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Open the car from the mobile promises comfort. A failure has shown that we may not be the only ones with the key

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Imagine that it is enough to look at the windshield of a car to score its frame number – a 17 -character code visible from outside – introduce it into an internal tool, find out the name of the owner and link that vehicle to a mobile account. From there, you could unlock the doors remote from an official app, without touching a lock or forcing anything. That is fair what a cybersecurity researcher demonstrated After accessing the internal portal used by the dealers of a large car brand. We do not talk about an attack on users or public servants, but about a gap on the business platform that connects the manufacturer with its sales network. A rear door with access to connected functions and personal data. The failure was not in the car, but in the chain that unites everything Behind this finding is Eaton Zveare, who has been tracking vulnerabilities into digital platforms of large brands, especially of the automobile sector. This time it was no different. Zveare discovered that the internal web portal of a known car brand It allowed to modify the behavior of the system from the browser itself. Specifically, it managed to alter the login page code to skip security checks and create an administrator account with national privileges. With that account, access covered more than 1,000 concessionaires in the United States. From there, the problem dimension changed completely. It was not just about accessing internal resources of a concessionaire. The account he managed to generate gave access to the complete system: I could see the data of all the concessionaires connected, act in the name of other users without knowing their credentials and, the most delicate, accessing tools that allowed them to consult information about vehicles and their owners. All that from a platform that, in theory, is reserved for professionals in the sector. Zveare did not force anything, did not installed any malicious software or attacked from the outside. What he found was a badly closed door within a legitimate system. And the most worrying thing is that this door not only allowed him to enter: he offered, from within, a set of tools that nobody outside the manufacturer should control so easily. In the United States, the laws that regulate the sale of vehicles vary by state, but share a common principle: in most of them, Manufacturers cannot sell new cars directly to the consumer. They are obliged to do so through independent dealers, legally protected against direct competition of the manufacturer. That has given rise to a franchised network structure that groups thousands of points of sale and after -sales. Tesla has tried to uncheck that model and sell directly, but it has not been easy. Although he has achieved it in some states, in many others he continues to find legal restrictions that prevent him from selling or even delivering vehicles directly. Your case is the most visible exception, but not the norm. The most delicate is not that this system showed confidential information. The serious thing is that it allowed to act with high privileges, as if one is part of the official structure of the manufacturer. From there, it was possible to assume identities of other employees, intervene on registered vehicles anywhere in the country or access functions designed exclusively for authorized technicians. The portal was designed to give agility to the dealer network, not to resist malicious access from within As we say above, each car has a unique frame number. It is a code of 17 characters – right and numbers – that serves to legally identify it throughout the world. What the average driver probably does not imagine is that this code is visible from the outside, at the base of the windshield, and that in the context of this case it was the entrance key. In a real test, Zveare introduced a visible vin from the outside and obtained the name of the owner. From the portal it was also possible to match the vehicle to a new mobile account. Zveare did not try to drive any vehicles or alter its physical configuration. But with the control that I had, open it at a distance and empty its interior would have been perfectly possible. Today, The name of the affected manufacturer has not been made public. And it’s not because nobody knows. The researcher who discovered vulnerability, does know what brand he was behind the committed portal, but has decided not to mention it in his report or during his defense presentation. Nor Techcrunch, the first medium that echoed the case, has revealed the identity of the manufacturer. It is not something so unusual. In some cases, researchers choose to maintain the anonymity of the company involved by prudence, even when vulnerability has already been corrected to avoid putting third parties at risk: concessionaires, employees or customers who still depend on that system. It can also influence the fact that the compromised platform gave access to entire networks, not an isolated server. Images | Xataka with Gemini 2.5 Flash In Xataka | Bugatti decided not to put speakers in a car of four million euros. His secret is a technique of 1881

