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Ukraine carries out first aerial drone rescue of a wounded soldier on the front line
The drone unit of Ukraine's 92nd Assault Brigade, together with the 30th Brigade and the 10th Army Corps, extracted a wounded soldier from the front line using an unmanned aerial vehicle, in what would be the first rescue of its kind. The soldier had spent nearly 500 days in an isolated position supplied by drones. Ground evacuation was ruled out due to mined terrain and Russian drone activity. A Heavy Shot Ayudag-6 hexacopter from Gurzuf Defence was used.
TechnologyInternationalInfodefensaOct 21AI
Court orders two telecom companies to compensate a couple over a 48-meter antenna installed near their home
The Civil and Commercial Court No. 11 of Lomas de Zamora ordered two telephone companies to pay 16.5 million pesos plus interest to a couple who lived about 25 meters from a 48-meter communications tower in a residential neighborhood in southern Greater Buenos Aires. The lawsuit was filed in May 2000. The ruling dismissed the claim against the municipality and rejected the claims for physical and psychological harm.
TechnologyInternationalInfobaeOct 21AI
Kolsquare calls for treating brand safety as a strategic decision in influencer marketing
The platform Kolsquare publishes the report "The trust dividend", in which it argues that brand safety should stop being a later filter and become a strategic and creative decision in influencer marketing. The document cites that 55% of consumers aged 16 to 34 have stopped buying from a brand over a values clash and that fewer than 5% of marketing professionals see brand safety as a challenge. It also notes that advertising transparency does not reduce performance.
TechnologyInternationalReason WhyOct 21AI
SpaceX and Tesla study a possible merger with special committees
SpaceX and Tesla have formed special committees to study a possible merger that would combine Elon Musk's two companies into an artificial intelligence-focused conglomerate with a potential value above three trillion dollars. Musk said he thinks it is "a good idea", but that shareholders must give their support and that the committees have not agreed on the terms of any transaction. SpaceX is valued at two trillion dollars and Tesla at almost 1.5 trillion.
TechnologyInternationalExpansiónOct 21AI
Tenex pays its engineers by delivered story points, not hours worked
Tenex, a firm with 75 employees, 90% of them engineers or AI strategists, pays its engineers by delivered story points instead of hours. Half of its clients are Fortune 2000 companies and the other half are mid-market firms with revenue between US$100M and US$500M. Alex Lieberman and CJ Hess presented the model on the Latent Space podcast at AI Engineer in New York and explained that the company recalibrates the value of a story point at least once a quarter.
TechnologyInternationalEl Ecosistema StartupOct 21AI
Boeing unveils Dataliner, an AI platform for fleet maintenance
Boeing presented Dataliner, an artificial intelligence platform to help airlines manage the maintenance and operations of their fleets. Developed with Microsoft, it combines Boeing's engineering with Azure AI Foundry to connect information from different sources and offer a joint view of aircraft status. Airlines can keep their data in their own systems and decide what they share; the platform includes access controls, encryption and monitoring.
TechnologyInternational- Actualidad AeroespacialOct 21AI
Amazon to help fund a 960 MW nuclear plant in Indiana for its data centers
Amazon agreed to help pay for the development of a 960-megawatt nuclear plant in Indiana and would be the first customer to buy its power. The project, announced with X-energy and American Electric Power, would install 12 Xe-100 small modular reactors of 80 MW each on the site of the former Breed Generating Station coal plant in Sullivan County. AEP would operate the plant, which would connect to the public grid. It is the second project in Amazon's plan to bring more than 5 gigawatts of new nuclear capacity online in the U.S. by 2039.
TechnologyInternationalXatakaOct 21AI
Juana Roig, Juan Roig's daughter: "Being the boss's daughter is a drag"
Juana Roig, the youngest of Juan Roig's four daughters and head of digital transformation and Mercadona Tech, said in an interview on the Itnig podcast that being "the boss's daughter" is "a drag that has its good side and its bad side." A business administration graduate from Esade, she recalled her time at Inditex and acknowledged that her surname opened the door for her to develop Mercadona Online. She is also a member of the company's board of directors.
TechnologyInternationalLa RazónOct 20AI
Southeast Asia's digital economy projected to reach US$368 billion in 2026, driven by AI
The e-Conomy SEA 2026 report, produced by Google, Temasek and Bain & Company, projects that Southeast Asia's digital economy will grow 17% year on year to US$368 billion in gross merchandise value (GMV) in 2026, and will surpass one trillion dollars in 2035. The document attributes the momentum to generative AI, used daily by 243 million people, 58% of the region's working population. Sector funding reached US$21 billion in the first half of 2026.
TechnologyInternationalEl Ecosistema StartupOct 20AI
Telefónica and Portugal's NOS team up to boost defense and security capabilities in Europe
Telefónica and Portuguese group NOS have agreed to boost new defense and security capabilities in Europe, amid growing European investment in strategic technologies. The initiative seeks to leverage both Iberian operators' technological capacity in secure communications, cybersecurity and resilient connectivity, areas the report deems essential for military systems and the protection of critical infrastructure. The agreement coincides with the European Union's push for its own capabilities and for reducing external technological dependencies.
