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FAA outage triggered by “damaged database file” -- after agency warned on old hardware
A serious IT outage at the Federal Aviation Authority (FAA) which forced it to halt all US departing flights on Wednesday 11 has been attributed by the transportation agency to a “damaged database file” “At this time, there is no evidence of a cyber attack. The FAA is working diligently...
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Southwest Airlines’ $825m writedown is not a salutory tale about technical debt for CIOs
Failure to invest in modernising its IT estate contributed to what Southwest Airlines anticipates will be a colossal $825 million writedown in Q4, after it cancelled 6,700 flights between December 21 to December 31. The airline exposed the losses in an SEC filing ahead of its Q4 earnings, saying...