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Pocket Casts is Showing Ads To People Who Paid For an Ad-free App

3 months 2 weeks ago
Pocket Casts is being flogged for showing advertisements to legacy users who were promised an ad-free experience. From a report: The first reports started to appear in early September in the Pocket Casts support forum and subreddit. The issue is a bug, according to Matt Mullenweg, the CEO of Pocket Casts' parent company Automattic, and will be corrected. Pocket Casts launched as a purchase-only app in 2010, charging users a one-time download fee of up to $10, depending on the OS and platform. The service later switched to a subscription-based model and made the app available for free in 2019. After backlash from users, the company gave anyone who paid for the web or desktop apps before the pricing changes free lifetime access to Pocket Casts Plus, its ad-free premium subscription service. The app was acquired by Automattic in 2021, and the Pocket Casts Lifetime memberships were rebranded to "Pocket Casts Champion" in August 2024.

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New string of phishing attacks targets Python developers

3 months 2 weeks ago
If you recently got an email asking you to verify your credentials to a PyPI site, better change that password

The Python Software Foundation warned users of a new string of phishing attacks using a phony Python Package Index (PyPI) website and asking victims to verify their account or face suspension, and advised anyone who did provide their credentials to change their password "immediately."…

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Micron Humming Along On All Memory Cylinders

3 months 2 weeks ago

The United States may not have an indigenous foundry that makes high performance XPU compute engines for AI and HPC applications, but it certainly does have a home-based maker of high performance memory in Micron Technology. …

Micron Humming Along On All Memory Cylinders was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

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