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Let’s say goodbye to Google Assistant a decade later. Google has begun to delete its code to leave only one option: Gemini

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It’s not official but as if it were: the end of Google Assistant or the classic Google Assistant, is scheduled. An analysis of the latest version of the Google app for Android carried out by Android Authority has revealed his almost definitive goodbye. The Mountain View company is eliminating the code that, for the moment, allows us to choose between Gemini and the old assistant. It is the chronicle of a death foretold that ends an era within the company. Where before we saw the Assistant icon and dialog window, we now have the Gemini one. Image by Iván Linares for Xataka Android failed promise. Launched in May 2016, the Google Assistant was going to be a revolution. On paper, it promised full voice control of your cell phone, car and home. In practice, like many users have experiencedits use ended up being “despairing” although the “Okay, Google” It became popular in smartphones and speakers. Your inability to understand the context or natural language and the rise of AI models, has finished burying it. The future belongs to Gemini. With the rise of generative AI, Google has bet everything on Gemini, but it has had a rather confusing rollout. For months, the American company maintained a curious mess with several duplicate names, apps and services… Bard, Assistant with Bard, Project Astra… In practice, two assistants live on the same mobile phone. In February 2024, its “transmutation” began: that was when Google launched the dedicated Gemini app (Bard was left behind) on Android, which when installed was offered as a replacement for Assistant. As we tested in its day, the new AI took over of the invocation with the famous “Hey Google” command. A more mature replacement. The problem with the Gemini assistant is that, at first, it was quite green. It was a powerful chatbot, but a not so useful assistant: it could not execute the basic tasks that the previous one could do, such as routines or orders for home automation. However, Google has spent the last year making Gemini absorb the features of its predecessor. The turning point came at the end of last year, when Gemini Live – the conversational voice mode – finally landed in Spain and in Spanish. Already approaching 2025, Gemini learned a basic function that it was missing: making calls and sending messages without having to unlock the mobile. The last big feature inherited from Assistant, the «Scheduled actions»arrived in June of this year. Google’s plan. At the same time that Gemini was learning the old Assistant tricks, Google has been dismantling the latter, removing useful functions. The objective is more than clear: Gemini is the future and will be everywhere. Now you can act like the “all-seeing” assistant thanks to Project Astra (integrated in Live mode), it is coming to Google Home speakers and its landing on Android Auto is imminent. The last step remains. And that is eliminating the escape route: Google has already consolidated the transition. Gemini is the default assistant on new mobile phones and can be installed on old ones without major impediments. The analysis of the APK of the specialized Android media only confirms that the last step is very simple: eliminate the option to go back. The king is dead, long live the king. Cover image | Composition with Google images and generated with Nano Banana by Pepu Ricca In Xataka | How to create Gemini Gems to have your personalized version of artificial intelligence

