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An entire factory will close after 57 years of activity

July 21, 2026 by usatoday24

After thousands of complaints, Stellantis assumed in January 2025 that something had gone wrong with its PureTech motors. Seeking maximum cost savings, the company had fallen into faulty production that could cause premature engine failure. Although the monetary cost has been high, the worst thing for the company has been the reputational cost. So much so that the company has stopped marketing this engine and the replacement forgets the word PureTech. With the productive tap closed and without a new award, the controversial engine has also taken another step forward. A factory that was part of the French automotive industry. The PureTech. For months, Stellantis customers have been demanding that the company take care of the breakdowns of their PureTech engines in 2024. The company had no choice but to accept the mistake and in January 2025 it confirmed that the warranty on these engines was extended and they would pay for the repairs of all engines that had failed between 2022 and 2024. The problem is that in the search for extreme cost savingsthe engine design could cause the oil-soaked belt to become contaminated with fuel residue to the point of premature wear that would cause it to break unexpectedly. If the timing belt breaks, engine damage can be fatal. A problem. The problem for Stellantis is that the damage caused by PureTech motors goes far beyond economic damage. The company has been setting aside tens of millions of euros to face compensation for customer breakages but the worst has been the reputational impact. To put up a dam, Stellantis has presented the Turbo 100the replacement for the failed propellants. It has done so after the revised versions of the previous engine were also called to go through the workshop for new problems last year. The solution has finally been to nip the issue in the bud. And goodbye to your factory. With the end of the production of these engines, other news has also come: Stellantis will close the Douvrin plant in France, explain our French colleagues from L’Automobile. The decision is a direct consequence of the poor results of the engines and the change in the company’s strategy. And the 1.2 Puretech engines were not being sold in Europe but they were being sold in other markets. The company, however, will completely cease production before the end of the year. Once they also stopped manufacturing the 1.5 BlueHDI diesel last year, the plant was already mortally wounded. Goodbye to decades of history. The closure of the Douvrin plant is sensitive because it is a factory with 57 years behind it. It had been in operation since 1969 and its construction was born from investments by Peugeot and Renault. However, in 2013 it was acquired in its entirety by PSA (of which Peugeot was a part) and from there it passed into the hands of Stellantis after the merger of FCA and PSA. The company, according to the French media, has relocated 340 employees to another plant to produce batteries and another very similar figure has joined different positions. The fate of 100 workers (half of them temporary) who have not been formally relocated remains to be known. Another European plant that closes. The closure of said French plant is just another example of how the European motor industry is suffering with the conversion to electric cars. Stellantis has stressed on different occasions that production costs in France are too high (and along the way we have benefited in Spain). Volkswagen assures that will have to lay off 100,000 employees of its German plants for the same reason. But it is also the certification that Europe continues to move towards the electric car. Although the French plant produced engines for countries outside our borders, we are not competitive against regions such as Morocco, Türkiye or South America…or Poland (where the PureTech that France abandons is still produced). In these countries, producing combustion engines is still the order of the day and at a more affordable price. Photo | Stellantis In Xataka | Italian workers have been angered by Stellantis’ investments. Those that Morocco has taken from them, specifically

