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The European space agency begins to limit when the Soviet ship will fall. Where is it a lottery

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Like some people, there are spacecraft that say goodbye giving the note. The Kosmos 482 Soviet Missionlaunched 53 years ago with the failed objective of reaching Venus, is about to star in one of the most unpredictable atmospheric resentments of recent times. The European Space Agency is following her live. The last prediction. According to the ESA Space Waste Officethe capsule will fall to Earth tomorrow, on Saturday, May 10, 2025, at 08:16 UTC (10:12 in Spain). Although it has been reducing, the uncertainty window remains quite wide, with an error of +/- 8.61 hours. This means that the exact moment and the location can still vary (for now only latitudes above and below the 50º are discarded), but the predictions are noted as the object approaches. A capsule of the Cold War. Throwed on March 31, 1972, the Kosmos 482 ship was a twin sister of the successful Venera 8 mission, which did perch on Venus. However, a failure in the upper stage of the Molniya rocket that transported it prevented that it escaped the earth’s gravity, leaving it in an elliptical orbit with the earth all this time. What makes this event special is not only the longevity of the capsule, but the fact that it was built to survive the infernal conditions of Venus: surface temperatures of 464 ° C, pressures of 100 atmospheres and accelerations of up to 300 g. I could survive the reentry. What remains of the ship, the descent capsule of half a meter in diameter and 495 kg, was designed to support the extreme conditions of the Venusian atmosphere, so there is possibilities that it reaches intact to the surface of the earth. To survive, the impact could occur at about 240 km/h, with a kinetic energy similar to that of a 40-55 cm meteor. The big question is whether the parachute system, after 53 years and with exhausted batteries, could work. In view of telescope, the object seems to be tumbos. Prediction map on the reentry of the Soviet probe Kosmos 482. Image: that Do not panic. Taking into account that most of the planet is water, the risk of causing personal damage is “extremely remote.” And the probability of reaching a person is even lower, from 1 between 100,000 million, according to ESA. To put it in perspective, it is about 65,000 times more likely to be reached by lightning In addition, being an object that probably arrives as one piece, the risks are concentrated and therefore are lower than those created by the reentry of a rocket, which disperses multiple objects of metric size over a large area. Let’s take advantage of science. The almost spherical and smooth form of the Kosmos 482 makes it an ideal object to measure atmospheric density into very low orbits. Every time its elliptical orbit passes through perigee (the point closest to Earth), loses height due to atmospheric drag. This “accidental experiment”, which is being registered live by ESA, will provide valuable data on this type of event so far of the reentry. Perhaps a cold war ship shows us some lesson on how to reduce the problem of space garbage. Images | THAT In Xataka | There is an old Soviet probe about to fall on earth. The disturbing thing is that it was designed to resist hell

There is an old Soviet probe about to fall on earth. The disturbing thing is that it was designed to resist hell

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A piece of Soviet spatial history, the Kosmos 482 probe, is about to conclude its very long 53 -year -old odyssey. And in the most disturbing way possible: falling on us. Context. Launched on March 31, 1972, this Soviet ship was destined Venus, but A failure after its launch left it stranded In the Earth’s orbit. 53 years later, its final decrease is imminent: it is expected to be re -entered into the atmosphere around May 10. The probe does not contain nuclear materials, and the risk of properties or people is low … but it is not null. And you don’t want an object of half a ton that falls from the sky to hit you. Kosmos 482. Twin sister of the successful Venera 8 mission, she was launched only four days later, but unlike the first, she failed to land in Venus. The upper Blok-Nvl stage of the Molniya rocket that transported the Kosmos 482 went out prematurely, leaving the probe trapped in a very high elliptical terrestrial orbit (initially 206 x 9,800 km high). Faithful to the secretism of the time, The Soviet Union never admitted the ruling And he simply baptized the mission with the generic designation “Kosmos 482”. After three days, several fragments that had separated from the ship rented over New Zealand, where some remains were even recovered, such as cylindrical fuel deposits. Other objects associated with the mission rented in 1981 and 1983. Designed for Venusian hell. The object that has resisted all this time is the mission descent capsule, aimed at landing in Venus. It is estimated that this sphere has an approximate diameter of one meter and a mass of about 500 kilograms. Here comes the interesting thing: this capsule was designed to survive the infernal atmosphere of Venus, a planet whose average temperature on the surface is 464 ° C. As he points out Satellite analyst Marco Langbroekit is possible that relatively whole to the reentry of the Earth’s atmosphere, although the reentry trajectory and the seniority of the capsule reduce the possibility that it is intact at the time of the impact With the parachute deployed? The imminent reentry has intensified the follow -up by satellite observers. The amateur astronomer Ralf Vandebergh has achieved telescopic images of the object in which it seems to have a parachute. “There is a compact ball, but several frames show a weak elongated structure on a particular side of the ball,” He said to Space.com. In addition, the object could be tumbos, so it is only visible at times. How to follow the reentry. Kosmos 482 Orbit the Earth every 90 minutes in a inclination of 52 degrees. This means that the reentry can occur anywhere between latitudes 52 ° North and 52 ° South. The space -track estimated reentry window and analysts such as Langbroek focuses on May 10, 2025, with an uncertainty of 2 or 3 days that will be reduced as the moment approaches. The ship will make a series of visible passes from the northern hemisphere at dawn just around the planned reentry dates. Sites like Heavens-Above already include predictions of visible passes for Kosmos 482. When the man walked on the moon. The fall of Kosmos 482 is a tangible reminder of the golden era of space exploration and the intense race towards Venus, which followed the lunar race. This 1972 relic (the last year in which man walked on the moon), will return to a radically different world, increasingly congested by thousands of active satellites and a growing amount of space garbage. Image | POT In Xataka | Unable to solve the problem of garbage on earth, humanity has generated one more: space garbage

