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The World Cup starts at PcComponentes with OLED or QLED TVs with up to 60% discount

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In a couple of days it starts (finally) the world. There will be 104 games in total and, although many will be at dawn, we want to see as many as possible. We still have time to get a new TV for this.whether for the living room or the bedroom, precisely for those late games. If you are looking for one, then be careful to the offers that PcComponentes has right now. LG OLED TV OLED55C5 55″ 4K UltraHD 120Hz Smart TV WebOS HDR10 Dolby Vision Atmos The price could vary. We earn commission from these links This Spanish store has a ton of discounts on televisions right now. Besides, with free shipping from 50 euros and with exchange or replacement within 24 hours under warranty. There is a lot to choose from, but we have made a selection of five that we find very interesting: LG OLED55C5 by 899 eurosone of the best quality-price OLED televisions there is. Samsung Q7F by 489 eurosQLED television from the Korean firm with 65 inches diagonal. Hisense QLED 65E7S by 399 eurosa very interesting option now that it is at an all-time low. Philips QLED 43PUS8450 by 269 ​​euroscompact television with Ambilight. Nilait Prisma 40FD7004SVIOS by 169 eurosVery economical 40-inch Smart TV. LG OLED55C5 The first of these televisions is the LG OLED C5one of the OLED TVs with the best quality-price ratio there is. Its image quality is outstanding, since this panel technology achieves pure black and very good contrast. In addition, it has native 120 Hz and Dolby Vision compatibility. It’s coming out right now 899 euros in its 55-inch version. LG OLED TV OLED55C5 55″ 4K UltraHD 120Hz Smart TV WebOS HDR10 Dolby Vision Atmos The price could vary. We earn commission from these links Samsung Q7F Another very popular option is this 65-inch Samsung Q7F television, which is on sale at PcComponentes right now until 489 euros. QLED technology offers better colors than normal LED televisions and this particular one is also compatible with HDR10+ and has a Tizen OS operating system. Samsung AI QLED TV 65″ TQ65Q7FAAUXXC UltraHD 4K Quantum HDR Tizen The price could vary. We earn commission from these links Hisense QLED 65E7S Another QLED option, although in this case cheaper and from Hisense: it costs 399 eurosits historical minimum price until today. It is an ideal option if you want a 65-inch television and want to spend as little as possible. In addition, it has VIDAA U9.5 operating system, VRR and 60 Hz, as well as compatibility with HDR 10+. TV Hisense QLED 65E7S 65″ 4K UltraHD 60Hz VRR Smart TV VIDAA HDR10+ Dolby Atmos The price could vary. We earn commission from these links Philips QLED 43PUS8450 Now let’s go with two more recommended options if you are looking for something more compact and economical than the ones above. This Philips QLED is a very good option, especially now that it costs 269 ​​euros. These televisions have Ambilight, a back lighting technology that is great for watching football or playing games. In addition, it has a Titan OS operating system. TV Philips QLED 43PUS8450 43″ 4K Ambilight Smart TV Dolby Atmos The price could vary. We earn commission from these links Nilait Prisma 40FD7004SVIOS Finally, let’s go with a TV designed for small rooms. It is from the Nilait brand, which is PcComponentes’ own. It has 40 inches, Full HD resolution (more than enough for this screen size) and costs only 169 euros. It is an option that could be great for a bedroom or even for a second residence. Nilait Prisma 40FD7004SVIOS 40″ LED FHD Smart TV VIDAA The price could vary. We earn commission from these links Other televisions that may also interest you These above are just some examples of TVs that are available right now at a very good price at PcComponentes. Below, we leave you some more as a summary: Nilait Prisma 43UD7004SWOS by 219 euros (instead of 359 euros). Philips LED Ambilight 50PUS8010 by 299 euros (instead of 599 euros). Nilait Prisma 55UD7004ST by 299 euros (instead of 499 euros). Philips QLED 55PUS7810 by 319 euros (instead 699 euros). Philips LED Ambilight 55PUS8010 by 333 euros (instead of 599 euros). Samsung UE55U8072FUXXH by 339 euros (instead of 599 euros). 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 | Xataka, LG, Samsung, Philips, Hisense, PcComponentes In Xataka | Best televisions in quality price. Which one to buy and seven recommended 4K smart TVs In Xataka | The best TVs to play and get the most out of your PS5 or Xbox Series

