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Ofgem says Elexon needs licence authority to run the Smart Data Repository
The regulator has sent BSC modification P494 back while consulting on licence changes, separating Elexon’s power to operate a repository from the rules for putting settlement data there and granting later access.
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NIST puts its first agent identity test inside DevSecOps
More than 600 comments informed NIST’s agent-identity project, but its first implementation will sit inside an enterprise software factory. Consumer-owned agents are scheduled for a later phase, and another round of scope-setting is still ahead.
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UK legal-aid breach update puts the earliest known record in 1978
An October update adds 250,000 Legal Aid Agency records dating before 2007 and limited probation data to the 2025 incident’s known scope. Its own caveat matters as much as the date: a record range is not a list of people whose information was taken.
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Singapore’s quantum-safe grant tests who can fund the first pilots
Singapore has set a March 2027 deadline for critical-infrastructure owners to file quantum-safe migration plans, while a new grant can support pilots lasting as long as six months. Its funding rules may shape which organisations can test first: a provider-led project can receive…
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NIST’s O-RAN report leaves RIC app permissions to operators
NIST’s final RIC security report maps the protocols used to authenticate and authorize O-RAN applications, but it does not set the granularity of their OAuth2 permissions. That decision—and the failure boundary of any central policy service—remains with the deploying…
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Under Review Is Not a Broadband Connection
The September 2026 National Rolling Open Market Review maps providers’ current and planned broadband coverage at individual UK addresses. Its classifications help decide where public subsidy may go, but a supplier claim, a credible build plan, a funded intervention and a usable…
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When the Prefix Returned, the Service Was Still Missing
A February outage at Cloudflare exposed a distinction that network contracts often compress into one word: “available”. A BGP advertisement can return before the service attached to that address does. For customers using Bring Your Own IP, ownership of the prefix was not enough…
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Who Owns the Executable Copy of the Law?
The OECD’s consultation says the enacted text remains the law while software may carry a reusable, machine-executable version of its rules. That boundary is clear on paper. The harder question is who can show which version a public service actually ran, what interpretation it…
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SEC would rescind shareholder-proposal rule and widen proxy discretion
The September proposal would move the question of proposal inclusion toward state law and company governing documents, while making it easier for companies to seek discretionary votes on certain items left off their proxy cards. Shareholders would receive a proposed checkbox to…
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UK rejects a new SEP rate track, explores early court review
The Government has declined to create a dedicated court track for fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory (FRAND) rates. Its alternative moves assessment earlier while keeping any binding decision inside the existing courts—and leaves a separate, voluntary Intellectual Property…
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SEC staff highlights disclosure and override time for third-party retail voting
An 8 October staff interpretation says federal proxy rules do not require companies to offer retail voting programs or a menu of standing instructions. When a company offers instructions based on outside recommendations, the guidance points to the information shareholders receive…
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SEBI’s proposal would keep issuer silence in the monitoring record
A SEBI working-group consultation would let monitoring agencies report directly to exchanges, disclose when an issuer has not cooperated and prevent a company from replacing its monitor until the gap is resolved. The recommendations are not in force; comments close on 3 November.
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InternetNZ posts AGM answers before two-month member deadline
InternetNZ has published its 2026 annual-meeting question-and-answer files after members carried a motion requiring a complete, unedited meeting-question record and written answers within two months.
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Ofcom records a one-meeting exception to its chair-presence rule
Ofcom’s note published on 2 October says the Board approved a one-meeting waiver of the Chair-or-Deputy-Chair presence condition for quorum. It gives no reason for the exception and no attendance list for the affected parts of the meeting.
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BEREC–Ofcom memorandum names four fields, leaves projects for later
BEREC’s public register dates a non-binding memorandum with Ofcom to 2 October. It sets four fields for cooperation, while leaving the roles, costs and details of specific activities to later written arrangements.
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Three FCA Board Appointments, Two Different Lines of Authority
Lea Paterson and Matthew Tobin began three-year non-executive terms on 1 October, while Deputy Chief Executive Sarah Pritchard joined the FCA Board as an executive member. The appointments put external oversight and internal delivery in the same room, but the announcement records…
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A weather-data test belongs inside St Brandon’s universal-service deal
Mauritius’s two-year, USF-funded internet contract for Raphael Island is presented as a connectivity project. Its harder public test is whether the service helps restore a usable weather-observation chain and whether the regulator reports how it measures that result.
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CRTC sets three mobile-coverage levels, but the public map stays coarser
The CRTC has given mobile providers three common signal thresholds, while keeping two different levels of detail in the pipeline: submissions at 50 metres or finer and public maps at 250-metre road segments. The first reporting round is also staged, starting with Level 1 in early…
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BEREC Draft Maps Uneven Oversight of State-Funded Fibre Access
A BEREC consultation maps how national regulators review wholesale products, prices and reference offers for publicly supported fibre networks. A separate GBER proposal keeps fair-access language but could remove detailed price benchmarks from the Regulation, leaving the…
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EU Standards Access Plan Shifts the Funding Burden
The European Commission wants standards referenced in EU law to be freely accessible online. Its impact assessment puts business savings near EUR 30 million a year and possible revenue losses for national standards bodies at up to the same amount.
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