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I’ve been trying electric cars for years. I bought one of combustion for a single reason

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We live complicated times to Choose car. Or, perhaps, we believe them more complicated than they really are. Yes, it is true that we can have doubts about What a course will take The automobile industry, what technology will be imposed, what not or, directly, What restrictions will raise Against my car in the coming years. But let’s look at this from a positive point of view: we have never had so much variety and so many technologies that will better adapt to our lifestyle and the trips we made on a day -to -day basis. This is what I try to explain to those who, knowing that I write about the automobile industry and try some of the most recent models, ask me what car they should buy. What should be the best option For them. To give them an answer I give a series of tips. The most important, although it seems nonsense, always leave it for the end. Choosing car Diesel (yes, diesel), gasoline, Microhíbrido, electric hybrid, plug -in hybrid, electric or gasoline bifuel and liquefied or compressed natural gas. It is also possible to buy a Electric of extended autonomyalthough the possibilities are very small. Or a car moved by hydrogen but, in this case, Recharge options are almost non -existent. Therefore, if we are in this situation and we want to buy a car, we have to think about several aspects that I summarize in the following steps: What type of car do we need (by size)? Here we must contemplate what we are looking for exactly. How much trunk do we need? Are we going to use the rear seats usually or do we travel as a couple? Are we a family that will grow, are we thinking about forming it or do we plan to have children? Do children already travel on their own and do not need such a big car? Personally, I recommend doing a Very rational reading of our situation. If we usually do not carry much luggage we should not prioritize the trunk. If we usually do not use the rear seats, their habitability should have a secondary weight in our decision. It is simply not to over -dimension our needs. Yes, if we are traveling with little luggage in our weekend getaways and, for example, one day a year we want to move a bicycle because we will have a problem or we will have to better square the luggage. That day, perhaps, we regret a little of the choice but this will be passenger because the rest of the year we will omit a quality for which we have probable we have paid a surcharge. If, on the contrary, we are fond of mountain bike and every weekend we load and download our bicycle, I will not only recommend that you buy a car that facilitates this task. I say more: Take the bicycle to the concessionaire And check for yourself if the bicycle enters the trunk and how simple or complicated it will be its load and download. What use are we going to give our car? I like to define the size of the car in the first place because, for almost all kinds of sizes there is the technology we are looking for. Largely because tAmaño and type of use go hand in. If we are looking for a car to move exclusively in the urban environment, to go and return from work and leave children at school, we are not interested in a car too large, because in this type of journey it will be much more uncomfortable to use. On the contrary, if we move regularly on the highway and highway and perform hundreds or thousands of kilometers every week, we will prioritize comfort and, most likely, the car is larger. In this case, I would prioritize the following aspects, from greater to less importance: Are we going to use this car as the only one in the house? What kind of displacement do we do in our day to day? Do we usually go on a trip? How many long getaways do we do a year? How many kilometers do we do a year? What technology do we choose? Once we have the adequate car size for our needs and we are clear about the type of use that we are going to do, it remains to choose which technology that interests us most. The money is decisive here and, if necessary, access to a plug to load an electric car or a plug -in hybrid. My recommendation is as follows: Diesel: Who performs many kilometers on the highway and highway and site the city little. I would not buy it if I did less than 20,000 kilometers a year. Gasoline: We want a car “for everything” at home. We move in the usual figures for a Middle driver And the use we give to the car is mixed between city and getaways on highways and highways. Microhíbridos: If the option exists, the microhíbrido is a good option to obtain the ECO LABEL AND ITS BENEFITS If we are looking for a gasoline car because the cost barely differs and we will not notice any change when driving. Hybrids: We also have the car as a “vehicle for everything” but most of the kilometers are made in city. Although we can leave the weekend, we make a good dozen kilometers in the urban environment or we need enter a zbe where access to more polluting cars is restricted. Plug -in hybrids: same case as the previous one but we have the possibility of loading a plug at home and weekend getaways are usually to a second close home. This is important, once the battery charge is exhausted, with the combustion engine working exclusively, the car can have too high consumption that spoil daily savings. Electric: We have access to a plug. You can choose to dedicate it as a second … Read more

