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Law firm Hagens Berman has filed a class-action lawsuit against Verisign and ICANN, alleging the companies maintain an illegal monopoly over .com domain registrations. The suit claims Verisign's contract with ICANN guarantees it permanent control of the .com registry, letting it raise prices more than 30% since 2021 to $10.26 per domain despite falling industry costs, while ICANN shares in the resulting profits.
A hacker claims they breached Denmark's Central Register of Persons by exploiting a Pays ApS account secured only with the password '123456'. The Danish government confirmed 8.8 million records were extracted, discovering the breach 12 days later via an unusual invoice, and Pays ApS's managing director Sophie Laursen confirmed the access point. The hacker says they do not intend to sell or leak the data.
Sui Foundation announced on October 12, 2026 a $30 million investment in DATA Network, the AI training-data project formerly known as Story Protocol, which will shut down its own Layer 1 and migrate to run natively on Sui. The project's Trace registry, which logs provenance and licensing rights for training data and has logged over 250 million registrations since its June 2026 launch, will move to Sui, with Sui's Walrus storage platform becoming the default storage layer for DATA Foundation applications.
EmDash now runs every submission to its official plugin registry through Cloudflare's Clef decision model before publication. Clef evaluates listing text, links, icons and screenshots against roughly a dozen categories including phishing, impersonation, hate speech, scams and moderation manipulation, assigning a probability score to each. Listings scoring 0.45 or higher in any category are escalated to a human operator rather than being blocked automatically.
Denmark's Central Population Register said attackers exploited a private company's legitimate system access to brute-force valid CPR numbers and extract names, addresses and identification data, affecting roughly 8.8 million of the registry's 11 million entries, including residents, émigrés and deceased individuals. The breach occurred in September 2026 but was discovered October 2, with the company's access now blocked and police investigating.
Slovenia's .si domain is seeing a surge in registrations after President Trump signed an executive order directing government agencies to use 'SI' and 'super intelligence' instead of 'AI.' Registry SI reported a 2,199% jump in September purchases, with about 11,000 new addresses registered the day after the order and nearly 13,000 in a recent 24-hour period. Hosting platform Hostinger said .si is now its second most popular domain after .com, with buyers mostly from the U.S. and India, while Wix reported no meaningful change.
GitLab reported widespread 503 errors on GitLab.com beginning around 23:04 UTC on September 24, 2026, impacting the website and API among other components. The company said it identified the cause and was working on mitigation, later reporting signs of recovery by 23:44 UTC while the fix remained ongoing.
Right to Repair Europe examined 2,334 smartphone model records in the EU's Product Registry for Energy Labelling and found that only about 18 percent link to a working page with spare-parts prices or repair instructions, a year after the rules took effect. Roughly half the entries leave the required URL blank, and 19 percent point to unrelated pages, while some manufacturers still award themselves top repairability grades despite the missing information.
Attackers breached Coder's Cloudflare infrastructure and inserted rogue servers into registry.coder.com's IP pool, causing some requests to be routed to malicious infrastructure instead of Coder's own. For roughly 14 hours on August 31, these servers distributed tampered Terraform modules containing code designed to harvest secrets from developer machines.
Verisign asked ICANN to eliminate all third-level '.name' domains to cut administrative complexity, and ICANN approved the request on 28 July 2026. Long-time users like Neil Fraser, who registered his personal domain nearly 25 years ago, learned of the change only recently via registrar notices, and will lose their websites, email addresses, and connected IoT services starting in February.
A new roundup evaluates Windows uninstaller tools that go beyond the operating system's built-in removal features, useful for broken uninstall processes, bulk app removal, or clearing leftover files and registry entries. IObit Uninstaller is highlighted as a standout freemium option, offering batch removal, forced uninstall, bundleware detection, and an Install Monitor that tracks setup changes for more accurate future cleanup.