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There is only a great beneficiary at Ryanair’s departure from regional airports. One called “High Speed ​​Train”

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Ryanair threatened and fulfilled. As he turned a few months ago. The company confirmed yesterday, September 3, which removes more than one million places from regional airports. In total, its activity will be reduced by 41 % in this type of aerodromes and 10 % of its activity in the Canary Islands will also be affected. The movement has unleashed an wave of indignation among Spanish institutions that qualify the exit as blackmail or extortion. The company, meanwhile, defends itself by ensuring that the increase in Aena’s rates are incompatible with its operations in this type of airports. But what the movement leaves us is the confirmation that regional airports are less and less competitive. A good part of them have based their operations on a huge dependence on the company. And the Good train health It is making operating in them, more and more complicated. A good example is that the company will increase its operations in larger airports. The controversy As we explained yesterday, with its latest Ryanair movement it will reduce 400,000 places in the Canary Islands in winter, being the autonomous community most punished by volume. In total, 36 connections are canceled. It remains to be seen if the flights to the Canary Islands are held by other companies. A good example is the Binter expansion that in recent times it has begun to increase its routes in the connections between peninsular Spain and the islands. In addition, Ryanair has announced the closure of Santiago de Compostela and the suspension of all flights to Vigo as of January 1, 2026. It maintains the closure at the airports of Valladolid and Jerez de la Frontera. And will reduce its operations in Zaragoza (-45 %), Santander (-38 %), Asturias (-16 %) and Vitoria (-2 %). The company attacks Aena and the Government, to whom it accuses of “failing to the Spanish regions, whose airports are almost 70 % empty.” For its part, the airport manager attacks that “the communication and institutional relations policy of Ryanair is guided by Phariseism, bad education and blackmail”, while trying to “falsify reality.” All these words pick them up eldiario.es from the mouth of Maurici Lucena, president and CEO of Aena. The excuse Ryanair has used to abandon or reduce its operations at these airports is at the rise of Aena rates. Those rates are the ones guarantee basic services of airports such as cleaning or safety, to put only some examples. At the moment, there are substantial discounts than in airports with the lowest volume of passengers make them insignificant. On the contrary, where it is paid the most is in the airports of greater volume. That rate has been frozen in recent years but will rise if the CNMC approves it. From the beginning, the company’s opposition has been found. They defend that in countries such as Italy, Morocco or Croatia have been lowered to attract tourism and that, with these increases, “Spain is closing” to the same. A statement that The data denies. According to Aena, The increase is just 68 euro cents By passenger but they put the company that their rates have increased by 21% in the last year. But this is just the surface. Spain is not the only country in which Ryanair has reduced operations. The Irish have also retired more than 700,000 places from the French regional airports. And it is also not accidental that their operations to Morocco travel almost empty. For a long time, the company has exploited institutional advertising to maintain open paths that would not be profitable without these substantial pluses. In fact, that Ryanair trip to Daklha is only explained since The interest that Morocco has in exploiting that areanear the Sahara, as a holiday destination. Ryanair as a symptom And the train as a disease that hurts regional airports. To all of the above we must add the loss in competitiveness of many of the airports of which Ryanair leaves. The company has closed operations in Santiago and reduces its connections in Vigo. Casually there are two cities to which The arrival of high speed is especially affecting. Until not so long ago, the only way to travel quickly between Madrid and Galicia was by plane. Now, the High speed It allows you to reach the center of the capital more or less the same time as you travel by plane. And without the discomforts of this means of transport. In Asturiashigh speed is not yet working in full performance but the opening of new sections (and others on the horizon)place the region in a position where the train, again, will compete with the plane for faster connections. It will remain faster to travel by plane but its connection with Madrid is already competitive by train. What to say about Zaragoza where in recent years Renfe has joined Ouigo and Iroyo. The corridor maintains a hard competition And although the tickets are not the cheapest on the market, the volume of trains is very high and the latest connections already allow Zaragoza to be linked with Galicia in four hours (making transford in Madrid). In addition, the possibilities to get to Seville or Malaga are multiple with the aforementioned Renfe rivals. Eliminate air connections with the main Spanish cities should result in greater use of this means of transport. And from Aena they are clear that reality is “more prosaic.” “Ryanair moves her planes to airports where can set higher prices In their plane tickets and earn more money, such as Great Spanish airports“, despite being” substantially higher, “they insisted on words collected by RTVE. In Santander, where connections with Madrid are not so advanced, four international destinations have been withdrawn (Rome, Milan, Vienna and Paris) but the flights to Valencia and Malaga are maintained. In Santiago, however, connections with other Spanish cities die. And in Vigo he retires from the line he had with London. Casually when the contract ends Between the City Council and the company … Read more

A group of young people has become Milmillonario in less than three years: their lottery ticket is called Ia

