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The new Kindle Scribe arrives in Spain with a color screen as its main asset (although not the only one)

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Amazon has officially put its renewed line of digital notebooks. The range, designed specifically for those users looking to unify traditional e-book reading with professional note taking, is expanded to offer visualization options, performance improvements and the integration of Artificial Intelligence tools. The main novelty is the deployment of three different variants– the standard Kindle Scribe (since 519.99 euros in its 32 GB version), an optimized version with self-adjusting front light, an alternative without a front light for those looking for a lower entry cost (449.99 euros) and the unreleased Kindle Scribe Colorsoft (since 649.99 euros), the first device with a chromatic screen within this large format. Amazon Kindle Scribe without front light (latest generation) The price could vary. We earn commission from these links Amazon Kindle Scribe (latest generation) 32 GB The price could vary. We earn commission from these links Amazon Kindle Scribe Colorsoft (latest gen.) 32 GB The price could vary. We earn commission from these links Prices and versions of the new Kindle Scribe range The new generation is now available for purchase in Spain, under the following price scheme: What each model offers The physical evolution of the new generation of Kindle Scribe stands out for a thickness reductionstanding at just 5.4 mm and a contained weight of 400 grams. The screen is now larger (11 inches) and glare-free and has an optimized texture to emulate the friction of traditional paper when using the pen. Inside, the incorporation of a new quad-core processor increases response speed and page turning by up to 40% compared to previous generations. Kindle Scribe (black and white variants) The two models with a traditional monochrome screen are designed for intensive reading and organizing notes. The intermediate version doubles the number of integrated LED lights, achieving a much more homogeneous front lighting that automatically adapts to ambient light. For its part, the software launches a system of quick notes on the home screen and integrated Artificial Intelligence tools capable of summarizing extensive notebooks into key points automatically. Amazon Kindle Scribe without front light (latest generation) The price could vary. We earn commission from these links Amazon Kindle Scribe (latest generation) 32 GB The price could vary. We earn commission from these links Kindle Scribe Colorsoft It is the reference model (and the most anticipated) of this new generation. It uses Amazon-specific display technology accompanied by a revamped rendering engine that allows you to display soft tones without causing eye fatigue. The inclusion of color not only benefits the reading of comics, magazines or documents with complex graphics, but also expands creative possibilities: users now have 10 pen colors, five highlighter shades and shading tools for creating diagrams or detailed illustrations. Amazon Kindle Scribe Colorsoft (latest gen.) 32 GB 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 | amazon In Xataka | Which Kindle to buy: buying guide with recommendations to get it right with Amazon e-book readers In Xataka | The 25 best science fiction books

For the first time, Curaçao will play in a soccer World Cup. And only one of their players was born in Curaçao

