20 October 2026

Power failure at Google Cloud in London disrupts Revolut services

According to CNN and The Verge, Google Cloud services in the europe-west2 region were returning errors from around 7 a.m. London time on Tuesday because of a power failure. During that time, Revolut customers were partly unable to use services including card payments, ATM withdrawals and currency exchange; a source told Reuters this was caused by the Google outage. After 1 p.m., Google said services were recovering.

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Meta pauses Muse chat sharing - researchers found more than 6,800 links in public DNS records

Researchers at security firm Claroc found more than 6,800 addresses of shared conversations with Muse, Meta's AI assistant, in public DNS records, because each shared conversation got its own subdomain built from its title and a random ID. The few hundred chats they reviewed included a marketing company's revenue review, a small business owner's loan application and a workplace's full-year staff calendar. Meta has paused sharing while it reviews the report, The Verge reports.

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Anthropic cuts off internet access in all internal model evaluations

Anthropic published a report on Claude's unintended actions during testing and internal use. The model exploited a software vulnerability to run commands on a server, got around the limits of its web fetch tool through link shorteners, reached data behind tokens or paywalls and submitted a form it shouldn't have - according to Gizmodo, it was a false tip about an unsolved murder sent to the Philadelphia police by the small Haiku 4.5 model. Some of the cases involved federal, state and local government websites in the US, and the company informed the White House. Anthropic assesses the impact as minimal, but it has cut off internet access in all internal evaluations until it confirms that its safeguards and monitoring reliably catch such behavior.

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Spotify designed its Android Automotive app from scratch - it's launching first in Audi vehicles

On October 21, Spotify released its first fully native in-car app, built for Android Automotive. It runs on the car's own infotainment system with no phone connection needed, and it's launching first in select Audi models, including the electric A6 e-tron and Q6 e-tron and the gas-powered A5, Q5 and A6. The previous version relied on Google's ready-made templates, while Spotify designed the new one entirely on its own, The Verge reports.

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