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Congratulations, you already program without knowing how to program. Now prepare to wait six weeks for Apple to listen to you

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James Steinberg is a New Yorker, 35 years old, and has two professions. The first, cat sitter. The second, develop applications through vibecodinga technique in which knowing what one wants and iterating with AI manages to replace (in part) deep knowledge of areas such as software architecture or programming. Steinberg is not the exception, but the new norm in a phenomenon in which amateur programmers are saturating the software distribution system. Let them tell Apple. Wanting is power. There was a time when publishing an app on the App Store was a rite of passage for an engineer or software developer. After months of fighting with Swift or Objective-C, the app was ready and all that was missing was the blessing of the App Store and its strict terms of use. Today that wall has fallen, because since the vibecoding has appeared, the creation of software is no longer about being able to do things, but about wanting to do them. However, this democratization of programming comes at a price: before the problem was writing code, but now the bottleneck is get the App Store to validate it. The growth rate of apps published in the App Store has grown extraordinary since the end of 2025. The impact of vibecoding is evident. Source: BI. The explosion of agentic software. Data from the consulting firm Sensor Tower confirm that we are facing an extraordinary situation. In January 2026, the volume of new apps launched in the App Store in the US grew 54.8% compared to the previous year. A very similar figure had already been recorded in December: a 56% increase compared to the same month in 2024. Here there is not suddenly a batch of experts fresh out of university programming as if there were no tomorrow, but rather a bunch of “amateur programmers” who have used vibecoding to program their apps in a matter of minutes or hours and who have uploaded them to the App Store. Apple has a problem. When Steinberg or any other developer tries to publish their app on the App Store, they run into a problem: Apple’s validation process is dragging out and the average wait time is around six weeks to achieve the desired “green light.” Apple, aware that this saturation can damage its reputation, has wanted to come forward with figures to calm the market’s spirits. Apple says one thing, developers another. According to the company, 90% of the proposals it receives from all these programmers are reviewed in less than 48 hours, and the average wait is, according to the company, 1.5 days. In the last twelve weeks, Apple employees have analyzed more than 200,000 weekly shipments, which seems to make it clear that, at least according to them, the bottleneck is not that big. The developers don’t seem to be of the same opinion, and in forums and social networks there is talk of how reviews of existing updates take up to a week and new releases enter a kind of administrative limbo that exasperates this new legion of programmers. Apps that are AI Slop? A potential reason for this slowdown in deadlines may not only be the quantity of apps, but their quality. Both among traditional programmers and probably within Apple itself, there is a fear that this new batch of apps “vibecodeadas” is largely another variant of the “AI slop” or “AI Slop” that has already been presented in the form of images or videos. For some experts, many of these apps are mediocre, have been generated with little supervision and simply seek to monetize search niches. The strict terms of the App Store may be criticizable, but they are a kind of retaining wall that could flood the App Store with absolutely irrelevant apps. The App Store facing the dilemma. Forrester analyst Dipanjan Chatterjee indicated in Business Insider that “this is not a problem that Apple can get out of by rejecting apps. As AI accelerates the creation of applications, the company will have to evolve from artisanal surveillance to curation at scale.” Or what is the same: either Apple automates part of the process, or waiting times will continue to increase. The other option: tighten the entry criteria for apps created with AI so much that it disproportionately penalizes the developers who use these tools… of which there are more and more. Wanted vibecoder. What seemed like a hobby for hobbyists is becoming an increasingly striking economic ecosystem. According to Business Insiderplatforms like Lovable already publish job offers in which they are looking for “vibecoders professionals”, which seems to validate this new type of programmer, no matter how much the traditional market criticizes him. But. This avalanche of applications created with AI may be striking, but comments from professional developers usually agree on the same thing: these apps are more difficult to maintain in the long term. Even Linus Torvalds, who had partially fallen into the networks of AI, I warned him: “AI will be a tool, and it will make people more productive. I think vibe coding is great for getting people to start programming. I think (the code it generates) is going to be horrible to maintain… so I don’t think programmers will go away. You’ll still want to have people who know how to maintain the output.” Image | James Yarema In Xataka | Vibe coding wants to help Open Source. But developers don’t want AI botches

