The day in tech.

eMudhra voluntarily withdraws from the global SSL/TLS certificate business on October 22, 2026, citing compliance costs and a flaw found during a key generation ceremony on 30 April 2025. Weak private keys exist in eight intermediate certificates, affecting about 30,800 unexpired certificates with 97% issued via ACME. Google and Mozilla block certificates after the incident surfaced on October 17.

The Central Bank of Ireland fined Coinbase Ireland 3.6 million for customer fund segregation failures between Nov. 1, 2020, and Aug. 19, 2025. This penalty reflects a 30% settlement discount from 4.65 million. Violations occurred between Nov. 1, 2020, and Aug. 19, 2025, following a separate 21.5 million fine against Coinbase Europe in November 2025.

As of Oct 22, major US banks including JPMorgan Chase, Charles Schwab, Morgan Stanley, Bank of America, Citi, and Wells Fargo block third-party AI agents. Nvidia implemented a technical kill switch, while OpenAI launched a dedicated ChatGPT service for financial tasks.

On Oct 22, 2026, 1Password launches a secure platform allowing AI agents to sign in without passwords, protecting 1.6 billion credentials for 200,000 businesses. The tool sends digital keys for user confirmation before signing in. Support for European and Canadian accounts is currently not available.

Meta Platforms Inc. disclosed a filing Thursday revealing it agreed to spend about $825 billion in the future on leases and contracts related to computing power and infrastructure for artificial intelligence. The filing dated October 22, 2026, lists $454.5bn in non-cancelable contracts and $355.7bn in future leases. Capital expenditure reached $34.9bn in the three months to September 30.

Samsung reports a 45% sales increase for the Galaxy Z Fold 8 series in Europe compared to the previous model during the first nine weeks. Search interest hit a 460% peak between September 6 and 12, coinciding with the Apple iPhone Duo launch. Devices start at €1,999 and €2,199.

A New Mexico court ordered Meta to pay $25 billion on Wednesday regarding 43 million privacy violations. This ruling follows a 2018 data breach where a personality quiz app collected data from 87 million profiles, including friends of 300,000 users who took the test.

Meta Platforms shares fell 8% on Thursday after the company announced it would issue new Class C shares to fund its AI buildout. The firm raised its annual spending forecast to $135 billion from $130 billion, marking its first cash burn in over a decade with negative free cash flow of $2.12 billion in the third quarter.

On Oct 21 2026, Railway disclosed an AI-driven LLMjacking attack exposing customer secrets. Earlier, PingCAP reported a breach affecting 2,500 organizations with 640GB of stolen billing data. Both incidents involve unauthorized third-party access to cloud environments.

Capcom confirmed on October 19 that hackers breached its CAPCOM ID service, exposing 11.7 million customer email addresses. While most passwords remained safe, 43 accounts had birth dates and 196 had reset passwords. The company reported the incident to police on October 21 and warned users to stay vigilant against unsolicited communications.