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The recipe for the greatest robbery of cryptocurrencies in history

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When we buy cryptocurrencies from an application, we usually leave our assets stored directly on the platform itself. This means that the safety of our investments depends on a digital purse managed by a third party. But experience shows that these applications are not 100% armored against computer attacks, so our assets could end up being violated or even stolen. Many bybit users, One of the largest cryptocurrency exchanges in the worldThey have recently suffered an unprecedented blow. A group of cybercriminals linked to North Korea He has perpetrated the greatest robbery of cryptodivisas in history. An attack that not only affected the platform, but also leaves key lessons on the safety and risks of the crypto ecosystem. An unprecedented robbery. As we mentioned a few weeks agoon February 21 Bybit suffered a serious security failure that resulted in the theft of 1.5 billion dollars in cryptocurrencies. But how is it possible that a platform that manages about 20,000 million dollars in deposits has been the victim of an attack of such magnitude? Let’s see. The origin of the attack. Computer attacks rarely occur for a single failure. In most cases, they are the combination of several factors that ends up opening the door to a security gap. That is exactly what happened in the recent attack on Bybit, whose outcome could have been avoided if measures had been taken on time. In July 2024, the cybersecurity firm Check Point published a technical report in which he warned about a weakness in SAFEfree software used in cryptocurrency operations. According to the document, the Exectransaction function could be exploited to manipulate transaction data and execute malicious code. Between three and four months before the attack, the CEO of Bybit, Ben Zhou, admitted that his team had already detected compatibility problems between Safe and its security systems. But the warning did not translate into concrete measures. “We should have updated and away from Safe,” Zhou acknowledged in an interview with The New York Times. An invisible trap. On February 21, shortly before midnight, Ben Zhou, CEO of Bybit, connected from home to approve, along with two other executives, an important transfer from Ether from a multisig account linked to the platform. A routine operation in appearance, but would end in disaster. To sign the transaction, he used his Ledger physical wallet, trusting the information that the interface showed on his computer. In the eyes of the signatories, everything seemed in order: addresses, amounts and functions coincided with what was expected. But what they did not know was that the attackers had already committed part of Safe’s infrastructure. A malicious code inserted in the system manipulated the information on the screen, causing Zhou and his team to approve, without knowing it, a fraudulent transaction. The result was inevitable: the funds ended in a purse controlled by the attackers. Everything was recorded in the blockchain, but it was too late. Panic call. Around 30 minutes later, the financial director (CFO) of Bybit telephoned Zhou in a trembling voice: “The entire Ether has disappeared.” Zhou departed without delay towards the Bybit offices in Singapore and initiated an internal crisis protocol known as P-1 where all members of the leadership team are awakened. But there were little to do. Transactions of this type cannot be reversed. Their efforts focused on investigating what happened, giving tranquility to customers and applying changes to improve security. A brilliant strategy. The problem was not in the intelligent contract code or in the Multisig system. There was no failure in these points, but a well -orchestrated trap: the attackers manipulated the interface and the signature flow, deceiving the signatories to authorize false transactions without realizing it. And there is the true nightmare: you can count on multiple signatures and high level, but if everyone sees the same and what they see is a hoax, the attack is consumed without major obstacles. Images | RC.XYZ NFT Gallery | Jakub żerdzicki In Xataka | APK “with a bug”: the risk of using other routes to access free premium spotify after the closure of several clients

In China they are preparing their children for the future. The next course will begin to give a subject of AI

