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I’ve been using Yi security cameras for years. It was delighted until the app became an advertising hell

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More than five years ago I bought my first Security Chamber To monitor my cat when he got sick. It was YI brand and it worked great; He looked good, had movement alerts and could speak through the mic. With the passage of time I had more cats and I bought two more cameras of the same brand to cover the rest of the house. The problem is that The APP Yi Home has added advertising in its app. How much? All. It is not an exaggeration I was traveling recently and I entered Yi Home’s app to look through the cameras. I don’t lie if I say that More than once I have made me want to launch the mobile. On the main screen there are already a few ads spread there, but that is not the worst. Some of the ads that appear when I open the app or when I try to see one of the cameras. The worst are the Full screen ads. They cannot be skipped until they pass a few seconds, the button to close them is tiny and sometimes it does not work, causing it to end in the App Store, or wherever the announcement in question link. So every time I open the app. But the thing is not there, when entering each camera, advertisements also leave full screen. When you finally manage to see a camera, a banner comes out that covers the controls to be able to move it *Chef’s Kiss*. Few apps I remember that they have bombarded me both with advertising and Yi Home, although it is not the only one. A current example is Capcut, the Tiktok videos editing app. Every time I open the app, I get a full screen advertisement, but it is also that if you leave a moment and enter again, another appears. Not to mention that The entire app is a mines field with ‘Pro’ functions And they don’t stop insisting to join. Pay or suffer Yi Home has never been a super clean app. I already had some Banner type ads and has always shown me pop-ups to join the payment plan. The thing now has no name. In addition to full-screen advertising, those pop-ups continue to come out and remind me that, If I pay, advertising will disappear. On top with picn. The summum of despair. (The controls can be relocated, but was there no other place?) The cheapest payment plan if you have several cameras costs 79.99 euros a year. It seems expensive, but I think that although it would cost a tenth, I wouldn’t pay either. The thing about this app is A manual of how to lose customers. At least I know I am not the only user discontent, In Tustpilot is full of negative reviews on the same subject and in This Reddit thread There are also several angry users. In the same thread they also comment on several ways to eliminate ads such as installing previous versions of the app or configure a DNS with Ad-Block. In my case I take another way to eliminate ads. I change my chambers I had been wanting to buy a while Another 360 camera And obviously I was not going to buy another of the same brand with the problems I was having with advertising in the app. One of those days when I almost crashed my mobile, gave me to get into Amazon to see other cameras and make the decision. TP Link Tapo C210 After reading a few reviews and making sure that his app did not seem like an online casino, I opted for the Top-Link tapo. I found a Offer pack with two cameras 360 And I bought it. When I set them up, some notifications came out within the app to go to the Premium version, but I have been using it for a week and they have not reappeared. Come on, what was Yi Home’s app a long ago and that It should be normal in an app of a security camera. Images | Amparo Babyloni, Xataka In Xataka | It is not you, YouTube is filling with more and more ads. Especially if you see it on a smart TV

Having more security in your company during a whole year costs less than 6 euros per month with Kaspersky

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Computer attacks are the order of the day everywhere. It is difficult to maintain the safety of our devices aware, but we are already used to using tools such as VPN. Now, it is even more important to raise security if we have a company, since customer data also come into play. A good cybersecurity solution for companies is Kaspersky with its Small Office Security: a year can leave us from 76.95 euros. And that’s not all, because with the Afbiz code we will have an additional 10%discount. Kaspersky Small Office Security – 1 year * Some price may have changed from the last review An affordable cybersecurity option and available to everyone This Kaspersky Small Office Security (or Ksos) package is a most interesting quality-price option. Thanks to the same and for very little money, we will be able to have An extra security layer for our company. The package includes many interesting and easy -to -use tools, so it is a safety software for companies that are worth having in the radar. Another point that stands out of ksos is how easy it is to install and use. It is not necessary to go to any expert to configure them, since it is a very intuitive software. In addition, it not only serves for PCs, but also We will be able to use it on Mac and Android devices. Now, what tools does Ksos include? With this solution of Kaspersky we will have software that protects us from possible attacks Phishingas well as a password and documents manager, an antivirus and even a VPN. Everything together forms a very complete pack that also has a price that we cannot consider expensive if we take into account that it serves more than one team. In fact, the price will depend on two different factors: the number of years we hire the service and the number of different users who can use the tool. As we have said above, the cheapest option is priceless now 76.95 euroswhat will give us A year of service for up to 3 different users. Everything without forgetting that we can further lower the price if we use the Afbiz code. Some of the links of this article are affiliated and can report a benefit to Xataka. In case of non -availability, offers may vary. Images | Microsoft 365 in Unspash In Xataka | Wi -Fi, configuration fund guide: everything you have to know to improve your connection In Xataka | These are the two things I recommend doing if you want to improve the safety of your accounts and you are not sure how to start

