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US airports halt departures after telecom equipment failure

A failure in aging telecommunications equipment forced a nationwide halt to departures from US airports Friday. Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin said officials had found no evidence so far of a cyberattack, but were not ruling one out. The US transport secretary blamed a routine copper-wire equipment upgrade; FAA administrator Bryan Bedford said there was “zero evidence of anything AI-related.”

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