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A Spanish C15 that was born for the field and ended up running next to porch

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Who has not ever felt the impulse to buy a Citroën C15. This mythical French van has been the pillar of the agricultural industry of Spain for 40 years, and at the same time it is Focus of memes and jokes to each more hilarious. I am sure that many have had that crush with a classic car and we have thought about “I buy it now.” It happened to me with a Citroën Xantia Activabut I have not finished consummating. Gerard, a 20 -year -old Spanish boy, not only got carried away by a “heated” when buying a C15, but has put it in mythical nurburgring circuit. But his story began a couple of years ago, when he needed a car to participate in a Rally by Morocco. And far from more exotic alternatives, he chose a C15 that already has little of his soul from C15: he set up a new engine that elevates its power above 100 hp. And, for a 1985 C15 whose most powerful original engine had 69 hp, that is, a lot. And has taken her to her new natural territory: Nurburgring. A championship C15 for 200 euros … that reaches 200 km/h In This video From Axel Espxnur we are presented to Gerard Casals. Now he is 20 years old, but at 18 he bought a C15 for just 200 euros, with just over 200,000 kilometers and got the impossible: break the engine. This is curious because the C15 is the object of both jokes and admiration, precisely for its resistance and mechanical reliability. In fact, Gerard says that, with all that way behind him, he had not had Not an oil change. The reason that led him to buy this concrete model was the budget, but also because in conditions as hard as those of a rally in Morocco, reliability is needed and, above all, mechanical simplicity. If something breaks, You have to be able to fix it easily. His model was the 60 hp, less than the most powerful that could be bought, but when breaking the engine, he thought to replace it with one that would raise the characteristics of the van. Which? A 1.900 CC 100 hp turbod. taken directly from a Corttoën Xsara. In the axel video we can see that the engine has little to do with that of the original C15. It was not as simple as removing an engine and putting another, since some aspects of the interior had to be realistic, setting up the admission of a Nissan Terranonew sleeves, new water pump and more generous wiring. 100 hp XSara engine within C15 | Axel Spxnur video screenshot With that new heart, and with its barely 750 kilos of weight, its C15 reaches a maximum speed of 200 km/h. “Everything moves, in the end it is a car that has nothing insulating and is more thought for the field than for the road,” he says. The gearbox is also Xsara, five -speed. Consumption? Less than six liters. In fact, he affirms that, from Barcelona to the Nurburgring circuit, he has not needed two deposits. They are 1,200 kilometers. Apart from the engine, there are another series of modifications that make this C15 a real beast not to load melons, but for more demanding roads. The subbase is that of the original ‘van’, but has Koni shock absorbers, new brake tweezers and a 165/70/r14 tire for circuit. To go somewhat more comfortable, it has bmw seats with electronic regulation, but the interior is a sheet, as in the original. Run. “The French go crazy” Casals states that the first round in the circuit woke up laughs. He saw how cars much more thought out for this environment, they spent the stickers, but have taken many photos and what “The French go crazy”. And it is not for less, since the car draws a lot, a lot of attention. In the 7:47 minute of the Axel video we can see the van rolling in the asphalt of ‘Green Hell’. In another video of the YouTuber Misha Charoudin, we can see another round with the C15, but with An interesting added: the speedometer. If you have ever ridden in a C15, you will know that the needle is not so agile when climbing, but in the case of this modified C15, it is a show. There are times when you see the tires scream and give you a loose laugh because, obviously, it is out of its natural environment, but the truth is that Gerard’s, although very interesting in the modifications he has made It is not even the first C15 nor, above all, the first ‘weird’ vehicle that can be seen in Nurburgring. For the German asphalt we have seen KARTSa DHL distribution van, caravans, limousines, a scooter and people who directly go with a BMW with Baca and a couple of bicycles coupled. Of everything except aerodynamic. But for many oddities that we see in ‘Green Hell’, surely few reinvent a classic like Gerard’s C15. Images | Axel Espxnur, Misha Charoudin In Xataka | A millionaire ran out of a card and unable to use its supercar: its own nürburgring was built in the garden

The failure of this science fiction film ended the career of a classic director and closed a study in a week

