Há algum tempo que vemos rumores a circular sobre a próxima série de telemóveis da Samsung - a Galaxy S27 - e sobre a possibilidade de vermos um anúncio oficial durante o mês de janeiro.

Contudo, novos rumores indicam também que a Samsung pode ver-se obrigada a adiar o lançamento para fevereiro. Ao que parece, tudo depende da vontade da Samsung em integrar novas funcionalidades nestes telemóveis de nova geração.

A possibilidade é levantada no site sul-coreano Naver, que aponta para a possibilidade de os quatro telemóveis da série Galaxy S27 serem adiados para fevereiro. Ainda que grande parte dos componentes já estejam finalizados, parece que a memória RAM do Galaxy S27 Pro e Galaxy S27 Ultra continuam a dar que pensar.

Samsung considera aumentar preços dos Galaxy S27 em 2027

Uma publicação sul-coreana afirma que a Samsung planeja aumentar os preços dos novos telemóveis da série Galaxy S27, que serão lançados no primeiro trimestre de 2027. O aumento de preços está associado à escassez de componentes de memória.

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O motivo prende-se com os custos crescentes do preço destes componentes, os quais têm sofrido aumentos sucessivos ao longo dos últimos meses. Ainda que integrar mais memória RAM ajudaria a dar a estes modelos um “boost” de desempenho, esta decisão também teria um impacto a longo-prazo nos custos de produção do Galaxy S27 Pro e do Galaxy S27 Ultra.

A Samsung também terá de decidir se absorve estes custos ou pretende passá-los para os clientes, o que tornaria estes dois modelos mais caros do que o os modelos Galaxy S26 lançados no começo do ano.

Os melhores telemóveis (de sempre) lançados pela Samsung

Além da Apple, a Samsung é uma das empresas que melhor soube tirar proveito do mercado de smartphones e continua a ser até hoje uma das empresas mais consistentes na qualidade dos telemóveis que lança no mercado.

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Há também outros problemas relacionados com o processador. O Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6 da Qualcomm tem, pelos vistos, colocado alguns problemas de sobreaquecimento pelo que, se os problemas persistirem, a Samsung poderá ver-se obrigada a usar integrar o seu Exynos 2700 nos novos Galaxy S27.

Dado que a série Galaxy S27 tem lançamento previsto para o começo de 2027, é possível que surjam mais informações sobre esta nova geração de telemóveis muito em breve.

Leia Também: Galaxy S26 Ultra é uma das invenções de 2026, segundo a Time

• John Carreyrou told Business Insider that he loves the new Elizabeth Holmes doc as "a great piece of art."
• But audiences who want an accurate retelling of Theranos' downfall should read his book, he said.
• It comes as people allege that he's "missing the point of the film."

John Carreyrou has seen "You Can See Everything" twice.

The reporter, whose award-winning investigation for The Wall Street Journal helped bring down blood-testing startup Theranos, told Business Insider that he liked the documentary. It follows Elizabeth Holmes, the startup's CEO, in the 34 days before she reported to federal prison in 2023.

The film — co-directed by Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim — has inspired a mix of reactions from viewers, ranging from shock to boredom to sympathy for Holmes.

Carreyrou doesn't see that ambiguity.

"The film is a great piece of art, but let's not confuse that art with the underlying facts," he told Business Insider.

It mirrors what he's been writing on X. Carreyrou has been pushing back on people who, he said, had accused him of "missing the point" of the film — namely, that Holmes is unknowable.

"She went after Tyler Shultz and Erika Cheung with everything she had," he wrote, referring to the two company whistleblowers at the center of his 2015 story. "I was threatened with litigation on a daily basis for months on end. It was a ruthless cover-up of a breathtaking fraud, and she was at the controls."

He has also reposted a Monday morning interview with Schultz, who said that Holmes "knows that she did something wrong," and alleged that, during the film, she brought out a different device when she was asked to show Theranos' hardware.

The documentary does not retrace every detail of the Theranos scandal or the reporting that exposed it. Instead, it puts viewers inside Holmes' home as she insists that she was wrongly convicted.

For audiences, it's raised bigger questions about performance, self-deception, and whether the film's subject can ever be fully believed.

Carreyrou has told Business Insider that if audiences "have questions afterward or want more context about the Theranos saga, I would encourage them to read my book."

He ended his X post by saying he "loved the film." He also gave a nod to its early Oscar buzz.

"#BestPicture, IMO," he wrote.

• Abdulrahman Alfozan will stay jailed pre-trial, a San Francisco judge decided Monday.
• The engineer is accused of bugging a conference room at OpenAI, and he has been fired.
• Alfozan posed a risk of non-appearance, the judge said, after discussing his ties to Saudi Arabia.

A former OpenAI engineer accused of bugging the AI startup's office was denied release by a San Francisco judge on Monday, meaning he'll have to mount his defense from jail.

The Justice Department arrested Abdulrahman Alfozan on October 9 and charged him with using or attempting to use a device to intercept oral communications. He's accused of placing a recording device behind a television in an OpenAI conference room — an FBI affidavit includes photos of the device wrapped in toilet paper, and a man they say is Alfozan peering behind the TV.

On Monday, the engineer wore a yellow surgical mask and a jail-issued orange sweatshirt to the San Francisco courthouse. Magistrate Judge Alex G. Tse prodded Alfozan's legal team about the risk that he might not appear for a future court hearing.

Tse said that Alfozan's wife and son had traveled to Saudi Arabia with no plans to return, and went back and forth with Yasin about a one-way ticket that Alfozan had previously booked to the country. Tse said that Saudi Arabia and the US do not have an extradition agreement, and expressed skepticism that he had sufficient ties to the Bay Area to prevent his departure.

William Pernik, Alfozan's attorney, argued that, rather than being detained, Alfozan should be fitted with an ankle monitor, ordered to stay home, and have limits placed on his use of technology. The lawyer also said Alfozan is willing to put up "essentially all the money his family has" as bond, including a roughly $1 million investment account.

"Everything this man has, he's willing to surrender, and say, 'I'm not going anywhere,'" Pernik said.

Pernik and Nas Yasin, another of Alfozan's attorneys, cited his coming naturalization interview as evidence of his local ties.

"He was weeks away from achieving every immigrant's dream in this country," Pernik said.

Yasin told Tse that she learned Alfozan's wife had obtained a short-term visitor visa to return to the US, to help improve her husband's case for ties to the Bay Area.

Tse also asked Alfozan's legal team a slew of questions about his relationship with Saudi Arabia, including a commitment by the Saudi consulate to pay his bond and support his legal effort.

Nick Parker, an assistant US attorney, appeared for the prosecution. He argued that the threat of forfeiting a $1 million bond wouldn't be enough to convince Alfozan to return if he made it out of the US, because he might be able to earn more money in Saudi Arabia.

"There is a real threat here that once he leaves, the case is over," Tse responded.

The judge scheduled the case's next hearing for early November.

