Month: October 2025

Working remotely for another country is not so simple

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A programmer’s innocent question about the availability of remote positions on a development platform in Spain has sparked an interesting international debate in X about a reality of the Spanish labor market that many were unaware of: those companies who hire in Spaineven if they are remote, must pay taxes in Spain. The problem is that not everyone can bear that additional cost. A complicated labor market A Spanish software developer asked in X to the CEO of Vercela cloud infrastructure platform of Argentine origin, on the availability of vacancies in Spain since, when carrying out the search, they only appeared in Germany and the United Kingdom, when in the past they had hired in Spain. The manager’s response It was simple, but it hid a reality that many companies that want to hire engineers and programmers in Spain face: “Unfortunately, we had to leave Spain; it was incredibly difficult to hire staff and expand our company there. We tried!” The expert analyst of technological employment trends, Gergely Orosz, witness to the conversation, pointed out some of the difficulties that companies that want to hire in other countries find, even if it is a remote work agreement:”(…) explains why ‘remote’ positions are often ‘remote in country X’. When a company employs someone who works remotely in country Y, they must follow the country’s regulations and following those regulations can be costly and time-consuming. Present rigid procedures, mandatory processes with a lot of paperwork, etc. “Most American companies are baffled by these requirements in European countries,” the analyst wrote. You hire in Spain, you pay taxes in Spain Spanish and international legislation, described in article 15 of the Tax Agreement on Income and Wealthdoes not make distinctions between remote or in-person hiring. Therefore, a foreign company that wants to hire someone with tax residence in Spain and who is going to work remotely from the country, must meet exactly the same tax obligations and requirements What if you hire her to go to a physical workplace every day. The problem, to hire someone in Spain, is that the company needs to be registered with Social Security to pay contributions, and have a Tax Identification Number. That is, it is necessary to be a natural or legal person in Spain. This implies that the company should have a tax representative in the country or what is called Permanent establishment. In other words, the foreign company must have a headquarters based in Spain to channel through it hiring in Spanish territory and comply with tax and labor obligations. Tap on the image to go to the original message As entrepreneur and developer David Bonilla points out in a message response thread from the founder of Vercel, there are several options for hiring in Spain, but none of them are easy for companies or workers, especially if they do not have the capacity to open a headquarters (or subsidiary, branch, permanent establishment or any other legal figure of representation) in Spain. The risk of going from worker to “headquarters” Once the headquarters option has been ruled out, the alternatives result in the employee becoming a service company by becoming self-employed or by establishing a limited company and billing its services to the foreign company as a commercial activity, not labor. However, that would mean walking on a knife’s edge for two reasons: the first is that if there is not a very clear definition of the commercial terms and conditions, the relationship can be interpreted as signs of employmentwhich brings us to the figure of the false self-employed. On the other hand, the Tax Agency could consider that these self-employed workers or companies act as a subsidiary of the company to which they invoice, so they must respond not only for their activity, but also for that of the “parent” company. On the other hand, it is also possible to do it by intermediary recruitment platforms as Deel either remote. These companies act as a bridge between the worker and the companies, preventing the contractor from having to assume all the tax procedures. Therefore, in some way, despite working for the company that contracts the service, from an administrative point of view you will really be working for the intermediary that provides the service. The use of these intermediaries (Employer of Record or EOR) increases the labor cost bill by between 10% and 20%, which leaves Spanish employees in a less competitive position with respect to other countries. In general terms, the difficulties that the CEO of Vercel pointed out for its deployment in Spain is that, to hire a single person in Spain and remotely, they need to comply with the same requirements as for hiring 1,000 employees. If the company’s priority is not to be present in the Spanish market, the implementation effort to hire one or more people is not worth it. This implies that it is conditional to hire in Spain, even if it is for work remotely from Spainbecause that company already has infrastructure in the country. This tax and labor policy is much more lax in countries like the US, the United Kingdom or India, which is why it is much more common for large technology companies to hire programmers and remote employees in those markets. In Xataka | Finding a job had always been a good way to escape poverty: in Spain it is no longer true Image | Unsplash (Magnus Andersson, Thammy Kolb)

