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The Warner platform either has enough to ban shared accounts and increases prices

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There is no platform that is not hugging the Price climb as a way of falling the crisis of audiovisual content in general and of the platforms in particular. HBO Max is one of those who are having a more changing trajectory with Mutations in the name And the approach, and is one of the last to raise their prices, after Netflix or Disney+ did it almost a year ago in both cases. How is the thing. A few months ago, with the name change, HBO Max has already announced new prices that affected new customers. These new rates affect ancient subscribers. From of the October 23, 2025the prices will increase, leaving like this: Basic plan with ads: 6.99 euros per month (50% discount if apply, 3.49) Standard plan: 10.99 euros per month (50% discount if apply, 5.49 euros) Premium plan with 4K content: 15.99 euros per month (50% discount if apply, 7.99 euros) Annual Plan: 109 euros a year. Why do they do it? This decision, according to the communication that HBO Max has sent to his subscribers, is made because “we are increasing the price in the light of the acquisition costs, creation of content and product development, to allow us to continue investing in the quality content and in the product experience that we strive to offer our customers.” At the same time, they also warn that the conditions of use have been updated, including aspects of content visualization and accessibility functionalities, reasons why they can make changes in the service and other issues. Luxury series. David Zaslav, CEO of Warner Bros, declared a few days ago, In an interview with The Hollywood Reporterthat the price of HBO Max is below its real cost. And although the platform does not compete with others such as Netflix or Disney+ in terms of the amount of content, it can boast of being one of the most budget invests in its series. For example, ‘The Dragon House‘It costs 200 million dollars per season. And the future series of ‘Harry Potter‘promises a visual luxury at the height of the films. All this was wielded by Zaslav to justify new increases. Direct and indirect increases. Although the bad press that this type of decisions carries causes the platforms to be relatively restrained with the increases of their prices, the truth is that in recent years they have significantly increased the ways of having income. The main two have been the advertising inclusion before and during the programs, with different rates depending on whether or not the ads are eliminated, and the prohibition that accounts are shared Beyond the subscriber’s home, a flying that Netflix has already given and that other platforms have only implemented in a warm way. In Xataka | Video games have fired their number of users, and come from an unsuspected place: television series

Streaming has been chasing shared accounts for years. The AI does not have that problem: our conversations embarrass us

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Dylan Patel He has nailed it. He says he never paid for Netflix or HBO because he always parasitized alien accounts, but now he has subscriptions to Chatgpt, Perpleplexity and Gemini. And without sharing them with anyone. We have been watching Netflix, Disney, Spotify and company setting devices, home verification, SMS codes to verify that you are the one who pays, geolocation to confirm that you live where you say living. A surveillance device for Avoid cases in the ten relatives enjoy what only one pays. There is a lot of money spent on anti-comparting technology, they have eroded experience. And yet, the accounts continue to share. Total, what else does your brother -in -law know what have you seen ‘The squid game‘This weekend. With the generative AI, no control system is needed. Shame does all dirty work: Nobody wants a partner to discover that he asks ChatgPT to how to write a sad three -line mail. Nobody wants your partner to read the conversations at two in the morning where you consult what to do before a vital and intimate doubt. The history of a Chatgpt or Claude account is an intimate, professional and personal newspaper in equal parts. A record of many insecurities disguised as Prompts. Something too revealing happened recently: When Openai charged GPT-4o for the arrival of GPT-5 there was a small revolt. Too many people had become accustomed to a warmer and more empathetic chatbot (perhaps more servile and complicating), and did not want to lose it. Openai had to reculate. There were people confessing without shame that he needed to recover his digital confidant, to That imaginary friend who will be imaginary but does not judge or yawn. Who always has time and is able to remember every detail of previous conversations. The imaginary friend of the 21st century. IA platforms have discovered the perfect business model: you don’t need to spend money on locks when People prefer to pay before admitting to what extent it depends on a machine. Or let others see their intimacies. Netflix, Spotify and the rest will continue to invest a lot in complicating the lives of those who share their account. Openai only needs to continue believing that no one else talks to Chatgpt As you do. And they are right: nobody else asks him the same shameful things as you. That is why none share the account. In Xataka | Chatgpt has been a tool. If you start remembering all our conversations, it will be something else: a relationship Outstanding image | Solen Feyissa

