2024-04-25

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Perception of when old age starts has increased over time, shows study

None of us are getting any younger, but it appears the age at which we are considered old has moved upwards over the generations. What’s more, as adults get older, they shift the goalposts further still, a study has shown.
The Parents Who Regret Having Children
How North Macedonia advertises Invest.com for free close to a decade ⋆ IT Logs

Starting in 2015 and until mid-2017, Invest.com stickers were mandatory for all trucks, vans and buses registered in North Macedonia. These same vehicles would later be driven throughout the region and Europe, and the stickers were meant to showcase the country as the ideal investment destination. The domain Invest.com was never owned by any Macedonian institution or company. It has never been part of any campaign, not excluding the ‘Invest in North Macedonia’ campaign, formerly known as ‘Invest In Macedonia’.

An American company steps up to fight Big Tech censorship

how does American Cloud keep itself and its 72,000-square-foot foot data center from being canceled by the services it relies upon? “We own the security perimeter, we own the land, we own the building, we own all the gear inside of the building — all the power, cooling, networking, and servers,” Wagner said. Additionally, American Cloud has contracts with over a dozen Tier 1 network providers, so if one were to cut off the company, it has plenty of backup internet connections. And even if all of those cut ties, American Cloud owns dark fiber that it could use to create its own backbone.

WHO redefines airborne transmission: what does that mean for future pandemics?
Bird flu virus found in grocery milk as officials say supply still safe
Opinion | We Are Blowing the Fight to Contain Bird Flue - The New York Times

So far there is only one confirmed human case. Rick Bright, an expert on the H5N1 virus who served on President Biden’s coronavirus advisory board, told me this is the crucial moment. “There’s a fine line between one person and 10 people with H5N1,” he said. “By the time we’ve detected 10, it’s probably too late” to contain.

Hundreds of Jewish demonstrators arrested after New York protest seder

Hundreds of Jewish anti-war demonstrators have been arrested during a Passover seder that doubled as a protest in New York, as they shut down a major thoroughfare to pray for a ceasefire and urge the Senate majority leader, Chuck Schumer, to end US military aid to Israel. The 300 or so arrests took place on Tuesday night at Grand Army Plaza, on the doorstep of Schumer’s Brooklyn residence, where thousands of mostly Jewish New Yorkers gathered for the seder, a ritual that marked the second night of the holiday celebrated as a festival of freedom by Jews worldwide.

I Was Stabbed in the Eye at Yale | The Free Press

I was stabbed in the eye last night on Yale University’s campus because I am a Jew. I wish I could say I was surprised, but since October 7, Yale has refused to take action against students glorifying violence, chanting “resistance is justified,” “celebrat[ing] the resistance’s success,” and fundraising for “Palestinian anarchist fighters” on the frontlines of the “resistance.” In more recent days, the school has allowed students to run roughshod over their most basic policies against postering, time and place restrictions, disorderly conduct, respect for university property, and the rights of others, not to mention stalking and harassment. Yesterday, I paid the price for their inaction.
Inside the Week That Shook Columbia University

Biden Admin To Pay $139 Million To Victims For FBI Failures In Sex Abuse Investigation | ZeroHedge

The Biden administration has agreed to pay over $138 million to victims of convicted sex abuser Larry Nassar while acknowledging the FBI’s failures to properly investigate warnings that the sports physician was exploiting his position to molest young girls under the guise of treatment. The Department of Justice (DOJ) said in an April 23 statement that it had settled 139 civil claims arising from allegations of sexual abuse committed by Mr. Nassar, who was earlier found guilty of having abused hundreds of victims under the pretext of performing medical treatments.
ShotSpotter Keeps Listening After Contracts Expire

German spycatchers raise game against China and Russia

“We are now discussing new forms by authoritarian states to influence and destabilise our democracy on an almost daily basis,” Konstantin von Notz, the chair of the German parliament’s powerful intelligence committee, which oversees the BfV, told the Financial Times. “We are currently only seeing the tip of the iceberg. One must assume that hundreds of spies are up to mischief in Germany.”

“As European democracies, we must act together,” said von Notz. “We must co-ordinate our efforts even more internationally.” The threat posed by China and Russian espionage was Europe-wide, he noted, and could not be tackled by any agency acting in isolation: “We are following the developments in the UK and the recent exposure of Chinese spies there very closely.”
EU conducts 'dawn raid' on Chinese security equipment supplier
Argentina celebrates first quarterly budget surplus in 16 years