Two 19 -year -old kids put Spanish national security with a bot and a telegram channel. The reason: they bored themselves

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It happened a few days ago. The National Police had arrested two young people by the Data filtration of Pedro Sánchez and other high positions of the State. A massive filtration that, In police wordsis a “very serious threat to national security.” Behind all this there is no large group of perfectly coordinated hackers, only two 19 -year -old Canarian kids and a bot that they sold on Telegram. @Akkaspace and @pakito. They are the nicks of the two authors of the filtration. Yoel (Akkaspace), the main responsible, is a computer student and was arrested at his home on July 1. Next to him also stopped Pakito (Cristian), who was aware of his friend’s activities and would have participated in helping him promote them. Yesterday July 3 They were releasedalthough they are being investigated for an alleged crime of terrorism and will have to appear in the played twice a month. A bot. It is the tool they have used to extract the data. The bot was in charge of tracking previously compromised databases. That is, they have taken advantage of existing vulnerabilities in companies and institutions. In Declarations to Eldiariosecurity expert Rafael López, says they have used OSINT, OR INTELLIGENCE OF OPEN SOURCESand it has not been a hacking as such. Yoel himself said in an interview he gave on Twitch with his face covered: With a bot that I have, with which I have taken everything basically. I take databases, Indexo, and people, if you buy the bot, searching for a full name, a phone number or a ID, you can access all the information. This is how I have done politicians. Filtration. The investigation began weeks ago in Telegram. @Akkaspace and @pakito used a channel with more than 90,000 members to start spreading personal data from public figures, although later they were closed and used other more minority channels. In the beginning it only affected seven personalities, but little by little they were filtering more data, getting to involve the president of the Government himself. The data contained in the filtration includes birth dates, telephones, ID numbers and even homes, although some were apparently outdated. Motivation. “We are two boring kids,” said Yoel on Twitch, which denies that there is an ideological motivation behind the filtration. “And as the issue of corruption is being uncovered lately, why don’t we get the information from those politicians and publish it? It is a lesson,” he said. Although it is not clear what led him to filter the data, everything indicates that there would be an economic motivation. Yoel sold the databases and the bot itself with which it extracted the data, which it charged in Bitcoins. An undercover agent. This is how they hunt. The National Audience car includes that an undercover agent “has managed to buy from the investigated access to the database that sold for 60 euros that have been paid in Bitcoins. “The second investigated, Cristian or @Pakito would be in charge of managing the cryptocurrency portfolio where they received the payments, although it has not transcended how much they won. Images | National Police in X In Xataka | Alcasec is not any youth hacker: he set up a Spanish criminal infrastructure that even had customer service bot

Mathematicians have been trying to solve the mystery of Da Vinci’s ‘vitruvio’. The answer was in sight

