Technology

Bezos predicts millions of people will live in space within two decades
Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon and Blue Origin, said at Italian Tech Week 2025 that within the next two decades millions of people could live in space, around 2045, by personal choice rather than necessity. He argued that robots will be more cost-effective than humans for tasks on the Moon and that companies will install data centers in orbit to use continuous solar power. He also addressed the economic impact of artificial intelligence and NASA's plans with SpaceX and Blue Origin.
TechnologyInternationalOkDiarioOct 25AI
Two serious PHP flaws expose the fragility of the foundation behind the language: just one full-time employee
Two serious vulnerabilities in PHP, a language running on roughly 70% of websites according to W3Techs, triggered a race against time to patch it. The foundation's executive director, Elizabeth Barron, told Reuters she has a single full-time employee (herself) and 14 contractors, with a volunteer board and funding from donations and grants. After the flaw identifiers leaked on October 20, the patch arrived a day later and Cloudflare logged millions of attack attempts.
TechnologyInternationalXatakaOct 25AI
A senior Australian naval officer highlights the ease of use of systems on a Navantia frigate
Commodore John Stavridis, director general of Littoral Capabilities for the Australian Navy, recounted that he was able to start an engine on the Spanish frigate 'Cristóbal Colón', built by Navantia, without knowing Spanish. He highlighted the ease of use of the integrated platform management system (IPMS), which controls engines, power, water, air conditioning, firefighting, navigation and communications. The frigate visited Australia in 2013 and served as a reference for the 'Hobart' class destroyers.
TechnologyInternationalEl PeriódicoOct 25AI
HbbTV OpApp: the path for an operator to bring its channels to Smart TVs without a set-top box
The Operator Application (OpApp) specification of the HbbTV standard, set out in ETSI TS 103 606, allows an operator to offer its channels and services on a Smart TV without a set-top box. As a privileged, signed application, it can start with the television and take control of the channel list and channel switching. The signal can arrive via DTT or satellite with Internet for interactive services, or be distributed entirely over IP. It requires the manufacturer and the operator to be compatible and to agree on its implementation.
TechnologyInternationalADSLZoneOct 25AI
Nisco deploys Huawei-backed AI model in steel production and saves over 100 million yuan a year
Chinese steel group Nisco is applying the Yuanye artificial intelligence system, developed with Huawei and technology partners, with annual cost savings of more than 100 million yuan ($14.93 million). The company has put 25 business intelligent agents and more than 300 AI models into operation, plus over a thousand low-code agents built by frontline workers, to optimize iron and steelmaking, rolling, quality control and business management.
TechnologyInternationalPrensa LatinaOct 25AI
IREN seeks technical profiles for its Badajoz data center
IREN has posted 28 vacancies in Badajoz on LinkedIn, compared with two in Cáceres, for its future data center. Highly specialized technology roles dominate: 24 offers require degrees in engineering, environmental science, architecture or energy. Outside Extremadura, vacancies are concentrated in Madrid, with management and finance profiles. The Badajoz facility, with 1.9 billion euros of investment and 300 MW, aims to be Spain's largest AI factory and expects to be operational in the first quarter of 2028.
TechnologyInternationalHoyOct 25AI
Norway proposes a 4,500 km subsea cable between Europe and Canada to bypass the United States
Norwegian company Bulk is promoting the Leif Erikson project, a fibre-optic subsea cable of more than 4,500 kilometres that would connect southern Norway with Happy Valley-Goose Bay in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada, and continue overland to Montreal. The investment would exceed 620 million dollars and the goal is to reduce reliance on US infrastructure. The project, which has been trying to move forward for five years, still needs additional funding, a majority partner and approval from European and Canadian authorities.
TechnologyInternationalDiario ASOct 25AI
SICE to install 305 AI video surveillance cameras in Piélagos for 3.4 million euros
The contracting board of the Piélagos City Council gave the highest score to the Madrid-based joint venture SICE Seguridad y Sistemas to install 305 video surveillance cameras, in a contract worth 3,418,687 euros that drew four other technology firms. The cameras use artificial intelligence, night vision and license plate reading. The company must post a 141,268-euro guarantee and the installation deadline is four months from the award, which will go to the full council.
TechnologyInternationalEl Diario MontañésOct 25AI
Chernobyl needs at least 500 million euros to repair the steel arch damaged by a Russian drone
A Russian drone struck on February 14, 2025 the New Safe Confinement of Chernobyl, the steel structure covering the reactor of the 1986 accident, completed in 2019 with an expected lifespan of 100 years. The IAEA described the damage as severe and said the structure lost its radioactivity confinement capacity. The G7 has pledged 260 million euros for the repair, which the EBRD estimates at least 500 million.
TechnologyInternationalXatakaOct 25AI
An AI trained on 600 million words reconstructs 2,000-year-old Greek papyri
The Austrian Academy of Sciences, together with the company Sail Reply and the Mistral laboratory, developed Apollo, the first language model focused on the classical world. Trained on about 600 million words from ancient inscriptions, manuscripts and papyri, the system predicts and completes missing passages in damaged documents more than two millennia old. It will be available to the university community through a free-access chatbot and shows several probabilistic options for the historian to choose from.
TechnologyInternationalHistoria National GeographicOct 25AI
Cavada sets goal of building a "technology multinational" from Cantabria within 10 years
The Santander-born businessman Cavada, owner of Navalips since 2021, has set himself the goal of turning his Cantabrian industrial group into a "technology multinational" within no more than 10 years. The plant, which had 45 employees when he bought it, has more than doubled its revenue and increased its workforce by more than 50%. The group expects to exceed 100 employees at Navalips between 2027 and 2028 and to enter Latin America this month with the creation of a company.
