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The Maginot line defended Europe from the Nazi invasion. History is being repeated by Russia, but now it is not just concrete

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The Maginot line It was a monumental but rigid wall initiated by France, so much, which was dodged in 1940 by the Wehrmacht through the Ardenas. Perhaps for this reason, today’s Europe assumes that no defense line can totally shield its borders, but it can channel and delay an invasion, while determining Moscow to undertake it. The crucial difference is that this time it is not just concrete. The return of an iron curtain. Eighty years after Churchill will proclaim That a “steel curtain” had fallen over Europe, the metaphor It is reversed: Now it is the western countries that raise walls, ditches and defense systems on their eastern borders. The erosion of the Security Framework after the Cold War, the Russian Invasion of Ukraine in 2022 and the perception that Moscow could redirect strength towards the Baltic or Finland countries They have triggered a vast fortification program reminiscent of the great defensive projects of the twentieth century, although with XXI technologies. The beginning. We have coming counting. From the Finnish Lapia to the Polish province of Lublin, Europe prepares to build a new “iron curtain”, but this time not ideology, but of steel and explosives. Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland, guardians of more than 3,400 kilometers of border with Russia and Belarus, have decided abandon The Ottawa Convention of 1997, which will allow them since the late 2025 to manufacture, store and deploy millions of antipersone and anti -tank mines. The measure, considered unthinkable just two decades ago, responds to the conviction that only one lethal and deterrence obstacle It can stop an eventual Russian offensive in a moment of maximum tension in the NATO eastern flank. Remains of the Maginot Line The end of a consensus. The decision is a drastic turn against international efforts that, from the 1990s, with figures ranging from Princess Diana to Tony Blair as driversThey sought to eradicate land mines due to their indiscriminate character and their devastating effect on civilians long after conflicts. That humanitarian ideal, translated into a treaty signed by 164 countries, now fades before the Russian threat, which never joined the agreement and today accumulates More than 26 million minesmassively used in Ukraine. The perception in Eastern Europe is clear: prohibiting them was a luxury of safe times; Today, national survival It demands to recover them. The epicenter: Lithuania. The most dramatic case is that of Lithuania, which must Defend 720 kilometers of border with Belarus and the Russian enclave of Kaliningrad, including the strategic Suwalki runneronly land step for NATO reinforcements towards Baltic countries. There, in villages as Šadžiūnaibarely inhabited by the elderly who remember the devastation of World War II, the inhabitants fear that their pine and birch forests, already surrounded by fences and border stalls, soon become mined fields. The contrast between rural life and imminence of a war scenario summarizes the Decision rawness. Europe divided by the original “curtain” of Churchill. NATO countries in Azul, the members of the Warsaw Pact in red, those not aligned in green and neutral gray countries (1988) Total defense and strategic urgency. Vilna plans to spend the 5.5% of your GDP In defense (more than double the United Kingdom) and has already reserved 800 million euros to produce hundreds of thousands of mines of all kinds. These will be integrated into a “counter -river” strategy that also includes dragon teeth, ditches, armed drones and long -range artillery. Lithuanian leaders, such as Defense Minister Dovile Šakalienė and her predecessor Laurynas Kasčiūnas, They argue That history shows that Russia only respects strength, and that the experience of Ukraine, which destroyed its arsenals by the treaty and today suffers millions of Russian mines in its territory, is an impossible warning to ignore. The closure of the most extensive border. With 1,340 kilometers of shared border, Finland approved the construction in 2023 of a fence that will cover 15% of its border territory, with a cost of more than 400 million dollars and completed completion for 2026. There is a nuance here: not only seeks to stop hypothetical Russian incursions, but also control the flow of citizens fleeing the conscription. The new walls and positions, even in Remote Arctic AreasThey replace the old wooden fences that only served to contain cattle, and mark a symbolic turn on a relatively permeable border. The Balkan effort. Already We tell it. Estonia was a pioneer In 2015 After the Russian annexation of Crimea, and since 2024, the three Baltic states with Poland advance in a joint fortification plan of 700 kilometers, budgeted in more than 2,000 million pounds. The measures include Anti -tanks, concrete dragon teeth, pyramids and blocks of several tons, blocked roads, mines, bridges prepared to fly and trees destined to collapse in case of invasion. In addition, more than 1,000 bunkers and deposits for ammunition and supplies are built, small but capable of resisting artillery fire and hosting squads of up to ten soldiers. In parallel, Poland builds a permanent fence Against Belarusconsidered the main ally of Moscow. Human impact and contradictions. The paradox is evident: it seeks to protect populations from a Russian aggression at the price of introduce weapons They have historically caused most of their victims among civilians, including children. In 2023, more than 2,000 people died in the world due to explosives of this type, often in countries where wars ended decades ago. Baltic governments promise that the mines will remain in deposits and will be activated only in case of emergency, with modern systems that allow to assemble them and disassemble them at a distance. However, families such as Jurate Penkovskiene, who already cava bunkers in his garden while listening to the rumble of NATO exercises, fear for security of their children if their forests become prohibited areas. The new European border. Thus, what is at stake is not only a military change, but a landscape transformation and collective psychology in Eastern Europe. Forests, lakes and border villages aim to be part of a defensive system … Read more

