Microsoft's outage reports on November 12 reached 74 countries and territories in about an hour on Downdetector.
Microsoft says its Exchange Online incident began at 16:17 UTC. Reports to Downdetector about Outlook began climbing at about 17:25 UTC, 12:25 in New York. By 18:25, reports about five Microsoft services combined reached 19,650 a minute, against <15 a minute on an average Thursday.
Outlook reports alone peaked at more than 2,000 times their normal level.
Reports did not stay in the Americas. They jumped tenfold in the UK at 17:43, in India at 23:21 local time and in New Zealand at 06:55 local time. Between 17:00 and 18:55 UTC, nearly 3 in 10 reports came from outside the US. We count a country here once its reports reach ten times normal and at least 20 in five minutes.
Reports about Microsoft 365, Copilot, Teams and OneDrive each rose more than a hundredfold, and Azure about a hundredfold. Xbox, GitHub and LinkedIn, also Microsoft's, rose far less.
Microsoft said a portion of its infrastructure was experiencing elevated load across multiple regions. At 19:38 UTC, reports were still running at more than 11,000 a minute.
MICROSOFT'S OWN SERVERS STARTED DROPPING OFFLINE — 128,874 OUTLOOK OUTAGE REPORTS — IN ORDER:
→ 12:54pm ET, Nov 12 — Microsoft investigates: users can't get into Exchange Online mailboxes in the Americas, via multiple connection methods
→ 1:07pm ET — Microsoft says it may hit users in any region — not just the Americas
→ 1:09pm ET — Outlook outage reports peak at 128,874 — Teams and Copilot reports climb
→ 2:12pm ET — Microsoft pauses all deployments
→ 2:31pm ET — servers are unexpectedly down, the rest are STRAINING
By 2:50pm ET, servers were failing health checks.
Not a traffic surge. Not a rush of users.
Microsoft's own machines quit — and the whole workday waited.
That's the sequence.
And the app list in that outage tells you everything about what this is actually about:
→ The work inbox
→ The AI assistant inside Office
→ The office suite with 321 million active users
This isn't just an email outage.
It's a world office on wheels — and it stalled because the fleet wasn't done failing.
2:50pm ET: Microsoft restarts all affected servers.
When Microsoft names what knocked those servers out, you'll wish you'd followed me.
dans un silence assourdissant claude vient de lâcher une dinguerie en physique théorique en réglant 2 problèmes qui saoulaient les chercheurs depuis des décennies avec le coefficient de polyakov, il a capté que les trous noirs peuvent aussi pop par transition ultra rapide dans des tout petits univers et à côté de ça il a posé la limite exacte du fameux modular bootstrapping (je vous laisse chercher) pour faire le grand ménage dans toutes ces théories de gravité quantique un peu bancales qui tournaient en rond
pour vous la faire simple, imaginez que les physiciens galéraient à assembler des pièces de lego cosmiques super complexes sur la façon dont un mini trou noir se forme dans l’univers, bah dites vous queclaude a juste sorti la formule miracle pour tout emboîter d’un coup et jeter toutes les fausses pistes à la poubelle et je trouve ça juste incroyable à observer putain!!!
ce qui rend ce truc complètement fou c’est que c’est le genre d’avancée qui va pour moi irriguer toute la tech de pointe pour les années à venir et ceux qui croient encore que l’ia sert juste à gratter des mails ou à faire des résumés de réunion sont totalement perchés
comprenez qu’on est en train de basculer dans une époque où l’IA devient le moteur absolu de la découverte scientifique
Xata is now open source. Apache 2.0.
Postgres platform with Copy-on-write branching at the storage layer. Copy a TB-sized database in seconds. Inactive copies scale to zero automatically. 100% vanilla Postgres.
Two use cases driving this:
• Preview and testing environments with real production data
• Platforms provisioning per-user Postgres at scale
Built on CloudNativePG + OpenEBS. Runs on Kubernetes.
What's in the release:
• SQL gateway, responsible for routing, IP filtering, waking up scaled-to-zero clusters, serving the serverless driver over HTTP / websockets, etc.
• Branch operator managing all resources related to a branch.
• Clusters and projects services for the control-plane and REST APIs
• Auth service, based on Keycloack for API keys
• CLI that makes use of the REST API
• Scale-to-zero CNPG plugin for automatically hibernating branches on inactivity
This is the first of several announcements. More next week.
Fable 5.2 shows substantially improved skills in controlling physical robots, even on tasks it has never explicitly been trained to do.
On RoboDojo, a benchmark with a simulated two-arm robot, it outperformed other models and most AI systems built to control robots.
Fable 5.2 and Mythos 5.2 are a step above Opus 5.5 in almost all the capabilities we evaluated.
Testers have found that they communicate more clearly than past Fable and Mythos models. They generate outputs up to 30% faster than Fable 5.1 and Mythos 5.1.