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There is so much misinformation with the Treasury and private payments in Bizum that the Treasury has had to come out to deny them

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In recent days, Bizum has become an unexpected protagonist of the tax debate in Spain as a result of the reform on operations communications that financial institutions must send to the Treasury. Given the confusion generated, the Tax Agency has published an official clarification to clarify what really changes and what does not in the communication of payments made through Bizum. What the Treasury has had to clarify. The Tax Agency has published an explanatory note to stop the idea that Bizum is going to impose massive control of payments between individuals. As explained in his note, there is no change in the taxation of individual users or in the obligation to declare the daily payments that individual users make through Bizum. What does change is the information that banks must send to the Treasury about certain payment systems. Bizum becomes explicitly included along with other means such as credit cards, debit cards or other electronic platforms. But this information obligation does not apply in the same way to all users. The key nuance is who uses Bizum and for what purpose. And that is where the confusion skyrocketed and the private use of the platform was confused with the professional use and supervision of those payments through Bizum. The reform that caused it all. The origin of the controversy is in the regulatory reform that regulates communications between financial entities and the Tax Agency, recently published in the BOE. This text establishes that banks must report all movements made through electronic payment systems when the recipient is a company or professional. That is, Bizum is comparable to other common collection methods in economic activity. If a business, a self-employed person or a company receives payments through Bizum, these movements must be fully communicated to the Treasury, just as occurs with card payments. These payments will be included in your accounting books and tax regulations will be applied to them. like any other paymentand the tax entities will communicate the existence of these payments by identifying the bank or payment accounts through which these charges associated with the company are made. The standard does not introduce a new obligation for businesses, but rather standardizes the treatment of Bizum with other payment systems that were already under that level of control. What happens to private users?. The Treasury clarification is blunt on this point: individual users are left outside the individualized control of each movement when they use Bizum for day-to-day payments: shared dinners, gifts, money refunds or small payments between friends are not communicated in detail to the Tax Agency. There is no new threshold, no obligation to declare each transfer, nor automatic monitoring of daily operations between natural persons. In that sense, Bizum continues to work the same as it has until now for the majority of users. The exemption, however, does not mean carte blanche from a tax point of view. And this is where the second important nuance about the use of Bizum comes in, understood as a payment channel that has already been equated with any other existing payment system. Bizum is only a payment channel. In a own statementBizum wanted to clarify that the exclusion of individual users from automatic reporting does not eliminate their tax obligations. The platform insists that the payment method (Bizum, in this case) does not change the nature of the income. Yeah a user charges a rent by Bizum and does not declare it, it is still taxable income. If you receive a donationmust pay taxes in accordance with the corresponding regulations. And if you use Bizum for a hidden economic activity, the Treasury can demand liability in the same way as if the payment had been made in cash or by transfer. The key is in the concept of payment, not in the payment channel used. Bizum does not inspect or exonerate itself, it simply channels payments. The obligation to declare depends on the origin and purpose of the money. SMEs and microenterprises. By equating Bizum with other payment systems and differentiating between individual users and companies, there is a risk of diluting the limit in cases where the holder of a bank account belongs to the 5463% of sole proprietorship SMEs in which a self-employed professional develops his profession and uses a single checking account to receive his Bizums, both personal and professional. As and as they recommend from Bizum, in these cases, it is essential to identify the specific cause of each payment received through Bizum or, to avoid problems, separate payments from Bizum directed to the professional activity of the personal Bizum into different accounts. In Xataka | Bizum and the Treasury: what changes in the control of transfers after eliminating the 3,000 euro threshold

OpenAI and Google deny that they are going to put ads in ChatGPT and Gemini. The reality is that accounts do not come only with subscriptions

