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Ryanair seemed to have condemned Santiago airport with its departure. Solution: flights to New York

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The year 2025 was marked by the withdrawal of Ryanair aircraft from Spanish regional airports. The company, complaining about the supposedly excessive rates charged by Aena, eliminated routes and reduced frequencies. The result has been a huge decline at some of these airports. One of them is Santiago de Compostela. But the Galicians are already looking beyond the Atlantic. The withdrawal. A few months ago we said that Galicia is the Autonomous Community that has lost the most passengers since Ryanair reduced frequencies and canceled routes at Spanish regional airports. During the first quarter of the year, only the A Coruña airport grew within the region. Activity in Vigo fell slightly, with 3.4% fewer passengers. But it was the march from Santiago de Compostela that did the most damage. Compared to two years ago, the company’s activity is 80% lower and passenger volume has plummeted. In the first quarter, Aena data They say traffic was down by almost 25%. It is an important figure but it is serious because last year it already fell another 14% in that same period. And the decline has been consolidated in the first half of the year, sinking its activity by 40%, they report in Preferential. a nuance. It must be taken into account that in the first half of the year, Aena has been carrying out improvement work on the asphalt of the runways at the Santiago de Compostela airport, so activity has been stopped for just over a month on alternate days from January to May. An unexpected solution. The curious thing is that the drop in traffic has eased in recent months. The connections that Ryanair used at this airport maintained routes between Seville and Valencia with Galicia. A solution that, despite the improvement in rail trafficit’s still much faster. But they explain in The Spanish that from Santiago de Compostela they hope to alleviate part of the fall with two new connections. One of them to Amsterdam, the other to New York/Newark airport. And it is that United Airlines already operates a line with three weekly frequencies to connect the two sides of the Atlantic. Beyond Spain. Since Ryanair turned its back on the airport, the number of international destinations has been growing. The first city with a direct connection to join this new stage was Marrakech, they explain in The Galician Post. The offer is expanded with Amsterdam or Cork, in Ireland. All of these routes are operated on alternate days but enhance the international image of the airport for routes that, previously, had to go to other autonomous communities. Covering gaps. Another piece of good news for Santiago de Compostela is the connection with Jerez thanks to Vueling. At least during the summer, activity has been increasing in both national destinations (Balearic Islands, Canary Islands, Barcelona or Bilbao) and international destinations (London, Paris or Dublin). Those gaps that Ryanair has been leaving are being absorbed, at least partially with an increase in frequencies, by rival companies. And the Irish company has lost ground to Vueling and Wizz Air in recent times. Although they maintain almost record numbers, its market share has sufferedagainst these latter companies. Photo | Nastya Dulhiier and Trevor Hayes In Xataka | The new EU border system is leaving people without flights. Ryanair has a solution: close check-in early

Microsoft wants to preserve Xbox games and has chosen an unexpected path: officially emulate them on Windows

