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The undisputed winner of the aggressive competition of TSMC, Intel and Samsung is a European company: ASML

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Integrated 2 nm circuits are about to disembark in the market. Users know that nanometers have lost much of their usefulness, and that, in reality, They represent a category of semiconductors. In fact, they no longer faithfully reflect the length of logical doors or other physical parameter, such as the distance between transistors. Each chips manufacturer He manages them with freedomwhich prevents us from directly comparing the lithographs that try to “sell us.” Whatever the important thing is that TSMC, Intel and Samsung are about to engage in a new battle that seeks to capture the maximum possible number of customers for their 2 Nm or comparable line nodes. Whatever happens we can be sure that the great beneficiary of this contest will be The Dutch Company ASML. And it will be because it is the only manufacturer on the planet that produces the equipment of extreme ultraviolet photolithography (UVE) and haute opening that are necessary to go beyond the 2 Nm reaching the optimal performance. Digitimes Asia He has just confirmed that those responsible for the Samsung semiconductors manufacture are weighing the possibility of increasing the number of Uve haute opening machines that will buy at ASML. And, according to this Asian medium, it will do it because it needs to reduce the technological and commercial gap that separates it from TSMC, which leads the chip market with A fee close to 60%. The Uve High Opening machines are still in the test phase, but there are no doubt that they will be the authentic protagonists of the semiconductor industry in 2026 and successive years. ASML Haute Opening Lithography Machography is an engineering prodigy It weighs as much as two Airbus A320 and incorporates more than 100,000 pieces, 3,000 cables, 40,000 bolts, and also more than 2 km of electrical connections. The photolithography team Twinscan Exe: 5000 Designed and manufactured by ASML is the most sophisticated integrated circuit production machine that exists. And also the most expensive. The most up -to -date information we have reflects that only one of these teams costs 350 million euroswhich will surely cause some chips manufacturers think twice Before buying it. ASML plans to deliver to its customers annually from 2025 about 20 Uve Haute Opening teams ASML engineers have invested a decade in the development of the technology necessary to set up this machine, which, in reality, is a team of extreme ultraviolet lithography (UVE) second generation. This company of the Netherlands plans to deliver to its customers annually From 2025 about 20 teams of this type with a purpose: put in their hands the possibility of producing chips of 2 nm and beyond. Interestingly, to develop this machine, ASML engineers have made a very advanced optical architecture that has an opening of 0.55 compared to the 0.33 value that the first -generation UVE lithography equipment has. This refinement of the optics allows to transfer to the wafer patterns of greater resolution, hence it is possible to manufacture chips using more advanced integration technologies than those currently used in the nodes of 3 Nm. However, this is not all. ASML has also improved the mechanical systems that are responsible for the manipulation of wafers with the purpose of making it possible for a single UVE Machine to be able to produce more than 200 wafers per hour. The cover photography of this article allows us to intuit the extreme complexity and sophistication that one of these teams has, which, by the way, would not be possible without the cooperation of other companies, such as the German Zeiss or Cymer, a company of American origin that is currently consolidated within the ASML structure. Somehow this last company Delivery to ASML the raw material that need their photolithography machines. And that raw material is none other than the ultraviolet light that is responsible for transporting the geometric pattern described by the mask so that it can be transferred with great precision to the surface of the Silicon wafer. Image | ASML More information | Digitimes Asia In Xataka | The great covered in the War of Critical Minerals is Tungsten. The US needs it and 83% have it China

