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Now they can sink anything, even islands

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we have been counting: China has transformed its naval power away from the most visible spotlights for years, constantly advancing technologies that prioritize stealth, persistence and the ability to deny access to the adversary. While international attention was focused on aircraft carriers and large surface ships, a silent evolution has been brewing under the sea that now points to a profound change in the way force is projected and conflict resolved. The unexpected weapon. Yes, far from the classic idea of ​​aircraft carriers or strategic bombers, China’s last great leap in naval warfare has not come since the most visible platformsbut from its conventional submarines, discreet and until now considered secondary to nuclear power. The incorporation of the missile YJ-19 anti-ship hypersonic to diesel-electric submarines with air-independent propulsion has turned these “ordinary” units into a threat capable of change the rules of the gamecombining extreme stealth with a strike capability designed to overcome the most advanced naval defenses and project lethal power without warning. From conventional submarine to hypersonic hunter. He YJ-19 missilepresented publicly in 2025 and now accepted for operational service, represents a qualitative leap compared to the previous YJ-18 by raising the speed of the attack to the hypersonic threshold or, in other words, it has multiplied the difficulty of detection and interception. Integrated in The Type-039B of the Yuan class, the backbone of the Chinese conventional submarine fleet, this missile transforms these vessels into the only non-nuclear submarines in the world armed with a system of this type, a move that radically reinforces the maritime denial capacity of the People’s Liberation Army Navy and places at its AIP fleet in a league of its own within the global naval balance. The silent advantage of torpedo tubes. The technical key that explains the disruptive nature of the YJ-19 missiles is not only in their speed, obviously, but in their compatibility with torpedo tubesstandard horizontal s of 533 millimeters, a ability which allows existing submarines to be modernized without practically having to resort to complex vertical launch systems. This decision saves costs, as it makes deployment cheaper, faster and more widespread, allowing, for example, a large fleet of silent submarines to launch hypersonic attacks. from hidden positionssomething that other powers cannot easily replicate with their conventional submarines. A conventional fleet as a strategic weapon. It is another of the legs that emerges after the movement. Thanks to the AIP propulsionthe Yuan can remain submerged for long periods at low speed, which allows their acoustic signal to be reduced and can operate in coastal waters or areas with restricted access. Therefore, now armed with missiles specifically designed to pierce modern naval defenses, these submarines have ceased to be simple tactical platforms and have become authentic strategic multiplierscapable of threatening entire combat groups and imposing unaffordable costs on any naval force operating near the Chinese coast. Taiwan in the background. The last reading of the advance is possibly the most obvious in terms of the future. If Beijing decided to move towards an open conflict over to the island of Taiwanthe incorporation of the YJ-19 to AIP submarines would deep implications: would allow establishing a lethal maritime encirclement without the need to expose large surface units, making it difficult for allied fleets to intervene and increasing the risk for any attempt to break a blockade. In this way, the silent, dispersed submarines armed with hypersonic missiles could attack ships, port infrastructure or even supply lines with little room for reaction, turning the sea surrounding the island into an extremely hostile environment and reinforcing the Chinese strategy of area denial from the shadow Image | CCTV, SteKrueBe In Xataka | Satellite images leave no room for doubt: China’s nuclear renaissance is already visible from space In Xataka | Chinese fighters are getting dangerously close to Taiwan’s F-16s. And they are “shooting” flares at them

A Chinese station has trained its employees to save 2 seconds on their task. Now they have 30,000 more passengers

