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Athletics has just experienced its own “moon landing.” And Adidas has defeated Nike in its particular space race

April 28, 2026 by usatoday24

May 6, 2017. Eliud Kipchoge appears on the finish line of the Monza circuit, northern Italy. This time the sound of the engines is provided by the crash against the asphalt of the athletes who accompany the Kenyan in the breaking 2the first attempt to go under two hours in marathon distance. But it is the tires that attract attention. The feet fit the Nike Vaporfly Elite. A very high profile, a foam with an absorption capacity unlike anything seen before. And the most striking thing: a carbon plate. The promise is that the shoe saves energy when running. That is, fatigue comes later and/or the athlete can run faster with the same feeling of effort. Almost a decade ago, Eliud Kipchoge was a handful of seconds away from breaking the two-hour marathon distance. He breaking 2 It did not break the desired 120-minute barrier, but Nike had just opened a new page in the history of athletics. A space race began that has ended almost nine years after that challenge. On April 26, 2026, the moon was reached. But Adidas has put the flag. A photo for history Since 2017 we have been wondering who would be the first man to break under two hours in a conventional marathon. Eliud Kipchoge himself achieved it the following year, becoming the first to complete the 42,195 meters in less than 120 minutes. But the event, surrounded by hares, with a car making a screen to block the wind and with mobile supplies, could not be validated as a world record. In 2018, in the Berlin marathon, considered one of the circuits faster of the world, Eliud Kipchoge amazed by stopping the clock at 2:01’39”. The following year, the legendary Kenenisa Bekele was just two seconds away from that same record in one of the cruelest final stretches in history. At that time, records were already falling in pairs with the new Nike carbon plate. Athletes were breaking records at the same rate as complaints of technological doping were rising. Some, in fact, They broke contracts when they understood that they were playing at a disadvantage. With the world’s fastest man in the long distance 99 seconds away from breaking the two-hour barrier, the question of whether we would ever see this milestone was more than repeated. In 2022, Kipchoge managed to get closer and made us dream. He finally exceeded it by one minute and nine seconds. On April 26, 2026, Sabastian Sawe put the flag on the Moon. And Yomif Kejelcha propped it up. Adidas had won the space race with a photo that will go down in history. Since Nike revolutionized the market with the launch of the first Vaporfly, athletics brands went into combustion. Sneakers with carbon plates multiplied, foams softened and became more reactive. The competition arrived and Nike seemed to have fallen behind. Kelvin Kiptum in 2023 proved that we were wrong, that he was the main candidate to break the mythical barrier. He was 35 seconds away from achieving it in the Chicago Marathon but a car accident ended his life a few months later. A few months earlier, Tigst Assefa stopped the clock in a historic 2:11’53” in the Berlin Marathon. He had just shaved almost two minutes off the world record. On his feet, the Adidas Adizero Adios Pro EVO 1. The Nike-Adidas battle is on fire and in 2024 Ruth Chepngetich, dressed by Nike, becomes the first woman in history to beat 2 hours and 10 minutes. The following year, Chepngetich is sanctioned for doping but it does not affect this record. This same year in Barcelona, Fotyen Tesfay manages to go under two hours and 11 minutes and Adidas also already has the second fastest mark in the history of the women’s marathon. But the final blow was given yesterday. Only two men have gone under two hours in a conventional marathon. They both wear Adidas. From the Vaporfly to the Adizero Adios Pro EVO 3 When Nike first released the Vaporfly, all hell broke loose. Not only among the more or less amateur public, athletes verified on the spot that their shoes were not up to par with those of the Oregon brand. Until its arrival, competition shoes had been standardized in minimal profiles and low drop (the difference in height between the front and rear area). The Vaporfly blew up what was known until then. Impossible heights for the time, very soft foams and zero “feel” of the asphalt for feet accustomed to always being close to the ground. However, for some reason, they worked. The improvement was quickly attributed to the carbon plate but the plate is only one of the pieces that make the whole work. Although it was directly attributed to the plate, the truth is that that sensation of “catapult” and extreme rebound of the foot was the result of using a supercritical foam with a lot of return. In fact, the carbon served to structure the shoe and give stability to the foot. Javi Moro, head of material at the magazine Corridorexplains that these foams “are very light and have a great capacity to retain and return energy” but emphasizes that they really have not changed much in general. “They have changed the curvatures of the plate and the midsoles to generate more rocker effect,” he explains, although he emphasizes that it is more as a means to adapt to all types of audiences “because not all runners tolerate the same type of plate in the same way.” This swing is more pronounced as brands have sought the limits of the regulations. World Athletic, which organizes major events and certifies the tests and the validity of the results, prevents competition with shoes whose height between the ground and the support of the insole exceeds 40 mm. But brands play with “where” those measurements are taken (at two specific points, heel and midfoot) to play with the geometries and try to put more foam … Read more