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The history of art is full of universal icons, but few, very few, reach the popularity level of the ‘Vitruvio man’ drawn around 1490 by Leonardo da Vinci. And it is logical. Artistic and scientific issues apart, the work has become a reference Pop. The original is preserved in the Accademia di Belle Arti Venice, but the same face, the same body, has stamped over the last decades in books, t -shirts, sweatshirts, backpacks and posters. That without counting every time we have seen it reproduced on the big screen. The most curious thing is that despite that exhibition, the ‘man of vitruvio’ is still surrounded by mysteries. Or so it was until now, at least. A London dentist believes having solved the complex mathematical puzzle that Leonardo hidden in the work. A name: Marcus Vitruvius. Leonardo da Vinci’s is (by far) the most famous, but the Tuscan genius was not the only one in representing the man of vitruvio. We keep more or less similar samples from other artists, such as Francesco Di Giorgio Martini either Giacomo Andrea de Ferrara. And it’s normal. After all, these are exercises based on the canon of the human body of Marcus Vitruvius (Exactly, hence his name), a Roman architect and engineer. It was he who many centuries before Leonardo theorized about human physiognomy in Of archiecture. “In the body, the central point is the navel. If a man placed himself on his back, with extended hands and feet and a compass focused on the nave The architect theorized Roman in the first century before our era, convinced that a man’s proportions can adjust to a square. But … how to do it? That is the theory. Different thing is practice. Throughout the different artists have launched themselves to represent human physiognomy partially inspired by the canon of proportions proposed by vitrubio. Not everyone with equal fortune. By 1490 Leonardo Da Vinci, who then was around 40, got down to work in one of his notebooks and prepared a drawing that during the last five centuries has fascinated scholars and profane. The work shows a man in several overlapping positions, standing, with extended legs and more or less open arms. All perfectly registered in a square and in a circle in an exercise that would probably have fascinated the Roman architect. We have recorded the result in memory and a quick search arrives on Google to find good quality reproductions, but there is a pending mystery: how the hell did Leonardo did? The great ask unknown. Yes, the result is obvious. And yes, the drawing is there for those who want to copy it in detail. But … what recipe Did Vinci continue to plan and execute it? What calculations did you use? Was it based on any pattern? And if so, what system did you employ? “The search for the Da Vinci geometric method has generated numerous theories, each of which tries to explain the measured relationship between the circle and the square in the original drawing,” Explain Rory Mac Sweeney, the British dentist who believes he has found the key. “For more than 500 years, the Da Vinci geometric system for the precise relationship between the circle and the square in his drawing of the ‘Vitruvio man’ has remained in the mystery,” Mac Sweeney abounds, which has just published An article reviewed by parts in Journal of Maythematics and Arts. What if the key is the golden proportion? His theory is just that, a theory, but it is interesting because it offers an alternative to the most popular explanation, which argues that to draw his drawing Da Vinci was inspired by the Aurea proportionan idea that reinforces the collaboration of the Tuscan with his compatriot Luca Paciolithe author of Of divine proportion. The problem, Remember Mac Sweeneyis that this explanation has not just been perfect. “It produces a significant error, which seems unlikely given Leonardo’s geometric precision.” Good riddle, bad explanation. Other authors have provided alternative explanations to the mystery of Vitruvio, such as Leonardo was based on octagons or a heptagon, but Mac Sweeney believes all these theories present “a fundamental problem”: they approach more or less the measures used by the artist in his diagram, but in the opinion of the British researcher it is difficult to connect them with the themes that really obsessed Da Vinci. “They are still purely abstract mathematical exercises, without connection with Leonardo da Vinci’s documented interest in human anatomy, natural functional and main relationships. As geometric riddles, they work. As explanations of Leonardo’s methodology and intentions, they do not offer a convincing justification of their specific decisions,” Reflect. Hidden “with the naked eye”. The most curious thing is that Mac Sweeney believes that the solution “has been hidden with the naked eye” in the handwritten annotations left by Leonardo himself next to the drawing. Specifically, it refers to a comment in which the artist points out that, with the body in a certain posture, the space between the legs forms an equilateral triangle. For a long time it was believed that this phrase was a simple poetic ornament, pure rhetoric or a practical guide for composition, but the British expert believes that it is the key to mystery. And what is special? That the triangle adjusts to a natural pattern, one that Mac Sweeney knows well for his dentist profession: Bonwill’s trianglean imaginary equilateral triangle of the human anatomy that marks the fundamental geometric relationship for the proper functioning of the jaw. “Connects the mandibular condyles with the midpoint of the lower central incisors and corresponds precisely to Leonardo’s explicit reference to an ‘equilateral triangle’ in its construction of the ‘vitruvio man’”, Clarify. “The construction of Leonardo demonstrates the same tetrahedral principles present in craniofacial architecture,” insists The British dentist before citing studies and calculations that reinforce its hypothesis. “The equilateral triangle, which Leonardo made explicit reference between the legs of the figure, when replicating six times around the navel, creates the … Read more

We had been asking us for years why Chernobyl wild boar were so radioactive. The answer was not in the accident

