Month: February 2025

What are distilled artificial intelligence models and LLM distillation

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We will try to explain in a simple and understandable way What are distilled models When we talk about artificial intelligence. When we talk to you about Install Depseek on the computer We mentioned that there were distilled versions, and other AIs are also being created that are distilled versions of other specific models. We also usually refer to it as LLM distillationto specify that we refer to Large linguistic models either Large Language Modelwhich are those capable of processing the text, understanding what we write and responding to text. Come on, like Chatgpt , Deepseek, COPILOT, Gemini either Grok. What is LLM distillation The distillation of artificial intelligence models is A technique to reduce the size of the modelsreplicating the results and performance you can get with them. Although we are used to using them through applications and web pages, LLM models They consume a lot of space and resources. We do not usually notice because when you use an AI from a website or app, you connect to the servers of large companies where this model is running. But if you wanted to have a complete model installed on your computer, you would need a very powerful processor and a lot of space. The solution to this problem is to create a distilled model, A model trained to occupy less space. This model can replicate most of the performance, but it will be smaller and fast, you will need less resources to work. The way to do it is similar to a teacher and a student. The complete model is a teacher who shares his experience and knowledge with a student, transmitting complex concepts and knowledge. Meanwhile, the student model learns to imitate what is being taught in a simpler and more effective way. With that, lighter models are achieved. Your results will never be so good like those of the teacher, but the main and performance characteristics will remain. Come on, which comes to be a Lite version, a small but light and versatile version. There are different techniques To create distilled models, such as knowledge distillation with final results for the student model to know the decision -making process or use the teacher to generate additional training data. It is also distilled in intermediate layer so as not to transfer only final results but intermediate layers, or use several teacher models to train the student. In general, private companies that create artificial intelligence models are also responsible for creating distilled versions. The normal thing is that a specific name is added to the distilled version, such as the “flash” of Google Gemini or “Mini” of OpenAi. In other cases, especially In open source modelsThey can use the name of the master model for the distillate but adding as a last name the models that have been used as a student. Come on, you can take a smaller model like Qwen and use it to create a distilled version of Deepseek that is called Deepseek qwen, or Deepseek distill qwen, to indicate that it is distilled. Pros and cons of distilled models A complete artificial intelligence model has billions of parameters, and the quantity of space and computer power To execute them it is huge. In a domestic computer you will need technology and tip power, in addition to a lot of space, already level of a companies such as OpenAi or Google that offer their AI by web or app, you need many resources on their servers. Therefore, creating distilled models helps reduce size and occupy less space. But it also allows them to work faster, and that less computational costs are necessary. That makes Google or OpenAi offering you Free “small” versions Of its main models, leaving the most complete for payment users. Because keeping the complete requires money and investment. And if we are talking about an open source model, have distilled versions allows you and I can install them and use them on our computer without having to spend thousands of euros on a new processor, on graphics cards or internal storage. These techniques can also be used to create artificial intelligence models at a lower cost than would involve complete training. For that, you take already created models and train to a new one from their data and their knowledge, and you do not have to perform the process from scratch. However, distilled models do not have the same amount of data and parameters, they are often lower in resources, and More failures and hallucinations may arise. I will give you an example. If you follow our guide to Install Depseek on the computeryou will see that at a certain point you have several versions. You have versions 8bversions 14bor the full version of 671b. This number refers to its characters, and the lower the less resources you need, but more distilled and small will be the model. Therefore, in this example, if you install an Deepseek 8b and a 14B, you will see that The lower model has more hallucinations And it gives you less precise answers. Therefore, the better you have the greater the model will have to be the model, and less distilled it will have to be. The same goes for commercial models. If you are using a 2.0 flash gemini, the results will be worse than the full Gemini 2.0, and the same with the OPENAI O3 and O3 mini. However, the Flash or Mini version is the one offered to all free users, while the complete is for payment users, in order to assume the cost of maintaining these models in operation. In Xataka Basics | Prompts pages: 16 free websites and communities to find ideas for your prompts and find advice to improve them

