China became famous for its eternal working days. The solution has been to throw employees at their time

The Reduction of the working day It seems to be a path of no return that many countries have proposed to move. Some, Like GreeceThey do not do it with a determined step. Instead, others whose self -denial It seemed immovable, they are surprising the world with day reduction measures. China is one of those countries that, unexpectedly, has proposed to cut its workday. Labor culture 996. While in a large part of the West the eight -hour workday begins to be seen as a vestige of the last century and fights for the reduction of working hours, in China the culture 996 still continues: work from nine in the morning to nine o’clock at night and six days per week. Such and as they tell In ethic, that pace of work is taking Chinese society to the extreme, pulling on the soils The birth rate in a country that for years has sinned just the opposite. Chinese authorities have been trying for years Eliminate the culture of 996 of the workplace, but Without too much success. Dji has seriously proposed. According to The published by SCMP, Since the end of February something very curious is happening in DJI, the Chinese drone manufacturer. When the clock marks nine o’clock at night, a squad of human resources managers travels through the brand’s central offices in Shenzhen. Their mission is to make sure that all employees without exception leave their jobs and go home as if it were a fire drill. Instead of evacuating the building for security, employees are “guests” to leave their cubicles to meet a new rule: no one can work beyond their day. The fault is “Neijuan”. No, Neijuan It is not the name of the company’s Human Resources Manager. The term could translate to something as “involution” and, as they explain in SCMP, It refers to the need to reduce excess competition in certain areas of the economy. The measure is imposed as a New economic policy of China in which it is intended to reduce the excess of competence that makes companies in certain sectors such as The technological either Renewable energiesinvest an unnecessary amount of resources without obtaining an improvement in their profitability or in their R&D in return. Therefore, it implies outbound templates without registering a significant advance generating inefficient competition. It is something unpublished in China. Until recently, it was common to see the offices of DJI illuminated until the early hours of the morning with employees who lengthened their days until infinity. Now, the image is very different and has impacted many who have commented on social networks. The Asian media highlighted the publication of a worker surprised by the measure that commented “it was the first time they threw me from the office.” Other technological giants are adding. Although the work culture 996 has the support of prominent names of the Chinese technology industry Like Jack Mamore and more international companies such as Haier or Measure They are adding to the call of the Chinese government of limit the days of its employees. According to sources of SCMPHaier would have ordered all the staff of his headquarters to respect the breaks of two days of the weekend, while Midea has begun to demand that the workers file their departure at 6:20 p.m., instead of 9 pm. In Xataka | Working more than 60 hours a week is not healthy: Japan is starting to learn by force In Xataka | To motivate its Chinese workers, it has opted for a prize. His name is Caracol, and it is a public humiliation Image | Unspash (Duc Dao)

March is already the rainiest month since we have records in several areas of Spain. And only 10 days have passed

