TikTok Chief Kevin Mayer Quits After Trump Threatens To Ban App – Former Disney executive resigns just months after appointment by Chinese video platform. [ft]
Jacob Blake Protests: Teenager Kyle Rittenhouse Charged With Homicide After Two Shot Dead During Unrest Over Police Shooting – Two people were killed after a young white man, who was caught on mobile phone video, opened fire in the middle of the street. [sky]
Apple Wants To Stop Advertisers From Following You Around The Web. Facebook Has Other Ideas. – Apple and Facebook are fighting again. This time it’s about ads and privacy. [vox]
NZX Down For Third Day In A Row, Following Another Cyber Attack – The New Zealand stock exchange website is operating again, after a likely cyber attack took it down about 11am for the third day in a row. [rnz]
New Zealand Mosque Shooter Brenton Tarrant Sentenced To Life In Prison Without Parole – Brenton Tarrant, the white supremacist who live-streamed his massacre of 51 people at two New Zealand mosques last year, was sentenced to life in prison without parole Thursday for carrying out the worst atrocity in the country’s modern history. [washpo]
Washington Football Team Compiled Lewd Video Outtakes Of Cheerleaders, Per Report – A former senior vice president with the Washington Football Team instructed video staffers to compile “lewd outtakes” from cheerleader photo shoots, and more than two dozen women say they experienced sexual harassment while working for the team. [usat]
Lions Maul Limpopo Lodge Owner To Death As Wife Looks On – Two lions mauled Limpopo lodge owner Arthur “West” Mathewson to death during their regular walk on Wednesday. [tlive]
Cyril Ramaphosa Calls Publishing Of Full List Of Covid-19 Government Contracts A ’Historic Moment’ – President Cyril Ramaphosa called the online publication of Covid-19 government expenditure a historic moment, the Presidency said in a statement on Wednesday. [iol]
Government Has Spent R187.4 Billion Bailing Out State Companies Over The Last 20 Years: Mboweni – Finance minister Tito Mboweni has published updated data on how much money government has spent on bailouts for state-owned entities over the last 20 years. [btech]
Thousands Of South Korean Doctors Strike Amid COVID-19 Resurgence – Walkout forces country’s five major hospitals to limit hours, delay some surgeries as return-to-work order is issued. [alja]
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State Capture: Businessman Caught Paying Himself R2.5m Of SAA Tender – It took a while but eventually evidence leader Kate Hofmeyr reeled in businessman Vuyisile Ndzeku when she confronted him with evidence that he had paid himself R2.5m after landing a fat tender from SAA. [tlive]
Salesforce Doing Layoffs A Day After Announcing Record-Breaking Profits – The layoffs fall a day after the cloud software giant reported one of its best quarters in the company’s 21-year history. [vice]
Elephant At Warsaw Zoo To Test Cannabis-Extract Oil – This year has been a difficult time for Fredzia, a young female African elephant at Warsaw Zoo in the Polish capital. [bbc]
Series Of Animal Mutilations Mystify French Police – Police looking into whether attacks may be linked to satanic rituals or an online challenge. [guardian]
Top UK Baby Names Revealed: Who’s In, Who’s Out, And Where Does Your Name Feature In Top 100? – The top 100 baby names in England and Wales bring some surprises and analysis shows choices can differ depending on the mum’s age. [sky]
What Waking Up In A Friend’s Body Does To Your Mind – Body illusions can give a person the experience of inhabiting another’s body. When that happens, we learn just how much the physical self can influence the way we think and feel. [vice]
“Shock-Like Sensations”: Read This Before You Have Any Plasma Pen Procedure – While in theory, it may seem as though all plasma pens ‘do the same thing’, this is definitely not the case. [here]
Gigi Hadid Shows Off Her Very Pregnant Tummy In Stunning Portraits – As she awaits the arrival of her first child with Zayn Malik: ‘Cherishing this time’. [dm]
Tupac Love Letters, Notorious B.I.G. Crown Headed To Auction – Tupac Shakur’s teenage love letters and the Notorious B.I.G.’s “King of New York” crown are two of the top lots up for sale at the first Sotheby’s auction dedicated fully to hip-hop, taking place September 15th in New York. [rollsto]
Why Do Birds Sing? Because They’re All On Drugs – The dawn chorus is created by birds chasing their next hit of opioid, according to a US biologist. Which explains why it’s so much like free-form jazz. [guardian]
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