FT: NUFC U21s 3-2 SAFC U21s Mini derby delight for the yong Magpies as they come from behind to beat Sunderland. Thompson, Seung-soo and Salia with the goals in a thrilling game.

The day I concluded that Eddie Howe isn't a top-level coach was Newcastle’s 4-2 defeat to Liverpool at Anfield on New Year’s Day in 2024. The scoreline didn't even tell the full story. Liverpool had 34 shots, 15 on target and an xG of 7.71. Newcastle were being carved open repeatedly, and Martin Dúbravka had to produce a series of saves just to keep the game competitive. But what frustrated me most was how Eddie Howe failed to find a solution when Liverpool’s attacking pressure became overwhelming. Liverpool’s wide forwards kept stretching Newcastle’s back four, Salah repeatedly threatened from the right, and their midfield runners exploited the spaces around Newcastle’s defensive structure. Newcastle couldn’t control the game, couldn’t stop the waves of attacks and couldn’t find a reliable way to protect their defence. Then came the substitutions. Howe took Sandro Tonali off in the 72nd minute, despite his importance in driving Newcastle’s midfield. Liverpool then found even more control in central areas, with Curtis Jones and Mohamed Salah exploiting the space. As a coach, I expected him to keep Tonali on to maintain midfield intensity, bring the defensive line a little deeper to reduce the space Liverpool could attack, and instruct the wide players to track Liverpool’s overlapping full-backs instead of allowing repeated isolations. I would also have tightened the midfield distances, protected the central passing lanes and used quick counter-attacks into the spaces Liverpool left behind. The objective would have been to disrupt Liverpool’s rhythm, reduce the number of clear chances they created and make them work harder to break Newcastle down. Instead, Newcastle conceded four goals. Of course, Liverpool were an excellent side, and no tactical adjustment guarantees victory. But elite management is about recognizing when your original plan is failing and adapting before the game gets away from you. That match reinforced my concern about Howe. He can build an energetic, attacking team, but when the opposition finds a way to overwhelm his structure, he can't adapt. Newcastle fans can testify to this. This is why I don’t want him anywhere near Manchester United. We need a coach who can win the tactical battle, not just a coach who has a good plan when everything is going right.

Police are investigating a break-in at Bruno Fernandes’ house on Wednesday night in which “a number of items” have been stolen. More from @JessMCHopkins nyti.ms/4zGSH4u

Whats happening right now is probably way worse than the Hugging Face incident. AI-powered attacks are hitting real organizations while major platforms disclose breaches and critical flaws. - Microsoft reports AI agents targeting hundreds of organizations, reaching privileged cloud access in under three hours in multiple cases. It attributes the ConnectWise compromise to the same group. - CrowdStrike documented four operators running successful AI-agent campaigns. One compromised at least 15 Argentine healthcare organizations. - PHP2Shell: AI helped turn longstanding PHP flaws into working exploits. Cloudflare’s CEO reports millions of exploitation attempts. Their AI involvement is unknown. - Railway disclosed possible access to customer secrets. LiteLLM shipped a backdoored release. Zeabur confirmed another breach and is shutting down. - GitLab patched a maximum-severity flaw affecting 12 years of releases. Node.js patched a serious code-execution vulnerability, with Vercel deploying firewall protections. Feels like a turningpoint.

Julian Nagelsmann is expected to be a leading candidate for the Manchester United job if the club decide to sack under-fire head coach Michael Carrick. Telegraph Sport understands that the former Germany and Bayern Munich manager would like the role if a change happens⤵️ telegraph.co.uk/football/202…

Painful watch this. Even rival fans won’t enjoy it #mufc

a critical vulnerability was just discovered in PHP. the language that runs 80% of the internet severity score: 9.2 out of 10. that’s about as bad as it gets what can an attacker do with this? take full admin control of a server. steal entire databases. passwords, credit cards, payment histories. plant malware and use the server to attack other systems but here’s the terrifying part that most people missed the moment the patch drops tonight attackers are expected to use AI to reverse engineer what was fixed within 15 minutes 15 minutes. that’s the window between the fix going live and automated attacks launching worldwide every online store, booking site, and corporate system running PHP that doesn’t update in those 15 minutes becomes a target this isn’t just a developer problem. if you’ve ever signed up to a website, entered your card details, or created an account online your data is sitting on servers that might be vulnerable right now and someone just publicly dropped the working exploit on twitter before the patch was even ready. gave every attacker on earth a head start engineers worldwide are pulling all-nighters tonight to patch their systems before the attacks begin change your passwords on any service that matters to you. enable 2FA everywhere. and watch out for fake “maintenance” or “password reset” emails over the next few days the internet is about to have a very long night

Entire country is on its arse, Minority groups are under attack by a new wave of Nazism, your Bills are going up 25%, but all you get, is wall to wall "Antisemitism" & how criticism of Israel is somehow worse than The genocide they're guilty of. Aren't you all fucking tired?!

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Cristiano Ronaldo submitted his CV as part of his response to the Potuguese FA’s charge for leaving the national team camp after a row with coach Jorge Jesus. @SkySportsNews has obtained the full ruling of the federation’s disciplinary council, which has ordered the Al Nassr forward to serve a 30-day suspension. It also imposed a fine of £214 (€255) - a sum that Ronaldo makes in just 39 seconds. Ronaldo submitted a 2,000-word statement to be considered as mitigating circumstances, along with his CV. The ruling states: “In relation to the mitigating circumstances of having rendered significant services to football and receiving recognition for sporting merit, the defendant Cristiano Ronaldo submitted his sporting CV, including the awards and honours he received during his career (pages 126 to 128 of the case file).”