Let's Do The News! (January 12, 2018)

- The Armed Forces of the Philippines is targeting to gain 5,000 new recruits within this year, according to spokesperson Col. Edgard Arevalo.

- Valenzuela City donated 60 patrol cars to the police in a bid to boost the city's anti-criminality campaign. Aside from the vehicles, the local government also turned over 6 K9 units and kennels to the local police.

- The Malacanang Palace praises the rise in President Rodrigo Duterte's trust rating in the recent Social Weather Stations survey. Duterte's trust rating rose 15 percent in the last quarter of 2017, with an "excellent" net trust rating of 75 points, the SWS survey said. He rebounded from his previous quarter's net trust rating of 60 points, the lowest since he became president.

- Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe rejected South Korea's request to help "comfort women" and urged Seoul to honor a 2015 pact on the divisive topic. Japan and South Korea share a bitter history that includes Japan's 1910-45 colonization of the peninsula, and the "comfort women" issue is especially touchy. The US allies are key to efforts to rein in North Korea's nuclear and missile programs.

- As Special Investigator Counsel Robert Mueller plans to set an interview with US President Donald Trump, the attacks from Republicans take on a whole new level as House Republicans and right-wing media are going after the federal investigators, calling for "purges" of the law enforcement professionals working on the investigation, comparing them to the KGB and even suggesting this is all part of a secret plot against the US President himself.

- Recently, two critical vulnerabilities, dubbed Meltdown and Spectre, were discovered in modern processors which are found on PCs, mobile devices, and in the cloud. These vulnerabilities can potentially allow programs to steal data that is currently being processed on the computer’s chip. While programs are typically not permitted to read data from other programs, a malicious program can exploit Meltdown and Spectre to access data stored in the memory of other running programs. This might include passwords stored in a password manager or browser, personal photos, emails, instant messages and even documents containing personal information.

- "Fast" Eddie Clarke, the Motörhead guitarist, passed away at the age of 67.

- Renaultsport unveiled a special edition Clio RS 18 featuring a special black paint and yellow accents, a nod to Renault's 40 years of F1 involvement.



- Toyota unveiled the GR Super Sport Concept at this year's Tokyo Auto Salon. It features a hybrid powertrain inspired by the TS050 Hybrid Race Car.



- The second DLC Catalog for the PS4-exclusive THE IDOLM@STER Stella Stage is now available, featuring a brand new song titled 星彩ステッパー, the new 星先案内人 outfit, and many others.




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