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Ukraine refused to fix a bombed Russian oil pipeline. The EU has given you 90 billion reasons to do so

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Choking off Vladimir Putin’s war machine seemed like a seamless plan for Europe, but geopolitics has a bad habit of ruining the best strategies. The outbreak of the Third Gulf War has shaken the foundations of the global energy market. Now, with prices skyrocketing and a European Union desperately searching for oil, all eyes have once again fallen on an old Soviet relic: the Druzhba pipeline (which, ironically, means “friendship” in Russian). This gigantic steel tube has today become the trench of a new cold war that threatens to fracture the EU itself. Ukraine, a victim of constant bombings, refused out of principle and security to repair a section of this pipeline that continues to supply crude oil to the European countries closest to Moscow. However, as he advances Financial Timesunprecedented pressure from Brussels and the blocking of a vital loan have forced kyiv to make a 180-degree turn and give in to its European partners. What has happened? To understand the problem, we must go back to the end of January 2026. According to the Ukrainian media Suspilne Mediaa Russian airstrike severely damaged the Brody pumping station in the western Lviv region. The flow of Russian oil transiting through Ukrainian territory towards Hungary and Slovakia was cut short. The diplomatic consequences were immediate. Hungary, which has an exemption to continue buying Russian crude due to its energy dependence, accused Ukraine of delaying reparations for political reasons. Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán issued a lethal ultimatum, picked up by the chain NPR: “If there is no oil, there is no money.” A threat that was fulfilled. The Hungarian president vetoed a package of macro-financial and military aid from the European Union to Ukraine valued at 90 billion euros, in addition to blocking the twentieth package of sanctions against Russia. Faced with the risk that Ukraine would run out of funds to sustain its economy and its defense, the European Commission decided to intervene. According to PoliticalCommission President Ursula von der Leyen and European Council President António Costa sent a letter to Zelensky offering “technical support and financing” with European funds to repair the pipeline. Cornered by financial asphyxiation, the Ukrainian president ended up giving in and accepted the offer. “I call this blackmail”. For the kyiv government, this transfer has been an extremely bitter pill. In statements to the press collected by EuronewsVolodymyr Zelensky has not hidden his frustration, stating that forcing them to reopen the tap of Russian oil is, for practical purposes, the same as lifting sanctions on Moscow. “I openly say that I am against it. But if you give me the condition that Ukraine will not receive weapons, then, excuse me, I am powerless in this matter. I told our friends in Europe that this is called blackmail,” said the president, reproaching his country for being forced to “finance anti-European policies.” But the Hungarian blockade does not respond only to energy needs; It has a strong domestic component. As pointed out Al JazeeraHungary faces very close parliamentary elections on April 12. Orbán is nine points behind his main rival, Péter Magyar, is using the supply crisis and the figure of Zelensky as an electoral scarecrow. In fact, the Finnish Prime Minister, Petteri Orpo, did not hesitate to denounce upon his arrival in Brussels that Orbán is “using Ukraine as a weapon in his electoral campaign.” Maximum tension between kyiv and Budapest. On the ground, the situation is confusing. On the Ukrainian side, Zelensky has calculated The repairs will take about a month and a half, but at the moment there are no clear indications of what that might be like. While the agency Suspilne Media reports that a small delegation of EU engineers is already in Ukraine assessing the damage (excluding Hungarian and Slovak experts), Ukrainian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Heorhii Tykhyi, declared to The kyiv Independent have no record of any official European mission in the country. On the Hungarian side, the escalation has gone beyond the merely rhetorical to enter the realm of physical retaliation. According to Deutsche WelleIn early March, Hungarian special forces intercepted two armored vans from the Ukrainian entity Oschadbank that were transiting from Austria. In the operation, Hungary seized $80 million in cash and 9 kilos of gold on suspicion of “money laundering.” Various legal experts consulted by the German media greatly doubt the legality of this seizure, suspecting that it is a direct retaliation for the closure of the pipeline. Zelensky, for his part, has not hesitated to describe this act as plain and simple “banditry.” Drones as the “new oil.” While forced to compromise on Russian energy, Ukraine is seeking to capitalize on its own warfare technology to gain international relevance—and funds. As detailed in an analysis of the BBCZelensky has offered the United States and the Gulf countries a $50 billion joint production deal based on Ukraine’s experience making cheap interceptor drones. “For us, this is like oil,” said the Ukrainian president, trying to position his country as a vital provider of security in the midst of the Middle East conflict. In parallel, the energy war is not limited to the Druzhba pipeline. As revealed The Moscow Timesthe Russian state company Gazprom recently denounced that Ukraine launched a wave of 26 drones against compression stations in the Krasnodar region. These infrastructures are key for the TurkStream and Blue Stream gas pipelines, which are currently one of the few remaining routes for Russia to export gas to Europe through Turkey, demonstrating that kyiv continues to try to hit the Kremlin’s energy portfolio wherever it can. The final pulse in Brussels. All this tension has led to the summit of European Union leaders that starts today, March 19, 2026, in Brussels. As he emphasizes TVP Worldthe pressure on Viktor Orbán is absolute. Upon arrival at the summit, the head of European diplomacy, Kaja Kallas, went straight to the point: “It’s time to show our support for Ukraine.” In Brussels right now they are crossing their fingers. As pointed out … Read more

