While we can design robots and AI models to do all sorts of things, this very stable genius gave a clanker a gun and practically begged it to shoot him. The only interesting part is how quickly the AI took the opportunity when this AI/robotics researcher found a way around the machine's prohibitions. — Read the rest
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El vía crucis que Raquel relata a 20minutos no es una excepción; más de la mitad de las empresas retrasa proyectos porque cuesta encontrar personal con la preparación adecuada en albañilería, la fontanería y electricidad, tres gremiso en los que el 70 % de las ofertas de empleo permanecen abiertas más de un mes.
etiquetas: reformas, falta de mano de obra, problemática construcción, formación profesiona
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... lo que supondría un duro impacto al concurso de la canción europea, debido a la gran cantidad de espectadores que desde España visualizan en televisión Eurovisión. En la edición de este año, se marcó un récord de audiencia, superando los registros de 2022 (año en el que Chanel Terrero rozó el micrófono de cristal en Turín). La emisión en mayo de Eurovisión 2025 reunió a 5.884.000 seguidores, con un share del 50,1% y 13,6 millones de contactos únicos durante toda la gala.
etiquetas: rtve, eurovision, españa
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Transición Ecológica incrementa también un 4% los peajes y confía en la alta producción de las renovables. el departamento que dirige Sara Aagesen es que tanto la parte fija del recibo que establece la Comisión Nacional de los Mercados y la Competencia (CNMC), como los peajes, o los cargos, cuya potestad esta en manos del Ministerio, se incrementarán en 2026 con respecto al ejercicio anterior. de los cargos netos del sistema eléctrico, se elevarán algo más de un 10% el ejercicio próximo respecto a este año y los peajes está previsto, un 4%
etiquetas: costos de la luz, energías renovables, facturas, gobierno
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Picture this: You’re looking to buy a place to live, and you have two options.
Option A is a beautiful home in California near good schools and job opportunities. But it goes for nearly a million dollars – the median California home sells for US$906,500 – and you’d be paying a mortgage that’s risen 82% since January 2020.
Option B is a similar home in Texas, where the median home costs less than half as much: just $353,700. The catch? Option B sits in an area with significant hurricane and flood risk.
As a professor of urban planning, I know this isn’t just a hypothetical scenario. It’s the impossible choice millions of Americans face every day as the U.S. housing crisis collides with climate change. And we’re not handling it well.
The migration patterns are stark. Take California, which lost 239,575 residents in 2024 – the largest out-migration of any state. High housing costs are a primary driver: The median home price in California is more than double the national median.
Where are these displaced residents going? Many are heading to southern and western states like Florida and Texas. Texas, which is the top destination for former California residents, saw a net gain of 85,267 people in 2024, much of it from domestic migration. These newcomers are drawn primarily by more affordable housing markets.
This isn’t simply people chasing lower taxes. It’s a housing affordability crisis in motion. The annual household income needed to qualify for a mortgage on a mid-tier California home was about $237,000 in June 2025, a recent analysis found – over twice the state’s median household income.
Over 21 million renter households nationwide spent more than 30% of their income on housing costs in 2023, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. For them and others struggling to get by, the financial math is simple, even if the risk calculation isn’t.
I find this troubling. In essence, the U.S. is creating a system where your income determines your exposure to climate disasters. When housing becomes unaffordable in safer areas, the only available and affordable property is often in riskier locations – low-lying areas at flood risk in Houston and coastal Texas, or higher-wildfire-risk areas as California cities expand into fire-prone foothills and canyons.
The destinations drawing newcomers aren’t exactly safe havens. Research shows that America’s high-fire-risk counties saw 63,365 more people move in than out in 2023, much of that flowing to Texas. Meanwhile, my own research and other studies of post-disaster recovery have shown how the most vulnerable communities – low-income residents, people of color, renters – face the greatest barriers to rebuilding after disasters strike.
Consider the insurance crisis brewing in these destination states. Dozens of insurers in Florida, Louisiana, Texas and beyond have collapsed in recent years, unable to sustain the mounting claims from increasingly frequent and severe disasters like wildfires and hurricanes. Economists Benjamin Keys and Philip Mulder, who study climate change impacts on real estate, describe the insurance markets in some high-risk areas as “broken”. Between 2018 and 2023, insurers canceled nearly 2 million homeowner policies nationwide – four times the historically typical rate.
Yet people keep moving into risky areas. For example, recent research shows that people have been moving toward areas most at risk of wildfires, even holding wealth and other factors constant. The wild beauty of fire-prone areas may be part of the attraction, but so is housing availability and cost.
In my view, this isn’t really about individual choice – it’s about policy failure. The state of California aims to build 2.5 million new homes by 2030, which would require adding more than 350,000 units annually. Yet in 2024, the state only added about 100,000 – falling dramatically short of what’s needed. When local governments restrict housing development through exclusionary zoning, they’re effectively pricing out working families and pushing them toward risk.
My research on disaster recovery has consistently shown how housing policies intersect with climate vulnerability. Communities with limited housing options before disasters become even more constrained afterward. People can’t “choose” resilience if resilient places won’t let them build affordable housing.
The federal government started recognizing this connection – to an extent. For example, in 2023, the Federal Emergency Management Agency encouraged communities to consider “social vulnerability” in disaster planning, in addition to things like geographic risk. Social vulnerability refers to socioeconomic factors like poverty, lack of transportation or language barriers that make it harder for communities to deal with disasters.
However, the agency more recently stepped back from that move – just as the 2025 hurricane season began.
In my view, when a society forces people to choose between paying for housing and staying safe, that society has failed. Housing should be a right, not a risk calculation.
