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Half of organisations spent more on public cloud than they had planned for last year. According to IDC research, reported by ITPro, 59% expect the same to happen again this year. That gap between what businesses expect to spend and what they actually spend is usually what starts the repatriation conversation. It is also where the next miscalculation begins.

For years, proof of age at an alcohol till in England and Wales meant something you could hold in your hand: a passport, a photocard driving licence, a PASS card. That's no longer the whole list. Since mid-September 2026, licensed premises can accept certified digital proof of age from a customer's phone.

Every EU member state has to offer at least one European Digital Identity Wallet. Regulation (EU) 2024/1183 sets the obligation, and the implementing regulations apply from 24 December 2026. Most coverage has focused on the citizen side: one app, national ID inside, log in anywhere in Europe. The business side has had less attention, and it's the side that involves work.

For any company operating in an FDA-regulated industry, the inspection is the moment of truth. It is when the quality and compliance systems a company has built, or failed to build, are examined by investigators trained to find exactly the gaps a company hopes it does not have. A successful inspection reflects systems that were designed to withstand scrutiny; a difficult one, with findings and follow-up, reflects systems that were not. The difference is rarely luck. It comes down to whether a company has built genuine, robust quality and compliance systems well before an inspector ever arrives.

It's getting harder and harder to distinguish between content produced by people and content produced by machines on the internet. AI can now create convincing articles, images, audio and video that may not be immediately recognized as being AI-generated. Europe has decided that this uncertainty cannot be left to users to deal with on their own. The EU AI Act introduces new transparency obligations, which are beginning to establish a more structured framework for identifying synthetic content.