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Denmark was building the world’s largest wind farm when a 400-year-old sunken ship was found

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Although we have been watching for years how China builds renewable mega-facilities like It is on the Tibetan plateau or this other colossal wind farm with 136 wind turbines 100 kilometers offshoreis not the only country with great ambitions to generate clean energy. Without going any further, Denmark is in the preliminary stages of setting up the largest offshore wind farm in the world, Hornsea 3. But for now this installation will have to wait because in the middle of prospecting work, they have found gold. Or rather, lead: the one reveals the existence of a wreck with a cargo of lead ingots. The discovery. This huge wind farm is being installed by the energy company Ørsted, in the North Sea, off the coast of Yorkshire. There, about 120 kilometers from Norfolk and about 40 meters deep, they were doing safety surveys of the seabed in search of possible unexploded ordnance from the Second World War when they came across a 17th century shipwreck. The curious thing was the trigger for such a discovery: what appeared on the monitors were three lead ingots weighing 70 kilograms each that were still stacked in their original position. There were also some remains of wood and some hull of the ship that transported them. Thanks to the mark that the smelter left on the ingots, it is possible to try to trace their origin, in this case of hypothetically linked to Derbyshire. Why is it important. Because it clearly evidences the early modern English lead trade. In this case, the wreck found is directly on the route that linked Hull with the Netherlands through the North Sea. Context. At that time and as the MSDS Marine explainsEngland produced large quantities of lead, especially in the mines of Derbyshire and the Peak District. From Hull and London it was exported to other locations, such as Amsterdam and Rotterdam. Before we discovered the toxic effects of lead, this element was commonly used for pipes, cookware, weapons, and other products. Transforming it into ingots made it easier to transport as merchandise. A curiosity: the heritage legislation of the United Kingdom requires archaeological studies to be carried out before the construction of this type of infrastructure and thank goodness, because in British offshore wind farms in recent years a roman anchor has been found. In detail. More specifically, the three recovered lead ingots have three different engraved markings (“IS”, “EB” and “H”). These signs are reminiscent of those found in the Kennemerlanda Dutch East India Company ship sunk in 1664 near the Shetland Islands. For this reason, in this preliminary phase the research team holds that the ship was probably Dutch and was heading back to the Netherlands loaded. Yes, but. At the moment, almost everything is hypothesis: a deeper investigation is needed to determine the origin of the ship and a more precise dating beyond the “17th century.” Furthermore, the geological origin of lead has not been analytically confirmed either. In Xataka | 80 years ago an American destroyer attacked what it believed to be an enemy submarine. We just discovered it was a sunken ship In Xataka | Barcelona started digging to build a parking lot. He ended up discovering a 10 m medieval ship of uncertain origin. Cover | Fredrik Öhlander and MSDS Marine

The world’s leading expert in identifying deepfakes has a big problem. No longer able to identify them

