Month: December 2025

the historic king of the mid-range returns with more battery (and more expensive) than ever

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Xiaomi has just renewed its most legendary mid-range and, as usual, it is a range with quite a few models and a bit chaotic, but we are going to focus on just one model, the most advanced. His name is Xiaomi Redmi Note 15 Pro+ 5G. Technical data sheet of the Xiaomi Redmi Note 15 Pro+ 5G XIAOMI REDMI NOTE 15 PRO+ 5G DIMENSIONS AND WEIGHT Brown: 163.34 x 78.31 x 8.47mm and 208g Blue and black: 163.34 x 78.31 x 8.19 mm and 207.1g SCREEN 6.83 inch AMOLED 2772 x 1280 resolution Refresh up to 120 Hz 3,200 nits peak brightness HDR 10+ and Dolby Vision Corning Gorilla Glass Victus 2 PROCESSOR Qualcomm Snapdragon 7s Gen 4 MEMORY 8GB/12GB LPDDR4X STORAGE 256GB / 512GB UFS 2.2 BATTERY 6,500 mAh HyperCharge 100W fast charging Reverse charging 22.5W REAR CAMERAS Major: 200 MP f/1.7 with OIS Wide angle: 8MP, f/2.2 FRONT CAMERA 32MP, f/2.2 Operating system Xiaomi HyperOS, Android 15 SOUND Dual stereo speakers Volume boost 400% CONNECTIVITY Wi-Fi 6E 5G Bluetooth 5.4 Dual SIM NFC USB-C OTHERS IP68 certification On-screen fingerprint reader Xiaomi HyperAI PRICE 8/256GB: 499 euros 12/512GB: 529 euros This is how Xiaomi makes money – they attract you and trap you Long live continuity The new Redmi Note 5 Pro+ (we’ll skip the 5G, so as not to mess it up so much) shares quite a few features with his predecessorstarting with the design. It still has that characteristic square camera module with rounded edges and comes in new colors: black, blue and brown with vegan leather finish. One detail to keep in mind is that the dimensions and weight vary slightly between the brown version and the other two, but there is barely a gram difference. Speaking of cameras, we have a 200-megapixel main sensor and an 8-megapixel wide-angle sensor. Xiaomi has removed the macro lens which did come in the previous model, leaving only a dual camera system. The macro is a sensor for a very specific use and does not usually give very good results, so it is not a loss to regret. For the front camera we have a 32 megapixel sensor. Regarding the screen, it is a 6.83-inch AMOLED with FullHD+ resolution. It reaches peaks of 3,200 nits, supports HDR10+, Dolby Vision and offers a 120Hz refresh rate. Battery for a while One thing that changes for the better is the battery. The previous model had 5,110 mAh and the new one has risen to no less than 6,500 mAh, a huge increase especially considering that the size and weight have barely changed. Very good there Xiaomi. Supports fast charging up to 100W. The processor is a Snapdragon 7s Gen 4, Qualcomm’s mid-range chip for this generation, and is accompanied by 8 or 12 GB of LPDDRX4 RAM depending on the version. Regarding storage, you can choose between 256 or 512GB. Other features of the Xiaomi Redmi Note 15 Pro+ include a double stereo speaker with a volume boost mode, fingerprint reader under the screen, IP68 resistance and Gorilla Glass Victus 2. Of course it comes with HyperOS, Xiaomi’s layer, well watered with AI features like Ai Writing, Ai Search, interpreter and more. Versions and prices of the Xiaomi Redmi Note 15 Pro+ 5G The Redmi Note 15 range is now official, but you will not be able to get one of them until January 5, the date on which pre-purchase begins on the official website. As we said, the Xiaomi Redmi Note 15 Pro+ 5G comes in brown, blue or black and several memory versions. Regarding the price, the model with 8GB of RAM and 256GB capacity will cost 499 euros and the 12GB with 512GB goes up to 529 eurosbecoming the most expensive Redmi Note to date. In Xataka | Ford CEO considers Xiaomi “the Apple of China.” The key is not just the Xiaomi SU7: it is the ecosystem

The United States has turned Trinidad and Tobago into the war container it was missing. Venezuela has responded like Russia: an invisible fleet

