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Spanish wine is going through an existential crisis and for producers the problem is simple: too cheap

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The end of drought has shaken the pendulum of agricultural production, taking ahead the hopes that many had in this harvest. The productivity recovery It has arrived accompanied by a decrease in the prices of a variety of products in the sector. Among them, the grapes used for the elaboration of various types of wine. Protest in front of AECAVA. A few days ago, grape -producing farmers from different communities They organized a protest In front of the headquarters of the Association of Cava (AECAVA) Association in Sant Sadurní D’Alcoia, Barcelona. They did it in order to demand sufficient prices to cover, at least, production costs. 20% more grapes. The protest occurred while the harvest of some of the grape varieties began. The sector estimates that this year will be an increase in grape production, with some farmers calculating a 20% increase With respect to the 2024 harvest. This would be the effect of the recovery of the sector after a drought that affected very diverse crops and left several crops on the edge of the collapse. The situation is now very different thanks to the rains we saw between the past autumn and this spring and even in part of the summer. Double edge weapon. Despite this, this improvement threats becoming a double -edged sword at the fall in prices that the agricultural sector now denounces. The increase in production and static demand involves lower prices, so much that the sector fears not being able to cover production costs. Almost at half price. As explained from the Valencian Association of Farmersthe first offers that wineters have received this year for the conventional grape kilogram is € 0.45, € 0.50 in the case of the grape for the production of “ecological” wine. These figures would represent a price drop of about 50% compared to last year’s prices, € 0.87/kg in conventional grapes and € 1/kg in “ecological” production. Harvest recovery (something we are Seeing in various crops) It would be the reason for this collapse in prices, but producers warn that this recovery does not affect all crops. The field in areas such as the Valencian Community or Extremadura, stand out, maintain a limited yield at 10.5 tons per hectare. A recovery that is not so much. From the winemaker, emphasis is placed on the so long -awaited harvest recovery after drought is not, much less, assured. Some diseases that affect the vine, such as mildewthey are putting a harvest still in the process of maturation in some regions. To this we must add the effects, even to be determined, of a especially intense and lasting heat wave. A heat wave capable to put at risk the process of maturation of plants but has also come accompanied by a series of fires Especially devastating in areas such as Galicia, Extremadura, and Castilla y León. In Xataka | The great alcohol crisis has reached the champagne. And the sector has a theory: we do not find reasons to celebrate Image | Ángela Llop, CC by-SA 4.0

200 people paid to see a drone show in Valencia. The problem is that the event did not exist

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Shopping Tickets Online for an event that you have seen promoted on social networks and, when you arrive at the place and time where it should be held, there is nothing. This is what dozens of people have lived in Valencia, but it is happening in several areas such as the Booking accommodation or Airbnb. What happened. According to the complaint of an individual who collects the EFE agencyabout 200 people were on August 15 to the City of Arts and Sciences of Valencia to go to a drone show event. They had paid 17 euros for each ticket, a price with reasonable appearance. The problem? Although the complainant victim received confirmation notices of purchase of two tickets by SMS, when there was no festival or event of drones. Everything was the result of an online scam, the police told the attendees. And the worst part is that there has also been ticket sales for days 21, 22, 23, 29, 30 and 31. The medium. According to the complaint, the false event was promoted on Instagram, which boosted its reach despite the fact that the festival did not appear in any public calendar of place activities. For the scam, According to Drone Show Festivalwhich are event organizers (but free) with drones, used images and videos of their shows Attendees thought it was something real seeing that there are companies like FLOCK DRONE ART They are dedicated to this. The notice was not enough. Both Drone Show Festival and the official account of the City of Arts and Sciences sent messages in their Official channels warning that they were not organizing any drones festival in the complex. They did it on June 14 in the morning and in the afternoon, day and a half before the false event was celebrated. However, that did not prevent dozens of people from being gathered in full heat wave. Click the image to access the publication. More false events. The scam with drones is not thought only for Valencia. The promotional publication also announced events in Seville, Barcelona Madrid or Bilbao. From the Union of Consumer of Valencia, they affirm that They will denounce the facts before the National Court This week, as well as the General Directorate of Consumption of the Generalitat. They have called for affected people, and have offered to process the relevant claims for free. Online scams are triggered. According to the National Cybersecurity Institute (INCIBE), in 2024 More than 97,000 cyber attacks were recorded16% more than in 2023. The problem is that that year there were already Growing up 24% compared to 2022. According to the institution, in 2023, three out of ten incidents were online fraud. In 2024, they already supposed more than four out of ten. Of the 38,000 fraudulent indications, the Phishing It remains the most problematic technique, with 21,517 cases, and among the trends of public consultations by telephone or WhatsApp, the Vishingthat technique with which the attackers make calls supplanting various entities such as companies of light or telephone operators. Of the 38,000 fraudulent incidents, the itals for Protect ourselves from scamshow to avoid buying on websites that we do not know, for cases like this of the drones, where everything seemed correct a priori, the recommendation is to review additional details to those offered by the seller. Concert enclosures, theaters or events such as the City of Arts usually have a public calendar where all acts officially organized. Taking a look at the program is a quick step that can avoid a great posterior headache. If we have already been victims of a scam, It is recommended denounce the National Police, Civil Guard or contact the INCIBE itself. Images | FLOCK DRONE ART Y Northleg Official in Unspash In Xataka | Not happy with saturating email, spam and scams are now arriving at your postal mailbox

