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Rules, policies and systems decoded into plain language.
Classic plans keep the old feature set at the old price: 59.99 pounds a year against 84.99 for Personal. Microsoft does not document a route to them. What two regulators say happened, and the renewal audit to run.
OpenAI is not the merchant of record. You are, and the credential the agent hands your payment provider is single-use, scoped to one merchant and capped at the exact order total. That breaks several ordinary retail habits before it breaks anything else.
The FTC wrote to seven companies on 6 July over Made in USA claims, three months after settlements of $625,000, $167,743 and $75,000. The standard is stricter than most sellers assume, and the fix is usually a rewrite, not a resourcing project.
PCI DSS v4.0.1 added an eligibility criterion to SAQ A about script-based attacks, and it targets merchants who embed a processor's payment form rather than redirect to it. FAQ 1588 gives two ways to confirm it, and the email that gets a usable answer from your processor.
OpenJDK's interim policy bans model-generated content in code, email, wiki pages and issues, while permitting private use for debugging. QEMU, Gentoo, NetBSD and Apache each drew the line somewhere else, and the reason is provenance rather than quality.
The 2026-07-28 revision removes initialize, the Mcp-Session-Id header and stream resumability, and makes server/discover mandatory. What replaced each of them, and the order to work through your own server.
SB 2420 became enforceable on 4 June 2026 and both stores now hand developers an age category. The statute puts the duty on the developer: assign ratings, read the signal, and decide what counts as a significant change.
The CMA's steering consultations for Apple and Google closed on 28 July 2026, with a decision due later this year. Google has already repriced UK Play fees, and the external web link rate is published.
Incentivized reviews are not banned. Reviews given in exchange for money, discounts, vouchers or free products without a clear and prominent disclosure are, and the enforcement route removes your star ratings.
The Eighth Circuit vacated the FTC's click-to-cancel rule on 8 July 2025. California's automatic renewal law is stricter on the one point founders care about, and it applies to any business with a California subscriber.
A federal judge dismissed both of Google's DMCA claims against SerpApi on 20 July 2026. The reason was not that scraping is legal: it was a clause in section 1201 that almost no site owner has read.
Footnote 3 of the OCC's 21 July decision says the proposed Wise National Trust would not have been FDIC insured either. What safeguarding actually covers, the one setting that turns pass-through insurance on, and a twenty-minute audit of every balance you hold.
CBP's interim final rule took effect on 24 July 2026: no more $800 de minimis for postal shipments, a new informal entry process for parcels under $2,500, and a bond requirement that keeps goods in CBP custody until it is met. The dates, the 14 required fields, and who is allowed to file.
The browser-signal provision came out of the Council's text on 18 June 2026 and the Parliament has not decided. The route to a banner-free site never ran through Brussels: it runs through your tag list, and CNIL wrote down the test.
Three states have now written personalised pricing into statute, and New Jersey signed on 23 July. The scope differences, the exemptions that keep loyalty discounts legal, and an afternoon inventory of every field that touches your price.
The 16 July clarification splits inauthentic content into generic templates, manufactured distress, and synthetic experts on money and health. What triggers each, the version that passes, and what a YPP suspension costs in re-earned watch hours.
Article 50 of the EU AI Act applies from 2 August 2026. Which of the four duties attaches to you, the editorial-review exemption that takes most publishers out of scope, and why the headline 3% fine is the wrong number for a small company.
Google's spam policies never mention AI writing as a violation on its own. The test is scale, purpose and value, and the neighbouring policies on thin affiliation and site reputation abuse catch small sites too.
eBay International Shipping replaces GSP for UK sellers from August, automatically. Reach goes from 105 countries to 195+, and your payout is protected once the parcel is scanned at the UK hub.
The reporting threshold for payment apps and marketplaces returned to more than $20,000 and 200 transactions. Card payments still have no threshold, and the form reports gross, not profit.
The OCC just told Wise it cannot be a bank yet. A practical map of the three models that protect money held at fintechs, the conditions attached to each, and a 15 minute fix for your float.
BEC cost victims $2.77 billion across 21,442 complaints in 2024 - roughly $129,000 per incident. It isn't a hacking problem; it's a payables-process problem, and the fix costs almost nothing.
Apple and Google both halve their commission for developers under $1M - but neither discount is automatic. The programs, the cliff-versus-marginal difference between them, and the enrollment checklists.
Three spam complaints per thousand emails is now a compliance line, not a suggestion. Google's published sender requirements, what they mean for small senders, and an outreach structure that survives the arithmetic.