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The arrival of computer animated cinema is not only cemented in great successes such as’Toy Story‘ and The advent of Pixar. They also came into play, at the time, box office failures such as ‘Titan AE’, an ambitious animated science fiction film whose resounding failure ended the race of the great Don Bluth, closed Fox’s animation department forever and meant one of the last nails in the coffin of traditional animation. From actors to drawings. 25 years ago recent Space Opera With real actors. The script had circulated through Hollywood for years without finding financing, until Fox Animation Studios decided to turn it into an animated film in 1997. Don Bluth and Gary Goldman were responsible for the commission, after successes such as ‘In search of the enchanted valley’ or ‘Anastasia’. What was I going. The film combined quite daring concepts of science fiction, especially within the animated cinema of the time, but with a more familiar style: in the year 3028, Drej aliens destroy the earth, forcing humanity to wander through space as refugees. Cale Tucker, separated from his father during evacuation, grows aimlessly until he discovers that he carries the map to find the Titan ship, capable of leading them to a new planet. Cale starts a search pursued by the Drej. Money hole. To start, Fox gave them 55 million dollars, but 30 vanished before startingin preproduction. Fox executives did not want in any case the film to pass 80 million dollars of budget, so they had to make the rest of the film with 50 million (which finally became 60). These budgetary restrictions He prevented them from capturing his initial vision of the film and 300 people from the Fox animation department were stalls on the street. Lower the quality. These mass layoffs forced Bluth and Goldman to take part in the animation to external studies, such as Povde Group, reality studios and Blue Sky. This led to one of the big problems of the film: the own identity fdalta to which they brought the multiple hands and studies involved, the mixture of traditional animation and CGI and the tone of the film, very adult sometimes, very childish on other occasions. The promotion of the film, somewhat erratic, participated in this doubtful tone, and finished certifying the failure. Batacazo at the box office. The film raised only 36.7 million worldwide, and According to an executivelosses 100 million for Fox. The disaster was such that only ten days after the premiere, Fox Animation definitely closed its doors, and the then executive director of Fox, Bill Mechanic, left his position a few weeks later. Goodbye, Don Bluth. Undoubtedly, the great loss for the cinema was the definitive folder to Don Bluth’s career, which as Goldman has not re -directed a film. He tried in the new century, especially, by way of Crowdfundingpretending to stand a movie based on the video game ‘Dragon’s Lair’ that never sets. But above all, ‘Titan AE’ was one of the last failures that condemned the traditional animation: the successes of Pixar and DreamWorks and the progressive collection of the Disney films precipitated a change of paradigm towards the CGI. Time has turned ‘Titan AE’ into a cult film, but in its day it literally supposed the end of an era. In Xataka | The figures suggest that the domain of blockbusters in Hollywood is not over. In fact, it will go worse

A Barcelona company wanted to try the four -day week. He ended up firebaging an employee for having two jobs

