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Openai has just launched his new programming agent. The interesting thing is what you can do when nobody looks

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Artificial intelligence (AI) currently presumes a leading place in the world of programming. More and more software developers resort to AI systems to write code, correct errors or automate repetitive tasks. Openai is betting again for this area with Codexhis new agent. It is a prior view phase tool that acts as a virtual collaborator. Its engine is Codex-1, a variant of O3 adjusted to better understand the needs of modern development. Among their promises are to generate more orderly code, follow instructions with greater precision, among other advantages. How does Codex work? Codex is not a simple assistant that suggests fragments of code. It is a software agent that operates in the background from the cloud. Once connected to your account GITHUByou can access your repository, read files, propose changes and execute tasks such as writing new functions, correcting errors or throwing tests. All this does it autonomously and safely, within an isolated environment (a kind of virtual cloud computer) that simulates your development environment. This should not only protect your system, but also allows Codex to execute tasks without affecting your local workflow. While he works, you can continue using your computer normally. The interesting thing is that it does not execute a single action in turn: it can take care of several tasks at the same time. For example, you can ask you to check a part of the code or Look for mistakes In another section of the project. Each task is managed separately and Codex will inform their real -time progress, allowing the user to review them. The tool is designed to adapt to the way of working of developers. In fact, it can be guided by specific files called agents.md, a kind of instruction manual that allows you to indicate what style follow, how to launch the tests or what practices should be respected within the project. Although Codex has just launched in preview, it is not an unfilming experiment. Openai engineers themselves have been using it for months as part of their workflow. So that? For Automize repetitive tasksrename variables, write tests or outline documentation. The system is also being tested in companies such as Cisco, where they seek to accelerate the development of new ideas, and in temporary, which uses it to purify errors, write automated tests and reorganize large code bases. OpenAi’s recommendation after this first round of tests is clear: assign well -defined tasks, launch several in parallel and experiment with different types of requests. Because the key is to find the exact point where the agent can display his full potential. Codex works remotely, but does it within a controlled environment. As we said above, each task that executes takes place in an isolated virtual machine, without direct Internet connection or access to external services. It can only interact with the code that the user provides and with the tools that are pre -installed using a configuration script. In addition, Openai ensures that he has trained Codex to identify and reject instructions oriented to the creation of harmful software, as tools for Hacking or malware. In any case, we must not lose sight of the fact that this proposal remains a product in research phase, with many aspects to improve. And it is still a generative AI: you can make mistakes or misunderstand certain instructions if the context is not well defined. Openai plans to introduce gradual improvements, such as the possibility of interacting with the agent during tasks, receiving more detailed updates or integrating it with tools such as incident managers. If you want to start trying Codex from today, you must keep in mind that it is not yet available for all users. For now, OpenAi has begun to deploy the tool Among the subscribers of the plans PRO (200 dollars per month)Enterprise and Team. According to the company, the users of the plans Plus and Edu will have “soon” access. Images | OpenAI In Xataka | Saudi Arabia has signed a check of 7,000 million dollars for Nvidia. Jensen Huang is now 12,000 million richer

