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A millionaire spent a money to paint an exclusive RUF CTR YellowBird. I didn’t expect them to return it by doing the pine

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Who plays with fire can burn, and who transports cars valued at millions of dollars also runs the risk of burning since the slightest carelessness can generate damage valued in thousands of dollars. This is what happened to a passionate owner of a RUF CTR ‘YellowBird’, one of the 80 more rare derivatives of Classic Porsche 911. After investing more than $ 150,000 in maintenance tasks and a total repainting of his painting, the valuable car It ended up rugged When downloading it from the truck that transported it before the stunned look of its owner. An icon of the 80s: the Ruf Ctr ‘YellowBird’ The RUF CTR ‘YellowBird’ is a modified version of the Porsche 911 Carrera 3.2 and developed by the German firm Ruf, specialized in converting the sports firm’s sports car In authentic beasts. Specifically, only 29 units of this RUF CTR ‘YellowBird’ were built, which makes it one of the most coveted cars in classic auctions, and a usual of cars video games. His exclusivity has led him to reach historical figures: in March 2024, one of these units was sold for 6.05 million dollars, As reported Topgear. Despite being based on the chassis of the Porsche 911, the Ruf Ctr It was very different In specifications. Its weight was reduced to 1,170 kg thanks to the use of aluminum in several body panels and carbon fiber defenses. It mounted a six -cylinder boxer engine with double KKK turbocharger, double intercooler and a DME injection system derived from the Porsche 962 competition. All of the above granted 476 hp of power and a maximum torque of 553 Nm, capable of exceeding 342 km/h in official tests, surpassing Ferrari F40 by then. Of “yellow bird” to bright black Be that as it may, the Ruf Ctr ‘YellowBird’ protagonist of this story is one of these 29 unique copies that originally went on the market with a body painted in a striking yellow color, as indicated by its last name ‘YellowBird’. Looking for a more elegant appearance, the owner resident in California sent his unit to the RUF headquarters in Germany so that, in addition to making mechanical adjustments, the car in bright black was repainted. For many collectors, modifying the original color of such an iconic model may seem risky, but in this case, the change added an even greater touch of distinction. As you can imagine, neither the transfer nor the restoration process was at all cheap. In total, the owner disbursed more than $ 150,000, according to details Road & Track. These types of restoration operations are common between collectors of high -value cars, which do not hesitate to send their vehicles even to other continents to ensure that they are in the hands of experts accredited by the manufacturer. A very expensive carelessness The tragedy arrived just when the owner was about to receive his Ruf Ctr back and with his new body color. When downloading it from the truck in the transport gondola, the car tires were not correctly secured, which caused it to slide through the ramp without control. Deportivo fell painfully from an approximate height of 2.4 meters, hitting the ground on the rear bumper, while the front was raised at a 45 degree angle on the truck. Touch the image to go to the original message The images of a six million dollar car making the pine on a transport truck soon became viral on social networks, and accounts like @johnclaywolfeshowThey shared them on Instagram accompanied by messages such as “Guess how many millions this little bird was worth.” In these photos you can see the transport operator inside the car at the time of the accident, observing impotent how a newly restored collection piece suffered damage that has not yet been evaluated at all but that, without a doubt, will mean an important disbursement for the person responsible. In Xataka | A Ferrari F40 of $ 700,000 Image | RM Sotherby’s (Stephan Bauer)

Spain studies the viability of its first conventional aircraft carrier. We can expect sitting

