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Microsoft has presented its new quantum chip, Majorana 2, which is 1,000 times more reliable than its first version, presented in February 2025. The company has announced that the material architecture of this chip multiplies the reliability of its qubits, the minimum unit of information in a quantum computer, by 1,000. The qubits of Majorana 2 have an average lifetime of 20 seconds and peaks reaching one minute compared to the microseconds of conventional quantum chips. After the chip presentation, the company sets its goal to build a scalable quantum computer by 2029, halving the initial target timeline.

As every year, the Ministry of Health has launched its National Plan for Preventive Actions on the Effects of Excess Temperatures on Health with the main objective of reducing morbidity and mortality associated with heat waves of epidemiological impact. One of the main new features this year is that the plan updates certain temperature thresholds after a thorough review of historical mortality and heat series in Spain, incorporating new methodological criteria.

The impact of the DANA of October 29 is measured not only in mud but also in unprecedented economic paralysis. According to reports from the Valencia Chamber of Commerce and the Generalitat, the disaster affected more than 54,000 companies and put the livelihood of over 190,000 workers at risk due to ERTEs, reduced working hours, and layoffs. With nearly 10,000 shops and local businesses devastated, the reconstruction of the ground zero area demands a specialized workforce that the current market cannot supply.

The Spanish Government has been invited by the company Anthropic, like the rest of the countries of the European Union, to access its artificial intelligence model Claude Mythos, which for the first time will be tested outside the borders of the United States and the United Kingdom. This AI has been considered a very dangerous tool, because in its initial tests it identified hundreds of significant security flaws in all computer and mobile operating systems, which led Anthropic to create in mid-April a closed group of companies such as Apple, Google, Microsoft, Nvidia, and Amazon, among others, in the so-called Project Glasswing, which is now being accessed by European countries.

The combination of a rainy spring and the onset of heat has caused mosquito and cockroach populations to soar across much of the territory. This is warned by the Catalan Association of Environmental Health Companies (Adepap) on the occasion of World Pest Control Day, which will be celebrated next Saturday. The tiger mosquito (Aedes albopictus), a confirmed vector of diseases such as dengue, Zika, and chikungunya, remains the main threat in urban areas due to its ability to breed in small domestic water accumulations. Adepap also warns about the invasion of cockroaches in the underground and homes.

Silence from high politics and technological power before the papal encyclical on AI

A group of striking teachers blocked access to Casa Batlló this morning as part of protests to improve their working conditions. The action is part of a protest march associated with the strike that will take place this Tuesday along Passeig de Gràcia, called by the minority unions CGT, Intersindical, and COS.

The Berlin cybersecurity conference was dominated by AI, as will be future events of this type. Richard Marko is the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of ESET, a renowned cybersecurity company founded in Slovakia in the 1990s. It is the oldest in the world.

Artificial intelligence is transforming cyber threats in a way never seen before in just a few months. It is not just that AI models capable of finding hundreds of flaws in browsers and operating systems have appeared. In recent months, the OpenClaw project has demonstrated that AI agents can act without human intervention and persistently, making them more dangerous. The combination of reasoning ability with access to control privileges of computer systems has alerted global experts.

Ustec and Secondary School Teachers call off the strikes planned for this week in Girona, Barcelona, Tarragona, and Lleida from Monday to Thursday. However, they maintain the call for the strike on June 5, Friday, which they could call off depending on the result of the consultation on the pre-agreement signed with the Government, which will be known on Thursday.