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Five identical cyberbrains did not suffice for Carrefour to react. So they have fined it with 3.2 million euros

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The Spanish Data Agency (AEPD) has imposed A fine of 3.2 million euros to Carrefour for alleged infractions of several articles of the RGPD. The surprising thing is not that, but the fact that these infractions were due not to a single cyber attack, but five … exactly the same. Security gaps. Carrefour notified to The AEPD up to five personal data security violations, all related to illegitimate access to customer accounts. The gaps occurred on January 13, January 20, January 24, April 18 and April 21, 2023. All with the same technique. Credential Stuffing. Everything indicates that these security gaps occurred when taking advantage of credential criminals (name, password) of Legitimate Employees of Carrefour who ended up filtering and managed to be obtained by the attackers, probably through Previous massive data robberies. Stolen data. Among the affected data They were name, surname, email, telephone number, DNI, physical address or customer passport number, in addition to information related to their interests, purchase trends and commercial preferences. Thousands of affected. The number of affected according to the AEPD was 118,895 unique accounts that the attacker could obtain personal information. According to Carrefour, the real affectation was much lower: the one that impacted the people’s integrity It was only 234 cases and the confidentiality of its data 973 cases. Several serious infractions. Carrefour recognized his responsibility for the alleged violation of article 34 of the GDPR (communication of the gaps to the affected people) but initially did not consider it “mandatory.” In addition, the AEPD concluded that Carrefour violated the principle of integrity and confidentiality (Article 5.1.F of the RFPD) by allowing illegitimate access to third parties of personal data. And lack of diligence. According to those responsible for AEPD, Carrefour did not have implanted the technical measures necessary to guarantee a level of safety appropriate to risk, but also accused it of lack of diligence. In Carrefour they ended up implementing the double authentication optionbut only since October 2023, when five security gaps had already been used. The fine, broken down. The total fine is 3.2 million euros, but it is actually composed of three concepts: Violation of the principle of integrity and confidentiality (very serious): two million euros Infringement of data processing (serious): one million euros Infringement for communication to interested parties (mild): 200,000 euros. Do not protect customer data is expensive. Iberdrola received an even greater than 6.5 million euros last year after being the victim of a cyber attack that Exposed the data of 850,000 clients. Before, in July 2021, the AEPD I fined 2.5 million euros to Mercadona For a violation of the privacy of the users: in this case, for a pilot of facial recognition that carried out months before and that laid a precedent for this type of systems. With this data, a threat: identity supplaments. Whenever customer data is stolen, there is a clear threat: that they are used to supplant the identity of those customers. With these data it is possible to configure custom and directed scams, much more credible and dangerous for the victims. The other immediate risk is that cybercounts use these credentials to try to steal accounts in all types of services, hence the importance of Do not use the same password on different platforms. Image | Xataka In Xataka | We visited the National CNI cryptological center: here is the epicenter of Spanish cybersecurity

Xiaomi surprised the world with his own mobile chip. The next step is to replicate this success in your electric car

