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First NVIDIA, then the Microsoft outage and now the halt of all flights due to "extraordinary circumstances". What do you guys think is going on?

 

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First NVIDIA, then the Microsoft outage and now the halt of all flights due to "extraordinary circumstances". What do you guys think is going on?

Nvidia was just the midterms, I think the Trump admin suppressed it for the sake of the stock market.

As for the halt of flights, its just the standard incompetence you'd expect from the current administration. They just deployed their new AI air traffic recommendation engine on Nov.10. I wouldn't be surprised if they were pensive about the deployment, so deliberately kept it until after the midterms as well.

FAA expands AI advice to manage air traffic congestion across entire US airspace

Airline executives have voiced support for the rollout, but the US labor union representing air traffic controllers has said it was not involved in designing or testing the AI-driven system.

But the National Air Traffic Controllers Association, which represents more than 15,000 members, also told Flying magazine that it was not consulted or involved in the “design, testing, or implementation of SMART and therefore cannot speak to its effect on the air traffic control workforce.”

It would be pretty much on brand if they deployed the system to try to "cut waste, and increase efficiency", but the contempt for the people with the knowledge and experience came back to bite them in the ass.

 

[Passenger]

Reading US media outlets gives you schizo, they say it's a Chinese spy, according to nothing. And they say it's not a spy, but let's move on. They say China want Jensen out, and China also wants Jensen to stay. They say Jensen out is a major win for China, but also a major loss. And ppl are OK with it. I guess it's also CHINA that runs all the US outlets?

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2121430729330688259

 

[Passenger]

I've worked with some civil aviation systems myself, and I can say with confidence that the civil aviation information systems of literally any country on Earth are a total piece of shit. They're built on platforms from last century's tech, patched and re-patched and kept in service for over 30 years. Even if they're lucky enough not to get hit by a malicious attack, they'll still just periodically crash on their own.

 

[Fatman17]

Apparently flights have resumed

 

[Fatman17]

Redirection

 

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https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2121377591223538067

 

[Iskander]

Hatemonger: What does Trump's appointment of Stephen Miller as chief of staff mean for the next two years?​

quote from an article:

«... head of the administration controls access to the president, decides which messages and press releases reach his desk, and is often the last person the American commander-in-chief consults before making a decision.»

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=89978449&url=https://theins.press/en/politics/299525&ved=2ahUKEwiunaTYuYeYAxV9SFUIHSEOMqIQFnoECDkQAQ&usg=AOvVaw2Ei0U6xoFOibX3CH7u15mC

 

[Bogeyman]

First NVIDIA, then the Microsoft outage and now the halt of all flights due to "extraordinary circumstances". What do you guys think is going on?

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2121456840701616288

Rubio reportedly set Jensen Huang's downfall in motion... with a memo that hit harder than the CIA report it was based on

The Washington Post reports the Secretary of State took a CIA report on Jensen's relationship with a suspected Chinese spy and rewrote it in his own, more forceful terms, according to one person familiar with it.

When that memo's findings leaked, the scandal began. A former official who worked on chip policy described what Trump's national security team was after: "They wanted to destroy the influence Jensen had over the president." Trump still calls him a "legend."

The agencies still can't prove she was a spy. But three bills restricting chip sales to China are now headed for the defense bill, and the one executive who used to talk Congress out of them is gone. So ask yourself who came out ahead this week, and you have a good idea why that memo found its way to reporters. Source: Washington Post

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2121514973809799294

BREAKING: An open letter to reinstate Jensen Huang as CEO of Nvidia, now has over 65,000 signatures, alleging that Huang was removed "without meaningful due process."

The letter has been signed by more than 35,000 shareholders and 4,700 current and former Nvidia employees. Elon Musk has publicly stated that he has signed the petition and fully supports Huang's return to the company. We maintain our view that Huang was removed prematurely, without a conclusive investigation.

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2121560748954706269

I've spoken with several industry experts about Nvidia after Jensen's resignation. They taught me a lot, and one point they raised was whether senior and veteran engineers will actually stay at an Nvidia without Jensen.

Most of Nvidia's senior and veteran engineers have already reached financial freedom thanks to the surge in Nvidia's stock. For many of them, the main reason they stayed was Jensen Huang's unmatched charisma.

Now that he's gone, it wouldn't be strange if they left Nvidia tomorrow. Industry insiders told me that OpenAI and Nvidia's competitors are probably already calling Nvidia's senior and veteran engineers like crazy. They said if you promise a senior engineer a team of their own, the whole team will move with them.

 

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https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2121377591223538067

FAA lifts nationwide ground stop that disrupted thousands of flights; White House says no indication of "nefarious act"​

Federal airspace is operating as normal after a nationwide ground stop on all departing U.S. flights threw the aviation industry into turmoil on Friday. Officials said the issue stemmed from a "telecommunication outage."

Airspace was reopened at 8:15 p.m. Eastern time, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said during a news briefing Friday night. Resumption of flight traffic was "going to be slow," Duffy warned.

In a social media post following Duffy's briefing, the Federal Aviation Administration said that "before clearing flights to resume, we thoroughly tested our systems to confirm they were stable and that operations remain reliable."