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Think of an activity that you repeat daily. Think about how much time it takes you and what it would mean to spend two seconds less. What would you do with that time? That is what the workers and technicians at the Guangzhou South Train Station (China) have asked themselves. And the result has been spectacular: 48 more trains in motion and 30,000 more passengers on the tracks. 2 seconds. It is the time that the Chinese workers and technicians employed at the Guangzhou South Train Station (China) had in mind. It was the great objective. For more than a month, they have all been working with one goal in mind: reducing the time it takes to clean and prepare trains passing through the station by two seconds. Zhong Miao, comprehensive control service officer of Guangzhou South Railway Station, explains to the Chinese media that after a month and a half they managed to reduce the time of this task from 58 to 56 seconds. The final intention, of course, was for the train to be stopped for less time. The result. With the changes introduced, station operators were able to make way for 48 more trains in a single day. The two seconds that may seem insignificant allowed the number of passengers to increase by more than 30,000 people. To achieve this, they point out in the local mediathe operators worked with an enormous amount of data collected through numerous cameras. This station alone has a control room with 208 screens. With them they analyzed how much time passengers spent at the station and it has been possible to reduce the travel time of travelers by 17% compared to the figure collected three years ago. Guangzhou South Railway Station. For a train, two seconds was nothing short of marginal. For a station where more than half a million people pass through every day, it’s a whole world. And the new way of acting has been launched taking advantage of the Spring Festival, days in which the routes multiply taking advantage of the Chinese New Year. If the forecasts are met, on average, 530,000 passengers on Chinese high-speed trains will pass through this station every day. It is estimated that a new record was broken in October of last year when the million passengers passed through the station. It is not even the busiest station in China, its 28 platforms do not represent any record either. But to give us an idea of ​​the hustle and bustle that goes on inside, On February 13, 1,200 trains were operated in a single day as a result of the movements of the aforementioned Spring Festival. To give us an idea, during travel peaks such as Easter, 270 trains pass through Atochain which high speed is added but also long and medium distance. The longest high-speed line in the world. The station is located at a key point, near Shenzhen and Hong Kong and serves as a transit station for all travelers arriving from Southeast China to large cities such as Chongqing, Beijing or Shanghai, with which the station is connected. In fact, the Guangzhou-Beijing line is one of the crown jewels of Chinese railway service. And it is that since 2012 it is the longest high-speed line in the worldwith 2,298 kilometers. During its inauguration, it was hoped that the train would take less than eight hours to cross a distance comparable to traveling from Algeciras to Amsterdam. Today, This journey can be completed in 7 hours and 17 minutes. if you take the fastest bullet train. Photo | Tauno Tohk and Yang In Xataka | China has not only created the most extensive high-speed network in the world: it wants to operate it at 1,000 km/h and has taken a new step

It is a serious mistake according to the latest study on Alzheimer’s

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To this day, Alzheimer’s disease continues to be one of the greatest challenges in medicine to understand why it occurs, to lead to better treatments. And although pharmacology is advancing in leaps and bounds to try to stop it, science makes it increasingly clear to us that lifestyle is our best weapon to prevent the disease. And we not only talk about the diet either physical exercisebut also of how the brain is ‘trained’ with writing or reading. Some activities that we are losing. New evidence. A new study published in the prestigious magazine Neurology has pointed out that having “cognitive enrichment” throughout life can reduce the risk of developing Alzheimer’s by 38% and delay the onset of the disease up to five years. Although here the question is how the brain can be enriched to avoid this devastating disease. A protective shield. The study is based on a small sample of 1939 peoplewith an average age of 80 years and with 75% women, who did not have any type of dementia at the beginning of the experiment. From here they began to follow them for eight years with different annual evaluations to determine the degree of dementia they had. But what exactly is “cognitive enrichment”? The team of researchers measured the exposure of these individuals to intellectually stimulating environments throughout their lives, which include such everyday and accessible habits as reading, writing, learning new languages, visiting museums or libraries, and having educational resources at home from childhood. The results. Once all the data was analyzed and cross-referenced, it was possible to see that the people who had the greatest cognitive enrichment showed an incidence of Alzheimer’s of 21%. This is a figure that increases as less intellectual and cultural activity is seen, until reaching an incidence of 34% in those patients who are in the 10% range of cognitive enrichment. Overall, the group with greater stimulation had a 38% lower risk of Alzheimer’s and a 36% lower risk of mild cognitive impairment. Delaying the disease. Beyond the risk percentages, the most important thing is the delay in the onset of the disease. Here the study found that people with a highly stimulated mind delayed the onset of Alzheimer’s in about five yearsmanifesting on average at 94 years of age compared to 88 years of age in the group with less stimulation. In the case of mild cognitive impairment, the “delay” achieved was even greater when the disease debuted at age 78 to age 85. What is it due to? One of the most fascinating aspects of the work comes from analyzing different corpses to see what was happening in their own brains depending on the lifestyle they lived when they were alive. And here it was seen that cognitive enrichment did not prevent amyloid plaques from forming, which is one of the causes of Alzheimer’s. What was seen here is that people who had kept their minds active with writing or reading showed much slower cognitive decline and better memory and thinking ability, even when their brains already showed the physical damage associated with dementia. It is as if the brain, having been trained and nurtured for decades, had built other pathways to continue functioning efficiently even though the main pathways began to collapse due to the ‘junk’ in the brain generated by the disease. There are nuances. In this case we have focused on an observational study based, in part, on the memory of the patients’ own experiences, such as what they did fifty years ago. This shows an important association, but it is not a direct coincidence or indisputable by other studies. However, the findings do not fall on deaf ears, but rather They add to a mountain of previous evidence which suggests that prior enrichment reduces the pathologies associated with Alzheimer’s. This makes science point to the recommendation of dedicate at least one hour a day to hobbies and reading can protect our brain. Technology against us. It is a reality that today some activities such as handwriting have declined in favor of writing on a tablet or computer to take notes or write emails. This is also added to the fact that audiobooks are beginning to have a lot of weight in our daily lives, which means that we train our brain less and less to put on and read a good book. In this way, keeping the brain busy with activities such as crossword puzzles, sudoku or any type of activity can be essential to stop diseases as devastating as this one. Images | Thought Catalog In Xataka | Alzheimer’s no longer seems irreversible: science allows brains with advanced damage to recover for the first time in animals