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Curaçao has an area of ​​444 km2, fewer inhabitants than Almería and barely 16 years behind it. 16 years, of course, as an autonomous country after October 10, 2010 the Dutch Antilles were definitively dissolved and, with them, the vestige of centuries of colonization. More or less. Because they remain autonomous countries within the Kingdom of the Netherlands. That is to say, Curaçao, like Aruba and San Martinhave their own parliaments but depend on the Dutch force to defend their borders. They are also tied to their foreign policy. Peculiarities of a world that seems to have been left behind but that continues to remind him of the Netherlands and multitude of territories scattered around the world There was a day when the Dutch managed, administered and, of course, exploited their lands in favor of a metropolis that was thousands of kilometers away. Today those vestiges of the past are still more or less present. Between 2021 and 2023, Amsterdam Mayor Femke Halsema, Prime Minister Mark Rutte and King Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands They took over to apologize for the exploitation and slavery of people for centuries wherever the Dutch were present. Today, the Netherlands cannot be understood without the immigrants from those territories. Nor does his team, which in the last Eurocup He participated with 16 soccer players who were children or grandchildren of immigrants African or Caribbean. But the Suriname or Aruba teams are not understood either. Of course, not to Curaçao either, the smallest country to compete in the final phase of a World Cup. globalist colonialism According to data from last year provided by the Netherlands Central Statistics OfficeOf the 18 million people who live in the country, there are more than five million people who are immigrants or children of immigrants. Of them, 2.1 million citizens are children of immigrants. Those five million people, according to FIFA regulationswould be eligible for the Netherlands if they have been residing in the country for more than five years. But of them, those more than two million people (to which the grandchildren of immigrants should be added) could also be selectable with the federation of their ancestors. They know it well in Curaçao. Of the 25 players called up for the 2026 World Cup, only one of them was born in Caribbean lands. Is Tahith ChongSheffield United player in England, born in Willemstadthe capital of the country that brings together half of the population of the entire territory. It is the result of a policy that began to be planted years ago and that has now germinated with the most attended World Cup in history. Opening participation to 48 teams was the perfect opportunity for Curaçao. With three nations such as Mexico, the United States and Canada already classified as hosts, Concacaf went from 3.5 World Cup berths to 6.5 (the “seventh” was played in the play-off with an African team). It was now or never. They explain in elDiario.es that the project was born from the hand of Gilbert Martina, president of the federation, who attracted Patrick Kluivert, a former FC Barcelona soccer player whose mother was from Curacao, to contact Dutch soccer players of Caribbean descent. And the project succeeds. He succeeds so much that today We only have one player born in Curaçao representing Curaçao. With three additional spots open for the North American and Caribbean Confederation, the opportunity to play in a World Cup was very attractive for those who decided to take a plane to play against Jamaica in a life or death final in Kingston and defend a tie that gave them a ticket to the most attractive competition in the world of football. The attraction of the project is evident in the statistics books. Of the 10 players who have played the most games for Curaçao since their emancipation as an independent team in 2011, nine are Dutch. The company has also raised interest among coaches. Since the arrival of Patrick Kluivert as coach in 2015, eight of the nine coaches have also arrived from the Netherlands, with a single exception from Curacao. Wearing the Curaçao shirt was the express (and only) ticket to reach a World Cup for these players, most of whom were unknown to the general public and undoubtedly without sufficient level to be part of Ronald Koeman’s plans where they were born. In fact, only five of them play in the Dutch first division. The rest of the players are divided between the second division of major leagues such as the English one or mid-table teams of lesser-known leagues such as the Turkish, Greek or Israeli ones. Use a “wild card selection” to guarantee a ticket to a final phase of a World Cup or a major national team tournament has been a common practice for years but such a “migratory movement” has never occurred. At the 2014 World Cup It was the only match where two brothers have participated wearing different shirts despite sharing the country of birth: Jerome Boateng defending Germany and Kevin Prince Boateng doing the same for Ghana. Iñaki Williams, a player from Athletic Club de Bilbao, also participated with Ghana in the 2022 World Cup in which Nico Williams wore the Spanish shirt. This time the paths did not cross. The debate about whether or not to call the best available is a tricky one. Alberto Edjogo-Owono, a well-known Dazn commentator born in Sabadell, defended the Equatorial Guinea shirt and recognizes that there is a debate within the footballer and another within the fan. This is how it was expressed in Africa Worldto David Soler’s questions: “A moral dilemma opens up for me: ok, on the one hand it’s fine, but of course. Be careful, I don’t want to be hypocritical. I was born in Sabadell and if I had had the level to play for the Spanish team, then I would have tried to play for the Spanish team, because it is the country where I was born, where I … Read more

“The most intense moment will be between Friday and Saturday”

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Starting on Thursday, June 11, an anticyclone will channel a very warm air mass from North Africa. Temperatures are going to rise, yes; but that’s only part of the story. The other part is the sun: an almost solstitial solar radiation that will heat (a lot) that already hot air mass. And we are going to notice it throughout the country, but Galicia is surely going to take the cake. According to some meteorologists, the entire community will be between 30 and 40 degrees this Saturday. And, curiously, it is not the most striking thing. The second episode of extraordinary heat in three weeks. The most striking thing is the position of the event on the calendar and its recurrence. After all, it comes after the warmest May ever recorded in the community and a few days after Health has had to raise the heat risk threshold one degree in Ourense. Galicia is warming up. But not purely because of the situation. It is something more structural. The thermal calendar has been shifting for some time and we have reached the point where the ‘Atlantic façade’ has ceased to be a synonym for climate refuge very quickly. And that makes the problem more serious. I was talking before about health risk thresholds. For the Ministry, which has just updated them, that line is 26 degrees for A Coruña. A temperature that in the south would even be pleasant. The issue has never been that temperatures rise (which they do too), nor even that we are not prepared for them. The bottom line is that we can’t prepare because it’s expensive, it’s slow and, in fact, we’re not even really aware that we have to do it. Benbaso What is going to happen in the next few days? A classic summer combination, Juan Taboada, coordinator of MeteoGalicia, explained it.: a mass of very warm air stagnated by the position of an anticyclone, stability, clear skies and a fair sun. In the words of AEMET“midsummer temperatures (…) starting Thursday.” However, the most intense moment will be between Friday and Saturday. In fact, even with storms in Ourense, 35 degrees are expected without a problem. The ‘other’ problem. Because, in coastal areas, the problem is not only the air mass, the sun and stability. The ‘other’ problem is all the buoys of Galicia and the Cantabrian Sea marked historical maximums (with anomalies between 1.5 and 2 degrees above the average). That is what is going to mean that the sea will not be able to soften the temperatures either. Image | BenBaso In Xataka | AEMET has confirmed what we have been suspecting and suffering for years: Spain is 2º C warmer than in the 80s

