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Drones are revolutionizing war in real time and Europe already has its following evolution: the “hybrid” drone

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The drones are Very present In war. The UAV (unmanned aerial vehicles) have proven to be versatile and competent tools on the Batallo field both in the offensive and in intelligence, but they have an important limitation: when they are on land they are useless. A small drone can get through a window and check a room, but it has no wheels to sneak into recesses in terrestrial operations. Not being, of course, it is a Rooster. A what? A Rooster. This peculiar “hybrid dron” is manufactured by the Israeli company robotic and stands out, as it is obvious, for its form factor. Unlike conventional drones, which can usually only fly, Rooster can fly and run thanks to a side wheel system. They are not really wheels as such, but a kind of cages that, on paper, should pay correctly even on complex land. Teams of three. This drone can be operated independently or in teams of three. When they come together, the three drones forms a mesh, interconnect with each other, share sensors (such as cameras) and can be controlled by the same operator. In fact, this can see in real time the image of drones on the control screen. This connectivity is key, especially if there are no GPS signal in the area. More Specs. The device weighs 1.6 kilos and is to be able to transport loads of up to 300 grams, such as a radiation sensor or a thermal chamber. Its autonomy is 12 minutes of flight and 30 minutes on ground. Seeing it in operation is, at least, curious, since it can pass another in real time, which allows to explore a plant on the ground, fly over the sale, climb to the second floor flying and return to the land exploration. It has cameras (night vision included), records even in Fullhd and, of course, it has ia to detect obstacles. The Rooster flying | Image: robotican In the hands of Israel … and NATO. This drone has already been adopted by the Israeli armed forces, but now it is ready to make the leap to the international market. Just three days ago, the Rooster got he NATO STOCK NUMBER. This is a 13 -digit code used by NATO that guarantees that all objects, from a bulb to pants, are cataloged and are easily accessible in supply chains. Also, in some way, it determines that they are trustworthy devices and that they meet the standards of the alliance. The company also confirmed that has sold its drones to “elite units in Europe”, not to mention exactly countries. We do know that, currently, they are employed by Israel’s defense forces and By the American Dea. The Spanish army He also had occasion to put the rooster tested during a demo that took place in forum 2e+i in Toledo in 2023. The rooster on land | Image: robotican The current context. Israel, One of the world’s great weapons manufacturersIt is not a NATO member country, which adds 32 members, but a partner through the 1994 Mediterranean dialogue such as Jordan, Mauritania or Morocco. The relationship with this country at this time is tense. On the one hand, he has the United States as a great ally, to the point that Israel is considered a MNNA (Important not-oan ally). This designation is made by the United States government to those countries that it considers closest allies. Israel was one of the first five countries to be part of this list after the creation of the MNNA level in 1987 by Ronald Reagan. On the other hand, there is the European Union, which He has condemned Israel’s acts in Gaza and supports the Palestinian authority, but still without agreeing on what measures take against Israel. Some countries, including Spain, defend that agreements with Israel must be suspended and advocated by taking measures and By a arms embargo. The future is the remote control. If something has made clear the recent events that have shaken the international geopolitics, in particular the Israel-Palestine conflict and The Ukraine Warthe thing is Drone control It is capable of decant the balance and make a difference. Unmanned vehicles allow precise maneuvers without putting military personnel at risk. Having more versatile options, such as a hybrid drone capable of developing on land and air, opens many possibilities and supposes, without a doubt, an advance. Cover image | Robotican In Xataka | Solving one of the great mysteries of war video games: if weapons have copyright or not

Sweden is investing millions of euros in a silent war. The enemy to beat: an epidemic of solitude

