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Scotland: Luke Graham & Robbie Ure in Pocognoli's first squad
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Stoke City centre-half Luke Graham and Sevilla striker Robbie Ure will receive their first full Scotland call-ups on Tuesday when Sebastien Pocognoli names his first squad as head coach.

Graham was part of Scotland's pre-World Cup training camp in May after a breakthrough campaign with Dundee, winning the Scottish Premiership club's players' player and young player of the year awards.

The 22-year-old was an unused substitute in the country's send-off friendly win against Curacao, which was also Steve Clarke's last game in the dugout at Hampden Park.

The defender, who has three caps at under-21 level, has started strongly for The Potters in the Championship, who are unbeaten in their last four games, with Graham an ever-present.

Former Rangers academy product Ure was in demand across Europe after a free-scoring spell - 20 goals and three assists in 20 matches - that took Sirius to the top of the table in Sweden and it resulted in a £5.5m summer transfer to La Liga with Sevilla.

Troy Deeney's Team of the Week: Donnarumma, Konsa, Fernandez, Schade
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Daniel Munoz (Nottingham Forest): I thought he was a breath of fresh air in the win at Villa. No-one in that Forest team can do what he does. Pace, power, he can defend and offers you a lot going forward. I thought he was a steal. I can't believe Liverpool and Manchester United didn't go for him. Forest did unbelievable business getting him.

Ezri Konsa (Arsenal): Had a tough old battle against Brian Brobbey as they beat Sunderland. Last season, he ended up bullying Gabriel for the equaliser and he wanted no part of it. Konsa said 'no problem' and stepped up. That penalty was never a penalty.

Lewis Dunk (Brighton): Who knew the big 6ft 5in centre-half could put one in to the top bins, straight off the crossbar? Unbelievable. He goes in just for that strike against Coventry alone.

Tarik Muharemovic (Leeds United): What a beast he is. I don't know where Leeds found him but he heads it, kicks it, runs through people. Didn't get the clean sheet against Newcastle but deserved it.

Leif Davis (Ipswich Town): Very, very good. Very underrated. He delivered in a six-pointer because I think Palace are going to be down there, with a goal and an assist.

Man admits drugging and raping wife over 20-year period
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A man accused of drugging and raping his wife without her knowledge over a 20-year period has admitted 60 offences against her.

The husband, who cannot be named to protect his wife's legal right to anonymity, had already admitted some counts at Manchester Minshull Street Crown Court, including rape.

The wife watched proceedings from the public gallery supported by members of her family.

The husband, in his sixties, became visibly emotional as he repeated the word guilty to dozens of charges - including multiple counts of rape, assault by penetration and administering a substance with intent - and at one point was invited to sit down in the dock by the judge.

Twelve other men deny multiple serious sexual offences against the same woman.

The husband, from the Stockport area of Greater Manchester, will be sentenced for the counts he has admitted at the conclusion of the trial.

A 13th man previously admitted sexual offences against the woman.

The husband's offending against his wife, who he was married to for decades, took place over a period going back to 2004, while the accusations involving the other men range from September 2018 to November 2025.

The other defendants are:

Philip Wild, 58, from Stockport

Sean Peers, 38, from Stockport

Jordan Wallace, 31, from Manchester

Alan Keelan, 42, from Manchester

Jonathan Kirk, 43, from Stockport

Robert Stewart, 70, from Stockport

Mohammed Sabir, 28, of no fixed abode

Graham Brougham, 74, from Northwich, Cheshire

Richard Townsend, 37, from Rochdale

Karl Lindsay, 55, Taunton, Somerset

Daniel Rayner, 42, from, Whitstable, Kent

David Graves, 59, from, Ilkeston, Derbyshire

The trial is due to continue in the coming weeks.

AI 'kill switch' may need to be mandatory, Anthropic co-founder says
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Clark told the BBC that specifics around "kill switch" requirements and verification should be part of "the larger policy conversation" taking place around AI.

"Should you mandate for companies to definitely have a kill switch? Is that kill switch verifiable by a third party?" he asked.

"I think that's the kind of thing society is going to want to know and might want to eventually pass rules around."

Anthropic, which was formed in 2021 by a group of former employees of its rival OpenAI, is currently at the centre of a debate around AI safety.

Last week, a post from an artificial intelligence researcher who quit Anthropic over concerns AI could wipe out humanity went viral.

In response, Anthropic scientist Evan Hubinger said he personally thought the possibility of human extinction from AI was ">10% within the next decade".

Computer scientist and Nobel Prize winner Geoffrey Hinton, known as the "Godfather of AI", told the BBC on Friday that a 10% chance of AI killing all humans was "not unreasonable", external.

He and others with similar concerns have suggested AI could do so by taking control of important systems connected to the internet and turning them on humans.

However, some in the AI industry have suggested the fears around it destroying humanity are overstated or may be designed to generate hype.

Clement Delangue, leader of the developer platform Hugging Face which was hacked by OpenAI bots, said last week: "Sorry, but asking Jacob [Coxon] about AI extinction risk is like asking your AC guy about climate change."

"Not saying it's necessarily uninteresting or wrong per se but let's keep things in perspective."

George Arison, the leader of Grindr, said the fears going around AI tools were being used by the companies to support their business plans.

Anthropic, which was Anthropic was valued at $965bn (£713bn), is preparing for an initial public offering on the stock market, allowing people to buy shares in its firm.

OpenAI, which was most recently valued at $852bn (£630bn), had been expected to do the same, but OpenAI's Altman said on Friday this would not happen this year due to the current debate around AI safety.

Arison said: "The only way to justify these valuations is to actually claim: 'I'm going to take over every industry and I'm going to take over every job, and my AI is going to be doing all that work.'"

Asked what percentage he would put on all humans being killed by AI, Clark said: "I don't think these statistics are that useful", but added that allowing AI to continue as a "totally unregulated industry" was a bad idea.

"We are rolling dice with immense risks," Clark said. "And the point is, we have to change the course of this industry."

Nigel Farage says £72m donation are compliant 'with the law today'
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On Monday the House of Lords debated the government's Representation of the People Bill which caps the amount British people living overseas can donate to political parties at £100,000.

The bill also states that those who moved back to the UK would have to wait for at least a year before donating more than £100,000.

The legislation states that donors must have been registered as in the UK by 25 March 2026 in order to avoid the cap.

It is not currently clear exactly when Delo and Harborne returned to the UK.

Education Minister Georgia Gould told the BBC's Today programme the government was "really worried about the big money that is coming into politics... and sometimes money from overseas that is shaping politics rather than the ordinary voters".

She said the new rule changes had been added to the bill, following a report by former senior civil servant Sir Philip Rycroft into foreign interference in British politics, published on 25 March.

The two £36m donations to Reform have reignited questions about political funding.

Speaking to Matt Chorley on Radio 5 Live, Sir Philip said examining domestic donations had not been within the remit of his review but that there was a case for capping all donations, whether they came from British citizens living in the UK or overseas.

"I don't see any reason why we should have these mega sums of money coming into British politics," he said.

He added that the government's decision to retrospectively ban certain donations was "going to be controversial" but said: "If you say, you're going to change the rules to cap donations at some point in the future, then clearly the risk is that you get a lot of those donations coming through the door before you're able to do that."

Farage said the donations would allow his party to "catch up with the other big parties" and enable them to "professionalise".

He argued that trade unions gave money to Labour so that it would enact their policies and that donors gave money to the Conservative Party in order to get "knighthoods and peerages".

By contrast he said neither Harborne or Delo would get peerages or government contracts, if Reform won the next general election.

Asked if the two men had influence over Reform's policy on cryptocurrency, Farage said he had shown them his party's paper on the subject and they both "thought it made sense".

He added that the two men "will not benefit" from Reform's policies, which he said aimed to properly regulate cryptocurrency.

Farage was speaking on the same day as the Trade Unions Congress, the federation of trade unions, held its annual conference.

TUC general secretary Nowak said Reform were a "party for sale" and their donations were "a crisis for democracy".

Sharon Graham, leader of the Unite union, said the government should go further and put a cap between £500,000 and £1m on individual donations made by UK residents

Speaking on Sunday, Conservative shadow foreign secretary Tom Tugendhat said it was important to ensure "we do not end up with a sort of Americanisation of politics where money just sort of runs free".

Liberal Democrat Cabinet Office spokeswoman Lisa Smart called for emergency legislation to cap campaign donations and spending. Similarly, the Green Party urged the Labour Party to "find its spine and support a tight cap".

Macklemore dropped from Ed Sheeran tour after 'Free Palestine' speech
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Rapper Macklemore has been dropped from Ed Sheeran's US tour after making pro-Palestinian comments on stage earlier this month.

The artist - whose real name is Benjamin Haggerty - had been the opening act for Sheeran's Loop tour, but was criticised by Jewish groups after saying "Free Palestine" at two concerts and making political speeches.

Macklemore stood by his comments on Monday, confirming that he had been cut from the tour and writing in a statement that the real victims are the Palestinian people in Gaza.

Ed Sheeran has not yet commented, and who will replace Macklemore for the rest of the tour is unknown.

The controversy began on 4 September, when Macklemore, a long-time pro-Palestine activist, performed at Ed Sheeran's concert at the MetLife Stadium in New Jersey.

He told the audience: "A big part of the reason why I wanted to do this tour in the first place is so that I could stand up in stadiums like this and say two words that are very, very dear to my heart: Free Palestine."

He then performed his song Hind's Hall, which condemns Israel's military action in Gaza, while video footage of the devastation in Gaza was shown on the big screen.

After that performance, the campaign group StopAntisemitism criticised the rapper, saying "Jewish fans bought tickets to see Ed Sheeran sing... not to be ambushed by Macklemore's anti-Israel propaganda."

The next night, Macklemore returned to the same stage and directly addressed his "Jewish brothers and sisters" in the audience.

"Criticism of Israel, criticism of apartheid, being against genocide, is in no way a criticism of you," he said, adding that he wanted people in Gaza and the West Bank to know they had not been forgotten.

Israel rejects allegations of genocide. It says its troops conduct self-defence operations in Gaza and the occupied West Bank in accordance with international law.

The Israeli military launched a campaign in Gaza in response to an unprecedented Hamas-led attack on southern Israel on 7 October 2023, in which about 1,200 people were killed and 251 were taken hostage.

During Israel's military campaign in Gaza more than 73,780 people have been killed, according to the territory's Hamas-run health ministry, whose figures are considered reliable by the UN.

Staff slept while patient killed at NHS mental health unit
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Hugo's father, William Flint Cahan, who has attended each day of the inquest with other family members, says there was "complacency" by staff, as well as a lack of care.

He maintains his son's death was "preventable had the level of care been as it should have been."

Hugo's brother, Jolyon, who is an NHS doctor, says the "litany of failures, both incompetence and dishonesty, that pervaded the care of both patients was harrowing."

Over the past 12 years, local coroners have sent at least 29 Prevention of Future Deaths (PFD) notices to the Trust. These are sent to an organisation when a coroner identifies problems which, if not dealt with, could lead to further deaths.

The BBC has analysed the reports which cover both in patient and community services. In more than half of cases there had been a failure to properly assess the risk the patient posed to themself or to others. Poor communications between staff, other agencies and families were also repeatedly highlightedy.

The strongest warnings were about poorly carried out observations and falsified records – basic care needed to keep patients safe.

A report in 2021 by the coroner that carried out the Flint Cahan inquest warned that "a culture of impunity existed" at the Trust where "inaccurate and misleading recording of clinical records was tolerated."

In 2024, two further reports highlighted observations being missed then records falsified to suggest patients had been checked.

In response to one of the PFD's, the Trust said extensive training programmes and quality checks were introduced.

In 2025, a fourth report, into the death of a young woman, again highlighted falsified observation records. The coroner said, "despite assurances" from the Trust in numerous action plans", the inquest had "revealed widespread concerns" about how observations were carried out across two wards."

Other serious concerns raised in the reports include, how staff have responded to emergencies, with delays in resuscitation and - on one occasion - nursing staff giving chest compressions to a patient's stomach rather than their chest.

Brian Dow of the mental health charity, Rethink, is calling for a national register of patient safety to keep tabs on the type of care mental health units across the country are providing.

"We have been here before" with poor observations, records being falsified and unacceptable care, he says.

"We have got to have a better approach to patient safety in what are the most difficult and most vulnerable wards with the people who are the most unwell."

In a statement, Dr David Bridle, Chief Medical Officer at ELFT, said the Trust is deeply sorry to Hugo's family for the failings in his care.

He said the actions of the staff identified by the coroner were "wholly unacceptable and do not reflect the standards, values or behaviours we expect".

Dr Bridle says the Trust has worked to improve its services and "will ensure the learning from the coroner's findings informs our continuing work to strengthen patient safety and care."

Harry and Meghan to have security review and children change school
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The Duke and Duchess of Sussex are going to be given a review of their publicly-funded security after their return to live in the UK.

It is understood that the committee which oversees royal and VIP security, known as Ravec, is to reconsider Prince Harry and Meghan's level of police protection now that they and their two children are full-time residents rather than visitors.

It will assess any risks they face in their new home and the type of trips taken by the couple and their family, such as regular travel routes and school runs.

It has also emerged that the Sussexes have changed their children's school, only days after they first started, over security concerns about the school run.

The prince previously mounted an unsuccessful legal challenge over his police security when he was visiting from the US.

But the family's return to the UK has meant a different set of circumstances for their taxpayer-funded security, and last week Ravec - which stands for the Executive Committee for the Protection of Royalty and Public Figures - met to discuss their case.

This committee, which includes representatives of the Home Office, the police and the Royal Household, seems ready to review potential dangers.

This means a so-called Risk Management Board will consider the threats against them and the level of police protection they might need - although no final decision on the outcome has been reached.

The review will include security for their children Archie, aged seven, and Lilibet, aged five - and as first reported by HELLO! magazine, the children have switched schools from where they started earlier this month because of a security issue.

The schools' names have not been disclosed, but it is understood that the Sussexes' private security team had been concerned that the distance and the heavy traffic on the original school run route had made it difficult to make secure.

A source close to the couple said: "The parents remain extremely grateful to all the teachers and staff for the love, care and effort they have shown their family.

"This decision should in no way be interpreted as a reflection on the school or the exceptional care the children have received there."

It is understood that Prince Harry had a review of his potential risks earlier in the summer, but before it was known that he would be returning to live in the UK.

This will be the first such security review for Meghan since she and Prince Harry ceased being working royals when they moved to the US in 2020.

Meghan posted footage on social media of the family at the weekend, showing a family outing in the countryside.

Separately on Monday, Prince Harry was told that Uganda would now take part in the Invictus Games next year.

It had appeared that Uganda was going to withdraw from the games for injured servicemen and women, in the fallout from a letter sent on behalf of King Charles emphasising that Prince Harry and Meghan remained non-working royals.

The King's private secretary had spoken on the phone to Uganda's military chief, reassuring him that he approved of Uganda's participation in the games.

Immigrants held in small outdoor cages at 'Alligator Alcatraz' in Florida, investigators find
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In its response included in the investigation report, DHS officials said Florida - not the federal government - had authority over day-to-day operations at the facility.

The facility was established by the state of Florida through an executive order signed by DeSantis, but the federal government paid for operational costs.

In January, the OIG conducted a surprise inspection at the detention facility, which had become one of the most notorious immigration detention centres in the US. The OIG is an independent internal watchdog at DHS. The current inspector general was appointed by President Donald Trump during his first term.

In 2025, the detention facility was built over the course of eight days in the Everglades, a protected wetland known for its alligators. Trump once joked that immigrants held there would need to learn "how to run away" from the reptiles at the facility, which civil rights groups have decried as inhumane.

In June 2026, DeSantis said the facility would close as it was only meant to be temporary.

According to the OIG report, between July 2025 and January 2026, the facility kept 79 immigrants in the small metal enclosures, describing them as "calming areas" for people to "deescalate and have time alone". They were held there from periods ranging from minutes to nearly two hours, at least once as a disciplinary measure, OIG said.

"The use of such restrictive spaces is highly unconventional and does not align with standards for humane treatment," the report stated.

Former top civil servant received pay-off of nearly £860,000
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A former top civil servant received a record pay-off of nearly £860,000 after he was forced out of his job by Sir Keir Starmer, just 14 months after the then-prime minister appointed him.

Lord Wormald left his role as cabinet secretary and head of the Civil Service in February by "mutual agreement" following months of media reports suggesting Downing Street was unhappy with his performance.

The Cabinet Office's accounts, external show there was "contractual compensation" of £332,897 and "additional severance" of £526,598.

The BBC understands the size of the pay-off was partly to cover Lord Wormald's pension contributions as his removal from office essentially cut his civil service career short.

He also was compensated for a mandatory "waiting period" following his departure from government. As cabinet secretary he would have had regular access to sensitive information about national security, foreign policy and the UK economy.

His salary for the period 1 April 2025 to 13 February was between £210,000 and £215,000, according to the accounts, bringing his total for the year to more than £1m.

A Cabinet Office spokesperson said: "We do not comment on HR matters.

"The permanent secretary at the Cabinet Office received a ministerial direction from the then-prime minister to proceed with the payment to the former cabinet secretary. Their exchange of letters is a matter of public record."

The accounts state Sir Keir authorised the "special severance package" on 16 February.

A note in them also states: "The former cabinet secretary elected to take early payment of his pension.

"The majority of the total severance payment was used to ensure he could access the full value of his pension that would have been due at normal retirement age, rather than it being reduced for early payment."

The BBC has approached Lord Wormald and Sir Keir for comment.

Conservative shadow Cabinet Office minister Alex Burghart said: "Chris Wormald was just one of many civil servants and advisers fired by Keir Starmer as he tried to save his own skin.

"This payout is another appalling waste of taxpayers' money by Labour."

The UK's top civil servant sits next to the prime minister during cabinet minister meetings, which usually take place weekly in Downing Street when Parliament is sitting.

They are responsible for ensuring policy decisions are put into action and are ultimately responsible for all civil servants in Great Britain.

At the time of his appointment in December 2024, Sir Keir said Lord Wormald would be tasked with "the complete re-wiring of the British state to deliver bold and ambitious long-term reform".

As a career civil servant, some questioned whether he was the best person to reform the Civil Service.

Lord Wormald was replaced in February, making him the shortest-serving cabinet secretary in the history of the post.

The FDA Union, which represents senior civil servants, responded to his departure by criticising "anonymous briefings" against him and called his treatment "a new low for this government and its relationship with the Civil Service".

Lord Wormald was replaced by Dame Antonia Romeo.

He was later given a seat in the House of Lords in one of Sir Keir's last acts as prime minister.

Lord Wormald will be an independent crossbench peer and is scheduled to formally take his seat on Thursday.

Israeli minister threatens to revoke filmmakers' citizenship over Gaza documentary
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Israel's culture minister has called for the Oscar-winning Israeli co-directors of Naza, a documentary that accuses the Israeli army of mass civilian killings in Gaza, to be stripped of their citizenship over "treason against the state".

Named for the Hebrew military acronym for collateral damage, the film speaks to 24 unidentified Israeli military and intelligence officers who outlined the AI-powered targeting systems used by the Israeli army to bombard Gaza in the war triggered by the Hamas-led attack on 7 October 2023.

Since then, more than 73,000 Palestinians, including more than 20,000 children, have been killed in the campaign by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), according to Gaza's Hamas-run health ministry, figures considered reliable by the UN. About 1,200 people were killed and 251 taken hostage during the Hamas attack.

Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor say their 80-minute documentary "details the systems behind Israel's calculated mass killing of Palestinian civilians in Gaza" during the war, according to its official synopsis. One of the people interviewed says there was the approval for an attack to kill 500 people for "one human target", an allegation the IDF said was "completely false".

In a post on X, Culture Minister Miki Zohar said he had asked the authorities "to investigate how the materials were obtained, who is behind them, and whether in the process of obtaining or publishing them, actions were taken that amount to aiding the enemy during wartime".

In a letter addressed to Israel's Interior Ministry, he said: "The claims presented in the film are false and distorted, and I categorically reject the attempt to portray IDF soldiers and the State of Israel as perpetrators of intentional crimes." Zohar mentioned the country's Citizenship Law, saying it "allows for the revocation of citizenship due to a 'breach of allegiance to the State of Israel'". The measure, however, has rarely been applied.

There has been no immediate reaction from Abraham and Szor. The filmmakers won an Oscar last year for No Other Land, a documentary about violence by Jewish settlers against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank.

Naza premiered last Thursday at the Venice Film Festival, where it received a 25-minute standing ovation, but has not yet been made available to the wider public. It won a special jury prize at the festival. Speaking then, Abraham said the reporting for the film, which was produced by the UK's Guardian newspaper, had been "rigorous" and that efforts to discredit it were "attempts to not face reality".

"It's a war that has principally been killing civilians. And I think our film is showing that this is not some mistake. It's not an accident. It's something very, very systemic. And this should have been apparent to everyone, I think, from the start. But we are showing it from the inside, with insider testimony," he told the Associated Press in an interview.

The IDF, after initially saying it "categorically rejects [the] allegations", later issued a new statement via its spokesperson Brig-Gen Effie Defrin, saying: "The film 'Naza' has not yet been released in full. However, based on what can be seen in promotional material, it presents a series of serious and false allegations regarding the IDF and its personnel.

"To enable a substantive, professional, and fact-based discussion, rather than one based on misleading portrayals, I invite the filmmakers to allow IDF representatives to view the film in full so that we can address each of the allegations it raises on merits."

Other Israeli politicians have criticised the documentary, including former prime minister Naftali Bennett, who called it a "horrific blood libel against our sons and daughters", and former defence minister Avigdor Lieberman, who described the directors as "haters of Israel".

But more than 700 members of the film industry signed a petition in support of the filmmakers, saying they were being subjected to a "campaign of incitement and vilification". Speaking to Israel's N12 channel, Israeli actor and screenwriter Shlomi Elkabetz said: "These are questions [raised in the film] that must be examined, not silenced."

AI: What is it? Can it be stopped? BBC correspondent answers
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What is AI? Could it pose a threat to humanity? Can it be regulated or stopped? The BBC's AI correspondent Marc Cieslak answered viewers questions about the technology.

Cieslak warned the technology being used by a hostile nation "could wreak absolute havoc that could cause enormous problems."

This comes as US President Donald Trump criticised the head of AI company Anthropic, Dario Amodei, after he called for a slowdown in development of the technology.

Tech stocks in Asia, Europe and the US fell after the bosses of two major AI companies backed Amodei's call to closely monitor development "to reduce the risk that something goes seriously wrong".

Harry and Meghan: Children to change school in the UK
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The Duke and Duchess of Sussex are going to be given a review of their publicly-funded security after their return to live in the UK.

The Sussexes have changed their children's school, only days after they first started, over security concerns about the school run.

It is understood that the committee which oversees royal and VIP security, known as Ravec, is to reconsider Prince Harry and Meghan's level of police protection now that they and their two children are full-time residents rather than visitors.

It will assess any risks they face in their new home and the type of trips taken by the couple and their family, such as regular travel routes and school runs.

Valve's Steam Frame is excellent - but at over £1,000 is VR still too expensive?
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Valve's new virtual reality headset, the Steam Frame, has officially been released - but it comes at a high price.

The hardware is excellent - a light device which feels comfortable to wear and is packed with clever technology - so long as you're willing to pay a whopping £1,089 for a headset with 1TB of storage.

The variant with 256GB of storage, meanwhile, costs £889.

Both are capable of streaming from a PC as well as playing games on-device, with varying degrees of success.

But it carries a price tag which will make a lot of people roll their eyes, and doesn't do much to dispel criticism that increasingly-costly VR headsets are pricing people out of the hobby.

Oasis live 2027: Knebworth return confirmed plus Manchester and Glasgow gigs
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The band's 2025 comeback got off to a shaky start before an E minor chord was even strummed, with fans criticising the ticket sales process after being asked to queue for hours, with some finding themselves having to pay hundreds of pounds more than they expected.

The fiasco triggered a UK government response. Following an investigation by the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), Ticketmaster agreed to several voluntary changes, external, including telling fans 24 hours in advance if a tiered pricing system is in use and giving clearer information about ticket prices while people wait in the queue, as well as not using misleading ticket labels.

Demand and expectation were huge among fans, old and new. But the band delivered, with the BBC's review saying they hadn't sounded so good since the 1990s.

Mid-way through the world tour, Noel told TalkSport that he and his bandmates had been "blown away" by the response to their return after 16 years away.

Last week, another emotional documentary chronicling the tour - and featuring the reconciled brothers' first joint interview since their acrimonious split in 2009 - was released in UK cinemas, following its premiere in Venice.

In it, Noel confirms the band is "not a power struggle any more".

On Monday, following the announcement, he told the same radio station, external that booking part two of the comeback tour had been a no-brainer.

"We were having such a great time that, why wouldn't you?" said the musician, who will turn 60 on the day of the final Celtic Park concert.

He confirmed there would be no new Oasis music off the back of the tour.

British Crown symbol was branded on enslaved Africans, research finds
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Enslaved African people were branded with an identifying mark that included an emblem of the British Crown, according to new research by a project documenting British involvement in the slave trade.

Prof William Pettigrew, who led the Register of British Slave Traders research, described the imprinting as a "dramatic and harrowing" symbol of the monarchy's relationship to slavery.

The register, external lists 13,000 individuals and hundreds of institutions known to have invested in Britain's role in slavery between 1563 and 1807, when the trade was abolished across the British Empire.

Researchers say it is the most comprehensive examination of a national community of slave traders ever undertaken.

Dr Nicholas Radburn, historian at Lancaster University and co-investigator in the project, told the BBC he first found the identifying mark - which is an image of the Crown, with the South Sea Company logo below it - while looking through the company's archives at the British Library in 2022.

Founded in 1711, the South Sea Company was set up as a public and private British company and trafficked thousands of enslaved Africans.

Radburn said it was "remarkable" to find records of the branding "buried in a very nondescript sounding volume: 'The Register of Instruments'".

In 2024, he found letters that helped piece the story together. They were from the company's director to their "factors" (slave traders) in the Spanish Americas, Radburn explained.

"The letters were full of very detailed instructions on how to conduct the slave trade," he recalled.

One letter from February 1714 was "exceptional because it laid bare so clearly the ways in which the London-based directors were personally involved in the violence that was committed against the enslaved in the Americas".

The directors sent irons made in England for slave traders to use to mark enslaved African people on their left shoulder with the emblem.

The purpose, the letter outlined, was to distinguish the company's slaves from others.

In an interview with BBC Radio 4's Today programme, Pettigrew - from King's College London - said there were all sorts of connections between the monarchy and slavery, not just this "brutal imprint".

"If you think about the history of the monarchy when it was at its absolute lowest ebb, when King Charles I was executed, members of the royal family relaunched the monarchy, its finances and its reputation, by investing in the transatlantic slave trade," he said.

He said it was important to draw a distinction between the monarchy as an institution, and the individuals who led it.

"The institution is the same as it was hundreds of years ago.

"So when we talk about the role of the slave trade in rehabilitating the monarchy or improving its position, we're talking about an institution that is still very much a part of British life today.

"In a court of law, the monarchy is the same institution today as it was in the 17th Century."

In a statement, Buckingham Palace said King Charles "has on many occasions expressed his personal and wholehearted commitment to promoting greater understanding around the issue of slavery and finding ways to address historic wrongs for the benefit of communities today".

The King is "grateful to all those undertaking academic work in this area and thus contributing to the debate about how such issues might best be addressed".

Sydney Sweeney: Athletes including Amy Hunt respond to controversial advert
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Female athletes have spoken out against a controversial sports gambling advert starring actress Sydney Sweeney.

The advert has gone viral online and features American Sweeney naked but covering parts of her body with various pieces of sporting equipment.

It has sparked a strong reaction, with many female athletes criticising its sexualisation of women in sport, and how they are being defined by their appearance rather than their achievements as sportswomen.

Amy Hunt, who became a four-time European champion earlier this summer, referenced the advert after she ran a season's best 22.10 seconds to finish fourth in the 200m final at the Ultimate Championship in Budapest on Sunday.

"Sydney Sweeney, this is what women in sport look like," Hunt said in her post-race interview with BBC Sport.

Referring to Melissa Jefferson-Wooden's winning time of 21.47 seconds, the fourth fastest ever over the distance, she added: "21.4. Muscles. Hard work, blood, sweat, tears. This is a beautiful evening."

American actress Sweeney, 29, starred in the television series Euphoria and her films include Anyone But You and The Housemaid.

The backlash has included many other athletes from a range of sports posting videos of themselves competing or training, and describing the frustrations and struggles they have faced throughout their careers.

The trend was started by American gymnast Gracie Kramer, who posted a montage of herself training with the caption, "I don't know what Sydney Sweeney was doing, but this is what women in sport look like."

Kramer told BBC World Service's Newshour show she "did not expect" the reaction to her post and "just wanted to uplift women and remind them that you may see these types of ads but remember that this is not the only thing that matters".

She said it was "so cool" to see "all the incredible athletes hopping on this trend, uplifting themselves, uplifting each other", adding she was used to getting "very demeaning and objectifying" messages from men because of competing in a leotard as a gymnast.

Kramer added: "Unfortunately being objectified pretty much my entire career, it made me feel strong enough to post about this and to stand up for the women that don't want to be objectified and don't want to be looped into this unfortunate narrative that's been pushed for a long time."

