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We already had an ozempic to lose weight, now someone has created one for the eternal youth: NAD+ promises

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Of the six -digit operations In elite operating rooms to luxury serums That they promise to erase wrinkles in minutes, the eternal youth industry has always played with the same idea: that somewhere there is a shortcut. But what if the secret was not in a cream or in a scalpel, but in a tiny molecule that lives in each of our cells? This is how NAD+is presented, the coenzyme that has gone from being a laboratory concept to become the new biohacking grail. The ozempic of being young. As happened with the GLP-1 drugs in The obsession with thinnessNAD+ has become the aspirational shortcut towards youth. Hollywood and the aesthetic elite have embraced him within the call “Invisible luxury”: undetectable results, continuous maintenance and therapies that combine apparatus with cosmetic biology. In that stew of mass access, supplements and “shots” of NAD+ they occupy the biohacking story. From Hollywood A Amazon. A couple of years ago, Hailey Bieber and Kendall Jenner They popularized Intravenous NAD+therapies, a format that Miami and Dubai clinics sell as an energy and anti -aging “booster”. But it is not just celebrity thing: a search is enough on Amazon to find NMN or NR capsules that promise to raise cell levels. The problem is that, As The New York Times has warnedthe scientific evidence that supports these habits is still weak. In addition, what appears on the label often does not match what is in the bottle. A study led by the gerontologist Andrea Maier detected deviations of up to 100% in the real content of supplements, regardless of brand or price. Shining the NAD+. Better known as Nicotinamide adenine Dinucleotide, is something like the spark that allows our cells to work. It is everywhere, from the muscles to the brain, and According to the University of Navarra Clinic Participate in such critical tasks as producing energy, repairing damaged DNA or activating syruches, proteins linked to aging. The problem is that, over the years, NAD+ levels plummete and begin to relate to memory loss, muscle weakness and an increase in the risk of diseases associated with age. Therefore, raising those levels by precursors such as NR or NMN can keep mitochondria and favor cell longevity. Initial essays, collected by the confidentialThey have documented improvements in memory, movement and metabolism. However, they are small studies and experts They agree that they are missing Essays to convert the promise into solid evidence. Experts ask for prudence. Enthusiasm coexists cautiously. According to the webmd medical portalnicotinamide is safe to 900 mg per day, but high doses can cause headaches, fatigue, gastrointestinal problems or enzymatic alterations. In the case of nicotinic acid, another form of related vitamin B3, can cause redness and decreases in voltage even in moderate doses. The University of Navarra Clinic Explain that Supplements can interact with medications that affect liver or coagulation, so it is recommended to use them only under medical supervision. In a more concrete way, they probably do not damage in moderate doses, but there is also no certainty that it is worth taking risks for something that still has no macros studies. A society in search of shortcuts. NAD+ fever fits into a broader cultural context: obsession with shortcuts against aging. Hollywood has gone from “Frozen faces” from Botox to the “Liquid surgery” And luxury invisible treatments, while the rest of society consumes supplements, Collagen powder and Digital filters as affordable substitutes. And perhaps that distance reveals something deeper: our obsession with shortcuts against the inevitable. The eternal youth industry blooms because we live terrified at the passage of time, as if aging were a failure that must be corrected. But old age is not an anomaly: it is the only certainty we share. Perhaps the real question is not how to avoid it, but why it costs us so much to accept it. Meanwhile, science continues to remember what it works –move, sleep well, Eat better– Although it never sounds as glamorous as a molecule that promises to stop the clock. Image | Pexels and Freepik Xataka | The elixir of eternal youth exists and we are seeing it in real time: luxury surgeons “at $ 100,000 the session

A Spanish company wants to convert the chitamiedos into biker allies. Promises to be as simple as effective

