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Francisco Valencia, CEO of Secure&IT, on the challenge of AI attacks

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Yesterday morning I went to a new edition of the cybersecurity conferences of Secure&IT in Madrid with a fairly clear idea: to listen to how companies are using the artificial intelligence to better defend yourself and make life difficult for cybercriminals. It was a reasonable expectation. AI has become one of the great promises of the sector and it seemed logical to think that a good part of the conversation would revolve around its new defensive capabilities. But the day left a much deeper reading. What is moving is not just another technological layer on top of the usual systems. It is the mental framework of cybersecurity itself. The speed of change, the sophistication of attacks, and the entry of new algorithm-based tools are forcing companies to rethink everything from how they patch software to how they anticipate threats. The feeling there, listening to the speakers, was clear: we are not facing a simple update of tools, but rather a change of era. Francisco ValenciaCEO of Secure&IT, who I was able to interview a while agoput that idea on the table as soon as it began with a particularly graphic phrase: “We have always said that in cybersecurity we are one step behind cybercrime and we are now 10 steps behind cybercrime“The statement was surprising for its crudeness, but it also helped to organize the conversation. Looking at this disadvantage head-on, without selling false certainties, may be the first step to understanding what is coming. Cybersecurity was waiting for an ally, but cybercrime has also found one The key is that AI has not only changed the available tools, but also the balance of the game. Valencia put it crudely because, from his point of view, cybercriminals have taken off while many companies are still trying to decide how to use AI in a safe, useful and governed way. This difference in rhythm explains a good part of the diagnosis. Attackers don’t need to resolve every internal debate in an organization, justify every deployment, or wait for a perfect corporate policy. They just need to test, automate and exploit what works. The speaker began by addressing one of the most disturbing pieces of this new scenario: the Dark LLM. LLMs, or large language models, are the technical layer that powers applications such as ChatGPT, Copilot or Gemini: systems capable of interpreting instructions, helping to program or solve complex tasks. The companies that develop them introduce limits, filters and guardrails to prevent harmful uses, both for safety and for the ethical criteria with which they design these systems. The Dark LLM, such as FraudGPT and WormGPTstart from a much more dangerous logic: offer similar capabilities, but without those barriers. The interesting thing is that this logic does not always depend on creating a new model from scratch. Valencia also spoke of jailbreaka way of trying to avoid the limits of conventional AI through carefully constructed instructions. It’s not simply asking a system to do something forbidden, but wrapping that request in a context that pushes it to respond where it should stop. In practice, the result can be similar: capabilities of a powerful model put at the service of uses that large companies try to block. This leap is very well understood when we move from the tool to deception. For years we have associated many fraud campaigns with clumsy, massive and easy-to-detect messages, but AI allows us to change the scale without giving up personalization. The CEO of Secure&IT summed it up with a very clear phrase: “I don’t need to send the Nigerian’s spam to 20 million people saying that I have fallen in love with 20 million people to see who will bite. I send the same email to 20 million, but I tell each one what they want to hear“That’s the difference: the attack can still be massive, but it no longer has to seem generic. The attack may still be massive, but it no longer has to feel generic. During the presentation a term also appeared that caught my attention: malware polymorphic. It may sound very technical, even more typical of a conversation between analysts than an article to understand what is happening, but it helps to land something important. We are no longer just talking about a malicious program that enters a computer and tries to repeat itself on other computers with the same behavior. It is something much more sophisticated: a threat capable of reaching a machine, reading the environment, identifying what defenses are in front of it and generating a version adapted to that specific scenario. The consequence for security teams is obvious: if each machine receives a different variant, detecting patterns, relating signals and reconstructing the attack becomes much more difficult. It is no longer just a matter of finding a malicious file and following its trail across the network. In a scenario where “the virus on each computer is different“, the campaign can have the same objective, but leave different traces on each team. And when the traces change, the analysis is no longer linear. Secure&IT dedicated its cybersecurity days this year to analyzing how AI is changing the sector Valencia’s message about automation was one of the clearest of the day: AI is taking time away from defense. For years, companies have had some margin between detecting a vulnerability, creating an exploit, and actually exploiting it. That margin could be imperfect, but it existed. It allowed you to organize analysis, prioritize patches and update systems every certain number of months. The phrase that best condenses the change is direct: “Until now time was a weapon to defend ourselves and now time is no longer a weapon to defend ourselves.” The consequence is very practical. If before an organization could carry out vulnerability analyzes every several months and plan updates with some calm, that scheme is beginning to fall short. According to experts, an AI tool can search for a vulnerability, identify it, prepare the attack path, and run it … Read more

