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An AI publishes 11,000 podcasts a day by copying local journalists. And at the moment there is no way to stop the avalanche

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An automated podcast network publishes more episodes in 24 hours than many broadcasters do in a year, using AI to convert news articles to audio in minutes. A specific case, that of the channel ‘The Daily News Now!’, helps us to consider how far the scraping of content in the era of generative AI. To loot. The case was put on the table indicator: On January 31, at 2:57 in the afternoon, the newspaper ‘The Chronicle’ (a completely marginal publication: despite being 120 years old, it is published by Duke University, in Durham, and is run and produced entirely by students) published an article about Gemma Tutton, a student and pole vaulter who had won a university competition. Seventeen minutes later, a podcast called ‘Durham News Today’ uploaded an episode titled ‘Gemma Tutton’s Triumphant Return to Pole Vault’ to Spotify. The podcast, of course, had no connection with the newspaper. But it reproduced almost all the data from the original article in the same order, including practically identical phrases. And it is not an isolated case: ‘Durham News Today’ is one of at least 433 programs that make up ‘The Daily News Now!’ podcast network created by Corey Cambridge. As of January 23, ‘DNN’ has published more than 350,000 episodes (approximately 11,000 per day). How they do it. Obviously, with AI: a system of scraping (software automation that extracts large volumes of content) monitors media websites, excises text from published articles, processes it using natural language synthesis tools, converts it into audio and distributes it on platforms such as Spotify. All in a matter of minutes. And they don’t bother to dissemble: according to Indicator, they reproduce the structure, data and writing of pieces published by outlets such as local Fox and NBC affiliates, ‘TechCrunch’, ‘Toronto Star’, ‘The Verge’ or the radio station ‘WRAL’. The tools. To understand why an operation of this type is technically possible today, we must take a look at the ecosystem of tools that has been democratizing synthetic audio production for two years. In September 2024, Google activated the feature globally Audio Overview of NotebookLM. The tool converts any document uploaded by the user into an audio summary. The impact was immediate: NotebookLM went from 652,000 monthly visits in August of that year to 10.5 million in September, an increase of 371% in thirty days. In the three months following the global launch, users accumulated audio with a total duration greater than 350 years of continuous reproduction. NotebookLM normalized the idea of ​​the synthetic podcast, and it was all downhill from there. ElevenLabsspecialized in speech synthesis and valued at more than a billion dollars, launched its GenFM function in December 2024, which allows you to generate complete episodes from text. Wondercraftfunded in part by ElevenLabs, introduced support for editing podcasts generated with NotebookLM. Podcastle, aimed at podcast creators, incorporated speech generation with text to complete or replace fragments of speech. The secret: the price. In an analysis from a similar network (Inception Point AIwhich generates around 3,000 episodes per week with more than fifty AI announcers) producing an episode costs approximately one dollar, and with just 20 listeners the episode is profitable thanks to programmatic advertising. The model does not seek loyal audiences, but search engine positioning: by publishing hyper-specific episodes on cities or niche topics minutes after local media launch their articles, these networks anticipate humans’ capacity for informative immediacy. In other words: ‘The Daily News Now!’ appears in the top Spotify results for local news searches in dozens of American cities. It directly competes (and in many cases surpasses) the media from which it steals content. Legal issues. Cambridge defends itself by saying that its network only accesses “publicly available information” and merely summarizes it. But Indicator found almost thirty episodes of ‘Durham News Today’ that reproduced the structure, order and specific sentences of articles from ‘The Duke Chronicle’: it is not a specific pattern. And Cambridge may still be legally protected, but the problem is more about information ethics than legal details. In any case, in May 2025, the United States Copyright Office came to the conclusion that “publicly accessible” material is not necessarily free to use. There are legal precedents in that direction: in November 2025, a federal judge from New York did not reject the lawsuit by fourteen major publishers (including Forbes, The Atlantic and the Los Angeles Times) against the AI ​​company Cohere, considering that their summaries could constitute direct infringement if they reproduced “structure, sequencing, tone and expressive choices” of the original articles. On the contrary, in April of the same year, the case NYT vs. Microsoft dismissed claims related to the Copilot-generated summaries on the grounds that they were not “substantially similar” to the source articles. Meanwhile, and still without trialthere is the case of the New York Times against OpenAI and Microsoft, accused of using journalistic content to train their models Very clever. There is another detail: we are not talking about the ‘New York Times’, but rather ‘DNN’ concentrates its production on local niche news (university athletics, student councils, cats trapped in trees), first because these contents generate specific searches with little competition on Spotify. And second, because legally it is safer. They point to more fragile journalism models. Meanwhile, distributors like Spotify are developing tools to detect artificial music (removed more than 75 million tracks), but the next step is to make big brands aware that they do not benefit from the exploitation of newsrooms that cannot defend themselves. In Xataka | AI is already a battlefield: Anthropic has just accused DeepSeek and other Chinese companies of “distilling” Claude