What the failure of the “antiapagones decree” implies for Spain

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The Congress of Deputies rejected on Tuesday, July 22 The so -called “antiapages” decree, a rule that sought to reinforce the electrical system after the blackout last April 28. The parliamentary defeat. The text, approved in the Council of Ministers as Royal Decree-Law 7/2025did not achieve the necessary support for his validation: 183 votes against 165 in favor. Among the negative votes were those of PP, Vox, Podemos, Junts, BNG and UPN, in addition to the deputy of the Aragonese Chunta integrated in Addar, Jorge Pueyo, who broke the vote discipline. This varapalo, which arrives just before the summer break, prevents the application of a package of urgent technical measures for the Spanish energy system. The norm sought, among other things, to improve the supervision of the electricity grid, to facilitate access to new industries, promote self -consumption and penalize breaches by large electricity. Not so bad. Although the Government managed to move forward six of the seven laws that led to the plenary, the fall of the most strategic decree of the day left a feeling of defeat. As RTVE picked upfrom Montevideo, where he is on tour, Pedro Sánchez tried to remove iron from the matter: “Not so bad,” said government sources recognize their “disappointment” to what they consider a vote “against the general interest.” Behind the rejection. The reasons that have ended in this situation are as diverse as the matches that have lying it. On the one hand, the Popular Party has considered that the norm was an undercover support for an energy policy that they consider failed and unre transparent, in addition to criticizing that there has been no resignation after the blackout of April 28. On the other hand, Podemos has unmarked from its government partners when considering that the decree did not contain real sanctions against the electric oligopoly and have labeled it with “legislative makeup” without transformative effects. In the case of Vox, the rejection has been ideological and frontal to any initiative of the Executive. Other formations such as Junts and BNG have interpreted the text as an excessive assignment to large energy companies and wanted to mark distances at a key moment of negotiation with the government. Together, the norm has ended up being a victim of a fragmented legislature, of cross interests and of the political distrust even within the block that supports the Executive. The origin of the decree. As detailed by the jumpthe decree was born in June after a report that was blamed for the blackout of April 28 to Red Eléctrica de España and the great generators (Endesa, Iberdrola, Naturgy). The measures, as explained by Vice President Third Sara Aagesen, intended to prevent new crises such as that and unlock pending projects in a saturated electrical system. Aagesen appealed to the “social consensus” behind the norm, which had the support of business associations, environmentalists and the renewable sector. By eating the decree. The Royal Decree-Law 7/2025 was more technical than political, but with deep implications. According to the jumpsome of its keys were greater public control (such as CNMC reports more frequent More agile authorizations, even with the possibility of sharing connection points. Despite not containing a structural transformation of the energy model or a public company, some groups celebrated it as a “first step” to decentralize the system. As noted from the same media, the Alliance for Self -Consumption, which brings together more than 60 social entities, described the decree as “the great lever” to democratize energy. It was also positively valued for allowing renewable energies to act as support energy, a function so far reserved for thermal plants. The theme is deeper. The Spanish electrical system is saturated: only one in ten requests for access to the network was met in 2024, despite the fact that there was unused technical capacity, such as have pointed out in the Energy newspaper. This rigidity is a brake for strategic industrial projects such as green hydrogen, battery manufacturing or data centers, that require agile and stable connections. The decree tried to anticipate these problems with more dynamic planning and proactive regulations, in line with the recommendations of the European Commission. Once summer ends. The Government has announced its intention to reformulate the text, but the coup is significant. Meanwhile, the PP plans to present an alternative law together with the Autonomous Communities. According to expansionthe employers of the energy sector ask for quick solutions and warn of the risks for competitiveness if it does not act urgently. Every month of delay represents lost opportunities to attract green and industrial investment. A blocked opportunity. The antiapages decree was not perfect, but necessary, according to a good part of the sector. Its rejection shows the limitations of Spanish energy policy, where faced interests, power struggles and internal distrust weigh more than climatic or industrial urgency. Now, while the country dealt with a collapsed electricity and the ghost of new blackouts, the clock is still running. And every month without a solution is a less opportunity to lead the energy transition that Europe demands and that Spain could lead. Image | José Sáez (Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License) Xataka | The mystery of light in Spain: why there is only one “cheap” time to day with the maximum