Google have been with a problem in the processor of their pixel for years. There is a potential alliance to solve it

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If you buy a Google Pixel you do it for its camera, the clean Software of Google or the years and years of support. But, rarely, you do it for its processor. The tensor google have been showing behind their direct competition in something key in the high range: the power. There are two responsible here: Google, and the company in which it has trusted during these years to develop its processors: Samsung Foundry. The agreement seems to have ended, and rumors about a new Google Tensioner Manufactured by TSMC they have been on the table for months. Reuters He now collects new news in this regard: the company is finalizing an alliance with Mediatek for the next tensioner versions. Specifically, those that will be implemented in the 2026 Google Pixel. The company has not made statements about this decision or (still) official. The reasons for betting on MediaTak is clear: the direct relationship of the Taiwanese giant with TSMC and the tight price relationship against Broadcom, Google’s current partner. The company will not close relations with the American giant yet, since a good part of the hardware used to process functions of AI will remain in charge. MediaTak is one of the strongest manufacturers currently in the semiconductor industry. He has managed to leave the ghosts of the past behind, and offers solutions at height (and even in some cases, above) of Qualcomm. The Samsung semiconductor division, on the contrary, It does not go through its best moment. Years of performance problems with exynos make rumors on the table about a Division restructuring. Image | Xataka In Xataka | Google Pixel 9 Pro XL, Analysis: A great candidate for Best Android of the Year … with a big pending matter

Kukulcán’s show that the Maya created 900 years ago

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Every year, around March 21, an old Mayan God returns to Earth. Specifically, Chichén Itzá. This complex of Mayan ruins It is one of the main pre -Hispanic archaeological sites in Yucatán and, among all constructions, ‘El Castillo’ takes the palm. It takes us fascinating Since the mid -nineteenth centurybut in addition to knowing him by that name, we can also refer to him as the temple of Kukulcán. And, like every Spring equinox For centuries, that divine snake has been about to come alive to descend through the staircase and inaugurate the spring station. Kukulcán. Although the mythological imaginary of the Maya was incorporated late, Kukulcán soon won a fundamental position in this pre -Hispanic culture. That is, if it were a minor deity, it would not have something as monumental as the pyramid that the Maya built in their honor in the twelfth century DC Thus, Kukulcán is the supreme god of the universe that not only represents wisdom, but also fertility and life. Photo by Daniel Schwen The castle is so fascinating that it is still reason for study todaybut centuries after its construction, there are two moments every year in which their stairs are a footpasted again by a God. The descent of the feathered snake. The structure has a very precise shape and orientation that respond to the advanced mathematical and architectural knowledge of the Maya. Kukulcán is also the God who represents fertility and life, something that can be associated with crops, and the visit of this God is a blessing for crops. The sowing of the Milpaspecifically. Thus, the Maya built their temple very precisely so that each spring equinox, which occurs between March 21 every year, the representation of the snake again descended through the staircase of the temple. This 2025 se esteem which will occur between March 20 and 23. A few hours before sunset, the large blocks of one of the sides project triangular shadows on the side of the staircase, forming a series of triangles that connect with the huge stone head of the snake, Kukulcán, located at the base of the pyramid. Beyond the show. Apart from those huge mathematical, astronomical and architectural knowledge of the Mayan civilization, the descent of the feathered snake marks the beginning of spring and, therefore, the renewal of life. He also symbolized the union between heaven, earth and underworld and supposed a blessing for crops. It lasts little, just about ten minutes and can also be seen during the autumn equinox, around September 22. In the end, it is the two periods that mark the beginning of the two agricultural cycles and it is Kukulcán who gives his blessing so that the crops are abundant. A party. Apart from symbolism and tradition, Kukulcán’s descent by the staircase of Chichén Itzá is a Tourist stop mandatory if we are in the region. This Archaeological site It is, by far, The most tourist point of the Yucatan Peninsula (and from Mexico), with tens of thousands of visitors every year, and the show of the feathered snake is another opportunity to take advantage of pre -Hispanic construction. Now, greenhouses and crop rotation allow us not to depend so much on Kukulcán’s good humor, but we have turned their two annual arrivals into a party that brings together thousands of visitors. It is a show not only because it is the construction of the pyramid, but because traditional Mayan shows and rituals are carried out with music and dance. Chance? That the Maya had great knowledge in mathematics and astronomy is somewhat indisputable, but there are positions that question that all this of Kukulcán’s descent was the result of the conscious design of the Maya. The reason that is used in the re-evaluation Of this thought is that yes, the phenomenon and the play of lights is important during the equinoxes, but the same effect can be seen clearly for several weeks. Rather, instead of marking with tremendous precision a few days of the year, the Maya would have darling Mark an agrarian cycle from mid -February to October. As much as it may be, and it had the meaning that we give now, the architectural value of the site and the architectural intention of representing that descent of the feathered snake is still unappealable. Kukulcán’s head | Photo by Frank Kovalchek But … it’s not unique. Now, although that of Chichén Itzá Castle is the most famous point in which to visualize these projections, it is not the only Mayan construction in which a similar phenomenon occurs. In it Temple of the Seven Dollsor temple of the sun, in both equinoxes we can see a solar rays show through the openings of the structure. Also in the Mayapán pyramidbut the big difference between the pyramid of this city and that of Chichen Itzá is that there is no huge snake head connecting with the earth and that, in addition, it is not as well preserved as ‘the castle.’ Centuries after his arrival, and although now he has less work, surely Kukulcán feels honored because his pyramid not only stands up, but for having turned his figure into the protagonist of a party. And that is why he continues to descend for one of the main constructions of the Mayan culture. In Xataka | The fines imposed by Mexico for getting on the pyramids of Teotihuacán or Chichén Itzá

