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Xataka Xtra. If we have already drawn a television and two mobiles the new film from Nintendo and Illumination. Antes de detallar lo que se incluye en el pack, un apunte. If you are not yet a member of Xataka Xtra, . Al suscribirte, no solo tendrás acceso a este sorteo (ya los próximos, que no serán pocos), sino también a The Officeto the Discord server already a growing . You have all the information here. That being said, let’s get to the giveaway! Lush is a British brand specializing in cosmetic products with vegan and vegetarian formulas, handmade and with an ethical perspective. a few years ago We were able to try it in Xataka the products they launched on the occasion of the premiere of the first Super Mario movie, and now they are back on track with the new installment. What does the pack include? Pues papel y boli y atención, porque está valorado en 158,5 euros: Yellow Luma bath bubbles (10 euros) Protect the Galaxy shower gel (26 euros) Luigi shower gel (23 euros) Lumas shower gelatin (16.5 euros) Princess Power body balm (15 euros) Lush official website. Participating in the draw for this pack (which we describe later) is as simple as being a Xataka Xtra subscriber and making sure that you have checked the box that can be seen in the image below these lines in your subscriber area. He has no more. Asegúrate de marcar esa casilla para participar automáticamente en los sorteos exclusivos de Xataka Xtra | Image: Xataka Requirements: be a subscriber Xataka Xtra Start of the draw: Monday, April 13. End of the draw: Friday, April 24, at 9:00. Winner selection and resolution: Friday, April 24. How will the winner be chosen? Desde Xataka elegiremos un suscriptor al azar y dos suplentes. If the winner does not respond within the period stipulated in the legal bases of each draw, the winner will go to the first substitute and, if this does not happen either, to the second. Ganar un sorteo no impide que puedas ganar en los siguientes. . In Xataka |

what a new study has discovered studying flies

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The brain is an extremely energy-demanding organ, as it needs a large amount of glucose to function correctly. But sometimes not everything focuses on functioning to live, but also to accumulate new memories or knowledge, something that students who put themselves in front of books need above all. And now we know that sugar can be your best ally. A new paradigm. A priori, we may think that what we eat is like a large amount of gasoline that we pour into the tank we have inside us. However, a recent study published in Nature describes an unprecedented biological mechanism, pointing out that it is not sugar that magically improves memory, but rather it is consuming it after learning something new, such as a study session, that can consolidate it. All this along with a good rest too. What has been seen? Here the researchers subjected a group of flies to aversive learning that began to be spaced out over time, in this way a neutral stimulus was associated with an experience that was detected as unpleasant so that they learned to reject it. Under this pretext, the researchers observed that subjecting the flies to this learning system causes the “hijacking” of the fructose-detecting neurons, which is a type of carbohydrate, in the brain of the flies. There is more. The fascinating thing about all this is that it happens even when the flies are completely full, so the learning generates a kind of temporary “non-homeostatic hunger.” In this way, after the cognitive effort, if the fly ingests sugar, these neurons, which had been disinhibited by learning, become massively activated. And it is something fundamental because activation triggers the release of a hormone called thyrostimulinwhich acts as the definitive signal to consolidate long-term memory. It’s not just about the taste. This article does not come out of nowhere, but already in 2017 a research group showed that the brain is too smart to be fooled by the sweeteners that give us the sweet taste. Here the concept “caloric frustration memory” was introduced, which pointed out that the brain perfectly distinguishes between sweet taste and real energy value. That is why for certain memories to be optimally consolidated, the nutritional value matters as much or more than the simple taste reward. Furthermore, this same French team demonstrated in 2024 that diverting the flow of glucose to neurons plays a vital role in memory memory. fruit fly, and that the metabolic activation of certain areas of the brain is an essential trigger for long-term memory. In humans. Although this is something that has been seen in flies right now, it offers us an incredible window into evolutionary neurobiology. This is something that gives us hope that, at a fundamental level, brains have evolved to link energy availability with metabolic expenditure in order to create new memories. If we look at the literature, there are studies that have analyzed this same effect in our own brains. Specifically, it has been seen that administering glucose can temporarily improve certain cognitive aspects. This is especially noticeable in verbal memory, episodic memory, and in hippocampal-dependent tasks such as object-location binding. Although in no case should you gorge yourself on sugar to be able to learn much faster. Images | Marcos Paulo Prado Daniel Kraus In Xataka | The memory of young people is deteriorating at a record pace. Science thinks it knows why

