Someone was working on a remote location and brought down the airport communications system, after connecting it to the air traffic network.
I think it reminds me of something… wait… ah yes! Thanks again John McClane for saving the day!
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Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said FAA contractor L3Harris was working at a remote location to switch telecommunication lines from cooper to fiber, which led to the longest nationwide shutdown of flights since the September 11, 2001, attacks reut.rs/3Vm3wKO
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I’m still amazed in this context to see @ArianeGroup doing… nothing.
Today, SpaceX permanently altered the balance of global economics, politics, and modern warfare.
After deploying 26 next-gen Starlink V3 satellites across 14 orbits, Ship 42 survived Mach 25+ reentry and landed cleanly inside Mechazilla’s arms at Starbase.
Here is why every finance minister, regulator, and defense ministry on Earth just woke up to a new reality:
1. Full upper-stage reuse drops orbital launch costs toward fuel-and-maintenance levels. Combined with Terafab’s captive silicon and SpaceX’s 100 GW HJT solar orders for Starmind, Musk can now deploy gigawatt-scale orbital AI data centers and global broadband faster and cheaper than terrestrial hyperscalers stuck in 5-year utility queues.
2. A fully reusable Starship deploying 26+ V3 satellites per flight creates an un-censorable, direct-to-cell global communications and compute layer that bypasses national telecom monopolies, undersea cable chokepoints, and local regulatory vetoes.
3. Modern conflict is now defined by resilient LEO satellite meshes, hypersonic missile tracking, and rapid logistics. Today’s catch proves the U.S. has an industrial heavy-lift engine capable of replenishing entire defense constellations (Starshield) in days—and eventually dropping 100+ tons of military cargo anywhere on Earth in under 45 minutes.
History will mark November 14, 2026 as the day space stopped being an exploration frontier and became the decisive high ground of global power.
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Une guerre qui n’a aucun sens et cause une fois encore la mort d’innombrables hommes… pour rien. La stratégie de Putin me laisse perplexe et j’ai du mal à comprendre pourquoi la population Russe n’essaie pas de faire pression pour arrêter cela.
Quand on observe les pertes de la guerre en Ukraine 🇺🇦/🇷🇺, force est de constater qu'elle est un véritable bain de sang.
Chaque région, chaque ville, chaque village est endeuillé par la mort. En Ukraine, environ 3 % de la population masculine (18-60 ans) actuellement présente dans les territoires sous contrôle du gouvernement aurait été tuée à la guerre. À cela s'ajoutent probablement 2 à 3 % de plus de blessés graves, d'amputés, d'hommes traumatisés par la guerre.
En Russie, 1,5 % de la population masculine de 18 à 60 ans aurait été tuée dans la guerre, sans oublier au moins 2 % de plus d'amputés, de blessés graves et de traumatisés. À l'échelle du conflit, 1,5 à 2 millions d'hommes (ainsi qu'une minorité de femmes, principalement des européens, mais aussi quelques volontaires/mercenaires venus d'ailleurs) sont soit morts, soit gravement blessés.
À cela s'ajoutent la vague de migration de centaines de milliers de jeunes hommes des deux pays, un recul de la natalité et des familles endeuillées. En Russie, malgré (probablement, au vu des estimations) 600 000 morts, la guerre paraît peu contestée et le choc semble silencieux, au contraire de la guerre d'Afghanistan. Je pense que c'est dû à deux choses. D'abord, les morts sont principalement des hommes pauvres, plus âgés et qui ne sont pas des conscrits. Ensuite, parce que la guerre d'Afghanistan intervenait dans un contexte économique et social infiniment plus compliqué qu'actuellement.
La Russie est en train de sacrifier son futur pour quelques villages insignifiants du Donbass, sacrifiant accessoirement le peuple ukrainien, qui, lui, est dans la posture de l'agressé. Après avoir connu l'oppression russe puis soviétique, l'invasion de la Crimée, la guerre du Donbass et l'invasion à grande échelle, le peuple ukrainien reste majoritairement obstiné à défendre sa liberté, quoi qu'il en coûte.