There is something that we are not doing enough and we should for our own security: eliminate old accounts

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The other day, for a comment from my boss about an email that came to him, he gave me to look The keychain in which I store all my passwords. I wanted to see how many session was stored. It turns out that they are 891. Eight hundred-Novent-and-one. It is impossible for you to use or 10% of those services. Moreover, surely a majority corresponds to an afternoon experiments, impulsive records for a punctual download or accounts created to try something that I forgot to the quarter of an hour. My digital history is a cemetery of abandoned intentions. I am not an exception: most we accumulate accounts like who accumulate boxes in the storage room. “Someday I will need it,” I thought surely. “What a laziness erase the account now,” I assumed internally. And the disorder grows. The problem is that, unlike the storage boxes, These accounts are still alive. They continue to receive privacy policy updates, changes in terms of service, database migrations. And most importantly: they are still risk vectors. And we don’t even usually do something as healthy as change passwords from time to time. Each abandoned account is a back door that we have forgotten to close. When LinkedIn suffers a security gap, not only affects those who use the day platform yes day too. He also compromises who registered in 2012, used it for three days and never returned. These data are still there, inert but vulnerable, waiting for their turn in the next “We have been hacked“That I get to the mail. Psychology after this accumulation is predictable. Creating an account is usually free and immediate. Eliminating it requires effort, navigating deliberately complex menus, multiple confirmations. Companies have optimized the record and the exit, the Dark Patterns They send. It is logical: each abandoned account remains a digit in its database, a metric of which to presume before investors. The solution passes through change our digital habits. Just as there are those who practice “if I have not used a garment in a year, I get rid of it,” we should apply periodic audits to our digital accounts. A quarterly cleaning of unused services, such as who goes down in tracksuit to fix his storage room. It sounds tedious, but It is less tedious than dealing with the consequences of a digital identity theftjust what we expose if we leave too many doors without closing. Especially if we have The bad habit of repeating passwords. Our fingerprint should be a reflection of who we are. Not who we experienced for ten minutes in 2016. Outstanding image | Xataka In Xataka | There are users who pass from passwords. And they go to “I forgot my password” to generate them again and again

In Spain more and more restaurants are declaring war on an old custom: paying accounts separately