OpenAI called the recording device "sophisticated" when the arrest went public, though it said it hadn't found signs that he'd taken AI model weights, source code, or customer information. OpenAI fired Alfozan.

Alfozan's charge carries a maximum penalty of 5 years. Pernik said in a statement last week that the allegations "appear wholly out of character for him."

Alfozan, 35, has a green card that makes him a lawful permanent resident of the United States. He attended MIT, then worked at Facebook (now Meta) from 2017 to 2023. After a stint at the engineering startup Nash Technologies, Alfozan joined OpenAI in 2025.

FBI agents have already taken Alfozan's Saudi passport.

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O iPhone Duo chegará oficialmente às lojas esta sexta-feira, dia 23 de outubro, e entretanto começam a circular algumas informações oficiais sobre as especificações do telemóvel - como é o caso da bateria que pode ser encontrada no interior.

Conta o site Macrumors que o iPhone Duo conta com uma bateria de 4.883mAh dividida em duas partes, a qual conta com uma autonomia de 51 horas por cada ciclo. As informações disponíveis indicam ainda que a bateria manterá o seu desempenho original durante pelo menos mil ciclos de carregamento.

As informações partilhadas indicam que, no que diz respeito a reprodução de vídeo, o iPhone Duo pode ser usado durante 44 horas com o ecrã externo durante 31 horas com o ecrã interno.

Reparar o iPhone Duo fica mais caro do que comprar um iPhone 17

O período de pré-venda do iPhone Duo começa esta sexta-feira, dia 13 de outubro, mas há uma coisa importante que tem de saber antes de apostar no telemóvel dobrável da Apple. Está relacionado com os custos de reparação.

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É importante mencionar que o iPhone Duo é o terceiro telemóvel da Apple com maior capacidade de bateria, ficando apenas atrás do iPhone 17 Pro Max (com 5.088mAh) e do iPhone 18 Pro Max (com 5.567mAh).

Com o lançamento do iPhone Duo marcado para o final desta semana, não teremos de esperar muito mais para sabermos o que será possível fazer com o primeiro telemóvel dobrável da Apple.

Terá de esperar por 2027 para conseguir comprar o iPhone Duo

Os primeiros a encomendar o iPhone Duo poderão começar a usá-lo na data de lançamento, marcada para o dia 23 de outubro. Contudo, todos os outros terão de esperar um pouco mais.

Isto porque, conforme indica a loja online da Apple em Portugal, os interessados em adquirir o iPhone Duo estão a ter atualmente uma previsão de entrega apenas para começo de 2027 - mais precisamente para o dia 22 de janeiro.

Serve lembrar que o iPhone Duo foi anunciado em setembro tal como o iPhone 18 Pro e o iPhone 18 Pro Max. Estes modelos topo de gama já foram lançados no mercado, com o lançamento deste dobrável a ter sido apontado para o final de outubro.

É também importante recordar que, antes de ser iniciado o período de pré-venda do iPhone Duo, a Apple decidiu aumentar os objetivos de produção do dobrável. Ao invés dos 6 a 7 milhões que seriam produzidos até ao final de 2026, serão agora produzidos 10 milhões de unidades.

CEO da Nothing: "iPhone Duo é um desperdício de dinheiro"

O CEO da Nothing, Carl Pei, criticou o iPhone Duo, afirmando que é um "desperdício de dinheiro" devido ao seu preço elevado e à falta de funcionalidades em comparação com outros modelos da Apple.

Miguel Patinha Dias | 11:41 - 14/10/2026

A decisão terá sido tomada depois de a Apple verificar um interesse dos consumidores acima do que esperava e, tendo em conta o período de espera pelo iPhone Duo, a adesão dos interessados em comprar o dobrável parece ter comprovado que a estratégia foi a acertada.

Lembrar que o iPhone Duo estará disponível numa versão base de 256GB pelo preço de 2.399 euros. O dobrável também estará disponível em versões de 512GB por 2.649 euros, de 1TB por 3.149 euros e de 2TB por 3.899 euros.

A previsão de entrega para novas encomendas do iPhone Duo parece ser transversal a todas estas configurações de armazenamento. Significa isto que, independentemente da configuração que escolha do iPhone Duo, continuará a ter de esperar pelo começo de 2027 para começar a usar o seu telemóvel.

É claro que esta informação não é suficiente para termos a certeza a respeito do sucesso que o iPhone Duo terá. Contudo, o facto de terem sido feitas compras suficientes para que novas encomendas do dobrável só sejam satisfeitas em 2027 é um bom indicador que a adesão do iPhone Duo poderá estar a ser do agrado da Apple.

Leia Também: Apple já está a trabalhar em novas gerações do iPhone Duo

• Saudi Arabia is postponing the "Future Investment Initiative" conference, which was set for later this month.
• The announcement came as fighting has renewed between Iran-backed Houthi rebels and Saudi Arabia.
• The conference, which was set to return Wall Street titans to Riyadh, will now take place next year.

Saudi Arabia has postponed a gathering of Wall Street titans as instability spreads across the Middle East amid the US-Iran War.

On Monday, Princess Maha Bint Mishari Al Saud announced that officials were postponing the Future Investment Initiative, which was scheduled for October 26 through the 29th until next year.

"This decision comes from a deep commitment to our partners, members, speakers, and delegates," Princess Maha said in a statement. "Because this is our landmark tenth edition, we want to ensure it delivers the full scale, extraordinary quality, and unforgettable impact that our community has come to expect and truly deserves."

The postponement comes after a recent attack by Iran-backed Houthi rebels on Riyadh's King Khalid International Airport, which left at least 13 people dead, the Associated Press reported. Before the announcement, CNBC reported that some delegates were prepared to land in Bahrain and then drive around five hours to Riyadh.

The conference, which has become a major gathering since its launch in 2017, was set to feature the likes of Goldman Sachs CEO David Solomon, JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon, and BlackRock CEO Larry Fink.

"We will announce the new 2027 dates very soon," the statement said.

Houthi rebels have attacked Saudi Arabia in recent weeks as an informal 2022 truce between the two sides deteriorated amid the US-Iran War. In 2015, Saudi Arabia began a bombing campaign against the rebels after they seized Sanaa, Yemen's capital.

• The tech world is buzzing with thoughts about the fresh Elizabeth Holmes doc.
• From "sympathetic" to "uncanny" to "innovative" to "boring — the film is inspiring huge reactions.
• If you haven't seen it, don't worry. We're holding the movie spoilers.

Elizabeth Holmes is back on the silver screen, and the tech world has has thoughts.

Holmes, the disgraced Theranos founder, is the subject of Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim's new documentary, "You Can See Everything."

Holmes was convicted of defrauding investors after her blood-testing startup falsely claimed it could run hundreds of diagnostic tests from a small amount of blood. She has consistently denied wrongdoing.

Since the film's theatrical release on Friday (it grossed an impressive $15 million in its opening weekend), people who work in and around tech have been sharing their reactions.

