Month: August 2025

Someone cut five submarine cables in the Baltic. Finland already points as responsible for a ship of the “shade fleet”

by

In the middle of Christmas, five submarine cables that connect Finland and Estonia were damaged. According to the Finnish Prosecutor’s Officeit was a deliberate act: an oil tanker dragged its anchor for about 90 kilometers and cut the electric interconnection Estlink 2 and four telecommunications cables. More than seven months later, on August 11, 2025, The Prosecutor’s Office presented positions For aggravated damage and aggravated interference in communications against the captain and two officers of the Eagle S ship, a ship linked to the call “shadow”That the European authorities associate with the elusion of restrictions on Russian crude. On the night of December 25, 2024, the Estlink 2 link stopped operating suddenly and, shortly after, failures were detected in four data cables that cross the same section of the Gulf of Finland. The service did not collapse thanks to alternative routes, but the technical impact was immediate and the authorities opened an investigation focused on the trajectory of a ship that sailed near the affected area. 90 kilometers groove at the bottom of the Baltic. The damage pattern was unequivocal: a prolonged groove in the seabed that coincided with the passage of the Eagle S. The researchers point out that The trajectory of the ship registered in the navigation data flashes with the damaged areas. Police recovered an anchor whose location coincided with the Eagle S route and with the detected groove, information between the evidence that motivated the accusation against the three officers. A cable that transports 650 megawatts under the sea. Estlink 2 is a high voltage electrical interconnection in direct current that joins Finland and Estonia for the seabed. He entered into market operation in December 2013 and was inaugurated in 2014; Its capacity reaches 650 megawatts and its function is to balance the electrical demand between the two countries. After the cut, Fingrid and Elering activated contingencies to maintain stability, and the link returned to the market at 01:00 of June 20, 2025 after repairs. In addition to the power grid, Four telecommunications cables were damagedaffecting part of data traffic between Finland and Estonia. Among the impacted operators are Elisa, Cinia – of public majority ownership – and a cable managed by CITIC. The repair work began days later and extended several weeks; According to the Prosecutor’s Office, the owners have assumed at least 60 million euros in direct repair costs, without relevant impacts on end users thanks to the alternative routed. An old acquaintance under magnifying glass. He Eagle s It is an oil company registered in the Cook Islands that sailed from the Russian port of UST-Luga with oil products and was detected in the vicinity of the affected area. Several media place their property in Caravella Llc Fzbased in United Arab Emirates. The ship appears in the so -called “Shadow Flot”, formed by boats with opaque structures that have continued to operate despite the restrictions. The European Union included Eagle S on its list of ships sanctioned on May 20, 2025. Can Finland judge it? The debate on jurisdiction. The defense claims that the cuts occurred outside the Finnish territorial waters. Because of this, Reuters pointsthe country would not have competence to prosecute the crew. The Prosecutor’s Office appeals to the territorial effect: the consequences occurred in Finland, in the electricity and communications, and that would justify the criminal action. Helsinki’s court now has the task to decide on competition and, where appropriate, set procedural deadlines. The result of the judicial decision will mark the next chapter of the case. If the Court accepts Finnish competition, the process against Eagle S officers will be a milestone in the European response to attacks against critical infrastructure. Images | HTM (Wikimedia Commons) In Xataka | The USA opened the way and China took note: it is updating its fleet with ships that have electromagnetic catapults

The horchata is one of the staples of the Spanish summer. Now faces an existential threat in Valencia: pests