Hubble is slowly falling, but NASA doesn’t know if it’s worth rescuing

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At the end of this month, the launch of Link, the ship developed by the Katalyst Space company, is scheduled to rescue the Neil Gehrels Swift Telescopewhose orbit has been declining in recent years due to atmospheric resistance. Although the development of this mission has been expensive, NASA considers that it has been a minimal investment compared to all the return that can be generated by keeping the telescope in operation for a few more years. Therefore, given that Hubble is also deorbiting, the question arises whether it would be interesting to do the same. It is clear that this telescope can still provide a lot of science. However, it is an old instrument, so its maintenance and operation are quite expensive. That is why NASA is doing calculations to discern whether it would be interesting to develop a ship similar to Link for its rescue or if, ultimately, it is more profitable to let it deorbit. Almost 100 million dollars in one year. During 2025, NASA invested 98.8 million dollars on the Hubble Space Telescope. Only the much newer James Webb required more investment. We must not forget that Hubble was launched in 1990. It is very old, so today it is more expensive to maintain and even operate with it. But it’s in good shape. Despite needing so much investment, Hubble is in great shape. Many saw the launch of James Webb as an opportunity for Hubble to retire. The networks were filled with photographs in which images of the same point taken by one telescope or another were compared, always much more clearly in the James Webb. However, they are not exclusive telescopes, but complementary. Hubble focuses on detecting emissions in visible and ultraviolet light, while James Webb specializes in near and mid-infrared. It is true that James Webb can see through dust and gasgo further and take images with higher resolution. However, there are objects that can only be observed at the wavelengths at which Hubble works. Today he continues to make great discoveries and if he were to deorbit and retire he would leave a very big void in space research. The ideal would be to last 15 more years. The Habitable Worlds Observatory is scheduled to launch in the 2040sa large telescope, much more advanced than Hubble, which will also work in visible and ultraviolet light. This could, in a way, retire Hubble. Until then, it remains a necessary telescope. You have to do calculations. With the Swift, the profitability of launching a ship to their rescue was very clear. For Hubble, more calculations will have to be made, since a ship larger than Link would also be needed. Still, given how useful this telescope has been and continues to be, it would not be strange if it is still profitable to recover it. If this is not done, re-entry into the Earth’s atmosphere could occur. in 2029, with a median set in 2033. There would be no time to get his replacement ready. It is a very important detail to take into account. Image| NASA Hubble Space Telescope In Xataka | The James Webb has broken another historical record: a supermassive black hole older than expected

includes more than 600 and you can easily download them to your PC

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A Canadian developer has been collecting operating systems for more than two decades to build the largest virtual museum in history. The best of all is that anyone can download the operating systems through their website. We tell you all the details. What is this about? He Virtual OS Museum is a project created and maintained by Andrew Warkentin, a computer developer and historian, who has been collecting emulators and virtual machine images since 2003. The result is a collection of more than 1,700 different installations representing more than 600 operating systems for more than 250 different platforms. All of this can be executed directly on a modern computer, without the need for old hardware. Preservation. There is a paradox in software preservation. Classic games and the most popular applications receive a lot of attention, but often the operating systems on which those same applications ran have been left in the background. Furthermore, just as points out Warkentin himself, emulators and operating systems “often require complex configuration,” and emulator updates can break certain systems from working in later versions. The Virtual OS Museum was born precisely to solve that, offering a pre-configured and ready-to-use collection, without the need for advanced technical knowledge. What it includes. The journey begins in 1948, with the Manchester Baby (considered the first computer to run a stored program) and reaches the first versions of Android. According to details Heise Online, the catalog covers the first mainframes, minicomputers such as the DEC PDP-11workstations Unix (SunOS, IRIX, NeXTSTEP), home computers (Commodore, ZX SpectrumBBC Micro, Atari), and a very wide representation of desktop systems, from Windows 1.0 until the first betas of longhornpassing through OS/2, BeOS, or Mac OS X 10.5. There is also room for rarer and research systems such as SmalltalkOberon or Plan 9. How it works technically. The museum is laid out as a virtual machine complete for VirtualBoxQEMU or UTM, with GNU/Linux and the Xfce desktop installed. When booting, a launcher developed by Warkentin opens from which the user can select the system they want to explore. Additionally, snapshots allow you to restore any installation to its initial state with a couple of clicks if something gets corrupted, and the launcher includes an update function to selectively keep systems up to date. Complete systems. Warkentin has not only limited himself to dumping raw images. Many systems start with the tools, development environments and applications typical of their time, as they were actually used then. Weight. The complete edition It occupies 121 GB compressed and 174 GB uncompressed. For those who do not have that space, there is a Lite version of about 14 GB that downloads the images as the user requests the systems. And there is still more to come. Warkentin himself recognize which still has material for more than 1,000 additional installations. Its stated goal is that, if a working version of an operating system exists, it will fit into the museum in a format that anyone can run on a current laptop or desktop. In Xataka | In 1901, a Spanish man had one of the ideas of the century: invent the remote control before television

