give reasons to bring back teleworking

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When the price of oil soars Because of a war, governments look for ways to reduce their consumption. This is something that already happened with the oil crisis of ’73 and it is being repeated again with the war between Iran, Israel and the US. One of the quickest is usually that people stop commuting to work. What is happening now leaves us with a certain déjà vu of 2020with the difference that the reason is no longer a virus, but an energy crisis and the objective is save energy. Asia has already released the 2020 manual. Given its greatest dependence on Iranian crude oilthe first movements have arrived from Southeast Asia. Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim advertisement that officials linked to the Administration will implement teleworking to reduce fuel consumption. The Philippines chose cut the work week to four days for executive officials, with the same objective. The measure has a preceding in 1990, when the country experienced a situation similar to the current one during the Gulf War. Sri Lanka and Pakistan also implemented the four-day week in their State departments, and countries such as Vietnam and Thailand They explicitly asked teleworking to reduce unnecessary travel. The International Energy Agency recommends teleworking. The International Energy Agency published a decalogue of measures to reduce the impact of the power surge. Teleworking tops that list due to its direct effect on fuel consumption during daily trips. The recommendation of the energy agency for reduce the volume of trips is not trivial, the report notes that “three additional days of teleworking, for those who allow it, could reduce automobile oil consumption by 2% to 6%, with average potential reductions of around 20% for individual drivers.” Spain advances its mobility plans one year. On March 20, the Government approved the Royal Decree-Law that launches the ‘Comprehensive Response Plan to the Crisis in the Middle East’ with a mobilization of 5 billion euros. One of the measures that this plan also includes is to advance the entry into force of the work mobility plans provided for in the Sustainable Mobility Law that was already approved, going from 24 to 12 months. This Mobility Law included the obligation for companies with work centers with 200 or more workers (or shifts of more than 100 workers) to create sustainable mobility plans that must include concrete measures to reduce travel through active mobility, collective transport and, this is the key, offer teleworking options in positions that allow it. Teleworking is already in the law, although no one has imposed it. In 2020, teleworking was an emergency measure and without a prior regulatory basis to regulate it. Now, there is a Remote Work Law and is being integrated into sustainable mobility plans, with deadlines and sanctions. Companies are not obliged to offer teleworking in a generalized way to its employees, but to design a strategy to reduce travel, which in many cases involves remote work. Not having teleworking does not carry a direct sanction. Not having a mobility planyes it does, which makes teleworking an increasingly less discretionary option for certain companies. If the energy crisis continues, the jump from recommendation to obligation now has much less distance than it did five years ago, because the legal basis is already in force. In Xataka | Teleworking will experience a second youth, at a very specific moment: when the boomers retire Image | Freepik, Unsplash (Jan Baborak)

China says it has built its largest data center. And confirms that your problem is precisely in the chips

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China has just turned on its new technological pride in Shenzhen: an AI cluster with 14,000 petaflops built entirely with Huawei Ascend 910C chips. the city has presented it as the first scale computing center with 10,000 cards with completely national technology. It is an undeniable milestone, but if we give it context, an alarm signal and a dose of reality. Why is it important. The Shenzhen cluster, with all its rhetoric of technological sovereignty, represents about 1% of the capacity of the largest US data center in operation today. In other words: China has built, with great institutional effort, what OpenAI already had available to train GPT-4 in 2022. The gap is not a question of ambition (China has it) or capital (it also has it) or energy (of course, he also has it). It’s a chip issue. What are they capable of manufacturing and in what volume today. Between the lines. The Shenzhen government statement highlights energy efficiency metrics and occupancy rates of 92%. It’s really good data. But the selection of indicators (the cherry picking) says a lot so it is omitted: there are no direct comparisons with the clusters of NVIDIA H100 that colonize the data centers of Microsoft, Google or Amazon. Posting only what you have is also a way of not publishing what you lack. The context. At this point no one doubts that China does not lack electricity, not even engineersnor money to build large-scale AI infrastructure. What is still missing, despite the advances, are the chips. Export restrictions imposed by Trump They have cut off access to advanced semiconductors from NVIDIA and TSMCand that has forced China to accelerate its own ecosystem. Huawei has responded with the Ascend 910Ca capable chip but that still has performance limitations and, above all, volume production. If wafers were not in short supply, this data center would be a hundred times larger. Yes, but. Can China close that four-year gap before it gets even bigger? The answer depends almost entirely on how much its domestic semiconductor industry manages to scale, and whether or not Western sanctions manage to stifle that process. At the moment, in Shenzhen they are celebrating an achievement as undeniable as it turns out that in the eyes of Silicon Valley they are still in 2022. Featured image | Huawei In Xataka | Memory prices have started to fall in some markets. There is still a long way to go to close the AI ​​crisis

