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Jeff Bezos asked his parents for savings from his life to found Amazon. They only asked him one question: “What is the Internet?

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In 1995, Jeff Bezos decided give up your stable job and well paid as an analyst on Wall Street to set up a book sales business online. At that time, Jeff Bezos was not the millionaire who is today, so he went to see his parents and asked them for help to invest in Amazon. His father’s first question was clear and direct: “What is the Internet?” Miguel and Jacklyn Bezos did not know much about that new technology, but they knew that their son was determined to squeeze it to the maximum. According to the writer Brad Stone in the book “The dream store. Jeff Bezos and the Amazon era“Bezos warned his parents:” There is a 70 % chance that you will lose everything. I just want to make sure I can return home for thanksgiving if this doesn’t work. “ Without hesitation, the Bezos invested a good part of the savings of their entire life in their son’s project. Today, that initial investment has grown 15,500% And it is worth more than the GDP of Iceland and Maldives together, making their father so rich (his mother died a few weeks ago) that, as he counted The Wall Street JournalMiguel Bezos is hiring a CEO to administer the assets of his Family Office. The origin of a historical fortune In the middle of the nineties, Mike Bezos, of Cuban origin and with family ties in a Small Valladolid municipalityhe decided to trust family savings to his son Jeff and, incidentally, becoming the first investors after the Amazon Foundation. According to documents Of the US Stock and Stock Exchange Commission (SEC), the initial investment of the Bezos was through the purchase of 582,528 Amazon shares to, only a few months later, expand your investment by buying 847,716 more shares. In total, 1,430,244 shares at a purchase price of 17 cents per share. That leaves a total investment of 243,141.48. Such and as it revealed Bloombergit is a fortune for a couple formed by a single mother who had to raise her son alone with a poor salary while studying A race, and a Cuban immigrant who arrived in the US with 16 years. After thirty years, if the initial investment had remained intact, it would amount to about 72.6 billion dollars. However, after different sales and donations of shares, the family heritage of Jeff Bezos’s parents exceeds 40,000 million dollars. CEO is sought for fortune According to The Estimates of The Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg, Aurora Borealisthe company that is responsible for managing the heritage of Miguel Bezos, was founded in 2020 and, if it were a person, would take 48 position among the greatest fortunes of the List of Millionaires of Forbes. Aurora Borealis, is currently one of the Family officers most relevant in the world for its heritage volume. The company manages assets of very diverse kinds, from those foundational actions of Amazon to investments in funds and projects of philanthropy through the Bezos Family Foundation. The growing heritage of the father of Jeff Bezos has reached levels that have become necessary to professionalize the team that manages it from Aurora Borealis, Speaking as CEO To Valeria Alberola, an executive with experience in the management of great heritage. As a reference, the new Amazon Fortuna Fortuna manager managed the Family Office of the Walton familyfounders and owners of the Wallmart supermarket chain. His goal, get Miguel “Mike” Bezos even richer. The history of Miguel Bezos’ fortune is not only relevant for facilitating the foundation of one of the world’s largest companies, it is also a unique phenomenon since it is not usual for a family loan of just under $ 244,000, ends up making millionaires to the founder’s parents, and not to external investors. Was A risky bet That he went well, but he could also have left Jeff Bezos banished from thanksgiving dinners and his parents with a serious economic problem. In Xataka | Technological millionaires presume ecological awareness. Their superyates and private jets tell another story Image | Flickr (George W. Bush Presidential Center)

An educational plan asked to transform teaching with AI. The problem is that it brought a dozen invented sources