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Is called Hany Farid and is considered one of the world’s leading experts on deepfake videos. This digital forensics expert was capable of uncovering videos manipulated by governments, for example, but now he has decided to leave Silicon Valley for one simple reason: It is no longer able to differentiate the real ones from those that are being generated with AI tools. And we are not surprised. Deepfakes indistinguishable from reality. In the last two decades Farid, 60, has specialized in identifying fake videos. This professor at the University of California at Berkeley has confessed that advances in generative AI have made traditional detection methods are no longer of any use. Their conclusions confirm the feeling that we have had for a long time with this type of content: AI has advanced so much that the problem is no longer just deepfakes: it is that we distrust even real photos. Farid’s reputation precedes him. His father worked for 50 years as a chemist at Eastman Kodak, and Farid grew up visiting the dark room often, watching photos become photos as they passed through the different liquids. He ended up designing a “digital fingerprint” system that made it possible to detect cases of child pornography hidden on the Internet. In fact, its technology has led to 30 million cases of potential abuse being reported each year, as well as leading to hundreds of arrests and several rescues. I surrender. Faced with the avalanche of perfect deepfakes generated with AI, Farid has decided to leave his job to take refuge on a farm in Vermont. His surrender is the latest demonstration of a harsh reality: We can no longer trust what we see on networks. Now he is dedicated to working with wood, and has distanced himself from networks and technology. The missile that changed everything. The turning point that demonstrates this crisis of this digital forensic task occurred after the viral spread of a video showing the alleged impact of a US missile on a school in Iran. Farid spent an entire day breaking down the sequence frame by frame: analyzing the geometry of the shadows, the sound delay rate of the explosion according to the laws of physics, or the pixel length of the projectile. Impossible to decide if it is false or not. He found nothing that could prove that the video was fake, and the same thing happened to other specialists. None could issue a clear verdict of authenticity, and that made it clear that AI video generation is currently so advanced that real content is indistinguishable from a deepfake generated with these latest generation models. Verifying is too complicated. There is another problem here: generating a fake video, whether toxic or not, with cloned voices that are perfectly synchronized with the interlocutor is easy, fast and cheap. Carrying out a forensic investigation to try to detect whether the video is real or not takes hours of computational and direct analysis by specialists. Given that deepfakes manage to go viral in just 20 minutes if they are successful, the methods to contain this spread are useless for a simple reason: they arrive late. The biter bit. The researcher himself was a victim of this reality: cybercriminals cloned his phone number and used AI to generate his voice and thus impersonate his identity. With that clone, they called a close contact who was involved in a court case and managed to extract confidential information. Farid and his wife, a vision researcher at Berkeley, they had to create a secret safe word at the beginning of each family call to certify that each interlocutor was who they said they were. The situation generates a disturbing paranoia and mistrust. “I’m going blind”. In the report of The New York TimesFarid explained that his studies show that most people can no longer differentiate a real photo from a digitally created one. “I feel like I’m going blind,” he indicated, showing his concern about an AI that is managing to obscure the truth and distort reality. Watermarks as a solution. Faced with this avalanche of images and videos generated by AI that are indistinguishable from reality, one of the potential ways to mitigate the problem continues to gain strength. It is, of course, the watermarkstotally invisible and which are part of the metadata of those files. Two promising initiatives. There are several initiatives in this regard, although the most notable It is that of the C2PA coalition which includes, for example, Google and OpenAI. AI tools should add those watermarks identifying those contents (“This video has been generated with this AI application, this image has been generated or edited with this other one”), but at the moment that type of option is not applied by default. Another important project in this sense is SynthIDGoogle’s technology to “mark” these contents as created with AI. Image | Bild (CC0) In Xataka | What happened to Technicolor: evolution and death of the company that changed cinema and was overwhelmed by its ambition

The world’s leading expert on the Gulf Stream has bad news about the heart of the Atlantic

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To the south of Greenland, for years, there have been an area that suffers, against all odds, a persistent cooling. In the middle of a world that is increasingly warming, that blue spot (that ‘cold bubble’) has posed a challenge for models, experts and administrations: after all, it is the only region of the global ocean that is cooling. What the hell is going on there? Now Stefan Rahmstorfthe world’s leading expert on the collapse of the Gulf Stream, has had an idea. A mystery in the heart of the North Atlantic? Yes and no. Indeed, to the extent that we do not know why it is there, or what mechanisms govern it, the ‘cold bubble’ is one of the great mysteries of current climate science. However, that does not mean that we have not studied it. On the contrary, we have done it to the point of satiety. This oceanic anomaly is, almost certainly, one of the most studied in the last decade. The novelty is not in the phenomenon itself: we have known about it since the mid-90s. The novelty is in the explanation. Do we already know why it happens? We now have a new explanation that makes sense and is plausible; but it is still controversial. Rahmstorf’s team has carried out an analysis of the heat balance in that region of the Atlantic. And their conclusions are that the decrease in heat of the entire water column is not explained by surface flows. In fact, the area that loses the most heat does not coincide with the area that loses the most surface heat. With this in mind, they begin to raise hypotheses and discard them. This is how they arrive at the idea that the cooling comes from a reduction in oceanic heat transport to the region. That is, of a weakening of the AMOC. We have been talking about the death of the AMOC for years, has no one thought of this? Yes, indeed, this was one of the main working hypotheses. But until now everything was worked with indirect models. It is now that Rahmstorf’s team has been able to draw the complete scheme and detect a link that, it seems, is due to the multidecadal evolution of the Current with the Ocean. Why do I say it is controversial? To begin with, because like any scientific study it is subject to reanalysis, discussions and counterarguments. But, above all, because Rahmstorf and his team are specialists in exactly what they have found. For many climatologists there is a certain risk that this work falls short of the popular saying that “for those who have hammers, everything is nails.” Rahmstorf has linked his intellectual figure to the collapse of the AMOC and that, inevitably, raises suspicions. However, today (and with the data we have) it may be one of the best explanations we have. not the only onebut in these topics we almost never have a single (almost) satisfactory explanation. So, is the AMOC going to collapse? Let us remember that the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) is the North Atlantic branch of the thermohaline circulation. Since the sun does not heat the sea equally everywhere and freshwater flows reach the ocean at very specific points, this is the basic mechanism by which the oceans balance differences in temperature and salinity. The AMOC is a fundamental mechanism for Europe’s climate and economy. “Without it, Western Europe and eastern North America would cool significantly, with a host of potential adverse effects,” said Sánchez Laulhé. However, scientists cannot agree on what will happen. In 2021, the IPCC said the AMOC was “unlikely” to collapse. In 2023, the Ditlevsens not only said that it was a probable scenario, but that they set the first date for the collapse. In 2024, 44 signatories They asked to take the problem seriously. But in January 2025 Terhaar, Vogt and Foukal said which, in short, had not weakened since 1063. The reasonable thing to say is that yes, climate drift seems to suggest that at some point the AMOC will collapse. It has already happened other times. The impossible is to say when, how and why. Image | In Xataka |

