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CommerceLagarde leaves the ECB on 7 February 2027, and the European Council appoints her successorThe ECB announced on 29 October that Christine Lagarde will step down on 7 February 2027. Her successor will be appointed by the European Council under the procedure in Article 283 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the EU. No reason was given.SecurityDrupal Commerce Core has an actively exploited access-bypass flaw, and the advisory tells merchants to audit their orders tooOn October 28 Drupal's security team published an advisory for Commerce Core: an access-bypass flaw rated 21 out of 25 on Drupal's scale. The advisory says it is being exploited in the wild and asks sites to check their orders for inconsistencies.FrontierXREAL Aura are the first Android XR glasses, and they run on a cable: under 95 grams, from $1,099Google announced XREAL Aura, the first glasses with Android XR, and they are wired. The glasses weigh under 95 grams, but processing and the battery sit in a separate module. The launch price starts at $1,099 and holds through the end of the year.ScienceAnthropic names 20 foundations, institutes and projects in AI for Science, from NSF to CrickThe AI for Science program, which has given scientists free Claude credits since May 2025, now names 20 organizations - from Sloan and NSF to Wellcome Sanger and Francis Crick. What the credits are worth, Anthropic does not write.BuildersGitHub's Copilot Fusion judges what a task needs, and Enterprise gets Copilot without a separate subscriptionAt Universe 2026 GitHub showed Copilot Fusion: by GitHub's own numbers, Fusion Max lands within two points of Opus 5.5 Max at half the cost. For Enterprise, Copilot is no longer a separate purchase. No availability was given for Fusion.BuildersOctoverse 2026: agents now start over 40% of pull requests on GitHub, up from 17% in MarchBy GitHub's data, in September agents started over 40% of pull requests on the platform, against 17% in March. How many of them reach a merge is not stated.BuildersVercel CI is in beta: it runs only what the change touches, and the setup lives in turbo.json instead of YAMLOn 28 October Vercel put Vercel CI in beta on all plans. By Vercel's data, getting from push to green CI is 2-6x faster for them. The announcement gives no price.BuildersReplit's ViBench 2.0: GPT-6.1 Sol leads at 65%, and no open-weight model passes a full buildReplit's new ViBench 2.0 tests an agent from an empty project to a whole product. By Replit's data, GPT-6.1 Sol leads at 65% pass@1, GPT-6 Astra is at 60%, Opus 5.5 at 49%.
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