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AEMET is clear that it does not end here

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The calendar and the thermometer are fighting loudly in Spain. And the thing is that (little by little) we are getting used to it, but what we are experiencing it’s not normal. From May 26 and 29 the interior of the Peninsula will live about five degrees above usual. And, sincerely, the words of AEMET they leave no room for doubt “extraordinarily warm for the time.” We thought that 2026 was going to be different, but no. After a completely anomalous January, many expected that this anomaly would continue with us. But the tentacles of summer are already here. And as AEMET says, none of this is “a flash”. It is one more installment of a recurring pattern: the hot season is getting longer and warmer. The records that They are marking all the thermometers of the Cantabrian coast make it clear. What is happening right now? The week will be dominated by a powerful subtropical anticyclone extended over Western Europe that will generate what It is often referred to as a “heat dome”. That is, a situation in which the air we have above the peninsula is not renewed and is warming little by little. In this sense, in this week’s episode there is no clear influence of the warm African air. Have one of the first “Iberian ovens” of the year: The country is generating its own heat through stagnation and compression (the descent of warm ridge air over warm surface air). While mainland Spain is on the verge of 40 degrees (and many parts exceed it), countries like France They are experiencing completely unprecedented heat. “It doesn’t end here.” What AEMET says is clear: The next few days will be extraordinarily warm and the seasonal prediction for May-June-July places all of Spain in the upper tertile of temperatures. However, these are only “participations” in a “weather lottery” whose result, as always, is yet to be decided. However, the Agency has explained ad nauseam that, in the last 50 years, the heat has only gotten earlier and longer. June 2025, without going any further, It was the warmest June in the historical series Spanish, with an average temperature 3.5 °C above the average and 0.8 °C above the previous maximum (that of 2017). The entire summer of 2025 closed 2.1°C above average. However, 2026 is not a normal year. In fact, there is an interesting paradox that should be highlighted. All this happens with reservoirs at 84% (one of the Mays with the most reserves in the last 35 years): this rules out the drought scenario, but opens an unexpected flank: the fires have grown by 218% so far this year and we still have summer ahead of us. Image | BenBaso In Xataka | Oviedo is at 34º C in the middle of May and AEMET knows that it is the beginning of something more: a brutal heat ridge

