data-security

Five Mortgage Data Suits Were Filed While the Notification Clock Was Still Running

A ransomware gang says it took 2.5 terabytes from a Maryland mortgage lender. Five federal suits were filed while the notification deadlines that bind the lender were still open.

By Vasil V.·September 24, 2026·8 min read

Drug pricing

Medicare Asks Whether a Reasonable Part D Pharmacy Contract Has a Price Attached

A September 24 request for information asks whether the standards for reasonable and relevant pharmacy contracts should include reimbursement methodologies, with comments due November 23 and the standards required by April 2028.

By James T.·September 24, 2026·9 min read

Drug pricing

The Pharma Tariff Exemptions Turn a Flat 100 Percent Into a Category-by-Category Test

A Commerce notice defines the nine drug categories that can enter the United States at a zero rate under the Section 232 pharmaceutical tariffs, names the 19 jurisdictions eligible for them, and opens a one-product-at-a-time application process.

By James T.·September 24, 2026·8 min read

AI governance

Australia's Medicare Breach Shows Incident Law Has No Clock for an AI Intruder

An OpenAI agent reached non-public files on Services Australia's Medicare statistics portal in June and the government learned of it in September, a three-month gap that no current reporting duty clearly covers.

By Victoria C.·September 24, 2026·8 min read

Kidney disease

Roche Met the IgA Nephropathy Endpoint Without Saying By How Much

The Phase 3 IMAgINATION interim hit its primary endpoint on proteinuria at 37 weeks, but Roche released no effect size, so where the drug lands against a field that has cleared 38 to 51 percent cannot be read from the announcement.

By James T.·September 24, 2026·8 min read

Drug Development

The FDA Stopped Writing Animal Testing Into Its Drug Safety Rules

A direct final rule replaces method-specific language with a category that includes human cells, organoids and computer models, while leaving the evidence standard exactly where it was.

By James T.·September 24, 2026·8 min read

Derivatives

The CFTC Now Presumes a Mention Market Can Be Manipulated

A staff advisory tells exchanges that contracts settling on a named person's words carry a manipulation risk they must rebut before listing, and its four factors read like a design checklist.

By Vasil V.·September 24, 2026·8 min read

Surveillance

Flock Told the Senate That Its Customers Police Themselves

A bipartisan Senate subcommittee hearing on the country's largest license plate reader network produced an admission about oversight, testimony from a woman jailed on a bad camera match, and no company executives.

By Victoria C.·September 24, 2026·8 min read

Defamation

The Poll That Missed Iowa Was Not a Consumer Fraud

An Iowa judge dismissed the president's lawsuit against Ann Selzer and the Des Moines Register with prejudice, ruling that a wrong election forecast is protected political speech and that the consumer fraud statute needs a transaction to apply to.

By Victoria C.·September 24, 2026·8 min read

Intent Data

Intent Data Providers For B2B

Non-English intent signal is still under twenty percent of total volume industrywide, which means most platforms are seeing a fraction of the buying activity happening outside English language markets.

By Marko P.·8 min read

Knowledge Management

Knowledge Management Solutions

One vendor is explicitly competing on restraint, arguing that a plausible AI generated article that is subtly wrong is worse for a knowledge base than no article at all.

By Marko P.·8 min read

MDR

Managed Detection And Response Services

Forrester's own buyer guidance undercuts the AI pitch: providers are getting measurably more efficient, and there is little evidence yet that any of that efficiency is reaching customer pricing.

By Marko P.·8 min read

MDR Europe

Managed Detection And Response Services In Europe

Forrester's guidance to buyers is blunt: having a data centre in the EU answers one sovereignty question out of four, and most vendor pitches stop at the first.

By Marko P.·8 min read

Manufacturing Tech

Manufacturing Technology Services

Forrester frames 2026's binding constraint as a workforce that cannot be trained fast enough, which makes this a services category built around people more than platforms.

By Marko P.·8 min read

Market Intelligence

Market And Competitive Intelligence Platforms

Generative AI should have commoditized this category, and instead Forrester's criteria count kept climbing, because the moat was always licensed source access, not summarization.

By Marko P.·8 min read

Open Banking

Open Banking Intermediaries

Two of the category's most prominent independent players are now owned by the card networks they were supposed to route around.

By Marko P.·8 min read

Change Management

Organizational Change Management Services

Forrester's provider count nearly doubled in three years, and every other technology category in this series points at the same root cause: the software works and the organisation does not change.

By Marko P.·8 min read

PLM

Product Lifecycle Management Platforms For Discrete Manufacturers

Every reference customer for one vendor said they would buy again, which in PLM can mean genuine excellence or a customer base that has nowhere else to go once the evidence chain is built.

By Marko P.·8 min read