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Spain and France warned of a failure in Europe’s drone wall. Now the plan includes lasers and civilians with rifles

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The drone raids Russians on the european airspace have turned the sky of the continent into a new frontier of hybrid warfare. In a few weeks, these devices have forced the closure of airports, putting the air forces on alert from NATO and reopened a debate that Europe thought distant: how to defend yourself of a cheap, difficult to track and increasingly sophisticated enemy. Then we heard the idea for the first time of the “drone wall”and now it’s starting to take an unexpected shape. The invisible threat. The incidents in PolandDenmark and Germany, where drones of unknown origin flew over military bases and civilian areas before disappearing, have accelerated the creation of an unprecedented defense device. Allies seek to protect the population and its critical infrastructure while balance the answer immediate with the development of a long-term architecture. This is how the idea of ​​raising an antidrone walla technological network that combines sensors, radars, jammers and low-cost weapons to detect, intercept and neutralize threats in a matter of seconds. The birth of the wall. The concept emerged many months ago, inspired by the lessons of Ukraine and the evidence that European armies They lacked adequate systems to counter the proliferation of drones. The Baltic countries, together with Poland and Finland, presented the initial proposal to the European Commission: a technological wall on NATO’s eastern flank, from the Baltic to the Black Sea, financed with border security funds and intended to monitor the skies against possible Russian incursions. But the wave of drones that crossed Polish airspace last September changed the scale of the project. Ursula von der Leyen proclaimed the need for a “wall” to protect all of Europe. What began as a regional idea became the embryo of a continental air defense network against unmanned systems, the so-called European Drone Defense Initiativeincluded in the new military readiness roadmap that the Commission will present this fall. Europe accelerates. Thus, while politics was debated over budgets and powers, the armies acted. Denmark installed Doppler radars in Copenhagen and at its base in Skrydstruphome of its F-16 and F-35, to detect suspicious movements. Sweden announced a investment of 370 million of dollars in interceptors, jammers and frequency sensors. Germany passed a law which allows police to shoot down drones that pose an imminent threat, and the United Kingdom deployed spy planes on twelve-hour missions over the Russian border. Defense manufacturers quickly joined the effort: Saab presented its Nimbrix missiledesigned specifically to take down swarms of drones, and the loke systema modular radar, machine gun and electronic warfare set created in just three months to respond quickly to the threat. And in an unexpected turn of events, the Danes have gone further than anyone else: they even accelerated the instructor training military with shotguns to shoot down drones at close range, an unusual measure that reflects the urgency with which Europe is trying to close a critical technological gap. You have to expand. The initial enthusiasm for the anti-drone wall soon found a political problem: Western and southern Europe felt excluded from an initiative that concentrated resources in the East. Countries like Spain, France or Italy they detected a problem and they warned that the threats are not limited to the Russian front, since drones can operate from any point in the territory. The Commission took note and proposed expand the plantransforming the “wall” into a pan-European network of sensors, jammers and weapons integrated under the same coordination framework. Defense Commissioner Andrius Kubilius admitted that the EU’s current capabilities are “very limited” and that it will be necessary to resort to Ukrainian experience, accumulated after almost four years of daily fighting against Russian swarms. The remakerenamed the European Drone Defense Initiative, seeks total coverage and proposes a double challenge: demonstrate that the Union can assume a real operational role in defense (traditionally the responsibility of States and NATO) and achieve consensus among twenty-seven countries with very different military priorities. Obstacles of a wall. But there are more obstacles. I told it in an extensive report this morning Reuters. The project faces a complex internal battle over who should lead it. Small and Eastern nations prefer that the Commission centralize coordination, while France and Germany (accustomed to directly managing their arms programs) they refuse to give in leadership. Berlin and Paris also fear that the Commission will end up assuming powers that traditionally belong to national sovereignty. At the same time, experts warn that the idea of ​​a wall can generate a false sense of security: No network, no matter how advanced, can guarantee the downing of all drones. The technical difficulties they are huge: Connecting radars, acoustic sensors, optical systems, interceptors and artificial intelligence software from different countries into a single mesh will require years of testing and billion-dollar investments. The challenge is to achieve a defense staggered and adaptable to a type of threat in constant mutation, where each enemy innovation requires an immediate response. Lessons from Ukraine. It we have counted other times. The war in Ukraine has taught Europeans a costly lesson: you cannot shoot down a 10,000 euro drone with a missile that costs a million. The sustainability of the combat depends on intermediate solutionsfrom interceptor drones that collide with enemies to automatic cannons and low-power laser systems. Rheinmetall, the German giant, defends the use of artillery as a more profitable option and has already received orders from Denmark, Hungary and Austria for its Skyranger mobile system. Emerging companies from the Baltic and Germany, such as Marduk Technologies or Alpine Eagle, have presented your own schemes multi-layer defensewhile Ukraine continues to serve as a testing ground: its operators adjust the speed and maneuverability of the interceptors almost in real time to face increasingly faster Russian versions. This constant evolution turns anti-drone defense into a living disciplineof countermeasure and countermeasure, where human experience and AI must coexist. The utopia of safe heaven. If you will, the future of the alleged European anti-drone wall depends now on three factors: … Read more

