Month: January 2026

It took a hacker two and a half hours to steal thousands of personal data from Endesa customers. Endesa took a week to notify

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Endesa Energy has confirmed a cyberattack on its trading platform that has exposed critical information of millions of customers. The breach includes identity documents, bank accounts and data from electricity and gas contracts, which places those affected at risk of fraud and identity theft. What exactly happened. A cybercriminal has managed to circumvent the security measures of Endesa’s commercial platform and access sensitive customer information related to their energy contracts. According to has recognized the company in communications sent to those affected, during the security breach contact information, ID and IBAN numbers from bank accounts would have been extracted. The company ensures that the access passwords have not been compromised. The magnitude of the incident. The hacker responsible, who identifies himself as “Spain,” posted on January 4 on BreachForums, a popular forum in the dark webdetails of the attack claiming to have obtained more than 1 TB of information corresponding to more than 20 million people, according to reported the Digital Shield medium. The cybercriminal assured this medium that he had gained access in less than two and a half hours, and has gone so far as to leak data samples from a thousand clients to demonstrate the authenticity of the stolen information. What type of data is at stake. The hacker claims to have obtained basic personal data (names, surnames, postal addresses and contact information), financial information (IBAN, billing data and account history), energy data (CUPS, active electricity and gas contracts, supply point information) and regulatory data. The risks for clients. Although Endesa considers it “unlikely” that the theft will result in “a high-risk impact on the rights and freedoms of users,” the company warns of several real dangers in its official statement. Cybercriminals could try to impersonate customers, post the data on digital forums, or use it for phishing and spam campaigns. Josep Albors, Director of Research and Awareness at ESET Spain, explains that “the risk does not end with the notification of the breach” and that the exposed information can be reused for months or years to launch targeted fraud. Endesa’s response. The energy company has taken almost a week to publicly acknowledge the incident since the leak became known. The company claims to have immediately activated security protocols, blocked compromised access and notified the competent authorities of the case. In addition, it has enabled telephone lines to resolve doubts: 800 760 366 for Endesa Energía customers and 800 760 250 for those of Energía XXI, its distributor in the regulated market. We have contacted the company to find out more information about it, so we will update the article in case of news. What should those affected do? The problem with this security breach is that the data is surely used for advertising campaigns. phishing and targeted spam. As explained by ESET, the first thing we should keep in mind as affected parties is to distrust any communication that appears to come from Endesa and that includes links, attachments or urgent requests, always contacting the company through official channels. This has not been the case, but it never hurts to frequently review bank accounts to detect unauthorized movements and change passwords, even if the company claims that they have not been compromised, activating security protocols whenever possible. two factor authentication. Free and useful websites like ‘Have I Been Pwned‘ allow us to check if the data has appeared in other known breaches by entering our email. The extortion attempt. According to account According to Escudo Digital, the hacker has tried to negotiate directly with Endesa through emails, although at the moment he has not set a specific ransom figure. The cybercriminal, who says he is not affiliated with any group of ransomware known, has received offers from third parties of up to $250,000 for half of the database, although he claims to have not sold anything yet. “I prefer to wait for Endesa to decide,” he told the media. A worrying trend. Just like they count From the media Expansión, this attack places Endesa on the growing list of large Ibex 35 companies that have suffered cyberattacks in recent months. Companies such as Iberdrola, Iberia, Repsol and Banco Santander have been victims of similar incidents that have compromised customer data. And they have not been the only ones, since cyberattacks and data leaks They are now much more common. In the case of Endesa it seems that we will have to wait for the company to offer more information on the matter. Cover image | Endesa In Xataka | OpenAI just assumed an uncomfortable truth about AI browsers: there is one type of attack that is impossible to block

How to create an image of yourself and a Pixar character with your face using artificial intelligence, with Gemini or ChatGPT

