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The old ISO 27001:2013 certificate is dead: the transition window closed on 31 October 2025
The three-year window to move from ISO 27001:2013 to the 2022 edition closed on 31 October 2025, so a 2013 certificate held into 2026 is no longer valid. The 2022 standard reworked Annex A from 114 controls to 93 in four categories and added modern ones like threat intelligence, cloud security and secure coding. If your certificate lapsed, recertifying means a fresh initial audit rather than the lighter transition assessment, which changes the budget line for anyone pricing readiness this year.
Read the update →Stripe now sells its own merchant of record, Managed Payments, at 3.5% on top of processing
Stripe now offers Managed Payments, its own merchant-of-record option, introduced in a 25 February 2026 release. Stripe becomes the seller of record for your digital products and takes on indirect tax (VAT, sales tax, GST) in more than 80 countries, plus fraud, disputes and buyer support, for a fee of 3.5% per successful transaction on top of the normal processing fee. That puts it in the same rough band as Paddle and Lemon Squeezy, and it can be switched on per transaction without moving to a separate platform.
Read the update →Framer retired its Scale plan and cut editor seats to a flat $20 in its 2026 billing overhaul
Framer moved to a new billing system on 27 May 2026. It retired the $100-a-month Scale plan, leaving Basic at $10 and Pro at $30 as the two paid site plans, and made a full editor seat a flat $20 across every plan, down from $40 on the higher tiers. A new Content Editor seat costs $10 and gives content-only teammates CMS access without a full design seat. For a small team the per-seat line, not the plan price, is where most of the cost sits, so this shifts the real math.
Read the update →Belgium caps the employer dismissal notice at 52 weeks, but only for contracts signed from 1 July 2026
A law adopted in May 2026 puts a 52-week ceiling on the statutory notice an employer must give when it dismisses someone. It applies only to contracts that start on or after 1 July 2026. Anyone hired before that keeps the old schedule, which has no ceiling and can run well past a year for long-tenured staff.
Read the update →ChatGPT’s citations are “wide but shallow”: the top 10 sites are just 12 percent of them
New Profound data on about 730,000 ChatGPT conversations (October to December 2025) finds citations are wide but shallow: Wikipedia is the top source at just 5 percent of all citations, Reddit next at 3 percent, and the ten most-cited domains together are only 12 percent. Most citations sit in a long tail, which is better news for a small, focused page than the headline that a few giant sites own every answer.
Read the update →Mailchimp cut its free plan to 250 contacts and raised legacy prices: what changed in 2026
In early 2026 Mailchimp cut its free plan again, from 500 contacts and 1,000 monthly sends down to 250 contacts and 500 sends, with the new limits taking effect on 17 February 2026. Separately, from 13 April 2026 it raised prices on legacy plans by an average of 11 to 13 percent. Neither change touches how the bill is calculated, so the number that decides your cost is the same one it always was.
Read the update →DMARC is now an official internet standard, and the pct tag you may still be using is gone
In May 2026 the IETF published RFC 9989, promoting DMARC from an informational document to a Proposed Standard for the first time since 2015. Most of the change is under the hood, but two things touch the record you publish: the pct tag is removed, and a new np tag lets you block spoofed subdomains you never created. Here is what changed and what did not.
Read the update →Your Shopify catalog can now sell inside ChatGPT and Perplexity, and the fee picture is still forming
Shopify Agentic Storefronts, announced in its Winter 26 Edition on 10 December 2025 and rolling out since, syndicate your product catalog into AI chats like ChatGPT, Perplexity and Microsoft Copilot, where a shopper can buy without leaving the conversation. Shopify adds no platform fee or revenue share of its own, but each AI surface can set its own terms, and in June 2026 Visa and Mastercard moved in too. Here is the state of agentic commerce and what it does to the cost of a sale.
Read the update →Cloudflare will block AI training and agent crawlers by default on ad pages from 15 September 2026
On 1 July 2026, in its Content Independence Day announcement, Cloudflare said that from 15 September 2026 it will change the default for AI crawlers: on pages that show ads, bots it classes as Training and Agent will be blocked by default, while Search crawlers stay allowed. The new default applies to sites onboarding after that date, and existing customers can set their own preference first. It is a change worth checking if you want AI assistants to still reach your pages.
Read the update →Google says AI Mode passed one billion monthly users, a year after launch
At Google I/O on 19 May 2026, Google said AI Mode, its conversational way to search that answers in prose instead of a page of links, had surpassed one billion monthly users just one year after launch, with queries more than doubling every quarter. It also made Gemini 3.5 Flash the default model in AI Mode globally. For anyone who lives on search clicks, it is the clearest sign yet that being the answer matters more than ranking a link.
