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Burnham pressed on economy at first PMQs as borrowing costs surge
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Andy Burnham said his government would be "grounded in fiscal responsibility" as his first Prime Minister's Questions took place against a backdrop of rising UK borrowing costs.

Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch called on Burnham to say where spending would be cut and how he would deal with the UK's increasing debt, after the cost of borrowing for the UK reached a new 18-year high on Wednesday.

He blamed the previous Tory government, saying the "turbulence on global markets are because of that exposure that they left behind".

Burnham took over from Sir Keir Starmer in July before Parliament's summer recess, meaning Wednesday was the first time he had faced Badenoch at PMQs.

Burnham sought to stress his administration's fiscal responsibility and said ministers were taking steps to reduce debt.

He told MPs: "This will be a government grounded in fiscal responsibility. It will stick to the fiscal rules, but at the same time, we will help reduce cost-of-living pressure on our constituents, and that's the approach that we will take."

Interest rates on government bonds have been going up, with the yield on a 10-year bond at its highest level since 2008, while the yield on a 30-year bond is at its highest since 1998.

This means it costs the government more to borrow over the long term and could constrain its spending choices as the 28 October Budget approaches.

Burnham's PMQs debut came after he used the summer recess to tour the UK, announcing a series of eye-catching policies mainly aimed at tackling the cost of living.

On Wednesday, Badenoch said the prime minister had set out plenty of spending plans but no detail of how he would be paying the bill.

"The markets are clearly worried that we now have a spendthrift prime minister who wants to say yes to everyone but cannot tell us where the money is coming from," she said.

"He needs to pay for all his new promises and he has a choice - higher taxes, more borrowing, or spending cuts.

"Yesterday he said change begins with honesty, so will he be honest and tell us: is he preparing to raise taxes again, yes or no?"

Burnham had earlier said he had already cut taxes, including VAT on energy bills and a cut in business rates for hospitality.

"I've already indicated my first moves were to cut tax, but I'm not going to do what any prime minister has done and write the budget here," he said, adding he and Chancellor John Healey had agreed on an earlier date for the Budget to reduce speculation.

In the Commons, Badenoch also raised comments from economist and cross-bench peer Lord Jim O'Neill, who had been tipped to become Burnham's chief economic adviser, but who ruled out joining Burnham's government.

Speaking to the BBC, Lord O'Neill had praised the PM for "a great first five weeks" which he said had helped lift consumer and business confidence; adding the current spike in market interest rates for government debt would force Labour to start "dealing with the triple lock" on the state pension, and "excessive" welfare spending.

Badenoch pointed to a warning from Lord O'Neill that the prime minister's tone during his Tuesday Commons debut would have unsettled investors, although the peer had also said that spike was mostly mirroring US market upheaval concerning the Iran conflict.

The Gentlemen: Stars of Netflix show react to Meghan speculation at series 2 premiere
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It has been almost two weeks since reports emerged that the Duchess of Sussex was in talks for a role in The Gentlemen.

At the world premiere for series two of the Netflix show on Wednesday night, stars including Maya Jama, Hugh Bonneville and Theo James remained tight-lipped about the prospect of Meghan joining the cast.

“It’s fascinating to watch, but ultimately it’s a lot of rumour,” James told BBC News, while Jama said: “I’d be the last person to know!”

The show’s executive producer said he didn't want to say yes or no to the reports about Meghan, but added they were looking forward to “more energy and surprises” to come.

The Gentlemen, a comedy action series about a duke turned drug baron, created by Guy Ritchie, was a major hit when it first dropped in 2024.

The show has officially been greenlit for a third series. Talks with Meghan are understood to be in the early stages, but the details of the discussions and any role she might be offered have not yet been revealed.

Faisal Islam: Why bond market wildfire is keeping world leaders up at night
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The biggest factor pushing up rates is the credibility of the borrowing plans set out by major countries. The increase is not based on fears about countries "going bankrupt".

But it is based on the brutal market equation that if a country wants to borrow more, and to do so without a credible plan, especially if there are doubts over the stability of a given government, it should expect to pay a higher rate.

Influential economists lean on different factors. Mohamed el-Erian told me the AI competition in bond markets was the biggest new factor.

Lord Jim O'Neill, says the recent action has been caused by uncertainty about US policy, and in particular efforts by the US Government to try to manage down surging yields.

This brings us to the UK. The profound and rolling instability of multiple prime ministers, chancellors, policy U-turns and the seeming inability to push through major structural change in this country over the past decades, has attracted a premium.

It was part of Sir Keir Starmer's strategy to try to take on boring reforms and offer markets stability in a bid to lower borrowing costs.

It was a shock to many in the markets that despite a landslide majority, Labour could not push through plans to cut Britain's welfare bill. This added to the ups and downs in the gilt markets - the trade in British government debt.

Actually, there are signs of green shoots in the underlying economy. Economic growth has been faster than peers so far in 2026, despite the energy price spike.

Measures of consumer confidence have ticked back up again. The PM is hoping to build on these signs to help rebuild the economy.

But the ongoing rout in global bond markets raises serious questions about the coherence and detail of Burnham's broader plans.

"More public control" and more support for those struggling with the cost of living sounds like a plan for more spending, while the former could turn off potential investors looking at the country.

Burnham's former economic adviser, Lord O'Neill, told me yesterday that the PM's 10-year plan, expected in November, needs to set out how he will tackle "excessive spending".

Lord O'Neill believes showing investors he can be decisive on the state pension or the welfare bill will give him breathing room to focus on his favoured infrastructure investments.

As interest rates tick up, the trade offs facing the prime minister only get more difficult.

King Charles, Macron and Burnham arrive to view Bayeux Tapestry at British Museum
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The King and Queen, Macron and his wife Brigitte, and Burnham and his wife Marie-France van Heel were given the chance to see the historic embroidery in the atmospheric darkness of the British Museum.

It's displayed in a long glass illuminated cabinet, with the figures remarkably vivid for something almost a 1,000 years old, and visitors file along, following the story of the Norman invasion.

The royal visitors had a close look at key scenes in the tapestry, including the Coronation of King Harold and his death in battle.

It's filled with details of medieval life and the King commented on Normans pulling a cart with "an enormous amount of wine".

Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy said the final scene, showing King Harold with an arrow in his eye, was what she found the most dramatic.

"We've just been talking to all the schoolchildren, and that's the bit that they really liked and really registered with them," she said.

"And it's amazing actually that a tapestry that is 1,000 years old can still inspire people to feel such emotion and capture such drama after all this time."

Nandy said she was inspired by the way this epic depiction of conflict had "come to symbolise probably the biggest act of friendship on behalf of the French nation".

Sending the tapestry to the British Museum was announced by Macron during a state visit to the UK in July 2025, as an emblem of the strong partnership between the countries.

There had been fears that moving the fragile tapestry could risk causing damage, but French government sources said display conditions at the British Museum were "ideal".

The French authorities welcomed the way that visitors in London would see the tapestry lying flat, rather than upright, with this believed to be better for the conservation of the fibres.

It also allows viewers to get a clearer view of all the animals, plants and often bawdy images sewn around the margins of the main narrative.

It is believed the final scenes of the tapestry have been lost or destroyed, as it has not always had such careful owners. In the 18th Century, during the French Revolution, it was rescued from being cut up to make covers for soldiers' carts.

EU and Nato vow to step up pressure on Russia after 'new escalation' in Leipzig
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The heads of Nato and the European Commission have warned that Russia is growing increasingly reckless and vowed to respond to a "new normal".

"Leipzig marks a new escalation on European Union soil directly attributed to Russia," said Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, a day after Germany blamed Russia for a failed drone attack last month on Leipzig airport.

"We have to step up and that means being ready to respond to Russia's recklessness faster and better," von der Leyen said. Nato Secretary General Mark Rutte said the whole alliance, which includes the US, stood "in full solidarity with Germany".

Russia has rejected German accusations that a drone carrying explosives deliberately targeted a Ukrainian cargo plane on 4 August.

The drone was defused by a robot at Leipzig/Halle airport and a second drone is thought to have collided with another cargo plane.

A third drone was reportedly found 10 days later at the airport, which is an important Nato hub and is regularly used by Ukrainian Antonov transport aircraft.

It was not until Tuesday that the German government said police investigations and intelligence finding had proved that Russia was behind the incidents.

The interior minister said that the drone's configuration, components, explosives and detonator were all known from other Russian hybrid operations.

Two suspects have reportedly been identified in the Leipzig attack, including a Belarusian with a Russian passport who entered on a tourist visa, and another with Latvian and Russian passports who arrived by plane in Berlin and flew out two days before the failed attack.

Protests in Spain over government's handling of Ceuta migrant crisis
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Thousands of people have protested in cities across Spain over the government's handling of the influx of migrants to the Spanish exclave of Ceuta on the north African coast.

Spanish opposition parties accuse Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez of abandoning the residents of Ceuta, while the government says right-wing parties are exploiting the crisis.

On Wednesday a police report said Moroccan security forces showed "total permissiveness" during the unprecedented influx, days after Sánchez insisted Morocco was not responsible.

He has blamed trafficking gangs and online misinformation for encouraging people to cross the border. Morocco has denied orchestrating or being involved in the mass crossing.

At least 72,000 migrants crossed from Morocco into Ceuta on 30 and 31 July and although most have returned, as many as 5,000 remain in makeshift camps or scattered across the city's streets or on the beach - leading to unrest in the autonomous city in North Africa and a crisis for Sánchez.

There have been near-daily protests by locals, with demonstrators calling for the migrants to be sent back to their countries of origin or redistributed across Spain.

Wednesday's rallies were called by city councils across Spain where opposition parties - the conservative Partido Popular (PP) and the far-right Vox party - govern or have significant popularity.

Demonstrators called on Sánchez to resign.

PP leader Alberto Núñez Feijóo was at the rally in Madrid, where more than 50,000 people gathered, according to government figures.

"A Spanish city has been invaded, occupied and, unfortunately, this happened with the knowledge of the Government of Spain," he said.

Vox leader Santiago Abascal meanwhile said Sánchez was "at the service, like a lackey, of the Moroccan regime".

DNB: Netherlands bank moves billions in gold to London in 'crisis preparedness' move
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The Dutch central bank (DNB) has confirmed that billions of dollars in gold has been taken out of north America and relocated to London, citing "increasing geopolitical unrest".

DNB said on Wednesday that 86 tonnes of gold had been removed from the US and Canada in a complex operation that took several months. It is now being held by the Bank of England, where the precious metal can be traded more easily "in a crisis situation".

Bank president Olaf Sleijpen said the move was "necessary to strengthen our resilience and preparedness".

The decision comes amid an ongoing trade dispute between the US and Canada, with both countries announcing fresh tariffs on each other after failed trade talks.

DNB said the transfer, which took place between March and August, saw 27 tonnes of gold bars moved from New York and Ottawa to Zeist in the Netherlands.

A similar quantity and quality was then moved to London, with no need to melt the bars down.

Exactly how so much gold was transported across the Atlantic Ocean has not been revealed.

The rest of the transfer was carried out by selling the gold in New York, and repurchasing it in London, the bank said, external.

"Combining the processes of buying and selling and physical transport has allowed DNB to spread the risks associated with such a complex physical gold relocation," the statement said.

DNB did not confirm what it was referring to with its mention of "geopolitical unrest" but the US economy remains in an uncertain position due to the country's ongoing war with Iran, which has impacted global trade.

Canada, meanwhile, has been hit hard by US tariffs on its key sectors of steel, aluminium, lumber and automobiles as well as an additional 50% levy on about C$28bn ($20bn; £15bn) of Canadian goods announced in August.

DNB said that gold that is held with the Bank of England "is regarded as the world's most easily tradable gold," and therefore more readily available in a crisis than if it was still in the US or Canada.

Prior to Wednesday's announcement, the DNB held 31.3% of its gold in New York and 19.7% in Ottawa. This has now fallen to 18.5% in both countries.

The total Dutch gold stock was 612.4 tonnes at the end of 2025 and has been valued at €72.2 billion, DNB said.

The bank's share of gold in London has increased from 18.1% to 32.1% after the move, while it still holds 30.8% of its reserves in the Netherlands.

'Nothing but mud and silt' - the village swept away by deadly floods in Nepal
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After the catastrophic flash floods along the Nepal-Tibet border a week ago, more than 1,000 people have died and nearly 4,000 more are missing, according to Nepal's disaster agency.

The BBC has travelled to the district of Betrawati in Nepal, as some people return to their homes to see the devastation caused by the floods.

South Asia correspondent Azadeh Moshiri spoke to a local, who is still waiting for his his wife's body to be retrieved as rescue efforts continue.

More on this story.

Watch: Trump 'happy' that Prince Harry and Meghan left the US
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President Donald Trump said he is "happy" that Prince Harry and Meghan left the US because he was not a fan of them. He added that they treated the Royal Family with "great disrespect".

His comments come after the couple announced they are moving back to the United Kingdom after living in California for six years.

Which famous scenes are in the Bayeux Tapestry?
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The Bayeux Tapestry exhibition is going to be open to the public at the British Museum in London from 10 September.

The 70m (230ft) tapestry, originally embroidered in England but kept for centuries in France, tells the story of the Norman Conquest and the Battle of Hastings in 1066.

Sending the tapestry to the British Museum had been announced by Macron during the French state visit to the UK in July 2025, as an emblem of the strong partnership between the countries.

The tapestry is on loan until July 2027 and is going on public display in London from 10 September. The BBC's culture and media editor Katie Razzall take a look at the what people can expect to see.

More on this story.

Will Lindsay Clancy trial end in mistrial? Here are the options
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After a gruelling five-week murder trial, Lindsay Clancy's fate rests with 12 anonymous jurors. And they cannot make up their minds.

The jury of nine women and three men have told the judge, two days in a row, that they cannot reach a unanimous decision. Despite the judge's continued urging that jurors keep at it, the struggle has raised the prospect of a mistrial in Clancy's case.

"It is desired that the case be decided," Judge William Sullivan told the panel on Wednesday afternoon, after members sent him a second note saying they are undecided after five days.

He read a mandatory, formal set of instructions and sent them back - some with frustrated expressions on their faces.

The 36-year-old former nurse does not dispute that she killed her two sons and daughter in 2023 in the basement of their family home in Massachusetts. But her lawyer argues she was suffering from postpartum psychosis at the time, and therefore could not distinguish right from wrong.

The prosecution claimed Clancy made a calculated, intentional decision to kill them and knew right from wrong in that moment. She is charged with three counts of first-degree murder.

Under US law, the jury must unanimously reach a conclusion "beyond a reasonable doubt". If they cannot, the judge can call a mistrial, which ends the trial with no verdict.

This jury has several outcomes to choose from. Potential verdicts include not guilty, not guilty by reason of insanity, first-degree murder, second-degree murder, and manslaughter.

Iranian attack on Saudi tanker killed two sailors, Saudi Arabia says
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Saudi Arabia has condemned what it said was an Iranian attack on a Saudi-owned supertanker on Monday night that killed two Filipino sailors.

The Saudi national shipping company, Bahri, confirmed on Wednesday that its vessel Sidr was "involved in a security incident while transiting the Strait of Hormuz".

Sidr was hit by projectiles north of Oman's Musandam Peninsula, according to maritime security firms. A South Korean-owned supertanker, Senegal Prosperity, was reportedly struck east of Musandam around the same time.

Iran has not responded to the Saudi allegation. But it said earlier that two tankers had caught fire after hitting mines while using an unauthorised route through the strait.

The news of the sailors' deaths came after the US military carried out a wave of air strikes on Iran and Iranian forces targeted US bases in neighbouring Arab states with missiles and drones in their biggest exchange of fire since July.

On Wednesday Iran's health minister said 18 people were killed and 108 injured in the US attacks. Iran has accused the US of a "war crime" over a strike that killed four people including two children at a wedding party in the southern city of Sirik. The US military said it was looking into the reports.

Shipping company Bahri's statement said the unspecified "security incident" affecting Sidr happened in the Strait of Hormuz at around 23:40 local time (19:40 GMT) on Monday.

"It is with profound sadness that Bahri confirms the loss of two of its Filipino seafarers as a result of the incident," it added. "The company extends its deepest condolences and heartfelt sympathies to their families, loved ones, and colleagues during this difficult time."

Later, the Saudi foreign ministry expressed the kingdom's condemnation of "Iran's targeting of the Saudi tanker (Sidr) while it was transiting the Strait of Hormuz".

It also condemned the recent Iranian attacks on Jordan, Bahrain and Kuwait, and stressed the "need to halt escalation and respect the security and safety of international navigation", as well as the security of global energy supplies, national sovereignty, and international law.

The statements were issued a day after maritime risk management and intelligence firms Marisks and Kpler reported that two tankers each loaded with two million barrels of Saudi crude oil were struck by unknown projectiles within minutes of each other as they transited outbound through the Strait of Hormuz late on Monday.

Sidr was struck by "unknown projectiles" at 19:52 GMT about 16 nautical miles (30km) north-east of Khasab, Oman, while Senegal Prosperity was struck by "three unknown projectiles" about 17 nautical miles east of Khasab, according to Marisks.

The UK Maritime Trade Operations agency also reported two incidents in the same locations.

Jury still unable to reach unanimous decision in Lindsay Clancy case
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For a second time in two days, jurors in the trial of Lindsay Clancy told the judge they could not agree on a verdict.

Clancy is a 36-year-old Massachusetts mother and former labour and delivery nurse who is on trial for the murder of her three young children in 2023. She is accused of strangling her kids - Cora, five, Dawson, three, and Callan, who was eight months - in their Massachusetts home.

London mayor Sadiq Khan's untaxed car conviction to be withdrawn
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The DVLA has said a criminal prosecution against mayor of London Sir Sadiq Khan will be withdrawn after he was convicted of not taxing a 24-year-old Nissan Micra.

The Labour politician, 55, was found guilty of keeping an unlicensed vehicle by a magistrate last month in a criminal prosecution brought by the DVLA.

Court documents show letters addressed to the mayor about the unpaid tax bill were sent to Gordon Ramsay's east London restaurant and the car did not belong to the mayor.

A spokesperson for the mayor said: "This is a scam, which is a crime. It's not the first time the mayor has been victim of a scam involving people falsely stating that Sadiq is the owner of a vehicle."

The mayor's adviser told BBC London earlier that the DVLA was "urgently" looking into reopening the case and withdrawing the prosecution.

The DLVA said the withdrawal had been accepted but it needed to be formally reopened and withdrawn, which will be done at a hearing at Hereford Magistrates' Court on Thursday.

The DVLA will also investigate the false registration, the adviser said.

The magistrate, sitting in a private hearing of the Single Justice Procedure in Herefordshire, previously convicted Khan in his absence and ordered that he pay a £220 fine, £85 in costs, and settle the £35.84 bill for unpaid tax on the Micra.

After the mayor expanded the Ultra Low Emission Zone (Ulez) to cover the whole of London he faced a wave of protests, including from motorists who said they planned to register their car in his name - supposedly to make him liable for the £12.50 daily charge.

South African airline behind daring stadium stunt cancels next flyby
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The South African airline behind a stunt which saw two planes flying in close formation low over a packed stadium, has cancelled a similar operation this weekend.

Airlink confirmed it had withdrawn its application for the display set to take place before South Africa's rugby match with New Zealand in Johannesburg on Saturday, citing a poor weather forecast.

The airline's flying feat divided opinion, with some labelling the startling manoeuvre reckless while others praised the precision and expertise.

It comes as the the country's aviation regulator said that while it had approved the application for the flyby, it was now reviewing the operation following "discussions in the media".

Footage of last weekend's air show before the start of the match in Cape Town was shared around the world.

Flight tracking website Flightradar24 said that according to its analysis "the lead aircraft passed less than 50ft (15m) above the top of the stadium".

From some angles the jets appeared very close to the roof of the DHL Stadium as they roared over amid coloured flare smoke.

The South African Civil Aviation Authority (SACAA) said on Wednesday it would review the incident.

"Following various discussions in the media relating to the events of the past weekend, the SACAA initiated compliance verifications, engaged the operator, obtained the Flight Data Recording downloads as well as other additional requirements," it said in a statement.

It also revealed a flight simulator to practice for the Saturday flight was used as part of the approvals process.

Uber announces 3,000 job cuts as part of major restructure
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Uber is cutting more than 3,000 jobs worldwide as part of a major overhaul designed to shrink management layers and refocus spending on its core business.

The cuts amount to roughly 10% of its global workforce, bringing staffing back to levels last seen in 2021.

Chief executive Dara Khosrowshahi told staff in a company email that the taxi and delivery firm had expanded quickly but accumulated too many layers and small teams that slowed decision‑making.

He said the reductions would put Uber, which has its global head office in San Francisco, US, in a better position for its "biggest opportunities ahead of us".

The move marks one of Uber's largest restructurings in years and signals a shift towards a leaner operating model.

Shares rose nearly 2% after the announcement, with investors appearing to welcome the proposals.

Cuts affect both managers and non-managers, and Uber said it plans to fold many of its smallest teams into larger groups, however, the firm has not confirmed the locations most affected by job cuts.

Such changes are intended to make Uber "simpler" and "faster," while freeing up money to reinvest in areas it considers central to its future, Khosrowshahi said.

The restructuring comes as Uber steps up investment in autonomous vehicle partnerships and expands its ride‑hailing, delivery, and robotaxi operations.

Uber is also tightening up its office strategy, asking nearly all employees to work in person at designated hubs and limiting remote roles to about 1%.

Analysts said the layoffs could generate up to $2bn in annual savings.

Unlike many large technology companies that have cut jobs amid heavy spending on artificial intelligence (AI), Uber had avoided major reductions since the pandemic.

The latest changes bring its workforce back to just under 30,000 people, roughly where it stood before its most recent period of expansion.

Man City transfer news: New midfield but major Haaland gamble
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Manchester City have completed their squad overhaul - including a fully revamped midfield - to the tune of £458m, a new Premier League record for a summer window.

But that eyewatering sum does not tell the full story.

New Manchester City boss Enzo Maresca received the full backing of director of football Hugo Viana in his first transfer window in charge after replacing Pep Guardiola. Indeed, City's record transfer fee was twice broken this summer.

A joint-British record £125m was spent on Maresca's former Chelsea skipper Enzo Fernandez after £116m was committed on Elliot Anderson from Nottingham Forest. Morocco international Ayyoub Bouaddi, 18, was also brought in for £86m. The trio accounted for the bulk of City's summer incomings.

The departures of captain Bernardo Silva, 2024 Ballon d'Or winner Rodri, Tijjani Reijnders and Nico Gonzalez means the City midfield has been completely transformed.

Senior club sources are said to be delighted by the business done not only during the past couple of months but in January too, when plans were brought forward to sign long-term targets Antoine Semenyo and Marc Guehi.

And if the clock is rewound further back, Manchester City's rebuild of the team that won the 2023 Champions League really began in January 2025 after a difficult start to that season.

Just four players remain from the starting eleven and substitutes from the night they beat Inter Milan in Istanbul to win the continent's biggest club prize.

Maresca now has the luxury of calling upon two established players in almost every position. City feel the squad is stronger at this point than at the beginning of last season which they believe has been achieved by remaining calm and trusting the transfer strategy.

However some big questions remain.

How will their new midfield signings all fit together?

And, despite the vast amount of money spent, have they actually left themselves without a back-up to Erling Haaland?

US Open 2026 results: Katie Boulter wins just one game in 58-minute US Open defeat by Karolina Muchova
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British number one Katie Boulter endured a "bad day at the office" as she won just one game in a 58-minute demolition by Karolina Muchova in the US Open second round.

The match, originally scheduled to be played on one of the outer courts, was moved to the 14,000-capacity Louis Armstrong Stadium after heavy rain in New York.

But fans who had counted themselves lucky to have gained a third match on their day session ticket may have been left feeling short-changed, as Boulter fell to a swift 6-1 6-0 defeat by the Czech seventh seed.

"Ultimately, it was a bad day at the office – times two," said Boulter.

"I struggled with the conditions. I struggled with the roof, the noise, I let things distract me.

"I let it get to me. I'm not usually aware of everything going on. It made me feel a little bit uncomfortable. I have to deal with it better."

Fellow Briton Jacob Fearnley also failed to reach the third round as he suffered a 6-3 6-3 3-6 6-3 loss to Argentina's Tomas Martin Etcheverry.

But Francesca Jones had better fortune as she returned to win her first-round match against Poland's Magda Linette after it was interrupted by rain on Tuesday.

Boulter's serve let her down as she hit eight double faults and no aces, while she won just 33% of points behind her first serve.

Unable to fend off any of the seven break points she faced, the 30-year-old was not helped by an unforced error count of 22 compared to just four winners.

In comparison, Wimbledon runner-up Muchova landed 14 winners and just nine unforced errors as she impressed with smart drop shots and piercing groundstrokes.

"I would be really humbled [if I was Boulter], I would sit down with my team and say 'OK, we need to change something big time'," former world number five Daniela Hantuchova told BBC Radio 5 Live.

"First of all, it was very obvious today that it was the serve. I feel like it needs to be cleared up because she was losing the rhythm and not using her legs. That's the number one thing.

"If I am Boulter, I would be on the practice court tomorrow. If she still wants to invest everything into her tennis then she needs to be on the court."

Boulter has had plenty to celebrate in her personal life this summer after marrying Australia's Alex de Minaur, the world number seven, in July.

However, it has been a disappointing tennis season for the world number 62, with just two wins across the four Grand Slam tournaments.

Since suffering a first-round exit at Wimbledon, Boulter has won just two of the six matches she has played.

Joshua vs Fury: Tyson Fury calls Anthony Joshua a 'coward' as wait continues
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Tyson Fury has labelled Anthony Joshua a "coward" as the pair face a tense wait to see whether their long-awaited all-British heavyweight bout can be agreed.

The long-time rivals had been expected to finally settle their differences and face off in November, but the likelihood of that happening is diminishing as an agreement over the venue has yet to be reached.

Two-time unified world champion Joshua and his Matchroom promoter Eddie Hearn have signed a contract for the fight to take place in the United Kingdom, while the fight's organisers are understood to favour staging it in the United States.

Hearn has previously said the contracts would have to be renegotiated if the fight were to take place outside the United Kingdom.

On Wednesday, Fury, who defeated journeyman Mariusz Wach last month to keep the potential blockbuster clash with Joshua on track, said negotiations over the fight were becoming "quite tiring".

"I've been down to fight at every location that's been mentioned - England, Ireland, Vegas, New York, back to England, back to Ireland, back to New York," said the 38-year-old.

"Listen, I've said yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, every single time. Zero stipulations.

"The facts are I feel like you're being a coward. I feel like you don't want the fight and you're just conning everybody. I feel like you've been doing that for years.

"You've had many opportunities to fight me, but deep down you've never really wanted it, so let's see if you're going to man up for a final time."

In a separate post, Fury continued to taunt Joshua, 36, this time alongside former heavyweight champion Mike Tyson, telling his fellow Brit to "sign the contract, big boy" as he paid homage to Tyson's iconic line.

