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In Seville they are cloning voices with AI to beg for money for Bizum

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AI has been able to clone almost perfect voices. What we did not expect is that these types of tools began to be used to cheat a Sevillian brotherhood. The event. The Archbishopric of Seville He has given the alarm to his brotherhoods. The reason: An scam attempt at the Andalusian level in which cloned voices are starting to try to impersonate the bishops. One of the brotherhoods of the capital recently received a call imitating the voice of Monsignor Teodoro Muñoz, one of the auxiliary bishops. The request. In Xataka we have been able to talk to the brotherhood, and confirm that the request was the most rocambolesco. He called the brotherhood posing as the bishop. A certain amount of money was requested through Bizum. The petition was justified to pay a succession tax necessary for the Brotherhood to collect an inheritance The voice. As the brotherhood explains, the voice was “a practically perfect clone.” In addition, it was not a voice recording, the interlocutor was talking to the auxiliary bishop until he hung after his refusal to access the required payment. It is not an isolated case. In February 2024, Jaén today echoed of an identical event. A fortnight of convents of the province received at the beginning of the year called in which he claimed to be the bishop, also requiring an economic amount in this case to help the bishopric. The new Timo del CEO. Hyperrealist scams are not new. In fact, We have spent more than four years talking about them. The Zendal Pharmaceutical Group was the victim of a scam worth 9 million euros in 2020. In this case there was not even an implementation of AI: someone passed through the head of the company by email requesting high -value transfers. With the rise of artificial intelligence tools, Scams with cloned voices are increasingly frequent. These tools allow not only to create recordings with the simulated voice, but to imitate it in real time, making the even more realistic call. Suspect, always suspect. Differentiate what is AI and what is not increasingly complicatedso the biggest protective factor will always be suspicion. If money is requested. If personal data is requested. If it does not fit the least. Hanging. Image | Archdiocese of Seville and Xataka In Xataka | “People want something more intimate and emotional”: Christian baptisms have found relief in Spain, civil christening

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

how the LGBTI community of Seville lives the passion of Holy Week from within

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In 2019 a video was viralized which showed a group of young people by teaching the Virgen de los Dolores in a procession of the Holy Week of Seville. The delivered of the compliments (“Queen of Holy Tuesday!”, “The whole neighborhood for you!”) And the tone with which they were thrown unleashed all kinds of comments, many of them openly homophobic and, above all, Plumophobes. In any case, they did not surprise those who are used to Holy Week in the Andalusian capital and their intimate relationship between the Catholic fervor and the very personal LGTBI militancy of many of the devotees of the images. To scream, young. Actually, the phenomenon of the “chillaores”, as these young people are known, has nothing again, as they believe some guardians of the essences of Holy Week (although it is true that it is now when the Church has been in favor of “Cut Hysterisms”). For example, in 1916, Eugenio Noel already I documented phrases As “this virgin goes through the crotch to all the virgins of Seville” shouted to the passage of hope Macarena. Humble neighborhoods. These cheers had a lot of social vindication in their day, since both the Triana and Macarena neighborhood were popular areas that adorned their virgins as a challenge to the aristocracy of the central processions. There the screams with a corrosive point made sense, intolerable for central (and ecclesiastical) power. Today Seville is a very different citybut customs bloom again: Noel talked about how at Madrugá “the cathedral does not close, the taverns either, and the life of the brothels is more active than ever.” Holy Week is a performative activity, whether it opts for dawn and extreme sobriety. “Dolores beautiful!” This was what Jesus Pascual realized when he saw the viral video. He began to investigate the strong LGTBI component of Holy Week in Seville and embodied it in a documentary entitled as the cry that the launched by the Chillaores of the video, and that can be seen in Filmin and Prime video. The result is an amalgam of influences that make clear the popular nature of Holy Week in Seville and how symbols can be reinterpreted without losing anything of its original meaning. At the same time paradoxically corrosive and traditional, ‘Dolores beautiful!’ He is revealing especially when the self -denominated “shellfish shelves” speak of the tradition of the steps and the bearers as a land paid for gay feeling. Two ways to see it. In Dolores beautiful! It is said that “there are two religions: that of Rome and that of Seville.” It refers to Catholicism and the multiple ways of understanding its iconography, where the Virgin Mary, pure femininity and maternal symbol, is both symbol pio and diva to dress like a folkloric (another eminently Andalusian environment that The gays have made their owndespite the traditionally homophobic opposition of the most immobilistic church and Spain). Rodríguez Ojeda, referent. In the documentary it is mentioned, as an essential reference, to the embroidery Juan Manuel Rodríguez Ojedarecognized homosexual that revolutionized Holy Week at the end of the 19th century. Among his essential works are The mantle of the Virgen de la Macarena (which was revolutionary in his day, to distance himself from the most sober mantles seen so far) or the costumes of the Roman century, which decorated With feathers and leotards. This color and precious made a lot to inject from an unheard of sensitivity queer to the Holy Week of Seville. In fact, with him a prototype gay participation was established in artistic work, jewelers to virgin dressing rooms. Your double morals, thanks. Although this homosexual presence is open and recognized, in many cases declared, there is still some tension: integration is there, but the signal also: the Church demands “moral” behaviors to homosexuals and divorced. The cries to the Virgin are thus a form of claiming a reality that, due to the presence of the Church, cannot be official: once again, as happened before in cinema and in music, Sensitivity Camp serves as a statement of intentions (and as the construction of an alternative family environment in the face of your own rejection). New times for the Baroque. In recent times, new artists and movements that claim this reality have emerged. Carlos Carvento Merge Sevillan mantillas with attitudes of Drag Queen; groups like PALIO PROJECT they fight for trans visibility in the brotherhoods; And finally, scandals like the Holy Week poster of 2024 From Salustiano García, who questioned the iconography of Christ, they open debates that help to make visible a struggle of aesthetics and wills that have been bubbling into the brotherhoods. Header | Europa Press In Xataka | Why the LGBT+ Pride Day remains necessary, explained by its protagonists

