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We have been searching for dark matter for 90 years. Now a Japanese man believes he has found his “fingerprint”

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Since Fritz Zwicky suggested the existence of dark matter in 1933, the reality is that it has been one of the great ghosts of modern physics, generating many debates about its existence. The little we know indicates that this matter is there because we see how its gravity pushes galaxiesbut we have never been able to see it or touch it. It is invisible. Or at least, that’s what we believed until now. And to ‘see’ this matter you have to be a true superhero, since it does not emit, absorb or reflect light. Something that makes it completely invisible to telescopes around the world. But it is not something that is a small part of what surrounds us, but which makes up 85% of the total matter in the universe. But now there is hope to have more information about this great mystery of physics thanks to a study Professor Tomonori Totani of the University of Tokyo claims to have found the first direct evidence of this elusive substance. He has not seen it directly with his own eyes, but he has detected the “smoke” of his gun: a very specific gamma ray signal emanating from the halo of our own Milky Way and that eerily coincides with theoretical predictions of how dark matter behaves. A large amount of data. To understand the discovery, you have to look at the sky with gamma ray eyes. Totani has used a total of 15 years of data accumulated by NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope (LAT). But the important thing was undoubtedly knowing where to look: in the galactic halo. That is, the ‘quiet’ outskirts of the Milky Way, excluding the galactic disk to avoid interference. What he found when cleaning the background noise was surprising: an excess of gamma rays with a very specific energy peak, located at 20 billion electron volts (20 GeV). The importance. So far so good, but… Why is it important? Basically, because it doesn’t fit what we would expect from normal astrophysical sources, like pulsars or supernova remnants. However, it fits like a glove for the WIMP theory. This is a theory that basically suggests that dark matter It is made up of WIMPs (Weakly Interacting Massive Particles). According to physical models, when two of these particles collide, they annihilate each other, releasing a cascade of energy in the form of gamma rays that would be detected in the universe now. And that is their conclusion: the detected signal is compatible with WIMP particles that have a mass of 500 times that of a proton. This would, therefore, be the fingerprint that gives the most information about dark matter, although it does not stop there. The shape is not a point on the map, but a soft, spherical halo that surrounds the galaxy, just as dark matter is distributed in the cosmological simulations that physics has made. The same goes for consistency, since the signal persists even when different background models are used and other known sources of noise in the universe are removed. There are precedents. This isn’t the first time someone has yelled “Eureka!” In the past, excess gamma rays have been detected at the Galactic Center (known as GCE), but the scientific community has tended to think that this signal comes from undetected millisecond pulsars, rather than dark matter. The key to Totani’s study is that he has looked where no one was looking in such detail. By moving away from the center and analyzing the diffuse halo, it is where he has found a much cleaner signal that does not invite so many doubts about its origin. There are still doubts. The study itself admits that the calculated cross section (the probability of interaction) is higher than the upper levels established by the observation of dwarf galaxies, which are often used as scale for dark matter. This means two things: either our models of the density of dark matter in the Milky Way are incorrect (which is possible, since there is a lot of uncertainty in the profile of the halo), or we are looking at a new and unknown astrophysical phenomenon that mimics dark matter. A great mystery. If this finding is confirmed, we would be facing one of the greatest discoveries in physics of the 21st century. It would confirm that dark matter is composed of particles that we can detect (and not primordial black holes) and open a new door for physics. go beyond the standard model. But as we say, this still needs to be verified by a second laboratory such as the Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory (CTAO) that may have the ability to detect these gamma ray spectral lines. Image | A. Schaller (STScI) In Xataka | Exactly 100 years ago we began to understand how the world works. Quantum physics has radically changed our lives

An Italian man did not want to be left without his elderly deceased mother’s pension. So he started dressing up as her.