Streaming has been chasing shared accounts for years. The AI does not have that problem: our conversations embarrass us

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Dylan Patel He has nailed it. He says he never paid for Netflix or HBO because he always parasitized alien accounts, but now he has subscriptions to Chatgpt, Perpleplexity and Gemini. And without sharing them with anyone. We have been watching Netflix, Disney, Spotify and company setting devices, home verification, SMS codes to verify that you are the one who pays, geolocation to confirm that you live where you say living. A surveillance device for Avoid cases in the ten relatives enjoy what only one pays. There is a lot of money spent on anti-comparting technology, they have eroded experience. And yet, the accounts continue to share. Total, what else does your brother -in -law know what have you seen ‘The squid game‘This weekend. With the generative AI, no control system is needed. Shame does all dirty work: Nobody wants a partner to discover that he asks ChatgPT to how to write a sad three -line mail. Nobody wants your partner to read the conversations at two in the morning where you consult what to do before a vital and intimate doubt. The history of a Chatgpt or Claude account is an intimate, professional and personal newspaper in equal parts. A record of many insecurities disguised as Prompts. Something too revealing happened recently: When Openai charged GPT-4o for the arrival of GPT-5 there was a small revolt. Too many people had become accustomed to a warmer and more empathetic chatbot (perhaps more servile and complicating), and did not want to lose it. Openai had to reculate. There were people confessing without shame that he needed to recover his digital confidant, to That imaginary friend who will be imaginary but does not judge or yawn. Who always has time and is able to remember every detail of previous conversations. The imaginary friend of the 21st century. IA platforms have discovered the perfect business model: you don’t need to spend money on locks when People prefer to pay before admitting to what extent it depends on a machine. Or let others see their intimacies. Netflix, Spotify and the rest will continue to invest a lot in complicating the lives of those who share their account. Openai only needs to continue believing that no one else talks to Chatgpt As you do. And they are right: nobody else asks him the same shameful things as you. That is why none share the account. In Xataka | Chatgpt has been a tool. If you start remembering all our conversations, it will be something else: a relationship Outstanding image | Solen Feyissa

To decongest Everest, Nepal allows you to access another 97 free peaks. The problem is that nobody wants to upload them

