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While Europe fights with its rules on AI, the US is betting on the contrary: an unprecedented normative relaxation

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The AI is already redefining our relationship with technology, but is also redrawing the spheres of power in the world. United States and Europe They say they are committed to their development, but they are doing it from very different places. The most recognized companies in this area are Americans: Google, Openai, Microsoft, Amazon. Europe has some outstanding startups, such as Mistral or the Spanish Freepik. Now, while the EU cautious applies its ambitious regulation of AIThe United States presents a plan that goes right in the opposite direction. Washington draws its path: less rules, more speed He “Ai action plan“Presented by the White House is, above all, a declaration of intentions. More than 90 measures grouped into three pillars – innovation, infrastructure and international leadership – that draw a road map for the United States to win the AI race. The keyword, throughout the document, is speed. {“videoid”: “x8jpy2b”, “Autoplay”: fals, “title”: “What is behind it like chatgpt, dall-e or midjourney? | artificial intelligence”, “tag”: “Webedia-prod”, “Duration”: “1173”} The Trump administration not only wants to boost the development of new AI models, wants to do it by eliminating obstacles. Federal agencies will review their own regulations to withdraw those considered “onerous” for innovation. And the export of technology with complete packages – scrub, software, models, applications – designed for strategic allies will be facilitated. To all that is added an impulse to the infrastructure that had already taken its first steps: Relax permissions for data centers and chips factories, enable federal soil, modernize the electricity grid and form technical labor (electricians, air conditioning technicians, maintenance). The message is clear: less bureaucracy, more investment, but also more Washington influence. While Washington Dregula, Brussels regulates The European Union It was the first great power to raise comprehensive legislation on AIwith the objective of guaranteeing transparency, security and respect for fundamental rights. AI ACT entered into force on August 1, 2024. The prohibitions and literacy obligations in AI began to be applied on February 2, 2025; The rules for general purpose models will do so on August 2, 2025; And the obligations for high -risk systems will arrive on August 2, 2026 (some will extend until 2027). The regulation is ambitious: it establishes risk categories, it limits uses such as mass facial recognition and demands strict controls for the most advanced models. In addition, it has introduced a code of voluntary practice to advance part of these demands. Goal has publicly refused to sign the documentincluding a series of criticisms of the position that the community block has adopted. To that rejection are added internal pressures: a group of large European companies – among them Airbus, Lufthansa, Asml, Totalenergies or Mistral–They asked Brussels at the beginning of this pause or simplify the application of the regulation. From the commission, for now, they insist on maintaining the planned calendar.     Criticism from both sides Neither the American nor the European strategy are exempt from criticism. Both generate tensions, doubts and warnings from different fronts. In the United States, the deregulator approach has generated a wave of reproaches. The plan talks about maintaining global technological dominance through deregulation, infrastructure and alliances. For many, That is a clear bias in favor of great technological. JB Branch, by Public Citizen, denounced that the plan It is in practice a favor treatment of Silicon Valley. More than 90 organizations launched the “People’s ai Action Plan“As a counterpart, accusing the White House of prioritizing corporate interests on social welfare.” The plan is written by and for those who want to use AI about us, not with us, ” They said Sarah Myers West and Amba Kak, from the AI Now Institute. In Xataka We thought the Antispam law had not served at all. The responsible companies are already being fine Europe, meanwhile, deal with its own problems. European startups and multinationals claim more margin to compete without normative ballast United States and China. The balance between promoting innovation and guaranteeing control remains far. Images | Xataka with Gemini Flash 2.5 | Igor Omilaev In Xataka | Google’s summaries are reducing clicks to half. And that only points in one address: the collapse (Function () {Window._js_modules = Window._js_modules || {}; var headelement = document.getelegsbytagname (‘head’) (0); if (_js_modules.instagram) {var instagramscript = Document.Createlement (‘script’); }}) (); – The news While Europe fights with its rules on AI, the US is betting on the contrary: an unprecedented normative relaxation It was originally posted in Xataka by Javier Marquez .

