The price hikes for streaming services have already started for 2025. Discovery+ has announced its plans are increasing in price for all US subscribers. The Discovery+ plan with ads will go up to $6 per month, from $5, while the ad-free plan will increase to $10 per month, from $9. <br /> No, an extra $1 monthly isn't horrible, but $12 yearly, now that's a meal's worth of ext [...]
Google and cybersecurity companies Lookout and iVerify have detailed a new hacking technique that potentially puts a significant portion of iPhone users in danger, just by visiting the wrong web page. The hack is called "DarkSword" and since it specifically targets several different versions of iOS 18, it could affect "close to a quarter of iPhones," Wired writes.DarkSword is a [...]
Microsoft is allowing PC Game Pass members over the age of 18 to earn rewards by playing PC games, a perk previously available only to console gamers with a Game Pass Ultimate subscription. This update goes into effect on January 7.<br /> Subscribers (on PC or console) will earn points by playing any game from the Game Pass catalog for 15 minutes or more. Do that for five days a week, and t [...]
One year after the defunding of the ACP, I talked to people affected by the loss of Affordable Connectivity Program and how its disappearance has forced them to make heartbreaking trade-offs just to stay connected. [...]
OpenAI says the agentic side of ChatGPT has passed 10 million weekly users, a mark it reached less than two weeks after the debut of ChatGPT Work, its attempt to turn the chatbot into a tool that finishes a job rather than just describes one. The figure, first reported by Bloomberg, spans the two products OpenAI […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]