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The amazing history of John McAfee, photos converted into videos with AI and much more in 1×11 crossover

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On one occasion John Mcafee forecast that Bitcoin would reach $ 500,000 of value in less than three years. And if I didn’t succeed, he said, “I will eat my penis on national television.” That challenging bet never occurred – Bitcoin has not gone from 110,000 in all this time – but also Mcafee would then reveal that it was actually a call of attention. It is one of the many anecdotes of the life of an entrepreneur who later took an absolutely unusual direction. He began his career as a brilliant programmer and had the vision of creating one of the first commercial antivirus, but after some years of business success, his life took a radical turn. An absolutely unusual one in which the sex, drugs and weapons They were an integral part. All in McAfee’s life was histrionic and exaggerated until it ended up being arrested in Spain for tax evasion. We talk about that unique life in this new 1×11 crossover delivery, but we don’t stay there. Jaume Lahoz and Carlos Santa Engracia are again the drivers of an episode in which we also have other surprises. For example, a review of the news with some of the hottest themes – will the future Apple Watch include a lies detector? – and in which we also introduce a new section. It’s about what has made us experience with Videos generated with AI But that do not start from a text prompt, but from a photo that “comes alive” as always surprising. We leave you with the episode, we hope you like it! On YouTube | Crossover

The most legendary magician in history was not the most skilled, but a masked recklessness that revealed the secrets

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If you lived the explosion of the private ones at the end of the 20th century, you lived the success of ‘Magic without secrets’, a program of Antena 3 in which A masked wizard executed classic illusionism on stage And then it meticulously revealed how he had done them. A broken taboo in front of the cameras that beat its responsible, Val Valentino, mortal enemies within the entertainment world. However, over time, the masked magician has found unexpected disciples: on the Internet, dozens of magicians They reveal without stopping The great secrets of magic. If illusionism has always interested, it has not stopped interesting that they tell us “how it is done.” And the masked wizard was the first to do it with a mass audience attached to the TV. Revealed magic In the 1990s, stage magic was … one thing. The scenario magicians were in the zenith of their success, with television specials that, from the eighties, They showed challenges to the laws of logic that fascinated the audiences. Were the times when David Copperfield The statue of freedom flew or disappeared, in which Siegfried & Roy -There are a tragic accident with a white tiger that would withdraw them from the stages in 2003- signed millionaire contracts in Las Vegas and in which even people like David BlaineAt the end of the decade, I was about to carry magic in an entirely new direction with its ‘Street Magic’. In that context, ‘magic without secrets’ came, a series of four specials of 1997 that in Spain issued Antena 3 and that did the unthinkable: explain how the apparently impossible classic tricks of illusionism were carried out. In them, a masked magician accompanied by the inevitable female assistants reviewed the entire repertoire of the magicians. As TV was what it was for those times, special attention was paid to the apparently more dangerous numbers: the magician was sawn in two, crossed with swords, swallowed fire, was shot and buried alive. Everything had a trick, of course, and explained. Double backgrounds, trucades, fire bullets, pussy sabers … The program did not leave triquiñuela without revealingbut the spectator had the feeling that he was accessing knowledge prohibited for a simple reason: the magician hid his features with a mask that remembered those of wrestling. The program was responsible for reminding us the code of the magicians to which the original title of the specials referred: ‘Breaking The Magician’s Code: Magic’s Biggest Secrets Finally Reveled’. Any wizard that broke it would immediately enter a black list of the guild, and would not work again. Black lists This detail is not necessarily true: much more prestigious magicians than this masking, such as the magnificent Penn & Teller, who in that decade were also overly unknown media figures, based on their numbers on revealing classic tricks … to take the enigma much further. They had also been controversial in the guild for playing the three balls and vessels With plastic containersallowing the secret to be seen, 0 revealing the Seven principles of magicand had unleashed a controversy that Even today it is between fans and professionals About whether to reveal the tricks power or fulminates magic. But although Total classics like Paul Daniels They had previously revealed tricks as part of their shows, no one had the media impact of the masked magician. Behind the program was Nash Entertainment, a producer of doccu-realities with titles such as ‘The World’s Deadliest Volcanoes’, ‘World’s Most Dary Dad Rescues’, ‘World’s Scariest Police Shootouts’, ‘When Good Pets Go Bad’ or ‘Prisoners out of control’. ‘Magic without secrets’ became one of his greatest successes: In 1997, the first program was the most watched special in Fox’s history. But … who was the masked wizard? His identity was revealed in the fourth and last special and as expected, it was not a first -class wizard but rather the opposite. Its history seems the secret origin of what ended up being: a comic supervillain between magicians. Val Valentino had been fond of magic since childhood and when he was a teenager he made a number in an exchange program with schools around the world that gave him a considerable audience among the kids of his age. There he played to reveal the tricks as a way to surprise and enhance the effects. And he discovered that no magic game could compete with revealing the secret. In the eighties and nineties he had a moderately successful career as a magician, appearing on television specials and acting, of course, in Las Vegas. When the opportunity arose to shoot the specials for Nash recalled the impact their children’s revelations had and decided to use it in their favor: success was considerable, and although Much of the controversy that the programs were awakened was prefabricated by Fox (There was no “threat of death by secret groups of magicians”), there was some demand for scenario magicians such as Andre Kole or Kevin Spencer. They claimed that the masked wizard had made them lose hundreds of thousands of dollars with their revelations. The courts gave the reason to Valentino, since the secrets of the tricks are not protected by the laws of intellectual property, much less those who had been part of the magical public domain. Although the new century has already entered the show tried to be relaunched with new secrets and new magicians, it did not enjoy the popularity of the four original specials. And in fact, magic, thanks to the Internet, enjoys better health than ever. So no, Val Valentino did not kill magic. In fact, in social networks like Tiktok there are accounts that are dedicated to revealing without rest Small magic gameswhich has given them an unprecedented scope. As Valentino predicted (and Penn & Teller already knew), knowing the secrets does not ruin anything, because what counts is the execution and ingenuity. The Supervillain at the end was a hero, even in that he looked like a comic character. Header | Nash … Read more

