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Ginang pinatay, isinilid sa drum ng boyfriend na Kano

Arman B. Cambe
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Ginang pinatay, isinilid sa drum ng boyfriend na Kano

BACOOR CITY, Cavite. Pinatay sa sakal bago isinilad sa drum ng 71 anyos na live-in partner na Amerikano ang isang ginang sa lungsod na ito kamakalawa.

Naaagnas na at halos hindi na makilala ng makita ang bangkay ng biktima na kinilalang si Mila Loslos, 48 anyos na nakasilid sa isang drum sa bahay ng kinakasama nitong Kano bandang 1:00 ng hapon.

Ayon sa anak ng biktima na si Jay Loslos, 21 anyos na college student, ilang araw ng nawawala ang kanyang ina at naireport na nila ito na “missing person” sa pulisya.

Kaugnay nito, inaresto ng pulisya ang live-in partner ng biktima na nakilalang si William Thomas Worth, isang American national, matapos na madiskubre ang naagnas na bangkay ng kinakasama.

Hindi na nanlaban ang suspek at kaagad na umamin sa  ginawang pagpatay sa biktima.

Ayon sa imbestigasyon, lu­ma­labas na pinatay ng suspek sa sinakal ang biktima at upang maitago ang krimen ay binalot nito sa kumot ang bangkay at isiniksik sa isang blue drum na binalutan ng garbage bag at duct tape.

Nadiskubre ang krimen noong hanapin na ng anak ng biktima ang ina at puntahan sa bahay ng kinakasamang Kano kung saan ay nakaamoy sila ng masangsang na amoy sa loob ng bahay. Ginalugad ng mga pulis ang bahay ng suspek ay nakitaang isang drum na pinanggagalingan ng nakakasukang amoy.

Nakuha din ng pulisya sa crime scene ang tatlong patalim at nylon na tali na posibleng ginamit sa krimen.

Sa tantya ng mga awtoridad, 3 hanggang 4 na araw nang patay ang biktima.

Isa sa mga nakikitang anggulo sa krimen ang selos.

Nasa kustodiya na ng pulis ang Amerikanong suspek na nakatakdanf humarap sa kasong murder.

P3.8-M shabu na nakatago sa mga hair dryer, mga brush na nasabat sa NAIA

Venus L Peñaflor
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P3.8-M shabu na nakatago sa mga hair dryer, mga brush na nasabat sa NAIA

PASAY CITY. Nasabat ng mga customs officer sa Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) ang 560 gramo ng shabu na nagkakahalaga ng PHP3.8 milyon na nakatago sa isang kahon na naglalaman ng mga hair brush at hair dryer.

Ayon sa pahayag kahapon ng Bureau of Customs (BOC) na ang shipper at consignee ay sumasailalim na ngayon sa imbestigasyon ng Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) para sa pagsisimula ng kaukulang inquest proceedings hinggil sa paglabag sa Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs Act of 2022 at ang Customs Modernization Act (CMTA).

Ang kontrabando na idineklara bilang eyelash sets, electric hair dryers, at electric hairbrush ay naharang noong Lunes sa DHL Express Gateway Warehouse sa NAIA.

Pinasalamatan ni Customs Commissioner Bienvenido Rubio ang mahalagng tulong ng iba’t ibang ahensya ng gobyerno sa pagkakasamsam sa iligal na droga.

“This successful interception is a testament to the effective joint enforcement of our Customs and inter-agency partners against drug trafficking to prevent the worldwide spread of illegal narcotics, especially in the Asia Pacific Region. We will continue to be vigilant in our border protection efforts to prevent dangerous drugs and other contraband that come in and out of our country,” ayon saBOC chief.

Ang operasyon ay naisagawa sa koordinasyon ng PDEA at NAIA Inter-Agency Drug Interdiction Task Group (NAIA-IADITG).