a paradox that baffles scientists

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It is one of the cruelest paradoxes of modern neurology: women are diagnosed with the Alzheimer’s disease almost twice as many times as men. And the question in this case was obligatory: why? The first theories They pointed to brain agingpointing out that women’s brains deteriorate faster. But now, everything has changed radically. A published study in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) Not only does it disprove this hypothesis, but it reveals just the opposite: the brains of healthy men seem to age and shrink faster. But even so, the expected effect is not what we see in the prevalence of the disease. Until now, studies on sex differences in brain aging have produced conflicting results. While some suggested a greater loss of gray matter in men, others pointed to a more pronounced deterioration. The method. To clarify this picture, an international team of scientists has carried out one of the largest analyzes to date. To do this, they analyzed 12,638 longitudinal brain MRIs of 4,726 cognitively healthy participants (2,181 men and 2,545 women). The participants, in this case, aged between 17 and 95, underwent at least two brain scans at an average interval of 3.3 years. This allowed the researchers to observe not a still photo, but actual structural changes in the brain over time, controlling for factors such as head size. Further deterioration. The results, after adjustments, were surprisingly clear: Men experienced greater volume and thickness reduction in more brain regions than women. Men showed a more pronounced decrease in cortical thickness in regions such as the cuneus, lingual gyrus, and parahippocampal. They also showed a greater reduction in surface area in the fusiform and postcentral cortex. For example, the postcentral cortex, responsible for processing sensations such as touch and pain, decreased at an annual rate of 0.20% in men compared to 0.12% in women. Furthermore, in older adults it was seen that men also showed greater contraction in key subcortical structures such as the caudate, putamen and nucleus accumbens. In contrast, women only showed greater surface area reduction in the superior temporal sulcus and greater ventricular expansion in old age. The conclusion. The study’s main conclusion is as compelling as it is puzzling: sex differences in age-related brain decline are “unlikely” to explain why women have a higher prevalence of Alzheimer’s diagnoses. Amy Brodtmann, a researcher at Monash University, agrees, adding that if these changes were responsible for Alzheimer’s, we would expect to see greater deterioration in women in areas crucial for memory, such as the hippocampus, something the study did not find in its main analyses. This forces the scientific community to look for other explanations. The results suggest that the higher prevalence of Alzheimer’s in women is likely due to factors other than brain atrophy due to age. There are nuances. The authors of the study themselves recognize that the disease is a complex phenomenon. One of the limitations of the study is that the sample of participants had higher educational levels than the general population, a known protective factor against Alzheimer’s, which may not be fully representative. Furthermore, the study introduces a fascinating nuance. When the researchers adjusted the data not for chronological age, but for remaining life expectancy, several of the differences disappeared. In this scenario, women even showed a greater decline in hippocampal volume. This could indicate that terminal, near-death brain changes play an important role, but more research is needed to confirm this. Images | Natasha Connell In Xataka | You don’t need more hours in the day. All you need is to understand how the brain works to work better with less.

there are ‘Mario Kart’, ‘The Legend of Zelda’, ‘Fortnite’ and more

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Among the many virtues of LEGO®, variety is one of the best. If we take a look at the Danish brand’s catalogue, it is not difficult to find a set (or several) that catches our attention. We have some based on movies, also on series and, of course, in video games. In fact, of the latter we can find some that are truly amazing and that, in addition to being fun to assemble, are great for giving a different touch to our room or play corner. There are many that we can choose for this, but below we leave you a selection of some of the most notable: LEGO® Mario Kart: Mario and Kart standard by 169.99 eurosone of the latest gaming cutting sets that the brand has released. LEGO® Great Deku Tree “2 in 1” by 299.99 eurosa brutal set with which we can build two completely different trees. LEGO® Mecha team leader by 229.99 eurosan articulated set made up of more than 2,500 pieces. LEGO® The Socrates Museum Collection by 79.99 eurosa very customizable ‘Animal Crossing’ set. LEGO® battle bus by 99.99 eurosa very recognizable set of this ‘Fortnite’ vehicle. LEGO® Mario Kart: Mario and Kart The first of the sets that we bring you is also one of the last that LEGO® has launched. This is Mario and his Kart, a set that has an approximate length of 32 centimeters. Both the head and arms are articulated and it has a base that allows the vehicle to be placed in different ways. It is available for 169.99 euros. Mario Kart™: Standard Mario and Kart The price could vary. We earn commission from these links LEGO® Great Deku Tree “2 in 1” Among the gaming cutting sets that the brand has, this Great Deku Tree is one of the most striking. It stands out because it is a “2 in 1” figure: we can assemble the tree that appears in ‘Ocarina of Time’ or the one in ‘Breath of the Wild’. There are just 2,500 pieces that provide a lot of play and also include very recognizable objects from ‘The Legend of Zelda’ franchise, such as the Hylian Shield or the Master Sword. Costs 299.99 euros. Great Deku Tree “2 in 1” The price could vary. We earn commission from these links LEGO® Mecha team leader ‘Fortnite’ fans have several very striking sets available, like this Mecha Team Leader. It is loaded with details and we can vary its pose thanks to the fact that its hips, arms, feet and head are articulable. It comes with some accessories and a minifigure based on the same character. It has more than 2,500 pieces and costs 229.99 euros. The price could vary. We earn commission from these links LEGO® The Socrates Museum Collection We also have some sets based on ‘Animal Crossing’ like this one from The Socrates Museum Collection. As it is divided into several spaces, we can configure it in different ways so as not to always have the same thing displayed. It comes with two minifigures and is available for 79.99 euros. The Socrates Museum Collection The price could vary. We earn commission from these links LEGO® Battle Bus We close with another ‘Fortnite’ set, this time with one based on this iconic flying bus. It is a set that is close to 1,000 pieces and in this case includes 9 minifigures. In addition to these, it also comes with a lot of very recognizable accessories from the video game, such as the straw, the pickaxe or the suction cup launcher. comes out for 99.99 euros. The price could vary. We earn commission from these links Some of the links in this article are affiliated and may provide a benefit to Xataka. In case of non-availability, offers may vary. Images | LEGO® In Xataka | Your favorite series, comics and movies also in LEGO: 15 construction kits ideal to assemble yourself or give as a gift In Xataka | LEGO constructions on another level: the Technic Series has the models that any collector would dream of

