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IBM has been living for decades that no one could kill COBOL. Anthropic has other plans

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IBM shares fell about 13.2% yesterday on the New York Stock Exchange for a simple reason: Anthropic advertisement that its AI model, Claude, can be used to modernize systems that are based on the legendary COBOL programming language. And that is something that seemed virtually impossible. The immortal language. As Anthropic itself indicates, it is estimated that COBOL manages 95% of all transactions made at ATMs in the US. A 2022 study revealed that there are 800 billion lines of COBOL code that continue to operate in production systems on a daily basis. That almost no one uses anymore. Faced with this reality is another equally powerful one: almost no one programs in COBOL anymore, because this language has been with us for 65 years and has ended up being replaced by modern programming languages. The question, of course, is who is in charge of those millions of lines of code if there are almost no human programmers who can do it. Anthropic itself made it clear: “the number of people who understand COBOL decreases every year.” AI to the rescue. That’s where Claude, Anthropic’s family of generative AI models, comes in. According to this company, Claude is now capable of “modernizing” COBOL despite how difficult and expensive it was to carry out something like that. IBM has been trying for years and in fact applied that same recipebut its AI (Watson) does not seem to have managed too much progress. Claude helps, but there must be a human expert supervising. At Anthropic they promise that their AI model is capable of reading the entire code base of a COBOL project, identifying entry points, execution paths through subroutines, mapping data flows and documenting dependencies. They highlight, however, that with the supervision of a human expert this can help modernize and polish all types of COBOL-based systems. Critical systems. Of course, the question is whether AI will actually deliver on that promise, especially when we’re talking about absolutely critical systems used in financial transactions. According to Anthropic “the modernization of the code legacy It has been stagnant for years because understanding it cost more than rewriting it. “AI reverses that equation.” COBOL is no longer IBM’s ace in the hole. It’s hard to know how much of IBM’s business depended on COBOL systems, but it’s certainly a relevant part. In 2025 the company achieved revenue of $67.5 billion. About 45% comes from software. The rest is consulting and infrastructure, and this last division is where the IT business is included. IBM Z mainframesclosely linked to COBOL systems. It’s reasonable to think that revenues dependent on mainframes and COBOl are around 20% of IBM’s revenues (and probably more in profits). AI and the SaaSpocalypse. What happened with IBM and COBOL is the latest case of a software that seemed to have a long-term future but with AI may not have such a long-term future. Investors now seem to think that AI will replace many of these systems and SaaS platforms. It is indeed what has been called “SaaSpocalypse” in reference to the stock market falls of this type of companies in recent months: Salesforce, SAP, Microsoft, Adobe, Intuit and Atlassian have suffered notable falls in the stock market that are around 30-40% on average. But. This investor panic that is being experienced contrasts with the current reality: AI models are proving to be able to do surprising things in the field of programming, but they are far from being perfect. The code must be reviewed, and IBM itself he already made it clear In a 1979 training manual: “A computer can never be held responsible. Therefore, it should never make an administrative decision.” IBM has already survived other crises. The blue giant has suffered a blow to the stock market, but it is one of those technology companies that have managed to recover and resist all the attacks of an industry that is normally merciless. IBM itself also has its modernization solutions for its clients, and some analysts they are clear that in fact IBM will make more money than before if COBOL finally goes away. In Xataka | Old programmers never die, and Silicon Valley is realizing that

There are those who claim that AI is going to kill software. Most likely, just the opposite will happen.

