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Explore Other NewslettersMicrosoft 365 and Outlook keep stumbling, and the memes are working overtime
Microsoft 365 and Outlook outages are affecting users, with recovery in progress but complaints and memes still circulating on X. Anyone who has stared at a “connecting...” banner five minutes before a client call knows the pain. The unspoken joke is that half the world’s offices stop when one cloud hiccups. It’s a fair reminder that concentration is a risk: backup channels, offline copies and a phone number for the boss are cheap insurance. Microsoft owes customers a clear explanation, not just a status page.
SpaceX plans $74 billion in AI supercomputing campuses, with its own power plants attached
SpaceX has announced AI data centre and supercomputing campuses in Texas and Arizona, with the Arizona site alone at about $50 billion. The facilities are designed to generate their own power. That detail matters after the Wyoming and Nscale stories, since the grid is the bottleneck everyone keeps hitting. It’s like building a huge factory and a private generator in the same compound, because the municipal supply is a gamble. The question is permits and local politics, given the data-centre ballot fights. A rocket company becoming a landlord of compute is a big shift.
Fireworks AI breach exposes some Notion chat transcripts
A breach at Fireworks AI exposed some Notion customer chat transcripts, with limited impact reported. Notice the chain: you trust Notion, Notion trusts a vendor, and the vendor leaks. It’s like handing your house keys to a friend who gives a copy to their cousin. Limited impact is good news, but it shows why companies should audit third-party AI providers, not just their own systems. Ask which vendors touch your data, what they store, and how fast they’d tell you if something went wrong.