There is something that we are not doing enough and we should for our own security: eliminate old accounts

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The other day, for a comment from my boss about an email that came to him, he gave me to look The keychain in which I store all my passwords. I wanted to see how many session was stored. It turns out that they are 891. Eight hundred-Novent-and-one. It is impossible for you to use or 10% of those services. Moreover, surely a majority corresponds to an afternoon experiments, impulsive records for a punctual download or accounts created to try something that I forgot to the quarter of an hour. My digital history is a cemetery of abandoned intentions. I am not an exception: most we accumulate accounts like who accumulate boxes in the storage room. “Someday I will need it,” I thought surely. “What a laziness erase the account now,” I assumed internally. And the disorder grows. The problem is that, unlike the storage boxes, These accounts are still alive. They continue to receive privacy policy updates, changes in terms of service, database migrations. And most importantly: they are still risk vectors. And we don’t even usually do something as healthy as change passwords from time to time. Each abandoned account is a back door that we have forgotten to close. When LinkedIn suffers a security gap, not only affects those who use the day platform yes day too. He also compromises who registered in 2012, used it for three days and never returned. These data are still there, inert but vulnerable, waiting for their turn in the next “We have been hacked“That I get to the mail. Psychology after this accumulation is predictable. Creating an account is usually free and immediate. Eliminating it requires effort, navigating deliberately complex menus, multiple confirmations. Companies have optimized the record and the exit, the Dark Patterns They send. It is logical: each abandoned account remains a digit in its database, a metric of which to presume before investors. The solution passes through change our digital habits. Just as there are those who practice “if I have not used a garment in a year, I get rid of it,” we should apply periodic audits to our digital accounts. A quarterly cleaning of unused services, such as who goes down in tracksuit to fix his storage room. It sounds tedious, but It is less tedious than dealing with the consequences of a digital identity theftjust what we expose if we leave too many doors without closing. Especially if we have The bad habit of repeating passwords. Our fingerprint should be a reflection of who we are. Not who we experienced for ten minutes in 2016. Outstanding image | Xataka In Xataka | There are users who pass from passwords. And they go to “I forgot my password” to generate them again and again

Two 19 -year -old kids put Spanish national security with a bot and a telegram channel. The reason: they bored themselves