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We are not going to discover anything if we say that chitamiedos are one of the great dangers for motorists and cyclists. For years solutions of all kinds have been sought. Among them have been proposed and installed Save them With double protection, Some even padded To absorb the impact and above all, eliminate the blade effect from the supports. There are also tubular options that follow that same logic of double and lower protection but avoiding the small pillars that can curtail members. Now, a Spaniard has presented a new addition that does not imply a new design of the cloakrooms. In this case, the objective is that emergency services can act faster and, therefore, some times that can be crucial when an accident is suffered. A connected alternative The system is called Plugsmart Pro And it is devised by the University University of Valencia (UPV) in collaboration with the Valenciana Metalese company is based on a similar idea. In this case they use artificial intelligence, environment monitoring systems and bidirectional signaling to alert drivers in real time. The system Analyze Constantly what happens around them and changes their lighting to warn drivers, bikers or cyclists that they approach a dangerous place, in complicated conditions or that there is some obstacle along the way. To do this, use some lights connected to each other that are installed on the wore. These emit a certain halo of light but when the weather conditions are complicated, the light takes strength. It is the simplest function because the truly interesting is in the monitoring of the environment. If the guardraíl detects that another vehicle is approaching, the flashes become more visible to alert who is on the other side of the curve. Also if, for example, there is a damaged vehicle, an injured person or an animal is crossing the road. If the system detects a dangerous object, the intensity of light increases. The invention has won the Ponle Brake Prize for Innovation in Road Safety in 2024 and this year the National Award Award for Conservation Safety. The companions of Motorpasion motorcyclethat from the DGT have already shown their support for the system. And it is that when the last great advantage of the system is that it can notify emergency services in case of accident. The latter is one of the incentives that the DGT has wielded to convince us that the V-16 lights that will be mandatory as of January are better than the classic triangles. That is, the system alerts drivers, cyclists and motorists that They approach a danger and its light adapts to signal its risk. But, in addition, it comes into contact with the authorities in case of detecting a blow with the intention that the response time from the accident warning to its performance is as much as possible. Photo | Miraxh Tereziu and Metals In Xataka | Spain has a problem with old motorcycles: they neither pass the ITV nor are they a maintenance day

A new generation of robots promises precision and efficiency. It also opens the door to cyberspage risks

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The movement of the robotic arm seems impeccable: each turn, each clamp, each displacement occurs with the accuracy of a metronome. However, while these actions convey confidence in a hospital or a factory, another story is drawn in the background. The commands, although encrypted, let rhythms and pauses In the traffic that travels through the network. These patterns, invisible to the naked eye, in many cases allow to deduce the task executed. The same accuracy that we applaud in the robot can become a trace for external observers. Over the last years the interest in collaborative robots has shot himself. Hospitals are used as surgical assistants for their ability to make fine movements without fatigue, and in factories they have become allies for repetitive or risk tasks. Not only do productivity improve, they also reduce accidents by replacing the operator in hostile environments. The connectivity that drives its expansion, however, is also the one that can expose them to new vulnerability scenarios, According to a study in the University of Waterlooin Canada. Precision that dazzles in hospitals, a trail that can be interpreted The investigation did not focus on real -time robots by means Preprogrammed scripts. These systems receive an orders sequence and execute them with minimal human intervention, which reduces direct supervision and expands automation possibilities. At the same time, the way in which these systems structure high -level commands generates regular traffic patterns, and that regularity opens opportunities for analysis. The work was designed with a very concrete scenario: a passive attacker, someone who only observes the network traffic between the robot and its controller without deciphering it. The experiment was carried out with an arm Kinova Gen3a light robot usually used in research environments. The controller executed preprogrammed commands and the communications were protected with TLS encryption. With this assembly, the researchers registered 200 network traces corresponding to four different actions, looking for a varied and representative set. The authors began by converting network catches into temporary signals: instead of looking at the content of the packages, they analyzed when each one was sent and with what separation. Those time series were treated as acoustic signs, which allowed to apply classic signal processing techniques, such as correlation and convolution, which seek similarities and patterns in pulses and rhythms. From this transformation they trained a classifier that, in the closed environment of the test, assigned an action to each trace. The experiment used 200 traces on four actions and showed that, even with activated TLS, temporary subpatrones were detectable. Kinova Gen3 The trials showed that the method worked with remarkable efficiency: in most tests the system was able to identify the robot action with a success level close to 97%. This means that, although the orders travel encrypted by TLS, the observation of the intervals and the cadence can allow to rebuild what task it is executed. In a hospital, that could give clues about the nature of an intervention; In a factory, on the production sequence. A complete deduction is not always achieved, but the finding shows that the encryption alone is not enough. Although orders travel encrypted by TLS, the observation of the intervals and cadence can allow to rebuild what task it is executed. The finding acquires relevance to extrapolating it to real environments. In health, an attacker could identify details of a surgical intervention without the need to access the medical history, only observing the robot communication flows. In the industry, the patterns themselves could reveal assembly steps or Characteristics of a patented process. It is not an isolated failure of a specific model, but an alert signal on how connectivity multiplies the exposure. Each connected robot becomes a possible observation point. The researchers did not limit themselves to pointing out the problem: they also explored possible defenses. One of them is to modify the timing of the robot programming interface, so that the commands do not follow such a regular and predictable pattern. Another is to apply package filling and timing manipulation to hide the real rhythms. These measures could reduce the inference capacity of an attacker, although with a cost: lower network efficiency and, in some cases, more latency in the execution of the robot. Technological innovation always advances in parallel to the need to protect it. Cobots exemplify that balance: they promise efficiency and new forms of work, but also force rethink defense measures. It is not about stopping its adoption, but about doing it with a conscious look of the risks. Security and development are not opposite paths; They must travel together if you want the future of robotics to be sustainable and reliable. Images | Kinova Robotics (1, 2) | Freepik In Xataka | Alibaba is becoming the Ai Open Source sponator. Your family of Qwen models is putting the market above

