We have been dreaming of a temperature drop for days this week. Aemet believes that we still have the worst

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The arrival of storms to the north third of the Peninsula has monopolized part of weather care During this week. However, for a good part of Spain, heat remains intense and in some areas this implies risks to the well -being of people who reside or work there. A red notice, by heat. The State Meteorology Agency (AEMET) has activated A red notice (Extreme risk) due to high temperatures in the east, south and west zone of Gran Canaria. It is one of the various notices that the agency will keep activated over the next few days as a result of high temperatures. According to the agency’s notices, the maximum is expected reach 40º In the Tirajana basin, a temperature that can be normal these days in some areas of the southern peninsular but has led experts to give the alarm. The notice also indicates the persistence of heat, with minimal temperatures above the 25º barrier, but which could reach 30º. That is, the “Equatorial nights”They will be the norm in this area. The eye put in the humidity. The good news is that the forecasts indicate a low relative humidity in the area. Wet heat It can increase The thermal sensation, but can also increase the risk derived from high temperatures by preventing our body from dissipating the heat it generates. The situation in the Canary Islands will also improve from tomorrow, although yellow warnings will still be activated due to high temperatures in the south of the island of Gran Canaria. Thermal relief, partly. The situation is partly extrapolated to the center and south of the Iberian Peninsula. Temperatures today They will be high in much of the country and Aemet has activated numerous notices by high high temperatures, among which the temperature notices of up to 42º in some areas of the interior of Andalusia. With the arrival of the trough, the storms will reach the peninsular but the thermal relief can be noticed in more extensive areas. It is expected that on Friday there are not only notices in the center and the west peninsular, and on Saturday the notices are expected to be limited to areas of the Mediterranean basin. Waiting. For now we do not know what will hold us next week. Medium -term forecasts They predict a second half of the month of July warmer and dry than normal in most of the territory, so a heat return would not be entirely strange. For now we will have to wait to approach the passage of the storms and at the end of this warm episode before knowing what will hold us the last weeks of the month. In Xataka | The hydrological bonanza could not be eternal: drought is a real threat after an extremely warm, and also dry June Image | ECMWF / Aemet

Intel pull the towel with the chips for ia. Its general director acknowledges that Nvidia’s advantage is insurmountable