44º C in some parts of Spain

July 21, 2026 by usatoday24

This summer has many options to be one of the warmest since we have recordsif not the worst. The experts from the State Meteorological Agency (AEMET) have been warning about this for some time, while the mercury in the thermometers gave the first warnings. But the worst was and is yet to come, as we can see with the heat this week, in which the highest temperatures so far in 2026 are expected to be reached. The third heat wave of the summer. This week the third is expected summer heat wave. As explained by the AEMET spokesperson, Rubén del Campo, throughout the first days of this week high temperatures will occur in areas of the east, center and south of the peninsula, with especially sultry early mornings. The minimum temperatures in the center, the peninsular Mediterranean area, the Balearic Islands and Guadalquivir will not drop below 23ºC-25ºC. It is even likely that cities like Barcelona will not drop below 26 or 27 ºC. During the day temperatures will rise in the west of Andalusia and in the northern third and the heat will be very intense, almost universally exceeding 36ºC in the north of the peninsula and 38ºC in the south. In addition, 38 to 40ºC will be reached or exceeded in the eastern, central and southern areas and 40 to 42ºC occasionally in the southeast of Andalusia. Starting Thursday. The latest predictions from the AEMETpublished this Monday, July 20, pointed out that the predictions as of Thursday still have some uncertainty. However, the intense heat will most likely continue this day in most of Spain, perhaps with some drops, but with an important exception in the Mediterranean area. There, especially in the interior of the regions bathed by the Mediterranean42-44ºC will be reached. In Murcia capital it could even exceed 45ºC. It would be the highest temperature so far this year. Starting this weekend, temperatures may drop somewhat, although they will rise again next week. In the Canary Islands. In the Canary Islands there will be cloudy intervals in the north, with clearer skies in the south. Temperatures may exceed 30-32ºC in the south of the mountainous islands and in the eastern islands, especially in the south of Gran Canaria, Lanzarote and Fuerteventura. Lightning, haze and hail. These extreme temperatures can be accompanied by episodes of thunderstorms and hail. In addition, it is expected that there will be a lot of haze, which will make the air quality much worse. Beware of fires. In his statements to the media, del Campo warns that this heat wave will place our country at extreme risk of fires, which is why take extreme precautions. It doesn’t look good. 2025 was the third warmest year on record. However, we are talking about the entire year. If we focus only on the summer months, they were the hottest ever measured. A precedent was set that, according to AEMET predictions, will likely continue to increase. In fact, everything points because this year it will be within the warm tertile. This is a measure that is used to order the temperatures in a specific place and time. All values are sorted and divided into three equal groups, with 33% of data in each. Those are the tertiles. The first is the cold tertile, the second is normal, and the third is warm. 2026 has entered the warm season and may not come out of it. The 45ºC in Murcia this week and more than 40 in much of the Spanish map are just the beginning. Images | AEMET In Xataka | Sea temperature continues to rise and experts are clear: “It is partly favored by the start of a new El Niño phenomenon”

Living for free in your parents’ house does not imply a housing donation

July 21, 2026 by usatoday24

He house price It is one of the main obstacles to the emancipation of young people in Spain. According to data According to the Spanish Youth Council, only 15.2% of young people can afford to live outside the family home. Of them, 57.9% do so in rented apartments and a third of these young people share a flat with other young people to be able to bear the expenses. In this context, it is not strange to find people over 30 years old living with their parents. However, according to have confirmed the Ministry of Finance to VerifyRTVEit is false that living for free in your parents’ home, or in “any property of your parents”, can be considered “as a donation”. The Treasury makes it clear: there is no donation. Both from the Ministry of Finance like from the union of Technicians of the Ministry of Finance (GESTHA) point out that there is no tax or legal change that penalizes children for residing in the family home. Sources from the Ministry of Finance confirmed to damn.es that “there have been no legal changes or changes in the orientation of administrative actions since the IRPF existed, nor has it ever been considered a fiscal risk.” Carlos Cruzado, president of the GESTHA union, explained to RTVE that no taxes or duties apply additional taxes for the simple fact that an adult shares a home with his or her parents. Donation is a change of ownership, not use. The reason why no charge is made is because, simply, when a child lives with his or her parents, no transfer of assets occurs. The consensual use that is made of it changes, not the ownership. This change of use between family members without financial compensation does not fit into any of the assumptions of the Inheritance and Donation Taxso neither parents nor children they must pay that tax. The professor of Financial Law Rosa María Galán pointed to damn.es that, in the case of children without economic resources to survive on their own, the article 142 of the Civil Code obliges parents to cover the support, housing, clothing and medical care of their children. There is no need to argue for free coexistence since providing it is a legal obligation. It even applies to second homes. This same logic applies even when parents and children do not live in the same property, but, for example, the parents live in the primary home, and the children in a second residence owned by the parents. According to Cruzado, the Treasury “understands that there may be a free transfer and does not allocate a return at market value.” In this case, the parents pay taxes the same as if the home were empty due to the imputation of real estate income in personal income tax, the same obligations that already exist. for having a second residence without regular use. In this case, the owner of the home must pay a tax of 2% of the cadastral value of the property, and in some cases is reduced to 1.1%. That is, what is taxed is the condition of second home ownership, not the fact that children live in the home or not. The transfer of use is not a donation: the distinction that changes everything. As and as explained José María Salcedo, managing partner of the tax firm Salcedo Tax Litigation to Idealistiche article 6.5 of the Personal Income Tax Law establishes a presumption of onerousness. This means that the Treasury tends to assume that any transfer has a price. However, this presumption admits evidence to the contrary, and the most common instrument to prove it is the bailment contracta document that formalizes the loan of the property without financial consideration and that, according to Cruzado, the Treasury “does not usually carry out these checks”, although it serves as a guarantee to justify “free of charge the right to use someone else’s property for a certain period of time.” A version of this article was published in February 2026 In Xataka | If the question is how much money can be donated to a child without declaring it to the Treasury, the law makes it clear: none Image | Pexels (Jakub Zerdzicki) In Trends | Confirmed: the Government determines that those who live in their parents’ home must pay taxes under certain conditions

