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DMCS publishes secret Facebook email cache
Parliament's Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee has released a 250-page cache of confidential Facebook communications detailing practices including recording users' activities on Android and shutting off platform access to perceived rivals (The Register). In a response, Facebook says that the document archive, originally seized from a US firm currently taking legal action against the social media giant, "omits important context."
Huawei executive arrested on US trade sanction violation charges
Huawei's chief financial officer, Meng Wanzhou, has been arrested in Canada on US charges of violating trade sanctions against Iran, after she passed through the Eastern District of New York while changing flights (TechCrunch). Meng's arrest has prompted a crash in tech firm values in Asian stock markets, affecting not only Huawei but also many other firms, including rival ZTE.
Scientists finally classify elusive metre-long swamp salamander
Biologists have finally classified one of North America's most uncommon animals – a metre-long salamander so rarely seen that it attained a semi-mythological status (Earther). Found exclusively in the wetlands of southern Alabama and the Florida Panhandle, the Reticulated Siren (Siren reticulata) has beautiful leopard-like patterning and is among the largest known salamander species.
Despite the Paris Agreement, CO2 emissions are rising again
The global effort to reduce carbon emissions doesn't appear to be working (WIRED). This year CO2 emissions are set to hit a record high despite the global climate change agreement, new analysis has found. Forecasts indicate there'll be a two per cent rise this year alone.
[Watch SpaceX's landing failure as a Falcon 9 crashes down in water
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After a successful mission to dispatch a Dragon supply ship to the ISS, the planned solid-ground landing of one of the SpaceX's Falcon 9 rockets failed, apparently due to a stalled hydraulic pump in a stabilising grid fin (The Verge). SpaceX CEO Elon Musk shared onboard video footage of the rocket coming out of a spin and venting its remaining propellant – a safety measure – as it dropped into the Atlantic ocean off the coast of Florida.
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