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Artificial intelligence is starring An economic revolution unprecedented that is generating one of the greatest jumps In wealth creation In recent history, something that Such and as stood out Bloomberg, The exponential growth of this developing sector has resulted in the accelerated appearance of New billionaires. Most of them are young entrepreneurs who have seen His fortunes multiply Thanks to the assessment of their AI companies for risk capital investors. A magnet for investments Andrew Mcafee, MIT principal researcher, pointed to CNBC that this generation of wealth “is not preceded” in the last 100 years of which there are records. In Xataka Jensen Huang presumes more than chips for AI: he has created more billionaires than any other CEO According to data of CB InsightsThere are 498 companies dedicated to AI with valuations above 1,000 million dollars and more than 1,300 startups valued at more than 100 million dollars. Estimates From the study they set that, together, these companies have a value of 2.7 billion dollars. The most curious thing is that, at least 100 of those unicorns of more than 100 million dollars were founded after 2023, which makes the phenomenon even more striking for its effervescence. This AI boom has become An economic engine which already exceeds the investments generated by other technological revolutions such as Internet, electronic commerce or social networks, whose companies are also betting strongly on AI. However, unlike what happened with the Puntocom at the beginning of 2000. Companies that are providing huge fortunes to their founders are not public contributions, but are maintained as main source of wealth for Its founders and managers for maintaining greater control over your participation percentage. In Xataka In silence, the engineers specialized in AI are becoming the best paid workers in history THE NEW MAIN VETA TO MAKE MILLIONARY In the last decade, social networks or the different electronic commerce formulas marked the pattern as the main ways of creating millionaire fortunes. They abound The examples In the current list of millionaires with names such as Jeff Bezos or Mark Zuckerberg. However, now it is the AI ​​who is rapidly replacing these sectors as the fastest source for generating a substantial fortune. According The published By Bloomberg, the development of AI has led to the raising of at least 15 Milmillonarios entrepreneurs, with a combined heritage of 38,000 million dollars. Companies such as Anthropic, Openai, Safe Superintelligence or Anysphere have starred in millionaire financing that have led their founders to reach fortunes of more than 1,000 million dollars in a very short time. A remarkable example is Anthropic, which negotiates an investment round that could place its valuation at 170,000 million dollars, almost tripling its value in a few months. Openai, has become the startup with greater assessment reaching 500,000 million dollars in its last investment round. The previous one stayed at 300,000 million, which leaves an idea of ​​the speed of Growth of these companiesand with them, the fortunes of its founders. {“videoid”: “x8jpy2b”, “Autoplay”: fals, “title”: “What is behind it like chatgpt, dall-e or midjourney? | artificial intelligence”, “tag”: “Webedia-prod”, “Duration”: “1173”} Alexandr Wangco -founder and exco from the startup Scale AI, he became at 28 years the youngest billionaire in history, with an estimated fortune at approximately 3.6 billion dollars. Wang is just one of the many young entrepreneurs converted into millionaires that have emerged from this booming industry. Lucy Guoco -founder of Scale AI with Wang, and now the leader of Passes, is also part of this elite with a fortune that exceeded 1,000 million dollars. Other outstanding names include Dario Amodei, co -founder of Anthropic, with more than 1.2 billion dollars in wealth, and Michael Intora, CEO and co -founder of Coreweave, valued at 10,000 million, as well as Michael Tuelll of Anysphere and Brett Adcock, founder of Figure AI, whose company is valued at more than 39,500 million dollars. In Xataka | “I don’t believe in billionaires.” Image | Scale ai, LinkedIn, Wikimedia Commons (Function () {Window._js_modules = Window._js_modules || {}; var headelement = document.getelegsbytagname (‘head’) (0); if (_js_modules.instagram) {var instagramscript = Document.Createlement (‘script’); }}) (); – The news A group of young people has become Milmillonario in less than three years: their lottery ticket is called Ia It was originally posted in Xataka by Rubén Andrés .

The US has bought 10% of Intel to save it from burning, and that plans a huge problem. One called favoritism