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It was 1993 and a young man named Marc Andreessenstill with his hair intact and a lot of ambition, set out to create a web browser with a colleague who worked with him at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois. They called it Mosaic. That browser allowed you to explore the newborn World Wide Web with the click of a mouse, something amazing because to date the browsers that had been developed were in text mode and were used with the keyboard. Suddenly the web could include images and even multimedia content. A little later Andreessen met Jim Clark, founder of the legendary Silicon Graphics, and he encouraged him to embark on an adventure with his web browser, so together they decided to set up their own startup and that led to the creation of one of the mythical browsers in history: Netscape. Marc Andreessen. Source: Wikimedia. That made Andreessen a multimillionaire, and from 2005 his interest changed. I no longer wanted to start a business, but rather help others start a business. He ended up founding the venture capital firm Andreessen Howoritz and became richer and richer (while losing more and more hair). His successes and bets in the technology industry are notable, but also he left some famous phrases. The most notable is probably the one delivered in 2011 when saying “Software is eating the world.” His argument was compelling: the companies that were growing the most were software or had software as one of their key pillars. He was not wrong—today these companies are absolute technological giants—and that quote became one of those seemingly immutable laws. And then AI arrived. Is AI eating software? The appearance in November 2022 of ChatGPT caused an extraordinary impact, although it had been clear for a year and a half that something was changing in the software world. In July 2021 we talked about GitHub Copilot when the conversation around generative AI was still awakening. That project allowed machines to program for us. This concept has become over the years the clearest example that AI can change things– Developers have embraced this tool like no other industry, but they know that they cannot trust her 100%. Still, we are living in an exciting time for software. One in which the rise of vibe coding is absolute. Andrej Karphaty I thought about it these days and explained that when coined the term A year ago maybe he was wrong with that way of calling it. Now he proposed changing it to “agent engineering” to reflect the type of tool it has ended up being. Be that as it may, the vibe coding/agent engineering has sparked a fever for software development. In many ways it has democratized it and turned us all into potential developers. I am experimenting myself with Open Source tools that I am modifying to my liking, and others are doing exactly the same in this era of “custom micro-applications”. But in recent days we have also experienced a disturbing phenomenon. The threat of the “SaaSpocalypse” The generative AI models and AI agents that have appeared in recent months have ended up having an extraordinary impact on the software world. In fact we are not referring to vibe coding as suchmore aimed at occasional programmers or users without knowledge who are encouraged to create their own apps. We are referring to what has happened to the large software companies that for years have controlled the market with the SaaS (Software as a Service) philosophy. This model has made it possible to convert, for example, Photoshop or Office no longer into software that was sold in boxes and you installed on your PC, but into applications that run in the cloud and that you can use from a browser. Applications are no longer applications, they are services. And you don’t pay for them by buying them at once: you subscribe to them. But AI appears to threaten that model. Last week, software companies lost a total of $300 billion on the stock market overnight. The shares of MongoDB, Salesforce, Shopify or Atlassian lost between 15 and 20% in value in a few hours, and talk of the “SaaS apocalypse” began (“SaaSpocalypse“). Source: Perplexity These falls are obvious if you take a look at Google Finance or any monitoring platform for these companies. Or if you ask Perplexity like I did, which creates a nice (and worrying) graph about some of the companies consulted: the collapse in the last month is really terrible, although it seems that the trend seems to have stopped. Be that as it may, this “SaaS apocalypse”, whether it exists or not, raises a question that is precisely in line with what Andreessen said. If software ended up eating the world, Will AI eat software? Will it kill him? Software is not going to die. Just the opposite What is happening at the corporate level with these falls has of course to do with AI, but also with the model and philosophy of these companies themselves. Those SaaS platforms that dominate the world They have not stopped abusing their dominant position for years with aggressive price increases and rigid contracts. We have seen it with companies like Salesforce, whose customers have seen prices rise 35% in the last two years, or the mind-blowing case of Broadcom, whose customers in Europe were facing price increases of 1,500% in your VMware virtualization software licenses. This has created an ideal breeding ground for clients of these and many other companies with SaaS platforms to look for alternatives, and also look for them in AI. Artificial intelligence is not only offering efficiency, but is giving many customers that “key to the cell” that allows them to escape from their suppliers, who treated them like hostages. In fact, the current correction in stock market valuations can also be understood as a post-bubble hangover from 2021, when the pandemic boosted all these companies. We saw it with … Read more

In the 17th century there was a food that was considered deadly for the rich, but did not kill the poorest: the tomato.