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Almost four decades after the accident of the nuclear power plant located in Prypiat, Chernobil animals They continue generating fascination. These survivors in one of the most polluted regions in Europe They surprise us In many ways, but there is an enigmatic species in this place is that of wild boar. One of the most radioactive species of Chernobil. Solving the mystery. Have A new trackrevealed by a team of researchers, about these animals: we finally know why their radioactivity is greater than that of other species. The answer does not have so much to do with the nuclear accident in itself but with something that happened quite before. More radioactive? It is very little that we still know about Chernobil animals. One of the most curious enigmas was that of wild boars. To understand why we have to talk about one of the most polluting radioactive isotopes, the Cesio 137 (CS137). The semi -dear period of this isotope (the time in which half of the atoms we have of the material will have disintegrated) is just over 30 years. The concentration of cesium in the trophic chain should in principle even reduce to a greater extent since atoms tend to leak on the ground or be dragged by the water to the rivers. Going down. That is why the level of radioactivity in animals such as deer or roams has descended significantly in the area. Not only this situation has not occurred in the towns of Jabalís: its radiation levels have remained almost constant, that is, the descent is not even in line with which the semi -detail of the CS137 would imply. Is the “wild boar paradox” Nuclear tests and radioactive truffles. The response starts from Cesium 135. The team that resolved this mystery managed to focus not on radiation levels but in its origin. They found that it was this other Isotope of Cesium who was behind this phenomenon. The CS135 has a much longer half -grooming period, which explains why the reduction had been lower. This also makes it harder to detect the presence of CS135. As Explain the responsible team From the study, each type of nuclear incident has its own “signature”. It is estimated that 90% of CS137 present in Europe was released by the Chernobil accident, but this is not the case of CS135. The origin of this is 68% in the nuclear tests developed in the context of the Fíra war. The fair depth. The feeding of wild boars has also been one of the key factors when it comes to understanding the reason for their radiation levels. These animals feed on a type of truffle (Elaphomyces) that grows in the subsoil, at depths of between 20 and 40 centimeters. As we indicated before, part of the Radioactive Cesium He leaked year after year on the floor of the area. At the rate of a few millimeters a year, the Cesium (both the one from the nuclear tests and the accident) has been advancing towards these depths, contaminating these fungi, food source of the wild boars. From Chernobil to Bavaria. The study that clarified this mystery was carried out by analyzing a population of 48 wild boar in the state of Bavariasouth of Germany. The Analysis details They were published in the magazine Environmental Science & Technology. In the long term. The study results invite us to think that the situation will not change in the short term. That is, it is unlikely that the levels of radioactivity of wild boars begin to descend in the coming years until they are equal to those presented by other similar animals such as deer or roeans. The greatest radiation present in these animals has made the hunters resist their capture. This implies that the populations of these wild boars will go increasing. Perhaps their expansion through central Europe makes the radiation levels of these animals decline generation after generation but, from what we have seen, this process could still be extended for decades. In Xataka | Birds, wild boars and even a prehistoric clam: these are some of the species that returned from extinction In Xataka | Some Spanish scientists are recreating the cranobil accident in Seville. Objective: See how it affects biodiversity Image | Joachim Reddemann / Кирил урин *An earlier version of this article was published in July 2024

The AI ​​industry has become a kind of ‘game of thrones’. And that reveals a worrying truth for your future

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Sam Altman, CEO of Openai, must be pulling the hairs. In recent days Mark Zuckerberg, Meta CEO, “He has sneaked into his house” and has stolen no less than seven of his most valuable engineers. He has done it with the oldest tactics in the world. He money. In fact, the finish lines have shaken the foundations of the AI ​​industry, because it has not stopped spending true money with the aim of hiring all the talent of the IA that has been able. The situation has turned these engineers into the new superstars of Silicon Valley, with absolutely stratospheric salaries that are linked to the eternal promise that AI will end up changing the world. Goal is betting everything to that belief, and has decided to go for all spending huge fortunes Not already in data centersbut in talent. Let’s summarize: According to Altman himself, the Zuckerberg company offered initial bonds of 100 million dollars -although They were not exactly that – to some specific talents of AI to sign by goal. Fact offers reach 300 million dollars in four years According to Wired. Several of the “tempted” engineers per finishing have ended up accepting those millionaire offers. According to a internal statement From Zuckerberg himself, there have been 11 engineers who have signed by goal. Seven come from Openai, three from Google and one from Anthropic. Meta has also paid $ 14.9 billion for 49% participation in Scaleai, but above all for signing Alexandr Wangits CEO, which will now collect the new goal superintelligence division. They have also signed Nat Friedman, Exceiver of githubwhich will collect that new division with Wang. And they have just signed Daniel Gross, who Safe Superintelligence co -founded Together with Ilya Sutskever just a few months ago. For those last two target signings he has offered Buy a participation 49% in the Risk Capital Fund of Friedman and Gross, called NFDG. The value of the operation is unknown. Welcome to the Game of Thrones of the AI The last movements are nothing more than a confirmation of Zuckerberg’s voracity, which has moved quickly and with that irresistible hook of checks (almost) blank. And meanwhile, its competitors have been exposed to a reality: That AI has become a ‘game of thrones’. This industry is seeing from its beginnings and notable coming. At first, however, these internal movements were motivated by personal differences, visions or ambitions. Now many seem simply motivated by money. Thus, we saw how Openai’s origins became a new “Paypal Mafia” from which new startups arose. These first movements had a lot to do with a simple reason: some confudators and employees of OpenAi did not support Altman or did not share their vision. And that was how we saw several outstanding startups derived from those tensions: However, they all abandoned by OpenAi’s boat not so much for money – which probably also – as well as betting on another different vision. Of those “Morales” resignations We have gone to absolutely mercenary resignations in which money – and not the mission or vision of the company – is the clear factor of movement. That has made Altman recently said, there are two sides: that of the missionaries – which faithful to the companies in which they began their career, and that they believe in their vision and objectives – and the mercenaries that are sold to the highest bidder. AND According to Altman“The missionaries will overcome mercenaries.” The case of Sutskever, which confirmed yesterday the newsIt is especially painful, because now he runs out of his main adventure partner – Daniel Gross. The Sutskever startup is, as in the case of Murati, an absolute mystery: They have no visible productbut they have still achieved extraordinary investment rounds. It was in fact leaked that Zuckerberg came to make an offer to Sutskever To buy your startup, valued at 32,000 million dollars. Sutskever himself seemed to confirm that information by saying that “we feel flattered for their attention, but we are focused on our work.” Betrayals point to an awkward reality: AI is, above all, smoke These movements speak of a deeper problem in the AI ​​industry: those that can be trying to make their particular August, because it is not clear that the promises and the expectation generated by these companies end up becoming a reality. The clearest example is in the recent case of Daniel Gross, co -founder with Sutskever by Safe Superintelligence. In his message confirming the news of his partner’s departure, Sutskever said that “we have (the resources of) computing, the team and we know what to do. Together we will continue to build a safe superintelligence.” It is clear that Daniel Gross knew the same thing that Sutskever knows about the progress of that work, so, If they were so clear about the goal and knew how to achieve it, why change the side? If someone knew that he was going to win the race with his car, would he change it for another simply because they pay him for doing so? It makes no sense. And that tells us about the great truth of the world of AI: that despite all those expectations and all that money, nobody knows for sure if this technology will change the world as many believe it will change it. But in the meantime, the mercenaries will take advantage of it. Quevedo already said. Powerful gentleman is Don Money. Image | Max In Xataka | Four decades ago China decided to invest in forming millions of engineers. Today that plan gives it advantage in the race for AI