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There was a time when Spain was one of the great powers of the sea. Gone are those times when even The US feared, for various reasons, the Spanish Navybut these last times have resurfaced interest in strengthening security in this environment. Projects like him New Bac II Combat Ship They are ours and, now, Navantia has a new commission: studying the viability of the first conventional aircraft of Spain. It will not be easy, but the project is tremendously ambitious. Studying possibilities. A few weeks ago, and how we read in The countrythe Navy commissioned the public shipyard Navantia a viability study on the construction of an aircraft carrier. The shipyard must specify the technical characteristics of the ship and pass budget data that, subsequently, the Government must approve, but although all the details to be specified, as we read in The debatethere are already those who point to the modern French carrier Charles de Gaulle as inspiration. What Spain wants. Unlike the French flagship, the new Spanish carrier would not be a nuclear aircraft carrier, but it would have similar dimensions, with more than 260 meters in length and about 40,000 tons. What is clear is that, as we say, it will be the first pure aircraft carrier that the Navy will have, and this must be clarified. In 67, the US ceded the Labyrinth To the Navy, then Navantia built The ruinous prince of Asturias And, currently, we have the Juan Carlos i. The three have space for both helicopters and airplanes, but although they have a ramp, they have an important limitation: the airplanes that can land and deploy are the Stovl, which start the movement in vertical. And what is the problem? That limits the model that you can operate, and with current AV-8B Harrier II That they ask for the time, it is urgent to have an aircraft carrier that is able to house more modern fighters and without so much dependence on the United States. For example, the FCAS Developed together by France, Spain and Germany. If in the end it has a naval version, of course. According to EFEthe intention of the Navy is that it has a cover with capacity for up to 30 state -of -the -art aircraft. Officially, Juan Carlos I is a “Ampibio assault ship” India comes into play. As they point in Infodefensethe development of a traditional aircraft carrier (without being electromagnetic Like those who already operate China and USA) or with nuclear propulsion as the aforementioned Charles de Gaulle, it should not be a challenge for Navantia. “Simply” will be expensive, it will take time and will have a lot of steel, but the technology is more than settled. And here Navantia can have an advantage as “training”: Türkiye. Navantia has already made some designs for Türkiye, such as TCG Anadolu which became the jewel of the Turkish Navy crown and, as we read in Infodefensethe Spanish company would also be developing with Türkiye a traditional aircraft carrier of more than 300 meters. It will be something that serves to acquire even more experience in this type of vehicles. Strategic strength. Having a “pure” aircraft carrier is necessary for Spain in the current context of geopolitical tensions, even with allies that we considered as close as the United States. Within the European Rearme Processit is also something that makes sense, as much as countries and France and the United Kingdom have collaborated to “Add” your nuclear arsenals. An aircraft carrier, even A vehicle with a very expensive maintenanceit is an important element of deterrence due to its implications, something that we have recently seen in the Tensions in the South China Sea. To Japan, that for years It was a demilitarized nationalready started moving in this regard and has already presented its First aircraft carrier since World War II. For long. On the other hand, there is no hurry for this first Spanish aircraft carrier. Those hurries will arrive when the Harrier are retired, because the F35B Americans, but as we said, there is on its way to go. If everything is fulfilled, we would be talking about the first aircraft carrier for about fifteen years, but to reach that point the Navantia report must convince the government and he authorize its construction. Image In Xataka | The size of the armies of the main powers, summarized in this interesting graphic

We have clicks on ‘Cancel Subscription’ in Correos without thinking. It is just what many cybercriminals expect