“My biggest fear was that everyone would switch to electric. I feel very alone”

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That Akio Toyoda presides over a company with which he practically shares a name is no coincidence. The president of Toyota is the grandson of Sakichi Toyoda, founder of a Toyoda Automatic Loom Worksa machine-made loom company. That company opened its car division in the 1930s with Kiichiro Toyoda in front. The eldest son built an empire that Akio Toyoda now presides over. It is also no coincidence that Akio Toyoda has had a passion for automobiles since he was a child. And that, now, completely defines his position at the head of the company. “I feel very alone”. “I’m the only one who does it. I feel very alone.” Those are the words that Akio Toyoda has responded to Auto Expressan English media outlet that has been able to have a conversation with the president of Toyota regarding the steps the company is taking. What Akio Toyoda is talking about is your defense of the combustion engine. “Three or four years ago, he was the only one saying he loves the smell of it, he loves the sound of it, he loves the engines and he wanted to keep the engine suppliers’ jobs.” Toyoda assures that he feels very alone in this defense. The greatest fear. Asked what his worst fear is in the automobile industry, Toyoda is clear: “that everyone was switching to electric cars was my biggest fear.” And the reason, he assures, has nothing to do with being late to technology or that the path taken by Toyota was not the correct one. “If I only seek to balance the accounts and achieve profitability or if I only seek carbon neutrality… that is not interesting,” Toyoda defended. “If someone tells me, ‘hey, you’re too late, you should have gone electric sooner,’ well, we’re people who love cars and those people, including myself, have to fight within companies“he stressed. The Toyota electric. Toyota’s relationship with the electric car is nothing short of tumultuous. The leaders have always defended that the electric car it will not be the future of the automobile. Or at least will not be the dominant position in all marketswhich has marked its line of business until now. And it is that he Toyota Bz4X It was until very recently the company’s only car. It also arrived with manufacturing problems and a price that was too high, which buried its possibilities in the market. With an updatethe company has managed to skyrocket its sales and the electric Toyota C-HR also seeks to give a good boost to this part of its technology. Furthermore, the company has been announcing new releases for the coming years and has a clearly marked roadmap for the production of solid state batteries. Decisions that seem to go against what was said by its own president and that explain those statements in which he says that he himself has to fight within his company. To each market, its own. Toyota’s decision has a lot to do with practicality. When the European Union announced a roadmap to ban combustion engines, many of its manufacturers threw themselves into the arms of the electric car and announced that They stopped the development of these engines. Toyota, on the contrary, continued to bet on hybrids, aware that they would continue to be very important in the future. Time has proven them right in part because the European Union has slightly opened its hand but, above all, because our market is a very small part of global automobile sales. For Toyota, the United States remains a gigantic market where last year it sold 2.5 million cars. It is the same market that has paralyzed the promotion of the electric car. Only in Japan does it sell the same cars as in all of Europe. And in China, although he has tried to go on his owncontinues to have the obligation to associate with a local brand, so the performance of the electric cars launched there is lower. An alternative. Toyota defends that the electric car will not exceed 30% market share. We don’t know if Akio Toyoda has changed his perception since he made that statement, but he has always made it clear that solid-state batteries are the ones that can truly change the game. Until then, and like other Japanese brandsToyota continues to investigate new alternatives. Of them, hydrogen is said to be the most interesting. For now, your Toyota Mirai (the fuel cell car) remains exceptional in Europe and in US faces lawsuits over false advertising. The high cost of transporting hydrogen safely to a service station and, first, producing it makes the product too expensive, which still has no clear advantages. But Toyota has found another way to continue studying: burn hydrogen. This, they claim, allows a combustion engine to operate without expelling CO2 (although other polluting substances such as NOx) and at the same time maintain the sound and sensations typical of this type of propellant. Although It is even less efficient than the hydrogen fuel cellthat doesn’t seem to matter to Toyoda. a defense. And at this point, I’m going to make a defense of Akio Toyoda. The president of Toyota, a company that invented a new way of working and that perfected the just in time and with them their profits, he is right when it comes to defending that not everything should be done with profitability in mind. Toyota has become one of the few brands that continues to launch purely passionate cars without any specific objective. There is no car like it Toyota GR Yaris in the market, years ago they took advantage of their collaboration with Subaru to launch the Toyota GT86 (then GR86) and invested together with BMW to launch the new Toyota Supra. In recent months we have learned that they are launching a new and spectacular racing car adapted for the street, the Toyota GR GT. A few days ago they presented a radically sporty special edition of the Toyota Corolla that … Read more

