Published on: 2025-06-06 17:35:20
On Thursday, a Google Maps glitch accidentally made it appear that the most desirable routes on German autobahns and highways were shut down, The Guardian reported. It remains unclear what unleashed a flood of stop signs on Google Maps in the area just ahead of a four-day holiday break when many drivers had travel plans. Maps of roadways in Belgium and the Netherlands were also affected. In ganz Deutschland Chaos bei Google Maps: Dienst zeigt unzählige falsche Sperrungenhttps://t.co/qEfIRrI
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-16 14:04:54
There are too many planes in the sky. In 2024, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) supervised nearly 16.8 million flights in American airspace — half a million more than the year prior. To manage all of those airplanes, however, the FAA uses an air traffic control system designed in the early 1990s — when features like trackballs and color monitors were new, and air traffic controllers handled less than half as many flights every year. Like many government agencies, the FAA has faced chro
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-16 14:00:00
There are too many planes in the sky. In 2024, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) supervised nearly 16.8 million flights in American airspace — half a million more than the year prior. To manage all of those airplanes, however, the FAA uses an air traffic control system designed in the early 1990s — when features like trackballs and color monitors were new, and air traffic controllers handled less than half as many flights every year. Like many government agencies, the FAA has faced chro
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-17 16:23:44
A striking graph, which went viral on Reddit last week, shows the purported percentage of internet users visiting OpenAI's blockbuster AI chatbot ChatGPT overtaking Wikipedia over the past two years. The data, compiled by UK-based market research company GWI, shows a steady decline in the proportion of users visiting Wikipedia worldwide, excluding China. In less than a year following its launch in late 2022, ChatGPT appears to have surpassed the online encyclopedia, in a striking reversal of fo
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-05 09:00:12
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy keeps going on TV and insisting it’s safe to fly in and out of Newark Liberty Airport in New Jersey, despite a string of extremely frightening outages and workforce shortages recently. But Duffy has now admitted he changed a flight booked for his wife on Monday so that she wouldn’t have to travel through Newark. Duffy made the startling admission to David Webb, a conservative radio host, during his SiriusXM show on Monday. And it’s a shocking thing to hear fr
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-06 01:22:27
Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More A new report released by the publicly traded market research and intelligence firm SimilarWeb—covering global web traffic patterns for AI-related platforms for 12 weeks through May 9, 2025—offers a helpful look for enterprises and interested users into the current landscape of generative AI usage online. Using proprietary analytics based on site visits, the report trac
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-08 05:10:11
It’s been a little over four months since New York City’s congestion pricing rules, which charge vehicles a toll to enter certain parts of the city, took effect. The goal of the pricing system, according to the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, was to produce “cleaner air, safer streets, and better transit.” So, how exactly is that going? Well, according to data collected by the New York Times, it’s going pretty damn well! The $9 fee charged to enter Manhattan between the hours of 5 AM and
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-10 13:35:11
Radar screens that monitor Newark Liberty International Airport in New Jersey went completely black for about 90 seconds early Friday morning, according to a new report from ABC News. The outage comes after an identical problem last week when air traffic control screens for the same airport went dark for about 60-90 seconds. The radar outage for Newark on Friday happened at 3:55 a.m., the FAA told Gizmodo over email. Air traffic control for Newark is handled in Philadelphia, where the actual sc
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-20 13:29:21
A look back at the Iberian power outage of April 28 By Philip Tellis on 03 May 2025 Table of Contents On Monday this week, the Iberian Peninsula suffered a major power outage that disabled many services across these countries. In this post I'll look at the patterns we saw in mPulse data during this time. Overall traffic I first looked at the overall data patterns for traffic originating from Spain & Portugal for several weeks prior to the outage. While other regions were also slightly affec
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-22 13:29:30
Since the beginning of 2024, the demand for the content created by the Wikimedia volunteer community – especially for the 144 million images, videos, and other files on Wikimedia Commons – has grown significantly. In this post, we’ll discuss the reasons for this trend and its impact. The Wikimedia projects are the largest collection of open knowledge in the world. Our sites are an invaluable destination for humans searching for information, and for all kinds of businesses that access our conten
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-29 21:40:35