a puppy from 15,800 years ago rewrites the history of domestication

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For many, the dogs they live with They are another member of the familybecause the link that is created surpasses many friends with other humans. And it is no wonder, because we have been living with them for millennia, but the exact origin of our bond in history has always been involved in a scientific debate. But this has finally been solved thanks to genetics. The study. They have been two monumental published reviews in Nature those that have hit the table thanks to the analysis of the DNA of a puppy that lived 15,800 years ago at the Pınarbaşı site, in modern-day Turkey. This discovery has not only set back the biological clock of our canine companions by at least 5,000 years, compared to previous genetic records, but demonstrate that our alliance with wolves was forged long before we invented agriculture. A puppy with honors. The discovery is undoubtedly a triumph of pelogenetics, since for years scientists depended on the shape of bones to distinguish between a wolf and a primitive dog, a method that has many errors. But now science has turned to the genetic material found inside your cells to clear up any doubt. The remains of three puppies were found at the site, but what is fascinating is not only their antiquity, but also how they lived. Here the chemical analysis that was carried out reveals that these animals had a diet surprisingly similar to that of the humans with whom they lived, including a strong base of fish. Furthermore, they were buried following human rituals, which is a posthumous treatment that demonstrates a deep emotional bond. Its expansion. But the Turkish puppy is not an isolated case, since the first study of Nature demonstrate that, by the Late Upper Paleolithic, dogs had already spread rapidly throughout western Eurasia. Here the team also analyzed remains found in Gough’s Cave, in the United Kingdom. There they identified another domesticated dog from 14,300 years ago whose jaw had perforations, again suggesting ritual practices. The most interesting thing is that, despite the enormous geographical distance that separates Turkey from England, the genomes of both animals present strong genetic similarities, confirming that they belonged to the same large population of Paleolithic dogs. Another study. In parallel, he wanted to broaden the panorama after examine the remains of 200 European dogs from more than 14,000 years ago, managing to confirm the presence of another primitive dog in Kesslerloch (Switzerland), dated at 14,200 years. This second team demonstrated that the lineages of these first Paleolithic dogs did not become extinct, but rather that their genetic signatures have survived and are present in the modern dogs that sleep on our sofas today. Before agriculture. The most classical culture told us that the domestication of animals was a by-product of the Neolithic, since here we began to settle, invented agriculture, and along the way, we domesticated animals. But this has completely changed with these studies, since the genomes analyzed confirm that these dogs descend from a lineage of ancient wolves that formed an integral alliance with strictly hunter-gatherer humans. Images | Road Ahead In Xataka | Traveling with a dog is increasingly common, so the European Commission has decided something: mandatory passport

China has been boasting about its driverless robotaxis for years. Until more than 100 have stood at once in Wuhan

