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Spain has won the World Cup. Good luck finding the exact video of that moment you want to see again.

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Spain is world champion again. And one of the questions that struck me this morning was how complicated it is, paradoxically, to find specific moments from this 2026 World Cup as opposed to how easy it is to locate those from the 2010 World Cup. It is a question that has nothing to do with the scoreboard but with how the Internet has evolved. In 16 years… will it be as easy to find the moments of 2026 as it is now to find those of 2010? The panoramic. In 2010, YouTube was the home of online video. Any recording of the South Africa final, made with TV or mobile cameras, ended up uploaded there, indexed on a platform designed to locate specific videos, with title and date. In 2026 that exercise is more difficult, and that difficulty is going to get worse. The video no longer lives in one place, now it also lives on TikTok, on Instagram, in private accounts, in stories that disappear after 24 hours, in whatsapp groups that never reach the search engine. Why is it important. We assume that we record and share more than ever, so we assume that everything is archived somewhere. It’s not like that. A fan records the goal from the stands with his cell phone, uploads it to TikTokgoes viral, a TV cuts it out for its news citing the source… and there the trail ends. That video may never make it to YouTube. The account that uploaded it may be private. It may not be easy to locate later using the TikTok search engine. And there may never be a record of that shot anywhere else. Between the lines. All platforms have become video platforms, but each one has a different purpose and editorial line, and that makes finding something specific a more complex task. Or impossible. It is a phenomenon similar to what has happened with text search, although for different reasons: content and communities have been divided into fragments that do not communicate with each other. The rise of newsletterscommunities locked in Discord or Telegram, etc. A centralized search engine indexes text designed to be found. An ephemeral video app indexes immediate attention, but not long-term memory. They are opposite design goals. Yes, but. For the occasional user it is much more difficult to locate moments in this atomization. For the user hooked on specific platforms, it is not so much because they know how to navigate them and know where to look within each one. That means that the problem is not only technological, but also one of skill and time invested in learning the logic of each application. And now what. In 16 years, someone will want to see moments from this World Cup, like the anthem played by tubas, or Ferran’s goal recorded from a very specific seat. If that video never reaches a platform with an archiving vocation, that person will find an empty space. The collective memory of that World Cup will largely depend on editorial decisions that none of the platforms involved took with the archive in mind, but rather with the minute in which that video retained attention. In Xataka | Shy of the world, we are losing the Internet Featured image | FIFA

The brutal collection of ‘The Hate’ confirms that the most profitable franchise of the moment is not Marvel or DC: it is Christopher Nolan