Russia is using an unprecedented tactic to dynamit Ukraine: Telegram and Ukrainian adolescents

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The story jumped following a data from Ukrainian intelligence. Apparently, More than 700 people They have been arrested in the country for crimes of sabotage and terrorism. The problem? That a quarter of them were minors, so an investigation was opened to find out how they had got there. They discovered something much bigger: many of them did not even know they were executing a Russian mission. Spies and terrorists by accident. The war between Russia and Ukraine has stopped being fought only in the battlefields to infiltrate the teenage mobiles. A growing number of Ukrainian minors is being recruited by Russian intelligence services through messaging applications Like Telegramwith the promise of easy money in exchange for performing tasks ranging from taking photographs of military objectives to the placement of explosives. One of the most recent cases is that of a 16 -year -old arrested In fraganti In the city of Dnipro while collecting information about Ukrainian military positions For the FSB. Your case It is not exceptional: According to the Ukraine Safety Service (SBU), more than 700 people have been arrested for espionage, sabotage or terrorism directed by Russian agents, and as we said, around 25% were minors. From Telegram to the battlefield. The capture methods follow a disturbing pattern. Wearing anonymous accounts In Telegram, Discord, WhatsApp or Viber, the Russian agents contact young people offering them Between $ 100 and 1,000 For simple tasks that become more and more dangerous: take photos of anti -aircraft systems, cause fires in critical infrastructure or plant explosives in recruitment stations. Many of recruited teenagers act knowingly, others believe they are participating in games o Digital challenges, as in the case of two children under 15 and 16 years in Járkiv, who thought to be completing a “Quest” by following FSB instructions to geolocate and record military facilities. These coordinates were used to guide air attacks against the city. Involuntary suicides. In other cases, the result It has been lethal: two recruited teenagers to place a pump in a train station in Ivano-Frankivsk were Victims of the device itselfremotely activated by its Russian supervisors, in what has been described as a forced suicide operation without knowledge of the executor. In another, described For the GuardianOleh, a 19 -year -old from East of Ukraine accepted a job offered by a stranger named “Anton” for $ 1,000: he had to collect a backpack in Rivne and sprinkle paint in front of a police station. It happens that there was no paint inside the bag, but an improvised explosive artifact, with cables, an attached mobile and a deadly trap that would have made it, without knowing it, a suicidal attacker. The operation. Oleh was progressively recruited. He started sending photos of public buildings for 50 dollars in exchange for cryptocurrency payments, which made him enter the orbit of his captors. After refusing to set fire to a building, he was contacted weeks later by another man, “Alexander”, which offered him a new seemingly harmless task and Better remunerated. Oleh convinced his friend Serhiy to join the plan. Both, unemployed and needy money, traveled to Rivne and collected the bags in an agreed area. The operation, carefully directed by Alexander from Telegram, included precise instructions, video calls, remote surveillance and an alleged spray with which they had to make a symbolic graffiti in front of a police station. However, at the last moment, when opening the package, Oleh discovered that he had been deceived and alerted a policeman nearby. SBU agents who followed the operation arrested both young people. The attack was avoided thanks to signal blocking systems that prevented Alexander from detonating the explosives by a call. The same type of attack had killed a 21 -year -old boy three days before in the same city. Systematic campaign The Ukrainian authorities They denounce that this strategy is not sporadic or improvised, but a systematic effort For destabilizing the country from within, exploiting the precariousness and emotional vulnerability of its youth. Displaced young people, orphans for war or simply in need of money for a mobile phone have become objectives of a covert war machine that transforms their curiosity and despair into sabotage tools. Faced with this, the SBU has launched A national campaign of awareness to counteract these tactics: alert messages by SMS, poster posters, educational videos in trains and visits to schools where agents teach adolescents how to detect recruitment signals. He campaign motto“Do not burn yours, burn the enemy,” seeks to reverse the narrative imposed by Moscow. National Security vs. Childhood Rights. No doubt, the use of minors in espionage and terrorism actions also raises a Legal and ethical dilemma. Under the martial law in force in Ukraine, crimes of betrayal, sabotage or collaboration can lead to Perpetual prison sentenceseven for teenagers. Although the Government ensures that due process and legal representation are being guaranteed, organizations such as Human Rights Watch They warn that minors must be treated under international youth justice standards, prioritizing rehabilitation. Even so, internal pressure on the authorities It is huge: With a current total war and Russian attacks guided from within the country, even adolescents arrested for collaborating with the enemy are seen as traitors. For the head of the SBU, Vasyl Malyuk, there is no ambiguity: “For us, they are traitors of the State.” Threat that grows. He counted The Financial Times That the sophistication of Russian recruitment techniques is increasing. In June, the SBU warned about a new tactic: Russian agents who pass Ukrainian officials to manipulate minors and get sabotages or cyber crimes on behalf of the government themselves to harm. Disinformation, digital anonymity and the use of playful playful dynamics have converted the phones of Ukrainian adolescents into The new front of a war without clear rules. Thus, as the conflict extends, Ukraine is forced to fight not only against missiles and drones, but against an invasion that is also infiltrated in the youngest and most vulnerable minds of his society. Image | … Read more