Why the fall of telecommunications was so unequal during the blackout in Spain

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Spain plunged yesterday into a unprecedented energy blackout. A complete fall of the national electricity grid that caused problems in essential services and, above all … communications. A few hours after the Energy zero throughout All Spanish territoryoperators such as Vodafone Spain kept active 70% of their mobile network. The question is how. How the network was kept alive. Despite the national blackout, Some operators like Vodafone They made their mobile network remain active thanks to reserve generators. Although popular perception may be that the network connection is a purely wireless technology, it depends completely on telephone stations (what we commonly know as antennas), some that need electricity to function. Before scenarios such as yesterday, all protocols were activated to keep them alive despite the disconnection with the national electricity grid. This was achieved thanks to two main actors: backup batteries and structure. Diesel and batteries. Groups such as Masmobic confirm Xataka that this maintenance of the network infrastructure was achieved thanks to its reserve generators located in the stations themselves, but also to displaced electrogen groups to each area. In Spain, the Low voltage electrotechnical regulation (REBT) It demands support systems in critical infrastructure. Image | Vodafone The autonomy of these systems is limited and variable. That a station can be fed for more or less time depends on the state of the batteries, the capacity of the generators and the logistics of the fuel supply. In the best case, structures can keep the service for 24-48 hours. If we talk about reserve batteries, autonomy usually ranges between two and eight hours. This is the main reason why Some networks continued to work after the blackout and also for which others began to fail after a few hours. A progressive fall. Vodafone managed to exceed 70% activity in the network at 3:00 p.m., maintaining autonomy in its network, datacentes and systems control centers. As the hours were advancing, the figure fell. At 23: 00h, mobile traffic fell to 60% with 50% of active nodes. Reason? After more than ten hours of blackout, some of the reserve batteries began to run out. Why I had no coverage and my neighbor yes. During the blackout, access to the mobile network was (and remains) variable, and this is due to several factors. The main is the difference in backup feed systems (SAI or generators) that have mobile phone antennas. Not all base stations have the same capacity to continue working without electricity supply: some have batteries with little autonomy, other generators that require fuel (diesel or gas), and their availability and maintenance vary. In the same way, Not all operators use the same infrastructure. Each company has its own (or rented) towers and nodes, which means that two mobiles can be connected to different antennas even being in the same area. Thus, it is possible that the antenna of your operator has stopped working before, while that of your neighbor – with another operator – remains active longer. The small operators. Vodafone proved to live up to 70% of the coverage, but smaller companies, with fewer nodes to connect and lower capacity to supply energy, faced a more complex situation. The so -called virtual mobile operators (OMV) “As Digi, Finetwork, Pepephone, Lowi, etc.,” do not have their own infrastructure. Instead, they rent access to the networks of the greats (Movistar, Orange or Vodafone). The immediate translation is that its operation depends completely on the conditions of the wholesale operator in each area. If the antenna to which a user of a secondary operator connects does not have sufficient support, or if your host network prioritizes other services, the user runs out of coverage more quickly and for longer. How long would they last before chaos. Telecommunications networks can survive without electricity supply for a limited time, but are not designed to resist prolonged blackouts. In the best of the scenarios, with well -supplied structures and batteries in good condition, some stations could be kept operational between 24 and 48 hours. Beyond that threshold, everything depends on the operator’s logistics capacity to replenish fuel. In that scenario, the first to run out of coverage would be users connected to secondary nodes or small operators, while critical or priority areas (hospitals, security forces, command centers) could maintain connection for longer thanks to emergency protocols. Image | Telefónica In Xataka | Neither trains, nor light, nor computers: the most chaotic working day will not have salary sales or dismissals for not going to work

