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the Webb telescope has just clarified a key doubt

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There are asteroids that go almost unnoticed and others that force us to look at them much more carefully. 2024 YR4 belongs to that second group. When it was discovered at the end of 2024, the first calculations of its trajectory still had enough margin of error to contemplate a very small possibility of impact with Earth. That scenario was soon ruled out, but, as ESA explainsthe case remained under follow-up for a different reason: a doubt was left open about the Moon which was not resolved until new observations arrived. Impact risk. With data available since spring 2025, trajectory models indicated that the asteroid had about a 4% chance of hitting the Moon on December 22, 2032, an estimate that NASA placed at 4.3% in its previous calculations. It was not a high percentage, but it was significant enough for the teams dedicated to monitoring near-Earth objects to follow it with special attention. Furthermore, we are talking about an object of about 60 meters. How Webb came into play. To clear up that doubt, something more than the usual telescopes was needed. An international team of astronomers identified two very specific windows in February 2026 in which the James Webb Space Telescope could try to detect the asteroid, which at that time was just an extremely faint point millions of kilometers away. It involved using one of the most complex scientific instruments built to date to locate an almost invisible object and measure its position with the necessary precision to project its orbit almost seven years into the future. Key piece. The observations were made on February 18 and 26, 2026 with the camera NIRCam of the James Webb telescope. From these images, astronomers compared the position of the asteroid with that of the background stars, whose coordinates are known with great precision thanks to ESA’s Gaia mission. ESA adds a relevant detail to understand why this went ahead: the planning and analysis was coordinated with ESA’s Near-Earth Object Coordination Center, NASA’s Center for Near-Earth Object Studies and the Webb mission team. With this new data package, the orbital models were adjusted enough to close the mystery. James Webb analyzed the position of the asteroid in relation to the background stars The flyby distance. With the new calculations, monitoring teams can now estimate quite accurately what the asteroid’s passage through the lunar environment will be like. According to NASA, it will pass on December 22, 2032 about 21,000 kilometers from the surface of the Moon. That range is enough to eliminate the impact scenario that had been on the table for months. In other words, the object will continue on its way through the solar system without hitting either the Moon or Earth. Surveillance doesn’t stop. Programs such as ESA’s Space Security or NASA’s tracking systems continue to detect and analyze near-Earth objects to anticipate any possible future threats. The logic is simple: the sooner a potentially dangerous object is identified, the more room there will be to study its trajectory and assess the real risk. In this case, the result has been reassuring, but it also illustrates, as ESA insists, what planetary defense means in practice when a doubt is resolved with more data and better measurements. Images | THAT In Xataka | We have been burning space junk for years to get rid of the problem. It turned out to be a bad idea

