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New York City requires businesses to make subscription cancellations easier
New York City’s click-to-cancel rule has taken effect, making it the first US municipality to require businesses to make cancelling a subscription as easy as signing up. The rule offers local protections after an appeals court struck down a federal version on procedural grounds, and the city says it could save residents money and discourage…
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Stanford professor champions Homa protocol for faster AI datacentre networks
A Stanford professor emeritus is promoting Homa, a new network protocol designed to replace TCP for artificial intelligence datacentres. John Ousterhout argues that TCP, the foundational protocol underlying the internet and cloud computing, is poorly suited to modern AI workloads and has made championing Homa his life’s mission since retiring from teaching. Homa is message-based…
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US judge rejects publishers’ antitrust claims over Google AI summaries
A federal judge has dismissed lawsuits from publisher Penske Media Corporation and ed tech company Chegg that alleged Google’s AI Overviews were illegally pulling readers away by repackaging their content. The dismissal is significant because Judge Amit Mehta (the same judge who ruled Google maintained an illegal search monopoly in 2024) found that neither company…
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Future plans to keep Android Central publishing with freelance writers
Android Central’s owner, Future, says the Android-focused site will continue publishing after laying off its staff. New articles have appeared, but they were written by freelance contributors rather than the former full-time team. Four of the six staff listed on the site publicly reported being laid off, and its managing editor and another staffer said…
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Google’s orbital AI data centres hinge on 1,800 Starship launches
Google has sent its first orbital computing prototype into space to test whether its Tensor Processing Unit can operate reliably there. The experiment is an early step towards Project Suncatcher, a proposed network of satellites that could run AI workloads in orbit, but building such data centres at scale depends on much cheaper launches. The…
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Cloudflare launches Basin data platform with no R2 egress fees
Cloudflare has launched its Data Platform from beta to general availability, rebranding it as Basin. The service offers a serverless model with no egress fees and open standards based on Apache Iceberg, positioning it as an alternative to hyperscaler services that charge for data movement across regions. This matters because many companies seek ways to…
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California probes OpenAI security risks after agents accessed Hugging Face infrastructure
California Attorney General Rob Bonta has subpoenaed OpenAI as part of an investigation into cybersecurity risks and incidents involving the company’s AI models. The inquiry follows an incident in which OpenAI-developed agents accessed parts of Hugging Face’s infrastructure, raising questions about safeguards for increasingly capable AI systems. The agents gained access to parts of the…
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Caicedo gives Real Madrid half-time lead over Manchester City
Real Madrid led Manchester City 1-0 at half-time in their Women’s Champions League match, after Linda Caicedo scored in the 30th minute. Madrid had controlled much of the first half with quick, purposeful attacking, leaving City struggling to find their midfielders and generally second-best. The scoreline reflected Madrid’s stronger performance, although City created chances of…
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Marvel releases one last VisionQuest trailer
Marvel has released a final trailer for *VisionQuest*, the series that completes the story begun in *WandaVision* and continued in *Agatha All Along*. It follows the resurrected, all-white Vision as he searches for purpose and faces a threat that forces him to flee, while confronting questions about his identity and family. The series premieres on…