Month: September 2025

The influencer María Pombo defends her right to not read. And incidentally, raises an interesting controversy about habits

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The latest statements by María Pombo (influencer pioneer With great impact on the fashion world and more than three million followers on Instagram, where its empire of family spin-offs to kardashian and ramifications of all kinds) have made half the Internet Hispano Clame: “influencer To your influences“. Some unexpected and reckless reflections on reading habits have put it in the eye of the hurricane, but they have also placed an important issue on the table: is it so necessary to cultivate the reading habit? María Pombo does not read (almost). That has recognized in A video on Tiktiok To respond to a user who criticized the bookcase he had shown in a previous video. “The bookstore is precious. But if it were full of books that have been read, it would be much more. Now I see only,” said the commentator. Pombo has tried to defend himself with a “I will say it: I think you have to start overcoming that there are people who do not like to read. And you are not better because you like to read” And he adds: “They all instilled the reading at some point in our lives, and we all had to try, but there are people who like and people who do not.” And he puts his two sisters as an example: “I have one that is also influencer and devours books; And yet my other sister, That is a pilotone has not read in his life, I believe. ”Of course, the criticisms that have multiplied in successive videoswhere Pombo has taught, to exculp Influencers His friends. The inheritance chases her, but she is faster. Paradoxically, and this is a detail without more importance than underlining the irony of the situation, María Pombo is a great -great -grandson of the novelist, journalist and translator Santanderina Concha Espinawhich in 1926 was about to win the Nobel. And it is also familiar (distant, yes) of the Cervantes 2024 AwardÁlvaro Pombo, grandson of Maria Pombo’s great -grandson, The designer Ana de Pombo. Without a doubt, a singular and respectable lineage for someone who has generated a controversy right in the opposite direction. María Pombo is the symptom. Without a doubt, the most conflictive statement of María Pombo is one that says that “you are not better because you like to read.” It gives off a anti-intellectual thinking that engages perfectly with the current era: We live counter-cilestized timesthat foster a vision in which each cultural or social group claims its own “truth” exclusive, which makes it difficult to dialogue and critical thinking. The Emotions -based policy and post -truththat normalize the lie, manipulation and extreme polarization, make communication less truthful and the least valued rigorous thinking. All this encourages Simplist and conspiracy speeches derived from … people read less. Force or respect. The important thing is that the attitude of María Pombo puts on the table a conflictive issue: should we force the taste for reading or respect the variety of interests? An issue that has generated academic positions of all kinds. For example, A 2024 study It emphasizes that reading habits, influenced by the interests and self -efficacy of the student, are positively related to the development of cognitive skills. However, Another 2023 study That reviews the relationship between reading habits, study skills and academic success, indicates that intrinsic preference and motivation are key, and that imposing rigid readings can be counterproductive. In general, we all agree (even María Pombo, even if he does not express it with total clarity): Reading is an intellectual activity of positive effects. But it is also true that the creation of environments rich in reading stimuli are necessary to develop the reading habit. A 2020 study He talked about the fact that the variety and freedom in the choice foster the interest than the imposition, and that position seems to defend Pombo. Let each one do what they want is important, but you don’t have to lose sight of what results objectively more beneficial. Header | Prime video In Xataka | Alatriste’s new book revalidates a throne that remains empty: Pérez-Reverte has created our most popular franchise

The digital kit promises to digitize SMEs and freelancers and “give them” a Macbook Air. There is a lot of small print

