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Ofcom’s Proposed Drone-Radar Licence Stops at Detection. Who Moves Next?
Ofcom’s closed consultation draws a deliberate line: a spectrum licence can authorize a radar to detect drones, but it does not authorize jamming or other active countermeasures. The draft regulates the radio equipment in detail. The public record says much less about how a…
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The telecom fund supports access. Iristel still has to build the alert path.
The CRTC refused National Contribution Fund support, a 50,000-subscriber exemption and wholesale delivery. Wireless public alerting remains a service condition, and Iristel has up to 12 months to implement it.
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More Than 850 Virginia Apps Need Modernizing. JLARC Wants a Fast Lane for AI Coding.
Virginia had more than 850 state applications in need of modernization and over 300 marked urgent. JLARC’s draft asks VITA to speed review of AI coding tools. The route needs to match the risk in the code, data and access.
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Pension Software Can Add AI Mid-Contract. Trustees Still Own the Outcome
A 29 October guide from The Pensions Regulator tells trustees to map AI across their own processes and providers’ software, then keep oversight and member remedies attached as the service changes.
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The Dominican Republic’s Digital Investment Ledger Has No Clock
Decree 714-26 gives the public-administration ministry a way to classify and track strategic digital projects while leaving procurement authority with the institutions that already hold it. The register has required fields, but no update interval.
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Stripchat’s Corrected Estimate Fell Below 45 Million. Brussels’s 2023 DSA Call Still Stood.
A later estimate put Stripchat’s average monthly active recipients below the Digital Services Act threshold. The General Court still upheld the Commission’s earlier designation because it judged the evidence available when Brussels made that decision—and because the Commission…
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“Traceable to UTC” Needs a Paper Trail. ITU’s New Handbook Names the Hops
The 2026 handbook is ITU’s first update since 1997. Its new “Time as a Service” chapter asks operators to show where a time signal starts, how it travels and what uncertainty each conversion adds.
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BEREC Picked Its 2028 Chair Two Years Ahead. The Minutes Name a Winner, Not the Vote.
BEREC elected its 2028 Chair in October 2026, then gave the public meeting record a joint vote and a list of winners. The two-year handover is built to preserve continuity; its published result still leaves readers unable to see how broad the support was.
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The Cargo Treaty Has 26 Signatures. Its Electronic Title Still Needs a Control Test.
The Accra Convention gives negotiable cargo documents a route across road, rail, air and sea, on paper or as electronic records. The United Nations Treaty Collection listed 26 signatures on 30 October, but no deposited instruments and no entry into force. The rulebook is written…
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The WHO Has a 20% Pandemic Supply Target. The Deal Is Still Unfinished.
The WHO Pandemic Agreement sets a target for manufacturers to make 20% of certain products available during a pandemic emergency. The annex that must define who participates, which pathogen data enter the system and how the contracts work is still under negotiation, with the next…
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Hanford Dug 36 Feet Without Pricing the Alternative
At burial ground 618-10, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) chose a residential-use assumption over the industrial use expected in the record of decision. The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) agreed, excavated to 36 feet and met a residential-allowing standard. The…
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Sixteen UK regulators get a spring deadline. The approval clock is missing.
Ministers want fresh, high-impact reforms from 16 growth-driving regulators by spring 2027. Their letter asks for faster approvals and fewer duplicated demands, but sets no shared approval-time baseline against which the promised speed can be judged.
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The NHS Wants One Patient Record. Parliament Cannot Redline Its Access Rules.
The Health Bill would let ministers build a shared patient record and write the later rules for who supplies information, who can see it and who can punish misuse. A House of Lords committee says those are the central policy choices, not technical housekeeping. Parliament can…
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The UN’s IT Chief Has Central Clout. The Assembly Wants Every Decision Mapped
The United Nations describes ICT leadership as shared: its Chief Information Technology Officer sets central direction while entity heads manage ICT resources and services where the work happens. The General Assembly now wants the next strategy report to show exactly how those…
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Moldova’s Gambling Blacklist Has 9,318 Entries. ASP Has No User Count.
The public list can count targets. Moldova’s Public Services Agency says it has no data on the people who reach unauthorized gambling platforms. A new government exchange promises to move faster from detection to blocking; its public scoreboard still has no measure of who was…
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The CRTC Gave Internet Providers a Year to Label the Exit. It Set No Public Progress Clock.
Canada’s telecom regulator has ordered wireless internet providers to show a unique service identifier on an invoice or self-service portal by 4 September 2027. That identifier lets a customer name the exact connection they want to move or cancel.
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W3C Has a Date for TAG Winners. The Vote Count Stays in the Room
W3C’s 2026 calendar names five Technical Architecture Group seats and a date for announcing the result. Its election guide still keeps the count inside the Team’s office. A January record points toward more transparency; the October Process draft has not yet turned that direction…
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ECCC counted more than 60 cyber pairings. Its advisers still have no public roster
The first European Cybersecurity Competence Community Day brought around 110 people from more than 60 organisations across 24 countries and logged over 60 one-to-one meetings. ECCC’s call had projected a Q1 2026 start for its formal Strategic Advisory Group; the Board approved a…
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PeeringDB Deleted the Record. A Mirror Kept the Ghost.
A network can vanish from PeeringDB’s current exchange directory and keep showing up in the local copy an operator uses every day. The database did remove it. The deletion simply missed the channel that told synchronized copies what had changed. PeeringDB’s October repair makes…
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Let’s Encrypt Added a Sixth Witness. Two Can Now Disagree.
On 27 October, Let’s Encrypt put six remote views of domain validation into its staging environment. That extra view changes the arithmetic of a public certificate: the industry rule permits two remote non-corroborations at six viewpoints, where five permit one. The gate still…
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