Elon Musk’s predictions regarding the disappearance of cash in 10 to 20 years, as well as the obsolescence of cash, are based on upcoming advances in robotics and artificial intelligence.

According to the owner of X, Tesla, and SpaceX, among other companies, in one or two decades AI will be present in all sectors and industries, automating everything. Therefore, people will no longer need to go to an office or factory; that will be optional.

Regarding cash, with the rise of e-commerce and, logically, the use of credit and debit cards, biometric identification systems, and contactless payments, fiat money would become obsolete.

While Musk has ventured to make predictions like these in the past, sparking both support and opposition on social media, only time will tell what will happen to the labor market and cash in the coming years, as rapid technological and energy advancements will be required to make such predictions a reality.

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The year 2025 was marked by record losses from attacks and fraud in the cryptocurrency universe. In the first half of the year alone, thefts totaled $2.17 billion, surpassing the total value recorded in 2024, according to Chainalysis. Projections indicate that 2025 could end with more than $4 billion in stolen assets, an all-time high.

ESET, a leading company in proactive threat detection, reviews some of the major cases that occurred in 2025 and how seemingly simple vulnerabilities resulted in multimillion-dollar thefts that shook the cryptocurrency market.

This scenario of vulnerability contrasts sharply with the growing institutionalization of the sector, where cryptocurrency ETFs registered record inflows of $5.95 billion and corporate investors like Strategy (formerly MicroStrategy) announced new Bitcoin purchases. The market, however, exposed its security weaknesses. “The BBC noted that the $1.5 billion attack on the Bybit exchange, attributed to hackers linked to North Korea, was the largest in history, thus symbolizing this contradiction: even with regulatory and technical advances, known vulnerabilities continue to be exploited,” comments Camilo Gutiérrez Amaya, Head of the Research Lab at ESET Latin America.

2025 is shaping up to be a year of historic losses for the cryptocurrency market. According to CertiK, the industry lost nearly $2.5 billion to attacks and scams in the first six months of the year alone. Chainalysis, on the other hand, noted that the volume of stolen crypto assets in the same period surpassed the $2.17 billion mark recorded for all of 2024.

At this rate, according to ESET, losses could exceed $4 billion by the end of the year, making 2025 the year with the largest amount of stolen assets in cryptocurrency history.

Vulnerabilities that can lead to multimillion-dollar losses

ESET has analyzed the most significant incidents of the year, illustrating how vulnerabilities of different kinds can result in multimillion-dollar losses:

1. Attacks on exchanges and centralized platforms (CEXs): Among the most emblematic incidents is the attack on Bybit, which resulted in the theft of approximately $1.5 billion worth of Ethereum, the largest ever recorded in cryptocurrency history. In this case, the attackers didn’t directly breach the exchange’s servers, but rather compromised a third-party platform provider, changing the wallet address where the funds were transferred. ByBit thought it was transferring the funds to its own digital wallet, but it was sending everything to the hackers. The sophistication of the operation revealed how chains of trust and external integrations can become entry points for highly specialized criminals.
2. Exploits in DeFi protocols: The Balancer attack, which caused losses of over $100 million, highlighted one of the recurring weaknesses in the DeFi space: errors in the code. A bug in the smart contract allowed unauthorized withdrawals, exposing how small logical flaws can be exploited to compromise an entire protocol. The impact extended to derivative projects, such as Beets Finance, which also reported losses in the millions. These incidents reinforce the importance of continuous and independent audits, a challenge for protocols that prioritize innovation and speed of launch.
3. Phishing scams: While large platforms suffered coordinated attacks, individual users remained the preferred targets. Phishing scams, in which victims are tricked into voluntarily surrendering their credentials, resulted in $410 million in losses, according to Certik. Attacks targeting individuals are estimated to have accounted for 23.35 % of all stolen funds during the period, a sign that social engineering remains as effective as technical intrusions.
4. Historical attacks and bridge vulnerabilities: Although no major bridge-related incidents occurred in 2025, this type of attack remains one of the most destructive. The memory of the 2022 Ronin Bridge breach, in which $600 million was stolen, remains a constant warning. These failures show how the interconnectivity between networks, essential for the scalability of the crypto ecosystem, also expands the attack surface and can turn a single code error into a systemic collapse.

“Recent attacks reveal the increasing professionalization of cryptocurrency-related cybercrime. Even with the growing technical and regulatory maturity of the ecosystem, cybercriminals have shown they remain one step ahead in 2025, improving their methods, exploiting known vulnerabilities, and diversifying their targets. While the industry has matured in terms of regulation, transparency, and infrastructure, many attacks exploited human error, poorly managed integrations, and unaudited code—issues that innovation alone cannot eliminate,” notes Gutierrez Amaya.

ESET invites you to learn more about cybersecurity by visiting: https://www.welivesecurity.com/es/.

For other useful preventative information, also available in Venezuela:  https://www.eset.com/ve/, and on their social media channels @eset_ve. Also on Instagram @esetla) and Facebook (ESET).

