April 29, 2026 U.S. warns banks of sanctions risk over China ‘teapot’ refineries handling Iranian oil www.cnbc.com/2026/04/29/u... May 2, 2026 China's Commerce Ministry blocks US sanctions against five refineries www.reuters.com/business/ene...

Muy recomendable lectura sobre la Europa de ayer y de hoy.

China 'AI efficiency gains don’t constitute a “major change in objective circumstances” that would legally permit firing workers.' www.gadgetreview.com/the-ai-termi...

CNN: "At least 16 American military sites have been damaged in Iranian strikes, making up the majority of US positions in the Middle East [...] The damage includes high-value targets, raising questions about America’s footprint in the region" edition.cnn.com/2026/05/01/w...

European cloud providers association CISPE contribution to EU Digital Sovereignty: "There is an urgent need for transparency and an auditable way to prevent “sovereignty washing"

Tiempos extraños cuando algunos exigen a quienes sufren un genocidio que no hieran los sentimientos de quienes lo cometen a la vista del mundo entero.

a) Israel assaults and seizes vessels in international waters just off Greece/Europe www.timesofisrael.com/navy-begins-... b) "Antisemitism 'a national security emergency', says government terror adviser after Golders Green attack" www.bbc.com/news/live/c3...

La CNMC ha publicado su informe sobre la calidad de las telecomunicaciones en el mundo rural

Lean: Extensible, Scalable, Trusted. Slides by Leonardo de Moura Paris, 2026 #LeanLang #LeanProver leodemoura.github.io/static/paris...

Amaia. Tiny Desk Concert. www.youtube.com/watch?v=6tCj...

Terry Tao on how AI is affecting Learning/Teaching www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xxa...

"Since the 1950s, US-led wars have killed millions of civilians [...] US-led wars since 2001 have directly caused the deaths of about 940,000 people across Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq, Syria, Yemen and other post-9/11 conflict zones." www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/4/...

Coming to Ubuntu: " enhancing existing OS functionality via AI models running in the background to more "AI native" features further down the development roadmap." [...] such as for assisting in interpreting system logs." www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-...

"Engineers have gotten much better at building machines that can run long distances without overheating or breaking. Getting them to move through the real world with anything like human judgment is another matter." www.scientificamerican.com/article/a-hu...

Subagents - Agentic Engineering Patterns

This story covers why I think the weekend stunt of robots running parallel to but separated from human runners shows nothing at all useful and is misleading. www.scientificamerican.com/article/a-hu...

A Science of Concurrent Programs New book by Leslie Lamport lamport.azurewebsites.net/tla/science-...

European Commission awards €180 million tender for sovereign cloud to four European providers commission.europa.eu/news-and-med...

Internet será irrespirable los días de fútbol y otros deportes. Telefónica extiende los bloqueos a Champions, tenis y golf.

EU credibility is on the line with Israel, says Spanish foreign minister. www.aljazeera.com#flips-639355...

"they are building robots out of it: fashioning tiny, free-swimming assemblages of living cells that organize into self-directed systems, complete with neurons that wire themselves into functional circuits" spectrum.ieee.org/neurobot-liv...

WuppieFuzz is a coverage-guided REST API fuzzer that takes an OpenAPI spec, generates and mutates request sequences, and supports black/gray/white testing with coverage feedback (JaCoCo, LCOV). emagazine.one-conference.nl/2024/finally...

WSJ: "here are millions of Teslas on the road with the outdated hardware no longer capable of running the most sophisticated version of Tesla’s Full Self-Driving (Supervised) software" www.wsj.com/business/aut...

The East India Company in UK began as a private trading company with a royal monopoly on Asian commerce, but over time it amassed powers exceeding those of many European nations: its own army, navy, the right to mint coinage, and the capacity to sign treaties.

1/2 "In 2026, the code may look professionally written and follow all the best practices and still be completely broken. On top of that, LLMs generate well-looking tests, if you ask them. A lot of tests!"

"When both code and tests are autogenerated, traditional quality checks lose their signaling value, increasing the likelihood of costly failures, outages, and liability exposure in production systems." protocols-made-fun.com/llms/testing...