The problem is that China has taken note

April 28, 2026 by usatoday24

In the middle of World War II, several neutral merchant ships crossing the Atlantic were intercepted and diverted to British ports without being sunk, where specialized judges They decided their destiny weeks later. That almost bureaucratic process converted each capture in a legal matter as well as military. The return of a buried law. Last week we count how the capture of the ship M/V Touska by the United States in the Gulf of Oman, an action that has returned to the foreground a legal tool that had been out of the real debate for decades: the right of prey. This mechanism allows intercepting and, if is legally validatedappropriating civilian ships in the context of war, something that had not been applied in a relevant way since the mid-20th century. The operation is not limited to a specific military action, it introduces a change in how control over maritime trade can be exercised in an open conflict. What it really means. This legal framework is activated only in war situations and establishes that a ship can be captured if you violate a locktransports material useful to the enemy or refuses to be inspected. After capture, the ship is taken to a port under the control of the captor and subjected to a specific judicial process. Finally, if the court considers that the seizure is legitimate, the ship and its cargo pass into the hands of the State that intercepted it, turning a naval operation into a tool with direct economic consequences. How it was used in the past. During World War II, these types of regulations were part from normal operation of naval warfare. The powers involved intercepted merchant ships on the high seas to prevent supply to the enemyespecially on strategic Atlantic routes. Many of these ships were taken to controlled ports and subjected to prize courts, which decided whether they should be confiscated, released or destroyed. The system allowed the opponent to be weakened no need to sink all ships, integrating the legal dimension into military strategy. The British ship HMS Blanche towing the French frigate Pique, after having captured it Aiming beyond Iran. It happens, chow we explainthat the case of Touska acquires greater relevance due to its journey and its connections. Your route from Asia to Iranwith stops in Chinese ports, has introduced a third actor into the equation, elevating the significance of the capture. In fact and as trump hintedthe possibility that it was transporting material linked to China has turned the operation into a broader message about controlling trade routes in a war environment, where each interception can have additional diplomatic implications. From blocking to economic tool. Applying this framework not only allows stopping traffic to a country, it also opens the door to appropriate resources that circulate in that system. This introduces an additional incentive into naval warfare and modifies the behavior of external actors. Who is it? From shipping companies, to insurers and states that operate on these routes, they must recalculate risks, which can translate in route changesincreased costs and greater uncertainty in international trade. Notice to sailors. There is no doubt, the immediate impact extends beyond the captured ship. The possibility of losing an entire ship, along with its cargo, changes perception of risk for operators who until now moved in a more predictable terrain. Countries that offer flags of convenience or companies that work in gray areas may find themselves dragged into complex legal processeswhich adds pressure to avoid any links to routes or destinations under blockage. The boomerang effect. Not only that. He United States movement It introduces a dynamic that it does not completely control, because by recovering this doctrine, it establishes a precedent that other actors can use in future scenarios. Here are names of powers with great maritime and commercial capacity, like chinawhich have the necessary volume to apply similar measures if the context allows it. This opens a new potential front where the maritime interdiction It can escalate beyond a regional conflict. The sea as a battlefield. Ultimately, the Touska case marks something deeper than the capture of a single vessel. It signals a possible transition towards a model where naval warfare combines military force and legal tools of the past to influence global trade. In that scenario where “pirate” jargon seems have a revivaleach operation is no longer isolated and becomes part of a chain of decisions that can be replicated in different parts of the planet, expanding the scope of conflicts and giving a twist to what was understood by the rules of the game at sea. Image | NAVCENT Public Affairs, Robert Dodd In Xataka | Now we know that the Iranian Air Force did to the US what Ukraine could not do to Russia with drones: an abysmal hole In Xataka | If the war resumes again, the US runs a risk unprecedented in the history of war: that the only one with missiles will be Iran.

Where is really the limit of the human being?