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Sweden has declared a war, one that seems to worry especially to its authorities, which has been speaking for years and in which it is willing to invest millions and millions of euros. The enemy to beat? The loneliness. It makes all the meaning if you take into account that A sensitive part of its inhabitants suffers unwanted isolation, especially between the younger and older layers of society, and there are who considers To Sweden the loneliest country in the world. After all, loneliness is a “Public Health Problem” And something else: complicates the efforts of the authorities for Strengthen your defense civil. The loneliness numbers. It is not the same to live alone than feeling alone. Just as not all societies face loneliness in the same way. Throughout the last years, however, different agencies have published studies that give us an idea of ​​the scope of both phenomena in EU countries, including Sweden, a nation that has declared war to unwanted isolation. In 2017 Eurostat published A study which shows that more than half (52%) of Sweden households are formed by a single person, the highest percentage of all EU countries and significantly above the community average, which is around 33%. If what we are talking about is a population, statista calculates that 26% Of the Swedes live without any company, data that only exceeds Finland (32%). Do you feel alone? The thing changes slightly if we talk about loneliness, unwanted isolation. The percentages can dance based on the source and the approach, but confirm that the sensation is present in Swedish society. CE surveys show that most or all the time feel alone in the country Between 16 and 17% of the people, while The data of 2024 of the public health agency reflect that 13% of the population claims to have that feeling “occasionally” and 6% invades “often or constantly.” “Almost two million Swedes over 16 suffer isolation. 26% of children from 3rd to 6th year say they feel alone in school. One in three young adults experiences loneliness and isolation, as well as 40% of women and almost 30% of men over 85 years old,” needed The Government in 2023. “A health problem”. Sweden is not the only one country that deal with loneliness, but there the data is consistent enough for its government to have declared that involuntary isolation is “A public health problem” And want to stand up. “It is a growing problem and the elderly experience it more frequently,” warns The Minister of Social Security, Anna Tenje. On the table the executive has reports that show that the isolation affects above all to certain groupsas elderly, young people or unemployed people. A fact: 27 million a year. Convinced of the challenge that supposes, in Stockholm they have decided to move from words to the facts. In 2023 the government activated A triennial plan (2023-2025) that is around 300 million of annual Swedish crowns (around 27 million of euros) to support initiatives that “fight and prevent” isolation. In February the Public Health Agency even presented A strategy “Against loneliness and favor of the community.” And what are you doing? Your strategy touches several sticks. The government a few months ago advertisement For example, the distribution of 49 million Swedish crowns (4.4 million euros) between organizations that work precisely to reduce loneliness. It is not the first initiative in that line. Over the last years he has allocated funds to campaigns Health -centered, promote The socialization of the elderly, their stake in sports activities or The study of the phenomenon and its approach from different areas, such as The business either The educational. “Taking care of friends”. For now, Sweden has received recognition from WHO, which He has cited it as an example for initiatives deployed in the country. A few days ago the newspaper I monde He dedicated a report to a specific one: “Vanvard” (“Taking care of friends”), which is taking pharmacies employees to dedicate part of their day to fight loneliness. At the end of 2023 the Ministry of Social Affairs also promoted the creation of A business network With about twenty companies that work with the same purpose: to end marginalization. Defense earrings. I monde Slide Another key idea: loneliness is not only “a public health problem”, it also implies an obstacle in a country that He is strengthening your civil defense system, as well as Other nations Nordic. That effort collides with a complex reality: isolation. More than half Of the Swedes they barely know their neighbors. With that backdrop, last year the Swedish Civil Contingency Agency promoted a campaign with A slogan That speaks for itself: “When we know each other, it is easier to help us.” Images | Magnus Östberg (UNSPLASH), Eurostat and EC In Xataka | Loneliness is already a matter of public health. We have more and more evidence that animals help us to placate it

Russia is using a tactic that clashes with war codes. It is called a double impact, and after the drones the worst comes

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In 2025 we have seen changes and adaptations in the offensives of Moscow. Shahed drones have continued to be The spearhead of the invasion, but to them have joined other tactics that from kyiv have been denounced as “implacable”, such as that undetectable sabotage bomb through the mobiles of LUkrainian teenagers. The latest: “double impact” offensives. Calculated terror. In recent months, Ukraine has witnessed the intensification of A Russian tactic particularly brutal: the calls “Double-Tap” attacks or double impact, a strategy that consists in attacking a certain area (frequently a civil objective) and hitting the same place after the arrival of emergency equipment, volunteers and medical staff. This technique, described by the United Nations as “Ruthless”, or ruthlessis being observed on multiple fronts by Air Defenders and Ukrainian lifeguards, who relate How drones are initially used to inflict damage, and minutes later, cruise missiles fall on the same objective when there are already rescue personnel in the place. Relentless. The result not only multiplies the victims, but also seeks to break the morals and paralyze the response capacity of the Ukrainian authorities. According to testimoniesthis form of attack has been used near Kyiv, Bila Tserkva, Járkiv and Jersón, with registered impacts on recreational, residential or strategic infrastructure. Adaptation to the stage. The doctrine behind these attacks It is not new. Russia already She was accused to use the same technique during his Intervention in Syriain support of the Bashar Al-Vasad regime. What makes the difference in Ukraine is the combination of drones and missileswhere the former act as baits or advanced that attract lifeguards, and the latter ensure total devastation. Oleksiy, subcomandante of a Ukrainian mobile air defense unit, He describes it as an intentional use of multiple weapons “to intimidate the population” and neutralize any immediate response capacity. While some cases have involved only drones, others have combined the two vectors with lethal efficacy, as evidenced in a Attack on a complex Recreational near Kyiv in June, where the second explosion hit just when emergency teams tried to contain the fire. Moscow’s silence. For its part, Russia has not responded to requests for information on these incidents, and their Ministry of Defense He has sent to general statements of the exterior spokeswoman, Maria Zakharova. Meanwhile, surveillance images and testimonies on the ground seem to confirm the existence of a recurring pattern. An example provides it A shared recording From the outskirts of Kyiv, where the buzz of a drone is heard followed by an explosion, just when rescue personnel were in the area. Although the total frequency of this type of attacks is still difficult to estimate, the accumulation of cases suggests that they are not accidental, but part of a systematic strategy. Analysts of the Institute for the Study of War They have affirmed that the Russian forces “are most likely pointing intentionally against Ukrainian civilians and lifeguards”, in an effort for demoralize and paralyze The institutional response. Defensive situation. This trend coincides with a General deterioration of the Ukrainian defensive panorama, aggravated by the Temporary suspension of critical armament deliveries by of the United Statesincluding anti -aircraft ammunition and other essential equipment. The decision, adopted within the framework of the policy of containment of American strategic reserves under the presidency of Trump, could have serious consequences for Ukraine’s ability to defend its cities and positions on the front before the Russian offensive. Last week, Moscow launched about 550 ammunition In a single night against Ukrainian territory, a reflection of an increasingly intense air campaign. The Foreign Ministry of Ukraine He has warned That any delay in western support will only be emboldened to Kremlin, while experts warn that lack of backup will accelerate advances Russians on the ground. Under fire resilience. It We have counted: In this context of vulnerability, Ukrainian President Zelenski has held conversations with his American counterpart to try to restore air defense shipments, declaring that both countries “will work together to reinforce the protection of our skies.” However, uncertainty persists, and every day without elevation The risks of collapse defensive in certain regions. Meanwhile, the international community observes with concern the use of prohibited tactics or morally reprehensible by Russia, including attacks on civil areas seconded by A second lethal blow. Beyond the battlefield, these methods question the commitment of the international order to humanitarian law, and demand an answer before the exceptional becomes a norm. Image | Picryl In Xataka | Machines capturing and prisoners were the preserve of science fiction. Until the war in Ukraine arrived In Xataka | We were accustomed to seeing strange things in Ukraine, but this is different: ships and bombers with no one behind the wheel