by

As soon as the heat squeezes in summer, there is no more emblematic image in the Valencian Community than terraces full of high and cold horchata vessels: few drinks better represent the Mediterranean identity. But after that refreshing tradition a crop as fragile as essential is hidden: the chufa. A stain expanding. For years, this small tuber has been the economic engine of much of the Valencian garden. Its cultivation, located mainly in L’Horta Nord, not only gives flavor to summer, but also work, identity and landscape. However, As denounced by the Valencian Association of Farmers (Ava-Asaja)the cultivation of the chufa is going through an unprecedented crisis: despite the high demand and the stability of prices at origin, profitability collapses. In data. The situation is clear: in just a decade, production costs have risen 40 %, while productivity has fallen by 25 %, As explained in the press releaseAs a consequence, this year a thousand hanegades have been cultivated less than the previous one, which represents a 15 % reduction in the surface dedicated to the chufa. The Chufa de Valencia is cultivated in some 16 municipalities of L’Horta Nord, where They produce approximately 5.3 million kilos of chufa Dry a year, of which 90 % have a denomination of origin. In total, the crop occupies about 600 hectares with an estimated production of 7,300 tons. Although the figures may seem modest nationwide, the chufa is a characteristic culture of the area and key to hundreds of Valencian families. A plague with fifteen years of history. One of the main factors that Chufa production is putting in check is the disease known as “black spot.” This condition, which is manifested in the skin of the tuber, reduces its commercial value and multiplies the destroys (product that must be discarded in the dryers for not complying with the standards). First detected for fifteen years – coinciding with the first plantations of African chufa seeds on Valencian soil, According to Ava-Asaja-, the disease is still well characterized. In statements collected by Europa PressThe Agrarian Organization regrets that the Ministry of Agriculture has not provided the sector with “sufficient information about the type of disease, the causes of its introduction or the effective methods to combat it”. Therefore, they ask the Valencian Institute for Agricultural Research (IVIA) to intensify their studies to improve the control of this plague, whose incidence is increasing. A weed that sweeps everything. To the threat of black spot is added a more recent but equally worrying problem: the appearance of an invasive weed in the Chufa fields. As Ava-Assaja has denounced-In information also collected by Levante-EMV-, This species could have been introduced through chufas from third countries prosecuted in laundries of the Valencian garden. The difficulty of this problem is that the weed has the same vegetative cycle as the chufa, which prevents using herbicides without damaging the crop. In addition, its manual extraction is ineffective, since unmovered fragments can re -root the following year. “Being a more vigorous plant than cultivation, you can infest whole fields,” The Agrarian Organization to the Valencian media has warned. The result is devastating: lower performance, more manual work without results and, in many cases, fields that must cease to be temporarily cultivated by the impossibility of eradicating the plague. The future of crop, at stake. Given this scenario, Ava-Asaja has asked administrations an urgent and sustained action plan in time. The proposal includes short -term measures to contain immediate damage, as well as a long -term strategy to guarantee the viability of the crop: new phytosanitary solutions, biological research, control of imported material and aids to compensate for cost overruns. Antonio José Gimeno, responsible for the Sector of Chufa in Av-Asaja, The Levante has been clear in the middle: “If the citizens want to have a living garden, crops such as the chufa must have a dignified and lasting profitability. And that necessarily goes through solving problems as pressing as the black spot and this invasive herb that are reducing productivity to historical minimums.” But is this crisis reversible? Yes, but time runs. The crop still has a future thanks to its economic value and the growing national and international demand. Horchata, healthy eating, natural cosmetics … All these sectors trust the Valencian Chufa. But without production, there will be no raw material. As Gimeno said: “Little will it serve that demand and price are maintained if we do not manage to get sufficient production in the fields.” A warning beyond the chufa. The chufa crisis is not an isolated case. It is the sign of what can happen when the primary sector does not have the investment, research and policies necessary to protect it. What happens today with this tuber can be repeated tomorrow with other crops if it does not act on time. Keeping alive the garden is not just a matter of profitability: it is preserving a landscape, a way of life and a cultural heritage that has defined the Valencian Community for centuries. Image | Dorieo Xataka | Every summer fires ravage to Spain. There is a usual guilty that goes unnoticed: old tractors

