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Apple forces its users to go to ESIM

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Apple is about to make the definitive leap towards technology esim also in the rest of the countries. Cupertino’s company has announced that will eliminate the physical sim of your new iPhone Air Recently presented, including the devices that are marketed in Spain. The decision is not far from what he was doing in the United States, because in that country it has been like this From the iPhone 14. Goodbye to physical sim. While in the United States they have been living with iPhones without SIM groove for about three years, the rest of the countries had remained out of this transition. Runrún sounded a few weeks ago when sources close to Apple confirmed That the employees of their European stores had received specific training on iPhone compatible only with ESIM. According to these sources, the training should be completed before September 5, days prior to the official presentation of the terminals. What models will be affected. Here in Spain, only the iPhone Air arrives with ESIM exclusively. However, for the rest of the family, Apple has developed versions only with Esim for Bahrain, Canada, Guam, Japan, Kuwait, Mexico, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, the United States and the Virgin Islands of the United States. This means that models of iPhone 17 and iPhone 17 Pro They will exclusively adopt ESIM technology in the aforementioned countries. It seems that Europe is saved at the moment. In the case of the Air, which replaces the iPhone Plus in the range, it has a thickness of just 5.5 millimeters at its thinner point, so the space is significantly lower to place a sim card tray. The rest of the models will follow the same strategy for the countries mentioned by the company’s commercial decision. It only remains to know when this decision will affect us for the rest of the terminals. What Apple defends. The company argues that ESIM offers greater security than the natural, since they cannot be extracted from a lost or stolen iPhone. In addition, a single device can manage up to eight esim different simultaneously, eliminating the need to carry, exchange or mislead physical cards during trips. For Apple, it is a logical step towards the complete digitalization of its devices, a small more step towards An iPhone without physical ports. The challenge of the operators In Spain. Although the main Spanish operators such as Movistar, Vodafone and Orange They already support Esimadoption is not yet total. Some OMV operators and prepaid rates have not yet fully implemented this technology. Therefore, if you end up opting for an iPhone Air, you will have to verify in advance if your current operator is compatible with Esim. However, everything indicates that there will not be much left so that the rest of the operators who have not already done it, end up being compatible with technology. And now what. As we reviewed, users who depend on natural cards will have to plan their transition during the next months if they are going to opt for an iPhone Air. Those who change their operators frequently travel with local SIMs or use company devices with specific cards will have to take an eye to get an ESIM and continue using the device normally. The good thing is that the iPhone allows you to manage up to a maximum of eight ESIM, something very comfortable for when we travel. Cover image | Apple More information | Apple In Xataka | The United States does not accept a “no” by response for the 100% American iPhone. And Apple is starting to give in

An unpleasant fault in the ISS bath forces astronauts to extreme precautions

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Living in space is full of challenges. One of the most earthly is the frequency with which the toilets of the International Space Station are spoiled. A ghost threat. Japanese astronaut Takuya Onishi told on social networks that his weekend had been crowded by “a strange damage in the bathroom just before Saturday lunch.” In a somewhat cryptic way, Onishi reported That, after the incident, he had been “living with fear of the ghost threat, an invisible threat” that his followers soon interpreted as an unpleasant olfactory experience. Extreme precautions. Finally, Saturday’s breakdown in one of the toilets of the International Space Station has persisted this week, forcing astronauts to take drastic measures, such as giving up coffee. “The bathroom worked badly before yesterday,” explains Onishi in his X profile. “I had to spend yesterday without even taking a cup of coffee,” he laments. For a “coffee lover”, like He describes himselfthe measure reflects the seriousness with which the crew of expedition 73 are living the breakdown. The nth fault of the WC. On Wednesday, NASA astronaut Nicole Aunapu Mann “did an emergency maintenance in the afternoon, so I could enjoy a quiet morning again,” Onishi account. But the ghost threat persists. The bathrooms of the American segment of the Space Station have been for weeks, if not months, giving war. Without going any further, on July 15, Onishi himself He spent two hours replacing the “toilet pump separator”, a key piece that centrifuges urine and air. A Russian eschatological roulette. In May, the problems were even more evident. After change a defective pump Together with his NASA partner Jonny Kim, Takuya Onishi compared the use of the bathroom with “playing Russian roulette.” On another occasion, the breakdowns light was turned on at dawn. “Not to wake up others, I secretly contacted Houston and took care of the situation,” The Japanese astronaut commented. With humor, he added that the six times that the fault light had lit, he had been present in five. From the mission control they replied: “You are the chosen one.” A complicated engineering. The International Space Station has four toilets: two in the Russian segment (in the Zvezdá and Nauka modules) and two in the US segment (the WHC and The modern UWMSboth in the Tranquility module). These systems are engineering wonders that use air suction instead of water. While Urine is recycled through a processor complex To turn it into drinking water, solid waste is collected in bags inside hermetic containers. The containers are stored and, finally, are discarded in load ships designed to burn in the atmospheresuch as American Cygnus or Russian progress. Why do they fail so much. He New UWMS toilet He has given many problems since his installation, but he is not the only one who fails. In recent years there has been From water leaks In the urine pretreatment system until Simultaneous breakdowns in all toilets. Each failure requires that astronauts, who are also the plumbers of the station, dedicate time and effort to complex repairs in small spaces. Onishi’s story, a veteran astronaut in his second long -term stay, is a reminder that life in orbit mixes scientific experiments in microgravity with much more mundane challenges. For now, thanks to an emergency repair, normality and coffee have returned to the International Space Station. Images | NASA, JAXA In Xataka | In the 90s they experienced with living outside the earth and, indeed, we would all be dead except cockroaches