responded with an unprecedented wood platform

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During the Cold War, the possibility of a nuclear attack was not a remote hypothesis. It was a scenario contemplatedcalculated and tested. It was estimated that An atomic explosion in the atmosphere could generate an electromagnetic pulse capable of Radares unusedcommunications, electrical networks and command systems. In that context, the United States launched an ambitious test program to ensure that its strategic aircraft could resist that type of threat. They could not afford an electronic failure to stop fighting a bomber like the B-52. Thus, Trestele (Atlas-I) was born, a colossal installation Raised near the Kirtland Air Basein New Mexico. Its purpose was as singular as its design: simulate, without the need for explosives, the effects of a nuclear detonation on real aircraft. As they point out in Motorpasionto create a reliable trial environment, it was essential to eliminate any interference. Even the platform itself had to become “invisible” to the phenomenon that was tried to reproduce. The solution was as radical as ingenious: build the main structure Almost without metalusing laminated wood, fiberglass bolts and more advanced civil engineering techniques. The result remembered a railway bridge suspended on a ravine in the middle of the desert. More than 35 meters from the groundthe airplanes were towed on a wooden track and exposed to gusts of controlled energy that imitated the behavior of an electromagnetic pulse. It was a way to recreate, with extreme precision and without a single nuclear explosion, the invisible effects of a war that should never occur. A colossal structure to protect the nucleus from US military power The mind behind the project was Carl E. Bauman electrical engineer of meticulous thought that dedicated more than four decades to the Air Force. It was he who proposed to build a high and non -conductive platform to simulate a realistic flight environment, free of interference. His proposal was not a heart, but the fruit of years of study on the effects of Electromagnetic pulses. At a time when computers could barely model complex phenomena, Baum defended that there was only a reliable way to understand the impact of an EMP on an airplane: apply it directly on a real aircraft, without computer shortcuts or synthetic recreations. He himself avoided the use of computers, although his team did use them. Decades later, super -touches like The Captain They are capable of simulating nuclear explosions in three dimensions with an unthinkable precision in the seventies. But then, neither the calculations were so sophisticated nor the models so reliable. Baum preferred Pencil, perforated paper and hand -drawn transparencies. While the world began to imagine a defense supported by simulations, he designed a physical environment, almost completely assembled in wood, to test with real energy what one day could decide the fate of a country. Building such an installation was not only a matter of size, but of intention. The complex Trestele It should be immense, but also not disturbing for experiments. To achieve this, almost all the metal materials of the test platform were removed: even the screws were made of wood or fiberglass. The main board measured about 61 meters sidealthough it was not a perfect square: its corners were cut to improve structural efficiency, which slightly reduced its useful surface. The whole set was held on a ravine in the Kirtland Air Baseso that the plane was suspended as if it were in full flight. The total length of the complex exceeded 300 meters. Each component was designed not to interfere with the reproduction of the phenomenon, although other parts of the installation, such as the Wedge building or the termination tower, they were made of steel. The Trestele test structure in the 1980s The airplanes were towed to the platform using a wooden ramp of about 120 meters. Once in position, they were subjected to discharges of very high intensity generated by an electrical system capable of loyalty replicating the conditions of a nuclear electromagnetic pulse. Two Marx generators, housed in sealed compartments, launched impulses of about 5 million volts each. It was not about destroying the plane, but to verify how their systems responded to an invisible threat, capable of burning unprotected circuits, with the aim of reinforcing them to continue working after a real attack. A B-52H Stratofortress at the Barksdale Air Base, Louisiana (2021) Some of the most strategic aircraft in the United States passed through the Platform of the Tressel. He BOMBARDERO B-52emblem of nuclear deterrence, was one of the first to submit to the tests. It was followed by models like the EC-135designed to maintain the chain of command in case of crisis, and the E-4also known as “the final judgment plane.” Everyone shared a critical mission: to follow operational even if the rest of the country was incommunicado. What was tested was not just the resistance of a cell or the integrity of a radar. It was the ability to preserve intact the core of military power in the worst imaginable scenario. For decades, TresTle was one of the largest wooden structures ever built. His scale was huge. To keep it standing, more than 60,000 dielectric bolts were used only on the board and the ramp, although more than 150,000 special bolts without metal were used throughout the installation. That is added millions of laminated wood pieces. Although today the Grand Ring of Expo 2025 in Osaka It has been officially recognized by Guinness as the largest wooden architectural structure in the world, the Tustle maintained that title in an unofficial way. Images | United States Air Force (1, 2, 3, 4, 5) In Xataka | Naples Airport has rejected a Boeing 787 with 200 passengers on board for a single reason: two meters long