But until decision-makers address the underlying policies that create housing scarcity in safe areas and fail to protect people in vulnerable ones, climate change will continue to reshape who gets to live where – and who gets left behind when the next disaster strikes.
Dr. Ivis García has received funding from the National Science Foundation; the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development; the U.S. Department of Transportation's National Institute for Transportation and Communities; the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; the Environmental Protection Agency; the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine; JPB Foundation; Ford Foundation, Pritzker Traubert Foundation; Chicago Community Trust, SBAN, Texas Appleseed, Fundación Comunitaria de Puerto Rico, Urban Institute & UNIDOS, and Natural Hazards Center.
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El CEO de Palantir y aliado de Trump, Alex Karp, no es un desconocido para los comentarios polémicos (incluso troll-es). Su más reciente declaración acaba de salir: Karp cree que los ataques navales de EE. UU. en el Caribe (que muchos expertos consideran crímenes de guerra) son una oportunidad de hacer dinero para su empresa. En la cumbre DealBook del The New York Times el miércoles, le preguntaron a Karp sobre los temores relativos a la inconstitucionalidad de los ataques navales.
etiquetas: ceo, palantir, crímenes de guerra, negocios
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La Casa Blanca ha decidido que la economía estadounidense será lo que Trump diga que es, no lo que indiquen los indicadores oficiales. La Oficina de Análisis Económico confirmó que no publicará el avance del PIB del tercer trimestre de 2025, un informe que debía salir el 30 de octubre y que quedó en suspenso durante el cierre federal. La decisión se detalla en la propia actualización del BEA, que reestructura por completo el calendario de datos económicos.
etiquetas: trump, datos, estados unidos, inflación, empleo, informes
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As organizations adopt GKE for critical workloads, including generative and agentic AI, understanding GKE capabilities is essential. The networking layer is a key component, and while GKE offers a fully integrated, flat network model, you may be transitioning from different setups. It's important to grasp how GKE's network model differs and how to leverage its design.
The newly published "Unlocking the Power of GKE's Flat Network: Design Recommendation" offers a comprehensive guide to designing, deploying, and managing this network model. It dives into the key advantages of GKE's flat network, contrasts it with the alternative, island-mode, and provides architectural recommendations that can help you take advantage of its full potential for enhanced scalability, performance, and integration.
In this blog post, take a peak into this design recommendation document.
Migrating to GKE offers agility and scalability for your containerized workloads, but we know users sometimes face challenges with IP address management, especially those accustomed to the "island mode" networking of other cloud providers.
While GKE's default flat network model doesn't natively support that "island mode" approach, there are ways to adapt your existing island-mode architectures to GKE’s flat networking architecture and navigate potential IP address management concerns. That's why we're providing clear strategies and showcasing GKE's latest feature to help you address IP management challenges and easily transition to GKE.
To help you along your journey the “Unlocking the Power of GKE’s Flat Network: Design Recommendation" design guide provides in depth knowledge. This guide was written by several Google experts and dives into different patterns and designs based on various use cases.
The design guide is meant to serve as your main reference to assist you in evaluating all options and point you to reference architectures that describe how to deploy recommended patterns. You can utilize these recommendations as a guide, sample, or building blocks for designing, researching or planning your network. As with all things architecture, you have a varying degree of flexibility in what the final design will look like.
Let's take a quick look at one of the designs highlighted in the Unlocking the Power of GKE’s Flat Network: Design Recommendation.
This design outlines a strategy for emulating island mode behavior within GKE's flat network. It combines VPC-based island mode, which helps conserve IP addresses, with Private Service Connect (PSC) to access shared tooling. Network Connectivity Center (NCC) with PSC transitivity will provide access to common tooling through PSC endpoints, each having unique, routable IPs. For communication between these emulated "islands," IP masquerading will be used to map a Pod's IP address to its node's IP, making outbound Pod traffic appear to originate from the node. This comprehensive approach establishes a strong foundation for scalable and complex connectivity patterns.
You can learn more about GKE Networking with the following resources:
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Dice que es «bueno para los clics» e incluso planea llevar su serie «Manteniendo a las personas sin hogar en las calles» a ciudades como Nueva York y Los Ángeles.
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Cuando pensamos en personas con altas capacidades intelectuales, ¿qué nombres nos vienen a la cabeza? Einstein, Hawking, Da Vinci, Gates… La lista suele estar poblada casi exclusivamente por hombres. Sin embargo, a lo largo de la historia han existido miles de mujeres con un potencial intelectual extraordinario. El problema es que, demasiadas veces, permanecieron en la sombra o, incluso habiendo sido portadoras de un Nobel, son desconocidas para la mayoría de nosotros. Solo en el ámbito de la ciencia hay 17 mujeres que han recibido este premio y, aun así, muchos apenas podríamos nombrar a dos o tres de ellas. Javier Tourón y Steven Pfeiffer definen las altas capacidades como “un conjunto de características cognitivas, motivacionales, creativas y personales que, en interacción con el entorno, permiten un rendimiento superior o un potencial excepcional”. Según el criterio que se utiliza, entre un 10% y un 15% de la población tiene altas capacidades, y aproximadamente un 2% pertenece al grupo de los superdotados.
El ejecutivo de Ayuso salvó con 33 millones al hospital de Torrejón por el coste de fármacos y pacientes: “Está en práctica insolvencia”. Solo dos meses después de recibir el dinero público, el CEO de la concesionaria pidió a sus mandos ajustes para lograr un beneficio de “cuatro o cinco millones”
etiquetas: sanidad, madrid, ayuso
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