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ZTE already has a phone with an AI agent that does things for you, and it’s sold out

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Many technology enthusiasts have spent years imagining a future in which words are enough for the mobile phone to do the rest. Why open an application and navigate between menus if we can ask it out loud and that’s it? “Mark all messages as read”, “Order a car from my location”, “Open the discounts app and tell me what promotions I can use today”. In that ideal future, an agent should take care of everything without us touching the screen. Recent reality, however, has gone another way. Despite the visible rise of AI, interaction with mobile phones remains anchored in known dynamics. The most advanced version of Siri—the one Apple promised with agentic capabilities within Apple Intelligence— still not arrivingand the user experience has not changed substantially. In this context, ZTE has decided to take a step that until now no manufacturer had materialized: integrate a deep AI agent at the system level. The result is the Nubia M153. The mobile that turns agentic AI into its core. Far from being limited to accessory functions, the Nubia M153 is committed to real AI integration. According to Global Timesincorporates a preview version of Doubao Mobile Assistant, developed by ByteDance and ZTE. Although the assistant continues to be polished, it already demonstrates a striking ability to interact with applications and execute tasks that until now required user intervention. The demonstrations have gone viral. In X, un user shows how it is enough to ask him to hire someone to wait in line for him – a common activity in China – for the agent to execute the process. In another testa photo of a hotel is enough to reserve a room with the best available rate. The system identifies the establishment, opens the appropriate app and proceeds with the reservation. On Weibo, the scene is similar: “Order me three lattes and a Mixue ice cream,” says a young woman. The assistant gets going, asking for details when it needs them (size, sugar) and adding new tasks, such as finding the cheapest pizza service, buying movie tickets or converting photos into AI-generated images. An experiment that has exceeded expectations. The Nubia M153 is not a mass consumption mobile. It is only sold in China and in very limited quantities. According to SinaZTE launched about 30,000 units aimed mainly at users with a technical profile interested in testing new agentic capabilities, at a price of 3,499 yuan (about 425 euros at the exchange rate). Despite this reduced production, the device ran out a few hours after going on sale on December 1. Under the hood. IT Home details that The phone has a Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 with the Ultra label, 16 GB of RAM, 512 GB of storage and a 6.78-inch LTPO screen with a resolution of 1264 x 2800 pixels. Its camera system relies on three 50 MP sensors – main, wide angle and telephoto – and the design maintains a simple aesthetic, with a white back cover, black module and rounded edges. Are we ready for the agentic era? The launch also showed the first brakes. Shortly after the units reached users’ hands, several accounts of WeChat They started showing warnings of suspicious activity. The same thing happened on Alipay and Pinduoduo. Everything indicates that the assistant’s autonomous behavior activated automation protection mechanisms, designed to block usage patterns that do not fit with normal human activity. It is, in practice, the first pulse between new generation agents and the traditional platforms that dominate the Chinese digital ecosystem. Images | ZTE In Xataka | Almost all phones with optical zoom have the same problem. This Chinese brand believes it has solved it in a curious way

In 1995, the first product in eBay history was sold. The only problem is that it was broken

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In 1995 the Internet was not what it is now. Many of the great companies and sites related to the network were born then. AuctionWeb was the first official name of what we now know as eBay. Its creator, Pierre Omidyar, gave that name to a personal project that he wrote from his home in Silicon Valley taking advantage of one of the classic long weekends in the US, Labor Day. How do they count in The Perfect Store: Inside eBayfaced with the need to test whether that personal auction website worked, Omidyar grabbed the first thing he had on hand: a laser pointer. The choice was not random. Two weeks after buying it, it had broken, so he thought that if he managed to sell it, he wouldn’t lose anything if they gave him very little money for it. For a week that laser pointer that had cost him 30 dollars He failed to receive a single offer. Pierre Omidyar had not lied and admitted in the description of the item on AuctionWeb that it was indeed broken. There was no way to make it work. A week after being published on the Internet, that AuctionWeb object received the first offer for it. Pierre Omidyar asked for one dollar but the auction ended up closing at $14.83. What was his surprise that, even though he had already warned it in the advertisement, he preferred to make sure that it was clear to the buyer that the object purchased was broken and wrote him an email. Despite everything, the buyer kept it because it was just what he was looking for. This was eBay in 1995, when it was a personal project called AuctionWeb Mark Fraser I had seen some of those pointers and wanted one. But they were still quite expensive, on the order of $100 in those years, so he relied on his skill as electrical engineer to build yours. And he needed a part that he thought he would get from the broken pointer that was being sold on a new online site that he had found out about through a referral in the forums and information exchange places that he frequented on the Internet. Today, and as he confessed in a funny video that could be seen at eBay’s 20th anniversary party, the pointer still doesn’t work but he still has it. In Xataka |

