It's Friday, July 17th. I'm Ekela Hughes.

And I'm Gideon Resseck and this is what the day where we are getting better,

determining whether people in masks are smiling.

Yeah, if I have like IQs, chin, cues, and cheek cues, I'm actually pretty accurate.

My smile radar is military grade. Watch out.

On today's show, the latest on economic woes and a quickly approaching deadline for aid,

then some headlines.

But first, the latest. The United States, Canada, and Britain are alleging that Russian

cyber spies are trying to steal coronavirus vaccine research. The hackers in question,

which have several aliases, including cozy bear and the dukes, were also one of the two

Russian spy groups that breach the Democratic Party's computers in the lead up to the 2016 presidential

election. So if you've been thinking about how far we've all come since 2016, the answer's not

very. The government that uncovered the hack haven't confirmed if the hack was successful,

but they say the intention is clearly data theft. Canada's version of the NSA said the

attacks, quote, served to hinder response efforts. In the US believes a desire for global prestige

and influence, i.e. being the first to figure out the vaccine may be to blame.

Moscow denies the allegations, but don't they always. The joint announcement follows FBI and

Department of Homeland Security's warning two months ago that China was also targeting COVID-19

research and that health care, pharmaceutical and research labs should take steps to protect

their systems. Yeah, I mean, honestly, if they get a vaccine and it helps everyone else or we just

steal it back, all as well that ends well. No, so far back. And we have a little bit more upbeat

news on vaccine treatments, right? Yeah, that's right. So we got more details on the vaccine being

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