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The conflict between the United States and Venezuela has entered a phase in which the silent accumulation media outweighs official statements. If you will, the Caribbean once again functions as a strategic belt from which Washington projects pressure without the need to declare an open war. Under the formal argument of the fight against drug trafficking, the White House has been weaving a support network logistics, radars, airstrips, ports and resupply spaces in an arc at a time bigger of “allies”. The Venezuela’s response We already saw it in Russia. The map of countries. That “arc” of allies Washington runs from the Dominican Republic to Trinidad and Tobago, passing through Aruba, Curaçao, Bonaire, Grenada, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. The deployment includes destroyers, nuclear submarines, amphibious ships, aircraft carriers, state-of-the-art fighters, drones and thousands of troops, not enough for a land invasion, but enough to control air and maritime space, monitor critical routes and sustain missile attacks if it is decided to escalate. It is a prepositioning strategy classic: being everywhere without publicly assuming that something else is in the works. Trinidad and Tobago, the most sensitive link. Within that architecture, Trinidad and Tobago emerges as the most delicate piece of the board. Its extreme proximity to the Venezuelan coast turns any gesture into a political and military message. The new government has authorized the use of its airports by US military aircraft, has received warships and marine units, has allowed joint exercises and has accepted the installation of an AN/TPS-80 G/ATOR radar capable of detecting aircraft, drones and missiles. Everything is presented as logistical and defensive cooperationbut it fits almost literally with the US National Security Strategy of 2025, which calls for a toughened version of the Monroe Doctrine to reaffirm the preeminence of the United States in the Western Hemisphere and prevent external actors from controlling strategic assets. Trinidad and Tobago insist in that it will not be a platform for offensive attacks except direct aggression, but its role as node of surveillance, resupply and intelligence places it at the center of any scenario of sustained pressure on Caracas. A blockage that is not. The announced threat by Trump of a “total and complete” interdiction of sanctioned oil tankers entering or leaving Venezuela fits into that model of gradual pressure. It is not about closing ports with a formal declaration of war, but about taking advantage of naval and air superiority, supported by friendly infrastructure, to intercept, seize or deter the ships that support the main source of income for the Nicolás Maduro regime. The recent seizure of an oil tanker loaded with nearly two million barrels and the warning that further action could follow shows the extent to which Washington is willing to take pressure beyond the symbolic, taking the risk of controlled incidents in international waters. The Venezuelan response. Faced with this siege, Caracas has reacted by raising the profile of its challenge. The order to escort ships that transport oil products and derivatives to Asia is a calculated move: it seeks to demonstrate that the Venezuelan State does not renounce its right to free navigation and that it is willing to involve to his Navy to keep exports open. It is also a response that increases the risk of confrontationbut that sends an internal and external message of resistance. Oil continues to be the financial pillar of the regime, and losing it would be equivalent to accepting total economic asphyxiation. The ghost fleets. Beyond the visible escort, the true backbone of the Venezuelan strategy is the ghost fleeta tactic practically copied from the used by Russia after Western sanctions. Old oil tankers, many with more than twenty or thirty years of service, change name and flagsteal the identities of already dismantled ships, sail under flags of convenience, turn off or manipulate their identification systems and carry out crude oil transfers on the high seas to hide the origin of the cargo. The result is an opaque trade that allows you to sell oil with large discounts to buyers willing to take risks, while the traceability required by sanctions is diluted. It is not a marginal phenomenon: a significant part of the world’s oil tanker fleet already operates in this gray ecosystem, transporting Venezuelan, Russian or Iranian crude. Sanctions that do not suffocate, they deform. The BBC reported that the data show that, although far from the historical levels of the end of the 20th century, Venezuelan exports have recovered notably compared to the collapse of 2019. This indicates that the sanctions have not paralyzed the flow, but rather have displaced it towards more opaque and risky circuits. As in the Russian caseeconomic punishment does not eliminate trade, it makes it more expensive, makes it less transparent and reinforces dependence on informal networks and actors willing to move illegally. The Caribbean as a conflict. With US aircraft carriers patrolling the Caribbean, radars deployed in islands near Venezuela and escorted or invisible tankers sailing to Asiathe conflict is located in a dangerous intermediate zone between economic pressure and military confrontation. The United States bets on the ccontrol of space and logistics regional via of discreet allieswhile Venezuela responds with the same manual that has allowed other sanctioned countries to survive: ghost fleets, aggressive discounts and specific shows of force. The Caribbean, for decades associated with tourism and trade, is thus once again a scene of high geopolitical tension where each radar installed and each oil tanker intercepted brings the risk of a clash that no one admits they want, but for which both sides seem to prepare, a little closer. Image: US Navy In Xataka | The situation between the US and Venezuela only needs one incident to escalate into something more: that incident is already here In Xataka | In full tension with the US, Venezuela has presented its drone simulator: it is equal to a three-euro Steam game