And don't worry if you haven't seen the film yet: We're keeping it spoiler-free.

Holmes' legacy

Audiences can't pin down how they feel about the film's central characters.

John Loeber, a San Francisco-based investor and the former CEO of Limit, said the film brought him back to a 2019 party when he ran into Holmes and her partner, Billy Evans.

"Double take. She's not in jail?" he wrote Saturday on X about the encounter. Seeing them on screen was equally "uncanny."

"I have never before seen a movie where I have personally met the leading cast. And I was not prepared for the level of surprise and weirdness in seeing their faces — especially Billy, whom I had not thought about in seven years — on the big screen," he wrote.

Nick White, a former software engineer turned YouTube and Kick streamer, said the film reminded him of "why I left the tech industry."

"There are so many narcissistic, delusional morons in that industry who genuinely believe they're geniuses," he wrote on X.

Last week, ahead of the doc's release, a tech crowd got a sneak peek of the doc at a Manhattan movie theatre rented out by AI startup Extend — Business Insider reporter Henry Chandonnet was there.

That audience couldn't settle on what to make of Holmes, either. Some said she had become a meme. Others called her an utter psychopath, while one attendee said the film had unexpectedly made Holmes seem sympathetic.

Mostly 'great,' a few 'boring'

There's a range of feelings about the film itself.

Songwriter Grimes — whose own artistic career has circled Silicon Valley — called the film "innovative" and called the movie's second half "artistic futurism."

The pseudonymous X user roon, who runs a well-followed techno-optimist Substack from Silicon Valley, called Fielder's filmmaking talent "almost incomprehensible" — but said he was wasting it on "some quite boring subject matter."

John Carreyrou, the former Wall Street Journal investigative reporter whose investigation helped expose Theranos, disagrees. He called it "a great film."

Carreyrou also wrote an op-ed for The New York Times, published on Sunday, about his jealousy around the Fielder and Oppenheim's access to Holmes — and his own worries about personal safety.

But the film, he wrote, is the "#BestPicture," he wrote on X, referencing its early Oscar buzz.

O filme de terror “Obsession” tornou-se um dos mais falados do ano quando estreou nas salas de cinema portuguesas em maio, tornando-se não só um dos filmes mais rentáveis de sempre como também catapultando para o estrelato a carreira de Inde Navarrette.

Apesar de ter tido um orçamento de apenas 750 mil dólares (668 mil euros), “Obsession” conseguiu alcançar uns impressionantes 522,8 milhões de dólares (465,6 milhões de euros) de bilheteira a nível global.

Se está interessado em ver este filme ou talvez rever, saiba que “Obsession” já tem lançamento marcado na Netflix para o próximo mês de novembro.

Nem os executivos escaparam aos despedimentos da Netflix

A Chief Content Officer da Netflix, Bela Bajaria, estava há dez anos na empresa e foi substituída por um novo executivo. A mudança está incluída nos despedimentos que a Netflix anunciou esta semana.

Miguel Patinha Dias com Lusa | 18:00 - 17/10/2026

A Netflix anunciou nas suas redes sociais que “Obsession” chegará ao serviço de streaming nos EUA no dia 17 de novembro. Contudo, não se sabe de momento se este lançamento também se verificará em mais mercados pelo que teremos de esperar pela programação de novembro para sabermos se os subscritores portugueses da Netflix também poderão ver “Obsession”.

“Obsession” conta a história de um rapaz que, apaixonado por uma amiga, decide usar um misterioso objeto para desejar que ela o ame mais do que tudo no mundo. O desejo realiza-se, mas o protagonista perceberá eventualmente que o seu desejo está prestes a criar mais problemas do que pensou.

A chegada de “Obsession” à Netflix chega pouco depois de o realizador, Curry Barker, contar que a empresa foi uma das partes interessadas em adquirir o filme de terror.

Netflix falhou aquisição de “Obsession”

Barker recordou em entrevista para o podcast Q with Tom Power que, quando o filme estreou no Festival Internacional de Cinema de Toronto (TIFF) em setembro de 2025, chegou a ser equacionada a hipótese de não lançar o filme nas salas de cinema e apenas no streaming através da Netflix.

Barker recorda que o público do festival reagiu de forma positiva à exibição de “Obsession”, mas que ainda tinha ficado com dúvidas se o público de diferentes mercados teria o mesmo tipo de opinião.

Os 11 filmes da Netflix que mereciam ser vistos no cinema

A Netflix tem produzido diversos filmes originais, mas alguns deles poderiam ter tido uma estreia mais abrangente nas salas de cinema. Ainda que alguns títulos sejam exibidos em cinemas, a disponibilidade é muitas vezes limitada.

Miguel Patinha Dias | 11:29 - 16/10/2026

No dia seguinte, Barker acordou com uma série de mensagens e de chamadas perdidas, com o próprio agente a comunicar-lhe que havia várias partes interessadas na distribuição do filme. Entre eles, de acordo com o realizador de 27, estava a Netflix.

“Penso que, em determinado momento, a Netflix estava envolvida nas conversas”, revelou Barker. “Lançaram uma proposta de levar [‘Obsession’] diretamente na Netflix”.

Ainda que a passagem pelas salas de cinema teve sido favorável a “Obsession”, serve recordar que houve outros filmes que foram lançados na Netflix e que também alcançaram sucesso - com “KPop Demon Hunters” a ser o mais recente exemplo no que toca a novas propriedades intelectuais e franchises.

Leia Também: A minissérie da Netflix (baseada num clássico) que não pode perder

Russian strikes on Ukrainian data centers could backfire, experts have told the Kyiv Independent, as Kyiv's retaliatory attacks have exposed vulnerabilities in how Moscow has organized IT infrastructure.

On Sept. 23, a Russian attack damaged a Kyiv data center housing network equipment for internet provider UTELS, causing service

A Microsoft confirmou hoje que se retirou de um acordo com a 'startup' britânica Nscale relativo a um centro de dados dedicado à inteligência artificial (IA) no Reino Unido, atrasando as ambições britânicas no setor.

A tecnológica norte-americana tinha acordado, no ano passado, alugar capacidade de computação à Nscale, um fornecedor de infraestruturas de IA apoiado por 'chips' Nvidia, num centro de dados previsto para Loughton, a nordeste de Londres.

Um porta-voz da Microsoft indicou, numa declaração enviada à AFP, que a "decisão dizia respeito a um único local" e que a empresa "continuava empenhada na sua parceria com a Nscale".

O acordo tinha sido anunciado em simultâneo com um investimento de vários milhares de milhões de dólares por parte de gigantes tecnológicos norte-americanos, durante a visita de Estado do Presidente Donald Trump no ano passado, que deveriam contribuir para tornar o Reino Unido uma superpotência no domínio da IA.

O antigo primeiro-ministro Keir Starmer tinha descrito o local de Loughton como "o maior centro de dados de IA soberano do Reino Unido".