When they sold us generative “Artificial Intelligence” we did not know that it was going to be artificial and generative but not “intelligent”

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A few months ago, a group of Spanish researchers thought of putting an AI chatbot to the test with a curious test. They uploaded an image of an analog clock to the chatbot and asked the AI ​​a simple “What time is it on that clock?” The AI ​​failed disturbingly. Machine, can you tell me the time? Researchers from the Polytechnic University of Madrid, the University of Valladolid and the Politecnico de Milano signed a month ago a study in which they wanted to evaluate how intelligent the artificial intelligence of those models was. To do this, they built a large set of synthetic images of analog clocks—available in Hugging Face— in which 43,000 different hours were shown. Before fine-tuning their behavior, the AI ​​models consistently failed when trying to tell the time. After the adjustment the behavior was much better, but still imperfect. That should not happen with such a “simple” issue for humans. disastrous result. From there they asked four generative AI models what time those images of those analog clocks showed. None of them managed to tell the time accurately. That group of models was made up of GPT-4o, Gemma3-12B, LlaMa3.2-11B and QwenVL-2.5-7B, and all of them had serious problems “reading” the time and differentiating, for example, the hands or the angle and direction of those hands in relation to the numbers marked on the watch. Fine tuning to improve. After these first tests, the group of researchers managed to significantly improve the behavior of these models after performing fine tuning: they trained them with 5,000 additional images from that data set and then re-evaluated the behavior of the models. However, the models again failed consistently when tested with a different set of images of analog clocks. The conclusion was clear. They don’t know how to generalize. What they discovered with this test was confirmation of what we have been observing from the beginning with AI models: they are good at recognizing data that they are familiar with (memorized), but they often fail in scenarios that they have never faced and that are not part of their training sets. Or what is the same: they were incapable of generalizing. Dalí enters the scene. To try to find out the causes of these failures, the researchers created new sets of images in which, for example, they used the Dalí’s famous distorted clocksor those that included arrows at the end of the hands. Humans are able to tell time on analog clocks even if they are distorted, but for AI models that was a huge problem. If they do this with watches, imagine with medical analysis. The danger of these conclusions is that they reignite the debate about whether generative AI models are indeed artificial and generative, but not very intelligent. If they have these difficulties in identifying the hands or their orientations, things are dangerous if what the models have to analyze are medical images or, for example, real-time images of an autonomous car driving through a city. AIs are stupid. Although it is true that generative AI models are fantastic as aids in various scenarios such as programming, the reality is that what they do is “regurgitate” responses that are already part of their training data. As Thomas Wolf, Chief Science Officer of Hugging Face, explained, a generative AI “will never ask questions that no one had thought of or that no one had dared to ask.” Although thanks to their enormous memory and training they can recover a multitude of data and present it in useful ways, finding solutions to problems for which they have not been trained is very complicated. For experts like Yann LeCun, the reality is clear: generative AI it’s very stupid and, furthermore, a dead end. Source: clocks.brianmoore.com AI doesn’t draw watches very well either. Added to the experiment of these researchers is another small test that once again calls into question the capacity of generative AI. It involves asking different models to create the code that allows an analog clock to be displayed with the current time. A designer named Brian Moore wanted to share the result of several AI models and the truth is that the result obtained in most of them is terrible, although others like Kimi K2 achieve a good result. We have tested with the recent Grok 4.1 and GPT-5.1. After a little insistence, Grok 4.1 has drawn the perfect clock and it works. With GPT-5.1 there has been no way, at least in our tests. A worrying reality. This inability to solve tasks that seem simple certainly means that these models are not in a good place. It is true that a good prompt can help resolve some of these limitations, but what is becoming increasingly evident is that AI models continue to make mistakes despite the passage of time. The theoretical revolution of this technology precisely needs to eradicate them, and it does not seem that we are on the way to achieving it. The models improve, yes, but not enough for us to trust them 100%. Image | Yaniv Knobel In Xataka | As if there weren’t enough AI companies, Jeff Bezos has just returned from the shadows to build another one, according to the NYT