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To the civil registry official the alerts they jumped him quickly. The person in front of me claimed to be an 85-year-old woman, but if you looked closely you detected certain details that didn’t fit. His voice, for example. It was too serious and from time to time it seemed to go down several tones. Lugo had the skin on her neck and hands, thick, smooth, very different from what one would expect to see on an almost nonagenarian woman. More than an old woman, he looked like a man in disguise. The civil registry official was quickly alerted. So much so that he ended up notifying the police. And in doing so he uncovered a delusional scam that has cost Italy tens of thousands of euros and now has the country fascinated. A lot of money, few scruples. That the imagination is sharpened when there are bills involved is nothing new. Just as it is not true that there are unscrupulous people willing to do all kinds of nonsense to pocket money that does not belong to them. Last year we told you the story of a Brazilian woman who appeared at a bank in Rio de Janeiro accompanied by the corpse of a man (supposedly “Uncle Paco”) to withdraw 3,000 euros in her name. That case went around the world, but it is not much more bizarre than another that just aired in Italy. As happened in Brazil, there is a corpse and an attempted scam involved, although in this case the staging has been somewhat different. The reason? The alleged criminal did not take the dead man with him, but instead disguised himself as him to impersonate him before the city council. The problem is that the alleged scammer was a 56-year-old man and the person his mother wanted to impersonate was a woman in her 90s. Click on the image to go to the tweet. Who are you? The case has told it in detail the diary Corriere della Sera. A few days ago, an employee of the civil registry in the town of Borgo Virgilia, in Mantua (Italy) found that a neighbor wanted to renew her expired ID. So far nothing out of the ordinary. The woman showed up by appointment and her papers were in order, but upon seeing her the official became suspicious. The woman walked at a slow pace, wearing a skirt, jewelry, painted nails, and an exquisite layer of makeup that apparently tried to hide her wrinkles. In theory he was 85 years old. Or at least that’s what his license said. Her neck, however, was robust, her wrinkles were strange, and her hands had little to do with those of a frail, almost nonagenarian old woman. Not only that. Although she spoke like an older woman, from time to time her tone seemed to drift into deeper registers, registers more typical of an adult man, between 50 and 60 years old. “Isolated from the rest of the world”. The mayor of Borgo Virgilia, Francesco Aporti, explains that this accumulation of details made the employee suspicious, who ended up alerting her bosses and the police. The first alert was raised when reviewing the security cameras and verifying that the supposed octogenarian had arrived at the wheel of a car, something strange considering that it did not appear that she had a driving license. A more exhaustive search also revealed that the elderly woman had not been to the doctor or visited specialists for some time. Neither her nor her son. “It was as if they were isolated from the rest of the world,” says Aporti. There were signed documents and deeds of sale, but either they had been handled directly by his son as attorney-in-fact or they showed a signature that did not seem completely authentic. And the cake was revealed. With all these indications, the authorities decided to set a trap for him. They called the old woman’s house to inform her that she had to return to the registry to complete her paperwork. They were not able to speak with her, but they did speak with her son, a 58-year-old man who assured them that he would notify his mother. Shortly after, the woman went to the town hall, wearing makeup, a skirt and jewelry. On that occasion, however, she did not meet the official who issues ID cards, but rather a police officer who accompanied her to the police station. There the cake was revealed: during the interrogation, the supposed old woman recognized that he was actually her son, an almost 60-year-old nurse who was impersonating her. A corpse in the closet. The next question is obvious: Why? To find out, the agents inspected the house where the old woman supposedly lived, where they found her mummified body in a closet. The woman in question was called Graziella Dall’Oglio and everything indicates that died in 2022 at 82 years old. Instead of notifying the death, the only child decided to keep it a secret, keep his mother’s body at home and continue collecting the pension religiously. According to precise CorriereThanks to that income and the properties his family had, he managed to pocket around 53,000 euros a year. “There were no known relatives. The woman’s husband, a doctor, had died, and the 58-year-old man was her only son. He worked as a nurse, but was unemployed. The last time the old woman was seen at City Hall was ten years ago, when she came to renew her old identity document,” explains the mayor of the town, who confirms that the police are investigating to clarify two points. First, confirm that the body they found in the closet is indeed Graziella’s. Second, that he died of natural causes. A strange case? Strange yes. Uncommon, not so much. Although in this case the protagonist’s lack of scruples and daring stands out. it’s not the first time that the Italian press talks about people who hide the death of a … Read more

A man found a wallet with more than 800 euros and took it to the police. Now they are yours thanks to a law from 1889

