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Those responsible for the Robinson list deny having been hacked. The data of more than 600,000 people are at stake

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Hackmanac hackeos monitoring account published A few hours ago a worrying advertisement: the Robinson list It has supposedly hacked in Spain. According to hacking data, personal data of 614,197 people They would have been exposed. Among these data are full names, postal addresses, ID, telephone, date of birth and emails. These data represent a real treasure for cybercriminals who make use of the phishing technique to try to cheat users. With this information they can make personalized messages even try to supplant identities in attacks more specific to anyone. Our partners Xataka mobile indicate who have contacted Adigital, the agency that manages the Robinson list. Those responsible deny that this hacking has occurred And they have issued the following statement: “We have carefully reviewed the information available with our technical and legal team and we can conclude with total security that there has been no hacking or illicit access to our systems. In any case, we will be attentive to evolution and make our knowledge and tools available to the Spanish Agency for Data Protection.” The Robinson list is An advertising exclusion service to which any Spanish citizen can sign up for free. Its objective is to send advertising to registered users, both to their postal addresses and email or by mobile messages. A potential theft of the data on the list could precisely cause the opposite: that these users became direct victims of future Phishing attacks. It remains to be seen if the information published by Hackmanac and other media was really true or not – the authenticity of cyberboo is To be confirmed– But the organism presume to maintain the most important repository in the world of “verified, successful and publicly known cyberbrays.” In Xataka | The Robinson list works. And the companies that jump are already known the punishment: 10,000 euros

The traditional couple model is in crisis. And it has translated into more people eating alone in restaurants

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Eating is a necessity, a pleasure … and also (in your own way) A social act. Around the tables we celebrate, remember and honor. We remain for dinner in our first events, to celebrate birthdays and promotions, the arrival of the New Year or say goodbye to that friend who moves to another city. Eating has always been synonymous with sharing, especially if we do it in a bar, where it also becomes a public act, exposed to unknown looks. Or at least so it was until now. Table for one, please. It is very simple. He arrives with any restaurant at rush hour and observing the room: There are more and more people eating alone. And not by obligation or because he does not have anyone to share dinner. On the contrary. We do it by choice, to enjoy loneliness and backs to the stigma that until not so long persecuted those who sat alone at tables that were designed precisely to gather large groups. Impressions … and data. As with most trends, there are studies and percentages that help us better understand their scope. Although finding a site to eat alone It is not always simplein the OpenTable US calculates that the reserves for a single diner 64% have shot Since 2019. Moreover, between 2022 and 2023, Resyanother New York reservation platform, calculates that requests of this type increased by 21%. They are forceful percentages and it is not unreasonable to think that they are short. After all, both opening and resy register only those who reserve in advance, not those who appear in the premises without calling before. Is there more data? Yes. And although there may be variations from one study to another, most point in the same direction. In 2024, opening calculated that the alone dinners in the United Kingdom had experienced a year -on -year increase of 14%percentage that in the case of Manchester stretched until reaching 23%. Other studies They also talk that the ‘Only Dining’ He has gained weight in Germany and Japan or that the number of Americans who recognize having recently has grown by 53% In just two decades, between 2003 and 2023. And Spain? There are some indicators that suggest that Spain does not remain oblivious to that trend. In 2022 Mapfre published A FOOD REPORT in which he revealed that, although most of the Spaniards continue to enjoy the family meals, between 2017 and 2022 the number of people who sit at the table without company, especially during working days, increased 5%. In 2020, in full pandemic, Thefork also perceived that the reserves for a single person had grew by 4% In our country. Of course, they were still a minority. In an attempt to go further in 2024 Reasonwhy did A poll Among several restaurant chains with presence in Spain that showed that, at least in part of them, it is increasingly common to see customers without company. Well because they are more or because those who already ate alone before do it now more often. Alsea, behind Vips, Ginos or Foster´s Hollywood, requires that 7% of Foster´sy customers 18% of those of VIPs eat without anyone next. And what is the reason? The right thing would be to talk about reasons, in plural. When analyzing the trend, so much The sector As analysts usually coincide in certain factors that have clearly influenced customers. Above all there are two: pandemic, with its restrictions and fear of infection; and a cultural change that leads us to look with other eyes to those who sit in a restaurant without a company. “That a person was lonely has always been might, but now that taboo to exhibit loneliness has broken,” Notice in The country José A. González, anthropologist. “It was growing before pandemic, but now it has been strengthened because we have become accustomed to being alone,” agrees Chef Lola Marín. “In addition, it was unthinkable that a woman was alone to eat or take a wine to a bar. Luckily it is now more common.” Even in networks They can be found Videos of people who presume that: to enjoy their dinner alone. Generational issue? There are those who believe that there is another factor that has influenced so much or more than the COVID: the change of mentality that accompanies the Z generation and the Millennials. Whether or not the truth is that the trend is accompanied by a transformation of Spanish society itself, in which It is increasingly common meet people living alone. If the INE forecasts do not fail in 2039 there will be some 7.7 million of unipersonal homes, 33.5% of the total. Question of loneliness (s). That we normalize loneliness does not mean that all loneliness is the same or all its positive effects. In fact it also carries certain challenges, as I collected recently An article of The New York Times in which a curious relationship is pointed out: in the US the increase of the people who eat alone has coincided with a worsening of the country’s general happiness index. The reason: not all loneliness is deliberate. The professor of the University of Oxford Jan-Emmanuel de Neve even It goes further and reflect on the implications that excessive isolation can have. “That we are increasingly socially isolated also assumes that we do not test our ideas about the world with other people,” he says. The result, in his opinion, is an amplification of echo chambers and polarization. Image | Ismail Hamzah (Unspash) In Xataka | More and more Spanish bars refuse to pay at the table. Its objective is very simple: greater rotation