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The screen inside said: “Driving system failure. Staff will arrive in five minutes.” But no one came. The passenger pressed the SOS button and was told they were on their way, but it took 30 minutes just to get someone to pick up the phone. Meanwhile, the robotaxi was still stopped in the middle of a lane in Wuhan, with traffic passing on both sides. That is what happened on the night of Tuesday, April 1, in the Chinese city of Wuhan: More than a hundred autonomous cars from Apollo Go, Baidu’s robotaxis subsidiary, have stopped working at the same time due to a system failure. It is the first time that a collective robotaxis blackout has occurred in China, and it has exposed a concern that the sector has been avoiding for some time. Why is it important. Baidu is not a minor player. Apollo Go operates more than 1,000 robotaxis in Wuhan alone, its largest deployment, and has already accumulated more than 20 million trips in its history. The company just started in Abu Dhabi and Dubaithe two large cities of the United Arab Emirates; It is negotiating its entry into the United Kingdom and Switzerland, and has an agreement with Uber to operate through its app. An incident of this magnitude doesn’t come at any time: it comes when the company, like its entire sector, is trying to convince the world that it is ready to scale. Between the lines. Technically, the incident could be explained in many ways. Some Chinese media cited anonymous sources who pointed to the security self-verification systems, which would have detected some abnormal condition and stopped the vehicles preventively. If this were the case, the system would have worked exactly as designed, but the result has been chaotic: cars stopped in the center lanes of expressways, some passengers trapped for more than 90 minutes, collisions caused by vehicles that suddenly braked on highways… That no one has been injured is almost a matter of luck. The contrast. It is not the only precedent. In December 2025, A power outage in San Francisco left Waymo robotaxis immobilized throughout the cityforcing Waymo to send software updates for its entire fleet. Months before, in August, An Apollo Go fell into a ditch in Chongqing; in may, a Pony.ai car caught fire in Beijingwithout causing injuries. It’s easy to see a certain pattern: large-scale autonomous driving has not yet achieved the reliability it needs to justify the trust that is being asked of the public. And now what. Cars stopping is a problem, but an even bigger problem is that no one knows why. Baidu has not explained what caused the failure or how long it took to resolve it. Wuhan police have confirmed the incident but without giving further details about the cause. This opacity weighs as much or more than the incident, especially if we talk about a sector that has been arguing for years that its cars are safer than those driven by humans. We assume that is very true, but block failures like this do not invite optimism without questions. Featured image | Baidu-Apollo In Xataka | Waymo’s self-driving cars have started honking at each other. At 4 in the morning

be the first world power

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China has a very peculiar way of establishing its roadmap towards its great objective, which is none other than become the first world powerand here technological mastery is crucial. They do it through a very communist tradition: the five-year plans that they started. China already has its new plan for the period 2026-2030 and it is the most ambitious to date. The 15th five-year plan. China started this five-year plan in 1953, so this is the fifteenth. It was approved at the beginning of the month and it details the roadmap for the next five years. The main objective of the plan is to reinforce China’s comprehensive security in the face of extreme scenarios, ensuring economic, energy and military resilience while maintaining the ability to compete in advanced technology. The technologies of the future. With the ‘Made in China 2025’ planChina set out to lead in thirteen strategic technologies with quite good results. In its new plan, China establishes the priority strategic technologies for the next five years: Yes, but. China’s ambition is undeniable, but whether they are going to achieve all these objectives is another matter. They count in The Economist that, in the past, China has managed to lead in technologies that were already mature, such as renewable energy or electric vehicle batteries, but has had more difficulties in complex areas such as advanced chips. This new commitment includes many technologies far from the sectors where they already dominate and for which there are still many unknowns, both technical and commercial. Economic growth. It is another of the axes on which the plan is based, although for this they are given time until 2035. The government wants to increase the GDP per capita, which is currently at 14,000 dollars, to at least 20 or 30,000 dollars. To achieve this, they would need to grow between 4 and 8% annually over the next decade. The Chinese economy has started 2026 somewhat better, but it takes time in decelerationso it’s going to be complicated. China prepares for war. Perhaps it is the most overlooked part of the new plan, but the one that makes the most sense in such a turbulent geopolitical scenario. China wants to ensure that it is strong on all fronts, a kind of “whatever may happen.” To achieve this, they want to create strategic industrial zones in inland areas and ensure food and energy self-sufficiency. Furthermore, in the field of defense, they want to prepare for war scenarios with unmanned and intelligent weapons and reinforce border security. Image | Pycril In Xataka | You go to a music festival, a man marries you in two minutes: the idea in China to reverse the demographic crisis

Has Samsung been left behind in the mid-range battle?

