Blog archive
Windows 11 24H2 Enterprise and 25H2 Home and Pro get their last security update on 12 October 2027. How 26H2 shipped, who is affected, and a ring plan to finish by mid-2027.
Manu Shukla 
What Yotta and NVIDIA have actually said about Vera Rubin in India, why the GPU counts differ, whether 120 MW fits, and how to plan around Blackwell and IndiaAI capacity.
Manu Shukla 
UPI now lets eligible users approve payments with a fingerprint or face. What happens on the phone, what NPCI and RBI require, what stays undisclosed, and where the real risks lie.
Aman Mathur 
A flash sale tests more than traffic. How to reserve limited stock safely, treat payment timeouts as unknown, and recover when a customer pays but the order cannot be confirmed.
Aman Mathur 
3GPP's Release 21 timeline puts the first 6G package in March 2027 and the functional freeze in December 2028. What that means for 2027 to 2030 network, device and security plans.
Manu Shukla 
certbot, acme.sh, cert-manager, Caddy, Traefik, win-acme and Posh-ACME compared on ARI, ACME profiles, DNS-01 and renewal defaults, ahead of 64-day and 100-day certificates in 2027.
Manu Shukla 
Cloudflare's Pay Per Use beta pays publishers when AI products use their pages. How it compares with Pay Per Crawl, blocking, licensing deals and doing nothing in 2027.
Manu Shukla 
Notice periods, minimum lifetimes, legacy access and auto-upgrade rules for OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini API, Agent Platform, Bedrock and Foundry, with a dated 2027 calendar.
Manu Shukla 
Apple's April 2027 rule puts every iOS upload on the iOS 27 SDK. That makes UIScene mandatory, ends the Liquid Glass opt-out and brings iPhone Duo screenshots.
Manu Shukla 
East US 3 is due in Atlanta in early 2027 with availability zones. What Microsoft has confirmed, what early price meters show, and how to plan US and India Azure regions.
Manu Shukla 
Microsoft's schedule retires gpt-5 and gpt-5-nano on 9 February 2027 with no replacement named. Target mapping, auto-upgrade rules, Batch and PTU gaps, and an IT admin checklist.
Manu Shukla 
California's ADMT rules apply from 1 January 2027 to AI that makes hiring, lending, housing, education or healthcare decisions. Dates, exceptions, risk assessments and a checklist.
Manu Shukla 
AB 1043 takes effect on 1 January 2027, as amended by AB 1856 in September 2026. What app developers must request, store and never share, and how Apple's and Google's APIs fit.
Manu Shukla 
AB 566 puts an opt-out signal in browsers from 1 January 2027. Sites must already honour it under the CCPA. How to wire GPC into Tag Manager, consent mode, Meta and server tags.
Manu Shukla 
Since Chrome 154, Always Use Secure Connections is on by default and Chrome asks before opening public HTTP pages. A checklist for redirects, mixed content, HSTS and SEO.
Manu Shukla 
Opus 4.6 and Sonnet 4.6 have February 2027 retirement floors on the Claude API, earlier firm dates on Foundry and no end-of-life date on Bedrock. What to move to and what breaks.
Manu Shukla 
CMS-0057-F requires Patient Access, Provider Access, Payer-to-Payer and Prior Authorization APIs from 1 January 2027. Dates by payer type, current versions and a build plan.
Manu Shukla 
What India's DPDP Rules mean for GA4, Google Ads and Meta pixels, server-side tagging, CRM and email from 13 May 2027, with a tag-by-tag audit table.
Manu Shukla 
What switches on when the 18-month DPDP clock ends on 13 May 2027, what changed in 2026, and the evidence a compliance lead should hold for each rule.
Manu Shukla 
The EHDS acts that decide EHR vendor work are due by 26 March 2027 and still unpublished. Here is the status, plus the EEHRxF, access logging, testing and CE marking build list.
Manu Shukla 
Regulation (EU) 2023/1230 applies on 20 January 2027. What sections 1.1.9 and 1.2.1 demand, when AI safety functions need a notified body, and checklists for OEMs and suppliers.
Manu Shukla 
Article 11 of Regulation (EU) 2023/1542 applies from 18 February 2027. What readily removable means, the eight derogations, the software rules and the proposed delay.
Manu Shukla 
Switzerland hosts the next AI summit on 21 and 22 June 2027 at Palexpo. What New Delhi produced, which promises fall due by Geneva, and the dates Indian firms should track.
Manu Shukla 
Germany's B2B e-invoice mandate starts on 1 January 2027 for firms above €800,000 turnover. Dates, the 15 October 2026 BMF letter, the year-end trap, formats and an ERP checklist.
Manu Shukla 