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The entrance tray of our email usually becomes chaos. Or, at least, in a digital landfill where messages that we have not asked or want. The reasons are simple: in almost any online procedure, however innocent it may seem, they ask us for a Mail address. From registering on the website of your electric company to connect to the free wifi of a cafeteria, the email always goes ahead. Then there comes a time when we decided to put some order in this personal space. One of the most obvious ways to start is to stop receiving emails that do not interest us. And for this, the most logical step is usually clicking on that link that some messages include at the end. It can appear as “cancel subscription”, “if you want to discharge, click here” or the classic “Unsubscribe”. The promise is clear: pulses and that sender disappears. That click to stop receiving spam can take us just where we didn’t want to enter The problem is that, although this function is legitimate, it can also be used for malicious purposes. According to DNSFilterthere are hundreds of cancellation links that actually lead to sites potentially dangerous. And that turns a harmless gesture – whispering an annoying email – into an entrance door for much more serious problems. A real example of the ‘Cancel Subscription’ button that appears in many mails. In this case it is presented as ‘discharge’ When we click to cancel a subscription we are leaving the controlled environment of our mail supplier. It takes us to an external website, and there begins the risk. The link may not have us to lower us, but to confirm that our address is active. Like those calls that hang instantly: If you answer, you know you exist. Something similar happens here, but by email. With that simple verification, who is behind can bombard us with more advertising to launch attacks on Phishing or more elaborate scam attempts. And that’s not all. There are other even more dangerous possibilities. Some malicious links can try to inject malware In our system. It is technically complex, yes, but not impossible. It is also frequent that they redirect us to pages that mimic legitimate services. There, we can end up introducing our credentials or sharing personal data under a false promise of cancellation. At this point, the doubt is inevitable: and then what do we do? Do we resign ourselves to a saturated input tray of trash emails? The answer is no. There are alternatives that allow to maintain control without assuming so many risks. The first step, as we have already mentioned, is to be aware of danger. Understanding it allows us to act with head. Let’s look at some others. Use the integrated function of cancel subscription. Some mail services, such as ICloud, Gmail or Yahoo, incorporate this option directly into their interface. It is a safer alternative than clicking on the message links. They usually appear at the top or lower part of the mail, and are part of the supplier’s environment, not the sender. Gmail (above), Mail of iOS (center) and Yahoo Mail (below) include integrated buttons to cancel subscriptions from the app itself, without the need to open links inside the mail Mark the message as spam. Another option is to point out the mail as unwanted. The effect is immediate: the message disappears from the entrance tray and the system learns to block future similar emails. But be careful, it is convenient to use this tool only when we are clear that it is spam. Otherwise, we would be training badly to the system. Use disposable email addresses. It is a very useful third way, which we analyze in depth in the article ‘How I learned to use several email addresses to keep all my protected digital accounts’. Logic is simple: if the problem is to share our real direction, the most effective thing is to avoid doing so. And for that there are tools such as the “hide my email” function of Apple. The option ‘Log in with Apple’ allows you to hide your real email and use a random address that you can delete at any time from ICLOUD Those who use apple brand devices can activate this function by registering in a service. The system generates a random direction that forwards the emails to the main account. If you start receiving annoying messages, you just have to check which of those temporary addresses are coming and eliminating it. It is worth remembering that this function is free, but those who have Icloud+ They can create new ones addresses at any timenot only during the registration process. This gives even more margin to protect privacy and improve security. All this adds to the classical recommendations: maintain updated software and have a protection tool against malware. They are not absolute guarantees, but security layers that make a difference. No, we will not be 100% safe. No system is. But we can be informed and take some measures to avoid falling into the traps that cybercounts have. Images | Mariia Shalabaieva | DC Studio In Xataka | New drug traffickers do not need boats or borders. The major in Europe directed its empire from a Barcelona floor In Xataka | Password managers: which are the best to protect and remember all you have

If there is something that biologists did not expect to discover is that billions of moths look at the stars to orient

