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News, guides and research for people choosing software and IT services: 284 articles in September in 13 categories.

News

New UK grant calls opened on 29 September: UKRI AI adoption in science and engineering, and a UK-Florida space R&D partnership

Two UK grant calls opened on 29 September 2026: UKRI’s 5 million pound call on AI adoption in science and engineering (closes 1 December),…

30 Sept 2026

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News

Reddit ends RSS feeds on 13 November 2026 and public API access by March 2027: register apps by 12 January 2027

30 Sept 2026

News

EU AI Act: in force for most businesses since 2 August 2026, with a new ban in December 2026 and high-risk rules from 2 December 2027

30 Sept 2026

Blog

How bots turned our contact form into a spam relay, and what we changed

30 Sept 2026

Blog

How we keep spam and off-topic posts off TrustList

30 Sept 2026

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  4. 4BlogWhy we stopped taking link-driven guest posts, and what a listing must be to stay
  5. 5BlogFrom a list of names to insight: how TrustList is changing what buyers get in the AI era
  6. 6HR NewsAustralia changes gender-equality reporting: public-sector employers move to April to March, large employers get a gap between target cycles

News

136 articles in September
Open News
News

Google replaces Gemini Gems with skills: Workspace rollout from 5 October 2026, Gems stop working for business from 1 March 2027

Google’s Workspace Updates blog (30 September 2026): skills replace Gems in Gemini, rolling out from 5 October in Workspace. From no…

30 Sept 2026

Pakistan’s FBR extends the Tax Year 2026 income tax return deadline to 15 October 2026

30 Sept 2026

AWS closes Chime SDK SIP Media Application and WorkSpaces Secure Browser to new customers from 29 October 2026

30 Sept 2026

Salesforce agrees to acquire Listen Labs, an AI customer-research platform, to complement Marketing Cloud and Service Cloud

30 Sept 2026

Blog

52 articles in September
Open Blog

How TrustList came back online and then rebuilt its own catalogue in 2026

30 Sept 2026

From directory jargon to plain language: how TrustList changed what visitors see

30 Sept 2026

What became of 653 software vendors we first listed in 2020

26 Sept 2026

Will social media survive the AI change? What the evidence says

25 Sept 2026

Artificial Intelligence

17 articles in September
Open Artificial Intelligence
Artificial Intelligence

Seven decision models in ten days, and not one independent score

Our own research: seven decision models listed 15 to 24 September, five open-weight, two hosted. Five carry our red verification note,…

27 Sept 2026

When the model you build on stops answering

23 Sept 2026

The leaderboard carried none of September's thirty model releases

20 Sept 2026

What makes a token expensive, and why it is not the model's size

19 Sept 2026

Autonomous Vehicles & Mobility

9 articles in September
Open Autonomous Vehicles & Mobility
Autonomous Vehicles & Mobility

Kodiak starts driver-in freight pilot from Fresno to Los Angeles

The 225-mile run for DTL Transport is the first under California's new autonomous truck rules. A safety driver stays at the wheel; Texas…

24 Sept 2026

Aurora aims for 30,000 driverless trucks by 2030 and shows its plan

23 Sept 2026

Wayve signs production deal to put its AI Driver in Mercedes-Benz cars

22 Sept 2026

Pony.ai unveils a Gen-4 driverless heavy truck with GAC at IAA

14 Sept 2026

Robotics & Automation

7 articles in September
Open Robotics & Automation

FANUC and Hitachi team up to put learning robots into real production

30 Sept 2026

Industrial robots in factories pass five million worldwide

24 Sept 2026

Boston Dynamics opens a Georgia centre to train Atlas humanoids on car work

21 Sept 2026

P&G takes Siemens-built AI quality inspection to plants worldwide

16 Sept 2026

Funding guides

7 articles in September
Open Funding guides
Funding guides

How to raise money for a startup, step by step

A step-by-step guide for first-time founders: how much to raise, getting ready, finding the right investors, meetings, term sheets, due…

26 Sept 2026

Funding rounds explained: pre-seed, seed, Series A and beyond

26 Sept 2026

Which funding round is your company ready for?

26 Sept 2026

Ways to fund a company: equity, SAFEs, debt, grants and crowdfunding compared

26 Sept 2026

Product News

6 articles in September
Open Product News
Product News

Two launches, one day: compliance tooling is starting to sell itself as a deal-closer

OneStepWise and Cluesia launched the same day, target different regulations, and share the same pitch: compliance as leverage, not…

1 Sept 2026

DeepSeek V4 Pro left preview, then its pricing changed four days later: what that teaches buyers

1 Sept 2026

Five B2B launches worth knowing about from the past two weeks

1 Sept 2026

Three AI labs account for 37% of every model launch on TrustList's board

1 Sept 2026

HR News

5 articles in September
Open HR News

Singapore will require a certified HR professional at firms with more than 200 staff from 1 July 2028

29 Sept 2026

India raises the EPFO wage ceiling to Rs 25,000 a month: employees earning Rs 15,000 to 25,000 now come under mandatory PF

29 Sept 2026

UK confirms the October dates: tribunal claims get six months from 1 October, the harassment duty tightens on 30 October

29 Sept 2026

UK right-to-work checks extend to contractors, sub-contractors and platform workers from 1 October

29 Sept 2026

Modern Cars

5 articles in September
Open Modern Cars
Modern Cars

Volkswagen, PowerCo and Gotion form three joint ventures for LFP battery cells

PowerCo expects to contribute about EUR 470 million by 2030 and Gotion about EUR 1.1 billion, as the partners move to Valencia, Surany and…

28 Sept 2026

Geely takes 30% of NIO Power and NIO 10% of Haohan Energy

28 Sept 2026

Woven City adds seven inventors and starts building its second phase

25 Sept 2026

Rivian moves every R1 to RivianOS 2 with software update 2026.31

4 Sept 2026

Security advisories

32 articles in September
Open Security advisories
Security advisories

Digiwin EasyFlow .NET has critical flaws allowing unauthenticated code execution and password theft, Taiwan’s CERT warns

TWCERT/CC warned on 30 September 2026 of six flaws in Digiwin’s EasyFlow .NET workflow software. Two are critical (CVSS 9.8):…

30 Sept 2026

Dolibarr ERP file-read flaw CVE-2026-89013 is reported exploited: update to 24.0.1

30 Sept 2026

Next.js flaw in next/og ImageResponse allows remote code execution: upgrade to 16.3.6

30 Sept 2026

OpenSSL security release of 29 September 2026 fixes a high-severity DTLS flaw, CVE-2026-84782, and a use-after-free

30 Sept 2026

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