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US maternal mortality rate far higher than in peer nations, report finds (www.theguardian.com)
Alarming disparities persist, particularly between white and Black mothers, according to new report by Commonwealth Fund...
US Senate to vote on bill to recognize legal right to contraception (www.theguardian.com)
Passing the bill will be an uphill task for Democrats, who are daring Republicans to go on the record opposing the right to birth control...
Italian court dismisses Amanda Knox appeal against slander verdict (www.theguardian.com)
Knox, 36, hoped to overturn conviction for wrongly accusing a bar owner of murdering British student Meredith Kercher
Saudi Arabia accused of using forced labour ahead of Fifa World Cup decision (www.theguardian.com)
Union’s claim of ‘epidemic of migrant worker abuses’ could force Fifa to reject state as 2034 host if it fails to meet rights obligations...
Germany: New knife attack in Mannheim wounds local AfD politician (www.bbc.com)
A local candidate is wounded in Mannheim, near where a policeman was fatally stabbed five days ago....
The Age of the Drone Police Is Here (www.wired.com)
A WIRED investigation, based on more than 22 million flight coordinates, reveals the complicated truth about the first full-blown police drone program in the US—and why your city could be next....
US Airlines Ask For Halt To New USDOT Consumer Protections While Suit Advances (simpleflying.com)
Airlines for America (A4A) confidently asserted that the Court of Appeals would rule in their favor.
Arctic Wolf sniffs out new ransomware variant (www.csoonline.com)
The ransomware payload is designed for an easy and quicker payday over a deep, double-extortive infection.
Australian mining company discloses breach after BianLian leaks data (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
Northern Minerals issued an announcement earlier today warning that it suffered a cybersecurity breach resulting in some of its stolen data being published on the dark web.
Australian watchdog drops court fight with X over violent posts (www.rawstory.com)
Australia’s online watchdog on Wednesday dropped a legal effort to force Elon Musk’s X to remove posts depicting the violent stabbing of a Sydney priest.
Ohtani's ex-interpreter pleads guilty to stealing nearly $17 million from baseball star (www.rawstory.com)
The former interpreter to Shohei Ohtani pleaded guilty on Tuesday to stealing nearly $17 million from the Japanese baseball star to pay off illegal gambling debts.
Hubble trouble: Veteran space telescope forced to take it easy (www.rawstory.com)
The venerable Hubble Space Telescope, which has revolutionized astronomical discovery since its launch in 1990, will ease into retirement with a scaled-back observing schedule, NASA officials said Tuesday.
USA | FDA panel votes against MDMA for PTSD therapy (www.bbc.com)
US health regulator advisers have voted against a therapy based on MDMA for PTSD patients....
Even the Raspberry Pi is getting in on AI (www.theverge.com)
You can’t get away from AI on devices.
Microsoft hit with EU privacy complaints over schools' use of 365 Education suite (techcrunch.com)
Microsoft’s education-focused flavor of its cloud productivity suite, Microsoft 365 Education, is facing investigation in the European Union.
Elon Musk reportedly diverted thousands of AI chips from Tesla to X (www.theverge.com)
The diversion could delay Tesla’s development of a robotaxi.
Trump Threatens To Sue ProPublica For Reporting On Payouts To Witnesses In His Various Cases (www.techdirt.com)
ProPublica has quite a scoop of a story, highlighting how various witnesses and potential witnesses in the long list of lawsuits Donald Trump is facing, suddenly, coincidentally, seem to be getting large payouts from Trump, his companies, and his campaign.
Former OpenAI employees say whistleblower protection on AI safety is not enough (www.theverge.com)
The open letter is endorsed by “Godfather of AI” Geoffrey Hinton.
Imran Khan Remains Imprisoned Over His Wife’s Menstrual Cycles. State Department Says That’s “Something For the Pakistani Courts to Decide.” (theintercept.com)
Imran Khan remains imprisoned over his wife’s menstrual cycles. The State Department says it’s “something for the Pakistani courts to decide.”...
Columbia Law Review Refused to Take Down Article on Palestine, So Its Board of Directors Nuked the Whole Website (theintercept.com)
The students who run the Columbia Law Review sought out the Palestinian scholar Rabea Eghbariah, who was censored by Harvard Law Review last year....
'More in common with the Taliban': Outrage erupts over state GOP's anti-Pride vitriol (www.rawstory.com)
The Colorado Republican Party wants all Gay Pride rainbow flags to burn to ash, according to a new report.
Trial begins for man charged in 2017 Charlottesville torch rally at the University of Virginia (www.courthousenews.com)
After the clash at the university, violence broke out the next day when a “Unite the Right” rally was planned.
NIST is finally getting help with the National Vulnerability Database backlog (www.csoonline.com)
NIST is paying Analygence $865,657 to help process incoming CVEs.
Collection agency FBCS ups data breach tally to 3.2 million people (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
Debt collection agency Financial Business and Consumer Solutions (FBCS) now says over 3.2 million people have been impacted by a data breach that occurred in February.
Data firm execs convicted for helping fraudsters target the elderly (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
A former senior executive and former sales manager of Epsilon Data Management LLC (Epsilon) were convicted of selling data of millions of Americans to perpetrators of mail fraud schemes.