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Your WIRED daily briefing. Today, World AIDS Day is highlighting the treatment gap facing men infected with HIV/AIDS around the world, Facebook has temporarily disabled ethnicity-based ad targeting, The Boring Company is bidding to build Chicago a high-speed autonomous Loop and more. Get WIRED Awake sent straight to your inbox every weekday morning by 8am. Click here to sign up to the WIRED Awake newsletter . 1. World AIDS Day highlights the gender gap putting men at risk Today, on World AIDS Day, the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) has released its new report, Blind Spot , on the treatment and knowledge gap facing men and boys at risk of contracting HIV/AIDs ( Science ). Men are are less likely than women to know their HIV status and, around the world, only 47 per cent of men with AIDS are receiving life-saving antiretroviral drugs, compared to 60 per cent of women. Michel Sidibé, Executive Director of UNAIDS, said: "The concept of harm...

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Your WIRED daily briefing. Today, the NASDAQ stock exchange is reportedly planning to introduce bitcoin futures trading, women in early agrarian societies were stronger than modern elite athletes, Google is being taken to court in the UK's first mass legal action and more. Get WIRED Awake sent straight to your inbox every weekday morning by 8am. Click here to sign up to the WIRED Awake newsletter . 1. Bitcoin betting is coming to the world's second largest stock exchange The Wall Street Journal reports that the US NASDAQ stock exchange – the world's second largest – plans to allow investors to bet on fluctuations in the price of bitcoin with a new futures trading scheme that sources expect to launch in 2018 ( The Verge ). The New York exchange is the third in the US to introduce cryptocurrency speculation for its investors. Analyst Rich Repetto told Bloomberg : "They’re a small futures exchange, so they possibly see the potential to get into a p...

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Your WIRED daily briefing. Today, the court battle between Waymo and Uber has been delayed after it emerged that Uber withheld key evidence, macOS High Sierra defaults to a blank root password, bitcoin is now valued at over $10,000 and more. Get WIRED Awake sent straight to your inbox every weekday morning by 8am. Click here to sign up to the WIRED Awake newsletter . 1. Judge delays case following evidence of Uber's industrial espionage division The judge overseeing the legal battle over Uber's alleged theft of self-driving technology from rival Waymo has discovered that Uber tried to hide evidence that it had a department dedicated to gathering intelligence from competitors ( WIRED ). The evidence in question is a letter written by an attorney for Richard Jacobs, a former member of Uber’s intelligence group. Sections read aloud in court detail how: "MA (Uber's Marketplace Analytics team) exists expressly for the purpose of acquiring trade secret...