SD and microSD cards are the replacement for USB flash drives. Over time, the need to store larger volumes of information has led to more efficient and secure replacements.

For an average of two decades, USB flash drives, also called pen drives, reigned supreme. They allowed users to store documents for work, studies, or other personal interests, including photos, projects, and theses.

But currently, these functions are fulfilled by external SSD drives, which “top the list of replacements: they allow users to handle large volumes of information at speeds far superior to those of traditional flash drives.”

In addition to these, there are SD and microSD cards, which stand out for their “compact size, low price per gigabyte, and high compatibility with professional environments such as cameras, drones, and laptops.”

The best news is the consolidation of cloud storage, considering that Google Drive, Dropbox, iCloud, and OneDrive allow users to access and share files in real time from any internet-connected device.

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DeepSeek, the Chinese artificial intelligence app, was launched on January 20 and since then it has caused quite a stir on the market, the stock exchanges, as well as taking on Gemini and ChatGPT.

The President of the United States, Donald Trump, reacted to this launch by calling for caution, although many consider it to be a call to “wake up companies in that country that will have to concentrate on competing to win.”

The Chinese chatbot is cheaper since it requires fewer high-tech chips to operate. According to its creators, the AI ​​model that powers DeepSeek, called R1, “has some 670 billion parameters, making it the largest open-source language model to date, according to Anil Ananthaswamy, author of Why Machines Learn: The Elegant Math behind Modern AI.”

This AI is reserved in its responses, it does not give opinions, only information according to its training with data until 2023. The answers can be extensive but fast. A marked difference between DeepSeek and its rivals, ChatGPT and Gemini, is self-censorship on topics prohibited in China. It is programmed to avoid sensitive topics.

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The number of scams in electronic commerce has increased surprisingly in recent years. Hence, the necessity to intensify security measures, as well as apply common sense and intuition to avoid being a victim. Some security recommendations that do not lose validity include:

Strong passwords

Access to the different platforms of daily use is done through a password. On some platforms, it has a validity period; but even if it has not expired, it is advisable to change it as a measure to reinforce data security and prevent sophisticated cybercriminals from accessing your personal information or your credit and debit cards.

Updating your apps

If you’ve received a message that an update is available, first check that it’s a genuine notification from your provider’s app store. Then, install the update to protect the sensitive information you store and share in your apps.

Common sense when faced with malicious messages

Receiving messages, emails, notifications with spelling mistakes, without the logo of the company that is supposedly trying to communicate with the user, as well as the use of language that does not correspond to regular contacts, should alert people to a possible scam attempt. It is essential, if possible, not to open or respond to such communications until you confirm with the sender that it is a genuine message and not a phishing scam.

Beware of “too good” offers

Incredible promotions, which are often called “too good”, can hide a scam for the customer. The best thing in these cases is to make sure that the brand is really offering very good offers or discounts before entering the card details and placing merchandise in the shopping cart.

Can you avoid falling for a scam?

It is advisable that the customer carefully reads the fine print on each portal, digital store or platform where they wish to buy or join in order to know the rules of use, security and complaint mechanisms, whether for breach of contract or in the case of a scam. In addition, it is essential to know which are the local consumer protection agencies as well as the legal bodies and free telephone lines to report and receive assistance. It is recommended to keep the names, telephone numbers, emails and addresses of these agencies in a personal diary, so that if necessary, they can be contacted quickly.

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The United Nations (UN) established five basic principles for the fight against disinformation, which are based on an official document of the international organization.

The guidelines proposed by the UN this Monday are: trust and social resilience; independent, free and pluralistic media; transparency and investigation; public empowerment; and positive incentives.

The fight against online disinformation includes a review of the advertising model of social platforms and networks.

“When the integrity of information is in the spotlight, so is democracy, which depends on a shared and fact-based perception of reality,” UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres told the press during the presentation of this code of conduct.

The vulnerability of data to the promotion of technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI) has led the UN to launch this code of behavior as basic guidance in this area. The organization is committed to ensuring that these principles “are applied by the platforms, the media, governments and the United Nations itself.”

