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As of October 9, transfers in the EU will no longer be the same. A new bank verification enters into force

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You open the bank’s app, choose “Transfer,” you go, you write the name of the recipient and confirm. Today, October 7, 2025, if that name does not match the holder of the account, the usual thing is that the payment is executed without alerts. As of October 9, that everyday gesture changes. In the EU, starting with the entities of the euro area, the bank must check if the name you enter with that of the IBA before authorizing the shipment. The idea is simple, that money reaches who owes. Until now, European banks were not obliged to verify whether the beneficiary’s name coincided with the IBA before executing a transfer. The system was based only on the account number, which allowed payments to be processed even if the name was not correct. Some countries, such as the Netherlands, had developed verification mechanisms such as the “Iran-Naam Check”, but there was no common norm. The new European regulation corrects that disparity and establishes a uniform procedure for the entire union. Three possible messages. When the bank taught the name and the Iban, the answer may be one of three. Total coincidence. If the data fully coincide, the transfer will be validated without additional notices. Partial coincidence. If there are slight differences (a changed letter, an absent tilde or an abbreviated name) an alert will appear indicating partial coincidence. In that case, the user may review the data or continue under their responsibility. Without coincidence. If there is no coincidence, the system will warn that the data does not quote, without showing the real name of the holder for privacy reasons. WARNING, DO NOT BLOCK. Receiving an alert does not mean that the payment is blocked. The system is designed to inform, not to prevent the operation. Even if the name and the IBAN do not coincide, the user will be able to move forward with the transfer under their own responsibility. What changes is the transparency of the process. Before it was not known if the data fit; Now the bank will show you before executing the shipment. The final decision will remain yours. People and companies. The verification is based on the identification data of the account holder. If the beneficiary is a natural person, the system will compare its name and surname as it appears in the receiving bank. In the case of a legal person (for example, a company or association), the verification will focus on the company name or the commercial name. The usual errors, such as tildes, abbreviations or second denominations, can generate partial coincidences, but will not prevent the transfer, as we mentioned above. Standard, immediate and periodic. Verification will apply to both standard and immediate transfers, without additional cost for the user. One of the payment entities that have detailed how the process will work is Nickel. As explainedperiodic transfers scheduled before October 9, 2025 will not be subject to the beneficiary’s verification, although its execution is subsequent. Only the coincidence in the new orders created from that date and once, at the time of configuring them, will be verified. Absence of verification. As Nickel also explains, it can happen that the system fails to check the name with the Iban. This ruling, the company points out, may be due to communication problems between banks or specific technical limitations. In that case, the entity indicates that it will also proceed with the transfer, without the system confirming the coincidence of the beneficiary. Nickel herself advises to cancel the operation if there are doubts about the recipient, especially when it comes to high amounts or unusual accounts. The origin of the measure is in the rebound of bank fraud in the last decade. The European institutions, headed by the Commission and the ECB, considered that the system knows a mechanism for verifying the beneficiary to prevent erroneous payments and identity robberies. With the new standard, each transfer will include an automatic verification that acts as an informative filter. It does not delay shipping, but offers a warning that did not exist before. Vishing, Smishing, Romance and BEC. Behind the regulatory change are the fraud that proliferate in Europe and that banks try to stop new verification tools. He Vishingfor example, use false phone calls to impersonate bank employees or authorities. He SMISHING It arrives by SMS with messages that simulate being from the bank or a shipping company. They have also extended The romantic scamswhere the victim’s trust is gained before asking for money, and the CEO fraudin which an alleged manager orders urgent and confidential transfers. Beyond the differences between modalities, almost all bank scams share the same pattern. They use psychological manipulation techniques to generate urgency, fear or trust, and rely on identity supplant to seem legitimate. In most cases, they seek to make the user a bank transfer, taking advantage of emotions such as concern, empathy or hierarchical pressure. The verification of the beneficiary does not eliminate these risks, but it can act as a pause that allows to detect the deception in time. Before clicking “Send.” Stop for a few seconds can make a difference. Before confirming a transfer, it is convenient to calmly review the name and I went from the recipient, especially if it is a new account or a recent change. If the bank notice indicates a partial or without coincidence, the most prudent is to verify the data by a different channel (a direct call or an official website). And, given the minimal suspicion, canceling is always better than regretting. The new system also reaches companies and professionals who make frequent payments. Each transfer will require confirming the coincidence between the name of the beneficiary and the IBAN, which will add a small step to the usual process. For companies, it can be an opportunity to reinforce their treasury controls and detect internal fraud attempts or supplier supplant. It is not a lock, but a filter of verification. What banks, what countries, what deadlines. The … Read more

China has just tested the Fujian with three different aircraft. Electromagnetic catapult is no longer theory, it is practical

