World News Links

"Something ate his legs." Australian teenager's legs bloodied after being chewed by flesh eating lice. The Sydney Morning Herald. (Video Image warning advised, bloody content per SMH).
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Help Wanted: Planetary Protection Officer. USAJobs.
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The New Bitcoin Cash price skyrockets. From The Street.:

Bitcoin cash, with similar bottom technology to bitcoin but with larger block sizes, can process about 30 transactions per second, four times more than bitcoin, though still a far cry from the thousands of transactions handled by Visa every second.

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TechCrunch: Apple. A One Trillion Dollar company? Absolutely.
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Does the name Marcus Hutchins or his aka MalwareTech, ring a bell? He's the guy who stopped the WannaCry ransomware by registering the domain name. Well, the US detained him and accused him of some serious charges. Extreme Tech:

WannaCry began infecting critical infrastructure across Europe and in the United States, rising to 230,000 infected machines in 150 countries within a day of its release.
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[Hutchins] was arrested on Thursday by the FBI. (Initially it was reported he was held by the US Marshals, but this appears to have been inaccurate.) The FBI has filed a formal indictment against Hutchins, alleging that he and an unnamed co-conspirator (whose name has been redacted from the filing) “knowingly conspired and agreed with each other to commit an offense against the United States.

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Large, multi-ship military training exercise off the coast of Saipan. Saipan Tribune.
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From The Deparment of "I thought We Already Did This.": $ 2 Billion allocated for broadband in rural areas. NextGov.
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Horrifying - Woman stalked, kidnapping attempt also? The Hindustan Times.
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"Knife-wielding" Danukul Mokmool's Facebook profile says “nice and friendly”; but shot dead by police. A truly sad story. Daily Telegraph.
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In Denmark, performance artist Julian Toldam Juhlin on display as "Virgin in a Glass Cage." The Copenhagen Post. (And No, I'm not making this up).
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Is this because of North Korea? Public schools in Hawaii urged to conduct nuclear drills. Hawaii Tribune Herald.
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So THIS is how you go viral. I wish someone would have told me this sooner. The Evening Telegraph.