🇸🇻🇭🇹⚡️- “Under the bilateral agreement between the governments of Haiti and El Salvador, a joint operation involving the Haitian National Police, the Haitian Armed Forces (FAd’H), the Task Force, and El Salvador’s Special Forces successfully took control of Sylvio Cator Stadium and secured it. During the operation, we discovered several human skulls inside the stadium.

We will now establish an operational base at the stadium so we can continue advancing deeper into territory controlled by the gangs.

We now have the upper hand on the ground.

I firmly demand that all gang members leave the area before the offensive begins.

Those who choose to stay and fight our forces will have to face the consequences.” - El Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele on X.

🌍⚡️- Microsoft is currently experiencing a massive global outage, with services disrupted across multiple regions as the company works to restore normal operations.

This map shows the affected regions across the world. China appears to remain unaffected, possibly because it operates separate Microsoft service infrastructure from the rest of the world.

🌍⚡️- "Attempts to fix the global outage are not going as expected." - Microsoft.

🌍⚡️- Microsoft says that there are "no signs" of a cyberattack being the cause of the global outage. However, Microsoft also says it isn't sure what is causing the global outage as of now.

The outage has been persisting for almost 10 hours.

🇦🇺🌍⚡️- Reuters reports that the Australian Secret Intelligence Service as well as the Australian Federal Police have been "hit" by the outage, affecting basic systems and day-to-day operations.

🌍⚡️- "The servers we returned to service can become unresponsive again once they receive traffic. We're analyzing diagnostic data to determine what's triggering the behavior." - Microsoft.

🇹🇷🇱🇧⚡- Following a meeting between Turkish President Erdogan's son and Lebanon's President Aoun, Ankara has expressed interest in maintaining a military presence in southern Lebanon after UN's UNIFIL depart at the end of 2027.

🌍⚡️- Microsoft says that it has begun recovery actions to correct the outage over the past hour, with "actions now completed across portions of affected infrastructure" being gradually restored.

The outage has still yet to be fully resolved, despite going on for almost a full day.

🌍 - For those curious as to why Microsoft experiencing an outage is such a big deal, much of the world's critical online infrastructure runs using Microsoft technology. Most notably, the US military relies heavily on Microsoft for its IT infrastructure, cybersecurity, and cloud operations.

There is still wide speculation that the cause of the outage is a cyberattack, but Microsoft has rejected this theory.

🇯🇵🌍⚡️- The Japanese stock market has temporarily switched to fax machines due to the Microsoft outage.

🇾🇪⚡️- Loud blasts were heard in Aden, the capital of PLC-controlled Yemen, a short time ago. A ballistic missile launched by the Ansarullah reportedly hit an installation belonging to remnants of the Southern Transitional Council.

🇾🇪🇸🇦⚡️- Additional explosions due to the arrival of suicide drones were heard as Saudi mercenaries were hit in Aden by the Ansarullah.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- "CLAIM: Today, Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said it attacked a “U.S. early-warning radar” in Bahrain. FACT: The IRGC launched two one-way attack drones toward Bahrain and both were shot down by U.S. forces. There were no injuries or damage." - U.S. CENTCOM on X.

🇺🇸🇨🇳⚡️- A new forensic investigation has uncovered strong evidence that four major Chinese AI developers, including DeepSeek, Moonshot AI, MiniMax, and Ant Group, have gained access to NVIDIA's export-controlled Blackwell GPUs, some of the most advanced AI chips in the world.

Researchers identified distinctive hardware fingerprints in six Chinese AI models, with estimates suggesting that thousands of Blackwell GPUs may have been used in their development. The findings come just one day after NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang resigned following allegations that his relationship with a suspected Chinese intelligence operative helped facilitate billions of dollars in chip shipments to China. Together, the developments raise serious questions about the enforcement of US export controls and the protection of America's technological advantage over China.