The filtration of 16,000 million passwords would be the largest in history. If it weren’t because it’s a gigantic refrito

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A team of CYBERNEWS researchers He has discovered A large library with 16,000 million filtered passwords. That would be long the theft of credentials in history, but it has not been. That library is actually a compilation of 30 large sets of data already filtered in the past. Should I reassure us “just” that? Enough, but not quite. It is not a new massive theft of data. Cybernews researchers do not show their sources, but they point out that this is in essence a compilation of “supermassive data sets containing billions of credentials.” In those leaks – ancient, but it is not known how much – data appears that according to Cybernews come from Google, Facebook or Apple users. Again, without offering evidence of it. They explain that none of these data sets had been discovered before, except for one with 184 million credentials that They mentioned in Wired At the end of May. But it is still dangerous. The problem of a compilation like this is that it can serve as a great starting point for all types of cyber attacks. It is very likely that in that large database there will be a significant amount of duplicate credentials. No one has stolen data from Google, Facebook or Apple (recently). Although media such as cybernews or forbes talk that there are credentials of these platforms, again if any will be belonging to old data theft – which Of course Yeah There has been-. There have been no robberies (much less massive) of credentials in these companies recently, and if there were them, they should have made a communication responsible for the incidents – in the US the US is used FORM 8-K OF THE SEC– They can affect their businesses. Should I be worried? Relatively. It must be aware that these data theft give access to cybercriminals to millions of credentials (user and password) in all types of services, and they can gain access to our accounts in those services thanks to them and then attack them or use them as the basis of other attacks. But this is true every day, not only when a new security filtration appears. Have Ien Pwned is a useful service that allows us to enter an email address to check it with the databases of previous data theft. A curiosity here: the number of accounts hacked on this platform is almost 15,000 million, very similar to the one indicated in Cybernews. Check if you have hacked you. There has been a simple way to check if our email and password has leaked in any of these data theft. THE SERVICE HAVE I BEEN PWNED allows us Do it quicklyand here we have discovered something interesting: the database with which this platform works has almost 15,000 million accounts hacked in its registry. Almost the same number they are talking about in Cybernews, as if their great library was in essence the same one that has this service created by Troy Hunt cybersecurity expert. And acts accordingly. When introducing your email, services may appear in which your account may have been compromised. What you should do in case this happens is to change your password as soon as possible in those services, and, if possible, strengthen the security of that password. There are several methods to do so: you can create a strong passworduse a Password manageruse the two -step authentication “Specially recommended,” or even make the leap to the passkeys If the service allows it. Be careful out there. Those measures that we talk about should not only be applied if we realize that something has happened, but before it happens. It is better to prevent than healing, and it is worth reviewing the safety of our accounts on the Internet, especially the most sensitive. The mail (Gmail, for example) is especially delicate, since it is usually used as a password rescue method in many other services. It is a good idea here to go to the tools that allow verifying the security status of our accounts to reinforce it if possible. Google, for example, Maintain a control panel which we can access at all times to configure what is necessary and Avoid scares after. In Xataka | The old dream of the cybersecurity of the future has just come true: Microsoft corner finally the passwords

