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the only thing you need is for Social Security to accept it

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When you’re looking when can you retireaspects such as retirement age They are key. However, what affects the amount of the pension, how much you are going to collect in retirement, are also the years you have been listed. And of course, meeting your minimums is not always easy, because in a career there may be stoppages, layoffs, temporary jobs or other things. Therefore, it is worth knowing that There is a way to continue contributing if you are not working. No, it is not an aid or an automatic contribution system, it is a voluntary mechanism that you have to propose to Social Security, and that they have to approve. The method to contribute without working. There is a mechanism to continue contributing to social security while you are not working. It is a special Social Security agreementand is intended for those people who for some reason have stopped working, but want to try to ensure they can have a complete retirement. The mechanism itself is quite simple, what you have to do is pay your own contribution as if you were working. You already know that your Social Security contributions are paid by your company if you work as an employee, well, if you are unemployed or want to be without work for a while, you can take care of this contribution on your own. With this, there is no question of you going to retire early or anything like that. It is simply about continuing to add months and years to your contribution, so that when you reach retirement age you can have more guarantees of reaching the minimum number of years of contributions to have a full retirement. Requirements to pay your own contribution. To be eligible to pay your own Social Security contribution, you must have contributed for at least 1,080 days in the last 12 years. Here, in this sum of days, contributions from other previous special agreements can also be counted, and even leaves of absence to care for family members. In addition to proving this prior contribution, it is also necessary that you are not collecting unemployment at the time you submit your application, and that you are not registered with any Social Security scheme, nor do you collect a retirement pension or permanent disability. You must make this request within a period of one year from the situation that gives you the right to sign the agreement. Come on, since you stop working. And obviously, you will also have to give your bank account to direct the payments. People who have been hired with a contribution base lower than the average of the 12 months prior to losing their previous job, and unemployed people who have stopped collecting unemployment benefits, can also request this. Those people who request withdrawal from Social Security can also request a pension that has later been denied. It won’t always pay off. The fee you have to pay will be calculated by Social Security, and depends on the basis for which you want to contribute and its applicable rules. You should know that this agreement will not always compensate you, because sometimes you may end up with a fee so high that facing it puts you in a complicated situation, and it may be too much of an economic effort if you are not collecting the payment. Image | Unsplash (Sweet Life) In Xataka | There is a way to retire at age 63 in Spain. The key requirement is not age, it is pension