France wants to replace Windows with Linux. Extremadura and Munich tried it before, and both failed

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On April 8, 20226, the French Digital Interministerial Directorate (DINUM) advertisement that will migrate your jobs from Windows to Linux. He ordered all ministries to present a plan by the fall with the aim of eliminating dependencies on non-European software. The announcement in fact goes beyond changing Windows for Linux: it also affects collaborative tools, antivirus, AI, databases, virtualization or telecommunications. It is, on paper, the largest operation to replace proprietary software with free software that a Western State has ever attempted. And if the history of this type of projects teaches us anything, it is that many have ended in failure. French sovereignty. It is not that France is a lover of free software; What has happened is that the relationship with the United States has changed. Trump’s tariffs accelerated a debate that had been postponed for years: To what extent is it sustainable to depend on the US digital infrastructure? French companies like OVHCloud and Scaleway did not stop growing in 2025, but France has already taken some previous steps recently. In January 2026, announced the plan to replace Microsoft Teams and Zoom with its own video conferencing platform, called Visiowith the aim that its 2.5 million employees would use it. At the moment 40,000 of them are using it, and it remains to be seen if the deployment ends up being total. This was LinEx, the Linux distribution derived from Debian that was used in public organizations in Extremadura. Spain tried it in 2002. The Junta de Extremadura is one of the most famous cases of attempted replace Windows with Linux in public administration. In 2001 it launched LinEx, a Linux distribution based on Debian, and tried to implement it massively in the educational environment and in the health system of the autonomous community. That was imitated in other Spanish regions: Andalusia had Guadalinex, Valencia had LliureX, Madrid had MAX, Galicia had Galinux, Catalonia had Linkat and Castilla La Mancha had Molinux. All of these projects proposed an alternative to the absolute dominance of Windows on the desktops of public officials, and they all failed, but the biggest failure was the one that promised the most: that of LinEx. LinEx myths and realities. Although this distribution worked reasonably in the aforementioned education and health environments, it never fully penetrated the general public administration of the Autonomous Community. In 2011 the project was transferred to a state foundation due to budget cuts and by then only 1% of positions of the Extremaduran autonomous administration used free software. The final blow came when SAP, which managed the community’s medical records system, decided to stop supporting Linux. That made this body return to Windows, and in fact in 2024 the Board formally eliminated the obligation to use gnuLinEx. Rise and fall of Linux in Munich. another case even more famous At the European level it was Munich. In 2003, the city council of this German city announced that it would migrate 14,000 Windows computers to LiMux, its Debian-based Linux distribution. In 2013 the project seemed a success: there were 12,000 migrated computers and theoretically more than 11 million euros had been saved in licenses and other costs. However, in 2014, complaints about loss of productivity and debate began. ended sharply: At the end of 2017, the leaders of Munich decided to migrate 29,000 PCs of their employees to Windows 10 from LiMux. The initial migration was never complete, and in many cases there was a mix of Windows and Linux systems to complete the processes, something that seemed inefficient and never managed to eliminate the dependency on Windows and especially on legacy applications. But there are silent successes. LinEx and LiMux failed in Spain and Germany, but there is precedent to show that abandoning Windows in favor of Linux can work. It proves it GendBuntua version of Ubuntu that was implemented in the French National Gendarmerie. This organization was already a pioneer in the adoption of the OpenOffice.org office suite in 2005, and since 2008 the plan was to abandon Windows in favor of its own Linux distribution. In June 2024, GendBuntu runs on 103,164 jobswhich represents 97% of the IT park of this organization. This has also saved around two million euros per year on licenses, and has reduced the total cost of ownership (TCO) by 40%. Another promising example: Schleswig-Holstein. This German state began its migration from Windows and Office to Linux and LibreOffice in 2021. In early 2026 had already completed almost 80% of the transition in its 30,000 jobs and according to its data that allowed savings about 15 million euros in licenses only in 2026. A one-time investment of 9 million euros is planned to complete 20% of the process, which is still tied to certain specialized applications and will therefore take a little more time. This is the model that is closest to the French initiative: gradual migration and above all a political will that is maintained among the legislatures that are in power. What distinguishes success from failure. Cases that work share three characteristics. The first, gradual and phased migration, not sudden and massive. The second, real internal technical support that goes beyond political declarations. And the third (and probably the most important), a sustained will beyond an electroral cycle. Those who fail share three others: trying to migrate everything at once, underestimating the cost of legacy applications and depending on the project not changing government, which certainly contributed, for example, to the failure of LinEx. A colossal challenge. Installing Linux on a computer is trivial today and it is true that today the learning curve has been significantly reduced and its use is very similar to that of Windows or macOS. The real problem is in the applications that run on top of it. In public administration there is often critical software tailored for Windows, forms that only work in certain browsers (including the old Internet Explorer), management systems that do not have equivalents in Linux or vendors that simply do … Read more