why Instagram and TikTok are designed to make you hate billionaires’ vacations

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With the imminent arrival of summer, the screens of our mobile phones prepare for the ritual of each year: an incessant avalanche of photographs of celebrities and billionaires exhibiting their opulence. In the coming weeks we will consume thousands of images of celebrities sunbathing on the decks of their megayachts, we will discuss the details of exclusive getaways – surely the honeymoon of Dua Lipa and Callum Turner, newlyweds – and we will witness a level of luxury that is simply unattainable. What changes this season is what those images no longer generate: indifference. This visual hyper-exposition of wealth is no longer harmless gossip magazine entertainment. As an opinion column by The Confidentialincessantly seeing what the rich brag about on the Internet has become “the greatest engine of resentment that humanity has known.” And behind this dazzling showcase, the data reveal an unprecedented social fracture. While ordinary citizens juggle paying the rent or the shopping basket, the wealth of billionaires reached an all-time high of $18.3 trillion in 2025, as revealed by the latest global report Oxfam Intermón. Anatomy of resentment: what happens when you look at that photo To understand why a photograph of a billionaire drinking champagne on a yacht today generates so much hostility—and not just passing envy—you have to turn to psychology. A study published in the scientific journal Cyberpsychology empirically demonstrates that continuous visual exposure to symbols of wealth on social networks pushes users to make constant and involuntary comparisons. The mechanism is precise: Every image of a private jet or superyacht deck triggers what researchers call “relative deprivation.” It’s not that we feel like we’re missing something in the abstract; It is that, by seeing what others exhibit, we feel much more intensely and concretely what we lack. The screen turns statistical inequality into a personal wound. But this is not new. The rich have always existed, and so has envy. The relevant question is another: what has changed in the last decade for resentment to have increased in such a specific and global way? The answer lies not in inequality itself—which has been growing for decades—but in the dose of exposure, which is unprecedented in human history. For centuries, human beings compared themselves to those close to them: the neighbor, the co-worker, the cousin who did better. It was a limited and tolerable horizon of comparison. Social networks destroyed that limit definitively. Today the telephone confronts you with 0.001% of the world’s wealth dozens of times a day, involuntarily, while you have breakfast, on the bus or before going to sleep. Psychologists call this “continuous upward social comparison”: You no longer compare yourself with your real environment, but with the global elite, on a loop and without rest. Relative deprivation is not new. What is historically unprecedented is the frequency with which they rub it in your face. This accumulated frustration, image by image and day by day, is reconfiguring our own identity. In a world where the cost of living suffocates the middle classes, essayist Mark Edmundson argues in the pages of The New York Timesyes that hate has acquired a new social function: it has become a quick way to define who we are. “I hate, therefore I am.” Loathing the elite gives many people purpose in the midst of modern precariousness. What is disturbing is not the phrase, but that it is sociologically accurate. The algorithm, perfect accomplice Social media is not a neutral mirror of reality: it is a machine designed to amplify exactly this type of content. As explained Psychology Today, Posts that use moral or emotional language act as a powerful magnet for hate speech and viralization. The more outrageous an image, the more it is shared; The more it is shared, the more the algorithm recommends it. The result is increasingly aggressive ideological bubbles, fed in a loop. This mechanism is not accidental. The algorithms of platforms like TikTok and Instagram are designed to maximize screen time prioritizing content that generates strong emotional reactions, regardless of whether those reactions are positive or negative. A yacht in Ibiza published by an heir generates more interaction than any neutral content: first impact, then anger, then debate, then virality. The system does not create resentment, but it turns it into fuel and returns it amplified. Interestingly, this dynamic is causing the truly rich to start hiding. The consulting firm Bain & Company, cited by financial magazine Fortunewarns of the rise of the “shame of luxury” (luxury shame): faced with the increase in social tension and collective anger, many elites are choosing to hide their logos and status symbols for fear of public rejection. The yacht is still there; What changes is that it is no longer published. Capitalizing on fury The most immediate danger of this resentment is not the hate itself, but where it is directed. The anger generated by seeing a private jet on Instagram could be channeled into demands for tax justice. Too often, however, it ends up being hijacked by political actors who reorient it towards other objectives. A report from Washington Post documents how far-right influencers deliberately exploit the economic hopelessness of young people: they take the rage of a suffocated generation and divert it not towards billionaires, but towards scapegoats. Class resentment turns into identity conflict. While the working classes fight among themselves, the ultra-rich consolidate their power. According to the report of Oxfama billionaire is today 4,000 times more likely to hold political office than an ordinary citizen. Yachts are not just a symbol of wealth. They are also a declaration of impunity. Perhaps the most accurate diagnosis comes from someone who knows the upper echelons well and is not afraid to say so. In an interview with Guardianacclaimed novelist Yann Martel—author of Life of Pi and self-confessed millionaire—confessed his position with unusual crudeness: “I hate the rich people of this world, of which I am a part (…). Our world is being destroyed by greed and wealth.” The paradox is … Read more

