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“I feel responsible for my team and my clients”

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According to The records of LayoffsMicrosoft has fired more than 6,000 employees in what we had of 2025. One of those employees was Freddy Kristiansen59, fired from the Microsoft subsidiary in Denmark in May 2025 after a 23 -year career in the company as a product manager. However, although officially it is no longer part of the company, Kristiansen Keep going to the office. “It may sound rare to appear in the office after being fired, but I still feel committed to the products, with the people who use them and with my colleagues,” he explains In an interview for Business Insider. A link that goes beyond the contract Its history began in 2002, when it was hired by Navision, a company that shortly after It was acquired by Microsoft. What thought it would be a temporary job finally became a professional career of more than two decades. “I thought: ‘Maybe this can be something in the long term.’ And so,” Kristiansen recalled. Although the Danish law he grants him A period of six months and three months of compensation after the dismissal for being an employee more than nine years old, Kristiansen affirms that his motivation to continue going to the office It is not economical. Microsoft relieved him of all his functions, but due to Danish legislation, Kristiansen is still an employee of Microsoft until November. Instead of using that time to look for a new job (What is designed for what is designed), the product manager continues to attend his office daily. His last great project was Somethinga tool for github. “I feel a responsibility not only to maintain the product, but also to reassure customers to know that they are in good hands,” he told the American environment. “If you need my help, I will answer questions, I will share advice or whatever necessary. There is no reason to stop doing it,” he says. Actually, they have done a favor The employee’s reaction can be surprising for continuing to go to the company Instead of racing in angerbut the truth is that Kristianse’s dismissal came at a time when new personal and professional challenges had already begun. “I thought I could feel annoying, but it really was a relief,” he confesses. While some of his companions were worried about Kristianse’s future, he saw an opportunity to lower the rhythm after two decades at the foot of the cannon. In fact, during The layoffs of 2023the veteran employee presented an anonymous consultation about the possibility of asking for a voluntary dismissal. “I never did,” he clarified. “During the last decade I have worked very hard and I have thrown many hours. But now I am no longer interested in working 60 hours a week. It seemed to me that it was the right time to finally chase my dream long postponed to work in my own terms,” ​​he said. As published in Your personal blogKristiansen focuses on designing his own business plan with the intention of offering consulting services such as CTO, management of projects and motivational talks, while Enjoy more free time And he takes up healthy habits. “From the dismissals, I repeat that there is no evil that for good does not come.” Respect for the fruit of his work Despite the dismissal, Kristiansen continues Share your experience and the decisions that marked his career. “No one forced me to work 20 hours on weekends or strive so much, but I did it because I felt it was the right thing. I did it because I really felt a connection with our partners, our clients and my colleagues. And, honestly, I still feel it,” says the former employee. Its involvement With customers, partners and products it remains so strong that, although its contract ends, respect for everything that it built during its years in Microsoft remains intact. At least until November, when you will have to deliver your corporate laptop and credential. In Xataka | A company hired a worker, dismissed the boss who selected him and forgot about him: he has been charging without working seven months Image | LinkedInUnspash (Sam Torres, Valent lau)

China is flooding from devices without a trace of Android. Huawei is the main responsible