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The cover of an aircraft carrier has always been a tension scenario: each takeoff is a millimeter choreography that combines steel and noise. For more than six decades, that scene was dominated by steam. Now, with him Fujianthat script is also written with electricity. We do not talk about an experiment behind closed doors, but of a public demonstration on deck with several different aircraft, the type of test that records that the electromagnetic catapult is operating in real conditions. The demonstration was not accidental. Coincided with the acts by the 80th Anniversary of Victory in the War against Japan and World War IIwhere prominence also passed through the sea. According to the Ministry of Defensethe Fujian served as a platform for three different models: the J-15T and J-35 and the KJ-600 early alert plane. The three performed cares assisted by catapult and land cable landings, marking a new chapter in their preparation. What was tested. According to Xinhuathe training phase served to check the interaction between the electromagnetic catapult, the braking system and different types of aircraft. The Navy explained that the exercises confirmed the “good compatibility” of the teams and that the Fujian already has the capacity of “full initial deck.” In practice it means that you can organize launch and recovery operations sequenced, preparing the land for a broader integration of its embarked wing. From steam to electromagnetism: For a long time, the steam catapults marked the take -off routine on the aircraft carriers. The EMALS American system introduced a paradigm shift: instead of pressure steam, it uses accumulated electric power and converted into a launch force. It is already installed in the USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN-78), first aircraft carrier to incorporate it. The US Navy ensures that It offers greater acceleration control, less wear on airplanes and cover and ability to boost light drones to heavy fighters. The transition reduces maintenance and opens the operational range. Three aircraft, three mission. The J-15T is the evolution of a veteran naval hunting, adapted to operate with catapults. Its role is to ensure the continuity of the aviation embarked while more advanced models arrive. The J-35, on the other hand, represents the jump to the fifth generation: a furtive hunt with greater scope and modern sensors. The KJ-600 trio completes, an early alert plane designed to expand the combat group and coordinate operations to hundreds of kilometers. Where is the Fujian today. The aircraft carrier began its sea tests in May 2024 and, since then, it has followed a progressive calendar. Systems and stability check settings have been made, while rehearsing cover operations. The latest exercises show that the ship has an initial capacity to operate with different aircraft, but has not yet reached the level of full operability required by an aeronaval group in long -range missions. Only two with Catapult EM. To date, only two armed ones have managed to integrate electromagnetic catapults into service aircraft carriers. As we point out above, the United States operates electromagnetic catapults in the Gerald R. Ford and China class has demonstrated its operation in the Fujian. These experiences place both armed in a high technological category, while the rest of the countries continue to use steam systems or lack catapults. It is a milestone that reflects the investment and industrial development scale necessary to get here. What changes on deck. Electromagnetic catapult opens a range of possibilities that were previously more limited. It allows drones or light aircraft with the same security as a great tonnage, and does so with less vibration and mechanical stress. For the crew, the work environment is quieter and less hot. In practice, it means that the aircraft carriers can sustain a greater number of daily exits with less maintenance between operations. Of the test at the service. The maneuvers carried out this month do not yet equate to have a fully operational aircraft carrier. The Fujian is still in an early phase: he needs to accumulate many more hours of sea and certify maneuvers in diverse conditions before being able to hold a embedded wing in the campaign. The Ministry of Defense speaks of a milestone, but also recognizes that it is missing. The transition from the demonstration to real capacity will be gradual and will depend on how systems respond in more demanding scenarios. The Fujian has gone from being a project wrapped in speculation to an aircraft carrier that shows on deck how its electromagnetic catapult works. The achieved this month is a visible milestone, although still partial. China thus enters a small club in which each electric takeoff is much more than a technical gesture: it is a declaration of intentions. The future will say how long it takes to convert these maneuvers into the routine of a fleet capable of operating with continuity on the high seas. Images | Ministry of National Defense (1, 2, 3, 4, 5) | In Xataka | For years the Airbus A380 symbolized European power against Boeing. Today it survives as a colossus without the kingdom

The threat of Russia is no longer drones, they are now combat airplanes violating airspace. And Europe has taken its fighters

