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Rodalies is such a chaos of delays and cancellations that one student has had enough. And he is already demanding 9,200 euros from Renfe

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What price do you put on your time? Airline and railway companies are clear: time is worth the same as the train ticket. With more or less flexibility When it comes to refunding a ticket, these companies are very clear and the law protects them. But what price do you put on your time when that delay directly affects your work or your daily life? David Pujol, a second-year Mathematics student at the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB), is also very clear about it. In your case, 9,211.35 euros. And he is already claiming that money from Renfe. Psychological damage and a change of residence Psychological problems that have aggravated his obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), academic damage and a forced change of residence. This is what, according to the Catalan student David Pujol, has caused the malfunction of Rodalies, the Cercanías service of Catalonia. It includes everything in the document that has been presented against the Ministry of Transport and the Department of Territory as a claim to recover the 9,200 euros in which it values ​​​​the 55 serious incidents that have been documented between September 2024 and May 2026, they explain in The Country. These serious incidents refer to train cancellations without prior notice and the absence of real-time information to be able to take an alternative route. “I have lost entire days of my life”the young man pointed out this same week in Cope where it affected the problems generated by delays. Among their complaints is the inability to organize their day correctly given the countless problems at Rodalies. Recognize elDiario.es that his house in Pineda de Mar is far from the faculty by public transport but that the journey, which was supposed to take two hours, was rarely less than two and a half hours and, on occasions, could last up to four hours. Click on the image to go to the original tweet “I got up at four in the morning to get to class and, many times, I didn’t even get there,” the digital media stressed. The only solution he found was to move to Cerdanyola del Vallès where he paid for the apartment with one of the scholarships awarded for education. These continued delays and cancellations, he explains, have had direct effects on his studies and mental health. That is why he claims 9,211.35 euros which breaks down as follows: 211.35 euros for the reimbursement of transport passes 4,500 euros for the worsening of his obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) 2,500 euros for violation of the right to education 2,000 euros for the forced move Although this time he has taken the step of claiming these more than 9,000 euros as full compensation for all the damage caused, Pujol has been filing complaints with the Rodalies service for some time, with 33 complaints in physical format and nine in digital format, another three complaints to the Síndic de Greuges (Catalan Ombudsman) and another to the Labor Inspection for non-compliance with minimum services during a day of strike. Click on the image to go to the original tweet But also, he has been making his work public for some time. In the image above you can see that in the first three months of 2025 alone it had already filed 15 formal complaints about cancellations or delays. With each one of them, the young student accompanied the information with a post in X. The result: in the summer he got a meeting with two senior officials from the Government and Renfe. In The Newspaper already noted that most of these problems that Pujol referred to had their origin in the use of lines R7 and R1two of the lines with the most problems in the entire Catalan network. In fact, just two days after the top post on X, Rodalies registered severe problems on lines R4, R3, R7, R8 and R15. It is just one of the cases that exemplify the poor functioning of the Catalan network. This same week, The Vanguard collected a multitude of testimonies from train users in Catalonia in which some claimed to leave home up to an hour early “just in case” to arrive at their workplace on time. Among the voices in the report there was a general solution: switch to the bus. This means of transport is also saturated but, several users say, it is more reliable than trains. “I had been waiting at the station for two hours and I had seen how the first three trains of the morning had been cancelled, without anyone giving us any explanations,” Pujol told elDiario.es a few days ago. He was then talking about a specific day in March 2025. Today, in May 2026, there are WhatsApp groups with more than a thousand users who send alert messages when a Rodalies train fails again, as they assure The Vanguardthe information from the company is null. Photo | eldelinux and David Pujol In Xataka | Renfe has launched a real-time map to know where your surroundings are in 2025. And it works quite well

60 years ago a student wanted to study the mountains of the United States. Unknowingly felled the oldest known tree

