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An 80-year-old man who died in a light aircraft crash near Loch Lomond alongside a 16-year-old boy has been named locally as Ian Haggis
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Via The Herald Scotland
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10/18/26
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Carnoustie Golf Links is lifting the lid on the skill, technology and hard work required to maintain one of Scotland's most famous golfing venues
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Via The Herald Scotland
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10/18/26
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Money20/20 USA 2026 opens today at The Venetian in Las Vegas. Its Monday panel, “Know Your Agent: Here’s How Banks Are Updating Identity Verification,” brings Skyfire CEO Amir Sarhangi, Firmly …
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Heath Callahan (via Forkast)
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10/18/26
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The SEC Comment Deadline The comment period for the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) proposal, Regulation Crypto Assets (File No. S7-2026-27), concludes on Tuesday, October 20, 2026. This …
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Priya Nair (via Forkast)
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10/18/26
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Can a payment network actually distinguish between a human shopper and a piece of autonomous software? Mastercard is attempting to answer this with a new intelligence layer in its Agent Pay Trust …
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Tessa Vaughn (via Forkast)
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10/18/26
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For years, the crypto industry treated stablecoin market capitalization as a scoreboard for adoption. We tracked supply growth with religious fervor, assuming that more tokens in circulation meant …
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Nolan Pratt (via Forkast)
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10/18/26
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The University of Edinburgh's announcement that 90 specialist degree programmes will close has raised questions about the purpose of university.
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Via The Herald Scotland
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10/18/26
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John Swinney has been compared to dictators as McGill's Group threatens legal action over plans to bring buses in Scotland under public control.
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Via The Herald Scotland
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10/18/26
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A manhunt has been launched after a teenager was injured in a hit and run incident in Midlothian
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Via The Herald Scotland
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10/18/26
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A convicted criminal killed a woman amid claims his treasured watch had been stolen
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Via The Herald Scotland
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10/18/26
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I spent last weekend trying to figure out why my smart vacuum kept bumping into the same chair leg, and it occurred to me that we are all just one firmware update away from our appliances deciding to …
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Mila Cohen (via Forkast)
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10/18/26
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Mastercard has finally stopped pretending that stablecoins are a peripheral experiment. On October 15, 2026, the company launched its Global Money Platform, a move that looks less like a product …
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Nolan Pratt (via Forkast)
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10/18/26
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An appeal has been launched to trace a man, James Booth, missing from Falkirk who has not been seen for two weeks
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Via The Herald Scotland
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10/18/26
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The shift from blocking to building Financial institutions are currently caught in a high-stakes standoff with autonomous software. Major firms like Schwab and JPMorgan have responded to the …
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Priya Nair (via Forkast)
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10/18/26
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Fewer than 11% of small merchants are ready for AI shopping agents. Agentic orders across Forter’s network have quadrupled since August. Automated fraud has doubled in two months. On October 13, …
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Tessa Vaughn (via Forkast)
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10/18/26
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Anthropic is currently attempting to justify a $2 trillion valuation target while reconciling a 2025 performance that saw a net loss of $42 billion on just $4.6 billion in revenue. This stark …
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Lena Park (via Forkast)
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10/18/26
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Threat actors weaponized a vendor-managed credential in ConnectWise Cloud Backup to authenticate across 173 Microsoft 365 tenants on October 15, 2026. The credential lived in ConnectWise’s own …
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Heath Callahan (via Forkast)
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10/18/26
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An 'area of interest' has been identified in the search for two missing men and their boat, which failed to arrive in Lewis on Tuesday night
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Via The Herald Scotland
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10/18/26
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In a wide-ranging interview with The Herald, Dr Ali Afshar, managing director of AMA (New Town) Limited, outlined his vision for the venue.
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Via The Herald Scotland
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10/18/26
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Amid claims of US meddling, oil-rich Alberta will vote on whether to hold a binding referendum on leaving Canada. Foreign Editor David Pratt examines what’s at stake
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Via The Herald Scotland
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10/18/26
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