The Switch 2 comes with a protector that many would remove without thinking. Nintendo has a warning for users

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One of the first gestures we usually release a new device is to withdraw the screen protector that comes from the factory. It is almost an act reflex: remove the bright movie, place a more robust temperate glass and, if it is a mobile, sheems it to protect it from blows. But with the Nintendo Switch 2that custom can play against. This time, what seems like a simple protective film is not there for aesthetics or courtesy. Nintendo has made it clear that it is not convenient to withdraw it. And he has done it even before the official launch of the console, scheduled for June 5. The notice appears in the security manual that will accompany the device on its arrival to the European market. The document, already available on the official websiteincludes a very clear warning: the screen is covered with a movie designed to prevent fragments from being dispersed in case of breakage. The exact phrase, in Spanish, is direct: “Do not withdraw.” Nintendo’s warning, as appears in the official manual This may sound strange if we think of other technological products. After all, we have been getting used to this type of film for years, almost a wrapping. But not here. In this case we talk about a layer with a concrete security featuresimilar to the one that already incorporated the Nintendo Switch Oled. In that device the same target had: prevent cuts and prevent pieces from jumping. The previous consoles did not have this protection. The Original switch and the Lite They used plastic screens and, therefore, did not present that risk. But the change to glass screens has forced Nintendo to take action. It is not just a change in the material, it is a decision that impacts the use, safety and how we should treat the device as soon as they get it out of the box. And it is not something exclusive to Nintendo. In the world of smartphones we have already lived a similar situation. The most remembered example was the Galaxy Fold Samsung original. That first niche of folding mobiles included a layer that many confused with A simple protector. When they withdrew it, Some experienced problems. Not everything that looks like an accessory is. Sometimes, it is part of the device itself. Returning to the Switch 2, the advice is clear: it is convenient not to touch what we do not know exactly what it is for. And even more read the instructions. Because this console, which will cost 469.99 euros (VAT included), it is not precisely a cheap investment (Like your games). Risking to spoil the screen for an automatic and avoidable gesture is not worth it. In Xataka | All the questions and doubts that remain to be resolved from the Nintendo Switch 2 to a week of its launch

The EU is one step away from vetoing it in its great tenders, according to Reuters

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The Chinese market of Medical devices Live an accelerated expansion. According to a report published by Cambridge Networkit is expected to reach a value of 210,000 million dollars in 2025, promoted by a combination of internal factors and political ambition. The aging of the population and a state commitment determined by innovation have turned this sector into a national priority for Beijing. The strategy is clear: to bet on leading technologies and reduce the dependence of the foreigner. Investments have concentrated in fields such as artificial intelligence (AI) for image diagnosis, devices connected by IoT, robotic surgery or the use of advanced materials. All this under the umbrella of the program ‘Made in China 2025‘, which establishes precise objectives of national production in key areas of health. In that framework, China seeks In 2025 at least 70 % of high -end medical devices used in hospitals are local manufacturing. In strategic components, the objective rises to 85 %. And in the case of regional level hospitals, some guidelines already demanded to reach 50 % of Chinese products in 2020. According to Bloombergthis turn has had an immediate effect on trade. The European Commission states that China went from having a deficit of 1,300 million euros in medical devices in 2019 to a surplus of 5,200 million just a year later. EU’s response On Monday, June 2, the Member States of the European Union supported the commission’s proposal for RStringing access of Chinese manufacturers to public contracts of medical devices valued at more than five million euros, as Reuters saidBloombergand SCMPciting diplomatic sources and people familiar with the matter. It should be noted that the commission has not yet made the official resolution public. The measure is based on a legislation approved in 2022: the international public procurement instrument or IPI (for its acronym in English). This instrument allows Brussels to impose penalties to companies from countries where a lack of reciprocity has been tested. The sanctions can range from adjustments in the bidding scores to the direct exclusion of public competitions. According to the aforementioned Hongkonese newspaperthe measure could be applied in Question of weeksonce receives the final approval of the European commissioners. The current draft raises a duration of up to five years for these restrictions, although for now the final text has not been published. According to IPI standards, the measures must be proportional and allow exceptions case by case, at the request of the affected companies. The decision dates back to an investigation launched by the European Commission in April 2024. After a period of consultations without agreement, Brussels published in January 2025 a conclusive report: 87 % of public tenders analyzed in China contained explicit or implicit restrictions to foreign devices. In many cases, technical criteria were required that could only comply with local suppliers, or there were low prices that were unfeasible for business -oriented companies. The most affected sectors were the devices for otolaryngology (ENT), the general diagnosis and the diagnostic image. The commission also detected direct prohibitions to imported products in a growing number of competitions between 2022 and 2024. According to Bloomberg and Reuters, China did not propose any corrective measure during the consultation process. Brussels argues that the lack of access just to the Chinese market, combined with the privileges enjoyed by Chinese companies in Europe, justifies the activation of the IPI. Images | Arseny Togulev | Marcel Scholte | Arthur Wang In Xataka | Nvidia chips had always been a US negotiating weapon in their commercial war with China. Until today