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Intel has agreed to sell 10% of your company to the United States for a value of 8,900 million dollars. An interventionist measure is thus confirmed that has huge implications not only for Intel, but for the entire semiconductor industry. Above all, the American. Historical crisis. The Historical crisis that Intel is going without resolving. And his new CEO, Lip-bu Tanalready I recognized A few weeks ago, “twenty or thirty years ago we were leaders. Now the world has changed. We are not among the ten main semiconductor companies.” The mass layoffs and the decision of Bet everything to lithography 18a –No 20th node– They raised a complicated future for the company, which needs maneuvering margin. He has just obtained it, but we don’t know at what price. Or maybe yes. The agreement. According to indicate in IntelUnited States will invest 8,900 million dollars in company shares, and that adds to the 2.2 billion dollars that the US government paid to the company as part of the Chips and Science Acta federal program that was approved in 2022 and is intended to invest billions of dollars to relive the country’s semiconductor industry. Intel was too big to fall. He Moment of weakness It is still worrying, but there have been two recent “bailouts.” The first, by the Investment of 2 billion dollars of softbank In the company. The second, much more important, the one that has just signed the US government with the purchase of 10% of Intel for 8,900 million dollars. This measure is especially striking for several reasons. For a start, is the first time that the US government intervenes a company since the rescue of the car industry was produced during the 2008 crisis. But there are more implications. Potential loss of autonomy. The agreement is only economic and there will be no official representation of the US government in the Board of Directors of Intel. However, political pressure will now be seen without a doubt increased, and each business decision of Lip-Bu Tan and its team will be seen through a different prism: there is public money at stake. Desperate times, desperate measures? Another perspectives from which this agreement can be contemplated is that of despair. Accepting this governmental “rescue” can be seen as a clear indication that Intel was against the ropes and there was no escape without any movement of this type. For Lip-Bu this can represent a problem for confidence in his leadership now that he has just taken command, and in fact the American senator Tom Cotton He accused him to invest in 600 Chinese companies. President Trump He came to ask for his resignation In Truth Social and then end up meeting him and congratulating him for its management. A logical agreement for Trump’s roadmap. The US president began his mandate with the clear intention of centralize semiconductor production to the maximum and electronics products. This protectionism is closely linked to this decision, and allows to protect Intel in addition to mitigating the dependence of Taiwan and the Chips import and technology From China. The Secretary of Commerce, Howard Lutnick, Indian That the agreement is especially beneficial for the US government, pointing out that they were basically giving money to companies through subsidies, but here what the US achieves is to raise that subsidy as an investment. It is not “lost” money. It is not clear that since the money comes from the ACT chips, the US government is allowed to end up obtaining benefits of such “investment.” Favoritism. This politicization of the semiconductor business could end up causing uncomfortable alliances and distorting competition. Now that all kinds of government agencies may have much more inclination to buy Intel chips in the future, while direct competitors such as Apple, AMD, NVIDIA or Qualcomm are harmed before a landscape of government favoritism. Intel, we insist, perhaps it was too big and iconic to drop it, but this intervention raises a change in the rules of the game that affects both Intel and its national competitors and, of course, foreigners. Image | Intel | Gage Skidmore In Xataka | Intel’s plan in front of an unattainable TSMC: beat Samsung and consolidate as the second largest chips manufacturer

Depseek has just launched something that will bitter the day and the US chips companies: it is called Depseek-V3.1

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There was a day when Depseek surprised half the world by demonstrating that you could go far with less. Today returns with V3.1 And a message that does not go unnoticed: the model has prepared for the next Chinese chip batch. We are not talking about an automatic market overturn, but about a concrete bet that points in an awkward direction for Nvidia and company. If that technical tune with the Chinese hardware It translates into performance, conversation about who feeds AI in China is going to sound very different. According to the company’s own noteV3.1 opens a hybrid inference in the purest style GPT-5: the same system with two routes, Think (deep reasoning) and Non-Think (Quick response), Sygons from your website and app. The formulation is clear: “Hybrid Inference: Think & Non-Think, a model, two models.” The company also underlines that the version Think “Reach answers in less time” than your predecessor. That is, not only do pesos change, the inference modes that are already in service also change. The phrase that frames everything: an FP8 “thought for national chips” In a comment set in his latest publication in Wechat, Depseek writes: “EU8M0 FP8 is for the next generation of national chips.” That is the point that tense the rope: it suggests that the company has adjusted the data format, apparently a FP8 which label as EU8M0, to the next wave of Chinese processors. Bloomberg andReuters collect that message And they synthesize it: v3.1 is “personalized to function with next -generation AI chips Chinese. ”In other words, optimization oriented to the local ecosystem. The original comment in Chino (left) and its Spanish translation with Google Translate (right) FP8 is an 8 -bit format that weighs half that FP16/BF16. With native support, it allows more yield per cycle and less memory, provided that the climb is well calibrated. In the official Model Card of Hugging Face It is read that Depseek-V3.1 “has trained using the EU8M0 FP8 scale” format, which indicates that it is not only a packaging of weights, but that training and execution have been expressly adapted to that precision. The delicate part, and it is convenient to be prudent, is that everything points to a chips remittance that will be displayed in the future, since they can take advantage of this scheme natively. So is this bad news for Nvidia? The data of the fiscal year that expired on January 26 indicates that China represented approximately 13% of the company’s revenues led by Jensen Huang. If part of the computation of AI in China Classic duo muta NVIDIA GPU + CUDA ECOSYSTEM To domestic solutions that work with the UE8M0 FP8 format and give good results (presumably chips ascend of Huawei), the demand for Western solutions could be eroded over time. China meant about 13% of Nvidia’s income in the last fiscal year All this happens on the US export controls board: restrictions that sought to stop China’s access to leading chips and that have also accelerated their commitment to self -sufficiency. This year the Trump Administration rehabilitated with conditions the export of H20a chip cut for China. Since then, the state of the H20 has been oscillating: among permits, Chinese regulatory pressures and Nvidia plans to present Blackwell -based alternatives. The background message is that the framework is political and changing, and any route that allows China to depend less on these windows becomes strategic value. You have to remember another fact that helps to calibrate expectations. According to Financial TimesDeepseek tried to train his future R2 model with Huawei chips ascend to official instances and found persistent technical problems. He ended up returning to Nvidia for training, while he was still working on the Compatibility for inference. That episode does not invalidate the current strategy, but puts the bar: to completely migrate its processes is not simple, it requires, among other things, months of engineering. V3.1, therefore, it must be read as iteration. Now the company states that it has prepared its model for the next Chinese chips. Matherena models scores And here we have another interesting fact. Matharenaa platform linked to Zurich Federal Polytechnic School which evaluates models in real and recent mathematical competitions, places GPT-5 as a leader, with 90% in final response tests, already deepseek-v3.1 (Think) something behind although among the best models of the moment. This helps to locate the context: V3.1 Compete above. Images | Xataka with Gemini 2.5 | Matharen and Deepseek screen catches In Xataka | Tiktok stole the searches, Depseek beat them in Ia: Baidu discovers that being “the Chinese google” is no longer enough