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Sometimes life shows us paradoxical situations in which a manager who seeks the well -being of his employees with the four -day work weekends by saying goodbye to them for Compagate two simultaneous jobs. To give a more twist to this story than has published GenbetaIt is worth mentioning that the company’s CEO lavished on its social networks the advantages of having a “Side Hustle” or secondary employment. Preparing for four days. Patrick Syng is co -founder and commercial director of Metrickal, a remote hiring company based in Barcelona. The entrepreneur wanted to prove to implement the four -day week for your employeesso I needed to know What their employees used time of her day to optimize her. Something essential to make the leap to this type of day, which It does not mean doing the five -day job in fourbut optimize the day to take less to complete the tasks. The first step to do it was to ask all employees to install in their work teams the Desktime softwarea time monitoring program that monitors what programs he uses and for how long each employee. In this way, it could raise changes and Optimize processes To implement the four -day week. Low performance and tasks that do not correspond to it. When analyzing Desktime’s data, the businessman discovered that, an employee with whom he had already had several meetings for low performance, he was performing tasks with applications that did not correspond to his position in Metrickal. The employee, which I worked 100% remotelyit had not delivered the tasks in the deadlines and several clients had complained about their work. “While showing some signs of improvement, its general performance did not change much. This meant an important burden for the rest of the team, which had to cover its shifts and deal with the breeding deadlines,” assured Patrick Synge a Business Insider. “I had the feeling that I was doing something apart, but since there was no evidence, I didn’t want to draw precipitates.” The employee forgot the software. In the analysis of data collected by monitoring softwarethe manager discovered that the employee spent more than half of his day working for an American company, whose trail had remained in the software reports. “It seems that he forgot the tracking software, since once it is downloaded, it does not require any manual ignition and off. Probably, I would have fired it anyway, but the tracked data were the blunt test that was missing.” However, what truly irritated Synge was the lack of respect of the employee towards his companions who had to, for its little performancethey had to adopt part of their tasks. “It was not fair or respectful of the team, and that is something that I cannot tolerate, its actions were simply selfish,” said the manager. Two jobs, but which one is the main one? It’s not nor the first casenor is it probably the last one, of employees who They combine two or more jobs at the same time in your remote workday. The problem is that employee performance had fallen And he was not fulfilling his first job. “As an entrepreneur, I have to think about my business and my customers. I can’t afford to lose customers because someone wants to earn extra money,” said the manager. In fact, there is the circumstance that Patrick Syng is A firm defender of what is called “Side Hustle” or secondary works, offering them as an option to capture external vendors for their products. A whole paradox in which Patrick assumed that it was the main job of that employee, but never considered that, perhaps, it was secondary employment. Spain more and more multi -team. While it is true that in Spain this phenomenon of simultaneous jobs is not as widespread as in other countries, a Study conducted by Infojobs It indicates that 15% of employees in Spain have at least two jobs (who do not have to be simultaneous, but combined). 40% of these multi -employed employees do so To complement the low wages In departures or for hours, while 32% do so for providing additional income to their main salary. In Xataka | Not everything is 38.5 hours a week: the formulas for a waiter or temporary to benefit from the reduction of day Image | Unspash (Faizur Rehman), Pexels (Alexey Komissarov) *An earlier version of this article was published in July 2024

You just wanted to look at the time and ended five hours of kittens videos

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The procrastination It is one of the main reasons why you fail to do everything you have set at the beginning of the day. You know that you should do a certain task, you know that if you do not have consequences, but even so, You are unable to face it. However, there is an even more silent and powerful enemy: the mobile phone. This device, which we carry in the pocket (or in hand) all day, has become A constant source of distraction that steals minutes and hours of sibyline. According to data From Exploding Topics, users spend on average about four hours and 37 minutes a day using the mobile. That implies losing a day a week looking down, or 70 days a year. What would you do with 70 more days? Take awareness of time The applications and services you use on the mobile have been specifically designed To capture your attention constantly. Notifications, messages and social networks interrupt us at any time, and they do it consciously To attract your attention. Do not hesitate, they are very well designed and usually succeed. However, that success of the one part implies the defeat of another: Your concentration. Every time you review a notification, or you “just a view of your mobile, you are not only interrupting your concentration and the workflow, but you must add an average of 23 minutes to return to the state of concentration what you had before. One way to reduce that use, at least during the periods in which you must maintain concentration, is take awareness of the time you spend Using your mobile and what applications you devour your time. Both Apple and Android mobiles have a digital well -being section in adjustments, in which the screen time and use statistics. Consult them daily, and write down the time you spend using the mobile, as well as the time of the day you use it most. That will allow you to detect your use patterns and help you reduce its use during the stripes in which You should be studying, doing sports or learning To make crochet. The limits of space and time Know How do you use the mobile It allows you to know if you are using it excessively in work with applications that have little to do with it, if you do it during your free time or even at hours when you should reduce dopamine levels for reconcile sleep. That information allows you, for example, to adopt the “monk mode“When you must maintain all your concentration in working or studying, and not leaving all responsibility in hands of your willpower. Do you remember what apps were designed to capture your attention? They also have the willpower effect. Not working. The best you can do to avoid falling into the temptation of your notifications And focusing on what you need to finish, it is to prevent your mobile from having the slightest opportunity to capture your attention. The easiest way to do so is to adopt a strategy of “Ulysses contract“, so that you I present, avoid that you I of the future falls into the temptation to look at notifications. In this sense, the options of the digital welfare section or time of use of your mobile can be very useful, since it allows you to program schedules for concentration modes or limit the use of certain applications during a specific time slot. Thus, The limits are automated To help you reduce interruptions that break your concentration. Rediscovering free time Like energy, habits are neither created nor destroyed, They only transform. The bad habits are not eliminatedthey are only replaced For good habits. The same thing happens over time. The time that little by little you are going to scratch social networks and kittens videos, you will be able to use it to do what you want: learn languages, read, do sports or share more time with your friends. Therefore, it is important to think What do you want to spend that time That progressively you will recover, and be aware that that time, that you now use in something tangible, before it was screen time. In this way, you will have a goal to achieve and your effort to recover time acquires a purpose. THE TIME BOOK In the first section we recommended to take awareness of the time of daily use of your mobile, and write it down to detect patterns. Once you start taking action in this regard, continue to take a record of your use data but, this time, add What do you use that time Diary you recover. Those notes are the proof of your little victories. If one day you manage to reduce ten minutes of use, indicate that you have used those ten minutes toRead some pages of a book, or that you have called a friend to ask him how his day. Do it, it has the same effect as cross out a task on your list. It is the finding of the work done, and of The reward for that effortcontributing to Maintain motivation to continue changing screen time for productive time for you. In Xataka | Technology has undermined one of the best tools for productivity and creativity: to leave time to get bored Image | Unspash (Robin Worrall, ROB HAMPSON)