Spain and France warned of a failure in Europe’s drone wall. Now the plan includes lasers and civilians with rifles

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The drone raids Russians on the european airspace have turned the sky of the continent into a new frontier of hybrid warfare. In a few weeks, these devices have forced the closure of airports, putting the air forces on alert from NATO and reopened a debate that Europe thought distant: how to defend yourself of a cheap, difficult to track and increasingly sophisticated enemy. Then we heard the idea for the first time of the “drone wall”and now it’s starting to take an unexpected shape. The invisible threat. The incidents in PolandDenmark and Germany, where drones of unknown origin flew over military bases and civilian areas before disappearing, have accelerated the creation of an unprecedented defense device. Allies seek to protect the population and its critical infrastructure while balance the answer immediate with the development of a long-term architecture. This is how the idea of ​​raising an antidrone walla technological network that combines sensors, radars, jammers and low-cost weapons to detect, intercept and neutralize threats in a matter of seconds. The birth of the wall. The concept emerged many months ago, inspired by the lessons of Ukraine and the evidence that European armies They lacked adequate systems to counter the proliferation of drones. The Baltic countries, together with Poland and Finland, presented the initial proposal to the European Commission: a technological wall on NATO’s eastern flank, from the Baltic to the Black Sea, financed with border security funds and intended to monitor the skies against possible Russian incursions. But the wave of drones that crossed Polish airspace last September changed the scale of the project. Ursula von der Leyen proclaimed the need for a “wall” to protect all of Europe. What began as a regional idea became the embryo of a continental air defense network against unmanned systems, the so-called European Drone Defense Initiativeincluded in the new military readiness roadmap that the Commission will present this fall. Europe accelerates. Thus, while politics was debated over budgets and powers, the armies acted. Denmark installed Doppler radars in Copenhagen and at its base in Skrydstruphome of its F-16 and F-35, to detect suspicious movements. Sweden announced a investment of 370 million of dollars in interceptors, jammers and frequency sensors. Germany passed a law which allows police to shoot down drones that pose an imminent threat, and the United Kingdom deployed spy planes on twelve-hour missions over the Russian border. Defense manufacturers quickly joined the effort: Saab presented its Nimbrix missiledesigned specifically to take down swarms of drones, and the loke systema modular radar, machine gun and electronic warfare set created in just three months to respond quickly to the threat. And in an unexpected turn of events, the Danes have gone further than anyone else: they even accelerated the instructor training military with shotguns to shoot down drones at close range, an unusual measure that reflects the urgency with which Europe is trying to close a critical technological gap. You have to expand. The initial enthusiasm for the anti-drone wall soon found a political problem: Western and southern Europe felt excluded from an initiative that concentrated resources in the East. Countries like Spain, France or Italy they detected a problem and they warned that the threats are not limited to the Russian front, since drones can operate from any point in the territory. The Commission took note and proposed expand the plantransforming the “wall” into a pan-European network of sensors, jammers and weapons integrated under the same coordination framework. Defense Commissioner Andrius Kubilius admitted that the EU’s current capabilities are “very limited” and that it will be necessary to resort to Ukrainian experience, accumulated after almost four years of daily fighting against Russian swarms. The remakerenamed the European Drone Defense Initiative, seeks total coverage and proposes a double challenge: demonstrate that the Union can assume a real operational role in defense (traditionally the responsibility of States and NATO) and achieve consensus among twenty-seven countries with very different military priorities. Obstacles of a wall. But there are more obstacles. I told it in an extensive report this morning Reuters. The project faces a complex internal battle over who should lead it. Small and Eastern nations prefer that the Commission centralize coordination, while France and Germany (accustomed to directly managing their arms programs) they refuse to give in leadership. Berlin and Paris also fear that the Commission will end up assuming powers that traditionally belong to national sovereignty. At the same time, experts warn that the idea of ​​a wall can generate a false sense of security: No network, no matter how advanced, can guarantee the downing of all drones. The technical difficulties they are huge: Connecting radars, acoustic sensors, optical systems, interceptors and artificial intelligence software from different countries into a single mesh will require years of testing and billion-dollar investments. The challenge is to achieve a defense staggered and adaptable to a type of threat in constant mutation, where each enemy innovation requires an immediate response. Lessons from Ukraine. It we have counted other times. The war in Ukraine has taught Europeans a costly lesson: you cannot shoot down a 10,000 euro drone with a missile that costs a million. The sustainability of the combat depends on intermediate solutionsfrom interceptor drones that collide with enemies to automatic cannons and low-power laser systems. Rheinmetall, the German giant, defends the use of artillery as a more profitable option and has already received orders from Denmark, Hungary and Austria for its Skyranger mobile system. Emerging companies from the Baltic and Germany, such as Marduk Technologies or Alpine Eagle, have presented your own schemes multi-layer defensewhile Ukraine continues to serve as a testing ground: its operators adjust the speed and maneuverability of the interceptors almost in real time to face increasingly faster Russian versions. This constant evolution turns anti-drone defense into a living disciplineof countermeasure and countermeasure, where human experience and AI must coexist. The utopia of safe heaven. If you will, the future of the alleged European anti-drone wall depends now on three factors: … Read more