April 28, 2026 by usatoday24

April 26, 2026 will go down in history: Sabastian Sawe won the London marathon and became the first human being to go under two hours in an approved race. What’s more, in that same race Yomif Kejelcha and Jacob Kiplimo They also had better times than the previous world record (although only Sawe and Kejelcha went under two hours). Therefore, the key question is no longer When will we be able to get under two hours in the marathon? and it will start to be “where is the physiological limit of the human body really?” The question is essential, yes; but we cannot approach it naively. There are two factors without which Sawe would not have been able to achieve the record: the sneakers (which, although they are from Adidas, are part of the revolution that promoted Nike a few years ago) and nutrition (worked with Swedish nutrition specialists Maurten for 12 months to design a specific provisioning protocol). If the contemporary quest to break the two-hour mark has shown anything, it is that running goes far beyond a physiological issue. What variables rule in the physiological section? Since 1991, the physiology of the marathon is usually understood following a simple model that said Michael Joyner of the Mayo Clinic.. According to Joyner, sustained marathon pace depends on three variables: The maximum amount of oxygen that the body can absorb per minute. The maximum amount you can sustain for hours without accumulating lactate faster than it is eliminated. The energy cost of maintaining a given speed. Joyner, who lived in a world where the record was 2:06:50, theorized that the limit It should have been around 1:57:58. That’s not enough. Years later, Andy Jones from the University of Exeter added one more factor: physiological resilience. That is, the ability for these three variables to deteriorate as little as possible during two hours of racing. For this reason, shoes and supplies are essential: They are two tools that improve efficiency and resilience. In fact, many experts maintain that the 2016 revolution is a break in the series and the records are “technological, not physiological“. This is important because, using models of the Joyner variables, we can make conjectures of the physiological limit “as long as the same technological conditions are maintained.” And what is the limit right now? Following the real values of the Breaking2 projectsubtracting resilience and considering technological and nutritional improvements, the realistic limit would be between 1:55 and 1:57. Below 1:55 we would need an athlete with physiological capabilities that we have not seen yet. It’s not impossible, but it’s very unlikely. Image | Miguel Amutio In Xataka | More and more people participate in popular marathons. Science knows that being overly optimistic has its risks

It’s Sandisk and it has accumulated 3,000%

April 28, 2026 by usatoday24

The thing about Sandisk growth on the stock market It is to study it carefully. Has accumulated almost 3,000% revaluation in the last year, and is another example of how the AI fever and RAM crisis They are shaping the technology industry and markets. And the company that many of us have known for its USB pendrives and memory cards has become one of the companies that will be the most talked about in 2026. lseparation from Western Digital. In February 2025, Sandisk completed its separation from Western Digital and began trading independently on the Nasdaq. For almost a decade, the company had been buried under the umbrella of its parent company, tied to a conventional hard drive business that was growing slowly while the AI sector accelerated and gave wings to the rest of the companies that made critical components for data centers. At the time of going on the market as an independent company, the stock started at around $48. Nothing strange so far. AI once again plays its role in the market. Actually, Sandisk has not invented anything revolutionary now, but everything has to do with the data center storage demand. The flash memory manufacturing company Kioxia warned last January that its supply of NAND for this entire year was already exhausted. And these types of stories are what make companies start looking at alternatives. Data centers dedicated to AI need to store gigantic volumes of data to train models and infer results. When they ran out of traditional hard drives (HDDs), they turned to SSD. And when SSDs also became scarce, prices skyrocketed. According to Kingstonanother manufacturer of flash memory products, NAND prices increased by 246% throughout 2025. Sandisk, being one of the world’s leading manufacturers of NAND memory, found itself at the center of this perfect storm, and in the best possible position. 3,000%. Sandisk’s revenue in the fiscal second quarter of 2026 reached 3,030 million dollarsa growth of 61% year-on-year, while earnings per share multiplied by more than five compared to the same period of the previous year. Revenue from data centers grew 76% year over year in that same quarter, according to the company’s own results filed with the SEC. The company has publicly acknowledged that its factories are working at full capacity. In this way, the accumulated value of its shares has skyrocketed by more than 3,000%, going from just $30 to surpassing the $1,000 barrier in just over a year. The key is in Kioxia. A fundamental part of Sandisk’s competitive advantage is its historic alliance with Japan’s Kioxia, formerly Toshiba Memory. This joint venture of more than twenty years allows them to share the astronomical costs of manufacturing chips, which translates into margins higher than those of most of their rivals. In this way, as we already explained At the end of January, when NAND prices rise, Sandisk does not need to invest in new factories to earn much more, as the additional revenue falls directly into the profit margin. It’s the equivalent of almost free money in a bull market. The data center segment currently represents more than 55% of sales quarterly from Sandisk, compared to the 30% it represented before the split with WD. The entry to the Nasdaq-100. A few days ago, Sandisk joined the Nasdaq-100 indexwhich mechanically forces all ETFs and index funds that track that index to buy shares of the company. This carryover effect has given Sandisk an additional boost to its already flying stock. And now what? The big question is how long this can last. NAND prices they have risen 60% in the first quarter of 2026, with forecasts for another 70-75% increase in the coming months. The CEO of Micron has already publicly declared that the memory shortage will last until 2027. As shared by Ind Money, several analysis firms assure that the crisis could extend until 2028. We will see. As for companies like Samsung, SK Hynix and Kioxia, the triad of memory companies, they plan to significantly increase your production in the coming years in response to the shortage. Cover image | sandisk In Xataka | China has banned another AI startup from exporting talent and research: little by little, it is “nationalizing” AI