Intel will fit one of the toughest blows in its history. One directed directly to its chips factories

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“These decisions are difficult, but they are essential to face the challenges we are already facing the company’s current financial situation. It is very painful.” These words They are part of the statement That Naga Chandrasekaran, the manufacturing vice president of Intel, sent the employees of this company last Saturday. In his concrete message that the Board of Directors is preparing A template reduction that will range between 15 and 20%as well as most of the cuts will arrive in July. The challenges a Those who currently face Intel They exceed the other challenges that he has faced during his more than half a century of history. The leadership that has sustained for decades in the manufacturing industry of integrated circuits is in the hands of The Taiwanese company TSMC since the mid -2000s. In addition, the stagnation during the last years of the PC market and the slowness with which Intel has participated in the industry of the industry of the artificial intelligence (AI) have placed it in a very compromised position. In July 2024, the company that at that time led Pat Gelsinger gave a tremendous batacazo in the stock market. Their actions fell 30% in a few days and stabilized in the value they had in 2011. In addition, Intel lost $ 1.6 billion During the second quarter of 2024 and its year -on -year income fell by 1%. These circumstances triggered a crisis that still persists today. This cut will have an inevitable impact on Intel factories Last August 2 Intel announced that was about to start a structural adjustment plan that pursued to reduce the costs of the company and increase its agility when adapting to the challenges that the market currently imposes. Its objective was to fire 15% of the workforce (more than 15,000 employees) and reduce costs by approximately 10,000 million dollars. Pat Gelsinger had declared shortly before Intel was inefficient because he had an excessively complex structure. It is still early to identify how this measure will affect the competitiveness and performance of Intel factories Not even Gelsinger himself “survived” this regeneration process. On December 2 This executive came out in a somewhat precipitated way of the company, whose course was uncertain until last March 18 Lip-bu took the reins of Intel. This veteran physicist and nuclear engineer He hastened to confirm that two of the pillars of its strategy would pursue reinforce the company’s position in the AI ​​market and reposition Intel as a leading company in the integrated circuit manufacturing industry. Shortly after his arrival It was leaked that lip-bu so He planned to launch a new cut of the Intel template in a clear attempt to reduce their operating expenses, among which personnel costs or marketing expenses are counted. The figure that the company shuffled on this occasion amounted to 20% of its workforce, which in practice implied to dispense with approximately 20,000 workers. These people join the more than 15,000 employees of which Intel has dispensed with during the last months of 2024. Now we know something else. From the statement that Naga Chandrasekaran has sent just four days ago to Intel employees it follows that during the next weeks they will be forced to leave their jobs Between 8,000 and 10,900 factor workers That has this company disseminated throughout the planet. However, presumably the most affected plant will be the largest of all: that of Oregon (USA). It is still early to identify how this measure will affect the competitiveness and performance of Intel factories, but its size invites us to anticipate that it will have a deep impact on the production infrastructure of this company. Image | Intel More information | Oregon Live In Xataka | Intel has confirmed that the 20A node will be skipped to reduce expenses. The 18A node will enter production in 2025