ASML sells the most important machines in the chip industry. Now everything indicates that they will be more expensive

July 21, 2026 by usatoday24

ASML, the only company in the world capable of manufacturing lithography equipment extreme ultraviolet (EUV) needed to produce the most advanced chips, is preparing for a rise in costs in its machinery. And the first to stand up has been, precisely, its most important client: TSMC. And according to has revealed The Information, the Taiwanese manufacturer is beginning to resist negotiations. Why is it important. ASML is the bottleneck of the entire semiconductor industry. Without their machines, neither Nvidia, nor Apple, nor TSMC, nor Samsung would be able to manufacture the chips that fuel the artificial intelligence boom. That it decides to raise prices, something The Information says it has rarely done in its history, is a sign of the extent to which demand for AI has given the company bargaining power it didn’t have before. In detail. ASML’s plans affect its two large families of machines. On the one hand, according to has confirmed The company’s own financial director, Roger Dassen, during the presentation of second quarter results, there is a way to increase the price of low numerical aperture (Low-NA) EUV systems, its most in-demand technology. On the other hand, ASML has already told several customers, including Chinese manufacturers, that their DUV (deep ultraviolet, somewhat less advanced but still essential) equipment will cost 10% more, according to share the middle. Some Chinese clients have already agreed to pay that extra cost; TSMC, on the other hand, has not wanted to jump through hoops for the moment. Each new generation of ASML machines processes more wafers per hour and improves etching precision, which means more and higher quality chips for its customers. It is what the company itself calls “value-based pricing”, since the logic that follows is that if its equipment generates more economic benefit for the factories that use it, ASML wants to keep a part of that additional benefit, as Dassen explained in the conference with analysts. Between the lines. TSMC’s anger has its explanation. And the Taiwanese manufacturer has been defending for years that You do not need to jump to the very expensive High-NA equipment (which exceed 350 million euros per unit) and that can continue to squeeze out its cheaper Low-NA machines through design improvements and computational photolithography techniques. In fact, according to they count From Tom’s Hardware, its entire manufacturing roadmap until 2030 is based on that premise. If ASML makes precisely those Low-NA machines more expensive as their performance improves, the cost advantage that TSMC had built with that strategy is reduced. Additionally, TSMC needs to buy dozens of these machines for its new plants in Taiwan, the United States and Japan, so even a moderate increase can add billions of dollars to its investment. It is also worth noting that ASML has practically sold its production capacity until 2027 and a good part of 2028, with prices already agreed in those contracts. That means that, in practice, the company could only apply the new rates to orders delivered from the second half of 2028. TSMC will not notice the blow immediately, but it knows that what is negotiated now will mark the price of hundreds of machines in the coming years. And now what. The pulse comes at a time of historic results for ASML. And on Wednesday the company raised its sales forecast for 2026 to a range of between 43,000 and 45,000 million euros, well above what the market expected, according to collect Bloomberg. Gross margin will also improve to 56%, up from 53% previously forecast. To meet demand, ASML plans to increase its manufacturing capacity of its most important EUV machines by 30% this year, and is studying another similar increase for 2028. Cover image | ASML In Xataka | The war in Iran and the Chinese veto redraw the world map of helium for semiconductors