It takes away flights, but gives it 500 million to fix engines

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Ryanair is advancing the project of its future engine repair workshop in Seville with an investment of more than 500 million euros. Just like account ABC, the Irish airline, has signed a multi-year parts supply agreement with CFM International valued at around €800 million annually. This is good news for the Andalusian capital, and it would be even better if it were not for the fact that the same company also restructured its operations to eliminate several routes in Seville. industrial project. Ryanair is preparing an entire industrial infrastructure that will turn Seville into one of its two strategic maintenance centers in Europe. We don’t know its exact location yet, but the company says it will be operational by 2029 and will support the fleet operating in Western Europe. It will not be the only one either, since Ryanair will build a second similar workshop in a city in the eastern part of Europe, still to be determined. According to share From ABC, both facilities will allow the company to internally assume the maintenance of almost 2,000 engines of its Boeing 737, a task that until now was carried out by CFM International in centers outside Europe. The agreement with CFM International. The memorandum signed with the French-American manufacturer (50% owned by Safran Aircraft Engines and GE Aerospace), commits Ryanair to directly acquire all its spare parts to support a fleet that will grow to 800 aircraft, according to share the middle. The contract covers the CFM56-7B and LEAP-1B engines that equip the Boeing 737 Next Generation and the 737 MAX. Once the workshops are operational, the value of the agreement will exceed 1 billion dollars annually (839 million euros), according to CEO Michael O’Leary. Adding more industry. As well as mention In the middle, the repair center project adds to the heavy maintenance hangar that Ryanair has operated since 2019 next to the São Paulo airport, where it carries out comprehensive inspections of up to five aircraft simultaneously. However, both facilities will be separated. The hangar will focus exclusively on complete aircraft maintenance, while the new workshop will focus only on mechanical repair and engine supervision. According to share From ABC, it is expected that the infrastructure will have a useful life of at least 30 years. Route cutting. Not everything that Ryanair brings is good news for Seville, as the city will lose seven air connections this summer. São Paulo airport will go from 56 routes operated by the Irish airline to 49 destinations. Among the eliminated connections are Santiago de Compostela, Gran Canaria and Tenerife North in the national market, in addition to Weeze-Dusseldorf, Nuremberg, Frankfurt Hahn and Vienna in the international market. This withdrawal of operations at Spanish regional airports is no surprise. Ryanair focuses on its strategy reduce your operations in those airports that it considers “non-competitive” due to their airport taxes. The airline has eliminated 1.2 million seats in three consecutive cuts in the country’s regional airports, redistributing that capacity to markets such as Albania, Italy, Morocco, Slovakia and Sweden. The closure of bases in other Spanish airports indirectly affects Seville, according to explained the company to ABC, by eliminating connections that departed from those cities. cpartial compensation. Despite the reduction in destinations, Ryanair will add 17 weekly frequencies on 12 existing routes from Seville. Lisbon will add three new flights, Birmingham, Manchester and Bologna will add two each, while Edinburgh, Brussels, Catania, Bergamo, Milan Malpensa, Pisa, Ibiza and Valencia will add an additional weekly flight. Furthermore, just as share From ABC, the airline will add two routes with Poland this summer: Krakow and Wrocław. The weight of Ryanair in Seville. The Irish airline operates 40% of the air connections at this airport and one of every four planes that leave the terminal is its own. Just like account ABC, in 2025, transported four million passengers from São Paulo, an increase of 1,900% compared to the 200,000 20 years ago, when it began operating in the city. Cover image | Kevin Hackert In Xataka | “It’s inhumane”: a Canadian low-cost airline is already experimenting with ultra-narrow seats for its passengers