iOS 26.6 fixes 78 security holes

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It is not the same to receive an update with new features that one can try on the phone than another one where the changes go internally. The latter are the boring ones, those that you leave until the end and that you only install when you get tired of seeing the notification. Paradoxically, the important ones tend to be the latter, because They are the ones that fix phone problems. This is the case of the recent update released by Apple. A patch to fix serious threats. The recent iOS 26.6 (and versions of other devices) is already in full distribution for compatible iPhones. In the update notice, Apple emphasizes that the software prepares the system for iOS 27although what is important are the problems it corrects. Among them, 14 entries aimed at one of the most critical areas of the system: the kernel. As stated in the changelog released by Applethe latest security update fixes serious windows to malicious code execution on devices. In total, there are 78 individual vulnerability entries linked to 87 CVE logs unique. There are more CVE records than entries because some of them group together several vulnerabilities. iPhone 17 pro Max One of the most important updates. It might seem that 26.6, released for all families of Apple devices, is a minor update, but the opposite is true: not installing it puts the use of our device at risk. Even though Apple is not aware that any of the vulnerabilities have been usedif exploited these would allow: An image that executes code alone. The devices allowed the processing of manipulated images to execute arbitrary code, without the user touching anything. Something similar to what NSO exploded in 2023 with BLASTPASS. CVE-2026-43818 From ordinary application to total control. One bug gave root privileges to an app, another, code execution with kernel privileges. A malicious application could take control of the device. CVE-2026-43723, CVE-2026-64747 Skip isolation between apps. Game Center and libc They allowed an application to escape its isolated execution environment. Another bug circumvented code signature checking, the mechanism that prevents unauthorized binaries from running on iOS. CVE-2026-64740, CVE-2026-28973, CVE-2026-43813 Fake contacts for telephone scams. An app could add contacts without authorization. For example, it would make it possible to add a fake bank number to the phonebook so that the user could trust when receiving the call. CVE-2026-64746, CVE-2026-64734 Bypass firewalls, VPN and parental controls. A remote attacker could bypass the system’s network filters. CVE-2026-64735 Access to a locked iPhone. The vulnerabilities would allow access to sensitive user information, even close to them: memory could be corrupted via WiFi. CVE-2026-43753, CVE-2026-64726 Advertising tracking without user knowledge. Several components made it possible to persistently identify the owner of the device in order to track him without his knowledge. CVE-2026-64741, CVE-2026-64733, CVE-2026-64713 Phishing with spoofed browser interface. Attackers could exploit vulnerabilities discovered in WebKit to spoof the Safari interface. This would allow the bank’s website to be imitated to trick the user into leaving their passwords on a false form. CVE-2026-64730 Despite the serious risks of all the vulnerabilities discovered, and patched in the recent update, we must emphasize that Apple found no evidence that they have been exploited to access the devices. Despite this, the advice is clear: updating costs nothing and can prevent a lot. Boring, but essential. Comes without the new Siriwithout changes to the interface and, as an improvement beyond the security fixes, iOS 26.6 and company prepare Spotlight indexing for iOS 27. Even so, this “boring” update is the only one that ensures the proper functioning of the devices. Which is exactly the main value to protect. Cover image | Montage with photo of Alejandro Alcolea and capture of Álvaro García In Xataka | The new Siri AI is here: two years later and with the help of Google, this is what Apple’s AI assistant does

The Government says Palantir is a risk to national security. NATO, of which Spain is a member, has put it in charge of its own

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Moncloa has begun to ask public companies not to sign new contracts with Palantir, according to Agustín Marco has advanced in The Confidential. The order is not official nor is it in writing, but an agreement has already been reached with the Civil Guard and another with Navantia. The panoramic. Spain joins France, Germany, Denmark and the Netherlands in distrust towards the company of Peter Thiel and Alex Karp. The unofficial argument is the usual one: not to risk sensitive information in the hands of an American company with close ties to the Trump White House. The veto affects Telefónica, Indra, Correos and Navantia, all of them under the umbrella of SEPI. There is no statement, no press conference, no official note. They are indications transferred internally to boards of directors. In detail. The contract that really matters still stands. Defense signed with Palantir in 2023 a 16.5 million euro agreement for the Armed Forces Intelligence Center, and that contract expires in November of this year. According to The Confidentialthe chiefs of the General Staff have pressured Margarita Robles to renew it because there is no comparable alternative. Either Palantir or nobody. The decision remains unmade. The contrast. While Moncloa slides the veto inside, NATO announced this week that Palantir’s Maven Smart System becomes its operating system for military data management. Spain is a partner of the Alliance and has had to approve this decision, like all allies. So he voted yes in Brussels but has chosen the opposite direction behind closed doors. Why is it important. The veto does not touch the only thing that really counts: the Defense contract. Everything else (the Civil Guard and Navantia) were negotiations in progress, but not consolidated relationships. Cutting them costs little. Touching the CIFAS contract (Intelligence Center of the Armed Forces), on the other hand, would require replacing a tool that, according to sources in the military sector itself, has no rival in the market. Again: either Palantir or nobody. Yes, but. The gesture has a clear recipient: the US government. Pedro Sánchez has not received the US ambassador in Madrid, Benjamín León Jr., for months and Its Executive has invested 115 million euros in Openchip and another 5,000 million in a chip gigafactory as a commitment to European technological sovereignty. The Palantir veto fits that narrative. What doesn’t fit so well is that this same story coexists with a Defense contract that no one dares to cancel. And now what. The end of the current contract in November will test whether this was signaling or conviction: If the CIFAS contract is renewed without making much noise, the veto will have been a diplomatic gesture. If it is dropped without an equivalent replacement, Spain will be left without the tool its own military considers irreplaceable. The middle way, replacing it with European or national technology, does not yet exist. In Xataka | AI is crucial for the US military. So he’s naming OpenAI and Palantir leaders as lieutenant generals Featured image | Palantir, Wikimedia Commons

