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The US has drawn its polygraph. The person who leaked that Elon Musk has the secret plan of a war with China is sought

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The story began Last Thursday. Apparently, the Pentagon had organized an informative meeting for Elon Musk. So far, all more or less “normal” The government role who has obtained the richest man in the world since Trump was re -elected. The problem was the task of the apparent meeting, According to the New York Times: Put Musk aware of the Military Secret Plan that has in the United States before a possible war war with China. The schism has been such that Pentagon itself seeks at this time to the culprit. Presidential denial. After the Times articlePresident Donald Trump did not take long in reject publicly The possibility that Musk has access to secret military plans related to a potential conflict with China. As we said, according to the newspaper, Musk would have been scheduled to receive a high -level informative session in the Pentagon on US military strategies against Chinawhat aroused concern due to their extensive commercial links With that country. Trump denied the existence of this session and said that, although Musk is significantly helping the government, identifying “waste, fraud and abuse,” It would not be appropriate Sharing high sensitivity information, emphasizing that, in his opinion, Musk himself would not want to put himself in that position. The visit and multiple interpretations. Musk, CEO of Spacex and Tesla, in addition to part -time government advisor, visited the pentagon the day after the exclusive Times, on Friday, March 22, and said A private meeting Of more than an hour with the Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth, and with the Vice Chief of the Joint General Staff, Admiral Christopher W. Gray. Originally, according to two officials cited by the TimesMusk was going to be received in “The Tank”, a high security conference room within the building, to discuss defense strategies in case of a confrontation with China. It was also mentioned that the meeting would include Admiral Samuel J. Paparo, head of the United States Indo-Pacific Command. However, this last session seems that It was finally canceled After the publication of the article. Musk finally met at the Office of the Secretary of Defense, not in the “Safe Sala”, which could have limited access to classified material. Postures and ambiguity. During an event in the Oval office in which Trump and Hegseth announced a new defense contract for the new Air Force hunting, Both denied The version of Times, describing it as “a false story.” Hegseth insisted that the visit It was informal and revolved around government efficiency issues. Trump claimed to have learned of the alleged classified session Through the newspaper And he declared that he had called his chief of Cabinet and Hegseth to confirm the veracity of the information, who discarded it as absurd. Despite this, Trump took the opportunity to underline that, due to Musk’s businesses in China, It would be reckless Share sensitive military plans, marking one of the clearest limits so far regarding the relationship between the tycoon and the administration. Lack of clarity. I counted in Another later article The Times there are areas Gray at the meeting. Neither Musk nor Hegseth answered questions from the press at the end of it. When questioned by a reporter of the Times about the content of the meeting, Hegseth replied Dry: “Why would I tell you?”, Before retiring without clarifications. A senior defense official, speaking under condition of anonymity, said Musk attended to provide, and not receive, an informative session focused on industrial policy and sharing experiences linked to their companies. Trump, meanwhile, He reaffirmed this version Subsequently, stating that the visit was related to Musk’s efforts to reduce the size of the government and improve the efficiency of public spending. Tension after controversy. Be that as it may, the United States Department of Defense has started formal investigationwhich includes the use of polygraph tests, to identify those responsible for internal leaks after the accusations arising around Musk’s recent visit to Pentagon. The decision was promoted after Musk itself publicly demandedthrough Your social network Xthe prosecution of Pentagon officials that would be disseminating “maliciously false information” about their relationship with the military institution. Criminal implications. Before the magnitude of the scandal, Joe Kasper, Hegseth Cabinet Chief, announced the immediate start of research to identify unauthorized leaks of information on national security. In a memorandum issued on March 21, Kasper indicated that the investigation will collect A complete record of unauthorized disseminations within the Department of Defense and will issue recommendations to improve confidentiality protocols. Who are responsible will be referred to criminal authorities corresponding for prosecution. This investigative offensive, which includes interrogations with lies detector, represents an unprecedented response within the American defense apparatus and reflects the level of concern generated by filtration. Tesla and China. The truth is that the controversy that has emerged is much less trivial, and has to do with the Musk’s delicate balance Between the two powers. Tesla, Musk’s automotive company, has been one of The big beneficiaries of Chinese policies in favor of electric vehicles. His factory in Shanghai is the biggest and company productive, and represents approximately 37% of its global sales. To fully operate in the country, Tesla has received incentivesregulatory approvals and privileged access to the market, including authorizations to display autonomous driving technology. Starlink and China. In parallel, Spacex and its Starlink satellite system, essential for the operations of the Department of Defense, place Musk in a dual position: as a key supplier for the national security of the United States and as an entrepreneur with strong interests in a rival power. Dissonance becomes even more evident for the past comments of Musk himself, who Taiwan has described as “an integral part of China” and has proposed a reintegration model similar to Hong Kong’s, ideas that have been Well received in Beijing But harshly criticized by Taipei and by US officials. Concern in Congress. Had the weekend The Washington Post That both Republican and Democratic legislators have expressed concerns about how the Chinese Communist … Read more

