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Years ago the series had more scenes. The platforms are cutting them without warning

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The seasons of the series streaming They are increasingly shorter, and not always by creative decision. Behind the cuts are skyrocketing production costs, subscriber retention strategies and, sometimes, decisions made from the accounting department and not from the writers’ table. The phenomenon is so broad that it also affects altered versions of classic series, eliminating scenes and changing soundtracks without warning. This episode is not how I remembered. You are reviewing a series that you already know and something goes wrong: a scene that you remembered clearly does not appear. Or the opening credits song sounds different. Or the final episode ends earlier than it should. It is not always a failure of your memory. Often, the version you see in front of you is not the same as the one you saw back in the day. This phenomenon has gained visibility in recent months thanks to users who document on social networks the differences between versions, and its scope is greater than it seems. The platforms of streaming They offer, in many cases and without realizing it, degraded or cut versions of series and movies. The reasons behind these decisions are multiple. Sustained contraction. Before entering into the phenomenon of cuts without notice, it is worth remembering some facts. According to the firm Parrot Analyticsthe average number of episodes per season on free-to-air television fell from 16.2 in 2018 to 11.8 in July 2024. On streaming platforms streamingwhich already started from shorter seasons, have also contracted: from 10.7 episodes on average in 2018 to 9.3 in the same period. Some studies talk that production companies and platforms are increasingly stingy when it comes to renewing or ordering series: they simply ask for fewer episodes. One last piece of information about this reduction: in 2025, the number of original series streaming fell by 11% year-on-year. Beyond those series that suffer, against the will of their creators, cuts in the number of their episodes (as it happened at the time with ‘The House of the Dragon’), there are cuts from series already broadcast. For example, the final episode of ‘Friday Night Lights’, which is now on Filmin (in its shortened version) had a duration of more than 60 minutes. When it moved to NBC for free-to-air broadcast, it was cut to less than 45 minutes to fit with advertising. Complete scenes are missing from this mutilated version. Here we can see a similar case with an episode of ‘The Bill Cosby Hour’ streaming. Music, another point of friction. The licensing rights for musical themes do not always extend to all platforms or expire after a period of time, which requires replacing original songs with others. When ‘The Wonder Years’ arrived on Netflix in 2011 after years of being blocked by rights issues, numerous songs had been replaced, including Joe Cocker’s iconic version of ‘With a Little Help from My Friends’ that opened each episode. In ‘Dawson Grows’, Paula Cole’s original tune was replaced in streaming by a Jann Arden song; The fan outcry was so intense that Cole ended up re-recording his own song. It is a common problem, which has meant that legendary series like ‘Luz de Luna’ or ‘Búscate la vida’ have spent years without being able to be seen, not even in domestic formats (in the case of Chris Peterson’s legendary series, we are still waiting). The war of the formats. We’ve already talked about itbut it is not bad to remember that the image format has been manipulated on countless occasions to adapt it to widescreen televisions. The case of ‘The Simpsons’ is perhaps the most popularsince many jokes with the original square format of the first seasons were lost. Also The case of ‘Buffy the Vampire Slayer’ is popular‘, which in its panoramic format and retouched colors makes the illusion of night scenes from the original series disappear and allows the filming crew and sets to be seen. A disaster that can only be solved by going to the first editions on DVD before their “remastering”. What to do to solve it. One more time: do not completely rule out the physical format. Until now we were certain (video game fans have been suffering from this for years) that fluctuations in catalogs, even of material that you have purchased and that is theoretically yours, can play tricks on you. We are now convinced that the fact that a film is in a catalog today streaming It does not assure us that it will be within a year: reasons as spurious as saving fees or storage space for platform owners can lead to the elimination of thousands of movies and series. The only way to preserve a movie or series without anyone modifying it, to make sure that no one is going to cut it because they think you are not prepared to pay enough attention to it, is to have your own copy. In physical or digital form, but in a safe place. Until recently, keeping our DVDs, our CDs with games, our cartridges and our vinyl, our records with backup copies was something for nostalgic and paranoid people. Now it is a matter of preserving what the platforms continue to mutilate. In Xataka | Generation Z has found the remedy to streaming subscription fatigue: buying DVDs again

China is cutting distances with the US in AI with the best that is given: observe

