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🗣️ Nvidia chief executive Jensen Huang, one of the central figures in the global AI industry, has admitted having an affair with an alleged Chinese spy.

In a message to staff at the $4.5 trillion-value company, Mr Huang apologised. “I was unfaithful to my wife,” he said. “My actions hurt her and our children. There is no excuse for what I did. I am deeply sorry.”

Nvidia’s board said it had “no reason” to think he had compromised national security or Nvidia’s interests. But it has launched an inquiry with which Huang will cooperate, while continuing in his role. (New York Times)

📣 The gunman who left six dead in a shooting spree in Poland has died in hospital. The announcement came early this morning as investigators continued an investigation into what they are calling a terrorist incident on the streets of Krakow on Saturday.

The gunman has only been identified as a 24-year-old Polish national from the town of Ostrowiec Swietokrzyski. Social media clips showed him shooting from a car and, later, in a street wearing military attire and carrying a rifle. Authorities suspect he was inspired by far-right ideology.

A British national, as yet not named, is among the dead. (Independent) (BBC)

📣 A woman says she was drugged, assaulted and held prisoner by Salah Fayed, brother of former Harrods owner Mohamed Al Fayed, at his estate in the Scottish Highlands.

The women says she was a young Harrods employee when she was recruited to what she thought was an executive training scheme in the 1990s.

Instead, she was flown in the Fayed’s private jet to the north of Scotland and taken to their Balnagown estate in Easter Ross, where she was repeatedly assaulted. (BBC)

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📣 Scotland’s colleges need a revolution, Scotland’s tertiary education minister has said, because young people are “not being served” by the current system. Alyn Smith says he wants to “revolutionise Scotland’s skills landscape and the funding model behind it”. (Scotsman has the exclusive)

📣 There was chaos after a bare-knuckle fighting event in Glasgow on Saturday night: two men have been arrested, but more than 20 police vehicles and a helicopter were needed during the disturbances. (BBC)

📣 Scots want to see decisions on North Sea oil and gas made in Holyrood, not Westminster, a poll says. (Herald)

📣 Shocking CCTV footage shows a child, estimated to be “no more than three” years old, shoplifting in a shop in Glasgow. The owners said she was left “gobsmacked”. (Daily Record)

📣 Donald Trump has admitted his deportation policy might have been “too tough” in an interview with CBS News, broadcast overnight. He also said he could never forgive his enemies. (CBS News)

📣 UK government ministers will cut targets for electric vehicle sales this week - a relief to carmakers, but a move that will alarm MPs concerned about the government’s commitment to the green agenda. (Guardian)

📣 A cruise ship pianist has been rescued after he was found treading water 20 miles off the Californian coast. He’d fallen overboard nine hours earlier, in the middle of the night. (CBS News)

⚽️ Hearts have stunned many over the last 18 months: alas, yesterday, it was the turn of their fans to be unpleasantly surprised as they sank to a 2-5 home defeat to Falkirk, which brought a 26-game unbeaten home run, in the league, to a sudden end. The visitors had romped to a 4-0 lead at half-time against the injury-ravaged Jambos. (BBC report & 🎥 highlights)

⚽️ Nothing so dramatic in Glasgow, where Celtic scraped out a 1-0 win over Kilmarnock, a volley from Liam Scales making the difference. (BBC report & 🎥 highlights)

🏉 Scotland showed flashes of brilliance against New Zealand on Saturday, but were eventually well beaten. Thomas Duncan offers lessons from the match: the defence needs work, and the All Blacks are starting to resemble their sides of old, he notes. (BBC)

⚽️ In England, Michael Carrick is at least providing some thrills and spills at Old Trafford, as his Manchester United side battled back to secure a 4-4 draw against Aston Villa. But they are now in the relegation zone. (BBC report & 🎥 highlights)

⚽️ There with them are Crystal Palace, who lost 3-1 to Liverpool. Manager Pierre Sage is expected to lose his job over the international break. (Guardian) (🎥 Highlights)

🗣️ The trial of Russell Brand shed light on the criminally bad conduct he got away with as one of the UK’s biggest celebrities. But it has also shone a light on the lengths those around him went to defend him.

Brand’s barrister, Ian Winter KC, attempted to have the allegations against Brand thrown out by making allegations of criminality - later found to be entirely false - against the journalists who reported the stories of his victims.

Meanwhile, the now-convicted Brand may face more accusations - at least two are being investigated - while Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy said there remains a problem with exploitation and abuse in the media industry. (Sunday Times)

🗣️ Older drivers in Scotland could soon have to pass an “old-age driving test” to stay behind the wheel. And the odds - at least after one pilot of the scheme in a part of Scotland - don’t augur well: in that trial run, half of drivers over 70 were unsafe, with most ordered to hand in their licence, after they were taken out with an assessor in a dual-control car, given an eye test and had a check on their mental faculties.

Under proposals, the test wouldn’t be given automatically: friends or relatives could refer them confidentially for a fitness-to-drive assessment, as well as police officers, doctors or DVLA officials. (Sunday Post)

🗣️ It emerged that the Scottish Parliament’s Presiding Officer Kenny Gibson - who took up the Holyrood hot seat after May’s elections - faced a catalogue of bullying claims years ago, with the SNP accused of taking no action despite a dossier being sent by solicitors representing the complainants.

He had faced complaints before - but not to this level of seriousness, or detail. They alleged “misogynistic and narcissistic” behaviour and an “excessive sense of entitlement”, with one stating: “He flies into rages, bullies, intimidates and belittles when refused what he wants.” One disabled member claimed Gibson pushed and abused her after a booze cruise.

Ivan McKee, speaking on TV after the story broke, said “the party takes these allegations very seriously and will fully investigate them.” (Sunday Mail)

🗣️ What’s motivating the wave of cyberattacks targeting supermarket fridges? There’s certainly no financial leverage, notes the chief executive of one cybersecurity company. “The attackers simply broke the fridges […] it has the hallmarks of something more deliberate than ordinary cybercrime,” they told Jeevan Vasagar.

It’s interesting, also, that the string of attacks appears to have started in the summer, when at least six US military bases reported refrigeration malfunctions and their on-site stores.

My lazy assumption had been that a foreign power was somehow connected - let’s face it, Russia, Iran and North Korea all have form in these things - but there appears to be no evidence, so far, pointing to them. Just the absence of motivation, beyond disruption and concern. (Observer)

🗣️ US Vice President JD Vance “is toast” after the midterms, reckons Matthew Schmitz, and the commentator goes on to make a strong case that Vance, so closely aligned with Trump, will struggle to wriggle away from his close association with an unpopular president. “In both style and substance, he has presented himself as an avatar of the MAGA movement, more Trumpist than Mr. Trump,” writes Schmitz. “If he hopes to win the presidency in 2028, he will need to sell voters on the tarnished Trump brand.” (New York Times)

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