"I never say that I have lost weight thanks to Ozempic": The ‘Ozempicazozo’ taboo, the people who hide that they consume it

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There is a certain pattern around the social perception of thinness: we glorify it, yes, but we stigmatize the shortcuts to achieve it. AND That little contradiction has become very visible with the rise of Ozempic. Who thinns with effort receives admiration; Who does it with medication receives contempt. “Ozempicazo“It is the derogatory term that is being used in networks to indicate to those who are suspected that they have lost weight by resorting to this drug. Figures such as Ibai Llanos in Spain either Mike Pompeo in the United States They have been suspicious objects after their bodily transformation. A few weeks ago we published a report in which those who turned to Ozempic to lose weight They told us their long -term experience. Today we rescue some of their voices and add new ones to talk about this phenomenon. How complicated it can be to admit the use of Ozempic. Ismael, 35 -year -old Alicante, explains that “people see very well that you are thinner, they congratulate and comply with you, but when you tell them how you have achieved it, the perception changes.” In his case, he went from touching 100 kilos at 81 kilos, something he considers more acceptable for his stature. In Xataka Ozempic will soon become a thing of the past: this is what we know about the new generation of drugs for weight loss “It is a double moral, I have friends who put protein powder, creatine and several more things to be strong, with them there is never a problem. If I turn to a drug to lose overweight, then they do tell me that I have not struggled, that it is a shortcut,” he explains. “It seems that losing weight must imply suffering to be legitimate. So I stopped giving explanations about my weight loss, I don’t comment on, I thank and change the subject. “ Ismael’s point is that no one questions the use of pain or antidepressants for mental health, but to lose weight, pharmacology is considered a trap. Clara, which fell from 87 to 69 kilos, synthesizes it: “I have tried or remember how many diets without results, or with results but rebound effect, and when I find something effective, it seems that it is not acceptable because I have not been enough hungry.” Cristina, a 46 -year -old Valencian, has lost more than 16 kilos with Rybelsus (pills) first and Mounjaro (Injectable and Ozempic competitor) later. “I never say that I have lost weight with Ozempic, nor that it is with a puncture or with pills. I have turned it around,” he confesses. When asked for his weight loss, he turns half truths: “I tell that I did an analytical and saw that I had a little high thyroid and insulin resistance, so they gave me a treatment and that has derived in a certain weight loss.” In Xataka If the alcohol industry no longer had enough problems, it has now encountered one more: Ozempic “It’s like I feel bad to put it,” he explains about his reluctance to reveal the real method. “It is as forbidden, as is frowned upon.” This stigma is so entrenched that even when someone asked him directly if he used Ozempic, he denied it: “I got out of my heart to tell him no“. This contradiction generates frustration:” Now that I think about it, it gives me anger. Why do I hide? If my money I spend it on what I want. “ The Dr. Alicia Taboadasubspecialized family doctor in cardiovascular risk and endocrinological diseases, offers A nuanced vision of the phenomenon: “First of all, I would like to remember that obesity is a chronic disease and in the same way that we treat other diseases with drugs, it is normal to use a medication that has shown to lower weight and reduce cardiovascular risk, joint problems and even mental problems.” According to Dr. Taboada, the stigma has its nuances: “As for the people who hide Ozempic, They are normally patients who have a discreet overweight or who want to lose a few kilos. A patient with morbid obesity has no shame in saying that Ozempic is being punctured. “ There are legitimate criticisms, mainly The shortage that has affected diabetic patients. “The fact that it was so criticized has also been because until now we only had Ozempic, a drug in principle only for diabetics,” explains Dr. Taboada. “The one that many people were using it made the diabetics run out of the drug. But today this would not have to be because there is because it exists Wegovywhich is the same molecule but specific for weight control. “ Criticism increases to public figures that do not transparent its methods. Influencers that attribute physical transformations exclusively to diet and exercise, omitting possible pharmacological aids, They generate unreal expectations in vulnerable audiences. It is complicated. {“Videid”: “X7ZO910”, “Autoplay”: False, “Title”: “Added sugars: how to avoid them and improve the diet?”, “Tag”: “sugar”, “Duration”: “220”} “We have met people who do not want to prick, who want to make a normal diet,” says Dr. Taboada. “And really if they do well, if they make food changes, they get weight off too. You never have to force anyone. To clicking you will be easier because you are not going to go hungry, it is true, but if you have a lot of willpower, you can make a diet without the need for any drug.” The rebound effect adds another layer to the stigma. Pilar recovered 30 kilos after suspending the treatment, reinforcing the narrative that the method was not “authentic” or “sustainable.” On this, the doctor is clear: “It is said that they are drugs that should be taken for life, but unfortunately their price makes not everyone to do it, which is the vast majority. The most important thing is to establish changes in the lifestyle, because if we leave that drug, the patient will bounce.” Outstanding image | HAVEREDAS in … Read more