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Although artificial intelligence applications that are most used in the world usually come from US companies, China is silently climbing positions through a strategy with many legs. A strategy that not only focuses on computing, but also on building solid foundations around this industry. As WSJ points outfrom multinational banks to public universities, organizations around the world are adopting AI models developed by companies such as Deepseek or alibaba as an alternative to American solutions. There is still a great job ahead, but the popularity of its language models begins to shoot worldwide. A silent revolution. While Chatgpt is still the most popular chatbot in the world with 910 million downloads Faced with the 125 million DEPEEEK, according to the Tower Sensor Analysis firm, real competition is not measured only in end users. Banks like HSBC and Standard Chartered They have begun to prove internally the Depseek modelsthe Saudi Aramco oil company has installed this technology in its main data center, and even American giants such as Amazon Web Services, Microsoft and Google offer Deepseek to their customers. The Chinese strategy is clear: to offer a performance up at considerably lower prices. The dynamic is being similar to the one that the country has been applying in the rest of industries: observe around it, then innovate and then dominate with competitive prices. China’s secret weapon: 3.5 million engineers per year. For decades, China has meticulously built Its arsenal of human capital in Stem disciplines (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics). The country annually graduates 3.57 million engineers, four times more than the United States. This advantage is not accidental: since the 80s, China shipment massively students to Western universities in the phenomenon known as “Hai Gui” (sea turtles), which returned to transform Chinese academic institutions. Universities like Tsinghua They have come to overcome Stanford or Mit in number of relevant scientific studies. The master plan began with the “four modernizations“De Deng Xiaoping, who prioritized technical and scientific education with a long -term vision. Today, education spending has not come down from 4% of GDP In two decades, and incentives to publish quality research can reach $ 100,000 per study. The result: 38% of AI experts who work in the United States were formed in Chinese universities. How China is gaining ground. The Chinese strategy combines three key elements: First: An approach to practical applications of AI against the American search for superintelligence. While Openai and other American companies pursue revolutionary advances, Chinese companies focus on solving immediate market problems. Second: The release of open source models that allow developers around the world to adapt them freely. Alibaba has seen how more than 100,000 derived models are created based on its Qwenand in other institutions, such as the University of Witwatersrand in South Africa, They have chosen Deepseek for your projects due to your Open-Source nature and to be able to use it without connection to guarantee the safety of your data. Third: aggressive prices that are irresistible for emerging markets. On platforms such as Latenode, which helps companies around the world to create personalized AI tools, one in five global companies already choose Deepseek Being “17 times cheaper” than US alternatives, according to Oleg Zankov, co -founder of Latenode. This strategy is especially effective in countries where money and computing power are more limited. A COLD TECHNOLOGICAL WAR. This competition is fracturing the global ecosystem of AI in two blocks. USA has tightened chips exports restrictionswhile China massively invests in building an independent supply chain. The result is a division in which countries and companies must choose between American or Chinese systems. And while Washington tries to limit Chinese access to technology, American companies themselves integrate Chinese solutions in their services. Innovation, talent and prices. The competition will intensify on multiple fronts. China is revolutionizing its search engines: Baidu has just launched The greatest update of its platform In a decade, allowing searches for more than a thousand characters compared to the previous 28, complete integration with AI and multimodal capabilities that include voice, images and files. It is a direct response to the Deepseek pressure at the national level and other conversational platforms. Meanwhile, Chinese talent is still courted by American technological ones: goal has recently signed To four key Chinese engineers of OpenAI, who have contributed greatly in models such as GPT-4 and O3. Paradoxically, while Trump threatens to revoke visas to Chinese students For national security, the American industry depends more and more on this talent. What is clear is that the country that achieves the broader adoption of its technology in the rest of the world will have a huge advantage. Cover image | Solen Feyissa and Arthur Wang In Xataka | The new AI star is Alexandr Wang: Zuckerberg has given the keys of the future to a child prodigy of 97

Some employees sued their company for cutting the salary. The supreme has responded that being unpunctual is not a job