See if the Police, DGT, Treasury or other organizations have done it

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Let’s tell you how you can know if any organization has investigated your personal dataand the information that the public administration has about you. It may have been the public administration, such as the DGT, the Police or the Treasury, or it may have come from somewhere else, such as a notary or similar. Because you have in your hand a tool that allows you to know every time your data as a citizen is accessed. It is about My Citizen Folderwith an option that is a little hidden among its many possibilities. And we’re going to tell you how you can watch it. Find out who has looked at your data The first thing you have to do is enter the application My Citizen Folderavailable on Google Play for Android and in the App Store of your iPhone. You can also enter through its official website. Inside, access mode Staffand log in through Cl@ve, electronic DNI, PIN code and Permanent code. Once you are inside My Citizen Folderyou have to click on the section My Folder that you have in the lower bar. This will take you to a menu where you have to click on the option Transparency what you will see in the tab My Data. On the screen Transparency you have to click on the option My exchanges between administrationsand once you do choose the option Between Organizations to be able to see which entities have accessed your data. This will take you to the screen Consultations between Agencieswhere you will see who has accessed your official personal data and the information that the public administration has about you. If necessary, you have a button Filters to be able to consult the reviews that have been made in specific periods of time. In Xataka Basics | News about My Citizen Folder: everything new you can do after its March 2026 update

Ukraine turned drones into hunters. A helicopter shot down in Hormuz has transformed them into a Spielberg film

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In April 1944, a small Sikorsky YR-4 helicopter went behind Japanese lines in Burma to rescue four soldiers isolated. That operation is considered the first military combat rescue carried out by a helicopter and opened a new era in the recovery of personnel under enemy fire. More than 80 years later, another innovation has just taken an equally transcendent step. Apache shot down at the most delicate moment. The fragile truce between the United States and Iran was brought to the brink of collapse when a US AH-64 Apache attack helicopter fell into nearby waters to the Strait of Hormuz during a patrol mission. Trump claimed that the aircraft had been shot down by Iran and promised a military responsewhile different American sources suggested that the impact would have been caused by an Iranian drone, possibly a Shahed. Although it remains completely unclear whether the attack was deliberate or accidental, the incident had a huge symbolic load because it occurred in one of the most sensitive points on the planet, through which a fifth of the world’s oil transits and where Washington and Iran have been facing each other for months in a war of attrition marked by naval blockades, air attacks and constant episodes of tension. Ah64 The immediate response. The political reaction was almost as rapid as the incident itself. trump publicly declared that the United States had to respond to the shootdown and a few hours later the US Central Command announced retaliatory attacks against Iranian targets. Although operations seemed to remain within from a limited framework to avoid a new generalized escalation, the episode demonstrated the extent to which the ceasefire remained extremely fragile. The statements of Iranian officialscombining references to diplomacy with veiled warnings, made clear that both sides were trying to avoid outright war while continuing to send messages of strength to each other on the ground. The real event. However, the most relevant thing about the entire sequence was not the fall of the Apache or the subsequent retaliation. The truly revolutionary thing happened when the two surviving crew members were rescued. For decades, combat search and rescue operations have depended on helicopters, specialized aircraft and human teams that had to enter extremely dangerous areas to recover downed pilots. In Ukraine we have seen drones attacking, watching, taking prisoners, guiding artillerytransporting supplies and even intercepting other dronesbut the conflict between the United States and Iran has just shown something different: for the first time an autonomous naval drone He recovered two soldiers in the water and brought them to safety. It is an advance that until very recently seemed like something out of a science fiction movie and that marks a conceptual leap as important as the one represented by the arrival of the first combat drones. The Corsair and the birth of a new mission. They remembered the TWZ analysts that the protagonist of this operation was the corsairan unmanned vessel developed by the Saronic company and operated by Task Force 59 of the US Navy. Measuring 7 meters in length, capable of sailing more than 1,800 kilometers and with a high level of autonomy, the system located the two pilots, picked them up at sea and moved them to a safe area where they were later evacuated by helicopter. What is really new is that the Corsair was not initially conceived for rescues, but for maritime surveillancerecognition and tracking of vessels. The incident has shown that these systems can take on much more complex and delicate tasks, becoming a kind of first step in rescue capable of penetrating areas that are too dangerous for manned platforms. Lesson learned after years of high-risk rescues. The US military has been concerned for years about the vulnerability of its search and rescue units. Previous operations, such as pilot recovery shot down inside Iran or rescue missions in heavily defended scenarios, forced helicopters, planes and specialized personnel to be exposed to enormous risks. He use of the Corsair offers a completely new alternative. Instead of immediately sending a manned aircraft to an area threatened by missiles, drones or anti-aircraft defenses, an autonomous vehicle can arrive first, secure survivors and transport them to a point where other means operate more safely. It is a solution that reduces human risks and greatly expands the possibilities of action in future high-intensity conflicts. From the Strait of Hormuz to the Pacific. The implications go far beyond the Gulf of Oman. The US Navy already imagines networks of autonomous vessels distributed over entire regionsespecially in the Pacific, capable of monitoring sea routes, detecting threats, supporting military operations and, if necessary, rescuing downed or shipwrecked pilots. The concept is reminiscent of a network of mobile emergency stations spread over huge ocean areas. The Apache experience shows that these systems are no longer simple floating sensors or surveillance platforms, but rather operational actors capable of intervening directly in critical situations. The next silent revolution. The Ukrainian war turned drones in absolute protagonists of the modern battlefield and transformed the way we understand ground combat. However, the Apache episode points towards a new evolution. The great advance no longer consists only of using drones to destroy targets, but in trusting them with missions traditionally reserved for human beings. The rescue of the two American pilots represents the first known example of a personnel recovery executed by an autonomous vessel in a real military environment. It may seem like a minor detail compared to missiles, airstrikes or strategic retaliation, but it will probably be remembered as one of those discrete moments that herald a much more profound transformation: the moment when drones stopped being just weapons or hunters and also became rescuers. Image | US Navy In Xataka | The US had a ship with 2,000 marines ready to invade Iran. Now he has sent it right to the place where China worries the most In Xataka | In Lebanon, the war is becoming difficult to explain: drones to take over a 1,000-year-old … Read more