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Students are about to learn artificial intelligence. Not by themselves (which also), but as part of the educational program. Beijing has declared the implementation of an initiative that will be dedicated to the children of primary, secondary and baccalaureate will form in this area. Eight hours a year. According to the official statement“From the autumn semester of 2025, all the primary and secondary schools of Beijing will provide general education in artificial intelligence, with a minimum of eight annual teaching hours. The courses may be independent or integrate into subjects such as information technology, sciences and practical activities. Innovative teaching approaches will be adopted, including the use of artificial intelligence assistants and project -based learning assistants interactive “. They seem few, but it may be just the beginning. The truth is that eight hours dedicated to AI seem few in a whole course, but it is a minimum that of course can grow. Moreover, in that statement it is indicated that “a mechanism of collaboration between universities, companies and secondary schools will be established to form exceptional talent students in artificial intelligence.” And training for teachers. Of course, teachers will be needed to teach these classes, and therefore in Beijing “teachers from different disciplines such as computer science, mathematics and technology will be trained to teach education in AI.” Impulse for education. The Deepseek phenomenon seems to have given wings to the initiatives aimed at winning the AI ​​career. Schools may launch these courses as an additional subject or as part of other subjects related to technology. AI everywhere. As they point out In Bloombergthis initiative is part of that effort of the Chinese government to ensure that AI infiltrates in various levels. Last week, for example, the Government Congress support The application of large language models and the development of a new generation of manufacturing equipment with integrated. Estonia has already taken a similar step. Other countries have already announced initiatives in this regard. Estonia He became In the first country in the world to integrate the Chatgpt.edu service in its national education system. As of September 1, 2025, 20,000 high school students and 3,000 teachers will have free access to these tools. It will be interesting to see if other countries end up making similar movements. Of course, this is an interesting long -term commitment. Image | David Wooo In Xataka | China has declared the war on private school: why he predicted the prolific “tutorials”

thousands and thousands of Chinese studying at universities

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According to a group of researchers from the Paulson Institute in Chicago (USA) 38% of experts in artificial intelligence (AI) that develop their professional career in the US It has formed at Chinese universities. In fact, this American institution has concluded that In the US there are more Chinese experts in AI than professionals with a strictly American origin. This, According to Nikkei Asiasome experts in the industry concern due to the possibility that China decides to repatriate their students and researchers from the US to reinforce their AI industry. Some of the best centers dedicated to the science and technology on the planet are in China. The Tsinghua University of Beijing, the Jiao Tong University of Shanghai, the Zhejiang University of Hangzhou, the University of Science and Technology of Hefei or the University of Technology of South China, in Canton, are just a few. All of them have something important in common: they are world reference centers in technology, innovation and applied science. And many of his students are working in the US. At the current situation It is understandable that some American experts are concerned about the possibility of losing these qualified personnel. China wants to “build a strong educational nation” The Chinese education system works. The Government led by Xi Jinping is very aware that the country’s competitiveness In full struggle with the US For world supremacy depends largely on its scientific capacity. If we stick to the development of AI, which is undoubtedly the pitch in which these two superpowers are playing their best cards, it is evident that China advances at an amazing speed. The success of Deepseek supports both the proper functioning of the Chinese education system and the high competitiveness that this country has achieved despite US sanctions and his allies. High-Flyer, the Deepseek matrix, consists of Chinese researchers trained in the best universities in the country In fact, High-Flyer, the Deepseek parent company, is essentially constituted by Chinese researchers who have formed in the best universities in the country. Many of them come from the institutions that I have mentioned a few lines above. The government knows that this asset cannot waste, which in January led him to implement A National Action Plan that pursues “build a strong educational nation.” In addition, this strategy must be consolidated in just a decade. In 2035. Nothing is bad as a purpose. However, this is not all. Several Chinese elite universities They have announced His intention to expand his curricula with the objective of prioritizing the strategic needs of the country. AI is one of them. As we have seen, China already has a lot of scientific talent, and presumably in the medium term it will have more. Maybe much more. And, curiously, Depseek has something to say in this strategy. In fact, some university centers are already using this AI to teach training courses expressly dedicated to this discipline, although this plan does not only affect university students; Primary and secondary schools will also begin to train their students in AI. Image | Usman Abdulrasheedgambo More information | Reuters In Xataka | We already know the secret of the extreme efficiency of Deepseek: it has dodged the Cuda de Nvidia standard

Google hoped that the new US government would save him from “chopping” in several companies. Bad news