Nvidia has a very strong and not quite unexpected ally against Depseek: TSMC

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Deepseek has convulsed the industry of the artificial intelligence (AI). The irruption of this free and open source Chinese model has questioned the need to use in training and inference processes Chips for very powerful and expensive. Like those designed by Nvidia, which leads with an unappealable roundness the hardware market for Ia. Even so, just ten days ago Deepseek caused Its market value fell abruptly. Since then the hardware used by this Chinese company has generated a lot of distrust. The Deepseek responsible argue that the infrastructure they have used to train their agglutin model 2,048 chips H800 of Nvidia. And that this process with 671,000 million parameters has cost 5.6 million dollars. However, some analysts defend that these figures do not reflect reality. The very juicy report prepared by SEMIANALYSIS He maintains that, in reality, the infrastructure used by Deepseek to train his AI model approximately 50,000 NVIDIA GPU with Hopper MicroAritecture. According to Dylan Patel, AJ Kourabi, Doug O’Laughlin and Reyk Knuhttsen, at least 10,000 of these chips are GPU H100 of Nvidia, and at least another 10,000 are GPU H800. The remaining chips, according to these analysts, are the cuts cut H20. The TSMC cowos packaging is a very strong support for Nvidia As we have just seen, at the current situation it is reasonable to have doubts about the hardware that Deepseek has used in the training of its model (in inference seems to be using the GPUs Ascend 910c of Huawei). And also about the real cost of this process, which could be much higher than the officially announced by this Chinese company. In any case, Depseek has poured uncertainty about the AI ​​market, and this is the reason why so many US technology companies have lost value. Whatever Nvidia has just received a very strong support from TSMC, which is the semiconductor manufacturer that produces its GPU. And is that, according to Digitimes Asiathis Taiwanese company has decided launch an expansion plan five years long for integrated circuit manufacturing capacity using its advanced cowos packaging technology (Chip-on-Wafer-on-Substrate). According to Beth Kindigof the I/O Fund consultant, this technology will monopolize between 50 and 60% of the market in 2025 compared to 15% it supported during 2024. In 2024 TSMC he officially announced that he was building two cowos packaging plants in the town of Chiayi, housed in southern Taiwan The high demand for GPUs for AI with Blackwell MicroAritectura de Nvidia is largely responsible for the implementation of this plan. The company led by Jensen Huang can respond better to the needs of its customers and will see how its competitiveness is increased in a phase in which Depseek and other Chinese companies represent a challenge. In March 2024 TSMC officially announced which was building two cowos packaging plants in the town of Chiayi, housed in southern Taiwan. However, this is not all. He also shuffled the option to put a plant more specialized in this advanced packaging technology in Japan, presumably on the island of Kyushu, in which This company is building at the moment two semiconductor production plants of avant -garde. In any case, there is something else. And it is that Chiayi plants will be trained to work, in addition to the packaging cowos, with advanced Info and Soic technologies (System on Integrated Chips). It is evident that TSMC wants to cover your back well and look to the future to prevent its production capacity from being threatened by a bottleneck. An interesting note: currently the Cowos packaging is being used with the AMD Instinct Mi250 chips and with the A100, H100, H200, B100 and B200 NVIDIA GPUs, as well as in its derivatives. The review used in these last two chips, the B100 and B200, is known as Cowos-L. In 2025 TSMC will be able to process no less than 60,000 wafers per month using its advanced packaging technology. Image | TSMC More information | Digitimes Asia | Yahoo! Finance In Xataka | Samsung is preparing to give TSMC a bars where it hurts most: the manufacture of the chips for ia

A study has simulated what would happen on Earth if Asteroid Bennu ends up impacting in 2182. The climate we know would not exist