Google says that 75% of its new code already comes from machines

April 28, 2026 by usatoday24

What if much of the software we use every day was already beginning to be written in a different way? AI has been entering programming for some time through the door of the assistants, code suggestions and small automations, but what is beginning to be seen now goes much further. The question is no longer just whether these systems help to write faster, but what happens when a large technology company decides to rely on them systematically. Google has given a pretty clear clue as to where that transition is going. Google’s jump. The figure was put on the table by Sundar Pichai in a blog post linked to Cloud Next 2026. According to Google’s CEO, the company has been using AI to generate code internally for some time and today 75% of all new code is already generated by AI and approved by engineers. The jump is not minor: last fall, that percentage was 50%. In just a few months, Google has gone from already very high usage to placing AI at the center of much of its software production. Precision matters. That nuance is not minor: generated by AI does not mean accepted without human control. Pichai talks about code generated by these systems, but also approved by engineers, a necessary difference to not oversize the data. Richard Seroter, Senior Director, Google Cloud, He explained it to Fast Company noting that that human approval is “fundamental in this area.” Google’s reading is that AI can take on an increasing part of production, but within a flow in which engineers continue to validate, correct and make decisions. Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google Google’s internal turn. Pichai did not present this advance as a simple productivity improvement, but as part of a shift towards “truly agentive” workflows. As he explained, Google engineers are orchestrating autonomous digital teams, launching agents to complete tasks that previously depended much more on direct human work. The example he cited helps measure the scope of that transition: A complex code migration, performed by agents and engineers, was completed six times faster than was possible just a year ago with engineers working alone. The engineer changes places. Google’s thesis is not that the programmer disappears, but that their work is displaced. Seroter explained to Fast Company that, with this new distribution of tasks, engineers can focus on higher-value tasks: systems architecture, design and solving complex problems. In this new distribution, manual code writing loses part of its weight and the ability to direct, review and convert those pieces into real products gains importance. The contrast with the rest of the sector. A Sonar survey from earlier this year notes that 96% of developers acknowledge that they do not fully trust AI-generated code, and that 52% do not always review it for errors before incorporating it. At the same time, the weight of these tools is growing very quickly: the code generated by AI would have gone from 6% in 2023 to 42% in the latest report, with a forecast of 65% for 2027. So we have reasons to say that adoption is ahead of trust. Images | Xataka with Grok | Stanford Graduate School of Business In Xataka | A young man has solved a mathematical problem that lasted 60 years in 80 minutes with ChatGPT. That’s the least interesting thing about the story.

US companies continue to pursue larger and larger AI models. Those from China continue to demonstrate that it is not necessary