15 years ago, diesel got the best record in the history of Le Mans

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In a few hours they will start 24 hours from Le Mans. A year ago, in Xataka We had the opportunity to be there. I remember the expectation of the minutes before. We arrived with hours of advance but in Le Mans you breathe nervousness from the early morning. Those nerves that cause a smile contained halfway between illusion and fear. I wasn’t there 25 years ago But I’m sure something very similar was lived. The 2000 race served to collect the new millennium with open arms. What we did not know is that one of the most dominant eras in the history of the competition was beginning. One that starred Audi. One that began, like all, with a victory but that completely changed the idea of ​​understanding Le Mans. One that began with the smell of gasoline and ended with the smell of diesel. The golden years of Audi in Le Mans Although it was in 2000 when Audi won for the first time in Le Mans, the previous year he had already served the company of the four hoops to take temperature with the most famous resistance race in the world. In 1999, BMW had managed to impose itself as the last winner before the millennium change. No one predicted that during the next 18 editions a team got the victory in thirteen of them. And of these, nine joined consecutively. For the year 2000, Audi appeared again with his R8. He did it with a 3.6 -liter V8 engine with which they had already tried luck the previous year but made changes in the transmission. From the beginning it was confirmed that the three Audi were going to have very few rivals. Courage, Oreca, Dams and Panoz were not rivals for some Germans who added 368 laps with the unit piloted by Frank Biela, Tom Kristen and Emanuele Pirro. Audi copied the podium and his third unit added 368 laps. To understand the domain, the fourth classified was the C52 Courage that mounted Peugoet motor and only managed to add 344 turns. The distance was sidereal and would be certified in later years. Between 2000 and 2008, Audi scored each and every one of the victories of its LMP900 and, later, LMP1. Of the 24 possible drawers of the podium, Audi copied 19 of them with his official team or a private team that mounted any of his audi r8. The domain was overwhelming as we see but after three years dominating as an official team, the Germans left the competition and the Audi that were put in the starting line did it with private equipment. The situation was repeated between 2003 and 2005. But in 2006, the thing changed. Audi showed his interest again in the queen category of Le Mans but did it with surprise. He arrived with a diesel engine to show that fuel efficiency had no rival. The strategy was simple: less consumption involved less reposses and, therefore, longer on track. A diesel record And the strategy worked. In 2006Audi appeared at the starting line Of the 24 hours of Le Mans with two cars instead of the usual three to focus efforts. However, he managed to occupy two places of the podium, adding a 1-3 to his record and growing his private prustle account between 2000 and 2008. The car mounted a supercharged V12 with two turbocharger that could generate a maximum of 659 hp. According to its initial calculations, without shocks, the Audi R10 TDI He could take two more turns to the circuit of the pan than his predecessor before reproducing. That implied that he could travel 26 more kilometers before stopping. Although there had been previous attempts, that was the first year in which a car that used diesel fuel was made with the victory. It would not be the last because Audi repeated Victoria in 2007 and 2008. However, the fence was narrowed and in 2007 Peugeot also appeared in the output line with a diesel engine. In this case a Peugeot 908 HDI FAP that repeated the structure of the German: 5.5 -liter V12 engine and supercharged with two turbos. That year, the Peugeot went to 700 hp. In spite of everything, in 2007 Audi dominated again and put ten laps away to Peugeot. But the following year the competition matched so much that Audi and Peugeot added both 381 laps. However, the best would come. In 2009, Peugeot He finally managed to get the victory and did it with sufficiency, with the end of six laps above the Audi. A year later, the Germans would compensate getting one of the most spectacular records in history. In 2010, Audi returned to the three seats of the podium, already without Peugeot in the competition. The domain was so overwhelming that the first LMP1 No Audi It was a oreca that ended 26 laps from the winner. It was not for less, Mike Rocknfeller, Timo Bernhard and Romain Dumas managed to complete the cross circuit 397. They matched the number of turns achieved by Helmut Marko and Gijs van Lennep with a Porsche 917K In 1971 but there was a small difference. In the 70s, the circuit measured 13.47 kilometers, while in 2010 it had lengthened 13.63 kilometers. Those almost 200 meters apart, return to turn, made, since then, Audi shows the record of distance covered in the 24 hours of Le Manswith 5,410,713 km. The record was achieved with the Audi R15 TDI Plus. The car then rode an engine V10 5.5 -liter TDI that gave a maximum of 600 hp. It was an evolution of the previous year and served to find a winning path that extended until 2014, with change to hybridization along the way. The second half of the past decade became dominated by Porsche and Toyota (with that victory of Fernando Alonso included). The year 2014 closed, therefore, Audi’s most glorious story with Le Mans. Photo | Audi In Xataka | The most … Read more

If Midjourney survives Disney’s demand we could be facing the most radical transformation in Hollywood’s history

