Toronto – October 24, 2026 -- The Ombudsman for Banking Services and Investments (OBSI) has appointed CRKhoury (CRK) to conduct its 2026 independent external review of banking and investment complaint operations, with the final report due on OBSI's website later this year.

The review will test whether OBSI has met its regulatory obligations and operates effectively under recognized best practices for financial services ombudsmen. CRK has set up a dedicated review website and is running a public consultation as the process advances.

Loss-calculation consultation traces back to the 2021 evaluation

On September 26, 2024, OBSI opened a public consultation on how it calculates investor losses in complaints over unsuitably sold illiquid exempt market securities. The consultation examines the current process and whether better alternatives exist. OBSI said the 2021 independent expert external review recommended it.

United States – October 24, 2026 -- The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) will replace its single annual window for HCPCS Level II code applications with quarterly cycles for drugs and semi-annual cycles for devices, Administrator Seema Verma said at the Medical Device Manufacturers Association (MDMA) Annual Meeting.

CMS expects faster adoption for new technologies under the revised coding calendar

Until now, applicants for new HCPCS Level II codes had one opportunity per year. CMS anticipates the more frequent windows will greatly improve how technologies move through the adoption curve. The agency said additional details on the updated process will follow.

Global – October 24, 2026 -- A survey cited by Whatfix found that 67% of technical professionals want real-world, practical application when learning new technology. Whatfix is using the figure to argue that enterprises should add sandbox training environments to LMS courses, in-person training and user documentation.

Sandbox replicas let employees practice workflows without touching production data

A sandbox training environment is a controlled replica of a software application. Users practice tasks there without affecting production data, live transactions or business operations. The most effective versions recreate approvals, exceptions, customer scenarios and compliance steps, not just screen-by-screen navigation.

Israel – October 24, 2026 -- Massivit 3D Printing Technologies (TASE: MSVT) has appointed retired U.S. Air Force Brigadier General Chris "Alf" Athearn, a former overseer of a defense armaments portfolio above $5 billion, to its Advisory Board to speed its entry into the U.S. aerospace and defense market.

Athearn brings 35 years of weapons acquisition experience

Athearn spent 35 years in advanced airborne weapons systems, defense acquisition and defense industrial base strategy, holding senior posts in the U.S. Air Force and the Department of Defense. He served as Commander of DCMA Northrop Grumman, the Defense Contract Management Agency office covering one of the world's largest defense prime contractors. He was also responsible for oversight of more than 400 defense contractors across seven U.S. states.

Lod – October 24, 2026 -- Massivit 3D Printing Technologies (TASE: MSVT) will print live on its Massivit 10000-G throughout the International Manufacturing Technology Show (IMTS) in Chicago, September 9-14, with the company claiming its Cast In Motion technology speeds up mold production by 80%.

Massivit shows automated tooling at Booth 432425

The 10000-G will demonstrate high-speed automation for custom manufacturing and industrial tooling. Visitors can see direct printing of complex molds, mandrels, master tools, jigs and fixtures. Large printed parts and molds for the automotive, marine, consumer goods and sporting goods industries will also be on display.

Massivit says Cast In Motion produces true isotropic molds and eliminates the material waste of conventional tooling. The 10000 series is used for composite materials tooling, Reaction Injection Molding (RIM) and Thermoforming.

Jacksonville – October 24, 2026 -- Redwire Corporation (NYSE: RDW) will send the fourth and final pair of its Roll-Out Solar Array (ROSA) wings to the International Space Station on NASA's SpaceX CRS-35 cargo mission. The launch completes an eight-wing power upgrade that will deliver more than 160 kW.

Six deployed ROSA wings have helped extend station operations to 2030

Redwire has deployed six ROSA wings on the station since 2021. Each wing provides 20+ kW of power for over 10 years once deployed.

According to the company, the six installed wings have contributed to extending operation of the orbiting lab to 2030.

Global – October 24, 2026 -- Agentic intrusions tripled in the second half of 2026 compared with the first half, according to CrowdStrike data, as threat actors hand hacking decisions and command execution to AI agents.

CrowdStrike's report, published on Wednesday, documents four threat actors. Two used sophisticated AI harnesses, the software that connects a large language model to external resources. Two used simpler setups. The firm said the main constraint on scaling such campaigns is "token budgets," not engineering complexity.

Spanish- and English-speaking actor breaches at least 15 Argentine healthcare organizations

The actor used a penetration-testing harness built on the open-source PentestGPT framework, modified with extra hacking scripts. One Anthropic Claude Code agent acted as supervisor and assigned tasks to a second agent. CrowdStrike observed the activity between mid-May and mid-August.

Global – October 24, 2026 -- Cloudflare provides free cyber security protection to more than 2,900 vulnerable Internet properties through Project Galileo, its program for human rights, civil society, journalism and democracy organizations targeted by DDoS and other cyber attacks.

Cloudflare launched Project Galileo in 2014 after attacks on vulnerable targets

Founded in 2014, the program was a response to devastating cyber attacks against humanitarian organizations, civil society groups and human rights defenders. Cloudflare notes that these organizations often face powerful, entrenched opponents while operating on limited budgets.

Journalists, social activists and minority groups flooded with malicious traffic risk being knocked offline.

Europe – October 24, 2026 -- Orange Quantum Systems has secured €1.5M in pre-seed funding from QDNL Participations and the Cottonwood Technology Fund to build a full-scale system for automated qubit testing, a step the startup says is needed before quantum computers can scale.

Manual testing limits state-of-the-art labs to roughly 5-qubit chips

Testing quantum chips currently takes days and is too slow for industrial-scale production, according to the company. Co-founder and R&D Director Adriaan Rol says state-of-the-art labs can test chips of about 5 qubits. The process involves cooling a chip in a dilution refrigerator for several days, tuning it up, measuring the quantities of interest and warming it up for a day. Testing therefore takes weeks, and only a few chips per year may be tested.

Burlington – October 24, 2026 -- GlobalFoundries (GF) has qualified RFGaN1, its first RF GaN-on-silicon technology for volume production on 200mm wafers. It has also qualified SLATE, a wafer-bonding technology that cuts RF die area by up to 45% with no loss in RF performance.

RFGaN1 runs at 12 to 28V across 1 to 15 GHz

The platform uses depletion-mode devices and targets sustained high output power and efficiency in satellite communications, cellular infrastructure and defense. Dan Denninghoff, Senior Director of RF GaN Product Line, said GaN has so far been a niche, high-budget option. GF argues that 200mm silicon manufacturing gives customers the cost structure and volume to build a supply chain around it instead of treating each design as a one-off.