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We are getting dangerously close to August, the month when several important sports competitions such as LaLiga begin. Like last year, Movistar Plus is once again a place to watch a match from this match every day, just like the Champions League. What is the most economical way to subscribe? The annual fee, without a doubt: it costs 99.90 euros. We tell you more about her. Annual subscription to Movistar Plus The price could vary. We earn commission from these links Football and a huge catalog of movies and series Let’s go in parts. Movistar Plus has its star promo active right now: three months subscription at half price. Available for new members and old members without an active subscription, it is ideal for testing the platform. Now, if we do numbers, the most economical way to have Movistar Plus in the long run is its annual plan. The reason is very simple: with this, we will save two months. That is, we will pay 99.90 euros for one year. If we choose this modality, we will have 12 months of the Free Plan with movies, series and sports. With this, we will be able to see a match from each day of LaLiga, with matches such as Atlético de Madrid-Málaga, Elche-Barcelona or Real Madrid-Málaga. In addition, also LaLiga Hypermotion in full or matches like the Community Shield between Arsenal and Manchester City (August 16). And what about the movies and series? Well there is a lot to see. Next September comes’The black ball‘, a film that joins others like ‘The secret agent‘ either ‘One battle after another‘, as well as others that will arrive soon such as ‘28 years later: the temple of bones‘. And that’s without counting high-profile series like ‘A lot of people have to die’ or ‘Outlander’. To all this we must add several things. The first is that Movistar Plus allows you to share the account with a friend or family membereven if it is not at the same address. The other is that you can download whatever you want to watch offline, ideal if you plan to travel. All this makes it a top option if you are looking for a streaming platform to watch a little of everything. And if you want to save as much as possible, then the annual plan is worth it. Some of the links in this article are affiliated and may provide a benefit to Xataka. In case of non-availability, offers may vary. Images | Movistar Plus In Xataka | Movistar Plus activates its Free Plan with complete programs and a lot of content, regardless of which operator you are In Xataka | What TV to buy for less than 500 euros in 2026: the basics to demand and the most dispensable

3 months ago this mix of drama and eroticism passed through cinemas without pain and ingloriousness and is now number 1 on Netflix

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In May, ‘Desire‘ grossed just over 9,800 euros in Spanish theaters: it did not reach 1,500 spectators. However, when he landed in Netflix In July, it added 12.9 million views in its first three days and was number one in 68 countries, Spain included. Nobody had heard of it and so it continues, lurking in a corner of the platform’s catalogue, without stopping adding views. Directed by debutante Teresa Simone, ‘Deseo’ tells the story of Lucero (Ludwika Paleta), a lawyer in a boring marriage but eroded enough that it is about to collapse, who begins a clandestine relationship with Matías (Óscar Casas), her children’s swimming coach. A traditional love triangle story that affects, apart from the passion with which the deception that triggers everything develops, the subsequent effects, with shared custody and loss of normality. Likely lto greatest virtue of ‘Deseo’ is the absolute comfort it proposes for the viewer: the love triangle and mutual seduction between a mature woman and a young boy, the marriage that falls apart, the clash between the comfort of what is known and the adventure of the unknown. They are all conventions of the romantic soap opera that the film addresses without prejudice and without subversive ambitions, which makes the film a comfortable and familiar space. ‘Deseo’ does not have dazzling marks on rating aggregators: 4.3 out of 10 on IMDband on Letterboxd a 2.24 out of 5. It is one of those Netflix hits that is among the most watched, but a bit secretive: they do not make much noise on social networks, they are not among the most recommended, the film pages ignore it… but they crown the platform’s audience tops. In Xataka | The perfect series for a marathon of episodes that we have seen a million times returns to Netflix

“We’ve been building infrastructure for humans for 20 years, maybe we have 20 months to rebuild it for agents”