It was so good that it made us doubt the Nazis

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When ‘Starship Troopers’ hit theaters in 1997, most audiences expected a light science fiction adventure, perhaps a late heir to the spirit from ‘Star Wars’. What he received was something very different: a film that opened with a propaganda advertisement that was as brilliant as it was disturbing, an exercise in political satire so sharp that many viewers and critics interpreted it backwards. The satire that nobody wanted to see. Director Paul Verhoeven, a European marked by memories of the Nazi occupation and obsessed with dissecting American authoritarianism, conceived from the beginning a work that did not talk about insects or space battles, but about the way in which an apparently democratic society can slide towards militarization, fascism and blind obedience. That inaugural announcement It was not a simple aesthetic resource: it was the thesis of the film compressed into seconds, a direct adaptation of Nazi propaganda filmed by Leni Riefenstahla mirror held out to the viewer so that they could recognize, in the imposed enthusiasm of the young recruits, the mechanisms that make any totalitarianism possible. Fascist future and pop aesthetics. Verhoeven departed from an uncomfortable premise: the Heinlein novelthe basis of the film, was essentially a militaristic text that treated citizenship as a privilege linked to armed service. Instead of softening that vision, he decided to exaggerate it to the point of absurdity, turning his protagonists into stylized versions of the Aryan heroes that Riefenstahl immortalized in ‘Triumph of the Will’. The casting, in fact, was a ideological decision: young, perfect faces, with square jaws, that fit with Nazi iconography so that the viewer, even if they did not recognize it immediately, felt the disturbing familiarity of a historically charged aesthetic. The recruitment announcement (soldiers looking at the camera, declaring “I’m doing my part”) replicated shot by shot the exaltation of duty and obedience of Third Reich propaganda. What on the surface seemed like a visual joke was actually the key to deciphering the entire tone of the film. Let’s see the sequence: The smile that hides the horror. In reality, the false advertisements that Verhoeven had employed already in ‘RoboCop’ and ‘Total Recall’ acted as windows to societies that they represented: board games that trivialized nuclear war, holiday campaigns that promised false lives to evade one’s own. In ‘Starship Troopers’, that language found its final form. The initial announcement shows military victories, a dehumanized enemy and an army enveloped in enthusiasm. The satire, however, lies not in the excess, but in how easy it is for that excess to seem normal. The most disturbing detail (the joyful presence of children in a war environment, collaborating in the propaganda machine) underlines that the fascist ideal does not need explicit violence to function: it is enough to normalize indoctrination from childhood, it is enough to turn war into entertainment and obedience into a virtue. Verhoeven does not show the children being hurt; That emptiness is part of the message, since it points to a future in which they will inevitably also be sacrificed by that same patriotic logic. The original misunderstanding. The premiere of ‘Starship Troopers’ was received with a misunderstanding which today is almost legendary. There were editorials that they even accused Verhoeven and his screenwriter Ed Neumeier of making neo-nazi propaganda. The public, expecting a heroic blockbuster, found a film that laughed at their expectations and that, by showing perfect and enthusiastic heroes, posed the question that no one wanted to hear: what the hell happens when those who seem like heroes represent a morally rotten ideal? The announcement was main trigger of that rejection. His advertising tone, his energy youthits aesthetics cleancaused many to take it literally, unable to perceive that the exaggeration did not glorify war, but rather ridiculed it. Verhoeven, surprised by the misunderstanding, I would remember years later that even actor Neil Patrick Harris appeared in the film dressed in a uniform that evoked that of the SS. And yet, the satire went unnoticed by much of the American public. The advertisement as a masterpiece. Today, with the passage of time, the advertisement inside ‘Starship Troopers’ It is considered a masterpiece of political satire. It works on several simultaneous levels: it pays homage to the cinematic form of Nazi propaganda, parodies American recruiting rhetoric, exposes the ease with which television and advertising language can legitimize dangerous ideas, and serves as an entry point into a universe where war It is spectacle and the enemy. Verhoeven knew that the key to authoritarianism is not explicit repression, but in seductionin the construction of that heroic story that makes desirable what should be disturbing. That is why the advertisement is, in my opinion, so accurate: because it is not a crude parody, but rather a perfectly functional piece of propaganda within the narrative universe itself, capable of deceiving even those who see it from the outside. Reality slap. If you like, the ‘Starship Troopers’ announcement is not just a spectacular introduction, it is the film’s manifesto. If the director had explained his satire through explicit speech, the play would have lost its edge. Instead, he chose a recognizable format (the ad of a lifetime) to show how an entire society can embrace militarism almost without realizing it… and we don’t have to go very far to recognize it currently. Riefenstahl’s conscious copy did not seek to honor, but to denounce, and the luminous aesthetic did not seek to beautify, but to make uncomfortable. In the end, humor did not even seek to entertain, but rather to arouse the viewer’s suspicion. And in that contrast lay the genius of the advertisement: forcing us to ask ourselves a question that, for years, many avoided asking. And if we don’t recognize ourselves in that mirror, maybe (like Verhoeven himself hinted) is because we are uncomfortable with how close fictional propaganda can be to contemporary realities. Image | TriStar Pictures In Xataka | In 1975 a party ended on the beach. What happened next was so chilling that people … Read more

dealers doubt 20 days after its application

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It was presented on December 4 and promises to be active on January 2, 2026. That day, if everything goes ahead, we will be able to go to the dealership, commit our electric car and see a discount on the final bill. That, at least, is what was promised the day the Auto+ Plan was presented. The last to doubt this: the dealers. The presentation. It’s been eight days since The Auto+ Plan was presenteda purchase assistance program framed within the Auto Plan 2030a transversal strategy to promote the electric car and general improvements in the mobility of our country. The star measure: direct discounts on the purchase of electric cars. It is a decision that meets the demands of buyers and manufacturers who have been asking for this measure for years to encourage the expansion of this type of vehicles. And it is that, with the MOVES III Plan and in all previous editions, the delivery of aid was delayed in some cases by up to 18 months. many doubts. Despite the announcement, many doubts remained floating in the air: It is not known how much aid for electric cars will amount to. It is not known if the aid will also cover the purchase of plug-in hybrids. It is not known if the aid will have to be declared in the income tax return, although if it is applied as a discount to the purchase it is likely that this will not be the case. It has been announced that Aid from the MOVES III Plan will be covered that have not been entered but it has not been clarified how long we are talking about. To be restless. When this Auto+ Plan was announced we could expect that all agents were aware and had agreed. Much more so if we take into account that there are 20 days left until the new purchase aid is available. But the truth is that dealers are revealing their doubts. According to The Economistthe concessionaires are negotiating with the Ministry of Industry the delivery of the aid but they have a red line: they will not advance the aid. From Xataka We have contacted Faconauto, the dealer association in Spain, but they have refused to comment on the matter. The problem, they point out from the media, is that the concessionaires do not have sufficient financial health to advance the money if the State extends its subsequent income. According to data from Facoauto itself, the profitability of the sector is only 1.38% and three out of every ten dealerships are in losses. The Valencian case. One of the proposals that had been put on the table was to act the same as with the Restart Auto+ Plan when Up to 10,000 euros in aid were offered for buyers of an electric car after the DANA in Valencia. The objective was to take advantage of the forced renewal of the automobile fleet with the delivery of electric cars. Then we worked with the idea that the aid money would be deducted from the total payment for the vehicle. However, the bureaucracy made an appearance again to the point that some dealers advanced aid to customers with a discount on the purchase at the expense of their request being later approved but without prior acceptance through. In The Economist They point out that the dealers remember that this way of acting was only carried out by some brands, delivering the car before having approval for help. Furthermore, they remember that the Valencian case was exceptional and that it is difficult for something similar to be applied on a state level if they do not have the State’s commitment to deliver aid in a short period of time. 20 days left. Now, with this position of the concessionaires in front of us, the Government has less than three weeks to negotiate aid that was announced for January 2, 2026. A complex situation that is reminiscent of the last extensions of the MOVES III Plan. It must be remembered that in February 2024the Government has already promised to provide aid for the purchase of electric cars with a discount on the contract. Throughout that year, this possibility was delayed until the renewal of the MOVES III Plan arrived with the same conditions as always. That same aid program fell when meeting within the Omnibus Decree lying by the Congress of Deputies despite being announced and active. Months later, in April 2025, the MOVES III Plan came back… with the same problems as always. That is, with a management that left the client at the expense of collecting the aid until 18 months had passed in some cases. Photo | Robin Le Mee and Mohamed B. In Xataka | The best time to buy a “cheap electric car” will be never: at least that’s what Skoda thinks

