British broadcaster Sky News back on air after outage
Reporting from LONDON
The British broadcaster Sky News, NBC's partner in the U.K., was back on air early today after 9.30 a.m. (4.30 a.m. ET) after being taken offline by the ongoing issues related to Microsoft cloud services.
The broadcaster's business presenter, Ian King, said this morning was "the biggest IT outage the world has ever seen."
Local businesses affected in Australian capital, Canberra
A sign notifies customers of a temporary closure due to IT issues at a Liquor store in Canberra, Australia, today.
House cybersecurity member says airlines have ordered a "global ground stop"
Three major U.S. airlines, United, American and Delta, have all ordered global ground stops, according to a senior Democratic member of the House Cybersecurity Committee.
Eric Swalwell, D-Calif., said on X that the airlines had not issued statements to this effect so far and he urged them to do so.