The Pentagon gets fully into the Rare Earth War with China. Has invested 400 million in the most promising US mine

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The US Department of Defense is about to establish itself as the largest shareholder of MP Materials. A few hours ago has announced who will buy shares of this mining company for A value of 400 million dollars. And, in addition, it will provide additional 150 million to help this company Extract and process rare earths which contains its Mountain Pass site, which is in California, although it resides very close to the border with the Nevada state. This mine is the only US site that contains some of the rare earths that are necessary to manufacture high -power industrial magnets, so it has become a very valuable strategic resource for the country led by Donald Trump. The US plan pursues Develop your own supply chain of rare earths with the purpose of eliminating any dependence on the global market of these chemical elements, which is controlled by China. The entry of the Department of Defense in the MP Materials shareholders reflects with absolute how important this mine for the US is from the point of view of national security. What is not yet clear is if it contains the rare earth range and in the right amount to meet the needs of US companies. In any case, with its investment the Pentagon intends to ensure the supply of rare earths to manufacture High power magnets for military applications For at least ten years. Why are rare earths so important to the US and its allies On April 4, just 24 hours after Donald Trump announced the taxes that he was going to apply to the importation of most products from abroad, The administration led by Xi Jinping responded. And he did it forcefully. In early December 2024 He chose to prohibit The export of some critical minerals to the US, among which were three essential metals for the chips industry: Gallium, Germanio and Antimony. Shortly after the Chinese government added two more critical metals to its list of export restrictions: the Scandio and the Disposio. These chemical elements are probably less known than metals prohibited by China previously, such as Gallium or Germanio, but are at least as important as the latter because They have a fundamental role In the industries of integrated circuits, telecommunications and the manufacture of storage devices. Chinese authorities are retaining in ports throughout the country not only rare earths, but also high -power magnets The ability to put pressure from China had not yet been extinguished. Just ten days later, on April 14, the Administration did not hesitate take another step forward With the purpose of putting in check, in addition to the industries that I just mentioned, those of electric cars, aeronautics and advanced armament. To achieve this, it effectively suspended, in addition to the export of the most valuable rare earths, that of high -power magnets that have a critical role in the industries that I have cited in this same paragraph. The Chinese authorities are retaining in the ports throughout the country not only the rare earths, but also the high -power magnets acquired by the electric cars manufacturers of the entire planet, the aerospace companies, the chip factories and Armament companies. Many of these organizations have high -power magnet reserves made with rare earths, but possibly only allow them to subsist a few months. Europe in particular is in an extremely delicate position. China’s export controls are directed mainly to the US, but the old continent It does not remain unscathed. At least for the moment. In fact, in Germany, which as we all know is the heart of the European car industry, There are already experts who assure that if China continues to retain rare earths and electric motors some essential parts of the electric cars production chain will stop in a few weeks. For the European car industry this blow would be very difficult to fit. European companies that are dedicated to the manufacture of semiconductors are also in a very compromised situation. According to Reuters Many European chip production lines They will stop very soon Due to the shortage of crucial supplies, which has led the European Chamber of Commerce to meet with officials of the Ministry of Commerce of China to ask them to allow rare earth supply to European companies that are dedicated to the production of integrated circuits. Image | The Pentagon More information | The Washington Post In Xataka | The US will not be able to contain the technological development of China. Experts from the chips industry forecast it

The war enters the field of science fiction. Ukraine has captured Russian soldiers without humans: the robots did it