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Huawei’s ability to respond to the numerous restrictions imposed by the United States government is being the best example. The company is in the process of continuing to it to go beyond the Kirin 9020marking rhythm of launches with The Pure 80 Ultra and its Advanced Chamber Systemand achieving what no other manufacturer had achieved to date: create a real alternative to Android. Huawei is working for the plan. Harmonyos It is a strategic turn towards the technological self -sufficiency that China has been chasing for decades. An own operating system, with national code and without a trace of Android, the platform that Huawei used in the initial phases of the system. At the end of 2024, Huawei’s Annual Results Report He presumed that more than one billion devices had Harmonyos. In this first half of 2025, we have some more specific data. At all rag. According to Canals, Huawei has sent a total 103 million smartphones with Harmonyos and 21 million tablets from 2021 at the end of 2024. Of those 103 million, almost half (46 million) were sent last year, showing how the last two years are being key to the growth of the company. The data, without context, are only data. To understand at what point Huawei is located to know that, in 2021, the estimates of sale of smartphones gave Huawei 10 million. The figure is important and shows an upward trend: Huawei has gone from the free fall that suffered between 2021 and 2022 to a sustained recovery process in the last two years. In 2022 the figure doubled to almost 20, to end up arriving at 2025 at 46 million. More prohibitions, more shipments. The United States Plan to isolate Huawei in the world has a double edge. The company has collapsed in Europe and left its position to its sister honorbut the efforts to grow nationwide are clearer than ever. Huawei is triumphing in China, and the consultants point out that it will be one of the mobile companies that will grow the most global in 2025 (growth marked by the path they are following in China). A plan that will accelerate with the license restrictions that affect its PCs. Huawei can no longer sell Windows computers: the first solution is Patch existing ones with Linuxthe second, Sell ​​your own computers with Harmonyos. The dream, getting closer. Huawei has made restrictions the greatest opportunity for growth in its history. An approach towards A device with 100% national components, A universal software ecosystem (mobile, tablet, pc, car, wearables) and, most importantly, The only possible and alternative rival to Android out of Apple and his proposal with iOS. Huawei is drawing an alternative scenario in which every Chinese manufacturer who wants to disconnect from the United States can have Harmonyos alternative. It is something that begins to be seen in industries such as that of automotive: manufacturers like Toyota are so far back in software that The only possible solution is to bet on alternatives such as Huawei or Xiaomi. For the moment, Xiaomi, Vivo, Oppo and even honor continue to see in Europe one of its main sales pillars. But China prepares to lead the technological worldand Harmonyos will play a fundamental role in their conquest. Image | Xataka In Xataka | Harmonyos shoots in China and already surpasses iOS. The following objective is global

Chrome has been failing to some Windows users at least two weeks. Everything points to a responsible, and it is not Google

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The world’s most used browser has been giving problems to some users of Windows 10 and Windows 11. Chromethat The global market share on computers dominate with more than 60%it is failing unexpectedly: just open it and shows no error messages. For those who suffer it, it is as if it had directly ceased to exist. No warning, without solution. In Google’s official forumsdozens of users have been warning of these sudden closures since the beginning of June. The usual solutions – Reinstall Chrome, restart the system – do not work. The problem persists and, until now, there was no clear explanation. Is Microsoft the culprit? As explained A spokeswoman for Chrome’s support team, the error is already being investigated. And the most striking thing is that the failure does not seem to have its origin in Google, but in a function of Microsoft 365 For Windows. Everything points to Microsoft Family Safety. When this function is activated, Chrome stops working. It is not clear if it is a recent change in the browser or an error in the Microsoft tool itself. Family Safety allows you to establish time limits in front of the screen and filter inappropriate content. It is an especially useful function for parents who want to supervise the use of the computer by their children. A temporary solution. For now, there is no official patch. According to The VergeMicrosoft has not spoken and Google has not given more technical details either. However, there is a way to recover Chrome: disable the filter of inappropriate websites within Family Safety. Of course, doing so implies leaving one of the key barriers to protect minors. Images | Google + Photoshop | Google In Xataka | Microsoft Edge has become the second browser after Chrome. At the expense of an almost intrusive insistence

A Spanish hospital has been responsible for taking the new step

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The ATP molecule, adenosine tryphosphate or adenosine trphosphate, It is fundamental For complex life on earth. This molecule is responsible for storing energy in cells and can now be key in a new task: end alopecia. A new study. A team of researchers from the San Carlos Clinical Hospital in Madrid has published a new work in which a treatment cell -based treatment and ATP molecule are studied. The team evaluated this technique in mice to reverse alopecia, and He did it successfully. Androgenic alopecia. The new technique seeks to try to reverse androgenic alopecia, the common baldness that affects a high proportion of the population. It is estimated that 80% of men and 40% of women experience this form of hair loss throughout their lives, according to the data provided by the team responsible for the new study. The team induced alopecia in mice through the administration of dihydrotestosterone molecule (DHT), a compound that the human body produces naturally and whose proliferation is associated with hair loss. A combined technique. The new technique to reverse alopecia combines the use of stem cells derived from adipose tissue with the ATP molecule. As explained by the team responsible for testing the mechanism, this combination is capable of stimulating hair regeneration by adding to the regenerative capacity of the cells the energy push of the molecule. “This synergy favors the recovery of the hair follicle, promoting hair growth,” explained in a press release Eduardo López Bran, work co -author. A first success. As detailed by the team, the technique managed to reverse induced alopecia in 100% of males and 90% of females treated totally or partially. In both males and females, total hair recovery occurred in 50% of cases; While in the rest of the successful cases (50% in males and 40% in females), the reversion was qualified as “intense.” The details of the study were published In an article In the magazine Stem Cell Research & Therapy. Continue with the trials. For now the trials have only been performed with animal models. This indicates that the way to confirm the effectiveness and safety of this human treatment is long and lacking any guarantee of success. Despite this, the results are “promising” for the team, so in the future we could see new essays, this time in people as participants. In Xataka | The industry wants us not to fall hair never again. And it is getting closer to getting it Image | Abraham Sánchez Martínez