Celestis promised an unforgettable spatial tribute. A European capsule ended star with human remains inside

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The idea is, at least, singular: send a small symbolic portion of the cremated remains or a person’s DNA to space. That a part of what was a human body experience zero gravity, go around the earth and become a relic for the family. A capsule that acts as a space urn. That’s how it is Earth Riseone of the services it offers Celestisan American company with more than 30 years of experience in this business that they define as “perseverance flights.” But this time not everything went as expected. On June 23, an Earth Rise mission transported 166 capsules with human remains and DNA samples. The take -off on board a Falcon 9 rocket of Spacex was successful. The capsule, developed by the European company The Exploration Companymanaged to enter orbit and completed two laps around the planet, fulfilling the planned flight profile. So far, everything went as planned. However, something failed during the reentry process. The NYX capsule, which had to return to the earth and deliver its individual modules to each family, He suffered an anomaly. The vehicle was lost shortly after starting its descent, and ended up crashing into the Pacific Ocean. With him, human remains and flight capsules also dispersed. “We believe we can’t recover anything,” He has recognized Celestis In a statement. The Celestis container with human remains that traveled inside the NYX capsule The origin of Celestis It goes back to 1992, when NASA included a sample of the remains of Gene Roddenberry, creator of ‘Star Trek’, in a mission of the Columbia ferry. Shortly after, Celestis collaborated with the agency to send remains of the Geologist Eugene Shoemaker to the moon, making him the first buried person there. Since then, they say, they have sent more than 1,200 capsules to space, aboard commercial releases, commemorating both known figures and anonymous citizens. They have several active services: suborbital flights that return to the earth, missions to the lunar orbit or even to the deep space. Earth Rise: A farewell with round trip ticket Celestis offers several types of commemorative spatial flights, but Earth Rise is the most economical and direct. For $ 3,495, the company launches a small capsule with cremated remains or DNA. After experiencing a few minutes in microgravity, the capsule returns to Earth and gives family members as a souvenir. It is a trajectory that seeks symbolism, not permanence. For those who look for something more ambitious, there are also other options: Earth Orbit: For $ 4,995, the capsules enter into terrestrial orbit and remain there until they resent and disintegrate in the atmosphere, “like a fleeting star.” Moon: For $ 12,995, the remains are sent to the lunar orbit or even land on the surface, “becoming a permanent tax on the moon.” Voyager: Also from $ 12,995, this service launches the capsules to the deep space, beyond the moon, in a trajectory without return. A European space capsule The capsule that transported the human remains on the Perseverance flight was not any space vehicle. Was NYXa prototype developed by The Exploration Company, a startup with presence in Germany, France and Italy that seeks to make a place in the new European space race. Its proposal is clear: create reusable, rechargeable capsules in orbit and compatible with any heavy pitcher in the world. The NYX capsule, prepared for its mission, at The Exploration Company facilities According to your websitethe company was founded in 2021 by Hélène Huby and a team of engineers with experience in large European programs such as Orion-Esm, Ariane or ATV. In just three years they have built two demonstrating capsules and have sold six missions. Its development rate has been unusually rapid for the sector. The flight Possible missionin which Celestis’s funeral capsules were traveling, it was the second demonstrator of the company. It was designed to perform a controlled reentry and recover the load after completing the mission. That was, in fact, one of his key technological promises: not only reach the space, but to return. And do it precisely. It was also the first time that a Private capsule of European origin offered that type of commercial service in collaboration with an American company as Celestis. The mission was an important step for The Exploration Company, which aspires to compete in the growing orbital transport market with its future NYX Earth capsule, designed to supply space stations in low orbit. The families expected to receive a capsule that had orbited the Earth, a symbolic and emotional tribute for those who decided to bet on this unique form of farewell. It was not possible. What remains is a story of ambition and failures. Touch to wait to know if Celestis will try again in the future. Images | Celestis/Exploration Company (1, 2, 3, 4) In Xataka | Taiwan believes having found the mythical planet 9 of the Solar System. Instead of looking for his light, he has been looking for his heat