Discord forces members to change usernames, discord erupts

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Discord forces members to change usernames, discord erupts

SAN FRANCISCO. The social app Discord, a favorite of gamers, inadvertently stirred internal strife after announcing last week that it will force its millions of members to pick new usernames. Now the question is whether the change will escalate into all-out warfare that could include players threatening one another in order to seize control of popular names.

The issue may sound trivial compared to real-life concerns such as mass shootings and killer storms. But it’s a big deal for people who rely on the mid-sized social network to recruit fellow gamers, swap virtual weapons and organize strategy in multiplayer games. A Reddit thread on the change drew more than 4,000 comments, the vast majority of them angry or at least unhappy.

Discord, which says it has 150 million monthly active users, has no plans to reconsider the new policy, according to a spokesman.

WHAT’S THE DEAL WITH DISCORD USERNAMES?

Discord users have long been free to choose any name they wanted, even ones already in use. That was part of the company’s goal of letting users represent themselves freely, according to a detailed May 3 blog post by Discord co-founder and chief technology officer Stanislav Vishnevskiy. The approach differed from social platforms such as Twitter, which has always required users to select unique names.

Discord assigned each username an invisible four-digit identifier to distinguish them from duplicates. But as Discord grew, the San Francisco-based company decided to expand its messaging system — initially limited to conversations within shared groups it calls “servers” — to the entire platform. To help people to find their friends across servers, Discord made those four-digit codes a visible part of usernames. If your username was “SgtRock,” you might have suddenly found yourself with the handle “SgtRock#1842.”

That, too, seemed to work for a while. But according to Vishnevskiy’s post, more than 40% of Discord users either don’t remember their four-digit codes — variously known as “tags” or “discriminators” in Discord-speak — or know what they are in the first place. Almost half of all friend requests on Discord fail to reach the correct person, the executive wrote.

SO WHAT’S CHANGING?

Two changes are taking place simultaneously. In the coming weeks, Vishnevskiy wrote, Discord will start notifying users via an in-app message when they’re cleared to select a new username. Some server owners will get priority, followed by users based on the age of their accounts. Paid subscribers to a Discord service that lets them customize their discriminators (among other benefits) will also get “early access,” although neither Vishnevskiy’s post nor Discord’s user documentation offer details.

At the same time, Discord is also allowing users to pick a non-exclusive “display name” of their choosing. This will be displayed prominently on user profiles and in chat, but unlike the username, it won’t be used for messaging.

All of this will “roll out slowly over the course of several months,” per the Discord announcements.

WHY DOES THIS MATTER?

Some gamers take their usernames extremely seriously, viewing them as unique and personal extensions of their identity, not to mention pillars of their online reputations. Many also don’t appreciate changes being thrust upon them. In the Reddit thread, complaints range from “don’t fix what isn’t broken” to accusations that the changes are mostly designed to attract new and often younger users who might be put off by the complexity of the existing system.

That might not be far from the truth, experts suggest. Social platforms tend to be heavily used by a small group and very lightly used by a much larger group, said Drew Margolin, a Cornell University professor of communications. In a commercial sense, he said, “there’s this tension between what would be appealing to a larger market and what are the main users.”

Margolin suggests that network effects — that is, the fact that users and their friends are already on Discord, making it difficult to leave — will most likely outweigh the current outrage, whose impact is difficult to assess. But there’s still a potential for serious blowback, as some gamers have been known to go to extreme lengths to obtain coveted usernames.

WHAT ARE THE POSSIBLE CONSEQUENCES?

Gamers warn that the move could create a black market in desirable names or even spark dangerous threats to force their surrender. Such threats can range from online harassment campaigns to “swatting” — the highly dangerous practice of making fake crime reports to police in order to provoke an armed law enforcement response at an opponent’s home.

Swatting can lead to injuries and deaths — sometimes of people unconnected to whatever online feud provoked the action. In 2017, an innocent man was fatally shot by Wichita police responding to a hoax call reporting a kidnapping and shooting. The call was make by a California man named Tyler Barriss, who authorities said was recruited by another gamer to make the call. But the address Barriss used was old, leading police to to a person who wasn’t involved in the video game or the dispute.