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First it was a swarm of Russian drones entering Poland’s airspace. NATO He responded with fire. That first order of Moscow has had its continuation last Friday, when three Russian fighters did the same In Estonia. NATO response was overwhelmed again. However, threat and tension, far from lesseing, has increased a few hours ago About the Baltic Sea. Russian incursion in Estonia. As we said, the recent cross of three fighters MIG-31 Foxhound Russians in Estonia’s airspace All alarms In Eastern Europe and has tested the immediate response capacity of NATO. The intrusion, occurred on The island of Vaindloo In the Gulf of Finland, it was carried out without flight plans, with transponders off and without communication with the Sonian air control services, which makes it an act deliberately provocative. Given this, the new Eastern Sentry operationwith the takeoff of Italian F-35 fighters of the Baltic Air Police Detachment, to which devices were added Swedes Jas 39 flu and Finnish fighters to intercept and monitor intruders. The episode It is not isolated: It continues at the entrance of 19 Russian drones in Poland and Romania the previous week, of which several were demolished by Polish and Dutch forces, and others crashed into Polish territory. These incidents demonstrate a Russian pressure pattern that seeks to test the limits of the alliance. Reactions. The political response was swift. Estonia Foreign Minister He described the incursion of “unprecedented provocation” and demanded rapid measures of political and economic pressure. Prime Minister Estonia communicated directly with NATO general secretary, Mark Rutte, who reiterated the solidarity of the organization and the need for reinforce deterrence In the region. In addition, Estonia announced that he will convene for the first time in his 34 years as a member of the United Nations an emergency meeting of the Security Council. European diplomacy, in the voice of Kaja Kallas, He condemned the act As a “dangerous provocation” and stressed that it was already the third violation of community airspace in a few days, promising more support for the defense of the Baltic states. In parallel, voices in Lithuania They suggested that the alliance should be willing to demolish intruder planes, remembering the Turkish 2015 precedentwhen a Russian Su-24 was killed on the border with Syria. A Russian Mig 31 The legal framework. Given the situation, Estonia considers invoke article 4 of the North Atlantic Treaty, which forces allies to joint consultations provided that one of them feels threatened their safety, such as Poland already did After the intrusion of Russian drones. The activation of this mechanism reflects the severity with which the threat is perceived and the need to show cohesion against Moscow. The Eastern Sentry operation, launched days before, initially provides rapid reaction fighters and an anti -aircraft, with the perspective of extending from The Arctic to the Black Sea to cover the entire eastern flank of the alliance against drones, missiles and airplanes. General Alexus Grynkewich, Supreme Commander Allied in Europe, He stressed that this new frame will allow a more flexible and focused defense where it is required. A Russian IL-20m German interception. A few hours ago the tension It has increased. The output of Two German Eurofighter From the Rostock-Laage base to intercept a Russian IL-20M recognition plane on the Baltic Sea, it has placed the region again in the center of the climb between Moscow and NATO. Again, the Russian apparatus flew with the transposeor off, without responding to contact calls, an increasingly common pattern in incursions that are interpreted as acts of deliberate provocation. The incident came just days after the incursion of the three Russian Mig-31 fighters. The strategic pulse of Moscow. For Poland and Baltic states, incidents are not isolated, but part of a sequence of calculated steps of harassment. Just a few days ago and as we count, Warsaw denounced Lat the fall of 19 Russian drones In its territory, and its Foreign Minister described the Kremlin strategy as a series of incremental provocations, always on the edge, but without reaching the open conflict. The discovery of remains of a lure drone in a Polish forest reinforces the sensation constant trial of NATO defenses. Meanwhile, the Kremlin He denies responsibility and accuses the West, in particular to the United Kingdom, to lead an alleged “warmongering field” that prevents progress in the resolution of the war in Ukraine. The fissures of the West. One of the most disturbing elements in this context is the perception that the United States could be reducing its commitment in the defense of the eastern flank. Bloomberg cited Kremlin sources according to which Putin would have concluded, after his summit with Donald Trump in Alaska, that Washington will not significantly reinforce kyiv’s military capacity, which encourages Moscow to intensify its attacks to force Ukrainian capitulation. In parallel, The Guardian told that reports that the White House plans to reduce security assistance to Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia, despite being countries directly exposed to Russian pressure. Trump’s statement, stating that he would defend Europe but without deepening details, adds strategic ambiguity at a time of high voltage. Climbing risk. Baltic and Central European leaders agree that the situation is dangerously approaching A breakdown. The president of Latvia, Edgars Rinkēvičs, warned that, although Russia strives to clearly exceed red lines, erratic logic and incompetence at different levels of the Russian system could lead to a real clash, whose responsibility would fall on the Kremlin. From Prague, President Czech Peta Pavel He claimed an answer Firm and united from NATO, remembering that giving in to the aggression would be equivalent to “turning your back on evil.” The shadow of a greater conflict plans on the northeast European: each new air incursion or drone attack increases the probabilities of a calculation error that precipitates a direct confrontation. Ukraine and a way. Under this climate of growing hostility, President Zelensky declaredbefore traveling to the UN, who would be willing to meet with Putin, even with Trump, to explore A political exit. … Read more

The ‘Great Chinese Firewall’ is no longer just from China. Now it is sold as a digital repression platform to other countries

