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Warning of ‘new Cold War’ with China as Xi secretly prepares ‘biggest military build-up in HISTORY’
FOREIGN Secretary James Cleverly will reportedly warn of a new Cold War with China as he urges Beijing to come clean about its “biggest military build-up in peacetime”.
In a set-piece address to be delivered at Mansion House in London today, he will urge Beijing to be open about its intent behind its military expansion, the Telegraph reported.
China is said to be building up its military forces and is expected to have 1,500 nuclear warheads by 2035[/caption]
Foreign Secretary James Cleverly, seen here in March, will air his concerns in a Mansion House speech today[/caption]
However, Mr Cleverly will also argue Britain must continue to engage with China and it would be a betrayal of British interests to isolate the nation.
He will say: “At this moment, China is carrying out the biggest military build-up in peacetime history.
“I urge China to be equally open about the doctrine and intent behind its military expansion, because transparency is surely in everyone’s interests and secrecy can only increase the risk of tragic miscalculation.”
He will add: “It would be clear and easy – perhaps even satisfying – for me to declare a new Cold War and say that our goal is to isolate China.”
“Clear, easy, satisfying – and wrong. Because it would be a betrayal of our national interest and a wilful misunderstanding of the modern world.”
China is expanding its nuclear missile silos and the Pentagon believes at current pace it will probably have a stockpile of 1,500 nuclear warheads by 2035.
The speech comes amid growing tensions with Beijing over fears it will launch a bid to take over Taiwan, just as Russia has tried to do in Ukraine.
Earlier this month, experts raised fears China had been cutting Taiwan’s internet cables as part of a “dry run” in attempts to terrorise the country ahead of a possible invasion.
Beijing has been accused of deploying its “dark fleet” of spy ships disguised as cargo vessels or fishing boats to carry out the attacks.
The self-governing island is regarded by China as being part of its territory and has vowed to re-unite it with the mainland by force if necessary.
Recent months have seen an upsurge in Chinese military activity around Taiwan with warplanes and ships simulating sealing it off.
But beneath the radar and away from its bellicose threats and sabre rattling, China has been preparing the ground for the isolation and ultimate capture of Taiwan.
Residents of the Taiwanese islands of Matsu, which are just 10 miles from the mainland, recently found that the internet cables connecting to Taiwan proper had been cut – again.
A Chinese fishing boat and a cargo ship seen lurking in the area were fingered as suspects for what would have been the 27th such incident.
Rick Fisher, an expert on China’s military from the International Assessment and Strategy Center, said the cutting internet cables is a key part of any invasion strategy.
“In order to achieve an effective blockade of Taiwan and to maximize psychological pressure to force an early surrender, the severing of undersea communication cables would be a very high priority for the early stages of a Chinese invasion.
“Any pre-war cutting of undersea communication cables to Taiwan’s offshore islands would constitute practice for the People’s Liberation Army.
“There is considerable military value for China in cutting undersea communication cables from Taiwan’s offshore islands near the coast of China, as they host valuable Taiwanese intelligence gathering sensors.”
An investigation in 2021 found evidence that China’s state-owned fishing fleet maybe a front for intelligence operations.
The Chinese military’s DF-41 intercontinental ballistic missiles[/caption]
Chinese soldiers assembling during military training in the Xinjiang region[/caption]
New Ultrasound Attack Can Secretly Hijack Phones and Smart Speakers
The attacks work by modulating voice commands into near-ultrasound inaudible signals so that humans can’t hear them but the voice assistant will still respond to them. These signals are then embedded into a carrier, such as an app or YouTube video. When a vulnerable device picks up the carrier, it ends up obeying the hidden embedded commands. Attackers can use social engineering to trick the victim into playing the sound clip, Xia explained. “And once the victim plays this clip, voluntarily or involuntarily, the attacker can manipulate your Siri to do something, for example, open your door.”
For NUIT-1 attacks, using Siri, the answer is yes. The boffins found they could control an iPhone’s volume so that a silent instruction to Siri generates an inaudible response. The other three voice assistants — Google’s, Cortana, and Alexa — are still susceptible to the attacks, but for NUIT-1, the technique can’t silence devices’ response so the victim may notice shenanigans are afoot. It’s also worth noting that the length of malicious commands must be below 77 milliseconds — that’s the average reaction time for the four voice assistants across multiple devices.