More than a decade ago, Seville created a system to defend against Guadalquivir waiting for not having to use it. Last night he had to activate it

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Anyone who was yesterday at the entrance to the Pava Charco, could see how the city’s firefighters They moved the huge gates of defense that shield the city of Seville of the floods of the Guadalquivir River. And it is likely not to know, but I was attending a historical moment: it is the first time since it was built that these steel plates (more than four of meters high and five tons of weight) have to close. Phase 1. Yesterday afternoon, the Hispanic City Council activated the emergency plan in phase 1 and brought together all emergency services (including Local Police, Civil Protection, National Police and 112) to coordinate the necessary measures. 30 people were evicted from a “chabolist settlement” that was in flood zone, control points were installed and It was decided to close The connection that connects La Vega de Triana with the city. That’s where the doors that have just closed are. He has also put the neighbors of Tablada, Valdezorras and El Gordillo on alert. But hadn’t it stopped raining? Yes, weather forecasts They do not show abundant rains In the area and in fact (although the red alert is maintained) the river flow has already begun to decrease in Córdoba. However, when we talk about Seville, the river is just one of the things to take into account. The tide. Although it is often difficult to imagine, the truth is that when the Guadalquivir arrives in Alcalá del Río (that is, 15 kilometers before reaching the municipality of the city of Seville) It is already at sea level. That makes that point more or less, the entire riverbed is subjected to the influence of the tides. And that is what worries the authorities: if the river flood coincides with the pleamar, the chances that the Guadalquivir will overflow begin to be huge. How historical is this really? Indeed, to say that the doors have closed for the first time is not saying too much: they settled in 2012 and the last time the city was on the edge of the debacle It was in 1996. However, the challenge is more than considerable. Because, like Díaz del Olmo explained years agoProfessor of Geography of the University of Seville, the reduction of the alluvial plain of the Guadalquivir (which has gone from 4 kilometers to 500 meters) adds risks to the situation. “It is worth that with the swamps that retain the water, so much alluvial plain is needed, but the current one is not much less sufficient,” he said. And not only for the plain itself, but because “If the river is wide and with meanders, the energy that the water carries is blurred; but if it is narrow and straight, the water acquires a great speed … like the flow of the river rises of the 4,000 cubic meters per second … we have a problem for which they do not serve neither the storm tanks or anything.” A monster called Guadalquivir. Luckily, we are not yet in that situation. However, this is a warning for navigators: taught by tons of concrete, rivers are sleeping monsters, but monsters after all. Just yesterday we talked about The great paradox of our time: Have to prepare for long periods of drought while we have to have infrastructure to contain torrential rains. Today we see that it is not something punctual, it is the true “new normality.” Image | Toni Pomar | ECMWF In Xataka | With the reservoirs to be overflowed with the rains of March, there is a reason for hope on the horizon: the light of the light

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