bomb them with 6,000 logs from helicopters to fix a decades-old mistake

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Historically, the rivers of the Pacific Northwest of the United States They were a chaos of fallen wood, deep pools and irregular currents that prevented the normal flow. The logic marked clean them and remove all the trunks to facilitate the passage of water and transportation, something they did not hesitate to do. The problem is that this has subsequently been seen to be a mistake, and they have literally had to fix it throwing logs into the river with a helicopter. Something that may seem crazy, but that science has endorsed as the best. A bombardment of wood. The project, led by the Yakama Nation in collaboration with organizations such as The Nature Conservancy has reached an unprecedented milestone. They have managed to place more than 6,000 Douglas fir logs and cedar along Central Washington’s 24 miles of rivers and streams. With helicopters. A task that was not easy, and for which helicopters have been requiredsince access by land to these virgin areas is almost impossible without building roads that would destroy the ecosystem that they are trying to save, in a paradoxical way, ‘dirtying’ the rivers. That is why the use of cargo helicopters has allowed the wood to be deposited with surgical precision without touching the surrounding forest floor to do as little damage as possible. An image that has actually attracted a lot of attention on social networks due to the impression of seeing a helicopter dumping wood into a river. A dirty river. Although seeing thousands of logs piled up in a river may seem like a natural disaster, to a biologist it is a perfect work of engineering. And these stacks are called ‘Engineered Log Jams’ and have a very clear meaning. The first is that the logs create deep pools and shadows where the water stays cold, which is vital for the survival of salmon and bull trout in the face of rising global temperatures. Stopping the current. This is another reason why science justifies the need to have these logs in the river, since slowing down the water allows the gravel to settle for the salmon to lay their eggs. Something that is complemented by the possibility of shelter that the trunks provide to hide from predators. Furthermore, by forcing the water to go around the obstacles, the complexity of the channel is recovered, avoiding accelerated erosion of the banks. The backup. As we have said before, it has not been a unilateral political decision, but rather it has had the support of science with different studies. These targeted a survival rate of 78% of fauna after major floods, more than meeting the protection objectives. And the success has been such that they are already being replicated in other parts of the country. The public administration itself is financing similar projects in the olympic peninsula and in counties like Cowlitz they have doubled down, placing up to 8,000 logs in the Grays River. The return of the salmon. This project is not just a question of river aesthetics. It is a battle for food sovereignty and biodiversity. Research in the Elwha River already confirms an immediate positive response with the presence of young salmon in front of these structures. In this way, what was eliminated decades ago because it was considered “garbage” or obstacles to progress, is today reinserted with high-tech helicopters. It is the recognition that sometimes, for nature to function properly, we need to make rivers “dirty” and full of obstacles again. Images | Job Vermeulen Magnus Mandrup In Xataka | Finally we have salmon without an environmental footprint, without overfishing and without microplastics. It’s just not salmon

