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Thursday, 8 October 2026

News: the stories TrustList published on this day, each in a line of our own. Open a story for the whole piece and its sources.

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1HR News
Fifteen employment rule changes in nine countries this autumn
Nine of the fifteen tighten duties and six ease terms. Eleven carry a calendar date, the first on 30 October, and Singapore’s rule is not due until 1 July 2028.
2News
CBP proposes bonds and a $1,000 damages floor for low-value imports
Paper filing for informal entries of $2,500 or less would end and mail gets a new entry type 13. The de minimis exemption ends by law on 1 July 2027.
3News
Harness buys Cosmos and Auggie CLI assets from Augment Code
Augment Code is selling select assets rather than the whole company, and Harness says customers can keep their preferred coding tools. No price has been disclosed.
4News
ICANN lists 1,615 new domain applications and opens a swap window
Brand names account for 333 of the applications, and the window to switch to a replacement string closes on 21 October, four weeks before the final list.
5News
USTR asks US firms what the EU carbon border levy costs them
Comments close on 9 November 2026. The Council and Parliament positions would add roughly 300 and 400 products, and EU importers owe their first CBAM payments only from September 2027.
6News
MAS sets AI risk rules for all Singapore financial institutions
The guidelines cover every kind of AI, including models supplied by third parties, and phase in over two years: core duties from October 2027, the rest from October 2028.
7HR News
DOL sets $14.05 minimum wage for older federal contracts from 2027
Tipped workers move to a $9.85 cash wage. The rate covers only contracts signed from 2015 to January 2022 and not renewed since, and starts 90 days after publication.
8HR News
DOL drops plan to pull FLSA guidance out of federal regulations
The Wage and Hour Division had proposed in July 2025 to remove nine interpretive parts from Title 29. It received six substantive comments, four of them opposed.
9News
South Africa opens its national opt-out registry for marketers
Marketers could register from 15 September; consumers can start blocking contact from May 2027. Draft guidelines cite fines up to R1 million or 10% of turnover.
10News
Dutch tax office drops Microsoft 365 for on-premises and open source
The Belastingdienst had moved about 5,000 of 47,500 staff to Microsoft 365 before stopping; mail and calendars come in-house in 2027, with archive tooling still unresolved.
11News
Italy suspends Scoperta imprenditoriale II R&D grants after one day
The scheme funds collaborative projects of 1 to 5 million euros in Italy's less developed regions, with 60% of the money reserved for SMEs and business networks.
12News
FTC asks if ad platforms should answer for impersonation scam ads
The agency's notice covers search, social media and marketplace advertising tools, and cites $16 billion in reported 2025 fraud losses. Comments close on 30 November 2026.
13HR News
US suspends eight IT and software firms from PERM green card filings
Cognizant, Infosys, Tata, Wipro, HCL and Capgemini are named as outsourcers; Microsoft and Adobe are cited for active federal investigations. Duration and effect on pending cases were not stated.
14News
Microsoft 365 will retire Targeted Release in January 2027
Enrolment changes lock in November 2026. Admins must choose between Frontier, Standard and Deferred release, the last of which gets major updates about 30 days after Standard.
15News
South Africa's TIA seeks partners for two rural innovation Living Labs
Each lab can receive up to R4.7 million over 24 months. Applicants must choose one district, and labs already funded under the programme cannot apply.
16Product News
Rutba Office: a free desktop office suite that opens Outlook archives and leaves your files alone
Forty-three releases in a month, no account, no subscription and no telemetry. What the free Rutba Office suite does well today, where it falls short, and who it suits.
17HR News
Ireland lifts PRSI by 0.15 points for payrolls from 1 October
The employee Class A rate moves from 4.2% to 4.35% and the employer rate above EUR 552 a week from 11.25% to 11.4%. Self-employed Class S also reaches 4.35%.
18News
US health plans must post leaner price files under new final rule
The rule applies to non-grandfathered group and individual coverage and takes effect on 7 December 2026. A proposed enrollment-total field was dropped from the in-network rate file.
19News
Edge retires its legacy Windows sign-in from early November 2026
Profiles not yet moved to the OneAuth library will be migrated from Edge version 157, and users may see sign-in prompts. Admins can test now on version 155 or later.
20News
US order sets up America.gov as one front door to federal services
The order covers services with over 100,000 users a year. Agencies must connect their public APIs, dashboards and digital forms and share usage data with GSA and OMB.
21News
Entra lets passkey users change passwords without the old one
Rollout in My Sign-Ins starts mid-October 2026 and finishes in late October. The setting is tenant-wide, with no per-user scoping, and stays off until an admin enables it.
22Product News
ArtCraft publishes free open-source rebuilds of Photoshop, Premiere and Lightroom
ArtCraft's PhotoCraft, FilmCraft and LightCraft were first pushed to GitHub on 30 September and carry MIT or Apache-2.0 licences, but the authors call them young.
23News
Entra ID adds passkeys for guest users, on by default
Guests enabled for SMS or voice get every passkey type automatically, so excluding them from the passkey policy is not enough. External users have no rollout date yet.
24News
Canada tables Bill S-7 to cut red tape across 31 federal laws
Business-facing measures include simpler small-business restructuring and registration instead of certification for low-risk wireless devices. The bill has yet to pass Parliament.

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