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We have been telling ourselves for decades that we have the Internet thanks to military research. The problem is that it is false

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It is difficult to imagine that something as impressive as the Internet could be summarized just over 40 years ago in a single page. The map of germ of the internet, ARPANETtook up no more than a DIN A4 sheet of paper and reflected the less than 50 computers that at the beginning of the Internet were connected to each other. But even more curious is the story of how ARPANET was born, which may not be as you have been told. It all happened almost midnight on October 29, 1969, in a small room at the University of California (UCLA), and with a message that only said “it“. The true origin Search the Internet about its history (from the Internet itself), and you will find that the most common thing is to talk about its military origin. Technically it is correct since ARPANET was developed by the ARPA (Advanced Research Projects Agency), an institution that depended on the US Department of Defense. But the reasons were not military even though One of the minds behind some of the ideas that helped create ARPANET, Paul Baran, worked precisely with the motivation that cold war between the US and the USSR would not end with a blockade and destruction of the communications and control structures of the US army in the event of a nuclear attack. You will indeed find many references to this idea, which results in a story that makes for an entertaining movie. hollywood but in reality it was not exactly with that motivation that ARPANET was born. In the 1960s, within ARPA there was the Information Processing Techniques Office (IPTO), at that time focused on taking full advantage of computers within the administration. Robert Taylor, one of the fathers of the Internet, began his career as director of the IPTO in 1966, and proposed to the then director of ARPA the possibility of connecting computers together to optimize their use. With this structure of networked computers (an idea that he took from the previous works of JCR Lickliderpioneer in 1962 by proposing the possibility of interconnecting equipment with each other) the ARPA could better manage your budget for computers and not distribute efforts uselessly but concentrate them on a few but very powerful computers connected to each other which would allow resources and results to be shared between researchers and centers. “lo”, first message between computers on the network Taylor was not limited to the resource of sharing computers and results between centers as an advantage of his ARPANET. If the idea worked, the agency was ensuring that it could use more computer models of different types without the compatibility or use of terminals to access them being a nightmare, while at the same time allowing the creation of protection against failures, so that with the non-centralized network structure proposed, if one computer failed, the others could continue working. Taylor’s initial proposal consisted of a test network with four nodes that they could expand if the results proved them right. ARPANET was born. The Internet was on the way. If you are passing through California, a recommended visit is in room 3420 Boelter Hall at the University (UCLA). Do not look for it as such because after being forgotten and until its use as a common room, it was recently restored and became part of the Kleinrock Center for Internet Studies (KCIS). Much of the history and documents are concentrated there (there is no waste of original presentation of ARPANET) and equipment that allowed the first node to be established between computers. But it’s actually a fantastic tribute to Leonard Kleinrocka professor who in 1969, right from that small room at the university, sent the first message on ARPANET. It was 10:30 at night on October 29, 1969 when, from the SDS Sigma 7 computer in said room, Professor Kleinrock sent the LOGIN message to the SDS 940 computer at the Stanford Research Institute, the computer with which he was connected in a basic way. The message remained a curious “lo” since there was a transmission failureand it was not until an hour later that the initial transmission could be completed. The first connection had occurred between the first two computers within the ARPANET. Two weeks later there were 4 interconnected teams, and in two years, almost seventy. And no one could stop this revolution. In Xataka | In 1995 ‘Toy Story’ forever changed the way animated films are made. He did it with rudimentary computers In Xataka | In 1969, humans set foot on the Moon for the first time. He did it thanks to a computer less powerful than your cell phone

It will not have a garden but a “false volcano”

