More and more people are looking at invasive species as the new big culinary goldmine. Science has something to say

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Honolulu, Hawaii, is famous for its beaches and the kind of paradise landscapes you dream of when planning your vacation. A few weeks ago, however, one of its most picturesque beaches hosted a contest that sounded like anything but paradise: “Eat the Invaders” (“Eat the invaders”). Although the title may be shocking macabre, in reality it was a fishing tournament in which participants had to capture three invasive species. Then a chef was in charge of preparing them to demonstrate that, in addition to being a huge environmental problem, fish ta’ape, to‘ouch either roi They can be a delicacy. It seems like an anecdote, but that Honolulu tournament is just part of a much bigger problem: the ‘invasivorism‘. What the hell is ‘invasiveness’? The word is confusing, but it refers to a very easy concept to understand: the ‘invasiveness’ It consists of neither more nor less than consuming invasive species. Exactly what encouraged to do a few weeks ago in Honolulu: stop seeing ta’ape or roi as simple invasive species and understand them as something more, an ingredient for delicious dishes. In theory, this does not mean that we give up eradicating them or ignore the damage they cause to local ecosystems. It is simply encouraged to go further and turn the problem into an opportunity. Does it only happen in Hawaii? Not at all. Honolulu residents haven’t invented anything new. Not even the slogan of “Eat the Invaders”, which is actually the title of a series from the ABC network that explores precisely the culinary potential of Australia’s invasive species. In 2025 even the US Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) used that same hook (“Eat the invaders”) to launch a campaign that encouraged taking advantage of species introduced by man and that now threaten native diversity. “Consumption of invasive species can help protect native fauna and flora. By trapping, trapping and consuming them we can reduce their population and the damage they cause,” claims an article signed by Erin Huggins, from the FWS communications area, which details half a dozen species that represent a problem in the US and “should be considered”: Myocastor coypus, Channa argus, iguana iguanasilver carp and Sus scrofacreatures from other areas of America, Asia or Europe. Sounds good, right? That’s the crux of the matter. At first glance it seems like squaring the circle: an invasive species is combated and in the process a benefit is easily transferred to the entire population. The idea is so powerful that in 2013 even the FAO encouraged fighting jellyfish plagues with a similar slogan: “If you can’t fight them, eat them.” The problem is that there are experts who believe that invasiveness is actually a trap that is tantalizingly easy to fall into. At first it seems like the perfect solution, but it often ends up aggravating the invasions. The issue is of sufficient concern that a group of scientists from several countries, led by the Doñana-CSIC Biological Station, has published an article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) in which he questions the basic argument of invasiveness: that the consumption of invasive species is an intelligent strategy, especially if it ends up turning the capture and exploitation of those same species into a lucrative business. “Encouraging commercialization can create incentives to maintain them instead of eradicating them.” What do they say exactly? That what at first seems like a solution can end up becoming a problem. “Invasivorism is usually presented as a strategy win-win (mutual benefit) based on the idea that the consumption of an invasive species generates wealth while minimizing its impacts”, recognize Fran Officialdegui, researcher at the Doñana-CSIC Biological Station and main author of the article. “But the reality is much more complex, and in many situations, when the problem becomes a business, a resistance to ending it arises.” “What is not often said is that the objectives of commercial exploitation and management of invasive species are, in most cases, opposite,” affects the researcher before warning of the greatest risk: that a market will be generated around foreign species. When this happens to the interest in eradicating them, another that pulls in the opposite direction can be added: the interest in conserving them. Can that really happen? It has already happened, in fact. In their article, the researchers recall the case of the Kamchatka crab (Paralithodes camtschaticus). Although it is a species native to the North Pacific, about 60 years ago the USSR decided to introduce it to the Barents Sea, in the Arctic. There these crustaceans found a place where they could easily expand and ended up becoming a pest. Also in something else: the engine of a prosperous business that over time led to overexploitation. What did the authorities do when fishing threatened to eliminate the theoretically invasive species? Catch limits were set to guarantee the business that had been created. Why are they issuing the warning now? Because, as they remember from the Doñana-CSIC Biological Station, the discourse of invasiveness seems to be settling little by little. And in part this expansion is due to campaigns promoted by companies, administrations and even conservation organizations that are carried away by the motto of “If you can’t beat them, eat them!” that already used years ago the FAO. Officialdegui also warns that what happened in his day with the Kamchatka crab could be replicated in Spain with the Callinectes sapidusor blue crab, a invasive species whose goodness culinary now they start promoting themselves. In fact it is easy to find recipes that explain how to prepare it with rice. “It is very likely that scenarios similar to that of the Kamchatka crab will occur on the peninsula when, once the commercial exploitation of the blue crab is established (Callinectes sapidus), there are declines in its population”, keep it up Officialdegui. In his opinion, invasiveness can help raise social awareness about the risk of exotic species, but that cannot mislead us. “Addressing biological invasions requires long-term commitment, scientific knowledge and coordinated … Read more

