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61The European Union (EU) has passed legislation that mandates Advanced Driver Distraction Warning (ADDW) systems for new cars produced for sale within the EU (Article 6 clause D).
Airtel Axis Credit card has been devalued effective 12 April 2026.
Airzone Cloud has transitioned its previously free remote management service into a paid annual subscription model costing €48. This decision has sparked widespread backlash within the HVAC and home…
Inventist, Inc. and its U.S. distribution partner Alien Technology Group, Inc. (doing business as Alien Rides) filed a complaint with the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) on January 21…
Amazon Fire TV 2026 redesign and app restrictions refers to a set of software changes in 2025 and 2026 through which Amazon reduced what owners could do with Fire TV streaming hardware they had…
On May 20, 2026, Amazon will disable Kindle Store access on thirteen Kindle devices released between 2007 and 2012, preventing owners of those devices from buying, borrowing, or downloading new…
On 10 April 2026, Amazon announced it would end support for individual game purchases and third-party storefront integrations on its Luna cloud gaming platform, revoking cloud-streaming access for…
On June 2, 2026, Amazon notified Prime members by email that, effective July 2, 2026, the music benefit bundled with a Prime subscription will begin carrying advertisements and will stop supporting…
In July 2024, Amazon introduced advertising to Amazon Prime Video in Australia and required annual subscribers who wanted to keep ad-free streaming to pay an additional A$2.99 per month, despite…
Anthropic Claude Code HERMES.md billing flaw was a technical defect in Anthropic's Claude Code product that bypassed flat-rate subscription plans to charge users direct API fees. In April 2026, a…
To keep using Claude, some consumer subscribers now have to photograph a physical government-issued ID and submit a live selfie to a third-party vendor, Anthropic's identity partner Persona…
iOS, the operating system of the Apple iPhone, has introduced on its Beta version 26.4 an integrated Age Verification in the operating system. This feature will be launched on the United Kingdom…
Ars Technica published an article on a programmer who was being "bullied" by an AI autonomous agent. The article was written using AI, with non-existent quotations. The article was later removed and…
ASRA cease and desist against CoagRef refers to the May 2026 removal of CoagRef, a free iOS clinical reference app written by Houston-based cardiothoracic anesthesiologist Rishi Kumar, MD, after he…
In April 2026, Bambu Lab sent a private cease-and-desist demand to Paweł Jarczak, the Polish maintainer of an AGPL-licensed OrcaSlicer community fork that had restored direct printer control…
On 12 March 2026, the Canadian government began readings of Bill C-22, The Lawful Access Act. The bill has been widely criticized by privacy advocates including the Electronic Frontier Foundation and…
Discord is moving forward with mandatory age verification for many users. This decision comes at the heels of a data breach in October 2025, which exposed personally identifiable information of…
A critical cloud infrastructure flaw exposed the live camera feeds, microphone audio, and 2D floor plans of consumers to unauthorized remote access. DJI's backend servers inadvertently granted…
Enphase solar systems and battery systems warranty is not supported with new owners unless the new owners pay a fee to transfer the accounts. New owners do not get access to warranty, software…
On June 29, 2026, the Entertainment Software Association (ESA) told a California Senate committee that community-hosted video game servers are illegal & that the trade group considers them piracy, in…
Google Pixel 8 Pro Wi-Fi and Bluetooth failures are a pattern of connectivity breakdowns in which the phone's Wi-Fi & Bluetooth stop working after Google's early-2026 software updates, with the Wi-Fi…
Path of Exile II: Early Access Supporter Pack was changed during a 2026 Steam sale by its base value being reduced and then advertised as a discount while abusing the Steam sale system, resulting in…
In Spain, Hisense began to place unskippable and AI-personalized ads every time you changed the channel, the HDMI source, turned on the television and other basic things.
Got contract fraud into a membership, for a one time cleaning service.
