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Shares in Microsoft recovered from early losses after the tech titan struggled to fix an issue that left users around the world without its Outlook email app.
From Barron's ● Nov. 13, 2026
Where it once used AI to enhance social engineering, he said Iran now uses it to scan code for zero-day vulnerabilities and reverse-engineer patches, which tells attackers where holes are before users can fix them.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 13, 2026
Broken rigs have sat unused because there was no money to fix them, Park said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 12, 2026
In a further update issued at 19:50 GMT, Microsoft said it was "testing a configuration" to fix the problem, which was "causing servers to fail automated health checks and become unavailable".
From BBC ● Nov. 12, 2026
“So even if JB managed to fix all that time in the past—even if he sent all the kids back—how would he fix all the damage now?” she asked in a thick voice.
From "Found" by Margaret Peterson Haddix
Follow live updates: Microsoft scrambles to solve global outage affecting tens of thousands but says fixes not going 'as expected'
From BBC ● Nov. 13, 2026
AI labs should work with makers of industrial control systems to build digital twins of standard equipment, so fixes can be tested before they touch a live grid or water plant.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 12, 2026
None of this makes Nvidia cheap, and none of it fixes the concentration problem.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 11, 2026
"This new dataset fixes coordinate errors in previous Earth rotation studies. Additionally, it improves the accuracy of dating and reconstructing historical astronomical events," said coauthor Mitsuru Sôma of the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 26, 2026
She fixes a candle that’s turned funny on the candelabra and I can see why she’s looking so doubtful.
From "The Help" by Kathryn Stockett
When combined with measurements of the cosmic microwave background, supernovae, and weak gravitational lensing, the results strengthened earlier indications that dark energy might not behave like a fixed cosmological constant.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 13, 2026
Rather than a fixed, positional style of play - akin to the work of somebody like Manchester City's Enzo Maresca - Pochettino's USA had only certain players being tasked with holding their position.
From BBC ● Nov. 13, 2026
“Everything that is fixed is a target now.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 12, 2026
For older Americans living on fixed incomes, those changes can take a bite out of an already stretched budget.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 12, 2026
He stood in the middle of the trail, his long, queer-shaped nose raised to the wind and his yellow eyes fixed on us.
From "Black Star, Bright Dawn" by Scott O'Dell
He was the hero, not of a principle nor of a faith, but simply of a fixt idea and a determined purpose.
From The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. X (of X) - America - II, Index by Henry Cabot Lodge
But for the new fixt starres there’s no pretence, Nor beard nor tail to take occasion by, To bring in that unluckie inference Which weaken might this new built mysterie.
From Democritus Platonissans by Henry More
Therefore once dead in vain shall I transmit My shadow to gazing Posteritie; Cast farre behind me I shall never see’t, On Heavens fair Sunne having fast fixt mine eye.
From Democritus Platonissans by Henry More
Her eyes next, anxiously, sought those of Lord Melbury, and instantly met them; but with a look of gravity so unusual, that her own were hastily withdrawn, and fixt, disappointed, upon the ground.
From The Wanderer (Volume 1 of 5) or, Female Difficulties by Fanny Burney
Be still, my soul, be still; the arms you bear are brittle, Earth and high heaven are fixt of old and founded strong.
From The Open Question a tale of two temperaments by Elizabeth Robins
Besides tasking him with fixing Uber’s culture, the board set a deadline for Uber to go public in 2019.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 13, 2026
And it is one we need to start fixing together.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 9, 2026
Raman, a member of city council and Indian immigrant, ran on a platform of change and fixing the "broken status quo and the politicians who failed them over and over again".
From BBC ● Nov. 5, 2026
Eventually, the board decided to oust its then-CEO and bring in Joyner, a CVS veteran who vowed to keep the company intact while fixing its operations.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 5, 2026
“She’ll be a soul in torment, carried off just when she was fixing to lock us up in that schoolhouse for another year.”
From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck
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