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What AI has a profitability problem It is something well known. All you have to do is look at the OpenAI accounts, which in the last consolidated quarter lost a whopping $11.5 billion. The subscriptions were presented as a way to monetize chatbotsbut ChatGPT barely has 5% of the total users on one of your payment plans. The numbers do not come out and, although companies deny it, the shadow of advertising hangs over AI. what’s happening. Rumors that some very popular chatbots are integrating ads are intensifying in recent days. First they began to circulate alleged screenshots of an ad on ChatGPT and later a media specialized in advertising claimed that Gemini will have announcements in 2026. Companies deny it. Google has been quick to deny the information, ensuring that Gemini has no ads and “there are currently no plans in place to change it.” What stands out above all is that “currently”, which continues to leave the door open to include advertising in the future. For its part, OpenAI has come out to deny it ensuring that what appeared in that screenshot “was either not real or it was not an advertisement.” What was seen was a suggestion to connect the account of Target, the popular American hypermarket chain. When the river sounds… Despite the forcefulness in denying it, a few days ago we learned that OpenAI is preparing the ground to include advertising in ChatGPT. ChatGPT beta version for Android includes explicit references to an ad feature and tags like “content bazaar” and “ad carousel.” Additionally, the company is hiring experts in advertising platformsso the appearance of ads is not a question of “if”, but of “when.” In the case of Google, we haven’t seen any screenshots or traces in the code, so there isn’t that sense of imminence. However, there are rumors that there will be announcements in AI summaries and taking into account that advertising is the company’s main business, it does not sound crazy that they end up integrating ads into their chatbot. Investment vs return. The imbalance between what technology companies are spending on AI with what they are earning is totally unbalanced. Big tech companies like Google are increasing their revenue, but It is not thanks to AI, but to its cloud services. In the case of OpenAI, without an infrastructure to minimize the impact, the disconnection between expenses and income is brutal. Subscriptions are not enough. AI has managed to penetrate the general public and, according to the consulting firm Menlo Venturesalready has 1.8 billion users around the world. The problem is that only 3% pay any type of subscription. OpenAI currently has 5% paying users and expects that by 2030 the figure will increase to 8.5%. It is still not enough to achieve the desired profitability. According to a study by JP Morgan, For the AI ​​industry to achieve a 10% return on everything they have spent, it would take $650 billion a year, which is the same as saying that 1.4 billion people pay more than $400 each year to use AI. They may succeed, but for now ads seem like a faster way to generate income. Image | Generated with Gemini In Xataka | AI has become the best example that if you don’t pay for the product, you are the product

The AI ​​bubble is so obvious that not even Sundar Pichai or Satya Nadella make an effort to deny it

