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This image shut down a US accident database.

The National Transportation Safety Board disabled its public docket today after realizing an image it released in connection with a 2025 UPS airline crash could be used to reconstruct audio from a cockpit voice recorder — something it’s is prohibited by law from doing. The agency cites “advances in image recognition and computational methods” as the enabling factor. (h/t to Scott Manley for pointing this out.)

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