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“I think it is too late for us (to achieve the position of Nvidia in the field of artificial intelligence), Although we have other opportunities in this market (…) twenty or thirty years ago we were leaders. Now the world has changed. We are not among the ten main semiconductor companies. We have to be humble. “These words of Lip-Bu Tan, the Director General of Intel, have been collected by The Oregonian And they are aimed at company employees in a clear attempt to expose what challenges they face. The challenges with Those who are dealing Intel They exceed the other challenges that he has faced during his more than half a century of history. The leadership that has sustained for decades in the manufacturing industry of integrated circuits is in the hands of The Taiwanese company TSMC Since the mid -2000s. In addition, the stagnation during the last years of the PC market and the slowness with which Intel has participated in the AI industry have placed it in a very compromised position. In July 2024, the company that at that time led Pat Gelsinger gave a tremendous batacazo in the stock market. Their actions fell 30% in a few days and stabilized in the value they had in 2011. In addition, Intel lost $ 1.6 billion During the second quarter of 2024 and its year -on -year income fell by 1%. These circumstances triggered a crisis that still persists. Today China is a crucial support for Intel. Dram memories will be tomorrow Shortly after his arrival It was leaked that lip-bu so He planned to launch a new cut of the Intel template in a clear attempt to reduce their operating expenses, among which personnel costs or marketing expenses are counted. The figure that the company shuffled on this occasion amounted to 20% of its workforce, which in practice implied to dispense with approximately 20,000 workers. These people join the more than 15,000 employees of which Intel has dispensed with during the last months of 2024. In addition, since June 18 and throughout the month of July they will be forced to leave their jobs Between 8,000 and 10,900 workers Of the factories that this company has spread throughout the planet. However, presumably the most affected plant will be the largest of all: that of Oregon (USA). It is evident that Intel is going through a very difficult stage, although he still has some solid pillars to hold on. One of them is China. During the fiscal year of 2024, 29% of Intel’s turnover came from China, compared to the 24% of the US This Asian country is the largest market in which Intel is present. During the fiscal year of 2024 29% of its turnover He came from Chinacompared to 24% of the US. And is that of the 53,100 million dollars that This company entered Last year no less than 15,400 million arrived from China. These figures reflect very clearly how important the country led by Xi Jinping for Intel is. And also how sensitive it is to the geopolitical context. An important part of the Intel business is supported by the commercialization of relatively old integrated circuits that come from their mature lithography nodes. They are not at all avant -garde semiconductors, but they are still necessary. At the current tension situation between the US and China for this last country These mature integrated circuits are crucial. Chinese chip designers and manufacturers are capable of supply your own market With the mature chips needed by appliances, telecommunications or cars equipment, among other industries. However, many users, research centers and universities in China continue to use software for X86 and X86-64 processors, so at the moment they cannot do without the CPUs designed to execute it. Intel is currently benefiting from this need, although he is preparing another bet. An a priori accurate bet. And this American company has founded the Japanese investment group SoftBank A company specialized in the design and manufacture of memory chips. His name is Saimemory and he was born expressly to compete from you to you with SK Hynix, Samsung and Micron Technology. Your plan consists in developing A new type of dram memory Stacked high from some patents prepared by Intel and several Japanese research centers, among which is the University of Tokyo. Intel and Softbank have proposed to complete the development of a prototype and evaluate its viability from a technical point of view by 2027. Image | Intel More information | The Oregonian In Xataka | Intel has confirmed that the 20A node will be skipped to reduce expenses. The 18A node will enter production in 2025

First it was Chema Alonso’s departure. Telefónica is now disassembling your legacy with your team’s goodbye

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After The Pallete eraTelefónica is making profound strategic and human changes. After the recent one Departure from hacker Chema Alonsothe company is disassembling kernel, according to The confidential. This is the project and the team led Alonso, where there were heavyweights of the company, such as Javier Martínez and Paco Montalvo. Company sources have confirmed to Xataka Mobile the departure of both figures. Why it is important. From the hand of Sebas Muriel, ancient CEO of Tuenti, Telefónica is saying goodbye to Kernel, which in 2016 we met as “The fourth platform“And later like Aura. With her, they proposed to create a mechanism where Each user decided if he shared his personal information or demanded compensation. The confidential also speaks of the exits of other key pieces, such as Luiz Medici and Kiko Gámez. Goodbye to Pallete and Chema Alonso’s legacy. The hacker departure in March reminded us of the ambitious path that the company had pursued in the last decade: projects such as the aforementioned fourth platform, The aura wizard, Open Gateway either Movistar Homethe domestic device that came something late to a market that Google and Alexa already dominated globally. Kernel was the project to modernize an archaic operator, the Digital heart of Telefónica, according to Paco Montalvo. Disassembling this team is a farewell to the great technological bets that the company has pursued to compete against the OTT and the great world technological ones. At the time of the indiscriminate management of the data, Telefónica claimed to want to return all control to the user. Something is left. The great responsible for that path are no longer, and the contrast with its substitutes It can’t be bigger. According to El Confidencial, the old team of Chema Alonso remains Antonio Guzmán, Irene Gómez, David del Val and Yaiza Rubio. According to Telefónica sources consulted by Xataka Mobile, Telefónica is reviewing the previous projects to approach the new vision. Despite the obvious dismantling of their pieces, they say that with Kernel there is no definitive decision, waiting for a new strategy that they hope to announce before the end of the year. A new telephone. In his first major public appearance as executive president, Marc Murtra, the substitute for José María Álvarez-Pallete, It was very clear: Telefónica should focus on consolidating and growing to create technological capacity, a more pragmatic and forceful objective than that of digital transformation and collaboration With great technology which had been adopted in the previous stage. Telefónica is facing The largest existential dilemma of its over 100 yearsyou have to choose transform into a technology company In a Europe in decline that seeks to be more autonomous or accept that as a traditional telecus it is immersed in a reality that erodes its margins. The financial sanitation that Pallete achieved was not enough for markets, with a 57%stock market drop. Good news and farewells in 2025. The helm turn brought Good news: The action at three years. And the first steps of the new direction reflect that initial forcefulness of Murtra: in 2025, Telefónica has executed five sales In different countries, and only Brazil remains a strategic market in America. In Spain, a great consolidation for 2026 sounds more and more strongly: the one that would bring a Purchase of Vodafone. The fruit of this fusion is well known: to get more than 45% of the market. Strategically, Telefónica is about to A ‘sorpasso’ itselfone that goes to enter more for services than by communications, the first step to be a diversified technological company and less telecus. At the moment, the services are 43 % of income in their accounts, and grows at a good pace: “in double digit,” according to Emilio Gayo, New CEO of the Teleco. Another good news comes with the rearme: Telefónica already It stays with 69% of defense ICT awards. Outstanding image | Xataka In Xataka | Telefónica has a plan to eat the market in Spain. That is a problem for local operators

