MILTON KEYNES – October 28, 2026 -- CookieYes, a consent management platform used by more than 2 million websites, has won Shopify's Built for Shopify badge for its cookie consent app, with daily installs up 59% since a 23 September update.

Shopify awarded the badge on 9 October 2026. It goes to apps that meet the platform's highest standards for performance, design and integration, including storefront speed and ease of use. More than 8,600 Shopify stores have installed the app to date.

Las Vegas – October 27, 2026 -- Oracle says 25 of its 75 packaged agentic applications for Fusion are now Claw-enabled. Claw is a governed runtime that executes analyst-grade work in finance, supply chain and workforce planning and commits results to Fusion within business-set limits. Oracle announced the expansion at Oracle AI World in Las Vegas on October 26, 2026, and says all of it is available in the current Fusion release.

Global -- Node.js issued security releases across all supported lines on October 21, 2026, to fix CVE-2026-111497, a high-severity out-of-bounds write in its bundled Brotli decoder that can lead to remote code execution. A Node.js process that decompresses attacker-controlled Brotli data, including Brotli-encoded HTTP responses it fetches, can be driven to write past the end of its buffer. The result is leaked memory or code execution with the process's privileges.

Mountain View – October 15, 2026 -- Cyfendo, a Silicon Valley application-security startup, has launched an AI platform that investigates software vulnerabilities and prepares tested patches for small businesses, as the FBI's 2025 Internet Crime Report recorded about $20.88 billion in reported losses across 1,008,597 complaints.

Columbus – October 14, 2026 -- American Electric Power (Nasdaq: AEP) plans to invest approximately $4 billion in a 702-megawatt fuel cell generation project near Cheyenne, Wyoming, backed by a 20-year power purchase agreement (PPA) with Google.

Singapore – October 13, 2026 -- BIGO Ads, the advertising platform of JOYY Inc. (NASDAQ: JOYY), has made its SDK generally available through Google AdMob mediation as an in-app bidding partner, giving AdMob publishers access to its advertiser demand.

Five ad formats are supported at launch, with more planned

The integration covers app open, native, rewarded, banner and interstitial ads. BIGO Ads said further formats will follow.

Durham, N.C. – October 07, 2026 -- Cypress Creek Energy has named three new executives as it scales operations following a $3.5 billion financing close for its Steel River Energy Center in Arkansas, America's largest solar project paired with battery storage.

Peter Toomey becomes Chief Operating Officer after nearly four years as Chief Development Officer

Toomey now oversees Project Execution and Cypress Creek Solutions, the company's asset management and operations division, alongside Continuous Improvement and Grid Integration responsibilities.

CHARLOTTE, N.C. – October 07, 2026 -- Duke Energy has reached a settlement with North Carolina regulators and major tech firms that forces data centers and other large-load customers to pay upfront for all grid connection costs, shielding existing ratepayers from the expense of the state's data center boom.