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In record time since its release in theaters, one of the most resounding box office failures of the year arrives tomorrow on Prime Video

July 21, 2026 by usatoday24

‘He-Man and the Masters of the Universe’ comes to Prime Video this Wednesday, July 22, just forty-seven days after its release in theaters. The reason for arriving at streaming With such a short margin of time it is its failure at the box office: it opened with 29.4 million dollars in North America, remained at 64.6 million domestically and closed the world tour at 113.3 million, very far from recovering a budget of between 170 and 200 million dollars. The rapid arrival of films that better captured the public’s attention, such as ‘Toy Story 4’ or the surprise hits of ‘Backrooms’ and ‘Obsession’, ended up burying it. However, the film is very enjoyable and moves away from the greatest temptation that a project to adapt a toy franchise from the eighties like this one can have: making it adult and reflective. Travis Knight, director of the excellent ‘Bumblebee’, does not darken Eternia: he opts for bright colors and Jared Leto’s Skeletor who enjoys every line of the cartoon villain without taking himself too seriously. Nicholas Galitzine builds a clumsy rather than heroic He-Man, closer to a clueless kid from a family movie from the decade in which dolls were rampant than to Dolph Lundgren, and that character is what guides the entire film. Seeing her now, at home and without paying an entrance fee, is a good way to meet her again. It works better for someone who recognizes the names Roboto or Tri-Klops than for someone looking for the founding film of a new fantasy franchise, mind you. But Luckily, the film also holds up without the need for those winks.with action shot with skill and a cast that delivers performances (Idris Elba as Duncan, Camila Mendes as Teela, Alison Brie as Evil-Lyn) that are in the perfect (and not at all complacent) space between self-parody and more or less sincere emotion. It is not clear if the film will find an audience as the even better ‘Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves’ from 2023 ended up finding, but what is guaranteed is that the Mattel franchise has just definitively entered a period of hibernation that, hand in hand with another summer puncture, ‘The Mandalorian & Grogu’, leaves a very clear lesson: nostalgia millennial It is no longer enough, on its own, to sustain a blockbuster. In Xataka | If you think Nicolas Cage can’t go any further, try this strange gem that just arrived on Prime Video

Today in streaming, one of the most epic box office failures of recent decades receives a portrait worthy of its legend

July 3, 2026 by usatoday24

Mike Figgis sent an email congratulating Francis Ford Coppola for resuming, forty years after imagining it, a project called ‘Megalopolis‘, a film financing and collection apocalyptic He added a postscript half jokingly: if he felt like it, he could document the filming. Coppola accepted, and thus ‘MegaDoc‘, that Filmin premieres today. Figgis had full access to the filming, without a script or preconditions. Figgis and Coppola had known each other since the nineties, when the Briton directed Nicolas Cage, the director’s nephew, in ‘Leaving Las Vegas’. In November 2022, when filming began, ‘Megalopolis’ was the biggest unknown in American independent cinema: a science fiction fable set in a New York inspired by Catiline’s conspiracy against republican Rome, financed entirely by Coppola with more than 120 million dollars from the sale of part of his wine business There is a very interesting detail in the nature of ‘MegaDoc’. Eleanor Coppola, the director’s wife for more than sixty years, died on April 12, 2024, just a month before the premiere of ‘Megalopolis’. It was she who in 1991 directed ‘Corazones en tinieblas’, the documentary about the filming of ‘Apocalypse Now’ that became the making of in its own genre within documentaries. ‘MegaDoc’ inherits that family tradition of documenting the creative process from withinalthough this time it is a filmmaker from outside the clan who holds the camera. In ‘MegaDoc’ we will see Shia LaBeouf’s confrontations with Coppola, who even told him that he was the most difficult actor he had ever worked with. Aubrey Plaza turned Figgis almost into another character in the film, ordering her without leaving her role as the Wow Platinum presenter to follow him as if it were her personal camera. Adam Driver, the protagonist, asked not to be filmed during filming and only gave an interview at the end. The result is a documentary as eventful and as peculiar in its destiny as the film it portrays. In Xataka | Today on Netflix, the exciting third installment of one of the most viewed sagas in the history of the platform