It is called Anthropic and it is going to pay you 200,000 million, according to The Information

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Anthropic has agreed to pay Google about $200 billion over five years for more computing power, according to has published The Information. The figure would thus place the AI ​​startup as Google Cloud’s largest individual client, representing more than 40% of the backlog of earnings that Alphabet communicated to its investors last week. From commitment to commitment. A revenue backlog reflects contractual commitments already signed by a cloud provider’s customers. That Anthropic occupies more than 40% of Google Cloud says a lot about the extent to which the startup has become a structural piece of Alphabet’s business. There is also another nuance to highlight: that large AI companies like Anthropic or OpenAI still need the hyperscalers to continue growing, so in this sense, both Microsoft and Google can afford not to have the best AI models as long as they receive such an amount of income from offering such computing capacity. What the agreement consists of. According to they count In The Information, the pact, signed in April, includes massive capacity of TPUs (Google’s own AI chips), supplied in collaboration with Broadcom. However, this infrastructure will not be ready after 2027. Anthropic, for its part, not only works with Google hardware, since also uses Trainium chips from Amazon and Nvidia GPUs, playing its cards well to diversify suppliers and not depend on a single company that supplies computing capacity. The now classic circular financing. Alphabet has been investing in Anthropic for years: first it was $300 million in 2023, then another 2 billionafter 1 billion more in 2025. A few days ago we also discovered an investment of up to 40,000 million additional payments by Google, of which 10 billion would be disbursed immediately and the rest would be conditional on objectives met. In exchange, Google Cloud will provide an additional 5 gigawatts of computing capacity. This way, Google invests in Anthropic and Anthropic spends that money in Google. Is called circular financingand it is the key to how the foundations of AI are made of promises. According to account In the middle, the contracts signed between large cloud providers (Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud) and startups like Anthropic and OpenAI already add up to more than two billion dollars in committed backlogs. Hyperscalers invest in AI startups and AI startups spend that money on the infrastructure of those same hyperscalers. Anthropic can’t afford it… and yet they do it. Estimates suggest that Anthropic’s server costs could reach 20 billion dollars only in 2026. The company is not yet profitable, but demand for its model family Claude continues to grow strongly in the business segment, which forces it to secure long-term computing capacity before infrastructure shortages prevent it from doing so. The agreement with Google adds to another recent one with CoreWeave and the forecast of securing almost a gigawatt of additional capacity through Amazon chips before the end of the year. Almost symbiotic relationship. Alphabet is at a time of maximum competitive pressure in AI. Your cloud business grew by 36% last year, and Anthropic is one of its most intensive clients. Losing that relationship, or seeing it migrate to other providers like AWS, would be a significant blow. Furthermore, with an Anthropic valuation that Bloomberg situates around 800,000 million dollars, and with a possible IPO Before the year is out, Google’s accumulated stake in the company could become one of its most valuable financial assets. It is not just infrastructure: it is also a capital bet. Cover image | Wikimedia and Fortune Brainstorm Tech In Xataka | If at some point NVIDIA has to choose between giving its best chips to the US or China, its choice is very clear.