Years ago we ridiculed China for copying Western mobile phones. The fact is that now they copy them… and improve them

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We Europeans have integrated into our culture that copying is something negative, an act of theft according to tech industry figures such as John Ive. In China, the culture of ‘shanzai’ It tells us the opposite: learning and replicating what the best teachers do is the best way to reach (or surpass) their level of knowledge. In China, the logic is different. The culture of ‘shanzhai’ It starts from a much more pragmatic premise: learning by replicating the best is the fastest—and most effective—way to reach their level, or even surpass it. For years, seeing Chinese brands copying giants like Apple was a source of ridicule on social networks. Until the country’s technological advance has made the outcome inevitable: copies that no longer only imitate, but also technically improve the products from which they are inspired. The Honor Magic 8 Pro…Air. Apple sets the conceptual pace for where industry trends will move. And, although Samsung was the first with its Galaxy Edge, the race to create increasingly thinner flagships has been started by Apple with its iPhone 17 Air. A model that It is not working very well on a commercial level.precisely because of the sacrifices that supposedly entail creating such a thin mobile phone. It only has one camera. It is the iPhone with the worst autonomy of the entire family iPhone 17 It is, in practical terms, inferior in some key aspects to a base iPhone The most talked about mobile phone this week is the Honor Magic 8 Pro Air, of which we have leaks through JD’s own pageand whose presentation date and part of the design are already confirmed by Honor itself. We will meet him on January 19 in China. Don’t take away my basics. “I’m willing to lose two cameras and suffer with the battery in exchange for a thinner phone.” Said nobody, ever. According to the information leaked, this Honor It has three cameras It has a 5,500mAh battery The rest of the specs will be those expected in any high range honor Power 2. The Honor Magic 8 Pro Air will not be the only Honor model “inspired” by Apple for this 2026. Recently, the company presented its Power 2a mid-range with just 8mm thickness and only 216 grams of weight. In addition to having specs that border on the first line, it is practically a humiliation in terms of battery for all its rivals: it has 10,000mAh, the same as the powerbanks that I have at home for my trips. It’s not a player thing. Xiaomi has even renamed its star flagship from Pro to “Pro Max”, in a model in which even the case of an iPhone 17 Pro Max fits almost perfectly. Differences with the Apple model? Battery… 7,500mAh. In less thickness. Screen with more peak brightness. Double the base memory. Three keys. China It is in one of the best moments to lead the smartphone race. The generational leap in batteries is leaving Western manufacturers behind. The maxim is clear: add all the hardware that fits in the body of the phone. A strategy focused on volume. Giants like Apple or Google need to hit the mark with their flagship model to make their mobile division profitable. Chinese manufacturers maintain their profitability thanks to broader catalogs, with dozens of models that cover all price ranges. A market of traditions. The data of Counterpoint in Q3 2025 They make one thing clear: the lack of technological innovation does not affect Samsung or Apple. The two leading companies maintain their position, followed by Xiaomi, which is already practically traditional in markets such as Europe. Despite this, China is demonstrating something key in a market that aspires to win in the coming years. He not only knows how to copy: he knows how to improve what already exists. In Xataka | China has a replica of 12 European cities with Parisian neighborhoods and part of the Alhambra. And it belongs to Huawei

Germany has spent three nights copying Taiwan. If Russia decides to invade it, it has had an idea: surprise them underground

