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The most pacifist city in Germany lived off its legendary train factory. Now they will make it from a gigantic tank factory

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Görlitz was known for its neat historic center, its post-war memory and a practical inclination towards pacifism. For decades, the city on the eastern border fit on the German map as a haven of caution and resigned industrial melancholy, a place where work and tradition maneuvered away from military power. But that calm is beginning to show cracks that force its inhabitants to rethink what it means to maintain peace when the world seems to want just the opposite. From the steel of peace to that of war. For more than a century and a half, the town of Görlitz, on Germany’s eastern border, lived off the rhythmic sound of trains. The wagon and locomotive factories They provided work for entire generations and defined the identity of this working-class region of the former East. But that era is coming to an end. After 176 years of railway production, the historic Alstom industrial complex is being converted by the arms consortium KNDS to manufacture components Leopard II tanks and Puma armored vehicles. What was once a symbol of civil mobility and reconstruction, today is transformed in gear of the German military machine. This metamorphosis does not arise from nowhere, of course: it responds to the country’s strategic shift towards rearmamentmotivated by the Russian invasion of Ukraine, fear of a withdrawal of American security guarantees and a economy in decline desperately looking for new sources of employment. Between pacifism and necessity. I was counting last week the new york times that, in Görlitz, industrial reconversion divide feelings. The population, aging and punished by decades of deindustrialization since reunification, sees the production of tanks as a lesser evil. In this area where the far-right AfD party (openly pro-Russian and opposed to helping Ukraine) concentrates almost half the voteseven its local leaders have accepted the change with resignation. “It is not a cause for celebration, but we cannot oppose having work either,” recognizeaware that the loss of employment would be even more devastating than the moral dilemma of manufacturing weapons. Reconversion. The factory, which once had more than 2,000 employeesbarely kept 700 before the sale, and KNDS agrees to keep half of them and plans to multiply it in the future. In fact, the unions, led by IG Metall, were the ones who promoted the idea of ​​reorienting the plant towards the defense sector to avoid its definitive closure. In a territory marked by youth exodus and economic frustration, the arms industry has ended up offering something similar to a second chance. German military reindustrialization. The Görlitz case reflects a broader phenomenon: German rearmament as a driver of a new industrial reconversion. Since 2020, Berlin’s defense spending has increased about 80%exceeding 90,000 million euros, and the demand for specialized labor has skyrocketed. Companies such as Rheinmetall, Diehl Defense, Thyssenkrupp Marine Systems or MBDA have added more than 16,000 workers since the start of the war of Ukraine and plan to hire 12,000 more before 2026. The sector’s profits are so high that its managers increase dividends while exploring the purchase of automobile plants in decline, as that of Volkswagen in Osnabrück. The “logic”. The message from its CEO, Armin Papperger, summarize the logic of the new defense economy: if taxpayers’ money finances national security, jobs must stay in Germany. In this context, the factory conversion like Görlitz, it is perceived as an industrial policy with a dual purpose: to sustain the productive fabric and strengthen the country’s strategic autonomy. The moral dilemma. Despite the economic relief that the renaissance of the arms sector represents, it persists in German society a deep tension between the pacifism inherited from the post-war and the need to guarantee European defense. For many East Germans, who already experienced a first deindustrialization after the fall of the Wall and now suffer the loss of energy and manufacturing jobs, manufacturing tanks is a bitter way of survival. Some fear that the weapons produced will end up on the Ukrainian front, others that the rise of the business depends on the continuity of the war. “Will it be sustainable to manufacture tanks? I hope not. I hope the wars end soon,” admitted to the Financial Times a union representative. However, the reality of the market and geopolitics point in another direction: defense has become the new industrial hub European, and Germany (due to history, technological capacity and allied pressure) leads that transition. Goodbye train, hello tank. Thus, the old Görlitz factory, with its warehouses blackened by decades of metallurgical work, symbolizes the change of era that crosses Europe. Where wagons were previously welded to transport passengers, steel shells will be assembled for combat vehicles. What began as a strategy to save jobs threatens to redefine the industrial soul of the country: from civil ingenuity to military power, from the steel that united continents to that which now armors them. And a profound paradox: in a fractured political landscape, where the fear of war coexists with the need to prosper, the workers of Eastern Germany are once again the involuntary protagonists of history. Its destiny, between nostalgia for trains and the pragmatic acceptance of tanks or battle tanks, summarizes the dilemma of a nation that tries to reconcile its pacifist past with a present that pushes it, once again, to manufacture weapons to ensure its future. Image | Norwegian Armed Forces, State Ministry for Economic Affairs, Labor, Energy and Climate Protection In Xataka | The US no longer has to worry about Spain or the rearmament bill in Europe. Germany had a plan B In Xataka | The “rearmament” of Europe has begun at a Volkswagen factory in Germany: instead of cars they will produce tanks