Until recently the young people looked at their selectivity note to know what they could study. Now look at something else: idealistic

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“They ask you to get a good note to enter the race. You do it, but you can’t afford to live in the city where the university is.” Reflection He is from Carlos, a 21 -year -old university student who studies law and fights with the complicated task of looking for a rental that does not swallow his entire budget of the month, something that is not easy in a residential market of Shot pricesconditions Draconians and marked by The “boom” of tourist rentals. His is an isolated case. On the contrary, it reflects an increasingly worrying reality: the price of housing is costing Spain for more than families savings capacityhe is also spending his talent. “It affects the right to study”. That the price of housing influences the place where one can study their career is nothing new. It happened years ago. And decades. Even before the brick bubble. However, as rentals climb up to approach to the bubble peaks of 2007 and Spain entered a “Social Emergency” Marked by the house, the problem has become more and more serious. Have a roof today comes out and force tenants to assume conditions Hardwhich directly conditions students. It I recognized In 2024 the Minister of Science, Innovation and Universities, Diana Morantwhose department even signed A protocol with the Ministries of Economy and Housing precisely to promote “affordable” rental among university students. “The housing crisis is affecting the right to study a university career, Morant insisted. “Access to the university should only be limited by merit and personal effort, not for economic reasons.” “It’s a palmaria reality”. Morant is not the only one aware of the problem. The difficulties that young people find themselves when looking for accommodation worries to unions and even rectors, which They are not alien how the scale €/m2 of cities influences both or more in the future of students than selectivity. “The lack of accommodation is a Palmaria reality. We have 2,000 requests from place in residences for 1,000 squares,” I confessed recently to The country Ángel Arias, rector of the Carlos III University, who laments how difficult it is to solve the problem for the campus themselves. “Building a building is 25 million euros if you have the ground. It is 10% of the entire university budget.” Beyond Madrid and Barcelona. The problem is not exclusive to the great metropolis. “The issue of rates is not a great inconvenience to study at the university. What begins to be the limiting element? In some cities it is already the price of rental houses,” ditch Julián Garde, from the University of Castilla-La Mancha. Similarly, his Extremadura counterpart, Pedro Fernández, is expressed, convinced that the cost of registration no longer removes the dream of the students of the students. They do the rentals, the €/m2. “In Mérida and Cáceres there is a lot of accommodation availability that is used for tourism, and that makes the prices for the students have a lot.” How serious is the problem? Recently Live4lifea student specialized rental platform, launched A study which reveals that when deciding in which university 45% of young people are going to be formed are conditioned by a key factor: the rental price. Moreover, 58% rules out the most expensive cities and 64% indicate the cost of housing as its main obstacle, which conditions both their academic future and their way of looking for floors. “Young people delay as much as possible the search for a place to live during the university course. There are few offers and prices are rising, so they expect much more to see if they find any bargain,” assures The firm’s CEO, Alberto Añaños. The problem is aggravated if you take into account that more and more students They demand training outside their province of origin: in the 2022/2023 course they already exceeded 300,000 people, and many move to another autonomous community. Who do they do? Above all Students with parents with higher studies and good jobs, which suggests a social gap. “You have to pass some ‘hunger games’”. So far the perspective of politicians, rectors and researchers, but … how do the students themselves live? Eldiario.es published A report with testimonies of several university students who demonstrate how the high cost of the house (and the hardening of the requirements requested by the homemade) is conditioning their training. “There are people who are renouncing their university square for the impossibility of being able to pay a rental. If it is already difficult to access a place in the university, now the housing crisis adds one more lock,” Underline Coral Latorre, directive of the Student Union, before warning that this handicap does not affect everyone equally. It weighs mostly in the humblest homes. Idealist slopes. “My sister is 18 years old and has made selectivity. He wants confesses María Ángeles Guzmán, of the Coordinator of Representatives of Public University Students. Another young university student, Avril, 22, sees with impotence how the start date of his face -to -face master’s degree is approaching and does not yet have an apartment in which to stay. He had signed one and even paid to reserve it, but assures that the real estate company told her and her partner that the agreement could not be closed because they do not meet the conditions of “economic solvency study.” Is the house so expensive? The figures are eloquent again. According to Idealista, throughout the last decade (August 2015 to the same month of 2025), rentals have almost doubled in Spain: € 7.5/m2 have passed to 14.5. And that is the state average. In Madrid it went from € 11.9/m2 to 22.2 and in Barcelona from 12.3 to 23.1. They are relevant data because, in addition to being the largest cities in the country, they are also the ones that brings together greater concentration of universities. The newspaper It echoed last year of A report which highlights the power of attraction of both regions for university students: to differences from … Read more