The UN has asked member states to refrain from circulating “false information and hate speech, and in particular that they reinforce measures to guarantee the integrity of information during electoral campaigns.”

With respect to technology companies, the exhortation is to prioritize “the integrity of the information, and not a business model to make more money.” At the same time, the UN call to governments focuses on respect for human rights and freedom of expression, as well as the protection of journalists, according to Guterres.

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Russia’s Presidential Council for the Development of Civil Society and Human Rights has acknowledged its intention to ban the Wikipedia encyclopedic portal, but not before developing a national “alternative”.

“We need to create an alternative as soon as possible and close Wikipedia (…). I am not calling to close it tomorrow, but of course we must move towards closing Wikipedia, because it is an ideological and politicized product,” said the president of the aforementioned council. , Valery Fadeev.

Fadeev has denounced that the portal is full of “distortions” in articles related to political or historical events, thus alluding to the section on the war in Ukraine, a text for which Russia has even denounced Wikipedia.

For his part, Igor Ashmanov, a member of the Presidential Council for Civil Development and Human Rights, has even gone so far as to classify Wikipedia as “a strategic weapon of the enemy”, and has reported that Russia is working on the Knowledge portal, based on the Great Russian Encyclopedia, according to the Interfax agency.

Although the Russian authorities have repeatedly urged Wikipedia to remove content classified as prohibited by Moscow, the portal’s managers have not removed such information, so Russia has included it in search engines as a “domestic infringer”.

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The Internet is the quintessential medium for finding information on practically any topic. According to data from the British company Netcraft on its official blog, it currently hosts more than 1,132 million web pages.

Internet users, all over the world, go to the Internet to obtain information, acquire knowledge through courses, interact with other people through video calls. The immediacy of the interaction has led to an increase in unique domains, which is around 270 million.

Added to this growth are the servers, which account for 12,156,700, where Cloudflare stands out from first to third place, with a market share of 21.64 %, Apache with 21.40% and nginx, with 21.20.

These figures translate into control of the Internet at the hands of three web servers that power almost two-thirds of the million most trafficked sites in the world.

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Meta has sent a statement to Facebook users announcing that all profile information relating to the fields “Interested in” (the user’s sexual orientation), religious point of view and family information will be removed. political affiliation, on December 1st.

Entering personal data in the profile such as sexual orientation, religious belief and political affiliation is an option offered by the platform, as are other fields such as contact data, studies or the status of the personal relationship. However, the company decided to eliminate this information, which, until now, is found in the contact and basic information section.

In the Meta statement, it is detailed that the user will be able to download a copy of this information before it is permanently removed from the social network, which will occur on December 1st. Likewise, it ensures that the rest of the details will continue to be present in the profile along with the rest of the basic contact information.

The decision made by the company affects the control of users’ privacy, since it is a major concern for the company. In this sense, the elimination of this data joins other decisions related to privacy, such as private chats and increased security.

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To strengthen the business skills and business management of Venezuelan micro, small and medium-sized companies, Bancamiga began on October 27 the pre-registration period for the En Marcha Digital training program, which will take place between November 21 and March 3 next year.

Among the conditions to participate is to be an innovative microenterprise that is active, preferably with less than a year of operation. It is also essential that their owners have approximately two hours a week to participate in training and counseling sessions, and have basic technological resources such as the internet, smartphone or computer, explains the shared information.

Based on a methodology of the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), En Marcha Digital will offer for three months the opportunity to receive 100% free online training that will facilitate access to training processes, personalized advice, guides, videos and tools.

En Marcha Digital is framed in the Memorandum of Understanding recently signed by Bancamiga and the PNUD, where the multinational organization will offer technical assistance for the transfer and execution of its business development methodologies: En Marcha Digital, Ruta de Entrepreneurship and the Program for the Development of Providers, which will allow training and advice to thousands of entrepreneurs in the country with audiovisual content and technological tools.

In a first phase, Bancamiga and the UNDP will serve this year between 60 and 80 microentrepreneurs from at least 40 businesses in different regions of the country.

