For years they leaked murders and violations for Facebook in Barcelona. Now they claim 4 million to the goal for psychological damage

Goal had a moderation center in Barcelona that was responsible for monitoring its contents. Had. Telus Digital, the subcontracting company, closed its facilities in April. Now, twenty -nine of their then content moderators They have filed a criminal complaint against Meta and its Barcelona subcontractor for the mental damage suffered after years filtering external material. Why is it important. It is the first criminal accusation admitted in Europe against the technological giant for the sequels caused by the moderation of content. Workers claim 150,000 euros of compensation each. Almost 4.5 million euros in total. The facts. For years, these employees had to visualize murders, decapitations, rapes, child pornography, live suicides and terrorism for eight -hour days. His rest time was set in five minutes per hour while processing up to 800 videos a day. The consequences they expose were tranquatic stress transport, panic attacks, suicidal ideas, nightmares and phobias. An employee has been in psychological treatment for six years and has temporary disability since 2022. Between bambalins. The complaint ensures that Mal CCC Barcelona Digital Services, then absorbed by Canadian Telic Digital. The American matrix set schedules, productivity and quality demands, requiring 98% success in moderation decisions. The best performance workers were “promoted” to high priority tail, where the most disturbing content arrived. Yes, but. Companies knew that many employees would lead to “serious psychic pathologies” but did not implement protection measures. During the hiring process they deliberately hid the nature of work, limiting themselves to verifying knowledge of languages. The day -to -day detail arrived later. The context. In 2023 it was uncovered that between 20% and 25% of Télus template was decline, many for psychological reasons. Meta definitely closed the Barcelona center a few weeks ago, dismissing the entire squad after dispense with moderation servicesthat now remain in the hands of the users themselves, as in X. The complaint accumulates to another filed in 2024 by a worker, already admitted by the Court of Instruction 29 of Barcelona. In the United States, Goal paid 52 million dollars to more than 11,000 moderators in 2020an average of $ 4,700 per person. In Xataka | Four AI companies are monopolizing the intellectual future of humanity. They are not good news Outstanding image | Greg Bulla in Unspash

How to claim if you are seeing yourself affected by indiscriminate laliga blockages

Let’s explain How to claim if LaLiga blocks affect youthose that the football entity is doing indiscriminately in Spain. It is a practice with which in the days of the party is blocked access to services such as Cloudflare, causing hundreds of perfectly legal websites to stop working. Unfortunately, as a user there is not much that you can do against these exaggerated and unfair measures imposed by LaLiga. We have told you some ways to avoid blocking, but little else you can do. However, Yes, you can report it to the European Commissionsince the blockade violates basic principles of user rights on the Internet. These indiscriminate blockages to services that have nothing to do with emissions that pursue violate rights such as network neutrality, equitable access to digital services and freedom of information and company. And you can report that with the media that Europe gives you to do it. This complaint will not solve anything, but If enough people have complaints basedthe European Commission will open an investigation and ask for explanations to the Government of Spain. And to report it you don’t need a lawyer, just fill out a questionnaire. How to report it to the European Commission The first thing you have to do is enter the website of complaints of the European Commissionin which you can send a claim to the entity. To do this, go to EC.Europa.eu/law/application-eu-law/report-braach/es/check-your-criteriaand click on the button Submit a complaint. When you choose Submit a complaintyou will show you a form with several options that you have to choose. In it, you have to mark that the complaint is presented in relation to a national EU authority, and that it is an incorrect application of EU’s right. In the end, you will have to choose the option of Communicate alleged infractions of competition standardsclicking In the link that offers you. This will take you to a page where you are told how to proceed. First you have to go to this page, where below there is a fairly long document that you can see in Spanish HERE. On this page, go down and Look where it puts Exhibitsince it is where you explain how to proceed and all the information you must present To be able to make the complaint. Then you will have to send an email to the address Comp-Market-information@ec.europa.euindicating everything the annex tells you. You will have to put your personal data, the national authority involved, from the corresponding ministry to the Internet provider. You must also include a detailed description of the factssaying how the massive block of IP addresses affects the legitimate pages you use. You must also cite the regulations that you consider to violate this way of proceeding: Regulation 2022/612, articles on network neutrality and access without internet discrimination. When you finish, attach screenshots, affected IP addresses or communications that you have made with your supplier (if you don’t have them, first talk to your Internet operator to tell you why they block the pages, and then attach it). And when you finish reviewing everything, then send the complaint. In Xataka Basics | Avoid the laliga block to cloudflare: how to continue sailing if the block is repeated

