We thought that the rearmament of Europe was about recruiting soldiers. In reality what Defense needs are welders

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After the excesses of the Trump Administration in matters of international politics, Europe and, especially Spainhas decided recover your industry of armaments, allocating millions to its rearmament policy. He Rearm Europe Planendowed with 800,000 million euros, has skyrocketed orders to the Spanish defense industry. However, although money is already flowing to manufacturers and orders accumulateproduction chains cannot be accelerated if there are not enough technicians to operate the machinery. The defense sector has been trying to fill vacancies without achieving it, and the problem is getting worse. The hope for this rearmament comes from the hand of the Vocational Training as a quarry for the new talent that the main companies in the sector are already raffling off. A new labor market. The rearmament of Europe is changing the labor market in Spain, and it is doing so faster than many imagined. Defense companies have been looking for technicians for months without finding them, and the problem is not going to be solved only with university engineers. According to the report ‘Metal in Figures’ published by the Spanish Confederation of Metal Business Organizations (Confemetal), the average affiliation to Social Security in the sector reached 828,446 people in January 2026, which represents an interannual increase of 1.2%. The average affiliation during 2025 stood at 826,061 workers, 1.6% more than the previous year. These data outline a rising sector that still does not reflect the impact of the European rearmament plan. European rearmament triggers demand for technicians. According to data of the Spanish Association of Defense, Security, Aeronautics and Space Technology Companies (Tedae), the Spanish defense industry It is made up of about 580 companies and generates around 75,100 direct jobs, with Madrid, Andalusia and the Basque Country concentrating close to 80% of national turnover. All companies in the sector share the same problem: there are not enough technicians to cover their production lines and qualified professionals already have a job in one of them. For those who have put the view of recent graduates of Vocational Training, and in improving the conditions for young people to acquire the training that they will then put into practice in the defense industry. Currently, large companies in the sector they already count with a high percentage of staff coming from FP, exceeding 30% and in some cases even more than half of its workers. ​The profiles most sought after by the sector. The Metal Foundation for Training, made up of Confemetal, CCOO Industria and UGT FICA, participated in the Aula 2026 fair identifying the two FP degrees that concentrate the greatest demand: Senior Technician in Electrotechnical and Automated Systems and Machining Technician. The first deals with the installation, programming and maintenance of electrical and control systems on land, naval and industrial platforms, while the second is key in the manufacturing of precision components for armored vehicles, weapons systems and drones. ​These degrees already train young people every year, but the problem is that there are not enough students choosing them, despite the demand of the sector. Héctor Aguirre, managing coordinator of the Metal Foundation for Training, explained this disconnection: “Young people do not associate certain sectors with the metal industry, such as defense or space, when in reality they are cutting-edge fields where they work with cutting-edge technology.” ​More than 350,000 jobs and competitive working conditions. Beyond the segment dedicated to the defense industry, the problem of the shortage of qualified labor extends to the entire metal industry, which includes automotive, steel, aeronautics and machinery manufacturing. According to Confemetal, companies will need fill more than 350,000 positions of work in the coming years, a figure that turns the technical talent gap into one of Spain’s main industrial challenges for the next decade. The salary conditions of the sector are a solid argument to attract candidates. The average salary of a metal worker exceeds 2,000 euros net per month, with salary review clauses linked to the CPI. In 2025, contract salaries grew by an average of 2.6%, and the sector’s collective agreements also include life insurance, disability coverage and retirement benefits. These are conditions that young people do not yet associate with making a component for a submarinean armored vehicle or an anti-aircraft defense system, but they are there, waiting for those who choose that professional career. In Xataka | The talent shortage has become chronic to an extreme point: 75% of companies cannot find what they are looking for Image | Flickr (copsadmirer@yahoo.es), Unsplash (Jimmy Nilsson Masth)

