and congratulations on making it to the weekend. Today, we catch up on the latest from the tech world and look at why October has been named “Black October” and whether Om El Donia escaped it. Not quite, as it turns out.

Elsewhere this afternoon, we may be a little late to the party, but we tune into Apple TV’s Widow’s Bay and make the case for it as your weekend binge-watch. We also break down last night’s football results and list the domestic and European fixtures we’re watching this weekend. That and more.

It’s been a packed week at home and abroad, and we run through the headlines that shaped it below.

Also today, we spotlight Nesma Amin, founder of Aziza and our Founder of the Month. The Egyptian femtech startup is an Arabic-language, offline-first period-tracking app that needs only a phone number to register, and Amin puts the broader MENA femtech window at USD 3.8 bn by 2030.

On the reviews front, we catch Sense and Sensibility at the movies, visit a food joint that treats fries as the main event instead of a “Side Piece,” blow off some steam with Resident Evil 7, and more.