that you pay to make friends

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Never before have we been so connected and, at the same time, so isolated. Loneliness is one of the big problems that we face as a society and, of course, the market is finding ways to make it profitable. Do you feel lonely and would like to have more friends? Well, rent one. Loneliness. They count in The Country that unwanted loneliness affects more and more people. According to data from Soledades Observatory of the Once Foundationin 2024, 20% of Spaniards admitted feeling lonely and at least two thirds claimed to have felt this way for years. It is not something exclusive to our countrybut a global trend that is already classified as a priority public health problem. In this context, all kinds of services are emerging that expand your circle of friends in exchange for a subscription, of course. RentFriend. The name leaves little to the imagination and it is exactly what it sounds like: a service that allows you to rent friends by the hour. You just have to choose your area, if you want a man or a woman, where you want to go (to the movies, to the gym, shopping, to accompany you to a wedding…) and the age range. The users who advertise are the ones who choose how much they are going to charge you for their company. In Valencia I have found people who charge 20 euros an hour, others 10 euros and some who do not charge anything. It is not the only portal of this style, there is also another service called RentAFriend or Rent A Local Friend that have a very similar operation. Timeleft. The proposal of this service is different. In exchange for a monthly subscription, they organize dinners for you with groups of six people who have similar interests to yours. Of course, you pay for dinner. If you like someone, you can continue talking through the app and repeat a meeting. “Embrace the uncomfortable. From sitting at a table with strangers. The vulnerability of accepting that you are looking for friends,” they say on their website. The subscription cost is about 20 euros per month. One of the reviews of the app says “I find it a little overpriced since they only ask you a game of questions during dinner and little else.” GroupVibe offers a very similar service. The app, available in 40 cities including Madrid and Barcelona, ​​organizes meetings for between four and six people from the same city to have a coffee, brunch or dinner. WeRoad. If you like to travel and don’t have anyone with you, this service organizes a group trip with like-minded people; You choose the destination and the dates and they assemble the group. You travel with a WeRoad coordinator who takes care of arrangements such as check-in, booking activities, and keeps track of the common fund. By default the accommodation is in shared rooms, although you can go in pairs and in that case they put you with your companion Mussa. It is a service aimed exclusively at women that works with a subscription model that gives access to different events. Among the experiences they offer there are embroidery workshops, photography workshops, Pilates classes and even bingo nights. The subscription costs 30 euros per month, but then you have to pay for each activity. There are some that are free, but most have a price that can range from 5 euros to 60 euros or more. There is a country that has years of advantage. If there is a country where a phenomenon like this is already normalized, it is undoubtedly Japan. In 2017 there was already talk of renting people for all types of situations, from people who offer their company even companies that They rent actors to impersonate your partner or family. This business responds to a culture where social isolation is profound. Services like Family Romance cover everything from dinner companions to fake family members at weddings. Although some see it as a practical solution, others criticize that it reinforces the real disconnection. Image | Xataka In Xataka | Sweden has encountered an unexpected problem for the country’s defense and health: an epidemic of loneliness