The US pressure forces China to independent its chip industry. These two projects are their best cards

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China has no choice. Or develops its own manufacturing technology of avant -garde semiconductors or will lose its struggle for world supremacy With the US. No 100% Chinese advanced chips their military capacity, the development of their models of artificial intelligence (AI) and the competitiveness of their technology companies will resent in the medium term. Huawei and SMIC are manufacturing advanced integrated circuits, but use machines from the Dutch company ASML and a technology known as Multiple patterning that compromises its competitiveness. This scenario has caused the Chinese government support with very juicy subsidies to companies that have the ability to develop avant -garde photolithography equipment, such as SicarrierShanghai YuliangSheng, Shanghai Micro Electronics Equipment (Smee), Huawei or SMIC. Time plays against this Asian country. How much later in having their own machines of extreme ultraviolet lithography (UVE), which are those used to make very high integration chips, more delayed will be in front of the US and its allies. 2026 will be a crucial year for China in the field of chips The Chinese Academy of Sciences is finishing what is undoubtedly The most ambitious project How many are developing the Chinese semiconductor industry. Thanks to this plan the nation led by Xi Jinping is about to reach a “Deepseek” in the field of integrated circuit industry. This simply means that it is preparing to reach a disruption that has the potential to place this Asian country at the same height as the US, Taiwan or South Korea. However, China’s strategy to produce avant -garde chips is very different from what their rivals have used until now. Each of ASML UVE machines incorporates its own ultraviolet light source, but the Chinese Academy of Sciences seeks to generate this important radiation to produce advanced chips using a syncrotronwhich is nothing other than a circular particle accelerator that is used to analyze atomic level the properties of matter, such as various types of materials, or even proteins. It’s called heps (High Energy Photon Source or high -energy photons source), it is in Beijing and we can see it in the cover photography of this article. Heps syncrotron has the ability to produce high power UVE light An important note before moving forward: the ultraviolet light (UV) is responsible for transferring the geometric pattern that contains the design of the chips to the Silicon wafer. This means, in broad strokes, that the UVE light has the ability to make possible the manufacture of integrated circuits with a greater resolution than the deep ultraviolet light (UVP) that use the previous generation lithography machines that China has in their hands. And a greater resolution in practice implies that it is possible to produce semiconductors with more transistors, and, therefore, more sophisticated and powerful. A priori we can think that a particle accelerator has nothing to do with the manufacture of integrated circuits, but we would be overlooking something very important: the Heps syncrotron has the ability to produce high power UVE light. In fact, it is a source designed to generate a large amount of radiation. China’s plan is to place around the particle accelerator Several semiconductor manufacturing plants to which the syncotron will deliver the UVE light in the same way that a power plant delivers electricity to its customers. That simple. The date on which China plans to start this megaphabrum of avant -garde semiconductors has not yet leaked, but it is already very advanced. However, China’s plans do not end here. In the middle of last March several Asian media collected a photograph taken at the Huawei Research Center in Dongguan, in the province of Canton, in which it appeared The prototype of a UVE lithography team Designed and manufactured entirely in China. Presumably this machine is similar to those produced by ASML, which invites us to anticipate that for 2026 the country led by Xi Jinping will have the ability to produce advanced chips on a large scale. This Chinese lithography equipment uses an LDP type ultraviolet source and not LPP class The leaks They assure That unlike the UVE machines produced by the Dutch company ASML, this Chinese lithography equipment uses an LDP ultraviolet light source (laser induced discharge), and not LPP class (plasma generated by laser). Presumably The development of this ultraviolet radiation emission source It is the milestone that has allowed Chinese engineers to develop a machine that Many experts did not see possible before five years in the best case. At the moment the most prudent is that we take this information with caution, but it seems solid enough to echo it. An interesting note is that on paper the LDP source is able to generate UVE light with a wavelength of 13.5 nm, so this Chinese prototype should be able to compete from you to you with ASML UVE photolithography machines. In addition, the leaks argue that China will begin the production of more test machines during the third quarter of this year with the purpose of launching the large -scale manufacture of these equipment during 2026. Image | Dr. Kim More information | Dr. Kim In Xataka | TSMC acknowledges that it has been considered taking its factories out of Taiwan. It is impossible for a good reason

