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In the nineties, no one saw how the Internet would starve factories. Thirty years later, AI is doing the same thing

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On the one hand, the United States government is trying to reverse three decades of deindustrialization with tariffs on China. On the other hand, investment in AI is recreating exactly the phenomenon that destroyed part of the American industry in the 1990s. History repeats itself, but this time knowing what is going to happen. Why is it important. Derek Thompson, business reporter for The Atlantic, has identified a pattern that rewrites what we thought we knew about American industrial decline. China not only stole jobs but American capital abandoned them early. In an interview with the investor Paul Kedrosky for his podcast Plain EnglishThompson presents his thesis: In the nineties, the massive deployment of the Internet and telecommunications absorbed brutal amounts of money. That money had to come from somewhere. He left the factories. Small manufacturers saw financing becoming increasingly more expensive. Just at that time, China was entering the World Trade Organization and trade barriers were falling. It wasn’t bad luck. It was cause and effect. The context. Technology companies are going to spend about $400 billion this year building infrastructure for AI. To put it in perspective: the Apollo program that took the United States to the Moon cost about 300 billion adjusting for inflation. That was ten years. This is a year. Data centers have accounted for half of US economic growth in the first six months of 2025. The forecast is that investment exceeds 500,000 million annually in 2026 and 2027. Meanwhile, American consumers are spending $12 billion a year on AI services. The difference between what is invested and what is earned is abysmal. The panoramic. The problem is structural. If you manage an investment fund with 500,000 million, you have two options: You can distribute that money among a hundred small factories that need five million each. Or you can write ten $50 billion checks to AI projects. The first option means managing a hundred different companies. Sit on dozens of tips. Do constant monitoring. The second means ten meetings a year. The choice is obvious. A manufacturer that wants to take advantage of the moment to bring production back to the US finds that borrowing money is very expensive. Banks compare their project with the returns that AI promises. There is no color. The irony. Trump has built his economic policy on tariffs that force companies to manufacture in the US. But investment in AI is making it more expensive exactly what the tariffs are trying to make cheaper: producing locally. Tariffs raise the price of importing from China. AI raises the cost of financing local production. The net effect may be zero for the industry, but with higher prices for everyone. The figures. Building a modern data center involves… That 60% of the budget goes to NVIDIA chips. The rest is divided between refrigeration, electricity and construction. The physical building is the cheapest part. Geography also counts. Northern Virginia concentrates a good part of the investment. Areas that were rural ten years ago are now surrounded by industrial facilities that operate 24 hours a day. Yes, but. There is a way out that did not exist in the nineties: set up data centers outside the United States. India and the Middle East are receiving huge investments because electricity is cheaper and your neighbors, ahem, complain less. But that makes the original problem worse. If the money goes to data centers in other countries, there is even less left for American factories. Between the lines. Kedrosky uses a simile that sums it all up: a death star that absorbs capital. In the nineties that star was the Internet. Now it’s AI. The factories, in both cases, are collateral damage. The difference is that in the nineties no one saw it coming. Now yes. In Xataka | Spain has a railway giant in the shadows. And he just got the “contract of the century” Featured image | Cemrecan Yurtman

Jeff Bezos asked his parents for savings from his life to found Amazon. They only asked him one question: “What is the Internet?