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You probably lived it a thousand times. You stay with your friends for dinner in a restaurant and after the first, the second, the dessert, coffees and chupitos arrives the test of fire: the great Huge dilemma of how Devils foot the bill. Together or separate? Does each one pay your own or the bill is fractionated in equal parts? Card, metallic or a mixture of both? And in case someone forward money, especially if the minute is high, who does it and how the rest of the guests are organized to pay you? In Spain increasingly Bars save those headaches to their customers by applying a very simple standard: no divided payments. A table, an account. If you go together, you pay together. There are no official figures and from Facu increasingly Bars and restaurants in Spain embrace a rule when they have to charge guest groups: nothing to divide accounts between different customers sitting at the same table. At least if they intend to pay by card. A group, a payment. So simple. Lasxta revealed recently that the custom is spreading through the Malaga hospitality, but similar news (and more or less recent) about restaurants from Aragon either Catalonia. There is also a good handful of references in Xeither Tiktok or even Reddit threads in which the pros and cons are discussed and whether it is legal or that a restaurant refuses to fraction an account. Click on the image to go to Tweet. The big question: why? Like more or less, the undeniable thing is that the norm generates debate and Not everyone He feels comfortable with her. So … why are the hoteliers apply, even at the risk of angry at their clientele? The reason is simple: efficiency. A waiter is more comfortable and quick to manage a single charge to repeat that operation five, seven, ten or more times, depending on how many diners they have sat at the table. “It is super complicated to charge separately and more when they are large groups,” Recognize A waiter from Malaga to Lasexta. “Sometimes groups of fifteen or twenty people are made and each one wants to pay their convenience,” confesses Another hotelier from Barcelona. When that happens, work is slowed down in the room and the business risks that the box ends up disabled. There are times when the situation is further complicated and customers no longer ask for the payment, but each one is charged. It may seem a minor issue if the account is from a table with few customers, but the thing is complicated when we talk about broad groups and minutes of several hundred euros, as reported Two years ago In Tiktok a waiter. But … Is it legal? The million dollar question. “There is really nothing regulated. The solution is to say no, that each diner will pay their part. The establishment has two options: accept or not collect,” he says Rubén Sánchezof Facua. “If at the door he indicates that he accepts card payments cannot reject that means of payment in half. “There is no law that determines that customers have the right to fraction the account to pay it at once. It is an aspect in which the law does not deepen so much. You have to apply common sense,” agrees Enrique García, spokesman for the OCU. “The logical thing is to inform the company that provides the service and customers to attend these circumstances.” @xavi_abat Have you found in this situation? #Elabogadodetiktok ♬ Original sound – 🙋‍♂️ #Elabogadodetiktok A supplement to fraction? At the end of 2024 Xavi Abat, “Tiktok’s lawyer”, He warned of another practice to which more and more bars and restaurants are being accepted: the collection of “separate accounts supplements” to those customers who ask for the payment of payment. In Your video Abat in fact showed the poster of a bar that applies different “management” positions depending on the size of the table and how many payments should process: one to eight diners, one euro; from eight to 12, two euros; And in the case of tables of more than 12 clients, three euros. Those sums, says the place, cover “the resources” invested and the use of TPV. The key: Information and visibility. The question is the same … are that kind of supplements legal? The key, ABAT revealsis in the information available to the client when he sits at the table. “There is no law, nothing is said in the Civil Code. The contractual relations between the parties are free. Each establishment can establish what they want,” reason The expert. “Therefore, if the restaurant warns of this charge, there is a contractual offer and you and you accept, you have to eat it.” “Contrary, if you go to a restaurant, you are seven or eight and at the end of the food they do not let you pay separately, as you have not been warned, as you have not had the option to negotiate it, you can oppose and demand that you want to pay separately. You could file a complaint or plant yourself there until they let you charge separately,” adds ABAT. Argument shock. The reality is that both parties, hoteliers and customers, have arguments to be in favor or against collection subdivisions. Business They allege What dividing the accounts demands more time, slows down their work, you can unravel the box and carry an expenditure of time and extra resources. After all, there are payment systems that generate extra commissions when several operations are carried out. The truth is that the unique payment in groups is a common practice in other countries in Europe. As for customers, the main complaint is the discomfort and headaches that can lead not to divide the accounts. Without counting that someone must pay the full amount of the invoice. “Why do I have to fight with the people of a group to make me the bizum of what they have consumed?” Question A user … Read more

The European Chips Law will fail. The European Court of Accounts believes that it is very unlikely to succeed

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On February 8, 2022 Ursula von der Leyen, the president of the European Commission, announced that the old continent wants to be a fundamental actor in The semiconductor industryand the first step to achieve it requires manufacturing 20% of the planet chips in 2030. The CHIPS ACT Directive mobilizes up to 43,000 million euros between public and private investment to make it possible, and the still little tangible Integrated circuit plants that Intel and TSMC have programmed on German soil are two key pieces on this itinerary. Despite its similarities, the US plan paints better than that of Europe. The country led by Donald Trump has an integrated circuit manufacturing infrastructure more solid than that of the old continent. In addition, Intel, TSMCSamsung, Texas Instruments and Globalfoundries are some of the companies that are already putting new avant -garde plants on American soil. And the US government seems to be determined to invest all the money that is needed to achieve the leadership position to which it aspires. The Court of Accounts report gives Europe a reality bathroom Europe needs to be ambitious if it wants to increase its relevance in the semiconductor industry. Have Asml and Intel facilities, Globalfoundries, and presumably in the future also of TSMC, within its borders he plays in his favor. However, the speech of European leaders, among which are Ursula von der Leyen, the president of the European Commission, and Thierry Breton, the European Commissioner of Internal Market and Services, seems to be focused on the quantity, and is not enough. The quality understood as the capacity of a chip to deliver added value is also fundamental. The automotive and appliance industry are two of those that are essentially nourished by relatively simple integrated circuits, and it is important that Europe produces them. However, it is also essential that In European soil, avant -garde chips are manufactured such as those that require, for example, data centers and research centers artificial intelligence (AI). Otherwise Europe will continue to depend on the plants located abroad to be competitive in this strategic ecosystem. “We are currently far from the pace necessary to meet our ambitions. The 20% objective was basically an aspiration” As we have anticipated in the holder of this article, the European Court of Accounts, which is nothing other than “the financial guardian” of the European Union, has published A very thorough report in which he argues that the objective of achieving a 20% share in the world market of integrated circuits in 2030 seems unattainable. And this means that “it is very unlikely that the European Union achieves its objective.” At the current situation, as we have verified in the first paragraphs of this article, this conclusion is perfectly credible. The Court of Auditors points out some interesting ideas in which we are being briefly stopped. Annemie Turtelboom, the head of this audit, He maintains that “The European Union needs a dose of reality in its strategy for the microchips sector (…) This is a field that changes rapidly, is characterized by its intense geopolitical competence, and currently We are far from the necessary rhythm To fulfill our ambitions. The 20% objective was basically an aspiration. To achieve this, our production capacity would have to be four times higher in 2030 and we are far from achieving those figures at the current speed. “ However, the production capacity they currently have and will have chips manufacturers established in Europe in Europe is not the only problem. The Court of Accounts points something that is important that we do not overlook: access to raw materials that are necessary to produce semiconductors, such as Rare earths; The cost of energy and geopolitical tensions further hinder the European Union plan. And, of course, the Chinese chips industry, Taiwan, Japan, South Korea and the US will not stop their growth, so these countries will not easily give market share. We will see what happens during the next five years, but objectively the panorama does not paint well for Europe. Image | TSMC More information | European Court of Accounts In Xataka | We already know what the chips that will arrive until 2039 will be. The machine that will manufacture them is close

