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Mercedes wanted to jump into the electric car in record time and is clear that they were wrong

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Four years now meet. It was a summer of 2021 when Mercedes launched his ordinance: in 2030 they would be an exclusively electric brand. They wanted to do it by building eight gigafactories to go out to their electric cars and batteries. Today they are clear that they were wrong. “They will last more than expected”. “We have changed the course, electrified combustion engines will last more than expected.” They are the words of Ola Källenius, CEO of Mercedes, in Auto Motor Und Sport Confirming what was an A Voca Secret: Mercedes will not fulfill the deadlines planned in the electric car. The company, therefore, will continue to bet on combustion engines that are key. It is not that he was going to withdraw overnight but that self -imposed obligation of being electric in 2030 led them to significantly reduce their offer until they focus exclusively on the electric car. Two symptoms (1). Although he had been rumored for a long time and in winter Mercedes already said that “There was too much optimism in the industry”there are two great symptoms that came to tell us clear that the time of combustion engines had not died. The first was The failure of EQS as flag bearer of the electric car in the company. The great electric Berlina, “the electric class” has been a failure and confirmed that the customer of a luxury car continues to bet mostly on combustion. Time will say if it is something exclusively linked to the autonomy or there is also a certain political positioning behind. The truth is that the company took advantage of the car to give a wash in the face of the image, sell the maximum refinement with the latest technology and its most advanced software with a Hyperscreen that surprised by groundbreaking. The truth is that the Mercedes client has continued to prefer the most classic class S. Two symptoms (2). The second symptom that advanced that Mercedes had changed course was given by its AMG sports division. The wealthy customer is especially complicated to convince when it comes to electrifying the fleet. To meet the European demands, Mercedes opted in its sports division for A four hybrid cylinders and although He got 680 hpcars that have mounted it have failure in sales. The solution has gone to return to these luxury cars the V8 engines. The company confirmed that will continue working on them And although they will be electrified, the potential car customer of more than 100,000 euros and extremely sports seem to continue asking for huge engines. It is no accident that, in his day, BMW already announced that he would continue to focus efforts on developing combustion engines. Specifically in those of six and eight cylinders. If you want gasoline, you pay it. Everything indicates that, as will happen with lower ranges, we will begin to see Two product categories clearly differentiated in Europe. Pollution policies will lead us to see An extensive electrification (with plug and electrical hybrids) in the low and medium range and a fence to the Combustion engines in the most expensive or luxury offer. In the case of Mercedes, everything indicates that they will continue to develop combustion engines but fenced to their most unattainable offer or Markets where hurry With the electric car are not so many. The confirmation that, in addition to the V8 for AMG, also They will continue selling the huge V12 Limited to the Maybach versions of its class S is a good example. But it is also that Mercedes has focused on “democratizing” its electric cars. He Electric Mercedes It will not be the cheapest car but the German company does want it to become its first great super electric success. And the formula is clear: improve the autonomy. “Rational”. For Källenius, in addition, this strategy is the most “rational.” Yes, the same one that Toyota has been holding so far, to sell the most demanded technology where they ask or let it sell. That is why they continue to focus on hybrids but ensure that the electric car will be key … in Europe. And Källenius knows that multienergy strategy helps them stay afloat. Its hybrid mechanics and huge engines will continue to be key in the United States and in Europe (who can pay it), while needing competitive electric cars in China. “It is our most important and crucial market for our technical innovations,” CEO himself pointed out from Mercedes a few months ago. A product that passes not only through the engine. Here, the latest generation software is essential because without it they do not think they can compete in China. They are aware that “Chinese clients not only use the car to move from A B. For many, it is also a second living room.” And there Mercedes needs to make differences if he does not want to star in a free fall. One that has already begun. Photo | Mercedes In Xataka | The Mercedes Class wanted to overcome the discomforts of the electric car. It is incompatible with a multitude of loaders

The weird event that humanity has witnessed on average, each billion the age of the universe