His bet is called KF-21, and is almost ready for real action

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The KF-21 has not been designed to impress Washington, or to compete with the F-35 in rankiness. It has been designed for something simpler and more ambitious at the same time: that South Korea does not depend on anyone when you need a combat plane. The country is called Boramae, Hugon Hunterand want it to be the axis of your Air defense until 2032. It is not just a new generation hunting: it is a symbol. And everything indicates that it will also be a notice for its neighbors. When South Korea wanted to access F-35 technologies to integrate them into their future hunt, he ran into a resounding negative. The United States rejected Transfer key systems such as Radar Aesa, the electrooptic aiming system (Eots), IRS and the radiofrequency disturbance of electronic warfare. That episode was decisive. Seoul assumed that, if I wanted to have control, I would have to build from scratch. Thus was born the KF-21. With him, Korea does not break with his western partners, but marks a clear line: there can be no real sovereignty if the most sensitive technology continues to depend on third parties. The South Korean jump towards autonomy in defense For Seoul, the KF-21 not only responds to a desire for industrial independence. It also responds to a strategic need. Tensions with North Korea are cyclical, but constant. China continues to rearm. And Japan already works with the United Kingdom and Italy at the GCAPthe future sixth generation hunting that should fly around 2035. South Korea does not want to be left behind. According to DAPA, the agency in charge of the projectthe KF-21 will first replace the F-4 and F-5, and then apart from the F-16. Having your own plane is defense, but also positioning. According to the governmentSouth Korea became the eighth country to get a supersonic hunt for its own development to carry out a test flight. The first prototype of the KF-21 was presented in April 2021. Three months later, On July 19, 2022, he first took off from the Sacheon base. Since then, the six planned prototypes are already flying and have exceeded milestones such as the first supersonic flight (January 2023) and the first real tests with meteor missiles (May 8, 2024) and Iris-T (May 17, 2024), according to Dapa and Diehl Defense. Deliveries to the Air Force will begin in 2026. One of the KF-21 keys is what it has inside. The aesa radar that equips is not imported: It has been developed in Korea by Hanwha Systems and the Defense Development Agency. The same goes for much of the plane, mission systems and sensors. The objective, According to Kaiis to reach a rate of 65% nationalization In serial production. The engine may not be yours yet, but what is seen in the cabin and radar is. Developing KF-21 has not been cheap. According to Dapa figuresthe initial development budget was set at 8.8 billion Wones, which is equivalent to about 5.4 billion euros. The cast was clear: 60% is contributed by the government, 20% KAI and local industrial partners, and the remaining 20% initially agreed with Indonesia. South Korea has opted for a gradual strategy, with blocking in blocks and a progressive nationalization of components. He does not seek to have everything from day one, but control each phase of the process. Indonesian participation has been one of the most unstable points of the program. Initially signed to finance 20% of development, But he stopped paying years later. After years of tension, In 2025 a new framework was agreed: Your contribution will be 600,000 million wones, about 415 million euros then. The agreement maintains some technological transfer and access to production for the Indonesian Air Force. South Korea will assume the rest. The project advances with or without them, but not without costs. The engine is today the main external dependence of the KF-21. Use General Electric F414, The same that propels F/A-18 Super HornetAssembled under license by Hanwha Aerospace in South Korea. Although that allows some logistics control, the supply is still tied to US authorizations. The South Korean industry already works in its own enginebut it is estimated that it will not be ready before the next decade. Meanwhile, any export plan of the KF-21 will continue to be subject to the ITAR regulations. It is the last piece that Korea still does not control. The KF-21 has been designed with export in mind. South Korea has already shown that you can sell light fighters such as FA-50. Now he wants to repeat the movement in a higher range. Philippines and Poland are among the possible KF-21 clients, And Egypt appears in the media radar, although without official confirmation. The only real limit is the American seal which still weighs on certain components, at least until there are motor and other components. Although the program advances according to the calendar, not everything is resolved. The first units that will be delivered from 2026 will only have Air-Aire capabilities. Air-Tierra weapons integration is scheduled for 2027, As confirmed by the Acquisition Programs Council. Nor are real operating costs, or their behavior in continued service. The South Korean Air Force will assume that risk in the first person. The KF-21 has demonstrated a lot in a short time, but the definitive test has not yet passed: that of daily use. It is not yet in service, but the KF-21 has already fulfilled part of its mission: to demonstrate that South Korea does not need to choose between being a client or staying out. It can be manufacturer. And it can be seriously. What comes later – exports, improvements, additional blocks – will depend on the operational result and the international context. But the key step has already occurred. Now it’s time to wait to know the results. Images | Korea Government/Ministry of Defense (1, 2, 3, 4, 5) | ANSHMAT | CC by 4.0 In Xataka | A group of countries is … Read more