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A mass filtration of 500 GB of data in the form of more than 100,000 documents has exposed a disturbing initiative. A startup called Geedge Networks is selling to governments around the world censorship systems modeled from “China Great Firewall“. There are at least three countries that are already applying restrictive measures similar to those of the Chinese government. What happened. The leaked documents By interseclab They reveal how one of the investors in Geedge Networks is Fang Binxing, one of the “Parents” of the “Great Cortaygos of China”. Researchers have discovered that the startup markets an advanced surveillance platform that includes hardware for data centers and Software for local officials. Intercepting everything. The central component of that platform is the so -called “Tiangou Secure Gateway” (TSG), a tool that acts as a gateway and that is installed in the data centers to process the Internet traffic of an entire country. All these data scan when this component is passed, and from there it is filtered and can be blocked so that it does not reach its destination. If the traffic is not encrypted, you can intercept and collect passwords and email addresses. If it is, it makes use of deep inspection systems of packages and automatic learning to detect and block tools that avoid these censorship systems, especially VPN. Three countries already have their own “Great Firewall”. A consortium formed by media and human rights organizations (such as Amnesty International) identified that this platform is active in Kazakhstan, Pakistan, Ethiopia and Myanmar. In Geedge Networks they have published job offers for engineers willing to travel to countries such as Malaysia, Bahrain, Algeria and India, and are also hiring Spanish and French translators, which makes it clear that the startup is developing an important expansion strategy. TSG control panel capture for Myanmar showing real -time traffic categorized in total bandwidth and active connections. Source: Interseclab. An example of control: Myanmar. In a filtered capture the TSG control panel for Myanmar And it looks how the system was monitoring 81.6 million Internet connections simultaneously. In February 2024, Geedge hardware equipment had been installed in 26 data centers and 13 ISPS of Myanmar. There, 281 popular VPN tools were identified and the blockade of 54 of them was prioritized, including Expressvpn or Signal. Growing suspicions. Although researchers warn that documents are not a definitive proof that this system is causing specific blockages, Geeedge’s records show strong correlations with certain important events of the past. In Ethiopia for example the TSG system changed passive monitoring mode to “active detention” of traffic just a few days before a remarkable internet blackout that It occurred in February 2023. There are other cases in which connectivity problems in these countries have coincided with events registered in TSG in filtered documents. And incidentally, new Digitgal repression techniques in China. Among the leaked documents are also spoken of an active project in the Xingiang region, in China. There the startup has collaborated with Chinese research institutions to test a distributed firewall model instead of using a centralized one. There are also alarming experimental functions such as the ability to create relationships between users, group individuals according to applications that use or triangular the location of users through mobile base stations. And the dreaded punctuation systems. There is also a prototype in which a kind of Score for the reputation of each userand that would apply individually. Each user would have a base score and to increase it would have to add personal data such as their national identification, data that allow facial recognition or employment details. If this score does not exceed a certain limit – or decreased due to the use of a VPN detected and prohibited, for example – the Internet access would be denied to the citizen. Government malware. Another of the threats posed by this system is Geedge’s ability to Inject malware In user traffic. An operator could identify which website visit a user and, if it does not use a safe protocol (HTTPS), could inject malware directly into that connection. The researchers explain that although these experimental options are being tested in China, once the technology is mature, any foreign client can request those same functions on their platform to update it and have it available. Image | Ran Liwen In Xataka | The ‘China Great Firewall’ becomes even harder and blocks all TLS 1.3 traffic with ESNI to avoid aisos to prohibited destinations

Spacex has bought the spectrum that Echostar failed to use: the new space race is no longer to get to space, it is to control it

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Spacex He has bought the Telecommunications spectrum of Echostar for 17,000 million dollars. Thus eliminates its main competitor in direct mobile satellite services. Why is it important. This operation Turn Spacex the great dominator of satellite mobile connectivity. It will no longer compete with land operators, but will control the entire value chain, from the rocket to the phone. Spacex has paid 8.5 billion in cash and another 8.5 billion in shares for the AWS-4 and H-Block spectrum licenses of Echostar. In addition, it will cover additional 2 billion in interest payments of the Echostar debt until November 2027. The movement eliminates the Direct-To-Cell constellation project of Echostar, which had been the main Starlink competitor in satellite mobile services. Charlie Ergen, founder of Echostar, has sold all his spectrum after decades to accumulate it without developing his own network. In Xataka Satellites are becoming some of the luminous objects in heaven. It is a serious problem In detail. Spacex will use these frequencies to Develop your next generation constellation Starlink Direct-to-Cell, which promises “a remarkable change in performance” with respect to the current one. Technology works with existing LTE phones without the need for hardware, firmware or special applications. It currently operates with more than 600 satellites offering 4G coverage to more than six million users on five continents. The backdrop. This purchase arrives just before the Apple event, where the new ones will be presented iPhone 17. There are those who speculate that Apple could reconsider their association with GlobalStar after seeing how Spacex eliminates competitors buying the entire spectrum available. Between the lines. Spacex does not move by investment return to use, but by strategic domain. As you have already done in satellite connectivity by lowering prices aggressively to stop Amazon Kuiper, now it seeks to completely control the satellite mobile market before mature. Yes, but. The new AWS-4 and H-Block frequencies are not compatible with current phones. Spacex will need manufacturers as Apple to include them in future devices. If Apple does not cooperate, Musk has already threatened to create his own “Starlink” phone. {“Videid”: “X8ywtec”, “Autoplay”: False, “Title”: “First video call with Starlink Direct To Cell”, “Tag”: “”, “Duration”: “22”} And now what? This operation leaves competitors as AST Spacemobile in a specially complicated position. AST needs to raise 400 million in the next few weeks just to stay afloat, Spacex already dominates in launch speed and satellite development. The transaction also solves the FCC investigations on Echostar. With this sale and the previous one of another AT&T spectrum package for 23,000 million, Echostar seems to go to a gradual settlement of its operations. Outstanding image | Spacex In Xataka | Spacex has just published unpublished images of the “Rostized” Starship. A unique perspective of his shock after the toughest reentry (Function () {Window._js_modules = Window._js_modules || {}; var headelement = document.getelegsbytagname (‘head’) (0); if (_js_modules.instagram) {var instagramscript = Document.Createlement (‘script’); }}) (); – The news Spacex has bought the spectrum that Echostar failed to use: the new space race is no longer to get to space, it is to control it It was originally posted in Xataka by Javier Lacort .

