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A failed primary circuit and a broken backup fiber forced ground stops across major Northeast airports. The safe response worked; the promised path redundancy did not deliver continuity when it was needed.
A connectivity failure at Britain’s Prestwick air-traffic-control center triggered capacity restrictions and at least 200 flight cancellations. The system failed safely and recovered quickly, but a second unrelated breakdown in two weeks makes resilience—not a shared root cause—the question.
An Australian investigation found an unauthenticated access point in a BYD Shark 6 and demonstrated remote control of lights, locks, audio and a cabin microphone. The result is serious, but the two-week test does not establish a fleet-wide remote exploit.