costs that matter most, in capability and in operations, tend to show up later. Which is why the honest comparison is hard to get. The people who have run each option for a year are the ones who know, and they are not saying it on a recorded webinar. They will say it at dinner. On Thursday 29 October, just over two weeks from now, The Register is hosting HPE and NVIDIA in Washington with editor-in-chief Matt Rosoff in the chair and the Chatham House Rule in force. HPE sends Bharath Ramesh, Head of Product, AI Factory Solutions, and Tracy Mills, Acting Director Federal Systems Integrators & Distinguished Chief Technologist Federal. NVIDIA sends Bert Condensa, Vice President for Enterprise AI Factory Segment Sales. All three are there to take questions. The agenda is the trade-offs themselves: which infrastructure options hold a boundary, what each one costs in capital, capability or elasticity, and whether the answer survives the move from planning into operations. And the questions underneath: what can leave a jurisdiction versus what can leave the building, and what an auditor will accept as evidence a year from now. This is written for the person who owns that decision and is making it this quarter, not next year: technology, data and risk leaders in healthcare, financial services, research, pharmaceuticals, government and higher education. It is one table with no slides, everyone at it a peer, and a chair who closes down a pitch as soon as it starts. Places are filling. Dinner runs from 6.00pm to 8.30pm at Fiola Mare, Washington DC. Request one here. Government and public sector guests: where your agency’s ethics rules require it, you can pay your own share and we will provide a receipt. Please say so when you request an invitation.

Microsoft has closed a loophole that let users sidestep the need for an account during setup for consumer versions of Windows 11. If users clicked "Learn More" when the setup process prompted for a Microsoft account, the Out-of-Box Experience (OOBE) skipped directly to the point where they just had to enter a name and password. Windows prodder "Bob Pony," who first documented the loophole, reported its removal. We tried the original trick on real Intel hardware and found it was possible to skip the Microsoft account requirement by clicking a link, but no longer. Other hacks – for those who dare to use unofficial Windows setup routes – still exist, though they are beyond the skill set of the average user. Microsoft requires an account during initial setup of Windows 11 Home and Pro for personal use. For consumers, using Windows 11 without an account can be tricky because services such as OneDrive require authentication. Microsoft is far from the only operating system vendor to demand an account during setup, but many Linux distributions, by contrast, don't require one. According to Bob Pony, the loophole was "quietly patched server side," which makes sense. Microsoft was hardly likely to leave it flapping open for long. Microsoft has won this round of account workaround Whac-a-Mole, though another bypass may yet pop up. ®

"The word 'empathy' first appeared in English in 1909 when it was translated by Edward Bradford Titchener from the German Einfühlung, an old concept that had been gaining new meaning and increased relevance from the 1870s onward. While today we often treat 'empathy' as a synonym for 'sympathy,' if not—and more commonly—as an improvement on it, empathy at the turn of the century was used to describe a unique combination of cognitive effort and bodily feeling thought to characterize aesthetic experience. Such experience was not limited to contemplating works of art, however; for several of its earliest theorists, empathy named our aesthetic experiences of other people." Rae Greiner, 1909: The Introduction of the Word 'Empathy' into English

I will also share a shorter piece, Susan Lanzoni's The Origin of Empathy. But if you have time, Greiner's essay is really interesting; especially thought-provoking is the insistence that it is possible to feel like a Doric column.

Fossil bones and tools from mysterious ancient human unearthed in China. A rare combination of tools and fossils found in a Chinese cave could help scientists learn more about our mysterious extinct cousins, the Denisovans.

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Truffle White Bean Puree, Celery Salad, Foie Gras, Scallops

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Just 19% of the online encyclopedia’s biographies are of women. Is this because it’s edited by ‘mostly white, middle-aged, European men’, as the comedian claims?

Name: Wikipedia.

Age: 25.

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• NBA star wore jersey during 1998 NBA finals

• Jordan memorabilia has attracted huge attention

A jersey worn by Michael Jordan during the 1998 NBA finals has been sold for $14m, an auction house announced on Monday, in what it said is the highest price ever paid for a piece of basketball memorabilia.

Hunt Auctions said Miami real estate investor Ron Firman had bought the jersey in a private sale. Jordan wore the red jersey in Game 2 of the 1998 finals; he and the Chicago Bulls beat the Utah Jazz that night to even the series at a game apiece. Jordan and the Bulls would go on to win the series in six games, the sixth and final title of his Hall of Fame career. That 1997-98 season was the subject of the Last Dance documentary series, which became a hit on Netflix in 2020.