They have five days to open themselves to rivals

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If there is something that the European Commission does not like at all, it is that technology companies use their power to create monopolies. It takes years actively fighting these practices with chases and historical fines. The objective is to promote competition and when Meta introduced your AI chatbot on WhatsApp, came under the scrutiny of the Commission. Now, have taken a historic decision: order Meta to open WhatsApp to any rival chatbot. And that opens the door, for example, for a Mistral or a ChatGPT to sneak into WhatsApp. In short. This Tuesday, June 9, the European Commission ordered the American giant to restore free access to WhatsApp for competing AI assistants. It is about reversing a situation that Meta has been making more and more complicated for the competition since October 2025. Today, we require Meta to restore access to WhatsApp for competing AI assistants while we investigate whether the restrictions may infringe EU competition rules – Teresa Ribera, European Commission Previously, other companies had access to the WhatsApp API, but Meta changed its conditions to block rival AI services on the platform, something that began to be applied on January 15 of this year. Their own AI chatbot had arrived and they didn’t want anyone stepping on their toes. The Commission did not begin to investigate this out of nowhere, but as a result of complaints from several AI assistant companies who reported that Meta was taking advantage of its position of power and dominance of messaging platforms to ‘sneak’ a single chatbot to everyone: its own. Historical. Meta has five business days to restore that access to rivals and, almost as important as the measure for the user (who will be able to choose which AI system they use in WhatsApp), is the way in which it has been taken. Because it represents the first antitrust precautionary measure that the European Union establishes since 2019 because the investigation has not really ended. The competition commissioner of the European Union, Teresa Ribera, pointed out that this precautionary order is necessary so that competition between companies is fair in these rapidly evolving markets. He assures that, if such a measure is not taken, the damage would be “almost impossible to repair” and assures that they continue to review whether the restrictions that Meta applied may violate EU competition laws… or not. That is to say, the European Commission has been investigating this case for six months and they are not finished, but they have already made the decision to order WhatsApp to open its API. Meta’s Response. Not only the European Commission got involved: Meta was already being investigated for the same reason by the Italian competition authority. Since then, the company has taken some actions to prevent an order like this from arriving, offering access to its rivals for a fee and, just a few weeks ago, offering free access to the API up to a certain threshold and, when they exceeded it, starting to charge for its use. Neither the complainants nor the Commission accepted these measures because they considered that, in practice, it was exactly the same as what Meta was already applying: it was not free access, but, in addition, you had to pay to join the platform. “This will allow free access to OpenAI and some of the largest companies in the world. It is a regulatory overreach subsidized by the many European companies that pay” – Meta Spokesperson Obviously, Meta is not amused by this situation one bit, pointing that the EU is using its power to allow some of the world’s largest companies to use its (paid) WhatsApp Business product for free. They claim that Europe is playing along with OpenAI. Whistleblowers, such as The Interaction Company, do seem satisfied. Now…what. Well there are three options. Or Meta relents and opens its API so that anyone can enter WhatsApp as an AI chat (like when Google in its browser It asks us which search engine we want to use by default Instead of assuming we want yours, go) or pay a fine. That fine is not small: up to 10% of your global annual turnover if you do not comply with these provisional measures. The third option is for Meta to appeal the precautionary order before the courts of the European Union. The Apple thing. As we say, the decision of the European Commission is historic because it is a precautionary measure while they ensure that they must continue studying the case. They give Meta only five days to open its tools and let the competition ‘sneak’ into their home and then to wait to see if the decision is ratified or if the Commission backs down. In any case, it is something that comes just when Apple has once again raised its tone against Europe after the presentation of the new Siri AI by announcing that many of its functions will not be available on iPadOS 27 and on iOS 27 due to EU antitrust policies. But, as with Meta, it is not a fight for privacy (as Apple wants to sell), but rather one for control of its platform and its product so that there is no competition and no one else can play. In Xataka | No, WhatsApp Meta AI cannot be deactivated, but this way you can make it bother you as little as possible

