A recent GAO report on the state of our air traffic control system made two major conclusions: * An alarming percentage of the FAA’s systems are categorized as unsustainable or potentially unsustainable. * The widespread reliance on aging infrastructure—handling roughly 50,000 flights daily—introduces severe risks of system failures, major flight delays, and disruptions to national airspace safety. I’ll just leave this here.

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Science & Climate

20h ago

SpaceX Starship launch successful, but a booster went boom instead of sticking the landing.

[Media: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9XM0lpVlvo0] NASASpaceFlight (below) has multiple angles of the booster explosion if you scrub back. Today was supposed to be the first time in history that an entire orbital launch system would be recovered, but that milestone will have to wait. The Starship itself has already deployed 22 payloads though, and it may still be able to return to SpaceX’s Starbase.

#starship #spacex

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Amazon has a plan to index the world’s online shopping data

Technology

20h ago

Amazon has a plan to index the world’s online shopping data

A vault of data on every product on the internet.

#amazon #product #reddit

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Science & Climate

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The National Weather Service says there’s no radar outage.

“Outdated content from isolated webpages stating otherwise has been circulating, but NWS radars are operating normally,” NWS public affairs director John Ewald tells The Verge in an email. Weather.gov is “operating normally” too.

#ewald

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Is AI involved in today’s FAA nationwide ground stop?

World News

21h ago

Is AI involved in today’s FAA nationwide ground stop?

DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin doesn’t know yet — though he does know to chide reporters for not calling it “super intelligence,” because vocally associating your shiny new AI rebrand with a massive air travel mess is PR 101. [Video: FAA AI Markwayne Mullin]

#faa #markwayne #mullin

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FAA ground stop shuts down flights nationwide

World News

22h ago

FAA ground stop shuts down flights nationwide

A communications problem is reportedly affecting Air Route Traffic control centers.

#faa #air #route

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ChatGPT Wallet lets OpenAI’s Dots agents make purchases for you

Technology

23h ago

ChatGPT Wallet lets OpenAI’s Dots agents make purchases for you

It checks in before every purchase.

#wallet #dots #openai

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CMF’s milk carton-shaped Bluetooth speaker is down to a new low price

Technology

23h ago

CMF’s milk carton-shaped Bluetooth speaker is down to a new low price

It’s two percent more stylish.

#cmf #bluetooth #black

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Technology

1d ago

A new home for those old Flash games.

Itch.io added support for the defunct format through the Ruffle emulator last week — I noticed today thanks to Anna Anthropy, whose 2013 game Dys4ia is now playable on browser again. There’s also a dedicated Flash tag here.

#flash #ruffle #anthropy

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Technology

1d ago

Twitch clips are going to get longer.

The company is working on extending clips from up to 60 seconds to as long as five minutes, it said as part of its news from TwitchCon today. Twitch will also let streamers and their viewers play certain Amazon Luna titles together and is going to launch ad-supported TV channels that allow co-streaming. [Link: More Ways to Create, Connect, and Play: TwitchCon San Diego 2026. | https://blog.twitch.tv/en/2026/11/13/twitchcon-san-diego-2026/ | Twitch]

#amazon #luna

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