Jury discharged in Boris Johnson wedding plot trial
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A jury has been discharged after failing to reach a verdict in the trial of a man accused of plotting to disrupt Boris Johnson's wedding reception.

Tim Speers, 41, allegedly carried spray paint and superglue to the Daylesford Estate in Gloucestershire on 29 July 2022, on the eve of the former prime minister and Carrie Johnson's wedding reception.

Speers, from Bude, Cornwall, denied having items with intent to cause criminal damage and said he abandoned the idea to spray "Palestine" on the lawn by the time police approached him.

The judge discharged the jury and adjourned the case at Southwark Crown Court until 29 September, when prosecutors have been told to indicate if they want a retrial.

Can AI Actually Be Slowed Down?
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Today, can governments work together to regulate AI, after growing safety fears in the industry? Donald Trump, has seemingly dismissed calls for government intervention made over the weekend. The President cited the AI race with China, saying “whoever wins AI, wins.” So is there anything the UK government can do? Meanwhile the calls for a slow down in AI development has led to tech stocks falling in Europe, US and Asia. Alex and James are joined by Darren Jones Labour MP and former chief secretary to the Prime Minister, who has been calling on the government for the regulation and safe development of superintelligence. You can now listen to Newscast on a smart speaker. If you want to listen, just say "Ask BBC Sounds to play Newscast”. It works on most smart speakers. You can join our Newscast online community here: https://bbc.in/newscastdiscord Get in touch with Newscast by emailing [email protected] or send us a WhatsApp on +44 0330 123 9480. New episodes released every day. If you're in the UK, for more News and Current Affairs podcasts from the BBC, listen on BBC Sounds: https://bbc.in/4guXgXd Newscast brings you daily analysis of the latest political news stories from the BBC. The presenters were Alex Forsyth and James Cook. It was made by Jack Maclaren with Anna Harris and Cordelia Hemming. The social producer was Jem Westgate. The technical producer was Dafydd Evans. The assistant editor is Chris Gray. The senior news editor is Sam Bonham.

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Americanswers… on 5 Live! Can Trump convince voters a “High IQ” president is the only guardrail AI needs?
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The president is pushing back against calls from tech bosses to slow down the development of artificial intelligence. After claiming “whoever wins AI, wins” can Trump convince voters that greater regulation isn’t needed? And will Republican senator Mitch McConnell reappear as the senate reconvenes this week? The 84 year old has been absent after months of illness and, as conspiracy theories surrounding his wellbeing grow, he is facing mounting pressure to say whether he will return to his duties or resign. Plus, what’s on the president's hand-picked Air Force One playlist? Justin, Sarah and Sumi join Matt Chorley on 5 Live to answer your questions. HOSTS: • Justin Webb, Radio 4 presenter • Sarah Smith, North America Editor • Sumi Somaskanda, BBC Chief Presenter GET IN TOUCH: • Join our online community: https://discord.gg/qSrxqNcmRB • Send us a message or voice note via WhatsApp to +44 330 123 9480 • Email [email protected] • Or use #Americast This episode was made by Alix Pickles with Emma Close and Nik Sindle. The technical producer was Jonathan Greer. The series producer is Purvee Pattni. The senior news editor is Sam Bonham. If you want to be notified every time we publish a new episode, please subscribe to us on BBC Sounds by hitting the subscribe button on the app. You can now listen to Americast on a smart speaker. If you want to listen, just say "Ask BBC Sounds to play Americast”. It works on most smart speakers. US Election Unspun: Sign up for Anthony’s BBC newsletter: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-68093155 Americast is part of the BBC News Podcasts family of podcasts. The team that makes Americast also makes lots of other podcasts, including Newscast. If you enjoy Americast (and if you're reading this then you hopefully do), then we think that you will enjoy some of our other pods too. See links below. Newscast: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/series/p05299nl Top Comment: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand/m001mssm Radical: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand/p0gg4k6r The Global Story: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand/w13xtvsd

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Highlights - Premier League - Leeds United 4-1 Newcastle United
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Dominic Calvert-Lewin stars as Leeds United go third in the Premier League with a superb performance to inflict a heavy 4-1 defeat on Newcastle United at Elland Road.

MATCH REPORT: Premier League - Leeds United 4-1 Newcastle United

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Leeds v Newcastle: How the players rated
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James Trafford: A relatively comfortable night against his former suitors. A couple of nervy clearances early on but went on to make an important save to deny Harvey Barnes. 7

James Justin: Teasing cross set up Leeds' second goal. Has become a key component in this system. 7

Nico Elvedi: Only his second Premier League start yet already looks at home at Elland Road. Solid at the back but got it all wrong at the other end after volleying wide at the back post when unmarked. 7

Tarik Muharemovic: The club's player of the month for August for a reason. Made it look rather comfortable at the back on Monday night. 7

Jayden Bogle: Second goal credited to him. Did not know much about it, but has found his shooting boots after his goal at Brighton last time out in the league. Twice forced Lukas Hornicek into big saves before second goal took final touch off him. A real threat. 8

Anton Stach: Won a corner inside 32 seconds. That set the tone for Leeds' relentless display, even if he later wasted chance to score. 7

Ethan Ampadu: Ensured Leeds kept pushing for more as he barked instructions. Saw Dominic Calvert-Lewin inadvertently block a vicious goalbound effort. 7

Ao Tanaka: His goal took two heavy deflections but had the confidence to take the shot. Looking back to his best in recent weeks even if he was relieved to see one misplaced pass unpunished. 7

Gabriel Gudmundsson: Caused Newcastle real problems with his runs down the left. Looked more a winger than a wing-back. 7

Noah Okafor: Fine strike for Leeds' fourth, having also coolly pulled the ball back for Tanaka to let fly for his side's opener. 8

Dominic Calvert-Lewin: Just loves this fixture. A trademark header came off Bogle for Leeds' second and then showed other side of his game to finish calmly on the floor for the hosts' third. Has scored eight goals against Newcastle - more than any other side. 9

Subs:

Melvin Bard (on 72, Gudmundsson): Perfect environment to make his Premier League debut. 6

Brenden Aaronson (on 72, Tanaka): Lots of energy. 6

Harry Wilson (on 72, Okafor): Eager to impress. 6

Lukas Nmecha (on 78, Calvert-Lewin): 6

Daniel James (on 83, Bogle)

Sean Longstaff (on 88, Stach)

Subs not used: Zetterer, Bijol, Bahoya, Nmecha

Manchester derby VAR officials not given Premier League game at weekend
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The video assistant referee for the Manchester derby, Matt Donohue, and his assistant VAR, Blake Antrobus, have not been appointed for this weekend's Premier League games.

The decision was made by the Premier League refereeing body Pro Ref's chief refereeing officer Howard Webb and the management team.

It follows Pro Ref admitting to an "error of judgement" in awarding Erling Haaland's winning goal for Manchester City at Manchester United on Sunday.

The striker scored in the 60th minute at Old Trafford when he turned in a shot at the back post from Josko Gvardiol's cross.

His effort was initially disallowed on the field for offside but, following VAR intervention, the goal was awarded as the Norwegian was ruled to have been played onside by Patrick Dorgu's boot.

However, there was debate as to whether the goal should have been disallowed for City midfielder Enzo Fernandez, who was in an offside position, interfering with play as he dived attempting to head the ball in a central position before Haaland's finish.

"It was established that Enzo Fernandez did not play the ball and therefore that makes any offside offence subjective," said Pro Ref in a statement.

"However, on this occasion, the VAR did not recognise the likely impact of his position and should have recommended an on-field review."

City, who had Phil Foden sent off after 23 minutes, maintained their 100% league record from four games with the victory.

Donald Trump Jr and Bettina Trump say Putin ally paid for some wedding festivities as a 'gift'
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Donald Trump Jr.'s wife, Bettina Trump, confirmed that their May wedding was paid for in part by an ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin.

A post on her Instagram account - attributed to the couple - said that two nights of their three-day wedding festivities on a private island in the Bahamas were partially funded by Umar Kremlev, a Russian oligarch with close ties to Putin.

The statement was released Monday after investigative journalism outlet ProPublica published a story detailing that Kremlev paid "hundreds of thousands of dollars" for the celebration.

Donald Trump Jr., one of the US president's sons, is a private citizen, so it's not illegal for him to accept gifts from a foreign national.

"Our dear friend Umar very generously hosted two incredible nights of celebrations for us AFTER our wedding. It was an extraordinarily generous wedding gift from a friend, and something for which we were and remain incredibly grateful," the couple said in the statement.

But ethics watchdog groups said it still presented the appearance of a conflict of interest for the president's son to accept lavish gifts from someone associated with a foreign head of state - even if he is not a US government employee.

"People don't just give hundreds of thousands of dollars to a random acquaintance without wanting something," said Jordan Libowitz, vice president of communications for Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW).

"You can see how [Putin] would enjoy all this press about how people in his circle are cozying up to people in the president's circle."

According to the ProPublica article, the couple was married on a private island in the Bahamas, then held a two-day celebration on a separate island that rents for approximately $100,000 per night. Kremlev also paid other costs for the party, including a roughly $70,000 fireworks display, the report found.

Kremlev runs the International Boxing Association (IBA), an organization funded by the state-backed Gazprom energy company. The Olympic Committee suspended the group in part over its failure to report its ties to the Russian energy giant.

Earlier this year Kremlev was part of a delegation that visited China with Putin. The Russian president also gave Kremlev the Order of Friendship, a top state honor, according to ProPublica.

A spokesperson for Trump Jr. told the news outlet that the president's son and Kremlev were personal friends and did not have "a business relationship."

An ally of Trump Jr. referred the BBC to the Instagram statement.

In a statement to ProPublica, Kremlev's office said "Mr. Kremlev and Mr. Trump Jr have a friendly relationship." The statement said the men met a few years ago.

Kremlev attended part of the wedding, the outlet reported. Other attendees included one of the US president's daughters, Ivanka Trump, and her husband, Jared Kushner, who has worked for the US on diplomatic negotiations with Iran, Russia and in the Middle East.

The Trump campaign and family faced controversy for potential ties to Russia during the 2016 presidential election, resulting in a special counsel investigation. During the campaign Donald Trump Jr. brokered a meeting at Trump Tower with a Russian operative that was closely scrutinized during the probe.

Libowitz, of CREW, said either the president, who is a billionaire, or Trump Jr. -- who is worth $300 million, according to Forbes -- could have paid for the full wedding to avoid a conflict of interest.

"His father is worth billions he could have picked up the tab. Clearly they just didn't want to pay for it," Libowitz said. "They don't really care about the ethical ramifications."

Nato jets shoot down drone that flew into Lithuanian airspace
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Nato fighter pilots have shot down a drone that entered Lithuania's airspace overnight, the Lithuaninan president said.

Authorities said the drone likely entered southern Lithuania, near the second-largest city of Kaunas, from Belarus shortly after midnight on Tuesday.

Lithuanian President Gitanas Nausėda wrote in a statement on X: "A drone that just entered Lithuanian airspace was destroyed by NATO fighter jets."

The origins of the drone are yet to be determined, a spokesperson for the Lithuanian national crisis management centre said.

Drone alerts sounded across the capital Vilnius and surrounding region earlier on Tuesday.

Nausėda's post on social media added: "With Russia intensifying its aggression against Ukraine, such readiness is vital for our region. Together with our NATO Allies, Lithuania will defend its airspace."

Lithuania shares a large part of its southern and eastern border with Belarus, a key Russian ally.

Military drone incursions have become increasingly common across Europe since the beginning of Russia's full-scale of invasion of Ukraine.

Leeds 4-1 Newcastle: Is 'unplayable' Calvert-Lewin in line for England recall?
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Newcastle United must be sick of the sight of Dominic Calvert-Lewin.

The Leeds United striker has now scored eight times against the club he was previously linked with in years gone by.

So you suspect the beleaguered visitors will have been a little relieved to see him substituted late on after he had a hand in two of Leeds' goals in this impressive 4-1 win.

Elland Road was unsurprisingly on its feet to hand Calvert-Lewin a deserved standing ovation when he came off.

On a night Leeds fans repeatedly taunted Newcastle for spending "all that money" with little return on Monday night, at least, it was a free transfer who caused the visitors real problems with a goal and an assist.

So is the 29-year-old making a case for an England recall?

Leeds manager Daniel Farke certainly thinks so as he threw his weight behind Calvert-Lewin and a number of others in his side with "English passports".

"He's a handful and tough for each and every defender," he said.

"He's difficult to play against. He's at a top fitness level. You can see he plays with confidence and a good rhythm, but also benefits from a really strong team and players who work for him.

"Dominic is a crucial player and if he shows this type of form, he's definitely one of the best strikers in this league. It's the best league in the world and that more or less sums up what I think about him as a player."

美10年期公債殖利率升破5%關卡 市場關注聯準會動向
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(中央社記者廖漢原華盛頓14日專電)美國長天期公債殖利率今天持續走高,10年期美債突破5%關卡,20及30年期也居高位。投資人對美國經濟與美債價值看法分歧,市場靜待聯準會明後兩日會議是否做出升息決定。

美國民間主要借貸利率基準的10年期政府公債殖利率14日升破5%,最高達5.0140%,是2023年10月後首度突破5%關卡,全日交易期間維持在4.93%以上的高水準。

10年期美債在2007年7月華爾街金融海嘯前期,曾升至5.02%。市場正關注美國國債的市場供需與穩定性。

對地緣政治較敏感的20年和30年長天期公債殖利率14日同樣走高,最高升曾至5.4260%、5.3860%。

殖利率是評估債券價值的指標,與價格呈反向走勢。

中東局勢持續動盪、國際油價走高、美國通膨未見緩和、政府赤字可能擴大及龐大人工智慧(AI)資金需求競爭等,是投資人放空美債的因素。

共和黨籍聯邦眾議員施威科特(David Schweikert)在社群媒體X平台貼文表示,今天的數字會嚇到國會,2007年美國政府債務、赤字占國內生產毛額(GDP)的62%、1.1%,如今已達123%、6%。

阿爾賓財務集團(Albion Financial Group)首席投資長魏爾(Jason Ware)在財經頻道CNBC指出,近期公債與公司債都在爭取投資者,美債殖利率走高部分導因於供需不平衡。市場不會因為10年期美債殖利率突破5%就崩潰。

魏爾認為,如果經濟健全成長,核心通膨數字穩定,高殖利率並非一定代表市場狀況不佳。對股市來說,消費支出或AI投資放緩的影響,大於10年期公債殖利率突破高點。

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聯邦準備理事會(Fed)將於15、16日召開聯邦公開市場委員會(FOMC)會議,12位理事將投票決定聯邦利率動向,市場預期為因應通膨,升息機會極高。

美國總統川普(Donald Trump)任命的新任Fed主席華許(Kevin Warsh)漸趨鷹派,各界關注亟欲在期中選舉前降息以刺激經濟的川普與華許兩人關係變化,以及對於市場影響。(編輯:陳彥鈞)1150915

黃仁勳台上受訪突接川普來電 雙方齊駁AI末日論[影]
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(中央社洛杉磯14日綜合外電報導)輝達(Nvidia)執行長黃仁勳今天出席洛杉磯舉行的All-In Summit活動時,在台上意外接到美國總統川普來電,兩人均駁斥外界對人工智慧(AI)可能「接管世界」的疑慮。

美國媒體Axios報導,在全球一些最具影響力的企業執行長與AI專家基於安全疑慮呼籲放緩AI發展之際,川普與黃仁勳日益明確反對「AI末日論」的立場格外受到矚目。

根據社群媒體流傳的影片,黃仁勳今天接受All-In Podcast訪問期間疑似接到川普來電,他開啟擴音,讓現場觀眾都能聽見兩人談話。

黃仁勳與川普對AI發展抱持樂觀態度,強調這項技術有助促進經濟成長和維護國家安全。

川普告訴黃仁勳:「機器人不會接管一切,AI也不會接管全世界。整件事都是騙局。」他指的是近期有關AI可能帶來災難性風險的一連串警告。

黃仁勳則告訴川普:「我們會確保美國在AI競賽中,人人都能成為贏家,包括每個產業、每家公司、每個州,以及每一個人。」

然而,黃仁勳談及AI安全疑慮時,語氣比川普更為審慎。他表示,應該認真看待吹哨者提出的警告,並稱讚曾任職於AI公司Anthropic的吹哨者考克森(Jacob Coxon)勇於提出公司AI開發速度過快的疑慮。

但他否定AI可能導致世界末日的預測,認為這些說法「沒有科學根據」。他表示,如果AI公司認為自身發展已經「失去控制」,就應該暫停或放慢相關工作。

黃仁勳過去也多次駁斥AI末日論,他上週在舊金山參加高盛(Goldman Sachs)舉行的會議時說,網路安全將為資安產業帶來前所未有的龐大商機,「還有什麼比製造出問題更能創造需求?誰不希望市場對自己的產品出現瘋狂需求,甚至排隊搶購?」(編譯:劉文瑜)1150915

科技業高層籲放緩發展腳步 川普斥AI威脅人類是騙局
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(中央社華盛頓14日綜合外電報導)在多名科技業高層呼籲放緩人工智慧(AI)技術的發展步伐後,美國總統川普今天將AI對人類構成威脅的疑慮斥為「騙局」。

法新社報導,川普在自家社媒平台「真實社群」(Truth Social)發文寫道:「有關AI將接管世界、毀滅人類,以及帶來其他種種惡果的說法都是『騙局』。」

川普認為,AI威脅人類的說法,與自己在第一任期遭遇的「通俄調查」以及與「烏克蘭電話門」彈劾案一樣,都是「騙局」。

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在各界日益擔心AI可能威脅人類之際,美國總統川普今天稱此種論點是「病態陰謀論」,反對各界要求監管AI的呼籲,並稱美國實施AI監管將使中國得利。

過去一週,科技業高層接連警告AI的危險,川普則一再駁斥這股警告聲浪,並稱美國若實施監管,將讓競爭對手中國取得優勢。(編譯:劉文瑜)1150915

中東戰事推升油價 美10年期公債殖利率破5%
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(中央社紐約14日綜合外電報導)美國10年期公債殖利率今天升破5%,因中東戰事推動油價進一步上漲,加劇市場對通膨的擔憂。

法新社報導,格林威治時間約14時30分,美國10年期公債殖利率觸及5.01%,寫下2023年10月以來新高。

葉門叛軍「青年運動」(Houthis)發動無人機攻擊後,沙烏地阿拉伯關閉東西輸油管(East-West Pipeline),油價上漲約4%,美債殖利率也隨之走高。

橫跨阿拉伯半島、全長1200公里的東西輸油管,在荷莫茲海峽因戰事大致關閉的過去6個月來,一直是中東石油供應輸往全球市場的主要出口通道。

兩大主要原油期貨價格目前均已升至每桶100美元以上,也加深市場對美國聯邦準備理事會(Fed)將於本月16日升息以抑制通膨的預期。

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美國30年期公債殖利率如今也已攀升至近20年來最高水準。

除了油價上漲,分析師也指出,美國預算赤字及人工智慧(AI)熱潮導致大量債券湧入市場,進一步推高長天期公債殖利率。(編譯:劉文瑜)1150915

川普駁斥AI危害論 稱AI監管將使中國得利
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(中央社華盛頓14日綜合外電報導)在各界日益擔心人工智慧(AI)可能威脅人類之際,美國總統川普今天稱此種論點是「病態陰謀論」,反對各界要求監管AI的呼籲,並稱美國實施AI監管將使中國得利。

法新社報導,川普在自家社媒平台「真實社群」(Truth Social)發文寫道:「AI唯一需要的管控或『護欄』,就是一名強大又聰明(高智商!)的總統,而美國恰恰就有這樣的總統。」

過去一週,科技業高層接連警告AI的危險,川普則一再駁斥這股警告聲浪,並稱美國若實施監管,將讓競爭對手中國取得優勢。

川普還在「真實社群」貼文中表示:「目前正出現一場針對AI和資料中心的病態陰謀論,唯一因此感到高興的就是中國。」

此外,川普也抨擊Anthropic執行長阿莫戴(Dario Amodei)。阿莫戴12日呼籲業界放慢AI發展速度,獲OpenAI執行長阿特曼(Sam Altman)和xAI創辦人馬斯克(Elon Musk)支持。

川普寫道,川普政府已阻止AI業界人士做出不良或可能有害的「事情」,例如Anthropic執行長阿莫戴,如今他正假裝自己是個「完美的小天使」。(編譯:陳正健)1150914

前英相強生波烏邊境驚魂 稱普丁是被逼到牆角的老鼠
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(中央社記者陳韻聿倫敦14日專電)烏克蘭通往波蘭的鐵路13日遭俄羅斯無人機攻擊,搭乘列車的前英國首相強生驚險逃過一劫。他在英國「每日郵報」的專欄文章形容,俄羅斯總統普丁對歐洲升高攻擊凸顯普丁是「被逼到牆角的老鼠」,出於困獸之鬥鋌而走險。

2022年卸任後在「每日郵報」(Daily Mail)經營專欄的強生(Boris Johnson)寫道,在客運列車遭襲擊事件中,各界看到的是「被逼到牆角的老鼠露出牙齒(嚇唬人)」。普丁(Vladimir Putin)遲早得收手,因此歐洲各國現在施加越大壓力,普丁收手的時刻就會越早到來。

強生表示,普丁勢必會如鼠輩般「發出尖銳叫聲」、指控西方刻意升高局勢。事實上,在俄烏戰爭每一階段,普丁都會發出這樣的指控。

不過,強生指出,普丁是這場侵略戰爭的始作俑者;只要有心,普丁明天就可以結束戰爭。

第22屆「雅爾達歐洲戰略」(YES)年度會議11至12日在烏克蘭首都基輔(Kyiv)舉行,與會者包含強生、瑞典前總理畢爾德(Carl Bildt)等政要,美國中央情報局(CIA)前局長裴卓斯(David Petraeus),以及英國首相國家安全顧問鮑爾(Jonathan Powell)、法國總統外交暨國安顧問伯納(Emmanuel Bonne)、德國總理外交暨安全政策顧問紹德(Günter Sautter)、義大利總理外交暨國安顧問薩吉歐(Fabrizio Saggio)等歐洲國家現任高階國安官員。

根據國營鐵路公司「烏克蘭鐵路」(Ukrzaliznytsia)的聲明及知情人士對各家媒體的表述,會議結束後,與會者搭乘列車離開烏克蘭,並在烏克蘭與波蘭邊境遭遇俄羅斯噴射動力無人機對烏克蘭與波蘭之間的鐵路運輸網發動攻擊,遭波及的包括一座客運列車引擎,數百名乘客因此被迫疏散。

俄羅斯2022年2月全面侵略烏克蘭後,訪問烏克蘭的各國官員基於安全考量,多搭乘火車由波蘭等鄰國進入烏克蘭。

儘管13日的鐵道攻擊事件未傳出傷亡,根據「烏克蘭鐵路」的資訊,強生等人所乘列車很有可能是俄方鎖定的攻擊目標之一。

「烏克蘭鐵路」在聲明指出,強生等人搭乘的「外交列車」13日當天因為「火車時刻表變動」,而較表定時間「提早發車」。

時刻表變動是受來自俄羅斯的安全威脅影響,但這也意味若列車當時未提早離站,即可能遭俄方無人機擊中。

強生、鮑爾等人搭乘的「外交列車」離站後,下一班由一般民眾搭乘的列車即遭俄方攻勢波及。

裴卓斯與強生搭乘不同列車,但發車時間點十分接近。

目前擔任地緣政治顧問公司KKR Global Institute合夥人的裴卓斯事後透過聲明表示,他和團隊認為這是俄方刻意升高局勢,以威嚇烏克蘭民眾、恫嚇考慮造訪烏克蘭的人。

俄羅斯國防部已證實,曾對烏克蘭西部的鐵路設施發動攻擊。

攻擊事件發生後,波蘭總理圖斯克(Donald Tusk)在首都華沙(Warsaw)召開緊急會議,並示警俄羅斯恐在「未來幾週」進一步升高局勢,且不排除將波及波蘭領土。

波蘭外交部長席科斯基(Radosław Sikorski)則說,面對俄方的升級行動,盟友們應當「加倍」支持烏克蘭。

13日的攻擊事件發生前,同樣是YES會議與談人的席科斯基曾在基輔接受英國「泰晤士報」(The Times)專訪,強調俄羅斯對西方實施的是「國家級恐怖主義」,而受害國家至今未傳出傷亡往往得歸功於一時「僥倖」,或是俄方本身的專業能力不足。不過,情況未必不會改變。

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近日在德國萊比錫(Leipzig)機場發生的無人機攻擊行動即是一個例子。當時俄方無人機攜載的爆裂裝置未能引爆。

席科斯基示警,俄羅斯對越來越多歐洲國家發動的已不只是針對物體和資產的破壞行動,而是「國家級恐怖主義」,也就是行動已升級為意圖「殺人」。(編輯:唐聲揚)1150914

蕭副總統訪義大利 美國務院:台灣和各國關係帶來益處
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(中央社記者侯姿瑩華盛頓14日電)副總統蕭美琴日前應邀出席在義大利舉行的「文托泰內歐洲自由與民主論壇」,一年內兩度訪歐。美國國務院於美東時間14日回覆中央社記者提問表示,台灣和世界各國的關係,「為那些國家的公民帶來重大益處,包括歐洲在內」。

蕭副總統應邀出席在義大利舉行的第二屆「文托泰內歐洲自由與民主論壇」,繼去年11月抵達比利時布魯塞爾,進入歐洲議會並在對中政策跨國議會聯盟(IPAC)峰會發表專題演說後,再次訪問歐洲。

對於台灣副總統訪問義大利、台歐交流升溫,美國國務院一名發言人以背景方式 回覆中央社記者 提問指出,台灣和世界各國的關係,「為那些國家的公民帶來了重大益處,包括歐洲在內」。

蕭副總統11日受邀在以對抗威權歷史聞名的文托泰內島(Ventotene)演說時表示,非常感謝有此機會,台灣人的聲音值得被國際聽見,「台灣人跟全世界人民一樣,有權利交朋友、和朋友說話」。

針對蕭副總統訪義大利發表演說,中國外交部日前表示,已向義方、歐方提出嚴正交涉。

義媒報導,義國外長塔加尼(Antonio Tajani)12日指出,針對此事,和北京政府「沒有任何聯繫」,義大利雖遵行一中政策,但也同時支持維持區域現狀。

邀請蕭副總統出席「文托泰內歐洲自由與民主論壇」的歐洲議會副議長皮齊耶諾(Pina Picierno)除了反嗆「中國無權決定」,還說已接受蕭副總統邀請,將在近期訪問台灣。

蕭副總統這次在外交部長林佳龍陪同下訪問義大利文托泰內島出席活動,已於台北時間14日上午返抵台灣。(編輯:陳彥鈞)1150915

沈伯洋結束訪日返台 多面向議題交流盼深化台日合作
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(中央社記者吳睿騏桃園機場15日電)民進黨台北市長參選人沈伯洋14日深夜返台,他表示,此行訪日就AI、產業、海纜、認知作戰等議題與日本議員交流,也考察無菸城市、兒虐保護及免費供餐,盼深化台日合作。

民進黨台北市長參選人沈伯洋訪問日本並於14日深夜返台,他表示,這次後援會成立,除了感受到大家支持,也跟當地產業討論很多人才應該要怎樣回流台北的問題,以及台北現在最重要的都更到底應該怎麼進行。中央社記者吳睿騏桃園機場攝 115年9月15日

沈伯洋11日出發參訪日本東京,12日出席成立日本後援會活動、13日進行青年座談、14日為拜會行程,並於14日晚間搭機返台。他在出發前受訪說,這次訪日有3項目標,包含國會外交、城市外交、成立日本後援會。

沈伯洋14日深夜搭乘華航班機自日本東京返台,他在桃園機場第二航廈入境大廳接受媒體聯訪表示,此行最主要是先做一些跟國會相關的交流,內容從人工智慧(AI)到產業、海底電纜,法律戰,還有日本非常關心的認知作戰等,這些都是跟日本國會議員所討論範圍。

在市政方面,沈伯洋指出,其實訪團對於吸菸區、東京兒虐的保護機制,還有日本目前也有所謂的免費供餐,相關品質如何維持等議題都有交流,當然也看了運動驛站、當地使用者及優劣處。

沈伯洋說道,最重要就是這次後援會成立,除了感受到大家支持,也跟當地產業討論很多人才應該要怎樣回流台北的問題,以及台北現在最重要的都更到底應該怎麼進行,這些留待日後再更詳細跟大家報告。

沈伯洋提到,另外在無菸城市的部分,團隊應該也會釋出一些影片,因為在當地考察,日本方面也做了非常多說明,這些都有很多可以最佳化的空間。

對於媒體詢問,友台的神戶市議員上畠寬弘也於14日深夜和同行議員一起抵台訪問,還在Threads發問是否有推薦的宵夜。沈伯洋說,等一下會再跟上畠寬弘連絡確認是否抵達,因為時間較晚,一些大家常去地方可能已經關了,有可能要去吃熱炒。

沈伯洋指出,這次非常多的日本議員除了提供寶貴意見,現在也回訪台灣,但因為自己正在競選,日本議員無法直接參與活動,但若以立法委員的身分做些國家議題交流沒有問題,後續會看黨團安排,他也會趕快與大家討論。(編輯:陳彥鈞)1150915