deal with the websites of the Spanish administration

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Claude’s latest upgrade isn’t advertised as “smarter”: it’s advertised as an acting agent. Sonnet 4.6 Not only does he reason, he also navigates websites, fills out forms and completes procedures with the mouse and keyboard, just like a person would do. It’s a quantum leap in what AI can do for you, not to you. The demonstration chosen by Anthropic It was a great example: a user renewing his car registration on the website of the American equivalent of the DGT. It seems like a simple, functional and well-designed website. We want to see how it would go with the Electronic Headquarters of the Tax Agency. The context. Claude had already taken a big leap this month with the arrival of Opus 4.6 just two weeks ago. Sonnet 4.6 is the intermediate version, the one used by most users, including those on the free plan, and Anthropic has transformed it into more than just an improved chatbot: its OSWorld scores, the benchmark standard for measuring computer use by AI, have grown steadily for sixteen months. The company claims that tasks that previously required its most powerful model (Opus 4.5 and 4.6) are now solved by Sonnet 4.6, at the same price as always. Between the lines. There is a very clear market strategy here. Anthropic just closed a $30 billion round and aired its first ad in the Super Bowl, taking a dig at OpenAI. Now it democratizes agentic capabilities in its free plan. The objective is not only to attract developers: it is to reach the average user and change their daily relationship with AI. When chatbots started to have memory, our way of interacting with them changed. They went from tools to relationships. When they start doing things for us for real, like booking appointments, filling out forms or managing hellish paperwork, the change will be of a different magnitude. Yes, but. The technical and cultural challenge is enormous. AI that navigates computers is vulnerable to attacks of prompt injection– Malicious instructions hidden in web pages that can hijack the agent. Anthropic has improved the resistance of Sonnet 4.6 at this point, but the issue is not resolved. And that is without entering the ecosystem of European government websites, where the user experience already represents a challenge for us humans. The big question. When does a brutal demo stop being a brutal demo and become something that anyone uses to manage their tax return? That distance, between the promise of the agent and the reality of the digital bureaucracy, is where the real game is going to be played, beyond the hype. In Xataka | What is Claude Cowork, how it works, and what things you can do with this AI assistant on your computer Featured image | Anthropic, Xataka