China will build the world’s largest AI network with its own chips, although they are not enough

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The Chinese Government is launching a project that seeks to invest $295 billion in five years in the deployment of a national network of data centers of artificial intelligence (AI). In the current scenario of confrontation in the technological field between the US and China, this plan is not surprising at all. However, we cannot ignore the fine print: at least 80% of the underlying technology, including AI chips, must come from domestic suppliers, such as Huawei or Cambricon. Early October 2024 the Administration sent Chinese AI companies were given a recommendation asking them to use chips produced in China as much as possible. Ten months later, this recommendation became a requirement. The Chinese government forced state-owned data centers across the country to use at least 50% Chinese integrated circuits in their servers. Now, as we have just seen, this figure rises to 80%. Be that as it may, this scenario clearly favors three companies: Huawei, Cambricon and Moore Threads. Nvidia and AMD no longer count for China Huawei invests more than 25 billion dollars annually in developing your hardware for AIso presumably it will not take long to match the performance of the GPUs produced by Nvidia or AMD. However, this company faces an enormous challenge that will probably prevent it from meeting the demand for AI chips from the Chinese market in the short term. In mid-June 2025 Jeffrey Kessler, the Under Secretary of Commerce for Industry and Security at the US Department of Commerce, made this statement in Congress: “Our assessment indicates that Huawei’s Ascend chip production capacity by 2025 will be 200,000 units or less, and we anticipate that most or all of that production will be delivered to companies within China.” This limitation has a specific technical basis: yield per wafer The integration technologies used by the Chinese semiconductor manufacturer SMIC to produce Huawei or Cambricon chips have a very wide room for improvement. The per-wafer performance of SMIC integration technologies has a very large room for improvement SMIC already has the capacity to manufacture 6nm integrated circuits, and will soon also be able to produce 5nm semiconductors, but is limited by the performance of the deep ultraviolet lithography equipment (UVP) that you have in your possession. It is commendable that SMIC and Huawei engineers have managed to refine their integrated circuit manufacturing processes enough to be able to produce 5, 6 and 7 nm chips with ASML’s UVP equipment, but a priori it is very unlikely that with these machines they will be able to go beyond 3 nm. And it is because the technique of multiple patterningwhich is what they are using, imposes important limitations. A note: this strategy broadly consists of transferring the pattern to the wafer in several passes with the purpose of increase resolution of the lithographic process. Its problem is that it usually has an upward impact on the cost of chips and a downward impact on production capacity. For Huawei, it is a big problem not to have the necessary technology to produce cutting-edge semiconductors comparable to those manufactured by Intel, TSMC or Samsung, which is why it is working on the development of its own equipment. extreme ultraviolet photolithography (EUV). This scenario has caused the Chinese semiconductor industry to question whether national hardware can maintain the pace demanded by the Government. SMIC co-CEO Zhao Haijun has warned that this hasty addition of capacity can leave data centers idlecomparing this situation to building highways before there is traffic. In addition, several Chinese executives in the chip sector have recognized separately that his country is five to ten years behind in the cutting edge in silicon for AI data centers. In the current situation, the decision has its logic. Another thing is whether China can comply with it. Image | Cambricon Technologies More information | Tom’s Hardware In Xataka | NVIDIA has to deal with the absolute distrust of several US legislators. Your plan in China is in danger In Xataka | The US wants to end Chinese AI chips sold abroad. And China knows how to defend itself

MSI launches the world’s first desktop gaming PC with an AI agent in the form of a ‘hologram’

