Japanese stock markets fall back to fax machines as Microsoft outage hits hour 12
gleech · x · 2026-11-14
As Microsoft's global outage entered its 12th hour, Japanese stock markets reportedly switched back to fax machines to keep trading. The poster adds a meme — "The man who sleeps with a machete is a fool every night but one" — poking fun at how fragile modern financial infrastructure is when it depends on a single cloud provider.
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