The US was prepared for total destruction in the cold war. This map for nuclear apocalypse illustrates it

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The launch of Nagasaki and Hiroshima atomic bombs It was a turning point. Practically, marked the end of the Second World War while starting a Cold war in which the United States and Russia were carried away by nuclear ecstasy. The two powers engaged in a nuclear career without controlbut it is not that they developed the crazy bombs: there were also lists of enemy objectives. And on an interactive map prepared by Future of Life We can see about 1,000 objectives to which the United States would launch a nuclear bomb. But there were many more. The map. In 2015, a study of the United States Strategic Air Command was declared – SAC – that showed a thousand potential objectives in the case of nuclear war. If this possibility flew over the heads of some with the recent Ukraine War, imagine the stage in a cold war in which you could have the feeling that the enemy could squeeze the “button” at any time. There are more than 800 pages in which the objectives of these strategic bombings with nuclear weapons are detailed to erase any enemy presence. In it map From the George Washington University we can not only appreciate some of the main objectives, but the secondary objectives of each of them. For example, if we select Berlin, we can see the objective list And consequences of that study of 1956. Beyond the cities, another priority was the aerodromes, keys to a Soviet counterattack, specifically those located in Belarus. Easting east. Apart from military objectives such as strategic points and aerodromes, the listIt includes more than 1,200 cities of the Soviet block. It is where we can see that more dots are gathered on the map of Future of Life and range from cities of Eastern Germany to China. Moscow would fall into the Red Square, directly (and on this map we can see the Impact of different bombs in any city). The Asian giant, will fight or not next to the Soviet block in case of war, was something that did not matter to SAC. He treated them as hostile, selecting military objectives, but also the Beijing capital. And something that several of the bombed cities have in common is that the SAC already assumed objectives of “population.” The bombs. The plan was well mounted because there was not only a list of objectives, but also the type of weapons that would be used. They would use a combination of atomic and thermonuclear weapons with yields between 1.6 to 15 megatons. Far from the 50 megatons of the Soviet Zar pump, but much more than the 16 kilotons of Little Boy and the 21 kilotons of Fat Man, which wreaked havoc in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, respectively. The megabomba. We have talked about the tsar pump, or tsar bomb, and in the United States there was also talk of it in 1956. It is not only the bomb that has caused the largest nuclear explosion so far, but it was 3,000 times more powerful than ‘Little boy’. The Russians had that bomb and the United States wanted an equal. In the declassified material, it is detailed how the SAC wanted a 60 megatones bomb. Not only did they identify him as something key in order to be tremendously deterrent but, in case of Soviet surprise attack, they could launch it at a strategic point to “ensure significant results even with a very small force.” In that nuclear ecstasy, the nuclear physicist Edward Teller (“Father” of the bomb H) proposed 1,000 metatones dissositive and up to 10 gigatons. 10 gigatons equals explosive power 670,000 times greater than that of the Hiroshima bomb. Luckily they did not do it, since affirmed that “would contaminate the earth”In the end, the US did not develop such a monstrous bomb. Nor the 60 megatones that the SAC wanted. And the media. And, within the plan, it also specified how the pumps would be launched. There were two systems: for the delivery of B-47 bombers, the United States would use its bases in the United Kingdom, Morocco and Spain. They would also use the B-52 from the US, although they were starting their journey. For the missile system, the eyelets would be loaded in the Snark, Rascal, Cross Bow and IRBM missiles. The first was a failure in the evidence and the great priority of President Eisenhower were the IRBM. These intermediate -reach ballistic missiles projected scope of up to 2,700 kilometers and the idea was to deploy them and throw them from the United Kingdom. Insured mutual destruction. But well, the United States had its Soviet axis attack plan, but the USSR also had its own. In the Soviet plans the Western military infrastructure, the industrial centers and large cities in both the US and its allies entered. They would do it by hydrogen pumps, tactical pumps that could mount on torpedoes and missiles released from mobile platforms. But although the logic could not reign in the massive development of weapons, the fear and that position of both ‘Mad’ countries did, or ‘insured mutual destruction’ that marked that, if a country launched a nuclear attack, automatically the other would respond with a proportional force. This led to threats over the years (such as the deployment of American missiles in Türkiye and Italy or the subsequent crisis of Cuba missiles, but fortunately it did not reach more. And what happens today. In 1986, the two countries reached the zenith of their nuclear arsenal and, from that moment, they dismantled much of their arsenal. The USSR came to have more than 40,000 heads while the United States reached 23,317, but as we say, different pacts and that tension that dissipated with the fall of the Berlin wall caused them to get rid of much of its arsenal. The problem is that other countries -china- have developed and are found enhancing its own nuclear arsenaland in recent years there is a kind of new … Read more

