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Sunday, 4 October 2026

Everything TrustList published on this day, 31 stories, grouped by subject and each in a line of our own.

News15

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  1. 1News

    South Korea's FSC orders a financial-sector security review after suspected AI-driven attacks on six banks

    After suspected AI-driven attacks exposed customer data at Shinhan, KB Kookmin, Hana and other banks, South Korea's Financial Services Commission ordered firms on 2 October to inventory external systems and close authentication gaps.

  2. 2Business news

    Inworld acquires Seattle voice AI company Ultravox; Ultravox customers move to Inworld's voice technology

    Inworld has acquired Ultravox, the Seattle voice AI company that began as Fixie, for an undisclosed sum. Both companies' sites carry the news, and Ultravox customers are to be upgraded to Inworld's Realtime TTS-2 voice technology.

  3. 3News

    Nigeria FCCPC draft sales promotion rules would make firms register AI marketing; comments due by 20 October 2026

    Nigeria's competition and consumer protection commission published draft Sales Promotion (Amended) Regulations 2026, reported to require registration and labelling of AI-driven marketing. Comments close on 20 October 2026.

  4. 4News

    UK grants: UK Space Agency and Space Florida partnership call closes 11 January 2027; UKRI AI adoption call closes 1 December 2026

    Two UK calls opened on 29 September: a UK Space Agency and Space Florida grant for UK–Florida company partnerships (closes 11 January 2027, 15:00) and UKRI funding for AI adoption in science and engineering (closes 1 December, 16:00).

  5. 5News

    Korea K-Startup: Silicon Valley go-to-market programme closes 9 October, Super-Gap host organisation call closes 12 October 2026

    Two K-Startup calls close this week: KISED's Silicon Valley go-to-market support for Korean startups (9 October, 18:00 KST) and the 2027 Super-Gap Startup Project call for host organisations (12 October, 15:00 KST).

  6. 6News

    State Bank of Pakistan opens its second regulatory sandbox cohort for AI, payments and remittances; applications close 30 November 2026

    Pakistan's central bank has opened the second cohort of its regulatory sandbox for AI in financial services, payment innovation, technology-enabled inward remittances and next-generation services. Applications close on 30 November 2026.

  7. 7News

    China MIIT consults on 29 recommended national standards, led by connected-vehicle supply-chain cybersecurity, until 29 October 2026

    China's MIIT published 29 proposed recommended national-standard projects for comment from 30 September to 29 October 2026, headed by supply-chain cybersecurity requirements and tests for intelligent connected vehicles.

  8. 8News

    German court: an Impressum e-mail address must accept mail; an auto-rejecting address breaches section 5 of the Digital Services Act (DDG)

    Berlin's Kammergericht ruled that a contact address in a website's Impressum that automatically refuses incoming e-mail breaches section 5 DDG. Bots may sort mail and not every message needs an answer, but mail must be accepted.

  9. 9News

    Egypt's central bank issues updated customer due-diligence guidelines for banks, folding in eKYC

    The Central Bank of Egypt issued updated customer due-diligence and anti-money-laundering guidelines binding on banks and their foreign branches, folding in electronic KYC and setting full checks for occasional transactions above USD 15,000.

  10. 10News

    RealPage algorithmic rent-pricing antitrust case survives dismissal: what pricing-software buyers should check

    A US federal court in North Carolina refused to dismiss the antitrust case brought by California and other states against RealPage and large landlords over rent-pricing software built on landlords' competitively sensitive data.

  11. 11News

    Kuwait issues a new Media Regulation Law replacing its electronic media law: in force in six months

    Kuwait published Decree-Law No. 102 of 2026 on 4 October, a single Media Regulation Law replacing its publications, audiovisual and electronic media laws. It takes effect in six months; operators then get six months to comply.

  12. 12News

    Microsoft Defender for Office 365 turns on Promotions tagging for all tenants by late October 2026; the folder move stays an admin setting

    Microsoft says promotional mail will be tagged as Promotions in every Defender for Office 365 tenant at worldwide general availability, completing by late October 2026; moving it to a Promotions folder depends on the Bulk moves setting.

  13. 13News

    Microsoft Teams admin center device state rule and health alerts retire in late October 2026: rebuild alerts in the Pro Management portal

    Microsoft is retiring the Device state rule and its device health alerts in the Teams admin center in late October 2026. Alerts and webhooks stop, and existing rules will not move to the Teams Rooms Pro Management portal.

  14. 14News

    Nigeria's NITDA advises organisations not to put confidential or personal data into public AI tools

    Nigeria's IT development agency, through its emergency response team, has advised staff not to enter personal, classified or confidential data into public AI chatbots, to use organisation-approved tools and to anonymise data first.

  15. 15News

    GitHub Copilot deprecates four models on 2 October 2026: update pinned workflows and Enterprise model policies

    GitHub deprecated four models across every Copilot experience on 2 October 2026, effective the same day. Workflows pinned to them need a supported model, and Copilot Enterprise admins may have to enable the replacements in model policies.

Tech and security3

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  1. 1Security advisories

    NetScaler SAML zero-day CVE-2026-88779: check Gateway and AAA SAML configurations and upgrade to 14.1-73.41 or 13.1-64.28

    A new NetScaler flaw, CVE-2026-88779, affects Gateway and AAA deployments that use SAML and was exploited before a fix. Citrix says it is separate from last week's CTX697096 flaws; patched builds were released on 4 October.