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Year 2019. In an underground laboratory, A kilometer and a half under the Masso del Gran Sasso in Italya dark matter detector witnessed something extraordinary: the radioactive disintegration of an atom of Xenon-124. It is the slowest process (And therefore, more rare) Never registered. They touched the cosmic lottery. The Xenon-124 has a semi-width of 1.8 × 10²² years. That is 18 followed by 21 zeros: 18,000 trillions of years. To put it into perspective, the universe has “just” about 13.8 billion years, so that the process that Italian scientists could observe in 2019 is a billion times more durable than the universe’s own age, as The researchers described it In Nature magazine. A little context. The “semi -experience” is a statistical measure similar to half -life, but specifically defines the semi -dear period of a radioactive substance. Uranium-238, for example, has a semi-width of 4.5 billion years. In the case at hand, the semi-experience tells us how long it has to pass so that half of a very large group of Xenon-124 atoms disintegrate and become another element, the teluro-124. For an individual atom, its disintegration is a purely random event. A concrete atom could disintegrate in the next second or be stable for a much greater time than its semi -experience. For a group of atoms, the semi -experience is a very reliable prediction of its collective behavior. If you had a container with a large number of Xenon-124 atoms, you would have to wait 18,000 trillions of years for half of the atoms to transform. How did they do it? With a very large container, which contained 3.2 tons of ultra -overthopuro liquid xenon. We refer to Xenon1t experiment of the National Laboratory of Gran Sassoin the center of Italy. A dark matter detector designed for the direct search for hypothetical Massive weak interaction particles (WIMP). The detector was designed with extreme sensitivity and built under a mountain to isolate it from cosmic radiation. But what he captured was not dark matter, but the whisper of an atom of Xenón-124 decomposing; transforming into Teluro-124. The weirdest event ever witnessed. It is not a hyperbole. It really was a milestone of experimental physics that we should not have seen even in a billion lives of the universe. But although the probability that an atom of Xenon-124 disintegrate in a year is practically nil, the detector contained almost 10,000 billion xenon atoms in the two tons of volume that were analyzed. With such an overwhelming amount of “lottery tickets”, the probability that at least one disintegrate during the observation period increased dramatically. During the 177 days of data collection, the team observed not one, but a total of 126 events that could later confirm how the decay of the Xenon-124, a type of radioactive disintegration allowed by the standard model of particle physics, but practically undetectable. What did they see. An atom of Xenón-124 disintegrates when its nucleus simultaneously captures two electrons of the innermost layers. This causes two protons to become neutrons, transforming the atom into Teluro-124. But the energy released is carried by two neutrinos, which escape without being detected. What the Xenon1T photomultipliers detected up to 126 times was the X-ray waterfall and omer electrons that occur when the electrons of the upper layers of the Xenon-124 fall to fill the gaps that have left the two captured electrons. This is the energy firm, the “flash” that betrays the weird event of the universe. Has it served for something? For more than it seems. Although there was no luck with dark matter, the detection showed that Xenon1T can capture an incredibly weak and rare signals, validating its design. But the measurement also provided experimental data to test and improve the theoretical models that describe the structure and stability of atomic nuclei. This observation is a general trial for an even more ambitious goal: the search for double electron catches without neutrinos. If this hypothetical process was detected, it would demonstrate that Neutrinos are their own antiparticles (What is known as Majorana particles). This would explain why the universe is made of matter and not of antimatter. Image | Lngs In Xataka | When no result is a good result: Xenon’s story and the search for dark matter

Now reinforces your safety while GPT -5 appears on the horizon, according to ft

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The irruption of Deepseek In the market it did not go unnoticed. On January 20, 2025 he put his Free chatbotand in a matter of days climbed up to the top of the ranking in the American App Store, surpassing Chatgpt. The impact was such that it even affected directly to the stock market value of NVIDIA. This success soon generated friction. Towards the end of that same month, Openai launched a serious accusation: the Chinese startup would have used its closed models to train its open source alternative. In statements to Financial Timesthe company directed by Sam Altman He claimed to have evidence of a distillation process that pointed to his Chinese rival. OpenAI reinforces your security measures Since then almost six months have passed. And if something has become clear, it was not allowed to pass the episode overlooking. According to the aforementioned British newspaperthe company initiated a thorough review of its internal practices and reinforced their security measures to reduce the risk of leaks or what internally they already refer as “corporate espionage.” “The episode motivated Openai to be much more rigorous,” said someone close to the security team. The American company has intensified its efforts to shield inside: it has not only expanded its cybersecurity workforce, it has also reviewed its protocols and hardened its internal policies. Among the most relevant measures is the isolation of much of its patented technology, which is now managed in out -of -line environments or separated from the rest of its networks. It has also implemented biometric controls of access to your offices, reinforced the physical security of your data centers and applies a policy of “Denegated output by default“To protect the weights of their models. If you wonder what this last measure consists of, the answer is quite simple: it implies that any critical data transfer is blocked by general norm, and it is only allowed if it has been expressly authorized. Thus, any attempt to extract the models – or sensitive parts of them – is automatically denied unless it is manually enabled, minimizing the risk of escape. This armor comes at a key moment for the company. The career for leadership in artificial intelligence has accelerated, and Openai is no longer seen as an unattainable force. The competition narrowstalent is expensive –Goal has begun paying exorbitant figures by their engineers– And all eyes are put on the arrival of GPT –5. Although OpenAi has not confirmed the exact date, Sam Altman has said that The new model is on its way and that will be “a great evolution” with respect to what we know. Everything indicates that GPT -5 will unify the best of the previous versionswith greater reasoning capacity, better customization, and, presumably, a broader context window. The pressure to launch it without errors, in an increasingly competitive environment, is maximum. Images | Solen Feyissa | Xataka with Grok In Xataka | Huawei and Alibaba’s grudge threatens to transform into a real war: that of AI between Chinese companies