If the question is whether they can geolocate you during your work day and use it to fire you, justice leaves no doubt: yes

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Know that your company knows where are you every minute of your workday can generate discomfort and even doubts about its legality. However, the courts have been clarifying this area for some time. A recent ruling by the Superior Court of Justice of Asturias does so with unusual forcefulness. The case involves an elevator maintenance technician and an application time control which recorded, in addition to his schedule, the exact point from which he clocked in. What seemed like a routine tool ended up becoming the key to a disciplinary dismissal which today is fully validated by justice. Schedule control with advanced features. As detailed in the sentence issued by the Social Chamber of the Superior Court of Justice of Asturias, a maintenance employee of an elevator company used a time control application installed on the corporate mobile. His function was simple: mark the beginning and end of his day and do it from the place where he attended to each incident. The company distributed the routes on a daily basis and registration had to be done at the customer’s location, not from another point. However, the employee’s workday began to show strange patterns. In one month, the company detected up to 11 outbound signings made from the employee’s home and coinciding with work hours. The record indicated that, instead of closing his last intervention from the customer’s location, the technician finished his day on time, but already at home. Notices, warnings… and a disciplinary dismissal. The company did not act immediately. Before the dismissal, he issued several internal warnings to the worker and reminded him of the operation of the application, pointing out the irregularities detected and reminding him the obligation to sign from each real location. Even so, the signings from home continued, so the company interpreted that the agreed working day was being breached. Finally, he proceeded to the disciplinary dismissal, considering it proven that the technician ended his day prematurely and from a place outside the workplace. The Social Chamber of the TSJA confirmed the decision of disciplinary dismissal and validated the use of geolocation as evidence. What the law says. The TSJA ruling is based on the article 20.3 of the Workers’ Statutewhich specifies “the employer may adopt the surveillance and control measures he deems most appropriate to verify compliance by the worker with his or her work obligations and duties.” Therefore, and given the mobility nature of the position, the time control system with geolocation was justified. In addition, Organic Law 3/2018 on Data Protection (LOPDGDD) specifically regulates geolocation systems. Your article 90 requires clear information about the existence of these systems, their purpose, the scope of the processing and data protection rights. In this case, the app was corporate, the device belonged to the company, the worker knew how it worked, and the application only recorded the location when the application was opened. Taking all these regulations into account, the TSJA considered that the company acted within the law and used a proportional tool, linked to strictly labor purposes and correctly communicated to the employee. Time nuances. He Workers Statute It also precisely delimits when the day begins and ends. Article 34.5 establishes that “working time will be calculated so that both at the beginning and at the end of the daily shift the worker is at his or her workplace.” This is where we have to differentiate workplace and job position. It is not a minor nuance: effective working time begins when one is operationally available to perform the assigned functions. This does not mean that the employee must arrive at the workplace at the agreed time, but rather that he must be at his workplace at that time. If there are 10 minutes from the company entrance to your position and you arrive at the work center at your agreed time, you would be arriving 10 minutes late. The same applies at departure time. That employee must remain at his position until the agreed time, and then collect his things and leave the company. If you are leaving the company premises at the agreed time at the end of the day, you would be leaving 10 minutes early. The only exception to the rule: there is no job to go to. The Supreme Court has recognized a relevant exception: When the company does not have offices, premises or any physical space where workers can start their day, the employee’s home can be considered a valid starting point for the day. This doctrine applies especially to completely decentralized companies whose workers only move from client to client. In these situations (well accredited and exceptional), the travel time from home to the first client can be counted as workbecause the home assumes the function of the only available operating point. But as long as there is a work center or a clearly defined place where the activity can begin, this exception does not apply. Clocking in from home, as in the case of the Asturias elevator technician, is not justified and is a non-compliance with working hours. In Xataka | Breakfast and the first 15 minutes of entry are work: the Supreme Court sets the limits of time control Image | Unsplash (Kevin Grieve)

Images no longer mean that something was real. Welcome to the era of permanent visual doubt