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It happened a few days ago. The National Police had arrested two young people by the Data filtration of Pedro Sánchez and other high positions of the State. A massive filtration that, In police wordsis a “very serious threat to national security.” Behind all this there is no large group of perfectly coordinated hackers, only two 19 -year -old Canarian kids and a bot that they sold on Telegram. @Akkaspace and @pakito. They are the nicks of the two authors of the filtration. Yoel (Akkaspace), the main responsible, is a computer student and was arrested at his home on July 1. Next to him also stopped Pakito (Cristian), who was aware of his friend’s activities and would have participated in helping him promote them. Yesterday July 3 They were releasedalthough they are being investigated for an alleged crime of terrorism and will have to appear in the played twice a month. A bot. It is the tool they have used to extract the data. The bot was in charge of tracking previously compromised databases. That is, they have taken advantage of existing vulnerabilities in companies and institutions. In Declarations to Eldiariosecurity expert Rafael López, says they have used OSINT, OR INTELLIGENCE OF OPEN SOURCESand it has not been a hacking as such. Yoel himself said in an interview he gave on Twitch with his face covered: With a bot that I have, with which I have taken everything basically. I take databases, Indexo, and people, if you buy the bot, searching for a full name, a phone number or a ID, you can access all the information. This is how I have done politicians. Filtration. The investigation began weeks ago in Telegram. @Akkaspace and @pakito used a channel with more than 90,000 members to start spreading personal data from public figures, although later they were closed and used other more minority channels. In the beginning it only affected seven personalities, but little by little they were filtering more data, getting to involve the president of the Government himself. The data contained in the filtration includes birth dates, telephones, ID numbers and even homes, although some were apparently outdated. Motivation. “We are two boring kids,” said Yoel on Twitch, which denies that there is an ideological motivation behind the filtration. “And as the issue of corruption is being uncovered lately, why don’t we get the information from those politicians and publish it? It is a lesson,” he said. Although it is not clear what led him to filter the data, everything indicates that there would be an economic motivation. Yoel sold the databases and the bot itself with which it extracted the data, which it charged in Bitcoins. An undercover agent. This is how they hunt. The National Audience car includes that an undercover agent “has managed to buy from the investigated access to the database that sold for 60 euros that have been paid in Bitcoins. “The second investigated, Cristian or @Pakito would be in charge of managing the cryptocurrency portfolio where they received the payments, although it has not transcended how much they won. Images | National Police in X In Xataka | Alcasec is not any youth hacker: he set up a Spanish criminal infrastructure that even had customer service bot

The Tesla Robotaxi has been in the street for less than 72 hours. Is already being investigated for security problems