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Today it is almost impossible to imagine Mediterranean cuisine without tomatoes, a food highly valued by its nutritional benefits and their antioxidant propertiesanti-cancer and how preventative for aging cellular. However, its integration into the European diet was a slow process full of obstacles, marked by a phenomenon that stigmatized it for centuries, calling it a poisonous food that could lead to cause death, especially if you were rich. Curiously, the poor were immune to its poison. The tomato was deadly for the rich The history of the tomato hides a phenomenon that defied the logic of the time, as it seemed to act as a selective executioner capable of distinguishing the social status of those who ate it. While the peasants and the popular classes They consumed it without suffering harm In some cases, rich aristocrats and wealthy merchants became seriously ill and even died after ingesting it, which consolidated the belief that it was a poisonous and cursed fruit. However, the key to this medical mystery lies not in the biological composition of the tomato, but in the chemistry of the utensils used by rich Europeans when serving and preparing this food. The upper classes of the 18th century had the custom of serving their banquets in pewter tablewarea metallic alloy highly appreciated for its shine and similarity to silver, composed mainly of tin and copper, but with a high lead content. Unlike the rich, the humble classes could not afford these luxuries and ate on simple plates made of wood, clay or coarse ceramics, materials that were chemically inert to food. The problem was that, when the natural acidity of the tomato came into contact with the surface of the pewter plates, their interaction caused a chemical reaction that leached lead from the alloyreleasing this heavy metal directly into the food. As a result, the aristocrats suffered lead poisoning (lead poisoning), whose symptoms were erroneously attributed to the toxicity of the tomatoes and not to the dish in which it was served, granting him tomato the nickname “poison apple” for more than 200 years. Bad botanical companies The rejection of the tomato in Europe in the 17th and 18th centuries was not only due to the wealthy victims that this evil fruit claimed, but was supported by the botanical science of the time, which classified it under a family of some plants with a bad reputation: nightshades. Naturalists identify the tomato as a member of the Solanaceae, the same group to which plants belong. famous for their toxicity such as nightshade, henbane or mandrake. This botanical association was enough for doctors and scholars to assume that the new fruit native to the Americas shared the deadly properties of its distant relatives. This botanical classification reinforced the irrational fear of the plant, linking it not only with the poison that was clearly killing the richest, but with spiritual and moral dangers typical of the time. The mandrake, in particular, was strongly associated with witchcraft and rituals dark due to its narcotic effects and the anthropomorphic form of its roots. By placing the tomato in this same biological bag, all the negative connotations and superstitions that surrounded the plants used in the dark arts were transferred to it. As and as they pointed out in National Geographicthe herbalist John Gerard was one of those responsible for fixing this negative image in the collective mind, leaving in writing in his work Herball of 1597 a devastating sentence. Gerard described the plant as producing “corrupt and poisonous fruits”, a statement that, coming from an authority on the subject, cemented the terror of the tomato in Britain and its colonies for centuries. Although in Spain and Italy the tomato began to be accepted earlier due to the influence of customs brought from Americain northern Europe the shadow of suspicion lasted much longer. It was necessary for modern chemistry to explain the pewter reaction and for botany to refine its classifications so that the tomato could finally clear its name and occupy the place it today has on our tables, no matter if you are rich or poor. In Xataka | They are millionaires, but they eat like children. Warren Buffett and Mark Zuckerberg share a passion for junk food Image | Nano Banana, Unsplash (Wanasanan Phonnaun)

Netflix decided to kill sending content to the TV. Apple has taken advantage of the gap to score a great goal

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Netflix decided to start the month of December by eliminating one of the most basic and useful functions of its mobile application: the ability to send content (cast) from our smartphone to any television with Android TV either Google TV. An essential tool to find content quickly on your mobile and send it to your TV. What we did not expect is that, in less than two weeks, Apple has responded indirectly by bringing its Apple TV for Android the feature that Netflix has decided to kill. Better late. Goodbye to Netflix Cast. It was easy to realize this. At home I have a Google Chromecast with Google TV and a Google Nest. Every time I wanted to send content from my mobile to my television… only the Google Nest appeared. That’s when I read the confirmation of the disaster: Netflix had loaded the Cast without any explanation. The exceptions. In the Netflix support page An exception is specified to continue using the Cast function: having a third-generation or earlier Chromecast device. In other words, versions without remote control. The second, have a plan without ads. If you don’t pay, you can’t send content to TV. Cast icon on Apple TV, make a wish. Given the gap in the squad, great goal. Since yesterday, a couple of weeks after Netflix’s move, the Apple TV application for Android is compatible with Google Cast, a function that was missing since the launch of the app at the beginning of the year on the rival platform. It is necessary to have the app updated to version 2.2 to be able to send our content to the television on any Chromecast. Apple being less Apple. Apple has had to respond to Netflix in the face of an undeniable reality: its service is a minority within the ecosystem of streaming platforms. Netflix is ​​the absolute king, followed by Prime Video and Disney+. And one of the reasons was one that we know quite well: using Apple is using a product tied to its ecosystem. Despite this, Apple TV+ is dangerously close to HBO Max, about to take fourth place in the ranking, according to data from JustWatch. In this context, the introduction of Cast goes beyond a minor function: It is a surrender (more) from Apple towards a more open ecosystem. And this works in your favor Allows Apple TV+ to sneak into homes with Android phones and tablets Reduces friction of use Reduce dependence on Apple’s hardware ecosystem What are you doing to win in Spain. Apple’s strategy to continue growing in Spain is clear: swim against the current with a strategy that does not introduce advertising in the app, a small catalog but with a large presence of proposals (expensive) and own and, now, simplifying the use of its app to reduce friction that had been artificially introduced. It won’t be enough. We told it a year ago and the numbers reaffirm it: there is hardly any war in streamingsince most of the content is converging on Netflix. The post-pandemic stage forced platforms to fight to distinguish themselves, while Netflix went public at the end of December 2024 at pre-pandemic levels. Be that as it may, given the growth of Apple TV in 2025, fight head to head against an HBO focused on quality It is great news for the company. Image | Xataka In Xataka | The best streaming platforms 2025 | Comparison of Disney+, Netflix, HBO Max, Prime Video, Movistar Plus+, Filmin, Apple TV, SkyShowtime and Rakuten TV: catalog, functions and prices