from 978 announced layoffs to 791 agreed

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A few weeks ago, Amazon announced a aggressive adjustment plan that would affect 14,000 employees in your template. Unfortunately, on this occasion the staff at the offices that the Spanish Amazon subsidiary has in Barcelona and Madrid were also affected by this layoff plan. The ERE, which started with 978 planned departures for the Barcelona office, has ended up being reduced to 791 employees after negotiation with the unions. The key is not only in how many people the ERE has been reduced, but in how this exit is ordered and with what protection network they do it, achieving much more advantageous conditions. From 978 to 791 layoffs. The core of the agreement that has been reached between CCOO and Amanzon is the reduction in the number of layoffs in the Barcelona office, which drops from 978 initial layoffs to 791 people, which implies a reduction of 19% compared to what was initially announced. According to data of RTVE, the staff of these offices was about 2,800 people, so the cut would mean a reduction of 28% of the total in the office in the Catalan capital.​ According to the statement Made public by CCOO, the majority union representing the workers of that office, in addition to lowering the final figure, the agreement incorporates voluntary departures and the option of permanence for protected groups, along with relocations within the group.​ Improvements in conditions and compensation. Economically, the ERE negotiation table agreed on a compensation of 38 days per year worked, with a limit of 24 monthly payments, and a minimum compensation of 7,000 euros for each dismissed worker. Paid leave was also agreed until February 28, linked to the possibility of opting for payment of company shares. According to sources of ElDiario.esto these conditions, a payment of 1,500 euros is added for people whose visa depends on the employment contract and the payment of medical insurance until May 31. At the state level, the same media indicates that the total cut in Spain is around 920 workers between the Amazon Spain Services offices in Barcelona (791 layoffs) and Amazon Digital Spain with offices in Madrid (129 layoffs). More AI, less staff. Union sources link the ERE to the automation of processes associated with the implementation of artificial intelligence but also to “relocation to other places with more lax labor regulations,” CCOO said in its statement. This regulatory file presented in Barcelona and Madrid is part of a broader corporate cutback by Amazon: the company announced in October a reduction of approximately 14,000 corporate jobs worldwide for organizational reasons. Something that from the Ministry of Labor has been criticized because Amazon presented a net profit of $21,187 million in its balance sheet for the third quarter of 2025, which represents an increase of 38.2%. In Xataka | Big Tech doesn’t stop firing its engineers. At the same time, they have stepped on the accelerator in hiring Image | Unsplash (Adrian Sulyok)

Europe has left a crack open to using combustion engines in 2035. It is a goal pass to China