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On Sunday, June 22, Tesla will begin publicly in the Robotaxi race. The company put, for the first time, its completely autonomous cars on the street. Since then, they operate with a handful of vehicles to a group of people previously chosen. In less than three days, they are already being investigated. June 22. It was the first day that Tesla’s robotaxis started walking through the streets of Austin. And although the promises in recent years had been grandiloquent, they did it within the regulations. That is: a handful of cars, a handful of chosen people and a handful of travel. Although something like that could be expected, the company’s first steps in the sector are still far from the Cybercab Promised, artifacts without flyers or pedals that should act as a kind of ships with wheels that take you anywhere inside a city. Let’s not forget that Elon Musk promised that we would see this in 2026. Under investigation. In less than three days, the NHTSSAthe agency in charge of security in the United States has opened an investigation to make sure that these vehicles are safe, they explain in Bloomberg. The reason is the slightly erratic behavior of some cars. At the moment they are only preliminary reports, they point out from the economic environment, but the NHTSA already warns in their response that they will take measures if they consider that the safety of passengers and the rest of the traffic agents are being endangered. Moment in which Tesla Robotaxi circulates in the opposite direction. Click on the image to go to the original tweet In the opposite direction. One of the reasons that has led NHTSA to the work table has arrived with a video published on social networks in which a Tesla is seen that doubts when taking a left output, to which it is bound at the intersection by the previously chosen lane. After hesitating, it moves to the right and enters a lane where cars circulate in the opposite direction. Subsequently, a double continuous line is skipped to return correctly. The entire incident can be seen in the Tweet published by Rob Maurer in which he shows without cuts a trip of more than 20 minutes aboard one of the robotaxis of Tesla. Specifically, Tesla’s doubts and erratic behavior are found in the 7th and 15th minutes of the recording. Many lights and some shadow. Except for this incident, in the rest of the video you can see how the car behaves with a lot of ease between traffic and that does not usually hesitate to take a way out or in which lane should be positioned. Nor does it give the feeling of circulating at an abnormally low speed or hindering the rest of the road agents. Despite this, we must bear in mind that the trips that have been made are very few and with very chosen people. In fact, Maurer himself is known for having had a podcast focused exclusively on the company. Sawyer Merritt, who looks in his biography of X that he is Tesla’s investor, He also published a video in which the car is seen exceeding the maximum allowed speed in a street after exceeding a signal that reduced the limit to 30 mph. Zero error. Actually, the two incidents have not put anyone at risk but NHTSA research gives an idea of ​​strict security measures that regulators want to demand from companies that put their cars on the street. Hence the Waymo and Cruise developments They were extended for years and that the tests are limited in space or in time. Keep in mind that a small mistake with a car can generate important damage to a person and that we ask the autonomous car that is much safer than the human driver. In fact, the company itself assured in the presentation of Tesla Cybercab that “Mobility stinks” because, among other things, “it is not sure”. That firm control of regulators is the one that forces Tesla to breach their own promises. That is, they have to circulate with humans and cars with flyers and pedals. But also that the area of ​​use is very limited and that the service between six in the morning and midnight. Question of time. The publication of the news made Tesla’s actions slightly down. The same ones that had risen since Sunday after the finding that the robotaxis service was launched. However, this fluctuating movement is relatively absurd since it is a matter of time that a company robotaxi is immersed in an accidenteither because of yours or for an unexpected movement of any other traffic agent. It is something that all companies of this type have to deal with but the problems They took Cruise ahead and Xiaomi and the rest of the manufacturers They were attracted attention by the institutions after Three passengers died aboard an Xiaomi Su7 which seemed to be working with activated driving aid systems. The NHTSSA and TESLA. Nor is it the first time that the NHTSA and Tesla look at the faces. The company has been accused of “Delivery advertising”together with other manufacturers, because the name of Autopilot overalls the real capacities that their cars can offer to the general public. But Tesla has also gone through the NHTSA scrutiny due The autonomous driving system was deactivated not to leave a trace of its involvement in shocks. The company has also always played to the limit of legality in some aspects, such as using your own customers like Beta Testers In the streets before making officers the updates of your Autopilot. Photo | Tesla In Xataka | Tesla’s economic future goes through autonomous driving. At the moment everything is problems

France is building a high security megacárcel for its most dangerous prisoners. 7,000 kilometers from France

