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Just a few hours ago Pavel Durov, CEO and founder of Telegram, he reported through his channel that Putin’s government had blocked access to Telegram by Russian citizens. Today that limitation has gone one step further with the blocking of WhatsApp and other Meta apps such as Instagram or Facebook. Context. In Russia there is an organization called Roskomnadzor, aka Russian Telecommunications Supervision Agency. It’s the Russian regulator, in a nutshell. Just a day ago, Roskomnadzor announced restrictions on Telegram alleging that it was not applying Russian law, that “no real measure is applied to combat fraud and the use of messaging for criminal and terrorist purposes.” WHATSAPP Tricks and tips to HIDE YOURSELF TO THE MAXIMUM and maintain your PRIVACY Better, much better, Max. In Russia there are two predominant messaging apps: Telegram and WhatsApp, but from Moscow they have been promoting Max for some time. Since the summer of last year, all mobile phones and tablets sold in the country must have it pre-installed. This app has been developed by VKontakte, the Russian Facebook, whose control falls de facto to the Russian government. Screenshot of Max’s landing page | Image: Xataka Max integrates with government services and centralizes communications through a platform controlled by the Kremlin. Let’s think about a Russian WeChat. The excuse is the protection of citizens’ data, the complaint is that they seek to limit digital freedoms and monitor the activity of citizens. And now, WhatsApp. With its pluses and minuses, WhatsApp is a fairly secure and robust app that, at least, is end-to-end encrypted. That does not fit with the Kremlin’s mission to control the communications of Russian citizens. WhatsApp has at least 100 million users, or rather, it had, because during the evening yesterday the Russian authorities eliminated it from the app directory maintained by Roskomnadzor. In short, Moscow has deleted WhatsApp and other Meta apps from the Russian Internet. WhatsApp has been blocked, while Instagram and Facebook have been declared extremist and are only accessible via VPN, they point out from Financial Times. The YouTube experience has also been downgraded, although it is unclear whether it will be blocked entirely or not. WhatsApp, for its part, has issued a statement in X ensuring that “the Russian government tried to completely block WhatsApp to force people to use a state surveillance application. Trying to isolate more than 100 million users from private and secure communication is a setback and can only reduce the security of Russian citizens. We continue to do everything we can to keep users connected.” The problem. Although from the point of view of the Russian government it makes sense to promote Max, the truth is that blocking Telegram and WhatsApp means disconnecting the population. Everyone, including those on the front lines and civilians who use the app to find out about attacks, suffer from war. The blockade, however, was evidently going to happen. An increase in control. Russia has been promoting a campaign against foreign courier services for four years, accusing Telegram from being used by Ukraine to recruit agents and organize attacks, without going any further. Since last year the government has been reducing network speed when using WhatsApp, making its use more frustrating and forcing Max into exile. Another of the obligations imposed by Russia directly affects Apple, which since September 1 You have to pre-install RuStorethe Russian app store, on all the company’s devices. Until that day, it was only required on Android devices. Cover image | Dimitri Karastelev In Xataka | When Europe launched its satellites decades ago it did so without encryption. Now he just discovered that someone else knew: Russia

AI already generates photos indistinguishable from reality, so people are using it to collect fake returns

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The photo on the left was taken by me on my bathroom counter, the second is the result of asking Nano Banana to simulate that it had been hit during transport. If it weren’t for the Gemini logo in the lower right corner (which can be removed very easily), it would pass perfectly for a real photo. Online stores have a problem. what’s happening. There is an increasingly common trend in the world of online sales. Some customers are taking advantage of imaging models like Nano Banana to request product returns. Is what this person did: He ordered a carton of eggs from a fast home delivery service. One of the 24 eggs was broken. He took a photo and asked Gemini to add more broken eggs. He sent it to customer service and voilà: return completed. Why is it important. The images are no longer proof of anything, we saw it with the first images generated with Nano Banana Pro that went viral, and we are going to have to learn to live with it. Not only will we doubt absolutely every image we see, it also means that anything that could be verified with images may now be false. There are many more scenarios: cheat on your boss telling you that you had an accident on the way to work, exaggerating the damages to your insurance company, lying to your partner… China has the advantage. They count in South China Morning Post that the trend of deceiving online sales companies with AI is a trend that is spreading like wildfire. During the pass 11.11 celebrationseveral stores received images of customers asking for a refund using AI-generated images, such as a rusty electric toothbrush, a frayed item of clothing, or a broken ceramic mug. There is a case that has been echoed Wiredin which a customer who bought live crabs demanded a refund because many had arrived dead. To prove it, he sent images and even videos, but the sellers noticed that the video was not real because there were crabs with more legs. The problem with these detected cases is that the images were not credible, but that makes us think of all the more subtle images that will be considered good. There are more cases. China has the largest online trading systemso it makes sense that more cases have been detected, but it is not a trend exclusive to one country. The egg case that we mentioned above occurred in India and cases have also been detected in the United States. According to the fraud detection firm Forterthe use of AI images for this type of deception has increased by 15% by 2025, coinciding with the arrival of more capable imaging models. With Nano Banana Pro it looks like the trend is going to give a significant boost. Returns without return. Obviously, this technique cannot be used with just any product. There are cases in which stores refund our money without it being necessary for us to return the product. It can be applied in the case of perishable, fragile products and, in general, low-value products. If the images are no longer proof, they will have to change the strategy. Sending us a broken bottle of shampoo, I don’t know if it would be the best option, but they could force that the photos sent can only be taken from the app itself and not upload the ones we have in the camera roll. Image | Amparo Babiloni, Xataka In Xataka | FACUA believes that a lot of V16 beacons “approved by the DGT” are not legal. And there’s a way to sum it up: fraud.

