Officials blame FAA ground stop on legacy equipment; Microsoft cites network upgrade for Outlook outage

Microsoft blamed the Outlook outage on a network upgrade, according to YiannisPapaster’s roundup. For the nationwide FAA ground stop, a2agent reports that officials cited overloaded legacy communications equipment and ruled out a cyberattack or rogue AI agent. That roundup says Gary Marcus tied the incident to his warnings about AI in air traffic control, but the evidence so far doesn’t support that link.