The Catalan government has acknowledged that 6,771 personal data records were mistakenly leaked from the grant database of a website belonging to the Ministry of Economy and Finance. As reported by TV3 and confirmed by ARA with sources within the department, this leak also explains the initial service outage and subsequent sudden disappearance of one million Generalitat grant records—an incident that caused considerable uproar and a wave of speculation. The leak came to light following the widespread use of Subvencions.cat, a public aid search engine created by Gerard Giménez, which used Generalitat data. Suddenly, records began disappearing from the site overnight. The executive generically pointed to "a technical problem", without specifying.

A new campaign has been launched to leak the personal data of Spanish politicians. After several cyberattacks exposed the data of Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez and members of his government a few months ago, this time the victims have been regional presidents and high-ranking officials, including Isabel Díaz Ayuso, according to reports. published by Eldiario.esThroughout Friday, a second wave of leaks has been made public, affecting the Minister of Transport, Óscar Puente, members of his team, as well as former Minister José Luis Ábalos, Santos Cerdán, and his former advisor, Koldo García. The first leak, according to the online publication, occurred on a website specializing in publishing this type of database. Besides information on the President of the Community of Madrid, the leak also includes data on the President of Andalusia, Juan Manuel Moreno Bonilla; the President of Aragon, Jorge Azcón; the President of Castile and León, Alfonso Fernández Mañueco; the President of the Valencian Community, Juan Francisco Pérez Lorca; the acting President of Extremadura, María Guardiola; the President of Navarre, María Chivite; and the Lehendakari (President of the Basque Government), Imanol Pradales. The leak affects a total of 47 people, and the published information varies depending on the individual. In Ayuso's case, for example, only her personal email address is revealed. But in Pradales' case, data is even included for a person the cyberattacker has identified as her partner. As for other regional presidents and councilors, including some from Catalonia, there is an abundance of national identity card and telephone numbers, as well as home addresses, car details and license plate numbers, and bank account numbers, according to the published information.

Feeling dizzy in the face of technological developments is stupid. That's how the techno-optimist manifesto that went viral in 2023 makes you feel. A document promoted by Marc Andreessen, a serial entrepreneur known for being the father of the Netscape browser and Facebook. This manifesto uses an epic tone to present a series of statements based on the premise that technological progress is the only hope for humanity's great problems. To save humanity, it is necessary to let entrepreneurs do their work, in complete freedom, trusting in the proper functioning of free markets that have proven over time to adapt and evolve. This manifesto enthrones money as the driving force of economic growth that cannot be stopped. From the perspective of the manifesto, thinking about the social consequences, possible inequalities, or injustices, are unjustified fears that only make it more difficult. In fact, the document describes regulation, sustainability, social responsibility, and ethics as "zombie ideas," a remnant of communism.