Month: February 2026

Cabo de Gata explodes against an electrical network from the 80s that cannot withstand the wind

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In a place known for its calm, the sound of metal hitting metal became a cry for help this Sunday. Carmen F. Peña, president of the Neighborhood Association of San José and El Pozo de los Frailes, describes the reality of the area: “The blackouts are silent, everything stops and is silent.” However, to break this paralysis, the neighbors decided it was time to make noise. In the words of Peña collected in a local opinion columnthe protest was “the metaphor of a scream”, a sound action to combat the darkness that paralyzes their lives. The scene experienced this weekend reminded, according to the graphic description of the local pressto a “herd of fifty heads of cattle” crossing the population centers; an “infernal melody of protest” composed of pans, pots and saucepans that thundered in unison to send a clear message: satiety is absolute. Although the atmosphere was vindictive and to a certain extent festive, as the chronicles tellthe background was marked by a “deep malaise.” Living disconnected in the 21st century. The problem transcends the inconvenience of not being able to turn on a light bulb; It is a matter of economic survival and security. Juan, spokesperson for the El Playazo de Rodalquilar Neighborhood Association, explained to the press the anguish of isolation: “The last outage was on Thursday and we were without electricity for 24 hours. There is no electricity supply, there is no telephone, we are totally cut off.” This neighbor tells how he tried to call 112 and 062 without success due to lack of signal, forcing them to travel by car to obtain information. The economic impact is direct and devastating. According to the Almeria pressRestaurant 340 had to throw away all its fish after a whole day without power, just after opening for the season. Dataphones stop working and appliances “burn out” due to the constant surges and drops in voltage. The feeling of abandonment is such that the Neighborhood Coordinator describes the situation as “third world” and typical of “the Middle Ages, with candles and oil lamps.” They warn of the real risk to healthIf a dependent person suffers an emergency during a blackout, the lack of telephone coverage prevents them from calling for help. The excuse of the weather versus the reality of the cables. While it is true that the recent storm “Kristin” hit the province With winds of up to 150 kilometers per hour, aggravating the situation and causing poles to fall, residents and the City Council insist that the weather is only the excuse, not the root cause. According to those affectedthere is no need for a big storm; cuts occur with simple wind or rain. This is a structural problem: the electrical infrastructure in the area is “30 or 40 years” old. In addition to the major blackouts, the towns have been enduring “dozens of daily microcuts” for more than a month and the lack of a private television signal for almost two months. The mayor of Níjar, José Francisco Garrido, has pointed out that the problems in centers like Agua Amarga are a “constant in both winter and summer”, which suggests that the network is unable to support seasonal demand. The “great national traffic jam.” What is happening in Níjar is the local symptom of a national disease. Spain faces to a “great electrical traffic jam”: the country has accelerated the installation of wind and solar parks, but the system has hit an invisible wall, the lack of cables to transport that energy. The Spanish electricity grid has administratively “collapsed” and, for practical purposes, is closed to new projects in many areas. This bottleneck explains why solutions take so long. There is a chronic lack of investment in the basic infrastructure: while Europe invests on average 70 cents in networks for every euro of renewable generation, Spain remains at just 30 cents. This has unleashed an open war where the large electricity companies accuse Red Eléctrica of having invested below what was planned, causing the current precariousness. The situation is so critical that the National Markets and Competition Commission (CNMC) has had to delay three months the publication of capacity maps due to the panic that 90% of the network nodes will appear with zero capacity. That is to say, although improvements are demanded in Níjar, the national system is experiencing a bureaucratic and physical “thrombosis” that makes any rapid progress difficult. Patience has run out. The Neighborhood Coordinator has started a collection of signatures on the Change.org platform demanding an immediate action plan and supply guarantees. They warn that, if there is no progress, they do not rule out “intensifying the protests with the call for a unitary demonstration.” At the institutional level, the Níjar City Council has sent a formal letter to the distribution company, E-Distribución Redes Digitales SLU (a subsidiary of Endesa), demanding explanations. Sources from the electricity company have indicated to news agencies that a meeting is scheduled this week to detail the reform programs, ensuring that “many of which have begun to be processed.” However, skepticism reigns among the neighbors, given that it has already remained a similar meeting in July 2025 without tangible results. A problem that goes beyond Níjar. The situation in Cabo de Gata is not an isolated case, but appears to be part of a broader pattern of energy poverty and lack of investment in infrastructure in southern Spain. According to journalistic investigationsneighborhoods of Seville and Granada, as well as areas of Almería capital such as La Chanca or Pescadería, suffer daily power outages, especially in summer. In these cases, as in Níjar, residents denounce that “Endesa does not have any maintenance” and that the facilities are obsolete, leaving thousands of people unprotected in the face of extreme temperatures. The difference in Cabo de Gata is that the blow directly affects the waterline of a key tourism industry. As the mayor of Níjar emphasizes“we cannot normalize continuous cuts in a municipality that has a strong dependence on … Read more