The crazy story of the Galician woman who registered El Sol before a notary, sold plots online and then took eBay to court

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To the French monarch Louis XIV he was known as the sun kingthus, with a capital letter and all its absolutist pomp. Strictly speaking, that title, however, belongs to another person, and it is not even the priest king. Cuahtemocgreat governor of the Aztecs, nor the Egyptian emperor Amenhotep III. If there is a lady and sovereign of the Star King—or at least that is what she maintains—that is Angeles Durana Galician who one fine day in 2010 decided to do something that no one else had done in thousands of years of human history: she left her house in Salvaterra do Miño, in the Vigo region, and stood in the office of a notary to draw up an official record that she, and no one else but her, declared herself the legitimate and authentic owner of the sun. When the good notary heard her, he couldn’t help but laugh, but he had no choice but to consult with his professional association and, in fact, sign a record of what that lady said. Since then, the story of Ángeles Durán has taken on delirious overtones, worthy of a good astro-legal thriller.I solicited. I, owner of the Sun This is how Ángeles Durán has proclaimed herself, a Galician who in 2010 surprised the world by proclaiming herself the owner of the Sun. And no, we are not speaking figuratively. The news advanced it in its day The Voice of Galiciawhich recounted how Durán went to a notary in a neighboring town, in the Vigo region, to draw up a record that she was the legitimate owner of the axis of the Solar System. If that became news—and it did, so much so in fact that it jumped to foreign media— it was not so much because of the occurrence itself as because of the result. Durán left the office with a document that he later did not hesitate to use. pose for the cameras. “I am the owner of the Sun, a star of spectral type G2, which is located in the center of the solar system, located at an average distance from the Earth of approximately 149,600,000 kilometers…”, proclaims the minutes of statements with the notary’s seal. The Galician newspaper explains that the official made him laugh upon hearing Durán’s claims, but he still consulted with his school and ended up attesting that the woman in front of him declared herself the legitimate possessor of the Sun. Since then many things have been said about Durán: that he is lawyer and psychologistwho at that time served as judicial expert and even, as published The Voice in 2022, who lives in Italy and is focused on preparing a book about the British royal family. One of the latest news that is known about her is that she is dedicated to composing “spicy and erotic songs” and who has released an album. What there is no doubt is that Durán dedicated time and effort to planning her strategy to proclaim herself the owner of the Sun. Whether more or less correct, the undeniable thing is that her request was based on a legal argument that she raised at the time and still maintained in 2019. before the cameras of Cuatro. Going back to Roman law The Galician law basically rested on two legs: a legal vacuum and a legal figure that dates back to Roman law. The first is related to the international agreement that establishes that no country can appropriate the planets. The key for Durán is in that nuance: that it affects the states would not imply, he maintains, that it extends to individuals. The second key is the usucapionwhich allows you to gain real rights to those elements that have been enjoyed for a certain time. And Durán had decades benefiting daily from the Sun’s rays. Like the other almost 8,000 million people who reside on this wide planet, true, but no one else had thought to raise it like this in a notary office. The law is made, the trap is made. At least that’s what Durán thought. “I have not bought the Sun because no one has sold it to me. What I have done is a deed for what is called usucapion,” I insisted in 2019 during an interview in which he assured that this figure can be used “by electromagnetic apprehension.” The truth is that Durán has not been the first to do something similar. Decades ago an American businessman, Dennis Hopeclaimed that he had found a legal loophole that allowed him to claim sovereignty of the Moon. His argument was very similar to that of the Galician: Hope was based on an old law from the 19th century, of the American pioneers, and that the Outer Space Treaty It does not affect individuals. The most curious thing is that the Sun is not the only property that Durán has claimed, although it is certainly the one that takes the cake in size, implications and impact. The Galician has made other equally curious visits to the General Registry of Intellectual Property. The World and The Country They have echoed how he came to record Tarzan’s cry or “the longest score in the world”, 24,000 million measures and related to telephony. “Every time you dial a number, notes are ringing and no one has recorded them,” explained in 2010: “If you mark 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, you are making a few measures and all the possible combinations, all of them, I have registered in my name.” A little plot in the sun… Durán was not satisfied with proclaiming herself the owner of the Astro Rey. He decided to go one step further, cutting up the vast expanse of the star and selling plots on eBay. On the first day he managed to market nearly a hundred stellar plots. According to explained in his day10,000 solar portions were offered, each accompanied by its respective certificate. For one euro, anyone could get a piece of star. … Read more

