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Europe has been committed to digitizing our identity and the first piece of the puzzle is provided by Spain: the driving license

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Europe wants gather all your documentation on your mobile. IDs, medical history, academic titles, bank card. A single digital wallet for any management in each of the member countries. From Brussels they want to standardize the use of their digital application for everyone and the first document that will officially cross borders will be the driver’s license. Something that in Spain, precisely, It doesn’t catch us by surprise. The European Union approved in May 2024 the eIDAS 2.0 regulationthe rule that obliges all member states to make a digital identity wallet available to their citizens before the end of 2026. The legal framework establishes that each country must have at least one digital wallet solution available before the end of that year. The long-term goal is that by 2030, around 80% of European citizens are expected to use the digital identity wallet. But what exactly is this wallet? Called EUDI Wallet, andIn practice, it is an application that we will have to install on the phone and where the citizen can store and share their credentials: from the DNI to the passport, driving license, medical prescriptions or university degrees. The idea is that we can do it in any EU country and without the need to create additional accounts or depend on private platforms. driving license, the first piece Of all the documents that will fit in this European wallet, driving license is the first to move. In the end, it is a document that tens of millions of people use every day, which is already digitized in several countries and which has an immediate practical application, beyond being able to identify ourselves. Several countries have announced that they will launch their version of the EUDI Wallet with limited functionalities, including digital driving license for use in face-to-face controls. The idea is to expand the system in layers: start with what already works, and build on that. From Biometric Update they point out that wallet interoperability between different countries is the most complex technical challenge, as it requires constant standardization and cross-testing between national systems. Surprisingly, Spain takes the lead While a good part of Europe is still studying how to articulate its solution, Spain is already underway myDGTthe app of the General Directorate of Traffic that has been operational since 2020. Spain was the first EU country to launch a digital card, and today the application serves six million users with 14 different procedures without having to go to any traffic headquarters. The miDGT digital driving license has full legal validity before any authority within the national territory. If you already use it, you will have noticed that the card incorporates a dynamic QR code that changes every few minutes to avoid impersonations and allows you to check in real time that the data is updated. The main limitation is that the miDGT digital permit It is only valid in Spain. If you travel abroad, it is still mandatory to carry a physical card, because other countries have not yet officially recognized this digital format. And that is precisely what the EUDI Wallet comes to solve. In addition to miDGT, Spain’s digital ecosystem goes further. Here we also have the app My Citizen Folderwhich helps us centralize a multitude of procedures with the public administration in a single point. And on the other hand, relatively recently we also have the app MIDNIwhich is simply a digital version of our identity document so that we can show it directly from our mobile phone. Germany accelerates from behind Each member state finds itself at a very different starting point. In the case of Germany, its government approved a legislative reform in November 2025 that lays the foundations for the digital driving license, and the Bundestag ratified the bill just last month. For the country, the goal is to have the national digital card available before the end of 2026. Thus, in Germany drivers can now carry their vehicle’s registration certificate in digital format. They do this through the i-Kfz app, developed by the German Federal Printing Office and the Federal Traffic Agency. The driving license itself is integrated into that same application. It will start as a volunteer One of the most relevant aspects of the EUDI Wallet design is that its use is voluntary. In principle no one is obliged to have it. But history repeats itself, and seeing what we have already experienced with the great digital transitions (online banking, contactless payments, making an appointment online…), it is possibly the first step so that something that begins as something optional ends up being the norm and whoever does not use it in the coming decades has the risk of being at a disadvantage for certain procedures. In Mexico they have a similar messalthough there they are going through a bigger problem that involves several fronts. On the other hand, it should be noted that the system also incorporates quite complete security and privacy measures. An example: if someone needs to prove that they are of legal age to buy alcohol, the wallet could confirm only that information without revealing name, address or any other personal information, something that in computing is known as Zero-Knowledge (an architecture to verify one piece of information without revealing other more sensitive ones). Bad business for a minor who wants to buy alcohol, but a return to ‘excuse me sir, could you buy me beer?’ The regulation establishes that citizens will have full control over what data they share with third parties, and that wallets will have to publish their code under an open source license to ensure transparency and independent audits. The outlook is green in several countries With the December 2026 deadline upon us, the reality is that not all countries will arrive at the same time or with the same level of functionality. Netherlands, for example, already has pointed out that will probably not meet the deadline, and several member states are starting from digital identity infrastructures that are still … Read more