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We are going to explain how to create an image in which you appear holding a 3D character of yours miniature using artificial intelligencelooking like Pixar characters. We are going to use a prompt created for use with Geminialthough it will also work in ChatGPT without problems. It is a fairly simple composition, in which you only need to add a photo of yourself and write the prompt, which is quite long and complex. But the result is quite curious, although you may need several tries to get it completely to your liking. An image of you with a 3D cartoon What you have to do is open a new chat with Gemini, which is the AI ​​with which you will have the best results. Once you have it, upload a photo of yourself in which your face looks goodand then add the following text as a request or prompt: “Use the uploaded photo as the ONLY facial and identity reference. The main subject must look exactly like the person in the uploaded image, preserving identical facial structure, proportions, skin tone, hairstyle, eye shape, nose, lips, jawline and overall identity. Do not embellish, alter or replace facial features. Create a cinematic, ultra-detailed scene of your subject smiling naturally. The subject delicately holds a tiny, cartoon-style miniature version of the same person by the hair between his fingers, like a playful puppet suspended in the air. The miniature character is a Pixar/Disney-style 3D version of the same person, with cute, exaggerated proportions, big, expressive eyes, mouth open with joy, arms raised, and a lively, playful stance. The miniature must clearly resemble the same person and be wearing a matching outfit. The main subject looks at the little character with surprise, delight and affection, creating a whimsical and touching interaction. Lighting is warm professional studio lighting with soft rim light, shallow depth of field, and soft golden bokeh background. The real person’s skin texture is photorealistic, while the miniature character has clean Pixar-style materials, smooth shading, and polished 3D surfaces. Cinematic color grading, high contrast, sharp focus, premium portrait composition, 50mm lens look, f/1.8 aperture, ultra-realism mixed with stylized animation, 4:5 aspect ratio, 8K quality, cinematic finish. Anime, 2D illustration, comic style, flat shading, low poly, plastic skin, wax face, face swap, different identity, facial morphing, beauty filters, excessive smoothing, blur, low resolution, grain, noise, distortion, deformed face, incorrect facial proportions, extra fingers, missing fingers, duplicate hands, floating objects, bad anatomy, inconsistent lighting, harsh shadows, neon colors, cold blue tones, washed out colors, excessive saturation, watermark, text, logo, severed head, face out of frame.” Yes, it is a very long text, but each of the sentences that make it up help with the effect. When you send it, you will receive a composition that shows an image of you holding a Pixar character with your face in your fingers. You will also be able to do it with ChatGPTwhich occasionally releases good results. However, the faces are sometimes somewhat deformed, and for now Gemini seems to do better almost always. In Xataka Basics | How to create a character in ChatGPT and Gemini to use it in all the images you make with artificial intelligence