TechnologyInternationalEl Diario MontañésOct 25AI
DeLorean enters electric flying vehicles with a team in the Airspeeder International Series
The US firm DeLorean is joining a new motorsport competition based on electric propulsion, advanced flight controls and artificial intelligence safety systems. Its team will be called DeLorean Airspeeder and will compete in the Airspeeder International Series with electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft on electronically defined circuits. In its debut season it will use the Airspeeder Mk3C; for 2027-28 it plans to design a new aircraft with student engineering teams from universities in its home country, including the University of California, UC Berkeley and Georgia Tech.
TechnologyInternationalLa VanguardiaOct 25AI
British logistics drone T-150 turns into a drone killer, downing multiple targets with rockets in a single flight
The militarized version of the British Malloy T-150 drone, called TRV-150 and built by Malloy Aeronautics, a BAE Systems subsidiary, downed several kamikaze drones in a US military exercise in late September at Eglin Air Force Base, Florida, without landing or reloading between targets. The aircraft was fitted with a triple launcher of Apkws laser-guided rockets, integrated by BAE Systems' FalconWorks division and adapted by Survice Engineering. BAE plans to extend the capability to the maritime environment.
TechnologyInternationalInfodefensaOct 25AI
When AI fails: five cases that raised alarms, from a US$25 million fraud to autonomous agents
According to IBM and the Ponemon Institute's Cost of a Data Breach Report 2026, one in four malicious breaches analyzed was enabled by artificial intelligence, at an average cost of US$6 million versus US$4.99 million for the global average. The study examined incidents at 602 organizations between March 2025 and February 2026. The article reviews five cases: autonomous agents that tried to breach more than 1,200 websites, AI-assisted attacks detected in Taiwan, a US$25 million fraud through a fake video call, an adverse ruling against Air Canada over its chatbot, and Microsoft's Tay chatbot case.
TechnologyInternationalLa RepúblicaOct 25AI
Smart glasses, AI and cochlear implants: how technology breaks down barriers for people with disabilities
Daniel Álvarez, 30, who lost his sight at 15 due to an irreversible retinal detachment, uses smart glasses with cameras and speakers that let him tell "a hair salon from a supermarket" or read text, as well as AI to turn graphics into accessible text and build custom applications. Paula González, with profound bilateral deafness since she was six months old, has had a cochlear implant since age 3 and says the latest model, with Bluetooth and three-day rechargeable batteries, has changed her life.
TechnologyInternationalEl PeriódicoOct 25AI
Waymo, Uber and Bolt push into robotaxis in Madrid, but the law does not allow it yet
Waymo, Google's self-driving car company, will begin rolling out a passenger transport service in fully autonomous vehicles in Spain, starting with the Community of Madrid, aiming to welcome its first users in 2027. The tests, using 16 electric Jaguar I-Pace cars with authorization from the Community of Madrid and the DGT, will take place on public roads in Madrid city, Alcobendas and Getafe. Uber and Bolt have also announced plans in the capital, where regulation only allows pilot projects.
TechnologyInternationalLa VanguardiaOct 25AI
Geoffrey Hinton: "The AI problem is more urgent than climate change"
Nobel laureate in Physics Geoffrey Hinton, considered one of the "godfathers" of AI, warned at the Starmus Festival in Tenerife that the risk from artificial intelligence is more urgent than climate change, because its catastrophic consequences could arrive "in a few years". He said the probability that AI ends humanity lies between 1% and 99%, and that a figure of 10% or 20% is already "very worrying". He also urged Europe to build its own tech sector.
TechnologyInternationalLa VanguardiaOct 25AI
FOBO, the fear of becoming obsolete because of AI, hits senior professionals
FOBO (Fear of Becoming Obsolete) has become more visible with the rise of AI and particularly affects workers over 50. The World Economic Forum's Future of Jobs 2025 report estimates that 39% of core skills will have changed by 2030, and the OECD notes that workers aged 55 to 65 use fewer advanced digital tools and receive less training. Psychologists and trainers stress that experience remains key to supervising what AI produces.
TechnologyInternationalLa VanguardiaOct 25AI
Cambridge Analytica, ten years on: Meta cannot shake the ghosts of political interference
A decade after the Cambridge Analytica scandal, which collected data from 87 million Facebook users without consent, the debate over political manipulation on social media remains alive. Meta was ordered by a New Mexico court to pay a fine of about 22 billion euros for violating protection laws, on top of 4.5 billion already paid to the FTC. Meanwhile, Brazil's Superior Electoral Court is demanding that Meta explain an alleged favorable treatment of Flávio Bolsonaro over Lula da Silva.
TechnologyInternationalEL PAÍSOct 24AI
Tech stocks stumble and reopen the debate over who pays the AI bill
The slump of CoreWeave, an AI cloud computing firm backed by Nvidia, is dragging semiconductors into their worst streak since 2008 and reopening the debate over the sector's sustainability. CoreWeave is down 36% on the stock market over the past month and the yield demanded on its bonds has reached 16%, with liabilities of $50 billion. Semiconductors have fallen 19% over 12 sessions, while AI demand remains strong and external financing of the sector grows.
TechnologyInternationalCinco DíasOct 24AI