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We have been in LaLiga IPS for three months. The worrying thing is that they are not going unless, but more

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During the last three monthsLaLiga has not stopped ordering IPS blockages to fight against illegal soccer matches through IPTV services. These blockages have only intensified, and more and more affected legitimate websites are. The last victim: Twitch. Intensive blocks. Sergio Conde, an engineer at Tinybird, monitored the blockages and published his conclusions in X. There highlighted How the blockades affected twice IPS on Sunday – with Real Madrid game – compared to Saturday. During this meeting other users They showed As 12 cloudflare DNS servers were fallen. What about Twitch. These blockages are also producing more and more intensive and extend even at times when there are no broadcasts of LaLiga. Last Friday Some of the IPS included in the blockages were used by Twitch, although they point out In TorrentfreakThey affected the streamers irregularly. It is surprising that even that service is affected, especially considering that LaLiga maintains good commercial relations with Amazon/Twitch and there has already been joint projects Between both companies. More and more affected. Eduardo Saldaña, co -director of the middle the world order, complained in x last Saturday when its platform – a legitimate company, Like so many others affected– It was inaccessible. “Our case is one of many others,” he said. “There are thousands of pages and companies that are affected their activity by the sentence in favor of the Football League …”. For him this “is the same as bombing a neighborhood because there are two floors that traffic with drugs”, explained. And economic and reputational losses follow. What Conde raised is the same as many users and companies that have seen how their businesses end up economically or reputationally harmed by these IPS blockages. We already talked to some of the victims of these LaLiga actions that told us how they had noticed diverse impacts at an economic level, and in one of the cases they highlighted us how “We have gone from entering 70,000 euros per month to 40,000” And “unemployed” websites. But in addition to these problems for companies or users who offer their blocked IPS contents, there is the damage to users, who still cannot access websites of all kinds. The domino effect of the blockade has caused singular situations: Sponsors of teams of the First Division Soccer League have been inaccessible, as websites have also done like that of the Royal Academy of Language. IPS blocks usually last hours, but in some cases these blockages are indefinite and have been active weeks. Not only cloudflare. On the website Is there now football? It is possible to monitor the state of the blockages, and there you can check in the “Timeline” section how during the weekend the blockages to several IPS were notable during the retransmission of LaLiga matches, from 4:00 p.m. to 00:00. These blockages, of course, affected Cloudflare IPS, but also to other CDNs. In the case of getting or quic.cloud, some IPS literally have literally blocked weeks. Without forecasting to change anything. LaLiga’s insistence on this type of blocks suggests that at least until the current league season does not finish – at the end of May – the blockages will continue to be produced. There are no news In the legal fieldand the question, of course, is what will happen later. The sentence In which LaLiga is supported, it extends until season 2026/27 included, which could lengthen these problems until then. Image | LaLiga In Xataka | “Every time there is football, the website falls”: the collateral effects of LaLiga blockages in thousands of users

Let us run out of mobile during the blackout was terrible. That will happen to the government is much more worrying

