Month: August 2025

What you will do is talk to him

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Microsoft knows that the mouse and keyboard can be two news. PCs and laptops still make sense, but want to prepare them with a Windows version that is adapted to what is coming. And what is coming is AI and voice. So they are starting and they already have their particular vision of what Windows will be like in 2030. Of mouse and keyboard, (little o) nothing. “The world of mice and keyboards will be as strange then for people as it is now more for generation Z”. This blunt was David Weston, director of Microsoft, In a video posted this week by the company with the title “2030 Vision” (something like “our vision of how 2030”). This executive explained that the Windows operating system will probably be very different from the one we have now. At least, in its use interface. Multimodal Or what is the same: voice. Weston also highlighted how “the future version of Windows will interact multimodal. The computer will be able to see what we seehear what we hear and we can talk to him and ask for much more sophisticated things. “Voice interaction will undoubtedly be one of the keys, and although the mouse and the keyboard will continue to have relevance, it is likely that the progression is clear: we will use them less because what we will do, simply, is to ask Windows things. Machine, do this for me. Thus, on the one hand We can ask simple things As “the resolution changes to 1920×1080”, “Open Slack”, “Write an email with the following text”, and for another more complex things such as “organizes a weekend in Salamanca and reserve the hotels and restorative after my confirmation” or “creates a presentation with Canva with the data of this document.” In these requests there will probably moments in which the user continues to intervene to correct or confirm tasks within the sequence that the system executes autonomously. An agricultural Windows. And it is that the key component of that future Windows will be an agricultural AI capable of chaining tasks autonomously to complete processes that a user asks. AI agents They already begin to show their potential in this regard, and we have seen that both those present in the PERPLEXITY CUTE browser and in Chatgpt agent They are able to see what we see on screen and act accordingly by moving the mouse or typing when necessary. Even They exceed some captchas If they need it! A feasible, but uncertain vision. The advance of AI is frantic, but AI agents They are not fulfilling for the moment With expectations and according to some studies they fail in the 70% of tasks. In this type of automated processes, the danger is also that of the compound error: by chaining actions, if there is an error in one of them, that error is becoming greater in each next phase. The risks are huge in all types of scenarios, but they are even more if users begin to use that capacity for delicate tasks with sensitive data of the type “Make me the income statement”. Nadella already warned it. More than a year ago Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft, already pointed to that future. He did it when he intervened in the Snapdragon Summit 2023, where said that “it will radically change what an operating system is, the aspect of a user interface and how it interacts with applications.” The browsers threaten. That agricultural interaction We are already beginning to see with the browserswhich are often the center of our experience with PCs and laptops, and that are gradually integrating those automation capabilities with AI agents. Both chatgpt agent and Perplexity Comet They show it, and Google is also preparing to do something similar in Chrome. It is expected that in Microsoft They also apply The story with Edge, which has long integrated Copilot. However, Microsoft’s vision is broader and affects the entire operating system, not just the browser. Image | Microsoft In Xataka | The GPT-5 paradox: OpenAi needs the greatest jump in the history of AI just when it seems most impossible