build it himself at home

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Getting a yacht is usually a common whim among billionaires. Entrepreneurs like Jeff Bezos and Mark Zuckerberg have not hesitated to spend part of their fortune to navigate different parts of the world with comforts, style and, above all, luxury. The first commissioned the construction of ‘koru‘ to the Dutch firm Oceanco, the second decided to skip this step and bought ‘Launchpad’ from a Russian oligarch. An American named Clyde Stires followed a completely different path to get the yacht he wanted, a catamaran 27.86 meters in length and 12.41 meters in width, equipped to receive a dozen guests. Stires tells in a video published on YouTube who was not a millionaire, but who decided to channel all the resources at his disposal, combined with great determination, to build the yacht of his dreams. From building custom vehicles to building your own yacht Stires was born in Missouri, although at the age of 12 he moved with his family to California. Since he was little, he spent a lot of time with his father, who taught him to use different cutting tools. With this knowledge as a basis, he began to learn on his own how to fix and build everyday objects such as toys. Much later, in the 1970s, he found inspiration in the vehicle manufacturer Ed “Big Daddy” Roth. After that, he began building motorcycle tricycles whose designs won over stars like Elvis Presley and Johnny Graham. His passion for what he did only increased. Years later he found himself transforming a double-decker bus into a caravan. He had previously bought his first boat in Taiwan, and decided that “he wanted to get back on the water,” so he got rid of almost everything he owned to start the project of his life, building a yacht. The vehicles that Clyde Stires manufactured Stires realize that analyzed every part of the project before starting. Since he did not have sufficient financial resources, he could not afford to build the ship in a shipyard. The costs of doing so would simply be unaffordable. Nor could I do it anywhere in the United States, since the climatic conditions could accelerate the deterioration of the ship under construction. So he decided to move to an ideal place to start the project. The caravan project He was in California, so he looked for a house in Perris, an old railroad town characterized by its dry, sunny climate. After making several sketches, calculations and reduced-scale versions, he got to work in 1987. In the video we can see how the boat is gaining size over time. This undoubtedly caught the attention of the locals, as someone points out in the YouTube comment below. The “skeleton” of the yacht “I lived in Canyon Lake and I drove past this every day on my way to work, it was very close to Highway 74. Suddenly, this huge ship started appearing, getting bigger every day. It was amazing to see. I had to stop and ask what was going on with that boat. He was always alone working in construction. He was very kind and told me that he was building a boat to sail around the world. So what you were wondering was: how is this ship going to get to the ocean?” The construction of the ship forced Stires to perfect all his techniques. This included everything from welding for the rolling process to installing the wiring, hydraulics and motors. It took Stires years to complete the deck lining, install all the equipment and paint the boat. Once it was finished, he was faced with the difficult task of taking it to the sea, and the only alternative was to cut it up and move it in pieces. The ship, called Kaleidoscope, was reassembled and launched in 1994. That milestone for the project was just the beginning of a series of surprising episodes that would come years later. The American says that his ship was “stolen by a cartel” when he was in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico. Although after much effort, the authorities managed to recover the ship, the process of returning it to the United States was so complex that he decided to sell it. The years have passed and the yacht that once belonged to Stires is sailing again. Since its sale, it has been part of the fleet of a boat rental company. Kaleidoscope is presented as a yacht with “all the comforts for the most luxurious sailing experience.” Its new owners also call it a “limousine of the sea” and use it for private excursions or event celebrations. Images | Clyde Stires In Xataka | Yachts are now a product for the rich: a Chinese millionaire wants you to be able to buy them for $14,000 In Xataka | Roman Abramovich’s superyacht is a ruin even moored in port: 1,000 liters of diesel a day just for the air conditioning

If the question is how much an employee would have to work to earn the same as a manager, we have the answer: a century