6 ways to solve this problem

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Let’s tell you How to solve the problem of some apps not showing on Android Auto. Because it can be frustrating to start your car and realize that apps are missing from the screen that were there the day before, especially if some important ones disappear, such as music ones. Therefore, we are going to tell you what things can you look at one after the other, because these problems are usually due to specific things such as the launcher configuration, permissions, or even battery restrictions or if you are left halfway after installing an app update. Therefore, we are going to review the solutions one by one. Check if the app is hidden The first thing you have to do is check if you have the app activated on Android Auto. You have to do this in Android, where you access a list of your mobile applications and decide which of them are shown or not in Android Auto when you connect it to the car. To do this, you have to enter the Android Auto settings on your mobilewhich is usually within the section Connected devices. and once inside, look for the option to customize the applications menu. You will go to the list of apps, where those that are selected will be seen in the car, and those that are not selected will be hidden. Check that Android Auto is updated Many times we don’t worry too much about updates because we assume that they happen on their own. But if Android Auto is not updated or the associated services either, there may be strange behavior or errors. Therefore, it is advisable to check Android Auto in Google Play, Google Play Services and the phone’s system update itself, if it has been pending for a while. Make sure everything is correctly updated. View an app’s battery restrictions Many manufacturers implement different systems to manage the battery and save consumption with their applications. There are options for restrict the app from being used in the background to save battery, and if one of your apps has it, it simply won’t be seen in Android Auto. To find out this you have to enter Settings and go to the section Applications to display the list of all installed ones. Now click on the one you want and you will enter its settings, where you can click on the battery section and check if it has permission to run in the background. See if the app has the permissions it needs When you use an application for the first time, Android asks you to give it permissions to access your device’s hardware, such as the microphone or location. If you have restricted these permissions to maximize privacy, the app may not work properly on Android Auto. Here, you have to enter your mobile settings, click on Applicationsand access the list of apps. Once inside, click on the one that is affected and does not appear or does not work well in Android Auto. When you do, review the following permissions: Notifications. Microphone, if it is a calling or voice messaging app. Location, if dependent on real-time services. Files and multimedia content, in some audio or navigation apps. Sometimes it could be a problem with the app There are times when the problem is not with Android Auto or any configuration, but with the application itself. Compatibility may have been temporarily lost after a poorly resolved update. To check this, you can take the following three steps: Check if the app is updated in the Google Play Store. Go to Google Play and see if it is still listed as compatible with Android Auto. Check if another app of the same type does appear, to rule out that the problem is general. With this you will be able to know if Android Auto is displaying the menu incorrectly, or if the specific application has simply changed something and no longer works as well in the car system. You can reinstall the application Turning it off and on again has been the great solution for many software problems for decades, and you can try it on your Android mobile. Another final solution is reinstall the application that is giving you problems. To do that, simply uninstall it and reinstall it. In Xataka Basics | News from Google Maps: new incident reports arriving for mobile and Android Auto

70% of the world’s salmon comes from farms and their meat should be gray. The industry has been making sure you don’t notice for decades

