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Behind him devastating fire which has evacuated and confined tens of thousands of people in the provinces of Ávila, Madrid and Toledo, the Minister of Labor has remembered that, given the severity of the damage caused to homes and infrastructureemployees should not “choose between their security and their employment”, inviting companies to take advantage of the social shield that allows them to request temporary ERTEs and give them time to recover their normality. On the other hand, many workers in the areas affected by the fire will have woken up today, with the fear still in their bodies, wondering what happens if I can’t get to my workplace because of the closed roads or evacuated areas. The law already has an answer for these force majeure causes: four days of paid leave. A right born from catastrophe. The so-called climate permit was born as a social shield measure after the DANA that devastated Valencia in 2024, when several workers died going to or returning from their workplace. The Government responded with Royal Decree-Law 8/2024that established a new assumption of paid leave in the Workers’ Statute. This change adds a new section to the article 37.3 and recognizes up to four days of absence without losing a single euro of salary due to force majeure. Those days, in addition, count as working time. That is, you do not have to recover them later. What exactly does it cover and who activates it?. Vice President Yolanda Díaz remembered it this weekend from her profile in Bluesky. The objective, he said, is that “working people who, as a result of the loss of their means of transportation or alterations in public or collective transportation, cannot travel to their workplace” are covered by this right until the situation is normalized. The minister also recalled that housing protection lasts until the family finds a “stable and adequate housing solution,” as Díaz explained. After four days, if the problem continues, the ERTE comes into play due to force majeure, which served as a response during the big blackout of this year and during the DANA of Valencia in 2024. The latest reform of this social shield allows those affected to enjoy the permit immediately: “the accreditation of any of these situations may be carried out later and by any means of proof.” Unions take the floor. For its part, CCOO too I remembered in networks the rights of those at serious risk from fire. From paralyzing the activity to justifying the absence without fear of sanctions. Territorial delegations of the union in affected areas insist that now it is time to “protect employment, protect companies and protect the productive fabric.” UGT has followed the same line, with its own question and answer document for affected people. “No one should choose between their health and their salary,” says the union in its release. Both warn of something important: accreditation can be done later. A simple screenshot of the official notice is enough to activate this right. A summer that is putting the law to the test. The July numbers explain why this paid leave is once again a social shield measure. The fires in Madrid, Ávila and Toledo now total more than 77,000 hectares burned. Spain is already close to 170,000 hectares burned so far this year. Only in the Sierra Oeste of Madrid and Ávila has it been possible to count close to 100,000 people affected, between evacuated and confined. With so many people confined without being able to move from their town, or without a town to return to, the permit is no longer the fine print and for many employees it becomes the difference between getting paid or not that month. The fire burns some more than others. The permit was designed to protect private sector workers and Administration staff, but it does not reach everyone. The USO union has denounced that more than three million public employees are outside this coverage. Likewise, self-employed employees cannot access that umbrella that does protect other employees. They can only access a benefit for cessation of activity if they contribute for that contingency. In Xataka | There is a heat wave, we work less: what exactly does the law say about working hours under extreme temperatures Image | Unsplash (mikhail serdyukov)

New York has discovered that its highest paid employee is not the mayor, it’s a plumber. It seemed impossible until they checked their schedule.