The new aesthetic luxury of “liquid surgery” that promises what the Botox no longer sells

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In the new economy of the “invisible luxury”, the object of desire no longer hangs from the arm: it melts with the skin. Instead of great transformations, the aspiration is that “it is not noticed.” A lifting without scars, a brightness that looks like a repair dream. In that league the newly baptized “liquid surgery” plays: four -digit facials that promise a Botox effect without needles or rigidity. A new trend. After the rejuvenated reappearance of Lindsay Lohan, a reporter from The Times He went to the most exclusive spa by Beverly Hills to test the “MBR Best and Ultimate Liquid Surgery”, a 995 -dollar protocol. The session includes cleaning, toning, hyaluronic acid masks and, above all, the application of a star serum: 1,784 pounds the 50 ml bottle, sold as “viper venom imitator” to achieve a “more subtle” botulin toxin effect. The journalist described a “striking” difference after applying the product in half face and collected that the usual clientele includes local elites and celebrities that repeat monthly and complement at home. The text itself points out that the term “liquid surgery” was coined by a German marketing department: there is no scalpel, but a high -cost cosmetic ritual with immediate results. The spa presents it as the “less invasive” route towards the good face effect that was previously associated with visible injectables. Aesthetic luxury changes the skin. The turn responds to a broader trend: undetectable results. As we have detailed in Xatakathe deep flat lifting – which repositions muscles and ligaments in block to avoid rigidity – has become the standard among star surgeons. The effects last between 10 and 15 years, but prices easily exceed six figures. Given this situation, Botox has lost part of the story. In a report for Women’s Health They have described as Jennifer Aniston He has recognized that he tried the injections, but abandoned them for considering them “ridiculous” in excess. Instead, combine facials, lasers and radiofrequency (Themage) with a healthy lifestyle. The narrative now relies on bioestimulators: polynucleotides derived from salmon DNA (PDRN) that promise cellular hydration and regeneration, or exosomes, small vesicles that act as regenerative “messengers”. He Glow discreet becomes symbolic capital. Towards combined protocols. The immediate future points to repeatable treatments, expensive and continuous maintenance, which mixes apparatus (laser, radiofrequency) and cosmetic biology (polynucleotides, exosomes). That is today the “toolbox” that celebrities present as an alternative to click or go through an operating room with public visibility. On the cusp, the elite scalpel continues to mark status; At the base, four -digit facials sell the “invisible effect” in cabin format. This is how the term coined as “liquid surgery” fits at that intersection. The problems that are coming. The boom of “liquid surgery” and other less invasive treatments drag shadows that should look straight ahead: from the regulatory vacuum to unequal aesthetic pressure. On the one hand, The Newbeauty Portal Document The case of Victoria Nelsona client that denounced burns and scars after a “high -power” peeling and microneedling years performed, allegedly, out of the legal reach of a aestheticist in California. Dermatologists consulted recalled that procedures such as medical peels, microneedling, lasers or injections should be carried out in clinical environments and under medical supervision. A peeling, they underlined, is not a ritual of beauty but a “controlled chemical burn” that, if it runs badly, can leave irreversible sequelae. The case illustrates a hole between marketing, licenses and security. On the other hand, in other types of treatments science does not support a promise. Polynucleotides –extracted from salmon DNA and increasingly present in elite clinics– They have biological base and even a previous medical use in wounds and burns. Side effects, when injected, are usually mild (bruises, swelling), but robust studies are missing that support their long -term benefits. It also happens with exosomes that it is still consolidating in the scientific field and with collagen supplements, where the benefits are modest or contradictory and many studies have been financed by the brands themselves. There is an even broader background. The aesthetic pressure is not limited to the cabin of a spa. The cultural narrative has oscillated from Body Positive to ultra -launching standardsamplified by Fashionable thinning drug and Digital filters that multiply impossible expectations. In this field, scrutiny is deeply unequal. They carry the demand to stay young and with a double penalty: both those who are operated and those who decide not to do so are criticized. Sarah Jessica Parker has been insulted for showing wrinkles, while Pamela Anderson was criticized for exhibiting her naturalness without makeup. Men, on the other hand, usually enjoy indulgence: names such as Brad Pitt, Tom Cruise or Bradley Cooper have starred in speculation about touch -ups, but rarely face the same public trial. Even the data shows the gap: As we have pointed out in XatakaLiftings in men grew by 26 % between 2022 and 2024, but the media account presented them as a simple “set -up”, not as an “aesthetic obsession.” The result: eternal youth remains a female demand and an optional option for them. An eternal youth with conditions. The snake venom facial in Beverly Hills is more than an aesthetic whim. Summarizes a global trend: displacement towards less invasive procedures, more expensive and with an aura of exclusivity. An eternal youth reserved for those who can pay it, while the rest of society consumes supplements, collagen powder and digital filters as substitutes. The question, however, is still open: are these advances a real scientific revolution or a marketing mirage? Maybe how did The Times the chronicler When leaving the spa, the eternal youth does exist, but it costs the same as thirty beers in an airport. And, above all, it is still a luxury with class, gender and power more visible gender than any wrinkle. Image | Freepik Xataka | Surgeons are facing a new challenge: patients who want to resemble their double created by AI