If you want to get media attention, nothing like boycotting a sports competition

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The return to Spain 2025 is living One of his most complicated years At the image level. With a transnational scope that had not been seen in a sporting event in our country, a boycott is interrupting races with pro-palestine claims, obtaining media attention that exceeds the strictly sports. The return organization affirms that it will take legal measures in a conflict that has served to put several issues on the table: the Sportwashingactivist coordination and supposed neutrality of sporting events. What is it. We are facing a coordinated campaign of protests against the participation of the Israel-Premier Tech team, motivated by Israel’s actions in Gaza and, additionally, denouncing The call Sportswashing (Use of sport to clean the international image of a country). The actions have been organized by the BDS movement (boycott, divestment and sanctions) and the solidarity network against the occupation of Palestine, together with platforms and groups from various regions of Spain and Europe. For several stages of the Vuelta, especially since its entry into Spanish territory, groups of activists They have cut the roads At the passage of the Israeli team, showing banners with messages such as “neutrality is complicity. Boicot to Israel” and Palestinian flags. These protests (almost always peaceful) have been broadcast live, where the detention of some protesteras happened in the Tamos’s counterreloj in Figueres (Girona). What reactions have been to the boycott? Mostly support: political parties such as Podemos, IU and Minister Sira Rego (Summar), have demanded the exclusion of the Israeli team and supported the legitimate right of demonstration. On the other hand, the organization of the competition has opposed the boycott firmly: its director Javier Guillén has described the interruptions to the passage of the Israel-Premier Tech team as “acts of violence” And he has announced the presentation of complaints before the police, claiming security reasons. Guillén has declared that all claims are legitimate only if they are channeled peacefully, and that it is not contemplated to expel the Israeli team, defending that it participates by “sports merits”, although they admit be aware of the “political climate” Around the team. Two cyclists have retired from the competition: The Canadian Derek Geefourth in the last turn of Italy and the Danish Jakob Fuglsang, who expressed his relief from Not having to dress the colors of Israel-Premier Tech more. European scale This boycott has become the largest sports campaign against Israel ever seen before in Europe. One of the reasons is that, due to the nature of the competition, which is not restricted to the walls of a stadium or the limits of a Ciudad, it has had follow -up in various cities of the country. The woven network between citizen platforms and international activists demonstrates the capacity of digital activism to mobilize resources, strategies and broad actions in a short time. The organizing platforms have highlighted the scope of the boycott, related to it, According to the public newspaperwith which he lived against the apartheid of South Africa, and where the boycott allowed him to Paíos will be expelled from different competitions from the Olympic Games. Sports and its global reach demonstrates an important tool for political protest. The problem of Sportwashing. Organizations are denouncing the use of Sportwashing by Israel to wash its image, a complaint that connects with the voices that They heard against the participation of the country in Eurovision for similar reasons. It should be remembered that after the invasion of Ukraine, Russia was expelled from the returnwhat makes you think for boycott promoters in a double standard in favor of Isarl. The impossible sports neutrality. Although the organization of the Vuelta defends the presence of Israel, taking into account strictly sports criteria, the promoters argue that Sport is an intrinsically political space and that the alleged neutrality only serves to perpetuate injustices. In sports media and In social networksthe debate is on the table: the limits of the protest in sporting events, the role of sponsors and the Ethical responsibility of sports institutions These are issues that, at least, this boycott has served to introduce sports discussion, which is undoubtedly extremely healthy. Header | Israel Premier Tech In Xataka | Rosalía launched a statement to dodge the controversy over Gaza. There are those who think it has not been clear enough