Millions of people drink from the water that arrives from the snow of the K2. We have just discovered pollutants in them

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The K2 is the second highest peak on the planet after Everest and probably one of the most difficult and dangerous peaks to reach for climbers. It owes its name to the Karakórum mountain range, where it is located. It is located in a remote puppy area played between Pakistan and India, but its remoteness has not prevented pollution from reaching it. And with it the risk of thaw. Black carbon. A study by an international team of researchers has found black carbon traces in the Godwin-Austen glacier and on the surface of the K2. According to Explain the study responsible for the studythis pollutant can be an ice risk in a mountainous area that feeds a river responsible for supplying more than one billion people. Black carbon is presented as small carbon particles as a result of the incomplete combustion of some compounds. These particles are part of the volatile compounds known as particular matter and can affect our health and the environment. As explained by the team responsible for the study, being deposited in snow or on ice, black carbon can accelerate its melting. This may imply the loss of frozen mass, reducing the time that snow passes on the surface, they add. Taking samples. In its study, the team collected samples of superficial snow in fields 1 and 2 of the K2 between 2018 and 2019. Sampling was also carried out along the walls of two well -excavated wells in the snow layer on the glacier. The team performed an isotopic analysis of the snow layer to estimate when the snow began to accumulate. All this for, In the words of Nicolás González-SantacruzCo -author of the study, “Determining the moment of formation of the snow layer is essential to precisely interpret black carbon data.” The details of the work done were published In an article In the magazine Journal of glaciology. A seasonal snow. The analysis concluded that the snow of the glacier has a seasonal character, that is, that it accumulates between October and until the end of winter and then disappear completely between spring and summer. This fact allowed to know in detail when the different concentrations of black carbon were deposited. Looking for the source of pollution. The team analyzed the black carbon samples also to track the origin of this pollutant. They found that the accumulated carbon during the fall of 2018 had their main origin in the North Basin of the Indo River, while in the subsequent concentrations (winter 2018 and 2019), the influence of regions such as the Middle East, Asia Central and Eastern Europe, González-Santacruz added. The sum of several problems. We associate the thaw of glaciers and other icy areas of the world to climate change derived from high atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases. However, neither thaw is the only phenomenon attributable to this change nor global warming has to be the sole responsible for the thaw. Understanding the diversity of factors that are interconnected in the context of climate change is key to understanding the potential effects of this, both in terms of people and in what affects ecosystems. In Xataka | Snowing stations at the end of the century: the most pessimistic models show what could happen in our high mountain Image | Zacharie Grossen, CC by-SA 4.0

If the question is “what are people reading most around the world”, there is only one answer: Romantasy