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In 1927, Al Capone’s accountants were not the ones who ended up putting him in court. They did it own financial records. When investigators began to review income, schedules and money movements, they discovered that the accounts told a very different story than the official one. Because many of the most striking investigations did not begin with a complaint, but with something simpler: carefully looking at a time sheet. The highest paid employee. The story begins last yeara time when, to everyone’s surprise, the highest-paid municipal employee in New York was not the mayor, nor the police chief, nor the head of the firefighters. No, it was Jakub Markowskia plumbing supervisor for the municipal public housing authority who entered $465,000. The figure immediately attracted attention because it practically placed him at the top of a workforce of some 350,000 public employees. A possible explanation and something more. The first investigations confirmed that a good part of that salary came from the crazy figure of almost 2,560 overtime hours accumulated during a single fiscal year. Translated into practice, it represents an average close to seven extra hours a day for an entire year, an extraordinary workload even for a service used to dealing with urgent breakdowns. However, when reviewing the municipal documentation an unexpected detail appeared: during that same period there was also at the head of two private companies plumbing workers who worked on dozens of jobs spread across some of the most exclusive neighborhoods in the city. It’s not the salary, it’s the time. That discovery completely changed the focus of the case. The New York Department of Buildings is now investigating whether the compatibility between both activities respected the regulations municipal and whether Markowski had the necessary authorization after being promoted in 2024 to a supervisory position related to fire safety. Not only that. Investigators are also analyzing whether he could exercise the direct supervision required by law in especially sensitive jobs, such as gas installations, while accumulating such a volume of activity. More and more doubts in the hours worked. The investigation also tries to clarify how their companies really worked. counted the new york times that, although Markowski was listed as a licensed plumber, several contractors recalled dealing primarily with another businessman, Robert Tarnawa, whose exact relationship to the work remains under scrutiny. Precisely this point is especially relevant because New York legislation requires that certain works be supervised directly and continuously by a licensed plumber. A case at the worst moment. The context doesn’t help either. The New York Housing Authority manages more than 240 residential complexes where nearly 300,000 people live and has a huge investment deficit for repair badly damaged buildings. In recent years, furthermore, the organization has been involved several scandals related to bribery, extortion and fraud overtime, which has increased scrutiny over any possible irregularities in the management of its resources. More questions than answers. To date, Markowski has not been formally accused of any wrongdoing and authorities insist that the investigation remains open. Nor has the details of the specific tasks that justified his thousands of overtime hours been made public, information requested by the own The New York Times through transparency legislation. What has become clear is that the story of New York’s highest-paid public employee has ceased to be that of an exceptional salary and has become that of an agenda that the authorities are examining minute by minute. As shared in the Times Attorney April McIver: “Allowing a single person to run a private plumbing company while serving as a city supervisor and logging more overtime than any other city employee is not only wasteful, it raises serious questions about the integrity, safety and oversight of the New York Housing Authority’s operations.” Image | sam valadi In Xataka | New York has launched its new and revolutionary garbage containers. Spain has been using them for years In Xataka | For decades we climbed this New York skyscraper without knowing that the screws that held it in place could not hold.

18 years ago he went viral for his famous “I’ve messed it up.” Now Antena 3 has paid him 50,000 euros to turn it into a meme