If the question is if the cars were “cheaper” regarding your salary in 1975 than now, we have made accounts

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It is no secret. Cars have risen in the last years. Cars, in fact, have risen a lot of price in recent years. It is an issue that we analyze in Xataka Two years ago and although the semiconductor crisis passed, the cost of getting a car has not lowered much. The problem even hit second -hand cars that too They shot their prices. It is a problem that was generalized internationally since the lack of components led companies such as Ford to have tens of thousands of vehicles due to the lack of some small component. Today the situation has been normalized. No longer is needed wait for more than a year To receive a car or there are people paying overpreds for Skip the waiting list of a Tesla. In fact, to the company It is costing to place according to what cars. But there is something that has not changed so much. The price of cars is still high. Very high. How high? Let’s compare it with a few years ago. A salary year Do we take a look at what the situation was half a century ago? Our partners L’Automobile They have echoed a study in which it was claimed that buying a Citroën 2CV in 1975 was much more complicated than getting a Citroën C3 in 2025. The French media, however, stated that the study presented them with any doubt because it was not taken into account, for example, the average cost of the house, one of the problems that, as in Spainhit France. Are we in Spain in the same situation? In our case, we are going to take official minimum salary data and vehicle prices as a departure. Thus, consulting the data reflected by the BOE of 1975, the minimum wage was at 8,400 pesetas. Monthly that, after the year, added 117,600 pesetas at the end of the year with 14 payments. That year, according to data collected in Bull skinspecialized in the Spanish classics, a Citroën 2CV-6 cost 123,088 pesetas. In January 1974, in Highway They explained The idiosyncrasy of this version in the following terms: “Without entering the discussion about whether the 2 hp must be considered as a car or simply as a distant cousin, the truth is that we find an inescapable reality: it is the cheapest vehicle on the market, and according to legend, also the cheapest consumption,” With the data in his hand, a Spaniard who charged the minimum wage needed to work 14.65 payments to pay the car. That is, just over the salary won in a whole year to acquire “the cheapest vehicle on the market.” Today, Citroën’s cheapest car is C3. Its price is 15,740 euros, According to the vehicle configurator. In 2025, the minimum interprofessional salary is 16,576 euros with the last climb of the SMI. Taking this into account, to pay a Citroën C3, a worker needs 13.29 payments. That is to say, Less days worked than 50 years ago For a vehicle of similar characteristics. And if we go to the cheapest car on the market, as collected in the search engine of Km77which have a huge database with the current prices of market cars, the most basic dacia A price of 13,940 euros It is the cheapest car on the market. In this case, a worker needs to dedicate 11.77 payments. That is, almost twelve payments, less than a year. They are data that compare prices “to the gross” since the cost of the purchase or housing car is not taken into account. Yes we know that in 1975, The best -selling car in Spain was the Seat 127. A car that at that time cost 166,290 pesetas. Or, what is the same, 19.79 payments of a Spaniard with minimum wage. The data is not less since it means that the Spanish buyer acquired A car 135% more expensive than the cheapest model on the market. In 2024, however, The most purchased car was … Dacia Sandero with 32,994 units. A car that put more than 10,000 units to Toyota Corolla, second classified. This gives us an idea of ​​the type of car to which a Spanish buyer aspires in 2025. To all of the above we must add, as we said, factors such as the price of housing. In this case, we have not found studies that aim at the cost of acquiring it in 1975 but in Xataka Yes we have studied evolution and the cost of the same over the years. For sample, housing prices are already still expensive as in the bubble years. Even if it is a fact deformed by inflation, The study which we echoed does show that an apartment is now 3.5 times more expensive than in 1980, when the study began. Another sample, in Bankinter They point out that a family needed the total income of 2.9 years to pay an apartment in 1987, while in 2023 this figure was between 7.3 and 7.5 years. Data that explain why if a car demands more or less the same amount of effort, now the most purchased car in Spain is a cheaper than 50 years ago. Photo | Citroën and Dacia In Xataka | Spain continues to prefer the cheap car, not the electric: the registration data leave a bittersweet taste for the industry