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Xiaomi creating its own chips by the hand of TSMC It is something that we did not see in 2025 in which China’s greatest obsession is to boost 100% national technology. The company, in a movement to reduce dependence with Qualcomm and MediaTek Without breaking the ties that still tied to the United States, he presented his Xring 01. A chip capable of competing with the best in the market, thanks to both TSMC technology and its innovative design. The company has confirmed to be locking in its own chip for its future electric cars. It is one of the last pieces that the company needs to close the circle and not depend on companies such as NVIDIA or Qualcomm. The beginning of an era. Xring 01 is a before and after for Xiaomi. It is the first time that it manages to design a processor at the height of the best in the market, improving proposals such as the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite. Most of this TSMC baby success, who has manufactured this hand processor with Xiaomi. But its architecture is peculiar: it is the only high -end processor with a design composed of ten nuclei, and a distribution of workloads much more efficient than most current processors. Three chips, at least. Xring is the mobile processor, the Xring T1 It is the chip for watches, and Xiaomi has confirmed being working on a third processor for electric cars. The recent launch of your SUV, the Yu7came from the hand of Nvidia and Qualcomm, something that could change completely in the next generation of vehicles. Why there is a Qualcomm chip in the SU7. If you wonder what paint a Nvidia chip and a Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 In Xiaomi cars the answer is easy: electric cars, today, They are computers with wheels. Yu7 is one of the cars with the largest infotainment system in the world: one in which the windshield is a giant screen. Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 is responsible for moving HyperosXiaomi’s own software platform. Why there is a nvidia chip in Yu7. The central screen is just a small example of the computing capacity that an electric car needs. Assisted driving systems, Lidar data processing, radars and cameras, are in charge of the Autonomous Driving Platform Nvidia Drive Agx Thor. This software solution allows to manage high work loads with maximum energy efficiency, and is currently the most capable in terms of computing aboard a vehicle. A discreet approach. Xiaomi has not revealed data about whether you are preparing an adaptation of the Xring 01 to electric cars or if the goal is more ambitious and seeks to create its own complete hardware platform. The company has TSMC as an ally, but the design runs on its side. Competing to lead on platforms for new mobility is the next step for a Xiaomi that aspires to conquer almost all of the technological product categories. There Huawei has special advantage with Your Driveone platformone that gives life to Chinese vehicles like the Luxeed S7 or Aito’s latest proposals, such as the M5 and M7. The limitations. The United States Department of Commerce has tried to advise China, urging its national EDA software companies (electronic design automation software) to stop selling your products to your rivals. This software is key to the development of new lithographic processes, and one of the keys to lead the next generation of 2 Nm. Consequently, giants such as Xiaomi will have it complicated to continue improving the design of their chips. As much as TSMC is the one who manufactures them, falls into their hands to design their architecture. The current competitiveness of this chip resides largely in Your 3nm nodewhile China struggles to achieve ability to Manufacture 5 Nm national chips. There is a strong national movement in China to overcome this limitation and boost an EDA industry within the country. It is something that will end up happening, although not in the immediate future. Xiaomi’s great opportunity. Shanghai Xuanjie Technologies, the Xiaomi chips design subsidiary led by former Qualcomm and Ex Unisoc, is an important threat to the United States, with and without TSMC within the equation. The division has shown that, with the necessary tools, the design quality in Xiaomi semiconductors is up to the best. And there are the keys. How much will take advantage of that they can still collaborate with TSMC, and how much of a Xiaomi preparing its complete independence from the United States and seeking to be as competitive as Huawei on platforms for the car of the future. Image | Xiaomi In Xataka | An unexpected war has opened in China: Byd, Catl and Huawei fight for having the final electric car charger

While the use of cash is reduced, there are more tickets than ever

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The term in economics “Net negative emission”It occurs when a central bank includes more tickets than it puts into circulation through the banking system. That is, if commercial banks return to the Central Bank more money in cash than request, the net balance between distributed and retired bills is negative. It happens that it is something exceptional in developed economies, and in Spain the phenomenon does not stop multiplying. Sustained anomaly. I told it in A report the newspaper.es. Apparently, since 2007, and with the Exception of the pandemic year 2020, Spain has continued a negative net issue of bills. As we said, the phenomenon, practically unpublished in the whole of the eurosystem, implies that the Bank of Spain collects more effective than it distributes, something that no other central bank of the euro zone experiences with the same magnitude or persistence. Not just that. The situation has reached extraordinary levels in 2023 and 2024, when the differences amounted to 13.4 billion and 12.2 billion of euros respectively. In total, the accumulated balance of retired bills without counterpart in new broadcasts has reached 26.5 billion at the end of 2024. Although the Bank of Spain attributes This imbalance to the tourist boom (especially to German origin), the available data They invite you to think about more complex causes, since no other country with high levels of tourism shows a similar dynamic. Neither Greece, nor France, nor Italy records a massive return of physical tickets with those characteristics. The suspicious weight. He counted the medium That one the most striking aspects of the phenomenon is the nature of the re -turned tickets. More than half (53.5%) of the physical tickets recovered in Spain during 2024 corresponded to Values ​​of 100, 200 or 500 euros. This proportion contrasts and much with what happens in other surrounding countries: in France, high denomination tickets represent 25.4% of the total returned, and in Italy just 9.7%. Plus: differences cannot be attributed exclusively to tourist profile, since 64% of returns occur outside the central quarter of tourism (July, August and September), which further weakens the seasonal hypothesis. Thus, the constant presence of large value tickets suggests, therefore, a sustained refloration of black money, particularly the one from past times, such as … the real estate bubble prior to the 2008 crisis. Brick echoes. The explanation is given because in the years of the real estate sector, especially between 2002 and 2007, Spain came to concentrate the 30% of all 500 euros tickets issued by the ECB, a disproportionate proportion with respect to the size of its economy. In July 2007, the accumulated total of these tickets in circulation within the country reached The 56,956 million eurosfigure that coincides with the apogee of the real estate speculation cycle. Although the issuance of 500 bills ceased in 2019, they are still a legal tender and, according to Data from the Bank of Spain itself3,157 million were still in circulation in March 2025. Only in 2024 they withdrew from the system More than 1,150 million In this denomination, a notable figure that points to an still active outcrop process. The progressive withdrawal of these tickets cannot be explained solely by ordinary tourist or financial transactions, rather, it would fit with a gradual regularization of cumulative effective cash for decades. The track: the real estate market. The connection between the massive return of cash and the behavior of the current real estate market adds, if possible, another layer of complexity to the analysis. In his 2024 annual reportthe Bank of Spain itself warns that one of the factors that is making access to housing more expensive is the growth of demand by non -residentswhich already represent 8.4% of all purchases. Specific areas. The pressure is especially intense in tourist regions such as the islands or the Mediterranean coast, where foreign investment is oriented to holiday use and rental profitability. As The newspaper explainedalthough the report does not directly link these flows with the phenomenon of the negative net emission, it does suggest an economic frame in which the large amounts of cash, again, probably opaque, they find exit In real estate investment. Thus, the hypothesis of which part of the returned tickets comes from irregular or not declared operations, linked to the sale of properties or tourist rental, becomes strength in the absence of an official alternative explanation sufficiently consistent. Image | Bank of Spain In Xataka | Spanish banks have been able to choose when to pay their “imposite.” And that has allowed them to declare record benefits In Xataka | The Bank of Spain has taken a look at the rent in Spain and has concluded something: the problem is not the funds