What is Claude Code and what this tool can do to program with artificial intelligence from your computer terminal

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Let’s explain to you what is Claude Code or Claude CodeAnthropic’s tool to create code with the artificial intelligence directly into your computer terminal. This will mean that you will not need to install anything or be asking questions without stopping. Claude. We are going to start by explaining to you in a simple way what this tool is and the basics of how it works. Then, we will explain to you what things can you do and what this program for developers is for. What is Claude Code Claude Code or Claude Code is a command line application developed by Anthropic, the same creators of Claude’s AI. This is a program that allows you perform programming tasks from the terminal from your computer without having to use another program. The computer’s terminal is that command screen that you have in Windows called PowerShell, and in macOS and GNU/Linux it is simply the terminal. Instead of installing a common program that you have to open, the program is installed directly in the terminal, and you can use it to do so. With this program, you can use Claude to generate code within the terminal. And it not only generates code snippets, but can also act and reason directly on your projects by linking it to Github. Claude Code can read, analyze and edit content in your codebase. But in addition to this, you can also run tests and correct any errors generatedalso managing workflows. The classic way to generate code with Claude is to enter his app or website, explain what you want, and have the AI ​​create the code for you. Then you have to copy the code, paste it into the code editor you have installed and do the tests, so that if something fails you can go back to Claude, explain the problem, have him generate the corrected code again and repeat the process. Meanwhile, with Claud Code the process changes and is radically simplified. You simply open your terminal, run Claud Code in it, write a prompt or command saying what you want and that’s it. Then this AI will access your files, write code, run it, detect errors, fix them, and try again. It does all this autonomously, although you can supervise the process and intervene whenever you want. What Claude Code can do Claude Code has direct access to your file systemand can execute real commands on the computer. With all this, what this tool can do is the following: Read your files to see the code that you already have created in a folder, and thus understand the context of your project. Create new files complete with code, but also with configurations and documentation. Modify existing files editing the code you have in them to make any type of modifications. Work on an interim basisbeing able to read the error messages that appear if something fails in the code, and starting to correct these errors automatically. All this will save you a lot of time in your programming work, since you will not need to manually create folder structures, configure development tools, configure databases, create interfaces, write code, or anything. Claude will do all this automatically with just You explain the type of application you want to create in a prompt. You can also ask you to add features to existing projects with a command in which you mention the project, debug errors, review code, whatever you need. Therefore, we are faced with a tool for developers which will help you save a lot of time. Although as always happens in artificial intelligence, can make mistakes and have hallucinationsalthough within the world of AI programming Claude is one of the best. In Xataka Basics | Claude: 23 functions and some tricks to get the most out of this artificial intelligence

The big question is what happens if this is the new normal?

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There is only one piece of information that summarizes what has happened in this country since January 1: that the accumulated rains since January 1 exceed three times the normal value (for the average of the years 1991-2020). What’s more, most of this rainfall has not been concentrated in the north (there are areas of the Cantabrian coast that they have hardly received water), but in the center, the south and some areas of the northeast. No one can be taken by surprise by all this. It has rained unspeakably in Spain and that is being noticed in things like there are 96 reservoirs above 90%. But the most interesting thing is not that, the most interesting thing is why all this is happening. Let’s talk about atmospheric circulation. “It’s outrageous how (…) he’s been behaving in recent weeks,” said meteorologist González Alemán a few days ago. And he is right to such an extent that “although there seems to be a tendency toward change, the pieces still fit together to continue bringing atmospheric rivers with abundant precipitation to the Iberian Peninsula.” But what is interesting is not so much this anomaly as that “the global causes that cause this state of circulation (with the succession of many storms and atmospheric rivers) are unknown.” And, when the AEMET scientist says ‘unknown’, he is not referring to possible mechanisms or teleconnections; It doesn’t even talk about specific gears. It talks about the culprits of causing such mechanisms and gears. And all this comes about a runrun: that people are beginning to wonder if this is a symptom of the changes in the Atlantic Ocean over the ones we carry years talking. We already know that climate change increases extreme phenomena. The data of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) they are clear and they show that, indeed, they have increased since the 1970s. Specifically, they have multiplied by five over the last five decades. According to your calculationsin the 1980s, 1,400 incidents were recorded – its tables include extreme weather, climate and water phenomena – and in the 1990s, just over 2,200. In the first decade of the 21st century, 3,500 were reached and the trend continued. Questions, questions and more questions. In this sense, It is logical to ask us whether climate change is updating the probabilities so that extreme events, like these rains, become more frequent. What if we have been years obsessed with desertification and what we find, suddenly, is a disproportionate amount of rain in the most (climatically) fragile areas of the peninsula? It seems like good news, but it is full of problems. And, as I often repeat, we tend to have a stereotyped view of global warming and we forget where it makes a real difference: in the ability to put our infrastructures in check more criticism. More rain, not just more rain, is (as we have seen these days) a terrible threat that can force the displacement of thousands of people. Are we going there? That’s the big question, of course. And González Alemán is right that we should not write causal checks that science is not able to pay. You have to study everything in detail to see what is really happening. But that cannot be a justification for doing nothing. Our water system has just suffered the biggest stress test in recent history and if we don’t analyze what has happened, anything could happen next time. Image | AliciaMBentley In Xataka | Desertification is devouring southern Spain: Extremadura and Murcia face a completely dry future

