A routine technology upgrade may have triggered one of the biggest disruptions to US air travel in decades, after a router installed by government contractor L3Harris potentially caused a communications failure that forced the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to halt nearly all departing flights across…
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Elon Musk backs call to bring Jensen Huang back as Nvidia CEO – CNBC TV18
Elon Musk has backed calls to bring Jensen Huang back as Nvidia’s chief executive officer (CEO), saying he would sign a petition seeking the former chief’s reinstatement. Musk made the remark in response to a post by Yun-Ta Tsai, a senior staff engineer at Tesla…
Microsoft apologises for global outage, says network upgrade triggered disruption – CNBC TV18
Microsoft has apologised to customers and partners for a widespread global outage that disrupted its workplace services, including Outlook and Teams, saying the incident was caused by a technical issue linked to an earlier network capacity upgrade. In a post on X, the company said…
Why our students now program with a noisy compiler – CNBC TV18
A commerce or social science student taking one computing course may build tools that shape real decisions. A polished interface can hide serious errors. Without learning what can go wrong and how to check, the student may never acquire these essential skills, notes Aalok Thakkar,…
A series of bizarre incidents are redefining corporate risk – CNBC TV18
For decades, corporate risk came in familiar forms. Oil prices spiked. Interest rates rose. A competitor launched a better product. A regulator changed the rules. Companies built playbooks for all of this. But the events of the last few weeks have pose an existential question…
Trump not expected to raise Alice Huang case with China’s Xi, US officials say – CNBC TV18
US President Donald Trump is not expected to discuss with Chinese President Xi Jinping the case involving a businesswoman whose ties to former Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang raised national security concerns, US officials said on Friday. Trump is set to meet with Xi next week…
Investors flock to Anthropic IPO but question durability of AI lead – CNBC TV18
Institutional-investor interest in Anthropic’s initial public offering is outpacing the early days of SpaceX’s roadshow, according to two people familiar with the companies’ offerings. The Anthropic roadshow is scheduled to run through next Wednesday, when the AI company is expected to price the $64 billion…
Microsoft says services fully restored after outage roiled world – CNBC TV18
Microsoft Corp. said access has been fully restored to its flagship software, ending an outage that paralyzed government offices, traders and businesses around the world. “All products are operational,” according to a service health status update on its website. A “backlog of email messages has…
The Nvidia crisis is much bigger than Jensen Huang – CNBC TV18
Hello, Tech-AI-La-ites! Wishing you all a very happy Chhath Puja! By the time we started preparing this week’s Tech-AI-La, Microsoft had restored services after a global outage that disrupted Outlook, Teams, Copilot and other Microsoft 365 products for more than a day. The company blamed…
‘Jensen deserves due process’: Petition seeking NVIDIA CEO’s return crosses 90,000 signatures – CNBC TV18
Thirty-three years of building NVIDIA, and now a petition asking its board to give Jensen Huang another chance. An open letter calling for Huang’s reinstatement as chief executive officer (CEO) has gathered 90,246 signatures, with shareholders, current and former employees and supporters backing the campaign.…