The idea of ​​the real estate employer so that the children “inherit” their parents’ mortgages

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According to the barometer of the May 2025 Sociological Research Center (CIS), the house is The greatest concern of the Spaniards. On the other hand, the National Institute of Statistics (INE) provides some response from the reason for that concern: housing is, by far, the Greater household expense In Spain. Buying a home implies, in most cases, to assume a mortgage of more than 30 years that places its headlines on the retirement threshold. Some ask to wear that threshold a little further. Given the impossibility of expanding the duration of the mortgages, if the housing rises, only the amount of the quotas could be increased by aggravating the risk of defaults. The solution that real estate promoters have put on the table in the V edition of The great real estate day: 70 -year -old mortgages instead of 30 years. Longer and longer mortgages. The price of housing, conditioned by a mismatch between supply and demand in urban areas, as well as the pressure exerted by its use as holiday renthas made the price of housing shoot. According to INE datain March 2025 the average mortgage was for an amount of 156,698 euros, while in the same month of 2024 it was 137,049 euros. To compensate for that climb, the new mortgages that have been registering do not choose to raise their fees, but have been stretching their expiration date until they are located at an average of 24.47 years in 2023, According to data of the Bank of Spain. That is, it is increasingly common to find mortgages of 30 years or more due to the impossibility of assuming a more expensive monthly fee. So how can it face a more than probable housing price escalation? According to the employer of promoters who met in the real estate forum organized by The economist: “Who says that 70 year old mortgages will be seen.” Two lives to pay the mortgage. Far from assuming the remote possibility that some change in construction costs wave Urbanizable Land Liberation It can make the price of the house be contained, the proposal of the real estate promoters puts the ball on the roof of the financial system. “This will continue until the body endures. It will continue to stress until there is no payment capacity,” declared Ignacio Moreno, CEO of Aurora Homes, in The economist. Mortgages at 70 years involves the assumption of high credit risks of the banking sector since it implies signing a 70 -year mortgage with a holder who, for obvious biological reasons, will finish paying their offspring or heirs. In addition to increasing the credit cost for customers, who would pay an overrun in interest. With the banks that do not count. Banking entities, on the other hand, are not very motivated to increase the flow of credit for the purchase of housing due to the economic uncertainty generated by the US tariff policy. The European Central Bank has applied successive Down in interest rates lowering the price of mortgages. That has generated an increase in the loans for the purchase of a home in what we have been in 2025. According to the INE datain March 2025, new 42,831 mortgages were signed, compared to 29,641 mortgages that were recorded in the same month of 2024. However, bank entities have not improved the conditions of their mortgage products and the average interest rate for mortgages signed in the last month was 2.97%. Inherited mortgages. The proposal of the promoters, in fact, is already a reality in the cases of succession. Mortgages, like any other debt, are assumed by heirs When they accept inheritance. However, there are also Formulas to liquidate the mortgage Inherited using the bequeathed goods to pay off the debt (inheritance for the benefit of inventory) In any case, when Receive an inheritanceall goods are received, but also their loads. In that context, an heir can assume the mortgage and the banking entity will reevaluate the credit risk demanding greater guarantees if its risk profile is greater than that of the mortgage holder, or better conditions if their financial situation is better. In Xataka | In case Madrid had few problems with housing, now adds one more: US millionaires investing in the city Image | Unspash (Joemi Brazier)

