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In 1778 Mozart attempted to teach composition to a French noblewoman. It didn’t go well at all, but thanks to her we now have unpublished works

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Wolfgang A. Mozart died more than two centuries ago at the age of 35, but neither the time that has passed since his death nor his youth have prevented his talent from continuing to surprise us in 2026. Literally. Although few musicians have been as scrutinized as the Austrian genius, the Bibliothèque Nationale de France (BnF) just discovered an unpublished notebook from 1778 with scores from Mozart’s hand. The 44-page work contains seven pieces for flute and harp. Beyond the artistic value, the discovery sheds new clues about his life. The date: 02/02/2026. Sometimes chance is capricious. Coincidentally, that day, a week after the 270th anniversary of Mozart’s birth, one of the BnF conservators was rummaging through old manuscripts in the archive when he came across a piece that caught his attention. “I opened it and saw staves full of deletions, corrections and additions,” relates the BcN employee, François-Pierre Goy, responsible for the collections prior to 1800. “I recognized Mozart’s handwriting, his way of drawing the brackets, the rounded treble clefs leaning forward, the double final bars with fermatas above and below,” explained Goy to Le Monde. If it is not common to find an unpublished work by Mozart, that specific discovery was even more exceptional: the notebook dates from the end of the 18th century, but it is not signed and the BnF stored it among twenty manuscripts that were in the process of being recataloged. Following the trail. Goy had a hunch (one based on his extensive knowledge of the Austrian composer), but that is not enough to attribute an anonymous notebook to Mozart. To confirm his suspicions he went to Laurence Decoberthead of the Iconography and Documentation Service of the Department of Performing Arts of the BnF and a good connoisseur of the Austrian composer. In fact, he participated in the exhibition ‘Mozart, a French passion’, in 2017. Their analysis must also have pointed to Mozart’s authorship because Goy and his colleague decided to turn to a third specialist. Just a few months ago, in April, there was a knock on the door of Armin Brinzingthe director of the Mozart Library at the Mozarteum University of Salzburg. The expert did not have many doubts either: he confirmed the attribution and, above all, highlighted the historical importance of the work. “It is Mozart’s most important discovery in decades,” claims. What does the notebook contain? The document contains 44 handwritten folios with seven short works for flute and harp, as well as composition exercises, nothing strange if we take into account the context in which the experts place it: the BnF believes that it collects the composition lessons that Mozart gave to Marie-Louise-Philippine de Bonnières de Guînesan aristocrat three years younger than the Austrian and who is remembered above all for her skill as a harpist. “The use of French paper in the manuscript and its content (composition exercises and seven pieces for flute and harp) suggest that it bears witness to the lessons that Mozart gave directly from May to July 1778, during his last stay in Paris, to de Guînes,” explains the French organization. The young harpist, who was 19 years old at the time, was the eldest daughter of Adrien-Louis de Bonnières de SouastreDuke of Guînes and great lover of music. In fact, the duke himself was reputed to be a virtuoso flutist. By hiring Mozart as a composition teacher, he hoped that his daughter would create “great sonatas” for the instruments they both played: she the harp; he the flute. “I’ve tried everything”. The notebook located between the shelves of the BnF completes an episode in Mozart’s life that we already knew in part. Through a letter that Wolfgang wrote in May 1778 to his father, Leopold, who remained in Salzburg, we know, for example, that his young pupil may have been a skilled harpist, but she did not seem to have the makings of a composer. “She has no ideas, nothing comes of it. I’ve tried everything with her,” recognized Mozart frustrated. In general, his stay in Paris was not as profitable as he expected. He did not receive the recognition he desired and Goy explains that the duke never paid the Austrian for a flute, harp and orchestra concert that he commissioned. “We don’t even know if the Guînes family ever performed the pieces.” Why is it important? Locating a lost Mozart manuscript is always good news, even more so if (as in this case) it includes several unknown pieces. The notebook found by Goy, however, presents a series of peculiarities that make it even more interesting on a historical level. For example, the works are intended for a flute that the duke had bought in London, an instrument “rare, if not unique in Paris”, clarify from the BnF. Furthermore, Mozart did not devote the same attention to the flute or harp that he did to other instruments for which he created more repertoire, such as the clarinet. The new BnF work is also completed with annotations that seem 100% taken by the student and six blank final pages, without annotations. The big question. The manuscript is fascinating, but the truth is that experts seem to have few doubts about its origin. The BnF believes that it is one of the pieces “confiscated” in the mansion of the Duke of Guînes in mid-1794, during the Terror period of the French Revolution. Goy himself remembers that in the National Archives of France there is an inventory that cites “two bundles of sheet music” bound books taken from the aristocrat’s house in May 1794, after he sought refuge in England. The truth is that in recent years music lovers have enjoyed the discovery of various works unknown by Mozart, including pieces from his adolescence. “One of the most important”. Whoever wants to enjoy the short pieces for flute and harp that have just been resurfaced from the BnF archives can do so now in a performance made June 21 in the Ovale room of … Read more

Ukraine no longer wants to send soldiers to the front. His answer is an “unpublished Frankenstein”: robot-tanks with machine guns