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It doesn’t matter when you read this, it is almost certain that in the last hours you have used some Google service. Maybe you have sent an email in Gmail, received a message on your Android mobile, sailed with Chrome or made a google search. The company dominates so many aspects of digital life that is difficult to escape its ecosystem. But with that power the problems also come: antitrust authorities have been pressing years To detach from some divisions, and a possible separation is getting closer. DOJ VS. Google. The pulse between Google and the US authorities is not new. In October 2020, the Department of Justice (DOJ) and eleven state prosecutors They filed a lawsuit accusing Mountain View company to monopolize internet searches. After years of litigation, in August last year, federal judge Amit P. Mehta failed against him, concluding that the technological giant had maintained his domain in the searches market by imposing entry barriers that hindered competition. One of its main strategies has been to pay mobile manufacturers such as Apple to ensure be the default search engine on its devices. A bold measure on the table. Throughout history, the authorities have intervened to stop the domain of large companies, although the most common strategy is usually imposing economic sanctions. Forcing part of the business, on the other hand, is a drastic and rare measure. In the case of Google, this option went to the forefront the same day the failure against it was confirmed, although informally. However, the judge had not yet determined the corrective measures, which will be announced throughout 2025. Even so, the possibility of a split becomes increasingly strength. The Department of Justice presses to fragment Google. Although, as we say, the judge has not explicitly supported Google’s fragmentation, the DOJ, which represents the US government, has insisted on that option as part of the corrective measures. He has argued that the only way to stop his monopolistic domain in searches is to force the company to get rid of Chrome and, potentially, of Android. The striking thing is that the first attempt occurred under the administration of Joe Biden, But the second has arrivedagainst any forecast, with Donald Trump in the White House. “Thanks to its colossal size and its power without restrictions, Google has taken consumers and companies an essential promise that is owed to them: the right to choose between different services. Its illegal practices have created an economic giant that dominates the market to the point of guaranteeing that, whatever happens, it always wins, ”said the DOJ in his last presentation asking for the disinversion of the company in key areas. “Google’s illegal behavior has created an economic giant that wreaks havoc on the market to make sure what happens, Google always wins. American consumers and companies suffer from Google’s behavior, ”he added. An uncertain panorama. The presentation has been signed by Omeed A. Assefi, who currently leads the antimonopoly division interimly while the Senate evaluates the confirmation of Gail Slater, the one chosen by Trump to assume the position. ASSEFI is no stranger to the former president: He was part of the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice during his first term. Slater, meanwhile, has indicated that he hopes to apply Regulations with surgical precisionwhile Trump has not hesitated to accuse the great technology of acting without control, to quell the competition and take advantage of their market domain to restrict rights. With this panorama, it continues in the air if its appointment will mark a change of strategy or if, on the contrary, the pressure on the technological sector will continue to increase. Wasn’t Trump hope? Before even being elected president, several technological leaders went to him in search of solutions. Tim Cook, from Apple, for example, called him to complain of the regulatory approach of the European Union, to which Trump responded with a promise: he would not allow them to take advantage of US companies. SUCTAR PICHAI, from Google, shared a meal with himalthough the details of that conversation are still a mystery. The company itself also donated a million dollars at the bottom of his inauguration. Now, with a judicial ruling that could force her to divide, Google has already announced that she will appeal the decision to avoid the dreaded chopstick. Effects throughout the ecosystem. Chop Google would not only affect the company itself, but shaking the entire digital ecosystem. Chrome and Android are not profitable business for themselves, they exist to channel users to their search engine, the true gold mine of the company. Separating them would completely change the rules of the game, affecting online advertising, agreements with manufacturers and software we use on our devices. But that’s not all: if the authorities are seriously with Google, the rest of the giants such as Apple, Amazon or Meta could be the following in the sight. Images | Xataka with Dalle · 3 | Greg Bulla In Xataka | The enigma of 20,000 million: why Chrome is very valuable and inventible at the same time In Xataka | Telefónica’s commitment to open TV is not just a new business: it is a redefinition of its identity

All those touch screens in the Tesla and the rest of the cars sound very well. Euro NCAP thinks otherwise