The US president has just launched a clear notice to Apple

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Apple is still looking for how to reduce its dependence on China. In a recent conversation with investorsTim Cook confirmed that most iPhone that will be sold in the United States in the coming months will be manufactured in India. Is another step in the diversification process that the company has started silentlybut already gives results: Half of its iPhone for the US market already leave factories in the country led by Narendra Modi. But the strategy has not been well received on all fronts. During a public intervention in Qatar, within the framework of his Middle East tour, the US president said he had “a small problem with Tim Cook”. His words, Video registered and available on YouTubeThey showed a clear discomfort with the direction that Apple has taken. According to his own testimony, I would have told the company’s CEO: “You will invest 500,000 million, but now I find out that you are building throughout India. I don’t want you to build in India.” The president went further at his presentation. He said that, after years of accepting that Apple built factories in China, now the expectation is that this production is transferred to American soil. “We want you to build here. We are not interested that you continue expanding in India, ”he said in a direct tone that he can mark a new stage in the relationship between the new administration and the Cupertino company, which, by the way, It is one of the largest in the world for stock market. What is not clear, at least for now, is whether this gesture will have an impact on Apple’s industrial diversification strategy. The company continues to produce most of its iPhone in China, and currently does not manufacture smartphones in the United States. According to the analyst Dan Iives, of Wedbush Securities, moving all the production to Apple’s country would be prohibitive for both the company and consumers. In other statements collected by The GuardianEvercore experts also pointed out that the US economy “is not prepared” to mount a mobile production chain: neither has the infrastructure nor has it or has The necessary specialized labor. The commercial board moves (again) In parallel to the tension between Apple and the Executive, the international commercial environment has been altered by the reciprocal tariff regime announced by the US administration on April 2. That frame imposed new levies to imports from several countries, and It came to place tariffs on Chinese products by 145%. However, that regime is currently suspended. After an advance in negotiations between Washington and Beijing, Both governments agreed a 90 -day break in additional tariffs. During that time, a 30 % base rate On imports from China, even superior to that applied to other countries such as India or Vietnam, which pay 10 % under the same pause. Will this relieve the pressure that pushes many multinationals to accelerate the transfer of their supply chains outside of China? Commercial thaw opens a window of opportunity, but also adds uncertainty. Will technological technological ones continue, or will they wait to see how an increasingly volatile scenario evolves? Apple, in particular, must carefully measure your next steps. Images | The White House | Wei view | Apple In Xataka | A perfect storm has triggered what the players fear most: Nvidia will raise the price of their GPU

Ukraine has turned drones into armed soldiers against Russia. It is no longer necessary to “sacrifice them” because they carry launched

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That the war in Ukraine has become the largest field of technologies and war artillery. out of any doubt. However, if you had to name a single protagonist, that would be the use of drones as “animals” of Combat for everything. The Ukrainian country, in fact, has become one of the Great industries of the planet in the sector developing many of the most advanced (and important, economic) prototypes to date. The latest: turn drones into authentic soldiers of the future holding launched in flight. Aerreo launches. As we said, Ukraine has reached a new mile With a launchersuch and As he revealed The Ukrainian company Wild Hornets, specialized in military technology. The images, disseminated by the company itself in Your telegram channelThey show what they describe as the “exclusive death” of a Russian soldier reached by one of these devices on the Novopavlivka front. The attack was carried out by the Bulava Unit of the separate presidential brigade, and they did it by adapting their drone “Queen of Hornets”(A heavy model usually designed for bombings) to carry and shoot a precision grooved from the air. The operation, in addition to having tactical success, served as proof of concept and exhibition of the modified design, whose stability when triggering resolved one of the main technical obstacles: the recoil. Mortal precision. After the videos and the exclusive, Diego RodríguezRecognition drone operator in the body of unmanned systems, He expressed his astonishment Because this technology has not been implemented before, underlining its technical superiority against Kamikaze drones. In the expert’s opinion, the throws from drones allow faster, accurate and silent attacks, since Granada rounds fly faster and more reaching, reducing the enemy’s reaction margin and exposure to electronic countermeasures. The reason? The drone can shoot, retreat and recharge, multiplying its usefulness Without losing unity In the attack. Faced with the traditional explosive drones that emit noise and give the enemy time to protect themselves, the granades projected from the air arrive almost instantaneously, making them impossible to dodge them. Without anticipation. Another expert, in this case Vadym Feshchenkoex grenadier converted in drone operator, stressed that this innovation completely alters the defensive habits of the enemy. Russian troops have learned to observe the movements of drones to anticipate when they will release their explosive load, but a drone that shoots in full flight eliminates that reaction window. Feshchenko also highlighted the weapons versatility employee, pointing out that some modern launch projectiles have the capacity to drill up to seven centimeters of armorwhich expands its applicability against fortified vehicles and positions. As these systems multiply, it is likely that the simple sound of a drone forces enemy soldiers to retire or hide, increasing the psychological and tactical impact of the device, also as a deterrence In full fray. From standard prototype. That said, what we see is an evolution. In September 2024 already Videos circulated of tests where Ukrainian FPV drones carried RPG-18 launches. While then rudimentary prototypes were considered, their possibilities were already evident. As counted in Ukrainian media, a collateral advantage of this system is Risk decrease For technicians and engineers who must manually assemble kamikaze drones, exposing themselves to injuries that are rarely made public. In this regard, the partial automation that allows an armed and reusable drone represents a step forward in terms of operational security. Adaptive Engineering They remembered in Insider That although the first use in combat has been attributed to Ukraine, the idea of ​​mounting launched in drones had already been proposed in 2021 through the Display Belarusian Design Cabinet during a Russian military exhibition. The most complex technical challenge was drone stability When shooting, since most quadcopters are too light to support the backward. However, The “Queen of Hornets”due to its size and reinforced design, it seems to have resolved this obstacle: in the Video widespreadno instability is observed after the shot. In parallel, Ukrainian engineers have managed to convert even agricultural drones such as the DJI AGRAS T30 (originally designed for fumigation) on attack platforms, equipping them with PKM machine guns and launched Bullspike-Atcapable of attacking tanks, self -propelled artillery and fortified positions. A radical transformation. As we told at the beginning, the war in Ukraine is changing many of the war concepts that were in the battles of the past. But above any other actor, the introduction Drone successnow even shooting grenades from airmarks a before and after in the development of the technological war. While traditional artillery and heavy weapons continue to play an important role, the miniaturization of fire power and its integration into reusable and precise drones represents a strategic advance that combines efficiency, lethality and operational economy. The question now is not whether this technology will be extended, but rather how fast Ukraine can produce it in mass and how Russia will respond to a threat that becomes increasingly silent, unpredictable and difficult to stop. Image | Army Inform In Xataka | The last and surprising tactic of Ukraine to avoid the Russian drones: hide their tanks and artillery underground In Xataka | The last tactic of Ukraine is a drone that seeks to catch him. 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Freepik has just launched an Open Source model with a groundbreaking characteristic: licensed images