This business security system is almost half the price and includes VPN

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For years, we have been seeing how companies of all types are being hacked or attempted. No one is completely safe, both ourselves in our daily lives and if we have a business. In fact, in this last area, things become more delicate: The safety of employees and customers comes into play in addition to our own. If you’re looking for a security tool for your business that you can install and manage yourself, then you might be interested Kaspersky Small Office Security Premium: its price starts from the offer of the 96 euros (it used to cost 138 euros), but if we use the code ‘KSOSP’, we will receive an additional 15% discount. Kaspersky Small Office Security Premium – 1 year The price could vary. We earn commission from these links Security for your company, now with remote assistance Let’s start with the basics. This is not the first time we have talked to you about Kaspersky’s security tool for businesses, Small Office Security. However, what we are referring to right now is its Premium version, just released a couple of weeks ago. This includes everything from the first version, so it is a tool that stands out in two different ways: First, it is very easy to use and manage; Second, it is also safe and complete. What can you do? Small Office Security Premium, available for Android, iOS, Windows and macOS, has a system that will protect your company’s computers from malicious files and suspicious websites and even threats through email. Added to this is protection against ransomware and vulnerability analysis. Another interesting point is that this cocktail a VPN is addedwhich will allow you or your employees to work from anywhere safely if you use an unknown WiFi (for example, from a coffee shop or from the airport). The price we mentioned above includes protection for three mobile phones, computers, three password managers and three VPNs. If you have more employees or want more licenses, simply upgrade your subscription. All this is already in the basic version of this tool, but, How does the Premium version improve? To all of the above, we add: installation support, remote support and virus checking and removal by experts. Additionally, your employees will receive safety training. If you are interested, you can choose to subscribe annually, bi-annually or for three years. Any of these three plans has a 30 day trial period so you can try if it convinces you and, if not, you can request a refund without problems. With this Premium version, which is now on sale and is almost the same price, we have all the virtues of this tool (security and ease when installing it), but with remote support from experts in case we need it. Something like a safety net, never better said. Some of the links in this article are affiliated and may provide a benefit to Xataka. In case of non-availability, offers may vary. Image | Kaspersky In Xataka | Best antivirus for computer: the best paid alternatives to protect your PC In Xataka | Password managers: which ones are the best to protect and remember all the ones you have

The Social Security reform has opened the door to working longer. Early retirement will remain half closed