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The thing about bubbles is that we are certain that there is one only when they burst. And with all this artificial intelligence, is talking a lot about whether or not there is one around this technology. Of course there are indicators that set off alarm bells, but the curious thing is that we would not have believed that two of the greatest exponents in contributing to the development of this technology would maintain reservations. And Sundar Pichai, for Google, and Satya Nadella, for Microsoft, have not made much effort to deny the doubts. Irrationality. Pichai declared to the BBC in an interview he noted “elements of irrationality” in the current AI market and warned that no company, including Google, will be immune if the bubble bursts. His words are especially striking because they come at a time when Alphabet shares have doubled in seven months, reaching a market capitalization of $3.5 trillion. The CEO compared the situation with the Internet bubble of the late 90s, recognizing that although there was excessive investment that ended in bankruptcies and layoffs, today no one questions the profound impact of the Internet. “I hope AI is the same. I think it’s both rational and there are elements of irrationality in a time like this,” he explained. When the numbers don’t add up. Skepticism is based on concrete data. OpenAI, Google’s most visible competitor in this field, has committed to spending $1.4 trillion in infrastructure for eight years while it expects to generate just $13 billion in revenue this year. Just like share In the Ars Technica media, Sam Altman himself, CEO of OpenAI, acknowledged to journalists in August that investors are “overly enthusiastic” about AI models and that “someone” will lose an “incredible amount of money.” Microsoft also shows the cards. For his part, Satya Nadella has been equally forthright about the current limitations of the sector. At the beginning of the year already pointed out to claim that a milestone has been achieved in AGI (general artificial intelligence) is “just hacking the tests without meaning”, downplaying the benchmarks that so much marketing generates. According to Nadella, the true metric of AI success should be reflected in countries’ gross domestic product: “When we say ‘this is like the industrial revolution,’ we should have that kind of growth that caused the industrial revolution,” he explained, referring to increases of 5-10% in GDP. That growth has not yet come. Jensen Huang says exactly the opposite. While Pichai and Nadella talk about irrationality, NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang has presented spectacular results in the third quarter and settled the debate in his own way. “There has been a lot of talk about an AI bubble. From our perspective, we see something very different,” he commented. NVIDIA reported revenue of $57 billion in its latest quarter, up 62% from a year earlier, with net profits of $32 billion. Its data center business has generated $51.2 billion, a record boosted by the sale of its Blackwell chips. According to Huang, sales of these GPUs are “skyrocketing” and cloud chips are out of stock. NVIDIA also projects a fourth quarter with revenues of $65 billion. AI still doesn’t make money. NVIDIA does make money, a lot of money, but He does it by selling the shovels during the gold rush. The vast majority of companies that develop large language models are losing money spectacularly. OpenAI is the most obvious examplebut not the only one. Microsoft, Amazon, Meta and Google they are allocating tens of billions of dollars to build data centers dedicated to AI in a colossal bet whose profitability is not guaranteed. For Nadella, what AI needs is something equivalent what Excel and email meant for the PC, that is, an app that makes the majority of users understand how to use AI. At that time we saw that the PC took a long time to find its place, especially until it reached mass adoption that transformed real processes. There are chips but there is no energy to power them. In addition to the profitability problem, there is an immediate physical limitation. Nadella revealed recently that the biggest obstacle is not the lack of chips, but the energy needed to power them. “If you can’t do something like that (supply enough power), you’re going to have a bunch of chips sitting around in inventory that you can’t plug in. In fact, that’s my problem right now: It’s not that I don’t have a sufficient supply of chips: it’s actually the fact that I don’t have places to plug them in,” he admitted. Microsoft, Google and other big technology companies are resorting to drastic solutions such as building their own small nuclear power plants (SMR reactors) to supply their future data centers. ARM CEO Rene Haas noted that energy needs could triplea challenge that calls into question the sustainability of the current expansion. Of course we don’t know how things are going to end, but no one doubts that we’re going to have a good time with it. Cover image | Microsoft and Bloomberg In Xataka | Gemini 3 promises more quality and precision than ever in its responses. The question is whether we will really notice the difference