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Last July, the Taiwan subway experienced an unusual day: Instead of passengers loaded with purses and suitcases, soldiers, soldiers and more soldiers armed with anti-tank missiles began to arrive at Taipei stations. The reason was twofold: to send a message inside and outside (China) of the country. That idea seduced Germany, and now that it has begun its rearmament it has launched in Berlin. A disturbing return. The exercise Bollwerk Bärlin III Last week, he returned to the German capital a scene that seemed banished to the memories of the 20th century: soldiers descending U-Bahn stairsjumping onto the tracks and advancing through smoke, simulated gunshots and cars taken over by “saboteurs.” For three nights, between 1 and 4 in the morning, about 250 members of the Wachbataillon (a unit known for its ceremonial role but with infantry functions) transformed stations like Jungfernheide into a real underground battlefield to practice assaults, close combat, evacuation of civilians and protection of critical infrastructure in a realistic environment in which nothing is altered or mocked up: the narrowness of the tunnels, limited visibility and changes in light are the same as they would find in a real war scenario. In the background: Russia. They remembered the TWZ analysts that this return to urban warfare in tunnels and stations, without embellishments or theatrical simulations, symbolizes a profound change in Germany’s strategic priorities and revealed the extent to which the shadow of a possible conflict with Russia has penetrated into the very heart of Germany. his military planning. The metamorphosis. The battalion in charge of displaying honors on state visits had been conceived for decades as a symbol of institutional stability, not as a combat force. However, its real operational mission (protecting the federal government and its facilities in the event of a crisis) today takes on an urgency that has not been seen for a long time. Hence the direct tone of his commanderlieutenant colonel Maik Teichgräber: Berlin is your area of ​​operations and they must prepare for “the worst case scenario,” which means training where you would really fight. The use of stations closed to the public allows practice quick entriesassaults on trains, neutralization of enemies and immediate removal of wounded, integrating snipers, perimeter security and coordination between units in a densely urbanized environment. The presence of additional scenarios (such as the former Rüdersdorf chemical plant or the Ruhleben police complex) underlines the desire to turn the capital’s defense into a multidimensional exercisecapable of absorbing everything from internal sabotage to coordinated incursions that seek to paralyze the political center of Germany. Global dimension of the trend. Which happens in Berlin It is also reflected in other regions of the world. How we countTaiwan uses its subway as a defensive artery during the Han Kuang exercises, aware that, in the event of a Chinese invasion, underground infrastructure they would be vital to move troops and supplies while the surface becomes a continuous target. In parallel, the United States has raised the underground war a priority for its special forces, responding to the proliferation of fortified tunnels, dense urban areas and the expansion of drone swarms that force troops to seek refuge underground. The growing autonomy of unmanned systems, already present in Ukraine, accelerates this trend: in a future where aerial surveillance will be almost constant, defending in depth will mean dominating not only streets and buildings, but subways, tunnels, pipelines and interconnected bunkers. The war of the future, according to these emerging doctrines, will be fought both upwards (against drones, sensors and loitering munitions) and downwards, in an underground network that takes on strategic value. Echoes of the Cold War. He training on the U-Bahn inevitably refers to a divided Berlinwhen the city was a western enclave surrounded by Warsaw Pact forces. At that time, the United States, the United Kingdom and France were rehearsing urban operations aimed at slowing down an invasion to gain political time, aware that holding the city indefinitely was unrealistic. Units like the (secret) Detachment A They practiced sabotage and unconventional warfare techniques from the shadows. Even stations, such as Pankstraße or Siemensdamm, were designed like nuclear shelters for more than 3,000 people for weeks, with armored doors and air filtering. The reunified Germany had left behind that architecture of fear, and today, faced with a panorama of uncertainty, it returns to study how to reactivate these civil protection capabilities. The contrast is evident: what in 1994 seemed unnecessary is once again considered a strategic necessity. Historical rearmament. we have been counting. The exercise is also part of a context transformation unprecedented german military apparatus. By 2029, Berlin plans spend 153,000 million euros per year in defense (around 3.5% of GDP), an enormous jump from the levels that for decades were a source of friction with Washington. It is a rearmament designed not only for modernize capabilitiesbut to adapt the country to threats that They are no longer theoretical: What happens 900 kilometers away, in Ukraine, conditions the entire strategy. This budget increase has led NATO to consider a symbolic turn that would have been unthinkable during the Cold War: that Germany would command the allied forces in Europe. Although that moment has not arrivedthe expectation underscores the pressure on Berlin to demonstrate that it can take on top responsibilities and is willing to prepare its military for complex scenariosfrom urban sabotage to large-scale conventional warfare. Strategic warning. Teichgräber put it clearly: Nobody can guarantee that the war that is currently devastating Ukraine will not one day reach German territory. That phrase sums up the background of Bollwerk Bärlin III. The Bundeswehr trains in the subway tunnels because it understands that contemporary conflicts do not respect borders or capitals. The hybrid warcoordinated attacks on critical infrastructure and the massive use of drones They make the interior of cities as vulnerable as their borders. If you like, what is at stake is not only the defense of Berlin, but Germany’s capacity to react facing a moment in which the strategic … Read more