China is no longer made up of moving away from Nvidia. His next step is the heart of the AI ​​with a system that breaks molds

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In 2017, the Paper “Attention is all you need”Google changed the technical basis of language generation: the Transformers They allowed to process long sequences in parallel and climb models to sizes that were previously unfeasible. That climbing route has driven architectures such as GPT and Bert and has converted self -how The central piece of generative AI Contemporary. But this new approach was accompanied by growing costs in memory and energy when the context lengthens, a limitation that has motivated research to develop alternatives. Spikingbrain-1.0 aims to break molds. Of the “attention is all you need” to the brain: the new commitment to break limits in the A team from the Chinese Academy of Sciences Automation Institute He has just presented Spikingbrain-1.0. We are talking about a family of spiky models aimed at reducing data and computation necessary for tasks with very long contexts. The experts propose two approaches: Spikingbrain-7B, of linear architecture focused on efficiency, and spikingbrain-76b, which combines linear attention with Mixture of Experts (MOE) mechanisms of greater capacity. The authors detail that much of the development and the tests were carried out in clusters of GPU Metax C550, with libraries and operators specifically designed for that platform. This makes the project not only a promising advance at the software level, but also a demonstration of own hardware capabilities. An especially relevant aspect if China’s effort is taken into account for reducing his dependence on Nvidia, A strategy that we already saw reflected with Depseek 3.1. Spikingbrain-1.0 is directly inspired by how our brain works. Instead of having neurons that are always “burning” by calculating numbers, uses spiky neurons: units that accumulate signals until they exceed a threshold and trigger a peak (spike). Between peak and peak they do nothing, which saves operations and, in theory, energy. The key is that not only does it matter how many peaks there are, but when they occur: the exact moment and the order of these peaks carry information, as in the brain. In order for this design to work with the current ecosystem, the team developed methods that convert traditional self -acting blocks into linear versions, easier to integrate into its spiky system, and created a kind of “virtual time” that simulates temporal processes without stopping the yield in GPU. In addition, the Spikingbrain-76B version includes Mixture of Experts (MOE), a system that “awakens” only to certain submodos when we are needed, which we have also seen in GPT-4O and GPT-5. The authors suggest applications where the context length is decisive: analysis of large legal files, complete medical records, DNA sequencing and massive experimental data sets in high energy physics, among others. That lace appears reasoned in the document: if the architecture maintains efficiency in contexts of millions of tokens, would reduce costs and open possibilities in domains today limited by access to very expensive computer infrastructure. But validation in real environments is pending outside the laboratory. The team The code of 7,000 million parameters has released in Github next to a detailed technical report. It also offers a web interface similar to chatgpt to interact with the modelwhich according to the authors are deployed entirely in national hardware. Access, however, is limited to Chinesewhich complicates its use outside that ecosystem. The proposal is ambitious, but its true scope will depend on the community to reproduce the results and make comparisons in homogeneous environments that evaluate precision, latencies and energy consumption in real conditions. Images | Xataka with Gemini 2.5 | ABODI VESAKARAN In Xataka | Openai believes having discovered why the IAS hallucinates: they don’t know how to say “I don’t know”

The new aesthetic luxury of “liquid surgery” that promises what the Botox no longer sells