In times of fall in stock market, a luxury investment has become a “shelter”: bags

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In times of financial uncertainty, generalized falls In stock markets around the world and the dollar losing credibility as a reference currency, investors seek refuge values ​​to protect their assets. The gold It used to be the safeguard In times of crisis, but a new trend has gained strength in recent years: the Investment in luxury articlesespecially exclusive bags such as Hermès Birkin. Get out of the bag to get into the bag. The attractiveness of these high -end bags signed by Hermes, Louis Vuitton Or Chanel not only resides in its exclusivity and status, but also surprise by their profitability. While actions and gold experience ups and downs, Birkin bags have demonstrated a constant revaluation of their value in the second -hand market. During periods of financial volatilityluxury bags, and in particular Hermès Birkin, has positioned itself as an asset of investment at levels of artthe high -end watches or the Classic luxury cars. According to the report of Art Market Researchin the last two decades, luxury bags have gone from being an accessory to what is now “the only category of collecting women centered.” Scarcity marketing. This investment model is sustained thanks to something as basic as the law of supply and demand. Hermès, like most luxury brands, applies a deliberate scarcity strategy with a very limited production of their pieces in which, curiously, It is the brand who chooses What products sell to your customers. The high demand for these articles causes waiting lists among their clients that can reach six years. The perception of exclusivity increases the desire for the product, which causes automatically revalue in the second -hand market when leaving the store. This is a phenomenon quite common In markets. For example, we live it after launch of the Sony PS5when these consoles arrived with counts to stores and doubled their price in the second -hand market or, at another level, with The Purosangue Ferrari. More Birkin, less gold. The Birkin de Hermès, is considered one of the best investments in the world of luxury, even surpassing traditional assets such as art or gold in terms of profitability and stability. A 2020 study Prepared by Credit Suisse and Deloitte, he revealed that the value of the Birkin increased 38% on average that year, far exceeding the performance of the S&P 500, which grew 16.3% in the same period. A study Baghunter compared the value of Hermès’ bags with respect to the S&P 500 and gold since 1995. The results showed that the financial behavior of the Birkin was much more stable and profitable than the stock market index and the value of gold, with a less volatile market and greater interannual returns. While the S&P 500 offered an average annual return of 8.65%and gold just 1.9%, the Birkin registered an average annual increase of 14.2%. A second -hand birkin: from 9,000 to $ 200,000. As with the market of the Collection luxury watchesthe high demand for certain editions of Birkin has generated spectacular revaluation. A Birkin de Hermès costs between $ 9,000 and $ 12,000, but can reach prices of up to $ 200,000 In auctions or specialized platformsdepending on its rarity, state and materials. In 2015, a pink crocodile skin birkin was sold by a record of $ 223,000, consolidating the reputation of these bags as high performance investments. The most expensive birkin ever auctioned was a Birkin 30 Himalayas with diamonds, than It reached a price of $ 450,000 in 2014. The Chinese offensive: the true value of the Birkin. In a context of commercial warfare like the current one, the boom of the Birkin as an investment has not been exempt from controversy. After the imposition of tariffs by the Trump administration, Chinese influencers networks They have started a campaign To demystify the value of these bags. During the last days, Tiktok and X They have filled with videos of these Chinese influencers directing directly to the customers of these brands by analyzing the manufacturing costs in China. The message indicates the manufacturing price of a Birkin of Hermès around $ 1,400, while luxury brands sell their bags for a price up to ten times higher than its real cost, feeding the perception that there is a speculative bubble around these luxury items. In Xataka | A rare 900,000 clock has marked the end of moderation in goal: Mark Zuckerberg and his fondness for expensive watches In Xataka | Nicolas Puech: Hermès’s Swiss Millionaire who wants to leave a gardener with Spanish ties as the only heir Image | Hermes

