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a month to present changes to their “false discounts” or risk fines

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The relief that Shein has achieved in the United States thanks to the Temporary Tariff reduction Contrast with the new front that opens in Europe. The European Commission and the Cooperation Network for Consumer Protection (CPC), which brings together the national authorities of the Member States, They have notified to the electronic commerce platform that several of its practices vulnea community legislation. Now he has a month to respond and avoid possible coercive measures. According to the official statement of the commissionThe notification is the result of an investigation coordinated by the authorities of Belgium, France, Ireland and the Netherlands. The CPC network It accuses Shein of applying tactics that directly affect consumer rights within the single market. What practices Brussels questions The file open to Shein lists a series of infractions related to the way in which its platform operates and communicates commercial information to consumers: False discounts: Price reductions that are not based on real prices are shown. Pressure tactics to buy: Use of techniques to push the user to finish the purchase. Lack of information or deceptive data: On the legal rights of return and reimbursement, or the way in which they are managed. Deceptive labels: products that appear to have special characteristics when in reality these are minimal legal requirements. Doubtive sustainability promises: Incomplete or false information about the environmental benefits of certain products. Contact difficulties: absence of clear and accessible channels to raise doubts or claims. Brussels is not limited to an informal warning. The notification requires concrete commitments. If in the next 30 days Shein does not respond properly, the national authorities may apply sanctions. Among them, the possibility of imposing fines proportional to its volume of business in each affected country is contemplated. This procedure adds to the ongoing investigation that the Commission itself maintains under the Digital Services Law (DSA). Shein was designated in April 2024 as a “Very large online platform”(Vlop, Vary Large Online Platform), which forces it to meet the strictest requirements in systemic risks, illegal content control and algorithmic transparency. The pressure not only comes from Brussels. Italy’s competence authority has started a procedurealso focused on the company’s commercial practices. In parallel, the Commission has made it clear that these actions do not interfere or limit other possible measures under product safety or data protection. In response to notification, a Shein spokesman declared the Wall Street Journal that The company is actively cooperating with the authorities. “Our priority remains to ensure that European consumers can enjoy an online purchase experience safe, reliable and pleasant”, Said. Shein, as we say, now has 30 days to present his commitments. Images | APPSHUNTER.IO | Screen capture In Xataka | Generation Z is changing the work culture of Japan: it has gone from dying for work to the “silent resignation”

After the blackout, false images of Spain and Portugal circulated from space. Now we have the real photos

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55 million people ran out of electricity in Spain and Portugal on April 28, but Total darkness images They circulated the next day, like the one above, they were false. The Balearic Islands did not suffer the blackout, and a good part of the Peninsula already had light when the night fell. Now the European Space Agency has compiled the real images captured from space. The trigger for this collection work were, in fact, the false images. Alejandro Sánchez de Miguel, researcher at the Institute of Astrophysics of Andalusia linked to ESA light pollution projects, He saw the photos that were circulating And he decided that the real ones had to be published. Three NASA satellites equipped with Night observation technology (Suomi-NPP, NOAA-20 and NOAA-21) spent a couple of times on the peninsula that night. Their Six images They tell us a nuanced story, and very different from viral montages, how the Peninsula finished illuminating. The blackout at 03:12, 03:36, 04:30, 04:54 and 05:18 While areas like Madrid had regained light around 22:00 on the 28th, other regions, especially in the souththey followed in the dark until Well enter the morning On the 29th, the almost complete recovery, visible in the last passes of the satellites, arrived at 5:00. The night was clear in almost the entire territory. Dark spots in France or the Portuguese coast are not due to supply cuts, but that the satellite did not go through that concrete region in the waterfall. In green, the areas that still had no light. Blank, the ones In these contrasted images, areas without light can be visualized more easily in green, while areas with electricity supply appear blank. The provinces of Almería and Granada They were the ones that took the closest to illuminate. There are also green areas in Castilla-La Mancha and dispersed regions of Levante, the Sierra Morena and the Campo de Gibraltar. The blackout in Andalusia seen by NASA Earth Observatory While satellites help quickly evaluate the scope and progression of light cuts, the blackouts itself offer space agencies the possibility of Study light pollution and its impact on the observation of heaven or In circadian rhythms of people. In areas such as Almería, the light pollution It was reduced between 70 and 80% during the blackout of April 28. But the light was restored, the stars turned off again and Pilas radio He went back to the drawer. Images | NASA, that In Xataka | ESA has launched the world’s first satellite equipped with Band Radar P. The goal: see through forests