emergency patches to fix problems from other patches

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The users of Windows 11 They possibly started 2026 with a simple expectation: that the first update of the year would be just another procedure, one of those that is installed and forgotten. But things have not been so simple: Microsoft has had to publish “out of band” patches to correct problems detected after that initial update. What’s interesting about this episode is not just the error itself, but what it reflects on the actual experience of updating. The origin of the problem. It all started with the January 2026 security update for Windows 11. After incidents were detected on some computers, the company published an emergency update over the weekend to correct bugs related to system shutdown. Just a few days later, and exactly a week later, lbequeathed a second correction outside the usual cycle to address a new front: crashes and crashes in apps linked to synchronization and cloud storage. The problems when turning off some computers occurred with Windows 11 23H2, specifically in the Enterprise versionwhich points to a more limited scope. The second emergency update focused on different bugs and affected machines with Windows 11 24H2 and 25H2, where crashes and stability problems had been detected in apps related to OneDrive or Dropbo. Additionally, in an alert to administrators, Microsoft said it was investigating reports of boot failures in 24H2 and 25H2 after installing the January update, without closing the diagnostic yet. A difficult issue to ignore. There is a structural reality behind the Microsoft operating system that can help understand why these types of problems would appear frequently. Windows does not operate in a controlled ecosystem, but rather as a universal operating system that must work on millions of hardware combinations. This is what many call “the problem of fragmentation of the PC ecosystem”, which includes everything from basic laptops to high-end equipment, from recent computers to others that are more than ten years old. Risk of eroding trust. Software failures are inevitable, even more so in a system like Windows, forced to operate on millions of different hardware configurations. The problem comes when these setbacks are repeated too frequently, because then what suffers is not only the specific experience, but the user’s confidence. And that’s a tough blow to take right now, when Microsoft needs Windows 11 to be perceived as the logical replacement after the end of support of Windows 10and not as a transition full of doubts that pushes some to look towards other platforms. Images | Andrey K | Rui Silvestre In Xataka | Schrödinger’s Office: at this point it is impossible to know if Microsoft keeps it alive or if everything is AI and Copilot

Clarifying which FP to choose is chaos and someone wanted to fix it with an app. And that someone is… the Government of Spain

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Oppose It is one of the Spanish dreams. For the rest who do not want to follow the path, the alternative is entrepreneurship or private business. And, within this last sector, The FP has been ceasing to be the ugly duckling for yearspractically half of engineers in Spain work in positions in which professional training is required. But choose FP It is not simple, there are partial accreditations of competence, certificates of competence, professional certificates, training cycles, specialization courses… In the face of chaos, solutions. And in this case the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Digital Transformation has published an app to untangle the knot. Does it work well? It works very well. I wanted to try SoyFP, the new app with a Spanish seal to better understand the types of training and have a complete picture of the offer in our country. How to download it. I amFP It is available for both Android and iOS through the Play Store and App Store. It is a completely free application, without any advertising and with a moderate size. In the case of iOS, it requires version 15.6 or later and, in the case of Android, you will need version 9 or later. Nothing out of this world. The welcome. As soon as we open the app, its main objective is explained to us: to help find the entire offer of the officially recognized Vocational Training System. It is divided into several grades (A, B, C and D) and has different levels, each with a specific type of duration depending on whether we are doing basic, medium or higher. The operation. SoyFP has a fairly simple operation: it is an offer search engine. In its search bar we can enter keywords (categories, jobs, etc.) to find offers for each of the degrees. If we have no idea what we want to search for, the app allows us to segment by: Professional Family Degree Level And, within each of these categories, we find even more subcategories to filter by levels. Within each of the FP degree offers, we can find all the information related to them: academic or professional access requirements, tasks to be carried out, what you are going to study, competence accreditations, how you could continue said training… A very complete photograph of the itinerary and the steps to take during the process. The golden era of Spanish administration and its apps. During the last years, Spain is doing a good job with its national apps. My Citizen Folder, MyDNI, MyDGTand now with Soy FP. An era of lights and shadows, with outstanding applications and suspenseful security in a 2025 starring hacks that place us in second place worldwide. Image | Iván Linares for Xataka Móvil

Apple has a plan to fix Siri. One that aims to make Google even richer, according to Bloomberg