Anthropic was accused of stealing books to train its AI models. Their solution has been simple: pay

July 21, 2026 by usatoday24

A federal judge in San Francisco has given the final green light to the $1.5 billion agreement between Anthropic and a group of authors and publishers that They reported her for using her books without permission to train Claude. And after extracting millions of books from digital libraries without authorization, and from physical bookstores to scan and destroy en masse, everything has ended up being settled with money. What has happened? Judge Araceli Martinez-Olguin definitively approved this Monday the agreement that Anthropic reached with the plaintiffs, as collect Reuters. The figure was already known since last year, when Judge William Alsup gave his preliminary approval, but this last step was missing for the money to begin to be distributed. How we got here. A group of writers sued Anthropic in 2024 accusing her of using copies of her books to train Claude without her consent. Judge Alsup ruled in June 2025 that training AI with copyrighted books falls under “fair use,” a decision that set an important precedent for the entire industry. The judge also clarified that, although training with those books was legal, Anthropic had broken the law by downloading more than 7 million copies from digital portals without authorization and storing them in a kind of internal library that was not necessarily intended for training, according to explains Reuters. That specific point was going to be decided in a separate trial, with compensation that could skyrocket to hundreds of billions of dollars. So to avoid this, Anthropic preferred to make an agreement. Between the lines. As we explained some time ago, the court documents that came to light revealed the real scope of the project, baptized “Panama”, and with which the company came to physically buy and scan millions of bookscutting their loins to digitize them and then recycling them. Before going this route, Anthropic employees, including its co-founder Ben Mann, had downloaded books directly from unauthorized repositories such as LibGen. The company has always maintained that this content was never used to train a business model, but it was precisely that part of the process that took it to court. How much and to whom. The distribution is made at a rate of about 3,000 dollars per work, out of an estimated total of 500,000 titles between authors and publishers, according to details TechCrunch. Aparna Sridhar, deputy general counsel at Anthropic, said in a statement that the company reached this agreement in 2025 after the ruling that recognized training with books as fair use, and added that more than 91% of the affected authors and publishers have already claimed their share of the payment. For his part, Justin Nelson, lead attorney for the plaintiffs, has called the settlement “historic” and has stated that it represents the largest copyright recovery ever achieved, according to collect also Reuters. Not everyone is satisfied. Some authors have raised objections, arguing that the amount was insufficient, benefiting plaintiff’s lawyers too much or unfairly leaving out certain rights holders. Judge Martinez-Olguin has rejected these arguments, considering that they did not realistically reflect the risks of having gone to trial, and approved fees of more than $101 million for the lawyers, below the $187.5 million they had requested. according to Reuters. Some authors and publishers directly opted out of the agreement and have their own lawsuits against Anthropic that are still ongoing. Why it is important. This closure does not resolve the underlying legal debate for the rest of the sector. And since it is an agreement and not an appealed ruling, Alsup’s decision on “legitimate use” will never reach an appeal court, so it does not constitute binding jurisprudence, as underlines TechCrunch. Each judge is free to interpret similar cases in their own way, and that is just what is happening with the lawsuits opened against Google, Meta, Midjourney and OpenAI for similar reasons. Cover image | Anthropic, edited by Xataka In Xataka | It took 15 years for computers to improve the productivity of companies. AI may take longer for one reason: sabotage

