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EU–Ukraine signs a CERT arrangement; the public readout leaves its terms open
The administrative arrangement signed at the 9 October Cyber Dialogue is intended to start exchanges between CERT-EU and CERT-UA. The Commission’s account does not say that exchanges have begun, describe how they will work or identify a new 5G Cybersecurity Toolbox milestone.
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DHSC’s telecare guide leaves reliability with local buyers
The Department of Health and Social Care has turned the shift to digital group alarms into a procurement checklist. It has not made that checklist binding, certified the standard bidders will cite, or assigned every connection and support duty to one party.
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Dyn kept resolving. No instrument gave resolution a duty.
A shared naming provider absorbed botnet traffic in October 2016 and has lived in the record ever since as an outage story. The documents that followed are stranger than the story: a federal warning about the devices that launched the traffic, then a statute about the federal…
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DESNZ leaves energy smart-data framework costs open
Britain’s proposed energy data rules would add statutory duties to a network of services already under development. The consultation leaves a key design choice unresolved: who will pay for the shared layer, and what access charges may do to new entrants.
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Ofqual’s ABRSM fine makes assessment evidence part of the review system
Three failures limited the use of original recordings in marking reviews and a malpractice inquiry. The penalty also exposes a separate control question: whether corrected records reach the people who rely on them.
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AFRINIC’s Receiver has a published, limited judicial mandate
The appointing judgment is public. A communiqué citing the Receiver’s consent cannot replace that mandate or reopen Cloud’s settled membership.
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Xandr’s Norway fine puts consent checks inside the ad auction
Norway’s data-protection authority fined Xandr NOK 92 million for processing Grindr users’ data in real-time advertising bids. The decision asks a precise governance question: can an intermediary treat consent as someone else’s job when it helps decide how data are used?
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EDPB finds no obstacle in CNIL’s Michelin draft; transfers remain separate
The European Data Protection Board says the French authority may adopt its draft decision on Michelin Group’s controller rules as submitted. The opinion settles a consistency question under Article 47 GDPR; it is neither the CNIL’s final decision nor approval of any individual…
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Solomon Islands buys a second cable, not a second operator
On 4 August 2026 a trade title reported that a 1,015 km submarine branch financed largely by an Australian facility will become the Solomon Islands' second international cable. The money is quantified. The terms that would turn a second path into a fallback are not.
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Helios Towers: Four Reported Numbers and a Missing Cash-Flow Chain
Helios Towers' half-year summary records EBITDA up 14 per cent, recurring free cash flow up 52 per cent and leverage down to 3.4x. None of those movements can be checked against the lease-up mechanism said to produce them, because the account available today stops at the headline…
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EDPB says smart-glasses transparency cannot rest on wearers alone
The Board’s first smart-glasses statement separates the wearer’s role from the duties of manufacturers and linked services, and treats recording signals as preliminary guidance.
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FTC asks whether platform ad optimisation furthers impersonation scams
The Federal Trade Commission is asking whether ad optimisation that helps impersonation scams reach consumers belongs inside its existing rule. The notice opens an evidence-gathering process; platforms have no new duty under it.
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CRTC makes 36-month NCF repayment possible, but not automatic
From 1 January 2027, a provider that loses required-contributor status must still settle uncalled National Contribution Fund balances. A hardship applicant may seek equal monthly payments for up to 36 months without interest, but the CFA must negotiate the plan and the CTCC must…
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The cable in the water and the contract that rations it
A design capacity figure describes a manufactured entity. Who may use it, at what price, and who pays when it breaks are settled afterwards, by instruments. The public record behind Hawaiki Submarine Cable LP shows the gap between those two things — and shows exactly where the…
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The Filing Layer: Intrado, 911 Routing, and the Segment the Rule Actually Names
An emergency call fails in segments, and only some of them are obliged to say so afterwards. Intrado describes itself as delivering emergency calls to the answering point with location information; federal outage rules write their 911 trigger at the same layer. Whether the party…
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Documented, Not Established: ICANN's Emergency Registry Backstop and the Terms Nobody Has Read
A failed registry should be a bad day for one company, not for every registrant in a top-level domain. The emergency back-end arrangement that carries that promise is documented. What makes it callable — a live designation, a binding trigger, funded readiness, a tested handoff…
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Netnod's Three Service Lines and the Number That Cannot Be Split
Netnod publishes a peering fabric, a root-server role and a time service. The root system's operators publish one number that can be checked — 2,047 instances — and it cannot be attributed to any of them. Everything else here comes from the operator's own front page, captured on…
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Nominet's member revolt proved a remedy, not a mandate
Nominet's own documents record a member-requisitioned meeting, a certified vote and directors leaving afterwards. They do not, on the record I could reach, establish what members were entitled to do — and that gap is the governance story.
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The small print that decides where France’s small radios can go
France is proposing new conditions for devices ranging from RFID readers to veterinary implants. The frequency numbers attract attention. The columns beside them decide which equipment may use those frequencies, how it must behave and, sometimes, whether it can leave the…
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What changes at 9pm? Not the word, but the audience
Ofcom is giving potentially offensive language separate ratings before and after television's watershed. The new guide makes a familiar editorial dilemma easier to see. It does not make the decision for the broadcaster.
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