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Friday, 2 October 2026

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1News
Pakistan: retailers’ fixed-tax scheme returns are due by 15 October 2026, with monthly penalties after, as FBR maps markets and checks returns with AI
Pakistan has extended the retailers’ fixed-tax scheme deadline to 15 October 2026, with penalties of Rs. 10,000, 25,000 and 50,000 in the three months after. FBR began mapping markets on 2 October and says AI now checks tax year 2026 returns.
2News
Saudi Arabia: ZATCA’s e-invoicing Wave 25 covers VAT revenue over SAR 187,500, with Fatoora integration due by 1 February 2027
ZATCA’s Wave 25 of e-invoicing integration covers every VAT taxpayer whose taxable revenue exceeded SAR 187,500 in 2022, 2023, 2024 or 2025. Those notified must integrate their e-invoicing solution with the Fatoora platform by 1 February 2027.
3News
California’s COMPETE Act makes single-firm monopolisation unlawful from 1 January 2027: what platform and software vendors should review
Governor Newsom signed AB 1776, the COMPETE Act, on 30 September 2026. From 1 January 2027 California law bans monopolisation and monopsonisation by a single firm; only the Attorney General and district attorneys can enforce it.
4News
Exchange Online: apps using EWS must be on an allow list from 10 October 2026, and SharePoint’s one-time passcode retires from mid-October
From 10 October 2026, Exchange Online apps using EWS must be listed in EWSAllowedAppIDs (MC1485116); Microsoft fills the list on 8-9 October from 60 days of use. SharePoint one-time passcodes retire from mid-October to end November (MC1243549).
5News
Pakistan: FBR extends e-invoicing to federal excise and Islamabad services tax, and sets rules to seal premises of businesses that fail to integrate
Two FBR orders of 29 September 2026: SRO 1666 brings federal excise and Islamabad services tax under the e-invoicing rules, with new invoice fields; SRO 1662 lets FBR seal premises of businesses that fail to integrate and seize unmonitored goods.
6News
GitHub Actions retires the macOS 14 runner image on 2 November 2026, with failing brownout windows from 5 October
GitHub retires the macos-14, macos-14-large and macos-14-xlarge runner images on 2 November 2026. Jobs on those labels fail during eight brownouts from 5 October, 14:00 to 00:00 UTC. Move workflows to macos-15 or macos-latest now.
7News
Poland: PARP’s SMART 2.0 R&D call for SMEs opens on 29 October 2026, with up to PLN 50 million per project
Poland’s enterprise agency PARP opens its SMART 2.0 R&D track for SMEs from 29 October to 29 December 2026: projects of at least PLN 3 million, support up to PLN 50 million, in a national smart specialisation such as digital technologies.
8News
Kenya’s draft National Payment System Bill 2026 adds open-finance duties and new licences: comments close on 9 October
Kenya’s Treasury and Central Bank published a draft National Payment System Bill 2026 to replace the 2011 Act, adding open-finance data sharing, payment initiation and account information licences and new minimum capital. Comments close on 9 October.
9Business news
Layoffs at software vendors, week to 2 October 2026: Oracle in California, Nutanix, Salesforce, PayPal, Synopsys and Expedia
State layoff notices show Oracle cutting 441 roles at three California sites from 13 November 2026, Nutanix and Salesforce cuts taking effect on 5 October, and notices from PayPal, Synopsys and Expedia. What customers should check with each vendor.
10News
EU KIDS Act: the Commission asks for feedback on age limits and safety-by-design duties for platforms, games, AI chatbots and app stores, until 26 November
The European Commission opened feedback on 2 October 2026 on its proposed EU KIDS Act: a delay on social media for children, safety-by-design rules, privacy-preserving age assurance and stronger enforcement. Feedback closes 26 November 2026.
11Business news
Supabase is acquiring Turso, the SQLite database company: both say nothing changes for existing users
Supabase announced on 2 October 2026 that it is acquiring Turso, the company behind libSQL and a hosted SQLite database. Both products continue: Supabase stays on Postgres and Turso on SQLite. No price was stated.
12News
Luxembourg: the business registers are enforcing company and beneficial-owner filings, and regulators publish NIS2 incident rulebooks
Luxembourg Business Registers began enforcing RCS and beneficial-owner filings from 21 September 2026: 30 days to fix a flagged entry, then penalties and possible strike-off. On 28 September regulators also published NIS2 incident-handling rulebooks.
13News
Consultations closing in October: Brazil’s ANPD sanctions rules (26 October), Anatel’s 6 GHz auction with data-centre duties, and Paraguay’s telecoms plan (15 October)
Three consultations close this month: Brazil’s data-protection authority on its inspection and sanctions rules (26 October), Anatel on a 6 GHz auction with regional data-centre duties, and Paraguay’s 2026-2030 telecoms plan (15 October).