The digital kit promises to digitize SMEs and freelancers and “give them” a Macbook Air. There is a lot of small print

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On paper the Digital kit It doesn’t seem a bad idea. The government’s proposal, managed by Red.esgrants a series of subsidies to facilitate the “digital transformation” of SMEs and freelancers. Or what is the same: that small businesses and people “in self -employment” can for example have their website, their online store and even access the subsidy of a macbook air m4 that seems to leave “free”. Except that it does not go free. Not much less. Subsidies for digital transformation The program, promoted by Red.es and the Ministry for Digital Transformation and Public Function, aims to “digitize” SMEs and adapt them to new times. Source: Red.es Financing comes from the Next Generation EU program of the European Union, and to start it up they were established different segments of beneficiaries that depended on the size of the SMEs or whether you were autonomous. The calls for almost all segments have been ending over the last months, but there is one that remains active: that of segment III, dedicated to SMEs from zero to three employees and also autonomous. The maximum amount of the subsidy for this segment is 3,000 euros, and is divided into two items. The first, with a subsidy of up to 2,000 euros can be used to commission the development of a web page (“basic internet presence”) or an online store (“Marketplace”). The second, which is becoming a claim on social networks, is a subsidy of up to 1,000 euros for the acquisition of a “safe job”which normally translates into a PC or portable. An important detail here: you can not ask for only the computer for the computer, and this can only be requested as a complement to the subsidy for the website or online store mentioned above. To access the program and get those “digital bonds” of up to 3,000 euros the process, explained in a PDFIt is theoretically simple. Just access the web accelerapyme.escomplete a “self -diagnosis test” and request help Digital kit through the form of the Red.es electronic headquarters. From there we will have to get in touch with a “digitizer agent”which will be the intermediary through which this “digital transformation” of our business is carried out. It is they who provide us with services (or manage that a third party provide them) and that they also take care of the acquisition of the famous portable of 1,000 euros. It is possible to become one of these digitalizing agents through the aforementioned Electronic Headquarters of Red.es, and In another guide in PDF It explains how to log in. A digitizer agent tells us the reality of the digital kit program As we say, on paper everything seems correct, but in practice the digital kit program has become a source of controversy that affects both parties, both those who have asked for those subsidies and to those who have managed them. To know from within what is happening we have talked to Pablo F. Iglesiasfounder of the consultant Cyberbainers that among other things achieved homologation for the digital kit. He has suffered the “small print” of this project as well as a service provider as a couple of a person who requested them. After this time offering their services, he tells us how his feeling is that there were “too many used who have seen in the program a quick business opportunity.” It is a message that others have shared such as Jaime Gómez-Obregón, which explained in x How a microenterprise “sold” hundreds of digital kit projects by subcontracting websites to freelancers in South America, which ended up promoting “Business models of using and throwing”. Iglesias also indicated how there have been large companies that They have taken advantage of the program to capture new customers as part of your service offer. In both cases the impact has been mostly negative. There are many the Complaints in social networks that They speak of Scams Related and how it has been seen that frequently the quality of the web pages or online stores created was very low, they were often “clones” of other web pages with minimal modifications that did not justify the 2,000 euros of the subsidy. For churches there is another additional problem: “Although they grant, for example, 6,000 euros to your company, the categories are limited to maximum expenses. Insufficient expenses to provide a service of twelve months, which encourages, by the structure of the subsidy itself, that the quality of the service is very but very low … or an economic agreement is reached outside the digital kit contract.” Iglesias himself explained that with 2,000 euros it is practically impossible for someone to “make you a professional website, give you basic services of backups, maintenance and monthly SEO work for 12 months.” Even so, he emphasizes, this program has caused the foam “alleged marketing agencies that They are dedicated to riding clonic WordPress With free templates in an afternoon, financing with the digital kit. “Although these pages do not position well in front of the competition, in the eyes of the program they have fulfilled the work,” and as the type client to which they van do not understand anything in the digital world, because it cooks. “ Free laptop myth In recent days we have started to see frequently on social networks like Tiktok Publications of accounts that They talked of The easy What was it get a macbook air m4 “free” subsidized by digital kit. But all these messages are misleading advertising, since although the digital kit program subsidizes these teams, who want to take advantage of this option will have to be very attentive to the small print. To start, because That subsidy does not cover VATand here Iglesias points to how “the state always wins.” To get the laptop we have to ask both the subsidy of 1,000 euros for the “safe job” and the 2,000 euros for the creation of a website or, as many of those ads sell, the start -up of … Read more