There is a company that remains committed to saving the manual gearbox no matter what the cost: BMW

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The manual gearbox has been around for years on the tightrope within the motor world. More and more brands are abandoning it, emissions regulations are stifling it and suppliers are not exactly in favor of manufacturing it in smaller quantities. However, BMW’s M division has not yet signed his death certificate. What BMW said. Sylvia Neubauer, Vice President Customers, Brand and Sales at BMW M, confirmed in an interview with the German media Automobilwoche that the division’s engineers continue to actively work to find a solution that allows the clutch pedal to be maintained in its future models. Neubauer did not go into technical details, but according to the publication, the executive “promises a solution.” The technical problem. The obstacle is not so much power as torque. BMW M’s inline six-cylinder engines generate torque figures that current manual gearboxes cannot absorb without mechanical compromise. A clear example: the BMW M2 CS arrived without a manual gearbox option precisely because the transmission was not capable of managing the engine torque. The same S58 that produces 553 HP in the 3.0 CSL has torque limited to 550 Nm with manual, while in other configurations it can deliver an extra 100 Nm. And developing a completely new and more robust manual transmission for use in only a handful of models is, according to the head of BMW MFrank van Meel, “something that does not add up economically.” The possible solution: decelerated engines. What the engineers would be exploring is artificially limit torque output in engines that are paired with a manual transmission. It is not a new concept, it is already happening currently with the M2, whose automatic version has 50 Nm more torque than the lever variant. The question is whether buyers will be willing to accept that compromise in upcoming models. What models are left with a manual. After the Z4 M40i goes out of production this month, BMW M is left with only three cars equipped with a stick shift: the M2, M3 and M4. The current M3 is close to the end of its life cycle, with a replacement expected in 2028. What we do not know is if its new generation will arrive with a manual gearshift. From BMW Blog they are not very clear. The M2 and M4, however, still have plenty of power for a while. Why is it so difficult to save he manual. It is a constant pressure that comes from several fronts. Emission regulations in Europe they tighten more and more (in 2030, manufacturers must reduce fleet emissions by 55% compared to 2021) and automatic vehicles consume less in the approved cycle. Driving assistance systems are designed almost exclusively to work with automatic transmissions. And the transmission providers themselves They prefer to work with large volumesnot with short runs of manuals for niche enthusiasts. What this means. BMW M isn’t closing the door, but it isn’t opening any wide either. The brand is betting on saving time (and not disappointing its most purist customer base) while solving an engineering problem that is very economical. If the solution is to decelerate the engines with manual transmission, that could generate debate among those who expect maximum performance in each configuration. But for those who value the driving experience over the information on paper, it may be enough. In Xataka | China has been boasting about its driverless robotaxis for years. Until more than 100 have stood at once in Wuhan

