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Regulation
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News Rules & courts
UK CMA issues interim order halting BT integration of TalkTalk
The competition regulator served a binding pre-emptive action order requiring BT to keep TalkTalk's broadband and wholesale backhaul operations completely separate.
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News Rules & courts
European Commission registers initiative to create sovereign .IA domain for AI governance
The proposal calls for EU high-trust spaces and ISO/ICANN negotiations to tie a top-level domain to the AI Act.
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News Rules & courts
UK opens public interest inquiry into BT acquisition of TalkTalk
The Competition and Markets Authority must report by 19 October following a government notice citing public health, emergency services, and vulnerable customers.
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News AI
Trump forms a "Super Intelligence Force" of four officials to coordinate federal AI policy
It is led by the intelligence director, the FTC chair, the Pentagon's technology chief and the head of the civil service. A week earlier an order told agencies to say 'Super Intelligence' instead of 'AI'.
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News Energy, climate & transport
21 states, Washington DC and five cities sue over NHTSA's rewrite of US fuel economy standards
The petition challenges the SAFE III rule published on 30 September, which NHTSA calls a recalibration of the program. The states say it unlawfully weakens the standards.
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News Space
FCC opens more than 1,000 MHz in the 12.7 GHz and 42 GHz bands to satellite broadband
The agency estimates high-throughput satellite capacity in the two bands will rise by about 25% and 7.2%. It also proposes opening 1,450 MHz more in the Ku- and Ka-bands.
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News Work & careers
California bars employers from firing on an AI system's say-so alone, and from AI that reads workers' emotions
Four workplace bills signed on 30 September also add AI to layoff notices and ban surveillance in workplace bathrooms. The human-review rule starts on 1 July 2027.
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News Work & careers
A second US court blocks the agencies' rules for the $100,000 H-1B fee until they take public comment
A California federal judge vacated the policies that collect the fee and barred the agencies from enforcing them until they go through notice-and-comment rulemaking. The fee's proclamation was extended in September.
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News Rules & courts
US regulator asks whether platforms should have to stop scam ads that impersonate businesses and agencies
The FTC is weighing new duties for social media, search engines and online marketplaces whose ad tools may help impersonation scams. It is an early notice, not a rule.
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News Chips & infrastructure
EU adopts a rating scheme for data centres' energy and water use, with first labels expected in 2027
It covers data centres above 500 kW. The Commission also opened a consultation on minimum performance standards, as it plans to triple EU data centre capacity.
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News Business
EU customs reform takes effect, with a fee on small e-commerce parcels from November and one EU data hub
A single EU customs data system will replace national IT systems, first for e-commerce in 2028. A €3 duty on low-value parcels has applied since July.
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News Rules & courts
EU proposes no social media accounts of their own before 15, and none at all under 13
The Commission's KIDS Act would also ban infinite scroll and profiling feeds for under-18s, and make large platforms prove their services are safe by design. It is a proposal: Parliament and member states must agree it.
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News Rules & courts
China takes an AI app offline for not labelling AI-generated content, among 10 enforcement cases
The internet regulator also fined a hospital left with 700 unpatched vulnerabilities, and a property firm that collected over 5,000 customers' faces without consent.
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News AI
China has now registered 1,112 generative AI services, after 124 more in July and August
The new batch includes 7 services that run on the phone itself. Apps built on registered models are counted separately, 731 so far.
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News Fintech & crypto
Humboldt Merchant Services to pay $12 million over payments for more than 1,000 shell merchants, FTC says
The FTC says the processor ignored red flags, with chargebacks almost 10 times what card brands call excessive. The settlement bans it from four kinds of merchant.
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News Fintech & crypto
Payment processor Nuvei to pay $4.85 million over processing for tech-support scams, under FTC settlement
The FTC says Nuvei processed more than $30 million for one offshore tech-support scheme. The order bans it from serving tech-support sellers who use pop-ups or telemarketing.
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News Rules & courts
EU designates ChatGPT a very large search engine under its Digital Services Act, with Reddit and Roblox
ChatGPT is treated as a search engine because it searches the web. All three reported at least 45 million monthly EU users and have until January 2027 to meet the extra rules.
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News Rules & courts
EU starts enforcing its AI Act on 2 August, and chatbots must now say they are AI
The AI Office can now act against providers of general-purpose AI models. Deepfakes must be labelled, and AI-generated content must carry machine-readable marks.
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News Security & privacy
US agencies must now fix the riskiest exploited flaws in under three days, under a new CISA directive
BOD 26-04 replaces the old fixed deadlines with ones based on risk, and adds forensic checks. In September, 33 of the 41 flaws CISA listed as exploited carried 3-day deadlines.