This company is China’s great hope to definitely dispense with Nvidia chips

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In China there are dozens of companies that are dedicated to the design of GPU for applications of artificial intelligence (AI). Stepfun, which belongs to Tencent Holdings; Infinigence ai; Siliconflow, from Huawei; Metax; Biren Technology; Focus me; Iluvatar Corex or Moore Threads They are some of the most important. However, currently One shines more than the others. In fact, as we have anticipated from the head of this article, this company is the best China asset when dispensing with the Nvidia chips. Although it is not as well known as Huawei or Moore Threads, Cambricon Technologies is one of the companies specialized in the design of GPU for AI with greater growth potential. In fact, he has received the approval of the Shanghai bag (China) to raise 560 million dollars. Will allocate them to the design of four chips for training and inference of AI models, and also to the development of an alternative to CUDAfrom Nvidia. To this company everything seems to be going well. And is that during the last twelve months The value of its actions has tripled. The strategic role of AI for China in its technological and commercial war with the US supports Chinese companies dedicated to the hardware design for AI and the development of large language models. However, there is more than promises to boost the business not only of Cambricon Technologies, but also that of the other Chinese companies that design integrated circuits for AI: the Chinese government has decided to force the data centers that belong to the State throughout the country To use at least 50% of Chinese integrated circuits on their servers. Cambricon Technologies is not an emerging company like the others China needs talent to compete with the US on equal terms and knows where you should look for it: in its population. In fact, the Administration has encouraged the implementation of elite educational centers that receive the best students in the country with open arms. The Chen brothers were two of them. Today are the founders and maximums responsible for Cambricon Technologies. The first, Chen Tianshi, exercises as president and general director of this company specialized in chip design for AI applications. And the second, Chen Yunji, is an expert in the development of processors for neural networks that, as far as we know, exercises as an advisor and responsible for technology in Cambricon. Both formed in An elite program for young talents In the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and currently the two are researchers and professors in this educational institution. Your best asset is its complementarity. Tianshi is an expert in chips design, and Yunji in AI. Chen Tianshi and Chen Yunji obtained their doctorates in computer science at age 24 Together they created a project at the Chinese Academy of Sciences that pursued a processor specialized in deep learning. Their plan went well and that chip allowed them to found their company. Their curriculum supports them, and there is no doubt that their effort has helped them reach the position in which they are. In fact, both obtained their doctorates in computer science at age 24. However, Cambricon is not a traditional emerging company. The growth of which we have spoken a few lines above and the expectations it has raised have been led by the support of the Chinese government, which sees in this company the opportunity to achieve the technological self -sufficiency it needs. During the last three years Huawei has established himself as one of the main Chinese GPU designers for AI, but Cambricon has something that this giant does not count at the moment: he combines a very ambitious hardware and A constant software platform improves. Huawei Ascend family chips are very competitive, and also has Cann (Compute Architecture for Neural Networks), what is Your alternative to Cudabut Cambricon is demonstrating that he has the ability to adapt its Neuware software very quickly to the needs of its customers. And in a market in which CUDA governs with iron fist It is a very important asset. Currently the flagship products that have changed to compete with Nvidia and Huawei in the Chinese market are the MLU series (Machine Learning Unit) and yes. In fact, the expectations of the Chinese semiconductor industry defend that the GPU Siyuan 690 will have comparable performance to the chip NVIDIA H100. In addition, Cambricon guarantees that their products are compatible with the models of the leaders in China, such as Deepseek, Qwen de Alibaba or Hunyuan de Tencent, among others, which has allowed it Gain the confidence of the Chinese industry. If we add that, According to Financial Timesfor developers it is easier to use neuware that Cann is reasonable to anticipate that during the next months Cambricon will monopolize the attention of the technology industry. Image | Cambricon Technologies In Xataka | Nvidia has to deal with the absolute distrust of several US legislators. His plan in China is in danger In Xataka | The US wants to end the chips for the Chinese that are sold abroad. And China knows how to defend oneself

Windows 95 still supports an essential part of this company in Germany. The question is how much more time it will endure