Xi Jinping has reappeared after 16 days of silence. What we did not imagine was what was activated during his absence

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Xi Jinping has reappeared after 16 days without public presence. He has done it on June 4 in An official meeting with Belaruso President Alexander Lukashenko In Beijing. His return ends an unusually long absence that, for the moment it has occurred and for the international context, unleashed a wave of speculation about his health, his power within the communist party and the course of the second world economy. Why is it important. The disappearance of XI coincided with a rebound in tensions with the United States, marked by threats of new sanctions and a progressive deterioration of bilateral relations. In that context, the lack of visibility of the maximum Chinese leader has generated uncomfortable questions: was he sick? Were there internal movements against him? Who was making decisions in his place? The facts. Three signals fed the noise, as reported Nikkei Asia: The Politburo did not celebrate its monthly May meeting, or at least it did not communicate it, something stipulated by the Statutes of the party. Although there is no obligation to make it public, its silence was striking. The Defense Minister was absent from the Shangri-La dialogue in Singapore, the most important security conference in Asia. The name of Miao Hua, head of the political department of the Popular Liberation Army, has disappeared from the official website. In parallel, it was confirmed The death of former vice president of the Central Military Commission, Xu Qiliangofficially due to illness. But his death occurred in a context of constant purges in the army and rumors – not verified – of suicides between high controls under investigation for corruption or disloyalty. The opacity of the system, far from containing the conjectures, amplifies them. Between bambalins. As collected NTD —Inly linked to the Falun Gong movement, openly critical of the regime, “three possible scenarios were shuffled: XI could be sick after years of power concentration. He would be orchestrating unprecedented internal reforms. It would face a rebellion of the marginalized factions since 2012. The most drastic hypothesis: that high positions of the party would have agreed to resign, possibly in August. An important nuance: NTD It is not a neutral source. It is convenient to take into account his critical bias with the Communist Party and his militant editorial line. The hypotheses that it raises are not contrasted by independent sources. The context. China lives a especially sensitive moment. The economy slows down, tensions with Taiwan intensify and Trump insists with its tariff war. As I pointed out The Diplomatthe absence of XI just now projects weakness in the worst possible time. It would not be the first time that a Chinese leader responds to questioning with a symbolic gesture: in 1966, when he doubted the health of Mao Zedong, The leader swam publicly through Yangtsé To demonstrate strength. And now what. XI has reappeared, but the episode leaves an uncomfortable conclusion: even a two -week blackout is enough to activate the radar. When power depends on both its image and its actions, any emptiness is perceived as a crack. The next big appointment will be the Fourth Fourth of the Central Committeeplanned for August, and with him the traditional summer retreat in Beidaihe, where a good part of the party’s strategy is drawn. There will be special interest in seeing him again. In Xataka | China promised them very happy monopolizing rare earths. The problem is that he did not think of the smugglers Outstanding image | Chinese Communist Party

Five roof fans easy to install with which you will save what is worth an air conditioning

