Illinois officials have joined crypto industry groups in seeking a six-month delay to the state’s controversial digital-asset tax. The agreed motion, filed Oct. 1 in Sangamon County, asks a judge to postpone the levy’s Jan. 1 start until July 1, 2027, while a constitutional challenge brought by The Digital Chamber and the Illinois Blockchain Association […]
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Discs Matter: Scalpers, scammers, and cybercriminals are having a field day as consumer electronics become increasingly difficult to purchase. Even the humble, theoretically ancient Blu-ray disc format is now being exploited by fraudsters. Now, the emulation community is trying to set things straight. Developers of the RPCS3 PS3 emulator recently shared a warning about the […]
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Strategy’s Bitcoin credit calculator produced an illustrative STRC price of $210.90 on Oct. 2, while displaying a market-price input of $99.50 for the perpetual preferred stock. The issuer also retains the option to redeem shares at $101, or a higher amount it chooses, plus applicable unpaid dividends. That gap exposes the limits of the calculation. […]
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Why does knowing your laptop size matter? Knowing your laptop’s exact size takes the guesswork out of finding the right accessories and travel gear. Two laptops with the same screen size can have very different physical dimensions. Larger devices, such as 16-inch and bigger models, often need backpacks or briefcases designed for their larger footprint. […]
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Winners & losers: Like many consumer electronics products these days, the PlayStation 5 Pro is facing severe shortages in parts of the world. In Japan, Sony is turning to a lottery system to sell its freshly manufactured consoles to genuine gamers while keeping out criminals and speculators. Despite the significant backlash over its plan to […]
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Investors in LIBRA, the memecoin promoted by Argentine President Javier Milei, lost a district-court route to recovering their losses after a US judge dismissed the proposed class action over LIBRA and fellow memecoin M3M3. In a Sept. 29 opinion, Judge Jennifer L. Rochon dismissed the amended complaint with prejudice, denied permission to amend it again […]
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Add Android Authority on Google: Across August and September, Lenovo Smart Clock Essential owners reported losing the weather display on their devices. Within the past 24 hours, weather suddenly seems to be retuning. Change can be hard for smart homes. While we love getting new features that make our smart home hardware better, far too […]
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Desk-based workers aren’t going anywhere. Across finance, healthcare, customer service, operations and administration, fixed-location roles make up a significant portion of the modern workforce. And as AI workloads grow more demanding, the endpoint decisions IT teams make today carry more long-term weight than ever before. Three forces are reshaping how organizations think about their endpoint […]
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What we know so far: Riot Games has long been notorious for its controversially strict anti-cheat policies. Although the League of Legends and Valorant maker loosened its rules slightly earlier this year, hardware ID-based bans can still have unintended consequences for the secondhand hardware market, as one user claims to have discovered. A redditor recently […]
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Brady Snyder / Android Authority Add Android Authority on Google: Samsung has raised prices for the Galaxy S26 series in the US and South Korea due to the global shortage of memory components. While 256GB and 512GB variants have seen a $100 price increase in the US, the 1TB Galaxy S26 Ultra model costs $200 […]
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