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Spirit Airlines Pilot Reportedly Warned to ‘Get Off the iPad’ After Veering Too Close to Air Force One

gizmodo.com Lucas Ropek 2025-09-18 21:45:16

President Trump was in the air recently en route to the United Kingdom for a meeting with the nation’s leadership, and as Air Force One flew over Long Island, the craft got just a little too close to another plane, a Spirit Airlines flight on its way to Boston. The New York Times reports that the Spirit flight was given a stern warning by the air traffic control tower, which condescendingly told the pilot to “get off the iPad” and pay better attention to the path of the plane they were supposed

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Rolling Stone Publisher Sues Google Over AI Overview Summaries

gizmodo.com Aj Dellinger 2025-09-25 00:45:05

Google has insisted that its AI-generated search result overviews and summaries have not actually hurt traffic for publishers. The publishers disagree, and at least one is willing to go to court to prove the harm they claim Google has caused. Penske Media Corporation, the parent company of Rolling Stone and The Hollywood Reporter, sued Google on Friday over allegations that the search giant has used its work without permission to generate summaries and ultimately reduced traffic to its publicati

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VPNs and Age-Verification Laws: What You Need to Know

wired.com Jacob Roach 2025-09-27 06:30:00

The problem is how the verification happens. You aren’t verifying your age with the government. You’re routing it through an independent third party, and most of the laws on the books are designed specifically in this way. In the UK, for example, Reddit verifies with Persona, and Bluesky uses Kids Web Services (owned by Epic Games). Persona’s privacy policy states that it collects not only biometric information and personal details, like your ID, but also ties that to information gathered from

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Massive Leak Shows How a Chinese Company Is Exporting the Great Firewall to the World

wired.com Zeyi Yang 2025-10-04 08:00:00

A leak of more than 100,000 documents shows that a little-known Chinese company has been quietly selling censorship systems seemingly modeled on the Great Firewall to governments around the world. Geedge Networks, a company founded in 2018 that counts the “father” of China’s massive censorship infrastructure as one of its investors, styles itself as a network-monitoring provider, offering business-grade cybersecurity tools to “gain comprehensive visibility and minimize security risks” for its c

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Google admits the open web is in ‘rapid decline’

theverge.com Emma Roth 2025-10-05 13:50:20

is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, social media, and much more. Previously, she was a writer and editor at MUO. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. For months, Google has maintained that the web is “thriving,” AI isn’t tanking traffic, and its search engine is sending people to a wider variety of websites than ever. But in a court filing from last week, Google admitted that “the open web is already in rapid

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Microsoft cloud services disrupted by Red Sea cable cuts

feeds.bbci.co.uk Unknown 2025-10-06 09:20:43

Microsoft cloud services disrupted by Red Sea cable cuts Microsoft says the delays could affect traffic moving through the Middle East Over the weekend, there were reports suggesting that undersea cable cuts had affected the United Arab Emirates and some countries in Asia. Microsoft did not explain what might have caused the damage to the undersea cables, but added that it had been able to rerouted traffic through other paths. Users of Azure - one of the world's leading cloud computing platf

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Microsoft Azure: "Multiple international subsea cables were cut in the Red Sea"

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-06 05:57:15

Increased network latency on traffic routes through the Middle East Starting at 05:45 UTC on 06 September 2025, network traffic traversing through the Middle East may experience increased latency due to undersea fiber cuts in the Red Sea. Network traffic is not interrupted as Microsoft has rerouted traffic through alternate network paths. We do expect higher latency on some traffic that previously traversed through the Middle East. Network traffic that does not traverse through the Middle East

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AI web crawlers are destroying websites in their never-ending content hunger

news.ycombinator.com Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols 2025-10-14 13:24:44

