Adobe Settles With U.S. Over Hard-to-Cancel Subscriptions
The maker of Photoshop agreed to pay $75 million to the government, which had accused it of hiding details of expensive fees.
FRIDAY, 13 MARCH 2026, 21:54
The maker of Photoshop agreed to pay $75 million to the government, which had accused it of hiding details of expensive fees.
BrianFagioli shares a report from NERDS.xyz: Cloud storage company Backblaze has partnered with StorageReview to make a massive dataset containing 314 trillion digits of Pi publicly accessible. The digits were calculated by StorageReview in December 2025 after months of heavy computation designed to stress modern hardware. The dataset now hosted in the cloud weighs in at over 130TB, while the...

Dreo’s spring sale offers a great deal on the Chefmaker combi cooker, plus discounts on WIRED’s favorite bathroom heater and tower fan.
Meta has delayed the release of its next major AI model after internal tests showed it lagging behind competing systems from Google, OpenAI, and Anthropic. The New York Times reports: The model, code-named Avocado, outperformed Meta’s previous A.I. model and did better than Google’s Gemini 2.5 model from March, two of the people said. But it has not performed as strongly as Gemini 3.0 from...

The 85-inch Hisense U7 gets a big discount, with markdowns for smaller sizes too.

The Studio Display XDR monitor comes at a time when HDR-capable screens are everywhere. Apple still does it best, but at a hefty cost.
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Pitchfork: Earlier this week, the U.S. Department of Justice and Live Nation reached a settlement in the DOJ’s antitrust lawsuit against the concert giant. During the trial, which lasted only a week, representatives for Live Nation had moved to exclude a collection of Slack direct messages from 2022 between two of the company’s regional directors from...
Apple will cut its App Store commission in China from 30% to 25% starting March 15, with small-business and mini-app rates dropping from 15% to 12%. AppleInsider reports: Chinese regulators have been back and forth with Apple in recent years over the 30% App Store commission. The latest publicly known pressure occurred after President Trump slammed the country with seemingly random and...

Airline ticket prices are already rising, but an extended crisis in Iran could have bigger effects on the global travel industry.

CHISINAU, Moldova (PinionNewswire) — PQ HOSTING, an international hosting provider founded in the Republic of Moldova, reports that a combination of large-scale cyberattacks and a subsequent reputational campaign ultimately forced the company to withdraw from the European market despite operating infrastructure in more than 40 countries and serving over 150 000 active clients worldwide....
Amazon, Google and others struck deals in the Persian Gulf to foot the bill for A.I. development. Iran has now threatened attacks against the companies’ infrastructure in the region.

Liquidation looms for the Post Office as its rescue practitioners warn government they intend to wind it up.
Mr. Dollar Ton shares a report from the Guardian: Angela Lipps, 50, spent nearly six months in jail after Fargo police identified her as a suspect in an organized bank fraud case using facial recognition software, according to south-east North Dakota news outlet InForum. Lipps told the outlet she had never been to North Dakota and did not commit the crimes. Lipps, a mother of three and...

Flexport CEO Ryan Petersen says the conflict is stranding cargo and threatening inflation.

REI’s Member Days sale has deals on our favorite tents, backpacks, rain jackets and more gear to outfit you for summer.
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: Milan prosecutors have requested trial for Amazon’s European unit and four of its managers over alleged tax evasion worth around $1.38 billion, two sources with direct knowledge of the matter said on Thursday. The move is unprecedented for a case of this kind in Italy, as Amazon agreed in December to pay 527 million euros, including interest, to...

Inventor and YouTuber Simone Giertz built an elegant chair that holds your half-dirty clothes while still functioning as a seat.

The new changes by the Pan-European Game Information age-ratings body (PEGI) will start from June.

The company’s generative AI search tools increasingly cite its own services, like Google Search and YouTube, over third-party publishers.

Hype around the open source agent is driving people to rent cloud servers and buy AI subscriptions just to try it, creating a windfall for tech companies.

Shantanu Narayen decides to transition from his position as CEO after a successor has been appointed.