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Tuesday, 6 October 2026

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1News
Italy's privacy regulator fines IQVIA €7m over patient database
The Garante found the records of one million patients from 800 family doctors could be traced back to individuals. IQVIA has 120 days to comply and says it may appeal.
2News
Outlook will block .msix and .msixbundle attachments from November
The change covers new Outlook for Windows and Outlook on the web in Exchange Online. Admins who need these Windows package files must add them to AllowedFileTypes before the rollout starts.
3HR News
UK right-to-work code now covers gig workers and sub-contractors
Civil penalties stay at £45,000 per worker for a first breach and £60,000 for a repeat within three years. The change is in who counts as an employer, and in mandatory registered digital checkers.
4News
Entra ID stops processing MemberOf dynamic rules on 3 November
Dynamic groups, administrative units and entitlement auto-assignment policies that use the operator freeze in their last state, which can leave leavers with access and new starters without licences.
5Business news
Sendcloud buys Sendy and ends shipping on it after 31 October
Sendcloud has bought the Veenendaal platform aimed at small web shops. Terms were not disclosed, and Sendy customers must rebuild their integrations, shipping rules and shop branding in Sendcloud.
6News
Island raises $400M to govern AI agents from its enterprise browser
The Series F, led by Evolution Equity Partners at a $6.4B valuation, pays for an "agentic control plane" that has no release date yet.
7News
Harvey raises $550M, lifting its valuation to $15.5B from $11B
Diffusion and Lightspeed co-led the legal AI vendor's second round of 2026. Harvey says 80% of Am Law 100 firms use its tools; that figure is its own.
8News
Greece puts back e-invoicing for firms under €1m to 2 November
A transition period now runs to 31 January 2027. About 655,000 smaller businesses, roughly 70% of those affected, have already started using an invoicing provider or the free tax authority apps.
9News
GKE drops Identity Service at version 1.37
Clusters that sign engineers in through Identity Service for GKE must move to Workforce Identity Federation before they reach 1.37, and release channels can upgrade them automatically.
10News
SBP starts image-based cheque clearing pilot on 15 October
Pakistan Express Clearing System runs through the NIFT clearinghouse, with an extra daily clearing cycle in the pilot. Every member bank has to be ready for nationwide coverage by 30 April 2027.
11News
Ireland opens €40m DTIF call for tech consortia, closing 3 February
Call 8 of the Disruptive Technologies Innovation Fund needs at least three Irish partners, including an SME, and a minimum request of €1.5m; an information webinar runs on 22 October.
12News
Attackers used a firm's access to take 8.8 million Danish CPR records
The data covers living, emigrated and dead people, about 80% of the register. Datatilsynet received the breach notification on 4 October and has not yet said who is responsible.
13News
EU court adviser says striking out legible records is not GDPR erasure
Advocate General Laila Medina says a person can object and ask a church to erase baptism data. The Court of Justice has not yet ruled and is not bound by the opinion.
14Business news
SAP to buy Belgian AI skills platform TechWolf, closing in Q4
TechWolf, founded as a Ghent University project, will stay a separate company under its CEO and keep serving customers that do not run SAP. Financial terms are not disclosed.
15News
HubSpot forces TLS 1.2 on legacy domain settings from 14 October
Only accounts that once chose TLS 1.0 or 1.1 for HubSpot-hosted domains are touched. HubSpot dropped those protocols in its own app in March 2021 and expects no visible impact.
16Business news
HubSpot cuts about 660 jobs, 7% of its workforce, in a reorganisation
Chief executive Yamini Rangan says the cuts are not driven by AI savings. Product teams move from Hubs to customer outcomes, and severance runs to 30 weeks of base pay.
17News
NITDA's software testing rules reach full effect in Q2 2027
Nigeria's testing qualifications board has backed the guideline but wants enforcement scaled to risk, arguing a brochure website should not face the same scrutiny as a payment switch.