SpaceX has said goodbye to Starship v2 with an unprecedented maneuver

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The largest rocket in the world has once again taken to the skies, and it has done so to say goodbye. He Starship’s eleventh test flight It has been the finishing touch to a season with lights and shadows. SpaceX has exhausted the Starship V2 prototypes and has used for the last time the launch pad from which the 11 flights have taken off. One last trick to say goodbye to the Super Heavy we know Once again, the 33 Raptor engines of the Super Heavy booster started without problems to launch the Starship into space. For the second time, the prototype on the platform was the Super Heavy Booster 15, which had already taken off and landed successfully on flight 8. The first big news about Flight 11 arrived after the separation of stages. The booster tested a new engine ignition sequence to stop when returning from space, the same one that the Super Heavy V3 will use. First he turned on 12 engines to brake suddenly (there had to be 13, but one took a while to start). He then turned off all but five to fine-tune his trajectory. Previously, the Super Heavy fired three engines instead of five during this braking phase. As SpaceX propulsion engineer Jake Berkowitz explained, during the flight broadcastusing five motors “adds an additional layer of redundancy for spontaneous motor shutdowns.” But what was noticed was not the redundancy, but the additional smoothness in the maneuver. SpaceX did not intend to recover Booster 15 with the tower’s arms, but rather to virtually rehearse the maneuver over the Gulf of Mexico. The rehearsal went smoothly, but the SpaceX broadcast from the point of view of the rocket did not do justice to the precision of the maneuver. Fortunately, NASASpaceflight cameras captured the moment from shore. With the NASASpaceflight video We witness the last seconds in flight of the Super Heavy V2. And to the last trick that SpaceX has pulled out of its hat. The imposing 70-meter-high steel cylinder, equivalent to a 24-story building, seems to stop time over the ocean. The braking is so smooth and vertical that it gives the sensation of standing still, magically floating dozens of meters above the water. Then it plummets and self-detonates. The deployment of satellites with Starship is already looking much better As for the ship, it completed one of its most roundabout flights in a long time. After finishing his eight minute climbturned off its six engines and began a suborbital trajectory toward the Indian Ocean. He later opened a slot in his cargo bay and slowly deployed but this time gentlyeight Starlink satellite simulators. Starship 38 has shown that SpaceX is very close to being able to deploy cargo with its mega rocket. Starting in spring (in the time of Elon Musk), Starship will begin launching new generation Starlink satellites, much larger than the current ones and with the capacity to offer gigabit bandwidth to customers. Another critical maneuver that they already have under control is deorbiting. For the third time in its history, Starship restarted a Raptor engine in the vacuum of space, which in the future will allow it to return from space to land or make orbital corrections on missions to the Moon and Mars. The final phase of the mission was, perhaps, the most risky. SpaceX had purposely removed even more tile patches from the heat shield with the goal of increasing stress on the vehicle and collecting data on its tolerance limits for the extreme heat of reentry. Despite the mistreatment, the ship survived the inferno surrounded by plasma while the cameras on board once again gave us spectacular views. Just before the end, the ship executed another novel maneuver: a “dynamic turn” to simulate the trajectory that future Starships will take to align with the tower at Starbase. Like the booster, the ship will attempt to be trapped by the mechanical arms of one of the two launch towers. Finally, 66 minutes into the flight, Ship 38 made its iconic turn prior to splashdown, started its engines for a final braking and fell into the water in one piece. Of course, several tiles of the heat shield fell off along the way. The end of an era and a presumed wait for the next Starship In addition to being successful, Flight 11 has been a turning point for several reasons. First, it closes the chapter on Block 2 vehicles, a generation that has had a turbulent history with the failures of Flights 7, 8 and 9 (as well as a large explosion on the ground), but which redeemed itself with the successes of Flights 10 and 11. On the other hand, it is the last mission from Platform 1 in its current configuration. This ramp, which suffered catastrophic damage on the first flight and was rebuilt with a massive flame deflector that shoots water jets, will be completely renovated to accommodate the third generation rockets. However, the next launches will be made from Platform 2, which is about to go live. With V2 retired, attention now turns to V3, the version that will be the first to reach Earth orbit and begin deploying next-generation Starlink satellites. Despite the advanced status of both the V3 prototypes and the second tower, Starship is not expected to fly again for a few months. This new iteration and its engines still have tests to complete before taking flight. Starship 3 will be more powerful, taller (about 124 meters, adding the two stages) and will be better finished. The Super Heavy will have the integrated hot separation ring and a new design in the aerodynamic grilles, which become three. It will debut Raptor 3 engines and fuel lines so large they resemble a Falcon 9. The Starship will include adapters that will allow it to transfer fuel in orbit (an essential maneuver for lunar missions). Although no one is confident that NASA’s Artemis 3 lunar landing mission can occur in 2027, the … Read more

Goodbye to the official Windows 10 support is bad news for users. Hackers already rub their hands