Justice has annulled it

by

A medical visitor from Galicia, with productivity awards and a salary of almost 5,000 euros per month, was fired after his company’s decision to put a Private detective to control you. He accused him of working just 90 minutes a day when he said he did much more. But justice has made a decision that radically contradicts the criteria followed by the company. The detective stopwatch that has not served at all. This story starts in the spring of 2024, as collects the judicial sentence. The medical visitor who worked for a pharmaceutical company had the task of visits to doctors to sell their new treatments. But after a decline, the company decided to hire a private detective to monitor its movements. The commercial was controlled by all fronts. Both his company car and the tablet he used could register their movements within the working day. But the detective in this case detected important irregularities between what the commercial reported and what really did in its day to day. A demolishing report for the worker. After monitoring from different locations in Galicia, it was seen that the worker said he worked more than he really did. For example, in Vigo the employee reported four hours of work where he visited 12 doctors. The detective timed only an hour and a half of activity in the hospital. The same happened in Ourense, where he spent 45 minutes in a cafeteria, although he points out that he visited four doctors. In the case of Pontevedra and Ferrol, these same patterns were repeated as there were stay times in hospitals much lower than the day and visits that the commercial recorded on its agenda. With this report in the hand, the company concluded that there was an abuse of flagrant trust, since of the 51 visits he said he made, the company, based on surveillance, attributed “five to the most” and proceeded to fire him. Productivity weighs more than GPS. This case reached the high courts and that was where the company’s argument collapsed. The worker’s defense focused not on the hours he physically passed in a hospital, but on the nature of his position and the demonstrated performance. For the Superior Court of Justice of Galicia It is very striking for the company to reward the worker up to 4,000 euros for having great productivity and be an “exemplary worker.” In this way, for judges efficiency is not laziness, since they point out that it is fully compatible to make “visits together”, something that a detective cannot interpret correctly. A pulse between two work models. The TSXG ruling confirms the inadmissibility of the dismissal and forces the company to choose between the worker’s readmission or the payment of compensation that exceeds 118,000 euros. Beyond the particular case, this sentence opens the current debate on the measurement of work. It shows that, at least in judicial field, the idea that monitor connection hours o Physical presence is an obsolete method to evaluate roles based on autonomy and objectives. There are many techniques to avoid time control. This is not an isolated case in the offices, as with Teams where The connection status can be controlled to see who is workingwhich also makes Companies appear to monitor workers who telework. Even in the offices it has been seen as the gene generation makes ‘task masking’ that is literally pretend that you work. Everything so that they do not receive more tasks they already have. And all because evaluating the goals for hours cannot be the most appropriate. It is not an isolated case. There are many companies that follow this same strategy, especially for combat possible false casualties That there are in your template. And it is completely legal, since according to the Private Security Lawdetectives can act in the face of suspicion of fraud in work decline. Images | Hunters Race In Xataka | This worker promised them happy combining three jobs, until he made an error and in a matter of hours was unemployed

Terrausrt’s collapse dragged $ 40,000 million and thousands of investors. Its creator has just confessed deception

by

The South Korean who promised a financial revolution has ended up confessing a fraud of 40,000 million dollars. Do kwon, Terrausd and Luna creator, He declared himself guilty on August 12 in A Federal Court of New York for two positions: conspiracy to commit fraud of raw materials, values and electronic, and electronic fraud. The case exploded in 2022 with the collapse of its cryptocurrenciessold as stable. “What I did was wrong,” He admitted in Sala. As happened with Sam Bankman-Fried and FTX, the market digests the bill of an era of excesses. In his statement, Do Kwon acknowledged having cheated investors by not revealing the role of a trading firm in Terrausd’s recovery. It was part of an agreement with the Prosecutor’s Office of the Southern District of New York that plans to request a maximum penalty of 12 years if it assumes its responsibility. Reuters remembers that Kwon was extradited from Montenegro at the end of 2024 and faced nine positions, including values fraud, electronic fraud and conspiracy to whiten capitals. The admission came almost three years after the collapse of the project. H2: How the ‘PEG’ was manufactured and how it collapsed Unlike other stablcoins backed by real assets, Terrausd was based on an algorithm that interacts with Luna, its sister cryptocurrency. The system allowed to create or destroy tokens from one and the other to maintain parity with the dollar. When Terrausd fell from 1 dollarthey could be changed to the moon, which reduced the offer and, in theory, stabilized its value. All this happened within the call Terra protocolwhich executed these operations automatically. The model depended on the balance between supply, demand and market expectations. The first alarm signal came in May 2021, when Terrausd fell below the dollar. According to prosecutors, Do Kwon said that the system had worked as planned: the algorithm had automatically restored parity. But, as he has recognized now, that version omitted a key detail. Financial Times explains thatActually, Kwon turned to a specialized trading firm that bought millions in Terrausd to hold its price. It was a deliberate and hidden operation that, according to the accusation, allowed to maintain the illusion that the system was solid. A year after the first scare, the system did not endure. In May 2022, Terrausd lost parity again, this time irreversibly. The algorithmic mechanism collapsed: Moon’s mass creation, aimed at containing the fall, caused a spiral that The price of both tokens sank. The collapse devastated with about 40,000 million dollars in market value and affected thousands of retail and institutional investors. The loss of confidence was immediate. What was presented as a robust stablecoin became a symbol of the opposite. The civil aspect of the case was resolved in April 2024, When a federal jury declared To Do Kwon and Terraft Labs responsible for fraud in a lawsuit filed by the SEC. The civil order imposed a sanction of 80 million dollars and permanent disqualification and interdiction measures, including the prohibition of making transactions with cryptoactive. In addition, Terraft agreed to pay 4,550 million in civil resolution. The company had already accepted the bankruptcy process, which conditions payments and leaves part of the compensation. Kwon could spend up to 25 years in prisonbut if it complies with the prosecution, the effective sentence would be significantly lower. The agreement contemplates A maximum request of 12 yearsas long as you collaborate and recognize your guilt. Federal Judge Paul A. Engelmayer will issue a judgment on December 11, 2025. Reuters adds that The Prosecutor’s Office will not oppose Kwon requesting a transfer to another country after serving 50% of his conviction. In parallel, the authorities of South Korea maintain open charges that could be activated once their process ends in the United States. Thousands of people, from small savers to institutional funds, were trapped in the fall of Terrausd and Luna. Since then, Terraft Labs accepted the bankruptcy procedure in the United States, under chapter 11, and advances in the liquidation plan. According to Reutersthe estimate of payments to those affected ranges between 184.5 and 442.2 million dollars, and the exact recoverable amount remains in review. As they are highly volatile assets, the current value is much lower than that they had in 2022. Refunds, if they arrive, aim to be partial and late. Images | FAQX ™ We Mining it. (CC by 3.0) | Art Rachen | Joshua May In Xataka | The US believes that it has control of cryptocurrencies because it is the one that is the most mine. Actually China controls the hardware you are using