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The chances of crashing an asteroid of “large” category on our planet They are, on average, 0.001%. Therefore, everything that begins to raise that figure begins to be “less” normal. Hence Let’s talk about 2024 YR4 and its 1.6%. That said, and although there are less possibilities that it will occur, due to its size, The Bennu Asteroid It would be one of the most dangerous of the solar system. How much? That is precisely what they wanted to find out in South Korea. Potentially dangerous. The Bennu Asteroid, an object close to the land of approximately 0.5 kilometers in diameter, has been identified as one of the greatest known space threats. His orbit brings him closer to our planet every six years, and although the risk of impact is extremely low (right now it is 0.037%), the possibility of colliding with the Earth on September 24, 2182 has led the scientific community to the scientific community analyze in depth its possible effects. An unprecedented recent study, Posted in Science Advances By researchers at the IBS Institute of Climate Physics of the National University of Pusan ​​in South Korea, it has modeled for the first time the climatic and ecological consequences of an impact of a medium -sized asteroid such as Bennu. The results, of course, are not the best. The legacy of an ancient asteroid. Scientists believe that Bennu detached himself from a larger asteroid, rich in carbon, between 700 million and two billion years ago, progressively approaching the Earth’s orbit. Its composition is of great scientific interest for a simple and fascinating reason: contains key elements for lifewhat motivated NASA’s Osiris-Rex mission to explore it in 2020 and bring samples to Earth in 2023. However, and beyond its scientific value, Bennu represents a real risk that, although unlikely, cannot be ignored. Impact simulation. As explained in the study, South Korean researchers designed Detailed models to analyze how that possible impact of Bennu would affect climate, biodiversity and food security. What did they find? The most extreme scenario revealed that the impact would inject into the atmosphere between 100 and 400 million tons of dust. In other words, more graphic: it would block sunlight and plunge the planet in abrupt cooling. As for the effects, the simulation showed a certainty: They would be global and devastating. Namely: reduction in the average planet temperature in up to 4 ° C, a decrease comparable to the eras glaciers, 15% drop in rainfall, affecting the water supply and agriculture, loss of 32% of the ozone layer , exposing life on Earth to dangerous levels of ultraviolet radiation, and the decrease in photosynthesis by 20-30%, both in terrestrial and sailor ecosystems, which would cause a serious crisis in food production. In short, these combined effects would trigger, according to the study, A winter of impact that would last between three and four yearscausing global famine and an ecological crisis of enormous proportions. Comparison with past events. While a Bennu impact would be devastating, the truth is that the earth has faced major threats. The best known event occurred 66 million years ago, When an asteroid of 10 kilometers in diameter hit what is now Chicxulub, Mexicocausing the extinction of dinosaurs and climatic alterations that endured thousands of years. In comparison, Bennu is significantly smaller, but large enough to cause mass destruction and deeply alter the biosphere. Not just that. Other studies suggest that medium -sized asteroids such as bennu collide with the earth approximately every 100,000 to 200,000 years, indicating that Our prehistoric ancestors could have experienced similar events with impact on human evolution and global biodiversity. Impact on the oceans. Despite the catastrophic effects, Bennu’s impact could generate an unexpected reaction on the oceans. The iron released in the stratosphere would be deposited in the sea, stimulating the proliferation of phytoplankton and zooplanktonessential organisms for the marine food chain. According to the study, while land ecosystems would take two to three years to recover, Marine life could recover in just six monthsand even exceed their levels prior to the impact due to the increase in nutrients. Planetary Defense Strategies. Despite the low impact risk, NASA and other space agencies work on the development of planetary defense technologies. For example, the Dart mission (Double Asteroid Redirection Test)carried out in 2022, he successfully demonstrated the human ability to divert the trajectory of an asteroid, opening the door to future mitigation strategies. And besides Bennu, there are other more immediate threats. For example and as we have explained these days, Asteroid 2024 YR4 has a 1.6% probability of impacting the Earth in 2032which reinforces the need to continue with research and develop effective prevention systems. What does seem clear to this last study is that not only reveals the vulnerability of our planet to cosmic events, but also highlights that need to advance surveillance and planetary defense technology. While the possibility that Bennu or any other asteroid impact the earth is minimal, geological history demonstrates that events of this type have shaped the evolution of life and could happen again in the future. Image | Ghost presentNASA In Xataka | All DNA bases and 14 of 20 amino acids: NASA has found molecules linked to life in Bennu samples In Xataka | Physicists have been looking for a fundamental “fifth strength.” Bennu may have approached us to find her

Online trade was supposed to end the shopping centers. Reality has been just the opposite