CXMT has multiplied its profits by 18

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A few days ago we witnessed how ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT) had just presented figures that seemed unthinkable just a year ago. The Chinese company specialized in DRAM memories has skyrocketed its net profit by more than 1,688% in the first quarter, causing its income to multiply by eight compared to the same period of the previous year. The culprit, as is usual in these cases, is global memory shortagewith long supply chains that are focusing almost exclusively on one thing: AI. Why is it important. CXMT has gone from being an almost anecdotal actor to become a key piece of the global semiconductor board in a matter of months. The company was born in 2016 to reduce China’s dependence on large DRAM manufacturers, a market historically controlled by Samsung Electronics, SK Hynix and Micron. A decade later, that bet is beginning to bear fruit at the worst possible time for its rivals and at the best possible time for Beijing. In detail. According to inform Nikkei Asia, CXMT posted a net profit of 24.7 billion yuan (about $3.6 billion) in the first quarter, with revenue of 50.8 billion yuan. The company itself attributes this jump to the sharp global rise in DRAM prices. To get an idea of ​​the change in scenario, a year ago, in the same quarter, the company was still recording losses of 1.6 billion yuan, according to data collected by Reuters. For the first semester as a whole, CXMT foresees revenues of between 110,000 and 120,000 million yuan and a net profit that could reach 57,000 million. That is to say, CXMT is going through a very sweet moment. Memory for AI. As we have mentioned, and you can surely imagine, the takeoff of CXMT is due to the great memory crisis that we are witnessing at all levels. Large manufacturers have shifted much of their production lines toward high-bandwidth memory (HBM) to power AI data centers, leading to unprecedented shortages in conventional DRAM. According to data According to TrendForce, standard DRAM prices have nearly doubled in the first quarter and could rise another 60% in the second. And CXMT has slipped into this gap, which currently has a global share of 7.67% according to Omdiamaking it the fourth largest manufacturer in the world and the first in China. The customer factor. There are large companies that are already looking at CXMT with some interest. Bloomberg appointment Among its clients are Alibaba, Tencent and ByteDance, the big names in the Chinese digital ecosystem. But the circle is widening, and Nikkei Asia says that PC manufacturers of the caliber of HP, Dell, ASUS or Acer are open to homologating their chips given the difficulties in obtaining sufficient memory on the market. Geopolitics. The issue, however, is complicated in terms of regulation. And in the United States they already work in the proposal known as the MATCH Actwhich seeks to tighten restrictions on the export of chip manufacturing equipment to China and include more companies on commercial blacklists, including CXMT itself and Hua Hong Semiconductor, as detailed by Nikkei Asia. The IPO prospectus was also presented just after the summit between Donald Trump and Xi Jinping in Beijing, at a time when the technological front continues to be one of the hottest points between both powers. The IPO. CXMT intends raise 29.5 billion yuan in Shanghai’s STAR Market. It would be one of the largest IPOs of the year in the country. According to the company, the money will be used to update production lines, improve DRAM technology and fund research into the next generation of memories. The company operates three 12-inch wafer fabs spread between Hefei and Beijing, and acknowledges that its current capacity remains insufficient for domestic demand. And now what. The strategic move that should be followed is to enter HBM. CXMT has started large-scale production of HBM3 memoriesthe critical component for AI servers, thus breaking the control exercised by the three large historical manufacturers. For now, this production remains in China, but its mere existence already helps relieve tension on the global chain. Cover image | CXMT and Jakub Pabis In Xataka | A mathematical problem had been resisting experts for more than 80 years. An AI has surpassed them all

