
Governo descarta ataque; FBI investiga atualização de software
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O artigo relata múltiplos incidentes de tecnologia e política: pane no controle aéreo dos EUA, pane na Microsoft, intimação de Jensen Huang ao Congresso e acusação contra Santiago Peña no Paraguai.
Uma pane no controle aéreo dos Estados Unidos suspendeu as decolagens no país e provocou atrasos e cancelamentos de milhares de voos. O governo descarta, até o momento, a hipótese de ataque, e o FBI investiga se uma atualização de software causou a falha.
Outra pane deixou serviços da Microsoft fora do ar por quase 24 horas. A empresa atribuiu o problema a uma atualização da capacidade da rede.
Nos Estados Unidos, o ex-CEO da Nvidia Jensen Huang foi intimado a depor no Congresso sobre sua relação com a chinesa Alice Huang, suspeita de espionagem.
No Paraguai, o Ministério Público acusou o ex-presidente Santiago Peña de chefiar uma organização criminosa criada para fraudar o sistema financeiro do país.
AI outlook — possibilities, not facts
O FBI divulgará resultados da investigação sobre a atualização de software.
Likely · Within days
Jensen Huang deporá no Congresso dos EUA.
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.