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There was a time, probably less than a year ago, when you saw a picture on the Internet and simply believed it. You didn’t stop to analyze it, or look for its context. You didn’t think “is it real?”, you simply processed it as information, and moved on. That moment will not return. We no longer talk about deepfakes very hardworking people who deceive some journalist (of that We already warned seven years ago). We are talking about something much more banal and therefore more devastating: Your brother-in-law can create a photo in three seconds of you, completely drunk, at a bachelor party you never went to. Your ex can fabricate a photo of you in a pose you never had. A student can generate a compromising image of his or her teacher during the transition between classes. The question is no longer whether the technology is good enough. It is perfect, we are seeing it with several tools and with the recently launched Nano Banana Pro to the head. In fact, it’s too perfectto. And perhaps for the first time, technical perfection has come before social perfection. Who is capable of seeing the photo on the right and assuming that neither the woman nor the waiter nor the bar actually exist? Let’s go having to learn to do something different from what we have been doing all our lives: learn not to be able to trust our eyes. Our entire epistemology—from court testimony to family photo albums—rests on a simple principle: seeing is a way of knowing. Not perfect, but sufficient: For 300,000 years of human evolution, if you saw a tiger, there was a tiger. For 199 years of photography, if you saw an image of a tiger, someone had been close to a tiger. That chain just broke. And it doesn’t break little by little, with warnings and an adaptation period. It breaks suddenly, on any given Tuesday, when you discover that the viral photo you shared was fake and you ate it without hesitation. Or worse: when you discover that everyone has assumed that the real photo you shared is actually fake. What we are losing is not the ability to distinguish what is real from what is fake. That got complicated a long time ago. What we are losing is something more primary: the possibility of operating under the assumption that the visual is, by default, a reasonable starting point. There’s the catch. for a decade we become obsessed with fake news. We were worried about Russian bots, troll farms or organized disinformation. All that was industrial. It cost a lot of money, left footprints and required coordination. What Nano Banana Pro brings is different. It is artisanal misinformation, common at home. You don’t need an authoritarian government or a budget behind it. You just need a smartphone, whatever it is. We could combat industrial misinformation with fact-checkers and media literacy. How do you combat the fact that each person is now a printing press for alternative realities? How do you verify 10 billion images daily? You can’t. The least obvious consequence is the most devastating: we are going to beg for a lock next to our real photos. If anyone can make any image, only those with verifiable certification will matter. Encrypted metadata, digital chain of custody, institutional authenticity seals. Anything, but something. The photo without a stamp will be suspicious by default. Who is going to offer that certification? Google, Meta, Apple, maybe governments. The only institutions with resources to verify on that scale. We are going to pay them for something that has been free for two centuries: the presumption that what was photographed existed. Because the alternative – a world where no one can be sure of anything – is simply unlivable. But The worst thing is not losing confidence in the images. It is losing confidence in memory. Your brain doesn’t store experiences, it stores reconstructions. And every time you remember something, you reconstruct it with the help of fragments: smells, emotions, images. Photographs have been crutches for memory for decades. They consolidated the rest of the memory. And then there is exhaustion. Every image you see now requires a little evaluation. Is it real? Do I verify it before sharing it? Will I look like a tolili if I send her to the group? Another tab for our internal CPU. Our parents never had to do this cognitive work. We are going to spend the rest of our lives in suspicion mode. Not because they are cynical, but because they are rational. That permanent suspicion has a cost. In attention, in mental energy. Perhaps in a capacity for wonder. In the possibility of seeing something extraordinary and simply believing it. Never again. There is hardly a solution for this: You can’t train an AI to detect AI-generated images perfectly: it’s an infinite arms race. Each detector upgrades the generators. Each generator improves the detectors. Each higher wall is an incentive to lengthen the pole. You can’t educate people to “think critically” on each of the thousands of images it processes per day. We don’t have bandwidth. and nor you can legislate the problem because technology is faster than the law and more accessible than any prohibition. The only thing left is adaptation. Cultural and psychological. Our grandparents trusted what they saw. We trusted what was photographed. Our children are not going to trust anything that does not come certified. Maybe the blockchain It was also invented for this. AND When everything needs verification, nothing can be spontaneous. When every image is suspect, none is memorable. When reality requires constant authentication, we stop inhabiting it naturally. Photography died the day it became indistinguishable from the imagination. We will continue taking photos and we will continue seeing them. But They will no longer do what they did for two centuries: tell us what was real. Welcome to the era of permanent visual doubt. In Xataka | There is a generation … Read more