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The working day is much more than a simple time convention. From the labor reform of 2021, in which the SCHEDULE HOURS REGISTRATION As a method to measure Time really workedhas become a factor that conditions the salary that the employee must receive. Both when working More hours of the agreedlike when it doesn’t meet them. That is precisely what the Supreme Court had to remind them of the collective claim of a group of workers filed against their employer. If you do not meet your schedule and you are late, You will charge less. What happened? As you can read in The Supreme Court Judgmenta group of workers, represented by their union links, said that, due to the distance between the system of day registration And the employee’s job, every day they were counted between one and three minutes of delay, which was added monthly. The employees complained that, when doing the payrolls, the company discounted that time not worked on their salary, so they received less than agreed. What do employees claim? Workers recognize that Importuality It is a reason for sanction contemplated in the collective agreement of the company, but does not apply to salary reduction for that reason. Instead, it should be done through other types of warnings or compensation since the agreement is governed by a certain amount of annual hours, not for daily days. In this way, the company could ask employees to compensate for that time at any other time of the year, avoiding salary cut. Employees consider that, delays the delays of their salary, they would be imposing a double sanction and incurring a type of sanction called “Fine of having“, in which salary amounts are subtracted or sanctions on vacations or holidays are applied. A practice prohibited by article 58.3 of the Workers Statute. What does the Supreme Court say? The sentence of the High Court bases its argument to give the reason to the company in article 26.1 of the Statute of the Workers in which it is specified: “The totality of the economic perceptions of the workers, in money or in kind, for the professional benefit of the labor services in an alienation, and the effective work, whatever the form of remuneration, or the computable rest periods as a computable rest periods,” will be considered salary. The supreme considers that salary Back the work Cash or the computable rest time as work, while in article 30 of the Workers’ Statute it is established that “the worker will keep the right to his salary if he does not provide services for cause to the employer and not the worker.” Therefore, “during the time when the worker does not provide labor services, having an obligation to do so, without any justification, the sinalagmatic character of the employment contract assumes that salary is not accrued, without this implying a fine of having.” That is, since the unpunctuality was not produced for any reason attributable to the company, and the time of delay is not considered effective working timethe company is in its right not to pay it, without being considered as a sanction. Not that they don’t pay you, they can fire you. The Supreme Court specifies that the “fine of having” applies when it occurs in a salary cut or benefits to which the worker is entitled. However, in this case, “the worker has no right to receive said salary because he has not provided services for causes only to him,” the sentence abounds. In other words: the company does not have to pay for a job that the employee has not done and, therefore, cannot apply any penalty about something that does not correspond to it. In addition, the Supreme Court rules out the assumption of the double sanction since it has been shown that it is something that employees have no right because they have not provided the service that justifies it, although it indicates that “a contractual breach that, if reiterated, justifies the exercise of disciplinary power by the employer.” That is, that the company is not obliged to pay for the time that has not been worked, but can impose disciplinary measures on employees (and even cause with dismissal) by repeated breach of your contract without just cause. In Xataka | It seemed obvious, but the Supreme has had to remember: Ryanair cannot choose union, employees choose Image | Flickr (Kris Arnold), Unspash (MUSEMIND UX AGENCY)

Here are all the degrees related to technology and science with their cutting notes

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In just a few days the University Access TestAka the Pau. It is a very marked date for the more than 300,000 students who have been preparing for at least two years to face these exams. It is not for less. Pau marks the end of one stage and the beginning of another, one that means making the leap to the university world and prepare for the professional world. If, after considering the different options, you have decided that your future is to study a university degree, the same doubt arises that arose to many at the time: which one to choose. If you usually visit Xataka or you like what we are dealing with on this website, it is possible that You are interested in technology, science, engineering, space or health. Thus, we have filtered each and every grades of each and every one of the faculties and cities so that, at a glance, you can see the offer of degrees, where they are taught and its cut -off note. The degrees of degrees related to technology and its cuts of cuts That the following table with its 1,021 cells does not intimidate you. Using it is really easy. In the upper part you will see a search engine. In it you can introduce the name of the degree, such as “computer engineering”, “artificial intelligence”, “mathematics” or “biotechnology.” You can also search for a city. In any case, and choose the filter you choose, You can order the offer of degrees by cutting note. By default, order is from highest to minor. If you are looking for another degree or want to know other cutting notes, RTVE has a very useful search engine on its website. How you can check, the degree with the greatest cutting note is the double degree of physics and mathematics at the University of Seville: A 13,764. The lowest is the minimum to approve: a five. The offer of degrees that can be accessed with the minimum note is wide and includes endless engineering. In fact, the vast majority of engineering between five and eight on average, and the number of places is usually wide. And that is good news. According to the study “The employability of young people in Spain 2024” of the CYD Foundation on work outputs according to the university career, engineering (electrical, industrial electronics, software development, telecommunications, etc.) are those that offer better working conditions in terms of Stability in contractssalaries and affiliation rates. On the other hand, the Emerging jobs and sectors report 2024 highlights the Professional boom in AI. The demand for data engineers and Machine Learning has grown 625% since 2019, and that of artificial intelligence engineers an annual 83%, both with very low competence of candidates for offer. Last year they enrolled to do 341,831 students and 90.2% approved. That is, 295,250 students took a five or more. Another thing is the average note. In 2024, the average grade of those presented to the general and specific part (necessary to aspire to remove a note greater than ten points) was 7.05 nationwide. If we talk about the degrees contemplated in the upper table, The average note is 8.87 points. Image | Flickr (University of Seville) In Xataka | Pau, EBAU or EVAU 2025: What are the dates in each autonomous community for the selectivity exam