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Imagine having to travel a thousand kilometers to a place where you have never been. Now imagine you have to do it at night, without GPS, or maps of any kind. To finish curling the curl, imagine that you only have one chance in your life to do so. You don’t have to imagine it because we are not talking about a person, but of moths. The annual pilgrimage of the Bogong moths. This is the feat that billions of Bogong moths (Infusa agrotis) They perform every year in Australia. And scientists have just discovered that they are oriented looking at the stars. This discovery, Posted in Nature magazineconverts the Bogong moth in the first insect of which you have a record that uses a stellar compass for long -distance navigation, a skill that until now was believed reserved for animals such as some night migratory birds. The trip of a life. Each southern spring, these moths undertake one of up to a thousand kiometers. They hatch in the warm plains of southeastern Australia and fly towards a handful of cold caves in the Australian Alps to spend the summer (a process called Estivation). When the fall arrives, those same moths undertake the trip back to their breeding areas to reproduce and, finally, die. The big question that has fascinated biologists for years is how they do it. No one teaches them the way. It is a round trip that each individual performs only once. A team of researchers, led by David Dreyer from the University of Lund, had already demonstrated in 2018 that the moths were sensitive to the magnetic field of the earth, Like other animalsbut they suspected there was something else. They had their eyes on the sky. A planetarium for moths. To confirm your hypothesis, The team designed an ingenious experiment. They captured migration during their migration and introduced them into a flight simulator. This device, similar to a small planetarium, held the moth allowing him to beat the wings and turn freely, while a sensor recorded his flight address. The team did several tests: They canceled the magnetic field: using a coil system, they created an environment without magnetic clues. Thus they made sure that any correct orientation was due to visual signals. They projected a natural starry sky: under an artificial night sky, identical to the one they would see in the time of migration, the moths were oriented persistently in their correct migratory direction: to the south in spring and north in autumn. They turned the sky 180 degrees: In the final test, the researchers rotated the projection of the starry sky 180 degrees. The response of the moths was immediate and amazing: they invested their flight direction almost exactly 180 degrees. They project random stars: to make sure they did not respond simply to the light, they projected an image with the same amount of stars and brightness, but randomly distributed, without forming recognizable patterns. In this situation, the moths flew disoriented, without a clear direction. Unexpected. These results demonstrated without a doubt that the moths not only see the stars, but use them as a true compass to maintain a specific geographical direction for thousands of kilometers. It was already known that other insects, such as players, use the Milky Way to orient. However, they do it to move in a straight line and quickly move away from a lot of manure, a short -term orientation and without a fixed destination. The achievement of the Bogong moth is much more complex. Use the stars to “discern specific geographical directions” and sail towards a “distant objective”, something radically different and much more sophisticated. A brain connected to the stars. The researchers did not stop in behavior. They also analyzed the brain of the moths and discovered visual neurons that responded specifically to the rotation of the starry sky. Interestingly, these neurons showed their maximum activity when the moth was heading south, regardless of whether it was spring or autumn, which suggests that they have a wiring neuronal system to detect a fundamental light blue orientation. This does not invalidate its magnetic compass. In another experiment, the scientists observed that on completely cloudy nights, when the stars were invisible, the moths were still oriented correctly. The conclusion is that the Bogong moth has an incredibly robust and redundant navigation system. It uses both the Earth’s magnetic field and a stellar compass, probably using a system to calibrate the other or to take over when one of the two fails. There are still mysteries to solve, such as what stars or exact constellations use or how they compensate for the rotation of the earth throughout the night. But what is clear is that not only the ancient sailors looked at the stars to find their way. A tiny insect, on his only trip, also does. Image | Pexels In Xataka | If the question is whether there is an “invasion” of moths in Murcia, the answer is that of every year by these dates

Seven IAS have played 36 hours in a row to Diplomacy. What we did not expect is that each one develop a human personality

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For 36 hours, seven of the most advanced AI models in the world They have faced in several diplomacy gamesa strategy table game similar to Risk. It was a mirror that revealed the true algorithmic personalities of Chatgpt, Claude, Gemini and company. Why is it important. Alex Duffy, programmer and researcher, created a Diplomacy as new Benchmark To evaluate AI models. The experiment ended up being something else, a kind of technological Rorschach test that undressed both their training biases and our own projections. What has happened. In dozens of games transmitted by Twitch, each model developed its own strategies in a way that seemed to reflect different human personalities. O3 of OpenAi It was quite Machiavellian, working false alliances for more than 40 shifts and creating “parallel realities” for different players. Claude 4 Opus It was a kind of self -destructive pacifist, refusing to betray even when that guaranteed its defeat. R1 of Deepseek He showed an extremely theatrical style, with threats not caused as “your fleet will burn in the Black Sea tonight.” Gemini 2.5 Pro It proved to be a solid strategist but more vulnerable to sophisticated manipulations. QWQ-32B From Alibaba suffered analysis by analysis, writing diplomatic messages of 300 words that cost him early eliminations. The context. Diplomacy is a European strategy game set in 1901 where seven powers compete to dominate the continent. Unlike risk, it requires constant negotiation, alliances formation and, inevitably, calculated betrayals. There are no grace given, only pure strategy and psychological manipulation. Between the lines. Each “algorithmic personality” reflects the values ​​of its creators. Claude maintains the principles of anthropic security even when it costs victory. O3 shows ruthless efficiency valued in Silicon Valley. Deepseek exhibits a drama that reflects specific cultural influences. And there is also something deeper. These are not “chose” to be cooperative or competitive. They reproduce patterns of their training data. Their “decisions” are our algorithmized prejudices, converted into code. Yes, but. We interpret betrayals where “only” there is optimization of parameters and we see loyalty where there are training restrictions. That is why the experiment also reveals more about us than about models: we anthropomorphize behaviors because we need to understand AI in human terms. In perspective. Duffy’s experiment is worth more than a Benchmark Anyone because it has created a window to how we project personality in systems that operate for statistical patterns. The course of the games was a reminder that IA has no hidden intentions, it only reflects ours. The experiment, by the way, Continue broadcasting on Twitch so that anyone can observe how our digital creations play according to the rules that we ourselves write in their algorithms. In Xataka | Outstanding image | Ai Diplomacy