After years of Japanese, in Spain there is already a generation at the gates of an uncertain scenario: old age without children

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In 1960 each Spanish woman had throughout her life almost three children. Today They do not reach 1.2. The data is just that: data, demographic means, pure statistical mathematics, but they serve to understand better trends that are every time more present in homes of homes. As I know Birth sinkslife expectancy and Families changeSpain meets A new reality: The first “without children” generations look at old age with the challenge of facing that last vital stage without offspring. No children. Neither grandchildren. The big question is … why? And what does it imply? Figure issue. Spanish demography (like that of Other other countriesinside and out of the West) It is changing. A lot. And fast. In fact it has been doing it for a long time. If we review the fertility index we find that It has collapsed Throughout the last decades: of 2.94 children per woman in 1967 we have gone to 1.12. And going down. Translated into babies that supposes that today they are born in Spain less than half that in him Baby Boom. The trend has been the opposite among people who live alone. At least over the last years. If in 2014 the unipersonal households supposed 24% of the total From the census, six years later they were already 26%. Another reality is those who live in a couple but choose to do it without offspring. In 2020 the INE counted near four million of homes with that profile, two out of ten. Generations without children. A few months ago the CIS contributed an even more interesting approach. Its technicians They asked to people born over the last decades if they had children and found themselves with which the percentage of ‘Sies’ fell clearly as the age of the interviewees did. It is a predictable trend among younger respondents, under 34, but the study reflects something else: among cohorts with more advanced ages, which are already peeling retirement, there is also a considerable percentage of people without offspring. And to show a button. If 89% of people of 75 or more years had children, that percentage went to 81.5%Among the interviewees from 55 to 64 years. If we go to the fork from 35 to 44 years the proportion drops even more, to 62%, and if we descend even more, focusing on the population between 25 and 34 years, we find that only 32% of respondents have had at least one offspring. Why is it important? Because as I pointed out recently The Spanish newspaper (EPE) in An analysis On that same phenomenon, the data of the CIS show us that Spain is at the gates of a demographic milestone: the arrival in the old -generation old age in which a relevant percentage of people has chosen to have no offspring. According to the CISin the age strip from 55 to 64 years they represent 18.5%. “The ghost of old age without children”. Between that 18.5% of people without offspring, such as I confessed recently A couple in the fifty to EPE, there are those who already contemplate with concern to the “ghost of old age without children.” That is, the perspective of becoming greater or becoming dependent without children or grandchildren who, if necessary, can serve as a network. “It seems that you are always going to be autonomous, but the aging is noticeable year after year and seeing it in your elders causes restlessness because having children does not mean that no one will take care of you, but you can have support, at least someone to call,” Write The same couple. They now have octogenarian parents who need help and “someone for everything.” “What would they do without their children?” Marking the way. 18.5% may seem a reduced percentage yet, but THE STUDY OF THE CIS It is interesting for something else: it suggests that this scenario of ‘old age without children’ will be increasingly common. Among the interviewees of 45 to 54 years the percentage of