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‘The Odyssey’ has raised figures in its first weekend that are a true record for Christopher Nolan. The most significant thing, numbers aside, is that with this achievement he not only reaffirms himself as a prominent director in the league of great authors loved by the public and critics, in the style of Spielberg, but he competes directly in the field of sequels, blockbusters, Marvel and DC adaptations (where he has already made his name) and big-budget animation. Nolan already behaves (financially, at least) like a franchise. The numbers. The Nolan’s adaptation of ‘The Odyssey’ from Homer raised $124.5 million in its three opening days in the United States. On a global scale, the figure amounts to $264.1 million, the best worldwide opening of Nolan’s entire career, ahead of the $249 million achieved by ‘The Dark Knight Rises’ in 2012. Why it happens. Beyond the quality of the production and the expectation it has raised, it must be taken into account to explain the success that the premiere was strongly supported in premium rooms. IMAX screenings contributed close to $22 million to the international collection, 15% of the total, which was added to the $29.6 million domestically, 23.8% of the entire US box office. That is to say: large formats accounted for 53% of national revenue. Of course, critics praised the film, and aggregators like Rotten Tomatoes They give him a 95%, the highest grade of Nolan’s career, and sixth of yours to exceed 90% along with Memento, Insomnia, The Dark Knight, Dunkirk and Oppenheimer. Every three years like clockwork. Since the premiere of ‘Interstellar‘ in 2014, Nolan has taken up a tireless rhythm of one film every three years: ‘Dunkirk’ in 2017, ‘Tenet‘in 2020,’Oppenheimer‘ in 2023 and now ‘The Odyssey’ in 2026. Behind this regularity is an unusual production structure in Hollywood. His wife Emma Thomas has produced all of his feature films. They founded the production company Syncopy in 2001, with which Nolan develops his projects without depending on the usual machinery of a large studio. That autonomy partly explains why it can allow these wide parentheses: it does not need to prime a universe annually to justify million-dollar budgets. Fire test. That independence was put to the test in 2021. Nolan broke up with Warner Bros. after the studio decided to release its entire 2021 catalog simultaneously in theaters and on HBO Max. Nolan said the decision made no economic sense, in a statement in which came to comment that the company had gone from having “the perfect machine” for distributing films to dismantling it itself. He moved his next project, ‘Oppenheimer,’ to Universal, the same studio now backing ‘The Odyssey.’ No rival at the moment. Shawn Robbins, director of analytics at Fandango, summarized the phenomenon with a short phrase: “Death, taxes and Christopher Nolan”, referring, in a well-known Anglo-Saxon phrase, to three totems of life that are completely inevitable. Nolan has already gone in there. Of course, the director’s career seems to be an absolute concatenation of critical and public successes that attracts even non-regulars: of the 7.5 million tickets sold in the US, 43% of those spectators go to the cinema only a few times a year. ‘The Odyssey’ has no direct competition next week. The only threat on the calendar is ‘Spider-Man: Brand New Day’, which arrives in two weeks. On the other hand, ‘The Odyssey’ has not yet been released in China, Japan or South Korea, markets that could continue pushing up a figure that already corroborates that the days of Batman are long behind us and that Nolan does not need superheroes to sweep the box office. He alone is his own franchise. In Xataka | Christopher Nolan responds to Matt Damon’s defeatism about ‘The Odyssey’: “Cinema is vital and essential, and continues to transform”

Tomorrow the best science fiction series of the moment returns, with a twist in its story that has given it a perfect score

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This July 3 comes to AppleTV the third season of ‘Silo‘. And this marks the halfway point of the series: in December 2024, Apple confirmed the simultaneous renewal of a third and fourth season, and stated that the latter was conceived as the definitive closure of the story. We are halfway through this exciting series, and everything seems to indicate that we are once again facing an event: the third season boasts 100% from critics on Rotten Tomatoesthe best so far. ‘Silo’ is set in a toxic and uninhabitable future in which 10,000 people live locked in a gigantic 144-story underground silo, with no memory of how or why they got there, and firmly believing that going outside means certain death. The series follows Juliette (Rebecca Ferguson), a low-level engineer who, after the suspicious death of the sheriff, begins to unravel the thread of lies that sustain the social order of the underground complex. In this new season, Juliette has become mayor of Silo 18, but with memory gaps about what she has experienced outside, with the community trying to rebuild itself after the rebellion of the previous season and facing a new threat. In parallel, the season opens a second timeline set centuries agocentered on a congressman and a journalist who begin to uncover the conspiracy that would end up leading to the construction of the silos. This half “from the past” largely adapts ‘Shift’, the second book of Hugh Howey’s trilogy on which the series is inspired and which Minotauro has published in Spanish, and is the main novelty of this season compared to the previous two, focused almost exclusively on Juliette’s present. The praise for this new season has not stopped appearing in the last week, and the originality of the time jump stands out above all. The setting, interpretations and, as always on Apple TV+, ambition of the series, make it an absolutely essential event for science fiction lovers. In Xataka | Today one of the most acclaimed Marvel superhero series of all time returns to Disney+

Telecinco wanted to revolutionize its schedule for the summer in search of solutions for the audience. At the moment it’s a disaster