A sentence forces the Principality of Asturias to pay the glasses to a public employee. It is only the first of many

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The Occupational Risk Prevention Regulations establishes a series of mandatory measures and recommendations to maintain the Safety of work environmentsand forcing companies to adopt measures of protection for your employees. Adequate clothing, helmets, gloves, protective footwear, etc. However, what happens when what causes physical damage is the continued use of screens in the workplace? That is the situation that a public employee In 2021. The Social 1 Court of Mieres, in Asturias, has responded to the lawsuit forcing the Asturian administration to take care of the Cost of graduated glassesopening the door to future demands of other employees in the same situation. What happened? As extracted from the sentence to which Xataka has had access, the affected person is a work worker of the Principality who performed maintenance assistant at the Sports Center of El Cristo in Oviedo. In 2021, the center digitized the access control system, so the employee increased the use of screens in his job. As a result of the use of screens, the employee began to present visual discomfort that before the change did not suffer affecting his visual acuity in the use of the screens. In 2024, the employee asked the Principality of Asturias for an ophthalmological review and the provision of new glasses adequate if the recognition recommended it. The autonomous administration ignored both “leaving it without answer,” says the sentence. In January 2025, on behalf of the employee, the legal service of the USIPA-SAIF union He filed a lawsuit against the Principality claiming the application of European directives and The sentences of the Court of Justice of the European Union. The protagonist: Directive 90/270. In his sentence, the Mieres Court forces the Principality of Asturias to provide or cover the cost of glasses to a public employee to need them to work with screens, in compliance with article 9 sections 1, 2 and 3 of the European Directive 90/270on minimal safety and health provisions for work. This European directive complements community regulations through a series of minimum provisions common to all EU countries. In the aforementioned article 9, the eye protection measures and the view of the workers are established. Specifically, “if you experience visual difficulties that may be due to work with the screen.” Under this article the right to ophthalmological reviews is collected, and forces employers to provide employees with “special corrective apparatus appropriate to the work in question”. A pioneer sentence. The sentence recognizes the employee the relevance of the application of that 90/270 directive and the European jurisprudence with a Judgment issued in Italy where this right is also recognized that employers must provide special corrective devices (such as glasses) if medical recognitions justify them. The sentence distinguishes between “normal corrective devices” (general use, out of work) and “special corrective devices” (specifically necessary For tasks with screens), putting the focus in the latter, since the employee only reported “visual acuity disorders that had been diagnosed, however, it is incumbent at the aforementioned jurisdictional body to verify whether the graduated glasses in question effectively serve to correct view disorders related to their work and not general view problems.” Thus, the sentence fails in favor of the employee forcing the administration of the Principality of Asturias “to be carried out an ophthalmological medical examination, (…) as well as that they are given with graduated glasses if they were prescribed by said option as necessary to perform their daily work in front of the computer screen or reimburse them The expenses of its acquisition“, is specified in the sentence. Why is the sentence important? The application of these regulations by the Mieres Social Court feels a precedent in the prevention of occupational hazards, normalizing the ocular protection of those employees who are exposed to long days in front of screens without the equivalent of protection to a helmet in the case of workers or gloves for a carpenter. Maria Guadalupe Lorenzo, lawyer of the Legal Service of the Usipa-Saif Union of Asturias that has led this case, says that “from our union we are already formulating claims of the future extensions of effects to this sentence for the labor personnel who are in a similar situation, as well as claims for the official personnel and other affiliated workers. There will be multiple claims and surely more sentences in this regard.” The sentence is firm because the Principality has not appealed, so its application is immediate. In Xataka | Going to the bathroom is not work: a Swiss court allows a company to force its employees to sign when they go to the bathroom Image | Unspash (Nonsap Visuals)