the shopping basket

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If, on the least expected day, someone from the RAE called me asking for a precise definition of a war, my answer would be clear: an armed conflict between two or more countries that inevitably ends up raising the price of our supermarket basket. And what is happening north (and south) of the Strait of Hormuz was not going to be an exception. Almost perfect timing. Since the United States and Israel launched their attacks on Iran on February 28, the situation has gotten out of control on many fronts. And it is not only that the transit of diesel through the strait has been virtually closed, but also; is that, although many people do not know it, a third of the world’s urea passes through this sea route (and, in fact, much of it is manufactured in the liquefaction plants that have been attacked these days). That is to say, a good part of the international stock of nitrogen fertilizers has been compromised just at the moment when the northern hemisphere begins its planting campaign. And what has happened? That, accordingly, the price has passed from 400 dollars a ton to more than 600 in a week. In fact, the North American index it reached 810 dollars. We already know this story. In 2022, after the invasion of Ukraine, we experienced a very similar shock. Russia accounted for around 16% of urea exports and around 12% of phosphates. What’s more, together with Belarus, produced almost 40% of the potassium of the international market. The situation got out of control and prices skyrocketed. The problem is that in 2022, the problem was sanctions and (many times under rope) the market was able to redirect itself and the logistics chains cushioned the blow a bit. Right now and without an alternative way to get urea out of the Gulf, there is no valid plan B. The blow is going to be harder every day that the strait is closed. And why does it affect us? Spain is the second largest fertilizer market in the Union and more than 1.9 billion is spent on it every year. Almost all of that money, by the way, is dedicated to imports because manufacturing it is unviable and, consequently, there is no infrastructure either. To the extent that natural gas represents between 70 and 90% of the variable cost of fertilizer production, the price of food is going to rise (and, if the example of 2022 is anything to go by, it is going to do so very quickly). What will it affect the most? Bread, pasta and cereals (it is one of the crops most sensitive to the price of fertilizers); meat, dairy and eggs (due to their dependence on corn for feed); vegetable oils (because many are also used to make biofuels); and fruits and vegetables (because everything under greenhouses is critically dependent on fertilizers). What can we expect? If the conflict lasts a couple of weeks or a month, the impact will be limited because there is accumulated stock and the urea will arrive in time to be produced. There will be losses and higher prices, but the problem will be less. If we talk about a few months, global food inflation will be noticeable and we would be in a scenario similar to 2022. If the stock out lasts until after the summer, we would enter unknown territory. Be prepared in an increasingly volatile world. And if we think about it calmly, we will realize that there are no strategic reserves of fertilizers and building new plants would take years. The costs of cultivating the Earth have doubled in the last decade and everything seems to indicate that, if we don’t do something, the situation can only get worse. Image | Left Victorian In Xataka | Working the land is becoming more expensive: Agricultural costs have doubled in the last ten years

China already dominates the screen market. The US and Japan have decided to draw up a plan to stop their advance

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China currently accounts for almost 60% of the LCD panel market which are used in the manufacture of monitors, televisions and other display devices. The growth of Chinese companies BOE and TCL has caused South Korean panel manufacturers, such as LG Display or Samsung Display, gradually abandon LCD technology to dedicate their resources to other, more profitable innovations, like OLED technology. South Korea produces most of the organic matrices (OLED) that we can find in our televisions and mobile phones, among other devices, but China’s market share in this segment does not stop growing. In fact, It is already close to 40% in OLED panels for smartphones, and presumably little by little it will also grow in the segment of large-format OLED matrices for televisions and monitors. However, South Korea is not the only country that is suffering from China’s monumental onslaught. Japan, Taiwan and the US also fear that their display device manufacturers will end up in the hands of Chinese suppliers, something that is essentially already happening to a large extent if we stick to LCD technology. This dependency also acquires a critical nature in the field of screens used in military systems. Japan Display will be the great beneficiary of the very probable agreement between the US and Japan During the 80s, 90s and the first decade of the 2000s, Japan led the screen market with its cathode ray tube televisions, and later with its first LCD and plasma panels. However, in the early 2000s, Japanese companies made a strategic mistake: they bet everything on plasma technology because they believed that it would end up taking over LCD technology. South Korea, however, opted for the production of these latest matrices, and finally Samsung and LG won this war. The state-of-the-art plant that Japan Display plans to build in the US will cost about $13 billion Japan paid a very high price for this strategic mistake: it lost a large part of its share in the market for the production of panels for display devices. Twenty years later, the US and Japanese governments are determined to amend it to compete with the solutions coming from China. And they plan to do it by investing, according to Reutersa package of 550 billion dollars coming from Japanese funds. Some of this money will presumably be used to build a state-of-the-art display manufacturing plant in the US. It will cost about $13 billion and will be managed by Japan Display, a consortium created in 2012 as the result of the merger of the panel production divisions of Sony, Hitachi and Toshiba. This plan seeks to limit the dependence that American and Japanese manufacturers have on matrices from China, especially in the field of technology militaryrbut they are not going to have it easy. And it is that the consulting firm Counterpoint Research It predicts that China will expand its share of the display market to reach 75% in 2028. Image | Generated by Xataka with Gemini More information | Reuters In Xataka | LG and Samsung have a new pact that no one expected, according to Reuters. One who wants to shake up the television market In Xataka | China is devouring the television market. So much so that Panasonic is considering abandoning it