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The video game industry advances with a speed that does not always leave room to look back. New consoles arrive, stores are renewed and the physical format loses ground, while a part of the old catalog remains linked to systems, accounts and services that do not last forever. Who have tried return to a game from decades ago We know that keeping it does not necessarily mean being able to execute it. That is the point at which preservation stops being just a concern of archives and museums. In that context, Microsoft has chosen an unusual formula to recover part of its history: bring games from the first Xbox to Windows 11 without converting them into remakes or native versions for PC. The American firm assures that this launch marks the beginning of a broader preservation effort, although, as we will see, this is a limited test. There is also another detail that changes the magnitude of the announcement: the technical means by which these games can work on current hardware. Let’s see. For now, the program does not open the entire Xbox historical catalog nor does it allow you to run any old games on Windows. The starting point is not a broad collection, but four specific games with which Microsoft begins to convey a part of history from Xbox to Windows. The company has not yet detailed which titles will arrive next or at what rate the catalog will grow. For now, these are the ones chosen: ‘BLiNX: The Time Sweeper’ ‘Conker: Live and Reloaded’ ‘Crimson Skies: High Road to Revenge’ ‘Fuzion Frenzy’ As we say, what comes to Windows are not conventional remasters or adaptations remade game by game. As confirmed by Microsoft to PC GamerXbox uses emulation to reproduce on a modern computer the environment necessary to run software designed for its first console. This solution maintains the original gameplay, but allows improvements to be added such as VSyncup to four times resolution rescaling, anisotropic filtering and enhanced antialiasing. Users can also choose between full screen and windowed modes, as well as configure language and audio. The initiative is not limited to the desktop computer either. Titles can be installed on Windows 11 compatible portable devices, including ROG Xbox Ally and ROG Xbox Ally Xwithout necessarily depending on cloud gaming. Minimum requirements are modest for current hardware: 8 GB of RAM, a Core i3-8100, Ryzen 3 1200 or Ryzen Z2 A, and graphics equivalent to a GTX 950, Radeon RX 550, Intel UHD 770 or Arc A310. From a favorable perspective, the progress is difficult to ignore. Microsoft is prolonging the useful life of works that until now remained linked to Xbox hardware and its backward compatibility system on later consoles, and bringing them closer to players who may never have had those machines. The problem appears when we go from retaining access to retaining a copy. Microsoft has not announced standalone installers or versions without DRM, the system used to control and verify digital licenses. Nor has it detailed what checks these four games will require, how long they will be able to work offline or whether they will still be available for download in, say, ten years. We do know that your access depends on Windows 11, the Xbox app and a license linked to our account. It is an important difference compared to GOG, which allows you to download DRM-free backup installers and save the files to install without using your application. All of this occurs while the industry reduces independent avenues of access to its catalogs. Nintendo closed in March 2023 digital purchases of Wii U and Nintendo 3DS, although for now it maintains the possibility of redownloading the purchased content. Sony, for its part, has announced that he will leave to produce discs for all new PlayStation games from January 2028. These are two different decisions, but both remember that the availability of a digital work ultimately depends on the continuity of a platform and the conditions established by its owner. Images | Xbox In Xataka | Video game preservation has already been mortally wounded with Sony. The next blow comes from an entire country: Germany

China has a weak point under the sea. Your new anti-submarine plane points right there

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Above the surface, a fleet of ships can be counted, photographed and tracked in almost real time. Under water, however, the rules change: the target disappears from sight, the sound is deformed and each contact can be a valid clue or a false alarm. For this reason, anti-submarine warfare remains one of the most demanding tasks of any Navy. China knows this well and is expanding its response to monitor a space where the size of its forces alone is not enough. A plane enters the scene. The response that China has begun to show from the air is an improved variant of its Y-9 anti-submarine aircraft, now seen for the first time in maneuvers. The aircraft had appeared publicly at the parade on September 3, 2025, but the new official images allow external modifications to be seen in its detection systems. According to military analyst Zhang Junshe, quoted by Global Timesits incorporation into these exercises indicates the beginning of operational training and the acquisition of initial search and attack capabilities. The difficult part is below. An official evaluation by the US Department of Defense allows us to place the progress of the Y-9 within a gap that China would still be trying to close. Its 2024 report stated that the Chinese Navy was improving its anti-submarine means, but still lacked a robust deep-water capability. In March 2026, scholar Andrew Erickson described an unequal situation, although he made it clear that his conclusions were personal. According to the expert, China is developing a layered detection architecture within the first island chain, but its capabilities remain more limited beyond it. There, the smallest number of deployed sensors, limited maritime patrol aviation and logistical restrictions weigh in. That does not make these evaluations neutral diagnoses: they come from the United States, the power that tries to preserve its submarine advantage against China. The next obstacle. Zhang points out that the South China Sea reaches depths of more than 1,000 meters in some areas and has more complex conditions than the East China and Yellow Seas, which makes it difficult to locate submarines. In addition, temperature, salinity, currents and underwater relief modify the propagation of sound. This requires knowing the environment precisely to correctly interpret the information collected by the acoustic systems. A network, not a single plane. Beijing is not entrusting this entire task to Y-9. A Reuters investigation published earlier this year documented an extensive operation supported by oceanographic vessels, hundreds of sensors, buoys and arrays installed underwater. Separately, Erickson describes a Chinese architecture that integrates space, air, coastal, surface and underwater assets, as well as unmanned vehicles. The new plane represents the aerial and mobile component of that broader effort to understand and monitor what happens under the sea. The most visible change appears under the nose. According to Zhang, the images show what appears to be a new active phased array radar, with broader coverage, a longer sweep and a greater detection distance than the version presented in 2025. That does not mean directly finding a submerged submarine from the air, but it does mean expanding maritime surveillance and delimiting areas of interest. The more the search area is reduced, the easier it is to then target systems specifically designed to locate underwater targets. Listen and confirm. Once the area is delimited, the Y-9 can deploy up to a hundred sonobuoys of different types, housed on both sides of the fuselage. These form a listening network capable of covering tens of kilometers and collecting signals from submerged targets. In the tail, what appears to be a new magnetic anomaly detector looks for small alterations associated with a large metallic mass. Its smaller size would reduce the magnetic interference of the structure itself, facilitate maintenance and extend the detection distance. Beyond what it detects. The Y-9 aims to improve compared to the Y-8 in range, combat radius, takeoff weight and autonomy. In the maneuvers, in addition, the crews operated without a script or fixed tactics, with electromagnetic interference, simulated breakdowns and coordination with other units, within training aimed at improving their search and attack capacity day and night. None of this makes the ocean transparent, but it does show where Beijing is concentrating its efforts. Images | PLA In Xataka | In 1989, the Soviet submarine Komsomolets sank with one reactor and two nuclear warheads. To this day it continues to radiate