It has 2,000 Starlink antennas on the roofs

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Elon Musk filled the sky with satellites to deliver Internet to every corner of the globe, and the world has found all kinds of applications for the ubiquitous service. After the prison with clandestine antennas and the narcosubmarine connected to StarlinkMyanmar buildings covered in SpaceX satellite dishes arrive. Many of the scams that circulate on the Internet are coordinated within it, including the increasingly common romance frauds. More than 2,000 Starlink antennas. Despite efforts by authorities in China and Thailand to root them out, Burmese “fraud factories” remain operational and are more technologically advanced than ever. Responsible for scamming billions of dollars from victims around the world, these guarded buildings near the Myanmar-Thailand border have their roofs covered in Starlink antennas. According to a Australian Strategic Policy Institute reportoperators replaced ground connectivity with Starlink terminals after allegedly being dismantled by local militias. Satellite images from February 18, just two weeks after the raid, already showed more than 1,000 satellite Internet service antennas. By May, Thai intelligence estimated that the number exceeded 2,000 antennas. What are these centers? In the February police operation, nearly 7,000 people were freed from a brutal system that forced them to run investment scams known as “pig butchering” and online romantic scams. A AFP investigation It tells what was experienced inside through a young Chinese man, Sun, freed after Beijing’s intervention. Lured by the false promise of a well-paying job in Thailand to support his family, Sun was kidnapped and sold to a scam center in Myawaddy, Myanmar for $20,000. Their job was to send fraudulent messages to targets in the United States following a script. One of these documents, 25 pages long, instructed scammers to adopt the persona of “Abby,” a nonexistent 35-year-old Japanese woman, to build a romantic bond with the victim. Once the target took the bait, he passed the contact on to a more specialized scammer. Sun relates that workers were beaten with electric batons and whips if they did not comply with orders or worked slowly. High fences, watchtowers, and armed guards deterred any escape attempts. Diesel generators and satellite Internet. These centers prospered in a border territory between Myanmar, Thailand, China and Laos that was already known as the golden triangle of drug trafficking and smuggling. Corruption and the power vacuum following the 2021 coup in Myanmar have allowed criminal syndicates to operate with almost total impunity and autonomy. Starlink’s ubiquitous coverage, combined with diesel generatorshas allowed these centers to be incredibly self-sufficient. They no longer depend on Myanmar’s unstable power and telecommunications network. Now they can operate almost anywhere, which is making them difficult to eradicate. Although the permissiveness of the Burmese militias also helps. What SpaceX says. Despite warnings from California prosecutors and alarm expressed by American politicians, SpaceX has not commented on the matter. The situation has escalated to the Joint Economic Committee of the United States Congress, which has launched an investigation. SpaceX has already proven in Ukraine its ability to disable terminals in specific geographic areas, a technology known as geofencing. Applying a similar measure in the areas of Myanmar where these centers operate would have an immediate impact, and with global implications. In the United States alone, losses from these types of scams amounted to $10 billion last year, an increase of 66% over the previous year. Starlink has played such an important role that the service, which is not officially licensed in Myanmar, has gone from not being on the country’s list of internet providers to being number one. Image | ASPI In Xataka | Facebook has become a drain for love scams: Morata’s crime is just the extreme example

