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Tuesday, April 01, 2025

China's military kicked off joint exercises involving its army, navy, air force and rocket force around Taiwan as a "stern warning," days after USSECDEF Pete Hegseth vowed to counter "China's aggression" on his first visit to Asia. read more


Florida's orange juice industry is getting squeezed by hurricanes, citrus disease, and changing consumer tastes as the state reveals what is expected to be its smallest crop in 95 years. read more


An early toxic algae bloom off the coast of Southern California is killing or sickening hundreds of sea lions, dolphins and seabirds, while forcing rescuers to make tough choices about "which animals to save." read more


A shooting involving a bus driver and passengers on a Miami-Dade Transit bus left two men dead early Sunday in a suburb north of Miami. "Preliminary investigation revealed the operator from the bus got into a verbal dispute and fired several rounds in the bus, striking and killing two passengers," Miami Gardens police said. The victims were airlifted to Aventura Hospital in critical condition and later pronounced dead from their wounds. In an average year, 3,038 people die and 6,358 are wounded by guns in Florida which has some of the loosest firearms laws in the US. These are wartime casualty figures. Between 7 Oct 2001 and 30 Aug 2021, the US lost a total of 2,459 military personnel in Afghanistan. The Sunshine State loses more people in one year to gun violence than the total 20 years of fighting the Taliban and HQN in Afghanistan. read more


Monday, March 31, 2025

Customers of 23andMe are rightly concerned about what could happen to their DNA profiles now that the ancestry-research company has filed for bankruptcy. "It looks like it's up for grabs," he said of the genetic information. "And there doesn't really seem to be any parameters regarding its use." After a customer provides a saliva sample, DNA-testing companies like 23andMe provide a profile of a person's genetic heritage. Police used forensic genetic genealogy to solve crimes. 23andMe had a data breach in 2023 and paid out $30 million to settle a class-action lawsuit. Under bankruptcy, the company's DNA database of more than 15 million customers could potentially be sold as an asset. Note that oligarch Larry Ellison wants to put all America's data, including DNA, in one big Oracle system for AI to study. Link: www.theregister.com read more


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