Barriss pled guilty to making multiple false emergency calls across the U.S. and in 2019 was sentenced to 20 years in prison. (with report from AP)

Bangkay ng Canadian at 2 alagang aso, natagpuang sa Batangas

Arman B. Cambe
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Bangkay ng Canadian at 2 alagang aso, natagpuang sa Batangas

CALATAGAN, Batangas. Natagpuang patay ang isang Canadian national sa loob ng inuupahang bahay. Nakita rin sa labas ang bangkay ng dalawang alaga nitong aso sa Brgy. Lucsuhin, bayang ito kamakalawa.

Kinilala ng pulisya ang banyaga na si Steve Vincent Fiorito, 59 anyos.

Si Fiorito ay nakitang nakahandusay sa kanyang kama sa loob ng inuupahang bahay ng mga rumespondeng pulis noong Lunes ng hapon.

Ayon kay Major Emil Mendoza, hepe ng Calatagan Municipal Police Station, pinuntahan at sinuri ng mga pulis at barangay officials ang bahay ng biktima matapos magreklamo ang ilang residente hinggil sa mabahong amoy na nanggagaling sa bahay ng ni Fiorito.

Inireport din ng ilang residente na may limang araw ng hindi nila nakikitang naglalakad sa lugar ang Canadian bago siya natagpuang patay.

“There was no foul play and no forced entry in the house as well as no gunshot and stab wound on his body when the victim was discovered, however, an investigation was ongoing to determine the cause of death,” ayon sa kumpirmasyon ni Mendoza.

Ayon pa rin sa report, natagpuan ding patay sa labas ng bahay ang dalawang alagang aso ng Canadian.

China lands its secretive space plane after 9 months in orbit

EDGARDO HERNAL
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China lands its secretive space plane after 9 months in orbit
  • China landed its mysterious reusable space plane after nine months in Earth’s orbit.
  • Chinese state news agency Xinhua hailed the 276-day flight as a “success” and an “important breakthrough.”
  • The space plane launched from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in August 2022.

China’s mysterious reusable space plane landed on Monday, after 276 days in Earth’s orbit.

The nine-month mission was the longest yet for the new space plane. It had flown to orbit once before, for just two days, according to Andrew Jones, a journalist who specializes in China’s space program.

Though the recent flight was long, China’s statements about the space plane have been short, with no details about the objectives of the flight, the specifications of the spacecraft, or the maneuvers it performed in orbit.

“The success of the experiment marks an important breakthrough in China’s research on reusable spacecraft technologies, which will provide more convenient and affordable round-trip methods for the peaceful use of space in the future,” Chinese state news agency Xinhua said in a brief announcement on Monday.

The space plane’s maker, China Aerospace Science and Technology Corp. (CASC), reshared the Xinhua statement on the social media platform Weixin.

Xinhua reported that the “experimental” spacecraft touched down at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China. However, orbital tracking data and satellite imagery suggest that the landing occurred at the Lop Nur military base in the neighboring province of Xinjiang, to the west, Jones reported.

Reusable space planes are nothing new. NASA’s Space Shuttles are perhaps the most famous example. More recently, billionaire Richard Branson flew to orbit aboard a Virgin Galactic space plane.

In the absence of photos or details from China, multiple news outlets have suggested that the Chinese space plane may resemble the X-37B space plane developed by Boeing for the US military.

That vehicle has flown six times, with its longest mission lasting nearly three years to test new hardware and run NASA experiments.

The Chinese space plane took off from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in August 2022 and in October mysteriously ejected something into orbit, according to Space.com.

Overall, China has been ramping up its space presence over the last decade, with a series of moon missions, its own space station in Earth’s orbit, and a landmark Mars mission that featured an orbiter, a lander, and a rover — the first-ever Martian trifecta.