April 28, 2026 by usatoday24

Until now, Alibaba had a great open model for programming. It is based on Qwen3.5-397B-A17B, but the problem is that it was gigantic with its 397 billion parameters and 807 GB of disk (and memory) size. The Chinese company has done something surprising and has announced these days the Qwen3.6-27B modelwhich in its quantized version weighs less than 17 GB. You would think that at that size he would be much worse than his older brother. But you would be wrong. It is proof that it is possible to give for much less. A dense model. Most large weight models open in 2026 use Mixture-of-Experts architecture (MoE): They have many parameters in total, but only activate a fraction of them when we use them. For example, the Qwen3.5-397B-A17B model precisely indicated that in its name: of the 397,000 million parameters, it only activated 17,000 million (hence the A17B) when using it. With Qwen3.6-27B we have what is called a dense model: the 27 billion parameters are activated in each inference. Although it is somewhat less efficient, it has clear practical advantages. For example, there is no need to configure an expert router, and quantization is more predictable and compact. The idea has worked, and the results prove it. The performance of this “small” AI model is even higher than a much larger previous version. Benchmarks don’t lie (too much). In SWE-bench Verifiedthe most popular benchmark for real programming tasks, Qwen3.6-27B achieves 77.2% score compared to 76.2% for the 397B model. In Terminal-Bench 2.0, which measures how well the model executes tasks in the command console, it achieved 59.3% compared to 2.5% for its rival. But in this test it achieves exactly the same score as Claude Opus 4.5, one of the best recent Anthropic models. That an “Open Source” model that can be easily used locally achieves something like this is unusual, but we must be cautious: the benchmarks are from Alibaba itself, and there is currently no independent verification, although who are wearing they seem be really satisfied with the. Even Alibaba is surprised. What is striking about this launch is that the company that launched it is promoting it above its most ambitious model until recently. Let them compare both versions themselves and recognize that the “small” is the most powerful It is significant. It’s like saying from the rooftops that the largest AI models have no competition, when they have just proven that this is not the case and that models like Qwen3.6-27B can be truly remarkable in behavior. 24 GB of VRAM is “enough”. Thanks to its small size, it is possible to use this model on relatively accessible machines. Thus, the 24 GB of video memory of the RTX 3090 makes these graphics cards a perfect alternative to install and use Qwen3.6-27B with excellent performance. Dense models do not do so well on MacBook or Mac mini with unified memory, and although logically not everyone has access to graphics cards with 24 GB of RAM, access to really capable local models continues to improve. The best essences, in small bottles. Alibaba is a steamroller of “small” AI models, and it demonstrated this in early March when launched several that ranged from 0.8B to 9B. Fortunately there are varied alternatives in that segment of “Small Language Models” (SLMs) and here we have reference examples like Gemma 4just released by Google. Microsoft with Phi-4 (which needs an update, like gpt-oss-20b/120b) or Mistral with Devstral 2 They are examples that Western companies are also making moves in this interesting field. But. According to benchmarks, Qwen3.6-27b is comparable in some benchmarks to Claude Opus 4.5, Anthropic’s most advanced model when it was launched in November 2025. That is surprising and confirms that open weight models from Chinese companies are, as Demis Hassabis saidbetween 6 and 12 months behind the most advanced models from Anthropic, OpenAI or Google. But to execute them a significant investment is still necessary, and although local AI models are very interesting in terms of privacy, if today one wants maximum speed and performance it still depends on commercial models in the cloud. In Xataka | Google will invest up to $40 billion in Anthropic because the new normal for AI is investing in your enemy

The machines were already beating us at chess and Go. Now they are about to beat us at something much more difficult: ping pong

April 28, 2026 by usatoday24

Human beings have a curious relationship with machines: we create them to help us, but also to challenge us. We have been doing it for decades, from large industrial systems to artificial intelligence systems and robots that today begin to move in more complex environmentsmore demanding and with less margin for error. And when those machines surpass us, we don’t just see a defeat: we see a clue as to where the technology is going. It already happened in chess and Go. What we are seeing now points to something different: the challenge begins to jump to sports where it is not enough to calculate the next play. The robot that plays ping pong. The last signal comes from Sony AI and is shaped like a ping pong table. Your Ace robot, developed within Project Acehas been presented by the company as the first AI system capable of competing in a real physical environment with elite university players and table tennis professionals under official rules. The firm illustrates this with a recent scene in Tokyo: Japanese professional player Taira Mayuka launched a shot that, under normal conditions, would have decided the point. On the other side of the net, Ace read the trajectory, adjusted the angle of the paddle and returned the ball to keep the exchange alive. A notable jump. Ping pong adds something much less friendly than table games: a ball that moves, spins, bounces and changes direction in a very short time. That’s why Sony insists on Ace’s reaction speed, with an end-to-end latency of 20.2 milliseconds compared to about 230 milliseconds in elite human players. As we can see in the video that accompanies this article, the robot not only has to “see” the ball. You have to anticipate what he will do next and get the paddle at the right angle before it’s too late. How do you get it? The key is that Ace does not depend on a single technology, but on a very tight chain between perception, control and movement. The system integrates nine synchronized conventional cameras and three event-based vision systems, capable of recording movement changes very quickly. With that set, the robot tracks the ball at 200 Hz with millimeter precision and measures the effect up to 700 Hz. An eight-degree-of-freedom robotic arm then executes the returns based on policies learned through reinforcement learning in simulation. Ace didn’t get to that point overnight either. Sony places the start of the project in 2020, within the first works of Sony AI, and describes an evolution in stages: first juggling the ball, then maintaining cooperative exchanges with a person and, later, facing increasingly stronger players. This journey also served to discover limits that do not always appear in a simulation. The limits. Ace’s merit lies in having reached an expert level, not in having turned table tennis into a solved problem. Sony recognizes that there are still humans above the system. In any case, the robot mainly excels in skill, where you decide how to move the robot and how to hit the ball in real time. What happens point to point, and what is planned during a match, can still improve. Images | Sony AI (1, 2) In Xataka | A young man has solved a mathematical problem that lasted 60 years in 80 minutes with ChatGPT. That’s the least interesting thing about the story.