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Tea you find a wallet lying in a train car and there is no one around who could have fallen. Inside, more than 800 euros in cash. This is what happened to Carmen, a resident of Pamplona, ​​two years ago. In an act of honesty, the woman took the wallet to the National Police. Two years later, he can say that being honest has a reward. At least if you wait long enough. what has happened. They tell it in the Navarra Newspaper. In November 2023, Carmen took a train and in one of the cars she found a wallet full of tickets. It belonged to a Turkish citizen and, in addition to the documentation and credit cards, it contained 817.96 euros in cash. He handed over the wallet and all its contents to a National Police station, the same one where two years later they gave him all the money because no one had claimed it. ANDs law. The Civil Code, published in 1889, regulates what should be done with lost objects. Specifically, article 615 It is what indicates how to proceed when an object is found. The first thing is to return it to its owner and, if the owner is not known, it must be handed over to the authorities, who must try to locate the owner and guard the object. If two years pass since the discovery and no one has claimed it, the object will be given to whoever found it. Foresighted. When she handed the wallet to the Police, Carmen was informed of this legislation and decided that, in addition to being honest, she was also going to be farsighted. An alarm was set on his cell phone so that he would not forget and, two years later, he returned to the police station, where they handed him the 817.96 euros that no one had claimed. It is not the first case in which honesty ends up being rewarded. In 2024, two residents of Almassora received 600 euros that they had found lying in the middle of the street. Misappropriation. Many people would probably have kept the money and returned only the wallet. In this case, it would be a crime of misappropriation which, depending on the value, may be subject to a fine of three to six months. In the event that the object found had “artistic, historical, scientific or cultural value” it could result in a prison sentence of six months to two years. Image | Catalin Cardei, Pexels In Xataka | The “son in distress” scam had been wreaking havoc throughout Spain for years. The police are finally breaking it up

This is how the “impossible” photo of the man falling into the Sun was made

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It seems like a montage, but it is so real that it has gone around the world just when AI was making surreal images stop impressing us. Andrew McCarthy’s “The Fall of Icarus” has shown that there are still ways to outdo the machine with technical precision and months of planning. Logistical madness. In the photo, a backlit silhouette appears to have launched itself in free fall over the Sun. It is the skydiver Gabriel C. Brown transiting in front of a particularly active solar disk. On the other side of the telescope, the famous astrophotographer Andrew McCarthywhich had begun planning the capture at the beginning of the year. It is, quite possibly, the first photo of this type, since the list of variables to control was insane. They needed the optimal sun angle, a safe height for Brown to launch from, and a perfectly calculated glide path between the sun and the camera. Three-way communication. It was 9 in the morning in the Arizona desert. McCarthy had his telescopes ready and was in constant communication with both Gabriel Brown, the skydiver, and Jim Hamberlin, the pilot of the paramotor from which he would launch. McCarthy followed the aircraft with his telescope and, once it was aligned with the Sun, gave the order. “Okay, I’ll see you,” he said over the radio. “Jump, jump, jump!” Brown jumped at about 1,070 meters above sea level with the engine idling to ensure a perfect angle. “I got it, man!” he heard him say on the radio. The sixth time was the charm. McCarthy told Live Science that the biggest challenge had been finding the paramotor in the sky. Although it was about 2.4 km from its position, the point of the shot was to capture in detail the Sun, which was 50 million times the same distance. It took the team six attempts to correctly align the aircraft with the photographer’s position on the ground. When push came to shove, they could only make one jump, as folding the parachute for a second attempt would have taken too long. Is it really not a setup? It is not, and the secret is in the telescope. As explained PetaPixelcarried a hydrogen-alpha filter to block all sunlight except for a very specific red wavelength that emits incandescent hydrogen. This is how those infernal images of the solar chromosphere are taken: the layer of active “fire” on the surface of the Sun, with its filaments and protuberances especially visible during times of greater solar activity. It is not very different from how other photos of rockets and space stations passing in front of the Sun are taken, but with extra planning and audacity so that the protagonist of the image is, for the first time, a tiny person. Images | Andrew McCarthy In Xataka | We are used to seeing the Perseids looking up. This is what they look like from space, looking down