民進黨台北市長參選人沈伯洋14日深夜返台,他說在市政方面,訪團對於吸菸區、東京兒虐保護機制,還有日本現在也有所謂的免費供餐,相關品質如何維持都有交流,當然也看了運動驛站、當地使用者及優劣處。中央社記者吳睿騏桃園機場攝 115年9月15日

林佳龍:重建聯合國信任 需公平對待國際社會成員
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(中央社記者廖漢原華盛頓14日專電)第81屆聯合國大會開議,外交部長林佳龍在美國媒體「新聞頭條」發表專文指出,重建各界對聯合國的信任,必須由公平對待所有國際社會成員做起,當具建設性與可信任的成員持續遭不正當排除於體系外,轉型任務就無法完成。

外交部長林佳龍13日在「新聞頭條」(Newsmax)發表題為「重建信任:台灣在自由世界應有地位」的文章寫道,極權國家試圖弱化國際秩序下的保障,為自身利益重塑國際規則之際,以規則為基礎的國際秩序持續面臨壓力。

聯合國憲章載明和平處理爭端及禁止武力威脅等基本原則,已公開面臨挑戰並遭公然藐視。

國際社會已處於關鍵時刻,大家攜手維護正義,捍衛法治,維繫和平與安全,否則將見到世界秩序逐漸瓦解,自由、自決與民主也將隨之消散。

相較於其他地區,印太第一島鏈明顯面臨這種選擇。中國持續就區域安全提高壓迫,進行灰色地帶戰術,包括武力挑釁、入侵網路及經濟脅迫,試圖單方面重塑現有規則與常態。

台灣站在捍衛自由民主前線,將堅定維持現狀。確保區域和平穩定不光是台灣的利益,國際社會也共同關切。

台灣海峽是全球最繁忙的商業航道之一,也是國際供應鏈主要動脈。七大工業國集團(G7)及多場峰會發表的聲明,日本、美國、英國、澳洲、紐西蘭與各國參與的部長級會議等,都凸顯台海對全球安全繁榮的重要性。

中國蓄意扭曲聯合國大會第2758號決議,破壞以規則為基礎的國際秩序完整性。1971年採行的決議涉及中國在聯合國代表權的問題,條文未提及台灣,也未決定其政治地位或處理參與聯合國體系的議題。

但中國蓄意將第2758號決議與「一個中國原則」混為一談,阻止台灣參與聯合國及其他國際組織。如果不制止,這種曲解可能設下危險的法律先例,作為中方未來在台海採取軍事行動的藉口。

台灣雖未納入聯合國仍決心積極行動,其先進製造、災害應變和公共衛生等實力,可多方面貢獻國際社會。基於強化民主陣營,推動集體安全與建構經濟韌性,台灣採行總合暨價值外交政策,與理念一致的夥伴合作,促進全球民主、人權與自由。

獲選第81屆聯大主席的拉曼(Khalilur Rahman)以重建信任和管理機構轉型為主題。台灣認同這些目標,已準備提供協助。

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林佳龍強調,重建各界對聯合國的信任,必須由公平對待所有國際社會成員做起,當具建設性與可信任的成員,持續不正當被排除於體系外,轉型任務就無法完成。

「我們呼籲國際社會堅持包容原則,任何人都不該被排除在外,和平解決爭端,不脅迫也不動用武力。」(編輯:陳正健)1150914

聯合國人權高專警告AI風險 籲各國和企業緊急管控
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(中央社日內瓦14日綜合外電報導)聯合國人權事務高級專員圖克今天呼籲各國與「前沿」人工智慧(AI)企業採取緊急行動,以管控一項他警告稱構成「前所未有風險」的技術。

法新社報導,圖克(Volker Turk)在致各國及AI開發商的公開信中警告,世界正處於「不可逆轉變革的關頭,這不僅影響我們,也將影響後代子孫」。

他表示:「當前競相開發功能日益強大AI的趨勢,正讓人類朝著涉及生活各個層面的更大生存風險邁出重大一步。」

與此同時,各界對「超級智慧」電腦系統風險的擔憂正日益升高,近期有一名研究人員擔心這項技術最終可能脫離人類控制,因而辭去在頂尖AI企業Anthropic的職務。

另一名未辭職的Anthropic員工也公開表示,「我們確實非常認真地相信,AI可能消滅所有人類」,並認為未來10年內發生這種情況的機率超過「10%」,引發各界譁然。

Anthropic執行長阿莫戴(Dario Amodei)12日呼籲AI業者「放慢前沿技術發展速度」,也就是協調放緩AI技術的開發進程,主要競爭對手、xAI創辦人馬斯克(Elon Musk)及OpenAI執行長阿特曼(Sam Altman)也公開表示支持。

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圖克感嘆道:「在當今世界,我們幾乎完全仰賴少數幾家實力雄厚的企業,為全人類在AI發展方面做出正確選擇。」

他說:「我敦促各國和企業透過多邊機制緊急採取行動,以國際人權法為基礎,為先進及前沿AI模型治理擘劃行動方針。」(編譯:劉文瑜)1150915

歐洲議會副議長轉貼賴總統發文 強調堅定站在自由民主一方
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(中央社記者陳韻聿倫敦14日專電)總統賴清德今天在社群媒體X貼文,感謝歐洲議會副議長皮齊耶諾邀請副總統蕭美琴出席「文托泰內歐洲自由與民主論壇」。皮齊耶諾隨後轉貼賴總統貼文,並表示歐洲議會永遠必須「堅定站在自由與民主的一方」。

蕭副總統近日應邀出席第2屆「文托泰內歐洲自由與民主論壇」並擔任與談人,今天返抵台灣。皮齊耶諾(Pina Picierno)是論壇創辦人;歐洲議會(European Parliament)是論壇合辦單位之一。

這是繼去年11月應邀出席在布魯塞爾歐洲議會內部舉行的「對中政策跨國議會聯盟」(IPAC)年度峰會後,蕭副總統近一年內第2次訪問歐洲。

皮齊耶諾是IPAC成員。IPAC串聯全球45個國家與區域層級議會(包含歐洲議會),目前有超過300位議員加入,以對北京立場強硬著稱。

皮齊耶諾今天透過貼文表示,能夠在義大利文托泰內島(Ventotene)接待副總統蕭美琴,她對此深感榮幸。

皮齊耶諾強調,歐洲議會永遠必須堅定支持自由民主,而這就是文托泰內論壇要重申的原則。蕭副總統的出席標誌民主國家在強化合作對抗威權主義上,邁出新一步。

皮齊耶諾指出,這樣的夥伴關係將持續,因為「團結讓我們更強大」。

皮齊耶諾所言呼應賴總統在貼文提到的,蕭副總統向世界展現,面對威權主義,台灣堅定捍衛自由民主。

賴總統稍早另在臉書貼文表示,台灣是世界的一員;走向世界、和世界交朋友,本來就是台灣人民不可剝奪的天賦權利。(編輯:唐聲揚)1150914

美10年期公債殖利率升破5%關卡 市場關注Fed動向
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(中央社記者廖漢原華盛頓14日專電)美國長天期公債殖利率今天持續走高,10年期美債突破5%關卡,20及30年期也居高位。投資人對美國經濟與美債價值看法分歧,市場靜待聯準會明後兩日會議是否做出升息決定。

美國民間主要借貸利率基準的10年期政府公債殖利率14日升破5%,最高達5.0140%,是2023年10月後首度突破5%關卡,全日交易期間維持在4.93%以上的高水準。

10年期美債在2007年7月華爾街金融海嘯前期,曾升至5.02%。市場正關注美國國債的市場供需與穩定性。

對地緣政治較敏感的20年和30年長天期公債殖利率14日同樣走高,最高升曾至5.4260%、5.3860%。

殖利率是評估債券價值的指標,與價格呈反向走勢。

中東局勢持續動盪、國際油價走高、美國通膨未見緩和、政府赤字可能擴大及龐大人工智慧(AI)資金需求競爭等,是投資人放空美債的因素。

共和黨籍聯邦眾議員施威科特(David Schweikert)在社群媒體X平台貼文表示,今天的數字會嚇到國會,2007年美國政府債務、赤字占國內生產毛額(GDP)的62%、1.1%,如今已達123%、6%。

阿爾賓財務集團(Albion Financial Group)首席投資長魏爾(Jason Ware)在財經頻道CNBC指出,近期公債與公司債都在爭取投資者,美債殖利率走高部分導因於供需不平衡。市場不會因為10年期美債殖利率突破5%就崩潰。

魏爾認為,如果經濟健全成長,核心通膨數字穩定,高殖利率並非一定代表市場狀況不佳。對股市來說,消費支出或AI投資放緩的影響,大於10年期公債殖利率突破高點。

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聯邦準備理事會(Fed)將於15、16日召開聯邦公開市場委員會(FOMC)會議,12位理事將投票決定聯邦利率動向,市場預期為因應通膨,升息機會極高。

美國總統川普(Donald Trump)任命的新任Fed主席華許(Kevin Warsh)漸趨鷹派,各界關注亟欲在期中選舉前降息以刺激經濟的川普與華許兩人關係變化,以及對於市場影響。(編輯:陳彥鈞)1150915

黃仁勳台上突接川普來電 雙方齊駁AI末日論[影]
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(中央社洛杉磯14日綜合外電報導)輝達(Nvidia)執行長黃仁勳今天出席洛杉磯舉行的All-In Summit活動時,在台上意外接到美國總統川普來電,兩人均駁斥外界對人工智慧(AI)可能「接管世界」的疑慮。

美國媒體Axios報導,在全球一些最具影響力的企業執行長與AI專家基於安全疑慮呼籲放緩AI發展之際,川普與黃仁勳日益明確反對「AI末日論」的立場格外受到矚目。

根據社群媒體流傳的影片,黃仁勳今天接受All-In Podcast訪問期間疑似接到川普來電,他開啟擴音,讓現場觀眾都能聽見兩人談話。

黃仁勳與川普對AI發展抱持樂觀態度,強調這項技術有助促進經濟成長和維護國家安全。

川普告訴黃仁勳:「機器人不會接管一切,AI也不會接管全世界。整件事都是騙局。」他指的是近期有關AI可能帶來災難性風險的一連串警告。

黃仁勳則告訴川普:「我們會確保美國在AI競賽中,人人都能成為贏家,包括每個產業、每家公司、每個州,以及每一個人。」

然而,黃仁勳談及AI安全疑慮時,語氣比川普更為審慎。他表示,應該認真看待吹哨者提出的警告,並稱讚曾任職於AI公司Anthropic的吹哨者考克森(Jacob Coxon)勇於提出公司AI開發速度過快的疑慮。

但他否定AI可能導致世界末日的預測,認為這些說法「沒有科學根據」。他表示,如果AI公司認為自身發展已經「失去控制」,就應該暫停或放慢相關工作。

黃仁勳過去也多次駁斥AI末日論,他上週在舊金山參加高盛(Goldman Sachs)舉行的會議時說,網路安全將為資安產業帶來前所未有的龐大商機,「還有什麼比製造出問題更能創造需求?誰不希望市場對自己的產品出現瘋狂需求,甚至排隊搶購?」(編譯:劉文瑜)1150915

科技巨擘籲放緩發展AI 美股收跌費半指數挫近6%
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沙烏地關閉重要油管帶來供應風險 國際油價續升
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亮片水鑽打造華麗美學 明星御用設計師麥基病逝享壽87歲
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(中央社紐約14日綜合外電報導)以視覺衝擊強烈好萊塢風格定義1970年代華麗美學的時尚設計師麥基今天逝世,享壽87歲。他的公關人員透露,麥基因肺炎病逝加州棕櫚泉(Palm Springs)。

美聯社報導,麥基(Bob Mackie)有「明星御用設計師」之稱,曾獲9座艾美獎、1座東尼獎,並3度獲奧斯卡提名,2002年入選美國電視藝術與科學學院名人堂(Academy of Television Arts & Sciences' Hall of Fame)。

麥基曾為瑪丹娜(Madonna)、芭芭拉史翠珊(Barbra Streisand)、莎朗史東(Sharon Stone)、黛安娜羅絲(Diana Ross)和茱莉路易絲卓佛(Julia Louis-Dreyfus)等女星設計禮服,性感女神瑪麗蓮夢露(Marilyn Monroe)1962年為美國已故總統甘迺迪(John F. Kennedy)獻唱生日快樂歌時所穿的鑲珠薄透禮服,便是出自他的手筆。

他為卡蘿柏奈特(Carol Burnett)打造過許多古怪逗趣的造型,也為雪兒(Cher)設計過一系列大膽前衛的服裝,例如裸色水鑽裙和鏤空羽毛裝等。

除了為娛樂圈明星打造戰袍,麥基也為美泰兒公司(Mattel)設計數十款芭比娃娃。

亮片、水鑽與華麗的羽毛裝飾,是麥基最具代表性的招牌元素,他也因此獲得「亮片之王」、「閃耀大師」等稱號。

近年他的經典作品仍受到安雅泰勒喬伊(Anya Taylor-Joy)、麥莉希拉(Miley Cyrus)和辛蒂亞(Zendaya)等明星青睞,泰勒絲(Taylor Swift)為2025年專輯「星夢人生」(The Life of a Showgirl)封面打造歌舞女郎造型時,也選擇了麥基為傳奇歌舞秀Jubilee!打造的古董原版服裝。

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麥基2018年受訪時曾說:「你不必試圖改變任何人,只要想辦法讓他們看起來比以往更好。」

許多與他合作過的設計師和明星紛紛發文悼念,演員克莉絲汀肯諾維斯(Kristin Chenoweth)稱他是「傳奇」,設計師米茲拉希(Isaac Mizrahi)則簡短寫下「心碎」,演員艾莉莎米蘭諾(Alyssa Milano)稱他是「有史以來最傑出的人士之一」。(編譯:劉文瑜)1150915

教宗良十四世生日 賴總統致賀電讚揚透過對話促進和平
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(中央社記者楊堯茹台北14日電)今天為教宗良十四世71歲生日,駐教廷大使館在臉書發文表示,已轉交賴總統賀電至教廷國務院,賴總統在賀電表達對教宗透過「對話」促進世界和平的不懈努力表示敬佩,並表示願持續與教廷攜手合作,增進全人類福祉。

駐教廷大使館今天在官方臉書發文指出,9月14日是教宗良十四世(Pope Leo XIV)71歲生日,總統賴清德特別代表台灣人民與政府向教宗致發賀電,祝賀教宗生日快樂,向教宗表達誠摯衷心的祝福。大使館已將賴總統賀電送請教廷國務院轉呈教宗。

駐教廷大使館表示,賴總統在賀電中讚揚教宗良十四世的堅定領導,並對教宗持續透過「對話」促進世界和平與相互理解的不懈努力表示敬佩,尤其教宗倡議的「希望」與「團結」願景,已感動全世界無數人心。

駐教廷大使館轉述,賴總統並在賀電中特別表示,台灣將持續與教廷攜手合作,增進全人類福祉,共同致力於減輕苦難、捍衛人權等共同目標。

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駐教廷大使館說,祝福教宗良十四世生日快樂、身體健康,並祝願教宗繼續以慈愛與關懷引領世界和平。

良十四世於1955年9月14日出生在美國芝加哥,今年71歲,於2025年5月就任教宗至今,為史上首位擁有雙重國籍(美國與秘魯)的教宗,打破外界對於美國人難成為教宗的刻板印象。(編輯:黃國倫)1150914

川普:俄烏戰爭致柴油漲價 兩國同意不打能源目標
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(中央社華盛頓14日綜合外電報導)美國總統川普(Donald Trump)昨天批評烏克蘭攻擊俄羅斯煉油廠之後,他今天宣稱,俄烏兩國已同意不打擊對方的能源設施。

川普於自家社群媒體「真實社群」(Truth Social)發文寫道:「烏克蘭已經同意不打擊俄羅斯能源目標,俄國也同意不攻擊烏方能源目標!」

他還指出:「全球柴油價格上漲主要是俄烏戰爭造成的,而非伊朗。」

法新社報導,烏克蘭總統府拒絕置評,莫斯科當局也未立即回應此事。

川普發布前述言論之際,美國與伊朗的戰事進入第7個月,國際油價持續攀升,並推高全美燃料成本和通膨,此時距離美國期中選舉剩下數週時間。

川普昨天訪問愛爾蘭期間抨擊了烏克蘭總統澤倫斯基(Volodymyr Zelenskyy),稱他必須停止破壞俄羅斯的柴油設施,因為此舉導致柴油短缺。(編譯:陳彥鈞)1150915

ClickFix attacks are tricking Mac and Windows users into hacking themselves
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If you clicked on an HBO Max ad on Reddit over the past week, you might want to check your computer for malware.

These so-called “ClickFix” attacks have quickly become one of the rising cybersecurity threats of 2026, and they’re getting both sneakier and compromising people’s devices with greater frequency. Until recently, ClickFix attacks were a rarity, capitalizing on people searching the web for quick tech fixes. They have since evolved into a massive international effort to hack into people’s computers.

The attacks involve fake websites, or legitimate websites that have been hacked, which display a message that appears to look like a CAPTCHA or an anti-bot checkbox. Once clicked, a prompt appears asking the user to perform a “check” to proceed, which gives instructions to copy and paste a string of text into the user’s Windows command prompt or Mac Terminal app.

As soon as the user hits return, they unwittingly and instantly install info-stealing malware on their computer, capable of immediately stealing their passwords, access to their logged-in accounts, and crypto wallets. Since the user is working in the computer’s terminal, which lets them interact directly with the operating system using text-based commands, many of these attacks evade antivirus and security defense tools.

Security researchers now say that the latest ClickFix campaign they’ve seen involved hackers posting fake ads on Reddit, linking to a page that looks like HBO Max but contains a ClickFix lure that tricks people into hacking themselves. The hackers compromised the official HBO Max’s account on Reddit that was then used to post hundreds of fake but real-looking adverts to the news-sharing site, according to security researchers at Hudson Rock and a thread on Reddit’s cybersecurity subreddit.

It’s unclear how many people clicked on these fake ads or how many were ultimately compromised as a result. Warner Brothers Discovery, which owns HBO, did not respond to a request for comment.

Reddit told TechCrunch it “recently learned that an HBO Max account authorized to run advertisements on Reddit was compromised and used to run ads containing malicious links,” and that the company locked the account and removed the ads. When asked, Reddit did not say how many users were targeted or clicked the malicious ads.

While it’s typical for developers to run one-line snippets of code in their computer’s terminal, it’s less common for regular users to use the Command Prompt or PowerShell in Windows, or the Terminal in macOS. Companies that run fleets of Windows computers can block access to these features across the entire domain to prevent them from being exploited, per security researcher Kevin Beaumont.

As noted by Ars Technica, a tool for Mac users called BlockBlock can also defend against attacks that try to trick Apple users into hacking themselves.

Updated with comment from Reddit.

Volkswagen’s crazy-efficient EV borrows an idea from Slate
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Volkswagen took the covers off a new prototype electric vehicle Monday, one that’s capable of hitting the equivalent of 323 miles per gallon under ideal conditions, making it one of the most efficient cars in the world.

It’s not unusual for automakers to float pie-in-the-sky concepts with outlandish stats, but Volkswagen took it a step or two further by building the EV and driving it from its home base in Wolfsburg, Germany, on a 794-mile (1,278-kilometer) trip to Vienna. The team charged the Mission Efficiency prototype once during the journey and arrived with 104 miles (168 kilometers) of range left, resulting in consumption of 7.51 kilowatt-hours per 100 miles, or about 279 MPGe.

Volkswagen actually built and drove the Mission Efficiency prototype Image Credits:Volkswagen

The teardrop-shaped Mission Efficiency prototype was built using the electric motor and battery from the ID. Polo, two features that bring the car to “near production” status, Volkswagen said in a press release.

For those keeping score, the prototype is almost twice as efficient as the most efficient production car in the world, the Lucid Air Pure.

By some back-of-the-envelope math, Volkswagen’s science experiment can get more than 400 miles of range out of a 54.9-kilowatt-hour battery, though that’s not an official EPA rating. Lucid gets 420 miles from an 84-kilowatt-hour battery per EPA ratings, but it’s a much larger and more practical vehicle.

Volkswagen had to make some compromises in the name of efficiency.

The most noticeable is the roofline, which tapers quickly after peaking above the driver’s head. The shape, known as a Kammback, is among the most aerodynamic shapes a vehicle can take. Volkswagen was able to bring the coefficient of drag down to 0.158, while also keeping the frontal area low at just 2.08 square meters.

Being a 2+2, the Mission Efficiency’s back seat is suitable for children, maybe Image Credits:Volkswagen

As a result, the Mission Efficiency is technically a 2+2, meaning the rear seats aren’t suitable for most adults. Volkswagen said the backseat is designed for people shorter than 5-foot 3 inches, or about 1.6 meters.

“The prototype was designed so that it could theoretically be used by a young family of four,” Volkswagen said, though anyone who has contemplated sitting in a 2+2 knows that even kids might scoff at the notion.

Another compromise sits closer to the road. Because wheels and tires can contribute about a quarter to a third of aerodynamic drag, the designers tightened the space between the wheel arches and the front tires. It’s great for efficiency, but probably not great for ride quality since wheels need space to move inside the wheel wells so the shocks can absorb bumps.

Volkswagen included some clever touches, including this storage bin that’s hidden behind the rear wheel cover Image Credits:Volkswagen

One place Volkswagen didn’t compromise was the mirrors. Sideview mirrors generate a lot of drag just by hanging off the sides, and while cameras would have cut into those losses significantly, they don’t offer the same sense of depth that true mirrors do.

To top it all off, Volkswagen put solar cells on the roof and the trunk lid. It’s a nice touch that’s sure to delight the internet, but their impact is limited, adding just 18 miles (30 kilometers) to perfectly flat, sunny routes driven at a constant 42.25 mph (68 kph).

Like the Slate EV pickup, the Mission Efficiency doesn’t come with an infotainment system Image Credits:Volkswagen

Inside, the seats are built using lightweight materials and designs. On the dash, Volkswagen took a page from EV startup Slate Auto. Like Slate’s bare-bones pickup, the Mission Efficiency doesn’t come with an infotainment system or built-in speakers. Instead, it offers a portable Bluetooth speaker and assumes drivers will bring their own devices.

While Volkswagen frequently calls the Mission Efficiency a “near production” vehicle, the company didn’t commit to actual production. Though don’t assume it won’t: Over a decade ago, the automaker produced 250 examples of the XL1, another efficiency-minded halo car. And like other halo cars, it didn’t come cheap, with prices starting at €110,000 in 2013.

With iOS 27, I’m actually using Siri again
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For years, I barely used Siri for anything beyond menial tasks like setting timers or alarms. That has changed with iOS 27, as I now repeatedly use Siri for complex requests and to make sense of on-screen context.

While Siri is clearly front and center in this software update by Apple, I also enjoy many of the other quality-of-life updates.

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I have been using iOS 27 on my main device since the public beta version was released, and on another device through the developer beta before that. I have really enjoyed using the new Siri, often trying to find new use cases for it — and that’s possibly the biggest win for Apple, given that I, like many people, had given up on Siri before this update.

Over two years ago, Apple introduced Apple Intelligence and teased an advanced version of Siri. And after multiple delays, the company is finally shipping it, and it doesn’t disappoint. Built on the back of Google’s Gemini models, Siri is much smarter than its previous version, which was built on extended knowledge and a shaky ChatGPT integration. It also has a new logo and transition animation.

For starters, I asked Siri about several different things in the area of sports, ranging from World Cup matches to team lineups and scores. There were some hiccups in the earlier developer versions, but most of the information was correct. Siri can also take complex, multistep directions. For instance, I asked it to find small or hidden and useful features for iOS 27 and add them to a note, and it did a good job of that.

Plus, Siri can draft a message for you and send it to someone.

And because Siri can fetch context from your files, messages, and email, you can also ask it to look up a conversation, like one related to a delivery, and have it create a message for returns.

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Siri’s on-screen context was a big blessing, too. I could ask trivial questions like who was the oldest player on the pitch when I was looking at lineups for two teams in the World Cup, or have it read the text on-screen out loud when I didn’t want to read. When I was on a startup’s website, I could ask Siri to look up its funding information and competitors.

One of my favorite use cases was surfing around coffee Reddit for new roasters and beans, and asking Siri to add it to a specific note. I did face a few difficulties in getting Siri to add it to the right note, but eventually I dumbed down the note’s name for better consistency.

The Camera app also now has Siri access, which means you can ask questions about things that are visible in your viewfinder. When I was at a restaurant, I asked Siri what drink I was holding. Because of the color of the drink, it said, “This is green juice,” which is a good first visual assumption. When I specified that I was at an Indian restaurant, it correctly said this could be Jaljeera or Aam Panna. (It was the latter.) I also took a photo of the restaurant’s sign and asked Siri to suggest the best items from its menu.

You can also take a photo of a coffee bag and ask Siri for the best way to brew the coffee.

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With iOS 27, Siri AI gets a dedicated app that lets you return to your previous chats. In Settings, users can change Siri’s voice and expressiveness, as well.

The new assistant is positioned to work with other, third-party apps, and as developers update their apps after the operating system rolls out, it will be interesting to see if there is a smooth handoff between Siri and apps.

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Apple Intelligence

Apple Intelligence powers a number of AI features in iOS 27.

For instance, Apple has sprinkled vibe-coding features within the new OS. The first is a Shortcuts creation feature that lets you describe shortcuts and automations in natural language to create them. That means you can start with a simple request, like “Show me today’s to-do items every morning at 8 a.m.” or “convert photo to JPEG,” instead of having to figure out how to craft the shortcut yourself. After the shortcut is created, you can make it more complex by adding more steps, like “convert selected photos to JPEG and share them through AirDrop.”

I always wanted to create a list of songs that I heard and liked in bars and cafes, so I made a shortcut to Shazam the song and save both the track and location.

You can also now create a custom alert in Safari to track changes to a page like a blog, item pricing, or a privacy policy page.

The Photos app has some new handy tools like “reframe” and “extend.” I found they don’t always work that well, but in some cases, they can make an image look better. Meanwhile, Apple has definitely improved its eraser functionality, which now leaves fewer strange artifacts when you remove an object.

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With Apple Intelligence, when you get certain messages such as information for an event or location, smart suggestions will ask if you’d like to add them to your Calendar or Notes. What’s more, the Passwords app can now automatically change passwords on your behalf by logging into a site.

Other quality-of-life improvements

Before discussing any other features, I have to say that I love the new clipboard feature. This lets you paste anything — including links, photos, videos, and text — from one app to another easily. Once the item is in your clipboard, you see a shortcut button saying “paste from Safari” (or similar) on the keyboard, which lets you paste the item. I have been using this feature frequently, and I can’t stress enough how life-changing this is despite it being a small change.

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In addition, iOS 27 addresses people’s gripes about the look of Liquid Glass. Users can now change its transparency based on their preferences. The control is granular, so you don’t have to choose from presets, either.

Apple also introduced intelligent network switching in this update, which automatically flips the connection from Wi-Fi to mobile data if there are issues with the wireless connection. The switching is seamless and very handy when you are doing important work, so you don’t lose your internet connection.

The update focuses a lot on child safety as well, as it includes a new setup flow that automatically recommends essential apps. Plus, parents can set schedules, time limits, and allowances for different days of the week. Guardians can get notifications when children are accessing new websites and can approve that access remotely. And the system displays a warning when children are exposed to nudity in Messages, FaceTime, and other apps.

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Besides Siri AI, iOS 27 doesn’t have many marquee features, but it makes everyday life much easier. In previous years, I would have defaulted to going to ChatGPT or Gemini to get answers for a question. But with iOS 27, I find myself using Siri more often, even though I don’t live in Apple’s Messages and Mail apps.

iOS 27 is rolling out to all users with iPhone 11 or later and iPhone SE (second gen) or later. Users can go to Settings > General > Software Update to download the latest version.

macOS 27: new Siri takes on AI productivity apps
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The two most noticeable things about macOS 27 Golden Gate are the newly updated Siri AI and the design changes that make windows and icons more consistent. Siri AI offers the same features and capabilities as on iOS 27, but the Mac gives it access to different context — and new ways to be useful.

Over the last few years, apps and browsers have tried to learn more about your work and what you want to use AI assistants for, so they can better answer your questions or perform tasks. Today, many top web browsers, excluding Safari, come with a sidebar-based AI assistant that can look at one or multiple open tabs to provide contextual answers. Apps like Highlight, Caddy, and Littlebird can also look at your current window, then use that information as context for your queries.

The new Siri is similar. You can invoke Siri anywhere on your screen, allowing it to answer questions about what it sees, summarize information, or provide you with more details. For instance, if you are looking at an item you want to purchase, you could ask Siri to show you alternative options too.

Instead of having Siri look at the whole page, you can also select a part of the page via Apple’s new Visual Intelligence features. If you press Command + Shift + Space, you can add the currently focused window to your context for the AI.

To select a specific part, press Command + Shift + 6 to bring up a crosshair selection tool. After this, you can directly ask a question or perform an image search. Based on your selection, you will also get shortcuts like “Select,” “Add to Contact,” and “Look up Location.”