written by letter, printed and with our personal data revealed

April 28, 2026 by usatoday24

For years we have learned to look with suspicion at the email that promises an unexpected refund, the SMS that asks us to update an account or the WhatsApp message that arrives too urgently. He phishing It has been recorded in us as something digital, glued to a screen, to a suspicious link or to a website that tries to look like that of our bank. But that image is falling short. The same logic of deception too can cross the door of the house inside an envelopeprinted on paper and with the appearance of an official communication. The difference is not so much in the mechanism as in the context. Instead of waiting for us to click a link from our mobile phone, the attacker tries to take advantage of the trust we still place in certain physical communications. And, precisely, therein lies the risk. Paper can give a feeling of legitimacy that a suspicious email no longer always achieves, although the substance is the same as always: impersonating someone to push us to deliver information that we should not share. Paper phishing: the old hoax has found another mailbox A recent example Inés Zuriaga del Castillo shared it on LinkedInwho said he had received a physical letter at his home supposedly sent by Ledgerthe company known for its hardware wallets, physical devices for storing cryptoasset keys. According to its publication, the envelope included paper, an official-looking letterhead and an instruction to scan a QR with the supposed objective of updating the device and sending the recovery phrase. That last point is the most obvious red flag: the recovery phrase should never be shared. On the left, the case of a false letter sent in Ledger’s name. On the right, a fraudulent communication detected by Social Security. Ledger has also warned of such attempts on its support page. The company describes a letter that presents itself as a “security check” notice and asks the user to scan a QR to enter their secret recovery phrase, supposedly to avoid security problems or interruptions in service. The company’s recommendation is clear: do not scan those codes, do not visit those links and never share the 24 recovery words. It is not a minor detail. With that phrase, an attacker can take control of the wallet and move the associated funds. The case is not limited to the world of cryptocurrencies. Social Security has detected In Spain, a campaign of fraudulent letters aimed at beneficiaries of benefits and pensions, requesting personal documentation such as ID or a photo of the bank statement. The pretext, according to the organization, is that data would have been lost due to an alleged computer attack and that this information would be necessary to deposit an amount into the pensioner’s account after an increase in the benefit. The entity remembers that it will never request the sending of information or documentation by email, a sufficient clue to distrust this type of communications. The two examples target different audiences, but share the same architecture. In the case of Ledger, the lure revolves around a wallet and a recovery phrase that should never leave the user’s control. In Social Security, the pressure is supported by a benefit, a pension and the promise of a pending income. They change the language, the impersonated entity and the type of data they are trying to obtain, but the underlying maneuver is identical: construct a communication that is credible enough for the victim to act before checking. In the case of Ledger, the lure revolves around a wallet and a recovery phrase that should never leave the user’s control. The question that remains floating is difficult to avoid: how does a letter like this arrive at a specific address. The truth is that personal data can end up exposed due to breaches in companies, suppliers or administrations, even if the user has done their part reasonably well: use strong passwords, activate two-step verification or be wary of suspicious messages. Without going any further, the AEPD reported that in 2025 he received 2,765 notifications of personal data breachesand noted that those that affected the largest number of people were related to ransomware and intrusions that led to the exfiltration of large volumes of information. From there another piece of the wheel comes in: the stolen data is not always used only once nor does it remain in the hands of whoever obtained it first. As we already said in Xataka, documents such as a Spanish DNI could be found in illegal Internet markets for about 15 euros. This data does not explain the origin of the specific letters that we have seen, but it does help to understand something important: when personal information begins to circulate out of control, it can be reused in different frauds, with different formats and at times very far from the original breach. There is a simple rule that works for both digital phishing and paper phishing: the more a communication pushes us to act quickly, the slower we should go. A letter requesting sensitive data should set off alarm bells. We should not scan the QR out of inertia, we should not scan the email it proposes and we would not call the phone number that appears as the only means of contact. What is recommended? First check on our ownon the official website or on public channels of the entity. It’s less comfortable, yes, but it’s also exactly what breaks the trap. In the end, the format is almost the least important thing. It can be an email, an SMS, a WhatsApp message or a letter on letterhead. What changes is the scenario, not the intention: making us trust enough to deliver something that can later turn against us. That is why these types of cases are useful, even when we do not know all the details of their origin. They remind us that security does not begin when we detect a fake website, but one … Read more

