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Monday, 19 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
Let's Encrypt will check domains from six remote vantage points
Two new remote perspectives go into staging on 27 October and production on 10 November, ahead of the CA/Browser Forum rule that requires at least five from 15 December; geo-blocked challenge paths are the thing to check.
2Business news
Boomi buys Elementary to add data observability to its platform
Elementary began as an open-source project in 2022 and says 1,500 data teams use it; Boomi, which bought Lunar.dev and Rivery before it, did not disclose terms.
3News
KOLC+ adds a ¥10,000 single-project plan for Japan public works
The BIM/CIM cloud from Tokyo's KOLG takes quote requests for its new ASP plan from 4 January and starts it on 1 April 2027, after meeting the land ministry's mandatory requirements for construction work in September.
4News
Europe: funding calls and deadlines closing soon (week of 19 October 2026)
Calls for software, AI, robotics and mobility firms closing by the end of November across France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg and EU programmes, with deadlines, eligibility and amounts as each funder states them.
5News
Innovate UK opens three £5m BridgeAI calls for AI deployment
UK AI SMEs paired with a larger deployer can bid for £100,000 to £200,000 in Phase 1 from 21 October to 8 December, the first step of a programme Innovate UK expects to grow to £52 million.
6News
UAE drops local storage rule and pauses e-invoicing inside tax groups
Ministerial Decision 197 of 2026 exempts transactions inside a VAT tax group for 24 months from January 2027 and repeals the two-day system-failure notice; a separate decision gives pre-approved providers until the end of October.
7News
EU publishes EN 18286, the first harmonised standard under the AI Act
Providers of high-risk AI systems that follow the CEN and CENELEC quality management standard now get a presumption of conformity with Article 17, more than a year before the high-risk rules apply.
8News
October Windows Server updates can stall on-premises Exchange
Microsoft traces OWA failures, growing mail queues and DAG quorum loss to a new Endpoint Mapper limit in the October Windows Server updates, and says not to uninstall them but to raise the limit in the registry.
9News
DHS bars DeepSeek and products built on it from US civilian agencies
Exclusion and Removal Order 2026-01 under the supply chain security act reaches third-party products built on DeepSeek, not only DeepSeek's own apps; agencies had 60 days to ask for exceptions.
10News
Costa Rica makes businesses register SINPE Móvil numbers for tax
Decree 45953-H, in force since its publication in La Gaceta, adds the phone numbers used to take SINPE Móvil payments to the tax register; Hacienda has three months to set the rules and registered taxpayers then get twelve.

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