Houston, we have a problem with Outlook. Microsoft spends millions on AI, but Artemis II does not escape the failures of its email

April 4, 2026 by usatoday24

On April 2, we experienced a historic event for humanity: the mission Artemis II It successfully took off towards the moon after more than 50 years without orbiting near the Earth’s satellite. Although the takeoff was a success, the path to get here was not without problems: it already had to delay the first date launch and also the second. Even on the official day there were problems. In the previous hours it was necessary check an anomaly in a temperature sensor of a battery abort system and also appeared another incident in the flight termination system (the safety mechanism that makes it possible to destroy the rocket if it deviates from its trajectory and becomes a threat). When the Orion spacecraft was flying almost 150,000 kilometers from Earth according to FortuneCommander Reid Wiseman encountered a mundane problem faced by any mortal with a computer and Microsoft email: an Outlook crash. The incident. The launch of Artemis II could be followed live and in that live, approximately 13 hours and 15 minutes after the broadcast began there is a fragment where the problem appears: “I see that I have two Microsoft Outlook accounts, and neither one works. If you could connect remotely and check Optimus and those two Outlook accounts, that would be great.” At first, Wiseman had issues related to the Optimus software, but then he pointed out a more trivial concern: There were two instances of Outlook running on his personal computing device. As a curiosity, the live stream to follow the takeoff still available on YouTube. Why it is important. The Artemis II mission is historic and the stream has left for posterity its first hours of flight and this anecdote that constitutes what is probably the first Microsoft technical support ticket generated from space. Beyond the joke, the episode shows that today’s space exploration and its cutting-edge technology coexist with commercial productivity software and its common failures. When an agency standardizes its entire infrastructure on a single technological ecosystem, the problems of that ecosystem also become problems of the mission. Tap to go to the post There is a support ticket from the Moon. As with any standard corporate ticket, the user first reported the incident, the technical team took over remotely, and finally closed the case. Houston accepted the request for remote access to the commander’s device, identified in records as PCD 1, and about an hour later, Outlook was back up and running. After 14 hours and 20 minutes of broadcast, someone from mission control communication said: “We managed to open Outlook. It will appear as “offline”, as expected”, as pick up Tom’s Hardware. Why they use Outlook in space. That there is Microsoft software on board is not something casual or improvised: Microsoft is a strategic partner of NASA that provides everything from productivity software to cloud data infrastructure and artificial intelligence (NASA Earth Copilot), hardware and mixed reality and Minburn Technology Group is your partner for software support and maintenance. In fact and according to NASAthe personal devices of the astronauts on the Orion spacecraft are Microsoft Surface Pro and the software they run is Commercial Off-The-Shelf, That is, standard commercial software for everyday tasks like talking to your family or managing your photos and videos. Another thing is the spacecraft and main flight systems: these are powered by specialized radiation-resistant hardware and specialized software with rigorous maintenance. The bathroom was also broken. The Outlook failure was not the only technical problem in the first hours of the flight, as can be seen in the broadcast. About two hours after launch, a malfunction light came on in the ship’s waste management system: the urine extractor fan had jammed. This component is responsible for sucking urine into a collector, avoiding the uncomfortable and unhygienic effects of microgravity. NASA confirmed shortly after the toilet problem had been solved. In Xataka | NASA had been refusing to allow its astronauts to carry iPhones for decades. For Artemis II you have made a historic decision In Xataka | The Artemis II astronauts will carry out experiments in what will be their own study models Cover | POT and Ed Hardie

