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An explosive drone was found and disarmed near a Ukrainian cargo aircraft at Leipzig/Halle airport, with officials suspecting Russian involvement. The incident highlights ongoing drone incursions over European airports and the lack of a coordinated European counter-drone defense.
This paper presents a schedule-informed Temporal Fusion Transformer framework for forecasting hourly airport security-checkpoint throughput, using flight schedules converted into temporally aligned screening-load signals. The model achieves lower prediction errors compared to RNN and LSTM baselines on Atlanta airport data.
The article reports on US Customs and Border Protection's ability to confiscate and search travelers' phones at airports, highlighting a lawsuit from an activist whose phone was seized and raising constitutional concerns about targeted surveillance.