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Tool or enemy? It is clear that the relationship between generative and Hollywood IAS is going to bring a lot of tail: they were one of the key points of the requests of actors and screenwriters in the strikes that paralyzed Hollywood A few months ago. But far from being circumstantial allies, producers and artificial intelligences do not team, but quite the opposite: for the first time, two Majors of cinema demand a company of AI. What requests for demand. It is notorious because it is the first time that happens, although very possibly it will not be the last. The demand accuses Midjourney of violating the copyright of the plaintiffs, Disney and Nbcuniversal, both directly and secondary. That is, Midjourney is accused of both performing without authorization acts reserved for the holder of rights and facilitating the tools for others to do so. This infraction has occurred during the training process of its AI model and by showing images generated by artificial intelligence of copyright characters. The precedent of strikes. Interestingly, now you are Majors They face the companies of AI representing the industry, but it was also the IA that caused the fracture of the industry two years ago: the scriptwriter union faced the Alliance of Film and Television Producers in May 2023 (The actors in July joined the conflict), paralyzing Hollywood For six months. The agreement that was reached significantly restricted the use of the generative AI: this is prohibited so that the producers generate a script without a screenwriter, or replicate the image of an actor without permission, but its use is allowed as tools for the technicians. What can and what is not. Producers are clear What do you want from AI companies: “Piracy is piracy, and the fact that it is done by an AI company does not make it less offender,” says Disney’s legal department. It clashes like this with an assumption of technology: that it is legal to train machines with protected material, low the rules of Fair Use that in the US defends, for example, to parodies. The result enters a very diffuse legal landand that is why the result of this demand is essential for the future of the entertainment industry: Should Chatgpt images inspired by Ghibli’s work account with Hayao Miyazaki? They are not the first. Although this action is a point and apart from the size of the plaintiffs, there have been other previous ones (one of the most sounded: the New York Times demanding Microsoft and OpenAi): This updated map details the 42 current demands against AI companies. The one that brings together more conflicts is Midjourney, which does not put limitations to its Prompts If you try to make ChatgPT make a version of an image of Darth Vader, for example, you will find a warning that the petition violates its content policies. Midjourney, on the other hand, adds Dozens of artists’ demands and creators to absorb and inspire themselves in their work. There is no back. There is much at stake with this demand, to the point that if it goes ahead it can mean the end of many companies linked to AI, which could have to return to their zero models. Hollywood would have a free way, thus, to generate new income through the licenses of its properties, or creating companies that use “legal”, giving rise to producers built entirely under these cases, such as Asteria Film, Natasha Lyonne and Bryn Mooser’s companythat only has official material and will soon release its first film. We may be, in that sense, in a “wild” era for the IAS, which has their days counted before they begin to be preceded. Trump’s idyll with the IAS. However, this purpose can run into an impediment: large technological corporations have already taken steps to ensure that they have the law on their side. Not only the great CEOs Tech supported Trump In his presidential possession: Openai, for example, sent a report to the White House In January defending that the use of material bachelor in training of AI systems should be free. Several laws around Copyright relaxed as an immediate effect, and then the avalanche of images inspired by Ghibli generated by chatgpt came. We are not seeing a clash between weak rivals, precisely: both sides have a lot to win and they will invest millions so that the demand is resolved in their favor. The future of this war. This conflict just started. Disney and Universal (depending on how long and successful this demand) they go behind other companies: they have started by Midjourney, possibly because it is the weakest. But, if for whatever, Midjourney or whoever continues to win the demand and has free way to generate images under copyright, we will be before A total revolution: The studies, as we have met them until now, could abandon their role as guardians of the franchises and the characters and anyone could generate their own material of licensed content. The new role of studies. Studies would simply be property licenses. It is a dramatic turn, but not completely unreal. After all, it is what they are already doing: exploit properties in Attraction parks and produce infinite sequelae and Continuous refritos Of the same images, the same characters and the same stories. We may be taking the first steps towards the disintegration of Hollywood as we know it. Header | Disney In Xataka | Sony seems determined to embrace AI to reduce costs in their films. Their own producers have doubts

China has built the most elegant economic power lever in modern history: rare earths

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He Rare Earth Agreement announced last night says more than what appears to be a simple commercial truce: China has the most sophisticated geopolitical weapon we have seen. One that is capable of paralyzing entire sectors of any developed economy. And with the elegance of who closes a tap. China controls the entire ecosystem of Rare earth: The Ganzhou mines. Processing plants. He know-how technical. Specialized labor. Even the only American Mountain Pass mine Send your material to China to refine it. It is the same difference between having oil and controlling the refineries of the world. China has built a monopoly on elements that are the blood of the digital economy: Without neodymium there are no wind turbines. No Disposio there are no Tesla engines. Without Terbio there are no iPhone screens. Deng Xiaoping He saw it in 1992: “Middle East has oil. China has rare earths.” Three decades later, That prophecy is a reality and a definition of the present. And the interesting thing is that West has financed its own vulnerability. For decades, US and European companies outsourced the extraction and processing of “dirty” minerals to China, celebrating the margins that gave them that specialization. That dependence has had a strategic cost. And now… The same companies that built the supply chains to maximize their efficiency now discover that they also optimized their vulnerability. And China executes in a way we could call “civilized blackmail“. It does not close the whole tap, but it does slow down the supply with bureaucracy. Ask for forms, photos of the factories, customer listings, production details. That, in addition to a bureaucratic nuisance, is also to open a window to the industrial secrets of its competitors. Industrial espionage, but institutionalized, disguised as commercial policy. You take it or leave it. When he negotiates, he does it from a position of strength. The agreement, of only six months, works as a constant reminder. Each western company now knows that its production depends on Chinese benevolence. And if a geopolitical escalation of any kind arises, the industrial blackout can be almost instantaneous. The West now discovers that economic interdependence can become a lethal weapon, because China has shown that in the technological era, who controls critical materials controls the rules. The agreement last night postpones the moment in which the West will have to decide if he is willing to pay the price (economic and strategic) to recover his mineral sovereignty. China has won this pulse and has plenty of strength to win all the following. In Xataka | China monopolizes rare earths. An enemy has come out of home: the smuggers Outstanding image | Wikimedia Commons