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The Spanish Startup Freepik is already one of the absolute referents in the segment of artificial intelligence, but its last launch is especially significant. It is a new model of its own generative called F lite which is a new blow to the table for several reasons, but especially for an especially striking. Licensed images. Freepik, in collaboration with Fal.AI, has presented F lite, a model of generative text in image that stands out especially for being trained “exclusively with high quality images, with legal support and copyright protected” thanks to an important detail. They come from the Freepik library. Inspired (partly) in Deepseek. In Xataka we have talked to Omar Pera (@ompemi), Product responsible in Freepik. He has explained to us how the Deepseek Chinese model served as inspiration by demonstrating that it was possible to create a small but very capable model with much less resources and data. F lite is trained with “only 80 million images, compared to more than one billion usual images” in models of the generative images of the competition. Open Source. As explained in the technical report that accompanies the launch, F Lite is also An Open Source model of 10 million parameters-diminuto if we compare it with the 1.76 trillion estimated GPT-4-which has been trained for two months in 64 GPUS NVIDIA H100. A sample of the result obtained with F lite via Fal.AI. The car does not resemble Renault 5, true, but at least at the level of photorealism the result is really decent. Small but solvent. As explained Iván de Prado (@ivanprado), one of the top people responsible for its development, F lite is a decent model to generate certain types of images despite its small size. It also has its limitations, and can show anatomical defects or not give good results in complex or text rendering. The model is available in two versions in Hugging Face (regular, Texture) and in Fal (regular, Texture). It is also possible Download the github and use it at home, for example via comfyui. Is just the beginning. The launch of this model raises the beginning of an especially striking project that could gradually make it an alternative that rival the most ambitious models, but always supported by that argument of being trained with licensed images and being Open Source. More options for users. The model is not part of the moment of the offer of models available on the Freepik web platform, yes, and does not compete directly with models such as FluxMystic or image 3. “The bet and strategy does not change,” Pear pointed out, and consists in “optimizing the user offer and offering the best technology to solve the problem” and the need of each user. Demands everywhere. We have been seeing how artificial intelligence companies make indiscriminate use of content protected by copyright to train their models. They usually do it without a license and without having permission to use those works, and that has caused numerous Copyright rape demands, especially in cases Like OpenAi. Freepik Enterprise. This announcement comes almost at the same time as its new business offer, called Freepik Enterprise. Omar Pera confirmed that the initial reception of F Lite has been remarkable since this new service. In this area it is precisely where using a model like this is especially interesting, because “companies are covered” when using a model trained with licensed images. A by adobe and other rivals. Pera also pointed us out in Freepik They do not compete With images, “we are going for professional use cases of marketing or design.” They are not compared to a Getty or a Shuttersock, and more “with the creative tools of Adobe, with Leonardo (part of Canva from a year ago) or with the professional services of Midjourney. “ Image | Freepik In Xataka | All the great AI have ignored the laws of Copyright. The amazing thing is that there is still no consequences