how to calculate it in 2026 with examples

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Administrative language often includes confusing and complex terms, but they definitely affect your life. One of these terms is “regulatory base”, a concept that appears regularly in the regulations and conditions to determine how much are you going to charge for your benefit due to unemployment or during medical leave. However, and despite being a basic concept to calculate how much money you should receive in times of greatest work vulnerability, the regulatory base is not a fixed figure nor that it appears explicitly reflected on your payrollso we are going to explain how to calculate it and how it is applied with different examples. What is the regulatory basis of payroll If the labor market were a religion, the regulatory basis would probably be the equivalent of its bible. This concept is the pillar that allows you to calculate the salary that would correspond to you when you lose your job and begin to collect unemployment benefits, for the calculation of retirement and even for medical leave or permits. In summary, the regulatory base is the reference scale from which Social Security determines how much you will receive when you access a benefit. Depending on the amount of this regulatory base and the percentage that Social Security has established for a specific benefit, it will result in the amount that the employee will receive each month in their benefits. However, and despite the fact that its name may be misleading, the regulatory basis of the payroll, paradoxically, It does not appear on your payroll as such, but rather it is an average of certain contribution bases. Its calculation involves concepts such as the base salary, salary supplements, extra payments, Social Security contributions or withholdings that are applied to your payroll. Therefore, it is not a fixed amount as it is the gross salary or a certain percentage such as the personal income tax withholding that does appear on your monthly payroll. In other words, the regulatory basis is not something you need to know on your payroll, but only You’re going to need it when something interrupts your work life. and you must be compensated for it: medical leavematernity or paternity leave, unemployment or retirement. Difference with the contribution base One of the main factors to calculate the regulatory base is, precisely, the contribution base. That is, the monthly amount on both the employee and the company pay the contributions to Social Security every month. This contribution basis It is calculated by adding the employee’s base salary, the salary supplements he receives (seniority, tools, overtime, etc.) and the proportional part of the extra payments if they were prorated for collect them in 12 payments. Based on this amount, the percentages that both the worker and the company contribute to Social Security are calculated. Due to similarity, the regulatory base can be confused with the contribution base. However, unlike the regulatory base, the contribution base does appear reflected in the payrollso the worker can know it when he receives it, since the contribution base is what is contributed while working, unlike the regulatory base that is used to calculate the amount of the benefit when he stops working. Given that the amounts for which they are contributed are calculated in the form of percentages, the final amount of these contributions depends on the sum of the contribution base, since in some months you may receive more or less overtime or other supplements. Difference with base salary If the regulatory base serves to calculate how much do you earn in a job to, based on it, calculate the amount of a contributory benefit, wouldn’t the base salary serve as a reference? He base salary It is only the fixed part of the salary agreed in your contract. That is, the minimum salary you will receive for doing your job. However, this figure does not reflect the reality of your work since it does not include additional benefits such as prorated extra pay, monthly overtime or bonuses for objectives. By not reflecting the reality of your salarythis concept does not serve on its own to calculate benefits because, in reality, the employee does not receive that base salary, but rather the part of the Social Security contributions that correspond to him, as well as the deductions for personal income tax, are deducted from it. The regulatory base takes into account the contribution base, which includes all the amounts contributed to Social Security in a specific month, so its amount is different from that of the base salary. How to calculate the regulatory base of a payroll There is no single valid formula for all cases, because the calculation depends on the type of benefit for which it is made because Social Security establishes different percentages depending on whether it is for retirement, unemployment, paternity or maternity leave or due to sick leave. In common situations such as a temporary disability, the regulatory base is obtained by taking the contribution base for the month prior to the leave (that is, the base salary plus all salary supplements) and dividing it by the number of days to which said contribution refers (for example, 30 days if collected monthly). Each assumption is governed by different factors and percentages (calculation time range, economic factors, exemptions, etc.), so knowing the regulatory basis is only part of the calculation of the benefit. Regulatory basis for the self-employed In the case of the self-employed, the regulatory base is a little more complex to calculate since it is not based on a more or less stable figure as in the case of employees (base salary + supplements), since from the 2023 reformyour contribution base adapts to real income. And, therefore, the calculation of its regulatory base is as variable as it is. your contribution base. If, for example, a self-employed person has had four different contribution bases (because their income has fluctuated during the year), their regulatory base will be the average of those four contribution bases based on … Read more

Movistar customers will have it free for six months

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Telefónica has closed an agreement with OpenAI to offer ChatGPT Plus free for half a year to all its Movistar customers in Spain. Activation is digital, without permanence and without apparent trap. Why is it important. This movement consolidates the trend of operators as mass distributors of premium AI, Telefónica itself did something similar in 2025 with Perplexity Pro. It is a paradigm shift in a sector that had been looking for years to differentiate itself beyond price and fiber speed. And it goes beyond the OTT aggregation function that we have been seeing for almost ten years. In detail. The promotion covers almost the entire customer base: contracts MyMovistarMovistar Fusion, mobile-only and fiber-only rates. The process is simple: unique code from the client area, registration in OpenAI and immediate access. After six months, automatic renewal at 23 euros per month if the user does not cancel. The agreement is limited exclusively to Movistar, it does not include O2 customers. The enigma. Will existing ChatGPT users be able to use this promotion without having to register a new account? The official press release It doesn’t clarify it. From Xataka We have made this query to Telefónica and we will update this section as soon as we have a response. Between the lines. Telefónica has not chosen OpenAI by chance. It is the brand with the greatest recognition in generative AI. The operator already signed with Perplexity a year ago. Now add ChatGPT. The pattern is evident: Telefónica aspires to become an aggregator of AI services, exactly as today packs Netflix, Disney+ or Prime Video. Main winner? OpenAI gains distribution in Spain without having to make a commercial effort. Telefónica gains differentiation and data on AI usage patterns. Users gain temporary access to tools that without this promotion would be off their radar or budget. Yes, but. The promotion ends and then comes the friction. How many users will have integrated ChatGPT Plus enough into their routine to justify 23 euros per month? How many will simply try out of curiosity and cancel before payment? The success of this bet is not measured in the headlines that Telefónica is getting today, it is measured in conversion rates six months later. Featured image | Telefónica, OpenAI In Xataka | Telefónica has been trying to leave Mexico for six years and has discovered a problem: no one wants to buy what is left of it