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Euro NCAP has been notifying for about a year: cars that bet absolutely everything to the touch screens will have problems to obtain the coveted five stars of its qualification system. For some manufacturers Only the screens mattera Simply terrible decision that allows them to save costs by adding additional steps that could be made by pressing a simple button. The date on which Euro NCAP will begin to penalize this philosophy is closer, but we have bad news: it will not change practically anything. Euro Ncap pressures. We are more or less agree with the methodologies used by its system, Euro NCAP is the most relevant body in Europe to evaluate the safety of new vehicles. After performing its collision tests and various trials, it is evaluated by a system of stars (up to five) how sure is the car. The system takes into account adult protection systems, children, impact on pedestrians and security assists (ADAS) among others and, from 2026, an additional factor enters into the equation: how simple it is to perform basic car functions. Specifically, these five. Selection of flashes Button activation Warning Ring Activate the windshield wiper Activation of Ecall emergency button If it is not possible to activate each and every one of these functions quickly by means of a physical button, the car will not get the five stars. Why (almost) nothing will change. Virtually all current cars have physical controls for the actions described. One of the few that do not include manufacturers such as Tesla is that of Ecall emergency activation, which currently can only be activated using the upper bar of its touch screen. If the American company wants five stars in the cars that you sell in Europe, you will have to adopt this button in physical shape, or in the steering wheel or location they consider. It is a movement that may seem lower, but introducing a new button in a vehicle, or not in the steering wheel, it is important additional costs for the thousands of units that will have to be manufactured in 2026. Whatever it may be, in the face of the end user, everything will remain practically the same: beyond these mandatory standards, everything will continue to be governed by a screen. An important brake for industry. Although this new Euro NCAP standard will not be especially relevant, the organism’s pressures to the industry to keep the physical buttons are more than necessary. Volkswagen already had among his plans to end them to replace them with screenswith the consequent criticism of your buyers that made them consider backing. Other manufacturers, such as BMW, fantasize with systems starring screens and with hardly any presence of physical buttons. This Euro NCAP requirement will put a certain brake on your plans. And it is that European legislation itself does not expressly prevent cars from dispensing with physical buttons. The Vehicle Homologation Regulation (EU 2019/2144) It forces manufacturers to meet certain standards in terms of usability and ergonomics of controls to avoid distractions, but does not specify that these standards pass through physical buttons. The obsession with the screens. On car manufacturers absolutely obsessed with converting their vehicles into tablets with wheels, We have been talking for five years. Already in 2019, manufacturers like Mazda They jumped against reducing the number of screens to avoid distractions and accidents, while the rest advanced towards more and more complex interfaces. Since then, it is more difficult to find a car that is not full of screens than one with a cleaner and more analog interior. The cars They are increasingly expensive and The trend is that they will continue to rise. Interestingly, consumers are every time more unhappy with new purchases. One of the main reasons has to do with the software. The manufacturers have found in it A new way of earning moneybut the bulk of users does not want to go beyond compatibility with Android Auto and Apple Carplay. The road of the industry by 2026, date on which Euro NCAP will begin to penalize cars without tactile controls, aims to be similar to the current one. Many screens, a lot of software (with subscription options and other payment services), and little presence of physical controls. Image | Tesla In Xataka | What screen with Android Auto for your car buy. Purchase guide with better recommendations and tips