They could not turn off the air conditioning

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During the last three years, one of the Greater luxury supereyates It has remained tied in the port of Marmaris, on the Turkish coast, before the threat of seizure by the Blocking financial assets Russians for the Ukraine War. He Eclipseowned by Roman Abramovich, not only stands out for its dimensions, but for its impressive consumption. In fact, this has been one of the most controversial points since during the three years it has remained in Puerto they have had to keep the engine running because they could not turn off the air conditioning. The context of Ukraine. After the beginning of the invasion of Ukraine by the Russian army, the United States and Europe imposed a financial block for the assets of the Russian oligarchs. That block left tied to port and seized to hundreds of suspicious superyates to belong to Russian millionaires close to Putin’s power circles. He Eclipse It was one of those yachts that, to avoid being seized like many others, has had to remain in The neutral waters of Türkiye. Forced air conditioning. If you have filled the deposit of your car during this vacation you will have realized the price to which the fuel is. Well, during the time that the EclipseIt has remained tied in the port, has had to keep its engines lit to feed the air conditioning system of the superyate inside. Not that your captain and crew They were hotbut it is a measure to prevent The noble woods and the luxurious finishes of the interiors of the yacht deteriorate because of the humidity and saltpeter of the sea. By keeping the air conditioning onthe interiors are maintained at a constant temperature and humidity. 1,000 liters of fuel per day. Have the air conditioning at home already supposes An important disbursement On the light of the light, so the cost was not going to be less aboard one of the largest and most luxurious yachts in the world. According to estimates, the Eclipse It would have consumed about 1,000 liters of fuel per day only to keep the air conditioning on while moving. Other fixed costs are added to this consumption: keep the Eclipse Mooring involves paying $ 209,000 a year only in cattle rates. It is a usual maneuver. The decision to maintain the air conditioning on It is not an occurrence of the Eclipse captain, but it is a usual maneuver in the superyates, since the cost of fuel tends to be lower than the cost of repair and the inactivity time of the boat. For example, the case of Alpha Nero, the luxury yacht seized on the island of Antigua, which almost leads to ruin to the small Caribbean island because it consumed some 2,000 dollars of fuel daily that were in charge of taxpayers. OK To what is published by The avant -gardefilling the million liters of fuel of the eclipse tanks costs between 1.5 and 2 million dollars. Keeping a mansion is not cheap. He Eclipsewith its 162.5 meters in length and 22 meters of manga, it has two helipuertos, a submarine, a pool that becomes a dance floor and even a Anti -emissile Anti -Didish System. Since its launch in 2010, it has established itself as the second largest private yacht in the world. The estimated value of Eclipse It reaches 600 million dollars, and has an annual maintenance cost that is around 60 million dollars. However, to fuel costs (even being tied to port) of the eclipse, periodic maintenance costs must also be added. According to publishedForbes, in recent days, Abramovich’s superyate has set for the Tuzla shipyard, in the Asian part of Istanbul, to submit it to complete renewal to overcome the special class inspection, A kind of ITV For ships that must pass every five years, with a cost that could exceed 40 million dollars. Only the paint budget for the eclipse already exceeds 20 million dollars … and that left the air conditioning on. In Xataka | Bill Gates was concerned Image | Wikimedia Commons (Amir Hosseini), Sortryatch Fan

How to use Gemini to convert a photo into an ultra realistic action doll with Nanobanana