We thought the megapixel war had ended. Has only started

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The megapixel war seemed extinct, but we couldn’t be more wrong. Although manufacturers have demonstrated one and a thousand times that more sensor resolution does not translate into better results, 2025 is the year of betting on a specific number: the 200 megapixels. It is not something new. On 200 megapixel sensors we have been listening for four years. Zte opened a path That, years later, they are beginning to travel the rest of the manufacturers. Interestingly, it is a characteristic that does not play only at the high range: there are mid -range mobiles betting on this type of resolution. In some cases, with good results. In others, without any impact. I still remember My comparison between the Xiaomi Redmi Note 12 Pro+ and the Ultra Galaxy S23. An article that I recommend reading to better understand what these sensors are for. They are back. This 2025 has started with a lot of presence of this type of sensor. He Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra It continues to maintain the 200 MP of its main camera, the Xiaomi 15 Ultra He has released it in his new teleobjective, the I live x200 pro more of the same, What are they for. First, so that the brand can say that its mobile has more megapixels than that of competition. Yes, camera marketing is important, and this is something recognized by the companies themselves. Beyond this, there are certain real advantages when using such sensors. First, they allow shooting in high resolution modes (200 MP real, no 12 MP with Pixel Binning). This will give us bigger photographs ideal for printing. Redmi Note 12 Pro+ 200 MP VS Redmi Note 12 Pro+ 12 MP. Does any difference? Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra 200 MP vs Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra 12 MP. Very notable differences. Secondly, if we have some lucky, the manufacturer will not apply the same processing algorithms when it triggers 200 megapixels, since processing an image to this resolution is more complex than doing so at 12. But this is not always the case. There are occasions when the defendant is equally mediocre, and there is absolutely nothing to have more resolution. Be that as it may, the 200 megapixels are again fashionable, and it seems that they have arrived to stay in the short term. Image | Xataka In Xataka | Megapixels: What are they, what are the use of and to what extent they are important on your mobile

SoftBank will pay 6,500 million per ampere. A new war chapter for data centers has just been written