We do not know if your history is yours, from OpenAI or the government

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Everything you write can be used against you. This is what the United States justice raises when trying to force Openai to indefinite all the records of our conversations with Chatgpt. Not only that: they also demand that you keep the chats that we theoretically believed to have eliminated. The situation makes the question inevitable: So all those data, who belongs to? The New York Times vs OpenAi is complicated. The entire current situation derives from the legal process that faces the prestigious newspaper with the artificial intelligence company. Said confrontation It has been in progress for 17 months. Nyt’s initial argument was that Openai had trained his models with NYT contents that he also showed in his responses to users. Now the thing goes further. Don’t even think about the chats. After a recent request from NYT, Judge Ona Wang that takes the case ordered A OpenAI to initiate the indefinite preservation of the records of all potentially relevant contents, including temporary chats and even the text output generated by the API and use paid users. Until that moment the Data retention policy Openai imposed a 30 -day limit to preserve conversations. Then theoretically they were erased without more. Payment walls. Nyt’s fear and other means is that users are using chatgpt to skip payment walls “could be more prone to erase all their searches to cover their footprints,” Openai explained in the judicial process. According to the plaintiffs, evidence that demonstrates it is missing because Openai has only ocmpartido samples of chat records that users had accepted that the company retained. OpenAi appeals. The Official response From OpenAi to NYT data demands it is clear: “We firmly believe that it is an overreach. It endangers your privacy without really contributing to solving the demand. That is why we oppose.” Those responsible for the company explain that they have asked the judge to reconsider the order highlighting that “that indefinite retention of user data violates industry standards and our own policies.” What data are affected by the order. The judge’s demand is very broad, but there are important details that allow to clarify who is not there any: If you use the free chatgpt version, if you use a subscription to Chatgpt Plus, Pro or Team or if you use the OpenAi API without ZDR agreement (Zero Data Retention), you are affected and your chats could be preserved indefinitely. Chatgpt Enterprise or Chatgpt Edu accounts are not affected by this order. API users who have opted for ZDR are not affected by the agreement. What is ZDR. The “ZDR amendment” refers to the data non -retention policy (Zero Data Retention) that guarantees that Prompts are not registered, nor is the models train with our data. This data management is especially Important for business useshence in Chatgpt Enterprise it is activated by default. For the rest of the plans, ZDR is not activated by default and companies and interested people must contact OpenAi to negotiate the terms. There are no published prices for this option, but it is an extra service and as such imposes an additional cost in the use of the OpenAi models API. Without evidence. According to Openai, there is no evidence that they have intentioned data intentionally and everything is speculation. In addition, there is also no evidence that users who violate copyright when using chatgpt to avoid payment walls are more likely to erase their chats. “Openai did not destroy data, and of course did not delete data in response to the events of the dispute. The order (judicial) seems to have assumed incorrectly otherwise.” Sensitive data. The company defends its duty to protect “the data and privacy of its users” and explains that millions of users use chatgpt daily for reasons that go “from the mundane to the deeply personal”. That makes these users sharing sensitive data that not only affect financial or medical information, but also their feelings and private reflections. Ramifications. The impact of that court order is potentially huge. As a user called Kepano stated in X, “if I have understood it correctly, this means that the data retention policies of the applications that use the OpenAi API simply cannot be fulfilled.” That is, if a third company that uses OpenAI models to provide their service promises that your data will be maintained private will not be able to guarantee that promise. The implications for users of all kinds are clear. In Ars Technica They cited the comment of a LinkedIn user suggested that this court order creates “a serious breach of contract for all the companies that use OpenAi.” and also highlighted messages in X of users who claimed that “each and every one of the services of AI” driven by “OpenAi should be worried” about this situation. Who belongs to the data? This court order opens a disturbing debate: who has control of the data we exchange with Chatgpt and, by extension, with any other chatbot. These companies are theoretically responsible for managing these data and eliminating them, but are they yours? Chatgpt and Gemini do use chats to train their default models, although this behavior can be deactivated. Neither Claude nor co -ilot do it, for example. The data in these last two cases are something “more yours.” But they continue to keep them for a variable period that is usually 30 days With this court order, the US states to be able to access that data if you need it, although there must be a judicial investigation behind as the one that is being carried out with The New York Times. And yet, these data are even more valuable as a source of information not only for private companies, but for intelligence agencies and services. And we know How do you spend the nsa. How they act normally. Data retention policies They are similar in all the cases And all Delete Those tickets and exits (chats) after 30 days. These companies also have options for that … Read more

