Here's your AnewZ Technology Daily Brief for the 13th of November. This week, a Microsoft outage hit Australian agencies, Google restricted mapping data in South Korea, a lawsuit targeted advanced AI development, and Nvidia faced a leadership crisis after Jensen Huang's resignation.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has stepped down following reports linking him to a Chinese businesswoman suspected by U.S. authorities of spying for Beijing. China has denied the allegations. Chief Financial Officer Colette Kress has been appointed interim CEO, while Huang will also leave Nvidia's board. His departure has shaken investor confidence, sending Nvidia shares sharply lower and raising concerns about the future of the chipmaker and the wider AI industry.
A global Microsoft outage has disrupted services worldwide, affecting Australia's spy agency and federal police. Users were unable to access Microsoft 365, Outlook and Teams for several hours. Australian officials said Microsoft did not believe the outage was caused by a cyberattack. The government has activated an agreement with the company to prioritise restoring services in Australia.
A group of nonprofits has sued OpenAI, Google, Anthropic, Meta and SpaceX's AI division, seeking to halt the development of advanced artificial intelligence models. The lawsuit, filed in San Francisco, argues that AI technology could pose serious risks to humanity and accuses the companies of engaging in unfair business practices. The groups are asking a court to block further development of AI products, including ChatGPT, Gemini and Claude, until safety concerns are addressed.
Google has removed latitude and longitude coordinates for South Korea from Google Maps and Google Earth to comply with government security requirements. The move follows Seoul's decision in February to allow Google to export high-precision map data after nearly two decades of restrictions. Google must also remove Street View images of sensitive military and security facilities. South Korea warned that serious violations could lead to the suspension or cancellation of the permit.
France has accused Iran's Revolutionary Guards of carrying out cyberattacks that disrupted refrigeration systems at hundreds of supermarkets in October. According to French authorities, around 700 commercial sites were targeted, with at least 15 fires reported and significant food losses. France has summoned Iran's ambassador and threatened further EU sanctions. Iranian authorities have denied involvement in malicious cyber operations.
Kazakhstan-linked hackers stole thousands of national security documents from Tajikistan, a cybersecurity company has said. ...
Four Turkish military personnel have been killed after an S-70 helicopter crashed in the eastern province of Malatya on Thursday, Türkiye'...
Here's your AnewZ Technology Daily Brief for the 13th of November. This week, a Microsoft outage hit Australian agencies, Google restricted map...
European leaders gathered in Dublin on Thursday, 12 November, for the ninth European Political Community (EPC) summit, with security, defence and energy high on the agenda. Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev held talks focused on peace, trade and regional cooperation.
UN Secretary-General António Guterres delivered a stark warning at this year's COP31 summit, saying the climate crisis iss advancing faster than governments' efforts to contain it.
Iran will not let a single particle of its enriched nuclear material leave the country, and any new U.S. attack would be met with strikes on distant American bases, Iranian security chief Mohsen Rezaei has said.
Nvidia chief executive Jensen Huang is stepping down amid reports linking him to a woman suspected by U.S. authorities of spying for China, throwing the future of the $4 trillion chipmaker into uncertainty.
Four million workers across Spain joined a general strike on Wednesday over the country’s deepening housing crisis, unions said, bringing disruption to factories, ports, shops and public transport just weeks before a snap general election.
Microsoft struggled to restore its services on Friday after a major outage disrupted Outlook, Teams and Copilot across the United States and Asia-Pacific region.
President Vladimir Putin agreed on Thursday to let European representatives join the next round of Ukraine peace talks while the United States continues to work towards what could become the largest prisoner exchange of the Russia-Ukraine war.
Azerbaijan and the UK have pledged to strengthen defence, trade and education cooperation after signing a joint declaration elevating relations to a strategic level in Dublin, Ireland on Thursday (12 November).
More than 333,000 people have been forced from their homes in Yemen since the beginning of August as fighting has escalated, including more than 24,000 in the past week alone, the United Nations said on Thursday.
A court in Russia’s Baltic exclave of Kaliningrad has sentenced human rights lawyer Maria Bontsler to 12 years in prison on treason charges, after prosecutors accused her of passing sensitive information to Ukraine.
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