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When someone has enough economic power to use their “private jet” to approve a local airport As an international airport, the minimum that is expected is to stay in the best mansions of the places you visit. However, when This is the emir of Qatarwhat is expected is not only that you stay in them, but that you buy them. Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani, current emir of Qatar, sounds like the main interested party in Villa Certosa, one of the most famous mansions (and more extravagant) of Sardinia, which for years has been owned by Silvio Berlusconi since the 70s, and now from his heirs. ​A garden with a private volcano Villa Certosa is located in Porto Rotondo, on the northeastern tip of Sardinia, overlooking the Gulf of Marinella, and it’s huge. Built on an area of ​​120 hectares of land, it has 4,500 square meters distributed in 126 rooms. The most striking curiosity about this mansion is not its hundreds of rooms or its enormous 50-hectare garden with ancient olive trees. In this farm the “star whim” It is an artificial volcanodesigned to spit fire and smoke and turn the landscape into a spectacle. The architect got out of hand with the science experiment. The artificial volcano is part of that idea of ​​a “theme park” that Berlusconi had for his villa. In 2006, the Italian tycoon ordered to build an artificial hill about 10 meters in the middle of your property. That generated controversy and led to an investigation into the area’s landscaping regulations. Under this hill something much more explosive was hidden. As and how I collected Europa Presson the night of August 15 of that same year, the Italian politician and millionaire pressed the power button on his volcano as the culmination of one of the usual parties that were organized in the mansion. The noise was such that the neighbors called the firefighters, Civil Protection and the Forestry Corps after seeing the lava explosions and the fire coming out of that artificial hill. Beyond the artificial volcano, the farm adds very striking details: a (false) Roman amphitheater by the sea with capacity for 300 people, a sea cave with a pool and a Poseidon mosaic, four additional pools spread across the estate and a underground bunker nuclear grade. ​Berlusconi bought the property when it was still known as Villa Monastero in the early 1970s and transformed it with architect Gianni Gamondi. Over time, Villa Certosa became a common scenario of political and media visits. within its walls political figures stayed top level such as George W. Bush, Vladimir Putin or Tony Blair, as well as Spanish politicians who coincided with Berlusconi’s time in political life, such as José Luis Zapatero and José María Aznar. The emir rules in Qatar, but looks at Sardinia Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thaniemir of Qatar, is the visible head of one of the richest and most powerful families on the planet. It is estimated that the Al Thani dynasty manages a joint fortune that exceeds 335,000 million dollarswhich makes the purchase of a 500 million mansion something perfectly affordable for your pocket. In fact, the emir is already a regular on these coasts, where he usually sails with one of his superyachts, the Al Lusail, his impressive yacht 123 meters long, also valued at 500 million dollars. His interest in the area is not limited to summer tourism, since through sovereign funds controls several hotels historical luxury hotels on the Costa Smeralda such as Cala di Volpe or Romazzino. Regarding the possible purchase of the villa, from the surroundings of the heirs of Il Cavaliere They wanted to be prudent. A spokesperson for Fininvest declared to Euronews: “We are collecting several expressions of interest, but at the moment there are no negotiations at an advanced stage. We do not comment on individual interlocutors.” In Xataka | A single millionaire spent the equivalent of 10,000 tourists on his luxury vacation in Mallorca: the Emir of Qatar Image | Wikimedia Commons (Khamenei.ir)

false videos of yourself being the protagonist

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Openai has just discovered the formula of definitive addiction. It is not just about watching videos of people like you (that trick was already dominated by Tiktok), it is about seeing yourself being the protagonist of each clip. Cameos, the new function of Sora 2converts the experience of passive consumption into something tremendously narcissistic: a Feed infinite where tU face appears constantly doing things you never did, in places where you were neverliving lives that you never lived. Mechanics is simple: You record your face once. You verify your identity. And from there any friend to who describes can insert you into their creations. The result is a social validation laboratory where the ‘digital self’ eclipses the ‘real I’. Adolescents, already vulnerable to identity distortion produced existing in parallel realities more attractive than yours. The precedent is there: when Openai launched the Ghibli style filters, Millions of users flooded the networks with animated versions of themselves. It was a moment of collective, but ephemeral euphoria. Sora 2 It does not offer a moment but an ecosystem. A place where the content is not exhausted because the content is you, Infinitely remezable, eternally protagonist. The difference between seeing others and seeing yourself is abysmal and that is why the Instagram walls were full of photos made with the rear camera and now of photos made with the front camera. Permanent self -promotion. Tiktok hackea the reward circuit showing you similar people, Sora 2 short circuits: Each video is an improved mirror. OpenAI has built parental controls, water marks, permissions revocation systems. Everything is designed to mitigate obvious risks. But real risk is not punctual use, it is The normalization of living in a reality manufactured Where your digital version is always more interesting than your real version. It is technology that understands too well how we work, what are the weak points of our psyche in this era. And that understanding is more addictive than anything we have seen so far. In Xataka | Tiktok, Instagram and X dominated our lives, but now their users are escaping to chat with machines Outstanding image | OpenAI

