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The FTC's 'Click to Cancel' Rule Is Blocked. Here's What That Means for Your Subscriptions

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-07 10:11:00

The Click to Cancel rule is supposed to make it as easy to cancel a subscription as it is to sign up for one. Viva Tung/Getty Images The Federal Trade Commission's "click to cancel" rule -- which would have made it easier to cancel unwanted subscriptions -- has been blocked by the US Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals. The rule was set to take effect on July 14. "Click to cancel" would have required businesses to clearly disclose terms and obtain informed consent before charging for a subscriptio

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The ‘Click-to-Cancel’ Rule Was Killed, but Consumer Advocates Could Revive It

wired.com Reece Rogers 2025-10-07 11:25:31

United States residents almost escaped subscription cancellation hell, but the Federal Trade Commission's “Click to Cancel” rule was unanimously struck down by the US Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit on Tuesday—just days before it was set to go into effect. What would have happened if this updated FTC rule had gone into effect on July 14 as planned? “The stated goal was that they wanted to make it as easy for you to cancel a subscription as it is to sign up,” says John Breyault, vice pre

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Pope Leo Signed a Popplio ‘Pokémon’ Card in the Cutest Vatican Sanctioned Interaction

gizmodo.com Sabina Graves 2025-10-07 10:00:12

One Pokémon fan traveled across the land and searched far and wide to find Pope Leo XIV with a Popplio card in hand for a truly delightful interaction. The meeting took place at the Vatican, where recently elected Pope Leo XIV greeted visitors for blessings. The Pokémon aficionado (known as ReptileCake on Reddit) took a card of Popplio, the water starter from the 7th generation of the card game, to get signed as well as another card to be blessed by the pontiff as a memento. The interaction to

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One UI 8 on Galaxy Z Fold 7 and Z Flip 7 brings live captions for phone calls

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-08 15:00:20

TL;DR The newly launched Galaxy Z Fold 7 and Z Flip 7 have received several notable software features as part of Samsung’s new One UI 8 interface. One of them, Call Captions, offers real-time transcriptions of phone calls. Other Samsung phones are expected to receive this feature with a wider software release. Samsung has just unveiled the Galaxy Z Fold 7, the Flip 7, and the more affordable Flip 7 FE, along with the new Galaxy Watch 8 series at its July Unpacked event. Along with new hardwar

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I unsubscribed from 20 lists in seconds with Gmail's new tool - here's how to use it

zdnet.com Artie Beaty 2025-10-08 15:45:00

Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET A few months ago, Google rolled out a new feature for Gmail on Android that makes it easier to clean out your inbox by showing a single list of all your subscriptions and providing a simple way to unsubscribe from these lists. Also: Run out of Gmail storage? How I got another 15GB for free and without losing any files Google officially expanded the feature today, making the announcement in a blog post that "Manage Subscriptions" is now showing up on Gmail for desk

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Tree Borrows

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-08 15:40:24

The Rust programming language is well known for its ownership-based type system, which offers strong guarantees like memory safety and data race freedom. However, Rust also provides unsafe escape hatches, for which safety is not guaranteed automatically and must instead be manually upheld by the programmer. This creates a tension. On the one hand, compilers would like to exploit the strong guarantees of the type system—particularly those pertaining to aliasing of pointers—in order to unlock powe

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Federal ‘click to cancel subscriptions’ rule struck down in court [U]

9to5mac.com Ben Lovejoy 2025-10-08 23:54:53

A “click to cancel” law was last month passed in California, and now the FTC has ratified a federal rule designed to achieve the same goal. The idea of both is to force companies to make it as easy to cancel an online or app subscription as it is to sign up in the first place. Update: Following a court challenge, the US Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals has vacated the rule. See update at the end … Both laws were introduced in response to sketchy practices by companies designed to make it as dif

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Adaptive Power in iOS 26 Could Mean Longer Stretches Between iPhone Charges

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-09 08:00:07

The upcoming iOS 26 includes several new features I'm looking forward to running on my iPhone, from the Liquid Glass interface to new ways to cut down on unwanted calls and messages. But one feature I can't wait to turn on will hopefully be something I can forget about. A new Adaptive Power setting promises to extend battery power by selectively applying energy savings in small ways that add up. It's currently available in the iOS 26 developer beta and is expected to ship in the fall. See also:

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How to get free Windows 10 security updates through October 2026: Two ways

zdnet.com Ed Bott 2025-10-09 08:50:00

MicroStockHub/Getty Images With just a few months remaining until the Windows 10 end-of-support date, Microsoft seems to have belatedly realized that owners of tens of millions of consumer PCs running Windows 10 aren't ready to replace their old computers, and they're also not about to fork over $30 for a one-year Extended Security Updates (ESU) subscription. So, at the end of June, just days before the end of its fiscal year, the company waved the white flag and announced new "free enrollment

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US court strikes down 'click-to-cancel' rule designed to make unsubscribing easy

news.ycombinator.com Joseph Gedeon 2025-10-09 08:59:31

A federal rule designed to make canceling subscriptions as easy as signing up for them has been struck down by a US federal appeals court just days before it was scheduled to take effect. The US court of appeals for the eighth circuit vacated the Federal Trade Commission’s “click-to-cancel” rule, which would have required companies to allow consumers to cancel subscriptions using the same method they used to sign up, after finding that the commission behind it failed to follow required procedur

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Apple just patented a trackball Apple Pencil that works on almost any surface

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-10-09 11:25:10

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office just granted Apple U.S. Patent No. 12,353,649, suggesting the company is thinking well beyond the iPad when it comes to the future of the Apple Pencil. Here are the details. According to the filing, “INPUT DEVICE WITH OPTICAL SENSORS” (via Patently Apple), Apple has been exploring a stylus equipped with optical sensors that can track motion, orientation, and position in 3D space, without needing to touch a screen. That would allow users to draw on virtually

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Gmail’s new subscription management is here to declutter your inbox

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-10-10 07:22:51

With decades of online life behind us, many people are using years-old email addresses. Those inboxes are probably packed with subscriptions you've picked up over the years, and you probably don't need all of them. Gmail is going to make it easier to manage them with a new feature rolling out on mobile and web. Google's existing unsubscribe prompts are evolving into a one-stop shop for all your subscription management needs, a feature that has been in the works for a weirdly long time. The pitc

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Reflections on 2 years of CPython's JIT Compiler

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-08 02:15:08

Reflections on 2 years of CPython’s JIT Compiler: The good, the bad, the ugly 5 July 2025 This blog post includes my honest opinions on the CPython JIT. What I think we did well, what I think we could have done better. I’ll also do some brief qualititative analysis. I’ve been working on CPython’s JIT compiler since before the very start. I don’t know how long that is at this point … 2.5, maybe almost 3 years? Anyways, I’m primarily responsible for Python’s JIT compiler’s optimizer. Note that

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Melting Glaciers Could Unleash a Barrage of Volcanic Eruptions Worldwide, Scientists Warn

gizmodo.com Natalia Mesa 2025-10-10 19:10:19

As if we needed another reason to worry about the climate crisis, researchers have found that melting glaciers could trigger a surge of intense volcanic eruptions in the future. Across the globe, hundreds of subglacial volcanoes—formed by eruptions beneath glaciers—lie dormant under thick layers of ice. A new study, presented at the Goldschmidt Conference in Prague, suggests that these volcanoes could awaken as climate change accelerates glacier retreat, potentially leading to an increase in vo

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Maxon puts the Forger sculpting app for iPad on life support

theverge.com Jess Weatherbed 2025-10-10 19:06:13

Maxon is sunsetting the Forger sculpting app for iPad to focus on the more comprehensive ZBrush iPadOS app it introduced last year. Forger will be removed from the App Store on September 10th, according to a message on Maxon’s website, and the app will be placed in a “Limited Maintenance Mode” that won’t receive any future updates, bug fixes, or changes. The announcement serves as the final nail in the coffin for one of the iPad’s oldest and most popular sculpting apps, which hasn’t received an

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T-Mobile is giving away DashPass subscriptions starting today

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-11 03:27:20

Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR T-Mobile subscribers can now claim a free year of DoorDash DashPass (usually $120) through the T-Life app as part of a limited-time offer. DashPass gives you free or discounted delivery fees, extra promos, and Lyft perks, but this free promo doesn’t include the Max streaming benefit. Most T-Mobile users are eligible, and you have until August 4 to redeem; current DashPass subscribers will get a refund for unused time. In mid-June, T-Mobile celebrated

