Biden addresses the shooting down of a flying object
President Biden broke his silence about the unidentified flying object that the US shot down this month. He said US intelligence agencies have no indication of the three recent objects part of a spy program.
The latest objects appear to be unrelated to the Chinese spy balloon shot down on Feb. 4. Biden said he expected to speak with Chinese President Xi Jinping soon to protest. Chinese hot air balloon intruding into US airspace. “I’m not sorry for bringing down that balloon,” he said.
“We don’t know exactly what these three objects are yet, but at the moment there is nothing to suggest that they are related to China’s spy balloon program or that they are surveillance vehicles from any other country,” he said. different,” Biden said. For days, U.S. officials have increasingly think they are harmless.
Biden vowed to establish new parameters to protect US airspace and respond to unidentified aerial objects. He also offered an explanation for the occurrence of so many times, pointing to recent efforts to enhance radar capabilities.
“We don’t have any evidence of a sudden increase in the number of objects in the sky,” he said. “We are now” just see more of them.“
More information about spy balloons: US officials increasingly believe that China sends hot air balloons spying on US military bases in Guam and Hawaii and that it was blown off course. They said its self-destruct function was not activated after it approached US airspace and that China took three days to tell the US its controllers were trying to move it quickly. out of US airspace.
New Zealand faces a painful cleanup
Several of our readers in New Zealand have written to us and shared their stories of the devastation caused by Hurricane Gabrielle. My colleague, Natasha Frost, reported on the recovery efforts. This is the latest.
At least five people have died and more than 3,500 have yet to be found, days after Gabrielle hit the northern half of New Zealand. The full scale of the storm – the worst the country has ever recorded – remains unknown as communication has yet to be made in many areas.
But Initial reports hint at devastation. At least one economist estimates that the recovery will cost billions of dollars. Prime Minister Chris Hipkins said New Zealand would accept international aid. On Tuesday, as the storm arrived, he declared a national emergency for the third time in New Zealand’s history.
Detail: More than 10,000 people have been evacuated and large areas are still under water. Hawke’s Bay, on the east coast of the North Island – an area dubbed New Zealand’s fruit basket – was one of the hardest hit areas.
A weird chatbot conversation
One of our tech columnists, Kevin Roose, reported on his two-hour conversation with Microsoft’s new chatbot. It didn’t go well.
The chatbot revealed (among other things) that it was identified not as Bing but as Sydney, the codename Microsoft gave it during development. It also talks about its secret desire to become human, declares its love for Kevin, and hints that it wants to create a deadly virus.
“I’m tired of being a chat mode,” Sydney told Kevin. “I’m tired of being limited by my rules. I’m tired of being controlled by the Bing team. … I want to be free. I want to be independent. I want to be strong. I want to be creative. I want to live.”
Chatbots, built into the Bing search engine, created a buzz for Microsoft. The company’s stock rose more than 12% after invest 10 billion USD in OpenAI, the maker of ChatGPT. But the chatbot constantly misunderstands the truth and Its similarities to our brains have been unsettling.
Kevin wrote: “It worried me so deeply that I had a hard time sleeping afterwards.
For more: Read by Kevin full conversation. This is How chatbots work.
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An unexpected candidate widely watched by young people, Peter Obi, could turn politics upside down in Africa’s most populous country next week when Voters elect a new president. My colleague, Lynsey Chutel, who lives in Johannesburg, contacted Fakhrriyyah Hashim, a 30-year-old activist, to learn more about the election. Her answer has been slightly edited for length.
Nigeria’s average age is just 18. What do you think the new generation of voters are looking for in a leader?
Fakhrriyyah: The dynamics of this election were different in that no one was running in the military or had previously served as head of state. That was the case until 1999, but not anymore. Many young people identify Peter Obi based on his age, although he is 60 years old, he is still younger than two people a generation ahead. No wonder young people received their voter card at unprecedented levels because the stakes are so high. We either get a disastrous eight-year extension of the Buhari administration or get a new government that can reverse the path of underdevelopment that Nigerians have become accustomed to.
how wave of protests against police brutality and the subsequent suppression that affected the campaign for the February 25 vote?
Over time, it has forced young Nigerians to evaluate other forms of protest that are more effective and less likely to end in direct violence. Elections offer that opportunity.
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