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One of the most downloaded apps for iPhone pays for recording calls to train AI models. It is a security disaster

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The sale of personal data is not a hypothesis, it is an expanding reality. Just look at Spotify: Recently a service appeared that paid those who delivered their profile and their listening summaries to resell them to technology companies. The approach was as simple as disturbing, because it became something as innocent as our musical habits. Neon Repeat the scheme, but transfers it to a much more sensitive land, telephone calls, where intimacy becomes the product. We are talking about an app that decided to convert phone calls into the new digital gold. His proposal is direct: “Speak, record and charge.” It promises users to win “hundreds or even thousands of dollars a year” simply allowing their conversations to transform into training material for artificial intelligence systems. The hook worked. In a matter of days he went from irrelevance to place Within the top three positions In the Social Networks category in the United States App Store. How neon works. The neon mechanism is designed for each call to translate into money. It promises to pay 30 cents per minute when two users of the app talked to each other, 15 cents if the call is with someone external and establishes a stop of 30 dollars daily. To this adds a referral system that offers 30 dollars for each new user. The recording, According to your policyalways affect the sender and, when both used neon, to both parties. Conditions of use. Beyond payments, the true neon reach is in its Terms of service. There the users give the company a “world, exclusive, irrevocable and transferable” license on their recordings. This permit includes rights to sell, modify, create derived works and distribute the audio in any format, present or future. To this is added a section of functions in beta, without guarantees or responsibility in case of failures. The amplitude of that assignment makes it difficult to foresee how far the use of the recordings can go. Where is available and how popular it is. Neon’s initial success was as fast as unexpected. At the time of writing this article, it is number 2 of the most downloaded social applications in the United States App Store. The application, however, seems restricted to that market: in tests carried out from Spain is not among those available or allows its download. The security failure. The story took an unexpected turn when a technical analysis revealed that Neon did not protect the information of its own users. As Techcrunch discoveredjust create an account and review network traffic with a tool like Burp Suite to access others. Shortly after the notice, the founder closed the servers and sent an email announcing a pause ‘for security’, not to mention the filtration. What was exposed was especially delicate: Telephone numbers associated with accounts Public links to audio recordings Complete call transcripts Metadata with duration, date and payments obtained Telephone numbers, recordings and transcripts are not accessible is not a minor failure. With this data, private conversations could be rebuilt and associated with specific people. The risks range from attempts to impersonate identity to the creation of synthetic voices. What Neon says in front of what we know, Neon defends that their processes protect users: anonymity of conversations, elimination of personal information and sale only to reviewed companies. However, the ruling showed that these systems are not infallible. The official communication after temporary closure spoke of “adding extra security layers”, but omits to recognize the filtration. Neon’s fall does not erase the background question: what price does our intimacy have when artificial intelligence demands more and more data? The model to pay for calls can reappear in other forms and other markets, because the need to train systems will continue to grow. What happened in the United States is an early warning that we are not talking about science fiction, but about real proposals that already touch the user’s door. The decision, ultimately, is personal. Images | Xataka with Gemini 2.5 | Screen capture | Neon In Xataka | A new generation of robots promises precision and efficiency. It also opens the door to cyberspage risks

OpenAi has just kick the AI board. Your new model is free and can be downloaded to use from the laptop