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He Galaxy A57 Samsung’s is possibly its best mid-range phone, but before it hits stores (it will do so on April 10), it’s time to compare it with its main rivals. We have done it within Samsung’s own catalog with the Galaxy A56but now it’s the turn of another best-selling mid-range mobile: he Google Pixel 10a. The price could vary. We earn commission from these links Google Pixel 10a – 7 years of New Updates and Features, 30+ Hours of Battery, Camera Assistant, Gemini Live, Pixel Security – Fog Gray, 128GB The price could vary. We earn commission from these links The differences between the Galaxy A57 and the Google Pixel 10a When the largest screen is carried by the thinnest mobile At the design level, both phones are quite continuous with respect to their predecessors. Samsung’s phone has a slightly larger screen than the Google Pixel 10a: specifically, we’re talking 6.7 inches vs. 6.3 inches. We are not facing a huge difference, but one that you can notice when watching videos or playing. Here comes the curious thing. Although the Google phone has a more contained diagonal, It is a thicker and heavier mobile. You have the exact measurements and weight in the comparison table at the end of this article, but what you have to keep is that the Galaxy A57 is thinner and lighter, but also larger. We can expect good image quality and a similar refresh rate of 120 Hz from both screens, but yes, There is a significant difference in maximum brightness in favor of the Pixel 10a. Indoors it may not be too noticeable, but it can be relevant if you are one of those who uses your cell phone a lot outdoors. Processor and memory configurations If we talk about processors, both manufacturers are betting on their own chip for their mobile phones. The Pixel 10a uses the Tensor G4, which is the same chip that the entire family used Pixel 9. Samsung, on the other hand, is betting on Exynos 1680 for your new device. We have not yet been able to test it and see how it performs, but both processors are manufactured in 4 nanometersso we can expect that there will not be a huge difference in performance. If we talk about RAM, this mid-range Google mobile only has 8 GB. The Galaxy A57 also starts from this same configuration, although it does allow us to choose a version with 12 GB of RAM. Neither of these two devices excels in this aspectespecially if we take into account that many Chinese manufacturers already start from 12 GB in mobile phones of a similar price range (such as the POCO X8 Pro Max). Lots of AI in both cases. Also years of updates It is not something exclusive to these two phones, but both the Galaxy A57 and the Pixel 10a stand out at the software level. Google phones are the ones that always offer the purest Android experienceideal if you hate bloatware and you want to have the news of this operating system as soon as possible. All added to the fact that Gemini is very well integrated, so much so that you can use Google Nano locally. In the other corner we have Samsung and One UI. It is one of the most polished Android-based custom layers that does not have too much. bloatware. In addition, it is also very customizable at its core, even more so if we start messing around with Good Lock. All added to the fact that, in addition to having Gemini, It also has Galaxy AI. This AI handles some functions such as image erasing very well. Then there is also the issue of updates. With these two phones, whichever one we choose, we’ll have enough power for a while: the Galaxy A57 has six years of guaranteed updates for the seven years of the Pixel 10a. Having one more camera is not always better If we start to compare the cameras of both devices, what draws the most attention is undoubtedly that the Pixel 10a has a smaller sensor. Now, let’s get this topic out of the way quickly: the “extra” sensor that the Galaxy A57 has is a 5 megapixel macro camera. We haven’t tried it yet, but it does perform similar to that of the Galaxy A56it’s not something we’re going to use a lot. The other two cameras on Samsung’s new phone are, by numbers, relatively similar to those of the Pixel 10a. However, if their performance is also similar to that of their predecessor, we can expect that, in general terms, Google’s phone offers better results in almost any scenario. In fact, as we told you in our analysis, the Pixel 10a has one of the best camera systems in this price range. The price: spending more time in stores works in favor of the Pixel We come to one of the key points of this comparison, which is the price. If we stick to the RRP, both play practically along the same lines: the Galaxy A57 starts at 529 euros, while the Pixel 10a started at 549 euros. What’s happening? That the latter has been in stores for some time now and that makes it easier to find it on sale. To get the Galaxy A57 at a lower price, we have to wait. However, we are facing an excellent purchasing moment for the Pixel 10a. We can find it right now for just over 466 euros at MediaMarkta very interesting price if we take into account everything that the mobile offers. In summary: which mobile phone to choose based on your needs Why choose the Galaxy A57 The Galaxy A57 is Samsung’s best mid-range phone. The problem is that, at launch, perhaps it does not offer enough to justify the outlay of almost 530 euros. However, it does have several interesting points: Manageable and very light: It does not reach 180 grams and is only 6.9 … Read more