China has just launched another blow to the United States in full tariff war and this time points directly to Hollywood

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“China wants to reach an agreement. The problem is that they are not clear how to do it,” Trump declared Wednesday to the press. He did it shortly after announcing the temporary suspension of “reciprocal” tariffs to dozens of countriesalthough not before hardening its pulse with Beijing: the White House raised the levies to Chinese imports up to 145%. At first, there was 125%, Although Washington clarified that this figure joined 20% already in force. But with the commercial tension on the rise, China does not give signs of giving in, as the American president is probably waiting. Beijing has raised the tone and made its position clear. “If the United States insists on following its own path, China will fight until the end,” A spokesman for the Ministry of Commerce said this week. And as if they wanted to underline it with facts, this Thursday they have announced a reprisal measure that points against the American film industry. Less Hollywood, more local cinema. As Global Times collectsthe China National Cinema Administration has announced that it will reduce the number of imports from American films. The agency ensures that the measure responds to the “market law” and the election of the public, although it shows a political background by ensuring that tariffs imposed by Washington will end up deteriorating the perception of the Chinese public on US films. From now on, the number of premieres from the United States will be limited in the country’s rooms. A trend that comes from afar. The decision occurs in a context where Hollywood had already begun to lose presence. According to April box office dataonly two of the ten American films released so far from 2025, ‘Captain America: A New World‘ and ‘A Minecraft movie‘, have exceeded 100 million yuan (about 13.6 million dollars). The rest has barely generated impact. Far from being an isolated reaction, the measure fits with a broader transformation. For years, Hollywood productions enjoyed great acceptance in China, but that panorama has changed. According to data collected by the Xinhua agencyin 2012, seven of the ten higher films in the country were Americans. Today, however, Hollywood titles barely manage to sneak among the most seen. China has followed a usual strategy: learn from global referents and replicate them with their own seal. In the last decade he has developed an industry capable of producing local blockbusters with great reception. Recent examples such as’Wolf Warrior‘,’Hi, mom‘,’NE ZHA II‘ either ‘The Wandering Earth II‘They demonstrate that turn. These last two, in fact, currently lead the national box office. The commercial war continues. After the rise in tariffs to 145% to Chinese imports announced by the United States, it remains to be seen what the next Beijing reaction will be. For now, the answer has been a moderate adjustment in the cultural field, but nothing prevents them from opting for more forceful measures. Currently, Chinese tariffs on American products are at 84%. Images | Freepik | ZHE ZHANG In Xataka | Apple and Trump’s dance is taking shape: threat, panic … and an imminent exemption

Manus is the Chinese startup of AI that has just launched a 200 dollars a month. It is a bad sign for the industry