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At a glance ‘Prometheus’ It was a twisted, rugged, whimsically shaped pine tree that stood on a Nevada mountain. Nothing to do with gigantic sequoias of Redwood National Park, also in the USA, where specimens of more than 100 meters high with bases that are around 30 m in diameter. That, of course, at first glance. Although its size was not striking and it barely stood out in the grove in which it sprouted, ‘Prometheus’ was a tree of almost 5,000 yearswhich made it one of the oldest in the world. Why do we talk about him in the past tense? Very simple: because in the 60s a student who was especially diligent with his research felled it with permission from the authorities. With you, the Pinus longaeva. Its name may not be as well known as that of the redwoods, the baobabs or the Douglas firstrees that have been fascinating humanity for centuries due to their colossal dimensions, but the bristlecone pines (Pinus longaeva) are just as amazing. Not because of its size, but because of its age. Located primarily in the higher altitude mountains of California, this species has managed to survive for several millennia. As? Its growth is very slow and they usually sprout separately from each other, which allows them to adapt to harsh habitats and withstand fires better. The key to its longevity however lies in its “architecture” and adaptations. As remember from the US National Park Service (NPS), the roots of the Pinus longaeva They only nourish the part of the tree that is directly above them. If that root dies, it only affects its section of the tree. Hence, it is not unusual to see specimens with dry bark on one side and that, however, continue to grow healthily. an old acquaintance. In Wheeler PeakNevada, stood years ago a magnificent specimen of Pinus longaeva. Its height was nothing out of this world, but it was so twisted and had such an ancient appearance that mountaineers in the area They baptized him ‘Prometheus’. Seen in perspective, the nickname is still ironic. In the classical mythology Zeus imposed a horrible punishment on the titan of that name for giving humanity the gift of fire and metallurgy. At Wheeler Peak the ‘Prometheus’ that grew rooted to the mountain ended up perishing precisely because of the efforts of a university student to understand the geology of the region. To understand it you have to go back to summer of 1964when Donald R. Currey, a graduate student studying the ice age of eastern Nevada, had an idea: To better understand the formation of glaciers, he decided to extract samples from the oldest trees that grew in the region. It wasn’t anything groundbreaking. The dendrochronologythe discipline that is responsible for studying climate patterns by analyzing tree rings, dates back to the beginning of the 20th century. In fact, the idea of ​​obtaining samples from the logs sounded so reasonable that authorities raised no objections when Currey asked for permission to study them. The great unknown. In theory, what Currey proposed was to use a drill bit to remove small samples of the trunk, a kind of cylinders from the trunk. pencil size that could later be analyzed in the laboratory. It came with the different rings and their characteristics being appreciated. When it was ‘Prometheus’ turn, something went wrong. Or so it is believed, since more than six decades later it’s still not entirely clear what exactly happened at Wheeler Peak. Some accounts claim that Currey’s drill bit broke while the geologist was trying to make his way through the dense pine wood, so he requested help from the Forest Service. To solve it, the workers opted for the most radical solution: they took out the chainsaw and cut down the tree. Other versions claim that Currey did not know how to work with such a complicated specimen or that there was simply no error and from the beginning he needed a complete cross section to study the trunk. Regardless, there are two clear details. First, that was the end of ‘Prometheus’. Second, Currey did not work as foreigners. He had permission from the Forest Service. And the surprise came. It was not necessary to cut ‘Prometheus’ in two to intuit that it was a very ancient tree. If Currey looked at this pine and others in the area it was precisely because he assumed that they were old enough to give him a broad ‘snapshot’ of the climatic events that had occurred in the region. The surprise came when he took the piece of wood to his laboratory. As ancient as I suspected ‘Prometheus’ to be, one thing is clear: Currey fell short. When he started counting growth rings, he added neither more nor less than 4,862. Given the harsh conditions in which the pine grew, which could have influenced the formation of the layers, the experts ended up concluding that its age was most likely closer to 4,900 years. That is to say, the ancient tree already appeared on the Nevada mountain when the pharaohs reigned in ancient Egypt or Hammurabi ruled in Babylon. The oldest in the world? Although environmental awareness in the 1960s was not the same as it is today, the mistake was considerable. Especially since it was the Forest Service itself that made it possible. The age of ‘Prometheus’ is in fact so astonishing that the NPS itself recognize which at the time was considered “the oldest tree ever dated.” It even surpassed the famous tree ‘Methuselah’other Pinus longaeva of California that is around 4,850 years old. Today that title is in question. Especially after a theoretically even older tree was discovered in 2012, another bristlecone from more than 5,000 years. The US authorities recognize in any case that it is “very likely” that there are other, even older, undated specimens of the same species. “The bristlecone pines of the Great Basin are notable for being the oldest non-clonal species on the … Read more