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In 2024, 110 people They died In France for reasons linked to drug trafficking and another 341 were injured in accidents or account adjustments. Although they are lower figures than those of 2023 —139 dead and 413 injured – in the Ministry of Interior they consider that they remain unacceptable. Your solution: attack the problem at the origin. 7,000 kilometers … and with a jail. The plan. Gérald Darmanin is the Minister of Justice of France and, a few weeks ago, advertisement The opening of 2028 of a new maximum security prison. As we say, curiously it will not be on European continental soil, but in the French Guiana on the other side of the Atlantic. In an interview, Darmanin commented That the goal of this third high security prison in France is to “leave out of the most dangerous drug trafficking profiles.” And, precisely, that those drug traffickers are at that distance from continental France will contribute to “take them away lasting their mafia networks.” Cocaine route. French Guiana is a overseas territory in France. Previously a colony -but abolished as such after the French revolution -, this French territory has established itself as a key platform for cocaine traffic from Brazil and Surinam Towards Europe. The figures scare: esteem that between 15% and 20% of the cocaine that enters France does it through the French Guayana-Paris route. It is done through “mules”, person (young and single mothers, especially) who are pushed by situations of extreme poverty to accept about 7,000 euros per successful trip to Europe carrying the merchandise. And the estimate It is that, on each flight from Cayena (the capital of the territory) to Paris, they travel between 20 and 30 mules, of which one third manages to pass without attracting attention. The jail. France’s goal is to build the new prison in the commune of Saint-Laurent-Du-Maroni. It will be about seven kilometers from the urban center and very close to the border with Surinam, one of the hot points of that cocaine route. The budget My dear It is about 450 million euros and the intention is that the complex, in addition to the prison itself, includes a court to expedite all judicial processes and procedures associated with inmates. It will have capacity for 500 inmates, of which 60 will be classified as “maximum security” and another 15 as “terrorists”, with a wing especially destined for those more dangerous inmates and will not only serve to fight drug trafficking, but to give a respite to the other prison of the French Guiana, a Rémon-Montjoly that has a capacity for 614 inmates and houses almost a thousand. And that inmates nickname “Dry guillotine“ Past ghosts. It may seem like a fissure plan to build a maximum security prison in the heart of drug trafficking towards your main territory, but far from it. The problem, or one of them, is all that it entails … and the historical precedent. Inspired by chow the British used AustraliaNapoleon III established a criminal system in the French Guiana that served as the main overseas criminal colony of the country from 1852 to 1953. In that century, especially the Salvation Islands and the Diablo Islandthey became the point where both common criminals and political prisoners shared space. They performed forced labor, severe punishments and there was a very high mortality rate: 75% in the blackest points. The few who could return to France told their stories in the place, making public opinion promote the gradual closure of the facilities that are currently Tourism focus. And fear. And how we read in BBCthe idea of ​​returning to the French Guiana that condition of ‘overseas prison‘He has outraged his population. A local deputy, Davy Rimane, considers that it is a unilateral decision by France, since they have not had the deputies of Guayana and that “transferring criminals from high level to Guayana, people who France do not want, return us to a terrible past, painful and full of suffering.” Because they are not only drug traffickers, but also Islamist terrorists who will be relocated to this prison. Rimane points out that they are not “the France dump.” Also in statements to BBC, the criminologist Marion Vannier of the University of Manchester considers that it is “a bad idea” to go from wanting one jail to relieve the other present in the country to devise a new system in which there are dangerous prisoners and high -level drug traffickers. “ As we say, the idea is that France has its new overseas prison from here to three years, but we will see if the plans are fulfilled because the Francaguayans do not seem happy with the idea of ​​returning to that dark past 70 years later. Image | Ministry of Justice In Xataka | That crazy occasion we wanted to fix Europe by dividing it into 24 radial cantons

Seville wanted more security in its streets at night. So he has recovered an old figure: the serene

