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Microsoft 365 and Outlook suffered a disruption on Thursday in the United States and other countries. Users complained of difficulty accessing and using the services. Microsoft commented on the issue, though the available material gives no details on the cause.
Jensen Huang, a co-founder of Nvidia, resigned as chief executive on Thursday after 33 years leading the company. Sky News Arabia reported that the move followed the disclosure of two extramarital relationships, one with a woman accused of spying for China. According to CNN Arabic, the board appointed chief financial officer Colette Kress as interim CEO, while BBC Arabic said several names are being floated as possible successors.
An Al Jazeera piece argues that America's AI buildout will not slow despite the Democratic win. Democrats are moving to impose environmental restrictions and make AI data centers bear electricity costs. According to the article, the expansion remains a decisive national security priority in the strategic contest with China.
Wachtell Lipton, a prominent New York law firm, will head an internal investigation at Nvidia, The Wall Street Journal reported. The probe will examine whether the technology company was the target of a foreign espionage effort.
Chipmaker Nvidia has launched an independent investigation into whether its CEO, Jensen Huang, was targeted by a foreign intelligence operation. Fox News reported that Huang admitted to being unfaithful to his wife with a woman suspected of spying for China. No details of the investigation's findings were included in the available reports.
Nvidia said on Sunday it has begun an independent investigation after reports that its founder and CEO, Jensen Huang, was the target of a foreign intelligence effort. Republican-led foreign affairs and intelligence committees in the US Congress have asked Huang to give a closed-door briefing next week on the company's security protocols against espionage. The request follows an October New York Times report alleging a close relationship between Huang and a Chinese businesswoman who passed information to Beijing; the paper reported that he acknowledged on Sunday an intimate relationship with an executive US officials concluded was working for Chinese intelligence.
New research indicates that Apple maintains a list of more than 100,000 words and phrases that its predictive text feature will not suggest or complete. As a result, users have to type these terms out in full themselves.
The US National Transportation Safety Board said wreckage from a Learjet was found miles from where the plane came down. According to investigators, pieces of the elevator, which controls the aircraft's up-and-down pitch, separated before impact.
A federal judge has ruled in favor of Saildrone, a maker of drone boats, in its protest over a Navy contract decision. The outcome is unusual, since most company challenges to government bidding decisions fail.
Ahold Delhaize and Colruyt said on Monday that an IT incident overnight damaged refrigeration systems at dozens of stores in Belgium and Luxembourg. Stores belonging to the ICA and Coop chains in Sweden also reported rising fridge temperatures, and one attributed the problem to a cyberattack. Reports differ on how many countries were affected, ranging from seven to nine, and the BBC cited reports of temperatures reaching 50°C inside some fridges.
Binance, the world's largest cryptocurrency exchange, was hit by a cyberattack on its systems on Thursday that came close to causing losses of up to $6.3 billion, CNN Arabic reported. The breach is described as one of the largest of its kind. According to BBC Arabic, two analytics and cybersecurity firms have pointed to a North Korean hacking unit known as "TraderTraitor".
Egypt's Interior Ministry said on Thursday that it had shut down an advertising screen on a major road in Giza governorate after it was hacked and showed inappropriate footage. The ministry said the screen belongs to an advertising firm contracted with an international company, and media reports citing it say the breach targeted that company's website.
According to a New York Times report, US intelligence agencies believe Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang was targeted by a Chinese businesswoman who had worked with him and is accused of acting for Beijing. She is Alice Huang, also known as Huang Le, who is unrelated to him and is an executive at Singapore-based data center firm Megaspeed; she had earlier been suspected of smuggling Nvidia chips to China. Citing unnamed sources, the paper said officials concluded she was passing commercial information to Beijing, and that President Trump was briefed but took no action.
Scientists using a telescope in Chile have detected an icy body orbiting farther out than Pluto. The object could be added to the list of dwarf planets in the solar system.
Belarus is set to start trials of satellite-based internet and communications services within weeks. The services are provided by Bureau 1440, part of Russia's ICS Holding group, according to RT Arabic.
Researchers at Russia's Petrovsky National Research Centre of Surgery have devised two new markers for gauging how far the liver has aged and how well it can regenerate. According to RT Arabic, the published information gives no details on what the markers are or how they would be used.
Drugmakers Moderna and Merck released results on Thursday from a major study of a cancer vaccine described as the first of its kind. According to the companies, the vaccine substantially reduces the likelihood that tumors return in melanoma patients.
The US Food and Drug Administration has announced the recall of several batches of two popular injectable weight-loss products because of possible contamination. The available report does not name the products or identify the affected batch numbers.
Two serious security vulnerabilities have been disclosed in the PHP programming language, and government bodies and companies around the world are moving to update their systems. Al Jazeera reports that some organizations have also temporarily taken websites or services offline as a precaution.
Egypt unveiled a platform called "Chat EGYPT" at the Egypt Forum 2026. The AI-powered tool is designed to flag rumors and check circulating claims, linking content to official data sources in an effort to curb misinformation.
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