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The British inventor Ernest Swinton first proposed using “land ships” to cross trenches and avoid sending infantry directly into fire. That idea gave rise to first modern tank a year later. Now, more than a century later, the logic is the same again: find a machine that can go where a soldier no longer can. A front that is too deadly. The war in Ukraine has entered a point where the simple act of sending men towards the line of contact begins to be too expensive a luxury. The saturation of drones has turned wide swaths of the front into real death zones where any movement is detected and punished almost instantly. This has changed the logic of the battle because it is no longer just about who has more armor or more artillery, but about who can continue hitting without exposing bodies. And here Ukraine is beginning to embrace a radical idea: if the front devours soldiers, perhaps the time has come to stop sending soldiers. The birth of a new “Frankenstein”. The Ukrainian response is as pragmatic as it is disturbing: take weapons systems designed for fixed positions and assemble them about ground robots. In fact, companies like Frontline Robotics They have converted their turret autonomous Buria (a kind of metal arm capable of firing machine guns or grenade launchers) into something new: small armed unmanned vehicles that act as micro-tanks. They are not tanks in the classic sense, but they fulfill part of their function. They move, shoot, seek cover and attack without a human being inside. It is a kind of improvised hybrid, a creature assembled with different parts to survive a battlefield that no longer forgives. The war against Russian infiltrations. The immediate objective of these robots is not major offensives, but something much more specific: hunt small groups of Russian infiltration. Moscow has been exploiting a simple but effective tactic for months: send small teams of infantry that slip between lines, forests and trenches to avoid aerial surveillance and penetrate Ukrainian defenses. They are small movements, difficult to detect and cheap to execute. Ukraine has understood that responding by sending more infantry only feeds that crusher. So now he sends armed robots, controlled from dozens of kilometers away, to intercept them before they go deeper into the line. The classic tank is getting old. There is a compelling reason why this idea is gaining traction: traditional tanks They are suffering greatly. Both Ukraine and Russia have discovered that a multi-million euro armored vehicle can be destroyed by a cheap drone in a matter of minutes. The economic equation has been broken. In that context, an armed terrestrial robot is a brutally logical solution: it costs less, it is manufactured faster and if it is destroyed no one dies. It is a mutation of the armored concept. Less armor, less power, less glamour… but more expendable. And in an industrial war, the expendable is often more valuable than the perfect. Evolution at the speed of war. The most striking thing is the speed with which all this evolves. Frontline Robotics It ensures that it introduces small changes up to twenty times a month and major updates every six months. The battlefield works like real time laboratory. Soldiers send constant feedback, and companies adapt their machines almost on the fly. It is a brutal advantage compared to the bureaucratic slowness of many Western industries. What today is a robot with a machine gunwithin a few months it may be a much more sophisticated system. Put another way, Ukraine is learning faster because it has no choice. Defend without humans. The underlying idea is more than a simple tactical innovation. Ukraine has already used ground robots to evacuate woundedcarry supplies, place mines and clear routes. This year they have made more than 50,000 missionsa gigantic jump compared to just 2,000 the previous semester. But what is truly new is the offensive leap: Russian positions captured only with aerial drones and ground robots, without a single infantry entering first. There has even been surrenders to machines. This paints a disturbing future: entire sectors defended and attacked by unmanned systems, where humans are increasingly distant from the point of impact. The ground war is mutating. What Ukraine is doing with these robot tanks may seem improvised, even almost artisanal, but it contains a transformation a lot more fat. For centuries, conquering land meant sending men into fire. Now start mean send machines. Not because they are better at everything, but because they are sacrificial. And on a front where every meter costs blood, the priority is no longer to advance bravely, but rather preserve lives. For this reason, Ukraine is not simply building new robots: it is testing a new way of waging ground warfare where the soldier is no longer the first piece to move. Image | Frontline Robotics, Oleksandr Klymenko/Ukrinform In Xataka | Satellite images revealed that Russia covered a building with an anti-drone cage. Ukraine turned it into an action movie set In Xataka | The drone war in Ukraine just solved an old military obsession: how to blow up a bridge without tons of bombs

Ukraine is basically a country made dron. So the war between humans has passed to an unpublished zone: underground