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The story has some irony: a report of more than 400 pages about education, which took a year and a half to be written in a province of Canada, has been uncovered with a crack difficult to repair. According to CBC Newsthe document contains a variety of false sources, from alleged academic articles to a film that never existed. The contradiction is striking: a text designed to guide schools and universities in times of AI, indicated precisely for an error that reminds of the “hallucinations” of the generative models themselves. What has happened exactly. The document in question is titled ‘A VISION FOR THE FUTURE: TRANS Transforming and Modernizing Education‘. It was presented at the end of August as a ten -year roadmap to transform public and university education into Terranova and Labrador. Its launch was accompanied by great expectations: to serve as a guide for the future of the education system in a province that seeks to adapt to the digital age and the challenges of artificial intelligence. What was not expected is that, after its publication, it would be discovered that at least fifteen of its bibliographic references do not exist. We can find titles impossible to locate in academic databases and that, in some cases, seem copied to fictional examples used in style guides. This finding opened an immediate debate about the reliability of the report and on the supervision of the process that led to its writing. Official reactions contained. The Department of Education recognized the existence of a small number of possible errors in the appointments and assured that they will be corrected in the online version. One of the co -author, Karen Goodnough, just pointed out in an email to the aforementioned medium that “references are being investigated and reviewed, without giving interviews with local media. Today, however, access to the report itself has been complicated: the original link in which it was published He no longer shows it and returns an error 404. Only remains visible in a filed copy. Invented appointments. Among the most striking examples is the mention of an alleged 2008 film produced by the National Film Board, entitled ‘Schoolyard Games’. The agency itself confirmed that this work never existed. The reference, however, appears in the report with all the details of a real bibliographic record, as if it were a verifiable source. The track led to discover something even more disturbing: The appointment matches word by word with an entry included in a university style guide used as a model to write bibliographies. That manual explicitly warns that many of its references are fictitious and are designed only as examples. Despite this, some ended up integrated in the final document as if they were authentic. It is striking because the document not only speaks of AI, but also reserves a specific chapter: use it to customize the teaching, support teachers and simplify administrative processes, while driving competencies in AI, responsible practices and protection of privacy. In its “Calls to Transformion” it proposes to modernize the school system and prepare students for a digital environment where these technologies will be part of the day to day. Was the generative used? The finding of false quotes opened another inevitable question: to what extent did artificial intelligence intervene in the preparation of the report? According to CBC News, some teachers fear that these references have been created with a language model, since these types of systems usually generate plausible titles that do not actually exist, but for now there are no conclusive evidence. Images | Steven Binotto | Screen capture In Xataka | Jensen Huang, Bill Gates and other CEO are clear: the AI ​​has opened the door to the three -day work week

We have asked Renfe what alternatives we have to the cancellations of the AVE in Galicia. There are good and bad news

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For sixth consecutive day, the high -speed circulation of the Galician corridor remains suspended. The service between Madrid and the Galician cities is provided only partially and in extraordinary frequencies. We have spoken with Renfe and consumer associations to know what their alternatives are. Sixth day without bird. Renfe cannot provide the high speed service of the Galician corridor as a whole. So The company itself confirmed it on its social networks but On its website Information about the latest news related to the railway situation between Madrid and Galicia is not found. No, at least, with a first glance. It is the result of the serious fires that are ravaging Zamora, León and Ourense, which They do not allow for sure to the high speed line. Given the impossibility of guaranteeing an improvement in them and, therefore, an opening of the line, Renfe confirmed almost at 11:00 am that all trains of today Tuesday, August 19, were suspended. Click on the image to go to the original tweet To (or from) Zamora. The solution that Renfe is giving is that passengers who prefer can travel from Madrid to Zamora or start their trip to the capital in the latter city, if it moves in the opposite direction. It is a patch that also requires adapting to Special schedules because the usual frequencies or schedules are not being fulfilled. Arriving in Galicia from Zamora or arriving in Zamora from the Galician community has already been in charge of the client. The latter is the one who has to look for life to take the train or reach its original destination. Something that, from Facua, they point out, should not happen. Buses? Jordi Castilla, Facua spokesman, explains that Renfe has the obligation to allow the change of ticket or its cancellation for free. Something that is already doing. However, it specifies that the company has to “relocate the person in an alternative environment without any cost.” From Xataka We have asked Renfe about this possibility and if they are valuing to include it in the next few days but we have not obtained an answer. Nor have those who In social networks they are asking Link Galicia with Zamora by bus since the main roads remains open. From Facua they emphasize that if the suspend and Renfe service does not offer this possibility, the client has the right to use a public transport means (such as a bus) and claim the money from the company. Not so a private transport, so the airplanes would be discarded. Cancellation expenses could also be claimed, such as a hotel night. What if I want to travel to or from Zamora? In Xataka We have contacted Renfe’s customer service. From Facua they point out that if we have a ticket with departure in Madrid to a Galician city and cover the journey to Zamora (or we start it in this city to Madrid) we have the right to receive part of the previously paid ticket. The same has been confirmed to us from the customer service of the railway company but, unlike the change of tickets or its cancellation, it cannot be done by telephone. In this case, you have to perform a online claim by filling out the form which is facilitated on the web or attending the office of the origin or destination station. Little in advance. Until now, Renfe has preferred to hurry until the last moment the cancellation of the trains. To the point that the confirmation that no train would circulate today in the high -speed line has not reached almost noon. That is causing many users to ask the company through social networks like Twitter what will happen to their tickets. The answer is repeated in that case: the client will be informed by social networks, mail and SMS. The telephone service and the website are being referred to change or cancel the tickets but in X only reference is being made to the confirmed cancellations and not to the trains that, it is not confirmed, if they will circulate in the next few days. What if I travel the weekend? In Xataka We have asked Renfe’s customer service if possible change or cancel a ticket for next Friday. They have confirmed that yes, there would be no problem even without the company having not yet confirmed the cancellation. From Facua they explain that in this, and in any other case, there is no minimum anticipation time with which Renfe or any other company must operate. “It remains in the good or bad faith of the company because if you know that it will be impossible to travel, you should inform you as soon as possible so you can look for alternatives and not have to adapt at the last minute.” Despite this, we can confirm that by telephone, these returns are being admitted even though there are still no confirmed cancellations beyond today, August 19. Photo | Ume and Nelso Silva In Xataka | Renfe has a new and gigantic project in progress: a night train to connect Europe from this to west