In 2015, a man found a rock and kept it thinking it had gold. Ten years later he discovered his true value

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Imagine that one day, while searching for precious metals with a metal detector, you come across a strange reddish rock. You immediately think that it may be hiding gold, so you don’t hesitate to take it home. After numerous attempts to pierce it and discover what’s inside, you give up. It is a practically invulnerable rock, at least with everyday tools, such as grinders. This is what we just described This is what happened to David Hole.an Australian who used to explore Maryborough Regional Park with his detecting equipment in search of precious metals. And yes, he found the rock and tried to open it without success. In the end it turned out to be something much more valuable than any precious metal: a celestial body that had probably traveled to our planet from Mars or Jupiter, in other words, a meteorite. The Maryborough Meteorite The cosmic rock was discovered by Hole in 2015, although the man did not know what it was until 2018. Three years after its discovery he decided to take it to the Victoria Museum of his country in search of answers. Geologists Bill Birch and Dermot Henry They immediately suspected that it was a meteorite. And this was actually a surprise since most of the “meteorites” that people bring to the museum are not actually meteorites. The specialists had a peculiar piece measuring 38.5 cm x 14.5 cm x 14.5 cm. The next step was to photograph it and do a thorough analysis that consisted of making a small cut in order to analyze its composition. After analysis, it was confirmed that it was a meteorite with a high percentage of iron, that is, an ordinary H5 chondrite meteorite, which suggests that its formation could have occurred in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. The origin of the Maryborough Meteorite, it should be noted, is a hypothesis, as researchers do not know exactly where it came from or when it may have impacted Earth. However, radiocarbon dating indicates that the rock has remained on Earth between 100 and 1,000 yearsalthough it is believed that it could have crossed our atmosphere in a period of time between 1889 and 1951, that is, in a recent period. If we talk about the value of the meteorite compared to gold, it is difficult to establish a comparative framework, but the museum points out that this is much more valuable. They say that finding gold on Australian soil is more common than finding a meteorite of these characteristics. “This is only the 17th meteorite found in Victoria,” they point out, adding that they are important scientific elements that “take us back in time” to study our Solar System. Certainly, meteorites contain valuable information about the formation of elements in the universe and give us a unique opportunity to study them closely to analyze their characteristics and chemical composition. A different type of research, but complementary, to the missions that are driven towards space, such as that of James Webb Space Telescope u the ambitious OSIRIS-REx. Images | Museums Victoria In Xataka | Who or what excavated the ravines on Mars? The answer is even stranger than we always thought In Xataka | There is already speculation even with Martian soil: the largest piece of Mars on Earth has just been sold for 5.3 million dollars

Marcus Licinius Crassus was the richest man in the Roman Empire thanks to an old business: real estate speculation