There was a time when HTC sold more phones than Apple and Samsung. The question is what happened next: Crossover 1×28

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In 2002 we still didn’t have smartphones, but I was lucky enough to see a preview of that future. I traveled to London with Microsoft and at that event the company presented the Orange SPVa big-headed and different mobile because it was based on Windows Mobile 2002. In it you could surf the Internet, write emails or listen to music, although in a limited way because neither the software nor the hardware were very competitive at that time. And yet, the vision was clear: everything was going toward those devices. What was surprising was not only that, but who manufactured that device was HTC. The Taiwanese firm was already beginning to be known for manufacturing devices for others, but it would soon end up launching into the smartphone market taking advantage of the push of Android. In 2011 its market share in the US became superior to Apple’s or Samsung, but after that achievement, the firm started making bad decisionsand other manufacturers joined in – especially from China – who began to make competition much more difficult. HTC never recovered from that and although it experimented with other segments like virtual realityfaded to a paper totally secondary in the technological field. We talk about all this in a new episode of Crossover in which we remember the great milestones of the company and that singular fall almost into oblivion. In Xataka | “It is a brutal economic effort, but we have to act now”: parents who are taking their children to schools without screens

30 cents per item sold and many robots

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Amazon has taken a new step in its strategy extreme optimization of its infrastructure, and has put automation at the center. According to leaked internal documents to The New York Timesthe company seeks to automate up to 75% of its global operations by the end of this decade, a measure that could have a direct impact on the employment of its logistics and delivery centers. The economic logic behind robots. In the leaked Amazon documents it is estimated that with the introduction of new generations of rautonomous robots In its facilities, it will be possible to eliminate up to 160,000 direct jobs in the US by 2027, and avoid hiring more than 600,000 additional workers that the company estimates it would need to meet its objectives in 2033. Amazon’s internal calculations detail that automation would allow an average saving of 30 cents on each item purchased in the Amazon store until 2027 and they expect to sell twice as many products by 2033. Which according to estimates, could mean a saving of about 12.6 billion dollars for the next two years, improving the initial forecasts of 10 billion dollars. Logistics centers 2.0. The Amazon work documents you’ve had access to The New York Times indicate that the plan not only aims at direct cost savings, but also aims to achieve these savings by carrying out a complete restructuring of the warehouses. Amazon has tripled its workforce since 2018, and currently has 1.2 million employees. Many of them are busy in their logistics centers in repetitive areas such as packaging. Amazon’s intention is automate all these processes with robots and leaving humans only the tasks of technical development and supervision. According to estimates, only with the implementation of robots in these positions, current sales volumes could be maintained using 40% fewer staff. “No one else has the same incentive as Amazon to find a way to automate. Once they figure out how to do it profitably, it will spread to others as well,” he told The New York Times Daron AcemogluNobel Prize in Economics in 2024. The Canary in the Mine: Shreveport. Amazon’s obsession with robotizing all its processes is not new. In 2012, Amazon paid 775 million dollars by Kiva Systems, a company that was then dedicated to manufacturing mobile robots to move shelves in warehouses. With them, it applied a first layer of automation to its logistics centers between 2018 and 2019, so that its employees no longer had to walk kilometers between shelves preparing orders. Now orders arrived on robots to the packing points. In 2023 Amazon inaugurated your most advanced warehouse in Shreveport (Louisiana) as a laboratory for what all Amazon’s robotic logistics centers will be in the future. in that warehousewhen a product goes into an order, humans barely touch it again. To do this, Amazon has designed an infrastructure with a thousand robots that have allowed it to operate with 25% staff. As shown by the documents to which he has had access The New York TimesBy increasing the number of robots, the number of employees could be reduced by 50%. Amazon plans to bring the Shreveport model to 40 of the company’s fulfillment centers by 2027, dramatically reducing staffing needs at those locations. Who will work at Amazon? amazon claims to have a million robots of different nature deployed in their logistics centers. If these robots are going to take the place of a human, will theywho is going to work at Amazon? Andy Jassy, ​​CEO of the company, is clear: the humans who program, care for and repair them will be the employees of the future. According to the American media, in the Shreveport center there are more than 160 people dedicated to these robotics tasks, and their salaries start at $24.45 per hour. In contrast, the more than 2,000 employees who manage and pack orders have a salary of $19.50 per hour. That is, Amazon aims to be a job center not for low-skilled workers, but for robotics engineers and technicians. Amazon’s response. Given the news, Amazon spokespersons have rushed to qualify the information from the Times claiming: “Leaked documents often present an incomplete and misleading picture of our plans, and that is the case. In our written narrative culture, thousands of documents circulate throughout the company at any given time, each with varying degrees of accuracy and timeliness,” declared to The Verge Kelly Nantel. The Amazon spokeswoman added: “We are actively hiring at operating facilities across the country and recently announced plans to fill 250,000 positions for the holiday season.” In Xataka | While companies boast of efficiency due to AI. Generation Z only sees temporary contracts and closed doors Image | amazon