the story of how AMD was born by shamelessly copying Intel

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Today AMD is an absolute giant in the semiconductor segment, and its chips are among the most advanced in the world. Their history of innovation is undeniable, but the company’s origins began in a unique way: they ruthlessly copied an Intel chip. Leave me that microscope. In the summer of 1973 Ashawna Hailey, Kim Kailey and Jay Kumar left their jobs at Xerox. But before doing so they wanted to say goodbye in style, and on their last day of work they took an Intel 8080they stripped him and then they used a microscope to take 400 photos of the die of that microprocessor. Reverse engineering. These images allowed the design and architecture of that revolutionary processor to be “deciphered” by reverse engineering, and thanks to them, these three engineers were able to sketch the schematics and logical diagrams that they then offered to Silicon Valley companies to see if any were interested. The origin: Am9080. AMD was the one that ended up taking advantage of that information. The company had just developed a process called “N-channel MOS” for chip manufacturing. The company was taking its first steps at that time, and had hardly any achievements to its credit. What AMD did was combine this advance in its manufacturing technologies with those schemes and launched its Am9080, which some sources suggest began to be sold in 1974 but which in reality did not begin mass production and sale until 1975, 50 years ago. They cloned it and improved it. In an interview with Shawn and Kim Hailey conducted in 1997, these engineers explained how that AMD chip was a resounding success because it managed to be 10 times more efficient in production than Intel: the company managed to obtain 100 dies per wafer, but the chip was also four times more powerful than the original 8080. They made them for 50 cents, they sold them for 700 dollars. That success allowed AMD to begin mass production of a chip that suddenly suffered notable demand, especially in the military and defense industry. In fact, it is estimated that the manufacturing cost of each Am9080 was 50 cents, when the selling price of each one was 700 dollars according to said engineers. The profit margin was absolutely extraordinary. Intel ended up making a deal. That managed to turn AMD into a reference company in the market, and that gave it an advantageous position. One with which he avoided endless legal disputes and which allowed him to sign a cross-licensing agreement with Intel. That made AMD a “second source” for manufacturing its processors. Why did Intel allow something like this? It wasn’t for the love of art. At that time, obtaining lucrative contracts with defense agencies required precisely having a “second source” that could manufacture chips if the original supplier had a problem. Here peace and then glory. That led AMD and Intel to sign an agreement in which AMD paid Intel $25,000 to sign and $75,000 a year for licenses — ridiculous amounts — and that also freed both parties from liability for potential past violations. Everything was forgotten. And finally, x86. That initial agreement was important in achieving the true agreement that sealed AMD’s future. In 1982 Intel allowed AMD to manufacture its own x86 chips. This meant that the firm could begin producing its own versions of chips that used that architecture, the first of which crystallized with the Am286 in 1982, a chip that was a licensed version of the Intel 80286. The rest, as they say, is history. That agreement managed to turn AMD into the great alternative to Intel. Although for years it remained in the shadow of its great competitor, AMD managed to expand its business to the graphics card segment and in recent years this has served to raise it well above Intel in market capitalization: today AMD is the 25th company in the world with a capitalization of 410,000 million dollars. Intel, meanwhile, is going through a notable crisis and is currently the 96th company in the world by capitalization: 182 billion dollars. And it all started (practically) with some microscope photos. In Xataka | The engineer who does not need spotlights: Lisa Su took an AMD on the verge of bankruptcy and ten years later she has made it an empire

Dreame is Dyson’s Chinese rival. And now it is going to arrive in Spain copying Xiaomi’s strategy

