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1. Cloud & data centers · Enterprise software

   Microsoft 365 outage ends after almost a day

   Microsoft says the underlying issue is fixed and services are seeing broad recovery. The outage began around 1 p.m. Eastern Time on Thursday, affecting Outlook and some Teams and Copilot features.

   Full story at MacRumors ↗
2. Cloud & data centers · Programming & dev tools

   Cloudflare adds spending limits for developers

   Cloudflare's Spend Management lets users set spending thresholds and have activity paused once they are reached. This is meant to avoid unexpected bills from unplanned usage, with more than 10 million developers building on Cloudflare.

   Full story at blog.cloudflare.com ↗
3. Cloud & data centers · Networking · Enterprise software

   Microsoft blames a network upgrade for its 365 outage

   According to the headline, Microsoft denies AI caused the Microsoft 365 outage. It says a botched network upgrade was the cause.

   Full story at Windows Latest ↗
4. Cloud & data centers

   Dawn of War IV is heading to GeForce NOW

   NVIDIA announces that Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War IV is coming to GeForce NOW. The text gives no further details.

   Full story at NVIDIA ↗
5. Cloud & data centers · Data & databases

   CoreWeave launches a database service

   CoreWeave is moving beyond GPUs with a new database service. The text gives no further details.

   Full story at datanami.com ↗
6. Cloud & data centers · DevOps & containers · Programming & dev tools

   GitHub reports on its October 2026 availability

   In October GitHub added substantial Azure capacity and removed some ways failures could escalate. Write outages, monitoring gaps during data migrations and a regional network disruption showed the need for safer operations.

   Full story at github.blog ↗
7. Cloud & data centers · Data & databases · Chips & hardware

   Aurora and RDS gain Graviton5-based R9g instances

   Graviton5-based R9g instances are generally available for Amazon Aurora and RDS for PostgreSQL, MySQL and MariaDB. They offer up to 30% better performance and up to 22% better price-performance than Graviton4, depending on engine and workload.

   Full story at aws.amazon.com ↗
8. Cloud & data centers · Networking · Cybersecurity

   AWS Network Security Manager expands to more regions

   AWS Network Security Manager is generally available in the AWS European Sovereign Cloud Region and thirty-one new Regions. It is meant to simplify security policy deployment at scale and supports AWS WAF and AWS Shield in the Sovereign Cloud.

   Full story at aws.amazon.com ↗
9. New AI models · Artificial intelligence · Programming & dev tools · Cloud & data centers

   Grok 4.7 arrives in Kiro on AWS GovCloud (US)

   Grok 4.7 is available in the Kiro IDE and CLI in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions, with experimental support and a 500K context window. It is said to plan and recover from errors more reliably than Grok 4.6 in repo-scale coding.

   Full story at aws.amazon.com ↗

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