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The wealth gap between the richest and the poorest is skyrocketing around the world. There are people whose salary in a single year far exceeds what any other average job could earn by working their entire life. It’s not an exaggeration: it’s what the numbers show. A report of Oxfam Intermón and the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC), analyzes the salary data of 1,500 large companies in 33 countries and quantifies the difference between what an average worker earns and what he earns a senior manager in Spain: That gap is no longer measured in years of salary, it is measured in centuries. A century of work to earn the same. According to data from the Oxfam report, in Spain, the general directors of the 12 largest companies in the country earned an equivalent average remuneration in 2025 98 times the national average salary. That means that an employee in Spain with an average gross salary in Spain of between 27,300 and 31,600 euros would have to work almost an entire century to accumulate what one of those senior managers earns in a single year. The data in the report is in line with what was included in the fourteenth edition of the remuneration report that published The Countrywhich stated that the annual salary received by the managers of Ibex 35 companies was 103 times higher than that of their employees. A gap that has become an abyss. The problem is that the gap is not only enormous, but it is widening every year and risks becoming an unbridgeable abyss. The average compensation of CEOs grew by 16% in the last year, while the average salary of workers in Spain it only increased 3.6% in 2025. At a global level the figure is not much better, since the real salary of workers globally fell by 12% between 2019 and 2025 due to inflation and wage stagnation. What happens in the rest of the world. The data from the report shows that, on a global scale, the situation is not very different, and the 1,500 highest-paid CEOs in the world earned an average of 8.4 million dollars in 2025, compared to 7.6 million the previous year. That represents an increase of 11% in real terms. For an average worker to accumulate that same salary, they would need to work 490 years non-stop. Meanwhile, the real salary what the worker receives average taking inflation into account, barely rose 0.5% between 2024 and 2025. That means that the highest paid executives improved their income 20 times faster than your employees. Real salaries, in free fall since 2019. The data on workers is worrying in itself, regardless of any comparison. Since 2019, workers’ real salaries have fallen by 12% worldwide, which is equivalent to having worked 108 days without pay between 2019 and 2025, 31 of them in the last year alone. Although the study shows that productivity per worker has grown by 51% since 2004, the part of GDP that goes to salaries has been reduced by 2 percentage points in that same period. Miguel Alba, head of Inequality and the Private Sector at Oxfam Intermón, pointed out that: “The remuneration of senior managers in large companies reaches exorbitant dimensions, very far from what ordinary people earn to cover living expenses.” Extreme wealth and a demand for change. The report also points to the growth of large fortunes as part of the same phenomenon. In Spain, the billionaire wealth It increased by 29.5% in the last year, representing 13.8% of GDP, distributed among 44 billionaires. In contrast, the average net wealth of Spanish households only grew by 3% between the end of 2022 and the end of 2024, according to data from the Bank of Spain collected in the report. On a global scale, among the largest beneficiaries of dividends in 2025 are Bernard Arnault, owner of LVMH, with $3.8 billion, and Amancio Ortega with 3.7 billion dollars (3,234 million euros). Faced with this scenario of extreme differences, Oxfam Intermón and the ITUC call on governments to limit the remuneration of senior managers, to tax the richest more fairly and to guarantee that minimum salaries are updated in line with inflation to ensure that employees do not lose purchasing power. In Xataka | Low salaries have ruined the job satisfaction of Spaniards: only 28.7% are satisfied with their job Image | Unsplash (Muhammad Sultan Ali, Ruthson Zimmerman)

burial mounds from 5,000 years ago

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In 1991, an exceptional drought in the United Kingdom caused them to suddenly appear from the air strange patterns in crop fields that until then seemed completely normal. The archaeologists discovered which were the traces of settlements and structures buried for centuries, revealed only because the plants grew differently on what was underground. An ordinary field that was not so field. From the road, the bohemian farm fieldsCzech Republic, seem completely normal. For decades it was assumed that intensive agriculture had erased any trace of the past. However, beneath that seemingly uniform surface hid a much more complex reality. What seemed like a land without history has turned out to be a intact archaeological map on a massive scale. The discovery: 5,000-year-old burial mounds under the plow. Now, the use of advanced technologies has allowed us to discover dozens of burial mounds Neolithic, some with 5,000 years old. These structures, known as long barrowswere some of the first large-scale funerary monuments in central Europe. Not only that. The most striking thing is that they are not visible to the naked eye and have remained hidden for centuries under cultivated fields. His recent identification changes the perception of these landscapes, which go from being agricultural spaces to authentic historical sites. See without digging: the technology that has made it possible. The researchers counted from the Institute of Archeology of the University of Wrocław that the discovery has not occurred through traditional excavations, but thanks to the combination of various detection techniques remote. Aerial photographs, crop growth analysis, magnetometry and laser scanning have allowed detect invisible patterns from the ground. Each method provides a different layer of information, revealing everything from minimal changes in topography to buried structures. Together, these tools have rebuilt a prehistoric landscape complete without the need to remove the soil. A landscape organized between the living and the dead. Beyond the mounds, researchers have identified thousands of associated structuresincluding settlement areas. The data shows a clear separation between inhabited spaces and funerary spaces. Apparently, Neolithic communities deliberately located their cemeteries on the margins, hundreds of meters away from their homes. This organization reveals a conception of the territory where daily life and death occupied differentiated spaces. Rituals that have been repeated for centuries. Plus: the mounds were not isolated places or for occasional use. Evidence suggests these areas were reused for generations as ritual points. Communities returned to them again and again, thus maintaining their meaning over time. In other words, this turns these monuments into symbolic nuclei within the landscape, more than simple burials. Thousands of footprints under the same field. The study has identified about 3,000 archaeological elements in a relatively limited area, indicating a much higher density of prehistoric activity than previously thought. These are not, therefore, isolated finds, but rather a complete system that includes homes, structures and ritual spaces. In this way, the current agricultural landscape hides a complex network of human occupation. Of punctual discovery of a new way of looking. Beyond the discovery itself, possibly the most relevant thing is what it implies for archeology and science, because even in lands exploited for centuries, the past is still readable if the right tools are used. In fact, the approach allows us to reconstruct not only objects or tombs, but the entire organization of ancient societiessuggesting along the way that many other seemingly “empty” landscapes could also be hiding similar stories. Image | MOs810 In Xataka | About to close, this remote mine in the Polar Circle has found a 2 billion-year-old yellow diamond that weighs 158 carats In Xataka | While building a tunnel, workers came across something unusual in Sweden: not one, not two, but six centuries-old shipwrecks.