deny a loan to his daughter

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Warren Buffett has been one of the most respected investors for his good nose for investments, although his peculiar investor style It is very far from the current short-term culture stock market crash. This vision has not only positioned him among the richest people in the world in the last thirty yearsbut it has helped him educate his children in the importance of earning their own money without expecting to receive theirs as an inheritance. A trend increasingly fashionable among millionaires. “You thought I was a bank”. That phrase, so typical of a mother from the 80s, seems to have been blurted out by Warren Buffett to his daughter when she asked him for 41,000 to renovate the kitchen of her house: “Go to the bank and do it like everyone else,” she herself confirmed in an interview on the program Good Morning America of the North American ABC. The finance magnate is one of the main promoters of educational efforts among his children who, despite having a millionaire father, have had to learn to earn and manage their own money. Buffett’s philosophy. Warren Buffett is characterized as an unconventional millionaire due to his austere habits. It is known that he has been using the same car for years, to buy your breakfast on the way to the office and lives in it house he bought more than 60 years ago. Every year it makes a donation of about 4.6 billion to the foundation of his friend Bill Gatesthat of his late wife and those of his three children. The millionaire declared 18 years ago that his intention to donate 99% of your 106,000 million to charitable causes, and he seems willing to achieve it with the approval of his children. “The truth is that it would be crazy to leave us so much money,” said Susan Buffett in her interview with ABC. Money doesn’t grow on trees. According to his children, the best inheritance you can leave them his nonagenarian father is to appreciate the value of money, not take it for granted. The tycoon’s daughter confesses that since they were children he paid them 75 cents, but the tycoon installed a slot machine in his house, so that, in the end, he always got his money back if one of his children decided to do something unproductive with it. Susan Buffett recalled in that interview that the only notable amount of money that her father had given them was in 1977 when he gave them $90,000 each, the result of the sale of his grandfather’s farm that Warren Buffett had inherited. The rest, they have had to earn for themselves. a maxim from his father: “Leave your children enough so they can do anything, but not enough so they can do nothing.” Of such a suit… One of Warren Buffett’s convictions is that what The world needs the least they are rich heirs. For this reason, he is more interested in donating a large part of his fortune to try to leave them a more just world through impact investments that improve people’s lives. According to Forbes estimatesthe millionaire investor would have donated about 55,200 to the Melinda and Bill Gates foundation, with whom he shares a select millionaires club with which he is encouraged to donate a large part of his fortune to charitable purposes. Buffett’s goal is to have donated around 160,000 to charitable causes, something that really is not going to be difficult for him since, as the veteran investor recognizesis more than twice as rich as in 2006, even after giving away more than 55 billion. …Such a splinter. Buffett’s children have learned their father’s lesson by creating and managing foundations to which the magnate regularly contributes a substantial annual figure. Susan Alice Buffett is the oldest sister and dedicates herself full time to managing several foundations and educational support entities financed by the Buffett family: her mother’s Susan Thompson Buffett, The Buffett Early Childhood Institute, Girls.Incas well as the Sherwood Foundation that she founded. Howard Graham Buffett is the middle brother and has been holding senior management positions in the agri-food industry and even dabbled as a politician. Your foundation He also has million-dollar annual contributions from his father to improve food security and protect people. Peter Buffett is the youngest of the Buffetts, who has combined his musical career with the management of the NoVo Foundation, who, like those of his brothers, receives generous contributions from Warren Buffett to fight against social inequality. In Xataka | Money has changed hands, but not surnames: the youngest millionaires of 2025 are the proof In Xataka | There is a less painful solution so that an inheritance does not become a ruin for the heirs: renounce it Image | Flickr (Fortune Live Media)

If the question is whether Spain can deny its bases to give air support to Israel, the answer is not so simple