They are committed to colonizing it before 2030

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The Artemis program has been a source of news for a long time because of the many delays that have been accumulating their space missions. But now it has suffered the biggest turnaround in its recent history when the cancellation of the construction of the Gateway space station in its current form, as NASA’s own administrator has confirmed. Now the goal is to build a permanent base. The initial plan. What until recently was the cornerstone of humanity’s return to the Moon has today been discarded. As reported by ABC, NASA has decided that building a toll station in lunar orbit is no longer a priority for them, or it is not a priority for Donald Trump’s plans. This move represents a radical restructuring of the Artemis program, which shifts all attention to Artemis IVscheduled for 2028, which would lead to flights between the Moon and Earth being made every six months to have a permanent presence on our satellite. The reason. The decision to destroy the Gateway was not born from a whim, but from the pure need to optimize the resources and time available. As noted, maintaining the development of a station that orbits the Moon was posing an internal barrier to the main objective they had set: establishing a permanent human presence on the Moon with regular flights. But there is also politics involved, since Donald Trump himself put duties on NASA: we must accelerate the return of humans to the Moon, establish a permanent base and reinforce the country’s leadership in space. And it is something that has an expiration date, since Trump wants to see this accomplished before his term ends before 2029, to say that he was the president who achieved this achievement again. The problem is that China is after this same objective. The private sector. You cannot understand this paradigm shift without them. The restructuring that Isaacman has announced seeks to make NASA much more agile in the face of fierce competition from giants like SpaceX and Blue Origin, which do not leave the federal agency in a good position. These companies are developing vehicles, such as the Starship from SpaceX or the Blue Moon from Blue Origin, whose charging capabilities make the need for an intermediate station like the Gateway, from a logistical point of view, increasingly redundant. Isaacman seems to have understood that to maintain the agency’s relevance and speed, it must adapt to the new monsters in the aerospace sector that have created a large field of competition. The existing hardware. Without a doubt, this is going to cause a lot of headaches for aerospace engineers. As space exploration experts had already been analyzing, the adjustments for missions like Artemis IV were going to require a large intermediate process. Now, Gateway’s cancellation raises immediate challenges about what to do with hardware and contracts that were already underway or in advanced stages of development. Adapting the lunar landing systems and Orion spacecraft for direct missions to the surface without the support of the orbital station will require a deep technical review in the coming months. And the problem is that the calendar does not stop putting pressure on us to have ever earlier results. News on Mars. In addition to this big change to Artemis, NASA has announced the launch of the Space Reactor-1 Freedom, the first interplanetary spacecraft powered by nuclear energy, whose objective will be Mars and will be launched before the end of 2028. This project wants to make the United States stand out before the rest of the planet with the use that can be given to nuclear energy. And it is no wonder, since this technology promises to offer power to reach distant regions such as, for example, Jupiter, where traditional solar panels lose effectiveness. But also, upon reaching the red planet this rocket will deploy ‘Skyfall’, a fleet of Ingenuity-class helicopters to continue exploration beyond. Images | NASA (2) In Xataka | In 2018, Elon Musk put his own car into orbit. Eight years later it is still circling the Earth

Germany has a plan to lead the world in nuclear fusion. And it has committed to doing so in the 2030s