those who claim to have no offspring represents 21.3% and between the people aged 25 and 44 touches 36-66%. Maternity It has been delaying With the passing of the decades and today it is located in almost 33 yearswith what the logical thing would be for these percentages to soften, but still the trend is clear. THE CIS Confirm In addition, another reality that institutions such as the INE have been drawing for a long time: many of the couples who have been parents have had a single descendant, so the support they can receive in their old age will depend on a single child. It comes to review two figures to understand it: among those over 75 years of age the percentage of people with children who claim to have had more than a offspring reaches 90.3%. Among the interviewees of 55 to 64 years that same proportion already collapses to 73.5%. A complex reality. The big question arriving at this point is … Why do the Spaniards have fewer children than a few decades ago or do we even opt for not having them? The answer is complex and adds multiple factors, including cultural, labor and social changes, but a few months ago the CIS reflected Another factor Same relevant: the economic one. According to your polls, 77.3% Of the Spaniards believe that people have no children “due to lack of economic means.” 44.1% indicate another cause that goes along the same lines: “Conciling problems” work and professional life. Moreover, the research center states that 59% of respondents who have not been parents recognize that they would have liked to be. “Create support networks”. The other question that remains by throwing is … What will this increase in people who reach old age without children or grandchildren? Will it translate into greater pressure for public coffers? The problem is not exclusive to Spain. Other countries (Even in Asia) They also face the challenge of seeing how their demographic pyramid is widened … Read more

It is one of the most chilling horror films in recent years, almost nobody has seen it and you have it in prime video

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There are countless horror cinema subgenres, as of any other variant of the fantastic. There are more trotted and frantic films, there are those that are betting on a more murky and rested atmosphere. There are films that derive from previous successes, others that dare to go into unpleling territory. Not all are for all tastes, and clearly ‘Ritual from beyond‘(Depressant Spanish title for the much more lyrical’ to Dark Song ‘), than You can see in Prime Videoit is of that last species. ‘Ritual of the beyond’ has a rhythm and development that will not possibly interest all fans. But if the occult, dark atmospheres, low intensity horror and uncommon messages interest you, ‘ritual of beyond’ is for you. He writes and directs Liam Gavin, who has not signed anything else apart from a couple of chapters of ‘The curse of Bly Manor’ in Netflix In ‘Ritual from beyond’ we will meet a woman who rent a house isolated from everything. His only company in an increasingly suffocating and strange series of days will be a occultist who must help her make a long, dangerous and strenuous ritual to be able to contact her deceased son. But both have secrets that can endanger the purpose of that isolation. It is a classic plot structure (a couple of characters locked in a space that will oppress them more and more until they put their integrity and sanity at risk) that, however, takes a series of unexpected paths. With a meticulous and almost documentary description of the ritual that awaits boththe film builds an atmosphere of threat and an increasingly demential rhythm that turns this film into a hidden jewel of the genre. That everyone will not like, without a doubt, but that will obsess those who connect with their brave proposal. In Xataka | In 2024 Nicolas Cage, in 2025 Stephen King. The revolutionary horror cinema returns with a new epic of humor and gore