It is a luxury house in Japan with gallery to see your cars from the couch

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Aston Martin a fame is carved more than 100 years both in the Speed ​​circuits as in the most exclusive garages by design of its supercar. However, for its last adventure, the brand of British origin has not needed wheels or pistons, but concrete, wood, glass and a lot of design. Following the tendency of many other luxury cars manufacturers, Aston Martin has presented its first private residence in Asia: No. 001 Minami Aoyama, located in the coveted neighborhood of Omotesandō in Tokyo. “The new townhouse is the first private residence designed by the British ultra luxury brand in Asia,” says Aston Martin about this pioneering project. From the circuit to the city The attractiveness of this project is not limited only to its real estate exclusivity in the area in which geographical has been built, but also to the integration of elements of the DNA of Aston Martin in every corner of the house. More and more luxury cars manufacturers move their design language to exclusive real estate projects. Brands Like Mercedes-BenzPorsche, Bentleyeither Bugatti They are diversifying their market by signing the design of luxury buildings and residences in which the same attention is applied as in their supercar. This trend responds to a growing demand for clients looking for integral experiences, where the car badge not only represents its manufacturer, but a lifestyle and the taste for exclusive (and expensive) details. “One of the most significant aspects of design is the car gallery, which provides an exhibition space to present two Aston Martin as sculptural works of art,” says the brand, underlining the prominence of the car even inside the building. Be able to sit comfortably on the lounge couchTo contemplate beauty of your supercar It is the new way to enjoy luxury. This is not the first real estate project of the brand, which already has other custom residential developments with the Aston Martin Residences In Miami And The Astera Interiors By Aston Martin In Dubaiand now this new project in Tokyo. It’s a house, but it’s Aston Martin Project No. 001 Minami Aoyama has no wheels, but yes 724 m² distributed in four floorswith an architecture that combines Japanese minimalism and the British style that characterizes its cars. The house has three bedrooms with suite bathrooms, gym, wine warehouse, private cinema and even a basement simulator in the basement. The outdoor spa area and the hydromassage bathtub are coated with hinoki wood, and the kitchen with volcanic stone that evoke the crafts and materials of the DBX interiors. “Clean lines, fissure limits and long -range views allow residents to connect and experience this unique location,” explained Marek Reichman, executive vice president and creative director of Aston Martin. A folded steel staircase, Inspired by Origamiconnect the four levels of the house, while the landscaped terrace that crowns the building offers a relax space with privileged views of the city and the Tokyo Tower. “The growing presence of Aston Martin in Japan and the rest of Asia has provided fertile land for inspiration and collaboration,” said Reichman. The house already owns, but has not transcended its purchase price, but as a reference, a 650 square meter attic in the same neighborhood It has been costing about 65 million dollars. Aston Martin firm, apart. In Xataka | 35% of Monaco’s inhabitants are millionaires. The car of its car is a Porsche 911 race of 150,000 euros Image | Aston Martin, Unspash (Dushawn Jovic)