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Companies have embraced the agentic AI boom, to the point that some They are drowning in so many AI agents. Employees are creating uncontrolled agents, triggering token consumption and causing many of those agents to duplicate tasks. But the real underlying problem is something else: the infrastructure on which all this is running is not prepared to support it. Meta’s warning. They tell it in Venture Beat. During the VB Transform 2026 talk, Meta’s vice president of engineering Barak Yagour gave a very powerful figure: queries from agents reaching the Meta system have multiplied by 30 in the last six months. “What happens to the infrastructure we’ve built over years when agents, not humans, become its primary consumers?” Yagour asked the audience. The answer is even more worrying: “We have spent 20 years building infrastructure for humans. Maybe we have 20 months to rebuild everything for a world where humans and agents co-create at scale.” And he adds that “The opportunity is open, but it will not last long.” lthe three problems. The emergence of the agents threatens to break the infrastructure on three fronts: Ability: Until recently, to plan how much computing power, storage or bandwidth was needed to carry out a project, it was enough to count the number of employees working on it. Yagour explains it very graphically: “Now, an engineer generates 10 agents, and each one generates sub-agents. An organization of 1,000 people can generate the load of 100,000 users practically overnight.” Identity: Access control systems are not designed for an AI agent. It is not human, but it moves around the infrastructure and makes decisions on its own. Speed: The third problem is the speed at which the agents move. They can write code faster than any human, but “that code still needs to be compiled, tested, deployed and monitored.” Deep changes. Yagour mentions that reasoning models are changing the way the data layer is processed. Detecting matches from keywords is not the same as reasoning about someone’s intention; That requires a complete history of behavior, not a summary. This requires making changes to how that data is processed and stored. Meta is moving from batch processing, which can take up to 24 hours to update, to real-time processing as it is key when the model is reasoning about what a user wants at that very moment. On the other hand, they are moving from an opaque storage to one that understands its own content, so that it only reads what it needs in each query and thus lightens the load on the GPUs. Setting limits. According to Yagour “Autonomy without governance is nothing more than chaos”, which is why Meta’s solution is to create what they call “trusted data environments.” Here, agents can move freely “but every result is traced back to its source and carefully vetted. This way you can always be sure that the data shared is trusted and controlled.” It is a way of giving freedom to the agents, but in a controlled way and without exposing themselves to the risk of ending up messing up. Image | Xataka with Magnific In Xataka | AI agents can destroy jobs. Or they can also save a century-old cheese factory from bankruptcy

OnePlus is preparing to leave Europe and the United States. I had been sending signals for months that this was going to happen.

