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What’s your theory for today’s Microsoft Global email outage?
52%Hacked by Ai
23%Layoffs and H1-B’s
10%DNS
15%Microsoft updates
79 votes • 22 hours 1
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Microsoft’s email system for the entire world (global Microsoft Exchange Online) went down today beginning at approximately 12:30 pm ET.
It’s now 10:38 pm so we’ve just completed a global TEN HOUR outage.
Their last update as of 10:13 pm ET basically states (paraphrasing):
The things we’ve been doing for 10 hours to fix this didn’t work. So now we’re trying to figure out what to try next.
Yep. That’s the gist of their most recent update.
Going to have to steal this one:
Boss > Were you able to fix it?
Me > My “actions taken thus far have not provided the anticipated relief.”
We’re opening all available pathways to restore service, as our actions taken thus far have not provided the anticipated relief. We found a core process on affected servers is becoming overwhelmed, causing capacity loss. To validate a potential recovery, we're isolating a portion of infrastructure, restarting affected components, and reintroducing traffic to confirm the services remain stable before applying the change more broadly. More info under EX1550543 and MO1550821 in the Microsoft 365 admin center, as well as status.cloud.microsoft if the admin center is not available to you.
5 mins ago from Microsoft:
Translated: We have so many servers down that we don’t even know how many servers are down.
So - we spun up some Oh Shit servers to help us find all the servers that down that are never supposed to go down that we don’t even know are down yet.
We've validated an alternative service health check method, which allowed a subset of affected servers to successfully return to service. We're now applying this change more broadly. We're also preparing automated recovery systems to continually detect and restart unresponsive servers, to maintain service stability while this change progresses. More info under EX1550543 and MO1550821 in the Microsoft 365 admin center, as well as status.cloud.microsoft if the admin center is not available to you.
Microsoft doesn’t use this kind of wording unless it’s really really bad. Like, SHTF kinda bad.
“Aggressively pursuing all pathways…we’ve paused all new deployments.”
That’s a panic button I’ve never seen them hit before.
“The elevated load isn’t driven by an increase in traffic, but by a number of servers being UNEXPECTEDLY UNAVAILABLE.”
IE: Server farms. Racks and racks of servers. NOT RESPONDING. At all. Failing health checks.
Whew doggie!
CowboyTechie 🇺🇸 retweeted
A US Army Specialist admonished a group with the Secretary of War at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier for not maintaining appropriate silence and respect, and Hegseth, like a true leader, accepted the reprimand and then gave the soldier a medal for doing what was expected of him despite the potential for reprisal from the highest ranking official in the Pentagon.
This is what honorable leadership looks like.
I’ve seen multiple Democrats hypothesize that Hegseth would use his position to punish the young soldier, and they could not have been more wrong.
Scoundrels always try to tear down men of honor because they know they can never measure up.
I can’t tell you how proud this makes me as a veteran.
God Bless Secretary Hegseth.
DOL, Sir! 🫡🇺🇸
CowboyTechie 🇺🇸 retweeted
Make no mistake. The Jensen Huang scandal isn't just a story about someone's private life.
It's a lever. And it's going to be used for one thing: taking control of AI.
I'm not saying the facts are made up. Jensen admitted the affairs, and the investigation should run its course. I'm saying: look at what's being built on top of it.
Look at the sequence.
Early November, Democrats win both chambers of Congress. Right after, they announce a flood of AI bills.
One congresswoman calls for a pause on advanced AI development and a ban on superintelligence, on day one. A bill introduced in the House would create a federal Department of AI with the power to decide which companies are allowed to build advanced models. A senator wants a federal AI Safety Board with mandatory standards. Others want mandatory testing before any model is released.
Translation: tomorrow, to release a model, you'll need permission.
And who was standing in the way? Jensen.
He fought export restrictions he saw as counterproductive. He fought the state-by-state patchwork of AI laws. His very first post on X was a letter signed by Nvidia on a single topic: why open models matter. Safety, innovation, sovereignty. The world needs both closed models and open models.
Nvidia is one of the most powerful companies on the planet publicly defending open weights.
And now, in Washington, analysts are saying it out loud: the scandal has broken Nvidia's ability to slow those bills down.
For those who want to lock everything up, the timing is perfect.