While Google brags about AI, its employees do something else on an internal social network: laugh at it

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If there’s one company pushing AI it’s… well, apparently all of them right now. The industry has rushed into the arms of this technology and, with so much money investedthey must use it for something. Google is one of those companies and Sundar Pichai, CEO of the company, has on occasion boasted about how quickly Google itself has adopted AI and how much its engineers use the tools. The boss assures that 75% of Google’s new code It is generated by AI (these companies have an obsession with pointing out that their code is made by AI, Tell Anthropic). The point is that these engineers have an internal document in which they record their daily work with AI, but not to mark progress or benefits, but for something much more curious. Laugh at her. Google engineers making Google AI memes I am one of those who thinks that, if they take away the memes, what are we left with? I have come to have conversations directly based on memes, both established and invented, and I love that both Google engineers and I have something in common: we like crappy and classic memes. Because with generative AI you have people making these crappy memes with… AI, but the ‘sauce’ of the matter is looking for low resolution images and making a crappy edit. That’s part of the joke of the meme, and the ones from Google are great. Obviously, they have not been making them public because Google would not be very happy about it (in fact it has spoken out about it), but this matter has come to light thanks to an investigation by the media. 404 in which they have recreated some of these memes that Google employees themselves made not on any Monday, but on the most important date on the calendar for the company: I/O 2026. While Google presented those AI features that engineers had been working on for the past few months, those same engineers were sharing memes about the presentation on the aforementioned private ‘board’. These memes are ‘voted’ with a system of emojis like the classic raised thumbs. And there are not a few who enter the game. Google meme recreated by 404 Media This one is tough from the start: “I/O Announcement: New Ways to SLOP.” It’s a direct attack on the company that, these employees say, quickly received more than 100 thumbs up from other employees. Google meme recreated by 404 Media Me, working. AI Bro: “still not using AI? Why is it taking you so long? AI is magic, are you a muggle? The best AI tool has been released today” Google meme recreated by 404 Media Jetski, why did you do that stupid thing I told you not to do? Jetski: “Jetski is an internal Google tool” Google meme recreated by 404 Media Jetski has created a functional operating system on its own. Google Engineer: I doubt it Google meme recreated by 404 Media Barbie: what happiness making changes to the code with vibe coding Oppenheimer is the human who must review that code written by a machine Google meme recreated by 404 Media Companies trying to get you to use their new AI features Beyond these artisanal memes, there are two curious things. The first is that several of these engineers share that boredom with AI that is also seen in part of social networks, and it is curious that not even the people who make the tool buy the marketing discourse of those who sell that tool. The second, and getting more serious, is that there are those who want to escape the development of this technology, but doesn’t see alternatives because all the technologies they are in the same boat. There are statements like “I have no motivation and feel burned out by the constant changes, but I have no alternative” or “AI-related projects are prioritized while everything else is put on the back burner.” There are also statements that show a disconnect between internal work policies and the need to push AI development as far as possible. “We are finding that AI has relieved the pressure and bottleneck in code generation,” says another employee, “but everything else has become a bottleneck: build times, testing, the delays in human review, the comparatively slow infrastructure, and the version comparison system.” “The conclusion that many colleagues are reaching is that Google’s infrastructure and engineering culture was built to be stable and intentionally slow, but the pressures to accelerate the pace using AI are colliding with that strategy,” says another. In the end, It is logical that they are pushing this technology internally. Goal, for example, also doesputting pressure from above for employees to use it. And there are good things, but the problem is that these large companies are finding themselves in a situation in which the tools have changed a lot, as well as the tasks, but the core of the ‘bureaucracy’, so to speak, has remained the same. For example, another employee claims that he has completed many tasks quickly thanks to AI, but when the work is finished needs a human review which then takes the same time as always. That’s where the bottleneck is. What Google says Memes are funny, but Google sure wasn’t amused. Have you answered anything? Well yes. 404 includes two statements from Google. On the one hand, the first one they sent: “We encourage our engineers to rigorously test and critique our internal tools. That honest feedback loop is vital to how we build technology. AI coding models are designed to assist developers, but it’s critical that we keep humans in the process, including the oversight and expertise of our world-class engineering talent. “We continue to refine our internal tools based on employee feedback to ensure they are facilitating, not hindering, daily productivity.” Very marketing, but the curious thing is that, after 404 published the article showing the memes, andThe Google spokesperson sent another statement: “We encourage our engineers to … Read more

