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Ukraine has found Russia’s weak point in Crimea. And now there is a line of Russian trucks that cannot move forward

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During World War II, General George S. Patton It stopped its advance not because of a lack of tanks or ammunition, but because of something much more basic: gasoline. Their armored columns consumed so much fuel that logistics could not keep up. Since then, armies learned a brutally simple lesson: sometimes war is decided not by who fires the most, but by who keeps the tank full. The real Achilles heel. For months, the war in Crimea had been told in terms of missiles, air bases and attacks on the Black Sea Fleet. But Ukraine seems to have identified something much more vulnerable, the same thing we just saw with the US agreement with Iran to end the war: the fuel. It is not just about destroying military objectives, but about attacking the “blood” that makes the entire Russian machine work. Without gasoline, trucks do not move, projectiles do not arrive, drones do not fly, nor an offensive is sustained. And that’s exactly what kyiv is cutting. Hit the artery. I was counting this morning the financial times that the Ukrainian campaign has concentrated on the land corridor connecting continental Russia with Crimea, especially the “Novorossiya” highwaythe great logistics work inaugurated in 2023 and presented by Vladimir Putin as one of the great strategic successes of the war. It we counted recently. That road connects Rostov with the peninsula through occupied Mariupol and Melitopol, and has now become a shooting gallery: more than 375 documented attacks against trucks and vehicles since May, many of them precisely on that road. The message is clear: there is no need to destroy Crimea, enough is enough with disconnecting it. A peninsula that lives off what it enters. The problem for Moscow It is structural. Crimea neither produces oil nor has enough refining capacity to sustain itself. It has always depended on external supplies, before from Ukraine and now from Russia. This dependency turns each destroyed convoy into an immediate problem. The images of kilometric queuesdigital coupons and rationing at gas stations in Sevastopol show how the logistical impact translates almost instantly into social pressure. What at the front is a supply interruption, in the rear already seems like a siege. The Kerch bridge is no longer enough. For a long time, the bridge was the great russian lifeguard. But since the 2022 attack that damaged its stretches and set a fuel train on fire, Moscow has greatly reduced its use for sensitive shipments. Transporting fuel by road is much less efficient than by train, because a single rail convoy is equivalent to dozens and dozens of tanker trucks. And therein lies the problem: Ukraine is hitting both systems at the same time, forcing Russia to improvise floating bridges and much slower and more vulnerable secondary routes. The intermediate drone war. The most interesting thing is that this campaign is not being led by either small front-line drones or large strategic drones, but rather a new intermediate category that we have been explaining. We talk about systems like the FP-2, Behemoth or the Hornet that allow you to attack at distances of up to 200 kilometers with enough charge to destroy trucks, warehouses and bridges. They are cheap devices, difficult to intercept and operate with networks like Starlink that complicate Russian electronic warfare. It’s a major change, as Ukraine is turning logistics into its own front. Crimea is an island again. If you like, the great effect of this strategy It is psychological and military both. Crimea was conquered by Russia as a platform to project power, and now it is beginning to look an isolated enclave which needs to be fed daily to survive. If Ukraine keeps up the pace through the summer, the pressure will not only be on the southern front, but at full capacity Russian to sustain operations in the region. And there is the central idea: Moscow still has missiles, bases and soldiers in Crimea, but Ukraine has understood that the weak point was not so much in destroying them directly, it was in simply leaving them without gasoline. Image | Britannia In Xataka | We have to start thinking about the Ukrainian war in terms greater than those of the First World War. In Xataka | The drone war has left a clear lesson for Ukraine: you can’t leave home without a 100-year-old machine gun