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In 1995, Jeff Bezos decided give up your stable job and well paid as an analyst on Wall Street to set up a book sales business online. At that time, Jeff Bezos was not the millionaire who is today, so he went to see his parents and asked them for help to invest in Amazon. His father’s first question was clear and direct: “What is the Internet?” Miguel and Jacklyn Bezos did not know much about that new technology, but they knew that their son was determined to squeeze it to the maximum. According to the writer Brad Stone in the book “The dream store. Jeff Bezos and the Amazon era“Bezos warned his parents:” There is a 70 % chance that you will lose everything. I just want to make sure I can return home for thanksgiving if this doesn’t work. “ Without hesitation, the Bezos invested a good part of the savings of their entire life in their son’s project. Today, that initial investment has grown 15,500% And it is worth more than the GDP of Iceland and Maldives together, making their father so rich (his mother died a few weeks ago) that, as he counted The Wall Street JournalMiguel Bezos is hiring a CEO to administer the assets of his Family Office. The origin of a historical fortune In the middle of the nineties, Mike Bezos, of Cuban origin and with family ties in a Small Valladolid municipalityhe decided to trust family savings to his son Jeff and, incidentally, becoming the first investors after the Amazon Foundation. According to documents Of the US Stock and Stock Exchange Commission (SEC), the initial investment of the Bezos was through the purchase of 582,528 Amazon shares to, only a few months later, expand your investment by buying 847,716 more shares. In total, 1,430,244 shares at a purchase price of 17 cents per share. That leaves a total investment of 243,141.48. Such and as it revealed Bloombergit is a fortune for a couple formed by a single mother who had to raise her son alone with a poor salary while studying A race, and a Cuban immigrant who arrived in the US with 16 years. After thirty years, if the initial investment had remained intact, it would amount to about 72.6 billion dollars. However, after different sales and donations of shares, the family heritage of Jeff Bezos’s parents exceeds 40,000 million dollars. CEO is sought for fortune According to The Estimates of The Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg, Aurora Borealisthe company that is responsible for managing the heritage of Miguel Bezos, was founded in 2020 and, if it were a person, would take 48 position among the greatest fortunes of the List of Millionaires of Forbes. Aurora Borealis, is currently one of the Family officers most relevant in the world for its heritage volume. The company manages assets of very diverse kinds, from those foundational actions of Amazon to investments in funds and projects of philanthropy through the Bezos Family Foundation. The growing heritage of the father of Jeff Bezos has reached levels that have become necessary to professionalize the team that manages it from Aurora Borealis, Speaking as CEO To Valeria Alberola, an executive with experience in the management of great heritage. As a reference, the new Amazon Fortuna Fortuna manager managed the Family Office of the Walton familyfounders and owners of the Wallmart supermarket chain. His goal, get Miguel “Mike” Bezos even richer. The history of Miguel Bezos’ fortune is not only relevant for facilitating the foundation of one of the world’s largest companies, it is also a unique phenomenon since it is not usual for a family loan of just under $ 244,000, ends up making millionaires to the founder’s parents, and not to external investors. Was A risky bet That he went well, but he could also have left Jeff Bezos banished from thanksgiving dinners and his parents with a serious economic problem. In Xataka | Technological millionaires presume ecological awareness. Their superyates and private jets tell another story Image | Flickr (George W. Bush Presidential Center)

