Friday, 9 October 2026
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The Brief

Channel news with a view. The facts, what it means and the quote that matters, in about three minutes.

Boston Consulting Group

IT buyers widen AI supplier lists and trim the rest, BCG survey finds

Amazon Web Services

AWS puts Moonshot’s Kimi K3 on Bedrock with US and global routing only

Scottish Government

Scotland requires impact assessments for data centers above 50MW

Orca Security

Orca Security's new partner program rewards net retention

Insight

Insight wins consultancy role in Scotland’s AI adoption program

VinciWorks

Only one in 10 sure of meeting 24-hour breach reporting, VinciWorks finds

National Cyber Security Centre

NCSC sets out the standard for assured red-team providers

Cohere

Cohere signs deal to combine with Germany’s Aleph Alpha

VodafoneThree

VodafoneThree switches on Ericsson 5G core for network slicing

Softcat

Softcat agrees $1.05bn deal for GDT and raises its profit outlook

de Novo Solutions

Oracle partner de Novo names Lynette Slater chief executive

Bytes Technology Group

Bytes lifts its FY27 outlook as costs hold back operating profit

Arctic Wolf

Arctic Wolf opens a sensorless MDR tier to MSPs only

Vectra AI

Vectra AI launches Ascent partner program with three levels

Capgemini

Capgemini sees $230bn of bank payments revenue at risk from stablecoins

Google

Google sets a mid-2034 end date for ChromeOS updates

NetApp

NetApp plans to buy Manchester AI storage startup PEAK:AIO

Salesforce

Agentforce flaws let a poisoned web lead leak CRM data over DNS

Kiteworks

Kiteworks tells every customer to switch off over a zero-day warning

Citrix

Citrix patches eight NetScaler flaws as two zero-days are exploited