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In the new economy of the “invisible luxury”, the object of desire no longer hangs from the arm: it melts with the skin. Instead of great transformations, the aspiration is that “it is not noticed.” A lifting without scars, a brightness that looks like a repair dream. In that league the newly baptized “liquid surgery” plays: four -digit facials that promise a Botox effect without needles or rigidity. A new trend. After the rejuvenated reappearance of Lindsay Lohan, a reporter from The Times He went to the most exclusive spa by Beverly Hills to test the “MBR Best and Ultimate Liquid Surgery”, a 995 -dollar protocol. The session includes cleaning, toning, hyaluronic acid masks and, above all, the application of a star serum: 1,784 pounds the 50 ml bottle, sold as “viper venom imitator” to achieve a “more subtle” botulin toxin effect. The journalist described a “striking” difference after applying the product in half face and collected that the usual clientele includes local elites and celebrities that repeat monthly and complement at home. The text itself points out that the term “liquid surgery” was coined by a German marketing department: there is no scalpel, but a high -cost cosmetic ritual with immediate results. The spa presents it as the “less invasive” route towards the good face effect that was previously associated with visible injectables. Aesthetic luxury changes the skin. The turn responds to a broader trend: undetectable results. As we have detailed in Xatakathe deep flat lifting – which repositions muscles and ligaments in block to avoid rigidity – has become the standard among star surgeons. The effects last between 10 and 15 years, but prices easily exceed six figures. Given this situation, Botox has lost part of the story. In a report for Women’s Health They have described as Jennifer Aniston He has recognized that he tried the injections, but abandoned them for considering them “ridiculous” in excess. Instead, combine facials, lasers and radiofrequency (Themage) with a healthy lifestyle. The narrative now relies on bioestimulators: polynucleotides derived from salmon DNA (PDRN) that promise cellular hydration and regeneration, or exosomes, small vesicles that act as regenerative “messengers”. He Glow discreet becomes symbolic capital. Towards combined protocols. The immediate future points to repeatable treatments, expensive and continuous maintenance, which mixes apparatus (laser, radiofrequency) and cosmetic biology (polynucleotides, exosomes). That is today the “toolbox” that celebrities present as an alternative to click or go through an operating room with public visibility. On the cusp, the elite scalpel continues to mark status; At the base, four -digit facials sell the “invisible effect” in cabin format. This is how the term coined as “liquid surgery” fits at that intersection. The problems that are coming. The boom of “liquid surgery” and other less invasive treatments drag shadows that should look straight ahead: from the regulatory vacuum to unequal aesthetic pressure. On the one hand, The Newbeauty Portal Document The case of Victoria Nelsona client that denounced burns and scars after a “high -power” peeling and microneedling years performed, allegedly, out of the legal reach of a aestheticist in California. Dermatologists consulted recalled that procedures such as medical peels, microneedling, lasers or injections should be carried out in clinical environments and under medical supervision. A peeling, they underlined, is not a ritual of beauty but a “controlled chemical burn” that, if it runs badly, can leave irreversible sequelae. The case illustrates a hole between marketing, licenses and security. On the other hand, in other types of treatments science does not support a promise. Polynucleotides –extracted from salmon DNA and increasingly present in elite clinics– They have biological base and even a previous medical use in wounds and burns. Side effects, when injected, are usually mild (bruises, swelling), but robust studies are missing that support their long -term benefits. It also happens with exosomes that it is still consolidating in the scientific field and with collagen supplements, where the benefits are modest or contradictory and many studies have been financed by the brands themselves. There is an even broader background. The aesthetic pressure is not limited to the cabin of a spa. The cultural narrative has oscillated from Body Positive to ultra -launching standardsamplified by Fashionable thinning drug and Digital filters that multiply impossible expectations. In this field, scrutiny is deeply unequal. They carry the demand to stay young and with a double penalty: both those who are operated and those who decide not to do so are criticized. Sarah Jessica Parker has been insulted for showing wrinkles, while Pamela Anderson was criticized for exhibiting her naturalness without makeup. Men, on the other hand, usually enjoy indulgence: names such as Brad Pitt, Tom Cruise or Bradley Cooper have starred in speculation about touch -ups, but rarely face the same public trial. Even the data shows the gap: As we have pointed out in XatakaLiftings in men grew by 26 % between 2022 and 2024, but the media account presented them as a simple “set -up”, not as an “aesthetic obsession.” The result: eternal youth remains a female demand and an optional option for them. An eternal youth with conditions. The snake venom facial in Beverly Hills is more than an aesthetic whim. Summarizes a global trend: displacement towards less invasive procedures, more expensive and with an aura of exclusivity. An eternal youth reserved for those who can pay it, while the rest of society consumes supplements, collagen powder and digital filters as substitutes. The question, however, is still open: are these advances a real scientific revolution or a marketing mirage? Maybe how did The Times the chronicler When leaving the spa, the eternal youth does exist, but it costs the same as thirty beers in an airport. And, above all, it is still a luxury with class, gender and power more visible gender than any wrinkle. Image | Freepik Xataka | Surgeons are facing a new challenge: patients who want to resemble their double created by AI

Spanish stadiums seek money desperately, and it is not by whim. 19 days of business a year are no longer enough