China’s military and civil nuclear capacity grows at an unprecedented rate. The US does not take away your eyes off

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China has deservedly consolidated as the country to which all the nations that bet on nuclear energy look. It currently has 58 nuclear reactors whose joint capacity is approximately 61 GWE (electric gigawatts). Besides, It has another 28 reactors under construction that will add additional 33.65 GWE. And just a month ago the State Council approved the construction of 10 more nuclear reactors. China is already the second country with more machines of this type, only behind the US. In any case, the best asset of this Asian country is its commitment to innovation. And the reactor of Molten Sales and Torio TMSR-LF1 is a very valuable letter of presentation. This machine received the approval of the Chinese Nuclear Safety Administration in mid -June 2023 after having successfully completed the initial testing phase that started in 2021. and since then the itinerary that had set the Institute of Applied Physics of Shanghai, which is the institution responsible for its tuning. As explained by the American nuclear engineer Nick Touran In your tweetthe TMSR-LF1 reactor officially entered into operation on October 11, 2023. A few months later, on June 17, 2024, He started working at full power. And on October 8 of last year the technicians who operate it detected protacinium-233 (PA-233), a radioactive isotope intermediate derived from the transformation of the thorium into Uranium-233 as part of the fuel cycle of the thorium. This nuclear reactor is in the Minqin industrial complex of the province of Gansu, in northern China. It has a power of 2 thermal megawatts (MWT), and, although it will not be the first Fourth Generation Nuclear Reactor In activity, and not the first one that Torio will use as fuel, it will be the first of molten salts that will use this chemical element. However, the ambition of this Asian country does not end here; It is already planning to build a molten salts and more capacity sales reactor for 2030. The modernization of China’s nuclear arsenal is accelerating Nuclear physics has two faces. We all know that the knowledge that has given us can be used to generate electricity and favor the development of large population masses, as we have just seen, but it can also be used to produce weapons of mass destruction. China carried out its first test with an atomic bomb in 1964. Initially its scientists had the help of Soviet nuclear engineers, but this alliance was broken in 1959 and the country that was then led by Mao Zedong was forced to continue with this project without having any external help. This isolation did not prevent China from carrying out the first test with a hydrogen bomb in 1967, just three years after launching its first atomic bomb. During the next three decades the Chinese nuclear armament continued advancing, although Mao never aspired to deal with the number of atomic and hydrogen bombs With the US or the Soviet Union first, and Russia later. His doctrine pursued China’s survival by resorting to deterrence, but without directly involving themselves in the cold war that the two hegemonic powers held at the end of the 20th century. “Beijing has the ambition to create a wide sphere of influence in the regions of the Indian and the Pacific, as well as becoming the leading world power” The funny thing is that everything changed during the first decade of the 21st century. China’s economic capacity was growing and its scientific and technical development during the second half of the twentieth century had been out of all doubt. The US government was already realized that this Asian country was consolidating as a superpower Able to dispute your world supremacy. This was the context in which the tension between these two countries was born that seems to be currently reaching its peak. The following literal extract of the document that collects The National Security Strategy Published by the US government in October 2022, it reflects very clearly why it considers China a threat: “The People’s Republic of China (RPC) is the only competitor that has both the intention of remodeling international order and, increasingly, more and more Economic, diplomatic, military and technological capacity To do so. Beijing has the ambition to create a wide sphere of influence in the regions of the Indian and the Pacific, as well as to become the leading world power. “These lines perfectly condense the background history that has triggered the international situation in which we meet. If we stick to its military development the US Department of Defense He estimates that China currently has an arsenal made up of More than 600 nuclear eyeletsand plans to increase this figure until reaching 1,000 eyelets in 2030. USA and Russia have an arsenal of approximately 5,200 and 5,500 eyelets respectively, although many of them are in reserve and others will be dismantled. China has less eyelets, it is evident, but at least rivals with the US if we stick to the sophistication of its intercontinental ballistic missiles, its nuclear submarines, its bomber and its hypersonic missiles. Let us trust that China, the US, Russia and the other nuclear powers enter and stop this climbing of the nuclear weapons. Image | Пресguese More information | US Department of Defense In Xataka | China prepares the mate to the US: it will have its own UVE lithography team to make chips in 2025

The US wants to build an unprecedented antimisile shield called “Golden Dome”. And Spacex has suitable technology

