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Saturday, 24 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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1News
US Treasury widens outbound investment curbs to biotech and four more countries
The proposed COINS Act rules would ban US investment in Chinese and other adversary-linked AI developers outright, add biotech and hypersonics, and require notice within 30 days. Comments close on 7 December.
2News
Vietnam adds ap.vn and on.vn domain fees and widens free biz.vn
Circular 149/2026/TT-BTC takes effect on 23 November. From 2027, any Vietnamese business without a .vn domain, not only those under a year old, can get one biz.vn name free for three years.
3Business news
FPT opens its first African office in Cairo as an EMEA nearshore hub
The Vietnamese IT services group starts with more than 60 Egyptian engineers already serving Gulf clients, plans about 200 staff within two years, and names France as its first European market from Cairo.
4HR News
Turkey's data regulator limits how employers read staff work email
Principle decision 2026/2035 says a general warning that mailboxes may be checked is not enough, consent is rarely a valid basis, and reading content needs a concrete suspicion. Breaches fall under the KVKK fines regime.
5HR News
Dayforce agrees to buy Ribbon, a Toronto AI job interviewer
Ribbon, founded in 2022, says its voice AI has run more than a million screening interviews. Dayforce, taken private by Thoma Bravo this year, will build it into a new agentic recruiting product. No price was given.
6Business news
Fintel buys Mortgage Brain outright for £38.4m
The adviser services group took a 5.8% stake in March 2024 and now owns the mortgage sourcing and submissions provider. Its chief executive, Zahid Bilgrami, will run Fintel's whole Software & Data division.
7News
Teams meeting notes move to the organizer's OneDrive from mid-November
Loop and Facilitator notes from non-channel meetings will be owned by whoever set up the meeting, not whoever pressed the button. Existing notes stay put, so two storage rules will run side by side.
8News
Colombia's CRC says Claro's remedies for the Azteca fibre deal fall short
On 778 of the 874 routes of the network more than 250 operators rely on, Comcel would be the only fibre provider. The regulator wants verifiable wholesale terms, independent audits and no automatic expiry.

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