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Some called him the other “moment Deepseek“From China. This new model, called Manusquickly became viral for its ability to do deep analysis looking for sources of information and then synthesize clear but detailed answers on any issue. It was a direct competitor of OpenAI and its “Deep Research” modeand after being available limited and free, now its creators have decided to market this product big. With subscriptions, of course. Manus. Although its creators describe it as an AI agent, in reality Manus is fundamentally aimed at giving more meditated responses and after a deep analysis of various sources of information. It is true that this process automates, but does the same as Other “AI agents” such as Openai Deep Research mode and also those who also offer Claude or Gemini. Its performance, of course, is comparable to that of these services, and was initially available (under invitation) for free. That is over. Face subscriptions. As they point out In Bloomberg Manus now offers a public version of payment for $ 39 per month to be able to use its benefits with 3,900 credits, but also has a higher plan of 199 dollars per month for version with even less limits (19,900 credits) when it comes to exploiting those deep research modes. Taking into account that the service has just appeared, those prices of course They are aggressive and even controversial. Be careful with this. Manus’s decision is surprising for several reasons. To start, it is a company with hardly any market penetration and practically unknown to the general public. Come from good 200 dollars a month It seems to risk sinning for excess confidence. Not only that: the worrying thing is that this can be the canary in the AI ​​mine. This is: a precedent of what comes to us, with subscriptions of business companies that ask us for true monets for services than more reputed ones (such as Openai) also offer and without a clear differential factor. Committed virality. With the Internet boom and social networks virality was achieved with free massive products that were monetized Through advertising. Google and Facebook nurtured those models, but AI seems to depend on the freeemium model: we can access basic functions, but we do want to take advantage of the models, we have to go through a subscription model. And there is a clear reason for it. The generative AI is very expensive. The cost of each consultation we made to chatbots of AI is comparatively much greater that for example have traditional search engines. Training these models is also exceptionally expensive –It is estimated That GPT-4 training cost about $ 100 million-and you have to try to recover the investment. IA companies know how to do it: increasingly faces. And we are getting used to subscribing to everything. With the “era Google” We did not pay for the product but we were the productbut little by little payment subscriptions have been taking force with the rise of content streaming. We are already very accustomed to paying for services we use, and AI wants to take advantage of that trend. The problem, as is the case with the aforementioned streaming segment, is that There must be differentiating factors to bet on a payment service and not for another. And there Manus has it especially difficult, because he competes with very reputed models and that can be perceived as more confidence for users. No own model. Manus is a “Wrapper“, a platform that is built from the functions of other AI models such as Claude, from Anthropic, or Qwen, from Alibaba. It does not depend on itself. Its creators do not seem to have their own model, but even having the problem is that they will not be able to invest in it the amount of time, money and resources (as talent) necessary for the models to be especially remarkable. Too much competition. But Manus faces true giants. It is a situation analogous to which Anthropic and his chatbot claude livethat do not have the financial muscle of Google, Microsoft or even OpenAi. Manus has both that competition in the US and especially important rivals in China. There Deepseek is the main protagonist, but Alibaba, Baidu or Tencent They will not let a newcomer steal their wallet easily. In Xataka | Now the competition to overcome Depseek is also fought in China herself: Alibaba has just announced QWen2.5-max

