An Oregon nurse faces assault charges that she stole fentanyl and replaced IV drips with tap water A former nurse at an Oregon hospital is facing criminal charges that she harmed nearly four dozen patients by stealing fentanyl and replacing it with non-sterile tap water in intravenous drips. 06/17/2024 - 11:35 am | View Link
Experts highlight water safety for Drowning Prevention Week As we enter the hot summer months, it’s important to know how to stay safe while enjoying time in or on the water. The coming of summer also brings Drowning Prevention Week, and experts ... 06/17/2024 - 11:25 am | View Link
Atlanta City Council passes $7.5M in business relief following water crisis Thousands of small businesses who suffered financial losses during Atlanta’s water main crisis earlier this month will be able to apply for relief from the city by next week. 06/17/2024 - 11:25 am | View Link
Small business owners hurt by Atlanta water main breaks to receive $7.5M in aid Atlanta City Council unanimously voted to provide $7.5 million in aid to small businesses hurt by the widespread water outages caused by water main breaks across the city earlier this month. 06/17/2024 - 11:10 am | View Link
Pa. high court will consider benefits vs. higher costs in private ownership of water utilities The case involves for-profit water company Aqua PA’s bid to buy a township-owned Chester County sewer system and the price approved by the Pennsylvania Public Utilities Commission (PUC) under a law ... 06/17/2024 - 11:08 am | View Link
Colorado drinking water contains hazardous levels of PFAS, EPA says Faced with PFAS (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances) contamination in water sources across the state, the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment offered free tests for Colorado's... 06/15/2024 - 11:26 pm | View Link
Water Quality | Department of Public Health & Environment The Water Quality Control Division monitors and reports on the quality of state waters to prevent water pollution, protect, restore and enhance the quality of surface and groundwater while ensuring that all drinking water systems provide safe drinking water. 06/15/2024 - 5:21 pm | View Link
2023 Colorado Water Plan Will Inspire Action to Build Stronger Water ... Updated water plan focuses key action areas to spur statewide water development, conservation. DENVER - Today, to meet Colorado’s most critical water challenges, the Colorado Water Conservation Board (CWCB) unanimously approved the finalized 2023 Colorado Water Plan. 06/15/2024 - 11:45 am | View Link
Facts About Water | U.S. Geological Survey Facts About Water. Overview. Science. Yes, of course the most obvious fact about water is that it is wet, at least in the liquid state. But, there are many more facts about water that make it a most fascinating substance, one that all life on and in the Earth depends on. 06/13/2024 - 4:02 am | View Link
Home | Division of Water Resources New State Engineer Announced. Governor Polis and DNR Director Gibbs announce Jason Ullmann as next Colorado State Engineer & Division of Water Resources Director, on March 21, 2024. Read more in the Governor's Press Release. 06/13/2024 - 4:02 am | View Link
Enlarge / Lars Fruergaard Jorgensen, chief executive officer Novo Nordisk A/S, during an interview at the company's headquarters in Bagsvaerd, Denmark, on Monday, June 12, 2023. (credit: Getty | Carsten Snejbjerg)
After some persuasion from Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), the CEO of Novo Nordisk will testify before lawmakers later this year on the "outrageously high cost" of the company's diabetes and weight-loss drugs—Ozempic and Wegovy—in the US.
CEO Lars Jørgensen will appear before the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP), which is chaired by Sanders, in early September.
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Hardware manufacturer Asus has released updates patching multiple critical vulnerabilities that allow hackers to remotely take control of a range of router models with no authentication or interaction required of end users.
The most critical vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-3080 is an authentication bypass flaw that can allow remote attackers to log into a device without authentication.
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US Surgeon General Vivek Murthy wants to put a warning label on social media platforms, alerting young users of potential mental health harms.
"It is time to require a surgeon general’s warning label on social media platforms stating that social media is associated with significant mental health harms for adolescents," Murthy wrote in a New York Times op-ed published Monday.
Murthy argued that a warning label is urgently needed because the "mental health crisis among young people is an emergency," and adolescents overusing social media can increase risks of anxiety and depression and negatively impact body image.
Enlarge / For an unreleased game, Star Citizen still has some really pretty ships (credit: RSI)
At this point in Star Citizen's drawn-out, 11-plus-year development cycle, we're usually reminded of the game when it hits some crowdfunding microtransaction milestone or updates its increasingly convoluted alpha development roadmap. So last week's announcement that developer Cloud Imperium Games (CIG) has banned over 600 cheaters from its servers is a notable reminder that some people are actually enjoying—and exploiting—the unpolished alpha version of the game.
Shortly after the May release of Star Citizen's Alpha 2.23.1 update, players started noticing that they could easily make extra money by storing a freight ship, selling their cargo, and then returning to the ship to find the cargo ready to be sold a second time.
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Proton, the secure-minded email and productivity suite, is becoming a nonprofit foundation, but it doesn't want you to think about it in the way you think about other notable privacy and web foundations.
"We believe that if we want to bring about large-scale change, Proton can’t be billionaire-subsidized (like Signal), Google-subsidized (like Mozilla), government-subsidized (like Tor), donation-subsidized (like Wikipedia), or even speculation-subsidized (like the plethora of crypto “foundations”)," Proton CEO Andy Yen wrote in a blog post announcing the transition.
Enlarge / Apple bragged about the thinness of the M4 iPad Pro; it's apparently a template for the company's designs going forward. (credit: Apple)
Though Apple has a reputation for prioritizing thinness in its hardware designs, the company has actually spent the last few years learning to embrace a little extra size and/or weight in its hardware.