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The European Commission has spoken. Now it is up to the rest of the European organizations to buy the proposal. Everything indicates that this will be the case and that we will have a relaxation in emissions standards in 2035. One that points to very expensive combustion engines and highly electrified options. Options in which China leads. The approved. First, we must start with what has been approved. It is the proposal of the European Commission regarding the emissions targets that manufacturers must meet in 2035. This points to a slight reduction. With the 100% reduction in carbon emissions that was approved, the combustion engine was almost doomed. Why does an electric car have less autonomy than advertised? And it is that only those moved by efuel they could work if they were carbon neutral. With the changes, the average emissions of the manufacturers’ fleet must move in 11 gr/km of CO2. These are figures almost impossible to achieve for any car that is not purely electric. Therefore, most options involve selling the vast majority of electric vehicles and a touch of combustion. Expensive and exceptional. Combustion cars “will become the Swiss luxury watches of the automotive industry.” The words are by Matthias Schmidta market analyst who points out that the rule is nothing more than a “Porsche amendment.” This explains the exceptional nature of the combustion cars that will be sold on the street. And the use of “green steel” and synthetic fuel, produced in Europe, will be key to receiving emissions bonuses that increase the average CO2 allowed to each manufacturer. Requirements that, presumably, will make the cost of the car even more expensivewhich will have to be passed on to the end customer. That leads to two paths. One, as we say, is to offer a few very expensive combustion cars as a status symbol. The second aims to sell exclusively electric cars. Or, if necessary, a type of plug-in hybrid called extended range electric. A type in which, again, China has the lead. The extended range. The extended range electric car is a type of car designed by and to be used as an electric car. The objective is for it to be supported by a combustion engine but only to be used as an emergency measure. Mazda sold us the MX-30 R-EV using this name but the cars of 2035 will have to go one step further. And it is that the SUV electric Mazda plug-in hybrid It already approves 21 gr/km of CO2, a figure that will skyrocket when the new approval criteria come in. The alternative for those looking for a car with a combustion engine for peace of mind or because their needs demand it will have to go for a type of extended range electric vehicle forgotten in Europe. This extended range is what was already proposed with the BMW i3 REX. The BMW electric car, ahead of its time, did have a combustion engine but it barely had 38 HP and was supported by a 9-liter tank. Because the fundamental idea is that the engine would act as an electrical generator in emergency conditions, when the battery had run out and there was no outlet nearby. China, always China. This type of car is one of the few with combustion engines that aspire to be relatively affordable. Right now, in the Spanish market, the best example is the Leapmotor C10 REEV. This car, as in the case of Mazda, has a 50-liter tank for an 88 HP engine, but its usage pattern has allowed it to approve 0.4 l/100 km of consumption and 10 g/km of CO2, a real rarity in the market. Given this expected increase in the approved emissions figures, this type of car will have no choice but to expand the battery (in the Leapmotor it is only 28.4 kWh) and reduce the gasoline tank. While maintaining its operation as a pure electric vehicle and, if necessary, as a series hybrid. This technology is used by many cars in China. In this list you have the most purchasedamong which are cars of all price ranges. We find cars like himLi Auto L6 EREV with 212 kilometers of electric autonomy but that extends over a thousand thanks to its combustion engines or the Aito M9powered by Huawei. BYD with its YangWang U8 It shows that there is a market for all types of options. The series hybrid. If the Leapmotor manages to reduce its consumption and emissions to such low figures with a 50-liter tank, it is largely because of how it uses its technology. China has specialized in serial hybrids, a small rarity in Europe. Toyota, for example, combines the technology with the parallel hybrid, where the combustion engine can drive the wheels at the same time as the electric motor but separately. In a series hybridthe gasoline engine works as an electrical generator that provides electricity to the battery. The electric motors draw power from this. And the hybrids that are coming to us from China, both plug-in and the Omoda 9 SHSas non-pluggable, as the Omoda 5 SHS-Happly this system to try to improve their efficiency. What they achieve is that the combustion engine operates at a speed range that is considered optimal, where they deliver the greatest power with the lowest possible consumption. When more power is needed, the car can deliver it and increase the engine revolutions but they try by all means to prevent this from happening. The driver, for his part, has the feel of an electric car, with less noise and vibrations, which is a plus in comfort. One more time. As we say, these cars will have to increase their electric range and reduce their gasoline tanks to operate very punctually with this system and reduce emissions, but again China is one step ahead of Europe in this technology. Leaving the door open for this configuration to be an interesting alternative to have a minimum safety net with … Read more

Telefónica leaves Wall Street through the back door. Goodbye to almost four decades in the largest market in the world