that his boat was too

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History has given us many iconic dates, but few have left as much of an imprint and have become as iconic as that of October 12, 1492when the expedition commanded by Christopher Columbus arrived in Guanahani Island. That day his crew breathed a sigh of relief. The old and new world came (officially) into contact. And humanity took another step towards the Modern Era. That event was so important that it and its protagonists have been covered in rivers floods of ink. The last on account of a discovery in the subsoil of southern Galicia. Its protagonists are Columbus’ ships. On a farm in Pontevedra… In recent months, the residents of Pontevedra (Galicia) have looked with special interest at a plot located in the heart of the urban center, between Arcebispo Malvar Street and Avenida de Uruguay, very close to the coast of the Lérez River. The plot in question measures 14,000 m2is known in the city as ‘Finca do Teucro’ and is interesting because they want to urbanize it. Hence, some time ago the promoters of the project, promoted by Sarebthey hired a company specialized in tastings. The objective: to clarify if any important archaeological remains are hidden under the rocks and weeds of the site. Surprise under the ground. So far nothing special. Nor does it deserve to go beyond the pages of the local press. If the tastings have grabbed headlines throughout Galicia and even other regions That is why archaeologists have found it. In the most superficial layer they discovered a vestige without much historical interest, but which has shaken the nostalgia of more than one Pontevedra resident: the ancient sports court in which he trained decades ago SD Teucroa local handball team. He played there in the 60s, before doing so at the Municipal Pavilion. What is important is what the archaeologists discovered when excavating deeper levels of the estate. Their shovels revealed a stone wall and a structure that experts (in the absence of more exhaustive analysis) have identified as a medieval shipyard and a small dock. Much of the construction is still undergroundbut a priori the discovery fits with what we know about Pontevedra’s seafaring past. Now it is up to the Xunta to evaluate the remains. Why’s that? The person in charge of presenting the discovery It was the Councilor for Urban Planning, Alberto Oubiña, who recalled the role that shipyards such as the one that has just emerged under the weeds in Finca do Teucro played in their day. They did not manufacture warships or merchant vessels, nor frigates like those of Ferrol. Its function was rather different: to build and repair light boats that were then used to fish on the coast, navigate the estuaries and engage in river transport. “Everything indicates that they could have been small shipyards where people prepared and launched their barges,” clarify Oubiña. What does it have to do with Columbus? During his presentation, the councilor not only offered a few glimpses of the maritime history of Pontevedra during the Middle Ages. When talking about the shipyards in the area, he also made a comment that has attracted attention beyond from Galicia: “There are those who even say that one of the caravels with which Columbus went to Colonize America was made there.” This does not mean that in Pontevedra they believe that the vestiges of ‘Finca do Teucro’ can be directly related to the 1492 expedition (in fact the shipyard seems designed for barges), but Oubiña’s words have served to stir an old theoryclosely linked to oral tradition, which ensures that one of Columbus’s ships yes it was related with Galicia. La María, aka ‘Gallega’. Oubiña did not go into details, he only spoke of “one of the caravels” of the 1942 expedition, but his words have little of mystery. Three large ships participated in Columbus’s adventure: the caravels Pinta and Niña and the ship Santa María. Of the three, this last one is the one that has been seen with the greatest interest from the north. The reason: some historians claim that sailors knew it as ‘the Galician’a supposed nod to its place of construction. Right now its manufacturing It is usually located in Cantabria. The Galician theory dates back to at least the 19th century and a few years ago he was in charge of remembering her in Pontevedra Viva Guillermo García de la Riega Bellver when reviewing some of the theses defended in the essay ‘La Gallega, Nao Capitana de Colón’. The work states that “there is no justification” that the Santa María was actually built in Cantabria and, after remembering the ship’s nickname (‘La Gallega’), it argues that in 15th century Pontevedra “boats of all kinds” were also built, not just barges. Why is it important? For several reasons. The first, because the theories about the Galician link of the Santa María ship are by no means new. It was drawn up several centuries ago by the scholar Martin Sarmiento. The origin of that specific ship is especially interesting due to the central role (the admiral was traveling on it) that it played in Columbus’s expedition that ended up reaching America. The second reason is that the theory about the supposed Pontevedra origin of the Santa María connects with another, much more popular hypothesis, which assures that Columbus himself I had Galician roots. Its defenders place its birthplace in the south of Galicia. There are those who even identified him with a capital figure in the Late Middle Ages of Galicia: Pedro Álvarez de Sotomayor, ‘Pedro Madruga’. Images | Wikipedia 1 and 2, Sareb In Xataka | Statues of Columbus have reached Japan and Egypt. And that tells us something crucial about his controversial figure.