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On paper the Digital kit It doesn’t seem a bad idea. The government’s proposal, managed by Red.esgrants a series of subsidies to facilitate the “digital transformation” of SMEs and freelancers. Or what is the same: that small businesses and people “in self -employment” can for example have their website, their online store and even access the subsidy of a macbook air m4 that seems to leave “free”. Except that it does not go free. Not much less. Subsidies for digital transformation The program, promoted by Red.es and the Ministry for Digital Transformation and Public Function, aims to “digitize” SMEs and adapt them to new times. Source: Red.es Financing comes from the Next Generation EU program of the European Union, and to start it up they were established different segments of beneficiaries that depended on the size of the SMEs or whether you were autonomous. The calls for almost all segments have been ending over the last months, but there is one that remains active: that of segment III, dedicated to SMEs from zero to three employees and also autonomous. The maximum amount of the subsidy for this segment is 3,000 euros, and is divided into two items. The first, with a subsidy of up to 2,000 euros can be used to commission the development of a web page (“basic internet presence”) or an online store (“Marketplace”). The second, which is becoming a claim on social networks, is a subsidy of up to 1,000 euros for the acquisition of a “safe job”which normally translates into a PC or portable. An important detail here: you can not ask for only the computer for the computer, and this can only be requested as a complement to the subsidy for the website or online store mentioned above. To access the program and get those “digital bonds” of up to 3,000 euros the process, explained in a PDFIt is theoretically simple. Just access the web accelerapyme.escomplete a “self -diagnosis test” and request help Digital kit through the form of the Red.es electronic headquarters. From there we will have to get in touch with a “digitizer agent”which will be the intermediary through which this “digital transformation” of our business is carried out. It is they who provide us with services (or manage that a third party provide them) and that they also take care of the acquisition of the famous portable of 1,000 euros. It is possible to become one of these digitalizing agents through the aforementioned Electronic Headquarters of Red.es, and In another guide in PDF It explains how to log in. A digitizer agent tells us the reality of the digital kit program As we say, on paper everything seems correct, but in practice the digital kit program has become a source of controversy that affects both parties, both those who have asked for those subsidies and to those who have managed them. To know from within what is happening we have talked to Pablo F. Iglesiasfounder of the consultant Cyberbainers that among other things achieved homologation for the digital kit. He has suffered the “small print” of this project as well as a service provider as a couple of a person who requested them. After this time offering their services, he tells us how his feeling is that there were “too many used who have seen in the program a quick business opportunity.” It is a message that others have shared such as Jaime Gómez-Obregón, which explained in x How a microenterprise “sold” hundreds of digital kit projects by subcontracting websites to freelancers in South America, which ended up promoting “Business models of using and throwing”. Iglesias also indicated how there have been large companies that They have taken advantage of the program to capture new customers as part of your service offer. In both cases the impact has been mostly negative. There are many the Complaints in social networks that They speak of Scams Related and how it has been seen that frequently the quality of the web pages or online stores created was very low, they were often “clones” of other web pages with minimal modifications that did not justify the 2,000 euros of the subsidy. For churches there is another additional problem: “Although they grant, for example, 6,000 euros to your company, the categories are limited to maximum expenses. Insufficient expenses to provide a service of twelve months, which encourages, by the structure of the subsidy itself, that the quality of the service is very but very low … or an economic agreement is reached outside the digital kit contract.” Iglesias himself explained that with 2,000 euros it is practically impossible for someone to “make you a professional website, give you basic services of backups, maintenance and monthly SEO work for 12 months.” Even so, he emphasizes, this program has caused the foam “alleged marketing agencies that They are dedicated to riding clonic WordPress With free templates in an afternoon, financing with the digital kit. “Although these pages do not position well in front of the competition, in the eyes of the program they have fulfilled the work,” and as the type client to which they van do not understand anything in the digital world, because it cooks. “ Free laptop myth In recent days we have started to see frequently on social networks like Tiktok Publications of accounts that They talked of The easy What was it get a macbook air m4 “free” subsidized by digital kit. But all these messages are misleading advertising, since although the digital kit program subsidizes these teams, who want to take advantage of this option will have to be very attentive to the small print. To start, because That subsidy does not cover VATand here Iglesias points to how “the state always wins.” To get the laptop we have to ask both the subsidy of 1,000 euros for the “safe job” and the 2,000 euros for the creation of a website or, as many of those ads sell, the start -up of … Read more