  2. 2Security advisories

    AWS Loom for AWS agent orchestration: three CVEs including an authentication bypass, upgrade to 1.7.0

    AWS bulletin 2026-124 fixes three flaws in Loom for AWS, its open-source AI agent orchestration platform: an authentication bypass giving full admin control where no identity provider was set, and two credential-leaking request flaws.

  3. 3Security advisories

    AWS SageMaker Distribution CVE-2026-104019: code execution in Unified Studio Spaces, end-of-support versions left unfixed

    AWS bulletin 2026-125 fixes a flaw in SageMaker Unified Studio Space start-up that could run code in another project member's Space. Supported images are patched on restart; 2.8–2.13 and 3.3–3.8 are end of support and get no fix.

Funding and deals13

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  1. 1Funding news

    Supabase raises $150 million led by GIC, alongside its acquisition of Turso

    Supabase, the open-source Postgres development platform, announced $150 million in new funding led by GIC on 2 October 2026, four months after its Series F, together with the acquisition of the SQLite database company Turso.

  2. 2Funding news

    PaleBlueDot AI raises a $200 million Series C led by ComputeCore for its GPU cloud and inference platform

    Palo Alto-based PaleBlueDot AI, which runs its own GPU clusters, a GPU marketplace and serverless inference, announced a $200 million Series C led by ComputeCore at a stated $3.2 billion valuation on 1 October 2026.

  3. 3Funding news

    Promenaut launches with $8.9 million in total funding and HSBC as strategic investor for a governed AI-agent workforce platform

    London-based Promenaut launched on 22 September 2026 with $8.9 million in total funding and HSBC as design partner and strategic investor. Its platform runs AI agents and people as one governed workforce with audit trails.

  4. 4Funding news

    Ascerta, formerly Pay-i, raises $18 million Series A led by Dell Technologies Capital for enterprise AI management

    Bellevue-based Ascerta, renamed from Pay-i, announced an $18 million Series A led by Dell Technologies Capital on 30 September 2026. Its software measures what AI costs a company, how staff use it and which projects pay back.

  5. 5Funding news

    FRANK reaches €2.9 million in total investment, led by Armilar, for an AI operator that does insurance brokers' paperwork

    Lisbon-based FRANK, whose AI operator logs into insurer portals to fetch quotes and update records for brokers, has reached €2.9 million in total investment, its lead investor Armilar announced on 1 October 2026.

  6. 6Funding news

    Parakeet Health raises a $10 million Series A led by Canvas Ventures for patient-access AI

    Parakeet Health, which uses AI to handle patient calls, referrals and scheduling for specialty medical groups, announced a $10 million Series A led by Canvas Ventures on 1 October 2026, bringing its total funding to $13 million.

  7. 7Funding news

    Prodoc AI raises seed funding led by the Dr A. Velumani Family Office for an AI layer for hospitals

    Bengaluru-based Prodoc AI, which builds a patient-journey operating system on top of hospitals' existing software, announced a seed round led by the Dr A. Velumani Family Office on 30 September 2026. The amount was not disclosed.

  8. 8Funding news

    AIBORN receives investment from Medical Data Vision in a capital and business alliance for its medical-records AI

    Tokyo-based AIBORN, maker of the medical-records AI tool Katanashi, announced on 1 October 2026 an investment from Medical Data Vision, which holds one of Japan's largest clinical databases, as part of a capital and business alliance.

  9. 9Funding news

    Unveilr AI raises a pre-seed round from AJVC for search and AI-answer visibility software

    Mumbai-based Unveilr AI, which helps brands appear in Google and in AI answer engines, has raised a pre-seed round from AJVC. Entrackr reports an undisclosed amount at a Rs 16.7 crore valuation; FinSMEs reports USD 1.74 million.

  10. 10Funding news

    Satlyt raises an $8 million seed round led by Non Sibi Ventures for software that runs AI on satellites

    Satlyt, with headquarters in Sunnyvale, California, and Nairobi, has raised an $8 million seed round led by Houston-based Non Sibi Ventures for software that lets satellites run AI models and share computing work in orbit, TechCrunch reported.

  11. 11Funding news

    knewit raises a pre-Series A round from KUSABI for AI agents that run trade and delivery operations

    Tokyo-based knewit announced a pre-Series A round from existing investor KUSABI on 29 September 2026, taking its stated total funding to ¥290 million. Its AI agents and operations staff process orders sent by email, fax and PDF.

  12. 12Funding news

    Gwanak Lab raises 300 million won from Seoul Techno Holdings for financial decision AI

    Seoul-based Gwanak Lab, which builds a decision engine that helps banks, card companies and insurers act on customer data, has raised 300 million won (about USD 228,000) from Seoul Techno Holdings, WOWTALE reported on 2 October 2026.

  13. 13Funding news

    Zaperon raises Rs 7 crore in a seed round led by Inflection Point Ventures for enterprise cybersecurity

    Indian cybersecurity startup Zaperon has raised Rs 7 crore in a seed round led by Inflection Point Ventures to build out its platform for protecting enterprises from data breaches and expand in India and the US, Entrackr reported.

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