The Aragón justice system has shown how expensive it can be for a company to get involved with dismissal letters: 46,665 euros

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There are mistakes that can be corrected with a simple apology. And then there are errors that, once committedhave legal consequences that no apology can undo. A freight transport company in Huesca discovered this in the worst possible way when it fired one of its employees, regretted it days later, trying to back down, and then fired him again. All of this while the worker was at home on medical leave. What seemed like an internal bureaucratic mess ended up in court and with compensation of more than 46,000 euros. The dismissal letters the devil carries them. Two layoffs, one leave and fifteen days of chaos. As documented in the sentence In the case that reached the Superior Court of Justice of Aragon, the worker had been in the company since 2011, with an indefinite contract, and had accumulated more than a year of medical leave due to a cervical injury when, on December 14, 2023, he received a burofax from his company informing him of the disciplinary dismissal. As indicated in the dismissal letter, the employee had carried out incompatible activities with his low status. The worker did not take long to react and began the process to challenge the dismissal in court. But then something unexpected happened. On December 20, just six days later, a second burofax arrived in which the company declared that the first dismissal was annulled and that an internal disciplinary file was opened in its place. Not satisfied with this, on December 29 they received a third burofax containing another dismissal letter, this time accompanied by the payroll and the corresponding settlement. Within two weeks, the employee had received two dismissal communications and one cancellation while was still convalescing at home. Why the company wanted to back down. As stated in the ruling, the company argued that the first dismissal had been a procedural error and considered that the initial letter had formal defects related to the applicable collective agreement, since the worker had questioned by email whether the merchandise transportation agreement or the chemical industry agreement should apply. The company’s intention was to annul that first dismissal, open the correct disciplinary file and issue a new letter in order. From his point of view, the only real dismissal was that of December 29, which had never been challenged by the worker. The company also tried to demonstrate to the court that the underlying reason for the dismissal was legitimate: a private detective report recorded the worker carrying out physical activity during his medical leave, which he interpreted as a simulation of the disability or, at least, as a behavior incompatible with recovery. A dismissal letter is not a draft. The problem for the company is that the dismissal letter is not a simple administrative communication with the employee, but is a document with key legal value with which an entire dismissal process begins with very well-defined deadlines and procedures to give maximum guarantees to both companies and employees. He article 55.1 of the Workers’ Statute establishes that disciplinary dismissal must be notified in writing, with the facts that motivate it and the effective date. Once that letter is delivered, a legal mechanism is put in place that neither party can stop unilaterally. The law itself contemplates the possibility for the company to retract the dismissal and provides a way out when a company wants to correct a poorly formulated dismissal, but as stated in article 55.2 of the Workers’ Statute, it is subject to very precise conditions and deadlines. Furthermore, it is only admitted if, during that rectification period, the company keeps the worker registered with Social Security and pays them all salaries. In this case, the ruling states that it was not proven that the company had complied with that requirement, which blocked this means of rectification. Without the worker’s acceptance, there is no turning back. On the other hand, and beyond the administrative procedures, there is an additional requirement that the company did not comply with in its process of rectification of the first dismissal: for the employment relationship to be restored, the worker who has been dismissed must expressly accept it. It is not enough for the company to declare on its own that the dismissal is without effect. The Supreme Court already established that a communicated dismissal determines that the worker is not obliged to accept any subsequent retraction from the company, and that claiming before the courts in that situation does not constitute any type of abuse. In this case, the employee did not explicitly accept the annulment of the first dismissal or return to his position. The email he sent to the company questioning the applicable collective agreement was not considered by the court as a tacit acceptance of the withdrawal, but rather as confirmation of his dismissal status. The employment relationship, in the eyes of the law, had been terminated on December 14 and no subsequent communication from the company could change that unilaterally. The outcome: more than 46,000 euros in compensation. The TSJ of Aragón also ruled out the argument about physical activity during sick leave. It was proven that the outputs recorded by detective They were walks or runs of about 40 minutes of moderate duration that, according to the medical assessment, were not contraindicated for the worker’s recovery from the cervical injury. With all these arguments on the table, the court declared the dismissal inadmissible, the first, because the second no longer had any legal value, and established compensation of 46,665.34 euros, calculated based on age of the worker. The company appealed that decision to the Superior Court of Justice of Aragon, which confirmed it in its entirety and also ordered it to pay 800 euros in costs. Dismissal letters, especially if they are not well formulated, are carried by the devil. In Xataka | He had been in the same notary office for 16 years and was fired for not passing the trial period: the Supreme Court ended up seeing the … Read more