As of 7:30 a.m. ET on Saturday, the airspace was operating as normal and being closely tracked, senior government sources familiar with the situation told CBS News.

The FAA had issued the ground stop on all departing flights due to "extraordinary circumstances and for reasons of safety." The ground stop lasted about five hours. There were more than 10,000 delays and over 4,000 cancellations listed Friday, according to the flight tracking website FlightAware.

There were already over 3,500 residual cancellations in the U.S. on Saturday as of 8:15 a.m. ET, according to FlightAware. Delta Air Lines led the way with 640 cancellations, while United had 530 and American had 488. Atlanta's Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport, Chicago O'Hare International Airport and New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport were most affected by the cancellations on Saturday morning.

Preliminary investigation indicates routers caused outage​

Duffy said Friday that routers became overloaded with data and began to provide inconsistent information.

"Because of that, we shut the system down," Duffy said, noting the air traffic control system is "incredibly old."

Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin said in Friday's briefing that new security patches introduced into the older system appeared to "overwhelm" its routers.

The FAA's preliminary investigation has led the agency to believe the issue was limited to Cisco 600 series routers that were manufactured between 2001 and 2006, senior government sources told CBS News. The sources said the faulty equipment has been identified and isolated.

The sources said the routers essentially got overwhelmed, and started feeding out-of-sync data packets into the larger air traffic control system. That causes static over voice communication lines and can cause screens to flash or go to black.

Sources told CBS News they are receiving conflicting information about the cause of the issue. Multiple sources said Friday that an update to the the private communications network that connects the U.S. air traffic control system caused the system to reboot, leading to a crash and a communications outage.

Officials call for emergency funding to modernize ATC​

The FAA Telecommunications Infrastructure, known as FTI, is the communications backbone that connects air traffic control centers and other FAA facilities. It supports the transmission of essential voice communications and operational data used to manage air traffic. The system is operated by L3Harris, which did not immediately respond to CBS News' request for comment.

The FAA awarded Harris Corp., the predecessor to L3Harris, a contract to modernize, operate and manage the network in July 2002.

A November 2023 FAA-commissioned safety review described the FTI network as obsolete and said it depended on an older communications technology known as TDM.

The review also warned that the technology was no longer supported by the telecommunications infrastructure on which it relied and that an unexpected failure could leave individual FAA facilities, or even an entire regional air traffic control center, disconnected from the broader network.

There has been frustration with the L3Harris's communication and response, sources told CBS News.

On Friday night, Duffy renewed his call for Congress to approve emergency funding to modernize the nation's air traffic control system.

"But you will have more of these," Duffy said during the news conference. "You will have more of them unless the American people and the Congress tell us to build."

Mullin argued that the incident demonstrated why he believed piecemeal modernization was insufficient and said the Trump administration wants a complete replacement of the air traffic control system, at an estimated cost of $50 billion.

"No indication" of cyber attack or threat, Mullin says​

Mullin told reporters in an earlier briefing outside the White House Friday that "there was no indication, as of yet, that this was a nefarious act against us. It was just a telecommunication outage, as of right now."

"There is no indication, we had no reason to believe, that as of right now, that this was a threat to the United States," Mullin said. "This was a telecommunication outage throughout FAA. Out of an abundance of caution, we have grounded all the flights. And all the flights are accounted for."

Mullin reiterated Friday night that there was no cyberattack and the ground stop was not related to the massive global Microsoft outage.

"I want to make sure everybody understands that there is no connection between this and Microsoft," Mullin said during the news briefing with Duffy. "I know a lot of people are making that jump. This is so far what we've seen. There is actually no cyberattack. We're still working through that process."

Chaos for travelers​

According to the flight tracking site Flightradar24, there were about 3,100 airborne aircraft bound for U.S. airports when the ground stop began. Planes were able to land safely, Mullin said, but with no aircraft able to take off again, delays began piling up at major airports across the country in Boston, Atlanta, Miami, Pittsburgh, New York City, Los Angeles and Baltimore.

"This is absolutely unprecedented," said Robert Sumwalt, a former chair of the National Transportation Safety Board and a CBS News transportation safety expert. "I was an airline pilot for 24 years. I was in the air on 9/11. That was the last major ground stop. There was one back in 2023 for just a few hours. This is absolutely unbelievable that this could happen in this day and age."

Duffy said the FAA would try to move as many flights as possible Friday night depending on crew capacity.

"If not, we're going to start tomorrow [Saturday] morning with our airline partners moving those aircraft. But it's going to take us some time to unwind what's happened this afternoon," Duffy said.

Duffy said he thinks flights will be "back up and operational as we come into the heat of travel" during the Thanksgiving holiday later this month.

In January 2023, a nationwide ground stop was ordered for a few hours, and domestic flights were delayed nationwide due to an FAA system outage. The FAA said at the time that its flight personnel alert system went down overnight.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/faa-issues-nationwide-ground-stop/

 

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How to Land 4,000 Planes During a Ground Stop​

No planes could take off; the ones in the air still had to land.
By Joshua Partlow

 

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https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2121794998538510521