DeepSeek pode ser a resposta para os problemas da Apple na China

 

As leis chinesas obrigam a tecnológica de Cupertino a colaborar com uma empresa do país para implementar Inteligência Artificial nos seus dispositivos.

A Apple Intelligence foi lançada nos iPhones no final do ano passado e, desde então, que a Apple tem procurado encontrar uma forma de levar estas funcionalidades de Inteligência Artificial (IA) para os seus telemóveis na China.

As leis chinesas obrigam a Apple a estabelecer uma parceria com uma empresa chinesa para levar a Apple Intelligence para o país e, ainda que a Baidu tenha sido uma das tecnológicas mencionadas, a DeepSeek pode ser agora uma das respostas em ‘cima da mesa’.

É isso que diz a página Jukanlosreve no X (ex-Twitter) com base numa publicação partilhada na rede social chinesa Weibo.

“[Tim] Cook é o executivo mais feliz dos últimos dias, sem exceção. Atualmente a Apple tem problemas no mercado chinês porque não tem um grande modelo [de linguagem] excelente para integrar na Apple Intelligence. Com o advento da DeepSeek, é simplesmente um golpe de génio. O iOS 19 pode não só ir ao encontro das questões de segurança da versão chinesa, como também permitir um acesso aberto e de baixo custo às versões dos EUA, da Europa e de Hong-Kong”, pode ler-se nesta publicação.

Leis de cibersegurança chinesas são risco para "qualquer pessoa e Estado"

 

A especialista norte-americana Jill Goldenziel alertou em entrevista à Lusa para as leis "particularmente preocupantes" de cibersegurança da China, que constituem um "risco de segurança" para qualquer pessoa e Estado que mantenha relações comerciais com o país.

Lusa, Jill Goldenziel, internacionalmente reconhecida pelo seu trabalho sobre segurança internacional e guerra de informação, apontou que as leis "particularmente preocupantes" de cibersegurança chinesas implicam o armazenamento de dados dos indivíduos que negoceiam com a China dentro do próprio país, "o que constitui um risco de segurança para qualquer pessoa que faça negócios com a China e potencialmente um risco de segurança nacional para os Estados desses indivíduos".

A China tem vindo a desenvolver "A Grande Muralha Jurídica", que corresponde à promulgação de cerca de 21 leis relativas à segurança de dados e à cibersegurança do país, entre outros temas, segundo mencionou a académica que esteve em Portugal para uma palestra na Faculdade de Direito da Universidade de Lisboa sobre "Lawfare and Cyberspace".

A professora salientou que, para enfrentar a muralha chinesa, é necessário "pressionar a China para que esclareça o que estas leis significam para as empresas ocidentais" e investir numa educação "muito mais ampla das empresas e dos indivíduos sobre o que significa para si quando fazem negócios com a China".

Jill Goldenziel é professora na Faculdade de Informação e Ciberespaço em Washington, é colaboradora com o Departamento de Defesa dos Estados Unidos e é consultora e palestrante sobre as áreas de Direito, Segurança e Geopolítica, entre outras.

Foi-lhe atribuído o Prémio Serge Lazareff 2022 do Gabinete de Assuntos Jurídicos do Comando Aliado de Operações da NATO no Quartel-General Supremo das Potências Aliadas na Europa pelo seu trabalho e investigação na área de operações jurídicas.

Sobre o desenvolvimento da tecnologia de Inteligência Artificial, a especialista doutorada em Governo pela Universidade de Harvard alertou igualmente que a guerra de informação tornou-se "muito mais complexa", devido à "velocidade a que a informação poderá ser criada e divulgada".

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Incredible images capture US Navy testing its new laser weapon that NEVER runs out of power

 

The US Navy has released stunning images showing its incredible new drone-destroying laser weapon in action for the first time.

The HELIOS system was tested aboard the USS Preble, with photos capturing its bright beam shooting an unmanned aerial vehicle out of the sky.

HELIOS, which stands for High Laser with Integrated Optical-dazzler and Surveillance, was developed by Lockheed Martin in 2021 and delivered to the Navy a year later.

The system blasts more than 60 kilowatts of directed energy, enough to power up to 60 homes, at the speed of light and can hit targets up to five miles away.

It is designed to counter a range of threats, including drones, small boats, and potentially incoming missiles.

HELIOS was also designed to disrupt the intelligence and reconnaissance sensors on enemy vessels.