Queensbury's Frank Warren, who promotes Fury, told Sky Sports News his fighter was "100%" signed up for the fight.

"It is signed by Tyson," said Warren. "Tyson is signed up for the fight and agreed for the fight."

Tara Davis-Woodhall 'lucky to be alive' after car crash
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Olympic long jump champion Tara Davis-Woodhall says she is "lucky and blessed to be alive" after being involved in a car crash.

The 27-year-old American was on her way to training last week when she was involved in a "very scary" head-on collision, leaving her with a "severe" concussion.

While not ruling herself out of this month's inaugural World Athletics Ultimate Championships in Budapest, the reigning world champion says she has been unable to train since the accident.

"Luckily I walked away without any major injuries," Davis-Woodhall wrote on social media.

"At this point I'm working with my team and doctors to get healthy, but I'm not sure if I will be ready to compete at Ultimate Championships next week. More updates to come."

Davis-Woodhall said her injuries were not life-threatening but that both cars, which were going at about 20mph, were written off.

"It's really unfortunate timing; I am at the peak of my training right now," she said.

"I'm as fast as I've ever been. I'm as strong as I've ever been. So this decision is very difficult for me. I don't know where I am right now."

The championships in Hungary start on 11 September, where athletes will compete for a top prize of £111,000.

The competition brings together Olympic, world and Diamond League champions, as well as the year's leading performers in a three-day end-of-season event.

Davis-Woodhall won long jump gold at the 2024 Olympics in Paris, before winning the Worlds in Tokyo a year later.

Celtic transfer latest: Van den Berg & Lotomba join Johnstone, Mheuka & Emenalo in signing
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Johnstone, who won the last of his four England caps in 2023, made 17 appearances last season but lost his starting place at relegated Wolves in December and has not played since an FA Cup loss to Liverpool in early March.

"I'm buzzing to be here and I'm excited to get going," said the goalkeeper, who began his career at Manchester United and has had spells at Aston Villa, West Bromwich Albion and Crystal Palace.

"I didn't need convincing by anyone, but Joe Hart rang me the other day just to reiterate what a place this is, what a great group of lads and how the fans are unbelievable.

"You hear about the size of the club, but just being here for a day, you notice how big the club is. And the pressure to win, which is what I like - pressure to win, pressure to perform and we all want to win trophies."

Kasper Schmeichel had been first choice at Celtic since the summer of 2024, but played his last game in February and subsequently retired because of a shoulder injury.

Manager Martin O'Neill said Johnstone would be "a very good addition" and that Mheuka has "great quality".

O'Neill also said new left-back Emenalo "has many attributes which I think can benefit us", adding he is "very quick on the ball and, while he can defend, he certainly gets up the pitch into attacking positions too."

NBA: Los Angeles clippers fined $30m over Kawhi Leonard deal
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The LA Clippers have been fined $30m (£22.2m) by the National Basketball Association (NBA) for violating salary rules in order to funnel millions of dollars to star player Kawhi Leonard.

The fine - the largest in the league's history - comes after the NBA report said Leonard pressured the Clippers into "obtaining off-court income opportunities [and] successfully obtaining those opportunities".

The Clippers will also have to forfeit five first-round draft picks between 2029 and 2033, while owner Steve Ballmer has been suspended from all league and team activities for 12 months for his role in matters involving Leonard's sponsorship contracts during his time with the franchise.

The NBA said the Clippers had been guilty of "knowingly seeking to help Mr Leonard obtain off-court income opportunities".

NBA commissioner Adam Silver said he was "deeply disappointed" by the Clippers' "flagrant violations" of the rules and said he believed the "severity of the penalties reflects the seriousness of the violations".

Two-time NBA champion Leonard has been fined $700,000 (£518,997) by the league.

The team's president of business operations, Gillian Zucker, has been suspended for one year without pay for providing "misleading statements to investigators".

The punishments come after the NBA said its month-long investigation "found a pattern of misconduct and multiple significant rules violations by the Clippers organisation, a prior offender of the salary-cap circumvention rules".

Following the ruling, Leonard, 35, said he "accepts full responsibility" for his actions and "regrets the distraction this situation has caused the fans and my family".

"I entered into my contract with the Clippers as well as the agreements in question in good faith, fully committed to fulfilling my obligations and with no knowledge of any intent on anyone's part to circumvent the salary cap," he wrote on Instagram.

The two-time NBA Finals MVP joined the Clippers in 2019 and spent seven years with the franchise before leaving earlier this year.

The NBA said both the "organisation and personnel" of the Clippers will be subject to a compliance and monitoring programme overseen by the league for five years.

NBA: Los Angeles clippers fined $30m over Kawhi Leonard scandal
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The LA Clippers have been fined $30m (£22.2m) by the National Basketball Association (NBA) for violating salary rules in order to funnel millions of dollars to star player Kawhi Leonard.

The fine - the largest in the league's history - comes after the NBA report said Leonard pressured the Clippers into "obtaining off-court income opportunities [and] successfully obtaining those opportunities".

The Clippers will also have to forfeit five first-round draft picks between 2029 and 2033, while owner Steve Ballmer has been suspended from all league and team activities for 12 months for his role in matters involving Leonard's sponsorship contracts during his time with the franchise.

The NBA said the Clippers had been guilty of "knowingly seeking to help Mr Leonard obtain off-court income opportunities".

NBA commissioner Adam Silver said he was "deeply disappointed" by the Clippers' "flagrant violations" of the rules and said he believed the "severity of the penalties reflects the seriousness of the violations".

Two-time NBA champion Leonard has been fined $700,000 (£518,997) by the league.

The team's president of business operations, Gillian Zucker, has been suspended for one year without pay for providing "misleading statements to investigators".

The punishments come after the NBA said its month-long investigation "found a pattern of misconduct and multiple significant rules violations by the Clippers organisation, a prior offender of the salary-cap circumvention rules".

Following the ruling, Leonard, 35, said he "accepts full responsibility" for his actions and "regrets the distraction this situation has caused the fans and my family".

"I entered into my contract with the Clippers as well as the agreements in question in good faith, fully committed to fulfilling my obligations and with no knowledge of any intent on anyone's part to circumvent the salary cap," he wrote on Instagram.

The two-time NBA Finals MVP joined the Clippers in 2019 and spent seven years with the franchise before leaving earlier this year.

The NBA said both the "organisation and personnel" of the Clippers will be subject to a compliance and monitoring programme overseen by the league for five years.

美國明尼阿波利斯市中心槍擊案 至少1死6傷
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(中央社明尼阿波利斯2日綜合外電報導)美國官員與醫院方面表示,明尼阿波利斯市中心今天下午發生槍擊案,造成至少1人死亡、6人受傷,有關當局已派員前往現場因應。

美聯社報導,明尼阿波利斯警察局(Minneapolis Police Department)警告民眾避開那個區域。目前尚未公布有關傷者人數與其狀況的進一步資訊。

明尼蘇達州州長華茲(Tim Walz)在社群媒體上發文表示,州政府官員已抵達現場,協助地方執法機關因應這起槍擊案。

華茲說:「感謝執法人員今天下午積極投入,確保明尼阿波利斯市中心鄰里居民的安全。明尼阿波利斯正在為我們的第一線救援人員祈禱。」(編譯:張曉雯)1150903

義大利威尼托區通過安樂死法案 創右派轄區先例
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(中央社記者黃雅詩羅馬2日專電)義大利北部威尼托大區(Veneto)今天通過安樂死法案,此法案規範「醫療協助終結生命」的程序與框架,威尼托成為全義首個右派執政下通過安樂死法案的行政區。

義大利憲法法院2019年通過判決,將「醫療協助終結生命」除罪化,但義大利國會至今未通過全國性的「生命終結法」,因此義大利部分區政府開始通過相關法案,以解決行政問題。

義大利目前另有托斯卡尼(Toscana)、薩丁尼亞島(Sardinia)、艾米利-羅馬那(Emilia-Romagna)等3個行政區通過安樂死法案。

威尼托大區今天表決該案以32票贊成、5票棄權、14票反對獲得通過。右派執政聯盟意見分歧,「義大利兄弟黨」(FDI)全數投下反對票,聯盟黨(Lega)有11人投下贊成,其中包括威尼托大區主席柴亞(Luca Zaia),「義大利力量黨」(FI)投下1張贊成票。

柴亞強調,他希望這並非挑釁之舉,是想傳遞一個訊息,為了避免義大利各地方政府訂定50部不同法律,義大利國會應盡快訂定一部全國性安樂死法律,這才是大家真正需要的。

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根據義大利憲法法院判例,申請安樂死患者必須通過專家組成的道德委員審查,審查標準相當嚴苛,必須同時符合4大要件,包括「病情無康復可能」、「身心遭受無法忍受折磨」、「具備完全行為能力可自主決定」、「依賴維生設備存活」。

在嚴格限制標準下,實際獲得道德委員會同意安樂死的案例很少。柴亞表示,威尼托大區從2019年迄今共有31件安樂死申請案,只有3件獲得道德委員會同意。(編輯:張芷瑄)1150903

珍惜生命,自殺不能解決問題,生命一定可以找到出路。如果需諮商或相關協助可撥生命線專線「1995」或張老師服務專線「1980」。

展現控制權 川普暗示要將荷莫茲海峽改名為川普海峽
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(中央社華盛頓2日綜合外電報導)美國總統川普今天建議,應將荷莫茲海峽(Strait of Hormuz)更名為「川普海峽」(Trump Strait)。儘管美國對伊朗戰爭尚未結束,這條關鍵水道實際上受誰控制權仍有爭議。

法新社報導,川普(Donald Trump)在他的社群媒體平台「真實社群」(Truth Social)發文表示:「既然荷莫茲海峽已在美國控制之下,我們是否應該將它改名為『川普海峽』?就像美國一樣,它會因此空前『熱門』!」

這遠非川普首次提議地理名稱變更。他1週前才在美國與加拿大如火如荼貿易戰期間,下令將兩國間的安大略湖(Lake Ontario)改名為「美國湖」(Lake America)。

去年1月他重返白宮上任首日,也將美國南方的墨西哥灣(Gulf of Mexico)改名為「美國灣」(Gulf of America)。

川普先前所做的名稱變更,許多一開始只是他以幽默口吻談論,但之後他都說到做到讓這些言談成為現實。

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川普近幾週已數度揚言要讓美國宣稱擁有荷莫茲海峽主權。他甚至發布1張地圖,將這道海峽標示為「美國新領土」。

然而,荷莫茲海峽目前仍受到伊朗有效封鎖。美軍昨天才再度打擊海峽附近,川普稱是為了回應伊朗新一波布雷行動。(編譯:張正芊)1150903

華爾街日報:馬爾地夫成俄羅斯避制裁秘密樞紐 西方防不勝防
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(中央社莫斯科2日綜合外電報導)「華爾街日報」獨家報導,馬爾地夫已成為俄羅斯規避制裁的秘密樞紐,有數億美元的西方商品經此運往莫斯科,西方官員只能像打地鼠般疲於奔命。

南亞群島國家馬爾地夫擁有白色沙灘、碧綠海水與僻靜豪華度假村,每年吸引數以百萬名遊客。然而,在明信片般的完美景致背後,一種新的貿易活動正悄然形成-由多家企業形成的網絡,協助俄羅斯規避制裁。

根據「華爾街日報」檢視過的文件及與西方官員的訪談,價值數億美元的受限制商品,或是運往遭制裁企業的商品,在馬爾地夫機場易手。

其中一些商品具有軍民兩用性質。根據有關文件及官員說法,機場的貨艙經常裝滿飛機零件、電子零組件及其他受限制商品。

與俄羅斯規避制裁的主要管道相比,經由馬爾地夫流通的商品金額相對較小。俄羅斯規避制裁的主要管道包括中國、土耳其和阿拉伯聯合大公國,這3國每年合計涉及約150億美元的俄羅斯受限制進口商品。

但經由馬爾地夫的商品流通此前並未被報導,顯示俄羅斯規避西方限制措施的行動範圍之廣,就連全球一些不起眼、令人意想不到的地方,都成為商品流通的管道。

在4年多的戰爭期間,俄羅斯當局一再展現找出制裁漏洞的能力,讓西方官員在試圖切斷維持俄羅斯戰爭機器和經濟運轉的商品流動時,只能像打地鼠般疲於奔命。

馬爾地夫政府以及營運該機場的馬爾地夫機場公司(Maldives Airports Company)未回應置評要求。(編譯:陳正健)1150903

雪佛龍砸70億美元投資委內瑞拉 5年內石油產量將翻倍
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(中央社紐約2日綜合外電報導)國際石油企業雪佛龍公司今天宣布與委內瑞拉達成一項價值70億美元的協議,將在委內瑞拉奧利諾科石油帶(Orinoco Belt)開發2個新油田,預計5年內產量將增加一倍以上。

根據雪佛龍(Chevron)發布的新聞稿,該公司持有49%股權的合資企業「石油獨立」(Petroindependencia)將在委內瑞拉重油產區─奧利諾科現有的作業區附近,再開發2處新油田,使日產量提升至約60萬桶。

法新社報導,今天的舉措是以4月宣布的措施為基礎,做進一步發展。當時雪佛龍宣布,將其對合資企業「石油獨立」的持股增加13.2%;作為交換,雪佛龍則將離岸天然氣開採權等資產,歸還給委內瑞拉國營石油公司(PDVSA)。

雪佛龍執行長沃斯(Mike Wirth)指出,雪佛龍已在委內瑞拉經營超過一世紀,相信該國「雄厚的資源潛力」可望轉化為未來「數十年」的持續投資。

自今年1月以來,雪佛龍在委內瑞拉的產量已提升。

當時美軍抓捕時任委內瑞拉總統馬杜洛(Nicolas Maduro),且美國總統川普(Donald Trump)的政府之後開始與委國臨時總統羅德里格斯(Delcy Rodriguez)合作,推動對石油資源豐富的委內瑞拉加碼投資。

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美國能源部長萊特(Chris Wright)昨天抵達委內瑞拉,準備完成一項協議,這項協議使美國可控制約1/5的委內瑞拉石油儲量。

在雪佛龍公司的新聞稿中,執行長沃斯讚揚萊特致力於「促成更多投資與成長的有利條件」。(譯者:高照芬/核稿:楊昭彥)1150903

美能源部長:委內瑞拉石油產量將突破每日200萬桶
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(中央社卡拉卡斯2日綜合外電報導)美國能源部長萊特(Chris Wright)今天表示,委內瑞拉石油產量在這個十年結束前將突破每日200萬桶。

法新社報導,根據萊特在接受美國財經媒體CNBC專訪時引用的數據,這一產量水準是美軍1月生擒時任委內瑞拉總統馬杜洛(Nicolas Maduro)時的兩倍以上。

萊特說:「起初,我們的日產量略低於100萬桶,如今已超過120萬桶。」

他告訴CNBC:「到這個十年結束前,委內瑞拉的產量將超過每日200萬桶,意思是委內瑞拉石油產量將大幅成長。」

萊特是在今天稍晚相關協議簽署前發表上述談話,其中包括一份賦予美國控制委內瑞拉約1/5石油儲量的協議。

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同日,美國石油巨擘雪佛龍(Chevron)宣布,將透過與委內瑞拉國家石油公司的合資企業,對委國投資70億美元,使產量在5年內提升至兩倍以上。

不過,包括埃克森美孚公司(ExxonMobil)及康菲石油公司(ConocoPhillips)等其他美國企業,在2007年相關投資案遭委內瑞拉徵收後,至今尚未宣布新的投資計畫。(編譯:楊昭彥)1150902

埃及債務高 債息幣值物價三重夾擊經濟更為頭痛
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(中央社記者施婉清開羅2日專電)埃及公共債務規模龐大,長期被視為經濟最大弱點之一。但從國際貨幣基金公布的債務占國內生產毛額(GDP)比率來看,埃及卻非全球負債最嚴重國家;專家認為:「債務利息支出沉重、貨幣頻繁貶值、物價居高不下的低成長循環」才是問題癥結點。

埃及媒體「麥斯拉維」(Masrawy)8月底引述國際貨幣基金(IMF)截至今年4月資料指出,埃及政府債務約占GDP的87%,全球排名第27。日本以204.4%居首;新加坡171.9%居次;蘇丹以169.1%居第3;巴林以152.4%列第4。西方大國中的美國約125.8%、法國118.4%、英國103.6%。

報導另說,相較其他中東、北非地區的阿拉伯國家,突尼斯約84.9%、約旦81.8%、摩洛哥約65.8%、阿爾及利亞59.2%;而部分海灣產油國的負債率則明顯較低:科威特為22.3%,阿聯為31.4%,沙烏地阿拉伯為32.1%,阿曼王國為32.7%,卡達為43.3%。

曾任職於歐洲某銀行埃及辦事處的金融顧問胡珊(Hossam)告訴中央社記者,單純以「債務占GDP比率」來分析,埃及並非全球債務最危險的國家;但埃及更大的困境在於,個人均所得相對較低、外匯收入有限、貨幣曾大幅貶值且變動多,卻背負GDP占比極大的政府債務,同時還必須支付龐大的利息和償還外債。

換言之,埃及雖然並非全世界最會借錢的國家,但埃及既缺乏如海灣地區產油國擁有龐大的能源收入,也非似日本、新加坡等高所得國家擁有高融資能力。因此,以同樣的87%高債務比來看,對埃及經濟造成的壓力,可能遠高於其他部分高所得國家。

此外,胡珊還提及,埃及政府目前最大的財政壓力之一是債務利息,而非債務總額。埃及中央銀行現行隔夜存款利率為19%、貸款利率20%,仍處高位,這代表埃及政府為籌措資金所付出的成本極高。

擔任埃及一家建築設計師事務所負責人的阿里(Ali)則向中央社表示,埃及今天的債務危機具有長期歷史背景,且埃及的主要外匯收入皆深受國際局勢變動而影響,如觀光、蘇伊士運河收入、僑民匯款、及外國投資。

阿里進一步解釋,2011年埃及爆發阿拉伯之春(Arab Spring)革命後,政治與社會局勢動盪,以觀光、僑匯和外國投資為主的外匯收入一一受到重創,政府財政赤字逐漸擴大。2013年政治局勢逐漸穩定後,政府又開始大力推動道路、橋梁、能源、港口及新行政首都等大型基礎建設,加速累積龐大建設資金需求背後的債務負擔。

埃及政府2016年接受IMF的120億美元貸款計畫,並讓埃鎊大幅貶值後,外債占比即開始明顯增加。接著2020年爆發的COVID-19疫情讓埃及觀光業慘淡數年;2022年的俄烏戰爭進一步推高埃及進口糧食與能源價格,且外資又撤出埃及債券市場;2023年加薩戰爭及紅海航運危機,更讓蘇伊士運河通行費收入及觀光業面臨新壓力。

埃鎊過去數年受幣值大幅貶值影響,使得大量的進口食品、藥品、汽車、電子產品及工業原料價格上漲;政府又同時依照IMF改革要求逐步削減燃料和電力等補貼,使得上調的能源價格又透過運輸與生產成本轉嫁到其他商品,節節升高的物價使得埃及民眾的生活痛苦指數也不斷增加。

埃及「金字塔報」」(Al Ahram)8月一篇報導曾指出,IMF預期埃及公共債務未來可逐步下降,預計到2030/31年度可降至70.8%。

阿里認為,真正的考驗不只是能否把87%降到70%,而是能否在降低債務的同時仍能維持經濟成長,讓民眾實質所得成長速度重新超過物價。否則埃及仍可能長期陷入「債務下降有限、利息支出沉重、貨幣頻繁貶值、物價居高不下」的低成長循環。

阿里說:「對人口超過1億的埃及來說,這才是比全球債務排名更迫切的經濟挑戰。」(編輯:韋樞)1150902

G20財長會議重點一次看 俄方出席歐洲反彈、未發聯合公報
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(中央社北卡羅來納州艾西維爾2日綜合外電報導)G20輪值主席國美國本週積極推動對伊朗制裁及縮減貿易失衡。因中國反對批評其出口戰略等表述,G20未能發表聯合公報。華府則為俄羅斯參與辯護,稱未干擾討論。

聚焦成長、全球失衡及伊朗制裁

去年美國拒絕參與南非主導的20國集團(G20)進程後,美國財政部長貝森特(Scott Bessent)8月31日至9月1日在北卡羅來納州藍脊山脈(Blue Ridge Mountains)城巿艾西維爾(Asheville)舉辦G20財政部長及中央銀行總裁會議。

貝森特將這次G20會議定位為推動全球經濟成長、解決經濟失衡及討論主權債務重整的場域。

路透社報導,美國財政部高層官員於會前表示,總統川普政府預計在會中促成G20主要經濟體的財金領袖同意採取行動提振經濟成長、降低全球失衡並且解決主權債務挑戰,同時要求各方切斷伊朗的經濟命脈。

俄財長現身引歐洲反彈

俄羅斯財政部長希魯阿諾夫(Anton Siluanov)現身G20會議桌,引發歐洲官員強烈反彈。

「時代雜誌」(TIME)報導,俄羅斯雖然仍是G20成員,但是自從2022年2月全面入侵烏克蘭以來,該國財長一直未曾親自出席G20峰會。歐洲官員持續致力於為挑起戰釁而孤立莫斯科。

美方會前並未公開預告俄羅斯將出席本次會議。此舉令歐洲領袖感到不滿,有消息指出,部分官員拒絕在大合照中與希魯阿諾夫同框。最終,貝森特僅在場邊與他合影。

歐洲領袖、美國國會議員對俄羅斯出席紛紛表達不滿。

當被問到此事時,川普向記者表示:「我們靜觀其變,但我們喜歡與每個人和睦相處。我之所以這麼成功,其中一個原因就是我跟每個人都處得來。」

中國1比19否決 G20公報流產

為期兩天會議結束後未發表聯合公報。

「經濟學人週刊」(The Economist)報導,貝森特指出,有19個與會國同意發布聯合公報來譴責那些「存在過度且持續對外順差」、「導致經濟成長過度依賴出口的扭曲因素」的國家。令人難以理解的是,2025年創下1兆2000億美元歷史新高貿易順差的中國對此表示異議。

「金融時報」(Financial Times)報導,兩名美國官員及一名歐洲聯盟執行委員會(European Commission)高層官員指出,中國反對「非市場政策」這一用語。美國官員指出,包括日本、法國、英國、歐盟、印度和俄羅斯在內成員國都同意「採取措施消除加劇失衡的非市場政策和作法」有其必要。

根據官員說法,中國也反對任何提及「關鍵礦物」的內容。

同時,出於對其聲稱擁有主權的台灣海峽和南海恐有後續影響的顧慮,中國還抗拒關於確保荷莫茲海峽(Strait of Hormuz)航行可預測性的章節。

被問到為何中國反對已經獲得多數成員同意的條文時,一位美國高層官員表示:「他們難辭其咎。如果我們擔心的是持續性扭曲市場行為,那麼他們就是最嚴重的罪魁禍首。讓G20出現19比1的局面,簡直令人難以置信。」

這場歧見發生在中國國家主席習近平預計3週後訪問華府與川普舉行高峰會,以及3個月後G20領袖年度峰會將在邁阿密(Miami)舉行之前。

盟友怨美國阻礙全球成長

「紐約時報」(The New York Times)報導,本週G20會議中幾乎每一場會議都由貝森特開場,他盛讚川普領導下的美國經濟表現,呼籲其他國家起而效尤。

但是美國盟友們並不總是買單。來自歐洲、加拿大及其他友好國家代表於會議期間多次批評美國政策,認為那些作法損害其本國經濟。

他們表達對美國與伊朗戰事的不滿,因為戰爭已經擾亂能源市場和航運秩序。他們也質疑貝森特上個月突然決定出售美國持有的歐元,協助日圓走強,以及美國政府與加拿大之間不斷升級的口水戰和關稅戰。

報導指出,儘管場面大體上保持客氣禮貌,這些歧見卻反映出歐洲和其他地區對於川普施政作風的愈加不滿。他們認為,川普政策在多方面阻礙全球經濟成長,而這正是貝森特強調美國政府「全力專注」的議題。

康乃爾大學(Cornell University)經濟學家、國際貨幣基金(IMF)前中國事務主管普拉薩(Eswar Prasad)指出:「儘管美國採取強硬措施,連G20中的美國傳統盟友如今都明顯與川普政府施政重點公開分歧。」

矛盾最明顯的是美國與其北鄰加拿大。貝森特8月31日在峰會接受CNBC訪問,談到加拿大時語帶輕蔑說:「我不認為可以與一個比你大13倍的對手針鋒相對。」

加拿大財長沈潘(François-Philippe Champagne)昨天在與貝森特會面前強硬回應。他表示,將會告訴貝森特,「我們會捍衛加拿大的勞工、產業與國家」。

G7討論對烏克蘭支持

會議期間還討論「支持烏克蘭」的議題,七大工業國集團(G7)在場邊進行相關磋商。

法新社報導,莫斯科今夏對基輔加強襲擊,美國斡旋的談判仍陷入僵局,克里姆林宮則繼續堅持其極大主義的停火條件。

德國財長克林拜耳(Lars Klingbeil)昨天表示,針對平民的「野蠻火箭攻擊正不斷增加」、「這一切必須停止」。

克林拜耳表示,他與其他歐洲財長「已經非常明確表達我們對烏克蘭的立場」。他說,G7領袖8月31日深夜召開會議時,烏克蘭財長也透過連線參與支援基輔的討論。(編譯:何宏儒)1150902

美商務部長:擬加徵半導體關稅 在美生產可豁免
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(中央社華盛頓2日綜合外電報導)美國商務部長盧特尼克(Howard Lutnick)今天表示,川普政府正制定對半導體加徵新關稅的計畫,若企業在美國生產,則可豁免關稅。

盧特尼克接受美國財經媒體CNBC節目Squawk Box訪問時指出,所有主要晶片製造商都已知道美方正研議這些新關稅。若企業承諾在美國生產產品,就能避免這些關稅。

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他提及:「你們將看到的是,有針對性且經過審慎考量的關稅政策,基本上就是,如果你在這裡生產,就不用繳關稅。」

盧特尼克還說:「但如果你不在這裡生產,就得準備支付進入全球最大市場的代價。」(編譯:陳正健)1150903

談半導體 副總統:台灣現有地位非理所當然
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(中央社記者葉素萍台北2日電)副總統蕭美琴今天出席由SEMI國際半導體產業協會及TSIA台灣半導體產業協會共同舉辦的「2026科技菁英領袖晚宴」,她表示,台灣應為共同建立的成就感到驕傲,但絕不能將現有地位視為理所當然;面對未來,台灣必須持續學習、投資及調適,並與國際夥伴攜手合作。

總統府發布新聞稿指出,蕭副總統晚間出席由SEMI國際半導體產業協會及TSIA台灣半導體產業協會共同舉辦的「2026科技菁英領袖晚宴」,數百名國內外產官學研人士與會。