has launched a reprimand against Google and Apple for not complying with the DMA

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“Companies operating in the EU, regardless of their place of constitution, must comply with the EU standards, including the Digital Markets Law (DMA),” has declared the Spanish commissioner Teresa Ribera in one of her first outstanding actions since she assumed the since Margrethe Vestager occupied before. His words do not arrive alone: ​​they are accompanied by a reprimand against Google and Apple, two giants who are in the sights for their relationship with the DMA. And he does it in a context marked by the Growing friction with the United States. Google’s case The European Commission, the executive arm of the block, has determined that certain functions of Google Search are designed to give preference to Alphabet’s own services on those of the competition. A movement that, according to Brussels, collides directly with the principles of transparency and non -discrimination of the DMA. On the other hand, he also pointed out that Google Play also does not comply with the aforementioned regulations, since it limits applications developers when “directing” users to external offers outside the store. This is what has determined, in a preliminary way, the European Commission in its investigation: Google Search: Google matrix treats Its own services, such as purchases, hotels, transport or financial or sports results, more favorable in Google search results than similar services offered by third parties. Here it is easy to imagine several scenarios. For example, if we seek ‘Apple Quote’ on Google, it is likely that the first result comes from Google Finance instead of other financial sources. The same goes for searches such as ‘Cheap flights to London’, where Google Travel usually appears before external alternatives. In the words of the commission: “Alphabet gives its own services a more prominent treatment compared to others by showing them at the top of Google search results or in dedicated spaces, with improved visual formats and filtering mechanisms.” Google Play. In the case of the official Android application store, European regulators accuse Google of Restrict the ability of developers to lead users to their own distribution channels and offers. In addition, they point out that, although the company can collect a rate for facilitating the collection of new customers through Google Play, the commissions that Alphabet applies exceed what they consider reasonable “Alphabet charges developers a high rate for an excessively long period of time for each purchase of digital goods and services,” says the commission. Apple’s case Brussels regulators They have pointed out that Apple must take measures to fulfill certain aspects of its interoperability obligation. As they explain, this will facilitate a more fluid integration of third -party products within the company’s ecosystem and allow users to access a greater variety of compatible devices and services. There are two key points in this issue. Let’s see what are: Connected devices. The commission has focused on the connectivity functions of iOS that allow to link devices such as smart watches, headphones and televisions. The required modifications seek to improve the user experience, allowing the visualization of notifications in wearables, the wireless transfer of files and more accessible configurations. “The connected devices of all brands will work better on the iPhone,” they say. Interoperability requests. The objective is that Apple facilitates access to developers who want to make the most of the interoperability capabilities of their ecosystem. For this, improvements are proposed as a more transparent access to technical documentation on functions, more agile communication and update and a more predictable period for requesting applications. As explained, “developers will benefit from a rapid and fair processing of their interoperability applications.” What’s still for Google and Apple In the case of Google, the company has the right to formally defend and respond to the conclusions of the European Commission. If preliminary opinions are confirmed, Brussels could formalize the breach of the DMA, which would mean fines of up to 10% of its global income. In case of recidivism, the sanction could double up to 20%. As for Apple, the company is obliged to apply the measures imposed by European regulators. However, these decisions respect their right of defense and remain subject to judicial scrutiny. Although, for now, the decision does not imply immediate sanctions, if the company refuses to comply, the commission could adopt additional measures under the DMA, which would eventually derive in fines. The effect in the United States This movement comes at a time when several technological leaders have raised their voice against the fines imposed in the EU. The protests have reached Donald Trump. Last year, the president -elect said in a podcast that Tim Cook called him to talk about the sanctions against Apple in Europe, to which he replied that he would not allow the EU to “take advantage” of US companies if he arrived again at the White House. After his electoral victory, his speech has not changed. Any future sanction to Apple or Google could generate a Negative reaction from Washington. Images | European Union (via Wikimedia Commons / CC by 4.0) | Solen Feyissa In Xataka | The EU regulatory obsession raises a world in which AI will have two speeds. And Europe will lose

China has launched the largest military deployment of 2025 against Taiwan. Taiwan has just responded with the same currency