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Although some contender seeks to remove the crownEverest remains the mountaineer Grand Prix. Hundreds of people die every year During the journey to the top and arriving, it ensures personal glory and a certificate. So important is that There are those who lie about their feat. It is evident that Everest is a tourism monsterand that has led Nepal to take a radical solution: let out other peaks of the Himalayas free of charge. It won’t be so easy. Pressure. Getting to the top of Everest is not simple. Sample of difficulty are the bodies that accumulate In its corners, but mountaineering, and specifically Activity at Everestremains one of the heavyweights of the Nepali economy. It is estimated that, in 2024, of the 5.9 million dollars that the country obtained directly from the climbing permits to its peaks, more than 75% were thanks to Everest. And we would have to add expenses such as stays, food and other activities related to that activity. The problem is that it is saturatedwhich led the government to touch prices. The rates to undertake the adventure will rise 36%, from $ 11,000 to 15,000 to upload the mountain in the busiest months. And, from September to November and from December to February, when the influx is lower, the rates will be placed at $ 7,500 and $ 3,750, starting from September 1 of this year. The Himalayas opens from par. Money is not the only thing that will need those who want to crown the top: there is also debate about the need to have made a mountain of more than 7,000 meters from the country itself before climbing Everest. And there the measure that adopted from Katmandú a few weeks ago comes into play. On July 17, and during the next two climbing seasons, Nepal opened For the doors of almost a hundred mountains. Specifically97 located in the westernmost regions of the country. 77 Cumbres are in the province of Karnali and the remaining 20 in Sudurpaschim, and are not negligible picos because, after all, Nepal has eight of the ten highest mountains in the world: Saipal – 7,030 meters. API West – 7,076 meters. API – 7,132 meters Tourists, welcome (please). If we look at the figures, this measure makes all the meaning of the world for two reasons. The first and most obvious, decongesting Everest, being a huge logistics challenge to have to manage that number of visitors. The second, distribute a little tourism that, currently, are concentrated both in Everest and other central summits. The Government wants to arouse interest in little visited tops or even virgins. And if before we talked about more than 75% of the money that the climbing permits leave in Nepal come from activities at Everest, we must specify something more: in 2024 421 permits were issued to climb Everest, but there were only 68 mountaineers that They tried Go up at 97 summits that will now be free. Challenges beyond the mountain. Giving that incentive for the adventurers to explore other areas of the country, they will not only decongest their great peak, but also give an oxygen ball to more remote areas, but with equally impressive peaks. Now, the great challenge will be to convince climbers to go to those areas. Karnali and Sudurpaschim are precisely the poorest and least developed regions of Nepal. The services are limited, the scarce infrastructure and are not the most prepared areas to manage tourists efficiently, something that also moves those possible visitors away. And the big problem is that, as they point out in BBCit is not clear how local communities would face the avalanche of climbers or, even, if the authorities have plans to improve infrastructure or connection with these more remote areas. Because climbing those 7,000 -meter peaks can be free now, but if arriving is an adventure even greater than crowning the top, the climbers will continue to go to the area that is prepared: that of Everest. Image | Sebastian Pena Lambarri In Xataka | During confinement we abandon mass mountaineering. It’s time to try to get back

The US wants China to become addicted to Nvidia chips. His problem is that his greatest rival is not for the work

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The administration led by Donald Trump has realized that her predecessor and herself have made a very serious mistake. SANCTION PACKAGES that have deployed during the last three years To prevent China from doing with the most advanced semiconductor manufacturing equipment, and also with avant -garde chips for artificial intelligence (AI), have forced the Government of Xi Jinping to become independent of foreign technologies. The Chinese industry of the integrated circuits has advanced a lot during the last five years, and will surely continue to do so. It is very likely that in 2026 Chinese manufacturers have their own extreme ultraviolet lithography equipment (UVE). And currently Huawei, Moore Threads and other Chinese companies have GPU for some scenarios They compete with the Nvidia and AMD chips. The independence of the Chinese semiconductor industry is underway. The best output given this juncture for the US is none other than to deliver to China in a controlled way advanced chips for AI, but less powerful than the most capable that design Nvidia, AMD or brains. In this way this Asian country may relax a bit its ambition for development and independence. This is exactly what the Trump administration is doing by allowing Nvidia to give back to its Chinese clients Your GPU for IA H20as Chris Miller holdsthe author of ‘The chips war’in his Newsletter. China is getting out of Nvidia The future of Nvidia in China is largely in the hands of the administration of the cyberspace of China, known as CAC for its English denomination (Cyberspace Administration of China). This institution is the main Internet regulatory body in China and is thoroughly investigating NVIDIA H20 GPU Because it suspects that this chip could incorporate a back door of difficult location by Chinese experts. If so, the possibility of China to use this GPU could be possible. David reber Jr., Nvidia Security Director, published last week An article in the blog of this company entitled “There are no rear doors in the Nvidia chips. There are no deactivation switches. There are no spy software” in an obvious attempt to defend the company’s reputation and appease the growing distrust to which he faces in China. There is a lot at stake. If the final resolution of the CAC turns out to be unfavorable with all probability NVIDIA will lose a good part of the income currently obtained in this country. The Chinese government is urging Chinese companies that are dedicated to the development of large models of the use in their Chinese chip servers However, this is not all. Whatever the CAC verdict is a fact that the Chinese government He is urging Chinese companies that are dedicated to the development of large models of AI to use in their servers integrated circuits of Chinese origin. In this scenario their best bazas are now Huawei and Moore Threads. The first of these companies has lists its own GPU for iathe chips ascend AI, for more than five years. During this period of time it has been refining them and increasing their abilities with the purpose of matching or even overcoming the performance of the chips A100 and H100 of Nvidia. His most ambitious proposal right now is the chip Ascend 910dwhich seeks to overcome the performance of the H100 GPU. However, this Chinese company has also recently presented its chip Ascend 920a solution that is clearly destined to occupy in the Chinese market The H20 GPU space. This proposal will enter large -scale production during the second half of 2025 using 6 NM integration technology that have presumably developed elbow with Huawei elbow and SMIC. On the other hand, Moore Threads He has developed several GPU for AI applications that, on paper, rivaize some of the advanced solutions that have placed in the Nvidia, AMD or Huawei market. The MTT S4000 and MTT S3000 cards are its most interesting proposals right now, although, curiously, in its porpholio the MTT S80 card, a proposal for games and content creation that, according to Moore Threads itself, has a 14.4 TFLOPS calculation capacity also appears in Floating Coma operations of simple precision. It doesn’t impress, but it’s not bad at all. Image | Gage Skidmore | Wikipedia More information | Financial Times In Xataka | Ten Chinese companies in Chips and IA have allied with a common goal: to put an end to the domain of Nvidia