14News
Power BI Pro and Premium Per User licences will include Fabric apps and Fabric Database at no extra cost, from a preview in the coming weeks
Microsoft says Power BI Pro and Premium Per User customers will get Fabric Apps and Fabric Database, up to 1 GB per app, at no additional cost, with a preview “in the coming weeks”. Governance teams should set rules before business users start building.
15News
Greece’s National Cybersecurity Authority tenders DDoS and web and API protection services: bids are due by 5 November 2026
Greece’s National Cybersecurity Authority has opened an EU-wide electronic tender for services protecting web applications and APIs against DDoS and application-layer attacks. Bids go through ESIDIS (ID 515094) by 5 November 2026, 17:00.
16HR News
UK scale-ups in digital and technology can reclaim up to £25,000 a year of visa fees for overseas hires, until 1 March 2027
The UK’s Visa Fees Reimbursement Scheme for Scale Ups repays up to £5,000 per international hire and dependants, and up to £25,000 a year, to fast-growing firms in digital and technologies, life sciences and clean energy. Applications close 1 March 2027.
17News
Twilio: Content API rate limits now return 429s, WhatsApp Embedded Signup moves to v4, and transcription failover switches on 22 October 2026
Twilio has set account rate limits on its Content API (requests over them get HTTP 429), made WhatsApp Embedded Signup v4 generally available, and from 22 October 2026 turns on provider failover for Real-Time Transcriptions on every existing account.
18News
UK grant calls with deadlines from 6 October to 16 December 2026: semiconductors and connectivity, efficient AI systems, North Wales wireless, Japan and Singapore
Six UK funding calls with dates: Japan-UK connectivity (6 October), Investor Partnerships for semiconductors (14 October), North Wales wireless (19 October), quantum with AI and HPC (3 November), AI systems (18 November) and UK-Singapore (16 December).
19News
Nigeria launches an 11-character digital postcode and zero-rated data for approved education platforms on 1 October 2026
Nigeria launched a National Digital Alphanumeric Postcode System on 1 October 2026: an 11-character code per building replaces six-digit postcodes. The NCC and operators also began 100 MB a day of free data for approved education platforms.
20News
Solo, Mozilla’s AI website builder for small businesses, shuts down: sites and data are deleted on 30 November 2026
Solo, the AI website builder from Mozilla, is closing. Every Solo website and its data will be deleted on 30 November 2026 with no recovery. Export the site, form submissions and images now; paid plans get prorated refunds from 1 October.
21News
France’s EcoIDEN call for greener data centres and digital equipment: first cut-off 29 October 2026, open until December 2027
France’s EcoIDEN call, under France 2030 and run by ADEME, funds projects that cut the footprint of data centres (cooling, heat reuse) and extend the life of digital equipment. First cut-off 29 October 2026; final 9 December 2027.
22News
Germany’s SPRIND challenges: health data for AI (up to €480,000 for stage one, closes 16 October) and multi-purpose robotics (up to €7.2 million, closes 22 October)
SPRIND, Germany’s agency for breakthrough innovation, has two challenges open to European teams: Recoding Medicine, unlocking health data for AI (16 October), and Next Frontier Robotics, up to €7.2 million per team (22 October).
23News
Japan: My Number Card on Android starts on 20 October 2026, and gBizPortal adds commercial-registry remote e-signatures
Japan’s Digital Agency says the My Number Card on Android, with in-person checks of identity, age and residence, starts on 20 October 2026. Since 30 September, gBizPortal can sign PDFs with the Ministry of Justice’s remote company e-signature.
24News
ChatGPT Pro 200 allowance is halved from 30 October 2026 and a new $500 Pro plan arrives: check Codex and agent budgets
From 30 October 2026 ChatGPT Pro 200’s included usage in ChatGPT Work and Codex falls from 20 to 10 times the Plus allowance, and GPT-6 Pro chat messages from 200 to 100 a week. A new $500-a-month Pro 500 plan includes the Ultrafast tier.
25News
Maryland puts every data centre of 25 MW or more through a state task-force review, and the governor backs repealing its tax exemption
Maryland Governor Wes Moore’s executive order of 23 September 2026 has a state task force review every data centre of 25 MW or more that seeks a permit, incentive or letter of support, and rate it Aligned, Conditionally Aligned or Not Aligned.
26News
Tennessee’s $43 million QUBIT grant for quantum networking and testbeds: applications close on 23 October 2026
Tennessee’s $43 million QUBIT grant funds shared quantum networking, cloud access, testbeds, sensing and secure communications. Universities, development districts, ORNL and utilities lead, with companies as partners; apply by 23 October.