The other day I spoke with known that I told me that, when I was little, in the Ayamonte of the 60s and 70s, they went to school with water boots. Not only that, he told me, “I remember the white houses putting green because it kept raining.” At that time, I was not sure if it was true or it was nostalgia altering the memories of childhood, but seeing what is happening at the southern end of the peninsula, I would not surprise me anything. And it is that March 2025, just It has just converted in the most rainy month in several places in the country. Among them, the Aaemet Huelva Observatory – Ronda whose maximum historical data, since 1985, had been 164.6 mm. Yesterday, at 20:30, I had already collected 169.2mm. And there are 20 days left. Huelva, however, is simply a metaphor of Spain. An poisoned gift. Although the type of rain that is reaching us from the Atlantic is fantastic and does not have the torrentiality levels of the Danas, there are a point also begin to give problems. First because we have no infrastructure that can collect, accumulate and distribute all that liquid. As we commented a few days agothe red basin, the Odiel and the stones was above 94% of its capacity. That placed it at the level of the interior basins of the Basque Country and above Galicia or the Eastern Cantabrian. It is true that these data have trap (not only have little storage capacity, but in the area many coexit dead reservoirs Cargaditos of mining waste), but is indicative of what is happening in the rest of the country. Floods throughout the country. The clearest case has happened in the Toledo municipality of Escalona and its region. There, the Alberche River (just the one who, As we said yesterdayhe was going to receive an unprecedented amount of water) has overflowed and has caught many people with the step changed. However, more than 15 tajo stations They were yesterday Above the red warning threshold. And, if we expand the frame, we will see Floods in Sevillein The Golden Costain Vitoria or in Cartagena. Catalonia, for the first time in years, seems to drought endemic that lives. Are they good news? Yes, but with nuances. Obviously, water will come very well to face the next summer months. It gives us an irreplaceable margin to decide whether we want to learn from our previous mistakes. As explained in Datadista“From the deep drought of the 1990s, each dry period has served to implement emergency measures (…) or allow practices that were not eliminated when the rains returned, they were used to expand irrigation, increasing the problem of overexploitation and contamination of aquifers and wetlands to which they feed.” What are the nuances? The first is that ‘too much blow water’ also creates problems. Citrus flowers or Strawberry crops can begin to rot (or infect with fungi) in full campaign. That is, climate changes catch crops in different phases of the usual ones and that has impacts on the productive system. But the second nuance is perhaps more important: that the incentives not to take advantage of this blow of luck and not Implement the changes that The Spanish Water System needs. And, in the meantime, it does not stop raining. Nor does it seem to stop doing it. Image | Karel Roose | ECMWF In Xataka | Aemet special notices are just the beginning: everything points to an extremely rainy March in Spain

The good news is that Aemet already knows when the Jana Borrasca will leave. The bad is that 10 more days of rain await us

As of today, Monday, the BORRASCA JANA It will lose strength. But that does not mean that Aemet Go withdraw your notices by rains in half a country. And it is that the high -impact formation will continue with us generating instability, cloudy skies and generalized rainfall. Although, in reality, this seems only the beginning. Rain, rain and more rain. Although the eastern facade of the peninsula continues with His particular viacrucis (Especially in Alicante), the screws seem to have changed in the rest of the country: the largest accumulated will be in the south, both in the Atlantic and Eastern Andalusia aspect. Also in the central system. On the contrary, where the rains are less likely it is in the Cantabrian and the Northeast. In the Canary Islands there will be cloudy skies and scattered showers. But this will have an end … right? Of course he will have it, the problem is that we do not know when it will be. Jana is going to weaken And that, perhaps, we give us a little respite. But, as Aemet points out, “the rain will continue during the week of March 10 to 16”. After the borrasca jana“new fronts associated with Atlantic storms will sweep our country, with rainfall in large areas.” Again, the most abundant seems to be in the environment of the central and west system of Andalusia. How is this possible? A few days ago we counted that It was being established A huge blocking anticyclone between Greenland and Scandinavia. That was very good news because I was going to force the Atlantic storms to turn south. To this has been added something else: that the temperature of the surface water of the ocean is above the average and, thanks to the joint work between the blocking anticyclone and that of the Azores, an atmospheric river has been articulated that insuffes us with moisture from the Caribbean. The result is 10 days of generalized rains. That is to say, An unusually wet March. Is something of Holy Week know? This year, Holy Week falls between April 13 and 21. That is, there is a lot of time left. However, Aemet has published A climatological analysis. Unlike the predictions, what this type of analysis is investigated is the “standard time” for those days taking into account the historic. For example, According to the agency“In most of the southern peninsular half the average temperatures vary between 13 and 17 ºC” while “in the northern half we find lower values, with temperatures near the 9 ° C on the plateau and close to the 0 ºC in the summits.” Aemet The problem is that, as we can see in the superior graph, these “spring dates are characterized by their great climatic variability.” In recent years, temperatures have been high and, a priori, it is what we should expect. But there we have the year 2012 to show us that the situation can turn around when we least expect them. Image | ECMWF In Xataka | Aemet special notices are just the beginning: everything points to an extremely rainy March in Spain

You have a few days to see this magnificent science fiction film by the director of ‘Ex Machina’ that will disappear from Netflix