We had been talking about the most lethal Russian weapon that seemed like Ukraine fallen asleep. His answer is called Liutyi

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If drones have become The protagonists From the Ukraine War, the model that has marked Russia’s offensive offers no doubts: The Shaheds of Iranian origin, then converted into different versions assembled in MoscowThey are the basis of Russia’s offensives. And in Ukraine? There they also have been perfecting a device that has become key to attacks on critical objectives of the enemy. The strategic weapon of Ukraine. Yes, kyiv, aware of its lower industrial and resources capacity, has opted for a different approach: Use surgical attacks with drones of own manufacture against strategic objectives deeply located in Russian territory. The jewel of this strategy is the AN-196 Liutyia lodging ammunition system designed to achieve precision Critical facilities of military logistics, oil refineries, air bases and essential industrial centers for the Russian war effort. Development and technical characteristics. Dron Liutyi began to develop In 2022 by Antonov in collaboration with Ukroboronpromconceived as a long -range unidirectional attack vehicle. The first version weighed between 250 and 300 kilosmeasured 4.4 meters long with a wingspan of 6.7, and was promoted with a gasoline engine that moved a rear propeller. It incorporated a V -tail design to improve stability and aerodynamics, and initially carried 50 kilos of explosives at a range of 1,000 km. The most recent versions have practically doubled their benefits: increased load capacity to 75 kilos and a range of up to 2,000 km, for an estimated unit cost In 200,000 dollarsfigure greater than that of the Shahed but still much lower than that of a cruise missile. And more. Your navigation combines inertial and satellite systems In the initial phase, while in the final approach it resorts to artificial vision to execute evasive trajectories, dodge defenses and hit with precision. First operational deployments. The use of Liutyi was made visible in 2024 With deep attacks in Russian territory. In January, an attack against An oil tank In St. Petersburg, he was attributed to drone, as was the March attack against the Ryazan refinery that caused a great fire. In June, the Mozdok Air Basein Norte Osetia, which houses bombers Tu-22m3 and fighters MIG-31it was also beaten. These incidents showed that Ukraine was in a position to project power hundreds of kilometers from the front line. Expansion of your role. The improved Liutyi versions began to be used massively this year. On March 13, an attack reached a Gas pipeline control center In Sátov, affecting the Russian energy sector. In April, several waves of Liutyi impacted the base of the 112.ª missile brigade in Shuya, destroying facilities of command and barracks. In July, two Liutyi penetrated 1,400 kilometers to Izhevsk, where They hit the Kupol plantproducer of anti -aircraft Tor-m and Harpiya drones, causing significant damage. That same month, different videos They documented attacks against objectives in the Leningrad region, in the city of Pensa and at the Sochi airport, where a fuel tank was reached. These blows have had a double effect: disorganizing Russian logistics and forcing Kremlin to allocate resources to the defense of the rear. International response. Despite his successes, Ukraine faces the disadvantage of not being able to manufacture Liutyi in quantities comparable to Shahed’s mass production by Russia. External support is, therefore, crucial: Germany has committed investments to produce 500 additional unitswhich will allow the pace of operations. Thus, the Ukrainian strategy will continue based on the selective use of these drones, with emphasis on precision attacks and not saturation. To maintain its effectiveness, Liutyi must adapt continuously, incorporating advances in artificial intelligence, computer vision and electronic countermeasures resistance. Strategic role in war. In short, although less known than The ShahedLiutyi has become a symbol of Ukrainian capacity to innovate and hit in depth, eroding the perception of security in the interior of Russia. Their attacks have affected energy facilities, refineries, industrial plants and air bases, weakening critical infrastructures and forcing Moscow to disperse their defenses. In this way, the drone not only compensates (in part) the Ukrainian material inferiority in front of the Russian military industry, but also opens a new psychological and strategic front by demonstrating that no Russian area is out of reach. Thus, everything indicates that its role will continue to expand in the coming months, consolidating itself as one of the key weapons in the Strategy of Resistance and Counteroffensive of Ukraine. Image | Open Source In Xataka | Not that war in Ukraine has become a laboratory of the future, is that there are drones saving lives with bicycles In Xataka | If you want to learn to handle a combat drone, the best school is Ukraine. And there have been infiltrated Mexican narcos

