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Morning News: Meat Producer Cyberattack, Tokyo Olympics & Covid

The White House is stepping in after one of the world’s largest meat producers was targeted with ransomware believed to be from Russia. 

After experiencing a spring surge, Michigan is easing COVID restrictions. The Tokyo Olympics are still weeks away but some fear it could turn into a superspreader event.

Morning News Podcast: Tokyo Olympics, Week GPS Signals, Studying Cicadas

The Tokyo Olympics are due to begin in just over two months. But with coronavirus cases climbing in recent months, 80% of Japanese people want the games to be cancelled.

The navigation signals sent by satellites like America’s GPS constellation are surprisingly weak. What happens when they’re jammed—or tricked? And in America cicadas have emerged from their underground redoubts for the first time in 17 years, for a frenzied few weeks of mating. How do you study a species that emerges fewer than six times in a century?