He is criticizing a ship that does not exist

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One of the most important media outlets in China, the South China Morning Post, has been echoed from a peer-reviewed study that was published last March in the journal Chinese Space Science and Technology. In it, a team of Chinese researchers criticized the propulsion system of NASA’s Artemis lander and praised the one designed by their own engineers. With what is said in this study, of course, it seems that NASA is taking a gamble ahead of its next landing on the Moon. However, there is a detail that is not discussed in this article and that makes it clear that, in reality, it is a criticism with little foundation. Doesn’t anyone think about the HLS? Broadly speaking, the Chinese article criticism that NASA’s lander uses only one engine for the two critical maneuvers of the moon landing: descent and subsequent ascent. If this fails, there is no backup to bring the Orion ship to port. This is true. It would be a big problem to use a single engine, as they already did in the Apollo missions. However, with Artemis, NASA is not going to resort to the traditional two-stage system used in previous moon landings. On this occasion the Orion spacecraft will dock in lunar orbit with the Human Landing System (HLS) of SpaceX either Blue Origin. None of them have only one engine, so the problem that China points out does not really exist. The background of the Apollo missions. On the Apollo missions The ship used consisted of two stages. One remained orbiting the Moon, with one person on board, and the other separated to embark on the moon landing with the rest of the crew inside. This lander heading to the Moon effectively had a single engine for each critical phase. That is, there was an ascent engine and a descent engine. For Artemis, it was decided that this system could be risky, so the Orion spacecraft has a single stage, which never lands on the moon. In exchange, it docks with an external lander that should be waiting for it when it reaches lunar orbit. SpaceX or Blue Origin. NASA has contracted the services of SpaceX and Blue Origin to develop its HLS. If everything goes well, both must show their viability in Artemis IIIalthough SpaceX’s HLS will be the first to land on Artemis IV, introducing Blue Origin to later missions. Of course, if there were incidents with SpaceX and Blue Origin if it arrived on time, there would be no problem with reversing the order. Be that as it may, the key here is the propulsion used by the HLS of these companies. SpaceX’s HLS-Starshipfor example, has six engines: three sea-level and three vacuum, all fueled by subcooled liquid methane and liquid oxygen in a full-flow, staged combustion cycle. This enables high thrust-to-weight ratios and efficiency in vacuum conditions essential for lunar descent and ascent. For its part, Blue Moon Mark 2, Blue Origin’s HLShas three engines to descend to the Moon from lunar orbit. Of course, although the data may vary, at the moment it is only known that for the ascent it has a single separate stage, with a hypergolic propulsion system. If this fails, there could be a problem like those pointed out by China. SpaceX engine in a test prior to Starship Flight 12 The China option. Of course, the lander proposed by China is also a great option. On the one hand, it has a primary system that includes four variable thrust engines, so that if one fails, the other three continue to generate thrust comparable to that of the classic NASA engine. In addition, it has an additional layer with six smaller orbital control thrusters, which could be ignited on the lunar surface for an emergency ascent in case the main ones fail. The weight problem. Seen this way, the more engines, the better. But of course, it is not something that simple. More engines mean more weight, which reduces the ship’s efficiency and payload capacity. All the extra weight that the engines represent can be less materials to build lunar bases or supplies for astronauts, for example. This is why NASA’s traditional design included a single engine. China solves this problem by using a tank in which the fuel and the oxidizer used to start the combustion reaction are separated by a wall. Traditionally two tanks are used, instead of just one with a wall. Therefore, each extra tank meant much more weight. This type of tank results in a saving of hundreds of kilograms in the weight of the ship, which can be used to introduce more engines. China has good tools to go to the Moonbut NASA too. For now, China has tested its proposal in a hot ignition test, in which the engines are tested in real conditions, but without taking off. Everything has worked correctly, although the importance of very precisely controlling the tank pressure has been proven. It is a country that is preparing very well in its own race to the Moon. But that does not invalidate the steps that NASA is taking. Artemis is not Apollo. This time the single-engine moon landing will not be at stake, so the chances of success are greater than in the past. Image | Patricia Moore (Wikimedia Commons) | SpaceX In Xataka | China’s most ambitious space project: an advanced hyperspectral satellite to make a “CT” of the Earth