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With their colored loins, dream covers and mixture of romance and fantasy, novels Romantasy They are probably bombing you the subconscious in both social networks and in your library visits. What is more complicated is to elucidate exactly what we are talking about and which book or author enters this category, so we will try to shed some light on (sometimes unabarcable) term Romantasy. What do you refer to Romantasy? We would be facing a subgenre either of the fantastic or romance genre that combines those two factors in their books. Within that construction, the fantasy world has to cohabit, yes or yes, with one or more love stories to adhere to this definition. In a good novel Romantasy Or romantic fantasy does not prevail one genre over another, fantasy and romance are at the service of the narrative and enriches the entire plot on which the book or book saga is supported. The possibilities, as is usually the case with romance novels, are endless. Thanks to the multitude of tropes that authors can include, diversity within the romance part is very wide, but without a doubt the one that stands out the most in the best -selling books is a good Enemies to lovers (“Enemies to lovers”). Romantasy It does not refer to something new. Romance and fantasy have always formed a perfect hybrid and have complemented themselves in stories for many years. Diana Gabaldon, the successful writer of the Saga ‘Outlander’ began publishing this romantic history of travel in time in early 1990. If we appeal to the most youthful public we also have the case of the saga ‘Twilight’. Stephanie Meyer’s absolute teenage 160 million copies. At the time of its launch, marketing was not aimed at using a label like Romantasybut the truth is that they adapt perfectly to their requirements. The already omnipresent sales strategy linked to this term is something that we find more or less recently and thanks to social networks, specifically #BookTok. Its origin is not clear or we can place it on a specific date. The editorial Bloomsbury He declares that he coined him to identify the genre of one of the most famous writers of romantic fantasy, Sarah J. Maas. But “Romantasy“It was already published in the Urban Dictionary Since 2008. These different versions do not overshadow the fact that their complete explosion happened from the pandemic and especially, since 2024 on social networks. The queens of Romantasy If there is an absolute queen of romantic fantasy that is Sarah J. Mass with its saga ‘a court of roses and thorns’ (saga limit). The series began to be published in 2015 but undoubtedly its peak, and when the conversation around Romantasy I copied it, it happens from 2021. The author herself acknowledges that Tiktok He has played an essential role in his sales number. Bloomsbury, its editorial, affirms that videos with hashtags related to books have more than 14,000 million of visualizations on the Bytedance platform. Looking made the author the best selling in the United States last year, exceeding the figure of 7.7 million copies And, in turn, the English editions of his work exceed 55 million copies sold worldwide. The key to Maas’s success is the ability to attract followers not only the saga to limit, but to all his previous work and loyalty for upcoming publications. Elucubrations and search for Easter Eggs In all your videos, in pure style Swiftie, They are the order of the day in #BookTok. Sarah J. Maas has triumphed with ‘a court of roses and thorns’, which tells us the story of Feyre and her sisters in the world of FAE, a fantasy place where her loyalties both in war and love will be committed. But the truth is that with this series the foundations for knitting a magical universe that expands to other series of his as ‘crystal throne’ (2012) or ‘Crescent City’ (2020) were laid. With that methodology as planned, and reaching figures as 4.83 million Sales only in books printed in the first half of 2024, it is difficult not to catalog it as absolute queen of the romantic fantasy. But the undisputed success of this subgenre is not only due to Sarah J. Maas. If we review the list of best -selling we also find names such as Rebecca Yarros (Empyre Saga), Callie Hart (Saga alchemia & Fae), Cassandra Clare (shadow hunters saga), Lauren Roberts (Powerless Saga), Jennifer L. Armetrout (blood saga and ashes), Holly Black (Holly Black (Saga of the air) among others. But once again, nothing better than numbers to corroborate the success of Romantasy. Five of the 10 best -selling titles of 2024 were written by Sarah J. Mass and Rebecca Yarrosaccording to the statistics of Publisher’s Weekly in October. In addition, in 2024, romantic books reached 610 million dollars In sales, compared to 454 million in 2023. We talk about 11 million books of this subgenre sold in the first five months of 2024, almost double that in the same period of 2023. Circana, a well -known analysis company, provides that The end of the bubble arrives this same 2025but it seems unlikely that the romantic and especially the Romantasy Stop having that privileged hole that you have been getting in bookstores. A proof of this is the large number of special editions and reissues that we find for the sale of the main titles of this category, with colored and print looms that have begun to be replicated by other authors of different genres. Another fact that makes us doubt that imminent end of leadership we find it with the numbers harvested with ‘Onix wings’ of Rebeca Yarros. The third installment of the empyreo saga, which continues the story of Violet Sorngagail at the Higher School of Basgiath, where candidates live or die in the attempt to become dragon riders, has gone on sale at the end of January 2025 and has sold more than more than 2.7 million of specimens in … Read more

In South Korea offered 14,000 euros to young people in exchange for them to get married. Young people did the same