He founded a promising platform and ended up accused of washing 500 million

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The case of Sam Bankman-Fried He left an open wound in the crypto sector. His meteoric ascent in front of FTX and its subsequent fall They marked a milestone in public perception on these platforms. But it was not the only one. Now, another tycoon of cryptocurrencies has been accused of starring in a massive laundering scheme. Iurii gangnin, founder of the companies Evita Investments and Avoid paywould have provided about 2,000 million dollars in transactions, of which more than 500 million passed through the US financial system. The authorities believe that he turned his company into an undercover financing network for sanctioned Russian banks and sensitive technological exports. A platform in the sights. According to the accusationGugnin founded two companies in the United States: Evita Investments, based in Delaware, and avoids Pay, based in Florida. Through them it would have moved approximately 530 million dollars through banks and cryptocurrency exchange houses in the US, hiding the real origin and purpose of the funds. Being Evita Investments the main road, with about 365 million of the 530 moved in US territory through Tether. The Department of Justice accuses him of a total of 22 crimes, including: Bank fraud (maximum penalty: 30 years in prison) Conspiracy to defraud the United States (up to 5 years) Money laundering (up to 20 years) Violations of the Law on Economic Powers in International Emergencies (IEEPA) (up to 20 years) Operation of a money transmitter company without license (up to 5 years) Do not apply an effective program against money laundering (up to 10 years) Do not present suspicious activities reports before the authorities (up to 10 years) Gugnin was arrested in New York. If it is convicted, it could face several decades in prison, according to the combination of charges. Payments on the name of Russian, Chinese and Emirati customers. The accusation details that many of their clients had accounts in sanctioned Russian banks, such as Sberbank, VTB, Tinkoff, Sovcombank and even Alfa-Bank, where Guggnin himself maintained personal accounts. There were also clients in China and United Arab Emirates. Gugnin received cryptocurrencies, mainly in the stablecoin tether (USDT), turned them into dollars or other fiduciary currencies, and then made payments on behalf of its customers. How Financial Times points outsome of these payments would have served to acquire technology subject to export control, as servers designed by US companies, pieces for a French yacht company and components for Rosatom, the Russian state corporation of nuclear energy. He would also have channeled payments to Yiwu Vortex, a company sanctioned for exporting maritime equipment to Russia. A facade of legality. According to the Department of Justice, Guggnin registered Evita Pay as a company transmitting money before the state of Florida and the Finnn Network, but made it falsify the information about the true nature of its business. That license, obtained fraudulently, served to induce cryptocurrency exchange platforms to process operations. In addition, he cheated banks and exchanges ensuring that he did not work with sanctioned entities or Russian clients. The accusation states that it never applied an effective capital laundering prevention program, did not activate internal controls, did not report suspicious activities. The “serial entrepreneur” that he was looking for in Google how to know if they investigated him. Gugnin resided in New York and presented himself publicly as a “serial entrepreneur.” According to judicial documentation, he was fully aware of the illegality of his actions. The authorities had access to their navigation history, finding consultations related to how to know if it was being investigated, the penalties for money laundering, related sanctions and how to act in case of being under police investigation. Images | Avoid | Drawkit Illustrations | DOJ In Xataka | Hunting for cryptocurrencies: a wave of kidnappings and violence put them in the spotlight worldwide

