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Read full articleMicrosoft says it is continuing to restore services including Outlook and Teams following a global outage.
Microsoft, which says more than 430 million people use its Microsoft 365 services, acknowledged the disruption and said it was working to restore normal operations.
Health services, schools, police departments and companies worldwide reported disruptions to their work. The cause was unclear, though Microsoft appeared to rule out a cyberattack.
Several countries that rely heavily on fossil fuels want to delay the next round of scientific assessments that governments use to inform their climate policies.
From city governments in the US to spy agencies in Australia, the Microsoft outage is being felt around the world.
Sony's PlayStation 5 has crossed 100 million units in cumulative sales to retailers worldwide. With GTA 6 set to launch on November 19, 2026, the highly anticipated game could drive fresh PS5 console demand and boost Sony's gaming business.
SpaceX's latest Starship flight planned for Friday will include its first attempt to catch the spacecraft at its Texas launch site, rather than discarding it in the ocean — a key test of Elon Musk's bid to make a fully reusable rocket system.
Conspiracy-minded commenters have found a striking connection between Microsoft's server woes and a wacky 1960 study claiming 'doomsday' will occur on November 13, 2026.
A type confusion flaw in PostgreSQL lets a database user who can create objects run code on the server. Updates released yesterday fix it, along with 51 other security flaws. Full protection from this flaw also requires rebuilding any C-language extensions installed on the server. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2026-6460, has a CVSS score of 8.8. Any code run this way has the rights of the operating
Mr. Huang championed start-ups, with Nvidia holding $48 billion worth of stakes in 229 private companies, including OpenAI and Anthropic, at the end of July.
SpaceX to attempt first-ever Starship land recovery and tower catch in historic 15th FlightSpaceX’s 15th Starship flight test marks a major milestone in aerospace development, with the company planning its first attempt to recover both stages of its orbital-class rocket at its Texas launch...
Dario Amodei, the company’s chief executive, publicly frets about the dangers of artificial intelligence and has made enemies of his peers along the way.