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Corporations and organizations around the globe are reporting a new ransomware attack.  It started in Ukraine, where workers had to manually monitor radiation levels at the Chernobyl nuclear site because its Windows-based machines were down.  The state power company and capital city airport were also impacted.  "We are seeing several thousands of infection attempts at the moment, comparable in size to Wannacry's first hours," said Kaspersky Labs' Costin Raiu, referring to last month's WannaCry virus attack. 
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Like the WannaCry, the new malware - dubbed "NotPetya" by Kaspersky because it's not the Petya malware, as suspected earlier - demands a ransom payment of US$300 in Bitcoin in return for ending the encryption that locks the user out of their own system. 

NotPetya reportedly encrypts files when the computer is booting up.  So, if you see the CHKDSK screen and immediately power down, your files "might" be salvageable, but don't quote me on that because I'm not your IT guy.  Quote Edward Snowden instead.  Good luck, IT People!

A US-coalition airstrike in eastern Syria killed 42 prisoners in a facility ran by the so-called Islamic State; 15 jihadists were also killed.  The Deirezzor24 website, which monitors the Syrian Civil war, says the prisoners were from anti-IS groups including some of the US-backed militias.  Before IS turned the facility into a prison, it was the home of an al-Nusra front commader.  The Pentagon acknowledges that the coalition had conducted strikes on "IS command-and-control elements" in the area of the prison.

The US out of nowhere claimed that Syrian government forces were preparing another chemical weapons attack, warning that Syria will "pay a very heavy price" if one takes place.  The White House claims that forces loyal to president Bashar al-Assad were engaged in activities similar to that which proceded a Syrian government chemical weapons attack on a rebel-held village in April.  The White House provided no supporting evidence or further explanation, and the State Department and Pentagon seemed to have been caught off guard by the announcement.

US Senate Republicans announced they are delaying a vote on their mean, vindictive, and destructive health care reform bill until after the Fourth of July Holiday - it's a clear indication that the legislation meant to replace "Obamacare" does not have a majority of supporters.  All of the Democrats are against it, moderate Republicans think it's too draconian, and conservative Republicans believe it's not free-market-y enough.  The non-partisan Congressional Budget Office estimates the Republican plan will toss more than 22 million Americans off of their healthcare plans.

A Dutch appeals court confirmed the Netherlands is partly responsible for the deaths of 350 Bosnian Muslim men in the Srebrenica massacre, a key atrocity in the post-Communist civil war in the Balkans in 1995.  The judge upheld an earlier ruling saying Dutch troops acting as UN peacekeepers wrongly handed the men over to Serbian marauders, even though troops knew the dangers the civilians faced.  The July 1995 massacre of more than 7,000 Muslim men and boys is considered Europe's worst atrocity since World War II.

Colombia's Marxist FARC rebels have completed disarming, turning over 7,132 weapons that have been registered and boxed away by the UN.  It's a key feature of last year's peace agreement that ended five decades of civil war.

Nigeria is digging a 27 kilometer trench around a university to protect against Boko Haram attacks.  University of Maiduguri is located inthe northeast area were the the jihadist group has carried out most of its attacks.  Boko Haram sent a child in with a suicide bomb over the weekend, killing a security guard; four more bombers killed a dozen people in a village outside.  The trench will make it impossible for the terrorist to drive onto the University grounds, and much more difficult to hike in.

It's very hot in Rome, so zookeepers gave blood-flavored ice blocks to the Tigers.  The Singapore Zoo gave weird-looking fruit to its Orangutans to celebrate its 44th anniversary.

Hey, you know how every few years the big media comes up with one of those "the-world-is-overpopulated-and-we're-all-going-to-eat-bugs" stories?  Here's another one.