The future European fighter in which Spain participates has received the worst news. And it comes directly from France

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Europe wanted to build its great fighter of the future with three countries in the cockpit: France, Germany and Spain. It was not a minor project nor a simple renewal of aircraft, but one of the most ambitious commitments of European defense for the coming decades, with a view to replacing models such as the French Rafale and the Eurofighter used by Germany and Spain by 2040. But this plan, presented for years as a symbol of strategic cooperation, has just collided with a much less epic reality: the companies called to make it possible have not been able to reach an agreement. The blow. According to Reutersthe Elysée confirmed that France and Germany were no longer in a position to continue with the project after the German authorities considered the margin to pressure the companies involved exhausted. French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Friedrich Merz had discussed the matter the previous week in Montenegro, on the sidelines of a summit between the EU and the Western Balkans. The conclusion was difficult to conceal: after months of blocking, the program had been left without a clear exit in its current form. industrial shock. The program was stuck for months between Dassault Aviation, the French company linked to the Rafale, and Airbus, which represents the industrial interests of Germany and Spain. The dispute was not minor: who led the development, what technology was shared and how intellectual property was protected. Dassault would have defended a leading role to avoid losing control over its capabilities, while Airbus defended a more balanced relationship. It wasn’t just a fighter. The FCAS It was always something broader than a substitute for the French Rafale and the Eurofighter used by Germany and Spain. The plan aspired to build a connected combat system, with a manned aircraft at the center, drones, remote carriers and a military cloud, the Combat Cloudto coordinate secure communications between air, naval, land and space platforms. That is why the blow has more depth than the cancellation of a plane: it affects an architecture designed so that Europe would not only buy future capabilities, but could develop them itself. What is at stake in Spain?. The coup also hits Spain hard. Its participation is articulated through Indracalled to reinforce the Spanish role in areas such as connectivity, technological integration and some of the critical technologies of the system. Furthermore, Airbus not only defended German interests, but also Spanish ones within the program. That is why the blockade does not only affect the calendar of the future fighter: it can alter the industrial weight that Spain aspired to consolidate in one of the great European defense bets for the coming decades. Tension in the air. The Guardian points out that Paris and Berlin maintained differences over the type of aircraft they needed, because France was looking for a model capable of operating from aircraft carriers and carrying nuclear weapons, while Germany did not have exactly the same military priorities. Merz had also publicly questioned whether the development of a sixth-generation manned fighter still made sense for the German air force. The discussion, therefore, was not only who manufactured what, but for what specific needs the system should be created. What remains standing. The stopping of the fighter does not necessarily imply that the entire FCAS disappears completely. The program also includes drones and a high-security combat cloud, and European sources cited by Reuters saw it possible for these two elements to continue. A German government source even spoke of continuing the core of FCAS as a European system capable of connecting aircraft, drones and other components into an integrated whole. The big question is whether this architecture can survive without the airplane that was supposed to serve as its centerpiece. The initial plan and the current reality. The FCAS was on its way to being one of the great symbols of European defense for the coming decades. Today, however, it has become a direct test of the limits of that cooperation. We know that France and Germany have considered the current path exhausted, we know that Spain has industrial interests at stake and we also know that some pieces of the system could try to survive. What we don’t know yet is what form the project will take from now on. Images | Airbus In Xataka | Airbus has just made the most autonomous commercial aircraft in the world fly. Your goal: 22 hours straight without a stopover