Carrefour sells off this huge 65-inch Neo QLED Samsung TV, with MiniLED and 120 Hz

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Although it is clear that the OLED TVs They are the highest in image quality, it is true that they are expensive. This has made QLED TVs become one of the most popular options currently, due to their excellent quality-price ratio. If you are looking for a large one, now at Carrefour you can get this Samsung TQ65QN1EFAU with 200 euros discount, for 649 euros. Furthermore, if you have the Carrefour Pass card you can pay it in 10 easy installments of 64.90 euros. Smart TV Samsung TQ65QN1EFAU The price could vary. We earn commission from these links A large screen TV at an unbeatable price As we have already said before, this TV has a 65-inch Neo QLED panel and has technology MiniLED. These LEDs are much smaller than those of a conventional TV, so the zone lighting control is very good, offering very deep blacks, almost at the levels of OLED screens. For gaming it is also a good option, since it has 120Hz refresh ratefour ports HDMI 2.1 and support for FreeSync Premium Pro. In addition, its latency is very low, so it will allow you to make the most of your PS5 either Xbox Series X at 120 fps. This is a 2025 model, so today it is still a very good purchasing option. The operating system under which it works is tizen and is compatible with Apple AirPlay. As for sound, its speakers offer an RMS power of 20 W, although it is something you can improve with a sound bar. ⚡ IN SUMMARY: offer for the Samsung TQ65QN1EFAU smart TV today ✅ THE BEST Its processor is powerful: The NQ4 AI Gen2 is a processor with one of the best image scaling functions. It is capable of taking low-resolution content and cleaning it of “noise” through Artificial Intelligence. Impact shine: Being NEO QLED, the peak brightness offered by this TV is very high. This makes it an ideal TV for living rooms with lots of natural light or windows, where an OLED would suffer from reflections. ❌ THE WORST Without Dolby Vision… It is one of the big “buts” of Samsung. Of course, it supports HDR10+, but you miss out on the most used standard on platforms like Disney+ or Netflix. Intrusion in Tizen… Although Tizen is a very complete operating system, the interface is filled with recommendations and advertising from Samsung’s own channels. This can be somewhat annoying and slow down your browsing. 💡 BUY IT IF… You are going to use the console a lot in a bright room and if you are going to have the TV on for a long time with cartoon channels or DTT, since there is no risk of screen burn-in. ⛔ DON’T BUY IT IF… You are a purist Dolby Vision movie buff, since the absence of this is a handicap for them. Some accessories that may interest you for this TV Amazon Fire TV Stick 4K Plus The price could vary. We earn commission from these links Samsung Sound Bar HW-B46CF/ZF The price could vary. We earn commission from these links Some of the links in this article are affiliated and may provide a benefit to Xataka. In case of non-availability, offers may vary. Images | Webedia and Samsung In Xataka | The nine best sound bars and bases for less than 400 euros In Xataka | Mega-guide to set up a home theater: projector, screen, sound system and more