Walking cats with belt is in fashion. We have asked an expert in feline behavior and is clear about what he thinks

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If you have Instagram or Tiktok and you like cats, I bet an arm to which videos have come out of Cats that leave the house tied with strap and harness. Some even go on a trip around the world, explore forests, jump, run and They even swimas if they were dogs. How is it possible? Is it advisable to walk the cat? To solve these and other doubts we have spoken with Paula VanascoFeline therapist and president of the association Rescues Borges Blanques. The phenomenon of adventurous cats It began to popularize in the 2010 on Instagram. One of the first was Vladimirthat traveled with its owners in a motorhome Throughout the United States. Also Skattya Maine Coon who was traveling on a sailboat with its owner, who was completely deaf and leaned on the cat to know when ships approached or sent him messages. A search on Tiktok returns to hundreds of results. “Cat harness”, “Adventure Cat”, “Cat Leash Training” … Today, any of these searches in Tiktok or Instagram returns us hundreds of results. Walking to the cat is fashionablebut it is not easy. If not, many of the reels that appear to us would not be tutorials and advice to accustom the cat. And if there is something that has tried to know is that, unlike dogs, cats They don’t like anything to atten. Understanding the nature of cats Paula is part of the team of Feline therapy And in your day to day Treat cats with behavioral problemssome of them caused precisely by these walks. Its positioning is clear: it is not a good idea to put a belt to a cat. “Cats are hypersensitive animals. For them a harness is stressful, so when you put it on the first time, many are thrown to the ground.” In addition, he adds that “to make it safe, it has to go very tight, which still makes it more annoying for the animal.” You have to understand that the nature of cats differs a lot from the dog. They are territorial animals and They feel safe within their territoryit doesn’t matter if that territory is the countryside or a flat in the city. When they leave their comfort zone, they always do it very little by little: “The cat needs to explore the territory at its rhythm, not that you take it wherever you want.” Instead, walking to a dog is more natural because its nature is to move in herd. They are social animals And security is provided by your pack, so when we walk them they feel safe. Image: Amparo Babyloni, Xataka Surely you have seen cats rubbing against the corners of furniture or other objects. It is the way they have of Create a safe space. When they explore, cats are rubbing at different points where They leave pheromones that serve as olfactory references. “This is how they explore the territory feeling safe. If there is any scare they go back, then they leave again … and so on until they have it controlled.” “When we get the cat out of its territory, it adopts a prey behavior. If there is a strong noise you will try to run and if you are tied, you can’t do it.” Nor should we forget that, although cats are predators of small animals, they are also prey to other larger ones. “When we get the cat out of its territory, it adopts a prey behavior. If there is a strong noise you will try to run and if you are tied, you can’t do it,” says Paula. It is not that the cats we see in the Instagram videos are all stressed, Some enjoy those outings, But according to Paula “they are the exception. They are cats that have learned that their environment is that and also have a very balanced character.” Using them since childhood is key because “cats do not develop fear until they have 5 or 6 months,” but insists that this is not a guarantee that it will enjoy it and should never be forced. What we don’t see on Instagram If it is outside its territory and scares, The cat instinct is running and getting safebut what happens if we have it tied? Two things can happen: “Let the harness escape or attack you.” In This video You can see perfectly how the cat tries to flee and when not getting it, he ends up biting its owner. Is what is known as redirected aggressivenessan episode in which the cat has a very violent response, in this case for a clear cause: try to flee and not be able to. If the cat tries to flee being tied, two things can happen: “That the harness escapes or that attacks you” The other scenario is to get rid of the harness and run away (the most common, because we already know that Cats are liquid). Being in a environment“It has no visual or olfactory references and there are not a few cases of cats that end up being lost.” If it is also in the city, the risk that a car is hit or attack a dog is very high. There are people who opt for Take the cat inside a backpack type carrier and walk it in this way. Here it is much more difficult for the cat to flee, but Paula does not recommend it either: “I had a case of a cat that took him inside a backpack. The cat did not show the stress at the time, but when he got home he became aggressive. They were very frustrated to be locked up.” Another problem is that many people who get their cats abroad do not know how to understand The language of cats. “That a cat is still does not mean that it is calm.” In other words, it is not necessary to go crazy like that of the video so that it is assuming stress. Cats … Read more