In 2017, four Australians revolutionized video games. ‘Silksong’ and its ‘Coca-Cola formula’ promises to repeat it

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It is an absolute barbarity, but thousands of video games are thrown every year. The vast majority pass without penalty or glory because we do not have time for everything, but in 2017 a game was launched that shook the segment as an earthquake: ‘Hollow Knight’. An indie title slipped among the great productions of that year thanks to two words: ‘Game Feel’, and in 2019 it was announced that it would have a continuation called ‘Silksong’. Six years later, ‘Silksong’ has become a memebut also in one of the most anticipated launches of 2025 and the absolute star of the great European video game event, the Gamescom. And, finally, ‘Silksong’ has a release date. Without surroundings. When it was learned that ‘Silksong’ would be in Gamescom 2025, the community was excited. This is the perfect frame to show material of a game that, in all these years, has peeked the leg with dropper and, above all, the best time to give a release date. They have done it through a trailer in which we can see the game in action and that expected date: September 4 of this year. Now yes: {“Videid”: “x9p7eki”, “Autoplay”: True, “Title”: “Hollow Knight: Silksong – Trailer Release”, “Tag”: “”, “Duration”: “113”} Earthquake. If you like video games, but the indie scene catches something far away, we go with a little context. ‘Silksong’ is the independent sequel to the aforementioned ‘Hollow Knight’, a game that was born in a Kickstarter campaign, like many others, but unlike many, came to fruition not only in financing, but in recognition. They waited $ 35,000 to give light to the project and reached almost 60,000. Team Cherry was the name of the study and, at the beginning, was composed of two developers: Ari Gibson and William Pellem, but with that extra money, they hired David Kazi as technical director already Chris Larkin as composer and audio designer. Its creation was a ‘Metroidvania’ with an extremely spoiled design and, after a PC launch, it took 15 months to reach one million copies sold. It is not something that all games get, but ‘Hollow Knight’ was very, very good and mouth to mouth worked wonderfully. So much that, when a year later it came out on switch, It took just two weeks in selling more than 250,000 copies. He also reached Xbox One and PS4 and, in addition, with physical versions for the three consoles. In Xataka If there was a museum to the prettiest games, these 28 would be in it The Coca-Cola formula. In it analysis of my 3DJUEGOS companions or in that of my compis of Lifextra They already get rid of praise towards the game, but what I want to contribute is that, much of the success of ‘Hollow Knight’ is due to something that, in video games, is known as ‘Game Feel’. This is that feeling that awakens the title when we have the command between hands, the feedback we receive when performing any action and that keeps us ‘hooked’. In the case of ‘Hollow Knight’, the extremely ‘fine’ controlññ in the platform part has much of the fault, but I consider that it is the fight that really makes a difference. When we attack, the sound is pleasant, the blow feels powerful thanks to both the sound effect and to the particles on screen or that the enemy goes back a few steps due to the forcefulness of the blow and, in addition, the vibrate chamber. Together, it is a dopamine chute for our brain, which only thinks about getting more of those, and it is something that is only achieved if we continue playing. In a nutshell, playing ‘Hollow Knight’ introduces us to a flow state as few games get. THE HYPE TRAIN. Like ‘Super Metroid’ or ‘Symphony of the Night’ in its day, or the Spanish ‘Blasphemous’ more recently,’ Hollow Knight has served as influence for many games developed in recent years. And, being so dear, when in 2019 it was announced that They were working in a sequel Independent with a character we already knew, Hornet, madness broke out. The problem? In these six years we have seen ‘Silksong’ in presentations such as Rog Xbox Ally or in the Nintendo Switch 2but barely passed and without being shown in any case new material, since the same year of presentation already a demo was shown… and since then we have been waiting. And the problem is not so much that there is something wrong within Team Cherry, but in the community we got anxious for each possible novelty of ‘Silksong’ and, in each Nintendo event, the thought circulated in networks of “In this we are going to see it” for, when we had no news, some would always end up putting an image turned into meme and icon clown wig. The meme of each presentation for. Six. Years. ‘Silksong‘. But ‘Silksong’ was alive and Team Cherry has been working all these years in the new installment. I don’t want to imagine the pressure That all this journey since the presentation in 2019 has been supposed for the Australian study, but what has already been played in Gamescom 2025 makes it clear that ‘Silksong’ is not ‘Hollow Knight 2’. While 2017 put us at the controls of a “heavy” and forceful character, almost like a tank, ‘Silksong’ puts us to Hornet’s control, much more athletic and skilled. But what seems not to change at all is that ‘Game Feel’ that marked ‘Hollow Knight’. And, if not only have they managed to maintain those sensations, but have given them a twist thanks to the kinetesia of the new character, ‘Silksong’ only has one destination: selling to espuertas and becoming another milestone of the independent scene. Hype will also help this, of course, but just a few days left to put your hands on top. 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Open the car from the mobile promises comfort. A failure has shown that we may not be the only ones with the key

