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  1. Anthropic Agent Skills Open Standard Donated to Agentic AI Foundation

    Anthropic donated the Agent Skills open standard to the Agentic AI Foundation on October 22, 2026, transferring the name, logo, GitHub organization, and domain.

  2. ICANN Independent Objectors Appointed for 2026 New gTLD Round

    ICANN selected Dr. Daniel Müller, Judge Abdelmohsen Sheha and Eran Sthoeger on 23 October 2026 to serve as Independent Objectors for the 2026 New gTLD Program.

  3. LSEG to Acquire Octus in $3.535 Billion All-Cash Deal

    London Stock Exchange Group will purchase credit data provider Octus for $3.535 billion in an all-cash transaction expected to close in the first half of 2027.

  4. CoinDCX Confirms $15.99 Million Loss From Retired Wallet Sweep Failure

    CoinDCX confirmed it absorbed a $15.99 million USDT loss after an automated sweep from retired TRON deposit addresses failed.

  5. Initia Exploit Forces Layer 1 and Rollups Halt After MoveVM Theft

    Initia paused its Layer 1 and all rollups on October 23, 2026, after a MoveVM exploit allowed an attacker to mint unbacked bridged assets worth roughly $2.7 million.

  6. Dune Market Data Feeds Deliver Real-Time Onchain Trade Data Across 200+ Venues

    Dune Analytics released real-time normalized trade feeds covering spot and perpetuals markets on October 22, 2026. The service aggregates data from more than 200 decentralized venues across 12 blockchains.

  7. PHP2Shell Vulnerabilities Trigger PHP Emergency Patches for CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619

    PHP issued out-of-cycle patches on October 21, 2026, for two critical remote code execution flaws in the core engine. All versions from 5.4 onward require updates.

  8. LiteLLM Supply Chain Attack Compromises Version 1.107.0 on PyPI and Docker

    Attackers published malicious LiteLLM 1.107.0 packages to PyPI and Docker on October 21, 2026, installing credential-stealing malware that activated on Python startup.

  9. OpenAI Decisions API Reaches General Availability for Structured Decisions with GPT-6 Luna

    OpenAI made the Decisions API generally available on October 22, 2026, introducing a dedicated endpoint that uses GPT-6 Luna for rapid structured outputs in classification, routing, and scoring tasks.

  10. RedotPay Acquires BTCBOX to Expand Compliant Crypto Services in Japan

    RedotPay has acquired Japan-registered BTCBOX to shift its Japan operations to a licensed entity, halting non-compliant services for local users.

  11. Microsoft Azure Key Vault Post-Quantum Cryptography Advances with Project Tessera

    Microsoft announced Project Tessera on October 13, 2026, bringing post-quantum features to hardware security modules tied to Azure Key Vault and Managed HSM services.

  12. VeriSign Domain Report Records 411.6 Million Total Domains at End of Q3 2026

    VeriSign's Q3 2026 domain industry brief reports 411.6 million total registrations worldwide, marking a 2.5 percent increase from the previous quarter.