In Chrome and Edge there are extensions with thousands of positive valuations. Many are part of malicious campaigns

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Many times we install extensions without thinking too much. They serve something concrete, they occupy little and are there when we need them. Some even have thousands of opinions, good assessment and years of presence in the store. Now we know that An investigation has uncovered that several of them hid a surveillance system capable of following our steps through the network. They were not obvious scams: they were useful, well -made tools and, above all, silent. The extension that uncovered the problem. “Picker color, Eyedropper – Geco Colorpick” was one of many useful extensions. Allowed to select colors from anywhere on the screen and worked well. More than 100,000 users had it installed, with positive valuations and verification seal included. In the eyes of anyone, there was no reason to distrust. According to Koi Security researchersfor a long time it was completely legitimate. Until it was not. In one of its updates, without warnings or visible changes for the user, the extension began to register pages visited and send that information to a remote server. It also maintained an active connection with a control infrastructure. It was just the beginning. When deepening in the case, the researchers detected common patterns in their code and behavior. What they found was a broader and more coordinated network that they baptized as ‘reddirection’. According to the report, at least 18 different extensions were part of this operation. All were available in Chrome and Edge stores, and together they accumulated more than 2.3 million facilities. Some were passed through productivity tools, others for entertainment profits. There were emojis keyboards, speed controllers for videos, time extensions, dark or supposed VPN issues to unlock services such as Tiktok or Discord. All with something in common: they offered a legitimate function … while spying in the background. What they did was not to install classic malware. These extensions implemented a browser kidnapping system that was activated every time the user opened a new tab or sailed to another page. The malicious code was hidden in the extent substance service and did not interfere with its main functionality. The mechanism worked like this: every time a website was loaded, the URL was sent to a remote server next to a unique user identifier. From there, the attackers could order an automatic redirection towards a false page or simply register the activity. Everything happened in the background, without alerts, without emerging windows, without visible failures. Extensions were not malicious from day. And that is what makes this campaign especially dangerous. According to the researchers, many of them spent months – or even more – offering their functionality without any suspicious behavior. Everything changed in an update. The technical team maintains that the malicious code was introduced into subsequent versions, when the extensions already had the confidence of thousands of users. And as browsers update automatically, the change was applied without anyone noticing. No one click was needed. Nor Social Engineering. Neither phishing. And the mechanisms designed to protect the user? Several of the malicious extensions were verified or appeared as highlighted on the Chrome and Edge platforms. Others accumulated positive reviews and a solid user base. All that contributed to the unnoticed when they changed their behavior. These are the extensions directly linked to the Reddirection campaign, according to the analysis carried out by Koi Security researchers. All of them offered apparently legitimate functions, but were identified as part of the same browser kidnapping scheme: PICKER COLOR, EYEDROPPER – GECO COLORPICK Emoji Keyboard Online – Copy & Paste Your Emoji Free Weather Forecast Weather Speed ​​Controller Video – Video Manager UNLOCK Discord – VPN Proxy to Unblock Discord Anywhere UNBLOCK TIKTOK-Seamless Access With One-Click Proxy Unlock YouTube VPN Dark Theme – Dark Reader for Chrome Volume Max – Ultimate Sound Booster Volume Booster – Increase Your Sound Web Sound Equalizer Flash Player – Games Emulator Header Value Unlock Tiktok Volume Booster Web Sound Equalizer Flash Player According to Bleeping Computersome of these extensions have already been removed from Chrome and Edge stores, but others are still available for discharge. Both Google and Microsoft have been notified by the Koi Security team, but for now they have not taken general measures on the complete set of extensions detected in the campaign. Images | Koi Security | Screen capture In Xataka | There is something that we are not doing enough and we should for our own security: eliminate old accounts