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

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

Work up to 80 years have seemed little

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Bernard Arnault is, According to Forbesthe fifth largest fortune in the world with an estimated heritage at 170.5 billion dollars, achieved thanks to the Empire of Fashion and LVMH luxury products that have been presiding over for more than 25 years. It seems that the millionaire is very comfortable in position And he is not willing to release the commission’s helm. In fact, it will propose a regulatory change in LVMH statutes to continue at least nine more years. I am made a kid! According to published ReutersBernard Arnault, 76, wants to continue at the head of LVMH to 85 years. Therefore, it has proposed to expand the maximum age established in the company’s statutes. The company’s request has been transferred to the agenda of the next Board of Shareholders of LVMH that will be held on April 17 where it will vote. This is not the first time that Arnault expands the maximum age of its executive director. In 2022 the shareholders They already approved an extension Until the age of 80, with the aim of ordering his succession at the head of the luxury empire. With this decision, the French millionaire seems to want to join the club of senior octogenarian managers who decide that retirement does not go with them. In fact, when Arnault first postponed the date of his withdrawal, Warren Buffett, 94, He sent him a letter warning that 80 years was a limit too low to retire. Again, The voice of experience of buffett right. Such and as he published Fortunethe LVMH CEO is in full form And he claims not to have lowered the pace despite his age, keeping a days of 12 hours a day. The “Succession” of the Arnault The news of the possible extension of Arnault’s mandate coincides with commercial tensions between the United States and the European Union. Donald Trump, a personal friend of the French millionaire, has threatened to impose strong Tariffs to European products like wine and champagne, which would directly affect the division of LVMH wines and liquorsMoët Hennessy. Therefore, Arnault’s permanence could be related to his desire to manage these economic challenges and geopolitics effectively, taking advantage of its proximity to Trump. Although Arnault has not yet announced publicly Who will your successorthe control of the Arnault family about the Empire of LVMH is more than insured. Arnault has five children, and all of them occupy strategic management positions in the main brands of the group, as well as in the Board of Directors of the Business conglomerate. Delphine Arnault is the CEO of Christian Dior Couture, the most important brand of LVMH. Antoine Arnault is LVMH image director and has held the position of communication director of Louis Vuitton and CEO of the Male Berluti firm. Alexandre Arnault was recently appointed delegate councilor of Moët Hennessy, after having directed the Jewelry firm Tiffany & Co. and, before that, he directed the Rimowa suitcase brand. This same week, Frédéric Arnault, has been appointed director of the Italian fashion brand Loro Piana after passing through the group’s watchmaking division. The youngest brother is Jean Arnault, who is currently director of Watchmaking at Louis Vuitton. Although it is not yet clear which brother will take the reins as the company’s CEO, the Arnault family is clearly prepared to take over from the patriarch of the clan. In Xataka | There is a man who had been working for the same company for 86 years. He has just retired at 102 Image | Flickr (Forgemind Archimedia), Unspash (Willian Justen de Vasconcellos)

We have been studying the oldest remains of a human in Atapuerca for more than two years. And we still know what species belonged to