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At this point, almost everyone knows that Windows 10 You have the days counted and your support will go out soon. Microsoft pushes strong Windows 11but the jump is not free, Hardware requirements They raise a barrier that forces many to renew their teams. In terms of security, the recommendations are clear, staying in a system without support means exposing yourself to failures already vulnerabilities without solution. That is the general framework. And, yet, there are stories that call into question the manual and force us to look at compatibility from another angle. The theory says that no one should continue depending on systems that were obsolete decades ago. The practice is different. In Germany, WDR accountan agricultural business works thanks to specific software that runs on Windows 95, a system that in August was 30 years old. The critical part of the line rests on a chain of compatibilities that supports production and traceability. Migrating sounds logical, but each change threatens controllers, peripherals and calibrations. That is why the dilemma is not nostalgia, it is operational continuity in a plant that cannot be stopped. When the business depends on 1995 We talk about a farm with a machine that dominates the entire processfrom the entrance tray to the final packaging. The flow is millimeter, the eggs are advanced, weigh, are labeled by quality and are distributed in commercial formats of six and ten. Coordination carries it A software developed for the machinewhich works on Windows 95 and uses its environment to interact with sensors and peripherals. That coexistence explains why the business is still tied to a system thirty years ago, changing a link can mismatch the entire chain. If the system falls, the mechanical line will continue to move eggs, but the entire digital record disappears. Traceability would have to be done by hand, with more work and more error risk. The fact that the equipment is not connected to the Internet reduces certain threats, but does not eliminate other more prosaic, old hard drives, discontinued printers or electrical components exhausted by use. At that point, the problem would not be a cyber attack, but the difficulty of finding a spare time to keep production alive. Stability is real, resilience is less. The cost of replacing the line goes far beyond buying a new machine. According to the person in charge, it is equivalent to the investment necessary for a family house, an amount that many farms cannot assume suddenly. In addition, the substitution requires paralyze production For weeks, certify processes and return to the staff. Maintaining the current system is not free either, it forces components that only exist in second -hand catalogs. The decision becomes a balance, millionaire modernization or artisanal maintenance of the inherited ecosystem. The case is used for those who plan Windows 10 to Windows 11. The end of support is forcing companies of all sizes to audit inventories, drivers and internal applications before moving card. The lesson is simple and demanding at the same time. Forcing the update without validating the complete chain can break critical processes, while being motionless eternals risks and dependencies. Between both ends, the road map goes through measuring, testing and migrating in phases, with clear priorities and reversibility. The global photo confirms it. FAA in the United States promotes a renovation that points to Remove obsolete technologies in air control systems and leave behind the use of floppy. Japan closed in 2024 the era of disk in the administration after a regulatory cleaning that eliminated hundreds of procedures that demanded it. And in San Francisco, the Metro operator has financed replacement of a railroad control that still depended on loading software From disks. The pattern is repeated more than it seems. Images | Microsoft | Katie Bernotsky In Xataka | Microsoft is already thinking about how the computers of 2030 will be and has come to a conclusion: playing is overvalued