Steven Hale had access to blockbusters before its premiere. What he did with them ended the FBI knocking on his door

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Steven Hale did not appear in the credits of any blockbusters, but for more than a year, his name was linked to Some of the most anticipated films of the industry. Not as an actor, director or screenwriter, but as the employee who, According to the United States Department of Justicehe stole early copies of great premieres before they reached the public. Hale, 37 years old and resident in Memphis (Tennessee), worked for a multinational company dedicated to manufacturing and distributing DVDs and Blu-rays for the main Hollywood studies. Between February 2021 and March 2022, it would have stolen more than a thousand records in the pre-launch phase, that is, ready for commercial distribution but not yet available for sale. According to the registration order cited by Torrentfreak1,160 albums were seized during the investigation. Among the seized titles are ‘Fast & Furious 9‘,’Black Widow‘,’Sing 2‘,’Venom: There will be a killing‘,’Matrix: Resurrections‘,’Godzilla vs. Kong‘,’ ‘Jungle Cruise‘Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City‘, among others. A case that has not gone unnoticed The case surprises, among other things, because it shows that the physical format still has a considerable weight. Although we are in the middle of 2025 and the consumption of content revolves around the platforms on demand such as Netflix, Amazon Prime Video or Disney+, and, of course, to the movie theaters, The DVD and the Blu-ray They have not disappeared. It is not just a matter of collecting: there are still those who prefer to have their films in physical support. According to the accusationHale sold the discs through electronic commerce platforms. One of those albums, an early copy of Spider-Man: no Way Home, was allegedly “ripe”, that is, digitally extracted by skipping anticopia protections, and distributed on the Internet before its official departure date. The FBI argues that this version was discharged tens of millions of times, with an alleged equally millionaire economic damage for responsible study. The investigation began in March 2022, when the authorities registered their domicile. Although all the details of how the filtration or why the arrest was not produced until later, the case has evolved significantly this May, this May has identified all the details. May 27, Hale reached an agreement with the Prosecutor’s Office: He declared himself guilty of one of the charges of criminal infraction of copyright, and the Department of Justice withdrew the rest of the accusations, including those related to the interstate transport of stolen merchandise. In that same agreement, the US government reviewed its estimation of damage. Although initially there were tens of millions of dollars, it is now recognized that the total value of the infraction would not exceed $ 40,000. In return, the Prosecutor’s Office has recommended a maximum penalty reduction in recognition since Hale has assumed the responsibility of their actions. The sentence is not yet defined. A hearing will be held in the west district of Tennessee next August. If the court accepts the conditions of the agreement, Hale could face a conviction of Up to five years in prisona fine of up to $ 250,000, three years of supervised freedom after the fulfillment of the penalty, and the obligation to pay restitution to the rights holders who prove to have suffered losses. Images | Freepik | Alec Favale | Kent Madsen In Xataka | Netflix’s great triumph has been to return to the exit box: we want to pay to see ads

North Korea was going to throw his greatest war boat and ended up sinking it into the sea. Everything points to a culprit: Kim Jong-un