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In many towns and cities of Spain, serene are a I remember distanta another time figure that he was in charge of around night through the streets while the rest of the neighbors rested in their beds. In Seville no. There the City Council decided to recover them to late 2023 And the experience has been good enough so that now, once that test is over, he has decided to return big, with more personal, more hours and covering more neighborhoods. Its mission will not consist of replacing the police, but in something much more interesting: demonstrating that serene can fit in the 21st century. What happened? That Seville wants that at night its streets are monitored by a figure that has disappeared in most towns and cities of the country: the serene. And he wants to do it big, in addition, dedicating considerable investment to the program (around 2.6 million euros) so that the guards can cover a large part of the Hispanic capital during every night of the year. Why do you do it? It may be shocking at a time when cities are already controlled by municipal agents and other agencies responsible for ensuring the safety of neighbors and businesses, such as the National Police, the Civil Guard or 112; But Seville acts with knowledge of cause. The Consistory already launched a program with “civic agents” to late 2023a service that worked for months and gave such good results that He wants to consolidate it. What do they do? The Hispanic City Council It makes it clear: The serene figure is not intended to replace the Polysa. On the contrary. His mission is to complement the work of the agents, inform neighbors and tourists, mediate in conflicts, accompany people who may need it, such as the elderly, dependent people or lost visitors, notify problems in urban furniture and alert the Cecop (Operational Coordination Center) Before emergencies. They are a “first proximity front”, In words of the Consistory. Their first year of operation gives a clear clue what the serene can contribute. In just one year they gave almost 500 notices To the CECOP room to inform open shops, problems with lighting, robberies, fires or medical emergencies. In Seville they have accompanied people at night, advising, mediating in the attention to homeless people and even provided “Preventive Protection” to a clerk before a case of harassment. And what does the City Council think? Its mayor, José Luis Sanz Ruiz, I made it clear This week when announcing the commitment redoubled by the serene: “we launched a pilot project in 12 neighborhoods of the historic center and the balance was quite positive. It has achieved a better coexistence, more security for neighbors and better job opportunities for hired people.” That first test was in fact launched as part of a public employment plan that ended Last December Without option In extension. Hence, now the Consistory has tendered a contract for the service to assume a company As of Octoberbetween the 1st of that month and on September 30 of the next year, although the sheet contemplates that the contract can be extended. What will the service be like now? Much more ambitious. If the pilot project had 18 “civic agents” and two coordinators, the new service will expand its seedling until adding 36 agents and two coordinators. This increase will also allow them to expand the Seville area that supervise: of the 12 neighborhoods planned in the 2023 plan, it will be passed to 26 zones. As for the schedule, the serene will be in charge of making rounds from 23.00 to 7.00 h 365 days a year, an hour more than before. That increase is possible thanks to a greater economic effort of the institution. The pilot program was financed by 725,800 euros. Now the investment is triggered to rise to 2.6 million euros. In that amount, They clarify at the City Councilthe salaries of the agents and the material they use, from geolocation devices to the clothes that identify them as serene are included. Are they exclusive to Seville? No. Although Seville has stood out for his commitment to the “civic agents” is not the only town in Spain that keeps serene. His figure has also recovered in Several municipalities Catalans Another example is Gijónwhat are you doing More than 25 years He decided to recover them to make rounds through the streets of the city from entrance at night and to the early morning. His work is very similar to that of his colleagues Sevillians: they help neighbors, merchants and tourists, prove that urban and lighting furniture is in good condition, they inform and warn the police in cases of robberies. Images | Seville City Council and Andrea Leopardi (UNSPLASH) In Xataka | A richer, more live years: the two neighborhoods of Seville that illustrate inequality in life expectancy