How to “be more expensive” has become a claim to sell

Smartphones prices They have shot In the last three years, to the point that the mid -range It is close (or above) of 400 euros, the medium-high is around 700 euros, and the devices Flagship They touch the 1,500 euros. Figures that not all users are willing to assume. Given this reality, brands have adopted a paradoxical strategy: setting high initial prices and then compensating with aggressive offers. The problem arises when those “launch promotions” actually reveal the real price that the product should have had from the beginning. Xiaomi started the way. The price cycle of any product usually (or used) to be quite evident. A high initial starting price for the first remittances that, as the months passed, were decreasing either by official decrease of the PVP itself or by point offers. Xiaomi was a pioneer in popularizing the concept of Early Bird (or “presale offer”), with initially attractive prices that, over time, became the official PVP of the product. The logic is clear: to capture early sales, keep the price high for months and reactivate demand with discounts at the end of the device’s life cycle. The rest joined, differently. As the price of the devices has been increasing, manufacturers have been looking for alternatives to make their devices in the launch more attractive. Some did it imitating Xiaomi with lower launch prices, As Realme. Others (not a few), did it by giving it headphones or smart watches. And others, as an honor, through almost all possible options: charger gift, replacement service, cover and coupon of 300 euros. To the point of the absurd. In the mid -range it is perfectly understandable that, if a phone costs 350 euros, you can buy it on launch offer for 300. The point is that in a high -end the strategy is not so simple. Manufacturers, on the one hand, have the “obligation” to launch their products to a high PVP. It is a marketing strategy rather than a real price. If the reference mobiles cost 1,400 euros, yours “cannot” cost 900 euros, although that is really the PVP you want to sell it. This generates such curious situations as seeing a telephone of 1,300 euros with a discount coupon of 300 euros instead of launching it at the 1,000 euros that it really costs, or telephones such as the I live x200 prowhich came to the market at 1,299 euros and, just a week later, they “reduced” to 1,199 euros. There is no reduction, that is its real price. The consequences for users. This situation has led us to a market where official prices are, in many cases, a strategic fiction. The “offers” are not real discounts, but adjustments to achieve the value that the product should have from the beginning. For the consumer, this translates into an obligation to navigate between promotions and some artificial inflation, until finding the exact point in which he is making a purchase for the real value of the product. Solution? Never buy from PVP. Take advantage of the initial offers, wait a few weeks or observe the evolution of that starting price until it stabilizes in its royal strip is usually the best option. Image | Xataka In Xataka | The mobiles are increasingly expensive, but the mid -range had never been so appetizing. These are the reasons why I recommend it

Some researchers claim to have created an AI as good as those of Openai and Deepseek for $ 50. And the data is real

The cost of training of models of artificial intelligence (IA) More advanced is in the spotlight. And it is understandable that it is so. The irruption of the Chinese company model Deepseekwhich presumably has A moderate training costhas questioned the strategy and investments deployed so far by OpenAi, Google or Microsoft, among other companies. A brief review before moving forward: those responsible for Deepseek argue that the infrastructure they have used to train their agglutin model 2,048 chips H800 of Nvidia. And also that this process with 671,000 million parameters has cost 5.6 million dollars. However, some analysts defend that these figures do not reflect reality. The report prepared by SEMIANALYSIS He maintains that, in reality, the infrastructure used by Deepseek to train his AI model approximately 50,000 NVIDIA GPU with Hopper MicroAritecture. According to Dylan Patel, AJ Kourabi, Doug O’Laughlin and Reyk Knuhttsen, at least 10,000 of these chips are GPU H100 of Nvidia, and at least another 10,000 are GPU H800. The remaining chips, according to these analysts, are the cuts cut H20. The ‘S1’ model takes more firewood On January 31, a group of researchers from Stanford University and the University of Washington, both in the US, published in the repository of open access scientific articles Arxiv A text in which it claims to have managed to train an AI model with reasoning capacity and benefits comparable to those of OPENAI or DEPEEEK O1 models facing an investment of just under $ 50. A boat soon seems impossible. With that money a priori it is absolutely unfeasible to train an artificial intelligence model. And less an advanced and capable of competing from you to you with those of OpenAi or Deepseek. However, it is true. To understand how they have achieved it We need to investigate the strategy they have devised. On the one hand, those 50 dollars represent the cost of renting the cloud computing infrastructure to which they have resorted to carry out the training. It makes sense if the time invested is very moderate. ‘S1’ has been elaborated from the free qwen2.5-32b model developed by the Chinese laboratory Qwen But there is something else. Something very important. His reasoning model, which they have called S1, has been elaborated from the free artificial intelligence model QWEN2.5-32B developed by the Chinese Laboratory Qwen, alibaba. And its reasoning process is inspired by the GEMINI 2.0 Flash Thinking Google model. They have not left zero at all. An interesting note: the S1 model is available in GITHUB together with the data and code used by these scientists to train it. On the other hand, the training process lasted less than 30 minutes using only 16 NVIDIA H100 chips belonging to the cloud computing network used by these researchers. From here comes the cost of Somewhat less than 50 dollars. However, there is another data that is worth not overlooked: the S1 Reasoning Model has been generated by distillation of the Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking experimental model. Distillation is, in broad strokes, an automatic learning technique that allows the knowledge base to be transferred from a large and advanced model to a much smaller and efficient. This strategy saves many resources, although it does not serve to create models from scratch. Beyond the caraded 50 dollars of cost, the really important thing is that, as we have just verified, it is possible to put to tuning models of very competitive facing a much more restrained investment than those made by the large technology companies so far. Image | Luis Gomes More information | Arxiv | GITHUB In Xataka | Samsung is preparing to give TSMC a bars where it hurts most: the manufacture of the chips for ia

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