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Computex 2026 has already ended, but it has left us with several interesting announcements. We already told you a few days ago how MSI had presented several monitorsincluding the first triple-resolution QD-OLED gaming monitor ever manufactured. The same manufacturer has also done something quite curious: it has put an artificial intelligence agent in a gaming PC. And he did it with the appearance of a ‘hologram’. An AI that will help you configure your PC without touching anything A few months ago we brought you an analysis of MSI’s first MEG Visiona gaming PC with an RTX 5090 and where we had a huge screen crowning the tower that gave access to a lot of different functions. The new MSI PC goes in that same direction, although in this case combining an AI agent that runs inside the computer and that has a much more physical presence. Instead of a conventional screen like the previous device had, this MEG Vision X 2 AI⁺ has a cylindrical screen that is integrated within the chassis. In this way, MSI’s AI (called LuckyClaw) will be there in the form of a kind of ‘hologram’ that gives the device a very futuristic look. Be careful, because it is not something merely cosmetic. This artificial intelligence responds to natural voice commandsso it is not necessary to interact with it physically. In this way, we can be immersed in the middle of the game and change things such as RGB lighting, monitor settings or even computer performance profiles without touching anything. What more can we expect from this team? In addition to the above, it will also bring the best NVIDIA graphics card, an Intel Core Ultra processor, WiFi 7 connectivity and a liquid cooling system that is designed to be very quiet even if we push the equipment hard. At the moment, it has no price or release date. New mini PCs and an ‘All in One’ In addition to the previous PC, MSI has also presented other options more oriented to the world of work and productivity, but designed for users looking for equipment that takes up very little space. There we can place the Pro Max Edge AI 11M, an ultra-compact 4-liter device that comes with AMD processors and integrated graphics cards. This, in fact, can be configured with up to 128 GB of unified memory, ideal for working with AI models locally. In addition to this, it has also presented the Pro Max 27TP Z 8MG, an ‘All in One’ device (i.e. It’s all integrated into the screen). It is a computer that even integrates a webcam in a monitor that has a refresh rate of 120 Hz and has an AMD Ryzen 7 255 processor inside. Finally, we also have the new computers that make up the Cubi Nuc AI WCG line. They are very compact devices, designed for both the work world and the home environment. It is an interesting alternative for those users who do not have space for a large PC nor do they want a laptop. Some interesting PCs with a discount from the MSI store These devices are not yet available to buy, as we said above, but there are very interesting options in the MSI store now that we have a 10% discount on everything in it, both complete devices and peripherals. Below we leave you a couple of examples. MSI MPG Trident AS AI If you are looking for a gaming PC, this MPG Trident AS AI is a good option right now. It is a device with an Intel Core Ultra 5 225F as a processor, 16 GB of DDR5 type RAM and a 1 TB SSD. In addition, it has an RTX 5060 Ti as a graphics card. If we take into account the current price of RAM and SSDsit is a top option with the discount it has: it is reduced to 1,399 euros, but with the code ‘COMPUTEXMSI‘ stays in 1,259.10 euros. MSI MPG Trident AS AI 2NVM5-074EU | Gaming PC The price could vary. We earn commission from these links If you want to accompany the previous computer with an ultrawide monitorthis MAG401QR is a top option. It has an IPS panel, 155 Hz and a refresh rate of 1 ms, making it a very interesting option for video games. In addition, it has a good UWQHD resolution (3,440 x 1440 pixels), so it also It is ideal for working with several windows open at the same time. With the same coupon that we indicated above you stay in 323.10 euros. The price could vary. We earn commission from these links Some of the links in this article are affiliated and may provide a benefit to Xataka. In case of non-availability, offers may vary. Images | MSI In Xataka | DDR4 or DDR5? What RAM to choose so as not to pay even more than necessary in the middle of the price crisis In Xataka | Faster (and more expensive) is not always better: the big difference between buying an SSD and an HDD for backups

Serbia is building the world’s first football stadium that is a garden. China is manufacturing it with surgeon precision

