🇵🇾⏰🕔 Paraguay adopting Summer time, probably for good

Paraguay is to return to Time Zone GMT-3 on the first Sunday of October each year. But this time around the change might become permanent, as President Santiago Peña said Friday he had no problem signing into law the newly passed bill by Congress for the so-called daylight saving time to become effective. “We do not find any reason not to do so,” the head of state pointed out.

“Sunday is the time change to summer time and based on this law, which has been widely debated, it is not a new issue. Of course, there are voices in favor and there are voices against,” he added. “I particularly believe that maintaining a time zone throughout the year ... will also help to simplify many things,” he told reporters.

https://en.mercopress.com/2024/10/05/paraguay-adopting-summer-time-probably-for-good

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🇨🇳 - China to issue special treasury bonds to stimulate economy

🇧🇴⚠️⛓🌹 — The Bolivian prosecutor Sandra Gutiérrez announced that an arrest warrant will be issued against former President Evo Morales (2006-2019) so that he can testify before the Bolivian Public Ministry in an investigation into alleged "human trafficking" and "statutory rape."

❌ The former president failed to appear this Thursday to testify in the investigation related to statutory rape and human trafficking, which allegedly involves a minor with whom Morales reportedly had a relationship.

“What corresponds now is to issue the arrest warrant since they (Morales and the other individuals under investigation) have been duly notified without any violation of their rights,” said Gutiérrez, who is the departmental prosecutor of the southern region of Tarija, where the case is being investigated.

💬 Evo Morales has claimed that the case is fabricated, labeling it a "political persecution" by the government of President Luis Arce, his former ally and now fierce political rival.

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🇧🇴⁉️⛓🌹 — The Bolivian National Police announced that they have arrested the father of the woman who accuses former President Evo Morales (2006-2019) of raping her when she was a teenager, for complicity in the acts.

⚠️ The Public Prosecutor's Office reported that between 2014 and 2015, Morales created a "youth guard," "composed of people aged 14 and 15, called 'Generation Evo.'" The parents of the young woman who accuses the former president of assault allegedly enrolled her in this youth guard "with the sole purpose of advancing politically and obtaining benefits to 'profit,' meaning to get what they wanted in exchange for their youngest daughter."

🤝 According to the prosecution, the parents obtained "all kinds of benefits, trips, [even] public positions" through this arrangement, and Morales even instructed that the young woman's mother be a candidate for the Departmental Legislative Assembly of Tarija for his party, the Movement for Socialism (MAS).

💬 The candidacy was blocked due to a criminal record, but the mother was appointed director of a government unit in the Gran Chaco region. The defense for the young woman's parents has not commented on the prosecution's accusations.

💥 In a twist for the Bolivian left, members of Morales' group within MAS announced that a woman claiming to have been a victim of harassment and abuse of power by President Arce has filed a complaint against the current Bolivian leader.

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🇧🇴🌹💥⛓ — Former Bolivian President Evo Morales has entrenched himself in his cocalero stronghold in Chapare after declaring himself a "political persecuted" and stated that he will have the support of allies to resist arrest attempts related to the accusation of raping a teenager.

🤝 Evo also mentioned that he could rely on assistance and asylum from neighboring and allied countries, though he did not specify which ones.

🌐📍🛰️📶 Google Will Track Your Location ‘Every 15 Minutes’—‘Even With GPS Disabled’

If you’re worried your phone might be spying on you, sharing your data and location without you realizing, then a new report this week will make alarming reading.

“You can’t say no to Google’s surveillance,” the Cybernews research team warns, describing a secretive stream of data they say continually transmits from a new phone to Google’s servers. Even more “concerning,” they say, “the phone periodically attempts to download and run new code, potentially opening up security risks.”

The Cybernews team took a “brand-new [Pixel 9 pro XL] with a new Google account and default settings” and rooted it to enable a man-in-the-middle data interception. The team “proxied the inbound and outbound traffic and used a custom security certificate to decrypt and examine the communications,” albeit rooting the phone disabled some features and so the intercepted data was not complete.

Because the testing took place with a new, default account, the team did not test to see the effect that user changes to privacy and security settings might have. But just as we’ve seen with browsers and apps—given most users maintain broadly default settings, it’s imperative those offer a good degree of out of the box protection.

“Every 15 minutes,” they say, the “Pixel 9 Pro XL sends a data packet to Google. The device shares location, email address, phone number, network status, and other telemetry.” This data, they found, is sent “to various Google endpoints, including Device Management, Policy Enforcement, and Face Grouping.”

https://www.forbes.com/sites/zakdoffman/2024/10/05/google-new-location-tracking-warning-pixel-9-pro-pixel-9-pro-xl-pixel-9-pro-fold/

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🇮🇱❌🇮🇷🛢 — NBC reports that senior US officials believe Israel will target Iranian state facilities and oil infrastructure in its retaliatory strikes