Collapsing fiber prices in Spain has turned out very well for Digi. And still the accounts don’t work out

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Digi continues with its unstoppable pace until it aspires to become in the third Spanish operator. What might have sounded utopian not so many years ago is getting closer to becoming a reality. The new milestone for the Romanian operator is in its volume of fixed broadband clients. For the first time, they have surpassed Vodafone. The numbers. According to Expansion dataat the end of 2025 Digi has achieved a historic result. For the first time, it has reached Vodafone Spain in volume of fixed broadband customers (mainly fiber). Not only were the data spectacular in terms of volume, Digi attracted almost twelve times more users than Vodafone throughout the year. A difference in acquisition that shows the sustained growth of the Romanian operator. Far from the giants. Both Telefónica and the MásOrange group remain unbeatable, doubling the numbers of Digi and Vodafone in Spain. Despite this, Digi has become the third operator by clients in the residential market, since within Vodafone’s figures there is a significant weight of corporate business. Digi’s strategy. Prices, prices and prices. Digi’s strategy is to offer a quality service at the lowest possible price. And this works. Your Trojan horse is cheap fiberalong with mobile lines at a very reasonable price. A low cost strategy that has led it to be the absolute king in portability, something that has led its competition to sink their prices with fees aimed at directly fighting Digi. Yes, but. Despite its fantastic numbers in customer volume and portability, Digi reported 33 million in losses in 2025. The aggressive pricing strategy together with a large investment means that the operator’s profitability remains negative. Despite this, it is expected that in 2026 Digi will study big plans, like going public. Meanwhile, investment in fiber deployment, network leasing and infrastructure will continue to make it difficult to make enough money while preserving current prices. Image | Digi In Xataka | Digi wants to become one of the largest teleoperators in Spain. And that is why it has gone from 4,000 to 10,000 workers.

We believed that human programmers would end up being code reviewers. Anthropic just killed that

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The rise of the Generative AI The world of software development seemed to follow a clear script: models would write the code and humans would review it. It was the new balance. Well, Anthropic just killed him. The problem of programming with AI. What we know today as vibe codingthis practice of giving instructions in natural language to an AI so that it generates code at full speed, has skyrocketed software production in companies. Anthropic affirms that the amount of code generated by each of its own engineers has grown by 200% in the last year. And now there’s a problem: there’s so much new code that reviewing it has become the bottleneck of the process. Human developers can’t cope. Many pull requests (change proposals that must be reviewed before integrating new code) are skimmed or not read very carefully at all. What Anthropic has done. The company Code Review has been releaseda tool integrated into Claude Code that, instead of waiting for a human to review the code, deploys a team of AI agents to do it automatically every time a pull request is opened. This new system is now available in preview phase for Team and Enterprise plan customers. Cat Wu, Product Manager at Anthropic, explained told TechCrunch that the question they constantly received from their clients’ technical managers was always the same: “Now that Claude Code is generating a ton of pull requests, how do I make sure they are reviewed efficiently?” How it works inside. AI agents work in parallel autonomously the moment a pull request is opened, examining the code from different perspectives. An end agent then aggregates and prioritizes the issues it has found, removing duplicates and sorting them by severity. The result reaches the developer through a featured comment, accompanied by more online comments about specific bugs. The focus, according to Anthropicis in logical errors, not in matters of style, something designed on purpose so that the feedback does not generate too much noise. Issues are labeled by color depending on how important they are: red for critical, yellow for attention, and purple for pre-existing code. Numbers. The company has been using Code Review internally for months before launching it to the market. According to what they saybefore implementing it, only 16% of their pull requests received meaningful review comments. With the tool, that percentage rises to 54%. In large pull requests (more than 1,000 modified lines) 84% returned results, with an average of 7.5 problems detected. And less than 1% of those results are flagged as incorrect by the engineers themselves. In one of the cases documented by the company, they spoke of a single line change that seemed routine. However, Code Review marked it as critical, as it apparently could have broken the entire service’s authentication. The bug was fixed before integration. Furthermore, according to the company, the engineer later acknowledged that he would not have caught it alone. ANDhe new role of the programmer. The narrative that had spread in the last two years was that developers would evolve towards a profile closer to that of a reviewer or supervisor of code generated by AI. Now that transition is also being automated, at least in part. Anthropic does not eliminate the human from the equation (in fact the tool does not approve pull requests), but it does compress the review work that was supposed to be the last bastion. It seems that now the human goes from reviewer to final arbiter. Price. It is not a cheap tool. Each revision has a cost based on token consumption. Anthropic esteem The average price per review is between $15 and $25, depending on the complexity of the code. It is a cost that the company justifies in the context of large technology companies where errors that escape review have a much higher price. Cover image | Compagnons In Xataka | Software companies sank on the stock market for a simple reason: investors are panicking about AI