The explanation is Rossby’s waves

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The extreme heat has undoubtedly been the defining feature of last June. However, between warm episode and warm episode, we have seen the passage of troughs that brought us some thermal relief, accompanied, yes, storms and even hails. Right now we are in full of relief, next week, the situation seems uncertain. Cold air, hot air.Meteorologists expect the beginning of the week that is standing out for an abrupt contrast between the north and center and south of the peninsula. The reason is in the presence of two differentiated air masses, a cold to the north and one of warm air to the south. Rossby’s waves. To explain what happens at the atmospheric level, it is convenient to detail before one of the phenomena involved, the not well -known Rossby waves. What exactly are these waves? It’s about Atmospheric waves of planetary scale that mark the alternation of trough and dorsal in middle latitudes, such as ours. These waves move west to this dragged by the meanders of the polar jet. In principle, waves are governed by a kind of balance, what meteorology calls compensatory behaviors: if the pressure decreases in some area, in another it must fall. “Strange dynamics ”. The problem is that we are entering unknown territory. As recently explained the physicist, disseminator and researcher JJ German Through your account in Twitterthis should imply, that as time passes, conditions such as those lived in the month of June should be “compensated” with more or less opposite conditions in the coming weeks. But there is a problem and we are in unknown territory. “As this year we have, indeed, a strange dynamic, just this will not happen: a trough with the opportunity to” sweep “the Iberian Peninsula … and it is only going to touch the north and northeast. The rest almost nor does it find out,” It points to German. That is, everything seems to indicate that after the succession of hot episodes marked by the extreme anticyclonic time, the “calm” of the troughs will not arrive or, at least, it will not arrive with the intensity that you would expect. What can we expect? The story seems to be repeated, more or less. The troughs that are now giving us a breath of heat will last little and next week the heat will return. Although not quite: during the first days of the week a mass of warm air will settle on the center and south of the peninsula while a mass of cold air will remain in the north. Meanwhile, the situation will not be far from what we have seen at other times of transition, in which the heat will coexist with the appearance of storms. The State Meteorology Agency has activated various notices today and tomorrow, both for rains and storms and by maximum temperatures. In some areas of the northwest we can see even areas where notices by maximum temperatures will share space with storms or rainy warnings. From Sunday the expected notices are only because of the high temperatures. In Xataka | A buoy in Mallorca has revealed the weather problem facing Spain: the Mediterranean Sea is in flames Image | ECMWF

Amazon does not expected Prime Day and launches some of the best chollos in Echo Packs, Ring and Fire TV Stick