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The combination of online trade boom and the Platforms of Ecommerceadded to The misgivings that came from the US and THE MAZAZO The pandemic made the shopping centers face a particular (and threatening) ‘storm’. There was even talk of “Apocalypse of retail“. That is left behind. Or at least this is suggested by the figures that handle the commercial areas of Spain. In addition to grow in sales and activitythey have become an appetizing candy in the eyes of investors, one that moves hundreds of millions of euros in transactions. And there is a round data that demonstrates it: 1,000 million. Complicated years. Pandemia hit enough sectors and business models. And shopping centers They were no exception. Between health restrictions and changes in consumption habits, during the worst years of COVID-19 its managers suffered a Influence collapse of customers and a collapse in Sales. As in other industries, although in the case of large surfaces that scenario was added to another more structural cariz threat: the competition of the Ecommerce and platforms such as Aliexpress. Was who wondered If the shopping centers would have a future in a world in which trade and entertainment changed driven by Amazon or Netflix. In the US they even coined the term “Apocalypse of retail“. From there a fear expanded that He arrived in Europe (and Spain) despite some experts They warned Already at that time that the sector was different here from the American, with an average density of commercial areas lower than that of the US market. From ugly duckling to swan. That scenario seems to be behind. The salmon press carry months suggesting itbut the most forceful test left it a few days ago A chronicle of Five days in which a significant fact is provided: 2025 has started with five operations of sale of shopping centers from Spain to the point of caramel and adding, together, around one billion euros. The data is interesting for its volume. But also because it shows that, despite the catastrophic scenario that was painted years ago, when there was talk of the “apocalypse of the retail“And the threat of electronic commerce, shopping centers continue to interest investors. As suggests The chronicle of Five days, The data suggests that the old “real estate duckling” will become swan. What operations are? These five operations on track and in which relevant news is expected during the first half of the year are starred in centers distributed by the country. The Economic newspaper speaks of Mediterranean space (Cartagena), Corridor Park (Torrejón de Ardoz), the 50% of the capital from Madrid Xanadú (Aroyomolinos), Bonaire (Aldaya) and Alcalá Magna (Alcalá de Henares). Each case has its peculiar, route and actors, but share a common denominator that says a lot from the sector: they all point to draft operations, for high amounts, nine digits. Its sum would in fact around the one billion. And the most curious thing is that the figure does not seem to respond to a specific interest in shopping centers. The AECC data They show that in 2024 there was already progress in relevant transfer and investments for more than 900 million. The key: profitability. It is not surprising that 2025 start with such a scenario. The operations of the shopping centers are moving investmentthe sector It has managed to grow both in billing and in traffic throughout the last year and appraisals – after the scenario that was lived in 2022 and 2023 – are attractive enough to awaken the appetite of investors. The economic return they aspire is also tempting. Five days Precisethat transactions are closing to a profitability between 7 and 8%, which exceeds other assets, such as offices Prime or the house for rent. “The commercial centers market is at an optimal time. Investors are aware that assets offer a ratio between very attractive risk and profitability and we are facing a window of limited opportunity to benefit from these conditions,” He pointed in 2024 Augusto Lobo, Capital Director Markets Retail de Jll Spain. “Again at the radar”. In July the financial firm BNP Paribas Real Estate launched A similar message When talking about Spain. “The shopping centers are again in the radar of investors,” he summed up in Your balance July after remembering that during “a long period” the activity in the sector retail He had focused on other types of premises, such as commercial miles (High Street) or food. The keys to change: good sales and influx figures and “profitability that begin to be attractive.” Throughout the last months they have been published Several balances that They reflectIn fact, shopping centers have thrown out of the sector retailagglutinating a good part of your investment. “In the years before the pandemic it seemed that the segment of physical stores was falling and that the Ecommerce I was going to monopolize the sector as a whole. However, it has been shown that the sector retailIt is very resilient and still has a lot to offer “, Cristina Macarrón commentsfrom Castilana Properties, to Five days. In 2025, with good mouth taste. The shopping centers have started 2025 with a good foot for another reason, beyond the millionaire transactions in the trees: despite the most pessimistic predictions of the “apocalypse of the retail“, In Spain, large surfaces are gaining traffic and billing, a trend that probably also influences investors’ prospects. The last Cushman & Wakefield data They show that sales on these surfaces grew 3.5% in 2024, an increase very similar to that registered in the influx of customers, which was 3.4%. Another positive percentage for the sector is the occupation of commercial spaces, which has reached 95.4% of the GLA, the gross alleged surface. They are good data, especially if one takes into account that in 2023 the sector (commercial centers and parks) had already raised its sales by 9.6% year -on -year, with 52,051 million eurosachieving its historical maximum. Images | Intu xanadú and Welovebarcelona.de (Unsplash) In Xataka | A 109 -meter … Read more

The NFC takes its first big step in Spanish football. Atlético has adopted it to access its stadium