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Apple Intelligence was introduced in 2024 with great promises. The main one, a Siri completely renewedmuch more capable and versatile. As it turned out, what they showed was a fictitious demo and the new Siri was delayed until 2026. Apple has lost the AI ​​raceat least in the first round, but they already have a plan to recover. One that involves delivering 1 billion a year to Google, all while they continue developing their own model. The agreement. Account Mark Gurman at Bloomberg that Apple is about to close a deal with Google worth $1 billion a year. This will allow them to use Gemini’s AI model to power their Siri assistant, especially in the planning and summary functions, which are what allow the assistant to execute more complex tasks. Apple has been evaluating other competitors such as OpenAI and Anthropic, but has finally settled on Google’s Gemini. The new Siri is expected to arrive in spring of next yearalthough nothing is confirmed. Conditions. The agreement does not involve integrating Gemini as an assistant in iPhones, but rather it will be integrated into Siri and will also do so from Apple’s private servers. This will separate user data from Google’s infrastructure. Furthermore, Gurman says that they are not going to publicize the agreement as they did when Google became Safari’s default search engine; in this case it will be a “behind the scenes” agreement. Temporary solution. Apple does not plan to use Google’s model forever as they are developing their own language model in parallel. We don’t know much about what it will be like, just that it will have 1 billion parameters and they hope to have it ready next year. Apple sources believe that it will have a level of quality similar to that of the Gemini, but for now there is nothing to prove it. Taking into account Apple’s AI stumbles We would not be surprised if the promise of its own model ends up being diluted. Additionally, the company has lost at least three key AI executives because Zuckerberg signed them for his superintelligence team. China. The agreement has a problem and that is that Google services are banned in China, so the new Siri would arrive with modifications to comply with this restriction. It is said that heThe Chinese version could have its own models and a local filter developed by Alibaba. China is a key market for Apple and the latest results do not leave them in a good place. That the new Siri arrives “captured” in China could have more negative consequences. Images | Wikipedia In Xataka | Apple has lost the throne it held for a decade. And the Chinese brands no longer even let it be second

The US is not a country for trains. They want to fix it with one that cross the country carrying people and trucks

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The train It is the spine of many countries. In Europe, communications between countries and within them They would not be understood without the trainbut there are others Examples like Japan or a China that has built almost 50,000 kilometers of high speed in record time. If we look at the United States, the case is the opposite: high speed that shines for its absence, with projects that are a nightmare and an overwhelming domain of the plane and the car for passenger transport. Of course, they have proposed to change the situation with a mastodontic project: a train network that connects New York and California. They have baptized him as ‘Transcontinental Chief’, and they will not have anything easy. Figures. First of all, some context and the proper names of this story. Amtrakor National Railroad Passenger Corporation, is the national passenger trains company in the United States. It was created as a commercial entity, but depended on federal and state subsidies for most of its routes. Its network covers more than 500 stations in 46 states and has a network of about 39,000 kilometers, including the NEC, the corridor between Boston and Washington DC Despite that huge network of roads and stations, in 2024 he transported about 32.4 million passengers. Much of the traffic corresponds to paths within the NEC and none of the paths exceeds 200 km/h. For comparing, in 2024, Renfe transported 35.2 million travelers in high -speed services and another 60 million in medium distance. We do not count the 442 million nearby, since they are short journeys. Chief Transcontinental. It is evident that the country needs a railway impulse, something that has been attempted on a small scale (even with trains that do not use fossil fuels), but the projects do not finish curdling. That is where Ameristarrail enters the scene, a private company dedicated to the proposal and development of long -distance interurban and high capacity interurban services. The project they are promoting is the one baptized as ‘Transcontinental Chief’ to connect New York and Los Angeles by train. He proposed itinerary He would connect the Hoboken station in New Jersey with Los Angeles, through cities such as Philadelphia, Washington DC, Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Toledo, Chicago, Kansas City, Las Vegas, Albuquerque and stop at the National Park of Grand Canyon. In this way, large urban and tourist poles would join. Recycling. He project From America has a couple of good ideas to get ahead. The first is to take advantage of what is already paid. That is, use the roads and stations that are already built to give new life to deficit infrastructure operated by other entities and by Amtrak itself (such as the Southwest Chief). Also use locomotives and wagons that already exist, such as beds beds and men’s restaurant cars because the full trip will be long, since the speed of those tracks is limited to 150 km/h. According to the company, if this plan is followed, a new legislation will not be necessary that would complicate and delay the project, but no additional public financing, since, in essence, the work is done and you only have to put the infrastructure up to date. Because although the United States does not have a solid passenger transport network by train, it does have a wide railway line focused on merchandise transport. Hybrid. The second good idea is to try to squeeze this train as much as possible. In addition to passengers, the idea of ​​America is to turn the train into a kind of ferry. This implies that private cars can be charged in platform cars so that a family, for example, can go from end of the country with their car, but without driving them. In addition, it has also been projected that there would be other cars capable of loading complex trucks, next to their drivers. Thus, truckers can get on the train, rest their mandatory time while the journey towards their destination does not stop. They have called it ‘Rolling Rest Stop’ would be a pioneer in the country, in addition to giving a boost to certain routes of merchandise trucks that cross the territory. MEH. Aim Football World Cup. Now, from Amtrak they don’t have it so clear. At the moment, the public company has release that they are not going to promote this proposal for America because they are not clear that public investment has to be made. It is not closed, eye, since the drivers maintain that there is enormous potential to convert long -distance services into profitable and sustainable lines, and that is something that Amertk needs. Images | Ameristarrail, Amtrak In Xataka | Renfe has a new and gigantic project in progress: a night train to connect Europe from this to west