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Dreame has more than doubled its revenue in Europe in recent months and Spain has become its key market for the next step: replicating Xiaomi’s manual eight years ago. Why is it important. The Chinese company has not only come to sell vacuum cleaners. It has come to build a complete connected home ecosystem that fully competes with traditional European brands. Dyson, Philips or Bosch compete in design and brand prestige, but Dreame focuses on another aspect: offering 80% of the quality at 40% of the price. It is the same strategy that Xiaomi used to conquer Spain: launch an anchor product at an aggressive price, quickly gain market share and expand to the rest of the home. The current situation. Dreame has reported a 139% growth in its year-on-year revenue in Europe between January and July 2025, as published Expansion. Spain has exceeded the company’s initial expectations, which now plans to open two physical stores in Madrid and Barcelona. The brand already operates combining online sales with presence in MediaMarkt and El Corte Inglés. Although the greatest weight remains in digital, the physical channel is growing. The background. The expansion plan goes far beyond robot vacuum cleaners: At IFA 2025, Dreame presented a complete ecosystem of 22 product lines, 15 of them new. It will soon launch televisions, dishwashers, air conditioners and small kitchen appliances in Spain. It will also consolidate its personal care range with hair dryers and straighteners, and add robotic lawnmowers and pool cleaners. It is the exact copy of the Xiaomi model: You enter with a competitive technology product at a disruptive price. You gain market share quickly. You build loyalty with an ecosystem of connected devices. And you expand category by category until you become a relevant player in the market. Xiaomi, by the way, entered the field of large household appliances in Europe just a few days ago with the trojan horse strategy. In detail. The commitment to innovation is the central argument of Dreame. More than 60% of its staff is dedicated to R&D and it has more than 6,300 patents worldwide. At IFA he announced a cleaning robot capable of climbing stairs or with an arm to clean in difficult areas. But that race “for innovation” has also taken them to court. Dyson sued Dreame for marketing two stylers very similar to its Airwrap model. The Unitary Patent Court ordered the provisional withdrawal of two models of these hair stylers in Spain due to their similarity to the British device. Whether or not the blood reaches the river (Dreame is going to resort), it is evident that there is inspiration in Dyson. You just have to look, for example, at the air purifier in the image that heads this article. The contrast. The question we ask ourselves at this stage is how long Dyson, Philips, Bosch and company can last before losing market share. Dreame is the type of China in the shoe (pun intended) that makes the grown-ups very uncomfortable and against which there is no easy antidote. Traditional brands have built their business on design, prestige and high margins. Dreame offers them direct competition in technical quality at less than half the price. It is the same dilemma that European mobile phone manufacturers had to face years ago when Chinese brands arrived. AND We already know how that movie ended.. At stake. If Dreame replicates Xiaomi’s success in Spain, European brands will have to face a difficult decision: Or they lower prices (and margins) to compete. Or they accept a progressive loss of market share. The third option, less likely, is that one of them will progressively weaken and end up being bought by a Chinese competitor seeking quick access to European distribution and Western brand prestige. The same thing happened with the Swedish Volvo, the British MG or the Italian Pirelli: they all ended up in Chinese hands at some point this century. For now, Dreame avoids giving specific figures about its growth plans. But the strategy is clear: Spain is a key market for its international expansion and the company is going to redouble its efforts to expand its presence. The physical stores in Madrid and Barcelona are just the starting signal. In Xataka | Xiaomi is no longer a brand: there are several brands fighting over the same logo Featured image | Dreame

Girona has managed to decongest its historic center copying a trick of Barcelona: erase from Google Maps

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Girona has made Google and Waze modify the routes that took cars, especially tourists, to cross the old town of their city known as Barri Vell. This historical area has the Restricted circulationwith priority for pedestrians and limited access to residents and businesses. For Avoid excess traffic and preserve the pedestrian character of the center, the City Council asked the managers of those browsers to prioritize alternative tours and clearly mark the restrictions of access to the area. Atasque between 2,000 years of history Before, Google Maps and Waze guided To many drivers inside the Barri Vell to take shortcuts, especially tourists who trusted the GPS to move around the city. The problem is that, like most historical centers, this generated Unduse circulation in narrow and cobbled streets that are not designed for road traffic and hindered the circulation of neighbors. Such and as they highlight in The newspaper, In Barri Vell the circulation is restricted and special authorization is required to access even for distribution and service vehicles that are subjected to an access time control to prioritize the pedestrian use of the monumental center with more than 2,000 years of history. “We have been working to guarantee pacification at Barri Vell and the priority for pedestrians to be the seal of the city,” wrote Lluc Salellas, mayor of Girona In his X profile. Touch the photo to go to the original message The municipal idea for decongestion The Gironés City Council sent letters to Google and Waze to request that Barri Vell be eliminated as a recommended route to avoid the passage of tourist cars in this area. This management took several months, but finally was effective and GPS applications stopped proposing the historic center as a shortcut for the internal displacements of the city. In addition, the municipal team works so that the information shown in the browsers be as accurate as possibleclearly indicating the places where tourists They can park outside the historic center and preventing vehicles from being reserved where the spaces for loading and discharge are reserved. “We have made Google and Waze clearly mark that Barri Vell is an area with restricted circulation; and therefore, do not send tourists’ cars so easily,” explained Mayor Salellas to The newspaper.es. Girona is not the only one that has “erased” Google Girona It is not the only city that has asked Google to modify the information it gives to its users to redirect tourism flows and reorder the traffic of its streets. Barcelona City Council applied a similar measure To decongest the accesses to Park Güell, one of its most visited tourist places, eliminating from Google Maps one of the bus lines that went up to the park. This action sought to avoid the saturation of tourists and prioritize the service for the use of their neighbors, freeing them from the saturation of thousands of tourists who visit Gaudí’s work every day. In Holland, a small town managed to make fun of Google Maps To decongest its streets coordinating their neighbors to send false reports of cut streets. That caused the GPS to redirect traffic to alternative routes by freeing its neighbors from excess traffic. In all cases, this coordinated strategy with GPS applications has managed to reduce mass tourism in the most sensitive areas of cities, demonstrating how technological ones can influence tourist flows. In Xataka | One day, all Germans in Germany appeared closed on Google Maps. The problem is that nobody knows why Image | Unspash (Brandon Gurney, Priscilla du Preez)