Not even the world championship of stones in Scotland escapes scandals: they have brought false stones

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The world championship to throw stones into the water exists and, curiously, is not in a United States in which its competitions are “worldwide.” If there is Mobile repairthat of collect trash from the street or that of Microsoft Excelof course there was going to be something like that. It is celebrated in Scotland, and hundreds of participants demonstrate their expertise every year as you expect: throwing stones into the water to see who gets more rebounds. The problem is that there are those who even cheat. And it has been a scandal. Tradition. He World Stone Skimming Championshipsby its official name in English, it is a tournament that has been held since 1983 on the island of EasdaleScotland, after two people came up with the idea … taking something in a pub. As usually happens with picturesque quotes, the event was born as a punctual celebration, but little by little the thing became serious until it was institutionalized in 1997. Since then, it has become an annual tradition and an attraction that attracts hundreds of tourists. There are rules. Traditionally, the appointment is celebrated in September in a flooded quarry that was an exploitation of slate. The island It has a population of about 60 people, but during the competition, it is multiplied by both the participants and the curious. And although it consists of throwing stones, there are rules and categories. The first thing is that it is divided by sexes and age, where they can participate to over 60 years. Each participant has three releases to make only natural slate stones that find the island. They cannot exceed three inches in diameter (just over seven and a half centimeters) and the competition is simple: the stones must throw two or three times (something that is marked at the beginning of the competition) on the water without leaving a specific area. There are few jumps because the rebounds are not measured, but the distance traveled by the stone. Seeing them throwing is a true show, especially because of the huge distance traveled between the first rebound and the next. A party. And the competitors take it seriously: they train for it and the releases are prepared well, but in the end it is a great party with an atmosphere in which there is music, food and the awards are commemorative, but not in metallic. It is an event to, above all, generate funds for the local community. 15,000 pounds last year. Remember those Activities that villages of empty Spain are taken out of the manga to value its surroundings and generate funds that allow covering expenses in the town. Cheats. That is why he has caught the attention that, in this year’s edition, some contestants cheated. And you will wonder “How can you cheat in something like that?” In an episode of ‘The Simpsons’ Of the last seasons, Homer uses stones tied to a rope that Bart drags from the other side. It is nothing so elaborate. To enforce the stone diameter limit, the organization has something baptized as the ‘ring of truth’, a tool through which the stone with which it will compete to verify that the size is correct is passed. That tool has a skinny point: it measures the diameter, but not the shape or any possible modification. During the competition, Thursday and other players They detected Something weird in some stones: they were too perfect, so they began to review more exhaustively, discovering that several had been polished to achieve more symmetrical forms and improve the physical characteristics of the rock. First of all, it’s a party Uneasiness. That has sat as a jug of cold water both among the honest competitors and between the attendees and the local community, precisely, so we commented on some lines: the atmosphere is, above all, festive, so they did not imagine that someone began to polish stones that were, they were from Easdale, but illegal. Kyle Mathews is one of the organizers and “official teacher” of stone launch and commented to The New York Times That there was something ‘honest’ in this story. When he contacted the suspects, they all immediately admitted what they had done and accepted the punishment of disqualification. He also removed iron into the matter by commenting that it was “flattering” that someone took the competition so seriously. Note for the future. And the truth is that it has not been badly resolved. Lucy Wood has the Guinness record The one that accumulates the most victories in this World Cup, also told NYT that it was surprised by how well the matter had been resolved. “You wouldn’t see something like that in many sports,” he said. And the truth is that people do take the competition seriously: only last year, 2,000 people registered online to get one of the 400 seats, which sold out in less than three minutes. This year, more than 2,000 attended to contemplate the event (imagine the life they can give to the island) and there are players who point to growing competitive pressure due to what is growing. The question of what they will do if this happens again has an easy answer: to grant pre -approved stones to the competitors. So, you know: if you have a lake nearby and discover that you are good by throwing stones, maybe next September you can find the glory in Scotland. Images | Stoneskimming In Xataka | The World Cup, paper, scissors exists. And it is a very serious thing

