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FTC delays easy click-to-cancel, hints the rule may be weakened
The jumping through hoops and loops to cancel unwanted subscriptions should end on July 14th, 2025. The Federal Trade Commission gives companies two additional months to comply with the click-to-cancel rule.
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Mexico sues Google over “Gulf of America”
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum has said that her government is suing Google over the “Gulf of America” rebrand.
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$TRUMP meme coin enthusiasts pay millions for chance to meet President Trump
Buyers of US President Donald Trump’s $TRUMP meme coin are expected to learn Monday if they’ve won an opportunity to dine with the president at his country club outside of Washington, DC on May 22nd.
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How has a recent surge in LLM applications scraping the web impacted the hosting industry?
The AI revolution’s aftershocks are being felt in more ways than one.
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In bid to prevent piracy, Nintendo now threatens to brick your console
Nintendo has updated its Account User Agreement with a severe warning against “unauthorized use” of its Switch consoles in a bid to prevent emulation and piracy.
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DISH Network slams IPTV hosting firm with $25M lawsuit
UK-based hosting provider Innetra PC was served over allegedly supporting piracy activities, the International Broadcaster Coalition Against Piracy (IBCAP) says.
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Tariffs and Apple: When will iPhones become more expensive?
So far, Apple is choosing to absorb the additional costs imposed by tariffs on goods imported to the US. But the iPhone will almost undoubtedly get more expensive after June – why?
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Google will fork over $50 million to settle “racially biased corporate culture" lawsuit
Google has agreed to pay $50 million to settle a lawsuit accusing the search engine company of systemic racial bias against Black employees.
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San Francisco Bay transit recovering after systemwide outage causes commuting chaos
The San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) system said it is recovering from a systemwide network outage "unknown causes" that left thousands of commuters in the lurch Friday morning.
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Hungary’s Biometric Laws Breach EU AI Act, Endanger LGBTQ+ Rights
Hungary’s laws on the use of facial recognition technology to increase biometric surveillance on the LGBTQAI+ community discourage people from exercising their fundamental rights.
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Star Health hacker says they sent death threats, bullets to India executives
The hacker who leaked sensitive personal data held by Indian health insurer Star Health last year has taken responsibility for sending death threats and bullets to the company's chief executive and finance head.
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FAA will build air traffic control system that can be 'updated like your iPhone'
US President Donald Trump and US Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy, along with at least a dozen major airline aviation CEOs on Thursday, announce a new FAA plan to “completely rebuild and modernize” the nation’s air traffic control system.
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Dum and Dumer – 70,000 reasons to lock your Amazon app
An 8-year-old with access to his mom’s Amazon account ordered 70,000 lollipops – raising $4,200 worth of questions about kids, devices, and digital spending.
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Expert on Apple insights on search: AI indeed threatens Google
After Eddy Cue, Apple’s services chief, testified in court that he believed artificial intelligence (AI) search engines would eventually replace standard search engines such as Google, an expert tells Cybernews: he’s correct.
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World War II veteran crushes Tesla with tank
“We’ve crushed fascism before, and we’ll crush it again,” said 98-year-old British World War II veteran Ken Turner, moments before flattening a Tesla with a Sherman tank.
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CrowdStrike wants $10 billion in revenue so it’s cutting 500 jobs
Artificial intelligence (AI) has indeed come for your jobs, dear people of CrowdStrike. With the cybersecurity giant announcing it would lay off around 500 workers, the CEO George Kurtz made it clear that automation was a factor.
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PowerSchool software provider admits ransomware attackers now extorting school districts
Ransomware victim PowerSchool on Tuesday revealed that even after forking over alleged millions in ransom demand money, the attackers responsible for a massive breach of its system last December, have now turned to extorting the North American school districts that use the cloud software provider.
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Oxford-led study counsels against health advice from AI chatbots
Many have turned to artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots for medical advice, but they cannot be trusted as a reliable source of information, a new study has found. Clear and helpful answers are rare, it says.
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