In 2026, a Dutch consumer protection investigation TV show Radar found that using a giftcard from Hotelgiftcard.com created surprisingly expensive hotel prices compared to not using any giftcard…
Instagram will no longer support end-to-end encryption for direct messages after 8 May 2026. Very few people were opting in to end-to-end encrypted messaging in DMs, so we're removing this option…
As of July 2026, Kayo Sports requires verification of location for streaming on all platforms (mobile apps, TV, browser). Platforms without native location support (e.g. TV operating systems) require…
Connecting an LG UltraGear monitor to a Windows PC triggered the silent, unprompted installation of an app called the LG Monitor App Installer from the Microsoft Store, & on at least one user's…
BrowserGate is the name given to the April 2026 disclosure that LinkedIn's website runs hidden JavaScript probing a visitor's Chromium-based browser for thousands of installed extensions while…
On July 5th, 2026, Linktree plans to change the terms of service and privacy policy to allow the collection of user content to train Dall-E 3, an image generation AI provided by OpenAI. This is…
The Online Safety Act 2025 (Act 866) is Malaysian legislation that came into force on January 1, 2026, requiring social media and messaging platforms with over 8 million Malaysian users to remove…
In 2026, two Microsoft account holders who reported that their accounts had been hacked found that Microsoft suspended the accounts & cut the owners off from the purchased Xbox game libraries &…
Microsoft Office 2019 and 2021 for Mac view-only conversion (2026) is a scheduled remote degradation of perpetually-licensed Microsoft Office software for macOS and iOS, set for July 13, 2026 when a…
Motorola Smart Feed Amazon affiliate hijacking was a May 2026 incident in which a preinstalled system app on several Motorola smartphones, Smart Feed version 2.03.0070, silently intercepted user…
The OnePlus ColorOS 16.0.3.501 Anti-Rollback Fuse Incident refers to the January 2026 deployment of firmware updates by OnePlus that introduced a hardware-level anti-rollback mechanism. This…
Panera Bread will cap its Unlimited Sip Club beverage subscription at 30 drinks per month starting August 19, 2026. Prior to this change in terms, customers could redeem one beverage every two hours…
An official Philips Hue firmware update that began rolling out on June 4, 2026 could leave a Hue Bridge Pro smart-home hub in an unrecoverable state, unresponsive, showing only a red status LED that…
Poste Italiane is the Italian national postal service provider. Among other services, Poste Italiane provides a service of digital identification to Italian nationals and residents. Starting from…
The Roost Wi-Fi Water Leak and Freeze Detector is a battery-powered smart sensor that joins a home Wi-Fi network to detect water and freezing temperatures at its location and send push and SMS alerts…
Samsung will charge a $4.99 per-month subscription for access to the SmartThings API, the software interface used to control devices on its smart-home platform & read their states, which third-party…
Schibsted "Pay or Okay" cookie consent fee is a system under which the Nordic media company Schibsted requires readers of its news sites to either consent to behavioral advertising profiling or pay a…
An unpatched flaw in SharkNinja's internet-connected Shark robot vacuums lets a stranger who never sets foot in the house take control of them across an entire Amazon cloud region. On camera-equipped…
On July 1, 2026, Sony Interactive Entertainment announced that it will stop producing physical game discs for all new PlayStation titles starting January 2028, after which new releases will be sold…
In April 2026, Sony introduced changes to its PlayStation license system suggesting a requirement to authenticate certain game purchases through the PlayStation Network. Reports indicated that newly…
On June 9, 2027 Square Enix will discontinue support for "Cloud" versions of the Kingdom Hearts series on the Nintendo Switch and Nintendo Switch 2 consoles. Players who bought any of these game…
In May 2026, Synology announced that it would convert its Active Insight cloud monitoring service from a free tier of three complimentary licenses, as advertised on its marketing pages, into a paid…
On June 29, 2026, T-Mobile began notifying customers that it was retiring more than 1,100 legacy billing codes and automatically moving the affected subscribers onto its current, higher-priced…
In early April 2026, Tesla began remotely disabling Full Self-Driving (FSD) and other driver-assistance functionality on vehicles whose telemetry indicated the presence of a third-party accessory…
Ubisoft DMCA takedown of Slopsmith refers to a Digital Millennium Copyright Act takedown notice that an authorized agent of Ubisoft Entertainment SA filed with GitHub on June 15, 2026 against…
In February 2026, Verizon sent longtime customer Tom Collery a replacement Samsung Galaxy Z Flip7 that was an unwiped store demonstration unit still enrolled in Verizon's mobile device management…
Verizon handset unlocking waiver refers to the Federal Communications Commission's January 12, 2026 decision to release Verizon from the rule that forced it to unlock customer phones 60 days after…
Vizio Walmart account requirement for smart TV features is Walmart's policy of requiring owners of select new Vizio OS smart TVs to create a Walmart account before they can use smart TV features…
On May 27, 2026, Volkswagen Group silently disabled the authentication flow that third-party software had used for years to read & control its vehicles, breaking the widely deployed Home Assistant…
June Life sold the June Oven, a countertop oven whose built-in camera & software identify the food placed inside & set the cook program, at $1,495 when the first generation shipped in December 2016 &…
Wegmans is an American supermarket chain headquartered in Rochester, NY, with stores across the east coast. With over 110 locations and over 54,000 employees, they make $12.5 billion in annual sales…
In July 2026, three paid Xbox games from developer Creepy Brothers, Creepy Tale, Creepy Tale 2, & Strike Force Kitty, were hard delisted from the Microsoft Store, meaning they were pulled from sale &…