A North Korean spy tried to infiltrate a cryptocus. I didn’t expect you to ask him for Halloween

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The cinema, the video games and the stories of double agents They have been showing the image of the spies as riskylonely and, sometimes, lustful. The reality is that this field work has gone to the background in an era in which cyberspage and labor infiltration prevails. China and North Korea are protagonists from time to time when we talk about this matter and, sometimes, the cover is so rough that a single question is enough to uncover the cake: What is done on Halloween. Steven Scott Jr. Smith. That name is the most American, the equivalent of José Pérez in Spain. Steven asked for work in Kraken, a bank and exchango of American cryptocurrencies and, from the first minute of the test, something failed. As we read in FortuneSteven, who claimed to have 11 years of experience as a software engineer in companies like Cisco and two years living in Houston, Texas, connected to the video call with a different name than the one he showed in his curriculum and changed it quickly. He also answered simple questions with hesitation and, for more complex ones, it took something more to answer, as if he were talking to someone else who smeared the answers. Cornering the spy. That alerted the recruiters, and that is where they began to ask questions that had nothing to do with work, since they hid another intention: catch what they thought it was a spy trying to sneak into their system. The interview was conducted on October 31, Halloween party in the United States, and recruiters asked three key questions. Given the comment that that night it would be necessary to close before because there would be children calling the doors of the houses, Steven commented that he would not do “special” if they called his. Among the interests that reflected in the curriculum was the food. One of the recruiters told him that he would go to Houston in a few days and that if he could recommend a city restaurant. Steven looked around, smiled and said “there is nothing special here.” Rare, considering that, in a city of 2.3 million inhabitants, at least one good restaurant must be. The third request was to show him an identification. Steven commented that he did not have it at hand, but after a few minutes, he shared a photo of his driving card with an address that is more than 480 kilometers from Houston. In the following video of CBS you can see both the license and the question of the restaurants: Culture of productive paranoia. Kraken herself tells the story in her blog, detailing that they realized that something was going wrong and continued with the interview with an objective: to study their focus to try to extract details about their identity. The companies that are dedicated to the crypto have had recent robberies and Nick Perceco problems, one of Kraken’s security responsible, states that these attacks are not an exclusive problem of companies such as their own, but a global threat. It also points three keys to this recent espionage/robbery strategy: Not all attackers force the entrance, but try to enter through the main door of the companies, applying as employees. The generative AI facilitates deception, since it is used to pass the initial tests such as the curriculum or the photo, so the interviews seem key with verification questions that avoid predictable patterns. Halloween’s example or restaurant recommendation, for example. Finally, it is key to have a productive paranoia culture. They affirm that security is not only the responsibility of the recruitment and security equipment of companies, but that it should be a more global mentality. It is not isolated. When Kraken’s team investigated Steve’s operational history, he discovered interesting things. For example, I used a Mac desktop located in a shared data center. It was connected using a VPN to hide both the location and the network activity and its curriculum was linked to a github profile in which a mail address compromised in a data filtration was included. This agrees with previous research and discoverieswith spies that use that same proceed when connected using VPN to simulate that they are in a direction in the United States, but really being in North Korea and China. And they are not only trying to sneak into American companies: Europe does not get rid. Missile industry. The suspicion of researchers? Double. On the one hand, there are spies that directly steal in their companies. An example are cases of crypto companies. But another case has to do with the sending of its full salary to the North Korean government to finance the arms industry. Famous is the case by Christina Marie Champman in Arizona. A farm of remote computers operated from which the attackers simulate that they are on American soil. As noted CNNusing that network, 6.8 million dollars were achieved for, according to Bloombergfinance the North Korean nuclear weapons program. China does not get rid, but it has another approach. And not only North Korea is interested in sneaking into Western companies: he has also caught China on occasion. The objective, however, is different: while some seek funds for their arms industry, others want knowledge for the development of the chips industry. At the end of 2003, ASML (the European company that creates the most advanced machines to create avant -garde semiconductors) denounced the theft of confidential information, suspecting that one of its former employees andNt added business secrets to Huawei. Another spy was also accused of stealing SK Hynix information, DE new, for Huawei. It is a major problem for the West, but also … for China. In mid -2024, the United States sent an alert message to ASML and the rest of the Netherlands universities: “Beware of Chinese students”And this is something that obviously puts a target on all students, also about the legitimate ones. Images | Xataka with chatgpt In Xataka | North Korea’s military tactics that prevents defections. … Read more