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Germany is very serious about nuclear fusion. The state of Bavaria, the company specialized in the development of type nuclear fusion reactors stellarator Proxima Fusion, the energy company RWE AG and the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics (IPP) have agreed to collaborate in the development and implementation of the first fusion power plant of type stellarator of Europe. And, presumably, the world. Its strategy seeks to bring this facility into operation in the 2030s with the purpose of demonstrating a net energy gain. This simply means that the reactor should be able to produce more energy than it consumes. Alpha, which is what this demonstration fusion reactor will be called, will be built in Garching, very close to the IPP facilities. However, this is not all. And Alpha will be used to test the technological solutions that will later allow the construction of Stellaris, the first commercial plant of stellarator type fusion energy. The latter will be hosted in the town of Gundremmingen. If the organizations involved in this project achieve their goal over the next decade, Germany will consolidate itself as a world power in fusion energy. Germany firmly believes in ‘stellarator’ fusion reactors Experimental nuclear fusion reactors stellarator They represent a very solid alternative to tokamakas ITER either JET. And they are not exactly the result of recent research. In fact, both designs were designed during the 1950s. He stellarator It was designed by the American physicist Lyman Spitzer and served as the foundation on which the plasma physics laboratory at Princeton University (USA) was built. The design tokamakHowever, it was devised by the Soviet physicists Igor Yevgenyevich Tamm and Andrei Dmítrievich Sakharov based on ideas proposed a few years earlier by their colleague Oleg Lavrentiev. Both reactors were designed with the purpose of confining very high temperature plasmaand, curiously, during the 50s and 60s the design stellarator received great support from the scientific community in the West due to its enormous potential. ‘Tokamaks’ require that magnetic fields be generated by coils and induced by the plasma itself However, when Soviet and American scientists published their results and compared them, they realized that tokamak design performance was one or two orders of magnitude better than that of the stellarator. From that moment on, this latter design was largely marginalized. The most obvious difference between one and the other lies in their geometry, but it is enough to investigate a little about both to realize that the reactors stellarator they still have a lot to say. type reactors tokamak They are shaped like a toroid (or donut), and stellarator They have a more complex geometry that resembles a donut twisted on itself. However, the fundamental difference that exists between these two designs is that the reactors tokamak require that the magnetic fields that confine the plasma be generated by coils and induced by the plasma itself, while in reactors stellarator everything is done with coils. There is no current within the plasma. This means, in short, that the latter are more complex and difficult to build. In Europe we have a type fusion reactor stellarator extraordinarily promising: Wendelstein 7-X. It is installed in one of the buildings of the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics in Greifswald (Germany), and its construction was completed in 2015. The first tests carried out in this fusion reactor between 2015 and 2018 went as planned, so in November of this last year an important moment arrived in its itinerary: it was necessary to modify it to install a water cooling system that was capable of more effectively evacuating the residual thermal energy from the walls. of the vacuum chamber, as well as a system that would allow the plasma to reach a higher temperature. The work that required these modifications was successfully completed in August 2022. And in February 2023, the Wendelstein 7-X reactor reached an important milestone: it managed to confine and stabilize the plasma for 8 uninterrupted minutes in which it delivered a total energy of 1.3 gigajoules. During the last two years everything learned in the development and the first tests carried out on this machine has been used by Proxima Fusion. In fact, its founders come from the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics. If Alpha goes well, commercial fusion energy will be a reality before the end of the next decade. This is the true purpose of Proxima Fusion. Image | Generated by Xataka with Gemini More information | Interesting Engineering In Xataka | An alternative to ITER in nuclear fusion is being cooked in France: a commercial ‘stellarator’ reactor

The Government remains committed to ending telephone SPAM and is now targeting electricity companies. It’s still a shot in the air

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The Spanish Government’s crusade against SPAM calls continues. At the beginning of the week, the Ministry for the Ecological Transition and the Demographic Challenge approved the new General Regulations supply, marketing and aggregation of electrical energy. The main purpose of this is, according to the Government, to protect consumers through new measures. And one of them collides head-on with a recurring practice of marketers: SPAM calls. The measure. After the entry into force of the new regulation, telephone calls to advertise or contract services are prohibited, as long as “they have not been expressly requested by the consumer in advance or they are the one who calls the company.” It will not have immediate effect, companies will have four months to adapt to the regulations, under penalty of fines of between 600,000 and 6,000,000 euros if they fail to comply, according to the Law 24/2013, of the Electrical Sector. There is more. In addition to the prohibition of calls without express consent, the Royal Decree establishes the obligation to provide a completely free customer service number, as well as a maximum period of 15 days to respond to user claims and complaints. It is also prohibited to cut power to electro-dependent consumers on holidays and eves. Very nice, but. Although the Government has been trying to tackle the SPAM problem for more than a year, the reality is very different. According to the OCU, 99% of Spaniards (me among them, this week) continue to receive unwanted calls. Some companies continue to take advantage prior consent to send advertising communications, and others are providing their call centers with telephone numbers outside the traditional prefixes to continue with their practice, despite the fact that the law penalizes it. An endless war. The war against SPAM does not only affect Image | Xataka In Xataka | If you are tired of receiving spam calls every day, good news: MasOrange is tired too