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In the last hours two unpublished facts have been known in the Ukraine War. The first of all occurred a few hours after Trump announced the Partial resumption of sending weapons to kyiv and criticize hard To Putin. Then Russia launched The biggest attack with long -range drones from the beginning of the war. The second goes directly to History booksbecause Ukraine has stopped Russian troops only through machines. Drones and robots on the front line. In an unparalleled event in modern military history, the 3rd separate assault brigade of Ukraine managed to capture Russian soldiers Without using infantry human, using exclusively aerial drones and terrestrial robotic platforms. The operation, announced on July 9 by official Ukrainian sources, represents a unprecedented milestone In the evolution of automated combat, marking the first time enemy soldiers surrender directly to unmanned systems. According to The statement of the brigade, the terrestrial drones were the immediate receptors of the surrender, an event that until now belonged to the science fiction and that has now materialized in the context of the war in Ukraine. Asymmetric technology and war. The operation took place in the Járkov region, northeast of the country, an area high intensity on the front from the beginning of the large -scale invasion by Russia. The Ukrainian unit deployed FPV drones and robotic platforms Kamikaze -type terrestrial to assault Russian fortifications that had resisted previous attacks from other units. These tools, developed as part of a national strategy to reduce human casualties and adapt to a saturated artillery and surveillance war theater, allowed Ukrainian forces to execute an offensive Without exposing directly to your soldiers. According to Brigade’s storythe drones destroyed several Russian positions, and as a terrestrial robot approached a partially damaged shelter, the Russian soldiers entrenched there chose to surrender, without there being human presence in the immediate vicinity. An automated capture. After the surrender, the prisoners were guided outside the fighting zone by The same drones Ukrainians, in a sequence more typical of fantastic literature that demonstrates not only the offensive capacity of these systems, but also their effectiveness to operate complex tasks such as custody and remote control of enemy movements rendered. Subsequently, the Russian soldiers were taken in custody by Ukrainian forces. The success of this maneuver, they tell, not only allowed capture without direct physical contact, but also facilitated the taking of the fortifications previously defended, as well as the control of a adjacent forest line of considerable tactical value. New military paradigm. No doubt, the episode not only shows the degree of sophistication achieved in Ukraine in the matter of Automated warbut also raises fundamental questions about the future of land combat. The Rendary against drones Terrestres is a radical turn in the psychological dynamics of the battlefield: the soldiers, in this case Russians, did not face visible, human enemies, but to silent machines that approached relentlessly, having destroyed all previous defenses. This type of deployment, which mixes destructive capacity with occupation and control functions, anticipates a new paradigm where direct human interaction could become exceptional even in capture operations. Russia attack in Ukraine An unprecedented offensive. But as we said, if the capture of Russian soldiers was a historical fact of modern wars, Russia’s attack It is not precedents From the beginning of the invasion. On one night that could redefine the limits of the unmanned air war, Russia unleashed the greatest drone attack, launching 728 Shahed drones (including lures) and 13 missiles, including feared Kinzhalagainst 741 objectives throughout the country. The epicenter of the attack was the city of Lutsk, in the Ukrainian northwest, a few kilometers From the border with Polandwhich caused the Polish and NATO Air Forces to be deployed in maximum alert. According to kyivmost of the projectiles were intercepted, especially thanks to electronic warfare systems, although hypersonic missiles managed to cause unspecified damage. War in the front and in court. While the sky becomes a network of autonomous swarms, the situation on land remains marked by intense fighting No significant advances. Russian troops They continue to press In Sumy, Járkov, Luhansk and Donetsk, although reports indicate that Ukraine has contained attacks on most of those fronts. In parallel, a Russian soldier belonging to a criminal battalion He denounced publicly Inhuman conditions and the lack of gunner support, describing suicidal assaults in improvised vehicles and without air backup. On the legal level, the European Court of Human Rights ruled that Russia has systematically violated human rights Since 2014including extrajudicial executions, torture, forced deportation of children and forced labor. The Kremlin, on the other hand, dismissed the ruling as “null and without effect.” Plans. They counted the Twz analysts that kyiv, anticipating a large -scale response, would be preparing a thousand drones long range against Russian objectives, including areas near Moscow. In addition, the Ukrainian Secret Service arrested Two Chinese citizens accused of trying to spy technologies of the Neptune missileused in the Moskva’s sinking and now adapted for long -range terrestrial attacks. On land, the proliferation of unmanned land vehicles, such as New UGV “Snail” Or improvised models with wheels made of mines, shows that automation not only dominates the heavens, but also advances on the mud and steel of the front. The war in Ukraine, ultimately, thus enters a phase every time More hybrid and technological of the traditional forms of combat. The contest, that already It had been a pioneer In use massive drones Of recognition and attack, another threshold has crossed, this time historical and unimaginable does not so much: the surrender of soldiers against machines. Image | Arx Robotics, Ukraine’s 3rd Separate Assault Brigade, Emergency Service of Ukraine In Xataka | The production of Russian drones was so huge that Ukraine has opened them looking for clues. The surprise is China In Xataka | We were accustomed to seeing strange things in Ukraine, but this is different: ships and bombers with no one behind the wheel

In Spain more and more restaurants are declaring war on an old custom: paying accounts separately