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It will not be ready for the World Cup that is about to begin nor will we be able to see it at that event because the hosts are Canada, Mexico and the United States, but it is the most striking soccer stadium that will open in 2026: it is the first garden soccer stadium in the world and it is being built in Belgrade. In fact, the latest news is that the Chinese company CSCEC has completed recently the first major steel lift of the structure of the future Serbian National Football Stadium, a colossal mass of 139,000 tons. Stadium construction works are large-scale projects per se, but this one takes the cake precisely because of its dual function: it is a sports venue and an urban garden at the same time, which marks a milestone in urban planning and poses an unusual engineering challenge: hanging entire gardens from a cable structure suspended in height. The first garden stadium in the world. This pioneering garden stadium in the world has a total area of ​​about 76,000 square meters and capacity for more than 52,000 spectators. And although it is located in Belgrade (in the Surčin neighborhood), it is built by two Chinese companies and design it the Spanish studio Fenwick Iribarren Architects. The stadium aims to be more than just a sports venue: the idea is for it to be a public space open all year round, with walking areas, cafes and leisure areas in the surrounding area. The Madrid architecture team has created a very particular façade: it is made up of four suspended rings connected by cables and that house garden areas, arranged on three floors that surround the premises. The normal thing for a stadium is for the structure to be supported from below, with columns, but the Serbian National Football Stadium works as if it were a suspension bridge with cables. It is composed of 44 compression ring beams where each joint must fit with almost zero precision, as CSCEC accountthe Chinese company that is building it. However, this structure has to withstand soil, irrigation and vegetation that will grow over the years. Render of the stadium. Fenwick Iribarren Architects Why is it important. For some time now, large sports stadiums have wanted to be more than just the place where these events take place on specific days: it is now common to see them as a venue for concerts. This project takes another twist: the gardens, terraces and commercial areas are designed to function as a permanent public space, integrating the stadium into the daily life of Belgrade. And it does so by incorporating vegetation in a city where liquid trees are already being tested. As explains the European Environment Agencyurban green infrastructure has been shown to reduce heat island, improve climate resilience and public health Regarding the sporting field, when it is completed (predictably at the end of 2026), it will be the only stadium in Serbia that meets the requirements of both FIFA for World Cups and UEFA for Euro Cups. Or what is the same: without this stadium Serbia would not be eligible to organize these tournaments. Render of the interior of the stadium.Fenwick Iribarren Architects Context. Serbia has been working on the construction of its National Stadium for more than a decade: work began in 2024, but the first concrete proposals came in 2013. At that time the Serbian Football Federation with the help of the British consultancy Mace They designed the project roadmap to meet UEFA requirements and standards. Serbia has decided to become a potential host of top-level tournaments in style and without skimping on expenses: the initial budget in 2013 was 250 million and when work begins in 2024 was already around the billion euros. In detail. Behind materializing this engineering challenge are two top-level Chinese companies common in large infrastructure: the main contractor is Power Construction Corporation of China (PowerChina) and the specialized subcontractor is China State Construction Engineering Corporation (CSCEC), in charge of the design, manufacture and installation of the steel structure. To achieve that brutal precision of just 0.43 millimeters of deviation in 719 meters of beams, they used high-precision laser trackers, 3D digital simulation and a 1:10 scale physical mockup to detect errors before building. Yes, but. The first drawback of this megaproject has already been revealed: so far it has already cost four times more than budgeted. And having a garden stadium is eye-catching, but also more expensive to build and maintain. On the other hand, also there are objections on whether it will be possible to fill the stands of the future venue regularly, something essential to guarantee its profitability. In fact, the Institute for the Study of Urgent Public Procurement and Stadium Affairs of Śrem Kamenica has carried out an analysis which concludes that it will take 420 years to pay off. In Xataka | Real Madrid invested 1,000 million euros in the Bernabéu to host concerts: at the moment it has tennis In Xataka | China begins construction of the largest football stadium in the world: 100,000 people in a gigantic lotus flower Cover | Fenwick Iribarren Architects

This is the world’s first triple-resolution QD-OLED monitor from MSI. And he has not arrived alone