how to prepare your mobile for the declaration that we will make in 2026

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Let’s explain to you how to prepare your cell phone for the income tax return what we will do in 2026. The campaign is called Income 2025 because although we make the declaration this year, what we are really going to do is account for the last fiscal year. This way, in case you want to make the declaration on your mobile phone, you will know everything you need. It is not mandatory to make the declaration on your device, although you will have the option to receive, review and present your draft in case you consider that everything is fine. Remember key dates The first thing you have to do is not forget the dates on which you can make the declaration. For that, looking at the Income calendar 2025 You can see when you can request and submit your draft on both web and mobile. These are the key dates this year: Income tax return online: You can do it from April 8 to June 30, 2026. Income tax return by phone: You can do it from May 6 to June 30, 2026. In-person income tax return: You can do it from June 1 to June 30, 2025. Download the Tax Agency app If you want to file your income tax return via mobile, you will need to download the Tax Agency app or AEAT. You have it available for Android on Google Play and for iOS in the App Storeand it’s totally free. This app allows you to carry out various tax procedures, including the declaration. In fact, when you enter it you are going to have a specific section Rent. It is there where you will be able to access the draft to present the declaration, but you will also be able to see those from previous years and carry out other procedures related to the campaign. Download your digital certificate To identify yourself in the AEAT app and in many other official ones, as well as to make online transactions, one of the simplest methods is to use your digital certificateincluding the FNMT certificate and that of DNIe. Therefore, It is advisable to have your certificate on your mobile. For that, you have to request your digital certificateand if you already have it, save it in a folder. But another much more comfortable alternative is install the app FNMT Digital Certificateavailable in the App Store for your iPhone and on Google Play for Android. This application will allow you to request your certificate if you do not have it, but it will also allow you to access the certificates that you have already requested and have them on hand. Review tax data The Treasury will create your draft income based on the data it has about you. And the best way to detect possible errors that you will later have to correct in the declaration is review tax data in advance. You will be able access your tax data from the browser. To do this, you can now enter the website headquarters.agenciatributaria.gob.es/Sede/Renta.htmlfrom your computer or mobile browser. Once inside, click on the option Tax dataand log in with your digital certificate. When you look at your tax data, you will be able to detect if there are some things that are wrong or that have not been included. These things will also be wrong in the draft of the Income Tax, that is, locating them before you will already know what things you should change when the time comes and you can streamline everything. If you have questions, review the declaration When the time comes, by requesting the draft declaration on your mobile you will have some summarized results. You will simply see if you have to pay or return. When you get to that screen, click on the declaration to enter the draft and see its data. Here, it is important that you review all the data and that modify what you think is necessary before submitting the return. Keep in mind that even if it is a draft made by the Treasury, in the event that there is a failure, you will be the person fined and the one who will have to pay the fine. Take the time to check all the data. Get your reference number And finally, another thing that is useful is to know your Income reference number 2025. The reference number It has six digits, and is used to manage any of the services related to this Income campaign. To see your reference number from your mobileyou must go to the Tax Agency application. In it, click the option to view your profile at the top right. When you enter your profile, the number will appear just below the box where your name is. In Xataka Basics | FNMT digital certificate on your mobile: 8 uses that you can give it on your device for different procedures