“Someday luck will end and they will fall on someone”

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The trend is clear. The upper stage of a Chinese rocket CZ-9 He disintegrated last night about western Mexicocausing a small stir. Nothing happened, as nothing happened a few weeks ago, when A Falcon 9 rocket burned on Polanddespite the fact that several large pieces survive the reentry and fall into populated areas. There were no regret injured when A half ton ring appeared in a town in Kenyawhen part of a Crew Dragon ship fell on a Saskatchewan farm or when the trunk of another dragon re -entered into A North Carolina Glamping. But the trend is clear. We are tempting luck. According to a Recent European Space Agency reportan average of three objects of considerable size, such as old satellites or rocket stages, re -enter the atmosphere every day. Most of these objects disintegrate during atmospheric braking; And a large number of the pieces that do not fall controlled in the Pacific. However, experts’ warning is clear: this has only begun. “We play the whole for the whole every time we have a reentry,” said astrophysic Jonathan McDowell to Space.com. “Sooner or later we will have bad luck, and someone will be injured by the fall of space garbage.” From 3 to 15 resentments per day. Only in 2024, about 1,200 “intact objects” returned to the atmosphere, without counting on the myriad of smaller fragments. Despite this constant natural cleaning of satellites and rockets, courtesy of atmospheric braking, The amount of space garbage in orbit does not stop growing. That esteem is about 45,700 objects of more than 10 centimeters orbiting our planet, a considerable increase. In addition to the frequent space releases, satellite constellations, with Starlink at the head, have completely transformed the space sector scale. “If Spacex continues with its plans to expand its constellation to 30,000 satellites, then we will see 15 daily reentrys,” McDowell explained. Starlink satellites, deployed in low orbit, have a useful life of five years. They will soon be added to the Kuiper constellation of Amazon and the Chinese commercial constellations. At the moment of truth. The vast majority of the earth’s surface is ocean or uninhabited land, so the probability that a fragment impacts a person remains very low. But incidents occur and are less and less anecdotal. In March 2024, a 10 centimeter metal fragment crossed the roof of a house in Florida, later identified as part of a battery pallet discarded from the International Space Station three years before. And what about the atmosphere? Beyond the risk of impact, another issue worries atmospheric scientists: the pollutants left each reentry. “The impact on the atmosphere is greater than ever, since more ozone destroying contaminants are ever being added,” said Eloise Marais, atmospheric chemistry of the University College in London. Most satellites are made of aluminum, which By vaporizing in the high layers of the atmosphere it produces aluminum oxide. It is known that this substance can accelerate the destruction of the ozone layer and contribute to thermal changes. Until now they were not significant amounts, but as the resentments increase, we enter unexplored terrain. Images | Airlive, Juancho Rodríguez In Xataka | The atmosphere is shrinking and that is a problem: they will not fit the 60,000 satellites that plan Spacex and company