What happened to lunar volcanoes

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An asteroid impact on the Moon started a fragment of the satellite surface and threw it into space. After a trip of thousands of years, the meteorite fell in northwest Africa, where it was discovered in February 2023. After two years of studies, it has helped cover a hole of one billion years in the lunar geological history. Context. Apollo missions brought 382 kg of lunar rocks to Earth. The analysis of these rocks told us that the moon had had a violent volcanic past, but that its inner fire had turned off about 3,000 million years ago. A much more recent mission, Chang’e 5, brought younger basalts, “barely” 2,000 million years. This still leaves us a huge hole of almost one billion years of lunar history in which we do not know what happened. Did volcanism go out and reactivated? The answer came to us. And it has arrived, as so many times in science, by chance. A lunar rock found in the Norafricano desert in 2023 has turned out to be the piece that was missing in the puzzle. He NWA 16286 Meteorite Analysispresented at the Goldschmidt conference in Prague, suggests that lunar volcanism was a much more continuous process than we thought. The lunar meteorite number 31. The protagonist of this story is a piece of soil of the moon of 311 grams, one of the only 31 lunar basalt meteorites officially identified on our planet. It was not brought by any astronaut or any probe, but reached the earth by its own foot. An asteroid impact on the moon started it from the satellite surface and threw it into space. After a trip of thousands of years, he fell in northwest Africa, where he was discovered in February 2023. Studying the rocks that the moon sends us for free is an incredibly valuable way to explore its geology, because the rocks of the sampling return missions are limited to the immediate areas of the places chosen for the moon landing. Lunar meteorites can be expelled from anywhere from the moon surface. There is a lot of serendipia in this sample. The missing piece. But the true importance of NWA 16286 resides in his age. He Lead isotope analysis He has dated the rock in about 2,350 million years. This makes it the youngest lunar basaltic meteorite ever discovered, and places it within that mysterious hole of one billion years in lunar volcanic history. The samples of NASA and Luna’s Apollo missions of the Soviet Union are between 3,100 and 4,000 million years. Those of the Chinese Chang’e-6 mission (from the hidden face of the moon) They are about 2,830 million years. Chinese mission shows Chang’e-5 (from the visible face of the moon) are about 2,030 million years. NWA 16286 is in the middle. Volcanic activity did not stop. The characteristics of the meteorite suggest that Lunar volcanic activity continued Throughout that time: the moon was not geologically dead. It is a basalt rich in olivine with unusually high levels of potassium. In addition, its “fingerprint” lead isotopic pointed out that it was formed from a source in the lunar mantle with a very high proportion of uranium-plaomo. Potassium and uranium are radioactive elements, as is the thorium. Its disintegration along eons generates a constant amount of heat. The theory, now reinforced by this rock, is that lunar mantle bags enriched in these elements acted as a residual heat engine that maintained parts of the interior of the moon hot enough to produce magma and feed volcanoes much after what was thought. What part of the moon came from? NWA 16286 has a different lithology from any known meteorite. It is believed that it came from a lunar sea so far not sampled. Its texture suggests a two -stage cooling story: a slow, perhaps in a magma camera, followed by an eruption in a lava flow of several tens of meters thick. This rock not only resolves an old mystery, but also serves as a guide. Analyzing their trajectory and composition will help scientists identify the crater of origin on the moon, marking a priority point of interest for future sampling return missions. And so is how a rock found in the desert is telling us where we have to go the next time we visit the moon. Image | SM BELARDO et al. In Xataka | There is a silent career to get the moon waves: dozens of companies have claimed part of their spectrum