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Of all the realities that war in Ukraine is showing us, there is one that has no discussion: drones are The Trojan horse on which they are going to sustain war conflicts From now on. In Eastern Europe we are Seeing scenarios that until recently they were more typical of Fantastic literature than reality. The prominence is such that the battle between soldiers is no longer getting rid of the ground. It is getting rid underground. The war in the bowels. Yes, Kharkiv’s front is being the scene of an unexpected phenomenon: Russian soldiers tried infiltrate pipes of gas and water, crawling through ducts Underground to overcome the Oskil River and establish positions closer to Kupiansk. It’s about The third time in which this tactic appears since the beginning of the invasion, and is a new defensive challenge for Ukrainian forces, which have reacted flooding, damaging and fortifying several of these passages, aware that the pipes form an extensive and difficult network to control. kyiv’s General Staff officially confirmed that the pipes had been used, although it stressed that the city remains under Ukrainian control and that most accesses have already been closely neutralized or monitored. Pipes such as espionage routes. Kupiank’s case is not isolated. As We count thenlast March, Russian special forces toured almost fifteen kilometers through a gas pipeline in Sudzha to throw a blow against the Ukrainian rear in Kursk, an episode that Moscow celebrated As tactical successalthough it ended with the annihilation of much of the infiltrated team. In Avdiivka, at the beginning of 2024, Russian troops They drained a pipe Water service and adapted it as a underground route, opening exits every hundred meters to facilitate the advance. These maneuvers, which evoke command operations of other warsThey take advantage of the industrial and energy fabric of Ukraine, a country crossed by large gas pipelines that for decades were key to the European supply of Russian gas and that today, to a large extent, are underutilized. The Ukrainian response. Before this Unusual threatUkraine has deployed measures from Creative Military Engineering. In Kupiansk, teams of the 429th regiment of unmanned systems used explosives to damage the point where a pipe crossed with the Oskil, causing its flood. In addition, wire wire have been introduced inside some ducts, with Videos that show Booby-Traped passages designed to catch or dissuade intruders. Although the controls They recognize that Russia could try to repair or reuse these passages, ensure that surveillance is constant and that each attempt will be answered. This deployment reflects how Ukrainian defense is not only fought on the surface, with drones, armored or artillery, but also a subsoil turned into a new front. The expansion underground. Plus: The war in Ukraine had already shown An underground face in the catacombs of Mariupol or in the trenches of Bajmut, but the use of gas pipelines and pipes A different dimension: abandoned industrial corridors that now become improvised military tunnels in fear that drones do not allow surface advances. With a diameter of more than one meter in some cases, they allow the passage of equipped men and even basic supplies. Its extension, designed to transport up to 140,000 million cubic meters of gas per year, constitutes a potential battlefield which multiplies the possibilities of infiltration and forces Ukraine to allocate resources to unexpected land. The paradox is evident: the same infrastructure that once connected Europe with Russian energy today are Combat scenarios where the immediate security of cities and defensive positions is played. Strategic implications. He Use of pipes as penetration routes Confirm two things. On the one hand, that drones have transformed What we understood as a contest so far. On the other, the Russian ability to exploit any loophole in Ukrainian geography, even undergroundtogether with the need for kyiv to develop multilayer defenses that cover from the sky, saturated with drones, to subsoils, now traveled by soldiers crawling into the dark. Beyond the punctual efficacy, These tactics They highlight the plasticity of contemporary war, where each civil infrastructure can be militarized and where combat is fought in secondary dimensions. For military analysts, the battle of pipes in Ukraine anticipates a future in which the defense of a country will depend both on the surface that its population inhabits, plagued with swarms, as well as on the bowels that run through its industrial networks, now turned into unexpected war tunnels. Image | SERGEY KOLYASNIKOV In Xataka | In the Norwegian cold war he devised a plan underground to detain the Soviet. Invasion to Ukraine has reactivated it In Xataka | Russia has crowded a surprising blow to Ukraine: 100 soldiers walking for four days inside a gas pipeline

China showed the world an indecent amount of unpublished artillery. But the most advanced weapons remained hidden