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As is usually the case in Amazon campaigns, the store did not want to wait for its next Prime Day 2025 to give a small advance that serves as a good snack of what is to come. On previous occasions we saw the offers arrive on many of its devices, but this time the thing has changed: The offers we can find in the store are lots or packs that collect some of their devices at a very good price. Of course, being exclusive offers, there is a condition: To take advantage of discounts, we must be signed to Amazon Prime. Fire TV Stick HD Pack by 48.99 eurosincludes the Dongle and an interior chamber ring. Echo Pop pack by 53.98 eurosincludes two Echo Pop speakers and an intelligent plug. Echo Dot pack by 71.98 eurosincludes two Echo Dot speakers and an smart bulb. Echo Spot pack by 123.98 eurosincludes two Echo Spot watches and an smart bulb. Echo show pack by 133.98 eurosincludes two speakers with Echo Show 5 screen and an smart bulb. Fire TV Stick HD Pack If you were waiting for a good offer in the popular Fire TV Stickits standard model (with HD resolution) is offer in a pack that includes an interior chamber ring. All this for a price of 48.99 euros. He Fire TV Stick it’s a Dongle which connects to the TV through an HDMI port to be able to have functions that we usually watch on Smart TVS (useful for old televisions). In this way, we can access the voice assistant Alexa or download Apps like Netflix or Prime Video. The Ring Camera (Indoor Camera of 2nd Generation) It is, as the name implies, a surveillance camera that offers live video and bidirectional communication. It is ideal to have pets controlled when we go on a trip, but also to have an extra safety at home. It is easy to install, it connects to Alexa and You can see the live video from the mobile and from anywhere. Fire TV Stick + Ring Cámara * Some price may have changed from the last review Echo Pop pack One of the best offers in Amazon lots is found in the Echo Pop packsince in this case we talk about a combo that includes two speakers and an intelligent plug. All this for 53.98 euros; That is, the pack is cheaper than if we bought only a pop echo. He Echo pop It is, so to speak, a more economical review of the Echo Dot (5th generation). Instead of a spherical design, in this case it has a semi -man -design and a Speaker offering high audio quality. It is also compatible with Alexa, has Bluetooth connectivity and serves as a center to build a home automation network. He P100MA tapo It is an intelligent plug that can be integrated into the Amazon ecosystem through Alexa, allowing to use the functions of said plug by voice commands. Among these functions, we have the Lighting and off the devices that we connect to the plug, we can create timers and routines and even allow us to be used even if we are not at home; Something useful if we are traveling and we want to know if we have left the plug on or off. Two Echo Pop + Tapo P100MA * Some price may have changed from the last review Echo Dot pack On the other hand, if we want the “older brother” of the pop echo, we can also find a good offer in the Echo Dot (5th Generation)which comes in this case with two units of the Amazon speaker along with a Tapo E27 bulb. All this for 71.98 euros. He Echo Dot (5th Generation) It is an intelligent speaker that has been in the Amazon store for a while, but continues to offer a very complete experience. Integrates the voice assistant Alexaserves as a center to build an intelligent network at home and, like the Echo Pop, it has Bluetooth connectivity, so many devices can be connected (I, for example, I use it with the Nintendo Switch). The Tapo E27 It is an smart bulb that integrates with Alexa so that their functions can be used by voice commands. It is a multicolored bulb that has 16 million tones to choose from and that allows routines and timers to program. Two echo dot (5th generation) + tapo e27 * Some price may have changed from the last review Echo Spot pack One of Amazon’s most curious (and most recent) devices is the echo spot, a kind of alarm clock that also includes a speakerwhich offers an assortment of additional functions to the other store speakers. In this case, you can find in pack with two units of the alarm clock and with a Tapo E27 bulb. Its price, in this case, is 123.98 euros. He Echo spot It is an intelligent alarm clock that also integrates the Alexa voice assistant and, of course, also serves as a center to build an intelligent network at home. Includes a screen to see the time, time and song we are reproducing And it allows to create routines to get up with certain songs that can be reproduced from Amazon Music, Spotify or Apple Music, among others. * Some price may have changed from the last review Echo show pack Finally, during the prime day offers, we can also find a good price in the Echo show 5which in this case comes in a pack with two units and, again, a Tapo E27 smart bulb. Its price in this case is 133.98 euros. He Echo show 5 (3rd generation) is an intelligent speaker that comes with a screen, an interesting point because it has quite particular functions. Of course, it allows you to see the time, the time and you can select the images that we want to reproduce, but also even allows to reproduce content of some streaming platforms. It is worth … Read more

They are not your imaginations, the seat of airplanes is increasingly uncomfortable. He began to shrink in 1978 and since then he has not stopped