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On October 14, millions of computers worldwide will be helpless. That day The official Windows 10 support period endswhich means that users of equipment based on this operating system will not receive security updates. Problem. That raises a gigantic problem for end users, but especially for companies you can see their operation committed to future vulnerabilities that are discovered in said operating system. It is something that has happened in the past with ancient Microsoft operating systems, but the difference here is in the windows 10 dimension. Four out of ten pcs, with Windows 10. According to Statcounter Globalstats data, Windows 10 has currently a global fee of 40.84%. Four out of ten teams that use Windows, use Windows 10. That involves hundreds of millions of PCs, laptops and other devices – point of sale, interactive kiosks, industrial control systems – are exposed to new vulnerability that are discovered from that moment. In Spain, by the way, it is quota is even more worrying. Remembering what happened with Windows 8. In January 2016 Microsoft also marked the end of the Windows 8 support, but the market share of said operating system was much lower, which made the risk, even existing, it was much lower. The problem of the Windows 10 quota is now added that Ransomware and other malware threats They have multiplied. Party for cybercriminals. The “hackers” – or rather, the crackers, the cybercriminals – have before them a golden opportunity to discover and exploit new vulnerabilities that will not be corrected by Microsoft or whose updates will not apply in most cases. It is true that Microsoft has offered methods to extend updates in some cases, but as has happened in the past, many users will not take advantage of them and therefore will be vulnerable to those future cyber attacks. Update options. With the end of Windows 10, there are options for users. One of them is to update Windows 11 “Skipping” the technical requirements Taxes by Microsoft. The other, take advantage of the free extension of the update period, which they can receive for one more year With a simple process. There is also the most profitable option for Microsoft and manufacturers: update to a new PC that arrives with pre -installed Windows 11. And of course, we can opt for other operating systems: these equipment can remain useful (and insurance) installing some linux distribution. The condemnation of “Legacy” systems. Microsoft has always had the philosophy of maintaining compatibility back. That has advantages – can continue executing software for years even in modern hardware – but also that serious disadvantage of security commitment. Apple does not suffer so much. Apple, for example, has a much more drastic attitude in terms of updates and constant update is prioritized. And although it is possible to continue using old equipment with old versions, new functions that usually encourage users to update are excluded. Because it has it much easier. But of course, Apple has in its catalog a few tens of Mac and Macbook since they do not license their operating system, which makes it much easier have these updates under control. In the Windows world, with tens (hundreds?) Of manufacturers and millions of hardware and software combinations, conflicts may appear everywhere and control security is much more complex. In Xataka | The unexpected return of Windows 7: it reaches almost 10% of the market when Microsoft prepares to retire Windows 10

Big Tech do not stop saying goodbye to their engineers. In parallel, they have stepped on the accelerator in the hiring

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The labor market for software engineers in 2025 is going through A disconcerting phase. While many companies are running Great rounds of layoffs And vacancies take longer to cover themselves, the great technological have stepped on the accelerator in their hiring registering a moderate increase in recent months. With the aim of understanding this phenomenon, Gergely Oroszengineer, analyst and author of ‘The Software Engineer’s Guidebook’ has crossed data from different technological employment platforms to offer a detailed analysis of the labor market in 2025. The result shows a panorama in transformation, in which traditional rules seem to have changed and Big Tech movements point to a future very marked by AI. Boom in layoffs, but also in hiring. Just check quickly The newspaper library recent to discover that technology companies are executing Dismissal rounds In his templates. According to dataFrom the Trueup platform, in what we have been counted about 141,000 dismissals Among the great technology. The estimates are that 2025 closure with 210,000 layoffs that, despite being many, are below the 430,000 layoffs that were recorded in 2023 or 239,000 of 2024. Dismissal figures in the technology sector However, those same companies are the ones that are most hiring in recent months, registering a Mild up rising trend in the total of new offers in the labor market. The reason: these layoffs are not due to economic difficulties, but because companies have changed their business goals and are reorieting their templates. Companies such as Apple (2,177 vacancies), IBM (1,924 vacancies), Amazon (1,794 vacancies) and Oracle (1,394 vacancies) are the ones that have registered the most vacancies, according to the data revealed by Orosz. Zuckerberg has taken the wallet. In case the latest movements of Millionaire signings in AI They leave a doubt, goal is the company that is hiring the most engineers, with an increase of 19% compared to its 2022 template.Google and Apple show a somewhat more leisurely rhythm in hiring, although they increase their templates with new hiring at a rate of 16% and 13% respectively with respect to 2022. Amazon and Microsoft later began their Pivotage to AIand their figures are maintained below 8%, although the last restructuring movements Of both companies, they point out that, in the face of the last quarter, that percentage will tend up. Who is hired. Big Tech are immersed In a race For immediate profitable Investments in AI. So the profile that is being demanded most is the IA engineer profile that, According to data In Trueup, it has increased by 278.5% since its lowest point in 2023 and currently has 24,957 vacancies open. The hiring data also reveal that the profile most demand IA -oriented specialtiesbut they are the engineers who already have a certain experience (with 27,864 vacancies available) or already with a senior profile (with 22,477 published employment offers). Orosz’s analysis data reveal that the seniors engineers of ia will cover those vacancies, They will leave Big Tech Consolidated such as Google, Meta, Apple or Microsoft, joining projects in the new heavyweights of AI such as OpenAi, Anthropic or XAI, as well as other emerging unicorns. The AI ​​recover the work remote and sacrifices the bosses. According to data published by Orosz, the volume of offers of remote employment has fallenRegarding the previous year. However, the exception of the brand again the engineering of AI, where the urgency to recruit talent causes a relatively high number of vacancies to be maintained with the possibility of remote work. In parallel, the leadership positions in engineering are seen increasingly limited. Amazon has significantly reduced the engineering managers roles. For its part, almost all Big Tech – with the exception of Apple— They have trimmed the creation of positions of director or intermediate positions. This adjustment responds to a reorganization of internal structures, such as the one that has launched Googlethat prioritize smaller and agile equipment. In Xataka | Google Deepmind has made possible the dream of some employees: charging without working Image | Flikr (Village Global). Goal, Wikimedia Commons (EESAN1969), Trueup