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A few days ago the news in Taiwan was not around the island, it was somewhat further. A series of images next to a video showed that, in an unidentified coast, China had displayed artificial platforms that they remembered too much to Mulberry ports with those who the allies invaded Normandy. The island has been found in the last 24 hours with a Chinese military army in the surroundings, and this time they have decided to replicate. A phrase as a trigger. China held on Monday The greatest military exercise On a large scale so far this year, and he faced Taiwan mobilizing 59 aircraft and drones, along with nine vessels, in a clear sample of force in response to the recent comments of President Taiwanés, Lai Ching-Te, who He described Beijing as a “foreign hostile force” and promised to strengthen national security against its infiltration attempts. The unusual in this case is that Taiwan has responded To the exhibition deploying aerial and maritime patrols, in addition to defensive missile systems, while its Minister of Defense, Wellington Koo, accused China of being the “disturbing of peace and stability” in the region. Increase tension. Last Thursday, Lai hardened his speech After a national security meeting, accusing China of seeking Taiwan’s annexation through influence tactics. In response, he announced stricter measures to regulate trade, travel and residence of Chinese citizens on the island. Beijing, who considers Lai and his party, the DPP, as separatists, reacted with virulence: the spokesman of the Taiwan Affairs Office of China, Chen Binhua, He described it of “destroyer of peace in the Strait” and accused him of pushing the island “towards a scenario of war and conflict.” Since the inauguration of Lai last May, China has intensified its military pressure. We have been counting it: in December, it deployed more than 90 ships from the Navy and the Coast Guard in an operation that Taiwan described as Its greatest maritime mobilization In recent history. The growing military activity China reinforces that fear that Beijing is preparing a direct confrontation scenario. The Described bridges A few days ago it is a “spicy” more to tension. The “Gray Zone”. The truth is that all these military activities of the Popular Liberation Army (EPL) of China around Taiwan is what experts describe as a “Gray Zone” strategythat is, coercion tactics that do not reach the direct armed conflict but that wears out the defensive capacity of the adversary. So that? This campaign would seek to increase the Psychological pressure On Taiwan, force their Armed Forces to operate in a constant state of alert and weaken the perception of security on the island. The United States position. Irremediably, the situation leads to Washington. Donald Trump’s return to the US presidency has added A layer of uncertainty To the equation. In the middle of the commercial war with China, Trump seeks increase your investment In defense. In addition, its administration has expressed discomfort for the impact of the island on the American semiconductor industry, threatening new tariffs to strengthen local production. No doubt, contradictory signals from Washington have generated restlessness in Taiwan. While the island’s government has expressed Your willingness to collaborate With Trump in the construction of a “democratic supply chain”, key companies such as Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) have promised investments up to 100,000 million of dollars in the United States to relieve tensions. Attempts of calm (and commitment). Amid all this uncertainty, the director of the American Institute in Taiwan (AIT), Raymond Greene, tried to reassure Taipei. In a statement Posted on FacebookHe said that the Secretary of State of the United States, Marco Rubio, has reiterated his commitment to Taiwan, ensuring that Trump seeks world peace and strengthening deterrence in the Indo-Pacific to avoid conflicts. Greene emphasized that Washington cannot guarantee security of the region alone and needs allies like Taiwan to reinforce its defensive capacity. He also stressed that a conflict in the Taiwan Strait would have devastating economic consequences, with an impact greater than 10% of global GDP, “more serious than World War II,” he said. Be that as it may, the current increase in Chinese military activity and the surprise Taiwanese response mark a new critical point in the already tense relationship between both parties. With a most unpredictable Trump, the future of American support to the island is still uncertain. Meanwhile, Beijing continues to press with demonstrations of strength and rhetorical threats, in a context where any calculation error could serve as a fuse to trigger a conflict of unpredictable proportions. Image | 總統府 In Xataka | China has a plan with six options if things “twist” with Taiwan. World War II advocates all In Xataka | Taiwan lives an unprecedented situation in three decades: there is an army of 53 planes and 90 Chinese ships in front of the island

Astronauts launched by Boeing are returning to Earth nine months later, in a Spacex ship

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Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams are returning to Earth after nine months at the International Space Station. It is not an unusually long stay for an astronaut (the Russians They have come to spend three times longer in orbit), but Wilmore and Williams originally rose for a test mission just over a week. What followed was one of the most controversial decisions that NASA has taken in recent years. Express rotation Although How Elon Musk and Donald Trump tell himNASA’s two astronauts have not been really abandoned. The Boeing Starliner ship, with which they went up to the ISS in June, returned empty to Earth for a failure in the propulsion system that caused NASA managers to lose confidence in a safe return for their astronauts. Wilmore and Williams were reassigned, first, to the CREW-8 mission of Spacex. If there had been an emergency in the ISS between August and September, they would have returned in that ship under the seats of the other four crew, without the right suit. In September, the CREW-9 mission reached the ISS with two empty seats and two costumes for both, which regularized its situation. Since then, Wilmore and Williams have had a firm return plan: as soon as the four relay astronauts (the Spacex Crew-10 mission), they would return to Earth together with their two companions of the CREW-9 mission. There were some delays for technical issues (the Crew Dragon ship initially assigned to the CREW-10 mission was not ready and had to be replaced), but political tensions ended up accelerating things. Crew-10 arrived at the ISS during the early hours of Monday. 24 hours later, in the early hours of Tuesday, the CREW-9 mission was decoupling to enter the atmosphere and return to the earth. Normally astronauts spend more time together to catch up on the details of the orbital station, but this time it has been an express rotation. The return flight Dressed in their Spacex costumes, very different from those of the Boeing Starliner ship with those who were thrown into space, Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams said goodbye to their peers and entered the Crew Dragon ship with Nick Hague of NASA and Aleksandr Gorbunov of Roscosmos, the other two crew of the CREW-9 mission. At 5:05 UTC, the Spacex ship decoupled from the ISS autonomously and quickly moved away from the laboratory in orbit using its propellants. The Crew Dragon has been maneuvering to reduce its altitude. It is expected that Amerize near the Coast of Florida at 9:57 p.m. UTC, 17 hours after its departure. The most delicate maneuver will occur 12 minutes before shocking. The ship will detach from its trunk and turn on its engines to exorbitar. Then he will perform his atmospheric reentry, being surrounded by plasma by the speed at which he will cross the gases of the Earth’s atmosphere. When it reaches 5,500 meters of altitude, the two pilot parachutes will open to stop the ship, followed by four main parachutes to 1,950 meters to cushion the shocking. The Dragon ship will play the Atlantic Ocean at a speed of 7.6 meters per second, detaching from its parachutes and bringing back to Butch and Suni after nine months of scientific work and maintenance aboard the ISS. The soap opera will have finished. Images | POT In Xataka | “Stranded” astronauts in space say goodbye to the ISS with a script turn: supporting Elon Musk’s version