Only “a miracle” can save the company that launched Yuri Gagarin

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What until now were rumors and suspicions It has become the harsh reality confirmed from within. And in the most brutally possible way possible. The legendary RSC Energy, the pillar on which the entire Soviet and Russian space program was built, is in a “critical situation”, on the verge of bankruptcy. It does not say a western analyst, but the general director of the Russian company, Igor Maltsev, in an internal statement that contradicts the Kremlin propaganda. “We have to stop lying.” Far from the usual fanfare, the message published on the occasion of the 79th anniversary of RSC Energia lacks euphemisms. “Multimillionaire debts, loan interests that eat the entire budget, ineffective processes and a significant part of the team that has lost motivation and the sense of shared responsibility,” writes Maltsev. Filtered by The Russian medium Gazeta.ru And confirmed by multiple sources, the message is a low blow for Russian space propaganda. Maltsev was appointed director just three months ago and has needed little time to understand the magnitude of the disaster. In his letter, he affirms that the legacy of geniuses like Serguéi Koroliov “has been exhausted” and that, in recent years, “all important projects and all deadlines have been breached.” On the verge of bankruptcy. In a desperate cry, Maltsev warns their thousands of employees that the future might not be the “flourishing of RSC Energy”, but the “closing of the corporation and the impossibility of functioning normally, paying salaries and creating new products.” The conclusion of your message, Full -widespread in Telegram channelsIt is almost a plea to heaven: to get the company forward is a task “of the kingdom of miracles”. It is a radical change against the usual rhetoric of Roscosmos, which usually focuses on past glories and Grandilocuent future projects But with little financing. As Eric Berger points out in Ars TechnicaThe reality is that the Russian space program is deeply definanced, a situation that has been especially aggravated by the war in Ukraine. With interest rates in 18%, capital is increasingly scarce and debts become unpayable. The end of the Russian monopoly in the ISS. The RSC Energia crisis, manufacturer of the created Soyuz ships and the progress cargo ships coincides with the moment when its role in the International Space Station has ceased to be indispensable. For decades, Russia has been in charge of raising the orbit of the station to counteract atmospheric decay, a task that performs with the engines of the Zvezda module or the progress ships coupled to the ISS. However, his monopoly is already history. NASA, concerned about Russian threats to leave the stationit has been looking for alternatives for years. And he has already found them. As Daniel Marín details in EurekaSpacex’s new CRON-33 ship has been equipped with a specific propulsion system to raise the ISS orbit regularly. This capacity makes the Dragon a robust and reliable alternative to Russian progress, eliminating the main pressure lever that Roscosmos had left at the station. A minimum diplomacy. Ironically, this unprecedented internal crisis coincides with a shy diplomatic thaw. As We counted in XatakaNASA and Roscosmos bosses gathered in August for the first time in almost eight years. On the table, they agreed to maintain cooperation in the ISS until 2028 and collaborate in their future exorbitation. This approach, more than a sign of strength, seems like a pure need maneuver. The space station agrees by leaps and bounds, with the Russian module Zvezda as the main concern for its persistent air leaks. The Maltsev action call is the most obvious symptom that the Russian space program faces a systemic collapse. The loss of its technical monopoly in the ISS, combined with an internal economic bleeding, Leave Roscosmos in its weakest position in decades. The “miracle” requested by the director of Energy is not only to save a historical company, but to prevent one of the great legacies of space exploration from becoming a museum piece. Image | ROSCOSMOS In Xataka | The Marian Rover of ESA is definitely damn: the exomars mission accumulates 20 years of calvary and bad luck

Nvidia has become the most important company in the world. His problem is that he has all the eggs in the same basket

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In Nvidia everything goes on wheels, but Not even enough for Wall Street. The latest quarterly results report has once again demonstrated Eun Eun Exceptional Power, but be careful. The most important company in the world –by stock marketat least – has an Achilles heel. A dangerous concentration of customers. He Official document With the financial results, it refers to a “risk of concentration” of the great clients of Nvidia. The situation is really worrying, because Six customers They accumulate 85% of all income from the company: 10,750 million dollars – Customer A (23% of total ingreoss) 7,480 million dollars – Customer B (16%) 6,540 million dollars – Customer C (14%) 5,140 million dollars – Customer D (11%) 5,140 million dollars – Customer E (11%) 4,670 million dollars – Customer F (10%) The problem goes more, no less. If we only look at the two most important customers, A is responsible for 23% of Nvidia and B revenues of 16%: 39% of income therefore come from only two clients. A year ago the two largest Nvidia clients were responsible for 14% and 11% of income, 25% in total. These data raise an inevitable question: who is who in that client cast. And the answer is not simple. Direct customers … Nvidia makes a distinction between those clients to whom he refers to the document, and that are divided into two large groups, the first is that of direct customers, which are not end users of their chips, but companies that buy the chips and that mounted them in complete systems or on plates that then sell to data centers, infrastructure suppliers in the cloud or final cloud. Among the examples, they indicate In CNBCwould be Foxconn, Quanta or Dell. … and indirect customers. This is where those companies would enter that we are all thinking and use these chips – which they buy from direct customers – in Your gigantic data centers. Microsoft, Openai, Meta, Google, Tesla/Xai and Meta – and even Oracle – are clear candidates, but again, it is impossible to know for sure who is on that list of great buyers. But the two most important are direct. What they do indicate in Nvidia is that customer A and B are direct customers, so they are not theoretically none of those great technological ones. But those definitions of Nvidia are somewhat diffuse, and the company states that some direct customers buy chips to create systems for their own use, so Any of the Big Tech I could enter that definition. To curl the curl, Nvidia said that two of its indirect clients each of them were responsible for 10% of their total income, but above all through the purchase of systems from customers A and B. OpenAI in the pools. In Nvidia they talked about “an AI research and development company” contributed with a “significant” amount of income both through direct and indirect customers. Here are more candidates, but one of the strongest would be Openai, especially now that he is working In the Stargate project. But the situation is dangerous. Be as it may, depending on both so few clients is delicate and creates a dangerous dependency chain. Thus, Nvidia depends on intermediaries that in turn They depend on a handful of technological giants. The company’s destination is in the hands of two buyers who represent almost 40% of their business, but the risk is not only for Nvidia, but for the entire technological ecosystem that depends on their chips. There are not only companies, there are countries buying gpus. Another of the curious data of this report is the one that tells us about how Some foreign governments They are also buying chips massively. In fact, the company expects to enter 20,000 million dollars in these “Sovereign” projects with countries that try to create their own models and artificial intelligence infrastructure. Image | Sharon Waldron edited with Google Gemini In Xataka | Microsoft had a saved secret. His new AI model for Copilot is the clearest statement against Openai’s domain