why it is useful to have them, how to create them and how to use them

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Let’s explain to you What are they and why is it useful to have .md files with Skills? of Claude. The artificial intelligence Anthropic has this system of skills that can be like the GPTs either Gems of ChatGPT either Geminibut they work in a different way. Claude will search through his skills every time you write him a prompt, and that’s why it’s useful to have some external ones instead of within the Skills system so you can only use them when you want. We are going to explain everything so that you understand it, and along the way we will tell you the best way to do them without having to use any text editing program. Why it is useful to have external skills When you decide to create a Claude’s Skillsthis is saved in the internal memory of the AI, which is normal. But the peculiarity of this system compared to similar ones from other AI chatbots is that every time you write a prompt, Claude will first look at the names and descriptions of all the Skills that you have created in case you can use any, and then, if it understands that what you have requested corresponds to what they do, then it automatically launches them. This can make you don’t have full control of when a skill is used that you have created, and that they are launched without you wanting it. And if you are creating many of them for different tasks, then it can be a problem. The way to avoid this is create very precise names and descriptions for the skills, so that Claude can understand what they are specifically for and not throw them in other contexts. If they are generic descriptions and names, then it might use them unintentionally with similar actions you ask of it. But the method to have better control and have a Skill that can only be used when you want explicitly is to use an external one. Come on, have .md files with these Skillsand attach it only when you explicitly want to use them. Create a skill in a .md file When we explain how to convert GPTs and Gems in Skillswhat we told you was to go into the folder where they are, and copy the name, description and instructions into a Skill. These are also the three key fields when you go to create a Claude Skill from scratch. To do this, you just have to use a text editor in which you explain everything step by step. You can use the same structure, with a name, description and then instructions, or you can go further and expand with other formats. It has to be in Markdown format. You can also create the files with Claude But the most effective way to do it is to ask Claude to create a .md file with a Skill. Here, you can use a prompt structure like this to do it: I want you to generate a .md file with a skill created for Claude. These are the skill data: Name: (Name) Description: (Description) Instructions: (Detailed Skill Instructions) I want you, based on this data, to generate the skill so that it works as best as possible with Claude, and then make a .md file to download it. Here, just by filling in the name, description and instructions you can have a Skill made by Claude, and in fact, when finished you will have a .md file that you will only have to download and save it wherever you want. In Xataka Basics | Claude’s Free Courses Created by Anthropic: 15 Official Certification Courses to Learn and Squeeze Your AI