Europe has filled with Stellantis cars that are not sold. And Madrid and Zaragoza will pay the consequences

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Zaragoza and Madrid will suffer a temporary stop in vehicle production. This has been confirmed to us from Stellantis, who we have asked about the rumored machine stop in six European floors. With a stock that is not giving out, the company does not want to return to past times. Temporary. That is the makeup: a temporary stop. Although we have asked in Stellantis about stops distributed throughout Europethe company has only confirmed in our case those related to Madrid and Zaragoza. Nor have we been offered data on when and how long these stops will take place. If it is confirmed that the company for the Poissy factory, which produces the DS 3 and Opel Mokka, from October 13 to 31, 2025, according to the French media Echos. In Bloomberg They expand the stop to the Italian Pomigliano factory where the Alpha Romeo Tonale and the Fiat Panda are manufactured. There are already four confirmed plants but in the French media it was ensured that the strikes could affect up to six European factories. Spain. What is manufactured in our country? In Madrid, Stellantis produces the Citroën C4y C4 X, as well as its completely electric variants. For its part, in Zaragoza produces the small electric electric. That is, Los Lancia Ypsilon, Opel Corsa Ey Peugeot E-208. In addition, it had recently confirmed that the B10 Leapmotor would arrive in Spain and, everything indicates, should land in Zaragoza. The one that will not stop is the Vigo plant. There Stellantis produces the commercial vehicles of Peugeot and Citroën, as well as the 2008 Peugeot and its completely electric version that takes advantage of the lines of the electric vans. The stock. Stellantis’s intention is to reduce the stock of his stores. The company has long dealt with its stores at a healthy level. In fact, during The last call with shareholders Following the middle of the year results, the message was sent that the company had maintained a “strong discipline in inventories after the corrective actions of 2024” and that it is “maintaining that discipline throughout 2025”. These messages are not causal. The company has been dealing with an enormous overstock, especially in the United States. So much so that in that market some of their concessionaires came to accumulate so many fiat 500 electric that ended give them away to take them off. The company does not want to be in a similar situation but some of its products are becoming outdated and are increasingly complicated to sell. That is why the production of cars such as the Alfa Romeo Tonale or the DS3, which do not reap good results. A serious problem. In your latest results reportStellantis confirmed that the network has more than 1.2 million cars without selling. Of these, 300,000 are possession of the group but there are more than 900,000 cars distributed by independent dealers to those who have not given exit. In Europe, in addition, this inventory has grown by 7% compared to 2024 because products to the available cars portfolio have been added. Among the data maremagnum, he emphasizes that Stellantis has produced fewer cars but his margin has also collapsed. If we talk about Europe, the company had already reduced its production in about 100,000 units but its benefit for the sale of these cars has collapsed at 2,000 million euros, because of discounts to sell vehicles in stock, low sales and the obligation to repurry units set on the market. Sales. In that last fact, sales were made. At the end of August, According to AceaStellantis has reduced its sales by 8.9%. And what is worse, the rivals eat ground because their market share has gone from 17,%to 15.9%. The reorganization in the portfolio of its range leaves us dramatic falls in what we have been. For example, Opel, its third best selling brand, falls 11.8%. Fiat, its fourth best brand, falls 19%. Lancia, which only has the electric ypsilon, falls by 72.8%. And the electric? When it was confirmed that Zaragoza was going to continue receiving electric cars, Like the Leapmotorwe already explain that the news can be seen from two perspectives that seem contradictory. The optimistic is that Zaragoza will manufacture the electric cars of Stellantis, which should guarantee the future of the long -term factory, especially if we take into account that, together with CATL, the company will raise a battery production plant To nurture your lines. This should be the confirmation that the bet is very serious. The pessimistic is that although the small electric car Sales should increase (especially if manufacturers want to meet the maximum limits set and flee) They will have to put these cars on the market. But, for now, they continue to demand certain complications from their owners and, therefore, they are being more complicated to sell even if they lower their prices. And a financial situation … difficult. To all of the above we must add what we have already counted a few weeks ago. Stellantis is going through a complicated moment in some decisions made by Carlos Tavares in the past. His commitment to the multienergy platform has forced the company to make great efforts to develop the Stla Medium and Small. Those economic results are still green. But, in addition, they have gotten into investments such as hydrogen and two electricity cars that They have been canceled. In total, 3.3 billion euros in the trash. Photo | Stellantis In Xataka | Before developing a pile of hydrogen or competing with Chinese electric, Stellantis has chosen a third way: surrender