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You probably lived it a thousand times. You stay with your friends for dinner in a restaurant and after the first, the second, the dessert, coffees and chupitos arrives the test of fire: the great Huge dilemma of how Devils foot the bill. Together or separate? Does each one pay your own or the bill is fractionated in equal parts? Card, metallic or a mixture of both? And in case someone forward money, especially if the minute is high, who does it and how the rest of the guests are organized to pay you? In Spain increasingly Bars save those headaches to their customers by applying a very simple standard: no divided payments. A table, an account. If you go together, you pay together. There are no official figures and from Facu increasingly Bars and restaurants in Spain embrace a rule when they have to charge guest groups: nothing to divide accounts between different customers sitting at the same table. At least if they intend to pay by card. A group, a payment. So simple. Lasxta revealed recently that the custom is spreading through the Malaga hospitality, but similar news (and more or less recent) about restaurants from Aragon either Catalonia. There is also a good handful of references in Xeither Tiktok or even Reddit threads in which the pros and cons are discussed and whether it is legal or that a restaurant refuses to fraction an account. Click on the image to go to Tweet. The big question: why? Like more or less, the undeniable thing is that the norm generates debate and Not everyone He feels comfortable with her. So … why are the hoteliers apply, even at the risk of angry at their clientele? The reason is simple: efficiency. A waiter is more comfortable and quick to manage a single charge to repeat that operation five, seven, ten or more times, depending on how many diners they have sat at the table. “It is super complicated to charge separately and more when they are large groups,” Recognize A waiter from Malaga to Lasexta. “Sometimes groups of fifteen or twenty people are made and each one wants to pay their convenience,” confesses Another hotelier from Barcelona. When that happens, work is slowed down in the room and the business risks that the box ends up disabled. There are times when the situation is further complicated and customers no longer ask for the payment, but each one is charged. It may seem a minor issue if the account is from a table with few customers, but the thing is complicated when we talk about broad groups and minutes of several hundred euros, as reported Two years ago In Tiktok a waiter. But … Is it legal? The million dollar question. “There is really nothing regulated. The solution is to say no, that each diner will pay their part. The establishment has two options: accept or not collect,” he says Rubén Sánchezof Facua. “If at the door he indicates that he accepts card payments cannot reject that means of payment in half. “There is no law that determines that customers have the right to fraction the account to pay it at once. It is an aspect in which the law does not deepen so much. You have to apply common sense,” agrees Enrique García, spokesman for the OCU. “The logical thing is to inform the company that provides the service and customers to attend these circumstances.” @xavi_abat Have you found in this situation? #Elabogadodetiktok ♬ Original sound – 🙋‍♂️ #Elabogadodetiktok A supplement to fraction? At the end of 2024 Xavi Abat, “Tiktok’s lawyer”, He warned of another practice to which more and more bars and restaurants are being accepted: the collection of “separate accounts supplements” to those customers who ask for the payment of payment. In Your video Abat in fact showed the poster of a bar that applies different “management” positions depending on the size of the table and how many payments should process: one to eight diners, one euro; from eight to 12, two euros; And in the case of tables of more than 12 clients, three euros. Those sums, says the place, cover “the resources” invested and the use of TPV. The key: Information and visibility. The question is the same … are that kind of supplements legal? The key, ABAT revealsis in the information available to the client when he sits at the table. “There is no law, nothing is said in the Civil Code. The contractual relations between the parties are free. Each establishment can establish what they want,” reason The expert. “Therefore, if the restaurant warns of this charge, there is a contractual offer and you and you accept, you have to eat it.” “Contrary, if you go to a restaurant, you are seven or eight and at the end of the food they do not let you pay separately, as you have not been warned, as you have not had the option to negotiate it, you can oppose and demand that you want to pay separately. You could file a complaint or plant yourself there until they let you charge separately,” adds ABAT. Argument shock. The reality is that both parties, hoteliers and customers, have arguments to be in favor or against collection subdivisions. Business They allege What dividing the accounts demands more time, slows down their work, you can unravel the box and carry an expenditure of time and extra resources. After all, there are payment systems that generate extra commissions when several operations are carried out. The truth is that the unique payment in groups is a common practice in other countries in Europe. As for customers, the main complaint is the discomfort and headaches that can lead not to divide the accounts. Without counting that someone must pay the full amount of the invoice. “Why do I have to fight with the people of a group to make me the bizum of what they have consumed?” Question A user … Read more

Ukraine has borrowed the most basic idea of ​​Lego. And has transformed it into the final machine for war

