Daily News Summary – 2026-11-13 – en

Microsoft's global 365 outage disrupted Outlook, Teams, SharePoint and Copilot for millions of users after servers failed health checks and overloaded remaining infrastructure. Microsoft ruled out a cyberattack and reported gradual recovery, but services remained limited more than 12 hours later.

A global Microsoft Teams and Outlook outage brought parts of the UK's public sector to a standstill on 13 November 2026, disrupting GP surgeries, police forces, hospitals and schools for over 18 hours. The NHS was among the hardest hit, with staff reverting to paper records.

The FBI said North Korean state-sponsored hackers used deepfake video calls in a scheme named FaceStealer to steal over $400 million in cryptocurrency from crypto professionals. The bureau seized cloud infrastructure and identified over 900 victim webcam recordings.

Ontario Provincial Police charged a woman with careless driving after she fell asleep at the wheel of a self-driving Tesla on Highway 417. The fine is $490 CAD plus six demerit points, the first such charge by Ottawa OPP.

The UK economy grew 0.7% in Q3 2026, the fastest quarterly expansion since early 2024, driven largely by services and AI-linked businesses. The data may pressure the Bank of England to raise interest rates in December.

The UK government will commit £100 million to establish the world's first AI Biosecurity Lab, with funding in Wednesday's Budget. OpenAI and Anthropic will contribute up to £200 million in model credits.

A Mexican judge sentenced three men to 158 years and nine months each for the 2024 murders of Australian brothers Jake and Callum Robinson and American Carter Rhoad. The killings were premeditated, motivated by theft of tires.