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Digital assistants are currently a novelty. The distrust they generated at the beginning has given way to innovative designs, with sophisticated tools achieved from machine learning.

In 2025, these virtual assistants could become established as faithful companions of humans in countless tasks thanks to generative AI and the advances of ChatGPT.

Digital assistants are trained by AI to interact naturally in different sectors, simplifying processes and increasing efficiency.

Thanks to machine learning, assistants learn to understand increasingly complicated commands, assimilate human preferences to offer personalized recommendations. Given the speed of technological advances, it is possible to think that 2025 could be a positive year for virtual assistants, since progress is already being made towards an AI capable of recognizing human emotions and, with this, anticipating a response better adapted to each need.

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When asked about what the world will be like in a hundred years, the humanoid robot Ameca replied that it will be more sustainable and equitable thanks to technological advances.

The robot, considered the most advanced so far, “predicted that humanity will be in a much better position than it is today, driven by advances in sustainability and equity, thanks to the creation of technologies that will improve everyday life. Additionally, Ameca envisions humanity moving beyond the confines of Earth to explore other worlds.”

Ameca suggests that humans will seek to colonize other places in the galaxy, furthering space exploration. “Exploring the unknown” is something that this robot is also passionate about.

Beyond any controversial, viral “statement” on social networks, it is important to remember that the humanoid robot is “an artificial intelligence program that uses a huge stack of documents to give more or less elaborate answers and that often contradict each other depending on the context in which it moves”, according to the newspaper La Vanguardia.

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Most users already know some of the main advantages of 5G, ranging from low latency to the ability to send much more data, including the increase in devices connected to the same network or improvements linked to ‘edge computing’. ‘ or ‘network slicing’ (network segmentation), among other advances. However, it is still not very clear how all this can affect people’s day-to-day lives.

Pilot projects based on 5G

Although some of these things still seem like something out of a science fiction movie, Telefónica is already working on numerous pilot projects in which the combination of fiber and 5G make it possible to show the real possibilities of this technology and strengthen developments around it.

This is how the company’s experts explain it, which has already worked with drones to develop parcel delivery in collaboration with Correos. Or in the field of health, it has launched projects such as Ocuexplorer, which facilitates both access and prior telediagnosis, which is very important for the prevention and control of eye diseases.

Likewise, the operator has launched a program so that through virtual reality and 5G networks, a remote expert can assist from a distance in surgical operations, something that has already been used with the Quirónsalud hospital in Malaga.

In the Tourism sector, Segovia was the scene of a use case in which Augmented Reality and 5G technology was used to enrich tourist visits by downloading historical content in real time that helps visitors immerse themselves in different eras. In the same way, Telefónica has developed a real-time simultaneous translation service based on 5G.

With regard to the connected car, 5G has been used to reinforce driving safety by providing connectivity both to the vehicle and to elements of the city (traffic lights, zebra crossings or tunnels, among others). These projects have been tested in various towns, such as Segovia, Barcelona or Lugo.

Telefónica has also undertaken projects with 5G in the field of broadcasting events. The Martín Carpena (in Málaga) was the venue chosen in the Copa del Rey to carry out a 360º live transmission pilot through 5G, which is a new immersive way of watching shows in real time through virtual reality without being physically in the venue where the event is held.

Finally, another field in which 5G is called to open up new possibilities is that of teaching. An example in this sense is the virtual classroom developed by Telefónica with IE University to follow the classes remotely with VR glasses and to be able to go through the scenarios that are explained virtually.

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Microsoft recently announced the culmination of a series of improvements to Windows 11 that it had been working on to improve OneDrive integration.

Advances in the operating system point to better user interaction. Specifically, “the mapping of online storage has been simplified as if it were an internal unit of the system, and it has continued with the improvement of the tools for managing the service from the operating point.”

In the future, after the innovations, and as reviewed by Softpedia, Microsoft will allow Windows 11 to inform the user to the extent that their OneDrive storage is running out.

This is a feature that is included in the preview version of Windows 11, “already available to insiders.” So, its implementation in the final version of the operating system could be just around the corner.

At first glance, this step can be considered insignificant, or of little importance, particularly in the case of users who do not use the cloud to store data, they will appreciate it. However, in the case of users “who rely on it on a regular basis, either as the main storage space, as backup, or for all those files that they want to be able to access from any device at any time, that Windows 11 showing more information about it can be very useful.”

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The Venezuelan Institute of Scientific Research (IVIC), through the Cell Therapy Unit, incorporated corneal regeneration protocols with stem cells in patients who suffered alkali burns and jaw joint regeneration.

According to the IVIC, it is just a few steps away from starting two new protocols and they assure that the UTC will be a pioneer in Venezuela regarding corneal regeneration.

“We have been working hard for more than a year and we are ready to apply this treatment,” explained Dr. José Cardier, head of the UTC, during his participation in the videoconference held for the 62nd anniversary of the IVIC.

He assured that Venezuela also made a huge leap in this field of regenerative medicine, mainly because the UTC of the IVIC has a team of scientists of very high level and commitment.

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