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Telecinco has changed half of its afternoon schedule to escape the worst season in its history. At the moment, however, the changes are not being noticed as much as Mediaset would have liked, and so far no program has reached 8% of share. There is still a lot of summer ahead, and in some cases, the headlines have barely had a couple of broadcasts, but we are certainly far from brilliant starts for these new programs whose structure, aesthetics and presenters smell of the company’s old glories. The figures. He date show by Carlos Lozano ‘Love… or whatever arises’ debuted on June 22 with 6.8% share and 632,000 spectators; the return of Paz Padilla to Telecinco after his rudeness with the now deceased ‘Sálvame’, ‘El show de Paz’, with 7.8% and 638,000; and the magazine of suns and gossip presented by Ion Aramendi and Kike Quintana ‘El Verano Se Move’, with 7%. The latter, the most recent premiere (this Monday), is the network’s third evening premiere in eight days, and the penultimate of a plan that Mediaset designed to get the network out of its worst historical moment. Some context: ‘El show de Paz’ occupies part of the time on weekends of ‘Fiesta’, Emma García’s magazine that had just had its two worst months in history (8.1% in April and 8.2% in May). If Padilla manages to settle at around 9% compared to his rivals (cinema on the rest of the channels) and, in the process, spreads a rise to ‘Fiesta’, he will have fulfilled his promise. And it remains to be seen what happens with the fourth piece of the plan, ‘From Monday to Fridaythe daily version of ‘De Viernes’ with Beatriz Archidona and Santi Acosta, which premieres on Monday, July 6 at 6:15 p.m., in the gap left by ‘El Diario de Jorge’ during the summer. Their litmus test is twofold: not to sink against ‘The Promise’, which averaged 12.6% in May, and to stand up to the World Cup matches that still lie ahead. Summer ahead. They have all just started and you have to give them some space. The only headline that has already been filming for a week is that of Carlos Lozano, which had been on the air for a week on the day of the premiere of ‘El Verano Se Move’. For that day, ‘Amor… or whatever arises’ had a minimum audience (5.4%), and right after, La 1 broadcast the Brazil-Japan of the Worldwhich swept with a 33.7% share and 3,075,000 viewers, and sank both ‘El Diario de Jorge’ and ‘Allá tú!’. Result: 7.2% on average, one of the worst Mondays in the history of Telecinco. The plan. Mediaset announced in mid-June a offensive of four new programs for the section from 3:45 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.: ‘Love… or whatever arises!’, ‘Summer moves’, ‘From Monday to Friday’ and ‘The Peace Show’. They all replace formats that had been moving between 8% and 10% for months, such as ‘El tiempo just’, whose presenter, Joaquín Prat, is on paternity leave. The program had been averaging 8.5% for two months in a row. share and it had barely exceeded double digits five times since its premiere, a far cry from ‘Sueños de Libertad’ on Antena 3, the undisputed leader of the after-dinner program with an average of 14.2% in May. The precedents. Telecinco arrives this summer with the worst possible figures: the 2025-2026 seasonwas the worst in the history of the channel: an 8.9% average share, eight tenths less than the previous year and the fifth consecutive time that Telecinco has set a new historical season low. For the first time, the channel fell below 10% share in the twelve months of the course, with a ceiling of 9.4% and a floor of 8.4% in December, its worst month in the regular season. The afternoon slot, which is now trying to be reformed, also closed the course at a historic low: 9%. And it is a deterioration that is not limited to entertainment: the network’s news They also posted their worst figure, 8.3% share, without any of their three editions reaching double digits on average. It can be compared, for example, with the increasingly firm La 1, which in the last five years has gone from 8.8% to 12.1%. Telecinco’s path has been practically the opposite, from 13.1% to 8.9%. The importance of football. We were talking about the World Cup as relevant when it came to giving the finishing touch to the Telecinco audiences, but the phenomenon goes further. La 1 closed June as the leading channel, with a 14.3% share, its best June in 15 years, with the World Cup contributing almost a quarter of its monthly result. The entire Mediaset group, on the other hand, lost 3.4 points year-on-year compared to an RTVE group that gained 4.4. Football is obviously determining which channel goes better and worse this summer. In Xataka | Telecinco has ‘El Rosco’ but does not have ‘Pasapalabra’. Antena 3 has ‘Pasapalabra’ but does not have ‘El Rosco’

