IGN

Cancellations, Anger, and Frantic Subscription Stacking — the Internet Reacts to Microsoft's Xbox Game Pass Price Hike

As the dust settled on Microsoft’s shock price rise for Xbox Game Pass Ultimate, which jumped 50% from $19.99 to $29.99 in the U.S. in what amounts to an extra $120 a year, fans reacted with a mixture ...

WunderGraph Launches Hub, a Governance Layer for GraphQL Federation

Replaces informal API change coordination with a structured approval process before development begins. Ownership, ...
InfoWorld

Microsoft unveils first preview of .NET 11

Microsoft has released .NET 11 Preview 1, a planned update to the cross-platform software development platform that features JIT performance improvements, faster compression, CoreCLR support ...
Honolulu Star-Advertiser

Tech View: When do subscriptions make sense — or not?

Select an option below to continue reading this premium story. Already a Honolulu Star-Advertiser subscriber? Log in now to continue reading. And that’s a big key to fairness in subscriptions. Are you ...
MIT Technology Review

A “QuitGPT” campaign is urging people to cancel their ChatGPT subscriptions

Backlash against ICE is fueling a broader movement against AI companies’ ties to President Trump. In September, Alfred Stephen, a freelance software developer in Singapore, purchased a ChatGPT Plus ...
Jalopnik

BMW Keeps Pushing Subscriptions Even After Realizing Heated Seats Were 'Probably Not The Best Way'

The vast majority of Americans don't want subscription-based features in their cars. However, despite admitting to Drive that the heated-seat subscription fiasco was a mistake, BMW is still pushing ...
9to5Mac

What Apple’s subscription model tells us about its future

You might have noticed that over the last several years, more and more companies have shifted to a subscription model for their products and services, and Apple has slowly begun to follow suit. As ...
The Drive

BMW Commits to Subscriptions Even After Heated Seat Debacle

Remember BMW’s subscription seat heater scandal? You’d be forgiven for letting it slip your mind; after all, there’s been more than enough rage bait (automotive ...
Business Insider

I found dozens of recurring charges on my credit card. I had been wasting $1,600 a year on subscriptions I didn't even use.

Every month, the large amounts of money on our credit card bills worried me. At the beginning of the year, I looked more closely at one particular statement than I had before. I was shocked by the ...
The Next Web

The rise of the always-on economy: subscriptions beyond streaming

We are all familiar with the subscription economy, and it certainly works as a reminder of the COVID-19 pandemic, when we were all hooked on our TVs watching Netflix or listening to our favorite music ...
Search Engine Land

Meta tests paid subscriptions

Meta tests paid subscriptions across Instagram, Facebook and WhatsApp to unlock premium features and AI across its apps. What is happening. Meta is testing new subscriptions that unlock exclusive ...