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Although his name suggests a certain vocation of technological opening, Openai had been moving away from that spirit for some time. From long before the launch of Chatgptin November 2022, the company did not publish an open weight model. In fact, it is the first open weight model since 2019 (GPT-2). That has just changed. This Tuesday, OpenAi has announced GPT-Ossan open weight model under Apache 2.0 license that can be downloaded for free and, in its small variant, run even in a laptop. A movement that nobody expected at all, especially since all eyes were put in Lat the imminent arrival of GPT-5. What is GPT-Oss? GPT-Oss is a language model developed by OpenAI, capable of understanding text instructions and generating answers with a high level of coherence, context and utility. It is a variant of the GPT family, the same technology that gave rise to Chatgpt, but with a key difference: its weights are open. That is, you can download it, run it on your own computer and adapt it to your needs. For the first time in years, OpenAI launches a powerful model that is not tied to its platform. You can use it without internet connection, without depending on your servers and freely to customize it. And besides, it is free. That opens the door for developers, small companies or even advanced users can experiment with AI in their own terms. What means that the weights are open? When we talk about the “pesos” of a model are open, we refer to the internal numerical values that you have learned during your training. They are, in essence, the knowledge of the model: what allows you to reason, write, translate or generate useful answers. That OpenAi has released those weights means that anyone can download them, analyze them and use them outside their servers. It is not the same as releasing the complete source code or the data with which it was trained, but it is an important step: it allows you to execute the model in own environments, adapt it to concrete tasks or integrate it into products without having to go through the Openai API. So is it a really “open” model? Now, the weights are open does not mean that the model is completely open. GPT -Oss is not Open Source strictly speaking: OpenAi has not published the data with which the model or the full code of the training process trained. What has released, as we say, is the final result, the parameters learned, under a permissive license (Apache 2.0). That is why we talk about an open weight model, not open source, According to the standards of organizations such as the Open Source Initiative (OSI). Can I use it on my computer? It depends on the model. GPT-Oss occurs in two versions: one of 120,000 million parameters and a lighter of 20,000 million. The most powerful version requires a GPU of at least 80 GB of memory (professional environments). The 20B version is much more accessible: it can be executed on computers with 16 GB of memory, which opens the door to use in personal portables and PCs. It is already compatible with tools such as LM Studio (which we have used to try Deepseek and other models)flame.CPP or VLLM, which allows you to try it at home without connecting to the cloud or depending on OpenAi. Of course, it is recommended to have some technical experience to put everything in motion. It is compatible with tools such as LM Studio, Llama.CPP or VLLM. Where do I download it? Is it really free? Weights are available for free download mainly in Hugging Faceand can also be deployed through platforms such as Azure, AWS or Databricks. The two variants, 120b and 20b, together with the necessary documentation are available. OpenAI publishes GPT-Oss under Apache 2.0 license, which means that you can use it, modify it and adapt it for commercial purposes. Do not pay for download or use it at home. If you choose to execute it in the cloud or on a payment infrastructure, the cost will depend on the supplier you use. Is it easy to use or do you have to have a certain level of knowledge? Using GPT-Oss is not as complicated as training a model from scratch, but it is not a solution that works with two clicks. The models include clear instructions and are integrated into platforms such as LM Studio or Llama.cpp, which allow them to be executed at local ease. That said, you will need to understand basic concepts such as execution environment, models loading and parameter configuration. If you have already worked with other open weight models, it will not cost you. If not, there are guides available, but you will have to devote some time to put it to function as it is. What can this model do? GPT-Oss is a multi-support model. You can reason, generate text, write code, answer questions, search for information and operate external tools, such as python browsers or interpreters. All this is also compatible with agents based on workflows, useful for more complex and automated tasks. Openai states that the 120B model achieves a proximity with O4-MINI in reasoning tests, while the 20B model offers similar results to O3-MINI in Common Benchmarks, with a good performance in programming, reasoning for steps and use of tools. It is not the most powerful model of the house, but one of the most versatile that can be used without paying or depending on your API. Images | OpenAI In Xataka | A watchmaking pump threatens the most powerful alliance of technology: Microsoft’s AGI clause Images | OpenAI In Xataka | A watchmaking pump threatens the most powerful alliance of technology: Microsoft’s AGI clause

How to block so that your messages from your WhatsApp chats can not be shared or photos or videos can be downloaded

