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Friday, 23 October 2026

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1News
DuckDB 1.4 support ends 17 November as 2.0 LTS ships
DuckDB 2.0 is supported until at least October 2027 and 1.5 has been extended to March 2027. Files written by 2.0 cannot be read by any older version, so upgrade order matters.
2Business news
Cognizant agrees to buy DyFlex, an Australian SAP partner of 300 staff
The deal adds an SAP Platinum Partner with offices across Australia and New Zealand and delivery in the Philippines. It is expected to close in the first quarter of 2027; terms were not disclosed.
3News
Kenya blocks customs clearance without digital cargo insurance from 1 November
KRA and the Insurance Regulatory Authority will enforce mandatory Digital Marine Cargo Insurance: the certificate must reach the iCMS customs system before a declaration is lodged, or the consignment is held.
4News
Pakistan's PTA proposes 10-year radio licences decided in 15 working days
The draft Radio Based Services Licensing Regulations 2026 cover private radio networks, microwave links and satellite services used by businesses. PTA wants comments by email by 4 November.
5News
Brazil's deadline to opt into the regular IBS and CBS regime is 30 October
The Receita Federal says 917,331 businesses had asked to use the new regime by 16 October; Simples Nacional firms refused by the 15 October cut-off have until 30 October to clear what blocked them.
6News
OpenAI Evals goes read-only on 31 October; Agent Builder ends 30 November
The Evals dashboard and API, the v1/prompts API and Agent Builder all shut down on 30 November. OpenAI points Evals users to Promptfoo and Agent Builder users to its Agents SDK; older image models go on 1 December.
7News
Mexico orders platforms to verify ages and report compliance in 30 days
A presidential decree in force since 14 October covers social networks, video games and app stores. Self-declared ages are no longer enough, and platforms must document their measures by 13 November.
8Business news
Maggioli Group takes 20% of Turin clinical AI start-up DatAIMed
The Italian public-sector software group joins through a capital increase reported at €1.2 million. DatAIMed answers clinicians' questions with cited sources and says it has more than 13,000 registered users.
9News
UK proposes security duties and direction powers for subsea cable firms
A White Paper would replace 140-year-old law with offences carrying up to 14 years in prison, statutory resilience duties for cable providers and a regime for sensing technology on fibre. Consultation runs 12 weeks.
10News
Japan alert-mail service SpeeCAN RAIDEN breached, sent 1.4m phishing emails
Arcadia, whose services carry subscriber alert mail, school notices and the NET119 emergency service, is reporting to Japan's privacy regulator on its customers' behalf and asks them to reissue LINE secrets.
11News
Brazil's data regulator drafts fines for child safety and platform rules
ANPD's draft extends its sanctions rulebook beyond the LGPD to the ECA Digital and the new Marco Civil decrees, including age checks. Comments close on 30 November; a public hearing is on 29 October.
12News
Italy opens a €150m cloud and cybersecurity voucher for small firms
Small businesses and self-employed professionals can claim up to half their spending, capped at €20,000, on cloud and security from registered suppliers. Applications open at noon on 10 November.
13News
Australia sanctions North Korean IT-worker networks behind remote jobs
Two people and two companies that place North Korean IT workers in remote contracts abroad are now on Australia's sanctions list. Paying them, even through a recruiter, can be a criminal offence.
14News
Swiss regulator investigates pension software firm PK Softech after data theft
Data from several large second-pillar pension funds, including the federal fund Publica, left PK Softech's systems in a late-September attack. The FDPIC wants to know what the funds handed over and why.
15News
Nigeria tells device sellers: no type approval, no network access
The NCC says every SIM-enabled device model sold in Nigeria needs type approval and each unit's IMEI must be verified before sale, with Customs checking imports. Non-compliant devices may be cut off.
16Business news
Zoom buys Onyx, keeping its enterprise search open source
Onyx, founded in 2023, connects to more than 50 business applications and feeds context to people and AI agents. Zoom says it stays standalone, model-agnostic and self-hostable inside Zoom AI Services.
17HR News
Kenya raises the fringe benefit and deemed interest rates to 9%
KRA's notice for October to December 2026 lifts both rates from 8%, which raises the taxable benefit on cheap staff loans. It was published three weeks into the quarter it covers.

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