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OnePlus and Oppo are going to announce in the coming days a total withdrawal from two large markets such as the United States and Europe, according to the German media has advanced WinFuture. Neither of the two companies has confirmed it in public yet, but the evidence has been accumulating for months and this time they all fit. What has happened. WinFuture cites internal sources who speak of “fundamental changes in strategy” that will be communicated this week, a classic euphemism to say that OnePlus is going to stop selling new models in two of its historical markets. There have already been press conferences behind closed doors with specialized media in which neither OnePlus nor Oppo have wanted to explain the reason for the closure. There will be no new launches of mobile phones, tablets or wearables in Europe or the United States. He stocks What remains will be settled in the coming weeks. Devices already sold will maintain software support until the end of their life cycle. India and China are left out of the announcement, although the brand will lose its independence there and will become a cheap line within Oppo. The context. This doesn’t come out of nowhere. In January, a report –without clear sources– he was already talking about dismantling and OnePlus denied it. In March, 9to5Google public that the global withdrawal could come in April. In April, the brand itself admitted that it was “evaluating its roadmap” in Europe, while also cutting its workforce in the region, with layoffs focused on communication, marketing and sales. The team that explains, advertises and sells a brand to the public is not fired if that brand is going to continue to need to be explained, advertised and sold. Then came the rumor of a merger with Realme, the leak that OxygenOS would be integrated into ColorOS (Oppo’s software) and, finally, OnePlus’ own websites in Germany, Spain and France They began to redirect buyers towards Oppo products. Between the lines. The replacement plan has an obvious crack. Oppo wants to fill the gap left by OnePlus in Europe, but its phones do not cost exactly the same. OnePlus built its entire brand on the promise of delivering high-end specs at a mid-range price tag, the “flagship killer” with which it was born in 2014. Replacing that proposal with a more expensive catalog is not a change of logo but a change of a brand’s target audience. There is another fissure that is caused by those who are still their clients. In several EU countries Complaints about unfulfilled guarantees have multiplied: users whose OnePlus headphones damaged under warranty receive compensation a voucher of 199 euros for an online store that barely has stocksand which also does not allow the voucher to be applied to the few remaining discounted products. Some have already opened complaints with the European Consumer Center. When after-sales service begins to systematically fail months before an unconfirmed closure, it stops being a customer service problem and becomes an exit signal. We saw it in Spain with BQ. Yes, but. OnePlus already denied similar rumors in 2023 and did so again in January of this year. Neither of the two denials has aged very well. Neither OnePlus nor Oppo have confirmed anything yet an official confirmation. From Xataka We have contacted Oppo and their response has been to explain to us that they are in talks with the regional teams, waiting to get more information to share. They neither confirm nor deny it, something that says a lot after years of categorical denials every time this rumor arose. Meanwhile, the accumulation of coincidences (execution departures, website redirects, software merger, empty store, guarantees that They are paid with hardly usable vouchers…) leaves little room for the benefit of the doubt. Why is it important. OnePlus was born in 2014 selling the promise that you didn’t have to pay more to have the best, and that promise ended up costing it its own identity: the brand was absorbed by Oppo in 2021which pushed its co-founder Carl Pei to leave to found Nothing. Since then, OnePlus has been losing room for maneuver within the group until it has become, by all indications, more of a label than a company with its own criteria. Its disappearance in the West closes the cycle of an idea (that of the premium mobile without a premium) that the market itself has been eroding as the differences between ranges have become smaller and Chinese brands have preferred to compete by volume rather than by differentiation. And now what. He OnePlus 15 It remains as the brand’s probable last major launch in Western markets. In parallel, similar rumors are circulating about other second-rate Chinese brands, but this week we could have the official announcement of the OnePlus outcome. In Xataka | Nothing is the most fascinating mobile phone brand in years for a very simple reason: it doesn’t sell mobile phones Featured image | Xataka

There is a way to preserve zucchini for weeks and months. And with a little skill and attention, it is within everyone’s reach.

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There is a scene as universal in these months as that of the blade fan: something clicks and three bags of zucchini appear at the door, in the kitchen or already in the refrigerator. And right in front of them, there is always the same face of “and now what do I do with all this?” The answer is simple and, at the same time, really complex. First because, if we want to preserve it long enough to be able to use it, we have to differentiate between what lasts fresh and what lasts after being transformed. And second, because If we don’t do it well, that transformation we are turning that zucchini into a “poisoned gift.” And never better said. A zucchini is water with some form. To be exact, 94.8 out of every 100 grams of zucchini are water. This vegetable has only 17 kilocalories, extremely thin skin and, in short, no fat to protect it: it has a delicious design to eat, but terrible to preserve. In its optimal state it lasts a week in the refrigerator; two or three if we are willing to live with their ailments. And then? Where do the ‘months’ come from? As I hinted above, they come out of ‘processing’ it. You can reach months in a simple way: freezing them (after blanching for three minutes and an ice bath), dehydrating them either pickling them. That is, it can last up to ten months in good conditions if it is no longer fresh zucchini. Until a few years ago it was relatively common to put zucchini in a jar and cook them in a water bath until it reached a sufficient temperature to preserve it well. The problem is that zucchini is low in acidity, its pulp becomes soft and compact, and it transmits heat poorly. Come on, it becomes a fantastic remedy for botulism as long as we make the slightest mistake. Agencies strongly recommend against doing so. And how do we do it well? Let’s go in parts: Fresh and whole: directly to the refrigerator without washing. If they are dirty, it is better to clean them with kitchen paper or a dry cloth. If you have to give them a little water, dry them well. There is little else you can do: don’t crowd them, use special pads and avoid putting them next to climacteric fruits and vegetables (apples, avocados, mangoes or tomatoes). Cut: If we want to keep it already cut, we just have to keep in mind that the more processed it is, the less it will last. The ideal is to cut it, dry the vegetable well with kitchen paper and put it in an airtight container. It is not advisable to keep it like this for more than three or four days. Cooked: in this, the truth is, there is no big difference with the rest of the vegetables. A well-cooked zucchini dish can be stored without problems for about five days. The key is, of course, to refrigerate it as soon as possible, close it tightly and divide it into the smallest portions possible. It can also be frozen. What if we haven’t cooked it previously? What I explained above: freezing them, dehydrating them either pickling them. They are more complex preparations, but if we have many… it is the most recommended. Image | Eddie Pipocas In DAP | Forget about false tricks: this is the only thing that works to keep bananas in good condition