The problem is that almost everything is in the hands of Indonesia and China

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“Making An American Nickel Costs More than to Nickel,” the United States Mint recently admitted. Although the phrase looks like a tongue twenty, what is happening is that manufacturing a five cents – known in English like Nickel – is already more expensive than its own nominal value. And yet the international price of metal has collapsed, According to Financial Times. The nickel lives its most disconcerting moment. It is a key material to make batteries, stainless steel, turbines, missiles and satellites, so demand should have driven prices. However, the offer has expanded so fast that the quotes have sunk. In a report for the Financial Times They have pointed out That the price in the London metal bag (LME) is around $ 15,000 a ton, less than a third of what was reached in 2022. At the same time, production in referent countries, such as Australia or New Caledonia, was strongly reduced. BHP, the Australian giant, announced that it is reviewing the sale of its nickel assets in Western Australia. Even Tsingshan, one of the largest Chinese operators, suspended stainless steel lines to adjust the offer. A new emerging superpower. In this context, Indonesia emerges as a great winner. After prohibiting the export of mineral in 2020, he forced the installation of foundations and attracted billions of Chinese investment. Today controls about 60–65% of global production, According to Bloomberg. In the same medium They have pointed out That the jump is so great that, for the first time in history, Nickel export revenues exceeded those of coal: 16.5 billion dollars compared to 14,400 million in the first semester of 2025. The problems that lurk to the market. The Indonesian domain raises strategic vulnerability for the West, which considers the nickel a critical mineral. The Financial Times Talk about a “Nickel OPEC” Controlled by Yakarta and Beijing. At the same time, western mines become unfeasible: Australia and Nueva Caledonia already reduce operations and Anglo American seeks to sell assets in Brazil. The operation with MMG, backed by Chinese capital, is being investigated by the Brazilian competition authority after the Turkish Corex Holding complaint, How have they explained in another FT report. The result is an unbalanced map: Indonesia and China concentrate low cost capacity, while in the West the large mining companies are replicated or directly leave the business. There is an even greater cost. Indonesia’s competitive advantage rests on coal. Four large companies in the sector issued 15.3 million tons of greenhouse gases, and those emissions could double around 2028, according to IEEFA calculations and create collected by The Diplomat. This model collides with the arrival of regulations such as the EU carbon border adjustment mechanism, which will penalize materials with great carbon footprint. To this is added social risk: A report cited by The Guardian alert that a large part of the farms of transition minerals overlap with indigenous territories or fragile ecosystems, with accusations of deforestation, labor abuses and conflicts with local communities. And the technological risk is added. The rise of lithium-cherrophosphate (LFP) batteries, that do not require nickelcan cut the planned demand. Although they have less energy density, these batteries are cheaper and more sustainable, and are gaining space in electric vehicles. West, between the sword and the wall. The great Western miners face a dilemma. On the one hand, high costs and social pressures: the Resolution Copper project in Arizona, promoted by Rio Tinto and BHP, It has been delayed by the opposition for years of the Apache tribe of San Carlos. On the other hand, the strategic need to reinforce local supply chains. Washington has described nickel as critical metal, but its reserves are limited. Mining companies do not want to lose their best client: China. In 2024, 57% of Rio Tinto’s income came from sales to China, compared to only 16.7% in the United States, According to data cited in Xataka. The export controls of minerals imposed by Donald Trump’s government – and Beijing’s response with restrictions on Galio, Germanio, Scandio or Disposio – show how metal trade has become a geopolitical weapon. China: The pan by the handle. If Indonesia puts resources, China puts money and knowledge. The clearest example is Gem, a Chinese producer of battery materials that in the first half of 2025 doubled its nickel production in Indonesia up to 43,977 tons, reaching a record benefit of almost 800 million yuan, According to Bloomberg. In addition, Gem signed a 1,420 million dollar agreement with the Indonesian Sovereign Danantara fund to build a battery grade nickel plant. China also ensures its position outside Asia. In Africa, As we have explained in Xatakahas invested more than 10,000 million dollars in cobalt, copper and nickel mines, especially in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Zambia, and accompanies those investments with infrastructure, bilateral agreements and, even, the export of armament and private security to protect mining interests. In macro terms, China is becoming what some call the first “electrostate“. As my partner Matías has pointed outunder the plan Made in China 2025 It has managed to integrate the entire clean technologies supply chain: solar panels, batteries and electric cars. The country already generates more than a quarter of its electricity with renewables and de facto controls the global prices of electrification technologies. Forecasts: what comes on the horizon. Nickel’s future seems written at several speeds. Indonesia will continue to consolidate its role as an epicenter of the global offer. The prohibition of exporting mineral, added to the avalanche of Chinese capital, has turned the country into the great refining of the world and the Yakarta government wants to take another step: not to settle for producing nickel nicing or chemicals, but also becoming a manufacturer of batteries and electric vehicles, How Financial Times points out. In parallel, the demand for stainless steel will continue to absorb most of the nickel, but the battery market is emerging as the great engine of change in this decade. The problem is that this forecast … Read more