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And suddenly, Spain. Actually, and as we will see, the country’s geographical situation makes it a kind of “technical stop” for the different military conflicts in which the United States has been. The war that is taking place In the East It is another chapter, but with the exception that, quite possibly, Spain will not enter. What raises a logical question: could it refuse to use its air bases? Reinforcements from Spain. First the news. Within the framework of the growing military escalation between Israel and Iran, the United States has discreetly intensified its deployment in the Middle East with the help of key infrastructure in Europe, including Bases in Spanish territory. It is official, since the Minister of Defense, Margarita Robles, confirmed that Washington has begun to use the Rota bases (Cádiz) and Morón de la Frontera (Seville) To park cistern airplanes, a measure framed in the bilateral agreements in force between the two countries. Robles said that the presence of these aerial means is carried out within the limits established by the joint defense treaties. Specifically, the agreement allows the deployment of up to 15 replenishment aircraft in Morón, although international media Like BBC They have reported the arrival of “something else”: at least 30 KC-135 aircraft In recent days, distributed between Spain, England and Scotland. Logistic support for fighters. We have come counting these days. The role of these cistern aircraft It is strategic: They allow to expand the operational scope of combat aircraft such as the F-16, F-22 and F-35 that the Pentagon has mobilized towards the Persian Gulf region. According to Reutersthis aerial reinforcement would also include the deployment of a USE USERindicating a projective combat capacity in several dimensions. Although the Secretary of State for Defense, Pete Hegseth, has insisted that it is a deployment for purposes andStrictly defensiveUS military sources have confirmed that these platforms have already been used to Interception operationsdemolishing drones and missiles launched by Iran in response to the Israeli attacks initiated the previous Friday. Reactions in Spain. No doubt, the use of Spanish military facilities by the United States It has generated restlessness within the Spanish parliamentary arch itself. Podemos has presented a Question battery In Congress to demand explanations to the Executive on the arrival, last Friday, of the cistern aircraft to the base of Morón. In their brief, they express suspicions that these facilities are being used as a logistics scale in support of military operations in favor of Israel. The party led by Ione Belarra has also questioned the government about itself I was aware Of these movements and if it supervises its purpose, putting on the table the debate on operational sovereignty and indirect involvement of Spain in an international conflict of high intensity. A Eurofighter Typhoon from Ala 11 in Morón in 2015 Legal and preceding basis. The current use of the military bases of Rota and Morón by the United States is part of a strategic relationship Started in 1953when Spain, even under the Franco dictatorship, signed the calls Madrid agreements. In exchange for financial and military aid, the installation of US bases in Spanish territory was authorized, in what was a shy international opening step. This initial network It included the bases from Zaragoza, Torrejón de Ardoz, Morón de la Frontera and broken, and constituted one of the First gestures from Spain to aspire to NATO entersomething that would not be completed until 1982 with the firm, and until 1999 with full accession to the integrated military structure of the alliance. The agreed of 88. The current legal basis that regulates the shared use of Rota and Morón It was established With the Defense Cooperation Agreement Signed on December 1, 1988 Among the governments of Felipe González and Ronald Reagan, he was finally the final of the Cold War. This text has been amended Three occasions (In 2002, 2012 and 2015) to adapt to geostrategic and operational changes. According to the Ministry of Defense, the second amendment protocol set a period of validity eight years old since its entry into force (May 21, 2013), which made it expired on May 22, 2021. However, article 69 of the agreement provides for a Annual automatic extension If none of the parties expresses its opposite will six months in advance, which has been happening until today, with Some exceptions. Rattan Operational limitations. Although US jurisdiction governs certain aspects within the perimeter of the bases, Spain retains sovereignty and political control over its strategic use. In fact, the United States cannot use the facilities unilaterally, but requires express permission from the Spanish government, as stipulated The agreement. This principle has been maintained, although in practice it has not meant obstacles during, For examplethe wars of Iraq and Afghanistan, when the governments of José María Aznar and José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero authorized their use No restrictions. Similarly, in 2021 Spain allowed both bases to temporarily welcome Afghan collaborators of the United States during his escape from Kabul. Military presence. According to the agreementUnited States can keep up to 2,200 military, 36 aircraft and 500 civilians in Morón, although the current contingent is around 600 troops. In rota, the allowed limit amounts to 4,250 military and 1,000 US civilians. These figures reflect a gradual reduction compared to previous decades, and in 2023 The transfer of the rapid response force for Africa was confirmed from Morón to A base in Italyevidencing an operational replication that directly affects the employment and economy of the nearby areas, which receive about two million euros per year in direct income of the State. Real veto capacity. Therefore, to the big question, could Spain deny the use of its air bases to the United States with respect to the Israel-Iran conflict? The short answer is that yes, in fact, There are examplesas with the return of Torrejón in 1991 and Zaragoza in 1992. Plus: In 1986, the government of Felipe González advertisement that would not automatically renew the pact, also demanding The withdrawal … Read more

