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The change calendar: 171 software, tax and rule deadlines from our reports

14 Oct 2026

What an AI task costs: a 200-fold spread across 38 priced models on our board

14 Oct 2026

Venture Capital

What the Church of England and other asset owners want from small companies

14 Oct 2026

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Startup Accelerator

Corporations joined 39 of the 102 startup rounds we covered but led only two

We sorted every investor in 102 October rounds: companies or their venture arms took part in 39 but led two. Suppliers, customers and platforms buy a window, demand and an option. Here is what founders give up.

14 Oct 2026

Machine Learning

Why we are building our own text recognition into Rutba Office

Text recognition is easy to rent and hard to own. We are choosing to own it: on your computer, in the languages our users write, and starting with the script other engines read worst.

13 Oct 2026

Vendor Management

Only 26 of 84 funding announcements named a single customer

Our count of 84 October items finds 73 named a lead investor, 63 a stage and 6 a company-stated valuation, while none of the 48 customer or revenue figures came with independent confirmation, and 51 needed a red note.

10 Oct 2026

Vendor Management

Only 2 of 47 software deals we covered addressed customer contracts

17 of the 47 promised continuity, 10 gave a price and one gave a date on which part of a product stops. None paired a continuity promise with a word on contracts, data processing or hosting.

9 Oct 2026

How to tell if the software you host yourself is still patched

A method for checking vendor lifecycle pages, advisory feeds and the CISA exploited-vulnerabilities catalog against the versions you run, built on five old flaws added to the catalog on 8 October 2026.

9 Oct 2026

Only 7 of 345 described launches say where the maker is based

Our launch board also shows that 29 of 37 products calling themselves open source name no licence, and 30 of 36 products found through Hacker News rest on the maker's own word alone.

9 Oct 2026

Microsoft 365 and Azure: 40 dated changes admins must act on by spring 2027

Ten switch something on by default and 16 retire or restrict a feature. Where Microsoft named a single day, the median warning was 29.5 days; four gave nine or fewer.

8 Oct 2026

What North American governments asked of software buyers this autumn

Of 80 items tagged to North America, 17 record a government asking something of businesses; only 8 carry a date, and 4 of those fall on 1 January 2027.

8 Oct 2026

Dated obligations ahead: what falls due from October 2026 to March 2027

Our news desk records 178 dated obligations from 130 items between 8 October 2026 and 31 March 2027. The week of 26 October is the busiest, with 25 falling due.

7 Oct 2026

Of 39 software deals we covered, only 9 said what happens to customers

Our desk logged 39 software and IT-services deals and 12 vendor layoff announcements in two weeks: 19 deals had closed, 17 awaited approval, and nine carried any promise to customers, none with a stated period.

6 Oct 2026

Pakistan issued the most rules in our records, Brazil set the most dates

Of 60 items on rules outside the EU and US, Pakistan supplies 10 but only four carry a date, while Brazil's five supply 8 of the 35 entries in our calendar to 31 January.

6 Oct 2026

Vendors gave a median 48 days' warning before changing what customers use

Of 40 vendor-change items our desk published from 20 September to 5 October, 27 record both dates: median notice 48 days, range 0 to 390, and 12 gave a month or less.

6 Oct 2026

Edge devices are attacked first, application servers after the patch

Of 30 exploited flaws our desk reported in three weeks, 14 were attacked by the day a fix appeared, ten of them on edge devices, and 11 after a fix existed, nine of them in application servers.

6 Oct 2026

Why every TrustList ranking now has a separate order for SMEs

Age and size lift the largest firms. Every ranking in the Q4 2026 edition now has an SME view: firms under 250 staff, ordered without age points, with shared places rotating daily.

6 Oct 2026

TrustList rankings now come in editions, with a reason on every place

The Q4 2026 edition covers 13,736 ranking pages. On 6,519 of them every rank number now comes with a dated reason drawn from evidence, and businesses we cannot yet rank are listed without one.

6 Oct 2026

How we now decide who belongs in a ranking, and who leads it

Place tags put firms from London, Ontario, on our London rankings. Now place takes evidence, no business leads more than five rankings, and reviews count only from accountable reviewers.

6 Oct 2026

Tax Compliance

Nine e-invoicing and tax-system deadlines in four days of news, and none of them in the EU or the US

Our own count: nine e-invoicing and tax-system changes published 2 to 5 October from seven countries, none in the EU or US. Median warning 31 days; seven rest on one official page. How a buyer maps their own exposure.

5 Oct 2026

How we keep spam and off-topic posts off TrustList

How TrustList moved from an open directory to one with rules at the door and in review, and what we now do about spam and off-topic posts.

30 Sept 2026

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

How TrustList returned after a year offline, read its own catalogue as a reviewer would, and began removing spam, parking what it could not source and rewriting listings.

30 Sept 2026

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

Why we stopped taking link-driven guest posts, what we publish instead, and what a listing or profile must be to appear on TrustList.

30 Sept 2026

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

How TrustList moved from listing names to publishing its own research: matched articles, AI coverage, funders and due diligence, offshore talent, and what is live or planned.

30 Sept 2026

How we write a TrustList listing profile now, and what we check before it goes live

How a TrustList profile is written now: the standard shape, the sources, the automated checks, when we decline to publish, and how a business can correct or claim its listing.

30 Sept 2026

How we cleaned up spam, thin pages and dead links on TrustList in 2026

How we found and removed spam, thin profiles, paid guest posts and dead website links in September 2026, why we archive instead of delete, and what is unfinished.

30 Sept 2026