Jpelirrojo and Soyunapringada star again on the Internet of the week

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When it seemed that his time of controversial stardom had passed, here we have it again: Jpelirrojo, One of the first youtubers In getting some notoriety with a nascent YouTube around the mid -two thousands, he is again In the eye of the hurricane. And has not disappointed. The one who was the black Beast of the Internet in Spanish returns, thanks to a few unfortunate statements and the resurrection of his BEEF with Esty Quesadato be the most hated internet (this week). Jpelirrojo Prime. He Jpelirrojo who obtained fame on the Internet for a few years ago is no longer that of now: he promoted his steps in the rap and the interpretationits main channel came to exceed one million subscribers, won the Google YouTube Nextup contest in 2011, opened channels dedicated to sport, challenges or even their personal life, since it was one of the first Influencers in visible your relationship with youtuber Roenlaredanticipating the gossip internet we have now. And, of course, he has never been alien to the controversies: he celebrated in 2016 the death of a bullfighter on Twitter (which It cost an advertising contract with Nestlé), did controversial statements and of misogynist dyes about feminism, makeup or Friendzonewas criticized for his opinions about politics and relationships, and also when he entered the market of the coaches with A course of doubtful quality about obtaining happiness. Enter Soyunapringada. The confrontation between Jpelirrojo and Esty Quesada is one of the most popular controversies in the world of Spanish youtubers and influencers. Quesada He criticized Jpelirrojo years agoaccusing him of being a “shit macho” and a “cancer for feminism”, especially because of the way he treated Roenlared. Quesada defined the relationship between the two of psychological abuse and this hatred reached its culmination in A few viodeos where youtuber He let all his bile out Against his enemy, in historical pieces of verbal poison in Spanish. But if this was years ago … Why have the flames of the conflict been revived? More controversial. Although this year Jpelirrojo has not been oblivious to controversies (in June he published a video Raising weights in the hospital room where his partner had just given birth, with the text “Without excuses”), none has been as much as Your participation in expected podcastwhere he confessed to having been unfaithful to Roenlaredwith whom he had a relationship of more than 12 years. He explained how this situation conditioned the rest of the years together, ensuring that he lived “canceled” and always “in debt” for that error. His statements have been specially criticized for presenting themselves as a victim despite having committed the initial infidelity, which generated Debates on responsibility and toxic relationships. The interview was also sown with Conflictive political opinionslike “the only nazi than the Nazi is the extreme left Woke Today in social networks. “or his revelation on the habit of recording all his conversations” by paranoia “. Esty, to the jugular. After five years without publishing on him, I am anapringing has unearthed the war ax and has taken advantage of the media intervention of Jpelirrojo for launch a new attack. Tacha to your recent statements of “circus” and ridicule your complaints. In fact, she was the main defender of the theory that excuses is victimized and uses to justify her behavior and past errors. Quesada has continued to remove the controversy and the incin that already has a jpelirrojo in social networks, to end up making it one of the most hated people of the moment. Jpelirrojo, in the center of the hurricane. It is no longer about having a controversial behavior or seeking with your statements to generate the hatred of your opponents: Jpelirrojo has ended up converting the CRINGE In full -time work. Establishing the grimo as one of the Fine Arts seems to be the purpose of someone who seems aware that he will not achieve notoriety for conventional channels, and force the opposition with videos that knows that they will be badly received, such as that of the hospital, or with necessarily confrontational statements, such as those of the podcast. Let’s not forget that Jpelirrojo comes from an internet era in which to release the most daring provocation was rewarded with visits, although there were punishments in the form of Canceled Contracts. But sensibilities have changed and that is why these types of profiles always have the complaint about the “cancellation culture“. However, the wheel continues to turn: while there is a jpelirrojo there will always be a sty cheese to stir about its sins, in a spiral of hatred and affronts that is the one that signs the most bronch and rough side of the Internet. Header | Expected podcasts In Xataka | Mrbeast wanted to discover the Mayan culture in a video with millions of visits: Mexico has threatened to sue him

99% of the Internet travels through submarine cables. Now there is a much more ambitious plan in progress: join the electricity grid