There is a Spain built on urbanizations. And this INE map reflects it graphically

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The graphics are just that, graphics, but there are some that reflect reality better than the most polished of mirrors. The INE has just demonstrated it with an infographic which summarizes the key ideas of his last gazetteerits detailed catalog of “towns”, a broad and diverse label that includes both municipalities (from capitals to towns) and smaller and more isolated nuclei. It may seem like a simple statistical curiosity, but it reveals questions about the history, demographics, and the social and economic challenges of each community. One country, a thousand strays. If you walk around your municipality and pay attention to the license plates that identify each neighborhood, you will see that there are certain words that are repeated over and over again: road, place, valley, cove, path… If you take the car and go to the other side of the country, it is likely that this list of terms will change completely. The reason? A cocktail of linguistic, demographic, social and historical factors. The topic is so interesting that the INE dedicates it a whole section. The Spain of urbanizations. What does it show the database from the INE? That there is a part of Spain in which the most used word is not ‘vega’, nor ‘valley’, nor ‘source’, nor ‘cove’, but a term that has more to do with the hand of man than with geographical features: ‘urbanization’. To be more precise, what the INE analyzes is the most repeated word in the names of the singular entities of each autonomous community. That is, all that “habitable area” of a municipal area that is clearly differentiated from its surroundings. So to speak, it is the most basic unit, formed by nuclei and which are then grouped to make up parishes, councils and towns. Going down to detail. When analyzing each region, INE technicians verified that the most repeated term to designate these nuclei varies greatly from one point to another in the country. For example, in Galicia it is ‘outeiro’in Asturias ‘riba’, in Castilla y León ‘vega’, in Extremadura ‘vera’, in the Balearic Islands ‘cala’, in the Canary Islands ‘lomo’ and in Andalusia ‘fuente’. If we look at Catalonia the most frequent word is ‘can’ (house of), in the Basque Country ‘elexalde’ (a reference to the antechurches) and in the Community of Madrid the most used term is ‘valley’. The surprise comes when we look at Murcia, Castilla-La Mancha, Aragón and the Valencian Community. In these four regions, the most frequent name does not refer to geographical features or natural enclaves, such as ‘sources’. No. The majority word is ‘urbanization’, which tells us about its nomenclature, but also about development at an urban, historical and socioeconomic level. Does it show anything else? Yes. The INE graphs reflect that the population is not distributed equally throughout the Spanish territory. What’s more, there are profound differences between one region and another. The clearest case is made by the comparison of Galicia and Castilla y León. Although the latter is the largest community in the country, with about 94,244 km2‘only’ 6,181 unique population entities are distributed throughout its territory. They may seem like many, but they pale when compared to the 30,518 in Galicia, which does not reach 29,600 km2. The data is interesting because it gives us a clue about the territorial structure of each region and its level of fragmentation. After all, and in the words of the INE itselfa singular entity is a “clearly differentiated” inhabited area within a municipality, to such an extent that it has its own specific name. After Galicia, the region with the highest number of settlements of this type is the Principality of Asturias (6,983), Castilla y León (6,181) and Catalonia (3,910). Despite its size, Castilla-La Mancha has ‘only’ 1,708 and Aragón does not reach 1,600. More than just curiosity. The data is striking, but if the INE calculates it it is not out of statistical curiosity. Their tables demonstrate that singular entities tell us a lot about the population structure of a territory… and its aging, with all the challenges that this implies. The smaller the settlement, the older its neighborhood appears to be on average. For example, in singular entities with less than 50 residents the average age is 54.4 years, but the figure drops to 46.6 if we talk about entities where between 500 and 1,000 people live. If we go to those of more than 10,000, the average age drops to 44.1 years. Although in Spain there are thousands and thousands of unique entities made up of only a few dozen people, their weight at the population level is very low: they host only 1.2% of Spaniards. Images | Google Earth and INE In Xataka | In Burgos they have had an idea so that emptied Spain does not devour it: take care of food for the elderly