Leica is teaching Xiaomi everything it knows. When the student no longer needs the teacher, the agreement will have fulfilled its function

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This week there have been two presentations of flagships which, seen together, say something interesting about where each manufacturer believes the industry is going: Samsung introduced the Galaxy S26 Ultra like an AI exhibition: three integrated assistants, the mobile phone as an external brain that anticipates what you are going to need before you ask for it. A few days later, Xiaomi presented the 17Ultra. And his big argument was not AI. It was the camera. And inside the camera, above all, it was Leica. It is advisable to take this collaboration seriously before reducing it to a marketing seal, because it is not. We had the opportunity to check it out in a session with TJ Waltonglobal product manager at Xiaomi, and Pablo Acevedoat the head of Leica’s mobile division. A round with around twenty journalists from Japan, Germany, France, China and other markets, in which Xataka It was the only Spanish medium. Left, TJ Walton. Right, Pablo Acevedo. Image: Xataka. I opened the question session with a very direct question: what does this co-creation model mean in reality, and at what point in the process does Leica come in? Acevedo’s response was also direct: “We are involved from the beginning, from the conception of the device, when we define the concept of what it should be.”. It is therefore not a certificate that is awarded at the end. It is shared engineering from the beginning: color tuning, contrast, physical adjustment of the lenses, testing of the final product… Walton summed it up: “Everything from the beginning to the end of the imaging experience on our smartphones is powered by Leica.” And still There is something in the details of the agreement that deserves attention, because Leica does not give the same thing to everyone. He Leitz Phonethe device that Leica markets as its own with Xiaomi hardware, includes ‘content credentials’, a certification of image authenticity that the Xiaomi 17 Ultra does not incorporate. When a Japanese journalist asked about this asymmetry, Acevedo was clear: “Authenticity is one of the important points for us. There are specific experiences aimed at professional photographers, those who really care about the smallest details of the photographic experience.” Said without euphemisms: Leica gives a lot to Xiaomi, but keeps for itself what it considers most defining of its identity. This ‘co-creation’ has limits. And those boundaries map out quite precisely where the partner ends and the customer begins. The presentation of the Xiaomi 17 in Barcelona just before the MWC. Image: Xataka. There was another moment in that same session that was like someone turned on the lights. When another journalist asked how the revenue from Leitz Phone is divided financially between the two companies, the response was: “I’m not sure if we can talk about that.” That is to say, The part of the agreement that would most reveal the true nature of the relationship is exactly the part that remains opaque.. Which is, in itself, an answer. Collaborations between equals do not usually have silence clauses on how the money is divided. OnePlus went with Hasselblad. I live with Zeiss. All different, all with the same underlying logic: a European name with decades of photographic history placed where the buyer sees it as soon as they take a Chinese phone out of the box. What they are buying is not only technology but the right to be given the benefit of the doubt in a segment where distrust of Chinese brands continues to be a real factoralthough decreasing. Each generation of product with Leica normalizes Xiaomi’s photographic excellence a little more. There will come a time when this standardization is complete, when the European buyer will not need anyone from the West to certify what he already knows. That day Xiaomi will not need to renew the agreement. And Leica will discover that she gave up part of her aura to someone who no longer needs it.while what Xiaomi gave in return (technology, scale, relevance in the smartphone market…) will have remained integrated into its products forever. And there is something there that is worth remembering. Leica has built its value on a very specific idea: scarcity. 8,000 euro cameras, limited production, a community of insiders who pay precisely because not everyone can… That’s the business. And now andHE same name appears on a device that sells tens of millions of units a year. Every Xiaomi 17 Ultra that comes out of a box does not destroy that aura, but it dilutes it a little. But there is something deeper than trade asymmetry. What happens, agreement by agreement, generation by generation, is a silent transfer of the center of gravity of technological prestige: For decades, European and American brands were the ones that certified the excellence of others. Now they are the ones who need someone to call them. Leica is not a victim in this process: it has made its decisions with its eyes open and has probably calculated its short and medium-term benefits well. But the long term has its own logic, and that logic says that when a historic brand becomes the endorsement that others need to grow, something in the balance of power has already changed. Although it is not yet noticeable in the price of their cameras. In Xataka | A week with the Xiaomi Mijia Smart Audio Glasses has shown me how great it is that your glasses are also your headphones Featured image | Xataka

