Cloud Industry Digest — Week of Oct 12–18, 2026

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• Slashdot: Game Console Market Craters: Xbox and PS5 Sales Plummet Over 25%
• Slashdot: Research Firm Calls Anthropic's Upcoming IPO 'Unprecedented Test of Investor Gullibity'

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• Slashdot: How the US Nuclear Plant Fleet Is Leaning Into AI

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Let's Encrypt announced plans to shorten the default validity period of its TLS certificates from 90 days to 64 days starting in February 2027. Additionally, OpenAI and Meta are releasing competing AI agents, with recent coverage comparing the capabilities and costs of OpenAI's Dot and Meta's Muse.

• www.theregister.com - Articles: To save paper, mainframe tech ruined a week of work
• Slashdot: Let's Encrypt to Cut SSL Certificate Lifetimes to 64 Days in February 2027
• This Week in Tech (Audio): TWiT 1105: Agents Gone Wild - Windows' New Surface Laptop Ultra & RTX Spark Dev Box!
• programming: Coding lessons taught by Boston University students!
• programming: Teenagers in Programming

• Engadget - Technology News & Expert Reviews: The pros and cons of importing foreign phones to the US
• Engadget - Technology News & Expert Reviews: OpenAI Dot vs. Meta Muse: How do these AI agents compare?