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While it was hardly Boca Juniors v River Plate at La Bombonera, Sunday’s eagerly anticipated match between Liverpool and Manchester City rated about 8.5 on the official Football Daily feist-o-meter by the Premier League’s comparatively tame standards. The visitors walked out to a loud chorus of pantomime booing and some mildly amusing banners reminding them of their serial cheating, there was some defiant “doing” of the Poznan in the away end and … er, that was about it. For all the faux media concern, one of the most hyped Premier League matches of all time passed off without anything much in the way of flashpoints. We’ve seen more rancorous, heated physical exchanges at the judging of the best Victoria sponge at the local church fete.

Fair play to Xavi Simons for taking a business course (Friday’s Football Daily, full email edition), but if he’s serious about ‘using his time in the best way possible’ he should read What they Teach you at Harvard Business School by Philip Delves Broughton and What they Don’t Teach you at Harvard Business School by Mark H McCormack. As the joke goes, these two books contain the sum of all human knowledge” – Pål Jørgen Bakke.

As José Mourinho has already, in the space of just two months, done his infamous ‘por qué’, printing out a piece of paper to ‘prove’ he’s right to the media and refusing to show up at the press conference after Vinícius Júnior rightly, and hilariously, had a great goal chalked off and was sent off in the same move for hair-pulling, it’s good to see that, like all great artists of the past, he’s just ended up as a bad tribute act to his former self, doing a farewell tour and churning out all the hits” – Noble Francis.

Is there a word count for submissions to Football Daily letters?” – J Russo [no, not at all, not in the slightest, there absolutely isn’t – Football Daily Ed].

This is an extract from our daily football email … Football Daily. To get the full version, just visit this page and follow the instructions. 

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The revelation comes after the four-hour film’s Venice premiere drew a string of criticisms and insults from the founder of SpaceXAI

Alex Gibney, director of the new four-hour documentary about Elon Musk, said that Universal, owners of the film’s international distribution rights “wavered” over releasing the film outside North America.

Gibney was speaking to the New York Times as the film opened in the US (where it is being released by the independent distributor Bleecker Street), and appeared to confirm a story in the Hollywood Reporter that Universal, which had acquired the international rights to the film in 2023, had got cold feet. Asked by the New York Times, “Did Universal Pictures waver in setting up its international release plans?” Gibney replied: “Yes.”

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LUXEMBURG (ANP) - De EU wil dat de VN-klimaattop van volgende maand een keerpunt moet worden voor de uitvoering van het klimaatakkoord van Parijs. Over die inzet zijn de EU-ministers die gaan over klimaat het maandag eens geworden in Luxemburg.

In het klimaatakkoord van Parijs in 2015 is afgesproken dat zo veel mogelijk gedaan zal worden om de opwarming van de aarde onder de 2 graden te houden en het liefst onder de 1,5 graad. "Hoewel de EU-ministers erkennen dat de doelstelling van 1,5 graad waarschijnlijk zal worden overschreden, pleiten ze voor dringende en ambitieuze klimaatmaatregelen om elke verdere fractie van een graad opwarming te voorkomen", staat in een verklaring.

De EU gaat er onder meer op aandringen dat alle deelnemers hun klimaatactieplannen (NDC's) inleveren om zo in kaart te brengen wat nodig is om opwarming tegen te gaan. Veel landen leveren die plannen niet of te laat in.

De klimaattop is van 9 tot 20 november in de Turkse badplaats Antalya.

UTRECHT (ANP) - Het Openbaar Ministerie heeft maandag vijftien maanden cel en tbs met dwangverpleging geëist tegen Mike K. De 35-jarige man uit het Utrechtse De Meern wordt ervan verdacht dat hij tijdens de afgelopen jaarwisseling twee bestelbussen in brand heeft gestoken, een politiehond neerstak en agenten bedreigde met messen. K. vertelde op de zitting dat hij doodgeschoten wilde worden door de politie. "Ik had de balans opgemaakt en het hoefde niet meer."

K. heeft een tbs-verleden. Hij kreeg de maatregel eind 2019 voor een bedreiging. In januari 2025 eindigde die behandeling. "Voor u zit een man die gevaarlijk en zeer dreigend gedrag heeft vertoond", zei de officier van justitie tegen de rechtbank. "Maar ook een man die hulp nodig heeft." Volgens haar heeft eerdere hulpverlening niet het gewenste effect gehad en moet worden voorkomen dat K. opnieuw strafbare feiten pleegt.

De verdachte werd uiteindelijk neergeschoten door de Dienst Speciale Interventies (DSI) en overmeesterd op een heuvel langs de A2 bij Nieuwegein. Tijdens zijn actie was de snelweg enige tijd afgesloten.

The terminal transfers petroleum products onto sea and river tankers for export and has reportedly been used to supply fuel to the Russian military.