The Social Security contributions

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Asturias is living A authentic Sorpasso In an unexpected front: that of contributions. The statistics Social Security show that for a year the Principality has more women contributing to the coffers of the General Treasury than men, a reality that contrasts with that of the whole of Spain, where male workers remain a majority, or those that managed the Principality itself does not so much. At the end of 2018, for example, they represented 50.9%. In 2022 they became 49.9% and last year they already represented 49.8% of the quotes. Sorpasso In Asturias. The Latest statistics of social security with contribution data arrive with a small surprise: the consolidation of a Sorpasso gender. At the end of 2024 the state agency counted in the Principality more women contributing than men: 153,371 compared to 151,949, which means that they represented 50.2% compared to 49.8% of them. It was not always the case. How has it evolved? Although Asturias already closed 2022 and 2023 with more women than contributing men, not so much the drawing was very different. On December 2021, for example, they were a majority, with 143,821 registered compared to 142,030 women. And if we look further back, to 2018 (the first period documented by Social Security in its statistics section), the difference was even greater: there were 6,163 men more than women contributing to common piggy bank. Year (December) Men quoting in Asturias (base) Women quoting in Asturias (base) 2018 142,050 (€ 2,047.7) 137,074 (€ 1,566.7) 2019 143,612 (€ 2,119.7) 139,664 (€ 1,633.3) 2020 138,016 (€ 2,189) 136,142 (€ 1,745) 2021 143,821 (€ 2,181.8) 142,030 (€ 1,731) 2022 144,496 (€ 2,266.1) 144,845 (€ 1,806.3) 2023 147,952 (€ 2,376.6) 148,796 (€ 1,906.4) 2024 151,949 (€ 2,485.3) 153,371 (€ 1,992.9) Who brings more? He Sorpasso Asturian arrives accompanied by an important nuance. Right now there are more women than men contributing to the general treasury, but the average contribution base of them remains significantly higher than theirs, in line with the trend at the state level. At the end of 2024 the average of the Asturian contribution bases marked 2,485 euros, compared to the 1992 of the Asturian. In fact they remained well below the average of the region, which was around 2,237 euros. Beyond Asturias. Asturias is, Together with Galicia and La Riojathe only community that closed last year with more women than men contributing to Social Security, a photo that extends to the State as a whole, where the year said goodbye to almost 490,000 men more than women (8.6 million compared to 8.1). The thing changes if we go down to the provincial level. In that case we find more quoted women than men in Granada, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Ávila, León, Salamanca, Zamora, Cáceres, A Coruña, Lugo, Ourense and Pontevedra. And what is the reason? Social Security statistics connect with other realities of the Principality at a social, demographic and economic level. In A recent analysis About him Sorpasso In the contributions, The voice of Asturias Slide several. One for example is aging, a phenomenon that shares for example with Galicia. According to the Asturian Institute of Womenthey represent 52.2% of the population. Another key is the male unemployment rate that the region dragged for years, especially after the 2008 crisis destroyed employment in construction. Are there more factors? Yes. Women have a considerable footprint in the Asturian public sector, where they are a majority. According to the EPA of early 2024, about 70% of the people who worked for the public administration in the region were officials. His presence is also majority in the faculties, such as remember The voice: Last year almost 62% of Asturians had higher studies, a percentage that in the case of men descends several points until they stay at 44%. Why do the data import? Because they help us better understand the Asturian economy and society and especially the change that has been making forms and moves the region of the traditional model in which quoting men predominate. And although the basis of them is still clearly less than theirs, which reveals minor wages, the truth is that this gap seems to be closing over the years. At the end of 2018 they charged 30.7% less than them. In 2024 that percentage was 24.7%. The cut coincides with salary increases Minimum interprofessional. Image | Cowomen (Unspash) In Xataka | Throughout Europe, birth rate collapses as soon as women begin to earn more money. Except in Sweden