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The scene It is familiar For any passenger of a commercial flight in “tourist” class: backpack between the legs, knees embedded against the frontal back and a failed attempt to reach the floor of the cabin without hitting the forehead. What was previously an experience of discovery or luxury has degenerated, for the majority, in An uncomfortable struggle for the most elementary physical space. It happens that this transformation is not fortuitous, and began in the United States. The free market. Before 1978, airlines in the United States functioned as regulated public services. Basic rates, routes and standards (including the space between seats and customer treatment) were supervised by the federal government. The tickets were more expensive than today, but included services such as billed luggage, food and seats with dimensions Chords to the human body half. The problem? That the frame changed drastically with THE AIR AUTLINE ACTlegislation that opened the sector to the competition on behalf of the free market. The promise was that The rates would fall and the service would improve. In practice, after a brief explosion of new companies, the market was rapidly consolidated to the Current oligopoly: four airlines (American, Delta, United and Southwest) They control 80 % of the US market. In that new competitive environment, operational efficiency was imposed as an absolute priority, and the reduction of passenger space became one of the most effective tools for Increase margins Without raising prices. My seat diminishes. Evolution has been progressive but constant. In the eighties, traditional airlines offered an average of 90 cm space between seats (the called pitch), while today an average of 80 cm is reached in regular airlines, and only 70 cm in low-cost companies such as Spirit or Wizz Air. By the way, the seat width has also fallen around 5 cm. This reduction has reached a critical point: studies They point out that more than half of the passengers already They do not fit comfortably In standard seats. The effect is especially dramatic for overweight people, the elderly or those who travel with young children, groups that have also been Excluded from the tests Evacuation officers that FAA has used to justify the current regulations. It is not an illusion, this way it was traveling in economy class in bread in the 70s The reduction in Europe. In Europe, the “to the worst” change for passengers, that is, the progressive loss of space, services and comfort on board, began a little later, in the 1990s, although its regulatory trigger is located a few years earlier, with the European air liberalization which developed in three phases between 1987 and 1997. The clearest inflection point was the call Third Liberalization Package (1992-1997), which culminated in the creation of the Unique European skyallowing any EU airline to operate freely within the community space without restrictions on routes or rates. From there, several effects were triggered, mainly: the massive entry of Low-Cost airlines (Ryanair, Easyjet or Wozz), standardization down and the indirect deregulation (The EU maintained certain standards, but did not impose minimum seat dimensions). We are bigger. Over the years the problem has been aggravated by a purely “natural” issue. The reduction of space coincides with a demographic transformation and, above all, physiological and very human: our body has evolved “more”. A fact: According to the CDCsince the 1990s the average weight of American adults has increased In more than 7 kg. Today’s women weigh the same as the men of three decades ago, and although height growth has stabilized, body size has increased. Despite this, the dimensions of air furniture have not only grown up, but They have diminishedchallenging the tendency of other sectors such as car or entertainment, where the seats have adapted to the new size of the public. In the words of Flyersrights, Paul Hudson, The airlines “They have gone in the opposite direction to the human body.” The business of making. In the background, the Progressive compression of space responds to A clear logic: Sell more tickets by plane and segment the offer to the maximum. Basic tickets are announced with prices artificially lowbut once in the purchase process, passengers are forced To pay supplements For additional space under labels such as “Economy Plus” or “Comfort”. This has created the closest to a system of Aerial casteswhere a minority of frequent or business travelers accesses acceptable conditions, while the rest must choose between supporting claustrophobic conditions or paying more for something that was previously standard. According to William McGeeexpert in economic freedoms, this logic generates “A kind of torture against a moderately human class.” This duality not only affects comfort, but it raises ethical questions on air service equity. Health risks. He problem transcends The scope of comfort. Prolonged immobility in small spaces (especially in long -term flights) increases risk of deep venous thrombosis, a condition that can lead to potentially fatal pulmonary embolisms. The CDC recommends moving Every two or three hoursbut this is impracticable in flights with turbulence or in overalls. In addition, overcrowding seriously complicates the possibility Evacuate a plane In 90 seconds, the limit that FAA demands. Tests carried out by the agency concluded that the seat size It does not influence significantly, but experts who observed the experiment point multiple deficiencies: It was carried out in a parking lot, not in a real aircraft, and children, adults and people with disabilities were excluded. In addition, the test group was composed of just 60 people, well below the real capacity of a commercial flight. How to survive. Before institutional inaction, responsibility falls, of course, In passengers. Experts recommend (if the budget allows) to acquire seats with more space for long flights. Some travelers even acquire two contiguous seats (although be careful, because airlines can reassign them without prior notice). It is also suggested, the time, get up and walk Every time the opportunity arises, and, in high risk cases, Take anticoagulants Light under medical supervision. These strategies are mere palliative in … Read more

The agents were supposed to go for AI in another dimension in 2025. As with other things of AI, it was only supposed to

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2025 was going to be the year of the AI ​​agents. They have said personalities such as CEO of Nvidia either Sam Altman. The main companies dedicated to AI have presented their agents: Anthropic, OpenAI, Google… the agents AI aimed to be The great revolution This year, but what we are seeing leaves enough to be desired. More and more voices are lowering expectations. Experts in creating hype. If the AI ​​gurus are experts, it is to generate expectation. At the beginning of the year, Altman said that the agents were going to transform the labor in 2025. Six months later, He clarified his speech: “IA agents are behaving as Junior employees.” Now, The year of the agents will be 2026but perhaps this is not a realistic prediction either. Not so quickly. More and more voices are calling for calm. In The Algorithmic Bridge They talk about the hype that has been given to AI agents and how it is contributing to being lost confidence in the sector. And, wanting to run a lot generates false expectations and ends up disappointing. One of these voices is that of Andrej Karpathy, Openai co-founder and responsible for Ia in Teslaso some of AI, knows. Karpathy calls for calm: “There are many people too excited about AI agents.” The promise. After the boom of the language models, the AI ​​agents are presented as the next great evolution. While a chatbot can only ask for one task, an agent can plan larger tasks autonomously. For example, an AI agent could manage the stock of a store, controlling what is needed and orders to suppliers, all autonomously. On paper, agents are very powerful tools and pose a very serious threat to many jobs. Reality. If 2025 is leaving something clear about the AI ​​agents, is that They fail more than a fair shotgun. Have already been put into practice in several cases such as Creation of this fictitious company either This experiment which Anthropic carried out. The result has been disappointing. One of the points at which they failed is when looking for the Internet. For example, one of these agents left a task to complete because a pop-up appeared on the screen and failed to close it. When they leave their surroundings, agents tend to fail more because they find information that they do not control, as in the case of pop-up. Another type of agents, such as Claude Code, work in a closed environment and are much more reliable. Another limitations is the time they can be working. Has been seen as AI agents make a mistake in a task, are chained in the successivecausing the solution to be compromised and echo all the work. And this worsens the longer working. A possible solution to this problem would be put to work in parallel in order to contrast and find the optimal solution. Your time will come. IA agents are not ready to function autonomously and replace a 100%worker, but that does not mean they will not reach that point. In fact, they are already improving. According to This researchAI agents are increasing the time they can work autonomously in a task with a 50%success rate. In 2024 the time was 8 minutes and is currently already in 1 hour. If they continue to improve in a sustained way, by 2027 they can work four hours in a row. Karpathy compares him to his first trip at a Waymo Robotaxi in 2013: “We have spent 12 years and continue working.” We are not in the year of the AI ​​agentsbut “the decade of the agents. This will take a long time. We have to do it carefully. This is software, let’s be serious, ”he warns. Image | Gemini In Xataka | A group of experts in AI attended a party in a mansion. The topic of conversation: what will be when AI ends humanity