IBM fired 8,000 workers to replace them with AI. What I did not expect was to hire many others … for the AI

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The chickens that enter through the chickens that come out. IBM was one of the main protagonists in the Waves of mass layoffs globally Two years ago, and now it is again for the consequence of making this decision: having even more workers. The layoffs. In January 2023 IBM joined the Gray days In the technological sector. Google announced the departure of 12,000 of its employeesX (old twitter) fired 83% of its workforce in Spainand Spotify said goodbye to 600 workers. On the IBM side, I know They completely paralyzed hiring and the dismissal of 7,800 workers was formalized. IBM CEO itself explained That his company would cover artificial intelligence, affirming at least 30% of its workforce was replaceable. The consequences. IBM talked about how they could do without workers by replacing them for AI, but not about the people necessary to operate that AI. One of the executive directors of the technology, Arvind Krishna, collects to WSJ that the number of employees has increased after the wave of layoffs. “Although we have done a huge amount of work within IBM to take advantage of AI and automation in certain business workflows, our total employment has actually risen, because we have managed to obtain more investment capacity to cover other areas,” Krishna told The Wall Street Journal. The company has fired workers to replace them with artificial intelligence, but has also increased hiring in programmers and sales personnel. They have not transcended concrete numbers about how many hiring there have been and if they have really covered or not the 7,800 layoffs. The automation to command. IBM has been fully trusting more than three years Askhran artificial intelligence solution that began to take shape in 2021 and that Today they use for processes related to human resources management (payrolls, employee documentation, vacation managed). The company claims to have automated 94% of RRHH’s routine tasks, achieving productive improvements worth 3.5 billion dollars in recent years in more than 70 business areas. This significant saving in human resources, according to the company, is allowing them to invest in other areas. An AI-FIRST company. On the IBM website we have detailed The official position of the company with AI. It is worthy of a Black Mirror chapter, but perfectly summarizes the state of AI in the workplace. “As the chatbot learned and became smarter, our NPS (Net Promoter Score) began to increase. We added more functionalities, along with the ability to perform transactions. Askhr evolved to a digital assistant that allowed managers to transfer employees to another manager or initiate the quarterly promotion process. Everything was done directly in Askhr With just a few clicks. In 2024, Askhr He managed more than 11.5 million interactions; 94% of them were resolved within the platform. That means that, of all the questions asked, only 6% needed to be derived from Askhr To a specialized partner in HR. The current NPS is +74, so we have traveled a long way from that -35. There are almost 90 automation integrated into Askhrand more on their way. Thanks to this, managers can make HR transactions 75% faster than before. According to IMB, automating processes with AI has allowed you to be faster and more efficient, with a minimum need to derive HR personnel processes. One of the keys is in the evolution of the assistant: they have been using it in tests since 2017, and in 2025 it is already replacing humans. IBM is not alone. The companies replacing workers for AI was not an experiment of 2023. There are already companies that have dispensed with 90% of their customer service departments by Chatbots, ensuring that it was the right decision. Duolingo started 2025 With replacement of human teamsome already shot them through the cylinder head and They ended looking for programmers on LinkedIn. AI and its labor impact It is especially linked to process automation. Reports like ‘The Future of Jobs Report 2025’prepared by World Economic Forum, hope that by 2030 the Process automation destroy about 92 million jobs. In Xataka | “I have three years of work”: more and more IA managers believe that AI will end up removing the position