consumes more light than the city of San Francisco during rush hour

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Being late to the AI ​​race means being left behind. We have the case of Apple that has just knelt and will use Google models to improve Siri. However, there is another opposite case with xAI, a company that was born in 2023when ChatGPT was already more than grown, and today it has made a place for itself among the largest, even overtaking them. what has happened. xAI has just inaugurated Colossus 2, its new data center located in Memphis, Tennessee. For an AI company to open a data center is not surprising, given the pace at which they are being built, but in this case we are talking about the first AI training cluster of 1 gigawatt of power. To put it in context, it is more electricity than peak hour demand in the city of San Francisco. Elon Musk has boasted in X and has assured that by April they want to expand to 1.5 gigawatts. Colossus 2, in figures. Colossus 1 has 230,000 GPUs and the new cluster has upped the ante with more than half a million GPUs and it is also one of the most expensive ever built. According to the report of EpochAIthe investment has reached 44,000 million dollars. The Microsoft Fairwater center is expected to surpass it in both investment and power, but is still in the construction phase. Infrastructure yes, thank you. xAI may not have the best chatbot, but they want to have it and that means creating infrastructure faster than their rivals. With Colossus 1the company completed its construction in just 122 days, a milestone. Colossus 2 took a little longer (the project started in March 2025), but In just six months it already had 200MW of cooling capacity installedwhich according to Semianalysis is much faster than other megaprojects from Oracle and OpenAI. Stepping on the accelerator. As we said, xAI was born in 2023, a time when there were already established companies in the sector. In the Semianalysis graph, you can see perfectly the acceleration they have given in training capacity. At the beginning of 2024 they were last in capacity and by September 2025 they had placed second behind OpenAI. Apart from the Grok controversies (that there have not been few) it has become clear that betting on infrastructure has been key for xAI catches up of his rivals. Controversies. Feeding these mastodons is not an easy task and for this Musk’s company deployed up to 35 gas turbines with a capacity of more than 400 megawatts. The problem is that they pollute a lot and Memphis already has terrible air quality, so much so that it’s known as the “asthma capital.” Plus, he didn’t have permission to have that many turbines, so Musk had an idea: Colossus is next to the border with Mississippi, another state where emissions laws are more lax, so moved part of the turbines there. Image | xAI In Xataka | Elon Musk wants to turn xAI into an ultra-valuable company and he knows how to do it: using the SpaceX vault

Openai is already worth half dollars, its employees are selling shares … and the San Francisco Explorado real estate market