Openai’s plan to get more money with GPT-5 has exploded in the face: total back

by

Shitting not only affects streaming. We begin to see indications that the chatbots of AI are no longer so beneficial for users, and they are not for a simple reason: they must be monetizing them. It is what OpenAi has just done when launching GPT-5, a model that promised to be easier to use and powerful than ever, but has ended up returning to what worked with GPT-4. The controversial router. When Openai launched GPT-5, he did it with a great novelty: to raise it as a unique model that adapted only to the needs of each user according to the question we asked him. The router detected if that question was more or less complicated and theoretically activated the most appropriate mode of operation in each case, but there was a problem: Always using the cheapest operating mode. Reverse. People-especially those who used chatgpt-quickly criticized both that decision and the option to use ancient models such as GPT-4O. The mutiny had effectbecause: He has recovered the old models he had killed (such as the aforementioned GPT-4O), although only for payment users Has enabled the function of choosing GPT-5 variant to free users It is a spectacular revenue just when Openai had sold us that unique and off -road model (and its router) as something differential. The options are good. Altman himself explained that from now on Chatgpt users can choose between “Auto”, “Fast” and “Thinking” when using GPT-5. “Most users will want to use a car,” he said, “but additional control will be useful for some.” He also remembered that GPT-4O is again available for payment users and clarified that “if at any time we deactivate it, we will warn with a long time.” Less root, more customizable. The OpenAi CEO also talked about another of the problems that were highly criticized in GPT-5: it was too neutral. Too cold and robotic. That could change very soon because as I said, “we are working on an update of the GPT-5 personality that should be perceived warmer than the current but not so annoying (for many users) as GPT-4O.” In Openai they have understood something important: people love to be able to customize everything they use … although many do not. A GPT-5 hypothesis. In Semiianalysis They have a theory Curious that they would explain the way Openai has launched GPT-5. According to them, the model of the model is not the model, but the router. This component was intended to monetize the service much more and convince users to pass the free service to one of the payment subscriptions. Altman already pointed to that approach. In fact, Sam Altman shared first revealing data on Sunday. The percentage of free users who were using the “reasoning” variant of GPT-5 had gone from less than 1% to 7%, while for Chatgpt Plus users that percentage went from 7% to 24%. That can imply that the basic model was not as good as users expected and preferred to make him think, but there is another striking fact. More subscriptions. According to Semiianalysis, the router and that best behavior when the “thinks” model seems to have convinced many more users, and subscriptions, they point out, have multiplied by 3.5. The router may have caused criticism of intensive chatgpt users, but it also seems to be a key element to try to achieve something OpenAi needs like water: convert free users – it has about 700 million – into paid users. Shit. Openai’s tactics, if really this, is not new. To degrade the free service with respect to the payment usually makes more users go to the payment (in addition to the initial criticisms). We have seen it for example in Netflix: when it began to close shared accounts and put internet ads, it was thrown over and the service seemed to have a complicated future. Today Netflix is more reference than ever and the fucking its service has worked perfectly. You may want to copy the idea in Openai. In Xataka | Sam Altman and Elon Musk hate each other publicly, so Altman has attacked where it hurts most: Neuralink

