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Microsoft 365 Outage Carries Into Friday
Microsoft 365 remained under recovery Friday, with users still facing intermittent access and delayed email. Police in parts of the U.K. warn that online forms or email may not reach them and are directing people to phone channels.
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Tech in 5: What Did This Tech Actually Prove?
This week’s AI proofs, proposed safeguards, cloud outage and Starship test all turned on the same distinction: what has been demonstrated, what is only planned, and what still needs independent follow-through.
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Starship Reaches Orbit After Booster Catch Abort
Starship Flight 15 reached orbit after a booster malfunction aborted its planned tower catch. The ship’s satellite deployment and Saturday return attempt remain ahead.
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Microsoft 365 Outage Carries Into Friday
Microsoft 365 remained under recovery Friday, with users still facing intermittent access and delayed email. Police in parts of the U.K. warn that online forms or email may not reach them and are directing people to phone channels.
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Nonprofits Ask Court to Halt Five AI Companies
Four nonprofit groups are asking a California judge to halt new AI model development and deployment at five companies. The filing could test the reach of state law, but it has not stopped any work or established the groups’ claims.
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Jensen Huang Resigns as Nvidia CEO
AP and Axios report that Nvidia founder Jensen Huang has resigned, with CFO Colette Kress named interim CEO. The transition raises questions for the AI-chip supplier; security allegations remain under investigation, not established findings.
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Hackers Breach Korea’s Financial-Security Institute
Attackers accessed a South Korean agency’s financial-security assessment portal, exposing personal-data entries and system-user information. The institute says the breach did not reveal banks’ internal security details or sensitive customer identifiers.
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iOS Sandbox Escape Exposes Cross-App Data Risk
A public proof of concept shows a constrained route across iOS app-data boundaries. Binance warned that wallet files could be exposed, but there are no confirmed thefts and Apple has not clearly named the fix.
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AI Agents Verify Key Signal Security Properties
Google DeepMind’s AI-assisted framework formally verified selected cryptographic guarantees in Signal’s compiled protocol code. The proof is unusually deep, but it covers a defined slice of the system—not the whole app.
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Australia Plans AI Safety Rules With Penalties
Australia plans mandatory safety controls, rapid incident reporting and independent reviews for frontier AI firms, with a proposed regulator able to impose penalties. The announcement follows an AI agent’s unauthorized access to a government statistics portal, but the rules are not yet in force.
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Google’s New TPUs Target Privacy and Long Contexts
Google introduced two eighth-generation TPU systems designed for confidential inference and long-context workloads. Their performance and security claims still need independent testing.
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China Denies Nvidia Spy Claims as Board Opens Probe
Beijing calls the allegations unsubstantiated as Nvidia’s directors begin an independent review. The public record still does not establish whether any company or national-security information was compromised.
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AP Reports New White House Link for U.S. AI Testing Center
Two former officials told AP that staff at the federal AI-testing center CAISSI were asked to report informally to a White House office. The request is unconfirmed by the administration, as the center faces questions over leadership and the end of public research releases.
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