All Big Tech are betting the money they have and the money they don’t have on the future of AI. All but one: Apple

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650 billion dollars. There it is nothing. That is the total amount that Google, Amazon, Meta and Microsoft are going to invest in data centers for AI. That amount of money is astonishing and is similar to the current GDP of countries like Argentina or Israel. But the curious thing is not only that: there is a Big Tech that is totally ignoring this fever to spend on AI as if there were no tomorrow. Apple against the current. The company led by Tim Cook is the only one of the group of large technology companies whose capex (planned capital expenditure) was reduced last quarter. Based on FactSet data compiled by SherwoodApple’s forecasts for that quarter were not to spend more, but attention, spend (quite a bit) less. The numbers don’t lie. According to the data provided by these companies, Amazon expects that in 2026 its capex reaches up to 200,000 million dollars. Google wants to go from 175,000 to 185,000 million. Meta estimates that the expense will be between 115,000 and the 135,000 million. And although Microsoft did not give a specific figure, it surely exceeds the $114 billion estimated by Wall Street. And Apple? Apple will not spend more, but 19% according to its latest estimates: about $12.7 billion. Amazon: +42% YoY (vs. previous year) Microsoft: +89% YoY Google: +95% YoY Goal: +48% YoY Apple: -19% YoY Cupertino goes from AI. While its competitors spent record sums last quarter (which ended December 31) on the purchase of material and properties linked to the AI ​​sector and data centers, Apple continues not to invest in this sector. It is something that makes it clear that the company seems to have definitively decided that this is not its war. Siri+Gemini is the best test. Confirmation of that “surrender” is in the recent announcement that Gemini will be the AI ​​on which the new version of Siri will be based. Apple’s new AI assistant is expected to hit the market this spring with at least some initial features, but the fact that it does so depends entirely on Google’s AI model makes it clear that Apple here prefers to delegate rather than invest to have its own foundational model. AI will be a commodity. Instead of participating in this costly war of language models, Apple is clear that AI is going to end up being a commodity, something that is going to become a basic standard technology like the PC, mobile phone or laptop is now. Model prices plummet as the capacity of those models grows, and benchmarks make it clear that no model is better than another for long. Apple as a gateway to AI. As usual, what Apple will do is take advantage of the fact that has the “gateway to AI. With 2.4 billion devices worldwide, it controls the most valuable distribution channel on the planet. It has the luxury of not making “the engine,” but rather acting as an avenue to bring AI to the masses. Here agreements like the one it has completed with Google are just the beginning. It doesn’t matter being late. It is something that is in the company’s DNA. He also did not want to fight the search engine battle, but it did not matter: he reached an agreement with Google, which has paid him billions of dollars for years to be able to put its search engine as the default engine on iPhones, iPads and Macs. Apple prefers that others pave the way and absorb the costs of early learning. Then she usually arrives with superior integration and a refined experience (iPod, iPhone) or directly with deals like the one she completed in the search engine space. AI will be invisible and ubiquitous. Apple’s goal doesn’t seem to be to offer its own chatbot on the web, but to make AI invisible and ubiquitous. It doesn’t matter which model runs behind it, but simply that this AI works transparently for the user. And it does so, of course, seamlessly integrated into Apple services and applications. Privacy by flag. And of course, with that vaunted commitment to privacy that Apple always boasts of. Its Private Cloud Compute is the best proof of this. By not relying on advertising (hello Google, hello OpenAI), it is able to offer advanced features without collecting massive data from users. But there is risk. Still, the strategy has a critical risk: if AI models become a commodity and end up creating technological monopolies, Apple could be permanently at the mercy of its suppliers. If these competitive advantages end up being consolidated in the model layer – the one controlled by OpenAI, Anthropic and Google – and not in the integration layer – which is Apple’s – the dependence on third parties will be a dangerous strategic weakness. Room for maneuver. Apple has annual benefits close to 100 billion dollars, which gives it an enviable financial position to wait for this “hype” cycle to cool down. It is clear that there is an AI bubble and that bubble will probably end up exploding and leaving many victims. If it does, one of those that will undoubtedly have room to maneuver to survive will be Apple. Image | Xataka with Freepik In Xataka | China does not have a spending problem with AI. What it has is a huge income gap compared to its main rival

What they are and how to use them to create web applications within artificial intelligence