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Drones with shotguns of double cannonrobots Lanzaluelaunmanned vessels With missilesairplanes With shotgunsdevices with kilometer cables of optical fiber Looking for its goal through algorithms … The war in Ukraine became the largest war laboratory of modern contests, but in recent months that transformation has become more palpable than ever. Because soldiers are no longer recruited, they are recruited directly robots. Modular fights. They counted this week In Insider that among the key actors of this unprecedented experimentation of military terrestrial robotics is the company Estonia Milrem Roboticswhose land autonomous vehicle Themis It has been deployed by the Ukrainian forces on the front. The striking, however, is not only the presence of these systems, but the way in which Ukrainian soldiers are using them: unforeseen and highly creative. Kuldar Väärsi, founder of the company, He has highlighted that troops have managed to expand their abilities by adding modifications, adaptations and even using them to Not expected taskssuch as collection of corpses, controlled explosions, supply transport or mines. In a context where each resource can mean life or death, tactical innovation is born directly from the front. Military Lego. The Thanmis model can load up to 1,200 kgmove at 20 km/Hy wearing weapons like machine guns or launcherin addition to acting in evacuation, transport or deactivation tasks. However, its real value lies in its modularity: it is an adaptable system, almost like a set of War Legoaccording to Oleksandr Yabncanka, head of robotized systems of the Da Vini Wolves battalion. Without having specialized models for each mission, the Ukrainian units use a single type of robot as a common basis They modify according to your operational needs. This flexibility reflects a generalized philosophy in the Ukrainian army since the beginning of the conflict: improvise, adapt, survive. Fifth Generation Themis Military reinvention. Since the first year of war, Ukraine has been synonymous with reuse and Technical creativity. He has re -adapted Western lanzamisiles to Soviet platforms, mounted machine guns old in trucks, modified drones Commercial for suicidal missions and created mills such as unmanned ships and turrets with artificial intelligence. Milrem is not the only company at stake: local companies such as Roboneers either FRDMtogether with European signatures such as ARX ​​Robotics (Germany) or Isolit-Bavo (Czech), are actively collaborating in the design and deployment of new models of land robots. This confluence between foreign industry, local operators and tactical demands generates an eInnovation sew that had not been seen before on this scale. The war of the future. Be that as it may, there is a name that has risen above the other models. Bloomberg explained it With a scene: on the wooded banks of the Dnieper River, on the outskirts of kyiv, two small robotic vehicles descend towards the sand as if they were mechanized crabs. One transports food, the other sowing anti -tank mines. It is about Termit modelTangible symbol of how Ukraine, after three and a half years of total war against Russia, has become the forge of a new war paradigm: a war based on modular technology, cheap and fast to produce. In a context of scarcity, urgency and systematic improvisation, the country has managed to create an arms ecosystem that rivals (for its agility and efficiency) with the great industrial powers. Already the 40% of the armament which uses comes from National Sourcesand according to Zelenski, this autonomy can serve as model for allies of NATO that face an increasingly volatile and dangerous geopolitical future. Military production, as he says Oleksandr Kamyshin experthas become the oil of Ukraine, the resource on which its survival is constructed. Ukrainian Termit Models Robot and converted engineers. The case dE Maksym Vasylchenko embodies the metamorphosis of the country. In 2022 he worked by installing food machinery for international companies; today directs Tencorea startup that has developed The Termitthose modular robots that already use more than twenty military units in the front. With satellite connectivity Via Starlink and load transport capacity, evacuation of wounded or deployment of mines, these vehicles They have replaced to soldiers in areas of maximum risk, not only because they are more expendable, but for its lower cost: a basic termit It costs $ 20,000while the death of a soldier supposes the State a nearby total compensation at 380,000. A different company. Of five initial employees to early 2024Tencore has grown to 175 workers, six venues, and projections of 80 million dollars In annual income. All driven by direct collaboration with combatants: a chat with forty active users serves as a constant feedback channel, where every five or ten minutes suggestions are provided. This agility, impossible in the processes of acquiring Western governments, is one of the keys to the success of the Ukrainian model. An army of termit ready for operations An area of ​​death. We have coming counting: The war in Ukraine has established a new operational environment dominated by low cost drones. Approximately the 70% of the Russian team destroyed has fallen by unmanned vehicles, many of them converted commercial adaptations. These FPV units already operate in almost any climatic condition, deliver blood in trenches or attack tanks with surgical precision. The battlefield has become constant, immediate and three -dimensional, expanding the call Kill Zone At any time and place. At the beginning of June, Ukraine demonstrated its offensive capacity coordinated to the destroy bombers strategic in Russian bases that went from the north of the country to Siberia. The traditional logic of the front has been replaced by a decentralized war where the direct human risk is reduced to the minimum possible thanks to autonomous, fast and sacrifiable platforms. The Russian answer. Of course, Moscow has not lagged behind. As We have spoken For weeks, ha adapted the drones Iranian Shahed to your needs and has begun to display vehicles Fiber cable guided optics, which makes them immune to electronic interference. In May, the Russian production of combat drones increased 17% In a single month. The Russian strategy is clear: standardization, volume and industrial … Read more

We have tried to use AI to verify if the images of the war between Iran and Israel were made with AI. It has been a disaster