His sediments unprotected us in front of the next drought

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Thanks to the data provided by the authorities and on initiatives such as reservoirs.netwe have at our disposal complete information of the state of the hundreds of reservoirs that populate our environment. However, for some time the experts have noticed us with a problem that make this data in principle precise and observational into something more similar to estimates. It is the problem of sediments. Decades of accumulation. The reservoirs, in addition to accumulating water accumulate sediments. This involves a problem since they occupy a growing proportion of the volume of Spanish swamps, with the aggravating fact that it is very difficult to estimate the exact proportion in each case. Fortunately, the echoes of drought have abandoned us (for now), but during the last months of water bonanza, some swamps even had to release water after their filling. Part of that water could have been used if their place had not occupied these sediments. It is for all this that the sediments have come to be called The “silent thief” of the reservoirs. Difficult solution. This accumulation is due to dynamics associated with the very nature of these great reserves and the architectural barriers that create them. That is why impossible to prevent this accumulation from being more or lesser extent, so we only have two options left: living with sediments or performing periodic dredging operations to clean up these sediments occasionally. Living with sediments. Coexistence with sediments is not synonymous with ignoring the problem. Quite the contrary, it requires more accurately to document the magnitude of this phenomenon. The speed at which sediments accumulate in the reservoirs in the form of sludge, sand and other materials depends great Considering all these variables is complicated, so observational studies are also an option. The study of the lacuestre bed through batimeters would allow us to know the status of the bottom of the reservoir without having to empty it or resort to indirect estimates. Knowing the degree of accumulation of sediments in reservoirs can help us adjust your real capacity and to know more accurately what are the real water resources we have and what is the rhythm to which we spend them. Of course, this solution does not solve the problem of loss of reservoirs capacity, but at least allows us to work with it. Studies. We do not have a general idea of ​​the state of the sediments in our reservoirs but we do have a record of some studies and estimates carried out over the last years. The problem today is that the number of studies is limited and its diverse results. We have an example in the study conducted in 2018 by the Tajo Hydrographic Confederation, which estimated An insignificant accumulation of sediments. At the other extreme, a batimetry study conducted by the Segura Hydrographic Confederation indicated a loss of capacity in the basin of Between 10% and 40%. A third study offers us a somewhat more global vision. Made through 110 reservoir analysis, this third work estimated a loss of capacity of our reservoirs of about 5%an intermediate result between the aforementioned. Dranging the reservoirs. The solution to the problem I could be in the dredging of the reservoirs. This option would allow them to recover their original capacity but at the same time raised a challenge due to the number of swamps existing to the country. A challenge and considerable investment. These types of operations are not, however, a mere utopia. In 2024 the Ebro swamp began some dredging operations To release one of the disaggers of the dam, useless as a result of the accumulation of sediments. The budget of the work: 2.5 million euros. In Xataka | The time of truth of the Spanish reservoirs: how are they going to endure the heat after rains that has left them overflowing Image | Pilar Flores