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Apple has also improved Spotlight Search on Mac. You can directly ask Siri questions within Spotlight to get answers from the web, and now you can also select Applications, Files, Actions, and Clipboard to search within that particular area of context. Plus, Spotlight now allows you to run Shortcuts or look up your recent search history.

Since Siri has access to your files, emails, and messages, you can search for a variety of things that you couldn’t before. In tests, I pulled up membership IDs without opening my files, asked for details about an upcoming trip, and looked up the embargo date for an upcoming news story in the works. While I don’t find Spotlight as advanced as the highly extensible Mac productivity tool Raycast, it’s still much better than before.

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Siri can also now help you with reviewing documents or performing writing tasks. Since the desktop is one of the better surfaces for writing long text, I found it to be more useful here than on the iPhone. You can do things like select a block of text and ask Siri to proofread it, improve it, or rewrite it. You can also ask Siri to draft something for you within any text box.

Safari, meanwhile, has added AI-powered page tracking, which is useful for keeping an eye on things like price drops, privacy policy changes, or new blog posts on pages when there is no RSS support. Plus, Safari can automatically organize tabs based on topics, which is handy.

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One small but neat new feature is that when you download a file or rename it, the system suggests a name based on context in the Finder or when you’re saving the document.

Apart from Siri, macOS 27 Golden Gate brings design changes with new Liquid Glass icons, an adjustable slider for the Liquid Glass design, and a better way to “diffuse” content when you move windows around.

The company said that app windows have a more consistent corner radius. Sidebars now stretch edge to edge and have new colorful icons. The new operating system update also better highlights active windows.

The OS update additionally adds features like enhanced child safety controls, shared cross-platform photo albums, and an updated eraser, better search in email, app resizing for iPhone mirroring, and quick suggestions for adding events to the calendar.

Starting today, macOS 27 Golden Gate is available for MacBook Air and MacBook Pro 2020 versions with Apple Silicon or later, iMac with Apple Silicon (2021 or later), Mac Mini (2020 or later), Mac Studio (2022 or later), Mac Pro (2023 or later), and MacBook Neo. Go to System Settings > General > Software Update to get the latest version.

Fashion app Daydream uses Apple Intelligence to help you shop the outfits in your camera roll
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Daydream, an AI-powered fashion discovery app, launched two new features on Monday to let iPhone users turn saved outfit photos into shoppable results and search for clothing and accessories through Siri, without opening the app.

The new features were built using Apple’s iOS 27 developer tools, which officially rolled out today. To use either feature, you’ll need an iPhone running iOS 27 with Siri AI enabled, along with the Daydream app installed. The app is free to download on iOS devices.

The first feature uses Apple’s image-context capabilities, letting users shop from images already saved in their Photos app. Daydream analyzes the outfit in the image, identifies its individual pieces, and automatically surfaces shoppable matches and similar styles from Daydream’s catalog of roughly 3 million products.

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That means a screenshot of an outfit found on Instagram or Pinterest could become the starting point for a shopping search. Daydream can break down the image into relevant items, such as a sweater, pants, shoes, or accessories, and match them with products available through its collection. If the exact item in the photo is still available, Daydream can match the image back to the retailer selling it. If it’s no longer available, the app will instead surface similar options.

It can also handle requests for variations on what appears in an image. “I like this sweater but want it in red,” for example, is the kind of request Daydream can understand, Julie Bornstein, co-founder and CEO of Daydream, explained to TechCrunch.

The second feature is a Siri-powered natural-language search function. Users can make requests by voice or text through Siri without having to open Daydream’s app.

A user could say, “Hey, Siri, search Daydream for a cool blazer for my board meeting on Monday,” and Daydream then provides results personalized to them.

Bornstein adds that the experience can be more tailored if users have set up Daydream’s “Style Passport,” which asks for details such as their sizes, preferred brands, personal style, and budget.

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The company joins a growing number of AI shopping tools designed to rethink product discovery, such as big names like Google and Amazon, as well as some smaller players like Onton and Alta. But Bornstein believes that Daydream’s latest features offer something special that a lot of these other tools just can’t match.

“Most visual search tools don’t have the fashion category expertise, so they return results that don’t feel accurate, from brands that aren’t credible, or they link you to nonshoppable images,” she said.

The launch fits into Daydream’s broader bet on AI-powered fashion shopping. The company sees these new features as more than stand-alone shopping tools. Its longer-term ambition is to build a shopping agent.

“This is one step toward the bigger vision, [which is] a shopping agent that understands someone’s style well enough to work across every surface in their life, not just on one surface,” Bornstein said. “Expect us to keep going deeper into on-device intelligence and further into the everyday moments where people are already discovering things they want.”

Daydream’s app launched last year and touts that it has more than 1.5 million shoppers browsing products from more than 325 retailers and 10,000 brands. Its retail lineup includes brands such as Anthropologie, Dolce & Gabbana, Uniqlo, J.Crew, Reformation, Gucci, and Nordstrom.

Microsoft’s new AI ‘code of conduct’ tells models not to hack systems or trick humans
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As the AI world shifts its focus to safety and alignment, Microsoft has released a new AI code of conduct meant to guide AI models away from dangerous behavior.

The document is more low level than Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei’s recent call for pacing the frontier, instead focusing on the values and red lines that guide model training within Microsoft AI. Still, the result is a comprehensive guide as to how Microsoft approaches AI safety and how those ideas are implemented in practice.

The document begins with the prediction that, in the next decade, superintelligent AI systems will surpass human performance in most tasks. “Containing, controlling, and aligning such a powerful force is one of the greatest challenges humanity has ever faced,” the code of conduct states. “We must therefore be completely clear about why we are inventing these systems and how we intend to control them.”

The code of conduct also lays out general principles that Microsoft AI models should uphold — supporting humans rather than replacing them, for instance, and accelerating human flourishing — as well as specific safety constraints meant to implement those principles.

Under Microsoft’s system, each model has an overarching code of conduct that overrides the preferences of individual users or any specific tasks. That includes “absolute constraints” forbidding cyberattacks, nuclear weapons, or deepfake production. It also includes broader provisions against a general loss of human control.

“MAI Models will not use adaptive, deceptive, self-reinforcing, collusion, or other mechanisms to evade or defeat human oversight so that they can no longer be reliably directed, modified, or shut down by authorized people or systems,” the document reads.

The release comes amid an unprecedented focus on AI safety, driven by a string of rogue-agent incidents, as well as the abrupt resignation of an Anthropic employee, who cited the growing risk that AI would cause human extinction.

Together with Anthropic, OpenAI, and xAI, Microsoft has broadly embraced a general approach of pacing the frontier, with particular support for embedded evaluators in AI labs.

“We welcome the research, focus, and deliberate pacing needed to get alignment right as the design goal,” Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella wrote online. “We also welcome ideas like ’embedded evaluators’ and the broader efforts to develop the mechanisms to make this more than just talk.”

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang tells Trump ‘we’re not going to let [an AI slowdown] happen’
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While Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang was onstage at the All-In Summit on Monday morning in Los Angeles, he got a phone call that he couldn’t send to voicemail — it was from President Donald Trump.

“I’m onstage with the besties,” Huang told Trump, referring to the venture capitalists who host the podcast All-In, including tech investors Chamath Palihapitiya, Jason Calacanis, and White House advisers David Friedberg and David Sacks.

In a move that will spark night terrors for public relations professionals everywhere, Huang flaunted his comfort with the president by putting Trump on speaker for conference attendees to hear.

Holy crap POTUS just phoned in @JensenHuang live on stage at All In Summit



We will not lose the ai race! And whatever Dario said this weekend won’t stop our progress



This made my morning!$NVDA pic.twitter.com/Sr4wV9kMfz — Ben Pouladian ✈️ All-in Summit (@benitoz) September 14, 2026

“The great thing about life is Jensen can develop the most complex computer chip in the world… but he can’t figure out how to put you on speaker,” Trump said on the phone. (Huang is likely aware of how speakerphones work; he was asking stagehands for an extra microphone so that he could project the call to the audience.)

Onstage, Huang and the All-In hosts had been discussing Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei’s call to “slow the pace at which we improve the capabilities of AI.” SpaceX CEO Elon Musk and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman have publicly said they agree with Amodei, while Huang’s views have diverged.

“They’re just playing right in the hands of a lot of people that don’t want to see it happen,” Trump said. “That could be political people. It could also be China. And we’re not going to let that happen. It’s a hoax.”

“You’re right. We’re not going to let that happen, sir,” Huang replied as the crowd broke into applause.

Trump and his allies, like Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan, have stated their belief that the growing sentiment against data center construction is part of an international psyop to stifle American economic growth. But the source of the public’s concern is more straightforward. Recent Gallup polling shows that seven in 10 Americans oppose the construction of data centers in their area, with more than 50% of respondents citing the effect of data centers on environmental resources. About 20% said they were concerned about cost-of-living increases and effects on their quality of life.

“We have to be a little bit careful… We have to do things and we have to do them prudently, but that doesn’t mean we’re going to stop an industry,” Trump said to Huang. “So I’m with you all the way. I didn’t even know how you felt about it. I just hoped you felt the same way as me. We’re going to lead.”

OpenAI buys smartphone camera maker Glass Imaging for $300 million, report says
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OpenAI has bought smartphone camera maker Glass Imaging in a deal worth over $300 million, according to a report from The Wall Street Journal. The company, founded in 2019 and based in Los Altos, California, had previously raised about $30 million in funding from investors.

Glass Imaging was founded by Ziv Attar and Tom Bishop, a pair of former Apple engineers who previously led the team that developed Apple’s Portrait Mode. This background directly informs the work they now do at Glass Imaging, where they use AI to overcome the physical size constraints of smartphone cameras. Rather than using AI to edit a photo after it’s been taken, Glass Imaging uses neural networks to learn about individual camera systems — like the different cameras on various smartphone models — to yield better images from the moment the shutter clicks.

OpenAI did not immediately respond to a request for comment. The ChatGPT maker is rumored to be working on its own hardware, like smartphones, earbuds, and AI companion devices.

In 2025, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and famed Apple designer Jony Ive revealed that they had been working together on a device startup called io, when OpenAI bought Ive’s company for $6.5 billion.

AI infrastructure company Cornelis raises $205M to chip away at Nvidia’s dominance
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Cornelis, a company creating networking technology to help AI chips communicate more effectively, announced Monday that it has raised $205 million in a funding round led by IAG Capital Partners.

It also announced a product called Active Compute Fabric, a network technology that targets the fact that much GPU time is wasted waiting for data to arrive. Cornelis hopes to address this with a networking fabric that lets chips process and send information at the same time.

The company, which spun off from Intel in 2020, is competing with Nvidia by offering an open architecture, meaning customers can use a variety of GPU and accelerator hardware with Cornelis’ networking fabric. Though Nvidia chips can technically run on other networking fabrics, they’re optimized to run on Nvidia’s own software, making it much easier — and more enticing — for customers to use Nvidia’s full GPU stack. Cornelis is part of a new wave of AI infrastructure companies emerging to break apart Nvidia’s market dominance, piece by piece (or chip by chip, one could say).

Cornelis has already started shipping its product and is working on a new generation of it, expected to be released later this year.

Amazon Prime Video takes on TikTok with short-form news clips
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Amazon Prime Video is coming after TikTok with the addition of short-form news clips. The company said on Monday that it’s expanding its news coverage to include on-demand news clips offering both local and national stories. These will be available on TVs and other living room devices, but will soon roll out to the web and Prime Video’s mobile apps, the company said.

The clips will be available in the News destination within the Prime Video app in its Trending Topics and the Local News carousels. They join Prime Video’s existing local, national, and world news coverage from a number of major providers, which are available to everyone in the U.S. regardless of whether they have a Prime subscription.

Amazon could not yet confirm whether the clips on mobile would be oriented for vertical video or not, only that they would be considered short-form content on iOS and Android.

While TikTok is better known as an entertainment destination, it’s also, along with Instagram, increasingly a place where younger people get their news. Gen Z in particular often watches news creators and influencers on short-form apps, including YouTube Shorts. Amazon, which doesn’t have a true social destination of its own, is instead adding short-form video to Prime Video, in hopes of capturing Gen Z’s attention.

But Gen Z viewers are drawn to these social apps not necessarily because of the length of the clips, but rather because of how the information is presented. Based on findings from Pew Research, these younger news consumers want short-form news content that “feels organic, not over-produced.”

Prime Video is not the first streamer to add short-form clips to its content lineup. Peacock added support for short-form clips in March, followed by HBO Max and Netflix in July, then Disney+ in August. Combined, the updates represent an industrywide effort to meet viewers where they are — which is now often looking for entertainment in shorter bursts and consumable in moments or minutes instead of portions of hours or longer.

Waymo opens robotaxi service in Las Vegas
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Waymo has begun to open up its robotaxi service to the public in Las Vegas, just a few weeks after receiving final approval from Nevada transportation regulators.

The Alphabet-owned company said Monday it will invite public riders on a rolling basis, following a robotaxi launch playbook it has followed in 14 other cities.

Waymo is starting with “dozens” of its new Ojai minivan robotaxis, which will serve an area of Las Vegas that includes the Strip south of Highway 589 and into Boulder Junction, according to a spokesperson. Waymo’s fleet and service area will eventually scale. For now, members of the public will have to request an invite and hope to receive an access code. Typically, Waymo opens the service up to everyone within a month or two of its official launch.

The announcement follows a busy few weeks for Waymo as it tries to ramp up its operations across the United States and Europe as Tesla, Zoox, and other competitors attempt to close on its lead. Earlier this month, the company began offering its robotaxis to invited members of the public in Denver, San Diego, and Tampa.

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Las Vegas, where competitors Tesla and Motional are also planning to launch commercial robotaxi services, is Waymo’s 15th market. Zoox is already operating a commercial service in Las Vegas. Waymo also operates in Austin, Dallas, Houston, Los Angeles, Miami, Nashville, Phoenix, and the San Francisco Bay Area. The company launched, and then paused, service in San Antonio.

Waymo’s entry into Las Vegas follows approval by the Nevada Transportation Authority to operate commercial robotaxi services in Clark County, home to Las Vegas. Tesla and Uber also received approval from the agency.

Waymo has been authorized to operate up to 1,000 autonomous vehicles over the next year, Tesla is allowed to deploy up to 5,000, and Uber is allowed up to 1,000 robotaxis, which it will operate through partnerships with Hyundai subsidiary Motional and Zoox. Together, these permits would deploy up to 7,000 robotaxis across the county over the next 12 months.

It’s unlikely that the three companies will reach those numbers. Today, Waymo has a fleet of more than 4,000 robotaxis, which are spread across more than a dozen cities. During a meeting in August, Tesla’s Cybercab chief engineer Eric Early told state regulators that the company would be “extremely happy and satisfied if we could get ourselves up to 2,500, maybe a bit higher than that in the next year.”

Even without reaching those figures, the city could be saturated with robotaxis in the next year.

Update: This article was updated to clarify that Zoox is already operating a commercial robotaxi service in Las Vegas.

Sources say Automattic’s board is out after failed attempt to oust CEO Matt Mullenweg
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Automattic’s board is out, multiple sources have confirmed to TechCrunch, after last week’s attempt to oust CEO Matt Mullenweg by voting to put him on a paid leave of absence.

After the vote, Mullenweg, the WordPress founder and CEO of WordPress.com parent company Automattic, accused the board of conspiring against him in a post on Automattic’s Slack. On Friday, TechCrunch exclusively reported that Mullenweg told the company’s staff that he was back in control of the company, also via Slack post. Automattic confirmed to TechCrunch on Saturday that he had returned.

Initially, we heard from sources that Toni Schneider, a founding CEO at Automattic who now leads the open social network Bluesky, had resigned his Automattic board seat. Schneider has since removed a paragraph from his bio page on his personal website that had noted his contributions at Automattic.

Previously, Schneider’s website read: “I also contribute actively at Automattic, the open source company behind WordPress.com and WooCommerce. I was Automattic’s founding CEO and continue to support internal projects and investments as a board member and special advisor.”

We’ve also heard that Mullenweg removed the two other board members, Sue Decker and Gen. Ann Dunwoody. (We later confirmed that Mullenweg removed Dunwoody, but Decker resigned).

Decker’s LinkedIn bio has been updated to confirm that she served on Automattic’s board from March 2020 through September 2026, despite her name still appearing on Automattic’s Board of Directors page at the time of publication.

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When asked by TechCrunch about the board changes, Automattic declined to provide specifics, but offered a statement acknowledging that people have left.

Via an email that arrived after midnight PT on Sunday, an Automattic spokesperson shared the following:

“Matt and Automattic’s leadership team have great respect for everyone involved. While we can’t comment on specific individuals, we’re thankful for their contributions to Automattic and its mission, and we remain excited about what’s ahead with Matt at the helm. Matt was away for only 33 hours and 20 minutes—we’re now back to work,” the spokesperson said.

Given that these departed board members were those who voted to put Mullenweg on a paid leave of absence to begin with, it makes sense that a board shakeup has taken place. It also explains how Mullenweg’s return to his position as CEO would have the “full support of the board,” as a statement issued on Saturday indicated.

TechCrunch is hearing from sources that Automattic may make an internal announcement about the new board sometime on Monday.

In addition to the board departures, Automattic’s Chief Legal Officer Andy Missan also updated his LinkedIn bio, showing he’s no longer at the company as of September 2026. We understand Mullenweg let him go, along with CFO Mark Davies, who was to be the interim CEO.

What prompted the board’s vote still remains unclear. Mullenweg and Automattic are involved in a high-profile lawsuit with a WordPress hosting company, WP Engine. Mullenweg has accused the company of infringing on the WordPress trademark and not sufficiently contributing in terms of engineering hours or money to the open source WordPress effort. Earlier this year, WP Engine claimed in a court filing that Automattic planned to target other competitors with royalty fees.

More recently, it has accused Mullenweg of allegedly destroying evidence related to the case in apps like WhatsApp, Signal, and Telegram. Last year, Mullenweg had deactivated the accounts of several WordPress contributors over alleged plans to fork the open source software.

Updated after initial publication with additional information about the departures.

Do you have more information? You can reach Sarah Perez at [email protected] or @sarahperez.01 on Signal.

Learn how to build lasting AI defensibility at Disrupt 2026
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For AI founders, the biggest competitive threat may no longer be another startup. It may be the platform you’re building on. Every major release from OpenAI, Anthropic, or Google raises the same question: What happens if the feature you’ve spent the last year building suddenly becomes part of the platform?

It’s a question reshaping product strategy, fundraising, and company valuations across the AI ecosystem. Not long ago, founders worried about competing with other startups. Today, they’re competing with foundation model companies introducing entirely new capabilities every few months.

That changes almost every strategic decision — from what products to build and where to differentiate to how to raise capital and create lasting value. The conversation moves from “Can we build it?” to “Can we still own it?”

That’s the challenge at the heart of “What Happens When OpenAI Ships Your Roadmap,” a Builders Stage session featuring leaders Michel Tricot (Airbyte), Rob Toews (Radical Ventures), and Linda Tong (Webflow), at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026, taking place October 13–15 at Moscone West in San Francisco. Disrupt is the flagship startup event where 10,000+ founders, investors, and operators gather for 250+ sessions exploring the market forces reshaping how startups are built, funded, and scaled.

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See how founders are responding to AI’s biggest competitive shift. Secure your pass to Disrupt with savings of up to $200 before rates increase on September 25.

When products become features

One of the biggest strategic risks facing AI startups today isn’t losing to another founder — it’s discovering that your competitive advantage has become someone else’s product update.

That’s the reality this session is designed to confront. As foundation models rapidly evolve, capabilities that once differentiated an AI startup can quickly become table stakes. Increasingly, founders aren’t just competing with other startups — they’re competing with the platforms powering the AI ecosystem itself.

Here, founders will examine why the next generation of AI winners may not be defined by the smartest models. They’ll be defined by everything the models can’t easily replace: proprietary data, deeply embedded workflows, customer relationships, domain expertise, and trust.

The reality founders increasingly need to prepare for is, “Can we build something customers will still value after the next model release?”

This session explores where defensibility still exists, how founders can respond when AI giants move into adjacent markets, and what separates companies that become features from those that remain businesses.

Learn how founders are building beyond the next model release. Register for Disrupt today and save up to $200.

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Three perspectives on AI’s biggest strategic question, all laid out on the Builders Stage

To unpack this challenge, the Builders Stage session brings together a founder, an operator, and an investor, each offering a different view on creating defensible AI companies.

How do you create lasting value when the technology underneath your product keeps changing?

Michel Tricot has spent his career building the data integration infrastructure that powers analytics, operations, and AI. As CEO and co-founder of Airbyte, he has grown the open source platform to more than 7,000 customers — including 18% of the Fortune 500 — giving him firsthand insight into where durable businesses are built beyond the foundation model.

How do software companies stay differentiated as AI reshapes customer expectations?

As CEO of Webflow, Linda Tong is leading one of the industry’s top visual development platforms through one of SaaS’s biggest technology shifts. Her experience scaling Webflow and leading teams at Google, Cisco, and the NFL gives founders practical insight into evolving products without losing competitive advantage.

What convinces investors that an AI company will still matter three years from now?

At Radical Ventures, partner Rob Toews evaluates AI startups every day, identifying where competitive advantages still exist — and where products risk becoming features.

Together, they bring unique perspectives to one defining question facing AI startups today: What can you build that the platforms can’t simply ship themselves?

Secure your Disrupt pass and hear how founders are building companies, not just AI features.

Learn how to build lasting AI defensibility at Disrupt

Foundation models will continue to improve. That much is inevitable. As OpenAI and Anthropic continue expanding their capabilities, founders must decide how they’ll continue to differentiate.

Tomorrow’s AI leaders will be defined by everything the models can’t easily replace — companies that customers continue to choose because of the workflows they enable, the data they own, the problems they solve, and the trust they’ve earned.

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If you’re building an AI company, the question isn’t whether foundation models will continue to evolve. It’s whether your company will continue creating value as they do. The greatest risk isn’t building a weak product — it’s building a strong one that eventually becomes someone else’s feature. You don’t want to miss this interactive session on the Builders Stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026.

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Superhuman acquires YC-backed notetaker Fathom as productivity platforms push for agentic work
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Superhuman is joining the cadre of productivity platforms launching notetakers — but rather than building one internally, it is acquiring Y Combinator-backed Fathom.

AI-powered productivity platforms aim to automate work. Typically, that automation is triggered when a user types prompts and creates workflows. It would be even better, however, if AI could proactively start work, and for that, the topics and action items discussed in meetings are key. Hence the desire by Superhuman and similar platforms to move into notetaking.

To date, Fathom, which was founded in 2020, has raised over $30 million in funding, and it was valued at $94 million in 2024, according to data from PitchBook. Its investors include Zoom Apps Fund, Telescope Partners, BoxOne Ventures, and Maven Ventures. Its cap table also includes individuals such as Reddit CEO Steve Huffman, former Twitch CEO Emmett Shear, and Cruise co-founder Kyle Vogt.

The notetaker offers a generous free plan, and that has resulted in over 400,000 monthly active users. The company said that over 1 million people have recorded meetings until now.

TechCrunch learned that earlier this year, Superhuman tested a notetaker internally with select users, but eventually chose to acquire a finished product to integrate with its productivity suite, with AI at the center. Shishir Mehrotra, Superhuman’s CEO, acknowledged this; he said that in the process of testing, the company realized how hard it is to create a notetaker.

“We’ve been working internally on this area for a while as well. I think it greatly increased our confidence in the demand in this category. It also becomes very clear how deep the products in this category are and how much you need to build. A lot of these products make the job feel really easy, but it’s actually quite tricky to do a great job in all parts [of meeting recording],” Mehrotra told TechCrunch over a call.

Mehrotra said that he was impressed with some of the technical intricacies built by the Fathom team, but didn’t elaborate on which ones. He did tease that with a notetaker, Superhuman can work on surfacing meeting context in real time.

Competition in the meeting notetaker space is intense, and startups like Granola, Read AI, and new entrant Wispr have raised millions of dollars to aid that growth. Despite having a healthy customer base or revenue run rate, venture-backed notetakers are feeling the heat from the market to do more than just notetaking. Some of these factors did matter in Superhuman acquiring Fathom, while Fathom’s CEO Richard White said that Superhuman’s 40 million user base was a good opportunity to reach users at scale.

“The reach of Superhuman is massive. I have always thought about M&A in terms of speed of building a product that everyone uses, and a part of that comes down to distribution. If we were to operate Fathom as a stand-alone company, we would have to build a lot of things that are already in the Superhuman platform,” he said.

On the platform front, Superhuman already has an email client, a docs app, a calendar, a database solution, and a newly launched AI agent builder platform. With a meeting notetaker in the middle, Superhuman can draft emails, update data entries, schedule follow-up meetings, and have AI agents start work and extract insights from meeting data.

Hear how AI can engineer nature’s comeback at Disrupt 2026
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Not long ago, bringing an extinct species back to life belonged to science fiction. Today, it’s the mission of a billion-dollar startup. Advances in artificial intelligence, genetics, and computational biology are changing what’s possible in conservation research, raising questions that extend far beyond the laboratory. If technology can help revive extinct species, should it? And what role should AI play in shaping the future of biodiversity?

Those are the questions at the center of “Can We Engineer Nature’s Comeback?,” a Real World AI Stage fireside chat at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026.

Joining the conversation is Ben Lamm, co-founder and CEO of Colossal Biosciences, a company pioneering efforts to bring extinct species back through advances in synthetic biology and AI. Rather than focusing solely on the science, the discussion explores the technologies behind de-extinction, the role AI now plays in modern biology, and the growing debate over whether engineering nature represents a conservation breakthrough — or a distraction from protecting the ecosystems we already have.

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Where AI meets biology

AI is already reshaping software, robotics, and scientific research. Biology may be its next frontier. Researchers are using AI to analyze genetic data, model biological systems, and accelerate discovery. Companies like Colossal are pushing those advances even further, applying AI alongside synthetic biology to questions that until recently belonged in science fiction.

This session explores where those technologies intersect and what happens when AI moves beyond digital systems and into the natural world. For founders working at the intersection of deep tech, life sciences, and AI, it’s an opportunity to hear how one of the industry’s most ambitious companies is approaching problems few organizations have attempted to solve.

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Today, he’s applying that entrepreneurial mindset to an entirely different challenge: using AI and synthetic biology to explore de-extinction as a conservation tool. That work has made Colossal one of the most closely watched — and most debated — companies in science and technology. As CEO, Lamm sits at the center of conversations about biodiversity, climate resilience, emerging technologies, and the responsibilities that come with engineering living systems.

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Reviving extinct species captures headlines. The broader questions may prove even more significant. As AI becomes part of scientific discovery, conversations about technology increasingly extend beyond software into medicine, biology, conservation, and climate science. Those advances bring new possibilities, but they also raise difficult questions about how, and where, these tools should be used.

Whether you view de-extinction as a scientific breakthrough, a conservation strategy, or a controversial experiment, the discussion reaches far beyond any single species. It asks what role emerging technologies should play in solving some of the world’s most complex problems and who gets to decide.

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5 days left to exhibit at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026
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If you want your startup in the middle of those conversations, exhibit on the Expo Hall floor.

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A Vinyl Bar in Shibuya is a startup from a former Spotify leader for making music apps
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As AI rages on, new startups are creating tools for people to create music using generative AI prompts in the style of any artist they want. A Vinyl Bar in Shibuya, a startup that sounds more like an indie band name, is focused on releasing a series of small apps that let you play around with sounds and vocals.

The company has raised a $5.5 million pre-seed round from Mantis VC, SV Angel, BoxGroup, Quiet Capital, Remarkable Ventures, Common Metal, Gold House, Liquid 2 Ventures, Breakers VC, Collaborative Fund, Systemic Ventures, and former Spotify chief content and advertising business officer, Dawn Ostroff, who joined the company as an advisor.

The startup is built by Máuhan M. Zonoozy, who was the former head of innovation at Spotify. Prior to that, he founded a video clipping and remixing startup called Bubbl, which was acquired by Cricket Media.

Zonoozy, who left Spotify in 2024, said that he always wanted to go back to building something of his own. He thought that while streaming solved the access problem, most of the interaction with music was still around consumption.

founder Máuhan M. Zonoozy Image Credits:A Vinyl Bar in Shibuya

“I think when I looked at emergent behaviors and younger audiences, like everyone’s growing up playing with culture through games, through filters, through creation tools. And I just felt like there was an opportunity to empower people to do something similar with music,” he told TechCrunch.

The startup releases these experiments like “singles” that are part of an album. The common theme between all of these apps or websites is interacting with different elements to create music or modify sound. For instance, Speed Surfer is a Chrome extension that changes the speed and filter of sound playing in your browser window.

Usersound is a website where you can create an “audio” username with each letter representing a note. Stacks is a stem player where you can create mixes by turning bars on or off in a 3×3 grid. Drops is about placing plaques in a pattern to deflect marbles falling down, which creates musical notes. Sampler is a website that turns YouTube videos into music samplers based on beats of different parts of the songs.

The company’s more ambitious product is an iOS app called bop. This lets you place musical instruments and effects in a grid to create different mixes of a base song. You can also adjust tempo and add one-time effects. Once you create these mixes, you can easily export them to TikTok or Instagram. A Vinyl Bar in Shibuya is also working on a multiplayer version, which would let users remix songs with others. The company recently added a prompt-based feature to create a sound.