The coast of Huelva has been touristed for decades. Now one of its last virgin areas will become a megaurbanization

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“With more than 130 hectares next to the Pinares de Cartaya, it aims to become one of the main urban developments in Andalusia, creating a residential and leisure center in one of the most unique enclaves of the Andalusian Atlantic.” The phrase is part of the presentation of ‘Saggita El Rompido Living Club’, a real estate mega project that a Basque developer is promoting on the coast of Andalusia, on the second line of the Huelva coast and where there is now extensive trees. The initiative has already aroused the suspicion of politicians and environmentalists who warn that it will pervert one of the few remaining virgin areas on the coast of Huelva. What has happened? That Huelva is preparing for a radical transformation of the environment The Brokenin the municipality of Cartaya. There the Loiola company plans to promote a macro urban project with hundreds of homesvillas, a golf course, hotel accommodation, swimming pools and a commercial area. An extensive development that will extend throughout 130 ha in an environment that, like presume the promoter itself, represents “a privileged enclave between marshes, ocean and pine forests.” What do you want to do? They have named the project Saggite“arrow”, in Latin, a nod to one of the most characteristic places in the area: the Broken Arrowa wide sandy formation that stretches for about ten kilometers parallel to the coast. The promoter has several ideas in mind: a golf course, several hotelsa commercial area and above all generate residential offer. Specifically, on his website he talks about two projects: Sagitta Silvawith 128 homes (106 multi-family apartments and another 22 single-family homes) and Sagitta Navisa complex of 18 semi-detached houses with four bedrooms spread over two floors. Is there more? Yes. The Rompido Living Club does not stop there. When promoting the project, those responsible they talk of a huge residential and leisure center of 130 hectares with 800 exclusive homes (in some media they talk about 1,000), to which places for tourists and swimming pools will be added, “one of the main developments urban developments of Andalusia”. To complete it, the company claims that Sagitta Living Club will cover some 522,600 square meters of green areas. Is it just a project? No. In August 2024 Environment awarded the Unified Environmental Authorization for “Nuevo Rompido Este” in order to develop the land and pave the way so that it can accommodate homes, hotels, the golf course and the shopping center. Months later, in November, Ecologists in Action warned that work had already begun on the ground, with “the dismantling of the rich and varied vegetation of the Mediterranean forest” in the area and excavators and trucks removing bushes. The latest news about the project reached early summerwhen Loiola began marketing the first 150 homes in your residential complex. In the promotional information published on those dates it was stated that the works would start before the end of this year to have them lists in 2027. Perfect, right? Not everyone thinks so. The macroproject has the planning permission of Cartaya and the Junta de Andalucía has also given the green light to the urbanization of 1.3 million of square meters. THE complex even snuck into the presentation carried out last year by the City Council at FITUR. That does not mean that Sagitta has unanimous support. There are those who have warned of its impact on the environment, both environmentally and socially. For example, Izquierda Unida crosses out the “monstrosity” and warns of its effects. Why’s that? “It will double the population of El Rompido at once, destroying a forest of pine, juniper and other protected vegetation and exposing this nucleus, which already suffers serious problems such as periodic water cuts of up to 24 hours, to unsustainable urban tension.” I insisted a few months ago David F. Calderón, spokesperson for Izquierda Unida in the Cartaya City Council. In his opinion, the megaproject suffers from “serious legal loopholes” and “puts at risk the ecological balance and carrying capacity of the territory in a high-value area.” “El Rompido, one of the coastal towns in Andalusia where housing has become more expensive in the last decade, does not need more luxury homes, nor more hotels, nor more golf courses, but rather social housing that allows youth to continue living in their town,” Calderón stressed. The project focuses on the northwest of El Rompido, in a space located 800 meters from the beach. Is it the only critical voice? The answer is again no. One of the most critical voices of the project has been that of Ecologistas en Acción. And not only because in November warned of the arrival of machinery to the area, initiating “the destruction of (a) space with important natural values.” Since then has insisted in that the 130 hectares of the complex represent land “of extremely high biodiversity and environmental wealth” and that the project itself is “the greatest example of unsustainable, illegal and predatory urban planning on the Andalusian coastline.” Hence, the environmental association has filed a contentious-administrative appeal and requested a precautionary suspension. His main argument: the alleged risk of causing “very serious and irreversible” damage to the territory. “The works involve destroying a substantial part of the environmental values ​​of this privileged enclave, with serious consequences for protected fauna and taxa.” What does the promoter say? In your advertisingthe company highlights that the promotion will seek “environmental, social and economic sustainability”, which includes, among other issues, measures to minimize the carbon and water impact or the preservation of biodiversity. It also highlights that the Sagitta Living Club complex will include more than 522,000 m2 of green areas, a large area that will play a key role in the complex. The environmental authorization actually recognizes that there are protected plants in the environment, but their future is clear because they will be located in the free spaces left by the megaurbanization. Images | Loiola and Ecologists in Action In Xataka | There is a virgin beach in … Read more