China is going to do everything it can to win the AI ​​race. Even if that means penalizing Huawei and Alibaba

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The Chinese Ministry of Commerce has begun to consult its main technology companies on a package of export restrictions that, paradoxically, points inward: towards the ecosystem of artificial intelligence (AI) that Beijing has been trying for years shield in front of Washington. As advanced Financial Timesthe proposal contemplates prohibiting Chinese chip designers from using foreign semiconductor companies, such as TSMC or Samsung, to manufacture their integrated circuits. This is not an isolated measure. And this same regulatory package would also include limits on the export of advanced AI models, restrictions on the training data that companies can take out of the country and stricter controls on foreign acquisitions of technology companies considered strategic. The Chinese Government ultimately aspires to retain both the hardware and software of the AI ​​race within its borders; as well as the chips, models and data with which they are trained. A blow to their own companies The most impressive part of this proposal is the one that affects the semiconductor manufacturing. Huawei, Alibaba or ByteDance design chips that today depend, to varying degrees, on semiconductor factories such as TSMC (Taiwan) or Samsung (South Korea) for their final production. Prohibiting that access would leave these companies tied to domestic manufacturing capacity, still behind in leading nodes, or would force SMIC and other Chinese IC factories to take on demand for which they are not yet prepared. The regulatory package would also include tightening rules on foreign acquisitions of strategic Chinese technology. The Ministry of Commerce has also conveyed to Alibaba, ByteDance and Zhipu its intention to limit the output of training data outside the country, as well as to restrict the downloading of their model weights by foreign users. This measure would mark a turn regarding the strategy followed until now by companies like DeepSeek, which have opted to openly publish the weights of their models as part of their low-cost offensive against Western AI. Another note: the regulatory package would also include a tightening of the rules on foreign acquisitions of strategic Chinese technology, especially in the field of agentic AI. This review seeks to close what the Chinese government interprets as a legal loophole, the same one that allowed Meta to acquire the emerging company Manus for $2 billion before the Chinese authorities ordered to undo the operation. The restrictions, if confirmed, would foreseeably be incorporated into the next review of the Chinese catalog of prohibited or restricted technologies for export, the same instrument that already regulates rare earths and lithium. For now all the proposals are in the consultation phase and none of the companies mentioned, nor the Ministry of Commerce itself, has confirmed its final scope. The result would be a regulatory paradox: China restricting its own companies’ access to the most advanced chip manufacturing in the name of technological sovereignty that, along the way, could slow them down. Image | TSMC More information | Tom’s Hardware In Xataka | TSMC raises its bet in the US: there are already 265,000 million dollars for 2 nm