On the anniversary of the incident on Perejil Island, the tension has returned. So Spain has deployed a war ship

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July 2002. A group of Moroccan soldiers occupies the uninhabited Perejil isletlocated a few meters from the North African coast. That caused an immediate military response from Spain to restore the status quo. The crisisbrief but intense, tense to the fullest relations between the two countries and forced an international mediation that culminated with the demilitarization of the islet and a tacit agreement to keep it free of official presence, even today of the diplomatic fragility in the Strait. In fact, the tension has risen again. A new climb. Yes, the most delicate strip of the Western Mediterranean, the Strait of Gibraltarit is again in the center of a geopolitical pulse between Spain and Morocco, marked by a succession of diplomatic, operational and symbolic gestures that have reactivated old ghosts, especially around the Islet of Perejil. First it was The confidential the one who revealed a “discomfort.” Apparently, the recent participation of Delegate of the Polisario Front In the National Congress of the Popular Party it has served as a trigger for a series of Moroccan measures, which include the sudden closure of commercial customs with Ceuta and Melilla, An official letter of the Istiqlal party demanding the popular leader of his adhesion to the Moroccan Autonomy Plan for the Western Sahara, and The reappearance In Castillejos of the Committee for the Defense of the Causes of the Kingdom, an organization linked to Rabat’s intelligence services and headed by the controversial former senator Yahya Yahya. Return of nationalism. In fact, they counted in an interview In Spanish that with an inflammatory rhetoric and a clear will to provoke, this committee has announced its intention to celebrate a Symbolic meeting in the Islet of Perejil with the explicit objective of claiming the “territorial unity” under the amparo of King Mohamed VI. Although the landing did not occur, the staging was carefully designed: Photographs with the islet in the background, nationalist slogans and direct references to the policy of the Popular Party. The coincidence with the Anniversary of the Occupation Moroccan of 2002 and the issuance of A documentary miniseries On that episode, a production that has not liked in Morocco and tried to censor without success, underline the symbolic load of the gesture and its propaganda dimension. Furor frigate Spain responds. It Europasur counted. In a climate of prudent but firm containment, the General Staff of the Defense has deployed The maritime action ship Fury In the vicinity of Peñón de Vélez de la Gomera and of the island of Alborán, within the framework of routine operations of naval presence and coastal control. The surveillance of the peñones and islets of Spanish sovereignty on the African coast not only responds to reasons of border security and fight against illicit traffic, but also to the need to maintain the Territorial integrity In front of maneuvers that, although covered with theatricality, seek to test Spanish resilience and tighten the diplomatic line. Moroccan strategy No doubt, parallelism with the situation prior to the parsley crisis in 2002 is, at least, disturbing. So, Morocco took advantage of the social seizure In the ejido after a wave of racist violence to rehearse a territorial occupation. Today, episodes such as Pacheco Torre disturbanceswith these clashes between Spanish neighbors and Moroccan citizens, they could be interpreted by Rabat as useful internal cracks to exert pressure. Logic seems to be repeated: use the fragility of the Spanish domestic context to reinforce its thesis About the Western Sahara and his aspirations about Ceuta, Melilla and other territories under Spanish sovereignty. Symbolism and provocation. In short, while the Spanish government maintains its Official adhesion to the Moroccan Autonomy Plan for Sahara, the Popular Party and other political forces are committed to returning to positions closer to the resolutions of the United Nations, feeding a debate that Rabat instrumentalizes To condition alliances and project strength. The recent one Group activation Moroccan nationalists, the mobilization of figures close to power and explicit threats against Spanish political actors seems to be part of a broader strategy of hybrid pressure. Of course, the Moroccan flag does not wave in Perejil, but the only attempt to plant it is enough to remember how fragile that thin line remains between the propaganda gesture and the real diplomatic crisis. Image | EFORGE, General Staff of Defense, Carlosvdehabsburg In Xataka | The Strait of Gibraltar was very different eight million years ago. So different that there were two In Xataka | A 15 kilometers tunnel to join the Strait of Gibraltar: the pioneer and crazy idea raised 100 years ago