Why does this matter so much? Because open source is the only thing standing between AI and a tool of control.
If AI stays open, anyone can download a model, inspect it, modify it, run it on their own machine. A student in Lagos. A small business in Ohio. A dissident in Hong Kong. No one can switch it off. No one can decide for them what the machine is allowed to say.
Kill open source, and what's left?
A handful of closed models. Licensed. Tested, approved, monitored by a federal agency. And when an agency decides what an AI is allowed to say, it decides what billions of people will read, learn and think.
That's not a technology anymore. That's a Ministry of Truth with an API.
And don't believe for a second these rules will hurt the giants.
George Stigler, Nobel laureate in economics, showed it: regulation almost always ends up captured by the very players it claims to rein in. A multimillion-dollar license? The giants pay it without blinking. A ten-person open source lab can't. Bureaucrats write the rules, the biggest players write them alongside them, and everyone else disappears.
A caste of bureaucrats, backed by a few billionaires rich enough to buy their ticket in. That's what the closed world looks like.
Europe already went down this road. The result: models launch in the US and China, and reach Europe months later. If they reach it at all.
And while America gets ready to handcuff itself, China is shipping open-weight models one after another and giving them to the whole world.
My read: the Huang scandal will be the first pretext. Not the last. Every incident, every fear, every headline will be used to close one more door.
If AI stays open, it belongs to everyone.
If it closes, it belongs to whoever hands out the licenses.
And that day, it's game over.
For my first post, I’m sharing a letter @NVIDIA signed on why open models matter.
AI will transform every industry, power every company, and be built by every country.
Open models strengthen safety and cybersecurity, accelerate innovation and diffusion, and enable sovereignty.
The world needs both frontier closed models and frontier open models.
images.nvidia.com/pdf/Open-W…
This. Excellent take, and the most likely explanation of the truth.
A few hours ago, I wrote: "They're going to pull it off. Jensen Huang is going to be pushed out of Nvidia."
It's done.
Officially, Jensen Huang resigned. In reality, the board was getting ready to throw him out. Effective immediately. He's also leaving the board. The CFO is stepping in as interim CEO. The board is even considering bringing in an outside CEO.
Thirty-three years. A company born in a Denny's, saved from bankruptcy more than once, turned into the most important company of the AI era. Wiped away in a week.
Whatever you think of his private life, look at the mechanics.
A scandal breaks. Pressure builds in Washington. Columnists demand his head. The board, which never prepared a successor, panics. The founder is out. And the man who fought the restrictions, who defended open models, who stood up to Washington, is gone.
The playbook worked. And when a playbook works, it gets used again.
The next target is Elon.
Why him? Because he's now the last builder of that scale who holds the entire chain. Rockets, satellites, energy, robots, AI, and soon chips with Terafab. He's the only one who can build both the superintelligence and the rocket that carries it into space. And he just said publicly that hiring Jensen would be an honor.
For those who want to slow everything down, there's no bigger target.
But they have a problem. You don't fire Elon Musk the way you fire Jensen Huang. He holds voting control at SpaceX. No board can throw him out overnight.
So they'll come at him another way. Regulators. Courts. Investigative committees. Government contracts. Media campaigns. Every weakness will be exploited, every mistake amplified, every procedure dragged out. They don't need to fire him. They just need to wear him down, slow him down, make every project ten times more expensive.
Open your eyes, because this is going to move very fast.
What we're living through right now isn't news. It's History.
In twenty years, this week will be taught in schools. The day America, in the middle of the race to superintelligence against China, took the man who made the chips for the entire planet out of the race. And people will ask what happened next.
The answer depends on what happens to Elon. And on what Jensen decides to do with the rest of his life.
I'm standing by my prediction.
We are living through History with a capital H.
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CowboyTechie 🇺🇸 retweeted
He slept with some women, who cares? He built the largest company in the world, is what he did! He was a brave Taiwanese engineer, and in this house, Jensen Huang is a hero. End of story!
CowboyTechie 🇺🇸 retweeted
. @KatieZacharia they sure can’t. We have less than 2 years to mass deport 100 million job destroying, resource using, America bashing illegal aliens. Let’s get to it and quit running the clock out!!!
Hey ICE, make deporting them at their day job, YOUR day job.
We all voted for that. Full speed ahead.