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Yesterday We enumerate And we draw the Route of China in the field of military arsenal during the parade that commemorated the 80th anniversary of the victory over Japan and the end of World War II. As We countthe message was quite clear and forceful, showing a part of the power achieved by the popular liberation army in its accelerated modernization. However, more than one AS was left in the sleeve. The hidden power. Some of those developments that have not already showed them here, others not so muchbut everyone has something in common: they are the most advanced weapons of the nation, hence their concealment in public light. Many of them remain in secret because they are still in the development phase, for their strategic sensitivity or because they cannot be exhibited in an event of these characteristics. What was seen in the Tiananmén Square was just a fraction of the real capacity of the Chinese Armed Forces, which in parallel develop disruptive technologies with deep implications for the future war. Aviation and “the” electromagnetic. We have treated it. China is testing site generation fighters, provisionally known as J-36 and J-50that after their inaugural flights they have continued in the trial phase, and whose level of sophistication remains under strict secrecy. Similarly, prototypes of Riel and coil cannonscapable of intercepting hypersonic and ballistic missiles at low cost, they are too limited in size and are restricted to large ships, making it impossible for their deployment in a terrestrial parade. The reusable space vehicle is also hidden, in Tests since 2020an analogous platform to the American X-37b which can remain months in orbit and meet classified military missions. Furtive hunt J36 What we did not see of naval power. Naval modernization has been central since the last parade of 2019, with the launch of the Fujian aircraft carriersthe construction of Future Type 004and the amphibious assault ships Type 075 and Type 076. To these is added the development of Strategic Submarine Type 096which will reinforce maritime nuclear deterrence in the next decade. None of these platforms can roll through Tiananmén, although some of its weapons and aircraft systems could be shown. Tests with an electromagnetic rail cannon Cyberdefense and Digital War. The PL considers cyberdefense one of the pillars of its national security. Since the creation in 2015 of the Strategic Support Force and, in 2024, of the new Cyberspace ForceChina has centralized intelligence, cyber attack operations and critical infrastructure defense. Although the parade It included winks To these “new forms of combat”, the authentic arsenal of cyber -cyberms and offensive capabilities, what is doubtful, will remain hidden, leaving in the shadow the true magnitude of Chinese digital operations. New furtive combat apparatus in the test phase in China AI and autonomous systems. Artificial intelligence integration is a strategic priority. The Pla Work in algorithms To process real -time combat data, optimize logistics and maintenance, and generate training scenarios. Attack and recognition drones as the GJ-11the Wing Loong and The Rainbow They already incorporate autonomous navigation, recognition of objectives and coordination with other platforms. Although some of these devices will be shown, their algorithmic “brain” will remain invisible to the public. Drone Rainbow prototype Nuclear deterrence. China deployed Intercontinental Balistic missiles and strategic bombers as a gesture of strength, but the true pillars of their nuclear deterrence did not come to light. The command, control and communications systems, designed to resist a first blow, the reinforced silos of the northwest, the vast network of underground tunnels known as known as The “Great Underground Wall” and nuclear submarines armed with ballistic missiles, both the TYPE-094A assets and The future Type-096. South China Sea, where elements of the Great Submarine Wall System are installed Early alert and antimisile defense. China currently has a strategic network that combines infrared alert satellites capable of detecting ballistic releases anywhere in the world and huge fixed matrix radars, capable of tracking missiles and furtive aircraft in full flight. These systems are vital for strategic defense And they have already overcome multiple interception tests since 2010, but their static and highly classified nature keeps them out of the parade. Fujian, the biggest war boat with China’s leading technology The “great underground wall.” As we said before, in parallel, China builds a underwater surveillance system With hydrophones, sensor nodes and autonomous vehicles to monitor enemy submarines in the Eastern and South China Sea. This framework, known as the “Great Underwater Wall”, is essential to guarantee the safety of its nuclear submarine fleet and reinforce its anti -submarine capacity. Its existence is intuited, but its location and operation remain in the strictest secret. And space. With more than 500 satellites military and double useChina is trying to achieve independence in navigation with Beidou, recognition capabilities with the Yaogan series and safe communications for command and control. It also develops antisatellite weapons, from direct ascent missiles tested in 2007 even orbital proximity maneuvers and possible directed energy weapons. None of these systems appeared in the parade, but represent a key vector of their “computerized” war strategy. The industrial force. It We comment yesterday. China’s greatest hidden trick is not only technological but industrial. The ability to produce in its own territory from rifles to aircraft carriers, through reaction engines and hypersonic missiles, ensures independenceresilience and speed of production. The Military-Civil Fusion Strategy allows civil advances in defense, as occurs in aeronautical engines, where the experience of the CJ-1000A Commercial feeds the development of The WS-10 and WS-15 that drive the J-20 furtive fighters. In short, the parade showed the world a Power showcasebut the most lethal and transformer of the Chinese armed forces was hidden. Under the surface, in tunnels, in satellites, in monitored seas and in high -tech factories, there is a framework of capacities that seeks to redefine global military balance in the next decades. Image | Planet Labs Inc, @WZZJWZ, Office of Naval Research (Flickr), X, Infinty 0 , Ministry of National Defense The People’s Republic … Read more

Spacex has just published unpublished images of the “Rostized” Starship. A unique perspective of his shock after the toughest reentry

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Spacex shared new images of the Starship In its tenth test flight, where he managed to complete the reentry and controlled ameter In the ocean despite visible damage in the vehicle. The material spread by Spacex shows the ship at a key moment: the moment of its spareness in the Indian Ocean, dyed of an orange tone after surviving a specially demanding reentry. A key test. The tenth test flight departed on August 26 from Starbase, in Texas, with an impeccable takeoff thanks to the 33 super heavy engines. The separation of stages was also successful and the propeller managed to merit in the ocean, fulfilling its role before the starship continued its trip to space. The milestones in space. Once separated from the propeller, the Starship carried out a complete combustion that placed it in its suborbital trajectory and allowed to validate several key tests. Among them, the deployment of eight Starlink satellite simulators and the second redempted in the history of a Raptor engine in space, two milestones that Spacex considers essential for the development of future missions. Click to see the original publication in x The challenge of the reentry. The reentry was the most critical point of the mission. Spacex had already chained several failed attempts. This, in a way, had questioned the capacity of the vehicle to survive this phase. This time, the ship faced extreme conditions with part of its incomplete thermal shield and the flaps subjected to a deliberate effort. Even with visible damage in the rear skirt, the Starship managed to maintain control and move towards its destination. Spacex’s message. Moments ago, Spacex published a message in which he summed up the scope of what was achieved: “Starship exceeded the reentry with missing tiles intentionally, she completed maneuvers to force her flaps, suffered visible damage in the rear skirt and flaps, and still executed a turn and a landing ignition.” Despite these conditions, the ship managed to preserve sufficient maneuverability to go accurately towards its field of shock in the Indian. The image released next to the statement reinforces that idea. The starship, imposing on the launch platform with all its intact thermal tiles, now appears with a very different appearance: blackened, with a coppery tone that makes it seem almost “roasted” after passing through the atmosphere. Spacex has not explained the exact reason for this change, although on the Internet they have not taken to appear theories. A millimeter closure. The mission culminated with the Starship gently threading in the Indian Ocean, approximately three meters from the planned area. For Spacex, the value of the flight is not that the ship can be reused, but in what has been learned during the test. Each data collected in extreme conditions approaches the company to its goal of developing the first large -sized launcher fully reusable. In Xataka | The “Wow!” Signal signal It was even more powerful than astronomers calculated: half a century later, the mystery is complicated

