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Microsoft outage shakes up companies, schools and local governments across US
Local officials warn some services remain unavailable even as Outlook starts to resume normal operations after outage
Microsoft outage: company ‘deeply sorry’ for disruption affecting millions and says it’s ‘not related to cyber or AI’ – as it happened
Microsoft struggles to fix huge outage affecting Outlook and Teams
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
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
Home sales hit 16-year low in October amid soaring mortgage rates
Sales of built units fell to 3.75m in October, down by 8.8% from last year, with mortgage rates at nearly three-year high
Jaguar Land Rover reports £451m quarterly loss after cutting 4,000 jobs
JLR chief executive calls for EU and Britain to join forces amid competition from Chinese electric carmakers
UK-EU deal will ‘dissolve’ £60m a year of costs for plant trade, says Angela Eagle
Signing of agreement to smooth movement of food, plants and animals next week will not recoup huge sums firms were forced to spend
UK’s biggest insurer hit by rise in subsidence claims after record hot summer
Increase reported by Aviva after Hastings Direct said claims were up 140% in August and Axa said it had been a ‘surge year’
Global oil supply returns to surplus for first time since start of Iran war, says IEA
Supplies outstripped demand by almost 2m barrels a day in October as market shows ‘tentative signs of rebalancing’
Farewell, Cybertruck: why the winding down of the ‘Maga hat on wheels’ is a sign of the times
Eccentric and overhyped, Tesla’s Cybertruck became a stand-in for Elon Musk during his ascent in the Republican party. It will join the ranks of other vehicles symbolic of their eras – for better or for worse
‘They’ve cut all entry-level jobs’: unlikely seaside town on frontline of AI threat
Bournemouth became a hub for thousands of finance jobs after the 1980s big bang, but new tech risks hurting Dorset’s economy
A timeline of the affair scandal that sank Nvidia’s Jensen Huang
CEO behind the meteoric rise of Nvidia stepped down after it was revealed he had an affair with an alleged Chinese spy
Who is Colette Kress, interim Nvidia CEO after Jensen Huang exit?
Chief financial officer, reportedly disparaged by Huang during summer meeting, to take over on short-term basis
Donald Trump Jr exits as paid adviser for prediction market Kalshi
Kalshi announces ‘mutual decision’ as Democrats say they plan to investigate Trump family’s investments
‘Win-win’ deal with EU could be done, Andy Burnham says
Prime minister says reset could be a deal ‘like the Brexit people thought they were voting for in 2016’
The Guardian view on venture capitalism: investor profits are no industrial strategy | Editorial
Higher returns for backers do not guarantee national prosperity. Public investment should develop domestic capabilities and meet urgent social needs
Jensen Huang was a busted flush at Nvidia – he had to go | Nils Pratley
CEO was viewed as ‘irreplaceable’, but recklessness of affair with a woman regarded by US officials as a Chinese spy made him a political liability
Jensen Huang built an AI kingdom. Now he’s gone, will Nvidia’s ramparts be breached?
CEO’s affair and resignation has brought company’s murky corporate contracts and supply chains into sharp focus
UK car industry to press EU for two-year delay to Brexit EV tariffs
‘Rules of origin’ on vehicle batteries due to come into force on 1 January if deal on new delay is not reached
Look at the Poundland scandal and see a crisis that goes beyond Britain’s high streets | Polly Toynbee
‘I look out for my team,’ a store manager tells me, but Poundland’s US owner doesn’t care. Labour may be too late to prevent it becoming yet another casualty of venture capital
AI helped UK defy expectations – but will economy’s resilience fizzle out?
Despite John Healey’s defiance, the economy faces threats from a tech slowdown and energy bills this winter
College students rally in support of Starbucks baristas urging boycott over contract negotiations
Rallies are planned at more than US 40 campuses as workers seeking better pay and conditions decry stalled talks
Nissan reduces petrol car production as EV sales boom in China
Manufacturer says ‘shift to new energy vehicles is happening faster than expected’ and market is harsh
Farewell to Elon Musk’s Cybertruck. Has any car ever been more repellent? | Arwa Mahdawi
Safety campaigners have condemned it and owners have complained about it. Goodbye to a steel monstrosity seemingly designed by a five-year-old
Democrats’ US election sweep brings the price of their promised social contract into focus
‘The post-election wish list is about to run into harsh fiscal reality: there is no money’
Federal judge allows Trump’s $10bn defamation lawsuit against BBC to proceed
Trump-appointed judge Jeffrey T Kuntz partially denies British broadcaster’s motion to dismiss over edit
Falkland Islanders face ‘devastating consequences’ if Argentina blocks oil project, says UK
Countries clash over Sea Lion project as Hamburg tribunal risks deepening sovereignty dispute
US inflation rose 0.4% in October as price increases cooled and gas costs dipped
New data comes after Republicans’ midterms losses – which were largely seen as a rebuke of the party over high prices
Tech’s biggest names sank a tax on billionaires’ wealth with $425m and a familiar playbook
California saw the most expensive opposition campaign in its history as funding of political campaigns broke records in the US midterms