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Atlético de Madrid has just become the first LaLiga club to implement technology NFC To access the stadium. It is good news that in turn uncovers the delay that this technology has had in Spanish football, who has opted much more for the codes QR as an alternative to entries and physical fertilizers. Why is it important. The NFC has been demonstrating more than a decade to be an efficient and safe system in payments and accesses, but Spanish football has remained anchored to the QRs, which have their advantages but slow down the process. The context. Asia or the United States normalized the NFC for a long time for all types of transactions, including access to enclosures and events. In Europe, and especially in Spain, we have maintained a certain resistance to adopt it. The NFC surpasses QR in three fundamental aspects: Speed: Transmission is immediate, without the need for focus or scan. Security: requires physical proximity and a biometric or PIN validation prior to the device. Reliability: It works in low luminosity conditions and does not depend on the brightness of the screen or the print quality. Between the lines. This Atletico movement tells us about the change in Spanish football mentality: technology is no longer just something to use in the field or in the locker room, nor a simple marketing tool: it is an element with which to improve the experience of the fan. The Atlético, in fact, is the first LaLiga club that has all the input and fertilizer formats: physical and digital card with QR, physical entrance or in PDF for mobile, and Wallet both of the fertilizer and the entrance. In Xataka | LaLiga wants your biometric data to enter the field. Europe has something to say Outstanding image | Atlético de Madrid

Elon Musk is applying to the US the same recipe that has applied to all its companies

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Elon Musk did not receive Not a single vote in the elections from the US, neither a dollar from the US government receives. However, many consider him the most powerful person in the country, and has declared war on bureaucracy. Not two weeks ago that Donald Trump was invested as 47th President of the United States, but Elon Musk has had plenty of time to put An army of twenty -year -old engineers Even the kitchen of the US administration. That a private citizen, without an official charge and without obligation to account for anyone, can access classified information has lit all alarms in the country. Elon Musk’s “demon” mode. The “modus operandi” that has shown Doge during its first weeks of operation carries the Elon Musk personal stamp. Just observe minimally what happened when Elon Musk He took Twitter controleliminating functions and dismissing your staff, to find the same pattern in the “control” of Donald Trump that He has executed Doge In the last two weeks. The Millionaire has used this system of harassment and demolition of the structure established in all its companies or projects. Your biographer defined This scenario as “demon mode”, in which Elon Musk orders to stop everything and eliminate all the unnecessary or superfluousregardless of whether some norms or regulations are breached in the process. As he quotes in his biography, Elon Musk considers these operations as “giving things to things and purging all the shit of the interior of the system.” Work in “Extremely Hardcore” mode. When Elon Musk enters that “demon mode” demands a Extreme work commitmentliterally describing it as “Extremely Hardcore”. Again, something we already saw in the landing of Musk on Twitter. Now, Doge’s team is also applying that extreme work discipline and has even mounted sleeping beds in the offices of the Blanca to the White House that became its headquarters, According to sources of The New York Times. As published by Musk, they are working Even weekends. The US is not a company. Elon Musk applied that optimization exercise in Space X when he developed his First Merlin engineswith the Starlink satellites and with the Starship rocket. Tesla also suffered Musk’s “demon mode” when he faced the company bankruptcy If the Production rhythm of your Model 3. Elon Musk even He slept under the table of his office while I found formulas To optimize the assembly line. The millionaire has applied these optimizations in all its companies using a policy of Challenge to regulationswhich left them exposed to sanctions. However, they are private companies and, as such, they must be aware of the risk of incurring these infractions and assuming the consequences. However, what Many wonder in the US It is whether the government of a country can afford that luxury. Doge and officials. One of Doge’s first battles has been against officials, which began when the president He repealed the measures that protected career officials, those who carry out their work in the administration regardless of who governs. Following the same pattern as on Twitter of 2022, it was sent An email more than two million officials under the matter “Fork in the Road” (bifurcation on the road). In that email, They were invited to give up just by responding to the mail in exchange for receiving the equivalent of your salary until September as compensation for dismissal. In 2022, mail trick It did not fullysince the company had to pay compensation to its ex -employed. In this case, it has not been too successful and the measure has been taken before the courts. Some twenty -year -old engineers. Another aspect of Doge’s “control” has been the Young entourage, twenty -year -old They had been doing practices In Elon Musk companies. These “black men” of Doge entered the databases More sensitive from the administration without even showing a government employee credential, since Doge is an external consulting body, not a government agency. In fact, in many cases they refuse reveal their names. To the officials who refused for a group of intruders They had access to the data that the Treasury Department has of millions of citizens, They were withdrawn from service. Treasury Secretary Scott Besent, He had to order To officials that allow access to the Musk team, since, remember, they are not government officials officially. Trump triggered. Doge’s “control” has raised controversy both for its intimidating methods and for the legality of its actions. The recent one Total closure From the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) by Doge has made alarms jump of those who consider that neither Doge nor Donald Trump have the power of Close government agencies. According to him Article 1 of the Constitution That is a prerogative that It must be given from the Congresssomething that has not occurred. Therefore, not only are they being questioned that “the black men” anonymous of Doge act in an opaque way by accessing the most sensitive databases of the government, but also put on the table if the own Trump would be overreach in their functions passing Above Congress’ competences. Citizen Musk. In the midst of all this storm: Elon Musk. A private citizen who does not pay accounts for his acts and only responds to the president, who has given him free way to access all areas of the federal government. Will it cut the funds of NASA, from the SEC or FAA with the same lightness that you have used with USAID? It is difficult to define where the public service of the millionaire actions begins and where its private interests. SPACE X receives huge amounts of NASA money and the increase in missions with the American space agency points to an upward trend in that financing route. In addition, Elon Musk has in his hand the survival of regulation agencies such as FAA that regulates precisely the spacex scope, so it becomes a judge and part, giving rise to a conflict of interest more than evident. Trump He … Read more