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Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg and Larry Ellison are the richest people in the world. Your personal assets It exceeds the annual GDP of many countries, which gives an idea of ​​the size of their wealth. However, that proportion of wealth is not exclusive to modern fortunes. Marcus Licinius Crassus was one of the richest men of the Roman Empire and his fortune was estimated to be equivalent to the entire annual budget of the Roman treasury. The most curious thing about the history of this Roman millionaire is that the way in which he amassed his fortune would not be out of place in Spain in the 20th or 21st century. Millionaire on father’s side The historian Plutarch was responsible for recording the life and work of Crassus in different chapters of ‘Parallel lives‘. Thanks to this work we know that Crassus amassed one of the most formidable fortunes in Ancient Rome. Marcus Licinius Crassus was born around the year 115 BC in Rome, into the Licinia gens, a family of plebeians with roots in the early days of the Roman Republic, so, although they did not enjoy a great fortune, let’s say that their economic situation was comfortable. His family had already held important consulates during the Republic, so they had a certain presence in Roman political life. His father, Publius Licinius Crassuswas consul in 97 BC, but during the civil war between the supporters of Gaius Marius and Lucius Cornelius Sulla (which took place between 88 and 82 BC), his father and brother were killed in those clashes, and the family lost their property. Bust of Marcus Licinius Crassus After the death of his family, Crassus inherited a small fortune, but had to flee to Hispania, where he hid for months. Later, he joined the side of the general and dictator Lucius Cornelius Sulla, a Roman general and dictator who defeated his rival Gaius Marius and ruled Rome from around 82 BC. Sulla supervised the entry of Marcus Crassus into the Senate and thus opened a way for Crassus to start building your wealth from a position of power and began to be known as Dives“the rich one.” According to his biographer Plutarch, Crassus began his political career with a fortune of 300 talents. According to the inventory of his fortune on the eve of his last campaign, his fortune reached 7,100 talents. Real estate speculation is not a modern invention The basis of Crassus’s extraordinary wealth was the massive purchase of property confiscated from political enemies during Sulla’s rule. When Lucius Cornelius Sulla took control of Rome, those who opposed him lost their properties, and these were sold at very low prices. Crassus bought almost all of them for prices well below the market price. In Rome it was common for the insulaebuildings built of wood and cement crowded together on several floors, they would burn to make fire inside, and it would jump from building to building burning entire neighborhoods. Remains of a Roman insulae As his fortune grew, Marcus Crassus bought more and more slaves that he would use to make his fortune grow even more, forming a small army of more than 500 highly qualified slaves such as architects, bricklayers, carpenters, etc. The Roman millionaire, aware that the fires of the insulae They used to extend to several buildings, he created a brigade of slaves who acted as firefighters and, it was rumored, also arsonists. As and how did he count The CountryCrassus arrived at the fires and offered the owners of the burning buildings and their neighbors ridiculous amounts of money for the property. Faced with the imminence of being left with nothing left over from the flames or having it collapse, they could at least recover part of their investment, so many accepted the sale. Only at that moment, his army of slaves went into action and put out the fire. Afterwards, the rest of the slave architects and builders restored the building, and then resold it, making an enormous profit from its sale because, after all, slave labor was free. As and how do they count In National Geographic, his slaves were even more valuable than the silver mines and land he also owned. According to Plutarch’s story, this strategy helped the skillful negotiator Crassus to gain a good part of the insulae from Rome. Plutarch said that Crassus always built for speculation, never for his own enjoyment. Crassus’ excessive ambition led him to negotiate with Julius Caesar and Pompey the creation of the First Triumvirate, although in reality Crassus’ aspirations were more about obtaining the granting of public contracts and perks for his businesses than the good government of Rome. In fact, hated Pompey. His downfall: exchanging ambition for envy However, as his fortune and political position increased, Crassus yearned for more than wealth. He sought military glory. In 72 BC he received command to end the slave rebellion led by Spartacuswhich had the support of an army made up of between 70,000 and 120,000 slaves who rose up. Marcus Crassus managed to defeat a large part of the rebels and crucified 6,000 slaves along 200 km of the Appian Way as punishment and warning to the rest of the rebels. However, many of them managed to escape, and it was his hated political partner Pompey who managed to hunt them down, putting an end to all the work that Crassus had done. By giving the final blow to the revolt, Pompey took all the credit for the victory, being received in Rome with all the honors of the laurel crown, while Crassus had to settle for a discreet owatta minor recognition. Orodes II, king of the Parthians Crassus did not give up in his attempt to demonstrate his superiority against Pompey and tried to expand his conquests and fortune by facing Pompey. to births in Syriabut his defeat in the Battle of Carras (53 BC) was catastrophic on a strategic level. There he died along with … Read more

