Could everything be broken? Grounded jets, Microsoft outage, AI chaos make some wonder
Also reported by France24
Summary
A U.S. air traffic control technology upgrade overloaded older equipment, causing communication and radar gaps and a nationwide flight ground stop that lasted more than four hours. Microsoft said a separate network-capacity issue disrupted its services worldwide, but both the FAA and Microsoft reported no signs of malicious activity.Key Facts
- The FAA said an air traffic control system upgrade overloaded antiquated equipment.
- Communication and radar gaps led authorities to halt flights across the country for more than four hours.
- FAA Administrator Bryan Bedford said airline schedules should return to normal by late Sunday.
- Microsoft said a network-capacity upgrade issue, which surfaced after a later network change, disrupted its services.
- Microsoft said its services had been fully restored by Saturday.
- The Microsoft outage was believed to have affected many millions of people around the world.
- The FAA and Microsoft said they had found no signs that malicious activity caused the disruptions.
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