Bitcoin encryption and other cryptocurrencies will fall. And those responsible will be quantum computers

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Experts Quantum computing They have known for several years that quantum computers will end classical cryptography. One of them, Juan José García Ripoll, a researcher at the Institute of Fundamental Physics of the Higher Council for Scientific Research (CSIC) who develops his research activity within the quantum information group and foundations of quantum theory, He warned us During the conversation we had with him in October 2019. That moment arrived in May 2024. A team of researchers from the University of Shanghai (China) led by Professor Wang Chao used a D-Wave quantum computer for I successfully violate the SPN encryption (Substitation-Permutation Network), which is a cryptographic algorithm that is used to encrypt information. This encryption is the cornerstone of, for example, the AES standard (Advanced Encryption Standard), which is used a lot. These scientists published the result of their research in An interesting article entitled “Public Cryptographic Attack Algorithm based on quantum processing with the advantage of D-Wave”. Interestingly, Professor Wang Chao and his team used two strategies to carry out their attack on cryptographic algorithms. The first one consists of broad strokes to deliver to the quantum computer the combination of an optimization problem and another search. Quantum machines are very effective when solving these challenges. And the second strategy consists in combining Schnorr’s algorithm, Babai rounding and a quantum method of optimization. In any case, the most interesting thing is that these Chinese scientists concluded that AES-256 and other military degree encryption algorithms are closer than ever to be violated. Google says that quantum machines will break the encryption of cryptocurrencies During my conversation with Juan José García Ripoll I did not let the opportunity to ask what would happen when quantum computers were able to violate the most advanced encryption technologies we currently use. “In principle, quantum computers will make the encryption algorithms that we use. For this reason there is a research area in mathematics and cryptography: cryptography resistant to quantum computers. It is a very difficult field of work. The alternative to the fact that many codes can break with quantum computers is to use quantum systems for cryptography,” Ripoll holds. An RSA integer of 2,048 bits can be factor in less than a week with a quantum computer of less than one million cubits The course of time has proved him right. And it is that several Google researchers less than a week ago They published an entry In the blog dedicated to the security of this American company in which they support a crucial premise: an integer RSA (Rivest – Shamir – Adleman) of 2,048 bits can factor in less than a week with a quantum computer of less than one million cubits. One of the most advanced quantum processors that currently exist, IBM Condor Chipagglutina 1,121 superconductor cubits, so it is evident that we still do not have quantum machines with the necessary power to violate RSA encryption. However, they could be ready before we suspect. The quantum machine described by Google researchers use noisy cubits, and IBM’s official itinerary argues that ‘Starling’, its first quantum hardware endowed with the ability to correct their own mistakes, It will arrive in 2029. Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana and the other modern cryptocurrencies use a cryptography technique known as elliptical curve that is more robust, efficient and difficult to break than RSA, but its mathematical foundations are similar to those of the latter encryption algorithm. In fact, according to Google scientists signed by the article that I have mentioned above, if the future quantum computers will cost them less than initially breaking the RSA encryption, the cryptography of elliptical curve will also fall with relative ease. It is still not clear What capabilities will have to have quantum machines which will be able to violate this encryption technique, but According to a research group from Kent University (United Kingdom), Bitcoin can update the encryption of the entire network without “turning it off” in approximately ten months. Image | IBM More information | Google In Xataka | China manufactures quantum computers as if it were life in it. Its best plant is capable of producing eight at the same time

The Supreme Court has just resolved who is responsible when you steal all your money for Phishing: the bank