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Social Security is pushing those who can continue working to delay their retirement as much as possible, but it resists modifying one of the most discussed rules of the system: the penalty in the pension of those who they retire earlyeven when they accumulate more than 40 years listed. The flexible retirement reform contemplated in the Royal Decree 416/2026 will come into force on August 28, launching the Government’s strategy to extend working life of workers and contain pension spending. What changes with the reform. The new flexible retirement regulation seeks to encourage more people to extend your working life as much as possible voluntarily and can make part of their pension compatible with a salary, something that current regulations did not allow. The idea is not to force anyone to continue working beyond the legal retirement age, but rather offer more incentives so that those who can and want to do so, keep working. The person who is already retired, instead of stopping working completely, can do so part-time. In exchange, they will receive a salary for their work and a supplement to the proportional part of the pension. In this way, someone retired can obtain a higher income while still active, and will receive 100% of their pension again when they stop working. That is, if someone retired receive a pension of 1,000 euros, and for working 32 hours a week (80% of a full day) they will pay you a salary of 1,000 euros, your pension will be cut in that proportion, but the sum of salary (1,000 euros) and pension (200 euros) will provide you with greater monthly income. The current regulations force you to choose between working or receiving the pension. Put obstacles to early retirement. The demographic pyramid in Spain, in which there are fewer and fewer young people to maintain the pension system and a longer life expectancy, has forced successive governments to take measures to maximize working life of employees to continue contributing. This has led to the extension of the retirement age, which has been progressively delayed since 2011 to go from 65 to 67 years in 2027. The other measure approved in the pension reform of 2024 to discourage early retirement is to apply some reducing coefficients to the retirement pension, so that the more you anticipate retirement, the less pension you receive in return. Contribute 40 years without reward. One of the problems posed by the application of reducing coefficients is that those workers who already exceed the maximum limit of years of contributions necessary to access ordinary retirement at age 65 (38 years and six months or more by 2027), will not be able to retire early. without penalizing themand end up getting paid a lower pension than other workers with fewer years of contributions. This group has already organized under the association Asjubi40 and different political groups with representation in Congress have carried out proposals to eliminate this grievance to workers with long contribution periods when they want to advance their retirements. As and how he published The Independentvoluntary early retirees bear an average reduction coefficient of 11.36% and receive an average pension of 2,002.58 euros per month, after retiring at an average age of 63 years and two months. In the case of involuntary early retirement, the average reduction rises to 18.9%, the average pension stands at 2,100.42 euros per month and the average retirement age drops to 61 years and ten months. The unaffordable cost of stopping working. The reason given by the Government for not eliminating these reducing coefficients It’s simple: removing those penalties would be expensive. The Executive estimates an additional cost of 3,358 million euros per year for Social Security if the reducing coefficients are eliminated for those who retire early after having contributed 40 years or more. Of that figure, 1,345 million would correspond to voluntary early retirement, and 2,013 million would correspond to those retired involuntarily, that is, those who have been affected by ERE, business closures, force majeure or other cases considered by the General Law of Social Security. Social Security cannot assume it. Although Spain is registering record numbers in terms of number of members. It closed 2025 with a budget deficit of 5.58 billion euros. Once again, we are facing a record to be treated of the smallest deficit of the last 14 years, as as highlighted The Confidential. But it is a deficit, after all. However, the incorporation of contributions such as the Intergenerational Equity Mechanism (MEI), has contributedIn 2026 alone, 1,162.23 million euros will be added to the Social Security Reserve Fund, which reached a total amount of 15,267 million euros last March. In Xataka | From the “Great Resignation” to the “Great Early Retirement”: the labor market loses the experience of those over 55 years of age Image | Pexels (Joaquin Carfagna)

Firefox found and fixed more security flaws in one month than in the previous 15 months