that we take the female anatomy seriously

April 27, 2026 by usatoday24

You just have to swipe your finger for a few seconds on TikTok or Instagram to come across it: luxury sportswear in pastel tones, pristine sneakers and a huge Stanley glass under your arm. It is the aesthetics of Pilates Princess wave Pilates Moma trend that emerged strongly in 2023 to elevate a lifestyle based on luxurious femininity and devotion to Pilates. It might seem like another frivolous internet fad, but behind this facade of branded tights lies a true revolution in women’s health. For decades, traditional medicine failed to educate women about their own anatomy. According togee Women’s Health In the words of Dr. Larissa Rodriguez, a urologist at Weill Cornell Medicine, “we don’t do a good job of informing women (…) most of them only find out about this when they have a problem.” Paradoxically, it has been algorithms and social networks that have removed the pelvic floor from absolute anonymity. The best example is found in the physiotherapist Sarah Percy (@femalephysiosarah)whose videos teaching how to contract and relax the pelvic muscles in blue pajamas have accumulated more than 21.1 million views and millions of likes. A simple home video has achieved more impact and awareness than years of information leaflets in gynecologists’ waiting rooms. To understand the magnitude of the phenomenon, we must first understand what we are talking about. The pelvic floor is not an abstract concept; It is a hammock-shaped muscular structure that supports vital organs such as the bladder, uterus, and rectum. When a woman becomes pregnant, this hammock must support the weight equivalent to “a huge bowling ball”, causing around 50% of pregnant women to experience disorders ranging from constipation to urinary incontinence. However, the problem goes far beyond motherhood. In the sporting field, this muscle is “the great forgotten one.” The figures are alarming: in certain impact sports, urinary incontinence affects more than 70% of female athletescausing one in five women to abandon physical exercise due to embarrassment or discomfort. The real drama has been the silence. As Cristina and Lucía, founders of the Embody clinic, explain, in Women’s Healthhistorically we have normalized symptoms that are not: urine leakage when jumping, pain during sexual relations or pelvic heaviness. The voice of the experts That Pilates works is a fact, but medical science insists on clarifying why. It’s not about doing traditional sit-ups—which, in fact, make the problem worse by pushing the pressure down—but about re-educating the body. Physiotherapist Lola Ibáñez explains in the magazine Woman Today that disciplines such as hypopressive Pilates base their success on breathing: through expiratory apnea and costal opening, the body works “upwards and inwards”, reducing pressure in the abdomen and elevating the tissues. Along these lines, the experts consulted by specialized means The Bump They assure that controlled breathing is the authentic “superpower” to activate the deep muscles and prepare the body for childbirth. But interest in the pelvic floor has transcended future mothers. A report from Wall Street Journal illustrates how an entire subculture of women in his forties and fifties he is becoming obsessed with pilates, sweep and weight lifting. They do it not out of pure vanity, but as an antidote to the symptoms of perimenopause and an “existential panic” about losing their physical independence in old age. It’s a way to take charge of your own biology. However, there is a fine print: all experts agree on a fundamental caveat. Pilates is not physiotherapy. As pointed out Women’s Healthsome women suffer from hypertonia (a pelvic floor that is too tight and rigid) and need to learn to relax it, so doing Kegel exercises indiscriminately would aggravate their pain. Besides, Guardian echoes the warnings of the Pilates Teacher Associationwarning about the danger of massive “reformer fitness” classes taught by instructors without clinical qualifications, which are causing a spike in back and neck injuries. The hidden side: elitism, algorithms and the “wellness” business Every good report requires looking at the shadows, and this trend is immersed in a hypercapitalist market. As we already detailed in Xataka, The industry has left behind the aggressiveness of the traditional gym to embrace the Cozy Fitness and the Strong Elegance. The global Pilates and Yoga studio market is projected to reach $520.61 billion by 2035. The problem is that health has become a class filter. Guardian emphasizes that the classes of reformer They can easily exceed 25 pounds/euros per session, making pelvic floor care an unattainable luxury for many. Added to this is the brutal aesthetic pressure. The magazine Parents warns that obsession to fit the mold of the Pilates Princess It encourages perfectionism and associates well-being exclusively with thinness, sometimes bordering on orthorexia. Algorithms are largely to blame: academic Carolina Are explains that platforms like TikTok and Instagram actively discriminate against diversity, making large, older or disabled women invisible, to crown the white, thin, cisgender woman as a universal reference. Despite this mercantilist packaging, there is hope. At this moment, we are moving towards the era of Body Literacy (body literacy). Women are no longer satisfied with wearing pretty leggings; They want to understand how your hormones work, your stress response, and your deep anatomy. The end of silent suffering It is undeniable that the phenomenon of Pilates Moms It was born wrapped in the posturing of social networks, the hyperconsumerism of sports clothing and exclusive gym fees. However, its impact has achieved a historic and irreversible milestone: democratizing knowledge about female intimate anatomy. The true legacy of this viral trend is the breaking of a deafening silence that has lasted for generations. Today’s mothers are talking openly with their daughters about menstruation, incontinence and pelvic pain. They are educating the next generation to be proactive and demanding with their health. We have left behind the belief that pain or urine leakage is the unavoidable toll of being a woman, being a mother or getting older. Today, thanks in part to a trend From the internet, we know that the pelvic floor is trained, rehabilitated and, above … Read more