Ten banking giants are going after stablecoins. They are trying not to miss the digital money train

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A consortium of ten of the world’s largest banks, including Bank of America, Goldman Sachs, UBS, Santander and BNP Paribas, have announced that they are exploring creating their own stablecoins, according to Reuters. Why is it important. It is the first time that a consortium of this magnitude has officially reacted to the threat posed by stablecoins (stablecoins) for your business. What has happened. The consortium has made this announcement regarding this development. They would be digital assets anchored 1:1 to the main G7 currencies (dollar, euro, pound, etc.) and, key, they would work on public blockchains, the same technology used by the crypto world. The advertisement seeks to stand up to the absolute dominance of Tethera single company that currently manages a volume of 179 billion dollars outside the traditional banking system. The small print. This movement does not come so much in a context of innovation as in a crisis management room: The money that Tether moves is money that escapes the control and commissions of the SWIFT system. The bank is not creating something new, it is trying to build its own version of something that already exists, works on a large scale and is taking over their ground. The great contradiction is that, to compete, they must use a technology (blockchain) designed explicitly to eliminate intermediaries. The business model of a bank is, precisely, to be that intermediary. They are forcibly adopting the foundations of technology that threatens to erode an increasing part of their business. And now whatand. The ball is now in the court of governments and central banks. For a regulator, a stablecoin issued by a private bank continues to be a threat to monetary sovereignty. This movement only serves to hurry them up in the development of their own digital currencies (the famous CBDC). A CBDC controlled by the European Central Bank or the Federal Reserve could, in the long term, render obsolete both stablecoins of Tether as those now proposed by banks. The banking consortium, in its attempt not to be left behind, may have only managed to accelerate the arrival of a much more powerful competitor: the State itself. In Xataka | It is not bitcoin or Ethereum: Tether is the stablecoin that has turned its creators into emperors of finance Featured image | Alicja Ziajowska

Using the WiFi on the train in Spain is the worst. The question is why there is so much difference compared to the rest of Europe