Russia has up to four unpublished robots in a war. We hadn’t seen Ukraine’s response: Flamingo

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The war in Ukraine has resulted in a Technological competition that transcends aerial drones: the land front has become a improvised laboratory of unmanned vehicles, where both kyiv and Moscow are looking for formulas for Replace deficiencies human and logistics with Mechanical ingenuity. Russia is accelerating its own program with designs ranging from the rudimentary to the unusual, all aimed at gaining time, confusing the enemy and compensating the high wear of personnel in the front. Ukraine has Flamingo. Improvised prototypes. It We count some time ago. Among the most striking “robotic” examples The “Termit”a four -wheelbound buggy presented by Prorruse channels Like an assault drone. Actually, it does not carry integrated weapons, but a chair in which it can Travel a soldier completely exposed, with additional space to transport water, food or ammunition. Another design observed on the battlefield proved to be little more than a Open box on wheelsdestined to carry provisions, but destroyed by a Ukrainian drone of first person vision before fulfilling its mission. These models, although rudimentary, reflect an effort to adapt minimal resources to the demands of mechanized war. Launch rockets without humans. More ambitious is the proposal of a system of Non -manned multiple randomwhose models circulated in specialized media show it capable of firing ten ammunition autonomously. Inspired by him Soviet coughalthough with a third of its tubes, this prototype suggests an attempt to transfer heavy artillery to the field of robotic systems, eliminating human risk in saturation operations and adding one more layer to the war at a distance. Themit Explosive Hoverboards. Perhaps the most unusual facet of this experimentation is the Hoverboards use converted into platforms for Carry explosive loads or anti -tank mines. In April, Russian military bloggers videos They showed Prototypes manufactured with simple consumer scooters, adapted as kamikaze vehicles, smoke systems, observation platforms and even for demining work. Its low cost and stability provided by gyroscopes make them suitable to be mass producedwhich makes these improvised solutions a threat multiplied by the possibility of deploying hundreds of units simultaneously. The drone. Another outstanding development is The “dronobus”presented by the state agency TASS, an unmanned vehicle conceived as “nodriza ship” of drones by fiber optic cable, with the capacity to operate two units at the same time with 15 kilometers of reach. This type of platform points to an integration model, in which unmanned land vehicles do not act in isolation, but as nodes of an autonomous weapons network capable of coordinating on the battlefield. Russian drone kyiv’s answer. For its part, Ukraine has revealed the existence of flamingoa land cruise missile with a declared range of 3,000 kilometers and an eyelet of more than one ton, capable of putting under direct threat to Moscow, St. Petersburg and even certain regions of Siberia. According to initial information disseminated by the Ukrainian press and confirmed visually In videos of launches From mobile ramps, the missile would have already been used in attacks within Russian territory. Its production is in charge of the company Fire Point and is presented as the most ambitious long -range system developed so far by kyiv, with a destructive potential higher than that of any previous weapon in its arsenal. The enigma of its origins. Flamingo keeps an almost exact similarity with the FP-5, a cruise missile exhibited by the Emiratí Milanion companythat in the past already supplied material to the Ukrainian forces. The FP-5 has sub-seonic speed specifications of up to 950 km/h, a wingspan of six meters and a maximum take-off weight of 6,000 kilos, with an eyelet of a ton. In addition, it includes mixed guidance systems that combine satellite and inertial navigation with protection against electronic warfare. Although it is not confirmed if flamingo is a direct variant of the FP-5 or an independent development inspired by it, the coincidence in technical parameters and design is difficult to ignore. Comparisons. Analysts They have compared Flamingo with historical referents such as V-1 flying pump German or the American missile MGM-13 MACEboth cruise systems launched from terrestrial ramps during the cold war. Also remembers in certain aspects the old Soviet Drones Tu-141 and TU-143converted by Ukraine into long -distance attack weapons. However, what differentiates flamingo is magnitude of its reachwell above the previous Ukrainian alternatives, and its explosive load capacity, which places it in a strategic category similar to that of the Russian Kalibrfrequently used by Moscow from ships and submarines, although with a minor radius. Strategic impact The appearance of Flamingo gives Ukraine a tool that alters the balance of fire scope against Russia. Its scope covers practically All the heart From the Russian territory and, in theory, it would allow devastating attacks against air bombers, energy infrastructure and key logistics centers. In addition, being a National Development And not a system delivered by Western allies, Ukraine would have full freedom to use without the political limitations that weigh on weapons Like Storm Shadow, Scalp-EG either Atacms. In other words, it makes the missile an element with great military and diplomatic value, since it demonstrates the Ukrainian capacity to innovate and manufacture strategic weapons on their own. Mass production A key aspect of flamingo is the possibility of manufacturing it in series at a relatively low cost, According to their developers. If Ukraine managed to produce large quantities, he could launch waves of missiles combined with drone swarms, saturating the Russian aerial defenses that have already demonstrated difficulties in curbing minor attacks. Although Flamingo lacks rankiness and, being subsonic, it is not immune to interceptionthe volume of fire could overload Moscow’s ability to respond. Plus: The incorporation of lures and other deception tactics would increase its operational lethality. Perspectives and limits. It remains to be seen How far Ukraine can materialize the potential of Flamingo. Its effectiveness will depend not only on the technical perfection of the system, but above all on the industrial capacity to manufacture it in significant numbers. If kyiv manages to do so, he will have for … Read more