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Let’s explain How to turn a photo In a Bandai -style action figure, with its box and everything. You will be able to do this with the Gemini image editorand it will be an almost exact reproduction of the character that appears in the photo, whether a person, an animated character or even your pet. Gemini has a powerful photo editor for artificial intelligencewith which you can do many things. And although it focuses above all on being an alternative to Photoshop, you can also do creative things like this, and all this even with the free version. In this image, a box will also be accompanied with the character, and in the background you will see a computer. Turn your photo into a realistic figure To be able to create this type of image, you first need a photo that you have taken from the character from whom you want to create the image. Gemini will use that image as a reference, causing the doll to have the same posture and expression. It’s like making a photo dollthat is, you will have to choose well what you want. Then, you just have to upload the photo and write the following Prompt: Create a 1/7 scale marketed figure of the photo character, in a realistic style and environment. Place the figure on the table of a computer, using a transparent acrylic circular base without any text. On the computer screen, it shows the ZBrush modeling process of the figure, which must also have the same features in the photo. Next to the computer screen, place a bandal -style toy packaging printed with the original illustration, and with colors similar to those of the character. In the box you must put as name “(name)”. In very few seconds Gemini will create the image for you. The only thing you should worry about in this prompt is Change the name of the boxto add the one you want. You can also change what you want, such as the background computer or the box next to its colors. You can also do the same with drawings That you have dropped from the Internet, using the characters of your favorite anime or comics. The only limit is that Gemini does not allow doing so with photos of real people downloaded from the Internet. In Xataka Basics | Gemini Image Editor: 16 forms and tricks to squeeze Nano-Banana with Google’s artificial intelligence

A massive study links it with a higher risk of chronic pain in adult

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During generations, the message has been the same: menstrual pain is normal, a “girls” to endure. But the reality is that a pain of great draft never It is something that should have been normalized. Now, a Longitudinal study Published in The Lancet Regional Health – Europe comes to disassemble this myth and to give an alarm voice: Have painful periods In adolescence it is linked to health problems in the future. A public health problem. The methodology of this study has been based on the monitoring of more than a thousand participants in the United Kingdom for decades. In this way, not only has it been confirmed, it has been concluded that the more severe the menstrual pain at age 15, the greater the probability of developing chronic pain a decade later, at 26. In this way, menstrual pain goes from being normalized to a serious public health problem. A methodology with long -term views. To get to this conclusion, the researchers They used data of the Longitudinal Avon Study of Parents and Children (ALSPAC), An ambitious project that has followed the lives of thousands of people since birth in the 90s. They analyzed the information of 1,157 participants, evaluating the severity of their menstrual pain at 15 years classified as null, mild, moderate or severe. Subsequently, once these participants were already 26 years old, an analysis of their health status was carried out by asking if They suffered some kind of chronic pain. Something that was defined as a pain that lasted at least three months. Worrying figures. After adjusting the data to rule out the influence of other factors such as BMIthe socioeconomic level or previous mental health problems, the results were clear. The first of all, is that adolescents with moderate dysmenorrhea, that is, with strong enough pain to not be able to ignore it, they had an extra 65% probability of suffering chronic pain in the adult stage compared to those without menstrual pain. In the case of the most severe dysmenorrhea, which prevent normal activities, the risk is triggered up to 76% of suffering chronic pain in the future. These data translate into an increase in absolute risk of 12.7 and 16.2 percentage points, respectively. It is a difference too big to be ignored. The study also revealed how common this problem is: almost 60% of adolescents in the sample reported moderate to severe menstrual pain. A problem that extends through the body. One of the most interesting findings in the study is that the association is not limited to the classic abdominal or lumbar pain, which could be considered an extension menstrual pain. What happens in this case is that adolescents with severe dysmenorrhea show a greater risk of chronic head pain, back, knees, dolls, hips and thighs. Because? The authors of the study suggest that behind all this is a central sensitivity. To understand it, we must bear in mind that in adolescence there is a great neuroplasticity, where the nervous system is especially moldable. The repeated experience of intense and poorly managed pain, such as dysmenorrhea, can “train” the nervous system so that it becomes hypersensitive. In essence, the brain and spinal cord learns to be in a constant alert state, which increases vulnerability to develop other types of pain in the future, even in those areas that are not at all related. For Dr. Rachel Reid-McCann, principal researcher, “It is possible that the experience of moderate or severe menstrual pain can alter the structure of the brain and how it works in response to painful stimuli, making chronic pain more likely in the future.”. It is not a purely psychological. In the study itself, researchers have seen a relationship between dysmenorrhea and a subsequent increased symptoms related to anxiety and depression. But these factors only explained a small part of the connection with chronic pain and this reinforces the idea that the main cause is a physiological mechanism, and not simply that “pain is in the head.” You have to stop normalizing pain. The conclusion of the study is a call to action for father, educators and, above all, for the health system. Normalize menstrual pain and dispatch it as “is normal” has great long -term consequences. And that will go to the health system. The researchers point out that menstrual stigma and the lack of education on menstrual health cause many young people not to seek help, or that when they do, their complaints are minimized. In this way, it is believed that early identification and good control of dysmenorrhea can be key to improving the immediate well -being of adolescents and preventing the appearance of serious health problems in the future. Images | Saranya7 In Xataka | A baby, three parents (biological): a promising fertilization technique that, for now, we will not see in Spain