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In the heart of Tjuvholmen, a small neighborhood located on an even smaller peninsula that runs from Aker Brygge towards the Oslo Fjord, lies The Salmon. It is a restaurant, yes; but above all, it is an interpretation center for Norwegian salmon. There, just before enjoying two dozen different preparations, facilitators explain in detail “the entire salmon process – from smoking to export” and explain to diners “the historical development of salmon farming.” And it is logical. 70% of the salmon consumed in the world comes from aquaculture. Only in the North Atlantic, farms produced more than three million of metric tons in 2025 and Norway is (by far) the main producer. They explain all this in The Salmon; What they don’t explain is the color. Le Salmon, 1866–1869, by Édouard Manet The color? Salmon, in the cultural imagination of the entire world, has a very specific color: a pinkish-orange which, in short, is what we have been calling salmon color. The curious thing is that, under normal conditions, the meat of farmed salmon would be pale gray or whitish. And the reason is very simple: the characteristic color of wild salmon depends on the diet. They are big fans of krill, shrimp and other crustaceans which, in turn, feed on microalgae that produce astaxanthin. That’s what gives them the color. Instead, farmed salmon are fed feed composed of fishmeal, oil, soy, corn gluten and other poultry by-products. None of them have astaxanthin naturally and, therefore, they could not acquire their iconic color. And that, of course, is a problem. Early farmed salmon producers realized that color was difficult to manage. It is true that there is a wild salmon native to Alaska that does not naturally fix astaxanthin in its meat and is sold as a gourmet product. But that is one thing and trying to convince millions of people that this farmed pale salmon is the same (or better) than the wild one is another. Since the 1980s, researchers and producers got to work, discovered the origin of the problem and introduced chemically synthesized astaxanthin into the food chain of farmed salmon. It’s not cheap: these additives represent between 6 and 20% of the cost total feed. But it is necessary. And, by the way, they “tint” them, like the Astaxanthin is a powerful antioxidantfish improve liver function, immune response, fertility and resistance to oxidative stress. And why should we care about all this? Spain is the second largest consumer of fish and seafood in the EU; Salmon, in fact, is one of the most consumed species. The color of salmon is something well known (and completely safe), but it is not something that is usually advertised: the fear of growing distrust towards farmed fish is always there. One of the great food paradoxes of our time. Producers, in fact, have been saying for years that they would lower the amount of astaxanthin if consumers agreed to buy paler salmon. But that doesn’t seem like it’s going to happen: as we’ve seen time and time again, food depends critically on fashions and trends. this pink is in fashion. Image | Katja Ano In Xataka | We are drugging the salmon with cocaine and anxiolytics. And that’s causing them to behave strangely.

Quantum computers are going to overthrow classical cryptography sooner than expected

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Just two weeks ago a group of researchers from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), the University of California at Berkeley and the emerging company Oratomic published a scientific article preliminary in which they explore the capabilities of quantum computers of neutral atoms. These machines are an alternative to quantum computers with superconducting qubits and ion traps, and are still in an experimental phase. However, these scientists have estimated that Shor’s algorithm can be implemented using a quantum computer equipped with between 10,000 and 20,000 qubits of neutral atoms. In fact, in their article they even propose a design with which in theory it would be possible break bitcoin encryption in a few days using 26,000 qubits of neutral atoms. In any case, these researchers are not the only ones who in recent weeks have alerted us to the ability to violate classical cryptography that quantum computers will acquire in a relatively short period of time. At the end of last March, Google’s quantum artificial intelligence group published a study in which he demonstrates that the elliptic curve encryption used by Bitcoin or Ethereum, among other cryptocurrencies, can be overthrown using far fewer resources than initially estimated. According to these researchers, a quantum computer with less than half a million physical qubits will be able to decipher the algorithms used by current cryptocurrencies in a few minutes. In short, the scientific community has agreed that classical encryption technologies will be vulnerable before the arrival of large-scale quantum hardware. The first steps to protect ourselves have already been taken Quantum computing experts have known for several years that quantum computers they will end classical cryptography. That moment came in May 2024. A team of researchers from the University of Shanghai (China) led by Professor Wang Chao used a D-Wave quantum computer to successfully break SPN encryption (Substitution-Permutation Network), which is a cryptographic algorithm used to encrypt information. This encryption is the cornerstone of, for example, the AES standard (Advanced Encryption Standard), which is used a lot. These scientists published the results of their research in an interesting article titled “Quantum Processing-Based Public Key Cryptographic Attack Algorithm with the D-Wave Advantage.” However, this is not all. And in mid-May 2025, several Google researchers posted an entry in the blog dedicated to the security of this American company in which they maintain a crucial premise: an RSA integer (Rivest–Shamir–Adleman) 2,048 bits can be factored in less than a week with a quantum computer of less than a million qubits. A 2,048-bit RSA integer can be factored in less than a week with a quantum computer of less than a million qubits Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana and the other modern cryptocurrencies use a cryptography technique known as elliptic curve that is more robust, efficient and difficult to break than RSA, but its mathematical foundations are similar to those of the latter encryption algorithm. In fact, according to the Google scientists who authored the article I mentioned above, if future quantum computers will have a harder time breaking RSA encryption than initially expected, elliptic curve cryptography will also fall relatively easily. So far we have talked about cryptocurrencies, but it is crucial that we do not overlook that encryption technologies play a fundamental role in our daily lives. In fact, WhatsApp and Telegram use them to encrypt our messages; banks turn to them to protect our transactions and every time we buy something on the internet it is encryption that is responsible for protecting our credit card information. These are just some of the applications of this technology. The threat of quantum computers to encryption technologies is very real, but we have no reason to panic because many researchers have been working on the solution to this challenge for several years. In fact, most of the theoretical work has already been done. In 2024, the US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) published an initial set of standards that includes a post-quantum key exchange mechanism and several post-quantum digital signature schemes. The work that has already been done invites us to foresee that the moment relevant quantum computers appear from a cryptographic point of view, the technologies that will be able to protect our information will already be ready. Image | Generated by Xataka with Gemini More information | arXiv | Google In Xataka | We already know what the chips that will arrive until 2039 will be like. The machine that will allow them to be manufactured is close

