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- The drone at Forsmark was spotted by a security guard when it flew into a protected area at the nuclear power plant at 20.20 on Friday night. Police who rushed to the scene were able to observe the drone itself, police wrote on their website. The drone is a larger model and can withstand the wind, which blows hard into the area. It disappeared towards Gräsö, and despite its police search, even with its own drone, it could not be found. – We do not know what exactly happened. We didn’t see anything from the drone on the ground, it doesn’t appear that it dropped anything or landed. It appears to have moved into the air over the protected area, Petra Blomqvist, spokeswoman for the Mitt Region police, told DN. At the same time, the police received information about flying objects over the nuclear power plants in Oskarshamn, Ringhals and Barsebäck.
- Hunga Tonga Hunga Ha’apai volcano erupted in spectacular fashion near the Pacific nation of Tonga on Saturday, sending large tsunami waves crashing across the shore and people rushing to higher ground. The Islands Business news site reported that a convoy of police and military troops evacuated Tonga’s King Tupou VI from his palace near the shore.
- Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Google CEO Sundar Pichai were allegedly aware of and approved a deal to collaborate on the potential manipulation of advertising sales, according to newly revealed documents. The lawsuit alleges that Google maintained control over the advertising sales market – a market that it dominates – by inflating the price of advertisements for brands and suppressing competition from other advertising exchanges. The Wall Street Journal reported the lawsuit also claims executives at both Facebook, which recently rebranded as Meta, and Google signed off on a deal to allegedly assure that Facebook would bid on, and win, a certain percentage of ads.
- Donkey-ass hybrids pulled Mesopotamian battle wagons more than half a millennium before horses were bred for the same task, a new scientific report has revealed. The research published in Science Advances on Friday claims that ancient ‘kungas’ used in Mesopotamia – and shown pulling wagons in artworks from the third millennium BC – were hybrids created by breeding female domestic donkeys and male Syrian wild asses. After sequencing the genomes of a 4,500-year-old kunga found buried in Syria, the researchers discovered that the equids were “hybrids between female domestic donkeys and male hemippes” and that they are the “earliest evidence of hybrid animal breeding.”
- Lieutenant Stuart Hunt of The 1st Royal Tank Regiment spoke for many in the upper echelons of the Army: “Whether [Andrew] is guilty or not, he has brought things into disrepute. A better man would have stood down whether innocent or guilty for the sake of the organisation. It’s repugnant, really.” ~ Neil Clark
- Russian lawmakers have postponed consideration of a bill that would introduce a nationwide system of QR-code vaccine passes, saying that the law needs to be adapted to deal with the new Omicron variant of Covid-19. Tatyana Golikova, the deputy prime minister for social policy, labor, health and pension provision, told journalists on Friday that government officials, together with leaders of ruling party United Russia, had decided the proposed legislation would need to be adjusted before it could be considered further. Originally, the law aimed to consolidate policies across different local governments, many of which require proof of vaccination to enter restaurants, bars, clubs, and mass events.
- The prominent charity Save the Children has announced that it would ditch its corporate Gill Sans typeface as it had been designed by a pedophile artist Eric Gill. Gill was one of the most celebrated British artists, sculptors, and designers of the first half of 20th century, was an Associate of the Royal Academy of Arts, and named as a Royal Designer for Industry. He created, in 1928, one of the most popular typography fonts. However, almost 50 years after his death his personal reputation was ruined: a bombshell 1989 biography, supported by Gill’s own diaries, revealed sexual abuse of his daughters, sisters, and even a dog.
- The most detailed 3D map of the universe to date, showing the location of 7.5 million galaxies, has been published by the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) cosmic survey project. The map, released on Thursday by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, which is leading the project, is the result of the first seven months of DESI’s operations. Each dot in the image represents an individual galaxy, consisting of between 100 billion and one trillion stars. The map shows the view from Earth for five billion light-years in the direction of the Virgo constellation, slowly shifting toward the Bootes constellation.
- France is looking to purchase some $88 million in intelligence equipment from the United States, with the State Department authorizing the possible sale of eight high-tech drone surveillance systems. While Congress must give the green light before the deal can go ahead, the military argued that the sale of eight sensor pods for the MQ-9 Reaper drone would “improve France’s capability to meet current and future threats” and ensure “the operational readiness of the French Air and Space Force.”
- Seth Andrew, a former adviser to 44th President Barack Obama, has pleaded guilty to wire fraud charges after stealing $218,000 from a charter school he founded. The US Department of Justice announced on Friday that Andrew had pleaded guilty to transferring the money from the school to his own private bank accounts, which were being used to acquire a mortgage for a multi-million-dollar New York apartment.
- A report in the German newspaper Die Welt suggests that the government there is considering taking action to shut down messaging app Telegram because people opposed to COVID restrictions and lockdowns are using it to organise protests and share information. The report contains an interview with German Interior Minister Nancy Faeser who stated “We cannot rule this out,” when asked if the platform will be targeted for censorship. “A shutdown would be grave and clearly a last resort. All other options must be exhausted first,” Faeser clarified. The minister also told the newspaper that while it is currently unclear what legal action would be needed to shut down the platform, the German government is in consultation with the European Union regarding potential regulation of it.
News Burst 16 January 2022
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