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Although we have already attended the first heat wave a few weeks ago, this is what awaits us in the coming months. If you are not a little hands and do not want to buy an air conditioning, the ceiling fans They are an excellent option to be fresh at home. These are some of the best models that we would like to recommend for your home. Philips Bliss by 149 euros: With 28 W LED light and reverse turn. Melleware Brizy! Bright by 99.99 euros: With DC motor and 8 -hour timer. Cecotec Energysilence Aero 4280 invisible by 89.90 euros: With 40 W engine and six speeds. Create Wind Clear by 68.95 euros: With avant -garde and timer design. Inspire Rafaga by 89.95 euros: With RGB lighting and six speeds. Philips Bliss This is One of the best -selling roof fans Each season and it was one of the first of this type that went on sale. In Amazon, you can now take this reduced philips bliss, since it has gone from costing 199.99 euros to 149 euros. Philip Bliss, in addition to a fan, has a LED Light Blanca of 28 W with three color temperatures. Their blades are retractable and have Inverse turn function. In addition, it comes with command to control it more comfortably. Philips Bliss roof fan with LED 28W light * Some price may have changed from the last review Melleware Brizy! Bright If you like more traditional fan models, without retractable blades, this of the Melleware firm is a good option. Its usual price is 219.99 euros but, now, during the campaign Network of Mediamarkt You can take it by 99.99 euros. Works with DC motor With 30 w of power, which allows you to save on the light bill. Like the Philips model, it has winter function and is perfect to cool rooms up to 20 square meters. It offers six operating speeds and integrates a timer up to eight hours. Melleware – ceiling fan with remote control Brizy Bright | 45 w * Some price may have changed from the last review Cecotec Energysilence Aero 4280 invisible Cecotec It is one of those firms that offer a wide catalog of home devices at very economical prices. Known are their portable air conditionersbut it also has easy -to -install ceiling fans like this model, which can be bought on PCComponentes by 89.90 euros. This Cecotec Energysilence Aero 4280 invisible has a 40 W engine and a white LED light with three intensities (warm, neutral and cold). It offers six operating speeds and has winter function. Cecotec Energysilence Aero 4280 invisible * Some price may have changed from the last review Create Wind Clear Another brand that offers home -home devices is CREATE. Of its cahatus fans, the Create Wind Clear It is one of those that we want to recommend. On the official website of the brand, it is available for alone 68.95 euros. It is a roof fan with retractable blades and a avant -garde design. It is available in several colors, so that you choose the one that goes the most with the decoration of your home. It has winter and summer function and comes with a white LED light with three intensities. In addition, it integrates a 1 to 4 hours timer. CREATE / Wind Clear M / Ceiling Fan with Light * Some price may have changed from the last review Inspire Rafaga The last of the roof fans that we want to recommend is something different in design and you can buy it in Leroy Merlin. This is inspiring Rafaga, which is currently available, by 89.95 euros. Inspire Ráfaga comes with a shovel and grid and offers six operating speeds. It works with DC engine and offers white lighting and multicolored RGB. It comes with remote control and also has the winter function. Finally, it can be highlighted that it is very silent. Ceiling fan with quiet blades dc inspires Rafaga * 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. Images | CREATE, MELLERWARE, INSPARE, CECOTEC AND PHILIPS In Xataka | The quietest ceiling fan: which one to buy? Tips and recommendations In Xataka | Connected fan purchase guide: Recommendations to choose an “intelligent” model with WiFi and six models from 50 euros

The Big Tech have always compensated their great failures by copying the successes of others. And with AI are already doing it

