⚡️🚨 ALERT - Revolut's app and cards have stopped working across Europe. Google Cloud's London region is affected by network failures. Revolut, and many other services, runs on Google Cloud. Revolut says money and data are safe but has not named a cause.

⚡️👀 WATCH - Wtf Albania!

⚡️🇫🇷 ALERT - In Nice, neo-Nazi activists beat up a man who was carrying a Palestinian flag. The far right appears to be enjoying the government’s protection.

⚡️🇫🇷 NEW - Hundreds of far-right activists took advantage of the curfew to gather last night at Place Bellecour in Lyon, despite the ban on gatherings imposed by the prefecture and the implementation of a curfew. They chanted slogans such as: “French people, wake up—this is your home,” “Islam out of Europe,” and “Put the scum in jail—free the city of Lyon.” Far-right activists shouted “The streets—France belongs to us!”. Some are asking: an illegal demonstration right in the middle of a curfew, and not a single CRS officer with a shield or tear gas—lol, the police are so far-right.

⚡️🇫🇷 WATCH - On October 19, 2026, at 1:50 a.m., the police surrounded a group of young people and intervened brutally.

⚡️‼️ NEW - WhatsApp's help pages hid orders telling its support chatbot not to point users who can't delete their account to a privacy regulator. If a user mentioned a lawyer, the bot was not to cite GDPR even when the user raised it, privacy firm Redact found. WhatsApp blames a bug.

⚡️🇫🇷 ALERT - A helicopter is flying over Place de la République in Paris to ensure compliance with the curfew in the area.

⚡️💬 END OF DAY - New emote

⚡️🇫🇷 ALERT - Demonstrations and gatherings are PROHIBITED from 8 p.m. tonight until 6 a.m. tomorrow in several areas of Paris, around the following locations: - Élysée Palace - National Assembly - Courthouse - Ministry of the Interior and Place Beauvau - Matignon - Senate - Police Prefecture - City Hall - Champs-Élysées - Châtelet-Les Halles and Place du Châtelet - Place de l’Opéra - Place de la République - Place de la Bastille - Place d’Italie - Saint-Lazare, Gare du Nord, Gare de l’Est, Montparnasse, Gare de Lyon, and Gare d’Austerlitz train stations.

⚡️🇷🇺🇮🇷 NEW - Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov: “I am convinced that Iran’s cause, like Russia’s, is just.”

⚡️🤡🇮🇱 NEW - Netanyahu says Hamas is now on the streets of Paris.

⚡️🇮🇹 NEW - For several days now, Milan has also been the scene of looting and urban violence.

⚡️🇫🇷 NEW - A CURFEW has been imposed in Paris around Place de la République and Les Halles, from 11 p.m. to 6 a.m. tonight for EVERYONE. Demonstrations are also PROHIBITED from 8 p.m. to 6 a.m.

⚡️🇮🇱 NEW - Netanyahu: They're trying to poison young American minds, young European minds against us. We'll need to do a lot of AI work there because it's done with bots.

⚡️🤖 NEW - A Mac user says Claude Code was building them a temperature monitor app when it found a cryptominer using 12 cores. The readings looked too high, so it checked the CPU and found XMRig at ~1175%, with the chip at 112°C.

⚡️❌ FAKE NEWS - The manipulation continues with the help of AI. "The shared image is AI-generated and does not depict real events from the October 17 protests in Paris, which centered on areas like Place de la République with clashes involving tear gas and fireworks but no matching scene at the Eiffel Tower."

⚡️💬 Stop arguing with those who advocate for horizontal conflict—the poor against the poor (but of a different race or religion)—without ever looking at the vertical dimension (the elite)

⚡️❌ NEW - A viral photo showing an elderly couple allegedly being robbed in Paris during the October 17 protests was generated or altered by AI, according to Libération. The X account that posted it is reportedly based in Israel, according to information available on the social media platform. The photo, which has been viewed nearly a million times, was shared by numerous public figures and influencers, as well as by the Union of Police Officers and Commissioners (SCSI).

⚡️🌍🔥 WATCH - Has the whole world agreed to revolt at the same time? France and Italy are burning, Albania is on day 6+ of clashes, and the list of countries joining in keeps getting longer. 8 countries, 11 seconds, 1 very angry planet.

⚡️🤡 NOW - French President Macron is in the UAE, inspecting troops alongside MBZ.