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Imagine that it is enough to look at the windshield of a car to score its frame number – a 17 -character code visible from outside – introduce it into an internal tool, find out the name of the owner and link that vehicle to a mobile account. From there, you could unlock the doors remote from an official app, without touching a lock or forcing anything. That is fair what a cybersecurity researcher demonstrated After accessing the internal portal used by the dealers of a large car brand. We do not talk about an attack on users or public servants, but about a gap on the business platform that connects the manufacturer with its sales network. A rear door with access to connected functions and personal data. The failure was not in the car, but in the chain that unites everything Behind this finding is Eaton Zveare, who has been tracking vulnerabilities into digital platforms of large brands, especially of the automobile sector. This time it was no different. Zveare discovered that the internal web portal of a known car brand It allowed to modify the behavior of the system from the browser itself. Specifically, it managed to alter the login page code to skip security checks and create an administrator account with national privileges. With that account, access covered more than 1,000 concessionaires in the United States. From there, the problem dimension changed completely. It was not just about accessing internal resources of a concessionaire. The account he managed to generate gave access to the complete system: I could see the data of all the concessionaires connected, act in the name of other users without knowing their credentials and, the most delicate, accessing tools that allowed them to consult information about vehicles and their owners. All that from a platform that, in theory, is reserved for professionals in the sector. Zveare did not force anything, did not installed any malicious software or attacked from the outside. What he found was a badly closed door within a legitimate system. And the most worrying thing is that this door not only allowed him to enter: he offered, from within, a set of tools that nobody outside the manufacturer should control so easily. In the United States, the laws that regulate the sale of vehicles vary by state, but share a common principle: in most of them, Manufacturers cannot sell new cars directly to the consumer. They are obliged to do so through independent dealers, legally protected against direct competition of the manufacturer. That has given rise to a franchised network structure that groups thousands of points of sale and after -sales. Tesla has tried to uncheck that model and sell directly, but it has not been easy. Although he has achieved it in some states, in many others he continues to find legal restrictions that prevent him from selling or even delivering vehicles directly. Your case is the most visible exception, but not the norm. The most delicate is not that this system showed confidential information. The serious thing is that it allowed to act with high privileges, as if one is part of the official structure of the manufacturer. From there, it was possible to assume identities of other employees, intervene on registered vehicles anywhere in the country or access functions designed exclusively for authorized technicians. The portal was designed to give agility to the dealer network, not to resist malicious access from within As we say above, each car has a unique frame number. It is a code of 17 characters – right and numbers – that serves to legally identify it throughout the world. What the average driver probably does not imagine is that this code is visible from the outside, at the base of the windshield, and that in the context of this case it was the entrance key. In a real test, Zveare introduced a visible vin from the outside and obtained the name of the owner. From the portal it was also possible to match the vehicle to a new mobile account. Zveare did not try to drive any vehicles or alter its physical configuration. But with the control that I had, open it at a distance and empty its interior would have been perfectly possible. Today, The name of the affected manufacturer has not been made public. And it’s not because nobody knows. The researcher who discovered vulnerability, does know what brand he was behind the committed portal, but has decided not to mention it in his report or during his defense presentation. Nor Techcrunch, the first medium that echoed the case, has revealed the identity of the manufacturer. It is not something so unusual. In some cases, researchers choose to maintain the anonymity of the company involved by prudence, even when vulnerability has already been corrected to avoid putting third parties at risk: concessionaires, employees or customers who still depend on that system. It can also influence the fact that the compromised platform gave access to entire networks, not an isolated server. Images | Xataka with Gemini 2.5 Flash In Xataka | Bugatti decided not to put speakers in a car of four million euros. His secret is a technique of 1881

China has just opened the first megatienda of humanoid robots. What comes later promises even more