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The idea of ​​an antimile shield that protects the United States from enemy attacks is not even original. Already in the era reagan, The country fantasized with an initiative nicknamed “Star Wars” That never saw the light. Now, the Trump administration wants to dust off the project with technology of the 21st century and a more intimidating name: “Golden Dome” (the golden dome). With Spacex technology. A technological consortium headed by Spacex, the Aerospace Company of Elon Musk, leads the race to develop part of the Golden Dome, Publish Reuters. Its proposal consists of a constellation of between 400 and more than a thousand satellites dedicated to detecting enemy missiles, following its trajectory and determining if they suppose a threat to the territory of the United States. Other separate fleet of about 200 satellites (armed with missiles or lasers) would be responsible for intercepting missiles; Although the group led by Spacex would not be, according to Reuters, involved in the offensive part of the system. Old acquaintances. In addition to Spacex, two other technology companies are part of the initiative: Palantir Technologies and Anduril Industries. Palantir is a government software co -founded by Alex Karp and Peter Thiel, old acquaintances of Musk. Anduril specializes in military drones and Autonomous Defense Technologies; Its most famous founder is Palmer Lukey, the creator of the Virtual Virtual Rift helmets. All of them, very aligned entrepreneurs and Donald Trump’s millionaire donors. If you liked, subscribe. The approach proposed by Spacex, Palantir and Anduril has an unorthodox turn for a defense contract for this magnitude: a subscription model. Instead buy and own satellite infrastructure, the Pentagon would pay a fee to access its services. This model, always according to reuters, could expedite the implementation by dodging the conventional procurement protocols of the Pentagon, but would also tie the government to a supplier and limit its control over the development and future prices of technology. After the publication of Reuters, which generated comments on possible conflicts of interest and worse things, Elon Musk responded in his X profile: “This is not true”, without giving more details. From Iron Dome to Golden Dome. The inspiration in the name seems clear: the Israeli iron dome. But the differences also appear in sight: Israel is a small country, with short -range threats. The United States is a continental country exposed to attacks from multiple vectors and with new threats, as the hypersonic missiles developed by Russia and Chinawhose erratic trajectories and extreme speed challenge current systems. Replicating the iron dome on an American scale is technical and economically unfeasible. Hence, the alternative that right now has more ballots is a solution based on the Starlink satellite constellation, which would cost between 6,000 and 10,000 million dollars. More politics than defense, for now. Although Spacex and its technological partners seem to be in the lead, traditional defense giants such as Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, RTX or Boeing are not far behind and also bid on the part of the cake. The Pentagon has received proposals from more than 180 companies. The big question is whether Golden Dome will really be a defensive revolution against real threats (such as hypersonic weapons or orbital bombing systems) or If it’s just an electoral promise closer to the science fiction of Star Wars than to a pragmatic military strategy. If something has taught us the current administration is that nothing they are going to do tomorrow is predictable. Images | Peter Thiel and Elon Musk (PayPal), Starlink Stelas (Lowell) In Xataka | Space energy never worked. A military escalation in orbit is making it come true

Ghibli’s fever has forced Openai to adopt an unprecedented measure: add water mark

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He Viral phenomenon of the images generated by chatgpt that I mimic those of Studio Ghibli It has apparently caused an interesting reaction from OpenAI. One with which to avoid major evils. Water marks. The company is preparing the inclusion of water brands in the images it generates Your new AI modelImagegen. As indicated in Bleeping Computer, a researcher named Tibor Blaho He has found References to these water marks in the Android application of Chatgpt. They already did it with texts generated by AI. OpenAi has already raised long ago Your own system to integrate water marks into the texts generated by AI. Now it seems to be preparing something similar for its deployment in an image generator that is precisely becoming a successful tool for Capture a lot of new users. An idea with a lot of future. We have been talking about the efforts from various companies to create some type of standardized water brand. He C2PA standardthat among other things has been supported by OpenAIit is the one that is gradually gaining ground. This discovery in the Android of Chatgpt reveals that intention to implement it natively by generating any image from the OpenAi chatbot. Pay to avoid water brand? In Bleeping Computer they indicate how sources close to OpenAi talk about two types of images of AI: Water marks will be in the images generated with grauite accounts, but chatgpt plus subscribers can save them without water mark. It is something similar to what happens with image banks that have free images without water marks and others that do and that force to pay to remove them. A measure to avoid demands. The ability to create images that imitate those of Studio Chibli has unleashed a viral fever for this Openai tool, but that also raises potential judicial actions. Copyright is still a controversial element of everything that surrounds AI models, and water brands would at least serve to it conform their origin and avoid legal demands. The debate on fair use and copyright. In Your appendix On risks of use of GPT-4O and its image of the images, OpenAi mentions that the tool can be used to create images “that look like the aesthetics of some artists.” She and others They grab the concept of “fair use” of those tools when training them and generating images. However, the thin line that separates that fair use from a Copyright violation It is increasingly tense, and the risk is clear. Image | Xataka with chatgpt In Xataka | The price to be paid for having ia is the looting of all the internet content. And perplexity is just the last example

