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JCB · Oct 29

JCB and Hanoi Metro Plan Contactless Fares for Early 2027

JCB and Hanoi Metro signed an MOU on October 29 to let JCB cardholders tap in at metro gates from early 2027.

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Akamai · Oct 28

Akamai Launches Agent Sandbox and Managed Inference in Beta

Akamai's Agent Sandbox isolates code that AI agents write; Akamai Inference adds managed model APIs. Both are in beta.

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Cloudflare · Oct 28

Cloudflare Radar Counts 49 Internet Disruptions in Q3 2026

Cloudflare Radar logged 49 internet disruptions in Q3 2026, led by exam shutdowns and power failures.

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ENS · Oct 28

ENSv2 Goes Live on Ethereum Mainnet With Nested Name Registries

ENSv2 is live on Ethereum mainnet with nested registries and narrower permissions; existing names keep working.

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Entire · Oct 27

Entire Opens Its Git Forge, Swapping Pull Requests for Trails

Entire's Git forge is open to all developers, with agent-scored Trails instead of pull requests.

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Meta · Oct 26

Sundial Acquisition: Meta Buys AI Analytics Startup

Sundial's co-founders return to Meta to lead AI analytics tooling and agents. No price was disclosed.

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Euronet · Oct 23

Euronet Launches OLON Merchant Platform, Starting in Greece

Euronet's OLON bundles card acceptance, software integrations and add-on services for merchants; Greece goes first.

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Google Meet · Oct 23

Google Meet Speech Translation Expands to 63 Languages

Meet now detects the spoken language and translates between any of 63 languages, set per participant.

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eMudhra · Oct 23

eMudhra Certificate Compromise: Chrome Drops emSign Root on Oct. 27

Weak keys in eight eMudhra intermediates allowed forged HTTPS certificates. Chrome drops the root on October 27.

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Python · Oct 22

Pylance Adds Pyrefly Support Through New Type Server Protocol

A new Type Server Protocol lets Pylance in VS Code run Meta's Pyrefly as its type checker instead of Pyright.

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Salesforce · Oct 22

Salesforce Agrees to Acquire Braze for $5.66 Billion

Salesforce will buy customer engagement platform Braze for $47.50 a share in cash, about $5.66 billion.

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Solana · Oct 22

Solana Alpenglow Goes Live on Mainnet, Replacing TowerBFT

Solana switched from TowerBFT to Alpenglow consensus on October 21; Anza puts finality at about 150 ms.

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Visa · Oct 15

Barclaycard Payments Adds Visa Unified Checkout for UK Merchants

Barclaycard Payments is adding Visa Unified Checkout to its Smartpay Fuse gateway for UK merchants.

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AI agents · Oct 14

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.

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DNS · Oct 14

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.

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Developer tools · Oct 13

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.

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Startup funding · Oct 11

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.

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Cosmos · Oct 10

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.

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Visa · Oct 10

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 · Oct 5

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.

Developer tools · Oct 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.

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Microsoft · Oct 3

Azure Gateway Outage Disrupts ExpressRoute and VPN Connections

Microsoft's final review: resumed gateway updates and a slower control plane hit seven Azure network services.

Startup funding · Oct 2

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 · Oct 2

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.

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