The new revolutionary technique to say goodbye to glasses

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We are thousands of people who We have gone through an operating room to submit to a Lasik surgery To correct the vision problem and say goodbye to glasses definitively. And although this is very safe and very common surgery in the day -to -day life of many ophthalmologists, it is still a surgery that is literally “carving” the cornea. Now a research team proposes a radical alternative: correcting vision without lasers, without cuts and in approximately a minute. A new tennic one that already has a name. Through the autumn meeting From the American Chemical Society (ACS), the researchers They presented a technique To remodel the cornea, a small electric current and a kind of platinum lentilla will be used to remodel the tissue precisely and less invasive. This is what they have called Electromechanical remodeling (EMR). The ‘Kit of the matter’ lies in the cornea. To understand innovation, you must first know that The cornea is the transparent ‘dome’ that we find in the front of the eye. Its function is to focus the light on the retina where the cones and canes that are responsible for interpreting the shapes or colors are found. If the shape of this cornea is not perfect, the image that reaches the brain is blurred, giving a pathology that we can know how myopiaFreemetropia or astigmatism. This means that when we want to operate to eliminate these pathologies, the state and thickness of the cornea have to be analyzed. The problem of lasik: “carving” the eye. Lasik surgery Correct this using a laser to eliminate or “carve” microscopic portions of corneal tissue and give it the proper shape. As explained Michael Hill, professor of chemistry at the western College and one of the authors of the study, “LASIK is just an elegant way to do traditional surgery. It is still tissue carving, only with a laser.” In this way, the elimination of a fabric that will never recover is highlighted as a negative point of this surgery. In addition, surgery also conditions have an adequate cornea thickness so that the surgeon can eliminate enough tissue to achieve a good result. And in some people the cornea is really fine. Having this problem in front, the objective of research equipment was clear: mold the fabric instead of eliminating it. Chemistry to make the malleable cornea. The key to this new technique lies in the composition of the cornea. This fabric, rich in collagen, maintains its shape thanks to a network of ionic links between components with opposite loads. The research team, led by Hill and the surgeon Brian Wong of the University of California, discovered that they could “temporarily loosen” this network. Although it was a result they saw almost by accident. The process to get a malleable cornea. For understand how they can do it In a simple way, we will divide the process into the following points: Everything begins by applying a small electrical potential on corneal tissue through an electrode. This current causes the electrolysis of the water present in the tissue, which reduces the pH of the tissue to make it more acidic. This acidity neutralizes the negative loads within the collagen matrix, weakening the links that rigidly keep the cornea, so it will temporarily be malleable to give it the way you want. Once the electric current is removed, the pH returns to its physiological state and the ionic bonds network is restored, causing the cornea to be ‘rigid’ again. Correcting myopia in 10 minutes. To prove their theory, they created some platinum “lenses” that served as a mold with the form of corrected cornea. They placed these in twelve rabbit ocular balloons Ex vivo (that is, they were removed from the animal) and that they were submerged in saline solution to simulate tears. In the 10 eyes that simulated myopia, the result was a success. After applying the electric current for approximately one minute, the cornea curvature adapted perfectly to the shape of the platinum lentilla, correcting the refractive defect. All this at the same time as Lasik technique lasts, but with less steps, a cheaper team and without having to make an incision. A promising future, but with obstacles. Although the theory has worked in these eyes, there is still many steps to take. The fact that a treatment of this caliber reaches a patient is a process that can take many years. At the moment, the next step is to move on to the experimentation in animals, including mice that are alive, in order to evaluate the safety of the procedure. Subsequently, and after the approval of the FDA, You can go through humans in their different scales. In this way, we can go to the next decade before seeing it announce as a valid treatment. Although they also have the financing of the project that is in the air right now. Other uses are also explored. In addition to being a suitable treatment for myopia, farsightedness or astigmatism, the technique could have other applications. One of them is the ability of surgery to reverse certain types of corneal opacity that are caused by exposure to chemicals. This is something that could only be treated with a complete cornea transplant. Aesthetic surgeries are the order of the day. The fact of removing glasses is much For aesthetic reasons and comfort, something that is the order of the day. We have already seen how there are people capable of breaking their bones by have a few centimeters tall or as in the United States Surgery is popularized to make an eye color change. But it’s not something now, since 2,000 years ago The Romans themselves did these surgeries To be able to change the physical. Images | Olga Guryanova In Xataka | The patient who has survived 12 different tumors and hides the “holy grail” of the fight against cancer