the most important differences in the new generation of Samsung

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Samsung has presented the new generation of its folding mobile phones through the new Unpacked, with new versions of the two already well-known models and a third brother that aims to be the competition for the folding iPhone. However, we are going to go point by point reviewing the differences between the two most traditional modelswhich are the most different. Technical data sheet of the Samsung Galaxy Z Flip8 and the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold8 Samsung Galaxy Z Flip8 Samsung Galaxy Z Fold8 Dimensions and weight Folding: 75.4 x 85.7 x 13.1mm Displayed: 75.4 x 166.9 x 6.1mm 180 grams Folding: 81.9 x 123.9 x 9.7mm Displayed: 161.4 x 123.9 x 4.5mm 201 grams folding screen 6.9-inch Dynamic AMOLED 2X FullHD+ resolution (1,080 x 2,520 pixels) 400 pixels per inch 3,000 nits Refresh rate: 1-120Hz Vision Booster 7.6-inch Dynamic AMOLED 2X QXGA+ resolution (2,448 x 1,848 pixels) 403 pixels per inch Refresh rate: 1-120Hz Vision Booster secondary / main screen 4.1-inch Super AMOLED Refresh rate: 60/120 Hz Resolution 948 x 1,048 pixels 5.5-inch Dynamic AMOLED 2X QXGA+ resolution (1,248 x 1,972 pixels) 428 pixels per inch Refresh rate: 1-120Hz Vision Booster Up to 3,000 nits Low reflectance screen processor Exynos 2600 Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 for Galaxy Ram memory and storage 12/256GB 12/512GB 12/256GB 12/512GB 16GB/1TB main camera 50 MP wide angle, dual pixel AF, OIS, f/1.8, FOV 85º 12 MP wide angle, f/2.2, 123º FOV 50 MP wide angle, dual pixel AF, OIS, f/1.8, FOV 85º 50 MP wide angle, dual pixel AF, f/1.9, FOV 120º front camera 10 MP, f/2.2, FOV 85º Main screen: 10 MP, f/2.2, FOV 85º Folding screen: 10 MP, f/2.2, FOV 100º battery Dual 4,300 mAh (typical) 25W fast charging 15W wireless charging PowerShare Reverse Wireless Charging Dual 4,800 mAh (typical) 45W fast charging 20W wireless charging PowerShare Reverse Wireless Charging price From 1,299 euros From 1,999 euros At first glance you can take a look at the most notable differences between the two new phones. However, we are going to delve into the most differential characteristics. Samsung Galaxy Z Flip8, 256GB The price could vary. We earn commission from these links Samsung Galaxy Z Fold8, 256GB The price could vary. We earn commission from these links What type of user are you? Two completely different formats He Samsung Galaxy Z Flip8 and the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold8 They differ in many ways, but above all they do it in their formats. The first follows the line of previous generations, betting on a format with a horizontal fold and a clamshell design, while the second has a book format with a vertical fold. This… what does it mean? The Z Flip8 is more oriented for those people looking for a small mobilesince when folded horizontally it takes up very little space (85.7 mm high). The second is more oriented to multimedia content consumptionsince through the vertical fold we can use a much larger screen (7.6 inches) to watch videos, but above all to use certain applications such as social networks, some of which are very well optimized for this format. Processors: following the line of the Galaxy S26 We also found a big difference between the processors, something somewhat logical considering that the two phones will be launched with very different prices. In any case, the Z Flip8 is committed to Exynos 2600the same one we found in the Samsung Galaxy S26 and S26+. Instead, Samsung has decided to follow the same line as with the launch of its high-end mobile phones, betting on a Z Fold8 that incorporates the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 from Qualcomm, the same processor that we can find in the Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra. The battery and its fast charging At the moment it is too early to talk about autonomy, but what we do know is what batteries each of the new Samsung phones has. For the Z Flip8 we have a 4,300 mAh dual batterythe same one we saw in the previous generation with the Z Flip7. In the case of the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold8, the brand has opted for a 4,800 mAh dual batterygiving in this case a small leap in terms of capacity with respect to the previous generation. We are talking about a difference of 400 mAh: it is not very large, but it is especially appreciated when using the folding screen, which is the largest and the one that consumes the most battery. Now, if we talk about the fast wired chargingthe Galaxy Z Flip8 maintains 25W, a very small figure for the range (and era) in which we find ourselves. On the other hand, the Galaxy Z Fold8 increases the charging power, raising it to 45W, a figure more in line with what we see both from Samsung and other brands. What prices do the new mobile phones have? Both the Samsung Galaxy Z Flip8 and the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold8 are two high-end phones. However, as we have seen so many times in previous generations, mobile phones have very different prices. He Galaxy Z Flip8 will go on sale for a price from 1,299 euroswhile the Galaxy Z Fold8 will be priced from 1,999 euros. However, even though these are the official prices, stores are beginning to launch introductory offers. At Samsung, for example, the Delivery and Release campaign is available while MediaMarkt offers a discount when registering (and logging in) in the store. Why buy the Samsung Galaxy Z Flip8 The Samsung Galaxy Z Flip8 is a mobile phone that is clear about its audience, offering features that we do not see in other models of the brand. Its key points are: The format: Its folded size makes it a very compact mobile phone that is ideal for those people looking for a smartphone that takes up very little space in their bag or pocket. The use: The Galaxy Z Flip8 is aimed at general and non-specific use, whether for making calls, consuming multimedia content or … Read more