Nano Banana is not just a great creator of images with AI. It is the greatest danger to Photoshop and company

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Google has been playing hiding place with what is a great threat to Photoshop, at least in its photo editor facet. For weeks, a mysterious tool called “Nano Banana“He has been appearing anonymously into test platforms, leaving amazed professional users. Google finally confirmed that this experimental model is yours and is integrating it into Gemini. Why is it important. We are facing the beginning of the end of the layers, masks and tools that have defined digital design for 30 years. You change the color of a shirt without distorting the face. You add elements without reinventing the background. In 2 seconds, no 15. For professional uses it is not ready. For first sketches or for domestic use, it is perfect. 10 Google applications that could have triumphed The difference is persistence. Other models generate from scratch with each Promptbut Nano Banana remembers. You can strain about the same image dozens of times. Some examples. Let’s see what can be done with Nano Banana (if you want to know how to try it, We have prepared a guide). Everything has been done are the Prompts that we attach, without more. Original photo: “Create an image with this man but in a Valencian people of the 50s, with clothes, appearance, hairstyle, environment, etc. that are credible for the time.” “Now in the 2050 futuristic Shanghai.” “Now he returns to the original photo and adds this man by his side, posing together for the photo.” “Now back them as two Roman gladiators in the amphitheater.” Let’s go with something else. This Apple announcement in Las Vegas, deployed a few years ago. “Modifies the announcement text to say ‘2×1 in all iPhone models until the end of stock’”. Another different. We give you these two images. “Put this man the red shirt that attached to you.” “Now place him in Mestalla.” “Put a black cap and remove the clock.” All at the blow of Prompt And very fast, more than chatgpt. The money trail. Nano Banana has a cost of $ 0.039 per image of 1024 x 1024 pixels. Adobe has already announced that he will integrate the model in Firefly and Express, as reported Business Insider. His argument (“we offer all the models in one place”) makes sense, although something defensive also sounds. Those who pay dozens of dollars a month for a license to make editions will begin to be renewed. Now it is possible to generate Mockups In minutes, not in days. Some Ecommerce They will stop needing so many photographic sessions. A teacher can create a better adapted diagram than that of publishers. Everything with Prompts of text. In Xataka | Browsers prepare for the most radical transformation in their history. One in which the IA will be Outstanding image | Xataka