A single man wrote a quarter of the entire Encyclopedia

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Write It requires, above all, patience and perseverance. Facing a blank page or screen is, on many occasions, a fight against physical and mental fatigueand many give up before their time. So when it comes to writing “a lot,” in large amounts and lengths of time, the list shrinks. There are notable cases, like Dickensone of the most prolific authors of the 19th century, or Asimovwith more than 500 books and thousands of letters. However, none like the story of the man who wrote much of the encyclopedia alone. Louis de Jaucourt. Born in Paris in 1704 into a Protestant noble family, from a young age, Jaucourt demonstrated a deep inclination for knowledgewhich led him to study theology in Geneva, physics and mathematics in Cambridge, and medicine in Leyden. In addition to mastering five modern languages, he also had advanced knowledge of Latin, Greek and numerous disciplines, from literature to the exact sciences, a reflection of the encyclopedic spirit of the Enlightenment in which he lived. However, if he will be remembered for something in history, it is for his contribution to knowledge with a titanic work that was beginning to take shape among the French elites: the Encyclopédie. First came the Enlightenment. We are talking about one of the most ambitious intellectual projects of the 18th century, one created at a very special moment of cultural and philosophical effervescence in Europe, known as the Enlightenment. At that time, the aim was to free knowledge from the restrictions imposed by religion and absolutist monarchy, promoting the use of reason as a way to understand the world and improve society. In France, particularly, this intellectual impulse gained great strength, facing the authoritarianism of the monarchy of Louis XV and the influence of the clergy, who saw enlightened ideas as a threat to their power. In this context, intellectuals such as Voltaire, Rousseau and Montesquieu challenged traditional beliefs and promoted critical thinking what was going to lead to the foundations of the Encyclopédie. Creation and development. Also known as Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, the megaproject began in 1751 under the direction of Denis Diderot and Jean le Rond d’Alembert, always with the aim of compiling all human knowledge in an accessible work. Inspired by the Cyclopaedia of Ephraim Chambersthe Encyclopédie was initially planned as a simple translation, but it soon evolved into an original and much more ambitious project. Throughout its 35 volumes, The work compiled more than 70,000 articles and 3,000 illustrationsranging from natural sciences and arts to philosophy and artisanal techniques (a novelty at its time). The work of Diderot and d’Alembert was supported by 146 collaborators, including prominent Enlightenment thinkers, who worked on the compilation and review of articles in various disciplines. And above all, a man: Jaucourt. A quarter. Louis de Jaucourtfervent contributor to the Encyclopédie, contributed no less than 17,200 articlesaround a quarter of the Encyclopedia’s total, and he did so, very importantly, writing up to eight a day without receiving any financial compensation. With extensive training and full of resources, the man dedicated much of his life to the project, even selling properties to finance it. In addition, he wrote about everything, covering topics such as democracy, freedom, equality and science. Jaucourt’s dedication was such that Diderot affectionately dubbed him the “slave of the Encyclopédie,” given his commitment to the work, in which he invested decades and much of his assets. A single man, in short, who helped expand the scope of the work and guarantee its success. Extra ball. A fact to place the titanic work of man in context. Before the Encyclopedia, he dedicated 20 years of his life to writing a gigantic work, the medical treatisein six volumes (and in Latin). After two decades of work, he traveled to Amsterdam to escape French censorship for printing. Bad luck meant that the ship sank with the complete work, the only copy it had. A tragic event that seems to have left him wanting more. The legacy. The Encyclopédie was a revolutionary work that, in addition to disseminating knowledge, promoted equal and accessible education. His most notable contribution was the inclusive approach to knowledge, encompassing both academic topics and practical knowledge, and reflecting the spirit of the Enlightenment by erasing the barriers between elitist knowledge and applied or “useful” knowledge. This approach inspired future encyclopedic works and left a deep mark on modern philosophy and education. The Encyclopédie also encouraged the questioning of absolute power and intellectual emancipation, and is considered one of the fundamental pillars of Enlightenment thought, influencing later movements. like the french revolution. In short, an entire political and social manifesto that challenged the structures of power and religion of that time, and that had in a single man the ability to bring together a quarter of the knowledge of humanity. That on top of that he did it by living modestly and selling part of his assets makes it even more extraordinary. Image | PXHere In Xataka | A library in Ireland kept a 134-year-old treasure: Bram Stoker’s lost tale before Dracula In Xataka | We have discovered the most important medieval songbook of the century. It was lost in the archive of the Barcelona Cathedral

A man had access to the Government’s nuclear secrets. Until he uploaded thousands of porn photos to his work computer