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Let’s explain to you What are Claude’s Artifacts and how do they work?, one of the functions unique and most differentiating of this chat artificial intelligence. With it, you will be able to create web applications in Claudewhich you will be able to execute and use directly on your website or application. Anthropic’s AI is one of the leaders in the industry, and also the most important for programmers, with other functions such as Claude Code. We are going to start the article by explaining in a simple way what exactly artifacts are, and then we will tell you step by step how they can be created. What are Claude’s artifacts? Claude’s Artifacts are a functionality that allows this artificial intelligence model generate structured contentsuch as code, long documents and complete interfaces. The result will then be shown to you in a separate panel, but within the same conversation. If you have ever used Claude, you will have already noticed that there are times when instead of responding to you with plain text it makes a small functional application. This happens because this AI has a kind of internal mechanism to be able to generate this type of content. There are many types of artifact. They can be web pages written in HTML, CSS and JavaScript, or simple games made with these languages. There may also be interactive React components, charts and data visualizations, Markdown documents, diagrams, or vector images. In this way, on the one hand you will have the code in the text window, but also you will have the possibility to execute it. Think for example that you want to build an application. The rest of the AIs may only generate the code for you, but with Claude an artifact is generated that you can launch and test. And then, if there are things that you want to change that don’t work, you just have to tell the AI ​​so that it can make the modifications and regenerate the artifact. And the same thing happens with the other formats supported by the artifacts. When you ask them to write an article, telling you a structure that contains titles, subtitles, different font sizes, etc., in addition to showing you the code you will also have to access the artifact, in this case a docx documentand download it to your computer. This means that instead of generating purely textual responses that you then have to transform into something useful, you are directly receiving the final product you want, or at least a functional version of it, and you can even download the file. How to use Claude’s artifacts To use Claude’s artifacts, you have to enter the AI ​​website or application and click on the section Artifacts from the left sidebar. This will take you to the section where you have various examples and templates. When you click on one of them, you will go to a screen where you will see a screenshot or the prompt to write to create it. You will also have an option to customize. This will help you test your first artifacts and explore methods to modify them. In the artifact index you will also have a tab to see the ones you have created, and a button New artifact to proceed to create a new one step by step. This will take you to a screen where you will be able to choose an artifact categoryand by clicking on it you will go to a step by step that will help you create your artifact. For example, if you click on the category of GamesClaude will then ask you what you want to do with this category, being able to create a game as an artifact. So, then you will go step by step where you are guided through everything, choosing the type of game, and other characteristics that you want it to have to give the AI ​​enough context to create it. ANDThis will help you when you are not sure the type of code you want to use or how to describe to Claude the artifact you want to generate. It is very useful for beginners, and the best way to start. You can also create artifacts with a prompt in which you describe exactly what you want. You can mention in it that you want to create precisely an artifact, and then describe the language of the application and what exactly you want to use. In Xataka Basics | Claude: 23 functions and some tricks to get the most out of this artificial intelligence

The US chip industry is being forged in Silicon Valley. Curiously, the hammer is held by South Korea