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A year ago, Mozilla fixed 31 security flaws in its Firefox browser. In April 2026 has corrected 423. The growth is spectacular and has a single person responsible: Claude Mythos Preview, the AI ​​model that Anthropic decided not to release publicly for considering him too capable. The recent analysis by Mozilla experts has confirmed more than ever that Mythos it wasn’t just hype. AI sees everything. The integration of Mythos into the process analysis of Firefox vulnerabilities has caused a kind of technical “cleaning” explosion. It’s not that Firefox’s code is worse now, but that the eyes that analyze it are much sharper and seem to see everything. Mozilla’s graph is compelling: with the help of Claude Mythos, the Firefox team found more security flaws in April than in the past 15 months combined. Smell. The model is not only faster when it comes to detecting these failures, but it has a certain “smell” that surpasses anything seen so far in commercial tools. The AI ​​tool was able to identify 271 of the 423 bugs fixed, and that figure pales in comparison to other traditional methods such as fuzzing or manual inspection. Mythos has shown that he can evaluate his own work and filter out the noise, reasoning recursively and ruling out hallucinations. Archaeological errors. Among the most surprising discoveries they have discovered in this process is a bug in the XSLT engine (bug 2025977) that had been present in the browser for a whopping 20 years. Mythos also unearthed a problem from 15 years ago with the element “ ” of HTML that could only be exploited by a complex combination of edge cases to trigger. AI not only finds “typical” bugs, but it does just that: combine all kinds of actions to find bugs that would be almost impossible to detect in traditional ways. Human patches. Mozilla has, however, been clear about something important: they still do not use AI to write the final code that ends up being deployed in the version of the browser that users use. They do ask Mythos to suggest how to patch the problem, but the engineers have found that those proposals They are often conceptual models that are not ready for production environments. In each of the 423 patches made, there was at least one human engineer who wrote the patch and another who reviewed it. AI is the elite detector, but it is still no substitute for a senior developer in this case. A hopeful future (for Amodei). At a recent event, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei he was optimistic and highlighted that these new tools ultimately benefit cybersecurity defenders. “If we handle this right, we could be in a better position than we were, because we’ve fixed all these mistakes. There’s only a finite number of mistakes to find, so I think there’s a better world in sight.” In Mozilla they are not so clear. Brian Grinstead, a distinguished engineer at Mozilla, has a more pragmatic and cautious view. He agrees in that having these options available is slightly more advantageous for defenders. However, it warns that it is very likely that attackers are already using similar techniques with their own models. The race won’t be so much who finds the bug, but rather who gets it done first. AI as part of the process. Mozilla’s immediate plan is not only to analyze already published code, but to integrate this analysis into the software development process in real time. Or what is the same: every time a new line of code is “bitten”, analyze how that can introduce vulnerabilities. Firefox 150 is proposed as the most secure version of the browser to date, and all thanks to that work between human engineers and Anthropic’s computing power. The end of bounty hunters? The rise of Mythos as a great vulnerability detector can endanger one of the most traditionally specialized professions in the world: the bug bounty hunters. The famous ‘bug bounty‘ that encouraged human experts to detect new bugs and rewarded them with succulent financial prizes could no longer make sense when faced with the use of tools like Claude Mythos. In Xataka | For decades, Linux has earned a reputation as a “shielded” operating system. Until now

Mythos will be the most dangerous AI model, but companies are already taking note of its security tips

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Top AI companies are in the race to create the best artificial intelligence model. That race has been won by Anthropic with Mythos. At least, That’s what they claim (of course)with phrases like it is so powerful that they cannot make it public. There is reasons to take Anthropic’s words with a grain of salt, but what is evident is that Mythos is already working. Although the company has not released it, has already given access to certain technology partners. The decision is based on the company’s fear that the model will be used maliciously. They themselves have described as a threat to cybersecurity based on the number of zero-day vulnerabilities that Mythos would have found in both the main operating systems on the market and in browsers. And, just when the model is arousing opinions from some and others, Mozilla arrives to affirm that the latest version of Firefox 150 It has security fixes for 271 vulnerabilities that have been discovered thanks to this preliminary version of Claude Mythos. For its part, OpenAI does not believe anything at all. “Just as capable as a human” Mozilla it details in one of the latest posts on his blog. The company had been collaborating with Anthropic for some time and using the Claude Opus 4.6 model to find errors. In January, it found 22 vulnerabilities in a couple of weeks, 14 of them rated very serious. Of those 22 found by Opos 4.6, which is already a powerful model, we move on to the 271 discovered by Mythos. It is a huge leap and Mozilla wanted to continue investigating to see to what extent the new model surpasses Opus. Analyzing Firefox 147, Mythos generated 181 functional exploits. Opus 4.6? Just two. 90 times less. Those results have led Mozilla to write that Mythos Preview is “just as capable as the best human cybersecurity researchers”adding that they have not found any categories that humans can detect that Mythos cannot. This has another reading since, as the company itself states, seeing that the model is capable of finding so many errors in such a short time makes them wonder if it is possible to stay up to date in cybersecurity work when alternatives to Mythos are developed that do fall into hands not controlled by those responsible. There is always the fact that Mythos has not found any errors that Mozilla’s human ‘watchmen’ have not detected and that a tool like this will help to have a more secure system. All of this, in the end, pushing that narrative that Mythos is practically a technological miracle. a nuclear bomb The other side of the coin is that Sam Altman, head of OpenAI, doesn’t believe anything. Taking advantage of his recent participation in a podcast, he has qualified The entire Anthropic movement as a fear-based marketing ploy. He accuses Dario Amodei’s company (Altman’s public enemy) of wanting to restrict AI to a small number of people in a strategy that he has compared to having an atomic bomb, threatening to release it and making a living by selling bunkers to protect themselves from that same bomb. “It is evident that this is an extraordinarily powerful marketing strategy. We have created a bomb and we are going to drop it. You can buy a bunker from us for 100 million dollars” It is one more point in that historical rivalry in which both companies (and managers) have been involved for some time, but it comes just when Anthropic is having a greater role and OpenAI is being forced to release ballast in the form of services like Sora. Altman is not the only one who thinks that Anthropic is repeatedly using this discourse of “We have something so powerful that we cannot make it public” because it is a good strategy to obtain financing. There are already voices that they point that Mythos is not that big of a deal and, in fact, other models have proven to be able to do the same, finding the same errors and problems detected by Anthropic. But, above all, we must remember that, in 2019, someone already said that a model was too dangerous for public release. Who? OpenAI itself with GPT-2. Obviously, it wasn’t that dangerous. In Xataka | OpenAI and Anthropic have proposed the impossible: lose $85 billion in one year and survive