We have just discovered a Mayan city of more than 2,800 years in Guatemala. And rethink the history of the region

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The jungle of Peténnorth of Guatemala, he continues to surprise historians who are dedicated to exploring pre -Columbian history. There, near the border of Mexico, archaeologists have discovered a fascinating “Urban triangle” formed by three old cities that stand out for their architecture and heritage. Among all the most surprising is “the grandparents”, an important Mayan ceremonial center of More than 2,800 years of antiquity that takes its name of two pieces discovered by the experts: sculptures of an elderly couple who were probably used for rituals related to the cult of ancestors. The experts They recognize That the findings open the door to rethink what we know about ceremonies, society and pre -Hispanic politics in northern Guatemala. Beyond Uaxactun. For centuries the Mayan civilization extended in the south of what is today Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, El Salvador and Honduras, shaping a rich culture that dates back At least 2,000 ACreached its splendor during the 5th century of our era and declined in the post -classic stage, from X to XIII. During that wide period the Maya created great populations, as uaxactúna site located in the Petén region, in Guatemala. For some time, Guatemalan archaeologists have looked, however, beyond Uaxactún, towards the jungles of Petén, in search of old pre -Columbian cities. Hence, in 2009 they would boost the Uaxactún Archaeological Project (Paru), which explores a vast area of ​​around 1,200 square kilometers (km2) around the old Mayan city. Thanks to him and after more than a decade and a half of work, experts have cataloged about 176 deposits, from small archaeological vestiges to broader settlements. “An urban triangle”. That the researchers have found 176 sites does not mean that they have excavated them all. Over the last years they have observed three attention three, Mayan cities that have been studied thanks to the involvement of several Slovak institutions, including the Enoius University. Their conclusions have just been submitted and reveal Something amazing: an “Urban Triangle so far unknown” that lived its splendor in the Middle Preclassic (800-500 BC) and late and is formed by three cities that barely are far five kilometers each other. The discovery is interesting both for archaeological vestiges themselves and for the horizons they open. “The findings allow to rethink the understanding of the ceremonial and socio -political organization of the pre -Hispanic Petén,” They stand out from the Ministry of Culture and Sports of Guatemala. The three archaeological sites that have captured the attention of Guatemalan and Slovak experts and make up that new Mayan urban triangle are Petnal, Cambrayal and the grandparents, the most fascinating of all. A new archaeological jewel. Grandparents is a city dating from the Middle Preclassic (800-500 AC), reaches an extension of some 16 km2 and is located about 21 km northwest of Uxactún. In the opinion of the local authorities, it implies “one of the oldest and most important ceremonial centers of the preclassic in Petén.” In fact they expect light to contribute on the origins of Mayan civilization. His name is due to one of the most curious pieces found by archaeologists: human form sculptures that represent an ancestral couple and that experts relate to ancient worship rituals to ancestors. The initial dating places them towards 500 and 300 BC Architecture for stars. The sculptures however are only a small part of the archaeological treasure of the grandparents. In A statementthe Ministry of Culture highlights its “remarkable architectural planning”, with radial pyramids, triadic groups and sculpted monuments with an iconography of the region. “In addition to the sculptures, grandparents houses a type of architectural set known as group E, used as astronomical observatory,” They clarify. “The disposition of its buildings allows you to register with precision solstices and equinoxes.” Experts have known the Eaxactun Group E for years, but they believe that the one located in the grandparents could be even older. That without having the rest of the vestiges discovered. At the foot of the sculptures of the two ancestors, a human burial was located and not far from there remains of several felines, in addition to offerings of vessels, shells, arrow points and a trail from which archaeologists hope to obtain “valuable information” about the old Mayan settlement. Completing the triangle. The grandparents is the main course of the new findings presented by Guatemala, but not the only one. Another of the outstanding deposits is Petnal, a city that was equipped with a pyramid of 33 meters high decorated with preclassic murals. At their highest point, archaeologists have also discovered a well -preserved stay that still retains remains of painting on stucco with reddish, white and black tones, “another extraordinary discovery”, experts celebrate. Because of its characteristics and architecture, however they believe that, unlike grandparents, which probably acted as a “ceremonial center”, Petnal exercised political center. 57 meters of channels. The third city that completes the urban triangle of Petén is Cambrayal, equipped with a network of 57 meters long channels that part of a palace and extends through the facade. Interestingly, archaeologists believe that the channels, stuped, were not used to bring water to the rooms, but to evict waste, just like a primitive drainage system. Another piece discovered in Cambrayal by experts is a sculpture similar to others located on the southern coast. The Ministry of Culture of Guatemala Point out that the three cities share more than proximity and distribute throughout the petén. They all had a more or less similar story: the settlements remained inhabited during much of the preclassic, ended up abandoned and with the passage of the centuries they enjoyed a second golden age after being rediscovered, rebuilt and again populated, already during the stage called late classic. Images | Ministry of Culture of Guatemala In Xataka | 60 years ago we discovered a hidden gold in the jungle of Peru. Now we know that it was really much more