It is already the second most attacked country in the world by cybercriminals

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Almost daily news of Spanish companies and institutions arise that have been Cybernetic White. In recent months we have seen from data leaks, like the one that affected Telefónicaeven incidents that affected government systems, such as those of the La Rinconada City Council. The digital threat has ceased to be a remote possibility to become a constant reality, and the latest data only confirm it. Spain has once again occupied the second place in the world ranking of countries more attacked by cybercriminals, As confirmed Secure & ItSpecialized in information security, during a day dedicated to regulations and cybercraft held in Madrid. The general director of the company, Francisco Valencia, explained that the country had historically oscillated between the third and fifth place, but that in 2025 he has recovered second place. The position in the ranking is no accident: there are weight reasons The reasons, according to Valencia, are multiple. Spain has a commercial presence in all International markets and occupies a prominent place at the Gross Domestic Product level (GDP). Its geographical situation, as the western end of the European continent, also reinforces its strategic value as a link between Europe and America. But there is a more political component: “Before Brexit, the United Kingdom was the second most attacked country in the world,” Valencia recalled, for his ability to destabilize the European Union. This new ascent also occurs in a moment of special geopolitical sensitivity. During the conflict between Russia and Ukraine there was a temporary descent of Spain in the classification. Now, Spain has once again been one of the favorite whites. From the government, direct allusion to this new ranking has been made, but it has been alerted to the growing gravity of the threat. At the end of April, the president Pedro Sánchez spoke about him Industrial and Technological Plan for Security and Defense, where he warned that “Spain is the object of more than one thousand cyberattacks to essential services already critical infrastructure” The president said that many of these attacks do not appear in the media, but that directly affect objectives such as hospitals and airports. “Until now our systems have managed to repel the most serious and contain the impacts of the rest, but the threat, far from disappearing, it is clear that every day is greater,” he said. The plan contemplates promoting new telecommunications and cybersecurity capabilities, both military and civilians. Measures include new satellites, 5G infrastructure, artificial intelligence, quantum computing and cloud capabilities. The objective, in the words of the president, is “to create a digital shield for Spain.” The panorama described by Secure & It is equally alarming. According to its latest reports, cybercrime already reaches a global cost close to 1.5% of the global gross domestic product, with groups such as Ransomhub and Lockbit 3 among the most active. Only in 2024, cyber attacks increased 64% Regarding the previous year, according to CCN-CERT data. “The digital crime has everything: it is profitable, scalable and anonymous. There are even platforms that value the reputation of malware suppliers,” Valencia said during his speech. One of the most disturbing elements is the democratization of attack tools. “Today we can talk about Ransomware Diy. A teenager with access to Google, a prepaid card and some time can deploy ransomware,” he warned. Meanwhile, the number of attacks continues to grow, and efforts to contain them also seem to be increasing. Images | Freepik | Xataka with Grok In Xataka | We visited the National CNI cryptological center: here is the epicenter of Spanish cybersecurity In Xataka | How to change all our passwords according to three cybersecurity experts

The greatest fear was that AI took our work. The reality is that they are replacing those who are learning to work