1,050 HP, design by Jony Ive and a very different idea of ​​an electric car

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Ferrari could do many things with his first electricbut it could hardly be allowed to go unnoticed. The Luce arrives after years of waiting and with an obvious symbolic charge: we are not just talking about changing gasoline for a battery, but about checking how far Maranello is willing to move the limits of its own tradition. The brand has revealed it in Rome today, May 25, 2026, a date chosen for its link with Ferrari’s first victory in 1947, when the 125 S won the Grand Prix di Rome. Before getting into the details, it is worth remembering where this model comes from. Ferrari presented at the Capital Markets Day 2022 a multi-energy strategy based on technological neutrality, a way of saying that electrification will coexist with other architectures within the brand. The Luce is the first fully electric result of that roadmap, but it is not proposed as a replacement for combustion or hybrid Ferraris. An electric Ferrari designed to change more than just the engine The first thing that catches your attention when seeing the Luce is its format. Ferrari had already crossed the four-door line with the Purosangue, but here it takes another step: for the first time it offers five seats in a series production car. The explanation lies in its specific electrical architecture, which allows the battery to be integrated under the floor and the rear seats, freeing up the cabin and eliminating the central tunnel. Ferrari maintains that this configuration would not have been possible with its traditional transaxle schemes, with a front-mid engine and rear gearbox. The other big change is in who has shaped the car. Ferrari entrusted the design of the Luce to LoveFrom, the creative collective founded by Jony Ive with Marc Newson in 2019, and the first name does not need much introduction for anyone following the recent history of technological design. It is an unusual decision for a brand with its own design center directed by Flavio Manzoni. According to Ferrari, this external look allowed us to introduce a new language that is not limited to the bodywork, but also reaches the interior and the interface. This approach is especially noticeable in the silhouette. Ferrari defines one of the main features of the Luce as a “glass house” with a clean, almost shell-like shape, which extends below the belt line to the ends of the car. Around it appear front and rear aerodynamic wings that appear to float above the main volume, as well as transparent light panels integrated into the surfaces. And then there are the halo-type rear lights, which Ferrari links to the 360 ​​Modena and the 458 Italia: seeing them for the first time it is difficult not to feel a certain nostalgia in the midst of such a different design. One of the most recognizable decisions of the project appears in the cabin. Ferrari and LoveFrom have not followed the most obvious path in many current electric cars, where almost everything ends up inside a screen. The Luce combines physical aluminum controls, buttons, dials, switches and OLED screens developed by Samsung Display for this model, with the main information concentrated in front of the driver. The idea, according to Ferrari, is to unite the mechanical and the digital without one thing erasing the other. And that, in a car whose creative direction has gone through LoveFrom, is much more interesting than just another giant screen. The numbers, however, are inevitable. Ferrari declares a maximum power of 1,050 HP in Launch Control mode, four electric motors, one per wheel, and a 122 kWh battery with 800 V architecture. On paper, the Luce accelerates from 0 to 100 km/h in 2.5 seconds, reaches 0 to 200 km/h in 6.8 seconds and reaches a maximum speed of 310 km/h. The estimated range is around 530 kilometers, although here it is worth maintaining the nuance: Ferrari indicates that this figure is still under homologation. In an electric Ferrari, sound is not a minor detail. The brand says it has worked five years and 40,000 kilometers of specific tests to develop a system that, according to Ferrari, does not generate a synthetic sound, but rather amplifies the real mechanical vibrations of the electric axles. That signal is processed in real time and changes depending on the e-Manettino mode and the use of the cams. In parallel, the four motors, the active suspension and the rear axle steering ensure that the Luce is not only fast in a straight line, but also capable of managing with great precision what happens at each wheel. And now it’s time to talk about more numbers. Reuters places its price above 500,000 euros, while the Ferrari page in Spain already allows it to be configured, although it still does not show the price or allow it to be purchased directly: the next step is to send the information to a dealer. The reasonable doubt, as always in a car so loaded with promises, remains for when we can see it on the road and not only in the figures offered by the company. Images | Ferrari In Xataka | If the EU’s strategy was to suffocate Chinese cars with tariffs, the 2026 figures leave a very clear conclusion

The industrial future is more like Terminator than Ford

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“Hunter-Killers. Patrol machines. Built in automated factories.” The phrase is pronounced Kyle Reese in ‘Terminator‘, when trying to explain a future dominated by Skynet and its war machines. Forty years later, we are not in that science fiction nightmare, but the connection is too powerful to ignore: China is manufacturing structural components for stealth fighters in a highly automated plant, with almost no humans on the line and with machinery capable of working for much of the day. Turn off the light. The news comes through Science and Technology Daily. According to that source, the factory has more than doubled efficiency in the production of structural components for Chinese stealth fighters, including the J-20. The process, which previously required employees monitoring operations around the clock, now relies on autonomous vehicles, automated machinery guided by AI and systems capable of sustaining activity for almost 24 hours. Of course: we are not talking about complete planes leaving a ship alone, but rather about the manufacturing of the “skeleton” of the aircraft under conditions of very reduced human intervention. What is a dark factory. We are talking about facilities designed to operate with very little human presence, to the point that lighting is no longer a necessary condition for production. Siemens describes these plants as facilities with minimal human activity, capable of operating in the dark. We can see this idea applied to a variety of sectors: steel, mobile phones, domestic engines, and rocket ignition device parts. A complex product. The plant combines autonomous material transportation, high-precision machining, intelligent scanning and robotic inspection. Previously, however, it took two or three employees per shift to keep the machinery running all day, but now the human labor hours needed to operate the plant have been reduced by more than 80%. A factory that learns to speak. The leap did not depend solely on installing more robots. As Song Ge, head of digital manufacturing, explained to Science and Technology Daily, the dozens of machines in the plant used different protocols and software languages, a fragmentation that made it difficult to unify the line and control it as a system. The solution was to ensure that the equipment could communicate, be controlled remotely and coordinated within the same production flow. The plane behind the factory. The J-20 occupies a central place in Chinese air modernization. The Chinese Ministry of Defense confirmed in 2018 its entry into combat service and presented it as a fighter with the capacity to contest air superiority, carry out precision attacks against land and maritime targets, electronic interference and tactical command. An old dream with new machinery. The idea of ​​manufacturing almost without humans was not born with China or with the J-20. CNN recalled in 2003 That dream already came from the eighties, when General Motors imagined robots so reliable that they could assemble transmissions in the dark. That collided with a much clumsier reality: the machines did not work well even with the lights on. Today the map is broader: FANUC has operated a dark factory in Japan since 2001, Makuta Micro Molding applies that model in the United States to microinjection molding and Philips has produced electric clippers in the Netherlands with a highly automated unit supported by hundreds of robots. Looking to the future. The industrial future does not have to look like Skynet, but it does point to factories where human presence weighs less in certain production phases. And when that happens, keeping the lights on throughout the entire operation stops being a productive necessity and becomes dependent on when people enter the plant. Images | Chinese Ministry of Defense In Xataka | Airbus had a single center in the world to convert commercial aircraft into military tankers. Now another one will open in Seville