how to check the status of the declaration you have submitted in 2026

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We are going to tell you how to look at the status of your 2025 Income Tax return already submitted. The Income Tax campaign is already underway, and you can access the draft online either from your mobile to present the statement. And once you do, you can check its status to find out how the Treasury process is going to verify it or if there is any problem. When you send your declaration to the Tax Agency, it will review it and agree to start the payment or collection process. And if something doesn’t add up, then they will start another verification process. Therefore, if you see that it is taking a while for the money to arrive or that you have not been charged, you can check the status to know if the Treasury is doing any verification about the statement. Check the status of your declaration To see the status of your return, you must enter the Tax Agency website on the page agencytributaria.es/AEAT.internet/Renta.shtml. Once inside, click on the option Draft/declaration processing service (Direct Income and WEB Income) that will appear at the top in the options of the section Featured Managements. Before going to the draft, you will first go to the page where you should identify yourself as a citizenso that the Treasury can use your personal draft. To identify yourself you can use your digital certificateincluding the FNMT certificate and that of DNIethe PIN code or Mobile Key, or the reference number. This will take you to the index of topics about Income Services 2025. On this page, right in the header you have a section called Declaration status. This is where it will tell you what the status of the income is, and these are the possible statuses that you can find: Your declaration is being processed: It means that the Treasury has your data, but has not yet reviewed it. Your statement is being verified: The Treasury is proceeding to review your data and verify that your declaration is correct. The declaration with the indicated amount has not been recorded or is in process. Check the amount: It means that there is a problem, and that you will have to contact the Tax Agency to try to verify and solve it. Your declaration has been processed by the Tax Management bodies, and the refund requested by you is estimated to comply, without prejudice to the verifications that may be carried out later by the Tax Agency bodies.: The Treasury has verified your data and everything is correct. Therefore, your return is being processed. Your refund has been issued on day XXX to the ESXXX account. If you have not received the amount in 10 days, go to the Tax Agency delegation/administration corresponding to your tax domicile.: The Treasury has already sent your money to the bank account that appears on the declaration. The process of receiving the money may take time depending on the bank, but the Treasury has already paid. You can also check the income status from your mobileusing the official app of the Tax Agency, the AEAT app that you can find for Android on Google Play and for iOS in the App Store. Inside here, go to the section Income 2025 and, if you have submitted the draft, it will tell you the status it is in. In Xataka Basics | Income Guide 2025: calendar, previous steps and how to prepare for the 2026 declaration

A family wanted to live with only solar panels, well water and a garden. Until Italy took away her children