Zonoozy said that it is making an informed choice not to infuse AI into every part of these apps. He is open to using AI to build these products and to make infrastructure solid, though.

“AI is obviously extraordinarily powerful, but I think we just don’t necessarily believe that the future of music is simply generation, like song generation via AI. And I think if AI starts to make that content more abundant, it actually makes taste and human perspective and interaction and participation even more important and even more valuable. And we’re just trying to make sure it doesn’t make it even rarer,” he said.

This year, the company aims to release a “musical sandbox mixer” product that would let users play around with different elements of music-making, including being able to create instruments.

The story title was changed because, at the time of testing last month, there were no prompt-based features in the startup’s apps. The company added prompt-based features more recently to its apps.

《TAIPEI TIMES》 SkyGuardian drones bought from US tested, source says
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An MQ-9B drone taxis at Hualien Air Base yesterday. A retired F-5E jet serving as a decoy aircraft is visible in the background. Photo: Yu Tai-lang, Taipei Times

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The first two of the four MQ-9B “SkyGuardian” drones Taiwan purchased from the US underwent their first flight tests at an air base in eastern Taiwan early yesterday, a source familiar with the matter said.

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The unnamed source did not disclose further details about the test flights, saying that they were conducted at Hualien Air Base.

The tests were conducted after the military and the drone manufacturer completed the assembly of the two drones delivered to Taiwan earlier this year, the source added.

On March 17, Deputy Minister of National Defense Hsu Szu-chien (徐斯儉) and Representative to the US Alexander Yui (俞大?) attended a handover ceremony in the US for two of the MQ-9Bs.

The US has agreed to deliver the four MQ-9Bs to Taiwan in two batches this year and next year.

The MQ-9Bs would provide Taiwan with “intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance, target acquisition, and counter-land, counter-sea and anti-submarine strike capabilities,” according to the US Defense Security Cooperation Agency.

Su Tzu-yun (蘇紫雲), a research fellow at the government-funded Institute for National Defense and Security Research (INDSR), previously said that the role of the MQ-9Bs in Taiwan is to enhance battlefield reconnaissance and surveillance capabilities rather than serve as a primary offensive weapon.

INDSR researcher Hsieh Pei-shiue (謝沛學) wrote in 2020, when the US first approved the sale to Taiwan, that the drone is capable of linking to satellite communications networks shared among US allies.

That means Taiwan and the US could share battlefield intelligence instantly, providing opportunities for the two sides to cooperate during a conflict.

For example, if a cross-strait conflict breaks out, Washington could take advantage of anti-ship missile systems deployed along the First Island Chain to prevent Chinese People’s Liberation Army vessels from sailing into waters east of Taiwan to blockade the nation, Hsieh said.

MQ-9Bs are capable of long-term, long-range surveillance, meaning the drones could fly near Chinese vessels and provide critical intelligence for US forces to target them, Hsieh wrote at the time.

Another INDSR researcher, Kao Chih-jung (高志榮), yesterday cautioned that while the MQ-9B can detect and classify a large number of targets at once, it still requires final visual identification by human operators.

That limits the drone to conducting detailed, continuous surveillance on only two or three targets simultaneously, Kao said.

Consequently, the military should not rely solely on a handful of large drones, but should instead utilize the MQ-9B to conduct wide-area scans and designate high-value targets, he said.

That intelligence could then be distributed to small and medium-sized drones, shore-based radars and other combat units to build a more resilient “integrated reconnaissance and strike” network, he added.

Additional reporting by Aaron Tu

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《TAIPEI TIMES》 VP praises Taiwan’s visibility, nations’ attention
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PLEDGE: Europe and Taiwan would remain steadfast in upholding a free and democratic way of life and maintaining regional peace and prosperity, Hsiao said

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Vice President Hsiao Bi-khim (蕭美琴) yesterday said that she saw a growing number of international friends willing to learn about Taiwan and hear its story during her visit to the Italian island of Ventotene last week.

“Throughout this journey, I have once again felt the international community’s concern for Taiwan, and encountered a growing number of good friends willing to learn about Taiwan and hear its story,” Hsiao said at Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport upon returning from Italy.

The most significant part of the trip was “having Taiwan’s voice heard by so many more people in a place of such historical significance,” Hsiao said, referring to the Second Ventotene European Conference for Freedom and Democracy, which she attended last week.

Hsiao said that Ventotene has an extraordinary history.

During World War II, the island was used to detain political dissidents, including Altiero Spinelli, who coauthored a text there that later became known as the Ventotene Manifesto, advocating a federal Europe after the war.

Hsiao cited remarks from her Friday address at the Italian conference, saying: “Whether it is Ventotene or Taiwan, no island is too small to have a voice, and no island or society is too small to deserve respect.”

Although Europe today is vastly different from the Europe of World War II, democracies around the world continue to face similar challenges, she said.

“Authoritarianism, ‘gray zone’ threats, and challenges involving coercion and attempts to alter the ‘status quo’ continue to arise in various forms and locations — challenges with which Taiwan is all too familiar,” she said.

Hsiao said that is why she told at the conference that Taiwan, like its European friends, would remain steadfast in upholding a free and democratic way of life, and committed to maintaining regional peace and prosperity.

The trip was not announced in advance to avoid “unnecessary interference,” she said, referring to China’s objections.

Hsiao was invited by European Parliament Vice President Pina Picierno, the main initiator of the conference, and Carlo Corazza, head of the European Parliament Liaison Office in Italy, to speak at the meeting, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a news release yesterday.

Aside from meeting Picierno and Corazza, Hsiao and Minister of Foreign Affairs Lin Chia-lung (林佳龍) also met with Sandro Gozi, chair of the European Parliament’s Delegation to the EU-UK Parliamentary Partnership Assembly; European Parliament member Valerie Hayer; and Ventotene Mayor Carmine Caputo while on the Italian island.

Before returning to Taiwan, Hsiao and Lin toured the renowned Roman cisterns and the Museo Storico Archeologico, which houses archeological discoveries from the island, the ministry said.

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《TAIPEI TIMES》 Academia Historica head vows to fight historical distortion
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Newly appointed Academia Historica director Chen Tsui-lien speaks at the handover ceremony in Taipei yesterday. Photo: Wang Yi-sung, Taipei Times

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Newly appointed Academia Historica director Chen Tsui-lien (陳翠蓮) yesterday said she would prioritize research into Taiwan’s democratization, saying that historical distortion has become more serious in the past few years.

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The agency held a handover ceremony yesterday for its outgoing and incoming directors.

Chen, a distinguished professor in National Taiwan University’s Department of History, said President William Lai (賴清德) unexpectedly summoned her in June and asked why, more than 30 years after Taiwan’s democratization, many people’s understanding of history remained rooted in narratives from the authoritarian era.

Lai asked why political identities remain so deeply divided and whether something had gone wrong during the transition to democracy, she said.

Chen said the invitation was unexpected, as she had been enjoying a comfortable academic career.

Moving into public service could mean having to “wear a helmet,” she said, but added that after 30 years of peaceful life and benefiting from state support for her education, she felt a responsibility to give back.

Chen said her first priority would be to continue research into Taiwan’s democratization, including examining what authoritarian rule means and why it harms society.

Such work should help society remember the struggle for democracy and freedom, and encourage people to cherish the democratic system, she said.

However, recent political events have shown a deliberate trend of bad-faith historical distortion, Chen said.

Some people have portrayed the elected government, whose powers are subject to checks and oversight, as authoritarian or dictatorial, while others have described Taiwan as a “terror state,” she said, adding that such claims could cause irreparable harm to society.

The democratic system can be defended only through continued remembrance and efforts to clarify the historical record, she said.

Chen also said the institution should promote research into Taiwan’s history and confront difficult aspects of the past.

The release of political surveillance records has helped society better understand Taiwan’s history, but has raised difficult questions, she said.

People identified as informants should not be regarded as perpetrators automatically, she said, adding that their roles, whether they harmed others and the reliability of intelligence records all require consideration.

The records contain extensive private information about people who were surveilled, she said, warning that its publication could cause harm.

Transitional justice has entered deeper and more difficult territory, she said, adding that these issues must be confronted.

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《TAIPEI TIMES》 Taiwan urged to boost defense spending
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‘FRONTLINE’ NATIONS: ‘Vilnius and Taipei are not two separate stories ... whichever of us folds first makes taking the other one cheaper,’ a Lithuanian lawmaker said

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Lithuanian lawmaker Dovile Sakaliene over the weekend urged Taiwan to prioritize its defense budget, saying that national security cannot be compromised for other public policies, during a joint conference of Taiwanese associations in Helsinki.

She made the comments at this year’s Joint Annual Meeting of the World Federation of Taiwanese Associations and the European Federation of Taiwanese Associations, which took place from Friday to Sunday.

The event, themed “Democratic Resilience and Trusted Democracy,” drew more than 330 participants, including politicians and human rights advocates from Taiwan, Finland, Lithuania, Poland and the UK, to discuss how democratic societies can resist legal, diplomatic and military coercion by authoritarian states.

“Taiwan and Ukraine are the structural safety pins of global stability. Pull them and the whole transatlantic system unzips,” Sakaliene wrote on social media yesterday.

“Vilnius and Taipei are not two separate stories. Russia and China are one problem working two fronts, and whichever of us folds first makes taking the other one cheaper,” she added.

Sakaliene served as Lithuania’s minister of national defense from December 2024 to October last year, when she stepped down following disputes over increasing defense spending.

She gave a presentation over the weekend titled: “Resilience Under Pressure: Lessons from Lithuania and NATO’s Eastern Flank,” and participated in the panel “Frontline Democracies — Geopolitical Resilience in an Era of Authoritarian Pressure.”

Taiwan must invest sufficient resources to maintain its self-defense capabilities, as China’s military aircraft and exercises have become the “new normal,” she said.

If you cannot protect your country, then who would be left to benefit from education spending, she asked, adding that if nations do not strengthen their own military, they are only strengthening that of the enemy.

As cooperation grows between China, Russia, Iran and North Korea, Taiwan faces a similar situation to Europe, she said.

There are no shortcuts to democratic resilience; it is built day by day through strengthening social trust, maintaining defense capabilities and ensuring that democratic institutions can continue functioning during a crisis, said Atte Harjanne, member of the Finnish parliament and First Vice Chair of the Taiwan Friendship Group.

Since China enacted the Law on Promoting Ethnic Unity and Progress in July, concerns are growing that Beijing’s domestic laws could be applied outside of China, and Taiwan must now be on even higher alert, Overseas Community Affairs Council Minister Hsu Chia-ching (徐佳青) said.

Taiwanese officials, civil servants, those involved in religious exchanges and those working in technology with access to sensitive information are now high-risk groups when traveling to China, she said.

Luke de Pulford, cofounder and executive director of the Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China (IPAC), said that the alliance has faced continued interference from the Chinese government since its establishment, including members being sanctioned or denied visas, having their identities impersonated or being targeted with sexual images generated by artificial intelligence.

Before IPAC held its summit in Taipei, Beijing obtained the list of delegates and pressured politicians from 11 countries to prevent them from attending, he said.

The meeting also focused on economic cooperation between Taiwan and Finland.

Finland’s exports to Taiwan rose 67 percent in the first half of this year compared with the same period last year, reaching 150 million euros (US$173 million), Finnish legislator Ville Kaunisto said.

Meanwhile, Finland imported about 724 million euros worth of goods from Taiwan, he added.

If the current pace continues, bilateral trade could reach 1.8 billion euros this year, he said.

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中國靈活就業人口達3.2億 學者:官方失業率看不出真正問題
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上海中歐國際工商學院經濟學教授朱天表示,官方城鎮調查失業率無法反映就業問題的嚴重性,因有3.2億人轉為靈活就業人口。(法新社資料照)

〔編譯盧永山/綜合報導〕中國近年來城鎮調查失業率都維持在5.2%左右,但上海中歐國際工商學院經濟學教授朱天分析指出,這個數據無法反映就業問題的嚴重和當前總需求的不足,因為有超過3億人口轉向了工時長、單位時間收入低的靈活就業。

中歐國際工商學院的官方微信公眾號近日刊出朱天談就業問題的文章,認為中國今日真正的就業問題,是失業率數字看不出來的。

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根據中國國家統計局的數據,今年1至7月全國城鎮調查失業率平均值為5.2%,與去年同期持平。除2022年受武漢肺炎(COVID-19)疫情影響升至5.6%外,2021年以來其他年份基本上都維持在5.1%至5.2%之間。不包含在校生的16至24歲城鎮青年調查失業率,近3年大體在16%至17%之間;從這2個指標看,中國的就業形勢這幾年似乎沒有多少變化。

但朱天指出,這與很多人的實際感受並不一致。中國人民銀行的城鎮儲戶調查顯示,就業感受指數從2021年第一季的43.9下降到2024年第一季的35.1,2025年第四季更降至29.2。現在企業招聘越來越謹慎,大學畢業生找工作越來越難,很多原來有穩定工作的人開始開網路叫車、送外賣或從事其他靈活就業。

根據首都經濟貿易大學的「中國新就業形態研究中心」最近發布的一份報告,中國的靈活就業人員從2021年的2億,增至2025年的2.8億,今年預估達3.2億。

朱天表示,靈活就業成了一個巨大的就業「蓄水池」,當越來越多找不到穩定工作的人轉入靈活就業以後,就業市場的壓力就不一定表現為失業率上升,而可能表現為工作更不穩定、工作時間更長、單位時間收入更低,這可能是理解今天中國就業問題的關鍵。

朱天說,中國就業市場的壓力,可以從領取失業保險金的人數從2021年的259萬到2025年的557萬、4年來增加了1倍,但失業保險參保人數只增加8.5%看出,而中國領取失業保險金的人還只是失業人口中的一小部分。

朱天表示,如果僅根據城鎮調查失業率的變化來判斷中國就業形勢,就可能低估當前總需求不足的嚴重程度和宏觀政策所需要的力度。

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盤子集中地?機場「這些東西」貴到爆 1招免花冤枉錢
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出國前帶好空水瓶、零食、充電線、行動電源、盥洗用品及頸枕,就能少花不少冤枉錢,避開昂貴的「機場價」。(資料照)

〔財經頻道/綜合報導〕出國搭飛機,小心一過安檢就開始「荷包失血」。旅遊網站Travelbinger盤點美國機場14種常見消費,發現不少在家免費、或平常花不了多少錢的東西,一進機場價格就往上跳,有些甚至貴上數倍。出門前帶好空水瓶、零食、充電線、行動電源、盥洗用品及頸枕,就能少花不少冤枉錢,避開昂貴的「機場價」。

最典型的就是瓶裝水。美國機場一瓶水平均約4.25美元(約台幣135元),一般商店約1.89美元(約台幣60元),貴了超過1倍,甚至有旅客曾在紐約甘迺迪機場花7.66美元(約台幣243元)買一瓶水。其實不少機場設有免費飲水補充站,只要自備空水瓶,通過安檢後再裝水,就能省下這筆錢。

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連推行李也要錢。美國多數機場租行李推車一次要5至9美元(約台幣159元至285元),而且不是押金,用完不會退。肚子餓更傷荷包,一個普通三明治在機場可能賣到15美元(約台幣476元)以上,在家自己準備卻只要幾美元。

想坐得舒服一點,同樣可能要付費。部分機場設有付費舒適座位;若沒有信用卡、航空會員或艙等提供的貴賓室權益,臨時購買單次入場資格約35至75美元(約台幣1110元至2378元),部分高級國際貴賓室甚至超過100美元(約台幣3170元)。

其他上榜項目還包括付費高速Wi-Fi、手機充電服務、乾洗手與牙刷等盥洗用品、紙本登機證列印、頸枕與毛毯,以及臨時購買的手機、平板充電器。像是忘記帶牙刷,到了機場可能得花6美元(約台幣190元)救急;忘了帶充電線,也可能只能接受機場商店的高價。

此外,報紙、雜誌許多內容明明可以用手機閱讀,到了機場仍得花錢購買;候機時想坐按摩椅或使用休息艙,也可能按時間計費。文章甚至兩度點名「充電」,在家插上插頭幾乎感受不到成本,到了機場卻可能透過充電站、充電櫃變成收費服務。

為什麼機場東西特別貴?文章指出,旅客通過安檢後選擇有限,加上趕著登機、臨時缺東西,往往沒有時間貨比三家,只能接受更高的價格。

想避免當「盤子」,方法其實很簡單:出門前帶好空水瓶、零食、充電線、行動電源、盥洗用品及頸枕,登機證也先存進手機;手機沒電時,先找座椅下方、柱子旁或登機門附近的免費插座。少一次臨時採買,就少付一次昂貴的「機場價」。

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中國1.2兆水電工程踩進哪裡?法媒點出雅魯藏布江另一層風險。(法新社)

尼泊爾強烈要求中國共享跨國水文與冰川數據

〔財經頻道/綜合報導〕全球暖化加速了高海拔冰川的退縮與失穩,山體滑坡與冰崩誘發複合型堰塞湖潰決,已成為青藏高原與下游尼泊爾等南亞國家的共同噩夢。8月下旬,尼泊爾因嚴重的冰川崩塌與山洪爆發,導致慘重的傷亡事件。在這場跨國災難後,尼泊爾向中國提出了共享跨國水文與冰川數據的強烈要求,訴求點是數據共享不足恐妨礙他們預測和準備應對重大災害的能力。

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據報導,雅魯藏布江大峽谷區域正處於印度板塊與歐亞板塊強烈碰撞的構造縫合,是印度板塊與歐亞板塊碰撞的重要構造帶,為「全球地質災害發生率最高之一」,地震、滑坡、崩塌等地質災害高度活躍。

據悉,雅魯藏布江下游水電工程(雅下工程)規劃估算,裝置容量約6000萬瓩,年發電量約3000億度,年發電量約為三峽電站的3倍,相當於英國一年用電量。在2025年7月正式動工後,作為下游國家的印度,對水資源安全與潛在的洪枯威脅展現出極高的焦慮,今年8月,要求中國共享雅魯藏布江資料。

但雅下工程爭議還有另一層:中國準備改造的不是一般河谷,而是雅魯藏布大峽谷。

《法國國際廣播電台》刊登的評論指出,若依聯合國教科文組織世界遺產標準衡量,大峽谷在特殊自然景觀、地球演化與地質過程、生態演化及珍稀物種棲地等方面,都具備高度符合四項自然遺產標準的條件。此外,UNESCO現行自然遺產標準也正涵蓋「卓越自然美景」、「地球歷史與地質過程」、「重要生態與生物演化過程」以及「生物多樣性及受威脅物種重要棲地」。

外界擔憂,雅魯藏布江超級工程恐改變整條河。(擷取自社群媒體)

水流與生態恐改寫 魚道通過率僅31%

外媒指出,雅下工程最大的爭議,或許不是它能發多少電,而是選在中國生物多樣性最敏感的區域動工,5座梯級電站可能從根本改變河流原本的連通性。

資料顯示,雅魯藏布大峽谷國家級自然保護區面積達91.68萬公頃,集中分布中國約13%的維管植物、約20%的陸生脊椎動物。近年,科研人員在保護區發現40多種野生動植物新物種、中國國家林草局在當地44條監測樣線、251台紅外相機調查中,也記錄到12種國家一級、16種國家二級保護動物。

中國官方證實,這項工程將採「截彎取直、隧洞引水」方式開發。這意味著,部分天然河段的流量、流速、水溫與泥沙輸送都可能隨之改變;只是目前各梯級壩址、引水距離以及生態流量安排並未完整公開。

此外,儘管中國官方大力宣揚「為魚開道」與天價保育設施,但在高海拔、大落差與強水流的高寒環境下,傳統的人工魚道存在無法克服的致命盲點。對此,專家指出,雅魯藏布大峽谷正是一條極特殊的「魚類分界線」,即使蓋了魚道,也不是所有魚都能順利通過。

根據2024年一項針對雅魯藏布江水系高海拔魚道的研究,追蹤5種當地魚類後發現,向上游通過魚道的效率只有31.0%,向下游為61.7%,效果還會受到水溫與魚道流量影響,但這並非單純的環保團體推測。

2019年刊登於《Scientific Reports》的雅魯藏布江魚類研究就指出,水壩是當地魚類棲地連通性的「立即且長期威脅」,可能改變下游水溫、營養鹽、溶氧及泥沙條件,造成棲地流失、改變繁殖環境並阻礙魚類洄游,長期甚至會降低族群間的基因交流。

據悉,中國早已為這衝擊付出不小代價,先前僅裝機51萬瓩的中游既有工程「藏木水電站」,就花了約3.6億元人民幣建造魚道。《環球時報》,指出,大型急流水域魚類增殖放流站的建設成本為4800萬元人民幣;魚道的建設成本約為3.6億元人民幣;此外,每年魚苗培育成本接近700萬元人民幣,至2026年已連續12年放流超過200萬尾珍稀土著魚苗。

專家認為,目前外界只知道雅下工程將「截彎取直、隧洞引水」,卻仍不知道每一座電站會在哪裡截水、哪些天然河段水量會因此改變,以及中國準備留下多少生態流量。

另一項2025年研究更發現,雅魯藏布江既有水庫與水壩建設已在汛期造成懸浮泥沙量下降,顯示水電開發確實能改變河流原有的泥沙輸送。因此,水壩阻斷的絕非僅是魚類的生息通道,而是根本改變了「一條河怎麼流、泥沙怎麼走」。

中國生態環境部拒絕公開雅下工程環評,理由是「涉及國家機密」。(法新社)

被列為「國家秘密」的環評與靜默開工

雅下工程已經正式開工,但外界至今看不到一份最關鍵的文件「完整環評」。據報導,2025年8月,有人向中國生態環境部申請公開雅下工程《環境影響報告書》及環評批覆,得到的答覆是相關文件涉及「國家秘密」,不予公開。

《Foreign Policy》其後也報導此事,並指出工程具體方案高度保密,外界因此難以判斷哪些棲地可能遭淹沒或切割,以及河流流量、水溫將如何改變。

但值得注意的是,在雅下工程2024年底獲核准之前,雅魯藏布大峽谷國家級自然保護區也正進行範圍調整。公開資料顯示,該保護區原有面積約91.68萬公頃,官方透過重新劃界,將約4.2萬公頃擬以「項目用地」為理由調出。根據資料顯示,該區擁有的豐富的自然資源,以及虎、豹、雲豹、黑熊、多種麝類等高經濟價值的核心區與緩衝區的土地割離或調降保護等級。

根據中國學者2026年研究指出,當地具有高地震烈度、強斷裂活動、冰川與凍土退化等特徵,在高山峽谷與複雜構造共同作用下,容易發生崩塌、滑坡及泥石流等具有突發性、鏈生性與強破壞性的地質災害。

水壩對泥沙的影響也已有前例。2025年《Water Resources Research》研究雅魯藏布江既有水庫後發現,壩體調節明顯擾亂天然水沙關係,泥沙通量下降約45.34%,汛期與汛後尤其明顯。

專家指出,大壩建成後,大量的泥沙被截留於庫區,導致下游水流下切加劇、河床劇烈沖刷,營養物質斷絕,水文與泥沙機制的破壞,將順流而下引爆連鎖反應,不僅會徹底改寫雅魯藏布江大峽谷段的脆弱生態,更將嚴重衝擊下游印度平原乃至河口三角洲的農業與濕地環境。

2025年7月19日雅下工程正式開工,開工儀式卻在米林水電站的壩址處舉行。(擷取自網路)

米林儀式背後的地理謎團

對於雅下工程,外媒和環評專家有著許多疑問,但當中最有張力問題,其實藏在中國官方的開工新聞裡。據報導,中國官方隆重宣佈雅魯藏布江下游水電工程正式開工,但當時包括新華社的各大官媒在開工通稿中,對最核心的工程細節卻避而不談,僅以極其籠統的文字提及「5座梯級電站、截彎取直、隧洞引水」,並沒有列出電站具體壩址座標、大壩高度、水庫容量以及施工邊界。

此外,耐人尋味的還有工程啟動儀式的地點。中國官方2025年7月宣布雅魯藏布江下游水電工程正式開工,但開工典禮並未設在大峽谷落差最大、也是外界長期關注的墨脫核心河段,反而是在沿雅魯藏布江上游數百公里外的「米林水電站壩址」舉行。

然,《CNN》其後根據中國國企招標文件、衛星影像及公開影片定位,研判米林扎西繞登附近很可能就是整套雅下工程第一座水壩的位置,而李強出席的開工儀式,也進一步印證這項判斷。

不過,部分分析人士也指出,米林壩址的出現,引發了工程技術與地緣戰略上的多重推測,究竟只是前期物資集散與宣傳儀式的場地,還是作為雅下5級梯級工程的最上游「頭部龍頭水庫」。然,專家認為,中國這種高壓保密與工程細節的模糊化,不僅封鎖了國內生態監督的可能性,更急劇加深了下游印度與孟加拉國對水資源攔截、突發洩洪及地質安全隱患的恐慌。

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盧秀燕市長任內最後一次總質詢明天開始 可預料砲聲隆隆
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明天開始中市議會將進行市政總質詢,也是盧秀燕市長任內最後一次總質詢。(記者蘇金鳳攝)

台中市議會明天(16日)將進入為期10天的市政總質詢,是台中市長盧秀燕任內最後一次總質詢,由於盧秀燕近來發言犀利,如說總統賴清德「太關注我」、「要在野大聯盟」等言論,皆讓民進黨議員不滿,同時正值市議員選舉,已可預料,總質詢將會砲聲隆隆。

市長盧秀燕已任2屆市長,因此已無法再參選,明天開始為期10天的總質詢,則是市長任內最後一次,由於外界都認為,盧秀燕已有參選總統的意向,因此這一兩年不但對政治議題頻頻發表看法,在議會對民進黨議員的犀利質詢,也不再像第一任時有所退讓。

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此外,隨著年底九合一選舉的逼近,藍綠對立更為嚴重,總統賴清德不客氣批盧秀燕市政表現不好,盧秀燕也回應總統太關注她,甚至提出要在野黨大聯盟,引發民進黨議員不滿,紛紛在臉書譏諷,明天就是盧秀燕市政總質詢,正是議員們表現的好機會,眾人早已磨刀霍霍,已可預料將是砲聲隆隆。

不過,由於本屆也有多位市議員不連任,如資深議員張瀞分、陳成添、羅永珍,還有只任一屆的林昊佑,屆時,議會總質詢也會有離別依依,溫馨的畫面。

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知名旅遊、美食YouTuber「小象愛出門」。(翻攝自臉書)

〔娛樂頻道/綜合報導〕知名旅遊、美食YouTuber「小象愛出門」去年底與長跑多年的男友老謝於楊梅戶政事務所登記結婚,升格為人妻,14日發文透露遭遇「極致高超手法」詐騙,慘痛損失近15萬元。

小象透過臉書發文表示,花了一個月核保海外保險,過程完全沒問題,保險經紀人也是認識的人。在上周四核保通過後,因匯款僅限人民幣與美金,她發現自己身上的人民幣不足,便致電保經人詢問美金帳號,「此時我們通電話卻一直發生奇怪的聲音,我也沒有查到異樣,因為對方是認識的人。」

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而保險經紀人表示,會協助確認台灣帳戶能否收台幣,小象也爽快同意,畢竟轉帳台幣更快速。殊不知兩人對話早已遭駭。其實在兩人提到「台幣」的瞬間,詐騙集團就直接分割了他們的對話紀錄,「我以為跟保經人對話,但其實我是跟詐騙集團對話;保經人跟我對話,但其實她對話的是詐騙集團。」

可怕的是,詐騙集團不僅精準掌握保費為31000人民幣,還要求小象換算台幣、匯入指定的個人帳戶。她依指示分兩筆匯出快15萬台幣,對方隨後還回覆確認「公司這邊收到費用了」,極具真實感的流程,讓她絲毫未察覺異狀。直到當天晚間8點,保經人察覺和小象的對話有異,趕緊私訊共同朋友確認。

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今天被詐騙了快十五萬

極致高超的手法詐騙……..

提醒你選擇相信哪一方都無所謂

下面也有最近被同樣手法騙的人

希望看著文章的人看清楚重點是什麼

就是提醒你「不要被這種手法騙了!」

我要買一個海外保險(已經花一個月核保)

保經人跟海外保險是完全沒問題的,都是認識的人

終於在上週四核保過

但匯款只能人民幣跟美金

今天去銀行匯款時人民幣不夠

所以馬上打給保經人說是否可以給我美金電匯的帳號

此時我們通電話卻一直發生奇怪的聲音

我也沒有查到異樣,因為對方是認識的人

後來保經人說他問一下美金帳戶,要等公司午休後才能給我~我們就掛電話了

就在掛電話後,訊息突然過來跟我說

還是我可以匯款台幣,他跟公司拿台幣帳戶

我說當然好啊!如果台灣帳戶可以收的話

我可以直接轉帳比較快速

大家知道嗎?就在此時

掛完電話後,我跟保經人的對話已經被盜了

詐騙集團在今天早上就已經監視我們的對話紀錄

提到「台幣」的時候(保險公司根本沒有台幣帳戶)

詐騙集團已經分割了我們的對話紀錄

我以為跟保經人對話,但其實我是跟詐騙集團對話。

保經人跟我對話,但其實她對話的是詐騙集團。

詐騙集團給我一個台幣帳戶

然後跟我說保費:31000人民幣

你看一下台幣多少?