In 2010, a student from Barcelona was looking for an easy way to edit PDFs. 16 years later, it is one of the most viewed websites on the internet

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From a form to a receipt to an invoice: PDF is the quintessential extension for sharing documents, regardless of whether you do it from a Windows computer to an iPhone or an Android tablet. It doesn’t matter: you’re going to see the original format no matter what. But, oh my friend, if you have to get your hands on a PDF. Marco Grossi also found himself in trouble with a PDF. One, who is already in her years, had to make a living to avoid paying for the Adobe Acrobat license (in the past it was not a subscription and the price was not exactly cheap) to edit a PDF for a cent by the wind: from printing and scanning to wasting time reconstructing with a word processor. In that first decade of the 2000s I was a student who struggled with documents and Marco Grossi, too. Back in 2010, this Barcelonan, who has studied Multimedia and Photography and also programming, found himself faced with a task as mundane as having to copy and paste a PDF: it was not an easy task. How does it count himself for La Vanguardia“I’m a programmer, and I’m good at computer issues, so it took me about 15 minutes to figure it out.” And then came iLovePDF. As the founder and CEO confesses for El Paísat that moment he discovered that there was a need: “I realized that it was very simple and that I could create it myself.” It was not the first (the ancient but reliable PDFSam It had an interface that was backwards), but it was the one that managed to establish itself as the software to manage PDF for normal and ordinary users (although also for companies reluctant to pay, because it solves the basics quickly and well). A meteoric rise. What started as a personal project that he combined with freelance web design, in 2014 became his 100% occupation. Until 2017 he worked alone from home, but at that moment he took a step forward: He rented an office and hired an old college classmate. Now there are 43 people. At that time, his website was already receiving between 200,000 and 300,000 daily visits from organic traffic. In 2025 Grossi counted which were around 150 million unique users per month. The portal ahrefs listed it in 2024 in 34th place on a global scale, above Amazon in India and just below Wikipedia in Russia. Screenshot of iLovePDF from 2018. via Archive.today Good, nice and cheap free. Your philosophy From the beginning it has been to be a free, accessible, high-quality and easy-to-use service. A quick visit to their website gives us a mosaic with icons and clear messages “Join PDFs”, “Split PDFs” and an agile and intuitive step by step to obtain documents with good quality, without limitations or watermarks. We are using iLovePDF in Spanish, but the website is translated into 25 languages ​​so that language is not an obstacle. In 2018 (the oldest capture saved on Archive.today) also. They also do not market with the data: Marco Grossi details that as a European firm they are governed by the GDPR and that all PDFs are deleted within two hours, without anyone being able to access them. In addition, he explains that they have ISO 27001 certification. In the beginning they financed themselves by advertising, but according to their CEO that is very risky. How iLovePDF Makes Money. So since 2014, in addition to the free options, they offer subscription services, so that advertising generates residual income. They are a small company, but they provide service to those people who visit their website, which we have already seen are many. That is why the Barcelona native explains that “we only need a very small percentage of users who pay to finance us.” 80 – 90% of your income they come precisely from its premium subscriptions, aimed at companies. The rest comes from an advertising banner that, my servant who has been using the service for so many years that she does not remember, nor did she remember it. The cost of being premium It is 5 euros per month and access to extras such as digital signatures or getting rid of ads, but it is totally dispensable: its founder details that the free version is enough for 99.9% of those who use us. They are not for sale. Marco Grossi is not a wolf of Wall Street: he himself admits that he never had an entrepreneurial spirit and that he does not open purchase proposals, something similar to the VLC project and that has turned both platforms into memes of saints or heroes on social networks like X/Twitter. Being a self-financed company allows Marco and his team to maintain their philosophy and reject offers. Although its history is meteoric considering its 15 years of life, the CEO speaks of sustained business growth and that they will never hire 200 people in a year to have to close. Their staff turnover is very low, but solid: they want to replicate their model with their counterpart for images, iLoveIMG. In Xataka | In 1990, a company in Barcelona came up with a crazy and visionary idea: talking on your cell phone while you’re stuck in traffic. In Xataka | In 1901, a Spanish man had one of the ideas of the century: invent the remote control before television