false myths, why it is better to leave it on and when it is convenient to leave it off

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Let’s tell you everything you need to know about The myths and realities on turning off the router at night. Because many times they can advise you to do it with false pretexts, since in most cases it will not be necessary and you can leave it on without problems. We are going to start the article by denying the false myths that run around with leaving the router off at night. Then we will tell you The reasons why it is better to leave it onand we will end up indicating the few cases in which it is convenient to turn it off. False myths of turning off the router at night Now let’s tell you A list of false myths Related to turning off the router at night when you are not using the Internet. We will tell you each of the myths and then a small description to clarify why they are not true. Improve router performance: Turn off the router at night does not make it work bettersince they are designed to function continuously. In fact, turn on and off them constantly, sudden temperature changes that wear their long -term components can be generated. A lot of money is saved by electricity: Although when you turn off a device, consumption is reduced, that of your router at night is almost insignificant. They are designed to function all year without stopping, they are very efficient, and their expenditure on the electricity bill is just 6 euros a year. You can avoid hackeos: Obviously, if you don’t have the Internet at home, no one is going to access it, but the security of your domestic network does not depend on the router, but on other aspects such as your Wi -Fi passwords, have it updated, and so on. Even so, you cannot deny at all, since it is evident that without a domestic network because the router does not enter, but then look at the benefits to understand whether it compensates or not. It is better for your health: Wifi waves do not damage your health, that is a real nonsense. In addition, in your house you do not expose yourself only to your wifi, and if you do not believe me, put to look for networks with your mobile and you will see how the signs of a lot arrive. There is no scientific evidence in the studies that have been carried out that they point to the health, that is, you do not worry at any of this. Why it is better to leave the router on After denying or pointing to the reasons that are usually given to leave the router off, we will go to the opposite, tell you why it is better to keep your router on All year as it is designed to function. Again we will do it with a list where we will be giving you point to each explanation. Your connected devices continue to work: If you have devices connected to the Internet or intelligent home devices, when the router turns off they disconnect and stop working well. Come on, neither your intelligent speaker nor your voice -controlled lights will work already. Come on, your smart home ceases to be when you turn it off. Disconnect online security systems: In the event that among the connected devices there are some that are security, such as sensors, alarms or cameras, they will also stop working when Internet stops reaching them. That is, careful, very careful if you have invested in one. Automatic updates: Many manufacturers make firmware and software updates of their devices run at night to try not to interrupt when you are using it. Another reason to keep the router on at this time, so that they can be updated when you do not use them, even if it is the mobile. You can update these devices at any time, but better if you do when you don’t realize. Avoid thermal stress: The router off and ignition cycles submit its components to a thermal stress that can shorten its useful life. And if this is something you do daily, they can affect you much more, since the router is designed to work all day and maintain a constant and stable temperature. Avoid reconfigurations: There are some connected devices that, if they lose the Internet connection, may require an extra configuration to connect again. This are discomfort that you can avoid maintaining the stable connection. In what cases you can want to turn off the router There are cases in which the router may make sense, and where it can be recommended. Yes, we already know that we have just told you that it is best to leave it on, but there are always some small exceptions. In prolonged absences: Ok, if you are going on vacation several days or weeks, then it can be something safe and useful to leave the router off. Solution of specific problems: Turning off and turning back can be something useful if you are having specific problems in your connection and you think the router can fail. The restart will make its entire internal system load from scratch, solving almost all the small errors it may have. Firmware Manual Updates: Although it is not necessary that it is not necessary, some timely update of the router can ask you to restart it. Change your public IP: If you have a dynamic IP and you need to change it, the way to do it depends on each supplier. However, in some cases it may be enough to keep the router off a few minutes and then turn it on again. If you think there are intruders: If you think someone can be using your connection, it can be useful first to turn off the router to expel it. Immediately afterwards, light it and go to its configuration to change the safety and password of your network. In Xataka Basics | How to limit … Read more

