Mueller Report: The Best Day Of Trump’s Presidency – What was that film called? As Good As It Gets? That’s how Donald Trump must feel now that the attorney general has published his four-page summary of the Mueller report. [bbc]
After Robert Mueller Issues His Report, The Democrats Who Waited Two Years For This Moment Stare Into The Abyss – In what might be the most anti-climactic grand finale since The Sopranos, Robert Mueller found no evidence that President Trump his team colluded with Russia in the run-up to the 2016 elections. [beast]
Death Toll In African Cyclone Rises Above 750 As Workers Try To Stop Cholera Outbreak – Cyclone Idai’s death toll has risen above 750 in the three southern African countries hit 10 days ago by the storm, as workers restore electricity, water and try to prevent outbreak of cholera, authorities said Sunday. [time]
Tech’s $5bn Trial Of The Century: Mike Lynch vs Hewlett Packard And The Story So Far – A bitter and long-running legal dispute between Autonomy founder Mike Lynch and Hewlett Packard will finally reach the High Court in London on Monday, in what has been described as the UK tech trial of the century. [tele]
Eskom Deal Partly Blamed For South Africa Power Cuts: City Press – A decision to stop a boiler-monitoring software contract worth 275 million rand ($19 million) between Eskom Holdings SOC Ltd. and Carab Technologies (Pty) Ltd. may have contributed to the rolling blackouts that are hobbling the nation, City Press newspaper reported. [bloom]
Facebook Stored Millions Of Passwords In Plain Text – On Thursday, following a report by Krebs on Security, Facebook acknowledged a bug in its password management systems that caused hundreds of millions of user passwords for Facebook, Facebook Lite, and Instagram to be stored as plaintext in an internal platform. This means that thousands of Facebook employees could have searched for and found them. [wired]
Jordan Peele’s Us Breaks Records With Largest Original Horror Film Debut Of All Time – Jordan Peele has done it again. Two years after the filmmaker’s Get Out became a box-office sensation, his frightening follow-up, Us, debuted with $70.3 million in ticket sales, according to studio estimates Sunday. [time]
The Truth About Diet Coke: Is The Fizzy Drink Harming Your Health? – Look around any office, gym, or public park, and you’re likely to find at least one of them: a Diet Coke fanatic, who can merrily swig their way through six or seven cans each day. [tele]
Johannesburg Father Drowns At KZN Beach Trying To Save Daughter – A Johannesburg man has died at at a beach on the KwaZulu-Natal south coast while trying to save his daughter from drowning. [tlive]
Virtual Reality Meditation Is A Thing — And It’s Actually Good – I’m on an Icelandic cove, watching the sunset and the small waves lap at the rocky shore while a soothing Sigur Ros instrumental track plays around me. A voice instructs me to take a deep breath, fill my lungs, and then release, letting go of any tension. I look behind me and there’s a grassy hillside, on which I am alone. I look down and I have no feet. [mash]
WATCH: Two Lions Collide In Epic Impala-Hunting Fail – In the history of the animal kingdom, there is an idea that only the lionesses hunt. This isn’t so true. The males of a pride are there to protect it, so they spend their energy patrolling the territory, chasing rival lions out, so then the lionesses hunt to feed the males. [t24]
Kushner, Inc Review: Jared, Ivanka Trump And The Rise Of The American Kakistocracy – Like Donald Trump, Americans are displeased with Jared Kushner, the president’s squeaky sounding son-in-law. As the reality that Kushner received his White House security clearance the same way he got into Harvard sinks in – “Daddy” pulled some very expensive strings – his popularity will not be rebounding anytime soon. [guardian]
Inside Khayelitsha’s Life-Changing Cycling Academy – The power is out, the day is dragging on, and you still have unanswered emails to get to. Nah, let’s take a quick break for a good news story that’s pretty touching. [here]
Inside The Royal Shake-Up As Meghan Markle And Prince Harry Split From Kensington Palace – The Sussexes, who will keep some of their staff in their new offices, are relishing the opportunity take a bigger role in hiring. [vanfair]
Here’s The Difference Between CBD And THC – Whether you’re trying to master the art of joint rolling or just want to try to alleviate a sore back, every cannabis user should know the difference between CBD and THC. [mash]
Hull Station Plays Classical Music In Bid To Cut Crime – Classical music is being played at Hull’s railway station in a bid to reduce anti-social behaviour. [bbc]
Adele And Jennifer Lawrence Partied At A New York Gay Bar Friday Night – Surprised onlookers speculated that the eclectic pair may have thrown Lawrence a bachelorette party of sorts. [vanfair]
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