117,000 will review for autonomous driving failures

September 19, 2025 by usatoday24

Xiaomi has announced a campaign that will affect 116,887 units of your electric sedan Su7 due to failures in the driving assistance system. The measure arrives six months after A fatal accident Starring this model lit the alarms on the safety of its level 2 autonomous systems. The background problem. The State Administration for China Market Regulation has determined that the SLE7 motor autopist pilot system presents “insufficient recognition capacity” and may not detect or properly alert over certain risk scenarios. This affects all vehicles made between February 2024 and August 2025. The tragedy that triggered him. Last March, three university students lost their lives in China when their Xiaomi Su7 crashed into a cement post at 97 km/h on a highway. The vehicle circulated in autonomous driving mode and caught fire after the impact, which occurred seconds after the driver recovered control after receiving an obstacle system alert. The technical solution. Xiaomi will address the problem through A free software update that will be sent via Ota (over-the-Air) to the affected vehicles. The company will notify the owners in China through text messages and their mobile application. Regulation. This withdrawal coincides with the hardening of the norms Safety for vehicles with level 2 automation in China. On Wednesday, the authorities published a draft of new security standards that will enter into force in 2027. Under current regulations, level 2 systems require that the driver keep his hands in the steering wheel at all times and pay constant attention. Change of trend. The Xiaomi measure is part of a growing tendency towards greater transparency in the Chinese automobile sector. Recently, Xpeng too He notified his clients For its P7+ model for a failure in the direction, breaking with the previous practice of avoiding call calls in the Chinese market. In the case of Xiaomi, although the campaign consists of a software update that is installed wirelessly in the owner’s car, the Chinese authorities continue to classify it as a ‘call to review’ because it affects the safety of the vehicle, it requires regulatory approval and the manufacturer has to follow a series of notification protocols. In Xataka | China is manufacturing so many cars that concessionaires already send a message to the industry: they do not want to become their warehouses

Ukraine has stolen the confidential information of the last nuclear submarine of Russia. And then he has published all his failures