The US has found a new way to torpedo China. The problem is that it takes ahead to South Korea

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The truce is over. The US does not want integrated circuit manufacturing equipment that resort to US technologies and innovations They arrive in China. Not even chips factories that They do not belong to Chinese companies. In 2022 the US Department of Commerce granted a temporary exemption to several manufacturers of foreign semicondators who have plants in China so that they could equip their facilities with the machines they needed. But this permissive period has expired. From now on any chips manufacturer who has plants in China will have to request a license from the US Commerce Department to be able to install in its factories machines with US components or technologies. Intel has sold Your Dalian plant (China), so this measure no longer affects it. However, there are two South Korean companies of enormous relevance in the semiconductor industry whose business can be deeply conditioned by the restrictions imposed by the US: Samsung and SK Hynix. The Department of Commerce is not reassuring These two South Korean companies need to send new manufacturing machines of integrated circuits to their China plants to protect their competitiveness, and without the approval of the US administration they cannot do so. Lithography equipment that manufactures asml They incorporate American technologies (The ultraviolet light source of UVE and UVP machines is produced by the company of Californian origin Cymer, which is now integrated into ASML). And presumably the lithographic equipment of Tokyo Electron, Nikon and Canon also, which gives the US the power to control which countries can use this technology. The Commerce Department has noticed that it will not grant licenses that pursue expand the production capacity in China or update the existing technology The Department of Commerce has anticipated which will deliver the necessary licenses so that foreign chip manufacturers can continue to operate their China plants. The restrictions will begin in 120 days, so these companies They still have some margin to react. However, in its statement the Department of Commerce He has also warned that will not grant licenses that pursue expand production capacity in China or update existing technology. For Samsung and SK Hynix this limitation represents a serious problem. Samsung produces Nand Flash chips in Xian, and SK Hynix manufactures DRAM integrated circuits in Wuxi and Nand Flash in Dalian. Equipating these plants with avant -garde equipment can make a difference in your business. What the US Government pursues with this measure is to minimize the risk that the vanguard wafer lithography and wafering equipment that manufactures ASML, Apply Materials or Tokyo Electron Caigan in the hands of China. In addition, these restrictions make it difficult for the avant -garde chips to produce Samsung and SK Hynix They arrive at China’s distribution chain. A spokesman for the Ministry of Commerce of China has declared that “Beijing opposes this US measure and will take the necessary measures to safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of companies.” On the other hand, the South Korean government is negotiating with its American counterpart to protect the business of its companies in China. Image | ASML More information | Reuters | Nikkei Asia In Xataka | China is very clear about what you should do to win the Chips War to the US: resort to their technology geniuses

We believed that the most complicated summer of F-35 had ended. Until his software made him kamikaze on the Arctic