The obsession with Mars disappears and the priority is now a “self-sustaining city” on the Moon

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For nearly two decades, SpaceX’s mantra has been unequivocal: colonize Mars. The red planet was not just a destination, it was the reason for being of the company and one of the clearest objectives in Elon Musk’s mind. But this has completely changed, since Musk himself has confirmed what had been rumored among investors: priorities have changed to focus on something simpler. A new city. SpaceX has put the handbrake on immediate Martian colonization to focus all its efforts on a closer and more pragmatic objective: building a “self-sustaining city” on the Moon in less than 10 years. And the reason is not just economic, it is a question of pure and simple orbital physics. The window problem. The change of focus, as explained by Elon Musk himselfresponds to the need for quick results. In the case of aerospace engineering, the speed of development depends on how many times you can test, fail, and test again. And this is where Mars is a real logistical nightmare. As detailed, to travel to Mars efficiently you have to wait for the orbital alignment of the planets to occur, which happens once every 26 months. Something to which we must add a trip of approximately six months, so it is not easy to have missions in a row, but rather they would have to be spaced almost three years apart. The windows of the Moon. While Mars needs a large amount of time to deliver results, the Moon is much easier, since Elon Musk himself recognizes that the launch window is constant. Specifically, every 10 days approximately A new mission can be launched that has a travel time of just a few days. Musk summarizes it with industrial logic: the Moon allows us to iterate much faster. If the goal is to secure the future of civilization with a colony outside Earth, the lunar path is the fast track. A lunar city. The goal is not to put a flag back on the lunar surface, but to establish a city that is capable of growing on its own autonomously. According to ABC Newsthe plan involves prioritizing lunar missions with a possible first unmanned lunar landing around 2027, with a view to having that permanent presence in less than a decade. This finally aligns Musk’s personal interests with government contracts. Let’s not forget that SpaceX has a multi-million dollar contract with NASA to the Artemis programwhere the Starship HLS will be the vehicle in charge of lowering the astronauts to the lunar surface. By making the Moon SpaceX’s “civilization” priority, Musk ensures that the development of its giant rocket serves both its customers (NASA) and its new private roadmap. Among investors. Like any good company of this type, behind it is a large number of people who must be accountable and, above all, offer immediate benefits. In this case, SpaceX formally notified its investors last Friday about this change of course: unmanned missions to Mars, initially planned for the end of 2026, are postponed indefinitely. For Wall Street and the big funds, this turnaround is music to their ears for two key reasons. The first of them is that the Moon offers a modelable revenue narrative and deadlines that depend on signed contracts, as is the case with Artemis and NASA. The second is that investors need security so that they continue investing money in the company. In this case, this change of course protects the company’s astronomical valuationwhich seeks to consolidate itself in the billion-dollar club after the boost of xAIeliminating the immediate risk of a failed mission to Mars. What about Mars? This decision does not mean goodbye to the original dream of the company and of Musk himself, but rather it is a reality check. For now, Musk maintains the goal of trying to build a city on Mars within 5 to 7 years, but the narrative has changed: Mars is no longer the first critical step, but the second. In this way, the Moon will serve as a testing ground, a spaceport and, above all, as the place where humanity will learn to live outside of Earth without having to wait two years for supplies if something goes wrong. Images | SpaceX In Xataka | SpaceX is known for its rockets. What is less known is its growing and striking fleet of aircraft

