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MM Talks: Inside Healey’s Budget
The dust is settling on Budget 2026, and while headline capital gains tax and dividend rates escaped untouched, savers, landlords and business owners are facing a very different landscape. On this episode of MM Talks, we cut through the political noise with editors Tom Browne
Attackers turn GitHub issues into supply chain campaign against 61 public repos in less than an hour
'The workflow automatically is triggered within a second, and if the workflow is indeed vulnerable, then the attack is executed successfully'
Shortlist of age checks for the UK's under-16 social media ban is out, 'some' adults will need verifying
Some adults may not need to prove it, but many will
Critical launch for Vulcan as ULA targets Friday the 13th
Hopefully without disintegrating SRB nozzles
Two-year tax deadline on pension death benefits scrapped in Budget
The government has abolished the two-year rule governing the tax treatment of pension death benefits, in a move welcomed by industry experts as a boost for bereaved families facing complex estate administration.
Dynamic Planner launches agentic upgrade to its digital advice platform
Dynamic Planner has announced an agentic upgrade to its existing digital platform in a bid to help unlock trusted advice at scale. Unveiled at its Transforming Advice: Revealed event in London’s West End today (29 October), the upgrade combines data, models and insights…
Matrix takes sovereign messaging into the realm of the tech giants
Once more, with feeling: 'First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you'
LibreOffice's 'no AI' stance meets LLM-assisted code
Core developers avoid AI coding assistants, while community contributors face disclosure and review rules
Budget confirms new drawdown flexibility for collective pensions
The government has confirmed plans to introduce new pension tax legislation allowing savers to move between retirement-only collective defined contribution (RCDC) schemes and conventional drawdown arrangements.
Traces of new Pi hardware spotted in GitHub
A new Pi Zero 3 W and Pi 4 Model A seen lurking in the repository
Autumn Budget 2026: UK tech leaders react to AI investment and business support
UK technology and business leaders have delivered a mixed response to the Autumn Budget 2026, welcoming commitments to artificial intelligence, startup investment and small business support while raising concerns about gaps in regulation, access to finance and tax simplification.
Treasury to investigate barriers to financial services career progression
The Treasury is to commission a review into the factors driving employees to leave financial services, including the impact of socio-economic background and regional inequalities on career progression.
Admin dropped the F-bomb in a password to show hackers who was really 1337
Cursing in login credentials can help keep the bad guys out, but not when the rest of your security is BS
HPE puts storage to work on AI’s expensive memory problem
PARTNER CONTENT: HPE Alletra MP X10000 cache offload delivers up to 20× faster time to first token in testing validated by Kamiwaza. Apparently, remembering things beats calculating them again.
David Ferguson: Private equity’s financial advice reckoning is coming
Private equity-backed roll-ups have in recent years become the defining theme in the evolving structure of financial planning and wealth management. Recent research by Dyer Baade & Company found that the average advice firm now has 24% more advisers than in 2019. The total number
Google's Gemini 4 Carbon looks like a diamond in the rough
Undercutting Claude on price ahead of Anthropic's IPO
Boffin's software found a possible dwarf planet - a result so rare he thought it must be a bug
2026 ED138 is way out beyond Neptune and perhaps the smallest known object of its type
Pret opens new Roadchef store at Tibshelf Northbound Services on the M1
Pret A Manger has opened a new shop with motorway services firm Roadchef at Tibshelf Northbound Services, bringing its food and drinks to drivers on the M1.
Crypto exchange HTX to leave UK after FCA lawsuit
The UK's Financial Conduct Authority has secured a High Court order preventing crypto exchange HTX from knowingly promoting cryptoasset services unlawfully to customers in the country.
Bodycare builds 700-strong micro-influencer network
Bodycare, which has opened five stores since July, has recruited 700 content creators as part of its return to the High Street using an AI platform to link social media trends with store operations.
Cotswolds Designer Outlet prepares for Christmas switch-on evening
Cotswolds Designer Outlet in Tewkesbury is preparing to hold a special switch-on evening to mark the start of the Christmas season.
Idemia prepares payment cards for quantum threats with EMVCo certification
Becoming the first company to achieve EMVCo certification for a payment card platform that provides access to post-quantum cryptography (PQC) and crypto-agility services, Idemia can now enable banks to future proof their cards against quantum threats.
Tiffany & Co unveils heart-warming Christmas campaign starring Amanda Seyfried
Tiffany & Co has named Amanda Seyfried as its latest House ambassador, and the star of its 2026 Christmas campaign. Titled ‘Love is a Gift’, the campaign features a hero spot; ‘You and Me’, which flips between present-day New York City and a Christmas memory from the 1990s.
Phase Eight owner confirms customer data accessed in cyber attack
The owner of Phase Eight, Hobbs and Whistles has confirmed that customer personal data was accessed during a cyber attack earlier this month. TFG London, the UK arm of South African retail group The Foschini Group, contacted customers on 28 October after its investigation found…
FatFace sustainability push moves deeper into supply chain
FatFace is turning its sustainability focus towards the areas of its business where it has the greatest environmental and social impact, with supply-chain emissions, materials and product circularity emerging as key priorities in its latest ESG report.
Why Facetheory is betting on Boots, bricks and mortar and British beauty
After 12 years as a digital-first skincare brand, Facetheory has made its UK store debut in Boots. Esselle Group founder Suraj Lalvani shares why physical retail is central to the brand’s turnaround — and why being everywhere the customer is now matters more than chasing the…
Tape is so not dead that Fujifilm will increase production capacity 5x
Co-ops and mutuals champion appointment marks ‘significant step’ towards sector growth
Andrew Pakes MP has been appointed as the government’s co-operatives and mutuals champion, tasked with identifying opportunities for, and barriers to, sector growth.