Although they work, they leave a disturbing doubt

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They are the medications of the moment and without a doubt the golden goose of the pharmaceutical industry. Drugs like Ozempicthe Wegovy or the Mounjaro have proven to be a very effective weapon to achieve significant weight losses in patients, which undoubtedly makes them very attractive for those people who suffer from obesity. The problem is that since they are so recent, we do not know exactly their long-term adverse effects. And this is a serious problem. Although these drugs are currently available on the market, science has the obligation to continue investigating their effectiveness and also the long-term side effects. Therefore, three new and exhaustive Cocharne scientific reviewsrequested by the WHO itself, confirm it: they work and they achieve significant weight loss, although there is then a rebound effect. But beyond this there are several problems that surely are not discussed as much. The same reviews as praise its effectiveness They issue a strong warning: strong involvement of pharmaceutical companies in practically all of the studies analyzed raises serious concerns. The evidence on long-term safety, side effects and how financial ties might be influencing outcomes remains, according to the researchers, “limited or uncertain.” Side A. The analysis done by Cochrane evaluated three of the main agonists of the GLP-1 receptor. These drugs, which were originally intended for the treatment of type 2 diabetes, mimic a natural hormone that our body secretes, GLP-1. By increasing their concentration, what is achieved is that the patient you feel full for much longerand therefore do not eat as much food. The results of these drugs are really positive. The undisputed star is Mounjaro, which managed to reduce on average 16% of body weight after taking it after 12 to 18 months. But Ozempic, which is undoubtedly the most famous, is not far behind, since it reduces weight by around 11% in a period of 24 to 68 weeks, and the most important thing is that the effect persists for two years. Side B. Throughout the research, several blind spots emerge that are sometimes not counted, as patients are left with almost miraculous weight loss. And taking it is not a bed of roses, as it has side effects such as nausea or digestive discomfort which are very frequent. But also, and this is key, the studies found practically no difference between the drugs and the placebo in terms of major cardiovascular events, mortality or quality of life. That is, with current evidence, they make you lose weight, but there is no evidence that they make you live longer or be happier. Conflicts of interest. This is the central point of the warning issued by the scientific review, since they have seen that most of the studies in the reviews were financed by the companies that manufacture the drugs themselves, so there may be a significant bias in the results. It cannot be logically compared to the results offered by completely independent results, which is what this review demands. Great unknowns. As we say, these drugs are known to have a short-term effect, which is significant weight reduction. But the question it raises is… What will happen in the future among patients who take it regularly? This is where a lot of data is still missing. These are the effects we know as ‘Type C Adverse Drug Reactions’. Precisely because they are chronic. There are very clear examples, such as that benzodiazepines produce long-term tolerance or dependence. Additionally, most trials were conducted in middle- and high-income countries, with little or no representation from regions such as Africa, Central America, or Southeast Asia. Because body composition and diet vary globally, the authors caution that it is not known how these drugs will work in more diverse populations. A bittersweet taste. GLP-1 drugs are promising, but the scientific basis on which clinical and policy decisions are based is largely built by their own manufacturers. This is also added to the need to wait for possible long-term complications to arise that determine the non-recommendation of using this treatment. But this is not something that stops countries from betting on this treatment as is the case in the United States where Donald Trump reached an agreement with different pharmaceutical companies to reduce the price of these medications by a good percentage with the aim of making them more accessible. Images | David Trinks In Xataka | Someone gave Gemini 1.5 a video of him exercising. He is capable of becoming a personal trainer

Russia has launched its Zircon hypersonic missile at NATO doors. And he has accompanied him with a video so that there is no doubt

