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An ongoing Microsoft outage is preventing enterprise customers from accessing email inboxes, files, meetings, and other Microsoft cloud services. The technology giant said in a post on X around 2:30 p.m. ET that the outage was caused by a “portion of service infrastructure in North America that is not processing traffic as expected.” Microsoft didn’t provide specific details of the cause of the outage, but said it was “working to restore the infrastructure to a healthy state to achieve recovery.” Microsoft said on its status page that the outage affects its Exchange Online email service, searching files within SharePoint Online…

2025 was a good year for fintech, in fact, according to Innovate Finance, global fintech investment increased 21% in 2025 to $53 billion. Whilst the US unsurprisingly led the pack in terms of investment, driving $25.1 billion of fintech deals, the UK came in second with $3.6 billion, and India came third with $3.4 billion. Other regions driving investment included the UAE, Singapore, Brazil Canada and Mexico.   Which Sectors Drove The Most Interest?   When it came to the sectors driving the most interest, according to the same report, payments came out top with 5 of the 20 top…

Controversial referee Zac Kennard-Kettle has been assigned to take charge of Gillingham’s League 2 clash at Harrogate Town tomorrow.Kennard-Kettle was the man in the middle for one of the most chaotic afternoons of Gills’ season earlier this campaign – a defeat at Grimsby Town which saw two players sent off, a penalty conceded and a flood of yellow cards.Referee Zac Kennard-Kettle set to take charge of Gillingham’s game against Harrogate this weekend – pictured after controversy at GrimsbyThat match came while manager Gareth Ainsworth was recovering from heart surgery, leaving assistant Richard Dobson in charge on the touchline.Gillingham were reduced to…

The creators of the open source project vLLM have announced that they transitioned the popular tool into a VC-backed startup, Inferact, raising $150 million in seed funding at an $800 million valuation. The round was co-led by Andreessen Horowitz and Lightspeed Venture Partners, confirming TechCrunch’s earlier reporting that vLLM has raised capital from a16z. Inferact’s debut mirrors the recent commercialization of the SGLang project as RadixArk, which sources told us secured capital at a $400 million valuation led by Accel, as we reported on Wednesday. As the focus in AI shifts from training models to deploying them in applications, a…

“The market has figured out how to make robots intelligent. The next decade is about making them work together without vendor lock-in,” said Amar Bedi, CEO of Tashi. “That is the infrastructure gap we are solving.” Post this Led by a team with experience across large‑scale platforms and distributed systems, Tashi operates at the infrastructure layer. It allows autonomous systems to discover one another, exchange state, and coordinate actions locally – bringing determinism, resilience, and speed to environments where latency and reliability are critical. The Coordination Gap in Autonomous SystemsModern autonomous systems – robots, sensors, industrial machines, and AI agents…

Gillingham winger Jonny Smith was surprised to learn just how bad Harrogate’s current League 2 form is.The Gills travel to Yorkshire this weekend to face a Harrogate team who have gone 16 league games without a win. In fact, their last win was against Gillingham at the end of September, leaving Priestfield as 1-0 winners.Jonny Smith in action against Harrogate Town at Priestfield back in September Picture: @Julian_KPISmith played that game – as Harrogate ended Gillingham’s 21-game unbeaten run – and he couldn’t believe that they hadn’t won in League 2 since.Smith said: “I started the last match against them…

There’s a feeling of schadenfreude in Silicon Valley when a unicorn stumbles. So when the WSJ broke the news Thursday afternoon that Capital One will acquire Brex for $5.15 billion in cash and stock (Capital One issued an official release confirming the details 30 minutes later), you could practically hear the collective snickering from Sand Hill Road to San Francisco’s South Park. That figure represents less than half of Brex’s last private-market valuation of $12.3 billion from its 2022 Series D-2 round. Before everyone sharpens their knives, consider that for the VCs who backed Brex at its outset, the sale…

A winter chill descended on the Great Lakes region of North America in January 2026. Some of the effects were apparent in this satellite image as newly formed lake ice and a fresh layer of snow. The image, acquired by the MODIS (Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer) instrument on NASA’s Terra satellite, shows the region on the morning of January 20, 2026. In the days prior, a winter storm blanketed many parts of western Michigan near the lake with nearly a foot of snow, according to the National Weather Service. West of Walker, snowfall totals surpassed that amount, reaching nearly 14 inches (36 centimeters). The storm’s…

Thursday 22 January 2026 4:03 pm  |  Updated:  Thursday 22 January 2026 4:04 pm Share Facebook Share on Facebook X Share on Twitter LinkedIn Share on LinkedIn WhatsApp Share on WhatsApp Email Share on Email The 2026 edition of the World Governments Summit (WGS) will host the largest ever international participation since its inception and convene several landmark forums, underlining its rising global stature and significance. This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20260122197654/en/ The roster of world-leading corporations and knowledge institutions at the global forum includes the International Monetary Fund (IMF), International Finance Corporation (IFC), a member…

Sean Batty has forecast a second big freeze is on the way, saying the return of subzero temperatures “looks increasingly likely”. In his latest insight for STV News, the meteorologist said low temperatures could hit Glasgow before the end of the month. READ NEXT: Designers turn textile waste into fashion as ‘imagination meets sustainability’ MSP says any changes to parking in Dennistoun must be ‘properly enforced’ Day club event founded by Line of Duty star announces new Glasgow dates He wrote: “Some runs show sub-zero daytime temperatures and lows of around –8C in Glasgow by the end of January, while…