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At first glance, the seas are an empty landscape. Under its waters, the image is another, through it a network of invisible highways that already support our day to day: the submarine cables that carry the 99% of world communications. Now, a new generation of electrical interconnectors – thousands of kilometers and gigavatio power – aspires to bring sun, wind and hydraulic where they are missing, when they are missing. The promise is simple: that electricity travels with the sun and wind through schedules; The execution, not so much. The starting point: The North Sea. The United Kingdom and Denmark premiered at the end of 2023 the Viking Link, a 765 km cable that crosses the North Sea and allows you to import electricity when wind is missing on the island and export when left over. It is the longest interconnector in the world in operation, but, as Financial Times warned: “It may not be for a long time.” The British media report details That on the horizon there are much more ambitious plans: join Canada with the United Kingdom and Ireland through a 4,000 km cable, link Morocco with Europe or export Australian solar energy to Singapore through more than 4,300 km of submarine cable. Through the cables. This new megaproject makes it clear that countries have been pursuing a connection with renewables for some time, because there is a mismatch between production and consumption, and we must solve it. The most illustrative example is AapowerLink in Australia. The Suncable company plans to install 3 GW from Solar in the northern territory, store part in batteries and sell it both to Darwin and Singapore, through an underwater cable of more than 4,000 km. In the words of his CEO, Ryan Willemsen-Bell, collected by Financial Times: “Australia has abundant land and sun. The ability to share those benefits with our neighbors has enormous potential.” In parallel, the North Atlantic Transmission One Link seeks to connect the Canadian hydroelectric plant with Europe. The time differential is its great asset: when Canada sleeps, the United Kingdom starts the day; When in the North Sea, wind blows at midnight, New York is preparing dinner. A lesson from the Internet. The idea may sound futuristic, but there are already solid precedents. As we have underlined Xatakathe entire planet is furrowed by submarine data cables, authentic digital highways that have demonstrated the viability of infrastructure of tens of thousands of kilometers. The Southern Cross Cable Network, 30,500 km, connects Australia, New Zealand and the United States since 2000. The newly opened 2Africa, 45,000 km, surrounds the African continent and reaches Barcelona and India. And in Spain, cables such as tide (6,605 km, Meta and Microsoft) or Grace Hopper (7,191 km, from Google) link Bilbao with the east coast of the US. The experience of these data networks provides an obvious parallelism: if we already move information on a global scale, why not also clean energy? Although not everything is so easy. From Financial Times alert a tensioning supply chain: The manufacture of cables, transformers and converting stations does not supply. The waiting deadlines are lengthened, and the availability of specialized ships to tend cable is limited. To that are added political risks. In Norway, the export of electricity to its neighbors has triggered the internal debate on prices. In the United Kingdom, the Government rejected this year to support the X-Links project to bring energy from Morocco, claiming “high level of inherent risk”. And with the ongoing Ukraine War, the threat of sabotages to critical infrastructure It is a fact. Looking inside. In the Spanish case, the problem is more domestic than international. As we have explained in Xatakathe country has run more than anyone to lift renewables in the “emptied Spain”, but has not deployed the cables to bring that electricity to the cities. The result is a “broken bridge”: at noon there are plenty of cheap megawatts that are cut or sell at zero price, and at night the network needs gas support, more expensive the market. According to data from the AELēC employer, 83.4% of connection knots are already saturated, which prevents hooking new consumptions such as industries, data centers or electrolyiners. The challenge, in short, is not to plan and reinforce the networks; as well as improve interdependence with other countries to break With the French bottleneck. A map of interdependencies. Beyond the technical and economic, these electric highways draw a new geopolitical map. Just as pipelines and gas pipelines marked the twentieth century, renewable interconnections can define alliances and dependencies in the XXI. The engineer Simon Ludlam, co-founder of the Canada-UK project, summed it up in Financial Times: “The most important nuclear reactor is in heaven, and its energy can be shared thanks to the rotation of the earth. But we need to be interconnected.” The sun that shines in the Australian desert or the water that falls in Canada could light, in a matter of seconds, the lights of cities to thousands of kilometers. The energy transition not only depends on producing renewables, but also on learning to move them. If the pipelines defined the petroleum geopolitics, the electric highways can become the invisible arteries of the coming world. Image | Unspash and What’s Inside Xataka | The Google Maps of submarine cables: an imposing interactive map that allows us to know the skeleton of the modern world

Gorillaz revolutionized the Internet 26 years ago with a flash website. Now they recreate it with modern technology … and the same aesthetics

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If you lived the Internet at the end of the nineties, you certainly remember Flash animations overflowing pageswith embedded videos, interactive parts that were sometimes like complex riddles … They were the first steps of the web exploring their potential as an advertising tool, and all groups wanted to have a digital presence. Gorillaz made one of the most sophisticated proposals, and now … his virtual house has returned. A walk through Kong Studios. In 1998, we could take a digital walk through the interior of the alleged studies where the Gorillaz virtual band lived and rehearsed. It was a website that worked under the missing and cried Flash, and was full of Easter eggs for fans, extra material that was not on the discs, miniguegos … a large amount of material that grew for ten years, when it ended up closing. The best non -existent band in the world. Gorillaz is a virtual British band founded that same 1998 by musician Damon Albarn (Blur) and the cartoonist Jamie Hewlett (Creator of Tank Girl). The group is made up of four fictitious animated members (2-D, Murdoc Niccals, Noodle and Russel Hobbs), whose history has been developing, in more or less real time (they have been aging, in fact) through an elaborate narrative universe. Gorillaz He was born as a criticism of the superficiality of the MTV -type media, and with their characters, Albarn and Hewlett wanted to subvert the codes of the pop stars. They debuted in 2001 with a homonym album, where they already had successes that merged rock, hip hop, electronics and pop. Since then, and Despite more or less prolonged parenthesisthey have not stopped recording and playing live, with sophisticated assemblies that respect the virtual identities of the members. Kong Studios rises. Gorillaz (who are now more active than ever) have brought back that original walk through the Kong Studiosthey have reprogrammed the web so that it is not necessary to execute flash, but it remains faithful to the original aesthetics and limitations: rigid animations, pixelated visuals … and with a gift, a game (which seems programmed, really, in 1998) where we must enter the cemetery that surrounds the study armed with a shovel to defend ourselves from the attack of some zombie gorillas The legendary ‘Clint Eastwood’ video clip. More of the same. The original site provided half an hour of delusional minijuegos, a jukebox where the then short discography of Gorillaz in full could be reproduced, including unpublished remixes and versions … in This video You can remember what that walk was, which has not been replicated with total accuracy, but in large part. Enough to miss the days when the presence of the bands on the Internet was not a mere Instagram account, but a real effort to dedicate their fans, with gifts and interaction with anyone who would give them some time. Long live the flash. With one aesthetics that today we would consider squeaky and excessive In these times when gray is the norm, Flash Player, deceased since December 31, 2020 He laid the aesthetic basis (and almost philosophical) from another internet era, where everything was a chaotic jungle of animations and games made by clown in their rooms. Kong Studios was an Asian luxury compared to the shabby and debauchery that he camp on an internet without limits, one that will not return: although we can celebrate it as it deserves, returning to the Gorillaz domains. In Xataka | Large rock bands have found how to extend their withdrawal indefinitely: with digital avatars