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Spain repeated the phrase “I have messed it up” with an unmistakable Madrid accent for almost two decades, being very clear about the origin (a young lifeguard whose intervention in the Antena 3 news program had gone viral on the Internet), but perhaps without knowing the true scope of the joke. The Provincial Court of Madrid has just set the effects of one of our most famous memes at 50,000 euros. The sentence. The Provincial Court of Madrid sentenced on May 5 Atresmedia to compensate the woman who starred in the video for “La he liado parda” with 50,000 euros. The court raised the amount set in the first instance, which had been 40,000 euros, and rejected the appeal presented by the audiovisual group. The resolution also orders the removal of the recordings from all Atresmedia platforms and prohibits their reuse in similar circumstances. What happened. The origin of the video is in the summer of 2008: an Antena 3 interview with a young lifeguard after an incident with chemicals in a swimming pool in San Sebastián de los Reyes, where she utters the phrase that would become a classic of Spanish humor. The original interview, protected by the right to information, is outside the sentence. What the sentence punishes is subsequent reuse: The condemnation also extends to La Sexta, Onda Cero and Europa FM, stations from the same group that continued to exploit the recording for years in comedy programs and compilations. The demand. The woman filed the lawsuit in 2021, after verifying that her voice and image continued to circulate without her permission. more than a decade later from that afternoon at the pool. There is an episode that gives an idea of ​​the scope and consequences of the video: years after the recording, some police officers, upon identifying her, came to comment among themselves “we are here with the one who has gotten into trouble.” It is just an anecdote that allows us to guess the pernicious reach of a video that went viral without the woman’s permission: it took her several years to return to work, it was an ordeal for her to see her image on television, she found herself wearing t-shirts with her face on it and she even had problems developing her profession almost a decade later, due to anxiety attacks, hospitalizations and medical leave. Who pays for the meme. The ruling does not hold Atresmedia responsible for the original viralization of the video, which attributed to the dynamics of the internet and social networks. The damage is “serious” in moral terms, although it is not entirely attributable to the chain. What he does attribute to him is the decision to continue broadcasting that material for years in his own programs, with massive audiences, when there was no longer any informative justification. Atresmedia is not planned appeal the sentence to the Supreme Court Other victims of memetics. The case of the Madrid lifeguard is, of course, not the first. The Star Wars Kid dates back to 2002, and his fame began when, at the age of 14, he recorded himself imitating a Star Wars lightsaber combat. A colleague found the tape, uploaded it to the Internet and the video became one of the first big virals on the internet. As a result, the boy suffered bullying, had to change schools and received psychiatric treatment. His family sued the colleagues responsible, claiming around $250,000 and reached an out-of-court settlement in 2006. Years later, he explained that a crime would have given him more legal protection than a viral video without his consent, since juvenile laws did not contemplate that scenario at that time, which was not yet known as cyber bullying. Victims in Spain. In Spain, the perhaps best-known case is that of Álvaro Muñoz, the 12-year-old boy who burst into unexpected racist comments when talking about tranquility is what is sought in the summer pools. He suffered his corresponding share of bullying and harassment when his address was made public, he received 17 complaints of racism and spent five years going to juvenile court. Recently has announced that he had regretted the comments and was entering a seminar, closing this circle of Celtiberia Memes. Luckily not all the protagonists of youth memes in Spain are broken toys: Miquel Montoro, the boy from “Host, piles”has become influencer of the rural world with social media accounts that exceed 400,000 subscribers. And José Gómez, who uttered the glorious phrase “You can’t live off petanque” has ended up becoming world champion of the discipline. The meme as a meat grinding machine. Researcher Limor Shifman defines memes, in her book ‘Memes in Digital Culture’as units of digital content created, imitated and transformed with the awareness of belonging to the same shared pattern. This is what explains why “La he liado parda” survived for so long: it stopped being the testimony of a specific person and became a reusable piece, without the need to reference the original event. The ruling recognizes, in some way, this mechanism: the magistrates distinguish between the legitimate informative use of the interview and its subsequent reuse for entertainment purposes, which they consider an interference in the right to one’s own image. Journalist Jon Ronson describe Similar processes occur when digital lynchings take place: the target loses its personal context and begins to function as a symbol of the transgression it represents, almost as if it were a company that has been involved in a public relations disaster and not a person with a life behind it. In this case, that symbol was not just constructed by anonymous users: the network itself that recorded the original interview fueled its circulation for more than a decade. In Xataka | When a town found a dead whale on its beaches, it decided to dynamite it. 55 years later they still celebrate it

We sensed that the peace agreement had been expensive for the US. What we did not imagine is the crazy amount that is going to be paid to Iran