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The City has just signed the one who wants. The Al-Hilal has paid Neymar more than 100 million a year. Chelsea spends 300 million in a summer and nothing happens. And meanwhile, Real Madrid has to convert the Bernabéu into a shopping center with retractable grass to try to keep up. This is the story that nobody tells when he talks about Why are Spanish stadiums transforming into money 365 days a year. It is not so much innovation as survival. The problem began when the Premier League began to distribute 2,000 million a year only in television rights. Then the clubs arrived. The City, the PSG, the Newcastle. Then Arabia Saudi appeared offering contracts that make the gulf sheikhs look poor. Spanish clubs look at their income and make accounts. The last of the Premier enters more on television than the Liga room. Nottingham Forest can pay wages that Sevilla or Valencia cannot be allowed. And when they try to compete for a decent player, a Saudi club appears offering the triple. The solution? Squeeze the stadium to the last drop. Concerts, weddings, tours, restaurants, hamburger competitions, whatever. Because 19 League games a year no longer give to pay the squad of a half -table team. The Valencian metaphor The Roig Arena is about to open its doors and already has A long list of confirmed events. It will be the largest covered pavilion in Spain, with capacity for 18,600 people in concerts. Juan Roig, owner of Mercadona, has set 280 million pocket to make it come true. Six kilometers, on the other side of Valencia, is the skeleton of the Nou Mestalla. Abandoned for 16 yearsin an uncomfortable limbo for all – club, hobby, city, town hall – but it’s too late to reculate. The works have just resumed because there was no other. Among those six kilometers there is an uncomfortable reality: Roig Arena is going to eat the event market that Valencia CF needs desperately. The club expects the Nou Mestalla, when finished in 2027, it works 365 days a year to generate the income that allows you to survive. But by then, Roig’s pavilion will have already taken many of the concerts and large events that are not outdoor football. Roig’s play is brilliant: A multipurpose space that does not depend on signings, or qualify for Europe, or compete with petrodollars. It only needs people to want to see Taylor Swift, Bad Bunny OA who visits Valencia now that he will have an ideal place. And that fits wonderful with the culture of the event that prevails in this era. Meanwhile, Peter Lim has Valencia on the edge of the abyss, with a half -stadium to make when open will be late for the party. And there go the shots of this story. How Spanish football has discovered that the sports brick business does not work as before. And cases in Madrid and Barcelona Real Madrid had everything calculated. Great 1,347 million in the new Santiago Bernabéu was not a whim, it was a need to continue competing against City or PSG. The plan was brilliant: concerts all year, A 900 square meters StarbucksTours to 30 euros per head. Taylor Swift left 9 million in two nights. At that rate, you amortized the investment and you have to sign. But they did not pay enough attention to a detail. The neighbors. 95 decibels when the legal limit is 58. 24 complaints that did not see enough the club’s proposal to sound free home. 2.6 million in fines. Concerts suspended until further notice. The most expensive stadium in Europe cannot do its business because the houses are 30 meters. And without that extra income, how do you compete with petrodollars? Atlético tried to capture that value thanks to the fact that its stadium, the Metropolitan, is in the middle of nowhere compared to the central Bernabéu. And with it it started until The threats of complaints arrived. But for now he will shelter ten concerts by Bad Bunny, a million admitted by concert. Meanwhile, Barça is getting 1,450 million at Camp Nou after losing 100 million a year playing in Montjuïc. Is The perfect paradox: You need to spend money that you don’t have to generate money you need to compete with clubs that have infinite money. The plan is that the new stadium Generate 247 million annually. Not only football, of course. Of everything that can be monetized. Because with 19 League games it does not even arrive to pay the interests of the Goldman Sachs credit. The boom that everyone wants to hunt Spain He invoiced 725 million in live music in 2024. Third consecutive record. Fomo and social networks are gasoline. The clubs look at these figures and salivan. If they can stay with a piece of that cake, they can sign a decent side. Maybe. That’s why everyone looks at their stadiums thinking: how is more paste of these bricks? Betis is reforming Villamarín, not to give many concerts or host a shopping center, but for Give a hotel, a well -being center and a clinic. Athletic studies what to do with San Mamés while throwing very expensive entrances in exchange for a postin experience, talk with a player and manager included. Everyone has understood the message: or you find new sources of income or become the quarry of the Saudis. The stadiums of the future will not be football stadiums that also do other things. Will be multipurpose spaces where football is occasionally played. Juan Roig has understood it perfectly. That is why he builds pavilions, he does not buy soccer clubs. He could rescue Valencia CF – his brother has Villarreal and is managing it wonderfully – but that movement has not been given and already seems completely discarded. Another without running out presided over the club in the nineties and came out regular. The clubs that understood this in time may survive. 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It is no longer necessary to pay to transform our photos into what we want. The latest Google offers it for free for everyone