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With $ 14,000 you can cover holes, take a few sabbatical months to travel around the world or invest in that business that has been around your head for years. What you will not get is to match two South Koreans to marry, form a home and have children to help the country out of the deep crisis of birth in which it has been mired for years. We know it because in Korea there are administrations that already They have thrown out of a checkbook and reached those figures (more than 10,000 dollars) in their efforts to act as a casameros. All without success. Moreover, that commitment to administrations to encourage matches is having a peculiar effect: it has made singleness A true business. Question of love … and money. In his efforts to leave the demographic pothole in which he has been plunged for a long time, he has not hesitated to pull a check -up. Its reasoning is simple: if birth can be encouraged with money, the government is willing to put it on the table. In recent months the authorities of the country have proposed to deliver large ‘baby checks’ to its citizens, offer Fiscal incentives To families with children, expand parental permits or even guarantee that the new moms have access to select food. Another of the country’s great bets has been to match its young people. And that has gone so much to create appointment programs Designed specifically for single to find love how to make it easy at the economic level, offering money so that the cost of a romantic dinner is not an obstacle. Perhaps it sounds exaggerated, but there is a fact that explains it: in South Pareja and Bulality they go hand in hand. So much, that less than 5% From babies they are born out of marriage. How much money do we talk about? A lot A good part of the southern Korean pairing programs start from regional organizations, so that photography can vary from one area to another of the country; But it arrives with a quick turn by Google to see news from cities or districts that try to raise their birth rate with expensive pairing programs. Recently We talked to you of the Seoul case, where the Metropolitan Government studied to deliver 700 euros to the couples who marry there. It is a lot. Although not as much as in other cities. In Busan, one from the main ones Metropolitan Areas of South Korea and that is suffering the effects of the demographic crisis in a form particularly hardthey have gone a step further blessing the new couples with hundreds of dollars. What does that translate? In which money ceases to be an obstacle to throwing girlfriend (or boyfriend). In June The Korea Herald He informed That one of the districts of Busan, Saha-Gu, planned a pilot project with local singles born between 1981 and 2001 to which it offered 360 dollars (to spend on appointments) only for ‘doing Match ‘ With someone. That is, each couple who left the event grabbed by the hand and with plans to be added 700 dollars for their romance. A figure: $ 14,000. Those 360 ​​dollars per person to enjoy as a couple were only the first part of the SAHA-gu program. The idea was to increase support as the relationship progressed until you reach the great wedding gift: 20 million wones In advance for couples who give themselves the ‘yes I want’, about $ 13,600. The district was even willing to offer newly married a larger deposit if they decided to buy a house or help them with rent. Such a bet is better understood in the light of the demographic tables of the Metropolitan City of Busan: if at the beginning of the 90s it passed from the 3.8 million inhabitantsin 2010 it was at 3.4 million. The trend does not clash with that of the country as a whole, which At the end of 2024 It became a “aging super society”, with 20% of its population above 65 years. Do these aid work? That was the big question that was driving … and just answered The Wall Street Journal (TWSJ) with A report in which the title is almost a sentence: “Not even a governmental aid of $ 14,000 can make the single South Korea marry.” Despite the promise of receiving a wedding gift of $ 14,000, the Saha-Gu program was not very successful. TWSJ assures that no participant demanded that reward. And that Saha-Gu is just one of the aid to which couples can opt. TWSJ remembers that not all support leaves administrations and that there are also religious companies or organizations that try to reverse the country’s demographic crisis. Two examples are the construction company Booyoung Group, which offered $ 75,000 to employees who have a child; and the Yoido full gospel churchwhich gives its members almost $ 1,400. The big question. With such incentives the question is evident. Why don’t South Koreans marry? Why do your birth continue well below of that of years ago? Part of the answer are social and cultural changes. TWSJ He quotes a survey recent that shows that three fifths of the South Koreans with employment do not see the slightest problem in not going through the altar, a factor to which others of an economic nature are added, such as the long working daysincreased cost of living or how will be The parenting of children in a society characterized by their demand level and competitiveness. Another key are The difficulties with which women are to rejoin to the labor market after being mothers. In fact there are courtship programs that have ended up suspending precisely because they could not gather a sufficient number of interested women. Other young people rule out simply registering for the heavy bureaucracy that accompanies this kind of initiatives. “It’s more problematic than you imagine,” Recognize one to TWSJ. Is the government … Read more

Millions of people are interested again in Chatgpt. The problem is that he has achieved it by violating copyright