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The United States has embarked on a journey of technological sovereignty. It has some of the largest and most cutting-edge technology companiesbut they depend on foreign companies. That’s why, Appield Materials has put 5 billion dollars on the table seeking US technological hegemony. And, in this ambitious project, it is not an American who has slipped in as founding partner of the EPIC Center. It’s Samsung. EPIC. It’s a “modest” name for a $5 billion facility that will be in the heart of Silicon Valley. The name comes from Equipment and Process Innovation and Commercialization and is the spearhead of American investment in research and development of advanced semiconductor equipment. Its objective is to accelerate the development of equipment and processes to create advanced memory chips, shortening traditional cycles when developing cutting-edge chips. The installation is imposingwith more than 16,700 m² of clean room and is expected to come into operation this spring. Samsung. And, in that ambitious objective, is the South Korean company. The alliance is to address one of the semiconductor industry’s most important challenges: the long time required to bring new chip technologies to market. from research to production. The EPIC Center is not a competition for the European ASMLbut something complementary to shorten those processes that can take between 10 and 15 years. And Samsung will be there as one of the founding partners. Samsung Electronics CEO Young Hyun Jun commented that the collaboration will allow “advance in cutting-edge semiconductor equipment technologies.” The EPIC Center Expansion. Samsung is one of the most important foundries in the world and, in the era of artificial intelligence, it is consolidating itself as a pillar by being the first that will supply NVIDIA of the new HBM4 memories. Its presence at the EPIC Center seems like a key strategic move, but it is not the only advance that the company has recently made on American soil. In that pursuit of creating high-bandwidth memory and advanced systems, Samsung has a facility in TaylorTexas, to advance the production of 2 nanometer chips. Foreign industrial fabric. One of Donald Trump’s goals was to recover the American industrial fabric with American companies and American labor. That’s why he ‘rescued’ Intel a few months ago with the aim that the company was his great foundry. And it is having its fruits: Intel has risen from the ashes with new advanced processors and is positioning itself to supply both NVIDIA and Apple. However, what is also arriving is foreign muscle like Samsung and something more serious: TSMC. The Taiwanese giant is the company on which the entire semiconductor and device industry pivots, and it is increasingly becoming making more land in the United States to manufacture in the country and continue with a diversification project which includes Europe. That is to say, the United States is reindustrializing and is taking steps to have an authoritative voice in the semiconductor manufacturing industry, but much of that muscle belongs to the same old foreign companies… that will simply now also produce in the United States. HBM4. Meanwhile, Samsung continues to do its thing. Not only are they at full production HBM4 memoriesbut also investigating the possible replacement for that technology: DRAM memories in which Intel and SoftBank are also taking steps. And in addition to their own Exynos for their mobiles, there are sources who claim that ByteDance, TikTok’s parent company, is developing its own chip for artificial intelligence and is in talks with Samsung for it to be manufactured. Images | Applied Materials (edited) In Xataka | China’s future in the chip industry is in the hands of a single, almost unknown company: SiCarrier

If they interrupt you during your mealtime, they have to pay for it.

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Many employees of public serviceemergencies or maintenance do not really have a lunch break, but rather they must interrupt that break in their day to return to work and attend to a customer, answer a call or go out to an emergency. The Supreme Court has established a criterion that can change the way in which many companies count that meal break, which, in many cases, does not count as effective work time, but rather as rest time. a sentence has left no room for doubt: if the employee must be available during meal time, it’s work time and, as such, it must be compensated. What happened? The labor dispute that reached the Social Chamber of the Supreme Court had its origin in an ambulance services company in Barcelona. Employees were assigned a break one hour a day to eat but, due to the nature of the service, they had to remain contactable and available during that meal time to deal with possible incidents. The unions considered that this situation converted that time into effective work, given that workers could not disconnect from their obligations and go, for example, to eat at home or to a restaurant. In principle, the Superior Court of Justice of Catalonia (TSJC) agreed with the union representatives and annulled the modification of conditions proposed by the company, forcing it to continue considering this break as effective working time and, therefore, to remunerate it. What the Supreme Court ruling says. The High Court ruled that, in that case, the meal break should be counted as effective work time. The Supreme Court considers that there is no real disconnection of the worker from the company, since he must remain available in case any unforeseen event arises. To argue its brief, the court distinguishes two scenarios. On the one hand, if the company guarantees a total disconnection of the employee during their meal break, that period can be considered rest and, in principle, not be compensated as effective work time. On the other hand, if the company cannot guarantee that this total disconnection occurs (for example, because the worker must answer calls, reply to emails or remain available for incidents), that time must be counted as effective working time and included in the salary. The key: how the day should be counted. In practice, this ruling calls into question a widespread routine in which meal time is systematically discounted as if it were a real break, even when the worker is still available for the company. The Supreme Court uses article 34 of the Workers’ Statute which defines the working day and specifies that in working days of more than six hours, a rest time of no less than 15 minutes must be established, which counts as effective working time, as well as the fact that the worker is available for the company during that time. This criterion has direct effects about time registration and on the calculation of the day since, if this disconnection occurs, the working day must stop, but it continues if the employee is available for the company, even if he is not doing the work. in the usual way. What companies should do. The Supreme Court’s message to companies is that, if they want the meal break not compute as workthey must be able to prove that there is real disconnection, that the worker can freely use that rest time and is not obliged to be reachable or conditioned to interrupt that break early. In sectors with continuous activity, such as ambulance services, commerce or public services, it may involve reorganizing shifts or assigning relief that allows the employee to disconnect without the service being left unattended. Otherwise, the meal break is considered part of the work day. Importance of work disconnection. The Supreme Court’s criteria fit with the labor debate about digital disconnection and the importance of rest for workers. The ruling is not limited to saying that the meal “is paid” or “is not paid”, but links that response to a much more verifiable element: whether the worker really has the ability to disconnect or not during that period. Ultimately, what this doctrine introduces is an incentive for companies to better define what is rest and what is not It is during your work day. In Xataka | If the question is whether they can force you to work on weekends if you work from Monday to Friday, the Supreme Court gives the answer: no. Image | Unsplash (logan jeffrey)