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Just a week ago, Russia launched the Greater order to Europe From the beginning of the invasion of Ukraine when entering a swarm of drones in the airspace of Poland. Europe’s response was overwhelming, but nobody escaped then that it was produced at the doors of the Zapad 2025the military exercises that Moscow shares with Belarus and that suppose another headache. How much? For example, the size of a hypersonic missile. Demonstration of power. Because Russia has sent an unequivocal message of strength within the framework of those joint maneuvers. From the Frigate Admiral Golovko, deployed in the Barents Sea, the nation He has disseminated images of the launch of your hypersonic missile 3m22 Zirconcapable of reaching white 1,000 kilometers and traveling to Mach 9. The projectile successfully hit its goal, According to the Ministry Russian defense, reinforcing the narrative that, despite the enormous losses accumulated in more than three years of war in Ukraine, it continues to have strategic abilities that few rivals can counteract. He Video showed In addition the participation of hunting Sukhoi Su-34capable of transporting up to eight tons of weapons and covering long distances without replenishment. The inclusion of such high profile armament in an exercise that develops a few kilometers from NATO borders has been interpreted as a calculated provocation rather than a simple defensive trial. Zircon and his use in Ukraine. The Zircon, along with The Kinzhalis one of the hypersonic missiles that Russia has used in Attacks against Ukraine. Its combination of extreme speed and limited maneuvering capacity makes it a target practically impossible For current air defense systems, generating a sense of vulnerability in both Ukrainian cities and among neighboring countries. Although its operational deployment remains reduced, the dissemination of its impact on a naval exercise seeks Clear answers. The signal is evident: Russia maintains the initiative in the field of new generation weapons, and wants to demonstrate it right in the perimeter where the alliance concentrates Your most sensitive flank. Zircon against China and USA. The Russian missile is a naval HCM that, flying low With Scramjetrun high energy terminal profiles suitable against ships and, a priori, certain land targets. His Achilles heel is not so much the missile and the objective beyond the horizon, which requires reliable cueing by satellite/plane/helo/uav. Faced with this, the Chinese DF-17 Use a hypersonic planner about ballistic booster to overcome defenses with lateral lifting maneuvers (Cross-ngege), while Your DF-27 Expand strategic scope with longer time. For its part, the United States pursues a mix: Hacm (Air-respirate, integration in fighters) for rapid theatrical attacks and CPS (common glide-body with the army) for conventional long-range blows from stealthy maritime platforms. Zirkon Zircon in front of the old continent. Europe accelerates Planning technology (France) and prioritizes interception in planning phase With GPI. In interception, AEGIS/SM-6 It offers the only Western capacity today “On Call” (limited and highly dependent on geometry), while GPI seeks to “paste” the glider when it has not yet descended to its terminal sprint, increasing the successful window. Be that as it may, in all cases the key is not only the missile: it is the sensor chain, the data link and the decision latency for close the cycle “Find-Fix-Track-Target-Engage-Assass” before the vector cross the non-return threshold. About drones and how to answer. As we said at the beginning, the launch of the Zircon coincided with an increase in tension after Drones incursions Russians in Poland’s airspace and RomaniaNATO members. On September 10, Warsaw denounced the entrance of at least 19 devices, demolished by allied fighters, in what described as “Unprecedented violation” and “large -scale provocation.” Three days later, a Russian drone was detected in Romanian territory, reviving the alarms. Poland invoked article 4 of the North Atlantic Treaty, which establishes an urgent consultation mechanism between partners to agree on joint measures. From that debate the Eastern Sentinel operationwhich contemplates the deployment of advanced fighters, antimile defenses and military reinforcements in Eastern Europe. NATO He reacted quicklyaware that the escalation of provocations, although without direct damage, is a direct challenge to its credibility as a safety guarantor. Provocation or accident. Versions about incursions They have varied. Moscow ensures that the drones had no Poland target and that they could deviate, while Belarus suggests trajectory failures. However, both NATO and the United States consider that they were Deliberate launcheswith the aim of testing allied patience and giving up western responses. The US Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, described the facts of “unacceptable, unfortunate and dangerous.” The contradiction between Russian justifications and the forcefulness of Western reactions reinforces the perception that it was a political pressure trial rather than a technical error. An unstable scenario. Thus, the combination of exercises Zapad 2025he Zircon launch or drone raids In NATO space They draw a scenario of increasing instability in Eastern Europe. Although Russia and Belarus insist on the defensive nature of their maneuvers, the location of these operations and the nature of the employee armaments transmit the opposite: a willingness to intimidate and demonstrate that the Kremlin retains the ability to challenge NATO on their own borders. The result points to a new tension cycle, where each military gesture acquires an immediate political reading and where the possibility of unplanned incidents (although with climbing potential) is multiplied dangerously. Image | Russian Defense Ministry, минобороны рф In Xataka | Russia and the most fearsome weapon for Ukraine: it is called Orbit and does not shoot, but turns its soldiers into “invisible” In Xataka | Someone has taken a look at Russia’s satellite images and has discovered something: it is running out of tanks

Genesis wants to be Hyundai’s lexus. And its general director has no doubt of its expansion in Europe: “We are among the best”