ban them from social networks. Now it is a mirror for Spain

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After a not so long deliberation, the United Kingdom has just announce which prohibits minors under 16 years of age from accessing social networks. TikTok, Instagram and Snapchat are some of the networks that are banned for minors in a measure to tighten children’s online safety and make young people “happier.” according to Keir Starmer, British Prime Minister. This is a radical change that goes beyond child safety itself: it is a gesture of rejection of the power of large technology companies. And it is also a mirror in which France and Spain they have one eye on. “Designed to bedictative“. Last Monday, Starmer already advanced who would soon announce a ban so that younger people cannot access “harmful” social networks. In March, the Government launched a national consultation on the matter to see if they would join countries like Australia, which on December 10, 2025 became the first country to prohibit access to minors under 16 years of age to networks, which also included YouTube. “It will make our children safer, happier, and have more time and freedom to grow” – Keir Starmer A week after the notice, Starmer has reappeared to announce the measure and put forward a series of arguments that justify it. “Is there a situation in the world outside the networks where you would simply let your child pair up with a stranger, an adult stranger that you know nothing about? No, then we must take action on it,” commented the prime minister, who went on to affirm that the right choice is a complete ban on the networks. Not only networks. Thus, those under 16 will not be able to access the most well-known social networks, but they are not the only measures that Starmer has advanced. Although we will have all the details in a statement in July, the boss warns that there will be limits on the hours of use and another series of restrictions (which, again, we will learn about later). Networks like WhatsApp are left out of the list of prohibitions, where video games are not found either, but they will announce a series of measures and restrictions such as blocking conversations with strangers and live streaming. Regarding artificial intelligence, anyone under 18 years of age will not be able to legally access sexual conversations with chatbots. 90% support. As we say, after the application in Australia, other countries have been moving to see how they can limit the use of social networks among minors, with Great Britain being one of the most active. In March, a consultation began between teachers, parents and young people with a series of measures to adopt to restrict apps that, according to the Government, are designed with addictive characteristics. Reuters states that the survey received More than 116,000 responses from both parents, industry and youth and more than 83% of parents who responded stated that the risks of networking outweighed the benefits. But not only that: 90% supported the minimum age of 16 to access social networks. “This is about fighting for what we believe is right” – Keir Starmer What if Trump gets angry? In his speech, Starmer stated that the technology giants have had the opportunity to take measures to protect young people and help parents, but they have failed and that is why governments must come in to regulate. It is a direct blow to the big American technology companies and, as they point out in The Diarya journalist asked what she thinks about possible anger from Donald Trump, who has already been very vocal when a European country did something against American technology companies. Starmer’s response is that this “is about fighting for what we believe is right. I’m not going to accept that you can’t be in favor of artificial intelligence and technology and say that you want to protect our children.” The mirror of Spain. As we say, there are still details to know, such as seeing those time restrictions for other applications that have not been prohibited for minors and, also, seeing how they manage to apply the measures. But what is clear is that, if the world was already watching closely the measures taken by Australia, they will soon have the British example. Spain, France, Denmark and Poland are in that boat and Greece announced in April that it will prohibit access to networks for minors under 15 years of age starting in January 2027. A few months ago, Pedro Sánchez already detailed a package of measures that were going in this direction, drawing the ire of people like the CEO of Telegram, who broke into the mobile phones of all its users saying that Spain’s was a measure against privacy. Business for VPNs. In the background there is a very interesting conversation: whether prohibitions are useful for anything. It has happened with porn and with Australia and the United Kingdom itself with a previous measure seeing a VPN boom to bypass restrictions. Because it is difficult to put doors into the field and, although it is true that these applications have been designed with algorithms carefully controlled to retain the user, that underlying conversation is about whether what is really useful is awareness and education about the use of networks… and whether a ban will not encourage, precisely, the opposite: a greater desire to enter. But of course, there is also the fact that sexual predators They roam freely through some video gamessexualization on social networks with platforms like X and Grok giving wings to the almost unlimited creation of images and the use of images of young people by these sexual predators, who now they have more tools thanks to AI. In any case, there are many countries looking at this carefully, and if that 90% support that Starmer points out from parents corresponds to reality, it is evident that there is a desire there. Those who are not going to be so happy are the children. Image | Pexels (edited) In Xataka … Read more