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Let’s explain how to configure whatsapp for prevent others from sharing your messages In the chats you have with them. It is a new option that will gradually reach all users, and we will explain its operation. We are going to start explaining the operation of this adjustment, which has not yet reached everyone but will start doing it in the next few days. And then, we will explain how its operation is and activate. How this option works When you are talking to another person, any message you send can be shared. This means that the other people with whom you speak have the option of Share your message and send it to another chat or group to show what you have said. In addition to avoiding messages, this adjustment allows Other people cannot download your photos or videosyour content cannot be lowered to your phones. In addition, your messages cannot be used for AI functions. This allows you to give important information in an individual group or chat, it can be disseminated. You can share your text messages, your photos, videos, everything you send. However, It can also be a problem for your privacy In the event that others decide to share what you do not want to share. Now, WhatsApp has decided to give you the flexibility of activating an option that allows Do not allow any of your messages in a chat to be sharedand thus make sure that nothing you say is disseminated. This adjustment It is individual of each chat or group. This means that you will have to activate it one by one in all the chats where you do not want anything you say to spread. By default, everything you say can be shared, but in the chats and groups you want you can activate the option to do not. How to prevent your messages from sharing To prevent your messages from sharing in an individual group or chat, you have to click on the chat name To access the screen where some options appear on it. Once you are inside, you have to click on the option Advanced Chat Privacy That will appear inside. Here, you can activate the function so that your chats cannot be exported or shared. Remember that this you will have to activate in each chat individually and in each group where you do not want to download or share what you say. It is a good option for those conversations where there are people with whom you still have no confidence. In Xataka Basics | WhatsApp news in April 2025: What changes and what adds the application for Android and iOS

Chatgpt is already the most downloaded app in the world. And it doesn’t even manage to be profitable

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Analyzing application tops is usually especially boring. Instagram, Tiktok, Facebook and WhatsApp, the crown has always been of a social network. Until March 2025 in which, for the first time since 2013 (the year in which the most downloaded app was Candy Crush Saga), An app of this category occupies the podium. Chatgpt, the most unloaded app in March. The latest Appfigures report Collect three interesting data. Chatgpt was the most unloaded app worldwide with an accumulated of just over 46 million downloads. It is the first time in twelve years that a social network does not occupy the podium, although by the hair. Instagram also is around 46 million downloads, but occupies second place. The dynamics of consumption between iOS and Android. Chatgpt is the most downloaded app with 13 million downloads, above Threads and Capcut. In the case of Android, Instagram is still a leader, followed by Tiktok and with ChatgPT occupying third place with 33 million downloads. It is a good photograph about how the Application consumption dynamics According to operating system, and how perhaps iPhone users are looking for everything they do not find in Siri, something especially vitaminated with the integration of the OpenAI model into Apple’s voice assistant. That Openai has devastated in March is not a coincidence. Chatgpt has been appearing in the most unloaded apps in the main operating systems for months, but understanding its success in March is impossible without talking about Ghibli fever. A fever that managed to make They add five million users … in one hour. Openai’s opening to its image generation model in the free model went viral in just hours, generating saturation on servers which they had to respond with limitations. Sam Altman himself said that “it is very fun to see people love the images in Chatgptbut our GPU are melting. ” The monetization challenge. The OpenAi chatbot presents a paradox: it is one of the most unloaded apps in the world, but its monetization is not consolidated. The operation cost is very highand the consultations to GPT-4 cost millions of dollars to OpenAi every day. Openai itself reports that most users use the free version with GPT 3.5. Here the challenge is important: if the free version is limited too much, there is a risk of cooling demand for chatgpt. But if it is not limited, the server cost will end up being unsustainable. According to last year data, GPT has Something more than 10 million payment subscribersfact that you have to add an additional million for business plans, with a higher rate. It is not enough. Openai is not profitable, and we still know if it will end up. One of the collateral effects of the commercial war points directly to the price for using AI. Muddu Sudhakar, Aisa CEO, warned That if building data centers ends up being more expensive, it will also be to operate artificial intelligence systems. Competition with Google Gemini either does it helptheir AI models are not so expensive and are sweeping their competition in Benchmarks. If we add that not even the GPT Pro subscription, which gives access to Your best models included Sorait is profitable with a price of 200 dollars a month, the scenario is uncertain. According to Altman, GPT’s payment users “use it much more than expected”, flying through the service of the service. Image | Mockuups Studio In Xataka | Openai wants to square a circle with GPT-5: earn money and become the “new Google” offering something free