The swamps are so full for the rains of March that some face something unprecedented: unwind for the first time

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For a good part of the twentieth century, storms in the Borbonne Valley were terrible. In 1970, the river overflowed, flooded La Vega and blocked the daily life of the region for weeks. Throughout that decade, The creation of a reservoir began, the Alcorlowhich forced evacuate locations and placed its spillway a few 700 meters from the town of San Andrés del Congosto. Since the dam was closed in 1979, I had never had to take a water to avoid overflow. Until today. What happened in the center of Spain? Although most of the attention has been taken the south, Jana has watered (and much) The entire area of ​​the central system. So much so that, during the weekend, numerous municipalities of the Henares Corridor and La Alcarria have received notices from 112 due to the possibility that the Tajo Hydrographic Conference will land a whole series of swamps from the provinces surrounding the central system. Pálmatos, Beleña and La Tajera They have already been relieved Water over the weekend and three others were about to do so. Among them, Alcorlo’s because, as he said, throughout his history, he had never had to release water before. Nervousness in the Alcarria. The mayor of San Andrés has been expressing her concern all weekend. And, although he acknowledges that the town has never come to flood (“never in its history is aware of any event of this type“),” It looks like a small sea. We had never seen it that way and it impresses see it “, The Gil Consul said in the Digital of Castilla – La Mancha. I also recognized feeling “Chills and fear” for the impact that the flood can have in the municipality. It was not disenchanted because, in the last hours, about 50 people have moved to avoid risks. The domino effect. However, the main problem will not be given in the headwaters of the rivers where these reservoirs are: The problem is downstream. The Castilla Operational Control Center – La Mancha has warned that all that unpacked water will go on the Alberche River. The province of Guadalajara and, by exemption, the entire main branch of the Tagus is preparing for that water coup (that a channel as mistreated as this will thank). And it’s not something isolated. As Álvaro Oliver explained“On just 8 days of March, in the port of Navacerrada it has rained/snowy which usually falls in the 3 months of spring. In 8 days what usually falls in 90 days. 13 times more than usual in the first week of March.” It is raining a lot. It is raining more than some sites can manage comfortably. Mission: Take advantage of each drop of water. A key factor that makes all this special rain is that it comes from Atlantic storms. That is, it normally drains into the areas where we have the reservoirs and that allows us to take advantage of it much more than we can take advantage of the water from the danas. So now we return to the start box: What do we do with all this water? How do we prepare for a summer that, if it fits the trend, will return the ghost of the drought? And again, we return to one of the key problems of our country: that We still don’t order Water resources in a responsible way and with a view to the future. Image | LBM1948 | ASQUELADD

Apple has just taken an unprecedented measure

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From Friday, ICLOUD users in the United Kingdom can no longer activate the protection of advanced data (ADP) with end -to -end encryption. Those who already had this function must deactivate it in the future. The surprising measure comes after British government pressure For Apple to integrate a rear door in its cloud storage service, a decision that could compromise the privacy of users around the world. A key security feature. End -to -end encryption, known as E2EE in English, is considered the most private and sure network communication method. The data is encrypted and deciphered only in the authorized devices, that is, they travel online safely, so that if someone managed to intercept them, they would find a lot of intelligible text product of the cryptographic masking used. Messaging applications such as WhatsApp or Signal and cloud services like ICloud They offer this security feature. If it is correctly implemented, this means that not even the companies that control these services have the ability to spy our conversations or files. And this also applies to governments and security services, which will not be able to access these data even with the corresponding judicial orders. United Kingdom demand. The Washington Post published An article on February 7 in which he assured that British security services had required Apple to create a rear door in ICloud. In other words, the implementation of a mechanism that allowed them to avoid advanced service measures to access private files. It was a controversial measure that did not distinguish the location of the users. Immediate reaction in the US. Although the alleged contact between the United Kingdom and Apple developed privately, the reports of the aforementioned American newspaper lit several alarms on the other side of the ocean. Several congressmen sent a letter American Intelligence Director, Tulsi Gabbard, alleging a threat to emerging security and privacy from the United Kingdom and urging measures. Apple’s response. Weeks after the matter came to light, Apple has made an unprecedented decision. In a statement sent on Friday to Xataka, the Cupertino company said it has never implemented a back door in its products and services, and that they will never. In addition, he detailed the measures he would take with Icloud in the United Kingdom. As of today, affected users can no longer activate the security function that ends end -to -end encryption on the platform. “Apple can no longer offer advanced data protection (ADP) in the United Kingdom to new users and current users of the United Kingdom will eventually have to deactivate this security function,” Apple said. “We are deeply disappointed that the protections provided by ADP are not available for our clients in the United Kingdom given the continuous increase in data violations and other threats to customer privacy,” he added in the email. ADP, an optional measure. Although end -to -end encryption is activated by default in services such as WhatsApp and Signal, in ICLOUD it is an optional measure (although certain sensitive data such as saved passwords and data from the health and maps apps are protected by default). UK users could activate it from the settings of their profile to keep the security of their information to the next level. With the disappearance of ADP in the United Kingdom, British users who want to protect their information from possible indiscreet looks should resort to prior methods to 2022, when Apple implemented their advanced security system. That is, making local backups or using other trusted services. Now, it remains to be seen how the British authorities will respond to this movement. Images | Apple | Screen capture In Xataka | How to change all our passwords according to three cybersecurity experts