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Computex 2026 is being the stage for many brands to present a battery of products. One of them is MSI, which has put on stage a fairly large selection of monitors where it stands out especially the world’s first triple resolution QD-OLED monitoralthough there is much more. We are going to talk a little about all of them in this article. MSI MPG OLED 322URDX36 As we have already anticipated a little above, the MSI MPG OLED 322URDX36 is the first QD-OLED monitor with triple resolution in the world: 4K/360Hz, 2K/520Hz and FHD/680Hz. This is very useful because it allows the user to choose if they prefer higher resolution and sharpness, or, on the contrary, prefer to prioritize the refresh rate for games that require fast movements (this is very common in competitive games). In addition to this, it uses technology Penta Tandemso your panel has a multi-layer structure. This, in practice, translates into more shine, better color and greater durability against burning. In addition, it has a maximum HDR brightness of 1,500 nits, HDMI 2.1a ports and a USB-C port that delivers 98 W, ideal for charging a laptop, for example. MSI MEG The MEG It is the first QD-OLED gaming monitor with Agentic AI. This internal artificial intelligence will analyze what is on the screen to automatically improve the image. This is interesting because it does not depend on the console or PC we are using, but rather it is something done internally by the monitor itself. It also learns from user habits. In addition to this, it also uses a QD-OLED panel, has 34 inches and UWQHD resolution (3,440 x 1440 pixels). It also comes with the Penta Tandem technology that comes with the monitor above and has a 360 Hz refresh rate. It will arrive in stores on August 5. MSI MPG 271KRAW18 MiniLED is also having a lot of presence in monitors and this MPG 271KRAW18 is a very good example of this. In fact, It is the first gaming monitor of its type with 5K resolutionalso offering 180 Hz. In addition, it has Dual Mode, so we can switch whenever we want to 2K/330 Hz. At the moment, it does not have a release date. MSI MAG 271KPD7 Let’s now go with a more economical and very versatile option. The MSI MAG 271KPD7 is a monitor with an IPS panel that has double resolution, although with a different approach. With 5K resolution it offers 75 Hzsomething that can be great for working with text in a very clear way (also for playing, of course). But it also gives the option to switch to 2K and 300 Hz, thus offering very high fluidity. It will arrive in stores this June. MSI MAG OLED 321UPX18 Another of the monitors presented, the MAG OLED 321UPX18, seeks to be a more affordable option for those users who want to immerse themselves in the world of OLED monitors. It has 4K resolution and a refresh rate of 180 Hzbut in this case it does not have the possibility of changing the resolution like the options above. But, despite this, it also uses the same Penta Tandem technology. Something to keep in mind is that it has a diagonal of 31.5 inchesso it is not a compact option. This one, at the moment, does not have a release date. MSI MAG OLED 271QPX32 We continue with OLED monitors with this MSI MAG OLED 271QPX32, which is 27 inches. It also uses Penta Tandem technology, although in this case it opts for a WQHD resolution. It offers a refresh rate of 320 Hz. This monitor will arrive next September and it will do so below 600 euros, which is further proof that we increasingly have more accessible options for this type of monitors. MSI PRO MAX 341QPXW14G To finish, we go with a monitor more oriented to the professional world such as the MSI PRO MAX 341QPXQ14G. This manufacturer also brings Penta Tadem technology to this type of monitors with a 34-inch screen with UWQHD resolution and a refresh rate of 144 Hz. It should be noted that it has a double USB-C port as 98 W and 15 W, respectively. MSI now has a 10% discount on its entire store All of these monitors are coming soon, but they are not available. Despite this, it is worth taking a look right now at the MSI store since right now there is a 10% discount on any device from this brand. Since we have focused on their new monitors in this article, we are going to see a couple of those that we can buy now (and cheaper). MSI MPG 264URDFW E16M: This is a 27-inch monitor that uses MiniLED technology. It has 4K resolution and a 320 Hz refresh rate, making it perfect if you usually play competitive titles. Its RRP is 549 euros, although we now have it available for 449.10 euros with the 10% coupon. The price could vary. We earn commission from these links MSI MAG 321UP: An option to consider if you prefer QD-OLED technology. In this case, we are looking at a 31.5-inch screen that also has 4K resolution. It has a refresh rate of 165 Hz and a response time of only 0.03 ms. It costs 799 euros, although now it remains at 626.10 euros with the 10% coupon. The price could vary. We earn commission from these links Some of the links in this article are affiliated and may provide a benefit to Xataka. In case of non-availability, offers may vary. Images | MSI In Xataka | Ultrawide monitor vs two monitors: productivity science says it’s not just inches that matter In Xataka | 144 Hz is not just for gaming: the subtle change on your screen that your eyes will appreciate after eight hours of Excel