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High in a forest in Abruzzo, Italy, a stone house fell completely silent in November last year. Until then, that place was the self-sufficient refuge of Nathan Trevallion, Catherine Birmingham and their three children. However, on November 20, 2025, a judge decided to remove them of family custody for living disconnected from the grid, without schooling and in an environment that he considered unhealthy. The resolution started a fire political and social in Italy. What for the family was a self-sufficient life project—solar panels, well water, compostable toilet, garden—became a court case with enormous international repercussions. The story, however, goes beyond an Italian court order. It is the symptom of something bigger: a growing movement in Europe—and also in Spain—of families and communities seeking to get out of the urban grind, disconnect from the electrical grid and live self-sufficiently. How far does the freedom to choose that lifestyle go? And where does the State’s intervention begin, especially when minors are involved? The case that divided Italy. The family, of Australian and British origin, had been living in a forest in Palmoli since 2021. The house was precarious but, according to themenough: electricity with solar panels, well water and an outdoor composting area as a toilet. In autumn 2024, all were hospitalized due to accidental mushroom poisoning. That episode was the one that activated the alarms of social services. As collected Corriere della Seraa technical report described the home as “ruin” and “without adequate conditions for minors.” That’s when social services intervened. The lack of schooling of the minors, the absence of pediatric follow-up and the almost total isolation in which the family lived set off all the alarms. Following these reports, a court in L’Aquila ordered in November of 2025 the withdrawal of parental authority and the transfer of the children to a center, where the mother could stay with them temporarily. The decision has caused a real political earthquakewhere political leaders and several judicial associations denounced pressure from the Government. At the same time, more than 150,000 people signed online petitions demanding that minors return to their parents. The family breakup and tensions in Vasto. The litigation is still in full swing. The development of the case during the first months of 2026 has been marked by institutional complexity, friction and the desperate search for reunification. The deepest wound of this process is, without a doubt, separation. According to Il Messaggerothe situation reached a critical point on March 6, when Catherine, the mother of the minors, was removed from the Vasto family home. In her only in-person visit after the expulsion, social services reports indicated that the woman showed “hostile” attitudes and incited other residents to rebel against the educators. This episode led to the drastic decision to cancel subsequent meetings, limiting maternal contact to video calls, in an attempt to preserve the children’s serenity. However, distance is taking its toll. A forceful technical report presented on April 3, 2026 before the L’Aquila Court, signed by the psychiatrist Tonino Cantelmi and the psychologist Martina Aiello, set off alarm bells. The experts They noticed that children show obvious “signs of psychological distress” and deep trauma resulting from the separation. The document is clear: there is no evidence of abuse or mistreatment by the mother. For this reason, specialists have asked the court for the “urgent and unavoidable” reconstitution of the family, warning that prolonging this fracture will only aggravate the damage to the mental health of the children. An institutional clash in the middle of the crossfire. The family drama has transcended the walls of the reception center to become a political and institutional powder keg. The management of the case provoked an open and public confrontation, collected by RaiNews. On the one hand, the Ombudsman for Children of Abruzzo, Marina Terragni, visited the minors in March and publicly reported having found some children with “notable psychomotor agitation” and obvious trauma due to the repeated changes. The response from social services was immediate. They flatly accused Terragni of exposing the professionals to a “public pillory” based on statements that, according to them, did not correspond to reality, ensuring that the climate in the family home had returned to being “serene.” Polarization and media pressure have escalated to worrying levels: The tension even manifested itself with screams inside the court itself, and the judge of the Juvenile Court, Cecilia Angrisano, had to receive a police escort after being the target of continuous threats on social networks. The countdown. While the courts decide, the family tries to put the pieces back together and comply with the State’s demands. Nathan, assuming a conciliatory role, has moved to regularize his situation. As detailed Il Messaggerothe father delivered to the City Council of Palmoli a personalized study plan, supported by the Libera Schola Foundation of Milan and inspired by the Waldorf-Steiner method. In addition, the family has begun to comply with the vaccination schedule and the children have been receiving in-person classes with a tutor since January, as pointed out by Corriere della Sera. The most tangible progress has come from the municipality itself. In a gesture of support, the Palmoli City Council has given the family, free of charge and for an initial period of two years, a newly renovated 70 square meter house. As detailed Il Giornale, The house, financed with European PNRR funds, has solar panels, heating and all health guarantees, thus solving the judge’s main claim. At the moment the house remains empty until the family is complete, as detailed by Nathan. Everyone’s eyes are now on the Court of Appeal, which has a key hearing set for April 21, 2026. Off-grid: from bucolic dream to global phenomenon. To understand the background of this trend, just open Instagram. As the magazine explains Ethicsit is enough for the algorithm to detect a certain interest in self-sufficiency to fill the feed of videos of families drying their own food, women showing their renovated campers or couples who live half a year off … Read more