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If you have to work from the train and need WiFi, good luck. In some areas, even mobile data is useless, making the experience a real torture. It is no wonder, and Spain has one of the worst railway WiFi network infrastructures in all of Europe. According to an Ookla studiothe median download speed on Spanish trains reaches just 1.45 Mbps, compared to 64.58 Mbps in Sweden, which tops the list. At least we are above the United Kingdom or the Netherlands. A multi-layered problem. It’s not just a bad WiFi connection inside the carriage. The main failure, according to the study from Ookla, is in the “backhaul”, that is, in how the train connects to public mobile networks from the roof. Most European countries, including Spain, depend on “incidental” mobile coverage: the antennas installed by operators are designed to serve population centers, not specifically trains. The result is dead zones, constant signal drops and insufficient bandwidth when the train runs between cities. Average unloading speed on European trains. Image: Ookla Outdated technology on board. Inside the car, the panorama doesn’t help either. Although the study does not detail specific data for Spain, countries with similar performance such as the United Kingdom still maintain more than 50% of their connections on WiFi 4, a 2009 standard, and 38% use the 2.4 GHz bandmore prone to interference and congestion. This combination of outdated technology limits the experience even when the outside connection is decent. Sweden solves the puzzle with politics. In Sweden, the case is interesting because it dismantles the complicated terrain argument. Until the beginning of 2024, its trains offered speeds of just 2 Mbps. In the second quarter of that year there was a structural leap: the PTS regulator allocated public funds for neutral infrastructure in tunnels, imposed rail coverage obligations in the 2023 spectrum auctions and identified 45 tunnels and 630 kilometers of track with poor coverage. In just one year the speeds multiplied by more than 30. Average upload speed on European trains. Image: Ookla In Switzerland the model is different, but effective. This country, which is positioned in second place according to the Ookla ranking, has a different structure. And instead of universal WiFi on board, its operator SBB offers “FreeSurf”, a system that allows passengers with a Swiss SIM to use mobile data without consuming their rate while traveling. Bluetooth beacons in the carriages detect the device and the railway operator assumes the cost with the telcos. This avoids the bottleneck of shared WiFi and allows investment to be concentrated on improving the mobile network layer in the corridors. The problem is that it only works for residents with a local SIM. France invests in dedicated network. France built a specific network for railways on routes such as Paris-Lyon, with base stations every 2-3 kilometers, antennas facing the track and special systems in tunnels for trains that travel at 300 km/h and change cells every 15 seconds. Although the study places France In an intermediate position (19.12 Mbps), it continues to be well above Spain. Median latency of European countries compared to Taiwan. Image: Ookla Modern trains are Faraday cages. Part of the problem is structural. And how mention study, current railcars incorporate low-E glass with metallized coatings that block mobile signals more than a layer of concrete, according to tests carried out by the British Department of Transport. Germany has invested 50 million euros in laser treating 70,000 windows of 3,300 carriages to make them permeable to radio frequencies. Belgium abandoned a 173 million euro on-board WiFi plan and preferred to invest 40 million in modifying the windows of its trains. Asia prioritizes mobile over WiFi. In Japan, South Korea and Taiwan, the approach is different, as they invest in dedicated mobile data coverage on roads and tunnels, and treat WiFi as a secondary service. According to the study, Taiwan leads in latency (13 ms) and already deploys WiFi 6 on 20% of its rail connections. Its download speeds (8.1 Mbps) far exceed those of Spain, although they are far from the European leaders. The Japanese government, for example, has subsidized since 2020 the installation of cellular systems in all tunnels in the Shinkansen. satellite internet. Just like mention the study, operators such as ScotRail, SNCF, Trenitalia or PKP Intercity are testing terminals starlink and OneWeb on rural or coastal routes where ground coverage is insufficient. The strategy is not to replace mobile coverage, but to join both connections through onboard SD-WAN gateways. There are still limitations, as certified rail terminals are still in short supply, they do not operate in tunnels and the operational cost remains high if data is used intensively. In Xataka | How to share the data connection of your Android mobile or iPhone with an Internet access point

All to train his AI

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The Chinese company Anker, owner of the EUFY security camera brand, launched an initiative for 2024 collect robber videos of packages and cars with which to train their artificial intelligence systems. The proposal was simple: 2 dollars for each useful video. The campaign, which worked between December 2024 and February 2025, achieved more than 120 participants, according to Public comments On the program page. What Euphy asked. The company requested both real and staging videos of theft situations. On its website, Anker explained that they were looking for material that helped train their AI to better detect parcel thieves and people trying to open cars doors. They even encouraged users to simulate the situation themselves: “You can create situations pretending to be a thief and donate those videos,” the company explained. If a user managed to record a simulated theft with two cameras simultaneously and added another car opening scene, he could earn up to 80 dollars. The goal after the initiative. Eufy wanted to gather 20,000 videos of each type of robbery (packages and cars), adding more than 40,000 clips in total. Interested users only had to fill in a Google form where their videos uploaded and added their PayPal account to receive payment. The company assured that the data would be used exclusively to train their AI algorithms and for any other purpose. Why generates debate. This strategy raises questions about privacy and security, although in this specific case it is more transparent than The usual practices of the sector. Unlike many companies that collect data without explicit consent or that They track the Internet To feed his models, Eufy made it clear what he asked, what he wanted and how much he would pay. The program was voluntary and the participants knew exactly what they accessed. It is also true that Eufy’s history does not play in his favor. And is that in 2023, The Verge He revealed that the transmissions of his cameras, advertised as end -to -end encryption, were not when it was accessed through their web portal. Anker then admitted having cheated users and promised to solve him. Rewards for training their AI. Currently, EuFy actively keeps a video donation program within its application with a different rewards system. Users They can win digital medalscameras or gift cards in exchange for videos that help improve AI. The app even shows a ranking with the users who have donated the most. The first of the ranking has contributed more than 201,000 clips. For this program, EuFy only requests videos with people and reiterates that the material will not be shared with third parties. He has also requested videos recorded with his vigilabés, although in this case no economic reward is mentioned. Until security fails. Today there are many companies that are willing to reward their users as currency to obtain data that allow training their language models. However, although the company explicitly explains everything it needs and there is total transparency, the systems can fail. A recent example is Neon, a call app that offered money in exchange for recordings and transcripts, and that He had to close After discovering a security failure that exposed the data of all its users. Cover image | Alan J. Hendry In Xataka | Nvidia has control of the most powerful chips of AI: OpenAi, Broadcom and TSMC want to end their XPUS

