Russia says detected first case of H5N8 avian flu in humans. “The workers did not suffer any serious health consequences”
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Deeply troubling cuts to federal spending watchdog
Fourth woman joins Brittany Higgins in alleging she was sexually assaulted by former Liberal staffer
A fourth woman has alleged sexual assault by a former Liberal Party staffer as Brittany Higgins prepares to make a formal statement to the federal police.
The driver Yi Zhong, 30, was stopped on Homebush Road, Strathfield, about 5.30am on Monday and taken to Auburn police station.
Police say two bags containing $1 million in cash were found during a search of the vehicle.
During a search warrant at a home in Wentworth Point, more cash, more than one kilogram of methylamphetamine, cocaine, mobile phones, a laptop and electronic storage devices were also seized, police said.
Police will allege in court the man directed a criminal syndicate to launder money by converting cash into bitcoin on his behalf, totalling $5,479,300,”
End Capitalism Boston Review
Homeless Living in Vehicles, Screwed AgainCIty Watch. Vehicles including RVs
Uber Shuts Down App That Told Drivers If Uber Underpaid Them Vice
All fracked up: A debut memoir wrestles with toxic masculinity in the oil fields HIgh Country News. Normally, I deprecate “toxic ____” as pop psychology, but this video makes one think
The detail that unlocks the Mona Lisa BBC
US top court clears way for accused Ghosn plotters’ extradition Al Jazeera
Why This Afghan-Born Poet Is ‘The Father Of Uzbek Literature’
Alisher Navoiy was born in 1441 in Herat, now in Afghanistan but historically a Persianate city. He wrote in Arabic, Persian, and Chagatai, the Turkic literary language used all over Central Asia in the Middle Ages and considered the ancestor of modern literary Uzbek. In one of his most famous treatises, he compared Persian (with a centuries-old literary tradition even back then) with Chagatai and found the latter superior — which made him a key figure in constructing an Uzbek identity in the Soviet and post-Soviet periods. – Global Voices
Japan’s rabbit island Okunoshima has a dark and deadly history SCMP
Last call for Istanbul’s meyhane bar culture?Qantara
Good Morning Heartache: The Life and Blues of Billie Holiday Vanity Fair
Ye Hong and William Neilson have solved for the equilibrium:
This paper models cybercrime by adding an active victim to the seminal Becker model of crime. The victim invests in security that may protect her from a cybercrime and, if the cybercrime is thwarted, generate evidence that can be used for prosecution. Successful crimes leave insufficient evidence for apprehension and conviction and, thus, cannot be punished. Results show that increased penalties for cybercriminals lead them to exert more effort and make cybercrimes more likely to succeed. Above a threshold they also lead victims to invest less in security. It may be impossible to deter cybercriminals by punishing them. Deterrence is possible, but not necessarily optimal, through punishing victims, such as data controllers or processors that fail to protect their networks.