The preliminary report said the failure was a “legacy and previously unknown software defect and a combination of very specific events occurring simultaneously”
This isn't enshittification, it's tech debt coming back to bite.
The preliminary report said the failure was a “legacy and previously unknown software defect and a combination of very specific events occurring simultaneously”
This isn't enshittification, it's tech debt coming back to bite.
A software defect in part of the UK’s air traffic control system corrupted flight data “in the space of a millisecond”
Yes, that's how computers work. Thank you for the Computing 101 summary.
I wonder if there's a way we could be resilient to these kinds of problems. Something else that doesn't go quite as fast, but still super quick. Kinda like a car, but a bunch of them attached together
The vehicle type clearly isn't the problem here, did you even read the article?
Relax, I was just being facetious.
Don't worry, I'm sure those use an entirely different passenger/freight logistics system. Surely.
Resilient to these kinds of problems? Apparently not
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