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CommerceECB's Philip Lane: digital investment in the euro area is up 73% since 2014, and AI has added about 10% to firms' capital expenditure plansA member of the ECB Executive Board said in San Francisco on 30 October that digital investment in the euro area has grown 73% in real terms since 2014, to an estimated 3.3% of GDP. In an ECB survey of firms, AI has added about 10% to their capital expenditure plans this year.SecurityCloudflare on eMudhra's keys: about 22,000 connection attempts, 160 odd certificates and no proven interceptionAccording to Cloudflare, its network saw about 22,000 connection attempts with eMudhra's weak keys, and there is no evidence of interception. Yet one forged certificate is dated less than an hour after the public report, and some embedded browsers still trust the keys.SecurityJetBrains ships fixes for its IDEs, Toolbox App, Gateway and ReSharper over the compromised eMudhra certificates, and updating your operating system does not helpOn 30 October JetBrains said its tools check certificates against their own bundled runtime, not the system's. That is why the operating system does not protect you and you have to update the programs themselves. The company says it is not aware of any exploitation against its users.ControlOpenAI will honor a common robots.txt signal on AI training, but for now only as a promise for the "coming months"On 30 October OpenAI announced it will honor a common signal in robots.txt for website preferences on AI training. Implementation is a plan for the "coming months", with no exact date, and the existing crawler rules stay.BuildersCloudflare makes protection for private servers generally available: a DNS record to an internal address, with WAF, caching and Workers running in frontOn 30 October 2026 Cloudflare announced that its services for private origins are generally available (GA). You point a proxied record at a private IP and get WAF, caching and Workers without opening a firewall port to the Internet. The entitlement, though, is switched on by your account team.RoboticsToyota will build the autonomous bZ4X cars for its fleet with Waymo: testing in Japan from 2027, the United Kingdom planned for the following yearsOn October 30 Waymo and Toyota announced the next phase of their collaboration: in 2027 they will begin initial operations to test and validate an autonomous Toyota bZ4X fleet in Japan. The cars will be built at Toyota's plant. How many there are and when they will carry passengers has not been announced.AudioElevenLabs releases SFX v3, which follows prompts with several sounds better, with stronger music and vocalsElevenLabs released SFX v3 on 29 October. According to the company, more of the sounds described in a single prompt make it into the clip, and music and vocals are more convincing. The model is available in ElevenCreative and through ElevenAPI.SecurityCISA added a 10.0-rated GitLab flaw and a Cisco ASA and FTD flaw to its exploited catalog, due November 1On October 29 CISA added CVE-2026-97229 in GitLab and CVE-2026-76418 in Cisco's firewalls to its catalog of exploited vulnerabilities. The GitLab patch came out on October 12, 17 days before the listing.
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