Microsoft 365 Crawls Back to Life After a 24-Hour Outage
The company says a bad update—not a cyberattack or AI—caused its servers around the world to crash.
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The company says a bad update—not a cyberattack or AI—caused its servers around the world to crash.
Countless businesses, schools, hospitals, and governments have found out the hard way what it means to rely on a single company’s systems to get things done. And next time could be even worse.
Source: WIRED · Lily Hay Newman, Matt Burgess
Last week, Camp Snap launched a miniaturized version of its screen-free CS-8 video camera that was half the size of the original with a smaller grip designed to be easier for kids to hold. But it turns out the company wasn't done shrinking its hardware. Camp Snap's new CS-8…
Source: The Verge · Andrew Liszewski
"SignDrop" exploit lets local users gain all-powerful System rights.
Source: Ars Technica · Dan Goodin
Service is gradually starting to recover for Microsoft Outlook and 365 after an almost two-day outage impacting millions of users around the world. While some apps and features are still running in a degraded state, some people (including Verge staffers) are reporting that…
Source: The Verge · Jess Weatherbed
Governments, hospitals, courts scrambled by global Microsoft outage.
Source: Ars Technica · Ashley Belanger
The ride-sharing giant said driver's license information stored by AI cloud company Fireworks AI was stolen during a security incident.
Source: TechCrunch · Zack Whittaker
Microsoft's day-long outage began with Outlook and Teams, and ended up taking much of the company's cloud services offline. Microsoft says it's gradually restoring service.
Source: TechCrunch · Zack Whittaker
Nvidia employees and tech insiders never thought the chip king would lose his job. Despite his sudden resignation, many of them are still in denial.
Nebius plans to fund its $40 billion AI infrastructure expansion through customer prepayments and loans, even as delays at a Microsoft data center raise questions about its financing model.
Source: TechCrunch · Rebecca Bellan
Microsoft says its systems are experiencing “elevated loads” as the company races to end an outage impacting its business and enterprise customers.
A livestream Ars discussion is happening on November 17 at 1 pm Eastern Time.
Source: Ars Technica · Jeremy Hsu