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Telefónica has started the procedures to delist your shares from the New York Stock Exchangewhere it has been listed since 1987. The securities will stop trading on Wall Street in a matter of days once the documentation is filed with the SEC. The telecom will only maintain its listing in Madrid, in the Spanish continuous market. Why is it important. The movement closes a symbolic chapter that began when Telefónica became the first Spanish company to be listed on the largest market in the world. But the symbolism was left behind: today maintaining that presence involves high administrative costs and regulatory demands that no longer compensate. The trading volume in New York is residual and investor interest is practically non-existent. The context. Telefónica’s stock has fallen more than 90% in the last fifteen years. Its current valuation is on the floor, very far from that giant that in the nineties became the most valuable company in Spain. The dividend, which for years was the main attraction for conservative investors, has been successively cut, the last time this quarter. Buying in Madrid is more direct, cheaper and with the same liquidity as in New York, where securities are hardly traded. Between the lines. This decision fits into the strategic plan presented in November by Marc Murtra, focused on aggressively reducing costs. Telefónica has been lowering its blinds on all fronts: Sold subsidiaries throughout Latin America except Brazil. Reduced the dividend. Presented an ERE which is ending its negotiation phase. And now it is abandoning stock markets where being present no longer adds value. Also will stop trading in Lima. The figure. 4,554 departures are contemplated by the ERE that was agreed this Wednesday with the unions, 26% of the workforce in Spain. Cost savings are the obsession of the new management: 3 billion annually until 2030. Yes, but. Investors who have ADR certificates (American Depositary Receipts) will be able to exchange them for common shares in Spain or hold and trade them in US over-the-counter markets. Telefónica will provide both options, although it is evident that it prefers the first. The background. The exit from Wall Street is not an isolated or recent decision: The telecommunications sector has lost interest from investors, especially in Europe. It is a mature business, highly regulated, with tight margins and little ability to surprise. Telefónica today is a very different company from the one that debuted on Wall Street: smaller, more regional, more European. Its new strategy focuses on four markets (Spain, Germany, the United Kingdom and Brazil) and on consolidating itself as a reference operator with profitable scale, in addition to increasing its focus on technological solutions. Marking agenda. Wednesday’s day at the Distrito Telefónica offices north of Madrid was hectic. The contrast. When Telefónica went public in New York in 1987, it placed certificates worth $375 million, the largest influx of European capital on Wall Street up to that time. The telecom was then majority owned by the State and its debut was seen as a milestone of internationalization. Today it leaves unnoticed, recognizing that the regulatory burden and administrative costs of the SEC outweigh any benefits. Go deeper. The obligation to report detailed information to the SEC was useful at the time: thanks to it, data such as the price that STC or SEPI paid to enter the capital were known, information that the Spanish CNMV would never have required to reveal. But that level of transparency also has a cost, and Telefónica has decided that it is no longer worth paying for. In Xataka | The Government has had an idea so that the next blackout does not leave us without mobile data: let the operators pay Featured image | Telefónica, Lo Lo

For decades, the “00000” has fascinated Christmas Lottery players. The reason: the King’s Number

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All the Lottery numbers They have the same chance of winning the Christmas prize, but not all of them generate the same interest or are surrounded by the same halo of fascination. Perhaps one of the most enigmatic is the “00000”. And it is because the doubts it raisesquestions that resurface every December just like the nougats in the supermarkets, the perfume ads on TV or the LED lights in Vigo. Does it really exist? Can it be purchased? And above all… Is it true that it is the number that gives Lotteries and Betting from the State to the Royal House? There are those who are so sure of the latter that they even refer to “00000” as “The King’s Number”although (spoiler) it is not actually founded. Is 00000 played? Yeah. In the Christmas raffle they play 100,000 numbers different. From 00000 to 99,999. Both included. In fact, a quick search arrives to confirm that the first issue on the list has been sold this year in half a dozen of branches in Cádiz, Las Palmas, La Rioja, Valencia and Murcia. After all, there is nothing written about tastes (and superstitions): there are those who see 00000 as an ‘ugly’ number, a combination to avoid with little chance of receiving the jackpot, and those who bet their 20 euros on it as the winning horse. Have you ever played? No. Not at least if we’re talking about El Gordo or millionaire prizes, although that doesn’t make 00000 a special number either. Although the National Lottery traces its origins to 1812 (when the biggest prize amounted to 8,000 pesos) and the Christmas draw began to become popular 133 years agoin reality there are not so many numbers graced with El Gordo. That doesn’t mean that 00000 hasn’t made more than one person’s day (or Christmas). In 2014 he achieved a stones of 120 euros. It may not seem like a big deal, but that year the same administration in Logroño had sold 160 lucky tickets, leaving money in the pockets of its clients. 19,200 euros. In 1828 luck also happened to him. That year the lucky number was 00523. To many the figure may not be attractive because it is too ‘low’, but the truth is that the drums do not understand low or high numbers. Lotteries remember that Gordo touched figures between 0 and 10,000 61 times, 70 times to bills from 10,001 to 30,000 and 64 times to combinations ranging from 30,001 to 66,000. The King’s Number? One of the most famous myths about 00000 is that, precisely because it is the first in the numerical sequence, State Lotteries and Betting reserves a special destiny for it: a gift for the Royal House. You don’t have to look hard to find articles that remember a story that in reality is nothing more than that: a story, pure urban legend. “No. It is a baseless rumor. Institutionally, no tenth is given away,” they clarified already in 2011 from Lotteries to the newspaper ABC. It is not the only occasion in which he has had to deny the hoax. “No tenth with the number 00000 is given to the king for the Christmas draw,” insist to RTVE. The best proof is that the tenths of 00000 can be found in various administrations in the country and in 2014 the media even they interviewed to one of the winners with the 120 euro stone. Curiously, she decided to play that number and not another because she was convinced that it was the one they used in Zarzuela. Curious, commented… Feared? 00000 not only generates expectation for its history and myths. There is another detail that arouses the curiosity of Christmas Lottery lovers. In case he wins the first prize, if chance showers him with millions of euros… How the hell would it be sung? Would we hear the children of San Ildefonso hum “zero thousand zero hundred zero zero”? Would you opt for a simpler formula? theEconomist assures that 00000 would simply be sung as “zero”, without further flourishes. Although another thing (of course) is that their nerves play tricks on them on the 22nd. Images | SELAE 1 and 2 and Royal House In Xataka | ChatGPT You have the same chance of hitting the Lottery Jackpot as a witch reading the guts of a crow