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Exactly 10 years ago, the image of an airplane downloading 400 million of dollars in cash in Iran became one of the most controversial symbols of Barack Obama’s foreign policy. In fact, Trump spent years using that episode as proof that Washington had “paid” for peace. Ten years later, history repeats itself… but with many more zeros. The peace bill. The truth is that it was sensed from the first moment that the cease-fire between the United States and Iran was not exactly going to come free for Washington. What no one imagined was the magnitude of the price: up to 300,000 million of dollars in the form of a reconstruction and investment fund to relaunch the Iranian economy. The figure is so enormous that it completely transforms the narrative of the war. What began as a campaign of maximum pressure and bombings on nuclear facilities has ended up mutating into something much more uncomfortable for the White House: an agreement where the supposedly punished person can leave with a historic financial injection if it complies. Kharg Island From punishing to financing. The paradox could not be more brutal for Donald Trump. For years he built a good part of his speech attacking the Barack Obama nuclear pactdenouncing that he had filled Tehran with “pallets of money.” Now his administration is promoting something that potentially multiplies that concession on another scale. The argument is that the money will not come directly from the US Government, but from Western and Asian companies that would enter Iran if sanctions are lifted. But the geopolitical effect is the same: Iran’s economic survival becomes guaranteed by a deal that Washington desperately needed to close. Hormuz, the key. It we were counting yesterday. The real trigger for the turn was not nuclear, but economic. When Iran blocked the Strait of Hormuz, it left more than a fifth of the world’s oil and gas trade up in the air. The market held out for a few days, but the pressure began to be unbearable. More than 500 ships were trapped, maritime traffic plummeted and the world’s largest shipping companies began to warn that reopening the route would not be immediate. Everything changed there. The war ceased to be a regional issue and became a direct threat to the global economy and, above all, to the pockets of the American consumer. Washington chose oil. That’s where the interests of Washington and Israel diverged. While Benjamin Netanyahu wanted keep pressing To further weaken the Iranian regime and even force a change in regional balance, Trump saw the domestic political cost of prolonging the energy crisis. With elections approaching and the price of oil as a threat, the priority stopped being to subdue Iran and became reopening Hormuz as soon as possible. In practice, this meant accepting a much more limited agreementfocused on navigation, ceasefire and future nuclear negotiations. Israel doesn’t see it. I was counting this morning the wall street journal that in Jerusalem the reading is almost opposite. The fear is not just that Iran will receive billions, but that it will do so without immediately handing over all of its enriched uranium or completely giving up rebuilding its nuclear program. For many Israeli strategists, this means that Tehran gains oxygentime and resources to rearm. Furthermore, they see profound damage to American credibility: after months of military and economic pressure, the end result looks more like a purchased pause than a strategic victory. A peace that strengthens some. The agreement, therefore, leaves an uncomfortable and quite surreal image: the United States bombed, pressured and isolated Iran to end up offering the conditions for its reconstruction. The Iranian regime comes out beaten, yes, but alive, with the Strait as a negotiating weapon and with the possibility of receiving an avalanche of foreign investment. Of course, Trump could possibly sell it as stability and containment nuclear. But seen from the outside, the feeling is very different: peace has not only cost Washington dearly, but it may end up financing the very actor it tried to corner and overthrow. Image | US Navy, Google Earth In Xataka | We have been fearing the Apocalypse for 100 days due to the closure of Hormuz. The blow is going to be given to us by a heat wave in China In Xataka | Ukraine turned drones into hunters. A helicopter shot down in Hormuz has transformed them into a Spielberg film

Self-employed people can collect two retirement pensions together. The fine print is that they must have paid for both