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

Those who are foraging anticipating their failure

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A little over a month ago, Elon Musk assured his investors that I would abandon politics To devote full time to solve the problems They were ruining the capitalization of Tesla. The retirement has lasted little and the tycoon returns to the political ring announcing the creation of a new party. The return to politics has been highly applauded by a sector of Tesla investors: those who have bet in short (losses) in the company. Since Musk announced the creation of the ‘America Party’, these short investors have pocketed 1.4 billion dollars, according to Reuters. Musk’s game. Elon Musk has been very critical of the new fiscal package promoted by Donald Trump, known as “the great and beautiful bill” (One Big Beautiful Bill Act), that Tesla’s CEO did not hesitate to qualify the law as “a disgusting abomination”, And he added: “Shame for those who have voted it, they know they have done wrong. They know it.” Since the law has overcome its greatest stumbling With the approval in Senate and its approval is imminent, Musk has seen to fulfill your promiseof founding the America Partya third political party that serves as a hinge of current electoral bipartisanism. Focus for some, joy for others. The announcement of the return to Elon Musk’s policy has caused anger of his (until a few months ago) greater ally Donald Trump, than From your social network He has described Musk’s proposal to create a new “ridiculous” game, adding that “it has always been a bipartisan system and I think that founding a third party only contributes to confusion.” However, the anger of the president of the United States with Musk has cheered a part of Tesla investors who do not bet on the bonanza of the electric car manufacturer, but they earn money when the company’s shares are collapsed: short investors. A 7.5% drop are good news. Trump’s anger with Musk’s announcement made investors immediately They will reduce their trust In the company’s shares, which caused its price to collapse 7.5% in its opening on Monday with respect to the price of Thursday, July 3 (July 4 was a holiday). Before this opening of the markets, a Short Inverters Army They had their sharp pencils to take advantage of the more than foreseeable drop in the price of the company’s actions that are most suffering from Musk’s political fluctuations. So it was. According to Reuters data, Short investors Tesla collected estimated benefits of 1.4 billion dollars with that fall. The way of operating Of these investors is to “borrow” shares of Tesla to sell them with the commitment to buy them again before a certain period of time. If during the period of time it passes between it sells them and buy them again the shares have fallen, you will have to pay less in their purchase of what they gave it when you sold it, so the more the action falls, the greater the benefit. So much ride, ride so much. If something has been demonstrated in recent months, it is that, if Tesla does nothing to remedy itthe fate of the company and that of its CEO are united. Therefore, and although the price of Tesla’s shares is harshly recovered, Elon Musk’s personal fortune has also suffered a severe varapalo, leaving 15.3 billion dollars in its valuation, according to The Bloomberg Millionaire Index. During the opening of the markets last Monday, Tesla’s shares fell from $ 315.35 of the closure prior to $ 291.21, registering a weak recovery up to 297.81 dollars They mark When publishing this article. Elon Musk has shown on numerous times his repulsion for this type of Short investmentswhich has even generated Tensions between Musk and Bill Gates Because it was discovered that the founder of Microsoft had some Losses Tesla positions. In Xataka | A government “Extremely Hardcore”: Elon Musk is applying to the US the same recipe that has applied to all its companies Image | Wikimedia Commons (Gage Skidmore), Unspash (Jakub żerdzicki)

Jordi Wild also wanted to dive into the video game industry, but recognizes his failure: “It is paralyzed”

