Canceled flights in the United States, heavy fine for Meta, breakdown at Microsoft… The big economic news for this Saturday, November 14

Messy flight cancellations in the United States, consequences of the Microsoft outage, demonstrations in France... Find the main economic news for this Saturday, November 14 in figures.

More than 16,000 flights canceled in the United States

More than 16,000 flights were canceled Friday and Saturday in the United States following the extremely rare suspension of takeoffs for several hours due to a communications failure, the American civil aviation regulator, the FAA, said on Saturday.

“We were unable to reschedule 12,000 flights” on Friday, a total including some 9,000 commercial flights and 3,000 private flights, FAA boss Bryan Bedford said at a press conference. “And we estimate that between 4,000 and 5,000 of the 41,000 flights scheduled for Saturday would have to be canceled,” he added.

To find out more: Lack of personnel, investment needs… The suspension of flights in the United States reveals the flaws in American air traffic control

At least 74 countries affected by Microsoft outage

Microsoft said on Saturday that it had completely “restored service”, the end point of a global outage of its online software, such as Outlook, which has affected millions of users and organizations in at least 74 countries since Thursday.

“We successfully completed our efforts to resolve the issue that caused the incident and restored service to users and regions that remained affected,” the American giant wrote on X.

Microsoft had already reported the day before a “large recovery” of its services and apologized for this global outage, specifying that it was linked to “a technical problem and not to a cyberattack or AI”.

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805 million euros: Meta's heavy fine in Italy

Facebook's parent company, Meta, has been fined a hefty 805 million euros in Italy, the Italian Personal Data Protection Authority announced on Saturday.

Some 106,000 people demonstrated this Saturday in France, including 24,000 in Paris, during Act V of the social movement, announced the Ministry of the Interior. A mobilization lower than that of last week which brought together 146,000 people including 46,000 in Paris, according to this same source.

The young inter-union organization for its part counted 200,000 demonstrators in France, including 100,000 in Paris, compared to 250,000 throughout the country including 75,000 in the capital last Saturday.

$29,990, excluding taxes, for a Tesla Cybercab

The American car manufacturer Tesla announced Friday that certain customers will be able to purchase for their personal use, its autonomous Cybercab, a vehicle without steering wheel or pedals, intended for driverless taxi services.

To find out more: Robotaxi: Tesla opens sales of its Cybercab to certain individuals

Machine-translated from French