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At the beginning of last February the interest of the Japanese Softbank investment group was made public in The acquisition of the chips designer American ampere computing LLC. This last company is specialized in the development of Processors for serverswhich already put at that time on the table SoftBank’s intention to expand your business in large data centers. It made sense in a context in which the rise of the artificial intelligence (AI) is promoting that these facilities multiply at full speed. Just a month and a half later that strategic movement has established itself. According to your own AmpereSoftBank has just closed your purchase. He will pay 6,500 million dollars for this company and will have one more letter in the presumably prosperous business of the data centers. This investment group is The Arm owner since 2016; At the beginning of last October Invested 500 million dollars in Openai; And, in addition, it is one of the companies that lead The Stargate program with which the US seeks to sustain its dominance of AI. The war for data centers for AI is already underway The large technology companies that are involved in the deployment of AI are facing multimillion -dollar investments to develop their data centers infrastructure. Microsoft has confirmed that 80,000 million dollars will be spent during the fiscal year of 2025. and Google, 75,000 million. On the other hand, the Stargate program budget that I have mentioned a few lines above rises to no less than 500,000 million dollars. This is the cake from which SoftBank is being able to seize. At least a good portion. Ampereone chips will reach 256 nuclei for 2025 and presumably have a very competitive energy efficiency However, to achieve it the companies that control, or control in the short term, such as ampere, whose processors are implemented on ARM technology, will have to Compete with Nvidia, Intel, AMD, Google or Amazon. In any case, the ampereone chips, which are being manufactured by TSMC in their 3 nm node, will reach 256 cores For 2025 and will presumably have a very competitive energy efficiency. These are his great buzas against the proposals of the competition. The current situation is triggering something that is worth not overlooking. As Dan O’Brien has observedthe president of the American Futurum consultant, technology companies are forging strategic alliances with the purpose of molding the industry to their measure and maximizing the economic performance of their investments. As we have seen, SoftBank is the owner of ARM. On the other hand, Oracle has a very significant participation in Ampere, which will soon belong to SoftBank, and which is ARM client. In addition, all the companies in which we have just repaired, SoftBank, ARM, Oracle and OpenAi, participate in the deployment of the infrastructure required by the Stargate program. In any case, This network of dependencies does not end here. As we have seen, SoftBank is an important OpenAI investor, and this last company is Oracle’s partner and is trying to develop His own chips for ia. Finally, to curl the curl further, rumors that defend that Oracle is interested in buying Tiktok, a company that belongs to the Chinese company bytedance persists. SoftBank also has an important participation in the latter. As O’Brien argues In his tweet “everything is connected (…) It is fascinating to see how the technology titans shape the industry.” Image | Ampere computing LLC More information | Ampere computing LLC In Xataka | The B300 GPU is the new Nvidia beast for Ia. And we already know what prepares for 2026 and 2027

RTVE wants to win the war of audiences at any price. Although that price is the 55 million of the World Cup

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On February 18, the Contest for the Rights of the World Cup in 2026 in the US ended. According to the worldRTVE has made the rights paying 55 million for the matches that will be distributed with Midopro, which can create your own channel to sell the rights to platforms. A very expensive bet for sport, but also a safe value for audiences. And in the new stage of the public entity competing with the private ones, it is a strategic play. A lot of sport. Traditionally, RTVE has had under its mantle the channels to go to consume sports, especially the1 for more importance competitions. And it is clear that the public chain knows well that it is a reference in that sense, because it has invested 360 million euros in sports rights. Some of them: Eurocup 2028 2028 Los Angeles Olympic Games in 2028 and Brisbane in 2032 Winter Olympic Games D’A Ampezzo, in Italy, in 2026 20 selection matches and 20 games of other selections at the Nations League The Champions Finals between 2025 and 2027 Copa del Rey 2024-2025 League summaries in 2025 FIBA competitions between 2025 and 2029 Cyclist return to Spain. The search for the audience. RTVE knows that the front row competitions have no rival: Spain’s parties of the Eurocup They reached 56% of Share and certain sports of the Olympic Games in Paris, such as tennis, They were put at 37.5% quota. Figures capable of saving TVE audiences in the months in which they are issued. The purchase to the FIFA of the rights of the next World Cup makes it clear that RTVE wants to continue in this line. 100 million extra. Precisely these last two sporting events, the Eurocup and the Olympic Games, required an extra impulse. The government had to inject 100 million extra euros to the entity to finance the purchase of these rights, as reported by the then Cascajosa Conception in her first appearance before the Mixed Budget Control Commission. To compete. RTVE has been since the middle of last year, but especially with the arrival of its new president, José Pablo López, competing from you to you with the private ones. Broncano and ‘La Revuelta’ They are the clearest case, Equing with audience to ‘El Hormiguero’ And at the same time, damaged by the successes of Tele5as if it were a private one. And the thing does not end there: among the next plans of the new director of public television, Sergio Calderón (with long experience in mainstream production and Mediaset management), is A magazine for the afternoons where Belén Esteban and María Patiño will be, and the signing of great entertainment names as Buenafuente. Money is not a problem. RTVE is in a singular situation, since although its budgets are closed (and immovable: The same money has been allocated since 2009), is entering the signing market and betting of private ones. A movement that He has won criticismalthough it is convenient to be clear that TVE does not directly compete with the private ones in a very clear aspect: it does not put advertising (although it does have sporadic sponsorships in the programs, which has given it the occasional legal disgust). Therefore, its budget remains public, its expenses too … but its intentions seem linked to the destination of private ones. In Xataka | Cristiano Ronaldo would love to score all the goals of the World Cup. There is a technology that prevents it