A single click and goodbye to our passwords. This is the vulnerability that affects the extensions of several managers

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We trust our Password managers as if they were digital safes. But, According to expert Marek Tóthjust visit the wrong website and click where it does not correspond to put that armor at risk. The technique presented in Def with 33 does not point to applications, but to extensions we use daily In the browser. In his tests, he ensures that this gesture can activate an information theft system without the user perceiving it. The research, made public in one of the main international conferences of computer security, documents how eleven extensions of password managers could be manipulated to filter data. Toth states that he notified the finding of manufacturers in April 2025 and that in mid -August several still still had corrections. The study includes practical tests, websites designed to demonstrate the failure and an estimate of the scope: about 40 million potentially exposed active facilities. How the attack works and why it affects you The technique described by Tóth is based on hiding the elements that the extensions insert on the page so that the user interacts with them without seeing it. With minimal changes in opacity or overlapthe attacker gets that The self -fulfilling is activated in the background. And there are several ways to achieve it, from manipulating the root element of the extension to altering the entire body of the site, in addition to variants by overlap. The most delicate scenario appears when a trap website is not necessary, but it is enough to take advantage of a legitimate page with a security failure. In those cases, he explains, the attacker can capture login credentials. The risk increases because many managers fill data not only in the original domain, but also in subdomains, which expands the attack surface without the user noticing it. According to data published by Tóth and collected by Socketon August 19, 1Password, Bitwarden, ENPASS, were continued as vulnerable Icloud PasswordsLastpass and Logmeonce. On August 20, Socket updated that Bitwarden had sent version 2025.8.0 with a patch, pending distribution in extensions. Among the managers who did apply corrective measures are NordPass, Dashlane, Keeper, Protonass and Roboform. Of course, this list can vary at any time if other companies publish arrangements after the dissemination. Extension of password manager for the browser The manufacturers reaction was disparate. Socket points out that 1Password and Lastpass classified the ruling as “informative”, a category that usually implies absence of immediate changes. Bitwarden, ENPASS and Apple (Icloud Passwords) confirmed that They work in updateswhile Logmeonce did not respond to contact attempts. Some companies admitted the existence of risk, but related to external vulnerabilities at the sites visited. While some developers decide how to act, Toth and Socket team agree that there are practical measures to reduce exposure. One of the most effective is to deactivate the manual self -fulfilling and resort to copying and paste. It is also recommended to configure the automatic filling only for exact URL coincidences, preventing it from working in subdomains. In chromium -based browsers, the use of the extension can be limited with the access option “When clicking”, so that the user explicitly authorizes each use. The researcher shows how it is possible to overlap invisible elements on the page to deceive the user and press the password manager without realizing it Not everything is as immediate as clicking and losing everything. For the attack to succeed, the extension must be unlocked, the browser has not restarted and the user interact at the right time. In addition, the analysis focused only on eleven extensions. There is no evidence that All solutions The market is vulnerable, although the expert warns that the pattern can be repeated in other types of extensions. The weak point is in the SUNthe internal structure used by websites to organize buttons, forms or menus. Password managers insert their elements there, and if a malicious page manages to move them, hide or force them, the user can end up clicking without realizing it. That same risk extends to other extensions such as cryptocurrency wallets or notes applications. Images | Xataka with Gemini 2.5 In Xataka | How to change all our passwords according to three cybersecurity experts