Now the app has given them more control over their children’s accounts

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Tiktok has established itself as una of the most popular applications Among adolescents. Although it is presented as a harmless platform, Full of dancessongs and Life Hacksmore and more voices warn about their possible negative effects on the youngest. Some studies point to an increase in cases of depression and eating disorders, while many parents They express their concern for the time their children spend doing Scroll non-stopneglecting other activities of your day to day. New tools for parents. The Tiktok social network, owned by the Chinese firm Bytedance, has announced New functions aimed at better protecting adolescents. These include the possibility that parents or guardians establish daily and customizable time limits. For example, it is possible to configure a maximum of 30 minutes during the week and expand that time during the weekend. Once the limit is reached, the application will be blocked automatically, and can only be unlocked with a code held by the responsible adult. 11 tricks to dominate Tik tok These tools not only allow to adjust the time of use to each specific case, but also offer parents the option to block the app at any time: during a family meal, school hours or when they consider it appropriate. In addition, they can see who follows their children, who are still and who has blocked them. Soon, the company states, a function will also be enabled so that adolescents can notify their parents every time they denounce a content they consider inappropriate. Parental Control in Tiktok: How to activate new tools for parents. Once the parental control tools are known, many parents will want to know how to activate them to manage the use that your children make of Tiktok. The process is not complicated and only requires fulfilling some basic steps. The first thing is that the father or legal guardian must have a Tiktok account. From there, you must enter your profile (below right), touch the three -line menu icon and access Settings and privacy. Within that section you will find the section Family synchronization. Tiktok will ask if it is the legal tutor. If the child has his mobile by hand, just scan a QR code from that device. If not, you can send an invitation through WhatsApp, Instagram, text messages or any other channel. Once sent, there are 48 hours to accept the link and complete the link. When both accounts are synchronized, the adult, in addition to those mentioned, may establish daily limits of use, control who can contact the minor and decide whether their account is public or private. The above tools. As we said, Tiktok has already launched the new parental control tools in much of the world. However, the users themselves, including adolescents, already had some control options for a long time. Among them stands out the function Time on screenwhich allows you to establish pauses in the use of the FEED of videos and configure reminders to go to sleep. These options can be activated from Settings and privacy > Time on screen. Images | Tiktok In Xataka | The videos of AI have broken the Instagram and Tiktok algorithms. Welcome to the new “AI landscape”