Read the update →Kajabi now charges a surcharge for using your own Stripe, on top of Stripe fees
Since its January 2026 pricing restructure, Kajabi adds a platform surcharge when you take payments through your own Stripe account instead of Kajabi Payments: a reported 2 percent on Basic, 1 percent on Growth and 0.5 percent on Pro, charged on top of the normal Stripe fees. PayPal is exempt, and Kajabi Payments carries no separate surcharge. It is an easy line to miss, and it can outweigh the plan price for a busy creator.
Read the update →Salesforce adds a third Agentforce billing model: pay-per-resolution, where you are charged only when the AI resolves a case on its own
On 26 June 2026 Salesforce introduced pay-per-resolution pricing for its Agentforce Help Agent, available from July 2026. You are billed only when the agent resolves an issue autonomously from start to finish, with no charge when a customer asks for a human or gives negative feedback. It is a third pricing model on top of per-conversation and Flex Credits, and the per-resolution price was not published with the announcement.
Read the update →HubSpot now bills its Breeze AI agents by the resolved conversation, and the included credits run out fast
On 14 April 2026 HubSpot moved its Breeze AI agents to outcome-based, credit-metered pricing, with no grandfathering. A Customer Agent resolution costs 50 credits, about 0.50 dollars; a Prospecting Agent recommended lead costs 100 credits, about 1 dollar. Paid editions include only 500 to 5,000 credits a month, they do not roll over, and when they run out the agents pause until you buy more. Here is what it adds to a HubSpot bill the seat price never shows.
Read the update →Datadog now bills its Bits AI features in monthly credits, a use-it-or-lose-it line that resets to zero each month
Datadog meters its Bits AI features in AI Credits, where one credit is a unit of work by a Datadog AI product. Committed credits reset on the first of each month and unused ones do not roll over, so this line behaves unlike the host and log meters. What it is, how it is bought, and why it is easy to over-buy.
Read the update →The EU's €150 duty-free threshold for small parcels ended on 1 July, replaced by a €3 per-item customs duty
From 1 July 2026, goods worth up to €150 imported into the EU are no longer free of customs duty. A temporary flat charge of €3 per item now applies, and it runs until 1 July 2028. For online stores that source low-value stock from outside the EU, that is a new per-parcel cost line that used to be zero.
Read the update →The EU AI Act just gained a new banned practice, and the omnibus that added it is now adopted
The digital omnibus that reshaped the AI Act cleared its final legislative step when the Council adopted it on 29 June 2026. Beyond the delayed high-risk deadlines, it adds a new prohibited practice under Article 5: AI built to generate non-consensual intimate imagery, with a 2 December 2026 compliance date.
Read the update →Microsoft 365 business prices went up today, 1 July 2026, and cold-email mailboxes feel it most
From 1 July 2026 Microsoft 365 Business Basic rises from 6 to 7 dollars and Business Standard from 12.50 to 14 dollars per user a month, the first list increase on these plans since they launched. Existing tenants keep the old price until renewal. Here is what changed and the one calculation it quietly moves.
Read the update →Hetzner raised its cloud prices again on 15 June 2026, and this one is steep
On 15 June 2026 Hetzner raised cloud server prices for the second time this year. The dedicated-vCPU line roughly tripled and the AMD shared line more than doubled, while the entry Intel line rose least. Existing servers keep their price until you rescale. What changed, and what it means for a budget VPS shortlist.
Read the update →The EU published its AI-content transparency Code, and set a 22 July signatory deadline before Article 50 bites
On 10 June 2026 the Commission published a voluntary Code of Practice for marking AI-generated content, and set 18:00 CET on 22 July 2026 as the cut-off to be listed as an initial signatory. It lands three weeks before the Article 50 transparency rules start applying on 2 August 2026.
Read the update →The UK raised the IR35 small-company thresholds, but when it helps depends on your year-end
From 6 April 2026 the turnover and balance-sheet thresholds that define a small client for the off-payroll rules rise to 15 million pounds and 7.5 million pounds. More clients become small, which hands the IR35 decision back to the contractor. The catch is the timing.
Read the update →The EU AI Act starts fining GPAI model providers on 2 August 2026
The high-risk deadline moved to 2027, but 2 August 2026 still holds for one group: general-purpose AI model providers. From that day the Commission can enforce their rules and fine them up to 3 percent of worldwide turnover or 15 million euros.
Read the update →The EU AI Act transparency rules take effect on 2 August 2026
From 2 August 2026, Article 50 of the EU AI Act requires you to tell people when they are dealing with an AI system and to label AI-generated content. The high-risk deadlines were pushed back. This one was not.
Read the update →The EU AI Act high-risk deadline is no longer 2 August 2026
A May 2026 political agreement pushed the EU AI Act high-risk obligations back by more than a year. Stand-alone high-risk systems now have until 2 December 2027, and AI inside regulated products until 2 August 2028.
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