Europe has just taken a 180-degree turn in its nuclear policy and has left Spain completely out of the game

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The backdrop couldn’t be more tense. According to an official statement of the International Energy Agency (IEA)the crisis in the Middle East and the blockade of the Strait of Hormuz have deteriorated crude oil markets to the point of forcing the release of emergency reserves. In the midst of this climate of urgency, the president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, has broken a historical taboo. During the Nuclear Energy Summit held in Paris, Von der Leyen has intoned the continental ‘mea culpa’: “Europe made a strategic mistake by moving away from a reliable and affordable source of low-emission energy.” The Brussels diagnosis. According to German Wellepoints out that electricity prices in Europe are “structurally too high” and hamper competitiveness. In 1990, a third of European electricity came from the atom; today it is only 15%. In fact, the former Energy Commissioner, Kadri Simson, warned of “serious problem” What it will mean for Europe to disconnect 98 nuclear reactors in the short term without solid support. 200 million euros for the atom. To correct this “error”, Von der Leyen has put 200 million euros on the table from the EU Emissions Trading Scheme. But here we must make a fundamental stop to understand the debate: this money is not destined to build traditional macro nuclear power plants like the ones we know, but to the Small Modular Reactors (SMR). It is not nuclear as we know it. As detailed Spanish Radio Television (RTVE), the new strategy seeks to reduce risks for private investors and create “regulatory sandboxes” for these SMRs to be operational in the early 2030s. This nuance dismantles much of the current noise: Spain is closing traditional first and second generation reactors that have exhausted their design life. The EU is not betting on reviving that old model, but rather on financing SMR technology that is not yet commercially viable on a large scale. France: sovereignty on the lectern, protectionism on the border. The great winner of this turn is Emmanuel Macron. Coinciding with the 15th anniversary of Fukushima, the French president defended in Paris that nuclear power is Europe’s shield against hydrocarbon blackmail. However, behind this speech lies a fierce protectionist strategy, since France acts as an electrical “plug”. While Germany pays more than €100/MWh for electricity and Spain or Portugal register zero or negative prices due to their enormous wind and solar production, France blocks the Pyrenean interconnections. Paris needs to make profitable at all costs an investment of 300 billion euros in its nuclear park. Passing up Iberian solar energy would put downward pressure on its prices. Thanks to this wall, France has broken his record exporting 92.3 TWh to its northern neighbors, pocketing 5.4 billion euros, while criticizing the Spanish model as “unstable.” And the situation in Spain. On the one hand, the Peninsula is the continent’s gas lifeline. The country owns 35% of the LNG storage capacity of the EU thanks to its seven regasification plants. But this fortress has run into a diplomatic obstacle. Following President Pedro Sánchez’s refusal to support the military offensive in Iran (under the slogan “No to war”), the United States has threatened Spain with a trade embargo. Taking into account that the US supplied 44.4% of Spanish gas in January 2026, the consequences could be notable: analysts predict increases of up to 18% in the gas bill and 17% in electricity bills. To escape this fossil dependence and not waste renewable energy when prices fall to zero, Spain has activated a shock plan silent. In a single month (January 2026), Spain connected 57 megawatts worth of batteries to the electrical grid, more than in the previous three years combined, preparing to store its cheaper energy. The decline of the green agenda? Von der Leyen’s turn is not only energetic, it also has deep political significance. In an opinion column in The Countryjournalist Claudi Pérez accuses the president of the Commission of inoculating a “Trumpist virus” in the EU. By stating that Europe “can no longer be the guardian of the old world order”, Brussels relegates the green agenda and the rules-based international order to the background, moving towards a more militaristic and deregulatory vision. This discontent was highlighted with the protest of Greenpeace activists breaking into the Paris summit shouting “Nuclear energy fuels war.” Europe finds itself trapped in an unsustainable contradiction: it showers public money on nuclear promises for the next decade, assuming the risks of foreign uranium, while blocking its borders from the sun and southern winds that already produce cheap energy today. Image | Audiovisual Service and Clickgauche Xataka | Spain and Portugal would love to share the “free” energy they are generating these days. The problem is called France