Opinion With AI's rise, AI web crawlers are strip-mining the web in their perpetual hunt for ever more content to feed into their Large Language Model (LLM) mills. How much traffic do they account for? According to Cloudflare, a major content delivery network (CDN) force, 30% of global web traffic now comes from bots. Leading the way and growing fast? AI bots. Cloud services company Fastly agrees. It reports that 80% of all AI bot traffic comes from AI data fetcher bots. So, you ask, "What's th

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UK age check law seems to be hurting sites that comply, helping those that don’t

techcrunch.com Anthony Ha 2025-10-17 17:05:15

In Brief The United Kingdom recently started enforcing the Online Safety Act’s age-check rules, and The Washington Post reports that it’s already having a significant effect on web traffic. U.K. law now requires pornography websites to verify their users’ ages through means such as face scans and driver’s licenses; it also requires that online platforms prevent children from being exposed to adult content (which is why sites like Bluesky and Reddit have begun checking some users’ ages). To st

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Cloudflare incident on August 21, 2025

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-26 04:14:10

6 min read On August 21, 2025, an influx of traffic directed toward clients hosted in the Amazon Web Services (AWS) us-east-1 facility caused severe congestion on links between Cloudflare and AWS us-east-1. This impacted many users who were connecting to or receiving connections from Cloudflare via servers in AWS us-east-1 in the form of high latency, packet loss, and failures to origins. Customers with origins in AWS us-east-1 began experiencing impact at 16:27 UTC. The impact was substantial

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AI crawlers, fetchers are blowing up websites; Meta, OpenAI are worst offenders

news.ycombinator.com Gareth Halfacree 2025-11-01 23:35:22

Cloud services giant Fastly has released a report claiming AI crawlers are putting a heavy load on the open web, slurping up sites at a rate that accounts for 80 percent of all AI bot traffic, with the remaining 20 percent used by AI fetchers. Bots and fetchers can hit websites hard, demanding data from a single site in thousands of requests per minute. I can only see one thing causing this to stop: the AI bubble popping According to the report [PDF], Facebook owner Meta's AI division accounts

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Humans intervened every 9 minutes in AAA test of driver assists

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-11-02 08:00:34

Advanced driver assistance systems—also known as ADAS—come in a few variations. Blind spot monitoring, collision warnings, and emergency braking act like a second pair of eyes and ears, monitoring the car's environment to warn the driver, or possibly intervene, if a crash looks imminent. Other systems are better thought of as convenience features—things like adaptive cruise control and lane keeping, which relieve some of the burden of driving. Among the newer of these is the traffic jam assist.

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The value of hitting the HN front page

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-04 18:00:11

I’ve been a member of Hacker News (HN) since 2012. You can see my profile here. (Thanks to Jeff Beard for introducing me to it so many years ago.) I currently hover around the upper 30s on the top 100 leader list. I’ve talked about that community with the good folks at RedMonk. After submitting thousands of stories, including over 400 with more than 100 points, here are outcomes I expect from a high ranking HN post. Traffic The first is the traffic. It’s not uncommon to get thousands of visit

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The Value of Hitting the HN Front Page

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-05 00:00:11

I’ve been a member of Hacker News (HN) since 2012. You can see my profile here. (Thanks to Jeff Beard for introducing me to it so many years ago.) I currently hover around the upper 30s on the top 100 leader list. I’ve talked about that community with the good folks at RedMonk. After submitting thousands of stories, including over 400 with more than 100 points, here are outcomes I expect from a high ranking HN post. Traffic The first is the traffic. It’s not uncommon to get thousands of visit

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Reverse Proxy Deep Dive: Why Load Balancing at Scale Is Hard

news.ycombinator.com Mitendra Mahto 2025-11-10 08:05:24

This post is part of a series. Part 1 - A deep dive into connection management challenges. Part 2 - The nuances of HTTP parsing and why it’s harder than it looks. Part 3 - The intricacies of service discovery. Part 4 - Why Load Balancing at Scale is Hard. Load Balancing One of the most critical roles for a reverse proxy is load balancing requests across different upstream hosts. From a list of upstream servers, the proxy must decide where each incoming request should go. The primary goals