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Jordi Wild is one of the content creators More followed by todaybut of course, that does not mean that everything that touches becomes gold. Despite the Success of your podcast Already the delivery and dedication he had put in a horror video game project in which he appeared as a creative director, the thing is not going well. He has made it clear in one of his last programs, talking about development paralysis. A promising project. In December 2023 Jordi Wild was intended to develop “one of the most terrifying games that have ever made“, as he said in his own program. At that time the game already had a year of development in Unity, at the hands of its own study. It was a modest project, a short duration game and a very attractive expected price: just 20 euros for a title that would come out in Steam. In it, a detective investigates an adultery in a New York building: a case that becomes more dark as it descended by the floors. The project is twisted. The initial idea was that he came out on Halloween of 2024, but soon he had to change it to a larger one “early 2025“. But this week, in a podcast that is not yours, ‘the bunker’, He commented that the game is “paralyzed” and that he could not give more details for legal issues. Because of the little that has advanced, there was a creative clash with the study or the producers, who approved their ideas for later retracting: “You cannot tell me, months later, ‘this cannot be’”. Wild concludes that he chose “the people I have worked with.” The future of the project is doubtful: “I do not know what to do (…), if to rebuild it from scratch, discard everything and start a new story with new people in command, or continue with what we have. But I will need a powerful team” in front. You have to look for more. Jordi Wild’s case is not isolated: a great range on social networks and content platforms does not guarantee success In other areas. However, it is a diversification that Many influencers and streamers are looking for since only a few are on top in an increasingly busy space (in 2024, the community influencer Spanish speaker grew 21%, already worldwide already We talk about 2 million creators). The key to highlighting in such a busy panorama in vertical integration: merchandisingcollaborations with brands, courses, face -to -face events and own products. The negotiate. Although brand agreements are usually the main income of content creators (70%, according to themselves), own businesses increasingly abound. We no longer talk about exploiting the brand itself with memberships, exclusive content, donations and new formats such as podcasts or face -to -face events. We talk about founding companies where influencer It is just an extra hook to finance and advertise a product. That’s where ideas such as Jordi Wild’s enter, although he is far from being the first. Some precedents. For example, Olajide “ksi” Olatunji, One of the most relevant British youtuberswith 24 million subscribers, the prime energy drink developed with Logan Paul, although he had previously tried to develop mobile games between 2017 and 2019. Paul himself starred in the greatest failure in the world of video games managed by Influencers: ‘Cryptozoo’, a cryptocurrency game in a gamified metaverso that would combine NFTS and digital asset trading. The thing never fructify, and Paul He had to distance himself from his partnersaccused of fraud, in a project that makes it clear that the accelerated ethics of the digital content does not always apply to all sectors. And in Spain. In Spain there have not been so many Streamers linked to video games (we will have to see what is left The Xokasalthough it can be predicted quite accurately), but creators who have gone beyond their usual margins. The clearest case is that of IBAI, who has taken advantage of his fame and his income to embark on companies such as launching a own football team or organize events Like the successful the eveningbecoming de facto In a businessman who makes streamsand not the reverse. Thing that is not easy: Jordi Wild himself created Dogfight Tournament to his iumagen and similarity and has had astronomical losses. Some causes of failures. There are very clear reasons for This type of failures: The most obvious, which is not the same to play and comment games than to develop them. The programming, design and testing learning curve is very pronounced and cannot be assumed in a short time. The Influencersaccustomed to the frantic rhythm and based on constant internet novelties often do not internalize the development times of a video game, much longer. On the other hand there are a number of business factors that start from a lack of market research that lead to believe that followers are automatic clients, or that the demographies of their audience and their clients are the same, when they rarely are. A possible Substimation of development costs It ends up rounding what are often chronic of announced failures. There are exceptions, of course: Pewdiepie or Ninja are clear cases of influencers who have managed to get out of their digital creation frame, but for now Jordi Wild will not be able to enter that club. In Xataka | At 15 he won 400,000 euros in Fortnite tournaments and his mother took him out of school. This has been since then