August 6, 2025 by usatoday24

Two news in just a few days offered a summary of the importance of Nuclear deterrence of Russia and its need to update it. On the one hand, Moscow advertisement which will cease to respect the limitations of the treaty of nuclear forces of intermediate scope. On the other, The New York Times confirmed through satellite images that its nuclear submarine base had is damaged After an earthquake. Now Ukraine has just added another asterisk. The end to the treaty. The first news occurred two days ago. Moscow advertisement which will set aside the limitations of the treaty of nuclear forces of intermediate scope (Inf), signed in 1987 to eliminate land missiles with ranges between 500 and 5,500 kilometers and considered a milestone of the cold war. Although the pact was already broken after the United States withdrawal In 2019, Moscow maintained a unilateral moratorium that is now terminated, claiming that Washington plans to display missiles of this type in Europe and Asia. The decision also coincides with the entry into service of the Missile Orshnikcapable of carrying nuclear eyes and unfold in Belaruswhich increases fear in the West to a new arms race in which European capitals would be minutes from a Russian attack. While Medvedev launches direct warningsKremlin seeks to clarify the tone, although the definitive breakdown of the INF confirms the setback of nuclear control mechanisms and raises strategic tensions in Europe and Asia. The “touched” nuclear base. We count the fear And finally it has been confirmed. The earthquake that made the Russian nation tremble caused damage to the strategic base of Nuclear Submarines of Rybachiy, in the Kamchatka Peninsula, according to planet labs satellite images cited By The New York Times. The photos show that a section of a floating dock He got rid of of its anchor, although there are no major damage to the facilities. The Rybachiy base, vital for the Russian nuclear fleet in the Pacific, thus maintains its operation despite the damage located in its infrastructure. Before and after earthquakes in nuclear infrastructure Filtration. A few hours ago, Ukrainian military intelligence (Hur) has announced obtaining internal documents classified from the K-55 Knyaz Pozharskythe most more modern Russian nuclear nuclear submarine in the Borei-A classessential piece of the Kremlin nuclear triad. This ship, officially incorporated to the northern fleet On July 24, 2025 at a ceremony chaired by Putin, he is armed with 16 intercontinental missiles R-30 Bulava-30each capable of carrying up to ten nuclear eyelets. According to kyivthe material obtained includes complete lists of the crew with details of functions, physical preparation and qualifications, combat manuals, schemes of survival systems, organizational structure, internal regulations for life on board, protocols for evacuation and transfer of injuries, as well as Technical documents on failed communication equipment and engineering records. It would even have secured an excerpt from the daily service book, which regulates routine tasks and submarine combat operations. Part of the classified documents filtered The failures. The most surprising thing about the case is that Filtration now published represents a significant coup for the operational security Russian, as it offers Ukraine and its allies critical information on technical vulnerabilities not only of Knyaz Pozharskybut of the entire series of borei-a submarines, considered the more modern nucleus of Moscow nuclear deterrence. These data, according to The intelligence of Ukrainethey will allow identify From design limitations to safety protocols and resistance capabilities, eroding, in addition, the perception of invulnerability that Russia tries to project with its strategic fleet. Hur itself He stressed That this intelligence dismantles the “imperial myth” on the strength of the Russian nuclear arsenal, by exposing the fragilities of systems that Kremlin presents as unwavering. Part of the classified documents filtered The naval context in the war. Plus: the revelation arrives at a time when the Russian navy has suffered a palpable deterioration of its prestige and effectiveness, especially In the Black Seawhere the fleet has lost several key ships at the hands of Ukrainian naval drones and Western missiles. He sinking of the landing ship Caesar Kunikov, of the Patrol Sergei Kotov and of the Ivanovets Corvetteamong others, has weakened an instrument that until 2022 was perceived as dominant in the region. The NATO careMeanwhile, it moves towards the Arctic and North Atlanticwhere Russian underwater activities are closely monitored and have motivated the display of new forces Maritime Allied. In this context, know the specifications and vulnerabilities of the Borei-A class, which constitutes the strategic arm of the northern fleet in Gadzhievo, results from An incalculable value to calibrate nuclear balance and reinforce allied deterrence. The information in the modern war. If you want also, the Hur operation It is more than a espionage success: it symbolizes how, in the war of the 21st century, information can have both power as a precision missile. Ukraine, confronted with an adversary with palpable material, converts intelligence into An asymmetric weapon able to undress the vulnerability of the jewel of the Russian strategic fleet. On the other sidewalk, the lesson for Moscow seems clear: not even its nuclear submarines, designed to guarantee the survival of the State in case of total war, are immune, not only Natural disastersbut to Information War. Image | Ukrainian intelligencePlanet Labs In Xataka | It is not that Russia does not find the F-16 of Ukraine, is that kyiv has discovered the perfect hiding place for the future of wars In Xataka | A new challenge has arrived to Ukraine: it measures 4 meters, it has 75 kilos of explosives and uses AI to hit Russia