The United Kingdom has opened the kamikaze drone that exploded at the European base. The surprise is capital: it is not from Iran, it is "made in Russia"

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In Ukraine, the drone remains knocked down have converted in one unexpected source of strategic information: Engineers and analysts often rebuild their interior piece by piece to trace their origin, their electronics, and the supply networks that make them. IF you want, a kind of “military archeology” or “war unboxing” that has become common practice in modern conflicts, where a single microchip or a navigation module can reveal geopolitical connections much broader than a simple attack appears. The same thing just happened, but in Iran. A drone and a new unknown. When a kamikaze drone hit against the British air base of RAF Akrotiri, in Cyprus, seemed like another episode within the increasing escalation of drone attacks in the Middle East. However, analysis of the remains of the device by British intelligence has revealed an unexpected detail: inside there was a Russian military navigation system Kometa-Ba sophisticated component designed to resist electronic interference and improve the precision of attacks. The discovery surprised British researchers because the device had been launched by a Iran-aligned group from Lebanon, making the incident the first tangible evidence of Russian military technology used in an attack within the regional conflict. In Xataka Satellite images have revealed that Iran knocked down four of the US’s eight unique defense systems. If they reach zero a new war begins The track that connects two wars. The Kometa-B system is not just any component. It is about of a module which had already been detected in drones intercepted on the Ukrainian front, where Russia uses it to improve the navigation of its weapons against Western electronic warfare systems. Finding it inside a drone that ended up exploding in a European military base suggests that some of that technology has come out from the Ukrainian theater of war and has reached the military ecosystem surrounding Iran. That technical detail has opened a new line of concern among Western intelligence services: the possibility that Moscow is providing equipment, electronics or technical knowledge that is increasing the effectiveness of Iranian attacks and those of its regional allies. An alliance that is becoming closer. The discovery fits within a strategic relationship which has been deepening since the start of the war in Ukraine. During the early years of the conflict, Iran provided Russia with technology to make drones of Iranian design (especially variants of the Shahed model) that Moscow has used massively against Ukrainian infrastructure. Over time, Russia began to produce their own versions already introduce improvements electronics and navigation. Now the indications are that some of that cooperation could have been invested: Components or systems developed in the Russian military industry would appear in weapons used by militias aligned with Tehran on other fronts. {“videoId”:”x89xg5y”,”autoplay”:false,”title”:”American aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford – CVN 78″, “tag”:”Ships”, “duration”:”145″} Russian intelligence in the shadows. He discovery of the drone It also coincides with information from Western officials who claim that Moscow has been providing Iran with intelligence information on US military positions in the Middle East, including the location of warships and aircraft. I counted the weekend in an exclusive the Washington Post that such support could explain the increasing precision of some recent attacks against Western military infrastructure and radar systems. Iran has limited space capabilities, with very few of its own satellites, so access to data from Russian observation systems would be a significant advantage for planning more selective attacks. In 3D Games Children under 5 years old in 2026 will never have to work, according to Vinod Khosla. This is what the great era of AI abundance has in store for us Regional conflict with echoes of global war. If you also want, the appearance Russian technology in an attack against a British base suggests that the war in the Middle East could be becoming increasingly intertwined with the strategic confrontation that already exists between Russia and the West since 2022. For Moscow, an escalation that keeps the United States and Europe focused on another front may have strategic advantagesfrom the distraction over Ukraine to the rise in oil prices. Although the Kremlin has avoided getting directly involved in the war, and even Trump maintained in the last hours a first conversation telephone with Putin, the presence of your technology on the battlefield and suspicions about intelligence sharing point to a familiar pattern of indirect conflict: a scenario in which great powers do not fight each other openly, but their weapons, their data and their influence begin to appear in increasingly unexpected places and uncomfortable. Image | National Police of UkraineRAF/MOD In Xataka | The US has begun to take on one last suicidal mission: enter Iran to remove a 441 kg buried “treasure” that gives meaning to the war In Xataka | The war in Iran has confirmed what was sensed in Ukraine: battles are won long before the first missile is launched (function() { window._JS_MODULES = window._JS_MODULES || {}; var headElement = document.getElementsByTagName(‘head’)(0); if (_JS_MODULES.instagram) { var instagramScript = document.createElement(‘script’); instagramScript.src=”https://platform.instagram.com/en_US/embeds.js”; instagramScript.async = true; instagramScript.defer = true; headElement.appendChild(instagramScript); – The news The United Kingdom has opened the kamikaze drone that exploded at the European base. The surprise is capital: it is not from Iran, it is “made in Russia” was originally published in Xataka by Miguel Jorge .