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The mass blackout suffered by Spain and Portugal on April 28 left us without light, but also without being able to communicate with our mobile phones. One would think that government members would have some type of auxiliary system, but the truth is that there seems to be no for these types of situations. “Blind”. Government sources pointed out In the world that during The blackout of April 28 They were “blind” and that “mobile phones did not work, we could not communicate (…) not even among us in the complex and in the ministries.” Not only citizens. During those hours millions of citizens suffered A very irregular service in their mobile communications, and except for some exceptionsthe operators had huge problems to continue serving. That is already worrying, but even more than our rulers suffered those same problems and there is no emergency plan for this type of event. It didn’t work either The alert system, Es-Alert. Mesh b. The Government does not have an auxiliary communications system, and for years the effort was in another direction: to protect the communications of government members in the face of possible spying acts. To do this exists The call Mesh bthe Safe Strategic Communications Support System of the National Crisis Management System and the Government Presidency. The system is used not only in government fields, but also in high state institutions. The government protects from espionage. As they point out In the countrythe government decided in early 2025 to renew its encryption systems to shield communications after espionage scandal made with pegasus. The first phase will be a modernization of technical infrastructure, of which will order The Spanish company Epicom. Together with this renewal, an update of the communications encryption system will also be updated, which until now was carried out with Comsec (Indra) but that will now compete with Secret T (Telefónica). Both are National Development Technologies, a primary condition for these services. Sirdee is not (for the moment) for that. Spain has The Sirdee program (Integral System of Digital Emergency Radiocommunications of the State), which was launched in 2000 and that served more than 150,000 users in Spain. Among them are the National Police, the Civil Guard and even the presidency of the Government. There are specific contingency plans and operational continuity in ministries and strategic bodies, but government members suffered the same problems as citizens. As they point out In networks & Telecomthe Sirdee system, which was based on tetra technology of UHF radio, It is now complementing With broadband systems through EMBM technology, based on LTE/5G connectivity. Sirdee base nodes are usually equipped with backup batteries and diesel generators that allow these equipment and communications to be kept while these active auxiliary solutions can be maintained. High frequency networks. In 1988 the United States created its high frequency communications Shares program (HF, 3 to 30 MHz) with the aim of having a support for the first fixed lines, and later for mobile lines. This system, now under the Department of National Security (DHS), is composed of thousands of HF stations distributed throughout the country and belonging to different federal and state agencies. The system It was used during the 11-S attacks, but also during natural disasters such as Hurricane Katrina in the Gulf of Mexico in 2005. Satellite communication is another option. During the blackout Starlink turned out to be an exceptional alternative During the blackout, and that shows that satellite communications systems can be very useful in this type of events. Europe has been trying to launch its satellite Internet system Through the Iris2 systemwhich is expected to begin to be operational in 2030. Images |Baatcheet Films | Pool Moncloa/Fernando Calvo In Xataka | The Catalan Sateliot company lifts 70 million euros with a clear objective: to display the “Spanish Starlink of the IoT”

That a model of AI is stuck playing something as basic as ‘Pokémon’ seems worrying. It is not at all

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It was 2013 and almost no one had heard of Deepminda small artificial intelligence startup. His researchers came up to make their AI system learn to play (already win) video games, and They trained her with some titles of the old Atari console. Among them was ‘Breakout’ (in Spain it appeared as ‘Arkanoid’), and A video of the time It shows how after 10 minutes playing the machine did not know just anything. After two hours of play, yes, I already played as an expert. But at four o’clock something amazing spent: The machine discovered a “trick” To maximize the effort: it made the ball end up creating “a tunnel” and then cast the ball through that tunnel so that it would not stop bouncing and ending almost the entire level effortlessly. Since then using video games to train AI models or to check if they are able to adapt to them and complete them is common in the industry. It is precisely what Anthropic tried when a few weeks ago Claude 3.7 launched. This hybrid model of AI has proven to be a notable advance in areas such as programming and reasoning, but in Anthropic they wanted to test it with a singular test: To play the ‘Pokémon’ video game. The AI ​​is stuck In this experiment those responsible for Anthropic wanted to evaluate whether the AI ​​systems “can face challenges with increasingly complex competences, not only through training, but of generalized reasoning.” Claude’s previous versions had a bad time even trying to start playing from the video game’s beginning screen, but Claude 3.7 Sonnet’s “expanded thinking” allows the new model «Plan in advanceremember their objectives and adapt when the initial strategies fail »in a way that their predecessors did not do. For those responsible for Anthropic these improvements will end up helping to solve real world problems. It is something we are also seeing With the benchmark arc -agi 2which is precisely aimed at measuring the ability of the Ias to do things that are easy for us (controlling a video game, solving a visual puzzle) but these models are especially difficult. Source: Anthropic. The advance of Anthropic here is remarkable, but is far from being able to be considered a success. In fact and how they comment In Ars Technicathousands of spectators have proven On the Twitch Channel created by Anthropic how Claude stayed totally stuck in Mount Sléniteone of the video game sections. In that channel you can also see how Claude is still trying to solve the problem and advance. “Think” and “reason” and even shows what “thinking” and “reasoning”, but the model still does not overcome that video game. And despite everything, this is a great achievement of AI Taking into account that the video game is oriented to children, it seems easy to despise the achievement of Anthropic, but these advances must be valued very positively. To start, Claude 3.7 model used to play was not “pressed” to play the video game: I had to learn about the march and adapt to the game. Here also Claude “sees” the screen and what happens to react based on that analysis. And the problem is that The ‘Pokémon’ graphics are very basic and pixelatedwhich raises an even greater challenge for the Anthropic model: with better graphics it would probably behave much better, explained one of those responsible for the experiment. Even so, Claude behaves especially well in the parts of the game in which text is shown, something that allows this model to better recognize what he needs to do in that phase of the video game. But if there is a serious problem, that is also that of memorization. Claude has trouble remembering everything you have learned: It has a limited “memory” Of 200,000 tokens and when they exhaust Claude, they resort to summaries and condense the information, which can lead to eliminate small details that are important to advance in the game. Be that as it may, the achievement of Anthropic remains remarkable, and points to a future in which these models can play autonomously and do so exceptionally to all kinds of games. As Deepmind already did it with that simplistic version of the ‘Arkanoid’, but in a big way. In Xataka | The latest Google is an AI that plays video games. THE KEY: DOES IT UNDERSTANDING NATURAL LANGUAGE