The chip war between the US and China is already leaving collateral damage. Although in South Korea

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For the South Korean government Your semiconductor industry has a strategic role, like those of OLED panel production either Battery manufacturing. These three sectors have A very deep impact on its economyso it is understandable that the administration does everything in its hand to reinforce its position in the global market and increase its competitiveness. In mid -December 2023 Yoon Suk Yeol, the former president of this Asian country, traveled to the Netherlands with the purpose of consolidating an alliance with ASML in matters of integrated circuits, among other priority objectives. During the last months South Korea He has “faced” the US To protect the business of its main semiconductor manufacturers in China, among which are Samsung and SK Hynix. But his short -term perspective is discouraging. Sales of semiconductors to China have fallen in February 31.8% The Chinese market is essential for South Korea. It is at least if we stick to the integrated circuit industry. At the end of 2024 the country led by Xi Jinping represented approximately two fifths of all southern Korea technology exports, but the chips flow is plummeting. According to the Ministry of Commerce, Industry and Energy of this last nation in January 2025 the sale of chips It contracted 22.5% compared to the same month of the previous year. 2025 is going to be a bad year for the semiconductor industry due to the cooling of global demand and the impact of tariffs And in February the fall has been even more steep: 31.8% compared to February 2024. This trend supports the omens that predict for months that 2025 will be a bad year for the semiconductor industry due to the cooling of global demand and to the impact that tariffs presumably they are already having in the integrated circuit industry. In any case, to South Korea this incipient crisis seems to be affecting more than other countries that also live largely from chips, such as Taiwan. Samsung and SK Hynix lead the memory chips market, and much of their income comes from precisely these semiconductors. The US sanctions prevent them from selling their most advanced chips to their Chinese clients, which, precisely, are those that usually live with the GPUs for artificial intelligence (AI). China has responded by dedicating more resources to the development of Your own memory technologieswhat is causing A prices decrease which is clearly affecting the Samsung and SK Hynix business. Despite all the consultant Gartner has predicted that The AI ​​will pull the semiconductor industry For 2025, leaving the door ajar to the possibility that finally this year is not as bad for chips manufacturers as the first figures point. Image | Samsung More information | SCMP In Xataka | The virtuous circle: China has become the greatest added value of the planet thanks to feedback

80 years ago Peugeot already had an electric car. One that was born in World War II and to which the Nazis killed