Read the original article on Business Insider

US backs study of safe injection sites, drug overdose prevention

Venus L Peñaflor
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US backs study of safe injection sites, drug overdose prevention

For the first time, the U.S. government will pay for a large study measuring whether overdoses can be prevented by so-called safe injection sites, places where people can use heroin and other illegal drugs and be revived if they take too much.

The grant provides more than $5 million over four years to New York University and Brown University to study two sites in New York City and one opening next year in Providence, Rhode Island.

Researchers hope to enroll 1,000 adult drug users to study the sites’ effects on overdoses, to estimate their costs and to gauge potential savings for the health care and criminal justice systems.

The universities announced the grant Monday. The money will not be used to operate the sites, the universities said.

With U.S. drug overdose deaths reaching nearly 107,000 in 2021, supporters contend safe injection sites, also called overdose preventions centers, can save lives and connect people with addiction treatment, mental health services and medical care.

Opponents worry the sites encourage drug use and that they will lead to the deterioration of surrounding neighborhoods.

“There is a lot of discussion about overdose prevention centers, but ultimately, we need data to see if they are working or not, and what impact they may have on the community,” said Dr. Nora Volkow, director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse, which awarded the grant.

Pulis patay sa pagresponde sa road rage shooting sa Quezon, 2 civilian sugatan

Arman B. Cambe
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Pulis patay sa pagresponde sa road rage shooting sa Quezon, 2 civilian sugatan

Candelaria, Quezon. Patay ang isang pulis sa Quezon habang nagsasagawa ng imbestigasyon sa insidente ng road rage shooting na kinasangkutan ng dalawang tricycle driver sa Sitio Bagong Pook, Brgy. Bukal Sur, bayang ito.

Kinilala ang nasawing pulis na si Corporal Reniel Marin ng Candelaria Municipal Police Station na ayon sa report ay binaril ng kapatid ng tricycle driver na naunang nabaril sa road rage incident.

Ayon sa imbestigasyon ng pulisya, kasama si Marin sa police team na nagsasagawa ng follow-up investigation sa nangyaring road rage noong Sabado na nauwi sa pamamaril at pagkasugat ng suspek na tricycle driver na si Teodolo Rustia Jr., sa biktima at kapwa niya tricycle driver na si Morfie Azul.

Tumakas si Rustia matapos ang insidente habang dinala naman sa ospital ang sugatang si Azul.

Ayon kay Police Colonel Ledon Monte, director ng Quezon Police Provincial Office, pinuntahan ni Marin, at iba pang pulis ang bahay ng tumakas na suspek na si Rustia ngunit nagpunta rin pala sa bahay ni Rustia ang kapatid ng biktimang si Azul na si Efren, na armado ng baril na kalibre .38.

Noong makita niya ang grupo ni Marin, pinaputukan niya ang mga ito at tinamaan sa dibdib si Marin. Sumailalim sya sa emergency operation sa Peter Paul Hospital sa Candelaria, Quezon ngunit binawian din ng buhay

Tinamaan din sa ginawa iyang pamamaril ang dose anyos na anak ni Teodolo Rustia Jr na kinilalang si Erica Shane Baliton na napag alamang kasalukuyang nasa maayos ng kalagayan.

Nakatakas naman si Efren at kasama ni Rustia na tinutugis ngayon ng mga pulis.

Nag ugat ang road rage shooting matapos magtalo hinggil sa trapiko si Azul at Rustia habang sakay sa minamaneho nilang tricycle hihinggil ngil sa trapiko na naging dahilan upang barilin ni Rustia ang biktima na si Azul ng dalawang beses.

Hinala ni Monte, posibleng napagkamalan ni Efren ang mga pulis na kamag-anak ng suspek na si Rustia na nakabaril sa kapatid niya

Patuloy na tinutugis ngayon ng mga awtoridad si Efren at si Rustia.

House OKs bill giving P1M to 101 year olds

Carlo Juancho Funtanilla
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House OKs bill giving P1M to 101 year olds

The House of Representatives on Monday approved on third and final reading a bill granting additional benefits for Filipino centenarians to honor and support them.