The creator of Chatgpt has realized that the Internet is full of AI. His sudden concern hides something else

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Sam Altman is worried online. A few days ago said in x that the Dead Internet Theorybut now it seems to him that many Twitter accounts are controlled by Bots. The thing was not there. He also criticized that some posts in Reddit seem written by an AI. His messages have unleashed a wave of answers that remind him of something obvious: he has played an important role in all this. In addition, what presents us as a genuine concern would have other hidden reasons. Dead Internet. The first message arrived last week, as they say in Futurism. In him, Altman said he was starting to be taken seriously This theory which states that the current Internet is dominated by bots, AI and content generated by algorithms, instead of humans. Their answers were filled with mockery, such as This user who answered by imitating the chatgpt style or those that sent him This meme With the text “we are trying to find the uncle who did this.” The publication has 3,000 responses and many of them point to him as one of the culprits that the Internet is full of bots and content generated by AI. A real problem. Although the concept of the dead internet is a conspiracy theory, the problem of the bots is very real, and if not tell Elon Musk when he bought Twitter. According to Data from the Cybersecurity Company imperviousin 2023 49% of the Internet traffic were Bots. With the arrival of AI the thing has worsened and In your 2024 report They confirm that the figure had increased to 51%. In other words: there is more bots traffic than humans. In addition, 37% of these bots are used for malicious purposes such as the creation of news and false content. And not to mention Ai Slop that is flooding the network. “It feels Fake“ Returning to Altman, yesterday He shared his sensations After reading the Claude Code Subnetditin which several users praised Codex’s capabilities, the OpenAI code assistant, almost as if it were the best that has happened to them in life. Although it is something that benefits its product, Altman said they seem posts written by an AI and that, both Twitter and Reddit, they feel very false lately. Among the possible reasons, Altman believes that people are starting to speak as if they were IAS, although obvious that the AI ​​models have trained to sound like us and, more specifically, Reddit itself has been used in training of many of them. Altman also mentions a possible case of “Astroturfing“, a tactic that is used to generate artificial opinions that are passed as real to give a false impression of support or rejection of a product. Altman ensures that they have previously suffered it and that is why it is” very sensitive “with the subject. Hidden reasons. As they point out in TechcrunchAltman’s sudden obsession with the bots, the dead Internet and especially the Astroturfing It would have a goal: to sow doubt about the opinions issued about their products. With this, the idea that the wave of criticism of users after the launch of GPT-5 They were not real. Some Users in Reddit They also point to another possible reason: that the rumors of OpenAI’s social network Be true and what Altman is looking for is to subtract credibility to his competitors. Images | Wikipedia In Xataka | 20 years later, if you want to find something on the Internet you are looking for it in Reddit