What is, when it comes, advantages and risks and how to install it when launched

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We are going to explain everything you need to know about the next Public beta of iOS 26the next version of the iPhone operating system. iOS 26 is the name of what IOS 18 would have been, only that Apple has decided to change the name to match the year during which you are going to use the version. Let’s start by telling you What exactly a public betaand the risks and advantages of installing it. Then, we will tell you when it is expected to arrive, and we will end up telling you how you can install it. What is the public beta of iOS 26 When a new version of its operating systems occurs, Apple does not launch it directly for all users. First use beta versions, still unfinished versions that developers and users who want to start trying. The objective of these beta versions is that the users who try it find and report errorsand that they can give the last touches with a real feedback of people who are using it on a day -to -day basis. Because maybe those who are developing iOS do not think of doing a specific thing that gives error, and that is why it is good to have thousands of people doing tests and encountering the problems. Of this, When the final version arrives, almost all these problems will have been solvedand it will be stable and safe to use on a day -to -day basis. Apple has two levels of beta versions. First arrived Beta for iOS 26 developersone for which you need to download some certificates if you want to install it. Its objective is not so much to find errors as that developers can start trying their applications in the future version of the operating system, and thus do what is necessary to adapt them and work well. And after the beta for developers, which arrived in June, the next step is to install the public beta. It is called public because Any user will be able to install it on your iPhone and try it. These betas are already more refined, they do not have so many mistakes, but it still has many and that is why it is important that users who want to access and find bugs and failures that can be solved. The public beta will have several versions, each with improvements in the optimization and error solution. And so, after several versions in September, the final version will arrive, the update that will be installed on all the iPhone after several weeks and months of tests between the Betatesters. When the Public Beta of iOS 26 arrives Beta for developers arrived on June 10, and in recent years public betas have arrived in mid -July. In the previous two years he arrived on July 13 and 16, so many people are wondering why July 17 has not yet arrived in 2025. The thing is that, According to the latest leaks, It seems that Apple will delay a week The launch of this beta. The famous journalist Mark Gurman, known for his sources within Apple, indicates that the chosen date could be Around July 23. Apparently, as last year Apple launched a new version with iOS in which many versions arrived months later, in this case everything should arrive at the same time. In recent weeks, in betas for developers we are seeing several modifications in the star novelty, The Liquid Glass designreducing initial transparency. Officially nothing has been said, but perhaps the delay has to do with trying to work this a little more. In any case, Everything indicates that next week the public beta will arriveand therefore whoever wants can already start trying the new iOS 26. Advantages and disadvantages of the public beta The advantage of trying the public beta of iOS 26 is that You can start trying the new functions before the others. Apple has completely redesigned the iOS interface, and if you want to start trying this this type of betas will allow you to do it two months before it comes to others. The disadvantage is that They are still unstable iOS versions, with bugs and without optimizing. You may find errors here and there, that there are unexpected closures, and above all that the battery is consumed faster than normal because they still have to optimize the system. Those who have tried the betas for developers say that iOS 26 is already quite mature, but it is normal that in the first public betas there are still failures. Then, every certain time will be coming new versions that solve problems and improve performance. If you can’t wait, go ahead, you can jump to the public beta when it arrives. If you cannot wait but you need your iPhone to be as stable as possible and do not consume more than normal, it may be better to wait a month, that after one or two updates of the public beta it is already more mature and optimized. And if not, in mid -September the final version will arrive. How to install the public beta of iOS 26 When the public beta arrives, you will have to enter Apple’s Beta program website. Once inside, log in and click on the button Register What will you see in blue under the introduction. In doing so you will indicate that you want to sign up to be able to try betas from Apple operating systems. You will have to log in with the Apple account that you use on your iPhone. Once you do it, enter the Settings From your iPhone and click on the section General. Once inside, click on the section Software updatethe same place where you download normal updates. Now, within Software updateat the top you will see that You can activate the option of Beta updates. It is an option that will always stay here while you are in the program, and when you … Read more