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In just a few weeks, thousands of students from generation Z will graduate in their respective careers with the hope of get that first job that allows them to start a professional career. However, the current panorama is increasingly complicated for those who seek their first job opportunity. The Difficulty accessing the labor market Not only does it come for the structural part of an economy shaking by Commercial uncertainty. The AI ​​is already beginning to assume tasks that until now carried out the Practices in practices or Junior employees, which traditionally served as an initial step for the newly graduates. The staircase has broken. As explained Aneesh Raman, responsible for Economic Opportunities of LinkedIn In an article for The New York Times“The first thing that is being broken is the lowest step of the professional staircase”, a trend that threatens to leave many young people without the possibility of learning and growing in their first years of career. As He predicted Fortune In 2024, the AI ​​already is doing your jobso there is no reason for companies to hire them. Currently, AI acts mainly as a support tool to lighten the workload of senior employees by automating routine tasks. In great technology, Like AmazonGoogle or Microsoft, are implemented to help their developers do administrative or generation tasks small code fragments. Tasks that until now were part of the learning process of Junior employees. The Z generation is already noticing it. Chris Hyams, CEO of Indeed, said in the Fortune‘S Workplace Innovation Summit that: “The good news is that there is no job that AI can perform all the skills required. This does not mean that it will not replace the workers, but the AI ​​cannot replace a complete job.” However, Hyams said that “in approximately two thirds of all works, 50% or more of the skills required are things that the current generative AI can do reasonably well, or very well.” This means that, although AI does not eliminate all positions, it does reduce the need to perform many basic tasks that used to train new employees. Youth unemployment data in the US. The implantation rhythm of AI in the business field is being faster in the United States than in other countries. According The published by The Atlantic, The New York Federal Reserve He warnedof an increase in unemployment among the newly graduates standing at 5.8% and 6.2% for younger workers. That is, something is happening in the entrance to the labor market. Although there is still no definitive evidence that AI is the only cause of the weakening of this link in the professional career of the youngest, the trend is clear: the opportunities to learn working from below are disappearing in the sectors where AI is being implemented faster, as companies Like Duolingo or Shopify They are adopting policies that reduce hiring options of the youngest to do those routine tasks if there is the possibility that they can make them an AI. Ask for qualified employees, but not form them. In parallel to the creation of this training wall imposed by automation, companies from all over the world denounce a growing shortage of qualified labor. According to recent European Union data collectedby Euronewsthe lack of experienced workers and advanced skills has become one of the main challenges for the economy. This phenomenon creates a paradox: as long as young people do not find opportunities to train in companies from their simpler processes, companies fail to cover their vacancies with qualified personnel. If this trend is consolidated, in a few years AI will not have left millions of workers without employment. In reality, it will have been the companies themselves who would have prevented the training of qualified personnel and with the necessary experience for supervise the work of AI that is developing. In Xataka | Founders of small startups and large technological ones already has something in common: they are millmillonarios thanks to the AI In Xataka | “Humans will not be necessary for most things”: Bill Gates does not believe that doctors and teachers have a future Image | Unspash (Mushvig Niftaliyev)

An object never seen on the Milky Way is emitting radio waves with X -rays exactly every 44 minutes

