Daily report — Microsoft Panne, Nvidia earthquake and Ukrainian diplomacy: the dependency in question

Microsoft Outage That Reveals Dependence

Microsoft's services, including Outlook and Teams, have been disrupted since Thursday night, depriving millions of users of their messaging according to franceinfo, and also affecting certain functions of artificial intelligence assistants [S66]. The group claims not to have been the victim of a cyber attack and attributes the incident to a "network capacity upgrade" that went wrong [S5]. He said he was "deeply sorry" and assured that he had corrected the cause [S20]. In the United Kingdom, The Guardian reports hospitals, medical offices, schools and police assigned [S20] ; BBC refers to courts, parliamentarians and intelligence services in Australia [S79]. Switzerland was not spared, according to 24 hours [S74].

The real scale of the impact remains under discussion. Le Monde, which places the stop between Thursday and Friday noon, believes that it should be put into perspective for companies, while noting the shared feeling of having been "in the same boat" as their customers [S1]. The BBC speaks of a "sudden reminder" of our technological dependence [S19], and Futura wonders what this dependence on American giants reveals [S85].

Digital sovereignty: European calls and individual choices

According to Politico Europe, the breakdown has revived calls for Europe to control its own digital infrastructure, a Mistral manager recalling that only 20% of European digital services operate on a European infrastructure [S23]. In Dublin, a sector leader urged EU leaders to "act now" against the US and China, which European leader Metsola nuanced by contesting the idea of a block delay [S82]. In Switzerland, former French minister Thierry Breton invites Bern to regulate digital giants without fear of American retaliation [S14].

Beyond major strategies, the question also arises at the user level: 20 Minutes identifies alternatives for messaging, calendar or videoconferencing [S65]. On the local offer, the Swiss host Infomaniak announces its largest data centre in Bulle, with Gruyère Energy, by 2028, the heat of the servers to be reinjected into the local network [S75].

Nvidia: Succession and political scandal

After Jensen Huang's resignation, Libération reviews the suitors for his succession [S2]. According to Le Temps, the affair turns into a quarrel within the Trump administration: Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent questions Trade Secretary Howard Lutnick after the discovery of Nvidia chips in a data centre in Shanghai, and the former boss is to be heard at the Congress in early December [S73]. NDTV estimates Chinese AI projects threatened at $3 billion, a sign of continued demand for Nvidia equipment in China [S40].

Ukraine: European bombings and place

The Kiev centre and a medical facility were hit by further bombardments; Humanity sees a Russian will to plunge the inhabitants into a difficult winter, with power, heating and communications cuts [S3]. At the diplomatic level, as Russia had at least partially accepted European participation, the informal meeting in Dublin focused on the choice of representatives [S46]. According to SRF, Germany, France, Italy, Poland, the United Kingdom and EU representatives should sit at the table [S78].

Le Monde reports that the Kremlin, requested by Donald Trump, offers Europeans bilateral mutual assistance agreements [S62], while experts quoted by DW warn against a revision of the European security architecture that would satisfy an old Moscow demand [S22]. In Russia, car bombs killed an officer and injured a former adviser to a former Ukrainian Prime Minister; Moscow accuses Kiev [S81] [S45].

Switzerland: Intelligence, strike and political responsibility

The Confederation Intelligence Service completes its reorganization from six to four executive areas to devote more time to intelligence [S12]. Just Eat would threaten to terminate without notice the couriers on strike against the change in its business model, according to Le Courrier; the company denies any connection to the strike [S16]. In the canton of Vaud, the UDC expects the national councillor Michaël Buffat to resign if he is convicted of domestic violence against his former companion [S72]. In Geneva, the UDC opposes the arrival of MP LFI Raphaël Arnault to present a book, a debate on the freedom of expression that watson exposes with both sides [S52]. In Davos, voters will vote on 29 November on a restriction on the transformation of principal residences into secondary residences [S18].

France and the world: justice, school and pressure on freedoms

In France, management staff mobilize against violence in colleges and high schools [S69]. A Spanish neo-Nazi activist who was planning a shooting in Paris was arrested, according to an investigation by El País taken over by 20 Minutes [S4]. Gérard Depardieu must withdraw Monday from his appeal after his conviction for sexual assault, a new strategy according to Humanity [S64]. The increase in fuel prices is linked by elected officials to an increase of almost 5% in the number of TERs [S63].

In Burkina Faso, arrest warrants target journalists and activists in exile for "facts of terrorism" [S7], an approach that raises the question of the boundary between prosecution and press pressure. At the United Nations, Washington accuses the refugee agency of exceeding its mandate [S13]. For the ECB, a Franco-German agreement would make Pablo Hernández de Cos the favourite, according to Spanish media quoted by Euronews [S24].

Science

Caltech researchers have assembled a structure in space by an autonomous robot, Astra [S8]. Very Large Telescope spotted a double disk of debris around a white dwarf, possible overview of the future Solar System [S26].

This edition is based on public extracts available at the time of collection and is not exhaustive; Some facts, such as the record of Microsoft's failure, may still evolve.