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Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro tests positive for COVID-19 Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has tested positive for COVID-19, he announced today. He is 65 years old. Over the weekend, he attended a US Independence Day event with US Ambassador Todd Chapman. Neither Bolsonaro nor Chapman wore a mask at the event. Continue Reading . . . https://www.theverge.com/2020/7/7/21178192/brazil-president-bolsonaro-covid-19-positive-test-coronavirus

Windows 10 users, yes it has been a rocky spell, but you need to be on high alert yet again. Here’s everything you need to know. Picked up by both BleepingComputer and Windows Latest, the early problems with Microsoft’s new KB4535996 Windows 10 update are now spiralling out of control. from https://www.forbes.com/sites/gordonkelly/2020/03/07/microsoft-windows-10-warning-crashes-boot-audio-slowdown-problems-upgrade-windows-10-free/ https://specials-images.forbesimg.com/imageserve/5d99327b67dd830006a2c7bd/960x0.jpg?fit=scale

Trolls expressing support for President Trump called into the phone line Democrats were supposed to use for reporting precinct tallies during the Iowa caucuses, adding to the chaos Monday night as the election app failed and precinct chairs tried to phone in results instead, Bloomberg reports. from https://www.theverge.com/2020/2/6/21126588/iowa-caucus-delays-democrats-phone-hotline-buttigieg-biden-warren-trump https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_image/image/66267189/1198655751.jpg.0.jpg

Frances D'Emilion, Associated Press    from https://www.afar.com/magazine/these-five-things-are-now-officially-against-the-law-in-rome https://afar-production.imgix.net/uploads/content_items/images/yc8SaJX4bp/original_HERO_170818_Alaska_1_copy.jpg?1559924260?ixlib=rails-0.3.0&auto=format%2Ccompress&fit=crop&h=250&q=80&w=300