A fully virtual training program

The executive president of Bancamiga, Ariel José Martínez Coujil, maintained that the COVID-19 pandemic has driven many economic initiatives towards digital, making it necessary to integrate technology into the workplace and accentuate its online presence in the market, always with innovation as a transversal axis to the business model.

“The program will be totally virtual and is based on a remote support methodology promoted by this international organization, through the innovation of the business model and its digital transformation. It seeks to help small businesses adapt to an increasingly changing environment, promote electronic commerce and prepare to be more competitive in a world where digital is becoming more and more important,” he said.

The training is divided into a first theoretical component that includes four sessions of 16 hours per week. The second is made up of personalized consulting practices, where each of the participants applies the methodological tools in a real way simultaneously with the theoretical part. Two hours of weekly accompaniment is foreseen.

To participate click on the following link: https://forms.gle/2srhkhxctYKJ68Cb9 before November 11. Seats are limited.

With the start of En Marcha Digital, Bancamiga, one of the main institutions of the national banking system, ratifies its commitment to accompany and promote the productive development of the country.

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Scientists Maxwell Murialdo and Jonathan L. Belof, from the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California, confirmed the design of a stablecoin that they have called Electricity Stablecoin (E-Stablecoin) and that would transmit energy as a form of information.

The researchers decided to combine “statistical mechanics and information theory” to create this new virtual currency. The innovation will facilitate the transmission of “electricity without physical cables or network.

The value of the stablecoin, linked to a physical asset such as electricity, will depend entirely on the utility granted to it and will be minted “through the contribution of a kilowatt-hour of electricity, plus a commission.

Electricity Stablecoin could be used in transactions just like the other stablecoins in the crypto market or “the energy could be extracted by burning it, also in exchange for a fee.”

Smart contracts control the process

It is the first time a “hard-pegged” stablecoin, which can be traded “directly for a specific amount of a physical asset”. In the opinion of the researchers, electricity has both a fairly stable price and demand in the markets.

Furthermore, the electricity that would be used to mint the currency would be sustainable. “Investors could mint E-Stablecoin in regions where electricity prices are low, and burn the tokens where electricity is more expensive.”

With E-Stablecoin no “trusted centralized authority is required to hold or disburse the asset” because the entire process is designed to be controlled via smart contracts, with a decentralized data storage cloud.

Researchers Murialdo and Belof described their creation “as a proof of concept” and admit that further advances are required for an E-Stablecoin that works with greater “speed, transfer entropy and scalability of information engines”.

Additionally, they admit the need to optimize cloud storage or look for an alternative, however, their research has impact and theoretical implications, especially for the value that cryptocurrencies obtain.

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A series of regulations related to telecommunications, information technologies, the radio spectrum and cyberspace came into effect this week in Cuba.

In the Ordinary Official Gazette No. 92 of 2021, Decree-Law 35/21 of Telecommunications, Information and Communication Technologies and the Use of the Radioelectric Spectrum is included.

This includes a legal standard of superior rank, thus being the first to be applied in the Cuban nation. Thanks to the regulations, there will be greater coherence and ordering in the current regulatory framework.

The new legal instruments also include:

• Decree 42/21 that approves the General Regulation of Telecommunications and Information and Communication Technologies.
• Decree 43/21 Regulation on the Use of the Radioelectric Spectrum.
• Resolution 105 Regulation on the National Action Model for Response to Cybersecurity Incidents.
• Resolution 107 of 2021 Regulations for the Use of Radiocommunication Satellite Services.
• Resolution 108 of 2021 Regulation of Interconnection, Access and Essential Installations of Telecommunications Networks

The director of regulations of the Ministry of Communications (Mincom), Wilfredo López, stressed that his objectives are to satisfy the general needs of the State, especially those related to security and national and civil defense in telecommunications matters.

Likewise, it guarantees development and technological convergence and prioritizes the implementation of broadband networks, while defending the interests of citizens and ensuring access to services and constitutional rights; in particular the principle of equality, privacy and secrecy in communications.

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