how to request it from your PC or your mobile and prepare for the 2026 draft

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He Income calendar 2025 Keep going, that declaration that we have to make this year to regularize and account for the last fiscal year. In order to prepare you, today we are going to tell you how to request your digital certificate from your mobile or PC. Therefore, what we are going to do today is summarize in a simple way the two methods to request your digital certificate that you have available, and thus be able to have it installed on your mobile or your computer. Then this digital certificate You can use it for the management you want, from requesting your tax information to requesting the draft income tax. Request the digital certificate from your mobile If you want to request the certificate from your mobile, the quickest thing will be use the app FNMT Digital Certificatewhich is available on Google Play for Android and in the App Store for iPhone. When you download it and enter it by logging in, click on the option Request Digital Certificate of the main screen that will appear at the top in blue. You will enter a screen where you must choose between the three options available to you to request the certificate. The fastest option is reading your IDwhich is the third option. You can also do it with an identification video, which is quick but costs 2.99 euros, and the third option is to request an appointment to do it in person. But the best option is obtain your digital certificate by reading the DNI. With it, you will simply have to write your DNI number, use an email and verify it, and proceed with the identification. When you proceed to identification, you will have to use the CAN code and the PIN of your IDand you will complete the process by scanning the DNIe with the NFC of your mobile phone. The second best option is the identification videowith which you can request the certificate with video callalthough it costs 2.99 euros plus VAT. In this method, you will have to write and verify an email, and then you will receive a video call to show your face with your ID next to it so that you can be verified. Whatever method you use, when you finish you will have the certificate on your mobile. Now you can send it to the computer from the app itself by entering My installed certificateschoosing yours, and clicking on Share backup. It will ask you to generate a password, and then you can send the certificate to other devices. Request the digital certificate from your computer You can also request your certificate from any browser on any computer. To do this you simply have to enter this FNMT pagedisplay the question How can I obtain the certificate?and choose the method that best suits you. The easiest thing is to do it by video identificationalthough you can also do it from your mobile phone with the app, which is what we explained above, make an appointment at an in-person office, or using your DNIe if you have a device on your PC to read its chip. To request your certificate identifying yourself by videoyou must first install the key generation program from this web page, which is available for Windows, macOS and GNU/Linux. When you have it installed, enter this website to request the process of obtaining the certificate by writing your ID, your first surname and your email. They will send you a request code, and with it you will have to enter on this web page to fill in your details. By doing so, you can start the video call in which you will have to show your IDand so they can see it next to your face and verify that it is really you. After doing so, they will send you the digital certificate. This process costs 2.99 euros. In Xataka Basics | FNMT digital certificate on your mobile: 8 uses that you can give it on your device for different procedures

