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touches, your bank app, your data, the power grid, are where the wobble lands. the one that matters official · a google cloud outage knocked…"},{"date":"2026-10-20T12:03:08.420Z","kind":"flare","kindLabel":"signal flare","title":"martori daily · signal · tuesday 7:03 am ct","stamp":"tuesday, october 20 at 7:03 am central","excerpt":"official · google: cloud outage hits banks and apps A major Google Cloud failure is knocking out online banking, the Revolut app and even court video cameras across the UK this morning. 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