kill all the wild boars that were in the country

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In summer 2020, German authorities found the first wild boar infected with African swine fever. The world was distracted by anemia, but the global pork market shook. Germany was the largest pork producer in Europe and, if we had learned anything from the disease, it is that its voracity knows no limits. With the plague in the heart of the Union, it was a matter of time before it reached everywhere and, however, one small country said no: Denmark. 68 kilometers. That is the length of the border between Denmark and Germany. It seems like a purely colorful piece of information, but in this context it has a very concrete meaning: in Christiansborg they came to the conclusion that the spread of the virus could be stopped. In fact, the Danish government had already started to build a fence one and a half meters high to stop the intrusion of wild boars into the country in 2019. Detections of infected animals in Poland began to make them nervous. However, they quickly realized that it was not enough. And they decided to eradicate them one by one. It is true that in the Danish case this was also relatively acceptable. After all, although eradicating a species is difficult, the Scandinavian country was only home to just over a hundred specimens. The effort was extensive and exhaustive, but by the end of 2021 the government announced that the species was exterminated. In December 2020 they had finished with the last copy, number 157. Denmark is, in fact, one of the countries where the swine fever virus has not yet been detected. Is it viable to do it in Spain? The truth is that no. Spain, according to the Hunting Resources Research Institutehas 1,200,000 wild boars roaming its mountains. It is no longer that the effort necessary to exterminate them would be immense, but that the socioeconomic consequences would also be immense. Dozens of ecosystems would be unbalanced and we would enter a more than swampy terrain. However, things can be learned from Denmark’s decision. Above all, when we talk about this type of illness, the measures must be drastic and proactive. We have been waiting for this to happen for years and we have been extremely lucky that it has happened days after signing the agreement with China that allowed us to ‘regionalize’ the outbreak. Otherwise, the problem would have been enormous. 8,000 million. That is the number, which according to expertsis at stake due to the outbreak of African swine fever in the Sierra de Collsarola. And, for now, it is not at all clear whether we will be able to get out of this quagmire unscathed. Image | Markus Winkler | Danny Kroon In Xataka | 14 dead wild boars have become the greatest threat to Spanish livestock farming in 30 years. And all for a sandwich