There is a booming job in the era of artificial intelligence: cybersecurity expert

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Yeah Mythosfrom Anthropic, and GPT-5.4-Cyber, from OpenAI, have been presented as models capable of detecting and exploiting vulnerabilities, the quick conclusion seems quite evident: cybersecurity profiles could begin to become redundant. After all, we are talking about models aimed at moving in one of the most delicate areas of technology: finding flaws before others take advantage of them. The answer, at least for now, goes in the opposite direction to that first intuition. AI is not making the expert irrelevant. On the contrary: today it is more necessary than ever. That signal is already beginning to be noticed clearly in the United States, where the NYT has put figures and testimonies to a trend that was gaining strength: the hiring of cybersecurity profiles. The American newspaper points out that offers in the sector grew by 11% year-on-year in the first quarter, according to Glassdoorand shows how some executive search firms are receiving more assignments to find managers with experience in security breaches, data protection and code review. The reason is not just to protect data. There is also a need to respond to incidents and understand how AI changes the risk surface of companies. The key is that this new layer of AI not only changes the tools of those who protect the systems. It also modifies the possibilities of those who try to compromise them. Reuters pointed out a few days ago that Attackers are increasingly using AI to detect vulnerabilities, and Check Point has warned in its 2026 Cybersecurity Report that AI attacks have moved from the experimental phase to a routine criminal deployment. More tools do not mean fewer cybersecurity experts The market, furthermore, is not asking for exactly the same thing as it did a few years ago. Cybersecurity continues to be the umbrella, but more specific capabilities are beginning to weigh heavily within it: AI, cloud security, engineering, analysis and risk assessment. The 2025 ISC2 Cybersecurity Workforce Study points out that hiring managers place AI among the most in-demand skills, with 27%, and professionals raised that perception to 44%. The conclusion is important: knowing about security is not enough. It is becoming increasingly important to understand how this security is integrated into complex systems obviously crossed by AI. Fortinet did a survey and found that 49% of respondents fear that AI will increase cyberattackswhile 97% of organizations already use or plan to use a cybersecurity solution that takes advantage of this technology. So it seems that companies are not only concerned about the offensive use of AI, they are also trying to incorporate it into their own defenses. And that opens up another less visible, but equally important, need: having teams capable of evaluating these tools and integrating them judiciously. In Spain, photography also points to a sector in full expansion. INCIBE summarizes it with a very useful phrase to ground the phenomenon: “Cybersecurity is already one of the most dynamic sectors of the Spanish digital economy.” According to the study on the cybersecurity industry in Spain 2025the organization places employment at 164,761 people and points out that cybersecurity already represents 25.55% of employment in the ICT sector. The forecast, furthermore, does not speak of a specific increase: between 2026 and 2029, the sector will grow at an annual rate of 14.25%, until reaching 282,157 jobs at the end of that period. “Cybersecurity is already one of the most dynamic sectors of the Spanish digital economy.” The problem is that this growth comes with an obvious tension: there are not always enough profiles prepared to cover what companies need. Deloitte formulates it from the side of those responsible for security: “Nearly 38% of CISOs identify reliance on scarce profiles as a significant challenge, reflecting a persistent gap between growing demand for capabilities and limited market supply.” The consequence is that many organizations end up relying on external talent to support your defenses. In fact, Deloitte points out that in 2026, 60% of cybersecurity personnel will be external. Seen from Spain, the phenomenon shares the same background, although with its own nuances. The United States remains one of the epicenters of the AI ​​industry and we cannot understand this trend without looking at what is happening there, but it is also not advisable to extrapolate its market dynamics as if they were identical to those of Europe. Other indicators come into play here: employment growth, relevant weight within the ICT sector and dependence on external profiles in many organizations. The conclusion, however, points in the same direction on both sides of the Atlantic: AI is forcing cybersecurity capabilities to be strengthened, not reduced. Images | Xataka with Nano Banana In Xataka | How often should we change ALL our passwords according to three cybersecurity experts