He needs it, although he hates a foreign company

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The US and TSMC have had a love-hate relationship for years. For this Taiwanese semiconductor manufacturer, The Major on the Planetthe country led by Donald Trump is very important because A good part of his best clients is American. Nvidia, Apple, AMD, Broadcom or Qualcomm, among other companies, get the chips they design in TSMC’s lithographic nodes. However, this currency has a second face. And it is currently the USA cannot do without TSMC. Intel is American, and It has advanced lithography nodesbut the competitiveness of his Taiwanese rival is difficult to match. TSMC has cemented its leadership on the tuning of a range of Very advanced high integration technologiesand, at the same time, on a colossal production capacity that is only possible reaching a very high wafer performance. The US government knows very well the strength of this company. And also how important it is for US companies that I have mentioned in the previous paragraph. Whatever TSMC is from Taiwan. And this Pedigrí plays against him. Donald Trump has “attacked” verbally on several occasions. In fact, the current US president He made this statement At the end of last January: “In the very close future we will impose tariffs on foreign production of computer chips, semiconductors and pharmaceutical products to return the manufacture of these essential goods to the US (…) went to Taiwan; now we want them to return. We do not want to give them billions of dollars in the ridiculous Biden program. They already have thousands of dollars.” The best TSMC defense against the Trump administration is tip technology The express mention to Taiwan made by the US president was a very clear allusion to TSMC. On this Asian island there are other semiconductor manufacturers, such as UMC (United Microelectronics Corporation) or PSMC (Powerchip semiconductor manufacturing corporation), but its relevance in the chips market is much lower than that of the company currently leads CC Wei. TSMC dominates the integrated circuit market with A quota of approximately 60%so your leadership in the chip manufacturing industry is indisputable. Do what you do in the future, the Trump administration will hardly take off TSMC off guard Do what you do in the future, the Trump administration will hardly take off TSMC. This company has been outlining its strategy for more than four years to extend its semiconductor manufacturing infrastructure Beyond Taiwan’s borders. And he is doing it for two reasons. On the one hand it is an effective way to protect your business if at any time it is triggered A war conflict between China and Taiwanand their plants on the island were useless. And, in addition, TSMC is significantly developing its infrastructure in the US to protect your business in the US market. However, this is not all. The newspaper Taiwan Economic Daily He has published a report in which he ensures that TSMC plans to tune up a cutting -edge semiconductor plant that will be expressly designed to produce 1 Nm chips. It will be housed in the Taiwanese town of Tainan, and will be called ‘Fab 25’. He will work with 12 -inch wafers, will have six production lines and start large -scale manufacturing in 2030. It may seem that there is still a long time left, but it is not so. Building a state -of -the -art chips factory usually requires at least three years. And then TSMC engineers will have to purify and optimize Your 1 nm production nodes. We will see if this company finally fulfills its purpose, but there is no doubt about one thing: the most effective protection against the measures that the administration led by Donald Trump approves in the future is having the best technology in the semiconductor industry. Image | TSMC | Gage Skidmore More information | Digitimes Asia In Xataka | Intel was about to snatch Apple as a client from TSMC. Having achieved its story would be another

A technology entrepreneur sold his company for 1,600 million and only stayed with 100