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What will it be to buy a robot like who buys a car? China responds with “Robot Mall”a megatienda in Beijing that its promoters present as the first 4S for humanoids: sales, spare parts, service and feedback of the user under the same roof. The idea is simple and ambitious at the same time, converting curiosids for daily use and maintenance contracts. What is a 4S (and why does it matter now). In China, the 4S was the answer to a simple question: what if I buy and maintain my car in the same place? This model is now exported to robots: a place to see what they do, how much they cost and how they remain with spare parts and technical service, in addition to measuring the customer experience. If it works, it converts curiosids for humanoids into informed purchase decisions. The appointment is in Yizhuang, the Beijing Alta District also known as Beijing E-Town. He opened on August 8, in parallel to the World Robot Conference (from August 8 to 12), and occupies four floors with about 4,000 square meters. On the ground floor, Immersive demonstrations of real uses in industry and health Together with reference humanoids such as Unitree G1, Ubtech Walker S or “Tiangong”. The second level is more interactive, with brain-machine interfaces, robotic arms and participatory exhibitions; the third centralizes diagnosis, replacement of components and remote operation and maintenance; The fourth floor is designed to close B2B agreements in negotiation rooms. What can you see and do there. There are seven major categories: medical, industrial, company, bionic, integrated, biped and wheels. Among the demonstrations, a robotic dog dressed in lion, a humanoid that dispenses traditional Chinese medicine, arms that paint, machines that brings or prepare coffee, and others that remove pharmacy boxes or serve drinks from a bar. Scenes that are a reflection of how advanced this technology is, but also of the path that still has. Are they sold to the public? Not all robots are ready to leave the store towards a living room or factory, but many can be bought or hired. Prices start around 260 euros (2,000 yuan) – thought for simple company or educational models – and scale up to several million yuan, a high range that is equivalent to several hundred thousand euros according to the platform and its configuration. In most cases, the sale includes installation, training and technical service. In the 4S format, the last “S” refers to Survey, which in this context means collecting the opinion and experience of the customer after the purchase. In Robot Mall this translates into periodic reviews, remote diagnosis, parts replacement and technical assistance, but also to collect data on how robots are used on a day -to -day basis. That information returns to the manufacturer to refine functions, improve reliability and prepare future versions. Why now. In 2024, China manufactured 556,000 industrial robots and concentrated two thirds of the world’s robotics patents, according to data from the Xinhua news agency. With figures thus, the opening of Robot Mall is no accident: it is part of a strategy to get the humanoids from the laboratory, put them in real environments and reinforce a sector that in Yizhuang already moves more than 10,000 million yuan in annual production value. What comes later. Robot Mall will not stay in this initial version. According to those responsible, in November 2025 they promise a 2.0 version, with more types of more varied robots and use scenarios. The idea is to expand demonstrations to more realistic environments and add manufacturers, reinforcing the role of Yizhuang as a nerve center of robotics in China. The images speak for themselves. The AP agency has prepared a photographic gallery with some of the best moments of the opening of Robot Mall. You can enjoy them directly from your website. Images | Xinhua In Xataka | China’s first avant -garde lithography machine is not the biggest US problem. They will be the other two that are on their way

The US wants to give up bringing the most valuable samples collected on Mars. Lockheed promises to do it for less than half

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Since February 2021, The Rover Perseverance patiently travels the Jezero crateran old river basin on the surface of Mars. Over there, where millions of years ago the water flowedNASA Robot It has been collecting fragments of rock and Martian dust With a very specific objective: Find signs of past life. It is not any mission. Is, According to NASA itselfthe first step of an ambitious plan to bring intact samples from another planet. For more than three years, Perseverance has done his job in silence and the samples that Now rest inside of small sealed tubes, carefully deposited on the Martian surface or stored aboard the Rover itself. From space, bread crumbs would look like a trace drawn through a desert planet, hoping to be collected. A truncated promise The plan, known as Mars Sample ReturnI had to send another ship to Mars, launch from there a rocket with the samples and return them to the Earth for analysis in laboratories. But the project began to crumble. An independent review raised the cost estimated until 11,000 million dollars and delayed the possible return of the samples until 2040. In May, the new US administration presented its first budget draft: proposes to cut 24 % of NASA’s financing and cancel Mars Sample Return for considering it an exorbitant cost program. The plan must still go through Congress, but marks a clear turn: the menions manned to deep space are prioritized, such as Artemisand the projects with great budget and scarce immediate return are frozen. With the current budget cut and without guarantees of continuity, NASA decided to reexamine its options. As explained by the former administrator Bill Nelsontwo more viable alternative routes were being evaluated: one that takes advantage of the “Sky Crane” type landing system used successfully in the Curiosity and Perseverance Rovers, and another that opens the door to new proposals from the private sector. Lockheed Martin’s letter Amid the budget uncertainty, one of the great space contractors in the United States has decided to move file. Lockheed Martin, with half a century of experience in missions to Mars, has presented NASA a proposal to execute the Mars Return mission with a radically different approach: for less than 3,000 million dollars and under a fixed price contract. The change is not less. Faced with the traditional model, full of budgetary risks and with multiple public actors involved, Lockheed promises a simpler architecture. Its proposal includes a more compact landing module, based on the ship Insight that already touched Martiano soil in 2018a lighter and lighter ascent vehicle – designed to be the first to take off from another planet – and a system of re -entry to the land derived from missions such as Genesis, Stardust and Osiris-Rex. It is a commitment goes beyond engineering. Being a “Firm-Fixed Price” contract, Lockheed Martin is responsible for absorb any possible extra cost. That is, if something is complicated, the invoice does not rise. According to the company itself, that model has already proven effective in other scientific missions of deep space, where they even managed to return part of the NASA not used budget. The message is clear: if NASA wants to save its most ambitious mission without spending, Lockheed Martin is ready to lead it. Bringing back about thirty small tubes could help us answer one of humanity’s great questions. Was Mars ever inhabited? Scientists do not seek fossils or complex structures. They look for subtle indications that can only be analyzed with the level of precision allowed by land laboratories. And for that, the samples that Perseverance has collected are not any rock. They have been selected one by one depending on their location, their age, their composition and their geological context. Are, In Nasa’s own wordsthe most likely material to contain a Martian “biofirm.” But the value of these samples goes beyond the biological. They can reveal how the wet marte of 3.5 billion years ago was, how its climate evolved, why it became an arid and inhospitable planet, and how the geological, atmospheric and chemical processes interacted for millennia. They will also tell us what resources could take advantage of future manned missions: where it is safer to land, what materials are usable, what areas have risks. Images | Lockheed Martin In Xataka | NASA locked four volunteers one year simulating their life on Mars. What did not miss: an entire PS4 Games Library