The price of rice has raised so much that Japan has had to make an unprecedented decision: resort to its reservations

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Few things reflect to what extent there is a crisis situation that the price of a basic product in the supermarket. In Japan, and in most Asia, Rice is a fundamental pillar of foodsupporting the life of much of the population. However, a combination of factors threatens the essential cereal. In Japan he has never been so expensive, and the government has made an unprecedented decision. Tons of rice. Given the increase in rice due to distribution problems, the Japanese government has announced that, As of March, it will release 210,000 tons from its emergency reserve To stabilize the market. It is, therefore, The first time this reserve is used with the purpose of reducing pricesinstead of doing so for emergencies such as bad harvests or natural disasters. The Minister of Agriculture, Taku Eto, emphasized that rice production has been enough to meet demand, but bottlenecks in the distribution have maintained high prices. In 2024, Production increased by 180,000 tons compared to the previous year. However, the amount collected by distributors fell into 210,000 tons, which suggests that Farmers and wholesalers retained stocks anticipating new price increases. According to researcher Masayuki Ogawa at UTSunomiya University, The mismatch is due to the entry of speculative buyers They have artificially maintained prices without the benefits reaching producers. Crisis factors. As we said at the beginning (And in past weeks), there are several. The price of a five kg package of Japanese rice has risen from 2,023 yen to 3,688 yen in a year. Causes? The 2023 record heat wave reduced agricultural yields and reserves, while consumption increased due to unprecedented tourism. Besides, The warnings of typhoons and earthquakes unleashed panic purchaseswhich led some retailers to limit sales. To this we must add what we commented before. The harvest has not been bad, but quite the opposite, but everything indicates that farmers and wholesalers retained stocks anticipating new price increases. Liberation strategy and expectations. To relieve market pressure, The Ministry will initially auction 150,000 tons of rice to agricultural and wholesale cooperatives, mostly composed of a grain of 2024, with a small part of 2023. Subsequently, another 60,000 tons will be releaseddepending on the impact of the first phase. The auction will take place in mid -March, which means that rice will begin to reach shops between the end of March and April. The main objective is clear: Improve distribution without intervening directly in the market price mechanism. In this regard, Eto reaffirmed the government’s position that Prices must be regulated by supply and demandtrusting that the measure helps normalize the situation. In addition, the Ministry plans to replace (buy “back”) the amount released within the year, with flexibility in the deadlines according to the market reaction. Impact on consumers and industry. While the measure is expected to reduce the price of rice, Ogawa warned that The decrease will not be immediate or uniform at all points of sale. Instead of directly impacting prices in supermarkets, released rice probably is destined for the prepared food industry, such as restaurants, hospitals and schools. What is that reserve of the nation. Japan implemented its rice reservation system in 1995, after the supply crisis caused by an unusually cold summer in 1993. Since then, since then, since then, The government maintains a stock of approximately one million tons and are stored in some 300 facilities nationwide, annually renewing 200,000 tons to guarantee the supply in emergency situations. In fact, a warehouse in Saitama, near Tokyo, allowed access to media before the ad, Showing 20,000 tons of rice, enough to fill 300 million bowls. In the past, these reserves have been used after natural disasters such as the earthquake and tsunami of 2011 in Tohoku and the Lady of Kumamoto in 2016. Now it remains to be seen that the movement has effect and the stabilization in the distribution is containing the price increase In the medium term. Image | Rawpixel In Xataka | In full tourist boom, Japan has encountered a historical rice crisis. Now pay 30% more expensive In Xataka | Japan has no doubt that he approaches a brutal crisis. The cost of cooking your star dish has never been so high