Amazon invested $50 billion in OpenAI. Four months later, he has hidden an already finished film about Altman

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‘Artificial’ is a film already completely finished. Luca Guadagnino, director of ‘Rivals’ and ‘Call Me by Your Name’, filmed it between July and October 2025, with Andrew Garfield in the role of one of the men of the moment, Sam Altman. It has been shown in different test runs and has been liked. It cost 40 million dollars. And on Friday, June 20, 2026, Amazon announced that it would put it in a drawer and not distribute it. What happened. The decision It came from Mike Hopkins, head of Prime Video and Amazon MGM Studios, who personally communicated the resolution to Guadagnino’s team. The director was dismayed and Amazon communicated this in an extremely diplomatic, almost incomprehensible way: “We have the greatest respect and admiration for Luca Guadagnino as an award-winning filmmaker, and also a long-standing relationship that we hope to continue. We believe that ‘Artificial’ will work better in another studio and we are working closely with the team to find it a new home.” Of course, data is missing here. What really happened. On February 27, 2026, four months before the announcement, Amazon and OpenAI announced a multi-year strategic alliance. Amazon will invest $50 billion in OpenAI, starting with $15 billion immediately and an additional $35 billion when certain conditions are met. AWS becomes the exclusive cloud delivery provider for OpenAI Frontier, the company’s enterprise AI agent platform. In addition, OpenAI expands its infrastructure consumption agreement on AWS by $100 billion over eight years, and commits to deploying approximately 2 gigawatts of Trainium capacity, Amazon’s proprietary chips. Why ‘Artificial’ is so controversial. ‘Artificial’ it has a comedy point bitter, and comes with the stamp of screenwriter Simon Rich, who worked on none other than ‘Saturday Night Live’. The story focuses on the 72 hours in November 2023 when the OpenAI board removed Altman and He hired him again days later.. The comparison with ‘The Social Network’, the film by David Fincher and Aaron Sorkin about the origins of Facebook, has come up numerous times among those who have been able to see ‘Artificial’. Also it has been said that Altman is portrayed as a pathological liar, and is described by another character in the film as “one of the most manipulative people on the planet.” All of this, of course, had been approved by Amazon, although the film apparently became darker as filming progressed. Some speculation suggests that Amazon saw the setup, realized the potential damage to its numbers and image, and that they simply did not want to commit billions at a stroke. Even more, is spoken that Amazon’s investment in OpenAI “undoubtedly” influenced the decision to abandon the film. September 2026. OpenAI wants to debut on the stock market in September 2026, with a valuation of between $730 billion and $850 billion. The company filed its confidential S-1 with the SEC on May 22, 2026. If the Initial Public Offering prepared by OpenAI goes well, Amazon’s stake appreciates very substantially. Possibly, the view of Altman as a pathological liar does not benefit this stock market bet, and Amazon does not want to be behind this hypothetical put a spanner in the works. Nobody wants ‘Artificial’. For some time now, we have seen how this same path that ‘Artificial’ has begun to take was experienced by films produced by companies eager not to spend more money than strictly necessary. It happened with ‘Coyote vs.- ACME‘, which has finally found its way, or with ‘The war of tomorrow‘, which Paramount produced and Prime Video released in the pandemic. The curious thing about this case is that no one seems to want to approach the project. CAA Media Finance, which represents Guadagnino, has been conducting private passes for potential distributorsand the likes of Netflix, A24, Focus Features, and Warner Bros.’ Clockwork have all nixed the project. At the moment, only Mubi or Neon are potential candidates. And how is this, that A24, queen of independents and difficult projectsAren’t you interested? Well, because the distributor is backed by Josh Kushner’s Thrive Capital, who sits on OpenAI’s board and is among its most prominent investors. Amazon’s story repeats itself with A24 because AI money is widespread throughout the entertainment financial ecosystem. And so it is difficult to produce ambitious and independent films. In Xataka | AI is going to generate unprecedented wealth. The question everyone is starting to ask is who is going to stay with her?