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There is one thing that any worker who contributes to Social Security expects: to receive a retirement pension. when your working life ends. What not many people know is that you can collect up to two retirement pensions: one if you have listed as self-employed and another if you have done it in the general regime as an employee. The fine print, of course, is that it is not enough to have contributed a couple of years in each regime. The conditions for both benefits to be recognized They are quite demanding. But yes, you can retire with two retirement pensions. What exactly does Social Security say?. The Social Security website has an answer Directly for that doubt, you may have the right to collect a retirement pension from the General Regime and another from the Special Regime for Self-Employed Workers (RETA) as long as the contribution requirements for each one are met separately. That is, having at least 15 years of contributions in each of the regimes. If at the time of retirement the requirements of any of them are not met, they are accumulated in the one that is. That is, they continue to count for the regime that does comply, although only one pension will be received, as established in article 205 of the General Law of Social Security. First requirement: meet the minimum contribution. The first requirement to receive two retirement pensions is the minimum required for any worker who wants to access a retirement benefit. That is, have the required age to retire and have contributed enough years to receive it. In 2026, that means have quoted at least 38 years and 3 months (to retire at age 65) or less time if you wait until age 66 years and 10 months, which is the ordinary age for this year. The second requirement: 15 years in each modality. The second requirement is a little less common, and that is why not many people can access this type of double pension: prove moonlighting simultaneous. In other words, to receive it, the worker must be registered in both the RETA and the General Regime. That is, be listed as an employee and an employee simultaneously, and prove a minimum of 15 years of contributions in each of the regimes. This contribution can be simultaneous (15 years registered in both) or overlapping (15 years as an employee and 15 more years as a self-employed worker). If the worker is not registered in the General Regime but is in the RETA at the time of retirement, he or she must prove that at least two of those years must have overlapped within the last 15 years prior to retirement. In other words, you may have been alternating periods of time as an employee and as a self-employed person throughout your working life until you add 15 years of each, but two of those years of change between one regime and another must occur during the last 15 years of your working life, as specified in the article 205.1b of the General Law of Social Security. There must be a coincidence of both in the years prior to retirement, it is not useful to have contributed 16 years as an employee at the beginning of your working career and then another 23 years only as a self-employed person. If not multiply, add. At this point, many of you will have had a question come to mind: if you don’t reach 15 years of contributions in one of the two, what happens to those contributions, are they lost? This is where the article 49 of the General Law of Social Security. If, for example, you have contributed for 10 years as a self-employed person, but you do not reach the minimum to collect a pension for the RETA, but you do for your work as an employee, the regulations contemplate that these contribution bases as a self-employed person can be accumulated to those you have generated as an employee (or vice versa), but only for calculate the regulatory base that determines How much will your pension be?not to add more years of contributions. This means that those years of self-employment do count, even if they do not generate a second pension. They raise the regulatory base and, with it, the amount of the pension that you do collect. Two pensions, but one pension capped. Collecting two pensions at the same time does not mean being able to add any amount. Although these are two benefits from different regimes, there is a maximum limit for pensions contributions that also apply in this case. In 2026, this ceiling is set at 3,359.60 euros per month, in 14 paymentswhich is equivalent to 47,034.40 euros per year. If the sum of the two pensions exceeds that figure, the cut will be applied up to that amount. This means that it only makes economic sense to collect two pensions if each of them, on its own, falls below the maximum. In most cases, people in this situation will have contributed fewer years for the RETA than for the General Regime, so their two pensions, added together, are usually well below the ceiling. In Xataka | In Spain, those over 65 years of age are working like never before. It’s not passion for work: it’s for retirement age Image | Unsplash (Matt Bennett)

“Workers should be paid as much as possible”

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Jensen Huang, in addition to being one of the Most charismatic CEOs of the AI ​​industry, always sheathed in his black leather jacketit is also a great strategist in terms of human resources, applying that phrase attributed to Richard Branson, CEO of Virgin: “Take care of your employees and they will take care of your business.” According to collected Bloombergduring his recent visit to the Computex fair in Taipei, Huang assured that “workers should be paid as much as possible. I pay my employees as much as I can.” The NVIDIA CEO’s statement comes in a context in which large semiconductor manufacturers, even those that make NVIDIA chips, are under enormous union pressure to distribute the benefits that the AI ​​boom is bringing them. Samsung and the threat of unemployment that changed everything. The spark that ignited the debate was ignited in Samsung’s memory division in South Korea. More than 40,000 workers gathered in front of its Pyeongtaek factory and threatened to stop Samsung’s memory production if the company did not improve their salaries and added a bonus linked to the division’s profits. Samsung manufactures part of the HBM memory that powers AI servers around the world, so a stoppage in production would put the already critical situation of the memory market in serious trouble. The agreement arrived at the last minute and the company will distribute a bonus worth an average of 513 million won (about $340,000) among the 78,000 employees of its chip division. The pressure came from the competition. Although union conflicts They are not something new for Samsungit is no coincidence that the manufacturer has just now given in to the workers’ demands. Its direct rival in the manufacturing of memory semiconductors, SK Hynix, has been setting the salary pace in the sector for some time. Last September, SK Hynix agreed with its employees to allocate 10% of annual operating profit to bonus for employees. With a record profit of 47.2 trillion won in 2025, the result was an average bonus of 2,964% of the monthly base salary. For an employee with a salary of 100 million won a year, that means collecting a bonus of more than 148 million extra won at a time. The reaction was immediate, more than 200 Samsung engineers left to SK Hynix within four months. Turning the making of memories into a fight to retain your best talent. TSMC is also moving. The battle for talent on memory chip production lines did not stop in Korea. The contagion reached Taiwan, where TSMC, which manufactures practically all the advanced chips on the planethas not stayed still either. As and how I collected Bloombergas soon as rumors began to circulate in internal forums about the possible reduction of bonuses, the CEO of TSMC called a meeting in which he announced that his profit bonuses were going to increase by more than 30% this year. The semiconductor industry is at a time of such high demand for AI chips that companies that depend on scarce skilled talent cannot afford to lose them. TSMC already assigned about 103 billion Taiwan dollars to its incentive program in 2025, 46.6% more than the previous year. This year he has no choice but to dig deep into his pocket again to pay his employees’ bonuses. if you want to keep them. NVIDIA employees are already millionaires. Of course, if there is anyone in the AI ​​industry who can make such statements about employee compensation, it is Huang. Nvidia has been doing what its CEO preaches for years. After the collapse of 80% of NVIDIA shares in 2008, Huang launched a stock purchase plan for employees with a 15% discount. Who participated when the stock was low and held it, now he is simply a millionaire. Nearly 50% of NVIDIA employees today have a higher net worth at 25 million dollars. “I review the compensation of all employees to this day. I review the 42,000 and 100% of the time I increase the expense,” Huang said. in a All-In Podcast. “If you take care of people, the rest takes care of itself.” In Xataka | NVIDIA was founded by three engineers, but only Jensen Huang remains CEO: “I wish I had kept some shares” Image | NVIDIA