The Pentagon labeled Anthropic a national security risk. So Anthropic is suing the Pentagon

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The soap opera between Anthropic and the Pentagon has a new chapter (and now they are going…). After the push and pull of the last few weeks, Anthropic stood and that ended up causing The US put the company on the blacklist. Anthropic was not amused. what has happened. Anthropic has sued the US Department of Defense (or War), calling the decision to blacklist them “unprecedented and illegal” and arguing that it will cause irreparable harm to the company. . In statements to Fortunean Anthropic spokesperson has assured that they remain committed to protecting national security and want to find a solution, but that “it is a necessary step to protect our business, our customers and our partners.” The administration has not commented on this lawsuit. A lot of money at stake. By blacklisting Anthropic, the government prevents defense contractors and suppliers from using Claude in their Pentagon-related activities. Additionally, Trump ordered the entire government to stop using Anthropic’s AI. The company says government contracts are already being canceled and other private contracts are in jeopardy. Anthropic’s commercial director, Paul Smith, has assured that there is a client who already Claude has been swapped for another generative AI. This contract alone will make them lose at least 100 million dollars. Doubts about legality. Anthropic says the government’s move is not legal. Are they right? According to legal experts at Lawfarethe “supply chain risk” label will not withstand judicial scrutiny. The main reason is that this designation is intended for foreign adversaries, as happened with Huawei. The law’s definition is “the risk that an adversary could sabotage or subvert a covered system,” it says nothing about using it as punishment to a national company for a disagreement. According to Lawfare, the statements by Trump and the defense secretary “frame the action as ideological punishment of a political enemy.” The disagreement. The origin of this escalation is in the red lines that Anthropic put Basically, the company refused to allow its model to be used for mass surveillance of citizens and especially the development of lethal weapons without human supervision. The concern is justified: a soldier can refuse to carry out an illegal order, an AI cannot. The Pentagon does not like red lines (from others, of course) and demanded to be able to use their technology without limits. In Trump’s words in a Truth Social post: “We will decide the fate of our country, NOT an out-of-control radical left-wing AI company run by people who have no idea what the real world is like.” Meanwhile OpenAI… Shortly after Anthropic was blacklisted, the government found a new candidate to carry out your plans: OpenAI. According to the company by Sam Altman, its development has more safeguards and hey, calm down, it’s not that big of a deal. What has followed is an image crisis for ChatGPT, with resignations and mass uninstalls of users who have switched to Claude. But let’s not fool ourselves, although Anthropic has won the battle of public opinion, if the US keeps up, the future looks pretty bleak for Amodei’s side. In Xataka | Anthropic has become the Apple of our era and OpenAI our Microsoft: a story of love and hate Image | Anthropic (edited)