that no one else dies hanging from a scaffold

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During these weeks it has circulated a video about a robot climbing the curved surface of a metal tank, attached to the sheet metal like a limpet, while polishing and removing rust without a human having to hang from a rope to do it. In our parts it is quite surprising to see this, but in China there are a good handful of companies that offer robots specialized in work at height, and that is why it occurred to me that perhaps it is a good idea to tell in this article what is interesting about this new scene of industrial robots. The machine with which I have introduced the article belongs to Shihe Robotics, a Chinese company known internationally as RobotPlusPlus (or Robot++), and is just one of the many companies that star in the sector of “wall-climbing” robots or Spider-Man robots (which I like better) for work at height. What exactly is it about? They are robots capable of adhering to vertical, curved surfaces or even ceilings (whether metal, concrete, glass) and moving across them to perform tasks such as welding, cleaning, painting, inspection or rust removal. The underlying idea is to replace the operators who today work hanging from harnesses, scaffolding or lifting baskets in environments such as ship hulls, wind towers, chemical tanks or skyscraper facades, where a failure or a gust of wind can cost a life. Shihe Robotics. The company was founded in 2015 by Xu Huayang, a doctor from Tsinghua University, one of the most prestigious technical institutions in China, who grew up near the Shihe Riverin the province of Henan, and decided to focus his career on robotics for hazardous work at height after a first experience in Tsinghua itself. According to collect According to the specialized media HTX Insights, the product that gave the company its first commercial traction was a robot to remove rust from the hulls of ships, a dangerous and very laborious task in the ship repair industry, with which Shihe achieved an efficiency between five and six times greater than that of manual work and a relevant share in the Chinese market. The money behind it. Shihe already has several investment rounds under his belt. The Chinese portal 36Kr once reported that the company closed a Pre-A round of 20 million yuan led by Baidu venture capital fund, with a post-investment valuation of 120 million yuan. More recently, according to HTX Insights, Shihe completed a Series C round of several hundred million yuan, jointly led by Qianggang Capital and Zhongji InnoLight, with participation from Guangxi Investment Capital, Guohai Securities, Junton Capital and its long-time investor Fosun RuiZheng. It is clear that there is a certain investor appetite for robotics, but in this case we also see that there are many companies and private investors out there that have found a vein in this niche of wall-climbing industrial robots, especially considering that they solve a real problem, which is that of danger at heights. Robot specialized in removing rust from ships. Image: ZDNews What are your robots for in practice? The founder himself explained to 36Kr that there are a good number of scenarios where these robots already make commercial sense, among them the removal of rust on the sides of ships, the spray painting of chemical tanks, the inspection of thermal power plant boilers, the maintenance of wind towers, the cleaning of solar panels, the inspection of pipes or the cleaning of building facades, a set of tasks that, according to his calculations, moves a market of about 60 billion yuan a year alone in China. The company manufactures its range under the name “HML”where the “H” corresponds to heavy models with a load capacity greater than 100 kg for tasks such as grinding or welding, and the “M” to medium load models, around 60 kg, designed for spraying water or paint in deoxidation and coating tasks. According to the company’s own data, its robots reach a travel speed of 10 meters per minute, with an average performance twice that of a human operator and at half the cost. How they stay stuck to the wall. There is no single method, since some use permanent magnets when the surface is metallic, such as the hull of a ship or a steel wind tower; others resort to vacuum suction, useful on glass, concrete or other non-magnetic materials; and there is a third group that imitates gecko lizards, with microfiber pads that adhere by molecular forces without leaving residue. an article published in the Journal of Field Robotics points out that these robots have become essential equipment for high-altitude infrastructure maintenance, large-scale industrial inspection, and emergency response. There are many more companies. AKA Robotics operates in Shenzhen, with its “WallHiker” rangespecialized in robots that adhere to wind towers using a double system of cables and permanent magnetic adsorption, operated remotely from the ground to reduce the risk of technicians working with ropes at high altitudes. Last June, China Daily counted that a team from Harbin Engineering University (eight people, including professors and students in their early twenties) deployed a climbing robot at a Nanjing wind plant that, instead of magnets, uses suction, allowing it to adhere to metal, glass and other smooth surfaces without damaging the protective coatings on the towers, and that can carry up to five kilos of inspection equipment capable of detecting cracks, rust and other defects. One of its managers, Professor Zhang Lanyong, said that “the harsh winter in Heilongjiang greatly complicates the inspection of electrical installations” and that manually climbing the towers “is very risky”, while the robot withstands low temperatures and strong winds. What happens in the United States. Outside of China, the best known example is Gecko Roboticsan American company born around Carnegie Mellon in 2016 that has brought this technology to the military field. According to the Chinese specialized media Zhidongxi, Gecko has signed a contract to deploy its climbing robots, fixed sensors and artificial intelligence systems on eighteen ships … Read more