Airbus has just completed a test that brings its most anticipated moment closer

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He SIRTAP It is not a new name in the Spanish defense. Airbus and the Ministry of Defense have been presenting it for some time as a program called to strengthen tactical capabilities, industrial development and greater sovereignty in defense capabilities, but this entire journey has a milestone that weighs more than any calendar: seeing it take off for the first time. That image has not yet been produced. What we have now is a prior advance, important precisely because it places the program closer to that moment and forces us to sort out the underlying question: what exactly is SIRTAP and why Spain has been pushing it for years. The ground test: The progress communicated by Airbus Defense It occurred on the runway of the Getafe Air Base, right next to the company’s facilities. There, the Airbus U850 SIRTAP completed its first taxi under full control from the ground control station. The test served to verify very specific elements: braking, steering, navigation sensors and commands sent from the station itself. In other words, the objective was to verify that the system begins to behave as an integrated aircraft, not as a sum of separately tested parts. It’s not just any drone: The SIRTAP is, in simple terms, an unmanned military aircraft controlled from the ground and designed to look further, for longer and in more demanding conditions than a conventional short-range system. Airbus presents it as a high-performance tactical UAS, with more than 20 hours of autonomy, range of more than 2,000 km and capacity for ISR missions, that is, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance. Its design also includes day and night operations, maritime surveillance and the simultaneous use of two payloads, such as electro-optical sensors and radar. The lesson from Ukraine: The importance of SIRTAP is best understood if we look at the role that unmanned systems have gained in recent conflicts. A CSIS Analysis on the lessons from Ukraine summarizes a clear idea: UAVs have extended operational range, reduced soldier exposure, and become common tools for reconnaissance, target acquisition, and precision strikes. This reading does not make the Spanish program a direct consequence of that war, but it does place it within an evident trend. Industrial dimension. The Ministry of Defense acquired nine SIRTAP systems, a formula that does not translate into nine aircraft, but in 27 unmanned aircraft and nine ground control stations, because each system is made up of three devices and one station. Added to this are two simulators to train Spanish operators. According to Defenseall aircraft will be manufactured and assembled at the Airbus Defense and Space plant in Getafe, with Airbus as the driving company and with the participation of Spanish companies. The Ministry itself has defined it as the first Class II/III military aeronautical system developed entirely in Spain. The calendar: The temporal nuance is important because the first flight does not now appear as a pending surprise, but as a milestone that was already on the roadmap. Airbus placed it in 2025 when he announced the contract with Defense in November 2023and the Ministry again indicated that same year as a reference in January 2025. Later, in June 2025Airbus explained that the prototype was ready to begin ground testing and that the inaugural flight was scheduled for the end of that year. With the new progress communicated by Airbus, the conclusion is clear: the program is moving, but the forecast for the first flight in 2025 is already behind us. Next step. SIRTAP is no longer just a promise on paper and is already beginning to pass real checks on the runway, but Airbus still has new test phases ahead before the flight campaign. The important thing is not to confuse one thing with the other: moving on the ground is not equivalent to taking off. It does confirm, however, that the project is approaching the moment that has marked its narrative for years. The next big leap will not be symbolic: it will be seen in the air. Images | Airbus In Xataka | The European fighter may have died, but there is a plan B to avoid the F-35. One with Spain, Germany and an unexpected guest

“The most intense moment will be between Friday and Saturday”