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In mid-August it seemed frankly difficult for something more to the brand new F-35 of Lockheed Martin. After the plane stranded for a month In India, the reverse from Spain to an order (to which they have added other countries), and A second breakdown Of a hunt, this time in Japan, the quota of fatalities seemed complete. Until a report has appeared that calls for the plane and its sophisticated software. An accident and its causes. Now we know that on January 28, 2025 an F-35a of the United States Air Force, assigned to the 354th combat wing at the base of Eielson (Alaska), He crashed After taking off in training mission as part of a group of four aircraft. He Official Report of the Pacific Air Forces revealed that the main cause was the fluid freezing Hydraulic contaminated with water in the shock absorbers of the landing train, which prevented the complete extension of the struts and caused that the weight sensors on wheels on wheels They will erroneously interpret That the plane was on the ground while still flewing. Kamikaze mode. This false signal automatically activated the “on-aund” control mode in full flight, the aircraft becoming uncontrollable. Luckily, the pilot managed to eject and survived with minor injuries, but the plane, valued in 196.5 million dollarsit was completely lost. Emergency in flight. The problem was immediately manifested: the front train was misaligned at 17 degrees and could not retract. After radio consultations with engineers from Lockheed Martin and a flight supervisor, the pilot tried for almost an hour Reactivate the wheel using two “touch-And-go” maneuvers. However, the ice also blocked the main trains, and at the second attempt the sensors indicated that the aircraft had landed. What happened then? That the system automatically changed to Operation mode on landdrastically reducing the control capacity. The pilot, nicknamed in The “MP” reportmanaged to eject just before the hunt went into loss and fell into chopped. The device came to rise more than 1,000 meters after the ejection, and then rush vertically, in the sequence recorded in a video that went viral. Technical and maintenance factors. The investigation He explained that the ice in the struts, added to the bad alignment of the front -train blocking hook, damaged metal components and prevented the correct system coupling. In addition, and very important, the Wow sensors (Critics in the F-35 Flight Control Logic, known as Claws) showed vulnerability in extreme cold conditions, something that Lockheed Martin already He had warned In previous maintenance bulletins. In other words, the ice “cheated” to the software. The report Underline that water pollution in hydraulic fluids derived from poor management of hazardous materials and breaches in service protocols. These negligence, together with decision -making during the emergency, were considered contributing factors to the accident. Implications and lessons. No doubt, the case has highlighted the complexity inherent in the high F-35 automationwhere a sensor failure can trigger waterfall reactions in the control software. Although nine days later another F-35A was able to land with a similar problem in the train without consequences, the Research Board stressed that, with the available information, the safest option would have been to order an immediate landing or a controlled ejection instead of risking a second attempt to maneuver. Although the report did not issue recommendations Formal policy changes, did highlight the need to reinforce compliance with maintenance protocols, supervision of fluid use and preparation for operations in Arctic environments. Strategic repercussions. In short, the accident, Without fatalitieshighlights the challenges of operating fifth generation fighters in extreme conditions such as Alaska, where temperatures close to –17 ºC can aggravate technical vulnerabilities. Not just that. It also offers a warning to future operators in cold climates, Like Canada and Finlandwhich must consider the reliability of the sensors and the resilience of the control systems in hostile environments. Beyond the technical, the event illustrates how the sophistication of the F-35, with its dependence on algorithms and automation, can become a risk factor in unforeseen emergenciesforcing to rethink the balance between human control and software in new generation military aircraft. Image | US AIR National Guard/Tech. Sgt. Adam Keele In Xataka | It is being a complicated summer for the US F-35: after the “no” of Spain Russia and China have appeared to do more damage In Xataka | A group of countries is being formed after the decision of Spain: those that are closing the door to the US F-35

Soon one of them will stop being manufactured

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Little time has passed since Nintendo announced his second pack For the Nintendo Switch 2 And now we are in a crucial moment for those who want to opt for one of the two packs that are available. The reason? In a short time one of the two will stop manufacturing. To give context, these are the two packs that are now available: Nintendo Switch 2 + ‘Mario Kart World‘ by 509 euros. Nintendo Switch 2 + ‘Pokémon legends: za‘ by 509 euros. Nintendo Switch 2 + ‘Mario Kart World’ * Some price may have changed from the last review Nintendo Switch 2 + ‘Pokémon legends: za’ * Some price may have changed from the last review A key moment to choose pack The pack with ‘Mario Kart World’ will stop manufacturing next October. What should be an indicated date for Nintendo, it is a bittersweet moment. On October 16, the second pack will be launched which includes the Nintendo Switch 2 along with ‘Pokémon legends: za‘, but it will also be the date (the month really) in which the Nintendo Switch 2 pack will stop manufacturing along with’Mario Kart World‘, as our 3DJUGOS colleagues collected in their day. That is why right now we are in an important and interesting time in order to buy the Nintendo Switch 2 in Pack, since We can choose between one of the two that are available: that of ‘Mario Kart World’ for having been launched and that of ‘Pokémon legends: za’ for being in reserve period. This does not mean that as of October you can not buy the ‘Mario Kart World’ pack: it is the date on which it will stop manufacturing, but It is likely that stores continue to have stock for a timeas happened similarly with ‘Super Mario 3D All-Stars‘, that He stopped manufacturing and disappeared from eShopalthough it was available in stores for a brief period of time. You may also interest you Zelda Tears of the Kingdom – Nintendo Switch 2 Edition * Some price may have changed from the last review Donkey Kong Bananza- Switch 2 * 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 | Alejandro AlcoleaNintendo In Xataka | The best accessories for your switch: covers, transport bags, batteries, and more In Xataka | What Micro SD card for Nintendo Switch buy. Better recommendations and 10 outstanding models