A false video made with AI

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One of the main searches on social networks this summer has been that of large marine animals: our fascination with the orcs, sharks, whales and other residents of oceanic depths is not new, but in recent weeks the interest has been spurred, as usual, for the morbidity. Specifically, a violent video of a shark that, as usual begins to be, is actually a false piece generated by AI. The trap video. In recent weeks a viral video has circulated that allegedly shows a sea coach named Jessica Radcliffe. attacked by a orca during a live show in Florida. The video is very clearly generated by artificial intelligence, with multiple failures of those who continually see in the less worked videos of this type, but that did not prevent them from platforms where this type of productions make their August, Like Facebookwill accumulate more than one hundred million views. Paid land. The case of the invented Radcliffe, without relation to any real coach, is inspired by other real orcas attacks in captivity, such as those of Alexis Martínez In Spain in 2009 or Dawn Brancheau In Florida in 2010. The phenomenon has prolonged over time, and today It is difficult to track the original videobut not its many effects: Looking for “Jessica Radcliffe” In Tiktok, for example, we find videos that They mimic the originalor what prolong history even with funeraladded, of course, to the thousands of videos Deminting the story. More orcas and sharks. It is not the only video linked to these sea creatures that has recently disseminated. For example, shocking real and documentary images have been seen where orcan white sharks, especially in South Africa and Australia. They spread widely, in fact, Following recent studies and scientific articleswhich enhanced interest in social networks. The AI ​​abounds. However, this last case extracted from a documentary is a rarity: Looking for “Sharks” either “Killer Whales“(Orcas in English) in networks like Tiktok The vast majority of pieces are generated by artificial intelligence, on many occasions showing openly false images of extinct animals such as the colossal megalodon. From this phenomenon it is easily deduced that users do not look for so much news or videos faithful to reality as strong emotions, passed by the filter of the influence of the films of the scal producing and Restraining successfully. Trick for tranquility. However, Internet algorithms extend their tentacles in multiple ways and in many directions, and videos of large marine animals are also spread without that tragic component derived from Jessica Radcliffe’s original. If you want to access them, search on social networks under the terms “Core Sharks” or “Core Killer Whales” and you will find videos of sharks and orcs interacting peacefully with humans or swimming in the ocean. Not everything will be dentelladas. Image | Joseph Stalin in Unspash In Xataka | The industrialization of hope is already the new Tiktok reef. Welcome to “Hopecore”

The photographic AI of the Pixel allowed to create false memories. Now your goal is to teach us to get better photos

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If Google mobiles have always been characterized by something, it is for its photographic functions. Post -processed cameras and software has always been a reference in the market, but AI has devastated this segment. Although There have been interesting functionsthis technology has also made time the difference between reality and the processed image It was bigger. Google has given a step back in that trend. Camera Coach. This is the name of the new Android function present in the new Pixel 10, Pro and Pro XL. Contrary to what happens With the magic editorwhich allows us modify our images with ia To the point of creating false memories, Camera Coach goes in the opposite direction: try to draw real photos “without tricks”. As? Teaching us photography. Frame better. This Google tool uses The gemini modelbut he does it with a teaching and educational function. The idea is not to add things that were not or remove the ones and “bothered.” What Camera Coach does is guide us in things how to make a better frame of the photo before taking it out. The composition also matters. During that process that guides us when taking a photo, Google’s AI “sees what we see” and giving us advice of all kinds. Not only to frame – “move the camera a little to the right and up”, “apply a little zoom” – but so that the composition of the photo is also better – “Frame to see that sculpture also in the background” – and the final result is more professional. Di “Cheese”. This function comes to suggest that for example the protagonists of the photo also contribute to the better. Thus, Camera Coach can advise us to ask that person to smile or look at the camera or any other part. It can even suggest scenes that we had not even considered photographing. A learning for the future. Google’s proposal is interesting because all these tips can help us for the future. Thus, at first we need them more and apply them, but over time the idea is that we apply them automatically without the need for Camera Coach so that our photos have better frame and composition. And if that were not enough, Guided Frame. That Google option is based on the fact that the AI already sees what our camera sees and is Able to recognize a scene and “understand it.” That is what the AI of Google takes advantage of for “Guided Frame” technology, which is capable of identifying all the elements present in the image so that we can then act on those elements. Thus, in a group photo with four people and with cars and trees behind, Google’s AI can identify all that and then allow us to edit that image with natural language. For example, saying “fixes the lighting of this image” or “eliminates that garbage cube on the right.” If Google Mete ia, you will also put water brand. The new pixel 10/pro/pro xl also have an important novelty: according to Google they are the first to implement C2PA content credentials. That means that if at any time changes in the photo are made to edit it, for example adding things with AI, the system will integrate in that new image an invisible water mark that can be consulted afterwards to verify that, in effect, there has been a certain editing process with AI or with editing applications. The new magical editor allows this normal photo to become something much more striking … even if it is a lie. Source: 91mobiles/Kamila Wojciechowska Beware of false memories. In recent years, Google drifting in editing processes has been as striking as controversy. He Magic draft He taught us that we could eliminate things that had left over our photos, and the Magic editor went further and allowed us to distort those photos and memories with options like that “reimagine” that scares and excites equal parts. We could make the sky, instead of lead, be sunny, or that the sea in the background was more blue and crystalline instead of darker and ugly. Good for the educational approach. Google continues to reinforce those options to edit photos with AI. However, the most striking novelty among those that have been announced of this type is precisely that “integrated photography teacher” that will teach us to get better photos in different situations. It is a striking and original proposal that will undoubtedly help many fans get even more game of their mobile camera. In Xataka | Google photos was a place where we kept photos. Google wants it now a place where our photos are “invented”