No entanto, alguns projetos de centros de dados têm dificuldade em avançar devido a preocupações relacionadas com o elevado custo da eletricidade e aos longos prazos de espera para a ligação à rede elétrica britânica.

"Continuamos empenhados tanto no projeto de Loughton como no Reino Unido, e estamos a explorar fontes alternativas de energia elétrica para o local, bem como outros locais de expansão no Reino Unido", afirmou hoje um porta-voz da Nscale.

"A nossa relação com a Microsoft continua sólida e de longo prazo, e este infeliz problema na rede londrina não tem qualquer impacto nos nossos outros contratos", acrescentou a mesma fonte.

Os meios de comunicação britânicos noticiaram que a distribuidora de eletricidade britânica responsável pela região, a UK Power Networks, tinha informado a Nscale de que o local de Loughton não teria acesso à eletricidade antes da década de 2030.

Esta evolução surge num momento em que a Nscale se prepara para uma Oferta Pública Inicial (IPO) em Nova Iorque, com uma valorização que poderá atingir os 35 mil milhões de dólares, segundo vários meios de comunicação.

No seu dossiê para o IPO, a Nscale sublinhou que "uma parte substancial das [suas] receitas contratuais provinha de um número limitado de clientes com grandes contratos", nomeadamente a Microsoft e a Anthropic.

O acordo de Loughton representava apenas uma pequena parte dos contratos celebrados entre a Microsoft e a Nscale, precisou, à AFP uma fonte próxima do processo.

No início deste ano, a OpenAI, criadora do ChatGPT, retirou-se de uma parceria com a Nscale e a Nvidia que visava estabelecer uma versão britânica da iniciativa norte-americana Stargate, prevendo investimentos de grande envergadura em infraestruturas de IA.

Microsoft: "Os pacotes de leite são mais regulados do que IA"

Brad Smith, o presidente da Microsoft, defendeu que o desenvolvimento da Inteligência Artificial deve ser alvo de uma maior regulação e sugeriu até algumas medidas de segurança que podem ser tomadas.

Miguel Patinha Dias | 15:09 - 12/10/2026

• Screenshots of Vinted listings circulating on social media show products being offered for a fraction of their retail prices.
• The suspected stolen merchandise was listed after looting in France.
• Vinted told The Telegraph it had taken immediate action to identify and remove listings connected to the violence.

Resale websites including Vinted have removed suspicious listings after they were flooded with apparently stolen goods in the wake of riots that swept across France.

Perfumes, designer handbags, cosmetics and even Pokémon cards have appeared on second-hand marketplaces following a weekend of violence that saw shops ransacked, The Telegraph — which, like Business Insider, is part of the Axel Springer Global Reporters Network — reported.

Screenshots circulating on social media show products being offered for a fraction of their retail prices, including bags overflowing with Sephora cosmetics advertised for as little as €10 (£8.40).

The listings have triggered suspicions that looters are trying to sell stolen goods online. eBay and Vinted have removed some items and stepped up their monitoring of suspicious activity.

One advert on Vinted showed six Sephora lip glosses being sold for €15, while another offered six tubes of cleansing cream for just €12.

Sephora France sells comparable own-brand lip glosses for around €13 each, meaning six would ordinarily cost around €78.

Other listings included Christian Dior perfumes advertised for €250 and large quantities of make-up still in their original packaging.

In one case, Pokémon trading cards allegedly stolen from a shop in Lille were advertised on Vinted, with some still bearing their original price stickers.

Hundreds of cards were reportedly found scattered across streets in the northern French city after a fire at Le Coin des Barons, a shop specialising in collectable cards.

A trophy said to have been stolen from French e-sport club Team Vitality was advertised on eBay for €1,250.

The silver StarLadder Counter-Strike trophy was photographed against a graffiti-covered wall and listed under the title: "STOLEN RARE VITALITY CS2 TROPHÉE."

Team Vitality confirmed that its Paris premises had been looted during Saturday's unrest, with trophies and computer equipment stolen and display windows smashed.

The listings emerged as France struggled to contain some of its worst civil unrest in years, caused by anger over the cost of living and deteriorating public services.

More than half a million people joined demonstrations on Saturday, with violent clashes breaking out in Paris, Marseille, Lyon and other cities.

French authorities said more than 2,400 people had been arrested by Sunday, while nearly 1,000 police officers were injured.

Emmanuel Macron, the French president, has stepped up powers to ban protests as he acknowledged intelligence "failures" over the riots.

The unrest has spread beyond France, with demonstrations about living costs and public spending also taking place in Belgium, Portugal and Italy.

French retailers have been left counting the cost, with supermarket giant Carrefour reporting damage to 50 stores, including 20 that were looted.

'We have zero tolerance for it'

Sephora closed its French stores on Saturday evening and kept them shut on Sunday after several branches were ransacked.

Vinted said it had taken immediate action to identify and remove listings connected to the violence.

A spokesman said: "The sale of stolen goods, or soliciting them, is strictly prohibited on Vinted, and we have zero tolerance for it."

The company said it had stepped up monitoring and would take action against offenders, including permanently banning accounts. It added that it was working with law enforcement and French authorities to identify suspicious sellers.

An eBay spokesman said: "The sale of stolen property is strictly prohibited on eBay."

The company said it used technology to identify suspicious activity and worked closely with police to investigate criminal behaviour.

The spokesman added: "If we receive confirmation from law enforcement that an item has been stolen, we remove it immediately and take action against the seller."

This story originally appeared on The Telegraph and is courtesy of the Axel Springer Global Reporters Network, which harnesses the resources of the company's newsrooms to publish ambitious scoops, investigations, interviews, opinion pieces, and analysis. It allows journalists — including those from Business Insider, POLITICO, The Telegraph, WELT, BILD, Onet, and Fakt — to collaborate on major stories for an international audience of hundreds of millions across platforms.

The National Basketball Association (NBA), Women’s National Basketball Association (WNBA) and AT&T revealed the launch of the fourth generation of the High-Speed Arena Network (HSAN), the latest iteration of the leagues’ connectivity platform built to transport live game content, highlights, replays, in-arena programming and stats to fans and business partners.

With more than 68,000 miles of the operator’s fibre and network infrastructure, the HSAN will be built to transport more than 118 concurrent, high-quality, low-latency streams per game, supporting millions of hours of basketball consumption during the 2027-28 NBA season.

AT&T chief marketing and growth officer Kellyn Smith Kenny stated fans consume basketball across live broadcasts, replays, highlights, social media and NBA digital platforms. She added the companies were building the connectivity needed to distribute game content quickly and reliably, helping viewers stay connected to key moments wherever they watch.

AT&T, the NBA and the WNBA also extended their longstanding marketing partnership, continuing the operator role as the leagues’ Official Connectivity Partner, building on a relationship which began in 2018. The extension also continues AT&T’s partnership with the NBA G League, USA Basketball and NBA Take-Two Media.