The one between Chinese companies

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The artificial intelligence (AI) resides in the heart of the pulse currently supporting the US and China. The government led by Donald Trump is doing everything in his hand to prevent avant -garde chips for ia that design Nvidia, AMD, Intel or brains, among other US companies, They arrive in the country led by Xi Jinping. Meanwhile the latter is dedicating An enormous amount of resources to the development of its own advanced GPUs and AI models. The curious thing is that the most level competition in the AI ​​sector does not support only the rivalry of US and Chinese companies. During the last four years the subsidies of the Chinese government have led to that the companies that are dedicated to the development of great AI models. The Chinese market is very large, and, of course, the World Cup is even much more, but this circumstance has not avoided that conflicts between some Chinese companies emerge. The one who is freeing Huawei and Alibaba is especially bloody. Huawei denies having copied Alibaba Ren Zhengfei, the founder and general director of Huawei, made at the beginning of last June very interesting statements during a conversation with a Chinese journalist from the people’s newspaper. According to this executive “Las Gpu Ascend de Huawei are still a generation behind the chips for the US”. A priori it is surprising that the head of this company publicly publicly recognizes as this. His words They arrive at a very important moment For the company that leads. And it is that just two months ago Huawei released two new chips for AI, the GPUs Ascend 910d and 920with which he aspires to go Learning Nvidia, leading the leadership in performance in AI applications that hold both in China and beyond the borders of this Asian country. In fact, Noah Ark Lab, the Huawei Research Division, already has its first large -scale model implemented entirely on the Ascend chips. Honestagi has published a study in Github in which he maintains that there is a correlation between Pangu Pro Moe and Qwen 2.5 14b For this company, the development of a large language model in whose training and inference has only used its own chips, and not the NVIDIA GPUs, it is a success. However, the arrival of the last review of his Pangu Pro Moe model (Mixture of experts) He has not been exempt from shocks. And is that, According to Reutersa research group known as Honestagi has published a study on the Github platform in which it maintains that there is a very evident correlation between the Pangu Pro Moe de Huawei and Qwen 2.5 14b of Alibaba. This simply means that Noah Ark Lab could have trained its AI model using Qwen 2.5 14b instead of starting from scratch. If this, this division of Huawei would have violated the copyright of Alibaba. However, this is what honestagi defends in your report, but Huawei hasn’t taken it to deny it. And is that This last company holds That PANGU PRO MOE does not strengthen the incremental training from the models of the other manufacturers. There is another important fact that we are not overlooking: Huawei ensures that its development team has strictly adhered to the open source license requirements for any third -party code that it has used, although it has not specified what open source models it has used. On the other hand, Alibaba at the moment has not ruled, but presumably will announce his opinion about this conflict during the next few days. It will be interesting to verify how this Liza is resolved between two of the most important Chinese companies in the AI ​​domain. Image | Huawei More information | Reuters In Xataka | The Chinese company Alibaba has an AI to detect pancreatic cancer. It is so good that the US has accelerated its approval

Ducati signed Marc Márquez to win races. They did not count on that it would also empty their safe

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Marc Márquez carries An impeccable season As for podiums and that means that Ducati has to scratch his pocket more and more to comply with the salary agreements to which he promised with the Pilot de Cervera. The military ride that Márquez is starring in his first season with Ducati is getting A infarction record being the first pilot to chain three major awards of absolute domain, linking six victories with Sprint and Carrera. Ducati’s accountant is afraid the worst. A start of the season that breaks molds. Marc Márquez has revolutionized the MotoGP world in its first season with the Ducati team. His domain on the track is not only filling the trophy showcases of the Ducati headquarters in Burgus Panigale, but also leaving the accounts of the Italian team dry. In just ten major awards, Márquez has already won almost 1.5 million euros Only in salary bonus By victories, and the figure at the end of the season can be vertigo. His great bet: leave Ducati Honda. Marc Márquez made a risky decision to leave Honda, renouncing one of the highest salaries in the history of motorcycling. Although such and As I said The pilot himself “never entered into details about that aspect because nobody really knows what my salary is in Honda”, different leaks estimated that his salary moved in a fork of between 15 and 18 million euros per season in the Japanese team. Leaving the Japanese team was not going to be a rose path since, before consolidating its entrance to the Ducati team, the six -time MotoGP world champion had to go to the Gresini team, Ducati’s satellite, before making the final jump. Paolo Ciabatti, sports director of Ducati Cors, He pointed out “Surely, the Gresini team cannot afford to pay a pilot the amount of money to which Marc Márquez was accustomed.” The Catalan pilot did not seem to import the salary cut. He would already adjust accounts with the Italians when he arrived in Ducati. Although the exact amount of your file is as secret as it was in Honda, The data They point out that Ducati signed a payroll between 12 and 14 million euros per season for the Spanish pilot. THE KEY: THE BONUS. However, although the base salary agreed by Ducati was not as high as the one he received in Honda, Márquez has managed to get the most out of his contract. The Cervera pilot has been squeezing the Ducati box chaining victories and podiums to go unlocking bonus As if they were the levels of a video game. In the ten major awards played, Márquez accumulates six victories and nine wins in Sprint races, which leaves him as a leading World Cup. All this translates into an increase of 1.38 million euros only as premiums for victories, and we are only in the middle of the championship. Motivation to win. Ducati signed with Márquez some really high cousins. According The published by ACEthe Spanish pilot pocketed 150,000 euros for each Sunday race that wins, and another 40,000 euros for each sprint. To that we must add the bonus to finish second on Sunday, which is 80,000 euros, and the one to finish third, which is 40,000 euros, just like winning a sprint. If Márquez maintains the rhythm in the twelve major awards that remain championship, the progression says that it will end more than three million euros packed as bonus in this section. But there does not end everything. Márquez will enter an additional three million euros premium if world champion is proclaimed. Thus, at 12 or 14 million euros of annual salary agreed, the additional six million that the pilot has unlocked as bonus by victories and sprints would be added. In the end, Márquez has gone well. Someone brought a tila to the Ducati accountant. In Xataka | There was a day that MotoGP rivaled in audiences with football. The Aragon GP confirms that this time has died Image | Ducati Motogt Team