Today it is committed to self-sufficiency as a strategic pillar

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We are witnessing in real time how China is becoming an increasingly decisive player in a wide variety of sectors. Some of these changes are very visible from the outside, such as its leadership in the production of electric cars. Others, however, understand themselves better by looking inward. In a new video from Xataka’s YouTube channel We analyze one of those less obvious but strategically key turns: how the Asian giant has gone from being the largest importer of liquefied natural gas on the planet to commit decisively to self-sufficiency. The piece that we bring you today is added to other content that we publish regularly, such as our podcast ‘Science and Apart’, ‘Domotize or die trying’ or different videos focused on China. Among them, the one that addressed the transformation of the country into the first “electrostate” in history. On this occasion, it is Ana Boria who delves into the role of liquefied natural gas, with a detailed and well-contextualized approach that helps understand why this movement goes far beyond the energy level. From the world’s largest importer to the search for self-sufficiency It is no secret that energy is a critical issue in any country, but it takes on an especially sensitive dimension in Europe. Therefore, before getting into the matter, our colleague compares the situation of the Asian country with that of the Old Continent. “The European strategy is based on prevention“Not to produce more gas, but to accumulate supply and diversify suppliers to avoid cuts,” he explains, and from there he offers several keys to understand the profound differences between both models. In the Chinese case, remember that “relatively recently, the Chinese model involved importing LNG from many regions of the world: Australia, Qatar, the United States or Russia, and complementing it with gas via gas pipeline, especially from Central Asia and Siberia.” That approach began to change due to a combination of factors, including the implementation of the plan Made in China 2025made official in 2015 with the objective of turning the country into a global technological power and reducing strategic dependencies. For some time now, China has been seeking to leave behind its role as a major LNG importer to become a self-sufficient player, and the data points in that direction. “Between January and June 2025, China produced 130.8 billion cubic meters of natural gas, 5.8% more than in the same period of the previous year”says our colleague, a figure that illustrates the magnitude of the change that is taking place. Achieving self-sufficiency in a resource as critical as liquefied natural gas is not just an industrial issue. It is also a first-order strategic lever, with economic, geopolitical and energy security implications. “China has invested in new deep drilling techniquesin extraction methods for unconventional gas and in adapting existing technologies to its own geology, which is more complex than that of other large producers,” explains Ana. From there, she outlines the pillars that have allowed the country to advance towards this objective, the advantages it has and the challenges it still must overcome, always relying on figures and context. We invite you to see the full video on our YouTube channel and share your opinion both there and in this article. Images | Xataka In Xataka | China dominates the world of renewable energy, but it has an Achilles heel: it depends on the West more than it admits

The official story says that Hitler committed suicide in his bunker. Conspiracy theory says he escaped through Galicia