Until recently they presumed how much they hired. Now the more they say goodbye, the more proud they feel

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What times those in which technology companies hired as if there were no morning. The talent war affected even to countries like Spainwhere Amazon fought with a goal to achieve thousands of professionals. The CEO of all these companies celebrated the phenomenon and brought breast explaining that the pandemic had changed the rules of the game. They were proud to hire, but now they are proud otherwise. Checking. Charlie Scharf, CEO of Wells Fargo, has a doubtful record: to have managed to reduce its template for 20 quarters in a row. This manager has described the reduction of workers in this bank “as our ally.” In the last five years the total reduction amounts to 23%, They point In The Wall Street Journal. And there are more cases. Other companies also celebrate these workforce reductions, they indicate in WSJ. Loomis, a Swedish financial company, indicated that it has managed to grow despite recent layoffs, and Union Pacific, the railroad company, stressed that despite firing 3% of its workforce, it has achieved a record quarter. The Verizon CEO, Hans Vistberg, Indian In a recent conference with investors that in the field of workforce “we are being very, very good, and is constantly going down.” Or what is the same: he is very happy to fire people because as he highlighted “we are very efficient when managing our resources.” Lip-bu tan, CEO of Intel, advertisement that They would fire 15% of the workforceand his argument was that they needed to become a “faster, agile and vibrant” company. If you say goodbye it is because you are a great CEO. That seems to be the current perception of the technological industry, because while not having a long time to say goodbye to be a symptom of problems and a strategic withdrawal, it is now seen as a commitment to efficiency and the promising role of artificial intelligence. Elon Musk taught the way. The CEOS did not usually presume to fire people, but the thing changed When you bought Twitter. His first and controversial decision was dismiss approximately 75% of the workforce. The measure made the alarms jump and many wondered if the platform would subsist after that labor debacle. He has done it, and Musk, maximalist of efficiency, has always taken chest When talking about that measure. The efficiency argument. It is as if suddenly the industry had realized that it could make cuts punishing those Employees with lower productivity or looking for maximum efficiency in the template. More and more of the employee is talked about, and there Nvidia is one of the great prominent – clariously benefited by the AI boom. Now the argument between the bosses is defended that No one is irreplaceable. Prize to cut template. Zack Mikewa, of the firm Sloane & Co., explained in WSJ how to “be honest with the costs and the workforce is not only allowed, but is rewarded” by investors. The argument for dismissals in the past was the search for pure economic profitability, but now the excuse is the search for change and renewal, adaptation for that future complex that is presented to us. Downward hiring. Not only are there massive layoffs: there are companies that have also temporarily frozen hiring or slowed them for long periods. This is the case of Bank of America: his CEO, Brian Moynihan, explained to investors that during his mandate the template reduction has been remarkable. Since CEO was named in 2010, the workforce has gone from about 300,000 people to about 212,000, and as stressed “we have to continue working to reduce (that figure).” In Xataka | Microsoft has discovered that lining and saying goodbye to thousands of employees is compatible. The problem is that it is not alone