They barely have trees to hide

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There are still contactless tribes on the planet that defend their territory with nails and teeth. Possibly, the more extreme case is that of the trench they have mounted In North Sentinelbut they are not the only ones. In general, the few tribes of this type that remain have managed to escape the “exterior” showing themselves faithful to their way of life. The problem, As we point out Recently, they are receiving a series of visits Very dangerous. And in other cases, they are directly taking away their “hiding place.” The last resistance. They told it in two extensive reports The Guardian and O Globe. Twenty -five years ago, the anthropologist Beatriz Huertas He followed the traces of an invisible town in the heart of the Peruvian Amazon. The Mashco Pirothe largest indigenous group not contacted on the planet, appeared on the banks of the rivers, took bananas and faded in the jungle. Since then, its history has been that of a silent resistance to threats every time most lethal: Legal and illegal felling, drug trafficking, diseases brought by outsiders and climate change that alters the vital cycles of the jungle. Although Peru protected a portion Of their territory, the wood concessions granted right next and within their traffic areas have caused forced and violent coexistence. The expansion of Protected Areaapproved Almost a decade To avoid these clashes, it was never implemented. The result is a jungle where the Mashco Piro live In constant alert And where even the indigenous guards such as Romel Ponciano confirm that only men and adolescents are seen: the rest is hidden, fearing new fatal meetings. A diffuse border. Despite international treaties already a national law of protection of villages in isolation, the real measures to safeguard the Mashco Piro have been fragmented, slow and insufficient. While the Ministry of Culture reduces budgets and surveillance positions operate with just two people, wood concessions with international certification as FSC (supposedly synonym for sustainability) overlap vital territories for isolated. Companies like Tahuamanu Canales Madera They have been involved in mortal confrontations, and others as wood They manage concessions within the area whose protection remains stagnant Since 2016. In parallel, officials of the Ministry of Agriculture and local authorities such as the mayor of Tahuamanu They promote studies “Verifiers” that seek to question the need for the territory for isolated, prioritizing the commercial value of wood over the right to exist without contact. What do the authorities say. He Official speech oscillates between denying the very existence of isolated peoples (as the former President Alan García) and justify its displacement on behalf of the “order” against drug trafficking. All this under a developmental development that makes indigenous obstacles and not holders of fundamental rights. Paper battles. Indigenous organizations have achieved legal victories, such as the Cancellation of 72 concessions In Loreto, but they fear that these triumphs evaporate if the idea of ​​”shared areas” between isolated villages is institutionalized. In fact, the proposal to exclude non -contacted communities from the consultation processes required by the FSC certification It has been indicated as a serious omission. Impunity. Activists like Carla Cárdenas have presented motions To prohibit any certification in territories with indications of peoples in isolation, but the vote is in the hands of the sector’s own companies. While, The Guardian remembered that each delay in summoning the committee that must decide on the expansion of the Mother of God Reserve prolongs the impunity of operations in Mashco Piro territory and paralyzes other strategic reserves Like Yavarí-Mirimin the north of the country. Plus: all this happens in a region already crossed by the Interoceanic roadwhich brought illegal gold, secondary routes of logging, and a Deep fragmentation of the Amazon ecosystem. Even areas with “more responsible” companies have become conflict points. Two countries and a threat. On the Brazilian side, the situation It is not better. Although the Lula government has taken some steps such as the proposal of the indigenous territory of the Chandless River, indigenous organizations denounce that the commitments are more rhetorical than real. The projected path between Santa Rosa do Purus and Manoel Urbano worries the defenders of the ACRE, as it could become a new entrance door for timber and traffickers. Binational cooperation with Peru, essential to protect a people whose mobility does not know political borders, expired in 2016… and was never renewed. In absence of agreements Government, indigenous organizations themselves have proposed two large territorial corridors that would add 25 million hectares protected From the ground, Manchineru volunteers monitor the movements of their “distrustful relatives” to avoid fatal encounters and preserve their autonomy. But the recent dynamism of the Mashco Piro (their appearance out of season, its downstream) suggests that external pressure is forcing them to alter your patterns traditional Warning from the jungle. Thus, in the core of this silent tragedy the report highlighted a truth that the Mashco Piro repeats when they are shouted from the other shore: They don’t want contact. It is not ignorance or a whim: It is memory. That of generations that have seen diseases, weapons, chainsaws and roads such as Death omens. For the Mashco Piro, the trees They are monuments. Asking them if they want to approach, The answer It is the same: “No, because you are bad.” They do not distinguish between good and bad, but between a worldview that respects the jungle and another that destroys it. If you do not act soon, and if your will is not respected and your territory is protected effectively, that warning could become an epitaph. Without trees and their wood has nowhere to hide. Image | Survival International In Xataka | In the Peruvian Amazon, the latest tribes never contacted will receive a visit: that of oil companies In Xataka | Those who have approached less than 5 km from this island have not returned. An American managed to enter … and has lasted five minutes