The National Police had been using ia for six years to detect false complaints. His real reliability was very debatable

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In October 2018, the National Police published a press release in which everything sounded great. There was talk of A new artificial intelligence tool called Veripol that promised an accuracy of 90% when detecting false complaints. Six years later we have discovered that this promise was very debatable. The Technical Cabinet of the General Police Directorate He confirmed Civio that this tool ceased to be operational in October 2024, six years later. This decision, as this media points out, was not accidental. Three months before BOE was published with the new artificial intelligence regulation. In section (59) it is indicated to the polygraphs of AI as high -risk AI tools and the following is precisely indicated: “(…) It is appropriate to classify several systems of AI destined to be used for the purpose of guaranteeing the law when their precision, reliability and transparency are especially important to avoid adverse consequences, conserve the confidence of the population and guarantee accountability and effective resource roads. the risk of a natural person being a victim of crimes, Like polygraphs and other similar tools. “ Not only that: a group of law and mathematics experts from the University of Valencia highlighted In a study How Veripol was a tool that information was barely available, which made an especially complicated audit. Even indicating that this made them conjecture their conclusions, they stressed the situation was “very poor in terms of compliance with the minimum standards of transparency” necessary for the use of tools of this type. Do certain specific words are enough to detect lies? Civio conducted a study of the reliability of the tool. After analyzing 1,122 allegations of theft in Spain of 2015, Veripol’s behavior was singular: if a complaint contains the words “day”, “lawyer”, “safe” or “back” it is more likely to be false, but that probability increases If words like “two hundred” are used several times or “barely.” Veripol began to be evaluated in a pilot program in June 2017, and He won an award Investigation of the Spanish Police Foundation. There was talk of its success even In Scientific American. Little by little, its use was extended until officially activated in the aforementioned October 2018 nationwide. Its use was notable until October 2020 (about 84,000 complaints), while apparently in 2022 it was used only in 3,752 complaints, of which 511 were detected as false. In the development of said project The Complutense University of Madrid (UCM), the Carlos III University of Madrid, the University of Rome “La Sapienza” and the Interior Ministry of the Government of Spain. A UCM advertisement Point out How the initiative began in 2014, and began to be tested with apparent success in 2017. Preliminary tests, yes, were executed with a sample that The experts described as scarce. In this statement, it was highlighted how “it is the first time worldwide that a tool of these characteristics is developed” and that Veripol performed an “automatic analysis of the statements of complainants using natural language processing techniques and automatic learning, with a success rate of 91%, fifteen points higher than that of expert agents.” In the description of its operation the following was pointed out: “For example, it is known that in cases of theft, true statements are presented more details, descriptions and personal information, in the face of the exclusive insistence on the extracted object and the omission of details about the attacker or how the incident of the false happened. From this linguistic analysis, Veripol is able to create an effective pattern.” “In just one week, 31 and 49 false theft cases were detected and closed, while between 2008 and 2016 they were 3.33 and 12.14 in Murcia and Malaga, respectively. The effectiveness of the pilot study was 83%.” A doubtful reliability He Complete study of the University of Valencia reflects a debatable functioning of the tool. They indicate how Veripol designers claimed that false complaints in relation to theft are “extremely common” and the crime is “generally carried out by citizens who have no criminal record.” They have no clear figures, but even unable to estimate the real figure of false complaints “they suggest that it could be around 57%”, a figure that It rests interestingly in non -solving cases. In Damn.es They carried out in 2020 an analysis of the evolution of the use of veripol and indicated how “the fact that the total registered crimes remains constant as the veripol use figures decrease, can be an indicative that the algorithm It is not used so much among the police officers. “For some agents, they pointed out,” the program is not very precise “, and that although in theory it could work well, its application in police stations was complex because training was needed to do so. Algorithmwatch, a non -governmental and non -profit agency based in Berlin and Zurich, often performs algorithms analysis and AI systems to try to evaluate their reliability and validity. In October 2020 They evaluated Veripol’s behavior And his conclusion was already overwhelming: “It is not clear if it works as it is intended”. They also explained that lies detectors – which is in essence what Veripol is – have a long trajectory of bad operations. In this concrete algorithm, he worried for example how some specific words had too much weight in the decision. One of the agents interviewed at that time indicated how it was enough that the word “knife” was in the report to be considered true. We are therefore before a technological tool, in this case theoretically supported by AI, which raised doubts from the beginning for transparency about its true functioning and development, and that it began to be used without preliminary evidence being completely conclusive by the size of the samples. In recent times We have seen for example how the Ábalos ‘case’ served to demonstrate that There are many risks here and that it is necessary to evaluate well the application of algorithms before applying them in public bodies of … Read more

