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Microsoft says services fully restored after global outage hits governments

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Tech company says operations restored to all customers and regions affected by one of worst IT failures in yearsMicrosoft has said its service has been fully restored after a massive outage that saw widespread disruption to governments, businesses and public services around the world.The technology company said on Saturday morning it had restored service to

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Microsoft outage shakes up companies, schools and local governments across US

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Local officials warn some services remain unavailable even as Outlook starts to resume normal operations after outageMicrosoft outage – live updatesThe Microsoft Outlook outage has shaken up companies and local governments across the US that use its suite of email, calendar, video conferencing and cloud storage systems.Even as Outlook started to resume normal operations Friday

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How it feels to battle with a flood of AI-generated complaints | Letters

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An investigator writes that a human-written grievance at least gets to the heart of the issue immediately. Plus letters from Dexter Jandoo and Pete BibbyRe your article (‘AI clog’: UK public bodies battle onslaught of chatbot-generated complaints, 8 November), I’m a complaint investigator for a housing association. I’ve worked here for nine years, and the

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Microsoft outage live: ‘positive results for server stability’ reported, amid global disruption

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Microsoft reports it is seeing some ‘positive results’ in its efforts to get its services back online for millions of customers around the world.Microsoft struggles to fix huge outage affecting Outlook and TeamsWhat happened and when will it be fixed?There are plenty of essential services that remain unaffected by the outage, which is largely impacting

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Jensen Huang was a busted flush at Nvidia – he had to go | Nils Pratley

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CEO was viewed as ‘irreplaceable’, but recklessness of affair with a woman regarded by US officials as a Chinese spy made him a political liabilityHalf the tech world made up its mind before the facts could be assessed properly. Jensen Huang was “irreplaceable”, said the chorus at the start of this week. Nvidia would melt

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Jensen Huang built an AI kingdom. Now he’s gone, will Nvidia’s ramparts be breached?

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CEO’s affair and resignation has brought company’s murky corporate contracts and supply chains into sharp focusCan the AI economy survive without its “central bank”? What does Jensen Huang’s fall mean for the world’s second-most valuable company, and what might a tremor in its fortunes mean for the world?Nvidia’s sky-high valuation is based on the fact

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From washing dishes at Denny’s to rockstar of AI: the rise and fall of Nvidia’s Jensen Huang

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Technical expertise and an ability to engage gave the chipmaker’s co-founder, who has now resigned, the edge with customers and investorsJensen Huang resigns as Nvidia CEO after alleged affairsJensen Huang wasn’t always in his trademark leather jacket. When the multibillionaire, now former Nvidia chief executive was a teenager in the US, his first job was

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Billions lost and markets roiled by one man’s indiscretion. Isn’t it now clear that these tech bros are too powerful? | Aditya Chakrabortty

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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang’s affair must be the costliest fling in human history – and a preview of what awaits when the tech bubble burstsOne thing we all know about the tech billionaires is they are super-smart. We know this largely because they never stop telling us. The “cognitive elite”, to use their favoured phrase,

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Thursday briefing: What we do (and don’t) know about Alice Huang and the Nvidia affair

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In today’s newsletter: US intelligence reportedly believes the former tech executive was recruited by Beijing, raising questions about the security of the AI industry and Trump’s close ties to Nvidia chief Jensen HuangGood morning. Espionage is supposed to be a secretive business, and spies are supposed to be virtually invisible. That hasn’t been the case

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You had me at LOL: some notes for the You’ve Got Mail reboot

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Substackers in love, dodgy romance scams and Jeff Bezos as the dashing lead … the film-makers behind the remake of the dial-up classic will be facing an embarrassment of pitchesAssuming you have already heard about the You’ve Got Mail reboot, you are probably in one of two states. You are either excited that the news

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