A man paid $23 for a PC case at an auction. He discovered inside a 24-core CPU and an RTX 3080 Ti

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Online auctions are full of unexpected opportunities, but few stories surprise as much as this one. Imagine entering a local second-hand platform with the idea of ​​​​getting a simple computer case. You’re not looking for anything spectacular, just a large chassis for future projectssomething functional and cheap. You place a low, almost token bid, and expect nothing more than a basic item wrapped in cardboard. However, when you pick it up, something doesn’t add up: it weighs more than expected, it sounds different, and what seemed like a routine purchase becomes the beginning of an anecdote that sweeps Reddit. The story broke through Redditwhere the buyer posted the find on r/pcmasterrace. According to images published by “LlamadeusGame”, the box was not empty nor did it contain old parts, but rather a complete high-end computer. In its photos you can see a TRX40 AORUS Pro WiFi motherboard with an AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3960X 24-core processor, accompanied by 256 GB of RAM and a graphics card NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti. Although the interior shows accumulated dust, the screenshot shared by the user indicates that the system works and recognizes all hardware. When a cheap bid turns into treasure The details of the operation are available on the Capital City Online Auctions website, where the lot is still published. It is number 123 and describes a box Fractal Design Define 7 XLpriced at $317.99. The final bid was $23.50 plus commission, according to the official listing. The images associated with the advertisement only showed the box inside a cardboard and a catalog photo, without giving any clues as to its real contents. The contrast between the price paid and the real value of the components is striking. According to AMD and NVIDIA launch prices, only the Ryzen Threadripper 3960X processor It was originally sold for $1,399.while the RTX 3080 Ti It exceeded $1,100 at its release in 2022. Even with current depreciation, the complete set can fetch thousands of dollars on the secondhand market, especially because of the large amount of RAM. The Capital City Online Auctions ad included clear warnings: all items were sold “as-is,” with no warranty or return option. He also insisted in what bids had to be based on the written description and not in the images, which could be archival. Pickup was in-person only, with no delivery option, and the site’s rules state that any dispute must be resolved through arbitration in Ohio. The case raises an interesting question: how far does a buyer’s liability go in such a situation? The user paid what the bid indicated and picked up the item according to the rules, so they have not broken any auction rules. However, some commenters on Reddit wonder if they should have notified the company to correct what appears to be a cataloging error. Capital City Online Auctions’ policy makes it clear that sales are final, but the ethical debate remains open: take advantage of luck or return the find? Buying this PC case remembers that in online auctions there is always a component of risk and surprise. In this case, the buyer obtained high-level equipment for the price of a chassis part. Beyond the stroke of luck, the story underscores the importance of reading the fine print and reviewing lots before any move. Images | LlamadeusGame (Reddit) | Capital City Online Auctions In Xataka | Corning succeeded by manufacturing the “armored” glass in our phones. Now it has become Nvidia’s whim In Xataka | Nvidia’s superpower is not having money, it is making everyone work for it: Foxconn is the latest to join A version of this article was published in September 2025

What do they offer and how much do the paid versions of these apps cost?

