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On Friday the 13th, millions of people around the world experienced a technological nightmare when a major global outage disrupted Microsoft's services, leaving businesses, government agencies and individuals struggling to carry out their daily activities. The disruption began on Thursday evening, 12 November, and continued into Friday. Some of Microsoft's most widely used services, including Outlook, Microsoft Teams, Copilot and other Microsoft 365 applications, became inaccessible or unreliable. Users reported being unable to send or receive emails, access important documents, join online meetings or communicate with colleagues. The problem affected users in at least 74 countries and territories. At its peak, nearly 140,000 problems were reported with Outlook alone on Downdetector, a website that monitors service interruptions. The actual number of people affected was considerably higher. Microsoft initially struggled to identify and resolve the problem. Some servers that had...

   Watch : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0SMQ_1wtds An Italian chef in Brisbane, Australia, has been fired after refusing to put pineapple on pizzas, among other disagreements with his employer. He took his case to Australia's Fair Work Commission, hoping to get his job back, but was unsuccessful. The chef argued that adding pineapple to pizza was an insult to his culture and went against his professional values. He claimed that he had been dismissed from the restaurant in May after repeatedly refusing his boss's instructions to prepare pizzas with pineapple. According to his argument, he believed that a professional chef should respect traditional Italian cooking methods and that changing classic recipes in this way was unacceptable. The disagreement between the chef and his employer reportedly involved more than just pineapple. Their relationship had become increasingly difficult because of different opinions about how the restaurant should operate. The employer expected ...