One of the most downloaded apps for iPhone pays for recording calls to train AI models. It is a security disaster

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The sale of personal data is not a hypothesis, it is an expanding reality. Just look at Spotify: Recently a service appeared that paid those who delivered their profile and their listening summaries to resell them to technology companies. The approach was as simple as disturbing, because it became something as innocent as our musical habits. Neon Repeat the scheme, but transfers it to a much more sensitive land, telephone calls, where intimacy becomes the product. We are talking about an app that decided to convert phone calls into the new digital gold. His proposal is direct: “Speak, record and charge.” It promises users to win “hundreds or even thousands of dollars a year” simply allowing their conversations to transform into training material for artificial intelligence systems. The hook worked. In a matter of days he went from irrelevance to place Within the top three positions In the Social Networks category in the United States App Store. How neon works. The neon mechanism is designed for each call to translate into money. It promises to pay 30 cents per minute when two users of the app talked to each other, 15 cents if the call is with someone external and establishes a stop of 30 dollars daily. To this adds a referral system that offers 30 dollars for each new user. The recording, According to your policyalways affect the sender and, when both used neon, to both parties. Conditions of use. Beyond payments, the true neon reach is in its Terms of service. There the users give the company a “world, exclusive, irrevocable and transferable” license on their recordings. This permit includes rights to sell, modify, create derived works and distribute the audio in any format, present or future. To this is added a section of functions in beta, without guarantees or responsibility in case of failures. The amplitude of that assignment makes it difficult to foresee how far the use of the recordings can go. Where is available and how popular it is. Neon’s initial success was as fast as unexpected. At the time of writing this article, it is number 2 of the most downloaded social applications in the United States App Store. The application, however, seems restricted to that market: in tests carried out from Spain is not among those available or allows its download. The security failure. The story took an unexpected turn when a technical analysis revealed that Neon did not protect the information of its own users. As Techcrunch discoveredjust create an account and review network traffic with a tool like Burp Suite to access others. Shortly after the notice, the founder closed the servers and sent an email announcing a pause ‘for security’, not to mention the filtration. What was exposed was especially delicate: Telephone numbers associated with accounts Public links to audio recordings Complete call transcripts Metadata with duration, date and payments obtained Telephone numbers, recordings and transcripts are not accessible is not a minor failure. With this data, private conversations could be rebuilt and associated with specific people. The risks range from attempts to impersonate identity to the creation of synthetic voices. What Neon says in front of what we know, Neon defends that their processes protect users: anonymity of conversations, elimination of personal information and sale only to reviewed companies. However, the ruling showed that these systems are not infallible. The official communication after temporary closure spoke of “adding extra security layers”, but omits to recognize the filtration. Neon’s fall does not erase the background question: what price does our intimacy have when artificial intelligence demands more and more data? The model to pay for calls can reappear in other forms and other markets, because the need to train systems will continue to grow. What happened in the United States is an early warning that we are not talking about science fiction, but about real proposals that already touch the user’s door. The decision, ultimately, is personal. Images | Xataka with Gemini 2.5 | Screen capture | Neon In Xataka | A new generation of robots promises precision and efficiency. It also opens the door to cyberspage risks

In full train development in Europe, they have raised a ‘subway’ to unite capitals that is a fantasy. Literally