The fashion among Spanish operators is the ERE. Meanwhile, Digi is hiring more than anyone else

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DIGI’s ambition has not been enough to become one of the three largest operators in the country. It also wants to be one of the main job refuges in the national telecom sector. In a context of uncertainty and restructuring, the Romanian operator is close to tripling its workforce while the rest adjust their workforce. Closing 2025. Digi closed last year with 10,200 direct employees in Spain. Data that is better understood if we put it in context. Against the current. While the telecommunications industry shrinks its workforce, destroying more than 14,000 jobs together, Digi does just the opposite: grow in customers and employment. One of the pillars that cements this stage of growth for the company is its first national agreement, signed last November. In it, the conditions of its employees are homogenized and progressive salary increases linked to performance are proposed. what’s happening. Digi’s strategy collides head-on with a classic among large telecos: outsourcing. The Romanian operator has opted for an internalization strategy: While the three large operators in the country have been focused for years on increasing income per customer, Digi is doing just the opposite: taking away customer volume, sacrificing profitability per user. No changes in the short term. Digi’s strategy seems clear: volume over margin and commitment to not outsourcing its services. The plan to become the third operator nationwide continues from strength to strength: In 2022 it managed to take over 60% of portability in Spain. It is currently the fourth national operator, behind Vodafone. While the rest raises prices, Digi maintains them or adjusts them even more. It is on track to become the third largest operator in fiber lines if it maintains its growth in 2026. The big question. Whether or not Telefónica will end up taking over Digi is the big question. The Spanish giant neither confirms nor rules out future purchases and mergers in its growth plan until 2030. For the moment, Digi is an ally: the Romanian operator uses Movistar coverage and infrastructure and will continue to do so for at least 16 years. Image | Digi In Xataka | All teleoperators plan to raise prices in Spain from 2026. All? No: DIGI still resists

Ukraine has unlocked a wild “online mode.” The one about Russia recruiting Africans on Discord to turn them into “can openers”