What is relevant is how Sony has gotten here

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92 million PS5 sent to stores. The console sales race is something that matters more to shareholders than to users, but it is still a good thermometer of the state of the video game industry. Nintendo was the first to reveal its cards: 155.37 million Switches marketed until December 2025. It is only below the historic PS2. And, since we’re talking about Sony, in its latest report They have reported those 92 million PS5 units shipped. It’s quite an achievement. Especially because of how they have reached that figure which, to contextualize, makes the PS5 the eighth best-selling console in history. First crisis. Things didn’t start well for Sony’s home console. Not for Xbox either, but here Microsoft has been extremely opaque with its units sold for two generations. The two consoles arrived in December 2020, with COVID looming at the doors, games at 80 euros and a historic semiconductor crisis. Not like the current one, with components at stratospheric prices due to the rise of AI: In 2020 and 2021, there were no chips. The PS5 reached 499.99 euros in its version with reader and 399.99 in its digital version at an extremely delicate moment because stock ran out as soon as it went on sale. This caused a boom in the sale of consoles. second hand at exorbitant pricesand the situation remained for much of 2022. When the situation began to ease, the company itself pointed out that had been able to produce fewer consoles than I had planned. Second crisis. In the end, by mid-to-late 2022, things went smoothly. The chip crisis is over, the price rise(s) crisis began. Until this generation, we were used to the fact that, as the life cycle progressed, the consoles were dropping in price and improving performance. They became smaller, quieter and cheaper because the components could be miniaturized and the costs had been amortized. It was a win-win: it was cheaper for the company to produce it, they lowered the price and could get a better margin and market presence. But in August 2025, PS5 went up in price. The version with reader went from 499.99 euros to 549.99 euros and the digital version from 399.99 euros to 449.99 euros. They sold it as the fruit of “the lofty global inflation rates“and the “adverse monetary trends”. It was not the only time: in mid-2025, they rose again. In this case, only the digital one, another 50 euros to reach 499.99 euros. Xbox has not been immune to this and it is the first time that lConsoles are cheaper when they come out than when they have been on the market for five years. Competence. Now, whether the PS5 has been rising in price and has continued to sell depends on several factors. A very important one is that it has no competition at the table. At least, not as it was in the seventh generation – that of PS3 and Xbox 360-. The disastrous presentation of Xbox One at E3 2013 It caused Sony to win, on the street, the eighth generation with its PS4, and that trend has continued over the years. Xbox has been launching everything on PC for years, now also on PS5 and, although Sony is also in that boat, it does not launch. That is, a ‘The Last of Us 2‘doesn’t come out on the same day on PS5 and PC. Now, the PC. Different reputable voices within the industry suggest that the PC, increasingly, it is the platform of the future. It is no longer just the price advantage of digital stores like GOG or Steam, but the catalog itself, the result of Sony and Microsoft launching their console games on PC. If “everything” is going to be on PC, the PC becomes the most interesting platform. Well, that’s the theory, since There is the market for RAM and SSDs to build a PC. But you can always buy the game and play at the highest quality with services like GeForce Now. Time. Mobile phones are also competition, with games that are increasingly cutting edge visually and with mechanics that hijack our time. And there is another key in the competition: PS5 does not compete only against Xbox, Switch 2 or the PC: compete against YouTube, Instagram, TikTok or Netflix. Different voices in the entertainment industry have pointed out that they are no longer competing against their rivals in the same segment, but against anything that consumes our time. Have a limited capacity for leisure, and everyone wants to get our attention those daily minutes that we are not working, eating, sleeping or, hopefully, socializing. lazy generation. It may be one of the most complicated generations in history for console manufacturers, and added to all this, there is another factor that makes those 92 million PS5 sold even more notable: the catalog. video games They are increasingly expensive to produce and they are taking longer and longer to hit the market. These very long development cycles mean that big releases take years to come out, and that causes a lack of big titles that justify the purchase of a console. ‘GTA VI’ is an example. It has been in development for almost a decade and we will find out how much it has cost, but it is not the only one. The parents of ‘uncharted‘ either ‘The Last of Us‘They have not released any exclusive games for PS5 this generation and, speaking of exclusives, because the PS4 continued to have a brutal implementation in the market, Sony has continued to release games on both PS5 and PS4. For a handful of exclusives, a user might not see the point in making the leap to the new generation when Sony was still releasing games for its 2013 PS4. Shielding yourself before GTA VI. Taking all this into account, and as we say, it is an achievement that Sony has managed to place 92 million consoles on the market up to this point. In the … Read more

what is this European alternative to X and Threads, what it is not, and all the information

