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Düsseldorf – September 12, 2026 -- More than half of German industrial companies have assigned internal teams to prepare their connected products for the EU Cyber Resilience Act (CRA), while over 60 percent are also turning to external specialists, according to the new "IoT & OT Cybersecurity Report 2026" from Düsseldorf-based cybersecurity firm ONEKEY. The findings are based on a survey of 200 German industrial companies regarding CRA readiness.

One-fifth of firms have launched full internal CRA teams

Twenty percent of surveyed companies have set up a dedicated internal team to adapt their product range to CRA requirements, while another third have partially assigned staff to the task. Team size varies sharply: 28 percent have assembled groups of up to ten people, and 22 percent have staffed even larger teams. Sixteen percent manage with three or fewer specialists, and 19 percent have assigned no one at all to the issue.

Berlin – – September 12, 2026 -- The German Medical Association (Bundesärztekammer, BÄK) has called for suicide prevention to be treated as a core duty for physicians across all medical specialties, not just psychiatry, ahead of World Suicide Prevention Day on September 10, 2026.

Berlin – September 12, 2026 -- German Education Minister Karin Prien is preparing cabinet proposals for an age restriction on social media platforms, citing a direct link between screen time and Germany's weak PISA test results.

Prien ties declining literacy to social media use

Speaking on rbb24 Inforadio on Wednesday, the CDU politician said children's shrinking attention spans, lack of endurance, and inability to read for comprehension are connected to social media and screen time. She argued the digital and AI era demands stronger safeguards against declining critical thinking among students.

Cabinet proposal expected within weeks

Prien confirmed she will present concrete legislative proposals to the German cabinet in the coming weeks, combining an age restriction with expanded media literacy education in schools.

Zug – September 9, 2026 -- KENDRIS Group has obtained authorization from Luxembourg's Ordre des Experts-Comptables (OEC), allowing its local subsidiary KENDRIS Luxembourg Sàrl to offer a broader range of regulated services including domiciliation, accounting and tax.

KENDRIS Luxembourg gains regulatory clearance to expand beyond economic advisory work

KENDRIS Luxembourg Sàrl has operated in the Grand Duchy since 2024 as an economic advisor. The new OEC license removes prior restrictions, enabling the Zug-based fiduciary group to compete directly for local domiciliation, bookkeeping and tax mandates previously outside its scope.

Zug, Switzerland – September 12, 2026 -- KENDRIS, the Swiss-based advisory and fiduciary group, has secured a license from Luxembourg's Ordre des Experts-Comptables (OEC), allowing its local subsidiary to offer an expanded suite of regulated services including domiciliation, accounting and tax.

KENDRIS Luxembourg Sàrl gains regulatory clearance to broaden its service scope

The OEC license permits KENDRIS Luxembourg Sàrl, active in the Grand Duchy since 2024, to move beyond its initial role as a business advisor into a wider range of regulated corporate services. The group operates internationally from its Zug headquarters, employing more than 200 staff across financial centers.

NEW YORK – September 12, 2026 -- Vishal Garg, founder and former CEO of Better Home & Finance Holding Company, has pushed back the deadline for stockholders to submit written consents to remove five board members to September 18, 2026, citing the need to give recently notified shareholders more time to review solicitation materials.

Garg Group targets five directors for removal

The Garg Group, which includes Vishal Garg and other participants in his solicitation, has filed a definitive consent solicitation statement with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission seeking to oust Daniel Lewis, Arnaud Massenet, Bhaskar Menon, Prabhu Narasimhan and Harit Talwar from Better's board. The group states the removals are intended to reverse what it calls value-destructive actions, restore the company's cost transformation strategy, and initiate a search for a long-term CEO.

Tokyo -- Kaneka Corporation will appeal a September 2, 2026 ruling by the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York that invalidated its U.S. Patent No. 7,829,080 covering reduced coenzyme Q10, known as ubiquinol.

New York court dismisses infringement case on enablement grounds

The court dismissed Kaneka's litigation against Cocrystal Technology (Jiaxing) Co., Ltd. and Cocrystal Health Industry (Zhejiang) Co., Ltd., ruling the '080 Patent invalid for lack of enablement. The case, filed October 5, 2023 under case number 1:23-cv-7483-SJB-SDE, had alleged that CoCrystal's ubiquinol supplements infringed claims 5 and 15 of the patent.

Osnabrück – – September 12, 2026 -- German passenger association Pro Bahn is calling for mandatory surveillance cameras in the door and vestibule areas of long-distance trains following a dangerous incident in Bavaria where a train door was opened at 200 km/h, forcing an emergency stop.

Pro Bahn chairman says door zones are where dangerous interventions occur

"Exactly this area, the entrance with doors and vestibule, is the spot where such interventions happen, and there a camera creates clarity without filming passengers in the carriage," Pro Bahn federal chairman Lukas Iffländer told the Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung. He noted that after the Bavaria incident, investigators could not identify who opened the door.

Sacramento, Calif. – September 12, 2026 -- Consumer Watchdog has released a video accusing Pacific Gas & Electric of withholding $2 billion in already-funded infrastructure spending to pressure California lawmakers into approving liability relief legislation in a special session.

PG&E withholds $2 billion in ratepayer-funded upgrades pending bailout approval

The advocacy group alleges PG&E is halting infrastructure work that customers have already paid for through approved rate hikes, after the state legislature declined to grant the utility liability protections during its regular session. Former California Public Utilities Commission (PUC) President Loretta Lynch calls the move "bailout blackmail" in the video, arguing PG&E CEO Patti Poppe misrepresented the company's financial position.

Dubai – September 12, 2026 -- Robo.ai Inc. (Nasdaq: AIIO) will ask shareholders to approve a tenfold expansion of its authorized share capital at an extraordinary general meeting scheduled for September 22, 2026, at 4:30 pm Dubai local time.

Robo.ai seeks to raise authorized capital from $400,000 to $4,000,000

The Dubai-based, Nasdaq-listed company is proposing to increase its authorized share capital from $400,000, divided into 200,000,000 shares, to $4,000,000, divided into 2,000,000,000 shares. The plan calls for creating an additional 225,000,000 Class A ordinary shares and 1,575,000,000 Class B ordinary shares, each carrying a par value of $0.002.