As part of the marketing partnership, AT&T and the NBA will create new fan touchpoints across content and retail activations and give them more opportunities to engage with NBA stars and AT&T athletes. The operator will also continue to connect fans with their favourite teams and players through its partnerships with the Chicago Bulls, Dallas Mavericks, Miami Heat and LA Clippers.

The post US hoops leagues score connectivity deal with AT&T appeared first on Mobile World Live.

Interview: Seven months after its launch at MWC Barcelona 2026, the Linux Foundation’s OCUDU Ecosystem Foundation has added major technology companies and issued the second version of its open-source RAN software.

Dr Tom Rondeau (pictured below), principal director of the US Department of War’s FutureG programme, told Mobile World Live the initiative is working to a six month release cadence. The first release arrived in April, followed by the second version on 8 October.

OCUDU, short for Open Centralised Unit Distributed Unit, hosts open-source software for the RAN’s central and distributed units.

When the foundation launched, its members included AMD, AT&T, Ericsson, Nokia, Nvidia, SoftBank Corp and Verizon. FutureG and the US National Spectrum Consortium agreed to back it for three years with funds to be appropriated by Congress.

April release
Rondeau said the April release was mainly a rebuild. Software Radio Systems (SRS) re-architected its RAN code base, which dates back to the LTE-era, so a wider open-source community could work on it. He noted much of the cybersecurity benefit comes from making the code readable and clean.

“What that included though, aside from just good coding practices, was a basic 5G RAN that you could stand up,” he said. “A fundamental 5G with no bells and whistles necessarily but you could make a call across it, and you could have a data connection usually from standard 5G UEs”.

“That was important just as a proof of concept to get the basic bones of a 5G system out there and get people looking at the code and working with it,” he added.

It also included a significant number of interfaces based both on 3GPP and O-RAN Alliance specifications.

Rondeau said feedback on the first release has been positive, with developers describing the code as easy to use, fast and well documented. He added people have been “coming out of the woodwork” to say they have used OCUDU successfully.

October release
The latest version focuses on radio performance, led by beamforming and more advanced multi-antenna support. It also added work on non-public networks, resilience upgrades, bug fixes and support for more powerful phased-array radio units.

Rondeau said developers have repeatedly asked whether OCUDU can support non-terrestrial networks (NTN). The October release incorporated the 3GPP’s Release 17 NTN specification, drawing on SRS’ experience in the area and giving developers a platform for exploring space-based communications.

Membership growth
Samsung joined as a premier member in April, followed by Qualcomm in May and Intel in August, taking the group to 12 premier members and 34 general ones.

The premier members sit on the governing board and help drive the roadmap. Day-to-day, though, most of the companies still build their own features or are integrating OCUDU with their own products or stacks.

Genuine collaborative development, Rondeau said, is “a cultural thing that needs to be continuously worked on”. He stated the Linux Foundation had told his department OCUDU was its third-fastest-growing project.

Roadmap
Rondeau said the organisation is striving for at “least one real champion” to say it has integrated OCUDU into its products and can use it in commercial release.

“A year from now may be a little bit early,” he acknowledged. Integration in prototypes or test facilities would count, and he has heard “good rumours” about companies moving aggressively on their own.

A separate contract with Cohere Technologies, awarded by Rondeau’s office, offers another test. The goal is to use OCUDU to set up a call over the standard 5G NR waveform, then negotiate a switch to another waveform for the data plane.

In Cohere’s case that is Zac-Orthogonal Time Frequency and Space (OTFS), which lets the department test sensing and communications together. It will be built around an OCUDU-based RAN stack, which Rondeau called a major proof of concept for Cohere and for OCUDU as the core software of a working RAN.

That contract runs for two years, with completion expected around the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics and intermediate deliverables along the way. It will not be public in the way OCUDU is but Cohere has committed to releasing the interfaces back into the project.

The work also feeds into integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) which Rondeau sees as one leg of 6G alongside connectivity and edge AI compute.

Rondeau said sensing is critical to the US Department of War because it could close capability gaps and reduce the number of specialised sensors it needs to carry or deploy.

He added the US must compete with authoritarian adversaries which may take different approaches to how ISAC standards and technologies govern data management, security, processing and access.

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• Prosecutors say an ex-OpenAI employee accused of planting a recording device appears to have received support from the Saudi government.
• A federal magistrate judge ruled on Monday that Abdulrahman Alfozan should remain in custody.
• Prosecutors said that Alfozan frequently communicated with a member of the Saudi Royal Family.

Federal prosecutors say that a former OpenAI employee accused of planting a recording device received "what appears to be considerable support from" the Saudi government.

Prosecutors made the disclosure in a motion to keep Abdulrahman Alfozan, a Saudi national and former OpenAI employee, in custody pending trial. US Magistrate Judge Alex G. Tse ruled on Monday that Alfozan should remain in custody.

Alfozan had been in contact as recently as October 5 with an unnamed member of the Saudi Royal Family, whom he frequently communicated with on WhatsApp over the last two years, prosecutors said.

"In May 2026, the individual told the defendant, 'Saudi needs you more then [sic] the US!' to which the defendant responded '100,"' indicating he agreed," prosecutors wrote.

The FBI arrested Alfozan on October 9. According to a criminal complaint, Alfozan planted a recording device in the back of a TV in an OpenAI conference room where sensitive discussions take place. OpenAI's security cameras caught Alfozan near the conference room on multiple occasions, despite his lack of authorization to the high-level meetings held there, prosecutors said.

"In the days surrounding the time period that the device was installed, OpenAI executives met with government officials in that very room," prosecutors wrote in a filing on Sunday. "Defendant's conduct could pose a danger to the national security of the United States."

The complaint included a photo of what prosecutors said was Alfozan peering behind the TV where the recording device was found.

In addition to his WhatsApp messaging, prosecutors wrote that an unnamed member of the Saudi military booked a flight for Alfozan's wife and son on October 11, despite an existing reservation for an October 12 flight, which prosecutors said was "paid for by the Saudi government."

Prosecutors also disclosed more information about Alfozan's alleged efforts to plant the device. According to the filing, Alfozan's iPhone had photos of "what appear to be the input/output panels on televisions and other electronic devices in various locations in OpenAI buildings."

Those locations, prosecutors wrote, included "another conference room where sensitive meetings frequently occurred."

Other files on the phone, including a note modified as recently as September 13, listed "Riyadh tasks" like "finding an apartment and a job for the defendant's wife, as well as obtaining an ID and a Saudi passport for his son," the filing said.

Another note titled "OpenAI leave" suggested that Alfozan "was planning an '[e]arly … pick up' of the devices he had installed or intended to install and then extending his planned parental 'leave to full.,'" prosecutors wrote.

As part of their reasons for requesting that the former OpenAI engineer remain in custody, prosecutors wrote that Alfozan's wife and son left the US without him and are now in Saudi Arabia. The filing also said "both of his parents and all (or all but one) of his siblings" are in Saudi Arabia.

