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Microsoft Windows users, brace yourselves. People are worried a second wave of cyberattacks could strike around the world on Monday as employees return to their desks and log onto their computers.

Security experts say the unprecedented ransomeware attack that on Friday locked up computers across the globe including UK hospital, FedEx, train systems in Germany among other institutions in exchange for payment, could cause even more trouble as the work week begins. On top of that, copycat versions of the malicious software have already started to spread.

“We are in the second wave,” Matthieu Suiche of the cybersecurity firm Comae Technologies told the New York Times on Sunday. Read more…

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In the almost two weeks since it released on May 5, Guardians of the Galaxy, Vol. 2 has already generated an estimated $246.2 million at the U.S. box office.

Just for context: it took the first Guardians a month — including four full weekends — to reach a similar domestic total in Aug. 2014.

It’s only been two weekends for Vol. 2 thus far, and the second weekend estimate of $63 million leaves Disney’s latest Marvel Studios venture in spitting distance of a quarter-billion dollar box office at home. Assuming the estimate holds, it should hit that milestone well before the two week release anniversary of May 19 rolls around. Read more…

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Footage of a family getting kicked off of a JetBlue flight over the placement of a birthday cake surfaced on Saturday. 

Minta and Cameron Burke were heading to Las Vegas from JFK Airport in New York on Flight 611 on May 3 to celebrate Minta’s 40th birthday with their children when an incident between the family and the airline caused the entire family to be kicked off the plane, despite the NYPD admitting to the family that they did nothing wrong.

According to ABC 7, the incident started when someone in the family placed a birthday cake in the overhead bin, which is not allowed. The family says that a flight attendant told Cameron to move the cake to underneath his seat, which he did, but claims that the situation escalated when a second flight attendant got involved. Read more…

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Harry Styles likes The Life of Pablo, apparently.

The One Direction heartthrob-turned-solo star celebrated his first album on Saturday with an intimate London performance. Among the new material Styles let loose with was an unexpected cover: “Ultralight Beam,” off of Kanye West’s latest album.

The gospel-flavored original features West with The-Dream, Kelly Price, Kirk Franklin, and Chance the Rapper. Styles’ cover replaces the choir with the mournful wail of a reverb-heavy guitar, and it’s a perfect complement to the singer’s alt-rock flavor. Read more…

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In Trump’s world, you don’t have to be a scientist to land a high-level science job.

President Donald Trump has reportedly picked Sam Clovis — a conservative talk show radio host and climate change denier — to be the “chief scientist” of the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s research division. If appointed, he’ll oversee key scientific work on everything from nutrition to the effects of rising temperatures on food supplies.

The top position is supposed to be filled by “distinguished scientists with specialized or significant experience in agricultural research, education, and economics,” according to the 2008 Farm Bill.  Read more…

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A helicopter pilot with the munchies landed his chopper next to a McDonald’s to grab some food.

At approximately 4:20 pm (seriously) on Saturday, a pilot landed his his chopper onto the lawn next to a McDonald’s in northwest Sydney, got out of the aircraft, entered the restaurant to get food, got back into the helicopter, and flew away. 

But in the modern day of documenting every single thing that you do, the man snapped a photo of his chopper in front of McDonald’s before flying away, because stories. 

“Oh, for real?” a man can be heard asking in the clip. “I thought it was an emergency.” Read more…

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An Australian woman named Anna unknowingly wore her engagement ring around her neck for over a year, thanks to her boyfriend Terry’s crafty plan.

Terry explains on YouTube that he made Anna a necklace for their one year anniversary. Anna wore the necklace every day, but little did she know that there was something very special hidden inside the necklace. 

A year and half later, Terry and Anna visited Smoo cave in Scotland, a place they had always wanted to visit. Terry asked Anna to borrow her necklace so that he could take a nice photo of it inside the cave, and set up a camera on a tripod with a timer. Read more…

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What do you get when you cross 200 protesters with a Donald Trump-branded golf course?

It’s not a joke; this actually happened, and those 200 protesters hit the dirt at southern California’s Trump National Golf Club to spell out an emphatic statement: “RESIST!”

The group in question is the San Pedro chapter of Indivisible, a nationwide network that formed after the 2016 election. Using the example set by the right-leaning Tea Party in years past, Indivisible works to bring about broader change by inspiring activism at the local level. Read more…

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NASA and the U.S. military weave a tangled web. 

Ostensibly, NASA is run by civilians. Its astronauts aren’t active duty service members and NASA officials aren’t military either. However, if you examine the history of the space agency, it becomes clear that the reality is more complicated.

According to a report by Matt Novak at Gizmodo, the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) — the secretive intelligence organization responsible for the upkeep of the U.S.’s fleet of spy satellites — used NASA’s space shuttles to launch multiple secret missions to orbit over the course of the decades-long program. Read more…

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Wait for it.

It’s 2017, so we completely understand that you may not be exactly excited to hear the beat drop for “Uptown Funk.” The song has been drilled into our skulls every time we turn the radio on or enter the grocery store. But, if you’re a young kid, you basically grew up on the 2014 hit.

Just watch this toddler named Maddie, who waits patiently for the chorus to drop, then promptly showcases some of the sassiest and smoothest toddler dance moves we’ve seen from a carseat. 

You do you, Maddie. 

[h/t:Reddit] Read more…

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