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Ground crew repositioning an aircraft on a wet airport apron at dusk, with an air traffic control tower in the background

The Fault Lasted a Millisecond. The Recovery Took Days.

On 8 September, a defect in the software that allocates radar identification codes to aircraft over the UK lasted, by NATS’ own account, a matter of milliseconds. Controllers lost the ability to tell which blip on their screens belonged to which flight without switching to manual coordination, and restrictions went on across the whole of

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A darkened open-plan office at night, every desk empty and unlit except a single row still working under lamplight, city skyline visible through the windows.

Minimum Viable Company: What’s Actually New Here?

A term with real momentum, four different definitions, and a decade-old cousin nobody mentions. Ask four different advisers to define “Minimum Viable Company” and you’ll get four different answers, all wearing the same three letters. That’s usually the first sign a term hasn’t earned its place in the vocabulary yet — and it’s worth working

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