make it work like a chestnut

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I go out, I take the phone to answer some messages while consulting an address on Google Maps. It doesn’t take even five minutes in burn. I spend my life by analyzing mobiles, and I begin to analyze the possible reasons why this is happening (taking into account the little detail that I live in Andalusia and jump from the bed with more than 30 degrees in the street). They all have something in common: My phone is too good. The power. One of the factors that most influence the thermal performance of a telephone is its processor. At the moment, Power has gone out of hand with which high -end phones. Although The architecture of the new chips Divide the chip into groups according to use (large nuclei and tragons for complex functions, small and efficient nuclei for simple functions, not to complicate much), not even enough. In the most powerful mobiles, the smallest nuclei are equivalent to the largest nuclei of cheaper mobiles. One way to save this headache on the mobile is to go against the countercurrent and save it, stay with the fair power. The “gross” mode to do so is to activate directly Energy saving modein which processes in the background are capan and the power of the processor is reduced. The most appropriate shape depends largely on the customization layer we use. In phones like Samsung’s we can even Adjust the performance profile What do we want. The screen. The war for the nits of the screen It has an inevitable consequence: that mobile phones burn in summer. Illuminating a panel is one of the most expensive processes at the energy level for any type of device: it requires many efforts not only to illuminate, but to maintain shine. This is the reason why, surely, you have appreciated that In summer your mobile screen shines less. There is not a single mobile that can maintain its brightness peak in moments of heat, so getting used to a lower brightness in summer will prevent the mobile from hot. This is something completely incompatible with Automatic brightness functionsince this will always try to make the screen shine to the maximum outdoors (although not late than a few minutes to drastically lower when the mobile detects that it is burning). The camera. Summer and camera are practically synonyms, but I have bad news again: it is another functions that makes the mobile hot. Reasons? The camera activates your phone resources, since it needs to be fast. Memory works quickly, needs to save large amounts of data in seconds. Made the photo or video, someone has to process it. And that someone is your mobile with those resources that are already beginning to be exhausted. Solutions? Avoid high resolution shooting modes, Rawrecord in resolutions like 1080 for not too many minutes, not use apps that squeeze the camera to the maximum and, ultimately use the camera to capture fast memories without going too high. The connection. In summer we travel, we move. And moving has a consequence in which we almost never repaired: Changes in coverage. In areas with bad connection (beaches, mountains, remote places), The internal modem You have to work much more to try to stay constantly connected to any network you find. This translates not only in heat, but in much higher energy consumption. Advice? If you do not have coverage, put the phone in plane mode, and force the 4G connection from the settings if you are in an area where the 5G connection is quite unstable. Use. This last section is one of the most important, since it is easy to think that “an intensive use” only refers to recording 4k 60 fps and playing the heaviest game for our mobile. Connect car to Android Auto / Carplay during travel hours. Use Instagram on the street, with the mobile in full sun and brightness to the fullest Video calls through any app Have Google Maps / Waze / Apple Maps in the background to obtain indications while we use other apps The most daily use can be the most intensive, and there is a basic standard to prevent the phone from hot in summer: how much less processes at the same time, the better. Image | Xataka In Xataka | Summer is hell for any mobile. These are my three keys to protect it from heat

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