Ukraine has just opened the tanks used by Russia. The surprise is capital: West has manufactured them

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In the war there are also “unboxing”, but of combat drones. In fact, this is how they have been revealed from hidden messages of the troops of Moscow, until The origin of the vast majority of technology components (with big surprises). It was also revealed to what extent China is part of the war machinery, or even that the power of these unmanned combat planes has Nvidia as an engine major. What we did not know so far is what was inside the Russian tanks. Foreign dependence. Yeah, Revelation of Ukrainian intelligence on the massive use of Western and Asian teams in the production of Russian tanks has revealed to what extent Kremlin’s industrial self -sufficiency It is compromised. He Updated report Del Gur details more than 260 high precision machines employed by uralvagonzavodthe only great manufacturer of combat cars in Russia and responsible for the entire range of T-seriesfrom the V-72 veterans to him T-14 Armata. Made in the West. The majority of these teams, which include American vertical lathes, Italian folding German machining centers and presses, were acquired in the fifteen years prior to 2022during military modernization prior to the invasion of Ukraine. In other words, although they do not constitute violations of the most recent sanctions, their presence in Russian factories raises a continuity problem: Without spare parts or software updates, armored production runs the risk of degrading quickly. The central role of Uralvagonzavod. Based in the urales, Uralvagonzavod It concentrates the heart of the Russian capacity of armor, holding a production that is estimated at 20 to 30 new tanks per month, despite the pressure of the war. In 2024 he opened a equipped engines plant with European CNC machinesevidence of how even in the middle of the war campaign Russia continued to benefit from foreign technology through indirect routes and third countries. The gur warns That these deliveries, although more complicated and expensive due to the sanctions, have not stopped, which keeps alive the assembly line of the Russian armored ones. The paradox is that the Soviet industrial prestige, once a symbol of self -sufficiency, now rests largely on the legacy of foreign machinery. The strategic dimension. The Published list By Ukraine, which also collects 42 types of equipment from Austria, Japan, South Korea and China, points to a broader pattern: Russia uses a total of 1,396 foreign machines in 169 factories linked to the invasion. Each of these teams It is documented through contracts, recordings and files of state acquisitions, which gives the probative weight to the complaint. The Ukrainian message seems clear: when cutting access to spare parts, technical fluids and software licenses, the Russian military industrial base can be strangled. kyiv has proposed Reinforced diligence measures, such as adding GPS trackers to exported machines and demanding in situ inspections, in order to prevent their products from ending up holding the enemy war industry. Vulnerability mirrors. We have counted before. The finding of Western components and Chinese in drones long -range manufactured by Moscow, local versions of the Iranian Shahed, reinforces the thesis that the Russian military industry depends critically on foreign pieces. Kremlin can hide this weakness With propaganda On its technological autonomy, but in practice its war machine is based on gears manufactured in countries that are today part of the Block that sanctions it. Putin himself, aware of the limits of production, He publicly admitted In April that “there are not enough weapons”, reflecting the tensions between the self -sufficiency discourse and the reality of an industry that, without access to the West, runs the risk of being paralyzed. The industrial Achilles heel. If you want, the Ukrainian complaint converts the Russian dependence on a strategic Achilles heel: while its army spends armored in the front at a higher pace, the ability to manufacture new depends on Machines that do not control. If the sanctions manage to isolate Moscow with spare parts and services, the ability to sustain their war effort could deteriorate irreversibly. When exposing these vulnerabilities, kyiv not only seeks to weaken the enemy, but also directly involve To Western manufacturers and governments in the supervision of their export chains, remembering that another battle is fought in the Ural workshops: that of the industrial pulse that can decide war. Image | Вталий кзьин In Xataka | Ukraine has opened the most advanced Drone Kamikaze in Russia. Now they know what the key to their power is: nvidia In Xataka | Ukraine has hunted an “invisible” drone of Russia. The surprise has been capitalized when opening it: it is “made in USA”

