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.

Microsoft has apologised for the issue, which it said was due to a technical failure.

From city governments in the US to spy agencies in Australia, the Microsoft outage is being felt around the world.

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

Left-leaning journalist Kara Swisher criticized President Trump’s response to former Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang’s scandal involving an extramarital affair with a suspected Chinese spy, saying the president is downplaying the seriousness of the allegations. “He has to say nothing's going on here … because if there were, he's in real trouble,” Swisher told CNN’s Kaitlan...

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.

Millions reported issues with Microsoft Outlook, the company's workplace messaging app, Teams, its AI assistant, Copilot, as well as other Microsoft 365 services.

It's one of the most eagerly anticipated video games of all time. And now, it seems even AI influencers are cashing in on the hype surrounding Grand Theft Auto VI (GTA VI).

Throughout the years, tech giants have had mixed records after losing visionary founders who propelled their success. Successors with tech expertise helps.

Two attacks made public this week allow a malicious host to read data inside AMD SEV-SNP-protected virtual machines (VMs), which are built to keep the server's operator out. One of them, Mior, can also modify a VM's memory and fake the signed report confirming which software it runs. Both need control of the server's hypervisor, and Mior also needs control of the server's BIOS. Researchers

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent is pointing the finger at Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick over the Trump administration's failure to place Nvidia customer Megaspeed on a U.S. trade blacklist for national security concerns. When pressed Friday over who was behind the decision, Bessent told CNBC, "Treasury, War, USTR [U.S. Trade Representative] and State … were in...

President Trump on Thursday nominated two officials each to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) and the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Trump nominated Democrat Kristin Johnson and Republican Steven Levine to the SEC, with their respective terms set to expire in 2029 and 2030. Johnson previously served as a commissioner at the CFTC, after...

School children gather to discuss climate issues to coincide with the COP31 conference in Turkey.

The audacious maneuver planned for Friday is a key step toward the company’s goal of making rockets fully reusable.

The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has established that threat actors tied to the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK aka North Korea) have stolen more than $400 million worth of cryptocurrency as part of a social engineering scheme codenamed FaceStealer in the last 18 months. As part of a coordinated set of actions announced by the U.S. government, the cloud-based

Anthropic is investigating reports of degraded performance affecting Claude.ai, its API, Claude Code and other services on Friday. Users reported authentication problems and difficulty accessing the chatbot and coding tools.

A veteran FBI agent warns that millions will be in danger from terror cells hiding in the US.

Critics say Howard Lutnick, the commerce secretary, and his department have shielded Nvidia as concerns have grown over A.I. chip sales to firms like Megaspeed.

Jensen Huang’s abrupt resignation from Nvidia has cast uncertainty over the US chip giant’s multibillion-dollar investments in open-source artificial intelligence, while potentially depriving Chinese developers of one of their most influential advocates in Washington. His departure could prompt Nvidia to scale back spending on open-weight models and their supporting infrastructure, analysts said, although strong commercial incentives would likely keep the company committed to the broader...

Three Trezor Safe 5 wallets bought from the reseller CryptoBilis contain an implant, an extra circuit board that can copy their recovery phrases, hardware wallet maker Trezor said yesterday. The implant reads the phrase from the wallet's screen and sends it over the mobile network to a server controlled by the attackers. The company examined one of the wallets in its lab, identified the other

Esa's Euclid space telescope has unveiled its first major batch of cosmic images, capturing the light from more than a billion stars, galaxies and other celestial objects across a vast swathe of the sky.

Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick has agreed to testify before Congress amid bipartisan concerns about the Nvidia spy scandal and the agency's enforcement of chip export controls. Lutnick has "proactively agreed to appear voluntarily" before the Senate Banking Committee, spokesperson Kristen Eichamer said in a statement. Senate Banking Chair Tim Scott (R-S.C.) sent letters to both...

United Airlines announced a major milestone in its rollout of the fastest, most reliable inflight Wi-Fi – Starlink, with the high-speed Wi-Fi service available on more than half of its daily flights as of November 12, just in time for Thanksgiving and the start of the holiday travel season. The airline expects to have Starlink on nearly 64% of its daily flights by the end of 2026 and complete installations by the end of 2027.

Major airports and intelligence services are unaffected, while the government is still assessing the impact.

China could retaliate with tighter rare earth export controls if Washington further restricts chip sales in the wake of the Nvidia saga, Chinese analysts say, though they expect broader US-China trade talks to remain on track ahead of a planned meeting between the two countries’ leaders next week. Following Jensen Huang’s resignation from Nvidia on Thursday amid reports of multiple extramarital affairs, attention now turns to whether Washington will further tighten semiconductor export controls...