this week, a remake of an explosive thriller, a disturbing documentary and very recent Spanish cinema

April 27, 2026 by usatoday24

The week of April 27 to May 3 comes packed with new releases on Netflix. The most anticipated title for action thriller fans is ‘The Fire of Vengeance’. In the documentaries section true crime highlights ‘Should I Marry a Murderer?’, a three-episode docuseries about a woman who discovers her fiancé’s dark past. And the gem of the week is the Spanish ‘Mi Querida Señorita’, produced by Los Javis. series Should I marry a murderer? The documentaries true crime are one of Netflix’s safest bets, and ‘Should I Marry a Murderer?’ He wants to continue the streak. The British-produced docuseries begins with a more or less conventional love story: a young forensic examiner meets a man through Tinder and the relationship progresses quickly until a commitment is made. One day the man confesses that he has committed a murder and the victim is still missing. However, the woman decides to keep the commitment while gathering evidence against him. The series is built from real testimonies, archival material and reconstructions of the case. The fire of revenge One of the platform’s most ambitious action bets for this spring goes beyond the simple remake of the blockbuster directed by Tony Scott and starring Denzel Washington in 2004. The series is based on the original novels by AJ Quinnell and proposes a renewed vision of John Creasy’s character, taking advantage of the episodic format: a former special forces soldier suffers from untreated post-traumatic stress disorder that keeps him on the brink of collapse. A former colleague offers him a job as a bodyguard in Brazil, where he develops an unexpected bond with the person he must protect. Other series you will go to hell – April 27 Rescue Me: Rescue Team – April 27 envious (Season 4) – April 29 Parenthood – May 1 30 Rock – May 1 Glory – May 1 Booba (Season 6) – May 1 Miraculous: The Adventures of Ladybug – May 1 Movies Gladiator II One of the great film releases of 2024 arrives this week in the Netflix catalog, returning us to ancient Rome to explore what happened after the death of Maximus, placing the action fifteen years after the duel in the Colosseum. The protagonist is the grandson of Marcus Aurelius and son of Maximus, and is played by Paul Mescal: captured and enslaved after the invasion of his home in Numidia, he is forced to fight in the arena while seeking revenge. A top-notch cast with Pedro Pascal, Denzel Washington and Joseph Quinn stands out in this return by Ridley Scott to the universe that gave him one of his greatest commercial successes. My dear lady Free adaptation of the 1972 film of the same name by Jaime de Armiñán, which completely changed the image of José Luis López Vázquez, and which here delves into much more contemporary terrain thanks to the script by Alana S. Portero and the production by Los Javis. The story follows Adela, the only child of a conservative family, marked by silence about her intersexuality, a condition she is unaware of but that shapes her life. An unexpected friendship with a priest and other decisive events in her life take her from Pamplona to Madrid. The protagonist is Elisabeth Martínez, also an intersex actress who makes her debut here as the protagonist. Premiere: May 1 Other movies My name Agneta – April 29 Janur Ireng – April 30 Miraculous World: Paris, The Adventures of Shadybug and Claw Noir – April 30 Boys and girls – May 1 Exchanged – May 1 The son-in-law – May 1 In Xataka | Today the animated spin-off of the platform’s only powerful franchise premieres on Netflix: ‘Stranger Things’

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