A quarter of a century ago a student put together 32 GeForce graphics cards to play Quake III. CUDA came from there

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In the year 2000 Ian Buck wanted to do something that seemed impossible: play Quake III in 8K resolution. Young Buck was studying computer science at Stanford, specializing in computer graphics, and then a crazy idea occurred to him: put together 32 GeForce graphics cards and render Quake III on eight strategically placed projectors. “That,” he explained years later, “was beautiful.” Buck told that story in ‘The Thining Machine’, the essay published by Stephen Witt in 2025 that traces the history of NVIDIA. And of course one of the fundamental parts of that story is the origin of CUDA, the architecture that AI developers have turned into a gem and that has allowed the company to boost and become the most important in the world by market capitalization. And it all started with Quake III. The GPU as a home supercomputer That, of course, was just a fun experiment, but for Buck it was a revelation, because there he discovered that perhaps specialized graphics chips (GPUs) could do more than draw triangles and render Quake frames. In 2006 the GeForce 8800 GTS (and its higher version, the GTX) began the CUDA era. To find out, he delved into the technical aspects of NVIDIA graphics processors and began researching their possibilities as part of his Stanford PhD. He gathered a small group of researchers and, with a grant from DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency), began working on an open source programming language that he called Brook. That language allowed something amazing: making graphics cards become home supercomputers. Buck demonstrated that GPUs, theoretically dedicated to working with graphics, could solve general-purpose problems, and also do so by taking advantage of the parallelism offered by those chips. Thus, while one part of the chip illuminated triangle A, another was already rasterizing triangle B and another writing triangle C in memory. It wasn’t exactly the same as today’s data parallelism, but it still offered amazing computing power, far superior to any CPU of the time. That specialized language ended up becoming a paper called ‘Brook for GPUs: stream computing on graphics hardware‘. Suddenly parallel computing was available to anyone, and although that project barely received public coverage, it became something that one person knew was important. That person was Jensen Huang. Shortly after publishing that study, the founder of NVIDIA met with Buck and signed him on the spot. He realized that this capacity of graphics processors could and should be exploited, and began to dedicate more and more resources to it. CUDA is born When Silicon Graphics collapsed in 2005 – due to NVIDIA that was intractable in workstations – many of its employees ended up working for the company. 1,200 of them in fact went directly to the R&D division, and one of the big projects of that division was precisely to take forward this capacity of these cards. John Nickolls / Ian Buck. As soon as he arrived at NVIDIA, Ian Buck began working with John Nickolswho before working for the firm had tried—unsuccessfully—to get ahead of the future with his commitment to parallel computing. That attempt failed, but together with Buck and some other engineers he launched a project to which NVIDIA preferred to give a somewhat confusing name. He called it Compute Unified Domain Architecture. CUDA was born. Work on CUDA progressed rapidly and NVIDIA released the first version of this technology in November 2006. That software was free, but it was only compatible with NVIDIA hardware. And as often happens with many revolutions, CUDA took a while to gel. In 2007 the software platform was downloaded 13,000 times: the hundreds of millions of NVIDIA graphics users only wanted them for gaming, and it remained that way for a long time. Programming to take advantage of CUDA was difficult, and Those first times were very difficult for this projectwhich consumed a lot of talent and finances at NVIDIA without seeing any real benefits. In fact, the first uses of CUDA had nothing to do with artificial intelligence because artificial intelligence was barely talked about at the time. Those who took advantage of this technology were scientific departments, and only years later would the revolution that this technology could cause take shape. A late (but deserved) success In fact, Buck himself pointed this out in a 2012 interview with Tom’s Hardware in 2012. When the interviewer asked him what future uses he saw for the GPGPU technology offered by CUDA in the future, he gave some examples. He talked about companies that were using CUDA to design next-generation clothes or cars, but he added something important: “In the future, we will continue to see opportunities in personal media, such as sorting and searching photos based on image content, i.e. faces, location, etc., which is a very computationally intensive operation.” Here Buck knew what he was talking about, although he did not imagine that this would be the beginning of the true CUDA revolution. In 2012 two young doctoral students named Alex Krizhevsky and Ilya Sutskever They developed a project under the guidance of their supervisor, Geoffrey Hinton. The Nvidia Way: Jensen Huang and the Making of a Tech Giant (English Edition) The price could vary. We earn commission from these links That project was none other than AlexNetthe software that allowed images to be classified automatically and which until then had been a useless challenge due to the cost of the computing it required. It was then that these academics trained a neural network with NVIDIA graphics cards and CUDA software. Suddenly AI and CUDA were starting to make sense. The rest, as they say, it’s history. In Xataka | We can forget about AI without hallucinations for now. NVIDIA CEO explains why

