MMDA prepares traffic management plan for the MMFF Parade of Stars
MMDA prepares traffic management plan for the MMFF Parade of Stars;
Cyberattack targets Ukraine's largest mobile network operator;
Nigerian artist creates AI fashion show for elderly
Cyberattack targets Ukraine's largest mobile network operator;
Nigerian artist creates AI fashion show for elderly
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00:00 Good day, I am Soojin Kim and this is PTV News Now.
00:04 The MMDA has released an alternative route for the 2023 Metro Manila Film Festival Parade
00:10 of Stars to be held on Saturday, December 16.
00:13 According to MMDA Acting Chairman and Concurrent MMFF Overall Chairman Don Artez, they prepared
00:19 a traffic management plan for the expected heavy traffic.
00:23 The MMDA will implement temporary roadway closures on the route of the parade.
00:28 From 12 o'clock PM to 8 o'clock PM, there will be temporary lane closures and counterflow
00:33 on the following roads.
00:35 Motorists are advised to take the following alternative routes.
00:38 The parade will pass through C4, Sampson Road and MacArthur Highway.
00:42 About a thousand police and MMDA personnel will also be deployed in the area.
00:48 A large-scale cyberattack hit Ukraine's biggest mobile network operator, leaving millions
00:53 of Ukrainians without connectivity.
00:56 A day later, most customers still had no cell phone service, though services were being
01:00 gradually restored.
01:01 Lizia Bakalets reports from Kyiv.
01:05 A cyberattack on Tuesday targeted Ukraine's biggest mobile network operator, Kyivstar.
01:12 On Wednesday morning, millions of subscribers, including these Kyiv residents, still lacked
01:17 cell phone connectivity.
01:21 All my job is online, so I was shocked yesterday.
01:23 I had to buy the SIM card from another network provider.
01:28 Thanks to the Wi-Fi on my door, I can contact my parents, and so there's no connection
01:31 at all.
01:34 I have two phone operators, just in case.
01:37 So I switched to another, and that's it.
01:41 Kyivstar has about 24 million mobile subscribers, more than a half of Ukraine's population.
01:48 Ukrainian CEO Alexander Komarov said Kyivstar's IT infrastructure had been partially destroyed.
01:54 Mykhailo Koltsov, a cybersecurity consultant for the World Bank, explains what this means.
02:03 It means that the company cannot control its equipment.
02:06 Cell towers do not have the software to recognize the numbers to redistribute one number to
02:11 another number.
02:12 So it's impossible to communicate properly with the user's mobile devices.
02:17 The cyberattack also affected the air raid alert systems in more than 75 settlements
02:22 in the Kyiv region, according to Ukrainian officials.
02:25 There are problems with ATMs, too.
02:30 There is a lot of ATMs that work on mobile devices.
02:33 There are no problems with those that are connected to the stationary Internet.
02:37 Since the attack, customers have been lining up at Vodafone, Kyivstar's largest competitor.
02:44 The Security Service of Ukraine blames Russians for the attack.
02:47 In fact, a Russian hacker group has already claimed responsibility.
02:57 This type of advanced persistent threat attack mostly involves an insider.
03:02 Indirectly, this was confirmed today by the Russian group "Sonsopyok", who took responsibility
03:08 for the attack.
03:09 One of the goals of the attack, according to experts, was to bring maximum destructiveness
03:14 to Ukrainian society.
03:16 And it failed, says Mykhailo Koltsov.
03:19 Ukrainians have become very resistant to any threats.
03:21 For these two years, we learned how to adapt to any circumstances, and that is what Russians
03:25 fail to understand.
03:27 Overcoming the consequences of the attack can take from a couple of days to a week,
03:31 experts say.
03:32 But Korsun says he will not switch mobile providers.
03:38 In this situation, I am quite calm and do not plan to change the phone operator.
03:43 I am sure after this incident, Kyivstar will be the most protected operator in Ukraine.
03:50 By Wednesday evening, Kyivstar said it has started enabling voice communication again.
03:55 It said services would be restored gradually, and said mobile Internet and texting may work
04:00 within 24 hours.
04:02 Alicia Bakalans for VOA News, Kyiv.
04:09 Images of African senior citizens walking the runway created a buzz on social media,
04:14 eventually going viral.
04:16 These AI-generated pictures challenged the typical depictions of elderly Africans, showcasing
04:21 them in an empowering way.
04:23 Karina Chodhuri has the story.
04:35 Malik Afegwa's series of images showing African senior citizens walking the runway in fashionable
04:41 clothing went viral on social media late last year.
04:45 The Lagos, Nigeria-based filmmaker and visual artist calls this work "Fashion Show for
04:50 the Elders" and it was created with the help of artificial intelligence.
04:54 Afegwa says he aspires to portray African senior citizens in a way that is rarely seen.
05:01 The Elder series is about showing the elder society in a place that is not marginalized,
05:06 you know, in a place that is spoken for in pop culture, fashion and other industries
05:11 that we don't normally see them.
05:13 The Elder series was in part inspired by his mother's medical troubles.
05:18 The art The Ordeal Unlocked also opened new doors for Afegwa.
05:22 Now he is collaborating with designers at Marvel Studios.
05:26 Ruth E. Carter, the Oscar-winning costume designer for the movie Black Panther, was
05:30 one of the many people who reached out to Afegwa.
05:33 We have worked on something already where we created the art direction of some sort
05:40 and the costume for the main actor, which is for Blade.
05:47 The rise of artificial intelligence has raised ethical questions with some arguing that it
05:52 undermines human-created art.
05:54 However, Afegwa sees value in using AI as a tool.
05:58 You cannot create what I created with AI because you don't even know how I did it.
06:02 That's because I created it with my own data sets as a tool and that wasn't the only tool
06:06 I used.
06:07 In the heart of Amsterdam, a celebration is brewing.
06:10 During Africa Fashion Week Amsterdam 2023, Afegwa brought his digital fashion show to
06:15 life.
06:24 Linda Fashkin, owner of the clothing company Cocaine or CKG, was one of the designers Afegwa
06:30 invited to collaborate with on the fashion show.
06:33 She said his designs are empowering.
06:36 When we think runway fashion, we imagine 20-somethings and teenagers, but we have to remember something
06:43 that the elderly, they still want to feel sexy.
06:47 They want to be vibrant.
06:50 Afegwa plans to bring his fashion show for the elders to a runway in Nigeria in early
06:54 2024.
06:55 This time, not with professional models, but with everyday mothers, fathers, aunts, uncles
07:01 and grandparents creating fashion to celebrate them.
07:06 Karina Jothri, VOA News.
07:09 This is Soojin Kim.
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