how to produce real bacon without having to kill it

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Imagine biting into a piece of golden, juicy bacon with that unmistakable pork flavor, only no pig has had to die for you to enjoy it. And no, I’m not talking about tofu, seitan or another plant replica: it’s real bacon, made from pig cells that still belong to a living animal. A concept as disconcerting as it is unique that is already served in a small restaurant in California. The first cultured pork fat. The startup Mission Barns has become the first company approved to market cultured animal fat and the third to receive regulatory approval for a cell-based food in the United States. In March obtained FDA validation and, shortly after, the support of the Department of Agriculture (USDA)which allowed him to start selling his product on a limited basis. As TechCrunch detailsit is the first cultured pork fat in the world authorized for human consumption. Until now, only UPSIDE Foods and GOOD Meat They had obtained similar approvals, but only for chicken. With this decision, Mission Barns inaugurates a new category: real pork fat without slaughtering it and capable of being converted into bacon, sausages, meatballs or salami. Real meat without slaughter. Cultured meat—also called in vitro meat or clean meat— is not a plant imitation, but biologically real meat obtained without resorting to animal breeding and slaughter. In this case, the animal has its own name: Dawn, a Yorkshire sow who lives in a sanctuary in northern New York. According to Futurismthe sample is taken painlessly and does not alter your daily life. Its fat cells are grown in a bioreactor with plant nutrients and adhere to a porous structure designed to mimic natural pig tissue. After two weeks, the culture generates real pork fat, which is mixed with vegetable proteins – pea, wheat or bean – to replicate the texture of bacon, sausage or meatball. As explained in Gristthe tastings carried out by the company demonstrate by its flavor and texture that it is meat in biological terms, but without animal sacrifice. So, Is it a vegetarian option? The arrival of this technology reopens a great ethical debate. Different studies indicate that pigs They are “very social” animals.capable of feeling fear, stress and complex emotions, and They are considered the fifth animal smartest in the world. Being able to obtain meat without sacrificing them represents, for many, a moral change of enormous scope. That is precisely the reason why, according to The Guardiansome vegetarians have begun to try cultured meat: by eliminating the violence of the process, the ethical barrier that justified not eating meat disappears. Others, however, are hesitant and wonder if consuming “suffering-free meat” fits with their reasons for abandoning animal products in the first place. A global phenomenon: from California to San Sebastián. The race for cultured meat is global. It is not something from the United States, also in Japan either Netherlands They are already developing lines of cultured beef, chicken or fish. And in Spain, BioTech Foods leads the push from the Basque Country, where it is building the largest cultured meat plant in southern Europe in San Sebastián, with plans to operate in 2032. The immediate obstacle is regulatory, since the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has not yet approved its commercialization. Forecasts. Meanwhile, Dawn—the pig that gave rise to this bacon—continues in her sanctuary, oblivious to everything, seeking the sun and letting her belly be scratched. That fat can come out of it for thousands of servings without your life changing poses an unprecedented image in the history of food. The question is whether society is prepared to take it on. cultured meat promise reduce emissions, suffering and costs; his detractors they talk about an industry still expensive and difficult to climb. Between both visions, the final decision will fall to consumers: whether they accept that the meat of the future can grow in a bioreactor. Image | Unsplash Xataka | Far from the cities, a battle is being fought for the future of the country: that of the pigs against the reservoirs

There are people trying to kill migraine with surgery. Neurologists are putting their hands on their heads

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Migraine is a relatively common neurological disorder among our population that can have dire consequences for those who suffer from it. as it can become disabling for several days in a row. This means that patients’ search for treatments has become desperate to avoid having to being locked in a dark room for several days without being able to go to worksince there is no cure. The problem is that the treatments that are proposed are sometimes not the best. Among these measures we have, for example, the famous piercing in the ear that promises control headaches or even botox therapy. But the reality is that now an operation is emerging that continues to raise doubts. What does it consist of? When suffering from disabling pain, the main thing for many patients is to eradicate it, and the reality is that they do not care how to do it. That is why trigger point decompression surgery, popularly known as “migraine surgery,” is beginning to become popular in the United States. And while in the United States it is gaining more and more ground, the Spanish Society of Neurology has raised the alarm due to its proliferation in private clinics by offering great results against this disease. His story. The story of this surgery does not begin in a neuroscience laboratory, as happens with other techniques that are put into clinical practice. To understand this technique we have to go back to the beginning of this century with the surgeon Bahman Guyuron who noticed something strange: many patients on whom he performed the lifting from the front, that is, the frontal stretch, they reported that after the operation their migraines had disappeared. From there, the theory of extracranial trigger points was developed. The hypothesis is that migraine is not just a brain event, but can be triggered by compression of peripheral nerves in the face and neck due to muscles or blood vessels. Surgery in this case basically consists of releasing these nerves through decompression or cauterization. of four specific areas of the skull: In the forehead region. At the temples. On the back of the head. In the nose area. The discussion. It is not logically conflict-free. On the one hand, there are American surgeons who They assure that between 70% and 95% of patients improve or eliminate their symptoms. However, when we turn to rigorous scientific literature, the numbers become considerably nuanced. The magazine Frontiers in Neurology, who analyzed the data of 627 patientsrevealed a very clear reality. Only 38% of patients undergoing this operation recorded a remission of headaches after 6-12 months. And this is a very controversial figure, since private clinics promise figures that are not what independent studies point out. The study explicitly warns that more elaborate and transparent tests are neededsince the risk of bias in patient selection is high. That is, those patients who are giving the best results are chosen, giving a success value that is not totally real as it does not follow the quality standards expected in a study. In Spain. Our country has gone up in arms against these types of surgeries that seem like a miracle, and the Spanish Society of Neurology (SEN) He does not see the physiological basis behind it that explains its effect. The first thing they see is that the studies are too small (which leaves the results obvious), but they also point out that migraine is a disease of the central nervous system and that “decompressing the nerves” outside the skull lacks biological plausibility. Specifically, the conclusion reached in the SEN is the following: There is no scientific evidence that currently supports that surgery has a therapeutic role for migraine. Therefore, any migraine patient is not recommended to undergo surgery for this disease. Migraine has been studied in depth, and there is no solid evidence that these nerves are compressed in migraineurs. And they go further by pointing out that “migraine has no cure, but there are many scientifically based therapeutic developments and more are to come.” Placebo effect. To understand it, we must know that surgery is an intervention that is imposed on anyone, and the simple fact of going through an operating room generates in a patient the feeling or expectation that they will be cured. That is why this is about measuring in the control groups, which are those patients who enter the operating room, but who do not receive nerve decompression (although they think they do). In these cases it has been seen that patients point out that their migraines have improved, when this is not the case. All motivated also because measuring the intensity of pain in a patient is not easy at all, as it is tremendously subjective, since each person perceives it in a specific way. Your application. In Spain, the technique moves in limbo. It is not financed by social security nor endorsed by the Network of Health Technology Assessment Agencies (RedETS), but it is offered on the private market with prices ranging between $5,000 and $15,000. But the recommendation of specialists in this case is that “any patient with migraine is not recommended to undergo surgery for this disease.” The only exception they make is that you are going to participate in a clinical trial. Images | Adrian Swancar Akram Huseyn In Xataka | Splitting an ibuprofen in half to take 600 mg instead of 400 is a bad idea: it destroys a key piece of its engineering