What can we expect after the purchase of X by XAI

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Last Friday, unexpected news and totally surprise. The startup XAI, from Elon Musk, acquired xalso by Elon Musk. The tycoon announced the operation highlighting how that made Xai an estimated assessment (according to him) of 80,000 million dollars, while that of X was 33,000 million dollars (45,000 million except 12,000 million debt). The question, of course, is what this movement is due and what can we expect from now on. Because. According to Musk, the future of Xai and X is intertwined, and this fusion allows “combining data, models, computing, distribution and talent” of both companies. What it certainly allows is to ensure that X accounts are integrated in XAI’s, with much more economic projection. It is true that X is a company that It seems to recover groundbut it has had a bad time since Musk bought it. A natural fusion. As indicated In The New York Timesboth companies are private and already shared numerous resources, such as their engineers. Grok, XAI’s chatbot, is trained with data published by X and that are public in this social network. Andrew Verstein, a professor at the UCLA Law School commented on and daily how what seems to say Musk with this movement is “I have a company that may not be bankrupt, but it is not the jewel of my crown. I will buy it so that it seems a success using one of my other companies.” Actions that change hands. According to The Wall Street JournalX and XAI shares will be replaced by new shares of a holding called XAI Holdings Corp. There is another potential advantage derived from this fusion, according to analysts: it will be easier to lift new investment rounds for that combined entity. It already happened before. In 2016 he used actions from his electric car company, Tesla, to buy Solarcity, a company dedicated to renewable energy in which Musk was the highest shareholder and in which his cousin Lyndon Rive was the CEO. Many shared resources (and opaque) among their companies. Companies created or managed by Elon Musk have always made use of resources shared. Being in many cases private, several of these movements are opaque, and for example in August 2024 the Employee movement From Tesla to Xai and also from Gpus used in Tesla To use them in X or XAI. All with an objective: accelerate in his plan to convert Xai into a reference in the segment of artificial intelligence. The relationship between Trump and Musk facilitates everything. The months following the inauguration of the new presidential cycle of Donald Trump have been beneficial for Musk. The valuation of X has risen, to a large extent because the platform is now more influential. The tycoon indicated in the announcement of the operation as X has more than 600 million active users. Grok, from Xai showed the way to integrate into x. During a good part of their existence, XAI’s models were limited to X payment subscribers, but for months the Chatbot Grok 3 has been available for all X users, including those who use the free version. XAI takes advantage of the activity in X to train its models, and that makes this integration even more natural now that both companies have merged. What can we expect. The acquisition should not influence the operation of both companies for users, but one thing is clear: if they previously shared resources in a more opaque way, they will now do it comprehensively. The XAI AI models will be nourished by the data published in X more than ever, and in turn x will benefit from the improvements that are implemented in models such as Grok 3 and that are available from the platform. The overcoming always on the horizon. We have been talking about A potential xand that fusion of Xai with X makes this project somewhat closer. It already has covered the creation of content and the social network, but many areas are missing, and one above all: to be able to use X as a payment platform, Something to which he has pointed out On more than one occasion. In Xataka | Murphy’s law conspires against Elon Musk: if something has been able to happen to their companies this week, it has happened

We expected a storm this Friday in the northwest, what we did not expect is that it was so strong