副總統致詞分享,日前SEMI國際半導體產業協會全球董事會主席吳田玉曾表示,面對未來,必須「抱持謙卑前行」。她認為,用這句話形容台灣也非常貼切。

蕭副總統表示,台灣應該為共同建立的成就感到驕傲,但絕不能將現有地位視為理所當然。面對未來,台灣必須持續學習、投資及調適,並與國際夥伴攜手合作。

晚宴中,蕭副總統頒發「SEMI半導體女性領袖表彰」給台積電企業永續顧問何麗梅,並頒發「產業貢獻獎」給傑出產業界人士,肯定他們在半導體產業發展上的卓越領導與長期投入。(編輯:黃國倫)1150902

美國伊朗衝突不斷 國際油價續漲
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(中央社紐約2日綜合外電報導)伊朗今天對約旦、巴林和科威特等駐有美軍的國家發動報復攻擊,美國總統川普也表示,美方準備好隨時再度打擊伊朗,中東戰事持續升級,國際油價應聲進一步走揚。

紐約商品交易所西德州中級原油10月交割價上漲0.9%,收每桶91.01美元。

倫敦北海布倫特原油11月交割價上揚1%,收每桶95.63美元。(編譯:張正芊)1150903

川普:美國準備隨時再次攻擊伊朗
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(中央社華盛頓2日綜合外電報導)美國總統川普今天表示,美國已準備好隨時再次攻擊伊朗,對伊朗的新一輪軍事行動不會持續太久。

川普在白宮橢圓形辦公室告訴記者,伊朗正試圖製造一枚能投放水雷的火箭,美國已將其摧毀;伊朗一直致力於恢復雷達和飛彈系統,而這些系統也是美軍打擊的目標。

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他指出:「我們摧毀了他們試圖在荷莫茲海峽(Strait of Hormuz)沿線建造的所有新設備,有些用於防禦,有些用於攻擊。」

川普還說:「我們昨晚炸毀的可不只是他們的雷達。昨晚的攻擊非常猛烈,我們已準備好隨時再次攻擊。」(編譯:陳正健)1150903

連跌後吸引逢低買氣 美股收高
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(中央社紐約2日綜合外電報導)美國股市今天收盤上漲,將過去連續3個交易日的跌勢局部收復。投資人尋找在近期避險氣氛下可能超賣的股票和類股,來逢低進場布局。

道瓊工業指數揚升295.07點或0.56%,收53061.95點。

標普500指數上揚35.13點或0.46%,收7666.60點。

那斯達克指數上漲118.06點或0.45%,收26217.83點。

費城半導體指數上升50.64點或0.45%,收11339.25點。(編譯:張正芊)1150903

前球王梅迪維夫、女網世界排名第3皮古拉 闖進美網第3輪
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(中央社紐約2日綜合外電報導)世界排名第3的美國女網好手皮古拉(Jessica Pegula)及前世界球王梅迪維夫(Daniil Medvedev),今天雙雙在美國網球公開賽一盤未失晉級第3輪。

法新社報導,2024年美網單打亞軍皮古拉,今天僅花56分鐘,就以6比3、6比1輕取曾在澳洲網球公開賽奪冠、目前世界排名第110的同胞科甯(Sofia Kenin)。

皮古拉整場比賽發球局僅丟7分,她賽後表示:「我只是努力保持專注在我需要做的事情上。」

皮古拉是本屆美網後可能取代莎芭蓮卡(Aryna Sabalenka)登上世界球后的3名球員之一,她接下來將對上也曾闖入美網決賽的加拿大女將費南德茲(Leylah Fernandez)。

本屆大會第7種子的梅德維夫雖在熱身賽表現吃力,但他今天面對世界排名第731的美國外卡選手葛茲尼(Sebastian Gorzny),展現絕佳優勢,以6比1、6比3、7比5淘汰對手。

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梅德維夫全場共送出14記愛司球,並化解唯一遭遇的破發點。他表示,前2盤葛茲尼的表現或許不是最佳狀態,但第3盤激烈許多,所幸他也感覺拿到更多破發點,給對手更大壓力。

今天賽事焦點,還有接下來將上場的男女單打各自衛冕冠軍艾卡拉茲(Carlos Alcaraz)與莎芭蓮卡。(編譯:張正芊)1150903

陸軍攜手樂天桃猿辦「阿迷趴」 司令呂坤修開球
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(中央社記者吳書緯台北2日電)為慶祝軍人節,陸軍司令部今天攜手中華職棒樂天桃猿隊,在桃園棒球場舉辦「阿迷趴」主題賽,由陸軍司令呂坤修上將擔任投手開球,5架阿帕契攻擊直升機於投球瞬間,以大雁隊形飛越球場上空,為球迷帶來不同以往的觀賽體驗。

陸軍司令部晚間發布新聞參考資料指出,「阿迷趴」主題賽為樂天桃猿年度特色主題活動,今年活動以陸軍元素融入球場設計,球團特別以羅馬數字ARMY XIV結合迷彩,再融入陸軍司令部部徽設計專屬聯名臂章,象徵雙方以交流合作方式,傳遞守護信念。

陸軍表示,「阿迷趴」透過職業運動交流平台,結合軍事特色展演、球場活動及官兵互動,讓民眾以更貼近生活的方式,認識陸軍官兵守護家園的使命與專業形象,展現陸軍多元活力。

開場活動由陸軍專科學校學生組成展旗隊率先登場,展護陸軍司令旗及樂天桃猿隊旗,當選國軍楷模及模範團體的官兵代表領唱國歌;同時601旅黑鷹直升機吊掛國旗飛越球場上空,掀起另一波注目高潮。

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陸軍提到,開球彩蛋由呂坤修擔任投手、政戰主任樓偉傑中將擔任捕手,形成這次「阿迷趴」的「五星級開球」亮點,除了5架阿帕契攻擊直升機飛越球場上空,球場內也同步播放「嶄新陸軍」形象影片,呈現官兵投入戰演訓任務、精實訓練及日常勤務的多元面貌,讓民眾更加了解陸軍。

陸軍表示,透過與職業運動交流合作,使國防議題以更多元方式融入民眾生活,拉近軍民距離。未來將持續透過各項交流活動,展現官兵專業素養與精實戰力,深化全民國防共識,與民眾攜手守護國家安全。(編輯:林家嫻)1150902

哈利王子夫婦搬回英國 川普酸:樂見他們離開美國
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(中央社華盛頓2日綜合外電報導)美國總統川普今天表示,他很高興英國哈利王子(Prince Harry)及其美國籍妻子梅根(Meghan Markle)已離開美國;如果他是英國王室成員,就不會讓他們回來。

法新社報導,在哈利王子與梅根從加州蒙特斯托(Montecito)的住所搬回英國一週後,川普在白宮橢圓形辦公室告訴記者:「我很高興。我本來就不支持他們。」

他指出:「我認為他們對王室極為不敬。我不喜歡這樣。我不喜歡她(梅根)的行事方式。我認為她對女王、對國王查爾斯三世(King Charles III)都極為不敬。」

6年前,哈利與梅根曾因尖銳批評英國王室,與王室關係惡化,隨後離開英國前往美國,如今他們已重新在英國安頓下來。

哈利近期幾次訪英期間,似乎已與正在抗癌的父親查爾斯三世修復關係。但據報導,哈利與兄長威廉王子(Prince William)及其妻子凱特王妃(Catherine, Princess of Wales)依然關係不睦。

川普表示:「也許我不一樣。我不會讓他回來,對吧?如果我是王室成員,我不會讓他們回來。」(編譯:陳正健)1150903

老虎伍茲就佛州車禍案達成認罪協定 駕照吊扣5年
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(中央社塔拉哈西2日綜合外電報導)美國高爾夫球名將老虎伍茲(Tiger Woods)於3月底在佛羅里達州住家附近發生車禍,他今天就「危險駕駛」(reckless driving)指控達成認罪協定。

美聯社報導,老虎伍茲在佛羅里達州馬丁郡(Martin County)出庭,並接受前述程度較輕的控罪,法官則勒令吊扣駕照5年。

老虎伍茲現年50歲,他先前對於「在受影響情況下開車」(driving under the influence)的指控不承認有罪。

事發當時,老虎伍茲在佛羅里達州朱比特島(Jupiter Island)一條道路上開著一輛運動休旅車,卻撞到一台貨車的後方且導致自己車輛側翻,隨後他被逮捕。

警方報告指出,警員在老虎伍茲的口袋中發現止痛藥,他表現出精神恍惚跡象。

雖然老虎伍茲通過酒測,但他拒絕接受尿液檢查。

他曾告訴警方,撞到貨車時,自己正低頭看手機並切換電台頻道。(編譯:陳彥鈞)1150902

Palo Alto Networks paid $500M for Thrive-backed Console, sources say
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Palo Alto Networks paid $500 million in cash and stock to acquire Console, a two-year-old startup that uses AI agents to automate routine IT help desk tasks, according to two people with knowledge of the deal.

The companies officially announced the acquisition on Tuesday but didn’t reveal terms of the deal. Since its founding in 2024, Console has raised $29 million across two rounds: a $6.2 million seed led by Thrive Capital and a $23 million Series A co-led by DST Global and Thrive.

Before the sale, Console was valued at $157 million, according to PitchBook, delivering a rapid return for investors including SV Angel, Abstract Ventures, and notably Palo Alto Networks CEO Nikesh Arora, who participated as an angel investor. Palo Alto Networks declined to comment.

The cybersecurity giant said that it will integrate Console into Cortex, its platform that uses AI to automatically detect and neutralize threats. Console’s agentic functionality will allow security teams to investigate and resolve alerts using natural language, giving Cortex “the arms and legs to deliver autonomous security outcomes across the entire enterprise,” as Arora described in a statement.

Console was founded by Andrei Serban, coming shortly after his previous startup — a code-security platform Fuzzbuzz— was acquired by Rippling. The startup, whose customers included Ramp, Flock Safety, and Scale AI, automated tasks like password resets, granted access to apps like Figma and Miro, and performed routine troubleshooting without direct human involvement.

As a startup, Console competed primarily with Serval, another ServiceNow challenger that hit a $1 billion valuation after raising a $75 million Series B round led by Sequoia last December. Serval started as an AI tech support tool and quickly expanded to provide AI assistance for human resources, legal, and finance departments. Console’s acquisition leaves Serval as the category-leader-to-watch among startups automating IT service management, one investor, who is not a backer of Serval, told TechCrunch.

Console is Palo Alto Networks’ seventh acquisition in 2026, according to PitchBook. Other VC-backed companies scooped up by the cybersecurity behemoth this year include Greylock and Lux Capital-backed observability platform Chronosphere, at a valuation of $3.35 billion, and Koi, a cyber startup backed by Battery and Team8, for $400 million.

TechCrunch Disrupt 2026’s new Real World AI Stage features Nvidia, robots, and extinct animals
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At our past TechCrunch Disrupt events, AI has taken center stage, both throughout our programming and in a stage of its own. This year, the technology, implications, and players are so rapidly developing and widespread that we’re expanding the single AI stage into two!

The AI Stage will continue as you’d expect, with a rundown of sessions and speakers available for review right here. But the Real World AI Stage is brand-new for TechCrunch Disrupt 2026.

On this stage, we’ll be focusing on that intersection between the digital and physical, and all the ways we’ll continue to see a blending of the two, as autonomous hardware goes beyond self-driving cars and enters public spaces, battlefields, our homes, and even potentially helps extinct species reenter Earth.

It’s a packed lineup featuring speakers from Shield AI, Colossal Biosciences, FieldAI, Foxglove, and more still to come. You can join in on all the excitement October 13 to 15 at San Francisco’s Moscone West, so register to attend right here.

But in the meantime, here’s the breakdown of our Real World AI Stage lineup:

Robots Are Waiting for Their ChatGPT Moment. Here Is What Is Standing in the Way

Large language models had the internet. Self-driving cars have millions of hours of road data. Robots have neither. That data gap is the single biggest reason most experts believe general-purpose robotic intelligence is still years away, despite the breakthroughs happening everywhere else in AI. A new wave of startups is racing to close it, building the data pipelines, simulation environments, and foundation models that could trigger the same capability explosion we saw with LLMs. This session asks the hard question: what does the ChatGPT moment for physical AI actually require, and how close are we really?

With Les Karpas, Head of Physical AI, Nvidia

Building AI Systems When Failure Is Not an Option

When AI enters the physical world, the consequences of failure change. A mistake could lead to a grounded aircraft, a vehicle crash, or a compromised mission.

In this session, leaders who are building autonomous vehicles, defense technologies, and industrial systems will talk about one of the toughest questions that every hard tech founder must face: How do you know when your system is ready to be safely deployed?

We’ll dig into how founders can create a safety culture, test and validate AI, navigate regulatory hurdles, and build companies that can earn trust when the stakes are high.

With Nate Michael, CTO, Shield AI

Can We Engineer Nature’s Comeback?

Ben Lamm has built one of the most controversial companies in tech by turning de-extinction from science fiction into a billion-dollar business. In this fireside chat, the Colossal Biosciences CEO will discuss the technologies used to revive extinct species, the role AI plays in modern biology, and the growing debate over whether engineering nature is a conservation breakthrough or a distraction from protecting what’s already here.

With Ben Lamm, CEO, Colossal Biosciences

Operating at the Edge: How AI Works When the Cloud Doesn’t

The most valuable AI deployments in the world operate where the cloud can’t reach. And building for them requires a different technological playbook.

This session brings together leaders from defense, space, and industrial AI who will share how they have tackled the challenge of making AI work at the edge — where latency matters, connectivity is limited, and failure isn’t an option. Expect practical lessons on architectural principles, design decisions, and trade-offs that make AI-centric systems work in the real world.

With Dr. Ali Agha, CEO and founder of FieldAI; Michelle Lee, CEO and founder, Medra; and Aidan Madigan-Curtis, partner, Eclipse Ventures

From Prototype to Production: Can it scale in reality?

A prototype that works is not a product. A product that ships is not a scaled business. The gap between each of those stages is where most deep tech startups die. Founders might have the right team and tech, but they fail to understand what it takes to bring a prototype into production and eventually scale to higher, profitable volumes.

This session brings together founders who have crossed that gap in space hardware, humanoid robotics, and autonomous systems. They’ll share what they got wrong, what they’d do earlier, and what the prototype-to-production journey looks like when supply chains and manufacturing realities replace lab conditions.

With John Mackey, CEO, co-founder, MBRYONICS; Boris Sofman, co-founder and CEO, Bedrock Robotics; and Adrian Macneil, CEO, Foxglove

There’s plenty more in store for you at Disrupt 2026 — after all, that’s just one stage’s worth of programming! For a sense of what else you’ll get to access, we’ve also announced the:

Disrupt Stage, featuring top speakers from Replit, Amazon, Tether, and more.

AI Stage, digging into the security gaps and business model shifts AI is forcing on every SaaS company.

Smart Money Stage, covering stablecoins, instant payments, and AI’s role in financial trust.

Smart Systems Stage, tackling the fusion breakthroughs and grid strain powering AI’s next decade.

Builders Stage, where founders and investors get tactical about raising, hiring, and scaling.

Be part of Disrupt 2026 in San Francisco from October 13–15, where more than 10,000 startup, tech, and VC leaders come together for three days of insights, Startup Battlefield, unparalleled networking, and access to every stage and the exhibition floor.

Register today!

Google spared from ad-business breakup, but judge orders changes to how it operates
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The Justice Department has spent years attempting to break up Google’s gargantuan advertising business across two separate antitrust lawsuits: one filed in 2020 focused on Google’s dominance in search, and a second filed in 2023 that specifically targeted Google’s ad-technology business. Both cases argued that the search giant’s grip on the digital ad economy represents an illegal monopoly.

Courts have largely sided with the government in both cases. In 2024, a court determined that Google’s search business, including its exceedingly lucrative search-ad operation, was an illegal monopoly, claiming that the tech giant had “exercised its monopoly power” to dominate the search industry and search ads. Last April, a second court case — this one focused specifically on Google’s ad-tech business — also came to the same conclusion.

Following the 2024 ruling, Justice Department officials suggested a variety of ways Google’s search business could be broken up, including divesting its Chrome browser and Android operating system. But in September 2025, the judge overseeing that case, Amit Mehta, rejected those divestiture requests, ruling that Google could keep both Chrome and Android. He did order the company to end exclusive default-placement deals and share certain search data with competitors (remedies that Google is currently appealing).

That same pattern held this week. In a ruling handed down on Wednesday, federal judge Leonie M. Brinkema of the Eastern District of Virginia, who oversaw the ad-tech case, said that Google would be able to keep its advertising business. Instead of selling it, the search giant will instead be required to adjust its business practices to favor competitors, Brinkema said. The New York Times notes that the judge’s ruling “did not provide specifics” as to how Google should go about doing that.

Brinkema’s full written ruling will remain under seal for 14 days to allow those involved to issue necessary redactions. Her finding that Google had acted illegally in maintaining its ad-tech business dates back to April of last year; this week’s decision addressed only the remedy.

Unsurprisingly, Google framed the outcome as a win. Lee-Anne Mulholland, Google’s vice president for regulatory affairs, told TechCrunch: “We’re very pleased the Court rejected the DOJ’s proposal to break apart tools that help small businesses reach new customers and grow.”

The online advertising ecosystem is notoriously opaque and byzantine and, for most people unfamiliar with its complexities, difficult to grasp. Much of the government’s ad-tech case against Google revolved around the company’s tactics to ensure that its search engine was the default engine in devices across the world, which in turn helped its ad business dominate as well.

To do this, Google used exclusive agreements with device manufacturers, which made it the default search engine across huge swaths of the mobile phone market, the government has argued. Google also entered into revenue sharing agreements with mobile carriers — deals where carriers earned a cut of ad revenue in exchange for keeping Google as the default — that further cemented its position as the de facto search engine across phone markets.

OpenAI’s new reasoning technique alarms AI safety experts
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OpenAI’s new Astra model will use a reasoning technique called “recurrent depth” that allows it to operate outside of the sequential thinking that characterizes most reasoning models, The Information reported on Tuesday. This technique, also called “opaque recurrence,” will likely make the model’s chain of thought more difficult to monitor — and that has AI safety experts rattled.

While Astra’s use of the technique is reportedly limited, its emergence has still raised significant concerns among AI safety experts.

“I am extremely concerned by the reporting that Astra uses opaque recurrence,” wrote Redwood CEO Buck Shlegeris in a post after the news broke. “I don’t know whether Astra is much less CoT monitorable than previous models. But if OpenAI pushes this technique further, they’ll have the option to massively increase the recurrence and totally destroys CoT monitorability.”

Longtime AI safety advocate Zvi Mowshowitz also weighed in and wrote that laws might be necessary to prevent a “race to the bottom” among AI labs.

“The technique is playing with fire, risking a taboo that OpenAI and Anthropic have fought to establish that we work hard to maintain Chain of Thought faithfulness and monitorability for as long as we can,” Mowshowitz wrote. “More intensive use of such techniques would probably damage monitorability.”

Under normal circumstances, a reasoning model’s chain of thought provides the sequential steps taken by the model as it attempts to solve a problem. While the representation is imperfect, it still serves as a valuable tool for monitoring misbehavior or misalignment. In the case of OpenAI’s recent rogue agent activity, chain-of-thought records were an important tool in teasing out why agents behaved the way they did.

In opaque recurrence, the model takes a less linear approach, processing the same query several times in a loop. The result leaves fewer legible traces, effectively side-stepping a conventional chain-of-thought record.

Crucially, Astra’s use of the technique appears to be limited. The model’s chain of thought is still expected to be legible, and the company pushed back against any suggestion that it would shift to “neuralese.” OpenAI has already announced plans for extensive chain-of-thought monitoring systems as part of its forward-looking safety plans.

In a post on X, OpenAI chief scientist Jakub Pachocki emphasized the lab’s commitment to legible chains of thought. “OpenAI has worked to preserve and utilize chain-of-thought monitoring since our very first reasoning models,” Pachocki wrote. “It’s a core goal of our current research program.

All AI models do some quantity of opaque reasoning, and few researchers take chain-of-thought logs as a direct representation of a model’s reasoning. Still, those caveats don’t dispel the concern that opaque recurrence may make AI reasoning harder to monitor, particularly as it grows in use across different models. In a follow-up report Wednesday morning, The Information reported that both Anthropic and Google DeepMind were already discussing the technique.

In a post responding to the news, Redwood Research chief scientist Ryan Greenblatt said opaque reasoning could easily scale faster than conventional chain-of-thought reasoning, effectively removing all reasoning from visible channels.

“My biggest concern is that a natural progression from here would involve scaling up the opaque reasoning to the point where the model reasons entirely or almost entirely in latent space,” Greenblatt wrote. “I hope it isn’t too late to avoid the most concerning architectures and that OpenAI will stop here.”

MapQuest is now the No. 1 US app after bucking Trump’s ‘Lake America’ renaming
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MapQuest’s unlikely comeback just got even bigger. On Tuesday, the “OG” mapping application (and one that many thought no longer existed!) became the No. 1 overall app on the U.S. App Store, up from No. 8 on Monday.

The surge in new downloads was inspired by MapQuest’s refusal to rename Lake Ontario as “Lake America,” after President Trump’s executive order directed the U.S. geographic naming service to adopt the new name amid his ongoing trade push.

After the August 27 order, MapQuest announced on X that it would not change the lake’s name, while both Google Maps and, later, Apple Maps, capitulated. As a result, MapQuest’s U.S. App Store ranking steadily climbed, as consumers downloaded the app to show their support for the company’s stance.

The people have spoken. We are working. pic.twitter.com/WeO7OAJ2T7 — MapQuest (@MapQuest) September 1, 2026

MapQuest’s rank climbed from No. 128 on August 28 to No. 92 the following day, and then hit No. 3 this Monday, August 31, when it was also No. 1 in the Navigation category. By Tuesday of this week, MapQuest had reached the No. 1 spot across both apps and games on the U.S. App Store.

Since the executive order was issued, the app has been downloaded an estimated 632,000 times in the U.S., according to data from market intelligence provider Sensor Tower. Reached for comment, MapQuest said the app had actually seen over 1.5 million installs across the U.S. and Canada combined.

MapQuest also said many of these new users aren’t just casual downloaders; they’re actively engaging with the app.

“What’s been incredible is that people aren’t just installing our app — they care enough to communicate directly with us — making feature requests and submitting bug reports on social, and in our app reviews,” MapQuest GM Doug Berger told TechCrunch via email. “Our small team has been working around the clock to build features people are asking for. We are aiming for everyone to have a great experience with the app,” he said.

The surge has come quickly for the company. More than half of MapQuest’s year-to-date U.S. downloads —56% — have occurred from August 27 through September 1, Sensor Tower’s estimates show. During this time period, the app’s U.S. downloads increased by 123% day-over-day and were up more than 50 times compared to the same period last year, its data indicates.

Part of what made MapQuest’s stance resonate with consumers was its contrast with its much larger Big Tech rivals.

Google last week explained its decision to rename the lake, saying that it updates names to reflect changes in official government sources such as the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) in the U.S. Apple didn’t provide a comment, but likely follows the same guidelines.

As a much smaller player, MapQuest has more freedom to take a stand and buck the typical conventions.

Screenshot Image Credits:MapQuest

This isn’t the first time it’s done so, either. It still calls the Gulf of Mexico by its original name, instead of Gulf of America. It even released a fun online tool that lets you jokingly rename Lake Ontario to whatever you want it to be, then share the results on social media.

Though it was once the original mapping application, MapQuest ceded its crown to Google Maps over the years. It’s now owned by the internet advertising company System1, which acquired the property from Verizon in 2019. The telco had bought MapQuest’s initial acquirer, AOL, in 2015.

It sure looks like hackers breached a major ID card verification service
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If you have handed over your driver’s license, passport, or other form of identity document to verify your information in the real world, like at a bar, a weed store, or when booking a car rental, there’s a good chance it’s now been stolen in a suspected massive data breach.

That’s according to a jaw-dropping report by independent security journalist Brian Krebs, who says a company used to verify government-issued identity documents in the real world was likely hacked and its vast stores of people’s ID cards were exfiltrated.

Krebs reports that an identity theft site called Nexus, which launched on the dark web this week, claimed to allow users to search through more than 150 million driver’s licenses and passports belonging to people who live in the United States and Canada. A post advertising the site on a known Russian cybercrime forum said Nexus added about half a million new documents daily, sourced from a “major identity verification company,” implying that the hackers had near real-time access to the identity verification company’s systems.

The advert claims that “customer photos are displayed if available.” Krebs found that his own driver’s license was among the searchable records in the database, confirming that the data was authentic. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth was also among the people whose photos were listed on the identity search site.

A spokesperson for the Department of Defense told TechCrunch that it is “aware of these reports and is evaluating them.”

Working with security researcher Zach Edwards, whose ID card was also stolen in the breach, Krebs identified the likely source as the identity verification service IDScan. The Louisiana-based company is relied on by major tech and consumer brands to verify tens of millions of people’s IDs around the world each month.

IDScan chief executive Jimmy Roussel did not return TechCrunch’s request for comment, but the company’s chief operating officer Jillian Kossman told Krebs that the company was investigating. Krebs said the FBI’s field office in New Orleans is also probing the breach. A spokesperson for the FBI did not respond to TechCrunch’s inquiry about the breach.

Nexus went offline shortly after Krebs’ report went live.

This data breach comes as governments are increasingly rolling out age-verification laws, which largely rely on requiring adults to upload their identity documents to verify that they are old enough to enter a website or app. Security experts and privacy advocates have long warned that companies storing vast amounts of people’s identity documents for long periods of time put that data at risk of theft by hackers.

By all accounts, this would be the largest known single breach of identity documents in some time.

Delivery Hero board backs Uber’s $15B takeover bid
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In Brief

Delivery Hero’s board has signed off on Uber’s $15 billion takeover offer and recommended shareholders approve the deal, which would create one of the largest on-demand food delivery platforms in the world.

After reviewing the offer, Delivery Hero’s supervisory and management boards said it was in the best interests of the company, its shareholders, employees, and other stakeholders. The boards also deemed that the price was “fair and adequate” and said the deal had the “potential to accelerate product innovation.”

The deal, if approved, would double Uber’s global footprint and make its delivery platform one of the largest in the world outside of China. It could also put Uber in a better position to compete with DoorDash and Just Eat Takeaway.

Uber, which was already the largest shareholder in Delivery Hero, set a minimum acceptance threshold of 50%, plus one share of Delivery Hero’s outstanding share capital.

Prosus, another major shareholder, has agreed to sell its 17% stake in Delivery Hero as well, according to the announcement. Delivery Hero previously agreed to sell its businesses in 14 markets where Uber Eats already operates to New York-based investment firm SSW Partners for $1.6 billion.

The tie-up is the latest example of consolidation in the on-demand delivery industry. In the past 18 months, Uber agreed to acquire Turkey-based Getir for $335 million, Grab said it would buy Delivery Hero’s Foodpanda business in Taiwan for $600 million in cash, and DoorDash said it would pay $3.87 billion for the U.K.’s Deliveroo.