China has a huge youth unemployment problem. So much, that some people pretend that they work

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China and the European Union have one thing in common: the youth unemployment rate. 14.5% of young Chinese have no job, while in the European Union the figure is slightly higher, 14.7%. The difference, of course, is that about 448 million people live in the European Union, while in China there are more 1,400 million inhabitants. Not finding work feels bad to anyone, but in China both family and social pressure is huge. It is a very competitive market and the young man is expected to find work, do everything possible to find it: training, studiespractices, Temporary workswhatever. Not working or worse, not looking for work, has a negative impact on social perception. In that context, the emergence of a phenomenon of the most peculiar makes sense: pay for pretending you work. Image | Marc Mueller China and work. When a student graduates, what is expected of him is to work, be useful and not depend on the family. It is possible that this is not immediately possible. Some students can opt for a “Deliberate transition“(慢就业), that is, take a while while they form and explore options actively; others can do a postgraduate (考研) or study oppositions (考公); and others, access a temporary job, support the family business, etc., while looking for something more stable. It is expected, in short, that the job search is active and proactive. Not doing so has negative effects on social perception. Depending on parents without being contributing or looking for anything (啃老, we could literally translate it as “bite the old” or more Castilianized, being a Nini) is something that is frowned upon. But situations are not always conducive and, given social pressure, it may be easier to pretend than you work while looking for work than giving explanations. Image | Xataka Work looking for work. Given this complex social and labor situation, companies have emerged in some areas of China that rent a place to go to work when you have no job. One of them is intend to work Company, which for 3.5 euros per day allows access to a false office with computers, Internet access, meeting rooms, etc. Like a Coworkingmore or less. These companies are announced on social networks such as Xiaohongshu. And what to go? There are several reasons. BBC echoes From the testimony of Shui Zhou, a 30 -year -old person who goes to the “office” every day to do networking, train his discipline and, in some way, relax his parents. Right now he is taking the opportunity to improve his skills with AI. Others such as Xiaowen Tang, a newly graduated, 23 years old, pointed out because their university has a kind of unwritten rule: if you do not send your contract or proof that you are doing practices a year after graduate, they do not give you the diploma. He pointed to the company, took a photo of the office and used it as proof. Workers in a smartphones factory | Image: Xataka Another cantonous girl, whose identity remains in anonymity, left her job in 2024 due to the pressure of the financial world, explains to The country. He pointed to a false office because he does not dare to tell his family the truth. He started going to coffee shops, but for 400 yuan monthly he can go to a lie office to spend the day while looking for work. A shell. “To pretend that it works is a shelter that young people find for themselves, creating a slight distance with respect to the majority society and giving themselves a little space,” Dr. Biao Xiang, director of the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Germany in Germany, tells the BBC. The same thinks the owner of Pretend to Work Company, a 30 -year -old boy who affirms that “what I sell is not a job, but the dignity of not being a useless person.” As reported, 40% of its customers are recent graduates who need to try their tutors who are doing practices. Some also go to flee from family pressure. Others are autonomous or digital nomads that understand this space as a coworking. The Middle Ages is 30 years. The other face of the currency. Pandemia made a mella in youth employment in China, which in 2023, after years of employability record, was estimated at 46.5% According to Zhang DandanProfessor of Economics at the University of Beijing. So disastrous was the situation that Statistics were stopped. The country faces 14.5% youth unemployment, a figure that probably grows When the 12.2 million new graduates Try to enter the market. The pressure to get a job is such that, in recent years, a movement that pursues the opposite has emerged. Instead of being ambitious, reaching the extreme and doing work the central axis of life that Once the day 996 proposed (and Now it seems to be changing), The 躺平 movement, literally “lie down”, promotes the opposite: criticism of extreme competition, work just to fulfill, lead a slower rhythm of life, enjoy a little more even if that implies a work of less relevance or a lower salary. It is in China what we knew here as the Silent resignation. Cover image | Marc Mueller In Xataka | This worker promised them happy combining three jobs, until he made an error and in a matter of hours was unemployed