If you are a student, you have Gemini Pro free for a year: this is how you can get it

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If you are a student, Google has just launched a promotion with which you can enjoy Google AI Pro for one year totally free. In addition to being able to use the model Gemini 2.5 Pro whenever you want, with the subscription you can enjoy 2 TB of storage. Its value without promotion is 21.99 euros per month, which is more than 260 euros per year. If you use Gemini in the free version, the model you can use is Gemini 2.5 Flash, faster but also more limited in terms of reasoning capacity. With Gemini 2.5 Pro You can take advantage of the Deep Research mode for more in-depth investigations or make audio summaries, as well as use the imaging with Nano Banana and create videos with I see 3. There’s more, the promotion also comes with 2 TB of storage and more credits to use experimental tools like Whisk and flow to generate images and videos. Requirements to obtain the offer In order to enjoy the Google Gemini promotion, you will have to meet several conditions that we detail below: You must be over 18 years old. Be a university student and your institution offers the Google AI Pro trial. Have a personal Google account. That your Google account has a valid payment method registered. Register before November 3, 2025. How to get the Gemini Pro offer for students If you meet all the requirements, you can register to enjoy the promotion. We tell you how to do it step by step. The first thing you should do is enter the following link https://gemini.google/es/students/ and click on the Get Offer button. If you are not logged in to your Google account, the next step will ask you to do so. Then you will have to fill out the form where you must enter the name of your educational center and your information (in the email do not use the address of your university, use the Google account on which you want to apply the offer). If everything is correct, you will proceed to verification using SheerID. Basically you will have to log in to your university’s platform with the email and username that you have configured on it. You may be asked for proof of registration. You will have to upload the document and click Send. Finally, select “Subscribe to Google AI Pro” and “Student Offer”. When you redeem the offer you will not be charged anything, but we have already seen that in order to subscribe you need to have a valid payment method. If you do not want the subscription to renew and be charged You have two options, wait until the date approaches and cancel it or do it now from this link https://play.google.com/store/account/subscriptions. If you choose the second, you can continue using it until the renewal date. In Xataka | Gemini Image Editor: 16 Ways and Tricks to Squeeze Nano-banana with Google’s AI