Spacex has launched 8,000 Starlink satellites in five years, but they are not enough. And we are beginning to understand why

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Starlink satellite Internet service is the golden egg chicken that is helping Finance the Starship program and other ambitious Spacex projects. But for it to work, Spacex cannot stop launching satellites. Starlink is a commercial success. Spacex announced Friday That Starlink had exceeded 5 million customers, two more than he had a year ago. The satellite Internet service is now available in 125 countries, and has also been integrated into more and more aircraft, ships and cruises. With the deployment of the first Direct To Cell constellation, satellites that in addition to the usual connections include cell connectivity, Starlink has also started working as a service for telephone operators. T-Mobile already offers in the United States The option of never running out of coverage. A sum and follows for the Golden Eggs of Spacex. Spacex numbers. According to a Payload reportSpacex invoiced $ 13,1 billion in 2024, 8,200 million of which came from Starlink. It is almost double what Starlink had entered the previous year. More difficult to calculate is how much it costs Spacex to put the satellites into orbit. We know that Starlink is a profitable businessbut we do not know the internal cost of launching a Falcon 9 rocket full of satellites. We know that it is much less than other rockets cost, because their first stage is able to land and take off at least 26 times; But not how much. We have, yes, a starting point. Elon Musk said a few years ago in an interview they aspired to A cost of 15 million dollars by launch. Taking into account that Spacex launched 134 Falcon 9 rockets last year, and that 96 were Starlink missions, at least 1,440 million dollars of Starlink’s revenues were used to cover the launch expenses of the satellites, to which the manufacturing costs, jobs, etc. The elephant in the room. In total, Spacex has launched more than 8,000 Starlink satellites, of which 6,000 are still active. The others no longer work or have burned in the atmosphere. Except for failure (such as the geomagnetic storm that caught a Starlink lot), satellites have a five -year -old useful life. The elephant in the room is that this useful life depends mainly on a physical appearance: satellites unfold in the low terrestrial orbit and reduce their height due to the effect of orbital decay, until disintegrating by friction with the atmosphere. Spacex cannot stop launching satellites. And you have to do it at an even greater pace to continue adding customers, while replenishing the satellites that are resenting. 100 reentrades in a month. Five years have passed since Spacex began to regularly launch Starlink satellites, and the effects are being noticed. According to an analysis by astrophysician Jonathan McDowell, At least one Starlink satellite He resents in the atmosphere every day, but January beat the record with 120 resentments. Many occur during the day, so they are not visible. Those that occur during the night are often a show of fleeting stars produced by the metals that vaporize In the atmosphere. The economic and environmental implications of all this are about to see, because Spacex is the only company that usually reuses its rockets and, therefore, the first to build a satellite constellation as large as Starlink. Perhaps the entry into Starship service changes the equation, but the order of the factors is clear: Starlink and the constellations that arrive later are condemned to eternally replenish the satellites that come out for those who enter. Image | Spacex, that In Xataka | Now any US smartphone can be connected for free to Starlink satellites. From July it will have a price

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