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OpenAI has closed a secondary sale of shares of 6,600 million dollars that places its valuation at 500,000 million. In addition to a financial milestone, this is also an earthquake in the San Francisco real estate market, where employees more than two years old are monetizing part of their participations to buy properties. Why is it important. The operation allows current and old workers to sell Equity to investors eager to access the company’s shareholders or increase its presence in it. They are actors like SoftBank, Thrive Capital or MGX of Abu Dhabi. Openai had authorized sales for more than 10,000 million, although it finally only materialized 66% of that amount. A year ago, its valuation was 157,000 million. It rose to 300,000 million in March 2025, and now reaches 500,000 million, surpassing Spacex (456,000 million). The context. San Francisco real estate agents They are seeing something they had not seen before: Buyers who sell shares of private companies to pay tickets of $ 375,000 (the average in certain neighborhoods of the city) or directly buy in cash. Neighborhoods like Hayes Valley (renamed ‘Valley brain‘For the concentration of AI startups), Noe Valley and Mission Bay are receiving direct pressure from these new buyers with a deep pocket. Mechanics. OpenAI and other AI companies remain private (that is, without going to be traded in the stock market) much longer than the technological startups of previous generations. Employees cannot wait years in an IPO to access their paper wealth. So secondary markets, where private shareholders sell to institutional investors, have become the fast road to convert cash actions. Between the lines. This secondary sale fulfills two functions: On the one hand, it is a retention tool in the middle of a brutal war for talent: Goal has signed at least seven OpenAi Top engineers This summer, often with millionaire bonds. On the other, it allows Openai to keep employees happy who could be frustrated by the lack of liquidity, without having to go over or dilute the control. Yes, but. The OpenAI conversion into a profit company It has not been reversed by a final sentence. In March 2025, a federal judge rejected Elon Musk’s request to issue a precautionary measure to block that change, although he allowed several of his claims to proceed to trial. On the other hand, some investment conditions linked fund commitments (for example of softbank) to which OpenAi advanced with its restructuring, so that if certain milestones were not fulfilled, those commitments could be affected. Musk, who co -founded Openai and left the organization in 2018, sued Openai and Altman arguing that they had breached foundational commitments by moving away from his original non -profit mission. The impact. The consequences in San Francisco go beyond buyers with a lot of money: AI companies such as OpenAi, Anthropic and company are causing An increase in housing demand in neighborhoods close to their work. The cycle features: more well -paid employees generate more demand, more pressure on prices, and more need for immediate liquidity to compete in a market where cash offers have an advantage. Real estate professionals point out A change with respect to previous booms technological: Buyers not only have a high heritage, but also have access to immediate liquidity through secondary markets. They sell just enough for entry and closing expenses, and maintain their exposure to the company, but ensure a tangible asset that diversifies their risk. The big question. Is this sustainable? Openai right now is The most valuable startup in the worldbut loses money while competing in an AI infrastructure race that needs almost unlimited money. If the valuation bubble is deflated, thousands of employees with huge mortgages based on overvalued shares could be seen in trouble. At the moment, the secondary market is creating a new class of owners in San Francisco: AI engineers who have turned code into houses without waiting for the Wall Street bell to sound. In Xataka | Openai’s new social network is hilarious and addictive. So much that it is easy to forget what hides behind Outstanding image | Joshua Sortino

Francisco pointed to a “revolution” in his papacy. His legacy in the Church summarizes a handful of gestures

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When on the afternoon of March 13, 2013, Jean- Louis Touran He left the central balcony of the Basilica of San Pedro and announced that Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio had been the chosen new Pope of Rome, the world He knew that an earthquake was coming. Now 12 years later and just after his deathIt is time to evaluate whether that tremor even occurred. The Pope of the end of the world. This was the aforementioned Francisco before a completely crowded San Pedro square: “You know that the duty of the conclave was to give a bishop to Rome. It seems that my cardinal brothers have gone to look for him to the end of the world. But here we are.” A month ago, Benedict XVI had resigned from the position exhausted by the amount of existential problems that harassed the Church and what everyone expected were changes. Ratzinger’s papacy had understood himself as a transit solution: as a church that won time to prepare for the challenges that the 21st century was raising. In the light of the headlines we are seeing in these hours (“A social and reformer gale“), we would run the risk of thinking that Francisco gave that battle and won it. But shortly we examine in detail his pontificate we see that it was not exactly like that. A change radical of ways. This is the first thing that caught the attention of Francisco’s arrival to Rome: the change in forms. Live in the residence of Santa Marta (instead of in the pontifical apartments), their simple clothing, its animosity, slyness and vitality … As I said in July 2013 British conservative journalist Andrew Sullivan: “What impacted is not which He said, but as He said it: kindness, humor, transparency. “ That raised endless expectations (Sullivan’s article is called, in fact, “This extraordinary Pope“). Francisco’s big problem is that these expectations have not been met – or not at all. Because? Well by What Sullivan said: “I have waited a lot of time to listen to a Pope to speak like this: with kindness and frankness, reaffirming established dogmas with sudden and radical exceptions that are not exactly exceptions, although, without a doubt, They sound as such “. In that”Sound as such“Everything was. Who expected something much more transformative, I was waiting too much. A very aesthetic papacy. In fact, an aesthetic ‘too much’ papacy. Francisco was 23 when the Second Vatican Council began, he had been in the Seminar for two years. It is, in a lot of sense, the generation that was formed with the council and that have integrated into their way of making the touchstone of the century: the Vatican II was a pastoral and non -doctrinal council. The center of the council was how to take the message from the Church to the twentieth century and not if that message should change. Francisco has made exactly the same in his papacy. He has been a very aesthetic pontificate, with good intentions and facing the gallery: but he has also radically failed in his deepest changes. A theological shipwreck. A clear example is that of the death penalty. On August 2, 2018, the Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of Faith announced a change in catechism of the Church around this matter: what “for a long time (…) was considered an appropriate response to the seriousness of some crimes” became “inadmissible, because it threatens the inviolability and dignity of the person.” Until that time, especially with John Paul II and Benedict XVI, the Church had had a huge role in the abolition of this type of penalty. However, the catechism had not been modified because a) it was understood that there were historical circumstances (very rare and very few) in which this penalty could be justified yb) because it was very difficult to justify that ‘inadmissibility’, theologically speaking. Therefore, when the change was announced, the key doubt was justification. And, many years later, the answer is that there has really been none. It is something that has repeatedly apson: with The sacraments for divorced in Amoris Laetitiawith The blessing for homosexual couples in Supplicans fiducia or with The Latin Mass in Traditionis Custodes. Francisco has taken many steps, but has not achieved theological anchors that will develop doctrine in that sense (in large part because “progressive” theology is a wasteland right now). A papacy less and less clear. Little by little, that frankness and clarity of Francisco has disappeared from ecclesial documents. His great projects (such as Sinodality) They have remained nothing and the division of the Church is increasingly deep. Thus, the statements of Rome that have always been characterized by their clarity, began to become ambiguous so that each group could consider it a compromise solution. A legacy to the search for a successor. So much so that the next conclave will be the one who Decides Francisco’s real impact. Almost all its reforms can be reversed in an eye open and close. If your successor follows your steps, it is very likely that the changes begin to permeate deeply. With great problems and on the edge of the schism, but they can permeate. If the next Pope does not follow Bergoglio, only one thing will have changed: the hope that things can change. It will be very difficult to believe in it. Image | Korea.net / Korean Culture and Information Service In Xataka | After Francisco I, the war: the existential battle between traditionalists and progressive for the control of the Church