That the DGT is going to fine you with 135 euros for driving only in your car sounds bad. The only problem is that it is false

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It has become a small classic. From time to time, the news about the DGT points to new fines, sanctions or restrictions (each one more rare or unexpected) that, of course, does not exist. The last bulus points to the obligation to circulate with more than one person in the car. And if not … fine? Of course not. It is the first thing that has made us clear the DGT. To questions from Xatakafrom the organism they tell us that the DGT “will never fine to go alone in the car.” Because, indeed, that has been the last rumor that has been popularized in social networks and of which some media echoed dropping that this measure is being valued. What do we talk about? In recent days, The voice has run that the DGT works to carry out a regulation that forces us to circulate with more than one person inside the car. It has even been said that there will be fines of 135 euros if this supposed new regulation is breached. Where does all this come from? The last bulus that involves the DGT is born from a few words expressed by Pere Navarro, director of the agency, last November during the Global Mobility Call. In him he affirmed that “The future will be shared or will not be”. With this, the director of the DGT wanted to make clear the importance of sharing vehicle to save in resources and consume and pollute less. However, “one thing is to foster and another fine,” they tell us from the DGT. And the words of the director of the DGT seem to go along this line unless they want to strangle to generate noise and clicks. There is a reason. And for the DGT that reason is that, according to their data, 85% of the displacements carried out every day in Spanish cities between home and work are done with a single occupant in a vehicle. This way of moving is obviously not very efficient. “We must make a collective change of mentality that allows us to encourage the high occupation of the vehicles, because we cannot afford 1,500 kg every day to displace a single person. Increasing the occupation of the vehicles is a challenge and a necessity,” Navarro said in his speech. The “case” of France. And we could use many, but many quotes. To ensure that the fine for breaching this alleged DGT standard will be 135 euros, some media have come to say that this measure is already applied in France and that heat cameras are used to warn if there is more than one person on board. But this is not true. Vao. What has been launched in some French cities is A high occupation lane. That is, a lane like the Spanish bus-life by which only vehicles with more than one person can circulate inside. Lanes that in the Spanish case are already controlled with the use of traffic cameras and whose Fine for using it improperly is 200 euros. For the control of these lanes, indeed, In France thermal radars are being used. The objective is to prevent some stratagems from being used that deceive the cameras. In Spain, for example, cases of using dolls in the passenger seat so that, disguised, pass a companion. And one last detail. To all of the above we must add that the DGT has no competences to regulate traffic in cities. Regulate the functioning of low emissions areas (ZBE) falls on the side of the municipalities. In fact, it is something that has been complaining for a long time and using as endorsement not to establish these zbe which are mandatory since 2023 in the municipalities of more than 50,000 inhabitants. Photo | Kindel Media and DGT In Xataka | The DGT wants to generalize the airbag on motorcycles. Your shortcut: make it mandatory to get the card to