The Line goes regular, so Saudi Arabia has asked some consultants to solve the obvious: if it makes sense

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When years ago The heir prince Mohammed Bin Salman presented the plans of The Linethe gigantic Pharaonic glazed city that Saudi Arabia wants to build in full desert, the idea sounded for science fiction. And it’s normal. Not every day a megalopolis of 170 km long, 200 m wide and huge skyscraper, all thought to welcome millions of people without roads or cars. Over time His works started And the project advanced slowly, between huge exiles and foundations concrete. Now its promoters have done Something peculiar: Ask several consultants for help to confirm whether the initial plans are viable or should adjust them. What happened? That Saudi Arabia wants to review its most pharaonic, surreal and delicate project: The Linethe gigantic “corridor city” of 170 kilometers and 500 meters high and 200 m wide that the country wants to lift in the desert. Although every so often its promoters They presume the advance of the works, Bloomberg He has just revealed that the Saudi authorities have commissioned several consulting companies to carry out a strategic review of the project. What have you asked? That value if the current plans are feasible and suggest possible changes. This is at least supported by Bloomberg, which quotes anonymous sources close to the project. They have not transcended more details or the consultants to which the Saudi Arabia Public Investment Fund has been directed (PIF), But the decision is interesting both for its background and for the context. Once you have the data, those responsible for the project must assess the information and choose: Do you need to apply changes? Can you follow the work without adjustments? Bloomberg clarifies that the plan could be kept as it is and that, if remembering, any change would demand the OK of the PIF and the Saudi executive himself. And what do promoters say? The Line is part of an even greater project, Neomwhich seeks to diversify the economy of the nation and includes other initiatives, such as Magna, Oxagon, Sindalah and Trojenaalthough The Line It is the most ambitious of all. Those responsible have removed iron on the fact that the PIF has taken advantage of external consultants and ensure that it is a normal procedure. “As usual in large plurianual projects, strategic reviews are a common practice and are carried out several times during a large development project or infrastructure program,” claims Neom. “The Line remains a strategic priority and Neom focuses on maintaining operational continuity, improving efficiency and accelerating progress to meet the vision and general objectives of the project.” Why does the context import? Because, like Remember the agencythe country dealt with the price drop of oil, a minor foreign investment than the foresee and budgetary deficits. Bloomberg Precise That to balance its budget Saudi Arabia needs Brent barrel to be 96 dollars, a figure that rises to 113 if the internal expense of the FIP is included in the projects of the heir prince. Both values are above around $ 71 current. Are you lowering your expectations? The news of the project review comes only a few months after the Saudi authorities Sale your expectations On the development of The Line. At least as regards the calendar. The initial objective was that in 2030 the Megaciudad welcomed 1.5 million residents, but now the promoters estimate that there will be only 300,000, according to Another filtration Published in April by Bloomberg. The size of the city in 2030 will also be far from the target of 170 kilometers. The finished surface would be just 2.4 km. Some sources They point out that the total cost of Neom, including The Line and other initiatives, would amount to about 1.5 billion dollars. Is it standing? Although their promoters have had to reduce initial optimism and want to escape other voices about planning, something seems clear: The Line will not stay in an ambitious model and a handful of colorful infographics. Although there is still work ahead, the works They have been advancing On the ground, something that Saudi Arabia has been responsible for making it clear Sharing From time to time images of excavators, operators and land movements. Three months ago Giles Pendleton, operations director, public On LinkedIn a series of Aerial photos in which the progress of what several Neom projects seems, including infrastructure of the future corridor city of 170 km. “Neom is real,” defends the manager. On the same dates the embassy of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in Spain also disclosed images Of the works in one of the tunnels that will circulate trains and load between The Line and Oxagon. Images | Neom In Xataka | Saudi Arabia has insisted that The Line possesses all the absurd records of the world. The last: the longest pool