We are in 2025 and millions of men worldwide continue to deny one thing: shorts

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In a couple of months I have a wedding. And although I still don’t know what I will wear exactly (suit, I don’t suit), I am clear: I will not go in shorts. Nor will I get them out of the closet for my next working meeting, or for food with former schoolmates, or surely for my next family dinner, just as I did not do any of the 11 years I worked in an office. Well seen, in my day to day there are few moments for the shorts, let’s not say the Bermuda. And mine is not a unique case. The relationship between shorts and men It is not simple And (almost) at the doors of summer maybe it is a good time to ask the big question: why? “Only for tennis or beach”. A few years ago the reporter Jefferson Hack, from the magazine Anotherhe asked the designer and filmmaker Tom Ford to give him Some lessons simple to be “a modern gentleman.” He quoted five and one reserved it specifically to talk about the garment that, in his opinion, any man must handle cautiously: shorts. “A man should never use them in the city. Chanclas and shorts are never appropriate in the city. They should only be used on the tennis or beach,” He collected Hack in his Pentalog. Is it the only one who thinks like that? No. For more prestige that Ford has won in the fashion world, his opinions are just that: opinions. However, it is not alone in his posture on the scarce male pants. In ABC of Men´s Fashion The deceased Hardy Amiesanother heavyweight in the design world, also pronounced Roundly On the subject: “A man should never wear shorts, except when he is on the beach or during a walk.” The list of designers and professionals of the fashion world who look suspiciously the short man-pavement binomial is wide and encompasses many other names. Nicolas Gabard I recently confessed that you never saw them, the comedian Brian Park He joked in another podcast ensuring that they should be used “only to do sports or aquatic activities” and a quick search on Google reveals a good handful of articles with A similar toneof editors convinced that a man I should never put on shorts to go to work or that garment It has no place in the closet of a gentleman. “Made me reflect”. The trend is sufficiently pronounced (and curious) so that it has given rise to analysis in media like The country or the magazine GQwhere a few days ago Daniel Varghese signed an article in which he launches a question in the air: “Shirts, why do so many men refuse to take them?” The piece is interesting because, in addition to remembering the opinions of Tom Ford or Gabard, Varghese shares own opinions and some friends. And while they do not deny shortThey do admit that they do not face it with the same approach as the rest of the garments. “A few weeks ago I extracted from my closet the trunk where I keep my summer clothes. I took almost everything without thinking, but there was a garment that made me reflect: some Patagonia Baggies,” Remember Varghese: “He had begun to assimilate the idea that men should never wear shorts.” After consulting with other colleagues he found that they agreed that they only carry shorts In certain contexts (as in very sunny days), they do not feel comfortable with them or even are childish. “I would feel ridiculous”. A similar exercise made in 2019 in SMODA Beatriz Serrano, who asked some men what they thought about the possibility of presenting themselves to their bosses with shorts. The answers go in a similar line. “The offices are formal places where some composure must be kept,” I commentedA 33 -year -old journalist. “The clothing standards can be lightened a bit in summer, but the Bermuda are out of the equation in any case, as well as going in a swimsuit or flip flops (…). There are hundreds of light tissues with which to cover the legs and not look like a kid in the courtyard of the school.” Another man, engineer, about to meet 40, It showed Even more reluctant: “I honestly, I am not comfortable. I would feel ridiculous with the Patorras in the air in my office (…). I am both afraid of seeing me in short pants and seeing the calves of my classmates. “In other cultures, such as the Japanese, it is not usual to meet men in shorts except when they do sports, as you collect The style guide of Inside Tokyo. Why these misgivings? That is the question that was asked just a year ago Guillermo Arenas in in Icon And his response goes beyond aesthetic, cultural or functional issues: he connects directly with the chronicle of the last centuries and “a mixture of puritanism, clash of classes and chance.” After all, the pants (like any other garment) is fashion, but also history. The rise of the bourgeoisie was accompanied by the consecration of the pants to the ankles and the short He went to associate with very specific areas, such as school uniforms. The result is an association that is still maintained today. “They are childish,” Recognize Photographer Daniel Arnold to Vogue. “I feel a giant child.” Another factor that indicates Arenas is its contestant capacity and the use that has been given to the garment in recent decades between rock bands (with fallen and cut shorts) or the gay community. An immovable norm? If something is good for fashion, it is to reinvent and knock up pre -established norms. And with the shorts it could happen exactly that. There are those who have been Wondering openly why a man cannot go to work in shorts And in recent years, prominent names of the world of cinema or fashion have been seen wearing the garment in important quotes. Pedro Pascal did … Read more