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There is nothing simpler, more fruitful and irreversible than lighting the fuse of conspiracy theories. This is demonstrated wonderfully by the fact that perhaps, and with the permission of the Neil Armstrong moon walkbe the mother of them all: the death of Adolf Hitler. Although there are recent research which show that the Fuehrer He passed away in 1945 with the help of a sip of cyanide and a bullet. Throughout the last three quarters of a century, stories have circulated, each one more outlandish than the other, placing him after May 1945 as—watch the list—a hermit in a remote italian cave, pastor in the Swiss Alps, croupier in a french casino, family man in Argentina or wandering around Ireland or Colombia. One of these theories, however, is much closer to us. And it aims for an escape worthy of Hollywood with a stop in Galicia. A well studied death. In 2018 the coroner Philippe Charlier published in European Journal of Internal Medicine a study which aroused almost as much interest among historians and conspiracy theorists as among his own pathological colleagues. The reason: corroborated that Adolf Hitler died in 1945. The conclusion is valuable because between March and July 2017 Charlier and his colleagues achieved a milestone: the Russian secret services allowed them to analyze the supposed remains of the Fuehrer which are preserved in Moscow for independent examination. Their study concludes, first, that the teeth are real because they could be identified thanks to complicated dental history of Hitler. Second, the remains show blue stains that indicate that their owner may have ingested cyanide to end his life. The researchers did not find traces of gunpowder, but they did analyze a skull fragment attributed to the Fuehrer with a hole in the left side, probably made by a bullet. Both data confirm the most accepted version about the death of the Nazi leader: Hitler died on April 30, 1945 in his bunker with Eva Braun after consuming cyanide and shooting himself. End of the speculations, then? This is certainly true for Professor Charlier, who he even guaranteed to the AFP agency that he has no doubts about the authenticity of the teeth and that his study puts an end to any conspiracy theory. “Now we can stop them all. Hitler did not go to Argentina on a submarine, he is not hiding in a base in Antarctica or on the dark side of the Moon,” the coroner insisted: “Our study proves that he died in 1945.” Of course, not everyone shares his conviction. Over the decades, theories have circulated that the Nazi leader managed to escape the bunker and the Soviet siege and started a new life in places as remote as northern Italy, the Swiss Alps, eastern France and of course Argentina, perhaps the version that has achieved the most popularity among conspiracy theorists. Why’s that? Such conspiratorial fecundity is largely explained by the circumstances in which Hitler died and date back to 1945, practically the same day of his death. On May 1, 1945, Hamburg radio broadcast without going any further a version which is quite far from what is considered official today: the chain claimed that Hitler had fallen “fighting until his last breath” and with “the death of a hero.” Little to do with a suicide with cyanide and a gun. It didn’t take long for stories to spread about an alleged murder, a brain hemorrhage, euthanasia and of course a successful escape. The end of Fuehrer did not help extinguish those stories. As the BBC remindshistory tells us that Hitler’s body was burned and ended up in a ditch in the Chancellery garden opened by a bomb. Soviet counter-surveillance agents found his body there shortly after, on May 5. The state of Fuehrer It was such at that time that, to identify him clearly, they decided to use his jaw. During the process they had the help Käthe Heusermannwho had served as Hitler’s dentist’s assistant. The remains were moved from one point to another until in 1970 it was decided to cremate them and throw their ashes. Hitler on a walk through Galicia? At the root of the conspiracy theories surrounding the end of Hitler there is a lot of geostrategy and politics, such as explains to the BBC Luke Daly-Groves, a historian at the University of Leeds, who remembers that Stalin weakened his opponents every time he claimed that Hitler could have escaped to Spain or Argentina. “Their strategy was to associate the West with Nazism and make it appear that the British or Americans must be hiding it,” agrees Anthony Beevorauthor of ‘Berlin: the fall of 1945’. With that backdrop, one of the versions that is closest to us emerged: that the Fuehrer ended up in Galicia. What it tells us such a theory is that after simulating his suicide Hitler managed to escape from the bunker, get on board a plane in the templehof airport and fly to Barcelona, ​​from where he went to Galicia. Once in Vigo he managed to board a submarine and flee to Argentina, where he lived until 1960 and started a new life with Eva Braun. another version talks about how shortly after the episode of FührerbunkerIn May 1945, a German plane arrived in Lugo with Hitler on board. There are those who even goes further and places it in the monastery of Samos. Worthy of Hollywood… and History Channel. True, the story may seem like something out of a book Dan Brown or the script of a Hollywood thriller with uchronic overtones, but Vigo’s theory has more preaching than it may seem a priori. Good proof is that a few years ago he starred in a History Channel documentary that was based, in turn, on 700 documents declassified by the FBI shortly before. There are variants about the supposed stay of the Fuehrer in Galician lands, but it is usually pointed out that he ended up getting on a submarine with which he … Read more

Samsung is committed to fighting with nails and teeth the most powerful mobile chip race. The perfect candidate finally has