It’s one you can use on unlimited devices. And now it comes with four extra months with this flash offer

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If we talk about the best VPNsSurfshark must be included. This company, beyond its service, also stands out for continually launching promos throughout the year. They just released a new one that is not bad at all: if you subscribe to one of their plans, you get four extra months if you access through the link below. And their subscriptions start from 2.39 euros per month. Surfshark Starter Subscription – monthly The price could vary. We earn commission from these links A VPN that you can install on all your devices A VPN It is a tool that can come in handy, especially now that the holidays are approaching and perhaps we are taking a getaway away from home. It is true that we can use a free option at a specific time, but using these is not worth it in the long run.. The reason is simple: none is as safe as it promises. Imagine that you are going to travel abroad for a few days and you are going to stay in a hotel where there is WiFi or you need to connect at the airport. These types of unknown networks can be dangerous, but it is something we can solve by using a VPN. With this activated, we will pass all our Internet traffic through an encrypted tunnel and no one will be able to intercept our data. Ideal if, for example, you are going to order an Uber and your card is in the app. In addition, it can also be great for you if you are outside of Spain and want to watch the World Cup through your DAZN account. The Surfshark VPN is an option that, in addition to being secure, stands out because can be installed and used on all your devices without paying more. In addition, it is fast and has more than 4,500 servers to connect to. Finally, let’s go with the promo. Surfshark had been offering three extra months on its two-year subscriptions, but this has changed: now there are four extra months for one and two year subscriptions. In the long run, the most economical way is to go for 24 months, which would cost 2.39 euros per month (that is, a total of 66.92 euros). However, we would have 28 months in total. Do you prefer just one year? Then you would have to pay 3.09 euros per month or 49.44 euros in total for 16 months of VPN. Important: keep in mind that this promo It will only be available until next June 28. Some of the links in this article are affiliated and may provide a benefit to Xataka. In case of non-availability, offers may vary. Image | Marc Wieland, engin akyurtSurfshark In Xataka | Best VPNs: guide with the 17 best services to protect your online privacy In Xataka | Why it is dangerous to connect to public Wi-Fi and what you should do to protect yourself

has lost almost 20% of travelers in four months

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The INE data confirms the worst start to the year for Spanish high speed since the pandemic. Between January and April, the number of travelers on AVE, Avlo, Iryo and Ouigo It decreased by 19.6% compared to the same period in 2025going from 13.75 to 11.06 million passengers. The collapse comes after the Adamuz accident on January 18 and the numerous outages and breakdowns that the railway network is suffering these months. Adamuz has been a turning point. The train accident that occurred on January 18 in the Cordoba town of Adamuz, which claimed the lives of 46 people, caused the immediate cutting of the corridor between Madrid and Andalusia for several weeks. Furthermore, the tragedy led Adif to impose multiple temporary speed limitations (LTV) at different points of the network, after the train drivers denounced the poor state of the infrastructure. The result was longer travel times, poorly functioning services and sub-par punctuality. Month by month. February was the worst month. And the number of high-speed travelers plummeted by 32% compared to February 2025, according to INE data. In March the drop was 18% and in April, 15%, despite the arrival of Easter (where there is normally a great demand). The accumulated figure for the first four months of 2026 is even lower than that of the same period in 2024, when 11.63 million travelers were registered. A second runner out of commission. After the closure of the corridor affected by Adamuz, another blow was added: the Madrid-Málaga corridor was disabled for four months due to the detachment of a slope at the height of Álora (Málaga), caused by the intense rains that fell in Andalusia at the beginning of the year. Service was not restored until April 30. Punctuality. Beyond the cuts, high speed in Spain too has a punctuality problem. And according to him AVE and Renfe long distance punctuality reportonly 46.9% of trains arrived less than five minutes late during this period. In the Madrid-Barcelona corridor, the operators had to remove the last train of the day to avoid it coinciding with the maintenance slots, a direct consequence of the LTV. Just like account La Razón, Adif also extended travel times by 25 minutes in that corridor to facilitate conservation tasks. Other transport. The fall in high speed has not ended up being transferred to public transport as a whole. And it is that according to INE datain April, intercity bus grew by 4.7% and air transport by 3.2%, while urban transport (metro and city bus) rose by 8.4%, with the metro growing by almost 10%. Maritime, on the other hand, fell 11.2%. The sign of recovery. Despite the bad start to the year, there are signs that demand is picking up. The Trainline comparator points out that ticket prices are rising, with Madrid-Barcelona routes 9% more expensive compared to the summer of 2025, as a sign that demand is reactivated. Its general director in Europe, Pedro García, counted to El Mundo that predicts a “super promising” summer for the train, also supported by aid from the program Young Summer of the Ministry of Transportation and in the effect of railway liberalization since 2020, which has reduced the cost of routes such as Madrid-Málaga or Madrid-Valladolid by more than 50% compared to 2019. The underlying problem. What the Adamuz accident has highlighted is the fragility of a network that, in words from Trainline’s own Pedro García, needs investment to be able to compete with other European countries. The constant growth in passengers that the Spanish high speed had been registering (42% more since liberalization, according to Trainline) came to a halt in January, and recovering that trend will depend above all on the speed in the repair of the infrastructure as well as the confidence that travelers regain in the system. Cover image | Renfe In Xataka | The punctuality of trains in Germany is a myth: 100,000 million euros are going to be spent to solve it