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Making a fool of it is something that It is not anyone’s pleasure. Surely you have ever stumbled down the street and looked around to see if someone had seen you. Now, imagine that what stumbles is a Military ship of 5,000 tons and several million dollars and sinks at the time of its premiere. That is what happened last week when Kim Jong-un He witnessed how His brand new war ship sank before the impotence of all those present and under the watchful eye of the rest of the planet. And everything indicates that the error was because, as the Spanish proverb points, the hurry are not good. Short. Days before the event, satellite images They showed both the vessel and a scenario in which what seemed to be an observation zone. Probably, the place from which Kim Jong-un was going to witness that historic moment. And the truth is that it was historic, but not for the reasons he would have wanted. On May 23, during the launch ceremony of the new North Korean destroyer (the second of its most advanced class), all attendees in the front row and the world was witnesses of a Technical failure that ended in disaster: the ship overturned. That symbol of power, with 143 meters in length and 74 vertical missile launch cells, ended up ridiculous. How do we float it? Satellite images later Analyzed by the Center for Strategic and International Studies, or CSIS, they showed the ship partially sunken with tarps that covered the disaster. And, although at first the rush was blamed, we now have more clues about everything that could go wrong. Obviously, there is no official information from North Korea, but in The New York Timeswe can see that there are analysts who are quite clear what the problem was. Or the sum of them. Image | CSIS/BEYOND PARALLEL/MAXAR When a ship is finished, there is Several ways to ‘throw it’ into the water. We have the sliding launch in which the ship slides on a ramp into the water. The dry dock in which the ship is built in a dry dock and, once finished, the water dike is filled (That is done with cruises). Also the mechanical launch by cranes, the launch with airbags that are placed under the ship and allow it to slide to the water. And the side launch that drops the side ship into the water. Normally, a single technique is used, but in the North Korean destroyer disaster it seems that sliding and side techniques were used. And not because that’s how it was planned. Perfect storm. As noted The New York TimesIt was the first time that analysts watched North Korea use the side launch to throw a war ship. This technique is sure if it is done well, but in Large ships It is more likely that a problem appears, with dire consequences if it happens. The reading of the analysts is that, using that technique for a 5,000-ton ship points to a lack of experience added to the political pressures by Kim Jong-un to achieve rapid results. The destroyer was manufactured in the port city of Chongjin that has experience assembling ships of such magnitude, but not something as huge as this ship. This puts on the table that a possible trigger was that inexperience When throwing such large ships. In the absence of a dry dike of the appropriate size, it is estimated that the engineers tried the lateral launch to throw it into the water, but the angle was not correct and, when trying to slide it, the ship was unbalanced and ended up lying on the right side. When it goes well, as happened with this fighting ship of 3,500 tons in 2013, it is worth seeing: And it can also go wrong: The hurry are not good. Interestingly, this destroyer is from Choe Hyun classwhose first model was inaugurated successfully Last month. It was going to be the second great frigate of North Korea and the new example of that naval remodeling that Kim Jong-un is promoting. And the precedents were good: the first It was built In the city of Nampo and, because it is a larger shipyard, they could put it afloat through the technique of dry dock. There were no major problems and, at the inauguration, the ruler saw how test missiles were thrown successfully. However, there are hurry in the government dome to follow demonstrating to the world its military potentialwhich has led the president to visit the shipyards who are building new ships to accelerate delivery deadlines. In addition, there are information They point out that, although the ship could have thrown out correctly, the ocean exit street is narrow and has a questionable depth. I made a. pic.twitter.com/urflog6leo – Dr. Jeffrey Lewis (@armsControlwonk) May 22, 2025 Firm hand. And who will pay for this? At the moment, the ridiculous has resulted in several arrests of members of the responsible shipyard itself. The Central News Agency of Korea reported that the chief engineer, a senior armament official and another member of the installation had been arrested, and Kim himself described The accident as a “criminal act”, demanding An urgent restoration of the ship before June. Country engineers estimate that, pumping seawater, they can straighten the ship and repair damage. And it will take about ten days to do it, but it seems complicated because, after a week, Keep as it was. Sentinel-2 images of May 23 and 28. Despite the clouds, we can see that the destroyer continues exactly at the same point And sarcasm. From South Korea, which always have an eye and a half placed in what their neighbors doThey think something else. Yang UK is an expert in North Korean military affairs of the Asan Institute for Policy Studies in Seoul and, as Tnyt comments, the incident may not be only an accident, but something caused by a structural imbalance on the ship itself. … Read more