The US built a futuristic destroyer that did not turn out as expected. The rescue arrives at hypersonic speed

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He USS Zumwalt was designed to represent what naval warfare of the future would be like, but its story ended up telling something quite different. The US Navy reduced the class from 32 planned units to just three, while costs grew and several of its original capacities were reduced. From the outside, the ship still seemed like a break from everything that had come before; In practice, it accumulated technical problems and systems that were difficult to sustain. That distance between what was promised and what was built is what the US is now trying to correct. The return of the Zumwalt. Of the three units of the class, the immediate novelty affects the first. The US Navy plans rejoin the USS Zumwalt into the fleet by September 2026, equipped with four tubes capable of holding three fast attack missiles each, up to 12 in total. It will be the first ship of the Navy prepared to fire hypersonic weapons. The other two units will receive the same configuration: work on the future USS Lyndon B. Johnson is already underway, while the modernization of the USS Michael Monsoor will arrive later.A destroyer for another war. The original bet was not limited to making it less visible to the radar. The Zumwalt was built around a hybrid electric system that powers both the propulsion and its equipment and can generate approximately 78 megawattsalmost the same as a nuclear aircraft carrier. Even at 20 knots, the Navy attributes 58 megawatts of reserve power. What promised scope for incorporating advanced capabilities also created a dependency on proprietary systems that were complex and expensive to maintain within such a short series. Two cannons without a clear mission. The problem was not only technical, but also operational: the Zumwalt had been surrounded by doubts about what role it could reasonably fulfill within the fleet. Its two 155-millimeter advanced weapons systems have been dismantled to free up space for hypersonic launchers, while other advanced capabilities of the class have already been reduced. Hence, questions about its possible tasks persisted over the years. The new weaponry does not simply add firepower: it attempts to give the ship a more concrete strategic mission. Speed ​​to break through. What the CPS attack system provides is not only speed, but a trajectory that is more difficult to anticipate. A multi-stage rocket propels an unpowered hypersonic glider vehicle to the necessary conditions and, after separation, it advances into the atmosphere while maneuvering towards its target. Compared to a traditional ballistic missile, this combination of speed, relatively straight trajectory and maneuverability poses more detection and interception problems. The design took its toll again. The modernization forced essential systems of the ship to be shut down and restarted for the first time since its delivery to the Navy, an operation during which failures appeared in its complex electrical network. Added to that was another problem:During the installation of the pipes, more wiring was removed than expected and it was necessary to add additional wiring to adapt the new configuration of the boat. In August 2025, the Navy added 230,000 hours of unplanned work to the $20 million contract. Three ships, same delay. What started as a delay in the first unit has spread to the entire program. The GAO estimates that the modernization of the three ships is 24 months behind schedule, despite the fact that the USS Zumwalt had reached 94% progress in January 2026. The first sea launch test has also been postponed, which moved from 2025 to 2027. The schedules of the USS Michael Monsoor and the future USS Lyndon B. Johnson have not been left out either. The bottleneck is on land. The Department of Defense plans to invest more than $50 billion in the various programs necessary to develop, test, produce and deploy this capability, including destroyers, future Virginia-class submarines and the Army land system. However, the contractor’s facility can only produce between six and seven missiles per year, compared to the 12 per year that, according to data collected by the GAO, would be necessary to stabilize production. In April 2026, the estimated average cost per unit was around 67 million. A rescue with conditions. The USS Zumwalt will return with a more defined mission: attacking high-value, heavily defended targets at long range. That does not, however, make modernization a complete solution. What we have seen is a powerful capability, but limited by the scarcity of missiles, their high cost and the difficulties of sustaining such a unique class. The US has found a clearer use for the destroyer, although it has not yet resolved all the problems it has had since its origin. Images | National Museum of the United States Navy In Xataka | Germany wanted to armor its army with a volunteer military. He has encountered a boom of conscientious objectors