Now they have decided to kill her and bring her closer to Netflix

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The face washing that Mediaset has given to its streaming platform, until now known as mitele, and what is called Mediaset Infinityit has been spectacular. A considerable reformulation in the visual, technical streaming With their same weapons. The new Mediaset Infinity. Announced at the end of May, this change equals the Mediaset Spain website with that of the Italian matrix of the group. Among the web sections are both live and letter emissions, with exclusive content derived from linear programs and even in the style of what Atresmedia does, original productions for this digital environment. Access to all contents becomes completely free, something that was limited in Mitele. There will also be a premium part, heiress of Mitele Plus in which there will be no advertising interruptions and there will be the possibility of starting a direct from its beginning and downloading content. A family air. It is inevitable to think of a clear inspiration for this redesign: Netflix and the rest of the platforms of streaming that have gone in their shadow (at least the netflix prior to last and much discussed redesign, openly thought to imitate the style of social networks as Tiktok). In Mediaset Infinity we have categories that follow each other horizontally and extend vertically, with visual and very recognizable icons, and organization for seasons and chapters within each program. The influence is even evident in the highlights of the Homeand it is not a bad idea: any spectator has already become accustomed to the use of these menus and organization almost intuitively. Technical improvement. The guts of this new Mitele incarnation have also improved, with an optimized search system, a better organized user area and, above all, an important leap in terms of speed and accessibility. A year and a half of joint work between Mediaset Spain and Mediaset Italy that has set in a remarkable jump for the platform: now the content search is much faster and, above all, moving through the platform is as effective as in any other streaming platform, without the need for unnecessary waiting for seeking programs or hidden chapters. The reorganization of the page works perfectly. Blur and new account. Since its creation in 2011, Mitele has experienced abundant problems, especially technical type: access difficulties that demanded to resalrate the application, Poor performance even with good connections, limited compatibility with Many devices (especially with certain Smart TV models), reproduction errors and availability … a series of problems that were the reflection of an app that had been outdated and that had not been able to evolve at the same rate as the connections and user devices. All the same. It is not an exclusive problem, yes, by Mitele: traditional television have always had problems adapting to Smart TV and consumption on demand. The motives have been varied, from technical and hardware limitations (by compatibility of new televisions with apps) to changes in the business model (to traditional chains, accustomed to a linear model, they have a hard time facing a model that requires flexibility, investment in technology and new forms of monetization, apart from negotiating new emission rights and adapting content), passing through a fierce competition of the streaming platforms, which they They have an advantage because they are native. Inherit users. What Infinity is going to be found are Mitele users: 3.7 million unique users in January, A growth of 16% With respect to the previous year, in addition to almost 2 million viewers on average a day on the platform. Undoubtedly, this growth has played in favor of encouraging Mediaset to make the leap towards the transformation into the new platform, no matter how and a half of development a relevant investment may have needed. A push for Telecinco. Thanks to the huge impulse that the latest edition of ‘The Island of Temptations’ is giving to all platform programsto ‘late’ seems to work Better without his alma mater since, on the other hand, the 1 does not seem to settle completely or in its disastrous afternoons nor in the Competition with ‘El Hormiguero‘, Tele5 has found a break. Vespertine bets such as ‘Jorge’s newspaper’ are consolidating themselves as some of the most value for Telecinco, which he needed from the output of ‘Save Me’ from his grill programs that provided him with solidity. This new platform is another step in a proposal of greater modernity for the group, as well as more ease of access to its programs. Something that undoubtedly their spectators will appreciate, knowing how the contents of both spaces are contaminated. Header | Mediaset In Xataka | The last edition of ‘The island of temptations’ has not only been a viral phenomenon: it has saved the month of Telecinco