There is a company proving that AI can be the perfect interviewer for companies. His name is Orbio and he is from Madrid

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AIs have started doing job interviews, and the interviewees are leaving them horrified. It is a palpable reality in a segment that is experiencing its particular revolution, and that is where it comes in. Orbiuma Madrid startup that has jumped on that wave. And he has done it in a big way. How it all started. In 2025 three entrepreneurs (in the image, from left to right, Nacho Travesí (CRO), Sergi Bastardas (CEO) and Antonio Melé (CTO)) decided to solve a clear problem that they detected in the industry: the “human infrastructure” to manage the companies’ workers was not efficient enough. To solve this, they created Orbio, a startup that precisely helps manage workforces thanks to the use of AI agents. 18 million euros. This Monday, the company announced that it has closed a Series A financing round of 21 million dollars (almost 18.2 million euros). The financing was led by Dawn Capital, but other investment companies such as Visionaries VC, Plus Partners and Enzo Ventures have also participated. This round adds to the one that was made in September of last year, and in which they raised 6.5 million euros. Assault on the US. This injection of capital will allow this technology company to triple its team of engineers in Madrid, but the intention is to also open an office in New York to compete head to head with other native platforms created in Silicon Valley. Robotic interviewers. The fundamental pillar of the platform created by Orbio are the language models that, according to the company, have been polished to maintain fluid and technically rigorous conversations with job candidates. Those “robotic interviews” with AI agents They can be done through both voice and text channels. There is another differential detail in these processes: Orbio’s AI questions, for example, about the candidate’s experience, evaluates their skills and resolves doubts about the position in real time. The promise: eliminate biases from human interviewers and screen thousands of applicants in record time. A platform for those “frontline” workers. Orbio’s technological solution it is not thought to interview professionals who want to occupy traditional office positions (known as white collar), but is aimed at that mass market of frontline workers. Sectors such as delivery, logistics distribution centers or restaurant chains often suffer from very high staff turnover rates that exhaust the resources of HR departments. Orbio not only automates the interview process: it is capable of collecting documents, verifying backgrounds, and facilitating the onboarding process. The idea: cover job demand in hours or a few days instead of weeks. But. Of course, the automation of these processes It dehumanizes them and generates a clear ethical and social debate about the current situation of the labor market. That a machine ends up “scoring” you after these interviews is disturbing, and above all it means that you give up things like intuition and empathy in the personnel selection process. At Orbio they argue that this filtering precisely allows Human Resources managers to dedicate their time exclusively to the final phases of the process, treating the preselected candidates individually with much greater attention. If AI solves a problem, reward. The investment round is the validation of an idea that is beginning to gain strength: there are companies that are taking advantage of AI to propose solutions to real problems. In this, as in other cases, due to the efficiency of its use, something that is crucial in massive processes such as choosing candidates for a job, but also in the field of customer service, where AI is also infiltrating in leaps and bounds. The Madrid startup has been able to identify a bottleneck, and of course its technological solution has already attracted several business clients. In Xataka | Chargebacks are the silent hemorrhage of e-commerce. A Catalan startup is making money by covering it

How to create a calendar with your teams’ matches from the 2026 World Cup and add them to Google Calendar with artificial intelligence

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Let’s tell you how to create a calendar with matches of your favorite teams from the 2026 World Cup using artificial intelligencesomething quite simple to do. Because here it gets interesting, because later we will tell you how to add them to your Google Calendar so you don’t miss them. This is something that we are going to be able to do both in Gemini as in Claudeand it’s pretty simple. You can do it only with the matches of your country’s team, or directly with those of all the teams you are interested in following. Create a World Cup calendar with AI The first thing you have to do is ask Claude or Gemini to generate a calendar with the games played by the teams you want. You can request it with a prompt that looks like this: I want you to make me a calendar with the 2026 World Cup matches played by the teams of Spain, Argentina and Mexico. Obviously, you can modify the prompt to add the selections you want, or keep just one. This will generate a group stage schedule which is already underway, because it is not yet known which teams are going to qualify. Once you have the calendar created, now you have to tell the AI ​​to add it to your Google Calendar. You can use a prompt like this: Now save the games to my Google Calendar account Now comes the important part. Gemini and Claude have connectors to access your Google account, and will ask you to configure them to be able to do so and add the matches. ChatGPT does not have these connectors, and cannot do so. In Xataka Basics | How to prevent AI from always being right by default and thus make Claude, Gemini and ChatGPT have fewer hallucinations