In a separate filing, William Pernik, Alfozan's attorney, said that the former OpenAI engineer did not pose a flight risk.

"Mr. Alfozan was made aware of OpenAI finding the device per its own filings and OpenAI's public statements, approximately eight to ten days before he was arrested," Pernik wrote. "If his intention was to flee, he would have done so at that time."

Pernik said that prosecutors' previous disclosure that Alfozan had purchased a one-way ticket to Saudi Arabia lacked context.

"Seventy percent of the airline bookings in his email since January 2021 (96 of 138) were one-way tickets," Pernik wrote.

• Anthropic is looking to shape AI regulation by pitching an AI safety bill of its own.
• POLITICO obtained a confidential draft of the proposed legislation.
• The bill would let the government block an AI model only if it poses a foreseeable, imminent risk of more than $1 billion in damages, or of killing or seriously injuring more than 50 people.

Representatives for the artificial intelligence giant Anthropic have quietly pitched Capitol Hill lawmakers on a draft bill to regulate frontier AI safety and security, according to three people with knowledge of the efforts who were granted anonymity to discuss private deliberations.

The confidential draft, obtained by POLITICO and not previously reported, marks a notable effort by the frontier AI lab to shape the rules governing its own technology as Congress weighs how to respond to the fast-moving industry.

"This bill represents the proposals outlined in Anthropic's Advanced AI Framework, which we have been advocating for with federal and state lawmakers since June," an Anthropic spokesperson said. "These are sensible policies we believe Congress should act on."

The bill would let the government block a model's release or use only if it poses a foreseeable, imminent risk of more than $1 billion in damages, or of killing or seriously injuring more than 50 people. The risk must stem from the creation or release of a biological weapon, the model evading its developer's controls or a cyberattack. The language mirrors that found in California's AI laws including SB 53, which was signed into law last year.

Leading AI labs disclosed a series of incidents this summer, in which AI agents hacked or probed websites and platforms. None reported so far appear to have caused widespread deaths or over $1 billion in damages.

Anthropic has yet to publicly back particular legislative efforts in Congress, but they have backed some state AI safety laws, including two in California. Their head of U.S. state and local government relations previously told POLITICO that they hope states will continue to pass ever-stronger AI safety laws that raise the standard nationwide.

Under the bill, independent evaluators, which would register with the Commerce Department, would be tasked with periodically evaluating the lab and its frontier models. The evaluators may be paid for their work by the lab itself so long as the payment is not contingent on the evaluations' results.

If the evaluators determine there is "imminent enumerated risk" for a company's frontier models, they must report it to Commerce within 72 hours of completing their assessment.

While the Commerce Department could bring a request to the judge to halt the release of a model after determining that it poses a risk, the language explicitly prohibits any other U.S. "department, agency, or officer" from suspending the model's development, deployment or internal use. A federal judge for the District Court for the District of Columbia could order the suspension of a model.

Over the summer, Anthropic was subject to sweeping export controls that shut down two of its most advanced models. The decision was made in a whirlwind series of phone calls between administration officials and the company's executives, worrying some in the tech industry that access to their technology may be restricted on the whims of government officials.

Anthropic's bill would also preempt some state AI laws related to public disclosure of risk, third-party evaluation and reporting of critical incidents. Preemption has been a political flashpoint on Capitol Hill, with Democrats rejecting some proposals they feared would neuter regulations passed by the likes of California, Illinois and New York.

Many tech industry groups have argued that a state-by-state patchwork of laws is difficult to comply with compared to a unified national standard.

The legislation would also require frontier labs to create safety frameworks, publish transparency reports for new frontier models, implement protections for whistleblowers and report critical safety incidents to Commerce.

Capitol Hill has seen a flurry of activity on AI safety legislation this summer. In the House, Reps. Lori Trahan (D-Mass.) and Jay Obernolte (R-Calif.) spearheaded the FRONTIER Act, which would give the government the ability to stop the deployment of risky models and preempt some state AI laws.

In the Senate, Majority Leader John Thune and Sens. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) and Ted Cruz (R-Texas) have been negotiating an AI safety bill intended to mitigate catastrophic risks. But it has faced headwinds from some safety-minded groups and Sen. Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.), the top Democrat on Cruz's Commerce Committee, who want the government to have a larger role in reviewing AI models.

Other progressives, including Rep. Greg Casar (D-Texas) and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), have gone well beyond their colleagues in calling for a pause in advanced AI development and a ban on superintelligence, a type of theoretical AI that far surpasses humans' cognitive capabilities.

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Cooley has made billions doing what law firms do: hire great lawyers, bill for their time, and keep clients happy. Artificial intelligence is scrambling that formula. If machines can do in minutes what once took an associate hours, what exactly should clients be paying for?

Rachel Proffitt thinks she has the answer.

On a toasty October afternoon in San Francisco, I met Proffitt for lunch to talk about the future of the global law firm she now leads. When the check arrived, neither of us knew how much the restaurant paid the dishwasher or how many minutes the chef spent preparing our meal. We were paying for the experience, not the labor behind it.

Why, she wondered, should legal services be so different?

"Clients have never been excited about the fact that it took us 82 hours to do something. They don't care," she says. "They just want the outcome. They want the results."

The billable hour is only the beginning. AI is forcing law firms to rethink how many associates they really need and how those young lawyers learn their craft. Client relationships are changing as companies use software to get a head start on the work they send to outside counsel. Some of that work may never reach a lawyer at all.

If tech is about to reinvent law firms, Cooley should be one of the firms with the clearest view of what's coming. From its early days on San Francisco's Market Street, it worked with semiconductor manufacturers and venture capitalists when the valley was still covered in fruit trees and canneries. Cooley grew up alongside the tech industry, and today it is as comfortable defending Meta in court as it is helping Andreessen Horowitz round up billion-dollar funds.

That evolution has been lucrative. Cooley says its gross revenue jumped from $912 million in 2015 to $2.4 billion last fiscal year. Its crosstown rival, Wilson Sonsini, brought in $1.7 billion in 2025, according to The American Lawyer. Still, the gulf between Cooley and Big Law's largest firms remains enormous. Kirkland & Ellis, the industry's revenue leader, cracked $10 billion last year. Latham & Watkins, another go-to firm for Silicon Valley, hit $8.3 billion.

The next wave of tech public listings promises a fortune in legal fees for the chosen few. Gibson Dunn landed SpaceX's IPO. Anthropic tapped Wilson Sonsini for its coming listing. And Cooley is reportedly sharing OpenAI's IPO work with Wachtell Lipton, one of Wall Street's most formidable law firms.

The irony is hard to miss. Big Law is fighting for a piece of the biggest technology companies in the world, even as those companies build the tools that could upend the business of law itself.

Proffitt came up as a lawyer under the old rules. Her next task is to figure out what it will take to build a great law firm under the new ones.

'The winner's circle'

Profitt didn't grow up wanting to be a lawyer but liked how law school taught her to think. Litigation was out of the question: Public speaking during mock trials made her stomach turn. "It was transactional law or bust," she says.