Justice forces him to block illegal retransmissions of MotoGP

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In a movement that reminds us a lot of what is happening in these latitudes, Canal+ has made French justice recognize Cloudflare as responsible technical intermediary in its three capacities (DNS, CDN and inverse proxy), forcing it to implement blocks against websites that illegally retransmit the MotoGP 2025. Why is it important. The Judicial Court of Paris feels a European precedent that could well influence the similar conflict that They keep LaLiga and Cloudflare in Spain on the blocking of websites that broadcast matches without rights. The details: The sentence, issued at the end of March and which Xataka It has had access, states that Cloudflare must apply “all appropriate measures” to prevent access from French territory to fourteen concrete websites. The court has dismissed Cloudflare’s arguments about the alleged technical complexity and the excessive cost of applying these blockages. Technology must fulfill within a maximum period of three days after notification, without being fined at the moment. The ruling rejects the limitation of measures requested by Cloudflare and leaves him freedom to choose the technical modalities that he will use to make the blockages. The foundations. The French court has determined that … The DNS services of Cloudflare “allow access to a website thanks to its domain name” through conversion in IP address. Its CDN network “reduces the data transmission time to the user and improves the safety and reliability of web pages”. And defines its inverse proxy service as “a shield between user applications and the litigious site server.” So the sentence concludes that these three capacities fulfill a “transmission function” that justifies the imposition of measures. Meanwhile in Spain. LaLiga has been with legal actions against cloudflare for months for IPS blocks That, according to the entity, they affect “scarcely a few hundred” of legitimate websites, not “millions” as the technological alleges. Cloudflare responded by presenting an incident of nullity against the Spanish sentence, claiming that LaLiga obtained “hiding the foreseeable damage to third parties.” Justice rejected it. The company chaired by Javier Tebas has accused Cloudflare of collaborating “through its technology with the commission of the most serious crimes such as child pornography, pimping, fraud, etc..” Meanwhile in Europe: The legal framework. The French sentence is based on the Sports Code and Intellectual Property regulations, in line with the European Directives on Copyright. The ruling quotes jurisprudence of the EU Court of Justice that establishes that an “intermediary” is any person who transmits a commitment committed in a network. And in this case, the judicial “victim” is cloudflare. In Xataka | This is how Ech works, the Technological Shield of Cloudflare that has put the operators between the sword and the wall Outstanding image | MotoGP, Cloudflare

The 10 most powerful air forces in the world, compared to a clarifying graphic

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From the Combat Aviation Large in the World War I and the improvement in the Second World Waraerial supremacy has been one of the objectives of the countries that most invest in the military arm. Air control is crucial, and in recent years we have seen that some of the most tense incidents among nations (Of those who have not finished at war, of course) have had heaven as protagonists. With the era of hypertecnological aircraft, those that have advanced furtive abilities and, Above all, dronesthe Air Force is a key strategic factor in the current geopolitics. And in this graph prepared by Visual Capitalist We can see what are the most powerful air forces in the world. Were there doubts? With base data of Global Firepowerwe can see how the United States, to anyone’s surprise, is the nation that has the most aircraft. A total of 13,209, far from a Russia with 4,255 ships and a China that holds about 3,304. The American domain is overwhelming, and outside the podium, we see that the rest of the countries maintain a balance in their air forces. Potpourri. Now, not all the ships shown in the graph are combat fighters. Of those 13,209 United States aircraft, 1,854 are combat aircraft (which is more than the complete fleet of most countries, on the other hand), 3,722 are support planes and 5,737 are helicopters. To compare, Russia has 609 support planes, 809 fighters and 1,554 helicopters, although the total amount can vary due to its losses from the beginning of the Ukraine War. Number vs. Equipment. Now, something important is that the air war would not be won by the one that has the most ships. In this issue, we must leave the United States out of the equation due not only to the number of vehicles, but also the country that invests the most money in its military arm. It is estimated that the North American country Invest More than 800,000 million dollars in defense, far from the 252,000 million of China, the 72,900 of India or, even, the 63,000 million annually that Japan planned to invest from 2023 to 2027 for Modernize your forces. Because this, as we say, is important. Returning to the Air Forces, the Japanese country is modernizing its fleet with advanced aircraft such as F-15 and F-2. South Korea or the United Kingdom are also in That modernization point And Russia, which invests 61,7 billion dollars in defense, has the second most numerous fleet, yes, but full of outdated equipment. China in Mach 3. And in this game of numbers and investment, it must also be taken into account that countries do not show all their letters. It is evident that the United States would have no problem in declaring the total number of aircraft due to the huge military muscle it has, but China has been investing a lot and in full military growth that makes it complicated to know, really, how many aircraft it has. The Asian giant is burning money on airplanes, specifically in Advanced fighters such as the J-20, the J-15T and the J-34a, but it is also known that it is developing nuclear submarines, Heavy helicopters, latest generation aircraft carriersadvanced furtive aircraft and other types of military assets. Not to mention the progress in development of nuclear headsan aggressive advance that seeks to close the military gap with other powers. In the end, it is a balance between the number of forces and their generation, but despite efforts of other powers, the United States still does not have a rival, since only its military expense represents 40% of world military spending. And, of course, he is also advancing by leaps and bounds in New generation aircraft. In Xataka | The countries that most and less money invest in NATO beyond the US, gathered in this graphic

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