The judge canceled the trial and fined them

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Law is one of the professions that embraced the use of generative AI even before the ChatGPT boom arrived. We have known cases of Lawyers sanctioned for including false quotesbut that hasn’t deterred others from doing the same. The latest case we heard about takes it to a new level: both the prosecution and the defense used AI and the judge said enough. what has happened. It has happened in Mississippi, United States. The case in question involved a lawyer, named Tom Withers, who was seeking unpaid legal fees from the city of Aberdeen. According to what they say in 404mediaeverything was going well until the judge noticed that there was something strange in the briefs presented by the lawyers of both parties: both cited cases that did not exist. Come on, they had used AI and had not even stopped to check for inaccuracies. Consequences. The lawyers acknowledged having used AI without verifying the results. Judge Sharion Aycock not only decided to suspend the trial, she also disqualified two of the four lawyers involved from appearing before her court for two years. The others were not spared and all received a fine that ranged between $1,000 and $3,500. Withers, the plaintiff attorney, was not representing himself, so he has escaped sanction. Why it is important. This case represents an increasingly common trend in the legal sector. Already There are many lawyers caught using AIbut also this time it takes it to a new level because all parties have fallen into temptation. Just as the lawyer said Rob Freund in X“there were two clients who were basically paying for ChatGPT to argue with itself.” In Spain too. Dozens of cases have already been recorded in the United States, but it is not a trend exclusive to there. Just a few days ago, The Superior Court of Justice of Galicia initiated an investigation against a lawyer for “procedural bad faith.” Apparently, the appeal he presented contained no less than “24 false jurisprudential citations.” He has not been the only one, at the beginning of the year a lawyer was fined 420 euros in the Canary Islands to cite 48 false sentences. The hallucinations. They remain the Achilles Heel of LLMs and they have a lot to do with how they are trained: the models always prioritize giving an answer, even if it is inaccurate. There are ways to minimize hallucinationsbut at this point we all know these weaknesses, which is why these cases are so striking. The serious thing is not that lawyers are using AI, but that some do so without any type of verification. Of course, it is unknown what tools they used, but they exist specific AI tools for lawyers that promise greater reliability. Image | Xataka with Gemini In Xataka | “These are things that a university student would get in trouble for”: Deloitte scammed Australia with a report made with AI

The world’s leading expert on the Gulf Stream has bad news about the heart of the Atlantic