Inflation has made the Lotus cookie the “affordable luxury” of Generation Z

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In the English town of Bridgnorth there is a restaurant that bathes its fried chicken in cream and Lotus biscuit crumbs. And there’s no need to go that far: anyone who stops by this week Champions Burger in Alicante You’ll see how this spicy Belgian snack has become the star ingredient, with dozens of people lining up to devour viral burgers dripping with caramelized cookie cream. A quick look through social media is enough to confirm that this little cookie has jumped from screens to menus around the world. But the question is: how is it possible that a small gift, which in the 90s was nothing more than the free accompaniment they gave you with your coffee at the hairdresser, has become a cult product worldwide? The answer, surprisingly, has less to do with baking and much more to do with macroeconomics. To understand the phenomenon, you have to travel to 1932, to the small Belgian town of Lembeke. As explained The Wall Street Journalthat was where the grandfather of the current CEO of Lotus, Jan Boone, created the recipe (which only five people in the world know today) for his particular version of the speculoosa traditional European dessert. The company’s first big leap occurred in the eighties, when, after a shortage of peanuts, the American airline Delta began to distribute this snack on its flights under the name “Biscoff” (a contraction of biscuit and coffee). This gave a generic item an aura of exoticism and air travel. Today, they manufacture 20 million units a day and invoice more than 1,000 million euros annually, as detailed The Times. But the real catalyst for its current success is its positioning. Lisa Harris, co-founder of food consultancy Harris and Hayes, explains in Guardian that Biscoff’s triumph responds to “accessible indulgence.” In a context where the cost of living is stifling consumers, “people are looking for simple ways to feel like they have done something special,” says Harris. Biscoff offers a nostalgic taste, with individual packaging that gives it a premium feel, but at a price that is affordable to anyone. It is, in essence, a cheap luxury. Doom spending: buy so as not to think This concept fits perfectly with a worrying economic and psychological phenomenon that is defining Generation Z and millennials: he doom spending (or catastrophic expense). This habit is defined as the irrational and impulsive expenses made by young people in the face of the overwhelm they feel for the economy and its future. Instability, inflation and job insecurity have created a feeling that traditional milestones are unattainable goals. When the initial payment of a mortgage requires tens of thousands of euros that you do not have, spending just 3 euros on a package of imported sweets or 6 euros on a slice of viral cake becomes a survival and consolation mechanism. This establishes a mentality of “live in the moment”. Morgan Housel, behavioral finance expert, analyzes it in Fortune explaining that this expense is a natural reaction to not having a clear purpose or being able to reach the great steps of adulthood. Seeing heritage purchases as unattainable, young people find refuge in smaller, more everyday material luxuries. However, the relief is temporary. The magazine verywellmind provides psychological perspective of the matter: when we make these purchases to alleviate anxiety, our brain releases dopamine. But once that momentary pleasure fades, “we are left with overwhelming feelings of guilt, remorse, and an intensified sense of anxiety,” psychologist Christopher Fisher explains in that medium. Added to this is what Ylva Baeckström, a finance expert, defined as a “false illusion of control”. In a world that young people perceive as chaotic – a pessimism fueled by the chronic consumption of bad news on the Internet – shopping becomes the steering wheel of a car that, in reality, they do not drive. A native recipe for social networks The role of social networks in this cocktail is fundamental. Biscoff is a native social media recipe. Content creators like Ashley Markle or Fitwaffle accumulate tens of millions of views cooking with this cream, feeding back the desire for immediate consumption. According to data from Intuit Credit Karma43% of Gen Zers admit that TikTok directly influences their impulsive spending. However, this generation is fully aware of the problem in which is immersed. While 41% of young people from Generation Z admit to practicing doom spending and panic buying, at the same time, a similar percentage (around 44%) are trying to adopt lifestyles low-buy (buy little) or no-buy (not buy anything) to try to build savings and pay off debt. It is a constant struggle between the need to save in a suffocating economy and the uncontrollable impulse to seek small doses of happiness and dopamine through consumption. “We want to conquer the world,” confessed Jan Boone, CEO of Lotus, to The Times last year. Judging by the numbers, the supermarket shelves and the countless videos on social media, he is achieving it. But Biscoff’s global triumph is not just the story of a well-baked sweet or a brilliant marketing strategy born in the airline aisles. It is the edible reflection of our time. The next time you see someone digging a caramelized cookie into a cheesecake in front of their phone camera, remember that you’re not just watching a simple viral recipe. You are witnessing the “lipstick effect” of the digital age; the small, sweet and affordable lifeline of a generation trying to chew the anxiety of an economy that is slipping out of their hands. Image | Andrea Piacquadio and Shameel mukkath Text image | Nano Erdozain Xataka | Traveling with a dog is increasingly common, so the European Commission has decided something: mandatory passport

What is this app, add your DNIe, as valid as the physical DNI and what you can do or not do