supporting Elon Musk’s version

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After nine months orbiting the land due to the Boeing Starliner spacecraft problemsAmerican astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams are ready to return home in a ship operated by Spacex. It was at the end of August when NASA decided that both would remain at the International Space Station until the next rotation of crew members in early 2025, but that everything goes as planned has not prevented its return from being fogged by political controversies. The context. Wilmore and Williams were thrown into space in June 2024 as part of a test mission to standardize the Starliner ship, which Boeing and NASA They hoped to start using For regular astronaut transport to ISS, as Spacex does since 2020. The mission was going to last only 10 days, but the helium leaks and the failures in the propulsion of the Starliner forced to prolong the stay of the astronauts until NASA decided May the ship go empty and its crew will stay in the ISS waiting for the return of the Spacex CREW-9 mission. After nine months of experiments in microgravity and space walks to perform maintenance tasks, Wilmore and Williams have a return date: March 19; A few days after the crew members of the CREW-10 mission, whose launch It is scheduled for March 12get to the station. The controversy. The decision that NASA made at the time seemed purely technical: prioritizing the safety of its astronauts forcing Boeing to exorbit the Starliner without its occupants to, then, launch the CREW-9 mission with two empty seats for the return of the “stranded” astronauts in the ISS. However, there is another version of the facts. Elon Musk has been in charge of spreading That it was not a technical decision, but a political decision, taken by the government of Joe Biden before Donald Trump was invested president of the United States. Musk offered to send an additional Crew Dragon ship to bring astronauts as soon as possible, but the White House refused, according to the businessman. “For political reasons.” The controversy, fueled by the accusations of Musk and Trump himself in different interviews, intensified with a crossing of hostile statements between Musk and the European astronaut Andreas Mogensen, who publicly accused Musk of lying, which caused A particularly aggressive reaction of the founder of Spacex. He said: “You are a complete mental retardation.” The script rotation. Although Elon Musk’s statements were refuted by NASA, Butch Wilmore and his family have put another possibility on the table: that Musk is right. In a recent press conference from the ISS, The astronaut gave credibility to the Musk version stating that the businessman had been “absolutely factual.” Although he also clarified not to know the exact details of the decision process. He added more firewood his daughter Daryn in a Video uploaded to a social network in which he declared to be very frustrated with the situation: “There is a lot of politics, there are many things that I have no freedom to say and that I do not know fully. But there have been problems. There has been negligence. And that is why this has continued to delay. There has been one problem after another.” What does NASA say. NASA’s senior officials, such as Ken Bowersox and Steve Stich, reiterated that the extended stay of astronauts was motivated only for technical and operational reasonsrelated to the security and logistics of the International Space Station. Spacex offered alternatives to the official plan in 2024, admitted the officials, but were rejected not by political motivations, but by budgetary and technical considerations that prioritized the operational continuity of the ISS, they sentenced. As an end point, the NASA has published a summary Of all that Wilmore and Williams have done these nine months with their colleagues from the CREW-9 mission: more than 900 hours dedicated to key scientific research on biomanuffing, space agriculture, advanced exercise systems and studies on microorganisms in microgravity. Images | POT In Xataka | Jared Isaacman still does not direct NASA, but it is already seen as the last nail in the coffin of a space giant: Boeing

Manus is the new sensation of China after Deepseek. Is generating as many expectations as doubts

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Last week voices began to hear in the AI ​​segment. We theoretically had a new Deepseek phenomenon. It was Manusa theoretical AI agent who raised especially striking options. However, in social networks there have been doubts and suspicions about the real capacity of this model. The unknown about its real value is there. Manus is not an AI agent. Those responsible on its official website is “a general agent who connects ideas with actions: not only thinks, delivers results.” It is actually more a “deep research” mode – like the ‘Deep Research’ of OpenAi – about the data that we give. Thus, Manus is theoretically capable of creating you a detailed 7 -day travel plan by Japanhelp you perform a deep analysis of the Value of Tesla’s actionscreate for you a presentation for a class on the conservation law of the momentFor example. Expectations in style. One of the product managers in Hugging Face He described it as “the most impressive tool I have ever tried.” His Official Discord server He has attracted almost 170,000 users since his creation a week ago. The expectation is remarkable, but as they explain In TechCrunchthere are doubts about their true capacity. Manus is based on Claude and Qwen. There are users who They have already indicated that manus seems not to have been created from zero, and apparently it is Totally based in varied models such as Claude 3.7 and Qwen (Alibaba). One of his co -founders, Yichao “Peak” Yi, confirmed that are in effect based on other products and they are a layer that relies on these models. In the presentation video Yichao stressed that In some benchmarks Manus was superior to Deep Research already OperatorOpenai products. It is? Errors and inconsistencies. Some experts such as Alexander Doria, co -founder of the startup of the Pleias, have indicated that manus makes mistakes and infinite loops When using it. Others point out how Make mistakes With questions with clear answers and Do not cite sources consistently. Beta by invitation. For now it is not possible to access manus options, and it is only possible to use it if any other user invites you. In TechCrunch they have managed to have access, and the tests performed, explained the editor who tested it, “have not been especially positive.” None of the agerentic tasks that he tested – seek table in a restaurant, take out plane tickets – worked. In The Register they have also had access and Nothing have been impressed with the results. “They tried to create a Mario clone that turned out to be quite terribleFor example. Other users who have tried or They praise it or They believe that despite its lights and shadows is a special promising product. At the moment this is not a Deepseek. The truth is that the rapid popularity of Manus contrasts with that of Deepseek, which was available from the first moment as an Open Source development that anyone could download and use. The company may want to take advantage of that expectation generated by betas with invitation access and prefer to avoid greater infrastructure expenses. In Xataka | China has a plan to achieve scientific supremacy in full struggle with the US to lead in AI