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Networks had long since They didn’t go so crazy with an artificial intelligence tool. Normally there is a certain bustle when something attracts more attention to the account, but what has happened with the generation of chatgpt images based on GPT-4O It does not make any meaning. The generative AI has achieved something that had not achieved: surprise the user on foot. And he has done so shows one of the greatest criticisms of this technology: the violation of copyright. Content ©. In recent hours, social networks have been filled with memes, images and avatars edited by ChatgPT for look like Studio Ghibli drawings. The images are really spectacular, to César what is from Caesar, but it is not convenient to forget that an AI knows how to generate an image of a horse because, among other things, it has been trained with millions and millions of images of horses. Click on the image to go to Tweet. Otherwise. If an AI like chatgpt-4o is capable of converting or generating an image With the style of a specific author It is because it knows what the concrete author’s style is like. That is, ChatGPT-4O must have been trained with related content, based or generated by the study founded by Hayao Miyazaki. And what about that content? Which is beautiful, emotional and close, but not free or public domain. It is contained in copyright, an issue that has brought to ChatgPT and head OpenAi since its inception. It is no secret. Of course not. Chatgpt was trained with a huge amount of data obtained from the Internet, websites, books, publications in social networks, academic articles, etc. Content that can be freely accessible, but not for that reason. An image that is “on the Internet” is not “on the Internet”, is housed on a server that can belong to a company and can have (and surely) copyright. That you can see and download it for free to your mobile to use the wallpaper does not mean that you can print it and sell it or illustrate the cover of your next novel with it. Click on the image to go to Tweet. “Live artists”. Openai claims to have opted for a “conservative approach” for the images that use the work of other artists and have “added a denial that is activated when a user tries to generate an image with the style of a living artist.” Like Miyazaki, for example. Before the flood of images generated with the style of the Japanese cartoonist, a company spokesman has told Business Insider that Openai will prevent “generations with the style of individual individual artists”, but will allow “broader studies styles.” In other words, Hayao Miyazaki no style, Studio Ghibli style yes. Which has its ironic point, because in the year 2016after seeing a demo of an animation generated by AI, the teacher Miyazaki said “I would never want to incorporate this technology into my work. I firmly believe that it is an insult to life itself.” My neighbor Totoro | Image: Studio Ghibli The style. It should be noted that no one can prevent someone from doing works with the style of Miyazaki or Studio Ghibli. The style is not protected per se. Another story, and is where the quid of the matter is, is to use protected works to train an AI capable of replicating that style. That is the real problem. We could understand it as the fan art: You can make an illustration of Pikachu, print it and put it in your room, no problem. What you can’t do is sell that illustration. OpenAi’s headache. This access and use of copyright content for commercial purposes has earned Openai some other complaintbeing the most important that of New York Times. Getty also denounced Stable Diffusion for having used their images to train models, Anthropic was denounced By a group of authors for having used their books to train Claude and a goal, apparently, downloaded 81.7 TB of books With copyright to train your models. The conclusion is clear and we have addressed it on occasion: The price to be paid for having artificial intelligence is the looting of all the contents on the Internet, beyond that AI companies They support and hide in the Fair Use. With generative artificial intelligence it seems to have assumed that if it is on the Internet it is free, and the reality is that it is not always. All large AI companies have ignored Copyright laws And, for the moment, there is no consequences. The debate, however, is far from finishing and probably this is not the last time it is put on the table. Cover image | @MDURBAR In Xataka | The generative AI has a huge problem with the content without a license to train. Adobe is trying to solve it

12 million people delivered their DNA to 23Andme. The company broke, but the problem for users goes further

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“Discover what your DNA says about you and your family.” This is how 23Andme, a company that proposes something as simple as sending a saliva sample and receiving information about the origin of your ancestors or possible relatives lost over time. No needles, without blood: a domestic genetic test that promises personal answers to ancestral questions. A few days after registering on the platform, the user receives at home a small box with a collection tube. You just have to deposit a saliva sample and return the package by mail. From there, the DNA is digitized and analyzed by algorithms. Three or four weeks later, the results appear directly on the entrance tray. In bankruptcy. Open the door to the past for less than $ 120 seemed a proposal for success. However, things did not go as expected. Last Sunday, 23 Andme accepted Chapter 11 of the United States Bankruptcy Law, that is, he declared himself in bankruptcy, and his CEO, Anne Wojcicki, soon presented her resignation. This outcome was not sudden. 23Andme had been facing doubts about his business model, disputes with investors and a concern for the property of his huge genetic database. Has never reported net benefits And its stock market value has collapsed in recent yearsentering a complicated field. Wojcicki tried to get the company several times, but its proposals were rejected again and again. “Although it disappoints me that we have reached this situation and that my offer has been rejected, support for the company and I intend to participate as a bidder,” The executive said in a shared message this Monday in X. Privacy nightmare. More than 12 million people, according to figures that we found on their website, shared their DNA with 23andme. Now, they could see how their data end up in the hands of another company. It is a very real possibility: the restructuring process includes the sale of assets with the objective of “maximizing the value of the business.” The situation has lit the alarms of the Attorney General of California, Rob Bonta, who issued an consumer alert focused on privacy. In it, he recalled that any citizen has the right to ask the company to eliminate their data and the destruction of any genetic sample that still retains. The company, on the other hand, has assured that there will be no changes in the way it protects user data during the bankruptcy process. However, your security history is far from being impeccable. Without going any further, last year One of its databases with millions of profiles on the Dark Web was leaked. Images | 23ndme In Xataka | My data has been filtered, now what: the steps you should always take that there is a massive filtration on the Internet that can affect you

