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Insolvency Service email disrupted by global Microsoft outage
A UK government agency says a worldwide Microsoft 365 outage hit its ability to send and receive email, with disruption easing by Friday afternoon.
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- Tech · 14 Nov Government appeals service stays paused over weekend after Microsoft outage
- AI · 13 Nov UK and Norway sign joint statement to deepen AI cooperation on compute, defence and security
- Scaleups · 13 Nov UK defence fund puts £113m into Ukrainian drone maker UFORCE's British expansion
- Tech · 12 Nov NCSC launches scheme to assure cyber attack simulation providers for critical UK firms
Government appeals service stays paused over weekend after Microsoft outage
A UK government digital appeals system will remain offline until Monday after a worldwide Microsoft outage disrupted email and submissions. AI · 13 Nov 2026UK and Norway sign joint statement to deepen AI cooperation on compute, defence and security
Ministers from both countries agree to explore joint work on AI hardware, defence capabilities and international governance, though no funding or binding commitments were announced. Scaleups · 13 Nov 2026UK defence fund puts £113m into Ukrainian drone maker UFORCE's British expansion
National Wealth Fund backs UK-headquartered UFORCE as part of a $700 million Series A round, promising hundreds of engineering and AI jobs and a British-built supply chain.Across the tech desk
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