How to watch YouTube without ads and in the background without paying for YouTube Premium or installing fake apps

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Let’s tell you How can you watch YouTube without ads on your mobile or computerand even with the option to watch the videos in the background. These are features available to paying users on YouTube Premiumbut we are going to tell you how to do it without paying. We are going to do this using third-party apps, but without resorting to fake applications or those that are a modified YouTube and that expose you to privacy dangers. Nor are they the apps to listen to music on YouTube as if it were Spotify. Some browsers will help you with this There are three key functions that YouTube Premium offers you, which is to watch videos without ads, listen to their audio in the background, or even use the mode Qicture-in-Picture with which to watch videos in a floating window while you are using another application. This is something you can do with other paid apps. The trick is use some specific browsers instead of Chrome or Safari. They are perfectly normal, safe and legal browsers, so you don’t need to go around installing modified versions of YouTube that are going to become a problem for your privacy. There are three very popular browsers that you can use for this, which are Brave, Firefox and Vivaldithe latter with the extra of being a European alternative. You can find these browsers both in the official application store of your mobile phone, and you can also download them to your computer. Brave is the best option for mobileas it allows you to use PiP mode to have the video play in an overlay window while you do other things. Vivaldi, on the other hand, only removes the ads, which is no small feat either. Just remember, you have to use YouTube from the browsernot from the app, entering m.youtube.com. For background playback With Brave, you’ll need to turn it on in the app’s settings. For this you will have to enter the configuration, and in the section Multimedia. Here activate background playback. For the computer any of the three options are goodsince they will allow you to watch YouTube without ads. This is due to the internal blockers they have. In Xataka Basics | How to use Gemini to summarize YouTube videos or ask questions about their content on Android

We already have fake GTA VI videos circulating on the internet and made with AI. The implications are more serious than it seems

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The strange thing is not that it happened. The strange thing is that it hasn’t happened before: the news that we would have to wait a full year (and not the few months that were planned) to enjoy ‘GTA VI‘ fell like a bucket of cold water on the fans. And after all the pertinent guesses, came the inevitable string of fake trailers made with AI. Despair. The desire for the most anticipated game in recent years has resulted in fake trailers, a subgenre that has always existed, but since the appearance of AI is reaching spectacular levels of verisimilitude. The channel specialized in this type of content Teaser Universe published a fake “final trailer” for the game that It already exceeds 600,000 viewsand which was followed by an additional one that had less impact. With the complicity of Google. As Kotaku tells itthe merit of the scope is not only the verisimilitude of the video (a trained eye can detect that That trailer for ‘Avengers: Doomsday’ is fakebut with digital video game content and animated images things get complicated), but from Google. The search engine spread the video as if it were official Rockstar Games content, although everything was done with AI, as its own creator recognized. In this way (remember that we are not just talking about the Google search engine, but about YouTube’s own algorithm, which also recommends it), what should be an anecdote becomes a viral phenomenon… and disinformative. Made to confuse. As much as the video includes in its description that it is made with AI, there are other elements of it that are somewhat more confusing. For example, the title “Grand Theft Auto VI – Final Trailer (2026) Rockstar Games”, a name calculated to be confused with official material. He timing It was also intentionally confusing: the video circulated just after the announcement of the postponement of ‘GTA VI’ until November 2026, a time when players were willing to consume any content linked to ‘GTA’, although in places such as the comments of the video itself The anger at the deception was evident. The false button of the twerk. It is just one more example of how easy it is to manipulate algorithms and search engines using AI, and not the first related to ‘GTA VI’. This summer, YouTuber Jeffrey Phillips launched a deliberate disinformation campaign publishing on Reddit and TikTok that the Rockstar game would incorporate a button to do twerking. Phillips even created a fraudulent subreddit, r/TrueFactsOnlyz, whose description would theoretically help the AI ​​with its search summaries. The result exceeded his expectations: Google AI Overview ended up literally quoting the Reddit comments that the Youtuber himself had writtenand referred to these comments as if they were speculations from real players. When someone asked him for proof on Reddit, he responded that Rockstar had called him personally. It was enough for Google’s AI, and it became clear that Google prioritizes content from Reddit without bothering to give it human oversight, allowing malicious lies like this (even if it was an experiment) to contaminate searches. A systemic problem. All these cases linked to ‘GTA VI’ are not isolated anomalies, but symptoms of a structural failure on YouTube. Mozilla published in 2021 an investigation which revealed data that 71% of the problematic videos reported by volunteers had been directly suggested to them by the recommendation algorithm, not actively searched for. And because of these suggestions, these questionable content recorded 70% more daily views than other videos. The proliferation of the so-called massive content generated by artificial intelligence aggravates the problem. have been identified channels that have accumulated almost 500 million views using AI tools exclusively. NBCNews uncovered a network of channels spreading hoaxes about famous African Americans with deepfakessome of them commercial ads that generated income for both the creators and YouTube. That is to say, as Jonathan Albright commented on Mediumthe technological paradox is in sight: YouTube is capable of instantly detecting songs protected by copyrightbut it does not identify texts from journalistic articles read with synthetic voices or images extracted from other websites. A real chaos. In Xataka | I have tried Gemini Dynamic View: here begins the era of visual and interactive AI that you will not want to stop using