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The world of semiconductors has a look set on the next generation of integrated circuits manufactured in lithographic processes of 2 nm. Meanwhile, the most advanced processors for mobile phones continue to use the 3 Nm processes. Giants such as TSMC have demonstrated their good work with proposals such as Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elitehe Apple A18 Pro Apple, and even the Xiaomi Xring 01. Now it is Samsung’s turn. The company has presented its Exynos 2500and it is much more than a processor. It is the company’s great opportunity to dissipate doubts about the performance of its mobile chips, one of the keys for the company’s semiconductor division to remain alive. Between surrender and reinvent the design of its highest range mobile processors, Samsung has chosen the second option. Why is it important. The Samsung Exynos 2500 It has been playing since last yearwith a production that did not enter into mass for the low performance he showed in the leaked tests. Going forward with the proposal does not show only that Samsung trusts this proposal: it is a message to the world about the point where they are and can become semiconductors. The company has not revealed what device this processor will premiere but, taking into account that there are Rumors on the table about a new unpackedit is more than likely to know him soon. The exynos 2500. I will not get bored with excessive technical data from the processor. Your keys are summarized in a simple way. It has a ten -core design, just like Xiaomi’s own processor. It is the only high -end processor, next to the Xring, with this design. It is its greatest particularity. Promises to be 39% more powerful in the process of AI. Supports cameras of up to 320 megapixels. It is built in the 3 Nm GAA process. Its largest nucleus is up to 15% more powerful than its predecessor. The main doubts are how these numbers will be translated in real use. Its architecture is quite similar to that of Xiaomi Xring (with Cortex X925, A725 and A520) and a Samsung Xclipse 950 GPU that will have to compete with the best adreno. The message. Ten -core CPU, cameras of 320 MPenergy efficiency and improvements in AI. Samsung has not fallen excessively Marketinians nor has he made promises that he cannot fulfill. It is a more powerful processor than the previous one, centered on AI and with support for the best technologies of the moment. The rest is about to prove. The key to Samsung. Samsung has been facing problems with its semiconductor division for years. Lose clients like Google To provide the pixel with their processor, it is one of the most recent blows, and survive to arrive with decent performance to the 2 Nm career is crucial for the future of the company. The company has delayed two of its most important projects today: the construction of its second manufacturing plant of avant -garde chips in Taylor (USA) and in Pyeongtaek (South Korea). They are projects that are still underway And they will be key to the development of their semiconductors but … it will use without customers. Exynos 2500 is the most recent test of the point where Samsung is in mobile chips. If it fails, the company will have it more difficult than ever to continue attracting investment. Image | Xataka, Samsung

Thousands of ASUS routers have been committed to an intrusion campaign: restart them does not eliminate the threat

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A new intrusion campaign has put several models of ASUS routers. According to GraynoiseSpecialized in cybersecurity, at least three different devices would be exploited by an actor “highly trained and with sufficient resources.” Sophisticated threats are usually aimed at very specific objectives, but this campaign has a broader pattern. Researchers have already detected about 9,000 committed devices, and ensure that the number continues to increase. It is believed that the foundations could be laying for a future botnet, Key piece for DDOS attacks. Persistent access without malware The attackers get initial access through brute force techniques And the use of evasion strategies that still do not have an identifier Cve. In cybersecurity, a CVE (acronym for common vulnerabilities and exposures) is a standard reference that is used to catalog known vulnerabilities publicly. {“Videid”: “X801AZU”, “Autoplay”: False, “Title”: “How to protect your Android from viruses and malware: tricks and advice”, “tag”: “”, “duration”: “271”} After that first step, cybercriminals take advantage of a specific vulnerability already documented, identified as CVE-2023-39780to execute arbitrary commands and modify the router configuration from within. The objective is not to install a traditional spy virus or software, but something more subtle: open a remote rear door. To do this, they enable SSH access in a specific port (TCP/53282) and insert their own public key into the NVRAM memory, a type of internal storage that It is not erased by restarting the router nor when updating your firmware. In this way, the attacker’s access persists in time, without leaving obvious signs. The researchers have replicated the attack on several specific models, including the ASUS RT-AC3100, RT-AC3200 and RT-AX55. It is not an official list of committed devices, but a clue to which they could be in the spotlight. At the moment, it is not ruled out that there are other models also exposed. Greynoise has not officially attributed the campaign to any specific group. However, he points out that the techniques used (the use of legitimate functions of the system, the deactivation of the activity records and the absence of visible malware) are usual characteristics of Very elaborate attacks and long -term planned. These types of operations are usually linked to the calls APTacronym in English of Advanced Persistant Threat. These are cyber -cyber -acting groups that act with advanced technical means, great discretion and very defined objectives, often related to strategic or governmental interests. The finding occurred the past March 18thanks to SIFTan analysis tool developed by Greynoise. The publication of the details It was intentionally delayed to facilitate coordination with public agencies and companies in the sector before making it public. How to know if your router has been committed Asus has corrected vulnerability CVE-2023-39780 In a recent firmware update. However, if the device was compromised before applying that patch, remote access can remain active. Greynoise offers a series of steps that can help detect whether a router has been affected, although it is true that some of them They can be complex for those who are not familiar with technical concepts or do not handle with ease in the advanced device configuration. Even so, it is convenient to meet them: Access the configuration of your router and verify if the access by SSH is enabled in the TCP/53282 port. Check the file called Authorized_Keyssince it could contain an unauthorized public key. Block these IP addresses, associated with the campaign: 101.99.91.151, 101.99.94.173, 79.141.163.179 and 111.90.146.237. If you suspect that your device is affected, perform a complete factory restoration and configure it manually. In Xataka Openai has just demonstrated that the AI ​​no longer completely obeys: O3 sabote its own shutdown to continue working The scale of the attack and its ability to stay hidden reinforce a key lesson: the safety of domestic routers should not be taken for granted. Although in this case malware has not been installed, the attackers They have left an open door. We have contacted Asus to request comments on this campaign and know if they plan to offer new additional measures or recommendations. This article will be updated if we receive an official response for its part. Images | Freepik | Asus In Xataka | Alcasec is not any youth hacker: he set up a Spanish criminal infrastructure that even had customer service bot (Function () {Window._js_modules = Window._js_modules || {}; var headelement = document.getelegsbytagname (‘head’) (0); if (_js_modules.instagram) {var instagramscript = Document.Createlement (‘script’); }}) (); – The news Thousands of ASUS routers have been committed to an intrusion campaign: restart them does not eliminate the threat It was originally posted in Xataka by Javier Marquez .