thousands of layoffs and goodbye to factories in three countries

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It is no secret that Intel is going through a complicated stage. The historic processor firm It has been dealing with a crisis for years that can no longer hide, and whose consequences begin to become visible. Since last March 18, the new CEO, Lip-bu Tan, has taken the helm After the departure of Pat Gelsinger. And he has done it with decisions that mark a turning point. The layoffs are only part of the plan: what comes behind points to a deeper transformation. A silent cut (and wide) Intel has not announced dismissals as such. But just read between the lines. In its financial report of the second quarter of 2025the company makes it clear that its goal is to end the year with a template of some 75,000 employees. That is a significant reduction with respect to the 99,500 workers with whom it closed 2024, According to Reuters data. In that interval there were already discreet cuts – Intel himself speaks of “template actions” already completed -, so the exact number of layoffs cannot be specified. But the magnitude of the cut speaks for itself. The plan is part of a broader strategy to reduce operating expenses, gain agility and improve efficiency. In fact, the company has recognized 1.9 billion dollars in restructuring positions only in the second quarter, and those measures are already directly affecting its global operations network. Intel adjustment is not limited to reducing template. He has also begun to cut his presence in countries where he had key projects in progress. In Germany and Polandthe company has decided not to move forward with the expansion plans announced in recent years. They were strategic movements with which he sought to strengthen his manufacturing capacity in Europe, but now they are left out of the new map. In Costa Rica, the withdrawal goes one step further. Intel will consolidate its assembly and test operations, moving part of the activity to larger centers that it already has in Vietnam and Malaysia. The message between the lines is clear: less dispersion, more cost control. The company has also announced that it will slow the works in Ohio, one of its star projects in the United States to adapt the expense rhythm to the real market demand. It remains to be seen if that turn will be enough to recover land in front of rivals such as AMD, NVIDIA or TSMC, who have not stopped gaining muscle while Intel retreated. For now, the steps that are taking a transformation process that will be long, uncomfortable and With global implications. Because when a company like Intel shrinks, it is not only about numbers: it is an impact. Images | Intel | Thufeil m In Xataka | Intel’s fall symbolizes the end of an era: the model that dominated technology for 50 years has died

First it was Chema Alonso’s departure. Telefónica is now disassembling your legacy with your team’s goodbye

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After The Pallete eraTelefónica is making profound strategic and human changes. After the recent one Departure from hacker Chema Alonsothe company is disassembling kernel, according to The confidential. This is the project and the team led Alonso, where there were heavyweights of the company, such as Javier Martínez and Paco Montalvo. Company sources have confirmed to Xataka Mobile the departure of both figures. Why it is important. From the hand of Sebas Muriel, ancient CEO of Tuenti, Telefónica is saying goodbye to Kernel, which in 2016 we met as “The fourth platform“And later like Aura. With her, they proposed to create a mechanism where Each user decided if he shared his personal information or demanded compensation. The confidential also speaks of the exits of other key pieces, such as Luiz Medici and Kiko Gámez. Goodbye to Pallete and Chema Alonso’s legacy. The hacker departure in March reminded us of the ambitious path that the company had pursued in the last decade: projects such as the aforementioned fourth platform, The aura wizard, Open Gateway either Movistar Homethe domestic device that came something late to a market that Google and Alexa already dominated globally. Kernel was the project to modernize an archaic operator, the Digital heart of Telefónica, according to Paco Montalvo. Disassembling this team is a farewell to the great technological bets that the company has pursued to compete against the OTT and the great world technological ones. At the time of the indiscriminate management of the data, Telefónica claimed to want to return all control to the user. Something is left. The great responsible for that path are no longer, and the contrast with its substitutes It can’t be bigger. According to El Confidencial, the old team of Chema Alonso remains Antonio Guzmán, Irene Gómez, David del Val and Yaiza Rubio. According to Telefónica sources consulted by Xataka Mobile, Telefónica is reviewing the previous projects to approach the new vision. Despite the obvious dismantling of their pieces, they say that with Kernel there is no definitive decision, waiting for a new strategy that they hope to announce before the end of the year. A new telephone. In his first major public appearance as executive president, Marc Murtra, the substitute for José María Álvarez-Pallete, It was very clear: Telefónica should focus on consolidating and growing to create technological capacity, a more pragmatic and forceful objective than that of digital transformation and collaboration With great technology which had been adopted in the previous stage. Telefónica is facing The largest existential dilemma of its over 100 yearsyou have to choose transform into a technology company In a Europe in decline that seeks to be more autonomous or accept that as a traditional telecus it is immersed in a reality that erodes its margins. The financial sanitation that Pallete achieved was not enough for markets, with a 57%stock market drop. Good news and farewells in 2025. The helm turn brought Good news: The action at three years. And the first steps of the new direction reflect that initial forcefulness of Murtra: in 2025, Telefónica has executed five sales In different countries, and only Brazil remains a strategic market in America. In Spain, a great consolidation for 2026 sounds more and more strongly: the one that would bring a Purchase of Vodafone. The fruit of this fusion is well known: to get more than 45% of the market. Strategically, Telefónica is about to A ‘sorpasso’ itselfone that goes to enter more for services than by communications, the first step to be a diversified technological company and less telecus. At the moment, the services are 43 % of income in their accounts, and grows at a good pace: “in double digit,” according to Emilio Gayo, New CEO of the Teleco. Another good news comes with the rearme: Telefónica already It stays with 69% of defense ICT awards. Outstanding image | Xataka In Xataka | Telefónica has a plan to eat the market in Spain. That is a problem for local operators