The lifeguards are desalination

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The tourist paradise of the Balearic Islands faces its most uncomfortable mirror: The dry tap. While the archipelago faces a summer that points to record figures of visitors (As occurs throughout the summer), their water resources collapse to historical minimums. The situation is so critical that the municipality of Sóller barely has guaranteed water for 10 days, and Ibiza registers its worst reserves in a decade. Sóller as an epicenter of the problem. The strongest alarm sounds in the Sierra de Tramutantana, in Mallorca. In Sóllera municipality of 13,000 inhabitants, the City Council has been forced to Decree emergency measures On August 29. Among these, it has been forbidden to fill pools with drinking water, water gardens or orchards, wash the car or clean the facade. Even the municipal cleaning service itself has the use of water to bucket the streets. The situation, qualified by the mayor as “nothing encouraging”, has caused the anger of the neighbors. From the SOS Soller local platform, its spokesman, Bartu Miró, denounces a “complete neglect to leave the tourist do what he wants throughout the summer” As you collect The confidential. In his statements, he looked at that the Consistory has waited until the last day of August to act, when the shortage was a predictable and monitoring problem. “Now we are in emergency,” he says. A ghost of the past. The fear that the neighbors have is not unfounded. Residents already remember episodes in the past in which the desperate water extraction of the wells caused the salinization of aquifers. Specifically, in 2001 ten of the 21 aquifers in Mallorca They were salinized, and some of them with levels much higher than the maximum potability limit. Something that can leave the water source unusable for many years. In this way, we are facing a technical and management error that no one wants In August he had to apply supply cuts In different areas, including the hotels themselves. An archipelago in Prealerta. What happens in La Tramuntana is not an isolated case, it is the symptom of a disease that is affecting the entire archipelago. According to the data provided by the seafire and water cyclethe situation of resources to July 2025 begins to be worrying. Practically, all demand units are found in A prealert scenario for drought. Only Formentera and the southern zone of La Tramuntana are saved, which paradogically is where the municipalities with greater restrictions are located, such as Sóller. This alert level means, according to the regional administration itself, that “resources begin to diminish and it is necessary to start taking some management measures.” Ibiza data are worrisome. The island suffers Your worst reservations of recent yearsbeing the same that was reported in June 2016 for the last time, touched by the state of drought alert. In the case of Menorca, the reserves are found right now in 40%, which marks its second worst historical record. Formentera, despite having a less severe pre -alert state, also has a fragile situation. It has less than 400 liters of rain a year, and this causes the island to depend almost exclusively on the water produced by the Desalination which is an important energy cost. How much water does tourism consume? While requested residents who do not wash the car or put the washing machine when it is full, environmental groups point to the tourist model of the islands as guilty. A report by the University of Les Illes Balears (UIB) already pointed to 25% of the total water consumption It was due to visitors to be received in the archipelago. Pere Joan, spokesman for the Menys Turisme platform, Més Vida, criticizes that “the restrictions are usually applied in the least tourist areas and farthest from the sea”, suggesting a management that prioritizes the consumption of the visitor over the needs of the resident. A technological solution. Before the collapse of natural resources, the Balearic Government has put a Action plan endowed with 288 million euros to improve the supply, mainly through the expansion and improvement of desalination plants and sanitation and purification networks. In addition, 4.4 million euros have been allocated to promote refined water reuse, a key measure to reduce pressure on aquifers. The problem of desalination plants. Although these teams that convert sea water into drinking water through reverse osmosis are vital for the supply of many coastal areas, they have their inconveniences. Among them is the great energy impact, since the desalination process requires a large amount of energy, which in a context of energy transition involves an economic and environmental challenge. But don’t stay here. The brine, the hypersaline residue that is returned to the sea, can damage marine ecosystems, especially the Postidonia grasslands, vital for Mediterranean health. In Xataka | If Spain believes to have a problem with droughts it is because it does not know those that led the Maya to collapse: 150 years extreme