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The Milky Way continues to present new mysteries through the telescope. An international astronomer team has discovered an objectuntil now unknown, which emits powerful radio bursts with a watchmaker’s precision. But the strangest thing is that we know that they are accompanied by X -rays. Context. One of the cosmic fashion phenomena in astronomy magazines are transitory long -period radio objects (LPRT), whose understanding is still in diapers. Since 2022 only 10 have been identified, which were overlooked or confused with other celestial objects. LPRT emit bursts of radio waves periodically, but with much longer intervals (of minutes or hours) than traditional pulsaries, which usually have periods of second or milliseconds. The progress in radio telescopes has opened a window to the transitory universe that allows astronomers to identify LPRTS more easily. One of the most powerful radio telescopes is the Australian Matrix Askap, which consists of 36 parabolic antennas 12 meters in diameter acting as a single instrument of 4,000 square meters. Double surprise. Astronomers have just added a new layer of complexity to the world of LPRTS with the discovery of Askap J1832-0911, an object that emits powerful radio wave explosions. Your pulses last two minutes and repeat every 44 minutes and 12 seconds. The finding is important because it is just the tenth LPRT discovered and places the new object among the 30 most brilliant radio sources in the sky. But the surprise came to cross the data with observations of the NASA X -ray Space Telescope. Chandra had observed the same area of ​​the night sky at the same time as Askap (what scientists have compared with “finding a needle in a haystack”). The Observatory discovered X -ray emissions from the same point and with the same cycle of 44 minutes and 12 seconds. It is the first time that an LPRT emitting waves of both frequencies. Collapsed lines. ASKAP J1832-0911 is around 15,000 light years from Earth, in a very populated region of our galaxy. This location greatly hinders its study in other wavelengths, because there are many objects that could be obscuring it, and an immense amount of dust that blocks our line of vision. Infrared searches have also not yielded results, although hope is put into future observations with the James Webb space telescope. Unlike other LPRTS that seem to “light” and “turn off” intermittently, the object has been active during the 10 months that observation has lasted, although with a variable brightness. The million dollar question. What exactly is Askap J1832-0911? There are many theories about what type of object could be producing such regular and energy signs. This object is different from everything we have seen before, but researchers do not believe it is an extraterrestrial civilization sending messages because the emission spectra are too broad. Instead, two main suspects shuffle. The first is an old magnetar: a neutron star with incredibly powerful magnetic fields in his last stage of life, possibly orbited by another star. The second is an ultra -freeized white dwarf: the remnant of a low -dough star at the end of its evolution, with an exceptionally strong magnetic field and a companion star. But for this theory to fit, the white dwarf would need the most intense magnetic field ever detected in one of its class, surpassing the 5 × 109 gauss. We know nothing. “Finding such an object suggests the existence of many more”, Nanda Rea saysCo-author of the study and professor of the Institute of Space Sciences (ICE-CSIC) in Spain. “The discovery of its X -ray transitory emission opens new perspectives on its mysterious nature.” This discovery not only adds a new mystery to the list of things that we do not understand the universe. He also suggests that LPRTS, of which we barely know 10, are more energy than was thought. Hunting to find more objects like this and decipher its origin has only begun. Image | POT

If “Fast Walk” serves for yourself to lose weight

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Is it possible to lose weight walking? It is a recurring question and is logical. After all, physical activity facilitates the consumption of calories that our body stores as fat. But it also turns out to be a form of Exercise available to almost everyonesomething important if we take into account that constancy is usually key when we talk about thinning. However, the answer to this question is somewhat more complex than it might seem. Yeah, walk It is a good way to burn calories, and much more: it is also an exercise that provides benefits to our cardiorespiratory and muscular health, and also helps prevent the appearance of diabetes, among other varied effects. That is why it is usually remembered from time to time that, although walking it can be very useful, it may not be the exercise that best suits our plans, and could be seen more as a complement that as the main resource to which we stick to. Now, let’s investigate why. As experts remember, exercise is not always the best strategy if what we are looking for is to reduce our body mass. “For weight loss, The diet seems to be more effective that physical activity “ Donald Hensrud explainsof the Healthy Life program of the Mayo Clinic. Rather, it is usually considered that, in general, the exercise is more effective when maintaining the weight; While if we want to lose weight, control our diet is usually considered a more effective strategy. Of course this does not mean that we should forget this part, even if only for The positive impact That an active life has in our health. The problem is that we tend to Overbear the impact of exercise and physical activity in general in the caloric consumption that our body performs. Alternatively, we can express it in a different way: we tend to underestimate (or directly to ignore) the enormous caloric consumption that our body performs only by being, to keep ourselves alive throughout our day to day. Some estimates place the relative weight of physical exercise Between 10% and 30% of caloric consumption. Imagine a situation in which physical exercise represents 20% of the calorie expenditure that our body performs. This implies that if we folded the exercise we do (100% more activity), we would only increase the caloric consumption of our body by 20%. Combine strategies Leaving weight loss in the hands of a simple strategy is not usually recommended. Constancy is important and use the Exercise as a complement To the diet when we want to lose weight, it can be helpful in various ways. First and perhaps more important, for being a healthy habit to incorporate in our day to day. Secondly, exercise can make changes in the diet more, “distributing” the effort we put to change towards healthier habits. Since constancy is important, a small help never hurts. Third, the exercise, we pointed out before, is a good way to keep us in our weight. The sooner we get the habit, the better. Walking can help us with these three purposes, so it is a perfect complement if we want to lose weight and want to do it in a healthier way. It is a good complement but is it the best? Walking has the advantage of helping us build Routines without great efforts and minimizing the risk of abandonment; But if what we want is to increase the caloric consumption of our body, for example to be able to resort to less strict diets, there are alternatives that perhaps better adapt to our needs. Finally, it is never worth remembering that each body is different, even our own body changes over the years. Formulas and weight losing recipes are not universal, so it is always useful (when not absolutely necessary) consult with experts who can guide us in the process. In Xataka | Do not tell me your age, tell me your grip strength: how simple gestures tell us how good we are aging Image | Arek In addition