a “revolution” beyond design

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Apple prepares to introduce one of the biggest changes in its software ecosystem, According to Mark Gurman. The Bloomberg analyst points to a deep renewal of the company’s operating systems, with the intention of adapting to a new generation of users. If the information is successful, we could be facing a key evolution in its strategy. A “revolutionary interface”. The sources point out that the deepest renewal will focus on the interface. Apple will bet on a new design of icons, menus, applications and buttons, with the aim of simplifying navigation and control of devices. The proposal will take some inspiration in the aesthetics of the system of the Vision Pro. The objective is to achieve greater visual coherence among the different operating systems of the company. It is not a new approach: we have already seen attempts in this direction, such as the renewal of the System Settings menu, which adopted a design closer to that of iOS and Ipados. However, the transition has not been the pleasure of all, and there are still many elements that are far from maintaining uniformity. More than design settings. Although renewal will focus on the visual section, it will not be just an aesthetic change. New functions and characteristics are likely to also arrive. In the past, Apple has introduced interactive widgetsimprovements in privacy, a password management applicationthe function IPhone duplication and Apple Intelligence. These last two, yes, are not yet available in Spain outside the beta versions. iOS 6 (left), iOS 7 (right) And what about Apple Intelligence? Everything indicates that Apple Intelligence will follow its own path, although not without obstacles. Its initial launch was scheduled for September 2024 with iOS 18but did not arrive until October with iOS 18.1. The plan was to continue its deployment with an improved version of Siri in 2025, capable of understanding the context and executing actions on behalf of the user. However, it has recently been known that this advance will not reach 2026. Radical changes, not a fusion. Gurman clarifies that the company has no intention of merging its operating systems. iOS, iPados and Macos will continue to be independent platforms, maintaining their own characteristics. This differentiation, in addition to responding to functional needs, also reinforces its commercial strategy, promoting the purchase of several devices instead of depending on one. The changes are on their way. These novelties, according to the sources, will be part of iOS 19 and iPados 19, whose code name is “Luck”, and macos 16, Internally known as “Cheer”, which will be launched at the end of this year. However, these updates are expected to be one of the key points of the WWDC25, the Annual Apple developer conference. We have not seen such a change for years. If you have been in Apple’s ecosystem for some time, you may remember the jump from iOS 6 to iOS 7. That redesign left Skeuomorphism behind – Icon and elements that imitated real objects – to adopt a more modern approach, with flat colors, transparencies and stylized typography. Since then, the company has refined this aesthetic gradually in each version of the operating system. In the case of macOS, another turning point arrived in 2020 with Big Sur. The icons adopted square shapes, closer to iOS, although with an exclusive design for Mac. It was a key step in the visual unification of the brand’s ecosystem. Images | Apple In Xataka | Apple has choked artificial intelligence. And the continuous delays of the new Siri are the best example

The greatest enemy of Perovskita’s solar panels is heat. Some researchers have found a solution: titanium