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The Ukrainian War I had already flirted with the language of the gamer world: rewards for objectives, loot lists and even a “military Amazon” improvised to redeem successes by real material. But if that seemed like a way to gamify logisticswhat is happening now goes up a level: it is no longer about buying drones with points, but about recruiting soldiers within the player communities themselves and turning them into human bombs. War as a global industry. On the Ukrainian front, Russia has ended up building a collection machinery that is not limited to looking for soldiers, but drags them from places increasingly unlikelyas if the war had become a global funnel. What was once a conflict between armies begins to look like a international recruitment network where young people enter, attracted by money, by a promise of the future or simply by a casual conversation that becomes irreversible. The result is a constant drip of foreigners who arrive in Russia, sign a paper, receive rushed training and disappear into the most brutal landscape of Europe, where the distance between signing a contract and death can be measured in weeks. Recruitment on a screen. The story Bloomberg told and starts with two young South Africans, regular Discord users and Arma 3 players, who end up talking about enlist in the Russian army with someone who identifies himself as @Dash. What seems like just another exchange in a digital community rises in temperature until it becomes a real plan: they meet in Cape Town, move together and end up visiting the Russian consulate, as if this bureaucratic step gave legitimacy to what, deep down, is already a flight towards war. On July 29, they embark on a trip to Russia via the United Arab Emirates and, after arriving, they meet “Dash” there. Shortly after, in early September, they sign one-year military contracts near St. Petersburg and they are trapped in the fast lane of a conflict that doesn’t stop to check if anyone really understands what they’re getting into. Contract, training and front. Only a few weeks pass between the signing and the front. After a brief period of basic training, one of the two is sent to combat in Ukraine, where he performs duties as an assistant marksman for a grenade launcher, a description that sounds like a military routine but is, in reality, the prelude of a disappearance. The last time he contacted his family was October 6. On December 17, a friend reported that has died in combat. The confirmation comes with a medical document that his family later obtained, dated months later, which states that he died on October 23, 2024 in Verkhnekamenskoye, in the Luhansk region. Nothing is known about the other young man: his whereabouts remain up in the air, as happens with many names who enter the war and get lost in the noise of the front. The scandal that breaks out at home. In South Africa, the case is not only read as a personal tragedy, but as a national problem, because since 1998 It is illegal to fight for or assist the armed forces of a foreign country. And it also arrives at a moment especially sensitive: More allegations of recruiting towards Russia have emerged in recent weeks, with investigations pointing to to catchment networks already told stories with acceptable costumes (escort courses, security training) that become suspicious when they lead to military contracts. This climate of public alarm worsens with arrests and judicial processeswhile the South African authorities, the Russian consulate and the platform itself appear wrapped in silence without clear answers and with families trying to piece together, through emails and calls, the map of a disappearance. The lie. Explained the medium that among the incentives that are put on the table appear always the same: money, attractive conditions, the possibility of obtaining Russian citizenship and the idea that the service could open educational or advancement doors. It is an offer designed to ring concrete and reasonableas if combat were hard but passable work, a dangerous but temporary experience. However, the story makes clear What happens when that promise lands in Ukraine: war is not a contract, it is rather a crusher, and for those who arrive without roots, a support network or the ability to get out of the wheel, destiny is reduced to a date on a piece of paper and a lost location in the east of the country. Kamikaze bodies. At another point in the same conflict appears a scene that has gone viral on networks, a video even more brutal: an African mercenary is “armed” with a TM-62 anti-tank mine attached to the body and sent towards Ukrainian positions with the intention of blowing himself up to open a bunker. The video shows crudeness without metaphors: the man protests, but a Russian soldier threatens him with a rifle, pushes him, expels him from a basement and orders him to run into the forest. in that language They call it a “can opener.”as if it were a piece of engineering, an instrument designed to break a door at the cost of disappearing, and the scene remains recorded for what it reveals: not only are foreigners recruited, they are used in missions where life is not a value to be protected, but rather the closest thing to a detonator available. Foreigners in war. Ukraine maintains that there are at least 1,436 citizens from 36 countries identified fighting in the Russian ranks, and that the real number may be higher. There is talk, again, of recruitment by financial promises, deception or pressureand warns of minimal survival: many do not survive more than a month after arriving at the front. The statement, however harsh it may be, fits with the landscape they draw these stories: people who enter through lateral routes, who arrive attracted by incentives or trapped by intermediaries, and who end up absorbed by a war that has been devouring troops until making replenishment a constant … Read more

Apple has found a way to win in the AI ​​era without having the best AI: be the door

