What just happened? The long-running effort to introduce the click-to-cancel policy will end this October – for those living in New York City. Consumers will no longer be forced to jump through so many hoops when trying to cancel a subscription that they're encouraged to give up, and the process will be carried out via the same method they used to sign up.

Mayor Zohran Mamdani and the Department

Why it matters: AI PCs have mostly meant one of three chip options: Intel, AMD, or Qualcomm, each bolting an NPU onto a general-purpose processor. Samsung's GAIA is different, a dedicated, memory-centric AI accelerator from a company that also happens to control its own DRAM production. If PC makers validate it, Samsung would be back in PC silicon for the first time since its 2

Ripple effect: As Sony, and likely Microsoft, prepare to take their gaming businesses fully digital, more users may find themselves at risk of losing their purchases to account hijacking. In one case that could be a sign of challenges to come, a user only got their account back after taking Microsoft to court.

Redditor "Ordo_Liberal" recently claimed to have won back their compromised Microsoft account by taking the tech giant

Highly anticipated: CUDA has become so embedded in high-performance computing that most developers treat it as inseparable from Nvidia hardware. A small London startup is trying to change that by making CUDA code run across different chips without forcing developers to start over. Spectral Compute has built a compiler called SCALE that serves as a drop-in replacement for Nvidia's NVCC, letting developers run existing CUDA code on other hardware, including

Facepalm: Microsoft released an update for a recently unveiled zero-day vulnerability in Windows Defender, but the patch is apparently making things even worse. The researcher who first discovered the "RoguePlanet" flaw quickly found some potentially dangerous problems in the patch as well.

The feud between "NightmareEclipse" and Microsoft continues to hold unpleasant surprises for the Windows ecosystem. The disgruntled security researcher, who accused Redmond of hiding a pernicious backdoor

WTF?! Federal prosecutors say a ransomware negotiator exploited the very channels used to manage cyberattacks, turning sensitive breach data into leverage for the hackers he was supposed to fight. That negotiator, Angelo Martino, 41, was sentenced to 70 months in prison after pleading guilty to conspiring with affiliates of the BlackCat ransomware operation.

Martino worked for DigitalMint, a firm that helps companies navigate ransomware incidents, including negotiating payments with

What we know so far: College Football 27 is being review-bombed on Steam after gamers discovered that publisher EA Sports added microtransactions to the single-player modes without prior notice. The game currently has a "Mostly Negative" rating on Steam , with only 33% positive reviews.

The successor to College Football 26 initially earned high praise from both gamers and reviewers for engaging gameplay and immersive graphics, but

First look: MIT researchers have built a small robot that can move through both air and water using the same wings – and switch between the two without any extra hardware. The work comes out of mechanical engineer Raphael Zufferey's lab, where the team has been trying to replicate something that already exists in nature.

Diving seabirds like puffins use their wings to both fly and swim, even though air and water behave very

Sounding off: OpenAI has spent years developing an as-yet-unrevealed hardware platform for its generative AI technology with help from former Apple engineers. On Friday, however, Cupertino filed a lawsuit against Sam Altman's company, accusing it of building its entire hardware project on confidential information stolen from Apple.

Apple has sued OpenAI for allegedly stealing its trade secrets to develop an AI-focused device and other hardware. Apple