streaming has generated a Milmillionaire bleeding in Apple accounts

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Since, a few months ago, Apple started taking Expenditure containment measures related to its audiovisual productions it was learned that the company not only had to abandon its project to become a Major that competed with Disney or Warner in its same terms. In addition, the expense generated by Apple TV+ was excessive. But today we have known that it goes far beyond what the most pessimistic calculations ventured: it loses one billion dollars a year. It is not another Netflix. Today, In an interview for Variety commemorating his 25 years at the head of Netflix, Ted Sarandos responded thus when asked about his impressions about Apple’s role in the streaming: “I don’t understand it beyond a marketing play, but they are very intelligent people. They may see something we don’t.” Saraonds’s words can be an order or not, but it is clear who carries the lead: in July, Bloomberg spoke Of the immediate cuts that Apple TV+ was going to start because it had less vision in a month than Netflix in one day. The abyss between both competitors is indisputable. One billion a month. The Information Publish a report that analyzes the financial statement of the platform after five years. It states that Apple TV+ loses more than one billion dollars a year. The specialized medium in Apple 9to5Mac Comment on the articlestating that although it had always been said that the platform was not profitable, it had never had such concrete and forceful figures associated with its losses. A lot of investment, few income. The explanation of these spectacular figures is at the high cost of Apple films in recent years. The very expensive ‘Napoleon‘by Ridley Scott and’The Moon Killer‘Martin Scorsese were the first, but the authentic financial bomb was’ argylle’, which raised around 35 million dollars And it cost 200. After that, to a commercial candy like ‘Wolfs‘, starring Brad Pitt and George Clooney, predicted a storm, and was released directly on the platform, with Apple assuming losses that perhaps they would have been greater carrying it to cinemas. The thrust of ‘separation’. The funny thing is that, at the image level, Apple TV+ goes through an excellent time. ‘Separation‘It has passed, with its long -awaited second season, of being a product of cult to reveal itself as one of the most unanimously acclaimed series of the moment. It is said that in the last month he could have reported two million users to the platform, which would be added to the 45 that The Information affirmed that he had at the end of 2024. And on the horizon, the return of ‘Ted Lasso‘. Apple is going well. However, these certainly disastrous numbers for the streaming They do not imply that the company does wrong. The last quarter, Apple closed the year with 124.3 billion dollars of incomeof which 36,300 could be considered benefits. Despite some obstacles, such as the fall in device sales in China, the business works perfectly for Apple; Even subscriptions, section where Apple TV+is, but also Apple Music, App Store, ICloud or Apple Care, paid great, growing 14% compared to the previous year. That is, bad news for Apple TV+, but they are certainly far from making the colossus staggered. Header | Apple In Xataka | Prime video is becoming an “aggregator” of other platforms. And the arrival of Apple TV+ is the last example

How I learned to use several email addresses to keep all my protected digital accounts

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A few years ago, when I dedicated myself to repair home computers, it occurred to me to print some professional visit cards so that my clients could easily contact me. In addition to including my phone number, which only allowed to send text messages because WhatsApp was barely taking its first steps, I added my email. I still remember leaving the printing press with a handful of cards in my hands, excited to start distributing them. But as soon as I cross the door, I realized that I had made a mistake: I used my main email. Until that time, it had remained relatively “secret”, but that changed at the moment it was printed on my cards. And it was the same email that I used as an access door to my digital life. I had just exposed it without realizing it. A concern invaded me instantly, accompanied by several questions about the associated risks. What if someone tried access my accounts without permission? Could I use the mail that was on my cards along with the information about me on Facebook to try to guess my security response? And what would happen to the services I had linked? The risk was minimal, I should not expose my main email. My immediate reaction was to create an exclusive secondary account for other services, while the direction printed on the card was only for professional contact. If your security was compromised, the impact would be limited. My accounts on electronic commerce platforms, social networks and other services would continue to have a recovery account other than the main one. Having a single email address for everything was a mistake To better understand why this caution is important, let’s put us for a moment in the mind of a cybercrime. If as an attacker he can access the main mail of a victim, I can easily explore his entrance tray to discover what other services he uses. For example, when you find Amazon emails or social networks, you could request restore passwords directly. If the victim also made the frequent mistake of reusing the same password – and somehow I have achieved it – I would not even have to strive a lot: it would be enough to try that key to accessing multiple platforms, generating a serious domino effect. The aforementioned solution was only temporary. It served me for a while, but we live in such a dynamic world that forces us to evolve, not only to take better advantage of technology, but also to guarantee our safety and privacy. Over the years, keep a contact email and another “secret” ceased to be enough. I discovered that my contact email was not so public or the “secret” so private. Although the latter was not on my card, I trusted any online service that asked me to register. And, as we know, companies, no matter how big they are, do not always protect the data of their users. There have been notorious cases of leaks, Like Yahoo’s 2016 o The Quora of 2018. Although I had never shared it directly with other people, the amount of spam and fraudulent emails that I received made me suspect that my email address had been filtered on the Dark Web, That dark internet area where personal information circulates as a currency. After all, my email was probably part of some database sold to the highest bidder. Of course, among the undessed emails there were also classic scams Like the Nigerian Prince. LinkedIn, at that time, publicly showed the email address of the users who enabled that option in the privacy settings. In addition, there were those who collected this data for mass shipments, which explained the amount of newsletters and unre requested messages that came to be connected to certain people. I soon understood that I needed more than my own emails, because, like many, I had had others assigned by third parties, such as the University or those of work, which are usually deactivated by disconnecting from the institution. I decided to take the necessary measures to improve this aspect of my digital life, which meant Create other mail accounts. Thus were structured: Contact email: Public address so that anyone can write to me. Private mail for services: Exclusive for login and recovery of accounts. Work mail: For everything related to my professional activity. Mail for Newsletters: To receive and manage subscriptions without saturating other accounts. Mail focused on privacy: Proton mail account with end -to -end encryption and tracker lock. In all I tried to apply the maximum security measures: two steps verification, Passkeysrecovery keys, robust passwords, etc. In addition, I incorporated the use of a password manager to avoid the risk of reusing credentials and to generate unique and safe keys for each service. I opted for a reputed manager who allows me to store them safely without depending on memory or physical annotations that can be violated. I also started using “Log in with Apple”With my private email for services, which allows me to hide my real address through random emails (@privateatelay.com). To this I added the Temporary ICloud+ Correos (@icloud.com), Ideal for records on platforms that do not inspire me confidence or whose data protection policy raises doubts. To reinforce security, I implemented multiple recovery methods. Thus, if a method does not work, I always have another access road. This is essential because any recovery method can give problems. If I lose my mobile phone and it is my only access road to my account, I would be in a serious inconvenience. However, having both a telephone number and an associated email, I can recover access without depending on a single factor. The same goes for alternative verification codes: if I do not have immediate access to my phone, I can use one of those previously stored codes to log in safely. Having multiple access recovery methods is not a luxury, but a necessity. In a world where everything … Read more