How is legislation and what rights do you have to deny you

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Let’s explain why Your company cannot force you to join a WhatsApp group of work, even if important things have to be communicated. This is a direct and comfortable communication route between employees and bosses, although it can violate some of your personal rights. Therefore, let’s clarify you What is the situation of this type of groups As for legislation. We will tell you The rights you have and the procedures for which they can be created. The key is in consent WhatsApp has become an almost by default tool to make groups of friends or family to be able to chat at all times. And groups can also be created for the company, although here you have to take into account and respect those who They do not want to join groups or receive invitations. This can be somewhat conflictive, especially when the invitation is from your chief of work. In the Organic Law for the Protection of Personal Data and guarantee of digital rights or RGPD there is no article in which this situation is talk about, although in some articles Spanish data protection agency or AEPD If certain rules are established for this issueand that serve as the basis to know how to act. According to this agency, They cannot invite you to a WhatsApp business group without your permission. When they do, all other members can see your phone number. This number is cataloged as one of your personal data according to article 4.1 of the GDPR, so getting into consent without consent violates the data protection law. This is because of the treatment given to your personal data, which is illicit in the event that you are forced to enter a WhatsApp group of your company without your consent. This is an infraction that already has caused fines to companieseven In such seemingly innocent cases as the group to organize a New Year’s Eve party. And what about teleworkors? Teleworking is a work form that entails a somewhat more different scenario, and on which there is no concrete legislation. In part, this will depend on the contract that the worker has signed, because in many occasions the company includes the obligation to give their telephone number and email to be able to contact him in urgent cases. Therefore, the one who can put you in a WhatsApp group in your company when you have such a contract formed It depends on whether it justifies that it is urgent. For practical purposes, this makes it generally Nor can they add you without your consent straight. Your boss cannot infiltrate It may also be the case that you have a WhatsApp group between employees, and that the boss gets to access illegally and use those messages in some type of active judicial process. This case has already been givenand supposed A conviction for the crime of discovery and revelation of secrets. Come on, that if your boss does not participate in a WhatsApp group, he cannot infiltrate without permission and use what you say on your against. Everything changes with a company phone Finally, you should know that all this changes if your bosses They give you a company phone. In these cases, there have already been sentences that point to that The company has control over these media Because they are yours. Come on, if you give you a phone with a number, they belong to the company and they could force you to access a WhatsApp group with this number. But here, everything also depends on the contract you have, and the company must have a policy of its technologies in which specify what the worker can or cannot do With them. Therefore, it must be something that is clear in business policies, and will depend on each of them. In Xataka Basics | WhatsApp news in April 2025: What changes and what adds the application for Android and iOS

Those responsible for the Robinson list deny having been hacked. The data of more than 600,000 people are at stake

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Hackmanac hackeos monitoring account published A few hours ago a worrying advertisement: the Robinson list It has supposedly hacked in Spain. According to hacking data, personal data of 614,197 people They would have been exposed. Among these data are full names, postal addresses, ID, telephone, date of birth and emails. These data represent a real treasure for cybercriminals who make use of the phishing technique to try to cheat users. With this information they can make personalized messages even try to supplant identities in attacks more specific to anyone. Our partners Xataka mobile indicate who have contacted Adigital, the agency that manages the Robinson list. Those responsible deny that this hacking has occurred And they have issued the following statement: “We have carefully reviewed the information available with our technical and legal team and we can conclude with total security that there has been no hacking or illicit access to our systems. In any case, we will be attentive to evolution and make our knowledge and tools available to the Spanish Agency for Data Protection.” The Robinson list is An advertising exclusion service to which any Spanish citizen can sign up for free. Its objective is to send advertising to registered users, both to their postal addresses and email or by mobile messages. A potential theft of the data on the list could precisely cause the opposite: that these users became direct victims of future Phishing attacks. It remains to be seen if the information published by Hackmanac and other media was really true or not – the authenticity of cyberboo is To be confirmed– But the organism presume to maintain the most important repository in the world of “verified, successful and publicly known cyberbrays.” In Xataka | The Robinson list works. And the companies that jump are already known the punishment: 10,000 euros

South Korea has found a great structure in the waters that is disputed with China. It is the second time, and Beijing does not deny it

