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CWU’s DM26 pause complicates Ofcom’s one-year stamp-cap bridge
Ofcom’s proposed year-long extension of the Second Class letter cap buys time for evidence on postal reform. A union-announced pause in further rollout now makes the pace of that evidence less certain, without changing the proposal itself.
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X appears to meet Ofcom’s response-time targets; takedown results remain unsettled
Ofcom says X’s first quarterly report appears to meet the review-time windows it accepted in May. The regulator has yet to test the metrics against its own evidence and still questions whether illegal content is being removed effectively.
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Five law scholars dispute SEC’s case for rescinding shareholder-proposal rule
A 13 October comment says Rule 14a-8 governs federal proxy disclosure rather than state-law corporate rights; other filings ask for a longer review or support repeal with safeguards.
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CMA’s Microsoft Proposal Turns on a Five-Activity Boundary
The CMA’s proposed Microsoft designation asks whether five kinds of business software can be treated as one digital activity under UK law. That scope question is still open to consultation; it does not itself impose a conduct rule or establish wrongdoing.
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Mexico’s child-safety decree starts a 30-day platform reporting test
Mexico has made a broad set of child-safety duties binding on online platforms. The first test of the decree will be whether the required reports show what changed, how risks are measured and who checks the claims.
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SEC’s $173 million cross-trading estimate leaves the distribution question open
The SEC projects sizable annual transaction-cost savings from expanding affiliated fund trades, but its aggregate model cannot show which fund families can capture those savings or how much would reach shareholders.
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GreenSquareAccord meets lender covenants, but home sales underpin its viability plan
The Regulator of Social Housing has downgraded GreenSquareAccord to G3 for governance and V3 for viability. The grades turn on a gap between what lenders’ covenants currently permit and what the regulator can establish about the landlord’s forecasts, controls and capacity to…
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BEREC chair urges EU to keep competition a standalone Digital Networks Act goal
BEREC Chair Marko Mismas says competition should remain an objective in its own right as the EU rewrites telecom rules. The Commission proposal already lists effective competition separately from industrial competitiveness; the test now lies in the final text and how regulators…
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EU energy revision could turn national plans into investment roadmaps
A Commission initiative expected in the fourth quarter may reshape how national energy and climate plans connect targets, investment and delivery. A European Parliament research briefing sketches possible indicators and follow-up options, but no draft law has settled what…
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SEC proposal would move fund cross-trade checks to compliance officers
The SEC wants to widen the securities that affiliated funds may trade with one another. Its proposal would also shift the quarterly compliance determination from fund boards to chief compliance officers, with annual reviews and reports intended to preserve oversight.
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HKMA ties bank AI guidance, data quality and agent trials to its ART plan
The Hong Kong Monetary Authority’s new ART package combines updated supervisory guidance with a proposed training-data platform and more testing of agentic AI. The bank-specific rules for those agents are still to come.
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RBNZ and FMA fold frontier AI cyber risk into existing duties
The 15 October statement gives financial boards and managers a more explicit supervisory test for AI-related attacks and supplier failures, while building on duties already in force.
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Metropolitan Police Service’s retail platform returned; the ICO wants wider controls
The Metropolitan Police Service restored a retail-crime intelligence platform after adding a DPIA, contracts and staff safeguards. An October ICO action says the remaining test reaches across third-party technology controls throughout the force.
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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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