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The History of Brian O’Kelley It stands out among business and technology holders for a very rare decision in a context of Technological Millionaires. Like many others before him, O’Kelley gave a millionaire ball selling his company Appnexus in 2018 for 1.6 billion dollars. The most surprising thing is that, instead of withdraw with full pocketshe chose to be alone a small part of fortune and donate the rest to beneficial causes. Such and as they counted in Fortunehis position has given what to talk about, especially in a context where more and more entrepreneurs reflect on The social impact of their fortunes and the responsibility of returning part of the benefits to society, instead of limiting itself to accumulating Large amounts of money that would not spend Not in seven lives. His vision of ethical wealth Brian O’Kelley sold his company to AT&T for an amount of $ 1.6 billion in 2018. instead of retire to enjoy your new fortuneO’Kelley had with his wife what he defined as a “really interesting conversation”: decide How much money they needed To live comfortably. “We simply calculate an amount that we consider enough to buy a house and things like that, we double it and give it the rest,” confessed the entrepreneur to Fortune. The final figure were nothing negligible 100 million dollars, equivalent to 10% of their participation in the company after the acquisition. The rest, more than 1.5 billion dollars, was allocated to beneficial causes and social projects. O’Kelley maintains a very clear philosophy about The accumulation of money: “I don’t believe in billionaires. I think it’s simply ridiculous.” For the entrepreneur, the really important thing is to keep the feet on the floor and limit personal wealth to continue making responsible decisions in everyday life. “We never wanted to have so much money that we did not have to make decisions. We have an incredible life, we can do almost everything we want. But we cannot do everything we want. We have to talk about our budget as any other person,” said the millionaire businessman. O’Kelley It is not the only millionaire that assumes one Ethical perspective of its wealthand insist on demanding governments a greater tax imposition For great fortunes. The Founder of Appnexus considers that accumulating billions and show off it It takes you away from reality. “I do not understand why you need 200 billion, 500 billion or even 1,000 million. The joy of appreciating what we have and making those difficult decisions is really fundamental.” Millionaires who do not want to leave inheritance Brian O’Kelley either wants his children to enjoy a life ofprivileges without making any effort To deserve it. “I feel fatal because my children can fly in Business“, says the millionaire of 1.96 m, ensuring that he does it for comfort.” I have flown all over the world in a tourist class many times, this is to give me a whim, but I do not want to spoil my children. And a lot of this leads me to think about how they see life from their eyes. I want them to share a little of that fight that I had to do to get there. “ This approach goes in line with the growing trend between millionaires like Bill Gates, Warren Buffett or Mick Jaggerwho have announced that They will not leave their fortunes to their children and prefer allocate your money to social works. Gates, for example, states that 99% of his fortune will be donated and that only 1% will go to their children, so they can learn The value of the effort. O’Kelley is overwhelming when talking about ostentatious lifestyles pointing out that hopefully more people question why the style of Jeff Bezos life. “You cannot have a yacht, a helicopter, an island and a large building with your name and all those things, because then you are a bit unbearable. No human being can really appreciate that. It is a waste of incredibly ridiculous money in a world where there are so many people who do not have it.” The entrepreneur considers to stay connected with normality and have limits that allow you to carry A responsible life. “There is something to stay connected to normal that is really important. I don’t want to get to act without consequences. I think that is the greatest risk, how can we be responsible when we have so much money that we can buy anything?” In Xataka | There is a less painful solution for an inheritance not to become a ruin for heirs: give up it Image | Flickr (IAB UK)

A Spanish company imposed facial recognition to enter its gyms. Result: Fine of 96,000 euros

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The Spanish Data Protection Agency (AEPD) has imposed A sanction of 96,000 euros to the gyms chain exceeds to violate the data protection of its customers. The reason? Have imposed facial recognition as the only method of access to your gyms. The facts were denounced by Facua in 2023 and now the resolution has been known. What happened? On August 4, 2023, a claim was filed to SIDECU, a company based in A Coruña in charge of the gyms. According to the document (PDF), the Sports Center exceeds Entrepuentes in Seville was “denying access to the facilities” because a new access method had been implemented through a facial recognition system. “ The complainant considered that this access was “invasive about his intimacy” and “excessive for access to said establishment.” Until the implementation of the facial recognition system, which had not been notified to the partners and was mandatory, it was possible to enter the gym using a card. This claim was added two more and, finally, in September 2023, Facua denounced SIDECU. The defense. Sidec defended himself wielding that he did not store images of the users, but generated a facial pattern through an algorithm patented by the company that developed the system. According to the gyms chain, this “template” was not enough to identify users or deduce their physical characteristics. For SIDECU, this was enough for the system to meet the RGPDbut the truth is that no. The first error. Misunderstand the regulations, thus breaking article 9 of the RGPD. Article 4.14 of the RGPD establishes that biometric data are “personal data obtained from a specific technical treatment, related to the physical, physiological or behavioral characteristics of a natural person that allow or confirm the unique identification of said person, such as facial images or dactyloscopic data.” According to article 9 of the same regulation, the treatment of “biometric data aimed at uniquely identifying a natural person” is prohibited. Image | Ryan Hoffman The second error. Impose the system and not warn, thus breaking article 13 of the RGP. Not only did it not warn users, but facial recognition was the only way to access the establishments and there was no other real option, thus entering the game: consent was not free. It is true that the company ended up implementing an alternative access system (teaching the ID at the door), but its arrival was later to claims. Do not warn users breaches article 13 of the GDPR. The third terror. Do not evaluate the risks, finally breaking article 35 of the RGPD. According to the sentence, SIDEC did not justify why it was necessary to implement this system, above all, less invasive and equally effective alternatives. The AEPD states that the company did not carry out the impact assessment in the protection of personal data (when it was not dealing with personal data) and that it acted without fraud, but negligently and without “the special diligence that is enforceable to this type of treatments.” The sanctions. Three, one for each article violated: 80,000 euros for violating article 9 of the RGPD, 30,000 euros for not having informed users in advance (article 35) and 50,000 euros for not having prepared the impact assessment on personal data protection (article 9). In total, a penalty of 160,000 euros that, due to the recognition of the responsibility and the Sidecu’s soon lamp, has remained at 96,000 euros. Cover image | Gold’s Gym Nepal In Xataka | Unsuspected fine for the European Commission in Europe: it violated its own General Data Protection Regulation

