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1. Nov 13
   Microsoft’s business email was mostly down for 18 hours. Check your orders.

   If your business email runs on Microsoft 365, Microsoft’s office suite, some orders and messages sent to you since Thursday afternoon may still be on their way.

2. Nov 13
   Doomsday, postponed

   In 1960 the physicist Heinz von Foerster titled a paper in the journal Science “Doomsday: Friday, 13 November, A.D. 2026.” That’s the date on this edition.

3. Nov 13
   Apify’s warning

   If you run scrapers on Apify, a service for collecting data from websites, set your stored data to Restricted.

4. Nov 13
   OpenAI in Canada

   Canada’s biggest news publishers, among them the public broadcaster CBC and The Globe and Mail, can sue OpenAI at home over their claim that it copied their journalism to train ChatGPT.

5. Nov 13
   ChatGPT and the news

   News publishers including The New York Times say ChatGPT broke their copyright by copying their articles to answer questions.

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