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Daily Software Industry News

A short, hand-picked digest of what moved in the global software industry each day — AI, cloud, developer tools, security, and the business of software — with a line on why each story matters.

Google Cloud London outage, Exchange patch pain and a DeepSeek ban

  1. Cloud

    Google Cloud London zone outage knocks UK banks and apps offline (opens in a new tab)

    Google's status page says a power event caused an outage in europe-west2-b, one of three London zones, from 06:08 UTC, taking down Cloud Run, GKE, App Engine and more and hitting Lloyds, HSBC, Royal Mail and Revolut. Test multi-zone failover.

    Source: The Register

  2. Cloud

    October Windows Server updates destabilise on-prem Exchange servers (opens in a new tab)

    Microsoft says the default limit of 512 simultaneous Endpoint Lookup calls in its October Windows Server updates may not cope under heavy load, breaking OWA sign-in and mail flow on Exchange 2016, 2019 and SE. Don't uninstall; use Microsoft's registry workaround.

    Source: The Register

  3. Regulation

    US bars DeepSeek from federal civilian agency systems (opens in a new tab)

    DHS made public an order requiring federal civilian agencies to remove DeepSeek products, including third-party tools built on its models, and stop buying them. Vendors selling to the US government should check whether any DeepSeek model sits in their stack.

    Source: CNBC

  4. Security

    ConnectWise suspends Cloud Backup after unauthorised access to app identities (opens in a new tab)

    ConnectWise suspended Cloud Backup (formerly SkyKick) and linked services after unauthorised access to app identities. Huntress says a compromised Microsoft 365 API secret was used to get into customer tenants, and in one a ConnectWise app gave itself Global Administrator. MSPs should audit tenants.

    Source: The Register

  5. Business

    AI chip startup Tenstorrent raises $1.5 billion at $6.2 billion valuation (opens in a new tab)

    Tenstorrent closed a $1.5 billion Series E led by Trace Capital and Innovation X, valuing it at $6.2 billion. Investors are still betting big on alternatives to Nvidia, which could mean more choice and cheaper inference hardware for AI teams.

    Source: Bloomberg

  6. Security

    Ahold Delhaize confirms cyberattack took US and European systems offline (opens in a new tab)

    Ahold Delhaize CEO Frans Muller said pulling IT systems offline after a cyberattack affected most of its brands across Europe and the US; US e-commerce at Food Lion and Stop & Shop should return in the coming days. It follows France's supermarket fridge hacks.

    Source: The Register

  7. Regulation

    EU announces first harmonised standard for AI Act quality management (opens in a new tab)

    The European Commission announced that EN 18286:2026, a quality management standard for high-risk AI systems, is now cited in the Official Journal. Following it gives providers a presumption of conformity with Article 17, ahead of high-risk rules from December 2027.

    Source: European Commission

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