the pieces come from the most unthinkable place

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They have been so many the occasions in which Ukraine has intercepted a Russian drone, has opened it and has found that Moscow had little less than the name, that it seemed difficult for kyiv to be surprised again by an “unboxing” of the enemy. It so happens that Ukraine has been demanding help for weeks to combat a very special Russian missile. And when he managed to intercept one, the surprise came again. A modified shahed. The appearance on the Ukrainian front of a new armed Russian Geran-2 drone with an air-to-air missile It marked a new turn in the evolution of the conflict and in Moscow’s constant adaptation to a battlefield increasingly dominated by unmanned systems. According to Ukrainian military intelligence, this model (derived from the Iranian Shahed-136) has been seen for the first time equipped with a soviet missile R-60originally designed in the seventies for combat fighters. This is not a mere technical curiosity, but a deliberate attempt to introduce a direct threat against helicopters and airplanes Ukrainians dedicated to air defense and drone interception tasks, expanding the role of the Geran-2 beyond the classic suicide attack against ground targets. The military logic of the missile on a drone. The main objective of this modification, according to the Ukrainian evaluation, has been degrade effectiveness of Kyiv’s tactical aviation, forcing it to operate with greater caution against swarms of drones. In fact, this adaptation has been a pain in the ass for kyiv helicopters. As? By integrating an infrared-guided R-60 missile with a range of approximately 10 km, Russia introduces the possibility that a traditionally vulnerable drone, can fight back if it detects a nearby helicopter or aircraft through its cameras. This represents a clear trade-off: the missile takes up space and weight, which reduces the drone’s internal explosive charge and, therefore, its destructive capacity against ground targets, but in exchange increases its potential survivability and its value as an aerial deterrent tool. UK report on Shahed missile upgrade The “allied” pieces. And here comes the moment when Ukraine has returned to be surprised. One of the most sensitive elements of the GUR report is the confirmation, when dissecting this evolution, that this new Geran-2 contains the majority of components manufactured outside Russiaincluding elements from the United States, United Kingdom, Germany, Switzerland, China, Japan and Taiwan in the equation. This pattern, like we have been counting many times, it is not even much less newbut it once again highlights the limitations of international sanctions. Despite export controls and technological restrictions, civilian components (chips, sensors, electronic systems) they keep coming to the Russian military industry through gray markets, intermediaries or countries that evade or laxly apply control standards. Sanctions, loopholes and a doubt. Ukraine takes time alerting of the magnitude of the problem. In one of the massive attacks this fall, President Volodymyr Zelensky claimed that they had identified more than 100,000 components of foreign origin in a single package of 550 drones and missiles launched by Russia. The figure illustrates not only the persistence of gaps in the sanctions regime, but also the industrial scale that Moscow has achieved in the production and adaptation of drones, relying on technologies that, in theory, should be out of its reach. Testing ground. Although the use of armed drones with air-to-air missiles It is striking, the truth is that it is not completely unprecedented in this war. Ukraine has also experienced with the integration of surface-to-air missiles in naval drones, managing to shoot down Russian aircraft over the Black Sea. The conflict has thus become a real-time laboratory where both sides test improvised combinations of cheap platforms and inherited weaponry, adapting them to new missions with surprising speed. Drones as a strategy. we have been explaining throughout the months. The introduction of this armed Geran-2 coincides with a sustained investment of Russia in drone operations, both in national production as in the creation of new launch infrastructures. Beyond the immediate impact on the battlefield, the message is strategic: Moscow seeks to complicate every layer of the Ukrainian defense, even at the cost of sacrificing some of the destructive power of its drones, and demonstrates that, despite sanctions, it continues to find a way to combine foreign technologyinherited weaponry and mass production to sustain their war effort. Image | Kyiv City State Administration In Xataka | A day later the satellites leave no doubt: Russia fortified a bridge, and a Ukrainian drone made science fiction a reality In Xataka | If Europe thinks that the end of the war in Ukraine is the end of its problems with Russia, Finland has just woken it up