She started her career as a summer associate at Wilson Sonsini and worked her way up to partner. She fell in love with the intensity of the work, pulling all-nighters at the financial printers where she marked up securities filings by hand. She recalls the Christmas Eve when her father marveled that she had made it through the day without taking a work call. After 15 years at the firm, she left for Cooley in 2017.

Three years ago, Proffitt got a call at home that she didn't see coming. Joe Conroy, then Cooley's chief executive, wanted to know whether she would consider succeeding him.

She was flattered, but also "a bit terrified," she says. She spent two decades helping startups, including Unity Software, Procore, and Instacart, raise money and go public. Running a firm with 3,000 employees was another matter. She talked to her family, then put herself forward for the job. She started in 2024.

Proffitt couldn't have guessed how quickly AI would jolt her industry from its steady state. It wasn't too long ago that clients insisted that the technology go nowhere near their work, fearing what would happen if their data disappeared into someone else's model.

"It was clear to me then that we don't get to just exist as we are and continue to be at the top of our game," she says.

Cooley had remade itself once before. The firm's Silicon Valley roots were both a strength and a liability, said Conroy in an interview. Cooley was known for helping startups get off the ground. The conventional wisdom was that as those companies grew, they would graduate to one of the elite New York law firms for their biggest deals and courtroom battles.

To keep clients from the garage to the boardroom, as Conroy put it, Cooley needed to expand. It opened new offices and built out its litigation and capital markets practices. The firm also spent years courting Wall Street banks, says Proffitt, so that when a company asked which law firm to hire for its IPO, Cooley would make its shortlist.

Today, its client roster reads like a Kiplinger roundup of hot tech stocks: Nvidia, Uber, Snowflake, and Zoom, to name a few listings it worked on. Since 2016, Cooley has advised issuers on 183 IPOs that raised nearly $59 billion, making it the second-most active firm by deal count after Latham, according to Deal Point Data. Proffitt wouldn't discuss reports that Cooley has landed OpenAI's IPO work.

For 16 years, Conroy pushed Cooley toward what he calls Big Law's "winner's circle." Proffitt's job is to get it there.

Startup speed

Her strategy starts with making Cooley move more like the tech companies it represents.

Proffitt recruited David Wang, a former lawyer turned legal technology executive, with an ambitious mandate. She didn't just want to make Cooley's lawyers more productive, Wang said in an interview. She wanted to change how clients interact with them altogether.

Earlier this year, Cooley launched a tool with the startup Legora that lets Y Combinator founders review common contracts without calling a lawyer. OpenAI helped it build a tool for Cooley's lawyers to prepare paperwork for companies going public. Next, Cooley is working with Google on an AI agent that scans documents for confidential information before they're filed in court, then suggests redactions for lawyers to review.

There's something almost cannibalistic about a law firm building software that could eat into its own billable hours. But Cooley sees a bigger risk in letting someone else do it. In-house legal teams are increasingly using chatbots to take the first crack at work they would otherwise send to outside counsel. A new breed of "AI-native" law firms is promising cheaper, faster services.

Big Law does not want to be caught flatfooted. Firms are throwing money at startups like Harvey and Legora, and increasingly, they're building their own technology. Kirkland has committed $500 million to proprietary software, starting with a platform for private equity fundraising built with Palantir. Latham bought its own Nvidia servers so it can customize models in-house. Like Cooley, Wilson Sonsini has self-service tools that let companies handle basic legal work.

For Proffitt, the danger isn't lost billable hours. It's the missed connections. The scrappy startup that needs a contract reviewed today might need help closing an acquisition later. But if the bots take care of the small stuff, Cooley could miss its chance to build the relationship.

Proffitt says Cooley must find new ways to connect with clients. Putting technology in their hands is one option, even if it means giving away a little of the work.

"When you need the next thing that matters, the thing that you don't trust to put into the machine," she says, "how do I ensure that you want to talk to our team?"

The firm is also rethinking its own structure for the new era. Wang now leads Cooley AI, a wholly owned subsidiary designed to operate at something closer to startup speed. The separate company gives his team more freedom to hire engineers and put new technology through its paces, he says, without getting bogged down in the parent firm's bureaucracy.

The irony, Proffitt says, is that all this technology could leave lawyers with more time for the human stuff. Lawyers may visit their clients more. Talk through thorny decisions. Drop in on the strategy session to learn how their advice fits into a client's business.

Keeping those relationships alive might require a little more old-fashioned schmoozing. When I asked Proffitt whether the answer was throwing great parties, she didn't entirely disagree. "Everyone loves a party," she says.

The future of legal work

Proffitt doesn't pretend to have a crystal ball. She has ideas, though.

The billable hour? Not dead yet. She expects law firms to offer clients a menu of pricing options, from hourly rates to flat fees and outcome-based pricing.

Hiring slowdowns at the junior level? "Too early to tell," she says.

The apprenticeship model? That gets trickier. If software can write first drafts and spot issues, how will young lawyers get the practice they need? Proffitt says Cooley is exploring ways for associates to sharpen their skills on simulated legal matters, starting with AI-powered mock depositions.

Proffitt came up in an era when canceled dinners and all-nighters were a badge of honor. She's betting that the next generation won't need quite so many of them to become great lawyers. Her test will come a decade from now, when today's junior associates are ready to make partner.

If Cooley has found a better way to teach them, perhaps the old model won't be missed. If it hasn't, no amount of AI can make up the difference.

Melia Robinson is a senior correspondent at Business Insider, where she writes about how artificial intelligence is changing the legal industry.

Ninguém gosta de se ver obrigado a comprar um novo computador e, dependendo da situação, vale sempre a pena tomar algumas medidas para adiar a necessidade de comprar um novo modelo.

No entanto, até as pessoas mais otimistas e pacientes chegam a um ponto em que deitam a “toalha ao chão” e são obrigadas a encarar a realidade de que é melhor desistir e deixar o velho computador para trás.

Naturalmente, cada pessoa terá o seu ponto de ruptura mas, como conta o site SlashGear, há três momentos que devem servir de sinal de que está na hora de perder o amor ao dinheiro e ceder à compra de um computador mais moderno e que seja mais fiável.

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Há certos processos e funcionalidades que podem estar a prejudicar o desempenho do seu computador, recomendando-se então que as desative se quer tornar o sistema mais leve e ver sinais de melhoria.

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Pode ficar a conhecer na lista abaixo os 3 principais sinais de que está na hora de abandonar o seu computador e encarar a realidade de que a sua vida será bem melhor com um modelo mais recente.

Os 3 sinais de que está na hora de comprar um novo computador:

• Já enviou o computador várias vezes para ser reparado e os custos já estão demasiado elevados;
  
  
• Independentemente do que faça, o desempenho não melhora e continua demasiado lento;
  
  
• Já não recebe atualizações, o que significa que não terá direito a novas funcionalidades ou correções de segurança.