The Big Tech have always compensated their great failures by copying the successes of others. And with AI are already doing it

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Good artists copy, The greats stealSteve Jobs or Pablo Picasso said. What they did not say is that the best artists are probably not done by one thing or the other: directly Buy “Works” They end up seeing how their own. We are continually seeing it in the technological field, and the last example is what is happening in the world of AI. I’m going to buy a company. Google launched its own YouTube before YouTube. Three weeks before, in fact. On January 25, 2005, he announced the launch of Google Video, while YouTube would launch on February 14. We already know how the story ended: YouTube swept while Google Video barely managed to curdle. What did Google? Buy YouTube to solve the problem. Problem solved with a talonario coup. Facebook did something similar with Instagram. The company created by Mark Zuckerberg saw the wolf’s ears, so he preferred Buy your competitive potentialwhich effectively became an absolute success and is now an integral part of its ecosystem. Good artists copy. We have seen it many times: the Big Tech copy ideas as if there were no tomorrow. Facebook and Instagram did it with the Snapchat Storiesor the reels Copied from Tiktokand there are many other examples. There are times to copy works, but there are others in which those attempts end up in A true disaster. The innovator dilemma. The obvious conclusion of all these movements is already known: the Big Tech do not want any other company to end up stealing their wallet. If someone begins to shade, they go for him, it will not be that they end up as Blackberry or Nokiathat seemed immortal and now they are just a minimum expression of what they were. All great technological ones know well about the Innovative dilemmaand none wants to be part of that group of companies that let another climb to Chepa. Openai careful. The current situation is a reflection of that reality. It is happening in the world of artificial intelligence. Openai became from the launch of Chatgpt in the new great star of the technological panorama. Its excessive growth He quickly warned to almost all the great technological (but Not all), who launched ally with her or to compete directly with analogous platforms. But in addition to the Big Tech, they would compete, so many others did. And absolutely all these startups are in danger, because the Big Tech will not allow the “little ones” to steal their wallet. Letter programming agents. We have seen the last example of this phenomenon with the agricultural platforms of AI to program. Cursor was a discovery For programmers, and unleashed fever for these tools. In recent weeks, we have seen how one of its competitors, Windsurf, has been bought by Openaiwho does not happy with that also took out his own programming tool, Codex. But it is that cursor and other startups such as Devin Or replicit ghostwriter they have it complicated, because Anthropic (Claude Code), Google (Jules), Microsoft (Github co -ilot) or Amazon (Codewhisperer). Concentration in sight. This variety of options in that specific field of AI extends to many other areas: there are dozens of options to create images with AI, and the same if what we are looking for is to create music or even video. And the same for tools that transcribe audio, which make content summaries or that help in specific tasks of other types. The problem of all of them is that if one of those ideas is popularized, the Big Tech go to 1) Copy it or 2) If that doesn’t work, buy it. Except for exceptional cases, it is normal for the market to continue to dominate by a small group of large companies, leaving in the background very distant the startups that survive. Image | Techcrunch | Anthony Quintano In Xataka | They left their work in a great multinational to jump to a startup: between security, posture and personal fulfillment

The DGT has been pressing a five years against Waze or Google Maps. Your solution goes through copying the French model