Humanity has a serious problem with antibiotics. A Spanish researcher has used AI to solve it

by

Artificial intelligence has opened a chest that had been closed almost 4,000 million years. Inside there was no gold, but something much more valuable: an arsenal of molecules capable of fighting superbacteria. This is the result of the team led by the Spanish biotechnologist César de la Fuente at the University of Pennsylvania, which has studied the genome of the arches, one of the oldest lineages of life on earth, to discover a family of antibiotics that has called archesasins. An invisible and increasingly strong enemy. WHO considers the resistance of antimicrobials (RAM) as One of the greatest threats to humanity. Only in 2019 almost 5 million deaths were associated worldwide Due to bacteria that cannot be eliminated with antibiotics because they have developed defenses against them. A threat that is increasing, and that forces us to look for new antibiotics to fight against them. The problem It is especially serious in vulnerable areas such as conflict environments or that have a very fragile health system where the misuse of antibiotics causes these ‘superbacteria’ to appear. And in Spain, something as simple as Take antibiotics to treat a virus or not finish the complete pattern prescribed can also contribute to this serious problem. Archaeas: Extreme rescue survivors. The Archaeas They are unicellular microorganisms that are really ‘strong’. They are evolutionary premiums of bacteria, but form their own life domain, together with bacteria and eukaryotes (the group where we find the cells we have in our body or in plants). They were born in the primitive earth, a hostile environment that forced them to adapt to live in conditions that would kill most living beings, with temperatures greater than 80 degrees, extreme acidity or the great pressures that were in the oceanic funds. Its resistance is our great advantage. Precisely seeing that these bacteria could survive the most inhospitable places, he gave rise to the research team to search among their defense mechanisms. And it was the key. César de la Fuente himself He explains it Thus to El País: Since the discovery of penicillin, the search for new antibiotics has been practically focused exclusively on bacteria and fungi. With our work, this paradigm changes because we find antibiotics in a domain of virtually unexplored life. An AI to look for molecular treasures. To be able to search among the more than 20,000 species of different arches, the team had to develop an AI with ‘Apexoracle‘To be able to find what they were looking for. And he did. The AI identified 90 candidate compounds that gathered the criteria they were looking for and of these, 93% were those that showed antimicrobial properties. In this way, a lot of time were saved. Archaeasins: The new artillery against superbacteria. Among the discovered compounds, one of them was the archeanine-73. This has demonstrated in models In vivo That has a power comparable to polymixin B, an antibiotic that is on the last step of antibiotic therapy when literally used as a last resort in a superbacteria. And here the future opens up to a new batch of antibiotics that allow us to continue surviving ultra -vertrassing bacteria. It is not the only way, but it is a revolutionary. This strategy of combining computational power with biology is a field in full boiling. We are seeing it with ia that are used to detect pancreatic cancer early, predict breast cancer either be a general help for any radiologist. And in the field of research, they also continue to support even to know why a superbacterial did not respond to a treatment. Images | Danilo.Alvesd Myriam Zilles In Xataka | Some engineers have simulated 500 million years of evolution with an AI. Now we have a fluorescent protein

We believed that the heat wave was over. Aemet warns that, in reality, we still have the worst ahead