18Business news
Accenture completes purchase of Danish software firm Mjølner Informatics
Mjølner, founded in 1988 in Aarhus, serves energy, utilities and manufacturing clients in western Denmark, and Accenture will keep providing IT services to its former owner Norlys.
19HR News
India raises the EPF wage ceiling to Rs 25,000 a month from Rs 15,000
The Cabinet approved the change a day earlier and says it is the first revision since September 2014. The government puts the number of newly covered employees at more than 51 lakh.
20News
Google stops paying bounties for flaws in Go, Angular and other OSS
The pause follows a surge of automated, mostly invalid submissions. Google's rules page promises an update in the first quarter of 2027 and still accepts supply chain compromise reports.
21News
Indonesia's House approves One Data Bill covering state data sharing
The 141-article law replaces a 2019 presidential regulation as the legal base for government data standards, and private firms have asked for clarity on cross-border transfers.
22News
Japan opens FY2027 government cloud tenders to supplier comment
The Digital Agency asked suppliers for views on four FY2027 procurements and published version 2.4 of its Government Interoperability Framework the same day.
23Business news
Ryan buys Brazilian tax technology firm Comtax to enter Brazil
Comtax was founded in 2018 and works on SAP and Oracle tax integrations for large Brazilian companies; Ryan had almost no Brazilian staff before the deal, Baguete reports.
24Business news
Constellation's Volaris buys Brazilian restaurant software maker Teknisa
The 1990-founded company serves more than 900 customers in Brazil, according to Volaris, and joins a portfolio where Constellation has made about 20 Brazilian purchases since 2019, Baguete reports.
25News
JetBrains drops Swift editing from its Kotlin Multiplatform plugin
Swift editing, highlighting and navigation end with IntelliJ IDEA 2026.3 and Android Studio Rabbit 2. Running and debugging iOS apps from the IDE stays supported, and no replacement is planned.
26News
Kenya's new transfer pricing rules widen what multinationals must document
Treasury's list of items checked rises from about 10 to at least 25, Business Daily reports, and the rules draw on OECD guidelines and country-by-country reporting.
27News
OpenAI to watermark ChatGPT and Codex text in the EU
The textGrain mark is off by default for API customers elsewhere, and OpenAI's own tests show light editing sharply cuts detection, from about 92% to 66% when a tenth of the words change.
28News
Malaysia plans first AI law for early 2027, digital minister says
Gobind Singh Deo told parliament the AI Act will be risk-based, with enforcement being built alongside it; in September he said the draft was already with Cabinet.
29News
Poland's finance ministry sets AI rules and bars vendors training on its data
An order dated 30 September covers the ministry, tax offices and customs. It requires a central register of AI uses, staff training before use, and monthly sessions of a new AI council.
30News
German MPs hear experts fault the d-you wallet before 2027 launch
The Digital Identities Act, which sets the national rules for the EU identity wallet, had its first reading on 23 September and has to pass within weeks to meet the January 2027 start.
31News
India's ad regulator ASCI orders AI labels on ads that could mislead
The Advertising Standards Council of India says brands must label synthetic content that materially influences purchases, and mark paid AI chatbot suggestions as "Sponsored by" the brand. The rules start three months after publication.
32News
Vietnam proposes pay of up to VND300m a month for tech chief engineers
The proposed framework for strategic technology programmes also sets state funding of up to 100% for government-commissioned work and up to 70% for products with near-term commercial potential.
33News
Google Workspace now deletes shared calendars along with their owner
Secondary calendars, the rotas and team schedules users create, now disappear when their owner's account is deleted and go dark when it is suspended. Ownership has to move first.
34HR News
Indonesia moves foreign-worker KITAS permits to the investment ministry
Minister Rosan Roeslani now targets six days for the permit, a day longer than the five-day target announced in September, and says the change lands within two months.
35HR News
Indonesia's House passes Labor Protection Bill with 313 articles
The bill splits labour rules out of the Job Creation Law, as the Constitutional Court ordered in 2024, and adds severance pay reserve funds to the rules on layoffs and wages.

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