It is called 815a and its power lies in the place from which you can watch

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That China is determined to intensify its operations Navales is out of any doubt. Not only is it raising a fleet of aircraft carrier that you have never had, its operations with Combined exercises in nearby waters (And not so much) They attest to that explicit demonstration of their global ambition. Now, in addition, you have to add the last demonstration of Beijing force: a gigantic detective. The new era of naval espionage. Yes, spy ships Type 815a They have become a fundamental piece of Chinese maritime strategy. His recurring presence in disputed waters and in international exercises reflects Beijing’s determination to project power and collect strategic intelligence persistently. In fact, the recent case of tianwangxingintercepted by the Philippines coast guard within the exclusive economic zone of Manila while escorting a destroyer and a Chinese coast guard, symbolizes this new stage of aggressive surveillance. And more. The remarkable thing is that the operation coincided with the Aerreo Exercise Cope Thunderin which the United States first deployed F-35 furtive fighters In the Philippines, which reveals how the Chinese Navy guides its naval espionage to capture in real time the military capabilities of Washington and its allies in the Pacific. Expanding float. The origin of 815a dates back to late ninetiesWhen China sought technological independence in naval intelligence. The first ship, Beijixingwas the first totally designed and built in the country, opening a series that since 2010 has multiplied with the arrival of more advanced variants. With dimensions of 130 meters of length and 6,000 tons of displacement, these boats count With diesel engines of great autonomy capable of sustaining prolonged missions thousands of kilometers from its bases. By incorporating furtive techniques into the helmet, closed masts and absorbent coatings, they manage to reduce their radar firm. The Type 815a One More Thing. However, the distinctive feature of the class are its bulky radomes, which protect electronic intelligence systems (ELINT), of communications (Comint) and radars capable of capturing and analyzing signals in wide ranges of the electromagnetic spectrum. Detection capabilities. What really makes these ships A complete map of the adversary military environment. As? They can identify radar emissions of aircrafts and destroyers to more than 700 kilometersand even to 1,200 according to some reports, in addition to tracking 1,500 kilometers. The information collected is transmitted in real time through connected redundant satellite links to the Beidou systemallowing immediate integration with anti -men’s ballistic missiles like DF-26 or the Hypersonic YJ-21. In this way, the presence of a single 815a in the vicinity of a multinational naval exercise is equivalent to placing a whole fleet under the sight of Chinese attack systems. From sea to space. Plus: The new recognition ship Liaowang-1 He has taken this doctrine even further. Its sensors, with detection capacity of up to 6,000 kilometers and satellite monitoring in geostationary orbit, expand the Chinese surveillance field to space. With six poachers endowed with multiband sensors, neural networks algorithms to classify targets with 95% precision Even under electromagnetic interference, and Aesa radar modules based on gallium nitride (ten times more powerful than previous generations), the Liaowang-1 constitutes a jump that S sItúa China at advantage against US equivalents such as Howard O. Lorenzen. This not only strengthens Chinese naval deterrence, but opens a spectrum of early control and warning operations that transcends the maritime surface. Surveillance strategy. The constant practice of sending An 815a to monitor international maneuvers (from RIMPAC In Hawaii Even Talisman Sabre In Australia) it has become a routine tactic. The mere entry of one of these ships in the area of an exercise Activate the network Chinese satellite, which transforms a routine deployment into a real -time attack simulation. For United States allies, this presence means having to Limit radar emissions and communications, which reduces the effectiveness of joint maneuvers. In other words: in an open conflict scenario, the shadow of an 815a would imply that the position of each enemy ship would already be incorporated in the Chinese missile guidance calculations. Strategic implications. Beyond electronic war and classic naval espionage, 815a constitutes A central node in the concept of Chinese multidominium warcapable of linking the surface of the sea, airspace and terrestrial orbit. Its visibility, however, also represents a weakness, since its radomes make it an easily identifiable target. Analysts expect future variants incorporate antennas Conformal integrated into the helmet, increasing its stealth and reducing vulnerabilities. The inclusion of command systems based on artificial intelligence is also anticipated to coordinate swarms of drones and electronic attacks autonomously, expanding the radius of action of Chinese intelligence beyond physical. Silent threat. In short, the 815a shipswith its low profile in terms of weapons and its enormous reach in matters of intelligence, they embody the new paradigm of the Naval War: it is not the visible fire power that defines superiority, but the ability to collectprocess and exploit data in real time to guide long -range weapons. China has turned these platforms into strategic multipliers that guarantee that any American attack group in the Indo-Pacific is under constant observation and, potentially, under direct threat of its missile arsenal. In them, Beijing’s transition is condensed from being a regional vigilant power to Aspiring superpower With the ability to control the sea, air and outer space. Image | Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, -Ezek, Simon Yang In Xataka | China’s domain is spreading far beyond rare earths. Even where the US had no rival: the sea In Xataka | China has discovered an advantage to win the career career to the US: a “bubble” in its defense