Anthropic just surpassed OpenAI as the world’s most valuable AI startup

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Anthropic is no longer the eternal second fiddle. The company that was always in the shadow of OpenAI has become the main protagonist of this segment in recent months. Its growth is so spectacular that in its latest round of financing it has managed to surpass OpenAI’s valuation. It is an extraordinary milestone, especially for one reason: both hope to go public before the end of the year, and here Anthropic has the upper hand (again). Overtaking on the right. The company founded by the Amodei brothers has raised a colossal financing round of 65 billion dollarsand with it Anthropic’s valuation becomes 965,000 million post money. It is a financial achievement that suddenly destroys OpenAI’s valuation, which is currently stuck at $730 billion. This latest round comes just three months after Anthropic will raise 30,000 million of dollars, cccadadasdsas in an agreement that placed its valuation at 350,000 million dollars. The growth is simply amazing. Anthropic is the coolest company. The valuation reflects a compelling reality: Anthropic is (much) more fashionable than OpenAI. The company has taken great advantage of recent controversies to increase its popularity, and its brand image has been greatly reinforced because it is the company that everyone is talking about. What happened to the Pentagon first and what has happened with the encyclical Magnificent Humanitas of the Pope then they show it. And the one with the best models (seems) to have. OpenAI seemed to be ahead in the AI ​​race with models leading the way. That changed with the arrival of Claude Code and Claude Opus 4.5. Since then, Anthropic’s advances have been striking, and although the differences are small, the popular perception is that Claude Opus is now the model that leads in performance. This has just been confirmed in benchmarks with the recent release of Claude Opus 4.8but above all with Claude Mythos Previewthe model that has been put the world of cybersecurity upside down. They already make money. A few days ago, surprising news leaked: Anthropic could close the second quarter of the year with an operating profit of 559 million dollars. He would make money when the rest of his rivals lose a lot. The projected annual turnover has managed to exceed $47 billion this month, five times more than the amount estimated at the beginning of the year. The reason: the overwhelming success of Anthropic models in companies. That’s where the money isand the company has known how to 1) detect and 2) take advantage of it before anyone else. Memory manufacturers enter the round. The financing round is led by venture capital firms such as Greenoaks, Sequoia, Altimeter and Dragoneer, but this time there are other protagonists. These are the semiconductor firms Samsung, Micron and SK Hynixwho have also participated and who have taken advantage of their current privileged position to also bet on the success of Anthropic. It’s a win-win: they bet on the current winning horse, and Anthropic manages to strengthen relationships with the companies that right now they control one of the big bottlenecks of the AI ​​industry: memory chips. The IPO is imminent. This surprise meteoric intensifies the pressure on OpenAI and further encourages (if that was possible) that other race, which is the IPO of both these two companies and SpaceX. We are in a year that will be remembered for three stratospheric IPOs, but these latest achievements by Anthropic have made the company led by Dario Amodei now the main protagonist in the technology segment. Image | Fortune Brainstorm Tech In Xataka | The surprise of the new Claude Opus 4.8 is not that it is (a little) better. The surprise is the “I only know that I know nothing”

3% of the world’s population sees the world with interference

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Imagine your life seeing the world as if you were constantly in the middle of a snowstorm. Open your eyes and let the landscape be filled with static points like when we watch television up close: a permanent spider web that always accompanies you. Many people experience this disease and are not aware of it. until they have spoken to doctors about this neurological condition. It’s what health experts have called “visual snow.” See the world with “interferences”. A study in the United Kingdom estimates that the condition of visual snow can affect up to 3% of the population. The US National Institutes of Health says there is currently no cure for this disease. The main symptom is small continuous spots in the patient’s vision.which differ in color and severity from one person to another. “It’s like a huge blanket of TV interference covering my entire vision 24/7,” patient Paris Haigh explained in this BBC article. “I can see them even when I close my eyes,” he commented. Other people have described it as a kind of pixelated vision. Others who can filter the points most of the time, but some days are harder than others. How does it work? “It consists of the constant vision of white and black dots throughout the entire visual field, which simulates vision through a grainy filter or, as many patients refer, simulates vision of the screen of a television that is turned on but not connected to the antenna, also known as white noise,” explained Dr. Enrique Santos Buesofrom the Research Institute of the San Carlos Clinical Hospital in Madrid. Certain things can make flashing spots more noticeable. For many, This is caused by fatigue, anxiety and headaches.or when they are in very bright or dark environments. The use of cosmetic products can also cause problems. Some wear glasses with orange lenses when they read. While they help with visual snow, they do not eliminate it. Digital artist Zytomania created this image to show what his own visual snow looks like. Why does it appear? The condition is caused by a problem in the way the brain handles visual information. Professor Jon Stone, professor of neurology at the University of Edinburgh, has seen several patients with visual snow: “Normally, our brains are good at filtering out visual experiences that we don’t want. This filtering system doesn’t work as well in people with visual snow, probably because parts of your brain’s visual system are overactive in a way that is not useful. It’s a bit like having tinnitus, but from your vision,” he explained. We are actually at a very early stage. 15 years ago we wouldn’t even be talking about this because no one agreed; visual snow had not even been universally accepted as a “disorder.” Some suspicions. Peter Goadsby, Professor of Neurology at the Wellcome Trust National Institute for Health Research at King’s College He says he has seen both a 7-year-old boy and 70-year-old men with this problem.. And from all countries. They all describe it the same way. That led Goadsby to conclude that, although it is activated in different ways, there must be a common underlying mechanism. There is still much to understand but something very important has already been achieved: recognition. “We found that in an area at the back of the brain, there is a particular structure that is more metabolically active and receives greater blood flow in those who suffer from visual snow. That could indicate that that part of the brain is not inhibited enough or too excited,” he detailed. difficult to detect. According to Visual Snow Initiativea US charity dedicated to visual snow research, approximately 56% of people with the condition are incorrectly diagnosed. For most, the process of obtaining a formal diagnosis was frustrating. Paris spoke to an ophthalmologist and a neurologist about the condition, but felt they didn’t know what it was. “It can feel like a made-up condition when the experts don’t know what you’re talking about,” he said. Some are shown a television with white noise and almost all exclaim, “Yes, that’s what it looks like!” And they have been like this all their lives. In Xataka | What a study that has restored life to the eyes tells us about death In Xataka | Something that until now was marginal is starting to happen to people under 30 around the world: hypertension.

