A look at flight-tracking app Flighty, which often beats airlines' updates; downloads tripled when the FAA reduced air traffic during the US government shutdown
I talked to the Wall Street Journal about an app I used to save my wife 8 hours of hell during Trump's air traffic controller shortage — www.wsj.com/tech/persona...
How Palantir has benefited since President Trump took office, securing new and expanded government contracts and becoming the S&P's top-performing stock of 2025
who sometime were already doing the job before Palantir. … @crystal159 : . — PALANTIR — The software and data analytics company has garnered at least $300 million in new and expanded business sinc...
Elon Musk departs the Trump administration as a “special government employee”, defending DOGE's mission to reduce wasteful government spending
Now the job falls to the insidious fossil-fuel-funded creep Russell Vought, their henchman at OMB. E.W. Niedermeyer / @niedermeyer.online : “Say what you will about Elon Musk, the man thinks ahead.” ...
How the US conducted a monthslong campaign to push The Gambia and at least four other developing nations to license Starlink; diplomats call the events alarming
The State Department has intervened on behalf of Musk's satellite internet company in five developing nations. Bluesky: @karlbode.com , @emptywheel , @rimaanabtawi , and @malwarejake . Mastodon: @Suff...
The FAA says a contractor unintentionally deleted files used in a pilot-alert system while trying to sync a database and its backup, causing last week's outage
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A Garmin employee confirms that the company's servers were hit by WastedLocker, a ransomware variant developed by Russia-based cybercriminal group Evil Corp
and what you can do David Pierce / Protocol : iOS is telling on developers Kelly Earley / Silicon Republic : Garmin wearables back online after reported cyberattack Cat Ellis / TechRadar : Garmin Conn...
Boeing changed 737 Max's anti-stall software, which initially relied on two types of sensors, to rely on just one in the last version, without disclosing to FAA
SEATTLE — The fatal flaws with Boeing's 737 Max can be traced to a breakdown late in the plane's development, when test pilots …
US air traffic control computer system vulnerable to terrorist hackers
FAA didn't always ensure passwords were encrypted “when transmitted or stored.” — The US system for guiding airplanes is open to vulnerabilities from outside hackers, the Government Accountability O...