TechnologyInternationalInfodefensaOct 20AI
France integrates an electromagnetic intelligence pod into its MQ-9 Reaper drones
France's Air and Space Force is moving forward with adding an electromagnetic intelligence (ROEM) pod to its MQ-9 Reaper drones. The system has completed its experimentation phase and crews of the 33rd Surveillance, Reconnaissance and Attack Squadron are beginning to familiarize themselves with its use, according to Air Fan. The payload captures and analyzes electromagnetic emissions to detect and identify communications and radars. Washington authorized the sale of eight pods, in a deal initially estimated at 88 million dollars.
TechnologyInternationalInfodefensaOct 20AI
Alibaba tops 6 billion chips shipped with its RISC-V XuanTie architecture
DAMO Academy, Alibaba's research arm, announced that processors based on its XuanTie architecture, an implementation of RISC-V, have surpassed 6 billion units shipped. T-Head, Alibaba's semiconductor subsidiary, unveiled chips in 2026 including the Zhenwu M890 accelerator and the XuanTie C950 CPU, which runs at 3.2 GHz and, according to the company, can run models such as Qwen3-235B-A22B or DeepSeek V3-671B. RISC-V is key to China's plan for technological independence amid US-led sanctions.
TechnologyInternationalXatakaOct 20AI
Arundhati Roy attacks big AI companies in a speech in New York
Indian writer Arundhati Roy delivered a speech titled "Apocalypse Now and Then" on Monday afternoon in New York for the People's Assembly on AI, promoted mainly by the AI Now Institute. Roy criticized the concentration of power among big tech companies, the use of an "arms race" as a marketing tool to avoid regulation and an industry boom based on a possible financial bubble. Lina Khan, Naomi Klein and Karen Hao took part in the meeting.
TechnologyInternationalLa VanguardiaOct 20AI
PHP prepares emergency patches for two critical flaws rated 9.2 severity
The PHP maintenance team announced emergency patches for two vulnerabilities rated 9.2 out of 10 severity, after details of an alleged exploit leaked. Security firm watchTowr confirmed the flaws, tracked as CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619, are real and described them as remote code execution affecting PHP versions 5, 6, 7 and 8. The advisory urges users to prepare to update as soon as the release is available.
TechnologyInternationalEl Ecosistema StartupOct 20AI
A PP AI montage outpaces Sánchez's real photo and previews the use of the tool in campaign
Spain's PP published an AI montage on its social channels showing a fake kiss between Pedro Sánchez and José Luis Ábalos, seen by nearly three million people, one million more than the real photo of Sánchez with his wife shared by the PSOE. Officials from PP, PSOE, Vox, Aliança Catalana and Frente Amplio tell El País how they use artificial intelligence in the 29-N campaign: from creativity and data analysis to image simulation.
TechnologyInternationalEL PAÍSOct 20AI
Geoffrey Hinton: "I'm not a doomsayer. I think there's a 1% chance AI destroys us"
Geoffrey Hinton, Nobel laureate in Physics and known as "the godfather of AI", says in an interview with EL PAÍS that he is not a doomsayer, but that there is a significant probability, above 1%, that artificial intelligence will destroy humanity. Hinton, who left his vice-presidency at Google in 2023 to speak freely about the risks, argues that the technology is advancing faster than he expected and calls for state regulation: a chatbot should not be released without first proving its safety to a government agency.
TechnologyInternationalEL PAÍSOct 20AI
Miss AI Universe: Colombia competes with an AI-generated contestant
Miss AI Universe holds its seventh edition with AI-generated contestants representing different countries. The organization first announced 69 participating countries and later updated the figure to 71, including Colombia, Brazil, Mexico, Spain, the United States, Venezuela, the Philippines and South Africa. Colombia takes part with Marya Tiglao Pulgarín, a virtual character presented as an environmental activist, television presenter, actress and accountant. The contest evaluates originality, visual design, identity coherence, cultural representation and connection with the public.
TechnologyInternationalEl ColombianoOct 20AI
Three Spanish researchers want AI to admit its uncertainty in critical decisions
Three Spanish researchers who have just won the BBVA Foundation's Leonardo Grant in Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science are working to make AI models convey uncertainty instead of answering with false confidence. Their projects address tumor image analysis, simulation of treatments for ICU patients and prediction of failures in power grid transformers, fields where an unflagged error can have serious consequences.
TechnologyInternationalEl ConfidencialOct 20AI
Drone strikes on Yandex data centers expose the vulnerability of Russia's "iron heart"
Ukrainian drone attacks hit three Yandex data centers between October 7 and 12, in Sasovo, Kaluga and Vladimir. The company acknowledged damage ranging from "severe" to "total disruption". In Russia there were internet outages, payment blocks and suspended applications. Abroad, the attacks were credited with the disappearance of thousands of disinformation bots, but later analyses showed that accounts close to MAGA and AfD grew. According to Cloudflare, the bots migrated to other Russian providers such as Radist and Selectel.
TechnologyInternationalEl ConfidencialOct 20AI
Morocco finalizes purchase of 'David's Sling', Israeli air-defense system with 300 km range
Morocco is negotiating with Israel the purchase of the David's Sling air-defense system, capable of intercepting missiles and drones at ranges of between 40 and 300 kilometers. The deal requires US approval because the technology was jointly developed by Rafael and Raytheon. Rabat already operates the Israeli Barak MX and Spyder systems and is also negotiating LORA ballistic missiles, with a range of more than 400 kilometers, within the cooperation framework that followed the Abraham Accords.
TechnologyInternationalEl EspañolOct 20AI