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Good artists copy, The greats stealSteve Jobs or Pablo Picasso said. What they did not say is that the best artists are probably not done by one thing or the other: directly Buy “Works” They end up seeing how their own. We are continually seeing it in the technological field, and the last example is what is happening in the world of AI. I’m going to buy a company. Google launched its own YouTube before YouTube. Three weeks before, in fact. On January 25, 2005, he announced the launch of Google Video, while YouTube would launch on February 14. We already know how the story ended: YouTube swept while Google Video barely managed to curdle. What did Google? Buy YouTube to solve the problem. Problem solved with a talonario coup. Facebook did something similar with Instagram. The company created by Mark Zuckerberg saw the wolf’s ears, so he preferred Buy your competitive potentialwhich effectively became an absolute success and is now an integral part of its ecosystem. Good artists copy. We have seen it many times: the Big Tech copy ideas as if there were no tomorrow. Facebook and Instagram did it with the Snapchat Storiesor the reels Copied from Tiktokand there are many other examples. There are times to copy works, but there are others in which those attempts end up in A true disaster. The innovator dilemma. The obvious conclusion of all these movements is already known: the Big Tech do not want any other company to end up stealing their wallet. If someone begins to shade, they go for him, it will not be that they end up as Blackberry or Nokiathat seemed immortal and now they are just a minimum expression of what they were. All great technological ones know well about the Innovative dilemmaand none wants to be part of that group of companies that let another climb to Chepa. Openai careful. The current situation is a reflection of that reality. It is happening in the world of artificial intelligence. Openai became from the launch of Chatgpt in the new great star of the technological panorama. Its excessive growth He quickly warned to almost all the great technological (but Not all), who launched ally with her or to compete directly with analogous platforms. But in addition to the Big Tech, they would compete, so many others did. And absolutely all these startups are in danger, because the Big Tech will not allow the “little ones” to steal their wallet. Letter programming agents. We have seen the last example of this phenomenon with the agricultural platforms of AI to program. Cursor was a discovery For programmers, and unleashed fever for these tools. In recent weeks, we have seen how one of its competitors, Windsurf, has been bought by Openaiwho does not happy with that also took out his own programming tool, Codex. But it is that cursor and other startups such as Devin Or replicit ghostwriter they have it complicated, because Anthropic (Claude Code), Google (Jules), Microsoft (Github co -ilot) or Amazon (Codewhisperer). Concentration in sight. This variety of options in that specific field of AI extends to many other areas: there are dozens of options to create images with AI, and the same if what we are looking for is to create music or even video. And the same for tools that transcribe audio, which make content summaries or that help in specific tasks of other types. The problem of all of them is that if one of those ideas is popularized, the Big Tech go to 1) Copy it or 2) If that doesn’t work, buy it. Except for exceptional cases, it is normal for the market to continue to dominate by a small group of large companies, leaving in the background very distant the startups that survive. Image | Techcrunch | Anthony Quintano In Xataka | They left their work in a great multinational to jump to a startup: between security, posture and personal fulfillment

We believed that the large numbers of soldiers dead in combat were a thing of the past. Until the Ukraine War arrived

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This week a New report Updated from the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) in Washington. The data, by drudos, left the imagination a few doubts: just over three years after the beginning of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the conflict has reached low figures that place it between The bloodiest of modern history. We have attended historical statistics to find out how much. The human cost of a stagnant war. As we said, the CSIS study revealed that the total number of dead or injured soldiers amounts to almost 1.4 millionof which around one million are Russians and 400,000 Ukrainians. This figure is even more shocking if it is considered that Ukraine does not publish its official data and that Russia, according to Experts warnsystematically underestimate your losses. The study is based on estimates from American and British sources, in addition to satellite images and field analysis. The slowest war. The work tells more things. For example, despite the huge number of casualties, Russian territorial advances since January 2024 have been practically insignificant: less than 1% of the conquered Ukrainian territory, with an average advance rhythm of just 50 meters per day, even more than even the more expensive offensives of World War I. Today, Russia occupies approximately the 20% of the Ukrainian territorybut without achieving decisive advances. This slowness, together with the Mass destruction Of war material, he has turned the Russian campaign one of the clearest examples of wear war of the 21st century. Irreplaceable losses. However, if something betrays the brutality of the contest in Ukraine, that is the data of the CSIS that estimates that at least 250,000 Russian soldiers They have died in combat, which represents the highest military mortality rate of any Soviet or Russian war since World War II. For its part, Ukraine would have lost between 60,000 and 100,000 soldiers. However, the proportion of forces in the front It is overwhelming: More than 400,000 Russian soldiers in front of about 250,000 Ukrainians, with Russia benefiting from a much larger population and aggressive replacement mechanisms. As We have counted: Moscow has avoided declaring a new general mobilization, but has resorted to Recruitment of prisonersdebtors and people with criminal causes, to whom it offers lucrative contracts or the cancellation of charges in exchange for the military service. CSIS data shows a shocking Moscow casualties against other conflicts where Russia was The historical scope. With the figure offered by the CSIS We have attended the historical statistics of similar war conflicts (excluding civil or genocide wars), all after World War II, to measure the scope and impact of the losses that are taking place in Ukraine on the Russian side. The base is that estimate of 250,000 losses since the beginning of the conflict in 2022. A point and apart. The first data we found is that the estimation of the 250,000 losses makes the Ukrainian conflict The most lethal For Russian forces since World War II, surpassing the losses in Afghanistan (1979–1989), where the USSR lost Around 15,000 soldiersbut in ten years. Comparatively, in the Korean War (1950–1953), China (the main ally of North Korea) lost Between 180,000 and 400,000 fighters in three years of conflict, while the United States registered some 33,700 casualties in combat. Not even Vietnam. In the Vietnam War (1955–1975), United States He suffered 58,220 deathsbut, again, it happened in a period of twenty years. For his part, Northern Vietnam lost Between 400,000 and 1.1 million Of soldiers, although those figures, again, accumulate over two decades. Even in the devastating Guerra Iran -ira (1980–1988), with close to One million combined casualtiesonly Iran exceeded the current Russian figures in a longer period, with estimates of 200,000 to 262,000 dead. Therefore, the intensity of Russian losses, concentrated in a short period, is exceptional in the history of contemporary interstate conflicts. Deep consequences. It is the last of the legs to analyze. Russia, despite having a population greater than Ukraine and, a priori, a deeper human replacement capacity, faces a accelerated erosion of their professional military capacity. Unlike previous conflicts where deaths were distributed in longer campaigns, the current wear of wear (right now around 7,000 soldiers dead per month) threat with structural degrade to its armed forces. If these levels are maintained, Russia could exceed the psychological and logistic threshold that prevents you from sustaining the offensive. In front of wars such as the Gulf (1990–1991), where Iraq lost between 20,000 and 35,000 soldiers In just over a month, or the invasion of Iraq in 2003, where the United States suffered less than 5,000 casualties In eight years, the contrast is, if possible, even more extreme. The war in Ukraine, in terms of direct military loss and temporary concentration, has become an atypical case for its lethality and its potential for internal destabilization for the aggressor country. Image | Ministry of Defense of UkraineCsis, Worldindata In Xataka | The true magnitude of the Ukraine drones attack to Russia has revealed the space: the bombers were not alone In Xataka | A technology 20 years ago took Ukraine to the Russian bombers. Moscow’s response comes from China: a laser cannon