“You can pay 150 euros to fix your air conditioning or you can do it yourself”: Scotty Kilmer, mechanic

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It is the song that returns to your head again and again. That, without any reason, comes to your head early in the morning, while showering. And that does not abandon you for days. And although the situation is more than known, and we know how it works, it does not cease to surprise us. A summer. And another. And another one. The same goes for air conditioning. Summer arrives and the air conditioners break. It is always at the worst moment and, almost always, it is because We have not looked at it well for the rest of the year. Without correct maintenance, car air conditioning cools for spring temperatures but is not enough to a heat wave. It is there when we demand most and, pum, it breaks. The Calvary arrives to look for someone who can repair a system that seems essential to travel on vacation. All this experience is well known by my partner Amparo Babiloni, who has left in writing Everything that has happened to him and how he has had to act. To prevent this from being repeated, the council is simple, short and direct: maintenance. Maintenance that we can do ourselves, which will take some time but that taking the appropriate indications can save us good money in the pocket. Do it yourself That is the message of Scott Kilmen, an American mechanic who with decades of work behind him has a YouTube channel with more than six and a half million followers how we can keep our car in the best possible state, some tricks to avoid and how to act in case of breakdown. In the video you can see in this link, explain what to do if your air conditioning does not cool enough. Something common when we have been making a timely use of it with temperatures softer. Among the tips that Kilmer provides is, in the first place, to replace the air conditioning filter. This filter is recommended to replace each car review but if you do not make it difficult to pass the cabin. Only this small detail will significantly improve the amount of air that arrives and the quality of the same. It is a simple operation And it usually has easy access, so we can change it without much difficulty for a handful of euros (less than 20 euros, generally). In addition, this not only has its advantages in summer, it is also especially useful for Avoid allergies in spring. Then, Kilmer proposes to improve the quality of the air we breathe. It is as simple as using An antibacterial product Since, as he explains, a dark and humid place such as the cooling system of a car has everything so that bacteria and microbes are developed that fall from the air we breathe. Especially if we live in a wet zone. With the air lit at full performance, select the air inlet outside. Now, Kilmer recommends going to the air intake under the hood and spraying it with the antibacterial product to reach all corners of the system. He also recommends throwing it overnight and letting him act without fear until the next day. Finally, if all this has not ended by solve the matter We only have to recharge the air conditioning gas. In that case you have to buy a Compatible with pressure gauge and apply it to the low pressure system. The pressure gauge is important because it will give us an immediate response of system pressure. While it is green, says Kilmer, you can continue adding gas and we must stop if it reaches the red zone. In spite of everything, remember that these are more or less simple tricks that require a minimum of knowledge. Each driver is the one who must value whether or not it is worth investing money in a professional mechanic. Photo | Magnus Östberg In Xataka | Solving one of the great debates of the summer: if the car consumes more with air conditioning or not