Carrefour throws the house through the window and leaves this 55 -inch TV minilad price with Google TV

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For a few months now, Carrefour is surprising us with very good offers on televisions. If you are thinking about renewing the old of your living room or simply buying a new one because you don’t have TCL 55C61KX7 is perfect for you, in addition to a bargain. At the moment, you can take it for 499 euros. SMART TV TCL 55C61KX7 55 “ * Some price may have changed from the last review A good, beautiful and cheap TV One of the main features of this TV of the TCL firm is that a panel mounts 55 -inch minied With 4K resolution. It has one 144 Hz soda rate and support for VRR of up to 240 Hz. This makes it an ideal TV for video games. It is compatible with HDR10+, Dolby Vision and HLG. Regarding sound, it comes with onkyo audio system 2.1 and integrates two 10 W speakers and a 20 W subwoofer. In addition, they are compatible with virtual DTS: X and X and Dolby Atmos. The operating system under which it works is Google TV And it is also compatible with voice attendees Alexa and Google Assistant. Finally, it is worth mentioning its connectivity section, since it comes with Bluetooth 5.4, Wifi 5 and HDMI 2.1. Some accessories with which to squeeze this TV to the maximum Amazon Fire TV Stick 4K (last generation) * Some price may have changed from the last review HS2100 – Sound bar 2.1, 240W * Some price may have changed from the last review Some of the links of this article are affiliated and can report a benefit to Xataka. In case of non -availability, offers may vary. Images | Webedia and TCL In Xataka | Best televisions in quality price. Which to buy and seven recommended 4K 4K In Xataka | Best sound bars in quality price. Which to buy and seven recommended models from 140 euros