The super Niño of 1877 wiped out 4% of the world’s population. The one that is already beginning to form promises to be worse, but what does that mean in 2027?

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In the last week, El Niño has become suddenly real. Media like Washington Post, BBC or countless media in Spanish have begun to compare what is coming to us with El superNiño of 1877, the event that “wiped out 4% of the world’s population.” And, stated this way, it is no wonder; The story is simple: “a Child Godzilla is coming and no one knows if we are ready.” That is why it is important to know what exactly we are talking about and if, in short, “we are all going to die.” How serious is the matter? As we said a few days ago, between March and May the reliability of ENSO forecasts is usually worse than normal (because the equatorial Pacific anomalies go through their transition phase). That makes everyone go with “lead feet”; but the data is worrying. Ben Noll of the Washington Post broadcast on May 8 that the North American Multi-Model Ensemble projected “the strongest El Niño on record” between October 2026 and January 2027, with a peak of +3.1 °C in November. They are big words. Above all, because the ECMWF is along the same lines. In the words of Diego Restrepo, “El Niño is rapidly intensifying, and now 8 out of 10 models point to a super event and four project the strongest one on record.” And this looks like 1877? That is Noll’s thesis and it has been repeated a lot in recent days. However, the comparison is misleading. First, because, although the models are pointing to a historical ENSO, they are still models. That is, we still have no idea what is going to happen. And, to be strict, until the models recover their full potential in June, we will not know well. Second because, as argued by Kimberley Reid, from the University of Melbournethe intensity measured in the central Pacific does not translate linearly into impacts. Taking into account everything that has changed in this century and a half at a climate level, the impacts may be completely different. And thirdly because El Niño of 1877 was not the cause of that catastrophe. Yes, it is true that he set the conditions for it to occur but, as noted Mike Davis in “Late Victorian Holocausts”what killed throughout that quarter of a century were colonial policies. And what happened in 1877? A strange combination between a superNiño, the Indian Dipole and a tremendously warm North Atlantic between the years 1876–78 caused a global drought. The problem is that, in a world governed by imperialism, grain exports did not stop and, as local resilience mechanisms had been dismantled, a famine occurred that killed some 50 million people. But the consensus is clear: no matter how intense El Niño was, it caused the problem of its management. And that, although it may not seem like it, is good news. A few years ago the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) published a report with a clear warning: “climate-related disasters” have increased since the 1970s. Specifically, they have multiplied by five over the last five decades. According to their calculations, in the 1980s, 1,400 incidents were recorded – their tables include extreme weather, climate and water phenomena – and in the 1990s, just over 2,200. In the first decade of the 21st century, 3,500 were reached and during the last decade, which spans from 2010 to 2019, it was close to 3,200. Curiously, this increase in the number of disasters has coincided with a decrease in the number of victims. The WMO data is clearalso: from more than 50,000 deaths in the 1970s (incidents basically related to climate and water are taken into account) it went to less than 20,000 in 2010. From an average of 170 a day in the 70s and 80s, it dropped in the 90s to less than a hundred a day and to 40 at the beginning of the 21st century. What will happen? As Restrepo also points out“despite having more information and knowledge, today we have warmer oceans, much more vulnerable ecosystems and collapsing biodiversity. This could generate impacts on health and risks for food, water and energy security.” However, we are more prepared and more importantly we have time to prepare. The ball is in our court. Image | Ben Noll In Xataka | There are more and more extreme weather events. In return, they are leaving fewer victims than ever

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