Month: July 2025

The Banana Pi BPI-R4 Lite is a router board with a 2.5 Gigabit WAN port, a 2.5 Gigabit SFP connector, and four Gigabit LAN ports. There’s also an mPCIe slot for an optional WiFi 7 card and M.2 connector for 4G and/or 5G cards. But, as the name implies, this is actually a cheaper, lower-performance board […]

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Canceling a subscription should be easy, Democratic lawmakers insisted Wednesday, introducing a bill to revive the Federal Trade Commission's so-called "Click-to-Cancel" rule.

The FTC hoped to enforce the rule due to "increasing reports of consumers losing time and money from intentionally difficult subscription cancellation processes," lawmakers said. But cable companies sued to block the FTC rule last year, arguing that the FTC failed to conduct an economic impact study before making it easier to cancel over a billion paid subscriptions in the US.

Earlier this month, a federal appeals court nullified the rule, agreeing with an administrative law judge that the FTC skipped a regulatory analysis required to pass the rule since compliance costs would exceed $100 million. That study would have included cost-benefit analyses of alternatives to the rule, in addition to gauging the rule's effectiveness in comparison to those alternatives.

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E-commerce giants everywhere felt the sting Wednesday when President Donald Trump announced that the US will be "suspending duty-free de minimis treatment for low-value shipments" worth $800 or less from anywhere in the world.

Americans will likely soon feel the crunch, with one recent study estimating that the cost of eliminating the trade loophole overall to US consumers could fall between $10.9 billion and $13 billion while "disproportionately" hurting "lower-income and minority consumers" who buy a higher percentage of cheap imports.

Price hikes will likely come this fall, as the trade loophole will be closed starting on August 29, with Amazon emerging as perhaps the biggest question mark for US consumers wondering how hard their wallets may be hit by the major trade policy change ahead of the holiday shopping season.

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Die EU-Richtlinie NIS 2 erhöht die Verantwortung für Cybersicherheit. Wie sich regulatorische Vorgaben in ISMS, ISO 27001 und IT-Grundschutz integrieren lassen, zeigt dieser Onlineworkshop. (Golem Karrierewelt, Unternehmenssoftware)

AMD’s Strix Halo processors may nominally be mobile chips, but so far most of the PCs using the chips have been mini desktop computers, with a few notable exceptions including the Asus ROG Z13 Flow 2-in-1 gaming tablet and a few upcoming handhelds. Strix Halo laptops have been rare, but it looks like one more […]

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Bei Amazon gibt es ein praktisches USB-Netzteil im Roboter-Design zum historisch günstigen Tiefstpreis. (USB PD, Amazon)

Statt Treibstoff wird ein Mittel gewonnen, das die Humusbildung im Boden fördert. Milliarden Tonnen CO2 ließen sich dadurch speichern. (Klimawandel, Klima)

Gemeinsam mit eco und Bitkom hat das BSI das E-Mail-Sicherheitsjahr 2025 ausgerufen. Unternehmen und Organisationen sind zur Teilnahme aufgerufen. (BSI, Politik)

Der Aktienkurs von Microsoft ist nach soliden Ergebnissen nach oben gegangen. Bisher hat das nur Nvidia geschafft. (Microsoft, Börse)

Amazon hat eine Tablethalterung fürs Auto im Angebot, mit der Kinder Autofahrten in den Urlaub ohne Langeweile überstehen. (Technik/Hardware)