its winds existed, you just had to know how to look for them

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It is well known that, while attracting matter into their interior, supermassive black holes release jets of energy and matter outwards in a violent way. The result is a kind of wind, which has been observed in all black holes of this type. There is only one in which, no matter how many observations have been made, those winds did not seem to exist. That of our own galaxy. With known physics in hand, Sagittarius A*, the black hole of the Milky Way, should generate strong winds, but no matter how hard they have searched for more than 50 years, they have not been found. Now, a team of scientists from Northwestern University has acted as a mother would: after a “what should I go and find it?” They have made a series of observations and, indeed, they have found it. Five years and two observatories. The main problem why the Sagittarius A* winds were not being detected is that the black hole itself emits radio waves that acted as interference. Therefore, these scientists have used the radio telescopes of the ALMA observatory with a series of calibrations that allow these interferences from the background glow of the black hole to be eliminated. Besides, They have taken data for 5 years. The more data, the more the noise is reduced. In this way, they found what appeared to be evidence of the existence of winds. However, they wanted to confirm the data with a second observatory, this time the Chandra X-ray Observatory. Thanks to it, they detected emissions in this part of the spectrum that fit perfectly with what ALMA detected. Sure enough, they had found the lost winds of the black hole. A cone without cold gas. Thanks to this new calibration method, scientists at Northwestern University were able to observe the gas from very close to the black hole to many light years away. This allowed him to see how it has behaved over the past thousands of years. Thanks to that, a cone-shaped region was detected that lacked cold gas. The most obvious thing would be that very hot and strong winds had carried the gas in that region. It could be the proof they were looking for. Not all winds are the same. Black holes are objects so massive that almost nothing can escape their attraction. Not even the light. That matter and energy that is directed towards the center of the black hole is concentrated in a region known as the accretion disk, where it rotates at high speed as it gets closer and closer. In this process, the matter is compressed and heated very much, releasing a large amount of energy, which favors the violent expulsion of part of that material. This is how the winds of the black hole are generated. On the other hand, it is known that winds are also generated on the surfaces of stars. Our Sun, for example, causes very intense winds. To find out what type of winds would be causing the cone, these scientists calculated the energy that would result from the winds of all the surrounding stars. Not even all of them together could give rise to a wind so intense that it could carry all that amount of cold gas. Only the black hole option fit. Furthermore, the cone pointed precisely to Sagittarius A*. Chandra enters the scene. To verify that their suspicions were not the result of a specific anomaly, they checked their results with the Chandra X-ray Observatory. Thanks to it, they detected X-ray emissions in exactly the same region as the cone. These would correspond to the emissions from the black hole’s winds. Yes, they were facing the winds that no one had been able to locate. 20,000 years without being seen. By analyzing emissions across the galaxy, they saw that this black hole has been active for at least 20,000 years. It is true that it has been relatively silent, since, while the winds of a black hole are more intense than those of a star, it was more similar to a breeze than a storm. But the wind was there, immersed in interference. You just had to look for it conscientiously. This time, physics adds up. What seemed like an exception, really wasn’t. Image | X-ray: NASA/CXC/Northwestern University/M. Gorski; Radio: ESO/NAOJ/NRAO/ALMA; processing: NASA/CXC/SAO/K. Arcand and P. Edmonds In Xataka | The Webb and Hubble telescopes simultaneously observed Jupiter’s auroras. The problem is that they didn’t see the same thing

NASA just passed a milestone with the X-59. What comes next aims to change commercial aviation