vote in the Xataka NordVPN Awards 2025

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Round two. If just yesterday we launched the votes for “Best smartwatch” and “Best tablet”, now comes the time to vote for the best televisions and sound equipment. This year, we also have a novelty: “Best super high-end television”, a category to reward innovation in televisions and the most powerful models from big brands. As in previous editions, your votes will determine the finalists in each category. The devices that make it to the grand final will depend solely and exclusively on you, our xatakeros. In addition, your votes will be combined with those of the jury, with a weight of one third, to choose the winners who will be announced in the big gala on November 20where we are looking forward to seeing you! Voting will be open until October 27 at 11:59 p.m.. These are the candidates. Best super high-end television Note: If you are browsing from a mobile phone and the form does not look good, you can vote from here. Best high-end TV Note: If you are browsing from a mobile phone and the form does not look good, you can vote from here. Best entry-level and mid-range TV Note: If you are browsing from a mobile phone and the form does not look good, you can vote from here. best headphones Note: If you are browsing from a mobile phone and the form does not look good, you can vote from here. best speaker Note: If you are browsing from a mobile phone and the form does not look good, you can vote from here. For the voting system we use Google Forms, so in order to send your vote you need to be logged in to your Gmail (or Google) account in the browser, whether desktop or mobile, so that each reader can cast their vote. Thank you. NordVPN offers you a fast and stable connection thanks to your more than 6,300 servers in more than 110 countries. Enjoy advanced cybersecurity tools with Threat Protection Pro™, securely access your streaming platforms favorites wherever you are and enjoy the best offers on flights and hotels. Advice offered by the brand How voting works The mechanics of the Xataka NordVPN Awards 2025 are the same as in previous editions. It is divided into three phases: Public vote: Over the next few days we will be publishing articles with our categories and the candidates selected by the Xataka team so that you, our xatakeros, can vote for your favorites. Jury vote: With the finalists that the public has chosen, the Xataka jury and other technology experts will vote for those who are, in their view, the best devices. Choice of winners: The jury’s votes will be combined with those of the public to choose the winners, who will be announced on November 20. The selected candidates are devices that They have gone on sale in 2025 or will do so with a confirmed date before the end of the year. We also include those that were left out last year when they were announced after the Awards. We believe it is the best solution: Unfortunately we cannot celebrate the gala on December 31 and our idea is that the Awards can serve as support in the purchasing decision for this last part of the year. Vote in other categories: These are all the categories of the Xataka NordVPN Awards 2025 in which you can now vote: Best tablet and smartwatch Thank you very much for participating! Image | Xataka In Xataka | Xataka NordVPN 2025 Awards: reserve November 20 for the great annual technology festival

It will allow you to have erotic conversations… if you hand over your ID in exchange