I have asked the AI ​​any bullshit and now I am writing a news about her

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When OpenAI three years ago presented to Chatgpt To the world, millions of people asked themselves the same question: “Will IA replace me at work?“. The concern was not new. The labor history of humanity has been marked in recent centuries by the dispute between human production forces and mechanical production forces. An advance of the latter is interpreted without remedy as a defeat of the former. The difference in 2022 resided in the social group object of the substitution. Before the advent of AI, the “automation“From work was one of economists’ great concerns. Millions of jobs would have lost themselves in industries as important as the car or oil extraction Fruit of the slow but inexorable incorporation of robots and other tool machines. Manual workers, blue collarthey would have seen economic and socially displaced. The impact and severity of the “end of work”, as this debate became pompos, pompos It is in dispute. It is not clear That the incorporation of a robot supposes the end of work human. This was, however, an alien and even trivial issue for millions of workers white collarintellectual production, outside this kind of automation and substitutions. Until Chatgpt arrived. The irruption of AI has resulted in a thousand data and a lot of confusion. There are several The studies They have tried Estimate the loss of jobs caused by Chatgpt and other chatbots. It is soon to reach drastic conclusions. Like some companies They are discoveringget rid of hundreds of workers Thanks to the AI forces act immediately to hire others in tasks that before They were not planned. This has been a constant pattern in the history of human labor substitution: technology kills some works, generates others. The good, old days in which at least the horoscope still wrote it. (Unspash) The fear of this process was immediate in the media. If we attend to the nature of the generative AI, this becomes evident without greater explanation. If ChatGPT is able to generate a coherent and well documented text in a handful of seconds, what need would the newspapers keep dozens of editors on the squad? It would suffice with a couple of editors on the shoulders of a handful of Prompts. You feed the AI ​​with certain data, the kitchens and voilà: you have very cheap news. It has happened and will continue to happen. Some media took advantage of their economic and business difficulties to make blur and new account: dismissing their editors and replacing them with an AI achieved a cheaper means. Also much worse. But this has not been the main function of AI in the journalistic environment. The danger did not reside in the “replacement”, but in something that has been afflicting the media (already their readers) for many years. In a tangible, real, not future problem. In obsession with content. Write my next news, chatgpt It turns out that AI has not eaten our jobs. On the contrary, it has helped us to continue incurring the same perverse practices that we would incur before the arrival of ChatgPT: produce content at all costs, without discretion, covering all fronts and needs self -generated by ourselves. If the “content” was the biggest disease that afflicted the media industry, the AI ​​has not worked as a cure but as a fentanyl: an addictive and accelerating drug, also mortal. Thus, the reader has had to get used to all kinds of AI -related experiments. The most obvious of all of them is futurology. What did many media did when a blackout left without electricity to the entire Spain? Open chatgpt, ask “when it would be the next blackout” and publish the answer as is on its website. Headlines as “What will be the date of the next electric blackout in the world, according to artificial intelligence” either “Neither in 2026 nor in 2030: the date of the next electric blackout worldwide, according to AI“They sneaked into the Google or Discover media module. The point is that the content works. The reader is interested in a complex event in real time and the media can produce quick responses at low cost. Another thing is that the answers are useful. Chatgpt hardly predict the unfathomable designs of a nonagenarian curia isolated in the Sistine Chapel, but that did not prevent the media from publishing things like “Who will be the next Pope according to the predictions of the chatbots of AI?” either “The prediction of artificial intelligence about who the new Pope would be“Deepseek, Perplexity and others gave Paraolin or Tagle favorites. That is, they didn’t even have the most remote idea of ​​what they were talking about, they just regurgited. Is the final of the Copa del Rey approaching? Using tools only slightly more sophisticated than the Paul octopus, we were able to illuminate holders as solid as “The AF forecasts the winner of the Copa del Rey between Madrid and Barça“. Are Google searches disturbed because the Christmas raffle arrives? There we went to look for answers in the chatbots:”What number will be the fat winner this year? The AI ​​reveals it” either “This is the Gordo number of the Christmas Lottery 2024, according to the seers and the AI“(Kudos to the Herald for respecting the worthy trade of seers in front of the machine). A very happy man discovers that he will touch the lottery according to AI. (Unspash) The “according to the AI” search in Google News offers countless examples. We can discover How many years will pass XIV as Pope before saying goodbye to the world of the living; which The ideal work for each zodiac sign; how much money You need to charge Anyone to live without shocks; which The best town in Zaragoza to buy a house; or what is it LaLiga’s ideal eleven. Of course, the most paradigmatic example of this whole process is war. The conflict between Iran and Israel He has aroused certain latent tensions in the planet’s psyche: do we … Read more