We had seen many Ebola outbreaks in central Africa, probably none like this

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After the crisis that we have experienced in Spain as a result of a strain of hantavirusthe news has spread to Africa and more specifically to the Democratic Republic of the Congo due to the Ebola virus outbreak in its strain known as Bundibugyo and that, unlike recent epidemics, it has neither a vaccine nor an approved treatment. An answer. The WHO itself has declared the outbreak in Central Africa as a public health emergency of international importance, and no wonder, since in the latest reports there are more than 800 suspected and confirmed cases. But also, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo has been settled with 180 deaths and the problem is that this virus has passed to Uganda. What makes this outbreak described by experts as a true “logistical nightmare” is not only the number of infections, but the nature of the enemy. The Achilles heel. When we think about Ebola and the medical advances made after the devastating 2014-2016 epidemic, we often refer to the Zaire ebolavirus. For that strain, science managed to develop highly effective vaccines at the time, but the new outbreak is being driven by the Bundibugyo strain, for which we do not have any pharmacological arsenal, since both viruses share only between 60-70% of their genetic material. That is, current vaccines are useless. In this way, without the possibility of vaccinating all people who have been in contact with a person who is infected to nip transmission in the bud, medical teams have been left without their most powerful containment tool. And although there are experimental vaccine candidates, WHO experts estimate that their production at scale for clinical trials could take between six and nine months. Its complexity. Added to the lack of medical arsenal is an extremely complex operational context, since the origin of the outbreak in the Ituri region was complicated by an alleged “super-spreader” event and by initial failures in diagnosis. And it is not because there is a lack of knowledge, but because the initial symptoms of Ebola are very non-specific, being fever, fatigue or muscle pain, so it can literally be anything. It is when the most serious symptoms of Ebola develop that this diagnosis is already considered, but sometimes it is too late. Furthermore, one of the diagnostic methods, such as the PCR test, is not widely available in the field as they are very expensive and complex techniques. We don’t see everything. Although we are informed that we are facing a major public health problem, it is possible that we are only facing the ‘tip of the iceberg’. Here, some experts point out that the underreporting of cases, added to the violence of armed groups in the region that prevents access for health workers, paints a scenario where isolation and contact tracing border on the impossible. We must keep in mind that access to the health system in these regions is quite limited, and that is why there may have been some deaths in the home environment without being reported because it has been confused with another endemic disease. And although the risk at a global level is low, the truth is that an immediate response is needed before the crisis takes on irreversible dimensions. Images | Gani Nurhakim National Institute of Allergy In Xataka | We believed we were prepared for a post-covid world. Hantavirus is the first serious test and the results are not optimistic