X shifts US creator payouts from Stripe to X Money
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Elon Musk’s social network X on Wednesday said that starting today, all of its U.S. creator payouts will be handled through X Money, the app’s payments service.

This includes payouts from both X’s Original Content Rewards Program and creators’ subscriptions, the company said in an update shared on X.

Starting today, U.S. payouts for Original Content Rewards and Subscriptions will be paid through @XMoney. You'll have access to your payouts the moment they’re sent.



› Already using 𝕏 Money? No action needed. Your next payout will be sent there.

› Not yet on 𝕏 Money? Open… — Creators (@XCreators) September 2, 2026

The benefit of this new payment system is that the payments are instant. There’s no waiting until the end of a billing cycle or a minimum threshold that has to be reached before the creator can access their money. Previously, payments were processed every two weeks, with a minimum payout of $30, X’s documentation states.

However, the announcement’s wording seems to indicate that there aren’t any other options for receiving payments on the platform, meaning X is forcing creators to use X Money even if they would have preferred the prior payout method, which was powered by Stripe.

Reached for comment, a representative for X said the change is required for those in the U.S. Creators outside the U.S. will remain on Stripe.

The shift follows other changes to X’s creator programs. On September 7, X will retire its Creator Revenue Sharing Program, which stopped accepting new members last month. Creators are being shifted instead to the Original Content Rewards Program, which, as the name implies, puts a heavier emphasis on original content.

The company’s new payments service, X Money, began supporting creator payouts earlier this month. The payments offering, a part of Musk’s broader plan to make X an “everything app,” includes a bank card with 3% cash back, instant payments, free ATM withdrawals, and other digital banking services. However, X Money is not a bank; the accounts are held at the FDIC-insured Cross River Bank.

X’s post said creator payouts will also count toward X Money users’ direct deposit requirements to receive the service’s better APY rate. Currently, the service’s website says X Premium users will get a boosted 6% rate, compared to the standard 4% rate.

In addition, X will issue a 1099-NEC for individuals receiving creator payouts. For LLCs, X will collect the organization’s W-9 information to ensure the 1099s are accurate, the company noted.

This article was updated after publication with X’s comment.

US government sides with OpenAI on issue of training LLMs on copyrighted material
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In a lawsuit that The New York Times filed against OpenAI, the Trump administration has contributed a 20-page brief in defense of the ChatGPT maker’s unlicensed use of copyrighted material to train its LLMs.

“The United States has a strong interest in continuing to develop a robust and competitive artificial intelligence industry that sets the standard for the practice and procedure of AI use globally… As such, it is critical for the United States to ‘retain global leadership in artificial intelligence,’” the brief reads, referencing an executive order that President Donald Trump signed last year.

The LLMs powering chatbots like ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini are trained on incomprehensibly massive databases of published works, including copyrighted books, articles, and other media that AI companies feed into these databases without permission. Many publishers, including The New York Times in this case, have sought to argue that it is illegal for AI companies like OpenAI to train AI models on their copyrighted material.

This question — can you use copyrighted material to train an AI? — isn’t black and white, hence the extensive legal debate around the subject. These conversations often center on fair use, a carve out of copyright law that makes exceptions for certain scenarios when it can be ruled legal to use someone else’s copyrighted work without permission. In this case, the fair use debate addresses whether AI companies’ use of copyrighted work is “transformative” enough for a judge to rule it legal.



“Constraining LLM development under a misunderstanding of fair use doctrine would thwart such creative and scientific progress while hindering American prosperity and economic mobility,” the brief says.

So far, cases about AI training and copyright infringement have largely been favorable to AI companies. Last year, Judge William Alsup ordered Anthropic to pay a $1.5 billion copyright settlement to a group of writers whose works were used to train the company’s AI models; but Anthropic wasn’t dinged for its AI training. Rather, the company was fined for using illegal shadow libraries to pirate the books it used for training.

“Like any reader aspiring to be a writer, Anthropic’s LLMs trained upon works not to race ahead and replicate or supplant them — but to turn a hard corner and create something different,” Judge Alsup wrote, comparing the LLM’s training to a human reading a book.

This new Trump administration brief is not a ruling, as the case is being tried in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, and the authors of the brief do not have jurisdiction. However, this intervention by the Trump administration could still carry weight.

Enhanced geothermal notches another win as Google buys 400 MW from Fervo
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Geothermal energy company Fervo notched another win as Google agreed to buy nearly half a gigawatt of electricity to power a planned new data center in Utah.

The power purchase agreement, announced Tuesday, commits Google to buying 396 megawatts from Fervo’s Cape Station power plant in Utah, which is expected to come online in 2028. Google has the option through June 2030 to buy an additional 600 megawatts.

The deal arrives as Google and other hyperscalers are scouring the country for new sources of electricity. For years, Google has been one of the larger purchasers of clean energy in the U.S. and elsewhere, buying electricity from wind, solar, and batteries to make good on its promise to reach net-zero emissions by 2030.

But in April, that goal became harder to reach after Google inked a deal with data center developer Crusoe for 933 megawatts of natural gas power in Texas.

The Fervo deal could help Google fuel its AI ambitions without significantly imperiling its net-zero goal.

Fervo is permitted to develop up to 2 gigawatts of geothermal energy at Cape Station, but Sarah Jewett, Fervo’s senior vice president of strategy, told TechCrunch in May that a third-party engineer said the site holds enough heat to generate twice as much electricity.

If fully developed, those 4 gigawatts would about double the entire geothermal generating capacity in the U.S., according to a recent U.S. Department of Energy report. It’s possible that Google’s gigawatt deal could grow even larger if Fervo’s operations go as planned.

Enhanced geothermal technologies, like the kind Fervo has developed, can tap deeper sources of heat. Using those technologies, the U.S. could generate up to 57 terawatts of electricity, according to the report.

Fervo and Google’s new deal adds to the pair’s long-standing relationship. The companies have been working together for more than five years, with Google buying some of Fervo’s first electrons. Recently, Google invested in Fervo’s last funding round before the geothermal startup went public.

Though Fervo’s stock popped on its first day of trading, it shed those gains and more over the last few months. News of the Google deal, though, drove the stock up about 30% yesterday before traders took some profits today.

Wonderful more than doubles its valuation to $5B in under 6 months
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Israeli-Dutch AI startup Wonderful has raised $550 million in a Series C funding round that gives it a price tag of $5 billion, more than doubling the $2 billion valuation the company gained when it last raised funding nearly six months ago.

Insight Partners returned to lead this round, too, and existing investors Index Ventures, IVP, Vine Ventures, 9Yards, and Bessemer Venture Partners are participating once again. Salesforce is investing in the company for the first time in this round.

Founded in early 2025, Wonderful has grown blazingly fast. It initially saw strong traction with its customer service AI agent platform, which it built and customized to sell in various non-English-speaking markets. Its strategy of deploying engineering teams to work with its customers, sometimes on their premises, to deploy and integrate its AI tech into their workflows and systems also proved very successful. The company says it now works across more than 35 countries.

The startup’s core offering has evolved over the past few months, though. Departing from its customer service roots, Wonderful now offers a platform, dubbed “Wonderful AI OS,” which it says can coordinate and connect agents, workflows, and AI applications with companies’ data, context, and existing integrations. The company says the platform works with any AI model and is compatible with existing tech stacks.

“Customers can adopt whichever parts of the platform make the most sense, integrate them with existing systems, choose the best models for each workload, and retain ownership of everything they build,” Roey Lalazar, Wonderful CTO and co-founder, said in a statement.

The company is still leaning on its forward-deployed engineers to help embed its products quickly into companies — which appears to be a good strategy given the demand for experts versed in implementing AI services and products.

Wonderful said it will use the fresh $550 million to develop products faster, expand its FDE teams, and meet demand for its products.

India’s richest man now wants to turn aging computers into AI-ready PCs
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Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance Jio is opening its cloud PC service to any internet user in India, positioning it as a way to turn aging computers into AI-ready machines without hardware upgrades.

On Wednesday, Reliance Jio expanded JioPC, originally launched in July 2025, beyond its own broadband subscribers, making the service available as a stand-alone subscription to users with an internet connection, regardless of their telecom or broadband provider. The service streams a virtual PC from Jio’s cloud to an existing computer, with plans offering up to eight virtual CPUs, 16GB of RAM, and 1TB of storage.

Jio says the service can give even computers as old as eight years access to the computing power needed for modern AI applications, without users replacing their machines or installing new hardware. Plans start at ₹1,000 (about $11) for two months, while a 12-month subscription costs ₹4,000 (around $42) for 8GB of RAM and 500GB of storage, or ₹5,000 (about $53) for the 16GB and 1TB configuration.

India had more than 65 million PCs in use in 2025, including about 34 million consumer and 31 million commercial machines, according to estimates from IDC, which expects the installed base to approach 69 million by the end of 2026.

Ambani’s move comes amid widening replacement cycles. Consumers and small businesses in India typically replace their PCs every five to six years, compared with four to five years in 2022, IDC’s senior market analyst Bharath Shenoy told TechCrunch. Enterprises are stretching their machines for longer too, with replacement cycles reaching about four years, up from three previously.

Jio is betting that cloud computing can stretch those lifecycles further. By shifting much of the processing and storage away from the device and into its data centers, India’s most valuable company can keep adding computing capacity without requiring users to replace the machines sitting on their desks.

Prabhu Ram, vice president of the industry research group at the Gurugram-based market analyst firm CyberMedia Research, said JioPC could instead create a market where consumers pay for computing capability rather than repeatedly spending on hardware upgrades.

“Jio is broadening its value proposition by opening JioPC to non-Jio users, while also challenging the traditional hardware upgrade cycle,” Ram told TechCrunch.

However, he does not expect that model to replace conventional PCs. JioPC, he noted, could create a parallel, price-sensitive tier for households, students, and others “for whom buying a new AI-capable PC was never really on the table to begin with.”

Indians have traditionally preferred owning their hardware over paying for PCs as a service, Shenoy said. Jio will have to convince consumers that a recurring subscription is worth giving up some of the advantages of a conventional PC, including the ability to keep working without the internet.

That dependence could be particularly prominent in the smaller cities and towns where affordable computing has the most room to grow. JioPC requires a stable internet connection, and any disruption can affect the user experience, unlike a conventional computer.

Additionally, there is competition at the low end from refurbished PCs, which Shenoy said allow consumers to own inexpensive hardware without remaining dependent on connectivity.

Jio’s pitch of an “AI-ready” PC through JioPC also challenges the conventional idea of what an AI PC looks like. The company has not disclosed much about the underlying hardware powering the cloud service. However, the specifications it has provided do not mention dedicated AI accelerators for on-device generative AI workloads, which is a key feature of the new generation of AI PCs.

Moreover, the real test for Jio, Ram said, is whether people come to see cloud computing as a “daily utility” rather than an “opportunistic workaround,” and are willing to pay for computing power instead of buying new hardware.

HiddenLayer nabs $100M as enterprises rush to secure their AI deployments
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When AI security startup HiddenLayer raised its $50 million Series A three years ago, one of the big questions in the space was whether the AI threats the startup was protecting against would manifest in enough quantity to make for a real market. As my former colleague Kyle Wiggers noted at the time, it was difficult to pin down real examples of attacks against AI at scale.

How quickly things have changed. Security companies are now scrambling to build products that can monitor not just agents but also the tools and add-ons they use. While there still aren’t many headlines about agents being exploited, the risk of agents going haywire during production is nevertheless real. And so the market for tools to prevent that from happening has exploded: Gartner estimates companies will spend $2.83 billion this year on products meant to secure AI tools, 83% more than 2025, and expects spending to reach nearly $4.78 billion next year.

HiddenLayer, which makes tools to protect AI models, agents, and workflows from adversarial attacks, vulnerabilities, and malicious code injections, has been able to take good advantage of that shift. Its co-founder and CEO, Chris Sestito, tells TechCrunch that the startup’s annual recurring revenue grew more than 10x over the past year. He declined to give an exact number but said ARR is now in the “tens of millions” of dollars, and over 90% of that growth was driven by new customers signing in the past year.

Financial services and large tech companies building AI products are currently the company’s largest verticals, and it also has contracts with the Department of Defense and intelligence community. One of its customers is apparently a “leading frontier model provider” with “more than 700 million weekly users,” which sounds like OpenAI or Anthropic to me.

To make the most of that momentum, the startup has now raised $100 million in a Series B funding round that was led by Delta-v Capital, with participation from Ten Eleven Ventures, Morgan Stanley, Microsoft’s M12, Booz Allen Hamilton, and others.

The Austin-based startup broadly still sells what it used to in 2023, but Sestito told TechCrunch that the biggest change it’s had to make was to extend its existing products — discovery, runtime protection, attack simulation, and supply chain security — to address prompt injection, agent manipulation, and malicious tool use.

“Inference is still inference. So whether it’s on a traditional machine learning model, whether it’s GenAI, whether it’s an agentic work stream, a lot of our technology still applied. So really, we haven’t had to pivot, but we’ve had to grow our scope … from traditional modeling to GenAI to agentic,” he said.

Sestito stressed that runtime security has especially become a priority as AI deployments grow common across businesses and likened it to traditional endpoint detection and response (EDR) solutions, but specifically for AI.

The company’s new products reflect that shift, and Sestito highlighted a new opportunity for attackers in exploiting open source models. “We parse and scan about 50 different AI file frameworks to make sure that, especially in the case of open source, open-weight models, that the tool you’re working with is the one you believe it to be, and it’s the one it’s purporting to be. We’re looking at things like models purporting to be one thing, but they’re another — hidden models inside of models,” he said.

The startup says the new $100 million is going to help it build in that direction, though with more of a focus on sales and distribution, while continuing to expand its engineering and research. It also plans to expand into Europe and EMEA.

HiddenLayer may find itself tapping that war chest for more, though. Large cybersecurity companies, like Cisco, Palo Alto Networks, and Check Point often prefer to buy rather than build this sort of tech, while startups like Noma and Zenity have raised over $100 million each to take on adjacent or overlapping areas of this space.

Sestito acknowledged that some parts of the AI security products his company offers could eventually be bundled into the platforms built by companies such as Microsoft, OpenAI, and AWS. However, he expects AI infrastructure will grow toward governance features such as discovery, identity, and policy controls, rather than the kind of tools that his company builds.

For now, he says HiddenLayer’s job is to “scale vertically alongside artificial intelligence,” and eventually expand horizontally into parts of cybersecurity that increasingly depend on AI. That’s an ambitious goal, but the startup first has to prove it can turn its head start into an enduring business before the rest of the industry catches up.

PSA: Amazon’s shopping AI can now tell you if that message is a scam
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Amazon is turning to AI to help fight scammers, the company announced on Wednesday. The retailer said some 360,000 customers every year reach out to its customer service department wondering whether a message they received from Amazon is real or a scam. Now, customers will be able to ask Amazon’s consumer AI service, Alexa for Shopping, to help answer that question instead.

The company said its AI can “definitively” confirm whether a communication originated from its own systems by checking it against the billions of messages Amazon has sent globally. The AI analyzes the sender information, content, timing, message metadata, and more, to determine authenticity. Amazon said the system will improve as customers report more suspicious messages, helping it to spot scams more effectively in the future.

The new AI capabilities follow on Amazon’s earlier attempts to address the growing scam problem, which includes fake order confirmations, Prime membership renewal alerts, account suspension warnings, package delivery notifications, and job scams.

Earlier this year, Amazon launched an email address, [email protected], that allows anyone to forward suspicious messages to the company and receive a response that confirms whether the email was a real message or a scam. It also offers an online form on its customer service site that provides the same assistance.

The feature’s addition is another example of how Amazon has shifted its product strategy around Alexa to focus more on how it can assist with shopping-related questions and provide proactive help. Today, the assistant can source personalized deals, create shopping guides, help customers reorder their everyday items, offer AI product overviews, transcribe handwritten shopping lists, and more.

On Tuesday, the retailer also added an Alexa feature that lets customers set alerts when something new or relevant happens, like a favorite brand launching a new product, the release of a new book from a favorite author, or an artist dropping a new record.

Alexa for Shopping is available from both the Amazon website and mobile app.

《TAIPEI TIMES》TSMC to develop site in Baipu park
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Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co vice president of advanced packaging technology and service Jun He speaks at a 3D IC global summit in Taipei on Tuesday. Photo: CNA

EXPANSION:The 3-hectare site would include small clean rooms and laboratories as well as a world-class training base for advanced packaging talent, the company said

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Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (TSMC, 台積電) is to establish a presence in the Baipu Industrial Park (白埔產業園區) in Kaohsiung to accelerate the testing and validation of semiconductor materials and equipment, a company executive said on Tuesday.

The company is working with the Ministry of Economic Affairs and the Kaohsiung City Government on the plan, which is expected to improve validation efficiency by 25 to 50 percent, TSMC vice president of advanced packaging technology and service Jun He (何軍) said at a 3D IC global summit held ahead of the Semicon Taiwan trade show, which opened in Taipei yesterday.

TSMC would also conduct process research and development at the park with the aim of building a world-class training base for advanced packaging talent and connecting local suppliers with global supply chains, He said.

The company is planning to develop a 3-hectare site in the Baipu Industrial Park that would include two buildings featuring modular facilities that can be reconfigured as technology evolves, he said.

The site would include small clean rooms and laboratories for testing and joint development involving advanced packaging technologies, equipment and materials, he said.

The move comes as demand for advanced packaging has surged amid the rapid growth of artificial intelligence (AI) applications, he said.

Given that demand, TSMC expects its chip-on-wafer-on-substrate advanced packaging capacity to grow at a compound annual growth rate of more than 80 percent through next year, with growth expected to remain robust through 2029, He said.

Driven by skyrocketing demand for AI technology, revenue from Taiwan’s semiconductor industry is expected to increase by 40 percent this year, Taiwan Semiconductor Industry Association (台灣半導體產業協會) president Wu Chih-i (吳志毅) said yesterday.

“We are in a new era of the semiconductor industry from a technology point of view,” Wu said at the opening of Semicon Taiwan, adding that AI has pushed the development of new technology.

“This year Taiwan’s semiconductor industry has performed even better. Our total revenue is projected to be close to US$300 billion. That’s more than 40 percent growth over last year,” he said.

However, energy supply, talent and cybersecurity were “becoming more critical” for the industry and “no single country” could dominate the chip supply chain, he added.

“Continuous progress will require even closer semiconductor collaboration between many countries,” Wu said.

Also attending the event, SEMI president and chief executive officer Ajit Manocha said that global semiconductor revenue could reach US$2 trillion by 2030, as AI advances from training to inference and demand would grow for memory, higher bandwidth, advanced packaging and silicon photonics, creating new opportunities across the semiconductor ecosystem.

This would be the decade of AI, Manocha said, adding that the world is in the “early innings” and there would be “a lot more challenges” with the technology.

“It’s not going to be a straight line,” he said. “We’re going to have to learn how to deal with and navigate through the new opportunities and new headwinds.”

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《TAIPEI TIMES》CDC links hepatitis C cluster to clinic
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NOT UP TO CODE: An inspection found flawed injection practices, and inadequate sterilization of equipment and environment at the clinic, a disease specialist said

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A cluster of 11 confirmed acute viral hepatitis C cases was traced to a clinic in New Taipei City, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) said yesterday.

The clinic was on Tuesday ordered to suspend operations, and people who have received any injections at the clinic after July 1 last year are urged to get a free blood test at one of the city’s public health centers, it said.

CDC physician Lee Yen-yi (李彥儀) said the centers on Aug. 12 received a report from New Taipei City’s Banciao District (板橋) about two cases of acute hepatitis C from the same family — a woman in her 70s and her son, in his 50s — and instantly launched an investigation.

The centers on Aug. 17 confirmed that they had received intravenous nutrient injections multiple times at Antai Songhe Clinic (安泰淞鶴診所), implying a potential cluster of infections, which prompted an expanded investigation, she said.

Another family member of the first two cases — a woman in her 40s who also received injections at the clinic — was diagnosed with acute hepatitis C on Monday last week, but two other family members tested negative, Lee said.

Of the 150 confirmed cases of acute hepatitis C in the city from last year, eight other people had received injections at the Antai Songhe Clinic, she said.

The onset of the symptoms of the 11 cases associated with the clinic — seven men and four women aged 40 to 80 — occurred between Jan. 29 and Aug. 18.

A viral nucleic acid sequence similarity of 99.7 to 100 percent was found among nine of the 11 cases, indicating an infection of the same viral strain and a high probability that they shared an infection source, she said.

CDC Director-General Philip Lo (羅一鈞) said that as the first onset date among the confirmed cases was Jan. 29, the local health department is contacting about 1,118 people who received an injection at the clinic between July 1 last year and Thursday last week.

The incubation period of the disease is six months.

The CDC and the New Taipei City Department of Health conducted an unannounced inspection of the clinic on Aug. 20, and another inspection with an infection control specialist on Wednesday last week.

Far Eastern Memorial Hospital infectious disease specialist Liao Chun-hsing (廖俊星), who joined the inspection, said they found nine flaws in the injection practices and infection control of the clinic.

Those include failure to perform hand hygiene before and after patient contact, needles left inserted in the rubber stoppers of vials and IV fluid bags for repeated withdrawal, and lack of sealed containers for safe disposal of medical sharps, he said.

Prefilled syringes were found in the medication preparation area and non-treatment areas; medications, blood samples and personal items were all stored in the same refrigerator, Liao said, adding that there was inadequate routine sterilization of medical equipment and the environment.

New Taipei City Department of Health Deputy Director-General Ma Cheng-yea (馬景野) said the department on Thursday last week ordered the clinic to suspend injection services and fined it NT$300,000, in accordance with the Communicable Disease Control Act (傳染病防治法).

Lo said that on Tuesday, all of the clinic’s services were suspended until it passes an inspection.

Ma said people who received injections at the clinic after July 1 last year would be notified about a free blood test to screen for HIV, hepatitis B and C, liver function and syphilis at any of the 29 public health centers in the city.

Those who received injections between April and last month would be asked to get a follow-up blood test after six months to confirm or rule out infection, he said, adding that the department would refer those who test positive to hospitals for treatment.

Oral antiviral treatments covered by the National Health Insurance for chronic and acute hepatitis C are very effective, so those who are contacted by the health department are urged to cooperate with testing and follow-up treatment, the CDC said.

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《TAIPEI TIMES》Google to grow office space in Taiwan by 60%
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Dancers wearing clean room suits perform during the opening ceremony of the Semicon Taiwan trade show in Taipei yesterday. Photo: Cheng I-hwa, AFP

‘CODESIGN’: An executive hailed the role of Taiwanese firms’ hardware operations, saying without it, Google could not have built the compute platform it has

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Google is expanding its Taiwan office space by 60 percent as local partners take on a growing role in developing the company’s artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure, a senior executive said yesterday.

The US technology giant expects its operations in Taiwan to continue growing, said Amin Vahdat, Google’s senior vice president, and chief technologist for AI and infrastructure, without providing an investment figure, hiring target or timetable for the expansion.

Speaking at a media session after delivering an opening keynote speech at the Semicon Taiwan trade show in Taipei, Vahdat described Taiwan as a critical engineering hub connecting an ecosystem that extends beyond silicon to advanced packaging, liquid cooling and high-power systems.

Much of Google’s hardware design and manufacturing takes place in Taiwan in collaboration with local companies, while its engineers work “shoulder to shoulder” with Taiwanese partners, he said.

When the first chips designed by Google are produced by Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co’s (TSMC, 台積電), the company’s Taiwan team helps bring them up, test them and validate their performance and functionality before they are handed to software developers, Vahdat said.

“You can’t imagine how much anticipation there is for those first few chips that come off the assembly line,” he said. “All that actually starts in Taiwan.”

Taiwan’s role in Google’s hardware operations extends beyond procurement and manufacturing, with Taiwanese companies already participating in the codesign of its AI systems, he said.

Google is in discussions with multiple Taiwanese partners on future generations of hardware, including rack-level architecture, design for manufacturing and system reliability, he said.

“We couldn’t be building the infrastructure, the compute platform that we do today, without this deep codesign,” Vahdat said, adding that the cooperation was accelerating “month over month, quarter over quarter, year over year.”

Google opened a data center in Changhua County in 2013 and has invested in several undersea cable projects connecting Taiwan to the world, he said.

Taiwan is also home to Google’s largest hardware engineering hub outside the US, Vahdat said.

The expansion comes as demand for computing power grows by “perhaps 10 times year over year,” driven by increasingly capable AI models and services, he said.

Asked which constraint would be most severe over the next 18 months, Vahdat said bottlenecks could shift rapidly among power availability, chip supply, memory, cooling, rack delivery and networking.

“You can’t afford to take your eye off any of the constraints,” he said, adding that energy represents a significant constraint for Google and Taiwan.

Google remains committed to achieving round-the-clock, carbon-free energy and would continue investing in renewable energy, batteries and geothermal power, Vahdat said.

For Taiwan to protect its position in the global technology industry, it should pursue greater manufacturing automation and power efficiency while improving cooperation throughout the supply chain, he said.

Speaking at the opening of the trade show, Premier Cho Jung-tai (卓榮泰) said that rapid AI development has created a global wave of technological innovation and cooperation, with Taiwan playing an important role alongside other countries.

Taiwan’s semiconductor production value reached US$209.1 billion last year, up 22.7 percent from a year earlier, while TSMC and other major global companies continue to invest in advanced manufacturing, packaging and memory production in Taiwan, Cho said.

The government will prepare the necessary land, energy, talent and financial support to keep pace with the industry’s expansion, including by preparing factory space so companies can move in quickly, he said.

Semicon Taiwan runs through Friday at Taipei Nangang Exhibition Center, featuring more than 1,300 exhibitors and 4,300 booths from more than 60 countries and areas.

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Amin Vahdat, Google’s senior vice president and chief technologist for artificial intelligence and infrastructure, speaks at the Semicon Taiwan trade show in Taipei yesterday. Photo: Cheng I-hwa, AFP

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歌曲曾創千萬點擊 男歌手沉寂5年突喊:我是失敗的藝人
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李杰明(右)曾與師姐陳忻玥合作歌曲,MV突破千萬點擊。(陶山音樂提供)

〔記者陳慧玲/台北報導〕饒舌歌手李杰明曾與師姐陳忻玥合作《I’m Alive》,MV突破千萬點擊,但蟄伏5年再度出擊,新專輯名稱竟是《我是失敗的藝人》,也讓外界好奇他發生什麼事?