27News
Lithuania opens a €64.99 million call to set up a national AI factory, led by research institutions: applications close 14 October 2026
Innovation Agency Lithuania opened a €64,990,095 call on 30 September 2026 to set up a national AI factory run on public, private and research cooperation. Research and education institutions apply, with partners, by 14 October at 17:00.
28News
EIC Accelerator: the last 2026 cut-off for full applications is 4 November, and STEP Scale Up closes on 25 November
The last 2026 batch for full EIC Accelerator applications closes on 4 November at 5pm Brussels time; short applications batch on the first Tuesday of each month. EIC STEP Scale Up, for rounds of €50 million or more, closes on 25 November.
29News
South Africa consults on redefining universal access and service to include broadband: comments close on 30 October 2026
South Africa’s universal service agency published discussion documents on 1 October 2026 on updating the 2010 definition of universal access and service, adding broadband and emergency communications, and on subsidies. Comments close 30 October.
30Business news
Snyk’s accounts show it cut about 203 jobs, about a fifth of its staff: what customers of the security vendor should check
A UK Companies House filing by Snyk, the developer-security vendor, states a reduction in force of about 203 employees, about 20% of its global workforce, more than double the earlier press figure. What customers should ask their account team.
31News
Google Cloud: Cloud SQL viewer roles can no longer export data, and Cloud Service Mesh’s ISTIOD control planes lose support on 1 March 2028
From 28 September 2026 Cloud SQL’s Viewer, Reader and legacy Viewer roles no longer carry the export permission, so exports using them fail. Cloud Service Mesh’s ISTIOD control planes on GKE are deprecated, with support ending on 1 March 2028.
32News
Ukraine’s electronic excise system: testing moves to the Sandbox only from 5 October 2026, and live registration opens on 12 October
Ukraine’s Ministry of Digital Transformation says excise businesses must move all eExcise testing to the Sandbox from 5 October 2026, when the production environment closes to tests, and that production opens for full registration on 12 October.
33News
China opens its 2026 national green computing facilities list: data-centre operators’ submissions are due by 16 November
China’s MIIT and four other departments opened the 2026 round to recommend national green computing facilities. Data centres need 3,000 standard racks, 60% rack use and top-two energy grades; provinces and telecom groups submit by 16 November 2026.
34News
Germany tenders a Data Spaces Hub to succeed the Gaia-X Hub, to help SMEs and public bodies join data spaces
Germany’s digital ministry launched a tender on 2 October 2026 for a Data Spaces Hub Germany, the successor to the Gaia-X Hub, to inform and connect SMEs and public bodies and support onboarding to data spaces. The bid deadline is on the tender platform.
35News
Germany: the Bundesrat approves the Federal Experimentation Act for regulatory sandboxes, and the Agentic AI Hub starts with 38 municipalities
Germany’s Bundesrat approved the Federal Experimentation Act on 25 September 2026, easing time-limited real-world trials and letting authorities test faster procedures, including with AI. The Agentic AI Hub’s second round pairs 17 start-ups with 38 towns.
36News
Chile’s financial regulator opens ATENA, a sandbox for open finance, ahead of the system applying from July 2027
Chile’s CMF, with the Inter-American Development Bank, has launched ATENA, a test environment with fictional data where banks and fintechs can test open-finance connections and certification before the system applies gradually from July 2027.
37News
Colombia: mobile customers can cancel without retention offers from 1 October 2026, and operators must block calls from “do not originate” numbers
Colombia’s CRC requires mobile operators from 1 October 2026 to give a direct cancellation channel with no transfers or retention offers first; fixed services follow in December. Operators must also block calls spoofing listed numbers.
38Business news
South Africa’s Competition Commission recommends approving MTN’s takeover of tower operator IHS, with access and independence conditions
On 30 September 2026 South Africa’s Competition Commission recommended that the Tribunal approve MTN’s acquisition of IHS Holding, on condition that IHS stays independent and gives all operators fair, non-discriminatory access to its towers.
39News
China’s “AI+Software” plan sets 2028 targets for the software industry: AI upgrades at 20,000 firms and 100 benchmark agent applications
China’s industry ministry has set out its AI+Software action plan: by 2028, AI-driven upgrading across 20,000 larger software firms, 100 benchmark agent-software applications in key industries and five or more key open-source projects.
40News
China tells large companies to pay small suppliers within 60 days: what software and IT vendors selling to Chinese buyers should check
A State Council notice on late payment to small firms guides large Chinese companies to a 60-day maximum payment term, asks leading firms to pledge cash payment within 60 days of delivery, and tightens disclosure of overdue payables.
41News
Pakistan’s National CERT sets eight security measures for using generative AI: policy, an approved-tools registry, DLP and audit logs
Pakistan’s National CERT published Advisory 18 on 1 October 2026: eight measures for safe use of generative AI, including an acceptable-use policy, no sensitive data in public AI tools, a registry of approved tools, human review of AI code and DLP.

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