They fall in advance pieces

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Tesla Cybertruck’s landing is buying all ballots to become one of the most bizarrest markets viewed so far. The electric SUV has gone through situations of all kinds, both for better and for worse. But in recent times the news about, indeed, how bad things are. The last example is a call to mass review. So massive that it forces to go through the workshop to each and every one of its specimens. The last call to review. It is believed that it only affects 1% of the vehicles but the NHTSSA (in charge of traffic safety in the United States) No choice has remained: All Tesla Cybertruck manufactured between November 13, 2023 and February 27, 2025 have to go through the workshop. The reason is as simple as some of its body steel panels can end up detaching from the vehicle. Obviously, the defect is especially dangerous if the fall is produced, which has forced to call 46,096 Tesla Cybertruck affected by this problem. A defect in glue. The problem is found in the decorative molding covered by pillar A and that extends to the rear area where the roof drop ends. The adhesive that fixes that piece may not be enough to guarantee its integrity and, therefore, the piece could fly running. Remember in The Drive that the problem has been reported by the sufficient number of people so that the company had to stop the assembly line a few days ago to apply a solution and that, obviously, its pieces are not falling along the way. “Indestructible”. When Elon Musk presented the car, he spoke of an “indestructible” body. Something more than a year later, there are only bad news around this description. To start because if a car is indestructible It’s a bad signal. Especially if you look at the tesiture of suffer an accident. Cars deform with the purpose of absorbing the energy of impact. Shock tests showed that a cybertruck that clashes against a wall absorb a very low amount of energyto the point of breaking the rear axle instead of absorbing the blow in its front area. But, in addition, we are seeing that it is not “indestructible.” At least as far as their decorative panels are concerned because it is not the first time that the Cybertruck have to be called to review because some of their panels are falling. In June 2024 there were 11,688 vehicles Those who passed in the workshop because a rear molding could be part of an incorrectly applied adhesive. Click on the image to go to the video. The eternal adhesive problem. The problem of moldings has focused the latest call calls but have not been the only ones that have starred in the Tesla car workshop. Months before, in April 2024, an accelerator problem also forced 3,878 vehicles will go through the workshop. Again, the adhesive used did not correctly fix the piece that is stepped on when the driver accelerates. That piece could detach and be located in the upper part, applying unwanted force on the pedal and, therefore, accelerating the car. It seems also that the cold is especially problematic for the moldings used in the car. As you can see In this videothere are drivers checking that when temperatures are especially low, the pieces are more likely to part. To the workshop! As we have seen, the use of adhesives has been especially problematic for the company but, of course, it has not been the only stumbling block that they have had to deal with in Tesla. In their first year in the market they called for revision up to seven times their owners. Collect in Motorpasion that in 2024 some of them were solved via Ota, such as problems with tire pressure sensors, but for others such as the fall of the Windshield molding There was no choice but to go through the workshop. The cameras and forced another update. A controversial landing. And all the above must be added that the car has not stopped adding controversies since its arrival. To start because it reached A much more expensive price of what has been expected despite having less autonomy of the fiancee. And yet First place among luxury vehicles best selling. Of course, those who wanted to test their SUBTERRENE CAPABILITIES They got the surprise that I had some problems outside the asphalt. Nor should those who decided to camp. A brake in sales? Nothing happens, it is sold The same much cheaper car removing a pair of moldings. Elon Musk’s car. The Tesla Cybertruck can boast something else: having become the vehicle that best defines the figure of Elon Musk. The car is excessive and the accumulated controversies have raised a Ultranza Defense Movement of their abilities. But it has also been the Perfect curtain to protest against the owner of Tesla and his political decisions as a member of the United States Executive. For example, projecting messages against the company and the CEO of the same.+ Photo | RANAMOTORWORKS In Xataka | Byd’s new ultra -grape load system has made millionaires to many investors: those who bet in short of Tesla

Madrid has its own ‘dead language’ with dictionary and translations. There are those who resist that they fall into oblivion

