The FAA grounded departing flights nationwide Friday after an air traffic control communications failure. Officials blamed overloaded network equipment and said they had found no evidence of a cyberattack. Nearly 10,000 flights were canceled by late evening. In New Orleans, a tanker struck a docked river cruise ship, leaving it overturned and partly submerged. All passengers and crew were accounted for, though 32 passengers were taken to hospitals.
Microsoft was also recovering from a global outage affecting Outlook, Teams and other services. The company traced it to a network-capacity upgrade, not a cyberattack. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has moved to a military base following Iranian death threats. Meanwhile, Bloomberg reports that AI-powered hacking campaigns have targeted dozens of Japanese companies, exposing weaknesses in financial and other critical systems. The incidents make for an unsettling collection of headlines, but there is no established evidence tying them together.
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