事實上在《I’m Alive》創下好成績之後,李杰明在短暫享受光鮮亮麗光環後,逐漸迷失自我,更懷疑「自己是否適合當藝人?」沉澱後省思,李杰明表示:「我發現用一刀未剪的直白方式向自己坦承真的『失敗』,反而從中獲得救贖。」

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李杰明曾自我懷疑適不適合再當藝人。(陶山音樂提供)

這次李杰明的新歌發表也以「限定畫展」結合新歌方式呈現,把專輯內頁中的原版油畫在展演空間陳列,其中9幅畫作被歌迷買走收藏,總價共飆出10萬元金額。他也談到,畫展其實直接呼應了《我是失敗的藝人》專輯所想探討的核心,「專輯的買賣,是外在包裝的商業,但裡頭的歌曲、歌詞、畫作都是藝術;畫展的買賣是商業,但每一幅畫都是最珍貴的情感流露。」

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中國頻推青年訪中交流 矢板明夫揭背後目的:影響下一代菁英
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矢板明夫指出,京都大學日前公開招募學生參加「中日友好大學生訪中團」,標榜「參加費全免」。矢板明夫直言,中國近年一直積極推動外國青年、學生訪中交流,這樣的活動值得警惕。(彭博資料照)

資深媒體人矢板明夫發文指出,京都大學日前公開招募學生參加「中日友好大學生訪中團」,標榜「參加費全免」,包含食宿、交通都由中國方面負擔。矢板明夫直言,中國近年一直積極推動外國青年、學生訪中交流,這樣的活動值得警惕。

矢板明夫在臉書發文指出,這幾天看到京都大學的一則公告,讓他相當震驚。

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矢板明夫說明,京都大學公開招募學生參加「中日友好大學生訪中團」,標榜「參加費全免」。日本往返中國的機票、在中國的住宿、交通、餐費,都由中國駐大阪總領事館和中國教育國際交流協會負擔。學生自己主要負擔的,只有前往關西機場的交通、保險和個人開銷。換句話說,就是中國政府花錢請日本最優秀的一批年輕人「到中國去看一看、走一走」。

矢板明夫質疑,這件事最諷刺的地方,在於今天中國自己的年輕人正在過什麼日子。中國經濟持續低迷,青年就業壓力巨大。很多大學生畢業就失業,找不到理想工作。考公務員、考事業單位,可謂「千軍萬馬擠獨木橋」。還有不少受過高等教育的年輕人最後去送外賣、跑網約車。可是另一方面,中國政府卻願意拿出資源,請日本大學生免費訪中。而且,這並不是京都大學一所學校的孤立現象。

矢板明夫直言,中國近年一直積極推動外國青年、學生訪中交流。背後的邏輯很清楚,就是認為「影響下一代菁英」,是一項值得長期投資的戰略。

矢板明夫表示,今天花錢招待一個二十歲的外國大學生,可能比十年後花錢遊說一個四十歲的政治人物更有效。因為,二十歲左右正是世界觀逐漸成形的時候。

矢板明夫提到,日本網路上的反應也非常強烈。有人說,「終於把手伸向京大了。」有人直接聯想到「認知戰」,提醒「不要落入圈套」。甚至有人說,「如果連京都大學都配合,就已經太遲了」。這些說法有的非常激烈,甚至把參加交流直接等同於參加「間諜活動」。

矢板明夫強調,他不認為一個學生去中國交流,就會馬上被洗腦成為間諜。但是,這樣的活動值得警惕。它不一定要求你今天替中國說話,也不需要你明天就改變立場。只需要讓一部分未來可能進入政界、學界、媒體和企業的年輕人,對中國多一點好感、多一點顧慮、少一點戒心,就可能已經達到目的。

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LTN經濟通》中國網貸業者出海 慘遭印度收割?
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中國網貸企業大舉前進印度,結果卻不如想像順利。(歐新社資料照)

中國業者認定印度是「網貸聖地」

〔財經頻道/綜合報導〕中國網路貸款平台在過去幾年快速成長,自武漢肺炎(新型冠狀病毒病,COVID-19)疫情爆發後,中國經濟局勢低迷,缺乏發展動力,百姓消費降級,甚至需要靠借貸維生,在這樣的背景下,網路借貸平台蓬勃發展。隨著北京收緊監管,這些中國新興金融科技企業將目光轉向印度。

印度擁有約14.8億人口,將近9億網路用戶,但銀行金融覆蓋率不到50%,信用卡滲透率甚至不到5%,這樣廣闊的市場被視為是尚未開闢的「網貸聖地」。除此之外,印度法律並沒有明確規定但貸款年利率的上限,並允許人工審核等手續費的存在,因此,貸方可以透過提高前期費用的方式變相抬高利率。

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根據AppsFlyer數據顯示,2020年亞太地區貸款應用程式安裝量最大的國家正是印度,帶著已經成熟的演算模型和對巨額利潤的憧憬,中國網貸企業大舉前進印度,然而,前景卻不如中企所想的一樣光明。

印度擁有約14.8億人口,卻有至少超過4億人口「完全沒有信用紀錄」。(彭博資料照)

印度4億人口「完全沒有信用紀錄」

網貸企業帶著一套經過中國本土市場反覆驗證的技術系統,大數據風險管理模型可以透過消費紀錄、社交關係和行為軌跡對借款人進行精準評估,人臉辨識和活體檢測技術能夠防範身分詐欺。這套系統在中國借貸市場運行多年,支撐起一個規模數千億人民幣的產業。但前進印度後,市場的實際情況卻使這套系統失效。

根據統計,截至2025年初,印度至少超過4億人口「完全沒有信用紀錄」,儘管印度政府推動金融普惠政策(Jan Dhan Yojana),鼓勵民眾開立銀行帳戶,零元也能開戶,但年輕族群和農村地區的信用滲透率仍相對低。

這代表著大數據風險管理模型失去了運算的基本資料,沒有歷史還款紀錄、沒有銀行紀錄、也沒有消費數據,即使有完善的模型,缺乏供運算的資料,就無法輸出有效的判斷。

身分認證的部份也同樣出現問題,印度身分證件體系的混亂程度超出程度,偽造證件和冒用身分的情況相當普遍,甚至有業者稱,曾經出現用戶使用動物照片通過平台審核的案例。從最基礎的身分真實性都無法確認,這讓後續所有風險管理措施都失去了意義。

印度人口組成複雜,有22種官方語言和上千種方言。(法新社資料照)

壞帳率飆升到80%以上

中媒也點出,印度和中國存在社會觀念的差異。在印度市場,從外國科技公司獲得的線上貸款被視為是「額外收入」,而非必須履行的債務,面對網貸平台發出的逾期提醒和信用警告,多數用戶難產生心理壓力。據報導,整體壞帳率飆升到80%以上。

印度有22種官方語言,還有上千種地方方言,作為外國的企業,即使準備好英語和印地語話術,面對坦米爾語、泰盧固語、孟加拉語等其他語言的使用者時,仍難以溝通,進一步加劇催債的困難。

若是想要透過法律途徑追討,也是不現實的選項,在印度,相關案件立案到開庭通常需要3到5年的時間,訴訟成本高昂,而每一筆案件的金額相對小,對於追求快速周轉的貸款業務來說,並不是可行的選擇。

印度也出現一個「反收割」產業鏈,教導用戶要如何逃債。(歐新社資料照)

中國「撸貨導師」按比例分贓

印度當地也形成了一個「反收割」產業鏈,一些熟知中國網貸營運規則與漏洞的人士,開始在海外充當「撸貨導師」,中國的「撸貨」一詞指的是透過虛構的資訊、多頭借貸等手段騙取網貸,並逃避還款的行為,這些導師包括了解中國模式的當地業者,還有部份居住在印度的華人。

這些人透過Telegram、WhatsApp等社群平台建立群組,系統化地培訓學員要如何偽造申請資料、繞過平台風險管理、進行多頭借貸。這些導師提供的操作手冊極其詳細,指導學員在資金到帳後立刻卸載應用程式、更換手機號碼,實現「完美逃債」。

據報導,產業鏈分工很明確,上家提供技術指導和資訊支持,下家執行具體借款操作,成功逃債後,雙方按比例分贓。更老練的做法是,這些團體主動向印度監管機構檢舉相關網貸平台存在違規行為,藉由監管之手,為自身爭取時間和操作空間。

印度收緊監管規範後,大批中資平台選擇關閉業務,徹底退出印度市場。(彭博資料照)

印度政府介入管理 中國業者黯然退出

隨著網路借貸引發的數據隱私、高利率陷阱等問題在印度國內引發廣泛關注,印度當局也開始收緊監管措施。新規明確要求所有借貸相關的資料必須儲存在印度境內的伺服器,這對於嚴重依賴跨境資料傳輸進行風險管理分析的中企構成直接打擊。

新規也要求借款人和受監管實體之間的資金直接流動,披露詳細的年利率,並將違約損失和擔保限制在貸款組合的5%,這些規定瓦解了透過高額手續費和隱蔽的收費維持高收益的盈利模式。在這之前,中國平台名義上的低利率貸款,實際上透過服務費、處理費和保險費層層疊加,新規則要求透明披露實際利率,讓這類操作的空間被徹底清除。

對於中資平台而言,面臨兩難抉擇,必須斥巨資在當地取得非銀行金融機構牌照,成為受監管的實體,或是與本來就持有牌照的機構綁定,並接受嚴格監督。印度提出《禁止無監管借貸活動法案》後,大批中資平台選擇關閉業務,徹底退出印度市場。根據產業預估,中國資本在印度數位借貸市場的損失規模達數十億美元。

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小宅爆量灌房市 10年大增超過63萬宅
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住宅大於15坪但在25坪以內增加數量最多,10年增加超過37萬宅。(記者徐義平攝)

〔記者徐義平/台北報導〕今年第一季全國房屋稅籍住宅平均面積約39.55坪,對比2017年第一季約40.21坪,10年來平均縮小0.66坪,且細看各坪數住宅增加數量,以大於15坪但在25坪以內的住宅增加最多,10年增加超過37萬宅,平均一年增加3.7萬宅。

反觀超過55坪但在65坪以內的住宅增加數量最少,10年僅增加近5.3萬宅,平均一年近增加5300宅,至於,超過65坪以上的住宅、10年增加近7.5萬宅,增加數量為各區間第二少,而15坪以內住宅、10年增加約8萬宅、增加數量為第三少。

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根據內政部不動產資訊平台統計,今年第一季全國房屋稅籍住宅數量約950.7萬宅,10年增加近106萬宅,進一步觀察各坪數區間住宅增加數量,以超過15坪但在25坪以內的增加數量最多、占整體稅籍住宅增加總量比重達37.05%,占比第二高則是超過25坪但在35坪以內、約24.71%,光是15至35坪的占比就高達61.76%,10年來新增數量則高達近63.23萬宅,也就是說過去10年,稅籍住宅平均每增加1.62宅就有1宅坪數落在15至35坪區間。

高力國際不動產業主代表服務部董事黃舒衛表示,若將15至25坪的住宅占比上升,占總量約37.5%的數字對比現行社會趨勢,包括全台每戶平均人口數跌破 2.6 人,單身戶、頂客族、獨居長者與單親核心家庭成為新的家庭主流結構等的社會現象,其實相互對應,另外,也反映出高房價強力壓抑空間需求的窘況。

人口趨勢反映住宅坪數需求

再來則是15坪以下極端的小坪數住宅雖然總價看似容易入手,但常被銀行定義為套房,貸款成數限縮在 6至7 成,甚至不予承作,再加上高公設比壓縮住宅的實用功能,最後則是55至65 坪住宅最容易淪為央行高價住宅限貸管制誤殺的祭品,因此,變成建商規劃設計的紅線,比65坪以上的真豪宅還碰不得。

馨傳不動產智庫執行長何世昌指出,35坪以下房型供給量大增,主因是高房價問題導致民眾只能買小房子解決成家夢,以及社會結構改變、每戶平均人口數減少,需要大坪數以上的家庭減少。即便這類房型供給量大,但市場胃納量也較高,價格並不會比較差。

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中捷藍線3款車廂外觀9/7出爐 9/10起開放民眾投票
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中捷藍線已設計出3種外觀,9 月7日出爐,9月10日開始投票。(市府提供,意象圖)

台中捷運藍線機電系統及龍井機廠工程開工、高架段BC11標及BC12標工程也已決標、而藍線車廂的設計將在7日出爐,捷工局屆時會將3款電聯車外觀亮相,並9月10日開始投票,投票至10月9日,並於10月19日公布票選結果。

捷運藍線共20站,高架段8站,地下化段有12站,全線24.8公里,機電系統及龍井機廠工程已在日前開工,目前高架段8站都已決標,而車廂外型引關注,捷工局表示,捷運藍線車廂外型是藍白色,有3款外觀,將請民眾來票選決定。

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捷工局表示,中捷藍線是中運量,有3節車廂,可載運530人,但是車輛目前還在細部設計中,車寬約2.8公尺,車長還在依車載系統盤點所需空間設計中。

捷工局表示,目前民眾所看到捷運藍線外型,只是廠商一開始投標時的意象圖,並非是現階段3款的設計圖,預計7日下週一會亮相,9月10日就會開放民眾投票,投票至10月9日,並於10月19日公布票選結果。

捷運藍線目標年140年的全日運量為24.4萬人次,市區段尖峰班距為3分鐘。

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2颱風路徑曝!沙德爾外圍環流掃過 今北台灣防豪雨、各地局部大雨
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中央氣象署表示,今天桃園以北及宜蘭局部有大雨或豪雨,其他地區亦有局部大雨。(資料照)

中央氣象署表示,今天(3日)受沙德爾颱風或熱帶性低氣壓外圍環流影響,各地易有短暫陣雨或雷雨,尤其桃園以北及宜蘭地區降雨明顯,局部有大雨或豪雨,其他地區亦有局部大雨。

此外,氣象署今天上午5時15分發布大雨特報稱,沙德爾外圍環流影響,易有短延時強降雨,今天基隆市、新北市、高雄市、屏東縣、花蓮縣、台東縣有局部大雨。

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溫度方面,今天因雲多下雨,各地高溫約28至31度。離島天氣方面,澎湖多雲時陰短暫陣雨或雷雨,26至30度;金門陰短暫陣雨或雷雨,26至29度;馬祖陰短暫陣雨或雷雨,27至30度。

氣象署提醒,沙德爾外圍環流影響,今天桃園以北、南部、恆春半島及澎湖、金門、馬祖地區有平均風6級以上或陣風8級以上;基隆北海岸、南部、東南部沿海、恆春半島及澎湖有長浪,且南台灣沿海浪高可來到3公尺左右或以上。

氣象署指出,輕颱沙德爾今天清晨2時位於台北西南方460公里處,向廣東前進,即將減弱為熱帶性低氣壓;第23號輕颱科羅旺清晨2時位於台北東方940公里處,未來預估偏西北方向往琉球附近海面前進,對台灣天氣沒有直接影響。

空氣品質方面,今天竹苗、雲嘉南、宜蘭、花東空品區及馬祖、金門、澎湖為「良好」等級;北部、中部、高屏空品區為「普通」等級。

氣象署預報,明天(4日)、週六(5日)低壓帶影響,北部及東北部地區有短暫陣雨,其他地區亦有局部短暫陣雨,各地有局部較大雨勢,其中北部及東北部地區明天有局部大雨。

下週日(6日)北部及東北部地區有局部短暫陣雨,其他地區為多雲,午後有局部短暫雷陣雨;下週一(7日)至週三(9日)基隆北海岸及東北部地區有局部短暫陣雨,其他地區為多雲到晴,午後南部地區及其他山區有局部短暫陣雨。

國際都市氣象:

亞洲、大洋洲

美洲

歐洲、非洲

中國

各地體感溫度預報 (°C) 北部 中部 南部 東部 30 - 32 31 - 37 28 - 33 28 - 32

輕颱沙德爾(左)即將減弱為熱帶性低氣壓;輕颱科羅旺(右)對台灣天氣沒有直接影響。(擷自中央氣象署網站)

今日各地天氣預報概況。(擷自中央氣象署網站)

今日各地紫外線指數預報概況。(擷自中央氣象署網站)

今日各地空氣品質概況。(擷自環境部空氣品質監測網)

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泛中正藝文特區17案卡位 預售房價最高衝破7字頭
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桃園房市進入價格分化階段,中高價住宅聚落仍有一定支撐。(圖/資料照,永慶房屋提供)

桃園房市進入價格分化階段,中高價住宅聚落仍有一定支撐。根據市調最新實價登錄數據,2026年桃園市桃園區「泛中正藝文特區」包含中正生活圈與藝文生活圈,目前在售及待售預售案共17個,待售總戶數達1,052戶,近一年各案成交均價約落在每坪49.39萬元至71.52萬元,區域房價基期已明顯往5字頭至7字頭靠攏。

根據樂居網資料,從個案價格來看,區內高價案與主流產品的價差逐漸拉開。其中,「大和御品苑」近一年成交均價每坪71.52萬元,成為目前區內唯一站上7字頭的預售案,累計交易量已有107筆;「百川峰滙A」、「百川峰滙B」則分別為每坪62.61萬元、62.54萬元,交易量達74筆及87筆,顯示中正、藝文生活圈仍具一定的換屋與首購需求。

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除了高價案之外,區內多數新案價格則集中在5字頭至6字頭。其中「康駿藝靜」近一年成交均價每坪61.68萬元、「藝青山」60.26萬元、「大和仰慕」58.93萬元、「岳虹知序」58.64萬元、「陸昇G9湛」58.21萬元,另有「春虹在壹起」55.72萬元,形成目前市場主要成交價格帶。

相較之下,區內仍有部分產品扮演價格相對親民的角色。「錦華新世代創富」近一年成交均價每坪54.17萬元,「宜雄盛筵」則為49.39萬元,成為目前區內少數仍在5字頭以下的產品,也反映同一生活圈內,因品牌、地段、產品規劃及推案時間不同,價格已出現明顯差異。

值得注意的是,目前還有「竹城富國段452大樓」、「聯虹城藝」、「元邑晴」及「森景M1」等建案尚未出現實價登錄紀錄,這些個案規模不小,總戶數約88戶至202戶不等,隨著後續陸續開案、成交並揭露實價,市場價格帶與區域供給結構仍可能進一步變化。

從產品規劃來看,泛中正藝文特區目前新案仍以首購及換屋需求為主要訴求,多數建案公設比約落在33%至36%,坪數則以17~52坪為主,涵蓋1~4房產品。業者在房市交易趨於理性之際,仍透過中小坪數配置控制總價,降低購屋門檻。

住展雜誌發言人陳炳辰指出,泛中正藝文特區過去即是桃園市成熟住宅聚落,隨著生活機能與建設條件逐步成形,新案價格持續向上推移,不過,在目前房市政策與資金環境仍偏審慎的情況下,未來區域房價能否持續往上,仍須觀察新案去化速度及後續實價揭露表現。

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健康網》牛奶助眠別狂喝 專家曝超過這杯數反而幫倒忙
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營養師科提斯表示,牛奶富含鋅、鎂、色胺酸等營養素,有助肌肉放鬆與入睡,不過,研究指出,若飲用超過杯數,反而可能導致睡不好;情境照。(圖取自freepik)

〔健康頻道/綜合報導〕不少人睡不好時,常會想到喝牛奶幫助入眠。營養師科提斯表示,一篇納入29篇研究、共逾71萬名受試者的統合分析發現,喝牛奶與較佳睡眠品質有關。其中每天喝2杯、每杯240毫升者,睡眠品質不佳風險最低;但若每天喝超過3杯時,風險反而上升。推測高飽和脂肪的攝取,可能與較淺、較難恢復體力的睡眠有關。

喝牛奶對於睡眠2大影響

喝牛奶真的可以幫助睡眠?對此,科提斯於臉書粉專發文表示,熱牛奶可以幫助睡眠是流傳已久的說法,不過,1篇統合分析收納29篇研究、共71萬2379名受試者,探討牛奶攝取量與睡眠的相關性,結果發現,喝牛奶對於睡眠的2大影響如下:

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●提升睡眠品質:每天喝兩杯240毫升牛奶,有最低睡眠品質不佳風險。但大於3杯時,風險反而上升。

●降低短睡眠風險:每天攝取0.7杯以上牛奶時,與短睡眠時長呈負相關。

牛奶富含鋅與鎂助肌肉放鬆

至於喝牛奶跟睡得好為何有關,科提斯說明,推測這是因為牛奶富含色胺酸,它是血清素(Serotonin)與褪黑激素(Melatonin)的前驅物,有助於調節晝夜節律與入睡。此外,牛奶含有鋅(Zinc)與鎂(Magnesium),也可促進肌肉放鬆、調節神經傳導物質(如GABA),以及調節時鐘基因表現。

飽和脂肪酸恐影響睡眠時長

那麼,為什麼喝太多牛奶反而睡不好?科提斯說,這可能與攝取太多飽和脂肪有關。因為高飽和脂肪的攝取,與較淺、較難恢復體力的睡眠有關。此外,一項針對年輕成人的觀察性研究統合分析也顯示,飽和脂肪攝取量與睡眠時長呈顯著負相關。

不過,科提斯也強調,因為納入的研究多為觀察型研究,所以限制了因果關係的推論,某些研究僅記錄攝取頻率,而非攝取量,以致無法提供明確臨床建議量。

科提斯建議,根據飲食指南,每天喝1-2杯牛奶,除了補充鈣質跟蛋白質,還能改善睡眠。尤其睡眠不佳者,可考慮睡前1-2小時喝杯牛奶,助眠之外,又可以避免因尿意而打斷睡眠。

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颱風外圍環流攪局!6縣市大雨特報 慎防短延時強降雨
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中央氣象署今天針對6縣市發布大雨特報。(擷自氣象署網站)

中央氣象署發布大雨特報,今天(3日)基隆北海岸、高雄、屏東、花蓮、台東地區及蘭嶼、綠島有局部大雨。

氣象署今天上午5時15分發布大雨特報稱,第18號颱風沙德爾外圍環流影響,易有短延時強降雨,今天基隆市、新北市、高雄市、屏東縣、花蓮縣、台東縣有局部大雨發生的機率。

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氣象署提醒,民眾應注意雷擊及強陣風;低窪地區應慎防積水;連日降雨,山區應慎防坍方、落石及溪水暴漲。

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KTV排行榜像停在20年前!周杰倫還在《擱淺》 蔡依林繼續《倒帶》
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〔記者邱奕欽/台北報導〕朋友聚會時,KTV至今仍是不少人的娛樂首選,不過有網友近日睽違多年再度走進KTV,打開點歌排行榜後卻愣住,發現榜上熟悉的歌名幾乎沒變,周杰倫仍是《擱淺》,蔡依林依舊是《倒帶》,讓他忍不住驚呼:「怎麼還跟20年前差不多?」

周杰倫(左)《擱淺》、蔡依林《倒帶》發行多年,至今仍穩居KTV熱門點播歌曲排行榜。(本報組合資料照)

該名網友在Threads分享點歌排行榜畫面,直言自己很久沒進KTV,沒想到排行榜前幾名依舊是許多耳熟能詳的經典歌曲,他感嘆陳奕迅彷彿還停留在《十年》,蔡依林繼續《倒帶》,周杰倫則仍是《擱淺》,看著榜單有種時間彷彿靜止的錯覺。然而,對許多人來說當《擱淺》、《倒帶》、《十年》等歌名依然穩坐排行榜時,彷彿也見證了華語流行音樂黃金年代留下的深刻影響力。

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許多網友看見畫面後也陷入回憶殺,紛紛感慨表示:「2000年代的華語樂壇根本神仙打架」、「經典就是經典,不會因為時間過去就退流行」、「這些歌旋律一下就能跟著唱!」、「好歌真的很難被取代!」也有人認為,KTV主要消費族群的世代結構是原因之一,過去習慣唱KTV的七、八年級生如今依舊是主要客群,因此排行榜長年被熟悉的經典歌曲占據。

相較之下,年輕族群娛樂選擇變多,前往KTV的頻率已不若過往,自然較難快速洗牌排行榜,不過實際查看KTV業者公開的熱門歌曲排行,新歌並非完全缺席,包括姚曉棠與張遠的《看著我的眼睛說》、盧廣仲《太陽與地球》、宇宙人《沒有人像我一樣》、艾薇《不愛就不愛》以及LBI利比《跳樓機》等近年作品,同樣名列熱門點播歌曲,呈現經典與新歌並存的局面。

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健康網》研究曝休閒運動者失智風險低24% 醫:活動量大≠運動 3招學起來
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民眾想預防失智,神經內科醫師劉興政提醒,工作活動不能直接取代休閒運動,可將有氧運動與肌力訓練搭配,建立能長期維持的運動習慣;圖為情境照。(圖取自freepik)

〔健康頻道/綜合報導〕多數人認為運動可降低失智風險,以為工作一直走動就算有運動。然而,2026年《The Lancet Public Health》研究發現,休閒運動者失智風險約低24%,工作中大量體力活動者,觀察到的失智風險約增加 20%。佳齡生活健康中心醫療長、神經內科醫師劉興政指出,工作活動不能取代規律運動,建議安排可長期維持的休閒運動,並將有氧運動與肌力訓練搭配,例如快走、慢跑、騎單車、游泳、肌力訓練或球類運動。

民眾想預防失智,怎麼動可能比你想的更重要。劉興政在佳齡健康臉書與網站專頁表示,2026年《The Lancet Public Health》發表的一項大型研究提醒我們:身體活動不只要看「多少」,也要看「在哪裡、為什麼做」。

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這項研究整理了74項研究、超過422萬人的資料,追蹤時間中位數約10年。整體而言,活動量較高的人,失智風險較低;但進一步分類後發現,休閒時間主動做的運動,和較低的失智風險一致有最高的相關性。休閒運動者的失智相對風險約低24%;工作中需要大量體力活動的人,反而觀察到較高的失智風險,約增加20%。

劉興政說明,這並不代表「勞動會傷腦」,更不能解讀成「工作太累所以容易失智」。有可能因為,需大量體力的工作,往往也伴隨較高的工作壓力、工作自主性、空氣或噪音暴露、吸菸等因素。因此,真正造成風險的原因可能是整體工作與生活環境。

3個行動預防失智

他接著說,或許也可能是「反向因果」,失智可能在正式診斷前很多年就開始出現。早期的冷漠、動機下降、認知變差等,都可能讓人慢慢減少運動。因此,有些研究看到「不運動的人比較容易失智」,也可能部分是因為疾病已經悄悄開始,而不是不運動造成失智。

劉興政分析,這篇研究並沒有推翻運動的重要性。相反地,運動對心血管、血糖、體重、肌力、情緒與整體健康都有明確好處。比較好的做法是:把「有規律、自己選擇、能長期維持的休閒運動」放進生活中,例如,快走、慢跑、騎單車、游泳、肌力訓練或球類運動。

民眾如何應用這項研究成果到日常生活中呢?劉興政建議以下的3個行動:

●每週安排固定的休閒運動,不必一次做很多,重點是能長期持續。

●把有氧運動與肌力訓練搭配起來,並依自己的年齡與體能調整強度。

●除了運動,也一起管理血壓、血糖、體重、睡眠、抽菸與社交活動;失智預防不是靠單一方法。

劉興政總結,這項研究真正提醒的是,運動有助於大腦健康,但工作中一直在動與主動安排的休閒運動,可能具有不同意義。

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快60歲才懂自由珍貴!前主播詹怡宜揭退休最大改變「原來不用追逐這麼快樂」
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〔記者邱奕欽/台北報導〕前TVBS主播、資深媒體人詹怡宜離開新聞圈第一線後,轉往台大新聞所任教,近日作客上Podcast節目《豐盛即開基》分享退休後的人生轉變。即將滿60歲的詹怡宜坦言,過去數十年總是不斷往前衝,直到退休後才真正體會到自由的可貴,甚至忍不住感嘆:「原來不用追逐這麼快樂。」

詹怡宜坦言接近60歲後才體會自由的珍貴,直呼退休後最大的改變,就是發現「原來不用追逐這麼快樂」。(資料照,TVBS提供)

詹怡宜回顧自己30多年媒體生涯,坦言年輕時將工作擺在人生最重要的位置,不只投入大量時間與心力,甚至曾因此與交往對象分手,她直言那個年代的人普遍把工作視為人生重心,只要覺得工作有意義,就願意全心投入,「愛情都可以放一邊。」

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不過隨著年紀增長,想法也逐漸改變,詹怡宜表示過去總覺得人生是一條不斷向上的路,無論是職位、薪水或能力都要持續累積,深怕自己落後於時代,因此一直逼著自己學習、追趕,「一直線性地往上爬!」直到接近60歲時突然意識到,自己其實已經不需要再追逐什麼,「我都可以退休了,不用再一直努力追逐什麼東西。」

詹怡宜認為人生到了某個階段,應該開始學習做減法,接受生命自然的節奏,把更多時間留給自己,也讓其他世代有機會接棒發揮。談到退休後最大的感受,詹怡宜笑說自己終於理解什麼叫做自由,「我真的忽然發現,原來自由那麼快樂。」她表示離開企業體系後,不再被會議、行程綁住,連每天幾點起床、花多少時間在教學與學生身上,都能由自己決定,這種掌握生活節奏的感覺,讓她感到前所未有的自在與愉快。

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中市文化局進駐百年台中州廳 民代籲串連歷史建築群
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百年台中州廳再次被官署使用,由台中市文化局進駐辦公。(記者黃旭磊攝)

國定古蹟「台中州廳」落成113年,歷經6年再利用工程修復,再度重作官署,中市文化局掛牌畫面首度曝光,文化局表示,10月將舉辦州廳開幕式,開啟大廳正門,邀請民眾參觀,歷經百年風華官署「前世今生」演變歷程。

台中州廳始於日治大正9年(1920年),台灣總督府當時實施廢廳設州政策,全台五州(台北州、新竹州、台中州、台南州、高雄州)最高行政機關辦公廳舍所在,二戰後,州廳成為舊台中市府辦公廳舍,市府搬遷後於2020年啟動兩期封館整修、再利用工程。

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中市文化局長陳佳君說,190多名員工已於週一(31日)進駐辦公,守護州廳是文化局每位同仁「必修課」,而州廳蓄積百年行政廳舍演變能量,10月開幕式將邀請民眾參觀了解官署「前世今生」演變歷程。

民進黨台中市議員江肇國認為,修復花了近7億元「只幫市府解決辦公租金」,應更進一步與周遭台中市役所、台灣府儒考棚及歷史建築大屯郡役所結合,串連台中第二市場道地小吃與柳川水岸步道,形成中西區歷史建築群街廓。

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夫妻當了5屆近21年彰化芬園鄉長 這次換女兒洪千芸參選挑戰
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國民黨徵召前彰化縣芬園鄉代表洪千芸參選芬園鄉長。(取自洪千芸臉書)

彰化縣芬園鄉最強的政治世家今年由女兒洪千芸參選芬園鄉長,洪千芸獲得國民黨徵召,將挑戰民進黨提名的鄉代會副主席郭哲榮。洪千芸的父母曾當了5屆鄉長,哥哥是芬園鄉農會總幹事黃翊愷,洪千芸4年前輸給民進黨尋求連任的林世明,今年決定捲土重來,來場藍綠大對決!