We have discovered that cutting the consumption of an amino acid is related to more life expectancy. In mice, yes

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Virtually anything, in excess, can end up being harmful. Water is no exception and amino acids, the “bricks of life” are not. This was demonstrated by a study conducted from one of those compounds. In moderation. In study, conducted in mice, noticed that cutting the intake of isoleucine in the diet of animals helped increase the life expectancy of rodents by 33%. Isoleucine. Isoleucine is one of the essential amino acids. Amino acids are essential molecules for life as they represent The links from which proteins are created. We know thousands of proteins, all of them composed from about twenty amino acids. Our body can synthesize more than half of the amino acids that it requires to create proteins, but nine of these amino acids, the so -called essential, we must obtain them from our food. This is the case of isoleucine, an amino acid that we can find in a diversity of foods such as eggs, soybeans, meat and fish. A previous track. The study started from a Previous indication. A study conducted ten years ago in the state of Wisconsin observed that the diets of people with obesity were richer in this amino acid than the average population. In mice. For Study this correlationthe team went to the laboratory and studied its effect on mice. Laboratory animals divided into three groups: one control, to which no food restrictions were applied, another whose diet was altered to reduce the presence of amino acids, and another whose diet was normal in the presence of amino acids except in Isoleucine. The amount of isoleucine that this group received was ⅔ less than the standard. The mice were six months when they started these diets, which would be equivalent to an age of 30 years in humans. Analziating results. The team observed that the two groups of mice with amino acid restiring lost body fat at the beginning but those who had all the restricted amino acids lost it again soon. More important, the team observed that mice in this diet with less isoleucine increased their life expectancy: 7% in females and 33% in males. Another relevant detail that they observed is that the mice in this diet would ingest more calories. Possibly, they point out, to compensate for the lack of nutritional contribution of this component. Despite this, they also burned more of these calories, which led them to maintain a lower body mass than the rest of the study mice. The details of the study were published In an article In the magazine Cell metabolism. And what about humans? The team responsible for the study was likely that the restriction of this amino acid can have a similar effect on humans. For now that possibility is little more than speculative but the fact that the greatest presence of this amino acid in the diets of people with obesity is already observed implies another indication of the existence of some relationship. Beyond the biological differences between one species, the human diet is much less controllable than that of laboratory mice. The field of nutrition is extremely complex, with an infinity of nutrients, some of which interact with each other. He effect of other factors As our physical activity or tobacco consumption also affect our health and our life expectancy, making it difficult to elucidate the net impact of a nutrient on the human body. In Xataka | We believed that creatine was one of the most useful supplements to gain muscle mass. We are no longer so sure Image | Moerschy

In full nervousness for the cutting of submarine cables, China has a final weapon: a radio in steroids