They were the early days of Netflix’s mass implantation, when it was still far from being the aesthetic and thematic roller in which it has ended up becoming. The platform premiered in 2018 ‘Annihilation‘, a film that had gone through a nightmare struggles to see the light due to its daring proposal, which made cinemas only in a few countries. Finally, Netflix acquired rights and premiered it as their own world. Now, after being one of the exclusive jewels of its catalog, the platform announces that it will withdraw it on March 11. Behind her is Alex Garland, an essential name for modern science fiction who has signed as a scriptwriter or director as daring and personal as’Ex machina‘,’Men‘, ‘Devs‘,’Civil War‘or the script of’ dredd ‘or ’28 days later’. However, with ‘annihilation’ the project was choked: it was the adaptation of the start of the trilogy of books ‘Southern Reach’ by Jeff Vandermeer, an unclassifiable science fiction work very complicated to translate into a conventional narrative argument. ‘Aniquilación’ starts when the husband of a biologist returns from a secret mission in an area cordoned off by the army, zone X, and of which nothing is known. To find out what has happened, he joins a group of five scientific women to discover which intentions has the alien force that controls it. Others have entered the area before her, but no one has ever returned. Zone X is the great finding of this film that, even needing more footage to explain its final stretch, and simplifying too much the fascinating proposal of the book, Throw a series of suggestive images of the fauna and flora of the place that are among the great recent findings of the genre. Excellently interpreted and with a rambling production design, it should be reviewed before Netflix disappears, because who knows how and when we will enter the X zone again. Header | Netflix In Xataka | Within Alex Garland’s mind, the renovator of modern science fiction thanks to works such as ‘Devs’ or ‘Ex-Machina’

Five offers to make the most of the orange days of PcComponentes. Mobile, computers, peripherals and more

During this week we can take advantage of the many offers he has launched (and will launch) pccomponents in his campaign orange days. Every day there are new offersso it is interesting to see what are the novelties offered by the store. Therefore, in this article we have gathered the five best offers that PCComponentes currently has in mobile, computers, peripherals and more. Lenovo loq by 799 eurosa very complete gaming laptop with 32 GB of RAM and graphic RTX 4050. Xiaomi 14t by 499.98 eurosone of Xiaomi’s mobiles with better value for money in its 512 GB version. Logitech G502 Lightspeed by 69.99 eurosa very complete wireless gaming mouse. MSI Cyborg 15 by 859 eurosan interesting gaming laptop with 1 TB of SSD and RTX 4050 graph. Logitech Pack G29 by 265 eurosa pack that includes a steering wheel, pedals and gaming headphones. Lenovo loq One of the best offers of the Oranges days is found on the laptop Lenovo loqa quite complete gaming team for 799 euros (Before 1,014.06 euros) which costs. Mount a 15.6 -inch antirreflective IPS screen that offers a resolution of 1,920 x 1,080 pixels and a 144 Hz refreshment rate. On the internal level we have the AMD Ryzen 7000 processor together with 24 GB of RAM and 1 TB of SSD, its graphics card is a NVIDIA GEFORCE RTX 4050 And it comes without operating system. * Some price may have changed from the last review Xiaomi 14t He Xiaomi 14t He has not stopped being lowered during the numerous offers of the stores. PCcomponentes currently has one of the best prices in its 512 GB versionsince it stays for only 499.98 euros. Xiaomi’s mobile comes with a very good 6.67 -inch AMOLED screen, offers a 1.5K resolution and a 144 Hz soda rate, its processor is MediaTak Dimensity 8300 Ultra and its cameras are signed by Leica. * Some price may have changed from the last review Logitech G502 Lightspeed He Logitech G502 It is one of the most popular gaming mice, and its Ligthspeed version (wireless) now has one of the best discounts we have seen to date. Pccomponentes has it for 69.99 euros instead of 159 euros, and stands out mainly for its “infinite” wheel, for the possibility of changing weight (Through small weights), for being compatible with the Logitech G Hub software, for autonomy and for being very ergonomic. * Some price may have changed from the last review MSI Cyborg 15 We can also find a good price on the laptop MSI Cyborg 15a gaming equipment with excellent value for money. Right now it is found by 859 euros; Of course, it will only be offer today, since it is a limited offer of the oranges. Mount a 15.6-inch IPS screen that offers a full HD resolution and a 144 Hz refreshment rate, its processor is the raptor Lake I7-13620H, it has 16 GB of RAM and 1 TB of SSD, Your graphics card is an RTX 4050 And it comes without operating system. * Some price may have changed from the last review Logitech Pack G29 If you like driving video games and want Logitech Pack G29. Its price is 265 euros and includes a steering wheel Logitech G29 Driving Force with its own pedals and gaming logitech g432. It is worth mentioning that the steering wheel is Compatible with PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5 and PC. * Some price may have changed from the last review Some of the links of this article are affiliated and can report a benefit to Xataka. In case of non -availability, offers may vary. Images | PCComponentes y Buyadicción (header), Lenovo, Xiaomi, Logitech, MSI In Xataka | Best gaming laptops. Which buy and eight computers recommended from 770 to 3,000 euros In Xataka | The best mobiles, we have tried them and here are their analysis