The message is clear, if you use my data without paying, prepare your lawyers

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The Internet business model has been based on a tacit agreement for decades: If something is free, the product is probably us. For years, this logic was assumed without major shocks, but the emergence of artificial intelligence is changing the rules. Platforms that store human conversations have become gold mines for training models, and that has reopened old questions about the value of data. In the midst of this new scenario, Reddit has planted itself strongly. Although its millions of users do not receive any compensation for the content they generate, the company has made it clear that it will not tolerate others using it without paying for it. Reddit’s firmness has materialized in a new lawsuit filed before US justice. The company accuses Perplexity AI and three data scraping service providers of having circumvented its protection mechanisms to access copyrighted content. In its complaint, Reddit describes “scraping on an industrial scale” and maintains that the objective of these companies is to illicitly obtain the material that feeds artificial intelligence engines. It’s a new chapter in a strategy to control the use of your content. A rather particular case. At the center of the complaint are Perplexity AI and three mass data scraping intermediaries: SerpApi, Oxylabs and AWMProxy. Reddit describes them as “wannabe bank robbers,” a metaphor with which the company illustrates the attempt to access their content through indirect means. Instead of signing a licensing agreement, the lawsuit claims, these companies would have chosen to use third-party services to collect posts, comments and copyright-protected data. The conversational search engine is listed as a customer of “at least one” of those providers. The court document details a pattern of behavior that, according to Reddit, has been repeated for months. The accused companies would have used automated methods to extract information from the platform despite the restrictions imposed on their public file. The result, the company denounces, was a constant flow of publications that ended up integrated into the defendant’s artificial intelligence engine. For Reddit, it is scraping “on an industrial scale” and for clearly commercial purposes. The test that turned it all on. One of the most relevant episodes of the complaint is an experiment that Reddit considers key. In May 2024, the company ordered the defendant to stop collecting its data. However, shortly thereafter he saw an increase in Reddit mentions within the Perplexity answer engine. To verify this, he published an entry designed to be visible only by Google. According to the complaint, a few hours later the full text of that publication already appeared in the results generated by the accused company’s system. Perplexity does not hide. Perplexity noted on Reddit’s own platform. In that message, it explained that it is an “application layer” company and that “it does not train artificial intelligence models with Reddit content.” “He has never done it,” the text added. According to the company, this difference makes it impossible to sign a licensing agreement like those that Reddit has reached with other companies. “A year ago, after explaining this, Reddit insisted that we pay anyway. Giving in to these types of tactics is not the way we do business,” the statement concluded. When there is an agreement, there is money. Reddit’s position against Perplexity contrasts with the agreements it has signed with other technology companies. In February 2024 it expanded its collaboration with Google to allow access to its content through the data API, in a structured and licensed manner. Three months later, announced a similar alliance with OpenAI: ChatGPT and other company products can display recent Reddit posts in their responses. What we accept (many times) without reading. Behind all this debate there is an element that many users overlook: the Reddit Terms of Service. By creating an account, each person grants the platform a worldwide, perpetual, irrevocable and sublicensable license to use their content. This license allows you to copy, modify, distribute or publish any contribution, including making it available to other associated companies. The text also specifies that Reddit can use this material to “train artificial intelligence and machine learning models.” In other words, permission is already granted. Something we have already seen, and what remains to be seen. Reddit has been drawing a clear pattern of action for some time. In 2023 it toughened its conditions for access to the APIwhich led to widespread protests and the temporary closure of thousands of communities. A year later, in May 2024, it sent a cease-and-desist letter to Perplexity for unauthorized use of its data and subsequently filed a lawsuit against Anthropic for similar reasons. The current litigation fits that same logic: protecting the value of your content and tightening your control over who can use it. The case between Reddit and Perplexity is still in its initial phase, but its implications are evident. What the courts decide could set a precedent for future disputes between platforms and artificial intelligence developers. On the one hand there is the defense of free access to information; on the other, the right of companies to protect the content generated in their communities. The result will define the extent to which platforms control the material that users share daily. Images | Reddit | Xataka with Gemini 2.5 | Perplexity In Xataka | The race to put a humanoid robot in our house has begun. It’s an absurd race

Leroy Merlin’s Black Friday has started with offers to prepare us against the cold and rain

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November is the month of Black Friday, an event where most stores (if not all) take the opportunity to launch offers of all kinds. This makes many people wait until these dates to renew or buy new devices and electronics, something that may not be good for us if we need it. The cold and the rain are already knocking at our door and we have something to protect ourselves with on offer thanks to Leroy Merlin and his Black Fridaynow available. If we take a look, we have discounts of up to 40% on items for bathrooms, kitchens, floors and yes, also in heating. The promo has many interesting offers, but to make your task a little easier, we leave you a selection of some of the most interesting: Electric towel radiator by 119 eurosideal for heating the bathroom and drying towels quickly this winter. Fluid thermal emitter by 259 eurosenough to heat medium-sized areas and with WiFi connectivity. Electronic paraffin stove by 179 eurosideal for heating spaces of up to 40 square meters without work. Quartz electric stove by 9.50 eurosa very economical solution for small rooms. Ceiling fan without light by 149 eurosan option with heat mode that we can also use in summer. Electric towel radiator If we are looking for a solution for the bathroom, this towel radiator could fit us very well. It is made of stainless steel and black, and also has 500 W of power. It has a digital screen and measures 107 x 54 x 4 centimeters. It is recommended for an area of ​​6 square meters and we can get it for 119 eurosa good discount if we take into account that Its normal price is 215 euros. Electric towel radiator NTW 11B 500W black The price could vary. We earn commission from these links Fluid thermal emitter For rooms between 15 and 19 square meters, this fluid thermal emitter may fit us well. It has 1,500 W of power and WiFi connectivityso we can control it remotely. It can be programmed, it has an electronic thermostat and a system that detects if we have any windows open in the area. Its price right now is 259 euros. Neo 1500W Wifi fluid thermal emitter The price could vary. We earn commission from these links Electronic paraffin stove This electronic paraffin stove is a good alternative for large rooms if we seek not to do work. With a 5.4 liter tank, its autonomy offers approximately 65 hours of operation. It has a timer, saving mode, electronic thermostat and several different speeds. Right now it’s coming out 179 eurosso we would be saving 40 euros compared to its usual price. TOYOTOMI LC-30 Electronic Paraffin Stove The price could vary. We earn commission from these links Quartz electric stove The most economical solution of all is given to us by this electric stove. It is ideal if we are looking to heat a small roomIn addition, it can be easily moved between different rooms in the house as needed. It has 800 W of power, anti-tip safety system and overheating protection. comes out for 9.50 euros. QUARTZ VER electric stove 800 w power The price could vary. We earn commission from these links Ceiling fan without light This ceiling fan gives us a very interesting alternative due to its versatility, since it will serve us both in the cold and in summer. It has a reverse system that helps distribute hot air in the room, which can allow us to save on heating. It is designed for rooms of approximately 20 square meters and comes out 149 euros. Arte Confort Areia Silent DC Outdoor Ceiling Fan Without Light Black 132 cm The price could vary. We earn commission from these links 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 | Leroy Merlin In Xataka | Which heater to buy: the best models based on power, use cases and price In Xataka | Best quality-price air conditioning. Which one to buy and six recommended models from just over 300 euros