Photoshop can already be downloaded on the iPhone

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Talking about the iPhone is talking about One of the best tools for content creators And, for years, some of the best editing applications land first in iOS. This is the case of one of Adobe’s weapons, Photoshop, which finally lands in the Apple operating system. After years without company for Lightroom (with only versions like Photoshop Express), Photoshop “to dry” arrives at the iPhone. We tell you how it will work and how you can download the application for free. The new photoshop application is Available for download Today for iPhone and soon for Android, carrying the main tools that make the PC program special to the mobile phone. Superposition, masking, generative elimination of the fund … The tools of the Firefly promoted are also available, by the hand of new plans to enjoy all of them. The goal is bring desktop experience to the phoneguiding the tools to its format. In other words, precision tools designed for large screen formats are not sought, but options to create content from mobile and social networks. It is completely Compatible with the same .PSD files That we have on our PC, allows work by unlimited capable, selective adjustments, work with complete resolution images, and has the selection tools viewed in the PC program. Your interface is quite differentreminding more alternatives such as Canva than Photoshop for PC. In the lower bar we have direct accesses to the automatic area selection (subject or background), retouching options, brush and layer properties (to create masks to our liking). But if we want to access functions such as Ia generation, we will have to go through the box. Adobe has presented a New Photoshop website and mobilewith a price of 10.99 euros per month or 88.99 euros per year (7.42 euros per month) as a promotional price. They also include seven days of trial for premium functions, namely: Generative filling Remove tool Photoshop on Web Generative expansion Selection of objects Advanced fusion modes Wand Clarify and obscure Cloning buffer Punctual correction Adobe Fonts Advanced export (PSD, TIF, PNG, customization options) Image generation Fill according to content The application can be downloaded from your test in iOS from App Store, and will soon land on Android. Image | Adobe In Xataka | Edit your photos with the mobile and that they are “professionals” is possible: these are the best tricks

Meta emails reveal that he downloaded 81.7 TB of books with copyright via Bittorrent to train their AI models

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In the legal process Kadrey against goal Mark Zuckerberg’s company is accused of having used works protected by copyright to train their artificial intelligence models. A few weeks ago it was revealed that Zuckerberg had approved to use pirate booksbut now new and powerful evidence of this looting arrive. Revealed emails. He “Appendix a“The case includes several mail email messages from the finish Do that data collection in October 2022. “Download with torrents from a company’s laptop does not seem a good idea”. In April 2023 Nikolay Bashlykov, one of those responsible for carrying out this data collection, joking including emojis and indicated that the company would have to be careful with the IP from which they downloaded the data. Goal knew the risks. In September of that year Bashlykov already stopped using emoticons and warned that using torrents would imply acting as “seeds” so that others also download them, and “that might not be legally legally.” These debates are proof that Meta knew that this type of activity was illegal, according to the authors who have sued the company. Erasing the footprints. In a Internal message Meta Frank Zhang researcher indicated how the company avoided using its servers by downloading this data set to “avoid” “the risk that anyone can draw the seed” and who downloaded that data. 81.7 TB of data. As they point out In Ars TechnicaThe evidence shows that Meta downloaded at least 81.7 the terabytes of data from various libraries offered by those books protected by copyright. In a New document The legal process indicated that at least 35.7 TB had been downloaded from sites such as Z-Library or Libgen (which It ended up closing last summer). Goal wants to dismiss those charges. Goal has presented a motion to dismiss those accusations indicating that there was no evidence that any book was downloaded by finishing employees through Torrent or that they were later distributed by goal. In Xataka we have contacted the company, and we will update this news if we receive comments on the case. Loot on the Internet fire. These data affect the debatable practices that AI companies are using to train their models. We saw it With Googleand of course also with Openai, who used millions of texts to train Chatgpt, and Many of them had copyright. Perplexity was in the spotlight after discovering that He skipped the bullfighter Internet rules to avoid payment walls and feed your AI model. Internet robberies are being normalized. The amazing thing about all this is that the fact that all companies are skipping the norms and violating copyright seems to be normalizing the looting of the Internet. It almost does not give time to scandal and we give it almost as a policy of consummate facts to be able to follow ours. Is this really a “fair use”? All companies are shielded in the concept of “fair use” (“Fair Use”). This concept developed in Anglo -Saxon law allows the limited use of protected material without being necessary to ask for permission to do so. Copyright rapes have not stopped arriving in the world of generative AI, but they seem to be in the background while these giants thrive. In Xataka | 5,000 “tokens” of my blog are being used to train an AI. I have not given my permission

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