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How to turn off ACR on your TV (and why it makes such a big difference)

zdnet.com Chris Bayer 2025-10-11 03:51:00

Kerry Wan/ZDNET Did you know that whenever you turn on your smart TV, you invite an unseen guest to watch it with you? These days, most popular TV models utilize automatic content recognition (ACR), a form of ad surveillance technology that gathers information about everything you watch and transmits it to a centralized database. Manufacturers then use your data to identify your viewing preferences, enabling them to deliver highly targeted ads. Also: Your TV's USB port is seriously underutili

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Reflections on 2 years of CPython's JIT Compiler: The good, the bad, the ugly

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-08 17:15:08

Reflections on 2 years of CPython’s JIT Compiler: The good, the bad, the ugly 5 July 2025 This blog post includes my honest opinions on the CPython JIT. What I think we did well, what I think we could have done better. I’ll also do some brief qualititative analysis. I’ve been working on CPython’s JIT compiler since before the very start. I don’t know how long that is at this point … 2.5, maybe almost 3 years? Anyways, I’m primarily responsible for Python’s JIT compiler’s optimizer. Note that

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Analysing Roman itineraries using GIS tooling

news.ycombinator.com Álvarez 2025-10-08 16:56:17

The spatial arrangement of the main stops considered by the previous authors, reveals a significantly different distribution of sites in the territory. In our analysis, we have omitted some points that were considered very close to others, such as the case of Puente de Meyjaboy with Marzán or Iría Flavia with Padrón (Fig. 2). Fig. 2 Positions for each of the mansions in the Antonine Itinerary according to the various published studies. The position of each of the mansions can be found in differ

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Apple’s newest AI study unlocks street navigation for blind users

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-10-13 03:19:28

There’s no shortage of rumors about Apple’s plans to release camera-equipped wearables. And while it’s easy to get fatigued by yet another wave of upcoming AI-powered hardware, one powerful use case often gets lost in the shuffle: accessibility. SceneScout, a new research prototype from Apple and Columbia University, isn’t a wearable. Yet. But it hints at what AI could eventually unlock for blind and low-vision users. As Apple’s and Columbia University’s researchers explain it: People who are

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Volunteer finds Holy Grail of abolitionist-era Baptist documents

news.ycombinator.com Associated Press 2025-10-13 16:11:48

By MICHAEL CASEY GROTON, Mass. (AP) — Jennifer Cromack was combing through the American Baptist archive when she uncovered a slim box among some 18th and 19th century journals. Opening it, she found a scroll in pristine condition. A closer look revealed the 5-foot-long (1.5-meter-long) document was a handwritten declaration titled “A Resolution and Protest Against Slavery,” signed by 116 New England ministers in Boston and adopted March 2, 1847. Until its discovery in May at the archives in Gr

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Is It Cake? How Our Brain Deciphers Materials

news.ycombinator.com Dale Markowitz 2025-10-11 09:43:57

One of the greatest questions of the modern age is: Is it cake? As in: Is it an espresso machine, or cake? Paint can, or cake? Air fryer, or …? Millions of viewers have watched rapt as TikTok bakers slice or bite into inedible-looking objects with fluffy, frosting-filled innards … or have tuned into Is It Cake?, the aptly named Netflix show. Why? As a form of entertainment, this kind of visual trick is hardly new. For centuries, artists have delighted in fooling us into thinking one material is

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Pixel Watch 4 leak reveals every color and band option that is coming this year

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-15 21:50:21

Rita El Khoury / Android Authority TL;DR A new leak suggests the Pixel Watch 4 will be coming with five color options spread across the 41mm and 45mm watch sizes. A wide range of band materials and colors are also said to be coming, including two-tone leather, crafted leather, active, metal mesh, performance loop, woven, and more. The Pixel Watch 4 is expected to come with a thicker casing, slimmer bezels, and a new wireless charging mechanism without magnetic pogo pins. As we approach the n

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Exclusive 4th of July Offer: 1TB to 10TB Lifetime Cloud Storage at a Huge Discount

gizmodo.com Gizmodo Deals 2025-10-16 03:00:12

Cloud storage is only as good as its security, and this service gets it right. With its eye-catching bundle of lifetime storage plus encryption, you only pay once instead of facing monthly fees like with most providers. Right now, you can save up to $1,320 and enjoy up to 10 TB of secure, client-side encrypted storage for life. And that’s just the beginning. This platform is also packed with powerful features designed to protect and simplify your digital life. Claim pCloud Discount Today Save