Fed of excess speed on her street, a Frenchman did the only thing she could do: install a false radar

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This 2025 will be installed more than 120 new radars in Spain. The location of fixed radars is not a secret and can be easily consultedbut the objective is clear: that the drivers respect the speed limits. There are some who have no machinery And they are only as a deterrent. And, appealing to that deterrence, a Frenchman tired of speeding on a road from his town placed a homemade radar. A shabby, plastic and that has ended up being effective. So much that has even caught the attention of the mayor. The radar. In France they have several guys of fixed radars. They are huge black or gray boxes with a yellow and black tape, but one of them is cylindrical and has technology capable of distinguishing between vehicles and lanes. Thus, it captures the speed of trucks and vehicles separately in case both types come out in the photo. That is the one that is anonymous neighbor of a town called Bezannes has decided to imitate. On January 22, Jean Monnet Avenue, limited to 30 km/h, dawned with a new radar. The City Council had not reported its presence, but there was, imposing, in the median of an area with a high volume of traffic. Its design was exactly the same as HGV radars, with the imitation of the two windows for the sensors, so the neighbor created it conscientiously to pass through a real one. Security: 1, Cost: 0. One of the people who ran into him recognized It shows that it is false, but also that, from a distance, “one might think that it is a real radar.” He also confessed that he was surprised the first time he saw him and raised his foot from the accelerator because “no one leads at that speed” and that he does not understand the limit. Bezannes is a fairly small town, of just over 1,200 inhabitants, but the avenue connects with the city of Reims, a much larger with about 180,000 inhabitants to the northeast of the country. Therefore, that connection avenue has a high traffic volume, but a limit speed of 30 km/h. Before it was 50 km/h, but as in Spain, they decided to limit the speed due to the presence of two pedestrian crossings. Of the mayor’s taste. Who liked the idea was, perhaps, the most unexpected. The morning of that day, the police had already seen that there was an element that should not be there and informed the mayor. Your reaction? “It’s quite well done.” The mayor, Dominique Potar, completed his argument wondering if he was a work of a joker or a conscious citizen who wanted to contribute to security in his own way, but that was something that did not change the result of the action. “Perhaps, we should even congratulate him because he has had a real impact on traffic,” he said. The results seem obvious, since Potar said that, in the area, there were times that the speed was exceeded in 100 km/h what was allowed, so they installed Badenes that managed to reduce it, but that it is not yet enough and there are times that there are times that They place spy radars, which serve to measure those infractions, but that are not useful as a deterrent method. To the ground, of course. Potar joked that “perhaps we should place it in another place in the city”, but not everyone took this joke or action of a neighbor tired of traffic as something as positive. Proof of this is that, soon after, the radar ended on the ground because someone had tried to destroy it. The legality of false radars. As much as it may be, and although the radar was quite shabby, it is evident that it has fulfilled its goal by pointing out that we are going very fast and that we only respond when we touch our pocket. Now, the most curious thing is that this of false radars is not so weird. In fact, in France, any You can put one at home. They do the neighbors who live in areas where the speed is high and fight to try to stop it. There are examples of radars such as the one placed in Bezannes, but also others like a camouflaged mailbox as if it were a radar. According to its owner, it works, but it has already had to screw it because they have thrown it on occasion. There are also some Much elaborate that also seem, clearly, a real radar, with cameras, flash and everything. Outstanding image | Marc Mongenet In Xataka | The 50 radars that are most fine throughout Spain: these are their locations and everything they collect

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