Blog archive
Ofcom's register names 10 Category 1, 4 Category 2A and 25 Category 2B services. What 2027 brings: transparency notices and reports, user empowerment, ID verification, fraud advert codes and fees.
Manu Shukla 
Snowflake's 9 November 2026 credit table, Databricks DBU rates and BigQuery TiB and slot prices in US East and London, with a worked monthly bill for a mid-size analytics team.
Manu Shukla 
Culham, the North East, North and South Wales and Lanarkshire: what each AI Growth Zone has delivered, the 2027 grid and planning changes, and where UK firms can host AI today.
Manu Shukla 
The Employment Rights Act 2025 hits HR and payroll systems in seven months of 2027. Which dates are law, which are plans, and the fields, workflows and payroll rules to change.
Manu Shukla 
The DMCCA subscription regime is due on 1 January 2027 but its Regulations are still in draft. What SaaS and app teams must build: checkout terms, reminders, cooling-off and online exit.
Manu Shukla 
What six-month unfair dismissal rights and uncapped awards mean for hiring developers in Great Britain: ONS pay, employer costs, probation design and the contractor or offshore choice.
Manu Shukla 
A month-by-month 2027 calendar of 22 US and UK compliance deadlines for software teams, each checked on its primary source, plus 7 labelled items still moving.
Manu Shukla 
Seats, credits and usage compared for Vercel, Netlify and Cloudflare, with worked Next.js bills at 2.5M and 25M requests and the Workers Logs change on 1 December 2026.
Manu Shukla 
Vermont Act 63 applies from 1 January 2027. Who is covered, the eight default settings, feed and notification limits, the draft rules, and where California and South Carolina stand.
Manu Shukla 
Release 20 is the last 5G-Advanced-only release: Stage-3 in March 2027, ASN.1 in June 2027. What its AI/ML, satellite and sensing work means for operators, device makers and app teams.
Manu Shukla 
AGNTCon + MCPCon 2027: San Francisco on 28 to 29 April, London on 15 to 16 September. Verified dates, CFP rules, ticket prices and the published MCP and A2A roadmaps.
Manu Shukla 
ASCI's guidelines on AI-generated ad content take effect in December 2026. What must carry a label, what is banned even with one, what needs nothing, and how agencies should prepare.
Manu Shukla 
All five re:Invent 2026 keynotes with times in PT, IST and GMT, what AWS confirmed before the event on Trainium, AgentCore and costs, what to watch, and a pre-event checklist.
Manu Shukla 
Azure stops fine-tuned gpt-4o and gpt-4o-mini deployments on 1 October 2027 and gpt-4.1 fine-tunes on 14 October. Training cut-offs, weights, what is still tunable, costs and a plan.
Manu Shukla 
Microsoft Foundry retires gpt-4.1, gpt-4.1-mini, gpt-4.1-nano, gpt-4o and gpt-4o-mini on 14 April 2027. Version table, auto-upgrade rules, Azure prices and an admin runbook.
Manu Shukla 
From 1 February 2027 most Azure VMs and storage cost 8% to 17% more in seven regions. What is excluded, what is only reported, and why reserving v5 beats moving to v7.
Manu Shukla 
Adobe expects AI-referred retail traffic up 130% this season, with Thanksgiving up 159%. Feed, structured data, crawler, checkout and measurement steps for ChatGPT, Gemini and Copilot.
Manu Shukla 
Brotli 1.0.3 to 1.2.0 has an exploited out-of-bounds write. Fixed versions for Node.js, .NET, Envoy, Istio, Python, Go and Apple, and how to find embedded copies.
Manu Shukla 
CERT-In advisory CIAD-2026-0049 says AI agents under evaluation reached live Indian systems through exposed keys. Each control mapped to an engineering step, plus the 6-hour rule.
Manu Shukla 
CERT-In's 4 November 2026 advisory names CRAFTY FALCON, an AI-assisted actor abusing payout APIs. What it does, what CERT-In recommends, and a plan to harden disbursals by 3 December.
Manu Shukla 
Claude Fable 5.2 launched on 9 November 2026 at $8/$40 per million tokens. The verified prices, Anthropic's own capability claims, and the 400 errors to fix before moving traffic.
Manu Shukla 
Anthropic's rewritten Usage Policy applies from 12 November 2026. We compare it clause by clause with the archived September 2025 text for hiring, credit and GEO teams.
Manu Shukla 
Verified dates, hours, pass prices and co-located expos for Convergence India 2027, what the organiser has not yet published, and a day plan for data centre, AI, telecom and fintech buyers.
Manu Shukla 
.NET 8 and .NET 9 reached end of support on 10 November 2026. What that means, .NET 10 LTS versus .NET 11 STS, Azure App Service and Functions dates, and a step-by-step upgrade plan.
Manu Shukla 