A student from Girona set up his Cybercrime Office at home. His mistake was to show off his robberies on the Internet

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A joint operation of Mossos d’Esquadra and National Police He has arrested a hacker in Roses (Girona) Responsible for several cyber attacks operating from a sophisticated technological network … in their own home. Why is it important. The detainee had managed to configure a technological network complex using anonymous applications that allowed him to hide his trail while attacked financial institutions, private companies and public bodies. The researchers discovered that the hacker, a young computer student with very advanced knowledge, stole personal databases of employees and clients, as well as confidential internal documents. Then he sold this information in forums of the Dark Web or published it without asking for anything in return. What has happened. The investigation started in May 2024, when the agents detected in a forum that someone presumed to have data from Spanish banks, a self -school and a public university. The same subject later claimed to have filtered the database of a Barcelona plumbing company. After an arduous discouragement of desanimization, the researchers located Roses’s address from where the attacks were launched. The subsequent investigations identified the inhabitants of the house, including the young computer student. In detail. During the record they seized: A laptop. A dozen mobile phones. Several hard drives. More than thirty SIM cards. Several bank cards in the name of different people. The detainee made available to the Court of Guard of Figueres for a crime of discovery and revelation of secrets. And now what. The investigation remains active to locate new victims and clarify all the scams that this person may have committed using stolen data to the affected entities. Outstanding image | Mossos d’Esquadra In Xataka | We visited the National CNI cryptological center: here is the epicenter of Spanish cybersecurity