Anthropic has just left behind Claude’s biggest burden. He has achieved this after sealing an alliance with Elon Musk’s SpaceX

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There are few things more frustrating than finding a tool that fits almost exactly what we need and discovering, just as we’re starting to get the most out of it, that we can’t keep using it at the same rate. Claude It has earned a prominent place among those who use artificial intelligence to program, analyze documents or work with demanding tasks, but it has also drawn a very specific complaint: its limits of use. We are not talking about a minor annoyance, but rather a friction capable of breaking the workflow. Anthropic has decided to attack the problem. The company led by Dario Amodei announced a rise of the limits of Claude Code and the Claude API, relying on a new alliance with SpaceXAI. The pact will give it access to Colossus 1, an infrastructure that Anthropic presents as a way to directly improve the experience of its most intensive users. The promise, for now, is clear: more room to use Claude without demand taking its toll so quickly. The tension with limits. The adjustment that helps understand this news came a few weeks earlier. Anthropic recently modified their time limits to better manage demand during peak hours. In practice, this meant that five-hour sessions could be consumed before those actual five hours had passed if the use occurred during peak periods. The change especially affected those who made more intense use of Claude. More room to use Claude. Anthropic specifies the improvement in three changes that, according to the company, take effect immediately. The first is the doubling of Claude Code’s five-hour limits for Pro, Max, Team, and Enterprise plans per seat. The second is the removal of the peak limit reduction for Claude Code on Pro and Max accounts. The third affects the API: Anthropic says it has considerably raised the usage limits for Claude Opus models, although the exact scope depends on the limits table published by the company itself. Colossus muscle 1. The agreement with SpaceXAI is the most striking piece of the announcement because Anthropic ensures that it will be able to use all the computing capacity of the Colossus 1 data center. According to the company, that means more than 300 megawatts of new capacity and more than 220,000 NVIDIA GPUs that will be available within a month. SpaceXAI also details that the cluster includes deployments of H100, H200 and GB200 accelerators. The transformation continues. SpaceXAI does not appear in this agreement as simply a new label within the SpaceX ecosystem. The context, Elon Musk noted that “xAI will be dissolved as an independent company” and that its artificial intelligence products will be integrated under SpaceXAI. The phrase helps understand why Anthropic is talking about this brand when explaining its new access to computing power. Of course, to avoid confusion, what Anthropic announced is not a purchase or a merger, but rather an agreement to use AI infrastructure. It is not an isolated agreement. Anthropic also wanted to frame the alliance with SpaceXAI within a much broader capability strategy. The company recalls an agreement of up to 5 GW with Amazon, which includes almost 1 GW of new capacity by the end of 2026, and another 5 GW pact with Google and Broadcom that will begin to come into operation in 2027. To this it adds a strategic alliance with Microsoft and NVIDIA, with $30 billion of capacity in Azure, and an investment of $50 billion in AI infrastructure in the United States with Fluidstack. The most futuristic part. The agreement also includes a much more speculative derivative. Anthropic says that as part of the pact, it has expressed interest in collaborating with SpaceXAI to develop several gigawatts of orbital computing capacity. SpaceXAI presents it as a possible answer to the pressure that AI is putting on energy, land and cooling on the ground, but for now we are far from something tangible. Of course, this route would only make sense if important engineering challenges are overcome first. The real challenge. Anthropic has put on the table a direct answer to one of the big complaints surrounding Claude, although the most important part is still missing: checking how it feels in real use. SpaceXAI’s new limits and additional capacity seem to point in the right direction for those who work intensively with these services. The improvement, therefore, opens a new phase: that of checking if Claude can offer more margin without its users encountering the same wall again too soon. Images | Xataka with Nano Banana In Xataka | The “token economy” is broken: flat AI programming fees are mathematically unsustainable

