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- I am the cutest, cuddly, Teddy Bear in the world. I'm also shy, sad, fat, and wondering.

https://twitter.com/tedebare

- Foreign investors are buying less and less American debt, yet the US moves onward with a debt-heavy budget and globally unpopular diplomacy.

At a critical time for economic growth, the US has noted a decline in foreign investment. Seen mostly in long-term treasury bonds, purchases by indirect bidders continue to decrease signaling investors may be weary of American debt.

The European Central Bank found that after 2015, over half of US debt securities had been purchased by eurozone investors. Germany in particular holds $90.1 billion (€76 billion) of US debt.

In 2017 that trend reversed and eurozone investors became net sellers. The debate continues on what effect the growing debt has on investor confidence and how the US got in this position to begin with.

http://www.dw.com/en/foreign-investors-lose-taste-for-us-debt-but-does-it-matter/a-43725360

- The Titan Prometheus wanted to give mankind equal footing with the gods — for that he was cast from Olympus. Well, my friends, the time has finally come for his return.

https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Prometheus_%282012_film%29

- On Friday, Khan announced a policy aimed at easing the pressure parents face from their children to buy them junk food.

"In the future, you won't be be able to advertise foods high in fat, high in sugar and high in salt on the tubes, on the trams, on the buses and on the London overground," the Labour Mayor said.

A junk food advertising ban was trialled on a smaller scale in Amsterdam, where the Mayor has overseen a 12 per cent reduction in the number of children deemed overweight or obese in just three years since announcing a multi-faceted childhood obesity policy.

https://www.smh.com.au/lifestyle/health-and-wellness/gamechanger-jamie-oliver-urges-australia-to-follow-london-s-junk-food-ad-ban-20180512-p4zev5.html

- Among the data gathered were barometric pressure readings to determine the height at which an individual was, in order to work out if one was at a certain floor of a shopping complex. This, when combined with location co-ordinates, would allow Google to work out which shops the user had visited, which meant store visits could be tied to viewing online ads.

https://www.itwire.com/security/82767-google-using-australians-mobile-data-to-spy-on-them-claim.html

- GOOGLE MOTTOS: A HISTORY

1999: Don't Be Evil

2003: Try Your Hardest To Not Be Evil

2008: Make A Reasonable Effort To Avoid Being Evil

2013: What Is Evil, Really, When You Get Down To It, I Mean Really

2018: *just a series of high-pitched giggles*

— MGK Hockey 1234 (@mightygodking) 28 March 2018

https://www.itwire.com/technology-regulation/82783-google-employees-quit-over-involvement-in-pentagon-drone-project.html

- Gizmodo quoted one employee who quit as saying: "Over the last couple of months, I’ve been less and less impressed with the response and the way people’s concerns are being treated and listened to."

Another said: "It’s not like Google is this little machine-learning start-up that’s trying to find clients in different industries. It just seems like it makes sense for Google and Google’s reputation to stay out of that.”

Apart from the Google employees, a coalition of workers in the technology industry launched a petition in April asking Microsoft, Amazon, IBM and Google not to get involved in Defence Department projects.

Their petition said: "We believe that tech companies should not be in the business of war, and that we as tech workers must adopt binding ethical standards for the use of AI that will let us build the world we believe in. Google should break its contract with the Department of Defence.

"DoD contracts between Google, Microsoft, IBM and Amazon break user trust and signal a dangerous alliance. Tech companies that have vast quantities of sensitive data from users across the globe shouldn't build offensive technology for one country's military."

https://www.itwire.com/technology-regulation/82783-google-employees-quit-over-involvement-in-pentagon-drone-project.html

- Poor identity management is the cause of many data breaches, according to Verizon’s 2017 Data Breach Investigation Report, which found that 81 per cent of hacking-related breaches leveraged either stolen and/or weak passwords.

https://www.itwire.com/security/82774-centrify-selects-vectra-to-push-identity-platform-in-anz-market.html

- The sex sessions can last from several hours up to 14 hours at a time.

Dr Baker said the exhaustive process also took a toll on the females, but it was the high testosterone levels in the males that ultimately caused death.

"It builds up to such a high level in the males that it blocks the switch that turns off the stress hormone," he said.

"Then they just get these floods of cortisol and it pretty much causes immune system failure that results in internal bleeding and the males just stumble around still trying to find females in that state and eventually just drop dead."

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-05-15/the-endangered-marsupial-killing-itself-with-too-much-sex/9762116

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