The hatred of Middle Internet

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If you have been watching the networks this weekend, surely you have seen The video in which a tennis player gives his cap to a child, but the man next to him rises from his hands. What followed was a good example that when the Internet is organized, you can get almost what you propose. What happened. It happened during the US Open that is being held in New York. Last Thursday, after the match against Russian Karen Khachanov, Polish tennis player Kamil Majchrzak approached the stands and began to sign autographs for his fans. One of them was a child of about 10 years who asked for his cap, to which the tennis player agreed. He did not give him time to smile: the man next to him snatched it and, making deaf ears to the kid’s complaints, puts it in a bag that his wife carried. The two smile proud, without being aware that everything has been recorded. The tennis player did not realize and continued signing, leaving the child without a gift. Fountain: X Internet detectives to rescue. The video It quickly went viral And the answer was swift. Outraged, many people began to investigate To identify man. On the other hand, another initiative was launched to try to find the child. After watching the video, the tennis player himself published in Your Instagram account A call to meet with the kid and be able to give him the cap that had been removed in front of his noses. Caught. On Saturday 30, two days after the incident, man was identified. This is Piotr Szczerek, a Polish millionaire and owner of the Drugbruk paving company. In addition to innumerable publications shaving your behaviorInternet found another way to make him pay his bad gesture: Fry the company to negative reviews. We do not know what your score was before, but currently Drugbruk has 1.4 on Google, A 2 in Tustpilot and a 1.4 in goworka Polish review site. There have also been users who They have sent critical messages through the company’s contact mailbox. The wave of criticism has made both Szczerek and his wife deactivate his accounts on social networks, according to The Sunday Times. This sounds to us. Although nothing to do with the fact of the theft of the cap, it reminds us of the case of Andy Byron, CEO of Astronomer, to whom the KISS-CAM From a Coldplay concert he presented while he had an adventure with its HR director. The parallels are clear: the identification of the protagonists thanks to the networks, the fierce criticisms (which in the case of Byron They flowed into their resignation), that both are millionaires and have a company … but above all the fact that the protagonists did not expect to be recorded. There is even another resemblance: in both cases letters of apology have been published of the two protagonists who have turned out to be false (as of this publication, Szczerek has not pronounced on the controversy). Happy end. After the publication of the tennis player, thanks to the networks He could locate it and met him. The player posted an image with the boy, called Brock, carrying a cap very similar to the one that took him a few days ago. In the end the child has been the best standing of this whole story. In Xataka | Millions of people are hooked right now to an Olympic Games where cats compete. Cats made with ia

Starship ended as an orange after flight 10. Spacex has not explained the reason, but the Internet has its theories

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Starship’s tenth test has been a resounding success. The highest rocket in history took up a lot of expectation after three failed pitches, but this time one by one fulfilled the objectives of the mission. What surprised many was the orange color that the ship had when it merited in the Indian Ocean, a tone that we had not seen so far. Extreme suffering. After displaying Starlink Satellites simulators for the first time, Starship 37 lit an engine in the exorbitant space. It was then that Spacex tested the structure of the ship. An especially hard reentry angle, a series of aggressive maneuvers with the ailerons and a deliberately incomplete thermal shield made the ship suffer, but never disintegrated or stop maneuvering. Unlike flights 7, 8 and 9, which did not have a controlled reentry, flight 10 has allowed Spacex to collect an incalculable amount of data to improve Starship’s most critical and green part: Your reusable thermal shield. And it is precisely the thermal shield in the rocket belly that seems to have acquired an orange color after 26,000 km/ha 12 km/h. But how did that rusty tone occur if the thermal tiles are ceramic? A buoy and a mystery. Although Spacex has not yet pronounced on the subject, the images of the Ship 37 issued live from a buoy in the Indian Ocean called the attention of fans and aerospace experts equally. While the ship’s belly seems to have churruscado, the main theories do not point to The tiles fall Or they were burned, but for something deposited on them. The location of the experimental metal tiles at the vertex of the orange cone A refrigerant leak. The hypothesis that has gained the most force is the one that points to one of the key experiments of this flight: a metal tile with active cooling In the upper part of the thermal shield. Unlike the usual ceramic tiles, which are passive insulators, this experimental piece leaves circular cohete refrigerant to dissipate heat. The theory, supported by Analysts like Scott Manleysuggests that the tile with active cooling could have suffered a leak. The refrigerant fluid (perhaps methane of the rocket itself), by escaping and coming into contact with the incandescent plasma of the reentry, would have been burned and deposited throughout the fuselage, creating that characteristic feature of orange -shaped cone color that is appreciated in the images. In fact, the location of the experimental tile It coincides perfectly with the vertex of the orange area. Other possibilities. A non -exclusive theory is that experimental metal tiles (there were others on board without active refrigeration) They will simply oxidize Due to the extreme temperatures of the reentry, leaving that trail of oxide color. What seems clear is that we are not seeing the result of a ablation. Starship silica tiles are reusable insulating, not ablative shields that disintegrate by design. If the tiles had worn up to the point of exposing the ablative material underneath, we would be talking about a catastrophic failure of the system. A torture laboratory. This visual result, far from being a failure, is the direct consequence of Spacex experiments for this flight. The Starship 37 has gone through an authentic test bench for the thermal shield, which Elon Musk himself has pointed out as The main technological stumbling block of the program. On this flight, Spacex withdrew tens of tiles in key areas to see how the lower structure endured. At the same time, he added metal tiles and with active cooling to look for more resistant alternatives in areas of maximum thermal stress. And softened the edges of some tiles to mitigate the hot points observed in previous flights. In summary, the orange color of the Starship does not seem to be a sign of a catastrophic failure, but the visible footprint of an experiment taken to the limit. Images | Spacex In Xataka | A astrophysicist calls Elon Musk: “Even in a nuclear apocalypse, the earth would be a paradise compared to Mars”