put an astronaut to “live” a year in orbit

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The Shenzhou 23 mission has been a success on its journey to Tiangongaccording to various Chinese media reports. In these, this milestone is noted as a great step forward in China’s race to the Moon. Certainly, each of these advances brings the Asian country closer to our satellite. However, it should be noted that the milestones achieved with this latest mission are rather achievements of the Chinese space race in general, and not so specific to lunar exploration. It is also worth noting that several records have been broken or are expected to be broken, but again these are particular records for this nation, not worldwide. All this indicates that they have the capacity of the great space powers, although much of what they are doing has already been done before. Three new taikonauts in space. This May 24, three taikonauts (the name by which Chinese astronauts are known in the West) they left with the help of a Long March rocket heading to the Tiangong space station. Docking with one of the station’s ports was carried out without problems 3.5 hours later. Two of the ship’s three crew members are expected to spend around 6 months in these facilities. The normal thing in these missions. However, one of them, which has not yet been specified, will break the record for spending a year in space. Background. There have already been other astronauts who have spent about a year in space. At NASA, the record is held by astronaut Frank Rubio, who spent 371 days aboard the International Space Station. Before him, at the top of the US space agency was Mark Vande Hei, with 355 days. However, both are far short of the 437 days Russian cosmonaut Valeri Polyakov spent at the Russian Mir station. The crew. The three crew members of this Chinese mission are Zhu Yangzhu, Zhang Zhiyuan and Li Jiaying. The latter is the fourth female taikonaut and the first person from Hong Kong to travel to space. Before, she was a police inspector. More first times. The next mission to Tiangong will have a Pakistani astronaut on board, so firsts will continue to be achieved. Future experiments. The astronauts who have now arrived at the Chinese space station will carry out various experiments, related to medicine, materials science, fluid physics, biology and medicine. Highlights include those carried out by the crew member who will extend his stay up to a year, since he will be the one in charge of studying how it affects microgravity to the human body in long stays. It will also focus on the psychological effects of confinement and, in general, everything that could affect the health of the next lunar colonists. Target: the Moon. Of course China has its sights set on the Moon. In fact, with their Chang’e missions, they have done a very exhaustive study of our satellite. They have managed to map it, land on your hidden side and collect samples and return them to Earth for analysis. Even has been made to germinate a seed in a simulated biosphere, within the selenite territory. The Chinese Academy of Sciences has sufficient knowledge about the Moon and has also proven to have more than competent technologies. Their goal is to land on the moon in 2030. NASA’s is set for 2028, but everything can change. At the moment, China is advancing at a good pace in its space race and that, without a doubt, is great news. At the end of the day, we should see the space race as a goal of humanity, not so much as a race between countries. Images | CMSA In Xataka | The space race between the United States and China is, above all, a race to see who can spend the most money

One of the best science fiction series in history is animated, and today it returns to HBO Max with new episodes