After the mass blackout of Spain he feared looting and security problems. Reality was very different

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Nor pillage. Nor Latrocinio. No chaos unleashed in the streets. Although most of the country stayed yesterday to two candles (literally) and Thousands of Spaniards They went to sleep yet without electricity in their homes and businesses, on April 28, 2025 will not go down in history because it is a day of chaos. Not everything was An oil raftof course, but this morning the Interior Ministry He underlined that the night has been “quiet”, “without remarkable security incidents.” Nothing that the country has not already lived during the pandemic, when Spain already demonstrated its obedience during the alarm states to stop the COVID-19. That almost a country is based black (in energy terms), as happened on Monday at 12.33 h in Spain, it obviously has multiple derivatives. It affects the industry. It affects trade. It affects mobility and education. And affects security. Yesterday the government declared The national emergency in eight communities and one of the issues that was in the public debate during the first hours was precisely The media deployment To guarantee security. “Security problems” “Madrid has 9,000 streets, 3.5 million inhabitants … If a city is these dimensions, we are all aware, we are all aware that they can give Security problems at very diverse and different points “, warned In the afternoon the mayor of Madrid, José Luis Martínez-Almeida. Without electricity, many businesses were left without a dataphone, but also without surveillance or automatic systems that allow them to close their premises. The fear of looting and robberies during the blackout even led some merchants to monitor their stores. In Ayamonte, Huelva, there were who The night passed In their businesses unable to lower the blinds and in Granada the newspaper Ideal speaks of entrepreneurs in a similar situation that resisted to leave their premises. “People take advantage of to steal and we have no system here that allows us to ensure the store,” admitted a ABC The clerk of a store in the center of Madrid while waiting for the supply to be restored. His suspicion was understandable. Click on the image to go to Tweet. After the Dana de Valencia there were those who took advantage of chaos to make looting and take home batteries, sports material, telephones or consoles, for example, sometimes even with truck help. Only the night from October 30 the National Police arrested 39 people During a surveillance campaign in commercial areas and weeks later, in mid -November, the number of detainees for looting in the areas affected by the rains over 400. It is not even necessary that an event as devastating as the DANA of Valencia occurs. In 1977 New York lived An electric cut which lasted for a day and resulted in a “night of terror”, in the words of the magazine Timewith the looting of more than 1,615 storesmore than 1,000 fires, around 4,000 detainees and hundreds of injured police. A few weeks ago Before a mass blackout also affected much of Chile, the Buric government chose to decree the state of exception and imposed a curfew between ten and six in the morning. In Spain the authorities also chose reinforce securityalthough without reaching such drastic measures. The Government Precise that between Monday and Tuesday they deployed through the country More than 30,000 agents of the National Police and Civil Guard, to which other forces of autonomic and local bodies are added. Click on the image to go to Tweet. In Catalonia Los Mossos d’esquadra They lengthened shifts and activated a night security plan with something More than 7,200 agentswhile there were cities that also increased their local endowments. In Vigo The mayor said Yesterday that the Local Police would triple their efforts and at night 13 municipal patrols would be deployed, to which almost twenty nationals would be added. What has been the balance? A relative tranquility. At least if one takes into account that, although part of the country began to recover electricity within a few hours, there have been cities that took More than 14 hours in having light and the day was marked by Communications problems and traffic lights. The total alert balance is not yet known, but inner speaks of a “quiet night and without remarkable incidents of security or public order” and both the Mayor of Madrid like that of Barcelona They have highlighted the “civism” of their neighbors. “The Madrid have shown that they give their best in the most difficult moments. In front of the blackout, a lesson of civility,” Almeida presumes. That does not mean that the last hours have been An oil raft. Eldiario speaks Of robbery attempts, activated alarms and “some” burning containers in localities of Andalusia and in the city of the emergency services had attended in the afternoon Double of calls of the usual, although Many incidents They were related to people trapped in elevators or people with mobility problems. In Other cities From the country and less inhabitants, the dripping of notices to the authorities throughout the day was also intense. The most graphic answer He has given it However, this morning, Mayor José Luis Martínez- Almeida when they have asked him about how the night had gone in the capital, in which, he says, only a reysta and a launa was recorded. “Quieter than anyone”, summarizes the councilor from Madrid. Image | Xataka In Xataka | We still do not know what caused the blackout in Spain, but experts already dispute a theory: the role of renewables

It is a sign that security systems have worked

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He Great blackout today He has aroused the alarms in the environments of some of the country’s refineries. The refinery of Repsol in A Coruña and that of Pentronor in Muskiz They have emitted blacks blacks during today’s noon. In both cases, from the refineries it has been called to tranquility. A security measure. As reported by the companies that own refineries, the smoke was due not to a problem but to the proper functioning of the security system of these centrals. “All security measures have been automatically activated, which has caused the output of black smoke through the three torches,” Petronor detailed In a press release. The cause of this incident has been in the blackout that, for hours, has affected the peninsular network, leaving almost the entire country without electricity. In the case of the Biscay Refinery, the blackout has forced at 12:30 to the off of all units. According to The company has detailedthe torches are necessary security measures when it comes to releasing pressure in certain circumstances in this type of facilities. The fact that they have activated is precisely a sign that everything has worked as it should. Constant monitoring. Beyond the proper functioning of this type of industrial complexes, the possible impact on health and the environment is, naturally, in the center of the concern of many. In this regard, the company has stressed There are several parameters They are monitored to ensure that the torches work at all times correctly: flows, temperature and even the appearance of the flame are among these factors. The flame of the torches is due to the fact that, precisely to avoid problems derived from the emission to the atmosphere of certain gases, these have to be burned. The peninsular blackout. The Iberian Peninsula has suffered today one of the most notorious blackheads In recent years In Europe. A blackout which has also affected some areas of southern France. While Spain and Portugal gradually recover the supply, there is little that is known about the origin of the cut, which began at 12:30 noon and from which it began to be left in some past areas 3:00 p.m. In Xataka | Light has gone throughout Spain: what to do in this situation and how to keep you informed Image | Petronor

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