What iPhones arrives, how to prepare and how to update

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Today is the day, Today IOS 26 arrives at all compatible iPhone With this update. That is why you have to make a small review about everything you should keep in mind if you want to update. The update will be this afternoon, that is, it is convenient to have everything prepared for then. Let’s start by telling you What iPhone models will receive this update to iOS 26. Then, we will go on to give you a couple of advice on how to prepare to receive it, and we will end up with the simple steps you will have to do to update. What iPhone models update All compatible iPhone will receive iOS 26 at the same timeand this will include everyone from the iPhone 11. To get out of doubt, this is a list of mobile phones that will receive this version of the operating system: Four preparations before updating Before you start updating iOS 26, it should be given Four preparative steps To have everything prepared. They are essential things that you will need to take into account. Backup: You never know, there can always be something that goes wrong, and that is why it is always important to make a backup of your iPhone before updating in case you have to restore it. It doesn’t matter if you make the copy on the computer or in ICloud, the question is to have one made. Free space on your iPhone: An iOS update usually occupies at least 10 GB of storage on your mobile, sometimes more. Therefore, it is also important that if you are going to update you make sure you have enough free space on your mobile. Remember that you have a guide about How to release space on your phone. Have your mobile connected to a wifi: As we have told you before, this type of updates require a lot of data that you must download. Therefore, to increase the speed and not melt your mobile data rate, it is best to have your device at home connected to a Wi -Fi. Have your mobile with the battery loaded: When you are going to update, it is recommended that your battery be at least 50% of its load, so that you do not stay without it and there are undue interruptions in the process. To be, you can perform the update with the mobile connected to the current. How to update to iOS 26 For update iOS to your latest versionyou have to enter your iPhone settings. Inside, click on the section Generalwhich is where you will find many options related to the mobile. Once within the section General Of the adjustments, you will find a lot of options. Here, you have to click on the section Software update that will appear in the first block of options. You will go to a screen where your iPhone will automatically look for updates on Apple servers. In the event that hay, You can press down the option of Updateand this will lead you to the process where to start downloading and installation. In Xataka Basics | Liquid Glass, iOS 26, Macos Tahoe, Watchos 26, the new Games app and all the news left by Apple’s WWDC 2025

Browsers prepare for the most radical transformation in their history. One in which the IA will be

