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Monday, 12 October 2026

News: the stories TrustList published on this day, each in a line of our own. Open a story for the whole piece and its sources.

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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.

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