Desperate to find his stolen motorcycle, he ended up locating a container with another 25 about to sail. It wasn’t thanks to GPS

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In Spain a motorcycle is steal every six minutes. It is enough with a van and two or three people willing to make it disappear. It is not the only country that this scourge suffers. In the United Kingdom Motorcycles are stolen worth three million each monthsomething that leads to a curious story. One in which the London police could find much more than he was looking for. Biketrac It is a company specialized in GPS tracking devices based in the United Kingdom. Next to the police, and after investigating the theft of a client, he has been able to locate many more motorcycles than he had planned. One of the company’s clients called those responsible for the service, desperate after the theft of their BMW R 1200 GSone of the stars in the German house. Biketrac, which offers a tracking service by combining both GPS and radiofrequency, located the motorcycle at a point of Essexa small county that may sound to you if you like Viking history. They soon realized that the motorcycle was still moving, getting closer and more to a load spring near the port. They were quite clear that thieves wanted to send the motorcycle abroad, and that time ran against him. According to the company, the authorities could be indicated to the exact container that contained them thanks to the radio frequency, and not to the GPS. Within a container, GPS ceases to be a precise technologyand that is where the radiofrequency You can emit small radio pulses that, tracked with appropriate portable receptors, can determine locations exactly. Simply approach the container and check the signal intensity. When it reaches its maximum, you are facing it. With the police authorization, readings were taken in the area to triangular the exact position of the container, identifying its corresponding number to subsequently inform the authorities. Location and number in hand, the police requested permission from the port to access the container. Bingo. Inside it was not alone the BMW R 1200 GS, there were a total of 25 motorcycles stacked in the container, ready to leave the country. This was how, in the task of finding a single motorcycle, almost thirty of them, thanks to radio frequency technology. An unusual in most trackers sold in Spain. Image | BMW In Xataka | Electronics has started a war to kill the most sacred piece of motorcycles: the traditional clutch

The historic Sony scandal that ended in the courts

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In the mid -2000s, buying records was still common. Insert them on the computer was part of the day to day, especially to listen to music or pass it to the player. But what seemed like a harmless action ended up being the entrance door to one of the biggest computer security scandals in the domestic sphere. The most disconcerting is that it did not come from a cybercrime, but from one of the most powerful music companies in the world. In the new episode of Xataka presents published on YouTubeone of our colleagues reconstructs the case of Sony BMG rootkit, a failed attempt to stop piracy that ended up violating the safety of thousands of computers. “When you put the album on your computer, the program was installed in secret and stored in a hidden folder so that you did not suppose its existence or noticese that I was doing things in the team.” The key was in the concept “rootkit”, a technique normally associated with the most sophisticated malware. “A rootkit is a program that is installed on your computer and that can execute Administrator permits. Come on, a type of malware designed to have access to your operating system, hide your own activity and access the device remote control. ”Sony hid that rootkit deliberately. On October 31, 2005, cybersecurity expert Mark Russinovich published on his blog that he had discovered “a spy program that secretly settled on his computer.” He explained that this software “was used to spy on users, their listening habits, share that information with Sony and prevent third -party audio programs from reading the album.” And not only that: “He had realized that there was no way to uninstall him, that he could damage the equipment of the users,” but hid even more problems that we will discover in the video. When the uninstalians appeared on the scene, things did not necessarily go better. There was a problem: if you filled a form to download the program that would allegedly free you from Sony’s rootkit nightmare, your browser could be exposed. “If you later entered other websites, from any of them They could access your computer”Explains our partner. The case ended in the courts and, of course, reached a huge media impact. What happened to the Japanese giant? Did you end up paying the consequences? And what happened to the affected users? You will find all this in the video. So we invite you to give the play to know the full story, because the risks do not always come from suspicious downloads, but from legitimate sources. And if you are interested in other stories about cybersecurity, we invite you to Read the article and watch the video about Bonzibuddythe spyware camouflaged in Windows, as well as When we should change all our passwords and if It is useful to have antivirus today. Images | Arthur a In Xataka | Claude 4 raises a future of the capable of blackmailing and creating biological weapons. Even Anthropic is worried

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