One of the most mythical cars in the history of cinema can be “copied” by anyone. And that has consequences for the industry

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You can have Eleanor in the garage. That is what an American court has decided for whom the most famous Ford Mustang of ‘cars thieves’ or his Ramake ’60 seconds’ is mere telzzo and not a character in itself. And this has its particular implications when selling replicas. He is not a character. Specifically, according to a United States Court, it is “ATZZO”. We read the information in Motorpasion where they echo the ratification of a sentence that has been chasing Shelby for a long time. According to his decision, the coach may continue selling Eleanor replicas. That is, if you want, Shelby can sell a preparation of the Ford Mustang as they appeared in the film since those responsible for the Court of Appeals of the Ninth US Circuit have indicated that we are facing a mere vehicle and not a character in itself so you cannot apply copyright. Where do we come from? The decision of this Court certifies the previously issued other courts of lower rank. Denice Halicki, widow of HB Halicki, director, screenwriter and producer of ‘Gone in 60 Seconds’, known in the 70s in Spain as ‘cars thieves’ had denounced Shelby for selling vehicle replicas. Then there was a judicial career that It began in 2022 and that has ended in 2025 with the ratification of the latter court. And although Shelby can continue to manufacture their replicas, there are a little smaller particular cases that have also received good news, Like this youtuber who had been tried for the feet of his particular modification. Identifying features. That is what Denice Halicki has defended all this time. According to the woman of the screenwriter, director and producer of the original film, that Eleanor reappeared with a leading role in the remake known as ’60 seconds’ gave an idea of ​​its relevance and, in his opinion, that it was one more character in the film. For the judge, however, “Eleanor has no right to the protection of the copyright of the characters because (1) had no conceptual qualities, (2) had no consistent features and (3) was not especially distinctive”, in words collected by Carscoop. In fact, they point out that “along four films and eleven appearances in those films, Eleanor lacks consistent features. For example, Eleanor’s physical appearance frequently changes throughout the various films, appearing as a yellow and black fastback Mustback, a Mustang Shelby GT-500 gray and black and an oxidized and without paint that needs repair.” Eleanor is not a batmobo. In the films that have appeared, Eleanor has always been shown as a special car. Without going any further, in ’60 seconds’ Nicolas Cage points to that of all cars that have to steal during the movie, Eleanor is special because he has always escaped him. Knowing if you will get it is, without a doubt, the great attraction of all the films in which you have appeared. But, for the judges, it is not a Batmobile. They point out that in this case we do talk about a character in itself because the Batmóvil can act for itself (without Bruce Wayne at his side) and has a specific and very identity aesthetic (which resembles a bat). Towle test. What the judges applied to know if Eleanor was or not protected by copyright is what is known as “Towle test”. That is, the car would be subject to copyright if it meets the following premises: The character must have physical and conceptual qualities. The character must be sufficiently delineated to be recognizable as the same character every time it appears. It must show consistent and identifiable features and attributes, although the character does not need to have a consistent appearance. The character must be especially different and contain some unique elements of expression. It cannot be an archetypal character. This test refers to what was applied in the same court in 2015 to decide if the Batmóvil was a character in itself, after DC Comics denounced Mark Towel, a man who had manufactured the car replicas. In this case, he failed in favor of the plaintiff and, therefore, the foundations settled to know whether or not a character was a character in himself. A break. As we say, this victory is a break for Shelby and for people who, on their own like the youtuber of B is for buildThey have wanted to work in their own replicas of the famous Mustang Shelby GT-500. These types of replicas are common among the greatest fans of certain films and vehicles that modify their cars to have their own Kitt, Herbie or the Delorean ‘return to the future’. Even Ford has sold its own ‘Bullit’ version of Ford Mustangremembering the beautiful sports that Steve McQueen was driving in the film of the same name. Photo | In Xataka | 17 iconic cinema and TV vehicles in 45 photos: This will be the exhibition of the largest science fiction cars in history

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