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Edit images has become routine: to surprise in networks, to Try a new style or to rescue old photographs They keep memories. In classic filter apps stores with bets for artificial intelligence. Many are paying, others pay below what was promised. Google can be about to change that balance And, this time, with a difficult argument to ignore. The novelty comes integrated into the app of Geminiboth on mobile and on web. According to Googleits engine, based on the latest Gemini models, not only generates from text: it also edits real photos with instructions in natural language and chained steps, from changing the background to replacing objects or merging two images into one. The company presents it as its highest quality image tool to date. The jump is not in new creations from scratch, but in the photos we already saved on the reel The focus is not so much to create posters from scratch and in Transform the everyday. Try a different haircut, carry a novel aesthetic, turn a selfie into a Gothic version or emo, add that backpack that you forgot in the shot, move to another landscape or combine two photos for a coherent composition. The promise is to maintain the recognizable features of the subject, a critical point in which Google claims to have improved against usual distortions. The experience is conversational. You upload a photo, write what you want and see the result; If you don’t convince, you ask for adjustments. Nothing to use traditional tools. Everything flows at a blow of textual requests. For the general user there are two keys. The first, availability: can be used in the Gemini app for iOS and Android and also in the web version. If you are creator or developer, the service appears on Google Ai Studio. The second, price: Free access to test and edit images without subscription. The same portrait, four different styles. The Gemini generator plays with color, texture and shape without leaving the app There are also limits. Although demonstrations teach convincing results, there are still scenarios that challenge any model: precise typefaces, very fine details or tiny faces in complex scenes. Fidelity to the original improves when concrete changes are requested, but not always right. The practice advises iterate, adjust and check the full size result. From neutral portrait to three different fashion decades. Gemini plays with aesthetics and time as if they were filters In security, Google insists on the safeguards. The images generated They incorporate visible water brand and a mark embedded by techniques such as Synthid to indicate its origin with Ia. They are measures aimed at stopping an obvious risk: the more realistic these tools are, the easier it will be to manufacture deception. Skater, two miller or classic. Gemini’s generator makes a common photo a parade of personalities The interesting thing about Gemini is how natural it is to try styles without touching a complicated editor. You can ask for “Make me Y2K version” and see how the selfie is transformed with silver chains and two milea fashion prints. Or write “convert this photo into look skater” to make caps, wide sweatshirts and that aesthetics of urban park. The same portrait can also become elegant with a “beam that this photo is preppy”, keeping your features but completely changing the air of the scene. The before and after the same image: Google’s AI repairs, color and rescue (or invents) the lost details Those who want to restore the family album, the option to recover old photosincluding collecting in a single instruction, provides utility and emotion. For creators, the possibility of mixing images, conserving faces and repeating styles offers a powerful advantage. The edition with AI moves to the day -to -day layer, and Google does not arrive alone. Competes with other proposals, such as Chatgpt, Grok, Midjourney, Qwen and even adobe. The good news is for users, which we have more and more options at our disposal to achieve our editing goals, and in a way, give free rein to our creativity. Images | Google In Xataka | Deepseek put China on the AI ​​map. The danger is that this revolution stays in a day flower

Deepseek has suggested that Nvidia chips no longer needs. We believe to know who is buying them

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Deepseek shook at the beginning of 2025 the foundations of the industry of the artificial intelligence (AI). This Chinese model developed by the specialized quantitative coverage fund trading High-Flyer algorithmic monopolized all the attention because He gave us free of charge an AI with a quality similar to the comparable solutions of Openai or Google. However, this was not all. And it is that for three weeks the debate about the hardware used by this company to train its model. High-Flyer, who specializes in addressing investment decisions using advanced mathematical models and computational algorithms, says he trained Deepseek R1 using 2,048 chips H800 of Nvidia. Several analysts They soon react ensuring that he had actually used 50,000 GPU H100which are more powerful, bought through intermediaries. The sanctions of the US government prevent Nvidia According to SCMPDeepseek’s next iteration will dispense with the GPUs of this American company. High-Flyer has suggested that everything you need already finds it in China Last week those responsible for the Deepseek development published on the Wechat platform an entry in which they hinted that next generation GPUs for China They will launch soon. This comment has unleashed endless speculation about the name of the Chinese company that is going to make this announcement, but, above all, it has put on the table the possibility that High-Flyer is preparing the following Deepseek iteration using these chips. A priori does not seem at all crazy. According to SCMP The five GPU designers for the Chinese who have the ability to deliver to High-Flyer the hardware they need are Huawei Technologies, Cambricon Technologies, Moore Threads, Hygon Information Technology and Metax Integrated Circi. Any of them could be responsible for the announcement anticipated by Deepseek developers in Wechat, but we We bet on the first three Because, in our opinion, they are Those who are “in a better way”. Cambricon Technologies is one of the companies specialized in the design of GPU for AI with greater growth potential Although it is not as well known as Huawei or Moore Threads, Cambricon Technologies is one of the companies specialized in the design of GPU for AI with greater growth potential. In fact, he has received the approval of the Shanghai bag (China) to raise 560 million dollars. Will allocate them to the design of four chips for training and inference of AI models, and also to the development of an alternative to CUDAfrom Nvidia. On the other hand, Moore Threads He has developed several GPU for AI applications that, on paper, rivaize some of the advanced solutions that have placed in the Nvidia, AMD or Huawei market. MTT S4000 and MTT S3000 cards They are its most interesting proposals right now, although, curiously, in its porpholio the MTT S80 card also appears, a proposal for games and content creation that, according to Moore Threads itself, has a calculation capacity of 14.4 Tflops in single -precision floating coma operations. The other indispensable actor in the Chinese chips industry for IA is Huawei. His most ambitious proposal right now is the chip Ascend 910dwho seeks to overcome the performance of the GPU NVIDIA H100. However, this Chinese company has also recently presented its chip Ascend 920a solution that is clearly destined to occupy in the Chinese market the gaps that the NVIDIA H20 GPU is going to leave. This proposal will enter large -scale production during the second half of 2025 using 6 NM integration technology that have presumably developed elbow with Huawei elbow and SMIC (Semiconductor manufacturing international corp). More information | SCMP In Xataka | Nvidia has to deal with the absolute distrust of several US legislators. His plan in China is in danger In Xataka | The US wants to end the chips for the Chinese that are sold abroad. And China knows how to defend oneself

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