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In Spain there is an official language, Spanish, and A handful of co -official languages. The country’s complete linguistic photo is however much (much) richer and includes a wide range of Dialectal varietiesin addition to countless jargon and Sociolectsways to use language limited to a specific group. For years Madrid managed his own, Chelia speech that left a mark in the Royal Academy, inspired novelists and film directors, and even has its own dictionary and several translations. His golden age may be behind, but that does not mean that there are people who still claims its value and fight so that (if not spoken) at least it is talk about him. What is Chelii? A sociolect, a speech, a kind of dialect without fix but with abundant vocabulary, a sign of identity associated with a city (Madrid) and a time (especially the 80s and the first 90), a “Generational slang”in the words of the novelist Paco Umbral … or If we ask him to the RAE dictionary, a “jargon with castizos, marginal and countercultural elements.” Cheli is all that and some more things, like a improbable link of union between Camilo José Cela, Enrique Tierno Galván, Ramoncín and Antoine de Saint-Exupéry; But above all it is a rich, spontaneous and diverse way of communicating that enjoyed its particular golden age mainly during the movement. What is its origin? It is counted that the term as Francisco Umbral coined it in The countrybut As I remembered a couple of years ago Álvaro de Benito, journalist and passionate about linguistics, one thing is the baptismal act and a very different birth. To know the origins of Cheli you have to probably go back much further back, the 18th century and the rise of the Casticism. Over time he gained background and form, vocabulary, expressions and style. It expanded. His great era was, however, the last decades of the twentieth. It is in that period, in the late 70s, when places its hatching The French linguist Henriette Walterwho came to dedicate a couple of pages in his essay ‘The adventure of languages ​​in the West’published in 1994. “It began to speak in Madrid in the criminal environments, is inspired by the drug slaughter and in the caló,” says the expert, who refers to him as “Cheli, passage or roll language.” Who spoke it? As I remembered A few years ago The journalist Arsenio School, Walter places the origins of “El Pasota” between Barcelona and Seville, but the land in which he managed to consecrate “as a social phenomenon” was another: the Madrid. There he fell deep. The neighborhoods were linked in a moment of profound political and social changes and sneaked into stores, taverns, factories, markets … although as with most languages ​​and dialects, Cheli was not an unalterable, unidimensional and static reality. In An article Posted a few weeks ago in The Spanish newspaper (EPE) Pedro del Corral remembered that depending on the age and training of speakers it was used in one way or another. It was also linked to some neighborhoods. All this served to somewhat cheli will be used for more than talking: it was a sign of identity between groups. Was it only used in the street? No. Cheli reached the screens and books, institutional acts and even aroused the interest of laureate singers and novelists. They reproduced him in some of his works Rafael Sánchez Ferlosio and Camilo José Celait rang in ‘The glass ball’ or the movie ‘Navajeros’ from Eloy de la Iglesia and threshold dedicated him in 1983 A dictionary whose presentation It was headed by the tierra Galván mayor, who even started talking to the public at the Palacio del Conde-Duque in Madrid. It was not the only one. In 1993 Ramoncín launched ‘El Toccho Cheli’that self -defined as a “dictionary of jargon, Germanías and jerigonzas”, and three years later it followed ‘The new billy cheli’. Entremedias, in 1994, Antonio Alonso, chaplain of the Carabanchel prison, decided to go further and develop an adaptation to Cheli of the ‘New Testament’. He titled it ‘El Chuli, the colleagues and the basca’a declaration of intentions: in its pages Jesus becomes Chuchi, the Apartlets in colleagues and the fishermen in Basca. Is it the only translation? The answer is not again. And explain why Cheli has become news again in recent years. In 2022, after an investigation of year and a half Álvaro de Benito, journalist and passionate about languages ​​and dialects, decided to launch A translation to the Cheli of one of the great classics of universal literature, ‘Le Petit Prince’of the French writer Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. The adaptation is already reflected in the same title of the work: ‘The main kids (with the fetal ticks of the Menda)’. 92 pages that are a vindication of Madrid slang and have served to return it to the spotlights. Why ‘the Little Prince’? De Benito explained it clearly in an interview to Madrid Secret. “Regardless of whether we like it or not, ‘the Little Prince’ is a universal and valid tool for the dissemination of languages. Every time something comes out of it, a stir is assembled,” confesses. Cheli is not in fact the only adaptation published by its editorial, From tuma. In Your catalog There are others in Cantabrian, Manchego, fritter, Hoketía, Gacería or the Talk about rebollar. How was the process? Álvaro de Benito was born in 1980, so that during the years of splendor of Cheli was still a child. In addition to pulling your own experience It was documented With philological studies, articles, magazines, films, novels … the result, however, is not the same as a conventional translation into an official language with an academy behind it in charge of defining its canon. “In English you can translate well or badly, but Cheli can only adapt it. It is not a matter of doing it right or badly,” Explain from Benito. “I picked up the greatest possible vocabulary. There have been people who … Read more

Tesla mired in chaos, x fall, starship exploiting and other successive misfortunes