Spacex has asked Mexico to stop invading its property and returns the starship pieces that fell into the country

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The tension between Spacex and the Government of Mexico has climbed this week after explosion of a starship prototype of June 18. While the Mexican government investigates the remains that crossed the border as illegal pollution and studies possible demands, Elon Musk’s company says they are of its property and asks to stop hindering its recovery. Context. On the night of June 18, a stage of the Starship rocket suddenly exploded during a fuel load for a motor ignition test. The explosion destroyed the ship and spread fragments around Starbase. A few days later, the local media of Tamaulipas reported that part of the remains They had reached the beaches of La Burrita in Matamoroson the Mexican side of the border. There were gas tanks, steel sheets and aluminum parts. Civil Protection, the Federal Attorney for Environmental Protection and the Ministry of Environment of Mexico went to the place to remove the remains and take water, sand and vegetation samples for analysis. Mexican anger. The situation has ended up climbing this week until the president of Mexico, Claudia Sheinbaum, who described the remains of “pollution” and a possible violation of sovereignty and Mexican environmental legislation. According to Sheinbaum, his government will make “the necessary demands that have to be done” according to international laws. Spacex’s response. In one publication of xElon Musk’s company formally requested the Mexican government to return the remains of the rocket, arguing that they are of their property and that their attempts have been hindered. “Despite Spacex’s attempts to recover related remains (with the explosion), which are and remains tangible property of Spacex, these attempts have been hindered by unauthorized parts that invade (our) private property.” “They are not pollutants.” Spacex states that Starship materials do not represent “chemical, biological or toxicological risk.” And offers resources for cleaning. The company claims to be entitled to recover its property and asks Mexican authorities “local and federal assistance.” It is a shock of narratives. Mexico qualifies the incident as an environmental and security impact against Mexicans. Spacex frames it as a non -polluting private property recovery. Spacex embarked the ball into the neighbor’s house. The neighbor is angry and wants to sue. Image | D Wise, NSF

Iran has asked its citizens to uninstall WhatsApp. WhatsApp’s response has been outraged