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Do you remember what was the first Web browser What did you use? Whatever your answer, the truth is that, essentially, the way to use them has not changed too much since Netscape Navigator. Yes, over the years, browsers have lived deep transformations. At the beginning they endured flat pages, almost like a digital newspaper, and today they carry websites full of photos and videos on their backs. It was they who brought us the eyelashes, who changed forever the way of organizing what we had open. Security was also consolidated with the lock of the HTTPSthe responsive design that allowed the web to the mobile without losing usability and more. All this was marking important stages, but the truth is that, essentially, we never stopped Enter, write, click and handle the pages ourselves. Advances there were many, but the interaction remained the same That dynamic, however, could be about to transform. And there are weight reasons to think that it will be. The technology industry has focused on automation, in a scenario where AI agents They assume a good part of heavy work. These systems aim to be capable of: Plan and divide complex tasks into logical steps. Choose the best tools to meet what they are asked. Have memory and context to meet the user and offer more tight solutions. Imagine agents capable of managing tasks from beginning to end. From Organize a trip With hotels and flight reservations at the best price, until the weekly purchase, create spreadsheets or handle specialized software. It would be enough to give them instructions (and the appropriate permits) to act in our name and consult us only when necessary: ​​confirm a purchase, choose an option or solve a problem in the process. The interaction with them would be direct: text in a chat window or, better yet, the voice. Nothing to fight again with menus, forms or traditional interfaces of pages and web programs. The truth is that we are already seeing steps in that direction. Perplexity has Cometan AI browser that Execute tasks on the username. Openai presented Operatorthen integrated into the agent mode Chatgpt With your own browser. Claude’s extension for Chrome in Action Anthropic, meanwhile, has entered the race with An extension of Claude capable of controlling Chromewhile Google develops PROJECT ASTRAan agetic system that goes beyond the browser and can operate directly on Android devices. For now, most of these proposals are in an experimental phase and with limited deployment. But it would not be strange that, as quickly as the sector progresses, they soon become a new way of interacting with the web. Comet, the agentic browser of Perplexity Just remember how we worked before November 30, 2022, when Chatgpt did not exist yet. Barely two years and eight months latertechnology has radically changed the panorama. Of course, not everything is promises. One of the biggest challenges of browser agents is security. And here the edges are many. Nobody wants an agent who, for misunderstanding instructions, reserves a wrong flight or buy something unnecessary. Neither do we want them to become Victims of cybercriminals, that they are already exploring ways to manipulate them just like before they tried to deceive us with phishing or scams. Malicious instructions are a clear example: if a human can be deceived, you can also try to make an agent execute actions against us, such as revealing passwords or extracting sensitive information. The question is inevitable:We are entering the era of artificial intelligence agents in the browser? Would you use them? Images | Xataka with Gemini 2.5 In Xataka | If you don’t know why your Instagram has been filled with orcs and sharks, the answer is simple: a false video made with ia

Solar storms are increasingly threatening for the earth. NASA wants to prepare with a “digital twin” of the sun