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False images circulate on social networks is no novelty, but in the era of AI It is increasingly difficult to detect them And they have even made Let’s distrust real photos. That photos taken with AI are viral when an important event is the new normality is; We saw it After the blackout And also with him Conflict between Israel and Iran. It is clear to us that AI is very good to generate false images, but what if we use it precisely for the contrary? Not so much. The photos in question. At the same time as a Half Iranian published The news that Iran had demolished an Israeli F-35, two images began to run like gunpowder on social networks, although We soon knew they were false. One of them, that of the star and surrounded by curious F35, is especially striking. To begin with, the proportions make no sense: the plane seems giant when actually measures 16 meters and people are larger than buildings. And that not to mention that the damage of the plane is minimal to have been shot down. These images were not the only ones generated by AI that circulated in the first days of the conflict. Several videos such as this one of a huge Iranian missile that it seems quite real until we see that the water brand has been left to see that it is made with the, or East of a tel aviv shattered. AI is terrible doing FACT-CHECK. Means dedicated to FACT-CHECKING as Damn already denied These and other images created with AI in the context of the conflict between Iran and Israel. However, there were users who tried to resort to AI tools to check the authenticity of the images and obtained quite confusing answers. Is What happened in X with Grok. An analysis of more than 130,000 posts revealed that Musk’s AI was not able to detect some false images or identify the sources from which they came. The community notes written by the users themselves were much more reliable. We have tried it. To check the AI ​​capacities, we have used the image of the disproportionate F-35 and have asked several AI tools. This is what they have answered: Chatgpt: The Openai tool begins “This image does not seem real” and then proceeds to make an analysis of the proportion of the plane, which correctly identifies as a F35, and states that the damage does not seem coherent. Perplexity: Like Chatgpt, he tells us that proportions, perspective, and airplane damage and other details suggest that the photo has been digitally manipulated. Gemini: It tells us that the image is real, but that it is not an attack in combat, but of a clash with birds that happened in Israel in 2017. When we answer that the sources show us, it happens several links to the news, but in none of them the image appears. After a while sending us confusing information, he ends up recognizing that he was wrong and apologizes for “the serious mistake.” Claude: It is the only one that states with forcefulness that the image is not real and gives us the exact context of what has happened “this is one of the many false images that have circulated as part of misinformation campaigns during the conflict between Israel and Iran.” The reliability, pending subject. In our test, Gemini has completely invented the answer, while Chatgpt and Perplexity succeed, although they do not get wet. Claude is the only one that gives us all the information and hits fully. Although language models have improved a lot in a short time, Many answers continue to be invented Despite having access to the Internet and searches. Undoubtedly, reliability is the pending subject of generative AI and where more improvement margin has. Images | 404 average In Xataka | Chatgpt guide: 22 functions and things you can do to squeeze this artificial intelligence to the maximum

After the civil war, Franco wanted to colonize empty Spain. So 300 new villages were invented

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Throughout Spain there are more than 8,100 municipalitieslarge and small villages, coast, mountain, bathed by the waters of the Cantabrian, the Atlantic or of Mediterranean climate. There are also very old, such as Brañoserafounded in the ninth century, and others so recent that their first inhabitants can still tell us about their origins. This is the case of the 300 populations promoted by the Franco dictatorship as part of its colonization policy. The peoples “Invented” By Franco. A figure: 55,000. The idea is so crazy, so huge, that often It is said which motivated one of the population displacements most important of the Spain of the twentieth century. Between 1940 and 1970 The Franco regime founded around 300 locations in 27 provinces (half in Andalusia and Extremadura) that ended up causing the displacement of 55,000 familiespeople who a good day made their bags and left their native municipalities attracted by the promises of these new -wedge settlements. “Peoples of Colonization”. The colossal project was developed under the auspices of the National Institute of Colonization (the Incan entity created After the civil war To carry out the Franco agricultural policy) and their promises were of course suggestive: families willing to move to the new settlements were offered homes and wide irrigation lands in which a future is carved. All this in property. At least in theory. Input, the settlers had to meet certain requirements. The lots were supposedly distributed by raffle, although there are who holds That not all candidates started with the same possibilities: Ideally was that they were part of large families (with children willing to work) and adjusted to the archetype dreamed by Francoism: devout, laborious Catholics and to be possible Without links With reprisals. Nor did everyone start with the same conditions. As remember ABCin 1945 the government approved an order that regulated how the colonists could access the houses, something that depended on their savings. Under the tutelage of the INC. Who could advance part of the value of the land (20%) entered a phase that the INC called “access to property”. Then they had to pay the rest of the amount to become owners of their homes and farms. The thing changed for the humblest settlers. They had to spend five years in “Tutela period”, a stage during which the Institute supervised what they cultivated and remained a portion of the crops as payment. Villalba de Calatrava, a town of colonization of the Calatrava Campo (Ciudad Real) Campo. How long did they spend like this? Depends. ABC appointment A town where that tutelage lasted until almost the end of the 60s, a time to which the families had to add the “access to property” stage. The newspaper also speaks of 25 -year deadlines to finish paying the lands (30 in the case of homes) with more than considerable interests, 3% or even 7%. To complete the picture, the INC had a structure that was in charge of “guardianship” the families of settlers through intermediate charges. In the first place were the agronomists, authors of the plans. Its guidelines passed to the expert and below this was the Mayoral, who supervised the farmers. And what was the goal? With the new settlement the Franco regime pursued several objectives. The program served to boost the Agrarian transformation (With irrigation extensions), expand the cultivable area, repopulate and transform the Spanish field, but also had an ideological background. With the new settlements, many baptized with names that They mentioned to the new regime and its referents (Caudillo Alberche, Villafranco del Guadiana either Águeda del Caudillo), The dictatorship also sought to project a new image and feed its advertising. The expansion of the new villages coincided with The bet of the dictatorship by hydraulic infrastructure. “The political strategy of the new State replaces the redistribution of the land (objective of the Second Republic) with a colonization policy based on the transformation of the rural that allowed to settle in villages of colonization a self -sufficient peasant”, Remember from the Ministry of Agriculture, on which the National Institute depended after its creation, in October 1939. A program with lights … The colonization policy of Francoism had social, economic, agricultural and even “undeniable” repercussions, such as They recognize From the ministry. And not only because the creation of hundreds of villages for Repopulation of the ’emptied Spain’ and postwar. Among the displaced there were those who, upon their arrival at the settlements, found infrastructures and unimaginable services in the villas from which they came. “When we got here it was like dreaming awake,” He recounts The country A retired farmer who arrived in Villalba in Calatrava (Ciudad Real) with his parents in 1964, when he was 12 years old. “There was a bathroom, with its cup and sink. In those years that had no one! He was very small, but having something like that was out of series.” The idea was that in the new settlements the settlers could opt for a house in fertile property and lands, contributing in passing to the economy of postwar Spain and the conversion of fields into irrigation. … And also with shadows. Not everything was positive. Despite the promises of housing and lands, many settlers to reach the property cost them years of sweat delivering part of their crops. “We were slaves,” confesses a The country Another old settler of The Bazanawhere he arrived with just 17 or 18 years. In 2018, already after 85, he remembered: “They paid you what they wanted for the crops, and then there came a point where they stopped buying them because the beans from Badajoz were very expensive.” The cultivation of the new lands was not always simple, just as it was not to follow the guidelines marked by the engineers and major people of the town. Others left their lifelong locations to move to new wedge settlements in which they had no roots, they were surrounded by strangers and (sometimes) they met half -finished works. “When … Read more