“We didn’t expect this.” A Ukrainian drone has revealed a Russian arsenal in a warehouse, and the surprise has been huge: the missiles are animals

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From the early stages of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, when tanks were advancing while logistics columns were bogged down and fuel was scarce, the war began to reveal an uncomfortable paradox: the more modern it became in the skies, more “medieval” It was done on the ground. In fact, in that space where drones, satellites and trenches coexist, the return of solutions from the past apparently overcome was an early sign that the conflict was going to be, above all, a test of resistance. The latest Ukrainian discovery has confirmed that the wear and tear is tremendous. The return of the war of attrition. The irony is that the war in Ukraine has been shedding any illusion of modernity to return, as the days go by, to brutal logic of wear, one in which the quantity and capacity to take losses They weigh more than any technological “game changer”, and where the Russian army, pressured by the massive consumption of material and men, is beginning to show obvious signs of logistical exhaustion. On the southern and eastern front, the shortage of armored vehicles and modern systems is no longer hidden with silence, but is manifest in improvised solutions reminiscent of conflicts from another era and centuries, while Moscow insists on maintaining constant pressure on Ukrainian defenses at any cost. Cavalry in the 21st century. This wear and tear became visible at the beginning of 2026 when Ukrainian units detected and neutralized Russian assaults carried out on horseback, a tactic that seemed banished from modern warfare but that reappeared in sectors such as Oleskiivka in response to lack of means conventional. We are talking about small assault groups that advanced mounted, supported by prior reconnaissance, in infiltration attempts that ended up being aborted by drones and fire defensive, leaving such an absurd image (and repeated) as revealing: many horses survived, but the soldiers did not, and the Russian army confirmed that it was willing to resort to any available resources to sustain its offensive. The drone and the impossible arsenal. Now, the scene What finally condensed this drift came several weeks later, when a Ukrainian drone sneaked through the destroyed roof of a hidden warehouse, several kilometers from the line of contact, with the usual expectation of finding ammunition, fuel or military vehicles. What happened gives an idea of ​​these four years of slow war that has worn down both sides. Instead of artillery and technology to advance, the camera showed something that looked like something out of a rural garage: aging civilian cars, motorcycles from another era, and saddled horses, an “arsenal” as unexpected as it is eloquent of the state of the war in many areas. The message. “We didn’t expect to see this. It was really unusual,” said the drone pilot. to the Insider mediumspeaking on condition that he only be identified by his callsign “Cosmos.” “We were hoping to find some armored vehicles,” he added. He video It went viral because it summarized in seconds the real state of Russian logistics, but also because it demonstrated that those animals were not an isolated anecdote, but part of a system that already uses cheap and expendable media to move and attack under the constant threat of drones. Russia and the logic of sacrifice. For the Ukrainian commanders, this discovery is neither trivial nor a simple curiosity, but rather proof of a way of waging war based on accepting massive losses of material and personnel, replacing armored by civilian cars and horses because they are easier to replace. This logic, which prioritizes the attrition of the enemy, even if the cost is enormous, explains why Moscow continues to advance slowly, launching assaults with many times obsolete or improvised in regions such as Donbas, even when the monthly casualty figures, according to NATOreach levels that are difficult to sustain. If you will, the drone that expected to find missiles and found animals ended up portraying, better than any report, a war that moves backwards while consuming everything at hand. Image | 82nd Air Assault Brigade, State Border Guard Service of Ukraine In Xataka | It is evident that Russia can absorb thousands and thousands of casualties. So Ukraine is already designing a much riskier plan In Xataka | An unprecedented experiment is happening in Ukraine: bombs have turned dogs into other animals

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