News of the World

[kyonides]

The novel coronavirus COVID-19 is affecting 30 countries and territories around the world and 1 international conveyance (the "Diamond Princess" cruise ship harbored in Yokohama, Japan).

O_O And we'll never know for sure how many cases there are in North Korea because its leader cares more about Russian horses rather than his own people and free press. Meanwhile, USA reports 27 cases and Canada learned about a ninth case...

China says earliest coronavirus vaccine to be submitted for trials late April
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china...SKBN20F0BM
Too good to be true, don't you think? O_o?

U.S. agency that handles Trump's secure communication suffered data breach
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-d...SKBN20E27A
How serious is it? O_o?

The agency provides direct telecommunications and IT support for the president, Vice President Mike Pence, their staff, the U.S. Secret Service, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and other senior members of the armed forces, according to its website.
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The agency’s letters said it had no evidence any personal data possibly taken was misused, but that it was required to notify individuals who may have had data taken.

Well, it's darn serious for sure!

Aside from high-level communications, DISA was also drafted to help reform the government security clearance process following digital break-ins at the U.S. Office of Personnel Management in 2014 and 2015 that resulted in the compromise of records belonging to more than 21 million current and former government employees.

Coronavirus to be big topic for G20 as China reports uptick in cases
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china...0F01P?il=0
Just when China was trying to sell us its idea of the total number of new coronavirus cases declining in the last couple of days meaning the peak of infections had been reached, the virus tells us a quite different story: raised from 394 to 889 cases. Regarding viruses it isn't easy to predict how they'll behave in the next couple of days, weeks or months.

To date, 25 other countries have reported 1,076 cases to the WHO, and while that was very low compared with more than 75,400 inside China, Tedros said: “That may not stay the same for long”.

Say what!?

Tesla gets court approval to clear forest for German Gigafactory
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-tesla...SKBN20E2UH
O_o? Huh? Why don't German courts stop playing with everybody's expectations? One day they say Tesla can't clear a forest and the next they say "go ahead". =_=

Trump blasts best-picture Oscar for South Korean film 'Parasite'
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-e...SKBN20F05Z
So Trump prefers to watch movies like Gone with the wind!? O_o? I dunno if Hollywood cares about such productions and the like anymore. Even so I admit I didn't understand why Parasite got 2 of the most important categories, it should have earned one but not more.

New Mexico AG sues Google for collecting school kids' personal data
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-alpha...SKBN20E2PA
They say its educational software collects young students’ personal information without the required parental consent. How does it work? Well, kids get a Chromebook with educational Google apps preinstalled. O_O That gotta be highly illegal, right? Why's Google ignoring New Mexico's and US laws?

Coronavirus: Ukraine protesters attack buses carrying China evacuees
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-51581805

Dozens of protesters in a Ukrainian town have attacked buses carrying evacuees from coronavirus-hit China.

I wanna add that 2 Costa Ricans are included in those groups of coronavirus evacuees.