a vulnerability has just shaken almost all its versions

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Linux has a reputation as a robust system. Not invulnerable, of course, but especially resistant, to the point of having become one of the silent bases of the Internet, business servers and many environments where security is part of the contract. That is why a vulnerability like CopyFaThis is especially serious: we are not talking about a minor bug in an isolated application, but rather a problem in the kernel that can allow someone who already runs code with few permissions to end up gaining root access. CopyFail. The vulnerability, identified as CVE-2026-31431came to light when the Theori firm made public the details of the bug and the exploitation code after having notified the Linux kernel security team five weeks earlier. That timing nuance is important because the kernel had already received patches in several branches, from 7.0 to 5.10.254. What had not happened yet, at least in a general way, was its effective transfer to many Linux distributions. What are we talking about. CopyFail is a local privilege escalation. It doesn’t mean that anyone can simply attack a Linux machine from the outside, but rather that someone who can already run code inside the system with limited permissions, for example from a regular account, a compromised web service, a container, or a CI/CD job, can try to escalate to root. On Linux, root is the account with full administrative control. That is why the risk is not in the first entry door, but in what happens right after: limited access can become system control. An overly reliable exploit. There is another element that explains the alarm. Many kernel vulnerabilities depend on very specific conditions to function, such as memory corruption that can vary by version, distribution, or even machine. CopyFail is based on a logical flaw in the kernel’s cryptographic API, and that changes the terrain. Bugcrowd researchers explain that Because it is a logical flaw, the exploit does not depend on such specific internal settings, a feature that reduces friction for attackers and complicates the work of defenders. The patch. The case also leaves a lesson about how vulnerabilities in Linux are coordinated. As mentioned above, Theori reported the bug to the kernel security team five weeks before releasing it publicly. The problem is that, for most users, fixes do not arrive directly, but rather through distributions that package, test, and release their own patches or mitigations. When the exploit became public, that process had not yet finished in many distributions or versions, leaving a window of exposure that was difficult to ignore. Current situation. Over the days, part of the ecosystem has begun to close the gap, but not in a uniform way. At the time of publishing this article, distributions like Debian, Arch, fedora, SUSE and Amazon Linux had already published patches or advisories for certain branches, while Ubuntu insisted on updating the system and apply mitigations if the fixed kernel was not yet available or had not been loaded after a reboot. Images | Xataka with Nano Banana In Xataka | The European Central Bank has taken a look at Mythos and made a decision: prepare for the worst-case scenario