The best of the model is where it must always have been

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GPT –4.1, GPT –4.5GPT-4.1-mini, O4-mini, O3, O3-PRO. If these names do not sound at all, you are not alone. Despite its popularity, a large part of the users of Chatgpt He never touched the model selector. Some knew that he was there, but beyond a brief description in the drop -down, few really understood what each one served. And yet they used it daily. Most likely, for months you have lived with the default base model –GPT -4Othe one Openai described as “ideal for most tasks” – without exploring anything else. Someone may ever try, just to discover that the results were not so different or that that was not what he was looking for. In the end, everything remained in the hands of a few advanced users, those who knew how to squeeze those other models to obtain better results. The model selector was a wall for many For a long time, using chatgpt meant making a decision that not everyone was prepared to take. What model choose? Which was better to program? And to write? What if I needed to analyze data? Openai offered a list, a brief and, hopeless description, some generic recommendation. But the only real way of understanding nuances was to experiment. Change model, try, compare results, change again. A process that demanded time and criteria. In an environment where we ask for immediate results, that was an invisible but real barrier. The majority stayed where he was. And the most curious thing is that even paying the subscription, many never used the options that were included. You don’t have to choose anymore. With the arrival of GPT –5, The model selector disappears for free users and loses relevance even among payment. Openai has designed a system that decides by the user: the new model knows when he has to think more and when he is not needed. If the task requires complex reasoning, GPT -5 takes it easy. If it is simple, respond instantly. The old chatgpt model selector, today already out of the scene This changes the rules of the game. Not only because it saves unnecessary time and decisions, but because it finally places intelligence where it should be from the beginning: at the user’s service, without having to know how it works inside. GPT -5 behaves more similar to us. Not because he is aware, much less, but because Start deciding in real time If a task requires thinking or not. As we do. When someone asks us a simple question, we answer quickly. When something demands analysis, we take a few more seconds. That is the logic that begins to replicate this model: if it takes effort, it applies it. If not, prioritize speed. GPT -5 behaves more similar to us In the background, that was what we expected of an advanced artificial intelligence. That understands us without giving technical instructions. That anticipates, That chooses by themselves how to help us better. That the model decides on your own does not mean that we have lost control. In fact, payment users can still manually force the type of response they want. From the chatgpt interface, the mode of reasoning with a button can be activated. But it can also be done with a simple instruction in the message: “Think about it”, “do it fast”, “give me a light answer” … the system interprets these phrases and adjust your behavior. It is a subtle, but important change. Because although GPT – 5 self -managed, It is still possible to intervene and refine experience. Whoever wants depth, can ask for it. Who wants immediacy, too. For those who use chatgpt intensively – at work, in studies, in complex tasks – this change has direct consequences. Before, a user could be paying for a tool that he did not understand at all, without knowing that he was using only part of his potential. Now, even if I don’t have time to experience or learn how everything works, GPT -5 does that job for him. Artificial intelligence finally begins to function as it should: offering the best without asking for explanations. And that means that those who did not know that they were losing productivity … can stop losing it. The difference between those who knew how to combine models and those who not, between those who explored each variant and those who stayed on the surface, have been reduced to minimums. From now on, the quality of experience will depend much more on how we ask for things that we know or not what a model to use. And that is good news, especially for those who never touched the selector. Users who, without changing anything in their way of interacting, They will start getting answers improves, more tight, more useful. GPT-5 equals them with the advanced ones without having to move a finger. GPT -5 does not add a new function. Correct an old incoherence. Until now, the most powerful system was hidden after technical decisions that few knew how to take. It is now in the foreground. Images | Xataka with Gemini 2.5 Flash | Xataka screen capture In Xataka | The AI has so far a nice accessory: with GPT-5, OpenAi wants to place it in the center of all things

Now there are giant comets generating electricity from heaven

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The West Coast of Ireland, as green as steep by the wind, has become the test bench of A novel idea: Replace wind turbines with giant comets. Generate electricity from the sky. Willing to find a Alternative to terrestrial wind turbinesResearchers at the University of Delft chose May County, in Ireland, to test a system called Kitepower. Instead of wind turbines, Kitepower generates electricity by 60 square meter comets that rise to 425 meters from the ground. Why Ireland. To put the invention to the limit. “The wind conditions on the west coast of Ireland allow us to exceed the limits of our system, to make it more robust and reliable,” Andrei Luca explained to RTEChief of Operations of Kitepower. “If it has worked in Ireland, it will probably work around the world.” This is how the May County, to the west of the country, has become the first air -transported energy test site in the world, which those responsible for Kitepower describe as a potential “change of play” in the sector. How it works. With an ingenious “Yoy effect”. The kite, subject to a cable rolled in a drum, ascends by drawing an eight in the sky for 45 seconds. This flight pattern, inspired by a kitesurf candle, maximizes wind traction, generating a force between 2.5 and 4 tons. This force rotates the drum, which in turn is connected to a generator on land, producing electricity that is stored in a battery system. Once the 45 seconds have elapsed, the kite is leveled to minimize wind resistance, which allows the cable to be collected using only a fraction of the energy generated. The cycle is repeated again and again, generating a net renewable energy gain. The system, which combines the KITESURF movements with a GPS guidance system, is capable of producing up to 30 kilowatts of electricity per hour for each kite. What improves wind turbines. According to Kitepower, his comets are twice as efficient that wind turbines when capturing wind energy, because they take advantage The winds of great altitudeinaccessible for conventional wind turbines. But the truly interesting thing is that the whole system fits in a six -meter container, which makes it a portable system that can be deployed anywhere accessible by a truck, without the need for heavy foundations or towers. Islands and remote places. After the tests in Ireland, Kitepower has launched A pilot project in the Netherlands with the construction company Dur Vermeer, where the system is being used to load excavators and electric trucks in an infrastructure project. The objective of the company is to bring technology to remote communities and the islands of the European Union, many of which depend on the importation of diesel, with the cost that that entails. The comets deployed in Ireland have shown that airborne wind energy could be a cheap, clean and renewable alternative. Image | Kitepower In Xataka | A comet for large ships: This is how this company projects to save 20% fuel and emissions on your trips