With an overwhelming 257 votes, the House approved House Bill (HB) No. 7535, which seeks to give special recognition to centenarians who reached the age of 101 years old, as well as provide cash gifts to nonagenarians and octogenarians without them having to wait and reach 100 years old.

Under the measure, all Filipinos who reach the age of 100 years old, whether residing in the Philippines or abroad, shall be honored with a letter of felicitation from the President of the Philippines and a “centenarian gift” in the amount of PHP100,000.

“All Filipino centenarians who reach the age of 101 years old shall each receive a cash gift of PHP1 million on their birthday,” HB 7535 read.

Furthermore, all Filipinos who reach the age of 80, 85, 90 and 95 years old shall also receive a letter of felicitation from the President “and a cash gift of PHP25,000 each.”

The measure mandates the National Commission of Senior Citizens (NCSC) to implement the provisions of this Act.

“With this legislation, the House of Representatives would like to honor our countrymen for their years of service to the country and for their discipline in ensuring that they live a long, healthy and fruitful life,” Speaker Ferdinand Martin G. Romualdez said.

“Of course, we also want our octogenarians and nonagenarians to enjoy this benefit while they still can without having to wait until 101 years old so we also provided a cash gift for them,” he added. (PNA)

Once-cool Facebook may have 3 billion users, but many of them are old

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Once-cool Facebook may have 3 billion users, but many of them are old

Facebook says it is not dead. Facebook also wants you to know that it is not just for “old people,” as young people have been saying for years.

Now, with the biggest thorn in its side — TikTok — facing heightened government scrutiny amid growing tensions between the U.S. and China, Facebook could, perhaps, position itself as a viable, domestic-bred alternative.

There’s just one problem: young adults like Devin Walsh have moved on.

“I don’t even remember the last time I logged in. It must have been years ago,” said Walsh, 24, who lives in Manhattan and works in public relations.

Instead, she checks Instagram, which is also owned by Facebook parent company Meta, about five or six times a day. Then there’s TikTok, of course, where she spends about an hour each day scrolling, letting the algorithm find things “I didn’t even know I was interested in.”

Walsh can’t imagine a world in which Facebook, which she joined when she was in 6th grade, becomes a regular part of her life again.

“It’s the branding, right? When I think of Facebook, I think ugh, like cheugy, older people, like parents posting pictures of their kids, random status updates and also people fighting about political issues,” Walsh said, using the Gen Z term for things that are definitely not cool.

The once-cool social media platform born before the iPhone is approaching two decades in existence. For those who came of age around the time Mark Zuckerberg launched thefacebook.com from his Harvard dorm room in 2004, it’s been inextricably baked into daily life — even if it’s somewhat faded into the background over the years.

Facebook faces a particularly odd challenge. Today, 3 billion people check it each month. That’s more than a third of the world’s population. And 2 billion log in every day. Yet it still finds itself in a battle for relevancy, and its future, after two decades of existence.

For younger generations — those who signed up in middle school, or those who are now in middle school, it’s decidedly not the place to be. Without this trend-setting demographic, Facebook, still the main source of revenue for parent company Meta, risks fading into the background — utilitarian but boring, like email.

It wasn’t always like this. For nearly a decade, Facebook was the place to be, the cultural touchstone, the thing constantly referenced in daily conversations and late-night TV, its founding even the subject of a Hollywood movie. Rival MySpace, which launched only a year earlier, quickly became outdated as the cool kids flocked to Facebook. It didn’t help MySpace’s fate that it was sold to stodgy old News Corp. in 2005.

“It was this weird combination…no one knew how technology worked, but in order to have a MySpace, we all needed to become mini coders. It was so stressful.” said Moira Gaynor, 28. “Maybe that’s even why Facebook took off. Because compared to MySpace it was this beautiful, integrated, wonderful engagement area that we didn’t have before and we really craved after struggling with MySpace for so long.”

