Microsoft’s cloud went down for most of the afternoon. Nvidia lost its founder. Ukraine says its satellite internet is being throttled again. And the coldest air of the season arrives tonight. Here’s Thursday, short version.
By Joseph J. Jackson | TAMPA BAY (Nov. 12, 2026)
The short version
Outlook, Teams and the rest of Microsoft 365 were down for hours starting around 1 p.m. About 130,000 people reported Outlook problems at the peak. Microsoft says the fix may wobble Friday morning.
Jensen Huang resigned as Nvidia’s CEO after reports of an affair with a suspected Chinese agent. Florida’s Rep. Brian Mast says Huang will testify before Thanksgiving.
The front comes through tonight. Tampa’s low is near 50 Friday night and 49 Saturday night, and Saturday tops out around 65.
Weather: jacket weekend
A few isolated showers are possible tonight, mainly 10 p.m. to 2 a.m., with a low near 62. Then the cold air arrives. Friday turns sunny with a high near 74 and a north breeze. Friday night drops to about 50 in Tampa.
Saturday is the cold day: sunny, a high near 65, and about 49 Saturday night, the National Weather Service says. It warms back to 73 Sunday and 77 Monday. North of I-4, including Brooksville and Dade City, expect low 40s. No freeze is forecast.
Shelters. As of Thursday night, FMNN hadn’t seen any county announce cold weather shelters for this weekend. Hillsborough and Pinellas open them when the “feels like” temperature is forecast at 40 or below, so the northern counties are the most likely to hit the mark. If you need a warm place, call 211. Bring pets in and check on older neighbors. Town-by-town forecast
The outage
Microsoft 365 went down for hours. Microsoft first flagged Outlook mailbox problems at 12:54 p.m. Then Teams, SharePoint, Copilot and its security tools joined the list. Microsoft says servers kept failing automated health checks and dropping offline. Reports were still near 30,000 at 7 p.m. If it hits you again: check Microsoft’s status page before you troubleshoot, call or text for anything urgent, and ignore any “reset your password” email about the outage. Read more
Florida
The supermajority is gone. After the last recount, the Florida House is 70 Republicans and 50 Democrats. Republicans can still pass any bill, but it takes 72 votes to put a new amendment on the ballot, including the next property tax cut. Read more
Opinion: Florida just voted for its own Brexit. A train voters approved, killed. $2.4 billion in rail money sent back. A decade of frozen state paychecks. Water projects vetoed. Now Amendment 3 cuts the local budgets that pay for roads, pumps and fire stations. Read more
Opinion: Nikki Fried has to go. The Florida Democratic chair lost every statewide race in 2024 and 2026, waited three days to call her own Senate nominee, and runs a party that shows up at election time. Resign, remove, replace. Read more
Washington and the world
Jensen Huang is out at Nvidia. He resigned Thursday, effective immediately. CFO Colette Kress is interim CEO. The stock fell as much as 13% before recovering some. Rep. Brian Mast (R-Fla.) says Huang agreed to testify before Thanksgiving. President Trump said Tim Cook should get the job; the board picks. Read more
Starshield’s speed cap is back. Zelenskyy says SpaceX’s military satellite network is again cutting off terminals moving faster than 100 mph over Ukraine. That knocks out the interceptor drones Ukraine uses against Russia’s jet drones, and he says strikes are getting through. It came the same week Trump’s envoys sat down with Putin in Moscow. Read more
FMNN Investigates
The Watchers. Palantir says it isn’t a surveillance company. The record: ICE agents carrying a list of 20 million people on their phones, more than $130 million from the IRS, a $1 billion no-bid DHS deal, and now its security chief nominated to run the nation’s cyber defense agency. Read more
Foreign Buyers, Part 3 of 6. Federal prosecutors say Russian state TV hid $9.7 million behind fake invoices, one of them for an “iPhone 15 Pro Max,” to pay a Tennessee company and the creators it hired. Then China, Iran and Israel’s government, and the federal offices that watched for it, now mostly shut down. Read more
What to watch Friday
Whether Microsoft 365 holds up when everyone logs back on.
The weekend cold, and any shelter announcements.
A date for Huang’s testimony.
Who ordered the Starshield cap.
Florida certifies its election results Tuesday, Nov. 17.
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Sources
Each FMNN story above carries its full source list. Weather: National Weather Service Tampa forecast, issued 2:11 p.m. Nov. 12. Outage figures: CNBC, BleepingComputer, Variety and Tom’s Guide, linked in our outage story.
Photo: downtown Tampa skyline. Credit in the caption above.