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We are all likely to have A bad daybut when you are someone with So many open fronts Like Elon Musk, a series of chained misfortunes can turn a bad day into A terrible week in which the entire universe conspires against you. Wall Street and the street against Tesla. Tesla has become the Objective of protests against the role of his CEO at the head of the cuts in the Trump administration. The week began with investors hardly punishing the value of Tesla’s shares that 15% collapsed Only last Monday. As the days have passed, investors have been relaxing their movements giving a break to the manufacturer who He is recovering part of the lost in recent days. However, Tesla’s actions have not been the only target of protests. According The published by ABC Newssome vehicle facilities of Tesla have suffered attacks and vandalism, generating concern about the safety and image of the brand. Donald Trump himself highlighted the escalation of Protests towards the brand qualifying protesters as “domestic terrorists.” “If you do it to Tesla or any other company, we will catch you and go through a hell,” said Trump in collected statements by the BBC. X suffered a cyber attack. X has become the main speaker of Elon Musk and much of the US government, as Marco Rubio, which Use the social network to make public your institutional agenda. In that context, the social network experiment successive traffic falls during May 11. Elon Musk soon pronounced announcing that X was suffering a cyber attack. “There were (there are still) a massive cyber attack against X. They attack us every day, but in this case many resources were used. It is a large and coordinated group or a country,” wrote The millionaire in his social network. According to published Wired, the cyber attack was claimed from Telegram by the Proportian hacker group Dark Storm Team. However, after an analysis of the traffic that generated the attack, the experts denied that Ukraine was behind him, like Musk said In an interview. The researchers They concludedthat not all X servers had safety layers against these ddos ​​cyberbrains Cloudflareso they were exposed. Starship has flown, but not as he wanted. The prelude to a disastrous week for Elon Musk was the Eighth flight failure Starship proof, which followed the same path as its predecessor disintegrating over the Atlantic. As happened with the seventh flight test, after the explosion the fragments of the ship fell generating a rain of debris that interrupted air traffic of Florida and a good part of the Caribbean, affecting more than 240 commercial flights. As if that were not enough, Musk has seen how, 40 minutes from the take-off of the CREW-10 mission that was going to put a relief team for ISS and Bring back to astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore, which They were trapped In the International Station after a failure in The Boeing Starliner I had to bring them back. If everything goes as planned, the Falcon 9 that will put the Dragon and its orbit crew will take off on March 14. Chief problems: tensions in Washington. Elon Musk’s influence on Trump administration also seems to be supporting many pressures. One of the most revealing events was the tense encounter between Elon Musk and key figures of the Republican Party, including former president Donald Trump and Senator Marco Rubio during a meeting at the White House on the Doge cuts policy. According to him Published article by The New York TimesMusk proposed significantly cutting the budgets for specific federal programs, including those related to the Department of Transportation. Marco Rubio, Florida senator, openly criticized Musk, describing his proposals as “ignorant” and arguing that Musk I was prioritizing corporate interests instead of the needs of citizens. In Xataka | A government “Extremely Hardcore”: Elon Musk is applying to the US the same recipe that has applied to all its companies Image | Flickr (Ted Eytan, Gage Skidmore)

Perplexity is going to launch its own browser. It is one more proof that traditional browsers fall short in the AI ​​era

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Perplexity He has announced Cometa browser specifically designed for the AI ​​era. It is part of something else: of the trend in which several technology seek to reimagine how we interact with the web. Why is it important. The next wave of A -centered browsers reveals an uncomfortable truth: traditional browsers are not optimized for a world in which AI agents will act as intermediaries between information and us. Chrome, Safari, Edge or Firefox can improve whatever they want in these capabilities, but IA deserves a creation from scratch. The Browser Company understood and paralyzed the development of ARC to create something new: day. The context. Perpleplexity has opened its waiting list for Comet, its next browser that promises to “reinvent” our way of accessing the web. This movement comes just weeks after OpenAi will present its operator agentand in the middle of Rumors about a possible OpenAi’s own browser. Current browsers were designed for humans who use keyboards and mice, not for ia agents who need to interact with the website of radically different shapes. Yes, but. The first generation of AI agents as Openai Operator uses chrome modified versions to complete tasks, offering an almost theatrical show: we see a bot by moving a cursor and writing how a human would do. It is effective, but also inefficient. Chrome use as a base poses another problem: what will happen when Google completely integrates Gemini In your browser? Rivals such as Openai and Perplexity will be vulnerable to Alphabet. New era. The race to create the final browser for the AI ​​era remembers the Navigators War of the 90s, when Netscape and Microsoft struggled to dominate Internet access. That conflict initially won Microsoft with Internet Explorer, but Google Chrome, which did not even exist then, ended up dominating the market years later. The lesson is clear: the winner of this new battle can be a company that still does not have a browser. Or that it has not even been founded yet. Several actors are already on stage: Perplexity with Comet, the aforementioned The Browser Company with Dia, and rumors on similar OpenAi projects. The integration of AI models such as Claude, Gemini and GPT directly in the navigation experience will be key. Between the lines. True innovation does not consist of adding functions from AI to existing browsers, but completely reimagining the navigator concept. A browser designed for the AI ​​era should allow both traditional human use and the efficient functioning of autonomous agents, perhaps with different ways according to who is “behind the wheel.” The browsers Ai-first They will probably dispense with interface elements designed for humans when they operate in automatic mode, using more efficient APIS and communication channels to interact with the web. A good simile is that of the autonomous car: if it is able to drive on its own, it makes no sense that it makes a steering wheel, pedals and five seats looking forward: you can and must reimagine the cabin completely. Deepen. For companies such as Perplexity, launching its own browser not only involves diversifying its product offer, but also ensuring their independence from the platforms controlled by their competitors. Same incentives that OpenAI has to launch its own proposal. The browser has historically been the entrance door to the Internet, and whoever controls this door will have a disproportionate influence on our digital experience. Google knows it well: Chrome has provided you a huge strategic advantage. We are witnessing the birth of a new category of software that could transform our relationship with the Internet as much as the original browsers did. The question is not whether browsers Ai-first They will replace the traditional ones, but when they will do it and who will lead this transformation. Openai looks like the great threat to him status quo from Google. And there will be more. Outstanding image | Perplexity, Xataka with mockuuups studio In Xataka | Mozilla’s long crisis: an eternal users and a Google dependency that is still majority