There are alarmed people because fruits are increasingly sweet. It is a more complicated phenomenon than it appears

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A few years ago, Melbourne Zoo decided that he would stop giving fruits to some of his animals “because they were too sweet for their own good“In recent years, red pandas and primates had gained weight and some even had signs of decay. The reason tells a greater story about our relationship with the fruit. Too much sugar. “The problem is that cultivated fruits have been genetically modified to have a sugar content much greater than its natural ancestral fruits,” Michael Lynch explainedVeterinarian Chief of the Zoo, to the Sydney Morning Herald. It seemed a curiosity without much route, but it wasn’t. The idea that “fruit is not healthy because it has much higher sugar levels than in the old days” It has been circulating for years Online. In fact, come back again and again … But is it? The answer is complicated. If we go to the data (for example, to Central fooddataa database of nutritional analysis of food in the US), we can find some fruits in which that is seen growth. For example, “wild blueberries” would have 6.46% of sugars, while commercial “blueberries” would be at 9.96%. Growth is considerable, yes. What happens is that this effect disappears when, instead of comparing with primitive varieties, we analyze whether the fruit has been raising its amounts of sugars in recent decades. Angela Dowden He reviewed the United Kingdom data since 1946 and found no significant differences in the sugar content of apples, white grapes or strawberries. Giovanni Stanchi. This makes sense. For years, human beings have gone improving Fruits and vegetables to the point that they don’t look at anything. Giovanni Stanchi was an Italian still life of the seventeenth century. At some point between 1645 and 1672, Stanchi painted a picture full of peaches, pears and watermelons. Watermelons that do not look anything like ours. And it’s not that it was anything new. The watermelon was a plant of Africa that for 1600 (via al-Andalus) It was already extremely popular in the orchards throughout Europe. Bodegons give us An unbeatable opportunity To see how the watermelon has changed until today. By 1860, the watermelons They were acquiring an appearance more recognizable. It is not just a matter of appearance. Also of flavor. We have seen it With tomatoes (Although, in this case, Often for worse) and we could see it with almost all fruits and vegetables. For example, Brussels cabbage They are much less bitter That 20 years ago. The point is that, when we talk about sugars in fruits, we will see that growth has a limit. A physical limit. In general, As the botanist James to Wong explainedfruity sugars levels tend to converge in a very similar range because, as with tomatoesplants can not manufacture more sugar without becoming much larger or produced less (and none of that interests us at a commercial level). But there is something else. Let’s go to nutritional data to see it clearly: following Dowden’s data, super sweet “modern” strawberries contain only 4.89% of sugars, while Kiwis have 8.99% and bananas have 12.23%. This gives us an interesting key. As Wong points out, what fitomejoradores do is that “the fruit has a sweeter flavor not increasing sugars, but reducing acid and bitter chemicals that mask their sweetness.” And there is the explanation of what happened with Melbourne’s animals. The problem was not so much the level of fruits sugars (which, Rememberbeing “fiber -packaged fructose” cannot increase blood sugar levels as refined sugars), but were so good that pandas and primates stopped eating other things and their diet was unbalanced. It does not seem a problem that affects us human beings. Hopefully the fruit would gain weight in our diet because that would mean that, on average, the feeding of society would improve. What we are seeing is, in fact, it is just the opposite: the weight in our processed food diet tripled between 1990 and 2010 (from 11% to 31.7%) and that led to the added sugars added will pass from 8.4% of our daily energy intake at 13%. Within our dietary concerns, the sweet fruit is not among the worst problems. Image | Evie Fjord In Xataka | “We looked at the US with condescension and now we are almost the same”: the unstoppable degradation of food in Spain