While Mercadona was dedicated to conquering all of Spain, a supermarket has taken over its territory at home: Consum

July 21, 2026 by usatoday24

For years now, talking about supermarkets in Spain means talking about Mercadona. And it is logical. The Valencian chain has been gradually expanding its share until it has monopolized almost 30% of the sector at the end of 2025 and its commitment to service ‘Ready to eat’ is giving wings to a new business concept in Spain: the merchants. However, despite that resounding dominion of the retailJuan Roig’s company has found a surprise in the Valencian Community, the region where it was born. late 70’s: Consum has just advanced it in a key business parameter. The question is… What does that mean? What has happened? Basically, that the specialized portal infoRETAIL has published a report on the food distribution sector that, for the first time in a long time, relegates Mercadona to second place. The study, based on Retail Data, concludes that the Juan Roig chain has lost its dominant role in the Valencian Community in one of the key business parameters: square meters of sales area. If we look at that aspect, at the end of the first quarter Consum was better positioned. What does the data say? They show that right now Consum dominates the Valencian sales areas with 25.9% of the space. Translated into meters, that is equivalent to 436,835 m2 in the region which are spread across 533 locations. The firm directed by Antonio Rodríguez Lázaro also stands out in this aspect: there is no other chain in the region with more stores. Mercadona occupies second place with 431,688 m2 and 262 stores, which gives it a share of 25.6%. Is it an important indicator? Yes, because it shows us how extended the chain’s sales network is, a key asset when competing with its rivals. However, a crucial detail must be taken into account: the surface area quota is not the same as the value quota. The first is basically measured in square meters with merchandise displayed. The second in invoiced euros. infoRETAIL does not provide updated data on the latest indicator (value quota), but in spring Expansion echoed from a study by Worlpanel by Numerator that reflects that Roig’s chain clearly dominates on that front. Your share of business in the Levant was 33.6%above that reached in other regions of Spain and that registered by Consum, which held 16.8%. Has it grown that much? If we talk about surface, the answer is ‘yes’. In 2025 Consum premiered 18 new supermarketsof which seven were distributed throughout the Valencian Community, and by 2026 it has been marked a similar goal: open 18 new establishments, a good part of which will be distributed throughout towns in the region (Orihuela, Cox, Sagunto, Ontinyent, Torrevieja and València). This explains why Consum’s share of sales area in the Valencian Community has increased by close to 0.2% in a matter of one year. During the same period, Mercadona’s share decreased by 0.1%. In general, Mercadona said goodbye to 2025 with fewer stores in its sales network than in 2024. This drop did not affect its turnover, which grew 8%up to 41.8 billion. And the rest of the chains? The exchange of positions between Mercadona and Consum is not the only change that the sector has experienced in the Valencian Community. The results of Retail Data show that Lidl has managed to establish itself in the Valencian “TOP 5” with 101,777 m2 spread across 83 establishments. The German firm thus surpasses Masymas, which has 100,519 m2 in 180 stores. The photo is completed with Aldi, which totals 89,154 m2 in 78 stores. The Valencian market is not only important for its economic potential, it is also important on a symbolic level. After all, it is the cradle of three large chains in competition: Mercadona, Masymas and Consum, which started in 1975 in Alaquàs and closed 2025 with a turnover of 5,163 million euros, 9.7% more than the previous year. In its annual balance there was already an increase in surface area of 5.6%. Images | Wikipedia 1, 2 and 3 In Xataka | Bernardo Rodilla, retail expert: “The ‘Ready to eat’ is gaining weight, in the end we want to spend as little time as possible cooking”