It looks like a legitimate traffic with a QR code. But behind there is a false and cybercriminal page

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At first glance, it seems one more traffic fine: official paper, DGT logo and a message that invites you to pay as soon as possible. But it is a trap. Actually, it is a fraudulent impression that is appearing in car windshield in Malaga and that seeks to supplant the General Directorate of Traffic to steal bank data. The Local Police and the City of Malaga have already launched a public warning after detecting the first cases this week. As explainedthe document uses both the shield of the Ministry of Interior and the DGT logo to appear authenticity. Its objective: to make unexpected drivers with false sanctions. A scam to steal bank card data The mechanism is direct. The supposed fine incorporates a QR code That, when scanning with the mobile, redirects to a website that mimics a digital DGT environment. There the user is asked to enter the data of their bank card. Everything is designed to seem legitimate, even a “support chat” headed with the institutional image of traffic. This is how fines that have appeared in Malaga are seen in recent days The objective is evident: to capture the data of the credit or debit card of those who fall into the trap. The fraudulent website: Thus try to steal your data with the DGT appearance However, deception is not perfect. Some details betray falsification: the header says “boss” instead of “headquarters” and “apartadp” instead of “section.” Also Key elements of an authentic fine are missingsuch as the agent number, the vehicle data or the place where the infraction was supposedly committed. Even so, the risk is real. In the middle of the daily routine, and given the pressure to solve the matter as soon as possible, it is not difficult for someone to scan the code and enter their data without thinking too much. Scams through QR codes are not new. In fact, they have their own name: Qrishing. The National Institute of Cybersecurity (INCIBE) and other organisms have not been warning of this type of fraud. What is new is this campaign located in Malaga, which It could extend Easily to other cities if scammers replicate the pattern with slight adjustments. An image of an authentic fine, with all official elements The City Council has made available to citizens the phones 951 926 010 and 010 to consult doubts or verify whether a fine is real. The aspect of an authentic sanction has also been shared to help differentiate it from falsification. Who is behind? At the moment, there is no official information. What we do know is that the fraudulent website is still operational. The domain used, dgtmultamalaga.sbsis lodged under the umbrella Webnica low Asian cost registrar, which makes it difficult to track the person in charge or know if the registration data has also been supplanted. Images | Local Police of Malaga and Malaga City Council | Screen capture (xataka) In Xataka | Our password managers serve much more than passwords. So you can get the most out of them