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The synopsis was clear: intense rainfall They were back To the Levante and the southeast of the Peninsula, but they were not going to last too much. However, Aemet It began to point out the possibility that, then, Another storm arrives For the Atlantic. What has changed in the last hours is that The “extreme traffic lights” just jump: Everything seems to indicate that what is going to arrive is a high impact storm that will bring extremely scrambled time. What will happen? At the atmospheric level, this storm will be developed this Friday and will begin to enter the west peninsular. On Saturday 8 we will see how a very active front will put all the predictions up. The key will be that, despite not being an atmospheric river, it is true that winds (Ábregos) will have a southern component and will be warmer even if they come loaded with moisture. That will boost storm. And at a practical level? Three things: bad sea, intense wind and many rainfall. We talk about wind gusts between 50 and 80 kilometers per hour. With hurricane winds in the country’s high areas. We will also see accumulated “abundant and persistent“With up to 150 liters per square meter throughout the western zone of the Peninsula. In addition, although as a consequence of the temperature rise the snow level will rise, the high areas can receive a good amount. But we have to talk about something else. Yes, it is true that everything indicates that a high impact storm will come (one that, presumably, will be called Jana), but that is not the big problem. The big problem is that it has been raining many days and the ability of the Earth to absorb water will not be very high. That means we will see floods and overflows in many zoans of the country. Something that, As Martín León points outit will become even more worrying when the following storms (which can arrive By the blocking anticyclone of northern Europe that is sending it to us) continue to take rain to already wet areas. And what was that “extreme traffic lights”? It is a way to call EFI (Extreme Forecast Index), the ECMWF model index that measures the rarity of a phenomenon. Well, EFI values ​​for March 8 They will be at maximum And that means that, whatever, this Saturday will be a very adverse day. Image | ECMWF In Xataka | Aemet already knows when the storm that is soaking Spain is over. The problem is that another act comes another

We have centuries contaminating the seas with mercury. We did not expect the solution to be genetic engineering

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There is something that have volcanic eruptions, oil combustion, waste incineration, chemical substances or gold extraction: they release mercury in the environment. A mercury that ends up deposited in the waters, transformed into methylmercury for millions of microorganisms, stored in fish and, finally, served in our houses at lunchtime. We have a problem with methylmercury. That is obvious. The problem is that it is very difficult to solve. And that is not forcing ideas in another place. What exactly is methylmercury? Mercury is already a global concern due to its persistence in the environment, its ability to bioaccumulation in ecosystems and their important adverse effects on human health. But methylmercury, the most frequent organic form in the marine environment takes the palm. None of this would be a problem if it were not because, in addition, methylmercury is the form “more toxic and the most easily absorbable For living organisms, since it is highly liposoluble and has a great capacity to fix proteins and also shows a high degree of bioaccumulation. “ Is it dangerous? Well yes. High doses of this compound They are very toxic to the central nervous system and especially “for the brain in development of the fetus and in early childhood.” It can cause “mild behavioral problems, language disorders, memory losses, vision and auditory, learning difficulties and development delays.” And we do nothing to avoid it? Yes, we have tried several approaches. In 2013, governments around the world adopted the Minamata Agreement to try to control the “anthropogenic liberations of mercury and other compounds” derivatives. In fact, in the last decade the European Food Security Authority (and its national equivalents) They have been establishing increasingly strict criteria for food with risk of exposure to these compounds. The problem is that it is not easy to control that release and, for now, we cannot do much more than reduce risks. A solution … original. Now, some Australian scientists say they have discovered a new effective way to clean the methylmercury. The Macquarie University Research Team and the Australian Csiro has managed genetically fruit flies and zebra fish to transform methylmercury into a much less harmful gas that is dispersed in the air. The team has modified the DNA of these two animals to insert variants of bacteria genes that make them create two enzymes that can convert the methylmercury into elementary mercury. In general terms, we could say that they inactivate it. It does not become harmless, but its toxicity and bioaccumulation falls very significantly. Oh really? “It still seems to me that we can use synthetic biology to convert the most harmful form of mercury and evaporate it,” Kate Tepper explainedsynthetic biologist and main author of the article. And, indeed, almost science fiction sounds. It must be said that, obviously, we talk about an investigation in the early development phases and much remains to be checked. However, it is a very interesting result. Very dangerous and very loaded with ethical issues, but very interesting for the development of the genetic engineering of the future. Another thing is that we dare to get so far. Image | John Cameron In Xataka | This researcher has been poisoning a lake with mercury for 15 years to see what happens to the fish living inside: now, he finally has an answer

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