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Genesis is a “premium Korean brand. We are among the best”. With these words, Peter Kronschnabl, director of Genesis in Europe, to the company where he works. After a few hesitant years and a limited presence in a handful of European markets, the Korean company of Premium vehicles will launch new markets from next year among which is Spain. The presentation of the plans came in the IAA Mobilitywhere Xataka He had the opportunity to know the details of an expansion that will play all the sticks. Genesis will be much more than a refined and more luxurious version of Hyundai. The company will have its own sports line and will put all the meat on the grill with its long starting at the WEC, the World Cup, and, therefore, on the 24 -hour Le Mans grill. New life for genesis In our country, Genesis has been little less than a great stranger. You may sound your logo (which can remind Aston Martin’s) and you may have seen some of her cars on the street. But it is rare because our country has been arriving in counted units. In fact, Genesis has only been present in recent years in Germany, the United Kingdom and Switzerland. That is, always with an eye on regions with more bulky wages than Spanish. However, the European hug to the electric car seems to have opened a loophole to other markets. Although there is no official confirmation, the brand has not ruled out that in the future we can see hybrid models. At the moment we know that they will bring three completely electric models. Two of them are SUV, the GV60 and the GV70, which will arrive accompanied by a Berlina, the G80. Genesis will offer models clearly focused on luxury And, in the absence of trying them, with a clear commitment to the most sophisticated comfort. On the way to the Münich airport we had the opportunity to get on its G80 as passengers and we verified first hand the words of its director for Europe. “What does it mean to be a ‘Premium Korean’? Obviously, we talk about the quality of the materials, we do not make any commitment. You will understand when you enter the interior because we are among the best brands of the Premium segment,” said Kronschnabl. And stressed, “for us it is very important They are Nimwhich is the Korean word that is used for the concept of hospitality. And when I say that for us it is very important, it is not only that you buy a car, but also that you have a service package with a car. We will give services that revolve around the experience inside the car. “ In fact, the true protagonists are their rear squares: two heated and ventilated rear armchairs, with the possibility of reclining in all types of positions and with massage included. Curtain for the windows, two tablets behind the back of the front seats and a total control of the infotainment system from a digital center located between the two seats. The movement makes sense in a European market where high -flight electrical options begin to take positions. The Chinese manufacturers As Xpeng or Nio have a clear technological commitment. Genesis, however, is committed to the most traditional luxury line, the BMW 7 Series 7 or a Mercedes S. The Hypercar with which Genesis will compete in Le Mans To this we must add that offering only electrical versions, at least for the moment, the bet is very little risky. Although cars arrive with drops, each electric registration helps reduce Hyundai average emissions in Europe. Import hybrid cars is more problematic because it would continue to represent the relative high cost of importing very low volumes but Without the benefit of directly attacking the average emissions. And when driving? We will have to wait to check for ourselves but from Genesis they already advance that “on one side you have the brands with a very sporty approach and on the other side those that are very oriented to comfort. We have our own positioning. We want to offer a good driving experience but comfort is above all” Of course, with genesis Magna should also come. This firm will be the most sporty version of Genesis. He has the challenge of offering clear differentiation with Hyundai’s N Division and putting a spicy point to cars that clearly bet on extreme comfort. However, Genesis investment for its (new) arrival in Europe is important and will begin by generating brand image In the World Cup. This same year they already took advantage of Le Mans to give first brushstrokes on the project. There they will compete with a Hypercar which was also seen in the Münich IAA Mobility. Live, paint absolutely spectacular. It remains to know how that V8 that will mount. The Koreans, in addition, have not spared efforts to give relevance to their sports commitment. The division is flag Jacky Ickxa myth of motor racing that piloted for Ferrari or Lotus in Formula 1 and is especially remembered by his six victories in the 24 hours of Le Mans. There, the team will be directed by Cyril Abiteboulwho already directed Renault in his passage through Formula 1. Of all this, however, we will know new details later. Photos | Genesis In Xataka | “They are a serious threat but we can contract”: Xavier Martinet, CEO of Hyundai Europe, about China and the Concept Three in response

Spain has been a world reference in high speed. And the doubt is whether we are dying of success

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Saturation. That is, according to the Government, the reason why Spanish high speed does not stop accumulating delays and breakdowns. At least, that’s what is suggested. The increase in frequencies, new competitors and the same ways. Those are, for the government, the reason why Spanish trains have been forgetting a year. 289 trains. In the 90s, “6 trains a day, by direction, today through the Torrejón de Velasco point of the Madrid-Sevilla high speed, 289 trains circulated.” With these words Óscar Puente, Minister of Transportationof those who point out that in the 90s there were no problems of delays that today exist in the high railway speed of our country. “If there was an incidence in the infrastructure or the train, the impact was minimal. The time it took another to pass allowed to solve the problem. Today when there is an incidence you have 25 trains in both ways in a radius of one hour. Therefore the effects are greater. The controversy. The bridge response tweet comes to an interpellation in which a user indicated that In the 90s you could take a train without fear of delays. The answer also coincides with a new fault in the high -speed line of the Andalusian corridor where 261 passengers had to be evicted from a train because a car caught fire Last Saturday, August 30. This caused delays throughout the afternoon. However, the fire was not the only cause of delays. That same morninga breakdown in the infrastructure was also causing delays in the trains because it was showing a false obstacle sign on the road. Although before restoring the service it was already known that this obstacle did not exist, the machinists had to stop to comply with the protocol. A summer to forget in Andalusia. The events of September 30 have been the last of this summer but, much less, the only ones. In early July, A train was stopped 13 hours On the roads and their passengers they did not receive assistance from emergency services throughout the night. Days later, another problem with A catenary in Toledo It caused significant delays in the same high -speed line. He even had to stop passing through one of the tunnels of the Malaga line by leaks in one of the facilitieswhat had caused detachments. And Adif? The first of those incidents It seemed to come from an ouigo train which was disconnected from some security systems. This caused the chain stop of four other trains that circulated in the same area. One of those operated by Renfe, overloaded by the stop, ended up suffering a small fire of his systems, being completely arrested. The problem affected More than 16,000 passengers and From Adif they pointed to the French company as the cause of the problem. Ouigo, meanwhile, returned the accusation saying that Adif did not maintain the facilities correctly. A few days later (and after the adif notice that the critical points of the infrastructure was going to review) that Second problem in La Sagra (Toledo) who stopped the trains again. More traffic volume … The truth is that the volume of traffic in the high Spanish speed has shot in recent years. To give only one example, the day of the fault that left a train for 13 hours 30 trains between Madrid and Andalusia had to circulate. Yes it is true that 30 years ago, that volume of traffic was unthinkable. To the traffic of Renfe we ​​must add the entrance of Ouigo and Iryo into the Spanish railways which, without a doubt, has stressed the tracks. If there are more trains, there are more possibilities of suffering a delay but there are also more possibilities that such delay affects a greater number of trains. To get an idea, in 1992 (with the inauguration of the first high -speed line) 1.3 million passengers traveled between Madrid and Seville. In 2024, that figure was 5 million passengers. Another 5 million passengers were recorded in the corridor to Malaga. And throughout Spain almost 40 million passengers moved in this type of trains, According to CNMC data. … but an insufficient investment. In ELECONOMIST They point out that Adif’s investment in infrastructure is greater than ever. In 2025 just over 681 million euros will be allocated while in 2015 it was 465.5 million euros. However, they point out that taking into account their heritage, Adifs spends 16% less than a decade ago. Keep in mind that in that decade, in addition, the Spanish railways have gone from some 31 million passengers To touch the 40 million and the number of trains has multiplied with the entrance of Ouigo and Iroyo. Everything indicates that the investment in the facilities is insufficient and, above all, it is late if we take into account the increase in the number of travelers. In 2021 investments were guaranteed until 2025 worth 21,000 million euros in Adif But this game It is not dedicated entirely to maintenance of the tracks. That is, it seems that “emergency” maintenance is being carried out in too stressed lines for the expense that had been made in them. Photo | Tim Adams In Xataka | He vibrated so much that “the Water of the Váter came out.” Renfe has a problem in Catalonia and the AVE of Lleida is only the last example

