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‘Forcing a reckoning’: How Asia is preparing for a ‘supersized’ El Niño

From Sri Lanka to South Korea, governments are preparing for droughts, wildfires, typhoons and floods – with climate plans facing their biggest challenge to date

Asian governments are rushing preparations for the most severe El Niño weather event on record, with hundreds of millions of people bracing for multiple crises at once as extreme heat, heavy rain and food shortages hit the region.

Fuelled by exceptionally warm ocean conditions across the tropical Pacific – and developing alongside the human-driven climate crisis – El Niño is virtually guaranteed to grow to a very strong intensity towards the end of this year and into 2027.

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© Photograph: Aditya Aji/AFP/Getty Images

© Photograph: Aditya Aji/AFP/Getty Images

Associação NEO abre inscrições para prêmio de ESG em telecom

ESG, wireless logic

As empresas interessados podem inscrever projetos nas áreas ambiental, social e de governança (ESG) até 23 de outubro; Prêmio NEO Melhores do Ano 2026 reconhecerá duas iniciativas em cada categoria, levando em conta o porte das prestadoras de telecom, e ainda terá um projeto como grande vencedor em ESG

Anatel nega pedido da Claro para estender uso de 1,8 GHz até 2041

espectro, anatel

Com a decisão, permanece o vencimento em 22 de dezembro de 2032; 1,8 GHz integra a infraestrutura de telefonia móvel da Claro: anteriormente utilizada pelo 2G, também passou a ser aproveitada no 4G; justificativas apresentadas pela Claro não foram suficientes para convencer a área técnica da Anatel

TIM anuncia R$ 515 milhões em JCP e cancela ações em tesouraria

TIM vai pagar R$ 515 milhões em juros sobre capital próprio

Distribuição de juros sobre capital próprio da TIM levará em conta a posição acionária do dia 22 de setembro, com pagamento previsto para ser realizado até 22 de janeiro de 2027; operadora também anunciou o cancelamento de 13,2 milhões de ações mantidas em tesouraria

RFK Jr. names 8 new members to influential preventive medicine task force

Anti-vaccine Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced the names of eight new members of a 16-person federal task force intended to make scientifically independent, evidence-based recommendations on an array of preventive medicine services for Americans—from depression screening to statin use, colonoscopies, and mammograms.

Recommendations from the panel—the US Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF)—don't simply provide guidance for Americans; they also determine access. The USPSTF is supposed to use a rigorous, transparent framework for evaluating evidence and sets graded recommendations on an A to D scale. Health insurance providers are required to cover, at no cost, all preventive services that are given recommendations of an A or B grade.

Kennedy has sidelined the USPSTF for more than a year, canceling its meetings and refusing to appoint new members as terms expired and members left. In May, Kennedy also fired two leaders, sparking outcry and exacerbating fears that he would corrupt the nonpartisan independent panel by stacking it with unqualified ideological allies—which he did with an influence vaccine advisory committee at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

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Small AI models let drones autonomously identify and attack battlefield targets

As European militaries adapt to the use of AI and drones in modern warfare, a NATO-backed startup is helping to deploy AI-driven target detection and selection that can run on small drones for surveillance and attack missions.

The company, Scaleout Systems, was originally founded by researchers from Uppsala University in Sweden in 2018, and initially focused on training and deploying machine learning models directly on the hardware available in commercial trucks and other vehicles. But once Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, the company pivoted toward defense applications.

“With the war in Ukraine and a shifting world, we realized that this technology can be very important to operationalize edge data and sensor data for machine learning to make sure that NATO allies have found that strategic advantage,” Andreas Hellander, cofounder and CEO of Scaleout Systems, told Ars.

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Vivo implanta solução de IA generativa na área de auditoria do Assaí

Vivo implanta IA generativa no Assaí

Para o Assaí, a Vivo estruturou um ecossistema de tecnologia que resultou no Auditus, agente de IA desenvolvido no Microsoft Copilot Studio; a solução é capaz de ler e interpretar documentos, oferecer respostas alinhadas às políticas internas, sugerir abordagens técnicas e contribuir para a padronização da linguagem profissional da empresa
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