In 2015 Scotland launched a route to revitalize highlands through tourism. Ten years later they have a problem

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The story dates back to 2015. Those who know the details that with the support of the then Prince Carlos already through the North Highland Initiativean ambitious project was launched to economically reactivate remote highlands from northern Scotland. To that route the They called North Coast 500but they did not measure the impact it was going to have an “old acquaintance”. The birth of myth. He project A very clear lines had a decade ago. On the basis of existing roads, a circular route of 830 kilometers with start and end in Inverness, conceived as a Scottish version of the mythical American Route 66 Route. The promise It was double: To energize the economy of small forgotten locations and offer the traveler an unforgettable experience between castles, abrupt coasts and virgin landscapes. In their early years, the numbers confirmed success: a 26% increase in visits to tourist information centers and up to 30% in local attractions. In 2018, a study calculated that the route generated more than 22 million pounds per year For the region. That comes tourism … mass. Success, however, brought consequences unwanted. The massive arrival of caravans, motorhomes, sports cars and motorcycles overflowed precarious roads and little prepared peoples, turning them into a sound hell. What was initially presented as an economic impulse ended up being perceived by many residents such as An invasion: Prairies razed by barbecues, paths turned into improvised toilets and fragile ecosystems, such as the habitats of Atlantic Frailecillos, disturbed by reckless tourists. The route Untenable. The lack of basic infrastructure (parking lots, toilets, wastewater discharge points) derived from garbage spills and human waste in private properties and in constant interference in those fragile habitats such as those of the frailecillos. The accidents increasedaggravated by visitors little accustomed to a single lane roads or to the fact of driving on the left. In fact, the official data They show a rebound of serious collisions caused by American tourists. Meanwhile, the mythical port of Bealach Mountain Na Bàwith its curves closed to more than 600 meters high, it became a dangerous funny for Motorhomes oversized. The massive tourism paradox. The prosperity provided by the NC500 is unquestionable: thousands of Linked jobs to tourism and the rescue of rural business that would otherwise have disappeared. Accommodation owners recognize that without the route their companies would not have survived, especially after the pandemic. But that economic bonanza lives with the perception of an authentic “Seasonal invader” that alters the rhythm of life of the communities. Daily coexistence with caravans parked in the windows of the houses, rallies at high speed or campists carving trees to make fire has fed an increasing discomfort, channeled in Facebook groups such as NC500 The Dirty Truth. For many, the brand has become Hostage of large companies that explode it without responsible for cultural and environmental damages. Local and future responses. The situation has led to the NC500 already appears on the blacklist of Fodor’s Travel destinations, which He advises it for “unsustainable popularity.” Given this, authorities and promoters try to recover balance with campaigns Like Press Pausewhich seeks that the communities themselves decide how to promote their territory, and with the hiring of rangers that patrol and educate tourists. The company NC500 LTD. has introduced In addition a “traveler commitment” on its website, with More than 4,000 signaturesto promote environmental and social respect. However, the background It is complex: How to make the appeal of a route that has placed north of Scotland on the world map with the need to preserve its identity, its nature and the daily life of its inhabitants? The Highlands dilemma. If you want too, The NC500 Encarna a global dilemma which we have spoken a lot: the tension between the economic benefit of mass tourism and the erosion of what makes it desirable. In this case, the risk is that the “last wild border” of Scotland becomes a saturated showcase, unable to support either its visitors or its communities. For some stores, the answer goes through Limit the flow of tourists and reinforce infrastructure. For others, for accepting that the Highlands culture It will inevitably change under the weight of international tourism. Between the enthusiasm of the business and the frustration of the residents, the NC500 remains an uncomfortable mirror: a dream of rural development that threatens to destroy what made it possible, the majestic serenity of some lands that everyone now wants to travel. Yeah William Wallace looked up would not give credit. Image | Fabian to Scherschel, Lauren Friedman, ThincatNC500 The Dirty Truth In Xataka | After expanding throughout the planet, touristification has reached Antarctica. And it is already taking its toll In Xataka | Decades ago the cities of Europe joined to capture tourists. Today they allied to the opposite: throw them out