12 hours a day and five days a week in the office

The co -founder of Google, Serguéi Brin, has made clear its position on the work culture that workers should adopt so that the company that founded does not lose the AI ​​development career: employees must work a minimum of 60 hours per week and forget about teleworking, as collected in an internal memorandum to which It has had access The New York Times. Brin Pisa the accelerator. According to what was published by the American newspaper, Serguéi Brin mentioned that Google’s current labor policy falls short for the expectations of development of AI. “I recommend being in the office at least every day of the week. 60 hours a week is the optimum productivity point,” Brin wrote to employees who work in the development of Gemini and others Google AI products. That leaves a working schedule 12 hours a day during the five days of the week, showing its preference for face -to -face From the office to do it. “Many people work less than 60 hours and a small amount makes the minimum to survive. This last group is not only unproductive, but can also be very demoralizing for everyone else,” Brin said in his statement to the template. Risk of being behind. The reason for this request from the founder of Google is that, in his opinion, “the competition has accelerated greatly and the final race towards the AGI (General Artificial Intelligence) It is underway. “I think we have all the ingredients to win this career, but we will have to intensify our efforts,” the founder wrote in his message to the template of AI. It is not the only company that has accelerated the step in the development of AI demanding more hours of work and greater commitment to its employees. Amazon did it a few months ago when he ordered the return to the offices of his employees from January 2025. More hours, it is no more productivity. If the experiments performed worldwide have served anything about the four -day work week It has been to demonstrate that extended days can increase Risks of exhaustion and errorswithout increasing productivity. However, Brin argues that, in critical stages of technical development, this rhythm allows exponential advances, although he acknowledges that working more hours is inefficient if better tools are not used. Specifically those that they have manufactured. “The most efficient programmers and scientists in the world are using our own AI,” Brin added. A strategic return. Serguéi Brin founded Google with Larry Page, but both managers They have yielded the reins of the company more than a decade ago. In 2023, after the presentation of Chatgpt, Brin returned to the front line with a more active role to reinforce the company’s leadership in the artificial intelligence career. Brin’s proposal goes in the line of hardening of the working day that Google has been applying since 2023. First a office policy For employees with teleworking, moving to a three -day hybrid model of face -to -face. Now, employees dedicated to the development of products with AI, see how their founder takes a twist more proposing that they spend 12 hours a day and five days a week in their offices. Some employees see Brin’s position Like a setback to the “World” culture of Google’s first years. In Xataka | The return to the office has had a devastating effect for the concentration of employees: not 30 minutes without distracted In Xataka | Google has updated its principles for AI, and the mention has disappeared not to develop weapons with this technology Image | Flickr (Ted Conference, Thomas Hawk)