What is this network traffic analyzer and how to use it to detect Internet problems or security flaws

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Let’s explain to you what it is and how to take advantage wireshark from the point of view of an ordinary user. I say this because it is a very advanced tool that analyzes all the traffic on your network, and that of all the devices connected to it. When you run this appyou’ll see a series of lines of data that you may not understand. But by knowing a little about what information is going to appear, you can also find ways to diagnose failures in your connection or whether an application or device is spying on you by sending data when you are not using it, or to unknown servers. What is Wireshark Wireshark is a network protocol analyzerwhat in English is called packet sniffer. What it does is capture, isolate and transmit each of the packets that are sent and received through our Internet connection, whether we are connected via WiFi or Ethernet, and it does all this in real time. This is a free and open source programwhich means that any developer can look at how it works inside. This makes it reliable and safe, because if it did things that were not appropriate, users would have already reported it. It has versions for Windows, macOS and Ubuntubeing able to download them at wireshark.org. When it comes to giving you information about the traffic that passes through your network, shows you very important datasuch as the IP and Mac addresses of the person sending or receiving the data, the sending protocol, the content (showing text or images if they are not encrypted), and connection healthwith the exact time it takes to load each piece of information. The operation of this tool is based on three fundamental pillars. First the capture one, because it puts your network card in a mode where it can see all the traffic that reaches it. This includes both information that your operating system displays and information that it does not display. It also has a color code to help you distinguish the packages. As a general rule, green is usually standard TCP traffic, blue is DNS or UDP, and black and red usually indicate problems. That’s why, you can identify that you are having errors or problems quite visually, just by seeing that there are many red or black lines. The app also has a top bar where you can type commands to filter information. This is already quite advanced if you don’t know how networks work, but you can, for example, use “ip.addr == IP Address” changing the address to that of a specific device to see its movements, or type “http” to see only web traffic. In short, it is a fairly complex and advanced tool, so it is not for all users. It is more aimed at system administrators, to detect attacks or bottlenecks. However, If you know where to look you can also take advantage of it as a home user. How you can take advantage of it Although it is an advanced tool, it can be useful for normal users in some contexts as well. We are going to give you some ideas so that you know the type of information you can obtain: If your online games cause problems: A speed test may tell you that your Ping is good, but the experience is different when playing. Therefore, this application can tell you if packets are being lost along the way that are making everything slower. If you are concerned about privacy: You will be able to see what data your devices send to the cloud and the Internet, and if it is not encrypted you will see your content. This can help you be more aware of your privacy, and detect if a device is sending more data than it should. You will also be able to see if a device connects to servers of dubious origin. If you have technical problems: If a website does not load or a printer disappears from the network, this application can show you at what point communication is being cut off. If you want to do lag tests: If in this tool you filter by the appropriate protocol, such as UDP for games, you will be able to find if there are black lines that indicate that the information you send is “out of order” because it never arrived at the destination or did so late. With this you can see that if you have lag it is not a matter of your bandwidth, but perhaps of your network signal or a saturated node of your operator. If you want to know what the devices on your network are doing: As we have more and more connected devices at home, with this you can audit what each one does. You can even isolate the IP of a cell phone or a security camera to know if it is connecting, what data it is sending, or if, for example, it sends data to other servers from time to time. In any case, what you should know is that this tool is going to show you all the traffic that your home network has. It shows all the raw traffic, and doesn’t hide anything, meaning you can have a lot of fun looking at everything that’s happening on your network and learning how to take advantage of it to understand everything. In Xataka Basics | Internet does not work at home: five alternatives to connect without using your router