In a NUIT-2 attack, the attacker exploits the speaker on one device to attack the microphone and associated voice assistant of a second device. These attacks aren’t limited by the 77-millisecond window and thus give the attacker a broader range of possible action commands. An attacker could use this scenario during Zooms meeting, for example: if an attendee unmutes themself, and their phone is placed next to their computer, an attacker could use an embedded attack signal to attack that attendees phone. The researchers will publish their research and demonstrate the NUIT attacks at the USENIX Security Symposium in August.
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I’m a nurse – nobody knows what I’m secretly wearing under my scrubs but some say I don’t need it
A NURSE has shared that she is hiding something sneaky underneath her uniform, and people are saying that she doesn’t even need it.
Taking to social media, she revealed what’s under her scrubs.
“I wear my corset waist trainer under my scrubs and you CANNOT TELL!!!” she (@jboss7691) wrote in her video.
She spun around to show her curvy body.
Her waist was snatched.
“Before/after work!!!!” she added.
People left her loads of compliments in the comments section.
“Looks like you don’t even need it. Absolutely beautiful,” one person wrote.
“I never knew ladies this beautiful existed still, natural beauty is greatly appreciated!” added another.
“You’re very pretty,” said a third.
“It’s another job to look good.”
“I was too busy trying to look into your eyes, damn you beautiful.”
“Perfection.”
“Only thing I know there’s no ring on your finger, howwww are youuuu doing?” a final person questioned, hoping to tie the knot.
Microsoft Has Been Secretly Testing Its Bing Chatbot ‘Sydney’ For Years
“This is an experimental AI-powered Chat on Bing.com,” read a disclaimer inside the 2021 interface that was added before an early version of Sydney would start replying to users. Some Bing users in India and China spotted the Sydney bot in the first half of 2021 before others noticed it would identify itself as Sydney in late 2021. All of this was years after Microsoft started testing basic chatbots in Bing in 2017. The initial Bing bots used AI techniques that Microsoft had been using in Office and Bing for years and machine reading comprehension that isn’t as powerful as what exists in OpenAI’s GPT models today. These bots were created in 2017 in a broad Microsoft effort to move its Bing search engine to a more conversational model.
Microsoft made several improvements to its Bing bots between 2017 and 2021, including moving away from individual bots for websites and toward the idea of a single AI-powered bot, Sydney, that would answer general queries on Bing. Sources familiar with Microsoft’s early Bing chatbot work tell The Verge that the initial iterations of Sydney had far less personality until late last year. OpenAI shared its next-generation GPT model with Microsoft last summer, described by Jordi Ribas, Microsoft’s head of search and AI, as “game-changing.” While Microsoft had been working toward its dream of conversational search for more than six years, sources say this new large language model was the breakthrough the company needed to bring all of its its Sydney learnings to the masses. […] Microsoft hasn’t yet detailed the full history of Sydney, but Ribas did acknowledge its new Bing AI is “the culmination of many years of work by the Bing team” that involves “other innovations” that the Bing team will detail in future blog posts.
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I got told to ‘cover up’ at the gym – I’m not sorry, people say she’s a hater secretly admiring me
A WOMAN has shared an uncomfortable encounter at her gym when a Karen decided to play fashion police.
She made a video “just for her” in order to make a statement about wearing what makes her feel good while working out.
Yuriariana (@beyuriful89) is a digital content creator and fitness enthusiast.
She took to TikTok to share her strange encounter with a jealous hater in the gym.
The inappropriate commentary came just as the influencer was getting in her regular workout.
“To the female at the gym that told me I should cover up,” she wrote.
She showed herself doing a single-leg Romanian dead lift from an angle that showcased her backside.
The brunette beauty wore skin-tight shorts with ruche detail to accentuate the bum.
“This is just for you,” she added.
The fitness fanatic shared her thoughts on gym-based bullying in the caption.
“The gym is me time,” she wrote. “I wear what I feel alive in. If I lift heavier and get a better workout because I feel good so be it.”
“I’m not sorry for being me and expressing myself through fashion,” she added.
Viewers of the TikTok shared their thoughts on the matter in the comment section.
“Another person’s insecurities are not your problem. You look amazing,” one wrote.
“Why she watching you like that?” another added. “Haters secretly admiring.”
“Dress how you want and how you feel comfortable forget these haters,” a third added. “Much respect.”