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Starting on Thursday, June 11, an anticyclone will channel a very warm air mass from North Africa. Temperatures are going to rise, yes; but that’s only part of the story. The other part is the sun: an almost solstitial solar radiation that will heat (a lot) that already hot air mass. And we are going to notice it throughout the country, but Galicia is surely going to take the cake. According to some meteorologists, the entire community will be between 30 and 40 degrees this Saturday. And, curiously, it is not the most striking thing. The second episode of extraordinary heat in three weeks. The most striking thing is the position of the event on the calendar and its recurrence. After all, it comes after the warmest May ever recorded in the community and a few days after Health has had to raise the heat risk threshold one degree in Ourense. Galicia is warming up. But not purely because of the situation. It is something more structural. The thermal calendar has been shifting for some time and we have reached the point where the ‘Atlantic façade’ has ceased to be a synonym for climate refuge very quickly. And that makes the problem more serious. I was talking before about health risk thresholds. For the Ministry, which has just updated them, that line is 26 degrees for A Coruña. A temperature that in the south would even be pleasant. The issue has never been that temperatures rise (which they do too), nor even that we are not prepared for them. The bottom line is that we can’t prepare because it’s expensive, it’s slow and, in fact, we’re not even really aware that we have to do it. Benbaso What is going to happen in the next few days? A classic summer combination, Juan Taboada, coordinator of MeteoGalicia, explained it.: a mass of very warm air stagnated by the position of an anticyclone, stability, clear skies and a fair sun. In the words of AEMET“midsummer temperatures (…) starting Thursday.” However, the most intense moment will be between Friday and Saturday. In fact, even with storms in Ourense, 35 degrees are expected without a problem. The ‘other’ problem. Because, in coastal areas, the problem is not only the air mass, the sun and stability. The ‘other’ problem is all the buoys of Galicia and the Cantabrian Sea marked historical maximums (with anomalies between 1.5 and 2 degrees above the average). That is what is going to mean that the sea will not be able to soften the temperatures either. Image | BenBaso In Xataka | AEMET has confirmed what we have been suspecting and suffering for years: Spain is 2º C warmer than in the 80s

That bug has been waiting for its moment in Spain for 60 years. And your time is now

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In 1964, someone decided it was a good idea to release a handful of estrildas in Portugal. Before the end of the decade, this small opportunistic bird from sub-Saharan Africa had already settled in Extremadura and Andalusia. By the 80s, it had already reached the east of the peninsula. For 60 years, estrildas had remained in a discreet background. It had taken root, but they weren’t getting traction. However, that has begun to change: in the last 15 years, Valencian estrilds have multiplied by 10 and in Catalonia the population has tripled. AND, to the surprise of the expertsthe key to the boom has been two other invasive species. What has happened? In recent days, several media have begun to publish reports announcing that the African bird “has already arrived” in Spain. However, the common estrilda has been here for decades. What is new is not that: what is new is that in recent years the proliferation of uncultivated plots (one in five are) is becoming the perfect breeding ground for two other exotic species, the common reed and the Pampa duster. And those species make the perfect habitat for estrildas. Do they eat them? No no. That’s why I say it’s curious: the researchers they have realized that it is not that birds consume these plants. The plants provide shelter, roosting sites and perfect structures for this species. The strilas have been surviving for years in a very hostile territory, now they have found some areas that suit them like a glove. The story, as you can see, is more complex. Above all, because it has an agricultural substrate. Without the profound changes of recent years in the countryside, neither the Pampa duster nor the common sugarcane would have reached where they have. In this sense, what is truly worrying is not the estrilda (a bird that, as far as we know, is not affecting the local fauna either). What has experts worried is the chain of invasions. You just have to think about it a little to understand: the feather duster is South American, the common reed is Asian, and the estrilda is African. Together, they have managed to become strong in southern Europe. Fauna and flora have logics that we are still unable to understand in depth. In the end, the key is always in the same place: that there is a moment when we are going to have to assume that the only way to get out of all the problems we are creating is to start comprehensively managing the field. Image | XRTF In Xataka | England is experiencing an unprecedented invasion. The problem is that they are octopuses, and they are devouring everything they can find.​

TSMC is not going to use its High-NA machines at the moment and has a compelling reason not to do so