What is cloudflare, how it works and why a fall or block makes half the Internet fail

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Let’s explain What is cloudflare and how it works This shield and accelerator for web pages. It is one of those almost essential services for the correct functioning of the Internet, but that we are not aware until it fails or blocks and you can enter hundreds of websites. We will begin this article explaining in a simple way what is cloudflare, summarizing the operation of the Internet and the role that CDNs have like this service in it. Then, we will tell you why a fall or lock of the service makes half the Internet seem to fall. What is cloudflare and how it works Cloudflare is a CDN, a Content Delivery Network either Content distribution networkthat in Spanish is Content distribution network. It’s about a network of servers distributed throughout the world destined to help better distribute Internet content and make you can quickly and safely access the content of a website. To understand its operation you must first understand how the Internet works. A web page is housed on a server, and simplifying it a lot, when you enter it you connect your computer to that server, to access the contents of a website. The same happens when you want to enter any online service or web application, you have to connect to your server. The problem is that perhaps the server of my application is in a country far from the computer from which someone wants to connect. So, that distance makes the connection speed very slow, or that even from some countries cannot be entered. The same happens if the web or the service you are going to access had a single server. Then, having thousands of users entering that single server would make everything slower because I would have to work more and for more people. It is here where the CDNs and their networks of servers come into play. When a website, an online service or application resorts to them, is as if they had copies of the content and cache distributed all over the world to be able to connect in a faster and more efficient way. There will always be a server close to you, and traffic can be distributed by the hundreds of servers. Thus, if I connect from Spain to an American service, I will not join a giant user queue wanting to enter a single server that is also far away, something that would make the connection slow. Simply, I will connect to the nearest server of the CDN network that is using that service. Everything will go faster, and the traffic that accesses the service will be more distributed. Cloudflare is one of the most used CDNs of the world. There are many web pages that resort to this company, because in addition to a very wide network of servers, it also offers protection against various types of online attacks that could collapse access to the contents. This way, Cloudflare is an intermediary between a customer or user and the content of the website or the online service they want to access. It is a network that houses copies of a service so that you always have geographically close, technologically safe access, and less traffic collapsed. Why if Cloudflare Failure Middle Internet does it When you stop accessing this network of servers, you can access its content. This means that if your Internet operator blocks you access to Cloudflare or if this service has a failure, stop being able to enter most web pages. There will be no network that distributes traffic and access to these websites, and simply connect to one would be too slow or you would be too far. For practical purposes and simplifying it a lot, Not being able to access Cloudflare means not being able to access many servicesand that those who use it and are not fallen simply go extremely slow. This is so for The dependence of Cloudflare. Being one of the most popular CDNs in the world, many important and top -level services access it. And these services that use it, depend on their servers network to work properly. In this PDF You can see the services and websites used Cloudflare, such as X, Bluesky, Microsoft, Mozilla, Snapchat, Temu, Efe, Github, Wikimedia, Facua, CaixaBank and many more. All these services will stop working or work extremely slow if the Cloudflare network stops working. When a website or online service fails, it is sure that there is a problem with the infrastructure of the server network that provides you with access to it. So Errors like the 502 Bad Gateway indicating this problem. If the one who cannot access a website, app or service is due to this, all you can do is cloudflare or the CDN to use the error. When an operator blocks access to cloudflare Or some other concrete CDN, the problem is that your IP cannot access this network of servers, although it works correctly. In these cases solving it is easyand you just have to use one VPN to access from a different IP that does not have access. In Xataka Basics | CG-NAT: What is it, what problems can cause and how to know if you have it in your Internet connection

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