How to easily create a nice Christmas greeting with your photo using ChatGPT Images

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We are going to explain to you step by step how to create a Christmas greeting with your photo wearing ChatGPT Imagesthe section to create images from photographs of ChatGPT. This tool will allow you to do the editing with artificial intelligence without having to write a prompt certain. Right now, this section has a default style that allows you to create a pretty Christmas photo in just two or three clicks. So, to this we are going to add an additional request and voila, you will have the complete congratulations. You’ll see that it’s simple. Your Christmas greeting with ChatGPT The first thing you have to do is enter the ChatGPT website or application on your device. Once you are inside, open the side menu Click on the section Images that will appear just below the search options. This will take you to the main screen of the section Images. In it, look in the section Test a style on an imageand here inside click on the option Festive portrait what you are going to find. This will open a window where you have to choose the photo you want to use as a basis for congratulations. It has to be a portrait-type photo in which one or more people appear. For this, you can use one of the recent ones that you have used in this section, or manually choose another one that you want to use. Just by doing this, ChatGPT will turn your photo into a festive portrait Full of Christmas decorations and motifs. If you don’t like the result the first time, you can try again, and even copy and paste the prompt using another photo, or repeating the entire process. Once you have the image created to your liking, it’s time to give it the final brushstroke. In the same chat where it was generated and shown to you, you have to write that you want me to add a text using a Christmas font. For example, you can put something like “Happy Holidays.” For that, I have used this prompt: I want to turn this photo into a Christmas card. For that, I want you to put the text “Happy Holidays!” at the bottom. using a Christmas font. And only with this you will have your greeting created. Now all you have left is decide if you want to make additional adjustmentssuch as changing the size of the word, its position, or even making the image horizontal. You can even upload someone else’s photo and ask ChatGPT to add it to the composition by doing the same treatment to the photo so that it looks the same. In Xataka Basics | How to create a character in ChatGPT and Gemini to use it in all the images you make with artificial intelligence

V-16 beacons run the risk of being left without connectivity if their manufacturer goes bankrupt. Don’t worry, there is a solution