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Apple has just done something that was unthinkable until recently: publicly admit that you don’t have the best AI. That after fifteen years of trying to make Siri work, with the advantage of hitting first, he gives up. That the brains of Apple Intelligence, including the new Siri, Google will put it. And yet, it has just gained momentum to preserve its dominant position for the next decade. A technological paradox. This isn’t a move Apple should be very proud of, but it has a nicer side: in the age of AI, being the best may not be so important. What matters is being the door. For half a century, the value in technology has been in innovation. IBM, Microsoft, Google, Facebook… they were all winning by creating something that no one else had. The reading with this step by Apple is that that era may be over: if AI models are updated every quarter and the difference between the best and the second is indistinguishable for 95% of users, what sense does it make to spend 50,000 kilos on research to go behind? It sounds sexier, especially to investors, to be the one who charges a toll for each interaction. And for that you don’t need the best model, you need the device that people have in their pockets. That’s the bet: Siri will continue to work, being owned by Apple and running on Apple hardware, but the piece that changes is the intelligence, the LLM. The most expensive piece to develop and the one that possibly provides the least differentiation when you have a billion iPhones. Apple does not give up something that matters to it at all, but rather outsources the part in which it cannot compete. Bittersweet for the company, bitter for its devotees, reasonable for its investors. The real deal is not in what Apple pays, but in what it gets. Google pays 20 billion a year for being the default search engine in Safari, and now sells (or delivers, the terms of the agreement have not been made public) the Apple Intelligence feed. But Apple not only charges, it also receive data on how 1 billion users interact with AI in mobile context: You know what they’re asking. When. How they formulate queries. What do they reject? What do they repeat? Google gets better distribution, and Apple gets tremendously valuable training. If having the best AI is no longer a competitive advantage, what is? OpenAI has the best product. Anthropic has the best technology. Google has the best infrastructure. But Apple has the iPhone. And in a world where AI is gone commoditizingin which one model is valid until the next one arrives three months later, the only moat What holds is the device. There is not so much need to innovate if you control access. You just need what comes through your door to be good enough. AND Gemini is fantastic. Therein lies the problem. In the age of AI, whoever controls the device can live off income by letting others innovate. What incentive does Apple have to really improve AI? As long as Gemini works well on iPhones, Apple won’t care if there are models that are 12% better. Their business is collecting the toll, not pushing the border. Innovation still exists and Google / OpenAI / Anthropic / xAI will continue to compete, but Now it is made by companies that do not capture all of its value while it is exploited by those who do not create it.. Welcome to digital rentism. Where the one who controls the door decides how much those who pass through it should improve. AND “Sufficient” always beats “exceptional” when the decider does not pay for the difference. Apple did the rationally right thing. And that, precisely, should scare us. In Xataka | Alphabet has just overtaken Apple in the ranking of the most valuable companies in the world. The reason is in AI Featured image | Rubaitul Azad, Dennis Brendel

unfold the most wicked dark pattern we have ever seen

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In 2018 there was a service that was successful in the United States and that we were dying to try. It was called MoviePass and was known as ‘the Netflix of movie theaters’. Its operation was simple: you paid 10 dollars a month and you could go to the movies as many times as you wanted. What sounds like a dream for any movie buff was actually a bottomless pit of losses, so the company launched a strategy to stop the bleeding. The problem is that it was a directly illegal strategy. a ruin. First of all, it is worth stopping at the MoviePass business model. For 10 dollars we could see as many movies as we wanted per month, the problem is that the company did not have any type of agreement with movie theaters and in 2017 a ticket cost 12 dollars. That is, they lost 2 dollars a month per user as long as they only went to see a movie. The only way they could generate profits was if their users didn’t watch any movies a month and that’s where their CEO’s brilliant idea came from. Dark patterns. Are quite tricky design strategies so that it costs us more to cancel an account or encourage us to make a purchase, but MoviePass is another level. They counted on Business Insider in 2019that the company’s CEO Mitch Lowe gave the order to deliberately change the passwords of a group of very active users, thus preventing them from accessing their account and purchasing tickets. Furthermore, he did it just when ‘Avengers: Infinity War’ was released. reset password. You may be thinking that if they change your password, you reset it and that’s it. It wasn’t that easy. When users tried to recover their accounts, the process failed and it was no coincidence. Bloomberg published fragments of the formal complaint filed by the Federal Trade Commission (FCT), which details that the company knew that the process would fail on most smartphones and nothing was done to prevent it. Faced with this situation, many users contacted customer service, but it usually took weeks for them to respond (that is, if they responded). There are quite a few threads on reddit with users suffering from this situation. Unscrupulous. The details of how it was carried out are absolutely crazy. They called it the “password breakpoint program” and it was the topic of several meetings and emails, as if it were any other business topic. Furthermore, to avoid possible action by the FCT, they decided that they would only block the accounts of 2% of their most active users (about 75,000) and that the excuse would be that they had detected “suspicious activity or possible fraud.” They also monitored the success of their program: a week later only half of those affected had managed to reset their password. Consequences. The FCT ended up discovering the cake so it is logical to think that MoviePass had to pay a million-dollar fine. Well no. MoviePass admitted the facts and reached an agreement in which they promised not to repeat it (as if they were trustworthy). The reason is that a court ruling prevented the FCT from imposing fines in such cases. The company did not survive its terrible business model and In 2019 it closed its doors. In 2020, the parent company filed for bankruptcy. In the end they couldn’t repeat it. Image | MoviePass, Daniel Dalea in Unsplash In Xataka | The first fine against “dark employers” in Spain is already here (and it will not be the last)