China is raising an unprecedented dam where millions of people live. The problem is seismic activity

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Before finishing 2024 we advanced what was known about China’s last megonstruction. Actually, we could not talk about “another” as if it were something else in a long list, because it is possibly one of the most ambitious projects that are reminded of the nation: a super prey so monumental that would leave The three throats relegated to the background, producing three times more energy than the spectacular structure of more than two kilometers long. Of course, there is some problem. The superpress. It is a reality: China advances with the construction of the Motuo Superpress in Tibetan unprecedented infrastructure project that, if completed, will become the largest hydroelectric power plant in the world taking advantage of an abrupt slope of 2,800 meters, exceeding the capacity of the three throats dam (currently the biggest in the world). Located in The Grand Canyon of Yarlung Tsangpoon the border with India, the dam has aroused environmental, geopolitical and humanitarian concerns, especially due to the lack of transparency of Beijing about its development. Experts warn that the project represents a “water pump” for millions of people in India and Bangladesh. Seismic risks. The Tibet is One of the most seismically active regions on the planetit has been known for a long time because it is located in the collision of the Indian plaque and the Euroasy Plate. In fact, a recent 7.1 magnitude earthquake in Shigatse It caused damage to five hydroelectric dams and the death of 134 people, demonstrating how vulnerable infrastructure in the region is. Although Motuo’s work can be designed to withstand earthquakes, landslides and mud alluds could serve as a fuse and unleash, representing a direct threat to nearby populations. We speak, again, millions of people. This risk is aggravated by the phenomenon of Seismicity induced by reservoirs (RTS)where the weight of accumulated water in large dams can trigger earthquakes. An example is the zipingpu damwhose construction was followed by Sichuan’s devastating earthquake in 2008 which charged 87,000 lives. In addition, sediment retention by the dam could reduce the fertility of the soil downstream, causing erosion in the rivers and coasts of India and Bangladesh. Gran_Cañón Yarlung Tsangpo Environmental impact. The dam too would alter the water and climatic patterns Crucial for agriculture in the region. The Tibet, where Brahmaputra is born, is one of the most biodiverse regions of the world and a key regulator of Asian climate. The construction of the superpress could, for example, alter the monsoon rainfallwith devastating effects for agriculture in India and Bangladesh. In addition, the ecological impact of Chinese megaemblses is already evident in other international rivers, Like the Mekong, where the dams have caused droughts recurring and the intrusion of salt water in agricultural deltas. Impact between the premises and (des) information. It is another leg that must tie the project. The Tibet is under a strong control of the Chinese Communist Party, so the magnitude of the displacement of Tibetans that will require the work is not known. In this regard, Beijing has not revealed details about costs (It is estimated that total investment will exceed 130,000 million euros), The companies involved or the number of people who will be relocated. And if we are guided by other cases in Chinese provinces, protests against hydroelectric projects have been repressedit is suggested that any opposition in the Tibet will be silenced. Geopolitics of a superpress. He Brahmaputrawhich flows to India and Bangladesh, is a vital artery for millions of people. Again, that lack of Chinese transparency has generated distrust in New Delhi and Daca, whose scientists have demanded access to hydrological data to evaluate the risks of the work. India, meanwhile, Fears China use river control as a geopolitical weaponrestricting or diverting the flow in case of conflicts. Thus, and in the face of uncertainty, some Indian officials have proposed an alternative: Build a dam in a Brahmaputra tributary to counteract possible flow reductionsalthough this solution does not seem ideal and could also harm the ecology of the region. Imminent risk. Nikei had this week That the possibility of a catastrophic collapse is not a simple speculation. China has suffered hundreds of dam failures throughout its historyincluding the worst disaster ever registered: The collapse in cascade of the Banqiao dam And another 61 dams in 1975, an event that caused 85,000 direct deaths and displaced 11 million people. Even The three throats dam was on the verge of collapse in 2020endangering 400 million people. Therefore, if a strong earthquake hit the region and cause the rupture of the superpress, Millions of people in the Brahmaputra Valley in India and Bangladesh could be affected by catastrophic floods, aggravating. In addition, geopolitical and humanitarian tensions in the region. If you want also, it is feasible to think that with this mega -Obra, China would not only reinforce its control over the water resources of Asia, but also converting Brahmaputra into a geopolitical weaponincreasing their pressure capacity over their neighbors. Image | Harvey BarrisonNASA In Xataka | China prepares the most expensive megaestructure on the planet: a hydroelectric power plant on the most controversial place possible In Xataka | The three throats dam is so huge that it has caused something unexpected: extending the days of the earth

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