His passage through the United States has been a failure

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It began to glimpse since last April the ugly things were put on. Renfe’s adventure in the United States has ended. He does it without carrying out the great project they had and confirming millionaire losses even though no train ever shot. The project. A high speed line 386 kilometers between Dallas and Houston. That was the great project that Renfe had in mind to enter the US market, a market that seemed perfect because it lacks high -speed roads among large cities. Dallas and Houston are two of the cities that generate more money in the United States So in European eyes it seemed a round business. The intention was to launch a train that reached a maximum of 386 km/Hy joined both cities in less than an hour and a half with an intermediate stop. A not so good idea. But although the business seems evident to European eyes, the thing is not so simple seen from the American perspective. To have, throughout the United States there is not a single high -speed line that connect large cities as we understand in Europe or Asia. In fact, the highest speed is reached in a line in Florida (between Orlando and Miami) that, for just 32 kilometers, is traveling to a maximum of 201 km/h. Then, the speed falls again. And although there is various projects underwayUSA It is still a desert for high speed. Bye. After more than a five years, the project has been completed, the operations of Renfe of America have completed, they point out in electionomista.es. The company had created a subsidiary in the country to take the reins of a project that, they assured, could generate 5.3 billion euros before 2042. In Aprilhowever, it was already guessed what was going to be the end of Renfe’s American adventure. So be Duffy, Secretary of Transportation, confirmed with a statement that denied the help of 63.9 million dollars that was pending to surrender (it was already approved) because “the financing of this project is a waste of taxpayers’ funds and a distraction of the main mission of Amtrak to improve their existing deficient services.” That help was key to continue advancing in the high -speed railway corridor project of Amtrak Texas that Renfe had entered fully into 2021. More and more involvement. The origin of Renfe’s landing in the United States must be sought before. In 2018the company arrives as an advisor to carry out the project, imposing itself on other companies in the contest as a trainitalia. The initial contract required Renfe’s involvement for 18 months and, subsequently, the works would begin. However, with the project at the dead point, In 2021 the conditions were extended Initials and Renfe open their subsidiary in the country to gain presence in it, positioning itself as a commercial exploiter of the line. No more public money. However, the project still needed public money for construction, which did not finish please the country’s transport department. To support the withdrawal Of the more than 60 million public funds it was stressed that the project was born with an exclusively private vocation but threatened to assume the taxpayer an expense of up to 40,000 million dollars. Now, Renfe has ended up folding its operations, reflecting in its 2024 accounts extraordinary losses of 4.5 million euros and a 100% deterioration on investments undertaken for more than a five years, they point out in electionomista.es. Photo | Renfe and Aaron Burden In Xataka | China leads high speed trains. Your plan for 2030 shows a reality: it aims to be unattainable

You are still in time to turn your failure into a viral video into Tiktok

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The Pau notesformerly known as selectivity, they are very important because they suppose the key for entry into an academic future that some students have been preparing for years. It is one of the few transgenerational events that we have left. It doesn’t matter if a completely analog generation is belonged to one that has already been born between screens: the selectivity notes mark. Although, obviously, experience adapts to new times. Exhibition of notes. Before the Internet, go to the place where the notes were and gather in front of a showcase in search of a surname was the most usual way to find out about the notes. At present, the qualifications not only arrive by mobile, but we record our reactions to raise them to the corresponding social network and expose ourselves in the infinite showcase of Tiktok or Instagram. Thus, search terms such as “Reaction Pau 2025“(or any of its variants according to Autonomous Community: ebau, Evau, Pevau, Abau or Eau) have become viral. 11 tricks to dominate Tik tok Blood, sweat and tears. The format is always the same: he or the young woman who star in the video does not know his notes, and a friend is revealed one by one, after who has examined he tries to guess the score as he believes that the exam has come out. The viewer also has two more data: THE CUTTING NOTEthat is, the one needed to access the desired race, and the high school, which will mediate with the one obtained in the PAU. Then the chaos begins. The format remembers, nothing casually, to a television contest mixture (with someone very nervous to the camera trying to guess answers and falling apart as it fails) and reality morbid. Like to suffer. Because of course, the most extreme or involuntarily comic reactions are the ones that sweep. They abound, above any other type of video, who expect extraordinary notes and HE They go disinflanding. There are lots of details that convert videos into authentic sociological experiments. They captivate me, for example, the reactions of friends who cannot avoid nerve laugh or They try to cushion the impact. And of course, there are many good grades or people who exceed expectations, although as a general rule those who have the most visualizations are the more disastrous results. The problem of the fingerprint. Some psychologists consulted by means as cursed.es They speak of a possible pernicious effect of these videos. For example, the psychologist at a Yolanda García Secondary Institute ensures that these videos are part of the “background of people born with mobile instead of pacifier.” But at the same time it is “part of a public overexposure mechanism that is used as an antidote to frustration.” @Carapene7 Reacting to the notes of the Evau 2024 #Santjordi2024 #evau #for you #physics #fyp ♬ Original sound – 😎👌🏽🤰🏽Carapene🫦✨😜 The notes hide other problems. Yes there is a detail that attracts the attention of the videos with very low notes, and that is that many of these students came from average notes of remarkable and outstanding high school. How are possible results in the PAU in which a few tenths are barely scratched above zero? It is a problem that puts on the table One of the issues that are being commented With respect to the grades in recent years: studies that celate that the outstanding of the private and the concert is deflated in selectivity rather than those of the public, which normally have more continuity in the notes between baccalaureate and selectivity. One more variable that gives a very specific background to these videos. In Xataka | The selectivity of 2025 promised to be more fair than ever: students feel that Pau is the opposite

