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Google Cloud's London outage knocked out Revolut and hit Lloyds, HSBC and Royal Mail, with the trouble centered on one zone, europe-west2-b, and no recovery time given, leaving customers unable to make some payments or reach their money in the Revolut app.(paywalled)

Why it matters Several major UK banks and services depended on a single cloud zone, which shows how one provider's fault can spread across finance.

Google Home Speakers gorge on data, with some owners of the new speaker reporting that hundreds of gigabytes are being downloaded in the background, a bug that surfaced over the past week on Reddit and in 9to5Google's reporting.

Apple's "Pro and tell" event is set for October 28 at 1PM ET in Los Angeles, where the company is expected to debut its first touch-screen MacBook Pro with an OLED display and a refreshed iPad Mini.

Accused OpenAI engineer stays jailed after a judge ordered Abdulrahman Alfozan held, with prosecutors saying a Saudi military official paid for his wife and infant son to leave the US a day after his arrest and that the Saudi government offered to cover his bail.(paywalled)

Nikkei breached a third time in about a month, with 1.83 million records exposed that include names, addresses, email addresses, phone numbers and dates of birth.