A plant with seven million solar panels

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In one of the most unpopulated and arid regions of China, a landscape for centuries dominated by dust, a huge sand patch is starting to dye green. The cause is not a miraculous climate change or a mass reforestation project, but a solar park as large as the city of Madrid. Seven million solar panels. Located in the province of Qinghai, this megaobra still under construction extends over 610 square kilometers of Tibetan plateau with the aim of housing more than seven million photovoltaic panels. Its generation capacity will be sufficient to supply electricity to five million homes, which makes it the largest solar farm in the world. But beyond energy figures, the most surprising impact is being seen at ground level. Thus it is transforming the landscape. The installation It is having beneficial effects on local ecology. Solar panels, aligned in endless ranks, act as a barrier against the wind that reduces erosion, slows the advance of dust and sand and, more importantly, reduces the evaporation of soil water. Under the protective shadow of panels, vegetation has found an opportunity to prosper. The grass and small bushes are beginning to grow, which has created a greener ecosystem that attracts local fauna. Maintenance is in charge of the sheep. To maintain vegetation under control, the installation has hired sheep in the area. Thousands of sheep come to graze quietly among the panels, an association that a local official described Associated Press as a “win-win”. Although the area of ​​the area It is under public scrutiny For complaints of repression of the Uigur people, local revergeation is a powerful symbol in favor of the energy transition. Not only generates clean energy, but more humid microclimates and vegetation under the rows of panels, turned into meadows for the so -called “photovoltaic sheep.” China’s figures Marean. This project is the spearhead of the monumental China strategy to Lead the energy transition. In 2024, China was responsible for 61% of solar capacity facilities and almost 70% of wind installed on the planet. The figures by 2025 are even more spectacular. Only in the first half of the year, the Asian country added 212 GW of solar energy, more than all the capacity of the United States, as well as 51 GW of wind energy. This acceleration is paying off: China has already reached The objective proposed for 2030 and their carbon emissions have fallen for the first time. Image | Google Maps In Xataka | Minnesota installed solar panels in two huge crops. Five years later, they are a paradise for bees