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Using your work computer for personal things is a delicate area that can be reason for dismissal. This worker from the US Department of Energy has discovered it by force after uploading hundreds of thousands of pornographic images on his company computer. What has happened? They tell it in 404Medium. In March 2023, the employee wanted to back up his photo collection. He thought he was uploading the images to his personal hard drive, but it was connected to his work computer and he ended up making the copy where it wasn’t. The problem is that it was not a normal collection of photos, but more than 187,000 pornographic images that he had been collecting over several decades. Although he did not lose his job, his mistake has had consequences and the main one is that he has lost his security clearance. To train AI. The employee defended himself by arguing that this happened during a depressive episode in which he felt “extremely isolated and alone.” One of his distractions at this stage was creating images with AI, specifically “robotic porn.” At first he used his cell phone, but tired of using such a small screen, he thought it was a good idea to upload all his pornographic images to the computer to train the AI. The problem is that he did not upload them to his hard drive, but rather they ended up on the network of a government company. Goodbye accreditation. The employee did not realize his mistake until six months later. It was the time it took his bosses to investigate the origin of that enormous amount of porn photos flooding their servers. The result was that his security clearance was withdrawn. The Department of Energy is the in charge of supervising the US nuclear arsenalso we are talking about access to very sensitive information. The worker appealed to get it back, but after an exhaustive investigation, they decided not to return it. If he had not appealed, the story would not have been made public. My boss spies on me. It is one of the reasons that the man presented in his appeal, which compared the investigation to “the Spanish Inquisition.” What does the law say about this? According to expertsAlthough they let us use it for personal things, we should not expect to have privacy on a company-owned computer. Some companies even pre-install software to measure the time employees work. Control programs. Can they force you to install one of these programs? A few years ago we talked about installing software to control the work of remote employees and Joaquín Muñoz, an expert lawyer in digital law, resolved our doubt: the company cannot force us to install a program of this type if the computer we use to work is ours, but if it belongs to the company they can do so. Of course, they are obliged to report in detail about all the functions of said software. Image | Gemini In Xataka | “These are things that a university student would get in trouble for”: Deloitte scammed Australia with a report made with AI

A Norwegian man wanted a Lamborghini Aventado but he was not a millionaire. So one was made with Ikea parts

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Steinar Thyhold, a 57-year-old Norwegian, he is not a millionaire. However, that has not prevented fulfill your dream of having a “Lamborghini” in his garage. The most striking thing is that he has not achieved it with your life savings. It has achieved this in a much more impressive way: it has built your own Lamborghini Aventador at home and from scratch, recycling some parts from other cars and buying others in places as unexpected as Ikea. There’s nothing like a homemade Lamborghini According to published the Norwegian middle NRKThyhold took seven years to build his homemade supercar and put in more than 7,000 hours of work to create this fully functional replica of the Lamborghini Aventador that he has even driven on the open road. Far from the 400,000 euros that a original aventador At the dealership, the Norwegian “only” spent almost a million Norwegian crowns, which is equivalent to about 97,357 euros at the exchange rate. The whole process began in the garage of his home in Malvik (Norway), where he first manufactured a wooden chassis as a base and then built a tubular steel one. For the engine he chose a BMW block M73, a 5.4-liter, 326-horsepower V12, which he took from a third-generation BMW 750i E38. Choosing this engine was no coincidence. Thyhold wanted to maintain the spirit of the Aventador, which carries a V12 engineand that is why he opted for this second-hand German engine. The search for parts for his supercar forced Thyhold to travel halfway around the world. He bought the engine in Germany, but he also had to look for parts in Bulgaria, Thailand, the US and even Mexico. A “Frankenstein” on wheels As a good home project, the Aventador replica It is built by joining and adapting parts from different manufacturers. The Tiptronic sequential gearbox was taken from a Audi A8the window regulator is from a Volvo V70 and the different moldings of various Volkswagen models. In reality, from Lamborghini, it only has two original parts: the headlights and the windshield. According to published Business Insiderthese were the most expensive pieces of the project. The most curious thing of all is that to build the exhaust system for his homemade Aventador, the ingenious Norwegian turned to an unexpected supplier: Ikea. “The exhaust system was a challenge and, among other things, the pipes had to be covered. To achieve this, I bought a sink at Ikea and another at a second-hand store in Stjørdal. I screwed them together and installed them over all the pipes,” Thyholdt told NRK. Tap on the photo to go to the original message The dimensions of the car almost perfectly replicate those of the original model: it measures 4.8 meters long, 2.36 meters wide and 1.13 meters high. Although it has not revealed the final power, it is known that its BMW engine delivers more than 326 horsepower, since it included an ECU (Engine Control Unit) to improve performance. Despite being a completely homemade replica and artisanalThyhold’s Lamborghini can legally ride on the roads of the country since it complies with Norwegian regulations for amateur built vehicles and has been approved and registered. The authorities of the Public Highway Administration have visited his garage on several occasions to check the work, granting official approval to his project. Thyhold has shared its creation step by step through your Instagram profileto which he has added the description “Do it yourself”. For obvious legal reasons, Thyhold’s supercar couldn’t sport the Fighting Bull badge, so the Norwegian baptized his replica “Stethy”, a name he even silk-screened on the BMW engine. Steinar Thyhold’s work has been so methodical and precise that it has generated admiration among others Lamborghini enthusiasts. Harald Skjøldt, president of Lamborghini Klubb Norge in Norway, and owner of several supercars from Sant’Agata Bolognesepraised Thyhold’s retort. “I am very impressed with the work he has done. The Lamborghini is a very advanced supercar, so it is not an easy task.” The president of the Norwegian club expressed deep respect for Thyhold and his initiative and invited him to participate in the events organized by his club to roll with them as if it were one morealthough in reality he is the only one who can boast of having built his own Lamborghini. In Xataka | Lamborghini will only manufacture 29 units of its latest supercar but don’t be in a hurry: they were already sold before being presented Image | Wikimedia Commons (via.tt.se) Lamborghini

