#traffic
8 discoveries · Hand-picked discoveries from the open web, newest first.
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US flights grounded after air traffic control system glitch
Al Jazeera English
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Florida Man successfully escapes traffic ticket by fleeing into the palm trees. At over 101 mph [Florida]
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Fark · EN
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FAA Expands AI Advice to Manage Air Traffic Congestion Across Entire US Airspace
The FAA is expanding its $875 million AI-powered SMART system to all 22 U.S. air traffic control centers across the country. Since being implemented over Washington, DC, on September 21, the system has helped reroute 180 flights, saving an average of 10 minutes and nearly 80 gallons of fuel per flight. Ars Technica reports: The FAA fact sheet describes SMART as a cloud-based system that combines information about "weather patterns, flight paths, traffic flow and controller staffing metrics" to predict air traffic patterns. It is designed to make scheduling recommendations, identify optimal fli
Slashdot · EN
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Show HN: AI-drop project – drop traffic fast from misbehaving crawlers (AGPL)
Hello! All started with 4 million requests / day on rocketgit.com (AGPL git hosting). Instead of thousands. Enough is enough! Presentation (8 pages): https://rocketgit.com/user/catalinux/ai-drop/artefacts/downl... So, I built AI-drop free-software project (AGPL) to block this kind of crawlers. rocketgit.com has a very restrictive robots.txt (only around 10 pages are allowed). But the crawlers are not respecting it. So, who is not respecting it will be blocked. Limiting by IP or user-agent is not working anymore. The crawlers are using millions of IPs and it takes days to reuse an IP. And they
Show HN · EN
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Show HN: Telltale Bot, detecting agentic web traffic
Telltale Bot tells website owners whether a visit comes from a person, from an AI agent acting for a person, or from a bot. It identifies; it never blocks.
Show HN · EN
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GTA 6 Preloading Is Causing Major Download Traffic Spikes in Europe
ISPs are reporting big surges. If you needed another clue as to how big GTA 6 is going to be, internet service providers in a number of countries are reporting inflated traffic figures in the wake of preload access. Millions of eager fans have pre-ordered the open world action title on PS Store — in fact, it's the most pre-ordered game on the digital storefront ever — and ahead of its launch, they're able to download the game to their PS5s to ensure it's ready to roll come 19th November. Read the full article on pushsquare.com
Push Square · EN
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FAA Phases Out Floppy Disks From Air Traffic Control
The FAA announced today that it is finally phasing out floppy disks from air traffic control systems at more than 400 facilities. Engadget reports: They'll be replaced by a more modern system called Enterprise -- Information Display System (E-IDS), which is comprised of a digital display for relaying status information, updates and other alerts to air traffic teams. The FAA plans to have E-IDS installed in 435 sites by the end of 2028; the first five locations to receive the upgrades are the Atlantic City International Airport, Nashville International Airport and Greater Rochester Internationa
Slashdot · EN