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On April 23, TSMC made official a strategic decision very important: has postponed the adoption of ASML’s extreme ultraviolet (EUV) and high aperture lithography machines until 2029. These are the equipment of manufacturing of more advanced integrated circuits that this company from the Netherlands currently has in its portfolio, and TSMC’s announcement caused ipso facto a drop of 3.3% of the value of its shares. It is not in vain that this Taiwanese chip producer is ASML’s largest client. In 2025 23.9% of total sales of this Dutch company came from TSMC. The main reason why this last company has decided not to use UVE High-NA machines of ASML in the short term is strictly economic. Each of them has a price of around 350 million euros, and, in addition, a single cutting-edge semiconductor plant requires the installation of several dozen of this equipment. TSMC considers that they are currently too expensive to make the manufacturing of advanced chips profitable. And, interestingly, Intel, Samsung and SK Hynix they are already adopting High-NA technology. This decision by TSMC brings great technical challenges The step taken by TSMC has not been improvised, as might be expected. In fact, over the past two years several managers at this company have publicly expressed doubts about the short-term adoption of ASML’s High-NA equipment. In January 2024 CC Wei, the current president and CEO of TSMC, surprised us with this statement: “We are studying it carefully, evaluating the maturity of the tool and examining its costs. We always make the right decision at the right time in order to offer the best service to our clients,” Wei assured. during a meeting. A few weeks earlier Szeho Ng, an analyst at China Renaissance, predicted that TSMC would not use ASML’s high-aperture UVE equipment until it introduced its 1nm integration technology. “We always make the right decision at the right time with the purpose of offering the best service to our clients” Last week it was Kevin Zhang, TSMC’s deputy chief operating officer, who clarified something very important: “I am amazed by our R&D team. They continue to find ways to drive technological development without using ASML’s High-NA UVE equipment. Someday we may have to use them, but right now we can continue to reap the benefits of current EUV technology without moving to High-NA which, as we all know, is extremely expensive.” In 2029, TSMC intends to have the A12 and A13 integration technologies ready for large-scale production, which are nothing more than derivatives of its A14 photolithography. From a commercial point of view these will be the first 1.2 and 1.3 nm technologies of this company. They will use GAA transistors (Gate-All-Around) and NanoFlex Pro technology. This latest innovation will allow IC designers to use fast cells for the critical parts of the GPU that need speed, and dense or efficient cells for the rest, thus optimizing the chip area down to the last millimeter. What we still do not know is what technical solutions TSMC engineers are going to implement to make it possible to manufacture 1.2 and 1.3 nm integrated circuits using ASML’s UVE equipment. It’s just a guess, but it seems unlikely that they will resort to the multiple patterning because this procedure compromises the performance per wafer and the cost of the semiconductors. TSMC would lose competitiveness. One last note: the multiple patterning Broadly speaking, it consists of transferring the pattern to the wafer in several passes with the purpose of increasing the resolution of the lithographic process. Image | ASML More information | Innovation Origins In Xataka | Bill Gates has X-rayed Intel. And his diagnosis is overwhelmingly accurate.

There is a Russian bomb floating in the Mediterranean coming from Ukraine. And Europe trembles because it can explode at any moment