In 1959 scientists in the USSR resolved a doubt that many will have been done: Can we tame the fox?

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A few days ago It went viral on social networks the case of a family that reported how, after save a trapped fox On their land, this had become a regular visitor to which they fed and protected. Foxes are wild animals but in many contexts, even in densely populated areas, these mammals cohabit with our species. This implies a certain parallel with our idea about how we domesticate some of the animal species that now live with us, especially animals that live in our homes such as dogs and cats. We can then ask some key questions, such as whether possible Domesticate these animalsor even if we will not have begun to do it with this cohabitation. The brief answer to both questions may be “yes”, but of course, there are important details to take into account. To answer the first question in more detail, we have to go back in time, back in 1959and more specifically to the Soviet Union. But before, a little context. Foxes (Vulpes) They are a genre of canids, which makes them not very distant relatives of dogs and wolves. We distinguish a dozen fox species, among which the common fox or red fox stands out (Vulpes Vulpes), The species that is surely more familiar to us, which inhabits a huge diversity of ecosystems in Eurasia and North America, but can also be found in other regions of the globe. Returning to The USSR of the late 50the great domestication experiment of the fox was devised by Dmitri Belyaev and driven by Lyudmila Trutboth experts in Soviet genetics. These researchers wanted to know if the selective crossing of the most meek specimens of the species could lead to the appearance of the so -called “domestication syndrome”, that is, the tendency to accumulate certain characteristic features: flaccid ears, youth facial features or mottled fur, among others. Thus they could prove that these features could effectively associate with the domestication process, as would have happened in other species. The second hypothesis was to study if these external features were related to genes associated with calm and more “friendly” behaviors towards humans. Generation after generation The team was selecting the most meek specimens to continue with an experiment that survived even the fall of the Soviet Union. An experiment that lasted during more than six decades. But 15 generations were enough to obtain first results. By the 1970s the team had already achieved meek copies, Like Pushinkacapable of living with those responsible for the experiment. The experiment that survived even the fall of the Soviet Union. Belayaev died in the mid -1980s and Trut less than a year ago, In October 2024. The descendants of their foxes They still last. Russian domesticated fox, Siberia fox or domesticated silver fox, are some of the names by which this subspecies of the fox is known, also by its “scientific name” Vulpes Vulpes f. amicus. Are we doing it again? It is possible that Trut foxes are not the only vulpids in undertaking the path of domesticon. In Europe and other places in the world, the populations of foxes are not uncommon that They live in suburban areas and even fully urban. The possibility that that of these populations is a case of self -controlling has also attracted the interest of some scientists. According to narrated a few years ago Author Virginia Morell for the magazine Sciencethis was the case of Kevin Parsons. Intrigued by foxes that was in the streets From the city where he worked, Glasgow, this Canadian decided to go to the collection of foxes of the national museums of Scotland. The institution had a collection of about 1,500 skulls obtained in the 1970s, when the city of London and surrounding areas carried out a hunting campaign to reduce the number of foxes in the environment. The bone remains belonged therefore to animals hunted both in rural and urban environments. Parsons photographed and studied more than a hundred of these skulls, identifying their features in search of clues about domestication syndrome. And found them: the “urban foxes” presented shorter and more wide snouts, and smaller brains than hunted in rural environments. The details about his study were published in 2020 In an article In the magazine PROCESS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B: BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES. The implications of domesticating a wild animal, of creating new species or subspecies perhaps within a period not too long, are complex, with different ethical and ecological variables to consider. Do this With just being aware of it It is problematic since we cannot even take the precautionary measures necessary to avoid inconveniences. That is why the coexistence between foxes and humans has a dark side, not because of particular cases such as the one we mentioned at the beginning of the article but as a consequence of the urban life modes. There is therefore not much that we can do, but knowing the phenomenon may help avoid the possible negative consequences that it could have. In Xataka | Four years ago someone ran over a dog in Brazil: today we know that it was not a dog or should have existed Image | Brett Jordan

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