by

The heat wave that affects the peninsula is leaving shocking data. Yesterday, three of the weather stations of the State Meteorology Agency (AEMET) collected maximums above the 45º Celsius, with 55 registering more than 42º. Two records of record. On August 11 and 12 they beat, According to Aemettwo temperature records. With an average temperature that touched the 29th in peninsular Spain, this month has seen on August 11 and 12 more than at least 1950. In fact, they are among the warmer days registered in August: only three times the 29th Celsius barrier has been overcome. On August 12, it was also the hottest day than is going 2025. If they are fulfilled The agency’s forecaststhe first twenty of August will be the warmest in peninsular Spain since there are records, exceeding a few tenths the previous registry (of 2003), and for more than one degree the next highest record, last year. From Seville to Badajoz. Yes Let’s go to the most extreme caseswe can find the 45.2º of the weather stations of Seville, Tablada and El Granado (in Huelva), or the 45.5º collected in Badajoz. Another striking fact were the high minimum temperatures: 29.7º in Osuna (Seville), the highest in peninsular Spain (in Gran Canaria there were thermometers that did not fall from the 30). A number that does not want to leave. The answer to the question of “what is happening” has to do with atmospheric stagnation a “synoptic configuration continues quite stationary”, In Aemet’s words. A dorsal anchored on the peninsula That allows the entry of warm and dry air from Africa, as well as the high degree of insolation propitiated by summer and stable skies, are main responsible for a heat wave that is not only being intense, also long. The latest update of Aemet’s forecasts indicate that this exceptional situation will last at least until Monday 18. The “more likely” scenario is that the entrance of a fresh air mass from the Atlantic serves to relieve the situation, but there are still a few days left for us to know greater certainty when and how the end of this heat wave will be given. What can we expect. Meanwhile, what can we expect? After a kind of brief respite today, Aemet foresees A new increase in temperatures tomorrow Thursday, a more marked ascent in Galicia, where the thermometers can exceed 38º. On Friday this ascent will be extended throughout the north, where orange notices are already planned due to an important risk derived from high temperatures. In Xataka | Every summer fires ravage to Spain. There is a usual guilty that goes unnoticed: old tractors Image | ECMWF

break the computer market

by

Apple has done very well The transition to Apple Silicon. Your products, widely well valued for their power and efficiencythey have managed to sell very well, which has made the company go from 5.8% world market share to 8.7% of the first quarter of 2025, according to IDC figures. In Cupertino they want more, and the last plan to enhance sales goes through A cheaper macbook. Filtration. Ming-Chi Kuo is one of the analysts who has the best history of successes in terms of rumors of upcoming Apple launches, And predicted that the company prepares a cheaper “macbook” and colors. There are no surprises on the screen: it would be “approximately 13 inches.” However, it points to something they had not yet done from Cupertino, using an iPhone processor in a Mac. And Apple would choose the A18 PRO with which the iPhone 16 Pro and 16 pro max. The price. Digitimes, another medium with very good sources with regard to Apple, has gone further that Kuo and already offers a tentative price for this launch: $ 599. It is the same price chosen by Apple to market the cheapest MAC in history by adjusting for inflation, the Mac Mini M4. And also the same as iPhone 16E. In both products, the Spanish price without discounts is 709 euros. And that price would be groundbreaking for the global PCs market, such as It has been for smartphones. To put the figures in perspective. Apple’s “cheap” macbook, antonomasia, was launched at $ 1,099 in 2006, which implies a price of about $ 1,700 of 2025 updating inflation. Adjusting the price of that model to euros of 2025, the “blanquito” stays at 1,569 euros (and it must be remembered that VAT was 16% until its rise in 2009). Apple’s cheapest laptop sold in Spain was the 2009 variant, marketed for 879 euros (1,215 euros of 2025). Why it is important. Apple has managed to hit a bite to the PC market with very competitive laptops in its segment like the MacBook Air, especially Now that they are already base equipped with 16 GB of RAM. And he has achieved it without teams considered economical, but with the lowest prices in its history. Rancing an economic macbook at Mini prices, Apple would sell between 5 and 7 million units in 2026, according to Kuo. The Macbook Air M4 starts from $ 999, the same as the M1 departed and previous models with Intel. But adjusting inflation, its price is lower than those. The MAC Mini M4 is now 599 dollars, compared to $ 825 by adjusting the inflation of the original MAC Mini, which reached the market in January 2005 by 499. That just is the price at which they sell the Mini M4 for the educational market, where this new team would have a huge asset given the capabilities of the team. “A nightmare for Microsoft“In Windows Central They have it clear. The $ 599 are bad news for a Microsoft that in October faces one of the critical moments of the decade: The end of Windows 10 supportthat still has more users than Windows 11 in countries like Spain, and hundreds of millions of users in the world. Given this situation, Microsoft Clara: Buy a new PC. In the market there is no PC that offers the lightness, power and efficiency that Apple aims to have in its economic MAC, and Similar proposals with Snapdragonthe chip that rivalize with mthey are in a few more euros. At the peak of the 400 euros netbooksApple presented its own alternative, the iPad. Steve Jobs said there was no place in the company’s family for economic laptops. When launching the iPad, Jobs explained why they did not launch a cheap laptop (netbooks, at the time) for being slow and having poor quality. In 2025 there is not so much sacrifice. Iphone brain, more than capable for a Mac. The fear of reading “iPhone chip” is that it is not powerful enough to move macos (and their needs) with ease. The reality is different, if we attend to the numbers. Currently, an M1 chip remains more than enough to perform even heavy tasks in the system. And the A18 pro is more powerful in any CPU metric: A18 PRO M1 Difference in favor of the A18 Pro Geekbench 6 (single core) 3429 2345 +46.23% Geekbench 6 (Multi Core) 8790 8348 +5.29 % Geekbench 6 metal (GPU) 32686 33073 −1.17% 3DMark Steel Nomad Light Unlimited (GPU) 1541 1892 −18.55% In GPU, as we see, using metal, it is somewhat less powerful. And in a gaming test executed in equal resolution, such as Steel Nomad Light Unlimited, the A18 Pro is left more than 18%. In Single Core, the A18 Pro is also more powerful than the M2 and M3. And that is the most relevant section to move an operating system with ease, as well as what we do most today with the PCs, navigate the web. Prepared for AI. Although the A18 Pro and the M1 have a 16 -core neural Engine, the advances in architecture and in lithography of the iPhone chip allow obtaining From 50% more yield until the triple of the M1 offers the same processes. Clearly, except for Gaming, we are facing a more suitable chip for the needs of computer science in 2025. Huge autonomy potential. M1 is a legendary chip for The autonomy that brought the Macbook Air and Pro They arrived equipped with him. If Apple does not cut in the old air watts, the gain in autonomy can be immense, as the A18 PRO is manufactured by TSMC in the second generation 3 NM node (N3P), compared to the 5 NM first generation of the M1. Yes, but. A Macbook with an A18 Pro sounds very good, until we remember that it would be launched with an economic approach, and that in Apple usually comes accompanied by cuts, sometimes irrelevant, and sometimes painful. A first aspect … Read more