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OpenAI has announced that in December it will lift restrictions on erotic content on ChatGPT for verified adult users. The measure comes after months of complaints about the chatbot’s loss of “personality”, especially after the arrival of the serious GPT-5and represents a 180-degree turn in the company’s strategy, until now reluctant in contrast to Grok. Why is it important. This is the moment when OpenAI recognizes that without emotional (and sexual) intimacy it cannot compete with platforms like Character AIwhere its users spend up to two hours a day talking to their AI-partner. Erotic literature has existed since writing has existed. ChatGPT does not invent anything. It simply bridges the last gap between “useful tool” and “total emotional companion.” The context. Sam Altman had declared in August that he was “proud” not to have turned ChatGPT into a sexbot. Now he justifies the change under the principle of “treating adults like adults.” The reality is more prosaic: after supposedly mitigating mental health problems (two months after a lawsuit for the suicide of a teenager who used the platform), OpenAI believes that it can now afford to relax controls. The money trail. Character AI proved that erotic is a great glue to retain users. If OpenAI wants to monetize the engagement Really, you need to enter that field. Personalization of the assistant (with options for more human responses, use of emojis or “friend” behavior) is just the wrapper. Adult content is the new product. Yes, but. The toll to pay is something unprecedented: OpenAI will require age verification, presumably with an identity document. It is the largest exchange of privacy for service that such a technological platform has asked of us. The question is not whether there will be leaks of databases with erotic conversations linked to real, verified identities. The question is when and how many millions of users will be affected. The turn. OpenAI is building the metaverse that Meta couldn’t create, or at least not successfully. Only this is not visual, but conversational. Meta failed because no one wanted to be in its virtual worlds. But we do want to be in ChatGPT. And more with the restriction-free mode for emotional companionship and eroticism. The summer’s stricter restrictions (designed to make the chatbot “less fawning” and prevent mental health crises) had pissed off users who didn’t have psychological problems. Now OpenAI reverses its own security philosophy in record time. You have introduced parental controls and a separate experience for minors, but the speed of change raises questions about whether they have truly “mitigated” the risks or simply decided to take them on. Between the lines. This move shows the real battle of conversational AI. It’s not about who has the most powerful model, but who gets you to spend the most time with it. And accompaniment without an erotic dimension is incomplete for many users. OpenAI knows this. Altman predicted that ChatGPT could “cure cancer one day.” Now bet that he can also be your sexual confidant. They are only two sides of the same strategy of total penetration in the lives of users. In Xataka | Character.AI is accompanying and making its users fall in love. That’s wonderful until it’s not. Featured image | Xataka

What happens if you still have it installed, what dangers there are, and how to update to Windows 11