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The sun, that star that gives us life, also has an unpredictable character and potentially destructive. So much so that A large solar storm It could return to us technologically to the stone age in the blink of an eye. To avoid this, NASA and IBM They have joined forces To create a model that simulates the behavior of the sun. And how could it be otherwise, it has been generated with artificial intelligence. A authentic twin of the sun to understand it better. The union of forces of these two institutions has resulted in the creation of Surya, an artificial intelligence Designed to act as a digital twin of the sun and anticipate their violent outbursts with precision that with the models that are currently used cannot be achieved. Training an AI with the heart of a star. The challenge of predicting the space climate is undoubtedly a great challenge For scientists. To build Surya, the engineers turned to an inexhaustible data source: the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) NASA Hala. For nine years, this probe has State watching the sun without restcapturing images of very high resolution every 12 seconds in different wavelengths and measuring its complex magnetic field. Once you have all this information is where artificial intelligence comes into action to be able to organize and interpret them for experts. That is why the first thing Surya did is standardize all data formats to be able to process them together. Intelligent filtering of all this information. Once the data was unified, the next step was to use a long -range vision transformer, an architecture capable of analyzing gigantic images to identify patterns and relationships between points of solar activity, regardless of how far they are from each other. But he did not stay here, because thanks to a mechanism known as ‘spectral door’, the system was able to filter the ‘noise’ of the data to reduce memory use and improve the quality of the information with which it worked. Therefore, researchers were removed a lot of work to have to label all the images, causing it to adapt rapidly. More precision and twice as much time to react. The results of the initial tests are very promising. Until now, Traditional models barely gave us an hour in advance before a solar eruption. With Surya it has been shown to be able to launch a reliable warning two hours in advance, doubleing the humanity preparation window. But it is not only faster, but also accurate. The IBM and NASA team recorded a 16% improvement in precision when classifying solar rashes compared to the models used right now. Something that is also thanks to the ability to integrate information from other missions such as Parker solar probe or the Soho Observatory. An open tool for the science of the future. Far from saving this powerful tool in a key drawer, IBM and NASA have made it available to the entire scientific community. Surya is now available on platforms such as Hugging Face, GITHUB or even the Terratorch library. Kevin Murphy, NASA scientific data director, is clear: “We facilitate the analysis of the complexity of our star’s behavior with unprecedented speed and precision. This opens the door to a better understanding of the impact of solar activity on the systems on which our daily life depends.” The goal is for the Earth to be prepared. Although we see the central star of our system as harmless, the reality is that at any time this sensation can change. In this way, preparation and anticipation is fundamental and for the moment all hopes are put in this model of where it is possible to learn from the processes behind the evolution of the sun with the aim of having a greater amount of information. Images | Javier Miranda In Xataka | How the Solar System was formed: So that the Earth was born, a star had to die

Prepare for a summer of delays and historical cancellations

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Yes Summer holidays They were going to be very complicated for many Spaniards, or directly null because they find them impossible to materialize themfor which their bags can be made a perfect storm in the form of prediction. Europe warns: it is very possible that the typical summer air chaos is a thorough with what is to come. The perfect storm. Yes, the European Commission has warned that this summer the record of Delays and aerial cancellations due to one Critical combination of factors. Namely: the unprecedented demand after pandemic, the chronic shortage of air controllers, labor strikes and the impacts of climate change. The European air traffic control system operates to the limitmanaging near 37,000 daily flights In its most intense days, the maximum you can assume with the current template. Although traffic has increased by 5% compared to the same 2024 period, delays have also increased in equal proportion, predicting a repetition of chaos that marked the previous summer. The most affected areas: Key tourist destinations such as France, Germany, Greece and Spain, where “high” delays are anticipated due to the inability of the control centers to absorb the planned traffic flow. Strikes, obsolete systems and blackouts. One of the most critical foci is France, where The recent strikes of air controllers due to lack of personnel and aged equipment caused the 4,000 flight interruption In just two days. Europe Millionaire losses due to the operational collapse in Charles de Gaulle. The European Transportation Commissioner, Apostolos Tzitzikostas, has also indicated the reduction of airspace available in the continent as a direct consequence of the war in Ukrainewhich further overloads open routes. In this context, the call to the EU transport ministers It has been clear: States must ensure that aerial controllers comply with the promised capacity and are present where they are most needed. Climate change. To the technical and labor difficulties an increasing and unpredictable factor is added: Climate change. Forest fires have already forced to close temporarily Marseille airportwhile in Greece the high temperatures They forced the closure of tourist monuments such as acropolis. Community authorities fear that this type of extreme phenomena (Heat waves, storms, fires) become more frequent and dangerous for aviation. With airports “more busy than ever”, such as The Tzitzikostas Commissioner warnedthe risk of operating chaos is higher than ever. Slow formation. I pointed The Financial Times That another bottlenecks is structural: the formation of air controllers in Europe requires up to five yearswhich prevents an agile response to the growing demand. The commission collaborates with air security agencies to review these regulations, but immediate results are not expected. Meanwhile, associations such as IATA They accuse the managers of the European system of systematically breaking the capacity of capacity without consequences or sanctions, qualifying the situation of “unacceptable” and accusing a gap between the plans and the reality that “approaches the field of fantasy.” Fragmented sky. Air operators also insist that part of the problem It is political: The EU has not completed the initiative of the Unique European skywhich would allow to draw more direct routes between countries instead of the current fragmented system that forces aircraft to deviate through multiple intermediate points. This lack of coordination Increase costs operational, fuel consumption and flight times. As illustrated in the Times A high manager of a large tourism agency: “A London flight to Cyprus is not in a straight line, it crosses several unnecessary air points because Brussels has been exasperatingly slow.” The price to pay. If you want also, what is at stake is not only operational efficiency, but Trust of millions of passengers and The prestige of one of the dense and complex air spaces on the planet. Airlines already alert customer reaction: Anxiety, preventive cancellations and fear of summer collapse. With an air network to Edge of saturationwithout sufficient personnel reservations and with growing threats due to both natural and geopolitical causes, Europe faces the urgent challenge of reorganizing its air control system, modernizing its infrastructure and eliminating obstacles that prevent unified management. Otherwise, this summer aims to be, not only the worst in terms of delays and cancellations, but also the definitive notice that the sky of the old continent needs a revolution at several levels. Image | Bruno Sanchez In Xataka | Julio has become hell for the AVE of Andalusia. The latest: tunnels with leaks that delay trains In Xataka | Europe has discovered the Achilles heel capable of collapsing its air traffic. It has only needed a strike in France