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OpenFreeMap survived 100k requests per second

news.ycombinator.com Zsolt Ero 2025-11-23 15:31:30

I was about to post about how nice the last 10 months of OpenFreeMap have been. The architecture has really proven itself to be great, Cloudflare has agreed to sponsor the bandwidth, Hetzner servers are super stable as always, serving tiles from Btrfs proved to be a great choice, nginx is amazing, and life is good. Then, out of the blue, I'm getting reports that some tiles are not loading, which normally means tile generation bugs, but not this time. I look into the nginx logs and see this: 20

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Inspector General Probing FAA’s Handling of D.C. Airspace After Thousands of Close Calls

gizmodo.com Aj Dellinger 2025-11-24 08:30:55

Nearly eight months after a deadly collision occurred near Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport in Washington, D.C., the Transportation Department’s Office of Inspector General announced Friday that it would open a probe into the Federal Aviation Administration’s handling of the airspace around the international airport. The inciting incident for the investigation was the midair crash that occurred this January when a US Army Black Hawk helicopter collided with an American Airlines regiona

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AI in Search is driving more queries and higher quality clicks

news.ycombinator.com Liz Reid 2025-11-28 23:32:42

AI is driving the most significant upgrade of the Google Search experience ever. With AI Overviews and more recently AI Mode, people are able to ask questions they could never ask before. And the response has been tremendous: Our data shows people are happier with the experience and are searching more than ever as they discover what Search can do now. At the same time, we’ve recently heard some questions about what this means for traffic to websites from Google. So we wanted to share some insig

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Google denies AI search features are killing website traffic

techcrunch.com Sarah Perez 2025-11-30 08:45:29

Numerous studies indicate that the shift to AI search features and the use of AI chatbots are killing traffic to publishers’ sites. But Google on Wednesday denied that’s the case, at least in aggregate. Instead, the search giant says that total organic click volume from its search engine to websites has been “relatively stable” year-over-year and that average click quality has slightly increased. “This data is in contrast to third-party reports that inaccurately suggest dramatic declines in agg

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Google says AI in Search is driving more queries and higher quality clicks

news.ycombinator.com Liz Reid 2025-11-30 11:32:42

AI is driving the most significant upgrade of the Google Search experience ever. With AI Overviews and more recently AI Mode, people are able to ask questions they could never ask before. And the response has been tremendous: Our data shows people are happier with the experience and are searching more than ever as they discover what Search can do now. At the same time, we’ve recently heard some questions about what this means for traffic to websites from Google. So we wanted to share some insig

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New Ghost Calls tactic abuses Zoom and Microsoft Teams for C2 operations

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-11-30 22:36:13

A new post-exploitation command-and-control (C2) evasion method called 'Ghost Calls' abuses TURN servers used by conferencing apps like Zoom and Microsoft Teams to tunnel traffic through trusted infrastructure. Ghost Calls uses legitimate credentials, WebRTC, and custom tooling to bypass most existing defenses and anti-abuse measures, without relying on an exploit. This new tactic was presented by Praetorian's security researcher Adam Crosser at BlackHat USA, where it was highlighted that the

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Helsinki records zero traffic deaths for full year

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-03 00:08:02

“A lot of factors contributed to this, but speed limits are one of the most important,” said Roni Utriainen , traffic engineer with the city’s Urban Environment Division. Authorities described the milestone as exceptional and credited long-term planning, targeted infrastructure changes, and lower speed limits. Helsinki has completed an entire year without a single traffic-related fatality, according to city and police officials. The last recorded death occurred in early July 2024 in the Kontul