RAM aims to become even more expensive

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For years we have accepted that mobile phones were rising in price in exchange for better cameras, better screens, faster processors and, so to speak, increasingly refined designs. We have also begun to assume that on-device AI does not come free: it usually requires more power, more storage and more memory. The surprise is that one of the next blows may come precisely from there, from mobile RAM, a component that usually goes unnoticed, but is very present in the real cost of each smartphone that hits the market. The clearest signal comes from the LPDDR5Xone of the most relevant mobile memories on the current market and which was already coming from an unusual movement. According to TrendForce datathis type of report registered a quarter-on-quarter increase of between 58% and 63% in the first quarter of 2026. This is the largest quarterly increase in its history. What is striking is that this jump does not seem to have closed the cycle: the forecast for the second quarter points to an even more intense rise. If we focus on the forecast for the second quarter, the scale of the problem changes. A projection attributed to TrendForce, shared Jukan Choipoints out that mobile DRAM contract prices will grow between 93% and 98% in quarter-on-quarter terms during that period. In other words: we are not talking about one more increase in a stressed market, but rather a jump close to doubling the price in just three months. For the smartphone industry, a figure like this is not background noise. It should be noted that TrendForce works with paid reports aimed mainly at institutional investors, analysts and companies in the sector, so the full document is not openly available. The relevant part for this article has emerged through Choi, a semiconductor analyst at Citrini Research. The expert accumulates more than 100,000 followers on X and his comments have been cited by media such as The Economistwhich included them in an article about the impact of AI on consumer electronics. The impact on the price of RAM in mobile phones Here we are not talking about the price that a user sees when looking for memory in a store. Mobile DRAM is negotiated in another area: that of contracts between memory manufacturers, such as Samsung, SK Hynix or Micronand large customers who buy enormous volumes to integrate these chips into their products. This world is made up of mobile brands, server manufacturers and other OEMs. That is why the data matters: it does not describe a specific purchase, but rather the base cost with which the industry begins to manufacture its next devices. The rise doesn’t appear out of nowhere either. SemiAnalysis noted at the beginning of April 2026 that DRAM prices could more than double this year and record another double-digit increase in 2027. The same firm noted that the contract price of LPDDR5 had risen more than 3 times since the first quarter of 2025, and that it was likely to exceed $10/GB on the open market during the first quarter of 2026. That is, the second quarter does not inaugurate the tension: the accelerates. DRAM prices could more than double this year and see another double-digit increase in 2027. The backdrop is AI. HBM memory, key to powering the GPUs that power many artificial intelligence data centers, remains in a situation of structural scarcity and absorbs a good part of the sector’s investment. The consequence is easy to understand: if a good part of the money, productive capacity and attention of manufacturers is directed to that high-bandwidth memory, there is less margin to alleviate strain on other DRAM families. Among them is mobile memory, which now competes in a much more demanding supply chain. Added to this is another important detail: smartphone-class memory no longer lives only within the smartphone. NVIDIA uses LPDDR5X in its Grace and Vera processorsdesigned for AI-linked server systems. The reading for the mobile market is clear: a technology used in phones and compact devices is also part of architectures that compete for resources at the center of the race for artificial intelligence. The difference with the PC world helps to understand it better. If we build a computer, we can choose how much RAM to buy, look for an offer and install the module ourselves. It doesn’t work like that with cell phones: we buy a complete device, with the memory already integrated and no real margin to intervene later. That makes the rise of the LPDDR not seen directlybut it doesn’t mean it disappears. It is incorporated into the cost of manufacturing the phone and, from there, it can end up influencing the price we pay. Counterpoint helps convert that increase in price in a figure that is much easier to visualize. For a high-end configuration, with 16 GB of LPDDR5X HKMG and 512 GB of UFS 4.1 storage, the firm projected an increase in BOM between 100 and 150 dollars for the second quarter of 2026. We are talking about the cost of materials, not the sales price, so it is not advisable to mechanically transfer that figure to the consumer. Even so, it is a sign that does not go unnoticed. The bad news, therefore, is not that all mobile phones are going to increase in price automatically or in the same proportion. That will depend on each manufacturer.their contracts, their margins and how they configure each range. But the factor is there: if mobile memory becomes more expensive with this force, the cost of manufacturing a smartphone inevitably changes. And in a market that was already getting us used to increasingly demanding prices, RAM is emerging as another obstacle for those who expected a price drop in the short term. Images | PR MEDIA | Samsung In Xataka | Apple had been able to maintain prices despite the crazy rise in RAM. That’s over

a primitive galaxy that has stopped spinning much earlier than expected

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When we think of a spiral galaxywe normally imagine it in rotating motion. It is logical that we do it. After all, that’s what most people do. Only some may have stopped their spin due to collisions or interactions with other galaxies. It is a process that takes many thousands of years. Therefore, when a team of scientists from the University of California Davis came across a very young galaxy completely still They didn’t believe what they were seeing. “Only” 2,000 million years. The galaxy in question, XMM-VID1-2075, formed 2 billion years ago after the big bang. It is a very primitive galaxy, but the light that reaches us is from a young galaxy, which has not had time to stop its spin as planned. The James Webb Space Telescope has observed her along with two other galaxies with similar characteristics, but those do move. Therefore, this must have something special that intrigues scientists a lot. Different movements. Both this galaxy and the other two had been detected and described for the first time thanks to the WM Keck observatory, located in Hawaii. The James Webb intended to study them in more detail and focus attention on their movement. It has been seen that one of them moves normally and the other in a somewhat disordered way, but both rotate. Only XMM-VID1-2075 has stopped spinning. Yes, it has some very chaotic internal movement, but no circles. Important data. Thanks to these observations it has been seen that this galaxy is very massive, one of the most massive primitive galaxies that have been detected so far. It has also been observed that new stars are no longer forming inside it. All this data leads us to think what could have happened to stop its rotation so soon. An unexpected merger. The authors of this research believe that, instead of many collisions over a long time, this galaxy experienced the early merger of a single galaxy that was spinning in completely the opposite direction. This offset his movement and caused him to stop. It is a hypothesis that is also supported by the fact that there is a large concentration of light on one side of the galaxy. Possibly where the merger occurred. Very few. According to the simulations carried out following this study, there should be very few galaxies like this in the universe. However, it will be interesting to find them, in order to understand what the dawn of the universe was like and the different galactic behaviors that have occurred since then. Sometimes exceptions can help us understand the rule much better. Image of Andromeda (not the galaxy in the article) | Adam Evans In Xataka | These real images were unthinkable before the Webb telescope: they are planets orbiting other stars 130 light years away