The new reasoning model lands in the free chatgpt accounts

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We are witnessing real time of the evolution of artificial intelligence (AI). A little over two years ago we were surprised by the capacities of GPT-3.5the language model behind Chatgptnow we have Reasoning models increasingly powerful at hand. And everything seems to indicate that this industry will continue to evolve. Early today we talked about Microsoft’s decision To make a version of O1 available to Copilot users, a product that had been limited to payment users. A few hours later we have received news from Openai, which A new reasoning model has just launched. It is tata from O3-mini, who has just begun its initial deployment. O3-mini, the new OpenAI reasoning model The latest OpenAi responds to a strategy that we have already seen with GPT-4o Mini. Instead that everything revolves around its flagship, the company promotes a series of models aimed at addressing different needs. In this way, O3-mini is part of the O3 family presented at the end of last yearbut it is focused on speed and efficiency. It should be noted that those led by Sam Altman had already launched in September 2024, and decided to skip O2 apparently for reasons of registered trademarks. So now we are facing a proposal that promises not only for its fantastic scores in different tests, but because it lands in the chatgpt ‘free’ accounts, also in Spain. But what does this mean? Well, reasoning models differ from the rest of the models, such as GPT-4for its ability to Verify thoroughly and step by step your answers. They channel our questions through a “reasoning.” This does not mean that they cannot be wrong, but the answers are much more successful. Reasoning means time, so this type models are not particularly fast. In any case, for certain scenarios in which reasoned responses are needed in a reasonable amount of time, O3-mini could be a great option. For example, to boost certain applications thanks to access through the API. O3-mini is a model that embraces Stem problems. That is, if what you are looking for is to perform a literary essay, this will probably not be the ideal model. Now, if your requests are related to Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics It is likely that this reasoning model can give you some more consistent responses to your needs. OpenAI has measured the reaction of users with O3-mini and O1-mini. According to their data, external testers opted for the responses of the most recent model. In addition, O3-Mini reduced the “important errors” in the “difficult questions of the real world” in 39% during A/B tests, surpassing O1-mini. A notable fact for free access. If you have one Pro $ 200 per month You can use the model unlimitedly ” and with a higher speed than free accounts. OpenAI also has a business plan, Chatgpt Enterprise. In this case, users will have to wait until next week to use the company’s latest reasoning model. Images | OpenAI In Xataka | Mistral AI is the French startup that opted for efficiency before Deepseek. His future is uncertain

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