(詐騙集團知道我要匯保費,也知道保費是31000)

我查完之後就匯了兩筆共快15萬台幣到那個台幣帳戶(顯示是個人帳戶)

對方也說公司這邊收到費用了

結果到今天晚上20:00,突然保經人密了我們的共同朋友,問我的帳號怪怪的是不是被盜

因為我在19:00一直要保經借錢給我

但我的手機端根本沒有看到這些紀錄

朋友趕緊打給我,我們三方相互核對對話紀錄

才發現我跟保經的對話紀錄窗被駭客了

兩邊的對話紀錄完全不一樣!!!

- 詐騙集團用我的名義跟保經人要求9800人民幣(當然她沒有要買保險也沒有理由要借錢給我)

- 詐騙集團用保經人的名義騙我匯了我原本就要買的保險…….

後面還有加換匯50萬台幣,但我沒有跟他換匯(因為這不是我要付的保費啊)

但這其中我們都互相看不到對方被詐騙的聊天過程,詐騙集團駭入後直接阻擋並且分割我們的對話視窗……

就這樣的我被騙了15萬,錢拿不回來

但我保險還是得買,還是要再花15萬…

保經人現在正在幫我跟保險公司商談要怎麼處理這次詐騙….也已經報警

畢竟這不是我的錯,也不是她的錯

但要再付一次一模一樣的保費,真的很心疼

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「回收換好禮」PK大戰 當彰化遇上了花壇的結果揭曉了!
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行動電源不能丟垃圾車,要進行資源回收。(資料照)

又到了彰化縣民最期待的「回收換好禮」活動,彰化市、花壇鄉都將在9月18日同一天登場,花壇鄉只要5個行動電源、15個高壓容器就可以兌換洗碗精,彰化市則是10個行動電源、20個高壓容器才能兌換洗碗精。彰化市清潔隊表示,這次兌換有增加衛生紙選項,讓民眾有更多選擇。

由於彰化市的隔壁就是花壇鄉,兩地同一天辦理「回收換好禮」,花壇鄉選在番花路的喜美超市,彰化市挑在大埔路的中聯百貨,同樣都是回收行動電源、高壓容器、乾電池等3項,但兩者兌換標準明顯有所不同。

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以最受民眾喜愛的洗碗精來說,花壇鄉只要5個行動電源、15個高壓容器或5公斤乾電池;彰化市則要10個行動電源、20個高壓容器或7公斤乾電池。而花壇鄉只要1個行動電源、3個高壓容器、0.5公斤乾電池,可兌換香皂或衛生紙,同時也增加洗衣粉的兌換品。但彰化市兌換香皂與衛生紙採計的標準不同。

彰化市清潔隊表示,彰化市每次辦理「回收換好禮」都非常受歡迎,無論回收項目,都有許多民眾熱烈支持,這次兌換品部分,香皂與洗碗精由環保局提供,衛生紙部分則是彰化市清潔隊負責,透過推廣建立回收的觀念,也希望能夠讓更多人都能夠兌換到東西。

不過,環保局日前先行辦理「回收換好禮」採取點數兌換制,6個行動電源可換1瓶洗碗精,後來再交由各鄉鎮市自行辦理,自行訂定兌換標準,今年有特別針對行動電源、高壓容器,主要就是這兩項沒有回收就丟垃圾車的話,很容易造成收運垃圾第一線人員的危險,希望透過獎勵的方式來讓民眾建立回收的觀念。

行動電源與電池都要資源回收,不能丟到垃圾車。(資料照)

彰化縣花壇鄉回收換好禮的兌換標準公布了。(取自花壇鄉公所臉書)

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北北基宜防大雨! 北台灣今高溫略降 東北季風週四減弱
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東北季風影響,迎風面桃園以北、東半部地區及恆春半島有局部短暫陣雨,尤其在基隆北海岸、宜蘭地區及大台北山區有局部大雨發生。(資料照)

中央氣象署指出,今日(15日)受東北季風影響,迎風面桃園以北、東半部地區及恆春半島有局部短暫陣雨,尤其在基隆北海岸、宜蘭地區及大台北山區有局部大雨發生,其他地區為多雲到晴。今日南部地區清晨至上午也有零星短暫陣雨,而午後嘉義以南地區有局部短暫陣雨,中部以北山區有零星短暫陣雨,雲林以南山區有局部大雨。

中央氣象署昨晚8點35分針對基隆市、新北市、台北市及宜蘭縣發布大雨特報,表示受到東北季風影響,雨勢將持續至今日,上述縣市需注意大雨。

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氣溫方面,北部及宜蘭白天高溫略降,北部及東半部27至31度,中南部仍可來到32、33度,感受偏熱,至於各地低溫約24至26度。離島天氣部分,澎湖晴時多雲,26至29度;金門晴時多雲,26至30度;馬祖晴時多雲,25至28度。

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

週三(16日)受到東北風季風影響,迎風面桃園以北、宜蘭地區及恆春半島有局部短暫陣雨,花東地區有零星短暫陣雨;其他地區為多雲。高溫預測北部、東半部及澎湖、金門、馬祖28至30度,中南部32至33度;低溫方面,台灣各地及澎湖、金門、馬祖23至26度。

週四(17日)東北季風減弱,環境轉為偏東風,大台北、東半部地區及恆春半島有局部短暫陣雨,其他地區為多雲到晴。週五(18日)至下週一(21日)水氣再減少,各地以多雲到晴的天氣為主,僅基隆北海岸、宜花地區、大台北山區及恆春半島有零星短暫陣雨。高溫預測北部及東半部30至31度,中南部32至33度,澎湖、金門及馬祖29至30度;低溫方面,台灣各地及澎湖、金門、馬祖24至27度。

國際都市天氣:

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 27 ~ 30 29 ~ 35 30 ~ 36 27 ~ 32

氣象署發布大雨特報。(圖擷取自中央氣象署)

今日各地天氣概況。(圖擷取自中央氣象署)

今日各地紫外線指數預報概況。(圖擷取自中央氣象署)

今日各地空氣品質指標預報概況。(圖擷取自環境部空氣品質監測網)

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苗栗全縣文旦柚評鑑出爐!西湖柚農吳肇明勇奪特等獎
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苗栗全縣文旦柚評鑑出爐!西湖柚農吳肇明勇奪特等獎。(苗縣府提供)

搶攻中秋送禮商機!苗栗縣文旦柚評鑑結果出爐,競爭激烈,最終由西湖鄉果農吳肇明脫穎而出,勇奪最高榮譽特等獎。農糧署北區分署推薦,西湖鄉為全台十大文旦產區之一,栽培面積約84公頃,酸甜比適度且風味上乘,不僅國內銷售暢旺,更外銷至新加坡等海外市場,廣受消費者好評,絕對是中秋伴手禮的首選。

評鑑針對文旦柚的重量、外觀形狀、肉質風味、果皮厚度、果肉率、種籽數及糖度等進行嚴格審查,現場柚香四溢。獲獎名單隨之揭曉,除了吳肇明奪得特等獎外,頭等獎由頭份市譚陳菊妹、頭屋鄉羅如羚,以及西湖鄉陳漢清、吳肇宏、吳紹義等5人抱回。

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苗栗縣長鍾東錦表示,全縣文旦柚栽種面積達440公頃,主要分布於西湖、頭屋、通霄等地區。苗栗文旦果肉細緻、汁多味甜,口感完全不輸麻豆文旦,且富含維生素、礦物質與膳食纖維,是全家享用最健康無負擔的選擇。

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台中威力彩獨得4.1億 「紅蜻蜓」沒飛走 彩迷:在等得主現身嗎?
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「紅蜻蜓」於威力彩頭獎開獎前飛進惠中千百萬彩券行。(記者黃旭磊攝)

台中南屯區「惠中千百萬彩券行」在9月7日,開出威力彩第115000072期頭獎,由一名幸運兒獨得4.1億元,經過一週後,業者透露,得主至今還沒現身,開彩前有大隻「紅蜻蜓」直接飛進店內,還沒飛走,有彩迷稱在等得主現身。

惠中千百萬彩券行位於黎明路鬧區,台彩至今尚未公布頭彩得主,相關人士透露,中獎人是電腦選號2注,單張投注金額200元,其中「1注中了頭獎4.1億元。」

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彩券行鄭姓代理人向本報說,得主是「電選」中彩,至今還沒現身,店家7天以來生意好很多,很多彩迷都來問到底是誰,這是黎明路彩券行第一次有獨得頭彩,之前中過過年百萬大樂透。

店家彩迷說,7日開獎前有大隻「紅蜻蜓」直接飛進店內,中台灣常見「綠蜻蜓」(綠胸晏蜓),幾乎沒見過紅蜻蜓,至今仍停在屋頂沒走,應該是在等得主現身。

小紅蜻蜓在中台灣非常罕見,這名幸運兒獨得頭獎彩金,時隔一週仍未現身領獎,台彩呼籲得主務必在開獎後次日起3個月內完成領獎,以免錯失4.1億頭彩獎金。

頭彩4.1億元得主至今未現身。(記者黃旭磊攝)

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中捷橘線綜合規劃投標截止 本週進行評選
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台中捷運橘線(機場捷運)示意圖。(市府提供)

中捷各路線都在進行規劃中,被視為排名第4條會先動工捷運機場線(橘線)的可行性研究已在8月18日獲行政院核可,而捷工局為了讓橘線加快速度,在行政院進行可行性研究的同時,進行綜合規劃的招標,就在行政院核可後,已截止投標,本週進行評選,一旦完成評選,就可以進入綜合規劃的階段。

捷運機場橘線對台中市而言,是相當重要的一條路線,因為如同桃捷一樣,關係到國人及國際旅客可以進入台中市區重要一條捷運路線。

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由於橘線的期程已是可行性研究已於2025年7月4日核轉行政院審議,只要行政院通過,就可進入綜合規劃,因此,捷工局在行政院審核同時,進行綜合規劃報告書招標,將進行環評及都市計畫的變更。

行政院已於8月18日核可橘線,同時橘線綜合規劃報告書招標案也截止,捷工局將在本週進行評選,一旦評選作業完成,橘線期程就進入綜合規劃階段,進度再往前邁進一步。

機場捷運(橘線)規劃起點設於台中國際機場,行經大雅市區、水湳經貿園區、一中商圈、臺中車站、中興大學、台中軟體園區等地點,終點設於霧峰立法院民主議政園區附近,總經費1602.23億元,路線全長29.23公里,規劃高架車站15座、地下車站11座,共設有26座車站。

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川普宣稱烏俄兩國已同意不打能源目標 澤倫斯基語帶保留
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川普14日在社群宣稱,烏俄兩國已同意不打擊對方的能源設施。(美聯社)

美國總統川普13日出席活動時提到全球柴油價格因烏俄戰爭影響而飆漲,要求烏克蘭停止攻擊俄羅斯的煉油廠,強調他已和烏克蘭總統澤倫斯基談過,「別打擊俄羅斯柴油」。川普14日在社群宣稱,烏俄兩國已同意不打擊對方的能源設施;澤倫斯基則表示,只有美國能夠確保俄羅斯真正準備好結束對烏克蘭的戰爭,烏克蘭才會支持美國提出的能源設施停火提議。

綜合外媒報導,川普於自家社群媒體「真實社群」(Truth Social)發文寫道:「烏克蘭已經同意不打擊俄羅斯能源目標,俄國也同意不攻擊烏方能源目標!」川普也強調:「全球柴油價格上漲主要是俄烏戰爭造成的,而非伊朗。」

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針對川普的呼籲,澤倫斯基則回應,如果這能成為緩和局勢、結束俄羅斯對烏克蘭關鍵基礎設施的襲擊的第一步,烏克蘭願支持局勢緩和。

不過澤倫斯基也說:「到目前為止,還沒有人看到俄羅斯方面有任何真正結束戰爭的意願,但如果我們的美國夥伴能夠確保俄羅斯已經真的準備好結束這場戰爭,並且以誠實和長期方式結束戰爭,烏克蘭就會採取自己的緩和局勢措施。」

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健康網》豆漿、燕麥奶、牛奶比一比 研究揭喝它降血壓最亮眼
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營養師薛曉晶表示,豆漿、燕麥奶、牛奶營養組成各有差異,選擇植物奶不能只看「植物性」,研究顯示,飲用其中1種飲品,血壓可降低;示意圖。(圖取自freepik)

〔健康頻道/綜合報導〕植物奶近年成為熱門健康選擇之一,不過,並不代表營養價值都一樣。營養師薛曉晶指出,2026年1項系統性回顧與網絡統合分析,比較豆漿、燕麥飲、米漿與牛奶,對於血脂、血糖、血壓等影響。結果顯示,豆漿在降低壞膽固醇(LDL)與血壓方面呈現較有利結果,燕麥飲則可能有助降低總膽固醇。不過,因研究證據仍屬低確定性,提醒不能把豆漿當成降血壓飲品,更不能拿來取代藥物治療。

研究:豆漿降膽固醇、血壓

薛曉晶於臉書粉專發文表示,1項刊登於《Advances in Nutrition》的最新研究,共納入14項隨機對照試驗、543名成人,比較豆漿、燕麥奶等4種不同飲品對體重、BMI、血脂、血糖及血壓的影響,並統一換算成每天攝取500毫升進行分析。研究顯示,以豆漿取代牛奶後,LDL膽固醇平均低0.47mmol/L;至於血壓部分,收縮壓平均約低8.23mmHg、舒張壓約低7.82mmHg。

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不過,薛曉晶提醒,這項結果的證據屬於「低確定性」,進一步進行敏感度分析後,降幅可能會縮小,不同試驗間也存在差異。因此。不能解讀成每天喝500mL豆漿就一定能降低膽固醇或血壓,更不能拿豆漿取代降血壓藥物。較適合的理解是,若原本就想將部分牛奶換成植物性飲品,目前豆漿在心血管代謝方面的研究證據相對完整。

喝燕麥飲不等於吃燕麥粥

至於燕麥飲的結果主要出現在總膽固醇。研究顯示,與牛奶相比,燕麥飲的總膽固醇平均低約0.12mmol/L,和米漿相比,則低約0.23mmol/L。推測可能原因之一是燕麥中的β-葡聚糖進入腸道後具有黏稠性,可減少膽酸重新吸收,增加膽固醇排出。但相關試驗數量少,證據確定性同樣非常低。此外,薛曉晶也提醒,市售燕麥飲的燕麥含量、加工方式及β-葡聚糖含量差很大,不能認為喝燕麥奶就等同於吃燕麥粥。

米漿蛋白質含量低=澱粉飲

此外,薛曉晶進一步提及,米漿喝起來很清爽,但它其實更像澱粉飲。研究顯示,它在體重、血脂及血糖等指標上,並沒有看到明確優勢。加上米漿蛋白質含量較低,營養來源以碳水化合物為主,不像黃豆具有較豐富的大豆蛋白與異黃酮,也不像燕麥具有β-葡聚糖這類特色成分;因此,不能因為覺得「植物奶比較健康」,就將其視為牛奶的替代品。

薛曉晶強調,牛奶VS植物奶不是非黑即白,若本來就希望增加植物性食物,或調整飲食中的脂肪與蛋白質來源,無糖豆漿目前是研究證據相對完整的選擇;燕麥飲可以搭配,但要多看一眼蛋白質與糖;米漿則不要直接當成牛奶的營養等價品。

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馬自達新年式CX-30換裝上陣 增列20S Air Edition車型 旗艦安全科技周延防護
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2027年式Mazda CX-30新增20S Air Edition車型,搭載專屬黑化外觀套件,展現洗鍊的車身輪廓。(記者陳英傑攝)

台灣馬自達昨(14)日推出2027年式Mazda CX-30,全車系導入6項源自新世代旗艦車型的進階i-ACTIVSENSE主動安全科技,同時強化座艙舒適與智慧連結,此次並新增20S Air Edition車型,全車系提供4種車型選擇,售價88.8萬元起。

2027年式CX-30最大升級重點為新世代i-ACTIVSENSE主動安全配備,新增車速調節速限器、轉向來車防撞輔助功能、道路偏移防止輔助、對向車道超車避讓輔助、車道盲點避讓輔助,以及離車警示輔助功能,完整涵蓋行駛速度、路口轉向、道路邊界到側後方車流與開門離車情境,讓車主在享受駕馭樂趣的同時,也能擁有更完整的主動安全支援。

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2027年式Mazda CX-30增加天際灰車色選擇,在不同光線反射下,可營造出明亮及冷冽質感。圖為20S Air Edition車型。

入門的20S Ace Edition車型新增真皮透氣座椅、駕駛座10向電動調整含腰靠、2組座椅記憶及無線Apple CarPlay等配備;20S Premium車型進一步搭載雙前座三段式導流通風/加熱座椅、AFS主動式轉向頭燈及電動尾門;中高階20S Signature車型增加BOSE 12支揚聲器環繞音響,並將ALH智慧型頭燈升級行人標記功能。

CX-30全車系標配7吋數位儀表與10.25吋中控螢幕。圖為20S Air Edition車型。

新增的高階車型20S Air Edition則搭載專屬黑化套件,並升級灰/白雙色座艙,採用Leganu麂皮搭皮質座椅增添獨有特色,主打更鮮明的個人化風格,另還有ALH行人標記、360°環景輔助及超廣角影像輔助等配備。車色部分,除了原有的晶艷魂動紅、鋼鐵灰、躍雪白、琉光金,還新增天際灰,完美融合明亮與冷冽的金屬光澤質感。

CX-30動力維持原有設定,採2.0升SKYACTIV-G自然進氣引擎搭配6速手自排變速箱,最大動力165ps/21.7kg-m,平均油耗15.0km/L。台灣馬自達同步推出限時購車優惠,即日起至9月30日,訂購CX-30任一車型可選擇以5,000元升級第4至第5年「全域安心型」延長保固,或享30萬元低利率購車方案。

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adidas Originals重返童年遊戲場 8度聯手Song for the Mute 全新ADI008系列勾起校園回憶
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adidas Originals×Song for the Mute ADI008系列,汲取童年生活記憶為靈感,主打輕鬆的校園休閒風格。聯名系列SAMBA OG,4,290元。

知名運動品牌adidas Originals擅長透過各類跨界聯名,為時尚迷帶來滿滿新意,此次第8度攜手澳洲時尚品牌Song for the Mute推出的全新ADI008系列,從Song for the Mute創意總監Lyna Ty的童年記憶出發,將視角帶回巴黎伊夫里大道(Avenue d'Ivry)的操場,從學生時期的遊戲、友誼、家庭等日常片段汲取靈感,打造出帶有濃厚復古氣息的服裝與鞋履。

聯名系列以adidas Originals經典鞋型為主軸,Samba OG透過柔軟皮革或麂皮搭配乾刷仿舊鞋底重新演繹,並於鞋履後跟處加入彈力縐褶鞋領,為標誌性設計挹注鬆弛感;另一款SL72 PRO則延續跑鞋基因,尼龍鞋面搭配仿舊麂皮,Lightstrike+中底也經仿舊效果處理,勾勒彷彿歷經多年奔跑的歲月痕跡。

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SL 72 PRO採用復古色調搭配仿舊處理的Lightstrike+中底,呼應學生時代的青春記憶,4,290元。

從校園周遭人物出發的服飾設計,水洗燈芯絨西裝外套在正式風格融入休閒面料,讓人聯想到教室裡的老師;立領針織運動外套、雙面寬版運動外套、仿舊足球針織Polo衫及條紋針織上衣,交織出不拘一格的非正式制服;挺版棉質校服襯衫憑藉姓名標籤般的細節,呼應昔日縫在校服上的記號。另外還有寬鬆三條線運動長褲、反摺赤耳丹寧褲,同樣以寬鬆輪廓延續懷舊氣息,為整體穿搭帶來更豐富的視覺層次。

adidas Originals×Song for the Mute ADI008聯名系列將於本月18日於指定門市與官方網站正式開賣。

水洗燈芯絨西裝外套以寬鬆輪廓詮釋西裝結構,8,600元。

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賣一顆喪屍煙彈 判10年半 賣給未成年少女 法官重判
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劉姓男子販售一顆喪屍煙彈給一名15歲少女,新北地院判刑10年6月。(資料照)

劉姓男子去年以一五〇〇元價格販售一顆含依托咪酯的煙彈(俗稱喪屍煙彈)給一名十五歲少女,甚至允諾「賒帳」日後再付款,因劉犯案時依托咪酯列二級毒品,可處十年以上徒刑(現已列為第一級毒品),加上他販賣對象為未成年人,又否認犯行,新北地院合議庭審酌後依毒品危害防制條例中的「成年人對未成年人販賣第二級毒品罪」,判刑十年六月。

一顆1500元 還同意少女賒帳

檢警調查,二〇二五年六月十三日晚間,劉男駕車前往新北市三重區一家超商前,與少女及其友人見面。少女得知劉男有施用依托咪酯習慣,便開口詢問有無毒品可賣她。雙方談妥以一五〇〇元價格交易,劉男當場交給少女一顆喪屍煙彈,並同意讓沒有現金的少女賒帳,日後再付錢。警方隔日查獲少女持有煙彈,循線逮捕劉男並發動搜索,在劉住所與車輛扣得相關證物,並將劉男起訴。

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劉男矢口否認販毒;其辯護人則辯稱,劉男不知道對方未成年,且雙方並無深厚交情,豈可能同意賒帳販毒,加上監視器並未拍到明確的交付毒品畫面,主張應判劉男無罪。

毒販辯不知對象 少女指證

由於少女與其同行友人偵審時均指證,過去與劉男聊天過程中就曾提及兩人均未成年;合議庭認為,兩人所述前後高度吻合,且監視器畫面與手機基地台軌跡也證實劉男當晚確有開車前往會面,加上雙方並無仇怨,證人無理由冒偽證風險陷害劉男,判定劉男故意販毒給未成年者。

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黑熊出沒淺山 林保署制定應變指引/導入AI監視高風險區 2分鐘內發布預警
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黑熊AI預警系統針對遊客活動密集處及周邊森林,分核心及外圍區分級管理,圖為外圍區系統監測相機拍攝到黑熊影像,經AI辨識後回傳畫面通報至管理者群組。(林保署提供)

台灣黑熊近年復育有成,今年三月時初估約一千二百隻,林保署野放黑熊時放置鏡頭頸圈,首度成功記錄黑熊第一視角,確定黑熊已從深山區域進入淺山聚落,該署制定「人熊衝突應變指引」,也建置黑熊通報系統,在熊出沒高風險區引入AI預警系統,以降低人熊衝突風險。

野放鏡頭頸圈揭露第一視角

台灣黑熊「達古阿里」、「阿里曼.西肯」曾闖入花蓮山區部落,林保署花蓮分署捕捉後野放,在這二隻熊的衛星發報頸圈安裝攝影鏡頭,昨發布相關影像,揭露黑熊第一視角,發現部分個體會在十二月下旬到隔年三月初出現冬眠蟄伏與換洞行為,除翻轉過去學界認為台灣黑熊不冬眠理論,還發現黑熊會到檳榔園、果園,並接近人類聚落,也可看到黑熊翻找人類遺留在山區的垃圾,甚至吃起雞腿便當等,顯示黑熊和人的距離比原預估更近。

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3月初估台灣黑熊約1200隻

林保署今年三月時初估台灣黑熊約一千二百隻,年底擬再發布更精確的黑熊族群數目,林保署署長林華慶指出,隨棲地復育,過去黑熊多出現在花蓮分署、台東分署、台中分署轄區,現在則是新竹分署轄區也都發現蹤跡,出現頻率也增加。

若要人熊和平相處,除須增加人對熊的理解,也要降低人熊遭遇機會,該署導入AI與監視系統,盡可能及早預知熊是否入侵,在二分鐘內發預警,也在山區聚落內設置避免熊隻翻找食物的防熊垃圾桶,並拉設電圍網讓熊隻無法接近等;為讓民眾知道遇到熊後該如何應變,已制定簡易人熊遭遇指引,將發放給熊出沒熱區社區學校。

避免接觸 降低人熊衝突

林華慶表示,降低人熊衝突最好方式就是避免接觸,民眾到訪山區一定要將垃圾帶走;他也指出,每當部落遇到人熊衝突,部分都市民眾會有「原民入侵黑熊棲地」、「要原民搬離」等不理性言論,其實原民傳統是不可獵殺黑熊,和自然共存的生活方式更保留讓黑熊棲息的天然林和次生林,希望不同區域居民可以互相理解。

學者籲投入更多經費研究

東海大學特聘教授林良恭指出,去年日本就發生五萬多起目擊熊隻事件,有二三八人受傷、十三人致死。熊具有強大的學習能力,日本研究顯示熊若接近人類聚落,隔三代後才會再拉開人熊距離;他也指出,日本因熊隻侵擾嚴重,相關研究與防護經費從一億日圓提高到六十億日圓,也希望我國政府可投入更多經費研究。

人熊遭遇時注意要點

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蕭美琴出訪義大利》賴:走向世界是台灣天賦權利
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副總統蕭美琴(右三)日前出訪義大利,偕外交部長林佳龍(右二)出席歐洲議會副議長皮齊耶諾(右一)主持的晚宴。(外交部提供)

副總統蕭美琴低調出訪義大利,出席第二屆「文托泰內歐洲自由與民主論壇」,昨天清晨完成任務返抵國門。總統賴清德隨後發聲力挺,強調台灣是世界的一員,走向世界、和世界交朋友,本來就是台灣人民不可剝奪的天賦權利,「我們有權,也會持續爭取國際交流合作的機會,讓世界看見台灣」。

蕭美琴繼去年赴比利時布魯塞爾出席對中政策跨國議會聯盟(IPAC)年會後,上週再度受邀赴義大利文托泰內參與歐洲自由與民主論壇。

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賴清德表示,義大利文托泰內島曾關押反抗法西斯主義的政治犯,見證戰後歐洲如何走向聯合、避免戰爭重演的重要起點,蕭副總統在這座島上向世界分享台灣走過的民主歷程,以及面對威權威脅時,依然堅持自由、守護和平的決心。

賴強調,台灣是世界的一員,走向世界、和世界交朋友,本來就是台灣人民不可剝奪的天賦權利。我們有權,也會持續爭取國際交流合作的機會,讓世界看見台灣;「正如美琴所說,自由是我們共同的語言,和平是我們共同的渴望」。台灣將善盡國際社會一員的責任,與民主夥伴並肩合作,共同維護區域和平穩定,促進全球經濟繁榮。

外交部指出,蕭美琴與外交部長林佳龍結束論壇對談後,同日晚間出席由歐洲議會副議長皮齊耶諾主持的晚宴,並在停留文托泰內期間,會晤歐洲議會復興歐洲黨團主席、議員阿耶。林佳龍與皮齊耶諾互動時,特別說明他自擔任外長以來,總計訪問義大利三次,上次並特別訪問台商投資眾多的米蘭。此行也是林佳龍擔任外交部長任內,第六次訪問歐洲。

歐洲議會副議長 轉發賴貼文致意

「團結會更強大」將持續夥伴關係

發起邀約的皮齊耶諾昨在社群平台X轉發賴總統貼文致意,強調歐洲議會必須永遠堅定地站在自由、民主這一邊,蕭美琴的蒞臨也展現民主國家在共同對抗威權擴張上加強合作的新進程,這項夥伴關係將持續下去,因為「團結會更強大」;文末也附上我國國旗與歐盟旗幟的符號。

官員指出,不到一年內兩度赴歐洲非邦交國家參與重要活動,顯示台歐高層互動逐步深化,也可以看到「外交台灣隊」的分工逐漸成形:賴總統負責戰略統合與政治授權;林佳龍及外交團隊持續擴大台灣在歐洲的人脈、互信與政治空間;具有長期涉外經驗及歐美政壇人脈的蕭美琴則在條件成熟後,將既有的外交累積轉化為更高層級的政治互動。

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自由日日shoot》乾冰凍腿截肢也敢做 異常理賠露餡
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男子林祐葦與曾任保險業務員的妻子洪玉雯,涉嫌找來護理師、保險業務員及具醫材、法律事務所經驗者等人組成詐保集團,成員橫跨保險、醫療、醫材及法律領域。(資料照)

詐保案例層出不窮,手法更是千奇百怪,有人以乾冰凍傷雙腿致截肢,也有人找「槍手」冒名住院,甚至組團赴柬埔寨購買假診斷證明。不過,這些精心設計的騙局,往往因投保時間、就醫地點及理賠頻率出現異常,遭保險公司發現異常,再由檢警調查識破。

第一起案例中,廖建富與高中同學張瀚共謀以截肢詐保。張先向五家保險公司投保八張保單,再將雙腳置入裝有乾冰的桶內,廖則以束帶將他固定在椅子上,持續長達十小時,最終造成雙腿膝下截肢。兩人申請理賠四一二六萬元,僅詐得廿三萬餘元,其餘均遭拒賠;廖被判刑六年確定,張瀚則獲緩刑二年。

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另案中,女子李欣薏結識綽號「小魚」、「社長」等網友,安排「槍手」分別冒用她與丈夫林大強的身分,赴苗栗、台中等地裝病住院;夫妻倆無須住院,只需持槍手取得的診斷證明申領理賠,共詐得三五七萬餘元。