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In 2013, Adult Swim premiered a series about an alcoholic scientist and his teenage grandson traveling the multiverse. ‘Rick and Morty‘ seemed like another hooligan animated series, but it became, for reasons that have a lot to do with being in the right place at the right time, into one of the most relevant television phenomena of the last two decades. The ninth season has just arrived HBO Maxand everything indicates that they are going to give us more of the same. Which in the case of ‘Rick and Morty’ is always excellent news. Season 7, released in 2023, was the first without Justin Roiland, one of the series’ co-creators. Adult Swim cut ties with him in January of that year following criminal domestic violence charges (ultimately dismissed) and the ‘Rick and Morty’ characters, voiced by him, were reassigned to other actors (and if you didn’t know it, it would be impossible for you to detect it). The public reaction was cold, and it ended up having the lowest score in the series’ history on Rotten Tomatoes. The eighth season, broadcast in 2025, was proof that the series could survive trauma. It started with 100% among critics and its public score reached 93%, which finally stabilized at 79%. A considerable improvement over the previous year and more in line with the series average. Now comes the time to confirm that, indeed, the series has overcome past traumas. And he does it in a big way: with the return of Evil Morty and with the introduction of a new cosmic entitythe Collective. Furthermore, this return is accompanied by other news: Warner Bros. is in the first stages of development of a feature film. Its possible director, Jacob Hair, has helmed several episodes since 2019 and is the current supervising director of the series. According to the co-creator of the series, Dan Harmon, the intention is to invest more money and make a 90-minute episode, no more, no less. It may not seem too ambitious, but let’s not forget that we are facing one of the best science fiction series of all time. In Xataka | Five years later, there is a Netflix series so well made that psychologists recommend it to understand mental health

We have all suspected that our cell phone is listening to us. The company that sold this technology has just recognized that it was a lie

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There are many people who are convinced that cell phones listen to everything we say. We have all had the same disturbing feeling when we see an ad for something we recently talked about with a friend or family member, but have never searched for on the internet. The most solid proof that they really listen to us was a leak from a company that sold a technology called “active listening” and it did exactly what you’re thinking. Well, it was all a big lie. what has happened. They count in Wired that the US Federal Trade Commission (FCT) has fined Cox Media Group $880,000 for deceiving its customers with its active listening technology. They have also fined two other companies, MindSift and 101 Digital Networks, $25,000 each. In total, $930,000 will be used to compensate businesses that were affected by this deception. What they sold. Cox Media Group claimed that its technology could capture conversations from cell phones, smart speakers, televisions and other devices. Then, using AI, they segmented the advertising based on what people said and also based on their location, which they also claimed to be able to obtain. Their excuse was that users had already agreed to be recorded by accepting the terms of service. The company didn’t have many scruples, just look at the slogan they used to sell the product: “Is it scary? Sure. Is it great for marketing? Without a doubt.” What it really was. According to the FCT, it was all a hoax. They were not able to listen through all those devices, nor could they know the location of people. What they did was buy generic email lists from data brokers and resold them for a price much higher than their real value. The FCT also notes that agreeing to generic terms of service does not constitute explicit consent to something as invasive as these recordings. Why it is important. We are surrounded by technology that has the potential to spy on us with microphones, not only mobile phones but speakers, headphones and even smart watches. Today has not been proven that cell phones listen to everything we say, but it is a very widespread belief and these companies decided not only to feed the conspiracy theory, but also to profit from it. The answer. When the cake was revealed, Cox Media Group attempted to place the blame on an unknown third-party vendor. Speaking to Wired, a company spokesperson said that “Our local marketing team relied on marketing materials provided by a third-party vendor about their product. We quickly removed the materials and stopped use of the product.” All three defendant companies admitted fault and agreed not to make false statements about their products in the future. Image | Xataka with Gemini In Xataka | Yes, the V16 beacons transmit your position in the event of an accident. No, the DGT cannot “spy” on you with them