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Commercial aviation has been pursuing a difficult promise for decades: flying faster than sound without making that progress a problem for those on the ground. The obstacle is not only the speed, but the shock waves that generates a supersonic aircraft and that can be perceived as a sonic boom. He X-59 was born to test an alternative: reaching those speeds with an acoustic signature that NASA hopes will be much more discreet. NASA is not yet talking about commercial routes, but it is about a step designed to address one of the great barriers to this type of flights. The most recent advance came last Friday, when the X-59 exceeded the speed of sound for the first time during a test flight within the Quesst mission. According to NASApilot Jim “Clue” Less took off and landed at Edwards Air Force Base, California, on an 81-minute mission. The plane reached an approximate maximum speed of Mach 1.1, which the agency places in this flight at about 1,150 km/h, at an altitude of about 13,200 meters. It was an important milestone, but still within a testing phase focused on testing its flight qualities. The test of the most discreet supersonic flight enters its decisive phase The important thing, therefore, will not only be what happens inside the plane, but what is heard from below. Quesst is designed to demonstrate a technology capable of softening this phenomenon until it becomes a lighter sound knock. The next part of the plan involves flying over American communities and collecting the reaction of people exposed to that sound. The agency will then share those results with national and international regulators to inform future data-driven noise standards. That is why the first supersonic flight is not an arrival point, but rather the beginning of a more demanding phase. The next step will come in the following days: a first test in “mission conditions”, with a cruising speed of Mach 1.4, which NASA places around 1,490 km/hand an altitude of about 16,800 meters. The data matters because these are the basic conditions that the agency contemplates for future flights over inhabited areas in the United States. Before asking people what they have heard, the aircraft has to demonstrate that it can operate stably in that regime. Behind the X-59 there is not just a striking shape or an isolated commitment to recover supersonic flight. NASA remembers who has been studying this field for more than seven decades, with special attention to the noise associated with these flights and ways to make it more discreet. The Quesst mission combines advanced simulations, wind tunnel testing, schlieren photography and computational fluid dynamics to anticipate how the air around the aircraft behaves. The current phase has to verify something very specific: whether this entire design works in flight with a full-scale supersonic aircraft. The ultimate goal is not for the X-59 to end up transporting passengers, but for its data to help open a door that has been practically closed for decades. The information collected will be shared with national and international regulators to contribute to news noise standards based on data, not just the historical experience of the large noises associated with supersonic flight. The agency also plans to provide design tools and technology for future quieter supersonic aircraft. If the plan works, manufacturers would have more confidence to explore commercial concepts capable of flying fast without disturbing the ground as much. As we can see, the X-59 has crossed an important line, but the Quesst mission still has its most relevant tests ahead. First you will have to get closer to the conditions planned for these test flights over inhabited areas, and then you will come to the verification that really matters for the future of the program: knowing if that sound shock is acceptable. A good part of the value of NASA data will be played there. Images | POT In Xataka | Airbus has just made the most autonomous commercial aircraft in the world fly. Your goal: 22 hours straight without a stopover

“Entire boxes are bought, there is a lack of product and we are producing 24 hours a day”

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“I’m the typical nostalgic millennial, I admit that.” This is how our colleague Laura Sacristán of Xataka Mobile the article in which he narrates his experience completing the World Cup sticker album… digitally. It is a phrase that could summarize the entire text that is to come. And if one feels like Don Quixote in front of the windmills when trying to complete the Panini World Cup album. The one that the company has launched with the punctuality of someone who knows they have a good business on their hands. Among the strength of the world fifespeculation and the feeling of nostalgia, one buys the album assuming that it will be almost impossible to complete it. Working piecework But it doesn’t seem enough. “It had never started this way, especially in Spain and Portugal. In Brazil it has always been crazy, but, this year, there is a lack of product and we are producing 24 hours a day. We did not expect it” The statements are from Lluís Torrent, general director of Panini in Spain, to elDiario.eswho accepts that there is a shortage of stock in the stickers that our country demands. And the company claims that it had not seen the same fever for World Cup cards in our country as this year. Although the public is loyal to each year’s album, the World Cups have something special and that can also be seen in the results account by adding more followers. “There are adults who have reengaged. There is hunger and whole boxes are bought“, explains Torrent to the digital media. And our colleague confirms it. If she has made the leap to digital it is for a very simple reason: desperation. “They are sold out everywhere” is the answer she has heard the most in recent days. Fed up, she has forgotten the physical card. “The cards also serve as a socialization tool, you have to know how to organize them, exchange them, “They have a positive aspect of coexistence and sociability,” says Torrent. The problem is when the speculator takes over that “positive aspect of coexistence and sociability.” To both Laura Sacristán, Torrent, and everyone who approaches a kiosk, those who run them give the same answer: “people take away whole boxes.” The shortage remains in the market three weeks after this report from The Newspaper. The person who spoke then was Narayan, head of a kiosk in Sant Cugat del Vallés, stating that even they themselves have had larger orders rejected for their points of sale. More than 600 kilometers further away, in the Puerta Cerrada square in the heart of Madrid, another kiosk gives the same answer to some children who are trying to quench their thirst for stickers. Children who can go look for the ones that interest them most just a few hundred meters away. In the lower part of the Rastro, the fans They meet every Sunday to exchange the repeated stickers and complete the collection. Or buy them. Because the truth is that there is no shortage of those who resell the most sought-after stickers. On digital buying and selling portals it is not difficult to find individual trading cards for 30 euros (the equivalent of 20 sealed envelopes). if we talk about Cristiano Ronaldo either Messi. For an “extra sticker”, the stickers premium that Panini has launched along with the standard collection with another 80 prints, individual prices start at 50 euros and in some they reach 150 euros. Despite everything, Torrent defends that there is the same probability of an envelope containing the Lamine Yamal sticker as it is of JK Duverne, the Haitian defender who plays for the Belgian team KAA Gent. This World Cup, furthermore, is of special interest for collectors because everything indicates, if no one can remedy it, that it will be the last for Messi, Cristiano Ronaldo and Neymar. But also, the collection is broader than ever because more teams than ever play in the World Cup. The result: 980 cards that represent the players of the 48 teams that complete the tournament this time. A figure never seen in Panini’s World Cup album and that falls like May water on the Italian company that this year will bill more than 100 million euros in Spain. A tiny part of the global result that is estimated at 1,400 million euros in this edition, they point out in Seville newspaper. An empire built on two factories, one in Italy and the other in Brazil. An empire built on childhood anxiety, hunger accumulated during the four years of the World Cup cycle and, above all, the nostalgic thirst that seems insatiable among the millennial generation. Photo | Panini and FIFA In Xataka | We are in 2026, but you will only see part of the World Cup in 4K. The “shitification” of the platforms gives us back DTT