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To the south of Greenland, for years, there have been an area that suffers, against all odds, a persistent cooling. In the middle of a world that is increasingly warming, that blue spot (that ‘cold bubble’) has posed a challenge for models, experts and administrations: after all, it is the only region of the global ocean that is cooling. What the hell is going on there? Now Stefan Rahmstorfthe world’s leading expert on the collapse of the Gulf Stream, has had an idea. A mystery in the heart of the North Atlantic? Yes and no. Indeed, to the extent that we do not know why it is there, or what mechanisms govern it, the ‘cold bubble’ is one of the great mysteries of current climate science. However, that does not mean that we have not studied it. On the contrary, we have done it to the point of satiety. This oceanic anomaly is, almost certainly, one of the most studied in the last decade. The novelty is not in the phenomenon itself: we have known about it since the mid-90s. The novelty is in the explanation. Do we already know why it happens? We now have a new explanation that makes sense and is plausible; but it is still controversial. Rahmstorf’s team has carried out an analysis of the heat balance in that region of the Atlantic. And their conclusions are that the decrease in heat of the entire water column is not explained by surface flows. In fact, the area that loses the most heat does not coincide with the area that loses the most surface heat. With this in mind, they begin to raise hypotheses and discard them. This is how they arrive at the idea that the cooling comes from a reduction in oceanic heat transport to the region. That is, of a weakening of the AMOC. We have been talking about the death of the AMOC for years, has no one thought of this? Yes, indeed, this was one of the main working hypotheses. But until now everything was worked with indirect models. It is now that Rahmstorf’s team has been able to draw the complete scheme and detect a link that, it seems, is due to the multidecadal evolution of the Current with the Ocean. Why do I say it is controversial? To begin with, because like any scientific study it is subject to reanalysis, discussions and counterarguments. But, above all, because Rahmstorf and his team are specialists in exactly what they have found. For many climatologists there is a certain risk that this work falls short of the popular saying that “for those who have hammers, everything is nails.” Rahmstorf has linked his intellectual figure to the collapse of the AMOC and that, inevitably, raises suspicions. However, today (and with the data we have) it may be one of the best explanations we have. not the only onebut in these topics we almost never have a single (almost) satisfactory explanation. So, is the AMOC going to collapse? Let us remember that the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) is the North Atlantic branch of the thermohaline circulation. Since the sun does not heat the sea equally everywhere and freshwater flows reach the ocean at very specific points, this is the basic mechanism by which the oceans balance differences in temperature and salinity. The AMOC is a fundamental mechanism for Europe’s climate and economy. “Without it, Western Europe and eastern North America would cool significantly, with a host of potential adverse effects,” said Sánchez Laulhé. However, scientists cannot agree on what will happen. In 2021, the IPCC said the AMOC was “unlikely” to collapse. In 2023, the Ditlevsens not only said that it was a probable scenario, but that they set the first date for the collapse. In 2024, 44 signatories They asked to take the problem seriously. But in January 2025 Terhaar, Vogt and Foukal said which, in short, had not weakened since 1063. The reasonable thing to say is that yes, climate drift seems to suggest that at some point the AMOC will collapse. It has already happened other times. The impossible is to say when, how and why. Image | In Xataka |

We have been thinking for decades that plastic recycling was worth something. Maybe we were wrong

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That the plastic recycling system is broken is an open secret. But it is only little by little that we are realizing the dimension of the problem. The American association Center for Climate Integrity (CCI) published the year 2024 a report on plastic recycling. In it, they attacked the plastics industry, which they accused of having promoted the recycling of these materials even while knowing of the poor technical and economic feasibility. A difficult task. Recycling plastics is not an easy task. In our daily lives we use a wide variety of materials of this type, each one with certain functional and chemical characteristics. They all end up in the same container, the packaging, but from there it is necessary to separate each type of plastic to proceed to recycling when possible. It is not always possible. Disparate data. According to Ecoembes data, in 2024, 589,885 tons of plastic packaging were recycled in Spain, although NGOs such as Greenpeace cast doubt. According to GreenpeaceIn other years, the difference between the plastic recycling rate declared by Ecoembes (89.2%) and that estimated by the NGO itself (34.8%) is notable. It should be noted that it is still higher than the world average of 9% estimated by the OECD. According to the reportfigures like these are just a reflection of an impossibility: effectively recycling plastics is out of our reach. Not only from an economic perspective but also from a technological point of view. Single use. However, the report emphasizes an accusation: even knowing this impossibility, the industry promoted the idea that recycling was possible and viable to pave the way for single-use plastics like the ones we use in packaging. “They knew that if they focused on single-use (plastics) people would buy and buy,” explained to Guardian Davis Allen, CCI researcher and co-author of the report. Another point of view. The reaction of the industry did not take long to arrive. The American Chemistry Council, in a statementnoted that “American plastic manufacturers are investing billions of dollars in better, innovative products and technologies that separate, capture and recycle larger quantities and more types of plastics.” They allege that the “erroneous report” made reference to obsolete technologies and that it represents a misleading characterization of the industry and the present capacities for recycling plastics. “As is typical, instead of working together toward real solutions to plastic waste, groups like CCI choose political attacks over constructive solutions,” protested Matt Seaholm, president and CEO of the Plastics Industry Association, in a statement also collected by Guardian. Be that as it may, California took legal action in the matter. Will we make it? We may never achieve an efficient system of recycling that we can apply to the plastics of our daily life. In fact, the UN Global Plastics Treaty has failed again and again. But perhaps one day we will be able to treat this waste so that its waste does not contaminate our environment. One of the big bets In this sense, it is the discovery of enzymes capable of decomposing plastic polymers, breaking these chains to convert them into harmless molecules. It is undoubtedly a great promise that is getting closer and closer, but it is still far from being able to solve the problem. Although time is not what is left over. Pollution caused by microplastics is already a reality. These wastes have appeared in the most remote places on Earth, a sign of the great reach of these contaminants. Furthermore, we know very little about the potential impacts on health and the environment of this waste. In Xataka | I’ve always been curious about what they did with the yellow containers: so I followed one In Xataka | “In 200 years, archaeologists will search through our trash and find a terrible image of ourselves”: the dirty reality of what we throw away Image | Krizjohn Rosales *An earlier version of this article was published in February 2025