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Traditionally, the train was the Interior mobility dorsal spine In Europe. The development of the infrastructure allowed population movements for decades and, although the low-cost flights They have made a large part of the cake, there are European movements for recovering trains. An example is the NOX Night Trainbut another is the Starline project, a high speed ‘subway’ network that connects the main European capitals. Appeals everything that Europe is looking for: interconnection, transport of goods and sustainability. And it sounds too good to be true. Precisely, there is the problem. Starline. 21st Europe It is a Danish group architect of the Starline project. In his web They claim that Starline is not a matter of convenience, but a strategic need for current Europe. It is a high -speed train that will link the main European cities thanks to machines capable of traveling at 400 km/h (superior to that of the bird, for example) connecting, in principle, 39 destinations. To achieve these speeds, the idea is to minimize the closed curves and slopes as much as possible, achieving a great average speed that shortens the times between destinations. In the proposed map we can see that they have used a system of segments such as the one we can find In the subwayas well as stations that allow connections with other lines. The train. The idea is the most attractive, being able to go from Madrid to Istanbul without getting out of the train, or arriving Helsinki transforded in Vienna. As much as they reach 400 km/h, the journeys would be long and, for this, they have thought of wide -seat cars, quieter areas, others open for teleworking or for families with young children and cafeteria. They also propose that there is no seat division based on the classic hierarchy of airlines. And the reason why design should be blue is to distinguish trains and turn them into an icon, such as Red London Buses or the yellow yotk taxis. In addition, they would be connected and travelers could see the train status in real time at all times. Stations? Cultural centers. That experience for the passenger would start directly at the station. Instead of being a mere point of passage, what 21st Europe proposes is that they are public spaces with their own identity. If they advocate infrastructure with the trains, with the stations advocate places designed by the most reputed architects and designers of the different countries, creating buildings that are identity of each of the countries where there is space for stores and restaurants, but also for museums, concert halls, conferences or sports venues. Going directly to a concert or a match of whatever is directly from station to station is a great idea. Goods. Positive points are not limited to travelers. From the group, they detail that rail transport is four times more efficient than classical road transport in Europe, but only 18% of the goods move by train. Thus, they consider that the system could be used as way to transport goods in high speed Without resorting to the truck, the plane or the ship, implementing cargo and unloading hubs directly at the stations and strengthening Europe with a large new commercial network. China’s example. Placing the stations outside the large urban centers, it is achieved that they remain accessible, but avoiding the disturbance of traffic that exists in the central stations of the large European capitals. In addition, they consider that they would be an economic engine for those cities, and all thanks to the data that come from China. The Asian giant has gone expanding its high -speed rail network In record time and, from 21st Europe, they claim that cities with connections to that network experienced an increase of more than 14% in GDP and that each new line connected to the total contributed with an additional 7.2% to that growth of urban GDP. Now, China’s investment has been (and is being) huge, and has the big problem of Periodic maintenance cost. Sustainability, the great asset. In it Ride of decarbonizationthere are countries that are looking for replace short distance flights with the trainand Starline enters perfectly in such proposals. It is estimated that, in Europe, the commercial flight sector represents 4% of the total Greenhouse Emissions and about 14% of transport emissions. The calculation is that European flights contaminate five times more by passenger/kilometer than the train, and that is where Starline points. They detail that it must be independent at the energy level, betting on renewable sources that integrate solar, wind storage and batteries in their stations and operational infrastructure. With all this in mind, they estimate that short -journey flights could be replaced by a high -speed rail, reducing 95%emissions. In Spain, The bird is winning the game to the plane. You have to wait sitting. The 21st Europe project does not leave a stick without touching and it seems that it has no fissure. Everything is positive and sounds great, but there is a problem. Well, two. The first, regardless of complication when governments and companies agree to offer a unified service, is financing. The Danish group points out that the network must be financed through a combination of EU infrastructure budgets, financing of the European Investment Bank and long -term EU bonds. In addition, the governments of each country should co -finance their regional stations and connections, and all this maintaining a lower ticket price than the short -journey flights. The second big problem, and the key in this matter, is that this is an idea thrown into the wind. 21st Europe is something known as a ‘Think Tank‘, a group of experts who design visionary projects on the future of the continent. They have other proposals as an infrastructure of public parks called ‘Continent of Play‘, but basically that is, a project, an idea to initiate a conversation in the political spheres, but without the capacity for what they propose is launched. We will see … Read more

