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11 discoveries · Hand-picked discoveries from the open web, newest first.
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Was America's Nationwide Grounding of Aircraft Caused By Its New AI System?
America's nationwide grounding of flights on Friday happened "amid growing scrutiny... of a new AI-powered air traffic management system" deployed by America's Federal Aviation Administration, reports Texas news station KXAN. Ironically, the system is called SMART — but the outage happened "following warnings" from members of the U.S. Congress about this new AI system's safety, reliability and oversight: In an Oct. 13 letter to the Government Accountability Office, more than 20 members of Congress requested an independent review of the FAA's development and implementation of its Strategi
Slashdot · EN
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US nationwide ground stop: Flightradar24 shows scope of flight disruptions
Al Jazeera English
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The FAA nationwide ground stop sparks travel panic and viral memes
On Nov. 13, 2026, the FAA announced that all U.S. flights were grounded. Here's how the internet reacted.
Mashable · EN
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Scenes From the Nationwide Ground Stop
Some 1.5 million people experienced travel disruption on Friday.
The Atlantic · EN
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FAA Lifts Nationwide Ground Stop for All Aircraft [UPDATE]
Longtime Slashdot readers cold fjord and sinij share news that the FAA grounded flights nationwide after a communications failure disrupted air traffic control centers across the country. By Friday evening, the outage had resulted in nearly 5,000 flight cancellations and roughly 10,000 delays, with no timeline for restoring normal operations. Rumors are swirling that this could be related to the FAA's newly deployed SMART AI system or Microsoft's recent global outage, but both the agency and Microsoft said they had no indication that their technology was responsible. Business Insider reports:
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US Federal Aviation Administration issues nationwide ground stop for all flights citing "due to extraordinary circumstances and for reasons of safety"
Link URL: https://www.cnn.com/2026/11/13/us/live-news/flights-ground-stop-faa Comments URL: https://tildes.net/~transport/1wwg/us_federal_aviation_administration_issues_nationwide_ground_stop_for_all_flights_citing_due_to Votes: 17 Comments: 11
Tildes · EN
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US FAA suspends all flight departures nationwide until further notice
Al Jazeera English
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Microsoft Outlook Goes Down Nationwide [UPDATE]
Microsoft is suffering a major Microsoft 365 outage that's disrupting Outlook, Teams, Copilot and SharePoint for users across the Americas, with more than 129,000 problem reports logged on Downdetector shortly after the disruption began. Microsoft blames the connectivity problems on an unexpectedly large number of unavailable servers that overloaded the remaining infrastructure. The company says it's redistributing traffic and restarting affected systems. From a report: Microsoft was not providing an estimated time by which it expects service to return. Both individual Outlook users and those
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Mass protests in France driven by nationwide strike action | AJ #shorts
Al Jazeera English · EN
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France braces for nationwide strike over cost of living
Al Jazeera English · EN