this is the cheapest way to watch all 104 games

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The World Cup finally starts tomorrow. The inaugural match, between Mexico and South Africa, It can be seen totally free on RTVE. This same platform will show all the matches in Spain, but, What if we want to see all 104 games of this competition? Well, we have to check out, because it is DAZN that has the rights to the entire US World Cup. Now, How to do it to spend as little as possible? DAZN has lowered the price of its Premium Planwhich includes, in addition to F1 or Moto GP (among other things), the World Championship. This plan previously cost 31.99 euros per month and now costs 25.99 euros. But there is a catch: to enjoy this price, it is necessary to take the 12-month stay option, so the total would be 383.88 euros. We tell you how to watch the entire World Cup for yourself 35.97 euros. Two months ‘Made in USA’ + the entire Soccer World Cup The price could vary. We earn commission from these links The ‘Made in USA’ Plan, the key DAZN announced that a few weeks ago, to watch the entire World Cup, there are two possibilities: the Premium Plan, which includes everything, or subscribe to one of their other plans and add the World Cup packagewhich has a price of 19.99 euros. The latter is what the Qatar World Cup cost a few years agobut inevitably we will have to pay more in this case. As we say, the Premium Plan includes many competitions beyond the World Cup. We can subscribe without the 12-month permanence, but then the price rises to 44.99 euros per month. Due to the World Cup calendar, if we want to see all 104 games, We have no choice but to subscribe for two monthsso we would be paying a total of 89.98 euros. And even with that price, important competitions this summer like Wimbledon (which broadcasts it Movistar Plus) Monthly subscription to Movistar Plus The price could vary. We earn commission from these links So how can we subscribe to DAZN to pay as little as possible? The way to do it is selecting the most economical plan and adding the World Cup package. We break down what we should do: ‘Made in USA’ Plan: This is the cheapest plan that DAZN has. Its price is 4.99 euros per month, but if we select the plan that has a 12-month duration (it is not worth it). Better, select the plan without permanence that costs 7.99 euros per month. World Cup 2026: as we have explained above, it is a single payment of 19.99 euros. Total: The World Cup starts on June 11 and ends on July 19. What we need is two months of subscription, so it would be two months of ‘Made in USA’ (15.98 euros) plus what the World Cup package costs. That is, a total of a total of 35.97 euros to watch the 104 games. A small important note. This ‘Made in USA’ plan, if we contract it in this way, does not have any type of permanence. Now, DAZN demands that we notify 30 days in advance when we are going to unsubscribesomething important to avoid paying more. ⚡ IN SUMMARY: good time to watch the World Cup ✅ THE BEST Being able to see all 104 games: Although there are matches that we can watch completely free, DAZN is the only platform to watch the entire World Cup. You can watch it on TV, but also on your mobile: The DAZN app is available on a multitude of platforms, ideal if, for example, you want to watch a game away from home. ❌ THE WORST It is more expensive than the previous World Cup: For less than 20 euros we could see the entire World Cup in Qatar. It is true that there are more games this time, but that does not mean that it is more expensive. The need to contract a plan that perhaps does not interest you: You have to buy a plan to watch the World Cup, whether it’s Premium or any of the others. 💡 SUBSCRIBE IF… The Spanish matches are not enough for you, but you prefer to watch the 104 World Cup matches. ⛔ DO NOT SUBSCRIBE IF… It seems too expensive to you, you don’t want to contract a plan that you are not going to use or the matches in Spain are simply enough for you. You may also be interested TCL 65Q6C Television 65 Inch QD-Mini LED 4K Smart TV, 1000 nits, 144Hz Motion Clarity Pro, Onkyo 2.1, Game Master, FreeSync, Google TV, Dolby Vision IQ and Atmos The price could vary. We earn commission from these links XIAOMI TV F 65, 65 Inch (165 cm), 4K UHD, Smart TV, Fire OS8, Alexa Voice Control, HDR10, MEMC, Game Boost Mode 120Hz, 2GB+32GB, Compatible with Apple AirPlay 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 | DAZN In Xataka | How to add all the World Cup matches directly to your calendar In Xataka | Where you can watch the 2026 World Cup depending on the operator you have

Claude Fable 5 is the most powerful public AI model in history. Also the most expensive, exclusive and frustrating