China has won the data war without stealing any. We have given them to them

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Despite the bodies that are usually tried to attribute in that sense, at least much more disproportionately than on the other side of the Pacific, China has not needed to steal secrets or technological secrets of the West. We have given them to them in a silver tray. Why is it important. There are several cases that do not mean much but united form a puzzle. For example, Apple and Its accumulated investment of 55,000 million dollars in China to “form” in advanced manufacturing. Or bytedance accumulating billions of hours of video labeling – and western– To train the most sophisticated recommendation algorithm we know. And now Apple can repeat the pattern with AI. The context. The dominant narrative points to Chinese industrial espionage as a cause of its technological boom. It is not so simple: Western companies have been the greatest facilitators of technological transfer in modern history, and did it voluntarily. The promise in return: margins. In the short term. The panoramic. Apple was one of the great responsible for China’s change, which went from manufacturer Low Cost A superpower of manufacturing in just two decades. Bytedance has converted western behavior data – hours and hours deciding what we like and what is not based on Scroll– In algorithmic supremacy for a five years. Tesla accelerated the Chinese ecosystem of electric vehicles and now he has turned against him. DJI dominated civil drones by processing Western Maps. The pattern is repeated: West delivers knowledge, China absorbs it and begins to overcome it. Terry Gou, founder of Foxconn, understood that it was better to sacrifice immediate margins in exchange for tie up a company like Apple to get free training by US engineers. Between the lines. China applied what we could call “reverse Trojan horse.” Instead of infiltrating, it attracted Western companies to come voluntarily. Apple’s is a paradigmatic case: for years he thought it was she who was conquering China, but the reality seen with perspective is that It has been China who has conquered Apple. Examples: The progressive assignments of sovereignty. Apple has accepted content restrictions or Mandatory storage on local serverssomething that led many hands to many heads at the time just for the EU to end up demanding something very similar. Logistics dependence without turning. There is no plan B, leaving China would be a slow, expensive movement that would require many years and many dollars. The massive transfer of knowledge. The aforementioned formations to millions of Chinese workers, the investments of more than 7,000 million in own equipment for foreign factories. China has absorbed that know-how. Yes, but. Apple generated thanks to this a company of 3 billion dollars. In 2000 it was around 4,000 million. Thousands of times less. That growth could not have happened investing elsewhere. Tesla would have taken much longer to master the electric car without Chinese industrial capacity. The problem is the aforementioned: there is no medium -term plan can not have it. Without China, Apple cannot manage its complex logistics, its millions of daily components. Nor access engineers to dominate them. And now… Apple is working with Alibaba to take Apple Intelligence to China for legal imperative. Is being more complicated than it seemed. And bytedance I would prefer to close Tiktok in the United States rather than sell its valuable algorithm. The employer is also repeated here: Western companies seek to access the Chinese market delivering their most valuable technology. The threat. China is increasingly dominating the massive adoption of AI with models mainly open source. Tencent has already integrated Depseek in Wechat For its more than one billion users. In China, AI is not a separate application, but is integrated into what is already widely used. Possibly the next generation of intelligent agents will repeat the pattern of Apple and Foxconn. But in the field of software. China is not winning the data career spying on the West. He is winning for having opened the door for the West to teach him everything he needed to know in exchange for greater quarterly benefits. Today the student has become a teacher and is the one who puts the standards. In Xataka | For Apple, the price of its iPhone was sacred. Until he started falling into a vacuum in China Outstanding image | Collabstr in Unspash

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