is that Iran has “lost the keys” and without them the balance is broken

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There are only a few maritime passages in the world capable of altering the global economy in a matter of days, and some of them are so narrow that they could fit inside a large city. Through those corridors they circulate every day hundreds of ships loaded with energy, raw materials and essential goods. Their fragility is such that a large military deployment is not necessary to alter them: it is enough that something stopped fitting so that the entire system suffers. Closed… but not by what it seems. For weeks, the international focus has been on whether the Strait of Hormuz was open or closedbut the reality could be much more disturbing: that Iran is not fully in control of the shutdown it caused. After laying naval mines in response to attacks by the United States and Israel, the passage was practically paralyzed, raising energy prices and giving Tehran a powerful tool of pressure. However, this same strategy has generated an unexpected situation in which, according to Iran has slippedthe blockade no longer depends only on a political or military decision, but on a technical problem that is much more difficult to reverse. The concept of “losing the keys”. Because the core of the problem is how the mines could have been deployed: hastily, disorganized and, in the worst case, without a record. accurate of your location. Some were even able to move through ocean currents, further complicating their location. So, this weekend counted the new york times that what in theory should have been a controlled closure of the strait has become something more chaotic and disturbing, where not even those who placed the mines know with certainty where they all are. The metaphor of “losing the keys” is not rhetorical, but rather a quite literal description of the situation that has been heard. in embassies in Tehran: Iran has blocked the door, but can no longer open it easily. An effective weapon against. He use of minescombined with the threat of drones and missiles, managed to reduce maritime traffic to a minimum and generate strong global pressure, but that strategic advantage began to turn against Tehran. To mitigate the impact, Iran has maintained limited corridors and spread supposedly safe routes, even allowing some ships to pass under certain conditions. Even so, the traffic flow has not been normalizedbecause the risk remains too high and uncertainty about the location of the mines persists. The technical limit of a modern war. Basically, something that we have been counting these weeks: the elimination of naval mines is one of the more complex operations in the military field, and not even powers like the United States have sufficient capabilities to quickly clear a road as critical as Hormuz. In this context, the Iranian situation is even more delicate: its own technical limitations, aggravated by the attacks to its naval infrastructuremake a quick reopening unfeasible. This introduces an unexpected factor into the negotiations, since the “technical limitations” mentioned by its leaders are not a diplomatic excuse, but a real obstacle. Unstable balance with risk of escalation. The result is a scenario extremely fragilewhere a partially blocked strait depends as much on political decisions as an out-of-control minefield. Neither Iran nor the United States have a clear image of how many mines there are or where they are, while Tehran retains the ability to plant more with small boats that are difficult to track. Of course there is also an option that no one rules out. Now that it is the United States that has decided to block Hormuz. Iran could be playing its cards, because the normal thing is that all the mines are mappedand that Tehran simply does not trust Washington and refuses to take any steps before receiving concrete concessions. And in all these scenarios, Hormuz becomes an area where any error, accident or incorrect calculation can escalate quickly, because the problem is no longer just who controls the passage, but that no one has full control of what happens underwater. Image | Jenikir In Xataka | The most buoyant market right now is selling streaming and satellite images of US movements to Iran. In Xataka | Commercial aviation is based on very old aircraft. The Iran war is going to make it even worse

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