Sometimes a tl;dr really helps.
this post was submitted on 11 Sep 2023
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If I understand the article:
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a flight plan is a series of waypoints.
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Waypoints are represented using identifiers that are known to not be globally unique.
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an algorithm attempts to extract the portion of the flight in the UK airspace failed due to one of the non-unique waypoints in a flight plan
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the failure caused the primary system to halt
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the backup system takes over, processes the same flight plan and fails the same way, halting as well
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UK air traffic control can no longer accept/process flight plans, preventing flights from happening
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it took a while to resolve the system error, and longer to resolve the impacted people
Thank you.