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It is a fact that most of the world’s trade moves by sea. This means that every day thousands of ships cross key routes very close to European coasts. In this constant traffic, a single out-of-control incident is enough to put entire ecosystems in check and force several countries to react at the same time. The war in Ukraine has just ended activate one of them. A bomb adrift in the heart of Europe. The situation is the following: in the Mediterranean right now there is more than just a damaged ship, the Arctic Metagaz is a latent threat that mixes war, energy and environmental risk in a single point. We are talking about a loaded Russian tanker with gas, fuel and diesela ship hit by a drone attack from Ukraine that sails uncontrollably, with structural damage and a real risk of explosion. Not only that. It appears to have no crew, is leaking and catching fire, and is moving slowly between European waters and North Africa. What makes it especially disturbing is not only its condition, but its origin: It is one more piece of the war being fought in Eastern Europe that has ended up floating in the Mediterranean, moving the conflict directly to the doors of the entire continent. It’s not just the front anymore. The episode confirms something that was already intuited for some time: that the war between Russia and Ukraine is no longer confined to the Black Sea or the land front. Ukraine has expanded its radius of action by attacking Russian ships on much more distant routes, including those that are part of the called “ghost fleet”key to avoiding sanctions and financing the Kremlin’s war effort. These increasingly frequent attacks turn ships into de facto military targets, even if they are sailing through international waters or near European territories. The result is an extension of the conflict that blurs borders and places Europe in an uncomfortable position, because it is not a direct part of these attacks, but its potential scenario. Arctic Metagaz Ecological risk and implications. The immediate danger right now it’s pretty obvious: an explosion or massive spill in an area of ​​high ecological value could cause lasting damage in the Mediterranean, affecting protected ecosystems and coastal economies. But the problem goes beyond the environmental impact. These types of incidents also reveal to us the fragility of the maritime system in times of hybrid war, where poorly maintained, aging ships, with opaque structures and no safety guarantees, They circulate on key routes. The combination of sanctions, evasion and attacks turns these ships into risk vectors that can trigger crises at any moment. Europe and the threat. The European reactionwith Italy and France along with several EU members warning of the imminent risk, reflects a growing concern: countries have asked a coordinated response facing a problem that is not only specific, but structural. The difficulty in intervening (whether due to weather conditions, the location of the vessel or legal issues) also represents a capacity and governance vacuum in nearby waters. While Russia he ignores of incident management and points to coastal states as responsibleEurope faces a rather complex dilemma: managing the consequences of a war in which it neither controls the origin nor the evolution. Symbol of a new phase. If you also want, the derived from the Arctic Metagaz summarizes like few elements the evolution of the current conflict: a war that no longer only dynamits infrastructure on land, but is capable of turning the sea into a space constant riskwhere each asset can become a threat. It is not just, therefore, an accident or an isolated episode, but the proof (one more) that the conflict has acquired an unpredictable dimensionwhere an action in Ukraine can end up generating a crisis thousands of kilometers away. And that is precisely what it has of the nerves to Europe: not knowing when or where the next impact may materialize. Image | war-sanctions.gur.gov.ua In Xataka | While we all look at Iran, in Ukraine they continue doing their thing: robot against robot battles where humans only watch In Xataka | Ukraine has become the world’s leading specialist against Iranian drones. And he won’t share his antidote

They fill you up in the moment, but leave you emptier later

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Every time we are more alone and so? it’s a problembut don’t worry, AI has arrived to save us. Mark Zuckerberg believes AI friends can fill that gap. In South Korea They are sending AI robots to older people to keep them company and in New York they are also testing it. New studies suggest that it is a bad idea. The study. Was conducted by the University of British Columbia on a sample of 300 first-year students. The study leader tells 404media which is a very vulnerable time because often students are away from their family and don’t know anyone. The students were divided into three groups: the first would chat with an AI chatbot, the second would chat with another unknown student and the third, the control group, would have to write a diary. The rules were that they had to write at least one message a day and complete several daily surveys, including the UCLA Loneliness Scale. The chatbot was based on ChatGPT-4o, the model known for being more empathetic and close and whose withdrawal generated criticism precisely among those who seek emotional connections with an AI. The results. Participants who talked to another peer showed lower levels of loneliness, while the other two groups (AI chatbot and diary) showed no change. They did see a decrease in negative mood when chatting with the AI, suggesting that it offers momentary relief, but does not have a lasting effect. 33% of students in the first group continued talking to their partner after the experiment, while only 14% continued talking to the chatbot. There is more. The University of British Columbia conducted another study with a sample of 2,000 adults over a full year. It was seen that people who feel lonelier are more likely to increase the use of chatbots to try to fill that void. However, in the long run the effect of emotional isolation increases even more. According to one of the authors, it “suggests a negative feedback loop” and compares them to “social junk food,” meaning it fills but does not nourish. Connect with an AI. When we saw Her in 2013 we did not imagine that a few years later the story was going to come true. There are people falling in love with AIssome even they cheat on their human partners with one It is an increasingly common trend and AI companies know it. There are apps that offer AI companions like Replika or Character.ai, but AI is also coming mainstream. We have the example with the controversial erotic mode that OpenAI is preparing for ChatGPT. They are not always romantic relationships, there are also those maintain a friendship and who goes to the AI ​​to tell it their problems, as if he were a psychologist. The experts have already warned that machines cannot replace a real connection, but the machinery advances unstoppably and AI is already redefining relationships. In Xataka | People Blaming ChatGPT for Causing Delusions and Suicides: What’s Really Happening with AI and Mental Health Image | Talha Uğuz, Pexels

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