洪千芸的父母洪慶章、母親黃麗玲兩人共當選5屆鄉長,洪慶章是第12屆、第13屆,接著黃麗玲是第14屆。洪慶章在第15屆高票落選後,緊接著又在第16屆、17屆當選鄉長,因為碰到合併選舉延長任期關係,洪慶章與黃麗玲總共當了5屆近21年彰化芬園鄉長。

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洪千芸曾當過3屆芬園鄉的鄉民代表,4年前挑戰新北市立委林淑芬的弟弟林世明失利,林世明也讓芬園鄉創下難得綠營連任的紀錄。這次民進黨改推鄉代會副主席郭哲榮,希望能夠延續芬園鄉的綠色版圖,也繼續為芬園鄉做些改變。

洪千芸說,她這次參選鄉長,並未告知家人,參選的動機很簡單,就是她成為單親媽媽後,一肩扛起兒子「自閉症譜系障礙」的早療照顧責任,才發現芬園鄉的早療資源太有限了,讓她決定參選,希望能為下一代有更好的早療支持,有更多的托嬰中心,老一輩有更完善的養老村。

洪千芸強調,她知道參選一定會引來「政治家族」的議論,她無法否認,但她要說的是「這是上一代人的事」,她想要讓芬園人有更好的生活資源,這就是她要參選的目的。

民進黨提名的鄉代會副主席郭哲榮參選彰化縣芬園鄉鄉長。(取自郭哲榮臉書)

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被爆對助理丟手機 温世政道歉:情緒未處理好波及對方
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民進黨南投縣長參選人温世政(手持麥克風者),被指對前助理丟手機,他有發文公開道歉。圖為温世政2日陪草屯鎮長參選人張媛婷登記時致詞照片。(記者陳鳳麗攝)

自稱是綠營南投縣長參選人温世政助理的網友在Threads貼文,指開內部會議被老闆温世政丟手機,温世政隨後貼文道歉,承認當天開會時,因有些選務事情沒有處理好而感到懊惱及焦慮,把手機丟向旁邊,波及到助理,該動作讓對方感到害怕與不安,是他的錯。

自稱是温世政助理的網友指出,温世政8月16日開會時因為生氣,把手機丟向他,他把手機放回温世政桌上,問「為什麼可以拿手機丟我」,後來即請家人來接他離開南投。

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隔天温世政有透過電話與訊息表達歉意,但該網友心情並沒有因此感到被安撫。不過該網友後來有貼出温世政的道歉訊息截圖,以及回覆温世政的話,內文表示他覺得被暴力對待。

温世政後來有在Threads公開表達歉意,對自己當天開會時,因有些選務事情沒有處理好,感到懊惱及焦慮,當下沒有用適合的方式面對情緒,而是把手機丟向旁邊,波及到助理,這個動作讓對方感到害怕與不安,知道是自己的錯,「隔日有向當事人道歉,今天再次公開道歉」。強調沒有要威脅或施加壓力,未來將會更謹慎要求自己,調適選舉壓力。

前助理和温世政的貼文都有不少網友回應,有網友認為道歉和反省很重要,有認錯的勇氣值得讚許;也有網友要他適時休息,因為橡皮筋拉久了會彈性疲乏。還有網友認為該網友貼文時間很敏感,但看看民進黨的公職都會被嚴格檢視,請温醫師引以為戒。

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美股收盤》連三黑止步!道瓊反彈近300點 台積電ADR上漲
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週三美股上漲。(路透)

〔即時新聞/綜合報導〕週三美國股市從連續3天的下跌中反彈,投資人在近期避險情緒高漲的情況下,尋找可能被超賣的股票。標準普爾500指數上漲0.46%,那斯達克指數上漲0.45%,道瓊工業指數上漲295.07點、0.56%,費城半導體指數上漲0.45%,台積電ADR小漲0.36%,收在415.50美元。

綜合外媒報導,近期市場擔憂油價上漲對通膨的影響,高漲的債券殖利率給股市帶來壓力,週三美股則結束連續三天的下跌趨勢。

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美國和伊朗近期加強空襲力道,為7月以來規模最大的一次空襲交鋒,澆滅了重返談判桌的希望,並增加長期敵對行動可能導致系統性通膨,並迫使各國央行提高借貸成本的可能性。

在經濟方面,薪資處理公司ADP報告稱,美國8月私部門新增就業人數少於預期,同時核心資本貨物的新訂單也被向下修正,這表明美國企業支出計畫可能出現疲軟。

晶片製造商博通盤後公布第二季業績,收盤股價下跌0.66%。其他晶片大廠輝達上漲3.2%,美光及高通分別上漲2.4%和2%。

道瓊工業指數上漲295.07點或0.56%,報53061.95點。

那斯達克指數上漲118.05點或0.45%,報26217.83點。

S&P 500指數上漲35.21點或0.46%,報7666.68點。

費城半導體指數上漲50.64點或0.45%,報11339.25點。

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網寫信檢舉蔣萬安兒子交換生資格!美國務院回覆了 全文曝光
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蔣萬安和大兒子蔣得立。(資料照)

首次上稿 09-02 23:42

更新時間 09-03 05:56

台北市長蔣萬安長子蔣得立獲選台北市公費交換生,爭議持續延燒,本月1日網路有人號召鄉民一起去向美國國務院檢舉,讓美國政府知道蔣萬安的大寶身分資格疑似不符,涉嫌欺詐;才過一天,有網友就分享收到國務院回信,引發熱烈討論。

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蔣萬安週二受訪證實,大兒子獲得台北市甄選25名學生赴美加當交換學生的珍貴名額,還自爆兒子因為在美國出生,所以擁有美國籍。消息一出,馬上有不少網友質疑蔣得立若有申請J-1這種旨在促進各國在教育藝術與科學領域人才交流的非移民簽證,是否有申報自己具美國公民身分?如果刻意隱瞞,以台灣公民身分申請J-1,那就涉及資格及申請資料真實性的問題;反之,若直接以美國公民身分赴美,那就不符合高中交換學生計畫的對象資格。

週二就有人貼出美國務院的檢舉信箱,號召網友們一人一封檢舉信,檢舉蔣萬安的大兒子「身分資格不符,涉嫌欺詐」,引發迴響。才過一天時間,有女網友貼出來自美國務院的回信內容,掀起關注。

原PO說,她直接寫信到美國務院教育及文化局(ECA)負責交換訪客計畫(Exchange Visitor Program)設立的單位去詢問有關交換學生資格的問題,對方回信告訴她,相關計畫是讓「外國國民」到美國進行教育及文化交流的,並強調中學交換學生方案(Secondary School Student Program)是讓外國中學生到美國就讀,學生必須由美國務院指定的贊助方接受,取得DS-2019表格(美國官方核發給 J-1交流訪客的身分資格證明書),並在自己的國家申請J-1簽證。

以下為美國務院回信全文:

Thank you for your inquiry. You have reached the Office of Private Sector Exchange within the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs (ECA). This office administers the Exchange Visitor Program, which is overseen by the Deputy Assistant Secretary (DAS) for Private Sector Exchange in ECA. The Exchange Visitor Program is for foreign nationals who come to the United States for international educational and cultural exchange experiences.

The Secondary School Student Program is part of the Department of State’s Exchange Visitor Program. The program is designed to give foreign secondary school students the opportunity to complete up to one year of academic study at an accredited public or private secondary school in the United States. In addition, these students are given the opportunity to live with an American host family and participate directly in the home life of the family. Some students may also attend and reside at accredited U.S. boarding schools. Students attend school as full time students and may attend for not less than one academic semester (or its quarter equivalent) or more than a full academic year.

Eligible foreign participants must be between the age of 15 and 18-and-a-half years by the first day of school or have not completed more than 11 years of primary and secondary school education excluding kindergarten. Students who have previously participated in an exchange program utilizing the J-1 or F-1 student visa may not participate. Students may not be placed in the homes of relatives.

To participate in the Secondary School Student Exchange Visitor Program, students must be sponsored by one of the Department of State's designated sponsor organizations. Sponsors are responsible for screening and selecting eligible U.S. host families and matching them with students. The sponsor is also responsible for monitoring the students and host families throughout the exchange program. Students accepted into the Secondary School Student exchange visitor program must apply for a J-1 visa in their home country using the Form DS-2019 issued by the designated sponsor.

感謝您的詢問。您聯繫的是美國務院教育文化事務局轄下民間交流辦公室。本辦公室負責管理「交流訪客計畫」,該計畫由教育文化事務局負責民間交流事務的副助理國務卿督導。交流訪客計畫是提供給前往美國、參與國際教育及文化交流活動的外國人士。

「中學生計畫」是美國務院交流訪客計畫的一部分。這項計畫旨在讓外國中學生有機會在美國經認證的公立或私立中學,完成最長一年的學業。此外,這些學生也有機會與美國寄宿家庭(host family)共同生活,直接參與該家庭的日常生活。部分學生也可以就讀並住宿於經認證的美國寄宿學校。學生必須以全日制學生身分就學,就讀時間不得少於一個學期(或相當於一學季的期間),也不得超過一個完整學年。

符合資格的外國參與者,在開學第一天時,年齡必須介於15歲至18歲半之間,或者其已完成的中小學教育年數(不包括幼兒園)不得超過11年。曾經透過 J-1或F-1學生簽證參加交流計畫的學生,不得再參加此計畫。學生也不得被安排住在親戚家中。

若要參加中學生交流訪客計畫,學生必須由美國務院指定的贊助機構來提供資助。贊助機構負責審查及挑選符合資格的美國寄宿家庭,並將學生與適合的家庭進行配對。贊助機構也負責在整個交流計畫期間,持續追蹤學生及寄宿家庭的情況。獲准參加中學生交流訪客計畫的學生,必須使用指定贊助機構核發的DS-2019表格,在自己的國家申請J-1簽證。

由於美方並未回答若學生本身為美國公民,是否有資格參加美國務院這項計畫,原PO又回信追問,目前正在等待進一步回覆。原PO還提供了寫信公版給網友們參考。

其他網友們紛紛留言,「卡後續,殷瑋為了救主爆料這屆有3、4個美國人,看會不會全滅」、「殷瑋傑出的一手,有四位權貴的父母要倒楣囉」、「美國人用Visa入籍算簽證詐欺喔」、「美國國務院已經說明了這個交換計劃是給外國人使用,如果你有美國公民身分你就是美國人,這個計劃是美國國務院提供的? 如果有違反? 台北市府是否詐欺?」、「不過台北這個計畫美方那邊合作單位完全是私人公司,只要能入境就好,國務院應該不會管?」。

相關新聞請見:蔣萬安兒子交換生資格惹議! 網號召向美國務院檢舉:全家綠卡恐取消

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農曆8月運勢搶先報!簡少年點名5生肖「中秋後」飛黃騰達
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〔娛樂頻道/綜合報導〕農曆八月逢「丁(酉)月」,受巨門化忌影響,全台普遍籠罩在口舌是非與感情波折中。人稱「新創科技國師」的新生代命理師簡少年,在個人YouTube頻道發表農曆8月12生肖總體運勢指出,本月各生肖運勢呈現兩極化,但隨著立秋後火氣漸消,尤其在中秋(農曆15號)過後吉星發威,將有5個生肖迎來關鍵轉機,不僅貴人湧現、財路大開,更能借勢突圍、飛黃騰達!

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延續改善態勢,農曆15號(中秋)之後諸事漸入佳境,能力展現容易出名。易有突發性桃花,但瑕疵與是非多,不宜盲目投入。財運好轉但需與他人共享分配;工作雖具挑戰且需指導他人,但外部資源支持力道強。保健重點在腎臟、泌尿系統與生殖系統保健。

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《出生年份運勢要點》

.1968年:長輩資源豐沛,外出交通宜多留心行車安全。

.1980年:財庫開銷大,注意伴隨桃花產生的後遺症。

.1992年:事業運勢大好,深得提攜照顧;留心寵物健康與守財。

.2004年:感情運不佳宜避開,與異性朋友互動需防財務糾紛。

◎鼠

吉星匯聚,對哲學、玄學或人生方向多有深層反思。出外容易有艷遇,但關係多不穩定。之前累積的財富在農曆15 號後顯現,但花費亦快;職場可能面臨職務轉調或跑道轉換,最終結果偏向正面。需防腸胃問題及心血管引發的不適。

《出生年份運勢要點》

.1960年:出外宜先祈福拜拜,注意行路安全與血光。

.1972年:財運佳,但要妥善處理異性或朋友間的金錢、法律分歧。

.1984年:出國防範不良桃花,長輩多有助益。

.1996年:注意長輩健康與各類合約合法性,工作雖有波折但後續轉好。

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本月動則得利,農曆15號之後非常利於出外、出差或旅遊,易有名聲與好處。感情與桃花:留在原地桃花較多,但多為突發性且不一定適合長久發展。外出賺錢機會多,原地容易耗財;工作挑戰度極高,甚至可能暫時中斷或調整,出外工作則顯吉利。健康方面須注意心肺機能及可能引發的頭痛、腸胃不適。

《出生年份運勢要點》

.1962年:防大破財或居家變動,感情有年齡差距較大的桃花。

.1974年:工作阻力多,防範職場桃花帶來法律或名譽問題。

.1986年:內心心情好,但需兼顧母親健康及合夥關係法規。

.1998年:移動奔波較多,注意交通安全與劇烈運動(如馬拉松)造成的肌肉拉傷。

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貴人與資源充沛,但業務量繁重、承擔責任過大,整體感受偏勞累。桃花能量強烈,但容易引發感情風波或爭吵,建議劃清界線。財運方面進帳多但各項支出與是非耗損也大;工作備受重視,能得眾人援助,但執行的難度高。健康上易有耳鼻喉、喉嚨異樣或聽力/聽覺不明不適。

《出生年份運勢要點》

.1963年:遠離異性糾葛,避免感情重挫生活。

.1975年:人脈資源多,需留心母親身體狀況。

.1987年:是非爭執多且易破財,但能獲得極多貴人從旁相挺。

.1999年:賺錢機會多,但需嚴防因桃花被騙或與朋友產生誤會。

◎馬

容易引人矚目或出名,但需防範因是非或感情問題造成負面評價。感情挑戰大、是非多,不宜輕率涉入新關係。農曆15號後財運提升(與遠方或水、土地有關);工作上具進展,但須注意團隊爭執。健康上慎防心臟、血液循環與視力突發不適。

《出生年份運勢要點》

.1966年:桃花浮現,但重點需放在心臟及血液循環保健。

.1978年:資產總額增長顯著,但現金周轉宜謹慎掌控。

.1990年:長輩緣好且名氣助財,但口角是非多,宜忍讓為先。

.2002年:出外貴人照應多,需特別注意與朋友間的金錢借貸與法律問題。

◎牛

身邊人際溝通阻礙大,易生煩悶感,宜秉持「以和為貴」、放下執念。桃花易夾帶是非糾紛,強烈建議遠離桃花。貴人多但暗藏破耗,工作易有額外突發任務,農曆15號後女性貴人顯現,情況漸漸轉緩。留意四肢關節、腰部及泌尿系統。

《出生年份運勢要點》

.1961年:遠離感情是非,已婚者注意婆媳相處。

.1973年:事業突破力道強,但切忌因感情破財分心。

.1985年:與母親關係改善,但要注意腰部及四肢筋骨。

.1997年:得女性長輩提攜,但須留意泌尿、生殖系統及寵物健康。

◎龍

整體運勢不錯但阻力也多,做事進度偏慢、易有拖延,凡事需有耐心。感情方面,與伴侶偶有溝通障礙,農曆15號後互動好轉;單身者容易在遠方遇到特殊對象。有外財進帳,但容易因子女、寵物或個人娛樂開銷花光;職場農曆 15 號後表現獲得認可,漸入佳境。注意關節、咽喉與耳鼻喉疾病等健康問題。

《出生年份運勢要點》

.1964年:出外或面對男性易感到煩心,留意子女與遠方不動產法規。

.1976年:進帳多但財庫有破漏,需妥善控管現金流,注意孩子與寵物健康。

.1988年:左右逢源、財運極佳,貴人提攜明顯,外出多顧及交安即可。

.2000年:得長輩支持,但自身易焦慮引發口舌,留心寵物與小孩健康。

◎蛇

人際口舌是非感受深刻,環境多變動。桃花極旺(尤以女性緣分多),但伴隨的是非亦多,務必慎選交往對象。財運上容易因交際或桃花花費過多;職場酬酢頻繁,防範私生活影響工作專業表現。健康方面容易有腸胃問題與消化機能不良的困擾。

《出生年份運勢要點》

.1965年:居家注意漏水修繕,可能面臨搬家或動線調整。

.1977年:財庫豐沛,但對外或對下屬溝通容易起衝突。

.1989年:職場正財強,但需慎防異性感情詐欺或金錢糾葛。

.2001年:職場資源充足、表現受肯定;盡量避免遠行,外出須留心合約條款。

◎羊

面臨較多口舌爭議與艱難挑戰,但吉星相挺,多能化險為夷。感情上,遇見的對象常夾帶是非,擇友需冷靜觀察。開銷破耗大,錢財易外流;工作轉換大、任務繁重,考驗抗壓性。健康上容易有發炎反應或耳鼻喉不適。

《出生年份運勢要點》

.1967年:得女性長輩貴人相助,但家中易有漏水、搬家或家庭紛擾。

.1979年:遇有經濟實力的桃花,但仍需提防感情造成的破財。

.1991年:家中財庫充實,但職場上必須嚴格審核合約與文書作業。

.2003年:桃花帶來的心情負擔偏重,需慎重篩選交往對象。

◎雞

.延續上月能量,外在表現亮眼,但是非稍減。職場上可能容易有爭吵摩擦。桃花旺盛但多為遠距離、異國戀或虛擬對象(追星感),不易深入交流或落實。明面財運平淡,但農曆15號後有暗祿,易得女性長輩或土地方面的好處。須留意血糖、體重、泌尿系統及飲食忌口。

《出生年份運勢要點》

.1969年:外在發展須防詐騙,注意遠方異性財務陷阱。

.1981年:財運佳,但內心焦慮感強烈,宜放鬆心態。

.1993年:受長輩干涉較多,宜多往外走動以舒緩情緒、提升桃花品質。

.2005年:遠方貴人多,但需留意母親健康及長輩給予的壓力。

◎狗

財祿能量存在,但容易受口舌是非與自身情緒牽連。感情運方面,出外移動中易有突發性桃花,但對方情緒多變,易因此破財。工作奔波、溝通阻礙多,但能力會被看見,農曆15號後漸入佳境;健康需防呼吸道、關節與心肺問題。

《出生年份運勢要點》

.1970年:出外情緒不穩,容易有外財但流失快速。

.1982年:注意呼吸道、骨頭及交通行車安全,宜得長輩照料。

.1994年:開銷巨大(如裝潢或男性花費),宜遠離男性異性糾紛。

.2006年:出外遊玩心情愉快,但財庫耗損嚴重,必須節制消費。

◎豬

待在原地容易陷入人事是非與困局,非常適合出外走動以求突破。異性緣強,容易有他人介紹對象,已婚者需自律、單身者需注意對方是否有既有婚約。貴人眾多,但容易因合約、文件或誤判造成財務虛擲;職場變動劇烈、外界期待高,需穩健應對。須注意心臟血液循環與視力保健。

《出生年份運勢要點》

.1971年:宜多外出,嚴防合約文件瑕疵與旁人牽連。

.1983年:感情運差,建議專注在外地事業發展,遠離爛桃花。

.1995年:財運有些微增長,但農曆15號後開銷增加。

.2007年:外出得財機率高,多聽少說可避開是非。

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由外延伸至內的空間美學

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除了展現對空間與材質的講究,店內陳設同時也彰顯Loro Piana「Master of Fibres」對珍稀纖維的掌握,Baby Cashmere®小山羊絨正是代表性成果。1990年代中期,Loro Piana第6代傳人Pier Luigi Loro Piana發現羊絨品質的精緻程度,仍有進一步提升的可能,歷經約10年努力和牧民溝通,才讓過去與成年山羊絨混合處理、取自幼羊且數量極少的小山羊絨被單獨保留。隨後,Loro Piana持續鑽研紡紗與織造技術,終於找到完美保存珍稀纖維特性的方法,首批Baby Cashmere®小山羊絨單品得以在2008年正式問世。

羊絨進入製作階段後,纖維需經過層層整理與加工,將蓬鬆原料逐步轉化為質地均勻、適合後續紡製的狀態。

羊絨進入製作階段後,纖維需經過層層整理與加工,將蓬鬆原料逐步轉化為質地均勻、適合後續紡製的狀態。

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曾偉喆。(資料照,記者李惠洲攝)

〔記者龔乃玠/台北報導〕去年中職選秀會的6位第一指名,只有統一獅曾偉喆今年未獲60人名單註冊,本季無緣上一軍初體驗,獅隊總教練林岳平話說得明白:「以他在二軍呈現的數據跟內容,沒有資格在一軍投。」

曾偉喆去年獲得獅隊第一指名,簽約金520萬,去年休季有出色的檢測數據,當時餅總曾說,如果原本預設的先發輪值的能力不及曾偉喆和哀宥宇,不排除開季就有機會小秀身手,未料曾偉喆今年連60人名單都無法進入,成為今年唯一2025年名單外的1指。

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原本獅隊規劃曾偉喆只要狀態好又穩定,或許有機會今年就上一軍,但他在4月曾被強襲球打到手肘,休了近2個月,導致重新拉強度,目前能給球隊穩定的投球量只有30球,且狀況起伏大,餅總表示:「控球力不好,掌控比賽結果也不好,硬派到一軍沒意義。」

曾偉喆之所以狀況不佳,餅總認為多少跟強襲球有關係,「但我要探討的是,強襲球後,為什麼會在2個月掉下來,然後又要重新拉上來,這個(原因)選手他自己知道。」

餅總強調,從曾偉喆在二軍的局數和數據觀察,他不是很穩定在週期裡出賽、穩定成長,而是一下好、一下壞,不是好的輪值,「我們教練團的安排要再重新思考,另外選手也要想,今年在這樣的過程裡,你腦袋想的是什麼?怎麼會是這樣的結果?」

餅總直言,「不是因為你是第一指名新人,球隊就一定要保護在一個框框做事,或讓你在一個計劃中呈現球隊要的方向。這個計劃,大家都有做,但你的表現在教練團的預期之外,所以沒有在最終名單,因為能力不足以上一軍先發。」

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奧迪全新RS Q8 performance操控敏捷 強化V8雙渦輪引擎心臟 3.6秒破百引爆熱血基因
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奧迪全新RS Q8 performance擁有氣勢十足的造型,售價820萬元起。

台灣奧迪(Audi)昨(2)日宣布全新性能跑旅RS Q8 performance正式在台上市,在Audi Sport賽道基因加持之下,不僅升級搭載RS專屬配備,並針對V8引擎動力及底盤科技全面強化,藉此展現四環豪華休旅的嶄新性能巔峰,售價820萬元起。