Your strategy to grow is unpublished

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India is emerging. This Asian country, The most populated on the planetit has an economic capacity and very important geopolitical relevance. According to him International Monetary Fundits economy is one of the fastest growing, with an expansion forecast of the 6.2% in 2025 and 6.3% for 2026. Other great economies, such as the US or China, They are checking His growth forecast for 2025 and 2026, but India not. He advances day after day as an authentic summary. One of the pillars that support their economic growth is their domestic consumption. 31% of its population, which currently Broken 1,464 million peopleit has an average level of income, and the forecasts of the Indian government estimate that this percentage will increase until Reach 38% in 2031. If this trend persists in 2047 the middle class in India will bring together no less than 1,000 million people. However, the authentic engine of the growth of this country, and the reason why the middle class is expanding, is the policy of incentives linked to production that has deployed administration. This strategy seeks to develop and modernize Indian manufacturing capabilities, as well as boost exports. And it is working. Since the government put it in motion In March 2020, this plan has generated 1.15 million jobs. And, in addition, it has impacted in a very positive way on The following key sectors: electronics, electric cars, integrated systems and industrial automation, pharmaceutical and biotechnological products, drones, data centers and chemicals. They reside in the strength of this country. India wants to be the new Taiwan in the semiconductor industry One of the sectors that is giving India the most joys in recent years is dedicated to the manufacture of electronic products. In 2024 he billed 115,000 million dollarsand the government provides that this figure will triple in 2027. This enormous impulse is mainly held on THE SEMICON INDIA PROGRAMwhich seeks to drastically develop India’s relevance in the integrated circuit manufacturing industry. To achieve this, this plan pursues to attract foreign investment, and in recent years he is going like silk. India is preparing to be a very relevant actor in the semiconductor industry Apple, Amazon, Google or Microsoft are some of the large technology companies that They are already present in India. And AMD and Foxconn will be soon. It is clear that this country bids strong, and according to Digitimes Asiayou are preparing to be a very relevant actor in the semiconductor industry at a juncture that in the medium or long term It can unfavorable Taiwan. According to the consultant Deloitte The Indian integrated circuit market will exceed 55,000 million dollars in 2026, and to achieve this, the Government intends to attract as many chips manufacturers as I can. The American company Micron Technology, which is dedicated mainly to The manufacture of memory chipsit will have a very important role in the future of the Indian semiconductor industry. And he will have it because he has launched an avant -garde plant in the town of Sanand, which belongs to the state of Gujarat. Even so, According to Eric Chenwhich is an analyst and researcher of the integrated circuit industry, India will take a decade to achieve mass production of 28 Nm chips. This is what aspires in the medium term. Its main challenge is to put the plants necessary to achieve this goal with agility, and an avant -garde chips factory takes no less than four years in being fully operational. In Xataka | India has its own ‘Silicon Valley’ in Bangladés. The problem is that it is a ghost city In Xataka | India has been moving away from international payment networks. It is a hard blow for the giants Visa and Mastercard