It’s called Null Island and it’s a buoy

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If they ask you about The islands you have visited Your answer can vary. You may have visited one, several or none. We will put the last case in serious. Although you think you have not visited an island, the story that comes next will show you that, you may have been in one (many times). His name: Null Island. His paradox: you will only find it on the maps. The island is not island. Actually, under the name of Null Island we are Before a location Cartographic, although not any, since it is zero degrees of latitude and zero degrees in length. In other words, it is about the intersection where the first Earth meridian meets Ecuador. To be more exact, if that is possible, it turns out to be a point in the Gulf of Guinea, a portion of the eastern tropical Atlantic Ocean off the western coast of Africa. The reason for its existence? That to geolocate any point on a map, the premise is that there is a starting point (or 0-0 place) from which to draw the rest of the points. The choice of this specific point on the map has to do with the fact that the intersection between the Zero and Ecuador It is the starting point of World Geodetic System 1984that is, the cartography on which the GPS system is based. Why the Gulf of Guinea. Because it is part of the South Atlantic Ocean, something like the armpit of Africa. It is the mass of water right off the coast where Western Africa curves south to become central Africa. The Gulf is right in the middle of any standard world map, and that is not a coincidence. It is the meeting point for the two geodetic measurement lines, the first meridian and the Ecuador. Or, expressed in length and latitude: 0 ° N, 0 ° E. And that is precisely Null Island, the Perfect anchor for non -geolocalized dataalthough, as you will have imagined, it is not an island as such, it is rather the colloquial name of the intersection of these two main orthodromes. In mathematical code, and by extension also in Geodesia, an ortododrom (or maximum circle) is the longest possible line drawn around a sphere, dividing it in two halves, or hemispheres, perfectly the same. It is a buoy. It is not a joke. Obviously, it is not a real continental mass, but if you literally sail towards the Gulf of Guinea, towards the intersection between the world’s first meridian and Ecuador, You will find a great buoy. That is the closest thing to Null Island that exists on the planet. Null Island (also known as La Boya Station 13010 – Soul) Known as Station 13010 – Soulthe climate monitoring buoy is part of the prediction and research system tied in the Atlantic (pirate) that monitors the tropical Atlantic ocean. Together with 16 other buoys, the floating weather station measures things such as wind speed, air temperature and humidity to help inform meteorological forecasts and climatic models. Therefore, in the real world, Null Island is a buoy, and in the virtual, a hypothetical point where they stalk data points out of place. The origin of the (no) island. Ecuador, equidistant of the poles, gives the northern and south hemispheres. He Greenwich meridianwhich divides the world into eastern and western hemispheres, is a more arbitrary line. His status as the first meridian in the world It was not established until 1884at the International Meridian Conference in Washington DC the French abstained in the final vote because they had campaigned for the Paris meridian. That was the year zero for our point north north, zero east. What happened? Due to its distance, the location remained culturally insignificant until 2011, when it appeared in The map data set of the public domain of Natural Earth as “Null Island”. As they explained then In a statement On the birth or invention of Null: “We have added a country of debugging of errors with an indeterminate sovereignty class called Null Island. It is a fictitious island of a square meter located off the coast of Africa, where Ecuador and the primary meridian cross. Focusing it on latitude 0 and length 0, it is useful to mark geocoding failures that appear as 0.0 in many services.” Why have you been. Because you have surely wrong, and not only one, but many times, looking for the location of a site. Although there is no null island, it is that convenient place name for a frequently used place. Zero-zero reading arises frequently as an error, due to the lack of data or software failures. In the background, something that we use every day is the real person responsible for our visits to Null: the GPS. When we do an erroneous search, we try to reach a place that does not exist or an error of the system occurs, at which time it relocates precisely there, at the zero-zero point, in Null Island. Image | Graham Curran In Xataka | This is the life on the most remote inhabited island: the improbable history of Tristán de Acuña In Xataka | In Japan, an island has just been born suddenly. Of course, we have the video *An earlier version of this article was published in July 2024

Now we know Russia’s trick to multiply his drones. It is called “cooling units” and comes direct from China