It is very likely that charging bar is more false than a wooden euro

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You get home after a long work day, you throw yourself into the couch, you turn on your console, you release the game you are already vitiating. Well, no, because before your avatar, the map and your mount appear before you There is a load bar that must be completed. It’s normal, you’ll think. You have to load the textures, the game or whatever, go to know, but that bar advances, so something will be doing. There is little left. A little less. Oh, how slow, will now be with something heavy, surely. Well, most likely no. Most likely, this load bar will be false and its only goal is to play with your brain. Charging… Load screens, with their bar, an illustration and perhaps a text with advice or some of LoreThey were necessary. They served to entertain the player while the machine was looking for, read and loaded the game information on a console whose power was not, from afar, the one that the current devices have. It was a normal solution, because the other was a black screen or showing a half -load level that would leave a bad impression. Load screen of ‘The Elder Scrolls: Skyrim’ | Image: The Elder Scrolls Wiki However, technology has evolved and, currently, the few bars of progress that we can find in video games have more customs and psychology than useful. That does not mean that there are no load screens, because there are even if they are very well camouflaged, but the speed of the components has allowed us to use alternative methods to avoid them. It is false. If we are in the tail of an attraction in Port Aventura, we calculate how much a trip lasts and we look forward, more or less We can estimate how much is left to ride. In a process that is happening on a computer without us seeing anything, that is much more complex not to say impossible. Load screens and progress bars are the only way that the software has to indicate that something is happening, that everything is going well, but they are false. Progress bars are the only way to tell us to indicate that it is doing something, even if we don’t see it Because? Because players They don’t trust fluid progress bars. A progress bar that moves slowly gives a feeling of bad optimization, but a bar that moves too fast or an instant load could lead to think that something has gone wrong or that is not well done. Mike Bithell, developer and creator of ‘Thomas was Alone’, He already pulled the blanket in 2023 When he confirmed that the cargo bar is fictitious and that, really, it is the pulls that the bar gives that indicate that something is happening. Load screen of ‘Guild Wars 2’. Below right can the progress bar that, in this case, is circular | Image: Xataka Basically, the bottom of everything is that we expect to wait, if that makes sense. Rami Ismail, video game developer and well -known industry disseminator, confirmed In X that he had “worked on projects where we simulate load bars, we extended load times or made the load bars move artificially at unequal speeds.” Raúl Munárriz, executive director of the Now extinct Tequila Workshe also said that “I have never worked in a game that did not have a false load bar. The reais cause anxiety.” Is your whole life a lie? Yes and no. Making a progress bar is something complex because there are many processes that come into play during a load, as many as factors can make it more or less fast. We could make a progress bar based on how many files they have moved from x a y, but it would not be fluid because the files, surely, have different sizes. Nor would it work to do it based on the transferred data, since moving few heavy files is faster than moving many small files. And neither depends on how much it remains so that all the steps of the process are completed because it is enough for Chrome to open so that the state of the PC is altered and the times change. There is no perfect solution. The load screens are still there. Although they are not seen as such, many current video games continue to have load screens. More dynamics, more concealed, but visible. Normally, when a game artificially slows you it is a sign that, in the background, it is carrying what is coming later. A known example is that of the elevators of ‘Mass Effect‘, but we can also think about travel through the hyperspace of’Star Wars: Jedi Survivor‘, any medium of teleport, the time we run through Yggdrasil in’God of War‘, when we receive a call in’Gears of War‘That forces us to walk very slowly or in a kinematics that jumps at the right time to separate one level from another. The techniques for video games not to disappear with a load screen are wide and varied. It is very likely that the game is carrying elements in the background while we do something else without realizing it. Or to load and download the textures in real time depending on the distance and our position. Image | Xataka, VECTEZY In Xataka | The milling of a programmer made a fateful mistake of this classic video game into a congratulation message

Google has shown the future of our videos and photos in Google Photos. A future full of false videos