From Cold War bunkers to bunkers wherever

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In 1961, Switzerland required by law that practically every new building incorporate access to nuclear shelters. Decades later, the country still has more places in bunkers than inhabitantsa European rarity that for years seemed like a paranoid exaggeration and that today many governments are beginning to look at with different eyes. Europe looks underground again. For decades, European bunkers were treated like uncomfortable relics of the Cold War, spaces buried under modern cities that survived converted into warehouses, parking lots, swimming pools or simple historical curiosities. The Russian invasion of Ukraine has changed radically that perception. Governments, architects, urban planners and citizens have returned to thinking in terms that seemed to have disappeared from the continent: shelter, civil protection, urban survival and the ability to resist prolonged bombings. The most striking thing is that Europe is not only rebuilding former military shelters; is starting to convert any space underground available in potential emergency infrastructure. Garages, subway stations, tunnels, basements or sports centers become part of a new defensive geography where the priority is no longer winning a war, but ensuring that cities can continue functioning under attack. Finland never stopped preparing. I remembered the new york times that while much of Europe dismantled its civil protection systems after the end of the Cold War, Finland decided to keep intact a culture of refuge deeply linked to its history with Russia. In Helsinki, thousands of underground spaces spread under the city can become operational shelters in just 72 hours. The most surprising thing is that many operate daily such as playgrounds, parking lots, swimming pools, concert halls or sports facilities. Finnish logic has always been clear: if another war comes, civil protection cannot be improvised. The Russian invasion of Ukraine made that mentality, for years seen as a kind of Nordic obsession inherited from the 20th century, come to light. seem almost prophetic. Suddenly, families who had never thought about shelters began asking where the nearest one was, architects began debating underground protection again, and European governments began to study the finnish model as if it were a practical manual on how to survive near Russia. Germany and discovery. Latest German turn reflects the extent to which the perception of war has changed in Europe. Berlin once had about 2,000 shelters public during the cold warbut today it only preserves a few hundred partially usable for a population of more than 80 million people. Reuters counted last week that the important thing about the new German plan is not only the investment of billions in civil protection, special vehicles or warning systems, but the implicit acceptance of an uncomfortable reality: the State no longer believes it is possible to guarantee universal refuge for the entire population. Instead of rebuilding huge networks of bunkers like those of the 20th century, Germany is opting for a much more more flexible and pragmatic based on mobile alerts, improvised shelters and rapid reaction capacity. The symbol of this new strategy is not an armored concrete door, but a notification on the mobile phone indicating to the citizen which is the nearest basement or station. The war in Ukraine changes the idea of ​​security. The Ukrainian experience has destroyed many Western certainties about modern warfare. For years, many European experts assumed that future conflicts would be technological, precise and limited, making large civil refuge infrastructures unnecessary. Ukraine showed exactly the opposite: massive attacks on cities, drones over residential areas, bombings of civil infrastructure and millions of people taking refuge in metro stations once again became part of the European landscape. That finding appears constantly in the German and Finnish debate. Architects who previously considered shelters obsolete recognize now that Russia has returned to Europe a form of war much closer to the classic bombings of the 20th century than to the surgical conflicts imagined after the end of the Cold War. The uncomfortable question. Behind the return of the bunkers there appears a politically explosive issue: that of who can protect themselves really if a war breaks out. Germany is beginning to publicly assume something that it avoided verbalizing for decades: there will never be enough places for everyone. Seen this way, the debate no longer revolves solely around building shelters, but about priorities, access and real response capacity. Who receives the alert first? Who manages to arrive on time? What happens to the elderly, sick or people without mobility? Even during the Cold War, European shelters could only cover a limited part of the population, but then they worked too as a political symbol: They represented the idea that the State remained capable of protecting its citizens even under nuclear threat. Today that illusion is weakening and civil protection is beginning to be understood more as social resilience than as an absolute guarantee of survival. The underground returns to the board. Ultimately, the Berlin case sums up this transformation perfectly. Under the German capital there is still a gigantic network of tunnels, bomb shelters, adapted stations and military structures built between the Third Reich and the Cold War. For years they were archaeological or tourist spaces managed by historical associations as Berliner Unterwelten. Now some are beginning to be partially reconditioned for real civil protection uses. The significant thing is that no one is talking about resisting a total nuclear exchange, but rather about surviving to drone attacksconventional missiles or localized bombings similar to those seen in Ukraine. Europe is thus entering a scene unprecedented since the end of the 20th century: the return of shelter mentalitynot as an ideological symbol of opposing blocs, but as a practical response to the feeling that war has once again become a tangible possibility within the continent. 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