Spring rains have generated an unexpected problem to Spanish farmers: Cereal too cheap

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Cereal cultivation continues to live convulsive times. Like many other crops, cereals suffered the consequences of last droughta drought that came to put the sector against the sector in 2023, transforming the dream of become the barn of Europe In a bitter awakening. Prices fall. Now the lament of the sector comes from another place: prices, collapsed after the recovery of the offer, a consequence of the recovery of production. A recovery that could hardly have occurred without a hydrological year as favorable as that of 2024-25. However, it never rains to everyone’s taste. From León. Perhaps the best example we find In the Leon Lonja. There last week the price of cereals such as wheat, rye or oatmeal saw slight falls in prices. The problem is more pressing if we consider the price two years ago: € 247/t. This implies that, in the last two years the price of cereal has dropped by more than 20%. Oats, in free fall. Another striking fall It has been oatmeal: if two years ago the price of this cereal was in the € 285/t, the price has dropped from then to € 136/t, 52.3% less. A year ago the price was € 183/t, which implies that only this year the drop in the price has been around 26%. Corn, the exception. Corn is the only cereal that seems to escape this trend. Their prices remained stable in fish markets such as León, while getting up in others, Like Salamanca. Lost opportunity A fall to which the sector has responded with pessimism since in the province the harvest is already practically finished. Farmers point out that these prices barely serve costs and They talk about “Lost Opportunity” When referring to this campaign. Supply and demand. The sector indicates the origin of the problem in a simple equation, that of supply and demand. Prices have fallen significantly since 2023, when the drought put in the middle of the agricultural sector against the ropes: the absence of rains and restrictions limited agricultural production. Now, production has recovered, but the problems continue. The increase in supply has not been equated with greater demand, which has facilitated a collapse in prices. To the precarious situation other external factors must be added, such as changes in international trade patterns, among which They are included The new tariff war between the United States and Europe, a conflict still to be resolved that adds firewood to the fire in the form of uncertainty. In Xataka | Before increasingly hard droughts, we are looking for answers in something discarded 10,000 years ago: perennial cereals Image | Heyzeus I write

Humanity has a serious problem with antibiotics. A Spanish researcher has used AI to solve it

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Artificial intelligence has opened a chest that had been closed almost 4,000 million years. Inside there was no gold, but something much more valuable: an arsenal of molecules capable of fighting superbacteria. This is the result of the team led by the Spanish biotechnologist César de la Fuente at the University of Pennsylvania, which has studied the genome of the arches, one of the oldest lineages of life on earth, to discover a family of antibiotics that has called archesasins. An invisible and increasingly strong enemy. WHO considers the resistance of antimicrobials (RAM) as One of the greatest threats to humanity. Only in 2019 almost 5 million deaths were associated worldwide Due to bacteria that cannot be eliminated with antibiotics because they have developed defenses against them. A threat that is increasing, and that forces us to look for new antibiotics to fight against them. The problem It is especially serious in vulnerable areas such as conflict environments or that have a very fragile health system where the misuse of antibiotics causes these ‘superbacteria’ to appear. And in Spain, something as simple as Take antibiotics to treat a virus or not finish the complete pattern prescribed can also contribute to this serious problem. Archaeas: Extreme rescue survivors. The Archaeas They are unicellular microorganisms that are really ‘strong’. They are evolutionary premiums of bacteria, but form their own life domain, together with bacteria and eukaryotes (the group where we find the cells we have in our body or in plants). They were born in the primitive earth, a hostile environment that forced them to adapt to live in conditions that would kill most living beings, with temperatures greater than 80 degrees, extreme acidity or the great pressures that were in the oceanic funds. Its resistance is our great advantage. Precisely seeing that these bacteria could survive the most inhospitable places, he gave rise to the research team to search among their defense mechanisms. And it was the key. César de la Fuente himself He explains it Thus to El País: Since the discovery of penicillin, the search for new antibiotics has been practically focused exclusively on bacteria and fungi. With our work, this paradigm changes because we find antibiotics in a domain of virtually unexplored life. An AI to look for molecular treasures. To be able to search among the more than 20,000 species of different arches, the team had to develop an AI with ‘Apexoracle‘To be able to find what they were looking for. And he did. The AI identified 90 candidate compounds that gathered the criteria they were looking for and of these, 93% were those that showed antimicrobial properties. In this way, a lot of time were saved. Archaeasins: The new artillery against superbacteria. Among the discovered compounds, one of them was the archeanine-73. This has demonstrated in models In vivo That has a power comparable to polymixin B, an antibiotic that is on the last step of antibiotic therapy when literally used as a last resort in a superbacteria. And here the future opens up to a new batch of antibiotics that allow us to continue surviving ultra -vertrassing bacteria. It is not the only way, but it is a revolutionary. This strategy of combining computational power with biology is a field in full boiling. We are seeing it with ia that are used to detect pancreatic cancer early, predict breast cancer either be a general help for any radiologist. And in the field of research, they also continue to support even to know why a superbacterial did not respond to a treatment. Images | Danilo.Alvesd Myriam Zilles In Xataka | Some engineers have simulated 500 million years of evolution with an AI. Now we have a fluorescent protein