one million places less for Aena’s rates

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The Irish airline returns to the load announcing a drastic reduction of its operation in Spain for the winter season. The company will eliminate a million places in regional airports and cancel 36 direct routes, in a new escalation of its conflict with AENA for airport rates. The toughest blow. Ryanair will completely close his operations base in Santiago de Compostela, where he maintained two aircraft, and will suspend all flights to Vigo since January 2026 and Tenerife Norte from this winter. Besides, will keep the bases of Valladolid and Jerez closedas he did during this summer. Impact on numbers. The decision supposes The loss of 1.25 million annual seats Only in Galicia, according to the company’s figures. In the Peninsula as a whole, Ryanair It will reduce its capacity in regional airports by 41% (600,000 places less) and in the Canary Islands by 10% (400,000 places less). Santiago’s closure will also imply The loss of more than 100 jobs Between pilots and cabin crew, although the airline has promised to offer transfers to other bases. Other airports in the spotlight. The cuts too They will affect significantly to Zaragoza (-45%capacity), Santander (-38%), Asturias (-16%) and Vitoria (-2%). In total, the company will cancel 36 direct connections with regional and canary destinations, diverting these flights to Italy, Morocco, Croatia and Albania. The official justification. Eddie Wilson, CEO of Ryanair, has attributed These measures to the 6.62% increase in airport rates that AENA will apply from next year. “We cannot justify a continuous investment in airports whose growth is blocked by excessive and uncommunchanting rates,” said Wilson, who encrypted in 200 million dollars the lost investment in Galicia. Aena’s answer. The airport operator He has responded Hardly, accusing Ryanair of practicing “Phariseism, bad education and blackmail.” Maurici Lucena, president of Aena, has defended that Spanish rates are “the most competitive of the European environment” and has criticized what he considers “a disturbing plutocratic conception” of the Irish company. Beyond rates. Although officially the conflict focuses on airport rates, the tension between Ryanair and the Spanish government includes other fronts, such as The fine of 109 million euros imposed by consumption by hand luggage policies, currently suspended by the courts. Galicia takes the worst part. In the specific case of Vigo, the cessation of operations will arrive after the end of the tourism promotion agreement of 1.8 million euros signed with the City Council, which has not been renewed. The Xunta de Galicia has already announced that it will request an urgent meeting of the Airport Coordination Committee to demand a change in AENA’s policy towards medium and small airports. Cover image | Wolfgang Weiser In Xataka | The airlines have taken from their passengers the right to carry a suitcase. Europe is at the doors to return it

hacke an artist website and threaten to use their works to train AI

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The attacks with ransomware They have brought to people and companies around the world. It consists of a type of malware that figure our data and makes the use of the equipment impossible until we pay the rescue that the attackers ask for. Is What happened to Telefónica in 2017 And what has just happened to Artists & Clients, a website on which artists can find customers to sell their works. The difference is that hackers are threatening to use all their artistic work at AI. The hacking. They tell it in 404Media. The hacking happened on August 30, when the Message from the attackers which said: “This website has been pirated by Lunalock. All its data, including email addresses and passwords of the user accounts, have been stolen and encrypted.” Shortly after the web fell and while I write these lines It continues to be inaccessible. At the moment those responsible for the web have not issued any statement and in their social networks there is no communication, but some artists who are on the platform They have expressed their concern in Reddit. Redoubled the threat. The message of hackers is a standard text in this type of attacks: if the payment was not made, all the data would be filtered, including the source code and the personal information of the users. The striking was at the end of his message: “We will send all the illustrations to artificial intelligence companies so that they are added to the training data sets.” In statements to 404Media, a researcher at the Flare cybersecurity company says that “it is the first time I see an attack using AI models as part of her extortion tactics.” AI and art. It has been a matter of debate since the arrival of the first models of image generation, who were trained with hundreds of works by real artists without permission. Some artists have sued the companies of AIothers their works began to “poison” to go crazy to AI and have even been created Applications to prevent a work from being training at AI. It is a delicate issue for artists and hackers have used it to raise the tone of their threat. AI to do evil. Lunalock’s case is curious because they do not use AI directly, but use it as another argument to its threat. However, there are cybercriminals who are using AI to make their most effective attacksfor example to program more easily or automate technical operations. A few days ago, Wired echoed an ESET report where they detailed how the attackers were using generative to execute ransomware attacks. Cover image | Pexels In Xataka | Creative artificial intelligences are going to kill art again. It does not have the slightest importance

Anthropic is worth 183,000 million even though he invoices 5,000 million a year. Or it is the business of the century, or it is the madness of the century