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The inauguration of Greece’s national supercomputer, “DAEDALUS” was held on Monday at the Lavrio Technological and Cultural Park of the National Technical University of Athens in eastern Attica, in the presence of Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis. DAEDALUS It is the most powerful computing system recorded in Greece to date. The supercomputer has a measured computing […]

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O sistema informático do Serviço Nacional de Saúde (SNS) está a registar falhas esta segunda-feira, 19 de outubro, deixando vários médicos impossibilitados de emitir receitas e consultar os processos eletrónicos dos doentes. A situação começou a ser reportada por volta das 10h00 e está a afetar diferentes unidades de saúde do país.

Segundo a agência Lusa, a Federação Nacional dos Médicos (FNAM) alertou para a indisponibilidade de duas ferramentas essenciais ao funcionamento dos serviços de saúde: a Prescrição Eletrónica Médica (PEM) e o Registo de Saúde Eletrónico (RSE).

A falha está a provocar atrasos nas consultas e dificuldades no acompanhamento dos utentes, uma vez que os profissionais de saúde não conseguem aceder a informações clínicas necessárias à prestação de cuidados.

Médicos não conseguem passar receitas nem consultar processos clínicos

De acordo com Joana Bordalo e Sá, vice-presidente da FNAM, os problemas começaram a ser identificados durante a manhã e rapidamente surgiram relatos de diferentes unidades locais de saúde.

“Há cerca de 25 minutos que estamos sem sistema informático e isto provavelmente é mesmo nacional”, afirmou a dirigente sindical à Lusa, pelas 10h30.

Entre as unidades afetadas, a responsável identificou a Unidade Local de Saúde de São João, a ULS de Matosinhos e a ULS do Médio Ave, acrescentando que continuavam a chegar relatos de outros locais.

A indisponibilidade da Prescrição Eletrónica Médica impede os profissionais de emitir receitas, enquanto a falha no Registo de Saúde Eletrónico impossibilita a consulta dos processos clínicos dos doentes.

Segundo a FNAM, ao tentarem utilizar a plataforma de prescrição, os médicos encontram uma mensagem a indicar que não é possível aceder à página. Já no Registo de Saúde Eletrónico surge a indicação de que o sistema não está ligado.

Consultas estão a sofrer atrasos e utentes podem ser prejudicados

A situação está a ter consequências diretas no funcionamento das consultas, uma vez que os médicos não conseguem completar determinados procedimentos necessários ao acompanhamento dos doentes.

Joana Bordalo e Sá, que também preside ao Sindicato dos Médicos do Norte, explicou que estava a realizar consultas quando se deparou com a falha informática.

“Estou em consulta neste momento e tenho a consulta toda atrasada por não estar a conseguir passar as receitas que os meus doentes precisam”, relatou à Lusa.

A dirigente sindical considera que a impossibilidade de consultar os processos eletrónicos compromete as condições em que os profissionais prestam cuidados, além de provocar atrasos no atendimento.

A responsável alertou ainda para o impacto que uma falha desta dimensão poderá ter nos milhares de utentes com consultas agendadas para esta segunda-feira em centros de saúde e hospitais.

Federação Nacional dos Médicos responsabiliza Ministério da Saúde

Perante a situação, a FNAM criticou o Ministério da Saúde, considerando que as falhas informáticas são recorrentes e prejudicam o funcionamento dos serviços.

Joana Bordalo e Sá responsabilizou a tutela pela falta de modernização dos sistemas, defendendo que os profissionais precisam de ferramentas informáticas fiáveis para realizar procedimentos tão básicos como emitir receitas ou consultar informações clínicas.

A dirigente classificou a situação como “absolutamente inaceitável” e lamentou que os problemas continuem a repetir-se, apesar dos alertas anteriormente apresentados.

Serviços Partilhados do Ministério da Saúde foram contactados

A agência Lusa contactou os Serviços Partilhados do Ministério da Saúde (SPMS), entidade responsável pela gestão dos sistemas informáticos, pelas 10h45 desta segunda-feira.

À hora da divulgação da notícia, ainda não tinha sido recebida uma resposta sobre as causas da falha ou o prazo previsto para o restabelecimento dos serviços.

Também não existia confirmação oficial de que a indisponibilidade estivesse a afetar todas as unidades de saúde do país, embora a FNAM tenha admitido que o problema possa ter dimensão nacional.

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Os últimos indicadores apontam para que a Apple tenha todos os motivos para ficar satisfeita com o lançamento do iPhone Duo, o primeiro telemóvel dobrável da empresa que tem lançamento marcado para o dia 23 de outubro.

A Samsung, com mais experiência neste tipo de dispositivos, pretende aproveitar este momento de entusiasmo com a categoria dos dobráveis e, de acordo com recentes rumores, planeia lançar seis modelos em 2027.

A informação foi avançada pela página TheGalox_ na rede social X, a qual afirma que, além de novas versões de dobráveis já existentes - como o Galaxy Z Flip9, o Galaxy Z Fold9, o Galaxy Z Fold9 Ultra e o Galaxy Z TriFold2 - a Samsung também planeia lançar o Galaxy Z Fold9 Pro e o Galaxy Z Slide.

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“O alinhamento do Galaxy Z para 2027 será o maior de sempre nos dobráveis, com melhorias na bateria, na espessura e no peso em todos os modelos”, afirma o responsável por esta página.

Dos modelos citados, é natural que vejamos novas gerações do Galaxy Z Flip, do Galaxy Z Fold e também do Galaxy Z Fold Ultra, com a nova versão do Galaxy Z TriFold a ser sem dúvida a mais entusiasmante deste lote. É bom lembrar que o Galaxy Z TriFold original esteve disponível apenas por alguns meses, com os fãs da Samsung a ficarem certamente satisfeitos com a possibilidade de haver uma nova geração.

Quanto ao Galaxy Z Fold9 Pro, acredita-se que este modelo será uma versão melhorada do Galaxy Z Fold9 - o sucessor do bem recebido Galaxy Z Fold8, que introduziu este um design semelhante a um passaporte que também foi adotado pela Apple com o iPhone Duo.

Samsung considera aumentar preços dos Galaxy S27 em 2027

Uma publicação sul-coreana afirma que a Samsung planeja aumentar os preços dos novos telemóveis da série Galaxy S27, que serão lançados no primeiro trimestre de 2027. O aumento de preços está associado à escassez de componentes de memória.

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Por fim, o Galaxy Z Slide deverá ser o primeiro telemóvel dobrável da Samsung com ecrã enrolável. Os rumores apontam para que este telemóvel tenha um ecrã que pode esticar-se e oferecer assim aos utilizadores um maior painel de acordo com as suas necessidades.

Ainda é cedo para sabermos os planos que a Samsung tem para o seu catálogo de dobráveis para o próximo ano mas, por agora, tudo indica que o mercado de dobráveis está prestes a crescer de forma substancial.

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— Anthony (@TheGalox_) October 14, 2026

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