China was isolated from one of the key arteries of the Internet for an hour. It is not clear if it was an essay or a failure

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On the Internet there are falls that are noticed. And then there is what happened in China. For a whole hour, one of the main road traffic with the outside stopped working without explanation. It was not a total blackout, but a cut that became visible in many parts: applications that were halfway, websites that did not respond, services that failed right in the border crossing. The ruling did not fit with the typical local fall or with a problem of a single operator. It lasted 74 minutes, crossed networks and left behind an awkward silence. What fell was not all the Internet, but a concrete and widely used part: the channel that allows encrypted connections to function safely. According to GFW Reportbetween 00:34 and 01:48 of August 20, Beijing time (UTC+8), a generalized blockade was recorded in the Port 443which is the one that uses the majority of traffic HTTPS. The effect was broad and sustained, but did not affect other channels. The most striking thing is that, until now, no one has explained what caused that cut or why it happened in that strip. The technical analysis points to a very concrete pattern. Every time a connection tried to settle in that port, special packages – the RST+ACK – appeared that act as a closing order. They are the digital equivalent to hang the phone before someone attends. These packages were not sent by mistake: they were being injected into large quantities just at the key moment of the exchange between client and server. According to the specialists, this alteration did not fit with a fall due to congestion and affected both connections that came out of China and to those trying to enter. Despite the serious cut, not everything stopped working. Internal connections within China were still active, and other ports, such as 80 – for non -encrypted traffic – or 22, intended for remote connections, showed no block signs. The problem was focused on port 443. That explains why some services could continue to work while others became inaccessible: it was not a total disconnection, but a very selective interruption of the encryption step that crosses the digital border of the country. There are no public reports indicating that platforms such as WechatBaidu or Weibo suffered a generalized fall in that strip; Its main infrastructure is mostly within the country and does not depend on the international crossing for basic functions. But many Chinese apps incorporate components that depend on Servers outside of China-action, mini-programs, external APIS or cloud functions-and those calls could fail when the encrypted step was blocked. There are no public reports that indicate that platforms such as Wechat, Baidu or Weibo suffered a general fall in that strip The impact was more noticeable in international services. According to The Registerpart of the connections of foreign services – including some functions of Apple or Tesla – could be interrupted for users in China during the blockade window. Other international services that depend on HTTPS, such as certain CDNS or VPN connections that use TCP/443. In summary: the internal network was not broken, the encrypted channel was cut out and that was enough to leave many out. One of the most relevant clues is precisely that technical footprint. Each system that filters or interrupts connections leaves a trail –a fingerprint– Recognizable for the order of the packages, the TTL or the TCP window size. In this case, these values ​​differ from the previous documents, so the researchers propose two hypotheses: a new equipment deployed for tests or a known team that was in an anomalous or poorly configured state. The conclusions remain in condition until there are more data. Traffic returned to normal and there were no visible consequences on a large scale.But the cut was real, it was documented and left an unknown in the air. There were no officials or official explanations. In any case, the great firewall is still there, functioning as always, and with an intervention capacity that this time was recorded. Images | Leon Seibert | Xataka with Gemini 2.5 In Xataka | To have a rather mediocre AI it has been necessary to loot all the internet content. And Reddit has said enough

