Author: KnowledgeHippo

Hydeia Broadbent, who was born with HIV and as a child became a leading voice in HIV and AIDS awareness, died Tuesday at her home in Las Vegas. He was 39.Her father, Lauren Broadband, confirmed the death. He did not state the reason.Ms. Broadbent was 6 years old when she began recounting her struggle with HIV on television, aiming to educate the public amid an epidemic that caused panic and stigma. Even as new treatments dramatically improved long-term outcomes for people with HIV, he stressed there was no cure and the infection was a life sentence, and urged people to…

Once you wrote to the scammers, they had your email address and used it — sending you an email dressed up to look like an official Booking.com message and from an address @confirmations-booking.com, which can look like a legitimate address if and the company says all its emails end in @booking.com.Reading copies of the emails you forwarded to me, the broken English is also suspicious (“Your booking of a two-bedroom apartment with a view must be paid in full”), as are some of the account details with the Spanish bank BBVA. “Nyholm Peik”, has no online presence that I could…

A song called “October Rain” might just be a ballad about dreary fall weather. But in the charged atmosphere following the October 7 Hamas attacks on Israel, the headline could also signal a lament for that tragedy or a rallying call to stand firm against terrorism.This week, the meaning of “October Rain” – a song very few people have heard – became a moot question when newspapers in Israel reported that a song of that name had been chosen to represent the country in this year’s Eurovision Song Contest .Although the initial reports gave few details about the song, it…

Yale University will require standardized test scores for admission for students applying to enter the fall 2025 entering class, becoming the second Ivy League university to abandon the optional testing policies that had been widely adopted during the pandemic of Covid.Yale officials said in a statement Thursday that the shift to test-optional policies may have inadvertently hurt students from lower-income families whose test scores could have helped their chances.Although it will require standardized testing, Yale said its policy will be “flexible on testing,” allowing students to submit subject-based Advanced Placement or International Baccalaureate test scores instead of SAT or ACT…

AT&T said Thursday it is working to fully restore its network after it was hit by a widespread outage for hours early Thursday that knocked out service to thousands of users across the United States.”Some of our customers are experiencing wireless service outages this morning,” AT&T said in a statement. “So far three-quarters of our network has been restored.”It was unclear how many customers were still affected or how widespread the issues remained.The outage, which affected people in cities including Atlanta, Los Angeles and New York, was first reported around 3:30 a.m. time Eastern time, and problems with cell service…

The hackers offered a menu of services, at varying prices.A local government in southwest China paid less than $15,000 to access the private website of Vietnam’s traffic police. Software that helped run disinformation campaigns and hack accounts on X cost $100,000. For $278,000 Chinese customers could get a bunch of personal information behind social media accounts on platforms like Telegram and Facebook.The deals, detailed in leaked documents, were part of the hacking tools and hidden data sold by a Chinese security firm called I-Soon, one of hundreds of venture firms backing China-funded aggressive hacking efforts. by the State. The project…

Nearly a quarter of menthol smokers quit a year or two after the menthol ban went into effect, according to a study published Wednesday.The researchers found that about half of the menthol smokers switched cigarettes, and another quarter managed to continue smoking menthol. The rate of menthol smokers who quit was higher in countries that imposed bans, as opposed to cities or states, because it was harder for people to drive a few miles to continue buying menthol cigarettes, the study found.The Food and Drug Administration is urging the Biden administration to ban menthol cigarettes, a goal that has drawn…

After the Houthi militia began attacking container ships in the Red Sea last year, the cost of shipping goods from Asia soared more than 300 percent, prompting fears that supply chain disruptions could again roil the global economy.The Iran-backed Houthis, who control northern Yemen, continue to threaten ships, forcing many to take a much longer route around the southern tip of Africa. But there are signs that the world will likely avoid a protracted shipping crisis.One reason for optimism is that a huge number of container ships, ordered two to three years ago, are entering service. These additional ships are…

A 16-year-old student in a small Oklahoma town outside Tulsa has died after what police said was a “physical altercation” in a high school bathroom, sparking outrage from gay and transgender rights groups who said the student accepted assault because of their gender. ID card.The student, Nex Benedict, who often used the pronouns they and them, told relatives that they did not think of themselves as strictly male or female. Under an Oklahoma law passed in 2022, students must use the bathrooms that align with their birth sex.As of Wednesday afternoon, no arrests had been made in connection with the…

A rust-colored dome towers over the muddy fields of Hinkley Point, a headland overlooking the Bristol Channel in southwest England.When a giant yellow crane lifted the 150-foot-wide concrete and steel saucer into place this winter, it marked a milestone for what will be Britain’s first commercial nuclear power station since the mid-1990s and a flagship effort revitalization of the sector.However, the cap on the first of the twin cylindrical reactor buildings was also a reminder of the amazing, long and increasingly expensive effort to build what is known as Hinkley Point C.Work on the plant has been underway for more…