There are users selling their Wrapped data to train AI models. Spotify has not taken it well

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Did you ever think you could make money with your Spotify data? What for many is only an annual summary with favorite songs and artists, for others it is a source of real value. An increasing group of users has decided sell your listening history To train artificial intelligence models. Spotify, which has turned Wrapped In one of its most recognizable brands, it has not taken long to react and the tension is served. Wrapped was born in 2015 as a tool to visualize listening habits and became a global tradition. Today, its popularity has given rise to UNWRappeda collective managed by the decentralized platform Vain. More than 18,000 users have grouped their data to sell them to interested companies. According to Ars Technicain June they achieved their first sale: a portion of data for $ 55,000 to only AI, with an average payment of about five dollars in cryptocurrencies for each participant. Wrapped is no longer just marketing: it is the center of a data control fight The interest in these data is not accidental: Spotify collects a detailed history of each account, searches, devices, approximate locations and technical records. All of that is available to any user through a Official download option, which offers packages in JSON format with years of history and precise data on the use of the platform. But although access is legal, its use has clear limits in the terms of Spotify. The policy for developers It prohibits using Spotify data or contents to train artificial intelligence models, resell information or replicate essential functions of the platform without permission. Spotify confirmed to the aforementioned medium that he sent a letter to those responsible for UNWRAPPed warning that the project could violate its registered trademark and violate these policies. The company insists that users can download their data, but does not authorize that they are monetic through third parties. UNWRAPPED pagethat until recently allowed to register and sell data, is no longer available. At the time of publishing this article, an English message appears that we have translated: “This service is no longer available. We regret the inconvenience. If you have any questions, get in touch with support. ”It is not clear if the closure responds to Spotify actions or a decision of the developers, who have not given explanations about this. Unwrapped was born, according to its creators, so that users had more control over their data, although their future is uncertain. Vana, the platform that drives it, argues that the project allows to group information in a community and collectively bargain its use. They explain that it is unlikely that a user manages to sell their data separately: companies are looking for broad sets, such as those who create vain, and then distribute the income among those who participate. Wrapped continues to be for most users a curious and shared annual summary. But the interest in monetizing this data makes it clear that the discussion about who controls personal information is not yet resolved. Spotify has expressed reservations on projects that use their services out of what is allowed, while decentralized proposals try to gain relevance. It is about to see what will happen finally with this project and others of similar characteristics. Images | Spotify | Xataka with Gemini 2.5 In Xataka | Google has resolved the dilemma of the age on the Internet as disturbing possible: spying on to protect you

You can make money with your GPU when you don’t use it. It is enough that you lend it to those who train AI models

