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Barclaycard Payments Adds Visa Unified Checkout for UK Merchants
Barclaycard Payments is adding Visa Unified Checkout to its Smartpay Fuse gateway for UK merchants.
Googlebook Linux Terminal Preview Puts AI Agents in a Sandboxed VM
Google's Googlebook Linux terminal preview runs commands, and AI agents given sudo, inside a Debian VM.
Root KSK Rollover 2026: DNS Root Zone Switches to KSK-2024
The DNS root zone began signing with KSK-2024 on October 11, 2026. Here is who can be affected.
AWS Lambda Web Functions Run Ordinary Web Servers on Lambda
AWS Lambda Web Functions run a standard Node.js web server on Lambda, with up to 128 requests per environment.
Oxide Raises $445 Million Series D to Fill a Hardware Backlog
Oxide raised $445 million, led by Eclipse, to buy parts and build racks as orders outrun supply.
Cosmos Adds Post-Quantum ML-DSA Keys in Ledger Security 2026.1
Cosmos chains can now move validators and accounts to ML-DSA signatures one key at a time.
Visa and Mastercard Face £700 Million UK Claim Over EEA Card Fees
A £700M opt-out claim says UK businesses overpaid on online sales to EEA cardholders after Brexit.
AWS eu-south-2 Outage: Packet Loss Hits One Spain Availability Zone
A network config change caused packet loss in one zone of AWS's Spain region for 2 hours 40 minutes on October 4.
Supabase Announces Turso Acquisition and $150 Million Raise
Supabase is buying Turso, maker of a Rust rewrite of SQLite, and raised $150 million in a round led by GIC.
Azure Gateway Outage Disrupts ExpressRoute and VPN Connections
An Azure gateway outage cut ExpressRoute and VPN connectivity in several regions for almost six hours.
doxx.net Raises $38 Million for Agentic Defined Networking
doxx.net raised $38 million, led by Andreessen Horowitz, for a private network that people and AI agents configure.
Cloudflare Launches Basin, Its Iceberg Data Platform
The former Cloudflare Data Platform is now generally available, with ingestion, an Iceberg catalog and SQL on R2.
Microsoft Introduces Copilot Home, Code and Autopilot
The new experiences have different rollout schedules, with Autopilot still in private preview.
Island Raises $400 Million at a $6.4 Billion Valuation
The company plans to expand controls for enterprise work performed by people and AI agents.
Tezos Launches Experimental Post-Quantum Testnet
Quantumnet tests changes across accounts, consensus and data availability. It is not a production network.
Form3 Opens Payment Data to Read-Only AI Agents
Its first MCP adapter lets authorized agents investigate payment information without initiating changes.
Cloudflare Adds Isolated Worker Previews for Branches
Each preview gets its own URL and configuration, with separate state for supported resources.
Cloudflare Makes Python Workers Generally Available
The release adds first-class Python support, framework adapters and closer integration with Workers services.
Hop3 0.7 Adds App Installation and Login Checks
The self-hosting platform adds dashboard installs, real login tests and recovery-aware application upgrades.
MoonPay Launches PayBox for Payments Through AI
PayBox connects payment credentials to chat assistants, with approval modes chosen by the user.
Cloudflare Open-Sources Its Privacy Proxy CLI
The pvcli tool makes privacy-protocol requests easier to inspect and debug from the command line.
Visa Plans an AI Financial Assistant for Bank Apps
Visa's in-app assistant is scheduled for a US bank pilot in August, with a wider rollout planned later.
OPAQUE Introduces Agent Manifest and Confidential MCP
OPAQUE's June announcement focuses on verifying agent identity, permissions and tool execution.
Taproot Assets 0.8 Adds an SDK and Wallet Backups
Lightning Labs adds a Go library and backup options for applications using assets on Bitcoin and Lightning.
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