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World War II left a razed Germany that needed to rebuild from 1945. With the support of the ally capitalist bloc, German growth was fast and for years it moved in spectacular figures. In spite of everything, there was an entire society that had to recover his life and get out of poverty caused by war. They say that despite that panorama, Ferdinand Porsche saw the opportunity to throw a car that nobody thought: A sports. Yes, most of the society was immersed in a reconstruction but there was also an elite that He continued to demand the luxuries of yesteryear. Putting a sports car on the market was imperative to resurrect Porsche and, at the same time, allowed a part of society to distinguish against the rest. In Motor journalism They collect that the company’s mandamás stressed what the guidelines should be. Liberated from every position in 1948 (he had been arrested in France in 1945 and accused of collaborating with the Nazi regime), they say he mentioned the following words: “At that moment I looked around and I didn’t find the car I dreamed, so I decided to build it myself“ That car was the Porsche 356, which gave wings again to the company. In those years, Germany was focused on rebuilding and was more evident than ever the saving philosophy of its citizens. Protestantism and difficulties During and after World War II they had defined the character of the Germans. Despite this, Ferdinand Porsche decided that the time had come to launch a car that would be iconic: the Porsche 911. A sports car that threatened all German austerity. It was the culmination of reconstruction after World War II. When you think about war, you also have to think about the reconstruction. Ferdinand Porsche began to shuffle what they should do once it was already imperative. But in Peugeot they already started thinking about her, even before the contest had ended. They were moments of reflection and trying to understand how we were going to live once the greatest war in the history of Europe would end. And the French were clear that something should change in our way of moving. So, they presented the Peugeot VLV. Yes, the first completely electric Peugeot. Thinking about the future When in the mid -twentieth century a World War relieves another there is a problem: fuel is scarce. And if the fuel is scarce, perhaps the time has come to go to the electric car. Aware that autonomy was scarce but some needs were imperious, Peugeot proposed in 1941 An electric car as a vehicle for medical emergency services, pharmacy personnel or emails. It was, in reality, an option cut from the Peugeot 201 from which it derived. In this case, they had cut the back to make a kind of convertible with canvas hood. But, without a doubt, the most curious part was the rear, with two small wheels that, not to make sure they are there, make the car more a tricycle than a four -wheel car. The motorization that moved the Peugeot VLV was born a few years before. Already in the 20s they began to turn the idea that ended up seeing the light with a 12 V engine that delivered 3.3 hp. With them he managed to reach a maximum of 36 km/hy with a battery that consisted of four packages could travel a maximum of 80 kilometers. The figures, in fact, seem particularly good for the time. The secret was in a body manufactured in aluminum that guaranteed a very contained weight. The Peugeot VLV stayed at 365 kg. A prodigy that used a marketing strategy of our time. The classic Leon that has always accompanied Peugeot was replaced by a ray on the front. However, his life was brief. As soon as 377 units were built before Vichy’s collaborative government ordered the end of its production in 1943. The official discourse He pointed out that money should not be dedicated to the research and development of vehicles that were not purely essential. If you want to see a unit, the Peugeot Adventure Museum In Sochaux (France) there is a restored one. Photo | Peugeot and La Adventura de Peugeot Museum In Xataka | The clash that changed everything: how a Peugeot 205 GTI inspired a world revolution in road safety

The EU has a weapon in the war of tariffs with the US and is to direct them to Republican states