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We are going to tell you the features and price of paid subscriptions for Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp that have been announced by Meta. With them, in exchange for a small payment you will get a few extra functions, with which you have total control over how your content is displayed and who can see it. These subscriptions have already begun to roll out in the United States. However, We still don’t know when it will arrive in Europe nor the price that subscriptions will have in euros. However, we can already know the characteristics and the price in dollars, something that guides us to know what they intend to offer us. Features and price of Instagram Plus and Facebook Plus The paid versions of Instagram and Facebook are designed to give you greater control over your content. You will be able to decide much better how it is displayed and who sees it. These are its exclusive features. Stories Analytics: You will be able to know how many people have seen a story again. You can also search directly in the list of views. Flexibility and reach: It will allow your stories to last more than 24 hours, with an option to “Highlight” for a week to boost their views. Privacy: Currently in you can create a list of Best Friends. Well, if you pay you will be able to create other unlimited lists of users to control who sees what. In addition, you will be able to see other users’ stories invisibly, and make posts on your profile that do not appear in your followers’ feeds. Cosmetics– You’ll also get custom app icons, timeline fonts, animated reactions, and profile pins. Price: The price of this subscription is 3.99 dollars per month (approximately 3.50 euros) Features and price of WhatsApp Plus After years fighting against the famous application that installs viruses called WhatsApp Plus, Meta is going to use the same name for its paid version of WhatsApp. It will offer some of the most requested features by users in terms of customization. They are the following: Themes for the application. Custom ringtones for specific contacts. You can set up to 20 chats. List customization. Exclusive premium stickers. Meta One Features and Price Finally, you should know that there will also be a Meta One payment service, with new plans to be tested soon in some countries. They are plans designed for professionalswith artificial intelligence functions. These are the plans: Goal One Plus– Unlocks more advanced image and video generation capabilities. $7.99 per month. Meta One Premium: designed for the most demanding. It will offer access to a superior model and benefits linked to Meta Ray-Ban glasses. $19.99 per month. Meta One Essential– Includes the classic verification badge, phishing protection, and an improved links page. $14.99 per month. Meta One Advanced: the definitive plan for business. It offers increased visibility in search, prominent positioning in the feed, a large “Follow” button in Reels, competitor analytics, sending invitations, and moderator management tools. $49.99 per month. In Xataka Basics | Member labels in WhatsApp: what they are and how to use them to organize the members of a group

The generation that paid not to see ads has changed its mind. And Netflix has been the main beneficiary