Student dies after being shot by classmate at Nashville high school

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NASHVILLE, Tennessee, USA — A student was killed and another wounded Wednesday when they were shot in the cafeteria of a Nashville high school, nearly two years after a school shooting in the city that sparked an emotional debate over gun control in Tennessee. The attacker, a 17-year-old boy who was also a student at Antioch High School, later committed suicide, Metropolitan Nashville Police spokesman Don Aaron said during a news conference. Police identified him as Solomon Henderson. Police Chief John Drake said the gunman “confronted” a 16-year-old student in the cafeteria and began shooting, causing her death. Police identified the student as Josselin Corea Escalante. Drake mentioned that police are investigating a motive and whether the shooter was specifically targeting the students he shot. The student who was injured suffered a graze and was treated and released from the hospital, Drake reported. Another student was taken to a hospital to treat a facial injury that occurred during a fall, Aaron said. There were two school resource officers in the building when the shooting occurred around 11 a.m. crazy time, Aaron said. They were not in the vicinity of the cafeteria and by the time they got there, the incident was over and the attacker had already committed suicide, Aaron added. The school has approximately 2,000 students and is located in Antioch, a Nashville neighborhood about 10 miles (16 kilometers) southeast of downtown. At a family safety center near a hospital, officials helped shocked parents reunite with their children. Dajuan Bernard was waiting at a Mapco gas station to meet his son, a 10th grader, who was held in the auditorium with other students that Wednesday afternoon. He learned about the shooting from his son, who “was a little scared,” Bernard said. Her son was upstairs from where the shooting occurred, but told her he heard the shots. “He was fine and he let me know that everything was fine,” Bernard said. “This world is so crazy, it could happen anywhere. We just have to protect the children and educate them well to prevent them from even doing this. “That is the hardest part,” he commented. Fonda Abner, whose granddaughter is a student at the school, said Antioch High School does not have metal detectors that would alert school authorities to the presence of a weapon. She said her granddaughter had called her a couple of times, but she only heard commotion and thought it was an accidental call. They spoke briefly until the call was disconnected. “It’s nerve-wracking waiting out here,” Abner said. United Family Fellowship, a church located in Antioch, hosted a vigil Wednesday night “for anyone in the community who needs a space to pray, process and find comfort,” the church posted on its Facebook account. Hours earlier, Adrienne Battle, superintendent of Nashville schools, said public schools have implemented a “range of security measures,” including partnerships with police for school resource officers, security cameras with weapons detection software, installing shatter-resistant film for security windows and vestibules that are a barrier between outside visitors and the main entrance. “Unfortunately, these measures were not enough to stop this tragedy,” Battle said. He added that there are questions about whether stationary metal detectors should be considered. “Although previous research has shown them to have limitations and unintended consequences, we will continue to explore emerging technologies and strategies to strengthen school safety,” Battle said. In October, a 16-year-old Antioch High School student was arrested after school resource officers and school employees discovered through social media that he had brought a gun to school the day before. When he was detained the next morning, officers found a loaded gun in his pants, police said. Wednesday’s school shooting came nearly two years after a gunman began shooting at a separate private Nashville elementary school, killing six people, including three children. The tragedy sparked a months-long effort among hundreds of community organizers, families, protesters and many more pleading with lawmakers to consider passing gun control measures in response to the shooting. However, in a state dominated by Republicans, GOP lawmakers refused to do so. With the overwhelming Republican majority intact after the November elections, it is unlikely that lawmakers’ stance has changed enough to consider any significant bill addressing gun control. Instead, lawmakers have been more open to adding more security to schools, including passing a bill last year that would allow some teachers and staff to carry concealed firearms on public school grounds, and ban parents and other teachers to know who was armed. Antioch, a growing and diverse area of ​​Nashville, has seen other shootings in recent years. A deadly 2017 shooting at Burnette Chapel Church of Christ killed one woman and injured seven people. And in 2018, an attacker killed four people at a Waffle House restaurant. State Rep. Shaundelle Brooks ran for office largely because of the death of her son in the Waffle House shooting and was elected last year after the Covenant shooting. She said the Antioch High School shooting reinforces the need for gun control reforms. “We must improve,” he asserted. “Since losing my son, Akilah, in a mass shooting in 2018, I have been fighting to ensure this never happens again,” the Nashville Democrat said in a statement. “Here we are almost 7 years later, and our communities are still affected by gun violence.” Samantha Dickerson had taken her 14-year-old son’s phone away as punishment, so when she received a message from his school about the shooting, she had no way to contact him. “I was nervous,” she said. “I was really about to collapse.” After about three hours of waiting, she finally received a call from her English teacher and spoke to her son. “When I heard his voice, I just started crying,” she said. ___ Associated Press writers Kimberlee Kruesi in Nashville and Adrian Sainz in Memphis, Tennessee, contributed to this report. ___ This story was translated from English by an AP editor with the help of a generative artificial intelligence tool.

At least one student dies after shooting at a Nashville high school

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A shooting at Antioch High School, located near Nashville, Tennessee, has left one student dead and several injured. The incident occurred this Wednesday at 11:00 am, and authorities have confirmed that the attacker, a 17-year-old boy, took his own life after the attack. The Metropolitan Nashville Police Department reported that the shooting occurred in the cafeteria area of ​​the educational center. The two victims, both female, were quickly taken to a nearby hospital. Authorities added that one of the victims was pronounced dead on arrival, while the other suffered minor facial injuries. Students wait to get off a bus at a unification site following a shooting at Antioch High School in Nashville, Tennessee. (Photo: George Walker IV/ AP) Students were evacuated Likewise, Don Aaron, police spokesman, assured in a press conference that the situation is under control and that there is no longer a threat to the school community. Despite this, the students were evacuated and taken to a reunification site where they could meet their parents. The authorities have urged relatives not to approach the school and go to the established meeting point. Meanwhile, authorities have set up a contact number so that students’ families can obtain information about their loved ones. Parents are advised to call 615-401-1712, although it has been reported that the line may be overwhelmed. They also asked for patience and not to hang up if they do not hear a tone. Keep reading: – New gun laws to go into effect in several states on January 1, 2025– Who are the 4 Hispanic criminals whose death sentences were commuted in the US?– Biden says he feels frustrated by mass car accident in New Orleans

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