August 28-29 incident:
Some orders and payments from around 28 August are still being restored — read the incident report, or contact support if something of yours is missing. You will be asked to choose a new password at your next sign-in.
Seems ironic how Google would stress fresh content constantly but rarely update it's own blog for news. There are still some good tips to be learn new ways to use Google news.
http://googlenewsblog.blogspot.com/