The testing comes as threats against America's warships are growing as foreign nations stock their arsenals with drones and anti-ship missiles.

The US Naval Institute said in a recent report: 'The drone threat has been around for years, but the Navy has yet to prioritize defending against these easily acquired weapons.'

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Trump Advisers Weigh Plan to Dismantle Education Department

 Administration officials are discussing executive order that could shut down key functions of the agency.

Trump administration officials are weighing executive actions to dismantle the Education Department as part of the campaign by billionaire Elon Musk and his allies to shrink federal agencies and slash the size of the government workforce.

The officials have discussed an executive order that would shut down all functions of the agency that aren’t written explicitly into statute or move certain functions to other departments, according to people familiar with the matter. The order would call for developing a legislative proposal to abolish the department, the people said. Trump’s advisers are debating the specifics of the order and the timing, the people said. 

The White House didn’t respond to a request for comment. 

The order would be a step toward fulfilling a Trump campaign promise to eliminate the department, limit federal involvement in education and give more authority to the states. Conservatives were sharply critical of the Education Department under the Biden administration, particularly decisions to forgive student loans and to extend sex-discrimination protections in education to LGBTQ people. The conservative Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025 also called for eliminating the department.

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Trump Kicks Aside Congress With Sweeping Claims of Presidential Power

 

 

With aggressive reading of Constitution, president aims to upend balance of power in Washington. In laying out the checks and balances of democracy, authors of the U.S. Constitution imagined that the president and Congress would wrestle for power when their authority conflicted, each fighting for influence. “Ambition must be made to counteract ambition,” James Madison wrote.

President Trump’s ambition has been sweeping and muscular in the first days of his new term, producing less of a transition in government than a takeover. Congress, by contrast, has all but forfeited the match.

The result, if Trump’s assertions of power survive the courts, would significantly rebalance power in Washington, centralizing unprecedented authority over federal spending, executive-branch personnel and a range of policy subjects in the Oval Office at the expense of Congress—the branch that the nation’s founders envisioned would have the more direct connection with voters and their interests.

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Hundreds Of US Government Sites Go Offline

Hundreds of US government websites were offline on Monday, an AFP review showed, including that of the humanitarian agency USAID which President Donald Trump's administration is shutting down.

From a list of nearly 1,400 federal sites provided by the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), more than 350 were unavailable on Monday afternoon.

These included sites linked to the departments of defense, commerce, energy, transportation, labor as well the Central Intelligence Agency and the Supreme Court, the review showed.

The exact time when the sites became unavailable was not clear. Nor was it known whether the sites were temporarily offline or taken down at the instruction of Trump's administration.

But the development comes amid the administration's controversial drive to radically shrink the US government.

Elon Musk, the Tesla and SpaceX chief executive and the world's richest person, is leading Trump's federal cost-cutting efforts under the so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).

On Monday, Musk said USAID will be shuttered, calling the agency which runs relief programs in about 120 countries a "criminal organization."

USAID's website was offline as employees were instructed by email not to go to their offices on Monday.

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The Young, Inexperienced Engineers Aiding Elon Musk’s Government Takeover

 

Engineers between 19 and 24, most linked to Musk’s companies, are playing a key role as he seizes control of federal infrastructure.

Elon Musk’s takeover of federal government infrastructure is ongoing, and at the center of things is a coterie of engineers who are barely out of—and in at least one case, purportedly still in—college. Most have connections to Musk, and at least two have connections to Musk’s longtime associate Peter Thiel, a cofounder and chair of the analytics firm and government contractor Palantir who has long expressed opposition to democracy.

WIRED has identified six young men—all apparently between the ages of 19 and 24, according to public databases, their online presences, and other records—who have little to no government experience and are now playing critical roles in Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) project, tasked by executive order with “modernizing Federal technology and software to maximize governmental efficiency and productivity.” The engineers all hold nebulous job titles within DOGE, and at least one appears to be working as a volunteer.

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Donald Trump's new Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy seen performing raunchy dance in embarrassing video

 

 

 

Trump's new Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy performs a raunchy 'Chippendale' striptease and gets his nipple licked in a cringeworthy clip from his forgotten past in reality TV.

The resurfaced footage shows the man tasked with restoring confidence in America's shaken airline industry prancing around in nothing but his tighty whities, socks, and eyeglasses.

Set to sultry saxophone music, the risqué routine begins with a 20-something Duffy gyrating near-naked in front of a window while fellow contestants from MTV's The Real World: Boston howl with laughter.

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