How to use Gemini 2.0 Flash and 2.0 Flash Thinking with reasoning on the web or your mobile

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Let’s explain How to use Gemini 2.0 Flash and 2.0 Flash Thinking Experiment on the web and the application of Google AI. In this way, you can use The new models launched by the companyincluding the reasoning, which becomes free for all users. We are going to tell you where you are going to find this option, both in the web version and in the mobile version of Gemini. And we are also going to tell you how to use these models once you have activated them. Change the model that uses Gemini Gemini has an option to choose the model you want to use. In the web version, it is located on the left, and by default you will see that under the name of Gemini the model you are using appears. When you press on the model selector button, A window will open with the available Gemini models. This is where you can choose the normal 2.0 flash model, but also the Experimental Thinking To test the reasoning model, there is even one of reasoning to use with Google applications. This option It is also available in the mobile application. In this case, the models selector is in the upper central part of the screen, and the list of models will open down. When you activate a specific model, it will appear marked in the selection button on the left. In addition, you may have a message warning you of some details about its use. Now, simply Write the prompt you want To interact with this concrete model. And after writing your question, you will have the answer. The Flash Thinking model will show a window with reasoning that has followed step by step before building the answer. You can close this window if you are not interested, and the answer will appear at the bottom. In Xataka Basics | Gemini guide: 36 functions and things you can do with Google’s artificial intelligence

A VPN is ideal to protect us on social networks. Surfshark is one of the best and now it hardly costs like coffee

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It is almost impossible to count the hours we spend on the Internet every day, especially with regard to social networks. It does not matter if it is Instagram, Facebook or Tiktok (for just mentioning some), most of us enjoy a lot of time immersing ourselves for them to hang out or share things with our acquaintances. Internet navigation or these networks, unfortunately, certain risks for our privacy or our information (especially when we use A public wifi network). Therefore, it’s not a bad idea to use A good VPNand although we have several free options that do not work badly, none of them yields as well as surfshark, One of the best options we have available. It’s nothing expensive, but now we have it at a very good price: only 2.19 euros a month. Surfshark Starter Subscription – Monthly * Some price may have changed from the last review Surfshark is the ideal solution to increase the security of our data It is not uncommon to seek information about today and see that there has been a new hacking. This is something that is the order of the dayeven in social networks, where there are few cases of users who suffer robberies of information through them (and in the most serious cases, the total theft of the account). With a VPN, we are winning an extra layer of privacy and safety, whether we use it from our mobile phone and from the PC. In that sense, use surfshark It allows us to maintain the privacy of our IP addresssince it prevents hackers or any entity from monitoring our activity on the Internet. In addition, when using a VPN in our usual use on social networks, we can also have another series of advantages. For example, Tiktok shows us content based on our geolocation, so using surfshark can allow us to discover What kind of videos are popular in other areas of the worldsomething suitable for creators. Eye, Because this plan brings much more withsuch as an advertisement blocker and emerging cookies windows, a generator of personal details and a masked email generator. And all this without counting that we do not have a limited number of devices in which to use surfshark. The usual price of surfshark VPN is 4.85 euros per month, so we would be paying more than 58 euros in a year. If we take advantage of the offer we have available right now, we will only pay 2.19 euros A month, so a full year would cost us just over 26 euros. And be careful because it also comes with three additional months of gift. Some of the links of this article are affiliated and can report a benefit to Xataka. In case of non -availability, offers may vary. Image | Surfshark In Xataka | Why it is dangerous to connect to public wifis and what you should do to protect yourself In Xataka | The best solutions to protect your data and your company’s computer equipment