I have taken less than a week to deactivate the star function of iOS 26. The filter called is to kill flies to guns

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I’ve been from the night of the WWDC 25held on June 9 using the beta of iOS 26. This is the largest redesign of the Apple operating system in years, and the first real approach to how the company will implement its local artificial intelligence in native applications. One of the most commented functions was that of Anti spam protection. A system that comes to rival some already existing, like Google’sbut in a more aggressive and less intelligent way. So much so that I had to deactivate it just a week later. How the Apple filter works. Within the Apple Telephone App, from iOS 26, there are new ways to filter unknown numbers. Filter incoming calls: the incoming calls of unknown numbers are filtered. Whoever makes the call has to identify and, once we have that information, we can choose to pick up or not. Send all calls from unknown numbers to the voice mailbox. Automatically silence all calls of unknown numbers. The second and third option are quite aggressive (in addition to the second one was already present in previous versions of iOS). The great novelty is in How Apple Applies Ia Upon receiving calls, since it is Siri who attends the person, not us. The first day, the first notice. I receive many calls a week, more than I would like. Mainly, of messaging companies that contact me to know if I am at home. I analyze smartphones in Xataka and the different parcel companies call practically daily. From numbers that I don’t have saved, of course. It soon realized that they were calling me from a parcel company, and the delivery man was not answering the questions of Siri. How do I know? For how this new feature works. Thanks, don’t hang up. When someone with an unknown number calls us, Siri asks him to identify and explain the reason for the call. It is not necessary to be too explicit: it is enough to say “I am Ricardo, it is important.” But here there are two issues. The first is that the iPhone notifies discreetly when the filter is active, with a minimum vibration that we will not notice. The second is that, if the person does not identify, the phone does not start sounding until 20 seconds. A filter that does not filter so much. Yeah The call is urgentit is more than likely to hang. It is just what happened to me this week, both with the deliveries and with a call that I received from my health center. After a robot (Siri) ask you what you want, if you are not willing (or you cannot) answer at that time the question, it is difficult to be 20 seconds waiting for the phone to begin to sound to the other person. I saw perfectly how the delivery man hung before he started sounding and, after asking him (I had to call him later), he told me that he did not know if it was some type of fraud. Normalize that Siri takes it. It will not be easy to normalize that Siri takes the phone. It would be necessary for practically all Apple users to activate this function, and that users understand that every time you call an iPhone, you have to go through Siri. The most important factor of the urgent call is also lost: immediacy. A accident cases in which they call you with unknown numbers, medical consultations … No one likes calls of unknown numbers, but filtering them all, regardless of whether they have advertising purposes or not, is to kill flies to cannon. Google makes it much better. Google Filter suspicious calls of fraud or spam has been filtering years indicating precisely that the calls are spam. If we call us a number for commercial or fraudulent purposes, Google uses its AI model to analyze in the cloud where that number comes from. In the event that we are not clear who calls us, we have nothing but to filter so that the Google assistant does exactly the same thing that Apple does: ask the interlocutor who he is and the reason for his call. It is a practically infallible filter for commercial and fraudulent calls but in which at all times we are finding out whether or not they call us. Image | Xataka and Xataka Android In Xataka | What is the Robinson list and how to sign up for it to avoid unwanted advertising

The war in Ukraine has become a video game. Kill gives points and rewards to exchange in a military Amazon

