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The abuse report arrived. Did it reach anyone who could act?
APNIC already requires working, monitored abuse contacts. A stalled proposal asks what happens when the address holder and the network operator are different organisations—and exposes how hard it is to prove a handoff without policing the incident itself.
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At ITU, the future is 6G. For others, it is getting connected at all
One set of ITU election questions looks towards 6G and space; another asks about people still shut out of digital opportunities. Candidates have a thousand words to explain their plans by 23 October. It is a small chance to hear something more useful than a promise of progress.
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Rogers has a four-hour outage test to show. What did it prove?
A July 2026 filing changes the story of Rogers' recovery from its national outage. There is a dated exercise, and a reported success. The harder question lies inside the parts of the report the public can read.
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China Tower has new customers. Its profits still owe a debt to old towers
Delivery riders and forest-monitoring services are expanding the tower owner's business. But a jump in profit owes much to a quieter change: old assets reaching the end of their depreciation.
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When one commissioner can speak for the SEC
An empty seat and a commissioner barred from one case are different problems. A new SEC rule brings them closer together—and a petition asks who will be able to check the result.
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The company wants a faster vote. Its shareholders may need the time
Getting a deal approved sooner is an attractive promise. The SEC's proposed shorter timetable raises a less comfortable question: can the people expected to vote finish their preparations just as quickly?
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The conviction went. Then the FCA ban followed.
The £6.5 million penalty was never imposed. The restriction on Christian Bittar's working life stayed for eight years. Now that has gone too, as the FCA withdraws four bans after the convictions behind them were overturned.
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Moving clouds is easier when the permissions come too
The CMA sees progress on cheaper cloud exits. Its next problem is less visible: moving an application without changing what its users are allowed to do.
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Facebook's servers were running. The way back was broken.
The October 2021 outage was not simply a case of switching the network back on. It also damaged the routes engineers needed to repair it.
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At Seattle's internet exchange, the port is only the first purchase
A one-off port charge makes SIX an unusual place to buy connectivity. The harder calculation starts with the networks on the other end.
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AFRINIC's next chief has a start date. Its members need decisions
Mike Silber is due to take office in January 2027. Until then, the registry's published decisions reveal a transition involving an elected board, a court-appointed receiver and members with powers of their own.
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What a Registry Membership Actually Certifies
A dated read of the public record for Aria Shatel PJSC shows a precise pattern: the registry-identity document is specific about who is registered and where they say they operate, and silent about the network resources most readers assume it proves. That silence is the finding.
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Ofsted opens the file, but keeps the last word
A school will be able to ask an outsider to examine the evidence behind a disputed inspection. By then, its report card will already be public. That sequence gives Ofsted's new complaints pilot both its promise and its limits.
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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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