At a press conference today, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said that Friday’s nationwide ground stop ordered by the FAA was related to work replacing outdated copper wire with a fiber optic line at a “remote FAA facility.” The secretary said that this was “routine maintenance,” rather than the result of a major modernization effort. He told reporters that it was “such an old wire that it was being discontinued, meaning that line was going to get shut down,” necessitating the upgrade.

What wasn’t clear, according to Secretary Duffy, was the root cause of the problem. He said that it could have been faulty hardware, a misconfigured router, or “incompetence” on the part of contractor L3Harris. Regardless, what followed was the newly installed router “flooding” other routers in the Air Traffic Control system. Duffy said that there were “over 1,000 connection attempts every 4 to 5 seconds,” causing disruption to radar feeds and communication with planes.

Agree. Think I’ll block eiker now.

Cite a quote please. I’m pretty sure that’s not what they said.

What’s the point of discussions on any social media if you have no way to tell who’s human vs who’s a bot? Or who’s getting paid to say things?

I’m surprised more software hasn’t gone that way (democratic, employee-owned companies).

I agree it’s often misapplied.

If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.

Agree, though it’s not yet clear that he betrayed anyone beyond his family.

Not defending Jensen but this lawsuit is hot garbage, and unlikely to succeed. I hope on principle they don’t settle.

I mean, what’re they supposed to do? Say there might be an affair with a Chinese spy about to drop in their 10-K? As if that wouldn’t be more or less the same as it coming out in the media?

You know it’s a company with a highly visible CEO, and that some people can’t resist sticking their dicks in a honeypot, so this was an obvious risk.

He’s a bilionaire. Even if she’s a spy, he knew, and he gave her critical information, he’s unlikely to be punished meaningfully. Billionaires don’t go to gitmo.

Very concerning

and before that, he did the Apple Silicon transition (to the M1 chip).

That transition was mostly a software problem — Federighi’s wheelhouse.

How do you think they could increase supply?

What about it always gave you the ick?