This app helps you fake your dream vacation

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There are times when entering Instagram it means getting depressed; people living dream lives and us at home with our pajamas on. Don’t worry because there is a new app with which you can also join the wave of posturing, one that uses AI to generate fake images of a vacation that never existed. Who needs vacations when you can invent them? Endless summer. The app in question is called Endless Summer and was created by Laurent del Rey, one of the members of the Meta superintelligence teamjust as they say in TechCrunch. Its creator defines the app as “a simple photo booth application to generate fake snapshots of your vacation, for when you feel exhausted and need to manifest the quiet life you deserve.” Because of course, if you are exhausted from working, the best thing is to invent a life in which you don’t work and are happy, no one ever said. The price of posturing. The app is available free for iPhone and the first two photos are free, but creating a larger album of your fake vacation is going to cost you money. Specifically 3.99 euros for 30 images, 19.99 euros for 150 images and 39.99 euros for 300 images. The result is quite good and, except for the clothes, I recognize myself in the photos that Endless Summer has taken for me, but you can’t choose where you want the AI ​​to take you on vacation. In my case it has been to a fast food restaurant in Los Angeles and a cafeteria in Paris. I’ve been to Los Angeles and I haven’t left this burger joint. Nano Banana. It is the model that the app uses to generate images. He spices it up with his own prompts to achieve that analog look and different variations of the subject. Nano Banana can be used within Gemini, so you don’t need to spend anything to create your fake vacation photos, just give it a nice prompt. Superintelligence. As we said at the beginning, the creator of Endless Summer is part of the superintelligence team that Zuckerberg has been forming all summer at the stroke of a checkbook. The best AI talents gather at the Meta offices to obtain the AGI (or That’s what Zuckerberg wanted). The reality is that we do not know much about its progress, only that They recently launched Vibes, an app to explore AI videos that was eclipsed days later by Sora 2 by OpenAIand that one of its members has just released a very frivolous app without much sense… Images | Endless Summer In Xataka | Meta does not have the most advanced AI of all, but it does have something much more important: a business plan

X and Meta will continue the fight against fake news in the EU

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The inauguration of Donald Trump as president of the United States for the second time may represent a before and after in the technology sector. With Elon Musk in government and the prominent presence of all the great technological leaders at the ceremony, from Google’s Sundar Pichai to Apple’s Tim Cook, passing through Mark Zuckerberg and Jeff Bezos, the influence of the sector in the beginning legislature is beyond any doubt. And the first thing these tech leaders want is to eliminate the policies and laws that they feel have constrained them in recent years, and that includes fighting misinformation and fake news. Elon Musk himself was the first to declare war against fact-checkersjournalists and organizations dedicated to checking errors and ‘fake news’ published on social networks. Mark Zuckerberg got on his bandwagon, making a 180-degree turn from everything he had defended in recent years and betting on ‘freedom’ and community notes; In other words, they are the users themselves decide what is true. Community notes have been praised on social network It is not a perfect system, but some users believe that it is better than leaving this work in the hands of professionals. However, In Spain we will not see any of these changesat least for now; These businessmen seem to be living a double life, in which they change their minds depending on the political leader they are talking to. In the European Union, technology companies will not only continue with the same policy against fake news as before, but they have committed to investing and betting more on the same verification of information that they now consider malicious in the United States. Both Meta and X, through Google, TikTok, Snapchat, YouTube, LinkedIn and other Internet platforms have signed a code of conduct to combat hate and illegal speech on the Internet. The interesting thing is that they have not been forced to do so: it was a voluntary measure and not a law, although it has been created by the European Commission as part of the new Digital Services Law (DSA) launched last year. Manuel Ramirez / Grok The Free Android The DSA implemented a series of requirements for platforms, especially the largest ones and those that manage a greater amount of European user data, considered ‘gatekeepers’. The new code of conduct is based on these measures and expands them, so the companies that have signed it have committed to taking more measures against disinformation and hate speech from which they are legally required. However, it must be clarified that, being a voluntary measure, companies that fail to comply will not suffer any repercussions, and They can leave the agreement at any time; In fact, that’s just what Elon Musk did with

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