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Netflix’s ad-supported plan It already reaches 250 million people a monthtwice as much as a year ago. What started as a defensive bet to retain subscribers who were unsubscribing has become the model that defines where the market is going. streaming. Why is it important. The psychological barrier against advertisements has not been broken by any image campaign or by any rebranding. He has broken it the price. The plan with advertising costs 8.99 euros per month. The standard without ads, 14.99. This difference of six euros per month, or its equivalent in different regions, is what has convinced 250 million people to accept advertising interruptions in the service for which they previously paid precisely to not have them. Netflix has not changed its users’ attitude toward ads. He just put a number in front of it. The context. Netflix launched this plan in November 2022 as a kind of concession. The company had lost subscribers that year for the first time in a decade and needed a cheaper option for users who were threatening to leave. The hypothesis was to retain customers on the margin. Three years later, that second-tier plan has become the company’s growth engine. Between the lines. The real movement is not the 250 million users. They are the ads that those users are going to see. Netflix has announced that it is testing a personalization tool that adjusts ads based on each account’s viewing habits. Anyone who watches a lot of crime series will see different ads than someone who binge-watches romantic comedies. When that system matures, Netflix will not sell generic advertising space but rather qualified attention to segmented audiences with a level of precision that classic TV cannot offer. Advertisers are much more interested in reaching a million people who are likely to buy their product than ten million who don’t care. New phase. Netflix plans to extend the ads to his feed vertical video for mobilethe one that has just been released, and also to the podcasts that it added to the platform last year. The company is also expanding the advertising plan to 15 new countries, including the Netherlands, Poland, Sweden, Switzerland and Indonesia. Netflix’s advertising business is no longer an experiment but a line of income with its own ambition. Yes, but. A few days ago, a US prosecutor presented a lawsuit against Netflix alleging that it has misled subscribers about what data it collects to serve advertising. If it prospers, or if other states follow the same path, Netflix could suffer restrictions that directly affect the tool that allows it to sell that personalized advertising. The new Netflix’s most valuable asset is the behavioral data of 250 million viewers. And that asset now has a lawsuit over it. In Xataka | The death of television as a center of attention: Netflix writes its scripts thinking about the “second screen” Featured image | Xataka

We paid for the most expensive tomato in the last decade and farmers claim that they can’t pay the bills. They are right

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“I’d rather throw away the harvest than pay us 80 cents per kilo of tomatoes.” Almost a year ago, Riojan farmer Clara Sarramián gave an interview to Jaime Gumiel that still kicking. Above all, because it explains in a simple and accessible way the last five years of tractor units. And yet, no matter how much it is repeated, Sarramián’s speech and that of other farmers never ceases to surprise: “they wanted to pay me half as much as the previous year. I preferred to throw it away. If we all go through the hoop, we are going against ourselves,” he says. We have heard it many times, yes; but does it make sense? Are they right in their complaint? That is the first thing to clarify and the truth is that if we look at the data, it is difficult to say no. The origin-destination commercial margin of tomato reached in 2025 81.1% (second highest in a decade)according to data from the Observatory of the Junta de Andalucía. In fact, without leaving aside the case of the tomato, a 2020 study by the Institut Cerdà on the value chain pointed out that the total cost of tomatoes is €0.61/kg (labor 0.258; seeds 0.081; structure 0.078; fertilizers 0.059; others) compared to the €0.57/kg paid to the producer. And this is data from 2017: the situation has only worsened since the war in Ukraine. It doesn’t seem like the best business in the world. In fact, it seems like a pretty bad one. Above all, because although we have been developing regulations for years that allow us to limit the impact of these problems, they all end up in a dead letter. Furthermore, the external pressure (especially from Morocco for the tomato issue) is enormous. And many of the main market players play “double agents” because they are conglomerates with investments on both sides of the Strait. Why should we care? I imagine that the simplest data to understand how this impacts the consumer is this: we are paying for fresh tomatoes. the highest price in the last decade and, at the same time, the farmer who grows it in Spain affirms that it does not pay him to harvest it. And, anyway, as we have just seen, he is right. And, under these circumstances, why would they want to throw away the harvest? That is to say, it is worth paying below cost; But something will always be better than nothing, right? And that idea makes sense, but it ignores some important things. To begin with, that between 25 and 30% of agricultural costs They occur in collection, packaging, transportation and wholesale sales (with possible associated losses). If they are not collected, the farmer loses what he has already invested, yes. But it does not incur more costs that it cannot recover. Furthermore, as we have seen in situations like lemon either the bananaletting part of the harvest be lost prevents prices from collapsing. It is not an easy strategy to implement (because there are always people with incentives to sell as the price rises), but it is a rational strategy. Tick ​​tock Tick ​​tock All this happens in a very specific context: in June it begins the negotiation of the post-2027 CAP and that is what makes the key question not “why does Clara Sarramián throw away her tomatoes?” but “how do we ensure that one of the central industries of the Spanish economy (the only one that supports the emptied Spain) does not die in a matter of a few years?” Image | Rachel Clark In Xataka | We have a problem with pesticides in agriculture. And a bigger one with the panic they generate

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