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In the summer of 2022, those responsible for the Atapuerca site, in Burgos, made known An important find. It was about what seemed to be the face of the oldest hominid found throughout Europe and lived more than a million years ago in the north of the Peninsula. Almost three years later, we know new details about this primitive human. Pink Details such as the name with which they have baptized the individual to whom these bones belonged: Pink. The study has corroborated the initial estimates of the team responsible for the finding, which at the time already indicated that we are facing The oldest human in Europe of which we have record. The new estimates date the remains in a period that goes Between 1.4 and 1.1 million years ago In time. This implies that the fossil is several hundred thousand years before the oldest remains of the deposit (belonging to a Homo antecessor), dated about 860,000 years ago. Homo affinis erectus. An important fact that still remains to be elucidated about the species belonged to this individual. The new work confirms that the individual did not belong to the species Homo antecessoras the remains found in the Great Dolina. The specimen would have belonged to an old Homo erectus. That is why the remains have been classified in a “provisional” way as a member of the species Homo affinis erectus. “Homo antecessorShare with Homo sapiens a more modern -looking face and the projection of the bones of the nose, while Pink’s face configuration is more primitive, with features that remember Homo erectusespecially in its nasal, flat and poorly developed structure ”, explained in a press release María Martinón-Torres, director of CENIEH. June 2022. The fragment was found by Edgar TéllezMember of the Atapuerca research team, in June 2022. cataloged as ATE7-1, the remains were found in the stratum TE7 of the elephant’s chasm. After more than two years of analysis, the details of their study have been published in the form of Article in the magazine Nature. Clues about a way of life.The TE7 level can give us important clues about the environment in which Pink developed. It has recovered stone tools and animal remains with cuts of cuts, which would have been used by these presumable human inhabitants of Atapuerca and Europe. As explained by the team responsible for the study, these brands indicate that the inhabitants of Atapuerca in the lower Pleistocene not only knew the resources available in their environment, they were also able to take advantage of them “systematically”. A piece of a huge puzzle. The finding is just one more piece in the huge puzzle of human evolution and the dissemination of gender species Homo throughout our planet. We know that various waves of several species left their original continent, Africa, towards Eurasia, but the routes that followed have been hidden over time. Another important clue in this regard is precisely on a very different access route: Caucasus. A fossil gurpo found in Georgia They were so far the only track of the adventures of the H. erectus out of Africa. The oldest hominile fossils found outside the African continent were five skulls with around 1.8 million years old. These fossils were classified as H. erectusbut there are also certain doubts about this classification due to some important differences in their characteristics. This will suggest, Ann Gibbons explains In an article in the magazine Sciencethat more than one species HomoI could have left Africa in this era. The Atapuerca fossil would not belong to this species strictly, and now it gives us a new clue with which to advance in the resolution of the enigma complex. In Xataka | We just found the lost link of human evolution: the first bone toolbox Image | Iphes

now faces 10 years in prison for damages

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After 11 years working as a software developer in a company in Texas, a man received a letter announcing that, by A staff restructuringtheir responsibilities and access to the company’s systems were reduced. A year later He was fired. However, the employee had already had time to Prepare revenge Against the company that had fired him: a sabotage software with delayed effect that would cause serious damage to the company’s servers. A digital time bomb. According to He has made public The US Department of Justice, Davis Lu, a 55 -year -old former employee of Eaton Corporation, inserted a malicious code in the company’s system designed to activate at the time when its credentials were deactivated of the system. That is, the malware that pwould rovocar the sabotage It would only be activated once the employee was officially fired. The main objective of this “Kill Switch” or off switch, as is known in the world of computer science, was to create infinite loops that would paralyze Java’s systems when the company workers try to log in to work on the server. The digital switch made the sessions be closed and the files of the user profiles of their former partners were deleted. Code with automatic start. According to the Department of Justice, Malware Created by Lu became one more evidence during his trial, since the engineer baptized him as “Isdlenabledinad” that becomes the abbreviation in English of “Is Davis Lu enabled in Active Directory?”. If the answer was no, which implied that Davis Lu had been fired, two pieces of code were triggered “Hakai“, Japanese word that means” destruction “, and”Hunshui“, Chinese word that means” sleep “or” lethargy “that were the ones that caused chaos in the profiles of the users who tried to log in while they were active. Large economic damage. The revenge of Lu sowed chaos in the company, preventing employees from accessing their data, or that hundreds of work files associated with their profiles were lost. When Lu computer scavengers tried deactivate malwareThey discovered that the software that was “attacking” its systems was executed from the computer and a server that only Lu had access. During their trial, the FBI agents in charge of the investigation valued in hundreds of thousands of dollars the damages caused to the company. An exemplary punishment. After being arrested, Davis Lu faced a trial for criminal sabotage and for causing intentional damage to protected servers. The company accused him of altering his operations worldwide, blocking the profiles of thousands of users and causing large economic losses. Although his defense tried to minimize the financial impact of the attack, the Department of Justice requested a severe penalty for Lu and a jury has condemned him to a sentence of 10 years in prison, although he still appears appeal. In Xataka | Companies have found a way to fire indefinite after labor reform: disciplinary dismissal In Xataka | First came the “silent resignation.” Now his revenge has come: the “silent layoffs” Image | Unspash (Boitumelo)

