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[–] 55 points 1 day ago (16 children)

HOLY FUCK. That's nearly unprecedented. What the fuck is going on.

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  • [–] 25 points 1 day ago (4 children)

    Microsoft's big outage is beginning to affect more and more systems.

    Turns out that even things which don't seem to depend on Microsoft can actually only last for a limited time if it goes away

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  • [–] 20 points 1 day ago (1 child)

    Or it could be the recently announced phaseout of their floppy disks and they've announced they'll be using "more AI" (whatever that means). It could be either of those too

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  • [–] 2 points 1 hour ago*

    No. There is no chance this is related to the MS outage

    The ground stop was caused by center losing radar information. Most systems still use floppy disks, I can assure you they do not have a critical dependency on M365

    It's likely going to be a bad system update/change, which could be related to the new AI SMART tool

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  • [–] 8 points 22 hours ago (4 children)

    They rolled AI tools out nationwide at the FAA just yesterday. Go figure.

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  • [–] 3 points 21 hours ago (1 child)

    They have been using them since September 21.

    The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) says the $875 million SMART system has helped reroute 180 flights since being implemented in airspace over Washington, DC, on September 21.

    https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/11/faa-expands-ai-advice-to-manage-air-traffic-congestion-across-entire-us-airspace/

    Guessing it did not scale well.

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  • [–] 5 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

    They announced yesterday that they were rolling out a new AI ATC tool nationwide.

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  • [–] 7 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

    Actually less scary than if, say, Obama was president. (or even a Bush really)¹

    Cuz a trump admin having a major shutdown could just mean his admin hired a Christian straight white cis male "DEI Hire" that was incompetent and flipped off a switch and shut the whole thing down.

    ::: spoiler


    ¹Cuz if it was a "status quo president", you know shit hit the fan (i.e. war or some shit), not just an innocent mistake :::

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