Xiaomi has a new throne candidate for the best tablet for 200 euros

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Xiaomi did it really good with the Redmi Pad original. The Redmi Pad Se It is, in fact, one of the best -selling tablets in Amazon and one of the most popular mid -range devices in its category. Now the firm returns to the load renewing the device not with one, but with two tablets: the Redmi Pad 2 and Redmi Pad 2 4g. The differences? Better to speak in singular, because the only difference between these two devices is that one is compatible with 4G networks and the other does not. That said, we will know them a little better and to see what Xiaomi offers us. This is how Xiaomi money earns – they attract you and catch you TECHNICAL SHEET OF THE REDMI PAD 2 AND REDMI PAD 2 4G Redmi Pad 2 Redmi Pad 2 4g Dimensions and weight N/D N/D SCREEN 11 -inch IPS 2,5K resolution (2,560 x 1,600 pixels) 90 Hz Brillo: 500 nits HBM: 600 nits 274 ppp Format 16:10 Eye-Care DC Dimming Tüv Rheinland Low Blue Light Tüv Rheinlandflicker Free T*v rheinland circadian friendly certified 11 -inch IPS 2,5K resolution (2,560 x 1,600 pixels) 90 Hz Brillo: 500 nits HBM: 600 nits 274 ppp Format 16:10 Eye-Care DC Dimming Tüv Rheinland Low Blue Light Tüv Rheinlandflicker Free T*v rheinland circadian friendly certified PROCESSOR Mediatk Helio G-100 Ultra Mediatk Helio G-100 Ultra RAM 4, 8 GB LPDDR4X 4, 8 GB LPDDR4X Internal storage 128, 256 GB UFS 2.2 128, 256 GB UFS 2.2 battery 9,000 mAh Fast charging 18W 9,000 mAh Fast charging 18W rear camera 8 MP F/2.0 8 MP F/2.0 Front camera 5 MP F/2.2 5 MP F/2.2 Operating system Android 15 with Hyperos 2 Android 15 with Hyperos 2 connectivity WIFI 5 Bluetooth 5.3 Dual sim dual 4g WIFI 5 Bluetooth 5.3 others 4x speakers Audio hi-ores Dolby Atmos 4x speakers Audio hi-ores Dolby Atmos price Since 199.99 euros N/D Xiaomi Redmi Pad 2 + case – 11 “2.5K (MediaTak G100 -Ultra, 4GB of RAM, 128GB of ROM, WiFi 5 + Bluetooth 5.3, 9000 mAh battery, charger not included), gray (ES version) * Some price may have changed from the last review So are the new Redmi Pad 2 Redmi Pad 2 | Image: Xiaomi A generous screen. Xiaomi has incorporated a somewhat larger panel than the previous generation (11 inches compared to 10.61 inches of the original REDmi PAD) and has significantly increased the resolution: from a FullHD+ panel we move to a 2.5K that leaves us with a higher pixel density. The soda rate is the same, 90 Hz, and The brightness It has increased by 100 nits. It is an interesting improvement, within that we are talking about a mid -range tablet. Mediatek under the hood. The processor chosen by Xiaomi for its new tablets is the MediaTak Helio G-100, a SOC of six TSMC nanometers with a maximum speed of 2.2 GHz. Again, mid-range processor. It is accompanied by up to eight Gigas RAM RAM LPDDR4X and up to 256 GB of UFS 2.2 storage. They are not the fastest technologies in the market, but they should not give problems when navigating, seeing movies or series, reading or throwing a game to light games. Redmi Pad 2 | Image: Xiaomi A good dose of mah. The battery capacity also grows, moving from the 8,000 mAh of the Redmi Pad to 9,000 mAh in the new models. Seeing the increase in screen resolution and size, surely the autonomy is similar. The fast charge does not change: 18W. The operating system, meanwhile, is Android 15 with Hyperos 2. The connectivity tip. The key difference between both tablets is, as we said, connectivity. The 4G Redmi Pad has a processor compatible with dual sim dual 4g, that is, that inserting one (or two) SIM cards we can have data where there is coverage. It should be noted that this will affect autonomy. Redmi Pad 2 | Image: Xiaomi Cameras. No surprise here. Redmi Pad 2 have fair and necessary cameras to make video calls and little else. Without large displays, the rear camera has a resolution of eight megapixels and the front of five. However, the reality is that the camera of a tablet like this has a practically punctual use. Versions and price of the Redmi Pad 2 and Redmi Pad 2 4g The Redmi Pad 2 can be achieved in gray and green by 199.99 euros in its most modest version (4/128 GB). The 8/256 GB model amounts to 249.99 euros. As for the 4G version, the firm, for the moment, has not mentioned anything about its availability in Spain. Images | Xiaomi In Xataka | Best tablets (2025). Which to buy and 9 recommended models for all pockets and needs