A scheme to understand the new Openai in chatgpt

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GPT -5 is here. If you have reached this article, it is probably for one of two reasons: o You are interested in knowing what it contributes The new OpenAI modelor you have encountered an unexpected change in your application of Chatgpt. The model selector, in general, has disappeared, and with it, part of the control that users had. Between what GPT -5 promises and what is now out of reach without paying, the question is served: is it worth subscribing? What has really changed in Chatgpt’s experience? GPT -5 decides on your own how to answer GPT-5 does not work as the previous models. Now chatgpt incorporates a system that Decides automatically How to answer. If it detects that a task is simple, prioritizes speed. If you consider that you need more analysis, it activates its mode of reasoning. Openai describes it as a system that learns from previous patterns and adjusts its behavior based on the context. The result is a more uniform experience, but also more closed. The only exception is the users of the Pro and Team plans, which can continue to manually access the different variants of GPT -5. What do you get according to what you pay The result you get when using GPT -5 in chatgpt depends directly on the plan you have. It is not just a matter of speed or quality of the answers: daily limits changethe available tools and the type of reasoning that the model can apply. And in some cases, even what you see on the screen. OpenAI has designed three access levels for the general public: the free plan, The Plus Plan of 23 euros per month and The Pro Plan of 229 euros per month. Each offers a different experience. Knowing what changes between them is key to understanding why your chatgpt does not behave like that of other users. The following table summarizes what each of the three main levels includes: The free, the plus and the pro. Some differences are subtle – like automatic degradation to a lighter model – and others are much more visible, such as access to advanced tools or GPT -5 Thinking Pro mode. Free Plus pro Base model GPT –5 GPT –5 GPT –5 Allowed messages 10 every 5 hours 80 every 3 hours Unlimited What happens when exceeding the limit? Change to GPT-5-mini Change to GPT-5-mini – GPT -5 Thinking mode (automatic) 1 time a day No restrictions No restrictions GPT -5 Thinking mode (manual) Not available 200 weekly messages No restrictions Thinking Pro Not available Not available Available Image generation Around 3 a day Higher quota Unlimited Advanced voice mode Not available Available Available MODEL SELECTOR MANUAL Not available Only between GPT-5 and GPT-5-Thinking GPT-5 and GPT-5-Thinking. Old models for limited time Monthly price 0 euros 23 euros (includes 3.99 euros of VAT) 229 euros (includes 3.99 euros of VAT) When you use free chatpt you start with GPT -5 in normal mode, but the accountant does not stop: 10 messages every 5 hours. Upon reaching the tenth, the conversation changes to a distilled copy called GPT-5-mini. In addition, the Free Plan only allows a daily message with the way of deep reasoning (GPT -5 Thinking). What really contributes to pay The free plan gives access to GPT -5, but with cuts that appear quickly. Paying solves that initial limit, but also changes the experience significantly. With plus, you can stay in the full model for much longeruse advanced tools and manually force the way of deep reasoning, although with a weekly limit. Pro goes further: it eliminates virtually all restrictions. There is only a “limit” that seeks to avoid abusive use. The most important thing about the Pro Plan is not alone in the number of messages. What it offers is GPT -5 Thinking Pro, a version of the model that uses more computing to think, compare possible answers and reduce errors. This extended reasoning is not available in Free or Plus. The difference is especially noticeable in complex tasks: code, long summaries, reporting reports, technical analysis or complex comparative. For those who use chatgpt as a work tool – and not only for specific consultations – this subscription can be very valuable. Only those who pay more retain total control The new GPT -5 system eliminates the need to choose models … unless you are part of the few who can still do it. Only users of the Pro, Team and Enterprise plans retain access to the complete models selector, which allows manually changing between GPT -5, GPT -5 Thinking, and GPT -5 Thinking Pro. They can also access, for a limited time, some old models for compatibility. As we say, in the rest of the plans – Free and Plus – the experience is totally unified: the system decides for itself how to act, but we can force quick or reasoned responses through the prompt. Images | OpenAI | Omid Armin | Xataka screen capture In Xataka | The AI has so far a nice accessory: with GPT-5, OpenAi wants to place it in the center of all things