TLDR 9 million file downloads and more than 2 petabytes (2,000,000 gigabytes) of traffic on Google Cloud. Due to a bug, our screen recorder app - screen.studio app kept downloading the auto-update file repeatedly, every 5 minutes for every single user. The update file is approximately 250MB. This resulted inof traffic on Google Cloud. This screenshot might not look so scary at first, but take a look at the scale of it. For over a month, we generated at least 100Mib/s (a second!) and, at times,
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-31 21:29:44
Power went down Monday afternoon in vast areas of Spain, crossing over into Portugal and France causing widespread outages in homes and businesses and bringing transportation infrastructure to a halt. The cause of the outage is currently unknown. Lisbon, Madrid, Seville, Barcelona, and Valencia are reportedly affected. The outage began at around 12:30PM CET. Play has been suspended at the Madrid Open tennis tournament, according to Sky News. Madrid’s underground rail system has reportedly been
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-08-04 12:38:44
80 Pages Posted: 17 Mar 2025 Last revised: 18 Apr 2025 Date Written: February 01, 2025 Abstract We study the competitive impact of content moderation by a dominant online platform. We exploit an exogenous shock that led the largest adult content platform to remove all non-verified content, eliminating 80\% of its video library. Using a difference-in-differences approach and leveraging on daily website-country level traffic data, we find that this policy resulted in a 41% drop in traffic withi
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-08-06 21:52:45
Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET I know you've heard this before, but Linux is a powerful, flexible, and secure operating system. From my experience, it is hands down the most secure OS on the market. That doesn't mean it couldn't use a bit of help. Out of the box, most Linux distributions do not anonymize or encrypt your online traffic. Also: The best VPN services: Expert tested Sure, you can install the Tor Browser, but that will only affect your web traffic. If you want even more protection a
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-08-12 00:34:07
Much of the world’s web traffic is routed through data centers , which also fuel power-guzzling artificial intelligence (AI) applications. In the U.S. alone, data centers consumed around 4 percent of the country’s total electricity in 2023 , and that number is projected to rise up to 12 percent by 2028. Some researchers are thinking big, formulating innovative schemes to make data centers more sustainable . Others, like Martin Karsten , a professor of systems and networking at the University of
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-08-17 21:30:05
Air traffic control staffing at U.S. airports is near a 30-year low, and billionaire oligarch Elon Musk has been doing his best to make sure it stays that way with the so-called Department of Government Efficiency. But Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy has an idea to fix it. Duffy thinks air traffic controllers shouldn’t retire at 56 as they’re now required to do for safety and national security reasons. In fact, Duffy seems to think allowing air traffic controllers to work into old age would
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-08-23 11:15:03
Google Maps is getting a handful of new paid AI-powered tools to help businesses and cities improve roads, manage traffic congestion and learn trends about local areas. The tech giant unveiled new Google Maps capabilities intended to change the way companies, cities and agencies such as local traffic authorities make decisions. The announcement came during Google's annual Cloud Next conference in Las Vegas on Tuesday. One of the new tools, called Imagery Insights, uses Street View alongside wi
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-08-21 17:41:24
Join our network Sign up for the best of Kentik, from articles to analysis and more. Subscribe Summary In this edition of Beyond Their Intended Scope, we take a look at last week’s BGP leak by a DDoS mitigation company which impacted networks around the world. We look at the impacts in both BGP and traffic data, and discuss how RFC 9234’s “Only to Customer” BGP Path Attribute could have helped. Late last year, we published the first edition of Beyond Their Intended Scope, our new blog series
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-08-26 09:00:36
An American Eagle jet set to leave Washington, D.C. for New York on Thursday afternoon clipped wings with another aircraft on the runway at Ronald Reagan National Airport. One of the planes had at least seven members of Congress on board, according to a report from NBC News. No injuries were reported as a result of the incident, and both planes were able to return to the terminal for inspection, according to a statement from American Airlines given to the BBC. The two flights involved in the gr
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-08-30 01:07:09
A handful of new paid AI-powered tools are coming to Google Maps to help businesses and cities improve roads, manage traffic congestion and learn trends about local areas. At its annual Cloud Next conference in Las Vegas on Tuesday, the company unveiled new Google Maps capabilities intended to change the way companies, cities and agencies such as local traffic authorities, make decisions. One of the new tools called Imagery Insights uses Street View alongside with Vertex AI (the company's AI e
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-09-01 19:41:43