Today at Lidl this ice making machine that will save you from buying bags in supermarkets or gas stations this summer

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Although there are still a few days until summer officially begins, it is already hot almost everywhere. Whether we are alone at home or when a visitor comes, having ice cubes in the freezer becomes almost essential to have cool drinks. But this one ends and the molds that we all have in the freezer are not always enough (plus they take a long time to do their job). We have an alternative to avoid this with the ice cube machine that Lidl has: it is from the Silvercrest brand and costs 62.99 euros. Ice cube machine 105W The price could vary. We earn commission from these links If you are not convinced or you simply do not arrive on time, we leave you below two alternatives that you can buy on Amazon: Cecotec Ice Maker Machine by 89.80 eurosan alternative with more power and self-wash function. Songmics Cube Machine by 79.99 eurosthe best-selling machine of this type on Amazon right now. A machine to produce cubes in less than 10 minutes These appliances are a great ally in summer. They allow us to have different shapes of ice cubes without having to resort to the refrigerator freezer. This Silvercrest machine is capable of making 9 large ice cubes in less than 9 minutes, although we can choose to make 9 smaller ice cubes, thus reducing the time to 7 minutes. This is ideal for making batches and keeping them in bags in case we go to the beach, for example. Furthermore, this machine has its own built-in tank, so it does not need a water intake. In fact, since it is quite compact, you can take it to the patio or terrace if you have a plug on hand. It comes with a shovel to handle the ice comfortably and its control panel is quite intuitive, so it is not difficult to handle at all. ⚡ IN BRIEF: silvercrest ice cube offer ✅ THE BEST It is very fast making ice: Being able to have ice cubes in less than 10 minutes is great and saves you having to buy bags at the supermarket. You can move it to the garden or patio: Being compact and only needing a plug, you can move it around your house depending on what you need. ❌ THE WORST The basket is not a freezer: The basket where the ice that is generated is stored is not designed to store the cubes for hours. You have to take them out so they don’t melt. 💡 BUY IT IF… You usually consume a lot of ice in the summer and you want to avoid having to buy bags at the supermarket or gas station. ⛔ DON’T BUY IT IF… You don’t want another appliance for your kitchen or you have enough with the freezer at home. You may also be interested KeeGone Stainless Steel Ice Cube Machine with LED Display Cleaning Function 2 Liter Water Tank Includes Shovel and Basket 2 Sizes for Kitchen The price could vary. We earn commission from these links HOMCOM Ice Machine, Self-Cleaning Ice Cube Machine, 12kg/24H, 9 Cubes Ready in 7 Minutes, 2 Ice Sizes, 1.5L Tank, for Home, Kitchen, Office, Bar, Blue The price could vary. We earn commission from these links Some of the links in this article are affiliated and may provide a benefit to Xataka. In case of non-availability, offers may vary. Images | Lidl In Xataka | American refrigerator or 70 cm Combi? Be careful with making mistakes when buying liters that you may not be able to use In Xataka | Which home theater projector to buy, which is better?