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He Application blocking during protests or armed conflicts is something that We have seen before. Although it is not a blockade for now, WhatsApp is in the spotlight in Iran. In the middle of Conflict with IsraelIranian state television asked a few days ago to its population that They will erase WhatsApp from their devices. The reason? According to them, the Meta app shares data with Israel. WhatsApp soon responded. Iran’s accusation. They tell it in AP news. Last Tuesday afternoon, on Iranian state television, the population to erase WhatsApp from their mobiles was urged. Iran ensures that the app is collecting user information, including your last locationand sharing it with Israeli intelligence, although without any proof that corroborates it. The WhatsApp response. In a Message posted in your X profileWhatsApp has responded bluntly, crossing this accusation of false information and highlighting that they use end -to -end encryption. This means that the information cannot be read if it is intercepted, it is only convenient when it reaches the recipient. They also emphasize that they do not keep registration of user location. Here the full message: This information is false and we are concerned that it will be used as an excuse to block whatsapp just when they need it most. All your personal messages and calls are encrypted from end to end, so we cannot see them. We do not track your exact location. We do not keep records of personal messages that are sent to each other. We do not provide massive information to any government. Can a government ask WhatsApp information? In a response to the WhatsApp publication in X, a user questioned if “we did not provide massive information to any government” meant that they do provide more detailed information. The truth is that there are cases in which yes They can share information before requests from order forcesfor example, given an emergency situation or investigation. In your response to this userWhatsApp insists that the Iran-Israel conflict is not one of these cases. In his Help centerWhatsApp explains how the process works when one of these applications occurs, which always has to meet the legal framework and its privacy policy. Among the data they can share with the authorities is the username, the date on which it started using WhatsApp, date of the last use, IP address, device information, your name, profile photo, contact list or its email. Goal provides details about government requests in its Transparency Centeralthough the data is updated every six months, so the most recent is from December 2024. Iran and WhatsApp have history. The finishing messaging app has already been in the spotlight of the Iranian government. In 2022, during Protests for the death of Masha Amini At the hands of the Iranian police, the government blocked Internet access in some parts of Tehran. Access to Instagram and WhatsApp was also blocked in an attempt to weaken the protests, it was not until late 2024 When they lifted the blockade. On the other hand, a few days ago The Internet connection will restrict throughout the country as a measure to prevent “cyber attacks from the enemy”, although They assured which would be a “temporary, specific and controlled.” Cover image | Pexels (1, 2) In Xataka | Israel is not only attacking Iran with missiles. He also just steal 90 million dollars in cryptocurrencies

Elon Musk asked for 80 hours per week to his workers. Tesla investors reproach him not to do 40

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Around Elon Musk the idea of incombustible worker Able to work more than 100 hours a week and even sleep In his office as TeslaTo save the bankruptcy. Proud of that image, the millionaire did not hesitate to demand the same to its employees. A group of Tesla investors has sent a surprising request to the Board of Directors of the company: that Musk dedicate at least 40 hours a week to direct the company. This application comes in a Critical moment for Teslawith the company crossing one of its worst crises, according to its own shareholders and with the figure of Musk more questioned than ever. Musk, focus. The debate on Musk’s commitment to Tesla has intensified after recent passage through politics. The signatory investors, among whom is the American Federation of Teachers, which has 7.9 million shares of Tesla, consider that its CEO has been too dispersed, and now require concrete measures to guarantee good governance and the Tesla stability. In her letter addressed to Robyn Denholm, president of the Tesla Board of Directors, the shareholders indicated that “the external activities of Mr. Musk seem to have diverted their time and attention from the active management of Tesla’s operations, as would be expected of any other executive director of a company that is quoted in the stock market.” Musk itself confessed I could barely dedicate one day To direct your companies. 40 hours a week and three -day week. The investor letter sent to the Tesla Board of Directors, requests that any New remuneration plan For Musk, include the obligation to dedicate at least 40 hours per week to the company’s management. Investors even suggest that Musk could group these hours in three days, leaving the other two to address their other business or political activities. “We just want to make sure that you can devote enough time to supervise and, in the case of executives, properly manage the company,” explained PATEL TABLE, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF SOC INVESTMENT GROUP (one of the signatory investors) to Fortune. A plan to replace CEO. Also, shareholders demand the elaboration of a clear succession plan for the CEO position. In this sense, investors do not propose the replacement of Musk as CEO as Yes they made their employees. Its demand is to identify “emergency” successors that can assume the leadership of Tesla in case Musk is not available, with the objective of “incorporating a new person with the right skills to execute Tesla’s business plans.” Some plans that, on the other hand, the Board of Directors must make public with a strategic schedule between 2 and 5 years. In this way, Tesla would have a succession protocol preventing the company from being “delayed” before an unforeseen event. Limitations for managers. In addition to asking for greater involvement from their CEO, investors also ask to limit the responsibilities of the members of the Tesla Board of Directors In other external companies. With this measure they intend to restrict simultaneous positions of managers outside Tesla to avoid conflicts of interest and ensure that the management is fully Focused on the company. “For many years, the amount of time that CEO Musk has dedicated to the management of Tesla has been limited by its multiple private companies and other external activities,” says the letter. Therefore, they ask that the company’s maximum manager can only hold a managerial position outside of Tesla. A BOARD FIELT TO TESLA. Investor requests do not focus only on the management of Musk, they also extend their criticisms to other members of their board of directors. They insist on the need to incorporate at least a “truly independent” vowel into the Board of Directors. This person should not have links with other council members or Elon Musk to avoid nepotism and conflicts of interest personal among the members of the Board. This request arises after the appointment of Jack Hartung, former executive of Chipotle, as a member of the Tesla Board of Directors. Investors They were worried For the professional connection that Hartung and Kimbal Musk, brother of Elon Musk, have cultivated for years. This petition seeks to eliminate servility when negotiating the salary remuneration of the Board of Directors so that the interests of the shareholders and Tesla over the personal ambitions of its members prevail. An example was the Salary Bonus Negotiation granted to Musk in 2018, by a board formed by friends, historical collaborators of Musk and even his own brother. In Xataka | A government “Extremely Hardcore”: Elon Musk is applying to the US the same recipe that has applied to all its companies Image | Unspash (Mark Chan), Flickr (Gage Skidmore)