TSMC will open a chip design center in Germany. It will not be enough to avoid the failure of Europe

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Just a few hours ago Paul de Bot, the president of the European subsidiary of TSMC, has announced that your company will build a semiconductor design center in Munich (Germany). This installation will be ready in a record time: During the third quarter of 2025. In fact, this Taiwanese integrated circuit manufacturer, The Major on the Planettrust that this installation starts its operations in just three months. The construction and tuning of a avant -garde chips factory requires investing at least four years in these processes before starting large -scale production, but the installation that TSMC will be tuned is not a factory: it is a design center. This is the reason why it is credible that may be ready in just three months. In fact, as its purpose is not to manufacture semiconductors does not need Nor lithography equipment No wafering processing machines. Paul de Bot has confirmed That this center will be dedicated to helping European customers from TSMC to design integrated high density, high performance and high efficiency circuits. These chips can be used by automobile industries, telecommunications or artificial intelligence (AI), among others. However, this project runs in parallel to the semiconductor production plant that TSMC is already building in Dresde (Germany). This factory is underway, but presumably will not start the operation until the end of 2027. This integrated circuit design center does nothing for Europe The arrival in Germany of this TSMC installation is good news, there is no doubt about that. However, his contribution to the aspirations of the old continent in the matter of chips production is irrelevant. On February 8, 2022 Ursula von der Leyen, the president of the European Commission, announced that Europe wants to be a fundamental actor in The semiconductor industryand the first step to achieve this requires manufacturing 20% ​​of the planet chips in 2030. The new TSMC Chips Design Center will not produce semiconductors, so it will not quantitatively contribute to European aspirations It is evident that in the delicate current geopolitical situation Europe needs to be ambitious if it wants to increase its relevance in the semiconductor industry. Have ASML and Intel, Globalfoundries and TSMC facilities within its borders plays in its favor. However, The speech of European leaders It seems to be focused on quantity, and is not enough. The quality understood as the capacity of a chip to deliver added value is also fundamental. The new integrated circuit design center of TSMC presumably will deliver value to European companies, but, as we have seen, it will not produce semiconductors, so it will not quantitatively contribute to the aspirations of the old continent. It is better to have it than not to have it, there is no doubt about that, but its role in the objective of which we have spoken two paragraphs above will be inconsequential. In fact, it is very unlikely that Europe achieves its purpose. We do not say it, although we share it; The European Court of Accounts holds itwhich is nothing other than “the financial guardian” of the European Union. In The report that published At the end of last April he defends that the objective of achieving a fee of 20% in the world market for integrated circuits in 2030 It seems unattainable Because Europe is very far from the rhythm of production necessary to fill its ambitions. To achieve this production capacity, it would have to be four times higher in less than five years and is far from achieving those figures at the current development speed. Image | TSMC More information | Digitimes Asia | SCMP In Xataka | We already know what the chips that will arrive until 2039 will be. The machine that will manufacture them is close