Apple has designed Siri AI so that we can use the iPhone without touching it. I’ve been doing the same thing on my Android phone for months.

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A young Apple manager appears on the scene with a Profidén smile, very excited. “Siri is going to be much more conversational“he begins by saying. It refers, of course, to the new Siri AI that Apple has just presented. The hope—It has been difficult, we will see— is that finally Siri stop looking stupid. After talking about some of these options, the young man is encouraged to give a demonstration in real time. Press the side button and ask Siri about World Cup match planning for the first weekend. After a few seconds – the video is honest and reflects that Siri takes a few moments to respond, like any AI – the answer appears. The assistant suggests some dishes, but he thinks he remembers that someone mentioned a dessert from a friend. Siri, who has access to his messages and iPhone data, finds the answer and the young man asks him to plan the menu with that last dessert. You do so, and then ask Siri to set up a message to invite your chat group to the event. Soccer party set up. Everything seems to work, and it’s a relief, because this is just what one would have expected from Siri with AI. That’s the good news. The not so good thing is that this is actually latealthough as they say, better late than never: everything that the young man showed in that video we can do on Android phones thanks to Gemini for months and even years. I did the test on my mobile asking the same thing. It is true that it did not show me circular icons with the flags of the countries that face each other in each match (mini point for that Siri visual detail), but then I followed the same process. So, I asked him to recommend ideas for organizing a small party to watch one of the games with friends, and he suggested a menu similar to the one Siri proposed in the Apple demo. Then he suggested that I want to add the appointment to the calendar, and when I said yes, he told me to connect my calendar to Gemini, which I had not done yet, and the same thing if I wanted to invite friends to the event: he asked me for permission to access my contacts. Personally, I’m still not entirely comfortable with giving Gemini that access to those personal data on my phone, so the demo didn’t turn out as nice to me as it did to the Apple executive, but one thing is clear: the option is there if one wants to use it. The arrival of Siri AI, however, is great news, because it “normalizes” something that iPhone users inexplicably could not do when it had been available on Android phones for a long time. Copying Gemini is just what Siri needed Actually it doesn’t normalize it at all: European citizens will not have access to Siri AI on their iPhonesbecause Apple has indicated that the European DMA prevents it. Beyond the fact that this decision is motivated by much more delicate issues (such as the obsession with maintain full control of its platform), the reality for the moment will be that. But as we said, the arrival of Siri AI, although late, is very welcome because it confirms a paradigm shift that we are experiencing very little by little but that is infiltrating our lives: instead of touching our smartphone, we will talk to it. AI-powered conversational voice assistants, such as Gemini or Siri AI, will allow let’s do more and more things with our mobile without having to touch it. All you have to do is talk to it to ask for them, and AI models that are increasingly capable and have increasing access to the resources of our mobile phone—not only the data we store on it, but also its applications and services—execute those requests. Being able to customize Siri AI’s voice is a very strong point in this assistant. It is an evolution that is slowly and progressively creeping into our mobile usage routine. It also does so with continuous improvements both in the way of interacting with these AI-powered assistants and in the ability to personalize them. In fact, it was striking how Apple now offers a new voice for Siri AI, but above all it offers the possibility of modify that voice so that it has a different rhythm and expressiveness according to our preferences. The options shown by Apple are not at all new. We saw it when another Apple official asked, for example, that Siri AI search for information about an upcoming concert by a group in San Francisco or when it used the system’s “visual intelligence” to identify a place in a photo. All of this is basically a copy of what we already had on Android phones thanks to Gemini, and precisely that Google experience has been what Apple has taken advantage of to transfer all those capabilities to its devices. It’s good news. but maybe be more for Google than for Apple. In Xataka | Siri, help me commit suicide