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It is something that has happened in all modern wars and conflicts, and in Ukraine it was not going to be different. We refer to the use of surprising tactics for combat. We had previously talked about the use of a Naval optical illusion And of a drone that “seeks” That they capture it to display your true threat. The latest: a rewards system with points. The prize: go to a war “Amazon. A war with points. I told it This week Insider and Political. In an unprecedented fusion between military and video game logic, Ukraine has launched a Rewards system that gives points to their soldiers for killing Russian troops or destroying their vehicles, provided that these acts are verified by recording of video drones. These points, called “Epoints”, can then be exchanged In Brave1 Marketa new digital platform that operates as A “Military Amazon”where combat units can acquire from attack drones and terrestrial robots to electronic warp devices or components such as batteries, cameras and engines. Add casualties to buy artillery. The initiative, promoted by Mykhailo Fedorov, Minister of Digital Transformation of Ukraine, seeks to speed up and Decentralize access To the equipment, allowing the soldiers themselves to choose and buy the technology that best suits their needs in the front, either with own funds or through the rewards accumulated by their effectiveness in combat. The system establishes a numerical value for each target Enemy: Six points for each Russian soldier eliminated, forty for each destroyed tank, with equivalences that allow, for example, to acquire drones such as The “Baba Yaga” by 43 points or the sophisticated “backfire”which costs about $ 60,000 for three units. Delivery is made directly with state financing, without intermediaries. The Magyar’s Birds Unitfamous for its FPV drones attacks, it has already exceeded 16,000 points, heading The March rankingfollowed by specialized brigades in unmanned systems and special operations. A military Amazon. Far from being a simple shopping site, Brave1 Market represents a Disruptive Logistics Model and acquisition in times of conflict. Your catalog has More than 1,000 items ranging from advanced armament to technical solutions of communication, surveillance, navigation and electronic protection. Soldiers can navigate the portal, compare models, read specifications and contact manufacturers to close orders. Part of the content is of restricted accessbut the bulk of the inventory is publicly available to facilitate fast and autonomous decision -making from the front. One of the main objectives is to reduce the gap between technological development and its real implementation on the battlefield. In fact, Insider told that many units did not know that certain devices were available; They can now request them directly without having to wait for bureaucratic channels or slow -on channels. Drones as currency. The points system has the drones that, like We have explainedare absolute protagonists of the new battlefield Ukrainian. The most used They are the FPV (First-Person View) and short-range bombing models, operated by highly mobile units that film each impact to document it to the military intelligence network. These videos not only allow to verify the elimination of enemy objectives, but have become The “hard currency” with which more technology is accessed. Each approved purchase is Financed by the Ukrainian Government and delivered directly to the requesting unit, which reinforces a decentralized supply model based on operational merit. Meritocracy and ethical dilemma. No doubt, we talk about a system that converts the war effectiveness into immediate benefitswhich generates a Ethical conflict on the gamification of the conflict. Killing becomes a rewarded act not only with recognition, but with material power to improve the offensive abilities of the unit. Although brutal, the model has proven to be effective for Accelerate the answer On the battlefield, promote tactical initiative and allow troops to access the technology they really need. In parallel, it also represents a form of digitalized war economy, where each confirmed impact translates into purchasing power, each successful mission in Access to strategic resources. A logic that is not free: responds to the urgency of Modernize the military apparatus Ukrainian in the midst of an asymmetric war, and the need to compete technologically with an enemy that has greater industrial and human reserves. Of course, he questions the ethical limits of the military culture model that can generate in the long term. A new military paradigm. The only existence of A “store” like this Change the concept of war in the 21st century. We talk about a digital architecture, distributed and Efficiency oriented Immediate with which Ukraine not only tries to match Russia in offensive capacity, but to overcome it in technological agility, tactical innovation and adaptation speed. If you want too, the battlefield does not seem only a physical space, but also a kind of Interactive platform where each action can be measured, rewarded and transform into operational advantage. A New War Economy where the value is measured, not in abstract terms, but in eliminated objectives, points won and delivered drones. Together with the obvious ethical dilemmas he poses, he also reveals to what extent the modern war is as technological as lethal. Image | NATO North, Ministry of Defense In Xataka | Russia has confirmed one of the great unknowns of war in Ukraine: North Korea accompanies them and not only with troops In Xataka | Russia has crowded a surprising blow to Ukraine: 100 soldiers walking for four days inside a gas pipeline

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