Fable 5 helps disprove a nearly century-old conjecture

July 21, 2026 by usatoday24

While Spain made history winning his second soccer World Cup on Sunday, a 34-year-old Harvard mathematician named Levent Alpöge asked Fable 5 for something interesting. Not that he tried to prove the Jacobi conjecture, but that he did the opposite: to refute it. Argentina kicked us while Spain played soccer and Ferrán of my life and my heart scored a historic goal. By the time it was all over, two things happened. The first, that Spain, we insist, was making history with its second star on the shirt. The second, that a conjecture that had not been proven for almost 90 years was definitively refuted thanks to the help of an AI. The aforementioned Jacobi conjecture suggests that a certain type of mathematical function could also work in reverse. It was formulated by Ott-Heinrich Keller in 1939, and in 1998 the mathematician Stephen Smale included it in his famous list of unsolved mathematical problems that were a challenge for mathematicians of the 21st century. A discovery that leaves as many questions as answers Alpöge has not explained in detail how he managed to reach that result or what prompt he used, but in his tweet he indicated that part of the credit was due to his “close friend fable“, the Anthropic model. Abhishek Sahafrom Queen Mary University of London, explained that the very way of facing the problem was unexpected. The conjecture seemed intuitively correct, but no one was trying to refute it, but rather prove it. Chris Bowman-Scargillfrom the University of York, pointed out something that he considers very important: it is one thing to find counterexamples that overturn conjectures and quite another to construct entire branches of mathematicswhich still requires human creativity. He gave as an example Fermat’s last theorem, solved by Andrew Wiles in 1994, and which forced him to develop dozens of pages with new and fascinating mathematical theories. Several experts have already validated this refutation, something that was relatively easy to do. For Saha, AI advances in mathematics had already surprised —they did it with one of the problems recently—, but this went further: “It is probably the most important conjecture in which AI has played a relevant role so far in mathematics,” he said. There is however some open questions: This particular counterexample refutes the conjecture with three variables, but a version with only two variables could be true. One thing is certain: mathematicians are taking advantage of this tool to help them in their work. The most famous in the world does it, of course. Ivan Fesenkofrom Westlake University in China, was talking about this when he stated that AI models are becoming more and more capable: “Right now, AI can already produce math graduates. In a year, it will produce math PhDs. And then the question arises: Do we really need that many mathematicians if AI can do these things so well?” It is a disturbing question, of course. Image | Vitaly Gariev In Xataka | A mathematical problem had been resisting experts for more than 80 years. An AI has surpassed them all

There are already airlines planning flights to see the solar eclipse from the air: is it worth it?

July 21, 2026 by usatoday24

The solar eclipse on August 12, 2026 will not be seen in Belgium in full totalitybut they are going to express the bias in a very curious way: planning a flight to see it from the air. It will be carried out by the Brussels Airlines companyin collaboration with the Urania Public Observatory, the University of Antwerp and the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB). In Spain, at the moment, there are companies using the solar eclipse only as a teaser. This is the case of Lufthansa, which is sending emails to its customers encouraging them to fly with them during the eclipse. However, for now they have not planned any specific flights, as the Belgian company has done. Better without clouds. The advantage of viewing a solar eclipse from the air is that commercial flights usually travel above the clouds, usually at altitudes between 9,000 and 13,000 meters. This allows you to see the solar eclipse without the obstruction of clouds, but also without other atmospheric distortions. In the case of the eclipse that will be seen in Spain this August 12, 2026, totality will take place around sunset. With the Sun so low on the horizon, it will be very important that the skies are sufficiently clear and clean to enjoy it in all its splendor. In Belgium the Moon will cover, in the best of cases, 91% of the Sun. It will also happen around sunset, so for Brussels Airlines, its proposal may be a good way to see it in this very particular situation. The details. The flight will leave Brussels for France at 7:20 p.m. and will arrive back in Belgian territory at 9:20 p.m. The maximum occultation of the Sun will take place at 8:21 p.m., in the middle of the trip. The 100 people who have purchased the flights will have plenty of space to observe the solar eclipse, since aisle seats will not be sold, in order to have greater visibility. The experience will be accompanied at all times by the comments of an expert from the Urania observatory and, of course, with protection, since the company will distribute approved glasses to all passengers. All for the modest? price of 299 euros. There are already testimonies. In reality, this will not be a pioneering trip. During the solar eclipse of 2024, for example, many American airlines planned flights specifically for observation. Furthermore, there are eclipse chasers who, after seeing many of these phenomena from the ground, wanted to try the experience in small planes. This is, for example, the case of Glenn Schneider, who in 2017 told in statements to Space that the image is very different from what is seen from the ground. With the air cleaner and the eclipse below, rather than above, it is easier to see the solar corona and specific details such as Baily’s pearls. In Spain what? Spain has already organized a multitude of parties and activities around the solar eclipse on August 12. At the moment, it does not seem that it has organized any flights, like the one that will be organized in Belgium. In this country they have wanted to hurry up, ensuring that there will not be another similar opportunity until September 2090. In Spain, luckily, there will be another solar eclipse within a single year. Perhaps this is the time for companies to get on the organized travel bandwagon. Image | Magnific/Wikimedia Commons In Xataka | Puertomingalvo, the Teruel town of 130 inhabitants that has been without free beds for the eclipse for more than a year

