
Government rules out attack; FBI investigates software update
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The article reports multiple technology and political incidents: a breakdown in US air control, a breakdown at Microsoft, Jensen Huang's subpoena to Congress and the accusation against Santiago Peña in Paraguay.
A breakdown in United States air control suspended takeoffs in the country and caused delays and cancellations of thousands of flights. The government has so far ruled out the possibility of an attack, and the FBI is investigating whether a software update caused the failure.
Another outage left Microsoft services offline for almost 24 hours. The company attributed the problem to a network capacity upgrade.
In the United States, former Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang was subpoenaed to testify in Congress about his relationship with Chinese woman Alice Huang, suspected of espionage.
In Paraguay, the Public Ministry accused former president Santiago Peña of heading a criminal organization created to defraud the country's financial system.
AI outlook — possibilities, not facts
The FBI will release results of its investigation into the software update.
Likely · Within days
Jensen Huang will testify before the US Congress.
Likely · Within weeks

A technical failure at Microsoft interrupted services such as Outlook, OneDrive and Copilot in more than 70 countries, affecting governments, companies and public institutions for more than 24 hours. The company ruled out a cyber attack and attributed the problem to an increase in network capacity.

The revelation of an affair between Jensen Huang, CEO of Nvidia, and a former executive suspected of spying for China weakens his defense against chip export restrictions in Washington, reopened the debate in Congress and provoked unexpected defense from the Chinese state press.

The FBI has identified at least 900 victims of a hacking scheme that stole more than $400 million in 18 months using fake video calls. Criminals invaded social media accounts, deceived contacts with simulated calls and installed viruses on cell phones to steal data and money. The preferred targets were people in the technology and cryptocurrency industries. The United States and South Korea accuse the North Korean government of using hacker groups to finance weapons and circumvent international sanctions.

Former Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang was subpoenaed to testify before the US Congress on December 3 about his relationship with Alice Huang, suspected of spying for China, and whether it compromised national security. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick was also summoned. Huang resigned from Nvidia after admitting an extramarital affair with the executive, while Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent blamed the Commerce Department for not restricting chip sales to Alice Huang's company, Megaspeed, based in Singapore.

A global outage in Microsoft 365 affected email, meetings and AI tools, causing delays in India, England, Japan and Türkiye, as well as problems at COP31. In Brazil, investors in São Paulo and OAB-SP lawyers faced procedural deadlines at risk, as Justice is 100% digital. Microsoft attributed the failure to a problem in updating network capacity, unrelated to cybersecurity or AI.

The US FAA expanded the SMART artificial intelligence system to all 22 air control centers in the country on November 10, days before the total stoppage of takeoffs this Friday (13) caused by a telecommunications problem. The Trump administration and the FAA do not link the system to the failure, and vendor ASI denies any connection. Almost 7,000 flights were delayed or canceled.