He has given so many failures that he has sued the brand

June 19, 2025 by usatoday24

Aston Martin has in its catalog one of the Few hyper -sports with which you can quietly walk its 1,155 hp through the low -emission areas of the country Thanks to the Eco Tag which provides you with an electric motor. Such and as they comment in Motorpasionthe nuance is that it is a car that costs more than three million euros, so for most mortals and motor lovers it becomes an unattainable dream. For some who could pay their price, the dream has become a nightmare that was about to cost his life. A jewel with surprise According to published The German newspaper Handelsblatta wealthy German motor fan paid three million euros in 2022 for one of the 150 units of Aston Martin Valkyrie that the British firm manufactured. In the words of its owner, and after traveling only 441 kilometers with him “I’m fed up with Aston Martin.” The problems of this owner with the Valkyrie began from the first kilometers, when a Electrical failure notice. It is not the first time that this model records that ruling that, in fact, has been plagued by technical problems since even Before putting on sale. In case the fault of a newly released car It was little misfortunethe car suffered damage during transport to the workshop that was going to check that breakdown. Once repaired, the car returned to a failure in the Rocket Locker system, which is responsible for maintaining the constant pressure in the hydraulic system of the suspension of the car, preventing it from sinking when it remains inactive for a long time. The user affirms that the system failed and the car simply sank Staying without suspension. Again, the user had no choice but to regret the three million that the car had cost him, ensuring that Valkyrie had more defects “than all my other cars together.” The drop that filled the glass and almost ends with his life However, the final ruling arrived in 2024, when the owner was about to be rammed by an ambulance that it was at full speed and with the lit mermaids: the noise that the huge engine generates its 6.5 -liter atmospheric engine developed by Cosworth inside the cabin prevented him Hear the siren of the ambulance. As the owner of the Valkyrie reported, “only thanks to the rapid reaction and skill at the wheel of the ambulance driver a fatal accident was avoided.” The acoustic insulation system of the Aston Martin Hyperdeportivo It is practically non -existent, so the manufactured has devised a system of headphones that connect with external microphones. These headphones do the double function of isolate from rumble of the 12 -cylinder monster that is installed after the granting, and reproduces the sounds that capture the external microphones. The system simply did not work and the owner of the Valkyrie did not warn the presence of the ambulance until literally had it. Given such a succession of failures, Aston Martin’s refusal to recognize them as such and try to put a solution, the millionaire chose to sue the brand and request the revocation of the purchase, so that the brand owed Buy the car again. Given the request of the owner’s lawyer, the brand just claimed that the Valkyrie are very complex vehicles that require special service and a very careful handling, indicating that it had been delivered as an “impeccable vehicle.” From Aston Martin they indicated that, in the event that the owner could return the car, he was They would be discounted about 64,000 euros as compensation for the 441 km he had traveled. That is about 145 euros for each kilometer traveled. Legal jurisdiction problems The last problem that the owner of the Valkyrie has encountered is not mechanical, but administrative. His lawyer has initiated his legal claim by filing a lawsuit in a Aquothers Court, in Germany. However, from Aston Martin they claim that the correct form is to do it through a court in the United Kingdom, since it was in that country where the purchase was made and one of the Purchase contract clauses. The owner’s lawyer, on the other hand, argues that as a private European consumer, the consumption regulations allow him to pursue the demand in his place of residence, regardless of the country in which the purchase of the car was made. At the moment, and after almost Three years chaining technical failuresthe hypercoche dreamed by many continues to parked in the garage of its owner that does not conduct it from its incident with the ambulance. You have to be careful what you want. In Xataka | 35% of Monaco’s inhabitants are millionaires. The car of its car is a Porsche 911 race of 150,000 euros Image | Aston Martin

The world’s most popular video platform is giving failures (updated)

June 7, 2025 by usatoday24

Update 06/06/2025 21:08: The video platform has re -operated normally If you were planning to finish the week watching videos in YouTube And you are not getting it, calm: the problem is not on your computer or in your Internet connection. The world’s most popular video platform is experiencing failures at the moment, with several users reporting errors to access or reproduce content. In our tests from Spain, trying to enter YouTube.comthe page loads partially but shows no miniatures or content. The only thing that appears is the usual skeleton of the interface: gray blocks where videos should go, without images, without titles and without descriptive text. It is not a punctual failure: the interface directly does not work. Reports about YouTube failures too They are appearing in Downdetectora platform that includes incidents in digital services from the alerts of the users themselves. According to visible data at this time, the peak of problems began few minutes before 20:00 (Spanish peninsular time), with more than 5,000 notifications in a very short time. For now, the origin of the failures that are affecting YouTube is unknown. Neither the platform itself nor its parent company, Google (owned by Alphabet), have offered explanations about what happened nor have any official statement issued. There is also no technical information that allows us to understand whether it is a specific problem on servers or a global fall of the system. At the time of publishing this article, The official YouTube account in X (formerly Twitter) has not done No mention to the problems that are affecting the service. The last message posted dates back approximately 24 hours. The falls of this type may be due to multiple factors: from errors on the servers of the platform itself to service denial (DDOS) attacks or failures in fundamental third party services for the operation of the Internet, such as the content distribution network suppliers (CDN) or DNS. In Xataka | There are thousands of people hooked to True Crime documentaries on YouTube. The only problem is that they are generated by AI