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The commercial viability of Perovskita solar panels is getting closer, thanks to the different solutions over time. However, there is still a big problem to solve to be able to install them, but a team of engineers has managed to solve using titanium. Short. Researchers from the Technological Institute of Georgia in the United States They have achieved That Perovskita’s solar cells are more stable and support high temperatures. The solution was to incorporate titanium into one of the layers. The problem. The incorporation of Perovskita panels to the market has been a challenge because they do not last long when they are exposed to high temperatures. The reason is in one of its internal layers, known as the hollow transport layer (HTL), which allows the movement of electricity within it. This layer, usually made of a material called spiro-feet, begins to crystallize and lose efficiency when the temperature exceeds 70ºC. The solution. The technique used In research is steam phase infiltration (VPI). In this process, the solar cell is exposed to a titanium gas in a low vacuum environment. This allows titanium oxide/hydroxide (Tiox) to integrate into the HTL layer of the solar cell. In this way, titanium acts as a thermal stabilizer, preventing it from crystallizing and ensuring that panel efficiency is not degraded by heat. As a result, solar cells have preserved more than 80% of their original efficiency after 200 hours of 75ºC tests. An alternative to silicon. The study of the study to continue working the Perovskita panels and not those of silicon has been for several reasons. On the one hand, a cost of costs and energy consumption because silicon cells are much more expensive than those of Perovskita. On the other hand, the study has been conducted with financing from the Office of Solar Energy Technologies of the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy of the United States Energy Department, so alternatives have been sought for do not depend on Chinain a context of Tariff war. More solutions for Perovskitas. The American study is not the only one who is looking for alternatives in this line. An investigation in the United Kingdom has managed to go one step further developing a method that makes solar cells more resistant to external factors such as humidity, heat and physical wear. Forecasts Until now the technology developed by the American engineers group is in patent. Commercial implementation will be pending if researchers manage to find partners and the future of Solar energy in the United States. Image | Georgia Tech Xataka | How a new study has achieved cheaper Perovskita solar panels and more efficiently by capturing light on both sides

SMR reactors are the great promise of nuclear energy. The United States pilot project has failed

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Fission energy based on small modular reactors (SMR) is the great promise to complement renewables in the energy transition. But the failure of the first pilot project in the United States has highlighted the economic challenges that could stop its development. The advantages of SMR. With nuclear fusion energy in diapers, the promise of a safer, cheap and efficient fission nuclear excites political leaders and technological equally. SMRs have clear benefits regarding conventional fission reactors: they are Compact unitsdesigned to be manufactured in series; Therefore, in theory, they can be transported and assembled rapidly, adapting to different locations to integrate into the electricity grid together with intermittent sources, such as solar panels and wind turbines. The Nuscale case. With their compact size and modular design, SMRs should considerably reduce the cost and construction times of large nuclear reactors. However, reality proved to be more complicated For the first pilot project in the United States. The Nuscale project, developed by the Nuscale Power company for small Utah communities, was canceled at the end of 2023, when it was supposed to be inaugurated, due to its crazy cost overruns. It had been projected in 2015 with 12 reactors capable of generating 600 MW of power for 3,000 million dollars. By 2023, The planned capacity of the plant had been reduced to 462 MW and the estimated project costs had climbed up to 9.3 billion dollars. He became unfeasible. A scale problem. Despite their modular nature and the aspiration to produce them in series, SMRs are an emerging technology that does not have the advantages of the scale economy, as renewables do. A German report He revealed that SMRs remain the most expensive option against renewable technologies, whose costs continue to decrease This already happened with conventional nuclear energy. A 2014 study He revealed that 180 nuclear projects analyzed, 175 had exceeded their initial budget with an average overrun of 117%. The SMR can be expected, at least initially, also raise the cost per megavatio compared to other more settled options. Many interested. Despite these financial challenges,The industry sees potential in SMR. Giants like Google, Microsoft and Amazon They have announced agreements to acquire energy from future projects of modular reactors of companies such as Kairos Power and X-Energy. These investments, driven by the energy consumption of artificial intelligence, could provide the financial impulse that the industry needs to solve long -term economic problems, with the expectation that costs decrease as more projects are built. Image | Nuscale Power In Xataka | Europe does not want to lose the SMR nuclear reactors train. This is your formula to deploy them in 2030

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