Cf. un graphique de @M0nstas estimant l'étendue des pertes russes en comparant les données vérifiées de Mediazona (284 000 morts), les données nouvelles de la fuite de Rosstat (+400 000 morts) avec les données de l'armée ukrainienne, en appliquant un ratio tués/blessés qui évolue en fonction des années. Résultat de l'estimation, entre 580 et 620 000 morts.
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Engineering is really cool
This is actually a bigger deal for humanity than most people can imagine. I will always remember the looks on the engineers’ faces in the Starbase conference room in December 2020 when @elonmusk suggested, then insisted, that the Mechazilla launchpad arms could catch a returning Starship.
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Interesting analysis.
FAA acting CTO Rebecca Guy: "When we started to see the occurrence where our network was having instability, we started to look at what was the cause. We saw two places that were actually pinging our network at a very high rate -- 1,000 connections over every 4 to 5 seconds."
(That sure sounds like hacking!)
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Love it :)
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Sacré phénomène @POTUS
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michfrapp retweeted
🚨🇺🇸 Duffy blames 1980s copper wire for grounding America's flights: "It got overloaded"
The Transportation Secretary's explanation at tonight's briefing:
"We have old switches, old routers.
We use 1980s little copper lines.
It's an old system that went down and went down everywhere. It got overloaded."
Reporters asked the obvious follow-up, which is why it would overload on a normal travel day, and he didn't have an answer.
FAA leaders weren't at the podium.
Homeland Security says there is "zero evidence" of a cyberattack, and the maker of the FAA's new AI tool says its product had nothing to do with it.
Count the explanations since this afternoon: a telecom outage, a bad update, a router in Chicago, and now old copper.
So it's no surprise a lot of people aren't buying it and are coming up with theories of their own.
Source: NPR / Writer: Daniel
Some things have to be framed for posterity… that one in light of today’s events is definitely a must!
Well done @emirates!
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Thank you @grok for letting me know the Weather service outage is a non-issue.
More worried about the FAA outage… as with just 2 prior incidents in a quarter century, it isn’t a very frequent occurrence. I still find it dubious SMART happened to be released just yesterday…
Before 2023 the only prior full nationwide ground stop was September 11, 2001.
On the weather side, reports of a nationwide NWS radar outage stem from an outdated webpage. Official checks and NWS offices confirm 158 of 159 radars are live and data is updating normally on weather.gov. The FAA ground stop is a separate telecom issue at the ARTCCs.
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While in UK all is peaceful…
US Air Force says it responded to 'suspected drones' over RAF Lakenheath bbc.in/3UxBQT3
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And now this is the weather systems that stop working. Fascinating. Absolutely fascinating.
🚨🇺🇸 The National Weather Service is reporting a NATIONWIDE RADAR OUTAGE in the United States.
An official notice on weather .gov says its national radar website is experiencing problems and that technicians are investigating.
This follows separate reports of a nationwide FAA ground stop linked to communication issues.
The cause of the radar disruption remains unclear.
Source: rnintel on TG / Writer: Oliver
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
No nationwide NWS radar outage; the notice addressed website access issues from communications problems, not radar data, and radars were operational with 158 of 159 sites live.
ryanhallyall.com/news/158-of-15…
weather.gov/lox/WebIssues
radar.weather.gov
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Who bets on this being the issue?
gonna guess there high probability that the FAA grounding all flights in the US is related to an $875m AI tool it built called SMART that will “assist in managing air traffic across the entire national air system” that the administration started rolling out….yesteday
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So @grok do you think your “SMART” brother could be involved in FAA small hiccup?
NEW: The FAA tells me it's rolling out its AI flight-routing tool nationwide. The goal? Fewer delays and shorter flight times. I got a look at how it works—including one flight the FAA says saved 42 minutes. But there are concerns about safety and oversight.
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