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If the question is how far Beijing’s help comes to Moscow with the Ukraine War in the background, the answer is very wide. We knew through documents obtained By Bloomberg that the production of Russian drones was being favored by the use of intermediary companies with China as main actor bound. Now we know something else. The engineering of deception to overcome sanctions. Clandestine flow. I told it in Exclusive Reuters. Apparently, Russia has managed to maintain and expand the production of its drones Kamikaze Garpiya-A1despite the sanctions imposed by the West, thanks to a sophisticated undercover import scheme that involves Chinese companies. Customs documents, internal contracts and invoices reviewed by the medium reveal that the L550E engines manufactured by the Chinese company Xiamen Limbach Aviation Engine Co. continue to arrive at the Russian state company IEMZ KUPOLnow through a Signature called Beijing Xichao International Technology and Trade. To avoid detection, engines are tagged as “Industrial cooling units” in transport documents, which has allowed Your shipment From Beijing to Moscow (and from there to Izhevsk, headquarters of the Kupol plant) without alerting Chinese customs authorities or formally infringing the country’s export legislation. Mass expansion. An internal Kupol document confirms that the company has signed a contract with the Russian Ministry of Defense to manufacture More than 6,000 Garpiya In 2025, tripling the production of the previous year. For April, more than 1,500 units had already been delivered. These drones, long -range and great precision, are regularly employed to Attack civil infrastructure and military deep in the Ukrainian territory. According to kyiv’s intelligence, Russia is using some 500 Garpiya per month. Based technologically on the Iranian Shahed, the Russian model has become a fundamental tool of Kremlin’s war effort, now enhanced by Chinese components that include not only the engine, but also Navigation and control systems. Ghost Companies Network. The path of engines to Russia is carefully disguised. After initial shipping from China, He had Reuters that engines are received by a Russian cover company called SMP-138owned by Abram Goldman, which in turn forwards them to another Russian company, Libss, final responsible for supplying Kupol. A contract between Libss and Kupol Reviewed by means Specifies specifically that the products should be identified as these “cooling equipment” to avoid suspicions. Chinese commercial companies Sichuan Airlines and China Southern Airlines have been used to transport these pieces Criticism of Russia since October 2023, despite the penalties in force. None of these airlines or the companies involved answered the Reuters questions. Ambiguous position. The Chinese Foreign Ministry, in response to the environment, He denied knowledge of these shipments and reiterated that the country strictly apply export controls of double -use goods, in addition to oppose sanctions Unilateral not endorsed by the UN. However, the reality of the continuous flow of military technology towards Russia calls into question that narrative. The Xiamen Limbach company was sanctioned in October of 2023, after an earlier Reuters report that already identified its role in the manufacture of the Garpiya, which caused new intermediaries such as Xichao They assumed the relief. In spite of these measures, or Xiamen or Xichao have given explanations, and the trail of responsibility is more than diffuse among layers of screen companies, documentary opacity and legally ambiguous trade routes. Diplomatic warnings. Plus: Revelation arrives at a time of Growing diplomatic tension Between the European Union and China. The president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, will meet with Xi Jinping and Li Qiang at a summit marked by Chinese support suspicions to Russian military machinery. European diplomacy, headed by Kaja Kallas, He has warned Beijing that allowing this type of trade puts the security of the continent at risk. China, meanwhile, insists that He has not exported Lethal weapons and that, if Russia uses its civil products for war, the same could be said of Ukraine. However, according to three senior European security officials, the case of Garpiya demonstrates that the Chinese supply It is not accidental or marginalbut part of a functional network that actively supports Kremlin’s military effort. European deterrence and strategic game. Experts Like Meia Nouwensof the International Institute for Strategic Studies, point out that China’s priority interest is to keep the United States focused on Ukraine, thus avoiding a direct confrontation in the Indo-Pacific. The implicit strategy would be to prolong the European conflict to gain margin of maneuver in Asia. For Brussels, however, the immediate priority is Cut the flow of critical components. Although the EU does not require China to break economic relations with Russia, it does insist that it reinforces its customs and financial controls to avoid the transit of sensitive products. For now, the proliferation of undercover engines and fictional companies shows that, on the Ukrainian battlefield, the China’s technological shadow is increasingly difficult to ignore. Image | Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine, State Border Guard Service of Ukraine In Xataka | Ukraine has opened Russia’s last drone and does not leave his astonishment: it is the first time that China does something like that In Xataka | Ukraine has found a solution to China’s veto in drones: it’s called Hell, it’s a “home” missile and bends the scope of the attack

Chinese mobiles have batteries 11% higher than those in the rest of the world. The culprit is called sic

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Chinese smartphones have a clear advantage: their batteries are 11% larger than those in the rest of the world. A consolidated suspicion that is now measured thanks to Counterpoint Research. The average in China reached 5,418 mAh in May 2025, compared to 4,900 mAh in the rest of the world. The difference has expanded to exceed 500 mAh in recent months. Why is it important. China is adopting carbon-silicio batteries (sic), a technology that allows greater energy density without increasing the thickness of the device. The rest of the world maintains more conservative technologies even though Two years ago we warn of this impact. The context. Chinese brands have opted to solve one of user’s biggest headaches: autonomy. With larger screens, more frequently soda and applications that consume more energy, including Local generative AIThey need more capacity. 6,000 mAh or more mobiles already represent 35% of the Chinese market, compared to 9% of a year ago. OnePlus leads with the greatest average capacity thanks to Your Ace series, exclusive to China. There is a revealing pattern: brands such as Honor, Huawei and Vivo launch models with larger batteries specifically for the Chinese domestic market. But their global versions maintain minor capacities. Why does this happen? Because China is its test laboratory: SIC batteries certifications are more agile there. In China you can try that technology before facing the expensive and slow western approval processes. It is cheaper to try at home than to risk out with a new technology. And now what. China will maintain this short -term advantage while Western brands wait for SIC technology to mature. The gap will be reduced when more manufacturers adopt large batteries as a global differentiation factor, and not only in China. In Xataka | Buying a mobile in China is a brutal savings compared to Spain. The question is whether it ends out expensive Outstanding image | Xataka

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