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We are going to tell you what exactly W Social is, the European social network project that aims to compete with X and Threads. It is not a social network that is going to start from scratch, but rather it will join an open protocol of another existing network, but from European servers. At the moment, W is just a project announced at the Davos forum, but it is not yet open to the public. Of course, we already have a few important data about it that allow us to know what it will be like. Even so, we will update this article as we know more and as the opening date arrives. What is W Social W Social is a project to create a European social network of micromessages. So that you understand, it is like seeking to create an alternative to the old Twitter, and to current networks such as Threads or X, both American. W Social is not a closed and completely independent social network, but rather it is like a European instance of Bluesky. Therefore, will be based on Bluesky and in the AT Protocol. If you are in, remember that you can follow us on this social network in the account xataka.bsky.social. Think of this as two networks that speak the same language and they are interconnected with each othersomething similar to the instances of Mastodonbut with another technology. You will be able to access Bluesky accounts and read posts and all content, and users of this network will also be able to follow you. Bluesky has more than 42 million users, although there is no figure for how many of them are active. In any case, this will mean that W Social will join forces with this alternative network, so it will not start from scratch and its users will not have to deal with an empty timeline. One of the things that W Social has confirmed to us is that we will be able to completely migrate our existing Bluesky account. Its objective is for us to be able to migrate all our content, comments, interactions, followers and followers, and all other information. But they have not yet clarified the steps, although they assure that they will explain the step by step when this function is available. Finally, say that W Social wants as its fundamental objectives to be a network based on verified humans, transparency, privacy and freedom of expression. All this, they say, believing that we need a global and reliable social network, and one that is managed, hosted and owned in Europe, with all the benefits that this entails for privacy due to the strictest European regulations in this regard. What W Social is NOT W Social It is not a social network created by the European Unionbut by a European company. Yes, a company like Meta or X, but based in the EU and with our rules. This also means that It is not a decentralized or open network like those that are part of the Mastodon ecosystem. It will be a network belonging to a company, which will be the one that makes the decisions. Come on, just like Instagram, Facebook, Threads or X. Main features One of the main characteristics of Bluesky is that it is a social network where You can decide or create the algorithms. By default you only see the content of the people you follow, but you can add your own custom algorithms, whether themed, by language, whatever you want. Although it is still too early to know if W Social will inherit this unique and beneficial function. But the characteristic that will make W Social different is that Your users must have a verified identity. You will have to send your ID and your account will be linked to your identity. This measure has something positive as a clear way to end trolls and online abuse and threatssince the user can be identified to expel him or his actions have criminal consequences just as in life outside the Internet. This will promote a less toxic environment and no bots or fake profiles. All accounts will be real, although this does not mean that you will show your first and last name, because you will be able to choose a username that you want. But this also has a dangerous sidesince there is a danger that this verification turns into surveillance of users, something that would endanger activists and other types of legitimate resistance. We will have to wait to see how they achieve this balance. The other fundamental pillar of W Social will be moderation. Just as X is a free space, but quite wild and where abuses and misinformation run without any type of effective moderation, W Social will be a more controlled network with clear rulessuch as not being able to insult, avoid coordinated campaigns or the creation of permanent noise. Moderation is always a delicate topic, although the platform promises neutrality. We will have to wait to see how they carry out these tasks, how much is done by algorithm and how much is done by people. Moderation is important for creating a healthy digital environment, but it can also be dangerous. How to register on W Social W Social has not yet opened its doors, although You can now sign up for a waiting list. In it, you will have to add your email, and optionally you can add the username you want to use, your country of residence and your Bluesky or LinkedIn profiles. It is expected that W Social beta phase starts in March 2026which will be when the first users start receiving invitations.

The US recorded something strange underground and didn’t know what it was. Now he has just accused China of pressing the nuclear button