Apple attacks regulation in a harsh message

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In it WWDC 2026 celebrated today, Apple has presented Siri AIthe most ambitious version of his assistant to date. The assistant is now capable of maintaining fluid conversations, searching the user’s email or photos, act within third party applications and understand what is on the screen, something that represents a leap that many have been waiting for for years. However, European users with iPhone or iPad they will be left without this great updateat least for now. The reason: the European Commission and Apple have been clashing for months and have still not managed to reach an agreement. What is it that Europe is lost. Apple has turbocharged Siri with a good handful of AI capabilities. During the conference, the company has shown how the assistant can now track old messages, emails or photos to answer specific user questions, draft emails from scratch, understand the content that appears on the screen or search for updated information on the web. It also launches its own application where we can dive into the conversations we have had with the assistant, synchronized between all the user’s devices. On the iPhone, among many other capabilities, it is also integrated directly into the camera. On the Mac and iPad, Visual Intelligence finally arrives, allowing you to ask Siri about anything that appears on the screen. None of this will be available in iOS 27 nor on iPadOS 27 in the European Union. Siri AI will arrive in macOS, watchOS and visionOS in the region, but not in the two most used systems. The problem: DMA and an interpretation that Apple rejects. The Digital Markets Law (DMA) forces Apple to open its ecosystem to competition. The European Commission designated it as a gatekeeper in relation to iOS, the App Store and Safari in September 2023, and in relation to iPadOS in April 2024. And of course, opening its AI ecosystem is something that the company did not have in its plans. Apple holds that the Brussels interpretation would require giving any third-party AI system virtually unlimited access to the user’s device, such as reading and sending messages, making purchases, accessing files or executing actions in any application, all autonomously and without the user being able to monitor it in real time. The proposal that the Commission has rejected. To try to unblock the situation, Apple designed an intermediate solution that it called Trusted System Agent, an intermediary that would allow other virtual assistants to access the same functions as Siri AI, but with the security layers that the company considers essential. In addition, it proposed a gradual implementation plan of 18 months to give room to regulators and developers. The European Commission said no. According to Apple, none of its proposals were accepted. What Apple says. Craig Federighi, senior vice president of Software Engineering at Apple, declared be “deeply disappointed” that European iPhone and iPad users will not have access to Siri AI when the new software versions arrive. In the official statement, the company states that it will continue working to find a way, although it recognizes that, given the regulatory blockade, there is no scheduled date for Siri AI to reach iOS and iPadOS in the EU. It is worth keeping in mind that this story is Apple’s, since the European Commission has not made public its version of why it rejected this system. On the other hand, it is also clear that the company has an obvious interest in presenting this regulation as the obstacle. Conflicts. It is not the first time that Apple and the EU have clashed over the DMA, although this takes on a totally different color. Apple It even positioned itself on the side of Google last May when the Commission proposed similar measures for Androidarguing, according to Reuters collectedthat opening access to third-party AI systems would pose serious risks to user privacy and security. The EU, for its part, also concluded that month that the DMA has had a positive impactleaving little room for maneuver for Apple’s complaints to prosper before the regulatory deadline of July 27, 2026 expires. In the EU, with little news. European users with iPhone or iPad will start this fall with the usual Siri while the rest of the world debuts the new assistant. Apple has no date to resolve the blockage, and the Commission also shows no signs of giving up on its interpretation of the DMA. So everything indicates that we will have to wait to find out how this conflict ends up being resolved. Cover image | Apple and Guillaume Perigois In Xataka | iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max: everything we think we know about the new Apple phones