More than 100 liters/m2 in a couple of days

After a few days of peace and tranquility, the situation is complicated by the southwest. At the moment, an isolated cold storm It is heating engines And it will cause Aemet to start activating notices for rains in Cádiz, Malaga, Melilla and the rest of the east/southeast. In a matter of hours. What is an isolated cold storm? A BFA is, in reality, something very similar to a conventional Dana. It’s about An isolated mass of natural circulationbut what differently differentiates it is that they have a more direct reflection on the surface. It is basically as if they lived (superimposed) an isolated mass at high levels and a storm at low levels. That shows, above all, in surface winds. And what will happen? That the atmosphere (which had been very quiet for days in most of the Peninsula) will destabilize rapidly. The effects of Borrasca They will feel in almost the entire peninsula with a generalized decrease in temperatures; But the worst part is going to take Cádiz, part of Huelva, Malaga and, to a lesser extent, the rest of the southeast. The interesting thing about this BFA, like Sergio Escaama Sanchez explained in meteoredwe are going to see a kind of funnel, which is called “Obluid Front.” This type of phenomena arises when a warm mass is trapped between two cold fronts. But beyond the technical explanation, the result of all this is a greater virulence. A few days come. Only tomorrow and in a very short time space, accumulated around 20 liters per square meter on the coast of Huelva, Cádiz and Malaga. In the next few days, the entire penibetic massif The impact of storms will be carried out: According to the accumulated, 60 l/m2 could be exceeded. In 12 hours. From there, the rains are going to expand throughout the peninsular territory as an oil stain. Special attention to the winds and the snow level (which can give some surprise in Sierra Nevada) will have to be paid. In total, up to 100 liters per square meter are expected that will come well while the drought Start showing teeth. Bonus Track: Sunday can follow the party. In these circumstances, the uncertainties are great, but with the current outputs available it would not be uncommon for Sunday to arrive with water load. Although, as I say, it is still early to ensure it (and to know if this water respite will make a difference). Image | WXCHARTS

Only a few days after the MWC, at the Barcelona airport they have made a controversial decision: evict the synthes

Airports are By definition places where they land and take off airplanes, where travelers pass and in which one hopes to meet suitcasespeople running, Farewell scenes (and reunions), screens full of numbers and Duty Frees. However, they are something else: the roof under which hundreds of homeless people are sheltered who find in the terminals covered and safe spaces where to spend the night. To a greater or lesser extent occurs or has occurred at the airports of Madrid, Malaga, Tenerife either Barcelonaalthough in the latter they have just move token For that to change. How he has done it and especially when, just a few days after the beginning of the Mobile World Congress and the arrival of thousands of visitors, It has generated controversy. Homeless people in Prat? Exactly, the figures dance depending on the source that is consul A hundred Syntch. There are those who raise the number of people who spend the night in the enclosure to 160 or who go further and talk about around 180 or even 200people who with greater or lesser frequency convert the terminal into their improvised home. Is it a unique case? At all. A quick search arrives on Google to verify that in other busy airports of the network managed by AENA, such as Madrid-Barajas, South Tenerife either Malaga-Costa del Solsomething similar happens or has happened in recent years. And it is not something exclusive to Spain. Similar cases are in United Kingdom, Argentina, USA either Italy. And that to cite some examples. Of all perhaps the most commented over the last weeks is that of the Madrid-Barajas airport. And the reason is basically An estimate: Little union alternative Aena Enaire (ASAE) calculated that among the four terminals that make up the airport there are around 500 people homeless, well above the handful of tens that added just a decade ago. And what happened in Barcelona? That the airport has just been the scene of An operation to evict the synthesch that sleep in their facilities. The avant -garde Explain that Tuesday night Aena deployed a device in which a dozen security guards participated and basically focused on the homeless people left the T1 terminal. In the operation, agents were also involved the Mossos d’esquadra, although they clarify That it was not his initiative and his task was to offer support, and emergency personnel and the social area of ​​El Prat and Barcelona. The eviction would have started the eleven and a half from the night and lasted until the early morning. The Catalan newspaper Precise That days ago there were already personnel who were in charge of informing the Sintecho that on Tuesday a device for the “disinfection” of the T1 would be deployed that would prevent them from following inside, an operation that has already been deployed before in the T2. Other media They pointwithout citing sources, that the objective was double: clean and send a message to the people who spend there. “Paso de Paso”. The phrase is Maurici LucenaPresident and CEO of Aena, who He has spoken of the theme: “Aena feels concerned with the people who spend the nights in our infrastructure. Airports are designed as a place of passage, not to structurally offer pernocentation solutions.” From the body has not come into details, but eldiario.es Precise that at least the initial plan was for the device to be repeated again. In its day the Generalitat de Cataluña, the municipalities of El Prat and Barcelona and Aena signed An agreement focused precisely on homeless people who live in the terminals, but that agreement expired on January 2024which affected the assistance they receive. In October police sources They already recognized to The country The complex thing that was becoming the situation: “We make social assistants and it is not our work.” At that time there was talk of a hundred synthesch. It matters where … And matters when. He AENA device In the Prat it arrives at a very specific moment, on the eve of the Mobile World Congress (MWC), which starts on Monday and stands out as one of the great citations of the congressman and fair calendar of Catalonia. The appointment mobilizes tens of thousands of people and the first and last one that many of them see in Barcelona is precisely their airport. That coincidence has not gone unnoticed. Not even for Lucena himself, who assures that Tuesday’s operation is not related to the technological fair. “It has nothing to do with that, I guarantee that,” insists the director of the airport manager. The MWC is not the only factor that marks the context of the operation. In autumn Airport employees manifested in T1 to report that they feel “fear” for thieves and some syntch in the terminal. “Punitive and cosmetic device”. From CCOO already They have warned that the improvement of the safety of the workforce “cannot be an excuse to stigmatize the extremely vulnerable population” and insists that the security of the personnel “should be negotiated with the social agents”, “which is not done”, Apostille. CCOO also questions the motivation of the measure on Tuesday and speaks of a “punitive and cosmetic device for the Mobile World Congress.” “It is unacceptable”. CCOO has not been the only one to show its discomfort because of what happened at the airport. Taula d´entitats of the third social sector of Catalunya and Ecas have issued A statement Also in critical tone: “We consider that it is unacceptable to have normalized the situation of these homeless people and not have planned an accompaniment device with overnight alternative.” Social entities regret transferred to the press that the device was activated for “security” and “unhealthiness” reasons. “We suspend that (these) terms are not used when referring to these people because they contribute to stigma on the situations of poverty and exclusion,” ditch The collective. Images | Jorge Fraganillo (Flickr), Contliciun (Flickr) In Xataka | The Olympic Games are just around the corner, so Paris has … Read more