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During the Cold War, even at times of greatest nuclear tension, Washington and Moscow maintained an unwritten rule: If a test was done, the world had to find out. The explosions were political signals as much as military experiments, designed to be seen, measured and, of course, feared. Therefore, talking about detonations so small that they barely leave a seismic trace and about tests designed not to be detected, generates great concern. The United States just accused China exactly that. An unprecedented accusation. It happened last Friday, when the United States denounced China for having carried out at least a nuclear test with explosive performance in 2020 and to prepare for other low-power ones, a complaint made in Geneva through by Undersecretary Thomas DiNanno just as the classical arms control framework is collapsing after the New START expiration. According to Washington, Beijing would have resorted to decoupling techniques to dampen seismic signals and hide underground detonations, an accusation of enormous political significance because it breaks the previous ambiguity and indicates for the first time a specific date, the June 22, 2020in the midst of debate over whether the United States should recover the option of testing nuclear weapons again. The diffuse limit. The technical and legal background is key to understanding the controversy, since both China and the United States have signed, but not ratified the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treatyallowing subcritical testing no self-sustaining nuclear reaction but prohibits any explosion with measurable output. Washington maintains that Beijing would have crossed that line with evidence very low powerdifficult to detect, while the body in charge of verification, the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty Organization, ensures that its network did not detect no event compatible with a nuclear explosion that day, thus underlining the fragility of a control system that never came into full force. Lop Nur, satellites and silent expansion. It we have counted other times. American suspicions are also supported by satellite images and intelligence analysis that point to intense activity in the historic Lop Nur polygonwith new excavations, tunnels and drilling that could be used for both subcritical tests and higher performance detonations. This movement fits with the rapid expansion of the Chinese arsenal, which would already exceed the 600 nuclear warheads and could reach a thousand before 2030reinforcing the perception in Washington that the real strategic challenge is no longer Moscow but a Beijing with the capacity and will to challenge US military primacy. A new nuclear race scenario. The Washington complaint comes accompanied by a clear political message: without binding limits, transparency or verification mechanisms that include China, the system inherited from the Cold War ceases to serve, and the United States reserves the right to adopt “parallel steps”including the resumption of testing, if it considers that other actors are breaking the rules. Beijing strongly rejects accusations, claims its moratorium and its doctrine of no first use, but the simple verbal clash shows a change of phase, one with the risk that the end of New START and mutual distrust open the door to a new nuclear race in which small, almost invisible explosions can have enormous strategic consequences. Image | CCTV In Xataka | Nuclear fusion is humanity’s great utopia in the short term: China has already set a date for it In Xataka | China is building something that looks like an oil well. It is actually a nuclear bunker with a command center

There are TVs for 90 euros, consoles, mobile phones and much more

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AliExpress returns with more offers on technology. Now we have a new promo active (called Valentine’s Day) and, as usual, discounts abound on phones, consoles and other devices. Yes indeed, the key is again in the discount couponssince thanks to them we can save much more on our purchases. These are the ones we have available right now: Discount minimum purchase coupon 1 2 euros 15 euros ESPP02 4 euros 29 euros ESPP04 6 euros 49 euros ESPP06 10 euros 79 euros ESPP10 20 euros 159 euros ESPP20 30 euros 249 euros ESPP30 45 euros 369 euros ESPP45 This AliExpress promo will be available until next Saturday February 14although it is quite likely that the coupons will not last until then (nor will the stock of the best offers). There is a lot to choose from, but we have made a list of five that we found very interesting: nintendo switch 2 by 385.31 euros with the coupon ESPP45, a great price for this pack that includes ‘Mario Kart World’. Apple iPhone 17 by 866.80 euros with the coupon ESPP45, a very good price for the best base iPhone in years. PlayStation 5 by 395.86 euros with the coupon ESPP45, less than 400 euros for the version with reader of the Sony console. Realme GT 7 Pro by 478.65 euros with the coupon ESPP45, a mobile phone with autonomy for three days. Xiaomi TV A by 90.74 euros with the coupon ESPP10, a very interesting option for the kitchen or bedroom. nintendo switch 2 If you usually pay attention to AliExpress promos, you will have noticed that nintendo switch 2 It is usually one of the most demanded and recurring devices. On this occasion, we find this one with one of the best prices we have seen in recent times: it costs 385.31 euros with the coupon ESPP45 and comes with the great game that is ‘Mario Kart World‘. Nintendo Switch 2 + ‘Mario Kart World’ The price could vary. We earn commission from these links Apple iPhone 17 It is not so common to find Apple devices at a good price on AliExpress, but we have an exception with this one iPhone 17. It is the best base phone the company has made in years, one that stands out for offering a good 6.3-inch screen as usual (this time, with 120 Hz), notable performance and a good dual camera system. Taking into account that we have barely seen it on sale in recent weeks, watch out for its discount in this Valentine’s Day promo: it comes out for 866.80 euros with coupon ESPP45. The price could vary. We earn commission from these links PlayStation 5 If before we talked about Nintendo Switch 2, now it’s time to do it PlayStation 5. As a general rule, we almost always see the Digital model (that is, without a reader) with the greatest discount, but AliExpress goes all out: we can get its version with a reader for 395.86 euros with coupon ESPP45. A great price for a console that still has power for a while. The price could vary. We earn commission from these links Realme GT 7 Pro Now that silicon-carbon batteries are increasingly common, we are seeing mobile phones with an autonomy that was unthinkable years ago. That’s where he comes in Realme GT 7 Proa truly high-end device whose autonomy lasts three days. Obviously, it is not the only good thing that this mobile has: it has a great processor, a good 6.78-inch screen and a triple rear camera system that, although it is not the best there is, performs at a high level. The phone costs 478.65 euros with coupon ESPP45. The price could vary. We earn commission from these links Xiaomi TV A Not everyone wants a huge or very expensive TV. There are times when we look for something small and very economical, ideal for rooms like a bedroom or a kitchen. This Xiaomi TV is ideal for these scenarios for several reasons: it has 32 inches, a Google operating system and an integrated Chromecast, so we can send content from our mobile phone. Its price is also very attractive: it costs 90.74 euros with the coupon ESPP10. It is true that it has Full HD resolution, but it is a factor that does not influence as much as it is a few-inch 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 | Ricardo AguilarNintendo, Apple, Sony, Realme, Xiaomi 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