does not produce 13 minerals critical for economic security

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For years, the so-called critical minerals have remained out of the focus of public debate, despite the fact that entire industries and a good part of the economic security of countries depend on them. Its relevance does not respond only to a technological issue, but also to geopolitical tensions, fragile supply chains and strategic decisions that today condition industrial development. In that context, Mexico has begun to put figuresnames and concrete limits to their own exposure, opening a conversation that goes far beyond mining and reaches directly to their productive future. What exactly is considered a critical mineral. These are elements present in nature whose demand is high while their availability is limited, either due to geological restrictions inherent to finite resources or due to external factors such as geopolitical tensions and trade blockades. That combination of scarcity and dependence makes them sensitive pieces for contemporary industry. They not only intervene in everyday electronic devices, they also determine energy efficiency, component durability and thermal stability in multiple technologies. Image shared by the Government of Mexico The concrete photography of Mexico. The Mexican Geological Service has defined which materials are scarce or directly non-existent in the national territory, or without technical and economic conditions today to produce them viably, a diagnosis that allows foreign dependence to be measured with sufficient precision. The list is not small and concentrates a good part of the inputs associated with electronics, energy and various advanced industrial chains. These are the 13 minerals classified as scarce or non-existent resources in the country: Aluminum Cadmium Cobalt Chrome Germanium Iridium Lithium Nickel Palladium Platinum Tantalum Titanium Vanadium The reverse of the diagnosis. Mexico has a relevant mining base in certain materials where there are not only reserves, but also extraction and processing capacity, which allows it to sustain its own industrial chains and participate in international markets. This dimension is key to avoiding a reading solely focused on external dependence and understanding that the resource map combines shortcomings with operational strengths. According to the Mexican Geological Service, the minerals that the country concentrates or processes are the following: Baryta Copper Fluorite Graphite Magnesium Manganese Silver Lead Zinc The diplomatic channel and the geopolitical board. The diagnosis of available resources has not remained internal. Mexico has brought the issue of critical minerals to the field of international politics with a specific goal: to ensure access to materials that are necessary for its present and future industry. This is how Marcelo Ebrard explained itSecretary of Economy, when detailing the country’s participation in different forums and coordination spaces, including areas linked to the United Nations. The strategy, as he stressed, does not seek to offer its own reserves, but rather to be part of the decisions that will determine how these supplies are guaranteed in an increasingly competitive environment. Coordination with the northern neighbor. The United States Trade Office (USTR) announced that Its ambassador, Jamieson Greer, and Marcelo Ebrard agreed on an action plan aimed at building a preferential trade scheme for critical minerals, which includes everything from the identification of priority materials to the exploration of adjusted minimum border prices for imports and consultation on how to incorporate these minimum prices into a binding plurilateral agreement. The cooperation seeks to respond to global market distortions that have left North American critical mineral supply chains vulnerable to disruption. The initial calendar, it should be noted, establishes a work horizon of two months to analyze measures before defining subsequent steps. Lithium. State ownership and pending viability. Among the minerals that explain the Mexican position, lithium occupies a unique place. The Constitution establishes that only the State can exploit it, a decision that reinforces its strategic nature but, at the same time, coexists with technical and economic limits. As President Claudia Sheinbaum notedthere is already a technology developed at the Mexican Petroleum Institute to obtain lithium in clays, although “today it is not economically viable, it is very expensive.” This combination of state control and production difficulty illustrates why guaranteeing access to critical materials remains an open question for the national industry. In conclusion. The image that emerges is not that of a country without resources, but of an economy that must precisely manage its material dependencies in an increasingly demanding international environment. Mexico has relevant mining capabilities and, at the same time, faces clear limits on essential inputs for the technology and energy industry. Between both extremes is a strategy that combines internal diagnosis, diplomatic action and technological development still in process. The result does not close the debate, but it does define the context in which the country must work. Images | Dominic Vanyi + Nano Banana In Xataka | What are rare earths, the elements that move the technological world and separate China from the West

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