With GPT-5, Openai wants to place it at the center of all things

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Microsoft and Apple defined the PC segment and They made him a Commodity. The computer became in something standardcommon and easily interchangeable, Without too much differentiation. Those who ended up winning that battle, however, were Microsoft and Intel, who took a good part of the benefits. Then the mobile would arrive. It is clear that those who have won this segment have been Apple (with iOS) and Google (with Android), but be careful, because those who defined it were two companies. The first, the aforementioned Apple, which also triumphed with the APP Store paradigm And it has ended up taking about half of the income. The second, a company where perhaps not many would have thought: Amazon. The electronic commerce giant would end up promoting the cloud with its Amazon Web Services, and It also ended up turning that cloud into another Commodity. And as happened with Microsoft and the PC or Apple and the mobile, Amazon ended up monopolizing a good part of the benefits of the cloud. A cloud we considerably access (for example, through the iPhone), but to which we don’t even pay too much attention: It is there and works, as before the PC and now the mobile. As explained by analyst Ben Thompson In StratecheryThey are everything Commodities. Well, there are those who expect AI to end up becoming another Commodity. That this segment for which now They compete a multitude of companies It ends up becoming (perhaps) a duopoly like the one created by Microsoft and Intel in the PC or Apple and Google on the mobile. Foundational models are the new PC/mobile, and although there are strong candidates to end up winning that race, everything is yet to be defined. AI like Commodity And that is where GPT-5 comes into play, which wants to be something like Apple’s App Store or Amazon AWS: that platform that Turn it in the company that defines the AI race and manages to win it. And that over time also influence that conversion of AI in a Commodity. With this OpenAi launch you play a lot. Sam Altman has been living in two things for years. On the one hand, of the success of Chatgpt, a remarkable product, but for the moment not revolutionary. On the other, Above all, of Hype. Of promises and moments wow like the one they gave us With GPT-4O or with them Studio Ghibli Style Images. Because we insist, Chatgpt is a good product that has proven useful as an assistant in all types of tasks, but especially in programming. Has unusual an unusual fever for the generative AI and data centersand has caused many companies to trust their future –or rather they bet– To this technology. But revolutions, for the moment, few. Comparisons with phenomena such as PC, Internet or mobile are inevitable. And in all of them discourse and evolution were similar. There were doubts and skepticism at the beginning, exaggerated bets later –Hi, bubble Puntocom– And, indeed, revolution. And it is expected that something like this passes with the pass, although in fact the most devout of this technology claim that this will go further. Others, much more skeptical, believe that This is a bubble that will end exploding … although it can end it deriving the true revolutionas happened with the Internet. Whether there is bubble and explodes as if not, GPT-5 is for Openai a key model for your future. And the paradox of this model is that the company needs the greatest jump in the history of AI Just when it seems most impossible. It is about to see how good the model is really, but the company cannot suffer Another fiasco like GPT-4.5 or your reputation will be very damaged. Will Openai achieve with GPT-5 and the AI what Microsoft, Apple or Amazon already achieved in their respective segments? That is the big question. And we will have to wait a bit to answer it. In Xataka | There are too many AI models. That raises a true death sentence for Anthropic and Claude