Meta just bought one designed for AI agents

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If we look back, the history of social networks is deeply linked to a very specific idea: connecting people. For years, platforms like Facebook were presented as places to keep in touch with friends, family or co-workers. That logic is still present, but the panorama is beginning to incorporate new actors. Meta has confirmed the acquisition of Moltbook, a platform created for artificial intelligence agents to interact with each other within a social network-like environment. The purchase. We are facing an agreement that does not go unnoticed. As part of the transaction, Moltbook creators Matt Schlicht and Ben Parr will join Meta Superintelligence Labs, the AI ​​unit led by Alexandr Wang, former CEO of Scale AI. The company has not revealed the economic conditions of the operation, but a spokesperson told TechCrunch That the arrival of new talent opens new avenues for AI agents to work for people and companies, and their approach to connecting agents represents a novel step in a rapidly evolving space. A social network for agents. What differentiated Moltbook from other platforms was precisely its approach. Instead of focusing on human profiles, the site allowed AI agents to post messages and interact with each other within a forum-like format. Many of these agents used OpenClawa tool that connects models like Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini or Grok with common messaging applications, including iMessage, Discord, Slack or WhatsApp. That combination turned Moltbook into a very striking experiment within the technological world, to the point of leaving the most specialized circle. An experiment with risks. The rapid popularity of Moltbook also exposed some major problems. Security researchers discovered that the platform had flaws that allowed human users to impersonate AI agents and publish messages as if they were autonomous systems, so that the environment designed for interaction between agents was not as solid as it seemed. Wiz also detected a vulnerability that exposed private messages, more than 6,000 email addresses, and more than one million credentials. open question. All this leaves an open question that still does not have a clear answer: how will Meta leverage this purchase in its artificial intelligence strategy. While there are clues, he has not explained how exactly he plans to use this project within his products or research. What we do know is that the operation comes at a time when large technology companies are competing for talent, tools and new ideas around autonomous agents. Images | Dima Solomin | Moltbook In Xataka | OpenAI is hitting the brakes with Stargate. The reason: Oracle builds yesterday’s data centers with tomorrow’s debt

Lola Lolita has 13 million followers and Carmen Maura has four Goyas. And the festivals are clear about who goes to the red carpet