The Canary Islands will tend an underwater cable to Morocco. If Morocco decides to extend it, Spain will have a problem

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An underwater cable of 49 million euros will connect the Canary Islands with Africa, but it will stop just where the legal problem begins: the border of the Western Sahara. What is happening. The Ring of the East islands will first join Gran Canaria, Lanzarote and Fuerteventura with the latest generation fiber. Then it will jump to the African continent, to Tarfaya, the last Moroccan city before the West Sahara. The Canarian government It has been clear: “The cable goes to Tarfaya, it has nothing to do with Western Sahara.” But Morocco has other plans. His government wants to extend that connection to what he calls his “South Provinces”, the euphemism with which he refers to the Saharawi territory since 1975, when Spain abandoned it. Why is it important. Submarine cables are Internet highways. 99% of data traffic between continents travels through them. This project promises to make the Canary Islands a digital node between Europe and Africa. But there is a huge legal problem. The EU Court of Justice considers any economic activity in the Western Sahara without consent of the Polisario Front, recognized by the UN as representative of the Saharawi people. And the Polisario He has already warned: If the cable reaches Saharawi territory, they will go to court. The context. Since Pedro Sánchez supported the Moroccan Autonomy Plan for Sahara in 2022Spain tries to maintain the balance between its economic interests with Morocco and its international legal obligations. This cable puts that test balance. If the infrastructure that Spain finances with European funds ends up facilitating Moroccan expansion in Sahara, could splash Spain with legal problems in European courts. The money trail. The construction has already begun with these numbers: 49 million total budget. 20 million provided by the European Investment Bank. Additional 7.5 million for connection with Tarfaya. In February, Canalink technicians – the Canarian public company that leads the project— Tarfaya visited to study the land and design the submarine layout. The cable will be manufactured in 2025 and will be deployed in 2026. The precedent. It is not the first time that Canary Islands connect with Morocco. Since 2011 There is a cable with Asilahin the north of the country. But that did not generate any controversy because it is far from the territory in dispute. This is different. It reaches the same border of the Sahara. And even if technically stops there, it creates the perfect basis for Morocco to complete what European companies cannot do directly by legal restrictions. The threat. The Polisario Front has a history of victories in European courts. He has lying fishing agreements and agriculture between the EU and Morocco for including resources from the Sahara without its consent. “We will carry out any action to guarantee the rights of the Saharawi people,” He said Abdulah Arabi, representative of the Polisario in Spain. A data cable would be your next goal if you cross the border. And now what. The project will continue because Canary Islands need this connection. The ESSI Spain will be able to maintain the legal fiction that its responsibility ends in Tarfaya. If Morocco extends the cable to the Sahara using the base infrastructure financed with European money, Spain could be found in the midst of another conflict between its economic interests and its obligations with the territory that it abandoned 50 years ago. And this time it will not be for fishing or phosphates, but for the control of the data between two continents. In Xataka | The Google Maps of submarine cables: an imposing interactive map that allows us to know the skeleton of the modern world Outstanding image | TelefónicaGoogle Maps

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