who pays for chatgpt without knowing how to use it thoroughly

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For two years, Openai has offered Its payment users A supermarket of models. Those that it offers now: GPT-4O O3 O4-mini O4-mini-High GPT 4.5 GPT 4.1 GPT-4.1-mini Many variants, each with their strengths and its weak points, their ideal uses. But also, for many users, with confusion as a common denominator. How many users really understood when it was better to use a reasoning model in front of a faster and more conversational? How many knew, or even knew that “they should know”? That selectable model was a poorly resolved complexity symptom. Even Altman himself admitted that they needed to improve it. It is easy to observe in our environment: people paying chatgpt plus to use it without limits or by the promise of a more advanced modelbut without knowing that the model you have to choose it. GPT-4o by default and P’alante. Image: Xataka. There it enters GPT-5. Or rather, the new idea of “GPT-5 as a system”, not as a model. A system that automatically encrupates each Prompteach question, each task, towards the most appropriate type of processing. It is a paradigm shift: The choice disappears as a load and becomes invisible intelligence. Altman was clear when this year anticipated at the beginning of the year: “We want AI to simply work.” GPT-5 responds to that. Eliminates the cognitive weight that supposed to decide among seven different models. Returns to chatgpt The original “magic”: You write something, and what you expect to happen. Not what you have had to optimize. If something has been clear in these years is that a good part of the users are not intensive and experts, but rather applicants. People who pay, but not to experiment with technical parameters. They pay for not having to do it. They intuit the potential, but they neither know nor want to learn to squeeze it: they want something that works in the best possible way, but without complications. GPT-5 is the perfect model for that profile. The user who intuits that chatgpt can be very valuable, but he has no time – desire – to become a Engineer of Prompts. Someone who does not differentiate a generative reasoning model or want to learn it. That he only wants, when writing, something intelligent, useful, relevant happens. And that is where Openai has given in the nail. He has understood that the vast majority of their users are not dumb, but are already somewhat saturated by decisions, and that they appreciate that a technology is responsible for one for them, without spoiling the result. GPT-5 is not smarter because you think more: it is because you know when to think more, and when not to do it. The history of technology is full of transitions like this. First, sophistication as a synonym for control. Dials to turn, ports to choose from, manuals to read. Then, magic: instantaneous matches, cars that slow down us, automatic brightness. GPT-5 belongs to that second category. His ideal user is not the engineer, nor the writer, nor the programmer obsessed with the precision of the model. It is the average user, the one who simply wants something that works wellthat he adapts, that he does not ask for explanations. He who pays without knowing, but finally begins to get what he pays. In Xataka | I have tried the new OpenAI models. It has been a small odyssey with prize: I have a chatgpt at home Outstanding image | Xataka with Mockuuuups Studio

This is the launch of the most anticipated artificial intelligence of Openai in an increasingly fierce race

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For months, the feeling was clear: OpenAi needed a blow to the table. GPT-4 had raised the bar, and GPT -4 -or reinforced that base with concrete improvements in performance and multimodality. But GPT –4.5 He did not convince: for many, it was a false step, With few real improvements and too many promises without compliance. Today, With GPT -5, the company seeks to recover impulse. The new model is now available and arrives in three versions. Openai has profiled GPT -5 as its most complete model to date. His training puts the focus on three great pillars: understanding more precision instructions, managing longer contexts and working hand in hand with external tools. The ambition is not less: transforming the model into a kind of digital agent that not only responds, but acts, plans and adapts. The clearest difference is how we interact with him. GPT -4 forced to choose: speed, vision or reasoning. GPT -5 breaks with that barrier. Now it is the model who decides in real time if he must respond instantly or stop to think. The result is a more fluid experience, without the need to configure modes or activate specific functions. GPT -5 is already the new default model in the free chatgpt plan. It is the first time that anyone can access an advanced reasoning system without going through a box. In payment plans, the model is deployed with more powerful versions: Chatgpt plus ($ 20 per month): access with extended limits Chatgpt Pro (200 month): unlimited access to GPT -5 Pro, a variant reinforced with more power, better answers and extended functions (voice, search, canvas, deep reasoning) Enterprise, Team and Edu plans will receive it next week as a base model. In development. Images | OpenAI In Xataka | I have tried the new OpenAI models. It has been a small odyssey with prize: I have a chatgpt at home