It is called “Pescetarismo” and the infant Cristina already practices it

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Leaving meat overnight to become a vegetarian is not simple, especially when culturally the meat is so integrated. Changing that implies much more than crossing an ingredient of the plate. Therefore, for many people, making the leap into a meat without meat requires a midpoint. A bridge. That path is touring the Infanta Cristina, following the example of her mother, Queen Emerita Sofia, reducing her meat consumption, but without eliminating fish. That increasingly common choice is known as pescetarism. Without meat, but with fish. This diet is based mainly on plant foods, fish and shellfish, but excludes red and bird meat. On the other hand, some people also choose to incorporate eggs and dairy products, as is the case of the infant as He explained Week magazine. Behind this diet. This type of food combines the antioxidants of a vegetable-based food with complete proteins and omega-3 fatty acids of the fish, According to Women’s Health Mag. In addition, vitamin B12, a nutrient difficult to find in a strict plant diet, which can be covered with only one ration of fish. In a Harvard Health reportDr. Frank Hu has stressed that fish also provides vitamin D, iron, selenium and zinc, all essential for the proper functioning of the organism. To this is added the growing evidence that this food pattern is related to a lower risk of chronic diseases, such as type 2 diabetes, dementia, depression or heart pathologies. Not everything is perfect. One of the main risks of starting with a Pescetarian diet is the excessive consumption of mercury, a pollutant present in large and long -lived fish. Therefore, from Women’s Health Mag They have recommended Eating saliscos and salmon seafood, sardines, cod and clams. But there is no other option? Yes, there is another modality called flexitarism. Both share the same objective of reducing the consumption of meat and bet on a more plant diet. However, here the big difference enters and how pescetarism has been observed, it is more defined: it completely excludes red meat and birds. On the other hand, flexitarism is more flexible, since it does not eliminate any food group, but it limits the consumption of meat voluntarily, According to Mayoclinic. It is an ideal option for those who seek to improve their diet without imposing strict restrictions, and prefer to adapt it according to the context or their personal habits. A growing trend. More and more public figures adopt this type of food. From Harry Styles to Victoria Beckham and Danna Paola, the list of Pescetarians is increasing. The reasons range from health to sustainability, through ethics and animal well -being, as He has collected Week magazine. What began as a punctual choice between celebrities begins to be reflected in the consumption habits of a part of the population. Pescetarism is consolidated as an intermediate option within the spectrum of diets that reduce or eliminate meat, in a context of growing interest in more sustainable food models and plants based. Image | USAID US Xataka | Intermittent fasting is the fashion diet. At least among scientists who study their effects on microbioma

If you had always dreamed of having your own tunnelador or an industrial crane, good news: they are in Aliexpress

