Ministerio de ciencia y tecnología | El regreso de la Artemis 2 y los 50 años de Apple

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A Swedish researcher invented a fake disease called 'vixenomania,' published two papers admitting it was fake — and AI models still diagnosed patients with it weeks later.

1. Hoy por Hoy's 'Ministerio de Ciencia y Tecnología' segment with Jaime García Cantero and Nuño Domínguez covers Artemis 2, Apple's 50th anniversary, social media age limits, and AI hallucination risks. 2. Hosts Jaime García Cantero and Nuño Domínguez are joined by program anchor Ángels; Domínguez had just returned from the US during the American Holy Week. 3. The episode's core question is whether AI systems are reliable enough to be trusted — tested via a fake disease and cybersecurity concerns about Anthropic's new model. 4. Artemis 2's four-person crew is preparing for splashdown on the dawn of Friday to Saturday; pilot Víctor Clover described reentry as 'crossing the atmosphere in a ball of fire.' 5. The crew has been manually piloting the Orion capsule and NASA was monitoring whether to allow another manual piloting session during the return phase. 6. A simulation of dangerous solar radiation exposure is planned during reentry, using the capsule's habitation module converted into a radiation shelter — important for future year-long Mars missions. 7. Solar radiation expert Teresa Nieves Chinchilla, a Spanish scientist, calculates astronaut radiation doses for NASA; Domínguez notes Spain is a reference country for photonic technologies. 8. Artemis 2 tested laser-based communications for the first time on a crewed mission, achieving data transfer speeds ten to a hundred times faster than radio — NASA declared it operational rather than experimental. 9. Apple turns 50 years old, with journalists noting it remains the only technology company still building a fully closed hardware-software ecosystem where users cannot substitute any component. 10. An employee who joined Apple at age 14 — when Steve Jobs was still in the garage — is still working there 50 years later, holding a package of shares Jobs gave him that is worth an 'unimaginable amount.' 11. Analysts argue Apple faces its most difficult moment in 50 years: it has not matched rivals in AI, its AI assistant Siri lags competitors, and Chinese manufacturers now know how to replicate iPhone hardware at lower cost. 12. The Spanish government announced a new Organic Law stating no consent will be given for minors under 16 to appear on social media, but analysts found the minister's phrasing ambiguous about whether under-16 access itself would be banned. 13. Australia, cited as a model, found that 7 out of 10 minors continued accessing social networks after a ban, either by retrying validation attempts until accepted or by using parents' facial data to bypass age checks. 14. Anthropic's new model — referred to as 'Mythos' in the segment — raised cybersecurity concerns because security companies warn it could allow non-technical users to identify software vulnerabilities and launch cyberattacks. 15. Analysts noted that the same AI tool that enables attacks would also be the primary defense mechanism, fundamentally changing the cybersecurity paradigm and threatening the business models of security companies. 16. University of Gothenburg researcher uploaded two fake papers about an invented disease called 'vixenomania,' including a line thanking 'the Star 3 ship' and an explicit in-text admission that the study was fabricated. 17. Within weeks, ChatGPT and Gemini were describing vixenomania as an emergent disease with a specific incidence rate derived from the fake papers; by the morning of the broadcast, both models had corrected themselves. 18. The tone is conversational and light, with frequent wordplay and humor from the hosts, though the AI and cybersecurity segments shift toward concern. 19. Listeners who enjoy accessible science journalism mixing space missions, consumer technology, and AI policy will find the episode well-paced. 20. Listeners seeking deep technical detail on any single topic will find the segment too broad — it covers six distinct stories in approximately 24 minutes.

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