Starship already has its first client to go to Mars: the government of Italy

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The CEO of Spacex, Elon Musk, and the president of Italy, Giorgia Meloni, They became such good friends Last year that Musk had to Go out to deny That he had a romance with her. Then it was she who got into trouble with the rest of Europe for Consider Starlink as an option for Italian army communications. Finally, Italy will collaborate with Spacex differently. The first Starship ticket to Mars. The Italian Space Agency (ASI) has signed an unprecedented agreement with Spacex to transport scientific experiments developed by Italy in the first missions of the Gigantic Starship ship To Mars. The agreement, revealed by the President of the LI, Teodoro Valentewithout intervention by the European Space Agency, ensures a seat for Italy in the new space race towards Mars, this time with a strong commercial partner. Spacex president, Gwynne Shotwellhe described collaboration as a “unique agreement in its gender”, and promised that there would be others to come. The experiments. He ESPO He mentions, without going into details, three “Made in Italy” charges that will fly with Starship to Mars. The first is an experiment on the growth of plants that will investigate how to design future greenhouses and life support systems. The second and third are a weather station and a radiation sensor to thoroughly document the space climate during the interplanetary flight of six months to the red planet. Your goal is Improve the safety of future astronauts Let Mars fly. Six months of interplanetary trip. Starship is the highest and most powerful launch system in the world. Still in the development phase In Spacex facilities southeast Texasit consists of a propeller of more than 70 meters and a ship of more than 50 designed to fly to Mars and land on its surface after reposting in orbit. Elon Musk hopes to send The first five starship to Mars in 2026. Any delay would force flights to the next launch window, scheduled for 2028. All initial flights would be without crew until the system is already tested. With this agreement, Italy would have a preferential place in the first private rocket that aspires to reach Mars. Image | Spacex In Xataka | Elon Musk has revealed what Starship V3 will do: to “take all creatures” to Mars as an ark of Noah

A Spanish company imposed facial recognition to enter its gyms. Result: Fine of 96,000 euros

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The Spanish Data Protection Agency (AEPD) has imposed A sanction of 96,000 euros to the gyms chain exceeds to violate the data protection of its customers. The reason? Have imposed facial recognition as the only method of access to your gyms. The facts were denounced by Facua in 2023 and now the resolution has been known. What happened? On August 4, 2023, a claim was filed to SIDECU, a company based in A Coruña in charge of the gyms. According to the document (PDF), the Sports Center exceeds Entrepuentes in Seville was “denying access to the facilities” because a new access method had been implemented through a facial recognition system. “ The complainant considered that this access was “invasive about his intimacy” and “excessive for access to said establishment.” Until the implementation of the facial recognition system, which had not been notified to the partners and was mandatory, it was possible to enter the gym using a card. This claim was added two more and, finally, in September 2023, Facua denounced SIDECU. The defense. Sidec defended himself wielding that he did not store images of the users, but generated a facial pattern through an algorithm patented by the company that developed the system. According to the gyms chain, this “template” was not enough to identify users or deduce their physical characteristics. For SIDECU, this was enough for the system to meet the RGPDbut the truth is that no. The first error. Misunderstand the regulations, thus breaking article 9 of the RGPD. Article 4.14 of the RGPD establishes that biometric data are “personal data obtained from a specific technical treatment, related to the physical, physiological or behavioral characteristics of a natural person that allow or confirm the unique identification of said person, such as facial images or dactyloscopic data.” According to article 9 of the same regulation, the treatment of “biometric data aimed at uniquely identifying a natural person” is prohibited. Image | Ryan Hoffman The second error. Impose the system and not warn, thus breaking article 13 of the RGP. Not only did it not warn users, but facial recognition was the only way to access the establishments and there was no other real option, thus entering the game: consent was not free. It is true that the company ended up implementing an alternative access system (teaching the ID at the door), but its arrival was later to claims. Do not warn users breaches article 13 of the GDPR. The third terror. Do not evaluate the risks, finally breaking article 35 of the RGPD. According to the sentence, SIDEC did not justify why it was necessary to implement this system, above all, less invasive and equally effective alternatives. The AEPD states that the company did not carry out the impact assessment in the protection of personal data (when it was not dealing with personal data) and that it acted without fraud, but negligently and without “the special diligence that is enforceable to this type of treatments.” The sanctions. Three, one for each article violated: 80,000 euros for violating article 9 of the RGPD, 30,000 euros for not having informed users in advance (article 35) and 50,000 euros for not having prepared the impact assessment on personal data protection (article 9). In total, a penalty of 160,000 euros that, due to the recognition of the responsibility and the Sidecu’s soon lamp, has remained at 96,000 euros. Cover image | Gold’s Gym Nepal In Xataka | Unsuspected fine for the European Commission in Europe: it violated its own General Data Protection Regulation