OpenClaw is the most viral, fascinating and dangerous AI of the moment. For this last reason, it has joined forces with VirusTotal from Malaga

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In 2025 we had a ‘DeepSeek moment’ and in 2026 we are having an ‘OpenClaw moment’. This AI agent is super powerful, but also super insecure. There is, however, good news, because the Malaga company VirusTotal has partnered with the OpenClaw project to try to mitigate one of the most important cybersecurity risks of this AI agent: its skills. what has happened. OpenClaw (formerly Moltbot, and before Clawdbot) has announced that it has begun a collaboration with the Malaga cybersecurity company VirusTotal, owned by Google. The agreement will see VirusTotal be in charge of “scanning” and analyzing the so-called “skills”, which work like OpenClaw plugins and add all kinds of functions. They do it, of course, but many take the opportunity to introduce malicious instructions that allow them to steal data and remotely operate other people’s AI agents. More security for disturbing AI. Peter Steinberger, creator of the project, has joined Jamieson O’Reilly, cybersecurity expert and founder of the company Dvulnand Bernardo Quintero, founder of VirusTotal, to offer that “additional layer of security for the OpenClaw community.” In it official announcement explain that “all the skills published in ClawdHub (the project’s official skills “store”) are now scanned through Virus Total’s Threat Intelligence system, including its new capability Code Insight (code inspection)”. Bernardo Quintero indicated on Twitter how the effort has already allowed 1,700 skillls to be identified as malicious. If the skill is malicious, it is blocked. This analysis carried out with the VirusTotal tools allows us to identify skills as malicious and block them immediately so that they cannot be downloaded. Not only that: those skills that have been classified as benign are analyzed again every day to detect scenarios in which for some reason they could end up becoming malicious. Still, be careful. Those responsible for OpenClaw warn: the VirusTotal scan helps a lot, but it is not a total guarantee that any skill can perform malicious actions on the machine on which we have our AI agent installed. The attacks of prompt injection Sophisticated skills can manage to cross that barrier, but of course this collaboration means that OpenClaw users can be much calmer regarding the skills available in the ClawdHub repository. OpenClaw wants to be much more secure. This first effort joins OpenClaw’s ambition to have a complete cybersecurity model which includes things like a public roadmap for your new developments in this area, a formal communication process, and details about full audits of your code. Plugging a problem that could kill OpenClaw. The OpenClaw project soon went viral due to its eye-catching options, but shortly after doing so a security audit initial 2,851 skills detected 341 malicious skills. Companies like BitDefender also joined these efforts to avoid problems with tools like AI Skills Checker to check whether a skill was dangerous or not. These malicious skills were, for example, capable of executing shell commands on the victim machine, which gave the attacker complete control of those resources. Attacking the machine is confusing it with natural language. Normally cybersecurity attacks are complex, but the problem with AI agents is that they work with natural language. This implies that to infiltrate these systems you do not have to use code, but simply “convince” and “trick” the AI ​​with natural language. That is where prompt injection attacks come in, which consist of giving instructions to those AI agents that can confuse them to obtain something that theoretically they should not allow them to obtain. Personal data, API keys of the models we use at OpenClaw, email accounts and passwords for all types of services… the possibilities are endless, and OpenClaw, which has access to all of this to operate autonomously, can end up being “tricked” into transferring said data. Beware of OpenClaw. These problems now seem a little less feasible thanks to the collaboration with VirusTotal, but those who are trying OpenClaw on their machines or any other platform should be very alert from the beginning. There are guides that help you install it with some barriers important security issues, and the project itself has a command (‘openclaw security audit –deep –fix’ to audit the most important problems and address them. In Xataka | OpenAI has a problem: Anthropic is succeeding right where the most money is at stake

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