It is unpublished that justice allows something like that

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This weekend we have lived a unique First Division League day. No longer for the celebration of Barça-Madrid on Sunday, but because once LaLiga returned to order indiscriminate blockages of IPS that affected a large number of domains. In this case there were even institutional websites such as the Madrid City Council that They were inaccessibleand this opens a new chapter in this absolute disaster that remains without predictable solution. What happened. Last weekend the blockades affected X, Redsys and cited institutional websites Like the Madrid City Council. It is another drop more than one glass that does not seem to stop: we carry Almost three months in which IPS blockages are uninterruptedly causing thousands of websites that are inaccessible. And we are talking about particular websites or fully legitimate companies. Cloudflare against LaLiga. The only crime of these websites is to use the services (free or payment) of Cloudflare. This CDN, DNS and Proxies service provider helps these websites improve their global availability and also Protects from cyber attacks. As we have explained above, Cloudflare makes use of shared IPS that brings together hundreds or thousands of domains, and when LaLiga orders to block one of those IPS, that affects all the domains that use that shared IP. Result: They pay fair for sinners. There should be no damage to third parties. He Article 21 of the Civil Procedure Law (LEC) indicates that these types of actions should be rejected when they suppose a damage to third -party not demanded in the procedure. Thus, there should be no damage to third parties, but there is and justice is not apparently doing anything to prevent it. But they keep paying fair for sinners. We know that these blockages are not only preventing users’ access to certain domains, but there are also companies that are suffering economic and reputational damage. This last weekend the thing was even more striking, because among those affected were institutional websites such as the Madrid City Council. Before others were like those of the Royal Academy of Languagebut still there have been no changes from the judicial environment, LaLiga or the operators. Denied nullity. Rootedcon and Cloudflare fought against that sentence in which LaLiga relies. The nullity of said judgment was requested, but the court that managed the petition rejected this request. He also dismissed Cloudflare requests when stopping these blockages, and for now these hard judicial setbacks have allowed LaLiga to continue ordering those blockages and affecting thousands of legitimate domains. Something unusual. There are no documented precedents in Spain of such massive and indiscriminate blockages that they have left institutional websites or public bodies out of service. In previous interventions for distribution of contents with copyright – as those that achieved close websites like Lectulandia or those that They shared music illegally – the measures were aimed at concrete domains and not to shared infrastructure. What do experts say. We have spoken with Ofelia Tejerina (@Fetg), lawyer and president of the Association of Internet users. She reminds us that the Article 264 of the Criminal Codewhich speaks of sanctions for computer crimes, indicates the following: “The one that by any means, without authorization and seriously deleted, damage, deteriorate, alter, suppress or make inaccessible computer data, computer programs or electronic documents outside, when the result produced was serious, will be punished with the prison penalty of six months to three years.” Both this article and the previous one seem to be clear with what should be done before these blockages, which are causing damage to third parties and that are also making inaccessible computer data during blockages. And yet, everything remains the same. The silence surprises. Tejerina remembers how with the SGAE IPS were traced and the persecution was to end users, but European justice made it clear that those They were private communications Although years later his speech I changed completely. For her “this systematic, arbitrary and irrational blockade is unusual.” But it also shows the same surprise as many of a situation that does not seem to have made the alarms of official institutions or justice jump: “We are attending an execution of a completely unlimited court order that affects fundamental rights, public services and freedom of business. We have for example a defender of the People or a Secretariat of State for Communications. Everyone knows what is happening, they must protect neutrality in the network and have the ability to operate ex officio, but do not do so. Speech.” Images | Peter Glaser In Xataka | LaLiga has found the best way to beat Cloudflare: ally with its competition

The 16E iPhone looked like a stumble. In the end it has been decisive for Apple to achieve an unpublished milestone in its history

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Apple has been in the smartphones market for almost two decades, but I had never managed to lead global sales in a first quarter. That has just changed. Between January and March 2025, the Cupertino company has been at the top of the world ranking, ahead of Samsung and with Xiaomi completing the podium. Counterpoint Research has been in charge of putting figures and context to the new Apple milestone. The keys? An unusual launch calendar for the company, a solid growth in emerging markets and a good global behavior just before the earthquake of the tariff war driven by the United States. At the top of the podium. Apple led global smartphones sales in the first quarter of 2025 with a 19% market share. In addition, it achieved a 4% increase in units sold compared to the same period of the previous year. In second position Samsung appears, which obtained 18% and experienced a 5% drop in units sold. Xiaomi, meanwhile, maintains third place with sustained growth. Its evolution has been progressive: in the first quarter of 2023 it had 12% of the market, in 2024 it rose to 13% and in this start of 2025 it has reached 14%. Although its position has not changed, the constant improvement in quota reflects a difficult to ignore rise. An unusual launch. A key part to understand Apple’s leadership This quarter is at the launch of the iPhone 16E. The device was announced on February 19 and reached stores just a week later. Although it is not usual to see new iPhone in this section of the year, there are precedents: The iPhone is original It was launched in March 2016, And the third generation also did it in March, but 2022. An iPhone discussed, but sold without brake. Although the 16E iPhone has not fully convinced those who expected a more competitive proposal in quality-pricethe truth is that its market performance has been remarkable. It is a model with a more accessible approach, but with a hardware reinforced to be compatible with Apple Intelligence. Despite doubts, its launch has had a strong reception. A trimester of contrasts. The global market grew by 3% year -on -year in this first quarter, promoted by China, where “public subsidies reactivated demand, and for recovery in emerging markets such as India, Southeast Asia or Latin America. On the other hand, markets such as Europe, the United States or even China showed signs of exhaustion, according to the analysis firm. A market that does not stop. Samsung started the year with a slower pace due to the delay of Galaxy S25but sales rebounded after its launch and that of the new A. Xiaomi series, meanwhile, reinforced its presence in both new markets and in its country of origin. Vivo became the brand that grew most among the top five, while Oppo maintained fifth place thanks to good results in India, Latin America and Europe. Other manufacturers also gained ground, although they were out of the top five. Huawei was the largest seller in China during the quarter. Honor and Motorola also grew strongly in several international markets, intensifying competition in segments where great global brands predominated. Tension on the horizon. Although the quarter leaves positive figures, the immediate future is not clear. The threat of new tariffs, driven from the United States, has forced brands such as Apple to move file quickly. The company came to charter flights from India to mitigate possible problems. At the moment, exemptions have appeared on stage, but uncertainty persists. Images | Thai Nguyen | Medhat Dawoud | Ricardo Aguilar (Xataka) In Xataka | If the question is “who will win if prices for tariffs up” the answer is: “Second -hand mobiles”