In 1896 a man decided to lead to the reckless speed of 13 km/h. And received the first fine in history

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Speed ​​fines in Spain vary from 100 at 600 euros. The table in which the economic amount is collected also serves if the driver will also be punished with the subtraction of driving card points. In the best case, the sanction It does not entail the subtraction of points, while in the worst you can detract a maximum of six. All this information can be consulted in your own DGT website or in the Traffic LawMotor vehicles and road safety. And it is useful, according to data from Associated European motoriststwo out of three fines that are imposed in Spain are motivated by speeding. But although speeding fines look like something modern, what is necessary to invest most sophisticated media To register the infraction and judicially demonstrate the breakdown of the norms, its history begins before The first car in Spain will enroll. The first fine of history for speeding Fines for committing some kind of Flying infraction They have a lot of history. Some suggest that the first punishment related to a traffic infraction was recorded in Egypt more than 2,800 years ago, after a drunk driver run over a girl and collided with a statue. However, the basis of this information is, at least, doubtful. But what is a general consensus is in the registration of the first penalty for speeding. In fact, those responsible for Guinness Record They make it record as the early infraction of this type. And they put date: January 28, 1896. The fine also has a name, surname and place of origin. Specifically, the offender was Walter Arnold who in the United Kingdom, and fully aware of what was played, promoted one of the first cars built by Karl Benz until the devilish speed of 13 km/h. Arnold exceeded the streets of Paddock Wood at full speed, in Kent Count “Horses without horses”. Arnold had broken four rules in a single moment: Drive a car without horses along a public street Drive a car without horses without the intervention of three people Do not show the name and direction of the vehicle Quadruplica the maximum permitted speed Yes, according to the fine, Arnold was traveling at a speed of 8 mph (about 13 km/h) when the maximum allowed limit was 2 mph. Of the means to calculate this speed, nothing is said. What we do know is that the result was immediate. Put before Justice, Arnold was convicted of each and every one of the accusations that were awarded. What Arnold had in mind is that the payment of 4.7 pounds were just an investment. With his stumbling he showed that the speed limits were completely outdated for those Combustion vehicles And, therefore, shortly after the speed limit was extended to reasonable 14 mph (just over 22 km/h). But this was not here. Arnold, in addition, was known for its handling of vehicles. He got the license to sell in the United Kingdom the vehicles of Karl Benz slightly modified with a local production under the name of Arnold Motor Carriage. A car with which he managed to win in the first race of emancipation in it was linked to London with Brighton (separated by 87 kilometers) and served to multiply car sales. The first fine was, in short, a marketing trick. In Xataka | The Mercedes T80, the car mounted on the engine of a hunt with which Hitler wanted to reach 750 km/h Photo | Clare Black and Knowledge of London

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