The price of banana has shot and has taken many by surprise

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The banana is one of the favorite fruits of the Spaniards if we pay attention to Consumption data. This can explain the concern about the pricing climbing of the Planteanera fruit. Explaining the situation. A concern that recently led the association that encompasses the Canary Islands banana producers to explain why inflationary pressure. He did Through your account of Twitter (X) and in response to a user who He highlighted The fact that bananas of Costa Rican origin are remarkably cheaper than the island banana. In his response, banana from the Canary Islands spoke of “A very complicated situation”Heiress of the passage through the Canarian archipelago of The Dorothea Borrasca. This storm affected the Canary Islands in mid -December 2024, causing damages of different types of producers. The winds of the storm started banana trees and had a direct impact on production, but the storm and their storms also indirectly affected, for example with interruptions in the electrical system. Supply and demand. The result: lower production and with it a rise in prices. “It is not usual, but a reality that is affecting us all, from those who cultivate to those who buy the banana,” indicate In their social networks. The offer has fallen what in principle should lead to higher and lower sales prices. The problem is that the demand for this appreciated fruit is relatively inelastic, which implies that a shockIn the offer it has a greater effect on the prices than on sales: people are willing to pay more for the product. To this we must add another factor, that of exports. According to explained in The newspaper Paco Déniz, former deputy in the Parliament of the Canary Islands by Podemos, the large part of the Canarian production is exported (including the one exported to the Peninsula). 131%. Before the arrival of Dorothea the perspective was another: the expected production was around 450 million tons, a greater figure of the productive thresholds marked by the European Union but lower than the figure achieved in the previous harvest, of 467 million tons. All this, we pointed out, has implied an important escalation in banana prices, especially striking in the fruit of Canarian origin. According to data From the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, between January 27 and the beginning of June, the average price of bananas as a whole has grown by 131%, that is, it is now more than double than in January. A most volatile market. A few months ago we talked about a very different situation. Before the arrival of Borrasca, the problem was in the fact that banana prices did not allow a profitable product. “From January 2023 to October 2024, only in three months of the 22 the banana has had a price that we could call profitable,” We pointed then. In Xataka | Scientifically solving one of the great dilemmas of banana: if it is good to eat it daily or not Image | Cesar Gonzalez

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