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If there is an absolutely reference country in the field of tunneladoras, that is China. The funny thing is that these industrial machines can be found and buy very easily: it is enough to take a walk through Aliexpress or Alibaba to see them already prepared the sale along with other machines in the field of construction such as Cranes for containers. Second -hand tunneladoras. As Point out The specialized medium JR Urbane Network in X, it is possible to find second -hand tunneladoras in Alibaba or Aliexpress. It is enough to search for its conventional name (Tunnel Boring Machines, TBM) so that among the results a good number of them appear. As this media explained, China Recycle these tunneladoras and reuse them in different underground projects. Prices. The image machine, the CTE6250, is a medium -sized TBM with a weight of 500 tons and a six meter shield diameter. This model is Available in Alibaba for $ 688,000. A “micro machine” of “underground elevation” without excavation and with a six -meter shield diameter is $ 288,000. If we want it bigger, 9.1 meters in diameter, we will have to pay $ 748,000although taking it home will not be easy: it weighs 1,150 tons. Its manufacturer, the company Gansu Technology Equipment CO, has various models available in Alibaba. How TBM operates. These machines go beyond being a gigantic and powerful drill: in addition to the rotating cutting device, the tunnelador is equipped with a equipment that allows it to collect the rubble that is generated as the galleries open and stabilizes its structure. In addition, models that excavate underwater tunnel Hermetic mixture special and prefabricated and intertwined concrete blocks. Giant tunneladoras. In July 2023 we already talked about the Tunnel Mixshield S-880 “Qin Liangyu”. It was designed for the underwater tunnel project Tuen Mun-Chek Lap Kok in Hong Kong, and served to dig a stretch of about 5 km under the sea. It measures 120 meters long, weighs 4,850 tons and most importantly: the diameter of its shield is 17.63 meters. She is the largest tunnelador in the world. Although the tunnelador was manufactured in Germany by the company Herrenknecht Agthe assembly and operation was carried out in one of the factories of this company in China. Excavates about 30 meters of tunnel a day and is officially The largest TBM in the world According to the Guinness book of records. China winning Germany. We already have a candidate to overcome it: The Jianghaideveloped by China Railway Construction Heavy Industry (CRCHI) and the so -called China Railway 14th Bureau Group. This machine weighs about 5,000 tons, measures 145 meters long and has a shield diameter of 16.64 meters. The goal is to use it to build a tunnel that cross the Yangtsé River in the Chinese province of Jiangsu, between Nantong and Suzhou. And many industrial machines. A TBMS search in Aliexpress Not only offers offers for this type of machines, but for many other of this segment – perforas, industrial milling machines – and even cranes for maritime transport containers. In Amazon it is possible to find excavators/milling machines of “small” dimensions (1.8 m in diameter) for about $ 25,000, but the Chinese machines are at another level. Musk’s are small. It is not the only one in its class. Much more recently We met the Shanhe tunnelador163 meters long, 5,200 tons of weight and 17.5 meters in shield diameter. This machine is used to build the world’s largest diameter submarine tunnel. The company The Boring Company created by Elon Musk uses much smaller, almost “portable” tunneladoras: the PRUFROCKfor example, it has a shield diameter of 3.6 meters, although that allows it to dig much faster: approximately 1.6 kilometers per month. China, referent. In China Daily They point How 7 out of 10 tunneladoras sold in the world are Chinese, and within the country 95% of these machines are also of national manufacture. As in other industries, there is a strong commitment to self -sufficiency and technological domain in key areas like this. Although the largest are Herrenknecht, companies such as China Railway Engineering Equipment Group (CREG) have been one of the market leaders in manufacturing and sale of tunneladoras for years. In Xataka | England and Ireland wanted to create the longest tunnel in the world. A “stupid” and “advanced in your time”

In 2014, Ibáñez drew a ‘mortadelo’ where he faced marijuana traffickers. Has been in a drawer until today