the problem was never the nuclear bomb

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In October 1973, during the first great oil crisisgas stations in the United States posted signs “Sorry, last car in this line” to cut kilometer-long queues and ration fuel. That image became the symbol of an uncomfortable truth that remains valid half a century later: when energy is what gets stuck, even the great powers change their priorities. The end of a war with another truth. For more than a hundred days, Donald Trump sold the war against Iran as a crusade to prevent Tehran from crossing the nuclear line. The rhetoric was clear: unconditional surrender, dismantling of the atomic program and maximum military pressure. But the agreement that now it just closed with the Iranians reveals another, much more uncomfortable reality: the priority was never really the bomb. In fact, if it had been, Washington would not have accepted a pact that leaves the regime intact, postpones nuclear negotiations and turns the issue of enriched uranium into an issue. for later. What was urgent, what was truly unbearable for the White House and the markets, was something else: reopen Hormuz. The neck of the world. we have been counting these months. The Strait of Hormuz became in the royal center of war because about a fifth of the world’s oil and gas passes through there. When Iran closed it de facto, it not only paralyzed regional exports, but turned the conflict into a systemic threat for the global economy. Oil skyrocketed, gas followed suit, and markets began to discount something much more dangerous than a regional war: a global energy crisis. Trump could continue bombing and wasting ammunition (maybe too much), but each day that Hormuz remained blocked it more damage to Washington than to Tehran. The weapon that Iran did have. For years there was discussion about the hypothetical iranian bombbut in the end Tehran’s real pressure capacity was not underground in those missile cities in Fordow or Natanzbut floating over the Gulf. Tehran demonstrated that it could cut off the planet’s energy artery and keep it closed long enough to bend American strategic logic. Therein lies possibly the great lesson: because it did not need to manufacture a nuclear weapon to acquire deterrent power. It was enough for him control a chokepoint vital and show punitive capacity against US bases and regional allies. That changed the entire balance of the negotiation. The economy and its cracks. While the war continued, the world began to consume strategic reserves at a worrying speed. The United States drained its so-called Strategic Petroleum Reserve to levels not seen since 1983, Japan and South Korea saw reduce your inventories and Europe was beginning to strain its refined fuel supply chains. It is true that there was no collapse yet, but there were clear signs of fragility and that we were approaching red lines. In other words, the market continued to function thanks to these “shock absorbers”, but everyone knew that they were finite. Because the war could continue, but the energy cheap No. The agreement that reveals priority. And then it has arrived the unthinkable pact when the United States launched its bombing campaign. Sixty days of ceasefire, gradual reopening of Hormuz, withdrawal of the US naval blockade and temporary permission for Iran sell oil again. The sequence is revealing: before resolving the nuclear program, Washington has resolved first the flow energetic. Next will come talks on uranium, if there are any, oversight of the International Atomic Energy Agency and possible sanctions relief phases. That is to say: the nuclear issue is still important on paper, but it was no longer the strategic urgency dictated by the clock. An imperfect peace, but necessary. There is no doubt, the agreement It doesn’t close the wound. Benjamin Netanyahu keep hitting to Hezbollah day in and day out, and the Lebanese front can vturn everything back on. Iran maintains its regime, its regional influence and much of its negotiating capacity. But the war has made one conclusion brutally clear: When the stability of the global energy system began to falter, Washington downgraded its maximums to minimums. In the end, the “bomb” was the political argument, oil was the real problem. And when crude oil began to run out, peace stopped being an option and became an imperative necessity. Image | Google Earth, US Navy In Xataka | We have been fearing the Apocalypse for 100 days due to the closure of Hormuz. The blow is going to be given to us by a heat wave in China In Xataka | Ukraine turned drones into hunters. A helicopter shot down in Hormuz has transformed them into a Spielberg film

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