Scaling Up Reinforcement Learning for Traffic Smoothing: A 100-AV Highway Deployment Training Diffusion Models with Reinforcement Learning We deployed 100 reinforcement learning (RL)-controlled cars into rush-hour highway traffic to smooth congestion and reduce fuel consumption for everyone. Our goal is to tackle "stop-and-go" waves, those frustrating slowdowns and speedups that usually have no clear cause but lead to congestion and significant energy waste. To train efficient flow-smoothing c
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-09-06 21:18:00
Editor's take: AI bots have recently become the scourge of websites dealing with written content or other media types. From Wikipedia to the humble personal blog, no one is safe from the network sledgehammer wielded by OpenAI and other tech giants in search of fresh content to feed their AI models. The Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit organization hosting Wikipedia and other widely popular websites, is raising concerns about AI scraper bots and their impact on the foundation's internet bandw
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-09-07 19:39:07
Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR Google’s Gemini has seen immense growth in the last year, but still lags far behind its main competitor. Web traffic reports reveal that ChatGPT maintains a staggering lead, receiving 5.2 billion visits in February 2025, compared to Gemini’s 139.9 million. Gemini also trails DeepSeek, which received 792.6 million visits in the same month. Gemini may not be the most popular AI chatbot on the market, but it’s steadily gaining traction. Thanks to Google
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-09-08 05:39:07
Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR Google’s Gemini has seen immense growth in the last year, but still lags far behind its main competitor. Web traffic reports reveal that ChatGPT maintains a staggering lead, receiving 5.2 billion visits in February 2025, compared to Gemini’s 139.9 million. Gemini also trails DeepSeek, which received 792.6 million visits in the same month. Gemini may not be the most popular AI chatbot on the market, but it’s steadily gaining traction. Thanks to Google
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-09-09 17:06:06
On Tuesday, the Wikimedia Foundation announced that relentless AI scraping is putting strain on Wikipedia's servers. Automated bots seeking AI model training data for LLMs have been vacuuming up terabytes of data, growing the foundation's bandwidth used for downloading multimedia content by 50 percent since January 2024. It’s a scenario familiar across the free and open source software (FOSS) community, as we've previously detailed. The Foundation hosts not only Wikipedia but also platforms lik
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-09-10 09:26:50
The Wikimedia Foundation, the umbrella organization of Wikipedia and a dozen or so other crowdsourced knowledge projects, said on Wednesday that bandwidth consumption for multimedia downloads from Wikimedia Commons has surged by 50% since January 2024. The reason, the outfit wrote in a blog post Tuesday, isn’t due to growing demand from knowledge-thirsty humans, but from automated, data-hungry scrapers looking to train AI models. “Our infrastructure is built to sustain sudden traffic spikes fr
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-09-10 13:15:46
Wikimedia has seen a 50 percent increase in bandwidth used for downloading multimedia content since January 2024, the foundation said in an update. But it's not because human readers have suddenly developed a voracious appetite for consuming Wikipedia articles and for watching videos or downloading files from Wikimedia Commons. No, the spike in usage came from AI crawlers, or automated programs scraping Wikimedia's openly licensed images, videos, articles and other files to train generative arti
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-09-15 14:12:34
Eco Cycles or How I Feel About Technology Umberto Eco, the author of The Name of the Rose and Foucault’s Pendulum (my personal favorite), wasn’t just a brilliant scholar—he was also a bit of a geek. He once wrote an essay comparing Macs to Catholicism and PCs to Protestantism. He thought about technology a lot. And he loved his fax machine. The ability to send manuscripts to his editor in minutes felt magical. At first. But the magic didn’t last. Too many people had his number. The machine st
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-09-19 05:43:38
WhataWin/Getty Images On March 10, X experienced multiple outages, with tens of thousands of users reporting the social site was down for them. Later that day, after multiple failures, X came back online. What caused this? While the pro-Palestinian hacking collective known as Dark Storm Team claimed responsibility on Telegram for a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack against X, we can't be sure they're responsible. Also: Microsoft's new AI agents aim to help security pros combat the l
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-09-19 14:36:58
Software developer Xe Iaso reached a breaking point earlier this year when aggressive AI crawler traffic from Amazon overwhelmed their Git repository service, repeatedly causing instability and downtime. Despite configuring standard defensive measures—adjusting robots.txt, blocking known crawler user-agents, and filtering suspicious traffic—Iaso found that AI crawlers continued evading all attempts to stop them, spoofing user-agents and cycling through residential IP addresses as proxies. Despe
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