Spain fails to comply with the rules with the registration of travelers. Brussels has just opened a file and gives him two months to fix it

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The European Commission opened this Thursday an infringement procedure against Spain for the controversial traveler registry promoted by the Ministry of the Interior. Brussels considers that the rule violates European regulations on data protection in the criminal field, by forcing hotels, digital platforms and car rental companies to collect and send personal information of tourists to a state database that is then accessible to the Police. We tell you all the details. What are we talking about? This is known as the Traveler Registry, regulated by the Royal Decree 933/2021 and fully operational since the end of last year. The regulations obliges accommodations, travel agencies and vehicle rental companies to upload their clients’ data into the ‘ses.hospedajes’ application and transmit them to a centralized Government database. Just like point La Vanguardia, the objective declared by the Interior, which can be read in the preamble of the decree itselfis to reinforce the fight against terrorism and organized crime, activities in which, the ministry argues, accommodation and the use of vehicles have special logistical relevance. What a reproach Brussels. The Commission points to three specific problems. First, consider that the categories of data collected and stored are “excessive”, due to the variety of sets they cover, including payment and GPS data. Second, it maintains that access by police authorities “is not limited to specific and explicit purposes”, as required by directive 2016/680. And third, it describes as “disproportionate” that these data are kept for three years after the traveler’s stay. Amount of data. One of the big discussions revolves around how much data there really is to deliver. The hotel sector has denounced that the standard requires up to 42 different fields, while the Government insists that only 13 are mandatory: name and surname, number and type of document, reference and date of the contract, arrival and departure dates, means of payment, telephone or email and the relationship of kinship when a minor travels. The remaining data, according to the Executive, are not mandatory to complete. The file. The procedure opens a period of two months for Spain to respond and correct the irregularities. If the answer is not convincing, the Commission can issue a reasoned opinion, a kind of official ultimatum. And if non-compliance persists, the last step would be to take the State before the Court of Justice of the EU. The reaction of the sector. Hoteliers and travel agencies have been on the warpath for some time. The Spanish Confederation of Hotels and Tourist Accommodations (CEHAT) has questioned the legality of the collection and transmission of data because it conflicts with European regulations on free circulation and data protection. After learning about the file, the agency associations Fetave and Unav They have asked the Government the “urgent suspension” of Royal Decree 933/2021 and an immediate meeting with the Interior, considering that the Executive “cannot act as if nothing had happened” when Brussels has formally questioned the compatibility of the rule with EU Law. And now what. Spain has two months to make a move. Interior can defend the rule, modify it or suspend it while the procedure is resolved. However, pressure is growing, on the one hand from the tourism sector, which has been demanding changes even before the rule came into force; on the other, that of the European Commission, which had already warned of the clash of that decision with data protection regulations. Now that warning is in writing, so we will have to wait and see how things progress. Cover image | François Genon and Square In Xataka | The European Union has been flooding the countryside with billions of euros for half a century. It has been of no use

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