Some microbiologists have taken 10 years to solve a problem. The AI ​​has solved it in two days

Professor José R. Penadés and his Imperial College team in London had been working on a way of demonstrating how certain superbacteria are immune to antibiotics. After all that time they had finally achieved a conclusion in this regard. They recently dedicated to give AI a chance to solve the same problem. They got a surprise. Ten years they, 48 hours the AI. The scientists used a new Google AI tool called co-scientist to provide a brief prompt asking him about the essential problem they had been investigating for ten years. The AI ​​reached the same conclusion as them, but it took only 48 hours to reach it. And the AI ​​did not know the response in advance. One of the important details here is that AI could not have found out the solution looking for it on the Internet. Penadés and her team had not published the study, so Co-Scientist could not find the answer because it was not public domain. “I need to digest it”. The Penadés Professor He indicated in BBC How he learned that AI had reached the same conclusion in just two days. “I was shopping with someone, and I said,” Please leave me only one hour, I need to digest this. ” no. I could have saved years. Even considering the AI ​​solution as a hypothesis when they started working on the problem, having it would have saved years of work, Penadés explained. But it was the AI ​​went further. In fact, Google tool had done more than replicating its research. “It was not only that the hypothesis he provided was correct. He provided another four, and all of them made sense. And in one of the cases, he never occurred to us, and now we are working on it.” A for superbacteria. The study tried to reveal how some superbacteria are created that are resistant to antibiotics. The hypothesis proposed that superbacterial can form a tail from different viruses, and that allows them to spread between species. It is as if they had the “keys” to move from one place to another and “enter” different guests. That is the same hypothesis that Co-Scientist arrived in 48 hours. “This will change science”. For the Penadés professor “this will change science, sure.” Tools like this, says, “give the opportunity to play a great game. I feel as if I was finally playing a Champions League match with this.” And there I don’t know the thing: Evo 2 arrives. This discovery binds to launch these days of Evo 2the most large biology -oriented model so far. A group of researchers from the universities of Berkeley, Stanford, the ARC Institute, the UCSF and NVIDIA have trained an AI model with 9.3 billion nucleotides (from which DNA chains are created) from 128,000 Complete genomes. Thanks to this model it is possible to precisely predict all types of genetic mutations. Image | Wikimedia In Xataka | Some engineers have simulated 500 million years of evolution with an AI. Now we have a fluorescent protein