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The Supreme Court has just failed in favor of users and against banking in one of the most recurrent issues in recent years: Scams through the Internet. He declares that banking is the main responsible in these cases of fraud, being forced to immediately replenish all money stolen from the client. It is not a user thing. The Supreme Court has confirmed A sentence issued on April 9in which the Civil Chamber rejected the appeal filed by Ibercaja against a resolution issued by the Provincial Court of Zaragoza in November 2022. In this sentence 571/2025 it is underlined that good banking practices require the activation of systems capable of detecting suspicious activities, as well as blocking or verifying high -risk operations. Almost 60,000 euros, back to pocket. Unless it can be demonstrated that the client acted negligently, the bank is obliged to assume responsibility and return the money immediately. In this case, Ibercaja Banco SA must reintegrate a client 56,474.63 euros stolen from his account through Sim Swappinga system to supplant our identity stealing the telephone number. Judge Manuel Almenar Belenguer uses the European Directive before payment servicesas well as the Spanish regulations, concluding that if there is no negligence, the user’s only obligation is to notify the bank about any type of unauthorized operation. The new jurisprudence. This case feels a fundamental precedent since it establishes that, from now on, the banking entities will be the main responsible in cases of Phishing banking. Consequently, they must respond for user -unauthorized operations, thus marking a significant change in customer protection against electronic fraud. “The advances of current technology make relatively easy to design ideal computer systems or applications to detect certain anomalies in the provision of payment services. Operations that, in the case of companies or companies with a concrete corporate purpose, can be described as ordinary, must immediately raise suspicions and give rise to an answer when they affect natural persons outside of such activity.” Banks will no longer have an excuse. Based on Judisprudence, it is stated that contractual clauses that exempt the banking entities of their responsibility with users regarding unauthorized operations must be declared knots. Until now, banks could hide in alleged bad practices carried out by the user, such as having introduced their data on websites or malicious links. After this sentence, they are responsible for any unauthorized operation. A plague with which the government tries to end. Scams per call and SMS are a plague. So much, that the Ministry of Digital Transformation It has been trying to put a brake over a year. He End of commercial calls It arrived in February 2025 under ministerial order, but this is just a tiny part in the cybethaf cake. False calls, Scams by WhatsApp, malware in stores like Google Play, Identity Supplant by SMS… tactics change and evolve to continue having an affectation and result. Recently, The Civil Guard dismantled a network of cybers allegedly led by a 19 -year -old student. User’s responsibility. Despite the additional protection that the clients of the entities will enjoy in case of cybetafa, it falls on the roof of the user not to fall into practices that can end up being considered as negligence. These have not established themselves, but it is worth not introducing our phone, personal email on the websites whose origin we are not clear. In case of using Android, we are also responsible for what we download and where we download it, as well as the permits that we give to the applications. Protecting goes beyond possible money subtractions: it is especially easy to end up giving all our data to cybers. In Xataka | Cybethafa with Word documents as a Trojan horse: how it works and how to protect your personal and financial data

Pedro Sánchez is confident in recovering the “soon” supply without giving deadlines and asks for caution and “a responsible use of the mobile”

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The President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, has appeared after six in the afternoon after the National Security Council meeting to address The mass blackout that affects Spain and Portugal From 12:32 a.m. on Monday, asking for caution and avoiding moving hypotheses about its causes. “The causes are still being studied. It is better not to speculate,” said Sanchez during his brief intervention of seven minutes, without admitting questions from journalists. The EU, in any case, has ruled out the theory of a cyber attack. The Portuguese operator has mentioned “A strange atmospheric phenomenon“ The current situation. The president has placed the origin of the incidence in “a strong oscillation in the European electrical system” that has triggered the interruption of the supply throughout the Iberian Peninsula and parts of France. Sánchez has confirmed that the Executive has declared the electricity crisis and will assume the management of the blackout in Andalusia, Extremadura and Madrid after the request of these communities to activate level three of Civil Protection emergency. “We will spend a few critical hours until we recover electricity,” he warned. What is happening. Sanchez stressed that the operation of hydroelectric plants is already restored, expressing his confidence that the supply will recover “soon”, although without giving concrete deadlines. The recovery of the supply in areas of the north and south of the country has been achieved, according to the president, thanks to the collaboration of the authorities of France and Morocco, to whom he thanked his “solidarity.” Official recommendations. The president has transferred three recommendations to the citizens: Minimize displacements. Follow only official information and not disseminate information from “doubtful origin.” Make responsible use of the mobile, making short calls and contacting emergencies only if it is strictly necessary. Next steps. Sanchez has announced that the National Security Council will meet again at seven in the afternoon, an hour after its appearance, to continue evaluating the situation. He also reported that the government is in permanent contact with the King’s house, parliamentary groups, European partners and NATO. “The priority is to work so that the sooner we recover normality,” he stressed at the end of his appearance. In Xataka | What is the “energy zero” and why the supply can go suddenly but it takes hours to recover Outstanding image | Moncloa