create your own data center

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Z.AI has been the protagonist of big headlines in recent weeks, especially after the launch of its very powerful GLM 5.2 language model. Formerly known as Zhipu, the company has now just finished building a massive 1 gigawatt data center that, according to they count from Bloomberg, it will work exclusively with semiconductors made in China. To put it in context, it would be the most ambitious bet yet by a Chinese technology startup to completely dispense with Nvidia. They can’t buy Nvidia chips. Since January 2025, Z.AI has been on the US Department of Commerce’s entity list, which prevents it from legally purchasing Nvidia chips. The most curious thing of all is that this veto, far from stopping it, has pushed it to build all its future infrastructure relying only on national suppliers, according to they explained from Bloomberg. But it is not at all strange, since it is a movement that fits with Beijing’s strategy of reducing its technological dependence on Washington in the midst of the AI ​​race. In detail. As shared by the media, the data center has already begun to operate partially and is designed to train and deploy the company’s family of GLM models. With a power of 1 gigawatt at full capacity, from Bloomberg they assure that the facility could consume as much electricity as about 750,000 homes need, making it one of the largest data centers ever built by a Chinese artificial intelligence startup. For now, the company has installed at least 10,000 chips from China there, although there is no information on what proportion of the total planned capacity that figure represents. Between the lines. Although the media does not detail which company provides the chips, everything points to Huawei. Z.AI already presented its GLM-5.2 model in June, trained entirely with Huawei Ascend accelerators and without resorting to Nvidia hardware. The model also came out ahead of the rest in rankings of open source models such as Design Arena. The problem is that, according to they claim Bloomberg, Chinese chips like the Ascend still perform worse per watt than Nvidia’s current Blackwell, which means that one gigawatt of Chinese power is not equivalent, in practice, to the same computing power as one gigawatt consumed with Nvidia hardware. Added to this is a manufacturing bottleneck. From Tom’s Hardware they point out that SMIC’s most advanced and stable process (equivalent to a 7-nanometer node) is already operating at over 93% of its capacity, and that the shortage of domestically produced HBM memory limits how many accelerators Huawei, which last year shipped around 812,000 AI chips, can assemble. Bloomberg pointed In addition, citing a previous report, Huawei plans to manufacture about 1.6 million Ascend cores in 2026, enough for about 600,000 chips of its flagship model, the 910C, while Cambricon, another of Nvidia’s major Chinese rivals, has set a goal of half a million accelerators this year. In short: China can build data centers faster than it can make the chips needed to fill them. sweet moment. The Z.AI thing comes at the height of the pulse among Chinese AI startups. Its great rival, Moonshot, had to suspend new subscriptions to its platform last Sunday to prioritize the computing capacity of its current users, after the launch of his amazing Kimi K3 modelaccording to explained the company itself on social networks. Z.AI, for its part, is going through a good financial moment. And it is that according to sources consulted by Bloombergthe company is on track to reach $1 billion in annual recurring revenue after meeting its 2026 sales target this month, and has recently bolstered its capital with an IPO in Hong Kong and a subsequent expansion. The company’s shares have closed with an increase of 37% this Tuesdaycoinciding with the news of the new data center. A more ambitious plan. The Z.AI case is part of a much broader plan by the Chinese Government. And Beijing is preparing an investment of about 2 trillion yuan (about $295 billion) within five years to build a national network of AI data centers, with at least 80% of the technology coming from Chinese suppliers, according to they count from Tom’s Hardware. And in that plan, Z.AI, Moonshot, and the rest of the AI ​​startups that are beginning to deploy their weapons are included. Cover image | Z.AI and İsmail Enes Ayhan In Xataka | ASML sells the most important machines in the chip industry. Now everything indicates that they will be more expensive