The state of the ISS is so alarming that the United States and Russia have sat at the table for the first time in eight years

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You have to look back until October 2018 to find the last time that NASA’s top people and her Russian counterpart, Roscosmos, the faces were seen. The launch of the Crew 11 mission has served as an excuse for them to meet again. A meeting to save the furniture. The new general director of Roscosmos, Dmitry Bakanov, traveled for the first time to the United States last week to witness the launch of the SPACEX CREW-11 MISSIONin which two American astronauts, one Japanese and a Russian one flew to the International Space Station. Bakanov took advantage of the trip to meet with NASA’s acting administrator, Sean Duffy. On the table, the future of a space station that ages by leaps and bounds and The road map for withdrawal in 2030. NASA and ROSCOSMOS are needed. In a global context where war and other geopolitical tensions have affected almost all areas of cooperation, the International Space Station and the exchange of seats in Crew Dragon and Soyuz ships remains one of the few bridges standing. But this has been the first high -level meeting in almost eight years, especially since the previous Chief of Roscosmos, Dmitry Rogozin, adopted a belligerent rhetoric against his US partners. According to the Russian state agency TassBakanov and Duffy agreed to extend the shared use of the International Space Station until 2028, as well as a joint process for exorbitation in 2030. “The conversation was quite well,” Bakanov said. The US agency Associated Press He says that both leaders pointed out the need to maintain cooperation in space despite their “strong discrepancies” on Earth. They also agreed to seek the approval of their respective presidents for future joint projects, including lunar and exploration of deep space. The ISS falls apart. This “we have to talk” is not accidental. It occurs at a time when the state of the International Space Station is a matter of “deep concern”, as noted by the NASA Aerospace Security Advisory Panel in April. The Committee described the coming years as “The riskiest period“Of the ISS in all its existence. One of the most serious and persistent problems are Air leaks in the Russian module Zvezdafirst detected in 2019. Despite the multiple attempts to repair them, the module continues to lose air, a qualified problem with the highest level of risk of NASA. To this we must also add other ailments of a structure with almost 30 years components. Lack of spare parts for critical systems, space costumes with technology from the 70s that have caused several incidents, and constant problems with bathroomsamong other headaches. Pension plan. The common denominator of these risks is a huge budget deficit. No government wants to allocate more money to the International Space Station when the priority is to finance future lunar missions and commercial stations. More than a shy thaw, the meeting between Bakanov and Duffy represents the imperative need to jointly manage the last years of the ISS, the largest symbol of international cooperation outside the earth. One of the Keys to this approach It is the contract of almost one billion dollars that NASA awarded Spacex to develop a ship that tow the station towards a safe reentry on the Pacific Ocean. Before Spacex, the ISS partners had considered using Russian progress ships for this task, an option that Roscosos seems to have put back on the table. Be that as it may, the retirement of the ISS already has its date insured by the end of this decade. Image | ROSCOSMOS In Xataka | NASA’s Security Committee has launched a forceful warning on ISS: it is in very poor condition

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