RS Q8 performance擁有長寬高5,022×2,007×1,699mm、軸距2,998mm的壯碩車身尺碼,採用RS蜂巢式水箱護罩、Matrix矩陣式LED極光頭燈、運動化深色前後保險桿與23吋Audi Sport輕量化鍛造鋁圈,打造出更具視覺張力的專屬性能造型。車內標配RS專屬內裝套件,透過RS運動化設計風格的Audi虛擬駕駛座艙plus、Valcona真皮跑車座椅及消光碳纖維飾板等專屬配備,營造出令人熱血沸騰的駕馭氛圍。

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RS專屬內裝套件帶出熱血的座艙氛圍。

在最引人矚目的性能方面,RS Q8 performance以4.0升V8雙渦輪增壓汽油引擎作為動力心臟,搭配48V輕油電技術,可提供640匹最大馬力、86.7公斤米峰值扭力的剽悍輸出,搭配換檔反應更迅速的八速Tiptronic變速箱,3.6秒即可完成零百加速。在quattro智慧型恆時四輪驅動(含跑車式限滑差速器)、動態全輪轉向、RS 陶瓷煞車碟盤,以及跑車化氣壓懸吊的助力之下,也讓RS Q8 performance展現出更精湛的操控身手與駕馭樂趣。

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診所群聚染C肝 新北召回千人檢驗/疾管署長羅一鈞:取藥針頭反覆使用 增加病毒交叉傳播風險
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新北市板橋區「安泰淞鶴診所」門口張貼公告,自即日起暫停一切業務。 (記者羅國嘉攝)

新北市板橋區安泰淞鶴診所爆發急性C型肝炎群聚十一人確診,其中九人病毒高度同源,疾管署會同新北市衛生局調查,該診所有九大缺失,疾管署長羅一鈞強調,此案並未出現跨病人直接共用針具的情況,但每次取藥應該要用新的針頭,安泰淞鶴診所卻將藥瓶上的取藥針頭長時間留置並反覆使用,增加病毒交叉傳播風險。

調查診所發現9大缺失

此外,缺失還包括,接觸病人前後未落實手部衛生;未設專用尖銳物品收集桶、使用後針頭還以雙手回套針帽;治療區及非治療區存放預填充針筒,甚至有針芯外露的生理食鹽水針筒放在紙盒內。

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還有藥品、血液檢體及個人物品共用冰箱;可重複使用器械未見滅菌指示膠帶;滅菌鍋未定期維護、滅菌程序不完整;注射區鄰近醫療廢棄桶;環境清消也僅使用七十%酒精,未定期以漂白水處理。

疾管署提醒,安全注射原則為「一人一針一筒」,每次藥瓶抽藥,即使是同一病人追加劑量,也應更換全新針具及針筒,藥瓶橡膠軟塞也應先以酒精消毒。藥物應在乾淨區域以無菌方式準備,多劑量藥品若供多人使用,也應放置於乾淨區,避免帶入病人治療區。

羅一鈞指出,十一名個案均於二〇二六年發病,最早一例為一月廿九日,因此回溯至二〇二五年七月一日,目前尚未發現二〇二五年個案曾赴該診所。另掌握一一一八名曾接受注射民眾,將通知免費篩檢。新北市衛生局表示,二〇二五年七月一日至二〇二六年八月廿七日期間,至該診所接受針劑治療者,均可至新北市廿九區衛生所接受免費抽血檢查。

台灣於二〇二五年已超越WHO消除C型肝炎路徑金級標準,此次群聚事件,是否代表台灣「消除C肝」防治破功?國健署癌症防治組組長謝佩君表示,目前國內慢性C肝診斷率及治療率均達九成以上,達標並不代表國內不會再出現新感染,這次群聚事件也不代表整體防治成果「破功」。

專家不鼓勵打營養針

對於民眾到此診所施打營養針,新光醫院健康管理部醫療副主任柳朋馳表示,有些民眾身體不適時,會認為自己「吸收不好」,希望透過營養針補充營養,但目前並不鼓勵以此方式改善一般身體不適。若咀嚼、吞嚥及消化功能正常,營養仍應以均衡飲食為主,搭配充足運動及正常作息,改善慢性疾病、疲倦及其他身體不適。

新北市板橋區「安泰淞鶴診所」門口張貼公告,自即日起暫停一切業務。 (記者羅國嘉攝)

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大雨後泛舟 跑山獸轟「把別人的命當什麼」/南投自治條例未規範該水域 無法可罰
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濁水溪泛舟玩家受困三天獲救,其中劉男(右)竟是中搜榮譽教練。(空勤總隊提供)

南投縣府擬增劃限制水域

南投縣濁水溪受困沙洲的二名泛舟客,昨在空勤直升機營救下脫困,但整起救難行動已造成消防員伍程嶸殉職,外界撻伐「大雨後泛舟」簡直玩命,要求嚴懲,就連「跑山獸」羅培德也痛批「把別人的命當什麼?」南投縣消防局表示,南投縣自治條例僅規範山域活動,泛舟屬水域活動,無法依自治條例開罰;南投縣政府則說,將研議增劃禁止、限制水域,避免憾事發生。

最後受困2人 直升機馳援救出

濁水溪上游武界段八月卅日有五人泛舟,划到信義河段遭暴漲溪水沖散,當天二人脫困求救,另三人受困沙洲,南投消防人員卅一日救出其中一人,消防員伍程嶸搭救生艇進行第二次救援卻遭大水沖翻,不幸落水殉職,最後二名受困的劉男、陳男在沙洲滯留三天,昨在空勤直升機馳援下獲救。

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對此,在山難救援享有盛名的「跑山獸」羅培德發文痛批,他指出,這五名泛舟客大雨過後還跑去野溪划獨木舟,這種毫無風險意識、極度危險的愚蠢行為,到底把別人的命當成什麼?直言泛舟客傲慢冒險、缺乏常識,最後卻要消防員冒著生命危險收尾,甚至付出寶貴生命,希望不要再讓無知與冒進害死救人的人。

南投縣消防局指出,根據南投縣登山活動管理自治條例,登山雖包含溯溪等山域戶外活動,民眾違反規定可開罰,但此次泛舟屬於水域遊憩活動,因此無法開罰。

縣府則說,全縣目前劃有十處禁止、限制水域、溪流,但事發濁水溪上游河段未在劃設之列,將邀集地方與河川管理機關研議,盼透過劃定限制水域的方式,民眾必須提出申請,或符合相關安全規範等配套才能進入,避免類似事件重演。

管理河川的第四河川分署表示,泛舟客從濁水溪武界段下水,目前已調閱武界水管橋附近監控站監視影像,將逐一檢視畫面,蒐證追查民眾是否有駕車進入河川區域,若是經由非指定通道前往河川,就涉及擅闖,可依水利法開罰,也已發函請南投消防局提供泛舟客個人資料,以利後續行政調查。

第四河川分署調閱監視器影像,追查是否 有人涉及擅闖河川區。 (空勤總隊提供)

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陪同登記參選北市長 蔡英文勉沈伯洋:把台北帶往對的方向
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前總統蔡英文昨陪同民進黨籍台北市長參選人沈伯洋登記參選,送船舵給沈伯洋,並勉勵看清方向掌穩舵,把台北帶往對的方向。(記者田裕華攝)

前總統蔡英文昨陪同民進黨台北市長參選人沈伯洋登記參選,並送他「船舵」,寓意治理城市就像開船掌穩舵,把台北帶往對的方向。沈表示,他不只要當問題的解決者,更要擔任指引方向的開拓者,希望和「台北隊」參選的議員一起,帶領台北和世界一流的城市發光。

沈與26議員參選人 合體台北隊

沈伯洋昨與台北市廿六位議員參選人合體登記參選造勢,蔡英文陪同讓「台北隊」氣勢高漲。蔡表示,沈過去研究國安,最熟悉在危機發生前找到風險。這幾個月她發現,沈將這樣的態度帶進了台北,從交通、居住、產業到孩子的安全、長輩的生活,一直在問,問題究竟在哪裡?台北是首都,應該看得更遠,走在前面,讓年輕人看得到機會、讓家庭住得安心、讓長輩生活方便、讓人才願意留下來。

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沈提及,市民要選的是治理的方式、有規劃未來能力、解決問題的市長,「不要只有生生喝鮮奶」,更要「生生有人護、餐餐都安心、路路都平坦、處處有樹蔭、人人能運動、月月有AI、攤攤有生意、夜間有人顧」,「我們要的是未來和發展,這個才叫世界的台北!」

沈:擔任開拓者 帶領台北發光

沈伯洋表示,曾有市民告訴他,「台北那麼難選,算了啦!」但他以動漫「我的英雄學院」英雄歐爾麥特經典台詞喊話,「不要灰心喪志,因為我來了!」他不只要當問題的解決者,更要擔任指引方向的開拓者,帶領台北前行,把對城市的驕傲和安心還給市民,帶領台北和世界一流城市一起發光。

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泛舟玩家致歉 承認輕忽/勇消母淚訴:將心比心 別等危險再求
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泛舟玩家獲救後赴殉職消防員伍程嶸靈堂致意,伍母(右)淚訴想到兒子就悲痛不已。(民眾提供)

南投消防員伍程嶸救難殉職,二名受困泛舟客昨獲救後承認輕忽,隨即到伍員靈堂致意,伍母見二人上香,希望其他泛舟客也能來道歉,讓兒子能安心地走,伍母這幾天都沒睡好,含淚泣訴「想到兒子在泥水裡掙扎就難過」。

受困獲救劉男 是中搜榮譽教練

昨獲救的泛舟客劉男不僅是戶外運動玩家,還是中華民國山難救助協會中區搜救委員會(簡稱中搜)榮譽教練,曾是中搜水域教官,專長為溯溪,參與過搜救,惟近五、六年來已未實際授課,目前僅掛名,過去還曾從埔里鎮虎頭山玩飛行傘,乘上升氣流到仁愛鄉,熱愛戶外冒險可見一斑。

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劉男︰受困3天喝溪水求生

劉男坦言,泛舟因大水受困,是自己太輕忽了,獲知伍員為救他們而殉職,一度落淚致歉,但表示再說什麼也挽回不了,受困這幾天什麼東西都沒有,雖然消防隊有空投物資,但都掉進樹林裡找不到,為了活下去只能喝溪水度日,未來也許會放棄泛舟運動。

伍母表示,泛舟的人遇到危險就求救,但卻害了去救援的人,消防員也是一個生命,就這樣丟掉了,她兒子這麼健壯,卻為了救人而賠掉生命,她無法接受,希望其他泛舟客也到靈堂前道歉,讓他兒子能安心地走。

伍母更激動含淚表示,這幾天都沒辦法睡,閉眼就想到兒子在水裡痛苦掙扎、吸入泥水的情況,她更沉痛地說,要去野外玩的人,一定要考慮到危險性,若不評估風險、執意冒險,一旦發生事故就不能求救。

消防小隊長松定榮也在伍員靈堂前,對著劉男二人說,救援當下發生大水,搜救人員也是硬著頭皮救,但搜救人員也有家人,沉痛呼籲將心比心,以後從事戶外活動,要更注意天氣變化,並希望獲救者能提醒其他玩家與山友,他不願再失去搜救同袍。

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2萬人暈船 愛情詐騙削9億 男AI變聲甜美女撒餌吸金 首腦求刑25年
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竹聯幫成員黃建豪(紅圈者)與妻子許湘琦成立愛情詐欺集團,全台超過兩萬人受害,詐騙金額逾九億元。(記者吳昇儒翻攝)

竹聯幫成員黃建豪與妻子許湘琦二〇二二年起成立愛情詐欺集團,更導入AI系統,將男員工、大媽的聲音變成甜美女聲,在各大交友平台鎖定多金對象,以網戀方式詐騙吸金,更會安排公關小姐外出與「客戶」發生性關係,全台超過兩萬人受害,詐騙金額逾九億元。台北地檢署昨偵結,依涉犯詐欺犯罪危害防制條例等罪起訴黃等五十七人,並對黃男求處二十五年重刑。

各大交友平台鎖定對象網戀

宅男、高身價工程師 遭剝皮

檢警調查,黃姓夫婦透過工程師鐘翊宬開發的AI系統幫員工變聲,從事「公關小姐」詐騙的集團成員,只要利用該系統聊天,不分男女都變成甜美女聲,讓不少缺乏戀愛經驗的宅男、高身價工程師淪陷。

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該集團成員會先推銷高單價保健食品,測試被害人財力,確認對方願意花錢,就會安排跟對方網戀,並找公關小姐與「客人」進行性行為,讓人有真實戀愛的感覺,再進一步詐騙被害人錢財。

此外,集團還開發出「i助手」軟體專門統計成員績效,績效結果出爐,黃等人就以電蚊拍等物凌虐或以異物侵害未達標者的私密處,甚至迫使未達標者互相性虐待。

台北地檢署指揮刑事局於今年五月起展開搜索,查扣集團購入的麥拉倫等超跑及名表、三億元不動產與帳戶,金額逾九億元;檢方認為,主嫌黃男害得多名被害人迄今仍舉債度日,未達業績的員工還會被他處以性懲罰,行徑惡劣,具體求刑二十五年,妻子許湘琦求刑十八年。

愛情詐欺集團法拉利超跑被查扣。(記者邱俊福翻攝)

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板橋安泰淞鶴爆急性C肝群聚 11人確診 未落實安全注射 診所停業、罰30萬
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新北市板橋區安泰淞鶴診所爆發急性病毒性C型肝炎群聚事件,有11人確診,初步研判極可能存在共同感染源。(記者羅國嘉攝)

新北市板橋區安泰淞鶴診所爆發急性病毒性C型肝炎群聚事件,十一名確診個案有至該診所注射史,其中九人病毒序列高度同源,初步研判極可能存在共同感染源;新北市衛生局勒令停業,裁罰卅萬元,將負責醫師移付懲戒,將回溯一年曾就醫民眾進行追蹤調查,並追查感染源。

打營養針 一家3人先後確診

疾管署八月十二日接獲板橋區兩例急性C肝確診通報,為五十多歲男性與七十多歲女性母子,調查發現,兩人近期均曾多次前往安泰淞鶴診所施打營養針。八月廿四日,七十多歲婦人的四十歲女兒也通報確診,近期同樣曾至該診所施打營養針。

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衛生單位進一步比對二〇二五年至二〇二六年新北市通報的一百五十名急性C肝個案,另發現八人具有該診所注射史,合計十一人,包括七男四女,年齡介於四十多歲至七十多歲,發病日介於今年一月廿九日至八月十八日。十一名個案中,九人病毒核酸序列相似度達九十九.七%至一百%;另兩人因一人無驗餘血清、一人PCR陰性,無法進行比對。

新北市衛生局疾病管制科長王美華說明,經疾管署病毒基因序列比對,研判是同一群聚事件,前天已經勒令該診所停業,另將負責醫師移付懲戒,最重可廢止醫師證書。

疾管署長羅一鈞表示,初步研判本起群聚極可能存在共同感染源,並非醫護人員直接傳播,主要與診所注射過程未落實安全注射行為有關,病毒可能透過直接或間接方式沾染針具、藥瓶或周遭環境,造成病患間交叉感染。

安泰淞鶴負責人、醫師孫浩陽則指出,診所內部的感控作業確實有缺失,但從未使用同一針頭施打在病人身上,此次C肝感染事件應與診所的醫療手術無關。

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國產水產品 中秋燒烤新鮮又美味
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鹽烤鰻魚毫無腥味,入口後外酥內嫩。(記者楊媛婷攝)

中秋來烤國產水產品,享受美味還能增肌減脂!漁業署表示,今年水產品供應充裕,國產鰻魚、台灣鯛、白蝦、小卷、魷魚、午仔魚、秋刀魚、文蛤、牡蠣在地直送最新鮮,還富含EPA、DHA等多元不飽和脂肪酸與鋅鎂鐵等礦物質,蛋白質比畜產品含量更高、脂肪含量更低,好吸收對身體沒負擔;該署和各漁會在「買魚去平台」(https://gofish.atri.org.tw/)推燒烤禮盒,一次就可輕鬆買足。

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美伊又互轟 秘魯與伊朗斷交
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伊朗紅新月會聲稱,美軍飛彈攻擊的彈片擊中南部霍爾木茲甘省西里克(Sirik)一處正在舉辦婚禮的民宅,造成5人死亡、68人受傷,死者包括一名兒童。(法新社)

美國和伊朗二日凌晨再度互相攻擊,伊朗在遭美國一夜轟炸後,對美國在波斯灣的盟邦科威特和巴林發動攻擊報復。在此同時,秘魯指控德黑蘭煽動中東「衝突升高」,宣佈與伊朗斷交。

伊報復攻擊科威特和巴林

伊朗伊斯蘭革命衛隊表示,攻擊了在約旦、阿拉伯聯合大公國、科威特、巴林和伊拉克庫德族自治區的美軍基地。美國海軍第五艦隊總部所在地巴林軍方表示,其防空系統在二日凌晨攔截伊朗發射的無人機,指控伊朗「鎖定平民攻擊」;同日,科威特政府表示該國首都一處住宅大樓遭伊朗無人機擊中起火,所幸無人傷亡。伊朗代理勢力活躍的伊拉克,庫德族自治區反恐局表示,在首府阿比爾攔截了十架裝載炸藥的無人機。

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美軍中央司令部在美東時間一日中午,攻擊伊朗防空陣地、雷達系統和海上軍事資產,以回應伊朗伊斯蘭革命衛隊「近期企圖在荷姆茲海峽對商船和部署該區域的美軍發動攻擊」。

伊雷達系統重建將完成

美國總統川普一日表示,此次打擊「規模龐大且威力強大」,是對伊朗在荷姆茲海峽布設水雷及攻擊美駐約旦基地的報復。他警告伊朗若再報復這波「非常合理的打擊」,將遭更大規模攻擊,「最大規模的攻擊蓄勢待發,當一切結束時,伊朗伊斯蘭共和國將所剩無幾!」他另透露,美軍一直等到伊朗重建雷達系統幾乎完工時才動手。

伊朗國營媒體報導,在南部沿岸、波斯灣一座島嶼以及克爾曼省一座機場、西南部產油省分胡齊斯坦,以及革命衛隊在西部克爾曼沙省以及波斯灣拉凡島據點都遭攻擊。

伊朗表示美軍這波攻擊造成十八人死亡,包括擊中南部西里克一間正在舉行婚禮的住宅,導致至少五人死亡、其中一人為孩童,另有六十八人受傷。伊朗政府公佈一段據稱為遇襲婚禮現場一片狼藉,受損嚴重,影片背景可聽見人們尖叫聲。

國會議長、首席談判代表卡利巴夫痛斥美國攻擊「行徑有如撒旦」。美國中央司令部發言人霍金斯回應表示,「美軍從未以平民為目標,不像伊朗革命衛隊」。

此輪交火終結一個月的戰事平靜期,此前美國曾轉向經濟施壓,迫使伊朗開放荷姆茲海峽航運。川普表示,不在乎伊朗是否簽署「毫無價值的協議」,稱美國已幾乎完全控制荷姆茲海峽,伊朗經濟正全面崩潰,「他們的人民何時會挺身反抗?」

今年布倫特原油價格已上漲約五十八%。彭博經濟學家伊斯凡迪亞瑞二日指出,「戰事看不到盡頭、也看不出贏家,油價上漲對全球經濟造成沉重負擔」。秘魯外交部指控德黑蘭煽動衝突升級、阻礙海峽航運,宣布斷交;鄰國智利已先關閉駐德黑蘭大使館,但尚未斷交。

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蔣萬安長子交換生資格爭議 簡舒培引魯冰花金句:有錢人家的孩子什麼都比較會
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台北市長蔣萬安長子獲北市公費國際交換生資格爭議,民進黨台北市議員簡舒培昨引述電影《魯冰花》中,貧窮天才男童古阿明的心酸台詞「老師,有錢人家的孩子,什麼都比較會!」籲蔣萬安及市府釋疑。(圖擷取自YouTube)

台北市長蔣萬安兒子蔣得立獲得北市教育局全市僅廿五名國際交換學生資格,可赴美、加交換一年,並可領取七萬五千元以上補助,被質疑未利益迴避。民進黨籍台北市議員簡舒培昨引述電影《魯冰花》中,貧窮天才男童古阿明的心酸台詞「老師,有錢人家的孩子,什麼都比較會!」籲蔣萬安及市府釋疑;民進黨籍議員林亮君表示,蔣萬安若將補助留給優秀但經濟上需獲得國家支持的學生,會顯得更加大氣。

林亮君:留給弱勢才顯大氣

電影《魯冰花》改編自客家大老鍾肇政同名小說,劇情描述貧困家庭的男童「古阿明」極具繪畫天賦,美術老師郭雲天非常欣賞,推選他代表學校出賽,不料卻被校長及其他老師反對、抵制,聲稱有錢有勢的鄉長之子才應參賽。古阿明得知失去代表資格,失望地向老師講出經典名言︰「老師,有錢人家的小孩子,什麼都比較會!」古之後罹患重病,不幸過世,老師幫他寄出的畫作《茶蟲》卻奪下了世界兒童繪畫比賽的金牌首獎。

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簡舒培昨受訪表示,蔣得立有美國籍,要申請美國公立或私立高中都非常容易,為什麼台北市教育局的交換學生計畫會選拔出美國公民,「送美國公民回美國交換?」這是民眾最無法接受的,難免讓人質疑「是不是因為爸爸的關係、身分,才能夠申請到這個資格?」

蔣萬安昨早宣布兒子放棄市府的交換生補助,簡舒培認為,蔣跟教育局應回應外界質疑,不是放棄補助就當沒這回事。要說明在制定計畫、選拔程序時,有沒有排除這些身分疑雲?還是因為要選舉被發現應利益迴避,才放棄來止血?若是如此,是不是還有未被大家發現的問題?

林亮君與社會民主黨市議員苗博雅昨下午前往選委會登記參選。林亮君受訪表示,蔣萬安應該、也有能力讓孩子出國交換或留學,若將公費留給優秀但經濟上需獲得國家支持的學生,會顯得更加大氣。

苗博雅:蔣應該看「魯冰花」

苗博雅說,民眾最詬病的特權,往往都不是小孩子的問題,是大人不懂得自我節制。出生優渥不是蔣萬安的錯,但當了市長,就要能體會一般民眾的心情,而不是享盡一切的權益都覺得理所當然。俸祿是民脂民膏,呼籲蔣萬安好好地去看一看網友討論很多的電影《魯冰花》,想像一下如劇中出身孩子的處境。

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《TAIPEI TIMES》US-Taiwan Palau projects announced
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STATE DEPARTMENT: A US official said that Washington would provide more than US$150m for Pacific island nations, with Minister Lin Chia-lung welcoming the plans

By Huang Chin-hsuan / Staff reporter

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The US Department of State has announced partnerships with Taiwan on two Palau projects after Washington pledged more than US$150 million for Pacific island nations.

Following the opening of the 55th Pacific Islands Forum (PIF) Leaders Meeting in Palau on Sunday, the department on Tuesday issued a statement titled “Promoting Pacific Prosperity: US Engagement at the Pacific Islands Forum,” which said that the US’ commitment to the security and prosperity of Pacific island nations “is steadfast and enduring, and remains a core pillar of its ‘America first’ foreign policy.”

Meanwhile, US Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau announced at the PIF Partners Dialogue on Tuesday that the US would provide more than US$150 million in support to Pacific island nations, including funding for two projects being carried out in Palau in partnership with Taiwan.

“The United States’ continued participation in the Pacific Islands Forum reflects the importance we place on the Pacific islands as a vital part of the Indo-Pacific region. When the Pacific islands are stable, secure and prosperous, the United States is too,” the department said.

“Under [US] President [Donald] Trump and [US] Secretary [of State Marco] Rubio’s leadership, we are prioritizing commercial diplomacy and reorienting our foreign assistance programs in the Pacific around championing US enterprise and investments in enabling infrastructure that supports private sector-led economic growth,” it added.

Specific initiatives include the Palau Hospital Relocation project, a partnership of the US, Taiwan, Australia, Japan, New Zealand and South Korea to support the development and operation of a new, modern hospital facility in Palau, it said.

Meanwhile, the Drinking Water Sampling project is being carried out by the US Environmental Protection Agency in partnership with Taiwan, it said.

The initiative would help Palau conduct comprehensive sampling of its drinking water sources and wells, while providing training for drinking water operators and environmental laboratory regulators on proper sampling techniques, the statement said.

In Taipei yesterday, Minister of Foreign Affairs Lin Chia-lung (林佳龍) said in a separate statement that he welcomed the continued US support for Taiwan’s international participation and Washington’s recognition of Taiwan’s contributions to regional development.

Lin said he looked forward to Taiwan and the US expanding concrete cooperation in the Pacific and other regions.

He also expressed hope that Taiwan-US relations, as well as ties with Taiwan’s diplomatic allies and other like-minded countries, and prosperity and stability around the world would continue to flourish as Taiwan’s “integrated diplomacy” strategy complements the US’ “commercial diplomacy” approach.

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《TAIPEI TIMES》Taipei indicts 57 over romance scam
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Staff writer, with CNA

Taipei prosecutors yesterday indicted 57 people over alleged involvement in a romance scam ring, seeking a 25-year sentence for one.

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A man surnamed Huang (黃) and his wife, surnamed Hsu (許), allegedly set up a romance scam ring that utilized artificial intelligence (AI) tools, the Taipei District Prosecutors’ Office said in a statement.

Members of a “list team” used photographs of women to create accounts on dating apps and when a person made contact via the fake account, members of a “new customer team” would take over, claiming they were short of their sales target and persuading them to purchase products such as fish oil, Antrodia cinnamomea (a species of medicinal mushroom) or power banks costing about NT$1,000 to NT$2,000 (US$31.52 to US$63.04), the prosecutors’ office said.

After people made a purchase, the new customer team would send their personal information and chat records to a group chat, where members would decide whether to pass the account on to a “cultivation team” or a “returning customer team,” it said.

Members of the “cultivation team” would use photos of women as they chatted and built relationships with targets, it said.

They would asked for gifts such as smartphones, air purifiers and hair dryers, while also soliciting money, it said.

The group employed a software engineer who developed an AI voice-changing program capable of mimicking and learning the voiceprints of women, with the program taking over some of the conversations with targets, the office said.

The software engineer also created an employee performance management system, it said, adding that members of the group would be subjected to “inhumane physical and sexual punishments” if they failed to meet performance targets.

The prosecutors’ office concluded its investigation yesterday and indicted 57 people, including Huang, over alleged contraventions of the Fraud Crime Hazard Prevention Act (詐欺犯罪危害防制條例), the Money Laundering Control Act (洗錢防制法) and the Criminal Code, including fraud, money laundering and jointly committing fraud over the Internet as a group of three or more people.

Huang and Hsu targeted men who were genuinely seeking romantic relationships, exploiting their trust and ultimately causing them to lose their savings, prosecutors said.

The scheme inflicted severe financial losses, and undermined trust and stability in society, with some of the people targeted taking on debt to cover their losses, prosecutors said.

The group’s illicit proceeds totaled at least NT$900 million and more than 20,000 people were targeted, prosecutors said, adding that they have asked the court to impose a sentence of at least 25 years in prison for Huang and at least 18 years for Hsu.