Elon Musk asked Apple for 5,000 million for exclusive access to Spacex, according to The Information. They had 72 hours to answer

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The iPhone have been offering emergency satellite calls Since 2022, but in reality his ambition in that field began much earlier and went much further. Now we have known that there was a peak in that project. One in which Elon Musk offered an exclusive treatment to Apple, but that the company ended up rejecting. Exclusive access to Spacex. According to The Informationin 2022 Elon Musk learned that Apple I was going to launch a satellite connection service with iPhone 14and then contacted those responsible to make them a proposal. He offered Apple to have exclusive access to Spacex to offer satellite connectivity for 18 months if the company paid 5,000 million initial dollars. After that period, Apple could pay $ 1 billion a year for the service provided by Starlink. You have 72 hours. Elon Musk gave Apple only 72 hours to make a decision, and in fact threatened the company with launching their own service for the iPhone that would make the competition. The tycoon played with better letters: it already had a constellation of operational satellites and the technology necessary to do precisely what Apple had projected. Well, no. Apple ended up rejecting Musk’s offer. Of course: announced the support of SOS satellite emergency callsbut thanks to an alliance With GlobalStar. On the other hand, Elon fulfilled his threat: two weeks before the iPhone 14, Spacex were launched announced an agreement With the T-Mobile operator that allowed smartphones users to send and receive messages in areas without mobile coverage. Project Eagle. Apple’s ambition in this area was started before. In 2015 the engineers of the company They started working in Project Eaglean initiative that would create a satellite network with thousands of satellites to provide broadband Internet not only to iPhone, but also households. It was basically Apple’s Starlink. To carry out that Apple proposal allied with Boeing, and the deployment was scheduled for 2019. But he doesn’t want to be an operator. This project ended up canceling in 2016. In The Information it indicates how Apple spent 36 million dollars in the initial tests of Project Eagle, but there were two major problems that led to their cancellation. The first, doubts about economic viability. The second, even more important, that of fear about that launch could affect the crucial relationships that Apple maintains with telephone operators. AT&T, Verizon or T-Mobile-like many others in the rest of the world-could be affected if the company offered this type of service. Apple still does not collect emergency calls. The company continues to offer the SOS satellite emergency call service in the iPhone, but the funny thing is that Still without charging for them. Some analysts believe that Apple fears that if you charge for the service you have to be subject to government regulations that affect operators. Moreover: some employees and managers of the company begin to question the viability of the long -term project. And meanwhile, Starlink extends its claws. What Apple prefers not to do is doing it big elon Musk. A year ago Spacex launched the First set of Starlink satellites with direct connection For smartphones. Today, the Starlink Direct To Cell constellation (DTC) is ready to start Offer LTE coverage from space. It is just an initial offer in beta phase, but still has 10 times more reach that the coverage of any other satellite operator with the same objective. Spacex’s absolute dominance is the great engine of a proposal that can make Starlink, that is already profitableeven more. Image | Fortune Ceo Initiative | Starlink | World Economic Forum In Xataka | The ‘satphones’ are a niche, but the phones with satellite calls will end everywhere

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