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To execute and offer tools based on generative artificial intelligence, a lot of calculation power is needed (and that leads to a lot of energy). Therefore, the most powerful market cards and specific processors for Datacenters They are so quoted today, hence companies such as Nvidia, which specializes in this market, are reaping such an overwhelming success. And since not everyone can afford a powerful graphics card to experiment with AI, there is a service that we see more and more common: to rent a graphics card to remove an extra money. There are several platforms to get it and under these lines we tell you everything you need to know. How the business works. The model consists of acting as a host in a Marketplace where clients are looking for GPU instances for their AI projects. You set the price per hour, the platform manages payments and the client executes their work in an isolated container on your machine. You could say that it is like an Airbnb, but focused on computer hardware. Instances with an rtx 4090 in vast ai Numbers that we must take into account. An RTX 4090 is usually Between about 0.20 and 0.60 dollars per hour in these marketplaces, depending on the demand. In the best theoretical scenario, operating 24 hours a day for a full month, a high -end GPU could invoice around 240 gross dollars monthly (considering that we put it for rent 24 hours a day). But reality is usually more modest, since we have to discount what we pay on our electrical bill, the platform commissions (which can reach 24% in Platforms like Runpod) and, above all, that real occupation is rarely 100%. Expanding market. The price difference between traditional cloud giants (AWS, Google Cloud) and these P2P marketplaces is considerable. While renting a GPU on AWS can cost three or six times more, platforms such as Runpod or Vast AI offer access to very powerful graphics cards, as is the case of RTX 4090, for a few cents the time. And of course, these prices are really attractive to developers who want to experiment with artificial intelligence but do not have means to have a team comparable to the projects they work on. What you should know before starting. Turning your PC into a rental server is not plug-and-play. In most cases you need Install Linuxconfigure updated NVIDIA drivers, open network ports And keep your team working for the hours for which you have committed to offer it, together with adequate refrigeration, which will be necessary if your GPU is going to start working much more and for much longer. In addition, your customers expect the machine to be available when they hire it, which means that you will not be able to use it for gaming or personal work. It should also be noted that the income generated is also subject to taxation and it is possible that it is required to register as an economic activity in cases where income exceeds a certain threshold. There are certain risks. Beyond the wear that the hardware can receive for being constantly working, there are maximum performance, there are some security concerns. Although platforms use containers to isolate workloads, some experts warn about possible Vulnerabilities in multi-tean environments (those environments that serve several users) that could compromise our data or use the GPU to improper purposes. Is it worth it? For most users with a single GPU, the benefits are modest once all expenses and others are discounted. Now, the business makes more sense if you already have the amortized hardware, do not pay too much on your electrical bill and accounts with certain technical knowledge to maintain the stable system. Even more if you have a potential graphics card or level for datacentes. As an experiment or complementary income experiment it can be interesting, but do not expect it to make you rich. First steps. If you want to try it, start with offers “interruptibles“, that is, cheaper but that can be canceled, in order to know the real demand. Vast.ai and Runpod They offer detailed documentation to become host, including step -by -step guides and preconfigured templates. Of course, it is advisable to always control real electrical consumption and establish operation limits to prevent your equipment from becoming a slave to the background processes. Cover image | She Don In Xataka | Nvidia, TSMC and SK Hynix are the most powerful chip companies on the planet. None can allow any of the others to fall

There is only a great beneficiary at Ryanair’s departure from regional airports. One called “High Speed ​​Train”

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Ryanair threatened and fulfilled. As he turned a few months ago. The company confirmed yesterday, September 3, which removes more than one million places from regional airports. In total, its activity will be reduced by 41 % in this type of aerodromes and 10 % of its activity in the Canary Islands will also be affected. The movement has unleashed an wave of indignation among Spanish institutions that qualify the exit as blackmail or extortion. The company, meanwhile, defends itself by ensuring that the increase in Aena’s rates are incompatible with its operations in this type of airports. But what the movement leaves us is the confirmation that regional airports are less and less competitive. A good part of them have based their operations on a huge dependence on the company. And the Good train health It is making operating in them, more and more complicated. A good example is that the company will increase its operations in larger airports. The controversy As we explained yesterday, with its latest Ryanair movement it will reduce 400,000 places in the Canary Islands in winter, being the autonomous community most punished by volume. In total, 36 connections are canceled. It remains to be seen if the flights to the Canary Islands are held by other companies. A good example is the Binter expansion that in recent times it has begun to increase its routes in the connections between peninsular Spain and the islands. In addition, Ryanair has announced the closure of Santiago de Compostela and the suspension of all flights to Vigo as of January 1, 2026. It maintains the closure at the airports of Valladolid and Jerez de la Frontera. And will reduce its operations in Zaragoza (-45 %), Santander (-38 %), Asturias (-16 %) and Vitoria (-2 %). The company attacks Aena and the Government, to whom it accuses of “failing to the Spanish regions, whose airports are almost 70 % empty.” For its part, the airport manager attacks that “the communication and institutional relations policy of Ryanair is guided by Phariseism, bad education and blackmail”, while trying to “falsify reality.” All these words pick them up eldiario.es from the mouth of Maurici Lucena, president and CEO of Aena. The excuse Ryanair has used to abandon or reduce its operations at these airports is at the rise of Aena rates. Those rates are the ones guarantee basic services of airports such as cleaning or safety, to put only some examples. At the moment, there are substantial discounts than in airports with the lowest volume of passengers make them insignificant. On the contrary, where it is paid the most is in the airports of greater volume. That rate has been frozen in recent years but will rise if the CNMC approves it. From the beginning, the company’s opposition has been found. They defend that in countries such as Italy, Morocco or Croatia have been lowered to attract tourism and that, with these increases, “Spain is closing” to the same. A statement that The data denies. According to Aena, The increase is just 68 euro cents By passenger but they put the company that their rates have increased by 21% in the last year. But this is just the surface. Spain is not the only country in which Ryanair has reduced operations. The Irish have also retired more than 700,000 places from the French regional airports. And it is also not accidental that their operations to Morocco travel almost empty. For a long time, the company has exploited institutional advertising to maintain open paths that would not be profitable without these substantial pluses. In fact, that Ryanair trip to Daklha is only explained since The interest that Morocco has in exploiting that areanear the Sahara, as a holiday destination. Ryanair as a symptom And the train as a disease that hurts regional airports. To all of the above we must add the loss in competitiveness of many of the airports of which Ryanair leaves. The company has closed operations in Santiago and reduces its connections in Vigo. Casually there are two cities to which The arrival of high speed is especially affecting. Until not so long ago, the only way to travel quickly between Madrid and Galicia was by plane. Now, the High speed It allows you to reach the center of the capital more or less the same time as you travel by plane. And without the discomforts of this means of transport. In Asturiashigh speed is not yet working in full performance but the opening of new sections (and others on the horizon)place the region in a position where the train, again, will compete with the plane for faster connections. It will remain faster to travel by plane but its connection with Madrid is already competitive by train. What to say about Zaragoza where in recent years Renfe has joined Ouigo and Iroyo. The corridor maintains a hard competition And although the tickets are not the cheapest on the market, the volume of trains is very high and the latest connections already allow Zaragoza to be linked with Galicia in four hours (making transford in Madrid). In addition, the possibilities to get to Seville or Malaga are multiple with the aforementioned Renfe rivals. Eliminate air connections with the main Spanish cities should result in greater use of this means of transport. And from Aena they are clear that reality is “more prosaic.” “Ryanair moves her planes to airports where can set higher prices In their plane tickets and earn more money, such as Great Spanish airports“, despite being” substantially higher, “they insisted on words collected by RTVE. In Santander, where connections with Madrid are not so advanced, four international destinations have been withdrawn (Rome, Milan, Vienna and Paris) but the flights to Valencia and Malaga are maintained. In Santiago, however, connections with other Spanish cities die. And in Vigo he retires from the line he had with London. Casually when the contract ends Between the City Council and the company … Read more