free access to your reasoning model

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Google has announced he Gemini 2.0 launchtheir new family of AI models. They actually launched experimental versions of Gemini 2.0 Flash in December And above all they showed their preliminary reasoning model, Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking, but now all those movements are consolidated with more mature and stable versions. Best of all, Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking, OpenAi O1 or Deepseek R1is already available as one of the available models In Gemini’s mobile and desktop application. Gemini 2.0 is more “agetic”, and according to Google it can “interact with YouTube, Search and Google Maps.” The company announced these days bittersweet fiscal results: they have more money, users and benefits than ever, But they are on the defensive. SUCTAR PICHAI, CEO of Alphabet, highlighted how the company will invest 75,000 million dollars in AI for 2025, when its CAPEX (capital expenses) in 2023 was 32,300. The decision shows that clear intention to invest but not necessarily to lead, but to try not to be left in front of a competition that also seems willing to spend colossal amounts of money. One of the outstanding notes of this Google announcement is the launch of a Experimental version of Gemini 2.0 Pro. This model, successor of Gemini 1.5 Pro, is more precise and “factual”, and according to Google exceeds clearly to the previous version in programming tasks and mathematics related. Google qualifies Gemini 2.0 pro as “your most capable model so far”, and will be available for GEMINI Advanced subscribers and for those with access to VERTEX AI and AI STUDIO. Together with Gemini 2.0 Pro is Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite, a lighter version that offers more quality in its response than the previous Gemini 1.5 Flash, but that maintains its speed and cost. This model has a gigantic context window (One million tokens) and multimodal support, and for example you can generate a brief description of a line for a set of 40,000 different photos … and all for less than a dollar, indicate those responsible. In Xataka | Google demonstrates what is capable: presents an amazing AF agent who can use the browser for you

It seemed that iOS was unwavering. Until this malware slipped in App Store and started reading screenshots

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Talk about iOS (usually) to be synonymous with Talk about security. But there is no infallible operating system. In the case of Android, we are quite accustomed to the fact that occasionally Some type of malware in Play Storebut in Apple’s application store this is not common. For the first time, a malware capable of reading screenshots has been found in App Store. Is, According to Kasperskythe first case detected of an app published in APP Store capable of using technology to extract image text using Google technology. The Antivirus company has explained that this malware is part of a campaign that sought to attack users to find cryptographic keys. The severity of the matter comes from the distribution method: applications infected with both iOS and Android. In the case of Android, these apps exceeded 240,000 downloads. These apps were varied and did not follow a thematic pattern. Some were “Chat AI”, other Delivery apps, others of messaging … Some of these applications had thousands of downloads in the Apple application store. What was its operation? In both cases, the same. Apps executed technology OCR of Googlea Google Cloud solution capable of recognizing text automatically. Once we gave apps gallery permits, they were able to look for text in our images and send it to the server. Thus, the attackers were made with cryptocurrency wallet passwords or with phrases and recovery codes of any app. From Kaspersky they affirm that “they cannot confirm with certainty that the infection has been the result of an attack on the supply chain or a deliberate action of developers.” Similarly, they point out that there may still be apps with this malware available in application stores. As we always indicate from Xataka, it is crucial not to give gallery permits to apps in which we do not trust 100%. Image | Xataka In Xataka | How to detect and eliminate malware with MSRT, the hidden Windows 10 and 11 tool

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