Taiwan does not want more problems with China or with its submarine cables. So you have activated an unpublished security plan

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Earlier this year and after what happened with an underwater cable that affected the only remaining link with the Matsu Islandsincident that occurred just a week after Another cable that connected the island was damagedTaiwan made an unprecedented decision. A call Washington ended with A two -year agreement so that the United States Army would disembark on the island and train the Taiwanese Navy. Actually, this is just part of the plan. Protect cables as priority. Submarine cable infrastructure is the pillar of the global connectivity of most nations, But a little more for an island like Taiwana territory that depends almost in its entirety of these systems to guarantee the communication of its citizens, companies and government institutions. To get an idea, any severe interruption in these links could not only leave the population incommunicado, affecting access to essential services such as mobile applications and digital platforms, but it would also have A critical impact on economic and government operations. The problem is that the fragility of these systems has been evidenced with the growing incident frequency In the cables that connect the enclave with its peripheral islands and with the world, which has raised concerns about the safety and resilience of this key infrastructure. Alarming frequency of failures. Globally, The more than 450 existing underwater cable systems They experience damage in a range of 0.1 to 0.2 incidents (by cable) per year, which is equivalent to 50 and 100 annual failures worldwide. However, the situation in Taiwan is exceptionally critical. The cables that connect Matsu’s peripheral islands with the main island They suffer an average of 5.1 annual interruptions, which represents a frequency up to 50 times higher than the global average. This data underlines the level of vulnerability of communications and the urgent need to implement protection measures. As we count, on January 22, The two submarine cables that connect Matsu with Taiwan were disconnectedwhich left the island is isolated digitally. According to the Taiwan Digital Affairs Ministry (Fashion), the cause was a “natural deterioration.” And it was not an isolated case: just a few weeks before, on January 3, a communications cable north of the main island, operated by Chunghwa Telecom, It was also cut, allegedly by a ship manned by Chinese citizens. The boat in question, Shunxing 39, was registered in Cameroon and Tanzania, which complicates the direct attribution of the attack. Strategies to strengthen security. The result of the situation has been to activate An unprecedented plan, measures to reinforce the safety of their submarine cables. For example, telecommunications operators have deployed maritime patrols with the aim of warning of fishing vessels approaching sensitive areas. Likewise, the Taiwan Coast Guard has intensified surveillance through monitoring systems to trace boats in critical areas. There are more. To improve redundancy in communications, fashion has implemented A subsidies program to encourage the construction of new stations International cable landing and the installation of backup systems. In addition, Taiwan has opted for the diversification of his communication systems through satellites. In this sense, the government has signed Agreements with the European company SES for the deployment of medium orbit satellites (MEO) and with Oneweb for the incorporation of low orbit satellites (Leo). All measures that seek to guarantee the continuity of government and military communications in case of an emergency. Legal challenges to protect cables. One of the main obstacles in the protection of submarine cables is the complexity of international legislation around these infrastructure. According to international maritime laws, if damage occurs within the territorial waters of a country, this may exercise jurisdiction on the incident. The problem? That, if the affectation happens in an exclusive economic zone or in international waters, The responsibility falls to the country where the suspicious boat is registered. This legal framework generates significant barriers for the investigation and persecution of those responsible for deliberate sabotages. From there The problem in the Baltic with The “Ghost Ships”. In response to these challenges, Taiwan has taken legislative measures to penalize intentional attacks against their submarine cables. The sanctions include prison sentences between one and seven years, in addition to fines that can reach 10 million Taiwanese dollars (approximately 300,000 US dollars). And the United States. It We have recently. Taiwan’s Ministry of Defense has announced A two -year agreement with the United States to train the Taiwanese Navy In a context where the island’s Parliament is prepared to vote possible cuts in the budget for military training abroad. The agreement, valued at approximately 50 million Taiwanese dollars (1.5 million US dollars), stipulates that US Navy personnel will be sent to Taiwan to carry out a specialized naval training program. The training sessions, in principle, will be held at the headquarters of the Navy and the Marines of Taiwan, located in the Zuoying district, near the city of Kaohsiung, in the south of the country. It is, therefore, The first time in history that the Taiwanese Ministry of Defense publicly recognizes the presence of US military coaches. Regional Resilience. The numerous cases in recent months They have shown it. The protection of submarine cables, and more in Taiwan, is not only a national problem, but a matter of regional security. Any interruption in these infrastructure can affect their neighboring countries, which reinforces the need to establish strategic alliances for damage prevention and repair. In this regard, Taiwan aims to work closely with its partners in Asia To strengthen cable repair capabilities, improve logistics and develop advanced monitoring technologies. In fact, a few weeks ago researchers from the University of Lisui in China They registered a patent for an anchor device designed to cut underwater cables efficiently. There is no evidence of its use in real attacks, but the simple existence of these technologies suggests that the risks to telecommunications could be intensified in the near future. Image | 總統府 In Xataka | 2025 has started with another cut cable cut. 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