The Big Tech have always compensated their great failures by copying the successes of others. And with AI are already doing it

June 5, 2025 by usatoday24

Good artists copy, The greats stealSteve Jobs or Pablo Picasso said. What they did not say is that the best artists are probably not done by one thing or the other: directly Buy “Works” They end up seeing how their own. We are continually seeing it in the technological field, and the last example is what is happening in the world of AI. I’m going to buy a company. Google launched its own YouTube before YouTube. Three weeks before, in fact. On January 25, 2005, he announced the launch of Google Video, while YouTube would launch on February 14. We already know how the story ended: YouTube swept while Google Video barely managed to curdle. What did Google? Buy YouTube to solve the problem. Problem solved with a talonario coup. Facebook did something similar with Instagram. The company created by Mark Zuckerberg saw the wolf’s ears, so he preferred Buy your competitive potentialwhich effectively became an absolute success and is now an integral part of its ecosystem. Good artists copy. We have seen it many times: the Big Tech copy ideas as if there were no tomorrow. Facebook and Instagram did it with the Snapchat Storiesor the reels Copied from Tiktokand there are many other examples. There are times to copy works, but there are others in which those attempts end up in A true disaster. The innovator dilemma. The obvious conclusion of all these movements is already known: the Big Tech do not want any other company to end up stealing their wallet. If someone begins to shade, they go for him, it will not be that they end up as Blackberry or Nokiathat seemed immortal and now they are just a minimum expression of what they were. All great technological ones know well about the Innovative dilemmaand none wants to be part of that group of companies that let another climb to Chepa. Openai careful. The current situation is a reflection of that reality. It is happening in the world of artificial intelligence. Openai became from the launch of Chatgpt in the new great star of the technological panorama. Its excessive growth He quickly warned to almost all the great technological (but Not all), who launched ally with her or to compete directly with analogous platforms. But in addition to the Big Tech, they would compete, so many others did. And absolutely all these startups are in danger, because the Big Tech will not allow the “little ones” to steal their wallet. Letter programming agents. We have seen the last example of this phenomenon with the agricultural platforms of AI to program. Cursor was a discovery For programmers, and unleashed fever for these tools. In recent weeks, we have seen how one of its competitors, Windsurf, has been bought by Openaiwho does not happy with that also took out his own programming tool, Codex. But it is that cursor and other startups such as Devin Or replicit ghostwriter they have it complicated, because Anthropic (Claude Code), Google (Jules), Microsoft (Github co -ilot) or Amazon (Codewhisperer). Concentration in sight. This variety of options in that specific field of AI extends to many other areas: there are dozens of options to create images with AI, and the same if what we are looking for is to create music or even video. And the same for tools that transcribe audio, which make content summaries or that help in specific tasks of other types. The problem of all of them is that if one of those ideas is popularized, the Big Tech go to 1) Copy it or 2) If that doesn’t work, buy it. Except for exceptional cases, it is normal for the market to continue to dominate by a small group of large companies, leaving in the background very distant the startups that survive. Image | Techcrunch | Anthony Quintano In Xataka | They left their work in a great multinational to jump to a startup: between security, posture and personal fulfillment

Spain has fought the fight against gender violence. And it is translating into mortal failures