spend 500 million in magnets

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Apple has been the objective of Threats and criticism of Donald Trump from the beginning of the tariff crisis. The president of the United States has recently demanded to manufacture the iPhone in the country or pay a 25%tariff. Not only asks to leave China, Nor does India workwhat was it The great alternative. In the absence that from Cupertino they inform about structural changes, Apple has announced An investment of 500 million dollars in MP Materials, a snow -based company that, according to the company, is the only integrated producer of Rare earth of the country. Magnets, fuck (Jesse Pinkman said). Manufacturing the iPhone in the United States is unfeasible for Apple if you want to avoid one of 2,300 dollarsbut the company will invest in the local economy as they ask from the government. And the plan, for the moment and in part, passes through magnets. Specifically, neodymium magnets from rare earths manufactured in the country, and developed in Fort Worth, Texas. The magnets They are essential on the iPhone and in a lot of modern electronics: key load component by MagsafeThey are also crucial in microphones and speakers. The supply of the first rare earth magnets will begin in 2027. A larger plan. The 500 million dollars are more than an acquisition of materials. Apple and MP Materials have announced investment in the Texas plant, but also the construction of a new Mountain Pass recycling plant, California. In it they will reprocess recycled materials, as old components of used devices, which they will use in Apple products. However, the announcement not only remains in them: they will distribute magnets all over the world before the growing demand of rare earth magnets, in the electronics sector, but also in motor, aeronautics and military. The 500 million are framed within a much larger investment already announced by Apple in full tariff threat: 500,000 million dollars Over the next few years, with which they seek to build an AI servers in Houston, dated 2026, and an industrial training center in Detroit. Washington wink is clear. The Apple statement justifies the need to make this investment in a local company, but in the background is the fact of demonstrating to the federal government that they are prioritizing the national economy. Tim Cook mentioned that “American innovation promotes everything we do in Apple, and we are proud to deepen our investment in the US economy.” In addition, it also responds to Trump’s objective to create national technological employment: “The increase in production will generate dozens of new jobs in advanced manufacturing and research and development.” Now they do not mention complete figures, but the commitment of the 500,000 million promised to create 20,000 jobs. Own interests. Achieving a local supply, Apple also gains autonomy against China, authentic world dominator of rare earths: controls 70% of production and 90% of its processing. Trump’s threats turned against the country’s technology, because the Asian country Blocked the export of its most valuable rare earths. Fighting the great limitations of the country. Tim cook has said in the past that They cannot manufacture in the United Statesamong other things, due to lack of industrial knowledge. In that sense, the statement affirms that companies “will provide extensive training to develop the workforce, creating a completely new group of talent and experience of USA. In the manufacture of magnets.” By him Liberty PhoneWe know that achieving a 100 % American smartphone is tremendously complicated. His CEO said that “but there are some pieces that simply do not have supply chain,” so they will have to continue working to improve availability. The ironic is that not even the T1 of Trump Mobile will achieve be manufactured in the country. Image | Xataka and Pixabay In Xataka | The loss of the Broadcom chips factory is a malazo for Spain. Now you have to trust everything to your plan B

