A group of Brazilian cybercriminals specializing in financial viruses has released malware (malicious program) capable of blocking contactless payments at points of sale. With this, they force consumers to insert their credit card into the machine, enabling fraud. The novelty appears in a new version of the Prilex gang virus, …
Read More »AI reaches game development and raises fear of cuts – 01/31/2023 – Tec
This is the issue of Combo, Folha’s games newsletter. Do you want to receive it every Monday in your email? Sign up below. combo Folha’s newsletter with what interests you about the games industry and tips on what you’re still going to play. While artificial intelligence (AI) tools like ChatGPT …
Read More »Card fraud: virus blocks contactless payments – 01/31/2023 – Mercado
A group of Brazilian cybercriminals specializing in financial viruses has released malware (malicious program) capable of blocking contactless payments at points of sale. With this, they force consumers to insert their credit card into the machine, enabling fraud. The novelty appears in a new version of the Prilex gang virus, …
Read More »ChatGPT: new version announced by OpenAI makes less mistakes – 01/30/2023 – Tec
New version of ChatGPT text generator robot should make fewer factual errors and better interpret mathematical problems. The information is contained in an announcement made this Monday (30) by the technology developer, OpenAI, in the Discord conversation application. In the discussion on the OpenAI Discord channel, users of the text …
Read More »Oscar: movie tips that match nominees – 01/27/2023 – Ilustrada
This is the edition of Maratonar, the newsletter of Sheet that helps you find yourself in the midst of so many series and movie options on streaming. Do you want to receive it every Friday in your email? sign up below. Marathon A guide with movie and series tips to …
Read More »Sex is the gold miners’ currency with young Yanomami – 01/28/2023 – Elio Gaspari
The exceptional 18-hour documentary by American filmmakers Ken Burns and Lynn Novick about the Vietnam War is online. It tells and proves a story quite different from that which prevailed in the conventional version. For example: in 1968, during the Tet Offensive, when the United States prevailed but was faced …
Read More »More options where to send me – 01/29/2023 – Ruy Castro
I wrote here a few days ago that several times in recent years I thought of sending myself somewhere far away from Bolsonaro’s verbal flatus. And I cited obvious options like Pasárgada, Maracangalha. Atlantis, Xanadu. But that was in the beginning. If the idea was to hide in an imaginary …
Read More »NASA starts creating nuclear propulsion for trips to Mars – 01/29/2023 – Sidereal Messenger
The main focus of the American manned space program right now is the return to the Moon. But NASA is already taking the first steps to make a trip to Mars possible. Last Tuesday (24), the US space agency announced an agreement to test a nuclear-powered engine in space for …
Read More »United Kingdom: 200 minors seeking asylum disappear – 01/27/2023 – World
Around 200 unaccompanied minors – mostly Albanian teenagers – have disappeared from hotels where they were staying while awaiting a decision on their UK asylum applications. The situation provokes indignation from human rights defenders, who are calling for better protection measures and demanding that parliamentarians solve the problem. The missing …
Read More »Pope tries to mitigate talk about homosexuality being a sin – 01/28/2023 – World
Pope Francis tried to tone down recent comments that reinforced the doctrinal position on homosexuality being considered a sin. The pontiff said he was referring to official Catholic moral teaching that any sexual act outside of marriage is considered sacrilege. In a note released this Friday (27), Francis recalled that …
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