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The attacks with ransomware They have brought to people and companies around the world. It consists of a type of malware that figure our data and makes the use of the equipment impossible until we pay the rescue that the attackers ask for. Is What happened to Telefónica in 2017 And what has just happened to Artists & Clients, a website on which artists can find customers to sell their works. The difference is that hackers are threatening to use all their artistic work at AI. The hacking. They tell it in 404Media. The hacking happened on August 30, when the Message from the attackers which said: “This website has been pirated by Lunalock. All its data, including email addresses and passwords of the user accounts, have been stolen and encrypted.” Shortly after the web fell and while I write these lines It continues to be inaccessible. At the moment those responsible for the web have not issued any statement and in their social networks there is no communication, but some artists who are on the platform They have expressed their concern in Reddit. Redoubled the threat. The message of hackers is a standard text in this type of attacks: if the payment was not made, all the data would be filtered, including the source code and the personal information of the users. The striking was at the end of his message: “We will send all the illustrations to artificial intelligence companies so that they are added to the training data sets.” In statements to 404Media, a researcher at the Flare cybersecurity company says that “it is the first time I see an attack using AI models as part of her extortion tactics.” AI and art. It has been a matter of debate since the arrival of the first models of image generation, who were trained with hundreds of works by real artists without permission. Some artists have sued the companies of AIothers their works began to “poison” to go crazy to AI and have even been created Applications to prevent a work from being training at AI. It is a delicate issue for artists and hackers have used it to raise the tone of their threat. AI to do evil. Lunalock’s case is curious because they do not use AI directly, but use it as another argument to its threat. However, there are cybercriminals who are using AI to make their most effective attacksfor example to program more easily or automate technical operations. A few days ago, Wired echoed an ESET report where they detailed how the attackers were using generative to execute ransomware attacks. Cover image | Pexels In Xataka | Creative artificial intelligences are going to kill art again. It does not have the slightest importance

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