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200k Flemish drivers can turn traffic lights green

news.ycombinator.com Vrt Nws 2025-12-16 05:08:26

Two years ago, the Flemish Roads Agency (AWV) announced the introduction of the new system: via an app on your smartphone, you can get a traffic light to turn green more quickly. Over the past 2 years, 250 intersections were to be equipped with so-called “intelligent traffic lights”, which would receive a signal as soon as a road user with the app approaches. In that way, motorists - but also cyclists and motorcyclists- will not have to wait unnecessarily at red lights when less traffic is appr

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ExpressVPN patches Windows bug that exposed remote desktop traffic

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-27 22:15:07

The vulnerability would have been hard to exploit, but might have leaked the real IP addresses of RDP users. ExpressVPN has released a new patch for its Windows app to close a vulnerability that can leave remote desktop traffic unprotected. If you use ExpressVPN on Windows, download version 12.101.0.45 as soon as possible, especially if you use Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) or any other traffic through TCP port 3389. ExpressVPN announced both the vulnerability and the fix in a blog post earlie

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Hackers Are Finding New Ways to Hide Malware in DNS Records

wired.com Dan Goodin 2026-01-09 04:30:00

Hackers are stashing malware in a place that’s largely out of the reach of most defenses—inside domain name system (DNS) records that map domain names to their corresponding numerical IP addresses. The practice allows malicious scripts and early-stage malware to fetch binary files without having to download them from suspicious sites or attach them to emails, where they frequently get quarantined by antivirus software. That’s because traffic for DNS lookups often goes largely unmonitored by man

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Hackers exploit a blind spot by hiding malware inside DNS records

arstechnica.com Unknown 2026-01-11 23:15:04

Hackers are stashing malware in a place that’s largely out of the reach of most defenses—inside domain name system (DNS) records that map domain names to their corresponding numerical IP addresses. The practice allows malicious scripts and early-stage malware to fetch binary files without having to download them from suspicious sites or attach them to emails, where they frequently get quarantined by antivirus software. That’s because traffic for DNS lookups often goes largely unmonitored by man

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Google Discover adds AI summaries, threatening publishers with further traffic declines

techcrunch.com Sarah Perez 2026-01-13 08:19:47

As publishers fret about decreased traffic from Google, the search giant has begun rolling out AI summaries in Discover, the main news feed inside Google’s search app on iOS and Android. Now, instead of seeing a headline from a major publication, users will see multiple news publishers’ logos in the top-left corner, followed by an AI-generated summary that cites those sources. The app warns that these summaries are generated with AI, “which can make mistakes.” Image Credits:Google The feature

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Threads users still barely click links

engadget.com Unknown 2026-01-16 03:01:39

Two years in, Threads is starting to look more and more like the most viable challenger to X. It passed 350 million monthly users earlier this year and Mark Zuckerberg has predicted it could be Meta's next billion-user app. But Threads still isn't sending much traffic to other websites, which could make the platform less appealing for creators, publishers and others whose businesses depend on non-Meta owned websites. According to Similarweb, a marketing intelligence firm, outbound referral traf

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A technical look at Iran's internet shutdowns

news.ycombinator.com Zola Gonano 2026-01-17 03:45:02

A Technical Look at Iran’s Internet Shutdowns Every time mass protests erupt in Iran, a familiar pattern follows: the flow of information stops. The internet slows to a crawl or disappears entirely. But how does a modern country survive cutting itself off from the internet? Wouldn’t that break everything? Not quite, because the Islamic Republic has spent the last decade building an internet within the internet. The National Information Network (NIN): Isolation by Design Iran’s National Info

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Nearly everyone opposes Trump’s plan to kill space traffic control program

arstechnica.com Unknown 2026-01-20 08:06:24

The Trump administration's plan to gut the Office of Space Commerce and cancel the government's first civilian-run space traffic control program is gaining plenty of detractors. Earlier this week, seven space industry trade groups representing more than 450 companies sent letters to House and Senate leaders urging them to counter the White House's proposal. A spokesperson for the military's Space Operations Command, which currently has overall responsibility for space traffic management, said i

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AI in Search is driving more queries and higher quality clicks

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