Hunger and thirst begin in the head and we have found neurons responsible for it

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Hunger and thirst are basic sensations for our annoying subsistence that are. Our body needs to remind us that it needs water and nutrients regularly and evolution has laid the foundations for a more complex mechanism than we might think in principle. So complex, that we are still studying it. Interpret the signal. A new study has found New clues On the way in which our brain interprets the existence of a need to feed and hydrate, and how this need into action becomes. The team was even able to make drinks that were avoided by mice became desired by these thanks to the stimulation of certain neurons. Generalist and specialized. The team managed to identify groups of nerve cells from the tonsil involved in the sensations of hunger and thirst, some of them specialized in one of the functions, others more versatile. This led to the discovery of the first group of “thirst neurons” in the tonsil. “When we activated these neurons, the mice drank more, and when we suppressed their activity, the mice drank less,” indicated in a press release Federica Fermani, who led the study. “We also identified another group of neurons in the same region of the tonsil that generated thirst but also played a role in regulating hunger.” Optogenetics The team resorted to various tools Genetic for the study of the activity, including a so -called optogenetic. This technique allows to activate specific neurons using light -sensitive proteins and a laser capable of accurately reaching the cell. The team He combined this tool With silenced techniques that allowed to “turn off” neurons to study how their absence affects the animal’s behavior. They also resorted to methods focused on the monitoring of individual neurons in different brain regions to, through their connections with other cells, map the functioning of neuronal networks. The details of the methodology and the results of the study were published In an article In the magazine Nature Communications. And in humans? As is logical, what we find in mice does not always have its reflection in humans. Despite this, the study responsible for the study indicates that the structure of the amygdala is similar in mice and humans. This implies that the recent findings could help us in understanding how emotions and motivations can influence our eating habits, both in regard to food and in relation to the drink, they explain. Beyond subsistence. The team studied how the work of these neurons shapes our tastes and preferences. Eating and drinking is not only a matter of subsistence but also awakens taste, although this sometimes depends on preferences that we do not fully understand. In its analysis, the team analyzed this connection by offering mice a less desires but stimulating neurons in the central region of its tonsil. They observed that this neuronal stimulation changed the preferences of the animal, which increased its predilection for a beaten before disdained. As explained by those responsible for the study, the work of these neurons can also facilitate the work of understanding why some people feed on less or more. Knowing the work of these neurons could help us avoid health problems derived from these behaviors associated with them. In Xataka | Neuroplasticity: the people who defend that the Internet is changing our brain forever Image | Tukhfatullina Food Photography/Stylist / Lakshmiraman Oza

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

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

Paying the reeds with Bizum on the TPV is already possible in Spain. BBVA is responsible

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BBVA will be the first bank of Spain to integrate Bizum As a payment method in TPV systems. Until now, the point of sale terminals served as an intermediary between physical trade and consumer credit/debit card. With the new BBVA integration, it will be possible to use these devices as applications generators. How will it work. Those shops attached to a Android TPV With the BBVA appolences, they will be able to send payment requests to customers on their mobile phones. Once this has provided the phone number to the trade and sent the application, the transaction can be completed in a simple way. The client will receive a notification on his phone to be able to pay immediately and the trade can confirm the status of the operation in real time. Not only will it serve to make the payment: returns can also be made by Bizum. Where will it work. Any business with an Android TPV running under the service of BBVA can use this system of payments and returns through Bizum. There are no public data about how many TPV they work adhered to BBVA in Spain, but we do know that this is the third Spanish bankadding more than eight million customers at the end of 2024. A dart for the rest of the banks. Bizum is the preferred method of Spaniards when making instant payments. So much that 95% of them are carried out through this service. That a business allows payments BBVA is away from the figures of Caixabank and Santander in number of clients, but this movement is a great incentive for small and large shops. The key will be how long the two great Spanish banks will take to follow their steps. Our privacy. A key point when integrating Bizum into the TPV is that, those businesses attached to this payment system must be rigorous with the General Data Protection Law (LGPD). The telephone number is considered personal data according to this regulation, and when introducing it to the TPV, it would be treatment of it. Only the number can be used to make the payment, being prohibited to perform any commercial treatment with it without prior consent. It must also be specially protected to avoid fraud and impersonation of identity. Bizum is no longer a tool among colleagues. Bizum was born in 2016 as A tool oriented to daily payments. In 2019, it began to open its doors to electronic shops, and 2025 is starting as one of its best years. At the beginning of the week we counted How is the pulse of the European Union winningmanaging to expand payments between borders. With integration in TPVS, in addition to web pages, Bizum becomes a complete alternative to card payment. Image | BBVA In Xataka | The BBVA will allow its customers to invest in bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. But he doesn’t want to know anything about the matter

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