They sell the house where Robin Wiliams raised their children in San Francisco in $ 18 million

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An old house of the late actor Robin Williams It was news a few hours ago, after it was announced that it was sold in $ 18 million. The property, dating from the year of 1926, is Italian Renaissance style and is located in the Sea Cliff neighborhood, in the city of San Francisco. The property, which has an extension of 11,000 square feetit has spectacular Golden Gate Bridge and the Pacific Ocean. The residence, which was designed by the renowned architect Earle Bertzhas a total of six bedrooms and six bathrooms. Likewise, he enjoys lobby, kitchen, dining room, living room, main room, family room, office, washing room, balconies, among several more rooms. Outside, in its lot of 0.39 acresthe former home of the late actor enjoys terrace, green areas, bonfire, barbecue area, among other amenities. The house in question was bought by Robin Williams, in 1991, by $ 3.1 millionhowever, following his divorce with Garces Williams He left the place and the rest is already history. Continue reading: Video: Carolina Sandoval gives last tour of which she moved after her separationLivia Brito shows how she looks like her home after drastic transformationThey capture Jennifer Lopez, giving up a mansion in which she could be a neighbor of Ben AffleckThey blame Adele for failure for the sale of a mansion for insinuating that he was haunted (Tagstotranslate) Famous Houses (T) Robin Williams

Exreceptor of New York Yankees, Francisco Cervelli, will be in the 2026 World Classic as a Manager of Italy

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The exreceptor of New York YankeesFrancisco Cervelli He was appointed as the new coach of the Selection of Italy For him World Baseball Classic of 2026. The announcement was made last Saturday. The Venezuelan also arrives to replace another legend of the big leagues such as Mike Piazza. “I feel humble and grateful (…) playing for Italy was a dream come true. I will work tirelessly to make Italy an elite program, ”he said after the announcement. The New York Yankees receiver, Francisco Cervelli, on the right, jogues towards the dugout after his solitary home run at the second entry of a baseball exhibition match against the Boston Red Sox in Fort Myers, Florida, Thursday March 20, 2014. (Photo AP/Gerald Herbert) Cervelli born in Venezuela In 1986, but he has Italian nationality thanks to his father. The receiver represented the European country in Dos World Baseball classics. In 2009 and 2017. Now, the italo-Venezuelan will direct in group C and face The United States, Mexico and Great Britain. In the Major League Baseball (MLB) played for franchises like New York Yankees, Pittsburgh Pirates, Atlanta Braves and Miami Marlins. Cervelli played 730 meetings in the Major Leagues687 as a receiver. Your journey in The Major It was 14 seasons. Seven with Bronx bombers. There he won a ring of the World Series, The last of the Yankees since then. Registration .278/.348/.381 with 33 doubles, 10 homers and 92 towed races. With Pittsburgh Pirates There was five campaigns. Then one in Marlins and another in Atlanta. For life, it accumulated an average of .278/.348/.381, 102 doubles, 16 triples, 4 quadrangular and .740 of PAHO. Continue reading:· 25 Latinos are among the 100 best prospects of the MLB· Could Mariano Rivera be expelled from the Hall of Fame if he is accused of covering up sexual abuse?· Mariano Rivera and his wife deny an alleged cover -up of sexual abuse: “It’s false” (Tagstotranslate) Cl \ u00e1Sico de Baseball