professionals to fix their pifias

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Artificial intelligence has reached Transform the labor market of ways that neither the companies themselves imagine, promising efficiency and cost reduction. However, behind this technological revolution, there are a group of professionals who are seeing their income growing thanks to errors that makes the AI. The rise of automation with AI has opened a new labor niche: fix the strips that the AI ​​leaves in its path. There are more and more companies that, after trying to replace employees for AI agentshave discovered that failures They can leave expensive. The rush for adopting artificial intelligence without a deep analysis have generated an unexpected demand for experts capable of solving the problems that these technologies cause. Advance is expensive. In recent months, much has been discussed about how artificial intelligence is replacing workers And how could I still do it More in the near future. However, the reality is that those who have opted to replace human employees too soon, have found that AI makes mistakes, and many. According to Recent dataAI agents can make up up to 70% In complex tasks, which shows that its reliability is far from perfect. Companies who fired staff To save costs they have had to hire experts after the AI ​​did not meet the minimal demands of the task. “The AI ​​also has many cases in which it can ‘hallucinate, generating irrelevant, invented or inconsistent content,’” Explain To the British BBC he Feng Li Professor, Associate Dean of Research and Innovation at the Bayes Business School. “Although it seems a quick and economical option, the AI ​​rarely takes into account the unique identity of the brand, the objective population groups or the design centered on conversion. As a result, much of the result seems generic and can harm the reputation or effectiveness of the brand,” says Li. The business of fixing the IA errors. In that context, some professionals have found a gold mine in the repair of the Errors made by AI. Such and as they highlight To BBC some of these professionals, these interventions usually be done at the last minute and as a last resort before an imminent delivery, which triggers prices. He supposed savings that promised AI ends up becoming an extra cost, since experts charge raised rates for solving these problems to counterreloj. Sophie Warner, co -owner of the Create Designs agency in the United Kingdom, says: “We often have to collect a research rate to find out what has failed, since (clients) do not want to admit it, and the process of correcting these errors takes much longer than if professionals had been consulted from the beginning.” Warner remembers the case of a client who, for saving 15 minutes of work to update his website, turned to Chatgpt to generate a code fragment. Solving the error “cost them about 400 euros and their online business was inactive for three days.” 100 dollars an hour to fix the pifias of the AI. Sarah Skidd, product marketing manager, He published on LinkedIn His experience, counting that it was hired by a content agency to urgently review the text of a website produced with AI for a client in the hotel sector. “I dedicated about 20 hours to rewriting the text, charging 100 dollars per hour,” explained Skidd, who says it was not about making small changes, but “rebuilding everything” to give consistency. Far from fearing the AI, Skidd considers that “he is not afraid of AI as chatgpt because they are very basic when writing texts.” In its LinkedIn publication, writer Sarah Taslik too I commented that a company generated 50 articles with AI and hired it to review them: “I needed two whole months to rewrite them.” The most human: a new source of income. These professionals emphasize that it is not only about correcting the possible mistakes and hallucinations that AI commits, but of humanize the content generated by AI. Kashish Barot, editor in India, He counted to the BBC that edits texts written by AI for American clients with the aim of “seems more human.” Barot points out that “a good edition, just like writing, it takes time because you have to think and not select how AI. (AI) does not understand the nuances well because it only selects the data.” This phenomenon has opened opportunities for professionals who previously dedicated themselves to Create original contentand that now find in the content edition generated by the additional source of income that, in addition, due to the urgency context is even better paid. The work of these experts has become essential for companies that seek to maintain the quality and authenticity of their communication, despite automation. In Xataka | We believed that AI was going to take our jobs. At the moment it has begun to whisper your boss who should say goodbye Image | Unspash (Headway)