The future of the Internet is flooding of ia. And there are those who have already seen a business niche: content made by humans

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Internet has been filled with Searches results generated by artificial intelligence and of ‘Slop‘. The first is already reducing clicks to halfand points to collapse for the media. The second is something that users will have to live if the platforms do not get more serious to improve the filtering. Among all the tangle of new and ancient actors, an old Google opponent has returned to position itself as an alternative to the current in this era. Forks Duckdukgo. What are they doing. Duckckgo is an alternative search engine focused on offering the greatest possible privacy to its users, and for this, use, for example, the Bing searches. After 16 years since its foundation, the company has launched a Filter of images generated with AI that frames in its philosophy of the “private, useful and optional” functions. For the end user, this means being able to see or hide the images generated by the general search of images, something that is already problematic in Google where, for example, we come to see distorted results, even in examples as recognizable as ‘The young woman of the pearl’. The company has already shown that it can be differentiated, with Duck.aian own chatbot that anonymizes conversations and does not use them for training. How do they. To use this filter, the company is not using an engine driven by artificial intelligence or something similar. Those responsible have detailed the method, and is based on using manual open source block lists that the popular content blocker provides Ublock Origin and the Ublacklist’s Hage AI Blocklist, a browser extension created so that users can manually filter concrete websites of their Google results. Effectiveness. One of the big problems of the contents generated with AI is that they not only come from repositories that clearly indicate it, such as Midjourney explore, for example. In this sense, from DuckDuckgo They recognize That the filter “will not capture 100% of the results generated by AI”, but “will considerably reduce the amount of images generated that are shown.” Examples of images generated by AI that do not come out when activating the filter. Some of them is not as obvious as the largest in the first row. In our case, for example, we have sought “dog jumping” without activating the filter so as not to see. And he has found the image of a dog jumping with a suspicious origin: Freepik. It was an image generated by AI that has stopped appearing when activating the filter. Next to him was more of the same source that he has also leaked. The challenge. The filtering works well, but the challenge for companies such as Duckduckgo is capital, because Freepik already serves as “generated with AI”. But what happens when a random image that we find in media like this has no label to indicate it? There they have to play methods that use verification system with detailed analysis of the image, which makes the resources required to do so effectively fire. Beyond images, the difficulty is in the filtering of websites with texts generated by artificial intelligence. Openai, for example, launched A tool to detect plagiarismand then He withdrew it silently. Although according to leaks now they have a tool that operates, They do not throw it. The problem. Detectors do not just work well, and after reaching accuse students of using and erruniversity professors are suffering the phenomenon: To make undetectable texts, students are resorting to rewriting tools that worsen their quality. Google, a strong defender of the generative AI, has opened Its Synthid water brand technology. The inconvenience? We continue needing a universal standard that at the moment does not arrive. And even if it arrives, users will not always want to mark their creation as done with ia. For example, the images generated with Google image indicate its nature with the “AI” icon, but erase or cut it is very simple. The snowball does not stop, The hole. According to the Empty Internet Theory either ‘Dead Internet Theory‘, Much of the content that exists in the network is created by automated bots and algorithms, and with generative intelligence, the thing is going more. In addition, Google’s preview has only been the first step: now it touches Ai mode, which no longer delivers a results, talk. So, although we win comfort, there will be a huge hole for companies such as Duckckgo, looking for that the basic unit of communication on the Internet is still aliveor that knowledge remain something democratized without Loot all Internet content. As an idea, DuckDuckgo can deepen including filters throughout web navigation: it can be distinguished from browsers with AI with a different approach to Your browser. Images | Xataka In Xataka | People did not stop hacking virtual work interviews with AI. Solution: We want to meet you in person

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