there are people playing for hours to feed the online betting houses

July 21, 2026 by usatoday24

At 4:30 in the morning, an “Amsterdam” goalkeeper leaves the field to recover a lost ball on the next court. In the next room, separated from the previous one simply by a curtain, another game is played, with other teams. In a while he will also play there, perhaps with another team. There is no emotion or expressiveness on his face, he simply picks up the ball and returns it to his court. We could be looking at a suburban sports center, but there is something liminal and dystopian in mechanical gesturesalmost official, with which this athlete faces the game. Because to begin with, the result is the least important. The important thing is to never stop. The panorama. The collective Bellingcatin collaboration with the football research magazine Josimarpublished on October 21, 2024 a article about 1xBetthe Cyprus-based sportsbook that broadcasts thousands of amateur matches a year live from audience-free gyms in Russia, Ukraine and Belarus. The analysis detected 1,297 “short football” matches (a variant of indoor football played by teams of between two and five people) in a single 24-hour period in September 2024. It is more than the Bundesliga, the Premier League and LaLiga play together, in a full season. Every year, 1xBet’s figure is around half a million matches. The important thing is to participate. The players change shirts between games: “Barcelona” becomes “Manchester City” half an hour later, and teams with the name of a European club that do not actually exist compete against each other. A Russian football blogger, Viktor Kravchenko, had already denounced in 2021 that these footballers were recruited to play in shifts and that the matches were agreed in advance. Josimar collected the testimony of a young man who received cash for playing from nine in the morning to two in the afternoon, one game after another, for the 1xBet cameras. The other porn. Ismail Vali, then CEO of the analysis firm Yield Sec, explained to Bellingcat why 1xBet remains active a machinery that hardly moves any money: almost no one bets large amounts on a Ukrainian children’s basketball game at three in the morning. These matches serve to keep the user hooked and push them toward products with a higher margin, and we are not just talking about sports bets that, legal or not, yield between 9% and 10%. The casino, however, brings up to 50% profits for the bookmaker. “Crime only invests in more crime,” says Vali, even though legal gambling is not technically a crime. Nothing morbid here, everything normal. Bellingcat traced three of the headquarters to specific locations. One is the Alexander Stepin football school, in the Russian city of Bryansk, which according to the website was active in 2024 (today it is missing), had links with the ruling United Russia party and with Gazprom, the state energy company. In photos published on the web, children posed with weapons in the same facility where the games were recorded. 1,700 kilometers away, in Severodvinsk, Bellingcat identified a party of floorball feminine in which girls of 14 and 15 years old played; There is no way to know if they knew that the match fueled a betting market. In Saransk, the same sports center that hosts matches for 1xBet is also used for weapons training courses. Image: Josimar May your left hand… Meanwhile, 1xBet is listed as a sponsor of two of the biggest clubs in Europe. FC Barcelona renewed its agreement with the betting house until 2029 in July 2024, months before the investigation was published; When consulted by Bellingcat, the club declined to comment. Paris Saint-Germain, sponsored by 1xBet since 2022, went further: in September 2025, almost a year after the report became known, extended the agreement until 2028. …don’t know what the right is doing. In May 2026, online gaming regulatory technology company Gaming Compliance International encrypted the global market of unregulated online betting at $5.9 trillion during 2025, with illegal operators accounting for 78% of the sector’s gross revenue. In the United States, where sports betting is regulated in most states, legal operators managed almost $150 billion in bets during 2024 and generated $13.71 billion in revenue. And it is only a fraction, obviously, of what moves outside of what is legal. Farms are just the surface. In Xataka | Goodbye to Polymarket and Kalshi in Spain: the Government blocks “predictive markets” for not having a gaming license