MSI launches the world’s first desktop gaming PC with an AI agent in the form of a ‘hologram’

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Computex 2026 has already ended, but it has left us with several interesting announcements. We already told you a few days ago how MSI had presented several monitorsincluding the first triple-resolution QD-OLED gaming monitor ever manufactured. The same manufacturer has also done something quite curious: it has put an artificial intelligence agent in a gaming PC. And he did it with the appearance of a ‘hologram’. An AI that will help you configure your PC without touching anything A few months ago we brought you an analysis of MSI’s first MEG Visiona gaming PC with an RTX 5090 and where we had a huge screen crowning the tower that gave access to a lot of different functions. The new MSI PC goes in that same direction, although in this case combining an AI agent that runs inside the computer and that has a much more physical presence. Instead of a conventional screen like the previous device had, this MEG Vision X 2 AI⁺ has a cylindrical screen that is integrated within the chassis. In this way, MSI’s AI (called LuckyClaw) will be there in the form of a kind of ‘hologram’ that gives the device a very futuristic look. Be careful, because it is not something merely cosmetic. This artificial intelligence responds to natural voice commandsso it is not necessary to interact with it physically. In this way, we can be immersed in the middle of the game and change things such as RGB lighting, monitor settings or even computer performance profiles without touching anything. What more can we expect from this team? In addition to the above, it will also bring the best NVIDIA graphics card, an Intel Core Ultra processor, WiFi 7 connectivity and a liquid cooling system that is designed to be very quiet even if we push the equipment hard. At the moment, it has no price or release date. New mini PCs and an ‘All in One’ In addition to the previous PC, MSI has also presented other options more oriented to the world of work and productivity, but designed for users looking for equipment that takes up very little space. There we can place the Pro Max Edge AI 11M, an ultra-compact 4-liter device that comes with AMD processors and integrated graphics cards. This, in fact, can be configured with up to 128 GB of unified memory, ideal for working with AI models locally. In addition to this, it has also presented the Pro Max 27TP Z 8MG, an ‘All in One’ device (i.e. It’s all integrated into the screen). It is a computer that even integrates a webcam in a monitor that has a refresh rate of 120 Hz and has an AMD Ryzen 7 255 processor inside. Finally, we also have the new computers that make up the Cubi Nuc AI WCG line. They are very compact devices, designed for both the work world and the home environment. It is an interesting alternative for those users who do not have space for a large PC nor do they want a laptop. Some interesting PCs with a discount from the MSI store These devices are not yet available to buy, as we said above, but there are very interesting options in the MSI store now that we have a 10% discount on everything in it, both complete devices and peripherals. Below we leave you a couple of examples. MSI MPG Trident AS AI If you are looking for a gaming PC, this MPG Trident AS AI is a good option right now. It is a device with an Intel Core Ultra 5 225F as a processor, 16 GB of DDR5 type RAM and a 1 TB SSD. In addition, it has an RTX 5060 Ti as a graphics card. If we take into account the current price of RAM and SSDsit is a top option with the discount it has: it is reduced to 1,399 euros, but with the code ‘COMPUTEXMSI‘ stays in 1,259.10 euros. MSI MPG Trident AS AI 2NVM5-074EU | Gaming PC The price could vary. We earn commission from these links If you want to accompany the previous computer with an ultrawide monitorthis MAG401QR is a top option. It has an IPS panel, 155 Hz and a refresh rate of 1 ms, making it a very interesting option for video games. In addition, it has a good UWQHD resolution (3,440 x 1440 pixels), so it also It is ideal for working with several windows open at the same time. With the same coupon that we indicated above you stay in 323.10 euros. 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 | MSI In Xataka | DDR4 or DDR5? What RAM to choose so as not to pay even more than necessary in the middle of the price crisis In Xataka | Faster (and more expensive) is not always better: the big difference between buying an SSD and an HDD for backups

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