The ‘Great Chinese Firewall’ is no longer just from China. Now it is sold as a digital repression platform to other countries

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A mass filtration of 500 GB of data in the form of more than 100,000 documents has exposed a disturbing initiative. A startup called Geedge Networks is selling to governments around the world censorship systems modeled from “China Great Firewall“. There are at least three countries that are already applying restrictive measures similar to those of the Chinese government. What happened. The leaked documents By interseclab They reveal how one of the investors in Geedge Networks is Fang Binxing, one of the “Parents” of the “Great Cortaygos of China”. Researchers have discovered that the startup markets an advanced surveillance platform that includes hardware for data centers and Software for local officials. Intercepting everything. The central component of that platform is the so -called “Tiangou Secure Gateway” (TSG), a tool that acts as a gateway and that is installed in the data centers to process the Internet traffic of an entire country. All these data scan when this component is passed, and from there it is filtered and can be blocked so that it does not reach its destination. If the traffic is not encrypted, you can intercept and collect passwords and email addresses. If it is, it makes use of deep inspection systems of packages and automatic learning to detect and block tools that avoid these censorship systems, especially VPN. Three countries already have their own “Great Firewall”. A consortium formed by media and human rights organizations (such as Amnesty International) identified that this platform is active in Kazakhstan, Pakistan, Ethiopia and Myanmar. In Geedge Networks they have published job offers for engineers willing to travel to countries such as Malaysia, Bahrain, Algeria and India, and are also hiring Spanish and French translators, which makes it clear that the startup is developing an important expansion strategy. TSG control panel capture for Myanmar showing real -time traffic categorized in total bandwidth and active connections. Source: Interseclab. An example of control: Myanmar. In a filtered capture the TSG control panel for Myanmar And it looks how the system was monitoring 81.6 million Internet connections simultaneously. In February 2024, Geedge hardware equipment had been installed in 26 data centers and 13 ISPS of Myanmar. There, 281 popular VPN tools were identified and the blockade of 54 of them was prioritized, including Expressvpn or Signal. Growing suspicions. Although researchers warn that documents are not a definitive proof that this system is causing specific blockages, Geeedge’s records show strong correlations with certain important events of the past. In Ethiopia for example the TSG system changed passive monitoring mode to “active detention” of traffic just a few days before a remarkable internet blackout that It occurred in February 2023. There are other cases in which connectivity problems in these countries have coincided with events registered in TSG in filtered documents. And incidentally, new Digitgal repression techniques in China. Among the leaked documents are also spoken of an active project in the Xingiang region, in China. There the startup has collaborated with Chinese research institutions to test a distributed firewall model instead of using a centralized one. There are also alarming experimental functions such as the ability to create relationships between users, group individuals according to applications that use or triangular the location of users through mobile base stations. And the dreaded punctuation systems. There is also a prototype in which a kind of Score for the reputation of each userand that would apply individually. Each user would have a base score and to increase it would have to add personal data such as their national identification, data that allow facial recognition or employment details. If this score does not exceed a certain limit – or decreased due to the use of a VPN detected and prohibited, for example – the Internet access would be denied to the citizen. Government malware. Another of the threats posed by this system is Geedge’s ability to Inject malware In user traffic. An operator could identify which website visit a user and, if it does not use a safe protocol (HTTPS), could inject malware directly into that connection. The researchers explain that although these experimental options are being tested in China, once the technology is mature, any foreign client can request those same functions on their platform to update it and have it available. Image | Ran Liwen In Xataka | The ‘China Great Firewall’ becomes even harder and blocks all TLS 1.3 traffic with ESNI to avoid aisos to prohibited destinations

