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Good morning. Let’s rock & roll.
⏰🚀 Ready, Set, Go: Today’s newsletter takes 3.81 minutes to read. (With the 360° view: 7.19 minutes.)
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🍩 Daily Sprinkle
“[Life] is never easy. There is work to be done and obligations to be met – obligations to truth, to justice, and to liberty.”
–John F. Kennedy (1917-1963), 35th President of the United States.
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👇📰 Quick Bits
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🌎🕵️ Hundreds Arrested in Global Crime Sting
In an operation jointly conceived by Australia and the FBI, more than 800 suspected criminals were arrested worldwide through the use of “ANoM,” an encrypted messaging app created by an FBI shell company of the same name.
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For nearly two years, criminals using ANoM - which came pre-installed on certain phones purchased through the black market - were monitored by police from law enforcement agencies worldwide, who intercepted more than 27M messages in 45 languages over a year-and-a-half period.
More: Global law enforcement officials seized ~$48M in cash and crypto, 250 firearms, 55 luxury cars, and 32 tons of drugs.
Even More: The fugitive who inadvertently helped the operation get off the ground.
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🏛️📝 Senate Report On Capitol Riot
A more than 100-page bipartisan report resulting from a Senate investigation into the January 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol found “a number of intelligence and security failures leading up to and on January 6 that allowed for the breach of the Capitol.”
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The report didn’t assess former President Trump’s role leading up to and during the riot, which Senate committee aides said was outside the probe's scope.
From the AP: “The report recommends immediate changes to give the Capitol Police chief more authority, to provide better planning and equipment for law enforcement and to streamline intelligence gathering among federal agencies.”
From the Left: NPR
From the Right: WSJ
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❌🌐 The Fastly and the Furious
A massive internet outage occurred early Tuesday morning affecting dozens of popular websites including Amazon, Reddit, Spotify, Ebay, Twitch, Pinterest, and more.
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The service interruption was attributed to an issue at content delivery network Fastly, which applied a fix to the problem shortly before 7 a.m. ET (roughly an hour after the issue first arose).
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During the outage, the company’s CEO was reached by the WSJ and confirmed the problem wasn’t due to a cyberattack.
More: Other affected sites included several major U.S. and European news outlets such as CNN, the NYT, Le Monde, and The Verge (which tried to report via Google Docs during the outage… but failed to put it on “read-only,” allowing anyone to edit stories).
Even More: How do content delivery networks like Fastly work?
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DONUT Holes…
Image: Queensland Museum
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🦕 Scientists confirmed the discovery of Australia’s largest dinosaur. “The southern titan” is among the top 10 to 15 largest dinosaurs to have ever been found.
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🌹 Bachelor host Chris Harrison is exiting the show after 19 years.
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💰🎓 Western Michigan University received a $550M donation given anonymously by WMU alumni; it marks the largest single gift ever given to any U.S. public university.
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🇫🇷 Two people have been arrested after a man slapped French President Emmanuel Macron during a visit to the town of Tain-l'Hermitage.
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🧾 IRS records obtained by ProPublica show the wealthiest Americans paid little in income tax. (From the Left | From the Right)
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🛻 Electric truck startup Lordstown Motors revealed it doesn’t have enough cash to start full commercial production - planned for September - and has doubts about whether it can continue as a going concern through the end of the year.
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🏳️🌈 A record 70% of Americans now support same-sex marriage, a new Gallup poll shows.
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📸 Pic of the Day...
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Image: Boeing |
☝️ An unmanned aircraft successfully refuels a U.S. fighter jet in midair for the first time in aviation history.
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🗣👂 Dose of Discussion
🇺🇸🇨🇳 Senate Approves Industrial Bill Aimed at China
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The Senate voted 68-32 last night to approve the U.S. Innovation and Competition Act – an industrial policy bill aimed at countering increasing competition from China.
🤿 A deeper dive…
The legislation is the final product of at least six Senate committees and several weeks of debate. Barring any further changes, the bill:
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Authorizes $81B for the National Science Foundation from fiscal 2022 to fiscal 2026.
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Provides $52.7B for “incentivizing domestic semiconductor fabrication” and $1.5B for “5G innovation.”
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Directs the Department of Commerce to designate regional technology hubs across the country and authorize $10B over five years for these hubs.
The measure also addresses China’s political influence in universities, counters predatory economic practices such as IP theft, expands and strengthens U.S. alliances, imposes penalties on foreign perpetrators of cyberattacks, and bars U.S. diplomats from attending the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics.
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The bill is projected to cost nearly $250B, with most of that occurring in the next five years.
⏭️ What’s Next?
The legislation now heads to the House, where it is projected to undergo another round of deliberations before landing on President Biden’s desk.
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📣🗣💬 This Week’s Poll Question
Background: On Monday, we covered Facebook’s decision to extend President Trump’s suspension from its platforms until at least January 2023.
Our Question to You: Do you agree with the move?
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No
Unsure
*Poll results and the best comments for each response will be featured in tomorrow’s newsletter.
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🤗 Daily Dose of Positive
🍼💵 Baby Bump
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Image: Instagram
SoCal couple Krystal and Patrick Duhaney hid nearly $1,000 in cash in unopened baby supplies on the shelves of three local Target stores last month.
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Having struggled as new parents, Krystal told TODAY that she and Patrick both empathize with how difficult supporting a new family must be during the pandemic.
Watch the couple in action.
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🛸🌄📲 Calling from the Future…
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🚁 Let’s Talk IFOs (Identified Flying Objects)…
Image: YouTube
Late last year, ride-hailing company Uber sold Elevate, the company’s developmental air taxi unit it claimed would someday fly passengers the 74 miles from San Francisco to San Jose in just 15 minutes. But as Uber steps back from aerial transportation, another ambitious company has stepped in.
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NYC-based startup Kelekona has announced plans for a flying drone bus that will seat up to 40 people (or 10,000 pounds of cargo). Uber Elevate’s previously-planned vehicles could only hold four passengers and a pilot.
The company claims that, when the first commercial flights of the airborne bus launch in 2024, it will take customers from Manhattan to the Hamptons in less than 30 minutes for roughly the same price as an Amtrak ticket (~$85).
Read more.
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💡 Dose of Knowledge
🍕 Any Way You Slice It
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The founder of Atari (Nolan Bushnell) also started which national pizza chain?
A) Dominos
B) Pizza Hut
C) Little Caesars
D) Chuck E. Cheese
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💡 Dose of Knowledge Answer
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D) Chuck E. Cheese
Nolan Bushnell is an American businessman and electrical engineer best known for establishing Atari Inc. in 1972 and later founding the Chuck E. Cheese’s Pizza Time Theatre chain in 1977.
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