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Windows 10 is no longer supported. As of October 14, 2025, Microsoft’s operating system is officially dead. But what exactly does this mean? Well, we are going to answer these questions so you know what to expect if you are still using it. We are going to start the article by explaining to you what the Windows 10 end of supportand then we will go on to tell you what dangers you are exposing yourself to if you are still using it. Then, we will finish by reminding you of the ways you can upgrade to Windows 11, even if your computer is old and does not meet the minimum requirements. What the end of support is and what it entails Windows, like most operating systems, evolves with the release of new versions. And since they do not have unlimited manpower, when they launch a new version, such as Windows 11, the old version is being abandoned to focus efforts on the new one. This happens gradually, so that users have time to change. First, updates that bring new features are abandoned, but security updates continue to arrive. And then directly maintenance is abandonedwhich is when you stop receiving any type of update, even security ones. This is the end of life of the operating system, or as they say, your end of support. We say this because errors and security flaws are no longer even updated. Windows 10 is dead and what is there now is what remains forever. This implies that also bugs and errors stop being fixed. Therefore, if a cybercriminal has discovered a critical vulnerability, it is possible that he did not exploit it so that Microsoft does not notice, and now that it abandons Windows, it begins to use it. What dangers does the end of support have? Windows 10 will no longer be secure and private. It’s that simple. If critical vulnerabilities have recently been discovered that put your users’ data at risk, or if they are discovered in the future, they will no longer be fixed. Your computer will be exposed to hackers. Another problem derived from the end of support is that Apps and new hardware will no longer be supported over time. Windows 10 will now be history, and application developers will stop taking it into account with new updates, which means that there may be many bugs or, in the future, they will stop working. The same thing happens with hardware, with other devices such as cell phones, cameras, or anything. It is possible that you will not be able to use them properly when connecting them to Windows 10, that they may fail, or that they may not even be detected if the device is new. Popular apps like Chrome may continue to work temporarily, but there will come a time when they stop working. After all, Windows 10 is already dead. Therefore, if you still have Windows 10 installed on a computer, it is advisable to switch to Windows 11 or a new version that is released, but always abandon the operating system before the end of support, because Windows 10 will no longer be secureand it will become a dangerous operating system to use. Upgrade to Windows 11 Therefore, if you have a computer with Windows 10, The recommendation is to upgrade to Windows 11. Having original Windows 10, the same license will work for the new version, update is freeand you will simply have to comply with the Windows 11 requirements in the hardware. If you do not have an official Windows license on your PC, you can download the Windows 11 beta for free with the Windows Insider program. Here, you can have beta versions or versions already tested but prior to the finals. In exchange for finding a bug and reporting it, you can use Windows for free. If your computer does not meet the requirements If your computer does not meet any requirements such as support for TPM 2.0, the first thing is to see if you can activate the TPM from UEFI or BIOS of the team. Unless it is a very old computer, it most likely already supports it, although it will not always be activated. If not, there is an official way to bypass the TPM requirement by “tricking” Windows. You will have to use the command prompt and type the following command: reg add HKLM\SYSTEM\Setup\MoSetup /f /v AllowUpgradesWithUnsupportedTPMorCPU /d 1 /t reg_dword At Xataka Basics we have also told you other tricks to update. For example, you can use this modified version of Windows 11. To do this, in the Windows terminal type the command “irm “https://christitus.com/win” | iex”, and then a window will open where you have to click on the tab MicroWinand follow the steps to download the ISO and install it. You can also use Flyoobe to install Windows 11 on non-compatible computers, although in this case without Artificial Intelligence functions. To do so, download this tool from official GitHub page. Is a free tool so that anyone can use it, and open source to ensure its security. Lastly, there are a couple of options to expand Windows 10 supportalthough they are temporary patches. Can extend support until 2026 using the Windows Backup tool or Windows Backup. But this expanded support isn’t for everyone, and in any case it only lasts a few months. In Xataka Basics | How to block programs and applications in Windows 11 without installing anything

Cybertruck sales are so bad that Musk has started buying them himself

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Six years ago, Tesla had the entire industry in awe. They had just announced the Cybertruckwith that futuristic design that left no one indifferent and Elon Musk boasted of his success: They had reserved 200,000 units in just three days. Things have changed a lot since then. Throttle problems, tires that don’t hold up and even pieces that fall off in motion. Sales are disappointing, so much so that Musk is starting to buy his trucks himself. What is happening. That Tesla is having difficulty selling its truck It’s no secret. In 2023, Musk said they would be able to sell a quarter of a million Cybertrucks a yearbut the reality is that in 2024 they sold 50,000 units and this year things look worse. According to ElectrekMusk has come up with a way to mitigate these numbers: have his other companies buy Cybertrucks. From one pocket to another. In addition to Tesla, Elon Musk also owns SpaceX and xAI, two of the companies that have begun acquiring Cybertrucks. We don’t know exactly why, but according to Elektrek, “hundreds” of Tesla Cybertrucks have been seen being delivered to the xAI offices this weekend. On the other hand, Many more Cybertrucks are being seen at SpaceX. Wes Morrill, chief engineer of Tesla Cybertruck, confirmed in Xthat SpaceX’s fleet of vehicles was being replaced by Cybertrucks, although it did not say how many they had purchased. Disappointing sales. Although Tesla sales are starting to pick upit’s no thanks to his truck. In March of this year they had to reduce production line because they had only sold 6,500 units and they moved workers to the manufacturing of the Tesla Model Y. In the third quarter of the year they have only sold 5,385 units, which represents a drop of 63% compared to the same period last year. It is estimated that this year they will sell 20,000 units. These are figures very far from Musk’s dream that he intended to sell between 250,000 and 500,000 Cybertrucks a year. Overstock. Is a serious problem for a car manufacturer because it blocks resources from the production line and storage. Tesla Cybertrucks pile up and the company needs to release them selling them cheaper than planned. Rumors suggest that Tesla has even considered selling it in Chinaa market where They were not planning to enterbut due to its size it could be the solution to the poor sales figures. The problem is that they would have to make changes to its design because it is dangerous for pedestrians, the same reason why not sold in Europe. Image | Amparo Babiloni, Xataka In Xataka | Everything that the Tesla Cybertruck wanted to be without success is the impressive Lamborghini Rezvani Knight

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