✨ Good News Friday: Reviewing the positive news over the past week:

▪️ A team of Indian scientists has hammered out an AI algorithm to help predict the increased risk of developing pre-diabetes and type-2 diabetes by analyzing an individual's heartbeat recorded on an ECG.

▪️ Russian scientists developed three-dimensional dosimetric phantoms - or models - of lab rats or mice, which can completely replace these animals at certain stages in preclinical research into cancer radiotherapy.

▪️ Paleontologists have announced the discovery of a previously unknown small armored dinosaur in southern Argentina, a creature that probably walked upright on its hind legs about 100 m years ago.

▪️ The US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration discovered mysterious holes on the seabed around the mid-Atlantic Ridge, hundreds of meters below the surface.

▪️ Australian scientists have devised a method to produce iron on Mars, which would help to build large structures on the red planet without depending on shipments from Earth.

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❗️ An unknown person attacked Salman Rushdie, a famous British writer of Indian origin, before his speech in New York.

Rushdie’s book “The Satanic Verses” has been at the center of controversy since 1988, as many Muslims consider it to be blasphemous. He was condemned to death in 1989 by Iran’s late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini over his novel.

A man stormed the stage and began punching or stabbing Rushdie as he was being introduced, according to witnesses

❗️ Chinese officials making plans for Xi to meet Biden in November, WSJ says citing sources.

❗️🎥 "Either they've decided to commit global suicide or they've lost their minds": A French journalist speaks about Ukraine's shelling of the Zaporozhye NPP.

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❗️ There is no confidence that UN secretariat will not interfere with sending IAEA mission to Zaporozhye NPP - Russian Foreign Ministry

❗️Zakharova: "We call on the Ukrainian side and its sponsors not to interfere with the important and responsible work of the IAEA"

❗️Eleven people killed after a shooting in Montenegro, six more injured - police.

❗️US calls on China to reopen closed communication channels amid tensions over Taiwan, official says

❗️ US Navy ships will transit through the Taiwan Strait in the next few weeks, official says.

⚡️⚡️ FBI recovered eleven sets of classified documents in Trump search - WSJ

❗️🎥 “For some reason, there are syringes everywhere”: residents of liberated Shirokino reveal what Ukrainian neo-Nazis left in their homes.

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❗Trump denies documents at his residence were top secret, says they were all declassified

✈️ Daredevil 93-year-old Betty Bromage

Betty Bromage, from Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, performed a full loop strapped to a plane over Rendcomb Airfield, near Cirencester, as she raised funds for the palliative care charity Sue Ryder.

Ms Bromage, who took on the fundraising challenge with wing-walking team AeroSuperBatics, said the idea to take to the skies first came to her when she was watching an advert for a Cadbury’s Crunchie bar.

Ms Bromage, who has arthritis, has been fundraising since the age of 87 and has already raised more than £23,000 for local charities.

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🚨 Police Update on Salman Rushdie Stabbing

🔹 Suspect ID’d as 24-year-old Hadi Matar
🔹 Charges have not yet been determined
🔹 Motive unclear
🔹 Investigators believe suspect was acting alone
🔹 Rushdie stabbed at least once in the neck and abdomen
🔹 Officials trying to obtain warrants to search backpack, electronics found on scene

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🖥 The FTC is pushing for changes to how Big Tech handles data

The Federal Trade Commission has issued a new notice calling for input into how tech companies handle consumer data, a crucial first step in setting binding rules for the industry. Formally known as an Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (ANPR), the filing calls for public comment on data collection, algorithmic discrimination, and commercial surveillance.

The FTC has also scheduled a public hearing on the proposed rules on September 8th in which members of the public are encouraged to give testimony on the issue.

Most recently, the American Data Privacy and Protection Act cleared committee in the House but is still awaiting a floor vote and faces an uphill battle in the Senate. Similar efforts to strengthen antitrust standards or regulate algorithms have also failed to bear fruit.

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