The Daily Populous

Sunday May 31st, 2020 day edition

image for U.S. cities fear protests may fuel new wave of virus outbreaks

Minnesota's governor said too many protesters weren't socially distancing or wearing masks after heeding the call earlier in the week.

“But I have to protest for my life and fight for my life all the time.”.

Ingram, 25, who was wearing a mask, said she has asthma and was worried about contracting the virus.

But she said as a black woman, she always felt that her life was under threat from police and she needed to protest that.

The state's health commissioner had warned just days earlier that the massive protests were almost certain to fuel new cases of the virus.

In China, where the virus outbreak began, only four new confirmed cases were reported Saturday, all brought from outside the country.

The government had been expected to end a 2-month-old nationwide lockdown but instead extended measures in some areas due to coronavirus outbreaks. »

SpaceX successfully launches first crew to orbit, ushering in new era of spaceflight

Authored by theverge.com

SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket also successfully landed on one of the company’s drone ships following takeoff, making for a smooth launch throughout.

After six years of development and testing on the Crew Dragon, SpaceX pulled ahead in the race to launch humans first.

“It’s an era in human spaceflight where more space is going to be available to more people than ever before.”. »

Hacktivist Group Anonymous Takes Down Minneapolis PD Website, Releases Video Threatening To Expose Corrupt Police Officers

Authored by brobible.com
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In the video, Anonymous calls for Chauvin to be charged with murder in the death of George Floyd and vows to expose police corruption around the country.

anonymous are not playing around, they already hacked minneapolis police department website.. they’re moving fast.. — jelz ⁷ (@cchimbap) May 31, 2020.

Anonymous has been back for like 3 hours and already disabled the Minneapolis PD website pic.twitter.com/xdFdKqkz4E — heidi (@idiotgremlin) May 31, 2020. »

There's a reason Nigerian scammers are so obvious in their emails

Authored by businessinsider.com

The book refers to research from Microsoft Research computer scientist Cormac Herley, who looked at Nigerian scams — technically called advance-fee fraud — from the point of view of the scammer.

Therefore, it's in the scammers' best interest to minimize the number of false positives who cost them effort but never send them cash.

By sending an initial email that's obvious in its shortcomings, the scammers are isolating the most gullible targets. »