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When Anthropic presented Claude Mythos Preview two months ago, he did it with a singular message: it is so powerful that you will not be able to use it. That, of course, caused everyone to want access to it. Well: Anthropic has just introduce Claude Fable 5 and Claude Mythos 5its new AI models directly derived from that. There is good news, but also bad news. Like Mythos, but capped as a precaution. Anthropic already warned that Claude Mythos Preview was a spectacular tool for finding security vulnerabilities. That made it especially juicy for cybercriminals, so the company decided that only a few trusted entities (under its Project Glasswing) would have access to the model. That learning has now been applied, because in this announcement we have two different (and layered) versions of the model: Claude Fable 5: a model with all the capabilities of Mythos Preview, but with notable security measures that prevent it from being used for malicious purposes. As soon as the model detects that we are asking something “dangerous”, it avoids the question and even forces the use of an inferior model, Claude Opus 4.8. Clear examples: questions about cybersecurity or the development of biological weapons, for example. Claude Mythos 5: This version is somewhat less capable than Fable 5 in terms of cybersecurity, but will only be available to “a small group of cyber defenders and infrastructure providers.” It is the natural heir to Mythos Preview, and according to its creators it is even better than the original version. Claude Fable 5 / Mythos 5 simply sweeps the most demanding benchmarks on the planet. There have never been more powerful models. Anthropic’s internal testing shows that we are facing the most powerful AI models in history. In all benchmarks – including the new FrontierCode programming, much more demanding than SWE Bench Pro – the scores of Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 are simply spectacular, well above those of their rivals. The jump from Claude Opus 4.8 is really surprising, but it leaves GPT-5.5 and Gemini 3.1 Pro far behind (they don’t compare with the recent 3.5 Flash). This is a brutal blow to Anthropic’s table, and we will see how both OpenAI and Google respond. Claude Fable 5 is amazing. Ethan Mollick, well-known AI popularizer, has had access to Fable 5 for a few days and is amazed by the experience. With this model he has managed to complete projects such as east of the isochronic map that previous models had never solved, and it has done it almost “the first time”. In one of the cases Fable 5 worked for 9 and a half hours straight to produce a code called Concord of data analysis. Their conclusions are compelling: Last year (when working with GPT-5 Pro) I called him “work with a magician”: you recite the spell and something happens. With Fable, the spell has become so powerful that I’m no longer sure I’m the wizard. I feel more like a patron. I describe what I want, pay for it and evaluate the result. The conspiracy takes place somewhere I can’t see, in hundreds of small decisions over which I never have a say. Work has gone from being a process to being a result. I no longer direct; charge. The criticism is unanimous. Andrej Karpathy, who recently signed by Anthropic, commented on X how this is a qualitative leap that for him is of the same relevance as the one that Claude 4.5 represented in November. That model began the overtaking of OpenAI: this puts it even further away (at least, for now). Other tweetersemployees or not from Anthropic, make it clear that this is an important leap in the capabilities of AI models. It’s only been a few hours since the launch, but everything points because we are indeed facing a notable leap in quality. Consume tokens like there’s no tomorrow. But in the face of that fascination, the criticism. Discussions on Reddit reveal how users who have started using it have quickly detected the problems associated with this release. The first of them: Claude Fable 5 burns tokens like there is no tomorrow. Its consumption is enormous, and the quotas for Pro and even Max accounts run out in minutes if we use the model intensively. If it already seemed to us that we were exhausting the limits of the free or quick payment accounts, with Claude Fable 5 that feeling worsens: Fable 5 is fantastic, but we can barely use it often with the Pro or Max plans because those dreaded messages about waiting X hours to continue using it quickly appear. Extremely cautious. Anthropic has been very serious about avoiding misuse of Fable 5, and as soon as it detects anything suspicious it “brakes” and “downgrades” the model so that at that moment the one that is activated is Claude Opus 4.8 (which is not bad at all). The problem is that users are detecting that the model takes completely harmless prompts as dangerous. Although in Anthropic indicate Although these security measures are activated in less than 5% of sessions, what users are detecting is that they are activated much more. Fable 5 can get silly. Not only that: Fable 5’s own design means that if it encounters a prompt that it detects as dangerous, the model tries to avoid the response and automatically reduces your capabilities (‘nerfing’) without you knowing. It gets a little sillier on purpose, so to speak. As Anthropic itself explains on the system card, We have implemented new measures that limit Claude’s effectiveness in requests related to the development of cutting-edge large-scale language models (LLMs) (for example, in creating pre-training pipelines, distributed training infrastructure, or designing machine learning accelerators). Using Claude to develop competing models already violates our Terms of Service, but enforcing this restriction through our security measures prevents giving an advantage to those users most willing to violate those terms. Unlike our cybersecurity, biology and chemistry interventions, and distillation attempts, … Read more

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