For some reason, there are people trying crash against a wall. Makes more sense than it seems

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A Tesla Model and, a wall that simulates a road, a youtuber of 65.8 million followers, its reputation. The reputation of Tesla, its security systems and semi -autonomous driving. Another YouTube. A cybertruck tesla. Another wall with another painted road. Indeed, there are people by throwing their tesla against a wall: what is happening? The coyote game and the roadrunner. “I am in my tesla at 64 km/h with the activated highway launched against a false wall in the style of the coyote and the roadrunner.” This is how it starts Mark Rober’s videoknown NASA engineer with a YouTube channel in which 65.8 million subscribers are counted. Rober travels in his car thrown against a false wall in which he has simulated that the road on which circulates continues and perfectly simulates what it really is: a decoration. The objective is to check if your Tesla Model and equipped exclusively with cameras offers better or worse performance than a car equipped with a Lidar system As far as autonomous driving systems are concerned. The background. Rober uses his video to explain the differences between a car that bases its semi -autonomous driving in the cameras exclusively and those that use the Lidar system. In 2021, Tesla already advanced that would base its entire system of driving aid in the cameras. In 2022 it was confirmed that the company would stop riding radars and sensors. The company ensures that its software is able to analyze everything that happens exclusively using cameras with reliability that matches that of radars and sensors. Along the way, evidently, the cost of assembling these components that irremediably increase the final cost of the vehicle is saved. To check if this is true, Rober tests A Tesla Moder and that only uses cameras In its Autopilot system and a lexus RX equipped with a lidar sensor of the luminar company. The cars are launched with activated semi -autonomous driving functions (Autopilot in the case of Tesla and adaptive cruise control in the lexus) to verify what happens in different scenarios. Among them, children who appear in the trajectory of the car or very intense rains. The wall. During his tests, the vehicle equipped with Lidar December and saved a child from being hit if he was already on the road, if he appeared behind an obstacle, in cases of fog and intense rain or if he was dazzled by an intense light. And yes, also if there was a wall on the road painted with the simulation of a road. The Tesla Model and could not say the same and the cameras did not exceed the tests of the fog, the rain … and the famous wall. In the latter case, the car was cheated and thought that the road continued, not stopping at all. And has exploded the controversy. The video Mark Rober has exploded the controversy on social networks for various reasons. The first and most obvious: does this type make sense? When can a car find a wall that completely covers a road simulating that it continues later? Beyond that this has to value each other, what is true is that Rober activates the highway a few seconds before reaching the wall and in the video it is observed how the system is disabled when it is going to collide. Rober has been accused of turning off the system but has defended himself on social networks publishing a complete video in which it is seen how the system is disabled before the crash. A criticism that has been repeated To Tesla vehicles, accusing the company of washing their hands before the authorities. But not only that, Rober has also been criticized for using a vehicle with autopilot and not with Full Self Driving (FSD)the most advanced autonomous driving system in Tesla while Lexus was equipped with Lidar, one of the most expensive technologies at the moment. Cameras vs lidar. The experiment has something interesting although not a resolution. The truth is that one might expect that a cameras based system is less effective than one accompanied by a lidar. The single combination of mounting a camera and a radar has been demonstrated The most effective option So far both day and night. The cameras analyze with images what they have in front but a lidar sends pulses of light constantly around them. That light bounces on the object and returns to the lidar. With the time that has passed since the shipping of the pulse of light until it receives it again you can create a 3D map that, in the case of the wall, serves to verify that there is an obstacle on the road even if it can deceive the camera. Autopilot and FSD. The other great criticism that has been made to Rober is that he uses a car equipped with Autopilot but not with the FSDthe most advanced driving aid system of Tesla. The FSD is offered as an additional option through a subscription and allows the driver to disregard driving (even in urban environments) as long as it remains attentive to what happens in front of his eyes. For example, the Autopilot demands from the driver the confirmation of lane change but the FSD navigates between the streets by itself, without the need for driver’s validations. In fact, in the United States it allows The car travels 65 meters without a driver Inside. Thus, we can ask a tesla parked to come to pick us up from a distance. And there are people by throwing their cars against a wall. Rober’s experiment has given wings to other YouTuber who have come out to defend the company. In response, Kyle Paul, who has 237,000 subscribers on his YouTube channel and specializes in Tesla videos, He has published his own test. The goal has been the same: will your Tesla Cybertruck before a wall that simulates the continuation of the road? And his answer is that if the car has … Read more

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