For this company it has meant charging 15,000 euros of a debt

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If you are one of those people who see Unreported Post Office In your entrance tray without immutation, perhaps you should take into account that this habit can reach cost you a disgust economic depending on your professional responsibilities. The Provincial Court of Valencia has sentenced a bankruptcy administrator to pay compensation of 15,000 euros for not responding to emails that for a year sent him a creditive company. A notified debt. As you can read in the sentence Dictated by the Provincial Court of Valencia, a construction company entered into a process of suspension of payments in 2020, so a process of creditors protected by a bankruptcy administrator who is in charge of quantify debts of said company and establish the payment of debts in a timely manner. One of the creditor companies notified the Existence of a debt pending sending two bills due to 2019 and 2020 to the bankruptcy administrator for an amount of 14,202.88 euros. However, and after several emails asking for information about the state of the collection, the bankruptcy administrator gave no response. Demand to the administrator. After several unsuccessful attempts to communicate with the administrator, sending invoices with the sufficient legal deadline. The administrator finally closed the bankruptcy process leaving the crediting company out of the credit plan. Before which, he filed a lawsuit against the administrator. In his allegations, the bankruptcy administrator declared that he had not submitted it on time and that he should have claimed it with more insistence when he saw that his debt did not appear in the reports of payments to creditors. Justice makes it clear: look at your email tray. The magistrates of the Provincial Court of Valencia leave no doubt, and consider that the company notified the debt both by mail and formally. The sentence ensures that it was the responsibility of the bankruptcy administrator to respond to the demands that reach them through a valid communication channel How is email. Therefore, it forces the bankruptcy administrator to pay the debt, although the process has already been closed. José Martínez Carrera, General Director of the Managing Office, who had represented the credit company, declared declared to Digital economy“Finally, this judgment includes the day -to -day problems of creditors, where bankruptcy administrators do not respond to any consultation for the payment of credits against the mass.” The lawyer regrets that it is common for administrators to “give the quiet response”, forgetting that in this process they are legal representatives of the company they manage. From the pandemia nobody takes the phone. The case of neglect in the communications of this bankruptcy administrator is nothing more than one Of the many examples of the drift of some public bodies and private companies that have eliminated or limited significantly the communication options (by telephone or by email), as He denounced Antena 3 news. They maintain the service, but are limited to not attending the calls. “Nothing, they hang up. They don’t put music you, or anything. They don’t take it directly,” a user lamented. Public services such as SEPE or information for immigration or social security care They stopped attending the phone after the pandemic in the absence of dedicated personnel. Now, that neglect of communications also seems to be extended to email. Valencia’s justice is not willing to allow “ghosting” to also extend to email. In Xataka | The best advice to reduce email stress, according to a linguist expert: respond to emails Image | Unspash (Stephen Phillips – Hostreviews.co.uk)

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