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The EU will respond to The tariffs of the US with the same currency. Or rather, with the same policy, applying a curious law of the talion that from Brussels summary of form Simple but resounding: “Euro per euro, dollar per dollar.” After seeing how Donald Trump pressed on Wednesday the tariff red button, activating 25% rates To imports of European aluminum and steel, the European Commission has decided to replicate by applying taxes worth 26,000 million euros to a long list of American goods. The figure (26,000) is overwhelming, but the most interesting thing is what it hides. The EU has decided “hit where it hurts” to Trump, penalizing products that in many cases leave Great Folders of Republican votes. The goal is evident: press Trump from outside … and from within. A word: tariffs. To Trump He likes tariffs. He has openly recognized it, even as a White House candidate, when assured That ‘Tariff’ is, in his opinion, “the most beautiful word in the dictionary.” In the 50 scarce days He has sitting in the Oval Office has repeated that word a few times, many. Sometimes for disdain in addition. Others, Like this weekto announce a turn in the US policy towards certain foreign goods. On Wednesday the Republican Impulse 25% tariffs to all steel and aluminum imported to the US, a measure that connects with similar ones of his first mandate and that he has not laid anything well in Canada or the EU, who have already decided to play their own letters to respond. In the case of the EU, the European Commission announced yesterday “countermeasures” that will basically translate in applying tariffs worth 26,000 million of euros to certain US exports. What does Brussels plan? Use the stick and carrot. Yesterday the president of the CE, Úrsula von der Leyen, insisted In the importance of commercial relations between the EU and USA, the “harmful” effect of the encumbrances and their hand lying to Washington, but with them he announced EU’s plans to replicate Trump with tariff 26,000 million of euros. Moreover, he has already decided how he will: the EU will advise the coup throughout April, in two phases. On April 1 he will reactivate the “countermeasures” that he had already activated between 2018 and 2020, after Trump’s first government had Increased your rates also unilaterally. That punishment package that Brussels wants to recover It was suspended After the arrival of Joe Biden to the White House and, according to the EU calculationswill now serve to respond to economic damage worth 8,000 million euros caused by US tariffs. The second Brussels movement will reach mid -April (to be precise on the 13th) and will seek to counteract the damage worth another 18,000 million euros that, again According to EU calculationswill have the new Trump tariffs in European exports. Between one and the others they will add 26,000 million. That this last “countermelted” later has an explanation: it is new and before Brussels wants to have it well tied with the 27 EU countries. That’s all? No. von der Leyen argues That the EU wanted to be equitable in its replica: “Since the US applies tariffs worth $ 28,000 million, we respond with countermeasures worth 26,000 million euros,” he alleges. However, there is something so or even more important than those figures: what are applied to. The EC has decided to refine the shot and direct its punishment to certain US goods that can be sensitive to Trump for a very simple reason: they leave states that They support it at the polls, to him and the Republican party. “Hit where it hurts”. A senior EU official summarized it clearly (and forcefully) yesterday in statements a The Guardian: “We try to hit where it hurts.” In the American merchandise list that has the CE in the spotlight, which can be Consult onlinethere are motorcycles, whiskey, wine, honey, meat, cheese … a long payroll of products in which Some experts They have already seen some intentionality. For example, it affects iconic products, with a symbolic value, such as Harley-Davidon motorcycles or The Bourbona wiski with an important roots in the US. The importance of soybeans. The same source that spoke with The Guardian I quoted Another clear example: soybeans, interesting for several reasons. The first is its commercial weight. At least in 2019 it was The main supplier of soy of Europe, far ahead of Brazil, the second supplier. The specialized magazine PROGRESIVE FARMERbased in Alabama, points that Europe buys about 6.5 million metric tons of soybean exports and soy flour with a value of around 3,000 million dollars. Despite this bond the same source of Brussels assured The Guardian that for the EU would not mean any trauma to look for the supply in another market. “We love soybeans, but we are gladly bought from Brazil, Argentina or any other lujar,” reason. A year ago the EU has already raised sensitively The amount of Brazilian soy. The third factor that makes soybeans a sensitive merchandise for Trump, in addition to its weight in the commercial flow with Europe and the possibility of buying it in other countries is where it occurs in the US. Looking at the Republican Party. Soybean is one of the goods more relevant in agricultural exports to the EU. And a state relevant In the cultivation of American soybeans it is Louisiana, a territory especially sensitive For Donald Trump’s game. From there is the Republican Mike Johnsonthe president of the House of Representatives. Luisiana is also one of the states that was dyed red (Republican color) during the presidential elections of 2024, just like Iowa, Indiana, Missuri, Ohio or the two Dakotas. Everyone has more than having facilitated Trump’s access to the White House: they also stand out in The soy map United States. “Smart” tariffs. Something similar happens with the bourbon, especially linked to Tennessee and Kentucky, Traditional Folders Republican vote. The nickname Bluegrass State has also choosing from mid … Read more

The United States has decided to start a tariff war. Videogames in physical format will pay Caro