Free remote access disappears after a decade and takes a worrying turn for its users

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Plex has announced which will increase the price of your subscriptions and make your main free function into payment service: remote reproduction of personal content. The changes will take effect on April 29, marking the end of an era for millions of users who used the platform to access their multimedia libraries from anywhere without having to pay for it. Why is it important. This decision directly affects millions of users who have built domestic ecosystems based on the premise of being able to access their personal content from any location. The changes represent a total turn in the business model of Plex. The figures. Price increase is considerable: Monthly subscription: from $ 4.99 to $ 6.99 (+40%). Annual subscription: from $ 39.99 at $ 69.99 (+75%). Vitalicia subscription: from $ 119.99 to $ 249.99 (+108%). It is easy to read between the lines what Plex intends with these different increases: to promote the monthly to increase their monthly recurring income … and dissuade the life, or at least monetize it much more aggressive. There are alternatives. For those who see a reason here to migrate from Plex: Jellyfinopen and free source, without payment or telemetry functions. Embyversatile without too much complexity, with a free version robust. Kodiveteran customization. Stremiofocused on streaming from different sources. The current situation. Until now, Plex allowed its users to configure a domestic server and remotely access its content for free. This model has been the basis of the growth of the platform for more than a decade, which has become tremendously popular. The change. As of April 29, you will have two options if you want to continue accessing your remote content: That the server owner has a plex pass. In this case, all users who give access can continue to see content remotely. Hire the new “Remote Watch Pass” for $ 1.99 per month or 19.99 a year, which allows remotely accessing servers whose owners do not have plex pass. Between the lines. Plex justifies these changes alleging “growing costs” and the need to continue developing new functions. However, the decision comes at a time when they want to position themselves as a legitimate competitor in the saturated streaming market. The company has been incorporating new social and discovery functions during the last year, in addition to launching A store to rent movies and series. These movements are subtle signs of a strategy to become a complete streaming platform, beyond its original function as a personal media manager. As compensation, Plex will eliminate the limitation of one minute reproduction in its mobile applications and it will no longer be necessary to pay a unique activation fee to eliminate this restriction. And now what? If you are a plex user, you have until April 29 to buy a life subscription at the current price of $ 119.99, before it doubles. The current monthly and annual subscribers will see their rates increase, while those who already have a life subscription will not be affected. Content streaming in the same local network will remain free, as well as access to content with advertising offered by the platform. In Xataka | Plex: 21 tricks (and some extra) to get the whole game Outstanding image | Plex, Xataka with Mockuuuups Studio

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