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Orçamento para 2027: há razões para desconfiar das previsões do Governo?

Mais emprego, inflação a abrandar e contas públicas equilibradas. É este o cenário traçado pelo Governo para 2027. Mas a Unidade Técnica de Apoio Orçamental já levantou dúvidas sobre algumas das previsões. O que pode falhar nas contas do Estado para o próximo ano? Saiba mais, neste episódio do Economia dia a dia, podcast diário do Expresso

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A.I. and Its Dangers Are Embedded In the Midterm Elections

The midterms are the first elections in which artificial intelligence is integrated into every major social media platform. Efforts to blunt its harms are uneven.

© Nicole Craine for The New York Times

One in five voters plans to use A.I. to look into a race on their ballot, according a survey released this month by the American Association of Political Consultants.
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U.S. and Israel Draw Up Plans for Renewed Strikes on Iran After Elections

Renewed hostilities might not be any more successful than the war’s first phase, and President Trump has repeatedly canceled plans for a return to major combat.

© Arash Khamooshi/Polaris for The New York Times

A site of a U.S.-Israeli airstrike in Tehran in March.
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Tesla e SpaceX juntas? Musk admite fusão que juntaria negócios avaliados em €3 biliões

Elon Musk revelou que a Tesla e a SpaceX estão a estudar uma fusão. As duas empresas valem, juntas, dez vezes o PIB português. A operação poderia reforçar o controlo de Musk sobre a Tesla: atualmente, o empresário controla cerca de 84% dos votos na SpaceX, graças a ações com direitos de voto reforçados, mas apenas cerca de 20% na fabricante automóvel, segundo o FT

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A student protest movement has gripped Serbia for two years. This weekend it will try to take power

Unorthodox campaign is challenging the ruling party’s 14-year reign with a bold democratic experiment

On a cool autumn evening, a team of Serbian student volunteers went canvassing in the housing estates of Krnjača, a Belgrade suburb. They were equipped with lanyards emblazoned with the word “victory”, a stock list of questions and a mobile app that mapped visited homes and the level of support in each.

The volunteers were part of a mass student movement, Student List, that has rocked Serbia with two years of constant protests. On Sunday, the group will represent the most serious challenge Aleksandar Vučić has faced in his 12 increasingly authoritarian years in power, by putting forward their own candidates in parliamentary elections.

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© Photograph: Marko Đurica/Reuters

© Photograph: Marko Đurica/Reuters

© Photograph: Marko Đurica/Reuters

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Are People Who Are Concerned About Illegal Immigration Welcome in the Church of England?

When CofE bishops in London read in a Left-wing rag that anti-small boat activists were attending church, they immediately released a statement. Where are all the statements about Left-wing activists, wonders Julian Mann.

The post Are People Who Are Concerned About Illegal Immigration Welcome in the Church of England? appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

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