President of Pumas is committed to reinforcing the template

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The president of the Pumas of the UNAM in the MX League, Dr. Luis Raúl González, was willing to continue making the necessary movements to be able to strengthen the team And thus have the best possible performance in the 2025 Clausura Tournament to achieve the pass to the Liguilla and also fight for the title of Aztec football champion. These statements were made to various media in which he assured that “everything can happen” with respect to the closing of the present passes market; This due to the growing rumors about several changes in some records belonging to the Feline Institution. The last days rumors have emerged about the possible departure of Mexican striker Rogelio Funes Mori, who has not had the expected result since his arrival at the club; Before this, the president of Pumas explained that there is no concrete information in this regard and so far it remains as a key figure of the workforce. “This does not end until it ends. That is, the closure of records is latent. And as long as the record is still alive, everything can happen ”González said in his statements. “As I have told you, there are so many things that are said by different sources of information so as not to label only one, which I would tell you about the table there is nothing concrete. Funes Mori is on the squad. So, that is the situation of Funes Mori and any member of the team“He added. Anselmi opinion Finally, the Puams manager was questioned about the abrupt departure of Martín Anselmi from the Cruz Azul Machine; Given this fact, he said that they are facts that occur within football and team work is to move forward and find a replacement quickly. “They are circumstances that happen. Treat with any team. I am not going to refer concretely to the team that you mention. In general, what is sought is precisely in contracts to try to shield for both parties and the guarantees that allow legal certainty. Something that deprives and must deprive in every negotiation is the certainty of what is signed. And in that sense there are shields. The best instruments are contractual agreements, ”he said. “Referring to any circumstance that any team can face, that has happened to us on different occasions. Pumas happened and I recognized the frankness of (Antonio) Mohamed when he retired. Then I think they are situations that are given and that each team fixes it according to their contexts and according to what was agreed, ”he concluded. Continue reading: –Soccer games today, live: time and TV of what you can see this Tuesday, January 28–President of Rayo Vallecano commands James Rodríguez–UANL tigers confirms its first reinforcement for the Clausura 2025 (Tagstotranslate) Liga MX (T) Pumas of the UNAM

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