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The Submarine cables They are one of the most important elements today. Not only is it a huge infrastructure that organizations and companies continue to develop -with such ambitious projects as the Meta cablewhich will take more than one return to the earth-but have become today thanks to the Ukraine War already maneuvers at the South China Sea. It is in this conflict that Some cut cables They have triggered the fear of running out of the Internet, and everything that implies. These cables are protected, but can be damaged by ships. Now, China has presented a device designed with a task in mind: cut underwater cables. And it is the first time that someone announces that he has a tool capable of interrupting critical underwater networks. The importance of cables. There are more than 1.4 billion meters of submarine cables that connect all countries. There are other thousands of kilometers planned, and the vast majority of communications in some countries depend on these cables. 95% of them in the case of Australiafor example, and I know esteem that 95% of the data managed by the American population and 75% by China depend on them. They are vital for the Internet and all that this implies, such as streaming, artificial intelligence or servers, and this year they have become protagonists in war scenarios. Countries in conflict have realized that they can cause great damage by cutting these cables by boats or through more sophisticated techniques, such as Sound attacks. There are times that They are simple accidentsbut the suspicion that a damaged underwater cable corresponds to an enemy attack is something that is there. And more now with what they just announced from China. The Chinese device. As we read in South China Morning Postthe State Key Laboratory of Deep Water Crewing Vehicles and the Scientific Research Center of Ships of China, have developed a tool that describe as “compact” and that is capable of cutting the most sophisticated underwater communication lines or energy in the world. As it is a tool designed specifically for this, it has been conceived to cut cables at depths of up to 4,000 meters. There are no cables right now that they are in such depth, but its creators have provided the device with a completely sealed titanium alloy housing to resist that enormous pressure. This is Haidu, and can carry this “radial” Your weapons. The device is equipped with a kilowatt engine and as a cutting tool uses a 150 millimeter diamond wheel that rotates at 1,600 revolutions per minute. Let’s say it is the mixture between a protected drone to endure very high pressures and a radial. This cutting tool allows to destroy up to armored cables that have steel layers, rubber and polymeric coating. And its form has been designed so that it can be integrated both in manned and non -manned submersibles of China. For example, haidou vehicles or Fondouzhe could have this as one of their tools. He Haiduas a curiosity, it is an unmanned submersible in the form of fish and eyes drawings and fins created for exploration. He Fendouzhe It is a manned submarine, also for research and exploration. World Order. As we say, threaten to cut underwater cables It is not something new. We have seen it in the Ukraine War, but it is the first time that a country officially reveals a tool designed exclusively for that task. Of course, those responsible affirm that the tool has been created for civil purposes. Which is it? Rescue and mining operations in the maritime bed, but it is evident that it is a tool that is surely causing the other neck itching in rulers around the world. It is clear that such a tool can destabilize communications in a crisis and be used strategically during an attack. And it is not only communication, but everything that has to do with the Internet, such as servers and services that depend on them. Debate and consequences. When a cable is cut, communications are rapidly redirected through another, since they are prepared to have a large bandwidth. Therefore, important interruptions are not usually produced, but that cable You have to repair itbeing a fairly expensive process. Now, when it is not a single cut cable, but several, that connection may be set. It is what has led to a debate about the need to protect infrastructure. NATO has launched The mission “Baltic Sentry” To patrol sensitive regions with airplanes, drones and warships. There are also companies that are offering advanced cable monitoring services, answering all measures to a single issue: the protection of infrastructure and early detection to prevent cuts. That there are countries that have already made public that have sophisticated tools for cutting submarine cables and interfering with world geopolitics, is a new headache. Images | Akamgo Yalms (2), What’s Inside In Xataka | Finland entered the suspicious ship of sabotage in the Baltic. What he found was much worse: a spy ship for Russia

In Spain, cutting urban trees looks like national sport. These Swiss have just demonstrated that it is a mistake

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There is only a handful of things that we know for sure about cities and one of them is that trees are key. And it is that the exposure to green spaces (and there the trees enter) “is associated with lower risks of mortality.” It’s simple, it’s clear, it’s easy. And, despite this, we do not take note. Wait, wait a moment … how? Yes and There are many reasons To do this: trees filter air pollutants, provide shadow, reduce ambient temperature in warm climates and encourage people to spend more time outdoors. They are a cheap and relatively accessible system to improve people’s lives. But, as I say, when planting trees it is not so easy. Among other things because there is no space. How can we plant trees to get maximum benefit? That is what They wondered Zurich ETH researchers. To do this, they examined high resolution data of the tree canopy to determine “the structure of the green tree spaces” within a radius of 500 meters of the place of residence of a person. Of six million people, actually. AND They crossed this urban data with health and mortality information from the neighborhoods of Europe and Asia that analyzed. What have you discovered? That both tree coverage in residential areas and its spatial distribution correlates with mortality. In fact, researchers They realized that the risk of mortality was “significantly lower in people living in neighborhoods with extensive, adjacent and well -interconnected areas of tree cups than in people who live in areas with less areas of fragmented tree glasses and with complex geometries.” This seems true, in addition, if we discount other factors such as age, wealth, gender or educational level. It is true that the data are correlational and, therefore, do not allow to establish causal relationships; But the effect size makes all this very promising. But, indeed, research is needed. “We are still in the early stages of this research”, The researchers explained. There are very basic things that are there to be clear: for example, they did not study the influence of specific factors such as pre -existing diseases, smoking or the same use of these green spaces. A big problem … that affects us especially. And I say it affects Spain because Bad care that urban trees are given here is An endemic problem. The causes are diverse, yes; But they can be summarized in three: few media, mismanagement and isolated political decisions of any current technical knowledge. Swiss study is just the last drop of a glass to be overflowing. Because we have known for a long time that trees help reduce atmospheric pollutants and mitigate the Urban heat island effect; But we don’t take it seriously. Nor do we go to take it. Image | Vladimir Kudinov In Xataka | A centenary ficus has just died in Seville after two years of agony. It is the best example of how Spain is killing its urban trees

