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News, guides and research for people choosing software and IT services: 290 articles in the past year in 12 categories.

News

India puts a 0.4% merchant fee on UPI payments above ₹2,000 from 15 October

UPI merchant payments above ₹2,000 carry a 0.4% merchant discount rate from 15 October 2026, capped at ₹300, with a flat ₹5 in some…

1 Oct 2026

Top stories

Business news

IT services takeovers completed on 30 September and 1 October 2026: Capgemini Government Solutions, OPTiM, GMO NIKKO, Empire State

1 Oct 2026

News

Innovate UK Funding Service offline from 4pm Friday 2 October to 10am Monday 5 October 2026: save and submit first

1 Oct 2026

News

EU consultation on copyright and AI is open until 3 November 2026

1 Oct 2026

News

FreePBX publishes four security advisories on 29 September 2026: update the Pinsets, Sangoma Connect, SIPSTATION and Contact Manager modules

1 Oct 2026

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  1. 1NewsChina opens the 2026 list for the chip-industry VAT additional deduction: firms apply from 9 to 16 October 2026
  2. 2HR NewsUK: small employers get £2,000 for every new young apprentice, paid through the training provider
  3. 3NewsExchange Web Services starts switching off in Exchange Online in October 2026, fully off by April 2027
  4. 4NewsExchange Online PowerShell: upgrade the ExchangeOnlineManagement module to 3.10.1 before strict logon enforcement on 31 March 2027
  5. 5NewsMicrosoft enforces Dataverse storage limits for Dynamics 365 from 9 November 2026: over-capacity sandboxes can be disabled
  6. 6NewsGitHub Enterprise Cloud with data residency refuses X25519-only TLS clients from 7 October 2026

News

181 articles in the past year
Open News
News

Zammad helpdesk zero-days exploited since 21 September: upgrade to Zammad 7 or take instances offline

Two Zammad flaws, CVE-2026-102489 (remote code execution, 6.3.0 to 6.5.4) and CVE-2026-102490 (escalation to root, all versions, no fix…

1 Oct 2026

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

30 Sept 2026

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

30 Sept 2026

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

30 Sept 2026

Blog

53 articles in the past year
Open Blog

How we keep spam and off-topic posts off TrustList

30 Sept 2026

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

30 Sept 2026

Why we stopped taking link-driven guest posts, and what a listing must be to stay

30 Sept 2026

From a list of names to insight: how TrustList is changing what buyers get in the AI era

30 Sept 2026

Artificial Intelligence

20 articles in the past year
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

Product News

10 articles in the past year
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

Funding guides

7 articles in the past year
Open Funding guides

How to raise money for a startup, step by step

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

HR News

6 articles in the past year
Open HR News
HR News

Australia changes gender-equality reporting: public-sector employers move to April–March, large employers get a gap between target cycles

After the Regulatory Reform Omnibus Bill 2026 passed, WGEA said Commonwealth public-sector employers with 100+ staff move to the 1…

29 Sept 2026

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 15,000–25,000 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

Funding announcement

4 articles in the past year
Open Funding announcement
Funding announcement

Savvy Wealth raises $100M as its AI-native advisory platform reaches $9B in assets

Savvy Wealth, an AI-native registered investment advisor, said on 9 September 2026 it raised $100 million in a Series C at a $600 million…

26 Sept 2026

Lightfield raises $47M to build a CRM designed for AI agents, not people

26 Sept 2026

Harvey raises $550M as legal AI adoption inside law firms accelerates

26 Sept 2026

Island adds an "agentic control plane" to its enterprise browser

26 Sept 2026

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