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You may have read it on social networks: you buy a connected V-16 beacon, you go years without using it and, before you know it, the company that sold it to you has gone bankrupt, has stopped paying for its servers and now you have a nice paperweight because, without connectivity with DGT 3.0, that beacon has become illegal. It’s true? No. Plain and simple. When we buy a connected V-16 beacon, the manufacturer assures us that the connectivity is guaranteed for at least 12 years. The manufacturer may offer more connectivity time, as an incentive to purchase, but it cannot offer less. This, like the luminosity of the beacon or the 30 minutes that it must be in operation for at least, is one of the demands that Traffic has set to manufacturers so they can sell their beacons and we let’s buy them with enough peace of mind to be following the rules. Sure, but… what if the company goes bankrupt? It is one of the questions that some users have asked and that has been answered by accounts on social networks like Twitter. It is stated that when a connected V-16 beacon is activated and the required 100 seconds pass, the following process is launched: Protocol A: the beacon sends the data exclusively to the manufacturer’s servers Protocol B: Data leaves the manufacturer’s servers and is forwarded to the National Access Point for Traffic and Mobility Information which is where all activations and any other type of emergency are reflected. The response points out that, in the event that the manufacturer stops selling the connected V-16 beacon, the connection would be broken and therefore we would be left with a luminous paperweight because without connectivity that light is not legal. Insured. To confirm these details, we have contacted some of the companies that manufacture or sell these types of beacons. César Basterrechea explains to us from Atressa Automotivewho have their own beacons, that the information is not true and clarifies what would happen if their company went bankrupt and stopped paying for the beacons. First, he points out, the manufacturer has to register in DGT 3.0 and request a connectivity license. When this requirement is met, the following happens: “My operator sends me the data generated by one of my beacons through an APN and which is protected within a private VPN, the information reaching my Cloud once received, we send it through a VPN with a digital certificate to the DGT 3.0. If my company closed tomorrow, my operator would redirect the data emitted from my beacons to another APN of its own and through its own VPN it would send the data to the DGT cloud” With these words he explains, therefore, that it is the operator that offers its support if the company stops paying for the servers and, therefore, cannot offer the service. They confirm it to us. Asked to the other party, the answer is the same. In Xataka We have contacted Orange, an operator that offers connectivity in different connected V-16 beacons on the market. The company confirms the above, although it points out that, exactly, it is not that the operator keeps the servers of the bankrupt company, it only guarantees that the signal reaches DGT 3.0. “The communication architecture has been defined so that there are two ways to send the data to DGT 3.0: through the manufacturer’s cloud services (which must always be used if there are no incidents) or directly from the operator if the manufacturer’s cloud service is not operational (manufacturer bankruptcy or massive drop in its cloud service)” It’s not easy. The truth is that although we have confirmation from this beacon manufacturer And getting there is not easy. In the Resolution of November 30, 2021 which details the requirements that a V-16 beacon must have connected to be valid, it specifies that the manufacturer must have support to offer the service if it cannot be performed, but nowhere does it specify whether this company should be the operator, as Atressa Automotive tells us. This text explains the above-mentioned details of protocols A and B. Subsequently, the following is stated: The implementation of a device with these characteristics requires having a standard channel and a common language. Additionally, defining this standard also makes it easier for a third party to perform these functions if necessary due to the existence of a problem in the information systems of a manufacturer. The data model that the messages that V-16 devices send to their manufacturers’ information services must comply with is defined below. a hoax. Although with the connected V-16 beacons we have had a lot of controversy and we know that there are even those who has demonstrated cybersecurity risksThe truth is that this time we are facing a hoax. The DGT has actively repeated that when we buy a connected V-16 beacon we are guaranteed access to DGT 3.0 for 12 years. And although the protocol does not clearly detail whether a specific company must take charge (operators, other manufacturers…), it does specify that it must guarantee backup to keep the service active. Photo | DGT In Xataka | V16 beacon without eSIM or connectivity: what the DGT says about them from 2026

MediaMarkt allows you to get the latest Google Pixel at an unbeatable price and with interest-free financing

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Google has managed to sneak into the most desired mobile phones among those looking for a high-end terminal. Now, at MediaMarkt, they have a 15% discount code available for the Google Pixel 10 series. One of the models that is worth it is the Google Pixel 10 Prowhich you can take now 764.15 eurosapplying the code ‘MM15GOOGLEPIXEL‘. You will have to apply the code during the purchase process and you will see that the price of the mobile changes in the cart. It will go from costing 899 euros to 764.15 euros thanks to this MediaMarkt promotion. Plus, you can finance it up to 18 months without interestpaying a fee of 42.45 euros per month. Although this 15% discount applies to all models of the Google Pixel 10 series, keeping the two other alternatives at the following prices, entering the same code (‘MM15GOOGLEPIXEL‘): Google Pixel 10 by 594.15 euros: with 6.3-inch Actua OLED screen, Android 16, Google Tensor G5 and 128 GB. Google Pixel 10 Pro XL by 934.15 euros: with 6.8-inch Super Actua OLED screen, Android 16, Google Tensor G5, 16 GB of RAM and 256 GB. Google Pixel 10 Pro, 128GB The price could vary. We earn commission from these links A top mobile now at an unbeatable price There are many characteristics of this Google Pixel 10 Pro which make it one of the brand’s most interesting models in this promotion. Its screen is type 6.3 inch OLED and refresh rate of 120 Hz. Its brain is the Google Tensor G5 chip, which is accompanied by 16 GB RAM and 128 GB internal storage. Presents IP68 certification and works under Android 16 operating system. Plus, software updates are guaranteed for seven years. Another of its great assets is its photographic system, with a 50 MP main sensor, a 48 MP wide-angle lens and a 48M 5x telephotoQ. Regarding its battery, it supports wired charging at 30 W and wireless charging at 15 W. Finally, it should be noted that it has Wi-Fi 7Bluetooth 6, NFC and 5G. The best accessories for this Google mobile Google Pixel Watch 2 with Fitbit and Google The price could vary. We earn commission from these links Google Pixel Buds A-Series – Truly Wireless Earbuds 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 | Álex Alcolea (Xataka) and Google In Xataka | The best mobile phones, we have tested them and here are their analyzes In Xataka | The best quality-price mobiles. Their analyzes and videos are here

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