Positioning himself a visionary, Zuckerberg refused to sell Facebook and pushed his company through the mobile revolution. While some rivals emerged — remember Orkut? — they generally petered out as Facebook soared, seemingly unstoppable despite scandals over user privacy and a failure to address hate speech and misinformation adequately. It reached a billion daily users in 2015.

Debra Aho Williamson, an analyst with Insider Intelligence who’s followed Facebook since its early days, notes that the site’s younger users have been dwindling but doesn’t see Facebook going anywhere, at least not any time soon.

“The fact that we are talking about Facebook being 20 years old, I think that is a testament of what Mark developed when he was in college. It’s pretty incredible,” she said. “It is still a very powerful platform around the world.”

AOL was once powerful too, but its user base has aged and now an aol.com email address is little more than a punchline in a joke about technologically illiterate people of a certain age.

Tom Alison, who serves as the head of Facebook (Zuckerberg’s title is now Meta CEO), sounded optimistic when he outlined the platform’s plans to lure in young adults in an interview with The Associated Press.

“We used to have a team at Facebook that was focused on younger cohorts, or maybe there was a project or two that was dedicated to coming up with new ideas,” Alison said. “And about two years ago we said no — our entire product line needs to change and evolve and adapt to the needs of the young adults.”

He calls it the era of “social discovery.”

“It’s very much motivated by what we see the next generation wanting from social media. The simple way that I like to describe it is we want Facebook to be the place where you can connect with the people you know, the people you want to know and the people that you should know,” Alison said.

Artificial intelligence is central to this plan. Just as TikTok uses its AI and algorithm to show people videos they didn’t know they wanted to see Facebook is hoping to harness its powerful technology to win back the hearts and eyeballs of young adults. Reels, the TikTok-like videos Facebook and Instagram users are bombarded with when they log into both apps, are also key. And, of course, private messaging.

“What we are seeing is more people wanting to share reels, discuss reels, and we’re starting to integrate messaging features back into the app to again allow Facebook to be a place where not only do you discover great things that are relevant to you, but you share and you discuss those with people,” Alison said.

Facebook has consistently declined to disclose user demographics, which would shed some light on how it is faring among young adults. But outside researchers say their numbers are declining. The same is true for teenagers — although Facebook seems to have stepped back from actively recruiting teens amid concerns about social media’s effects on their mental health.

“Young people often shape the future of communication. I mean, that’s basically how Facebook took off — young people gravitated toward it. And we we see that happening with pretty much every social platform that has come on the scene since Facebook,” said Williamson. This year, Insider estimates that about half of TikTok’s users are between the ages of 12 and 24.

Williamson doesn’t see this trend reversing, but notes that Insider’s estimates only go as far as 2026. There’s a decline, but it’s slow. That year, the research firm expects about 28% of U.S. Facebook’s users to be between 18 and 34 years old, compared with nearly 46% for TikTok and 42% for Instagram. The numbers are more stark for teens aged 12-17.

“I think the best thing they could do is get away from being a social platform. Like they’ve lost that. But hey, if they want to become the new Yellow Pages, why not?” said Gaynor, who lives in San Diego, California and works in government. “I really like Marketplace. I recently just moved, so that was where I got most of my furniture.”

Malaking oil price rollback, ilalarga bukas

Carlo Juancho Funtanilla
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Malaking oil price rollback, ilalarga bukas

Makakaranas ang mga motorista ng mas mababang presyo ng produktong petrolyo, isang malaking rollback sa ikatlong magkakasunod na linggo ng pagbaba ng presyo.

Ayon sa magkahiwalay na advisory ng mga oil company kahapon, sinabi ng Pilipinas Shell Petroleum Corp. at Seaoil Philippines Corp. na bababa ang presyo kada litro ng gasolina ng P2.20, diesel ng P2.70, at kerosene ng P2.55.

Ilalarga ng Petro Gazz ang ganito ring adjustment, maliban sa kerosene.

Epektibo ang bawas-presyo sa Martes, alas-6 ng umaga.

Hindi pa naglalabas ng abiso ang ibang kompanya hinggil sa price cut down.

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