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Whoop MG review: a big whoop for a small crowd

theverge.com Victoria Song 2025-10-17 15:00:00

is a senior reporter focusing on wearables, health tech, and more with 13 years of experience. Before coming to The Verge, she worked for Gizmodo and PC Magazine. The tragedy of a niche product is if it sees any success, two things will happen. First, rivals big and small will copy its ideas. Then, to combat that existential threat and appease investors, there’ll be an appeal to the larger mass market. A handful of niche products survive the transition to the mainstream. Most don’t. (See: Nest,

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12 Best Coffee Subscriptions (2025), Tested and Reviewed

wired.com Matthew Korfhage 2025-10-18 07:31:00

FAQ What Kinds of Coffee Subscriptions Are There? AccordionItemContainerButton LargeChevron There are two kinds of coffee subscription providers: roasters and retailers. Roasters are cafés, and small-batch producers who buy raw beans from farmers all over the world and roast them to perfection. By buying from a roaster, you're directly supporting the people who make your favorite coffees; there's no middleman between you and your coffee. The downside is you usually won't have as broad a selecti

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Elon Musk's X goes down for some users

cnbc.com Annie Palmer 2025-10-19 03:17:37

The X logo appears on a phone, and the xAI logo is displayed on a laptop in Krakow, Poland, on April 1, 2025. (Photo by Klaudia Radecka/NurPhoto via Getty Images) Elon Musk's social media platform X was hit with an outage on Wednesday, leaving some users unable to load the site. More than 15,000 users reported issues with the platform at around 9:53 a.m. ET, according to analytics firm Downdetector, which gathers data from users who spot glitches and report them to service. The issues appeare

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Perplexity joins Anthropic and OpenAI in offering a $200 per month subscription

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-19 03:17:15

You can add Perplexity to the growing list of AI companies offering $200+ per month subscription plans to users who want unlimited access to their most advanced products and tools. As of today, Perplexity Max is available on iOS and the web. The subscription comes with unlimited monthly usage of Labs, the agentic creation tool Perplexity released this past May. People can use Labs to generate spreadsheets, presentations, web applications and more. Perplexity is also promising early access to ne

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Neil Druckmann Is Stepping Away From HBO’s ‘Last of Us’

gizmodo.com James Whitbrook 2025-10-19 07:16:31

In the wake of the controversially received second season of HBO’s Last of Us TV series, series co-creator and executive producer Neill Druckmann has announced that he is stepping away ahead of production on season three. In a statement posted to Naughty Dog’s social media accounts today, Druckmann said his move comes “before any meaningful work” had begun on a third season of The Last of Us, set to continue adapting the remaining events of The Last of Us Part II. Druckmann will return his focu

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Scientists Finally Sequenced the First Ancient Egyptian Genome

gizmodo.com Natalia Mesa 2025-10-19 14:00:32

Scientists have, for the first time, sequenced the entire genome of an ancient Egyptian who lived approximately 4,500 to 4,800 years ago. The feat was achieved by a team of researchers at the Francis Crick Institute and Liverpool John Moores University, who published their findings in Nature. According to the study, the ancient individual’s genetic ancestry traces back to populations in both North Africa and West Asia, shedding light on the genetic diversity of early Egyptians. Researchers fir

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The FTC's 'Click to Cancel' Rule Is Blocked. Here's What That Means for Your Subscriptions

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Pope Leo Signed a Popplio ‘Pokémon’ Card in the Cutest Vatican Sanctioned Interaction

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Federal ‘click to cancel subscriptions’ rule struck down in court [U]

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How to get free Windows 10 security updates through October 2026: Two ways

US court strikes down 'click-to-cancel' rule designed to make unsubscribing easy

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Gmail’s new subscription management is here to declutter your inbox

Reflections on 2 years of CPython's JIT Compiler

Melting Glaciers Could Unleash a Barrage of Volcanic Eruptions Worldwide, Scientists Warn

Maxon puts the Forger sculpting app for iPad on life support

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How to turn off ACR on your TV (and why it makes such a big difference)

Reflections on 2 years of CPython's JIT Compiler: The good, the bad, the ugly

Analysing Roman itineraries using GIS tooling

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Whoop MG review: a big whoop for a small crowd

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Elon Musk's X goes down for some users

Perplexity joins Anthropic and OpenAI in offering a $200 per month subscription

Neil Druckmann Is Stepping Away From HBO’s ‘Last of Us’

Scientists Finally Sequenced the First Ancient Egyptian Genome

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