“We had an architecture study two days stopped”

In recent days, thousands of Spanish companies have been affected by a measure adopted by Movistar, at the request of LaLiga, to combat illegal broadcasts of football matches. The Teleco has begun to block Cloudflare IP addressesa fundamental service that provides security and optimization to a large number of websites. The problem is that these IPS are shared by many totally legal and legitimate services, which causes the blockade to affect business indiscriminately They have nothing to do with illegal football streaming. Not only online stores “We do not give credit. It seems that it was not Spain. It’s crazy,” says Nelson Domínguez, CEO of Docastixa small mobile application development company. Docastix was directly affected over the weekend when one of its customers, in full product launch with an important advertising campaign, discovered that Movistar users could not access their online store. The company was investing in advertising, paying for each click that took potential customers to its website, but Those clicks translated into error pages for Movistar users. “The launch was a disaster,” explains Domínguez. “We have not been able to count that specific impact yet, but it has been high. The campaigns were lost, the clicks and potential purchases were lost. And then our work to put a solution.” Cloudflare panel with the online store data that Docastix speaks. It is appreciated how the 8 (day indicated in the graph) begins the fall and does not begin to trace until 11. The advertising campaign had begun on the 7th (the traffic peak). Ceded image. Movistar’s response to the problem has been confusing. When Domínguez contacted the operator, they asked for his ID and A relationship of all the websites I had tried to access without success. Then they assured that the problem was solved. “We lost four hours of work again,” he says. “Today, what they have done is to implement blockades every 15 minutes. That is not a solution: perhaps a customer can enter to buy, but when he is going to pay he has already stopped working.” Cloudflare sent a hard statement to Xataka in which he accused LaLiga of acting deliberately, knowing the consequences of his blockade: «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 ». LaLiga, meanwhile, responded to Xataka With another statement in which he attributed cloudflare the responsibility of using his legal clients as “digital shield”: «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.” LaLiga sources add that it is key to understand the role of Cloudflare not only in the illegal retransmission process of parties, but also of the process that follow to house domains. They explain that they are companies that trust Cloudflare, and deserve to know, according to their version, that they are used as a digital shield while it is profitable, hosting and protecting illegal and mafia activities next to the legal companies that are now affected. They speak of intentional complicity. And the impact goes far beyond online stores. Manuel Márquez, Systems Technician Cloudatarecounts serious cases that illustrate the breadth of the problem: “I had an architecture study two days stopped. They are not only websites and stores, but critical business applications for the daily functioning of companies. “Among their business clients have been affected from law firm, which could not access Lexneteven photography studies that depend on cloud services to share files with their customers. And he also affects the solution of fifteen minutes: “The architecture study has already told us that he will report, because they have left them two days,” he says. “We saw that the IPS were blocking every fifteen minutes. Not only do they do it wrong, but they do it wrong and are trying to mask it.” The situation has forced many companies to take drastic measures. Docastix, with only seven employees, has had to dedicate vital resources to move clients out of cloudflare. “Of those seven not everyone can attack the problem by the subject of knowledge, and of which yes, I can only at that time,” Domínguez explains. “We are a very recent small company, there are clients who do not understand this at all and sound a bit of an excuse. It seems that you blame Movistar from a mistake of yours.” The risk of deactivating cloudflare without a previous plan The background technical problem is complex. Cloudflare acts as a security intermediary for a large part of the Internetprotecting companies against computer attacks. As he explains Jaume PonsSystems Engineer in an automotive multinational, “for a small company, something else is unasumable. In the end, if you expose your website directly they lie down if they propose it. You have to use mastodontic suppliers such as Cloudflare, which will provide that first barrier of cybersecurity input. “ The paradox is that some companies, desperate to maintain their operational services, They are choosing to deactivate the protection of Cloudflare, exposing themselves to security risks. “They are actions that no longer end that someone cannot access a service,” Pons warns, “but that companies that have been forced to deactivate protections have been much more exposed to attacks without an adequate plan.” Economic damage multiplies in unexpected ways. Companies not … Read more

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