The Canary Islands will tend an underwater cable to Morocco. If Morocco decides to extend it, Spain will have a problem

by

An underwater cable of 49 million euros will connect the Canary Islands with Africa, but it will stop just where the legal problem begins: the border of the Western Sahara. What is happening. The Ring of the East islands will first join Gran Canaria, Lanzarote and Fuerteventura with the latest generation fiber. Then it will jump to the African continent, to Tarfaya, the last Moroccan city before the West Sahara. The Canarian government It has been clear: “The cable goes to Tarfaya, it has nothing to do with Western Sahara.” But Morocco has other plans. His government wants to extend that connection to what he calls his “South Provinces”, the euphemism with which he refers to the Saharawi territory since 1975, when Spain abandoned it. Why is it important. Submarine cables are Internet highways. 99% of data traffic between continents travels through them. This project promises to make the Canary Islands a digital node between Europe and Africa. But there is a huge legal problem. The EU Court of Justice considers any economic activity in the Western Sahara without consent of the Polisario Front, recognized by the UN as representative of the Saharawi people. And the Polisario He has already warned: If the cable reaches Saharawi territory, they will go to court. The context. Since Pedro Sánchez supported the Moroccan Autonomy Plan for Sahara in 2022Spain tries to maintain the balance between its economic interests with Morocco and its international legal obligations. This cable puts that test balance. If the infrastructure that Spain finances with European funds ends up facilitating Moroccan expansion in Sahara, could splash Spain with legal problems in European courts. The money trail. The construction has already begun with these numbers: 49 million total budget. 20 million provided by the European Investment Bank. Additional 7.5 million for connection with Tarfaya. In February, Canalink technicians – the Canarian public company that leads the project— Tarfaya visited to study the land and design the submarine layout. The cable will be manufactured in 2025 and will be deployed in 2026. The precedent. It is not the first time that Canary Islands connect with Morocco. Since 2011 There is a cable with Asilahin the north of the country. But that did not generate any controversy because it is far from the territory in dispute. This is different. It reaches the same border of the Sahara. And even if technically stops there, it creates the perfect basis for Morocco to complete what European companies cannot do directly by legal restrictions. The threat. The Polisario Front has a history of victories in European courts. He has lying fishing agreements and agriculture between the EU and Morocco for including resources from the Sahara without its consent. “We will carry out any action to guarantee the rights of the Saharawi people,” He said Abdulah Arabi, representative of the Polisario in Spain. A data cable would be your next goal if you cross the border. And now what. The project will continue because Canary Islands need this connection. The ESSI Spain will be able to maintain the legal fiction that its responsibility ends in Tarfaya. If Morocco extends the cable to the Sahara using the base infrastructure financed with European money, Spain could be found in the midst of another conflict between its economic interests and its obligations with the territory that it abandoned 50 years ago. And this time it will not be for fishing or phosphates, but for the control of the data between two continents. In Xataka | The Google Maps of submarine cables: an imposing interactive map that allows us to know the skeleton of the modern world Outstanding image | TelefónicaGoogle Maps