has sold more than 1,000 in a month

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The maextro S800, the result of the collaboration between Huawei and Jac Motors, has had A more than good debut In the Chinese market with 1,006 enrollments in August, its first commercial month. With prices ranging between 85,000 and 122,000 euros, this electrified luxury sedan is another example of the high competitiveness of the sector in China and the surprising figures of any brand of electric vehicles, whether of the segment that is. Luxury and autonomous driving. The S800 is not just another Chinese electric car. With 5.48 meters in length and an interior configured for four luxurious squares, this model incorporates the L3 autonomous driving architecture of Huawei and is built on the second generation of the Tuling smart chassis. Its price places it as one of the most expensive Chinese production vehicles, but the figures show that there is also demand for the luxury made in China. THE S800 maxtro in figures. The 12,000 reservations accumulated in just 87 days since its launch have generated between 90 and 130 million euros in income for JAC. Richard Yu, director of Huawei, already advanced in August that they had exceeded 10,000 in the first 67 days. As mentioned from the middle Chinaevhomehe Mercedes-Maybach S He sold 12,449 units throughout China for 2024, which is equivalent to about 1,037 units per month. The S800 is already reaching those numbers. Technology that convinces. Available both in completely electric version and EREV (Extended Range Electric Vehicle), The S800 offers up to 1,006 horsepower in its EREV configuration and an electrical autonomy of up to 702 kilometers according to the Chinese CLTC cycle. From Chinaevhome They reveal that buyers especially highlighted their ‘sophisticated exterior design’ and extended range technology as decisive factors for their purchase, since it is a technology that eliminates anxiety for so common autonomy in electric vehicles. Accelerated production. The Hefei factory has had to accelerate the pace to meet the demand. After delivering 330 units only last week, the projections aim to reach 1,500 units in September. For the fourth quarter, the monthly production should be stabilized between 2,000 and 3,000 units, far from the 835 per month that its most direct rival achieves, the Nio ET9. The market responds. The response of investors It has been immediate. Jac reached a historical maximum of 56.5 yuan per action on the day of the announcement of the figures, closing in 54.29 yuan. Its stock market capitalization now touches the 118.6 billion yuan. The success of the S800 confirms that Chinese consumers are willing to bet on local brands even in the luxury segment, especially when they combine technological prestige, such as the one that Huawei brings, with solvent technical proposals. Images | Carnewschina and Chinaevhome In Xataka | The Rivian CEO: “The problem is not the price, it is that Chinese cars are really better”

Two Swedes created Flightradar24 as hobby in 2006. They just sold it for a fortune

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Flightradar24 has sold 35% of its shares in the London Fund Sprints Capitalvaluing the company at 500 million dollars. The founders have pocketed 175 million maintaining control with the remaining 65%. Why is it important. The operation makes Mikael Robertsson and Olov Lindberg, two aviation enthusiasts who created the platform in 2006 as a personal project. Today is the undisputed world leader in real -time aerial follow -up. The general panoramic. Flightradar24 billed 420 million Swedish crowns (about 38 million euros) in 2024, with a growth of 18% and a profit margin of 52%. An extraordinary profitability in the technological sector. The business model. The company combines three main income sources: Premium subscriptions (Silver, Gold and Business) that unlock advanced functions such as historical data and weather layers. Advertising in the Basic Free version. Sale of commercial data to airlines, regulators and companies in the sector. Between bambalins. Success is based on a global network of more than 30,000 ADS-B receptors operated by volunteers that capture the aircraft signals. This collaborative infrastructure has given a decisive competitive advantage over rivals such as FlightTAware. Yes, but. Some users have already expressed concern In forums like Reddit About the future under risk of risk. They fear that aggressive monetization of service and free access is prioritized. In perspective. This sale reflects an opposite model to the usual in Spanish startups. The Swedish founders have maintained control for 18 years, building a de facto monopoly before opening the capital, something that has only partially occurred and maintaining control. A lesson of strategic patience. And now what? Sprints Capital, known for its investments in Hemnet and Modular Finance, will contribute resources for international expansion. The founders have ensured considerable fortune without losing the helm of their own creation. Outstanding image | Flightradar24 In Xataka | The GPS has become the Achilles heel of modern aviation. And engineering already has its substitute ready

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