We have convinced ourselves all these years that OLED was the most. Sony Sony with LED RGBs promise to change everything

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Although OLED technology has advanced considerably in the Smart TVS industry, with technologies as impressive as the latest generation of panels QD-OED of Samsung or the Primary RGB OLED of LG in its new line of televisions, there are manufacturers that are betting even more for the Miniladsince it offers benefits that, in combination with the innovation that is yet to come, could put in a good squeeze those pure blacks and colors of the OLED. Sony is one of those manufacturers. And it already made it very clear to us in 2024 with its commitment to Minned technology with its Bravia 9being the type of panel chosen for its most premium televisions range after that excellent A95L of 2023. Recently, we have seen that this movement still makes more sense, since they have just presented The new technology in which they will bet in 2026: RGB LED. This is how a minied panel could behave like an oled The company has just revealed that they are working to integrate this new type of technology into their future televisions. His intention is to incorporate An RGB LED matrix to backlit the panels of its televisions (Currently, the LEDs of the retroiluminated matrix are all blue). This, unlike the most leading minied panel panel system, means that, in addition to brightness control through local attenuation zones, it could also be reached control one’s color and luminosity of LEDs of the unit that backs the panel. Conventional LED backlight system by zones. Image: Sony This would translate into a better management and control of the brightness and color of each scene, which in broad strokes could Simulate the behavior of organic and self -emissive LEDs of the OLED, but with the advantage of the greatest brightness of the Minned panels. The system allows Sony to adjust the luminance in line to the gradation of the color itself The RGB retroiluminated panel (Red, Green, Blue) would offer high density backight with the ability to Individually control the three primary colorsas indicated from Sony. The company ensures that the panel allows each RGB color to emit light independently, promising great purity in color and the possibility of reproducing a range of broader and brighter colors. It is not the first time that Sony embarks on this technology. In fact, in 2004 he showed the first LCD TV in the world with Full Array LED RGB backlit. From that moment, the company has been following this system very closely, and now that current technology allows great brightness control through local attenuation zones, it was time to boost this technology again. RGB LED system, eliminating the quantum points layer and offering control of the color and brightness of each LED in the backlit matrix. Image: Sony Sony promises a coverage of the 99% DCI-P3 color space and approximately 90% in the ITU-R BT.2020 standard. Combining independent RGB LED control with the control of the attenuation zones of its televisions, Sony promises Scenes with much more contrast and colorin combination with the already excellent brightness offered by their panels, touching the 4,000 peak nits. Color volume of each technology. Image: Sony The system allows Sony to adjust the luminance in line to the gradation of the color itself. In this way, the company promises reach much more living and bright details. In addition, the system would process the signal at high speed, with rates of up to 96 bits. That LEDs allow us to reproduce primary colors means that The panel would not need aggressive color filters in pixels such as quantum points panels. This causes less light to be absorbed during the process, which allows the panel to work more efficiently. Sony will start producing them this year, but it is not the only Sony is collaborating with Mediatek for the development of chips that will be in charge of controlling each of the individual backlit leds. According to the company, The system will begin to produce in series this yearwith the aim of integrating technology into consumer televisions and screens for content creation in 2026. The company has not been the first to announce the arrival of this technology on its televisions. In fact, signatures like Samsung, Hisense and TCl have already been encouragedwith a view to seeing the first in the market to include this technology during the second half of 2025. For Sony, entering this technology makes a lot of sense in its strategy, as the company went from considering its QD-Osed model as its most premium range to the Bravia 9 with Minned technology and its performance very close to its reference monitor. The company, with its motto ‘Cinema Is Coming Home’, aims to give priority to color reproduction as masterful in recording studios, bringing that experience home. And the combination of its already excellent Minned technology, management of local attenuation zones, and now its backlit matrix with RGB LEDs, allows you to easily facilitate that task. Cover image | Sony In Xataka | Best televisions in quality price. Which to buy and seven recommended 4K 4K

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