May 10, 2025 by usatoday24

A woman named Lina went to the police last January. His ex -part Viogén. This system, based on an algorithm, determined that Lina was a “medium” risk person. Three weeks later it was allegedly murdered For your partner. It is not the first time that something like this happens, and shows that we have a serious problem with our potential dependence on algorithms. The origin of Viogén. The Interior Ministry development In 2007 the Viogén system (integral monitoring in cases of gender violence). Among its objectives was to make a risk prediction and, depending on that prediction, monitoring and protection of the victims. How it works. The system is based on the collection and analysis from various sources such as police complaints, protection orders or criminal record. In the complaint, for example, a series of questions about the episode of the aggression, the situation of the victim, the children, the aggressor’s profile or the aggravating vulnerability, such as economic dependence are asked. Risk levels. From that evaluation one of the four levels of risk is assigned to each case (1 – low, 2 – medium, 3 – high, 4 – extreme). Each of them entails specific measures that may include from the allocation of telecare devices to remote orders. At the extreme risk, women have 24 -hour police surveillance. Viogén 2. The system has evolved since its creation and in recent months its second version has been implemented, Viogén 2. As explained in article 14the algorithm was updated with novelties such as eliminating the unreissented risk and hindering the inactivation of open cases. Thus, a new supervised inactivation modality appears that sets police control mechanisms for a period of six months extendable to one year. That makes it possible to monitor cases in which police experts have not appreciated the existence of risk for women or this is low. Zero protocol. There are also modifications that will allow the victim to request it in a “voluntary, manifest and repeated” way to inactivate cases of unattended risk, low or medium. Even so, the so -called “zero protocol” designed to minimize the risk of victims who express their desire not to denounce. According to the Macro -New Equalitythe vast majority of victims do not report, and therefore also protect them: institutions only have knowledge of 21.7% of cases according to said survey. Tragedies everywhere. The problem is that the system is not entirely effective. The alleged murder of Lina is the last example of the limited reliability of Viogén. In October 2024 a 56 -year -old woman She was killed Despite having asked for help even twice. Before, in 2024, another woman was killed by her partner and her It was also part of the Viogén system. The algorithm seems to minimize the risk. In the case of Lina, for example, the Viogén system allocated the “medium” risk for it, and that seems to happen on more occasions. In September 2024, 96,644 women were within the Viogén systembut only 12 of them were considered extreme risk, 0.01% of the total. Both the Minister of Equality, Ana Redondo, and the Minister of Interior, Fernando Grande-Marlaska, They minimize errors Recognizing that “the model is not infallible, but saves many lives.” New alarm against AI and algorithms. In recent times we are seeing how there are more and more cases in which excessive confidence is granted to algorithms on especially sensitive issues used in administrations and public institutions. The AI does not stop making mistake. It happened with the Veripol system using AI to detect false complaints: His real reliability was very debatable. Something before, in March, we lived the Ábalos Case scandal in which an AI used to transcribe the statements of witnesses and defendants made mistakes and ended up turning some paragraphs into a gallimatisms. The AI system for facial recognition itself that is being used for example In video surveillance cameras in Madrid He has done too Jump alarms in privacy. In the United Kingdom an AI was used to predict crimes to the minority report, and Its results were unfortunate. Attempts to apply AI in judicial processes and police They have also generated worrying conclusions. Lack of transparency. These systems are usually also criticized for their lack of transparency. Veripol is a good example, but we had others. In 2024 we talked about the Bosco system, used by electricity companies to decide who and who cannot accept the social bonus for aid to the light invoice. The Government He refused to share the source code claiming reasons for public security and national defense. It is not a problem only from Spain: there is an algorithm that suggests to the US judges what convictions imposebut its code is a secret, for example. In such delicate issues, the lack of transparency on the functioning of these algorithms is especially worrying. There were no agencies for this? In 2021 the creation of A Spanish Agency for Artificial Intelligence Supervision (Aesia). It was apparently centered to monitor compliance with the Digital Services Law (DSA) on platforms such as great social networks, and in fact in 2022 Sevilla was chosen To house the first European Center for Algorithmic Transparency (Ecat). What about Aesia. More recently we have seen how AESIA finally wants to take shape with Its coruña headquarters and start operating in 2025 to theoretically focus on the application of the EU AI Law. Its objective is theoretically to carry out “measures for the minimization of significant risks on the safety and health of people, as well as their fundamental rights, which can be derived from the use of AI systems.” Both the case of Viogén and Veripol’s or what happened in the ‘Abalos Case’ are precisely likely to enter that area, and it remains to be seen if the activity of this agency manages to help both the algorithms used as well as its application are optimal. Image | James Harrison | National Police In Xataka | We live a concentration crisis. Experts … Read more

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