remove 300,000 m3 of earth and build a tunnel under the M-40

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Line 10 of the Madrid Metro is one of the most important lines in the entire network. According to data from 2024the last available, in this line there were almost 84 million users. Only Lines 1 and 6 surpassed the fastest connection between the southern part of the city and the north or its financial area. Although aesthetically it seems one of the most modern lines of the capital, the truth is that its origin dates back to the 60s when it was even managed by a private company called Carabanchel Suburban Railway. At that time, the route was a mix of what is known today as Line 5 and 10. In the 80s, however, the Metro network absorbed the company and it was then that part of the route was renamed with the current numbering, when the connection between Plaza de España (where the original line ended) and Alonso Martínez (then last stop on line 10) was confirmed. The next 20 years were a revolution for transport in the south of Madrid. First with the connection with line 6 in Príncipe Pío, recovering the old North Station to turn it into one of the great nerve centers of the south. And, later, with the arrival of MetroSur and the connection with line 10. And in the 90s, the section between Casa de Campo and Aluche began to connect with line 5. As a result, Colonia Jardín became the head of the renovated line 10 awaiting its connection with the south. went to early 2000s when Line 12 was completely open. A circular route that crosses Alcorcón, Móstoles, Fuenlabrada, Getafe and Leganés and that connects in the first of them with Line 10. Since then it has remained one of the major daily mobility flows within the city. An increase in passenger capacity that forces the Metro to look for solutions. And he found them removing 300,000 cubic meters of earth. One of the great challenges of the Madrid Metro With the projection of converting line 10 into one of the great axes of Madrid’s mobility, the Metro had to face such important projects as building the tracks and raising auxiliary facilities. Of these, the Cuatro Vientos garages stand out, a project that was carried out in 2002. For manage train flow and renewal of the same (in those years the current 7000 and 8000 were used), Metro de Madrid planned a maintenance and storage space for its trains. The problem is that these depots had to be close enough to the head of the line (Puerta del Sur, already in Alcorcón) but at the same time they had to be built in an extremely complicated space. And between Cuatro Vientos and Alcorcón, the M-40 (the largest ring road in the city), the A-5 highway (the exit to the southwest of the country) and the Cuatro Vientos highway, usually used by the armed forces, were planned. Entrance to the Metro garages in Cuatro Vientos Railway beach in Cuatro Vientos This complicated management of technical elements was solved by designing surface garages that, however, go underground as soon as they pass the track yard. The tunnels, They explain on the Metro page itselfwere built using the system cut and cover. That is, a false tunnel is dug and then covered to recreate it. A useful solution when working very close to the surface. The initial intention, they point out, was to build the tunnel in the mine. That is, digging a tunnel in the traditional way. However, the little space left between the M-40 (where more than 120,000 cars pass through daily) and the train tracks changed plans, finally opting to use the previous technique. And the thing is that between the road and the train tracks there was barely a width of four meters in some points. That is to say, between the passage of the trains and that of the cars there was barely more than a floor of difference. The result allowed the connection between line 10, which runs under the connection of the M-40 and the A-5and the new subway garages, for which they had to be removed 300,000 cubic meters of sand. It is a huge space of 395,441 square meters to house up to 30 trains of those that pass daily on line 10. In that space alone there are more than five kilometers of tracks. Of those almost 400,000 m2, the most important part corresponds to the garages but there is also a second auxiliary building that includes a simulation room so that future drivers can do their first tests. Photos | Madrid Metro In Xataka | 400 cameras and an ambitious goal: the first metro driven 100% autonomously in the Community of Madrid

3 months ago this mix of drama and eroticism passed through cinemas without pain and ingloriousness and is now number 1 on Netflix

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In May, ‘Desire‘ grossed just over 9,800 euros in Spanish theaters: it did not reach 1,500 spectators. However, when he landed in Netflix In July, it added 12.9 million views in its first three days and was number one in 68 countries, Spain included. Nobody had heard of it and so it continues, lurking in a corner of the platform’s catalogue, without stopping adding views. Directed by debutante Teresa Simone, ‘Deseo’ tells the story of Lucero (Ludwika Paleta), a lawyer in a boring marriage but eroded enough that it is about to collapse, who begins a clandestine relationship with Matías (Óscar Casas), her children’s swimming coach. A traditional love triangle story that affects, apart from the passion with which the deception that triggers everything develops, the subsequent effects, with shared custody and loss of normality. Likely lto greatest virtue of ‘Deseo’ is the absolute comfort it proposes for the viewer: the love triangle and mutual seduction between a mature woman and a young boy, the marriage that falls apart, the clash between the comfort of what is known and the adventure of the unknown. They are all conventions of the romantic soap opera that the film addresses without prejudice and without subversive ambitions, which makes the film a comfortable and familiar space. ‘Deseo’ does not have dazzling marks on rating aggregators: 4.3 out of 10 on IMDband on Letterboxd a 2.24 out of 5. It is one of those Netflix hits that is among the most watched, but a bit secretive: they do not make much noise on social networks, they are not among the most recommended, the film pages ignore it… but they crown the platform’s audience tops. In Xataka | The perfect series for a marathon of episodes that we have seen a million times returns to Netflix

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