My keys are random characters and I have a hard time remembering them. Unless you use one of these password managers

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Do you have the same password for all your accounts or do you use a different? The truth is that the second is the best we can do in the event that some website has some vulnerability, but that can leave us with a problem: remember all passwords. In fact, it has happened to me, so it can be very useful to have a good Password manager. But … What is a password manager? A password manager is an independent program that is responsible for safely storing the passwords that we choose. In this way, once we register it, it will be saved and allow us to log in to the account without writing the password again. There are free services, but also other payment that offer a greater number of functions and, of course, of better advantages. In this article we will talk about Some of the best password managers, with their prices and differences. Proton Pass If we are going to choose a password manager, Better to do it by taking a discount, right? Proton Pass not only offers different monthly plans with its peculiarities, but also right now has a discount on all its subscription plans: Pass plus monthly by 4.99 euros a month instead of 4.99 euros. Annual Proton Plus by 2.99 euros a month instead of 12.99 euros. Pass Family by 4.99 euros per month instead of 6.99 euros. * Some price may have changed from the last review All of them have some similar tools, such as cloud storageextreme end encryption, the possibility of saving passwords or email encryption, calendar, cloud storage and VPN service. Here we leave you a table with some of the differences between the subscription plans: Pass plus monthly Annual Pass Pass Pass Family Tools Unlimited alias of Hide-My-Email Integrated 2FA authenticator Safe link exchange Unlimited credit cards Dark Web monitoring Advanced Accounts Protection Your personalized domain for alias Additional mailboxes for alias Unlimited alias of Hide-My-Email Integrated 2FA authenticator Safe link exchange Unlimited credit cards Dark Web monitoring Advanced Accounts Protection Your personalized domain for alias Additional mailboxes for alias 6 Pass Plus accounts Administrator panel for your family Price 4.99 euros / month 2.99 euros / month 4.99 euros / month Obviously, Proton Family offers greater users. Yes, it is more expensive, but it can be interesting if what we are looking for is to use the service on different devices. Pass Plus monthly can be interesting to prove the annual plus tools and Pass has the best value for money by staying the monthly for half that with respect to Pass Plus monthly. PUREVPN PUREVPNas its name indicates, it is mainly a service that offers a VPN tool, although it also has many other security related, such as the password manager. Taking into account that the standard service does not offer the password manager, we would have two modalities: Pure VPN Plus for $ 2.96 per month (2.52 euros to change), with VPN service and password manager. PUREVPN MAX for $ 3.33 per month (2.83 euros to change), with VPN service, password manager, Dark Web monitoring, unlimited ESIM data and data eliminator. * Some price may have changed from the last review Bitwarden Another option that can be interesting is Bitwardena password manager who, although it is true that it has a free modality, has two subscription modalities with more tools. Of course, it is more focused on companies than individuals, although that does not mean that it cannot be useful: The biggest difference between Bitwarden Teams and Bitwarden EnterpriseIn addition to the price, Enterprise offers a family plan and recovery administrator. Bitwarden Teams for 4 dollars a month (3.40 euros to change). Bitwarden Enterprise for $ 6 per month (5.10 euros to change). * Some price may have changed from the last review Dashlane Finally, Dashlane It is another service that, despite being more expensive, also offers a good assortment of tools. Mainly it is a password manager service, but depending on the subscription modality that we choose we can have more or less functions, although in this case they are more focused on companies: Password administrator by 8 euros per month (with annual billing). It includes access protection of employees with unlimited passwords and optimization of security controls. Omnix by 11 euros per month (with annual billing). Includes password administrator, intelligent alerts and additional protection against Phishing. * Some price may have changed from the last review Some of the links of this article are affiliated and can report a benefit to Xataka. In case of non -availability, offers may vary. Image | Linus Mimietz in UnspashProton Pass, Purevpn, Bitwarden, Dashlane In Xataka | Why it is dangerous to connect to public wifis and what you should do to protect yourself In Xataka | Antivirus in Windows 11: What are, differences between free and payment and the best for your PC