The best chollos on storage devices for the school

by

August is the month by holiday antonomasia and also to prepare the Back to school September. If you have an old laptop or tablet in which the storage space begins to scarce, these are some of the best chollos on memory cards, hard drives and more storage devices we have found. Samsung T7 SSD 2TB hard drive A portable SSD storage unit is a good option when saving documents and files that are no longer fit on your computer. This Samsung T7 With 2 TB capacity it is now reduced in PCComponentes and you can buy it for 135.99 euros. This portable SSD of the Korean firm allows you to transfer files quickly thanks to its USB 3.2 Gen2 connection. This translates into reading/writing speeds of up to 1,050 and 1,000 MB/s, respectively. It supports falls up to two meters and is compatible with PCMac, Android, video consoles and more. Samsung – External Disco Portable SSD Samsung T7 2TB, USB 3.2. * Some price may have changed from the last review 2TB external SSD If you are looking for a much more compact option, this Orico portable SSD is a good option to take into account. It has one 2 TB capacity And now, you can take it down on Amazon. It is available by 146.24 euros. Its pocket design makes you easily take it anywhere without occupying just space. Allows ultra -grape reading speeds of up to 2,000 MB/s. Is compatible with Windows, iOS and Android and its cable is compatible with USB-A and USB-C port. 2TB external SSD, SSD external hard drive up to 2000 MB/S * Some price may have changed from the last review Western Digital Elements 2TB External Disk 2TB Western Digital is a reference firm in terms of portable hard drives. Now, in Coolmod, we have found this model Western Digital Elements of 2 TB At a totally recommended price: 73.96 euros. Thanks to your connection USB 3.0you can enjoy maximum transfer speeds. Its elegant and light design makes it perfect to take it wherever you want. It is also compatible with USB 2.0. It can be used with Windows and you can reformat for Mac. WD 2TB ELEMENTS, portable external hard drive, USB 3.0, black * Some price may have changed from the last review Sandisk 512GB Extreme Pro memory card Another option to expand the storage capacity of your computer, tablet or smartphone (especially if you work from mobile devices), is a memory card. This Sandisk 512GB Extreme Pro It is one of the best you can buy. Now, it is available for 79.90 euros In Amazon. This memory card from the Sandisk firm allows Download speeds up to 200 MB/S. It is ideal for recording video 4K UHD and sequential photography in Ráfaga mode. It only weighs two grams and occupies very little space, being a perfect option to take it travel. Sandisk 512GB Extreme Pro * Some price may have changed from the last review Pendrive Sandisk ultra luxe Although they had a time of more success, it is true that, even today, pendrives are usually a good cheap option to save files and documents. This 256 GB Ultra Luxe Sandisk now costs in Medamarkt 22.99 euros. This pendrive It presents an elegant design, something that differentiates it from the rest of the market models. Offers Ultra -grape transfer speeds up to 400 MB/S And it also stands out for allowing you to protect your password files thanks to downloadable software. It also allows file recovery in a simple way. Sandisk 256gb ultra luxe flash memory * Some price may have changed from the last review Some of the links of this article are affiliated and can report a benefit to Xataka. In case of non -availability, offers may vary. Images | Sandisk, Samsung, Western Digital and Orico In Xataka | What is the best portable computer to work in 2025. Tips and recommendations In Xataka | This is the gaming tower that I would buy. Computers with better value for money recommended by Xataka

Log In

Forgot password?

Forgot password?

Enter your account data and we will send you a link to reset your password.

Your password reset link appears to be invalid or expired.

Log in

Privacy Policy

Add to Collection

No Collections

Here you'll find all collections you've created before.