These are the best technology deals we have found today on Amazon, January 15

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We are almost approaching the halfway point of January, a time when many stores more than activate their sales and where it is possible to find good prices on almost everything you are looking for. If you are thinking of buying technology, these are some of the best bargains that we found today, January 13, in amazon. smartphone Xiaomi Poco M8 Pro 5G by 359.90 euros: 6.83 inches and 512 GB. Notebook computer HP 15-fc0239ns by 499 euros: 15.6 inches and FreeDOS. WiFi Mesh System TP-Link Deco X1500 by 119.99 euros: with WiFi 6 and up to 1,500 Mbps. Wireless headphones Sony WF-C510 by 29.74 euros: with IPX4 protection and battery life of up to 22 hours. Smart TV TCL 55V6C by 288.43 euros: 55 inches and with Google TV. Xiaomi Poco M8 Pro 5G Smartphone If there is something that Xiaomi’s Poco family is characterized by, it is by offering very good terminals at a reduced price. Now, on Amazon, you can get this Xiaomi Poco M8 Pro 5G with a 10% discountsince it is available for 359.90 euros. This Xiaomi Poco M8 Pro 5G has a 6.83-inch CrystalRes display and 1.5K resolution. Its main camera is 50 MP Light Fusion 800. The brain of this smartphone is the Snapdragon 7s Gen 4 processor, accompanied by a RAM 12 GB and 512 GB of internal storage. It also highlights its 6,500 mAh battery and supports 100 W HyperCharge charging. XIAOMI POCO M8 Pro 5G – 12+512GB Smartphone The price could vary. We earn commission from these links HP 15-fc0239ns Laptop Yes, by 2026, you are looking for a portable good, nice and cheap for working or studying, this HP is a good option, and even more so now that it is on sale on Amazon. It has applied a 25% discount and now you can buy it for 499 euros. This laptop from HP has a 15.6 screen inches with Full HD resolution. It has an AMD Ryzen 7-7730U processor, accompanied by 16 GB RAM and 1 TB SSD storage. It’s a laptop FreeDOS (without reinstalled operating system) and has a Qwerty keyboard. HP 15-fc0239ns – 15.6″ FHD Laptop The price could vary. We earn commission from these links TP-Link Deco X1500 Mesh WiFi System Nowadays, it is necessary to have a good Internet connection at all times at home. If you suffer microcuts in your home, this TP-Link Deco X1500 Mesh WiFi system It is a must. Before it cost around 170 euros, but now you can get it reduced by 119.99 euros. This WiFi Mesh system from TP-Link offers connections Wi-Fi 6 with speeds up to 1,500 Mbps. Thanks to OFDMA and MU-MIMO technologies you can connect many more devices. With this system you can create a unified network and it also stands out for offering robust parental controls. (New) TP-Link Deco X1500 (3-Pack) The price could vary. We earn commission from these links Sony WF-C510 Wireless Headphones Available in four different colors, these Bluetooth headphones from Sony are a real bargain today on Amazon. Now they have applied a 50% discount and you can buy them for 29.74 euros. His battery lasts up to 11 hours with a single charge, which can be doubled with the charging case. It has IPX4 protection against water and incorporate an ambient sound mode. They are compatible with Spotify Tap and can connect with Android, iOS, PC and Mac devices. Sony WF-C510 Wireless Headphones The price could vary. We earn commission from these links Smart TV TCL 55V6C We already mentioned this TV last week because of its low price, but this week it is even much cheaper. Its recommended RRP is 449 euros, but now you can get it with a 36% discountby 288.43 euros. This is a TV cheap from the TCL firm. It mounts a 55-inch diagonal Direct LED panel with 4K HDR resolution. Works under the operating system Google TV and is compatible with Dolby Vision & Atmos. In addition, it stands out for being compatible with Google Assistant and Alexa. TCL 55V6C 55″ Direct LED Smart TV 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 | Freepik, HP, TCL, Sony, TP-Link and Xiaomi In Xataka | The best mobile phones, we have tested them and here are their analyzes In Xataka | Best sound bars in quality price (2026). Which one to buy and seven recommended models from 99 euros