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The story of Mortadelo and Filemón has lived, over 67 years and 221 albums, innumerable ups and downs. Although Ibáñez always signed the adventures of the two disastrous spies, in its realization there was everything: apocryphal authorsRights struggles, frightened towards other publishers … and even an unpublished album, which will see the light next October. Ibáñez Mético. Mythological, even because this album had been heard in forums and between fans, but it was not known if its existence was real or an urban legend. ‘Hachish … Health!’ It presents the Aunt agents facing a network of traffickers. Penguin, current owner of the rights of Bruguera and the characters of Ibáñez, has barely given more details about the comic and the reason why he remained unpublished, but with that title the assumptions are already being shot: Ibáñez had crossed, for the first time, a red line with his agents? A new collection. ‘Ibáñez Mético’ is the title of the collection that Penguin opens with this album and will release stories of the characters with extras as original pages of the scripts and scanning of the pencil pages. Everything comes with notes from the expert in the comics of the time Jordi Canyissà. What Penguin has not yet made clear is whether in the next numbers of this collection they will discuss and score already published comics or will continue to recover unpublished after the death of Ibáñez, as it has been done here or took the last album of the characters, the posthumous ”Paris 2024‘. Always the present. As we commented on Our article about ‘I and I’in 1991 Ibáñez recovered the authorship of the characters after the closing of Bruguera. But the characters crossed a strong creative crisis from which they left in 1996, when the author decided to focus his histoprias on current issues, a resource that they would keep until the death of Ibáñez in 2023. Ladies were born as ‘The lord of the bricks’ in 2005, about the brick crisis, ‘For Isis, the crisis arrived!’ In 2009 u ‘Okupas!’ In 2002, about anti-okupation paranoia. And the hashish. The Legalization of marijuana It was one of the key debates of Spanish society in 2014, the year to which this story belongs, and Ibáñez, faithful to the trend that were following the last adventures of Mortadelo, approached it with its characteristic style. Ibáñez did not feature in these years to get into somewhat more controversial issues that brought the Aunt’s agents closer to social satire: ‘The treasurer’, of 2015, about corruption in the PP, it is a good example, and possibly this ‘hashish … Health!’ Follow the same line. Ibáñez recovered. Penguin has finally decided to start giving a good cueta of the deep Bruguera catalog he has in his possession. To this first installment of Ibáñez Mético is added the recent ‘The first 200 cases of Mortadelo and Filemon‘, which recover in chronological order the first and unusual adventures of the agents, published between 1958 and 1961, very different from the long adventures that would give them fame later. It is a process that we hope will continue at a good pace, and that it seems that the editorial is cultivating with other legendary characters such as Superlópez or Anacleto. Header | Penguin In Xataka | ‘Exterminius’: the alien photonovela that traumatized a generation from the pages of ‘Mortadelo’

In case we had not had enough problems in the electricity network, a “severe” solar storm has come to complicate it

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The closeness of the Pico de Activity of the last solar cycle implies stirred times in the field of “spatial meteorology.” And we have seen one of the most important during these days, a “severe” geomagnetic storm caused by this activity. Geomagnetic storm. The last two days have been days of “intense” solar activity. The geomagnetic storm has reached a Kp = 8 index, which implies that it has been a “severe” storm, from G4 category (On a scale that goes to G5). The value of the index has descended since then: the last data offered by the NOAA spatial meteorological prediction (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) indicates that the value Average Index KP In the last three hours it has been kp = 6. Despite this, spatial time is still scrambled and According to forecasts He will continue to be until tomorrow. An ejection of coronal mass. According to He explained yesterday The Spanish Space Agency through a statement, the origin of this activity is in a high -speed coronal mass ejection (CME), associated solar fulguration of class M8.2 and with origin in the Ar4100 active region. KP 8. What does that mean of kp = 8? The K Geomagnetic Index measures disruptions in the land magnetic field and is used to characterize the magnitude of geomagnetic storms, especially through the planetary index K or KP Index. The latter uses a series of magnetometers distributed in stations located in various parts of the planet. The indices above kp = 5 are associated with a specific degree in the geomagnetic storm scale Employed by the NOAA SWPC, being G1 (minor) the smallest category on the scale and G5 (extreme) the category that denotes the strongest storms, those of index Kp = 9. A G4 storm. The storm recorded on Sunday, with a Kp = 4 index led the center to alert a “severe” or G4 geomagnetic storm. In your noticethe SWPC pointed out that, in addition to intense northern lights and lower latitudes than usual, possible impacts on infrastructure and networks, including problems with satellites and loss of precision in the GPS. The Category events They usually imply possible problems with voltage control that can also cause “mitigable” problems in electrical networks. At space vehicles, the SWPC indicates that these storms are associated with possible monitoring problems that require future corrections. Finally, other possible impacts are on the spread of HF radio signals and low frequency radio navigation. An active solar cycle. The situation has stabilized With ups and downs And, although the last one average three -hour data from the KP index is 6, the SWPC has already reduced the intensity of the storm to G1, or minor storm. The last months have been revolts as far as spatial meteorology is concerned. In October 2024, A similar situation He brought spectacular dawn. According to estimates From the experts we are already after the peak of activity of solar cycle 25, but we have not yet moved away much so the solar activity remains intense. Perhaps this is not the last storm of these characteristics that we see in the coming months. In Xataka | We have detected the exact date on which the most brutal solar storm occurred in history. Thanks to the trees Image | Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (Soho) / SWPC/NOA

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