Thousands of Byd cars have become obsolete for their own promises. Solution: lower prices

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A drop of 8% of the shares. Although forceful, The fall in the actions of Byd It should not be too worrying for your shareholders if we take into account that it is close to its historical maximums but it is a symptom of the difficulties that the Chinese market of the car can pass in the coming months. Byd has taken all the spotlights for being The company that is leadingat this time, the sale of plug -in vehicles but in the fall of their shares, companies such as Li Auto, Geely or Great Wall Motors that have fallen more than 4%have also accompanied. The reason: the sales of byd. Now with a 35% discount The Chinese state needs its citizens to buy. It’s not something, much less new. In fact, in Xataka We already told you almost a decade that the country tries to underpin domestic trade, a way to support national growth and limit dependence on exports abroad. That need is now sharpened with the electric car. The country has done everything possible to lead the transition to this technology and adopt a leading role in an industry that until now had resisted. That has led to lifting an absolutely brutal internal competition that will inevitably leave some companies along the way. In fact, Some Chinese experts They point out that companies such as Nio, Xpeng or Li Auto, who are monopolizing spotlights for their performance in the electric car or automated driving capabilities, run an important risk of going bankrupt. Any of them, as I had a long time ago Reuters He is losing thousands of dollars with each car sold. Therefore, an open pricing war would put them against the strings. A price war that in Byd is willing to play. At least to remove a stock they need to give out. And like the State, the plug -in company bigger in China You need the local market to continue working in full performance. In the middle of its expansion to third markets, the company has to continue leading local commerce but has pierced itself. In February the company launched the message that all its electric cars and plug -in hybrids They will ride, in the future, their “eye of God”the most advanced driving aid system they have in the market. The promise caught the industry by surprise and was a direct blow to brands like Tesla, who hope to take performance to their software. Byd, on the contrary, chooses to mount this standard in all its cars because, it is intuited, The income path expects it to be another. Then, some analysts understood that China’s price war that two years ago caused an earthquake in the industry had returned. However, it has been now when Byd has taken the next step after a few months of relative calm: discounts of up to 34% in their cars. Specifically has been the Byd Sealin plug -in hybrid format, which has received this juicy discount. But it is not the only car that can be bought at a much lower price. They point out in Bloomberg that up to 22 different models have received important discounts. He Byd Seagullthe cheapest electric car on the market and one of the best selling in China, can be found for 20% less and that already sold below 10,000 dollars in the local market. The movement, they say from the economic environment, aims to revive sales in a market in deceleration but, above all, take stock from above. Since it was announced that the new automated driving system would reach any new car launch, vehicles in the dealers have become obsolete and it is difficult to give them exit. In fact, also since Bloomberg They pointed out that even byd’s dealers in China are going through difficulties. Some of them have had to close and Data from the Chinese passenger car association They say that there are 3.5 million cars to sell and that the inventory average is 57 days per car sold, the highest figure since December 2023. Although discounts have been active since April and, in fact, They have been noticed this May It is now when the company has announced A new wave of discounts. That need to get its cars to the street is the same as Tesla had to get the market Tesla Model and Prejuniper And it is one of the most common problems facing cars companies when they have to announce new models. However, competition is so fierce and The industry advances so fast in China That an ad like the February can leave thousands and thousands of cars in a limbo waiting for a buyer. But, above all, it puts the rest of the industry that sees as Byd can continue to press its prices, even if only to take obsolete vehicles from above, while the rest of the companies seek a profitability that continues to resist. Photo | Byd In Xataka | Byd set out to win the electric car race. And then a TSMC factory went on sale

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