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Google just announce what seemed inevitable after The power of its models of artificial intelligence (Ia) generative In photos and video: Creation of photos and videos in Google Photos from the images of our reel. A novelty that speaks for itself of the future that awaits our content. What’s new. As an AI giant, Google gradually carries all its new advances to the set of services of its catalog. Google Photos has always been a place to experiment with AI, as is the case with the Magic editor or mode Reimagine. Now goes beyond “small touch -ups”, and proposes to create short videos from the photos stored on the reel. At the moment there is not much to indicate to the assistant, who will accept as options “subtle movements” or the classic “I will be lucky” to create a video of up to six seconds. Another novelty of Google Photos is “Remix”, a function that transforms the style of the images we select, being able to choose between styles such as anime, comic, sketches. Google’s anime example remembers Ghibli at Chatgpt. It is a movement that remembers Ghibli moment of Openai, that “Servers melted. Unlike Chatgpt’s global availability, in launch the function will only be available in the United States. Where are we going. With the movement, Google turns a strong trend into personnel and mass: that of the generated videos that seem realistic And social networks and YouTube are flooded. And beyond fun, it presents serious consequences. In Tiktok, for example, there are more and more young people using their mobile to watch mental health videos, with a problem: The most viral are false. The platforms are becoming “Lays of AI“, and far from fighting these trends, they are amplifying them. Meta, for example, has integrated tools such as Advantage+ To create different versions of an ad with little investment. When they try to warn us that the content is created by AI, They are not sure what it is. In text, Openai had its own detector, but ended up closed after admitting that It was not necessary. Our false photos are already a millionaire business. Pieter Levels He is a well -controversial developer and entrepreneur who climbed very soon to the wave of the generative AI with two tools that generate huge amounts to be the only developer, and all using Models ‘Open Source’. One of them, with which he says to enter $ 139,000 Photoai.com. Its function is simple: after training a model with our selfies, we can create an AI model based on us, and then take pictures in the place or possess we want. It goes further that the proposal starts from Google photos, and is already able to make realistic videos of many types, including modeling sessions. Under the slogan “say goodbye to your photographer” points to a future (not very distant) where AI can take care of all the photos we want in paradisiacal enclaves. Fake places where to posture On Instagram, but without the need to move at home. The Spanish Freepik It also has Your alternative. And there are people doing chilling things: inventing their own memories From photographs. Apple plays to improve our memories, without creating them. With iOS 26Apple has presented a function that “gives life to our photos, but in a different sense. The company showed from its inception to Vision Pro as a platform to remember family moments with fidelity. Now it allows photos captured with any iPhone in normal mode become a spatial scene with depth (visible on our mobile, without the need for a virtual reality kit). Image | Xataka and Google In Xataka | How to create images from photos with artificial intelligence

Two false dnis, three commercial calls and 70,000 euros of fine. Lebara has been expensive not to check who buys his sim

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Three commercial calls being in the Robinson list They have been enough for the Spanish Data Protection Agency to put the Mobiles SA out -of the focus, a company after which Yoigo operates. A particular and unusual case, in which the company has been sanctioned with 70,000 euros despite having demonstrated that the realization of These calls It was not at the hands of Yoigo. It was enough with three calls. The Exp202205208 file acts with a sanctioning basis for a claim filed in April 2022. The consumer presented to the agency the reception of Commercial calls In your mobile line promoting Yoigo servicesclaiming to be registered in the Robinson list. Only screenshots were necessary to provide the records of the three calls, made between March 18, April 11 and 12. The first question begins here. How is Yoigo possible to call a user of the advertising exclusion list for commercial purposes? It wasn’t Yoigo. In accordance with the data protection laws, the AEPD transferred said claim to Xfera, so that the operator informs within one month on these actions. Xfera’s response was overwhelming: None of his authorized lines had issued those calls. After the response of the operator’s corporate name, the case was filed. But it was not there. The user claimed again to the AEPD, making the case reopened. Xfera was urged, again, to investigate the three telephone numbers made the calls. Although none of them had officially called, he admitted that one of them was in his name during the months of April and June 2022. The AEPD continued to track, and contacted the owner of that line. The telephone bill and the call registration of recent months were reviewed, concluding again that it was not called from said phone. Although the user claimed that the commercial calls talked about Yoigo offers, the AEPD concluded next to Xfera that the line belonged to a SIM of Lebara, a small OMV also of the MásMóvil group and that only markets prepaid lines. Uncovering the cake. Of the three investigated numbers, only one had a postal address. The AEPD found that the other two lines were registered with False dnismaking the identification of those responsible for the calls impossible. In short, everything indicates that these calls for advertising purposes were nothing more than scam attempts, telephone scams to obtain the data from the one who received the calls. A fine for negligence. Despite having shown that Xfera was not the first responsible in this practice, the AEPD has imposed a fine of 70,000 euros for being the final responsible for the data processing. It obliges, in the same way, to implement within six months new measures to verify the real identity of new prepaid clients. Similarly, Lebara will have to audit and regularize all its active lines to verify that they are under verified identities. A particular case that, again, resolves that responsibility for certain scam attempts lies on operators. Something that remembers Recent Supreme Court ruling making it clear that, in case of bank fraud by Phishing, the person responsible is the bank. Image | Andrei Metelev In Xataka | Exposed to Sim Swapping: It’s time to upload the security bar when granting card duplicates

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