There are 2,400 Tesla Cybertruck without owner. Fix the failure is to sell them in a SO: Saudi Arabia

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Tesla expected her cybertruck to become a success of sales. Clearly, he did not calculate well what was coming. The company is in an unknown crisis. When he had managed to settle as another company of vehicles, an unexpected events are complicating his numbers. A stranger. Tesla sold less cars in 2024 that in 2023. It is not uncommon for a company to face this situation but is unpublished for Elon Musk’s company that year after year had settled in sustained growth. Although he did everything possible to improve his numbers at the end of the year, the accounts did not finish leaving. Despite this, investors pointed to an optimistic future. Despite the rejection of some of them, they had seen the Musk bet for autonomous driving And, with Donald Trump in power, the prospects were good enough for the shares to walk towards the 500 euros of value. A Batacazo. But 2025 is being a bad year for the company. Before the end of the year, investors began Adjust action prices. Then came the confirmation that Tesla did not improve numbers of the previous year. And month after month The sales of their cars have been weighed by the renewal of Tesla Model and … and we do not know to what extent because of political opinions and behavior of Elon Musk. The truth is that the company has crashed in Europe. The Tesla Model and, which was The best -selling car in the worldis missing at the moment until the arrival of his renewal. It remains to be seen how much traction it now has that the competition squeezes and seems discarded a Tesla “cheap” of $ 25,000. With name and surname. If a car is being a failure that is the Tesla Cybertruck. The company’s pick-up promised to be a success. It was supposed to accumulated hundreds of thousands of reservations And it did not seem to import that it arrived with a very marked premium and, to top it off, a reduced autonomy. At times, the car was a sales missile and became the best -selling luxury model of Tesla. But, little by little, the globe was punctuing. The multiple arrived Review callsthe videos in which He joked with his offroad capabilities and one Foundation series that seemed impossible to sell. To the point of putting the same car on the street for thousands of dollars less Thanks to remove some sheets. They are not sold. We already explained Why Tesla could have made Cybertruck a special model in its range, well built (to which the plates did not fall), produce it under minimum, generate expectation and risk very little with its proposal. However, the company wanted to believe that its gigantic Cybertruck could be a mass car. And everything indicates that their calculations have been completely wrong. In Motorpasion They collect that the company has an average 30 -day stock available. It could deliver up to 2,400 vehicles that are valued at a price of about 200 million dollars. Right now, they are completely standing waiting for a buyer. Of course, it seems that the production of 1,300 weekly units It is being more a problem than an attractive figure. Looking for solutions. Overdimensizing the demand of a car can be a serious problem for a brand. Having too stock stands out the product and generates serious cost problems when storing vehicles. In addition, he suggests that too much money has been invested in a assembly line that is not profitable. That same problem has had, for example, Stellantis that did not measure (or Tavares did not want to measure) Well your audience in the United States. That caused an excess of stock in some concessionaires that practically gave the fiat 500ethe electrical version of the utility. The decision made by Tesla is also the most obvious: to start selling its cheapest options. The company has opened a new line offering the most modest versions of the Cybertruck. It is the so -called Long Range, with greater autonomy but less benefits and a simpler suspension (springs instead of pneumatic suspension). Saudi Arabia. The other way to open market is Sell ​​your cars in Saudi Arabia. While the company eliminated the Chinese market the Tesla Model X and Model S (almost testimonial there) as a result of the increase in tariffs between the two countries, the company looks at the Middle East. The country has launched a project to fill its cargo points, as part of the plan for converts as a nation for 2030. Aware of the money available for its potential customers, Tesla has not hesitated to offer all its range in the Arab country. Actually, it is a maneuver that makes sense. Tesla can allow you to distribute your cars there and try to open a new market. Perhaps it will not be the one that generates the greatest sales volume but it is likely that you can sell your most expensive and, therefore, profitable cars there. A Tesla Cybertruck can find a very nutritious market in Saudi Arabia. Photo | Tesla and Abdulrhman Alkhnaifer In Xataka | The owners of a Tesla Cybertruck “packed” it with solar panels for $ 10,000. They won 7 kilometers of autonomy