The AI ​​already decides who says goodbye to who ascends in many companies

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We are seeing the first indications of how AI is going to Transform the future of employmentalthough that does not imply that I will take it out. Newly graduated to which the possibilities of learningprogrammers converted into operators of a assembly chain of Software generated by AI either Chatbots interviewing you To hire you in your next job. In this new transformative role, AI is also having A leading role In employment, although not as you think. According to A survey carried out by the Employment Services platform summarizes Builder, managers are asking the AI ​​who should say goodbye. The new glass ball. A survey conducted at 1,342 Business Managers in the US has revealed that 60% of them trust AI to make human resources decisions in their companies. 78% of respondents ensure that IA decides which employees receive salary increases in their company, 77% indicate that AI chooses those who are rising, and 66% consult who should say goodbye. Taking into account the AI ​​skills In business managementmaybe it’s adventurous to leave In the hands of generic models Talent management, but 53% of respondents ensure that he asks Chatgpt what employees say goodbye to who ascend. 29% claimed Use co -pilot and 16% left the fate of its employees in the hands of Gemini. Without training or training. As in other areas, two thirds of managers who use AI for a task as delicate as equipment managementhas not received any training For the use of AI. Only 32% say they have received the necessary training on the ethical use of AI in personnel management. To complicate things a little more, around 20% of managers ensure that it lets the AI ​​have the Last word in decisions about who says goodbye or who ascends without mediating human intervention. However, the vast majority of them are willing to intervene if you do not agree with the decision made by AI. Confirmation bias. According to Stacie Haller, Main Professional Advisor of Sumume Builder, it is risky to leave the weight of important decisions in the hands of AI without adequate training. “While AI can support data -based information, it lacks context, empathy and criteria,” the authors of the survey indicate in their report. Such and as he published he New York Magazinethe main problem of the general models as chatgpt, is that They are flatterers by nature. That is, they seek to please the user at all costs, although this implies altering the results. That implies that, for a lot of neutrality and objectivity that managers want to obtain in their decisions by saying goodbye to employees, AI will take into account their personal preferences, reinforcing their confirmation bias, although the choice is not the best for the company. Tantling the land for AI. As they have revealed the survey data, 46% of the managers who use the management of their teams have been commissioned to evaluate whether IA could replace a position that an employee was carrying out. 57% considered that there was the possibility of applying AI to automate those tasks, and 43% carried out That replacement. However, although some profiles may have succumb to the first automation traces, there are still many other managers that see AI as a very useful tool as support in equipment management. 97% of respondents claim performance evaluation of your team or to elaborate strategies with which to improve that performance, but always supervising the results proposed by AI. In Xataka | A company hired a worker, dismissed the boss who selected him and forgot about him: he has been charging without working seven months Image | Unspash (INNN agency, Emiliano Vittoriosi)

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