Taiwan has just stopped a ship after cutting an underwater cable. The problem is that there are only Chinese citizens inside

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That the submarine cables, whether communications or energy, have become a first level actor in the geopolitics of the planet, is out of any doubt. The cases of cuts and Sabotajes that have occurred in recent months, together with The huge investments They are taking place among companies with AI in the equation, attest to it. However, if the cable cut occurs in a high voltage place such as Taiwan, the incident acquires another channel. The suspicion of sabotage. It is not the first time in the enclave, like We have counted beforebut it has happened again. The authorities of Taiwan have stopped a ship of load under the suspicion of having cut a communications cable Submarine that connects the main island with the Penghu archipelago, located about 30 kilometers west. Although the investigation is still ongoing, the event adds to a series of similar incidents that have generated restlessness on possible tactics of maritime sabotage by China and Russia. The problem: the ship is manned by Chinese citizens. The arrest. A Taiwanese coach detected That the vessel, a freighter in poor condition with multiple names and Chinese financing, was in the area when the cable rupture occurred. According to Ou Yu-FEI, spokesman for the Coast Guard, it was The only ship present In the area at that time, which reinforces the hypothesis of its involvement. In addition, they say that the ship could have used a false registration number and changed its name suddenly, a common pattern in covert activities. Context of a “possible.” As has told the New York Timesthe incident occurred around Tuesday at 3:24 am, shortly after a Taiwanese patrol ordered the freighter to leave the area because they were too close to the submarine cables with the anchor thrown. This detail has led the authorities to consider the possibility that the ship took advantage of its exit to perform a deliberate act of sabotage. Crucial cables. The cutting of submarine communications cables is always a serious accident, but in the case of Taiwan a little more. The reason? It depends on Great measure of these cables for its connectivity with its peripheral islands and with the rest of the world. While they can be damaged by natural causes such as earthquakes or aging of the material, the most common reason is the drag of ships of ships or fishing nets. In fact and as we remembered, recent patterns have led some analysts to speculate that China and Russia could be resorting to deliberate sabotage as a form of harassment in the sea. A trend. A summary of the growing number of similar cases could be made in recent times. In 2023a cable between Taiwan and the Matsu Islands was cut, affecting communications for weeks. TO beginnings of 2025a digital cable that connects Taiwan with South Korea, Japan, China and the United States suffered damage, indicated that a Chinese ship could have dragged its anchor over it. In November 2024two fiber optic cables in the Baltic Sea were cut, and the investigations pointed to a Chinese/Russian flag freighter. In response to this trend, the Taiwan government has intensified surveillance of its underwater infrastructure and has prepared a list of More than 50 suspicious shipsmany of them registered with convenience flags (such as the togolesa, used by the detainee ship). The answer. A few hours ago, China has accused Taiwan of politically manipulate the recent incident of the submarine cable. According to Beijing, the Taiwanese government has exaggerated the situation without conclusive evidence, with the aim of feeding tensions and obtaining political revenue. Zhu Fenglian, spokesman for the Chinese Government’s Taiwan Affairs Office, minimized the same, stating that damage to submarine cables They are common maritime accidents that occur more than a hundred times a year worldwide. In addition, he accused the Democratic Progressive Party (PPD), which governs Taiwan, to use the event to manipulate public opinion without their claims having real support. For its part, the Taiwanese government has rejected Beijing’s claims, insisting that there are clear indications of possible sabotage, especially since the ship with Chinese links was present in the area when it occurred. Geopolitical implications. If Taiwan’s suspicions are confirmed about intentional damage, the fact could climb the tensions between the island and China. As We have been countingBeijin considers Taiwan as part of its territory and has increased pressure on the island in recent years through military incursionseconomic pressure and cyber attacks. We will have to wait, since the case has been sent to prosecutors to deeper investigation. Meanwhile, the island continues reinforcing your measures security to avoid new interruptions in their underwater communications. In a context in which the control of digital networks and critical infrastructure has become a hybrid war tool, these incidents reinforce the perception that the “neighbor” could be exploring forms of indirect destabilization without reaching an open conflict . Image | 總統府Taiwan Coast Guard In Xataka | Taiwan does not want more problems with China or with its submarine cables. So you have activated an unpublished security plan In Xataka | Goal already has the tool to lead the AI ​​era: an underwater cable that will take more than one return to the earth