end to Ottawa’s treaty

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At the end of April an exclusive of the Wall Street Journal Through satellite data showed a series of strategic movements of the Russian army on border enclaves. A few days before, The New York Times told how Finland I was preparing For an eventual war. Then it was the Baltic countries that began to surround Russia With 600 bunkers. Now all these countries have taken an unprecedented step. A shadow of the past. For decades, the Antipersone mines They marked the borders of the Soviet block, not as much as a Effective military defensebut as a brutal means of avoiding the flight of its citizens to the West. After the collapse of the USSR, the international community embarked on a complex and laborious demining campaign that culminated with the firm From the Ottawa treaty In 1997, backed by more than 160 countries. It happens that this legacy of humanitarian disarmament, which seemed sealed forever, now It is cracking. Following the Russian invasion of Ukraine, five European countries (Poland, Finland, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia) have decided to initiate the legal process for leave the treatythus reopening the possibility of the systematic use of antipersone mines on European soil. Military pragmatism. The decision does not imply An immediate placement of mines on its borders, but it does mark a change of drastic approach and loaded with implications. For years, modern military doctrines minimized the tactical value of these weapons in conventional conflicts, underlining their indiscriminate character and scarce utility against armored units. However, the war in Ukraine has altered that reasoning: the extensive mines fields placed by Russia They were one of the decisive factors in the containment of the Ukrainian counteroffensive. Although they do not stop an mechanized division alone, they force the adversary to slow down their progress, channel their movements and spend valuable resources in cleaning operations, thus offering an asymmetric defensive advantage that many now see how inalienable. Italian antipersone mine Valmara 69 Legal and moral consequences. The Ottawa treaty was more than a military pact signed by more than 160 countries (important: without Russia, China and the United States): it represented A moral milestone In the history of humanitarian law. Its success allowed to reduce the number of victims by mines of more than 20,000 a year In the nineties about 3,500 today. The output of several countries Europeans not only weakens the treaty in practical terms, but undergoes legal architecture that since the end of the Cold War has sought to humanize conflicts. For many activists, Like Mary Wareham of Human Rights Watch, this withdrawal represents A dangerous crack in a consensus that also protects against chemical, biological and nuclear weapons. In his words, once the idea of abandoning international agreements gains legitimacy, it is difficult to stop The domino effect. What is at stake is not only a weapon, but the very principle that there are limits in war, he clarifies. Blow to the heart of Europe. The pressure on governments has been intense and transverse. In Finland, whose parliament voted for a large majority in favor of leave the treatyEven legislators contrary to the mines recognize that fear of a Russian invasion has altered national security priorities. The 1,300 kilometers terrestrial border with Russia, together with a story marked by wars With Moscow, it has generated a particular sensitivity that has given wings to proposals that just five years ago would have been unthinkable. The political trigger, however, Lithuania winewhere the then Minister of Defense, after visiting Ukraine, said that the prohibition of the mines was hindering the defense in front of Russia. From there, the idea spread among the most exposed allies geographically. Only Norway, among countries with direct border with Russia, has reiterated Your firm commitment With the treaty. The past as a warning. Ukraine, signer of the treaty in 2006I had kept more than three million mines. Frustration after the partial failure of his counteroffensive, together with Mass use of mines On the part of Russia, he led the Zelensky government to reconsider its position. In fact, the president announced this month formally Treaty outputarguing that an existential threat could not be fought with a hand tied by treaties that Moscow never signed or respected. The United States, although it is not part of the treaty, had maintained restrictions on the use of mines, but partially lifted them for supply to Ukraine. This has marked a tacit break with decades of diplomatic efforts and disarmament. For many, like British Paul Heslop (UN expert in demining), what we are witnessing is a betrayal to the memory of those who fought (and died) for eradicating these weapons. Image | Dfid, United NationsPh1 Dewayne Smith In Xataka | Finland is the happiest country in the world. And is also preparing thoroughly for the most unhappy end: war In Xataka | Now we know what the US Army did in Finland. Russia is expanding its troops on its border with Europe

Google announces its hardware event

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Google has announced the date of its annual hardware event. The ‘Made By Google 2025’ will take place next Wednesday, August 20. The company thus confirms the change of calendar last year, when they left behind its traditional autumn event to move it to summer, a less congested time. What do we expect from Made by Google With the Google Pixel 9a Already in our hands, this year we wait for a fairly loaded Google event, because the company that runs Losco Pichai has been expanding its family until they currently count on the market with four variants of the Google Pixel, smart watches and the Pixel Buds headphones. This is what the leaks have advanced for the event: The Pixel will be the main protagonists of the event again, and after brand new design last year, this course is expected aesthetic continuism. The great novelty according to what we know will be that the new processor G5 tensioner I would be manufactured by TSMC After years with Samsung. This year, having advanced Android 16the Pixel will have the latest version installed at the time of launch. Even more relevant than the change in production would be the change in design, then A report It pointed to the South Korean company will no longer be involved in the design of the chip. That case draws A Pixel 10 Much more ‘Made By Google’and we will have to see what it is in practice at the level of performance and efficiency, where pixel They are lagging behind Regarding Apple, Mediatek or Qualcomm proposals. How to follow the event On August 20 Google will broadcast the event in Direct on YouTubeand in Xataka we will have all the news that it presents. This is the schedule announced for Spain and Latin America: Spain: 19 hours Mexico (CDMX): 12 noon Colombia: 12 noon Argentina / Uruguay / Chile: 14 hours Venezuela: 13 hours. Image | Xataka In Xataka | The best mobiles (2025), we have tried them and here are their analysis

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