Seems like my reach is wider than I thought, whether they realise it or not :-) codemanship.wordpress.com/2025/09/30/c...

Kiko Helguera entrevistando en directo a Paquito D'Rivera en Los Ultrasónicos de @radio3.es Ahora.

"Satellite images reveal Israel expanding Gaza military sites Images show Israel building permanent military bases in Gaza as US-backed reconstruction plans stall." www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/4/...

The The Wall Street Journal portrays the current U.S. president as a puppet, Dr. Trump by day and Mr. Punch by night. www.wsj.com/politics/nat...

Encabezan la manifestación Salvemos la #EducaciónPública las educadoras de infantil (0-3 años) en huelga indefinida por el maltrato de Ayuso En el Paseo del Prado se pide menos ratio, más salario y mejores condiciones laborales ¡Lo llaman guardería y no lo es, que es educación, que es conciliación…

Aquí se puede ver la sesión que tuvimos el miércoles pasado. Muchas gracias a todos y todas las que nos acompañásteis. Está feo decirlo pero creo que quedó bastante bien. www.coam.org/actualidad-a...

Stripping away the screens and games from learning. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/19/o...

NASA shuts down Low-energy Charged Particles experiment on Voyager 1 to keep the nuclear-powered spacecraft operating, nearly 49 years after launch. science.nasa.gov/blogs/voyage...

La presidenta de México, Claudia Sheinbaum, propone, en la parte final de su discurso durante la IV Reunión "En Defensa de la Democracia", que se realice una declaración en contra de la intervención militar de EEUU en Cuba. México, nuevamente, a la altura de la Historia. Gracias.

** Latest Barbary War: "U.S. Military Prepares to Board Iran-Linked Ships in Coming Days, Officials Say American forces will pursue vessels around the world that are helping Tehran" www.wsj.com/world/middle... ** First Barbary War: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_B...

"On Ada, the language that the Department of Defense built, the industry ignored, and every modern language quietly became" www.iqiipi.com/the-quiet-co...

'For months, Microsoft and Amazon were among those publicly lobbying for fast-tracked planning permission processes, both pointing to the Spanish region of Aragón's “one-stop shop” approach for environmental paperwork.' www.investigate-europe.eu/posts/big-te...

«Me sentía como un monstruo»: Soldados israelíes hablan sobre los redordimiento que sufren tras haber participado en el genocidio de Gaza. (No son sólo los soldados, la mayoría de la sociedad israelí ha sido consciente de esos crímenes) www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

Aviso a navegantes. Literal

Manifestación #19Abril Salvemos la Educación Pública: ➡️Atocha-Sol 12h La ofensiva privatizadora de la #EducaciónPública se recrudece, las movilizaciones aumentan (educadoras 0-3 en huelga, universidades en lucha…), pero hay un gran apagón sobre la Educación que no está en el debate político actual

Chronology of madness: edition.cnn.com/interactive/...

"‘Bombs Fell Like Rain’: The Israeli Attack That Hit 100 Lebanese Targets in 90 Seconds The strikes Israel says were aimed at midlevel Hezbollah operatives killed hundreds and hit usually calm seaside Beirut neighborhoods" www.wsj.com/world/middle...

"Silicon Valley está convirtiendo a los científicos en trabajadores temporales explotados Las élites tecnológicas se están enriqueciendo a costa de debilitar las universidades y otras instituciones científicas, mientras ofrecen migajas a los investigadores" ctxt.es/es/20260401/...

The european war keeps going. www.france24.com/en/europe/20...

La Era de las Distros El podcast sobre la historia de las distribuciones Linux en España contada por sus protagonistas. Un proyecto de Jesús M. González Barahona y Lorenzo Carbonell laeradelasdistros.es

Massive Attack y Tom Waits se unen en una canción para criticar la “política neofascista” de Trump

"The US president has threatened to sink any ship that defies the blockade Dozens of ships including Iranian and Chinese-linked vessels sail straight through" www.lbc.co.uk/article/ship...