Elon Musk has been cutting the US government for weeks. Yesterday Milei gave him a chainsier to celebrate it

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Javier Milei is not going through the best of his political moments after the second accusation of fraud with cryptocurrencies of his career, for the controversial public support of the president of Argentina to The cryptocurrency $ libra. Milei has chosen to get away from all that controversy and travel to the US to personally give Elon Musk the Symbol of cuts In his legislature: a chainsaw. For his speech, in addition to the chainsaw, Elon Musk wore large sunglasses, gold chains around his neck and a black magician cap, alluding to The Musk Meme generated by AI that have circulated through their social network since the Doge project was known. Sunglasses and chainsaw in a political scenario Elon Musk was not planned to participate in the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) that the Republican party is celebrating near Washington, but finally, an effusive Elon Musk took the stage for Rob Schmitt, a Newsmax presenter, to do an interview of which The Verge has published a transcription. The millionaire took the stage dressed in a shirt in which you could read “I am not postponing anything, I am doing secondary missions”, a thick gold chain, black magician cap and huge sunglasses that hid their eyes during the entire interview . Musk He entered greeting to an audience delivered and effusively raising their arms, although without Make Roman threats In your celebrations. After the initial greetings, Musk exclaimed: “President Milei has a gift for me”, just before Javier Milei entered the scene giving the magnate a chain that Musk did not hesitate to fly euphoric exclaiming: “This is the chainsaw of the bureaucracy!”. An interview that raised suspicions After the delivery, the Argentine president was completely ignored by both Elon Musk and the presenter, so he went to the back of the stage resisting to abandon him without saying goodbye to the millionaire, who continued to stir the chainsaw from one end to the other of the stage. Completed the “Performance” of the chainsaw, Elon Musk and the presenter set out to start an interview. Musk broke the ice confessing: “I have become a meme” and “My mind is a storm.” Faced with the journalist’s questions, Musk answered babbling and with certain difficulties in articulating complete phrases, forcing the presenter to guide Musk’s answers during his interview. This behavior did not go unnoticed to the audience, which immediately shared it into a wave of messages, turning the word “Ketamine“In tendency in X during his speech.” Elon can barely form a prayer at this time, ” wrote The journalist Aaron Rupar in his X account. The legal analyst Ken White, too He showed his surprise Given Musk’s difficulties to maintain a fluid conversation. The comedian Gabe Sanchez went a little further pointing to the origin of the problem: “POV: you just took a ton of ketamine and went on stage,” wrote on his X profile. It is not very common to see Elon Musk doing an interview with sunglasses. Previously, Musk had received Javier Milei in one of the private rooms of the Convention Center where the Republican event is celebrated. In a Video of that meeting Published by Javier Milei, it can be seen how the Argentine President enters the stay. Elon Musk does not have the glasses on that time but, before greeting Milei, Musk puts the sunglasses when he warns that they are recording him. Touch the image to go to the original message Elon Musk has already recognized in the past being a ketamine consumer by medical prescription To treat depression. Although an investigation of the WSJ revealed that the erratic behavior that the millionaire has sometimes shown could be due to the cocktail formed For this substance with stressthe insomnia, the Asperger syndrome and the bipolar disorder suffered by Musk. Beyond the medical use of ketamine, Elon Musk has been in favor of the Use of microdosis of hallucinogenic substances. A very widespread practice In the high venture spheres of Silicon Valley. In Xataka | A judge blocked Elon Musk’s Millmillonario salary bonus complying with a law: Musk’s lawyers want to change that law In Xataka | “It was not a common drug addict”: when Hitler was cocaine sinusitis and met Mussolini placed Image | Grok