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“You don’t know who you warn.” With these words, the DGT warned of the danger of giving the alarm of a traffic control through our mobile phone. It is no accident that The article It will be published in November 2024. The article clarifies the entire phenomenon seen with the one known as “Galician Method”. Last year, a person was denounced for alert 15,000 drivers through messages in a WhatsApp group of Civil Guard controls on the road. The problem is that There is no rule in the circulation code that prevents it. In the last decade, drivers have been perfecting the notices. The DGT points out that in 2012 some applications were already alerted to radars or controls but that the first boom came in 2014 with SocialDrive and Waze. Users had, in real time, information about fixed radars (That the public DGT itself) but also of mobile phones and controls. The second boom came with the Coronavirus pandemic. With the increase in road controls, users multiplied and since then many have climbed into a car from which they no longer get off. Who aspires to skip a Civil Guard control has the tools for it in Google Maps, Waze and even WhatsApp. And that is a real problem if we talk about alcohol and drug controls but also if, for a reason for general security, a device has been mounted to stop the suspect of a crime. Trying to put containment barriers, the Citizen Security Law to try to stop those WhatsApp groups with thousands of users. It is something that the DGT itself recognizes that states that in article 36.23 it is expressly prohibited “the unauthorized use of personal or professional data or professionals of authorities or members of the security forces and bodies that may endanger personal security.” However, they recognize that it is not enough and has been pressed to carry out a modification in the Traffic Law. At the moment, all that there is a proposal for the proposition of the Law born in the Commission on Road Safety of the Congress of Deputies at the proposal of the PSOE. It requested that the text reflect the obligation to “sanction those who provide information that hinders or prevents the control work of breaches of circulation standards”. In France it already applies This new wording would serve to end current doubts. The closest thing to receive a sanction for notifying the Civil Guard control is found in article 100 of the Civil Guard GENERAL CIRCULATION REGULATIONwhere the following is exposed: The use of long -range or road light is prohibited as long as the vehicle is stopped or parked, as well as alternative employment, in the form of flashes of long -range or road light and light or crossing light, with purposes other than those provided in these regulations The problem, obviously, is that this analog acting has been disused. This has led to the DGT has press and emphasize in the last five years that their intention is to chase those who use these applications to notify the controls. In 2020, Pere Navarro, director of the DGT, already put the focus on applications during mobility week in A Coruña where he pointed out his will to “Prevent, hinder or limit” Applications like Waze. The referent can have it in France. There, the famous traffic application cannot show mobile radars to users. It is an anomaly in Europe, as they collect in the Gauling country media. They point out that there the decree No. 2012-3 of January 3, 2012, which modified its circulation code more than a decade prohibits “Possession, transport and use of radar detectors”. However, this application extends to mobile applications, something that does not happen in Spain. Here, The law was modified in 2022 To punish the single presence of a radar detector. Until then the use of radar inhibitors and detectors was punished. For three years, the single presence of these devices is also punished with Fines of 200 euros and three points of the driving card for detectors and six points and up to 6,000 euros in the case of inhibitors. What the DGT wants to get is that the notices in mobile applications are also punished and the first step would be the modification in the traffic law that would allow copying the French model. What applications like Waze do is alert “danger zones”. To skip the restriction, the application allows you to add this notice on road sections, never in a specific position. With this notice, the driver already knows that a mobile radar or traffic control will be found later but is not specified in any case to stick or where it is installed. Photo | Waze on Instagram and Pricob ioan In Xataka | The DGT denounces the breakage of seven radars: there are up to half a million euros at stake and three -year jail sentences

Renfe aspired to win 5,000 million euros with an AVE in the US copying Japan. His government has just kill him

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Unite the cities of Dallas and Fortworth with Houston. That is the project with which Renfe hoped to continue growing in his international projects. The construction of a high -speed line for just 386 kilometers that allows these cities to be connected in just 90 minutes. The project allows to connect the two most important Texas cities with a train that travels to 386 km/h, according to You can read on the Renfe website. The Spanish company has presented this project as Texas Advisor Central Railroadoffering their experience in “the stages of development, design and construction and in the commercial operation (operations, maintenance, promotion and sale of tickets)”, according to the company’s own words. Renfe went up to the train of this project in 2018 and his involvement grew in 2021 when he signed the contract to become an infrastructure operator. With this new high -speed line I expected to win more than 5,000 million euros from here to 2042, when the contract expired. However, the United States government has withdrawn all funds. A dead point project “I am pleased to announce that Fra and Amtrak agree that the financing of this project is a waste of taxpayers’ funds and a distraction of Amtrak’s main mission to improve their existing deficient services,” The statement indicates Sent by the United States Department of Transport. The words are from Sean Duffy, Secretary of Transportation of the country that has withdrawn the 63.9 million dollars of subsidy that the Federal Railway Administration (FR) dedicated to the high -speed railway corridor of Amtrak Texas, previously known as the Texas Central Railroad project. In the published information, Duffy emphasizes that the project was born with an exclusively private spirit but that with delays and unforeseen costs increased significantly. So much that they estimate that you can go to the 40,000 million dollars “What makes the construction unrealistic and a risky company for the taxpayer”, in words expressed in the statement. The high speed project to join these two cities re -enters the dead and is a setback for the Spanish company. They explain in Five days that Renfe became part of it in 2018, first with a job of Advice and Line Design. In 2021, The contract was extended and made the Spanish company a future operator of the same with which he hoped to win 5.3 billion euros before 2042. However, the issues With this high -speed line they had been accumulating long before. The creation of this line has its origin in 2009 under the company Lone Star High-Speed ​​Rail LLC. Three years later, the company changed its name to Texas Central Railway. After verifying that the costs were fired, it was accepted that public capital supported the project. In spite of everything, the calendar has breached again and again. Environmental and security permissions should have been achieved in 2020 but delays have been added to which the colon of the coronavirus crisis and an expropriation of land that follows in the courts have been added. In 2017, the United States government with Donald Trump to the head included the project as “a national transport infrastructure priority,” they point out in Five daysand with Joe Biden in command of the country State funds from the Infrastructure Plan were allocated To keep the project alive. Now, in Trump’s second term, the Department of Transportation has canceled it. Until now, the plan went to implement a small -scale replica of the famous rail system of Japanese high speed tokaido shinkansenoperated by Central Japan Railway Company (JRC). Thus, the train It could reach 386 km/h peak speed and join Dallas and Fortworth (separated by about 50 kilometers) with Houston in 90 minutes. You wanted to establish a regular service with a train every 30 minutes. Photo | Xataka In Xataka | Japan has just discovered one of the most lucrative businesses of your bullet train: the sale of food carts