It is not you, YouTube is filling with more and more ads. Especially if you see it on a smart TV

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Are you noticing, Even if you think it may only be a sensation of yoursthat youtube has more and more advertising? It is not yours: since it began to include advertising in 2007, YouTube has progressively increase the ads. Currently, in supports such as televisions, the high doses of spots that cannot be skipped begin to be striking. YouTube is winning the game to traditional television, yes, but … at what price? Is it true that there are more and more YouTube ads? From a time to this part they have increased on all platforms, but there is a space where they have done very clearly: on televisions. In these devices new formats of specific interactive ads For connected televisions, such as FEEDS of products and QR codes that allow direct purchase from the big screen. And there are already figures of the good result they are giving: more than 50 million monthly average conversions in the fourth quarter of 2024, that is, a very notable growth in the quantity and effectiveness of the ads in this environment The TV rules. Although your YouTube consumption platform is the mobile or computer, you are a minority: as we talked a few weeks ago, YouTube has grown up on Smart TVS in recent years. According to Nielsenthe video platform has experienced a constant and significant general growth, more than 120 % since 2021. For us to get an idea: in May 2025, it occupied the leading position between platforms of streamingwith 12.5 % of the total viewing on television, above Netflix or Prime Video: Advanceing traditional television on their own land and even its direct rivals. EVewhere ads. The ads have become a continuous presence on YouTube. However, there was a time, approximately for a decade, in which YouTube ads were Much less invasive (Mainly banners, discreet and static, located at the bottom or side of the screen, which barely interfere with the visualization experience). But soon the changes began to accelerate. More and more. Already in 2008 there were prompt pre -rol ads (before the video), in the first Google tests to monetize the platform. Its generalized implementation was consolidated as of 2010, when YouTube introduced the pre -rol, post-volt ads, both saltable and non-saltable for long and monetizable videos. Since 2018 changes began to accelerate. For example, that year the ads arrived in pairs, with the excuse that with longer interruptions there would be less number of advertising pauses. In 2019, the ads that could not be jumping in the first fifteen seconds (sometimes in pairs) landed. And in 2020, not saltable ads for 60 seconds. More frequency. At the momentYouTube ads can occupy between 15% and 20% of the total display time of a video. It is common to find two or three ads in videos of 10 minutes and up to five interruptions in videos of more than 15 minutes. In addition, it has continued to increase the amount of non-saltable ads, the Mid-Roll (in the middle of the video), Bumper ADS (of 6 seconds without jumping option) and interactive formats. In addition, YouTube has implemented more aggressive measures in recent times so that you do not skip the ads: for example, although pauses reproduction on your smart TV, The ads will continue; And besides They have complicated the use of adblockers and other systems to avoid advertising. Experience of experience. Can this assume a problem for the future? For the moment, Complaints are piled up Because, among other things, the only way to avoid advertising is paying the rate of Youtube premiumwhich does not have especially affordable prices. It must also be taken into account, as detailed by the Linked article of El Confidencial, that the average daily use of YouTube is 20 minutes and 19 seconds, well above other platforms such as Instagram (8:15) or Tiktok (3:51), which makes advertising saturation a higher risk for its users. In Xataka | YouTube’s last idea is to prevent you from watching videos if you use advertisement blockers

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