China has been cutting its technology for years. Xi Jiping has just opened the door for that to change

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Jack Ma, “The Jeff Bezos de China”, It seemed to go directly to stardom. And what happened is that he crashed when he tried to launch Ant Financial Its alleged Fintech of 150,000 million dollars. Or rather, Xi Jinping, the Chinese president who made clear Who was commanded. Ma finished practically missing in actionbut now it has just appeared in an event with Jinping and other great executives of Chinese technology companies. That this happens is as surprising as it is interesting. XI Jinping Meeting with Technological Capos “in China. As they point out In Bloombergthe Chinese president presided on Monday a meeting in which several entrepreneurs and managers of large Chinese technology companies participated. Among them, of course, the presence of Jack Ma, co -founder of Alibaba – and who left the position of CEO in 2019 – that for the first time in years went to an event of this caliber. The major flat. The event was also attended among Ren Zhengfei (Founder and CEO of Huawei), Wang Chuanfu (Founder and CEO of Byd), Pony Ma (CEO of Tencent), Lei Jun (co -founder and CEO of Xiaomi), Wang Xing (CoFundador and CEO from Meituan) or Wang Xingxing (CEO of Unitree Robotics). Apparently nor Robin Li (CEO of Baidu) Ni Yiming Zhang (CEO of Bytedance) went to that event. During the event, they point out in The New York Times, XI asked these entrepreneurs to have the “ambition to serve the country.” And also the richest. The 2024 Forbes list With the richest people in China, it demonstrates that the technological and automobile sector is especially notable in terms of presence. Thus, if we search that list to the personalities of the technological segment in China we see many examples (with its position in that list in parentheses): Pony Ma (Aliaba) (2) Zhang Yiming (bytedance) (3) Colin Huang (Temu/Shein) (4) Robin Zeng (catl) (5) William ding (netease) (7) Jack Ma (ex-alibaba) (8) Wang Chuanfu (Byd) (9) Lei Jun (Xiaomi) (10) Those fortunes, of course, are far from the great fortunes that dominate the Forbes list globally. Thus, Pony Ma, the second greatest fortune in China, is the fortune 57 of the world. Lei Jun, in the 10th position of ranking in China, is 195 in the global ranking. More love for private companies. The meeting seems to point to a possible change in attitude on the part of the Chinese government, which in recent years has left the great Chinese technology act, but always making it clear who sent. AI can have a lot to do. The moment in which the meeting occurs coincides with the rapid development of AI models created by startups and Chinese companies. The actions of these companies have shown the renewed interest in the great Chinese technology: Tencent, who has just offered Deepseek R1 in Wechat, He marked The price record in the Chinese stock market in the last four years. China became hard with its technology. Ma ended up scalding after the terrible episode lived with Ant Group Co., and other executives seemed to learn the lesson. The government campaign launched at that time was responsible for reinforcing state control over the economy and stopping Chinese billionaires. The objective: to reorient resources towards the priorities of XI, such as national security and technological self -sufficiency. Closer to Xi Jinping’s policies. Since then Chinese technology companies have been much more aligned with the philosophy of Chinese president. Thus, the AI ​​models developed by some of these companies must first receive the approval of the government to be able to deploy and use in the country. More tolerance for private. In recent times Beijing has been softening its restrictive policies against Chinese private companies: Qwen, Alibaba’s model, is demonstrating the increasing relevance of the company in this field, but even Apple is managing to include its Apple Intelligence platform On the iPhone in China thanks to their agreements precisely with Alibaba. Chinese Millanoriocracy. In the US we are seeing how the great technological fortunes are aligned with Trump and yield to their policies or even drive them, as is the case of Elon Musk, the richest man in the world today. Chinese magnates have been aligned with Xi Jinping even longer. The influence of the Chinese government on the march of the country’s companies is even clearer and the AI ​​rise is probably the engine of this “repositioning.” His strategic value is evident, and the Chinese president now seems to want to give more margin of maneuver to private companies that are allowing him to compete in better conditions with his great rival, United States. Image | Global panorama In Xataka | Choose between security and survival: the dilemma that terrifies the CEO of Anthropic in the US and China AI war

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