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Starting April 2, 2026 Your DNIe in the MiDNI app is as valid as the physical one. This means that if they ask you for your ID from the Police to a hotel, they are obliged to accept if you show it to them through the app. That makes something that has always been in the background now become important, and that is why we are going to tell you everything you need to know about it. Let’s start with the concepts, telling you what the DNIe and the application MyDNI. We will also tell you how to link your DNI to your mobile with this application, how to change the DNI PIN if you do not remember it when registering it, and we will even remind you of our table on What you can do with MiDNI and what not. What is the digital DNI or DNIe The DNI is the National Identity Document, a card issued by the Spanish Police that serves to prove the identity of Spanish citizens. Our photo and our personal data appear on it. Over time, the DNI has evolved. In 2006, a chip was added, and this version was called Electronic DNI or DNIe, also known as digital DNI. Then, in 2015 came the DNI 3.0, which is the DNIe with NFC technology. Later came the current DNI 4.0, which has the particularity of being able to link the ID to the mobile with the app MyDNI. The DNIe is the name of the most modern versions of the DNIthose versions that already have an integrated chip. Currently, the DNIe is also the one that we can link to the mobile phone with the official application that we have mentioned, created by the Police for this. The DNIe chip allows you to carry out procedures online with a special reader capable of reading the chip. These procedures can range from the Income Tax return to Social Security applications, procedures with the city council or signing documents. It is an online identification method. The chip contains two certificates: Authentication certificate to identify you on websites and services Signature certificate to sign documents with legal validity What is MiDNI MyDNI is the name of the official application to carry your ID on your mobile. Its concept is the same as that of the app myDGTyou can carry an app that not only carries your ID identification, but also serves to carry out various procedures through it. This application allows you to identify yourself with the same validity as the physical document. Come on, it is an official substitute for the physical DNI, and it will help you in those cases where you can forget it. Because let’s be honest, nowadays it’s easier to forget your wallet at home than your cell phone. The app has been created by the Spanish National Policeand it is the only one that has legal validity as a substitute for the DNI. It works by linking the electronic DNI to it, so that you can carry it and show it to identify yourself wherever you want. When you use this application you will connect to the National Police servers to verify the data. With this, you can generate a QR code with which to identify yourself, and which will become invalid after a few minutes so that no one can use it for you. By scanning it, the Police will be able to verify that it is you. Of course, it is not perfect either, and will require you to have an internet connection to be able to function. Therefore, do not blindly trust it and try to also carry your physical ID with you. It is as valid as the physical ID Starting April 2, 2026, The MiDNI app is as valid as presenting the physical DNI. At least to do most of the procedures. Therefore, it doesn’t matter if you leave your wallet at home, if someone asks you for your ID to do a face-to-face transaction, you can show it through this application. However, you must remember that The DNI on your mobile is only equally valid if you use this app. If you show a photo of the document that you have on your cell phone or any other application other than that of the Police, it will not be valid. So be careful, because there are apps with similar names. What you can do with MiDNI What can you do with MiDNI? With this application you can prove your identity in person when you have an Internet connection to use it. It is exactly like identifying yourself with your ID, and not only if the Police ask you to, but also for other things. Here is a table with everything you can do and what you can’t do: What is the ID used for on the mobile? why the ID is not useful on the mobile Prove our identity in person when there is an internet connection. Prove identity in person when there is no internet connection. Establish any type of legal relationship in person. Prove our identity through the internet. Sign deeds before a notary in person. Use it for border crossing as an electronic travel document. Prove our identity in face-to-face procedures in the public administration. Prove our identity in other countries, with or without an internet connection. Carry out in-person administrative procedures in public or private Universities and Teaching Centers. Carry out telematic procedures that require authentication and/or electronic signature. Prove our majority in person. Exercise our right to vote. Open a bank account in person. Formalize insurance of any type in person. Check into a hotel in person. Rent a vehicle in person. Buy tickets or nominative tickets in person that require identification. In-person commercial transactions in which they ask us for a valid DNI or to prove our identity. Carry out access control to buildings in person. Access entertainment venues such as cinemas, theaters or concerts. Parcel collection. Withdrawal … Read more

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