李女隨後將詐保手法傳授給姪子,進而擴及其他親友,包括有人組成「槍手組」冒名住院,有人化身「演員組」假摔、裝病,形成家族詐保網。部分成員住院期間因被拍到外出抽菸、聊天,最終遭識破;十七人十年間共詐保九百一十一次,得手二六六三萬餘元,十五名成年人被起訴,另二名少年移送少年法院。

「柬埔寨病貓團」則招攬民眾投保旅平險、組團赴柬埔寨再購買腸胃炎藥等不實診斷證明及收據,返台後申請相關健保給付及商業保險理賠。短期內赴柬埔寨住院人數驟增、就醫地點又高度集中,引起保險公司注意,檢警循線追出五十人涉案,其中四十一人遭起訴。

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名古屋亞運 台灣女足2:1勝越南
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台灣女足在名古屋亞運首戰力退越南。(名古屋亞運籌備會提供)

〔記者盧養宣/綜合報導〕台灣隊昨在名古屋亞運女足首戰靠蘇育萱、歸化球員若林美里先後進球,以2:1險勝越南,在小組賽開出紅盤。

蘇育萱上半場第16分鐘在中路突破起腳射門助隊先馳得點,下半場第81分鐘若林美里凌空抽射,攻進披上台灣戰袍的首球,助隊擴大領先。台灣隊擋住越南反撲,成功收下3分積分,接下來將在17日交手泰國尋求2連勝,力拚8強門票。

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MQ-9B無人機 台灣首升空 我高空監偵能量大幅提升
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MQ-9B無人機首度在台灣升空。(記者游太郎攝)

我國向美國購買的四架MQ-9B海上衛士型無人機,其中兩架六月份海運抵台並經陸運至空軍花蓮基地,近三個月經原廠及空軍組裝、測試及檢整後,昨天上午八時許首度升空,國軍高空監偵能量將獲得大幅提升。

空軍自民國一一一年執行至一一八年編列新台幣二一七億元預算,對美軍購四架由通用原子系統公司製造的MQ-9B無人機,並含二座地面控制站等附屬設備,分批於今年及明年交付,其中兩架昨天上午在高度警戒措施下升空測試,約二小時後平安飛返。

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偵察、打擊一體化 反制共軍

官員表示,MQ-9B可偵察、打擊一體化,最大酬載量達一七〇〇公斤,除能搭載各型先進感測器,亦可掛載雷射導引炸彈,美軍甚至已完成加裝響尾蛇飛彈的測試,空軍也已在美國完成MS-110偵照莢艙掛載測試;台灣面對共艦、海警船的灰色地帶侵擾,能發揮全天候監控功能,彌補海域偵察缺口。

國防院學者高志榮六月曾撰文分析,MQ-9B單次起飛,可執勤廿四至卅小時以上,最大航程突破五〇〇〇浬(約九二六〇公里),若在二萬五〇〇〇英呎(約七六二〇公尺)高度飛行,雷達、光電視線所及半徑,可達一九四浬(約三六〇公里),定點盤旋時,單機即可掌握台灣海峽、兼顧部分巴士海峽與宮古海峽動態。

第一島鏈重要水道 建偵搜牆

高志榮認為,MQ-9B進駐後,國軍空中情監偵能力將進一步向外海、遠洋及中國內陸延伸,形同在第一島鏈重要水道建立廣大的「偵搜牆」,同時可透過Link-16資料鏈分享座標,縮短「殺傷鏈」反應時間。

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自由日日shoot》保險員、護理師、法律人跨界聯手 假摔假車禍 詐保2200萬
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詐保集團成員廖上華在宮廟前故意跌倒,再由林祐葦於傷處塗抹泥巴,營造傷勢嚴重假象。(示意圖,美編組繪製)

10人專業詐保團起訴

台北地檢署偵破一起由專業人士組成的詐保集團,卅八歲男子林祐葦與卅九歲妻子洪玉雯網羅護理師、保險業務員及具醫材、法律背景的親友共十人,自二〇二二年起製造假車禍與自殘事故,密集向十二家保險公司投保,並多次以假摔等方式製造受傷事故,申請理賠,成功詐領高達二二〇〇萬餘元。檢方偵結後,依加重詐欺及偽造文書等罪將十人起訴。

12家保險公司受害

檢警調查,該集團因密集投保,又反覆以跌倒、車禍等相似事故申領高額理賠,異常行徑引起保險公司懷疑。經十二家保險公司陸續提告後,刑事警察局與北市士林警分局報請北檢指揮偵辦。

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專案小組追查,林男於二〇二二年自國外返台後,因急於謀財,與曾任保險業務員的妻子洪女、擔任護理人員的外甥女廖上華合謀,並拉攏熟稔醫材與法律實務的周詠騰、保險業務員陳禎沂等人入夥。十人透過通訊軟體Telegram群組規劃假事故、就醫及理賠分工。

洪女另成立「頂尖群組」,由周男指導假車禍動線、肇責比例、就診醫師、症狀描述與住院間隔,理賠金到手後,再由林、洪夫妻按比例朋分。

檢方查出,林男曾徒手抓傷自己的鼻子,謊稱打籃球時遭籃球砸中,再利用原有的鼻中膈彎曲舊疾接受治療;洪女則在山林風景區故意滑倒。兩人另多次假造受傷事故,合計詐得逾五九〇萬元。

廖上華則在宮廟及工作場所故意跌倒,由林祐葦在其傷處塗抹泥巴,藉此營造傷勢嚴重的外觀,並要求醫師使用高價醫材,詐得逾五六二萬元;另一名成員柳青誼則自行摔下階梯、在火鍋店佯裝跌倒,並偽刻店章、製作不實請假單申領薪資損失,連同其他假事故詐得近五百萬元。

其餘成員另安排假車禍,事前勘查路線、確認車輛及穿著,再駕車故意與同夥所騎機車發生碰撞;也有人割傷膝蓋、假裝跛腳誇大病情。檢方偵結後,依三人以上共同詐欺取財、行使偽造私文書等罪起訴十人,並聲請追沒犯罪所得。

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盧提在野大聯盟 引爆藍小雞危機感
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盧秀燕(左)與江啟臣(右)為無黨籍市議員參選人站台,讓基層加深危機感。(記者歐素美攝)

黨內大咖為他黨參選人站台 基層要求黨中央處理

年底大選進入倒數七十四天,國民黨台中市長盧秀燕提出「在野大聯盟」,台北市長蔣萬安也表示認同,兩人及國民黨台南市長參選人謝龍介近日分別為民眾黨及無黨籍議員參選人站台,引發藍營小雞不滿及危機感,要求黨中央處理;在「竹北藍白分」後,後續效應正逐漸發酵。

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竹北藍白分 後續效應發酵

藍白因為新竹縣竹北市長選舉產生嫌隙,藍營大咖為避免影響外溢,紛紛跑到外縣市輔選非國民黨的市議員參選人,台中市長盧秀燕及國民黨台中市長參選人江啟臣前天為台中市無黨籍市議員徐瑄灃站台;謝龍介也在前天為民眾黨中市西屯區市議員參選人劉芩妤站台;台北市長蔣萬安本月十二日出席民眾黨台北市議員張志豪競選總部成立大會,民眾黨主席黃國昌及北市議員參選人都到場。這些動作都讓選情吃緊的國民黨議員參選人心驚驚,甚至有藍營基層質疑是「胡亂舞」(亂搞)。

有中市藍營議員不滿指出,國民黨中市黨部主委蘇柏興十一日發給黨員及黨公職公開信,要求不得為非國民黨提名的參選人站台,但是從外縣市國民黨「大咖」來為他黨輔選,市黨部能否約束?國民黨中市西屯區市議員楊大鋐更直指「中央有藍白合,但是基層沒有藍白合」。

藍議員:基層沒有藍白合

對此,國民黨中市黨部副主委陳明振表示,盧秀燕是現任市長,若到其他縣市為白營市議員助選,黨部無權干涉,但是若是在台中市為其他政黨輔選,因為盧「未來可能有更高遠的規劃」,需要藍白合;江啟臣是市長參選人,中央本來就有藍白合,但考量到黨籍市議員感受及席次當選的問題,市黨部建議優先輔選黨籍市議員。至於謝龍介是台南市跑到台中市來輔選他黨,市黨部無法管,但會向黨中央反映。

至於台北市,國民黨台北市黨部主委、台北市議長戴錫欽八月中旬表示,黨內共識是蔣萬安以聯合造勢的方式為民眾黨站台,次數愈少愈好,不幫個別議員或新人站台、掃街;蔣當時回應,一定尊重黨部安排,不料蔣上週卻幫白營個別小雞站台,讓藍營基層頗有微詞。

國民黨台北市議員曾獻瑩表示,蔣萬安為白營個別候選人站台,讓他很訝異,跟當初理解的不太一樣,會對各個選區的國民黨參選人造成一定的衝擊。國民黨台北市議員王欣儀也表示,合作要有足夠的互信基礎,否則一遇利害關係就瓦解,就沒有實質的意義。

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出席義大利論壇返國 蕭美琴:處境再難 台灣勇敢與世界同行
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副總統蕭美琴出訪義大利,昨天清晨返抵國門。(總統府提供)

副總統蕭美琴出訪義大利參加「文托泰內歐洲自由與民主論壇」,昨天清晨返抵國門。她表示,此行最大的意義在於,讓台灣的聲音在深具歷史意義的地方被更多人聽見,她也想傳達一個堅定的訊息——即使處境再艱難,台灣都將繼續勇敢與世界同行。

文托泰內宣言 歐盟啟蒙地

蕭美琴表示,她在賴清德總統全力支持及總統對歐外交政策的指導之下,接受歐洲議會副議長皮齊耶諾及歐洲議會義大利辦公室主任克拉扎共同邀請,前往義大利文托泰內島出席第二屆「文托泰內歐洲自由與民主論壇」。

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蕭美琴指出,文托泰內島是二戰期間斯賓內利等反抗法西斯主義的義大利政治犯被關押之地,他們提出的《文托泰內宣言》啟蒙了戰後歐洲推動歐洲聯盟的聯邦主義思想;其後的八十多年,歐洲從戰火中的蹂躪及極權統治的陰影走出,建立以民主、自由、人權、法治為核心的社會,正如台灣從威權時代走向自由民主的漫長道路,兩者都證明民主與自由並非從天而降,而是人民持續爭取、實踐以及守護的成果。

台灣的聲音 被更多人聽見

蕭美琴表示,民主國家所面臨的挑戰從來沒有消失,威權主義、灰色地帶威脅,以及以武力或脅迫圖謀改變現狀的挑戰等,在不同的地方以不同的形式持續出現。

蕭美琴提到,此行出發前並未對外公布,是為了避免不必要的干擾,確保安全抵達目的地,從台灣出發,搭乘飛機、坐車、渡船,共花了約廿七小時,也遭遇惡劣的氣候與海象,衷心感謝長期友好台灣的國際夥伴,持續加強台灣與歐洲及世界的連結。

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《TAIPEI TIMES》 Foreign workers for hotel industry arrive
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Indonesians who are to work at the Regent Taipei pose for a photograph upon their arrival at Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport yesterday. Photo: CNA

LANGUAGE SKILLS: One worker said he chose Taiwan to improve his Mandarin, which could make him more competitive in the labor market in Indonesia and abroad

/ Staff writer, with CNA

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The first group of foreign skilled workers recruited for Taiwan’s hospitality sector arrived yesterday from Indonesia, as part of a government program aimed at easing labor shortages in the hotel industry.

The 35 Indonesians recruited by Regent Taipei arrived at Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport under the Cross-border Workforce Enhancement Program, which Taiwan launched in January to allow hospitality businesses to recruit foreign skilled workers.

At a welcoming ceremony at the airport, Cross-Border Workforce Recruitment Center Deputy Director Huang Wei-cheng (黃偉誠) said that the new category of foreign skilled workers is “different from general migrant workers.”

Their jobs “require a certain level of technical skill,” while they must also meet requirements for education, skills and language ability, he said.

The 35 Indonesians — mostly in their 20s — had previously spent at least a year interning in Taiwan and are required to obtain at least A2-level Mandarin speaking or listening proficiency within three years of starting work in Taiwan, he added.

Citing figures from the Tourism Administration, Huang said Taiwan’s hospitality sector faces an annual labor shortage of about 6,000 workers.

Regent Taipei human resources group director Jason Feng (馮昌俊) said the workers had returned to Indonesia after completing their internships, during which they had all “performed well.”

Regent remained in contact with them and approached them individually after the new program became available, he said, adding that the workers would mainly return to the departments where they previously worked as interns, including food and beverage and housekeeping.

“Previously, they were interns. Now they are becoming full-time employees,” Feng said, expressing hope that they could develop their careers at Regent.

Regent had previously been approved to hire 37 Indonesians.

Indonesian Economic and Trade Office to Taipei (IETO) Representative Arif Sulistiyo said that two workers did not pass the required medical examinations and are expected to arrive with a later group.

He called it “remarkable” that Indonesian workers were the first to benefit from Taiwan’s decision to open its hospitality sector to foreign skilled workers, saying Indonesia was ready to supply more experienced workers.

The program is “zero cost” for the Indonesian workers, with recruitment-related expenses borne by employers, Arif said.

The IETO had already received “several job orders” from other hotels in Taiwan and was in the process of verifying them, he added.

Among the workers is 19-year-old Martin Lawrence, who said one of the biggest differences he noticed between working in Taiwan and Bali was workplace discipline, which he found stricter in Taiwan.

He also identified Mandarin as his biggest challenge.

“We have to keep upgrading our language [skills] continuously,” particularly when communicating with hotel guests who use words he does not yet understand, he said.

Another worker, I Nyoman Miyoga, 23, said improving his Mandarin was one reason he chose Taiwan, as the language could make him more competitive in Indonesia and abroad.

“If possible, three years. If I am comfortable, then maybe I will continue,” he said when asked how long he planned to stay.

Under the program, hotels that raise the wages of their lowest-paid full-time Taiwanese rank-and-file workers by at least NT$2,000 can receive a quota for one foreign skilled worker for each eligible Taiwanese employee given the pay raise.

As of the end of last month, more than 60 hospitality businesses had applied to conduct domestic recruitment, with recruitment certificates issued for staffing shortfalls totaling more than 600 workers following the required domestic recruitment process, Huang said.

The figure does not represent the number of foreign skilled workers to be hired, as employers must still obtain eligibility certification, with quotas tied to pay raises for local workers and capped at 10 percent of their workforce, he said.

新聞來源:TAIPEI TIMES

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自由開講》蔣萬安團隊集中共的三拍與四風於一身
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三拍與四風是中共官場的痼疾,事實顯示,蔣萬安團隊集三拍與四風於一身,令人扼腕。說明如下:

1.三拍是「拍腦袋決策、拍胸脯表態、拍屁股走人」的縮寫。它撻伐官員「不調查研究,憑主觀意志或經驗盲目做決定,違背客觀規律;情況不明就亂承諾,好大喜功,用空洞表態掩蓋能力不足;出問題後推諉塞責,將爛尾項目或包袱留給繼任者,自己一走了之」的惡質文化。

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蔣萬安團隊集三拍與四風於一身,令人扼腕。圖為蔣萬安。(資料照)





2.四風是「形式主義、官僚主義、享樂主義、奢靡之風 」的縮寫。四風的內核是四害「懶政怠政、權力尋租、道德滑坡、制度失靈」。

蔣萬安團隊最近以增加載運空間為名,拆除北捷車廂內,讓旅客「安身立命」必要柱子、扶手及拉環,就是「不調查研究,憑主觀意志或經驗盲目做決定,違背客觀規律」拍腦袋決策的經典;又如以建立「無菸城市」為名,構築牢籠式等形同虛設的吸菸區則兼具了拍腦袋決策與形式主義的特質;還有以提高城市景觀品味為名,濫砍樹木,然後代之以「天價又粗製濫造」形同虛設的「遮陽傘」〜,這些無俚頭施政是否包裝了「權力尋租、道德滑坡」等不可告人的違法秘密,敢請司法單位迅速介入調查,以解國人的疑惑。

台北市政府以建立「無菸城市」為名,構築牢籠式等形同虛設。圖為牢籠式吸菸區。(圖取自Threads)





根據蔣萬安自訴的資料,他擁有美國律師的資格。社會普遍認知,既為律師應該是邏輯清晰,反應機敏,具有很好的敘事能力,怎料蔣萬安卻留給社會「反應遲鈍,問A答B,沒有幕僚提供答案就顯露呆若木雞的印象」,這究竟是蔣萬安的學歷與律師資格全都是「假訊息」,還是蔣萬安如此「裝孫子」,其實是在「扮豬吃老虎」,實情如何,正在考驗國人的智商。但無論是何者,蔣萬安團隊集中共的三拍與四風的惡質文化於一身,則與蔣萬安一路走來的親共媚共立場若合符節,背後玄機有待國安單位深入瞭解,國人亦須提高警惕。

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44歲中村友理直腸癌逝!日本演藝圈刷一整排哀悼:太不甘心了
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中村友理在演藝圈人緣太好,日本影視業界人士刷一整排哀悼。(翻攝自X)

〔記者廖俐惠/台北報導〕日本女星中村友理(中村ゆり)在9月1日因為直腸癌離世,享年44歲。她生前人緣甚好,昨天(14日)經紀公司發布訃告後,大批日本藝人在X上哀悼,直呼:「真的好可惜!」

中村友理的經紀公司昨天透露,其實她早在13年前就罹癌,只是怕工作夥伴擔心,因此隱瞞不說,一直以來狀況也維持得很好。去年1月雖動了手術,但癌細胞轉移,今年8月被宣告生命倒數計時,最後在9月1日撒手人寰。

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大批電影導演、製作人、編劇等業界人士都紛紛發文哀悼,連她生前演出的作品《終幕的輪舞曲ー獻給再也無法見面的你ー》、《119緊急呼叫》的官方X都向她表達致意。導演戶田彬弘有感而發:「整個社群上全是充滿對友理的愛意,不愧是友理啊,我好感動。」

鈴木亮平、要潤發文哀悼中村友理。(翻攝自X)

鈴木亮平發文,坦言聽到突如其來的噩耗,讓他心裡亂糟糟的,「中村友理跟我是在20年前於演技學校認識,之後合作過好多次,她很堅強又溫柔,驕傲而美麗,真的是像百合一樣的人。」中村ゆり的「ゆり」(yuri)正是百合的意思。

要潤(左)不捨中村友理紅顏薄命。(翻攝自X)

另一名男演員要潤也發文,「去年我們一起演出的時候,她充滿著活力,讓現場氣氛很熱鬧。我們是同世代的演員,很聊得來,我好恨殘酷的病魔,覺得很不甘心,她的人生才正要開始啊!」

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中村友理44歲直腸癌逝!35年閨密崩潰每天哭:我想見到她
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〔記者廖俐惠/台北報導〕44歲的日本女星中村友理(中村ゆり)在9月1日因為直腸癌離世,超過30年的好友MARI悲痛欲絕,在昨天(14日)發文,坦言無法接受現實。

中村友理(左)、MARI是超過30年的好閨密。(翻攝自IG)

中村友理曾經在1998年以團體「YURIMARI」的身分活動,她的搭檔MARI昨天在IG發文,「是摯友也是家人的存在,我的前搭檔中村友理已經長眠,她到最後都絲毫未展露出脆弱的一面,對誰都還要溫柔、堅強又美麗,這位真的好了不起友理在摯愛的親朋好友的陪伴下離世。」

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MARI發文哀悼摯友中村友理。(翻攝自IG)

兩人35年來相處的點點滴滴,MARI都歷歷在目,「她好像還在我身邊一樣,我感覺還能聽到她的聲音,我好想見她、好想跟她說話,感覺去哪個地方還能見到她。」她坦言自己每天都在巨大的失落感中度過,不知不覺眼淚就流下來。

中村友理曾經與MARI以女團「YURIMARI」身分活動。(翻攝自IG)

「能夠何友理相遇,共度這麼長的時間,有友理陪伴的人生真的好幸福。」MARI表示自己還無法接受現實,希望大家給予她一點空間。

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台北市長選舉很不一樣 486先生抖藍營鐵票正在改變
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486先生(右)力挺沈伯洋。(翻攝自486先生臉書)

〔記者林南谷/台北報導〕台北市長選戰升溫,現任市長蔣萬安接連面臨兒子交換生、校園食安、鼠患、淹水、市府失言等多項爭議,民進黨台北市長參選人沈伯洋則是不斷走進異溫層,掀起網路討論。

團購電商名人「486先生」陳延昶日前發文分析沈伯洋是否有機會選上台北市長,指出在藍綠兩黨之外約34至37萬游離票是勝負關鍵,並提出7件最重要的建議,強調沈伯洋目前最需要的不是知名度,像是讓選民相信「把台北交給沈伯洋,也很穩」,同時提醒不要把選舉打成「討厭蔣萬安的人的集合」,並指真正能翻盤的局面應該變成:「蔣萬安不是很差,但是沈伯洋可能讓台北更好。」

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486先生14日晚間再度激動發聲,透露日前去超商拿包裹,前面有2個外省阿北等結帳,其中一個阿北滑著手機跟旁邊的人說:「欸,你去看王偉忠訪問沈伯洋那集,想不到沈伯洋真的很不錯。」

拿著包裹站在後面的486先生聽到這句話,突然覺得這場選舉真的不一樣了,「王偉忠訪問沈伯洋那一集,上線兩天就衝破148萬觀看,真正重要的不是148萬,而是那是藍營支持者在看的節目,下面甚至已經有人留言說,自己過去都投國民黨,這次開始考慮投給沈伯洋。」

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黃仁勳台上突接川普來電 雙方齊駁AI末日論
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輝達執行長黃仁勳。(法新社檔案照)

輝達(Nvidia)執行長黃仁勳今天出席洛杉磯舉行的All-In Summit活動時,在台上意外接到美國總統川普來電,兩人均駁斥外界對人工智慧(AI)可能「接管世界」的疑慮。

美國媒體Axios報導,在全球一些最具影響力的企業執行長與AI專家基於安全疑慮呼籲放緩AI發展之際,川普與黃仁勳日益明確反對「AI末日論」的立場格外受到矚目。

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根據社群媒體流傳的影片,黃仁勳今天接受All-In Podcast訪問期間疑似接到川普來電,他開啟擴音,讓現場觀眾都能聽見兩人談話。

黃仁勳與川普對AI發展抱持樂觀態度,強調這項技術有助促進經濟成長和維護國家安全。

川普告訴黃仁勳:「機器人不會接管一切,AI也不會接管全世界。整件事都是騙局。」他指的是近期有關AI可能帶來災難性風險的一連串警告。

黃仁勳則告訴川普:「我們會確保美國在AI競賽中,人人都能成為贏家,包括每個產業、每家公司、每個州,以及每一個人。」

然而,黃仁勳談及AI安全疑慮時,語氣比川普更為審慎。他表示,應該認真看待吹哨者提出的警告,並稱讚曾任職於AI公司Anthropic的吹哨者考克森(Jacob Coxon)勇於提出公司AI開發速度過快的疑慮。

但他否定AI可能導致世界末日的預測,認為這些說法「沒有科學根據」。他表示,如果AI公司認為自身發展已經「失去控制」,就應該暫停或放慢相關工作。

黃仁勳過去也多次駁斥AI末日論,他上週在舊金山參加高盛(Goldman Sachs)舉行的會議時說,網路安全將為資安產業帶來前所未有的龐大商機,「還有什麼比製造出問題更能創造需求?誰不希望市場對自己的產品出現瘋狂需求,甚至排隊搶購?」

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亞運電競》誤打誤撞成國手?顏慨恩和隊友瞄準獎牌
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《永劫無間》選手顏慨恩。(記者粘藐云攝)

〔記者粘藐云/專題報導〕台灣電競代表隊《永劫無間》陣中最年輕、僅18歲的選手顏慨恩首度披上國手戰袍,他分享其實過程有點意外,起初參與選拔賽並不知道是為了名古屋亞運,儘管有些誤打誤撞成為國家代表隊,但他還是希望能展現平時訓練成果,幫助團隊拿下獎牌。

顏慨恩分享,當初會接觸《永劫無間》是因為朋友帶領,覺得玩法很特別、很新奇,但後來朋友淡出,自己一度也快要放棄這款遊戲,但這次與隊友號召組隊參加選拔,起初甚至以為只是要去參加一般賽事,沒想到最後奪下冠軍,一舉取得亞運代表權。

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顏慨恩笑說,當時自己其實不知道是選拔亞運國手,「原本想說這只是其次的比賽,沒想到變成最重要的了!」直到收到國家隊發放的專屬裝備與行李箱,才漸漸有了身為國手的真實感。

面對即將到來亞運,大賽經驗較少且容易緊張的顏慨恩坦言,比賽最害怕在關鍵時刻發生失誤。他表示,在國訓中心接受心理諮詢後,心態有了很大的轉變,「當時諮詢時教我,不要一直去想輸了會怎樣,而是去想怎樣可以贏。」

談到參賽目標,顏慨恩務實地說:「希望過程都沒有失誤,只要沒有失誤,打不過也認了;但只要能發揮練習水準,目標就是奪牌!」

提到在正修科大集訓的生活,顏慨恩直言隊上的「氣氛擔當」非教練莊柏宏莫屬,平常講話風趣搞笑,大幅減輕了團隊的練習壓力。雖然高雄天氣炎熱讓他笑說「曬得超黑」,但能與夥伴們朝著同一個目標努力,依然感到非常開心。

《永劫無間》教練莊柏宏提到備戰過程,他認為,選手們有時在比賽中太過專注,容易緊張到「忘記說話」,因此日常訓練特別著重引導溝通,目前隊員皆已熟悉各自定位。

莊柏宏解析各國戰力,他認為,中國隊實力極強、打起來相當吃力,而越南隊因長期在中國職業聯賽磨練,實力同樣相當強悍;印尼則在單人項目擁有聯賽中上水準的選手;至於泰國和台灣隊實力較為接近,將是首要抓下的目標。

第一次站上亞運舞台,莊柏宏直言全隊目標非常明確,「肯定要拿前三名!大家都想拿名次,不然覺得來這裡集訓5個月像在浪費生命,一定會全力以赴爭取榮譽。」

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亞運電競》和兩屆世界冠軍劉祥合作有火花 胡新睿盼和隊友闖出佳績
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《寶可夢大集結》選手胡新睿。(記者粘藐云攝)

〔記者粘藐云/專題報導〕名古屋亞運電競《寶可夢大集結》代表隊這次找來擁有兩座世界冠軍頭銜的台美混血好手劉祥助陣,教練黃麒賓認為,團隊目前正處於最佳狀態,期盼能在本屆賽事衝擊獎牌。

《寶可夢大集結》這次由黃麒賓執掌兵符,共有6名選手,包含劉祥、秦詠期、胡新睿、郭頤碩、陳益田以及劉庭禕,其中劉祥因具備台美雙重國籍和堅強實力成為隊上焦點。

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黃麒賓指出,劉祥的母親為台灣人,先前得知亞運設有該項目後,特地返台辦理護照與身分證參賽,他笑說:「雖然他主要還以英文溝通,但很積極的學中文,擔任整支隊伍的主Call,我們的成員也因為他的加入,英文進步不少。」

黃麒賓指出,劉祥擁有豐富的世界賽經驗,9成以上的戰術決策都相當優異,搭配曾獲亞洲盃冠軍的胡新睿在旁協助翻譯,全隊的溝通與默契已漸入佳境。

分析本次對手戰力,黃麒賓認為,擁有完整職業體系的日本隊實力獨一檔,是奪金的最大對手;印尼則與台灣相當,同屬第二梯次強權,但菲律賓、新加坡、香港等隊伍實力也不容小覷。

24歲的胡新睿是隊上較資深選手,從小夢想成為電競國手,他也從《寶可夢大集結》開服就開始接觸,即便一度因家人反對而放棄,但重新回到電競賽場,他仍保有熱情,期待能在更大舞台發光發熱。

提到這次和劉祥合作,胡新睿表示,即便對方是兩屆世界冠軍,但仍樂於分享、指導,雖然兩人常因為對於遊戲的想法不同而有爭論,甚至偶爾吵到「不想幫他翻譯」,但彼此之間的交流讓他獲益匪淺,「他就像個小教練,促使我必須玩得更好。」

隨著比賽時間逼近,團隊逐漸建立默契與共識,胡新睿表示,亞運的假想敵相當明確,比起範圍廣大的世界賽,能進行更精準的戰術針對。他希望大家可以放開勝負包袱、享受比賽,「人生難得幾次能代表國家,還是玩自己喜歡項目的機會,希望能一起衝出好成績!」

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阿KEN直播模仿周杰倫!天王突現身開嗆「稀勒靠喔」 隔空鬥嘴40分鐘笑翻網友
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〔記者邱奕欽/台北報導〕阿KEN近年跨足餐飲副業,親自投入甜甜圈品牌經營,近日晚間更開直播陪粉絲聊天,一邊揉麵團、一邊分享創業日常,沒想到竟意外釣出好友「周董」周杰倫現身留言區,當時阿KEN不但當場模仿天王說話,還被本尊在線上吐槽開嗆「稀勒靠喔」,兩人隔空鬥嘴近40分鐘,讓大批網友笑翻。

阿KEN(右)直播揉麵團模仿周杰倫,天王本尊竟親自現身留言區吐槽「洗勒靠喔」。(組合照,本報資料照、翻攝自IG)

