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US flight outage: FAA lifts nationwide ground stop; Trump officials suggest new tech overwhelmed old equipment – as it happened

This live blog is now closed. Follow our latest coverage here. US aviation agency lifts nationwide ground stop affecting all air travel Chaos at US airports as flight stoppage grinds travel plans to a halt Sign up for the Breaking News US email In other tech-related news, the Microsoft outage is still going. The longest in the company’s history. My colleagues are covering the latest and how it’s affecting millions and pretty much every industry … As I noted earlier, the calls for Howard Lutnick to appear before lawmakers on Capitol Hill have been answered. Continue reading...

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Flights slowly resume after US aviation agency lifts nationwide ground stop

Transportation secretary Sean Duffy says the airspace is now open and the problem has been identified Chaos at US airports as stoppage grinds travel plans to a halt What to know about the rare nationwide ground stop issued by the FAA Flights in the US have slowly started resuming after being grounded for several hours on Friday due to a major communications outage, but authorities have warned that a return to normal operations will take time. The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) lifted a nationwide ground stop about four hours after it was declared on Friday afternoon, delaying or canceli

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What to know about the rare nationwide ground stop issued by the FAA

The Federal Aviation Administration issued a ground stop for all planes due to take off in the US, delaying and canceling thousands of flights The US Federal ⁠Aviation Administration said in a statement that the nationwide halt to departures and delays to landings at all US airports that began at about 4pm ET on Friday was caused by “a temporary telecommunications outage”. “Every flight has been accounted for and international flights will be handled on a case by case basis,” the FAA added. Continue reading...

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Rip out ugly clutter to help revive UK high streets, says thinktank

Exclusive: Report says restricting cars and freeing up pavement space could be a cheap way to bring shoppers back The long decline of the high street is a problem that has gripped British governments for years. But what if there was a solution no one had considered before – doing it all on the cheap? Spending less money is, admittedly, just one element of a report led by the urban thinktank Create Streets. But it does argue that rather than multimillion-pound revamps, a better answer could be smaller changes aimed at making town and city centres more appealing. Continue reading...

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How Microsoft outage has affected key public services in the UK

Hospitals, GPs, police forces and property agents have had to find a workaround for Microsoft packages Hospitals, GPs, police forces and property agents across the UK have been hit by the global Microsoft outage. Here’s how the disruption to email and other IT facilities has affected key services. Continue reading...

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Trump bought Nvidia stock as he helped chipmaker with change to export rule

President purchased up to $5m of stock before revoking Biden-era rule that limited Nvidia’s ability to sell to China Donald Trump bought Nvidia stock worth millions of dollars as he made decisions on America’s China policy that would benefit the chipmaker, an analysis has found. In May 2025, Trump’s administration rescinded a Biden-era rule designed to prevent the most advanced US-made AI chips from being exported to China. Continue reading...

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The folly of just-in-time supply chains | Letters

Hannah Walker says systems designed to minimise expenditure in the name of efficiency can end up less capable of fulfilling their actual purpose The article by Steven Strogatz and Alex Townsend on the dangers of excessive optimisation identifies a problem extending far beyond mathematics and artificial intelligence (The efficiency trap: why optimising everything can backfire, badly, 8 November). The widespread adoption of just-in-time supply chains illustrates it perfectly. By eliminating inventories and spare capacity, businesses reduced costs and improved efficiency, but frequently transferr

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Microsoft outage: company scrambles to fix global issue that took down Outlook and Teams

Tech firm says it is ‘deeply sorry’ for disruption that took services down and has now addressed the underlying issue What caused the outage and when will it be fixed? Microsoft outage hits UK hospitals, GPs, schools and police Tell us: have you been affected by the outage? Microsoft has said it is “deeply sorry” for a widespread outage that caused disruption to millions of users, organisations and businesses across the globe – and that it has “addressed the underlying issue”. The company said the outage was a “technical issue” not related to cyber-attacks or AI agents, and that it continued t

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A global Microsoft 365 outage has hit millions – what happened and when will it be fixed?

Problem affects businesses, government agencies and even tech firm’s own employees Microsoft scrambles to fix global outage affecting Teams and Outlook Microsoft outage – live updates Tell us: have you been affected by the Microsoft outage? Millions of people were unable to access their emails, Teams chats or meetings on Thursday night and Friday after a Microsoft 365 outage brought down services across the globe. The outage has lasted for more than 21 hours, with meaningful signs of recovery visible beginning shortly before midday GMT on Friday. It affected businesses, government agencies and

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