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w-inds.「一起到50週年」惹哭粉絲 高雄是巡演真正大結局
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〔記者鍾志均/台北報導〕日本人氣組合w-inds.出道25年,居然只認為自己「走到一半」!日前他們在東京完成25週年巡演日本最終場,橘慶太當場向千葉涼平喊話,兩人早已約好一路唱到50週年,等於下一個25年也先訂下來。

w-inds.將於本週六日在高雄流行音樂中心舉辦25週年巡迴最終場。(G-MUSIC提供)

然而,這趟巡演真正的「最終站」不在日本,而是留給台灣,9月5、6日w-inds.將首度唱進高雄流行音樂中心,為25週年巡演正式畫下句點。

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這次巡演從3月橫濱起跑,日本12地共唱19場、吸引3萬5000名歌迷,東京場則有3500人到場朝聖。歌單幾乎就是大型青春回憶殺,從出道曲《Forever Memories》、《Paradox》一路唱到最新單曲《Who’s the Liar》,23首歌曲全由歷年單曲組成,再搭配過往珍貴影像,讓不少資深粉絲一聽前奏就忍不住落淚。

橘慶太也坦言,每首老歌都連著不同時期的記憶,即使巡演已唱了很多次,每站仍會產生完全不同的感受。

聊到50週年,橘慶太更直接把未來企劃都想好了;他笑說,25年後千葉涼平正好66歲,既然2007年有《ブギウギ66》,屆時乾脆推出一首《涼平66》,當場把千葉逗笑。

w-inds.追加公演海報。(G-MUSIC提供)

w-inds.與台灣的緣分同樣夠深,2004年出道僅3年,就把首次海外單獨公演獻給台灣,之後一路累積32場海外專場。這次則是首次挑戰高雄,千葉涼平特別強調,高雄不只是海外場,而是整趟25週年巡演真正的「最後一站」,希望大家一起把氣氛炒到最高點。

《w-inds. 25th Anniversary Best Single LIVE TOUR 2026 “GOLDEN SINGLES”》9月5日高雄場已完售,9月6日追加場持續售票中。

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自由開講》「內舉不避親」不是這樣用的
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台北市長蔣萬安的兒子蔣得立獲選全市只有25個名額的國際交換學生計畫。面對質疑,若只用一句「內舉不避親」帶過,恐怕成為權力者為自己辯護的護身符。(資料照)

台北市長蔣萬安的兒子獲選台北市教育局國際交換學生,全市只有二十五個名額。面對質疑,若只用一句「依照規定、程序報名,也經過甄選」帶過,恐怕仍不足以回答社會真正關心的問題。

有人或許會說,「內舉不避親」,只要孩子符合資格,就不應因為父親是市長而被排除。這句話沒有錯,但不能只講一半。

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真正的「內舉不避親」,前提不是有資格就可以參加,而是掌權者必須讓整個甄選過程透明到足以證明:親屬沒有因為權力關係得到任何額外便利。如果只剩下「不避親」,卻沒有更嚴格的利益迴避與公開檢驗,那麼這句古訓反而可能成為權力者為自己辯護的護身符。

蔣萬安不是普通家長,而是台北市長;教育局不是與他毫無關係的機關,而是台北市政府的一級機關。如今市長自己的兒子進入只有二十五人的名單,問題自然不只是「有沒有符合資格」,而是負責審查的人能不能完全不受市長身分影響。

這才是最需要說清楚的地方。

甄選委員是否知道申請者是市長之子?委員如何產生?評分是否留下完整紀錄?有沒有特別的利益迴避措施?更重要的是,在行政體系中,部屬面對最高首長的家人,即使沒有任何人打電話關說,是否也可能出現揣摩上意、逢迎上意的心理壓力?

在行政體系中,部屬面對最高首長的家人,即使沒有任何人打電話關說,是否也可能出現揣摩上意、逢迎上意的心理壓力?(資料照)

這不是指控教育局官員一定徇私,而是公共行政最基本的風險管理。真正成熟的制度,本來就不能只防止明目張膽的關說,更要防止沒有人開口、部屬卻自行揣摩長官心意的情況。

因此,市府若真的認為整個甄選完全公平,最好的方式不是反覆強調「依程序」,而是把程序攤在陽光下。甄選標準、評分方式、委員組成、利益迴避措施,都應主動說明。

「內舉不避親」不是特權的通行證,而應該伴隨更高強度的自我約束。

市長的兒子不是不能參加,而是既然參加,而且最後進入二十五人名單,市長與教育局就有責任證明:這個結果不是因為他姓蔣,也不是因為他的父親坐在台北市政府最高的位置。

如果連這一點都不願公開說清楚,「依程序」三個字,就很難消除市民心中的疑問。

(作者為退休人士)

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美推動委內瑞拉擴產原油 能源部長:中國無權分食新收益抵債
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美國能源部長萊特說,隨著跨國能源巨擘即將簽署一系列協議、推動委內瑞拉原油產量迅速擴張,中國將無法對這些新產能帶來的收益提出債務索償。(美聯檔案照)

〔國際新聞中心/綜合報導〕美國能源部長萊特(Chris Wright)說,隨著跨國能源巨擘即將簽署一系列協議、推動委內瑞拉原油產量迅速擴張,中國將無法對這些新產能帶來的收益提出債務索償。

萊特在委內瑞拉首都卡拉卡斯接受《彭博》電視訪問時透露,各方正著手努力重組委內瑞拉的歷史債務。萊特訪問期間預計與委內瑞拉臨時總統羅德里格斯(Delcy Rodriguez)會晤,宣布與各大能源公司達成十多項合作協議。

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其中,規模最大的是與美國石油巨擘雪佛龍(Chevron)的合約,雪佛龍將透過開發奧利諾科石油帶(Orinoco Belt)的2座巨型油田,大幅擴張在委內瑞拉的營運版圖。萊特指出,目前美方也已與奇異Vernova(GE Vernova)及義大利埃尼集團(Eni)簽署相關協議。

羅德里格斯日前也在國家電視台上證實,包括殼牌(Shell)、英國石油(BP)與西班牙國家石油公司(Repsol)等國際大廠,也將簽署投資協議。萊特在受訪時說,開發這些油田是為了造福委內瑞拉與美國人民,同時也有益於全球能源市場的穩定。

川普政府官員也將這次招攬美歐各國石油公司進駐委內瑞拉的行動,視為限縮中國與俄羅斯在當地影響力的重要地緣戰略。

另一方面,在委內瑞拉與美國積極加深能源合作之際,這個擁有超過60年歷史的石油輸出國家組織(OPEC)創始成員國,目前正考慮是否退出。但萊特澄清,他本人尚未與委內瑞拉官員討論任何退出OPEC議題。

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威尼斯開幕》65歲獲終身成就獎!喬治克隆尼公開放閃愛妻 自黑蝙蝠俠
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65歲喬治克魯尼威尼斯封神,竟嫌自己演的蝙蝠俠「太爛」。(達志影像)

〔記者鍾志均/綜合報導〕第83屆威尼斯影展當地時間2日正式揭幕,65歲好萊塢巨星喬治克隆尼(George Clooney)獲頒終身成就金獅獎。面對這座象徵演藝生涯最高肯定之一的獎座,他不改幽默本色,自嘲聽到「終身成就獎」時,腦中除了覺得無比榮幸,第二個念頭竟是:「他們是不是知道了什麼我自己還不知道的事?」

回顧長達數十年的演藝生涯,喬治克隆尼形容一路走來就像「一連串幸運的意外」,但話鋒隨即轉向當今世界的分裂與不安。他直言,在充滿政治動盪與恐懼的年代,故事與藝術反而更加重要,「對那些靠販賣恐懼為生的人來說,故事永遠是危險的。」他認為,威權力量真正忌憚的,往往不只是政治人物,而是敢於追問真相的記者、不接受簡單答案的藝術家,以及電影人、作家、演員與音樂家。

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喬治克魯尼獲頒威尼斯封終身成就獎。(達志影像)

克隆尼強調,電影或許無法直接阻止戰爭、解決通膨,也不能修復政治制度,卻擁有一種很特殊的力量,讓觀眾在黑暗影廳裡,為一個從未見過的陌生人產生感情。

他認為,只要人們仍願意透過故事理解彼此,就會發現所謂「陌生人」其實沒有想像中那麼陌生,而那些試圖讓人害怕書籍、音樂與故事的人,「在歷史中從來不會成為英雄」。

喬治克魯尼(右)和愛妻愛茉抵達水都偷放閃。(達志影像)

講完世界局勢,克魯尼最後還是把最柔軟的一段留給家人;他特別感謝坐在台下的妻子愛茉(Amal Clooney),表示很難用文字形容自己有多愛妻子,以及有多為她與兩個孩子感到驕傲。

眼看氣氛快要感性到底,他又突然拿自己的「黑歷史」開刀,笑稱兩個孩子大概是全世界唯二認為他演《蝙蝠俠4:急凍人》演得不錯的人,還警告自己根本沒讓孩子把整部片看完,「千萬不要看到最後,實在太爛了!」

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片名叫《希望》卻一路在追殺?羅泓軫親自解密
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《希望:末日血戰》艾莉西亞薇坎德、導演羅泓軫、泰勒羅素、麥可法斯賓達現身本屆坎城影展。(采昌提供、攝影Kazuko_Wakayama)

〔記者鍾志均/綜合報導〕南韓名導羅泓軫新片《希望:末日血戰》(호프)2日舉辦媒體試片,該片將外星人帶進小鄉村,黃晸珉飾演的所長察覺事情不單純,還沒來得及搞清楚狀況,就被迫捲入一場生死戰;另外趙寅成、鄭好娟也加入這場混亂之戰,3人能否守住村莊,成了全片最緊繃的核心。

有趣的是,片名明明取作《希望》,但全片看來幾乎都是恐懼、攻擊與崩壞;事實上,羅泓軫過去取片名向來簡潔又銳利,包括《追擊者》、《黃海追緝》、《哭聲》都是一聽就帶著某種命運感,這次的《希望》反而顯得格外反差。

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導演解釋,所謂「希望」在實現的瞬間,就不再是希望;而希望與希望之間的衝突,反而意味著不可能。他想拍的不是單純的善惡大戰,而是每個角色都站在自己的位置上,各自有被理解的理由。

麥可法斯賓達(右)、艾莉西亞薇坎德夫妻檔一起演出《希望:末日血戰》。(采昌提供、攝影Kazuko_Wakayama)

片中藏了讓影迷睜大眼睛找彩蛋的「好萊塢驚喜」,就是麥可法斯賓達與艾莉西亞薇坎德夫妻參與其中。不過兩人的客串並非「國際巨星」般降臨,而是得認真查看才找得到本人。

羅泓軫透露,電影敘事設計在「隔天夜晚過去、太陽升起」時收尾,刻意刪掉那些觀眾大概能猜到的後續,「如果真的有下一部,黃晸珉以及艾莉西亞很可能會成為故事中心」,據說連演員們也期待未來發展。

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中東戰火升溫!川普:美國準備隨時再攻擊伊朗
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美國總統川普2日強調,美國已準備好隨時再次攻擊伊朗。(歐新社)

美國與伊朗近日爆發自7月以來最大規模交火。美國總統川普2日強調,美國已準備好隨時再次攻擊伊朗,但軍事行動不會持續太久。

綜合外媒報導,川普2日在白宮橢圓形辦公室向記者表示,伊朗正致力製造一種可投放水雷的火箭,而美國已將其摧毀。他還指出,伊朗一直試圖恢復雷達與飛彈系統,這些設施也成為美軍的空襲目標。

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川普說:「他們試圖沿著荷姆茲海峽(Strait of Hormuz)建造的所有新設備,全都被我們摧毀了,其中有些是防禦性質,有些則是攻擊性質。

川普強調:「我們昨晚炸毀的可不只是他們的雷達。昨晚的攻擊非常猛烈,我們已準備好隨時再次攻擊。」

2日,美國與伊朗爆發自7月以來最大規模交火,美軍空襲伊朗南部沿海地區,德黑蘭則向區域內的美軍基地發起空襲,引發外界對中東局勢再度升級的擔憂。

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《倩女幽魂》「樹妖姥姥」謝幕!劉兆銘94歲辭世 晚年多病纏身
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劉兆銘享壽94歲,經典樹妖成一代人童年陰影。(翻攝自IG)

〔記者鍾志均/台北報導〕曾在經典電影《倩女幽魂》中化身陰森「樹妖姥姥」的香港資深演員劉兆銘(Ming Sir)昨驚傳離世,享壽94歲。據港媒報導,資深藝人丁羽證實劉兆銘於2日傍晚辭世。

劉兆銘縱橫演藝圈超過半世紀,早年的他其實是香港舞蹈界先驅,曾赴法國學舞,更進入比利時國家芭蕾舞團擔任舞者及編導,回港後創作芭蕾舞劇、成立歌舞劇團,也是香港芭蕾舞學會與香港舞蹈總會創辦人之一。直到1979年獲徐克邀請演出《蝶變》,才正式踏進電影圈,沒想到一演就演成經典。

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劉兆銘在《倩女幽魂》扮演姥姥為台灣影迷熟知。(翻攝自HKMDB)

真正讓台灣觀眾牢牢記住他的,莫過於《倩女幽魂》裡那位法力強大、陰陽難辨的樹妖「姥姥」。劉兆銘把角色演得又邪、又妖、又充滿壓迫感,即使電影上映多年,每當「姥姥」登場,依然是不少影迷心中最經典的港片反派畫面。

除此之外,他也演出《新紮師兄》、《千王群英會》、《射鵰英雄傳》等多部作品,戲路橫跨正邪兩派,2013年更獲頒「萬千光輝演藝人大獎」,肯定他多年來對香港演藝圈的貢獻。

只是晚年的劉兆銘健康狀況逐漸轉差,曾透露自己同時受多種疾病困擾,外出需要輪椅與家傭協助,也因此陸續推掉工作、鮮少公開露面。太太2012年離世後,他更曾感嘆失去了自己「最忠實的影迷」,一度淡出演藝圈;2020年演出《歎息橋》,也成為他最後一部電視劇作品。近年劉青雲、吳鎮宇、張達明等後輩仍會前往探望,足見他在圈內深受敬重。

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日債失控台灣要被拖下水?謝金河闢謠:有專人在對日本經濟放冷箭
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謝金河分享,近日網路上再度出現極度看衰日本經濟的言論,顯示似乎有專人在對日本經濟放冷箭,他為此分析相關數據,強調日本要從經濟通縮走向新的通膨時代,反觀中國則是正要走向當年日本通縮的惡循環。(示意圖,歐新社)

〔即時新聞/綜合報導〕財信傳媒集團董事長謝金河分享,近日網路上再度出現極度看衰日本經濟的言論,顯示似乎有專人在對日本經濟放冷箭,他為此分析相關數據,強調日本要從經濟通縮走向新的通膨時代,反觀中國則是正要走向當年日本通縮的惡循環,他為此直言「真正的考驗在中國,而不是日本!」

謝金河在臉書以「誰一直給日本丟石頭?」為題發文指出,網路上最近又再度出現極度看衰日本經濟的言論,日本是不是快破產了?日本要崩了!也有說日圓,日債失控,台灣要被拖下水!這些論點都和前兩次日銀行升息一樣。似乎有專人在對日本經濟放冷箭。

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謝金河說明,這次的亞洲貨幣,人民幣、日圓、韓元都很有看頭,人民幣從7.35狂升至6.707,韓元一度重貶到1587.68又升值到1352.73,日圓也一度到163.97,貝森特還進場干預。台幣也受到影響,從32.528升到31.568。市場經常用日圓崩潰的字眼來形容日幣貶值。

謝金河表示,大家都忘了日本戰敗,日圓是360兌1美元開始升值的,到了廣場協議大約到263.5左右,1990年泡沫吹破,日圓一度到79.75,到了地震海嘯,日圓升值至75.35。日本經濟的慘是日圓升值幅度太驚人。

謝金河指出,安倍射三箭,日圓貶值是重要核心,安倍高喊服務業出口,就是要讓日圓貶值來增加外國人來日本的消費。2012年左右,在日圓升值到75.35時,有人問他日圓要貶到多少才合理?他說75.35乘以2,回頭看,日圓有很長的時間都在這個區間。

謝金河分析,日圓在150,160的價位,有助於提升日本出口,提高日本企業的競爭力,這些年,日經指數能漲到7萬以上,也與此有關。但這會傷害日本民眾在日本的消費,日本政府是犧牲民眾的消費來扭轉經濟頹勢。

謝金河表示,如今日本10年期公債殖利率到3.01%,回到1995年的位置,這個訊號代表日本走過經濟通縮,現在進入通膨的時代。日本和中國是對照組,日本10年期公債殖利率超過3%,反而是中國10債殖利率跌到1.684%。

謝金河強調,這個訊號代表日本正式結束通縮,走向新的通膨時代。反而是中國債券殖利率一直在跌,日本昂首面對通膨,而中國正要走向當年日本通縮的惡循環,真正的考驗在中國,而不是日本!

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亞運男籃》為杭州慘案雪恥!南韓12人名單公布 李賢重、呂俊錫領軍拚金
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李賢重。(資料照,記者塗建榮攝)

〔記者粘藐云/綜合報導〕南韓籃協近日公布名古屋亞運男籃12人最終參賽名單,由王牌球星李賢重和旅外好手呂俊錫領銜,劍指暌違12年的亞運金牌。

南韓男籃隊史曾於亞運拿下4面金牌,前次在亞運奪金為2014年仁川亞運,上屆杭州亞運僅獲得第7名,寫下隊史最差紀錄,還被南韓媒體以「杭州慘案」形容。

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這次亞運南韓男籃目標重返榮耀,陣容都是一時之選。近日公布12人名單,將由李賢重、呂俊錫領銜,另外還有李政玹、文裕賢、卞俊亨、柳基相、李宇碩、安英俊、丹尼爾(Eddie Daniel)、崔俊龍、李承鉉以及張在錫。

南韓這次預賽被分在A組,9月10日迎戰沙烏地阿拉伯、11日碰上印尼,最後一戰要和勁敵日本對決。南韓媒體指出,他們會先在今天和6日與菲律賓進行熱身賽,7日啟程前往日本適應場地。

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台灣女婿升格當爸!龍鬚糖小哥愛女誕生爆喜訊「好感動好漂亮」
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〔記者邱奕欽/台北報導〕南韓明洞夜市知名韓籍網紅攤販「龍鬚糖小哥」憑藉流利中文與幽默互動方式走紅,因太太是台灣人,還被許多粉絲暱稱為「台灣女婿」。才開心宣布妻子懷孕喜訊的龍鬚糖小哥,昨(2日)再度透過社群平台爆喜訊,開心宣布女兒平安出生,喜悅之情溢於言表。

龍鬚糖小哥在產房看著剛出生的女兒,難掩初為人父的喜悅。(組合照,翻攝自Threads)

龍鬚糖小哥今年3月才分享影片記錄夫妻得知懷孕的過程,從驗孕棒出現兩條線的驚喜瞬間,到超音波畫面及寶寶心跳聲,全都成為夫妻倆迎接新生命的重要紀錄。如今,迎來期待已久的寶貝女兒,龍鬚糖小哥曬出照片開心表示:「龍鬚糖小公主出來了,好感動好漂亮,母女均安,謝謝大家。」並標註日期「2026.9.2」,正式向粉絲分享升格人父的喜悅。

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照片可以看見剛出生的小寶寶躺在嬰兒床內,小手微微舉起模樣十分可愛;另一張照片則是龍鬚糖小哥戴著口罩與帽子,在產房內開心抱著女兒合影,眼神滿是初為人父的感動與幸福,隨即吸引大批粉絲湧入獻上由衷祝福,「恭喜升格爸爸」、「小公主好可愛」、「母女平安最重要」、「終於等到好消息了」、「恭喜台灣女婿當爸爸」、「祝福一家三口幸福快樂」。

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美網》 我其實不是壞人!前球王梅德維夫淘汰地主黑馬有話說
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梅德維夫。(法新社)

〔記者梁偉銘/綜合報導〕梅德維夫(Daniil Medvedev)無愧為前世界球王,6:1、6:3、7:5淘汰外卡參戰的地主大黑馬戈爾茲內(Sebastian Gorzny),俄國男單第7種子2連勝,安抵2026年美國網球公開賽32強。

「在場上,我對自己的表現很滿意。」面對ATP世界排名731的戈爾茲內,梅德維夫展現豐富經驗與強大實力,強轟14記愛司,開賽一路壓著對手打,僅花2小時7分鐘直落3出線,2021年美網贏得職業生涯迄今唯一大滿貫冠軍的老將說:「前2盤對方可能沒發揮出最佳水準,但第3盤變得相當激烈,兩邊都打得非常艱難,我獲得更多破發點,也給他施加更大壓力。我在關鍵分保持頑強鬥志,最終贏得比賽,所以感覺相當不錯。」

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梅德維夫過去多次情緒失控大鬧球場,甚至在美網當眾挑釁觀眾,如今30歲的他此役多能保持冷靜,即使許多人為東道主對手大聲歡呼,賽後被問及如果拍電影,他想扮演英雄還是反派?這位紐約球迷心目中的惡客說出內心想法,「我希望成為那種當你看電影時,幾乎一直覺得『他是壞人,絕非好人』的傢伙。然後在最後一秒,你會明白他其實才是最好的人,而另外那個人才是壞蛋!」

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美網》美國內戰一面倒 「富豪千金」佩古拉僅花56分鐘橫掃科寧
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佩古拉。(法新社)

〔記者梁偉銘/綜合報導〕2026年美國網球公開賽上演「美國內戰」,「富豪千金」佩古拉(Jessica Pegula)延續發燙手感,僅花56分鐘就挾6:3、6:1快斬同胞後輩科寧(Sofia Kenin),地主第3種子連續第7年挺進女單第3輪。

「我的目標是發好球!」面對外卡參戰的2020年澳洲公開賽冠軍科寧,佩古拉發出5記愛司,沒有面臨任何破發點,讓這位2024年美網亞軍速戰速決,把雙方對戰紀錄改寫為5勝2負,「我第2發力量也很大,嘗試變換發球落點,並相信自己能在關鍵時刻發出好球。這都是場下努力訓練的成果,當我在比賽中有所收穫時,真的非常興奮。」

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32歲的佩古拉近況頗佳,本季第47勝到手,職業生涯10度角逐美網的老將,若能在紐約主場首度大滿貫奪冠,還將順勢成為新科世界球后,家族事業富可敵國的她,得與2021年亞軍、加拿大左手拍費南德茲(Leylah Fernandez)爭奪16強門票。

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網球》「1分大滿貫」提升心理素質 葛藍喬安娜再戰亞運瞄準獎牌
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葛藍喬安娜 。(資料照)

〔記者粘藐云/台北報導〕台英混血網球女將葛藍喬安娜(Joanna Garland)今年將迎來生涯第2次亞運,歷經澳網「1分大滿貫」一戰成名、WTA坎培拉奪冠,她認為心理素質比起過往進步許多,這次亞運也期待能夠站上頒獎台。

今年初在澳洲網球公開賽的「1分大滿貫」創新表演賽中,葛藍喬安娜一路過關斬將,接連力退茲維列夫(Alexander Zverev)與地主好手基里奧斯(Nick Kyrgios)等頂尖球星,收下亞軍。

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葛藍喬安娜認為,這場比賽為她心理層面帶來幫助,「面對那麼多現場觀眾和龐大獎金的壓力,我都能沉著去發揮,這讓我明白在未來的比賽中碰上任何突發狀況,我都有能力想辦法解決,不再感到害怕。」

葛藍喬安娜在上屆杭州亞運首度參戰,卻在16強抱憾止步,這回捲土重來她也做好準備,「上屆我還不太相信自己能拿牌,但教練告訴我不要小看自己。這次我不僅更有經驗,大家代表國家都有壓力,我相信自己真的很有機會!」

提到亞運和平常職業賽差異,葛藍喬安娜笑說,「平常職業賽雖然名字旁掛著國家隊旗幟,但更多是為個人而戰,只有亞運、金恩盃這種大賽,能真正和大家凝聚在一起代表國家。」

葛藍喬安娜也特別感謝台塑企業暨王詹樣公益信託、中華航空、四維體育推廣教育基金會、中華網協、運動部與櫻桃王等單位的長年鼎力相助,期許能在這次亞運繳出佳績。

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籃球》證實有台灣球隊接觸 陳盈駿透露最後續留CBA原因
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陳盈駿。(資料照)

〔記者粘藐云/台北報導〕「台灣隊長」陳盈駿昨在亞運男籃媒體日被詢問個人動向時表示,確定已經和北京首鋼續約,下個賽季將留在CBA打拚,但他也證實,這段期間確實有台灣職籃球隊和他接觸。

陳盈駿和北京首鋼合約今年到期,先前他持續球隊交涉當中,日前中國媒體爆料他和北京首鋼達成續約共識,球隊日前也已經官宣。

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提到決定續留CBA一事,陳盈駿表示,還是會想把自己放在更高競爭力的環境裡,一樣每天督促自己能夠更進步,「我覺得就一樣去挑戰。即將迎來第10個職業賽季了,還是想持續去挑戰、去努力,把自己放在更有競爭力、更困難的一個環境, 督促自己每天把自身做好,能力一天天去提升。」

對於做這決定的過程和關鍵,陳盈駿表示,一直都有多方考量也保持著開放態度,「當然這過程中也有台灣球團來接觸,也有去商談、去聊,最後的決定還是在我自己,所以我最後還是繼續留在CBA。」

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李灝宇續拚台灣壯舉、山本由伸挑戰生涯最狂紀錄 今日賽事預告與轉播
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山本由伸。(資料照)

大家早安,自由體育為您獻上今日精彩賽事預告與轉播!

大聯盟3場賽事轉播,老虎台灣怪力男李灝宇有望再次先發,持續挑戰張育成的單季9轟、14支二壘安打的台灣紀錄;道奇派出日本王牌山本由伸先發,要挑戰大聯盟生涯新高的單季13勝,記得鎖定轉播!

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中職1場比賽,味全與樂天上演洋投大對決,由魔神龍強碰威能帝。

MLB

06:30 大都會 VS 光芒 愛爾達體育1台

07:35 老虎 VS 雙城 愛爾達體育4台

10:00 紅雀 VS 道奇 愛爾達體育1台、緯來體育

中職

18:30 味全龍 VS 樂天桃猿 DAZN 2

日職

17:00 廣島 VS 中日 DAZN 1



美網



07:00 DAY4 MOMOTV、博斯運動一台

BWF中國名人賽

09:00 16強(上) 場1 愛爾達體育3台

09:00 16強(上) 場2 愛爾達體育2台

13:00 16強(下) 場2 愛爾達體育2台

14:00 16強(下) 場1 愛爾達體育3台

2026世界俱樂部龍舟錦標賽

08:00 200公尺賽事

13:00 200公尺賽事

轉播:DAZN 2

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