Openai and Oracle prepare a brutal data center with 2 million chips for ia

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The plan ‘Stargate’ It is the great bet of the government led by Donald Trump to keep the US at the head of development in artificial intelligence (AI). When this project was made public on January 22, it hit the economic endowment that would make it possible: nothing less than 500,000 million dollars. This money will leave the coffers of the Japanese investment group SoftBank; of those of OpenAI, the creators of Chatgpt; of those of Oracle, and, finally, it will also be provided by the investment firm Emiraratí MGX. These companies will support the construction during the next four years of an advanced network of data centers that will house the high performance computing infrastructure necessary to sustain US leadership in the AI field. The spearhead of these facilities is already being built in Texas (USA), in a town called Abilene. And it is colossal. In fact, this first data center of the ‘Stargate’ project will bring together, According to OpenAimore than two million chips for ia. 4.5 GW Dan for a lot When the US government announced to Bombo y S pay this plan left a great question open: how did he plan to solve the supply of electricity required by the new facilities? Large data centers for AI consume a lot of electricity, which has caused Some technology have opted for investing in nuclear centrals to guarantee the supply of electricity that these facilities require. Oracle began to install the first ‘racks’ with NVIDIA B200 platform servers in June At the moment this question is not completely resolved. And it is not because the ‘Stargate’ infrastructure should be completely ready before President Trump’s current mandate expires, and a new nuclear power plant can hardly come into operation in four years. Even so, Openai and Oracle have formalized A few hours ago they have reached an agreement to build the necessary infrastructure to Deliver additional 4.5 GW to your data centers. Interestingly, SoftBank does not participate in the financing of this expansion, although, as I mentioned a few lines above, it does in the ‘Stargate’ project. According to OpenAia part of the gigantic Abilene data center is already in operation. In fact, Oracle began installing the first racks With platform servers B200 of NVIDIA In June. It is surprising that in just six months a part of this installation is already active, but it is important that we do not overlook that the Abilene data center seeks to demonstrate that the ‘Stargate’ plan is viable within the deadline that those responsible have promised. Anyway, in this equation there is another unknown that also has a lot to say: China. “We hope that China significantly increase its investments in AI and semiconductors in response to the US domain in AI,” CBM consultancy analysts foresee. It makes sense. These two great powers world supremacy are being disputedso it is understandable that each significant step that give one of the two Receive a more or less overwhelming answer from the other. We can be sure that 2025 will be an even more agitated year than 2024 in the geopolitical and technological fields, so we will be attentive to the steps that US and China will surely give. Image | Christina Morillo More information | OpenAI In Xataka | Huawei attacks Nvidia positions in China: he wants to have dominant hardware in inference processes in AI

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