阿KEN日前開啟IG直播,主題直接命名為「來看我搓麵團唷~」他身穿工作服、戴著髮帽與口罩在廚房忙進忙出,沒想到下一秒卻突然脫口「杰倫哥在線上!」直播進行途中,周杰倫突然現身留言區,先是虧他「沒想到你直播也蠻有趣的。」接著又笑稱:「這麼無聊的事情,在那邊揉來揉去,被你弄得還蠻有趣的,厲害。」

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過程中,阿KEN還不時模仿周杰倫講話口氣,「杰倫哥哎呦!那個...好不好OKOK!」、「記得要打網球喔,好不好!」、「我把杜哥(御用化妝師)打到外太空去了!」、「啊我球拍咧?球拍咧?」結果立刻被天王本尊留言吐槽:「稀勒靠喔!」兩人一來一往鬥嘴互虧,讓原本只是單純揉麵團的直播瞬間變成另類綜藝秀。

周杰倫除了不斷留言鬧好友阿KEN,還開始觀察直播數據,看著觀看人數從200多人一路飆升,先後驚呼:「觀看人數好像要400」、「500人耶」,甚至坦言:「原來看直播是這種感覺,我很少觀看這麼久。」讓不少粉絲意外發現天王私下相當接地氣的一面。

雖然,周杰倫嘴上一直虧阿KEN做的是「無聊的事情」,卻幾乎從頭看到尾,離開前還特地向觀眾喊話:「大家再見,記得好好支持這個白痴啊。」甚至連發限時動態分享直播片段,稱讚好友阿KEN工作結束後還投入甜甜圈事業相當認真,更直接力挺購買12盒甜甜圈,以實際行動支持好友創業。

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亞運電競》媽媽還以為詐騙!打遊戲出國比賽 張淳銘盼亞運能證明自己
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《第五人格》選手張淳銘。(記者粘藐云攝)

〔記者粘藐云/專題報導〕2026愛知名古屋亞運今年再度把電子競技列為正式項目,《第五人格》由台灣選拔賽冠軍隊伍Realize Dream(RD)組成,包含鄭凱升、湯勝鈞、莊博鈞、朱堂堯、陳廣曄、蘇彬誠和張淳銘,並由本次代表隊中唯一女教練陳宣儒領軍。

《第五人格》代表隊在今年6月資格賽的4場比賽中,一局未失成功晉級,這次亞運盼能再繳佳績。陳宣儒認為,這次最大勁敵還是中國大陸賽區和日本,希望能把握對決馬來西亞和香港的比賽,努力爭取站上頒獎台,「希望這次亞運他們可以表現出最好的自己和展現自己的風采,即便是你輸了也要讓大家覺得你好強,想要他們被大家誇獎、被大家看見。」

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《第五人格》陣中成員、淡江大學的張淳銘從國小開始接觸這項遊戲,他不諱言,確實沒想過能因為這樣披上國家隊戰袍,他也希望能藉由這舞台來證明自己。

回憶起當初決定踏上電競這條路,張淳銘透露,家人起初極力反對,「我媽很擔心我是不是被詐騙,怎麼可能打遊戲可以打到出國比賽。」直到在教練與隊長協助溝通、媽媽親自到機場送機,並見證他在賽場上發光發熱後,家人的態度才從擔憂轉為全力支持,「我媽現在不僅會看直播,還會分享我的比賽的訊息,後來自己也嘗試玩這款遊戲,希望能更融入我的生活。」

電競隊自今年4月開始集訓,張淳銘認為,全職集訓的作息比過去當學生時更加規律,也更能專注於訓練上。面對即將到來的名古屋亞運,張淳銘視其為證明自己的最好機會,他笑說:「之前比賽鏡頭太少了!」過去比賽曾因過度緊張而留下遺憾,但歷經多次大賽磨練,他已蛻變並調整好心態。

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同上王偉忠專訪!沈伯洋4天飆190萬觀看 蔣萬安4年僅28萬「何博文一句話分析」
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〔記者邱奕欽/台北報導〕民進黨台北市長參選人沈伯洋近日接受「綜藝教父」王偉忠主持的中廣流行網節目專訪,影片上架後迅速引發關注,截至目前觀看次數已突破190萬次。相較之下,現任台北市長蔣萬安2022年同樣接受王偉忠專訪,至今累積觀看數約28萬次,兩者差距超過162萬次。對此,民進黨副秘書長何博文也在節目中發聲分析。

同樣接受王偉忠專訪,沈伯洋(上排右)影片上架4天突破190萬次觀看,蔣萬安(下排右)影片上架4年累積約28萬次,觀看數差距引發熱烈討論。(組合照,翻攝自YouTube)

沈伯洋近期積極投入台北市長選戰,除了勤跑基層、掃街拜票外,也透過推出「洋流」系列周邊商品與民眾互動,持續累積網路聲量,他近日受邀作客王偉忠主持的《欸!我說到哪裡了?》專訪,雙方暢談台北市政、科技治理及選戰議題,影片自10日上架後觀看數持續攀升,短短4天便突破190萬次。

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然而,蔣萬安於2022年台北市長選舉期間,其實也曾接受王偉忠專訪,當時節目影片長度超過50分鐘,截至目前累積觀看數約28萬次。同樣都是王偉忠主持、同樣都是台北市長參選人專訪,兩支影片觀看數卻出現巨大落差,就有網友認為沈伯洋近期話題度高、成功吸引原本較少關注政治的族群;也有人認為觀看數未必等同支持度,但190萬次與28萬次的差距仍讓不少人直言「差太多了!」

何博文(圖)在節目中直言沈伯洋「確實有去撼動到台北市民的心」。(翻攝自YouTube)

對此,何博文昨(14日)在政論節目《新聞面對面》中提及相關數據時分析表示,沈伯洋專訪能夠吸引大量民眾觀看,反映其確實引起台北市民關注,更直言:「我覺得他確實有去撼動到台北市民的心!」認為這樣的網路聲量與討論度,已展現出一定程度的選戰影響力。

不過,網友對於觀看數差距原因也有不同解讀,有人認為沈伯洋近期話題性高,加上選戰正熱,使影片獲得大量關注;也有人指出,社群平台演算法、媒體轉載與網路討論熱度等因素,都可能影響影片觀看表現。無論如何,兩段專訪在觀看數上的巨大差距,已成為此次台北市長選戰中的熱門話題之一。

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健康網》膝關節退化 ≠ 一定要開刀 醫揭6招延緩人工關節置換
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骨科醫師戴大為指出,膝關節退化初期不一定需要手術,退化初期可從控制體重與適度運動等方式保養;圖為情境照。(圖取自freepik)

〔健康頻道/綜合報導〕長者一旦有膝關節退化,不代表只能靠手術解決!成大醫院骨科部暨關節重建中心醫師戴大為指出,即使微創人工膝關節手術逐漸普及,手術仍主要適用於較嚴重的退化性膝關節炎患者。退化初期可從控制體重、適度運動、護具保護、關節內注射、物理治療及藥物治療等6招著手,減緩疼痛並延緩病程惡化。

長者膝蓋痛就要開刀?戴大為於網站「骨科魂」發文分享,即使人工膝關節手術滿意度高達95-99%,它依然只適合較嚴重的退化性膝關節炎患者。在那之前,有很多方法可以延緩惡化,先試試這6招,多數人可能不需要走到手術這一步:

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●控制體重

根據最新研究,膝關節退化的患者減重15磅(約7公斤)就可以減少一半以上的膝關節疼痛。美國骨科醫學會的「退化性膝關節炎治療指引」明確建議身體質量指數(BMI)大於25的患者應立即減重。換言之,控制體重絕對是延緩膝關節退化的最重要絕招。

就算最後需要接受人工膝關節置換手術,瘦一點也絕對是好事,手術比較容易進行,併發症較少,手術後恢復的速度也明顯較快。

●適度運動

強壯的肌肉能幫助分擔關節壓力。膝關節退化的患者必須依照自身的體能條件還有疼痛的狀況來選擇運動的項目,以不加劇疼痛為原則。走路散步、騎單車、游泳、太極拳、有氧體操等較緩和的運動較適合年長者。

●護具保護

在膝關節不適時應以休息為主,若一定要活動,可以考慮配戴適合的護膝。每個人適合的種類型號不盡相同,建議到醫療器材行親自試戴會比較準確。

護膝使用久了就會彈性疲乏,一至兩年就需更換,若需長時間使用則建議使用魔鬼氈型的護膝,可以調整鬆緊。前方有開口的護膝則可以減少髕骨(膝蓋骨)與大腿骨之間的壓力,減少軟骨磨損。

●關節內注射

急性發作時類固醇注射效果優良,副作用極少。玻尿酸有人覺得有用,但舊車不會因為加了潤滑油就變新車。

●物理治療

不是只有熱敷電療,真正有效的是熱敷放鬆肌肉、電刺激強化股四頭肌,讓膝關節更穩定。

●藥物治療

坊間可以買到的止痛藥物像是「普拿疼」,或是其他消炎止痛藥可以緩解疼痛,但不建議長期使用。若需長期使用藥物來控制疼痛,應洽詢專業的骨科醫師。目前已有副作用較少的藥物可以控制疼痛,大幅減少胃潰瘍、腎衰竭等併發症產生。

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網球》謝淑薇女雙重返世界第9 亞運前眾女將排名都回升
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謝淑薇。(資料照)

〔記者梁偉銘/綜合報導〕2026年美國網球公開賽落幕,WTA最新世界單、雙打排名出爐,本週謝淑薇從女雙12席重返Top10來到第9,「小鋼砲」梁恩碩等名古屋亞運眾女將的職業排行也都回升,對台灣網球代表隊形成利多。

謝淑薇與拉脫維亞「O妹」奧斯塔彭科(Jelena Ostapenko)此次美網女雙連闖3關,第4種子「台拉聯軍」雖然8強不敵第8種子比利時梅騰絲(Elise Mertens)/俄國施奈德(Diana Shnaider),由於小薇去年紐約大滿貫女雙首輪止步,積分獲得進補,順勢重回全球前10。至於梁恩碩女雙排名則從24席更上層樓,來到生涯新高20;各自躋身美網女雙16強的詹皓晴、吳芳嫺,也分別上升6名、1名,暫居42、59席。

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台英混血的葛藍喬安娜,美網打進女單會外壓軸第3輪,加上天津奏捷,女單排名來到168,同樣穩居「台灣一姊」。名古屋亞運9月19日開幕,網球賽事預計9月27日登場,經驗豐富的謝淑薇強勢回歸,自2014年仁川亞運女團鍍金之後,暌違12年再戰亞運,能否率領寶島娘子軍締造佳績,備受各界矚目。上屆杭州亞運我國網球拿下2金、2銀、1銅,成績相當亮眼。

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拆立柱釀禍?傳老翁重摔頭撞地 網轟北捷這樣做超危險
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板南線空間優化列車,圖為示意圖。(資料照,北捷提供)

台北捷運公司先前以尖峰時段人潮擁擠為由,拆除車廂內立柱以優化空間,引發民眾質疑。昨日在threads上有網友發文稱,在搭乘捷運期間目擊一名撐拐杖的老翁,在捷運啟動時疑因重心不穩,直直向後倒在地上、後腦杓撞擊地板,讓當時在車廂內的其他乘客嚇傻。有其他網友更質疑,原本上前關心的乘客都不敢擅自移動老翁,後續有捷運人員到場後卻直接將老翁拉起,未先確認老翁身上的傷勢如何,處置方式令人擔憂。

有網友昨日下午在threads上發文指出,昨天上午搭乘北捷紅線往信義方向時,一位約8、90歲的老翁在關門前拄著拐杖上捷運,「隨後捷運啟動突然加速,老翁沒站穩且沒有欄杆可以抓握,直接面朝上向後倒地,後腦杓撞擊地板後發出巨響,讓車上其他乘客都嚇了一大跳,老翁在倒地後睜著眼睛卻沒有反應」。

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原PO表示,當時車廂內乘客都很緊張想幫忙,有人按了緊急按鈕,想靠近但不敢擅自移動到老先生,只能問他會不會暈、感覺還好嗎、能起來嗎,但老先生感覺已經完全沒辦法反應、無法動彈了!

原PO也提到,看到地上他的手機還在通話中,撿起來交給附近的阿姨,和他的親友說明老先生遇到的狀況,等芝山站的站長和保全,將老先生扛起來帶下車,但也不知道後續狀況如何⋯⋯

原PO也分享,「高齡的老先生倒在地上,頭大力撞地的聲音真的現在過去幾個小時我還心有餘悸,只怪自己為什麼上車只看自己的沒有能及時先去扶他一把!很懊惱也很生氣!只能希望老先生能就醫平安無事!」

原PO質疑,「公共設施呢?不斷拆柱、拆座椅,每次搭捷運都感覺車廂更簡約了,廣告看板更大更刺眼明亮了,明明台灣越來越進入高齡化社會,便民設施還可以越來越不便民」。

該文發出後引發熱議,媒體人吳靜怡也在她的threads上發文轉述此事,在其發文底下也有另名網友指出,「我剛好就在這班車、同一節車廂,親眼看到老人倒地、頭部撞擊地板,倒地後我們有去幫忙但不敢移動他,捷運人員到場後卻直接將老人拉起,沒有先確認是否有頸椎等傷勢,這樣的處置真的讓人擔心」。

第二名網友的說法也引起網友議論,質疑「捷運人員怎麼連這種常識都不知道,重摔的人怎麼可以直接這樣移動呢」、「這超危險,是在幹嘛阿」、「直接拉起來反而會讓傷勢更嚴重啊⋯」、「二次傷害!」

在PTT上也有鄉民轉貼,網友批評「之前就說過了,蔣不聽」、「還是發生大家說過的問題了」、「沒地方抓真的搭起來很危險」、「北市老人一堆還拆鐵桿真的白癡」、「前陣子在紅線有搭到拆中央立柱跟車門側座椅的列車,進去觀察了一下只慶幸是在離峰時間」、「拆座位就算了 鐵桿到底占甚麼空間」、「而且拆那些完全沒有加裝頭頂橫柱跟吊環,變成人人練核心」,有鄉民更諷刺台北市長蔣萬安市政頻出包「老老有骨折,生生有烙賽,樹樹有水泥」。

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運動部》李洋「揮汗有禮」收攬人心享頂天聲量 改革列車還在暖機
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運動部長李洋。(資料照)

運動部成立逾一年。記得揭牌當天,賴清德總統期許讓每位選手都能得到國家支持,首位運動部長李洋作為執政團隊的招牌人物,承接執政黨的體育政見,一口氣端出全民運動、競技制度整合、國際賽會、運動產業、永續平權、基層培育六大工作方向。一年過去,運動部準備走出改革第一步了嗎?

《國民體育法》第7條明定,中央主管機關應制定全國體育發展政策並逐年檢討修正。運動部規劃116年才公布新版運動政策白皮書,外界僅能從施政計畫略知短期規劃。近一年爭議最集中的協會治理上,115年度列有依財務查核缺失檢討理事長與秘書長責任、協會與選手間參賽協議範本兩項,來到116年度卻只剩提升運動員委員會效能與選手權益的討論,並未明確指出權利義務關係,令人費解。

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運動部週年當天,李洋在社群媒體以如履薄冰為題,文中隻字不提就任以來的作為,網路人氣卻始終居高不下,尤其「揮汗有禮」9月1日推出至今迴響熱烈,依網路溫度計的閣員聲量統計(9月7日至9月14日),他在卓揆內閣榜上衝上第三名,好評影響力PR值站上80,是前十名中最高的一位。運動部幕僚與府院團隊當然清楚這份空戰實力,但蜜月期終將結束,運動部及府院雙方都該想想,運動部這位主廚該寫些什麼食譜,才端的出賴政府以運動壯大台灣這道大菜。

借用瑞典學者斯滕林(Cecilia Stenling)研究團隊的觀點,運動組織的領導人物同時面對成員與社會兩種期待,也必須以行動回應,否則只會剩下象徵功能。台灣正卡在這道難題上。我們有一位帶著選手身分與社會支持上任的金牌部長。他坐的位置,是要保障選手權益、讓全民共享運動發展成果的機關首長。然而過去一年,公開場合鮮見李洋部長說明政策方向,部內專業意見與業務執行期程也少有對外說明。若不想被定位成運動象徵的吉祥物,部長恐需更頻繁對外闡釋自己的主張與願景。

拿過獎牌的選手也會成為政府的門面。一個與台灣民主政體不同的例子,是當今的國際奧會主席柯芬特里(Kirsty Coventry)。她在2018年9月出任辛巴威姆南加瓦(Emmerson Mnangagwa)政府的運動部長,當時被解讀為利用這位游泳金牌選手的高人氣拉抬政府聲勢,挽回都市年輕選民的信心。她任內起初受到運動界看好,也陸續推出青年培力與社區運動計畫,然而多數政策難以評估績效,最後更因足協停權事件反遭運動界及選手非難。

李洋部長要擺脫象徵性的招牌地位,本月初行政院9月3日通過《國民體育法》修正草案會是個絕佳的機會。當國小體育班不再新增設班,現有班級朝社團化與社區化發展,相關的制度該如何接壤?在筆者擔任全民運動署推動社區運動俱樂部實施計畫講者時,第一線教練與行政人員最關心的是賽事報名的權責分立、專職教練的勞動權益,以及校方課程與俱樂部訓練如何銜接。李洋部長在2月份的商周專訪裡說過,「現在我作為運動部長,我更在意的是制度與環境。」對外說明國小體育班及俱樂部推廣的制度如何銜接,正是當務之急。

運動部能在台灣運動裡扮演什麼角色,目前仍繫於機關首長與幕僚的判斷。但真正要緊的,是能不能長出一個更良善的運動治理環境,這也是李洋與運動部面對例如體操協會棄賽、輕艇選手自費出賽等等爭議時迴避不了的功課。斯滕林團隊提醒過,組織必須把良善治理的良善定義說清楚。部長若不想只當個政府的招牌象徵,除了適時對外說明議題與政策關聯外,更重要的,恐怕是告訴台灣社會,運動部團隊心中的良善,究竟是什麼。如此,才能踏出運動改革第一步。

作者:林駿傑(國立體育大學國際體育事務碩士學位學程助理教授)

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小粉紅挑釁台灣人別說中文!南韓龍鬚糖小哥神回嗆爆「中國從中華民國分裂出去」
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南韓明洞夜市知名網紅攤販「龍鬚糖小哥」。(翻攝自IG)

〔記者邱奕欽/台北報導〕南韓明洞夜市知名網紅攤販「龍鬚糖小哥」因能說一口流利中文,加上愛妻是台灣人,長年受到不少台灣遊客喜愛,更被封為「台灣女婿」。然而,中國一名小粉紅近日翻牆到Threads發文挑釁台灣人,沒想到釣出龍鬚糖小哥親自留言反擊,以一句「中國是從中華民國分裂出去的」瞬間讓小粉紅閉嘴。

該名中國小粉紅在Threads發文表示,「中國台灣人天天罵祖國大陸,天天罵中國人,但你們自己本來就是中國人,所以你們自己罵自己是怎樣?如果你們這麼討厭祖國,那你們就別用中文,同時趕緊離開中國台灣省,不要待在中國的土地上。」言論曝光後引發大批台灣網友湧入。

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對此,龍鬚糖小哥見狀則直接留言反擊,「你的祖國是中華民國,中國是從中華民國分裂出去的,你們的學校應該沒有教你,因為共產黨總是隱瞞事實。」短短幾句話立刻吸引大量台灣網友湧入按讚並附和,「笑死!一個韓國人居然這麼了解」、「差點以為你是台灣人」、「連韓國人都比你了解你土地的歷史,悲哀」、「有些事情明明很複雜,但他幾句話就講得很清楚」、「我去韓國一定要去買龍鬚糖!」

事實上,龍鬚糖小哥因能說流利中文、經常與台灣旅客熱情互動,加上妻子是台灣人,長年累積不少台灣粉絲追隨,近期他的生活也迎來喜事,繼先前宣布妻子懷孕後,本月2日再開心報喜,透露女兒已平安出生,幸福心情藏不住。

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老虎怪力男李灝宇再出擊對決藍鳥 今日賽事預告與轉播
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李灝宇。(資料照,法新社)

大家早安,自由體育為您獻上今日精彩賽事預告與轉播!

大聯盟賽事,老虎到藍鳥主場展開3連戰,派出火球新星梅爾頓(Troy Melton)單挑地主強投索里安諾(Jose Soriano),老虎台灣怪力男李灝宇本季累積3支高飛犧牲打,已超越張育成2022年的2支,刷新台將單季最多紀錄,本季累積72支安打也是亞洲球員在23歲或更年輕的賽季第3多。

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至於道奇對決紅人,2連霸的道奇衛冕軍苦吞2連敗,今由兩屆塞揚王牌史庫柏爾(Tarik Skubal)出馬,單挑東道主左投洛多洛(Nick Lodolo)。

中職3場賽事,樂天桃猿南下嘉義挑戰統一獅,即將上演本土投手戰,本季5勝1負的「輝能帝」曾家輝先發掛帥,獅隊推出4勝3負的老將郭俊麟應敵。中信兄弟澄清湖踢館台鋼雄鷹,由羅戈對決艾速特,本季同樣都達9勝的兩大洋投,狹路相逢爭取第10勝。至於味全龍到新莊強碰富邦悍將,也是8日雙方「大場面」風波後首戰,就看黃暐傑力抗洋投魔力藍。

MLB

06:30 道奇 VS 紅人 轉播:愛爾達體育2台、緯來育樂

07:05 老虎 VS 藍鳥 轉播:愛爾達體育4台

09:30 馬林魚 VS 響尾蛇 轉播:愛爾達體育2台

日職

17:00 樂天 VS 西武 轉播:DAZN 2

中職

18:30 中信兄弟 VS 台鋼雄鷹 轉播:愛爾達體育1台

18:30 樂天桃猿 VS 統一獅 轉播:愛爾達體育2台、DAZN 1

18:30 味全龍 VS 富邦悍將 轉播:愛爾達體育3台、緯來體育、緯來精采

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南台灣有多熱情? 潘慧如一步一腳印告訴你
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潘慧如移居南台灣恆春鎮。(翻攝自潘慧如臉書)



〔記者林南谷/台北報導〕藝人潘慧如14日在臉書發文曬出人在屏東縣恆春鎮美照,透露恆春除了是個對寵物非常友善的城鎮,人情味也一樣濃厚,才住下來短短一個星期,就已經感受到滿滿的愛。

發文中,潘慧如表示前幾天因為家具、冷氣陸續進駐,只好開車帶著3隻寶貝陪她一起到鎮上辦事、採買,話語中,她似乎要搬到恆春長住。

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潘慧如昨天第一站先到恆春大郵局,領淘寶寄來的包裹,因為包裹真的太重,她一個人根本搬不動,郵局人員看到後,馬上主動幫她搬上車,「從辦理到聊天的過程,大家都非常親切友善,明明才第一次見面,卻很像朋友一樣自然地聊天,真的非常謝謝他們,不然真不知道該怎麼把包裹搬上車。」

接著開車到恆春南門附近,想買紅茶冰給正在安裝的師傅們,經過旁邊時聞到實在太香了,就順便買了一袋豆乳雞當午餐,沒想到老闆超級熱情,還送了她一袋芭樂,開心地跟她分享,這是在地小農自己栽種的。

老闆還說,謝謝潘慧如幫忙宣傳恆春,所以請她吃芭樂,潘慧如突然收到一袋芭樂,真的又驚喜又窩心,未來也會繼續帶著3隻寶貝,一步一腳印,把恆春半島的美麗風景、人文、小吃、古城,還有最珍貴的人情味,慢慢分享給網友粉絲。

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總獎金看過來!南投「國姓搶成功」推船賽最高喊出5萬元
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南投國姓搶成功活動,已成為全國客庄12大節慶之一。(資料照)

「2026客庄大節-南投・國姓搶成功」活動,將於10月30日至11月1日在南投縣國姓鄉登場。今年除了舉辦傳統的「搶成功推船競賽」,也同步推出第8屆「來尞客庄」客家流行歌曲比賽。兩項賽事即日起開放網路報名,至9月30日下午5時截止(額滿即止),歡迎全國民眾組隊參賽,體驗客庄文化。

國姓鄉公所表示,「搶成功推船競賽」地點設於國姓鄉民族街,賽程為期三天。比賽組別涵蓋國小組、國中組、鄉內組、機關團體組及社會組(分社男組、社女組),考驗選手的速度與團隊默契。賽事除提供參賽獎外,各組獎金依級距頒發,最高獎金可達5萬元。

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11月1日於國姓鄉成功廣場舉行的「第8屆來尞客庄客家流行歌曲比賽」,旨在透過音樂展現客庄多元創意與活力。比賽分為青少年組與社會組,社會組最高獎金為1萬8000元,青少年組最高獎金為1萬2000元。

3天活動期間,也將安排客家市集、客家傳統服飾穿著體驗及絹印DIY,主辦單位特別推出饒富趣味的漫畫風宣傳海報,盼吸引年輕族群目光,賽事報名與詳細規則可至國姓鄉公所官方網站查詢。

南投國姓搶成功活動,推出饒富趣味的漫畫風宣傳海報。(南投縣文化局提供)

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法拍屋也遭遇「房貸荒」 去年Q3創單季拍定總額新低
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近年房貸違約率低,本來進入法拍的物件就少。(記者徐義平攝)

〔記者徐義平/台北報導〕向來被視為房市反指標的法拍市場,其實也深受房貸限縮政策衝擊,尤其2025年第三季房貸最嚴峻時間點,單季全國房地拍定總金額僅35.42億元,寫下2009年第一季發布統計以來新低,且自2021年第四季起,截至今年第二季,長達19季的單季拍定總額不到100億元。

信義房屋不動產企研室專案經理曾敬德表示,近年房貸違約率低,本來進入法拍的物件就少,另外,法拍產品拍定後不像購置住宅有過戶申請房貸的時間,短時間內金額需要全部到位,因此做法拍代墊的銀行就不多,後面又遇到市場資金吃緊,也會讓參與的民眾資金調度的難度增加許多。

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根據內政部不動產資訊平台最新發布,第二季全國房地拍定總額約54.08億元,季減約19.67%、單季減少約13.24億元,不過,對比去年同期,年增幅則超過3成、約31.98%,房產業者指出,2025年可說是申請房貸最嚴峻的一年,直到去年9月1日,金管會發布青安2.0排除在「銀行法」第72-2條限額之外,才稍微紓解房貸塞車之苦。

攤開全國法拍房地拍定總額有統計以來的紀錄,單季拍定總額最高時間點落在2009年第三季、高達240.58億元,而前一年正好受到金融海嘯衝擊。但若細看2017年第二季至2026年第二季的10年期間,只有少數季度單季總額突破100億元,包括2019年第一季、2021年第三季。反觀2024年第三季至2026年第二季,連續8季的單季房地拍定總額不到70億元。

連8季 單季法拍總額不到70億元

馨傳不動產智庫執行長何世昌指出,法拍市場的拍定總額創低,除與房貸違約率不高,流入法拍市場的好貨量有限外,在房貸不易取得、法拍價格與市價差落收斂,以及對房市景氣看法偏向保守,諸多原因使得民眾投標意願下滑。

高力國際不動產業主代表服務部董事黃舒衛表示,法拍屋拍定金額雖然是房市景氣觀察指標之一,但拍賣公告後還要視點交條件、物件價格,才有機會拍定,所以無論是從程序時間、市況環境或承受意願來看,即便房市經歷兩年的低迷,但如果中間還有轉貸、轉售的機會,法拍市場的節奏很難緊跟市場變化,尤其目前市場供過於求,如果法拍價格缺乏進場誘因,重估減價壓力一樣不小。

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薔薔淚別愛犬勾傷心處 唐綺陽曝喪貓近況
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唐綺陽7月底痛失愛貓「咪將」。(翻攝自臉書)

〔娛樂頻道/綜合報導〕星座專家唐綺陽在7月底痛失愛貓「咪將」,看到女星薔薔愛犬過世影片,勾起她悲傷回憶,向同樣經歷喪寵之痛飼主說:「我們,一起加油吧!」

唐綺陽表示,前幾天薔薔的栗子走了,看著影片,好像看到一個多月前的自己,悲傷難以自抑。當時,同事們也幫她記錄過程,只是她不習慣分享悲傷,但看到薔薔影片,瞬時又把她拉回到那個時候,痛苦而真實。

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上上禮拜,唐綺陽透露終於夢到咪將,那天還收到同事送的咪將素描,畫得好傳神,「我一秒就落淚了,那就是咪將平時看我的眼神。但那始終是夢,死亡就是這麼回事,再怎麼想留,終究留不住。」

唐綺陽說,這是她成年以來第一次近距離感受死亡「對人的徹底轉變」,這個感受很特別又陌生,「我很不知所措,但幸好,身邊一直有夥伴陪伴,他們允許我想哭就哭,晚上也盡量不讓我獨處,因為有人在身邊,哭的次數會少一點,也不能哭太久,我會想顧及他人,不想他們擔心。」

因為最近太多喵、汪回到他們的星球了,多了太多跟我一樣的人,唐綺陽希望愛貓愛狗一族一起振作,一起療傷,「我們多麼幸運,擁有純真靈魂那麼全然的愛,就別讓他們擔心了。我們,一起加油吧!」

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