Thus ended the experiment that Spain is copying

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In LaLiga’s fight against illegal soccer broadcasts, there is not only websites of websites dedicated to this type of broadcasts, but also shared IPS blockades that are affecting thousands of legitimate companies. This same scenario was lived in Italy just a year ago, when its regulator, AGCom, implemented the “Piracy Shield”, a system that ended up demonstrating the risks of this type of blockades. Between bambalins. The Italian case started in the summer of 2023, with the approval of the aforementioned “Piracy Shield“, But the real problems began in February 2024, when the first mass blockages caused thousands of legitimate websites, including nothing less than Google Drivethey will be inaccessible. A situation that is now familiar to us: here is Github who is inaccessible. The IPS blocked then belonged mainly to Cloudflare, Zenlayer and Google (hence the of Drive), causing A domino effect similar to that now suffers from Spain. In figures. The current impact on Spain is being considerable: more than 50% of IPS that distribute LaLiga content without a license are housed in Cloudflare, according to the employer of Spanish professional football. “Those are the worst,” said his president Javier Tebas about Cloudflare a few months ago in an interview with Jordi Wild (minute 13:10). LaLiga, in fact, has just announced the blockade of two platforms, Dazcfutbolios and RBTV77, which added more than 400,000 unique users in Spain. LaLiga insists that she has made several requirements prior to Cloudflare before reaching the current situation. “We have made permanent requirements to Cloudflare before before any blockade without obtaining a chord answer,” Sources of LaLiga explain. The contrast: While in Italy the initiative started from a public regulator (AGCOM) … … in Spain it is being led by a private entity (LaLiga). This makes a notable difference in execution: in Italy there was a specific regulatory framework, while in Spain it acts Under the umbrella of a judicial judgment of 2022 which authorizes the “dynamic blockages.” However, LaLiga emphasizes judicial support for blockages of recent days. Turning point. The situation has reached such an extent that LaLiga has enabled an email mailbox (affectedcloudflare@laliga.es) so that affected companies can report damage. It is an implicit way of recognizing this great collateral impact, although the organization insists that the responsibility is cloudflare for “using legal companies as a digital shield.” That is, he considers that the decision to assign shared IPS to all types of services is their way of protecting those LaLiga pursues. Voltage focus. The conflict has intensified with a crossing of accusations between LaLiga and Cloudflare that has intensified. Technology accuses LaLiga of acting deliberately knowing that it would affect “millions of consumers.” The statement sent to Xataka by Cloudflare a few days ago: «Although LaLiga perfectly understood that blocking Shared IP addresses would affect the rights of millions of consumers to access hundreds of thousands of websites that do not violate the law, LaLiga continued with said blockade. This seems to reflect the erroneous belief that their commercial interests must prevail over the rights of millions of consumers to access an open internet ». And LaLiga’s replica, which denounces that Cloudflare “profit from illegal activities.” «Given the statements of Cloudflare to Xataka, LaLig legal as a digital shield to protect criminal organizations and mafias ». “LaLiga has repeatedly required Cloudflare to stop this complicit activity with criminal organizations, which threaten intellectual property and incur multiple criminal activities such as the violation of intellectual property, all kinds of scams and pornography, without a favorable response.” “Thus, LaLiga is not positioned against free access to the Internet, but requests measures and carries out controlled actions against companies or organizations that profit from illegal and criminal acts using legal companies as a digital shield.” In Xataka | Technology has redefined football. Nothing is like before, and we tell you in this video Outstanding image | AC Milan

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