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Practically from his inauguration as president of the United States, Donald Trump launched a series of tariff measures that put many of the countries with which he maintained commercial relations. Very soon, the ESA (Entertainment Software Association)of which companies such as Xbox, PlayStation, Nintendo or Ubisoft are part of the evil, warned how bad these economic impositions can sit to the industry, mainly due to the conditions of globalization that the sector is experiencing. More tariffs, it is war. The Toma and Daca between countries that maintained a fluid commercial relationship with Trump has just begun, and we recently knew that if the US imposed 10% on Chinese productsthey responded with others in the opposite direction of 10 to 15% For American products such as coal, gas or oil. Similar answers They have given themselves after the announcement of the 25% tariffs for Canada and Mexico. ESA said it. The association warned In a statement that “tariffs on video game devices and related products would negatively affect hundreds of millions of Americans and damage the important contributions of the industry to the US economy.” And although analysts like David Gibson, from MST Financial said On Twitter that the tariff to China would have a “zero impact” on the price of the Nintendo Switch 2 In the United States, it also left the door open to the thing could change if tariffs like countries like Vietnam remained, very important for the manufacture of the console. The problem: physical games. The physical games market is increasingly a more residual part of the industry. But the thing could get worse. Analyst Daniel Ahmad He has highlighted that 20% of Chinese products would undoubtedly affect technological products such as consoles, mobiles and gpus (the latter It is already being noticed), while the 25% that Trump plans to carry Mexico would have an unsuspected effect: in the manufacture and consequent increasing discs, where the Latin American country has an important weight. Less and less. Mat Piscatella, another video game expert analyst, Replica these Ahmad predictions With an even more disastrous prediction: “I would not be surprised to see that the physical games subject to these rates simply did not get to do, with the editors addressing a completely digital strategy.” And concludes: “What a disaster.” At the moment, they are only conjectures, but analysts seem to coincide that tariffs could have an unwanted effect on precisely North American editors, which is what this policy tries to avoid. A future without physical format. Maybe this is the last lunge that awaits the physical games. The digital format gain ground Without rest, and the figures could not be clearer: in 2023 95% of the video games that were sold did so through digital roads. And decisions like Sony’s launch the PS5 Pro without disk unit (You have to buy separately) or Microsoft’s launch A new model Of Xbox Series S also without an album, they make it clear to which direction the industry is. Header | Álex Alcolea In Xataka | Nvidia lost 265,000 million dollars yesterday. Tariffs have caused terror among technology

The government has been at war against sugar for years. Now he wants to ban the sale of sugary drinks in schools

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In recent years we have seen different administrations in many different geographical areas take measures to limit the consumption of sugary drinks and other similar products, such as industrial pastries and energy drinks. The last one has come from the hand of the Ministry of Social Rights, Consumption and Agenda 2030. New regulations on the horizon. The Ministry of Consumer Ultimate vending and coffee shops in schools and institutes, As he has advanced The country. These products include industrial pastries, refreshing drinks, and energy drinks, products with more than five grams of sugar per packaged portion. The measure would also affect the advertising that can be shown in these machines; as well as the location of these, which would be out of access to students in early and primary education. More than sugar. The draft decree raises restrictions based on other criteria beyond the sugar content of the products. The measure contemplates, for example, limiting the kiloacalories by packaged portion up to a maximum of 200. This would be accompanied by an additional limit: no more than 35% They could proceed with fat. In addition, saturated fats may not provide more than 10% of the calories of the product. The salt content of the products would also be limited so that a 200 kcal portion could have a maximum of 0.5 grams of salt or the equivalent of 0.2 grams of sodium. Touring ahead. The future regulations still have to go through the State Council and the Council of Ministers before approval, which implies that the details may vary before entry into force. One more on the list. The last Biannual Aladino study, focused precisely on the Spanish child population was made in 2023. Although it observed a decrease in excess weight, overweight and obesity with respect to the 2019 report, the authors indicated that values ​​were maintained. Administrations have been serious in the fight against obesity, especially childhood obesity. Sugary drinks have been a usual target in this regard. A few years ago, for example, the United Kingdom introduced a “sugar tax” that affected this type of drinks. The resluent was a success according to a study published last year. In our closest environment the latest legislative changes in this direction have occurred at the regional level. In 2023, Galicia put on the table a proposal to limit the consumption of energy drinks among minors. These drinks, sometimes sugary represent an additional problem related to their high content in caffeine. In Xataka | We already know what energy drinks cost your rest. They are bad news for your dream Image | Kanishka Burnwal

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