He is preparing for possible failure in other countries

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Last week he gave us one of the most relevant news of summer: the US government I was negotiating with Intel The possibility of acquiring a 10% participation in the company. Most of the decisions made by administration since Donald Trump returned to the White House On January 20, it pursues a single objective: the American semiconductor industry must be strengthened and independent. Intel is the biggest manufacturer of US chips, so allowing its fall is not an option for the government. This precept has triggered the end we could foresee: as we told you yesterday, finally USA has bought 10% of Intel To save her from burning. The US administration has entered the shareholders, but has promised to have no decision -making power. A priori seems great news for this company, but it might not be so favorable. Intel herself has recognized it a few hours ago. Your sales abroad and access to future grants are in danger Lip-bu Tan, the general director of Intel, secure in a video Published by the US Department of Commerce that the entry into the shareholders of the Government Company is positive: “I do not need the subsidy, but I trust that the US government will finally be our shareholder.” This executive made this statement before closing the agreement with the Administration, but just a few hours after formalizing this Intel treatment recognized, as they have collected Reuters and CNBCthat government entry into the company can harm your business abroad and limit access to future government subsidies. The US market is very important for Intel, but the international is much more. In 2024 76% of your income proceeded from Sales outside the USand curiously, China contributed nothing less than 29% of its total income. And it is that of the 53,100 million dollars that this company entered last year no less than 15,400 million arrived from China. These figures reflect very clearly how important the country led by Xi Jinping for Intel is. And also how sensitive it is to the geopolitical context. During the fiscal year of 2024, 29% of Intel’s billing came from China In fact, SANCTIONS TO CHINA That the US government has deployed during the last three years have prevented this veteran company from selling its most advanced chips to its Chinese clients. Nvidia, AMD, Broadcom or Qualcomm has happened to them, but Intel is at a very delicate moment. Of the economic crisis facing We have spoken in depth In other articles. And, in addition, it can be aggravated by the commercial war that the US and China is currently. Chinese chip designers and manufacturers are capable of supply your own market with Mature chips that appliance manufacturers, telecommunications or cars equipment need, among other industries. However, many users, research centers and universities in China continue to use software for X86 and X86-64 processors, so at the moment they cannot do without the CPUs designed to execute it. Intel is currently benefiting from this need. And it is that China is promoting the demand for its oldest microprocessors for personal computers and servers. The US government entry into the company’s shareholders can degrade the confidence that both China and other countries in Intel products have, which in practice would trigger that their sales abroad come out. And, as we have seen, they are a fundamental pillar for this company. This is precisely what Intel has anticipated its investors in anticipation of a possible varapalo in its international business. Image | Intel More information | Reuters | CNBC In Xataka | Intel has confirmed that the 20A node will be skipped to reduce expenses. The 18A node will enter production in 2025

China was isolated from one of the key arteries of the Internet for an hour. It is not clear if it was an essay or a failure

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On the Internet there are falls that are noticed. And then there is what happened in China. For a whole hour, one of the main road traffic with the outside stopped working without explanation. It was not a total blackout, but a cut that became visible in many parts: applications that were halfway, websites that did not respond, services that failed right in the border crossing. The ruling did not fit with the typical local fall or with a problem of a single operator. It lasted 74 minutes, crossed networks and left behind an awkward silence. What fell was not all the Internet, but a concrete and widely used part: the channel that allows encrypted connections to function safely. According to GFW Reportbetween 00:34 and 01:48 of August 20, Beijing time (UTC+8), a generalized blockade was recorded in the Port 443which is the one that uses the majority of traffic HTTPS. The effect was broad and sustained, but did not affect other channels. The most striking thing is that, until now, no one has explained what caused that cut or why it happened in that strip. The technical analysis points to a very concrete pattern. Every time a connection tried to settle in that port, special packages – the RST+ACK – appeared that act as a closing order. They are the digital equivalent to hang the phone before someone attends. These packages were not sent by mistake: they were being injected into large quantities just at the key moment of the exchange between client and server. According to the specialists, this alteration did not fit with a fall due to congestion and affected both connections that came out of China and to those trying to enter. Despite the serious cut, not everything stopped working. Internal connections within China were still active, and other ports, such as 80 – for non -encrypted traffic – or 22, intended for remote connections, showed no block signs. The problem was focused on port 443. That explains why some services could continue to work while others became inaccessible: it was not a total disconnection, but a very selective interruption of the encryption step that crosses the digital border of the country. There are no public reports indicating that platforms such as WechatBaidu or Weibo suffered a generalized fall in that strip; Its main infrastructure is mostly within the country and does not depend on the international crossing for basic functions. But many Chinese apps incorporate components that depend on Servers outside of China-action, mini-programs, external APIS or cloud functions-and those calls could fail when the encrypted step was blocked. There are no public reports that indicate that platforms such as Wechat, Baidu or Weibo suffered a general fall in that strip The impact was more noticeable in international services. According to The Registerpart of the connections of foreign services – including some functions of Apple or Tesla – could be interrupted for users in China during the blockade window. Other international services that depend on HTTPS, such as certain CDNS or VPN connections that use TCP/443. In summary: the internal network was not broken, the encrypted channel was cut out and that was enough to leave many out. One of the most relevant clues is precisely that technical footprint. Each system that filters or interrupts connections leaves a trail –a fingerprint– Recognizable for the order of the packages, the TTL or the TCP window size. In this case, these values ​​differ from the previous documents, so the researchers propose two hypotheses: a new equipment deployed for tests or a known team that was in an anomalous or poorly configured state. The conclusions remain in condition until there are more data. Traffic returned to normal and there were no visible consequences on a large scale.But the cut was real, it was documented and left an unknown in the air. There were no officials or official explanations. In any case, the great firewall is still there, functioning as always, and with an intervention capacity that this time was recorded. Images | Leon Seibert | Xataka with Gemini 2.5 In Xataka | To have a rather mediocre AI it has been necessary to loot all the internet content. And Reddit has said enough

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

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