<![CDATA[Ara Balears in English - Computing]]> 10 <![CDATA[Automatic]]> When I was a child, ATMs arrived at banks. The idea was to make it so fun and simple that they even installed one for children—they called it the Diver Caixer—so you could keep a savings account and deposit money, even 100-peseta coins, just like in a piggy bank on the street. And the ATM (which was a Sa Nostra brand) gave you trading cards, in addition to updating your passbook. It's also true that there was talk back then—in the mid-nineties—that ATMs would take jobs away from human bank tellers. But at the same time, people were already starting to talk about how the jobs lost in the banking sector (and there were mass early retirements in those years…) would be gained in the field of IT, which, obviously, was filled by younger generations.

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Surprised by the outage of ChatGPT and X for hours. A massive failure in the infrastructure of Cloudflare, one of the leading internet network and security providers, caused a widespread shutdown affecting thousands of users worldwide. Among the most affected services were ChatGPT, the social network X, and various digital platforms that also rely on Cloudflare to manage traffic and protect themselves from attacks. According to Cloudflare, the incident originated from an "unusual traffic spike" that triggered internal errors in its global network, resulting in the inability to access services hosted or protected by the system. OpenAI, for its part, confirmed that ChatGPT was experiencing "high error rates" and that its websites and services were partially inoperative. The company attributed the outage to the external failure and indicated that it is working with Cloudflare to restore normal service. The incident had a widespread impact, as Cloudflare is a key element in the operation of a significant portion of global internet traffic. Platforms like X, as well as other everyday digital services, experienced outages or intermittent service while the company deployed a solution. After a few hours, Cloudflare reported that the service was beginning to recover and that error rates would gradually decrease, although some users would continue to experience anomalies. Investigations to determine the exact cause of the traffic spike and prevent future incidents are ongoing.

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The Government explained that on Tuesday it suffered a breakdown in the Data Processing Center, which caused a "general outage" of information systems, although it emphasized that essential services such as hospitals and the 112 service are now operational.

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