Luyện đề thi thử tốt nghiệp môn Anh 2024 Quảng Xương 1 lần 2

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Viet Nam leads ASEAN in sending students abroad for education, according to Cambodian newswire SBM News. Many high-tech and innovative companies are returning to Viet Nam, largely thanks to the country's recognition of the advantages and competitive edges of sending students abroad, particularly to prestigious universities, to enhance its resources.

Recent Google research data on six major countries in Southeast Asia predict that Viet Nam will post the highest growth rate regionally in terms of digital economy scale by 2025, according to SBM News. UNESCO's data, meanwhile, indicates that the number of students sent overseas by the Vietnamese government amounts to tens of thousands. More importantly, an increasing number of Vietnamese students are choosing to return to live and work in their home country after graduation.

The 2024 Key Trends in Southeast Asia report by Acumen, an international education consultant, showed that more than 350,000 students from Southeast Asia were studying abroad in 2022, making it the third largest region globally for outbound student mobility after China and India. Within the region, Viet Nam had by far the largest number of outbound students with 132,000. The top two destinations for Vietnamese students were Japan with over 44,100 and the Republic of Korea with nearly 25,000, the report said. In the U.S. too, Vietnamese students led Southeast Asia at over 23,100. Other top countries for Vietnamese studying abroad were Australia (14,100) and Canada (9,000).

(According to https://en.governmentnews.vn/)

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The summer heat has arrived in northern Viet Nam a month earlier than usual, with temperatures (39)_______ to 41 degrees Celsius in some places. For the past two days Son La and Hoa Binh Provinces have been recording 40-41 degrees, temperatures usually only reached by mid-May. (40)________ the impact of a low-pressure area in the west and Foehn winds, a type of dry, warm and downslope winds, (41)________ parts of the northwest became hot and sunny by March 31 with daytime temperatures reaching at least 35 degrees.

Nguyen Van Huong, head of the weather forecast (42)______ at the National Center for Hydro Meteorological Forecasting, said hot weather has come around 1.5 months early to the north and a month early elsewhere. Average temperatures across the country in March were 0.5- 1.5 degrees higher than normal, he added. Sixteen temperature records were broken in March, including the oldest one- (43)________ had stood for 38 years - in Dinh Lap, Lang Son, when, on March 5, the district recorded 36 degrees.

The center forecast April temperatures to be 1-2 degrees higher than normal. Through the summer the number of warm days and temperatures would be higher than normal, it said. More records are likely to be broken, it added.

(Adapted from http://www.vnexpress.net/news/environment)

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The term 'deep-fake', a combination of 'deep learning' and 'fake', refers to hyper-realistic videos created to resemble real people. Deep-fakes use neural networks that analyze extensive data sets to replicate a person's facial expressions, behavior, voice and speech patterns. By manipulating real footage and authentic-sounding audio, deep-fakes are usually difficult to detect. Much of the software used to generate them is available on the open web.

Deep-fakes came to the fore in 2017, when videos of public figures, including Barack Obama and Mark Zuckerberg, appeared online. While some of these were created for entertainment purposes, many, such as the fake footage of an explosion near the Pentagon, have triggered chaos and fear among the public, and even caused the stock market to dip. As Al tools have become more publicly accessible, the technology has become exploited for criminal purposes, including identity theft, fraud, violations of data privacy and intellectual property rights, and threats to national security.

In South East Asia, there have been cases of tech-savvy criminals exploiting Al technology to impersonate public figures, spread disinformation, and defraud and extort people. By taking advantage of public trust they convince their victims that they need to urgently acquiesce to their demands on their way to defrauding them of money or damaging their reputation. In December 2023, videos of Lee Hien Loong, prime minister of Singapore, and Lawrence Wong, the deputy prime minister, were circulated online to promote crypto and investment products. Also, in February 2024, the Hong Kong office of a multinational company lost US$25.6 million to a deep-fake video conference call impersonating its chief financial officer. These are just a few of the many cases in the Asia-Pacific region where Al-generated images and audio have been used for malicious purposes, including fake kidnappings, sexual abuse material and fraudulent schemes. As these criminal networks grow, deep-fake technology is becoming undoubtedly lucrative.

(Adapted from https://globalinitiative.net/analysis/deepfakes)