We have done the math and this is the cheapest way to watch all 104 World Cup matches on DAZN

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There is just over a month left until the event finally begins. soccer world cup. It’s time for the same thing as every four years: see how and where we can get tired of watching games. It is true that we will have free games both on DTT as in YouTubebut the bulk of the 104 matches We can only see them on DAZN. Let’s do calculations and see what is the cheapest way to see the entire competition. Two months ‘Made in USA’ + the entire Soccer World Cup The price could vary. We earn commission from these links 19.99 euros to watch the World Cup, but there is a “trick” Let’s go in parts. As we mentioned a little above, DAZN announced just a few days ago that the entire World Cup (that is, the 104 matches) will have a price of 19.99 euros. If we look back, This is exactly what the Qatar World Cup in 2022 cost at the timewhere the same platform broadcast its 64 matches. A priori it sounds good (same price for 40 more games), but the reality is that it is going to cost us more. Because? Very simple: we cannot only contract the World Cup, but also We have to be subscribed to one of the DAZN plans. The only exception to this is the Premium plan, which includes the World Cup for free. What happens is that this plan has a price of 25.99 euros per month with a 12-month stay or 44.99 euros per month without a stay. That is, we would be paying almost 90 euros to see the World Cup in this way. Monthly subscription to Movistar Plus+ The price could vary. We earn commission from these links Luckily, we can access the 104 games in a much more economical way. The “play” is to contract the most economical plan that DAZN has (called ‘Made in USA’) and add the World Cup to this. To make everything more visual, let’s break down the prices: ‘Made in USA’ Plan: We can contract this plan for 4.99 euros per month with a 12-month stay or for 7.99 euros without a stay. Since we are interested in paying as little as possible, the best option is the latter. World Cup 2026: The price of this plan is, as we have said before, 19.99 euros in total. Single payment. Total: As the competition starts on June 11 and ends on July 19, we have to subscribe to ‘Made in USA’ for two months (in addition to the 19.99 euros that the World Cup package costs). Therefore, we would pay a total of 35.97 euros to see the 104 games. ‘Made in USA’ plan without permanence The price could vary. We earn commission from these links Three things to keep in mind. The first is that the ‘Made in USA’ plan includes competitions such as the NBA, the NFL or NASCAR. The other is that these accounts are valid if we subscribe in the month of June, since if we subscribe right now we will be paying for one more month. And the last thing is that DAZN requires a 30-day notice to unsubscribesomething to also keep in mind to avoid paying more. ⚡ IN SUMMARY: watch the entire World Cup on Dazn ✅ THE BEST There are 104 games: It is the World Cup with the most matches in history, quite a spectacle for those of us who like football. You can watch the matches on the device you want: DAZN has an app for both mobile phones and tablets, computers or TVs. ❌ THE WORST Higher price than the last World Cup: It is true that there are many more matches, but the price is also almost double. It forces you to hire something that you may not want: Having to sign up for a plan on DAZN should be optional and not mandatory. 💡 SUBSCRIBE IF… You like football and you want to see all the World Cup matches, regardless of which team is playing. ⛔ DO NOT SUBSCRIBE IF… You don’t want to have to subscribe to another platform or you are only interested in the games that Spain plays. For that, DTT is fine for you. You may also be interested XIAOMI TV F 65, 65 Inch (165 cm), 4K UHD, Smart TV, Fire OS8, Alexa Voice Control, HDR10, MEMC, Game Boost Mode 120Hz, 2GB+32GB, Compatible with Apple AirPlay The price could vary. We earn commission from these links TCL 65V6C Television 65 Inch 4K Smart LED TV, HDR, Google TV, Dolby Audio, Alexa and Google Assistant, Chromecast Built-in, Motion Clarity 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 | DAZN In Xataka | The best streaming platforms 2026 | Comparison of Disney+, Netflix, HBO Max, Prime Video, Movistar Plus+, Filmin, Apple TV, SkyShowtime and Rakuten TV: catalog, functions and prices In Xataka | How to add all the World Cup matches directly to your calendar

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