It is increasingly cheap, and we are increasingly paying more than ever to use it

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Every time Chatgpt generates a word, that costs money. But the price of that word generated has not stopped falling since the launch of that model, and the same goes for its rivals. Today we have AI models that are not only more powerful, but also They are cheaper than everand the funny thing is that we are paying more and more to use them. What is happening? Tokens. OpenAI define Tokens as “common character sequences found in a text set.” That “basic unit” of information It is what these models use to understand what we are saying and then process those texts to answer. Every time we use ChatgPT we have on the one hand the request with the text we introduce (input tokens) and on the other the text generated by the chatbot (output tokens). Price per million tokens (dollars) Entrance Exit GPT-5 1.10 10 GPT-4O 2.5 10 O1 15 60 Gemini 2.5 Pro ( 200ktokens) 2.5 15 Claude Opus 4.1 15 75 Claude sonnet 4 ( 200k Tokens) 6 22.5 Price per million tokens. And when we use an AI model, the price of using it is precisely measured how much it costs every million input tokens and every million output tokens. The more powerful a model is, the higher the price of those tokens, and to get an idea these are the prices of some current models. The prices of the output tokens (those generated by the machines) are remarkably higher than those of entry: it costs much more to generate text than “to receive and understand it.” AI models are getting better and getting cheaper. At least, in terms of cost per million tokens. Source: Epoch AI. But prices have not stopped down. Those prices per million input or output tokens, however, have fallen remarkably since ChatgPT (at that time based on GPT-3.5) appeared on the scene. An Epoch AI study March 2025 revealed how the price of inference – generating text, as they do chatgpt, gemini or Claude – has not stopped falling. In some cases the models are smaller and efficient, and also the hardware is also now more profitable, which favors that price drop. And we still pay more and more for using the AI. However, developers who use these AI models to program are realizing that their invoices are increasingly high. These types of professionals have been the ones who have taken advantage of the advantages of this technology, but in doing so they have realized that contradiction. Actually the explanation is simple. Reason spends many tokens. The problem is that reasoning models consume many tokens. This type of technology improves the precision of the answers, but to achieve it the models do not stop “thinking” and generating different theories and then analyzing them and keeping the solution they consider more likely or better. The models that “do not think” and generate text “only once” consume few tokens, but those who “reason” multiply that cost remarkably. The Vibe Coding comes out expensive. The most expensive example of those high costs of AI have it in the “Vibe Coding” platforms. With them it is possible to program almost without knowing how to program, but these tools make an extensive use of the AI ​​models, and there the consumption of tokens (especially those of exit, which are the most expensive) shoot. Several companies in this segment, such as Windsurf or Cursorthey have realized how difficult it is to make money with AIand there are also various users They are warning of those Shot costs In Reddit, for example. And AI agents promise to be very expensive. IA agents are expected to be able to do many things for usbut these systems will be expensive because they will also consume many tokens to understand, “reason” and reach the desired solution. Solution: Use you that do not think so much. Faced with those IAS that “reason” and consume many costs, the alternative is clear: not to resort to the reasoning models and instead opt for models that “do not reason” to reduce costs. These models are much cheaper to use and can be useful for many scenarios. Fortunately, models of efficient and increasingly cheap that reason are also appeared: Deepseek R1 is a good proof of this. The famous router may not be a bad idea. When OpenAI GPT-5 launched He did it with his famous “router” or “router” that analyzed the request and decided on its own what variant of the model (more or less powerful) had to answer the question. As we saw, That router tends to choose to use the “cheap” modelbut that is not a bad idea. Neither for OpenAI (who costs much less processing the answer) nor for users (who also consume less resources and have more free fee for other questions that perhaps need “reasoning”). Image | Levart Photography | IGAL Ness In Xataka | AI agents are promising. But as in Tesla’s FSD, you better not take your hands from the steering wheel

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