In Tres Cantos they are analyzing the DNA of uncollected dog poop and fining the owners

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The landscape, the species of trees, the flowers in the flowerbeds, the design of the paths or the games for children may vary, but in the parks of Spain (and many other countries) there are certain “basics” that are not usually missing: there are benches, there are fountains… and there is dog poopan annoying reminder that citizens do not always comply with the obligations that come with having pets. In recent years some city councils have tried to solve it creating DNA bases that allow them to locate the owners of the dogs and punish them if they do not take care of their feces. For a while, receiving one of those fines sounded like a distant threat, but in Spain there are already town councils passing from theory to practice. The last example Tres Cantos leaves it, in Madrid. What has happened? That the Tres Cantos City Council said goodbye to 2025 by activating its machinery to fine people who breaks its regulations. So far nothing out of the ordinary. The curious thing is the offense that is being pursued and above all how the City Council hunts down the offenders. What it has done is use the “canine DNA detection service” to fine those neighbors who ignore the excrement that their pets leave on sidewalks, parks and gardens. The ordinance makes it clear that people who walk pets through the municipality must collect “immediately” (and throw in the trash) the poop they leave in any area where pedestrians pass. Failure to do so is considered an infraction that, according to TeleMadrid specifiescarries fines of several hundred euros: between 300 and 600, depending on whether or not the offender is a repeat offender. Is it something new? Tres Cantos announced a year and a half ago his intention to create a “canine genetic census” to have the municipality’s dogs ‘registered’ and thus be able to identify excrement abandoned in the streets. In 2024 even launched a campaign baptized ‘I’m from Tres Cantos, it’s in my DNA’ in which it asked neighbors to register their pets in the following months. The idea was that people would take their animals to an authorized clinic to perform a simple test (basically taking a saliva sample) that would allow them to be registered. The procedure costs about 40 eurosbut the Consistory recalled that it is mandatory. Failure to do so also carries a penalty. The measure did not remain on paper and throughout the last few months the City Council has intensified their efforts to put it into practice, even with collection days of excrement. The surprise (and this is new) came on December 30, when the local government advertisement that the canine DNA system has already allowed him to identify “several owners” of dogs who do not pick up their pets’ feces. And he warned: “He will be punished” But… Is it that important? Yes it is. And not only because the measure wants to once and for all solve the problem of dog poop in cities. As remember from Tres Cantosthe canine registry is obtained in a “simple and harmless” way for the animal and serves many more purposes than sanctioning. “The genetic census is a reliable tool that protects animals, since it allows them to be located if they are lost, mistreated or abandoned, providing scientific certainty in possible judicial processes, claims and complaints,” claimed in July 2024 the Councilor for Public Health. In fact, the canine genetic census has already helped to resolve cases of puppy abandonment. Does it only happen in Tres Cantos? No. The idea of ​​canine DNA censuses has permeated more municipalities in Spain. In December 2024, Pipper on Tour estimated that 81 locations They already require pet owners to take them to clinics to have blood or saliva samples taken to carry out a census. In recent years the idea has attracted municipalities such as Malaga, Collado Villalba, Santa Eularia, Cornellà either Alcala de Henaresamong others. The latter in fact has a “canine CSI” for offenders who risk fines of between 300 and 3,000 euros. In its first year the program made it possible about 200 disciplinary proceedings, although many were directed at owners who still did not register their pets. In July Santa Eulària celebrated also that canine DNA has reduced fecal alerts by half. Images | Bruce Warrington (Unsplash) and Monika Simeonova (Unsplash) In Xataka | Rats are growing by 300% in some cities around the world. And the problem is that we have no idea how to avoid it.

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