Bob called it and ended up being a loud failure

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Microsoft turns half a century. The Redmond company has exceeded crisis, reinventions and complicated moments, but has managed to stay in the race. It could have been as a distant memory of its golden years, something similar to what comes to mind when we think of brands like Kodak either Blackberry. But it was not so. Microsoft has not only survivedbut is in one of his best moments. It is not just one of the most valuable companies on the planet (At the time of writing these lines, he occupies second place in stock capitalization), but also leads such strategic areas as cloud computing, artificial intelligence or the world of video games. We already commented a few days ago: One of the keys to its success has been its ability to adapt. The previous list has a remarkable absence: Windows. And it is not an oversight. Although it is still an important piece within the Microsoft ecosystem, He had long stopped occupying the leading role in the business. Today it is installed in more than 70 % of the world’s computers And it is difficult to find someone who does not know what it is. But a few decades ago, personal computer science was a thing of a few. The solution to humanize Windows In the mid -nineties, the presence of computers in homes remained limited. Many users signed up for courses to learn to handle an operating system, and sit for the first time in front of a PC could be a disconcerting experience. Microsoft understood that, if I wanted to expand its user base, Windows should do more accessible. And his way of trying was a curious software called “Microsoft Bob”. The program, which internally It was developed under the name “Utopia”He arrived at the stores on March 31, 1995, a few months before the launch of Windows 95. He was compatible with Windows 3.1 and later versions, and his approach was clear: converting the PC interface into a kind of virtual house, with rooms, furniture and animated characters that served as guides. When starting the program, the user was with a door. After touching and introducing the credentials, he accessed a domestic environment where he could choose between different rooms, such as a study, a living room or an office. Each room offered accesses to system tools: a calendar, a address book, a clock or educational applications. Everything was presented with a cartoon aesthetics That, although it was looking to be nice, it was perceived as excessively childish. Each space also had a digital character that guided the user. The most remembered was Rover, an animated dog who worked as an assistant, although a turtle, an elephant and other characters also appeared. Microsoft’s goal was that the experience was more enjoyable than with traditional Windows. But Bob did not finish curdling. Not only for its design, which aroused all kinds of criticism, but also for its technical demands: required a computer with at least 8 MB of RAMa considerable figure for many homes in 1995. The result was the foreseeable: few adopted it and the program was withdrawn from the market less than a year after its launch. By then, Windows 95 was now available and offered a much more intuitive experience, without decorating it with digital pets. When Bob returned without warning But its story has an unexpected turn. When Microsoft prepared the Windows XP installation CD, the team realized that there were about 30 MB of free space. What to do with them? In order not to miss them and, incidentally, hinder illegal discharges a bit, they decided to fill them with fictional data. Instead of generating random files, a developer search in the company’s historical archives, recovered the images of the original Bob disks, combined them, I encrypted them with a random written key … and used them as digital filling. The result was as ironic as unexpected: Microsoft Bob ended up hidden within millions of legal copies of Windows XP, without anyone knowing. Even so, Microsoft Bob left a certain legacy. Rover returned years later as a search assistant at Windows XP. And although Clippythe famous Office clip, was not born within this program, the idea of ​​accompanying the user with animated characters who offered on the screen was already there. For many it was a disaster. For a few, a discovery. Microsoft Bob did not succeed, but for some it was his first contact with computer science lived as a game. Some remember hours designing rooms. Others, parts of his virtual house with a view to the city. Not all Microsoft attempts have gone well. And Bob is part of that list of experiments that did not work, along with products such as ZuneWindows Vista or Windows Phone. But it also demonstrates the company’s ability to prove, make mistakes and move on. Images | Microsoft | Wikimedia Commons | Sweetcoffemug (Reddit) In Xataka | “In a year or two code editors will not exist”: four programmers explain the Vibe Coding revolution

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