TrustList daily digest

Monday, 12 October 2026

Everything TrustList published on this day, 18 stories, grouped by subject and each in a line of our own.

News8

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1News
DNS root zone now signed by new key KSK-2024, resolvers must trust it
The previous root key, KSK-2017, signed from 2018 and has stopped; DNSSEC resolvers lacking key tag 38696 may fail every lookup, and the old key is due to be revoked in January 2027.
2News
Salesforce agrees to buy AI analytics firm Loops for Tableau
Close is expected in early November, in Salesforce's fiscal 2027. No price is disclosed, and Loops' technology and staff are to be folded into Tableau.
3News
Let's Encrypt moves its default certificate lifetime to 64 days
Staging issues 64-day certificates from 14 October, production follows on 10 February 2027, and fixed-day renewal scripts will break; the 45-day default is expected in 2028.
4News
Tencent closes its Yuanqi AI agent platform on 9 November
New agents and API keys stop on 29 October; WeChat chatbots built on Yuanqi stop replying at the cutoff, and user data is deleted from 9 January 2027.
5News
Windows 11 23H2 Enterprise and Education support ends 10 November
Version 23H2 on Enterprise, Education and IoT Enterprise gets its last updates on 10 November 2026; Microsoft lists 24H2, 25H2 and 26H2 as the places to move.
6News
Europe: funding calls and deadlines closing soon, week of 12 October
Software, AI and cybersecurity calls closing from 19 October to 18 November across France, Germany, Ireland, Finland, Slovakia and EU programmes, with deadlines, eligibility and amounts as each funder states them.
7News
PTA drafts passport checks for foreign SIMs and travel eSIMs
The draft would also force travel eSIM sellers such as Airalo and Holafly to register with the regulator, cap permanent roaming at 90 days in 180 and ban M2M SIMs from consumer roaming.
8News
HashiCorp archives Boundary Community Edition, no patches planned
The open source access broker repository is read-only; development moves to HCP Boundary and Boundary Enterprise, and existing binaries stay downloadable but unmaintained.

Tech and security1

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1Security advisories
GitLab patches CVSS 10 remote code flaw in its CI/CD regex compiler
The fix ships in patch releases 19.4.2, 19.3.4 and 19.2.8 alongside 23 other fixes, and single-node self-managed instances will see downtime during the upgrade.

Sectors3

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1Modern Cars
Euro NCAP finds buttons returning as XPENG X9 scores 20% on controls
The XPENG X9 still earned five stars overall. Audi's new Q7 scored 90% for driving controls, with 100% for essential driving tasks and 80% for comfort and infotainment.
2Autonomous Vehicles & Mobility
UK aviation regulator sets out how it will manage drone and eVTOL noise
Report CAP3304 expects drones and eVTOL aircraft to be quieter than helicopters but to reach homes at lower altitudes. It sets six priorities and supports a national policy.
3Modern Cars
Polestar adds two paid Charge tiers with up to 30% off at fast chargers
Plus costs EUR 7.99 a month and Pro EUR 14.99. Owners logged over 160,000 charging sessions this summer, a record for the platform.

Funding and deals6

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1Funding news
Preference Model raises $16m seed to harden AI training environments
The reinforcement learning start-up, which builds environments for frontier labs, open-sourced its Karotte framework on 7 October, four days before the seed was announced.
2Funding news
Finches raises €2m pre-seed to warn buyers of crop shortages
The Bavarian start-up, founded in 2025, launched its sourcing-risk platform in September and counts a Fortune 500 food group among early customers; HTGF led with Vanagon Ventures.
3Funding news
Stryker to invest USD 400 million in CMR Surgical and sell Versius in the US
The preferred equity comes with an exclusive option to buy all of CMR in future. CMR was founded in 2014 and keeps Versius sales outside the United States.
4Funding news
Qippay raises NZ$5m from All Roads fund for open banking payments
The Auckland company, founded in 2021 with six staff, sells a 25% stake in its parent to an Australian wholesale fund and is weighing an Australian launch.
5Funding news
Hone raises $60m seed from Benchmark and Index for AI engines
The San Francisco start-up, staffed by alumni of Cognition, Decagon, Ramp and Mercor, launched its first product, Engines, on the same day as the round.
6Funding news
Kutlerri.ai raises $4m to expand its AI agents for restaurants
The Stafford, Texas company sells restaurant agents as a managed service priced on revenue generated or costs cut, and cites $450,000 of new catering sales for one customer.

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