the Reolink OMVI 3i WiFi arrives in Spain

July 21, 2026 by usatoday24

When protecting your home or business with video surveillance systems, one of the common dilemmas is choosing between a wide-angle camera that covers a lot of space or one with movement. pan-tilt that allows zooming and tracking. Reolink seeks to resolve this dilemma with the arrival in Spain of the OMVI 3i WiFia smart security camera that stands out for its triple lens system designed to cover a full 360º field of view without losing detail. Reolink OMVI 3i WiFi surveillance camera The price could vary. We earn commission from these links A surveillance camera with no blind spots The central aspect of the OMVI 3i WiFi lies in the combination of its optics. On the one hand, it integrates a 10 MP dual-lens panoramic module; On the other hand, it adds a third PT lens (pan-tilt) of 8 MP. Overall, the system achieves a 18MP combined resolutionallowing you to maintain a continuous overview of the scene while being able to focus or track in detail on specific areas or subjects. To take advantage of this structure, this surveillance camera incorporates the technologies SyncTrack and Auto Framing. These features allow the camera to automatically detect moving people or objects and keep them framed and centered in the image as they move. At the software level, the model debuts the technology AI ReoNeuraa proprietary system that performs intelligent detection processing and video search directly on the hardware itself. By not depending on the cloud for these analysis tasks, the team seeks to reduce both false alerts and response times, while also reinforcing data privacy. Along the same lines, the Reolink proposal waives monthly fees or mandatory subscription services. Recordings can be stored locally using a microSD card of up to 512 GB or by connecting the equipment to an NVR recorder from the brand itself. Price and availability The Reolink OMVI 3i WiFi is now available in Spain with an official recommended price of 319.99 euroswhich can be purchased both on the manufacturer’s official website and through its store on Amazon. For those who prefer installation via network cable instead of wireless connection, the brand also offers the OMVI 3i PoE version. Reolink OMVI 3i WiFi surveillance camera The price could vary. We earn commission from these links ⚡ IN SUMMARY: reolink omvi 3i wifi security camera ✅ THE BEST Complete coverage on a single device: The triple lens architecture allows you to replace the installation of multiple cameras to cover a large space. No recurring costs: Local storage and on-device AI processing avoid paying monthly fees. ❌ THE WORST Initial investment… Its price places it above the simplest entry-level IP surveillance cameras. Wireless signal dependency… Although it has the PoE (wired) variant, the WiFi model requires an access point with good coverage to transmit the high-resolution video stream without interruptions. 💡 BUY IT IF… You have a home with a garden, patio or wide access, as it is ideal for those looking to monitor large outdoor areas, avoiding blind spots without filling the façade with devices. ⛔ DON’T BUY IT IF… You intend to monitor a small room or a hallway, since a triple-lens panoramic model will be excessive in terms of performance and size. Other cameras from the firm that may interest you Reolink Duo 3 PoE Camera: Dual 16MP UHD Lens The price could vary. We earn commission from these links Reolink 3K PT Indoor Camera, Auto Tracking 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 | Reolink In Xataka | 360 cameras, purchasing guide to record or photograph everything around you. Recommendations and six models for all budgets In Xataka | The mobile phones with the best cameras that we have analyzed in recent months (2025)

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