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The conflict It began in the months of April and May 2024. In front of its coasts, in The yellow seaSouth Korea sighted a series of floating structures in the space that delimits the nation with China. From Beijing it was tried to reassure the neighbor explaining that what they saw only had fishing connotations, but no one escaped then that behind the movement could exist much more. New structures have turned on the spirits in Korea. A new dispute zone. As we said, a few weeks ago China began The construction of maritime infrastructure in the yellow seaa strategically crucial area between the Chinese Costa and the Korean Peninsula. The new facilities, A floating steel structure of more than 50 meters high and widewere detected by South Korean satellites, raising concerns that China is using the tactics of consolidating territorial claims through permanent constructions. With An area of ​​417,000 square kilometers, the yellow sea is rich in marine resources, oil and gaswhich makes it a key point of economic and geopolitical interest for both nations. Until now, South Korea has protested by the installation of Several structures since 2024claiming that these could be part of a major plan in China to exercise sovereignty over the area. In fact, the South Korean authorities believe that Beijing could build up to 12 of these structures, which would turn the area into a friction point into the already tense relations between both countries. China and its maritime tactics. The strategy of building permanent structures to affirm sovereignty is not new in Chinese politics. Moreover, Beijing has applied similar tactics in the South China Seawhere has transformed reefs into military bases And he has claimed jurisdiction on disputed waters with the Philippines, Vietnam, Malaysia and other countries. Everything indicates that the strategy seems to spread to the yellow sea, with direct implications for South Korea and its allies (Particularly, the United States). What does China say. We said it at the beginning. Chinese officials They have tried to minimize controversyalways describing these facilities as “fishing support infrastructures”but the South Korean security community fears that they are advanced for an eventual statement of Chinese sovereignty. In the words of Sang Hun Seokformer South Korean Diplomatic and Security Analyst, “these facilities act as the maritime equivalent of boots on the ground, establishing a physical presence that China will then use to consolidate their claims.” The provisional measures zone. The truth is that the yellow sea has been a historical dispute area between China and South Korea. In 2001, Both countries established the one known as the provisional measures zone (PMZ) to administer the area of ​​exclusive economic zones (ZEE) and avoid confrontations, delimiting fishing rights and prohibiting new constructions or the exploitation of resources until reaching a permanent agreement. Under it, the two nations are prohibited from building infrastructure or exploiting resources beyond fishing if the other does not agree. What happens? What South Korea He has repeatedly denounced for years that China has ignored these restrictionsallowing their fishermen to operate illegally in the South Korean Zee. Said dispute has even led to violent clasheswith South Korean maritime patrols shooting against Chinese vessels on more than one occasion. Hence, the construction of permanent structures is now seen as a new level of provocation, as it could sit a precedent that Weakens the capacity of South Korea to assert your maritime rights. The elephant in the room: USA. He Mutual Defense Pact between South Korea and the United States makes this dispute just a bilateral issue. With 28,000 American soldiers parked in South Koreaany Chinese movement that alters the strategic balance in the region could attract Washington’s attention. Until now, Americans have maintained a containment approach against Chinese expansion in the Indo-Pacific, particularly in the South China Sea and the Taiwan Strait, but but The yellow sea could become a new piece on the game board. Dispute with historical roots. From the Chinese perspective, Yellow Sea control has a strategic and symbolic weight. The reason? In the last 200 years, The great battles that defined the history of China were fought in this regionfrom the Opium wars until The Sino-Japanese war. Under this perspective, Beijing’s official narrative considers these wars as a historical humiliation imposed by foreign powers, and recovering absolute control over its coast is seen as part of the restoration of his “historical law”. The Chinese argument to reject an equitable division of the ZEE with South Korea is based on the fact that Its population and their coast are significantly largerso they believe that the dividing line should favor them. On the other sidewalk, South Korea and its allies defend the principle of the “midpoint”, according to which the maritime border should be drawn equally between both countries. And where do it leads to us? It is the big question. Of course, so far the dispute has not reached the seriousness of the Conflict in the South China Sea or the Eastern China Sea, where the Asian nation maintains confrontations with the Philippines and Japan respectivelybut the situation could quickly intensify if Beijing continues to expand its presence. It would not really be “so much.” If South Korea, with the support of the United States, decides to directly challenge these constructions, we could see a new front of tensions in the Indo-Pacific. Perhaps for this reason, at this time the great unknown is to know how far South Korea will allow (and its alliance with the United States) that Chinese tactics advance before taking more forceful measures. Image | Grid-AendalNASA In Xataka | The US and China Liby ‘Chips War’. Now South Korea prepares for ‘The War of Memoirs’ In Xataka | China has discovered an advantage to win the career career to the US: a “bubble” in its defense

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