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The presence of content creators and influencers at the Goya and the Malaga Festival, where they move like fish out of water, has a reason for being and an economic justification, which has generated considerable controversy. The episode of Ona Gonfaus, unable to name a Spanish film at a film festival dedicated to Spanish cinema, has condensed everything that is happening with surgical precision. Although beyond that there are also uncomfortable questions that the actors are not willing to ask themselves. Goyas without actors. On February 28, 2026, the 40th edition of the Goya Awards was held in Barcelona. Posh influencers such as Dulceida, Laura Escanes, Marina Rivers and Jessica Goicoechea walked the red carpet. The actress Yolanda Ramos saw it from homein pajamas: “Except when I was nominated and the following year, neither before nor since have I ever been invited.” A few days before, Marc Biarnés had published a video asking, bluntly, what certain influencers were up to on Spanish cinema night. Norma Ruiz, who in 2025 had filmed four films, I had not received an invitation either.. It took a week for the spark to catch fire at the Malaga Festival. What happens in Malaga. The 29th edition of the Malaga competition, dedicated to Spanish cinema, opened on March 6 with the debate still hot. The media took advantage of the red carpet to take the pulse of the sector. Carmen Maura summed it up with no room for interpretation: “influencers seem very good to me, but they don’t make films.” The director Isabel Coixet signed a column of opinion in which he compared the precarious situation of many creators in the industry with the preferential treatment given to influencers. Ona Gonfaus arrives. The Catalan influencer paraded on the red carpet of the Cervantes Theater on Friday, March 7, when a reporter asked him to recommend a movie. “I don’t know now… a movie about what?” he responded. The journalist insisted: “a Spanish one, since we are at the Malaga Film Festival.” Gonfaus proposed “the new Eight surnames.” He was referring to ‘Eight Moroccan Surnames’, released in December 2023 and which, obviously, had no link with the festival’s programming. The singer Olivia Bay, who I only remembered ‘La casa de papel’. The background mechanism. The Film Academy does not improvise these invitations, although it does not completely control them either. Agency sources confirmed that content creators who attend events like the Goya do so “associated with the sponsors.” The brands that advertise have the possibility of bringing guests to the event with the greatest media coverage of Spanish cinema, and they want their ambassadors there. photocall. In most cases, the influencers They don’t even access the auditorium: they generate content for Instagram or TikTok and follow the gala from annex spaces, not from the stalls. The importance of influencer. The third edition of the ‘Influencer Economy’ study, Published in February 2026 with data from 154 million pieces of content, it confirms that Spain has 285,000 active creators with more than 10,000 followers on Instagram and TikTok. The volume of sponsored content grew by 73% on TikTok and 45% on Instagram during 2025. The previous year, the influencer marketing business had already grown by 40%. It is obvious that there is an amount of money at stake that is beyond what the Spanish film industry can move. The uncomfortable truth. There is an argument that the actors avoid formulating directly, although it is implicit in the entire controversy: a good part of the influencers of lifestyle They are, right now, better known than most of them among the public between 16 and 25 years old. Lola Lolita He has 13.3 million followers on TikTok and 4.3 million on Instagram. Marina Rivers exceeds 7.9 million on TikTok. The reach of its daily publications frequently exceeds the total number of spectators that any Spanish film of the year has had in theaters. Of course, acting and accumulating followers are very different things, but it certainly explains why brands prefer that presence on red carpets: the return in impressions is incomparably more substantial. And it also explains why the organization of a festival that depends on sponsors cannot do without them. The number of followers it doesn’t explain everythingbut it is still the metric with which brands decide where to invest their quota of invitations. A possible solution. What could be questioned is what type of influencer is invited. There are creators with notable audiences who dedicate their platforms to cinema, regularly recommend Spanish films and know the industry inside out. But it’s not those (as Javier Ibarreche, Javi Ponzoeither It’s not a movie) to those who invite the Goya or the Malaga Festival. Profiles of lifestyle who have never published anything related to the medium, and whose presence advertises cosmetics, fashion or travel brands. A film influencer with a million followers who knowingly recommends a film from the festival would be doing something more valuable than inviting someone who cannot name a title when asked on the red carpet. But perhaps it is too much to demand a balance between economic performance and going beyond ‘Three Moroccan surnames’. In Xataka | 24 hours running in a showcase: Verdeliss’ latest challenge reminds us that impossible challenges are huge business

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