Fix your work schedules looking at the clock instead of the thermometer

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I leave home at 4:00 p.m. and, armed with value, I go to pick up the car from the mechanic. It has ended with him and Previous reviews They have the collapsed workshop, so he asked me to pick it up as soon as possible. On the portal, I cross a neighbor who enters the stifled street, with his forehead peeled by droplets of sweat and defeated attitude, as if he had loaded a heavy slab. “It’s hot?” – I tell him knowing already an answer, “he has always been hot in summer, but this is hell,” he replies. “Who comes up to the street with the heat it does,” I say while I open the door of the portal and take a step back remembering the apocalyptic vision of Sarah Connor Abrasada by nuclear flames in ‘Terminator ‘. Has always been hot in summer According to The data Aemet, it is true that as my neighbor had told me, has always been hot in summer…But not so much. The temperatures recorded in recent weeks leave last June as The warmest of the historical seriesand joins the long list of records of extraordinarily warm months. NASA itself He supported with data that they are now warmer than those of yesteryear, taking into account that their records date back to 1880. In addition, these heat episodes are increasingly frequent because summers are increasingly long. On average, it is estimated that the climatological summer has been stretching between four and fifteen days per decade. Our grandparents adapted While it is true that Spain has always been a country with hot summers, there is a factor that we should not overlook: today We do not face the rigors of heat as our grandparents didbecause we We do not change our working days depending on the temperature as they did. When I was a child, my grandfather told me that “in her young years”, it came out before the field was made to work the earth “with the fresh” before the slab of the heat of the Andalusian countryside fell on the day laborers. At noon, when the sun tightened, they sat down under a chaparro (oak) to eat in the shade and then nap until early in the afternoon. Then, they went to the farmhouse in which he worked and performed there other tasks of cleaning, maintenance and care of animals until the end of the day. ALWAYS TO THE SUN CAKE. In winter they usually did the other way around and reached the field when the frost had dissolved. That is, they took advantage of the first rays of light to perform the toughest agricultural tasks to avoid high temperatures and rigor of the sun in the hours of greater insolation. As much as it was the mowing, harvesting or planting season, they tried to avoid the central hours of the day, and instead, they advanced or delayed their working days to adapt to the weather. There was no one closed and strict schedule For the whole year. On the other hand, at present, the Adaptation of the tasks and working days It is minimal and the schedules have been standardized. It doesn’t matter if it is an office, mason or mailbox work, and it is not taken into account whether on the street it is freezing or mercury marks the 46 ºC. The schedule is the same for everyone throughout the year. Heat -inflected hours This standardization of schedules makes it normal for an employee of the Municipal Maintenance Service, one of the groups that most work accidents and Deaths due to heat blows has suffered In recent daysbe cleaning the sidewalks at two o’clock in the afternoon in full wave of heat, or that an installer is placing a label on a facade at three. According to data from the Carlos III Health Institute facilitated By the National Institute for Work and Health at Labor (INST), it ensures that per year there are about 1,300 deaths attributable to heat. Around 4% of fatal accidents that occur in the workplace are caused by heat blows due to prolonged exposure at extreme temperatures. The most exposed professions are those that cannot develop their main outdoor activity: agricultural sector, cleaning operators and public works, assemblers, construction workers or gardeners. Thermal stress also affects professions that develop indoors that due to the nature of work, they are exposed to machinery or heat sources such as industries, hospitality, laundry, greenhouses, etc. Andalusia, Catalonia, Madrid, Aragon and Galicia They are located At the head in terms of mortality due to heat, coinciding in many of those cases with personnel used in the sectors that we have mentioned before. Unlike our grandparents, these sectors now have fixed schedules that, in many cases, develop between 8 in the morning and 18 hours, leaving them exposed to work during those hours that our grandparents tried to avoid at all costs. The tools are there Approval in 2023 of Royal Decree Law 4/2023 He came to make the adaptation of schedules and tasks that already enjoyed our grandparents, so that companies, rather than look at the clock, must look at the thermometer to design the working days of their employees during extreme heat episodes. The Occupational Risk Prevention Law It offers companies to modify schedules and even cut the working days during these heat episodes to protect their employees. In addition, following the Dana that razed Valenciathe Law was extended Adding the possibility of having a four -day paid permission when, in extreme cases, the working day cannot be adapted and it is impossible to carry it out without exposing itself to a real health risk. The last modification also contemplates the possibility that companies can benefit from a climate ERTE. “No one has to take risks,” insist From the ministry. However, despite the tools that allow companies Protect the health of your employeesthe National Institute for Safety and Health at work ensures that occupational accidents during heat waves … Read more

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