“You should take your time”: Francisco Lindor on the return of Pete Alonso to the Mets

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There is less than two months left for the start of the regular season of the big leagues and so far Pete Alonso and the New York Mets still do not reach an agreement so that the initialist returns to the New York team for 2025 from the free agency. Alonso and the Mets seem to go in different directions. And the player rejected in 2023 an extension for seven years and $ 158 millionafter trying a few weeks in the free agency and not reaching any port, he returned to the conversations with the Queens team. At that point Alonso’s agent was the one offered the METS to give the player a contract for $ 90 million and three seasons. But the team declined and offered $ 70 million for the same amount of years; proposal that was also rejected by the player. Pete Alonso and the Mets continue to negotiate an agreement.Credit: AP At this point the negotiations between the Mets and Alonso They seem to be increasingly moving. Recently in an interview for SNY, one of the team’s faces was asked, Francisco Lindor, about the situation with his partner. Lindor explained that the player should be patient to make the best decision. “I think your time should take. I think I should make the best decision to yourself and not feel hurried, and I’m sure it will be ”explained the Campocorto de los Mets. Lindor and Alonso share costumes in New York for four seasons. At that time the Puerto Rican has taken the baton as a team captainso their words have weight in the players and hopes to help make Queens to the first base. Alonso had a good 2024, although something low compared to previous seasonsin total the initialist connected 34 home runs, 88 driven and 146 hits for an average .240. Continue reading:The Mets make a last attempt by Pete Alonso Steve Cohen on the return of Pete Alonso with Mets: “It becomes more difficult”Jesse Winker willing to play first base with the Mets (tagstotranslate) Francisco Lindor

Francisco Lindor shows his new facet as “Model” in France

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The Puerto Rican star of New York Mets, Francisco Lindor, surprised a couple of days ago by showing a new facet that few had been able to see outside the diamonds: his talent as a model During Fashion Week in Paris, France. Covered by coats, jeans, and clothes that are rarely seen using Queens, Lindor talked about the sensations of being in the middle of an event as important as the fashion week in Paris, as well as He thanked Louis Vuitton to have invited him to a ceremony where he could enjoy the new fabrics of the brand. “I’m excited, really,” Lindor said during An interview for MLB.com. “I have always loved fashion, design and fashion. For me to have the opportunity to be in Paris and see the new collection of Louis Vuitton and see people dressing, it is something that inspires me to continue growing, inspires me to continue improving my style. ” Although Lindor is not often seen involved in tasks of this style, he explained that he has always been involved in fashion from the young age, which explains his associations with New Balance for an exclusive road line or the advertising agreement that he maintains With the Oakley brand. “Since I have seen many athletes, many who have arrived before me. I have always said that fashion is rare at the same time that someone implants something new and everyone copys a little of their generation. See the Kobe (Bryant), the (Michael) Jordan, the LeBron (James), the Christian (Ronaldo). They are people who have implemented their own stylebut I imagine that they learned from other people and because what I try to implement, ”he added. The Campocorto, who recently allied with Gucci for a collaboration in which he would create an exclusive design glove, says that everything he learned at his fashion time was thanks to his three sisters while playing in childhood and adolescence. Such is the love of seams that Lindor believes that once his career could end he could enter fully into fashion, unlike other baseball players who prefer to stay inside the Dugout once his internship ends as professional baseballists. Lindor’s tour of Paris was compiled by MLB Europe accountshowing the Puerto Ricua wearing different Oufits in emblematic sites of the French city as the Arc of Triumph. Look at Lindor in Paris here: (Tagstotranslate) Francisco Lindor (T) New York Mets

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