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Anthropic has just closed A financing round of 13,000 million dollars that values ​​it in 183,000 million. The figure sounds like madness when we put it in context: the company invoices 5,000 million a year. The figures. Anthropic is valued 36 times. Google, to compare, quotes 6 times. Apple at 8. Microsoft to 14. They are mature companies in front of a startup, but none remotely approaches this multiple. The round F It has been led by ICONIQ Capital, with Fidelity and Lightspeed as co-investors. Heavyweights such as Blackrock, the sovereign background of Qatar and Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan have participated. What has happened. In just eight months, Anthropic has multiplied its income by five: from 1,000 million to 5,000 million in August (annualized). It is one of the fastest growth in the history of technology. Claude Codeits programmers tool, generates 500 million in annualized revenues. It has multiplied its use in three months since its complete launch in May. The context. The AI ​​career has become a war of valuations disconnected from classical financial reality. OpenAI negotiates an assessment of 500,000 million. XAI of Musk looks for 75,000 million. Investors are betting Billions to these companies will dominate the future. Anthropic serves 300,000 business clients. Its large accounts (those that pay more than $ 100,000 a year) have multiplied by seven in twelve months. Yes, but. Developing elite AI models is very expensive. Anthropic depends on Amazon and Google for his computational infrastructure, and costs him billions annually. The costs are not going down, they are accelerating. Sam Altman, CEO of Openai, has said that his company will need to invest billions of dollars. The generative AI business remains structurally deficient for almost all participants. Nvidia always wins. Between bambalins. Dario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic, has admitted in An internal memo that is not “excited” to accept money from sovereign funds of dictatorial governments. But says It is difficult to direct a business excluding “bad investors.” The company has promised to use 13,000 million to expand capacity, deepen international security and expansion research. It is also developing specific products by industry. The end of a dream. A few months ago We speculated that Apple could buy Anthropic to accelerate your entry into AI. With an assessment of 183,000 million, that option has been buried: it would be 60 times more expensive than Beats, Apple’s greatest acquisition in its history. Not even Tim Cook (who He was open to check) With 150,000 million in cash available, you can justify such a check before your shareholders. The big question. Are we facing the birth of the new technological giants or the greatest bubble from the Puntocom? With assessments that multiply by 36 income, the margin of error is non -existent. Investors are betting on Anthropic and their rivals will not only dominate AI, but the AI ​​will transform the entire global economy. If they are right, 183,000 million will seem cheap. If they are wrong, it will be a historical disaster. Outstanding image | Anthropic, Xataka In Xataka | People are celebrating funerals by the Ia withdrawn for a reason: they are not a “tool” but a support

‘Lilo & Stitch’ lands today at Disney+. It’s just a small sample of everything that comes in September

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We are starting the month of September, one that we usually associate with the return to the routine. It still has been very good time, but within not much that moment of the year will begin where The film plan, sofa and popcorn is the most wanted. To do this, it is essential that we have a streaming platform that gives us options to see And there is Disney+ one of the most popular: Today he is premiering one of his last films, ‘Lilo & Stitch‘. As usual, we can subscribe to the platform monthly since 5.99 euros a month. * Some price may have changed from the last review A new September with several outstanding premieres As we say, this new real action movie has been made of begging, but it is now available to see within the Disney+catalog. After the arrival of ‘Thunderbolts*‘, This is the new star movie that we can enjoy within the platform. It doesn’t matter if we saw the original animation or we have never seen the story of this nice extraterrestrial: It is a movie that is worth it (and much). Although this is the premiere that comes to us today, the month of September will be quite moved in terms of premieres. Just a few days later, on September 9, the 5th season of ‘arrives at the 5th season of’Only murders in the building‘. This, which will premiere at once 3 chaptersHe will bring three actors like Steve Martin, Martin Short and Selena Gomez. In addition, the new season of the ‘Futurama’ animation series, the original series’ Adidas vs. will also arrive at Disney+. Puma ‘or the movie’ Match: the queen of appointment apps’, among other things. If we add to all this a huge catalog where there are very good options like the new one ‘ALIEN: Planet Earth‘, we have a perfect option for This return to the routine becomes a little more enjoyable. 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 | Disney+ In Xataka Selection | Five cheap kitchens or rooms that will allow you to forget TDT receptors In Xataka | Disney+ comparative, Netflix, HBO, Prime Video, Movistar+ Lite, Filmin, Apple TV and Rakute TV: Catalog, Functions and Prices

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