AP News in Brief at 12:04 a.m. EDT
by The Associated Press
Last Updated May 9, 2021 at 12:11 am EDT
Major US pipeline halts operations after ransomware attack
WASHINGTON (AP) The operator of a major pipeline system that transports fuel across the East Coast said Saturday it had been victimized by a ransomware attack and had halted all pipeline operations to deal with the threat. The attack is unlikely to affect gasoline supply and prices unless it leads to a prolonged shutdown of the pipeline, experts said.
Colonial Pipeline did not say what was demanded or who made the demand. Ransomware attacks are typically carried out by criminal hackers who scramble data, paralyzing victim networks, and demand a large payment to decrypt it.
May 09, 2021 - 8:04 PM
Vaccine deserts: Some countries have no COVID-19 jabs at all
N DJAMENA, Chad (AP) â At the small hospital where Dr. Oumaima Djarma works in Chad s capital, there are no debates over which coronavirus vaccine is the best.
There are simply no vaccines at all.
Not even for the doctors and nurses like her, who care for COVID-19 patients in Chad, one of the least-developed nations in the world where about one third of the country is engulfed by the Sahara desert.
âI find it unfair and unjust, and it is something that saddens me,â the 33-year-old infectious diseases doctor says. âI donât even have that choice. The first vaccine that comes along that has authorization, I will take it.â
PHILADELPHIA (AP) A string of lights that lobbed across the night sky in parts of the U.S. on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday had some people wondering if a fleet of UFOs was coming, but it had others mostly amateur stargazers and professional astronomers lamenting the industrialization of space.
The train of lights was actually a series of relatively low-flying satellites launched by Elon Musk s SpaceX as part of its Starlink internet service earlier this week. Callers swamped TV stations from Texas to Wisconsin reporting the lights and musing about UFOs.
An email to a spokesman for SpaceX was not returned Saturday, but astronomy experts said the number of lights in quick succession and their distance from Earth made them easily identifiable as Starlink satellites for those who are used to seeing them.
“The way you can tell they are Starlink satellites is they are like a string of pearls, these lights travelling in the same basic orbit, one right after the other, said Dr. Richard Fienberg, press officer for the American Astronomical Society.
String of satellites baffles residents in several US states, annoys astronomers
AP, PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania
A string of lights that lobbed across the night sky in parts of the US on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday had some people wondering if a fleet of UFOs was coming, but it had others mostly amateur stargazers and professional astronomers lamenting the industrialization of space.
The train of lights was actually a series of relatively low-flying satellites launched by Elon Musk’s SpaceX as part of its Starlink Internet service earlier last week. Callers swamped TV stations from Texas to Wisconsin reporting the lights and musing about UFOs.